Ok, I'm curious. What news-sites are you and all those massively disappointed users of KDE 4.0 reading?
I'm no die-hard techie, so I just read slashdot (obvious), KDE Dot News and OS News. Ie. just some general tech/software news.
But I *KNEW* that KDE 4.0 wasn't meant for the general population, but a "stable" release geared toward those developers who wants to program and port to the 4.x-series and geeks who wants to help make the 4.x-series as great as the 3.5-series.
Hey, even Kontact and other core KDE apps wasn't even ready/released.
If I knew all this without being supscribed to some "secret" core KDE-list, how come so many technical skilled people didn't?
Plants are better at transforming light into energy than current solarcells. Plants are easy to store and transport. But sure, it may sound like an inefficient way of producing energy.
But you'd have to make a massive investment in infrastructure to put all those unused farmlands into solar-farms and highly educated employies to run them.
Actually alternative energy technologies combined with energy saving technologies would be enough. You really don't have to create the same amount of energy; just use it more efficiently.
And if we wanted to, we could remove trade restriction on 3rd world contries (ie. remove our own agricultural subsidizing) we could create an economi around bio-diesel or other biological fuels. There is plenty of unused/inficiently used farmland around the globe.
The problem is that the various usb-devices will have/dev/da0/dev/da1 etc. assigned to them according to the order they are being attached.
If I want to give non-root users rw-permission to the device, I'll have to run chmod on the device, and in usbd.conf I have (to my knowledge) no other option than to name eg./dev/da0 explicitly. So if the device gets assigned to/dev/da1 because another device is attached, I'm out of luck.
Could someone point me to (or post) a lowdown on the potential benefits of BSD has over linux (or vice versa) that doesn't include wild speculation and unfounded cynicism?
I've been using FreeBSD exclusively on my Desktop for years. And I like it over any Linux-distro I've come across. Why?
* The FreeBSD Handbook. Most (common) issues you'll ever encounter are addressed here. * Ports. It just works. * Stable. Haven't had a crash in ages that wasn't caused by overheated HW. * Logic. If something doesn't work out of the box and you need to go under the hood, I find FreeBSD much nicer to work with than any linux-distro I've come across.
Now, FreeBSD isn't perfect and it's certainly not point'n'click friendly. You'll have to edit tons of config-files. And then there are some small issues that are having me looking at linux again.
I'm "old" and tired, got a slow PC and don't really find it all that fashinating anymore to be building my own packages. It is possible to do binary upgrades on FreeBSD, but I'm always running into issues with updated ports and available binary packages are out of sync. Alas I've got to build those darn ports myself anyway. In this regard apt-get is so much better.
Attaching mp3-player, cameras, usb-sticks, usb-harddrive have become a nightmare. For starters I can't get usb2 to work, so I can't really use my usb-harddrive. Since FreeBSD doesn't automagically make attached devices available for the users, so you'll have to dig into config-files and there I have no less than 3 different to fiddle around with (usbd.conf, devfs.conf, devd.conf). In usbd.conf it would look something like this.
Problem here is if I attach my mp3-player AFTER I've attached eg. my camera,/dev/mp3player would be linked to my camera instead. I've haven't been able to figure out a smart way to attach my usb-devices yet and the documentation is lacking. So right know I can only attach one device at a time.
I think must linux-distro handles usb-devices better.
If you're willing part with your money for an expensive Mac why not pay someone to fix those "unsexy" bugs instead? I'm sure some cash would make some bugs sound really sexy if there was some bounty attached to it. The AROS-community does this with success and would gladly donate money to the KDE/FBSD-community to fix/implement bugs/features that would make my life easier.
The question is, what do you expect from at system made by mostly volunteers who is fumbling in the dark because HW-makers aren't willing to tell the FOSS-community how their HW works? Don't expect FOSS to work on the latest and greatest HW.
One of my friend does some genealogy research. He decided to put all his data online. Even before all the files were uploaded his site took a massive load. He thought his site was really popular, but after looking at his logs I could tell him that most of the trafic was done by searchengine robots and his ISP might not be so happy for this massive trafic.
Denmark is way ahead of the rest of the EU and is implementing a legislation that affect not just ISP... it affect anyone who provide some sort of "tele services"...
