Speaking of reducing necessary bandwidth, when are these ISPs all going to push multicast for media delivery? Isn't this a no brainer for reducing bandwidth?
According to professional typesetters, text that is meant to be read (i.e. code) should not be more than ~65 characters wide. This is because the human eye/brain combination has difficulty wrapping around to the next row when the columns are wider than this. This is why newspapers write everything in narrow columns. Most of the text fits in the fovia, and eye motion and wrapping is minimized.
I avoid purchasing anything that isn't disposable and can not be serviced multiple places. Would I buy a car that could only be fixed at one service station? Would I buy a home that can only be fixed by one contractor? No way.
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Seriously, I have one word of advice: NETWORK. Network installs are so much less painful.
I agree. I've tried using Alice and Squeak. On these GUI programming interfaces I have found that there are things that I just can not do, because it just isn't there. Whereas in Python, I can always tell the programmer what library to include, and it happens. Example: Squeak is very weak on user interaction. It is hard to make fun games, and if you're not programming games, what's the point? And Alice is written in Java. No wonder it is so slow and doesn't work right! Also as you said, they are a lot to learn, especially for an old codger like me.
I have had pretty good success with xturtle for python.
But the problem is, WINE doesn't always work like it supposed to. Sometimes it requires tweaking. In my opinion, I would rather a "n00b" learn about a native Linux application that can do what they want it to than fiddle with WINE just to get their Windows application to work.
No program always works like it is supposed to! Including MS Windows. In fact, I use wine to run some programs that crash my MS system.
Wine, like everything else in a Linux distribution, is a handy tool. My Linux system is filled with all sorts of handy tools. I don't use them all, but when I need them, I'm glad that they are there. Not including wine is just a disservice to people who buy a Linux distribution.
Shuttleworth makes a wrong assumption about peoples' motives for wanting the program. This just demonstrates his ignorance and his arrogance.
Wait, that's a package management system! We've got tons of those.
Yeah, that's a simple cross-platform solution.
I'm talking about a system where you give it your location, and it gives you the standard time at that location. It's not really that complicated. There are lots of web pages that do that for you. The advantage of NTP is that it runs in the background and is much more accurate than http.
NTP does not keep track of time zones, though it would be useful if it did. Having all this time zone information stored on every computer going out of date is pretty dumb. It would be more intelligent to have only the name of the current time zone stored on each computer and all the time zone info stored on a central NIST time server. Then one person maintaining that database would be all the world would need.
The truth is that Dell could be giving him Linux today. Dell makes excuses about having to ramp up support. Dell has sold Linux before, they know how to do it. We bought a box from them. The support came from Red Hat, not Dell. The reality is that Dell wouldn't even be doing the OS support! They farm it out to Suse or Red Hat or whomever.
Oh, but they have to guarantee hardware compatibility. Heck, I can do that in an hour or two. I build boxes all the time with info I get off the internet.
The truth is that they're not going to make Linux easy to get if at all. M$ owns their asses.
People often poopoo software RAID (it is more of a pain to manage). But when it comes to recovery, it's what you want. You know the disk format and have the tools. Of course, you really shouldn't have to recover, you should keep good backups or another mirror if its that important.
Shouldn't this be expected? It's not as if this is a surprise. Their systems should be built from the ground up expecting every and any kind of attack.
Bzflag is 15 years old, and it looks that way, too,
But lots of people still play it because it is fun! It requires quick thinking and strategy as well as skill, unlike most pretty-graphics first person shooter games that I've played.
Intel cards are crap, only the latest chips support hardware T&L, which was available back in the first 3D cards (pre-opengl), they focus on pixel shaders, they are good only for regular desktop stuff, not gaming.
As I said in my original post, no whining, please. If you want the extra fancy graphics, install the stupid proprietary drivers yourself.
Or maybe we complain just because we like our Tuxracer, UT, Doom3, and desktops to be ready to go when started.
My Tuxracer, bzflag, + AIGLX/compiz bling-bling work out of the box because I only purchase hardware that is supported out of the box: ATI 9200 or less, or Intel graphics.
If you don't support the companies releasing open source drivers, those companies will disappear. And please don't give me the boo-hoo about Intel graphics not being as fast as the latest-latest-latest ATI/NVIDIA card. They really are fast enough for 99% of gamers.
The primary purpose of the "campus police" (as once explained to me by a campus officer) is to pick up the drunk, unruly college students before the city police do.
I'm going to be running a web crawler 24/365 from my home computer. If enough of us do this, it will be cheaper for our ISPs to pay off our Congressmen to forget this bill. Where can I get a simple throttle-able web crawler script?
I just bought a GB of RAM on ebay for $45 for my old 600 MHz server. Trying to squirrel more functionality out of less RAM is a waste of time. Everything flies so much faster when you have a nice big cache under you.
I doubt it. I think it is because most people (58/60) are nearly retarded. The first post is right. The people are flawed.
The article is overly critical of the system. My wife and I are also customers BOA, and we're very clear on how it works, we expect to see her custom little picture when logging in. For us it is great security against phishing attacks.
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Speaking of reducing necessary bandwidth, when are these ISPs all going to push multicast for media delivery? Isn't this a no brainer for reducing bandwidth?
Is Verizon obligated to wholesale access to the fiber to competitors?
The answer is NO. Verizon is under no obligation to share these lines
with anybody ever. Thanks, FCC.
