bottom of the article says they donated all the patents to an NPO for relicensing. that's.. unusually cool of them.
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you'll also have a gimpy, crapped-up config file that other admins have to wade through after you get fired.
the best thing about the pre-built apache config files is the degree to which they are self-documenting. you can learn everything you need to know about apache just by reading through the comments. the second-best thing about them is that they're the same on all of your servers. the third best thing about them is that you don't have to read through a bunch of documentation to find out-of-date and non-working examples of config stanzas, because they're already there, commented out and waiting for some s/ action.
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Freescale's ColdFire line comprises 8-, 16-, and 32-bit processors. Significantly, the MCF547x and MCF548x ColdFire chips announced today are the first in the ColdFire architecture to be based on Freescale's new V4e core, which includes an on-chip MMU. The new ColdFire processors are capable of delivering up to 410 MIPS (million instructions per second) at 266 MHz, according to Freescale.
Look at how much of our senses we're wasting when using a standard computer.
ok, explain to me exactly what it is that we're supposed to be doing with these extra senses that we're missing while we're using a computer.
i'm not taking the luddite stance of 'there's no reason to advance this technology,' but i do take offense at the.. eagerness so many people seem for 'advancing' computing into the '3d' realm. first, it isn't 3d at all. second, it doesn't actually add any sensual input. third, it doesn't actually make anything you do on a computer easier, better, or more relevant. it's a fucking TOY, people.
in exactly the same way that making games appear three dimensional did not add any real value to game play (ie, there are porportionately as many good games now as there were before Wolfenstein), adding the appearance of a third dimension to everyday computing applications will not add actual value to those applications.
immersion, while a neat idea perhaps some useful applications in modelling, exporation, and even into the psychological realms, doesn't actually make it any easier for me to manage a web server, for someone to write a story, or for a secretary to find someone's phone number.
actually, as someone who has used it since the first day it was downloadable, lemme say this: it IS riddled with bugs.
on the other hand, it's.0 release just like every.0 release from rh. it's really not a big deal. if the feature set outweighs the bug count, then it's for you, _just like any other piece of software_.
Adding more memory does not necessarily increase performance. This is only the case if the tasks are memory bound and are using swap heavily.
In case anyone out there read this and nodded and thought, "yup, ok, that sounds good," allow me to point out that this is 100% bullshit.
RAM is also used for buffers and cache, and both of those will make a large difference in performance. Almost all applications are memory-bound, and any application that is swapping heavily is on an overloaded machine and has nothing to do with real-world web service anyway.
In every case where you are actually using a server in a production system with more than a negligible load, adding RAM will increase performace - up to the point where your entire site is cached and all non-logging disk i/o stops.
You will see, obviously, a much greater increase in performance by adding RAM to a machine that is swapping.
Obtopic: No one can answer your question without knowing what kind of machine it is and what kind of data you're serving. At best, we can speculate.
this is also pretty much a point-by-point rip off of what the Lotus Domino webserver does.
in fact, their web site even looks as though it's running a stock domino install. it aint, though, they're one of the seven people in the world who paid $800 for o'reilly's websitepro! web server.
its not tied to any one OS, and that is ( i think) what the.NET platform is all about, no need in creating software for the users OS, just create it to run on your setup, give them an interface to use ( which is why its a service, and not a product to own ) and viola, no more dependancies on OS
Don't Believe The Hype.
All of the M$.net servers so far run on exactly one platform. Wanna guess which? The CLIENT applications might very well work within an OS-independant framework, but if you think M$ is about to give up the server OS fight, you're duuuuuuuumb.
check their website for more info: www.microsoft.net
sure, but a more interesting proof will be that, even given a public list of fuck-ups, the c-ware companies will _never_ be able to perfect their software.
and if they do, then, great.
i'll leave my money squarely on 'they can't,' however.
before we all waste a lot of time, why not make a site that has a list of 'checkoff' sites that are commonly blocked by censoreware?
that would serve two purposes:
1) allow us to script censorware tests
2) allow the manufacturors of censorware some insight into what things the 'community' feels are improper to censor.
email me if you're interested. i think we can have it up and running by the weekend.:)
none of it matters. even if M$ completely wins the antitrust case on appeal, it doesn't matter. they can be beaten in the marketplace, monopoly or no. that is what's important, and that is what we should be concentrating on.
reporting every little slight against them just smacks of desperation, and it's a false desperation at that - we have nothing to fear.
not that i like CDE or whatever - in fact, I hate it - but Xi makes decent software, and they're a good bunch of people. sure, whatever, the marketing blurb is fulla shit, but so is the article:
CDE's consignment to the dustbin of UNIX history, though, didn't stop Xi Graphics from making a game effort to remarket it to a new generation of Linux users as "the" industry standard, and their arguments for why we should adopt it (noted above) play to the fears of some that Linux is headed for the sort of disastrous fragmentation that allowed Microsoft to walk over the back of UNIX in the 90s.
CDE _IS_ the desktop upon which all of the major unix vendors standardized in the mid-90's. Sure, it's been superceded, at least on paper, by GNOME by Sun, but for right now, it is still the Common Desktop Environment.
