The main resources are the reports (2 per month on the SEUL/edu group) and the mailing lists where new software and case studies are announced and discussed.
Certifications ? Like the C in MCSE ? Heh
Twisted-pair telephone lines work like this: either you're connected or you aren't. While not connected you must wait the tone, then dial, which is trivial (my 3.57 MHz Z80-based computer did this with an 80-line BASIC program and wiring the audio output to the phone line). Handling busy tones isn't that tough either. Once connected, you have an analog audio channel to the destination (with one heck of a low-pass filter). Whatever you do on that wire, the worst you can do is drop the call.
Of course the peer must be able to withstand whatever comes on the wire, but that's the hardware's problem, not software's (even on soft-modems, the hardware is required to withstand the signal bandwidth from the wire and translate that into digital audio samples for the driver).
Ah, and one last comment: if you make writing drivers for hardware illegal, only outlaws will use that hardware.
Q: How many NT admins are needed to change a light bulb ? A: 168. 1 to change the bulb, 167 to reboot the power plant
Currently web designers are being payed by the ounce of bloat (flash, asp, jsp...), not for decent design.
The Mozilla Port Of EMACS (Don't!!!)
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GNU Emacs 21
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· Score: 2, Funny
*ahem* I can hardly wait for a an implementation of EMACS in XUL (The Mozilla slow-as-hell interface thing) with the underlying Lisp interpreter written in Java.
...Trying to make high temperature super conductors yielded an unexpected result...
It is absolutely amazing to see something like this
happening. Upon entry on a research program most science programs I knew required the applicant to fill-in a form stating:
what the project will be
budget requirements
chronogram
publishing chronogram
what the results will be
Now I wonder how many years of tenure one needs to be allowed to have unexpected results... *grin*
Re:Is there a life expectancy?
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Autonomic Computing
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· Score: 3, Interesting
The human body has a life expectancy because the processes (chemical reactions, physical stress over tissues) it suffers along its "maintenance" damages the "hardware".
The computer's life-expectancy doesn't change much due to the self-tuning properties, but of course these self-tuning properties will stress more the machine (more usage of CPU, disk and I/O in general), and hardware fails after some time. It may take long, but it fails.
Now consider a self tuning database system which includes a shelf of backup tapes and a robot arm to switch tapes (or CDs) as part of its maintenance.
Moving parts add to the stress, which reduces "life expectancy".
Just to add to the mess, human life expectancy is also related to environment conditions. Being hit by a meteor or burned in a fire is just as bad for a computer as it is for a human.
...Sega makes games for XBox, and Sega makes arcade games. Wouldn't it make sense that Sega would want an Arcade version of XBox in order to make the transition from Arcade to home easiest?
Sorry to be the paranoid one here, but this looks way too much like former video-game market leaders deciding that "being a Microsoft partner", under whichever contract conditions Microsoft put them in, is better business than building home consoles. Monopoly probability: high.
And it sounds like a bad move to focus on game development instead of hardware production (even though Sega is still on the arcade market). Many (I mean lots) game development companies have gone out of business very quick, while hardware provided more stable market for most of the companies that are in (Atari is the exception that confirms the rule).
*cough*.. the filesystem layer with no support for stackable vnodes (or vnodes at all) or userspace filesystems, that requires you to edit The Giant Union From Hell and recompile, and uses void* casts all over the place? That filesystem layer?
Yes, that filesystem. The one that works fine, fast and is well-understood. People who care about particular language constructs such as pointer typecasting are currently busy trying to develop the Hurd kernel. Their motto ? "17 years and we still haven't delivered the modern operating system thing".
It was meant to be a funny joke. In fact, many Macs must have been destroyed in the attack, and since the companies remain "alive", it is probable that they will buy new computers of similar shape and form of those destroyed (with money from the insurance, of course).
And most likely, those 5000 people weren't decision makers who chose whether the box on their desk would be a PC, Mac, Sparc, whatever.
Do you own a branded computer that was shipped with a Trident video board ? Write the manufacterer (Compaq, Dell, Toshiba, whatever) an email telling:
What you like on their hardware that you'd want in the future. A cool way to seal the case closed, lack of noise, the choice of the components.
What you dislike.
Your concerns about the future (e.g.: this box has a trident video board and the specs were available for free software developers, future trident board won't, and that would prevent me from buying your hardware again in the future)
Remember to mention that being compatible with non-MS systems (or at least having reasonable hardware, which specs are available) is a major must-have on computers you buy
Good manufacturers will like to hear from you. And it's much more important writing such a feedback about portables, where changing the video board is not simple, many times not possible.
This is also valid for the computer(s) you use at your work place. If you can gather some co-workers to agree about the matter, write a memo to whoever is responsible for buying hardware in your company, have him/her write the computer supplier about what the company's concerns are. A big annual sale can make the manufacturer worry more about driver availability.
From the article: VMware GSX Server is an enterprise-level product and is priced accordingly.The electronic distribution(...)costs $2,499
Wrong. Apache is an enterprise-level product that is priced accordingly.
VMware GSX Server is an absolute must for any company looking to maintain multiple centralized development environments.
