I have to agree. It takes about 5 minutes to get an understanding of what you need. After setting it up it just works. NFS is a great... Network File System. No need to re-invent the wheel here.
My favourite part of xine is the plugins for DVD nagivation.
Personally I prefer using mplayer because it's faster and higher quality. It's also got DirectFB and Vidix drivers so I can output the signal to my TV while not in X.
However my girlfriend isn't overly keen on typing a long list of switches to activate mplayer with the right video driver, input source, chapter and track, and xine's DVD Navigation shines in this area.
I don't know why the mplayer developers insist that it is virutally impossible to incorporate dvd navigation into mplayer. Maybe they are right and it is really hard to do.
Anyway I just read that xine supports Vidix and Vesa drivers, so hopefully it actually works on mine AND dvd navigation also works without X. Anyone (Radeon users pissed-off at no tv-out under X) gotten xine working in this way yet?
I'm pretty sure, yes. I'm aware that James Lovelock would also agree with this argument. Unfortunately I lent the book in question (Stuart Kauffman's) to a friend so I can't verify if it was him or not, but yeah I'm pretty sure.
Chemical equilibrium means that the sustance in question (in this case the atmosphere) is not reacting with itself.
For example, if you have some acid and mix it with a metal, you get a reaction. That mix you have is not in equilibrium at the start. But after it reacts for a while, it will use up all it's potential energy, and stop reacting. It's then in chemical equilibrium.
I read a book by Stuart Kauffman (hope I spelt that right). He said he was asked by NASA to help design probes to send to Mars to look for life. He told them not to bother, and his reasoning was:
All life takes in energy and matter from the environment, extracts energy, and produces waste. This process causes chemical imbalences in the atmosphere. Therefore to test for the presence of life, you only need to determine whether the atmosphere is in chemical equilibrium. Mars' atmosphere is, and has been for many millions of years.
Apparently this line of reasoning upset NASA, because they wanted to go to Mars, so they made their probes without his help, and when they arrived on Mars, found no traces of current life.
If they send more probes, they could very well find evidence of past life, but there is nothing going on there at the moment.
However I remember reading a story a while ago on Slashdot about how the atmosphere of Venus is operating far from chemical equilibrium, and that there may be some primitive life in the 400 degree acid in the atmosphere. Maybe someone should pay more attention to Venus...
You are assuming that SDI will be used in defense. When used for its primary purpose - attacking countries that do not approve of the US regime - the danger is that instead of knocking out a military target, a bug in the software could cause the death of a large number of civilians in a highly populated area............ Oh yeah. It already happened and no-one gives a shit. Sorry.
The poster was referring to the problems associated with a software bug in Baby Bush's Star Wars project. In this case, failure could mean mass extinctions.
Obviously this is embarrassing to Telstra. While it may inconvenience a few businesses temporarily, it might be worth it if it makes Telstra and other ISPs take a stronger stance against spam. I get a bit of spam from AOL users myself, so I can't say that they are setting a perfect example. But I don't care if it means I'll get less spam.
I'm sick of all the spam, and all the spam comes from DSL SPAM faggots. So what's the problem? If you have to send mail from a DSL account, use your ISP SMTP server. That's what it's there for. Having said that, I am a DSL user who uses his own SMTP server (mainly for spam filtering which I think I can do better than my ISP)- but if I am forced to use my ISP's smtp server to help lessen the burden of SPAM, I don't have a problem with that.
For another way to fight spam, which I read on the Mimedefang mailing list, how about setting up a way for domain admins to specify valid smtp servers for a domain. Then when mail comes in from, for example, yahoo.com, your mail server can query yahoo.com for the list, and if the originating server isn't on it, then the mail isn't accepted.
By using closed source binary codecs stolen from proprietary closed source programs?
It depends on what you're trying to achieve. If your first priority is to make a movie player / encoder package for Linux that rocks, then you may have to make compromises with your purest vision of open source technology, at least for a period.
Of course each person has the option of not downloading and using the windows binaries, but I will guarantee that for those who use mplayer as their main video player, when they have the choice of using mplayer's.dll loading capabilities or switching to another video player that has a native linux decoder, they will stick with mplayer. It's nice to have ideals, but when you're watching a movie, you care more about how the movie looks / sounds than whether you have win32 dll loaded.
