I'd like to see something like this, but managed but a 'config demon' which has access controls and allows sharing a centralized config with other hosts over the network (ok, you could do it by mounting the config dir via NFS or Samba...).
The demon would provide the API/abstraction and would store each APP's config file in a human readable format. Then supply X and ncurses front ends so those without X aren't stuck editing some scary XML file.
So besides just talking about it, is anyone interested in doing it? I'd be interested in getting involved in a project. I've been tinkering with LFS so I'd have a blank slate to experiment with this very problem.
Now if we could find a way to fix the init scripts while we're at it...
Has it ever occurred to anyone else that Gran Turismo and Need for Speed have more to do with people getting killed than Half-Life or Quake[I,II,III]?
Think about it: how many kids actually go out and buy BFG's, RPG's, and Shotguns? Probably none. Ok, how many kids buy souped up little imports and go freeway racing? A whoooole bunch (at least in southern california). Yet racing games get rated E.
Finally the beginnings of Open Source(tm)'s domination!!!
Now that we have DOS, we can begin reimplementing our 32bit OS on top of it! We'll wrap it around the DOS core and try and sell people on the idea that its still an advanced OS. Then we can finally acheive the reliability and performace of Windows.
Now what i'd like to see is this technology applied to creating a cheap display for consumer devices. I used to design consumer products (cordless, not cell, phones) and we were very interested in adding advanced features, but the cost of the LCD was always prohibitive.
What about increasing the intensity of the LEDs (Laser diodes perhaps?) and scanning a small portion of the wall adjacent to the device. Most people (the the US anyway) have fairly smooth, white walls. The only drawback would be getting it bright enough to be seen in a light room.
What does DNA have to do with it? If someone finds a new sequence (the information) that does something cool, why shouldn't they be able to patent it? On the other hand, they have quite a lot of prior art to contend with. So if they can come up with a truely unique arrangement of DNA, they should have the rights. However, this excludes patenting sequences present in a living being that they merely 'discovered'.
I've been thinking of setting up a similar system at my house. It seems simple to throw together a computer controlled video switch, a video digitizer (Bt848?) card, and some cheap CCD cameras.
The motion detection software is commonly available and could be used to drop the frame rate to almost nothing in areas without a lot of traffic.
I'd also like to set up a periodic uploading of the pictures to an off site server in case someone were to steal the computer taking the pictures...:)
I haven't seen it, but if this IS the case, I look forward to a time when we can have an open source project dedicated to recreating the book with CG characters.
Couldn't we do that now? What could be done with some fancy artwork, some scripting, and the quake III engine?
Sure it would take a while, but it seems like most Tolkien fans have no shortage of spare time. And then there wouldn't be any issues with "making it appealing to the general public" by shifting the focus to violence and sex.
This seems to be a recurring problem whenever you ask a linux guy anything. Instead of an answer to your question, you get a 5 minute rant telling you why you really shouldn't do what you want to do.
I used the 2.4.7 kernel and a 1394 harddrive (from ADS Tech) a few months back.
It worked fine except for the hotplugging. I could get that to work about half the time, and it seemed to be pickier than windows(drive powered up before plugging in for instance).
I've heard recent versions are much improved, but don't quote me on that.
I remember my first computer - a ti99/4a - had a box I plugged into the side that generated speech. It didn't sound all that good, but you could recognize it well enough. If I remeber correctly, it cost about $100.
That was... 21 years ago. Its sad that this aspect of human computer interaction has been overlooked for so long. Its nice to finally see some development.
I know this sounds a alittle stupid, but I hope they pass it.
And then I hope the geeks of the world don't back down, but get fined/arrested in droves.
Lets see what happens to the economy then.
I'm not in favor of 'unionizing', but isn't there some kind of way the geeks of the earth could organize (is the eff sufficient?) to prevent this kind of stuff?
We create the technology that enables the modern world, and here we are letting a bunch of business majors who failed first year physics (if they even took it) tell us how to do things. Its the brainless ones who always seem to be in management/government. What's wrong with us?
Aren't there enough of us who have gotten successful? Or did they all "drop out" like the Woz and others who made their money, invented a few cool things and retired..
Thats a wonderful thought that I believed in through many of my younger years. Authority causes repression, Period.
The reason I think these theories tend to be so popular(relatively speaking) with the youth is that they can only exist when there is an ignorance about basic aspects of human nature.
People aren't inherently good. If you leave them alone together for long enough they don't settle into some peaceful state of coexistence (ok, maybe 3, 4 or even 20 people, but not 20,000 and certainly not 6 billion).
