Wasn't part of the old Consent Decree that MS thumbed their noses at, that requiring OEMs to pay MS for every PC they sold, even those without Windows, was illegal and had to stop?
Why not pick up a used laptop? 300-500 MHz will probably run about $500 or so. You could build a quieter desktop (laptop disks can be heard when they seek), but I would think it'll be quiet enough even in a bedroom. And you get the added bonus of portability.
I have K6-III/450 on 24/7 in my room. I replaced the power supply with an ultra-quiet one but not the CPU fan, though they are available too. I lucked out with a couple very quiet disks (one from my TiVo and a new 160 GB Maxtor).
It's quiet enough that I can watch TV or listen to music and not be bothered by the white noise. And I got used to the noise it does make so I have no trouble sleeping.
If I replace the CPU fan the machine will be *very* quiet.
If they think they can have 650 hours in high quality music.
Most people consider 128Kb MP3 "high quality". Most codecs get roughly 11:1 at that bitrate. Since that's about 1MB/sec, or 60MB/hr, you'd need 60*650=39000MB of disk for storage.
1) You can select to record programs by searching by name, but it only searched within a limited horizon of programming (the week or so for which it has the guide). If not found, it can be recorded. For example, you couldn't ask it to record "Mission to Mars" whenever it comes on next.
Yes you can - just create a Title Wishlist and have it automatically record that Wishlist entry.
2) You can't ask it to record programs matching criteria like a particular actor, or keyword in title etc.
Actor Wisthlist. Keyword Wishlist. There are also Director and Category. My TiVo records everything directed by Hitchcock or Woody Allen.
4) It takes 2-4 hours to process and index the program guide after making a call to TiVo! (what on earth is it doing?)
Only during the initial setup. After that you'll never know or care since Linux is a multi-tasking operating system. Just record, watch and enjoy!
5) There are a few subtle bugs in the menu display software that sometimes cause display artifacts (rarely though).
I've never seen a single UI bug in over two years. And my TiVo has been heavily hacked for over six months.
What I tell people who haven't joined the TiVolution: It won't just change the way you watch television, it will change your life.
the thing which makes apt really cool is not because it's using debs instead of rpm's.
It's cool because
The thing which makes RedHat's up2date really cool is not because it's using rpm instead of deb.
It's cool because
1. For debian testing/unstable you can get daily updates to your system. For stable you can get daily security updates.
For RedHat stable/rawhide you can get daily updates to your system.
2. You know updating your system will be a simple, painless and easy process. You know it will automagically work after two shell commands.
You know updating your system will be a simple, painless and easy process. You know it will automagically work from a cron job.
3. It is much more configurable than most RPM interfaces.
This is just a pissing contest. I know you are but what am I?
4. There is usually one "kind" of debs, which come officially from Debian.org, instead of a million different RPMS for Redhat/Mandrake/SuSE etc which conflict with each other
There are many sets of packages you can choose from, not just one. While packages from RedHat will always work, those from Mandrake/SuSE/others often work as well.
5. You have almost everything you need. If you use "unstable", you will always be on the "bleeding edge" with not too many problems, rather than waiting for distros to release their latest CD, and then sometimes trash the whole system because of a failed upgrade.
You have everything you need. If you use "rawhide" you will always be on the "bleeding edge".
6. And of course, without the dependency hell!;-)
And of course, without the ancient packages I upgraded from a loong time ago.
As you see, dependency hell isn't the whole reason why people prefer apt above RPM based systems. Before they solve these problems, debian/apt will still be my first choice.
As you see, old packages from one maintainer isn't the whole reason why people prefer RPM above apt based systems. It's got all the features of a flexible, easy to manage systems.
Dependency hell isn't a problem if you stay within the vendor's box. Just like Debian.
The Lady of the Lake, her arm clad in the purest shimmering samite, held aloft Excalibur from the bosom of the water signifying by Divine Providence that I, Arthur, was to carry Excalibur. That is why I am your Unix admin!
