CPUs at the top of the MHz range have been way too high in the $$s ever since 133MHz hit. This is not news. Go to pricewatch and pick one CPU type, and do a graph of $ vs MHz, and you will see, the fastest are always the worst bargin.
Most people knew this trend when speeds were 1/10th of what they are now, but aparently/. considers it news now?
This really isn't too new, but it is cool for smaller scale uses. You can just encript one partition, and of course, it's nice to have that partition be your own personal/home/myusername;-)
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Not even, it's totally fair. If they pay to register a typo domain, they can do what ever they want with it.
IHMO, here's the ranking from ok to sleezy:
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Sleezy is sleezy, and everyone knows it. Time will brand the loosers who do sleezy things with very bad PR to the point where they are lower than Porn sites in the IT industry. If they are honest, they earned the money they get. If not, they better be saving thier pennys, because the industry will screw them hard in the next 5 years and they will need every cent they can rip off now.
I've been running (so to say, with LOADS of downtime) a site for quite some time. current.nu has been up in some form or another since about June of 1998, and had no problems at all (yet, knock on wood). I think there are some key things that keep us from having legal problems, but we probably border on having some...
Honestly, Largo (Justin Stressman) has a Window Maker theme site that probably runs the biggest legal risk, because he will snake ANY cool image for a theme. I've discussed it with him, and he goes to some effort to reference and _credit_ the original source of the images. Although his work involves extensively modifying images, in most cases to the point where the original image is almost impossible to identify, he still credits the original source whenever possible. That, coupled with the fact that we will probably pull them at the request of the original artist, probably gets us by. It's good for the artist (acknowledgement), and good for him.
Any news, software, or other content on the sites is either 1) Just referenced, not locally copied, 2) Mirror of something that is clearly public domain, or 3) our own damn work. So, there shouldn't be any problems there.
But yea, it's a big concern. For the last year we (mostly me) have been going through some legal research about founding a "corporation" for the sake of distancing personal liability. And it's not cheap ($150 in paperwork to become a incorporated is just the beginning, it's really the time and money involved with "staying legal" that makes it tough). Makes the "hobby" not much fun. Also makes you think about trying to make some money off the thing, just to cover your costs, but that's even more work.
But, what it really depends on is your ultimate goal. You didn't really make that clear. If you are out to make a buck as a news portal selling ad space, you have a very tough road to go. Then you HAVE to make it right and legal, and cover all the bases. That means it will cost you money to get started. If your just doing something with no ads, that your doing for the joy of it, then just reference your sources, paraphrase, and link the original for content. For hobby sites, you just cross your fingers, hope and pray, and try to believe that if a big company takes you to court for "copyright violations" on your none profit hobby site, a jury will laugh them out of court, and see it for what it is, one guy with a web page vs. a multibillion dollar company.
If you think this is tough, you would love the discussions I had to have with a University sys admin about how Largo's stuff isn't porn, it's art, and it's not a serious threat to the universities bandwidth. Luckily, we pay our own bandwidth now and can do whatever the hell we want (and it shows in the slow speed of our site).
I have been saying it for a long long time. There is power in Open Source software, and hardly anyone is unleashing it yet. (Although I know the lifetime of/. articals is short, I figure if I manage to convince ONE person, it's worth a try).
For years people have proclaimed "now you have the code, you can make changes if you want." Well, guess what, 99.5% of the people who use software don't know how to make changes!
So again I'd like to point out, "Now that you have the code, you can OPTIMIZE it for your system." And, yes, that does really matter. And, no, you don't need to know how to program to do it.
Take the example of Mandrake, maybe you think Mandrake is all hype, it's not. I started using Mandrake about a year ago after getting sick of recompiling everything by hand. I have done tests to prove to myself that Mandrake benchmark scores are higher than other Linux distributions like Gentus Benchmark Results on the exact same system (NOTE 1).
And that's not the end of it... that's just Pentium optimized, I could throw a few more flags in for kicks and tweak the scores more.
So, when I can get a gain of almost 40% using FREE software, try to compare the costs of doing it with hardware. A system that would be 40% faster (using hardware alone) would cost significantly more. Or, your going to get better preformance even on better hardware with optimized flags... so....
I'm a little supprised that this benifit to Open Source (that applies to all hardware types, not just x86) is soo overlooked, and "the ability to change the code" is so bragged about.
