I agree, it would be a good thing for them to
speak out against swpat.
In related news, this
Heise article (german) says that Janelly Fourtou, who was in charge of reviewing that IP directive,
is under investigation for being biased on this
question, as she directly profits by strong IP
laws.
I sure hope that heads will roll, and that
things will be rectified - after all, the
democratically elected european parliament went
clearly against software patents.
But other than test units, none have been deployed.
AFAIK, not too long ago, a Transrapid (the
german maglev train) has been deployed in China
- with the german chancellor Schroeder, one of
the guys that prevented it from being deployed
in germany, attending the inauguration.
So indeed, there exists at least one
deployment in "production" conditions, not
testing.
Sounds a lot like the ol' Transputer (was from
INMOS), of course faster. One could also think of
AMD's HyperTransport. So, again, except maybe for the speed, I don't see much innovation here.
If only people could remember that "terra" has
something to do with earth, "tera" is the unit...
Nice idea, but just not true, making this a bad
idea (even if detailed pics from Europa sure would
be welcome). Deep submarine life does exist around
sources of heat (deep-sea volcanoes etc.) without
light getting there - such life would be more
probable on Europa than these fantastic lifeforms.
Had you actually tried to understand RMS's
message, you'd have noticed that in the two instances he mentioned *BSD in this article, he was
talking about the Kernel only - had he talked about
the whole system, I'm quite sure he'd have used
GNU/*BSD.
I really don't understand people here raving about RMS, he does have a clear position and is consistent with his beliefs - much more than can be said about most other people. I've seen him at FOSDEM in Brussels, where he made an excellent
impression IMHO.
Actually, probably not - the ETH(Z) is the Swiss
Federal Institute of Technology in Zuerich
(Eidgenoessische Technische Hochschule Zuerich).
The "inf" part in the domain is for the computer
science department (Informatik).
Note that there's a second such swiss federal
institute of technology, that one in french-speaking Lausanne, normally called EPFL
(ecole polytechnique federale de Lausanne).
If Debian remains true to it's high standards, no
graphical installer will make it into a stable
distribution unless it works for every platform
supported by Debian.
So, sure, go ahead, use the Progeny one... but do
make it work on (Ultra)Sparc, Alpha, Amiga, Atari
ST, PA/RISC, S390, whatever... not so easy, is it?
Guys, remember, there's more to Linux than just x86!
I installed Mozilla 1.1 alongside 1.0. I do like
the browser (for the few seconds I've used it),
but the mail client caused me to go back to 1.0:
I access my email trough IMAP on a Lotus Notes
server, and my mail folders (except for Inbox) were
totally messed up, and I couldn't access anything.
If someone's got an idea what's happening...
As usual, the Slashdot blurb over-does it.
While this puppy is quite strong, it is still far
from russian-built
Energia
rocket - the one that lifted Buran, the shuttle copy, into orbit. While Atlas 5 can lift 8.7 metric
tons into geostationary orbit, Energia did 18 tons!
Telstra simply evaluate the alternatives. That's
normal business procedure. OK, it's nice they
consider Linux instead of just ignoring it, but
that doesn't (yet) mean that they'll actually
select it.
You can be sure that MS will throw in their
full marketing weight on such a business...
A friend of mine is very much into computer
simulations of physics and chemistry - he writes
his own code in c / c++, and so manages to do on
a (heavily optimized) Linux PC what his colleagues
using FORTRAN still need Crays to run. All the
difference is that he can use custom datastructures
that FORTRAN (and the existing libraries) does not offer him.
At a conference I attended end of last year, the
EPO's director admitted that software patents had
been accorded to companies, without a legal basis
from the EU.
What is the legal status of these patents? Do
they have any value, or could any court throw them
out? Does it even have to go to court? And how does
the EPO justify such (IMHO, illegal, but IANAL)
practice?
... is what I got out of the instructor at the
MS Active Directory course, when I just booted a
Knoppix CD instead of the W2K Server on the harddisk.
He ended up admitting that it was quite
nice, and that indeed he and his colleagues were
experimenting with RedHat... I wonder how long
they'll remain MS Certified Training Center;-)
Didn't the russians already test ScramJets
(brought up to speed by rockets, just like this
one) a couple of years back? IIRC it was even
successful. Definitely not a first here in
Australia, then...
Funny to see how
SuSE is not
part of that alliance. They were the first to
ship an Itanium distribution, back in
June 2001!
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No, as a matter of fact it hasn't been shipping for weeks.
There have been 'beta' releases redily available, but the release is very recent.
I am aware of the betas, and _yes_ the _official_
release _has_ been out for a while. True, not
everywhere at the same time, but my first notice
that it was out was from a _MediaMarkt_ in
Switzerland, of all places... been out _at least_
for 1 1/2 weeks. And no, it hasn't arrived yet at
the place where I usually pick it up, so the
distribution definitely isn't uniform around
Europe.
Been Shipping for a couple of weeks already!
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See subject - SuSE 8.0 has been shipping for a
while, I've been seeing comments about it in german
and swiss newsgroups. These comments range from
rather critical to absolutely enthusiastic.
Unfortunately, it's been "in" for a while to bash
the "Windows from Nürnberg". IMHO SuSE is very easy
to setup for newbies and gurus alike (no time to
waste on configuring stuff, leaving time for
tinkering on the non-obvious things) and gives
you all the power of linux in a nice package.
Can't wait to get my hands on this new version,
the features list is quite impressive. I'll get
around to it this weekend, probably...
(using SuSE, Debian, RedHat, IPCop,... on x86,
UltraSparc, Alpha)
Did anyone else notice this? On my SuSE 7.3 with
Mozilla 0.9.9, viewing this page (be that online
or offline after wget'ing the page) crashed
Mozilla! It's not the ads code, I just cut it
out and re-opened the disk file, Mozilla still
crashed. It's the first time I have this kind of
problems with Mozilla, and I'm not amused for it
to happen on *slashdot*.
