"It's tough work getting it to work exactly correctly and it's frustrating because one misspelled word and you can't get it to work,"
After three hours of bashing my head againsed my desk I finally change that 'i to a 'j' making it work, at least long enough that I have a chance to read this Slashdot article.
Referring to Microsoft Corp. chairman Bill Gates, she added, "I say let him have it all, let him do it all."
Ahh! Let Bill have it all??!!! The first sign of a geek grrl and I'm ready to fall in love...but with a statement like that she really knows how to shatter a geek guys dream!
"I don't want to take computer science.... Just looking at it, all the programming and these funny-looking things on the paper. It (takes) so much stuff to do one thing on the computer."
This girl is obviously cut out for helping debug the balancing issues in the Linux kernel VM code! Or just think of the how rewarded and happy she could have felt if she was the one to write twenty thousand lines of code to have her new I2O camera be able to work with the Linux kernel!
Several girls in the study, as well as Katy and some of her classmates, also criticized the popular computer games for being much more appealing to boys than girls. On Amazon.com, for example, a big seller recently was "Diablo 2," which boasts an "advanced combat system which incorporates class-specific fighting techniques and spells."
Yeah, those geek guys and their violent video games! Who would ever find that kind of thing appealing anyhow. Nudges Diablo box under desk
"My parents always say, 'Do something with computers,' because it is stable and stuff, but a lot (of people) don't want to be at a desk from 9 to 5."
Ha! Did she say 9 to 5!?! Oh yeah, I can see why she is worried! That would be awefull, having to be in front of the computer till 5 every day. God forbid, one would say, be at work at 10pm on the 3rd day of a long weekend!
As for links to the specification, and instructions on bypassing the EULA...pfft! I wouldn't remove them.
"Comments Containing A Copy of the Specification" is where they have a case: Iff Slashdot is responsible for copyright violation in the actual text of comments posted by users, then remove those comments. That's a big iff though, is Slashdot responsible or are the users who posted the comments?
If the had been posted to usenet who would they go after then? Probably the user who did the posting. You can't ask the whole network to stop relaying. There is a Slashdot/NNTP gateway in the works, if that were active, what would they do then? What if instead of using MySQL as the database you wrote the Slashdot backend to work directly off of an NNTP server? Wtih complete NNTP integration, everything would become part of usenet and be replicated around the world. Slashdot could then argue that they are no more responsible for content on usenet than Deja or any of the other millions of NNTP servers.
1) You want Compact Flash expandability. If your going to take any reasonable amount of pics with your camera...it needs a decent amount of memory. My Kodak DC240 has a 64Mb compact flash card in it...I can take 471 640x480 high quality (low compression) pics with that. Smartmedia will only give you 1/2 and recently 1/4 the expandability of regular compact flash cards.
2) USB!!!! Once you have all those pictures you need to get em into the computer. If you think you are going to transfer 64 megs of pictures over your parrallel port and be happy about it...FORGET IT. I would rather not have to go on another vacation while waiting for the pictures from my last one!:-) You want USB connections from the camera to the PC. Of course your next question is..USB and Linux? Yes...Kodak cameras are one of the FEW which currently have USB which works with the new linux kernel. See here: http://home.pacbell.net/david-b/digicam/
3) If your printing out your digital pics...your not a geek...go away. Otherwise, you may, like myself, find 640x480 adequate for most pictures being stored and viewed on the computer. This said, almost all cameras will do that resolution...you basically just want quality at that res and the ability to do more. Do yourself a favor...and save some money.
The Kodak DC240 was slashed in price a few months ago. It has great 1280x960 resolution if you need it. A great LCD. It's easy to use. I have one and am very happy with it (I traded off my non-usb fuji unit to get it). It has all the memory and features you need and can now be picked up for really cheap. Go for it.
This really scares me: "Online, women don't have to hide their brains the way they often do in school"
As a geek guy, I search high and low for a girlfriend with a brain. Unfortunately I end up writing off most girls within five minutes of meeting them. It really scares me that girls feel the need to hide their intelligence. Please Stop! I am sick to hell of shallow plastic girls!
Then again...if these girls are after shallow plastic guys, then by all means, continue.
We know DDOS clients are hard to track because they forge the IP source on outgoing packets. This paper says that with the DNS ttl=0 we could then use the resulting pattern of DNS traffic in combination with the IP traffic to locate the actual IP of attacking machines.
