NVIDIA_kernel-0.9-5.tar.gz is the source to the kernel module, but it only exists in source form because it would be too much trouble to keep binaries for all possible kernel versions. It contains only the bare minimum of information required to perform its task. It's pretty much just linking to their binary driver.
Contrary to what you may have been lead to believe, NVIDIA_GLX-0.9-5.tar.gz does not contain any source code at all. All that's in it are binary-only (.so and.o files) libraries&driver, some docs and a Makefile that simply copies the libraries to where they need to be. ---
Where can the word be found, where can the word resound? Not here, there is not enough silence.
Nvidia won't release the neccessary specs or source code in order for DRI to provide native support.
Nvidia's holding out on this issue is either because they're being poopieheads, or (more likely) they have contractual/licensing obligations that preclude them from doing so. ---
Where can the word be found, where can the word resound? Not here, there is not enough silence.
For a while there I was afraid slashdot wasn't even interested in announcing this release.
When they started putting the build online:
2000-12-19 03:22:54 XFree86 4.0.2 release(ing?) (articles,x) (rejected)
When they finished putting the build online:
2000-12-19 22:55:45 XFree86 4.0.2 is out (articles,x) (rejected)
Go figure.:-P ---
Where can the word be found, where can the word resound? Not here, there is not enough silence.
Source code is great, but so are binaries. Not everyone can understand or even compile code. Releasing as source-only won't really encourage more pairs of eyes to look at your code. It's likely to do just the opposite, IMHO. I'm not sure it's a good idea forcing things on people who got interested in open source because they wanted to get AWAY from that kind of abuse.
People who would go through the code for themselves probably would have done so anyway even if there were binaries available. Those who can't help in that capacity could STILL help if they had binaries to run, test and provide feedback.
I'd also classify screenshots as a good thing, as they give potential users some idea of what they're getting into. Asthetics aren't everything, but they're not completely without merit, either. ---
Where can the word be found, where can the word resound? Not here, there is not enough silence.
It happens all the time. I think the latency's a bit lower going through continuity modules but it's still there. ---
Where can the word be found, where can the word resound? Not here, there is not enough silence.
If only it were that easy. In most bioses the process of assigning specific IRQs to specific slots is extremely convoluted and way over the head of joe average.
The average user who has a friend or company set this up for him is completely screwed if his bios loses its memory for any reason. At least with jumpers/dip switches the settings need only be set when the hardware is installed and they stay put thereafter. ---
Where can the word be found, where can the word resound? Not here, there is not enough silence.
You left out one important part of #3 though. ISP is once bitten, twice shy. They're deterred from hosting any more spammers.
Since colourful analogies seem to be really popular concerning this article I'll throw my own into the hat:
What would you rather do about a cancer? Pop pills to try to ease the pain while you slowly die, or would you have it cut out? ---
Where can the word be found, where can the word resound? Not here, there is not enough silence.
Assuming of course you don't mind the doubled latency because the signal must pass through ALL 4 RIMMs/continuity modules.:-p ---
Where can the word be found, where can the word resound? Not here, there is not enough silence.
...but all of my IRQ problems have always come from plug&play on my PCI bus. The damned things always pick their own IRQs and god help you if they choose poorly, or decide to maul your serial ports' IRQs. They LOVE to share IRQs but believe me, contrary to popular belief not that many cards play nice with each other. If you have a geforce and a soundblaster live on the same IRQ for example, you can kiss your system stability goodbye.
Call me old-fashioned, but I preferred it when the cards did as they were told. ---
Where can the word be found, where can the word resound? Not here, there is not enough silence.
This may come as a shock to you, but although unpleasant, draconian measures are extremely effective. Though I suppose it may be more accurate to call this mob justice.
Besides, ISPs are a dime a dozen. Just found out your ISP is a bumch of slimeballs and a huge number of people want nothing to do with them? Switch ISPs.
The blacklisting is hardly the puppy-drowning cruelty you make it out to be. ---
Where can the word be found, where can the word resound? Not here, there is not enough silence.
This is a problem with implimentation more than it is with MAPS and ORBs.
What ISPs should do is set some of their mail servers up to use spam blockers and some not, then give their customers the choice of which server they want their email account on. The services provided by MAPS and ORBs are volountary, and they should be.
"Would you like spamming or non-spamming, sir?"
Sorry, I couldn't resist. ---
Where can the word be found, where can the word resound? Not here, there is not enough silence.
