And more importantly, they'd end up losing money on the deal.
All of the console makers lose money on the consoles, and attempt to recover that money by licensing software titles.
Signing the linux code so that it can run, free, doesn't pay the bills. It also encourages people to buy machines that will never be used to run licensed software titles.
Programmers expect "Super users" to be able to find the preferences and disable things like "clippy" and "autocomplete" without having to do it all at once.
Fine grain control, not coarse "all on, all off" switches, are what real "super users" need.
There's no good reason why a majority of the people would want this. There is a small minority who will do it just to show that it can be done, the rest either:
Will buy an X-Box to play games and DVDs ONLY
Will not buy an X-Box, but instead will buy a dedicated machine to do whatever you might want to hack into a linux-running X-Box
Why? Because as a computing platform, the X-Box isn't that impressive, especially for $200. The graphics are nice, indeed, but you can buy a P4 tower from Dell for $400 these days, or a Tivo/PVR for a few hundred, a DVD player for $99, you'd have to be really dedicated to mod a perfectly good X-Box (which voids the warranty).
Yea, it's a nice hack for those who really want to see linux running on everything. For everyone else, another dedicated box is a better option.
Hotmail has more advanced filtering, as does yahoo, you just have to be aware of it to notice.
Specifically, if your address does not appear in the To: or Cc: fields, Hotmail will assume it is "Junk" by default, until you tell it otherwise. This stops spammers from creating a single alias on their server, and mailing only to that alias (a common way to get around the other blocks, which target emails with hundreds of recipients).
Yahoo does similar things, I've never used AOL so I don't know what they do.
silly, Linux isn't a company, you must be jesting.
Linux isn't a company. LNUX is.
LNUX was the symbol for VA Linux, who has since changed their name to VA Software (aka: slashdot's parent company).
LNUX IPOd during the boom, and was well above $200/share for some time, and is now trading for barely over $1/share. For more details, check out your favorite financial site.
ABC, Fox, NBC, Reuters, and AP carry news that the majority of people reading it will care about. Linux is a niche market, most people don't (and won't, for years) care.
Linux had its chance in the past few years, and poorly performing stocks (LNUX, etc) have left a bad taste in many mouths across the world.
Yea, but he even had a radio show for a month or so on a very, very large radio station.
He had ways of making money, he hasn't been sitting around in the dark starving because nobody would hire him....
When you have a reputation like that, you don't need to do what you're good at.
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And along the same lines, what are some of the more enjoyable things you've accomplished outside of court.
When you had your weekend radio show on KFI in Los Angeles, you had many stories that brought about changes in your tone, such as experiments with "drive thru"s involving intercepting and overriding the employees such that you could speak directly with the customer from a distance away. While many would argue (and I would certainly agree) that this isn't a technical marvel, it is pretty damn funny.
So, my question is: everyone knows the big things you've done that you've been punished for, what about the little things you've done that you look back on and smile about?
I've installed 5.0 this morning(GMT) with no problems (it performs as fine as 4.x!).
Rebuild world and kernel, take out the debugging and witness checks, and it's quite a bit faster. The networking code isn't quite as quick, but the kernel and vm is very, very fast.
Exactly. Everyone who complains of immediate obsolesence is either a naive fool or has too much money and nothing to spend it on.
A common sense view of the situation would be: yes, you have a Radeon 8000: you shouldn't even consider a GFFX. The GFFX SHOULD be marketed at people who have Nvidia TNT2's and 3DFX boards: people who are getting to the point where they want to upgrade have an extra option, people who don't need to upgrade shouldn't.
Linux have much more than BSD ways for scaling up. BSD was designed to work as a single server (with single CPU). Besides, I wanna ask: how is BSD good with journalling and RAIDs on that sinlge server?
Journalling is a hack to an already poor filesystem. Well designed filesystems, such as UFS, support other means to ensure correctness. UFS and UFS2 support softupdates, which ensure consistency. Journalling, such as that in ext3, are hacks added to fix design problems.
As for scaling: the single advantage of linux over bsd in scaling is the introduction of Mosix clustering for Linux, and the newer SMP code brought by IBM to the Linux project. The fact that BSD was used by projects such as Yahoo and Hotmail should suggest that it does scale quite well.
But it's not a problem since many people said that it was better for me to stick with 4.7 and then switch to 5.1 or 5.2. Not a problem too since I'M on cable and I downloaded theses ISOs at 300+ kb/s:)
This is a valid point that I haven't yet seen addressed: which is better for the average user, 4.7 or 5.0?
