It looks like speed isn't the only improvement they've made with this library. From the notes:
" - - libpthread should now be much more resistant to linking problems: even if the application doesn't list libpthread as a direct dependency functions which are extended by libpthread should work correctly."
This ought to be a big help for those of us who write plug-in modules for servers like Apache 1.x and PHP. The existing thread library doesn't work properly unless the program executable explicitly links to it, which means that my shared libraries can't take advantage of standard thread management such as pthread_atfork().
That disc being sold on newdvd.cc looks an awful lot like a bootleg release. Wouldn't you rather buy an official US release, to encourage distributors to bring us more great stuff from overseas? As much as I hate Disney, I'm still planning to vote with my wallet.
I suppose that depends on who infringes. Some companies are willing to pay licensing fees for the use of a patented system. In that case, you might end up collecting some money instead of spending it.
Hmm... that leads me to another question:
Does anyone know if a patent has to be constantly defended in order to be considered enforceable at all? I've heard that copyrights work that way, in that you must go after everyone who infringes on your copyright, or you forfeit your right to go after anyone at all.
I forgot to mention one of my favorite features of everybuddy: When one of your contacts has accounts on several different IM services, you can combine them in your contact list. In other words, the program knows they're all different ways of reaching the same person. I wish trillian did that.
Running trillian on wine seems to me like an awful lot of overhead. I use everybuddy on my linux systems. It doesn't have a fancy skin-laden UI, but it does the job nicely. (I didn't like gaim because the interface annoyed me.)
"I see no evidence that AMD had definatly bought into it"
This document from AMD and Wave Systems is relevant. I suppose it doesn't prove they've definitely bought into it, but they're certainly letting the world think they have. Also try searching google for amd and palladium. You'll find a lot of articles talking about how both AMD and Intel are on board with Microsoft. I'd love to see either or both chip makers avoid Palladium support, but I imagine they're too worried about pissing off Microsoft.
"With this logic, PC's should be banned as they can copy music"
They're already trying to do something like that, but instead of banning PCs and services, they want to turn them into devices that they can control. For example, check out Palladium. Last time I checked, both AMD and Intel had bought in to this.
Peer to peer file sharing apps are still relatively immature, but they're getting better in a lot of ways, including bandwidth usage. In fact, all of the new p2p programs I've looked at have built-in bandwidth limiters, and they seem to be improving with each release. WinMX, Overnet, edonkey2000, and Shareaza (a gnutella app) are some of the best at achieving their goals, and they all include bandwidth limiting options.
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I'm looking forward to trying this out. If Red Hat has made both desktops look nearly the same, I should be able to more objectively compare their functionality. Imagine that... evaluating a desktop environment without prejudice based on the default appearance.
When I say it does 1600x1200 at 75Hz, I mean it. I'm using a Sony G500 monitor, and an nVidia GeForce DDR video card, and I'm picky about the sharpness of black text on a white background. (I have to look at my code all day long, after all.) This KVM produces surprisingly little video degradation, even at higher refresh rates.
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I have a Linksys KVM100SK 2 port KVM. It doesn't do USB, but it carries 1600x1200 video at 75Hz rather nicely. It's also cheap, comes with well shielded cables, supports my logitech wheel mouse in both Windows and Linux (using MS drivers on the OS), and doesn't require external power.
Although it looks like Theo could have simply told everyone to disable challenge/response authentication, I'll venture to guess that he had a reason for not doing so. Consider that his original announcement was deliberately obscure, in order to avoid advertising the vulnerability to crackers, while vendors scrambled to patch their systems. If Theo had originally said "turn off challenge/response", all the crackers would immediately know where to look for the vulnerability, and the vendors would no longer have the head start they needed.
Here it is a few days later, the vendors have been given time to implement fixes, and we have disclosure. What are you people complaining about? Apart from the lack of social grace that he's famous for, I'd say Theo handled this about as securely as he could. Moreover, he did so by folloing the procedure widely accepted in the security community. Am I missing something?
My paranoid side can't help wondering if these computers were deliberately built to be useless in linux, to "prove" that there's no market for OSless computers. If OEMs build these things, and they don't sell, might they believe that installing Microsoft operating systems is the only way to make money?
(This article is already two days old, so I don't imagine I'll get any responses, but just in case...)
