I don't want to make it seem like Maddog is any less important, but it is not as "exciting" to see a Linux user on a Linux site, but to have the Woz, that is impressive. It somewhat validates everything Slashdot stands for. (which may be nothing *GRIN*)
P.S. -- How about a slashdot code release anytime soon...
Does anyone know how the installation of FreeBSD is compared to Linux? Compared to lets say...hmm....RH6.1 (GUI) or RH6.0...also, does it support most of the same hardware?
Why should I change? (not a flame, just a serious question)
I am glad someone agrees with me...don't get me wrong...I value, and want to hear Roblimo's opinion, just not in the brief...I want to read it down below where I can consider EVERYTHING to be opinion...I think most of us expect the NewsByte to be factual (as much as possible) and not contain opinion...
Roblimo, Ok, so Fox did something wrong...big deal...they fixed it...and in good faith. Why do you use Slashdot.org as a soapbox to give your un-needed commentary?
Roblimo writes: Now if they made the site worth viewing in the first place, everything would be groovy with fox.com. (Free clue for Fox: start by dumping the flashy splash page. All it adds to the site is download time.)
Don't take this as a flame, just a comment. I think your opinion should be heard, just maybe in the comments section. This way, we can seperate news from opinion...an important thing for any journalist to do.
One idea that might kill two birds with one stone is to automatically give the poster the chance to do the first post. This would eliminate some first post babies...but then we would see the wrath of the "I am 31337 HaX0r, SECOND POST!!!" hehe...
It is pretty much accepted that SDMI has been, and always will be, DEAD. Users will never support a format that includes self-destruct "features". In fact, one of the SDMI folks wrote a message on MP3.com, which can be found here.
this is nuts, how do my posts go from informative, to interesting and +5 to +4;flamebait...I think we need a glossary of terms to help out some of the dumb moderators. Now this could be flamebait -- hehe, but my original post, far from it.
1: Bruce Writes: I think that you have to count Red Hat as a major company now.
Of course, but they are a 'major' company that already understands the premise of Free/Open/GPL software; that comment didn't help your point at all. 2: I am shocked that so many people are taking the offensive and getting pissed at Corel. Like another poster said, sure we don't need big companies to keep Linux around in the server arena (I question that, but I'll give it to you) but for the workstation arena, we NEED support. Games like QuakeIII would have no chance if there weren't drivers for things like 3D cards and sound cards. Do you want to play Q3A in software render mode?...I think not!:)
good point, I like the GPL, I code using the GPL as my license, however, I often have wondered, how legally binding is the GPL? Those of you who know what has happened to the LAME project, know that the GPL might be tested in court... -Davidu
Let me first say that I agree, Corel has made _some_ mistakes. However, it is obvious that a big company with a huge legal department would have such problems.
We should NOT however alienate them. Do you think that they would have spent so much money into Linux and made such a huge booth at Comdex if they were just around for the hype? of course not.
We need to be forceful, yet forgiving in the way we handle the corel situation. If we alienate the first major company to support Linux then we may be jeoperdizing our future.
I think Bruce Perens simply misses the spotlight. I respect him for what he has done and accomplished, but a lawsuit will not solve anything for Linux users and for the image of Linux.
Bruce: you really ought to give this some more thought.
Damn...I don't know what to give up: My ADSL, or my AM transmitter on which I welcome our leaders from space...
Regardless, we will all be dead in a month anyways...we all know that 'ping' is not Y2K compliant and therefore, moron sysadmins will believe the 'net has crashed and thus we will witness the biginning of the end.
On Quake III Arena's Status [Blue-9:05 PM EST] In addition to the clarification from Activision (next story) on Quake III Arena having not been officially declared gold yet, we received the following response from id Software CEO Todd Hollenshead regarding the game's completeness:
I think it's just a question of semantics. The "glass master" has not been made yet (one definition of "gold"), but the game is done on our end (another definition of "gold"). It does take some time to make and certify the actual master before beginning production and that's the process we're in right now. It is fair to say that it is highly unlikely that the game will be on store shelves this coming weekend due to the unique logistics of the U.S. Thanksgiving holiday week/weekend. As for a specific "shelf date", as indicated in my.plan, I'll let everyone know literally just as soon as I get a confirmed date.
First: the RIAA has already taken legal action against Napster. They story is here.
Second: Another program by the folks who make CuteFTP called CuteMX is out. It seems however, that GlobalSCAPE the company that makes it, has removed it from their servers. Maybe they are scared of what is happening to Napster.
I am sure I am gonna get in trouble for this, but I have a version of the Win 95/98 CuteMX exe here. I would appreciate it if people would mirror it quickly, so not to saturate the cable modem...thanks -Davidu
MD is much more versatile than MP3 and until MP3 units are able to store in the region of 128MB, I won't be buying one.