So if you run a block, you need to track, register and store everyone who makes a comment on you page.
If you run a BulletinBoard... same applies.
Run a chat or mailinglist? Ditto for you.
Do you run *any* kind of server (apache, irc, cvs, ftp, mailinglist etc.). You're not excused.
In short: every citizen is obliged to keep records of friends, family etc. whereabouts.
It's a battle between Hollywood and the tech-industry... who is missing from this picture? The consumers... the people... It isn't untill the end of the article consumersgroups are mentioned... and rightly so... they hardly play a role...
Isn't it scary to live in a nation, where the voice of the voting people are ignored?
Just one week of people refusing to play the radio, buy product, or support our industry in any way, would flex muscles they have no idea are out there.
So when do start implementing an annual and global "Boycot the entertainment industry"-week?
In fact, it was only recently, with AGP systems, that modern PCs could even match the first Amiga (the A1000) in terms of graphics sync/performance.
Recently? Already at the time Commodore went belly up Amiga was starting to show its age. Doom was the game to show that Amigas "superior" chipsets wasn't so superior.
Just when PCs and Macs are starting to catch up with the original Amiga, the new Amiga is getting ready to be unleashed.
Christ, I dumped Amiga 4 years ago and since then I've been catching up to the rest of the world. The PC's and certainly Mac's surparsed Amiga years ago.
Very timely, actually. Things could get interesting in the next few years.
How so? There is absolutely nothing interesting about the new Amiga. The most advanced feature of the new OS is... *gasp*.... some sort of memory protection. How do you create a modern OS in less than a year? You don't, OS4 will mostly be a PPC-port of OS3.1 (H sits on 3.5/3.9).
And what about software? There have hardly been released anything for the Amiga the last 8-10 years. And even less for all those PPC-addons.
And then there is the HW... It'l be closed and crippled and "donglelised" as always (just as a Mac)... I'm sure the slashdot-crowd will be more interested in bplan's more open PPC-board.
No, there is absolutely nothing interesting about the new Amiga.
With all these examples of how the DMCA have been used to stiffle competition, kill free speech, hinder research and bury fair use I'm wondering if the DMCA ever have been used in legitimate cases; ie. cases that actually involved piracy/copyrightinfringement?
Why doesn't Hollywood just add a serialnumber (in the shape of watermarkings(*)) into every content they wish to "protect"?
Find a protected content floating freely around the net? Get the serialnumber and find out who's the owner of the debited creditcard. Go after the violater, not Joe User.
The upside, the users gets to keep their fair use rights *and* wont be "forced" into the underground networks to find a playable copy of the unplayable medium he have bought. And Hollywood would loose less virtual money to "casual piracy", because, do *you* trust your friends enough not to share your copy with all his friends and in the end letting Hollywood get a copy and sue ass to hell?
The downside, Hollywood don't get to control the users life.
(*) Yeah, I know, watermarkings can be removed. And DRM's can be circumvented. And those who'll engage in either are likely to be the same people, so it's just status quo.
What incentive does the musicindustry have to make massive investmen in chaging habits and modernise their business when politicians are so much cheaper?
2 words for you: zico-specs inclued x86 AND at AmiWest where Bill announced Amithlon to the masses and as an official Amiga product and a future path. Ben Hermanns went balistick and killed off Amithlon as an official Amiga product.
Can you please tell me what the hell AmigaXL/Amithlon have to do with AmigaOS 4.0?
Thanks to the Jobs-wannabee, Ben Hermanns of Hyperion and his irrational x86-angst, OS4 will never be ported to x86 and Amithlon will never run OS... unless someone does a PPC-emulator for Amithlon.
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Ok, I'm curious. What news-sites are you and all those massively disappointed users of KDE 4.0 reading?
I'm no die-hard techie, so I just read slashdot (obvious), KDE Dot News and OS News. Ie. just some general tech/software news.
But I *KNEW* that KDE 4.0 wasn't meant for the general population, but a "stable" release geared toward those developers who wants to program and port to the 4.x-series and geeks who wants to help make the 4.x-series as great as the 3.5-series.
Hey, even Kontact and other core KDE apps wasn't even ready/released.
If I knew all this without being supscribed to some "secret" core KDE-list, how come so many technical skilled people didn't?