NOTE 1: Gentus is completely based on Red Hat, and Mandrake has it's roots in Red Hat software optimizations. Gentus is Red Hat with specific additions for Abit hardware, thus the better disk access times with Gentus (I can use ATA100) that with Mandrake (using only UDMA 66).
Just to put it in place, that's enough to hire one (very underpaid) programmer full time for a year?
Compared to how many that work at Red Hat, Caldera, SuSE? (even Hardware companies probably have more people paid to work on Linux, like Abit or VA).
Congradulations Debian, they earned the award. But, I just sort of have to look at that number and wonder how they manage to keep the all volnteer effort competitive with all the commercial Linux distributions. Anyone have any idea what other forms of income they have? Or how many (if any) people actually develop Debian "full time?"
Do the math and you see that maximum resolution is about 600x400 on these.. ? (roughly, or am I wrong?). Small handheld LCD's might give them a run for thier money on computer usability.
Uhh...no offense, but this seems muddled. First you say that they didn't have typing classes.
Yes. No. Uh Huh...:-) And, no offence to Dictator For Life, but exactly, muddled. It's been a real experiance to start reading SlashDot again lately.
I guess, in a way, I've forgot what things can be like here, and I forgot the rules of SlashDot (and, actually, they are just carryovers from UseNet).
Never just type the thoughts in your head, they feed the trolls.
If you throw out a bad idea, someone will make you regret even saying a word.
If you are not crystal clear about what your saying, someone will take it out of your intent, and define a phrase to mean something other than what the premise of your statement truely was.
Flame wars WILL start at the drop of a hat, cover your ass in every way, including spee^Hlling.
Follow the mob mentality, going against the grain is pointless, and even more dangerous if your points are valid and based in fact (it will only lead to more argument.
Better to lurk and learn than post, unless you have something truely profound to say.
Never post FIRST or LAST, blend into the croud. Early posts are disreguarded as meaningless "first post" attempts, even if they have true content. Late posts spew onto the second or third page, and never get read.
Of course, there are more details, but... Ya know what I mean. Lessons can be learned from the mistakes of even the most high profile posters. Take all the good BP has done for Linux and Debain. Look at how not following the SlashDot unwritten rules as suckered even him into comming off as a "bad guy" or "idiot" when in fact he really has done a lot of good for the community. All the good was washed away in a heartbeat by gut level reactions, mud slinging, and flames... I think it's happened to PV also, and he is fairly silent now days as well.
I think you would be lucky to ever get anyone like Bob Young to comment on SlashDot EVERY for these exact reasons. Dispite how cool (IMHO) it would be to have a forum where EVERYONE can just voice an opinion, and DISCUSS ideas, it will never happen. When a nobody like me has a hard time bouncing ideas off people, could you even imagine how insane people would get if someone who is actually important to the Linux community would get harassed publically? Every little off the cuff word would go down as the one and only opinion of that person. They would be held to those words, and never be able to live them down. Think... "Yea, maybe we will consider working with the Debian guys on a joint packaging format, taking the best of.rpm and.deb for something better." Great idea, but, we have created a forum where these ideas can NOT be voiced. Why? Because people read WAY too much into every word these people say... if it didn't work, the person is a failure. If it's a bad idea, the person is perminately labeled an idiot. If it shows any promise, the community will push relentlessly for results.
All these are reasons that the LSB was not making it "easy" to see where they were going with ideas. All these reasons are why the Debian "private" mailing list even existed. All these reasons are why no one knows how closely KDE and Gnome developers REALLY work together....
Sad social side effect of "open-ness" is that the trolls DO get a lot of attention. When in reality, NO ONE should have to DEFEND thier ideas, they should be openly and warmly accepted. Good or bad, any idea is better than no discussion of ideas. But, the reality of places like SlashDot (and in the old days UseNet) is that, like in much of life, it's easier to criticize than create. It's easier to tear down than to build. So, why try when your efforts are only going to get sand kicked in your face.
That's why people like Espy were TRUELY great. They managed to walk that fine line of maintaining his creative disposition, working hard at something cool, and never letting the fear of criticism stop him from doing something to benifit the Open Source community. We need more people like that.
Yea, I was muddled. I repeat, Yes, Dictator For Life is correct, my post is muddled. I just read an article, said to myself WTF, your going to have to PRY the keyboard out of my hands before you get me to use a tablet on a laptop! and I sprawled out a few unclear lines.
