Will this ultimate DVD player run on my StrongARM Linux box? It's based on a nice ATX form factor motherboard from Chalice Technologies. Lots of room in the ATX case for a 5-1/4" form-factor DVD drive....
Obviously a binary would be available for the more common Alpha, PPC, Sparc, etc. And native ports for NetBSD, FreeBSD, OpenBSD. On all the architectures those OSes run on. (oh wait, probably not needed on Vax..)
Oh, come on! Trolling with that huge flashy lure isn't gonna get you a stringer of lunkers. You'll just scare away all the walleyes and end up with a hammerhandle northern pike.
It might seem, from reading certain websites, like there is mass support on this issue, but it could be dangerous to try to call a quorum on the matter this early in "the fight."
An entertainer who has a loyal but small following doesn't book an arena that seats 100,000 people and invite the press in to see how "popular" he is. Unless he knows at least 85,000 people will show up.
I'm surprised that I had to read this far down the comments page to get to the first neo-Leninist "the end we seek is inevitable, we shall prevail" manifesto on this topic. Thank goodness my expectations were met, or I'd worry I wasn't reading Slashdot.
You can make thousands of bit-for-bit copies. But since you cannot make them validly readable by commercially available consumer DVD hardware, without using the crack that the MPAA opposes, you've just wasted a lot of media.
It's rehashed over and over in comments to this article. Go read them.
We use Emacs on Windows, OS/2, and Unix where I work. It's one of the most ported applications of it's size and scope in the entire software 'universe.'
Maybe somebody here can volunteer the name of a modern Operating system that it isn't ported to, but I suspect not.
Do you get extra credit in the RHCE "test" if one of the things you do to fix the "broken box" is delete Linuxconf, recompile the kernel to use NO frickin kernel modules (you recompile the kernel to build in support for all the hardware in the box), and delete all the pretty Python scripts and "admin" crap?
(I'm assuming you can't bring along your own Slackware or Debian CD-ROM.)
I suppose somebody has to be trained in how to clear up the mess that Red Hat has made, and I guess they should take responsiblity for training the poor fools.
The subject is placed in a room with a locked door. The room contains a 486 system with 8 megs of RAM, an unformatted 600 MB hard drive, an ethernet card cabled to a machine outside the room, and a bootable OpenBSD CD-ROM (which is allowed to include the little several-sided installation sheet that comes in the jewel box).
The subject must install the OpenBSD system, and configure the network so that he can SSH out to a machine outside the door, which has a source tarball containing the source for an application that will engage a solenoid to open the door. The machine outside the room is running Slackware Linux. The subject is given the IP address of the Slackware machine and a user-level account on the machine. The/dev/solenoid driver is configured with permissions so that the subject can access it with his/her built code.
The test subject has two hours to complete the task. If s/he fails, the penalty is to answer frequently asked (winmodem) questions on the linux.redhat.install usenet newsgroup for six weeks.
We really don't need another government mandated 'mechanism' put into place that ossifies the ability of a company to hire temps as needed. People can walk away from the job if it isn't proving satisfactory to them.
The last thing we need is for temp workers to gain Trade Union-style leverage over the hiring practices of the company they work at.
Many companies hire 'temp' workers as a form of recruiting and testing out people they might want to hire as permanent employees. This often happens in assembly/production settings. The lower-peformance workers shouldn't automatically be hired just because they kept a seat warm and managed not to do anything bad enough to get fired.
You have to understand that to be a successful business, Slashdot needs a steady flow of eyes looking at the banner advertising. So a high performance 'news cache' scheme had to be developed. It isn't completely FIFO, so don't worry, important breaking items will make it to the top when they occasionally happen.
But do calm down. And click on a few banners, willya? Rob's Aibo needs new batteries.
You have to understand that to be a successful business, Slackware needs a steady flow of eyes looking at the banner advertising. So a high performance 'news cache' scheme had to be developed. It isn't completely FIFO, so don't worry, important breaking items will make it to the top when they occasionally happen.
But do calm down. And click on a few banners, willya? Rob's Aibo needs new batteries.
Many companies hire people as temps to start with and only hire on permanently the people who are good workers. So I can see why whiners and low performers would be nervous about a status quo where they're out the door if they can't meet the standards at the company. I can see why they would try to screw the company for all it is worth. I can also see why they should be thrown out of court on their ear.
Most of the contractors where I work are bumming at rulings like this, because these kinds of precedents will cause companies to eliminate contract positions. If there's no incentive for the company to save a little by hiring more 'flexible' workers they just won't do it any more. Most contractors want their independence.