Try it sometime. What do you think happened to the hippies? Do you have kids? If so, did you ever have to teach them to lie or steal? Selfishness and pride are in us and will eventually rip apart any social structure based SOLELY on cooperation and trust.
Now I'm sure you believe to the core of your being that if everyone knew/thought/believed in what you believe that it could work. But they don't and they won't.
They world is full of wonderfully architected social theories and most of them fail under the stress of real human behavior.
Ok, so anarchy isn't a social structure, its a lack of one and it doesn't have to 'work'. Yeah, whatever. Until the authoritarians come in and kick your butts and send you back to work.
Good luck.
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Have you ever developed anything for a palm? I wrote a large database application from scratch using tools I downloaded for free (they were even GPL'd). The setup was easy, and the documentation was excellent.
In addition, the API is very, very simple and allows even idiots(like me) to whip up applications very quickly.
Interesting, but, dollar for dollar, the best PalmOS based PDA right now is the Sony Clie PEG-S320...
I picked one of these up at Fry's a month ago for $200 bucks. It has PalmOS 4.0, 4 megs of FLASH(!), 8 Megs of RAM, a Memory Stick Slot, a 33MHz dragonball, Lithium Ion Battery (1.5 weeks or so per charge) and a Jog Dial. Sure, it looks a little girly, but you can't find anything else like it for under $300.
Yes, it still has the lame 160x160 2bpp screen, but why do you need more? A friend of mine just bought a spiffy new iPaq for about $500, and all he got was an MP3 player(do I really want to fill my memory with mp3s???) a picture viewer, and some cool looking games. Neat stuff, but that's not what I bought my PDA for. If that's what you want, go buy a Game Boy and a Rio...
"Given that the human face recognition performed by the check-in agents did not keep the hijackers out, there is no reason to think that computer face recognition would help."
Did I miss something here? Do check in agents store the faces of all suspected terrorists in their brains? Wow...
"There is no hardware protection. Memory protection can be provided by the access computer. But I prefer software that is correct by design."
That statement alone should point out that this guy has no clue about real world software design. People make mistakes, big ones, and they're not always caught in the debug cycle.
He sounds like a real smart guy, who's written alot of cool things ON HIS OWN. Once you break out of the individual 'hacker' environment and have to teach and share with others, alot of this stuff falls apart...
Wow, its amazing how many people suggested that you should use an old PC. I guess no one read your whole post, or the 57 posts that said the same thing before they posted.
First off, I've done the old PC thing myself. It was very flexible and I really liked having a linux box I could tunnel to. OTOH, it also sucked electricity and space which are 2 precious commodities here in California.
I eventually switched to the BEFSR41 from linksys. I picked it up for $100 (BestBuy just had them for $79) and its worked out wonderfully. Low power, silent, and very, very small.
One word of warning: if you intend on hosting any type of game server (quake, half-life, etc...) you should do a search on google first to make sure there aren't any weird problems with the device you decide on. For instance, I can run a half-life server behind the box, but it tends to kick people randomly.
Even better: The fridge, microwave, toaster oven stack. At my old job we had all three in one guys cubicle. Then we all pitched in on a costco sized container of chocolate-chip cookie dough and made fresh cookies every afternoon...
How about a search engine that doesn't index 'rpmfind' mirrors and newsgroups so searches for linux related info turn up something more useful than 50 pages of rpmfind entries...
Ok, yeah, I know how to use '-', but its still annoying...
Many, many years ago in an arcade (remember those?) far away, there was a karate-mortal combat style game that had two large yellow buttons very similar to the cheap air pumps used to inflate sleeping pads. The harder you hit the buttons ( which were like 6" across and 4" high) the harder your character hit the bad guy.
Pretty slick idea, although it was broken quite often.
True, but I think the point is that the level of service hasn't dropeed below my expectations and I believe that the company (TimeWarner) has been responsible in keeping up with demand...
That seems to be what it all boils down to. This isn't a problem specific to cable modems, its a problem inherent in any kind of hierarchical networking scheme - you're always limited by the smallest link in the chain. And if the provider is responsible, then there aren't any problems.
I could just as easily claim that OC-3 links can be slower than 56k modems.
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Well put.
I'd like to see something like this, but managed but a 'config demon' which has access controls and allows sharing a centralized config with other hosts over the network (ok, you could do it by mounting the config dir via NFS or Samba...).
The demon would provide the API/abstraction and would store each APP's config file in a human readable format. Then supply X and ncurses front ends so those without X aren't stuck editing some scary XML file.
