I might run in slightly different circles than Shamash... most of the Alpha Geek [apple.com] sorts I know have at least two Unix flavors on the desktop, with OS X being one of them. I've got multiple Linux laptops (different distros, even) and an OS X iBook, other friends tend to have Linux or *BSD and OS X.
ALPHA GEEKS!? ALPHA GEEKS?! Bloody apple trying to steel our name! No they are PPC Geeks. Do they really think PPC is good? Ha. Compare a measly little 1.25GHz G4 w/2MB DDR cache to a 1.25GHz 21264 Alpha w/16MB DDR cache. [THUMP}
(DEC) Alpha Linux Geek Signing off.:)
Oh, btw, welcome all Alpha EV6 bus users known as Athlon/Duron users.
I must say I was like that until this summer (about 4 years using them), when rather unexpectedly 2 different maxtor drives died in like the same week (10 GB and 45GB) Hence all the new hard drives I have gotten since then have been non-Maxtor. (Diff computers, no power surge (unless it happened to only affect Maxtor drives))
1 of them is DEAD (as in no motor power) the other has so many bad sectors it isn't funny. (hmm... I wonder a raid 5+1 on a disk to get it working (3 drives per raid 5, 3 raid 5s per raid 1?) 45GB -> 5GB +overhead...maybe (not that I am actually going to try it.)
(I am biased towards mplayer, heck it was the first thing I ported to my zaurus (3-5 days with open-source software and windows Pocket Pc is outdone. (this was finished about 2 days before the Kompany's player, admittedly without a nice gui))
The biggest problem with mplayer/zaurus was getting the right configure options. The Zaurus uses a 206MHz StrongArm (without FPU) The PS2 has a cpu that linux sees as semi-hyperthreaded (didn't catch all the details.) but runs at 250MHz (with A LOT of FP). Mplayer (and several other programs) use ffmpeg's library (MPEG1,2,4 (aka divx) rv10 h263 (maybe something else video wise) MP3 MP12 (probably more audio wise)) which is all native code (open-source) combine this with linux on ps2, and it should work just fine, though I don't know of anyone attepting it. (mplayer runs on framebuffer, which is what I believe linux uses, so no problem)
btw, using I belive (someone correct me if I am wrong) the same loader as Xine, mplayer plays divx slower using windows codecs than ffmpeg's codec. (mplayer part true, not 100% sure on the loader.)
> It's much easier to mod me down than to post an intelligent reply.
naw, not for me (ok, ok, it is because I have no mod points right now.:) )
And for those of you like some people I know, that was a joke. or perhaps a rejoke because it is joking on a joke, or maybe I am just tired and rabling on. probably, time to sleep or have caffene, though sleep would be better.
This post of a higher INTELecual level than most dotslash comments. Personally, I prefer the ALPHA comments.
prob a waste of time, as likely no one will read this, but...
the reason the current gui wouldn't be practical (ignoring screen size etc) is that it requires GTK. the windowing system on the zaurus is based on Qt/framebuffer, and even if GTK would work (I believe it could be kludged into working), it would use a significant amount of space for the libraries. it isn't practical unless you are an uber-geek who wants to for the sake of it.
I am the person who wrote that howto and got it running somewhat.
The one on the Zaurus is 2.2 MB. I think some of the reason is that I have to have it link with -Lpthread (nothing else works, and the test had to be disabled in the configure script) Trying to cross-compile worked, but it has to link the same way. This is dispite everything needed being on the Zaurus.
There are issues with screen refreshes because it bypasses qtopia, and writes directly to framebuffer, so I am working on a psudo-gui to clean up after it as well as easily configurable settings.
I have ported mplayer (mostly a recompile with some mucking around, I didn't do much hard work.) admittedly not everything worked out and I am still working on a nice little qt gui
The reason most won't work is because the Z uses a framebuffer and Qtopia (Qt embedded).
I was going to say that when I got home, or at least something similar, so instead I will say ditto.