Now, aside from all the other noted problems with the proposed scheme....
The problem for the attacker then become how to track the changing IP of the target without disclosing their actual IP with continual DNS lookups on the target.
One way to do this is one could just have the attacking machines scan their local network for DNS lookups on the target, and forward any new IP's to the "evil master" who could recoordinate all the rest of the clients to the new IP.
Another way to do this would be to allocate one group of compromised machines to just performing the DNS lookups and report info back to the master for distribution to the actual attacker clients. In this case, the boxes doing the DNS lookups disclosing their IP would give the attackee much less information in that they could work to prevent tracking of the routing changes, but would see no benefit (in the form of the actual attack load decreasing), until they had succesfully tracked and identified ALL the DNS tracking boxen involved.
That gives me an idea. What if we were to encrypt the source code an distribute it that way. Of course...just use a _REALLY_ lame method of encription...reverse the whole thing and apply a 1 bit right shift or something. Even better....do this to the story rather than the source code. Is there a color more "gray" than gray?:-)
Trust me, I saw the movie, Katz saying it is good IS definitely a troll! The last movie I saw this bad to get a good review was "The Apostle" with Robert Duvall. Save your money and go rent Fight Club, or Pi.
How much does it cost??? The website makes no mention of money! The Java conference last week at the same place was like $1200. Somehow I doubt the sponsorship has paid the entirety of the centre rental, and to get all the speakers there, etc. Does anybody know? Did anyone here go? I am finally working in a city (New York) when something that sounds interesting is actually going on, rather than bieng half the way around the world in the middle of nowhere wishing I was there...and here I am and I probably can't even begin to afford to go:-(
I converted my whole site from GIF to PNG a while back. IE5 works great, Mozilla breaks on the transparencies (not alpha channel), that is, binary transparency for PNG is still broken. You can see my bug report, and vote for it at: http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_ bug.cgi?id=13627. It seems the mozilla folk (who I love) are very concerned with DOM, XML, and HTML standard support...but have left out the PNG standard as a _fundamental_ required building block of the web. I think full PNG support should be as core as HTML, and I eagerly await full support in my favorite browser.
Just because they stipulate that they own the spec, which they do, by copyrighting it, doesn't mean they don't make it freely available for anyone to use and implement. You can copyright something you GPL, just as you can release something that is yours under multiple different licences.
First, to those who think Java is closed, let's get it straight, Java is open...Suns _implementation_ of Java is closed! Anyone can download and implement the Java spec...as several have. And Sun is at least attempting to achieve some consensus and standardization for what they create, which is a hell of a lot better than most other companies (how many people did MS ask for input on, say, DCOM???).
Sun's implementation of the spec may be closed, but it is still more open than a lot of other closed software. Their community source licence, if not that great, is at least a step in the right direction, and if other companies took this step, we would be decidedly better off. It takes time for the corporate world to embrace, understand, and experiment with open software...Sun is heading it the right direction. Keep in mind, they have to make money to survive. Eventually, given the same time C/C++ has had, there will be many good open implementations.
Java being an open specification, with independant, and open implementations, makes it as open as anything else in this world. Just because there are closed implementations, doesn't make Java closed. If Sun started charging $10,000 for their Java implementation tomorrow...what would happen? The whole community would start working on Kaffe, and you can bet IBM (with all they have invested) would do a cleanroom and open source it, but basically, life would go on without Sun. What would all the Visual Basic programmers do if MS started charging $10,000 for VB? Look at how many people use VB! (Don't even get me started on comparing them)
As for Java changing "every five minutes" as some people like to quote, or about it being unstable and buggy. Well, that's true, or at least it has been in the past. But Java is a really new language!!!! I'll say it again...it's new! Java, like Linux in some ways, has been pushed into the spotlight before it's time, because it fills the need better than any of the alternatives. I think Sun has done a great job of moving the languages features forward quickly enough that MS can't hijack it by adding missing/needed features that will in turn tie Java to Windows. Being a full time Java developer, I could never go back to C++/Win32, despite the bugs, and a _few_ missing bits here and there, Java is a _great_ language to work with. Stability and speed, and more open implementations, these will all come with time. Actually, Swing is becoming useable, and the new JIT's are actually quite fast on "reasonable" hardware.
