One minor thing that I appreciate about KDE 2, that Gnome still hasn't go right, is that it is installed in/opt - partly because this makes it easier to locate files and keeps a 'neater' system. I am fed of my/usr and/usr/local becoming an application install waste bin.
If more medium-power devices had their own built in solar panels, I am sure they would be able to get enough energy to run. Most people when the go home turn on enough lights to charge most small devices. And when they aren't around there is probably enough light to charge the devices. Hmm, if only there was a set of solar panels for my Palm.
Sure it is probably not the small device that are the problem, but you have to start somewhere and starting where it is easy is usually a good place.
On the other hand there is nothing stopping anyone from porting the BSD package manager to MacOS X, though at the same time I feel most people developing for MacOS X will tend to use what's already available. Although MacOS X is not X, there are X programs that are now being ported now that the XonX project is allowing X applications to run on top of Aqua ( the MacOS X user interface ).
It is at times like this that I feel that an SSL tunnel probably isn't such a bad idea. Basically all data transmitted between the workstation and the bridge computer would be encrypted, irrespective of the top level protocol. Between the two you could place 'insecure' technologies such a wireless networks. The advantage with this approach is that it is much easier to update the software running on either of the two computers, than it is to wait for the firmware of these devices to get an update. An additional advantage is that you can choose your own encryption scheme - as long as it recognised by the workstation and the SSL bridge.
I have never had any problems when spin down my HD. On the other hand I have friend who left his computer on all the time and when there was a power cut the drive couldn't spin back up. It turned out that his hard drive had become temperature adjusted to the constant spinning that when it powered done in the first time in over a year, the thing cracked with the temperature change. This in my point of view is a good reason to allow HDs to spin down from time to time.
One thing that I have noticed are server rooms and workstations with their screens left on all the time - I feel that this is first place most people could start. And for people using NT, their is a DPMS aware screen saver available, it even includes the source code. I can't remember where it is, though a search on google should turn it up.
One thing that is worth noting aswell the cost saving for a corporation the size of Microsoft or IBM, if workstations were either put to sleep, or shutdown when not in use. I calculated it one and the savings per year was in the millions of dollars.
I have never had any problems when spin down my HD. On the other hand I have friend who left his computer on all the time and when there was a power cut the drive couldn't spin back up. It turned out that his hard drive had become temperature adjusted to the constant spinning that when it powered done in the first time in over a year, the thing cracked with the temperature change. This in my point of view is a good reason to allow HDs to spin down from time to time.
One thing that I have noticed are server rooms and workstations with their screens left on all the time - I feel that this is first place most people could start. And for people using NT, their is a DPMS aware screen saver available, it even includes the source code. I can't remember where it is, though a search on google should turn it up.
One thing that is worth noting aswell the cost saving for a corporation the size of Microsoft or IBM, if workstations were either put to sleep, or shutdown when not in use. I calculated it one and the savings per year was in the millions of dollars.
Maybe the patent office should create a site called SlashPatents, or something, whereby patent applications get submitted for revue by the general public, so that any prior art may be submitted, if there is any. That`s the theory, now to see if such a system would work out in reality.
Although the technology fits on a sheet of paper ( what size? ), in theory it should be possible to fold it, or roll it, so it takes less space. Other advantages would include the fact that you could actually place it a wafer of plastic - imagine your desk could actually be made of layers of this technology and you wouldn't even notice, and all you would have to is plug your keyboard in.
Technologies at this stage are often seen by themselves and out of context, but once out of the research stage there is nothing stopping them from being combined with other technologies to increase the number of possible applications.
These sort of technologies are what will help contribute to the invisible technologies - whereby they are there and made use of, but you won't notice them.
Isn't this the same format DVD that the Nintendo Game Cube uses? If this is the case, then maybe the Game Cube isn't so off access as it seemed to amateur developers and um, p1r@ts?
What about MacOS X? Taking the power of Unix based platform, the flexibility of OpenStep and the ease of use of the classic Mac environment this certainly makes it more than just a blimp on M$'s horizon.