Wrong again. Removing MS Windows from all workstations is an absolute must for any company looking to maintain a decent development environment. Note change in wording: if the environment is centralized and multiple, you only have to maitain the "center" (server), and leaf node configuration is straightforward, right ?
I guess you (USAans) will need to build more prisons very quickly. If everyone who copies the ISO to the HD to tweak the system and burns back to CD-R gets accused of reverse engineering by Sony...
If the economy isn't controlled by the people you elect, you're not living in a democracy. (but I'm not elaborating on who controls the faceless corporations that control you ?).
You're kind of right. Presidents don't act by screwing the economy, they act by ratifiying (or not) treaties for pollution control, developing defense systems that could breed human extinction, and upsetting every other country in the world.
Not that I'm too worried, reelect Bush II and in a few decades you (USAans) will have to pay to get the oxygen of other countries or cease breathing.
And no, I am not a United-Stadian, even though I am American (America goes from Patagonia (South Argentina) to Alaska passing by Cuba.
Clinton government: USA dotcoms hiring everywhere in the world, people making money in IT industry.
Bush II government (yes, the sequel usually sucks): everybody gets laid off, "Hi mom, my name was in fuckedcompany when I woke up this morning". And what is most amazing is that this government will screw just about everybody, but in 4 years Katz will still be writing reviews for/.
Mozilla's Idea of a user-friendly Install
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Mozilla 0.9.1 Out
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· Score: 1
From time to time people ask me why I never let Gnome or KDE desktops in my box and why I'm such a spartan-unix-way-of-life guy.
The screenshot below shows the inate ability to screw things up people who like aoler-friendly software have. I mean, the guys can't even write a GTK front-end for wget that works. In that case, write a shell script that calls wget. At least the statistics in wget text output won't lie to the user.
Whenever a site gets cracked, post an article on slashdot about it (even if you're half globe away with 5000 ms ping delay) so they get slashdotted too.
My main current gaming experience is playing SNES
games on an emulator running on Linux (SNES9X).
Doesn't require a $500 video board, doesn't
require a $300 CPU, no need to have Windows installed (my box doesn't have it), and each game ROM is about 2 MB.
Ages ago I remember playing Dune II on DOS,
it was a great game. It seems that the game
was remodelled with more resolution and sound
quality and shipped as Dune 2000 recently.
I'd be more than happy to be able to play Dune II on Linux.
People developing fun games and nice
mechanics for RTS are lacking, it's a shame
that it's more probable Winusers get a
game with 3D, kick-ass graphics, 3D sound,
hundreds of megabytes and just copy the current
RTS HCI mechanics from {War,star}craft.
Legend of Zelda and Final Fantasy V (SNES) kicks
any of the current 'PC' games on the Fun Per Pixel (FPP) side.
I'd rather have the other way around: company up, nautilus sinking. Nautilus is an heresy on the Unix way of life. Maybe Apple will hire all these guys to live by open source (as opposed to free software, open source == rip everything from the world, charge if the world wants anything back, possibly with IP lawsuits on the way) and develop new ways to make OS X suck.
I hope this allows scientists to determine which genes determine whether the mouse is opto-mechanical or fully optical, those that determine the number of buttons and especially those that determine the resolution. I guess determining if the connector will be serial or mini-DIN is quite straight-forward, but I hope they have mapped these genes too.
Oh, wait, I do remember someone saying something about a living rodent named after pointing devices...
Nope, this is in the Developers section./. has sections whose articles are shown with different colors (BSD: red, AskSlashdot: gray, and Developers: blue. There may be more)
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The main resources are the reports (2 per month on the SEUL/edu group) and the mailing lists where new software and case studies are announced and discussed.
Twisted-pair telephone lines work like this: either you're connected or you aren't. While not connected you must wait the tone, then dial, which is trivial (my 3.57 MHz Z80-based computer did this with an 80-line BASIC program and wiring the audio output to the phone line). Handling busy tones isn't that tough either. Once connected, you have an analog audio channel to the destination (with one heck of a low-pass filter). Whatever you do on that wire, the worst you can do is drop the call.
Of course the peer must be able to withstand whatever comes on the wire, but that's the hardware's problem, not software's (even on soft-modems, the hardware is required to withstand the signal bandwidth from the wire and translate that into digital audio samples for the driver).
Ah, and one last comment: if you make writing drivers for hardware illegal, only outlaws will use that hardware.
Q: How many NT admins are needed to change a light bulb ?
A: 168. 1 to change the bulb, 167 to reboot the power plant
He works for Conectiva. And yes, they pay him to work on Linux, just like they pay Rik van Riel.
Currently web designers are being payed by the ounce of bloat (flash, asp, jsp...), not for decent design.
*ahem* I can hardly wait for a an implementation of EMACS in XUL (The Mozilla slow-as-hell interface thing) with the underlying Lisp interpreter written in Java.
It is absolutely amazing to see something like this happening. Upon entry on a research program most science programs I knew required the applicant to fill-in a form stating:
- what the project will be
- budget requirements
- chronogram
- publishing chronogram
- what the results will be
Now I wonder how many years of tenure one needs to be allowed to have unexpected results... *grin*The computer's life-expectancy doesn't change much due to the self-tuning properties, but of course these self-tuning properties will stress more the machine (more usage of CPU, disk and I/O in general), and hardware fails after some time. It may take long, but it fails.