Java is just now really starting to become a viable platform. Linux is in the same vote, it's a relatively new operating system, and is still evolving at a pace at least as quickly (or more) than Java in areas such as multimedia, multitrack digital recording, DVD, USB, component architectures (KOM/Open Parts), etc.
Most importantly, Java is the only real chance Linux has of putting down windows in the enterprise. Even once all the productivity apps are in place on Linux, and the interface (Gnome/KDE) blows away Windows, and it's easy enough for grandma to install, the MS installed base is going to be the problem. Java gives companies a way to easily migrate from Windows to Linux. Java is the link that will let this happen. Normally, convincing a MS based company to develop their inhouse software on Linux would be impossible. But Java is a good language for _MANY_ other reasons than being cross platform, which will get companies to use it, even if it's only on top of Windows. Then one day, when they discover Linux, they will find that they can slowly (or quickly) throw away their Windows boxes without spending a trillion dollars migrating a myriad of software all at once. Without Java, it will never happen.
"if you don't read comments, well, what can I say?"
You do realize you just addressed people who don't read comments...in a comment:-)
--- meta comment starts here--- This post brings me to a question. I would like to be seen as a valuable poster to the Slashdot forums. But for people who want less noise, I would not place a lot of value on the above. Yet it is from comments just like mine above that I usually get a little chuckle..which is why I like Slashdot. As alluded to by a number of others, different comments appeal to different people. I assume if I make valuable posts, it increases my "value" to the SD community, and some day, I may be rewarded for this by being made a moderator, but the fact is, with this new system, I thought twice about posting the above...I guess evaluating the value of ones writing is a good thing...I just don't thing this system should keep people from saying what they want...I think my comment above is valuable to some people, so I made it, but I don't think many moderators would hold the same view. I guess mainly what I want to know...do funny little comments (I think it was kinda funny anyhow) have value, and if only to some people, will they drag my "value" down?
Rather than just the "up one" and "down one" threshold links, I would like links to instantly go to -10 to easily see everything, 0 so that I can see all anonymous posts, and 1 so I can see all not so special posts, that way I could set my default to 2, only read the good stuff most of the time, but jump down easily.
Why can't every logged in user moderate? With the point system no one could do that much damage. And you could always facilitate banning/removing moderator status for abusers.
Why not automatically boost the points for an article that gets a lot of replies. I think any article must be good if it evokes enough emotion to make others respond. Do I have to much faith in the SD communities ability to identify a troll?
Background: I have been running Slackware, since 1994. So everyone has been clamoring over how cool RedHat is, so I tried it, kinda. Before I go on, let me qualify that I am a full time Java developer, using Java 1.2, and have thus since I graduated a couple years ago, and until recently been forced to use Windoze (which I hate) most all of the time. I still keep a Linux partition, and am now going to attempt to move my system primarily back to Linux, and get all my fancy new hardware running. So, last year I did an FTP install of RedHat 5.1 which really impressed me, as it autodetected everything, DHCP'd and FTP'd and was up and running (with X, wow) without me doing anything, no dot clocks, no rc files, nothin. Not that I minded Slackware, after about 50 installs, you get the nack for it (don't touch _anything_ while it's installing, and if anything goes wrong (even blinks), start over). I have, since then, not actually touched a thing on the RedHat partition, due to lack of time, and waiting for 2.2 before investing any time. I haven't even updgraded a single RPM, I'm not even sure I remember how. However...I am one with gzip, tar, and make.
Question: So what's the deal with RPM's? I understand that they are binary only and have dependency tracking. Does that mean if something is installed via RPM I can't manually download a tgz and build over it, I have to use RPM's? Do I really care? I always thought I was getting better performance by compiling myself, in that the compiler would optimize for newer P2 instructions rather than being 486 compatible:-) I don't have the time to build and tweak much anymore, so RedHat sounds like it is for me. It's just that...well...rules scare me. I'm scared that when I get down to actually using RedHat, all the rc files and stuff is going to be a bunch of auto generated stuff I shouldn't touch, or that will get written over when I upgrade something. I guess I imagine a RedHat config file like a Microsoft Visual C++ source file, compared to Slackware's Linux C++ file..."Don't touch this...or that...or edit this". It's the people that keep warning about how they have to edit dependency files and stuff, and it is a pain.
Is RedHat scary for Slackware people?
I guess I could live with a binary only distro. With GNU/Linux, it just seems wrong though. But the thought of quick upgrades and fixes is to much to pass over. I mean...there never used to be binaries at all...and you get used to one thing for so long.
