For something that works on Ubuntu and Apple TV, you might want to look at Boxee. It is not open source though. Invites from the main site take a while but you can get one faster from Fred Wilson's blog.
So why did the binary program also have the password for the gmail account? One would assume that the email address would have been enough. After all, sending someone email doesn't require their password.
Evidently, Xen, the open source Virtual Machine Monitor, has done it too. Look here for more details on Xen's trademark policy. Extremely close to what Firefox is doing now.
ISR has exactly these goals. It is essentially the concept of running a Virtual Machine that can migrate between different computers. Migration can happen via the network or via portable storage devices such as USB keychains. The ISR project was also covered in a previous Slashdot story here.
So, what exactly does this accomplish? When you use Bittorrent, the protocol both downloads and uploads data at the same time (look up the tit-for-tat policy followed by BT to ensure fairness). If you were in the US, all the RIAA needs to do to sue you is download a single chunk of data from you. They don't need to break your door down and cart the computer away. So, the encryption is moot anyway.
The Xen researchers are mostly conscientious, smart people who, fairly enough, would like to see their work have some commercial impact. I really wish they'd stop beating their chests over benchmarks that show them beating a three year old version of our desktop product, though.
All right... so while I accept most of what you have said earlier as quite informative, I do take strong objection to the above statement. You do realize that the research community is forced to benchmark against Workstation 3.x because your EULA in later versions prevent any of us from publishing benchmarking numbers (Look at the Restrictions section in the EULA for Workstation 4.x).
While I understand that there might be commercial reasons behind it, it seems that VMware wants to play in the research field (publish papers at all the top systems conferences) but not allow anyone to try and reproduce what their research claims.
Disclaimer: I have worked on virtualization projects including Xen.
All right. So I am probably going to get modded down for this, but, thre are always better gifts than Linux CDs.
However, if you really want something computer oriented, send out copies of Firefox.
Honestly. $1000 is chicken feed for any large (or even not-so-large) software firm. While its not something I would pay to play with something, even most individual developers will fork the cash out if they are doing serious work.
For all those of us who don't have access to the DARPA channel, we can stream the telecast live from here.
These are the same people who appeared in this slashdot story and seems to be different from the "live webcast" mentioned in the story which only appears to have a tracking feature.
Go ahead and do it!! Instead of doing something like certification courses (CCNA, MSCE, etc.) that might or might not be accepted, try and get into a MS degree program somewhere. And to do something like this is definitely possible... from where I worked at a couple of years ago, I had one person in my group who went from being a heart surgeon to a software engineer and someone else who went from a city cop to a chip designer. Sure, its not easy but at the end of the day, you will have what counts.
One of the most useful resources I have found is the Anti-Telemarketing Script from Junkbusters.com. Apart from this, they also have tons of information on how to stop snail-mail junk, etc. Check them out.
And if you read that statement, it does not mention the front-end. Generation and processing all takes place offline as most of the query results are only updated once a month (the Google-dance). And this question was asked of Howard Gobioff (one of the co-authors) at a presentation on the Google File System (GFS) at Carnegie Mellon.
Okay, so I read this paper as a part of the SOSP reading group here at school. Just want to make it clear that this is not the file system used by the front end that we all see. It is used by internal dev groups as well as the web spiders that they employ. Their unique usage has definitely led to a number of interesting choices (such as the atomic appends) for the file system design. Read the paper for more details:-)
Why do people feel that Slashdot is an appropriate forum to ask legal questions? Half the posts on this thread are going to berate the poster and ask him to go hire a lawyer. The other half will give their two cents but claim "IANAL".
And, of course, to fall in both categories, I have to say IANAL:)
Never forget the power of dual-licensing. If the body of developers is small and you can get everyone to agree, you can always have the same code licensed under two difference licenses (similar to what the Qt people at TrollTech do).
However, if you ever accept patches from the general body of developers, you will have to make sure that author of the patch agrees to both licenses or redo the patch yourself.
The common rule of thumb is that storage capacity (density) increases at approximately 60% a year. There was an exeception around a few years ago when it was increasing by around 100% a year but experts feel that we are settling back at 60% again.
Not sure exactly what they use but it was fun to see how this new engine Vivisimo grouped both very broad topics and specific ones. Put your name in and see what it brings up and how it classifies it. Might be interesting.
All said and done, I think the developers of BeOS did a really great job. I recent got the chance to go over the Be File System (BeFS) for class and was amazed by what they did in a short amount of time (less than a year). If you want to look at a short presentation on the file system, you can grab it (in ppt) from here.
On that note, Project Athena, the umbrella project for zephyr, was kicked off in 1983. I have actually read some of the zephyr code (oh yes, GAIM also supports zephyr) and my guess is that the project was definitely started way before 1988. There is a very reasonable chance that if someone went through the code in detail, there would be information dating it prior to AOL being founded.
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Microsoft is doing something similar and is, in fact, presenting a talk today on leveraging legacy code to deploy desktop applications on the web.
You can find more details here.
For something that works on Ubuntu and Apple TV, you might want to look at Boxee. It is not open source though. Invites from the main site take a while but you can get one faster from Fred Wilson's blog .