An addendum because I'm never satisfied with only the current.:-P
I just looked up past MAPS dealings with media3... they DID block for spamware before, but they didn't block all of media3. Looks like their recent blacklisting is for more than just refusing to deal with spammers. It's also for repeat offending (although this isn't stated).
I can't really say if a 1-line script I haven't even seen and thus don't know the capabilities of could constitute spamware, but THIS is rather blatant. I can't say really where to draw the line, but I'll be damned if a 25million address list and email address extractors aren't a lightyear over that line.
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Where can the word be found, where can the word resound? Not here, there is not enough silence.
I'm not quite certain where the author got this particular notion; That they were RBL'ed due to having spam software sites.
Hosting sites for software expressly created for the purpose of bulk emailing from a home connection, I'd consider a valid reason to be blackholed if they chose not to do anything about said sites... but that's not the reason they were added to the RBL.
Media3 got RBL'ed because they refused, despite their own anti-spam policy, to deal with people advertising their media3-hosted sites via spamming methods ---
Where can the word be found, where can the word resound? Not here, there is not enough silence.
Not to mention the fact that MAPS must add WHOLE companies to the RBL if the listing is to have any meaning.
Case-by-case RBL'ing isn't really an option because new spammer sites would pop up on unblocked IPs (media3 is spam-friendly, so they're likely to add more such sites), non-spam sites may be moved/added to blocked IPs (then we'd see media3 crying foul for some sympathy), and the point simply won't get across unless it's made clear that those of us using the RBL want NOTHING to do with them as long as they're harboring or assisting parasites.
Yes, I know the word "parasite" sounds harsh, but what would you call someone who makes money while you foot the bandwidth bill?
I volountarily use the RBL knowing that I may not be able to access some sites or receive mail from some people. I accepted that possibility when I chose to boycott spam. ---
Where can the word be found, where can the word resound? Not here, there is not enough silence.
While IRC servers usually say they ban bots they don't usually actively seek them out, so you've got a ton of them on servers where they're supposed to be disallowed.
There isn't the risk of flooding due to data transfer because the actual file transfer is done peer to peer. It's not like the client is going to barf UUencoded files into channels.
I assume how it would work is that the client would join some channel(s), and ask something like "Anyone got beautiful day by U2?". All the other clients in those channels would then do a quick check for matching files and message (preferrably directly, DCC-style) the requesting client with the names of matches so that they can initiate a direct file transfer. ---
Where can the word be found, where can the word resound? Not here, there is not enough silence.
Firewire doesn't require a central hub like USB though, which would also make it ideal for connecting directly to other devices without any extra hardware. ---
Where can the word be found, where can the word resound? Not here, there is not enough silence.
The fact of the matter is that the programmers USUALLY have little say in management decisions. You better believe they almost always DO offer better solutions and explanations. They can form arguments until they're blue in the face but more often than not it gets them:
1. blamed for wasting time
2. on bad terms with management
3. fired
Marketing departments like yours only happen in very small, tight-knit companies or by luck. ---
Where can the word be found, where can the word resound? Not here, there is not enough silence.
His windows machine couldn't connect either, as you can see had you read his post in its entirety. ---
Where can the word be found, where can the word resound? Not here, there is not enough silence.
I'm beginning to wonder who they're buying their PPPoE servers from. Sympatico here in Ontario uses a single RADIUS server for each city, and when the thing goes down it stays down for hours, taking your connection with it.
The whole time you get either unexpected authentication packets or nothing at all when attempting to connect.
PPPoE is a useless extra failure point. It's evil and must die.:-P There's no reason they can't allocate IP addresses via DHCP and keep track of customers by their physical lines. ---
Where can the word be found, where can the word resound? Not here, there is not enough silence.
You realize of course that blowing things up in space with a missile would result in MORE debris (both the sattelite bits and the missile bits), right? Many of which will be too small to track.
Some of those little chunks of metal are likely to be whipping about at even higher velocity after the blast, endangering other sattelites and anything we send up there.
Blowing things up in space may look cool on a movie screen but in reality, turning the ionosphere into a meat grinder is a really bad idea. ---
Where can the word be found, where can the word resound? Not here, there is not enough silence.
