That's no comet, it's the (very recent! or dust would've covered it up) impression of a Sasquastronaut's foot on Mars, decolorized and the surrounding terrain blacked out to perpetuate the Sasquatch-deniers' fraud. Yet more proof of the Sasquatch race, and they're technologically advanced to boot.
But I don't see the world only from a good/bad, black/white point of view. I said that NextStep dominance would've been a bad thing in that it is proprietary. I think it would've been a good thing in several other ways, not least aesthetically.
Of course I'd rather have people using NextStep than MSWindows. I'd rather still people used a beautiful free software UI. Whether that's GNUStep, Gnome, KDE, or something else I don't really care. None of these are all the way there yet, but their progress so far gives me much hope.
Sure, many apps will be OS X specific, but some will be portable. Even disregarding new applications, OS X users will want to use some Unix or Unix/X apps, expanding their user/tester/developer base.
... that a FreeBSD CD can legally include a port of Sun's JDK/JRE? I suppose this saves users the trouble of downloading, but a script could have automated that. So it's a big win if you have a FreeBSD box that's not on the net. Is this supposed to be a big deal?
Sun ought to be paying FreeBSD to include Java. Well, they really ought to make Java free as in free speech.
I won't be surprised if in a couple years a truly free.net implementation has surpassed java on free *nix systems due to Sun squandering its ~5 year headstart.
What does "this" refer to? I certainly don't think Gnome and KDE's momentum is bad. NextStep as the dominant unix UI would've been a bad thing in that it is proprietary, but OTOH GNUStep probably would be where Gnome and KDE are now in that world.
For every *nix hacker who switches from Linux or *BSD to OS X there must be dozens of non-unix users becoming unix users via OS X. This will only make more and higher quality developers and applications available on all unix platforms.
Had OS X become Apple's default years ago (presumably in the form of NextStep), perhaps Gnome and KDE wouldn't have gotten off the ground and *Step would've become the single dominant Unix UI. Now there's no holding back Gnome or KDE.
I'm slightly tempted by Macs now that OS X is shipping. I have mixed feelings: I hate MacOS, far more than I hate MSWindows, but I loved NextStep. Apple's hardware prices decide the issue for me at this time: no OS X.
Even if iWhatevers where cheap and I ran OS X, many of the applications I'd want to run would be Unix or Unix/X apps that I could also run under Linux or BSD.
You mean the FreeDB record is more comprehensive (though the Bitzi record for that file does include playtime). Bitzi records can accomodate much more information than FreeDB, but will generally have less for a newly reported file. There are two obstacles to integrating FreeDB data with Bitzi:
You need a discid (or the track offsets used to calculate discid), and generally someone with a file won't have access to the discid, so there really isn't any way to look up FreeDB information given just a file, which is what Bitzi has to work with.
FreeDB is GPL, Bitzi is dmoz-like (OpenBits).
Those caveats aside, in the longer term I do hope to see collaboration and cross-pollination among all free catalog projects.
I'm impressed if the service really does accurately identify songs after only 3 seconds, and any 3 seconds of a song. Presumably you'd need to fingerprint second or two chunks of every song to have this capability. This is quite different from what I understand Relatable does, which is to fingerprint the first 30 seconds of a song, meaning a song can only be identified after 30 seconds, and only the first 30 seconds.
Bitzi (the "another" link in the article's "yet another" statement) isn't primarily an audio fingerprinting application. It's a file metadata catalog, audio fingerprints being just one sort of metadata collected. File metadata is keyed by a "bitprint" composed of two cryptographic hashes. The code for generating bitprints and contributing metadata to the catalog is in the public domain and the catalog itself is available for free reuse and redistribution under a dmoz-like license. Disclaimer: I work for Bitzi.
Check out OpenACS, continuing development of ArsDigita's Arsgitia Community System. They've had discussion, commenting and other community/collaboration features for years and there are people working on adding more wiki and weblog-like functionality.
Thunderstorms are the thing I miss most about the midwest (I'm from Illinois, live in California), but it looks like the "third coast" (TX, LA, MS, AL, FL) is the place to be in the US for lightning. I think I once read that Lakeland, FL (I believe between Tampa and Orlando) gets the most lightning of any locale in the US. And property is probably really cheap.:-)
Anyone find a high res version of the map in the New Scientist article?
Even if you use authentication and/or https or ssh, you still may wish to prevent referrers from going out. Let's say on your intranet you have a set of pages detailing your competition. To make these pages useful internally, you want to link to competitors' web sites. You don't want "https://intranet.foo.com/competetion/bar.html" to show up in their referer log even if they can't view the page in question.
You don't want them to know that you're tracking them, nor do you want to make it easy for them to zero in on relevant documents if you do have a security breach (imagine that).