Plants are better at transforming light into energy than current solarcells. Plants are easy to store and transport. But sure, it may sound like an inefficient way of producing energy.
But you'd have to make a massive investment in infrastructure to put all those unused farmlands into solar-farms and highly educated employies to run them.
Farming is easier.
Actually alternative energy technologies combined with energy saving technologies would be enough. You really don't have to create the same amount of energy; just use it more efficiently.
And if we wanted to, we could remove trade restriction on 3rd world contries (ie. remove our own agricultural subsidizing) we could create an economi around bio-diesel or other biological fuels. There is plenty of unused/inficiently used farmland around the globe.
BSD do have /proc, I just don't know how i works or whether it can be utilized.
Thanks, but the the link doesn't help my problem.
/dev/da0 /dev/da1 etc. assigned to them according to the order they are being attached.
/dev/da0 explicitly. So if the device gets assigned to /dev/da1 because another device is attached, I'm out of luck.
The problem is that the various usb-devices will have
If I want to give non-root users rw-permission to the device, I'll have to run chmod on the device, and in usbd.conf I have (to my knowledge) no other option than to name eg.
Could someone point me to (or post) a lowdown on the potential benefits of BSD has over linux (or vice versa) that doesn't include wild speculation and unfounded cynicism?
/dev/mp3player; /bin/chmod a+rw /dev/da0; ln -s /d /dev/mp3player" /dev/mp3player"
/dev/mp3player would be linked to my camera instead. I've haven't been able to figure out a smart way to attach my usb-devices yet and the documentation is lacking. So right know I can only attach one device at a time.
I've been using FreeBSD exclusively on my Desktop for years. And I like it over any Linux-distro I've come across. Why?
* The FreeBSD Handbook. Most (common) issues you'll ever encounter are addressed here.
* Ports. It just works.
* Stable. Haven't had a crash in ages that wasn't caused by overheated HW.
* Logic. If something doesn't work out of the box and you need to go under the hood, I find FreeBSD much nicer to work with than any linux-distro I've come across.
Now, FreeBSD isn't perfect and it's certainly not point'n'click friendly. You'll have to edit tons of config-files. And then there are some small issues that are having me looking at linux again.
I'm "old" and tired, got a slow PC and don't really find it all that fashinating anymore to be building my own packages. It is possible to do binary upgrades on FreeBSD, but I'm always running into issues with updated ports and available binary packages are out of sync. Alas I've got to build those darn ports myself anyway. In this regard apt-get is so much better.
Attaching mp3-player, cameras, usb-sticks, usb-harddrive have become a nightmare. For starters I can't get usb2 to work, so I can't really use my usb-harddrive. Since FreeBSD doesn't automagically make attached devices available for the users, so you'll have to dig into config-files and there I have no less than 3 different to fiddle around with (usbd.conf, devfs.conf, devd.conf). In usbd.conf it would look something like this.
#MP3 Player
device "MP3 Player"
devname "umass[0-9]+"
product 0x0301
attach "/bin/sleep 5; rm -f
ev/da0
detach "rm -f
Problem here is if I attach my mp3-player AFTER I've attached eg. my camera,
I think must linux-distro handles usb-devices better.
If you're willing part with your money for an expensive Mac why not pay someone to fix those "unsexy" bugs instead? I'm sure some cash would make some bugs sound really sexy if there was some bounty attached to it. The AROS-community does this with success and would gladly donate money to the KDE/FBSD-community to fix/implement bugs/features that would make my life easier.
The question is, what do you expect from at system made by mostly volunteers who is fumbling in the dark because HW-makers aren't willing to tell the FOSS-community how their HW works? Don't expect FOSS to work on the latest and greatest HW.
Simple, to save bandwith.
One of my friend does some genealogy research. He decided to put all his data online. Even before all the files were uploaded his site took a massive load. He thought his site was really popular, but after looking at his logs I could tell him that most of the trafic was done by searchengine robots and his ISP might not be so happy for this massive trafic.
gnarg... blog not block..
Denmark is way ahead of the rest of the EU and is implementing a legislation that affect not just ISP... it affect anyone who provide some sort of "tele services"...
So if you run a block, you need to track, register and store everyone who makes a comment on you page.
If you run a BulletinBoard... same applies.