And the only reason I say RedHat (not Debian, Suse, etc) is because it seems to be the most actively maintained in terms of current stuff. I'm thinking about Starbuck/6.0 here. It also seems easy to find RPM's for everything now.
I guess after this I have to sort out all this Gnome/KDE stuff. I think I will stick with good old FVWM. Who needs all the fancy schmancy themes and crap...just bloat anyhow:-) The only reason I even run X, is cuz I can't see Rob's cute Icons using Lynx:-) Hmm...someone should port Mozilla and thus GTK to GGI...then I woulnd't need X at all....mmmm....fast.
Gecko is the first good web browser the world has ever known.
HTML was designed from the ground up with several goals in mind, that seem to have been completely forgoten by most people over the years. The whole basis was to separate structure from style enabling a document to be viewed on any system. XML finall takes this concept to it's conclusion in a manageable fashion. HTML was about using structural tags such as H1 rather than hard coded font tags, because a heading will look much different on an 1600x1200 monitor than it will a cell phone.
So with the growth of the web you get a billion traditional media people designing web pages, that have no concept what the word _dynamic_ means, all writing pages that _must_ be viewed at 800x600, because they only know how to create pages for fixed paper mediums, and because they never bothered to actually learn what HTML was about. How many web designers even know what SGML is let along understand that HTML is an application of it? Admitedly, this only includes about 99.99% of the web designers out there. Traditionally the browser makers have been just as bad. It seems Netscape has finally got a clue. Netscape was the pioneer in adding proprietary style based tags to HTML, if they get Gecko right, which they are, I may actually forgive them, even though thanks in part to them, the whole web is a mess.
So now, x years later, everyone finally learns HTML and runs across all these problems in browser compatibility and site management, and they start looking for a solution, can you say "What's a style sheet?". They discover that style sheets were supposed to be part of the web since day one, and that in fact they are much cooler than all the proprietary hacks they have been clamoring for from the browser makers. The sad thing being, even those web designers that knew about the One True Way from the beginning have not been able to do anything about it due to lack of browser support.
Enter Gecko, the first web browser to actually give a web designers the ability to design a page the way it was meant to be. Gecko is not about small. Gecko is not about fast. Gecko is about HTML, CSS, XML, and DOM. Gecko is actually including a real parser (Expat) for the first time. We should have been able to use SGML features for years now, if browser makers had actually done it right and included SGML parsers. Gecko is including real DOM support, so now we can write JavaScript that may actually work in more than one place, and not only that, but that does a hell of a lot more for creating dynamic content. Gecko includes XML support, the most important document format since ASCII, finally giving the world a standard for creating documents with actual structure, and a way for bringing those to the masses. Gecko includes full CSS1 and a good chunk of CSS2, so my documents can actually look clean for a change, and be 1/5 the size at the same time.
People who make comments how all the web pages don't load any faster, and how IE has better bookmarks or something like that, these people have obviously never tried any serious HTML work, browser programming, or managing a _large_ site. Gecko is not for the users, they will look at it and ask what it gives them over version 4. Gecko is for the designers, who will bow down at it's feet screaming FINALLY, and will now be able to die (mostly) happy. And for that, Gecko is the best piece of software to hit the web, _ever_.
Temperature: The obvious answer is insulation. So, put an ice cooler box for housing the unit in your trunk surrounded with pink housing insulation. That should keep it from getting too hot or cold.
Vibration: The only part of a PC really sensitive to vibration is the hard drive. Make a small wooden box, and suspend the hard drive inside using rubber surgical tubing. I use this stuff as a DJ to suspend my CD players. It's strong enough that it won't break, and is nice and stretchy to insulate againsed any shocks. Put the whole deal inside the cooler box.
Power: You can buy power adapters that should do the 12 to 120 trick at your local electronics store such as Radio Shack. Just note what type of power supply your using. Assuming you don't wont to buy an LCD panel, I would recommend getting a 7" POS terminal screen, it shouldn't suck up that much power. Hell, just find a 286 clunker laptop and rob the screen from that, and hopefully be able to wire it up, or use the whole 286 as a terminal for the real box in the trunk. Cool, wire an ethernet into your car, and have the server in the trunk do DHCP so your friends can come to the car and just plug in their laptops.... mmmm.. quake on the road:-) If you have too much trouble with the power, talk to some of the competition level car audio guys, they're really good at those problems. but the solutions arent that cheap.
