Cowon (http://www.cowonamerica.com/) players support FLAC and Ogg. Also Rockbox (http://rockbox.org) is a free software replacement firmware for many players that supports FLAC and many other formats. I have a Cowon iAudio X5L with Rockbox. It's a great music player.
There is a difference between education and training. A liberal arts school is supposed to provide a well rounded education -- to provide you with the tools you need to learn and be self-sufficient. Training should teach you how to do one thing well.
Man I really dislike konquerer. I can't stand the user interface. As a random example, emacs editing does not work in the URL box. Maybe there's a way to change it, I don't know. Also I think it's pretty ugly. I do use it from time to time when mozilla won't work. dell.com has some forms which just don't work in mozilla. Probably broken html, but anyway...
This is a turely disturbing meme. I've been seeing it everywhere lately -- "Everybody knows the net will be controlled". Well, it will be if we let it. I don't think we should allow that to happen.
Sorry. Should have said than Qt used to be. People cared about the fact that it wasn't free which is partly why we have a free Qt today. Nobody seems to care about the lack of freedom in porting to OSX.
I don't think *any* free software should be ported to Apple's user interface API (Cocoa?). It's worse (less free) than Qt. It seems to be missing much of the basic funtionality of X11, i.e. network tranceparency. If Apple wants to pay for free software to be ported to their proprietary interface, that's their business. Expecting the comunity to do it for them is unreasonable.
I just don't see how it benifits free software to port to OSX. It might be useful to build a Cocoa wrapper for X11. That would enable code written for OSX to run on Real Linux/Unix.
I find it hard to believe that there is that much arch specific code. If it's not already, the arch-specific part (should be small) should be easy to write for each arcitecture. I worry that being too x86-centric at the begining could lead to a bad design. Anyway, I have not actually looked at the code, so these are idle comments...
I would like to see DC wall sockets. For efficiency reasons, power should be transported over long distances via AC. Once in the house, there would be one large AC -> DC converter. Jacks in the wall would have pins to select one of a few available voltages.
Look around your house/work at how many separate AC -> DC converters there are. I think centralizing would be more efficient. You could have battery backup and very clean power.
DC power is easier to use (most of the time). Telco racks are DC for a reason.
I am pissed off that I can't buy one of those cool phones (Nokia 8110) from The Matrix. Why doesn't Nokia sell them?? I would imagine that LOTS of people want them.
We provided an easy-to-use set of administrator tools so that the Forecast Systems Lab (FSL) cluster can be administered as if it were a single computer. This is a fairly difficult to do if you have a big mix of equipment, but the FSL system will never become that complex. There's already been a lot of development of programs for administering large clusters of machines; they just tend to not get used by other people. I'll admit that I'm part of that problem; I took some nice ideas from other people's tools, added some of my own, and re-invented the wheel slightly differently from everyone else.
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Any chance that HTPi will release your cluster management software under a free license?
I think it would fill a void. There is lack of good, free cluster managemnet software.
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There is already an ssh client available for it:
http://onlyandroid.mobihand.com/product.asp?id=21849&n=ConnectBot-SSH-Client
Cowon (http://www.cowonamerica.com/) players support FLAC and Ogg. Also Rockbox (http://rockbox.org) is a free software replacement firmware for many players that supports FLAC and many other formats. I have a Cowon iAudio X5L with Rockbox. It's a great music player.
Bill, why does Kansas suck so much?
There is a difference between education and training. A liberal arts school is supposed to provide a well rounded education -- to provide you with the tools you need to learn and be self-sufficient. Training should teach you how to do one thing well.
A crash derby with RC vehicles hardly constitutes a sport.
Man I really dislike konquerer. I can't stand the user interface. As a random example, emacs editing does not work in the URL box. Maybe there's a way to change it, I don't know. Also I think it's pretty ugly. I do use it from time to time when mozilla won't work. dell.com has some forms which just don't work in mozilla. Probably broken html, but anyway...
make that netcat:
nc slashdot.org 80
This is a turely disturbing meme. I've been seeing it everywhere lately -- "Everybody knows the net will be controlled". Well, it will be if we let it. I don't think we should allow that to happen.
Sorry. Should have said than Qt used to be. People cared about the fact that it wasn't free which is partly why we have a free Qt today. Nobody seems to care about the lack of freedom in porting to OSX.
I don't think *any* free software should be ported to Apple's user interface API (Cocoa?). It's worse (less free) than Qt. It seems to be missing much of the basic funtionality of X11, i.e. network tranceparency. If Apple wants to pay for free software to be ported to their proprietary interface, that's their business. Expecting the comunity to do it for them is unreasonable.
I just don't see how it benifits free software to port to OSX. It might be useful to build a Cocoa wrapper for X11. That would enable code written for OSX to run on Real Linux/Unix.
In order to migrate processes across platforms, you'd need something like porch. It makes portable checkpoints.
I find it hard to believe that there is that much arch specific code. If it's not already, the arch-specific part (should be small) should be easy to write for each arcitecture. I worry that being too x86-centric at the begining could lead to a bad design. Anyway, I have not actually looked at the code, so these are idle comments...
I'd like to try it out on my 16 node Alpha cluster. I'm surprised that they called it 1.0 with only x86.
Turns out the author got sidetracked, but is about to continue work on it.
The homepage is here.
http://www.kernelnewbies.org/~phillips/
Speaking of journaling filesystems, what ever happend to tux2? Was any code ever released?
tux2 looked really good. Supposed to be faster than traditional journaling, and preserves file data as well as metadata.
Anyone?
I would like to see DC wall sockets. For efficiency reasons, power should be transported over long distances via AC. Once in the house, there would be one large AC -> DC converter. Jacks in the wall would have pins to select one of a few available voltages.
Look around your house/work at how many separate AC -> DC converters there are. I think centralizing would be more efficient. You could have battery backup and very clean power.
DC power is easier to use (most of the time). Telco racks are DC for a reason.
I would like to say that this is the worst Ask Slashdot EVER!
That was the fastest slashdotting I've seen.
I am pissed off that I can't buy one of those cool phones (Nokia 8110) from The Matrix. Why doesn't Nokia sell them?? I would imagine that LOTS of people want them.
I'm going to start an armed insurrection.
Greg said:
We provided an easy-to-use set of administrator tools so that the Forecast Systems Lab (FSL) cluster can be administered as if it were a single computer. This is a fairly difficult to do if you have a big mix of equipment, but the FSL system will never become that complex. There's already been a lot of development of programs for administering large clusters of machines; they just tend to not get used by other people. I'll admit that I'm part of that problem; I took some nice ideas from other people's tools, added some of my own, and re-invented the wheel slightly differently from everyone else.
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Any chance that HTPi will release your cluster management software under a free license?
I think it would fill a void. There is lack of good, free cluster managemnet software.
If you want only potato, use "potato" instead of frozen or unstable.
Also check out "The Clock of the Long Now" by Stewart Brand. Very cool. Web page at www.longnow.org.
Check out "Jump on a Cross and Die". :-)
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