Nothing's better for me than Duke Ellington, Benny Goodman, Fletcher Henderson, Gene Krupa, and of course, Django Reinhardt. Right now I've got Benny Goodman: The Complete RCA Victor Small Group Recordings 3-CD set playing. Classic jazz just has the right kind of sound for me.
Now, if only there was a full-time jazz station in Madison...
Imagine if someone said to you, "you're a damn good programmer. I want you to spend some time doing some programming for us. No we won't pay you, but you might get a decent computer out of it and we get to keep your code and sell it."
I don't have as much of a problem with this. Last I heard, when you write a program and get paid for doing so (in other words, it's part of your job description to write this program), the company that paid you owns the copyright on the code and can redistribute and/or sell as they wish. I had a rather rude awakening to this fact several years ago.
On the money that is involved in this project... Loki isn't asking you to provide a complete rewrite of their product, their asking for hacks. For the amount of time that I would be likely to code for this project (a couple weeks of part time work), a $4-5k computer seems a very reasonable pay.
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The only product that comes to mind is DOS 3.1. Until I started supporting MS products, I never realized just how much better all the other software options are (especially Open Source projects).
So if Sun "hates OS specific stuff" as you say in your subject, why did they buy Star Div? Star Office runs on Linux, Win 9x and NT, OS/2 and Sun's own Solaris. That doesn't sound too OS specfic to me...
Create anew or Embrace & Extend?
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First, the idea of replacing X.... There is really no reason to replace X.... If these people really wanted to create something better, the wise thing to do would be either to add extensions to X11 or to approach the Open Group, maintainers of X, and propose creating X12.... My advice to Linux users is to continue to support X and not the Microsoft-reminiscent idea of throwing standards out the wind. -----endquote-----
Okay, throwing away standards is a Bad Thing. But we're not even a year past the Halloween docs and we seem to be advocating Embrace & Extend. I'm not sure which is worse.
On the one hand, working with the Open Group and taking the time to create new extensions properly would enable users to run new and more powerful applications on their X servers. However, when the majority of applications require that these extensions be installed, the developers are leaving out a chunk of their potential user base. This is, in part, how Microsoft got into the trouble that it's in now.
On the other hand, sometimes a product has been kludged as far as it can to work as well as possible. At a certain point, the developers need to reassess the product and how well it meets the users' expectations. When the users expect the software to perform tasks that are impossible in its current implementation, sometimes a complete rewrite is required to add a feature.
The problem comes down to this: which way is better for product development - constant kludges and upgrades or a complete rethinking of the project? It is up to the developers to decide when a rewrite is needed, not the users. For myself, as a user, I'll suggest features that I want to see and leave it up to the developers on how best to implement them. If that requires a complete rewrite, so be it.
-- Sean Lamb "A day without laughter is a day wasted." -- Groucho Marx
Re:Huray! Now, more people use C++!!
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-----quote----- C++ is useless trash. People who know better avoid it like they do the plague. -----end quote-----
Um, no. If your statement is true, then a myriad of proggies and libs that we know and love (e.g. Linux, Gimp, Apache, Samba, Sendmail, Gtk+, Qt, etc. and then everything built on top of them) might not exist. At least they wouldn't exist in the form that we know them now.
Fuck.com (THEGARYSHOW-DOM) THEGARYSHOW.COM Kimball, Jonathan D (MM9897) fuck.com@NETS0L.COM 212-656-1484 ORDERED STATUS QUO ANTE (FUCK14-DOM) FUCK.COM Springsteen, A (AS16338) fuck.com@BENICETOBEARS.COM 716 832 3348 fuck.com (ISHIT5-DOM) ISHIT.NET To single out one record, look it up with "!xxx", where xxx is the handle, shown in parenthesis following the name, which comes first.
It happened, but it's not a ghost town...
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The day that Microsoft fails to convince you to upgrade--i.e., to buy a product that the malcontents call bloated--is the day that Redmond becomes a ghost town.
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That day happened for us about 2 years ago when we decided not to upgrade to Win98 on one of our boxen (others running one of several Linux distros, currently Caldera 2.2 and RedHat 5.2). Now, where can I load up my truck with all the worthless (to them) hardware?