Heh, if you are waiting for 128, then go ahead and by one, most 2nd generation players have 128 megs chips or flash cards...but the cool stuff is the multi-gig stuff. Like the Empeg and the HanGo Player
1) It have wished and wished for an R/C Car that had a 'start' button. Maybe it will even shutdown and require a reboot every two laps.
2) I always hate being able to go to a store that has all the cool electronic bits and peices I want but never carries a good copy of "learning Win98." I mean, who in their right mind solders breadboard chips and circuits without their trusty Win98 for dummies books?
Many of us in the hacker community (not cracker) used the Packet Storm security site for information and research. You had it shut down for some alleged things in the/jp directory. Explain to us why you called Stanford to shut it down rather than dealing with the maintainer. What did you accomplish by threatening to sue other than futher harm your image and remove any creditbilily you had? -Davidu
This company sounds like they went one step furhter than the much hyped Epinions.com. Epinions lets you review things, but people can't later ask questions about the review. Informarco.com will probably move into the reviews realm I would guess once they are fully operational. I am glad to see this kind of competition. One question though: Can you answer a question that hasn't yet been asked? That would be a cool idea but it seems as if there site only lets you answer "asked" questions. -Just my $.02, -Davidu
It seems to me like a lot of people misunderstand what an IPO is.
--Umm yeah, so do you.
If you buy a stock when it balloons to 80 or so, you haven't bought into the IPO; you've bought shares from someone who applied for and got IPO shares for 15 each, and is now selling them to you for 80.
WRONG. I have been in quite a few IPO's and when you are really IN on the IPO, you can't sell until the SEC lockout period ends. That period is usually about 6 months, at which point, if you work for the company you still can't sell all of it.
The way to make money off these things is to watch for the announcements and apply as quickly as possible (you need to fill out a SEC form that says you aren't related to any officers of the company and you know stuff about the market).
--Umm, no. To do that, you need to be on the floor making trades. Since a chair on the exchange (NYSE) goes into the millions these days, I doubt you have one. Maybe you mean your broker does this, but you're still wrong. Your broker usually gets IN on the IPO months before the actual day. (if they can even get in at all)
If you are eligible, you can get shares pretty cheap (usually about 15 dollars) before trading starts.
What are you talking about? The IPO has nothing to do with the low price? It is just where the price starts. The price could start at $400 a share if they wanted. They would just offer a lower float as a result.
Then when it starts trading, if there is significant hype surrounding the company (always the case if it's posted on Slashdot) you'll be able to sell the shares for 5 times what you paid for them very early in the day.
Nope...not for a few months...otherwise everyone would do it.
If you don't get the actual IPO, don't bother trying to buy the stock.
Well, just tell your broker not to pay for than X dollars a share and you _should_ be safe.
If, however, you think the company will be a good long term investment, wait a while to see what happens the the price. It'll probably adjust to a normal price after a few days (a lot of people who get stuck with the stock at the end of the first day don't want to hold onto it).
At work we have been toying around with products that claim to do what you want, but what people here are forgetting is that you might want to do it live. Many of those servers require you to already have the mp3s and a playlist of some sort. Right now, the best solutions is a rack mountable one that is a couple hundred bucks and it rips all incoming sound to mp3. It can be used for live stuff, and it works. All these icecast type solutions people are talking about won't work when you want to go live. (AFAIK) Anyways, check out hardware.mp3.com and you can see some of the rack-mounted stuff I was talking about.
1)European Institute of Quantum Computing Network --Ever heard of them, no. --Here is the real info: The institute was founded a few weeks after news leaked from the Israel's Weizmann Institute that it was using a mixture of quantum computing and special optical technology to break the RSA-512 code, the system used by the European banking system. It claims it has developed a hand-held device that can break the code in 12 microseconds.
2) Those of you on cryptography@c2.net know about Shamir. --Shamir (the S in RSA) theorized something called TWINKLE, the 'special optical technology' that the institute is referring to is very similar to TWINKLE.
As Keith Dawson writes about the article in the times, "Is there any truth to this?" -- my answer, yeah, it is called recycled PR.:) -Davidu
Slashdot Mirror
I don't want to make it seem like Maddog is any less important, but it is not as "exciting" to see a Linux user on a Linux site, but to have the Woz, that is impressive. It somewhat validates everything Slashdot stands for. (which may be nothing *GRIN*)
P.S. -- How about a slashdot code release anytime soon...