What ever happened to Terrapin Transit BBS? It was located in Berkeley, California, and was just about the best Commodore-centric BBS in the world. It was also one of the first few local BBS systems to adopt usenet feeds. I think the sysop (Sam?) renamed it to Brokedown Palace shortly before it faded out.
Was anyone else out there using a terminal program called CCGMS?
I don't know about yours, but all my modems were full duplex. Of course, I never had an HST modem, because of my distaste for US Robotics' proprietary line protocols. (I guess I was a standards lover even when I was in junior high.:)
I don't remember what communication protocol I used to do it, but there was a time when I regularly uploaded and downloaded at the same time, over the same connection. This was very handy for systems that kept minimum upload/download ratios, because contributing to the file archives didn't take significantly more time than just downloading from them.
Games cost $30 to $60 when they're new, but become very cheap a few years after they are released. You can pick up titles that were once very popular for under $5 now, if you look around. This is due to the fact that the market determines the price of games.
Music CDs, on the other hand, remain about $15 forever. This is due to the fact that the music publishing and distributing industry artificially inflates CD prices, for their own profit.
Like I said before: "As this concept grows in the coming years, and data storage gets cheaper, it may become common to have shared data automatically replicate between nodes..."
In other words, I'm talking about a future system that will replicate all data without being told to do so by a user, thus avoiding a data popularity contest. Here are some relevant links:
One way to solve this problem is to archive all information in the data storage pool created by networked computers. With current peer-to-peer file sharing systems (e.g. freenet, gnutella) we have an ever growing pool of information, which is distributed and continually transferred to newer media (e.g. users upgrading their hard disks). As this concept grows in the coming years, and data storage gets cheaper, it may become common to have shared data automatically replicate between nodes in a peer-to-peer network. The result would be an information pool that never becomes obsolete, because the data exists on many nodes in the system, preserving it as each node is replaced with newer hardware and storage mechanisms.
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" - - libpthread should now be much more resistant to linking problems: even if the application doesn't list libpthread as a direct dependency functions which are extended by libpthread should work correctly."
This ought to be a big help for those of us who write plug-in modules for servers like Apache 1.x and PHP. The existing thread library doesn't work properly unless the program executable explicitly links to it, which means that my shared libraries can't take advantage of standard thread management such as pthread_atfork().That 8K row limit has been gone for months. It may even have been a year by now.
That disc being sold on newdvd.cc looks an awful lot like a bootleg release. Wouldn't you rather buy an official US release, to encourage distributors to bring us more great stuff from overseas? As much as I hate Disney, I'm still planning to vote with my wallet.
I suppose that depends on who infringes. Some companies are willing to pay licensing fees for the use of a patented system. In that case, you might end up collecting some money instead of spending it.
Hmm... that leads me to another question:
Does anyone know if a patent has to be constantly defended in order to be considered enforceable at all? I've heard that copyrights work that way, in that you must go after everyone who infringes on your copyright, or you forfeit your right to go after anyone at all.
I forgot to mention one of my favorite features of everybuddy: When one of your contacts has accounts on several different IM services, you can combine them in your contact list. In other words, the program knows they're all different ways of reaching the same person. I wish trillian did that.
Running trillian on wine seems to me like an awful lot of overhead. I use everybuddy on my linux systems. It doesn't have a fancy skin-laden UI, but it does the job nicely. (I didn't like gaim because the interface annoyed me.)
"I see no evidence that AMD had definatly bought into it"
This document from AMD and Wave Systems is relevant. I suppose it doesn't prove they've definitely bought into it, but they're certainly letting the world think they have. Also try searching google for amd and palladium. You'll find a lot of articles talking about how both AMD and Intel are on board with Microsoft. I'd love to see either or both chip makers avoid Palladium support, but I imagine they're too worried about pissing off Microsoft."With this logic, PC's should be banned as they can copy music"
They're already trying to do something like that, but instead of banning PCs and services, they want to turn them into devices that they can control. For example, check out Palladium. Last time I checked, both AMD and Intel had bought in to this.Peer to peer file sharing apps are still relatively immature, but they're getting better in a lot of ways, including bandwidth usage. In fact, all of the new p2p programs I've looked at have built-in bandwidth limiters, and they seem to be improving with each release. WinMX, Overnet, edonkey2000, and Shareaza (a gnutella app) are some of the best at achieving their goals, and they all include bandwidth limiting options.