(my personal opinion (and hope if I am honest) is that this is simply some VP who thinks they can turn the DMCA to their advantage somehow, and hopefully this is an isolated person, because I don't think that any company is really going to use it as a policy tool.)
On a silly side note/thought: how many times has Alpha been declared dead? (intel buys dec's fabs, compaq buys dec, api splits off, hp-compaq merger, intel buying alpha tech)
Word (and presumably other parts of office) store much of their memory into the file. (ever wonder why they are so freaking huge?) The versions of office can't recreate the crap that does that for other versions (try saving a file in a new version of office as an old version and opening it up in the older version. That will result in a lot of loss of stability, or try using it on a different hardware platform (say alphas) when they were supported) Ironically for a long time, and probably still true the most stable, and compatible files across versions of word were created by staroffice.
Microsoft by using the strategy they used ensures that older versions of office seem more unstable (so people upgrade, even if the files are saved for an older version). This also reduces the stability of windows itself due to the commingling or whatever the hell the term is.
I do not agree that 'soft money', 'campaign contributions' etc are free speech. Here is why:
The corperation/person is not saying anything. They are giving money to canidates to do something for them. IF they were truely for 'free speach' they would say I/WE/MEGACORP WOULD LIKE YOU TO VOTE FOR XYZ CANIDATE. Instead, they donate money to try and win favors. That in my book is bribery. If I saw an ad from Ford, Microsoft, etc saying vote for soandso, that would be free speach in my opinion, not the here we will give you $xx million. Corperations likely hide because most of them think that their support would damage the canidate's case.
In other words, the free speach arguement is a load of stuff, as the big contributors don't speak about it.
Contrast this with the view that Eric Flint expresses on the Baen Free Library's first page.
He argues against the "Enforcement! Regulation! New regulations! Tighter regulations! All out for the campaign against piracy! No quarter! Build more prisons! Harsher sentences!" (from linked page)
among his arguements (quoting from page) "
The same thing happens when someone checks a book out of a public library ? a "transaction" which, again, dwarfs by several orders of magnitude all forms of online piracy. The author only collects royalties once, when the library purchases a copy. Thereafter. .."
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The first is a simple truth which Jim Baen is fond of pointing out: most people would rather be honest than dishonest. " "
The only time that mass scale petty thievery becomes a problem is when the perception spreads, among broad layers of the population, that a given product is priced artificially high due to monopolistic practices and/or draconian legislation designed to protect those practices. But so long as the "gap" between the price of a legal product and a stolen one remains both small and, in the eyes of most people, a legitimate cost rather than gouging, 99% of them will prefer the legal product."
I think this cuts to the heart of the issue. I don't think many people will disagree that a paperback or hardback is really unreasonable, because it does cost some money to produce (toner/ink, paper, etc) and money gets back to the author/creator.
I and family usually spend a lot of our disposable income on books, and have an attachment to Baen's authors (particualarly David Weber, Steve White, and Eric Flint) and own almost all of Weber's, White's, Flint's books they have published. (To tell the truth, because we have lost books or given it as gifts, we have bought about 6 copies of "In Death Ground") I enjoy having some of them online where I can read them anywhere that has internet access.
It works fine on that the computer I believe has 64mb of ram (I don't recall at this moment though). Running redhat 7.1, works very well as a backup X computer.
I have been around a school system, which was recently forced to do somewhat of an audit. Of course, not all of the software was properly licenced. (kids downloading and installing software, paperwork not all organized, teachers, etc.) Basically, Microsoft forced the school system to pay a huge contract for a complete site licence for their software. Here is the problem: Any other member of the BSA could do this, say Adobe, and it would have to be redone.
In another case, A large school was basically threatened, and told that if you buy such-and-such hugely priced licence, we won't audit you, and things will be fine. The administation agreed, and paid for the contract. Here is the problem the licence they were conned into is horrible. It is an upgrade licence, that requires an original copy of a windows licence, and it invalidates the individual licences if the contract isn't renewed. Can you say extortion? It doesn't prevent having to do an audit at any time, and if you ever get out of it, you have to remove all of the software you otherwise have licences to.