So why did the binary program also have the password for the gmail account? One would assume that the email address would have been enough. After all, sending someone email doesn't require their password.
Evidently, Xen, the open source Virtual Machine Monitor, has done it too. Look here for more details on Xen's trademark policy. Extremely close to what Firefox is doing now.
ISR has exactly these goals. It is essentially the concept of running a Virtual Machine that can migrate between different computers. Migration can happen via the network or via portable storage devices such as USB keychains. The ISR project was also covered in a previous Slashdot story here.
So, what exactly does this accomplish? When you use Bittorrent, the protocol both downloads and uploads data at the same time (look up the tit-for-tat policy followed by BT to ensure fairness). If you were in the US, all the RIAA needs to do to sue you is download a single chunk of data from you. They don't need to break your door down and cart the computer away. So, the encryption is moot anyway.
The Xen researchers are mostly conscientious, smart people who, fairly enough, would like to see their work have some commercial impact. I really wish they'd stop beating their chests over benchmarks that show them beating a three year old version of our desktop product, though.
All right... so while I accept most of what you have said earlier as quite informative, I do take strong objection to the above statement. You do realize that the research community is forced to benchmark against Workstation 3.x because your EULA in later versions prevent any of us from publishing benchmarking numbers (Look at the Restrictions section in the EULA for Workstation 4.x).
While I understand that there might be commercial reasons behind it, it seems that VMware wants to play in the research field (publish papers at all the top systems conferences) but not allow anyone to try and reproduce what their research claims.
Disclaimer: I have worked on virtualization projects including Xen.
All right. So I am probably going to get modded down for this, but, thre are always better gifts than Linux CDs. However, if you really want something computer oriented, send out copies of Firefox.
You used fibre and NAS right next to each other. :) Are you talking about a fibre SAN or a NAS that uses FC/?
So you might not see it soon, but there are already research projects out there that are looking at exactly what you mention.
For example, look at Intel's Diamond project. I am sure others will point you to more related work.
Honestly. $1000 is chicken feed for any large (or even not-so-large) software firm. While its not something I would pay to play with something, even most individual developers will fork the cash out if they are doing serious work.
For all those of us who don't have access to the DARPA channel, we can stream the telecast live from here.
These are the same people who appeared in this slashdot story and seems to be different from the "live webcast" mentioned in the story which only appears to have a tracking feature.
The only difference is that all the people I talked about changing careers are American :)
Go ahead and do it!! Instead of doing something like certification courses (CCNA, MSCE, etc.) that might or might not be accepted, try and get into a MS degree program somewhere. And to do something like this is definitely possible... from where I worked at a couple of years ago, I had one person in my group who went from being a heart surgeon to a software engineer and someone else who went from a city cop to a chip designer. Sure, its not easy but at the end of the day, you will have what counts.
One of the most useful resources I have found is the Anti-Telemarketing Script from Junkbusters.com. Apart from this, they also have tons of information on how to stop snail-mail junk, etc. Check them out.
And if you read that statement, it does not mention the front-end. Generation and processing all takes place offline as most of the query results are only updated once a month (the Google-dance). And this question was asked of Howard Gobioff (one of the co-authors) at a presentation on the Google File System (GFS) at Carnegie Mellon.
Okay, so I read this paper as a part of the SOSP reading group here at school. Just want to make it clear that this is not the file system used by the front end that we all see. It is used by internal dev groups as well as the web spiders that they employ. Their unique usage has definitely led to a number of interesting choices (such as the atomic appends) for the file system design. Read the paper for more details
... can be found here http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/fulldisclo
Why do people feel that Slashdot is an appropriate forum to ask legal questions? Half the posts on this thread are going to berate the poster and ask him to go hire a lawyer. The other half will give their two cents but claim "IANAL".
And, of course, to fall in both categories, I have to say IANAL
Never forget the power of dual-licensing. If the body of developers is small and you can get everyone to agree, you can always have the same code licensed under two difference licenses (similar to what the Qt people at TrollTech do).
However, if you ever accept patches from the general body of developers, you will have to make sure that author of the patch agrees to both licenses or redo the patch yourself.
The common rule of thumb is that storage capacity (density) increases at approximately 60% a year. There was an exeception around a few years ago when it was increasing by around 100% a year but experts feel that we are settling back at 60% again.
Another interview of Roy Want about the personal server can be found on Intel's website here
Not sure exactly what they use but it was fun to see how this new engine Vivisimo grouped both very broad topics and specific ones. Put your name in and see what it brings up and how it classifies it. Might be interesting.
All said and done, I think the developers of BeOS did a really great job. I recent got the chance to go over the Be File System (BeFS) for class and was amazed by what they did in a short amount of time (less than a year). If you want to look at a short presentation on the file system, you can grab it (in ppt) from here.
On that note, Project Athena, the umbrella project for zephyr, was kicked off in 1983. I have actually read some of the zephyr code (oh yes, GAIM also supports zephyr) and my guess is that the project was definitely started way before 1988. There is a very reasonable chance that if someone went through the code in detail, there would be information dating it prior to AOL being founded.