3. If you read till the end of the article the NIC is actually an embedded Linux system so you can turn off your winhoze firewall completely and let Linux do the firewalling.
Wow... I'd think that such a thing would actually add extra overhead. It has to traverse an additional full TCP/IP stack. I suppose it only helps if the CPU is busy with other things then.
How can a NIC decrease the latency in any noticable way? Especially when playing over the Internet? Does it process ICMP echo reply packets in hardware so that the ping values will just look more l33t?:-P
It's an experiment. This guy opened a website where you can mail him questions and he'll answer them by e-mail and on the site. Now it's on Slashdot and every geek in the world will know about the site. Expected result: Not just a Slashdotted webserver, but also a Slashdotted guy and a Slashdotted mailserver.
Ahh, Zürich, Google earth. The name "Pim" must sound familiar to you then.:-)
I just have to AOL this post. My experiences are very similar. I actually enjoyed the interviews (but that's probably because I never went through these job application processes before) and some of the puzzles. Most people I talked to were pretty nice and didn't mind other questions. In fact, I was given the chance to ask my questions about the job, the company, the city (Dublin, in my case) before I even got my first question.
Of course not, ID3v[12] are MP3-specific toys (AFAIK). However, the tagging facilities of Ogg files are similar and certainly don't have the low limits we had in ID3v1. You can put pretty much any kind of information there, whatever you feel like.
I just hope for you that it won't break. My iRiver broke in the beginning of the year, I sent it in for repair in the end of February, and I still don't have it back. No more iRiver for me, please... (Not to mention the annoying bugs in the Ogg support that never got fixed in the firmware updates.)
Players from iAudio support FLAC files. I have an M5L here, works very well for me so far. Plays MP3, Ogg, FLAC and even WMA (which can be useful because this support includes output from mplayer -dumpstream, so I sometimes use it to listen to recordings from Internet radio) at a pretty good quality.
Since it's Gentoo-based it probably downloads the driver sources and then compiles it. The "installed in a few minutes" just means it can install a basic OS with a compiler and all the sources in a few minutes. After that it has to compile everything so that you can optimize it for your very unique machine so it'll be 0.5% faster than Ubuntu.:-)
However, of course this means that they can do this all without voiding any license.
Beating SourceForge shouldn't be hard. Just leave out that terrible mirrors page on every binary download and they're done. I really hope there'll be a day when the SourceForge people will come up with something more convenient... (Just using HTTP Location: header forwards instead of HTML META tags would be a start!)
I bought my father a Nokia 1110 some time ago. It's a real "back-to-basic" telephone. Pretty nice screen (white-on-black, must be attractive to geeks:-D), great battery life (lasts for a week for him, and he does have phonecalls with it every day) and almost no useless features (if you can at least live with the polyphonic ringtones). No colour screen, no camera, no MP3 player, etc. It also lacks GPRS support, which I personally wouldn't like to miss.
Maybe you'll like it, if you can live with the fact that it's from Nokia. I personally don't understand why people all like Nokia so much (I bought one for myself this year, for the first time in ages, because of bad experiences with all other brands in the last few years (fragile things)).. You can say a lot about the software, but if this is user-friendly, please give me back my user-unfriendly Siemens/SonyEricsson, at least it works and it's a bit more consistent.
I think the problem is mainly that you have to be consistent. If nobody minds about what Kororaa does, half a year later some other company can violate the GPL in a similar (but less desired) way. AFAIK nobody can then do anything against that company anymore, because nothing was done against Kororaa either.
That's why I use Trac as my bug tracker. It's a bit like a wiki, it works without any kind of account. Unfortunately spammers noticed that too, I have to see what I can do about that.:-(
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We get maybe two thank you notes a month, but if it's ever down or buggy, we get a couple of complaints an hour, some of them frothingly rude.
Yes, that's indeed quite annoying sometimes, when making free (as-in free beer, mainly) software. Users still think they're like "paying customers" (at least they behave like they are), being very demanding, impatient, rude, etc.
Fortunately I hardly ever received a really rude reaction, except for some that were actually more funny than rude.:-) But users who reopen bugs that were closed twice already (with a kind request to not reopen it again), users who complain for the lack of some features that are pretty hard to implement and think the developers should have all the time to implement it, just for them, etc etc... They get on my nerves a bit sometimes.:-)
Anyway, I don't really get this "CVS cop-out" thing. What's wrong with saying "Yeah, we know about this problem, we fixed it."? It's not very clear to me from the article. It indeed doesn't mean the problem will be fixed for the user in a couple of days, but the user/reporter knows the developers are aware of the problem, and that it'll be fixed in the next release. And if the bug is really too annoying, feel free to run CVS or backport the fix. But don't whine. You're not a paying customer, the developer has other things to do (just like you). So if the bug bothers you that much, take the time to get the fix yourself. It's already there, you don't have to write it anymore, so it's not that hard.
At most it makes it slightly harder to do. They have to do some browser/IP stack hijacking instead. With browser hijacking they could then also get rid of the SSL certificate warnings, maybe.
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And it's not even an KDE app! I used to think it was some KDE front-end to an existing virtualization program...
3. If you read till the end of the article the NIC is actually an embedded Linux system so you can turn off your winhoze firewall completely and let Linux do the firewalling.
Wow... I'd think that such a thing would actually add extra overhead. It has to traverse an additional full TCP/IP stack. I suppose it only helps if the CPU is busy with other things then.