One David attacking one Goliath might be able to win with one stone, but several thousand Davids with several thousand stones against one Goliath presents much better odds in Davids' (the plural possessive...) favor.
We've seen where Apache and Samba need to work to combat the recent series of benchmarks, now let's get to work.
Maybe my projects just haven't been big enough to need an IDE. A couple of xterms (one for vi, the other for make) have always been enough for me. Being a starving student still, the $300 that the article mentions is just enough that it's hard to justify.
The back doors that this bill seems to mandate are ripe for exploit in a new type of Denial Of Service attack, especially if they are included in software as popular among the.com set as MS-ware. If you think about the most common "features" exploited by virus writers and crackers, the majority of them are on MS software and its famous integration (Word macros sending an ungodly amount of emails, screensavers that allow root access, etc.).
Viruses are often written to disable programs or destroy data. If the software vendor can disable product remotely, it won't be long before the methods are used in a malicious piece of code (a matter of weeks or even days at the most, considering how many vendors push beta or even alpha releases out the door).
It seems that the bureaucrats in charge have become a bit more pointy-haired than it originally seemed. So now, a 35 year old professional adult isn't even allowed the respect to choose what he or she WANTS to view.
Hmmm, maybe on second thought, it's BillGa~1's minions at Micros~1 who has taken over. "Here's where you want to go today."
My favorites are the clocks that have something other than standard fare for the display. The Signals catalog[1] usually has a kinetic clock where you count the number of marbles displaying to get the current time. Another cool clock is one where the display is simply 6 or 8 LEDs on the end of a wand. The wand is mounted in a base in such a way that when the wand is waved back and forth, the LEDs display the time much like a dot matrix print head would on a piece of paper.
[1] I couldn't find a URL for it, but the if you sign up for the Prairie Home Companion catalog, you should get Signals as well. The URL for the PHC catalog request form is http://phc.mpr.org/catalog/order_cata log.html.
Never mind, for now, the always controversial issue of whether Caldera and KDE qualify as truly "free" software by the stringent standards of Richard Stallman and his cohorts
I don't know about everyone else, but software being free isn't as important to me as software that does what it's supposed to do reliably.
Okay, then how did Woody Allen get away with it in What's Up Tiger Lily? (dang funny movie, tho, IMHO) He took a Japanese spy movie, dubbed his own script on top of it and released it as a new movie.
Since the receiver would have few ways to limit the items that *do* print, and since this setup would be *exceptionally* similar to a conventional fax machine (the difference being the transport mode), I would imagine that spam here would fall under the Junk Fax law. I don't have the link to the US Code for it handy right now, but ISTR its definition of "fax machine" would fit an IPP printer nicely.
Check out the mailing list archive at the MadLUG (Madison Linux User Group) website at http://madlug.jvlnet.com. One of our members, who is also a sysadmin at this ISP, has done this rather successfully.
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Now, if only there was a full-time jazz station in Madison...
Sure, it's a Security ID. Micros~1's revenue stream security, that is.
On the money that is involved in this project... Loki isn't asking you to provide a complete rewrite of their product, their asking for hacks. For the amount of time that I would be likely to code for this project (a couple weeks of part time work), a $4-5k computer seems a very reasonable pay.
Wasn't Lizard GPLed a month or two ago? Or am I thinking of Lisa? It's pretty dark in here right now, so shed some light on this subject, please.
Da. Am orderink milk crates now.
So if Sun "hates OS specific stuff" as you say in your subject, why did they buy Star Div? Star Office runs on Linux, Win 9x and NT, OS/2 and Sun's own Solaris. That doesn't sound too OS specfic to me...
Okay, throwing away standards is a Bad Thing. But we're not even a year past the Halloween docs and we seem to be advocating Embrace & Extend. I'm not sure which is worse.
On the one hand, working with the Open Group and taking the time to create new extensions properly would enable users to run new and more powerful applications on their X servers. However, when the majority of applications require that these extensions be installed, the developers are leaving out a chunk of their potential user base. This is, in part, how Microsoft got into the trouble that it's in now.