My meaning was that the importance, acceptance, and widespread promotion of teaching the skills of touch typing had faded for some years after approximately the 1950's. And the importance of teaching touch typing has regained an important place in American society with the widespread use of computers and the internet, growing rapidly during the 1990's and continuing today.
Younger people today generally type a great deal more than those between 35 and 55 years old. Therefore it seems to me that this product would appeal more significantly to those in the older age bracket.
So, I think I'll probably take this as my que to again drop back into obscurity, and not post to Slashdot for another year or so (as long as it takes me to forget that I shouldn't, and make the same mistake again).
Yes, I expect a flury of flames to follow this post. Have Fun.
Apple appealing to older folks? "Handwriting" and "easy user interface" are earmarks of trying to appeal to an older crowd.
You can't argue that a key "tap" is slower than the strokes of writting a letter. But, there is a generation between the 50's and the 90's that didn't really have the same "touch typing" classes in school.... And... in the 50's it was High School, in the 90's it was grade school.
Your never going to replace the keyboard... Your only going to be able to refine it (twidler?).
Not Native. Linux Binary. But the patches to install it in/usr insted of ~/ have been around in ports for before this option was avaliable for Linux (AFAIK, I guess you can do it in Linux now as well, pretty sure you couldn't before, I remember reading the "How-To" hack about a year ago?)
Well, I for one am not supprised. When installing StarOffice for FreeBSD, you get a global install, not the typical 1 install per user Linux install. Considering that Star Office is a bit more advanced than Applix, Star Office is free, and both Star Office and Word Perfect are in FreeBSD Ports (to make the installation as smooth as glass), is it any supprise Applix had a hard time?
I don't think I would fault FreeBSD for Applix shortcomings. To sustain a market share, you have to be competitive, that has nothing to do with FreeBSD support, and everything to do with other office suites avaliable!
I have absolutely NO experiance with Sybase w/ Linux, but Sybase has claimed they support Linux, and are planning on being at Linux world, so it's worth calling them about it. (They seem to be trying to hire Linux techs pretty agressively!).
SQL database at 30G, sure. I would say call Sybase Inc. first, then VA Linux second, and get the answers streight from the people who are most likely sure to give you a usable product. Get your prices, then compare.
I'd be more worried about the differances in _how_ your going to mirror the data (connection speeds, transfer methods, how frequently) and that Sybase doesn't garble things when going from a database on one OS to another (unlikely, but possable).
I'm sure Oracle for Linux will be mentioned, because there are many claims that it will handle such a situation. But, your problem there is going from Sybase to Oracle, not from another OS to Linux. Keep in mind, not all "SQL" databases are identical, the SQL may be, but the extentions provided by the manufacture won't be.
Something like this might be better for you, because this SETI one only allows one card per system. There are tons of cool PCI processor boards out there, if you have the money to get them, and the talent to code them to do what you want.
A: No. Although the chip, due to its original usage, is designed as extremely low power consuming, this would produce too much heat. Also the chip uses a 3-digit binary to identify in the array, which would allow a maximum of 8 chips on one computer.
A: No. Although the chip, due to its original usage, is designed as extremely low power consuming, this would produce too much heat. Also the chip uses a 3-digit binary to identify in the array, which would allow a maximum of 8 chips on one computer.
Lets see. Lets say I have a p3-450 or 500 or faster. I want to increase seti output. Do I go buy a dual processor motherboard for ~ $200 or so and THEN buy another p3-500 for $150 or so for $350 OR do I go buy this card for $500
Your forgetting something.... You don't need a $1000 box to start with. I have a P60 sitting here, and a ISA vid card, and 4 free PCI slots. Grab ANY $30 box with PCI slots, and your set to go.
But, I would MUCH rather see this technology harnessed to a wider audiance than SETI (even if you LIKE SETI, you have to admit, it's for SPARE cycles).
Porting other apps would rock, like old Fortran number crunchers for Econ. or chem. where people are spending well into 6 figures for boxes that just sit and crank out projected debt, market analysis, molecular minimization....
If it's really good, and there's a bright programmer out there, I'll bet we soon find a BioTech firm doing similar hardware for drug discovery. (Yes, graphics matters for viewing molecules, but there are still trillions of cycles out there crunching away at little numbers problems from tiny programs trying to get the best numbers).
My fear is that, someone will do something extreemly similar, propriatry, and sell it at 20x the price or more. It'd be cool to see something like this hacked and then used on the University level in science departments with limited budjets to do a much wider range of research. In fact, it's really not ne The FAQ says it's already running Linux on a Flash....
