Probably wouldn't work. A MAC address is made up of two parts - a manufacturer code (unique to a certain company) and a part code (unique to that particular card, for that manufacturer code).
I imagine Microsoft is smart enough to check that the Xbox trying to connect to their network is at least using a MAC address that belongs to a Microsoft NIC...
...what is current, which is generally close to the leading edge of the state of the art.
Perhaps you could add in a few more such tautologies for those of us who don't get to read enough MarketingSpeek(TM).
Something like, "Gentoo represents a paradigm shift in the state of the art of the leading bleeding edge for best-of-breed last-mile on-demand multimedia technology".
You know why the BSA spends so much on advertising here? Every company I'been at here has a major piracy problem - from the OS to applications. It's not condoned, but there's a 'nudge-nudge, wink-wink' atmosphere that makes it easy to turn a blind eye.
By the way, if you want to see free-software related 'stuff' here, go to a bookstore. Currently, the following magazines dealing with free software are widely available:
Software Design Linux Magazine Nikkei Linux BSD Magazine FreeBSD Press
How many does the US have? Linux Journal, ummm....
if you want to buy a distribution, Laox Computer-kan in Akihabara has a fairly good selection.
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posted by Jared White on November 16, 2002 05:16 PM
Red Hat Road Tour 2002 Mission: to discover the state of Linux in America
Stop #16 The Place: O'Reilly and Associates, Sebastopol, CA The Time: 7:00 PM (in fact, 7:50 PM, more on that later) The Vehicle: a large red RV that was an amazing sight to behold The Audience: members of the North Bay Linux Users Group, along with a few stray outsiders (like me)
Arrival
My friend and I arrived at the O'Reilly headquarters at around 6:35 PM (PST). For those of you who have yet to see O'Reilly's new digs just outside of downtown Sebastopol, they really are a striking set of buildings. Built in a country-cottage style with peaked roofs and gables, though large-scale and at least three stories high, they exude an old-fashioned, down-to-earth warmth and cheeriness that belie the ultra-modern high-tech activities commencing within their light grey-blue walls.
A fair number of people had already gathered in the conference-room-turned-presentation-center when we entered, but we were lucky to find seats relatively close to the front of the room. Nonetheless, it quickly turned out that pizza was on in another part of the building, and before you could count to twenty-three using only prime numbers, the room was deserted. However, since we had already eaten, it was time for us to take a look at the O'Reilly bookstore.
That was fun. Quite fun. Evil Geniuses in a Nutshell and books of a similar sort for sale were displayed on shelves covering an entire area next to the lobby in the front of the building. Thanks to the 20% off discount available to presumably anyone who bothered to show up, I left the store with O'Reilly's PHP Pocket Reference to give me great geeky reading pleasure in the cold wintery days ahead; and when my friend returned home later that night, XML in a Nutshell was tucked firmly underneath his arm.
An Unexpected Surprise
We got back to the conference room around 7:00 PM and were promptly informed that the Red Hat RV was quite late! Apparently, the lovely traffic problems of the San Francisco Bay Area had grabbed the folks from Red Hat and swallowed them whole, so we would have to wait a while. That was the bad news. The good news was that the time would be filled by a rousing little speech from none other than Tim O'Reilly himself! Since I had never seen one of Tim's presentations in person, this was quite a treat for me. As I would quickly discover, Tim's folksy, gentlemanly manner is well reflected in the buildings his business occupies. The subject of his speech, one presented by him a few times in the recent past (but one I'd never seen) was, at first, rather alarming: "Why Linux Doesn't Matter." You can be sure the audience laughed rather nervously at this strange topic for a geek gathering targeted mostly at die-hard Linux users. But what he had to say was, in fact, rather brilliant.
Tim's Speech in a Nutshell
Basically, the computer world is on the verge of a major paradigm shift. In the past, both users and developers have thought of computers in terms of what applications they can run and what system services are available to use. What is now beginning to change isn't that basic concept, but the definition of what an application or service actually is. Previous "killer apps" that helped accelerate the adoption of new computer systems were such apps as the first spreadsheet, or word processor, or even the Web browser. But now the killer apps are of a completely different nature. Tim said that he'd heard recently about someone who bought their first computer so that they could use amazon.com. Here was an "application" that didn't actually run on the computer locally at all. The computer was basically just an access point for getting onto the Internet, where all the really fun stuff was.
By now, Tim had brought up the (to some) unpleasant subject of Microsoft.NET. Tim had a lot of good points to make. In this brave new world, it's becoming increasingly apparent that the Internet is the computer. We're heading toward a time where in a functional sense there will be only one global computer, instead of a hundred million separate computers. Microsoft sees this coming, so what they're doing is basically building the operating system for this new "global computer". If we think of Web services as simply programming components distributed across many individual computers, then there has to be a set of easy-to-use tools and frameworks to build new applications for this platform. That's what Microsoft is trying to accomplish with.NET.