There have been many, many changes to the code in 5.0, and there are bound to be more than a few bugs. If you're running a site that can have zero downtime, and you don't have redundant servers, don't bother switching to 5.0, it's simply not ready yet.
If you're a home user, don't mind a few make buildworld, make buildkernel, make installkernel, make installworld sequences, upgrade. There's enough new that you'll enjoy it, and there's enough stability that you probably won't notice the infrequent bugs.
If you're asking yourself "Why should I upgrade when everyone says there's going to be bugs?", the answer is simple: the bugs can't be found without testers, so everyone on the team needs your help to find them quickly. If you encounter a bug, file a PR, and maybe even try publicizing it on a mailing list. Letting the developers know that bugs exist is the first step in getting bug-free code.
Now why would you link directly to a FTP server? We all know that a lot of people will begin to download a +600MB ISO file and that no single FTP server would be able to handle the Slashdot crowd..
Correction: No single Linux server would be able to handle the Slashdot crowd. A single FreeBSD server can do it easily.
This is from 2 years ago, many advancements have been made, particularly to the hardware and network stack, so assume that these numbers are on the very low end of estimates.
"We're very pleased to have servers that we built, running the FreeBSD operating system, set new milestones like this. It really shows just how well our large servers can perform in real-world situations using freely available software", Greenman said. "Equally impressive is the server's stability. It was pumping out upwards of 300 million bits per second to over 3000 users at a time for the past several days without a glitch and has been operating crash-free under similarly high loads for nearly two months now."
A perfect example is the local radio station (KROQ) having a segment called catch of the day where they play unsigned, or new artists. Programs like this are very common now
I live in LA. I listen to KROQ. "Catch of the day" is "Jed the Fish"'s personal choice, and it's not always an independant artist: quite frequently the music he plays in that slot is RIAA backed.
Realistically, it's easier to troll (note: troll, not crapflood) a site frequented by the extremists: linux zealots make easy targets. Similarly, it's very easy to troll political discussion boards, and unsuspecting teenagers.
Crapflooding, however, is not trolling, and takes no skill. It is absolutely immaterial what type of site you crapflood: some people will anger easier, but it's usually only a matter of time until you get bored and move on anyway.
Imho, this sort of thing just makes me doubly motivated to go out and download all the music I want. If I'm going to be paying a markup for it, might as well take advantage of it.
Rationalizing theft. I probably won't win anyone over by arguing about that, so I won't bother.
Once a system is in place to pay money to artists directly, I'll put some money in towards the artists I like
How, exactly, do you expect that to happen? People learn about artists because the members of the RIAA PAY A SHITLOAD OF MONEY to get their names and faces in front of you. You don't know about artists unless they're supported by the RIAA. Aritsts usually aren't known unless they're advertised by the RIAA. The RIAA needs money for advertising, and that money has to come from proceeds made off of the artists.
These EULAs actualy give Linux a boost. Since the issue of liability is removed (there is not one to sue if said product fails due to EULAs) you might as well use the best tool for the job.
Sure, best tool for the job. That isn't linux. There are operating systems written specifically for medical use that are proven to be fundamentally correct.
This really is a good point. I actually remember a post on the Freebsd-hackers mailing list from a year or two ago that asked if FreeBSD was certified for use in medical environments. The bottom line that arose from the discussion is that none of { *BSD, Linux, Microsoft } were certified, nor SHOULD they be, since medical operating systems NEED to be written precisely for that purpose, and there is too much risk in attempting to adapt a huge OS to medical purposes.
In the US, there are laws requiring certain certifications and processes for all computer related components used in medical settings: you'll never find a linux-driven robot in a hospital here. In other countries, this doesn't appear to be the case.
I spent 20 years of my life living right beside the Mississippi River which runs straight through the middle of the USA, and it is the most god awful dirty water that I have ever seen. The clean water act is a sham and anyone living on the ol miss knows it.
Try looking at the water in a Mexican or Indian river.
You don't realize how clean that water is, considering the amount of industry that relies on it.
Even if I never ever send an email, the amount of spam grows approximately linearly with time... it only takes about 2 months to exhaust your 2MB quota daily....
You must have some bad luck. I've got a hotmail account I've used consistently for two years, and I'm typically around ~10% of my quota.
Either you're advertising your email address, or you've got some really easy to guess address, because the behavior you describe is far from typical.
Opera is a business. Their money is made by allowing people to download their software. When slashdot kills their site, they lose money.
It's about time someone sued slashdot for killing their website and costing them bandwidth. The precedents exist, it would be a simple open-and-shut case.
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And more importantly, they'd end up losing money on the deal.
All of the console makers lose money on the consoles, and attempt to recover that money by licensing software titles.