You can pull a lot of neat tricks with dosemu. My favorite being to trick DOS into thinking a telnet port is actually a modem, then you can just run your dos BBS software and doorgames over telnet without any modification. As far as the DOS fossil driver's concerned, it's talking to an analog modem that handshakes in a millisecond.;)
So yes, you can have your maximus/renegade/telegard/wwiv/majorbbs/spitfire/e tc BBS running under dosemu and taking calls from both modem(s) and telnet.
Check the dosemu documentation or the howtos over at linuxdoc.org. ---
Where can the word be found, where can the word resound? Not here, there is not enough silence.
I hope you don't have that old shield bug in your code. Planets became effectively invulnerable once you had 3000 shields on them. It screwed up some calculation and all attacks wound up doing 0 damage to the planet's shields.
Our games of tradewars always ended in a stalemate as each major faction wound up with invincible planet(s). ---
Where can the word be found, where can the word resound? Not here, there is not enough silence.
I don't know about everyone else, but I wasn't that surprised. The y2k bug was made out to be far worse than it actually is/was.
Of all the software out there, not very much relies on the date being correct such that it would be a critical failure point. The biggest risk I can think of would have been banking, and even that's not as horrible as people made it out to be. All those interest calculations are done and finalized with each itiration. Any miscalculations of funds would have begun on january 1st. They would not have been applied retroactively; your account wouldn't vanish because the system suddenly thought you hadn't opened it yet. It's more likely the software would crash or otherwise halt on error because the data is invalid (any bank using software that can't recognize the error conditions of negative interest/deposits, positive withdrawls, etc would have deserved what they got, IMHO).
A full-blown case of the y2k bug would have been an extreme annoyance at worst. Hardly a panic-worthy disaster. ---
Where can the word be found, where can the word resound? Not here, there is not enough silence.
Because his story was bupkiss and he was effectively holding the rotors for ransom. ---
Where can the word be found, where can the word resound? Not here, there is not enough silence.
A "hidden" planet would have to be massive to noticably affect Neptune's orbit, especially at a distance. Pluto (or any planet around that size) would have a contribution to Neptune's orbit similar to my effect on the earth's orbit.
The effect is so infintessmal we probably won't have the technology to notice it for generations, let alone measure it. ---
Where can the word be found, where can the word resound? Not here, there is not enough silence.
Slashdot Mirror
NVIDIA_kernel-0.9-5.tar.gz is the source to the kernel module, but it only exists in source form because it would be too much trouble to keep binaries for all possible kernel versions. It contains only the bare minimum of information required to perform its task. It's pretty much just linking to their binary driver.
.o files) libraries&driver, some docs and a Makefile that simply copies the libraries to where they need to be.
Contrary to what you may have been lead to believe, NVIDIA_GLX-0.9-5.tar.gz does not contain any source code at all. All that's in it are binary-only (.so and
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Where can the word be found, where can the word resound? Not here, there is not enough silence.
Nvidia won't release the neccessary specs or source code in order for DRI to provide native support.
Nvidia's holding out on this issue is either because they're being poopieheads, or (more likely) they have contractual/licensing obligations that preclude them from doing so.
---
Where can the word be found, where can the word resound? Not here, there is not enough silence.
For a while there I was afraid slashdot wasn't even interested in announcing this release.
:-P
When they started putting the build online:
2000-12-19 03:22:54 XFree86 4.0.2 release(ing?) (articles,x) (rejected)
When they finished putting the build online:
2000-12-19 22:55:45 XFree86 4.0.2 is out (articles,x) (rejected)
Go figure.
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Where can the word be found, where can the word resound? Not here, there is not enough silence.
Source code is great, but so are binaries. Not everyone can understand or even compile code. Releasing as source-only won't really encourage more pairs of eyes to look at your code. It's likely to do just the opposite, IMHO. I'm not sure it's a good idea forcing things on people who got interested in open source because they wanted to get AWAY from that kind of abuse.
People who would go through the code for themselves probably would have done so anyway even if there were binaries available. Those who can't help in that capacity could STILL help if they had binaries to run, test and provide feedback.
I'd also classify screenshots as a good thing, as they give potential users some idea of what they're getting into. Asthetics aren't everything, but they're not completely without merit, either.
---
Where can the word be found, where can the word resound? Not here, there is not enough silence.
It happens all the time. I think the latency's a bit lower going through continuity modules but it's still there.
---
Where can the word be found, where can the word resound? Not here, there is not enough silence.