Which brings us back around to Linux. In trying to think of what Linux and the Open Source heritage could bring to the table in the world of Web applications and services, Tim came up with an important idea. Linux from the very beginning embraced the basic UNIX philosophy of keeping everything modular and based on open communication. With a modular system, components can be replaced with different components by different developers, and because they all adhere to the same protocols, it works. Instead of using a philosophy of control to create a closed system, UNIX is all about communication and open standards. UNIX was the best platform to develop the Internet with because of that philosophy. Now Linux provides the best platform with which to develop new Web technologies and applications that can kick-start the transition to an Internet-based operating system environment.
In closing, Tim suggested that the more the Linux and Open Source communities focus on building this Internet OS using the UNIX philosophy of modularity and communication, compared with the Microsoft philosophy of control and complexity that places undue importance on tools in order to work with technology, the better. Instead of fearing Web services, we should be embracing them, albeit on our terms, not Microsoft's.
Elementary, my dear Watson
Just before the Red Hat RV finally arrived, Tim followed his speech with a short Q&A session. I won't go into all the details, but there is one thing I'd like to mention. With all this talk of Web services, I, of course, had to bring up Watson (and the copy-cat Sherlock 3 by Apple) as an excellent example of how data and functionality available on the Web could be repackaged in a more familiar desktop application form. Tim replied that he not only liked Watson a great deal, but wished there was a similar program for Linux! In addition, he mentioned Rendezvous as a good example of a simple technology "hack" will enable previously closed applications to open up their functionality to other computers and devices running on a network. For instance, a future version of iTunes will be able to share its playlists and music files with other copies of iTunes running on a local network. Bottom line from Tim O'Reilly: if you have a device or data that you think might turn out to be useful for someone else, make it accessible!
You know why I like LotR more than Harry Potter? The Harry Potter books are elitist. You're worthless unless you have innate magical ability - just look at how people without these abilities are ridiculed time and time again. LotR is about how even the most normal, average people can make a difference
J.K. Rowling strikes me as the worst sort of snob - someone who's suffered through what many other unfortunate people have experienced, but learned nothing except contempt for those who have not managed to escape their situation.
Font rendering? Check out the Xrender extension (Xft). Gives nice AA fonts (if you like that sort of thing), and there's some good utilities these days to make setting up new fonts pretty painless. What on earth does sound have to do with the GUI, BTW?
I said $400 million because that was the figure mentioned in the article. I assumed that that was the world-wide take... I didn't even consider the possibility that it might be only the US revenue.
I guess that makes me more international than you;)
The part that really gets me is this:...the company is "in full compliance with, and current on all payments due under, terms of Mr. Lee's employment agreement."
As if Stan Lee were just some burger flipper, instead of the person who created the character that they made $400 millions dollars from.
I've had it up to here with people that seem to think that a corporate lunch every now and then with their buddies makes them "creative".
But Heinlein had the right idea. Dig the tunnels deeper and have them follow great circles through the crust. Then launch the cabs to orbital velocity (but inside the earth). No wheels. Or expensive magnets. Just a nice vacuum and a very fast ride. Of course, the acceleration/deceleration might be a bit brutal...
Turns up in the Empire of the Petal Throne RPG as well - world-spanning tubes that require no power, you just drop the capsule and gravity does the rest. You don't need escape velocity; the tube, from a geometric point of view, is dead straight, but from a gravitic potential point of view, it's a slope down for half the way and a slope up for the second half. Since the the energy gained from the "fall" is exactly the same as that lost on the "rise" (not allowing for friction), you don't need any power at all.
Because most people, rather than saying something like "I think it would be better if you added a 'restore original bootblock' option to the LILO config screen in case someone accidentally screws it up", tend to file bug reports along the lines of "HEY FAKKOORS, you're YOOSLESS POS OS FAKKORED UP my HARD DRIVE!!?!? WTF!? LOLOLOL", which tends to be of little use to developers.
Slashdot Mirror
When I had to stay in the UK for two months, I used uklinux - never had a problem with them.
Probably wouldn't work. A MAC address is made up of two parts - a manufacturer code (unique to a certain company) and a part code (unique to that particular card, for that manufacturer code).
I imagine Microsoft is smart enough to check that the Xbox trying to connect to their network is at least using a MAC address that belongs to a Microsoft NIC...
...what is current, which is generally close to the leading edge of the state of the art.
Perhaps you could add in a few more such tautologies for those of us who don't get to read enough MarketingSpeek(TM).
Something like, "Gentoo represents a paradigm shift in the state of the art of the leading bleeding edge for best-of-breed last-mile on-demand multimedia technology".