Just my two cents. And what do I know, I can't even find the price on this beast to see if it's really worth it!
Having used FreeBSD and Linux exclusively on my 3 home computers for the last few years, I thought I would comment on the day to day use of "office suites."
Word Perfect seemed slick, but querky. Font and printing problems alone were enough to make me stop using it. It was nice, but the little problems were a pain in the ***.
Applix seems so "out of date" to me, I almost tried to figure out if I could return it for my money back. But I ended up using it the most for about 1.5 years when I had at least 64M RAM. Honestly, with gnumeric and abiword, I think gnome has rendered Applix outdated (and they cost NOTHING!)
In the end, I've settled on the one solution I think was worthwhile, Star Office with at least 128M RAM. Once you get to like 160M or more, Star Office really is very useful. Of course, I couldn't afford to upgrade EVERY system to run Star Office, so I found another solution. Upgrade a couple systems as much as possable, and then just run them that way (X -query fast.system.net or export DISPLAY=workstation).
I still haven't got around to installing this Windows95 thing, I hear 98^H^H2000 is out now?
"The way we're able to pull this off is by having robots that go around and contact every Web server around the world periodically, and download each page -- each image -- off of every one of those sites"
Why do I just NOT believe this? In order to do this, they would not even be able to search for httpd at every IP, because it would only grab one host, and virtual hosts would be skipped.
They would actually have to search every registered domain name, dig up all it's host names, and then search each one for an httpd, and I don't believe they are actually going to do that (can someone point out to me that they are?).
One of the biggest problems on the web right now is the lack of orgninzation of information... "You want to know what? Oh, it's on the web, no doubt, but WHERE!" As brillant as search engines are, they still don't know where everything is, and you frequently will miss what you REALLY want.
So along come theses people, and they make an even larger claim than searching through _all_ of the web, but they say they will take a snapshot of ALL of it?
/me looks at hit logs for home Linux box running apache on modem... Hmm... Don't see anything... been up weeks... I'll keep looking;-)
At best, they will get the most popular sites, and try to leave it at that.
IBM Also manufactured Cyrix 6x86 chips... Soo.. Just because they have a facility producing them doesn't mean they aren't a little wary of them.
Quick check on Yahoo: For the three months ended 3/31/00, total revenues fell 5% to $19.35 billion. Net income applicable to Common rose 3% to $1.51 billion
I think sometimes it's easy to forget just exactly how BIG IBM really is. They can afford to take risks on potentially benifical products, even if they are a little wary of them.
That's what's really funny.... For some reason the US government keeps thinking that they can control the internet. Sometimes I wonder if Senators and Congressmen are even aware that the bandwidth doesn't stop at the border....
Well, honestly, this would need more definition to make much sense to me. "Formal Spec" is something written down AFAIK. Depends on who wrote it, and exactly what it says. Without seeing a "formal spec" it's hard to prove or disprove that Linux/FreeBSD/OpenBSD has or hasn't been tested for the potential problem.
Very simple solution, write a "formal spec" for Linux/OpenBSD/FreeBSD/NetBSD, and test. I'm quite sure it would take several people, if not a community, to try to define all the potential ways of testing. And, then, turn the table back around and say, "well does your formal spec test for problem X, no? we have, on a monthly basis, with a programming community in the thousands judgeing the outcome"
Then even if they do test to a "formal spec" you would be able to clearly point out that only from an open community can you really know the weeknesses, and you could never trust a commercial company to release information about where they failed, and where they have problems. Odds are, if they fail on one point frequently, they just rewrite their "formal spec" to not include that test.
Finding someone who can do it is one thing, and granted, a very important thing. But what I really want to know more about is What Are You Paying, And What Do You Get For That?
This whole thing really happens to hit home to me, because current.nu has been sidelined for a couple months now, simply because of the cost of bandwidth (as if anyone cares). We use to transfer about 1G a day of stuff, almost all outgoing, and then as our reliability and speed started to suffer, it was obvious from httpd logs that people just didn't want to deal with a spotty slow server, and didn't come visit anymore. I know site content matters, but when I get 3 or 4 people a day who actually took the time to email me that the sites were just too slow, I knew something was wrong.
I use to pay out of my own pocket to colocate, just to host various GNU/GPL things I liked that people were doing (Largo's Window Maker pages were probably the most popular, followed closely by Michael's GNUstep News site). But, when it got to the point where the bandwidth bills were over half of what I pay in rent, that's just not cool...