Inadequate logging. (Management wants to be able see who is checking in what, how often, and how, track known issues, ChangeLogs, etc...).
CVS logs all checkins. If the comments supplied with a checkin aren't adequate yell at the developer. A different/better tool won't make the slightest difference here.
CVS can also send notifications to people when various events happen (I think CVS calls them triggers). If someone makes a change to globals.h, for example, everyone would be told about it.
Controls for branching and merging are awkward
Has anyone tried a GUI frontend? I like the command line but I've set up a couple people here with WinCVS and it looked pretty good.
Files can be edited by multiple users simultaneously without checkout.
As someone else has pointed out this is a feature. And it's very good at merging changes. If it can't, it tells the poor developer to do it manually.
Work has been and will be lost due to lack of true version control.
This just can't be right. Version control saves work, that's what it's there for.
Keep in mind that CVS handles some of the largest Open Source projects in the world, like Mozilla, Gnome and the Linux kernel.
If you don't mind the massively obnoxious pop-ups and pop-unders that X10 is so fond of you can get a pretty good solution from them (http://www.x10.com).
My monitor and speakers are plugged in to separate X10 boxes. The PC (Linux of course) has an X10 transmitter. So I can ssh in from work, run "br --house b -n 3 -r 3" and freak out the burglars.
Although the switch boxes don't always like being on the safe side of a surge protector or UPS. It helps to have one of the transceiver boxes on the safe side as well.
I should make a caveat to this: The Windows98 VNC server will export the current user's desktop to the internet. So some of you windows users can do this already.
There's a modified VNC server for Unix (Linux only?) called x0rfbserver that exports the "real" desktop. It reads the system frame buffer and exports that using the VNC protocols.
Performance isn't quite as good as regular VNC but should be fine on a decent LAN. You find it here
The chip on a smart card is a rewritable medium. As any good slashdotter knows it can therefore never be "truly secure".
When the INS wanted a new Green Card they had to choose between smart cards and optical stripes. Optical stripes function like the magnetic stripe on your current credit and bank cards but use the same medium as a write-once compact disc.
Once data is written to an optical card it can't be modified. That's why the INS chose optical storage for the Green Card, Border Crossing Card and others. Of course you can add all the passwords and encryption you want on top of that for additional security.
And optical cards store up to 4 MB of data which is certainly enough to record the transaction history of the average consumer for a couple years.
FYI, I wrote the software the INS uses to produce the new Green Card, so I have a clue on the subject;-).
Several reasons the GPL is being violated have been explained. Here's another..
Vidomi themselves quote the GPL:
If identifiable sections of that work are not derived from the Program, and can be reasonably considered independent and separate works in themselves, then this License, and its terms, do not apply to those sections when you distribute them as separate works
How well does their product work without the GPLed parts? If it doesn't, then clearly it's not "independent and separate".
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Liquid Audio basically received a patent for saying that a domain ending by "co.uk" is in the UK.
M-x what-domain
Domain: uk
UK: The United Kingdom of Great Britain
Richard's gonna love this..
Boxers or briefs?
I kinda like this idea. Except I'd make it first two letters of first name + first two letters of last name.
And then I'd change my name to Robert O'Toole.
Wasn't part of the old Consent Decree that MS thumbed their noses at, that requiring OEMs to pay MS for every PC they sold, even those without Windows, was illegal and had to stop?
How is this different?
Why not pick up a used laptop? 300-500 MHz will probably run about $500 or so. You could build a quieter desktop (laptop disks can be heard when they seek), but I would think it'll be quiet enough even in a bedroom. And you get the added bonus of portability.
I have K6-III/450 on 24/7 in my room. I replaced the power supply with an ultra-quiet one but not the CPU fan, though they are available too. I lucked out with a couple very quiet disks (one from my TiVo and a new 160 GB Maxtor).
It's quiet enough that I can watch TV or listen to music and not be bothered by the white noise. And I got used to the noise it does make so I have no trouble sleeping.
