Well I'd assume because it's a completely different solution. VNC, PCAnywhere, etc. are all remote control packages. That really doesn't help you run a number of terminals from a central server now does it?
Well, it depends. Certainly on linux (possibly on windows with cygwin) you *can* get remote desktops using vnc - you can even spawn new sessions from xinetd as required. Just type "vncserver from a command prompt".
In fact, if you're doing remote X stuff and are running an app that you do not want to die, running it in a vnc session is a good thing[TM], as even if your X connection goes, the apps will still run and you can connect up later to see progress or results. It's a bit like screen for X.
I admit I have done this many times after interviewing people as a last check before hiring them.
I have too. Funniest one was a guy who had posted in some kind of student self-help forum, basically his advice was "have a wank; I do it all the time".
I must pop onto google groups and ask them to remove all my semi-humorous usenet posts from their archive, and only leave the saintly helping-out-users posts. It can only help. I'm lucky to have a pretty common name (sorta equivalent to "John Smith" where I come from), but this goes both ways - posts might be attributed to me when they're not mine, or they might be attributed to others when they are.
That in the next year, most new OS documenation and projects will have several URLs built in for all online stuff (gentoo's Portage; TLDP; having a sourceforge page and a mirror, for example).
This sounds like a big business thing. What will undoubtedly happen if this alliance makes significant market pentration is that some dude in Washington will lean on them in some way:
Force Palladium-like stuff on them (or) Force viewing stats (or) Force no ad-skipping (or) or whatever.
Hackers, on the other hand, start a sourceforge project, another sees what's available, enhances it for their needs, puts it back in the pot, and so on. That will never be controlled in the way this alliance can be.
I expect that some of the alliance "components" will end up having some restrictions in them, so even they will not be available for open-source hackers.
The only way will be to write your own, from the ground up (at best keep a "standard" interface). Sorry.
You can't use the validator is you're required to log in to access certain pages. Even if you could give the validator your account information to log in, would you?
I wouldn't, no.
Also, this validator requires you to put your site live in order to validate it. There's no way I'm testing my site live. There's a Windows version of the validator, but I'm not buying a version that requires me to switch to Windows to do validation.
You can upload files; save the non-live site to a file and upload it.
As was pointed out elsewhere, we need an independent open source command line w3 validator. With such a validator, you could make w3 validation a part of your unit test suite and avoid this problem.
Do a google. Or try sourceforge, or freshmeat. I think someone on uk.comp.os.linux said he used something with tidy in its name, check google groups for the last week or so.
If your on-line banking service does support multiple browsers, write them a nice "thank you" note.
Well, yes and no. That's like thanking Ford for making a car that you can drive on the road. There are standards, they have been static for years now, and we should *expect* them to be used.
Also, the ones that get it right know that they are doing so, becuase they can examine their server logs and see a few "Opera", "Mozilla", etc user agents.
And I'm not generally vitriolic. (Not on the first exchange anyway:)
Things will only change if you actually do something about it. I *always* complain if I have the time, I will mail the webmaster and point out that there is an HTML standard, point them at a dodgy validation of their site via validator.w3.org, and point out that they lose money, one way or another.
So get off your ass, knock up a form letter, keep it handy, and complain!
I can see in the future some little country is going to get really connected, 'net wise, then guarantee no software patent laws, and every big firm in the world is going to source their web datacentre there. Kinda like in Cryptonomicon. But this will be used just for serving web sites, ecommerce sites, gambling sites, even porno sites.
Some clever lawyer will work out a way that Amazon US has no link with Amazon Tonga (or Bermuda, or wherever it is), and so there "patent infringements" can't bite. There will be a US company amazon that simply delivers stuff on behalf of amazon.to (as Tonga domains are known).
And every other company will follow suit. At least the big ones will. And the lawyers will not find a way round, and no lawsuits will be raised, for will not be worth it.
And if that little island is in the carribean, or somewhere else nice and warm, then I want to be there, changing backup tapes at night and lying on the beach all day!
Seriously, something like this has got to happen, because patents, software patents, prime number patents, mobile phone ringtone patents, etc, have all got out of order!
Of course, the juristictions should all agree to avoid trademark infringement, etc, otherwise people will get p*ssed off. So companies will choose the countries that are big on "fair" laws but not on "stupid" ones.