And transfer caps just suck, and from talking to the colocation people I have called lately, when I ask for a fat pipe, they assume I'm gonna run a porn site or something and saturate it. In fact, I consider my transfer levels pretty low, and just want fast responce for httpd and ftpd (for our Window Maker mirror and Cajun CVS which now moved over to SourceForge, good move, I don't blame them). I want to see some people talk about realistic numbers here, not just service.
Service is a must, I totally agree, but What Are You Paying? I was paying around $400/month for 6 hops of a digex backbone on a T1 to patch in a K6 Linux box using a standard 10baseT NIC, but it was spotty service (IMHO). What do you pay, and do you think it's worth it?
Comparing Apples(tm) and Oranges.... Never more true has a statement been.
But, it's should be noted that this was not a true "OS" death match, but a "GUI" deathmatch, comparing a tweaked KDE to a Apple.
Might have been a little more fun if they threw in some networking info (samba or apache anyone?) for people who are looking at using a non Windows computer in a Windows work/networked environment. Even still, it would have been a interesting "how hard was it to really set up your own personal http server and share your files on a local network" comparison. Apple might have done better there (for easy use, not preformance) that people would expect (given all the Apache/Samba is the killer Linux app. press).
(insert obligatory opinion here)I'll stick with BlackBox on FreeBSD btw, screw em both
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Most people knew this trend when speeds were 1/10th of what they are now, but aparently /. considers it news now?
This really isn't too new, but it is cool for smaller scale uses. You can just encript one partition, and of course, it's nice to have that partition be your own personal /home/myusername ;-)
IHMO, here's the ranking from ok to sleezy:
Honestly, Largo (Justin Stressman) has a Window Maker theme site that probably runs the biggest legal risk, because he will snake ANY cool image for a theme. I've discussed it with him, and he goes to some effort to reference and _credit_ the original source of the images. Although his work involves extensively modifying images, in most cases to the point where the original image is almost impossible to identify, he still credits the original source whenever possible. That, coupled with the fact that we will probably pull them at the request of the original artist, probably gets us by. It's good for the artist (acknowledgement), and good for him.
Any news, software, or other content on the sites is either 1) Just referenced, not locally copied, 2) Mirror of something that is clearly public domain, or 3) our own damn work. So, there shouldn't be any problems there.
But yea, it's a big concern. For the last year we (mostly me) have been going through some legal research about founding a "corporation" for the sake of distancing personal liability. And it's not cheap ($150 in paperwork to become a incorporated is just the beginning, it's really the time and money involved with "staying legal" that makes it tough). Makes the "hobby" not much fun. Also makes you think about trying to make some money off the thing, just to cover your costs, but that's even more work.
But, what it really depends on is your ultimate goal. You didn't really make that clear. If you are out to make a buck as a news portal selling ad space, you have a very tough road to go. Then you HAVE to make it right and legal, and cover all the bases. That means it will cost you money to get started. If your just doing something with no ads, that your doing for the joy of it, then just reference your sources, paraphrase, and link the original for content. For hobby sites, you just cross your fingers, hope and pray, and try to believe that if a big company takes you to court for "copyright violations" on your none profit hobby site, a jury will laugh them out of court, and see it for what it is, one guy with a web page vs. a multibillion dollar company.
If you think this is tough, you would love the discussions I had to have with a University sys admin about how Largo's stuff isn't porn, it's art, and it's not a serious threat to the universities bandwidth. Luckily, we pay our own bandwidth now and can do whatever the hell we want (and it shows in the slow speed of our site).
For years people have proclaimed "now you have the code, you can make changes if you want." Well, guess what, 99.5% of the people who use software don't know how to make changes!
So again I'd like to point out, "Now that you have the code, you can OPTIMIZE it for your system." And, yes, that does really matter. And, no, you don't need to know how to program to do it.
Take the example of Mandrake, maybe you think Mandrake is all hype, it's not. I started using Mandrake about a year ago after getting sick of recompiling everything by hand. I have done tests to prove to myself that Mandrake benchmark scores are higher than other Linux distributions like Gentus Benchmark Results on the exact same system (NOTE 1).
And that's not the end of it... that's just Pentium optimized, I could throw a few more flags in for kicks and tweak the scores more.