I would never suggest replacing links with javascript on a public page. On a "sekrit" page that only you or members of your organization will browse, I think it's quite ok to require javascript for the sake of obskuring the page as a referer.
Netscape was very much at fault for its failure in the browser market and in general. They thought they'd take over the world, developed and bought a a million different applications to do so -- and every single Netscape application I ever saw sucked. The browser and the company deserved to die. If Microsoft had never produced a browser and Netscape somehow held on to its dominant market share (I don't think it would have, someone else would've come along), we'd all really hate Netscape and its crappy products now. Not that any of this excuses Microsoft in any way, shape, or form... but I don't care about excusing any proprietary software company any moreso than any other. The important thing is that we now have at least two viable free software engines (Gecko and khtml) and several browsers and platforms supported amongst them. That's real choice. Netscape vs. Microsoft wasn't ever real choice, even if they had evenly split the market 50/50.
In-house apps can be GPL'd easily because the source only has to be distributed where the binaries go.
No company that doesn't want its source to get out is going to GPL its internal projects to avoid paying TrollTech. Too big of a risk. All someone has to do is anonymously post the GPL'd source someplace on the net, and the company's valuable, secret, internal (oooh, aaaah) intellectual property and probably lots about their business practices are revealed to anyone interested with no recourse.
Long term, Troll Tech has to adapt to free software world domination just as much as any other company. If they can't make a good profit on training, consulting, custom development, and other services (see Cygnus), they better learn how.
I sometimes ask the same question. Now that Mozilla isn't that much slower, I mainly use and upgrade Galeon out of habit. And I occasionally fire up Mail/News. It's likely I'll stop using Galeon at some point, but it has been a pleasure to use up till this point.
Maybe there are plans for deeper Gnome integration with Galeon than would be possible with Vanilla Mozilla?
There aren't that many: Mozilla, Galeon (Unix only), Kmelon (Windows only). Skipstone seems dead, Beonex doesn't have a user base and might be dead for practical purposes. Nautilis, Evolution, and Konqueror can all optionally use the Gecko renderer.
So it comes down to Mozilla, a lightweight browser on each of Windows and Unix, and some other programs that can use Gecko. How many Windows programs embed IE? Lots.
Well, as I said, you can run the GUI tools from any machine, in fact preferably not on the server machine itself. So lack of GUI tools for Linux is no reason to avoid running the database server on Linux.
I've done some development with Oracle on Linux and quite a bit on Solaris. Linux seems just as capable an environment for Oracle. I've also spoken to people who have experience scaling Oracle on Linux and have gotten good reviews.
But I don't want to plug Oracle on Linux too hard. You (for 95% of "you") probably don't really need to pay Ellison's sky high licensing fees. PostgreSQL really is quite good now and more than sufficient for most database applications, most of which barely scratch the surface of Oracle's scalability and capabilities.
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'Tis a healthy strategy for anyone. Ex: candy/cookies/soda -> fruit/veggies/any drink sans sugar.
That's no comet, it's the (very recent! or dust would've covered it up) impression of a Sasquastronaut's foot on Mars, decolorized and the surrounding terrain blacked out to perpetuate the Sasquatch-deniers' fraud. Yet more proof of the Sasquatch race, and they're technologically advanced to boot.
But I don't see the world only from a good/bad, black/white point of view. I said that NextStep dominance would've been a bad thing in that it is proprietary. I think it would've been a good thing in several other ways, not least aesthetically.
Of course I'd rather have people using NextStep than MSWindows. I'd rather still people used a beautiful free software UI. Whether that's GNUStep, Gnome, KDE, or something else I don't really care. None of these are all the way there yet, but their progress so far gives me much hope.
Sure, many apps will be OS X specific, but some will be portable. Even disregarding new applications, OS X users will want to use some Unix or Unix/X apps, expanding their user/tester/developer base.
Sun ought to be paying FreeBSD to include Java. Well, they really ought to make Java free as in free speech.
I won't be surprised if in a couple years a truly free .net implementation has surpassed java on free *nix systems due to Sun squandering its ~5 year headstart.
What does "this" refer to? I certainly don't think Gnome and KDE's momentum is bad. NextStep as the dominant unix UI would've been a bad thing in that it is proprietary, but OTOH GNUStep probably would be where Gnome and KDE are now in that world.
Had OS X become Apple's default years ago (presumably in the form of NextStep), perhaps Gnome and KDE wouldn't have gotten off the ground and *Step would've become the single dominant Unix UI. Now there's no holding back Gnome or KDE.
I'm slightly tempted by Macs now that OS X is shipping. I have mixed feelings: I hate MacOS, far more than I hate MSWindows, but I loved NextStep. Apple's hardware prices decide the issue for me at this time: no OS X.
