Instead of a "stable kernel API layer", what is really needed is a stable hardware interface layer. That way we don't even need to have new drivers at all for the same class of device. A set of standard drivers conforming to the standards upon which the hardware interface layer is designed would be sufficient for communication between the kernel and the underlying hardware.
Now Academic Computing has announced a new policy: any unauthorized use of the network, such as plugging in your own computer to a port, is prohibited, and will result in disciplinary action.
What community college is that? Better yet, what is their IP address range, or their domain name (so I can add them to my email blacklist)? Given their backwards policy on security, I would be safer by refusing anything from there.
So here I am, trying to decide whether to support Gnome or KDE with this big project I am now planning. I think perhaps the simplest solution will be to pick an existing big project and see which they support. How about Firefox?
When asked why it is they chose to ask Yahoo to make these particular restrictions, Mr. Spitzer responded "That was an easy decision. In our society, teen girls have no civil rights. So they are the ones we have asked Yahoo to keep out, along with the teen boys they are looking for. Older fat men, however, do have civil rights protected by the constitution, and unlike teens, they also have lawyers that could sue my ass. That, and they also pay my salary and fund my department."
Who's the young whipper snapper around here? Back in the day, we used to have hard drives with as many as 20 platters 18 inches wide that were actually removeable from the drive itself. And we could store a whopping 30 MB on that 10 inch high stack.:-)
Here's the T-shirt Bill Gates should be wearing. The caption says "I invested billions in Windows, and all I got was this T-shirt", along with a picture of the BSoD.
I have in fact looked at that Apple display. Although I could eventually use it with an STB tuner, I'm still hunting for one that is more convenient, having either the tuner built in, or multiple DVI/HDMI inputs. And I also need to have HDCP support so I can use Blu-ray/HD-DVD with copy protection, or whatever might be involved with any satellite or OTA reception issues.
You can make SNA work, of course. But it is very tedious to do so (if one little thing is a mismatch somewhere, it could manifest as an entirely different problem, with no diagnostic messages). It's also a royal pain to diagnose many kinds of problems. In one case I had to change over 200 lines of configurations just to add a single printer.
It sounds more like they got the design for SAPRouter from IBM's mainframe network called SNA. It was similarly painful to configure. I'm glad I don't do that anymore. I'm also glad I don't work with any SAP products.
I am in the market for 2 different kinds of TVs. Sadly, no manufacturer seems to be making them, yet. Here are the requirements:
TV 1:
Diagonal viewing size 16 inch to 20 inch
Aspect ratio 16:9
Native resolution 1920x1080
Technology CRT or LCD (but must meet the native resolution requirement)
HDMI or DVI input, with HDCP
Either built-in tuner with full ATSC and analog capability (North American channels), or a 2nd HDMI/DVI/HDCP input port
Composite input for analog NTSC
TV 2:
Portable
Diagonal viewing size 7 inch to 12 inch
Aspect ratio either 4:3 or 16:9 or in between
Native resolution at least 640x480
Technology CRT or LCD (but must meet the native resolution requirement)
Build in tuner with full ATSC and analog capability (North American channels)
Integrated antenna plus F-connector RF input.
Operates from 12-16 volt DC and 110-127 volt 60 Hz AC
So far it seems everything is going to big screen TVs. But these don't work in small rooms (due to viewing distance necessity) and they sure aren't portable. Another issue is the over-the-air tuner (ATSC). More and more manufacturers are making tuner-less TVs (since you need an external box for cable or satellite, they figure the tuner is wasted cost), expecting those who do want over-the-air TV to get a separate set-top-box for that. But a separate box is not good for a portable TV.
The first TV needs a 2nd digital video input because I don't want to be changing cables or have to use an expensive HDMI/DVI switch box to go between 2 input sources (OTA and HD-DVD).
Why does Linux even needs its own set of standards? Aren't the standards of UNIX in general good enough? I've developed programs by simply doing so carefully and smartly, that work fine on Linux, BSD, and several other flavors of UNIX. And in some cases, people have reported they work even on Windows (which I had made not effort to support). I think maybe the biggest area of confusion is software developers that just don't know how to write portable code.
Within an inch, eh? I guess this gives "pick pocket" a new twist. While standing in the crowded train, you feel that bump on your backside and wonder if your wallet just got lifted. You put your hand in back to check... nope... it's still there so you don't need to worry. Yeah, right!
And besides, what's to stop me from boosting the gain on my own reader?
While I cannot "see" infrared light (no perceived illumination or imaging), I do know that my eyes are signficantly affected by infrared, more so than most people. Increased amounts of infrared causes the pupils to contract, as well as increases the histamine output. YMMV.
I'd be in big trouble if it were an issue, since I did this very thing on the ham.org domain. You can even see an index of subdomains that are ham radio callsigns being redirected to their web sites.
