And I'll call programming a 'craft' when programmers form covens!
Unions, some fields need them, not everybody though. They attempt to be a one size fits all. That doesn't work.
In that sense, unions are a lot like Microsoft, they make a program and demand that everyone uses it whether it fits your needs or not. Sometimes, you just have to choose the other path.
I'm using the ATI 7500 AIW card and got the tv-out working (for console) by compiling the VESA Framebuffer support instead of the Radeon Framebuffer in the kernel. Now I can play videos using mplayer with directfb output and I even managed to get Xdirectfb working (though, not configured correctly yet).
The difficulty I am working with on the console now is not being able to adjust the display on the tv, 2 or 3 characters on the left side are off the screen, not a problem for watching videos, but directory listings are a pain.
I was under the impression that the CF floppy adapter required putting some sort of driver software on the computer that was going to read it. In which case, this would not get us around the Internet Cafe problem.
If you want to get any serious computing done while you are on the toilet, a high-speed fiber connection may be called for. Especially if you are working with large graphics files in there.
Most people could probably get by with a more modest 100Mb ethernet, but for graphic designers and CAD people, consider investing in fiber.
What about Freenet (or similar P2P system) AS a replacement for Sourceforge. P2P distribution can keep projects alive and literally distributes the cost of bandwidth!
Maybe if everyone coughs up 1 to 5 gig of space for project hosting.
Hmm, no I'm not sure how that would work with CVS... Maybe that arch (or was it larch) project? That had something for distributed trees.
Now you need an even bigger table to hide this thing under!!
I could see applications for this, but certainly not for the home or office. And the only way I could see using it is if you put a nice large flat panel display UNDER the glass to make a work table on which you could display blueprints, plans, maps, and the like.
The frame maybe wonderfully strong, but I think you could make something yourself that would look much more appealing. Say a nice wooden desk maybe?
maybe we -should- do a few more clicks on ones that interest us. See, when I see a banner ad that does grab my attention (even if i'm not interested, if it does a good enough job to get my attention, someone deserves a click) i right-click open a new window for it.
That is cool. Great way to show support for your favorite sites, and NOT interrupt your reading. I normally automatically scroll down to ignore the banner ads, but I will start right-clicking.
Personally I think interstitials will be ok for broadband folk.
I ignore banners at the top and bottom of the page.
I HATE ads in the middle of what I'm reading.
I don't think I'd mind more interstitials. As long as they don't require interaction, I can let it blow by like a tv ad, but for 3 to 5 seconds or so I will be looking at your page and not distracted by the content that I'm actually there for.
PS: for a buck a drink, I'll get you a beer! I mean, I normally try to tip pretty good when I go out to eat, but I'll stop in a bar for 2 or 3 drinks and only tip a buck. I admire your generosity, and willingness to pay for good service. Pretty cool.
I really like the idea of interstitial ads, as long as they aren't 5MB Flash movies on 33.6 give or take connection. You can do a lot with basic HTML and links in their if people want to go check it out. Your ad gets dropped right in the customers face and it isn't competing with content on the site like banner ads and those big middle of the article box ads that so many news sites are starting use.
And heck, broadband content sites can use the big flash movie interstitial ads because we're going there for big flashy content anyway, right?
I'm surprised we haven't seen more interstitial ads since they seem to convert so well from all manner of conventional media. I'm glad to hear that someone may be planning to do this.
Hey there's a good idea, I want to have 30 browser windows start popping up everytime I visit any web site. And half of the pop up windows start opening up other windows.
Seriously, how do people put up with that? My thinking is that a large portion of people visiting those sites must be waves of newsbies getting on for the first time. I guess some people must think the content is very good to put in credit card number and put up with all those windows of ads.
Ok a I may have overreacted with the fifth amendment talk, but the point was, this is not a first amendment issue.
We are lacking facts in this case though as to just what is occuring with law enforcement. He has however been identified as a potential threat, and that could come back to haunt him.
Remember the shot gun comment and anti-school page were different sites
The suspension portion of the kids' punishment, carried out last Thursday and Friday, was actually over a separate website, one whose domain name contained the school's name and the F word.
We need to discourage the paranoid rantings against our youth, or the youth will be become more paranoid. If you treat people as criminals, more people will be criminals. See Racial Profiling.
If you don't stand up for other peoples rights, no one will be around to stand up for yours.
The issue is the police involvement, which perhaps confusingly is a different issue. The students made derogatory remarks about the school, they were suspended, fine. Yes it is a public website, maybe if they granted access to specific IPs instead of banning specific IPs they might have a better case there.
The issue is that in the course of the schools investigation, they found the line about the shotgun, which due to the Perl error, was taken out of context, literally.