Will they ever stop web traffic from coming in to the US from these places? Who knows, but if enough companies source their sites off-shore, then they can't stop it all, it'd be disasterous for the economy.
How many times have/. rejected your write-up of a story and posted an inferior version instead? (Generally for one with unneccessary urls like the home page of the news site as well as a link to the story on the news site; who can't edit out story.pl?artid=423423 to get to http://www.site.com/ ?)
Well, this is the payback. Simply note a good story, and try and slip it past/. submission editors a few times to make them look like dweebs. (Hey, has anyone managed to get the same story three times?)
It also gives you a chance to steal those insightful comments from the first article post and max out on karma without getting "-1 redundant", so we all can win! - Last to +5 insightful is a dinosaur egg!
Just been through all of the current posts, and no-one mentions H-MVC - hierarchical MVC. There's an article on it here. It's an interesting adaptation of MVC for complex guis, and can go right through the UI/client from the base to the smallest, tip-most configuration dialog.
NO code can run on palladium enabled hardware that is not signed by Microsoft. I am concerned not just about Linux, but about all open source and individual development in general.
That's OK, we just get a signed version of your favourite scripting language (perl.exe/php.exe/basic.com) and get on with hacking around things. Maybe this will be the time of scripting languages on windows?
The trouble will be if hacking involves getting into the device-driver level, as perl probably won't be much use here. And this is where the chance of getting at the real data (if you're a pirate) is; memory blocks, I/O ports, etc.
Actually, for things that exist now, i.e. CDs and current DVD standards, piracy will always be a problem, as there is so much palladium-free hardware around. It's only when people have to buy new hardware that is only available in palladium-enabled form that palladium will be a problem. And if people have to buy a new OS to match their new DVD-XX drive, and buy a new MOBO too, there will be massive consumer pressure against this.
OTOH, there is always the chance of intercepting the signal e.g. on its way to the screen, speakers, whatever. Piracy will just be a lower quality than the original. I guess we'll ^H^H^H^H^H people will have to live with that:)
I reckon that true (i.e. industrial-sized, not someone who rips a few mp3s and trades with their mates) pirates will just have to get a bit more technical with osiliscopes on the boards and that kind of thing.
It's generally known that studies have shown that teams of four can develop code one order of magnitude faster than 4 coders working separately and my experience backs that up.
While in Hong Kong as a turist some aquaintences took us to a shop that specialized in pirate-ware. It had rows and rows of pirated CD's.
When I was in Hong Kong, I was working in one of the TV stations. Sometimes we had to xfer software via floppy. In the process of this, our clean development PCs picked up an incredible number of viruses from the existing PCs at the TV station. Every desktop PC there had at least two viruses, normally four or more. No-one was interested in cleaning them - the infection would just reappear in a week or so.
BTW, there is (well, was, 8 years ago) a commercial area called something like "sham sui po". This was the retail centre for the PC/electronics industries. I was there when writeable CDs were just coming into fashion, most software shipped on floppy. There were several stalls where they just had a printed list of the software they had. You looked through, ordered whatever you wanted (they had EVERYTHING), came back in 20 mins and your floppies were ready. You paid per floppy. (Look on the floppy for a licence.txt file;)
Someone got a "super CD" with MSOffice, lots of CAD apps, and so on. Back then, you could squeeze a *lot* of apps on one CD.
However they can use those figures to get more games to the platform, and more sales, and more money.
Hmm, I think that games makers will base their platform decision on how many games they sell on each platform, rather than how many of the platform there are out there.
Initially there will have been a "me too!" attitude to Xbox game development, but down the road they'll now be saying "sold 40,000 on PS2, sold 5,000 on Xbox. Let's stop Xbox development/cut the team/whatever".
OK, at the mo', we plug out laptop into the mains to recharge.
Soon, we're gonna recharge with an aerosol of cigarette lighter or something similar.
It'll be silly putting handling for batteries into a laptop, it will just add weight - hey, everyone is using those fuel cells now.
So, in future, laptops don't get plugged into the mains, they get a line of methanol.
This will be the next big thing in managed offices and luxury housing - "... fitted with cat5e cabling and methanol to every room..." (alongside "... fitted with mobile phone blockers for uninterupted peace...":).
(Seriously, I think that a docking station will do AC conversion as just now, and no-one will ever pipe methanol through their office, and certainly not through their home - whadaya think?)
