I haven seen people report using Portage (Gentoo's package manager) to install RPM ("emerge rpm") or dpkg ("emerge dpkg") for Debian packages but I have not tried either myself yet. Package managers are just userland tools and as such should be fairly portable.
It's pretty straight-forward to create an ebuild (for Gentoo) if you have a well-behaved source tarball and a static download location and I imagine the Debianites can create apt-get packages with similar ease as needed.
What type of platform would you like to see delivering the 'true' Web 2.0 in the not too distant future?
Something that uses a combination of BitTorrent, Gopher, AFS, TOR, GFS and Tor.:-)
Seriously, everything could be decentralized - both datastore and computations could be done in p2p. Today's powerful home computers and widespread broadband has created an infrastructure that's ripe for real distributed networking - by and for everyone.
Listen to Leo, people - he's spot on: Vista is a significant break fram what users expect in a Windows box, probably the biggest such leap since the shell beta for NT 3.51 got out, showcasing the Win95 GUI (a blatant rip-off of Norton Desktop). So why not use this break to push Linux instead? If you're looking at significant re-training, hardware upgrades AND licensing - why not just go for the re-training and skip the other two costs? Makes perfect business sense.
I'd hope that his parents threw him out of the basement long ago and forced him to buy his own computer. Ergo, he wouldn't be hanging around Slashdot...;-)
He would install the entire Microsoft Office Suite on the Exchange server, and after creating a new user account, he would log onto the Exchange server as his domain admin account, and set up the account in Outlook to "test it".
IIRC that was SOP because there were some settings in Exchange that only a locally installed Outlook client could access. Now, I don't know if your admin actually needed to access any of those settings...
installing Linux is merely going to create different problems.
Problems that the original poster seems perfectly happy to deal with, as opposed to those problems occuring in Windows. And no, there are whole categories of problems they won't have at all, or at least less of them - like viruses and spyware.
My mom got a digital camera, and I told her don't even worry about the computer.
I got my parents a big-ass memory card and now and then, I copy all the pics off it. I then print out the good ones (Xerox Phaser 8550) and give them as gifts when they show up the next time. They're happy as the proverbial clams.
My guess would be that his Win2k was not SATA-aware at all and ran his chipset in PATA-compatible BIOS mode instead - many, maybe even most, SATA chipsets seem to have that ability.
Why XP doesn't even try this as a last resort is beyond me.
Don't forget the immense possible benefit to producers: zero cost of production.
Not really, no. But drastically lowered cost of production, zero cost of distribution and near-zero cost of marketing. These can be recouped in other ways than selling physical copies of content -- in ways that are more diverse, more resilient to technology shifts and gives more money to the real creators. No wonder the distributors are scared shitless...
I have a SanDisk Sansa e250 2GB. I love the style and the battery life, but it's too small (physically), doesn't show up as a disk when USB-connected (it's a Windows Media device) and the screen is a little bit too small for viewing movies (that need to be converted, but that's pretty straightforward). Haven't tried hooking it up to any of the Linux boxes yet to see if it works.
It scares me that Bruce said he didn't know about it. That means he doesn't want anyone to know. Please tell my kids to be good to their mom and that I love them.
Idea: Use this, or a similar technology together with IPv6 to build a omnipresent network for everything. Ditch all the old crap - TV over cable, FM radio, POTS, GSM - everything.
Use this network, which essentially configures and extends itself where needed, as needed, to deliver HDTV, phone and Internet over IP. Wired, wireless or satellite - the network should be smart enough to use whatever means it has, but dumb enough to not care about what kind of traffic it routes, just that it does as good a job as possible with the available hardware. Automatically multi-link, it would route most of your p2p traffic through fibers while your VoIP goes wireless to your headset. Built-in authentication and encryption to keep your gadgets in touch and your data secure, even though you use someone elses hardware as well as let other use yours.
It's mesh networking, FON, cellphones, multicast and wimax, all the hype rolled into one big network. And no, we shall not call it Skynet.
First of all, copyright is not a business model for creators. Never has been. The only ones to profit from it is the distributors. There's a Swedish scientific study out (from the university of Uppsala) that says that a whopping 2% of the money we spend on buying music, going to the movies and buying books actually goes to the creators. 2%. The rest goes to miscellaneous distributors, distribution costs and advertising. The Internet has changed that equation, radically. There's no point in keeping an old and failing method for spreading information just to keep the distributors in business. There are plenty of other ways for creators to earn money for their works without having a monopoly on making copies. To facilitate this shift, we need to change copyrights so they de-emphasize the value of the copy and place the value in the work of creation instead.
BTW, I watched Lord of the Rings in a theater, even though I had downloaded and seen parts of it before. One does not invalidate the other. Heavy file-sharers are those who buys the most CDs and DVDs. Scientific fact.
We're not there yet and with a bit of luck in the upcoming elections, we'll never go there. Besides, the current law stipulates a minimum of two years inprisonment, copyright infringement has a maximum penalty of two years. But yeah, the RIAAs and MPAAs want to raise the penalties to four years and lower the limits for getting access, as well as make logging mandatory (it is currently forbidden) through the data retention directive.
