"Jane's Intelligence Review, the world's leading open source defence, security risk and threat analysis for the professional intelligence and defense analyst"
Obviously this means anyone can copy and redistribute copies of Jane's Intelligence Review as long as they make any modifications they make to the text publically accessible...
But then there's no guarantee it'll get put on the LDP site, and could well sit rotting on some irrelevant server somewhere. I had to have approval from _someone_.
People who want to write docs want people to read them!
"Last updated" dates. Placed beside the name of each document in the list. At a glance, you could tell whether a certain HOWTO has any chance at all of being able to solve your 2.2-specific problem.
I went through once and took the last-modded date out of each document and looked through them. Average age of the docs was about a year to a year and a half. An age in Internet time.
They would get updated if it were made easier. I know many people who have busted a gut trying to get stuff submitted, or permission to make "official" changes, but been rebuffed or ignored.
I am involved with an effort to write a book for Linux newbies. I was pushing really, really hard for them to use the LDP docs as a base. After all, I thought, there was no point in reinventing the wheel. But, there seemed no point unless we could get the official blessing of the LDP moderator so we could guarantee our work wouldn't be wasted. The authors' consent (to avoid forking) would also be nice.
So, what did I do? I mailed the authors of the documents (that's you, Matt, and Larry Greenfield), and the LDP maintainer (at the time, Greg Hankins), asking them if we could take it on.
No response. From anyone.
In the face of that, the group decided to go their own way and write it all from scratch. A wasted opportunity.
I also wrote a whole bunch of ideas down for simple, easy, non-controversial things we could do to make access to the LDP info easier. That want to Greg and Guylhem Anzar (sp?). No meaningful replies. (A few of them are in a separate message.)
So, what The LDP really needs is a coordinator who will answer their e-mail, and *do* something!
It's a free, Open Source IMAP and POP clustering solution using Exim and, er, other stuff. Written by Malcolm Beattie, Perl guru and all round clever person. It runs Oxford University's 20,000 user system very, very well (no downtime in a year IIRC). It's what you want.
So it is just that no-one else has yet posted enough decent posts for this to happen to them?
It seems rather self-fulfilling - if it were the case that mods had a tendency to mod someone "famous" up out of respect, it would lead to a situation where those who already have a platform get another one ("The first 20 million is always the hardest...";-)
Is auto-upgrading of people who are modded-up lots a good idea? I thought it was, but I don't think the/. rating system has sufficient granularity for it to work. Maybe it'll iron itself out over time.
Of the 13 messages appearing at Level 2, my default level, 11 are by Bruce Perens.
I have a lot of respect for the man and his views, and he's done great things, but is he the only person commenting on this issue with anything relevant to say?
Perhaps moderators could be a little more generous with the points to those of us who are less famous...:-)
It would be very difficult indeed for the open source community to make a free alternative to MP3, unencumbered by copyright. Once the algorithm is developed, coding software to implement it is easy. But there are very few people in the world with enough time, money and knowhow to design a completely new audio encoding technology.
Wasn't there an article about this linked to on/. quit recently?
- Other languages can be supported simply by doing the equivalent of using different "character sets". You just need a standard one for each language.
- The "common letters" list for English begins "e a t o n". After that there are a load with roughly the same frequency. They seem to have incorporated that pretty well.
- It would be easy to avoid "drift", and so to be able to enter text without looking, if the pad you were writing on had a raised border. Sound would also help (as suggested). The raised border could be implemented in software if using a joystick etc. (no movement beyond a certain radius).
- Given that the hassle of having more than one "version" of this would far outweigh the convenience of swapping a few letters, it's VITAL that the layout doesn't fragment within one language if this is to catch on. Remember the annoyance of different keyboard layouts.
- Imagine the size you could get hardware down to! I could do this on the face of my watch. Forget voice recognition; this is the future;-)
- It's very, very cool, and anyone can learn and use it given a few hours. If it was standardised on, it could become a skill everyone knows, like typing.
I would have thought that Computer magazine and the IEEE would be interested to know, if they don't already, about the factual inaccuracies in this article - how much pressure would need to be exerted to get them to print a correction or six?
If someone big in the GNU/Linux/Open Source world, or the author of this well argued piece, were to make official representations to Computer, we might well get a result:-)
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Have you seen the title to their main page?
"Jane's Intelligence Review, the world's leading open source defence, security risk and threat analysis for the professional intelligence and defense analyst"
Obviously this means anyone can copy and redistribute copies of Jane's Intelligence Review as long as they make any modifications they make to the text publically accessible...