I've found that artists listen to their fans. If we can come up with a better solution for the artist I bet it wouldn't be that difficult to get them to hop on.
Well, in Metallica's case, I reckon that's still true.
I like the Shuttle boxes, because you can stuff standard parts in them, standard drives and the likes.
This however, has too many limitations to be of use to me. Sure, you can attach a lot of USB peripherals (Is it USB 2? I didn't see that in the review), but if you want a PC small enough to lug around, then you don't want to lug three other boxes (all possibly with their own PSUs!).
Where is this going? Mobile computing is best served with a laptop, IMHO. The costs for good performance are high, enough so to put off LAN partiers on a budget.
These boxes fill that niche, but I think that this one in particular is crippled too much by the laptop hard drive, slimline CD, less expansion, etc.
If you want an appliance at home, this is no good either. Server? At the moment the max 2.5" HDD is 60 Gigs, I think. and if the machine breaks, you can't just buy another PSU, for example, and slot it in the box - it's all non-standard. Buy a proper server and shove it in a closet, or quieten it down with custom fans and heatsinks.
Other appliances? There are cheaper custom-built mp3 streamers, DVD-recording video recorders, and so on available.
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Well I'd assume because it's a completely different solution. VNC, PCAnywhere, etc. are all remote control packages. That really doesn't help you run a number of terminals from a central server now does it?
Well, it depends. Certainly on linux (possibly on windows with cygwin) you *can* get remote desktops using vnc - you can even spawn new sessions from xinetd as required. Just type "vncserver from a command prompt".
In fact, if you're doing remote X stuff and are running an app that you do not want to die, running it in a vnc session is a good thing[TM], as even if your X connection goes, the apps will still run and you can connect up later to see progress or results. It's a bit like screen for X.
I got a call from Microsoft today, asking if I was going to renew my MSDN subscription.
I told them I didn't do enought windows development to justify the cost anymore, which is true enough.
I got the impression that the salesperson had ticked that box a few times recently...
cdbkup is a little more sophisticated - multiple levels, multiple disks.
"CDBKUP is a professional-grade open-source package for backing up filesystems onto CD-Rs or CD-RWs."
One of the mirrored files is coming from cache.cow.net. Made me smile.
I admit I have done this many times after interviewing people as a last check before hiring them.
I have too. Funniest one was a guy who had posted in some kind of student self-help forum, basically his advice was "have a wank; I do it all the time".
I must pop onto google groups and ask them to remove all my semi-humorous usenet posts from their archive, and only leave the saintly helping-out-users posts. It can only help.
I'm lucky to have a pretty common name (sorta equivalent to "John Smith" where I come from), but this goes both ways - posts might be attributed to me when they're not mine, or they might be attributed to others when they are.
That in the next year, most new OS documenation and projects will have several URLs built in for all online stuff (gentoo's Portage; TLDP; having a sourceforge page and a mirror, for example).
OS people learn quickly from mistakes like this.
don't understand why they have ignored them !!
It's a question of ownership. The (the big corps) do not grok open source ("Whadaya mean, it's free? No way!").
So they want to roll their own. Then it's theirs. Plus, no GPL issues, no patent issues (OK, that was a joke), etc. And they could even licence it!
This sounds like a big business thing. What will undoubtedly happen if this alliance makes significant market pentration is that some dude in Washington will lean on them in some way:
Force Palladium-like stuff on them (or)
Force viewing stats (or)
Force no ad-skipping (or)
or whatever.
Hackers, on the other hand, start a sourceforge project, another sees what's available, enhances it for their needs, puts it back in the pot, and so on. That will never be controlled in the way this alliance can be.
I expect that some of the alliance "components" will end up having some restrictions in them, so even they will not be available for open-source hackers.
The only way will be to write your own, from the ground up (at best keep a "standard" interface). Sorry.
The message comes from the server. I see it on lots of MS/ASP/MSSQL web sites from time to time.
I don't think it should be included with the above, as it's not really on the phone, as you point out.
You can't use the validator is you're required to log in to access certain pages. Even if you could give the validator your account information to log in, would you?
I wouldn't, no.
Also, this validator requires you to put your site live in order to validate it. There's no way I'm testing my site live. There's a Windows version of the validator, but I'm not buying a version that requires me to switch to Windows to do validation.