So, when I can get a gain of almost 40% using FREE software, try to compare the costs of doing it with hardware. A system that would be 40% faster (using hardware alone) would cost significantly more. Or, your going to get better preformance even on better hardware with optimized flags... so....
I'm a little supprised that this benifit to Open Source (that applies to all hardware types, not just x86) is soo overlooked, and "the ability to change the code" is so bragged about.
NOTE 1: Gentus is completely based on Red Hat, and Mandrake has it's roots in Red Hat software optimizations. Gentus is Red Hat with specific additions for Abit hardware, thus the better disk access times with Gentus (I can use ATA100) that with Mandrake (using only UDMA 66).
Compared to how many that work at Red Hat, Caldera, SuSE? (even Hardware companies probably have more people paid to work on Linux, like Abit or VA).
Congradulations Debian, they earned the award. But, I just sort of have to look at that number and wonder how they manage to keep the all volnteer effort competitive with all the commercial Linux distributions. Anyone have any idea what other forms of income they have? Or how many (if any) people actually develop Debian "full time?"
Do the math and you see that maximum resolution is about 600x400 on these.. ? (roughly, or am I wrong?). Small handheld LCD's might give them a run for thier money on computer usability.
Yes. No. Uh Huh... :-) And, no offence to Dictator For Life, but exactly, muddled. It's been a real experiance to start reading SlashDot again lately.
I guess, in a way, I've forgot what things can be like here, and I forgot the rules of SlashDot (and, actually, they are just carryovers from UseNet).
- Never just type the thoughts in your head, they feed the trolls.
- If you throw out a bad idea, someone will make you regret even saying a word.
- If you are not crystal clear about what your saying, someone will take it out of your intent, and define a phrase to mean something other than what the premise of your statement truely was.
- Flame wars WILL start at the drop of a hat, cover your ass in every way, including spee^Hlling.
- Follow the mob mentality, going against the grain is pointless, and even more dangerous if your points are valid and based in fact (it will only lead to more argument.
- Better to lurk and learn than post, unless you have something truely profound to say.
- Never post FIRST or LAST, blend into the croud. Early posts are disreguarded as meaningless "first post" attempts, even if they have true content. Late posts spew onto the second or third page, and never get read.
Of course, there are more details, but... Ya know what I mean. Lessons can be learned from the mistakes of even the most high profile posters. Take all the good BP has done for Linux and Debain. Look at how not following the SlashDot unwritten rules as suckered even him into comming off as a "bad guy" or "idiot" when in fact he really has done a lot of good for the community. All the good was washed away in a heartbeat by gut level reactions, mud slinging, and flames... I think it's happened to PV also, and he is fairly silent now days as well.I think you would be lucky to ever get anyone like Bob Young to comment on SlashDot EVERY for these exact reasons. Dispite how cool (IMHO) it would be to have a forum where EVERYONE can just voice an opinion, and DISCUSS ideas, it will never happen. When a nobody like me has a hard time bouncing ideas off people, could you even imagine how insane people would get if someone who is actually important to the Linux community would get harassed publically? Every little off the cuff word would go down as the one and only opinion of that person. They would be held to those words, and never be able to live them down. Think... "Yea, maybe we will consider working with the Debian guys on a joint packaging format, taking the best of .rpm and .deb for something better." Great idea, but, we have created a forum where these ideas can NOT be voiced. Why? Because people read WAY too much into every word these people say... if it didn't work, the person is a failure. If it's a bad idea, the person is perminately labeled an idiot. If it shows any promise, the community will push relentlessly for results.
All these are reasons that the LSB was not making it "easy" to see where they were going with ideas. All these reasons are why the Debian "private" mailing list even existed. All these reasons are why no one knows how closely KDE and Gnome developers REALLY work together....
Sad social side effect of "open-ness" is that the trolls DO get a lot of attention. When in reality, NO ONE should have to DEFEND thier ideas, they should be openly and warmly accepted. Good or bad, any idea is better than no discussion of ideas. But, the reality of places like SlashDot (and in the old days UseNet) is that, like in much of life, it's easier to criticize than create. It's easier to tear down than to build. So, why try when your efforts are only going to get sand kicked in your face.
That's why people like Espy were TRUELY great. They managed to walk that fine line of maintaining his creative disposition, working hard at something cool, and never letting the fear of criticism stop him from doing something to benifit the Open Source community. We need more people like that.
