Collections of data in BDB format might arguably be databases depending on the effort the programmer went through, but usually they're just indexed files. This is of course the way that MySQL started, a collection of BDB files binded together to appear on the outside as a collection of tables.
Xine on my FC4 box doesn't have a codec or something, I get "couldn't find demux for Elephants_dream_1024.avi" adn't didn't see anything on their site. Too new for Google to have info i guess.
We need to get a truly working pluggable driver model. The UDI Project tried something like this. It didn't work, mostly because of political reasons. Platforms that are very popular with driver writers (read: windows, solaris to some extent) have an advantage in NOT having a pluggable architecture like this. So the big guys will never have a pluggable infrastructure. So that means the pluggable infrastructure will be used only (if at all) by fringe operating systems. So, then the hardware manufacturer has a choice of spending extra time and money for coding and testing on a minor architecture. Classic chicken and egg, Catch 22. PLus, a pluggable architecture makes it easier for binary modules, and there are some people very opposed to that.
The only thing Linux has over other operating systems right now, is price. If you use RedHat Advanced Server, i can guarantee you price is not an advantage. Yet, they have more and more people using it. I think you're grossly oversimplifying things.
The worst i saw was a guy wearing a Bluetooth handset while eating. He was talking to his friend at the table, talking on the phone, and slurping food at the same time. I think we'll see this more with Bluetooth because there are no cords to get tangled in food.
You can't legislate manners, people either have them or they don't.
One reason that Wal-Mart is so efficient is the have a killer IT department. They have a very good inventory and order system, that is a real competitive advantage. One of the reasons K-Mart failed in their bid to re-invent themselves is that they couldn't compete with Wal-Mart efficiency. They have some of the best tech, if not the best tech, in the industry. Just because they're in Arkansas don't think they're goobers.
Seems they've been astroturfing for a while. wasn't that long ago they did a big writeup on flaws Coverity found in certain FLOSS projects. at least then they found some bugs and helped fix.
I'm all for tools like this. YOu can find a billion text editors on sourceforge.net but very few good programmers tools. Just this smells like an add for me.
Take fluctuations like that, and the entire NetCraft survey, with a grain of salt. Apache lost 4.4 million installed sites with a single decision. GoDaddy moved it's domain parking to IIS. These are not real sites in which you can do anything, they're pretty much just placeholders and ads for GoDaddy at this point. Can't really bitch about it, it has to be on somehting, and at one time those 4.4 million servers were counted for Apache. In fact, NetCraft said most domain parkers use Apache.
In addition to the laptop, give the winner a tiny link to his (or her) site on any Slashdot page using his design. On the bottom of each page, in a small font size, something like <A>"Page design by Winner's Name</a>.
Cool, Slashdot effect for months to come!! Just the traffic from web spiders will be a lot.
Maybe a reference to a "designed by..." slashdot page, with a single reference to their site.
Hell, if M$ bought Java from SUN, we'd probably end up with better APIs. I doubt it. Microsoft has had a couple of bold attempts to kill java, why would it better it? It shipped JVM 1.1 with extensions, so that it really wasn't a compliant JVM. That left sun with the choice of either 1) accepting the changes, and having it controlled by MS, or 2) fighting them, leaving the Windows platform with an older JVM, and Bill G a "look we tried but Sun is so unreasonable" mood. They chose #2. Sucks for the people who are still saddled with a 1.1 JVM, most people wouldn't know to upgrade, and think that any suckitude is due to Java, not MS's hacking of it. I for one am saddled with not one but two apps that require JVM 1.1 and are they ever slow.
Even that wasn't enough, MS created C# as a Java killer. Think of it as Java as if the initial version was 1.4, already had learned the failures of the previous editions. They were able to learn from Sun's early mistakes. And you can also bust out of the VM when you want to, to tie you to Windows more tightly.
MS wants to destroy anything that it feels can destroy Windows. ANything that can be a platform that doesn't force you to use Windows is a threat. If it were possible to "buy" Java (and i'm not sure of the status of the JCP) they'd tightly tie it to windows, and make things not quite work right elsewhere.
