Maybe you need to stop worshipping the church of the state and get some facts straight. I disagree with some of ESR's politics, but claiming he lives in a trailer park in Texas is both inaccurate and borderlines on slander. Get your facts right before you flame, you moronic state-worshipping leftist. Oh wait, there I go being redundant...
Bullshit. This guy's misinterpreting the GPL here, and unfortunately, it gives idiots like you a chance to claim that the GPL's eeevil. IMO, this firmware seems to be little different from a disk image, and thus, claims that the entire thing is GPLed are bullshit. On the same token though, the GPL clearly states that any source-level kernel modules must be placed under the GPL. You've got to follow the terms of licensing if you expect to use GPL software. Now, if/when Linksys coughs up the code and it's shown whether or not they used a binary loader to load the firmware remains to be seen , but by claiming that this mess is caused by the alledgedly viral nature of the GPL is just plain silly.
tho other sources have already noted that Apple has mentioned a iTMS Compression tool to allow Indie's the ability to compress their own music on their own machines to make their music ready for sale on the iTMS.
and if that's true.. that kicks fscking ass.
No, it only makes economic sense. Apple doesn't have the computing power, nor the time, to compress the output from every minor studio. They probably don't even have the time to do the output from the big five. Thus, it only makes sense to give them the tools and act like providing them is some sort of big favor.
(note: i'm not bashing their copying of Apple's ideas, i'm only stating fact)
I wouldn't say that it's copying ideas that are specific to Apple. There are many other digital music providers out there. It's just apple seems to be the one that's successful because they were able to convince the big 5 to try to go with a less restrictive DRM solution. Really, there's not that much new from apple, just drooling fanboys who get offended when people point out that apple's "new ideas", like online music, backlit laptop keyboards, etc were invented elsewhere and apple simply copied the idea.
Besides, what's so innovative about talking to to the indy labels about getting distribution deals? If you ask me, apple should have done that while they were talking to the big labels as well, and getting a pretty full catalog released from the get go. I'm almost certain many of the labels would have been very receptive to such a move.
I have my doubts that it will. The older POWER-based IBMs were MCA machines, which, doesn't work yet, and NetBSD efforts aren't much better. Your best bet is to keep AIX on that box for a bit longer until the porting effort bears fruit.
Control Center -> Desktop - Window Behavior -> Advanced -> Active Desktop Borders
I agree with you about the not looking like windows. I prefer a more NeXTish look to my desktop -- The minimize and the close buttons are all I really need on my titlebars. I like my flashiness subtle - something that both OS X and WinX seem to not provide. Closest I've found is the silver theme of XP.
I disagree. From everything I've read, Mozilla 1.5 is supposed to be a semi-stable build compared to the 1.0.x and the 1.4.x branches. I imagine that once the Mozilla team feels that the Firebird/Thunderbird codebase is at a point where stability is at a point where it's ready to be released to companies like Netscape and Beonex for their products, it'll be numbered 2.0. 1.5 just isn't going to be stable enough to be renumbered.
Remember, the Mozilla team's POV has always been that Mozilla is a test platform for other companies, thus they're not going to bump the major number until they're certain that they can provide a rock-stable product to those using the mozilla codebase.
It's not all that difficult to port. There are projects which are trying to port KHTML to Windows. Thus, the most important parts of Safari -- the rendering engine -- aren't tied to one particular platform. All it involves is writting a wrapper around that browser engine. Besides, I fail to see what the apple fanboys' obsession with Aqua is. I've seen it, it's a fairly obnoxious interface that, in my opinion, is way too bloated. Whatever happened to simplicity?
I think it would do you good to check out Firebird. It's a damn good looking browser that's available today. For me, it's replaced Konqueror as my day to day browser, as it does what it needs to right now, and if I needed it to do more, I can find the UI plugin I need within 5 minutes searching on Mozdev
Read the story. The company denied there was a flaw. Were the code open, a third party without financial interest could be brought in to audit said code and say without a doubt that there was a flaw and that the code was unsafe.
No. A scope measures and displays a signal. This device generates a signal. Totally different tools here. One may use a frequency generator in conjunction with a scope, but the two tools are totally separate from each other.
The article was talking about the NL features, which aren't available on the $1300 or $1800 packages. Yes, you can get houdini for less than $3000, but you have to leave out the features this article is talking about.
Y'know, that's actually not that bad of field. Typewriters are wonderfully retro machines that just feel pretty awesome to type on. Just bought my first "antique" typewriter off of ebay - an LC Smith Model 8 from the 20s - and am wanting to try it out. I bang on a keyboard all day long, but there's just something more authentic about banging on a piece of machinery that's older than my grandmother. It'll be the machine designed for inspiration, for when I can't stand to type on a keyboard anymore. The taptaptaptap just does something, and I figure that as long as I don't start typing out line after line of no tv and no beer make ocelotbob go crazy, I'll be just fine.