Now consider a self tuning database system which includes a shelf of backup tapes and a robot arm to switch tapes (or CDs) as part of its maintenance. Moving parts add to the stress, which reduces "life expectancy".
Just to add to the mess, human life expectancy is also related to environment conditions. Being hit by a meteor or burned in a fire is just as bad for a computer as it is for a human.
Sorry to be the paranoid one here, but this looks way too much like former video-game market leaders deciding that "being a Microsoft partner", under whichever contract conditions Microsoft put them in, is better business than building home consoles. Monopoly probability: high.
And it sounds like a bad move to focus on game development instead of hardware production (even though Sega is still on the arcade market). Many (I mean lots) game development companies have gone out of business very quick, while hardware provided more stable market for most of the companies that are in (Atari is the exception that confirms the rule).
In a series with alternate universes, time travel and Q, exactly how does shooting the character makes sure he'll never appear again ?
Isn't it about time to move to Humorixia ?
Yes, that filesystem. The one that works fine, fast and is well-understood. People who care about particular language constructs such as pointer typecasting are currently busy trying to develop the Hurd kernel. Their motto ? "17 years and we still haven't delivered the modern operating system thing".
And most likely, those 5000 people weren't decision makers who chose whether the box on their desk would be a PC, Mac, Sparc, whatever.
2. Lots of americans died this week.
3. This means we lost customers very very fast.
4. Thus we must change our marketing strategy before we lose more customers.
Why marketing VPs exist I don't know, but with cages and tamers with whips it could start to get funny...
- What you like on their hardware that you'd want in the future. A cool way to seal the case closed, lack of noise, the choice of the components.
- What you dislike.
- Your concerns about the future (e.g.: this box has a trident video board and the specs were available for free software developers, future trident board won't, and that would prevent me from buying your hardware again in the future)
- Remember to mention that being compatible with non-MS systems (or at least having reasonable hardware, which specs are available) is a major must-have on computers you buy
Good manufacturers will like to hear from you. And it's much more important writing such a feedback about portables, where changing the video board is not simple, many times not possible.This is also valid for the computer(s) you use at your work place. If you can gather some co-workers to agree about the matter, write a memo to whoever is responsible for buying hardware in your company, have him/her write the computer supplier about what the company's concerns are. A big annual sale can make the manufacturer worry more about driver availability.
Wrong. Apache is an enterprise-level product that is priced accordingly.
VMware GSX Server is an absolute must for any company looking to maintain multiple centralized development environments.
Wrong again. Removing MS Windows from all workstations is an absolute must for any company looking to maintain a decent development environment. Note change in wording: if the environment is centralized and multiple, you only have to maitain the "center" (server), and leaf node configuration is straightforward, right ?
They're writing books with pens in 2001 ? And this is a network-aware publisher, eh ?
I guess you (USAans) will need to build more prisons very quickly. If everyone who copies the ISO to the HD to tweak the system and burns back to CD-R gets accused of reverse engineering by Sony...
You're kind of right. Presidents don't act by screwing the economy, they act by ratifiying (or not) treaties for pollution control, developing defense systems that could breed human extinction, and upsetting every other country in the world. Not that I'm too worried, reelect Bush II and in a few decades you (USAans) will have to pay to get the oxygen of other countries or cease breathing.
And no, I am not a United-Stadian, even though I am American (America goes from Patagonia (South Argentina) to Alaska passing by Cuba.
Bush II government (yes, the sequel usually sucks): everybody gets laid off, "Hi mom, my name was in fuckedcompany when I woke up this morning". And what is most amazing is that this government will screw just about everybody, but in 4 years Katz will still be writing reviews for /.
http://moria.seul.org/~bergo/mozilla.png
Whenever a site gets cracked, post an article on slashdot about it (even if you're half globe away with 5000 ms ping delay) so they get slashdotted too.
Ages ago I remember playing Dune II on DOS, it was a great game. It seems that the game was remodelled with more resolution and sound quality and shipped as Dune 2000 recently. I'd be more than happy to be able to play Dune II on Linux.
People developing fun games and nice mechanics for RTS are lacking, it's a shame that it's more probable Winusers get a game with 3D, kick-ass graphics, 3D sound, hundreds of megabytes and just copy the current RTS HCI mechanics from {War,star}craft.
Legend of Zelda and Final Fantasy V (SNES) kicks any of the current 'PC' games on the Fun Per Pixel (FPP) side.
I'd rather have the other way around: company up, nautilus sinking. Nautilus is an heresy on the Unix way of life. Maybe Apple will hire all these guys to live by open source (as opposed to free software, open source == rip everything from the world, charge if the world wants anything back, possibly with IP lawsuits on the way) and develop new ways to make OS X suck.
Oh, wait, I do remember someone saying something about a living rodent named after pointing devices...
Nope, this is in the Developers section. /. has sections whose articles are shown with different colors (BSD: red, AskSlashdot: gray, and Developers: blue. There may be more)