I would urge developers and systems builders and all people to avoide the Windows Media format like the plague. M$ are only licencing it to Linux developers to gain market penetration. When they get enough penetration, it will be every man for themselves. The licences will not be renewed, and we will have mandatory DRM following shortly after. We need to promote open standards and boycott Windows Media format.
Yet another weapon the Americans can add to their tally. I suppose you can expect this sort of crap from a country that spends 50% of their tax dollars on war. I'm sure glad those Americans are so charitable they are out there to 'protect my sorry arse' from all the nasty terrorists and such.
The US does nothing for the rest of the world. All it's actions are to further its own economic and military supremacy. Who exactly determined that the US may have the largest stockpile of Weapons of Mass Destruction (tm) in the world, closely followed by Israel, an illegitimate state, and that Iraq is allowed none? And where is the proof that they have these WOMD anyway? Even after weeks of invading, no proof has been forthcoming. If you co-workers are risking their lives then that is their problem. My ass doesn't need or want your 'protection'. It is not in danger - or was not until you pig-headed Americans made more terrorists than there ever have been by illegally invading Iraq. Hopefully the rest of the world will wake up to the atrocities that the US has and is committing and get Baby and Big Bush in the international criminal courts where they belong.
You mean like the Taliban prisoners of war in Afghanistan who were piled into trucks and 'transported' across the country until eye-witnesses could see blood pouring from the trucks. And then those weren't crushed to death or suffocated or died of heat exhaustion or dehydration were taken out of the trucks and shot execution style.
The US doesn't play by internationally accepted rules of combat any more. Baby Bush and his gang of outlaws need to spend a few weeks in the International Court.
Oh golly gosh. Some kind soul has posted a patch to solve all my problems. I must click on it right away even though the poster doesn't know how to insert a hyperlink into a web page.
You make the assumption that the US understands that there is more to the rest of the world than profit potential. History demonstrates that this is not the case.
This argument might fly for a company that didn't have unlimited resources as Microsoft does. But for a monopoly hell-bent on proving their worth through their 'trustworthy computing' marketing campaign, simply turning their backs on the problem is not good enough. It is true that Microsoft may believe that their resources are better spent on tightening their current products, but that is no consolation for people with older products that expect some kind of service guarantee. I am sure that Microsoft would believe that their resources are actually better spent in the bank than working on their current software, which is probably why we have the problem to begin with. However for all my condemnation of them I think this is actually a good thing as it will remind people of the alternatives such as Linux and break up MS's stanglehold on their market.
Democracy? George Bush is not an elected leader. He is appointed by the courts. Democracy?
Even ignoring this 'incident', you think voting for one monkey over another every 3-4 years gives you any say in what actually goes on? I think not. Especially when the election campaigns cost millions of dollars. Your fine democracy is nothing but a corporation-run dictatorship, masquerading as a democracy.
Unfortunately, us Australians are chasing hard on your tails (or whatever it is that Johnny Howard finds attractive in Baby Bush).
Yeah it's taken for ever. But you can tell it will be good when it gets here. There has been a long-running thread about a real-time background which represents the weather / time / moon-phase. Sounds _really_ sweet. Eye-candy galore once the libs are finally set in stone. I currently switch between E-16 cvs (it's got some work-arounds for rendering issues with later version of X) and E-17 cvs. Every so often I'll try out Gnome / KDE out for a couple of days, but I always end up getting annoyed enough to go back to E. It's just a better interface.
I'd like to see DirectFB take off. It looks pretty cool and is quite fast. Don't know how practical it is or what issues are involved, but anyway if the X ship is sinking, I'm voting for DirectFB. Of course the X boat is not sinking though. All those who are sick of X can just stop using X, and see how you go... ha! I don't know what most people are whinging about. X is incredibly fast on my computer. I run Enlightenment-0.16.5 and Enlightenment-0.17. And yeah I use network transparency a little. That's cool too. And my games run swift as lightning. Direct Rendering is sure working. Is X really that bad that people need to dump it and start again? I'm not convinced.
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I have to agree. ... Network File System. No need to re-invent the wheel here.
It takes about 5 minutes to get an understanding of what you need. After setting it up it just works.
NFS is a great
My favourite part of xine is the plugins for DVD nagivation.