I would venture to say that none of the Microsoft employees who took part of their pay in "company scrip" in the last decade or two is going to die a pauper in the VA hospital.
But believe whatever you like. I hear you can get some Yggdrasil stock fairly cheap.
The thing is, Caldera never lost a cent in sales on DR-DOS. In fact, the only reason they could afford to buy it was that it was by the time obsolete junk. Ray Noorda set up that division of Caldera and bought DR-DOS purely to sue Microsoft. Old Ray hates Microsoft like nobody else, because he thought doing business with them was like buying grain down at ye olde country store from kindly Mr. Drucker, and Microsoft considered themselves as playing hardball with a rube.
I tried to get my information removed from Amazon.com's server, since I never ever plan to make an online purchase from them again. I got a quiz game back as an answer from them. They basically refused to do it.
I guess we better start converting all that 'bitmap' content out there (all the movies, etc,) so it can be piped over the wire as vector data and rendered at each player.
As the Gameboy uses a modified Z-80 processor, I guess that would mean Linux would be pushing down into the CP/M market space.
Maybe I better hook my BigBoard (Z-80 with a whopping 64K of RAM and onboard Video and Disk IO) up to a power supply again.
I'm not banking on Linux reaching my SYM-1 single board computers (KIM-1 clones) any time soon, though. (6502 processor, hex keypad and six digit seven segment display, stock with 2K of RAM, upgradable to [I think] 8K)
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It's simply amazing what incompetent users can accomplish when running a fairly well laid-out installation program.
You should post that anecdote to alt.folklore.urban.
Will this ultimate DVD player run on my StrongARM Linux box? It's based on a nice ATX form factor motherboard from Chalice Technologies. Lots of room in the ATX case for a 5-1/4" form-factor DVD drive....
Obviously a binary would be available for the more common Alpha, PPC, Sparc, etc. And native ports for NetBSD, FreeBSD, OpenBSD. On all the architectures those OSes run on. (oh wait, probably not needed on Vax..)
Anyhow, I hope you can figure out my point...
Oh, come on! Trolling with that huge flashy lure isn't gonna get you a stringer of lunkers. You'll just scare away all the walleyes and end up with a hammerhandle northern pike.
Try again.
It might seem, from reading certain websites, like there is mass support on this issue, but it could be dangerous to try to call a quorum on the matter this early in "the fight."
An entertainer who has a loyal but small following doesn't book an arena that seats 100,000 people and invite the press in to see how "popular" he is. Unless he knows at least 85,000 people will show up.
I'm surprised that I had to read this far down the comments page to get to the first neo-Leninist "the end we seek is inevitable, we shall prevail" manifesto on this topic. Thank goodness my expectations were met, or I'd worry I wasn't reading Slashdot.
You can make thousands of bit-for-bit copies. But since you cannot make them validly readable by commercially available consumer DVD hardware, without using the crack that the MPAA opposes, you've just wasted a lot of media.
It's rehashed over and over in comments to this article. Go read them.
I think the more interesting and accurate analogy would be the car dealer taking you to court to prevent you from making a copy of your car.
Go ahead and try, btw...
It's really a shame that philosophy has to be watered down this way in order to get freshmen to enroll in the classes.
Next we'll have "Barney teaches Intermediate Philosopy" and I'm sure Big Bird will chime in with something as well.
Sheesh, how embarassing.
You've missed an important distinction.
Linux isn't from everywhere. It's from anywhere.
And the "any" can be controlled by whomever produces a distribution.
OpenBSD is a specific implementation ('distribution') of BSD. It's not from everywhere. The distribution is from Canada.
Emacs isn't as well ported???
You're kidding, right?
We use Emacs on Windows, OS/2, and Unix where I work. It's one of the most ported applications of it's size and scope in the entire software 'universe.'
Maybe somebody here can volunteer the name of a modern Operating system that it isn't ported to, but I suspect not.
Do you get extra credit in the RHCE "test" if one of the things you do to fix the "broken box" is delete Linuxconf, recompile the kernel to use NO frickin kernel modules (you recompile the kernel to build in support for all the hardware in the box), and delete all the pretty Python scripts and "admin" crap?
(I'm assuming you can't bring along your own Slackware or Debian CD-ROM.)
I suppose somebody has to be trained in how to clear up the mess that Red Hat has made, and I guess they should take responsiblity for training the poor fools.
I would propose the following Exam format:
/dev/solenoid driver is configured with permissions so that the subject can access it with his/her built code.