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What if Distributed made it so anyone could submit an encrypted message for decryption over the web? I mean, holding a contest to prove something is one thing, but actually providing it as a full time service for whoever wanted it whenever, anonymously, would really force some action to be taken!
Pi is a perfect date movie! If she doesn't go "Ewww, whats with all the math stuff, and get a load of the crappy music, theres not even any lyrics!", then she gets a second date. I couldn't think of a better barbie girl filter:-)
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"What is your name?"
:-)
Chris.
"What is your quest?"
I would like to sign up for iCraveTV.
"What is the water-speed velocity of a beaver?"
African or European?
"I don't know that!, AHHHHH!!"
Hell, how many non-Canadians would even know the beaver is the national animal? (It's the most fearsome creature you have ever seen!
I take a simple attitude, follow the law.
As for links to the specification, and instructions on bypassing the EULA...pfft! I wouldn't remove them.
"Comments Containing A Copy of the Specification" is where they have a case: Iff Slashdot is responsible for copyright violation in the actual text of comments posted by users, then remove those comments. That's a big iff though, is Slashdot responsible or are the users who posted the comments?
If the had been posted to usenet who would they go after then? Probably the user who did the posting. You can't ask the whole network to stop relaying. There is a Slashdot/NNTP gateway in the works, if that were active, what would they do then? What if instead of using MySQL as the database you wrote the Slashdot backend to work directly off of an NNTP server? Wtih complete NNTP integration, everything would become part of usenet and be replicated around the world. Slashdot could then argue that they are no more responsible for content on usenet than Deja or any of the other millions of NNTP servers.
1) You want Compact Flash expandability. If your going to take any reasonable amount of pics with your camera...it needs a decent amount of memory. My Kodak DC240 has a 64Mb compact flash card in it...I can take 471 640x480 high quality (low compression) pics with that. Smartmedia will only give you 1/2 and recently 1/4 the expandability of regular compact flash cards.
:-) You want USB connections from the camera to the PC. Of course your next question is..USB and Linux? Yes...Kodak cameras are one of the FEW which currently have USB which works with the new linux kernel.
2) USB!!!! Once you have all those pictures you need to get em into the computer. If you think you are going to transfer 64 megs of pictures over your parrallel port and be happy about it...FORGET IT. I would rather not have to go on another vacation while waiting for the pictures from my last one!
See here: http://home.pacbell.net/david-b/digicam/
3) If your printing out your digital pics...your not a geek...go away. Otherwise, you may, like myself, find 640x480 adequate for most pictures being stored and viewed on the computer. This said, almost all cameras will do that resolution...you basically just want quality at that res and the ability to do more. Do yourself a favor...and save some money.
The Kodak DC240 was slashed in price a few months ago. It has great 1280x960 resolution if you need it. A great LCD. It's easy to use. I have one and am very happy with it (I traded off my non-usb fuji unit to get it). It has all the memory and features you need and can now be picked up for really cheap. Go for it.
This really scares me: "Online, women don't have to hide their brains the way they often do in school"
As a geek guy, I search high and low for a girlfriend with a brain. Unfortunately I end up writing off most girls within five minutes of meeting them. It really scares me that girls feel the need to hide their intelligence. Please Stop! I am sick to hell of shallow plastic girls!
Then again...if these girls are after shallow plastic guys, then by all means, continue.
We know DDOS clients are hard to track because they forge the IP source on outgoing packets. This paper says that with the DNS ttl=0 we could then use the resulting pattern of DNS traffic in combination with the IP traffic to locate the actual IP of attacking machines.
:-)
Now, aside from all the other noted problems with the proposed scheme....
The problem for the attacker then become how to track the changing IP of the target without disclosing their actual IP with continual DNS lookups on the target.
One way to do this is one could just have the attacking machines scan their local network for DNS lookups on the target, and forward any new IP's to the "evil master" who could recoordinate all the rest of the clients to the new IP.
Another way to do this would be to allocate one group of compromised machines to just performing the DNS lookups and report info back to the master for distribution to the actual attacker clients. In this case, the boxes doing the DNS lookups disclosing their IP would give the attackee much less information in that they could work to prevent tracking of the routing changes, but would see no benefit (in the form of the actual attack load decreasing), until they had succesfully tracked and identified ALL the DNS tracking boxen involved.
NEXT!
