Since the popularity of on-board software raid over the years, it seems that manufacturer Linux support has been nonexistent to mediocre at best. When support is provided, it's usually in the form of a binary kernel module that only works with one or two of the more popular commercial distributions.
I hope manufactures start to notice that a lot of people who buy the high end motherboards are the same people who are likely to use linux exclusively or at least dual boot. Initially, most of the popular serial ata chipsets included with motherboards, silicon image 3112 comes to mind, had lousy linux support particularly for the raid features. 2.6 has come a long way with ide raid support mostly due to developer's working to reverse engineer, but maybe just maybe manufactures will start to realize that linux support early on is a good and profitable business practice.
If I remember correctly, Ashcroft and CO were planning a major anti-porn initiative right before 9-11 happened. Not that I agree with any of this crap, this is probably just a play in Karl Rove's strategy of "strengthening the base" before the election since the theory goes that the country is so divided that there are only a minuscule portion of swing voters.
In all of the install cases here, the packaging system installs the software package along with any of the dependencies that are required. In the case of debian and especially gentoo, almost every package you need is available through the packaging system. Apple and Windows aren't even close to providing that level of packaging support. Although fink is probably the first thing i install on a virgin os x machine.
I will continue to rip my netflix movies and watch them when i want using the encoding I want. (OGM and OGG for audio). I would be interested in this service is the files were portable (ie multiple platforms and the ability to burn on to a DVD-r's). So far any of the pay-per-download movie service ideas I've seen require windows and require that you watch it on a computer. The market for people who want to watch movies only on a computer and are willing to pay for it is exteremly small.
Not just for people who think its "cute" or like the fact that you can pick a color, the mini-ipod is great for people who exercise (ie 1% of/.). I've owned 2 full size ipods in the past and they are simply too big for a run but manageable in the gym.
A lot of people i know who have mp3 portables use them exclusively for the gym, so Apple probably did a little bit of market research and found that a smaller device would be a hit among active people and women. For most people, the 4GB size limitation is not an issue. Remember, most of these active people are using 128mb flash players. The only big issue is the $250 price tag. Apparently apple priced it right, otherwise the device wouldn't be selling that well.
I hope the RIAA steps up the subpoenas against file sharing users at universities and elsewhere. While a few people may suffer the injustice of an RIAA settlement in the long term, there could be quite a few benefits.
P2P Developers start moving towards anonymous encrypted file sharing networks.
The Legality of the RIAA methods could be struck down.
Federal and State governments could get fed up with the RIAA attacks and actually do something about it. (unlikely)
Since the original suits last year, we have seen a slight move towards security in file sharing networks with smaller specific projects but the larger players leave users prone to the same harvesting attacks that the RIAA used last year. Really, nothing is going to change until Shaman networks makes Kazaa an anonymous system. From what I have seen, the RIAA has subpoenaed Kazaa users exclusively. That doesn't mean other networks like Gnutella are not harder spider.
One of the easiest ways around the technique the RIAA is using, is to disable the browse host feature in your file sharing app. This doesn't prevent them from suing a file sharing user but it does make it a little bit harder for the RIAA to get a laundry list of all the files a user is sharing. They could only find songs that match specific queries.
any suggestions of how I can get a good laptop in the New York area when I am only there for 4 days?
You should be able to find a local crackhead, within a short distance of any major intersection in NYC. They will have plenty of information on how to acquire name brand computers and electronics at ROCK bottom prices.
I've never understood the interest in purchasing a stand alone DVD or video player. Instead of purchasing an all in one pda, divx, and mp3 player, wouldn't something like a Fujistu P-series make more sense?
This is why OS-X's Cocoa and MS's.NET are storming the market right now....
How is Cocoa and.NET "Storming the market" when both are essentially tied to specific architectures and is the case of Cocoa, tied to aspecific hardware vendor?
Cocoa is a great tool for building applications for OS X but unless your a software development house targeting a niche market, OS X is out of of the question.
