It means that the flash is cramfs which is mounted read-only. Sure you can write an entire new disk image by reflashing the device (and the article, had you taken the time to read it, tells how they did that) but you can't mount it R/W and expect it to work.
What? You asked TiVo to record a live sports event and then didn't ask it to record for 30 minutes after the scheduled ending time? Not very good planning I'd say.
Medicine isn't everything. A recent NYTimes article on the AIDS virus suggests that similar viruses have evolved with their hosts so that the virus itself is less virulent. Human evolution due to viruses, which are generally untreatable, will continue.
I don't want no emacs, give me vi or give me death.
The fact that they feel the need to put GNU in the name of the distribution tells me tha they are too ideologically pure to do the best thing for the users.
Well since the people who have hacked an ethernet into the older TiVos (or just used ppp over the serial port) have successfully used their own network connection to download schedule info (on subscribed TiVos), I don't see why TiVo would go to lengths to make it not work here.
Especially since the phone calls cost TiVo money. Why not just piggy back on someone's existing broadband line? Everyone is happy.
Wow. 5 million dollars. Ain't that a drop in the bucket. What's that? Half a million CDs at $10 per? (Guessing at the wholesale cost the record stores pay.) And how many CDs were sold last year?
I'm no fan of the RIAA, but these amounts are truely piddly.
All in all, just the hassle involved in loading an accelerated graphics card made by the most pro-linux graphics card manufacturer in the world (MHO) is enough to keep anyone who is not a hard core geek from even considering using Linux.
If they were really so pro-Linux, they would have Open Source drivers so that you wouldn't have to jump through the hoops that you did. Place the blame where it belongs -- with NVidia.
I thought that my huge thumbs would make typing on the Zaurus keyboard hard, but I find that I can type accurately and pretty quickly. It's very much like a blackberry keyboard.
In addition to the keyboard, there's handwriting recognition (with a scrolling list of possible completion words) and a typewriter pick tool. I like that there are seperate entry areas for Uppercase, lowercase and numbers on the handwriting recognition tool.
Given that the most common use I've associated with Linux has been use on a server of some variety, due to its stability and security, I can't help wondering what makes it a good OS for a PDA.
I use Linux on all the PCs I own and use regularly. (I have a Thinkpad with Win95 that runs but collects dust in the closet.) I run no servers. I curently do wirleless email from a subnotebook running Linux and I've already ordered one of these and I'm planning on getting a CF CDPD modem for it. That will save me about a pound in my briefcase every day.
I want Linux on my PDA becuase it is my OS of choice and I can get it to do a lot of things.
What are my options? I could stick to my guns, which might limit the adoption of the format, or change the license.
If you own the copyright on the codec and on your software, you can release it under the LGPL and simultaneously license it for use in embedded projects.
It has to be.com.us,.org.us,.net.us or it's a complete mockery of the international system. Leave the local system in place and do something sensible. Are ICANN so toothless as to not enforce this?
ICANN dosn't enforce any use of country domains. Only few of them, like.uk, have the equivalent of com/edu/org in the second level.
The weakness is that the GPL would probably lose in court, to some degree. This is because copyright law and, in many ways, the legal system, in the US and elsewhere, were never designed to work in accordance with the common good, especially when it comes to issues of property, and even moreso when it comes to the issues of intellectual property (really just an illusion of modern society).
Was there really any dispute between ac and Linus, or was it just a technical competition to see which system could be pushed the farthest?
It was primarially a stability issue. To rip out a tested (but poorly performing under certain loads) VM for a brand spanking new one in the middle of a stable series was a big move. AC maintained the old VM for those who didn't want to participate in the inevitable tuning and bug-fixing that the new VM required.
It's not like it wasn't unprecedented. Andrea Arcangeli's (what a cool name!) VM rewrite eventually solved the 2.2 VM problems. But those has been dveloped as a seperate set of patches before they were incorporated into the stable 2.2 series.
A kernel officially released as "Release" should be VERY stable. Stable enough for anyone to put it on his most important servers, without a second thought.
Whatever value the variable "stable" has for a given 2.4.x kernel, it can not be stored in a boolean type.
A stable kernel series is one where the aim of development is to increase stability over adding new features. 2.4.0 was released to get a greater number of people testing the kernel. That testing showed cases where a kernel with worked well with the developers loads fell down under different loads. Linus took the drastic step of replacing the VM in the middle of a stable series with a different one. He had come to the conclusion that the Riel VM was too complex to fix all of these cases and it did essentially random things rather than well planned things. It looks like he made the right decision.
I personally wouldn't recommend switching to a stable series in a production server until the next experimental series has been started.
