Although/. has to keep in mind its performance etc, this is a giant blow for the Linux community. Congradulations to slashdot to evaluating a system on its numbers/specs rather than it's branding.
It would be nice to see one stable viable version of linux that the entire community could get behind, but I think the pre-mature IPO situations last year killed any hope of that and forced linux into a corner.
May the force be with Linux (and BSD) as each OS continues to grow against the evil empire.
I think some of the discrepencies are from bit vs. byte rates... and all good/.ers know that there are 8 bits to the byte. I think european numbers are to the bit, while US numbers are to the byte... food for thought.
Bad alternative, with mega pixel cameras saving 1Mb+ Files, you need to carry 1 disk / image (I know you can save at a higher compression, but the image quality drops significantly, which is important if you are going to be printing these things)
I have an Olympus D600-L SLR (uses the sm cards -the small ones) Digital Camera with resolutions at 1280x1024, even without the max compression level, images are on the order of 300K+ so thats, 4-5 per floppy. In high resolution mode, they're around 900K, so if your lucky, and take pictures that can compress well despite the lowered JPEG Setting, you might get 2 on a disk. Not a good option.
To sony's credit, they have released a new version of the mavica which uses CD-R for its media... works in all the systems the original author mentioned, worth taking a look at but at $1000+ its steep.
Not only does it have a nice small form factor and not chew up the power of a desktop, you have 1-2 hrs of UPS power built right into the system, talk about fault tollerant.
The only issues with old laptops are disk/ram sizes and bizzare hardware, which if you take the time during an install are not really issues at all.
More power to you, if things workout well, post a How-to on it, someone else will need it someday.
Forgot to mention this last night... RDS is also a HUGE security hole on ColdFusion based systems and Should not be used in a production evironment. For the happy hackers out there RDS runs over port 80, listening for a username and password to authenticate. the default username unless the site is using Advanced Security services is 'ra' (short for remote administrator). So then with a tool like dsniff, you can go and grab the password and be on your way. What you probably don't realize, is that once you have the password you have the equivalent to root on a win box (not sure about linux) all drive letters are available, and you can edit, delete, modify _any_ system file at will. Learned about this from the training people at FigLeaf in DC
Just so you know (as I'm sure you do) RDS is an prop. allaire format, try letting allaire know that you want their dev. tools on Linux, they made the leap and made CF4.5 available on linux, but no development IDE... Write a letter, perhaps Jeremy Allaire and the rest of the crew over there will stop playing with the Macromedia merger and work on creating some solid tools for the Linux WebDev crowd. I know I would apreciate it too.
MyAccess Seems to have some interesting tools, found out about it from MySQL's contributions section. Works as a front end in Access. You might want to evaluate this one...
Gotta start somewhere, its usually some random thing that we discover how to do first, then we take a step back look at it... think, man thats cool, but what if it could _________ and then we make that work. That's how most technology has gotten to where it is now anyway. So think of this as step 1, a working prototype, showing us a window of things to come.
PHP doesn't loose its focus when it thinks outside the web platform, it increases its usefulness, and broadens its reach. Not only that, it puts itself on par with things like Java, and opens doors that will allow it to change as the web changes. Don't fool yourself for a minute that the web (as it exists now) will be around in 10 years. PHP is showing that languages too can evolve, just as technology has, is, and will continue to do.
</rant>
I commend the open source community for driving this change and helping to make the future brighter for all.
This looks like another Microsoft vapor ware product (a practice which incidently Intel has taken up...)
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But you can be certain that this thing that they hope to do will not exist until more money is thrown their way.
I see where the record industry is comming from it does cut into margins which puts people out of work. But Napster itself is not the problem. Its users who are the problem. Unless you want to police the users activities (ie, what I use my computer for) killing a program like Napster will only give rise to less organized distribution methods.
Have you tried searching on Warez on Google recently?
I can only hope that Microsoft doesn't throw a bunch of money into this and say that a free operating system is somehow an infringment in their ULA, and therefore, you have lost rights to your computer, because you installed Linux.
I live in VA, and have been reading the various secions of UCITA on the states website. But speaking only English, I got a little lost in the laywer speak.
RMS, has some interesting points in what UCITA could do... but I would like to see someone translate the document into something readable by a lay person (or computer geek).
Is UCITA really this evil Micro$oft friendly thing, or is it just raising the bar for the Open Source (and free) software community?