Signing the linux code so that it can run, free, doesn't pay the bills. It also encourages people to buy machines that will never be used to run licensed software titles.
Programmers expect "Super users" to be able to find the preferences and disable things like "clippy" and "autocomplete" without having to do it all at once.
Fine grain control, not coarse "all on, all off" switches, are what real "super users" need.
Not getting the quality you paid for? Ask for a refund.
There are people who subscribe to this site. I'm sure they're getting the downtime, too.
Why? Because as a computing platform, the X-Box isn't that impressive, especially for $200. The graphics are nice, indeed, but you can buy a P4 tower from Dell for $400 these days, or a Tivo/PVR for a few hundred, a DVD player for $99, you'd have to be really dedicated to mod a perfectly good X-Box (which voids the warranty).
Yea, it's a nice hack for those who really want to see linux running on everything. For everyone else, another dedicated box is a better option.
Hotmail has more advanced filtering, as does yahoo, you just have to be aware of it to notice.
Specifically, if your address does not appear in the To: or Cc: fields, Hotmail will assume it is "Junk" by default, until you tell it otherwise. This stops spammers from creating a single alias on their server, and mailing only to that alias (a common way to get around the other blocks, which target emails with hundreds of recipients).
Yahoo does similar things, I've never used AOL so I don't know what they do.
silly, Linux isn't a company, you must be jesting.
Linux isn't a company. LNUX is.
LNUX was the symbol for VA Linux, who has since changed their name to VA Software (aka: slashdot's parent company).
LNUX IPOd during the boom, and was well above $200/share for some time, and is now trading for barely over $1/share. For more details, check out your favorite financial site.
ABC, Fox, NBC, Reuters, and AP carry news that the majority of people reading it will care about. Linux is a niche market, most people don't (and won't, for years) care.
Linux had its chance in the past few years, and poorly performing stocks (LNUX, etc) have left a bad taste in many mouths across the world.
Yea, but he even had a radio show for a month or so on a very, very large radio station.
He had ways of making money, he hasn't been sitting around in the dark starving because nobody would hire him....
When you have a reputation like that, you don't need to do what you're good at.
And along the same lines, what are some of the more enjoyable things you've accomplished outside of court.
When you had your weekend radio show on KFI in Los Angeles, you had many stories that brought about changes in your tone, such as experiments with "drive thru"s involving intercepting and overriding the employees such that you could speak directly with the customer from a distance away. While many would argue (and I would certainly agree) that this isn't a technical marvel, it is pretty damn funny.
So, my question is: everyone knows the big things you've done that you've been punished for, what about the little things you've done that you look back on and smile about?
I've installed 5.0 this morning(GMT) with no problems (it performs as fine as 4.x!).
Rebuild world and kernel, take out the debugging and witness checks, and it's quite a bit faster. The networking code isn't quite as quick, but the kernel and vm is very, very fast.
Exactly. Everyone who complains of immediate obsolesence is either a naive fool or has too much money and nothing to spend it on.
A common sense view of the situation would be: yes, you have a Radeon 8000: you shouldn't even consider a GFFX. The GFFX SHOULD be marketed at people who have Nvidia TNT2's and 3DFX boards: people who are getting to the point where they want to upgrade have an extra option, people who don't need to upgrade shouldn't.
Common sense. It's pretty easy.
Linux have much more than BSD ways for scaling up. BSD was designed to work as a single server (with single CPU). Besides, I wanna ask: how is BSD good with journalling and RAIDs on that sinlge server?
Journalling is a hack to an already poor filesystem. Well designed filesystems, such as UFS, support other means to ensure correctness. UFS and UFS2 support softupdates, which ensure consistency. Journalling, such as that in ext3, are hacks added to fix design problems.
As for scaling: the single advantage of linux over bsd in scaling is the introduction of Mosix clustering for Linux, and the newer SMP code brought by IBM to the Linux project. The fact that BSD was used by projects such as Yahoo and Hotmail should suggest that it does scale quite well.
But it's not a problem since many people said that it was better for me to stick with 4.7 and then switch to 5.1 or 5.2. Not a problem too since I'M on cable and I downloaded theses ISOs at 300+ kb/s :)
This is a valid point that I haven't yet seen addressed: which is better for the average user, 4.7 or 5.0?
There have been many, many changes to the code in 5.0, and there are bound to be more than a few bugs. If you're running a site that can have zero downtime, and you don't have redundant servers, don't bother switching to 5.0, it's simply not ready yet.
If you're a home user, don't mind a few make buildworld, make buildkernel, make installkernel, make installworld sequences, upgrade. There's enough new that you'll enjoy it, and there's enough stability that you probably won't notice the infrequent bugs.