When many projects are moving away from xGPL licences due to 'political issues' of FSF, RMS, etc.
What does this help with? LGPL (library, I am assuming) would allow all of the propriatary software to be ported via wine, but would force everyone to keep wine itself open. I personally think this is a good idea, because from my reading of the current wine licence (which was a while back, so it is a bit fuzzy) it seemed a bit BSDish (which isn't neccessaraly bad), but if you are trying to keep wine open (iow, no TCP/IP stack sniching, or anything of the sort) the LGPL seems better for wine development.
By any chance was it a VR3D? You know-the model intended for developers. I believe that is when it went on sale *FOR DEVELOPERS*. Unless I am getting my dates mixed around (and according to Linuxdevices they started shipping consumer versions in May, you bought a developer edition) which if you followed the mailinglists was known to be a beta test of both the hardware and the software, and people were expected to know how to work on it. If you aren't a developer, you don't have the right to complain because you bought something that you shouldn't have and it didn't work the way you wanted it to.
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True, I know we are diverse, but I find this debate to be one of the least productive (almost as bad as some of the holy wars, eg vi family vs emacs family), and quite annoying. Then again Linux's main strength is it's diversity, so I think it is a moot point.
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I have noticed a large contingent of/. that seems to say: Lindows is bad, it will introduce 'stupid' users, and the problems they bring with them. (Some people have concerns about the apparent lack of security of lindows itself, such as root login all the time, etc.)
However, many people on/. also complain because Linux doesn't have a huge market share.
Which is it? Do/. posters want a small veryknowlegable community or a large general user base with a smaller precentage of super-gurus, gurus and such?
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Ways to crash w2k #(ungodly high number)- after finishing burning a CD-R, remove from drive. BSOD appears.
Historical records:
Way to crash W2K #1 Turn on computer. (assuming the OEM has worked the evil magic required to get it installed.)
How much electricity could the space debris that just broke up in the atmosphere create?
I just happened to look out my window, in Kansas, and see 2 lines (roughly) of debris burning up, and they traveled about 90 degrees across the sky line after I saw them. Rather neat.
The Kansas board of regents tried to make a rule similar to Whatever you do, it is ours (even on your own time). Suffice to say, the faculties, students, and just about everyone else was pissed. It was shot down, and a new rule was passed. Basically, anything anyone does is theirs, unless it was specifically funded by the University/KBOR (as in a grant, or hired for a specific job). If say I were hired to write an interface to a library computer system, KBOR/University would own it. If however, I did the same thing on my own time, I would own it.
This is one of the better approaches to IP (at least the current one is) I have seen, because unless you are hired to x, x is your property.
For those of you who watched babylon 5, think about how easily something supposedly for peace & happyness turn incrementally into a SS like group. The Office of Homeland Security has never been for the improvement of happiness, so they seem to be further down the road to something very bad.
They just strike me as similar.
My great hope is that I am paranoid, because if I am not, we are fscked. (Disclaimer: I am rather pessimistic about humanity.)
A Point to add: Copyright itself was concieved as a control of the works of authors (in England I believe) so that works offensive to the crown or church couldn't be published.
Someone please dig up the Founding Fathers.
Shouldn't be too long before they get up, given how fast they are spinning.
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Should have been just a re: above, but no, password manager decided the subject was part of the logon, the second time I previewed it.
ALPHA GEEKS!? ALPHA GEEKS?! Bloody apple trying to steel our name! No they are PPC Geeks. Do they really think PPC is good? Ha. Compare a measly little 1.25GHz G4 w/2MB DDR cache to a 1.25GHz 21264 Alpha w/16MB DDR cache. [THUMP}
(DEC) Alpha Linux Geek Signing off. :)
Oh, btw, welcome all Alpha EV6 bus users known as Athlon/Duron users.
1 of them is DEAD (as in no motor power) the other has so many bad sectors it isn't funny. (hmm... I wonder a raid 5+1 on a disk to get it working (3 drives per raid 5, 3 raid 5s per raid 1?) 45GB -> 5GB +overhead...maybe (not that I am actually going to try it.)