I think you meant "one beeeeelion dollars". Please, let's try and be accurate.
You know why the BSA spends so much on advertising here?
Every company I'been at here has a major piracy problem - from the OS to applications. It's not condoned, but there's a 'nudge-nudge, wink-wink' atmosphere that makes it easy to turn a blind eye.
By the way, if you want to see free-software related 'stuff' here, go to a bookstore. Currently, the following magazines dealing with free software are widely available:
Software Design
Linux Magazine
Nikkei Linux
BSD Magazine
FreeBSD Press
How many does the US have? Linux Journal, ummm....
if you want to buy a distribution, Laox Computer-kan in Akihabara has a fairly good selection.
Anybody got pages 2 & 3?
.NET. Tim had a lot of good points to make. In this brave new world, it's becoming increasingly apparent that the Internet is the computer. We're heading toward a time where in a functional sense there will be only one global computer, instead of a hundred million separate computers. Microsoft sees this coming, so what they're doing is basically building the operating system for this new "global computer". If we think of Web services as simply programming components distributed across many individual computers, then there has to be a set of easy-to-use tools and frameworks to build new applications for this platform. That's what Microsoft is trying to accomplish with .NET.
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Grand Tour: the Story of a Penguin and a Red Fedora
The Idea Basket > Articles
posted by Jared White on November 16, 2002 05:16 PM
Red Hat Road Tour 2002
Mission: to discover the state of Linux in America
Stop #16
The Place: O'Reilly and Associates, Sebastopol, CA
The Time: 7:00 PM (in fact, 7:50 PM, more on that later)
The Vehicle: a large red RV that was an amazing sight to behold
The Audience: members of the North Bay Linux Users Group, along with a few stray outsiders (like me)
Arrival
My friend and I arrived at the O'Reilly headquarters at around 6:35 PM (PST). For those of you who have yet to see O'Reilly's new digs just outside of downtown Sebastopol, they really are a striking set of buildings. Built in a country-cottage style with peaked roofs and gables, though large-scale and at least three stories high, they exude an old-fashioned, down-to-earth warmth and cheeriness that belie the ultra-modern high-tech activities commencing within their light grey-blue walls.
A fair number of people had already gathered in the conference-room-turned-presentation-center when we entered, but we were lucky to find seats relatively close to the front of the room. Nonetheless, it quickly turned out that pizza was on in another part of the building, and before you could count to twenty-three using only prime numbers, the room was deserted. However, since we had already eaten, it was time for us to take a look at the O'Reilly bookstore.
That was fun. Quite fun. Evil Geniuses in a Nutshell and books of a similar sort for sale were displayed on shelves covering an entire area next to the lobby in the front of the building. Thanks to the 20% off discount available to presumably anyone who bothered to show up, I left the store with O'Reilly's PHP Pocket Reference to give me great geeky reading pleasure in the cold wintery days ahead; and when my friend returned home later that night, XML in a Nutshell was tucked firmly underneath his arm.
An Unexpected Surprise
We got back to the conference room around 7:00 PM and were promptly informed that the Red Hat RV was quite late! Apparently, the lovely traffic problems of the San Francisco Bay Area had grabbed the folks from Red Hat and swallowed them whole, so we would have to wait a while. That was the bad news. The good news was that the time would be filled by a rousing little speech from none other than Tim O'Reilly himself! Since I had never seen one of Tim's presentations in person, this was quite a treat for me. As I would quickly discover, Tim's folksy, gentlemanly manner is well reflected in the buildings his business occupies. The subject of his speech, one presented by him a few times in the recent past (but one I'd never seen) was, at first, rather alarming: "Why Linux Doesn't Matter." You can be sure the audience laughed rather nervously at this strange topic for a geek gathering targeted mostly at die-hard Linux users. But what he had to say was, in fact, rather brilliant.
Tim's Speech in a Nutshell
Basically, the computer world is on the verge of a major paradigm shift. In the past, both users and developers have thought of computers in terms of what applications they can run and what system services are available to use. What is now beginning to change isn't that basic concept, but the definition of what an application or service actually is. Previous "killer apps" that helped accelerate the adoption of new computer systems were such apps as the first spreadsheet, or word processor, or even the Web browser. But now the killer apps are of a completely different nature. Tim said that he'd heard recently about someone who bought their first computer so that they could use amazon.com. Here was an "application" that didn't actually run on the computer locally at all. The computer was basically just an access point for getting onto the Internet, where all the really fun stuff was.