If only it were that easy. In most bioses the process of assigning specific IRQs to specific slots is extremely convoluted and way over the head of joe average.
The average user who has a friend or company set this up for him is completely screwed if his bios loses its memory for any reason. At least with jumpers/dip switches the settings need only be set when the hardware is installed and they stay put thereafter.
---
Where can the word be found, where can the word resound? Not here, there is not enough silence.
You left out one important part of #3 though. ISP is once bitten, twice shy. They're deterred from hosting any more spammers.
Since colourful analogies seem to be really popular concerning this article I'll throw my own into the hat:
What would you rather do about a cancer? Pop pills to try to ease the pain while you slowly die, or would you have it cut out?
---
Where can the word be found, where can the word resound? Not here, there is not enough silence.
Assuming of course you don't mind the doubled latency because the signal must pass through ALL 4 RIMMs/continuity modules. :-p
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Where can the word be found, where can the word resound? Not here, there is not enough silence.
...but all of my IRQ problems have always come from plug&play on my PCI bus. The damned things always pick their own IRQs and god help you if they choose poorly, or decide to maul your serial ports' IRQs. They LOVE to share IRQs but believe me, contrary to popular belief not that many cards play nice with each other. If you have a geforce and a soundblaster live on the same IRQ for example, you can kiss your system stability goodbye.
Call me old-fashioned, but I preferred it when the cards did as they were told.
---
Where can the word be found, where can the word resound? Not here, there is not enough silence.
This may come as a shock to you, but although unpleasant, draconian measures are extremely effective. Though I suppose it may be more accurate to call this mob justice.
Besides, ISPs are a dime a dozen. Just found out your ISP is a bumch of slimeballs and a huge number of people want nothing to do with them? Switch ISPs.
The blacklisting is hardly the puppy-drowning cruelty you make it out to be.
---
Where can the word be found, where can the word resound? Not here, there is not enough silence.
This is a problem with implimentation more than it is with MAPS and ORBs.
What ISPs should do is set some of their mail servers up to use spam blockers and some not, then give their customers the choice of which server they want their email account on. The services provided by MAPS and ORBs are volountary, and they should be.
"Would you like spamming or non-spamming, sir?"
Sorry, I couldn't resist.
---
Where can the word be found, where can the word resound? Not here, there is not enough silence.
An addendum because I'm never satisfied with only the current. :-P
I just looked up past MAPS dealings with media3... they DID block for spamware before, but they didn't block all of media3. Looks like their recent blacklisting is for more than just refusing to deal with spammers. It's also for repeat offending (although this isn't stated).
I can't really say if a 1-line script I haven't even seen and thus don't know the capabilities of could constitute spamware, but THIS is rather blatant. I can't say really where to draw the line, but I'll be damned if a 25million address list and email address extractors aren't a lightyear over that line.
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Where can the word be found, where can the word resound? Not here, there is not enough silence.
I'm not quite certain where the author got this particular notion; That they were RBL'ed due to having spam software sites.
Hosting sites for software expressly created for the purpose of bulk emailing from a home connection, I'd consider a valid reason to be blackholed if they chose not to do anything about said sites... but that's not the reason they were added to the RBL.
Media3 got RBL'ed because they refused, despite their own anti-spam policy, to deal with people advertising their media3-hosted sites via spamming methods
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Where can the word be found, where can the word resound? Not here, there is not enough silence.
Not to mention the fact that MAPS must add WHOLE companies to the RBL if the listing is to have any meaning.
Case-by-case RBL'ing isn't really an option because new spammer sites would pop up on unblocked IPs (media3 is spam-friendly, so they're likely to add more such sites), non-spam sites may be moved/added to blocked IPs (then we'd see media3 crying foul for some sympathy), and the point simply won't get across unless it's made clear that those of us using the RBL want NOTHING to do with them as long as they're harboring or assisting parasites.
Yes, I know the word "parasite" sounds harsh, but what would you call someone who makes money while you foot the bandwidth bill?
I volountarily use the RBL knowing that I may not be able to access some sites or receive mail from some people. I accepted that possibility when I chose to boycott spam.
---
Where can the word be found, where can the word resound? Not here, there is not enough silence.
While IRC servers usually say they ban bots they don't usually actively seek them out, so you've got a ton of them on servers where they're supposed to be disallowed.
There isn't the risk of flooding due to data transfer because the actual file transfer is done peer to peer. It's not like the client is going to barf UUencoded files into channels.
