Ah, wasn't aware rhino was a label, rather then retail. Certainly then, do purchase through them, I just hope the mysterious 'choad@bnl24.ten.nl' isn't an employee/manager/ceo of theirs. My point about the power slashdot's "editors" wield (poorly) stands, however.
I know this. But a slashdot "editor" (for lack of a better word) knowingly posted that part of the submitters comments, and exposed the link to the hundreds of thousands of people who read this site. It's a lot of power to wield, and it's in the hands of these schmucks. Rhino records will have perhaps upwards of $20,000 in revenue because of the post... I almost bought it immediatly but decided to patronize a differant retail outlet instead.
Talk about a plug for rhino records... why not just link to a page where you enter your credit card info, with the title already in your shopping cart.
Yep. Linus' ChangeLog's are incredibly awful. Useless to non-kernel developers, and more often then not, useless to kernel developers as well.
It's not uncommon for him to mention things that didn't actually get in, and what he does mention are typically only half the changes.
It's too bad he's hell-bent on this current development model he has going. Might have worked in '91, but it's quite apperant he's in over his head at this point, managing it all through email, and just deleting his mail spool when it gets too full (seriously! You're appearanly supposed to just keep sending in patches if it doesn't make it into his release).
From the way the NYTimes article is worded, sounds like only major corporations will have access to the technical documentation. Independant projects like Samba wouldn't be included.
No deals with OEMs is great, but I'm SURE they'll still do it...all it takes is one guy with a suitcase full of $100s.
What a worthless trial that was. Thanks Bush. Fucking asshole. Oh well, maybe the terrorists will get him. Or Gates.
Re:netscape cares about the details...
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Incredibly correct advise, coming from a person using the handle "NutscrapeSucks". Maybe that refered to 4.x?:)
I was originally telling people to try Mozilla, but now, I encourage them to use Netscape 6.1/6.2 instead. 6.0 was indeed awful and unfortunatly probably turned off alot of people. 6.2 is pretty darn up-to-date, comes with flash and java (which can be a pain to install in Mozilla for mortal users), and doesn't have near as much AOL ad cruft as it used to. Plus it's been through a lot more testing (that's why it's slightly behind the mozilla trunk), which means you can depend on it for 4-6 months until 6.3, unlike Mozilla builds where who knows... last two days history has been broken, today, browser doesn't even come up unless it has mailnews installed too.
The IM and Netscape portal integration will hopefully keep MSN at bay a while longer. Remember guys, "The enemy of our enemy...".
> The workaround is easy : change your user-agent to MSIE.
NO! The workaround is not to use MSN. I don't depend on Microsoft for news any more then I depend on them for a stable, secure, open OS.
Re:Joystick still broken
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He submited it to Linus before 2.4.11, and after 2.4.12. The hell are you supposed to do, mail it to him every hour in case he just decides to rm/var/spool/mail/linus? Fuck, and I thought people were exagerating when they said how screwed up Linux's development model was. I think it's time to copy the BSDs.
Re:Joystick still broken
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Well, slashdot's STUPID code ate part of the patch, so screw it, keep on using 2.4.7. I can't deal with this shit.
Why don't you guys fucking think? Give people with a decent amount of karma like myself some leeway in what they're fucking posting. I'm obviously not a troll, this is an old account with positive karma. Get off your lame asses and make this a decent site, instead of all this lame shit. What the hell do you fucks do all day? Click a few user submited stories to post, then scratch your asses the other 23 hours 55 minutes?
This is your job. Try verifying a fucking story for once. Or learn proper fucking english. Or hire someone who can actually work on the BBS code who isn't a complete moron. And instead of bitching how slashdot needs more and bigger ads, why the fuck is VA paying, what, 5, 6, more? salaries for you assholes? This site could be run buy one guy part time. I realize you started it, but you've leeched off it long enough.
And while you're at it, what retard designed the slashdot UI? I can't motherfucking belive there are sites out there using slashcode and it's clones for their own site. This site has the worst UI I've ever seen. No fucking joke. It's really fucking bad. Take a step back.
Goodnight.
Joystick still broken
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Looks like Linus AGAIN didn't bother to check in the joystick fix. It's been broken since 2.4.10. Vojtech Pavlik had a fix ready before 2.4.11, but Linus is sitting on stuff, as usual. Here's Vojtech's patch, if you're having analog gamepad problems. It's probably going to wrap awful in this stupid text box, so try to piece it back together.