That gives me an idea. What if we were to encrypt the source code an distribute it that way. Of course...just use a _REALLY_ lame method of encription...reverse the whole thing and apply a 1 bit right shift or something. Even better....do this to the story rather than the source code. Is there a color more "gray" than gray? :-)
Funny you should mention that:
"Music.com endorses Windows Media, disses MP3"
http://www.theregister.co.uk/
Trust me, I saw the movie, Katz saying it is good IS definitely a troll! The last movie I saw this bad to get a good review was "The Apostle" with Robert Duvall. Save your money and go rent Fight Club, or Pi.
How much does it cost??? The website makes no mention of money! The Java conference last week at the same place was like $1200. Somehow I doubt the sponsorship has paid the entirety of the centre rental, and to get all the speakers there, etc. Does anybody know? Did anyone here go? I am finally working in a city (New York) when something that sounds interesting is actually going on, rather than bieng half the way around the world in the middle of nowhere wishing I was there...and here I am and I probably can't even begin to afford to go
I converted my whole site from GIF to PNG a while back. IE5 works great, Mozilla breaks on the transparencies (not alpha channel), that is, binary transparency for PNG is still broken. You can see my bug report, and vote for it at: http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_ bug.cgi?id=13627. It seems the mozilla folk (who I love) are very concerned with DOM, XML, and HTML standard support...but have left out the PNG standard as a _fundamental_ required building block of the web. I think full PNG support should be as core as HTML, and I eagerly await full support in my favorite browser.
Just because they stipulate that they own the spec, which they do, by copyrighting it, doesn't mean they don't make it freely available for anyone to use and implement. You can copyright something you GPL, just as you can release something that is yours under multiple different licences.
First, to those who think Java is closed, let's get it straight, Java is open...Suns _implementation_ of Java is closed! Anyone can download and implement the Java spec...as several have. And Sun is at least attempting to achieve some consensus and standardization for what they create, which is a hell of a lot better than most other companies (how many people did MS ask for input on, say, DCOM???).
Sun's implementation of the spec may be closed, but it is still more open than a lot of other closed software. Their community source licence, if not that great, is at least a step in the right direction, and if other companies took this step, we would be decidedly better off. It takes time for the corporate world to embrace, understand, and experiment with open software...Sun is heading it the right direction. Keep in mind, they have to make money to survive. Eventually, given the same time C/C++ has had, there will be many good open implementations.
Java being an open specification, with independant, and open implementations, makes it as open as anything else in this world. Just because there are closed implementations, doesn't make Java closed. If Sun started charging $10,000 for their Java implementation tomorrow...what would happen? The whole community would start working on Kaffe, and you can bet IBM (with all they have invested) would do a cleanroom and open source it, but basically, life would go on without Sun. What would all the Visual Basic programmers do if MS started charging $10,000 for VB? Look at how many people use VB! (Don't even get me started on comparing them)
As for Java changing "every five minutes" as some people like to quote, or about it being unstable and buggy. Well, that's true, or at least it has been in the past. But Java is a really new language!!!! I'll say it again...it's new! Java, like Linux in some ways, has been pushed into the spotlight before it's time, because it fills the need better than any of the alternatives. I think Sun has done a great job of moving the languages features forward quickly enough that MS can't hijack it by adding missing/needed features that will in turn tie Java to Windows. Being a full time Java developer, I could never go back to C++/Win32, despite the bugs, and a _few_ missing bits here and there, Java is a _great_ language to work with. Stability and speed, and more open implementations, these will all come with time. Actually, Swing is becoming useable, and the new JIT's are actually quite fast on "reasonable" hardware.
Java is just now really starting to become a viable platform. Linux is in the same vote, it's a relatively new operating system, and is still evolving at a pace at least as quickly (or more) than Java in areas such as multimedia, multitrack digital recording, DVD, USB, component architectures (KOM/Open Parts), etc.
Most importantly, Java is the only real chance Linux has of putting down windows in the enterprise. Even once all the productivity apps are in place on Linux, and the interface (Gnome/KDE) blows away Windows, and it's easy enough for grandma to install, the MS installed base is going to be the problem. Java gives companies a way to easily migrate from Windows to Linux. Java is the link that will let this happen. Normally, convincing a MS based company to develop their inhouse software on Linux would be impossible. But Java is a good language for _MANY_ other reasons than being cross platform, which will get companies to use it, even if it's only on top of Windows. Then one day, when they discover Linux, they will find that they can slowly (or quickly) throw away their Windows boxes without spending a trillion dollars migrating a myriad of software all at once. Without Java, it will never happen.