And the M$ thing is old. Microsoft is a for-profit corporation. It is not the only for-profit company. Unless you feel the need to add $ to every company (do i hear $un anyone, Ci$co? $u$e?) it seems kind of pointless. Yes they have been convicted in a court of law for dirty tricks, but they are not the only one. There may be more use in targetting companies that actively kill people or foster repressive regimes ($hell Oil?)
Linus doesn't like "VM Games" despite the fact that Virtual Memory, Memory Mapped Files, Disk I/O, Write Caching, etc, etc, etc, are all already "Memory Games" and "VM Games" Anyone else remember the entire VM being ripped out of 2.4 "production" kernel and replaced?
I remember being a dot.commer, being in SOMA, SF, just off of 6th and Mission. Some bar (forget it's name) had SoulCaliber and Crazy Taxi. WE'd just play for hours. I miss those games, though i never bought a system. I knew i'd spend too much time on them and not get any real work done.
The MPAA rates much harder on sexual situations than violent ones. Can have hundreds of people killed, still get PG-13, but get a couple too many boobies showing, rated R. Male nudity, pretty much Adults Only, or release unrated. The theory i've heard is "people know the violence is fake, but the sex can be more easily confused with real life, therefore influencing unwanted behavior". Lets say we pretend this is true, there's something about a bare breast that makes people unable to see that it's a construction on not reality, where do virtual worlds fit in? We've already seen the uproar with Hot Coffee and GTA. Here you're in the same environment (so no confusion reality vs. game), seeing a highly pixellated "woman" and that's immoral. But the violence in the game gets a rating sticker and is ok.
1) opensource existed before Stallman, and it will exist after. Stallman didn't invent it. It existed in BSD, and Linus has stated that if BSD hadn't been encumbered at the time by the lawsuit, he probably woudn't have bothered with Linux.
2) at one time Linus did call the whole thing Linux. This was a long time ago, when there was essentially just one distro (his) and it was mostly kernel and command line things, low end things that he liked to hack on. Only when it grew past (though it was very very early in it's lifetime) that did Linux refer to just the kernel.
Not everyone that added code to Linux (term refers to kernel or OS, your choice) or even GNU products believe in The Movement. Some people jsut wanted a free UNIX clone.
I think the term pragmatist is very appropriate. Linux exists at all because Linus was a pragmatist. He just wanted to get things done. If you read the Great Debate (again, most of slashdot has read Torvalds vs. Tannenbaum once or twice) you'll see that he's a pragmatist through and through. He can't touch BSD because of the AT&T fight, and Minux didn't do what he wanted. So he made his own. He used the tools that were out and available and unencumbered at the time, the GNU tools collection. There was no advertising clause attached at the time (if you use these tools, you must give us credit). In fact, Stallman hated the old BSD license for that reason; you had to give credit to the Regents of UCBerkeley.
The pragmatism extended into the GNU/Linux thing. When RMS asked Torvalds about the name GNU/Linux, Linus assumed he just meant Debian Linux, which was the GNU blessed distro. He felt whatever, call it whatever you want. He didn't realize Stallman wanted to tag the whole enchilada.
Meanwhile, Linux is a cultural phenomenom, and the HURD is still vaporware, changing microkernels recently, and not ready to be a desktop OS for anyone at this point. Whether you believe Stallman wants the attention for ego fluffing, or if you believe he just can't stand people using an OS that's not 100% pure to his particular standards, it can't sit well with him.
1) calling all software licenses equal is not Microsoft's position. They don't particularly like GPL, and wish they could stamp it out. They don't mind BSD license so much, they still ship with BSD code (some command line tools), had a BSD network stack for a while (NT 3.5 days or so, been ripped out completely in favor of MS code), and AD authentication is from MITs Kerberos, with some extensions.
2) Calling it "like Microsoft" is just an emotional attack. If he said "Linux thinks all licenses are valid" then he'd have to come up with a reason why this shouldn't happen. I've never bought his arguments.
3) "wrong to ever violate them". Stalman makes it sound like this is bad, but never gives reasons why. Can i violate GPL and he'd be happy?