Many of the items on that list are hardly a waste of time. Take yogurt making, for example. Doesn't really take that long to do make, and you can save a pretty good amount of money doing so. Same thing goes with zymurgy, and you may like the end result even better. The rest are, by and large, hobbies. Things you do so you don't have a nervous breakdown at 40 and end up throwing yourself into the river. Everyone needs a break from "real life", otherwise, life will break them.
Yeah, they like nice fancy new things, but they also like the old. The figuring out of where we've been, why a certain path of tech wasn't taken. I think it also has to, at least partly, deal with a want to escape. Most geeks are in front of tech that was unimaginable a few generations ago, and want to get away from it at times, clear the cobwebs and see something else.
Am I this way? Of course. I love blending the old and the new, the modern with the retro. Hell, my ideal computer case design would be something that would look like it belongs in a victorian parlor. Geeks love the anachronism, because if something from the past Just Works, why not use it?
Creating *BSD binaries is already possible, even without this patch through tools such as pmake, or even building them without the use of a makefile. My system is a hybrid of BSD and GNU - the BSD utilities are usually smaller and faster, so I've installed the tools that provide the functionality I need yet are much quicker. Yeah, maintenence is a bit harder, but I'm tough enough and I'm geek enough to do it.
As far as accessing UFS/FFS partitions goes, this patch isn't needed there. What you need to find out is if VMWare/Bochs can access raw disks from inside of windows. If it's possible, you'd need to be admin to run either VM system, but this patch isn't part of that process.
The headline is more than a bit sensationalist; 802.11g still tops out at 54mbps. It's just that in a network with 802.11b equipment, it'll throttle back to 10-20Mbps. It's not quite as bad as you think it is, but you still may want to look at getting a 3rd party hardware solution. If you've got legacy equipment, you may want to consider picking up an 802.11a hub for your high speed equipment. I always thought that apple was silly by offering just 802.11g when all the chipset vendors have said that they're going to be offering combo solutions. Hell, a combo solution, used properly, can provide speeds of over 100Mbps. Someone's just got to create multilink support, much like the old trick of getting 2+ phone lines for dialup and using multilink PPP.
2 issues here. First one is that the military, among other interests, is concerned that some nefarious person is going to use a wifi card to disrupt military communications. By being able to tune the output frequency, someone could, in theory, jam communications with a $50 off the shelf card. As you've said you're a.mil type, I'm certain you can see that this would be a bad thing.
Also, I'm interested in what your proposal entailed. Did you cover all the bases - using SSL or another tunnelling protocol to ensure proper fingerprinting/security? Yes, built-in wifi security is shit, but that can easily be overcome through the use of proxies and software-based security measures.
Simple. More and more of that 95% is actually purchasing said product, even if they don't know it. Linux is fairly significant in the embedded market, with products like TiVO using it to run everything. Explain to the user that they can't use their broadband/wireless setup to pull listings because companies like Intel won't release the specs, and more people are going to be upset and ask for answers.
Though this whole thing seems silly to me anyways. Why don't the broadband chipset makers just provide the specs on how to load a binary firmware. I'm using it right now in order to use my cheap USB<-Serial adapter, I'm certain thatproviding a binary firmware isn't going to upset anyone other than the most hardcore GPL only people.
Course, you want some real iron, in which case, you can always use ebay if I weren't so broke meself, I'd probably just be crazy enough to bid on that big piece of iron.
Actually, you've just got to look around a bit. Do like you learn any other programming language, pick up a cobol book. Got one myself on the bookshelf. Both windows and Linux have Cobol compilers available, google for them and you'll find dozens of hits, including some open source versions.
As far as finding an S/390 to work on, I'll admit it's hard to find the actual iron to bang on, but there's a damn good emulator for it. For learning OpenVMS, you don't have to use an Itanium; you can pick up an old VAX or Alpha for next to nothing off of ebay or the local surpluss place. Hell, if you don't want to get physical hardware, you can always emulate it; won't be fast, but it'll teach you the basics.
And VMS-based systems are all over the board as far as their size goes. A single processor Alpha or VAX is very much a micro. A system or cluster with a dozen or so procs is getting into the midrange area, and the really big iron, like the VAX 7000, can ease into the high-end server/mainframe range when using VMS's built in insanely reliable clustering. Yeah, it'll be tough discovering a truly non-trivial project, but hey, that's part of learning.