If I replace the CPU fan the machine will be *very* quiet.
Apparently 5 minutes of brisk pumping will give you 20 minutes of battery life
5 minutes of brisk pumping will give you...other things as well.
Shouldn't it just run faster?
Oh, he over cooked it...
I want managers to understand one thing: it's their job to make my job easier.
If they understand that, they'll (try to) get me the resources I need, keep others off my back, listen to me when I speak, etc.
After all, we work for the same company. Our goals should be the same.
Why? Because we're watching the Super Bowl . You simply do not watch this game on a delay. You watch it live.
Maybe if you've replayed Ty Law's interception enough times you'll be able to skip past a few, but that's about it.
If they think they can have 650 hours in high quality music.
Most people consider 128Kb MP3 "high quality". Most codecs get roughly 11:1 at that bitrate. Since that's about 1MB/sec, or 60MB/hr, you'd need 60*650=39000MB of disk for storage.
And it includes a 40GB disk. Funny that..
1) You can select to record programs by searching by name, but it only searched within a limited horizon of programming (the week or so for which it has the guide). If not found, it can be recorded. For example, you couldn't ask it to record "Mission to Mars" whenever it comes on next.
Yes you can - just create a Title Wishlist and have it automatically record that Wishlist entry.
2) You can't ask it to record programs matching criteria like a particular actor, or keyword in title etc.
Actor Wisthlist. Keyword Wishlist. There are also Director and Category. My TiVo records everything directed by Hitchcock or Woody Allen.
4) It takes 2-4 hours to process and index the program guide after making a call to TiVo! (what on earth is it doing?)
Only during the initial setup. After that you'll never know or care since Linux is a multi-tasking operating system. Just record, watch and enjoy!
5) There are a few subtle bugs in the menu display software that sometimes cause display artifacts (rarely though).
I've never seen a single UI bug in over two years. And my TiVo has been heavily hacked for over six months.
What I tell people who haven't joined the TiVolution: It won't just change the way you watch television, it will change your life.
the thing which makes apt really cool is not because it's using debs instead of rpm's.
;-)
It's cool because
The thing which makes RedHat's up2date really cool is not because it's using rpm instead of deb.
It's cool because
1. For debian testing/unstable you can get daily updates to your system. For stable you can get daily security updates.
For RedHat stable/rawhide you can get daily updates to your system.
2. You know updating your system will be a simple, painless and easy process. You know it will automagically work after two shell commands.
You know updating your system will be a simple, painless and easy process. You know it will automagically work from a cron job.
3. It is much more configurable than most RPM interfaces.
This is just a pissing contest. I know you are but what am I?
4. There is usually one "kind" of debs, which come officially from Debian.org, instead of a million different RPMS for Redhat/Mandrake/SuSE etc which conflict with each other
There are many sets of packages you can choose from, not just one. While packages from RedHat will always work, those from Mandrake/SuSE/others often work as well.
5. You have almost everything you need. If you use "unstable", you will always be on the "bleeding edge" with not too many problems, rather than waiting for distros to release their latest CD, and then sometimes trash the whole system because of a failed upgrade.
You have everything you need. If you use "rawhide" you will always be on the "bleeding edge".
6. And of course, without the dependency hell!
And of course, without the ancient packages I upgraded from a loong time ago.
As you see, dependency hell isn't the whole reason why people prefer apt above RPM based systems. Before they solve these problems, debian/apt will still be my first choice.
As you see, old packages from one maintainer isn't the whole reason why people prefer RPM above apt based systems. It's got all the features of a flexible, easy to manage systems.
Dependency hell isn't a problem if you stay within the vendor's box. Just like Debian.
The right game for this is, of course, Carmageddon.
You can pass on these things:
A thin, 50" widescreen HDTV for my wall
Bose Lifestyle 25
DVD-RAM or DVD+RW
iMac
iPod
etc.
Pass them on to me.