Yea, I was muddled. I repeat, Yes, Dictator For Life is correct, my post is muddled. I just read an article, said to myself WTF, your going to have to PRY the keyboard out of my hands before you get me to use a tablet on a laptop! and I sprawled out a few unclear lines.
My meaning was that the importance, acceptance, and widespread promotion of teaching the skills of touch typing had faded for some years after approximately the 1950's. And the importance of teaching touch typing has regained an important place in American society with the widespread use of computers and the internet, growing rapidly during the 1990's and continuing today.
Younger people today generally type a great deal more than those between 35 and 55 years old. Therefore it seems to me that this product would appeal more significantly to those in the older age bracket.
So, I think I'll probably take this as my que to again drop back into obscurity, and not post to Slashdot for another year or so (as long as it takes me to forget that I shouldn't, and make the same mistake again).
Yes, I expect a flury of flames to follow this post. Have Fun.
R U Saying that a writing pad will create fewer speelink errors? :-)
You can't argue that a key "tap" is slower than the strokes of writting a letter. But, there is a generation between the 50's and the 90's that didn't really have the same "touch typing" classes in school.... And... in the 50's it was High School, in the 90's it was grade school.
Your never going to replace the keyboard... Your only going to be able to refine it (twidler?).
Not Native. Linux Binary. But the patches to install it in /usr insted of ~/ have been around in ports for before this option was avaliable for Linux (AFAIK, I guess you can do it in Linux now as well, pretty sure you couldn't before, I remember reading the "How-To" hack about a year ago?)
I don't think I would fault FreeBSD for Applix shortcomings. To sustain a market share, you have to be competitive, that has nothing to do with FreeBSD support, and everything to do with other office suites avaliable!
SQL database at 30G, sure. I would say call Sybase Inc. first, then VA Linux second, and get the answers streight from the people who are most likely sure to give you a usable product. Get your prices, then compare.
I'd be more worried about the differances in _how_ your going to mirror the data (connection speeds, transfer methods, how frequently) and that Sybase doesn't garble things when going from a database on one OS to another (unlikely, but possable).
I'm sure Oracle for Linux will be mentioned, because there are many claims that it will handle such a situation. But, your problem there is going from Sybase to Oracle, not from another OS to Linux. Keep in mind, not all "SQL" databases are identical, the SQL may be, but the extentions provided by the manufacture won't be.
Something like this might be better for you, because this SETI one only allows one card per system. There are tons of cool PCI processor boards out there, if you have the money to get them, and the talent to code them to do what you want.
Can I use more than one board in my computer?
A: No. Although the chip, due to its original usage, is designed as extremely low power consuming, this would produce too much heat. Also the chip uses a 3-digit binary to identify in the array, which would allow a maximum of 8 chips on one computer.
So much for my empty P60 slots...
Can I use more than one board in my computer?
A: No. Although the chip, due to its original usage, is designed as extremely low power consuming, this would produce too much heat. Also the chip uses a 3-digit binary to identify in the array, which would allow a maximum of 8 chips on one computer.
Your forgetting something.... You don't need a $1000 box to start with. I have a P60 sitting here, and a ISA vid card, and 4 free PCI slots. Grab ANY $30 box with PCI slots, and your set to go.
But, I would MUCH rather see this technology harnessed to a wider audiance than SETI (even if you LIKE SETI, you have to admit, it's for SPARE cycles).
Porting other apps would rock, like old Fortran number crunchers for Econ. or chem. where people are spending well into 6 figures for boxes that just sit and crank out projected debt, market analysis, molecular minimization....
If it's really good, and there's a bright programmer out there, I'll bet we soon find a BioTech firm doing similar hardware for drug discovery. (Yes, graphics matters for viewing molecules, but there are still trillions of cycles out there crunching away at little numbers problems from tiny programs trying to get the best numbers).
My fear is that, someone will do something extreemly similar, propriatry, and sell it at 20x the price or more. It'd be cool to see something like this hacked and then used on the University level in science departments with limited budjets to do a much wider range of research. In fact, it's really not ne The FAQ says it's already running Linux on a Flash....
Just my two cents. And what do I know, I can't even find the price on this beast to see if it's really worth it!
Word Perfect seemed slick, but querky. Font and printing problems alone were enough to make me stop using it. It was nice, but the little problems were a pain in the ***.
Applix seems so "out of date" to me, I almost tried to figure out if I could return it for my money back. But I ended up using it the most for about 1.5 years when I had at least 64M RAM. Honestly, with gnumeric and abiword, I think gnome has rendered Applix outdated (and they cost NOTHING!)