So besides just talking about it, is anyone interested in doing it? I'd be interested in getting involved in a project. I've been tinkering with LFS so I'd have a blank slate to experiment with this very problem.
Now if we could find a way to fix the init scripts while we're at it...
Has it ever occurred to anyone else that Gran Turismo and Need for Speed have more to do with people getting killed than Half-Life or Quake[I,II,III]?
Think about it: how many kids actually go out and buy BFG's, RPG's, and Shotguns? Probably none. Ok, how many kids buy souped up little imports and go freeway racing? A whoooole bunch (at least in southern california). Yet racing games get rated E.
Why is that?
Finally the beginnings of Open Source(tm)'s domination!!!
Now that we have DOS, we can begin reimplementing our 32bit OS on top of it! We'll wrap it around the DOS core and try and sell people on the idea that its still an advanced OS. Then we can finally acheive the reliability and performace of Windows.
Forgive me, its late....
Now what i'd like to see is this technology applied to creating a cheap display for consumer devices. I used to design consumer products (cordless, not cell, phones) and we were very interested in adding advanced features, but the cost of the LCD was always prohibitive.
What about increasing the intensity of the LEDs (Laser diodes perhaps?) and scanning a small portion of the wall adjacent to the device. Most people (the the US anyway) have fairly smooth, white walls. The only drawback would be getting it bright enough to be seen in a light room.
I didn't realize the Govt had to publish the comments!
So what happens if someone sent in the source to DeCss inside their email? Would they have had to publish it?
What does DNA have to do with it? If someone finds a new sequence (the information) that does something cool, why shouldn't they be able to patent it? On the other hand, they have quite a lot of prior art to contend with. So if they can come up with a truely unique arrangement of DNA, they should have the rights. However, this excludes patenting sequences present in a living being that they merely 'discovered'.
I've been thinking of setting up a similar system at my house. It seems simple to throw together a computer controlled video switch, a video digitizer (Bt848?) card, and some cheap CCD cameras.
:)
The motion detection software is commonly available and could be used to drop the frame rate to almost nothing in areas without a lot of traffic.
I'd also like to set up a periodic uploading of the pictures to an off site server in case someone were to steal the computer taking the pictures...
Has anyone actually tried this and noticed a difference? I was under the impression that a lot of people thought this was useless.
I haven't seen it, but if this IS the case, I look forward to a time when we can have an open source project dedicated to recreating the book with CG characters.
Couldn't we do that now? What could be done with some fancy artwork, some scripting, and the quake III engine?
Sure it would take a while, but it seems like most Tolkien fans have no shortage of spare time. And then there wouldn't be any issues with "making it appealing to the general public" by shifting the focus to violence and sex.
Just my 2 cents.
I'm just waiting for some bored kid in the philippines to whip up a strain of influenza that alters your neurons to start producing MDMA...
We can call it the 'ILOVEYOU' virus...
This seems to be a recurring problem whenever you ask a linux guy anything. Instead of an answer to your question, you get a 5 minute rant telling you why you really shouldn't do what you want to do.
ugh.
I used the 2.4.7 kernel and a 1394 harddrive (from ADS Tech) a few months back.
It worked fine except for the hotplugging. I could get that to work about half the time, and it seemed to be pickier than windows(drive powered up before plugging in for instance).
I've heard recent versions are much improved, but don't quote me on that.
I remember my first computer - a ti99/4a - had a box I plugged into the side that generated speech. It didn't sound all that good, but you could recognize it well enough. If I remeber correctly, it cost about $100.
That was... 21 years ago. Its sad that this aspect of human computer interaction has been overlooked for so long. Its nice to finally see some development.
I know this sounds a alittle stupid, but I hope they pass it.
And then I hope the geeks of the world don't back down, but get fined/arrested in droves.
Lets see what happens to the economy then.
I'm not in favor of 'unionizing', but isn't there some kind of way the geeks of the earth could organize (is the eff sufficient?) to prevent this kind of stuff?
We create the technology that enables the modern world, and here we are letting a bunch of business majors who failed first year physics (if they even took it) tell us how to do things. Its the brainless ones who always seem to be in management/government. What's wrong with us?
Aren't there enough of us who have gotten successful? Or did they all "drop out" like the Woz and others who made their money, invented a few cool things and retired..
Yes, this is a rant.
Thats a wonderful thought that I believed in through many of my younger years. Authority causes repression, Period.
The reason I think these theories tend to be so popular(relatively speaking) with the youth is that they can only exist when there is an ignorance about basic aspects of human nature.