Oh jeeze, stupid slashdot says there's too many junk characters. You're going to have to manually make these changes, then I guess, since it won't take the diff format.
in linux/drivers/char/joystick/analog.c
change
#define GET_TIME(x) do { if (TSC_PRESENT) rdtscl(x); else outb(0, 0x43); x = inb(0x40); x |= inb(0x40) speed > 10000 ? "M" : "k", (port->loop * 1000000) / port->speed);
to all of this
port->speed > 10000 ? "M" : "k",
port->speed > 10000 ? (port->loop * 1000) / (port->speed / 1000) : (port->loop * 1000000) / port->speed); }
PS: What's a formkey? I finally got one of those weird formkey errors that I've been hearing people talk about.
Dunno, but I got it twice posting a reply today. Quit Mozilla, restarted, and the comment went through fine. Stupid error caused my whole comment to get thrown away.
VNC isn't quite the same. You can't play Quake over a VNC connection. Also, some Windows programs have problems with remote display, unlike X11 where remote display is built in. I've seen many problems where parts of the screen won't refresh. MS Word 2000 is especially bad. VNC has its uses, but it's not a KVM replacement.
using 1 keyboard/mouse with 1 ps2 and 1 usb system
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Anyone know if it's possible to get my Sun Type 6 USB keyboard to work on my old intel PS2 system, through a switch? Is there a USB->PS2 converter that works with the Type 6, that I could connect on the switch output to that PC? Any ideas if I would run into problems switching between them, and losing keyboard? Same question regarding Sun's Crossbow USB mouse. I really wouldn't mind all that extra desk space.
Well, experian.com just made it in to my access.db, along with everyone else who's sued maps in the past. Do they have any mail servers outside that domain, anyone know?
Here's a list of some other companies not understanding what MAPS is and trying to stop them with bogus lawsuits. I hope they don't accidently wind up in your access.db (or whatever your MTA uses).
yesmail.com
harrisinteractive.com
blackice.com
media3.com
247media.com
experian.com
exactis.com
liveprayer.com <--- accused MAPS of being an agent of Satan
To block these in sendmail, use the 550 5.7.1 error code in your access.db file, like so:
Now that Microsoft is about to release XP with MS Messanger integrated, AOL decides it's time to open up.
They sure are cutting it close, though. XP will likely not ship with any compatibility for ICQ and AIM, and they might end up walking away with the users.
Anyway, who the hell cares? Two lame proprietary technologies duking it out. Let them fight. I'll wait for the IETF standard. Until then, IRC and E-mail will get me by.
> Miguel de Icaza, Mono's founder, said, "The
> consensus is that [Microsoft] could stop someone
> from implementing the specs by using patents.
> [But] nothing in dot-Net is really innovative,
> so it would be simple to use alternative
> non-patented approaches.
No one says "We're gonna screw you, and take over you own architecture, oh, and, you can't innovate either" quite like Miguel.
So what if one company has complete control. They have NO CONTROL unless people use the product. If people use the product, its because they like it or desire the product.
Uhhh, no. Most definatly not. People use the product because they have no choice. That's how corrupt monopolies operate. And what's worse is Microsoft is leveraging their present monopolies to gain new ones in other areas.
The only long term fix is open APIs, open data formats, and so forth. Anything else and we're just all peons living under the communism of Microsoft or AOL. They have power absolute.
> So why worry about all the other users. I just
> worry about myself.
Because, unfortunatly, other users choices affect me. I'm constantly sent MSExcel and MSWord documents that I end up viewing half-assed in Gnumeric and AbiWord. If I can't retrieve all the information I need out of the files with these tools, I'll have to pay $100s for MSWord and MSExcel, or be fired from my job.
Without open data formats, each of the 6 billion people on this planet choices affect me.
> A war between MS and AOL can only be benefical
> to the end-user in the long run.
Not true at all. A "war" could make them more protective of their technologies with such a major competitor after them. Look what AOL did with AIM, with the buffer overflow stuff.
And if there is an all out war for the PC sector, this is definatly bad. It means there will be a single winner, with total control of everything.
Slashdot Mirror
Why is the abbreviation for Gamecube 'GCN'? That's even stupider then PSX for Playstation.
Ah, wasn't aware rhino was a label, rather then retail. Certainly then, do purchase through them, I just hope the mysterious 'choad@bnl24.ten.nl' isn't an employee/manager/ceo of theirs. My point about the power slashdot's "editors" wield (poorly) stands, however.