.NET is not nearly as popular as I thought it would be by now. There are just not that many apps out there that are making use of.NET and for good reason, although.NET offers some signifigant benefits over Java, its platform specific. Yes, Mono is out there but it will always be playing catch up.
I guess thats why Java has been "Storming the market" for quite some time.
Only a year after there was an official announcement for linux drivers, which was later recanted, intel releases incomplete drivers. I'm sorry but Intel could of handled this situation a LOT better. I feel really sorry for the people who have had a "centrino" laptop for the past year and a useless wifi card.
When I purchased my X31 from IBM a year ago, instead of going for a wireless option, I bought the machine "wireless rdy" and put in my own linux compatible prism2 minipci card, purchased off ebay. Because of this incident, I will certainly stay away from purchasing any item from intel where linux support is promised in the near future.
Hopefully companies like Intel will start to realize that Desktop Linux is here and people who are decision makers & influencer's in IT make up a significant portion of the desktop linux populous.
the G3 iBook can't push that much data. Others have hacked around the restrictions and made it work, only to be disappointed with uselessly low frame rates.
This still does not explain why it doesn't work at all, there is no reason it can't just pop up a warning and attempt to work. With my G3 500 ibook, I didn't any problems as long as I wasn't multitasking.
iSight == hardware, so getting USB
I wasn't trying to use usb cameras, it just turned out that the only way I could use my sight with the ibook is by purchasing shareware to override Apple's forced incompatibile that is designed to encourage people to buy new hardware.
I never really cared for Apple as a company or the "culture" that apple fans think they have, but recently I purchased a dual 2ghz G5 to replace my dual boot windows/gentoo pc at home. The main reason I bought the G5 was for audio, video, and photo work. The mac has some huge advantages there, but one of the main deciding factors was fink, the ability to easily install some of the oss packages I use everyday, was a big selling point.
I still run linux exclusively on my laptop and in the office, and on just about any server I have a say over. Some people ask why install Linux on a ppc but a lot of oss apps don't run smoothly on osx even with fink. I've had a lot of problems, where running a full fledged distro seems to run pretty smoothly on the ppc.
OSX is nice but if I was not running photoshop, garageband, or final cut, I would not have purchased a mac. I have a dual 2.8 xeon at work running gentoo that I prefer hands down over the G5 for coding, mainly for software reasons.
I like the gentoo packaging system, everything is available through portage. With OSX, I feel like I'm running windows again because most of the software is shareware. Like I just paid $130 for isight, but I can pretty much only video chat with it by default. If I want to use it for a webcam, I need to pay $30. If I want to record video with imovie, I need to pay $50 for ilife.
Another thing that bugged me about isight was the apple has hard coded the min requirements for the software. So if you plug the isight in to a 500mhz g3 ibook, it will not even attempt to work even though it could. I've never ran in to windows or linux software that will not even attempt to run if you don't meet the min requirements.
so it turns out I can use the isight with the g3 500 ibook, but I have to spend another $30 for some shareware that removes the limit and lets usb cameras work for isight. So in total, it cost me $110 in software in order to get basic functionality out of my $130 fire wire camera.
My debacle with the isight is classic case of why free software and keeping a separation between the software developers ands the company that makes the hardware, has a lot of value.
Now this is obviously not scientific, but it doesn't appear that java is hurting. In fact, it looks like if you wanted to improve your chances of employment, you're better off reading one of those java books.
All of the lawsuits I've seen dealing with individual P2P users involved Kazaa and a listing of all the files that the particular Kazaa user is sharing via browse host.
The bittorrent model is vulnerable but not nearly as bad as kazaa because most bittorent users are not sharing their whole collection at once and there is not an easy way to get a listing of everything they have.
Bittorrent is only really sharing chunks of a file. This is more of a question for the lawyers, but is it illegal to share a chunk of a file that has not completed downloading? How is a user suppose to know that a file in the process of downloading in copyrighted?
