Sorry for the double post, but let me end with a shameless "what the O stands for in FOSS" plug - If you feel up to it, by all means contribute to these projects to fill in for any missing functionality between the FOSS readers/editors and Acrobat(TM). I personally have never used Acrobat(TM), as I always just export from Open Office (another prime example of FOSS PDF functionality), but for someone who may use it on a daily basis and have a decent enough knowledge of C coding/libraries could easily fill in the gaps for the casual user looking for a feature.
I know whenever I see a FOSS alternative missing a feature, I git clone the source, implement it, build (rinse, repeat) then upload it to the nightly build and if more people did that for projects they have a decent understanding of (like these PDF apps) as opposed to others unable to do so because of a lack of knowledge on the subject (like me in this case) then the FOSS world would turn even faster than it already is.
I would think so, with all the FOSS ones like xPDF and (my favorite) PDF editor. Viewable GPL source code for a PDF reader (and as an added bonus, editor) to me sounds like the end of this campaign. They may not have all the functionality of Acrobat(TM), but they do most of it, contrast OO.o and MSO.
Same here. Make one that can do this AND turn empty red bull cans into paper, and I'll never worry about my printer again (Once I write the drivers, more than likely.)
First and foremost, just about anything will compile for PPC unless it uses assembly
The Article (yes, they are not just a myth) explicitly tells of Ubuntu running on (err, op top of the hypervisor on) the PS3. Now, I for one do NOT want to go through and compile EACH AND EVERY SINGLE Ubuntu app I desire after being spoiled with apt-get (and dpkg before that) and repeating the process with EVERY SINGLE UPDATE/FIX. Further more, tracking down EACH AND EVERY library/dependency for said apps without the help of a packaging system would be a living breathing hell (and yes, some of said apps either use assembly or target the x86 architecture so closely that there is a speed loss on others due to instruction/stack/register differences brought up by gcc switches in the makefile, or intentionally by the coder).
And as mentioned above (in a less derogatory manner, you insensitive clod) the PS3 hypervisor would only offer a framebuffer to the PPC kernel hypervisor to pass to the guest x86 kernel to use (wasn't over-engineered brought up above, as well?) for video - so yes, you won't get HD performance on the box as I'm aware of now, but I'm sure the framebuffer at least offers something, you think? Oh thats right, nobody has taken the time to satisfy all the dependencies in the universe to compile a worthy app by hand to test it with. Yes, I've gotten a little spoiled since the green-screen days, but software has also gotten more complex (we still use C and its libraries to write ideal modern software/VMs, right?) so what do you expect?
Would it be too slow to load a slim PPC kernel and replace init with an optimized PPC-compiled qemu instance (basically; it would require much more than this) and run a virtual x86 machine on that? It seems the downsize would be: two kernels and an image in non-volatile storage, (although they aren't that big, not much difference), RAM would be a premium, consider some paging (and a minimalistic hypervisor kernel running a slim custom client kernel, goodbye canonical support), and those Cell CPUs would fare just fine with it.
It seems like a long shot, but it could work with at the very least "decent" results, after a fair amount of hacking and gnu optimization (store more crap on the registers than RAM). Compiz would kill on those graphics cards, and if paging is light you could have project 64 running in WINE for the best Nintendo 64 experience since... the Nintendo 64! Gee Willigers!
That is, assuming qemu can do x86->PPC, else find an alternative (or write one, hey!)
Lovely spelling as well, after all its not like every app using GNOME has spell-check now. And on such a detailed subject with no right being brought up in the same post as football, too! Why don't I either start writing my posts in binary or just tap some snipped ethernet wires together to make the binary datagrams/packets myself? Man I really need to get out more...
...not first, fail not? ugh, this is why I prefer using the bitwise oprtator (~) instead, although in/. lore this is instead in jokes used to mean "home", per the bash usage instead of the one's complement.
Or, I just need to get out more. After asking why all the guys were buying wings and beer on the same day in throngs at the grocery store, I found out the last super bowl was indeed not 32.
Same thing I thought after reading "stretchable electronics that can be wrapped around complex shapes". The glove comment also tipped me off, and I now fear that slashdotters may have an even lesser chance at obtaining a girlfriend with these devices floating around. Write an iPhone/Android app to communicate with it and human replication just took a massive hit!
Can't take a joke, eh? And if its any consolation, instead of control-clicking.apps and similar deals like.pkgs, I just manipulate them in terminal.app. And my Gateway laptop, which has OS X Leopard installed, does in fact have 2 mouse buttons.
Somehow I doubt that Windows worms and exploits only make up.001% of all Windows malware. The old lsass exploit (yeah, I know you remember) was pretty widespread and only required an internet connection and an unpatched Windows 2000/maybe XP machine....But it was only a part of the.001% of non-user interactive malware that your statistics seem to assert.
