I think the primary potential value offered by Nvu is as a clean free WYSIWYG HTML/CSS page editor. I do not know of anything even yet on the horizon to make such a thing obsolete. Heck, I'm still waiting for correct CSS2 and PNG alpha channel support in IE...:-)
"So really, nothing has changed."
Something has changed. This customer will not have to go out of his way to get Qt/KDE onto his systems, as Perens LLC will make sure that they are preloaded.
I do not see anything in the referenced message which states, implies, or even remotely suggests that Perens LLC will make sure that Qt or KDE is preloaded anywhere. Where did he say that?
As a prospective employee, I think I would have to ask myself how desperate am I to work in the industry if this is the kind of people I would have to work for. When I am in a position to be hiring for a technical (programmer, IT professional, whatever) position, I can hardly imagine caring less about most of the stuff in that article. I have not found it to be that difficult to receive resumes (notez l'absence des accents graves) and find out where the person worked and went to school; I find that a much more effective means for distinguishing candidates, and does not take much time, maybe 2 minutes per resume which does not lead to a followup. Where I grew up it was not expected (viz required) that skilled technical people were particularly punctilious about non [information technology] related stuff.
Larry
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The same charges were leveled at IPv4 back when it came out -- it was considerably longer than was considered necessary (32-bits? That's way too much space!)
Where can I find out more about this? The earliest I know of Internet Protocol per se is IEN 123 (ca 1979), which has 32-bit addresses. Is there a document online showing the arguments which took place against addresses that long?
The problem with GIMP 1.2 (and only somewhat lessened by tabs in 1.3/2.x) is that you're forever playing 'hunt' the window because all the GIMP tool bars (all umpteen of them) are forever getting lost on your desktop and the task bar doesn't help much because it is so densely packed.
The 'workaround' is start it up on its own desktop, but this is essentially just allowing you to do what MDI would have let you do in the first place.
I would argue that the virtual screen/desktop metaphor/capabilities widely known/available since before 1990 were better than intra-window MDI, and MDI as proffered in Windows 3.0 would have best been declared DOA and never heard of/from again.
H.323 relies on UDP communication, which is always a problem with routers. Many routers (such as the 3Com OfficeConnect broadband router) come with built-in "NetMeeting support", ie. H.323 support.
An approach for making sure the connections work is to make a VPN tunnel with, for example, OpenVPN, which is cross-platform and not too painful to configure.
I mention it because I feel like if I go with OpenVPN, I can be confident I will succeed, and not have to worry about things that are out of my control, like support of "routers"/"firewalls". However if I just want a one time solution and I can spend 10 minutes configuring my "router"/"firewall" box, I guess that may be a much easier approach than using OpenVPN.
I was able to get barcode technology to businesses that could not afford it any other way. (A commercial keyboard-wedge barcode scanner costs $200-$500.00 I sold the cue cats for $25.00)
I have found basic CCD scanners like the Unitech MS210, Zebex Z-3080, ID Tech Econoscan, and the CipherLab 1000 have been around for 75USD-125USD for several years. I would not expect 125USD per scanner to be a prohibitive cost for just about any company which would benefit significantly from using a barcode scanner in the first place.
I think if all of North America and Western Europe disappeared tomorrow, Western Civilization would continue to be preponderant via Japan, China, and similar "Southeast Asian" countries, as well as those of the former "Soviet Union". Oh, and South America, Australia,....
Do We Really Need Another Program? We have so many already... thousands... millions!
I do not think it is a good idea to try to create one "mechanism" providing options along the dimensions of security, performance, reliability, simplicity, portability, expandability, elegance, extensibility, etc, etc. If "separation of concerns" and "aspect oriented design" is still trendy, then I use that as proof by reference.
A scsi disk went bad. When it went down, all files that had been active at the time were corrupted. Mostly that was several dozen mail spool files. Didn't I switch to a journaled file system in part to avoid this sort of thing?
Both ext3 and reiser3 offer(ed) data journaling, which would help with that kind of thing. Neither of them would even try to provide any better protection against corruption than if the application program(s) crashed. If a drive failed while applications were writing to files, the files might be current as of the most recent completed system call (write() or whatever), but even then, they could be "corrupt" in the sense that not all the operations in a sequence had completed; I do not think even reiser4 offers that level of transactional support-- I guess maybe it could have some sort of open()...close() atomicity thing, which would be nice.