What will be interesting is whether MS will move to embrace and port all its office software to Linux or play its usuall dirty tricks, with lawyers et al. Somehow I believe from experience that the latter is true, unless someone is willing to let them have to non voting shares:)
Considering that the ISS is an international space station, surely NASA can't have total control over the flow of information from the space station? Will the Europeans or the Russians be able to share this precious info with us. Heck, Mir might have been falling apart, but at least it was turning into the hacker's idea of heaven and the information was being shared with everyone.
Hmm, I think its about time we send up that open, Linux based, communications satellite so that the truth doesn't get silenced by our dear USA government.
Reading the article and learning about the site is just incredible. What would also be great are photographs and some illustrations of the layout of the place, just so that we can get an even better idea of it.
While people in the computer industry may understand what all this control by Hollywood means, I reckon that Joe Public is probably lacking the necessary information to be able to revolt against the film industry. Maybe what it takes is for some consumer group to do the equivalent of GreenPeace's leaflets campaigns infront of MacDonalds's.
I think we should encourage every TV and DVD player buyer to go into a shop and ask for a region free device, and if they say they don't have one then go away and buy elsewhere - or ask them if they know anyone who can make them region free - eventually the sales people, and thus the shops, will get the message.
I am not sure that I agree with this point of view. Although someone might have a gene for ailement x, there is no garantee that they will get it. Furthermore discrimenation of any sort is still discrimination. What would you do if you happened to have this faulty gene, and for all medical science, or your employer knows, with the combination of another faulty gene, the effect could cancel themselves out, though since we don't know we shouldn't be making hash choices.
The truth is nobody is genetically perfect and given certain conditions this genetic differences could actually prove positive and creating a genetic underclass would actually make society a worse place to live - remember this is exactly what Hitler wanted to do with his Erian race.
Employers should only be allowed to choose their employees based on their ability to do the job, not how they will be in 50 years, especially since most people don't stay in the same job for more than 3 years in many cases.
It should also be noted that USB on the HandSpring is standard. If I wanted to use the current 3Com Palm range with my computer I would have to buy a serial-USB adapter. USB beats RS232 serial for transfer speeds.
Maybe another approach would to take the people responsible for selling the product to court with the reason 'insenting illegal activities'. At least this way companies would be put off trying to make use of unsolicited spamming services.
What would be nice is if Clan-Lib could share a common code base with SDL and if they could get backing from commericial sources to help boost their functionality and performance - currently they are evolving a little slower that I would have hoped and the Mac implementation needs a lot of work!!
One advantage of delaying the coverage is that the TV stations can make sure that only the games where the USA won will be shown. If they were shown live then there would be chances of showing games where, *gulp*, the USA didn't come first.
But why do you need the Gay Games? After all the current games will let you participate irrespective of your sexual orientation. What do we need to introduce 'Straight' games now!? Don't give me 'well what about the paralympics?', since the Paralympics were created for people, who due to physical disablities, are not able to compete in the Olympic games - the same people can't be said of gay people who can participate.
Even better in Canada you get to see both the American and Canadian coverage, though I think that the Canadian stations actually did a better coverage.
In Belgium you can get all sorts of different European TV stations on the cable, so you aren't really limited to the nation's coverage - of course you have to speak the language, though moving images do tell a lot. With this, I strongly believe that it is the USA TV companies that are putting on the pressure rather than that of any other country.
When programs become big due to feature creep, then the number of accidental bugs increases as well. As a badly architectured program grows in size a programmer spends more time trying to debug than actually improve the program.
The other thing that happens in program development is that as features are added to an architecture that was not designed for them, then they are added in the form of a hack because of time constraints placed on them both by marketing and customers. If you end up adding several layers of 'new' features then your program becomes one big hack that is impossible to maintain - when I say impossible I am mean you could maintain it with tonnes of time and money. If programmers were given the necessary time to add the new features then you would see a lot more stable programs.
I am not sure that I agree with that fragmentation does not really matter. Unix was one OS until it fragmented, if Linux went the same way as Unix what would there to be differeniate the two OSs. If the Linux is fragmented, then so is the development effort and thus the eventual rate of progress diminishes because there are so many factions to support.