By now, Tim had brought up the (to some) unpleasant subject of Microsoft
Which brings us back around to Linux. In trying to think of what Linux and the Open Source heritage could bring to the table in the world of Web applications and services, Tim came up with an important idea. Linux from the very beginning embraced the basic UNIX philosophy of keeping everything modular and based on open communication. With a modular system, components can be replaced with different components by different developers, and because they all adhere to the same protocols, it works. Instead of using a philosophy of control to create a closed system, UNIX is all about communication and open standards. UNIX was the best platform to develop the Internet with because of that philosophy. Now Linux provides the best platform with which to develop new Web technologies and applications that can kick-start the transition to an Internet-based operating system environment.
In closing, Tim suggested that the more the Linux and Open Source communities focus on building this Internet OS using the UNIX philosophy of modularity and communication, compared with the Microsoft philosophy of control and complexity that places undue importance on tools in order to work with technology, the better. Instead of fearing Web services, we should be embracing them, albeit on our terms, not Microsoft's.
Elementary, my dear Watson
Just before the Red Hat RV finally arrived, Tim followed his speech with a short Q&A session. I won't go into all the details, but there is one thing I'd like to mention. With all this talk of Web services, I, of course, had to bring up Watson (and the copy-cat Sherlock 3 by Apple) as an excellent example of how data and functionality available on the Web could be repackaged in a more familiar desktop application form. Tim replied that he not only liked Watson a great deal, but wished there was a similar program for Linux! In addition, he mentioned Rendezvous as a good example of a simple technology "hack" will enable previously closed applications to open up their functionality to other computers and devices running on a network. For instance, a future version of iTunes will be able to share its playlists and music files with other copies of iTunes running on a local network. Bottom line from Tim O'Reilly: if you have a device or data that you think might turn out to be useful for someone else, make it accessible!
You know why I like LotR more than Harry Potter? The Harry Potter books are elitist. You're worthless unless you have innate magical ability - just look at how people without these abilities are ridiculed time and time again. LotR is about how even the most normal, average people can make a difference
J.K. Rowling strikes me as the worst sort of snob - someone who's suffered through what many other unfortunate people have experienced, but learned nothing except contempt for those who have not managed to escape their situation.
Font rendering? Check out the Xrender extension (Xft). Gives nice AA fonts (if you like that sort of thing), and there's some good utilities these days to make setting up new fonts pretty painless.
What on earth does sound have to do with the GUI, BTW?
I'd love to hear exactly what it is you "hate" about X, and where you think its "pitfalls" lie.
I don't see YOU offering to run a Bugzilla for the kernel. Put up or shut up.
I said $400 million because that was the figure mentioned in the article. I assumed that that was the world-wide take... I didn't even consider the possibility that it might be only the US revenue.
;)
I guess that makes me more international than you
Looks like a 7200 or maybe a 7600.
The part that really gets me is this: ...the company is "in full compliance with, and current on all payments due under, terms of Mr. Lee's employment agreement."
As if Stan Lee were just some burger flipper, instead of the person who created the character that they made $400 millions dollars from.
I've had it up to here with people that seem to think that a corporate lunch every now and then with their buddies makes them "creative".
Er... no. Back to law school for you.
MMU-less Linux has been around for a while...
Yes, God forbid that they should make money from people who want to buy their products...
But Heinlein had the right idea. Dig the tunnels deeper and have them follow great circles through the crust. Then launch the cabs to orbital velocity (but inside the earth). No wheels. Or expensive magnets. Just a nice vacuum and a very fast ride. Of course, the acceleration/deceleration might be a bit brutal...
Turns up in the Empire of the Petal Throne RPG as well - world-spanning tubes that require no power, you just drop the capsule and gravity does the rest. You don't need escape velocity; the tube, from a geometric point of view, is dead straight, but from a gravitic potential point of view, it's a slope down for half the way and a slope up for the second half. Since the the energy gained from the "fall" is exactly the same as that lost on the "rise" (not allowing for friction), you don't need any power at all.
The fourth comment, with the first three being FP variants, and I get a "Redundant" followed by an "Overrated"...
Got crack?
Featuring auto-updating and auto-configuration via a centralized management site
/. effect.
You mean, it used to feature a centralized management site. It's now a smoking ruin thanks to the
I'm pretty sure that Sun servers can be made to work the same way.
Yes, they can.
Because most people, rather than saying something like "I think it would be better if you added a 'restore original bootblock' option to the LILO config screen in case someone accidentally screws it up", tend to file bug reports along the lines of "HEY FAKKOORS, you're YOOSLESS POS OS FAKKORED UP my HARD DRIVE!!?!? WTF!? LOLOLOL", which tends to be of little use to developers.
He goes through all the hassle of rebuilding Freetype, and then the screenshots at the end aren't even antialiased...
So what was the point of this article again?
And 12280 is less than 10000 exactly how?
Not Masura... Mosura. (¥â¥¥é if /. doesn't screw it up.)
Sybase is on 12...