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I haven seen people report using Portage (Gentoo's package manager) to install RPM ("emerge rpm") or dpkg ("emerge dpkg") for Debian packages but I have not tried either myself yet. Package managers are just userland tools and as such should be fairly portable.
RPM and source tarball should actually suffice.
It's pretty straight-forward to create an ebuild (for Gentoo) if you have a well-behaved source tarball and a static download location and I imagine the Debianites can create apt-get packages with similar ease as needed.
Something that uses a combination of BitTorrent, Gopher, AFS, TOR, GFS and Tor. :-)
Seriously, everything could be decentralized - both datastore and computations could be done in p2p. Today's powerful home computers and widespread broadband has created an infrastructure that's ripe for real distributed networking - by and for everyone.
I recently re-bought it, on DVD this time: http://www.frogpondmedia.com/dbv/index.html
Listen to Leo, people - he's spot on: Vista is a significant break fram what users expect in a Windows box, probably the biggest such leap since the shell beta for NT 3.51 got out, showcasing the Win95 GUI (a blatant rip-off of Norton Desktop). So why not use this break to push Linux instead? If you're looking at significant re-training, hardware upgrades AND licensing - why not just go for the re-training and skip the other two costs? Makes perfect business sense.
I'd hope that his parents threw him out of the basement long ago and forced him to buy his own computer. Ergo, he wouldn't be hanging around Slashdot... ;-)
IIRC that was SOP because there were some settings in Exchange that only a locally installed Outlook client could access. Now, I don't know if your admin actually needed to access any of those settings...
That may not be true in all countries. In for example Sweden (and indeed most of Europe), it's a criminal offense.
Problems that the original poster seems perfectly happy to deal with, as opposed to those problems occuring in Windows. And no, there are whole categories of problems they won't have at all, or at least less of them - like viruses and spyware.
I got my parents a big-ass memory card and now and then, I copy all the pics off it. I then print out the good ones (Xerox Phaser 8550) and give them as gifts when they show up the next time. They're happy as the proverbial clams.
And, he gave them a perfectly reasonable choice: Windows hell or free support.
http://www.techarp.com/showFreeBOG.aspx?lang=0&bog no=313 and http://linuxmafia.com/faq/Hardware/sata.html as well as http://www.intel.com/support/chipsets/imst/sb/cs-0 15988.htm has some more info.
That was just five words, chum. Get with the program, will you?
My guess would be that his Win2k was not SATA-aware at all and ran his chipset in PATA-compatible BIOS mode instead - many, maybe even most, SATA chipsets seem to have that ability. Why XP doesn't even try this as a last resort is beyond me.
So, what have YOU produced?
I'd pay to read that post. And BTW, I earn good money every month giving away photos that I have "produced".
Not some unknown with a hidden agenda.
Quoth the AC.
Do you have any more information about the successful XBox you see coming after the 360? ;-)
Besides, even if Windows 3.11 was pretty good, 2.0 still had Reversi.
Not really, no. But drastically lowered cost of production, zero cost of distribution and near-zero cost of marketing. These can be recouped in other ways than selling physical copies of content -- in ways that are more diverse, more resilient to technology shifts and gives more money to the real creators. No wonder the distributors are scared shitless...
I have a SanDisk Sansa e250 2GB. I love the style and the battery life, but it's too small (physically), doesn't show up as a disk when USB-connected (it's a Windows Media device) and the screen is a little bit too small for viewing movies (that need to be converted, but that's pretty straightforward). Haven't tried hooking it up to any of the Linux boxes yet to see if it works.
a crypto system intended for people like human rights observers working in the field.
That would be Rubberhose.
It scares me that Bruce said he didn't know about it. That means he doesn't want anyone to know. Please tell my kids to be good to their mom and that I love them.
Use this network, which essentially configures and extends itself where needed, as needed, to deliver HDTV, phone and Internet over IP. Wired, wireless or satellite - the network should be smart enough to use whatever means it has, but dumb enough to not care about what kind of traffic it routes, just that it does as good a job as possible with the available hardware. Automatically multi-link, it would route most of your p2p traffic through fibers while your VoIP goes wireless to your headset. Built-in authentication and encryption to keep your gadgets in touch and your data secure, even though you use someone elses hardware as well as let other use yours.
It's mesh networking, FON, cellphones, multicast and wimax, all the hype rolled into one big network. And no, we shall not call it Skynet.
BTW, I watched Lord of the Rings in a theater, even though I had downloaded and seen parts of it before. One does not invalidate the other. Heavy file-sharers are those who buys the most CDs and DVDs. Scientific fact.
Welcome! You're late. :-)
No, not really.
Current copyright law is too severe, but arguing that the concept is wrong just makes you look silly.
Oh?
We're not there yet and with a bit of luck in the upcoming elections, we'll never go there. Besides, the current law stipulates a minimum of two years inprisonment, copyright infringement has a maximum penalty of two years. But yeah, the RIAAs and MPAAs want to raise the penalties to four years and lower the limits for getting access, as well as make logging mandatory (it is currently forbidden) through the data retention directive.