is there any way - besides dedicated locked up printers with numbered pages - that one can use to date and verify the authenticity of information? in such a way that will stand up at all in court? so far the only cheap way i know of verifying an idea is mailing it to yourself, but that requires going to the store for stamps... how 1998.
unless they provide some way to do xml-rpc, xml-http stuff. basically to have the browser be able to call more data from the server without actually loading a new page. there are some hidden iframe hacks you can do, but its light and day between these hacks and actual xmlhttp work.
i understand the desire to adhere to a standard, but its much akin to deciding not to include an axel with your car because there are no axel standards: its just not gonna drive.
opera needs to get off their high horse and do something about this, ASAP. my favorite browser, but i cannot deploy it because its missing the most crucial instrument of DHTML, well, except maybe making snowflakes fall across my page. Myren
i'm three semesters away from my term of service and looking to get the hell out of here. i was originally thinking portland, although that plan was pretty much put on back burner on anecdotal accounts of there being shite for jobs there, more so than anywhere else. property values looked a lot more reasonable than wash dc where i am now, which was great, but that does no good when you cant get a job. i'm hoping someone can discuss this point to give me a better idea. i'm technical, but the my friends who want to move with me are mostly non-technical types.
i knew there was a growing tech culture in portland, but in some ways i'm a bit suprised there's a linux/portland article like this. its kind of reminded me about that blip on the radar, and gives it some good light. i still cant tell whether it was just a regional article not unlike many you'd find in many regional papaers, or whether there's some mertis to portland's "linux army" claims. is portland really a rapidly-warming (hot) bed?
i've been wanting to ask this for a while, but didnt know where to ask. even if you just wanna suggest better places for this discussion, i'd be honored by your replies.
from a country approaching 1950's levels of infrastuacture development, which will span the next 50 years of infrastructure development in well well under half the remaining difference.
although i agree with your point, as counterpoint i do have to point out that it means we are trusting people with zero governmental interest and no scale of global understanding to determine what is best for our country. is it best to have people elected based on their looks?
carrying our problems further, political campaigns are obviously biased sources of information; it should be criminal for anyone to trust what their politicians say.
i think politics would be a more interesting if they all had to wear paper bags on their heads, identify themselves solely as a number while campaigning, and could not officially state party affinity. of course, the spin doctors would do it anywhere, but the highly comical rendition of the "make the people think about it" political system does kind of amuse me.
isnt this what linux is all about? spend 40x what you would anywhere else in hopes that it runs perfectly flawlessly for the rest of your existance? that every four seconds you save time and time again will add up the to the weekend it took to configure?
my life has no price, but somehow i still value it.
economists love looking at dollar costs, but i've never seen one who can consider social costs as anything more than a simple dollar value either. when it all comes down to it, the real test is:
its fear that a broad-based community will have to create and support the entire infrastructure without ever making a dime off the billion plus people using it. frankly, i like getting payed to program.
Does firewire have any way to syncronize timing? Isosycronous scheduled packet which can be used for timing data or something?
thats the biggest problem with AV. you can move the digital source wherever you want but as anyone who'se ever tried to setup even a shoutcast server which feeds a number of computers in one household, it is im-freaking-possible to get them all to play in anything resembling unison.
i'd like to point out UPnP is the only one that releases enough specs for you to build your own device without having to give your name or address to anyone, much less pay developer fees.
most av devices have a complex enough central processor to skip the foreplay and jump straight to GigE where you can start implementing higher levels of control (network level: tunneling, firewalling, routing, all that).
out little undergrad team developped a universal plug and play network device and is working on a software interface thereto. universal plug and play sounds a lot like what little we've heard of iReady from these sound bites, but its somewhat an "open standard" in that we can just go download specs and start making devices. we've spent a while thinking of how to really use our network, and besides lighting, av gear is the only legitimate solution we've dredged up for common use.
with an open standard like universal plug and play, you can really work at uprooting the amx/crestron proprietary systems that cost and arm and a leg. you can install them yourselves and use your own choice of interfaces. a lot of choice you dont get with the proprietary systems.
the problem with the one cable centralized content/control distribution is that standards such as these are far less important in that world because these systems are just computers. applicances need a way of being controlled over computer, computers typically have this advantage inherently built in.
i believe Via just released one of their mini mobo's with component output. add GOOD sound output (Envy24?) and gigabit ethernet and a diskless linux boot and you're already nearing the apocalypse. Mobo + ram + power supply + case = one connector media box. + a metric f ton of linux legwork.
although i said standards like this are less important for computers, they do implement a higher level of cross system functionality thats really very useful. universal plug and play can really help cross system integration. instead of custom scripting each cd rom drive across all the systems, you can start having each computer just be a device in your greater network, your home becomes the "central computer". its hard to describe, but behaviorally its much better than just samba sharing everything. inherently universal plug and play implements no privledge system across this, but software will begin cropping up to manage and orchestrate your network, thereby providing privledge systems.
sites down right now, mobo shot, but we'll have our page back up at http://www.alienintels.com/spiffy/ if you're interested in our work. a PIC clone implementation of a UPnP device runs the hardware, and the software runs off a SQL database.