I assume how it would work is that the client would join some channel(s), and ask something like "Anyone got beautiful day by U2?". All the other clients in those channels would then do a quick check for matching files and message (preferrably directly, DCC-style) the requesting client with the names of matches so that they can initiate a direct file transfer.
---
Where can the word be found, where can the word resound? Not here, there is not enough silence.
Firewire doesn't require a central hub like USB though, which would also make it ideal for connecting directly to other devices without any extra hardware.
---
Where can the word be found, where can the word resound? Not here, there is not enough silence.
The fact of the matter is that the programmers USUALLY have little say in management decisions. You better believe they almost always DO offer better solutions and explanations. They can form arguments until they're blue in the face but more often than not it gets them:
1. blamed for wasting time
2. on bad terms with management
3. fired
Marketing departments like yours only happen in very small, tight-knit companies or by luck.
---
Where can the word be found, where can the word resound? Not here, there is not enough silence.
His windows machine couldn't connect either, as you can see had you read his post in its entirety.
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Where can the word be found, where can the word resound? Not here, there is not enough silence.
I'm beginning to wonder who they're buying their PPPoE servers from. Sympatico here in Ontario uses a single RADIUS server for each city, and when the thing goes down it stays down for hours, taking your connection with it.
:-P There's no reason they can't allocate IP addresses via DHCP and keep track of customers by their physical lines.
The whole time you get either unexpected authentication packets or nothing at all when attempting to connect.
PPPoE is a useless extra failure point. It's evil and must die.
---
Where can the word be found, where can the word resound? Not here, there is not enough silence.
You realize of course that blowing things up in space with a missile would result in MORE debris (both the sattelite bits and the missile bits), right? Many of which will be too small to track.
Some of those little chunks of metal are likely to be whipping about at even higher velocity after the blast, endangering other sattelites and anything we send up there.
Blowing things up in space may look cool on a movie screen but in reality, turning the ionosphere into a meat grinder is a really bad idea.
---
Where can the word be found, where can the word resound? Not here, there is not enough silence.
You can pull a lot of neat tricks with dosemu. My favorite being to trick DOS into thinking a telnet port is actually a modem, then you can just run your dos BBS software and doorgames over telnet without any modification. As far as the DOS fossil driver's concerned, it's talking to an analog modem that handshakes in a millisecond. ;)
e tc BBS running under dosemu and taking calls from both modem(s) and telnet.
So yes, you can have your maximus/renegade/telegard/wwiv/majorbbs/spitfire/
Check the dosemu documentation or the howtos over at linuxdoc.org.
---
Where can the word be found, where can the word resound? Not here, there is not enough silence.
I hope you don't have that old shield bug in your code. Planets became effectively invulnerable once you had 3000 shields on them. It screwed up some calculation and all attacks wound up doing 0 damage to the planet's shields.
Our games of tradewars always ended in a stalemate as each major faction wound up with invincible planet(s).
---
Where can the word be found, where can the word resound? Not here, there is not enough silence.
I don't know about everyone else, but I wasn't that surprised. The y2k bug was made out to be far worse than it actually is/was.
Of all the software out there, not very much relies on the date being correct such that it would be a critical failure point. The biggest risk I can think of would have been banking, and even that's not as horrible as people made it out to be. All those interest calculations are done and finalized with each itiration. Any miscalculations of funds would have begun on january 1st. They would not have been applied retroactively; your account wouldn't vanish because the system suddenly thought you hadn't opened it yet. It's more likely the software would crash or otherwise halt on error because the data is invalid (any bank using software that can't recognize the error conditions of negative interest/deposits, positive withdrawls, etc would have deserved what they got, IMHO).
A full-blown case of the y2k bug would have been an extreme annoyance at worst. Hardly a panic-worthy disaster.
---
Where can the word be found, where can the word resound? Not here, there is not enough silence.
Because his story was bupkiss and he was effectively holding the rotors for ransom.
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Where can the word be found, where can the word resound? Not here, there is not enough silence.
A "hidden" planet would have to be massive to noticably affect Neptune's orbit, especially at a distance. Pluto (or any planet around that size) would have a contribution to Neptune's orbit similar to my effect on the earth's orbit.
The effect is so infintessmal we probably won't have the technology to notice it for generations, let alone measure it.
---
Where can the word be found, where can the word resound? Not here, there is not enough silence.