Even if iWhatevers where cheap and I ran OS X, many of the applications I'd want to run would be Unix or Unix/X apps that I could also run under Linux or BSD.
- You need a discid (or the track offsets used to calculate discid), and generally someone with a file won't have access to the discid, so there really isn't any way to look up FreeDB information given just a file, which is what Bitzi has to work with.
- FreeDB is GPL, Bitzi is dmoz-like (OpenBits).
Those caveats aside, in the longer term I do hope to see collaboration and cross-pollination among all free catalog projects.I believe MIPS has had 64bits since the R4000 in 1991. See micropressor history.
I'm impressed if the service really does accurately identify songs after only 3 seconds, and any 3 seconds of a song. Presumably you'd need to fingerprint second or two chunks of every song to have this capability. This is quite different from what I understand Relatable does, which is to fingerprint the first 30 seconds of a song, meaning a song can only be identified after 30 seconds, and only the first 30 seconds.
Bitzi (the "another" link in the article's "yet another" statement) isn't primarily an audio fingerprinting application. It's a file metadata catalog, audio fingerprints being just one sort of metadata collected. File metadata is keyed by a "bitprint" composed of two cryptographic hashes. The code for generating bitprints and contributing metadata to the catalog is in the public domain and the catalog itself is available for free reuse and redistribution under a dmoz-like license. Disclaimer: I work for Bitzi.
Check out OpenACS, continuing development of ArsDigita's Arsgitia Community System. They've had discussion, commenting and other community/collaboration features for years and there are people working on adding more wiki and weblog-like functionality.
The Foresight Exchange gives a ~3/4 chance that Higgs Boson will be discovered on or before January 1, 2005 12:00:00 GST. Hawking made a rich bet.
The aforementioned Mozilla includes an email/news client that of course uses the Mozilla rendering engine for HTML. Works quite well.
Thunderstorms are the thing I miss most about the midwest (I'm from Illinois, live in California), but it looks like the "third coast" (TX, LA, MS, AL, FL) is the place to be in the US for lightning. I think I once read that Lakeland, FL (I believe between Tampa and Orlando) gets the most lightning of any locale in the US. And property is probably really cheap. :-)
Anyone find a high res version of the map in the New Scientist article?
You don't want them to know that you're tracking them, nor do you want to make it easy for them to zero in on relevant documents if you do have a security breach (imagine that).
I would never suggest replacing links with javascript on a public page. On a "sekrit" page that only you or members of your organization will browse, I think it's quite ok to require javascript for the sake of obskuring the page as a referer.
<a href="http://foo.com">Before Bar</a>
to
<a href="javascript:window.location='http://foo.com'" >Before Bar</a>
Netscape was very much at fault for its failure in the browser market and in general. They thought they'd take over the world, developed and bought a a million different applications to do so -- and every single Netscape application I ever saw sucked. The browser and the company deserved to die. If Microsoft had never produced a browser and Netscape somehow held on to its dominant market share (I don't think it would have, someone else would've come along), we'd all really hate Netscape and its crappy products now. Not that any of this excuses Microsoft in any way, shape, or form ... but I don't care about excusing any proprietary software company any moreso than any other. The important thing is that we now have at least two viable free software engines (Gecko and khtml) and several browsers and platforms supported amongst them. That's real choice. Netscape vs. Microsoft wasn't ever real choice, even if they had evenly split the market 50/50.
No company that doesn't want its source to get out is going to GPL its internal projects to avoid paying TrollTech. Too big of a risk. All someone has to do is anonymously post the GPL'd source someplace on the net, and the company's valuable, secret, internal (oooh, aaaah) intellectual property and probably lots about their business practices are revealed to anyone interested with no recourse.
Long term, Troll Tech has to adapt to free software world domination just as much as any other company. If they can't make a good profit on training, consulting, custom development, and other services (see Cygnus), they better learn how.
You're right, Skipstone's news page is just out of date. Looked like there hadn't been a release since June. Apologies.
Maybe there are plans for deeper Gnome integration with Galeon than would be possible with Vanilla Mozilla?
So it comes down to Mozilla, a lightweight browser on each of Windows and Unix, and some other programs that can use Gecko. How many Windows programs embed IE? Lots.
I've done some development with Oracle on Linux and quite a bit on Solaris. Linux seems just as capable an environment for Oracle. I've also spoken to people who have experience scaling Oracle on Linux and have gotten good reviews.
For much more, check out the oracle-on-linux mailing list. And here's a page at Oracle that says Linux is supported "across the entire technology stack".
But I don't want to plug Oracle on Linux too hard. You (for 95% of "you") probably don't really need to pay Ellison's sky high licensing fees. PostgreSQL really is quite good now and more than sufficient for most database applications, most of which barely scratch the surface of Oracle's scalability and capabilities.