I don't normally respond to idiots who can't be bothered to create an account, but I'll make an exception because of your great confusion.
The encoding method is designed to be a stream of commands to a "DVD player". It is not raw data which the player reads and splashes on the screen like with a VCR. The encoding method *is* a programming language. You can do any calculation that any other computer can do (subject to RAM limits) with the language.
The encoding used to generate a viewed movie from a DVD is a series of commands to a special device called a "DVD Player". The DVD contents include menus. They sometimes include games which the DVD player executes. It also includes special instructions to paint regions of the screen and make sound come out of a speaker.
Most importantly, the language is "Turing-complete". You can calculate anything a Turing machine can calculate with it. Calculate and display Pi to a million digits and scroll through it with the forward and backward buttons on the remote.
The particular method of encoding the movie that was used *is* software. The movie is embedded in software.
I think this is perfectly acceptable: Quake 3 is the biggest game out there on Windows, and if ATI has invested a little extra time into pumping a few extra (meaningless) frames out of your Radeon 8500, is this really an act of treachery?"
Yes it is. It's writing for the benchmark rather than writing for the user.
I'm reminded of a Richard Feynman quote "For a sucessful technology, honesty must take precedence over public relations for nature cannot be fooled."
I wished that they'd asked him about the big kernel fork. Linus dumped Rik Riel's VM for Andrea Arcangeli's back around 2.4.9. Alan Cox has been maintaining Riel's VM in a parallel series of kernels.
Both VMs seem to perform better than earlier 2.4 kernels on ordinary loads, but both seem to flake out in perversely loaded situations. "Hey, Dude, my XMMS skips when I run three kernel compiles in parallel."
They are moving away from each other because the universe is expanding. The amount of space between the two points is increasing as the light travels between. Relativity imposes no limit on how fast space can expand. During the inflationary era, the Universe expanded faster than the speed of light.
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I saw the trailer for "The Majestic" and all I could do was turn to my friend and say "Ooh, look at me! I'm Jim Carrey, I want an Oscar!"
I had the identical thought when I saw the trailer except I said "Smells like Oscar desperation."
Hell, I'd expect better from someone with a UID > 20000.
What do you have against low UIDs?
It means that the flash is cramfs which is mounted read-only. Sure you can write an entire new disk image by reflashing the device (and the article, had you taken the time to read it, tells how they did that) but you can't mount it R/W and expect it to work.
What? You asked TiVo to record a live sports event and then didn't ask it to record for 30 minutes after the scheduled ending time? Not very good planning I'd say.
Medicine isn't everything. A recent NYTimes article on the AIDS virus suggests that similar viruses have evolved with their hosts so that the virus itself is less virulent. Human evolution due to viruses, which are generally untreatable, will continue.
The compiler (and libraries) are insufficient reason to name the distribution GNU.
Consumers will not stand for it. HDTV gear is largely going begging because people won't stand for the inability to tape their favorite shows.
And when push comes to shove, the guys in DC listen to the guys with beer cans in their hands and cave in when the deadline nears.
The more I use GNU software, the less I like it.
I despise info. give me man.
I don't want no emacs, give me vi or give me death.
The fact that they feel the need to put GNU in the name of the distribution tells me tha they are too ideologically pure to do the best thing for the users.
The same goes for Debian.
Well since the people who have hacked an ethernet into the older TiVos (or just used ppp over the serial port) have successfully used their own network connection to download schedule info (on subscribed TiVos), I don't see why TiVo would go to lengths to make it not work here.
Especially since the phone calls cost TiVo money. Why not just piggy back on someone's existing broadband line? Everyone is happy.
2000 $5,285,246.32
Wow. 5 million dollars. Ain't that a drop in the bucket. What's that? Half a million CDs at $10 per? (Guessing at the wholesale cost the record stores pay.) And how many CDs were sold last year?
I'm no fan of the RIAA, but these amounts are truely piddly.
All in all, just the hassle involved in loading an accelerated graphics card made by the most pro-linux graphics card manufacturer in the world (MHO) is enough to keep anyone who is not a hard core geek from even considering using Linux.
If they were really so pro-Linux, they would have Open Source drivers so that you wouldn't have to jump through the hoops that you did. Place the blame where it belongs -- with NVidia.
If I were given the choice of leaving a message or paying extra for a call, I'd leave a message.
I thought that my huge thumbs would make typing on the Zaurus keyboard hard, but I find that I can type accurately and pretty quickly. It's very much like a blackberry keyboard.
In addition to the keyboard, there's handwriting recognition (with a scrolling list of possible completion words) and a typewriter pick tool. I like that there are seperate entry areas for Uppercase, lowercase and numbers on the handwriting recognition tool.