Personally I prefer using mplayer because it's faster and higher quality. It's also got DirectFB and Vidix drivers so I can output the signal to my TV while not in X.
However my girlfriend isn't overly keen on typing a long list of switches to activate mplayer with the right video driver, input source, chapter and track, and xine's DVD Navigation shines in this area.
I don't know why the mplayer developers insist that it is virutally impossible to incorporate dvd navigation into mplayer. Maybe they are right and it is really hard to do.
Anyway I just read that xine supports Vidix and Vesa drivers, so hopefully it actually works on mine AND dvd navigation also works without X. Anyone (Radeon users pissed-off at no tv-out under X) gotten xine working in this way yet?
I'm pretty sure, yes. I'm aware that James Lovelock would also agree with this argument.
Unfortunately I lent the book in question (Stuart Kauffman's) to a friend so I can't verify if it was him or not, but yeah I'm pretty sure.
Chemical equilibrium means that the sustance in question (in this case the atmosphere) is not reacting with itself.
For example, if you have some acid and mix it with a metal, you get a reaction. That mix you have is not in equilibrium at the start. But after it reacts for a while, it will use up all it's potential energy, and stop reacting. It's then in chemical equilibrium.
I read a book by Stuart Kauffman (hope I spelt that right). He said he was asked by NASA to help design probes to send to Mars to look for life. He told them not to bother, and his reasoning was:
All life takes in energy and matter from the environment, extracts energy, and produces waste. This process causes chemical imbalences in the atmosphere. Therefore to test for the presence of life, you only need to determine whether the atmosphere is in chemical equilibrium. Mars' atmosphere is, and has been for many millions of years.
Apparently this line of reasoning upset NASA, because they wanted to go to Mars, so they made their probes without his help, and when they arrived on Mars, found no traces of current life.
If they send more probes, they could very well find evidence of past life, but there is nothing going on there at the moment.
However I remember reading a story a while ago on Slashdot about how the atmosphere of Venus is operating far from chemical equilibrium, and that there may be some primitive life in the 400 degree acid in the atmosphere. Maybe someone should pay more attention to Venus...
You are assuming that SDI will be used in defense.
When used for its primary purpose - attacking countries that do not approve of the US regime - the danger is that instead of knocking out a military target, a bug in the software could cause the death of a large number of civilians in a highly populated area............
Oh yeah.
It already happened and no-one gives a shit.
Sorry.
Oh the horror!
Someone got a story posted to Slashdot that contained anti-Bush propaganda.
You wouldn't last long at http://www.kuro5hin.org
The poster was referring to the problems associated with a software bug in Baby Bush's Star Wars project. In this case, failure could mean mass extinctions.
So buy a console.
And buy one for all the children.
But don't tell others what they can and can't develop for Linux. It's not really up to you.
Obviously this is embarrassing to Telstra. While it may inconvenience a few businesses temporarily, it might be worth it if it makes Telstra and other ISPs take a stronger stance against spam. I get a bit of spam from AOL users myself, so I can't say that they are setting a perfect example. But I don't care if it means I'll get less spam.
I'm sick of all the spam, and all the spam comes from DSL SPAM faggots. So what's the problem?
If you have to send mail from a DSL account, use your ISP SMTP server. That's what it's there for. Having said that, I am a DSL user who uses his own SMTP server (mainly for spam filtering which I think I can do better than my ISP)- but if I am forced to use my ISP's smtp server to help lessen the burden of SPAM, I don't have a problem with that.
For another way to fight spam, which I read on the Mimedefang mailing list, how about setting up a way for domain admins to specify valid smtp servers for a domain. Then when mail comes in from, for example, yahoo.com, your mail server can query yahoo.com for the list, and if the originating server isn't on it, then the mail isn't accepted.
It depends on what you're trying to achieve. If your first priority is to make a movie player / encoder package for Linux that rocks, then you may have to make compromises with your purest vision of open source technology, at least for a period.
Of course each person has the option of not downloading and using the windows binaries, but I will guarantee that for those who use mplayer as their main video player, when they have the choice of using mplayer's
I would urge developers and systems builders and all people to avoide the Windows Media format like the plague. M$ are only licencing it to Linux developers to gain market penetration. When they get enough penetration, it will be every man for themselves. The licences will not be renewed, and we will have mandatory DRM following shortly after.