That is why Linux and Java are a good match.
"if you don't read comments, well, what can I say?"
:-)
You do realize you just addressed people who don't read comments...in a comment
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This post brings me to a question. I would like to be seen as a valuable poster to the Slashdot forums. But for people who want less noise, I would not place a lot of value on the above. Yet it is from comments just like mine above that I usually get a little chuckle..which is why I like Slashdot. As alluded to by a number of others, different comments appeal to different people. I assume if I make valuable posts, it increases my "value" to the SD community, and some day, I may be rewarded for this by being made a moderator, but the fact is, with this new system, I thought twice about posting the above...I guess evaluating the value of ones writing is a good thing...I just don't thing this system should keep people from saying what they want...I think my comment above is valuable to some people, so I made it, but I don't think many moderators would hold the same view. I guess mainly what I want to know...do funny little comments (I think it was kinda funny anyhow) have value, and if only to some people, will they drag my "value" down?
I like the new system.
Rather than just the "up one" and "down one" threshold links, I would like links to instantly go to -10 to easily see everything, 0 so that I can see all anonymous posts, and 1 so I can see all not so special posts, that way I could set my default to 2, only read the good stuff most of the time, but jump down easily.
Why can't every logged in user moderate? With the point system no one could do that much damage. And you could always facilitate banning/removing moderator status for abusers.
Why not automatically boost the points for an article that gets a lot of replies. I think any article must be good if it evokes enough emotion to make others respond. Do I have to much faith in the SD communities ability to identify a troll?
Something tells me he's not talking about DSSSL (or even XSL :-)
Background: I have been running Slackware, since 1994. So everyone has been clamoring over how cool RedHat is, so I tried it, kinda. Before I go on, let me qualify that I am a full time Java developer, using Java 1.2, and have thus since I graduated a couple years ago, and until recently been forced to use Windoze (which I hate) most all of the time. I still keep a Linux partition, and am now going to attempt to move my system primarily back to Linux, and get all my fancy new hardware running. So, last year I did an FTP install of RedHat 5.1 which really impressed me, as it autodetected everything, DHCP'd and FTP'd and was up and running (with X, wow) without me doing anything, no dot clocks, no rc files, nothin. Not that I minded Slackware, after about 50 installs, you get the nack for it (don't touch _anything_ while it's installing, and if anything goes wrong (even blinks), start over). I have, since then, not actually touched a thing on the RedHat partition, due to lack of time, and waiting for 2.2 before investing any time. I haven't even updgraded a single RPM, I'm not even sure I remember how. However...I am one with gzip, tar, and make.
:-) I don't have the time to build and tweak much anymore, so RedHat sounds like it is for me. It's just that...well...rules scare me. I'm scared that when I get down to actually using RedHat, all the rc files and stuff is going to be a bunch of auto generated stuff I shouldn't touch, or that will get written over when I upgrade something. I guess I imagine a RedHat config file like a Microsoft Visual C++ source file, compared to Slackware's Linux C++ file..."Don't touch this...or that...or edit this". It's the people that keep warning about how they have to edit dependency files and stuff, and it is a pain.
:-) The only reason I even run X, is cuz I can't see Rob's cute Icons using Lynx :-) Hmm...someone should port Mozilla and thus GTK to GGI...then I woulnd't need X at all....mmmm....fast.
Question: So what's the deal with RPM's? I understand that they are binary only and have dependency tracking. Does that mean if something is installed via RPM I can't manually download a tgz and build over it, I have to use RPM's? Do I really care? I always thought I was getting better performance by compiling myself, in that the compiler would optimize for newer P2 instructions rather than being 486 compatible
Is RedHat scary for Slackware people?
I guess I could live with a binary only distro. With GNU/Linux, it just seems wrong though. But the thought of quick upgrades and fixes is to much to pass over. I mean...there never used to be binaries at all...and you get used to one thing for so long.
And the only reason I say RedHat (not Debian, Suse, etc) is because it seems to be the most actively maintained in terms of current stuff. I'm thinking about Starbuck/6.0 here. It also seems easy to find RPM's for everything now.