My last brainfuck website failed because the bf compiler got confused between language operators and XHTML tags, and my client refused to pay the $10,000 brainfuck developer fee anyways. Now I just write them in x86 assembly and my development time is much-improved - I finished a 10 page site in under half a decade!
Silly me, thinking Billy being gone and Ballmer's comments about OSS interest meant Microsoft would start supporting open source without any ultimately evil intentions.
Anyone else notice the article 404ing from the front page? I'd say/. needs to fix some bugs/user errors rather than speak about a Linux IO latency most users don't even notice. Just an observation, and if you can read this, they either fixed it or you doctored up a query string like I did:D.
Yeah, because if we do this then other states may soon follow, then hello censorship (although I fail to see how the first amendment does not automatically/dev/null this). There's another guy here on/. I know in real life (initials S.F.) - a hardcore libertarian that I'd hope finds out about this, because swearing is not something I want to have to do in a sound-proof room in my house after a hard day (see the connection between that and pot smoking? yeah, thats how bad it would be).
But like an AC said above, this is only on the senate's desk, and has not even gone through the process of being voted on yet, so there is still time and possibly a chance that we don't have to censor ourselves here. Trust me, if this gets passed and other states get interested, we'll soon see how escalation is not just for privileges.
I live in South Carolina, and honestly this is one of the stupidest things I've seen my state do (did I mention we tried to secede from the union, still have a town named secessionville, AND re-enact a war we lost?)
Since this will soon be illegal, please allow me to say it: FUCK THIS STATE
Why don't they instead just allow linking to youtube videos without the WP nazis removing them? Sure they can upgrade storage size, but if they start storing videos everyone wants to see, then you're looking at youtube-sized bandwidth bills (or lack thereof) ensuing. It makes more sense to me, at least. [citation needed]
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Sorry for the double post, but let me end with a shameless "what the O stands for in FOSS" plug - If you feel up to it, by all means contribute to these projects to fill in for any missing functionality between the FOSS readers/editors and Acrobat(TM). I personally have never used Acrobat(TM), as I always just export from Open Office (another prime example of FOSS PDF functionality), but for someone who may use it on a daily basis and have a decent enough knowledge of C coding/libraries could easily fill in the gaps for the casual user looking for a feature.
I know whenever I see a FOSS alternative missing a feature, I git clone the source, implement it, build (rinse, repeat) then upload it to the nightly build and if more people did that for projects they have a decent understanding of (like these PDF apps) as opposed to others unable to do so because of a lack of knowledge on the subject (like me in this case) then the FOSS world would turn even faster than it already is.
Just my two cents, eh?
...so is the Free PDF readers campaign over now?
I would think so, with all the FOSS ones like xPDF and (my favorite) PDF editor. Viewable GPL source code for a PDF reader (and as an added bonus, editor) to me sounds like the end of this campaign. They may not have all the functionality of Acrobat(TM), but they do most of it, contrast OO.o and MSO.
Same here. Make one that can do this AND turn empty red bull cans into paper, and I'll never worry about my printer again (Once I write the drivers, more than likely.)
First and foremost, just about anything will compile for PPC unless it uses assembly
The Article (yes, they are not just a myth) explicitly tells of Ubuntu running on (err, op top of the hypervisor on) the PS3. Now, I for one do NOT want to go through and compile EACH AND EVERY SINGLE Ubuntu app I desire after being spoiled with apt-get (and dpkg before that) and repeating the process with EVERY SINGLE UPDATE/FIX. Further more, tracking down EACH AND EVERY library/dependency for said apps without the help of a packaging system would be a living breathing hell (and yes, some of said apps either use assembly or target the x86 architecture so closely that there is a speed loss on others due to instruction/stack/register differences brought up by gcc switches in the makefile, or intentionally by the coder).
And as mentioned above (in a less derogatory manner, you insensitive clod) the PS3 hypervisor would only offer a framebuffer to the PPC kernel hypervisor to pass to the guest x86 kernel to use (wasn't over-engineered brought up above, as well?) for video - so yes, you won't get HD performance on the box as I'm aware of now, but I'm sure the framebuffer at least offers something, you think? Oh thats right, nobody has taken the time to satisfy all the dependencies in the universe to compile a worthy app by hand to test it with. Yes, I've gotten a little spoiled since the green-screen days, but software has also gotten more complex (we still use C and its libraries to write ideal modern software/VMs, right?) so what do you expect?
Would it be too slow to load a slim PPC kernel and replace init with an optimized PPC-compiled qemu instance (basically; it would require much more than this) and run a virtual x86 machine on that? It seems the downsize would be: two kernels and an image in non-volatile storage, (although they aren't that big, not much difference), RAM would be a premium, consider some paging (and a minimalistic hypervisor kernel running a slim custom client kernel, goodbye canonical support), and those Cell CPUs would fare just fine with it.