How can a NIC decrease the latency in any noticable way? Especially when playing over the Internet? Does it process ICMP echo reply packets in hardware so that the ping values will just look more l33t? :-P
Completely off-topic, but could you *please* remove your home page from your profile? It seems to be hijacked by some link farming asshole now. :-(
I hope they'll have a license agreement form like the form they had for their driver DDK a cooupe of years ago. ;-)
:-D)
(No image editor was used to create this image. They just forgot to set the read-only flag for that form.
It's an experiment. This guy opened a website where you can mail him questions and he'll answer them by e-mail and on the site. Now it's on Slashdot and every geek in the world will know about the site. Expected result: Not just a Slashdotted webserver, but also a Slashdotted guy and a Slashdotted mailserver.
;-)
Let's see what happens.
Yes, I can't believe it's still +4 Informative. I blame the subject. "I work at Google" -> "Ahh, it must be informative then! *mods*"
Ahh, Zürich, Google earth. The name "Pim" must sound familiar to you then. :-)
I just have to AOL this post. My experiences are very similar. I actually enjoyed the interviews (but that's probably because I never went through these job application processes before) and some of the puzzles. Most people I talked to were pretty nice and didn't mind other questions. In fact, I was given the chance to ask my questions about the job, the company, the city (Dublin, in my case) before I even got my first question.
And I even had the infamous reverse this linked list question. (-:
Maybe they're just a bit nicer/more pleasant outside the US?
*yawn* Isn't it time to find something more original, pal?
It's also interesting how people now explain the blood on Reiser's shirt in this comic, while this comic also predates this whole arrest story.
Err, with "not quite" I obviously meant you're not quite the only one who thought that. Oops, seems like I'm as bad as the one who posted this. ;-(
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Not quite, actually I'm reading the comments on this story just to make sure I'm not the only one who couldn't read the summary.
Preferably one with an Enter key, it seems yours is broken right now...
I just hope for you that it won't break. My iRiver broke in the beginning of the year, I sent it in for repair in the end of February, and I still don't have it back. No more iRiver for me, please... (Not to mention the annoying bugs in the Ogg support that never got fixed in the firmware updates.)
Players from iAudio support FLAC files. I have an M5L here, works very well for me so far. Plays MP3, Ogg, FLAC and even WMA (which can be useful because this support includes output from mplayer -dumpstream, so I sometimes use it to listen to recordings from Internet radio) at a pretty good quality.
Since it's Gentoo-based it probably downloads the driver sources and then compiles it. The "installed in a few minutes" just means it can install a basic OS with a compiler and all the sources in a few minutes. After that it has to compile everything so that you can optimize it for your very unique machine so it'll be 0.5% faster than Ubuntu. :-)
However, of course this means that they can do this all without voiding any license.
Also, for at least the initrds meant for embedded purposes, buildroot can be nice.
Beating SourceForge shouldn't be hard. Just leave out that terrible mirrors page on every binary download and they're done. I really hope there'll be a day when the SourceForge people will come up with something more convenient... (Just using HTTP Location: header forwards instead of HTML META tags would be a start!)
AFAIK BSE/The mad cow disease is only connected to the Creutzfeldt Jakob Disease.
Or is CJD related to Alzheimer?
I bought my father a Nokia 1110 some time ago. It's a real "back-to-basic" telephone. Pretty nice screen (white-on-black, must be attractive to geeks :-D), great battery life (lasts for a week for him, and he does have phonecalls with it every day) and almost no useless features (if you can at least live with the polyphonic ringtones). No colour screen, no camera, no MP3 player, etc. It also lacks GPRS support, which I personally wouldn't like to miss.
Maybe you'll like it, if you can live with the fact that it's from Nokia. I personally don't understand why people all like Nokia so much (I bought one for myself this year, for the first time in ages, because of bad experiences with all other brands in the last few years (fragile things)).. You can say a lot about the software, but if this is user-friendly, please give me back my user-unfriendly Siemens/SonyEricsson, at least it works and it's a bit more consistent.
I think the problem is mainly that you have to be consistent. If nobody minds about what Kororaa does, half a year later some other company can violate the GPL in a similar (but less desired) way. AFAIK nobody can then do anything against that company anymore, because nothing was done against Kororaa either.
That's why I use Trac as my bug tracker. It's a bit like a wiki, it works without any kind of account. Unfortunately spammers noticed that too, I have to see what I can do about that. :-(
We get maybe two thank you notes a month, but if it's ever down or buggy, we get a couple of complaints an hour, some of them frothingly rude.
:-) But users who reopen bugs that were closed twice already (with a kind request to not reopen it again), users who complain for the lack of some features that are pretty hard to implement and think the developers should have all the time to implement it, just for them, etc etc... They get on my nerves a bit sometimes. :-)
Yes, that's indeed quite annoying sometimes, when making free (as-in free beer, mainly) software. Users still think they're like "paying customers" (at least they behave like they are), being very demanding, impatient, rude, etc.
Fortunately I hardly ever received a really rude reaction, except for some that were actually more funny than rude.
Anyway, I don't really get this "CVS cop-out" thing. What's wrong with saying "Yeah, we know about this problem, we fixed it."? It's not very clear to me from the article. It indeed doesn't mean the problem will be fixed for the user in a couple of days, but the user/reporter knows the developers are aware of the problem, and that it'll be fixed in the next release.
And if the bug is really too annoying, feel free to run CVS or backport the fix. But don't whine. You're not a paying customer, the developer has other things to do (just like you). So if the bug bothers you that much, take the time to get the fix yourself. It's already there, you don't have to write it anymore, so it's not that hard.
At most it makes it slightly harder to do. They have to do some browser/IP stack hijacking instead. With browser hijacking they could then also get rid of the SSL certificate warnings, maybe.