The biggest problem with mplayer/zaurus was getting the right configure options. The Zaurus uses a 206MHz StrongArm (without FPU) The PS2 has a cpu that linux sees as semi-hyperthreaded (didn't catch all the details.) but runs at 250MHz (with A LOT of FP). Mplayer (and several other programs) use ffmpeg's library (MPEG1,2,4 (aka divx) rv10 h263 (maybe something else video wise) MP3 MP12 (probably more audio wise)) which is all native code (open-source) combine this with linux on ps2, and it should work just fine, though I don't know of anyone attepting it. (mplayer runs on framebuffer, which is what I believe linux uses, so no problem)
btw, using I belive (someone correct me if I am wrong) the same loader as Xine, mplayer plays divx slower using windows codecs than ffmpeg's codec. (mplayer part true, not 100% sure on the loader.)
naw, not for me (ok, ok, it is because I have no mod points right now. :) )
And for those of you like some people I know, that was a joke. or perhaps a rejoke because it is joking on a joke, or maybe I am just tired and rabling on. probably, time to sleep or have caffene, though sleep would be better.
This post of a higher INTELecual level than most dotslash comments. Personally, I prefer the ALPHA comments.
the reason the current gui wouldn't be practical (ignoring screen size etc) is that it requires GTK. the windowing system on the zaurus is based on Qt/framebuffer, and even if GTK would work (I believe it could be kludged into working), it would use a significant amount of space for the libraries. it isn't practical unless you are an uber-geek who wants to for the sake of it.
The one on the Zaurus is 2.2 MB. I think some of the reason is that I have to have it link with -Lpthread (nothing else works, and the test had to be disabled in the configure script) Trying to cross-compile worked, but it has to link the same way. This is dispite everything needed being on the Zaurus.
There are issues with screen refreshes because it bypasses qtopia, and writes directly to framebuffer, so I am working on a psudo-gui to clean up after it as well as easily configurable settings.
The reason most won't work is because the Z uses a framebuffer and Qtopia (Qt embedded).
url: http://kirk.math.twsu.edu/family/james/mplayer.htm l
(my personal opinion (and hope if I am honest) is that this is simply some VP who thinks they can turn the DMCA to their advantage somehow, and hopefully this is an isolated person, because I don't think that any company is really going to use it as a policy tool.)
On a silly side note/thought: how many times has Alpha been declared dead? (intel buys dec's fabs, compaq buys dec, api splits off, hp-compaq merger, intel buying alpha tech)
sorry that kind of got off to a rambling.
Word (and presumably other parts of office) store much of their memory into the file. (ever wonder why they are so freaking huge?) The versions of office can't recreate the crap that does that for other versions (try saving a file in a new version of office as an old version and opening it up in the older version. That will result in a lot of loss of stability, or try using it on a different hardware platform (say alphas) when they were supported) Ironically for a long time, and probably still true the most stable, and compatible files across versions of word were created by staroffice.
Microsoft by using the strategy they used ensures that older versions of office seem more unstable (so people upgrade, even if the files are saved for an older version). This also reduces the stability of windows itself due to the commingling or whatever the hell the term is.
The corperation/person is not saying anything. They are giving money to canidates to do something for them. IF they were truely for 'free speach' they would say I/WE/MEGACORP WOULD LIKE YOU TO VOTE FOR XYZ CANIDATE. Instead, they donate money to try and win favors. That in my book is bribery. If I saw an ad from Ford, Microsoft, etc saying vote for soandso, that would be free speach in my opinion, not the here we will give you $xx million. Corperations likely hide because most of them think that their support would damage the canidate's case.
In other words, the free speach arguement is a load of stuff, as the big contributors don't speak about it.