How would a site like suprnova be forced go offline? The site just links to mirrors, the mirrors link to the torrent, the torrent contains no copyrighted information just a guide for a bittorent app to use in order to download a file. Is there some kind of accessory to copyright infringement law, where a website detached by 4 levels separation can be held responsible?
All content protection schemes based around DRM are bad, icluding those used by Microsoft and Apple. But there is a huge difference in what each company can get away with, in the case of Apple using the fairplay DRM wrapper w/ AAC, the DRM issue is largely ignored because Apple is "cool." I don't care if its a friendly corp or a cold mega-corp like MS, DRM use by any company should be scorned regardless of their customer relations.
As much as everyone is griping about backwards compatability, do you really need it? I thought it was a cool feature when buying the ps2 over 3 years ago but I never used it. I didn't have any urge to play ps1 games after playing a few ps2 titles and if I wanted to play ps1 games, I could always hook up my ps1. Its not like your going to the sell the system on eBay and make any money. Same goes for the xbox by the time the xbox 2 comes out. I would prefer MS make something new rather than be limited by a backwards compatability requirement. Look what backwards compatability did for windows:)
How would a lawsuit against a few companies decide the future of P2P services? By its very nature, P2P is not dependent on a company to exist. Shaman networks, Grokster, and limewire could go out of business tomorrow and the networks would still be up.
Why support a company that doesn't support Linux on the desktop? When I bought my x31 think nearly a year ago, the intel wireless driver mess was still up in the air. The company was giving extremely mixed signals, so I decided to buy my laptop wireless rdy. I ended up buying a minipci Dell trumobile 1150 off ebay that uses the orinoco chipset. I saved $40 and got a card that worked with Linux.
The whole Centrino bit is a textbook monopolist tactic called a tying agreement. Intel can skirt around it because its still offering the pentium-m, but with no marketing support. The general customer is really confused and assumes that if the laptop does not have the centrino sticker, its not the best one.
The attitude of "turn services off and you don't need a firewall" is wrong.
What is wrong with that? If I don't have any services listening, how are you going to connect to my machine to attack? Nope sorry, I don't use outlook express or IE on my gentoo box:)
Although I don't think Doom3 will be vaporware, its important to remember that preorders don't have much value. Back in 1998, I preordered Valve's TeamFortress 2, which looked like a killer game at E3 and was scheduled for release in late November, 1998. Its now January, 2004 and I have yet to receive my copy of TF2. At least EB did give me a refund:)
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I hope manufactures start to notice that a lot of people who buy the high end motherboards are the same people who are likely to use linux exclusively or at least dual boot. Initially, most of the popular serial ata chipsets included with motherboards, silicon image 3112 comes to mind, had lousy linux support particularly for the raid features. 2.6 has come a long way with ide raid support mostly due to developer's working to reverse engineer, but maybe just maybe manufactures will start to realize that linux support early on is a good and profitable business practice.
If I remember correctly, Ashcroft and CO were planning a major anti-porn initiative right before 9-11 happened. Not that I agree with any of this crap, this is probably just a play in Karl Rove's strategy of "strengthening the base" before the election since the theory goes that the country is so divided that there are only a minuscule portion of swing voters.
Debian
apt-get install packagename
apt-get remove packagename
Gentoo
emerge packagename
emerge --unmerge packagename
Fedora
yum install packagename
yum remove packagename
Redhat
up2date packagename
rpm -e packagename
In all of the install cases here, the packaging system installs the software package along with any of the dependencies that are required. In the case of debian and especially gentoo, almost every package you need is available through the packaging system. Apple and Windows aren't even close to providing that level of packaging support. Although fink is probably the first thing i install on a virgin os x machine.
I will continue to rip my netflix movies and watch them when i want using the encoding I want. (OGM and OGG for audio). I would be interested in this service is the files were portable (ie multiple platforms and the ability to burn on to a DVD-r's). So far any of the pay-per-download movie service ideas I've seen require windows and require that you watch it on a computer. The market for people who want to watch movies only on a computer and are willing to pay for it is exteremly small.
