My experiences with @home haven't included legal action, but have gone as far as downtime of many days at a time, as well as serious DHCP issues. I have had nearly seven service calls on my account (!) just to get it working.
I wouldn't recommend cable to anyone. It's just not a stable enough technology right now.
Has anyone noticed how these new business models are popping up all over the place? First RedHat, now HP. I'm glad that people have finally woken up from the 18th century and starting seeing that our current form of capitalism is having trouble coping with the current state of our world.
I'm interested to see which company takes the next step. Maybe we'll see an open-source version of OS/2 in the near future.;)
I still can't see what this article is saying. There seems to be some sort of logical error with it that I can't resolve. See if you can figure out exactly what is happening:
In one paragraph:
"Reports indicate that Morissette will post live versions on MP3.com of songs recorded on the tour...."
In the next paragraph:
"Amos' plans for posting songs are not known, but she likely will be governed by the same rules as Morissette. Both record for labels owned by Time Warner, which prohibits artists from offering any music on the Internet other than 30-second streams."
It's good to see other open-source OS's getting some spotlight too. I love Linux, but BSD is also a really good OS to run. I just hope that one day the war between distros/Linux/BSD calms down to the point where we can all just get along.:)
I think a large global distributed machine network would be an excellent idea. It's basically a giant computer time-share.:) This concept worked for mainframes across north-america, so as long as abuse of the system can be prevented, I think this would be a great asset to people around the world.
I would love to be able to render a Povray scene at 2000x2000 A0.8 in less half a second.;)
Quake ]I[ isn't the first multiplatform game, but it will definately be the flagship for Linux game development over the next few years. If people can see that it doesn't require much extra development effort to port to three different platforms, I think we'll see a much more homogenous application portfolio for Mac/Win32/Linux/etc.
I'll bet you that making a game multiplatform will pay off in the long run-- less OS-specific code which is more likely to break than the OS-independant code.
Why does there seem to be more support for the OSS package than for writing pure open-source kernel drivers for linux? If we're putting together a nice Linux box without paying for the OS, the Windowing system or any of the millions of programs we use, it starts to seem a little unfair when we need to pay for something as simple as a sound driver, when Creative Labs could just release the specs of their boards.
I know that there are some chipset manufacturers that refuse to let companies like Creative release the chip specs, but does is this really a good business practice? I can't see a manufacturer holding an advantage over another by holding on to the specs. It might stop the practice of cloning, but Creative Labs wasn't hurt by this during the early 90's.
Never trust a program you don't have the source to!:)
Wouldn't that just be artifically inflating the perceived value of the item by increasing the risk associated with pirating? My view of movies is that they're currently overpriced right now (probably shared with a lot of people). I've even heard rumours that the cost will go up during the star wars run too!
Doesn't economic theory state that if the consumers feel the price for a commodity is too high, they tend to find an alternate, lower priced alternative? This is generally the argument against government regulation of gas/oil prices, etc. Does it apply here, as the prime theatres in a city tend to set rates which are all around the same level?
I don't condone theft, but I think this is a positive feedback loop: people steal movies because they're too expensive, then the movie/theatre industry passes these "losses" to the customer. Any thoughts?
Could someone explain the difference between KDE and pure GNOME? From what I can tell, KDE is a GNOME-compliant window manager (supporting GNOME widgets). Is this correct? Is GNOME simply a widget standard? I haven't been following this for the last little while, so I'm not totally sure what's going on in the X Window Management arena.
Please don't flame-- I just want to clear this up for myself.
Every once in a while you get someone one Usenet that adds more to noise bin than the signal. Kill-files aren't really censorship in this situation, but more of a convenience to those trying to read for content. If I could have had some sort of blocking software that would kill any post that was authored, a reply to or had anything to do with Scott Nudds, I might have been able to read the volume of mail in the x86 newsgroups. Unfortunately, I couldn't, so I was forced to wade through flamewars and loads of drivel created by a SINGLE PERSON.
I remember hearing about a laser technology that could project a monochrome image using a moderate intensity beam on the retina of someone who is nearly 100% blind (those with the optic nerve still relatively intact). Could this technology be used similarily with higher power? If so, I think a lot of people could have a second chance to see (well, it's not perfect, but better than nothing)
I guess I should also mention that CSS and XML go hand-in-hand really well. One technology handles data and metadata, while the other is concerned only with the presentation of that data to the end user. This is really cool stuff -- you should see it really taking off within the next year or so.