Standards groups should study existing protocols to learn things before starting from scratch. I see no evidence that they evaluted XWT nor SCGUI.
???
The first XForms Working Draft came at the end of 2000, and the Last Call Working Draft in Jan 2002. How much existing XWT and SCGUI protocols was there to evaluate before that?
When I think of music I associate with contemporary Japanese culture that would make it out of Japan, I think of composers like Yoko Kanno, or cute girl performers like Chitose Hajime, Mai Kuraki, Mika Nakashima, Hikaru Utada, Ayumi Hamasaki.... In my own mind I do not see much overlap in my ideas of "cool", "rock band", and contemporary Japanese culture.
The "Sent" folder does bugger all for nonrepudiation of receipt. A fax machine uses a direct synchronous connection to a station in the effective authentication domain of the recipient.
A few quotes from Charles Goldfarb related to the origins of SGML and XML.
Unlike other pioneers in this area, my chief motivation was information retrieval, not typesetting.
The areas of publishing and information retrieval are
often thought of as comprising distinct applications for
a computer system. In fact, the functions of the two
overlap significantly, and both could be served best by an
integrated system
Q: There's the SGML community, and then there's the HTML community. So, the HTML authors fear that their world of static elements is about to get a lot more complicated.
A: Now, you know they don't know those are called elements. They call 'em tags [chuckles]. But there's also a third audience, which is maybe even bigger than the other two: the people who want to shift data around. Jean Paoli told me that he sees the biggest users of XML being the guys who write Excel spreadsheets, and want to get data from their company's mainframe or from a Web server belonging to one of their company's suppliers or customers
Q: So, not just document exchange, but application exchange of data.
A: Absolutely! And, you see, not just documents, not just publishing. There's an important distinction there. These are all documents in the sense of the way that word is used in the dictionary. The key is recognizing that XML is a data representation that has the characteristics of a document. That's where the real power comes in, because [you can] process it as data by first parsing it to extract the data or you can present it the way you would a document. And you can do both things in the same application at the same time. That's the real breakthrough
I think XML is a good neutral format for representing information which has a sequential and/or tree structure, like computer program code.
Anyone want to explain exactly how it is that an O(1) scheduler is a difficult thing
Recently I have seen a lot of Dodge(TM) commercials where they say something to the effect of "it's got a Hemi". I presume it is not supposed to be some sort of self-parody, which leads me to think they must have some evidence that some people will somehow think if "it's got a Hemi", that must be something cool. Like "Intel Inside" or "hyperthreading". From a technical perspective, I do not think there is anything particularly interesting or special about the "O(1) scheduler", but it sounds like it is something cool, like a "Hemi".
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Does Win4Lin require binary-only kernel modules like VMware?
Neither of them requires binary-only kernel modules; vmware requires kernel modules for which it provides the source, and win4lin requires applying a patch to the kernel source. They are both fairly innocuous.
In either case the mail message headers will indicate where is the source of the message...
Not true. Headers can be forged.
At some point on the path from source host to destination mailbox there will be a transition to a host on a legitmate ISP, and that host will correctly report the IP address from which it received the message; for the purpose of complaining, that IP address can be considered the source of the message.
It is not particularly unusual to know who is sending the "spam", or who is paying for it to be sent. In either case the mail message headers will indicate where is the source of the message, and consequently it will provide enough information to determine who is the ISP for the host which sent the message. Either that ISP will have a process for dealing with "abuse", or their upstream ISP will, etc.
For some reason, open source developers seem to like the technical challenges of replicating what already exists in closed form (Linux, OpenOffice, etc) instead of blazing new paths.
You can get them to want to create an attractive interface, but they don't have the deep design skills fostered by the commercial groups.
I guess it is social psychologists who talk about
"representativeness bias", "availability bias",
"confirmation bias", etc. I think open source developers do vastly more blazing of new paths, and have the most deep design skills, but I also do not see any particular reason to think those things would be evinced as software for which there is massive aggregate demand from people who are willing to pay some money for it, or for which there is a sufficiently large number of companies who stand to gain or save huge amounts of money by buying it. If I believe that major commercial software applications comprise the most innovative/creative and deeply designed software, then I can imagine it would be natural for me to think open source developers are accurately represented by the software they make which clones major commercial applications.
What may not be common knowledge is that IronPort's Senderbase has 'the reputation as the fastest way to send millions of junk e-mail messages' and is popular with spam factories.