I guess after this I have to sort out all this Gnome/KDE stuff. I think I will stick with good old FVWM. Who needs all the fancy schmancy themes and crap...just bloat anyhow
Gecko is the first good web browser the world has ever known.
HTML was designed from the ground up with several goals in mind, that seem to have been completely forgoten by most people over the years. The whole basis was to separate structure from style enabling a document to be viewed on any system. XML finall takes this concept to it's conclusion in a manageable fashion. HTML was about using structural tags such as H1 rather than hard coded font tags, because a heading will look much different on an 1600x1200 monitor than it will a cell phone.
So with the growth of the web you get a billion traditional media people designing web pages, that have no concept what the word _dynamic_ means, all writing pages that _must_ be viewed at 800x600, because they only know how to create pages for fixed paper mediums, and because they never bothered to actually learn what HTML was about. How many web designers even know what SGML is let along understand that HTML is an application of it? Admitedly, this only includes about 99.99% of the web designers out there. Traditionally the browser makers have been just as bad. It seems Netscape has finally got a clue. Netscape was the pioneer in adding proprietary style based tags to HTML, if they get Gecko right, which they are, I may actually forgive them, even though thanks in part to them, the whole web is a mess.
So now, x years later, everyone finally learns HTML and runs across all these problems in browser compatibility and site management, and they start looking for a solution, can you say "What's a style sheet?". They discover that style sheets were supposed to be part of the web since day one, and that in fact they are much cooler than all the proprietary hacks they have been clamoring for from the browser makers. The sad thing being, even those web designers that knew about the One True Way from the beginning have not been able to do anything about it due to lack of browser support.
Enter Gecko, the first web browser to actually give a web designers the ability to design a page the way it was meant to be. Gecko is not about small. Gecko is not about fast. Gecko is about HTML, CSS, XML, and DOM. Gecko is actually including a real parser (Expat) for the first time. We should have been able to use SGML features for years now, if browser makers had actually done it right and included SGML parsers. Gecko is including real DOM support, so now we can write JavaScript that may actually work in more than one place, and not only that, but that does a hell of a lot more for creating dynamic content. Gecko includes XML support, the most important document format since ASCII, finally giving the world a standard for creating documents with actual structure, and a way for bringing those to the masses. Gecko includes full CSS1 and a good chunk of CSS2, so my documents can actually look clean for a change, and be 1/5 the size at the same time.
People who make comments how all the web pages don't load any faster, and how IE has better bookmarks or something like that, these people have obviously never tried any serious HTML work, browser programming, or managing a _large_ site. Gecko is not for the users, they will look at it and ask what it gives them over version 4. Gecko is for the designers, who will bow down at it's feet screaming FINALLY, and will now be able to die (mostly) happy. And for that, Gecko is the best piece of software to hit the web, _ever_.
Three problems, temperature, vibration, power.
.... mmmm .. quake on the road :-)
Temperature: The obvious answer is insulation. So, put an ice cooler box for housing the unit in your trunk surrounded with pink housing insulation. That should keep it from getting too hot or cold.
Vibration: The only part of a PC really sensitive to vibration is the hard drive. Make a small wooden box, and suspend the hard drive inside using rubber surgical tubing. I use this stuff as a DJ to suspend my CD players. It's strong enough that it won't break, and is nice and stretchy to insulate againsed any shocks. Put the whole deal inside the cooler box.
Power: You can buy power adapters that should do the 12 to 120 trick at your local electronics store such as Radio Shack. Just note what type of power supply your using. Assuming you don't wont to buy an LCD panel, I would recommend getting a 7" POS terminal screen, it shouldn't suck up that much power. Hell, just find a 286 clunker laptop and rob the screen from that, and hopefully be able to wire it up, or use the whole 286 as a terminal for the real box in the trunk. Cool, wire an ethernet into your car, and have the server in the trunk do DHCP so your friends can come to the car and just plug in their laptops
If you have too much trouble with the power, talk to some of the competition level car audio guys, they're really good at those problems. but the solutions arent that cheap.
What if Distributed made it so anyone could submit an encrypted message for decryption over the web? I mean, holding a contest to prove something is one thing, but actually providing it as a full time service for whoever wanted it whenever, anonymously, would really force some action to be taken!
Pi is a perfect date movie! If she doesn't go "Ewww, whats with all the math stuff, and get a load of the crappy music, theres not even any lyrics!", then she gets a second date. I couldn't think of a better barbie girl filter :-)