One could just as easily put a special Linux from a floppy or CD on each machine, that talks over the network to an install server to get an image for the basic system and loads that up block-sequentially. Then the rest of the hard drive would be made into another partition for data use.
Or it could all be done by network on a diskless workstation after a network boot into RAM (with spare floppy and CD boot media around in case some machine doesn't have a network boot).
I need to go look at Ubuntu. My Linux friends who have tried it all give rave reviews. I hope it includes support for diskless workstations. But if not, I'm sure it would not be that hard to make.
As for PCs eventually needing to be replaced, I do know of people who have gotten a PC with XP pre-installed, and they wipe it off and put 98 on instead. My brother is one of them; he has some software he uses for his church work that doesn't work on XP, only on 98 (never tried ME or 2000). I'd bet Vista will break a few things no matter how hard Microsoft tried to make sure it doesn't. But if that is people's reason for not migrating to XP or Vista, it's unlikely they will find Linux to be any better.
The biggest reason I have heard from business people for not switching to Linux is the perceived high cost of retraining people to use something new. And it seems to be a reality for many computer users who even have trouble going from 98 to NT, or from 2000 to XP, or from Word 97 to Word 2000.
If you don't have the proper OS installed and handy, you could just boot up my Diskzapper program. It comes in floppy or CD image. It's also handy if you have to expect a PHB type to do it.
Most people don't even think about wiping the data. I've seen data left on hard drives not even deleted. And we (geeks, anyway) know that deleted data is really still there. If we run BSD/Linux/Unix, we can easily wipe off a disk with the dd command. The format utility in Windows could also do so. And when neither of those is available or usable, or you have to depend on a PHB to do the job, the Diskzappper floppy or CD could be used. Disclaimer: I wrote/built Diskzapper for the PHB types.
I cannot find any mention of support for the DV format on the web site. There is mention that Quicktime4Linux has a front-end for libdv. But there is no indication whether that works at the editing level, or at the capture/playback level. I will be storing A/V files in DV format, captured and played back on an ADVC-110 or the like. I would like to know if Cinelerra would be an editor option for this project without having to make any file format conversions along the way.
In an internal memo dated yesterday, D.C. schools Chief Information Officer Gregory Barlow criticized the way the computer system was set up.
"In my experience, the combination of an Oracle database, Windows operating system, Unix hardware and an Apache webserver is a bad combination," Barlow wrote in the memo to Thomas M. Brady, the school system's chief business operations officer.
It appears to me that Barlow (CIO) is criticizing Brady (CBO) for this fiasco. So it sounds like maybe Brady is the one responsible for the poor technology configuration. In a properly run organization, either the CIO or CTO should be choosing the technology, and the CBO or CFO should be placing the orders and paying for it. But it sure seems here that the CBO picked the technology, and obviously screwed it up.
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Instead of a "stable kernel API layer", what is really needed is a stable hardware interface layer. That way we don't even need to have new drivers at all for the same class of device. A set of standard drivers conforming to the standards upon which the hardware interface layer is designed would be sufficient for communication between the kernel and the underlying hardware.
What community college is that? Better yet, what is their IP address range, or their domain name (so I can add them to my email blacklist)? Given their backwards policy on security, I would be safer by refusing anything from there.
So here I am, trying to decide whether to support Gnome or KDE with this big project I am now planning. I think perhaps the simplest solution will be to pick an existing big project and see which they support. How about Firefox?
When asked why it is they chose to ask Yahoo to make these particular restrictions, Mr. Spitzer responded "That was an easy decision. In our society, teen girls have no civil rights. So they are the ones we have asked Yahoo to keep out, along with the teen boys they are looking for. Older fat men, however, do have civil rights protected by the constitution, and unlike teens, they also have lawyers that could sue my ass. That, and they also pay my salary and fund my department."
Who's the young whipper snapper around here? Back in the day, we used to have hard drives with as many as 20 platters 18 inches wide that were actually removeable from the drive itself. And we could store a whopping 30 MB on that 10 inch high stack. :-)
Here's the T-shirt Bill Gates should be wearing. The caption says "I invested billions in Windows, and all I got was this T-shirt", along with a picture of the BSoD.
I have in fact looked at that Apple display. Although I could eventually use it with an STB tuner, I'm still hunting for one that is more convenient, having either the tuner built in, or multiple DVI/HDMI inputs. And I also need to have HDCP support so I can use Blu-ray/HD-DVD with copy protection, or whatever might be involved with any satellite or OTA reception issues.
You can make SNA work, of course. But it is very tedious to do so (if one little thing is a mismatch somewhere, it could manifest as an entirely different problem, with no diagnostic messages). It's also a royal pain to diagnose many kinds of problems. In one case I had to change over 200 lines of configurations just to add a single printer.