The article's not all wrong, it just seems a little harsh. So they're selling CDE. Who gives a flying poop?
1 - as my post said, the gimp reads photoshop plugins.
2 - ever see the linux penguin? created in the gimp with a drawing tablet.
3 - no fair using ones i've already used.
4, 5, 7 - you've never actually used the gimp, have you? those have all been available for years.
6 - i don't know what LAB is.
The type stuff is all feature creep, as far as I'm concerned - the gimp does read postscript, and pdf is pretty simple. I'm sure if anyone wanted it, a plugin would be written. But, come on, kerning controls/a font editor, in a gfx program? Now, if you had said there's no linux equivalent to pagemaker, you'd have been righ the first time..
Anyways, why not try using the gimp, and a modern version at that, before lambasting it so roundly? The fact that you don't even know it does layers is pretty friggin sad.
There is a reason why photoshop is #1 in it's area, because it is the best.
No, it's #1 in its area because it has support for proprietary pre-press color matching, which costs a ton of money. Not that photoshop is not a kick-ass application, but, all else equal, that is the reason it is the leading commercial pre-press application.
Photoshop was a true innovator amongst windows apps. Remember how freaked out you were by modeless windows? Many apps now follow that model, but, back in the day, it was freakish.
The gimp is not a perfect application - I use it every day, and I have some issues with its interface. At the lower levels, though, it does its job very, very well. The API is very accessable, and for batch image processing, it is unparralelled.
But then, you've probably never used the gimp, have you?
This is actually quite funny...windows is around for a long time because it does the desktop well enough for 90% of the users out there.
You're an idiot. Windows does well because M$ did a very good job of controlling the market for consumer operating systems while the other players made serious mistakes.
The rest of your post has nothing at all to do with mine, so I'll leave your rhetorical questions to the realm of rhetoric.
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does it run linux?
noobs.
bottom of the article says they donated all the patents to an NPO for relicensing. that's.. unusually cool of them.
you'll also have a gimpy, crapped-up config file that other admins have to wade through after you get fired.
the best thing about the pre-built apache config files is the degree to which they are self-documenting. you can learn everything you need to know about apache just by reading through the comments. the second-best thing about them is that they're the same on all of your servers. the third best thing about them is that you don't have to read through a bunch of documentation to find out-of-date and non-working examples of config stanzas, because they're already there, commented out and waiting for some s/ action.
apache drops root privs on startup.
Freescale's ColdFire line comprises 8-, 16-, and 32-bit processors. Significantly, the MCF547x and MCF548x ColdFire chips announced today are the first in the ColdFire architecture to be based on Freescale's new V4e core, which includes an on-chip MMU. The new ColdFire processors are capable of delivering up to 410 MIPS (million instructions per second) at 266 MHz, according to Freescale.
haha. yes, please DO run your amigaOS @ 410MIPS.
which are artificially inflated in price
What? Niche products costing more? Yeah, that sounds pretty artificial.
Look at how much of our senses we're wasting when using a standard computer.
.. eagerness so many people seem for 'advancing' computing into the '3d' realm. first, it isn't 3d at all. second, it doesn't actually add any sensual input. third, it doesn't actually make anything you do on a computer easier, better, or more relevant. it's a fucking TOY, people.
ok, explain to me exactly what it is that we're supposed to be doing with these extra senses that we're missing while we're using a computer.
i'm not taking the luddite stance of 'there's no reason to advance this technology,' but i do take offense at the
in exactly the same way that making games appear three dimensional did not add any real value to game play (ie, there are porportionately as many good games now as there were before Wolfenstein), adding the appearance of a third dimension to everyday computing applications will not add actual value to those applications.
immersion, while a neat idea perhaps some useful applications in modelling, exporation, and even into the psychological realms, doesn't actually make it any easier for me to manage a web server, for someone to write a story, or for a secretary to find someone's phone number.
on ABC about scare tactics being used on voters:
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Ot's over 10x faster than a Linux based caching proxy. In some cases its almost 100x faster. So I
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don't think Novell is out of the picture yet.
Bullshit.
http://polygraph.ircache. net
Squid beat out the Novell box (the Dell)in most tests.
NAT was originally coded by Allen Thompson, for Linux.
Hardly. It was written as RFC 1631 in 1994 by some wackos from Cray.
The goatsex technical archive has more information.
they said that one fitlering company releases its filter list.. does anyone know which one?
actually, as someone who has used it since the first day it was downloadable, lemme say this: it IS riddled with bugs.
.0 release just like every .0 release from rh. it's really not a big deal. if the feature set outweighs the bug count, then it's for you, _just like any other piece of software_.
on the other hand, it's
see ya,
Adding more memory does not necessarily increase performance. This is only the case if the tasks are memory bound and are using swap heavily.
In case anyone out there read this and nodded and thought, "yup, ok, that sounds good," allow me to point out that this is 100% bullshit.