I think the important thing about CSS is that it allows you to separate your content from your look and feel. Having stylesheets allows you to swap different looks in and out without recompiling/manually editing all of your pages. It's not a big technology right now, but it's slowly gaining ground.
IMHO, people *should* be using CSS to design pages instead of embedding all of the font/color/layout stuff in the HTML document. Unfortunately, technology that offers the greatest benefits isn't always the one that gets used in the end.
If you want to see CSS in the real world, take a look at a lot of the big-name sites. You'll find that a large number of them *do* use it for layout (ie: Microsoft, Hotbot, etc..). When the new third- or fourth-generation browsers start taking over, I think you'll see a lot of people dropping support for the old, braindead browsers.
Those specs are impressive. Maybe I'll just buy a PSX2 instead of a DVD player. Look at those polygon fill rates and drool. As well, this thing is using.18 micron technology, which should keep it fast/cool/stable.
The one thing is that they specify the VDD voltage as 1.8V. That's quite low for a chip voltage (although you can see its effect on the power consumption). This processor must have been designed by some top-notch engineers. With a RISC core and a clock of 300 MHz, I don't think any good emulators will be coming out any time soon (without requiring additional hardware for your PC).
Gecko is definately the best browser for rendering, from what I've seen. If you haven't seen the CSS torture test results yet, take a look. It's going to cause a lot of pages on the web right now to render improperly, but that's a small price to pay for near-100% (well, probably 100%) support of standards.
I wish Microsoft and Netscape didn't get into their original "let's add all this proprietary crap into our browsers" phase as it fragmented the web for a while. I would rather design a single page that functions under both browsers equally well. Gecko's going to set a new standard that will have to be matched by everyone else.
It's really neat to see a chip based on the concepts of emulation at the lowest possible level. The fact that it's software upgradable will allow you to run it in either x86 or 68k or whatever mode you'd like.:)
I'm assuming that a version of linux will be compiled to run on this chip. Would it be possible for it to run executables compiled for a number of platforms natively? This would be really cool in any case.
It looks like it can emulate the PIII too. I wonder if it'll have the serial number... Heh
I guess this means that you can hack away on your Linux box while sitting in fromt of the TV. Anyone have any specs on the computer used? It might make a really good, cheap linux box.
Imagine having your home firewall connected to your TV.:)
I would love to have a wireless keyboard/mouse with my computer. In fact, I wouldn't mind coupling those with a high-quality projector (computer quality, not TV quality) and working on my wall.
How much is a good 1024x768 or higher projector? What about quality?
Well, it looks like cold fusion may actually be possible some day (but then again... it always does). Fusion will mean a great deal for a lot of people, namely:
- no more nasty smelly gas cars - no more heating problems - nuclear waste is gone (well, no more new stuff;)
I can't wait for my Mr. Fusion device to arrive in the mail (see Back To The Future). Heh...
By making Linux available on so many platforms, we are making things so much easier for developers like myself. I've had to work with stuff like Visual Studio for way too long, where I can't tell what's going on in the cast of OS problems. You don't hit dead ends like that when you develop under an OSS solution like Linux, though!
This is a great way to change all the "my chip is better than your chip" wars to "my distro is better than your distro" wars!:)
You would *never* be able to port an application this easily between a Motorola and Intel box under Windows than you can with Linux.
Heh... Linux forever. Sorry about the rant!
BTW... SMP is the future. I hope it becomes an integral part of all the Linux ports!
Well, it says that the NT servers peaked at *112* clients during the SMB test. Looking at the street value of the system, a 20 user pack is about $2000 CDN. 112 users would cost a company *over $10000 CDN* for just the software alone!
Sysadmins hold the economic system of North America together. If they do their jobs properly, noone knows they exist.
The article also brings up a interesting point re: sysadmins and human interaction. I'd say it's probably the #1 most important part of the job. Someone has to respond to all those problems (well, if there are any for those Linux sysadmins;)) and endusers aren't always the greatest for explaining exactly what the problem is.
I didn't see any mention of the bastard system operator from hell, though. Anyone have a good link?
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My experiences with @home haven't included legal action, but have gone as far as downtime of many days at a time, as well as serious DHCP issues. I have had nearly seven service calls on my account (!) just to get it working.
I wouldn't recommend cable to anyone. It's just not a stable enough technology right now.