The Lady of the Lake, her arm clad in the purest shimmering samite, held aloft Excalibur from the bosom of the water signifying by Divine Providence that I, Arthur, was to carry Excalibur. That is why I am your Unix admin!
I had an XPi CD for over four years. I never had to clean the trackball or keyboard even once. Dell did a great job of sealing things.
:-(.
I'd still be using it if I hadn't dropped it and broken the PCMCIA slots
I was sad to see trackballs disappear too.
Apparently MS is only blocking OS's that have IE available (Win32 / MacOS)
I just went there with Mozilla 0.9.5 for Linux (and no general.useragent.override) and got blocked.
Inadequate logging. (Management wants to be able see who is checking in what, how often, and how, track known issues, ChangeLogs, etc...).
CVS logs all checkins. If the comments supplied with a checkin aren't adequate yell at the developer. A different/better tool won't make the slightest difference here.
CVS can also send notifications to people when various events happen (I think CVS calls them triggers). If someone makes a change to globals.h, for example, everyone would be told about it.
Controls for branching and merging are awkward
Has anyone tried a GUI frontend? I like the command line but I've set up a couple people here with WinCVS and it looked pretty good.
Files can be edited by multiple users simultaneously without checkout.
As someone else has pointed out this is a feature. And it's very good at merging changes. If it can't, it tells the poor developer to do it manually.
Work has been and will be lost due to lack of true version control.
This just can't be right. Version control saves work, that's what it's there for.
Keep in mind that CVS handles some of the largest Open Source projects in the world, like Mozilla, Gnome and the Linux kernel.
If you don't mind the massively obnoxious pop-ups and pop-unders that X10 is so fond of you can get a pretty good solution from them (http://www.x10.com).
My monitor and speakers are plugged in to separate X10 boxes. The PC (Linux of course) has an X10 transmitter. So I can ssh in from work, run "br --house b -n 3 -r 3" and freak out the burglars.
Although the switch boxes don't always like being on the safe side of a surge protector or UPS. It helps to have one of the transceiver boxes on the safe side as well.
why isn't everyone rallying against TiVo to get their source mods?
http://www.tivo.com/linux/index.html
I should make a caveat to this: The Windows98 VNC server will export the current user's desktop to the internet. So some of you windows users can do this already.
There's a modified VNC server for Unix (Linux only?) called x0rfbserver that exports the "real" desktop. It reads the system frame buffer and exports that using the VNC protocols.
Performance isn't quite as good as regular VNC but should be fine on a decent LAN. You find it here
The chip on a smart card is a rewritable medium. As any good slashdotter knows it can therefore never be "truly secure".
;-).
When the INS wanted a new Green Card they had to choose between smart cards and optical stripes. Optical stripes function like the magnetic stripe on your current credit and bank cards but use the same medium as a write-once compact disc.
Once data is written to an optical card it can't be modified. That's why the INS chose optical storage for the Green Card, Border Crossing Card and others. Of course you can add all the passwords and encryption you want on top of that for additional security.
And optical cards store up to 4 MB of data which is certainly enough to record the transaction history of the average consumer for a couple years.
FYI, I wrote the software the INS uses to produce the new Green Card, so I have a clue on the subject
Geez, I mean
Can
any
reasonable
nation
invade,
violate,
opress and
restrict
everyone
like Australia?
What are the possible results of this?
- Vidomi is forced to release the source to the propietary bits
Microsoft FUD wins, "use GPLed software and lose your IP"
- Vidomi is forced to stop shipping their software
Microsoft FUD wins, "GPLed software is not a sustainable business model"
- Vidomi wins
The GPL is not as strong as we think and Microsoft starts stealing our source code
Vidomi themselves quote the GPL:
If identifiable sections of that work are not derived from the Program, and can be reasonably considered independent and separate works in themselves, then this License, and its terms, do not apply to those sections when you distribute them as separate works
How well does their product work without the GPLed parts? If it doesn't, then clearly it's not "independent and separate".