In a way i wish RMS would stop talking about GNU/Linux and get back to the HURD. Instead of a decades old OS with various security patches on top of it to work in a networked world, have some ideas for a truly clean OS. Port stuff to it. WHy in this day in age do most machines have this all powerful root (or Administrator) user? Build in sub-permissioning from Day 1, don't add on later and wait for thigns to break. Why does a bug in glibc put my whole computer at risk? Why cant we re-engineer things to have message passing and isolated address spaces for libraries? Is the inefficiency of message passing vs. direct method calls going to kill a user who really just wants to be on the net safely? Use the HURD as a research project, get new ideas out into the OS world, where it's stagnating now.
Compare that to the hundreds that the old physical books used to cost. Even in the early days of the CD, it became obvious that you couldn't charge the same for a couple shiny disks that you could for a shelf full of dead trees.
I won't comment on the money issue, i think a lot of people should be contributing for OpenSSH. The problem is that the BSD license doesn't require it. You can say that it should have, but i bet OpenSSH wouldn't be as ubiquitous as it is now. We have a bunch of hardware devices that we connect to with ssh. The fact out of all those devices, Theo only got a grand really surprises me.
But as far as buzzword jumping - Sun has given a lot of things to open source, more than IBM in fact. NFS was developed by Sun, was always free as far as i know. Bill Joy, one of the Sun founders, was heavy into adding things to BSD (the original, from UC Berkeley) which were released for free. They jsut released their entire OS. They gave away ZFS and dtrace recently. They aren't on it because it's the latest buzzword. They've been doing it for years.
I agree, it doesn't have to be that way. I shop at Meijer, a hypermarket much like Walmart. It's a regional midwestern chain. But most people have never heard of it, nobody is beating down the doors to their Michigan headquarters to hope for shelf space. Wal-Mart was the stock market darling.
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Collections of data in BDB format might arguably be databases depending on the effort the programmer went through, but usually they're just indexed files.
This is of course the way that MySQL started, a collection of BDB files binded together to appear on the outside as a collection of tables.
Xine on my FC4 box doesn't have a codec or something, I get "couldn't find demux for Elephants_dream_1024.avi" adn't didn't see anything on their site. Too new for Google to have info i guess.
We need to get a truly working pluggable driver model.
The UDI Project tried something like this. It didn't work, mostly because of political reasons. Platforms that are very popular with driver writers (read: windows, solaris to some extent) have an advantage in NOT having a pluggable architecture like this. So the big guys will never have a pluggable infrastructure. So that means the pluggable infrastructure will be used only (if at all) by fringe operating systems. So, then the hardware manufacturer has a choice of spending extra time and money for coding and testing on a minor architecture. Classic chicken and egg, Catch 22. PLus, a pluggable architecture makes it easier for binary modules, and there are some people very opposed to that.
The only thing Linux has over other operating systems right now, is price.
If you use RedHat Advanced Server, i can guarantee you price is not an advantage. Yet, they have more and more people using it. I think you're grossly oversimplifying things.
The worst i saw was a guy wearing a Bluetooth handset while eating. He was talking to his friend at the table, talking on the phone, and slurping food at the same time. I think we'll see this more with Bluetooth because there are no cords to get tangled in food.
You can't legislate manners, people either have them or they don't.
One reason that Wal-Mart is so efficient is the have a killer IT department. They have a very good inventory and order system, that is a real competitive advantage. One of the reasons K-Mart failed in their bid to re-invent themselves is that they couldn't compete with Wal-Mart efficiency. They have some of the best tech, if not the best tech, in the industry. Just because they're in Arkansas don't think they're goobers.
Embrace and Extend, I think that's the name of some porn flick i saw in the East Village a few years back...
Seems they've been astroturfing for a while. wasn't that long ago they did a big writeup on flaws Coverity found in certain FLOSS projects. at least then they found some bugs and helped fix.
I'm all for tools like this. YOu can find a billion text editors on sourceforge.net but very few good programmers tools. Just this smells like an add for me.
Take fluctuations like that, and the entire NetCraft survey, with a grain of salt. Apache lost 4.4 million installed sites with a single decision. GoDaddy moved it's domain parking to IIS. These are not real sites in which you can do anything, they're pretty much just placeholders and ads for GoDaddy at this point. Can't really bitch about it, it has to be on somehting, and at one time those 4.4 million servers were counted for Apache. In fact, NetCraft said most domain parkers use Apache.
