The real benefit is not necessarily to reduce the boot time to Linux - it's to enable greater functionality in the bootloader that would bootstrap the real Linux installation. Imagine being able to netboot on any card without having to flash a NIC EEPROM! You could also boot from Zip, CD-ROW, DVD or a number of other things. Imagine having a password-protected root prompt available at boot...
The possibilities are endless. I hope this one takes off.
I don't know why someone moderated that down. If you don't know, Jason Haas (the one who submitted the story) was involved in a car wreck. The fact that he's made a full recovery *does indeed* constitute a valid comment.
Try reading before blindly moderating something down as "offtopic". Especially considering a post placed afterward on the same topic is sitting at +3.
Glad to see Jason is back on his feet.:) After the status updates on his progress stopped, I started wondering what was happening. Welcome back, Jason!:)
If you want high-quality digital video, you'll NEED a digital video camera connected to a DV board with firewire. We used Adobe Premier 5.1, which is probably the best editing suite out there for entry-level people. It's a little buggy, so save often!
My own personal experience has been with the Miro DV500 - one of the best DV cards out there. We hooked it up to the Sony DV Camera and were up and running in seconds. If you want to see amazing capture quality, snag 30 seconds or so from a DVD to the DV camera. After that the copy protection circuitry cuts in, but MAN is that great looking.
Don't get fooled into buying an analog capture board. They're nice for ripping TV shows to AVI or something, but if you're like me and want to eventually get your footage on DVD, make sure it's digital. There's a Linux firewire project going on right now, but I don't know how far it is along. Windows is your only bet for this right now, but this is definitely going to change in the future.
I'm tempted to get a DV recorder for use as a VCR. The quality is so far above analog it's not funny.
Looks like Mr. Allen sold off some of his stock *just* at the right time. If you take a look, just before MS takes a hit, he sold off something like half a billion or so. If this teaches you anything, it's to watch out for big guys selling lots of stock in their companies.
If you've got substantial banner revenue, make sure you let them know the site will pay for itself in a few years. As well, they need to understand that you *have* invested time and money in the site. If they don't compensate you for it, you're throwing it away.
I asked the FSF about this one a little while back and it applies to all licenses.
Unless you sign away your copyright for a license, the work is, and always will be, yours. The license only tells *other* people what rights they have.
If you aren't the full copyright owner, you MUST get the other author's permission. Once you have that, you can change the license without worrying about legal stuff. I'd recommend you get it in writing if you have physical contact with the other authors.
This is how people can release source code under multiple licenses. There's nothing stopping you from releasing something under the artistic license, the GPL and having a closed source version at the same time!
If you want to quickly set up your copy of Netscape under linux to read PDFs like these, go to the Preferences dialog and look for the "Portable Document Format" type. Change this to "Application" and for the program name, type "gv %s". If you have acrobat reader, you can use "acroread %s" as well.
I suggest doing this for "Postscript Documents" as well. Makes life way easier.
And a whopping one day after release, eBay has about 10 of these wonderful machines available from anywhere between $500 and $1100. Not to shabby if you have the cash.
I'm really glad we have the choice between GNOME and KDE, and both interoperate *very* well with each other. I run GNOME at school and KDE at home, but I have no trouble switching between the two. My GNOME windows are themed differently than my KDE ones, but it's not a huge problem.
What are your thoughts about the whole DeCSS fiasco? Do you believe it's a way for the MPAA control who has access to DVD data, rather than just a copyright control mechanism? Will you write a feature about it?:)
I have a bit of a serious question: is it legal to distribute the file in a form considered to be art?
I converted the css code to an html file that represents the OpenDVD logo. Take a look and see what you think. I'm not trying to violate the DMCA or anything, I'm just trying to express thoughts through what I consider to be art.
Here it is:
http://www.enel.ucalgary.ca/~mastracc/opendvd.ht ml
It's floating point is stronger than it's integer ops - but it might be able to emulate integer operations in floating point. Here's a quote about the floating point performance:
"According to MicroDesign Resources, the processor can handle 6.2 gigaflops at 300MHz. A single gigaflop equals one billion floating-point operations per second. MDR says that makes the chip two times faster than a 733-MHz Pentium III"
There's actually an emulator project for the PSX2 right now. No, it's not to run PSX2 stuff on the PC - it's to run PC stuff on the PSX2. It uses dynamic opcode translation and some other neat stuff to emulate a full x86 system.