-Davidu
Also, Linux recognizes more than forty different partition types, such as:
- FAT 12 (Type 01)
- FAT 16 > 32 M Primary (Type 06)
- FAT 16 Extended (Type 05)
- FAT 32 w/o LBA Primary (Type 0b)
- FAT 32 w/LBA Primary (Type 0c)
- FAT 16 w/LBA (Type 0e)
- FAT 16 w/LBA Extended (Type 0f)
For some reason, they mention it as if it is obvious and common-place, last I checked, Win98 could barely read NTFS filesystems...hehe...-Davidu
Does anyone know how the installation of FreeBSD is compared to Linux? Compared to lets say...hmm....RH6.1 (GUI) or RH6.0...also, does it support most of the same hardware?
Why should I change? (not a flame, just a serious question)
-Davidu
I am glad someone agrees with me...don't get me wrong...I value, and want to hear Roblimo's opinion, just not in the brief...I want to read it down below where I can consider EVERYTHING to be opinion...I think most of us expect the NewsByte to be factual (as much as possible) and not contain opinion...
-Davidu
Roblimo, Ok, so Fox did something wrong...big deal...they fixed it...and in good faith. Why do you use Slashdot.org as a soapbox to give your un-needed commentary?
Roblimo writes: Now if they made the site worth viewing in the first place, everything would be groovy with fox.com. (Free clue for Fox: start by dumping the flashy splash page. All it adds to the site is download time.)
Don't take this as a flame, just a comment. I think your opinion should be heard, just maybe in the comments section. This way, we can seperate news from opinion...an important thing for any journalist to do.
One idea that might kill two birds with one stone is to automatically give the poster the chance to do the first post. This would eliminate some first post babies...but then we would see the wrath of the "I am 31337 HaX0r, SECOND POST!!!" hehe...
Like always, just my $.02,
-Davidu
The courts just needed to think about it. This was, however, the obvious answer. ISP are just the carriers.
This is how I look at it:
Saying they are responsible is like saying that Ma Bell is responsible for some flame on my answering machine. Um, NO!
-Davidu
It is pretty much accepted that SDMI has been, and always will be, DEAD. Users will never support a format that includes self-destruct "features". In fact, one of the SDMI folks wrote a message on MP3.com, which can be found here.
-Davidu
this is nuts, how do my posts go from informative, to interesting and +5 to +4;flamebait...I think we need a glossary of terms to help out some of the dumb moderators. Now this could be flamebait -- hehe, but my original post, far from it.
-Davidu
1:
:)
Bruce Writes: I think that you have to count Red Hat as a major company now.
Of course, but they are a 'major' company that already understands the premise of Free/Open/GPL software; that comment didn't help your point at all.
2:
I am shocked that so many people are taking the offensive and getting pissed at Corel. Like another poster said, sure we don't need big companies to keep Linux around in the server arena (I question that, but I'll give it to you) but for the workstation arena, we NEED support. Games like QuakeIII would have no chance if there weren't drivers for things like 3D cards and sound cards. Do you want to play Q3A in software render mode?...I think not!
-Davidu
good point, I like the GPL, I code using the GPL as my license, however, I often have wondered, how legally binding is the GPL? Those of you who know what has happened to the LAME project, know that the GPL might be tested in court...
-Davidu
Let me first say that I agree, Corel has made _some_ mistakes. However, it is obvious that a big company with a huge legal department would have such problems.
We should NOT however alienate them. Do you think that they would have spent so much money into Linux and made such a huge booth at Comdex if they were just around for the hype? of course not.
We need to be forceful, yet forgiving in the way we handle the corel situation. If we alienate the first major company to support Linux then we may be jeoperdizing our future.
I think Bruce Perens simply misses the spotlight. I respect him for what he has done and accomplished, but a lawsuit will not solve anything for Linux users and for the image of Linux.
Bruce: you really ought to give this some more thought.
-Davidu
Damn...I don't know what to give up: ...
My ADSL, or my AM transmitter on which I welcome our leaders from space
Regardless, we will all be dead in a month anyways...we all know that 'ping' is not Y2K compliant and therefore, moron sysadmins will believe the 'net has crashed and thus we will witness the biginning of the end.
-Davidu
On Quake III Arena's Status [Blue-9:05 PM EST]
In addition to the clarification from Activision (next story) on Quake III Arena having not been officially declared gold yet, we received the following response from id Software CEO Todd Hollenshead regarding the game's completeness:
-Davidu
According to BluesNews for a while, it has not gone gold...the story actually keeps changing.
http://www.bluesnews.com
-Davidu
Ok, there is now a mirror at Xdrive I dunno if it'll work...maybe, hehe
-Davidu
Ok, here is the low down:
First: the RIAA has already taken legal action against Napster. They story is here.
Second: Another program by the folks who make CuteFTP called CuteMX is out. It seems however, that GlobalSCAPE the company that makes it, has removed it from their servers. Maybe they are scared of what is happening to Napster.