It seems like a long shot, but it could work with at the very least "decent" results, after a fair amount of hacking and gnu optimization (store more crap on the registers than RAM). Compiz would kill on those graphics cards, and if paging is light you could have project 64 running in WINE for the best Nintendo 64 experience since... the Nintendo 64! Gee Willigers!
That is, assuming qemu can do x86->PPC, else find an alternative (or write one, hey!)
mumble... bitwise oprtator (~) mumble...
Lovely spelling as well, after all its not like every app using GNOME has spell-check now. And on such a detailed subject with no right being brought up in the same post as football, too! Why don't I either start writing my posts in binary or just tap some snipped ethernet wires together to make the binary datagrams/packets myself? Man I really need to get out more...
!First. Fail!
...not first, fail not? ugh, this is why I prefer using the bitwise oprtator (~) instead, although in /. lore this is instead in jokes used to mean "home", per the bash usage instead of the one's complement.
Or, I just need to get out more. After asking why all the guys were buying wings and beer on the same day in throngs at the grocery store, I found out the last super bowl was indeed not 32.
Same thing I thought after reading "stretchable electronics that can be wrapped around complex shapes". The glove comment also tipped me off, and I now fear that slashdotters may have an even lesser chance at obtaining a girlfriend with these devices floating around. Write an iPhone/Android app to communicate with it and human replication just took a massive hit!
only make up .001%
Man, what am I? A buggy old pentium? Should have been .01%, my bad.
Can't take a joke, eh? And if its any consolation, instead of control-clicking .apps and similar deals like .pkgs, I just manipulate them in terminal.app. And my Gateway laptop, which has OS X Leopard installed, does in fact have 2 mouse buttons.
So does 99.99% of windows malware.
Somehow I doubt that Windows worms and exploits only make up .001% of all Windows malware. The old lsass exploit (yeah, I know you remember) was pretty widespread and only required an internet connection and an unpatched Windows 2000/maybe XP machine. ...But it was only a part of the .001% of non-user interactive malware that your statistics seem to assert.
Right click on the pkg...
(stares at the Macbook touchpad)
*sob*
My last brainfuck website failed because the bf compiler got confused between language operators and XHTML tags, and my client refused to pay the $10,000 brainfuck developer fee anyways. Now I just write them in x86 assembly and my development time is much-improved - I finished a 10 page site in under half a decade!
Sean Connery on slashdot?! Now all we need is Alex and some buzzers...
No, that would be what they call backdoors these days. Trojans come after the fact.
For some reason, just seeing the word "dump" in the title first brought feces to mind (cue word association, /. therapists).
Oh, NOW it all makes sense...
Silly me, thinking Billy being gone and Ballmer's comments about OSS interest meant Microsoft would start supporting open source without any ultimately evil intentions.
May I direct you to the pirate bay's legal department?
Damn futex_wait states!
Anyone else notice the article 404ing from the front page? I'd say /. needs to fix some bugs/user errors rather than speak about a Linux IO latency most users don't even notice. Just an observation, and if you can read this, they either fixed it or you doctored up a query string like I did :D.
Write a letter to State Senator Ford and tell him to fuck off.
Oh, and the S.C. state senators are Lindsey Graham and Jim DeMint, don't know where Ford came from.
Yeah, because if we do this then other states may soon follow, then hello censorship (although I fail to see how the first amendment does not automatically /dev/null this). There's another guy here on /. I know in real life (initials S.F.) - a hardcore libertarian that I'd hope finds out about this, because swearing is not something I want to have to do in a sound-proof room in my house after a hard day (see the connection between that and pot smoking? yeah, thats how bad it would be).
But like an AC said above, this is only on the senate's desk, and has not even gone through the process of being voted on yet, so there is still time and possibly a chance that we don't have to censor ourselves here. Trust me, if this gets passed and other states get interested, we'll soon see how escalation is not just for privileges.
I live in South Carolina, and honestly this is one of the stupidest things I've seen my state do (did I mention we tried to secede from the union, still have a town named secessionville, AND re-enact a war we lost?)
Since this will soon be illegal, please allow me to say it: FUCK THIS STATE
Why don't they instead just allow linking to youtube videos without the WP nazis removing them? Sure they can upgrade storage size, but if they start storing videos everyone wants to see, then you're looking at youtube-sized bandwidth bills (or lack thereof) ensuing. It makes more sense to me, at least. [citation needed]
So what if someone else knows how much you make?
Well if they also know where you work and live, there's always a threat of being mugged, burglary, etc. Just a consideration.