This means that you can boot up your copy of Win '98 (yeah right:)), plug in the USB peripherals and pretend as if the whole thing were a desktop PC.
Cool stuff indeed. It might just serve as a low-cost PC alternative.
This means you can release it under whatever license or licenses you want. You can simply release an LGPL one and a proprietary one that differ only in source availability. This works even if both versions are essentially the same.
The GPL is designed to give rights to the end-users, not to take them from the creator of the work.
Have you ever seen the tree for chess moves? The number of possible board combinations after 5 moves is way, way more than a trillion or so. I wish I could have the number here.
What I'm curious about, however, is if it could be possible to do some sort of backwards extrapolation. Here's a bit of an idea:
(8:51pm - restate my assumptions;))
1. There are a finite number of squares for a knight to land on in 5 moves. 2. The rook must be able to make it to one of these squares in 5 moves, so the knight can take it. 3. The king must be able to make it to a square accessible from one of these squares for a mate to occur.
Keep in mind these assumptions, as well as the fact that you might be able to castle, and you can reduce your workload dramatically.
Now... Does the program state that white knight takes black rook, or vice versa?
They also have the first episode of the star wars radio plays. If you haven't heard these yet, you are MISSING OUT big-time on something really cool. You'll get hooked on this first one and want to buy the rest though - consider yourself warned.
It's the same as why WinCE is bad for portables - most OSs don't scale down. They have lots of fat that needs to be trimmed. The modular design of Linux lets you dump what you don't need and come out with a sleek, streamlined kernel.
I'm really sick of magazines that are at least 50% advertising. Every once in a while I buy a magazine and rip out any of the pages with ads on both sides. It's amazing how much of those things is made up of their very thin content. How do they even survive?
I remember the days when the table of contents was on the first page on the magazine, not page 6 or 7. Magazines will kill themselves unless they smarten up and increase the content to ad ratio.
If you are stimulated by new ideas, and if you can think for yourself rather than simply accept what Microsoft dishes out, I think you will find this letter of interest. What follows is a call to action for those of us who care -- a large enough number to listen to others. It is difficult, if not impossible, for people to come up with an accurate conclusion if the only information Microsoft has given them is false. And if that seems like a modest claim, I disagree. It's the most radical claim of all. Microsoft says that newspapers should report only on items it agrees with. The inference is that children should get into cars with strangers who wave lots of yummy candy at them. I'm happy to report that I can't follow that logic.
Permitting slovenly kleptomaniacs to subvert time-tested societal norms is tantamount to suicide. Perception becomes reality if one is brainwashed for long enough. Out of the vast number of devastating evils for which gutless megalomaniacs are directly or indirectly responsible, I shall pick out only a single one which is most in keeping with the inner essence of Microsoft's revolting tracts: ethnocentrism. A large percentage of Microsoft's cronies can be termed beer-guzzling. I know because I have experienced that personally. Given the public appetite for more accountability, the first casualty of Microsoft's wheelings and dealings is justice. That being the case, we can infer that Microsoft's lackeys are unified under a common goal. That goal is to exhibit a deep disdain for all people who are not sinister insurrectionists.
What I am getting at is this: No one is more pathetic than Microsoft. I assume that Microsoft is unaware of its obligation not to present a false image to the world by hiding unpleasant but vitally important realities about its generalizations, as this unawareness would be consistent with its prior displays of ignorance. Microsoft have trouble living with itself, knowing that this kind of thing makes me wonder whether we've ever moved past gin-swilling Maoism at all? If you're still reading this letter, I wish to compliment you for being sufficiently open-minded to understand that Microsoft is not just stupid. It is unbelievably, astronomically stupid. Microsoft needs to calm down and realize that it will not be easy to break the spell of great expectations that now binds the most vile autocrats I've ever seen to Microsoft. Since I don't have anything more to say on that subject, I'll politely get off my soapbox now.
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The real benefit is not necessarily to reduce the boot time to Linux - it's to enable greater functionality in the bootloader that would bootstrap the real Linux installation. Imagine being able to netboot on any card without having to flash a NIC EEPROM! You could also boot from Zip, CD-ROW, DVD or a number of other things. Imagine having a password-protected root prompt available at boot...