A lot of people i know who have mp3 portables use them exclusively for the gym, so Apple probably did a little bit of market research and found that a smaller device would be a hit among active people and women. For most people, the 4GB size limitation is not an issue. Remember, most of these active people are using 128mb flash players. The only big issue is the $250 price tag. Apparently apple priced it right, otherwise the device wouldn't be selling that well.
- P2P Developers start moving towards anonymous encrypted file sharing networks.
- The Legality of the RIAA methods could be struck down.
- Federal and State governments could get fed up with the RIAA attacks and actually do something about it. (unlikely)
Since the original suits last year, we have seen a slight move towards security in file sharing networks with smaller specific projects but the larger players leave users prone to the same harvesting attacks that the RIAA used last year. Really, nothing is going to change until Shaman networks makes Kazaa an anonymous system. From what I have seen, the RIAA has subpoenaed Kazaa users exclusively. That doesn't mean other networks like Gnutella are not harder spider.One of the easiest ways around the technique the RIAA is using, is to disable the browse host feature in your file sharing app. This doesn't prevent them from suing a file sharing user but it does make it a little bit harder for the RIAA to get a laundry list of all the files a user is sharing. They could only find songs that match specific queries.
any suggestions of how I can get a good laptop in the New York area when I am only there for 4 days?
You should be able to find a local crackhead, within a short distance of any major intersection in NYC. They will have plenty of information on how to acquire name brand computers and electronics at ROCK bottom prices.
I've never understood the interest in purchasing a stand alone DVD or video player. Instead of purchasing an all in one pda, divx, and mp3 player, wouldn't something like a Fujistu P-series make more sense?
- Rio Karma is probably the most popular OGG portable.
- Roku Soundbridge is a great home player that supports both OGG and Itunes DRMed AAC.
There are a bunch of other devices that support OGG, but those two are my favorites.How is Cocoa and .NET "Storming the market" when both are essentially tied to specific architectures and is the case of Cocoa, tied to aspecific hardware vendor?
Cocoa is a great tool for building applications for OS X but unless your a software development house targeting a niche market, OS X is out of of the question.
I guess thats why Java has been "Storming the market" for quite some time.
When I purchased my X31 from IBM a year ago, instead of going for a wireless option, I bought the machine "wireless rdy" and put in my own linux compatible prism2 minipci card, purchased off ebay. Because of this incident, I will certainly stay away from purchasing any item from intel where linux support is promised in the near future.
Hopefully companies like Intel will start to realize that Desktop Linux is here and people who are decision makers & influencer's in IT make up a significant portion of the desktop linux populous.
I've had the occasional crash in portage but overall the benefits of portage far outweigh the occasional hickups.
My point is that the iSight can work with lower hardware, but Apple has a limit enforced in the software to encourage people to upgrade.
Then there's the fact that iMovie comes installed on G5s.
If you want to import video directly from the isight in to imovie, you need imovie4, which comes with ilife.
This still does not explain why it doesn't work at all, there is no reason it can't just pop up a warning and attempt to work. With my G3 500 ibook, I didn't any problems as long as I wasn't multitasking.
iSight == hardware, so getting USB
I wasn't trying to use usb cameras, it just turned out that the only way I could use my sight with the ibook is by purchasing shareware to override Apple's forced incompatibile that is designed to encourage people to buy new hardware.
I still run linux exclusively on my laptop and in the office, and on just about any server I have a say over. Some people ask why install Linux on a ppc but a lot of oss apps don't run smoothly on osx even with fink. I've had a lot of problems, where running a full fledged distro seems to run pretty smoothly on the ppc.
OSX is nice but if I was not running photoshop, garageband, or final cut, I would not have purchased a mac. I have a dual 2.8 xeon at work running gentoo that I prefer hands down over the G5 for coding, mainly for software reasons.