In addition to the laptop, give the winner a tiny link to his (or her) site on any Slashdot page using his design. On the bottom of each page, in a small font size, something like <A>"Page design by Winner's Name</a>.
Cool, Slashdot effect for months to come!! Just the traffic from web spiders will be a lot.
Maybe a reference to a "designed by..." slashdot page, with a single reference to their site.
Hell, if M$ bought Java from SUN, we'd probably end up with better APIs.
I doubt it. Microsoft has had a couple of bold attempts to kill java, why would it better it?
It shipped JVM 1.1 with extensions, so that it really wasn't a compliant JVM. That left sun with the choice of either 1) accepting the changes, and having it controlled by MS, or 2) fighting them, leaving the Windows platform with an older JVM, and Bill G a "look we tried but Sun is so unreasonable" mood. They chose #2. Sucks for the people who are still saddled with a 1.1 JVM, most people wouldn't know to upgrade, and think that any suckitude is due to Java, not MS's hacking of it. I for one am saddled with not one but two apps that require JVM 1.1 and are they ever slow.
Even that wasn't enough, MS created C# as a Java killer. Think of it as Java as if the initial version was 1.4, already had learned the failures of the previous editions. They were able to learn from Sun's early mistakes. And you can also bust out of the VM when you want to, to tie you to Windows more tightly.
MS wants to destroy anything that it feels can destroy Windows. ANything that can be a platform that doesn't force you to use Windows is a threat. If it were possible to "buy" Java (and i'm not sure of the status of the JCP) they'd tightly tie it to windows, and make things not quite work right elsewhere.
And the M$ thing is old. Microsoft is a for-profit corporation. It is not the only for-profit company. Unless you feel the need to add $ to every company (do i hear $un anyone, Ci$co? $u$e?) it seems kind of pointless. Yes they have been convicted in a court of law for dirty tricks, but they are not the only one. There may be more use in targetting companies that actively kill people or foster repressive regimes ($hell Oil?)
Shares were up nearly 9% in after hours trading. Not quite a pat on the back for Mr. McNealy.
I think mauve has the most RAM....
Linus doesn't like "VM Games" despite the fact that Virtual Memory, Memory Mapped Files, Disk I/O, Write Caching, etc, etc, etc, are all already "Memory Games" and "VM Games"
Anyone else remember the entire VM being ripped out of 2.4 "production" kernel and replaced?
It's Extreme to the MAX.
For some reason this reminded me of Jello X-Treme with reduced sugar. Nothing quite so extreme as watching your glucose levels....
I wish i still had mod points.. funny and subtle at the same time...
Thanks, i loved that bar. Not too pricey, and I got my ass kicked on soul caliber on a daily basis. Time to go sing "Memories" i guess..
I remember being a dot.commer, being in SOMA, SF, just off of 6th and Mission. Some bar (forget it's name) had SoulCaliber and Crazy Taxi. WE'd just play for hours. I miss those games, though i never bought a system. I knew i'd spend too much time on them and not get any real work done.
The MPAA rates much harder on sexual situations than violent ones. Can have hundreds of people killed, still get PG-13, but get a couple too many boobies showing, rated R. Male nudity, pretty much Adults Only, or release unrated. The theory i've heard is "people know the violence is fake, but the sex can be more easily confused with real life, therefore influencing unwanted behavior". Lets say we pretend this is true, there's something about a bare breast that makes people unable to see that it's a construction on not reality, where do virtual worlds fit in? We've already seen the uproar with Hot Coffee and GTA. Here you're in the same environment (so no confusion reality vs. game), seeing a highly pixellated "woman" and that's immoral. But the violence in the game gets a rating sticker and is ok.
Not asking for an answer, just confused...
1) opensource existed before Stallman, and it will exist after. Stallman didn't invent it. It existed in BSD, and Linus has stated that if BSD hadn't been encumbered at the time by the lawsuit, he probably woudn't have bothered with Linux.