You can upload files; save the non-live site to a file and upload it.
As was pointed out elsewhere, we need an independent open source command line w3 validator. With such a validator, you could make w3 validation a part of your unit test suite and avoid this problem.
Do a google. Or try sourceforge, or freshmeat. I think someone on uk.comp.os.linux said he used something with tidy in its name, check google groups for the last week or so.
You can't use the validator in automated test suites. I want some *Linux* based *command-line* tools. Where can I download it?
Perl and LWP could submit your source. I believe that you can use Perl from a Linux command line.
There are several standalone html validators; just do a Google.
The link I gave is good as the webmaster won't need to download anything to see the results. And it is from the oficial web standards people.
If your on-line banking service does support multiple browsers, write them a nice "thank you" note.
:)
Well, yes and no. That's like thanking Ford for making a car that you can drive on the road. There are standards, they have been static for years now, and we should *expect* them to be used.
Also, the ones that get it right know that they are doing so, becuase they can examine their server logs and see a few "Opera", "Mozilla", etc user agents.
And I'm not generally vitriolic. (Not on the first exchange anyway
Things will only change if you actually do something about it. I *always* complain if I have the time, I will mail the webmaster and point out that there is an HTML standard, point them at a dodgy validation of their site via validator.w3.org, and point out that they lose money, one way or another.
So get off your ass, knock up a form letter, keep it handy, and complain!
The future is partly in your hands.
Complain using their customer feedback form. I always complain, if I have the time and a site is bust with my browser. And I did today, to them, too.
We had a recent win with an online supplier in the uk.comp.os.linux newsgroup after several complaints.
This is a chance to make them take notice of the rest of the world.
(Opera, if you ask)
from the article: The founder/CEO/technical visionary meets with his board and finds him or herself out of a job. How could this happen?
If only that would happen at Microsoft!
(OK, if it's not _that_ funny, mod me down)
I can see in the future some little country is going to get really connected, 'net wise, then guarantee no software patent laws, and every big firm in the world is going to source their web datacentre there. Kinda like in Cryptonomicon. But this will be used just for serving web sites, ecommerce sites, gambling sites, even porno sites.
Some clever lawyer will work out a way that Amazon US has no link with Amazon Tonga (or Bermuda, or wherever it is), and so there "patent infringements" can't bite. There will be a US company amazon that simply delivers stuff on behalf of amazon.to (as Tonga domains are known).
And every other company will follow suit. At least the big ones will. And the lawyers will not find a way round, and no lawsuits will be raised, for will not be worth it.
And if that little island is in the carribean, or somewhere else nice and warm, then I want to be there, changing backup tapes at night and lying on the beach all day!
Seriously, something like this has got to happen, because patents, software patents, prime number patents, mobile phone ringtone patents, etc, have all got out of order!
Of course, the juristictions should all agree to avoid trademark infringement, etc, otherwise people will get p*ssed off. So companies will choose the countries that are big on "fair" laws but not on "stupid" ones.
Will they ever stop web traffic from coming in to the US from these places? Who knows, but if enough companies source their sites off-shore, then they can't stop it all, it'd be disasterous for the economy.
How many times have /. rejected your write-up of a story and posted an inferior version instead? (Generally for one with unneccessary urls like the home page of the news site as well as a link to the story on the news site; who can't edit out story.pl?artid=423423 to get to http://www.site.com/ ?)
/. submission editors a few times to make them look like dweebs. (Hey, has anyone managed to get the same story three times?)
Well, this is the payback. Simply note a good story, and try and slip it past
It also gives you a chance to steal those insightful comments from the first article post and max out on karma without getting "-1 redundant", so we all can win! - Last to +5 insightful is a dinosaur egg!
Just been through all of the current posts, and no-one mentions H-MVC - hierarchical MVC. There's an article on it here. It's an interesting adaptation of MVC for complex guis, and can go right through the UI/client from the base to the smallest, tip-most configuration dialog.
NO code can run on palladium enabled hardware that is not signed by Microsoft. I am concerned not just about Linux, but about all open source and individual development in general.
:)
That's OK, we just get a signed version of your favourite scripting language (perl.exe/php.exe/basic.com) and get on with hacking around things. Maybe this will be the time of scripting languages on windows?