Actually, a business card distro and this would be a perfect combination. Have a minimal set of drivers on the CD-Rom that you keep in your wallet, and have your home directory, and any backup tools on the watch. Combine it with a loopback crypto partition, and you've got a perfect recovery/known secure combo.
True, atomic sync is a nice feature...though for me, I think that the Laks watch is a better deal, and has a bit better styling; if only the USB cable came in black. A watch like this probably won't lose more than a minute or so every six months, and since you've got to adjust your clock anyways for daylight savings, you kill two birds with one stone. Most of the time, you don't need down to the second accuracy; plus or minus a minute or so is usually accurate enough for most things.
Why the hell should someone have to take the bus because some inconsiderate asshole has decided to take up the road with their slow moving vehicle? I'm not saying that slow vehicles should be banned from public streets, but at the same time, people who use alternative transportation should be just as considerate as they expect drivers to be. If they're obstructing traffic, then they need to pull over and let people pass, just like any other slow vehicle does. It's just the right thing to do.
Before you try getting all high and mighty with me and accuse me of being some asshole driver who wants everything other than cars banned, forget it. I walk most places, but at the same time, I have common cortesy and decency, something many alternative transportation people, especially the critical mass assholes, seem to have never been taught.
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What kind of power poles are you talking about? If you're talking about the standard, usually wood, utility poles, then those are rapidly becoming extinct as utilites are being undergrounded. If you're talking about the real big - 50-100 ft tall poles, then those aren't going away anytime soon. The big reason they're so high up, and why they can't be undergrounded very easy, is because of the heat they generate as a byproduct of power transmission. Studies have been done on this, and there's no real way of getting rid of them, only moving them to the least intrusive area possible.
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Maybe you need to stop worshipping the church of the state and get some facts straight. I disagree with some of ESR's politics, but claiming he lives in a trailer park in Texas is both inaccurate and borderlines on slander. Get your facts right before you flame, you moronic state-worshipping leftist. Oh wait, there I go being redundant...
Bullshit. This guy's misinterpreting the GPL here, and unfortunately, it gives idiots like you a chance to claim that the GPL's eeevil. IMO, this firmware seems to be little different from a disk image, and thus, claims that the entire thing is GPLed are bullshit. On the same token though, the GPL clearly states that any source-level kernel modules must be placed under the GPL. You've got to follow the terms of licensing if you expect to use GPL software. Now, if/when Linksys coughs up the code and it's shown whether or not they used a binary loader to load the firmware remains to be seen , but by claiming that this mess is caused by the alledgedly viral nature of the GPL is just plain silly.
No, it only makes economic sense. Apple doesn't have the computing power, nor the time, to compress the output from every minor studio. They probably don't even have the time to do the output from the big five. Thus, it only makes sense to give them the tools and act like providing them is some sort of big favor.
I wouldn't say that it's copying ideas that are specific to Apple. There are many other digital music providers out there. It's just apple seems to be the one that's successful because they were able to convince the big 5 to try to go with a less restrictive DRM solution. Really, there's not that much new from apple, just drooling fanboys who get offended when people point out that apple's "new ideas", like online music, backlit laptop keyboards, etc were invented elsewhere and apple simply copied the idea.
Besides, what's so innovative about talking to to the indy labels about getting distribution deals? If you ask me, apple should have done that while they were talking to the big labels as well, and getting a pretty full catalog released from the get go. I'm almost certain many of the labels would have been very receptive to such a move.
I have my doubts that it will. The older POWER-based IBMs were MCA machines, which, doesn't work yet, and NetBSD efforts aren't much better. Your best bet is to keep AIX on that box for a bit longer until the porting effort bears fruit.
Out of curiosity, have you tried just the stock nv drivers? Yeah, they're not accellerated, but I don't see any reason why they wouldn't work.
Control Center -> Desktop - Window Behavior -> Advanced -> Active Desktop Borders
I agree with you about the not looking like windows. I prefer a more NeXTish look to my desktop -- The minimize and the close buttons are all I really need on my titlebars. I like my flashiness subtle - something that both OS X and WinX seem to not provide. Closest I've found is the silver theme of XP.
Remember, the Mozilla team's POV has always been that Mozilla is a test platform for other companies, thus they're not going to bump the major number until they're certain that they can provide a rock-stable product to those using the mozilla codebase.
I think it would do you good to check out Firebird. It's a damn good looking browser that's available today. For me, it's replaced Konqueror as my day to day browser, as it does what it needs to right now, and if I needed it to do more, I can find the UI plugin I need within 5 minutes searching on Mozdev
Read the story. The company denied there was a flaw. Were the code open, a third party without financial interest could be brought in to audit said code and say without a doubt that there was a flaw and that the code was unsafe.
