Getting a tarball and making it yourself is the best way to do it on Linux
The *BSD family's/usr/ports/ is a great idea and works great in practice. The source is brought in, dependancies as needed, and compiled for your box (See http://www.freebsd.org/ports/ for more info on that)
Is Katz actually a movie reviewer who got to see it for free or did he pay for it expecting much more and wound up feeling ripped off?.
10 minutes into the movie, upon realizing he'd been suckered in, he sat there stewing away muttering "oh you wascally wabbit, wait untiw I potht to thlathhdawt!"
If he ever did like a movie he'd just end up bitching about how expensive the popcorn was.
There was a paper written recently (http://www.darkridge.com/~jpr5/doc/gnutella.html) that details why Gnutella cannot scale well.
Many users (such as myself) with nice fast connections have bandwidth limits per month after which we start to pay. The moment the cable|dsl bill comes in the mail, little Billy's parents will be cutting off the broadband.
It's a great idea, but in practice it's popularity may be it's downfall.
Sweet, one of those could take out Iraqi radar installations, destroy some of Saddam's surface to air missile batteries, and still crack a few zillion keys per second for distributed.net.
If you see "Team Colin Powell" in the top 100 on the RC/5 stats page, now you know why.
Well, it's an inconvenient solution, but there's really no other alternative. Every software-oriented solution gets cracked.
So so most hardware solutions. Home satellite dishes are hacked, hardware protection schemes for software are hacked[0], "fleetnet" style police radio systems are hacked..
At some point in the process the data becomes unprotected, that's where it's vulnerable.
grubby
[0] I realize these incorporate software on the computer as well, but some dongles now contain key pieces of the software in them. No matter.
In that case, the warranty was that "This hardware matches the schematic, and this schematic describes hardware that performs task Foo.
Yes, and if the product failed to perform Foo you had a warranty to fall back upon.
With software you may get a the/* this software performs foo */ at the source head but if it breaks do to poor design, you have no recourse. With a tangible item you usually do.
[W]ith Open Source, you don't need warranty because you can see EXACTLY what is going on. The source code perfectly describes the functionality of the software.
Years back electronics companies used to give a schematic with their product, yet those items still game with a warranty.
I think for a company like RedHat it is in their best interest to have a warranty of some sort to show that they have confidence in their product. Whether that warranty should me made mandatory by more laws is another matter.
[B]ut UCITA also makes legal those nasty Shrink Wrap "end user agreements"
That's where I'm a little confused. Most shrink wrap agreements tell you that you receive the software as-is and if your lose all your data, your dog dies, and your house burns down; tough cookies.
Where then will this law be any different, or is it just another layer of bureaucracy?
Sure this thing runs off rotting organic waste but a tank full of a certain ex-girlfriend's hash brown casserole would kill it like sugar in the tank of a gas powered car.
Yes Susan, I only said I liked it to get you in the sack:)
This is a dirt cheap way of Microsoft guaranteeing it sells loads of XBoxen and future games.
Joe Consumer buys XBox for his kid to play The Matrix, Joe Consumer's kid wants the next Neat XBox Game, Joe Consumer buys the game as "hey, I already have the XBox.
This $5 million is a cheap CHEAP CHEAP way to get their foot in the door of millions of households looking to buy a new gaming platform.
"My understanding of the process is that the nanotubes form in very hot furnaces by passing lasers and high current electric arcs through the carbon vapour in the furnace. This is not an easy process, and essentially requires that these transistors are individually manufactured. "
Certainly right now it's cost ineffective to make large batches of these, the article says as much. Remember though that the first transistors were hand soldered devices..
Yes, there were indeed mobile phones pre-1983 (my father had one in his car for a number of years until the cell era)
The system we had here required you to pick up a handset, the unit would scan for an open channel among a very limited number (<30 if memory serves) of channels.
An operator would answer, you would give your ID number and the number you wished to be connected to.
If you wanted to place an emergency call one would interrupt an existing call and tell them it was an emergency. You could then get the channel.
To call a mobile you would call an operator and ask for the mobile ID.
It worked on lower frequencies and could be easily scanned (or so I hear:))
Will I be able to view the UNIX times on my Linux box?:)
Who will pay for the testing, manufacturing, etc?
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It's an interesting idea but who exactly would pay for testing of these devices? It's (relatively) inexpensive to lay out the device on a computer, but getting the idea to silicon is a massive, expensive undertaking.
Whereas with software it's just electronic bits and bytes being worked with, the expense of working with tangible materials seems to me to be cost prohibitive.
Yes the US military has used computer games for some time to train it's people. I belief "DOOM" was on of the first.
of course now that George W. Bush is president, they have to start using "Thief".:)
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Quick! Someone pipe the DeCSS source through there so the RIAA can go after Bell Labs!
grubNo, you get a decent workable machine with no extraneous crud in it.
That's the key, You pick what's right for you, rather than the RedHat "Kitchen Sink" approach.
It can run the vast majority of Linux, FreeBSD, NetBSD, and SVR4 binaries. OpenBSD just rocks.
grubbyI've hated RPM since day one.
Getting a tarball and making it yourself is the best way to do it on Linux
The *BSD family's /usr/ports/ is a great idea and works great in practice. The source is brought in, dependancies as needed, and compiled for your box (See http://www.freebsd.org/ports/ for more info on that)
Is Katz actually a movie reviewer who got to see it for free or did he pay for it expecting much more and wound up feeling ripped off?.