The subject is placed in a room with a locked door. The room contains a 486 system with 8 megs of RAM, an unformatted 600 MB hard drive, an ethernet card cabled to a machine outside the room, and a bootable OpenBSD CD-ROM (which is allowed to include the little several-sided installation sheet that comes in the jewel box).
The subject must install the OpenBSD system, and configure the network so that he can SSH out to a machine outside the door, which has a source tarball containing the source for an application that will engage a solenoid to open the door. The machine outside the room is running Slackware Linux. The subject is given the IP address of the Slackware machine and a user-level account on the machine. The
The test subject has two hours to complete the task. If s/he fails, the penalty is to answer frequently asked (winmodem) questions on the linux.redhat.install usenet newsgroup for six weeks.
We really don't need another government mandated 'mechanism' put into place that ossifies the ability of a company to hire temps as needed. People can walk away from the job if it isn't proving satisfactory to them.
The last thing we need is for temp workers to gain Trade Union-style leverage over the hiring practices of the company they work at.
Many companies hire 'temp' workers as a form of recruiting and testing out people they might want to hire as permanent employees. This often happens in assembly/production settings. The lower-peformance workers shouldn't automatically be hired just because they kept a seat warm and managed not to do anything bad enough to get fired.
You have to understand that to be a successful business, Slashdot needs a steady flow of eyes looking at the banner advertising. So a high performance 'news cache' scheme had to be developed. It isn't completely FIFO, so don't worry, important breaking items will make it to the top when they occasionally happen.
But do calm down. And click on a few banners, willya? Rob's Aibo needs new batteries.
You have to understand that to be a successful business, Slackware needs a steady flow of eyes looking at the banner advertising. So a high performance 'news cache' scheme had to be developed. It isn't completely FIFO, so don't worry, important breaking items will make it to the top when they occasionally happen.
But do calm down. And click on a few banners, willya? Rob's Aibo needs new batteries.
Many companies hire people as temps to start with and only hire on permanently the people who are good workers. So I can see why whiners and low performers would be nervous about a status quo where they're out the door if they can't meet the standards at the company. I can see why they would try to screw the company for all it is worth. I can also see why they should be thrown out of court on their ear.
Most of the contractors where I work are bumming at rulings like this, because these kinds of precedents will cause companies to eliminate contract positions. If there's no incentive for the company to save a little by hiring more 'flexible' workers they just won't do it any more. Most contractors want their independence.
I would venture to say that none of the Microsoft employees who took part of their pay in "company scrip" in the last decade or two is going to die a pauper in the VA hospital.
But believe whatever you like. I hear you can get some Yggdrasil stock fairly cheap.
You're in trouble then, because if I remember right, "The Death of a Salesman" had no parallels to what you just replied to.
Better hope your professor shows some mercy, there.
The thing is, Caldera never lost a cent in sales on DR-DOS. In fact, the only reason they could afford to buy it was that it was by the time obsolete junk. Ray Noorda set up that division of Caldera and bought DR-DOS purely to sue Microsoft. Old Ray hates Microsoft like nobody else, because he thought doing business with them was like buying grain down at ye olde country store from kindly Mr. Drucker, and Microsoft considered themselves as playing hardball with a rube.
I tried to get my information removed from Amazon.com's server, since I never ever plan to make an online purchase from them again. I got a quiz game back as an answer from them. They basically refused to do it.
You want to use OpenGL for streaming video?
I guess we better start converting all that 'bitmap' content out there (all the movies, etc,) so it can be piped over the wire as vector data and rendered at each player.
Heh.
Let's analyze your C here:
X==Lame evaluates as false.
I'm not sure what value Video has been set to. Is it a boolean?
I guess it doesn't matter though, because when it is ANDed with X==Lame it comes out false overall.
So I guess we can assume your message is that function "Have to scrap X first" returns as false.
You were posing it all as a test function, and not a declaration, right?
Wow man.
With enough of these babies clustered together you could probably get the processing power of a 386-SX 16!
Cool!
As the Gameboy uses a modified Z-80 processor, I guess that would mean Linux would be pushing down into the CP/M market space.
Maybe I better hook my BigBoard (Z-80 with a whopping 64K of RAM and onboard Video and Disk IO) up to a power supply again.
I'm not banking on Linux reaching my SYM-1 single board computers (KIM-1 clones) any time soon, though. (6502 processor, hex keypad and six digit seven segment display, stock with 2K of RAM, upgradable to [I think] 8K)