In the end, I've settled on the one solution I think was worthwhile, Star Office with at least 128M RAM. Once you get to like 160M or more, Star Office really is very useful. Of course, I couldn't afford to upgrade EVERY system to run Star Office, so I found another solution. Upgrade a couple systems as much as possable, and then just run them that way (X -query fast.system.net or export DISPLAY=workstation).
I still haven't got around to installing this Windows95 thing, I hear 98^H^H2000 is out now?
Why do I just NOT believe this? In order to do this, they would not even be able to search for httpd at every IP, because it would only grab one host, and virtual hosts would be skipped.
They would actually have to search every registered domain name, dig up all it's host names, and then search each one for an httpd, and I don't believe they are actually going to do that (can someone point out to me that they are?).
One of the biggest problems on the web right now is the lack of orgninzation of information... "You want to know what? Oh, it's on the web, no doubt, but WHERE!" As brillant as search engines are, they still don't know where everything is, and you frequently will miss what you REALLY want.
So along come theses people, and they make an even larger claim than searching through _all_ of the web, but they say they will take a snapshot of ALL of it?
/me looks at hit logs for home Linux box running apache on modem... Hmm... Don't see anything... been up weeks... I'll keep looking ;-)
At best, they will get the most popular sites, and try to leave it at that.
Quick check on Yahoo: For the three months ended 3/31/00, total revenues fell 5% to $19.35 billion. Net income applicable to Common rose 3% to $1.51 billion
I think sometimes it's easy to forget just exactly how BIG IBM really is. They can afford to take risks on potentially benifical products, even if they are a little wary of them.
That's what's really funny.... For some reason the US government keeps thinking that they can control the internet. Sometimes I wonder if Senators and Congressmen are even aware that the bandwidth doesn't stop at the border....
Very simple solution, write a "formal spec" for Linux/OpenBSD/FreeBSD/NetBSD, and test. I'm quite sure it would take several people, if not a community, to try to define all the potential ways of testing. And, then, turn the table back around and say, "well does your formal spec test for problem X, no? we have, on a monthly basis, with a programming community in the thousands judgeing the outcome"
Then even if they do test to a "formal spec" you would be able to clearly point out that only from an open community can you really know the weeknesses, and you could never trust a commercial company to release information about where they failed, and where they have problems. Odds are, if they fail on one point frequently, they just rewrite their "formal spec" to not include that test.
This whole thing really happens to hit home to me, because current.nu has been sidelined for a couple months now, simply because of the cost of bandwidth (as if anyone cares). We use to transfer about 1G a day of stuff, almost all outgoing, and then as our reliability and speed started to suffer, it was obvious from httpd logs that people just didn't want to deal with a spotty slow server, and didn't come visit anymore. I know site content matters, but when I get 3 or 4 people a day who actually took the time to email me that the sites were just too slow, I knew something was wrong.
I use to pay out of my own pocket to colocate, just to host various GNU/GPL things I liked that people were doing (Largo's Window Maker pages were probably the most popular, followed closely by Michael's GNUstep News site). But, when it got to the point where the bandwidth bills were over half of what I pay in rent, that's just not cool...
And transfer caps just suck, and from talking to the colocation people I have called lately, when I ask for a fat pipe, they assume I'm gonna run a porn site or something and saturate it. In fact, I consider my transfer levels pretty low, and just want fast responce for httpd and ftpd (for our Window Maker mirror and Cajun CVS which now moved over to SourceForge, good move, I don't blame them). I want to see some people talk about realistic numbers here, not just service.
Service is a must, I totally agree, but What Are You Paying? I was paying around $400/month for 6 hops of a digex backbone on a T1 to patch in a K6 Linux box using a standard 10baseT NIC, but it was spotty service (IMHO). What do you pay, and do you think it's worth it?
But, it's should be noted that this was not a true "OS" death match, but a "GUI" deathmatch, comparing a tweaked KDE to a Apple.
Might have been a little more fun if they threw in some networking info (samba or apache anyone?) for people who are looking at using a non Windows computer in a Windows work/networked environment. Even still, it would have been a interesting "how hard was it to really set up your own personal http server and share your files on a local network" comparison. Apple might have done better there (for easy use, not preformance) that people would expect (given all the Apache/Samba is the killer Linux app. press).
(insert obligatory opinion here)I'll stick with BlackBox on FreeBSD btw, screw em both