Communications between servers which should share similar information is nice, I have used it to update databases that are pretty much static from one side of the firewall to the other. WDDX is usefull for this and its a nice way to get things from one type of server to another (for instance an ASP based webserver to a ColdFusion based web server)
So as you can see, it has lots of real world uses.
The overall message size didn't increas 100 fold. A simple string:
Just a test of the encoder
Turned into:
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is being sent in compliance with Senate bill 2216 ;
Title 3 ; Section 301 ! This is different than anything
else you've seen . Why work for somebody else when
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friend and your friend will be rich too . Warmest regards
. Dear E-Commerce professional , Especially for you
- this hot intelligence . This is a one time mailing
there is no need to request removal if you won't want
any more . This mail is being sent in compliance with
Senate bill 2616 , Title 1 ; Section 309 ! This is
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Perhaps a little optimization to this code would be in order, even something simple like a first character replacement???
This is not the first slash story about a product like this. There are some great video's of this sort of robot in action, running sin wave's for movement. The originial/. story here. And the CONRO original site which has some interesting videos if you have the bandwith to download them here.
As a web developer, I find that even with complex layouts, the key is not how cool I think it looks and the user expereince MUST come first, so if you need to design a site that only works on one browser, you are limiting your client base. If your site doesn't work under AOL's integrated IE (which some stuff doesn't you should be checking) that is a HUGE client base to loose.
If you are using browser dependent code you, need to find a different way around it. Don't expect the user to switch to your platform because you want to develop in it, expect the user to go elswhere for services.
The _only_ exception to this rule is on a corporate intranet, where the organization has the right (as they own the hardware) to say, you must use IE, AOL, Netscape, Lynx, Amaya, WebTV or whatever.
I don't want to start a flame war here, but lets be realistic, the web isn't about what you design, its about what the average user gets out of it.
By the physics we understand today, that doesn't mean we wont have a different understanding of the universe in 5 years. You as a rather intelligent individual should understand this most of all. Only 50 years ago, the center of a cell was the nucleus, and teachers taught we would _never_ know what was in the center of that. how wrong were they?
From the logical side in me... If the developers hacking these systems would concentrate their obvious talent into something like perfecting support on standard PC/Mac etc hardware I think it may be more benificial to the community at large.
As the Dreamcast will be totaly revamped in its next iteration (probably), making this port almost useless. If this port only runs in backward compatibility mode, whats the point? And to what end other than a cool hack that gets posted on/. does this have. Are all the pimple faced kids who are playing games on theirs going to rush out and download a port of BSD to run on their systems? If they have a burner to make the CD, don't they already have hardware that's probably pretty cool already?
So the intention of getting cheap hardware that can be usefull is now useless? Who becomes the end user? Some little old lady who's grandkid has all the cool toys and has thrown his Dreamcast asside for the new PS2 he finally got off backorder?
I think if the community of hackers is to survive, focus must be applied. How many projects at source forge are duplicates doing the same code for the same end but independant of each other.
And for the troll... wouldn't it be cool to build a cluster of these...
Before you hack that fish... think about why your doing it.
We have heard rants from this guy before, and although he's a little long winded, his product works as advertised, and he has been complaining about the intel chips for quite some time, read the original slashdot article here.
Admitted I was curious and put his emulator on my PII laptop and threw OS 8 on it. The only disapointment I had was in the lack of network support for the older Quadra ROM set, so I emailed his organization and recieved a note back that when they release the PowerPC version of the software it will support networking.
Thinking back to article he had posted in September, the PowerPC project had been suspended until such time when AMD and Intel could release a chip that didn't change drasticly from version to version.
Discouraged, I stick with my PII waiting for a solid chip (preferably ia64) from these companies to upgrade to. Perhaps I should go to a Mac now and leave x86 land behind me.
Lest we also no forget that we are assuming that if someone is trying to reach us, that this is the means that they will do so! It is always possible that if someone else is out there, they are using some other type of communication which we can't even fathom. Or worse yet, they have not reached a point in their civilization where radio communication is even possible.
We can see why AMD has been able to gain such a large profit share, new technology faster, more stable and oh in case you didn't know at a fraction of the cost. Lets see... IA-64 Vaporware, Pentium 4 bugs and recalls... I think the choice is obvious don't you.
Hey wait a minute, cant you buy a part for your handspring that essentially does this now, and you dont have to wait 5 years until the fed decides that this technology is okay for use in the US?
Not only would this combine the best cartoon style games with Sonic and Mario, it would then dominate that market all by itself, leaving Sony as the leader in real life gaming and Nintendo with "family friendly" gaming. This would be a good merger... to bad cnn doesn't think it will be.