The fact that there is no real source control mechanism used for the Linux source is a problem. There is no common place to submit changes if you aren't part of the core team. Maybe even if Linus is not using source control, maybe linuxhq should for the varios releases.
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One minor thing that I appreciate about KDE 2, that Gnome still hasn't go right, is that it is installed in /opt - partly because this makes it easier to locate files and keeps a 'neater' system. I am fed of my /usr and /usr/local becoming an application install waste bin.
Sure it is probably not the small device that are the problem, but you have to start somewhere and starting where it is easy is usually a good place.
First off, the Europeans are probably doing this due the huge number of CD copying devices available for you average Hi-Fi.
Next, does this mean it is legal to sell region free DVD players in Europe? If so I am interested in making a trip over there.
On the other hand there is nothing stopping anyone from porting the BSD package manager to MacOS X, though at the same time I feel most people developing for MacOS X will tend to use what's already available. Although MacOS X is not X, there are X programs that are now being ported now that the XonX project is allowing X applications to run on top of Aqua ( the MacOS X user interface ).
It is at times like this that I feel that an SSL tunnel probably isn't such a bad idea. Basically all data transmitted between the workstation and the bridge computer would be encrypted, irrespective of the top level protocol. Between the two you could place 'insecure' technologies such a wireless networks. The advantage with this approach is that it is much easier to update the software running on either of the two computers, than it is to wait for the firmware of these devices to get an update. An additional advantage is that you can choose your own encryption scheme - as long as it recognised by the workstation and the SSL bridge.
One thing that I have noticed are server rooms and workstations with their screens left on all the time - I feel that this is first place most people could start. And for people using NT, their is a DPMS aware screen saver available, it even includes the source code. I can't remember where it is, though a search on google should turn it up.
One thing that is worth noting aswell the cost saving for a corporation the size of Microsoft or IBM, if workstations were either put to sleep, or shutdown when not in use. I calculated it one and the savings per year was in the millions of dollars.
One thing that I have noticed are server rooms and workstations with their screens left on all the time - I feel that this is first place most people could start. And for people using NT, their is a DPMS aware screen saver available, it even includes the source code. I can't remember where it is, though a search on google should turn it up.
One thing that is worth noting aswell the cost saving for a corporation the size of Microsoft or IBM, if workstations were either put to sleep, or shutdown when not in use. I calculated it one and the savings per year was in the millions of dollars.
Maybe the patent office should create a site called SlashPatents, or something, whereby patent applications get submitted for revue by the general public, so that any prior art may be submitted, if there is any. That`s the theory, now to see if such a system would work out in reality.
Although the technology fits on a sheet of paper ( what size? ), in theory it should be possible to fold it, or roll it, so it takes less space. Other advantages would include the fact that you could actually place it a wafer of plastic - imagine your desk could actually be made of layers of this technology and you wouldn't even notice, and all you would have to is plug your keyboard in.
Technologies at this stage are often seen by themselves and out of context, but once out of the research stage there is nothing stopping them from being combined with other technologies to increase the number of possible applications.
These sort of technologies are what will help contribute to the invisible technologies - whereby they are there and made use of, but you won't notice them.
Isn't this the same format DVD that the Nintendo Game Cube uses? If this is the case, then maybe the Game Cube isn't so off access as it seemed to amateur developers and um, p1r@ts?
What about MacOS X? Taking the power of Unix based platform, the flexibility of OpenStep and the ease of use of the classic Mac environment this certainly makes it more than just a blimp on M$'s horizon.
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What will be interesting is whether MS will move to embrace and port all its office software to Linux or play its usuall dirty tricks, with lawyers et al. Somehow I believe from experience that the latter is true, unless someone is willing to let them have to non voting shares
Considering that the ISS is an international space station, surely NASA can't have total control over the flow of information from the space station? Will the Europeans or the Russians be able to share this precious info with us. Heck, Mir might have been falling apart, but at least it was turning into the hacker's idea of heaven and the information was being shared with everyone.
Hmm, I think its about time we send up that open, Linux based, communications satellite so that the truth doesn't get silenced by our dear USA government.
