This sounds like a cool application, but not a ground-breaking one. It's like 802.11b without an access point, and hopefully it'll be more robust as well.
But... ho hum, I'm sure we'll have a whole different set of wireless protocols in two years. If Bluetooth survives, it'll be faster, and 802.11b will have to do something (better) to deal with interference from other concurrent wireless protocols. --- pb Reply or e-mail; don't vaguely moderate.
That would be a really cool app. Heck, having an sshable Linux install like the Cobalt Qube running on Xboxes would be awesome. Almost enough to make me buy one.
And, obviously, if it could run Linux, then Linux could run apache. I suppose that just a web server would be good, but why think small? Use it for a cheap firewall or router. Run sendmail. Run RC5.
And, obviously, make a beowulf cluster of these.:) --- pb Reply or e-mail; don't vaguely moderate.
The story isn't even amusing, and the methodology is flawed. E-Business is here, and it's here to stay. The only fact we've seen so far is that companies that can't make money fail.
Note the structure in each of these "dumb moments".
Person x starts company y. Blah blah blah. Then, n months later, company y dies horribly.
Ooo, big surprise. Then you just pick, like, 50 people and companies, and a couple of anecdotes about each one, and figure out how long that n months is until the market collapsed. Whee, I'm a journalist now!
What is more interesting is, instead of stupidly gloating, to note which companies are still *in* business and why, rather to glibly talk about the failure of e-business. Some companies are making money, or have viable business models. Ok, so pets.com is dead. Oh darn. But look, we still have Amazon.com, Paypal, and E-Bay! --- pb Reply or e-mail; don't vaguely moderate.
I haven't gotten to play Black & White yet, (I'd be surprised if it worked under Wine) but it sounds like an old concept. Actually, it reminds me a lot of Populous.
What I'd really like to see is a good remake of Masters of Magic. Now *there* was an innovative game. What a wonderful magic system! --- pb Reply or e-mail; don't vaguely moderate.
The link doesn't work, and the description is confusing and vague, as usual.
So someone tell me just *who* Spindl3top is (besides, perhaps, yet another l33t h@x0r group), where we might have heard of them before, and why we should care.
It sounds like they're selling cool computers at low prices because people donated parts, and now they can spend their time doing cool stuff? Oh, and something about the FSF? And a Blackbird? Which, of course, we have all somehow heard about before right now?
A little more information, please. --- pb Reply or e-mail; don't vaguely moderate.
A Body Count only counts when you can Count the Bodies.
Otherwise, something like The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy would win, because they go forward through time, when everyone is already dead...
Incidentally, some friends of mine tried to count bodies (literally) in Bubblegum Crisis. I think they came up with a number that was over one hundred, which is pretty impressive.:) --- pb Reply or e-mail; don't vaguely moderate.
"Slashdot is the single most important english site on the internet"?
You're kidding, right?
I admit that slashdot has been my homepage for a very long time, but it is not, was not, has never been, and never will be "the single most important english site on the internet".
For starters, I could make the argument that sites like Freshmeat or Linux Today are at least as important as Slashdot, and perhaps moreso.
Then, we could go from there to actual sites in The Real World(tm) that cover topics such as: Current Weather, World Events, and... heck, even Technology.
And then we have the Meta Sites, such as Google: the duct tape of the Internet, without which we could find very little.
And then, you go on to say that the stories that are picked on Slashdot are redundant or boring. Gosh, I guess that rules out the rest of the Internet, then!
...except for this "Kuro5hin" site, which somehow isn't "the single most important english site on the internet", despite being possibly more diverse or colorful than slashdot?
However, even if you can't make an argument, at least someone found you Insightful. I just hope *they* aren't planning on posting, and enlightening us all with *their* newfound insight, TOO... --- pb Reply or e-mail; don't vaguely moderate.
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Yes, DivX is a good distribution format, just like mp3 is a good distribution format.
The technology is here, the tools are here, the performance gains are substantial, people like it, and people are using it...
the only thing that hasn't caught up yet are the legal implications of using this technology, because of the restrictions that companies and our legal system place on it. Just like mp3.
Therefore, I predict much controversy, and widespread use, and no one getting killed. --- pb Reply or e-mail; don't vaguely moderate.
a) examine the relevant source code
b) tell the compiler to compile it into assembler
c) tell the compiler to produce an object file
d) disassemble the object file / assemble the assembler yourself
e) compare the results
Obviously, if you see any extra or changed code, the compiler can't be trusted, as it is rigged to add NSA back doors.
However, if it does this in the assembler, it should be fairly easy to see the discrepancy between that and the original C source code listing.
I would gain a lot of respect for Microsoft, though, if they did anything that clever; I'd definitely suspect the NSA first.
P.S. anyone using a binary distribution of NSA Linux?:) --- pb Reply or e-mail; don't vaguely moderate.
Of course the source is buildable; what the hell else do you think the companies that buy it do with it?
That's what IBM does with it, as does MainWin... The only thing I'd worry about is if there *was* a back-door, and those same companies had to sign an NDA. But that would be suspicious, and we'd hear about it eventually.
I remember this from a while back, but it's nice to see other people asking these questions.