The trouble will be if hacking involves getting into the device-driver level, as perl probably won't be much use here. And this is where the chance of getting at the real data (if you're a pirate) is; memory blocks, I/O ports, etc.
Actually, for things that exist now, i.e. CDs and current DVD standards, piracy will always be a problem, as there is so much palladium-free hardware around. It's only when people have to buy new hardware that is only available in palladium-enabled form that palladium will be a problem. And if people have to buy a new OS to match their new DVD-XX drive, and buy a new MOBO too, there will be massive consumer pressure against this.
OTOH, there is always the chance of intercepting the signal e.g. on its way to the screen, speakers, whatever. Piracy will just be a lower quality than the original. I guess we'll ^H^H^H^H^H people will have to live with that
I reckon that true (i.e. industrial-sized, not someone who rips a few mp3s and trades with their mates) pirates will just have to get a bit more technical with osiliscopes on the boards and that kind of thing.
It's generally known that studies have shown that teams of four can develop code one order of magnitude faster than 4 coders working separately and my experience backs that up.
How interesting. Got anything to back it up?
While in Hong Kong as a turist some aquaintences took us to a shop that specialized in pirate-ware. It had rows and rows of pirated CD's.
;)
When I was in Hong Kong, I was working in one of the TV stations. Sometimes we had to xfer software via floppy. In the process of this, our clean development PCs picked up an incredible number of viruses from the existing PCs at the TV station. Every desktop PC there had at least two viruses, normally four or more. No-one was interested in cleaning them - the infection would just reappear in a week or so.
BTW, there is (well, was, 8 years ago) a commercial area called something like "sham sui po". This was the retail centre for the PC/electronics industries. I was there when writeable CDs were just coming into fashion, most software shipped on floppy. There were several stalls where they just had a printed list of the software they had. You looked through, ordered whatever you wanted (they had EVERYTHING), came back in 20 mins and your floppies were ready. You paid per floppy. (Look on the floppy for a licence.txt file
Someone got a "super CD" with MSOffice, lots of CAD apps, and so on. Back then, you could squeeze a *lot* of apps on one CD.
However they can use those figures to get more games to the platform, and more sales, and more money.
Hmm, I think that games makers will base their platform decision on how many games they sell on each platform, rather than how many of the platform there are out there.
Initially there will have been a "me too!" attitude to Xbox game development, but down the road they'll now be saying "sold 40,000 on PS2, sold 5,000 on Xbox. Let's stop Xbox development/cut the team/whatever".
OK, at the mo', we plug out laptop into the mains to recharge.
..." (alongside "... fitted with mobile phone blockers for uninterupted peace..." :).
Soon, we're gonna recharge with an aerosol of cigarette lighter or something similar.
It'll be silly putting handling for batteries into a laptop, it will just add weight - hey, everyone is using those fuel cells now.
So, in future, laptops don't get plugged into the mains, they get a line of methanol.
This will be the next big thing in managed offices and luxury housing - "... fitted with cat5e cabling and methanol to every room
(Seriously, I think that a docking station will do AC conversion as just now, and no-one will ever pipe methanol through their office, and certainly not through their home - whadaya think?)
I've found that artists listen to their fans. If we can come up with a better solution for the artist I bet it wouldn't be that difficult to get them to hop on.
Well, in Metallica's case, I reckon that's still true.
They just have to listen really hard now.
I like the Shuttle boxes, because you can stuff standard parts in them, standard drives and the likes.
This however, has too many limitations to be of use to me. Sure, you can attach a lot of USB peripherals (Is it USB 2? I didn't see that in the review), but if you want a PC small enough to lug around, then you don't want to lug three other boxes (all possibly with their own PSUs!).
Where is this going? Mobile computing is best served with a laptop, IMHO. The costs for good performance are high, enough so to put off LAN partiers on a budget.
These boxes fill that niche, but I think that this one in particular is crippled too much by the laptop hard drive, slimline CD, less expansion, etc.
If you want an appliance at home, this is no good either. Server? At the moment the max 2.5" HDD is 60 Gigs, I think. and if the machine breaks, you can't just buy another PSU, for example, and slot it in the box - it's all non-standard. Buy a proper server and shove it in a closet, or quieten it down with custom fans and heatsinks.
Other appliances? There are cheaper custom-built mp3 streamers, DVD-recording video recorders, and so on available.
This thing is a no-no, in my opinion.