Reading the article and learning about the site is just incredible. What would also be great are photographs and some illustrations of the layout of the place, just so that we can get an even better idea of it.
While people in the computer industry may understand what all this control by Hollywood means, I reckon that Joe Public is probably lacking the necessary information to be able to revolt against the film industry. Maybe what it takes is for some consumer group to do the equivalent of GreenPeace's leaflets campaigns infront of MacDonalds's.
I think we should encourage every TV and DVD player buyer to go into a shop and ask for a region free device, and if they say they don't have one then go away and buy elsewhere - or ask them if they know anyone who can make them region free - eventually the sales people, and thus the shops, will get the message.
I am not sure that I agree with this point of view. Although someone might have a gene for ailement x, there is no garantee that they will get it. Furthermore discrimenation of any sort is still discrimination. What would you do if you happened to have this faulty gene, and for all medical science, or your employer knows, with the combination of another faulty gene, the effect could cancel themselves out, though since we don't know we shouldn't be making hash choices.
The truth is nobody is genetically perfect and given certain conditions this genetic differences could actually prove positive and creating a genetic underclass would actually make society a worse place to live - remember this is exactly what Hitler wanted to do with his Erian race.
Employers should only be allowed to choose their employees based on their ability to do the job, not how they will be in 50 years, especially since most people don't stay in the same job for more than 3 years in many cases.
Its added as an extension to the base system. There is an item marked 'USB Library v3.0H' when I check my Visor config (via the info menu).
It should also be noted that USB on the HandSpring is standard. If I wanted to use the current 3Com Palm range with my computer I would have to buy a serial-USB adapter. USB beats RS232 serial for transfer speeds.
Maybe another approach would to take the people responsible for selling the product to court with the reason 'insenting illegal activities'. At least this way companies would be put off trying to make use of unsolicited spamming services.
- SDL, or Simple Direct-media Layer - this is low-level games api
- Clan-Lib - this provides a higher-level API
What would be nice is if Clan-Lib could share a common code base with SDL and if they could get backing from commericial sources to help boost their functionality and performance - currently they are evolving a little slower that I would have hoped and the Mac implementation needs a lot of work!!Just image in 5 years when all broadcast is on the internet and available everywhere, you will have to buy an analogue TV just to watch the olympics.
One advantage of delaying the coverage is that the TV stations can make sure that only the games where the USA won will be shown. If they were shown live then there would be chances of showing games where, *gulp*, the USA didn't come first.
But why do you need the Gay Games? After all the current games will let you participate irrespective of your sexual orientation. What do we need to introduce 'Straight' games now!? Don't give me 'well what about the paralympics?', since the Paralympics were created for people, who due to physical disablities, are not able to compete in the Olympic games - the same people can't be said of gay people who can participate.
Even better in Canada you get to see both the American and Canadian coverage, though I think that the Canadian stations actually did a better coverage.
In Belgium you can get all sorts of different European TV stations on the cable, so you aren't really limited to the nation's coverage - of course you have to speak the language, though moving images do tell a lot. With this, I strongly believe that it is the USA TV companies that are putting on the pressure rather than that of any other country.
When programs become big due to feature creep, then the number of accidental bugs increases as well. As a badly architectured program grows in size a programmer spends more time trying to debug than actually improve the program.
The other thing that happens in program development is that as features are added to an architecture that was not designed for them, then they are added in the form of a hack because of time constraints placed on them both by marketing and customers. If you end up adding several layers of 'new' features then your program becomes one big hack that is impossible to maintain - when I say impossible I am mean you could maintain it with tonnes of time and money. If programmers were given the necessary time to add the new features then you would see a lot more stable programs.
I am not sure that I agree with that fragmentation does not really matter. Unix was one OS until it fragmented, if Linux went the same way as Unix what would there to be differeniate the two OSs. If the Linux is fragmented, then so is the development effort and thus the eventual rate of progress diminishes because there are so many factions to support.
The fact that there is no real source control mechanism used for the Linux source is a problem. There is no common place to submit changes if you aren't part of the core team. Maybe even if Linus is not using source control, maybe linuxhq should for the varios releases.