I know this. But a slashdot "editor" (for lack of a better word) knowingly posted that part of the submitters comments, and exposed the link to the hundreds of thousands of people who read this site. It's a lot of power to wield, and it's in the hands of these schmucks. Rhino records will have perhaps upwards of $20,000 in revenue because of the post... I almost bought it immediatly but decided to patronize a differant retail outlet instead.
Talk about a plug for rhino records... why not just link to a page where you enter your credit card info, with the title already in your shopping cart.
I think the problem is that they CAN, and for the next 75 years or however long patents last, PNG and MNG only exsist as long as Apple lets them.
> Now we're gonna get all these slashbots telling us how Apple is evil and everyone should boycott OS X/Darwin
Well, I still buy books from bn.com rather then amazon.com because of 1 click.
Yep. Linus' ChangeLog's are incredibly awful. Useless to non-kernel developers, and more often then not, useless to kernel developers as well.
It's not uncommon for him to mention things that didn't actually get in, and what he does mention are typically only half the changes.
It's too bad he's hell-bent on this current development model he has going. Might have worked in '91, but it's quite apperant he's in over his head at this point, managing it all through email, and just deleting his mail spool when it gets too full (seriously! You're appearanly supposed to just keep sending in patches if it doesn't make it into his release).
Someone posted a fake mirror, claiming it was a yahoo link. It actually just used yahoo's redirector script to send people to the goat sex page.
Hey, they're circumventing the 'show link domains' feature... let's arrest them under the DMCA.
Nice of that moderator who -1'd me to actually LOOK at the link, before calling me redundant. Since when does yahoo mirror stuff?
Quick mirror just in case...
. html
http://turbogeek.org/web-archive/lwn.net-20011101
From the way the NYTimes article is worded, sounds like only major corporations will have access to the technical documentation. Independant projects like Samba wouldn't be included.
No deals with OEMs is great, but I'm SURE they'll still do it...all it takes is one guy with a suitcase full of $100s.
What a worthless trial that was. Thanks Bush. Fucking asshole. Oh well, maybe the terrorists will get him. Or Gates.
Incredibly correct advise, coming from a person using the handle "NutscrapeSucks". Maybe that refered to 4.x? :)
I was originally telling people to try Mozilla, but now, I encourage them to use Netscape 6.1/6.2 instead. 6.0 was indeed awful and unfortunatly probably turned off alot of people. 6.2 is pretty darn up-to-date, comes with flash and java (which can be a pain to install in Mozilla for mortal users), and doesn't have near as much AOL ad cruft as it used to. Plus it's been through a lot more testing (that's why it's slightly behind the mozilla trunk), which means you can depend on it for 4-6 months until 6.3, unlike Mozilla builds where who knows... last two days history has been broken, today, browser doesn't even come up unless it has mailnews installed too.
The IM and Netscape portal integration will hopefully keep MSN at bay a while longer. Remember guys, "The enemy of our enemy...".
> The workaround is easy : change your user-agent to MSIE.
NO! The workaround is not to use MSN. I don't depend on Microsoft for news any more then I depend on them for a stable, secure, open OS.
He submited it to Linus before 2.4.11, and after 2.4.12. The hell are you supposed to do, mail it to him every hour in case he just decides to rm /var/spool/mail/linus? Fuck, and I thought people were exagerating when they said how screwed up Linux's development model was. I think it's time to copy the BSDs.
Well, slashdot's STUPID code ate part of the patch, so screw it, keep on using 2.4.7. I can't deal with this shit.
Why don't you guys fucking think? Give people with a decent amount of karma like myself some leeway in what they're fucking posting. I'm obviously not a troll, this is an old account with positive karma. Get off your lame asses and make this a decent site, instead of all this lame shit. What the hell do you fucks do all day? Click a few user submited stories to post, then scratch your asses the other 23 hours 55 minutes?
This is your job. Try verifying a fucking story for once. Or learn proper fucking english. Or hire someone who can actually work on the BBS code who isn't a complete moron. And instead of bitching how slashdot needs more and bigger ads, why the fuck is VA paying, what, 5, 6, more? salaries for you assholes? This site could be run buy one guy part time. I realize you started it, but you've leeched off it long enough.
And while you're at it, what retard designed the slashdot UI? I can't motherfucking belive there are sites out there using slashcode and it's clones for their own site. This site has the worst UI I've ever seen. No fucking joke. It's really fucking bad. Take a step back.