>> even the best Linux distros are dramatically less stable and robust than the BSDs
>Any benchmark or anything to substantiate your claims ?
you dont benchmark stability.
>> GPL-only licensing is the kiss of death for the kinds of large-scale commercial support such a venture needs.
>Bullshit !! Then how come commercial vendors like IBM, HP and all support linux and not any BSD based proejcts ? When they joined the "linux bandwagon", BSDs were clearly superior. Actually commercial firms prefer GPL because they are guarantied that their work wont be leveraged by competetors against them.
your talking about solution vendors. they support linux because it has a big userbase. because they want more people to buy their stuff. ibm's solution providing equates to configuration management for linux. no reason to edit sources for that, so no reason to worry about gpl. they're just playing ball with where the most people are.
userlinux isnt intended for hardware vendors and solution providers. its intended for software or embedded vendors. people who make complete packages items idiots cant fuck with. companies who run userlinux dont advertise linux support, they might even try and hide it. its not about supporting linux, its about running and using linux.
thats what perens wants to make, as far as i can tell, and its fucking brilliant.
i mentioned userlinux going lgpl only on the no kde in userlinux thread before i found this.
why would anyone be suprised to learn kde was denied entry given that it is actually designed to be lgpl?
in terms of the topic, the hardware support for linux is most excellent. more importantly, linux is a corporate name.
although being gpl does add some annoyances, its not like a software app where you likely have to expose your whole apps source code. if your really in a pinch on some hardware, abstract kernel interfaces with userland drivers always work. (tivo w/ nfs...)
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is there any way - besides dedicated locked up printers with numbered pages - that one can use to date and verify the authenticity of information? in such a way that will stand up at all in court? so far the only cheap way i know of verifying an idea is mailing it to yourself, but that requires going to the store for stamps... how 1998.
Myren
unless they provide some way to do xml-rpc, xml-http stuff. basically to have the browser be able to call more data from the server without actually loading a new page. there are some hidden iframe hacks you can do, but its light and day between these hacks and actual xmlhttp work.
i understand the desire to adhere to a standard, but its much akin to deciding not to include an axel with your car because there are no axel standards: its just not gonna drive.
opera needs to get off their high horse and do something about this, ASAP. my favorite browser, but i cannot deploy it because its missing the most crucial instrument of DHTML, well, except maybe making snowflakes fall across my page.
Myren
i'm three semesters away from my term of service and looking to get the hell out of here. i was originally thinking portland, although that plan was pretty much put on back burner on anecdotal accounts of there being shite for jobs there, more so than anywhere else. property values looked a lot more reasonable than wash dc where i am now, which was great, but that does no good when you cant get a job. i'm hoping someone can discuss this point to give me a better idea. i'm technical, but the my friends who want to move with me are mostly non-technical types.
i knew there was a growing tech culture in portland, but in some ways i'm a bit suprised there's a linux/portland article like this. its kind of reminded me about that blip on the radar, and gives it some good light. i still cant tell whether it was just a regional article not unlike many you'd find in many regional papaers, or whether there's some mertis to portland's "linux army" claims. is portland really a rapidly-warming (hot) bed?
i've been wanting to ask this for a while, but didnt know where to ask. even if you just wanna suggest better places for this discussion, i'd be honored by your replies.
and just hope they werent the half lucky enough to not work for your company. thank you ring world.
i'm not even sure what it is, but it defiantely has something to do with this...
[biggest failure as nerd]
perhapas its not just something wrong with these idiots everywhere, but something inherently wrong with the system which promotes such acts of idiocy
Plus a new LSD and I cant imagine any problems.
from a country approaching 1950's levels of infrastuacture development, which will span the next 50 years of infrastructure development in well well under half the remaining difference.
that has natural resources.
now why would be scared?
you cant take away man's right to spew countless polutants into the air and sea, its our god given right to make money!
Going to Mars and taming space is the only way forward for humanity as a whole
before we start driving, i'd like to ask for some directions. i have this sneaking suspicion...
although i agree with your point, as counterpoint i do have to point out that it means we are trusting people with zero governmental interest and no scale of global understanding to determine what is best for our country. is it best to have people elected based on their looks?
carrying our problems further, political campaigns are obviously biased sources of information; it should be criminal for anyone to trust what their politicians say.
i think politics would be a more interesting if they all had to wear paper bags on their heads, identify themselves solely as a number while campaigning, and could not officially state party affinity. of course, the spin doctors would do it anywhere, but the highly comical rendition of the "make the people think about it" political system does kind of amuse me.
myren
haha. $50 for a multi colored universal 120v socket LED light.
dont hold your breath.
isnt this what linux is all about? spend 40x what you would anywhere else in hopes that it runs perfectly flawlessly for the rest of your existance? that every four seconds you save time and time again will add up the to the weekend it took to configure?