No. A scope measures and displays a signal. This device generates a signal. Totally different tools here. One may use a frequency generator in conjunction with a scope, but the two tools are totally separate from each other.
The article was talking about the NL features, which aren't available on the $1300 or $1800 packages. Yes, you can get houdini for less than $3000, but you have to leave out the features this article is talking about.
PS-HTTPD - a webserver in PostScript.
Many of the items on that list are hardly a waste of time. Take yogurt making, for example. Doesn't really take that long to do make, and you can save a pretty good amount of money doing so. Same thing goes with zymurgy, and you may like the end result even better. The rest are, by and large, hobbies. Things you do so you don't have a nervous breakdown at 40 and end up throwing yourself into the river. Everyone needs a break from "real life", otherwise, life will break them.
Am I this way? Of course. I love blending the old and the new, the modern with the retro. Hell, my ideal computer case design would be something that would look like it belongs in a victorian parlor. Geeks love the anachronism, because if something from the past Just Works, why not use it?
As far as accessing UFS/FFS partitions goes, this patch isn't needed there. What you need to find out is if VMWare/Bochs can access raw disks from inside of windows. If it's possible, you'd need to be admin to run either VM system, but this patch isn't part of that process.
The headline is more than a bit sensationalist; 802.11g still tops out at 54mbps. It's just that in a network with 802.11b equipment, it'll throttle back to 10-20Mbps. It's not quite as bad as you think it is, but you still may want to look at getting a 3rd party hardware solution. If you've got legacy equipment, you may want to consider picking up an 802.11a hub for your high speed equipment. I always thought that apple was silly by offering just 802.11g when all the chipset vendors have said that they're going to be offering combo solutions. Hell, a combo solution, used properly, can provide speeds of over 100Mbps. Someone's just got to create multilink support, much like the old trick of getting 2+ phone lines for dialup and using multilink PPP.
Also, I'm interested in what your proposal entailed. Did you cover all the bases - using SSL or another tunnelling protocol to ensure proper fingerprinting/security? Yes, built-in wifi security is shit, but that can easily be overcome through the use of proxies and software-based security measures.
Though this whole thing seems silly to me anyways. Why don't the broadband chipset makers just provide the specs on how to load a binary firmware. I'm using it right now in order to use my cheap USB<-Serial adapter, I'm certain thatproviding a binary firmware isn't going to upset anyone other than the most hardcore GPL only people.
Course, you want some real iron, in which case, you can always use ebay if I weren't so broke meself, I'd probably just be crazy enough to bid on that big piece of iron.
As far as finding an S/390 to work on, I'll admit it's hard to find the actual iron to bang on, but there's a damn good emulator for it. For learning OpenVMS, you don't have to use an Itanium; you can pick up an old VAX or Alpha for next to nothing off of ebay or the local surpluss place. Hell, if you don't want to get physical hardware, you can always emulate it; won't be fast, but it'll teach you the basics. And VMS-based systems are all over the board as far as their size goes. A single processor Alpha or VAX is very much a micro. A system or cluster with a dozen or so procs is getting into the midrange area, and the really big iron, like the VAX 7000, can ease into the high-end server/mainframe range when using VMS's built in insanely reliable clustering. Yeah, it'll be tough discovering a truly non-trivial project, but hey, that's part of learning.
Actually, a business card distro and this would be a perfect combination. Have a minimal set of drivers on the CD-Rom that you keep in your wallet, and have your home directory, and any backup tools on the watch. Combine it with a loopback crypto partition, and you've got a perfect recovery/known secure combo.
True, atomic sync is a nice feature...though for me, I think that the Laks watch is a better deal, and has a bit better styling; if only the USB cable came in black. A watch like this probably won't lose more than a minute or so every six months, and since you've got to adjust your clock anyways for daylight savings, you kill two birds with one stone. Most of the time, you don't need down to the second accuracy; plus or minus a minute or so is usually accurate enough for most things.
Before you try getting all high and mighty with me and accuse me of being some asshole driver who wants everything other than cars banned, forget it. I walk most places, but at the same time, I have common cortesy and decency, something many alternative transportation people, especially the critical mass assholes, seem to have never been taught.
What kind of power poles are you talking about? If you're talking about the standard, usually wood, utility poles, then those are rapidly becoming extinct as utilites are being undergrounded. If you're talking about the real big - 50-100 ft tall poles, then those aren't going away anytime soon. The big reason they're so high up, and why they can't be undergrounded very easy, is because of the heat they generate as a byproduct of power transmission. Studies have been done on this, and there's no real way of getting rid of them, only moving them to the least intrusive area possible.