Senderbase.org is an invaluable site for fighting spam, not a way to send junk email; it is a scourge for spam factories.
Since I am paying for the development costs, why should I develop the software under the GPL and release it to my competitors as soon as it is complete?
Would I not essentially be subsidizing my competitors businesses?
If you are paying someone in exchange for developing the software, you do not need to develop the software under the GPL. You can have all the rights to the software and have a GPL release. Your competitors cannot sell the software other than under the GPL.
You can continue to internally enhance the code, perhaps partly inspired by feedback from the "community" about the GPL version, and make subsequent releases which are not GPL. Nobody else can do that since they do not have the rights to the original source from which the GPL release came.
At least this seems to me to fit loosely into the "open source" model. It is contrary to the spirit of "Free Software", so I personally am not inclined to use MySQL, Qt, BerkeleyDB, etc.
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I think the primary potential value offered by Nvu is as a clean free WYSIWYG HTML/CSS page editor. I do not know of anything even yet on the horizon to make such a thing obsolete. Heck, I'm still waiting for correct CSS2 and PNG alpha channel support in IE... :-)
Larry
I do not see anything in the referenced message which states, implies, or even remotely suggests that Perens LLC will make sure that Qt or KDE is preloaded anywhere. Where did he say that?
Larry
As a prospective employee, I think I would have to ask myself how desperate am I to work in the industry if this is the kind of people I would have to work for. When I am in a position to be hiring for a technical (programmer, IT professional, whatever) position, I can hardly imagine caring less about most of the stuff in that article. I have not found it to be that difficult to receive resumes (notez l'absence des accents graves) and find out where the person worked and went to school; I find that a much more effective means for distinguishing candidates, and does not take much time, maybe 2 minutes per resume which does not lead to a followup. Where I grew up it was not expected (viz required) that skilled technical people were particularly punctilious about non [information technology] related stuff.
Larry
Where can I find out more about this? The earliest I know of Internet Protocol per se is IEN 123 (ca 1979), which has 32-bit addresses. Is there a document online showing the arguments which took place against addresses that long?
Larry
I would argue that the virtual screen/desktop metaphor/capabilities widely known/available since before 1990 were better than intra-window MDI, and MDI as proffered in Windows 3.0 would have best been declared DOA and never heard of/from again.
Larry
An approach for making sure the connections work is to make a VPN tunnel with, for example, OpenVPN, which is cross-platform and not too painful to configure. I mention it because I feel like if I go with OpenVPN, I can be confident I will succeed, and not have to worry about things that are out of my control, like support of "routers"/"firewalls". However if I just want a one time solution and I can spend 10 minutes configuring my "router"/"firewall" box, I guess that may be a much easier approach than using OpenVPN.
Larry
I have found basic CCD scanners like the Unitech MS210, Zebex Z-3080, ID Tech Econoscan, and the CipherLab 1000 have been around for 75USD-125USD for several years. I would not expect 125USD per scanner to be a prohibitive cost for just about any company which would benefit significantly from using a barcode scanner in the first place.
Larry
I think if all of North America and Western Europe disappeared tomorrow, Western Civilization would continue to be preponderant via Japan, China, and similar "Southeast Asian" countries, as well as those of the former "Soviet Union". Oh, and South America, Australia, ....
Larry
Do We Really Need Another Program? We have so many already... thousands... millions!
I do not think it is a good idea to try to create one "mechanism" providing options along the dimensions of security, performance, reliability, simplicity, portability, expandability, elegance, extensibility, etc, etc. If "separation of concerns" and "aspect oriented design" is still trendy, then I use that as proof by reference.
Larry
Both ext3 and reiser3 offer(ed) data journaling, which would help with that kind of thing. Neither of them would even try to provide any better protection against corruption than if the application program(s) crashed. If a drive failed while applications were writing to files, the files might be current as of the most recent completed system call (write() or whatever), but even then, they could be "corrupt" in the sense that not all the operations in a sequence had completed; I do not think even reiser4 offers that level of transactional support-- I guess maybe it could have some sort of open()...close() atomicity thing, which would be nice.
Larry
???
The first XForms Working Draft came at the end of 2000, and the Last Call Working Draft in Jan 2002. How much existing XWT and SCGUI protocols was there to evaluate before that?