Now the police are monitoring this kid saying he is a potential psycho, and don't see this as the stupid programming error it was.
They are giving students more reason to be paranoid, as if anyone needs more of a reason these days.
And actually, this is not really even a first amendment issue either. Perhaps it would be better to take a look at the Fifth Amendment:
No person shall... be deprived of life,
liberty, or property, without due process of law;
My (albeit limited) understanding of the GPL is that the NSA would NOT have to release source code for modifications they make to Linux, as long as they didn't release the binaries they make either.
In other words if they modified Linux for internal security, everyone in the NSA could get a copy with out the NSA needing to release the sources to the world.
What software would people recommend for a virtual community? If you already have the 'community' and just want to give people the online forum?
I know there are some Linux BBS packages out there but I have not looked into them. I'm thinking 'graphical' 'web' UI, with BBS soul.
If you wanted to put your community on the net, how would you do it?
I want to provide secure access, but internal anonymity is not important. This is, for the most part, a closed group. I want to be able to share information without broadcasting it to the world.
That was the US Olypmic committee back in... 95-96, while I was attending Olympic College. My favorite ISP at the time was Olympic.net in Silverdale, WA and they were coerced by the US Olympic committee to give up the name, thus changing them to Silverlink.net.
I think using stolen icons is not acceptable for an OS which is distributed under the GPL, especially since the questionable icons are also under the GPL in the package (didnt check it, but i assume this is the case).
I thought the point of GPL was the ability to reuse in other GPL projects? If the BeOS icons were GPL, it would be perfectly acceptable to steal them for your GPL project. (They would have to be credited somewhere in the code, i believe)
I think the problem though is that BeOS is NOT GPL'd.
A big problem with VNC in the corporate enviroment, compared to Citrix, is that you are remotely controling a single windows machine.
If you have 5 users who may need to access windows at the same time, you need 5 windows boxes to connect to using VNC. You could not get by with 1 "VNC Server" machine to serve separate windows desktops to multiple users at the same time.
An interesting implementation I would like to see would be a Linux box using VMWare to 'spawn' windows machines as people needed them and dynamically assign them out VNC requestors.
Methodologies are NOT a magic bullet that management can buy to solve their problems. However, Methodologies can work.
Sure I believe in quality, that doesn't mean my work will magically be quality. That's why in our 'methodology' peers will review my work, including the paperwork that I've done to show WHY I did what I did.
In the open source "methodology" peers will review what I've done and use it if they like it, or reject it if they don't like it.
In the corporate world, my customers aren't interested in reading the source, they just want something to work. Therefore we have a formalized process of peer review.
In the corporate world I can't just 'release early, release often' and tell the customer that if it doesn't work the way they want it to, they should look at the code and change it themselves.
Methodologies are NOT a magic bullet, but if it is something that the developers can see value in it, it can improve the quality of your products.
Your statements are not mutually exclusive. Ok, maybe quality cannot be enforced from above, but is it unreasonable for management (or your customer) to "think that they can get some 'Quality'" from you? If that is the case, they should certainly ditch you.
A good development management process will develop quality at the lower. It sometimes is and should be just about improving the quality of the released product, not what is the latest management technobabble.
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by 2030, all the jobs in the US will be fast food jobs.
The retirement age can then be moved to 16, the advantage being, if they haven't put anything in, they don't get anything out!
And I'll call programming a 'craft' when programmers form covens!
Unions, some fields need them, not everybody though. They attempt to be a one size fits all. That doesn't work.
In that sense, unions are a lot like Microsoft, they make a program and demand that everyone uses it whether it fits your needs or not. Sometimes, you just have to choose the other path.
I'm using the ATI 7500 AIW card and got the tv-out working (for console) by compiling the VESA Framebuffer support instead of the Radeon Framebuffer in the kernel. Now I can play videos using mplayer with directfb output and I even managed to get Xdirectfb working (though, not configured correctly yet).
The difficulty I am working with on the console now is not being able to adjust the display on the tv, 2 or 3 characters on the left side are off the screen, not a problem for watching videos, but directory listings are a pain.
I was under the impression that the CF floppy adapter required putting some sort of driver software on the computer that was going to read it. In which case, this would not get us around the Internet Cafe problem.
I whole heartedly agree.
If you want to get any serious computing done while you are on the toilet, a high-speed fiber connection may be called for. Especially if you are working with large graphics files in there.
Most people could probably get by with a more modest 100Mb ethernet, but for graphic designers and CAD people, consider investing in fiber.
Has anyone seen the posting schedule for Usenet?
What about Freenet (or similar P2P system) AS a replacement for Sourceforge. P2P distribution can keep projects alive and literally distributes the cost of bandwidth!