My question is, why doesn't someone with a Source License check this out? And if they have, are they allowed to tell us?
Windows source code isn't available to the general public, but a lot of people out there can get their hands on it. Anyone with access to it wanna pipe up and tell us? --- pb Reply or e-mail; don't vaguely moderate.
I completely agree, and posted something to the same effect. However, you kept your cool a lot better than I did, even in the face of such "moon language" comments.
Also, I'd like to say "thank you" a few times, because my Linux box is running a Software RAID configuration, and, well, I couldn't have done it without the HOWTO.:)
I Speak Moon Language; bah weep grah na weep ni ni bong?
IIRC, the reason the government still uses WordPerfect is because Word wasn't flexible enough to do the sort of word-counting they needed in the first place. Also, they were pretty comfortable with it already.
I haven't used PerfectOffice, but I've used a few flavors of WordPerfect. Weren't the other ports, and the two versions before this one native? Try those, too. Also, I have used Wine; it has seriously gotten a lot better.
For that matter, if you're going to try using Wine, try running Word as well. I'm not much for word processing software in the first place, but I know Wine runs some other Windows word processors decently.
Oh, and yes, once you start adding things like ".DOC" format as a requirement, your list of potential word processor candidates shrinks somewhat. That's because Microsoft wasn't kind enough to let anyone else know how it really works.
However, if you had requirements like, say, "exports to a.RTF document that other word processors can correctly read/parse", well, Office would be gone instantly. The last time I tried to export an.RTF file from Word to anything else, it ended up blank. And, of course, their HTML is worse; I've seen IE choke on HTML generated by Word...
Someone seriously needs to smack the Office team around a bit, and explain to them about "Standard File Formats" and "Compatibility" and "Standards" for a while. I mean, like, some amount of time equal to the man-hours and money lost because of such tactics. Or they could just give each of us baseball bats, and like 5 minutes alone with them... --- pb Reply or e-mail; don't vaguely moderate.
Slashdot Mirror
Hey, cool. You're in NC too?
And you've messed with OpenSRS?
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This sounds like a cool application, but not a ground-breaking one. It's like 802.11b without an access point, and hopefully it'll be more robust as well.
But... ho hum, I'm sure we'll have a whole different set of wireless protocols in two years. If Bluetooth survives, it'll be faster, and 802.11b will have to do something (better) to deal with interference from other concurrent wireless protocols.
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"The first world regulatory body"?
Don't we already have the UN?
Also, since this *is* the Internet we're talking about, shouldn't we be just as worried as everyone else who sets policy for it?
I mean, really, damn those standards boards, making us all do things the same way! It's a plot, I tell you!
I'd take ICANN over NSI any day...
Oh wait. "Former NSI CTO". I Have Been Trolled.
Damn you, Slashdot!
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That would be a really cool app. Heck, having an sshable Linux install like the Cobalt Qube running on Xboxes would be awesome. Almost enough to make me buy one.
:)
And, obviously, if it could run Linux, then Linux could run apache. I suppose that just a web server would be good, but why think small? Use it for a cheap firewall or router. Run sendmail. Run RC5.
And, obviously, make a beowulf cluster of these.
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The story isn't even amusing, and the methodology is flawed. E-Business is here, and it's here to stay. The only fact we've seen so far is that companies that can't make money fail.
Note the structure in each of these "dumb moments".
Person x starts company y. Blah blah blah. Then, n months later, company y dies horribly.
Ooo, big surprise. Then you just pick, like, 50 people and companies, and a couple of anecdotes about each one, and figure out how long that n months is until the market collapsed. Whee, I'm a journalist now!
What is more interesting is, instead of stupidly gloating, to note which companies are still *in* business and why, rather to glibly talk about the failure of e-business. Some companies are making money, or have viable business models. Ok, so pets.com is dead. Oh darn. But look, we still have Amazon.com, Paypal, and E-Bay!
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I haven't gotten to play Black & White yet, (I'd be surprised if it worked under Wine) but it sounds like an old concept. Actually, it reminds me a lot of Populous.
What I'd really like to see is a good remake of Masters of Magic. Now *there* was an innovative game. What a wonderful magic system!
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Serious question:
The link doesn't work, and the description is confusing and vague, as usual.
So someone tell me just *who* Spindl3top is (besides, perhaps, yet another l33t h@x0r group), where we might have heard of them before, and why we should care.
It sounds like they're selling cool computers at low prices because people donated parts, and now they can spend their time doing cool stuff? Oh, and something about the FSF? And a Blackbird? Which, of course, we have all somehow heard about before right now?
A little more information, please.
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Go to lng.sourceforge.net
:)
Get LUNIX! (I'm not making this up.
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Just watch "Independence Day" again!
It's all there, man. The appz. The aliens. All of it. Right in front of you, man...
(And if you believe that, you probably thought this was a real slashdot story too!)
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A Body Count only counts when you can Count the Bodies.
:)
Otherwise, something like The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy would win, because they go forward through time, when everyone is already dead...
Incidentally, some friends of mine tried to count bodies (literally) in Bubblegum Crisis. I think they came up with a number that was over one hundred, which is pretty impressive.