If you're asking yourself "Why should I upgrade when everyone says there's going to be bugs?", the answer is simple: the bugs can't be found without testers, so everyone on the team needs your help to find them quickly. If you encounter a bug, file a PR, and maybe even try publicizing it on a mailing list. Letting the developers know that bugs exist is the first step in getting bug-free code.
In the RC's, SMP was broken for pentium-I's I found out with an old Proliant 1500.
So I suppose it is in release too.
Did you file a bug report? Post it to a mailing list? What PR numbers are associated with your broken SMP?
If you don't file a bug report, how can you assume someone will fix it?
Correction: No single Linux server would be able to handle the Slashdot crowd. A single FreeBSD server can do it easily.
http://www.bsdtoday.com/2000/October/News296.html
This is from 2 years ago, many advancements have been made, particularly to the hardware and network stack, so assume that these numbers are on the very low end of estimates.
A perfect example is the local radio station (KROQ) having a segment called catch of the day where they play unsigned, or new artists. Programs like this are very common now
I live in LA. I listen to KROQ. "Catch of the day" is "Jed the Fish"'s personal choice, and it's not always an independant artist: quite frequently the music he plays in that slot is RIAA backed.
And the money still doesn't go to the artists....
Realistically, it's easier to troll (note: troll, not crapflood) a site frequented by the extremists: linux zealots make easy targets. Similarly, it's very easy to troll political discussion boards, and unsuspecting teenagers.
Crapflooding, however, is not trolling, and takes no skill. It is absolutely immaterial what type of site you crapflood: some people will anger easier, but it's usually only a matter of time until you get bored and move on anyway.
Imho, this sort of thing just makes me doubly motivated to go out and download all the music I want. If I'm going to be paying a markup for it, might as well take advantage of it.
Rationalizing theft. I probably won't win anyone over by arguing about that, so I won't bother.
Once a system is in place to pay money to artists directly, I'll put some money in towards the artists I like
How, exactly, do you expect that to happen? People learn about artists because the members of the RIAA PAY A SHITLOAD OF MONEY to get their names and faces in front of you. You don't know about artists unless they're supported by the RIAA. Aritsts usually aren't known unless they're advertised by the RIAA. The RIAA needs money for advertising, and that money has to come from proceeds made off of the artists.
It's called economics. It's not that difficult.
These EULAs actualy give Linux a boost. Since the issue of liability is removed (there is not one to sue if said product fails due to EULAs) you might as well use the best tool for the job.
F -8&q=linux+kernel+panic: A search for "Linux kernel panic" produces 105,000 results. Is that what YOU want operating on someone?
Sure, best tool for the job. That isn't linux. There are operating systems written specifically for medical use that are proven to be fundamentally correct.
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&ie=UTF-8&oe=UT
This really is a good point. I actually remember a post on the Freebsd-hackers mailing list from a year or two ago that asked if FreeBSD was certified for use in medical environments. The bottom line that arose from the discussion is that none of { *BSD, Linux, Microsoft } were certified, nor SHOULD they be, since medical operating systems NEED to be written precisely for that purpose, and there is too much risk in attempting to adapt a huge OS to medical purposes.
In the US, there are laws requiring certain certifications and processes for all computer related components used in medical settings: you'll never find a linux-driven robot in a hospital here. In other countries, this doesn't appear to be the case.
I spent 20 years of my life living right beside the Mississippi River which runs straight through the middle of the USA, and it is the most god awful dirty water that I have ever seen.
The clean water act is a sham and anyone living on the ol miss knows it.
Try looking at the water in a Mexican or Indian river.
You don't realize how clean that water is, considering the amount of industry that relies on it.
Even if I never ever send an email, the amount of spam grows approximately linearly with time... it only takes about 2 months to exhaust your 2MB quota daily....
You must have some bad luck. I've got a hotmail account I've used consistently for two years, and I'm typically around ~10% of my quota.
Either you're advertising your email address, or you've got some really easy to guess address, because the behavior you describe is far from typical.
There are still some images around, just not with the C64 theme.
e ra-7-win-beta2.png for the Opera 7 screenshot. Nice looking browser. It looks like the tabs have improved a bit since Opera 5 (in my less than humble opinion).
Check out http://www.opera.com/graphics/docs/screenshots/op
Slashdot killing sites is absolutely ridiculous.
Opera is a business. Their money is made by allowing people to download their software. When slashdot kills their site, they lose money.
It's about time someone sued slashdot for killing their website and costing them bandwidth. The precedents exist, it would be a simple open-and-shut case.