I agree that stability seemed to be quite a problem--they didn't mention any testing they did, it seems that they only ran it for bragging rights , even if the processor was probably really unstable. I read at JC that they were air-cooled.
What would these be useful for? I agree that their speed is pretty impressive since they are air cooled, but I can't seem to find a good reasons for buying one--for games, the video card is pretty much what keeps the framerate down, and most high-bandwith servers don't use x86.
Anyone have any idea what the price of one of these chips will be? Me, I expect that they will initially sell around $2500--but that's just my estimate. Anyone from *HINT* Intel *HINT* to give us more information on their availability/price?
This is one of the more dissapointing areas of the awards. I was sad to only see Enlightment/Enlightment Based themes. There are a lot of other great themes in other window managers. For example, Blackbox(the window manager I use) has a lot of great themes--my favorite, is the default Sleet. I think it looks great, but that's only my opinion.
One of the more surprising awards was the one awarded to Alan Cox, the unsung hero awarded. I was glad that he got it, but I didn't think he would--he is usually mentioned in many of Slashdot's stories. It's nice of him for donating the money, so it's probably a good thing that he got the award.
Today, February 4 will also be a day of action planned against motion picture association. Protests are scheduled for today at movie theaters around the world, in over 100 cities. You can find more information here.
Go and tell people the truth about DeCSS! You can find flyers in multiple languages here.
It would be interested to see if any commercial companies are going to donate any money to help support DeCSS. It would be pretty interesting if one of the larger companies OpenSource supporters are going to donate money for this cause(Maybe Redhat or Corel?).
Maybe if they'll also organize a competition--for example, the biggest donation gets a T-shirt with the DeCSS source code signed by its author, they'll get more funds.
Well, Mesa is not really 100% OpenGL 1.2 compliant. If you read the frequently asked questions you will notice that they are talking about the possibility of merging Mesa with their Sample Implementation. I think this would be a very good thing--It would make a fully compliant implementation, while maintaing the good parts from Mesa.
Actually, this OpenGL implementation is open-sourced, under a very liberal license. If you didn't read the frequently asked questions, it mentions that this implementation is going to be released under SGI's Free Software License B.
You can find more information about this here on SGI's OpenGL Sample Implementation. The frequently asked questions are available here.
The page mentions that this OpenGL implementation will be released under a very open license. They will be using the SGI Free Software License B. Another interesting thing mentioned is that in the long term, the sample implementation and Mesa might merge together. It will be very interesting to see how Mesa will continue to develop.
I'm glad to hear that SGI released this, because OpenGL was one of Linux's weaker points, since Mesa isn't fully OpenGL 1.2 compliant. Way to go SGI!
This is great, especially since this allows developers to contribute additions and other changes to the originial source code, thus improving its security. The article also mentions that this is the same security used by the current version of Netscape Communicator. Does anyone know if this will be 128-bit security?
For more information, you can find Mozilla's official press release here. Also, check out the Mozilla crypto FAQ. It talks about PSM and various crypto-related questions.
Actually, the Redhat CD contains commercial software and demos that are not GPL'ed. One example of this is WordPerfect--just because some part of the CD is GPL'ed doesn't mean the whole CD is.
And yes, this means that you cannot copy the CD and use it on more than one computer. It would be like saying that Win95 is free because the startup sounds are free.
Yes, but the reason that they made this deal with Redhat is for the much needed support schools needed. Redhat agreed to give discounts for technical support which is a big plus.
Well, as the article mentions the boxed version is easier to install witch is a big plus for schools. Another major reason they are making this deal with Redhat is because they want technical support, and they are hoping to get a discount from Redhat.
According to the article, the first school to use Redhat is Parrs Wood High School. Does anyone have a link to this high school's web page, or a link that mentions which schools are going to use Redhat?
There is another version which can be used on your computer, creating a high-resolution, virtual 30-inch image. It has VGA/SVGA input capability, but unfortuantely, this version costs $2599.00, which is a little bit expensive in my opinion.
If anyone can find more information on this product such as max. resolution, and number colors, please share it with us.
Well, the glasses can only be used for television, and not for your computer--unless you use a tv-out card, but then the resolution would be very low, and text would probably be unreadable.
I have also something similar, but they could be used with your computer too. You can find more information at TigerDirect's Homepage.
Also, does anyone know if these glasses are also available for PAL? The page says that it can be connected to any NTSC source but it does not mention anything about PAL.
Did anyone else notice the warning? "This product is not intended to be used by children age 15 or younger." Does anyone have information on this? Maybe it does more damage to the eye than a normal TV screen?
Well, the bad part is that the CSC project was also affected. As most people know, the CSC project was supposed to be a very short key cracking project. The RC5-64 project isn't affected as bad since it is a long-time project.
Does anyone know what specifically caused the problems in the key server?
Well, there already is some real competition for NS. For example Joker.com offers domain registration at a much lower price than NS. So does TotalNIC (they're the one I'm using, and they're about $30 for 2 years). The service is great, and I haven't had any problems.
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I agree that stability seemed to be quite a problem--they didn't mention any testing they did, it seems that they only ran it for bragging rights , even if the processor was probably really unstable. I read at JC that they were air-cooled.
What would these be useful for? I agree that their speed is pretty impressive since they are air cooled, but I can't seem to find a good reasons for buying one--for games, the video card is pretty much what keeps the framerate down, and most high-bandwith servers don't use x86.