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You wouldn't be, say, taking someone else's writings, sticking a disclaimer at the top, and calling them your own, would you?
Because if you were, that might be considered unethical, even if you do call yourself an Editor. People might get mad, and demand what is due to them.
But heck, you guys never listened to us before; why start now?
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Heck, it wasn't SlashNet.
Wait, that's the NEXT story, right?
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"Slashdot is the single most important english site on the internet"?
You're kidding, right?
I admit that slashdot has been my homepage for a very long time, but it is not, was not, has never been, and never will be "the single most important english site on the internet".
For starters, I could make the argument that sites like Freshmeat or Linux Today are at least as important as Slashdot, and perhaps moreso.
Then, we could go from there to actual sites in The Real World(tm) that cover topics such as: Current Weather, World Events, and... heck, even Technology.
And then we have the Meta Sites, such as Google: the duct tape of the Internet, without which we could find very little.
And then, you go on to say that the stories that are picked on Slashdot are redundant or boring. Gosh, I guess that rules out the rest of the Internet, then!
...except for this "Kuro5hin" site, which somehow isn't "the single most important english site on the internet", despite being possibly more diverse or colorful than slashdot?
However, even if you can't make an argument, at least someone found you Insightful. I just hope *they* aren't planning on posting, and enlightening us all with *their* newfound insight, TOO...
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nope. :)
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Why don't you ask Tim?
He's still alive.
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What it means is that all geeks will be banned from the flight, because they use up too much bandwidth. :)
"We've got to call Mission Control about..."
"No way dude, I just got another frag; yes!"
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The *new* Mac-OSish interface?
Gosh, where have I been?
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Yes, DivX is a good distribution format, just like mp3 is a good distribution format.
The technology is here, the tools are here, the performance gains are substantial, people like it, and people are using it...
the only thing that hasn't caught up yet are the legal implications of using this technology, because of the restrictions that companies and our legal system place on it. Just like mp3.
Therefore, I predict much controversy, and widespread use, and no one getting killed.
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Didn't we already reverse-engineer the darn thing?
Oh well, I guess we'll just do it again...
Someone needs to teach AOL what "Free" means, too; *my* IM client doesn't have BANNER ADS on it...
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In this case, you do as follows:
:)
a) examine the relevant source code
b) tell the compiler to compile it into assembler
c) tell the compiler to produce an object file
d) disassemble the object file / assemble the assembler yourself
e) compare the results
Obviously, if you see any extra or changed code, the compiler can't be trusted, as it is rigged to add NSA back doors.
However, if it does this in the assembler, it should be fairly easy to see the discrepancy between that and the original C source code listing.
I would gain a lot of respect for Microsoft, though, if they did anything that clever; I'd definitely suspect the NSA first.
P.S. anyone using a binary distribution of NSA Linux?
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Of course the source is buildable; what the hell else do you think the companies that buy it do with it?
That's what IBM does with it, as does MainWin... The only thing I'd worry about is if there *was* a back-door, and those same companies had to sign an NDA. But that would be suspicious, and we'd hear about it eventually.
Which we are...
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I remember this from a while back, but it's nice to see other people asking these questions.
My question is, why doesn't someone with a Source License check this out? And if they have, are they allowed to tell us?
Windows source code isn't available to the general public, but a lot of people out there can get their hands on it. Anyone with access to it wanna pipe up and tell us?
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NSA Linux: "We could tell you about it, but then we'd have to kill you."
:)
Um... I'm not clicking on that link. Anyone want to cache the page and live to tell about it first?
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I completely agree, and posted something to the same effect. However, you kept your cool a lot better than I did, even in the face of such "moon language" comments.
:)
Also, I'd like to say "thank you" a few times, because my Linux box is running a Software RAID configuration, and, well, I couldn't have done it without the HOWTO.
I Speak Moon Language; bah weep grah na weep ni ni bong?
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It's funny you should mention that.
.RTF document that other word processors can correctly read/parse", well, Office would be gone instantly. The last time I tried to export an .RTF file from Word to anything else, it ended up blank. And, of course, their HTML is worse; I've seen IE choke on HTML generated by Word...
IIRC, the reason the government still uses WordPerfect is because Word wasn't flexible enough to do the sort of word-counting they needed in the first place. Also, they were pretty comfortable with it already.
I haven't used PerfectOffice, but I've used a few flavors of WordPerfect. Weren't the other ports, and the two versions before this one native? Try those, too. Also, I have used Wine; it has seriously gotten a lot better.
For that matter, if you're going to try using Wine, try running Word as well. I'm not much for word processing software in the first place, but I know Wine runs some other Windows word processors decently.
Oh, and yes, once you start adding things like ".DOC" format as a requirement, your list of potential word processor candidates shrinks somewhat. That's because Microsoft wasn't kind enough to let anyone else know how it really works.
However, if you had requirements like, say, "exports to a
Someone seriously needs to smack the Office team around a bit, and explain to them about "Standard File Formats" and "Compatibility" and "Standards" for a while. I mean, like, some amount of time equal to the man-hours and money lost because of such tactics. Or they could just give each of us baseball bats, and like 5 minutes alone with them...
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