Has anyone noticed how these new business models are popping up all over the place? First RedHat, now HP. I'm glad that people have finally woken up from the 18th century and starting seeing that our current form of capitalism is having trouble coping with the current state of our world.
;)
I'm interested to see which company takes the next step. Maybe we'll see an open-source version of OS/2 in the near future.
I still can't see what this article is saying. There seems to be some sort of logical error with it that I can't resolve. See if you can figure out exactly what is happening:
..."
In one paragraph:
"Reports indicate that Morissette will post live versions on MP3.com of songs recorded on the tour.
In the next paragraph:
"Amos' plans for posting songs are not known, but she likely will be governed by the same rules as Morissette. Both record for labels owned by Time Warner, which prohibits artists from offering any music on the Internet other than 30-second streams."
It seems to be a flat-out contradiction.
It's good to see other open-source OS's getting some spotlight too. I love Linux, but BSD is also a really good OS to run. I just hope that one day the war between distros/Linux/BSD calms down to the point where we can all just get along. :)
I think a large global distributed machine network would be an excellent idea. It's basically a giant computer time-share. :) This concept worked for mainframes across north-america, so as long as abuse of the system can be prevented, I think this would be a great asset to people around the world.
;)
I would love to be able to render a Povray scene at 2000x2000 A0.8 in less half a second.
Quake ]I[ isn't the first multiplatform game, but it will definately be the flagship for Linux game development over the next few years. If people can see that it doesn't require much extra development effort to port to three different platforms, I think we'll see a much more homogenous application portfolio for Mac/Win32/Linux/etc.
I'll bet you that making a game multiplatform will pay off in the long run-- less OS-specific code which is more likely to break than the OS-independant code.
Needless to say, I can't wait.
Why does there seem to be more support for the OSS package than for writing pure open-source kernel drivers for linux? If we're putting together a nice Linux box without paying for the OS, the Windowing system or any of the millions of programs we use, it starts to seem a little unfair when we need to pay for something as simple as a sound driver, when Creative Labs could just release the specs of their boards.
:)
I know that there are some chipset manufacturers that refuse to let companies like Creative release the chip specs, but does is this really a good business practice? I can't see a manufacturer holding an advantage over another by holding on to the specs. It might stop the practice of cloning, but Creative Labs wasn't hurt by this during the early 90's.
Never trust a program you don't have the source to!
Wouldn't that just be artifically inflating the perceived value of the item by increasing the risk associated with pirating? My view of movies is that they're currently overpriced right now (probably shared with a lot of people). I've even heard rumours that the cost will go up during the star wars run too!
:)
I've only taken a single course on economics.
Doesn't economic theory state that if the consumers feel the price for a commodity is too high, they tend to find an alternate, lower priced alternative? This is generally the argument against government regulation of gas/oil prices, etc. Does it apply here, as the prime theatres in a city tend to set rates which are all around the same level?
I don't condone theft, but I think this is a positive feedback loop: people steal movies because they're too expensive, then the movie/theatre industry passes these "losses" to the customer. Any thoughts?
Could someone explain the difference between KDE and pure GNOME? From what I can tell, KDE is a GNOME-compliant window manager (supporting GNOME widgets). Is this correct? Is GNOME simply a widget standard? I haven't been following this for the last little while, so I'm not totally sure what's going on in the X Window Management arena.
Please don't flame-- I just want to clear this up for myself.
I'd love to have a GNOME hat... those really kick ass :)
Every once in a while you get someone one Usenet that adds more to noise bin than the signal. Kill-files aren't really censorship in this situation, but more of a convenience to those trying to read for content. If I could have had some sort of blocking software that would kill any post that was authored, a reply to or had anything to do with Scott Nudds, I might have been able to read the volume of mail in the x86 newsgroups. Unfortunately, I couldn't, so I was forced to wade through flamewars and loads of drivel created by a SINGLE PERSON.
Personal censorship is a necessity in some cases.
Here are some interesting notes on what's included/bugs/etc...
s e-notes/m4.html
http://www.mozilla.org/projects/seamonkey/relea
I remember hearing about a laser technology that could project a monochrome image using a moderate intensity beam on the retina of someone who is nearly 100% blind (those with the optic nerve still relatively intact). Could this technology be used similarily with higher power? If so, I think a lot of people could have a second chance to see (well, it's not perfect, but better than nothing)
I guess I should also mention that CSS and XML go hand-in-hand really well. One technology handles data and metadata, while the other is concerned only with the presentation of that data to the end user. This is really cool stuff -- you should see it really taking off within the next year or so.