Anyone have any idea what the price of one of these chips will be? Me, I expect that they will initially sell around $2500--but that's just my estimate. Anyone from *HINT* Intel *HINT* to give us more information on their availability/price?
AC as in Anonymous Coward ? :)
This is one of the more dissapointing areas of the awards. I was sad to only see Enlightment/Enlightment Based themes. There are a lot of other great themes in other window managers. For example, Blackbox(the window manager I use) has a lot of great themes--my favorite, is the default Sleet. I think it looks great, but that's only my opinion.
One of the more surprising awards was the one awarded to Alan Cox, the unsung hero awarded. I was glad that he got it, but I didn't think he would--he is usually mentioned in many of Slashdot's stories. It's nice of him for donating the money, so it's probably a good thing that he got the award.
Today, February 4 will also be a day of action planned against motion picture association. Protests are scheduled for today at movie theaters around the world, in over 100 cities. You can find more information here.
Go and tell people the truth about DeCSS! You can find flyers in multiple languages here.
It would be interested to see if any commercial companies are going to donate any money to help support DeCSS. It would be pretty interesting if one of the larger companies OpenSource supporters are going to donate money for this cause(Maybe Redhat or Corel?).
Maybe if they'll also organize a competition--for example, the biggest donation gets a T-shirt with the DeCSS source code signed by its author, they'll get more funds.
Well, Mesa is not really 100% OpenGL 1.2 compliant. If you read the frequently asked questions you will notice that they are talking about the possibility of merging Mesa with their Sample Implementation. I think this would be a very good thing--It would make a fully compliant implementation, while maintaing the good parts from Mesa.
Actually, this OpenGL implementation is open-sourced, under a very liberal license. If you didn't read the frequently asked questions, it mentions that this implementation is going to be released under SGI's Free Software License B.
You can find more information about this here on SGI's OpenGL Sample Implementation. The frequently asked questions are available here.
The page mentions that this OpenGL implementation will be released under a very open license. They will be using the SGI Free Software License B. Another interesting thing mentioned is that in the long term, the sample implementation and Mesa might merge together. It will be very interesting to see how Mesa will continue to develop.
I'm glad to hear that SGI released this, because OpenGL was one of Linux's weaker points, since Mesa isn't fully OpenGL 1.2 compliant. Way to go SGI!
This is great, especially since this allows developers to contribute additions and other changes to the originial source code, thus improving its security. The article also mentions that this is the same security used by the current version of Netscape Communicator. Does anyone know if this will be 128-bit security?
For more information, you can find Mozilla's official press release here. Also, check out the Mozilla crypto FAQ. It talks about PSM and various crypto-related questions.
Actually, the Redhat CD contains commercial software and demos that are not GPL'ed. One example of this is WordPerfect--just because some part of the CD is GPL'ed doesn't mean the whole CD is.
And yes, this means that you cannot copy the CD and use it on more than one computer. It would be like saying that Win95 is free because the startup sounds are free.
Well, it would be illegal to use the same Box-ed version on more than one computer.
Yes, but the reason that they made this deal with Redhat is for the much needed support schools needed. Redhat agreed to give discounts for technical support which is a big plus.
Well, as the article mentions the boxed version is easier to install witch is a big plus for schools. Another major reason they are making this deal with Redhat is because they want technical support, and they are hoping to get a discount from Redhat.
According to the article, the first school to use Redhat is Parrs Wood High School. Does anyone have a link to this high school's web page, or a link that mentions which schools are going to use Redhat?
Sorry, the right link is here.
There is another version which can be used on your computer, creating a high-resolution, virtual 30-inch image. It has VGA/SVGA input capability, but unfortuantely, this version costs $2599.00, which is a little bit expensive in my opinion.
If anyone can find more information on this product such as max. resolution, and number colors, please share it with us.
You can find this computer version here.
Well, the glasses can only be used for television, and not for your computer--unless you use a tv-out card, but then the resolution would be very low, and text would probably be unreadable.
I have also something similar, but they could be used with your computer too. You can find more information at TigerDirect's Homepage.
Also, does anyone know if these glasses are also available for PAL? The page says that it can be connected to any NTSC source but it does not mention anything about PAL.
Did anyone else notice the warning? "This product is not intended to be used by children age 15 or younger." Does anyone have information on this? Maybe it does more damage to the eye than a normal TV screen?
Well, the bad part is that the CSC project was also affected. As most people know, the CSC project was supposed to be a very short key cracking project. The RC5-64 project isn't affected as bad since it is a long-time project.
Does anyone know what specifically caused the problems in the key server?
So, when you find a bug in a client you upgrade all other clients and make it a standard?
No, it's so the the news are posted evenly, so you have a new post every hour, not all posts at the same time.
Well, there already is some real competition for NS. For example Joker.com offers domain registration at a much lower price than NS. So does TotalNIC (they're the one I'm using, and they're about $30 for 2 years). The service is great, and I haven't had any problems.
Well, the headphones would probably would be wireless. Having headphones attached to your wrist would kind of defy the purpose of watch-mp3player.
:)
Now, what would be cool is if it had a wireless net connection and download streaming mp3s
Anyone have any more information on this? Also, does anyone know if the winmodem driver will be opensource?
Electronic does not mean electric.
Is the hand dryer small? No. Mechanic? No. Electronic? No. Used as a novelty? I don't.