Given that the most common use I've associated with Linux has been use on a server of some variety, due to its stability and security, I can't help wondering what makes it a good OS for a PDA.
I use Linux on all the PCs I own and use regularly. (I have a Thinkpad with Win95 that runs but collects dust in the closet.) I run no servers. I curently do wirleless email from a subnotebook running Linux and I've already ordered one of these and I'm planning on getting a CF CDPD modem for it. That will save me about a pound in my briefcase every day.
I want Linux on my PDA becuase it is my OS of choice and I can get it to do a lot of things.
What are my options? I could stick to my guns, which might limit the adoption of the format, or change the license.
If you own the copyright on the codec and on your software, you can release it under the LGPL and simultaneously license it for use in embedded projects.
It has to be .com.us, .org.us, .net.us or it's a complete mockery of the international system. Leave the local system in place and do something sensible. Are ICANN so toothless as to not enforce this?
.uk, have the equivalent of com/edu/org in the second level.
ICANN dosn't enforce any use of country domains. Only few of them, like
The weakness is that the GPL would probably lose in court, to some degree. This is because copyright law and, in many ways, the legal system, in the US and elsewhere, were never designed to work in accordance with the common good, especially when it comes to issues of property, and even moreso when it comes to the issues of intellectual property (really just an illusion of modern society).
Oh, what an excellent troll!
Was there really any dispute between ac and Linus, or was it just a technical competition to see which system could be pushed the farthest?
It was primarially a stability issue. To rip out a tested (but poorly performing under certain loads) VM for a brand spanking new one in the middle of a stable series was a big move. AC maintained the old VM for those who didn't want to participate in the inevitable tuning and bug-fixing that the new VM required.
It's not like it wasn't unprecedented. Andrea Arcangeli's (what a cool name!) VM rewrite eventually solved the 2.2 VM problems. But those has been dveloped as a seperate set of patches before they were incorporated into the stable 2.2 series.
A kernel officially released as "Release" should be VERY stable. Stable enough for anyone to put it on his most important servers, without a second thought.
Whatever value the variable "stable" has for a given 2.4.x kernel, it can not be stored in a boolean type.
A stable kernel series is one where the aim of development is to increase stability over adding new features. 2.4.0 was released to get a greater number of people testing the kernel. That testing showed cases where a kernel with worked well with the developers loads fell down under different loads. Linus took the drastic step of replacing the VM in the middle of a stable series with a different one. He had come to the conclusion that the Riel VM was too complex to fix all of these cases and it did essentially random things rather than well planned things. It looks like he made the right decision.
I personally wouldn't recommend switching to a stable series in a production server until the next experimental series has been started.
I don't normally respond to idiots who can't be bothered to create an account, but I'll make an exception because of your great confusion.
The encoding method is designed to be a stream of commands to a "DVD player". It is not raw data which the player reads and splashes on the screen like with a VCR. The encoding method *is* a programming language. You can do any calculation that any other computer can do (subject to RAM limits) with the language.
The encoding used to generate a viewed movie from a DVD is a series of commands to a special device called a "DVD Player". The DVD contents include menus. They sometimes include games which the DVD player executes. It also includes special instructions to paint regions of the screen and make sound come out of a speaker.
Most importantly, the language is "Turing-complete". You can calculate anything a Turing machine can calculate with it. Calculate and display Pi to a million digits and scroll through it with the forward and backward buttons on the remote.
The particular method of encoding the movie that was used *is* software. The movie is embedded in software.
I think this is perfectly acceptable: Quake 3 is the biggest game out there on Windows, and if ATI has invested a little extra time into pumping a few extra (meaningless) frames out of your Radeon 8500, is this really an act of treachery?"
Yes it is. It's writing for the benchmark rather than writing for the user.
I'm reminded of a Richard Feynman quote "For a sucessful technology, honesty must take precedence over public relations for nature cannot be fooled."
I wished that they'd asked him about the big kernel fork. Linus dumped Rik Riel's VM for Andrea Arcangeli's back around 2.4.9. Alan Cox has been maintaining Riel's VM in a parallel series of kernels.
Both VMs seem to perform better than earlier 2.4 kernels on ordinary loads, but both seem to flake out in perversely loaded situations. "Hey, Dude, my XMMS skips when I run three kernel compiles in parallel."
Actually, no. There are so many galaxies, that its highly probable that you will find two lined up in such a way.
They are moving away from each other because the universe is expanding. The amount of space between the two points is increasing as the light travels between. Relativity imposes no limit on how fast space can expand. During the inflationary era, the Universe expanded faster than the speed of light.