10 minutes into the movie, upon realizing he'd been suckered in, he sat there stewing away muttering "oh you wascally wabbit, wait untiw I potht to thlathhdawt!"
If he ever did like a movie he'd just end up bitching about how expensive the popcorn was.
grubbyThere was a paper written recently (http://www.darkridge.com/~jpr5/doc/gnutella.html) that details why Gnutella cannot scale well.
Many users (such as myself) with nice fast connections have bandwidth limits per month after which we start to pay. The moment the cable|dsl bill comes in the mail, little Billy's parents will be cutting off the broadband.
It's a great idea, but in practice it's popularity may be it's downfall.
grubbySweet, one of those could take out Iraqi radar installations, destroy some of Saddam's surface to air missile batteries, and still crack a few zillion keys per second for distributed.net.
If you see "Team Colin Powell" in the top 100 on the RC/5 stats page, now you know why.
Well, it's an inconvenient solution, but there's really no other alternative. Every software-oriented solution gets cracked.
So so most hardware solutions. Home satellite dishes are hacked, hardware protection schemes for software are hacked[0], "fleetnet" style police radio systems are hacked..
At some point in the process the data becomes unprotected, that's where it's vulnerable.
grubby[0] I realize these incorporate software on the computer as well, but some dongles now contain key pieces of the software in them. No matter.
In that case, the warranty was that "This hardware matches the schematic, and this schematic describes hardware that performs task Foo.
Yes, and if the product failed to perform Foo you had a warranty to fall back upon.
With software you may get a the /* this software performs foo */ at the source head but if it breaks do to poor design, you have no recourse. With a tangible item you usually do.
Gord[W]ith Open Source, you don't need warranty because you can see EXACTLY what is going on. The source code perfectly describes the functionality of the software.
Years back electronics companies used to give a schematic with their product, yet those items still game with a warranty.
I think for a company like RedHat it is in their best interest to have a warranty of some sort to show that they have confidence in their product. Whether that warranty should me made mandatory by more laws is another matter.
grub[B]ut UCITA also makes legal those nasty Shrink Wrap "end user agreements"
That's where I'm a little confused. Most shrink wrap agreements tell you that you receive the software as-is and if your lose all your data, your dog dies, and your house burns down; tough cookies.
Where then will this law be any different, or is it just another layer of bureaucracy?
GordSure this thing runs off rotting organic waste but a tank full of a certain ex-girlfriend's hash brown casserole would kill it like sugar in the tank of a gas powered car.
Yes Susan, I only said I liked it to get you in the sack :)
Gord
From the link in the parent, emphasis mine.
Nothing would please me more than being able to hire ten programmers and deluge the hobby market with good software.
You mean after 25 years Gates still hasn't found 10 programmers?
hee hee..Microsoft buys the market.
This is a dirt cheap way of Microsoft guaranteeing it sells loads of XBoxen and future games.
Joe Consumer buys XBox for his kid to play The Matrix, Joe Consumer's kid wants the next Neat XBox Game, Joe Consumer buys the game as "hey, I already have the XBox.
This $5 million is a cheap CHEAP CHEAP way to get their foot in the door of millions of households looking to buy a new gaming platform.
Pass me a red pill, please .
This article says that the Moore's Law says the number of transistors will double every two years. I always heard it was every 18 months.
That was metric years.Unfortunately the author comes across as almost a "Lisp apologist" which may turn people off from looking at Lisp.
Would anyone know if his co-author Robert Morris is the same Robert Morris (or his father) of the infamous Morris internet worm from the late 80's?
500 machines?
Look out Google and Yahoo (Linux and FreeBSD respectively), Billy's going to be sending you a "Come back into the fold" letter :)
Actually that old disk does work and is in use (not for anything important, my basement with 4 cats is not exactly a "clean room" :))
The arm is a blur when it moves but you can indeed see it.
I'd really like to see clear hard disk covers inside those clear cases. You could see the mechanics working. THAT would be leet.
http://www.grub.net/crud/cleardisk.jpg
Not a simple clickey link to save my poor cable modem connection :)
Certainly right now it's cost ineffective to make large batches of these, the article says as much. Remember though that the first transistors were hand soldered devices..
It's just a matter of time.
Unfortunately DigiScents is No More
http://forum.fuckedcompany.com/fc/phparchives/seaYou could still leave open cans of tuna around your apartment while watching pr0n, it's much cheaper. :)
Yes, there were indeed mobile phones pre-1983 (my father had one in his car for a number of years until the cell era)
:))
The system we had here required you to pick up a handset, the unit would scan for an open channel among a very limited number (<30 if memory serves) of channels.
An operator would answer, you would give your ID number and the number you wished to be connected to.
If you wanted to place an emergency call one would interrupt an existing call and tell them it was an emergency. You could then get the channel.
To call a mobile you would call an operator and ask for the mobile ID.
It worked on lower frequencies and could be easily scanned (or so I hear
It's a nice gesture to keep the employees happy, but in the end anyone buying an Intel based machine will pay for Intel's goodwill.
Will this push Intel prices up, or at least keep them floating high?
Will I be able to view the UNIX times on my Linux box?
It's an interesting idea but who exactly would pay for testing of these devices? It's (relatively) inexpensive to lay out the device on a computer, but getting the idea to silicon is a massive, expensive undertaking.
Whereas with software it's just electronic bits and bytes being worked with, the expense of working with tangible materials seems to me to be cost prohibitive.
Yes the US military has used computer games for some time to train it's people. I belief "DOOM" was on of the first. of course now that George W. Bush is president, they have to start using "Thief". :)