According to professional typesetters, text that is meant to be read (i.e. code) should not be more than ~65 characters wide. This is because the human eye/brain combination has difficulty wrapping around to the next row when the columns are wider than this. This is why newspapers write everything in narrow columns. Most of the text fits in the fovia, and eye motion and wrapping is minimized.
I avoid purchasing anything that isn't disposable and can not be serviced multiple places.
Would I buy a car that could only be fixed at one service station? Would I buy a home that can only be fixed by one contractor? No way.
Seriously, I have one word of advice: NETWORK.
Network installs are so much less painful.
Almost forgot!
panda3d works very well
and the kids really love it,
though it does require more advanced programming
concepts.
I agree. I've tried using Alice and Squeak.
On these GUI programming interfaces I have found that there are things that I just can not do, because it just isn't there. Whereas in Python, I can always tell the programmer what library to include, and it happens.
Example: Squeak is very weak on user interaction. It is hard to make fun games, and if you're not programming games, what's the point?
And Alice is written in Java. No wonder it is so slow and doesn't work right!
Also as you said, they are a lot to learn, especially for an old codger like me.
I have had pretty good success with xturtle for python.
Have you used xturtle? It is very similar to turtle, with some really handy additions. My son and I have made games and graphics with it.
Newspapers already do this
to some degree.
They use narrow columns when
formatting their text so
people can read it faster.
Your fovias don't have
to bounce back and forth
as much.
But the problem is, WINE doesn't always work like it supposed to. Sometimes it requires tweaking. In my opinion, I would rather a "n00b" learn about a native Linux application that can do what they want it to than fiddle with WINE just to get their Windows application to work.
No program always works like it is supposed to! Including MS Windows. In fact, I use wine to run some programs that crash my MS system.
Wine, like everything else in a Linux distribution, is a handy tool. My Linux system is filled with all sorts of handy tools. I don't use them all, but when I need them, I'm glad that they are there. Not including wine is just a disservice to people who buy a Linux distribution.
Shuttleworth makes a wrong assumption about peoples' motives for wanting the program. This just demonstrates his ignorance and his arrogance.
I would love to buy one, but there are no fire or jump buttons on the right side. How can I justify the purchase?
Is there a way to just donate money directly to
Linux Fund? I don't see it on their web site.
Wait, that's a package management system! We've got tons of those.
Yeah, that's a simple cross-platform solution.
I'm talking about a system where you give it your location, and it gives you the standard time at that location. It's not really that complicated. There are lots of web pages that do that for you. The advantage of NTP is that it runs in the background and is much more accurate than http.
NTP does not keep track of time zones, though it would be useful if it did. Having all this time zone information stored on every computer going out of date is pretty dumb. It would be more intelligent to have only the name of the current time zone stored on each computer and all the time zone info stored on a central NIST time server. Then one person maintaining that database would be all the world would need.
The truth is that Dell could be giving him Linux today. Dell makes excuses about having to ramp up support. Dell has sold Linux before, they know how to do it. We bought a box from them. The support came from Red Hat, not Dell. The reality is that Dell wouldn't even be doing the OS support! They farm it out to Suse or Red Hat or whomever.
Oh, but they have to guarantee hardware compatibility. Heck, I can do that in an hour or two. I build boxes all the time with info I get off the internet.
The truth is that they're not going to make Linux easy to get if at all. M$ owns their asses.
Thanks.
I would mod you up if I could.
Does anyone know of a service that will allow me to rsync across ssh to an encrypted partition?
That would be useful.
People often poopoo software RAID (it is more of a pain to manage). But when it comes to recovery, it's what you want. You know the disk format and have the tools. Of course, you really shouldn't have to recover, you should keep good backups or another mirror if its that important.
Shouldn't this be expected? It's not as if this is a surprise. Their systems should be built from the ground up expecting every and any kind of attack.
Bzflag is 15 years old, and it looks that way, too,
But lots of people still play it because it is fun! It requires quick thinking and strategy as well as skill, unlike most pretty-graphics first person shooter games that I've played.
Intel cards are crap, only the latest chips support hardware T&L, which was available back in the first 3D cards (pre-opengl), they focus on pixel shaders, they are good only for regular desktop stuff, not gaming.
As I said in my original post, no whining, please. If you want the extra fancy graphics, install the stupid proprietary drivers yourself.
Or maybe we complain just because we like our Tuxracer, UT, Doom3, and desktops to be ready to go when started.
My Tuxracer, bzflag, + AIGLX/compiz bling-bling work out of the box because I only purchase hardware that is supported out of the box: ATI 9200 or less, or Intel graphics.
If you don't support the companies releasing open source drivers, those companies will disappear. And please don't give me the boo-hoo about Intel graphics not being as fast as the latest-latest-latest ATI/NVIDIA card. They really are fast enough for 99% of gamers.
The primary purpose of the "campus police" (as once explained to me by a campus officer) is to pick up the drunk, unruly college students before the city police do.
I'm going to be running a web crawler 24/365 from my home computer. If enough of us do this, it will be cheaper for our ISPs to pay off our Congressmen to forget this bill. Where can I get a simple throttle-able web crawler script?
I just bought a GB of RAM on ebay for $45 for my old 600 MHz server.
Trying to squirrel more functionality out of less RAM is a waste of time.
Everything flies so much faster when you have a nice big cache under you.
perhaps the experiment was flawed.
I doubt it. I think it is because most people (58/60) are nearly retarded.
The first post is right. The people are flawed.
The article is overly critical of the system. My wife and I are also customers BOA, and we're very clear on how it works, we expect to see her custom little picture when logging in. For us it is great security against phishing attacks.