It sounds more like they got the design for SAPRouter from IBM's mainframe network called SNA. It was similarly painful to configure. I'm glad I don't do that anymore. I'm also glad I don't work with any SAP products.
I had the very same problems with Red Hat Linux. So I went back to Slackware.
cat < /dev/urandom > /dev/dsp
I am in the market for 2 different kinds of TVs. Sadly, no manufacturer seems to be making them, yet. Here are the requirements:
TV 1:
TV 2:
So far it seems everything is going to big screen TVs. But these don't work in small rooms (due to viewing distance necessity) and they sure aren't portable. Another issue is the over-the-air tuner (ATSC). More and more manufacturers are making tuner-less TVs (since you need an external box for cable or satellite, they figure the tuner is wasted cost), expecting those who do want over-the-air TV to get a separate set-top-box for that. But a separate box is not good for a portable TV.
The first TV needs a 2nd digital video input because I don't want to be changing cables or have to use an expensive HDMI/DVI switch box to go between 2 input sources (OTA and HD-DVD).
Why does Linux even needs its own set of standards? Aren't the standards of UNIX in general good enough? I've developed programs by simply doing so carefully and smartly, that work fine on Linux, BSD, and several other flavors of UNIX. And in some cases, people have reported they work even on Windows (which I had made not effort to support). I think maybe the biggest area of confusion is software developers that just don't know how to write portable code.
Within an inch, eh? I guess this gives "pick pocket" a new twist. While standing in the crowded train, you feel that bump on your backside and wonder if your wallet just got lifted. You put your hand in back to check ... nope ... it's still there so you don't need to worry. Yeah, right!
And besides, what's to stop me from boosting the gain on my own reader?
So don't put that coating on there anymore.
BTW, some other devices do have the coatings for various reasons.
While I cannot "see" infrared light (no perceived illumination or imaging), I do know that my eyes are signficantly affected by infrared, more so than most people. Increased amounts of infrared causes the pupils to contract, as well as increases the histamine output. YMMV.
... with a big widespread nuclear winter.
I'd be in big trouble if it were an issue, since I did this very thing on the ham.org domain. You can even see an index of subdomains that are ham radio callsigns being redirected to their web sites.
One could just as easily put a special Linux from a floppy or CD on each machine, that talks over the network to an install server to get an image for the basic system and loads that up block-sequentially. Then the rest of the hard drive would be made into another partition for data use.
Or it could all be done by network on a diskless workstation after a network boot into RAM (with spare floppy and CD boot media around in case some machine doesn't have a network boot).
I need to go look at Ubuntu. My Linux friends who have tried it all give rave reviews. I hope it includes support for diskless workstations. But if not, I'm sure it would not be that hard to make.
As for PCs eventually needing to be replaced, I do know of people who have gotten a PC with XP pre-installed, and they wipe it off and put 98 on instead. My brother is one of them; he has some software he uses for his church work that doesn't work on XP, only on 98 (never tried ME or 2000). I'd bet Vista will break a few things no matter how hard Microsoft tried to make sure it doesn't. But if that is people's reason for not migrating to XP or Vista, it's unlikely they will find Linux to be any better.
The biggest reason I have heard from business people for not switching to Linux is the perceived high cost of retraining people to use something new. And it seems to be a reality for many computer users who even have trouble going from 98 to NT, or from 2000 to XP, or from Word 97 to Word 2000.
... leave Windows 98, or whatever, running on their PCs.
I didn't delete the data I found. I dd'd over it with binary zeros because I wanted to use the drive to store my data, not theirs.
If you don't have the proper OS installed and handy, you could just boot up my Diskzapper program. It comes in floppy or CD image. It's also handy if you have to expect a PHB type to do it.
Most people don't even think about wiping the data. I've seen data left on hard drives not even deleted. And we (geeks, anyway) know that deleted data is really still there. If we run BSD/Linux/Unix, we can easily wipe off a disk with the dd command. The format utility in Windows could also do so. And when neither of those is available or usable, or you have to depend on a PHB to do the job, the Diskzappper floppy or CD could be used. Disclaimer: I wrote/built Diskzapper for the PHB types.
I cannot find any mention of support for the DV format on the web site. There is mention that Quicktime4Linux has a front-end for libdv. But there is no indication whether that works at the editing level, or at the capture/playback level. I will be storing A/V files in DV format, captured and played back on an ADVC-110 or the like. I would like to know if Cinelerra would be an editor option for this project without having to make any file format conversions along the way.
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It appears to me that Barlow (CIO) is criticizing Brady (CBO) for this fiasco. So it sounds like maybe Brady is the one responsible for the poor technology configuration. In a properly run organization, either the CIO or CTO should be choosing the technology, and the CBO or CFO should be placing the orders and paying for it. But it sure seems here that the CBO picked the technology, and obviously screwed it up.