I think the important thing about CSS is that it allows you to separate your content from your look and feel. Having stylesheets allows you to swap different looks in and out without recompiling/manually editing all of your pages. It's not a big technology right now, but it's slowly gaining ground.
IMHO, people *should* be using CSS to design pages instead of embedding all of the font/color/layout stuff in the HTML document. Unfortunately, technology that offers the greatest benefits isn't always the one that gets used in the end.
If you want to see CSS in the real world, take a look at a lot of the big-name sites. You'll find that a large number of them *do* use it for layout (ie: Microsoft, Hotbot, etc..). When the new third- or fourth-generation browsers start taking over, I think you'll see a lot of people dropping support for the old, braindead browsers.
Those specs are impressive. Maybe I'll just buy a PSX2 instead of a DVD player. Look at those polygon fill rates and drool. As well, this thing is using .18 micron technology, which should keep it fast/cool/stable.
The one thing is that they specify the VDD voltage as 1.8V. That's quite low for a chip voltage (although you can see its effect on the power consumption). This processor must have been designed by some top-notch engineers. With a RISC core and a clock of 300 MHz, I don't think any good emulators will be coming out any time soon (without requiring additional hardware for your PC).
Gecko is definately the best browser for rendering, from what I've seen. If you haven't seen the CSS torture test results yet, take a look. It's going to cause a lot of pages on the web right now to render improperly, but that's a small price to pay for near-100% (well, probably 100%) support of standards.
I wish Microsoft and Netscape didn't get into their original "let's add all this proprietary crap into our browsers" phase as it fragmented the web for a while. I would rather design a single page that functions under both browsers equally well. Gecko's going to set a new standard that will have to be matched by everyone else.
It's really neat to see a chip based on the concepts of emulation at the lowest possible level. The fact that it's software upgradable will allow you to run it in either x86 or 68k or whatever mode you'd like. :)
I'm assuming that a version of linux will be compiled to run on this chip. Would it be possible for it to run executables compiled for a number of platforms natively? This would be really cool in any case.
It looks like it can emulate the PIII too. I wonder if it'll have the serial number... Heh
I guess this means that you can hack away on your Linux box while sitting in fromt of the TV. Anyone have any specs on the computer used? It might make a really good, cheap linux box.
:)
Imagine having your home firewall connected to your TV.
I would love to have a wireless keyboard/mouse with my computer. In fact, I wouldn't mind coupling those with a high-quality projector (computer quality, not TV quality) and working on my wall.
How much is a good 1024x768 or higher projector? What about quality?
Well, it looks like cold fusion may actually be possible some day (but then again... it always does). Fusion will mean a great deal for a lot of people, namely:
;)
- no more nasty smelly gas cars
- no more heating problems
- nuclear waste is gone (well, no more new stuff
I can't wait for my Mr. Fusion device to arrive in the mail (see Back To The Future). Heh...
By making Linux available on so many platforms, we are making things so much easier for developers like myself. I've had to work with stuff like Visual Studio for way too long, where I can't tell what's going on in the cast of OS problems. You don't hit dead ends like that when you develop under an OSS solution like Linux, though!
:)
This is a great way to change all the "my chip is better than your chip" wars to "my distro is better than your distro" wars!
You would *never* be able to port an application this easily between a Motorola and Intel box under Windows than you can with Linux.
Heh... Linux forever. Sorry about the rant!
BTW... SMP is the future. I hope it becomes an integral part of all the Linux ports!
Well, it says that the NT servers peaked at *112* clients during the SMB test. Looking at the street value of the system, a 20 user pack is about $2000 CDN. 112 users would cost a company *over $10000 CDN* for just the software alone!
:)
This is just plain stupid.
Sysadmins hold the economic system of North America together. If they do their jobs properly, noone knows they exist.
;)) and endusers aren't always the greatest for explaining exactly what the problem is.
The article also brings up a interesting point re: sysadmins and human interaction. I'd say it's probably the #1 most important part of the job. Someone has to respond to all those problems (well, if there are any for those Linux sysadmins
I didn't see any mention of the bastard system operator from hell, though. Anyone have a good link?
Sound a little like Stargate SG-1 anyone? Where is Jack O'Neill when you need him? :)
Egyptian history has always fascinated me.