Goodnight.
Looks like Linus AGAIN didn't bother to check in the joystick fix. It's been broken since 2.4.10. Vojtech Pavlik had a fix ready before 2.4.11, but Linus is sitting on stuff, as usual. Here's Vojtech's patch, if you're having analog gamepad problems. It's probably going to wrap awful in this stupid text box, so try to piece it back together.
Oh jeeze, stupid slashdot says there's too many junk characters. You're going to have to manually make these changes, then I guess, since it won't take the diff format.
in linux/drivers/char/joystick/analog.c
change
#define GET_TIME(x) do { if (TSC_PRESENT) rdtscl(x); else outb(0, 0x43); x = inb(0x40); x |= inb(0x40) speed > 10000 ? "M" : "k", (port->loop * 1000000) / port->speed);
to all of this
port->speed > 10000 ? "M" : "k",
port->speed > 10000 ? (port->loop * 1000) / (port->speed / 1000) : (port->loop * 1000000) / port->speed); }
Then Apple will be after them.
VNC isn't quite the same. You can't play Quake over a VNC connection. Also, some Windows programs have problems with remote display, unlike X11 where remote display is built in. I've seen many problems where parts of the screen won't refresh. MS Word 2000 is especially bad. VNC has its uses, but it's not a KVM replacement.
Anyone know if it's possible to get my Sun Type 6 USB keyboard to work on my old intel PS2 system, through a switch? Is there a USB->PS2 converter that works with the Type 6, that I could connect on the switch output to that PC? Any ideas if I would run into problems switching between them, and losing keyboard? Same question regarding Sun's Crossbow USB mouse. I really wouldn't mind all that extra desk space.
I thought 802.11a was the 2/1M one, and .11b was the 11/5.5/2/1M one... where'd this 55M stuff come from?
Well, experian.com just made it in to my access.db, along with everyone else who's sued maps in the past. Do they have any mail servers outside that domain, anyone know?
Here's a list of some other companies not understanding what MAPS is and trying to stop them with bogus lawsuits. I hope they don't accidently wind up in your access.db (or whatever your MTA uses).
yesmail.com
harrisinteractive.com
blackice.com
media3.com
247media.com
experian.com
exactis.com
liveprayer.com <--- accused MAPS of being an agent of Satan
To block these in sendmail, use the 550 5.7.1 error code in your access.db file, like so:
yesmail.com <tab> 550 5.7.1 Spammer suing MAPS.
gtk-gnutella isn't "coming along nicely". It hasn't been updated in forever, constantly crashes, lacks outbound filesharing, and many other features.
Now that Microsoft is about to release XP with MS Messanger integrated, AOL decides it's time to open up.
They sure are cutting it close, though. XP will likely not ship with any compatibility for ICQ and AIM, and they might end up walking away with the users.
Anyway, who the hell cares? Two lame proprietary technologies duking it out. Let them fight. I'll wait for the IETF standard. Until then, IRC and E-mail will get me by.
> Miguel de Icaza, Mono's founder, said, "The
> consensus is that [Microsoft] could stop someone
> from implementing the specs by using patents.
> [But] nothing in dot-Net is really innovative,
> so it would be simple to use alternative
> non-patented approaches.
No one says "We're gonna screw you, and take over you own architecture, oh, and, you can't innovate either" quite like Miguel.
Uhhh, no. Most definatly not. People use the product because they have no choice. That's how corrupt monopolies operate. And what's worse is Microsoft is leveraging their present monopolies to gain new ones in other areas.
The only long term fix is open APIs, open data formats, and so forth. Anything else and we're just all peons living under the communism of Microsoft or AOL. They have power absolute.
> So why worry about all the other users. I just
> worry about myself.
Because, unfortunatly, other users choices affect me. I'm constantly sent MSExcel and MSWord documents that I end up viewing half-assed in Gnumeric and AbiWord. If I can't retrieve all the information I need out of the files with these tools, I'll have to pay $100s for MSWord and MSExcel, or be fired from my job.
Without open data formats, each of the 6 billion people on this planet choices affect me.
> A war between MS and AOL can only be benefical
> to the end-user in the long run.
Not true at all. A "war" could make them more protective of their technologies with such a major competitor after them. Look what AOL did with AIM, with the buffer overflow stuff.
And if there is an all out war for the PC sector, this is definatly bad. It means there will be a single winner, with total control of everything.