Maybe if everyone coughs up 1 to 5 gig of space for project hosting.
Hmm, no I'm not sure how that would work with CVS... Maybe that arch (or was it larch) project? That had something for distributed trees.
Well?
Now you need an even bigger table to hide this thing under!!
I could see applications for this, but certainly not for the home or office. And the only way I could see using it is if you put a nice large flat panel display UNDER the glass to make a work table on which you could display blueprints, plans, maps, and the like.
The frame maybe wonderfully strong, but I think you could make something yourself that would look much more appealing. Say a nice wooden desk maybe?
That is cool. Great way to show support for your favorite sites, and NOT interrupt your reading. I normally automatically scroll down to ignore the banner ads, but I will start right-clicking.
Personally I think interstitials will be ok for broadband folk.
I ignore banners at the top and bottom of the page.
I HATE ads in the middle of what I'm reading.
I don't think I'd mind more interstitials. As long as they don't require interaction, I can let it blow by like a tv ad, but for 3 to 5 seconds or so I will be looking at your page and not distracted by the content that I'm actually there for.
PS: for a buck a drink, I'll get you a beer! I mean, I normally try to tip pretty good when I go out to eat, but I'll stop in a bar for 2 or 3 drinks and only tip a buck. I admire your generosity, and willingness to pay for good service. Pretty cool.
And heck, broadband content sites can use the big flash movie interstitial ads because we're going there for big flashy content anyway, right?
I'm surprised we haven't seen more interstitial ads since they seem to convert so well from all manner of conventional media. I'm glad to hear that someone may be planning to do this.
Hey there's a good idea, I want to have 30 browser windows start popping up everytime I visit any web site. And half of the pop up windows start opening up other windows.
Seriously, how do people put up with that? My thinking is that a large portion of people visiting those sites must be waves of newsbies getting on for the first time. I guess some people must think the content is very good to put in credit card number and put up with all those windows of ads.
We are lacking facts in this case though as to just what is occuring with law enforcement. He has however been identified as a potential threat, and that could come back to haunt him.
Remember the shot gun comment and anti-school page were different sites
We need to discourage the paranoid rantings against our youth, or the youth will be become more paranoid. If you treat people as criminals, more people will be criminals. See Racial Profiling.
If you don't stand up for other peoples rights, no one will be around to stand up for yours.
The issue is that in the course of the schools investigation, they found the line about the shotgun, which due to the Perl error, was taken out of context, literally.
Now the police are monitoring this kid saying he is a potential psycho, and don't see this as the stupid programming error it was.
They are giving students more reason to be paranoid, as if anyone needs more of a reason these days.
And actually, this is not really even a first amendment issue either. Perhaps it would be better to take a look at the Fifth Amendment:
From National Archives and Records Administration
They should at least open source the program se we can the ability to scan for open NFS shares!
Where do you get the 'come on in' sign with file shares?
In other words if they modified Linux for internal security, everyone in the NSA could get a copy with out the NSA needing to release the sources to the world.
I know there are some Linux BBS packages out there but I have not looked into them. I'm thinking 'graphical' 'web' UI, with BBS soul.
If you wanted to put your community on the net, how would you do it?
I want to provide secure access, but internal anonymity is not important. This is, for the most part, a closed group. I want to be able to share information without broadcasting it to the world.
I have hated politics of olympics ever since.
I thought the point of GPL was the ability to reuse in other GPL projects? If the BeOS icons were GPL, it would be perfectly acceptable to steal them for your GPL project. (They would have to be credited somewhere in the code, i believe)
I think the problem though is that BeOS is NOT GPL'd.
If you have 5 users who may need to access windows at the same time, you need 5 windows boxes to connect to using VNC. You could not get by with 1 "VNC Server" machine to serve separate windows desktops to multiple users at the same time.
An interesting implementation I would like to see would be a Linux box using VMWare to 'spawn' windows machines as people needed them and dynamically assign them out VNC requestors.
Sure I believe in quality, that doesn't mean my work will magically be quality. That's why in our 'methodology' peers will review my work, including the paperwork that I've done to show WHY I did what I did.
In the open source "methodology" peers will review what I've done and use it if they like it, or reject it if they don't like it.
In the corporate world, my customers aren't interested in reading the source, they just want something to work. Therefore we have a formalized process of peer review.
In the corporate world I can't just 'release early, release often' and tell the customer that if it doesn't work the way they want it to, they should look at the code and change it themselves.
Methodologies are NOT a magic bullet, but if it is something that the developers can see value in it, it can improve the quality of your products.
A good development management process will develop quality at the lower. It sometimes is and should be just about improving the quality of the released product, not what is the latest management technobabble.