I like the gentoo packaging system, everything is available through portage. With OSX, I feel like I'm running windows again because most of the software is shareware. Like I just paid $130 for isight, but I can pretty much only video chat with it by default. If I want to use it for a webcam, I need to pay $30. If I want to record video with imovie, I need to pay $50 for ilife.
Another thing that bugged me about isight was the apple has hard coded the min requirements for the software. So if you plug the isight in to a 500mhz g3 ibook, it will not even attempt to work even though it could. I've never ran in to windows or linux software that will not even attempt to run if you don't meet the min requirements.
so it turns out I can use the isight with the g3 500 ibook, but I have to spend another $30 for some shareware that removes the limit and lets usb cameras work for isight. So in total, it cost me $110 in software in order to get basic functionality out of my $130 fire wire camera.
My debacle with the isight is classic case of why free software and keeping a separation between the software developers ands the company that makes the hardware, has a lot of value.
All 112533 results for java :
Lets take a look at jobs son monster too
over 5000+ with java
2079 with .net
Lets look at jobs in California as a good indicator of the current state of .NET
1361 w/ the keyword java.
310 jobs with .NET
Now this is obviously not scientific, but it doesn't appear that java is hurting. In fact, it looks like if you wanted to improve your chances of employment, you're better off reading one of those java books.
Napster had servers that directly matched up people for transfers, torrents are just files, a torrent is not a service.
The bittorrent model is vulnerable but not nearly as bad as kazaa because most bittorent users are not sharing their whole collection at once and there is not an easy way to get a listing of everything they have.
Bittorrent is only really sharing chunks of a file. This is more of a question for the lawyers, but is it illegal to share a chunk of a file that has not completed downloading? How is a user suppose to know that a file in the process of downloading in copyrighted?
How would a site like suprnova be forced go offline? The site just links to mirrors, the mirrors link to the torrent, the torrent contains no copyrighted information just a guide for a bittorent app to use in order to download a file. Is there some kind of accessory to copyright infringement law, where a website detached by 4 levels separation can be held responsible?
All content protection schemes based around DRM are bad, icluding those used by Microsoft and Apple. But there is a huge difference in what each company can get away with, in the case of Apple using the fairplay DRM wrapper w/ AAC, the DRM issue is largely ignored because Apple is "cool." I don't care if its a friendly corp or a cold mega-corp like MS, DRM use by any company should be scorned regardless of their customer relations.
As much as everyone is griping about backwards compatability, do you really need it? I thought it was a cool feature when buying the ps2 over 3 years ago but I never used it. I didn't have any urge to play ps1 games after playing a few ps2 titles and if I wanted to play ps1 games, I could always hook up my ps1. Its not like your going to the sell the system on eBay and make any money. Same goes for the xbox by the time the xbox 2 comes out. I would prefer MS make something new rather than be limited by a backwards compatability requirement. Look what backwards compatability did for windows :)
How would a lawsuit against a few companies decide the future of P2P services? By its very nature, P2P is not dependent on a company to exist. Shaman networks, Grokster, and limewire could go out of business tomorrow and the networks would still be up.
The whole Centrino bit is a textbook monopolist tactic called a tying agreement. Intel can skirt around it because its still offering the pentium-m, but with no marketing support. The general customer is really confused and assumes that if the laptop does not have the centrino sticker, its not the best one.
Gnutella 2 is just Sharezea and is not an official gnutella spec.
What is wrong with that? If I don't have any services listening, how are you going to connect to my machine to attack? Nope sorry, I don't use outlook express or IE on my gentoo box :)
Although I don't think Doom3 will be vaporware, its important to remember that preorders don't have much value. Back in 1998, I preordered Valve's TeamFortress 2, which looked like a killer game at E3 and was scheduled for release in late November, 1998. Its now January, 2004 and I have yet to receive my copy of TF2. At least EB did give me a refund :)