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Although /. has to keep in mind its performance etc, this is a giant blow for the Linux community. Congradulations to slashdot to evaluating a system on its numbers/specs rather than it's branding.
It would be nice to see one stable viable version of linux that the entire community could get behind, but I think the pre-mature IPO situations last year killed any hope of that and forced linux into a corner.
May the force be with Linux (and BSD) as each OS continues to grow against the evil empire.
I think some of the discrepencies are from bit vs. byte rates... and all good /.ers know that there are 8 bits to the byte. I think european numbers are to the bit, while US numbers are to the byte... food for thought.
Bad alternative, with mega pixel cameras saving 1Mb+ Files, you need to carry 1 disk / image (I know you can save at a higher compression, but the image quality drops significantly, which is important if you are going to be printing these things)
I have an Olympus D600-L SLR (uses the sm cards -the small ones) Digital Camera with resolutions at 1280x1024, even without the max compression level, images are on the order of 300K+ so thats, 4-5 per floppy. In high resolution mode, they're around 900K, so if your lucky, and take pictures that can compress well despite the lowered JPEG Setting, you might get 2 on a disk. Not a good option.
To sony's credit, they have released a new version of the mavica which uses CD-R for its media... works in all the systems the original author mentioned, worth taking a look at but at $1000+ its steep.
Not only does it have a nice small form factor and not chew up the power of a desktop, you have 1-2 hrs of UPS power built right into the system, talk about fault tollerant.
The only issues with old laptops are disk/ram sizes and bizzare hardware, which if you take the time during an install are not really issues at all.
More power to you, if things workout well, post a How-to on it, someone else will need it someday.
Forgot to mention this last night... RDS is also a HUGE security hole on ColdFusion based systems and Should not be used in a production evironment. For the happy hackers out there RDS runs over port 80, listening for a username and password to authenticate. the default username unless the site is using Advanced Security services is 'ra' (short for remote administrator). So then with a tool like dsniff, you can go and grab the password and be on your way. What you probably don't realize, is that once you have the password you have the equivalent to root on a win box (not sure about linux) all drive letters are available, and you can edit, delete, modify _any_ system file at will. Learned about this from the training people at FigLeaf in DC
Just so you know (as I'm sure you do) RDS is an prop. allaire format, try letting allaire know that you want their dev. tools on Linux, they made the leap and made CF4.5 available on linux, but no development IDE... Write a letter, perhaps Jeremy Allaire and the rest of the crew over there will stop playing with the Macromedia merger and work on creating some solid tools for the Linux WebDev crowd. I know I would apreciate it too.
MyAccess Seems to have some interesting tools, found out about it from MySQL's contributions section. Works as a front end in Access. You might want to evaluate this one...
Gotta start somewhere, its usually some random thing that we discover how to do first, then we take a step back look at it... think, man thats cool, but what if it could _________ and then we make that work. That's how most technology has gotten to where it is now anyway. So think of this as step 1, a working prototype, showing us a window of things to come.
PHP doesn't loose its focus when it thinks outside the web platform, it increases its usefulness, and broadens its reach. Not only that, it puts itself on par with things like Java, and opens doors that will allow it to change as the web changes. Don't fool yourself for a minute that the web (as it exists now) will be around in 10 years. PHP is showing that languages too can evolve, just as technology has, is, and will continue to do.
</rant>
I commend the open source community for driving this change and helping to make the future brighter for all.
This looks like another Microsoft vapor ware product (a practice which incidently Intel has taken up...)
But you can be certain that this thing that they hope to do will not exist until more money is thrown their way.
At least copyleft.net has some cool swag to buy.
I see where the record industry is comming from it does cut into margins which puts people out of work. But Napster itself is not the problem. Its users who are the problem. Unless you want to police the users activities (ie, what I use my computer for) killing a program like Napster will only give rise to less organized distribution methods.
Have you tried searching on Warez on Google recently?
I can only hope that Microsoft doesn't throw a bunch of money into this and say that a free operating system is somehow an infringment in their ULA, and therefore, you have lost rights to your computer, because you installed Linux.
I live in VA, and have been reading the various secions of UCITA on the states website. But speaking only English, I got a little lost in the laywer speak.
RMS, has some interesting points in what UCITA could do... but I would like to see someone translate the document into something readable by a lay person (or computer geek).
Is UCITA really this evil Micro$oft friendly thing, or is it just raising the bar for the Open Source (and free) software community?