The possibilities are endless. I hope this one takes off.
I don't know why someone moderated that down. If you don't know, Jason Haas (the one who submitted the story) was involved in a car wreck. The fact that he's made a full recovery *does indeed* constitute a valid comment.
Try reading before blindly moderating something down as "offtopic". Especially considering a post placed afterward on the same topic is sitting at +3.
Glad to see Jason is back on his feet. :) After the status updates on his progress stopped, I started wondering what was happening. Welcome back, Jason! :)
If you want high-quality digital video, you'll NEED a digital video camera connected to a DV board with firewire. We used Adobe Premier 5.1, which is probably the best editing suite out there for entry-level people. It's a little buggy, so save often!
My own personal experience has been with the Miro DV500 - one of the best DV cards out there. We hooked it up to the Sony DV Camera and were up and running in seconds. If you want to see amazing capture quality, snag 30 seconds or so from a DVD to the DV camera. After that the copy protection circuitry cuts in, but MAN is that great looking.
Don't get fooled into buying an analog capture board. They're nice for ripping TV shows to AVI or something, but if you're like me and want to eventually get your footage on DVD, make sure it's digital. There's a Linux firewire project going on right now, but I don't know how far it is along. Windows is your only bet for this right now, but this is definitely going to change in the future.
I'm tempted to get a DV recorder for use as a VCR. The quality is so far above analog it's not funny.
Take a look here.
If you've got substantial banner revenue, make sure you let them know the site will pay for itself in a few years. As well, they need to understand that you *have* invested time and money in the site. If they don't compensate you for it, you're throwing it away.
I asked the FSF about this one a little while back and it applies to all licenses.
Unless you sign away your copyright for a license, the work is, and always will be, yours. The license only tells *other* people what rights they have.
If you aren't the full copyright owner, you MUST get the other author's permission. Once you have that, you can change the license without worrying about legal stuff. I'd recommend you get it in writing if you have physical contact with the other authors.
This is how people can release source code under multiple licenses. There's nothing stopping you from releasing something under the artistic license, the GPL and having a closed source version at the same time!
In short: if everyone agrees, everything is A-OK.
If you want to quickly set up your copy of Netscape under linux to read PDFs like these, go to the Preferences dialog and look for the "Portable Document Format" type. Change this to "Application" and for the program name, type "gv %s". If you have acrobat reader, you can use "acroread %s" as well.
I suggest doing this for "Postscript Documents" as well. Makes life way easier.
If everyone keeps hitting the main FTP site instead of one of the mirrors, the stuff'll never replicate.
Here's a hint: Mirror List
And a whopping one day after release, eBay has about 10 of these wonderful machines available from anywhere between $500 and $1100. Not to shabby if you have the cash.
If you want to see what's changed, check out the Release Notes! Looks like a lot of changes, few fixes.
I'm really glad we have the choice between GNOME and KDE, and both interoperate *very* well with each other. I run GNOME at school and KDE at home, but I have no trouble switching between the two. My GNOME windows are themed differently than my KDE ones, but it's not a huge problem.
;)
Choice is good. That's why Windows sucks
What are your thoughts about the whole DeCSS fiasco? Do you believe it's a way for the MPAA control who has access to DVD data, rather than just a copyright control mechanism? Will you write a feature about it? :)
My OpenDVD artwork
I have a bit of a serious question: is it legal to distribute the file in a form considered to be art?
t ml
:)
I converted the css code to an html file that represents the OpenDVD logo. Take a look and see what you think. I'm not trying to violate the DMCA or anything, I'm just trying to express thoughts through what I consider to be art.
Here it is:
http://www.enel.ucalgary.ca/~mastracc/opendvd.h
Thoughts?
It's floating point is stronger than it's integer ops - but it might be able to emulate integer operations in floating point. Here's a quote about the floating point performance:
"According to MicroDesign Resources, the processor can handle 6.2 gigaflops at 300MHz. A single gigaflop equals one billion floating-point operations per second. MDR says that makes the chip two times faster than a 733-MHz Pentium III"
There's actually an emulator project for the PSX2 right now. No, it's not to run PSX2 stuff on the PC - it's to run PC stuff on the PSX2. It uses dynamic opcode translation and some other neat stuff to emulate a full x86 system.
:)), plug in the USB peripherals and pretend as if the whole thing were a desktop PC.