Gerv
But then there's no guarantee it'll get put on the LDP site, and could well sit rotting on some irrelevant server somewhere. I had to have approval from _someone_.
People who want to write docs want people to read them!
Gerv
"Last updated" dates. Placed beside the name of each document in the list. At a glance, you could tell whether a certain HOWTO has any chance at all of being able to solve your 2.2-specific problem.
I went through once and took the last-modded date out of each document and looked through them. Average age of the docs was about a year to a year and a half. An age in Internet time.
They would get updated if it were made easier. I know many people who have busted a gut trying to get stuff submitted, or permission to make "official" changes, but been rebuffed or ignored.
Gerv
I am involved with an effort to write a book for Linux newbies. I was pushing really, really hard for them to use the LDP docs as a base. After all, I thought, there was no point in reinventing the wheel. But, there seemed no point unless we could get the official blessing of the LDP moderator so we could guarantee our work wouldn't be wasted. The authors' consent (to avoid forking) would also be nice.
So, what did I do? I mailed the authors of the documents (that's you, Matt, and Larry Greenfield), and the LDP maintainer (at the time, Greg Hankins), asking them if we could take it on.
No response. From anyone.
In the face of that, the group decided to go their own way and write it all from scratch. A wasted opportunity.
I also wrote a whole bunch of ideas down for simple, easy, non-controversial things we could do to make access to the LDP info easier. That want to Greg and Guylhem Anzar (sp?). No meaningful replies. (A few of them are in a separate message.)
So, what The LDP really needs is a coordinator who will answer their e-mail, and *do* something!
Gerv
If you want to do this, check out WING:
http://users.ox.ac.uk/~mbeattie/wing.html
It's a free, Open Source IMAP and POP clustering solution using Exim and, er, other stuff. Written by Malcolm Beattie, Perl guru and all round clever person. It runs Oxford University's 20,000 user system very, very well (no downtime in a year IIRC). It's what you want.
Gerv
Good point.
;-)
/. rating system has sufficient granularity for it to work. Maybe it'll iron itself out over time.
So it is just that no-one else has yet posted enough decent posts for this to happen to them?
It seems rather self-fulfilling - if it were the case that mods had a tendency to mod someone "famous" up out of respect, it would lead to a situation where those who already have a platform get another one ("The first 20 million is always the hardest..."
Is auto-upgrading of people who are modded-up lots a good idea? I thought it was, but I don't think the
Gerv
Of the 13 messages appearing at Level 2, my default level, 11 are by Bruce Perens.
I have a lot of respect for the man and his views, and he's done great things, but is he the only person commenting on this issue with anything relevant to say?
Perhaps moderators could be a little more generous with the points to those of us who are less famous...
Gerv
It would be very difficult indeed for the open source community to make a free alternative to MP3, unencumbered by copyright. Once the algorithm is developed, coding software to implement it is easy. But there are very few people in the world with enough time, money and knowhow to design a completely new audio encoding technology.
/. quit recently?
Wasn't there an article about this linked to on
Gerv
- Other languages can be supported simply by doing the equivalent of using different "character sets". You just need a standard one for each language.
;-)
- The "common letters" list for English begins "e a t o n". After that there are a load with roughly the same frequency. They seem to have incorporated that pretty well.
- It would be easy to avoid "drift", and so to be able to enter text without looking, if the pad you were writing on had a raised border. Sound would also help (as suggested). The raised border could be implemented in software if using a joystick etc. (no movement beyond a certain radius).
- Given that the hassle of having more than one "version" of this would far outweigh the convenience of swapping a few letters, it's VITAL that the layout doesn't fragment within one language if this is to catch on. Remember the annoyance of different keyboard layouts.
- Imagine the size you could get hardware down to! I could do this on the face of my watch. Forget voice recognition; this is the future
- It's very, very cool, and anyone can learn and use it given a few hours. If it was standardised on, it could become a skill everyone knows, like typing.
Gerv
I would have thought that Computer magazine and the IEEE would be interested to know, if they don't already, about the factual inaccuracies in this article - how much pressure would need to be exerted to get them to print a correction or six?
:-)
;-)
If someone big in the GNU/Linux/Open Source world, or the author of this well argued piece, were to make official representations to Computer, we might well get a result
Linus, are you listening?
(Er... no
Gerv