Run a chat or mailinglist? Ditto for you.
Do you run *any* kind of server (apache, irc, cvs, ftp, mailinglist etc.). You're not excused.
In short: every citizen is obliged to keep records of friends, family etc. whereabouts.
Welcome to Stasi-land!
... and the funny part is that RMS et al get's pissed when Linux isn't refered to as GNU/Linux.
;)
RMS wants credit, but damn the XFree86 team for wanting the same!
Hmm... let's see if I got this right.
RMS is mad at the XFree86-people because they want some credits?
But's it's ok for RMS to force everyone and their mother to call linux for GNU/linux?
Tell me how to print from StarOffice using CUPS and I'll have another go...
*What* loyal customers would be rewarded with this? If they're loyal, they already bought the game!
Bingo!
Like the UN?
It's a battle between Hollywood and the tech-industry... who is missing from this picture? The consumers... the people... It isn't untill the end of the article consumersgroups are mentioned... and rightly so... they hardly play a role...
Isn't it scary to live in a nation, where the voice of the voting people are ignored?
When did democracy die?
Just one week of people refusing to play the radio, buy product, or support our industry in any way, would flex muscles they have no idea are out there.
So when do start implementing an annual and global "Boycot the entertainment industry"-week?
Oh Pleeease. Wake up from your dreamworld.
.... some sort of memory protection. How do you create a modern OS in less than a year? You don't, OS4 will mostly be a PPC-port of OS3.1 (H sits on 3.5/3.9).
In fact, it was only recently, with AGP systems, that modern PCs could even match the first Amiga (the A1000) in terms of graphics sync/performance.
Recently? Already at the time Commodore went belly up Amiga was starting to show its age. Doom was the game to show that Amigas "superior" chipsets wasn't so superior.
Just when PCs and Macs are starting to catch up with the original Amiga, the new Amiga is getting ready to be unleashed.
Christ, I dumped Amiga 4 years ago and since then I've been catching up to the rest of the world. The PC's and certainly Mac's surparsed Amiga years ago.
Very timely, actually. Things could get interesting in the next few years.
How so? There is absolutely nothing interesting about the new Amiga. The most advanced feature of the new OS is... *gasp*
And what about software? There have hardly been released anything for the Amiga the last 8-10 years. And even less for all those PPC-addons.
And then there is the HW... It'l be closed and crippled and "donglelised" as always (just as a Mac)... I'm sure the slashdot-crowd will be more interested in bplan's more open PPC-board.
No, there is absolutely nothing interesting about the new Amiga.
With all these examples of how the DMCA have been used to stiffle competition, kill free speech, hinder research and bury fair use I'm wondering if the DMCA ever have been used in legitimate cases; ie. cases that actually involved piracy/copyrightinfringement?
Why doesn't Hollywood just add a serialnumber (in the shape of watermarkings(*)) into every content they wish to "protect"?
Find a protected content floating freely around the net? Get the serialnumber and find out who's the owner of the debited creditcard. Go after the violater, not Joe User.
The upside, the users gets to keep their fair use rights *and* wont be "forced" into the underground networks to find a playable copy of the unplayable medium he have bought. And Hollywood would loose less virtual money to "casual piracy", because, do *you* trust your friends enough not to share your copy with all his friends and in the end letting Hollywood get a copy and sue ass to hell?
The downside, Hollywood don't get to control the users life.
(*) Yeah, I know, watermarkings can be removed. And DRM's can be circumvented. And those who'll engage in either are likely to be the same people, so it's just status quo.
What incentive does the musicindustry have to make massive investmen in chaging habits and modernise their business when politicians are so much cheaper?
But you get to keep your wife and family.
What is more important to you, your family or your rights?
2 words for you: zico-specs inclued x86 AND at AmiWest where Bill announced Amithlon to the masses and as an official Amiga product and a future path. Ben Hermanns went balistick and killed off Amithlon as an official Amiga product.
Can you please tell me what the hell AmigaXL/Amithlon have to do with AmigaOS 4.0?
Thanks to the Jobs-wannabee, Ben Hermanns of Hyperion and his irrational x86-angst, OS4 will never be ported to x86 and Amithlon will never run OS... unless someone does a PPC-emulator for Amithlon.