People aren't inherently good. If you leave them alone together for long enough they don't settle into some peaceful state of coexistence (ok, maybe 3, 4 or even 20 people, but not 20,000 and certainly not 6 billion).
Try it sometime. What do you think happened to the hippies? Do you have kids? If so, did you ever have to teach them to lie or steal? Selfishness and pride are in us and will eventually rip apart any social structure based SOLELY on cooperation and trust.
Now I'm sure you believe to the core of your being that if everyone knew/thought/believed in what you believe that it could work. But they don't and they won't.
They world is full of wonderfully architected social theories and most of them fail under the stress of real human behavior.
Ok, so anarchy isn't a social structure, its a lack of one and it doesn't have to 'work'. Yeah, whatever. Until the authoritarians come in and kick your butts and send you back to work.
Good luck.
Have you ever developed anything for a palm? I wrote a large database application from scratch using tools I downloaded for free (they were even GPL'd). The setup was easy, and the documentation was excellent.
In addition, the API is very, very simple and allows even idiots(like me) to whip up applications very quickly.
Interesting, but, dollar for dollar, the best PalmOS based PDA right now is the Sony Clie PEG-S320...
I picked one of these up at Fry's a month ago for $200 bucks. It has PalmOS 4.0, 4 megs of FLASH(!), 8 Megs of RAM, a Memory Stick Slot, a 33MHz dragonball, Lithium Ion Battery (1.5 weeks or so per charge) and a Jog Dial. Sure, it looks a little girly, but you can't find anything else like it for under $300.
Yes, it still has the lame 160x160 2bpp screen, but why do you need more? A friend of mine just bought a spiffy new iPaq for about $500, and all he got was an MP3 player(do I really want to fill my memory with mp3s???) a picture viewer, and some cool looking games. Neat stuff, but that's not what I bought my PDA for. If that's what you want, go buy a Game Boy and a Rio...
"Given that the human face recognition performed by the check-in agents did not keep the hijackers out, there is no reason to think that computer face recognition would help."
Did I miss something here? Do check in agents store the faces of all suspected terrorists in their brains? Wow...
"There is no hardware protection. Memory protection can be provided by the access computer. But I prefer software that is correct by design."
That statement alone should point out that this guy has no clue about real world software design. People make mistakes, big ones, and they're not always caught in the debug cycle.
He sounds like a real smart guy, who's written alot of cool things ON HIS OWN. Once you break out of the individual 'hacker' environment and have to teach and share with others, alot of this stuff falls apart...
Wow, its amazing how many people suggested that you should use an old PC. I guess no one read your whole post, or the 57 posts that said the same thing before they posted.
First off, I've done the old PC thing myself. It was very flexible and I really liked having a linux box I could tunnel to. OTOH, it also sucked electricity and space which are 2 precious commodities here in California.
I eventually switched to the BEFSR41 from linksys. I picked it up for $100 (BestBuy just had them for $79) and its worked out wonderfully. Low power, silent, and very, very small.
One word of warning: if you intend on hosting any type of game server (quake, half-life, etc...) you should do a search on google first to make sure there aren't any weird problems with the device you decide on. For instance, I can run a half-life server behind the box, but it tends to kick people randomly.
I'm surprised noone has mentioned this yet, but I think we can all kiss PGP and SSL goodbye.
I would be seriously surprised if this doesn't kick us into a "world police state" real fast.
And, to be honest, I don't think that would be such a bad thing right now.
Even better: The fridge, microwave, toaster oven stack. At my old job we had all three in one guys cubicle. Then we all pitched in on a costco sized container of chocolate-chip cookie dough and made fresh cookies every afternoon...
And the sheep-cam... That poor sheep...
How about a search engine that doesn't index 'rpmfind' mirrors and newsgroups so searches for linux related info turn up something more useful than 50 pages of rpmfind entries...
Ok, yeah, I know how to use '-', but its still annoying...
Many, many years ago in an arcade (remember those?) far away, there was a karate-mortal combat style game that had two large yellow buttons very similar to the cheap air pumps used to inflate sleeping pads. The harder you hit the buttons ( which were like 6" across and 4" high) the harder your character hit the bad guy.
Pretty slick idea, although it was broken quite often.
True, but I think the point is that the level of service hasn't dropeed below my expectations and I believe that the company (TimeWarner) has been responsible in keeping up with demand...
That seems to be what it all boils down to. This isn't a problem specific to cable modems, its a problem inherent in any kind of hierarchical networking scheme - you're always limited by the smallest link in the chain. And if the provider is responsible, then there aren't any problems.
I could just as easily claim that OC-3 links can be slower than 56k modems.