I'm looking forward to trying this out. If Red Hat has made both desktops look nearly the same, I should be able to more objectively compare their functionality. Imagine that... evaluating a desktop environment without prejudice based on the default appearance.
Oh, I forgot to mention:
When I say it does 1600x1200 at 75Hz, I mean it. I'm using a Sony G500 monitor, and an nVidia GeForce DDR video card, and I'm picky about the sharpness of black text on a white background. (I have to look at my code all day long, after all.) This KVM produces surprisingly little video degradation, even at higher refresh rates.
I have a Linksys KVM100SK 2 port KVM. It doesn't do USB, but it carries 1600x1200 video at 75Hz rather nicely. It's also cheap, comes with well shielded cables, supports my logitech wheel mouse in both Windows and Linux (using MS drivers on the OS), and doesn't require external power.
Although it looks like Theo could have simply told everyone to disable challenge/response authentication, I'll venture to guess that he had a reason for not doing so. Consider that his original announcement was deliberately obscure, in order to avoid advertising the vulnerability to crackers, while vendors scrambled to patch their systems. If Theo had originally said "turn off challenge/response", all the crackers would immediately know where to look for the vulnerability, and the vendors would no longer have the head start they needed.
Here it is a few days later, the vendors have been given time to implement fixes, and we have disclosure. What are you people complaining about? Apart from the lack of social grace that he's famous for, I'd say Theo handled this about as securely as he could. Moreover, he did so by folloing the procedure widely accepted in the security community. Am I missing something?
My paranoid side can't help wondering if these computers were deliberately built to be useless in linux, to "prove" that there's no market for OSless computers. If OEMs build these things, and they don't sell, might they believe that installing Microsoft operating systems is the only way to make money?
(This article is already two days old, so I don't imagine I'll get any responses, but just in case...)
What ever happened to Terrapin Transit BBS? It was located in Berkeley, California, and was just about the best Commodore-centric BBS in the world. It was also one of the first few local BBS systems to adopt usenet feeds. I think the sysop (Sam?) renamed it to Brokedown Palace shortly before it faded out.
Was anyone else out there using a terminal program called CCGMS?
I don't know about yours, but all my modems were full duplex. Of course, I never had an HST modem, because of my distaste for US Robotics' proprietary line protocols. (I guess I was a standards lover even when I was in junior high. :)
I don't remember what communication protocol I used to do it, but there was a time when I regularly uploaded and downloaded at the same time, over the same connection. This was very handy for systems that kept minimum upload/download ratios, because contributing to the file archives didn't take significantly more time than just downloading from them.
Games cost $30 to $60 when they're new, but become very cheap a few years after they are released. You can pick up titles that were once very popular for under $5 now, if you look around. This is due to the fact that the market determines the price of games.
Music CDs, on the other hand, remain about $15 forever. This is due to the fact that the music publishing and distributing industry artificially inflates CD prices, for their own profit.
Yeah, I saw that too. :)
No, it's not.
Maybe tweakui will be updated to make this behavior optional.
(Here is another link, because the MS page is down right now.)
Yes, not to mention Intel.
I dont think I'd call it my favorite algorithm, but the Boyer-Moore string searching algorithm is pretty cool.
I didn't recognize the acronym, so here's a link for others who might not: HPNA
Like I said before: "As this concept grows in the coming years, and data storage gets cheaper, it may become common to have shared data automatically replicate between nodes..."
In other words, I'm talking about a future system that will replicate all data without being told to do so by a user, thus avoiding a data popularity contest. Here are some relevant links:
OceanStore
Mojo Nation
One way to solve this problem is to archive all information in the data storage pool created by networked computers. With current peer-to-peer file sharing systems (e.g. freenet, gnutella) we have an ever growing pool of information, which is distributed and continually transferred to newer media (e.g. users upgrading their hard disks). As this concept grows in the coming years, and data storage gets cheaper, it may become common to have shared data automatically replicate between nodes in a peer-to-peer network. The result would be an information pool that never becomes obsolete, because the data exists on many nodes in the system, preserving it as each node is replaced with newer hardware and storage mechanisms.