Larry
When I think of music I associate with contemporary Japanese culture that would make it out of Japan, I think of composers like Yoko Kanno, or cute girl performers like Chitose Hajime, Mai Kuraki, Mika Nakashima, Hikaru Utada, Ayumi Hamasaki.... In my own mind I do not see much overlap in my ideas of "cool", "rock band", and contemporary Japanese culture.
Larry
The "Sent" folder does bugger all for nonrepudiation of receipt. A fax machine uses a direct synchronous connection to a station in the effective authentication domain of the recipient.
Larry
A few quotes from Charles Goldfarb related to the origins of SGML and XML.
Q: There's the SGML community, and then there's the HTML community. So, the HTML authors fear that their world of static elements is about to get a lot more complicated.
A: Now, you know they don't know those are called elements. They call 'em tags [chuckles]. But there's also a third audience, which is maybe even bigger than the other two: the people who want to shift data around. Jean Paoli told me that he sees the biggest users of XML being the guys who write Excel spreadsheets, and want to get data from their company's mainframe or from a Web server belonging to one of their company's suppliers or customers
Q: So, not just document exchange, but application exchange of data.
A: Absolutely! And, you see, not just documents, not just publishing. There's an important distinction there. These are all documents in the sense of the way that word is used in the dictionary. The key is recognizing that XML is a data representation that has the characteristics of a document. That's where the real power comes in, because [you can] process it as data by first parsing it to extract the data or you can present it the way you would a document. And you can do both things in the same application at the same time. That's the real breakthrough
I think XML is a good neutral format for representing information which has a sequential and/or tree structure, like computer program code.
Larry
"O(1) Scheduler" : consumer/patron/customer :: "Hemi" : consumer/patron/customer
Larry
Recently I have seen a lot of Dodge(TM) commercials where they say something to the effect of "it's got a Hemi". I presume it is not supposed to be some sort of self-parody, which leads me to think they must have some evidence that some people will somehow think if "it's got a Hemi", that must be something cool. Like "Intel Inside" or "hyperthreading". From a technical perspective, I do not think there is anything particularly interesting or special about the "O(1) scheduler", but it sounds like it is something cool, like a "Hemi".
Larry
Replace "Gamma radiation" with "solar wind".
Neither of them requires binary-only kernel modules; vmware requires kernel modules for which it provides the source, and win4lin requires applying a patch to the kernel source. They are both fairly innocuous.
Larry
At some point on the path from source host to destination mailbox there will be a transition to a host on a legitmate ISP, and that host will correctly report the IP address from which it received the message; for the purpose of complaining, that IP address can be considered the source of the message.
Larry
It is not particularly unusual to know who is sending the "spam", or who is paying for it to be sent. In either case the mail message headers will indicate where is the source of the message, and consequently it will provide enough information to determine who is the ISP for the host which sent the message. Either that ISP will have a process for dealing with "abuse", or their upstream ISP will, etc.
Larry
I guess it is social psychologists who talk about "representativeness bias", "availability bias", "confirmation bias", etc. I think open source developers do vastly more blazing of new paths, and have the most deep design skills, but I also do not see any particular reason to think those things would be evinced as software for which there is massive aggregate demand from people who are willing to pay some money for it, or for which there is a sufficiently large number of companies who stand to gain or save huge amounts of money by buying it. If I believe that major commercial software applications comprise the most innovative/creative and deeply designed software, then I can imagine it would be natural for me to think open source developers are accurately represented by the software they make which clones major commercial applications.
Larry
Senderbase.org is an invaluable site for fighting spam, not a way to send junk email; it is a scourge for spam factories.
Larry
If you are paying someone in exchange for developing the software, you do not need to develop the software under the GPL. You can have all the rights to the software and have a GPL release. Your competitors cannot sell the software other than under the GPL.
You can continue to internally enhance the code, perhaps partly inspired by feedback from the "community" about the GPL version, and make subsequent releases which are not GPL. Nobody else can do that since they do not have the rights to the original source from which the GPL release came.
At least this seems to me to fit loosely into the "open source" model. It is contrary to the spirit of "Free Software", so I personally am not inclined to use MySQL, Qt, BerkeleyDB, etc.
Larry
Petr Vandrovec is golden for VMWare stuff, which often shows up at http://knihovny.cvut.cz/ftp/pub/vmware/
Larry
The upcoming v4 realvnc for unix has a loadable module for XFree86 which makes it cleaner to export an existing X session.
Larry