What a great mailing address (for the checks required to keep the startup running!)
Communications between servers which should share similar information is nice, I have used it to update databases that are pretty much static from one side of the firewall to the other. WDDX is usefull for this and its a nice way to get things from one type of server to another (for instance an ASP based webserver to a ColdFusion based web server)
So as you can see, it has lots of real world uses.
This is not the first slash story about a product like this. There are some great video's of this sort of robot in action, running sin wave's for movement. The originial /. story here. And the CONRO original site which has some interesting videos if you have the bandwith to download them here.
I couldn't disagree with you more.
As a web developer, I find that even with complex layouts, the key is not how cool I think it looks and the user expereince MUST come first, so if you need to design a site that only works on one browser, you are limiting your client base. If your site doesn't work under AOL's integrated IE (which some stuff doesn't you should be checking) that is a HUGE client base to loose.
If you are using browser dependent code you, need to find a different way around it. Don't expect the user to switch to your platform because you want to develop in it, expect the user to go elswhere for services.
The _only_ exception to this rule is on a corporate intranet, where the organization has the right (as they own the hardware) to say, you must use IE, AOL, Netscape, Lynx, Amaya, WebTV or whatever.
I don't want to start a flame war here, but lets be realistic, the web isn't about what you design, its about what the average user gets out of it.
SQL = Structured Query Language
RDBMS = Relational Database Managment System
Its a query language used to talk to RDBMS systems... an example might be:
isn't that simple. You can even use this in Micro$oft Access... but it tries to build querys for you by default.
M$ SQL Server doesn't fit, hasn't fit, and never will fit. That's the point.
By the physics we understand today, that doesn't mean we wont have a different understanding of the universe in 5 years. You as a rather intelligent individual should understand this most of all. Only 50 years ago, the center of a cell was the nucleus, and teachers taught we would _never_ know what was in the center of that. how wrong were they?
From the geek in me, that's really cool!
From the logical side in me... If the developers hacking these systems would concentrate their obvious talent into something like perfecting support on standard PC/Mac etc hardware I think it may be more benificial to the community at large.
As the Dreamcast will be totaly revamped in its next iteration (probably), making this port almost useless. If this port only runs in backward compatibility mode, whats the point? And to what end other than a cool hack that gets posted on /. does this have. Are all the pimple faced kids who are playing games on theirs going to rush out and download a port of BSD to run on their systems? If they have a burner to make the CD, don't they already have hardware that's probably pretty cool already?
So the intention of getting cheap hardware that can be usefull is now useless? Who becomes the end user? Some little old lady who's grandkid has all the cool toys and has thrown his Dreamcast asside for the new PS2 he finally got off backorder?
I think if the community of hackers is to survive, focus must be applied. How many projects at source forge are duplicates doing the same code for the same end but independant of each other.
And for the troll... wouldn't it be cool to build a cluster of these...
Before you hack that fish... think about why your doing it.
We have heard rants from this guy before, and although he's a little long winded, his product works as advertised, and he has been complaining about the intel chips for quite some time, read the original slashdot article here.
Admitted I was curious and put his emulator on my PII laptop and threw OS 8 on it. The only disapointment I had was in the lack of network support for the older Quadra ROM set, so I emailed his organization and recieved a note back that when they release the PowerPC version of the software it will support networking.
Thinking back to article he had posted in September, the PowerPC project had been suspended until such time when AMD and Intel could release a chip that didn't change drasticly from version to version.
Discouraged, I stick with my PII waiting for a solid chip (preferably ia64) from these companies to upgrade to. Perhaps I should go to a Mac now and leave x86 land behind me.
Lest we also no forget that we are assuming that if someone is trying to reach us, that this is the means that they will do so! It is always possible that if someone else is out there, they are using some other type of communication which we can't even fathom. Or worse yet, they have not reached a point in their civilization where radio communication is even possible.
We can see why AMD has been able to gain such a large profit share, new technology faster, more stable and oh in case you didn't know at a fraction of the cost. Lets see... IA-64 Vaporware, Pentium 4 bugs and recalls... I think the choice is obvious don't you.
Hey wait a minute, cant you buy a part for your handspring that essentially does this now, and you dont have to wait 5 years until the fed decides that this technology is okay for use in the US?
Not only would this combine the best cartoon style games with Sonic and Mario, it would then dominate that market all by itself, leaving Sony as the leader in real life gaming and Nintendo with "family friendly" gaming. This would be a good merger... to bad cnn doesn't think it will be.