2) at one time Linus did call the whole thing Linux. This was a long time ago, when there was essentially just one distro (his) and it was mostly kernel and command line things, low end things that he liked to hack on. Only when it grew past (though it was very very early in it's lifetime) that did Linux refer to just the kernel.
Not everyone that added code to Linux (term refers to kernel or OS, your choice) or even GNU products believe in The Movement. Some people jsut wanted a free UNIX clone.
I think the term pragmatist is very appropriate. Linux exists at all because Linus was a pragmatist. He just wanted to get things done. If you read the Great Debate (again, most of slashdot has read Torvalds vs. Tannenbaum once or twice) you'll see that he's a pragmatist through and through. He can't touch BSD because of the AT&T fight, and Minux didn't do what he wanted. So he made his own. He used the tools that were out and available and unencumbered at the time, the GNU tools collection. There was no advertising clause attached at the time (if you use these tools, you must give us credit). In fact, Stallman hated the old BSD license for that reason; you had to give credit to the Regents of UCBerkeley.
The pragmatism extended into the GNU/Linux thing. When RMS asked Torvalds about the name GNU/Linux, Linus assumed he just meant Debian Linux, which was the GNU blessed distro. He felt whatever, call it whatever you want. He didn't realize Stallman wanted to tag the whole enchilada.
Meanwhile, Linux is a cultural phenomenom, and the HURD is still vaporware, changing microkernels recently, and not ready to be a desktop OS for anyone at this point. Whether you believe Stallman wants the attention for ego fluffing, or if you believe he just can't stand people using an OS that's not 100% pure to his particular standards, it can't sit well with him.
To become a saint in the church of Emacs does not require celibacy
Inseert standard joke abut geeks not having gf's here
Jokes aside, maybe it's true. RMS's personal ad is still on his websit. Still single after all these years?
1) calling all software licenses equal is not Microsoft's position. They don't particularly like GPL, and wish they could stamp it out. They don't mind BSD license so much, they still ship with BSD code (some command line tools), had a BSD network stack for a while (NT 3.5 days or so, been ripped out completely in favor of MS code), and AD authentication is from MITs Kerberos, with some extensions.
2) Calling it "like Microsoft" is just an emotional attack. If he said "Linux thinks all licenses are valid" then he'd have to come up with a reason why this shouldn't happen. I've never bought his arguments.
3) "wrong to ever violate them". Stalman makes it sound like this is bad, but never gives reasons why. Can i violate GPL and he'd be happy?
In a way i wish RMS would stop talking about GNU/Linux and get back to the HURD. Instead of a decades old OS with various security patches on top of it to work in a networked world, have some ideas for a truly clean OS. Port stuff to it. WHy in this day in age do most machines have this all powerful root (or Administrator) user? Build in sub-permissioning from Day 1, don't add on later and wait for thigns to break. Why does a bug in glibc put my whole computer at risk? Why cant we re-engineer things to have message passing and isolated address spaces for libraries? Is the inefficiency of message passing vs. direct method calls going to kill a user who really just wants to be on the net safely? Use the HURD as a research project, get new ideas out into the OS world, where it's stagnating now.
Compare that to the hundreds that the old physical books used to cost. Even in the early days of the CD, it became obvious that you couldn't charge the same for a couple shiny disks that you could for a shelf full of dead trees.
I won't comment on the money issue, i think a lot of people should be contributing for OpenSSH. The problem is that the BSD license doesn't require it. You can say that it should have, but i bet OpenSSH wouldn't be as ubiquitous as it is now. We have a bunch of hardware devices that we connect to with ssh. The fact out of all those devices, Theo only got a grand really surprises me.
But as far as buzzword jumping - Sun has given a lot of things to open source, more than IBM in fact. NFS was developed by Sun, was always free as far as i know. Bill Joy, one of the Sun founders, was heavy into adding things to BSD (the original, from UC Berkeley) which were released for free. They jsut released their entire OS. They gave away ZFS and dtrace recently. They aren't on it because it's the latest buzzword. They've been doing it for years.
I agree, it doesn't have to be that way. I shop at Meijer, a hypermarket much like Walmart. It's a regional midwestern chain. But most people have never heard of it, nobody is beating down the doors to their Michigan headquarters to hope for shelf space. Wal-Mart was the stock market darling.