On the other hand, sometimes a product has been kludged as far as it can to work as well as possible. At a certain point, the developers need to reassess the product and how well it meets the users' expectations. When the users expect the software to perform tasks that are impossible in its current implementation, sometimes a complete rewrite is required to add a feature.
The problem comes down to this: which way is better for product development - constant kludges and upgrades or a complete rethinking of the project? It is up to the developers to decide when a rewrite is needed, not the users. For myself, as a user, I'll suggest features that I want to see and leave it up to the developers on how best to implement them. If that requires a complete rewrite, so be it.
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Sean Lamb
"A day without laughter is a day wasted." -- Groucho Marx
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C++ is useless trash. People who know better avoid it like they do the plague.
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Um, no. If your statement is true, then a myriad of proggies and libs that we know and love (e.g. Linux, Gimp, Apache, Samba, Sendmail, Gtk+, Qt, etc. and then everything built on top of them) might not exist. At least they wouldn't exist in the form that we know them now.
Internic shows differently...
Fuck.com (THEGARYSHOW-DOM) THEGARYSHOW.COM
Kimball, Jonathan D (MM9897) fuck.com@NETS0L.COM 212-656-1484
ORDERED STATUS QUO ANTE (FUCK14-DOM) FUCK.COM
Springsteen, A (AS16338) fuck.com@BENICETOBEARS.COM 716 832 3348
fuck.com (ISHIT5-DOM) ISHIT.NET
To single out one record, look it up with "!xxx", where xxx is the
handle, shown in parenthesis following the name, which comes first.
That day happened for us about 2 years ago when we decided not to upgrade to Win98 on one of our boxen (others running one of several Linux distros, currently Caldera 2.2 and RedHat 5.2). Now, where can I load up my truck with all the worthless (to them) hardware?
One David attacking one Goliath might be able to win with one stone, but several thousand Davids with several thousand stones against one Goliath presents much better odds in Davids' (the plural possessive...) favor.
We've seen where Apache and Samba need to work to combat the recent series of benchmarks, now let's get to work.
Maybe my projects just haven't been big enough to need an IDE. A couple of xterms (one for vi, the other for make) have always been enough for me. Being a starving student still, the $300 that the article mentions is just enough that it's hard to justify.
Gee, Trepidity, you make it sound like a certain software publisher that I know of from Washington State...
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Sean
Viruses are often written to disable programs or destroy data. If the software vendor can disable product remotely, it won't be long before the methods are used in a malicious piece of code (a matter of weeks or even days at the most, considering how many vendors push beta or even alpha releases out the door).
All the more reason to use GPL/OSS products.
It seems that the bureaucrats in charge have become a bit more pointy-haired than it originally seemed. So now, a 35 year old professional adult isn't even allowed the respect to choose what he or she WANTS to view.
Hmmm, maybe on second thought, it's BillGa~1's minions at Micros~1 who has taken over. "Here's where you want to go today."
You've gone and posted something that will make me pull out my SW tapes and watch them again. Geez! And I was just getting over that!
[1] I couldn't find a URL for it, but the if you sign up for the Prairie Home Companion catalog, you should get Signals as well. The URL for the PHC catalog request form is http://phc.mpr.org/catalog/order_cata log.html.
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Sean Lamb
I don't know about everyone else, but software being free isn't as important to me as software that does what it's supposed to do reliably.
Okay, then how did Woody Allen get away with it in What's Up Tiger Lily? (dang funny movie, tho, IMHO) He took a Japanese spy movie, dubbed his own script on top of it and released it as a new movie.
Since the receiver would have few ways to limit the items that *do* print, and since this setup would be *exceptionally* similar to a conventional fax machine (the difference being the transport mode), I would imagine that spam here would fall under the Junk Fax law. I don't have the link to the US Code for it handy right now, but ISTR its definition of "fax machine" would fit an IPP printer nicely.
Um... DejaNews?
I'm gonna get you little fishie!
STR
Sean
Check out the mailing list archive at the MadLUG (Madison Linux User Group) website at http://madlug.jvlnet.com. One of our members, who is also a sysadmin at this ISP, has done this rather successfully.