I am sure I am gonna get in trouble for this, but I have a version of the Win 95/98 CuteMX exe here. I would appreciate it if people would mirror it quickly, so not to saturate the cable modem...thanks
-Davidu
MD is much more versatile than MP3 and until MP3 units are able to store in the region of 128MB, I won't be buying one.
Heh, if you are waiting for 128, then go ahead and by one, most 2nd generation players have 128 megs chips or flash cards...but the cool stuff is the multi-gig stuff. Like the Empeg and the HanGo Player
I have used both, and both rock.
-Davidu
This is the best news ever!
Here are two reasons:
1) It have wished and wished for an R/C Car that had a 'start' button. Maybe it will even shutdown and require a reboot every two laps.
2) I always hate being able to go to a store that has all the cool electronic bits and peices I want but never carries a good copy of "learning Win98." I mean, who in their right mind solders breadboard chips and circuits without their trusty Win98 for dummies books?
-Davidu
Heh, Harvard / Stanford, my bad.
I am not applying to either...
Lets here it For Claremont McKenna!
-Davidu
Many of us in the hacker community (not cracker) used the Packet Storm security site for information and research. You had it shut down for some alleged things in the /jp directory. Explain to us why you called Stanford to shut it down rather than dealing with the maintainer. What did you accomplish by threatening to sue other than futher harm your image and remove any creditbilily you had?
-Davidu
This company sounds like they went one step furhter than the much hyped Epinions.com. Epinions lets you review things, but people can't later ask questions about the review. Informarco.com will probably move into the reviews realm I would guess once they are fully operational. I am glad to see this kind of competition.
One question though: Can you answer a question that hasn't yet been asked? That would be a cool idea but it seems as if there site only lets you answer "asked" questions.
-Just my $.02,
-Davidu
It seems to me like a lot of people misunderstand what an IPO is.
--Umm yeah, so do you.
If you buy a stock when it balloons to 80 or so, you haven't bought into the IPO; you've bought shares from someone who applied for and got IPO shares for 15 each, and is now selling them to you for 80.
WRONG. I have been in quite a few IPO's and when you are really IN on the IPO, you can't sell until the SEC lockout period ends. That period is usually about 6 months, at which point, if you work for the company you still can't sell all of it.
The way to make money off these things is to watch for the announcements and apply as quickly as possible (you need to fill out a SEC form that says you aren't related to any officers of the company and you know stuff about the market).
--Umm, no. To do that, you need to be on the floor making trades. Since a chair on the exchange (NYSE) goes into the millions these days, I doubt you have one. Maybe you mean your broker does this, but you're still wrong. Your broker usually gets IN on the IPO months before the actual day. (if they can even get in at all)
If you are eligible, you can get shares pretty cheap (usually about 15 dollars) before trading starts.
What are you talking about? The IPO has nothing to do with the low price? It is just where the price starts. The price could start at $400 a share if they wanted. They would just offer a lower float as a result.
Then when it starts trading, if there is significant hype surrounding the company (always the case if it's posted on Slashdot) you'll be able to sell the shares for 5 times what you paid for them very early in the day.
Nope...not for a few months...otherwise everyone would do it.
If you don't get the actual IPO, don't bother trying to buy the stock.
Well, just tell your broker not to pay for than X dollars a share and you _should_ be safe.
If, however, you think the company will be a good long term investment, wait a while to see what happens the the price. It'll probably adjust to a normal price after a few days (a lot of people who get stuck with the stock at the end of the first day don't want to hold onto it).
Yeah...the first true thing you have said.
Just my $.02,
-Davidu
yup...thats what I meant and that is what I would think he want's to do.
-Davidu
At work we have been toying around with products that claim to do what you want, but what people here are forgetting is that you might want to do it live. Many of those servers require you to already have the mp3s and a playlist of some sort. Right now, the best solutions is a rack mountable one that is a couple hundred bucks and it rips all incoming sound to mp3. It can be used for live stuff, and it works. All these icecast type solutions people are talking about won't work when you want to go live. (AFAIK) Anyways, check out hardware.mp3.com and you can see some of the rack-mounted stuff I was talking about.
-Davidu
1)European Institute of Quantum Computing Network
:)
--Ever heard of them, no.
--Here is the real info:
The institute was founded a few weeks after news leaked from the Israel's Weizmann Institute that it was using a mixture of quantum computing and special optical technology to break the RSA-512 code, the system used by the European banking system. It claims it has developed a hand-held device that can break the code in 12 microseconds.
2) Those of you on cryptography@c2.net know about Shamir.
--Shamir (the S in RSA) theorized something called TWINKLE, the 'special optical technology' that the institute is referring to is very similar to TWINKLE.
As Keith Dawson writes about the article in the times, "Is there any truth to this?" -- my answer, yeah, it is called recycled PR.
-Davidu