RAM is also used for buffers and cache, and both of those will make a large difference in performance. Almost all applications are memory-bound, and any application that is swapping heavily is on an overloaded machine and has nothing to do with real-world web service anyway.
In every case where you are actually using a server in a production system with more than a negligible load, adding RAM will increase performace - up to the point where your entire site is cached and all non-logging disk i/o stops.
You will see, obviously, a much greater increase in performance by adding RAM to a machine that is swapping.
Obtopic: No one can answer your question without knowing what kind of machine it is and what kind of data you're serving. At best, we can speculate.
See ya!
Blue
this is also pretty much a point-by-point rip off of what the Lotus Domino webserver does.
in fact, their web site even looks as though it's running a stock domino install. it aint, though, they're one of the seven people in the world who paid $800 for o'reilly's websitepro! web server.
idiots.
its not tied to any one OS, and that is ( i think) what the .NET platform is all about, no need in creating software for the users OS, just create it to run on your setup, give them an interface to use ( which is why its a service, and not a product to own ) and viola, no more dependancies on OS
.net servers so far run on exactly one platform. Wanna guess which? The CLIENT applications might very well work within an OS-independant framework, but if you think M$ is about to give up the server OS fight, you're duuuuuuuumb.
Don't Believe The Hype.
All of the M$
check their website for more info: www.microsoft.net
sure, but a more interesting proof will be that, even given a public list of fuck-ups, the c-ware companies will _never_ be able to perfect their software.
and if they do, then, great.
i'll leave my money squarely on 'they can't,' however.
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before we all waste a lot of time, why not make a site that has a list of 'checkoff' sites that are commonly blocked by censoreware?
:)
that would serve two purposes:
1) allow us to script censorware tests
2) allow the manufacturors of censorware some insight into what things the 'community' feels are improper to censor.
email me if you're interested. i think we can have it up and running by the weekend.
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has anyone from the EFF come forward and offered to review carnivore? what about slashdot? anyone?
i'll review that mutha. actually, the people i would most like to see review it would be the openBSD team.
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http://cgi.eb ay.com/ aw-cgi/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=451336496
you can buy one of the first five of these machines, signed by "big daddy" scott m.
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none of it matters. even if M$ completely wins the antitrust case on appeal, it doesn't matter. they can be beaten in the marketplace, monopoly or no. that is what's important, and that is what we should be concentrating on.
reporting every little slight against them just smacks of desperation, and it's a false desperation at that - we have nothing to fear.
keep coding,
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not that i like CDE or whatever - in fact, I hate it - but Xi makes decent software, and they're a good bunch of people. sure, whatever, the marketing blurb is fulla shit, but so is the article:
CDE's consignment to the dustbin of UNIX history, though, didn't stop Xi Graphics from making a game effort to remarket it to a new generation of Linux users as "the" industry standard, and their arguments for why we should adopt it (noted above) play to the fears of some that Linux is headed for the sort of disastrous fragmentation that allowed Microsoft to walk over the back of UNIX in the 90s.
CDE _IS_ the desktop upon which all of the major unix vendors standardized in the mid-90's. Sure, it's been superceded, at least on paper, by GNOME by Sun, but for right now, it is still the Common Desktop Environment.
The article's not all wrong, it just seems a little harsh. So they're selling CDE. Who gives a flying poop?
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1 - as my post said, the gimp reads photoshop plugins.
2 - ever see the linux penguin? created in the gimp with a drawing tablet.
3 - no fair using ones i've already used.
4, 5, 7 - you've never actually used the gimp, have you? those have all been available for years.
6 - i don't know what LAB is.
The type stuff is all feature creep, as far as I'm concerned - the gimp does read postscript, and pdf is pretty simple. I'm sure if anyone wanted it, a plugin would be written. But, come on, kerning controls/a font editor, in a gfx program? Now, if you had said there's no linux equivalent to pagemaker, you'd have been righ the first time..
Anyways, why not try using the gimp, and a modern version at that, before lambasting it so roundly? The fact that you don't even know it does layers is pretty friggin sad.
Blue
pedantics and semantics. :P you're right, but people who NEED photoshop.. should use a mac :)
blue
There is a reason why photoshop is #1 in it's area, because it is the best.
No, it's #1 in its area because it has support for proprietary pre-press color matching, which costs a ton of money. Not that photoshop is not a kick-ass application, but, all else equal, that is the reason it is the leading commercial pre-press application.
Photoshop was a true innovator amongst windows apps. Remember how freaked out you were by modeless windows? Many apps now follow that model, but, back in the day, it was freakish.
The gimp is not a perfect application - I use it every day, and I have some issues with its interface. At the lower levels, though, it does its job very, very well. The API is very accessable, and for batch image processing, it is unparralelled.
But then, you've probably never used the gimp, have you?
This is actually quite funny...windows is around for a long time because it does the desktop well enough for 90% of the users out there.
You're an idiot. Windows does well because M$ did a very good job of controlling the market for consumer operating systems while the other players made serious mistakes.
The rest of your post has nothing at all to do with mine, so I'll leave your rhetorical questions to the realm of rhetoric.
See ya!
Blue