(maybe i'm just not as fast as ya'll)
wow... these people actually exist!
my life has no price, but somehow i still value it.
economists love looking at dollar costs, but i've never seen one who can consider social costs as anything more than a simple dollar value either. when it all comes down to it, the real test is:
what is the cost of a human life?
its fear that a broad-based community will have to create and support the entire infrastructure without ever making a dime off the billion plus people using it. frankly, i like getting payed to program.
Does firewire have any way to syncronize timing? Isosycronous scheduled packet which can be used for timing data or something?
thats the biggest problem with AV. you can move the digital source wherever you want but as anyone who'se ever tried to setup even a shoutcast server which feeds a number of computers in one household, it is im-freaking-possible to get them all to play in anything resembling unison.
i'd like to point out UPnP is the only one that releases enough specs for you to build your own device without having to give your name or address to anyone, much less pay developer fees.
most av devices have a complex enough central processor to skip the foreplay and jump straight to GigE where you can start implementing higher levels of control (network level: tunneling, firewalling, routing, all that).
out little undergrad team developped a universal plug and play network device and is working on a software interface thereto. universal plug and play sounds a lot like what little we've heard of iReady from these sound bites, but its somewhat an "open standard" in that we can just go download specs and start making devices. we've spent a while thinking of how to really use our network, and besides lighting, av gear is the only legitimate solution we've dredged up for common use.
with an open standard like universal plug and play, you can really work at uprooting the amx/crestron proprietary systems that cost and arm and a leg. you can install them yourselves and use your own choice of interfaces. a lot of choice you dont get with the proprietary systems.
the problem with the one cable centralized content/control distribution is that standards such as these are far less important in that world because these systems are just computers. applicances need a way of being controlled over computer, computers typically have this advantage inherently built in.
i believe Via just released one of their mini mobo's with component output. add GOOD sound output (Envy24?) and gigabit ethernet and a diskless linux boot and you're already nearing the apocalypse. Mobo + ram + power supply + case = one connector media box. + a metric f ton of linux legwork.
although i said standards like this are less important for computers, they do implement a higher level of cross system functionality thats really very useful. universal plug and play can really help cross system integration. instead of custom scripting each cd rom drive across all the systems, you can start having each computer just be a device in your greater network, your home becomes the "central computer". its hard to describe, but behaviorally its much better than just samba sharing everything. inherently universal plug and play implements no privledge system across this, but software will begin cropping up to manage and orchestrate your network, thereby providing privledge systems.
sites down right now, mobo shot, but we'll have our page back up at http://www.alienintels.com/spiffy/ if you're interested in our work. a PIC clone implementation of a UPnP device runs the hardware, and the software runs off a SQL database.
Myren
medical systems require end after end of certification and approval. much like mil-spec gear.
;-] what with those collisions and what not.
i'd be amazed if they'd gotten around to approving packet based networks yet.
would you trust your life to a home automation standard called iReady? how about someone elses?
except that framework was already invented and called universal plug and play.
i havent seen any specs for developing iReady ready appliances. Universal plug and play actually is an open spec.
Myren
the premium on 4 way systems is rediculous.
i built my dual 2500 barton system for under $400. you couldnt buy one processor socket on a 4 way board for that price.
>> even the best Linux distros are dramatically
less stable and robust than the BSDs
>Any benchmark or anything to substantiate your claims ?
you dont benchmark stability.
>> GPL-only licensing is the kiss of death for the kinds of large-scale commercial support such a venture needs.
>Bullshit !! Then how come commercial vendors like IBM, HP and all support linux and not any BSD based proejcts ? When they joined the "linux bandwagon", BSDs were clearly superior. Actually commercial firms prefer GPL because they are guarantied that their work wont be leveraged by competetors against them.
your talking about solution vendors. they support linux because it has a big userbase. because they want more people to buy their stuff. ibm's solution providing equates to configuration management for linux. no reason to edit sources for that, so no reason to worry about gpl. they're just playing ball with where the most people are.
userlinux isnt intended for hardware vendors and solution providers. its intended for software or embedded vendors. people who make complete packages items idiots cant fuck with. companies who run userlinux dont advertise linux support, they might even try and hide it. its not about supporting linux, its about running and using linux.
thats what perens wants to make, as far as i can tell, and its fucking brilliant.
i mentioned userlinux going lgpl only on the no kde in userlinux thread before i found this.
why would anyone be suprised to learn kde was denied entry given that it is actually designed to be lgpl?
in terms of the topic, the hardware support for linux is most excellent. more importantly, linux is a corporate name.
although being gpl does add some annoyances, its not like a software app where you likely have to expose your whole apps source code. if your really in a pinch on some hardware, abstract kernel interfaces with userland drivers always work. (tivo w/ nfs...)