We need to promote open standards and boycott Windows Media format.
Yet another weapon the Americans can add to their tally. I suppose you can expect this sort of crap from a country that spends 50% of their tax dollars on war.
I'm sure glad those Americans are so charitable they are out there to 'protect my sorry arse' from all the nasty terrorists and such.
I wouldn't surprise me.
But no I wasn't suggesting they were directly related to this incident.
This was just good old US military tradition.
The US does nothing for the rest of the world. All it's actions are to further its own economic and military supremacy. Who exactly determined that the US may have the largest stockpile of Weapons of Mass Destruction (tm) in the world, closely followed by Israel, an illegitimate state, and that Iraq is allowed none?
And where is the proof that they have these WOMD anyway? Even after weeks of invading, no proof has been forthcoming.
If you co-workers are risking their lives then that is their problem. My ass doesn't need or want your 'protection'. It is not in danger - or was not until you pig-headed Americans made more terrorists than there ever have been by illegally invading Iraq.
Hopefully the rest of the world will wake up to the atrocities that the US has and is committing and get Baby and Big Bush in the international criminal courts where they belong.
You mean like the Taliban prisoners of war in Afghanistan who were piled into trucks and 'transported' across the country until eye-witnesses could see blood pouring from the trucks. And then those weren't crushed to death or suffocated or died of heat exhaustion or dehydration were taken out of the trucks and shot execution style.
The US doesn't play by internationally accepted rules of combat any more. Baby Bush and his gang of outlaws need to spend a few weeks in the International Court.
... the US will be getting the fuck out of Iraq now they have their own source of Energy...
Oh golly gosh. Some kind soul has posted a patch to solve all my problems.
I must click on it right away even though the poster doesn't know how to insert a hyperlink into a web page.
... they'd unbundled IE from Windows and that was why it was taking so long to start...
Nah. I don't run Windows, and especially not XP. Gentoo only here.
You make the assumption that the US understands that there is more to the rest of the world than profit potential.
History demonstrates that this is not the case.
This argument might fly for a company that didn't have unlimited resources as Microsoft does. But for a monopoly hell-bent on proving their worth through their 'trustworthy computing' marketing campaign, simply turning their backs on the problem is not good enough. It is true that Microsoft may believe that their resources are better spent on tightening their current products, but that is no consolation for people with older products that expect some kind of service guarantee. I am sure that Microsoft would believe that their resources are actually better spent in the bank than working on their current software, which is probably why we have the problem to begin with.
However for all my condemnation of them I think this is actually a good thing as it will remind people of the alternatives such as Linux and break up MS's stanglehold on their market.
Democracy?
George Bush is not an elected leader.
He is appointed by the courts.
Democracy?
Even ignoring this 'incident', you think voting for one monkey over another every 3-4 years gives you any say in what actually goes on? I think not. Especially when the election campaigns cost millions of dollars. Your fine democracy is nothing but a corporation-run dictatorship, masquerading as a democracy.
Unfortunately, us Australians are chasing hard on your tails (or whatever it is that Johnny Howard finds attractive in Baby Bush).
Yeah it's taken for ever. But you can tell it will be good when it gets here. There has been a long-running thread about a real-time background which represents the weather / time / moon-phase. Sounds _really_ sweet. Eye-candy galore once the libs are finally set in stone.
I currently switch between E-16 cvs (it's got some work-arounds for rendering issues with later version of X) and E-17 cvs. Every so often I'll try out Gnome / KDE out for a couple of days, but I always end up getting annoyed enough to go back to E. It's just a better interface.
I'd like to see DirectFB take off. ... ha! I don't know what most people are whinging about. X is incredibly fast on my computer. I run Enlightenment-0.16.5 and Enlightenment-0.17. And yeah I use network transparency a little. That's cool too. And my games run swift as lightning. Direct Rendering is sure working. Is X really that bad that people need to dump it and start again? I'm not convinced.
It looks pretty cool and is quite fast.
Don't know how practical it is or what issues are involved, but anyway if the X ship is sinking, I'm voting for DirectFB.
Of course the X boat is not sinking though.
All those who are sick of X can just stop using X, and see how you go