He argues against the "Enforcement! Regulation! New regulations! Tighter regulations! All out for the campaign against piracy! No quarter! Build more prisons! Harsher sentences!" (from linked page)
among his arguements (quoting from page) " The same thing happens when someone checks a book out of a public library ? a "transaction" which, again, dwarfs by several orders of magnitude all forms of online piracy. The author only collects royalties once, when the library purchases a copy. Thereafter. . ."
" The first is a simple truth which Jim Baen is fond of pointing out: most people would rather be honest than dishonest. "
" The only time that mass scale petty thievery becomes a problem is when the perception spreads, among broad layers of the population, that a given product is priced artificially high due to monopolistic practices and/or draconian legislation designed to protect those practices. But so long as the "gap" between the price of a legal product and a stolen one remains both small and, in the eyes of most people, a legitimate cost rather than gouging, 99% of them will prefer the legal product."
I think this cuts to the heart of the issue. I don't think many people will disagree that a paperback or hardback is really unreasonable, because it does cost some money to produce (toner/ink, paper, etc) and money gets back to the author/creator.
I and family usually spend a lot of our disposable income on books, and have an attachment to Baen's authors (particualarly David Weber, Steve White, and Eric Flint) and own almost all of Weber's, White's, Flint's books they have published. (To tell the truth, because we have lost books or given it as gifts, we have bought about 6 copies of "In Death Ground") I enjoy having some of them online where I can read them anywhere that has internet access.
It works fine on that the computer I believe has 64mb of ram (I don't recall at this moment though). Running redhat 7.1, works very well as a backup X computer.
In another case, A large school was basically threatened, and told that if you buy such-and-such hugely priced licence, we won't audit you, and things will be fine. The administation agreed, and paid for the contract. Here is the problem the licence they were conned into is horrible. It is an upgrade licence, that requires an original copy of a windows licence, and it invalidates the individual licences if the contract isn't renewed. Can you say extortion? It doesn't prevent having to do an audit at any time, and if you ever get out of it, you have to remove all of the software you otherwise have licences to.
What does this help with? LGPL (library, I am assuming) would allow all of the propriatary software to be ported via wine, but would force everyone to keep wine itself open. I personally think this is a good idea, because from my reading of the current wine licence (which was a while back, so it is a bit fuzzy) it seemed a bit BSDish (which isn't neccessaraly bad), but if you are trying to keep wine open (iow, no TCP/IP stack sniching, or anything of the sort) the LGPL seems better for wine development.
My 1/(5^2*2) of a dollar.
By any chance was it a VR3D? You know-the model intended for developers. I believe that is when it went on sale *FOR DEVELOPERS*. Unless I am getting my dates mixed around (and according to Linuxdevices they started shipping consumer versions in May, you bought a developer edition) which if you followed the mailinglists was known to be a beta test of both the hardware and the software, and people were expected to know how to work on it. If you aren't a developer, you don't have the right to complain because you bought something that you shouldn't have and it didn't work the way you wanted it to.
True, I know we are diverse, but I find this debate to be one of the least productive (almost as bad as some of the holy wars, eg vi family vs emacs family), and quite annoying. Then again Linux's main strength is it's diversity, so I think it is a moot point.
However, many people on /. also complain because Linux doesn't have a huge market share. /. posters want a small veryknowlegable community or a large general user base with a smaller precentage of super-gurus, gurus and such?
Which is it? Do
Historical records: Way to crash W2K #1 Turn on computer. (assuming the OEM has worked the evil magic required to get it installed.)
I just happened to look out my window, in Kansas, and see 2 lines (roughly) of debris burning up, and they traveled about 90 degrees across the sky line after I saw them. Rather neat.
This is one of the better approaches to IP (at least the current one is) I have seen, because unless you are hired to x, x is your property.
How long was it before nfs, etc came around? ln -s /something/remote /something/local
ls now violates this patent
Linux\UNIX\BSD\etc violating Patents with the most basic commands.
They just strike me as similar.
My great hope is that I am paranoid, because if I am not, we are fscked. (Disclaimer: I am rather pessimistic about humanity.)
Someone please dig up the Founding Fathers. Shouldn't be too long before they get up, given how fast they are spinning.