This means that you can boot up your copy of Win '98 (yeah right
Cool stuff indeed. It might just serve as a low-cost PC alternative.
This means you can release it under whatever license or licenses you want. You can simply release an LGPL one and a proprietary one that differ only in source availability. This works even if both versions are essentially the same.
The GPL is designed to give rights to the end-users, not to take them from the creator of the work.
The changelist will be appearing here at some point in the future.
:)
Hopefully soon
Nope... notice that the black queen invalidates that move. The King is definately trapped there...
This was posted earlier by Spicy Biscuit. I'm just writing it down in a different format for those who prefer it:
:)
1. e2-e4 g8-f6
2. f2-f3 f6-e4
3. d1-e2 e4-g3
4. e2-e7 d8-e7
5. e1-f2 g3-h1++
Very ingenious solution
Have you ever seen the tree for chess moves? The number of possible board combinations after 5 moves is way, way more than a trillion or so. I wish I could have the number here.
;))
What I'm curious about, however, is if it could be possible to do some sort of backwards extrapolation. Here's a bit of an idea:
(8:51pm - restate my assumptions
1. There are a finite number of squares for a knight to land on in 5 moves.
2. The rook must be able to make it to one of these squares in 5 moves, so the knight can take it.
3. The king must be able to make it to a square accessible from one of these squares for a mate to occur.
Keep in mind these assumptions, as well as the fact that you might be able to castle, and you can reduce your workload dramatically.
Now... Does the program state that white knight takes black rook, or vice versa?
They also have the first episode of the star wars radio plays. If you haven't heard these yet, you are MISSING OUT big-time on something really cool. You'll get hooked on this first one and want to buy the rest though - consider yourself warned.
It's the same as why WinCE is bad for portables - most OSs don't scale down. They have lots of fat that needs to be trimmed. The modular design of Linux lets you dump what you don't need and come out with a sleek, streamlined kernel.
Down with monolithic OSs!
I'm really sick of magazines that are at least 50% advertising. Every once in a while I buy a magazine and rip out any of the pages with ads on both sides. It's amazing how much of those things is made up of their very thin content. How do they even survive?
I remember the days when the table of contents was on the first page on the magazine, not page 6 or 7. Magazines will kill themselves unless they smarten up and increase the content to ad ratio.
I'd like to respond to that post with this...
If you are stimulated by new ideas, and if you can think for yourself rather than simply accept what Microsoft dishes out, I think you will find this letter of interest. What follows is a call to action for those of us who care -- a large enough number to listen to others. It is difficult, if not impossible, for people to come up with an accurate conclusion if the only information Microsoft has given them is false. And if that seems like a modest claim, I disagree. It's the most radical claim of all. Microsoft says that newspapers should report only on items it agrees with. The inference is that children should get into cars with strangers who wave lots of yummy candy at them. I'm happy to report that I can't follow that logic.
Permitting slovenly kleptomaniacs to subvert time-tested societal norms is tantamount to suicide. Perception becomes reality if one is brainwashed for long enough. Out of the vast number of devastating evils for which gutless megalomaniacs are directly or indirectly responsible, I shall pick out only a single one which is most in keeping with the inner essence of Microsoft's revolting tracts: ethnocentrism. A large percentage of Microsoft's cronies can be termed beer-guzzling. I know because I have experienced that personally. Given the public appetite for more accountability, the first casualty of Microsoft's wheelings and dealings is justice. That being the case, we can infer that Microsoft's lackeys are unified under a common goal. That goal is to exhibit a deep disdain for all people who are not sinister insurrectionists.
What I am getting at is this: No one is more pathetic than Microsoft. I assume that Microsoft is unaware of its obligation not to present a false image to the world by hiding unpleasant but vitally important realities about its generalizations, as this unawareness would be consistent with its prior displays of ignorance. Microsoft have trouble living with itself, knowing that this kind of thing makes me wonder whether we've ever moved past gin-swilling Maoism at all? If you're still reading this letter, I wish to compliment you for being sufficiently open-minded to understand that Microsoft is not just stupid. It is unbelievably, astronomically stupid. Microsoft needs to calm down and realize that it will not be easy to break the spell of great expectations that now binds the most vile autocrats I've ever seen to Microsoft. Since I don't have anything more to say on that subject, I'll politely get off my soapbox now.