Not flash, but definitely a good and useful
vector-based drawing program.
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There is such a thing, at least for USB. TechnoTrend offers an USB DVB-S device. I wouldn't count on a Linux driver just yet, though. They do work on a driver for the PCI models.
One problem with DVB on Linux - hardly any drivers support multicast transmissions, which are needed for data transmissions. If you want that, pressure the manufacturers for drivers or at least the data needed for writing a driver.
If I had moderator points right now, you'd get
a +1 insightful from me.
I've been working with streaming media for a
while - windows media (yeah, I know, that's one of
the reasons why I quit). Guess why this corp would
go for WM - because "everyone" has WMP, and they
get the server "for free" with Win2k server. Real
is extremely expensive (they'd have needed the
unlimited license), and they don't even consider
QuickTime an alternative - they don't want clients
to have to download a player, anyway.
Lessons: 1. corps don't want their clients to
have to download a player. 2. They don't want to
pay horrid licences (MPEG-LA - hear that? You're
losing one hell of a business with that licensing
scheme!).
A most interesting point is right at the end of the
article:
One of the key points stressed by the ARB is that the "open" needs to go back into OpenGL. The group has pledged that all ideas submitted for OpenGL, if adopted, are then open for use and not licensable as IP.
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I agree, it would be a good thing for them to speak out against swpat.
In related news, this Heise article (german) says that Janelly Fourtou, who was in charge of reviewing that IP directive, is under investigation for being biased on this question, as she directly profits by strong IP laws.
I sure hope that heads will roll, and that things will be rectified - after all, the democratically elected european parliament went clearly against software patents.
But other than test units, none have been deployed.
AFAIK, not too long ago, a Transrapid (the german maglev train) has been deployed in China - with the german chancellor Schroeder, one of the guys that prevented it from being deployed in germany, attending the inauguration.
So indeed, there exists at least one deployment in "production" conditions, not testing.
Sounds a lot like the ol' Transputer (was from INMOS), of course faster. One could also think of AMD's HyperTransport. So, again, except maybe for the speed, I don't see much innovation here.
If only people could remember that "terra" has something to do with earth, "tera" is the unit...
[Life needs light]
Nice idea, but just not true, making this a bad idea (even if detailed pics from Europa sure would be welcome). Deep submarine life does exist around sources of heat (deep-sea volcanoes etc.) without light getting there - such life would be more probable on Europa than these fantastic lifeforms.
I note he didn't use GNU/NetBSD?
Had you actually tried to understand RMS's message, you'd have noticed that in the two instances he mentioned *BSD in this article, he was talking about the Kernel only - had he talked about the whole system, I'm quite sure he'd have used GNU/*BSD.
I really don't understand people here raving about RMS, he does have a clear position and is consistent with his beliefs - much more than can be said about most other people. I've seen him at FOSDEM in Brussels, where he made an excellent impression IMHO.
ETH (is that the manufacturer?)
Actually, probably not - the ETH(Z) is the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zuerich (Eidgenoessische Technische Hochschule Zuerich). The "inf" part in the domain is for the computer science department (Informatik).
Note that there's a second such swiss federal institute of technology, that one in french-speaking Lausanne, normally called EPFL (ecole polytechnique federale de Lausanne).
See subject. PVR companies should sue this guy for libel and slander.
They really are getting more ridiculous every day... dangerously ridiculous.
If Debian remains true to it's high standards, no graphical installer will make it into a stable distribution unless it works for every platform supported by Debian.
So, sure, go ahead, use the Progeny one... but do make it work on (Ultra)Sparc, Alpha, Amiga, Atari ST, PA/RISC, S390, whatever... not so easy, is it?
Guys, remember, there's more to Linux than just x86!
I installed Mozilla 1.1 alongside 1.0. I do like the browser (for the few seconds I've used it), but the mail client caused me to go back to 1.0: I access my email trough IMAP on a Lotus Notes server, and my mail folders (except for Inbox) were totally messed up, and I couldn't access anything. If someone's got an idea what's happening...
As usual, the Slashdot blurb over-does it. While this puppy is quite strong, it is still far from russian-built Energia rocket - the one that lifted Buran, the shuttle copy, into orbit. While Atlas 5 can lift 8.7 metric tons into geostationary orbit, Energia did 18 tons!
Telstra simply evaluate the alternatives. That's normal business procedure. OK, it's nice they consider Linux instead of just ignoring it, but that doesn't (yet) mean that they'll actually select it.
You can be sure that MS will throw in their full marketing weight on such a business...
Oh well, we can hope...
A friend of mine is very much into computer simulations of physics and chemistry - he writes his own code in c / c++, and so manages to do on a (heavily optimized) Linux PC what his colleagues using FORTRAN still need Crays to run. All the difference is that he can use custom datastructures that FORTRAN (and the existing libraries) does not offer him.
At a conference I attended end of last year, the EPO's director admitted that software patents had been accorded to companies, without a legal basis from the EU.
What is the legal status of these patents? Do they have any value, or could any court throw them out? Does it even have to go to court? And how does the EPO justify such (IMHO, illegal, but IANAL) practice?
He ended up admitting that it was quite nice, and that indeed he and his colleagues were experimenting with RedHat... I wonder how long they'll remain MS Certified Training Center ;-)
Didn't the russians already test ScramJets (brought up to speed by rockets, just like this one) a couple of years back? IIRC it was even successful. Definitely not a first here in Australia, then...
Here is the Patent text at USPTO.
Funny to see how SuSE is not part of that alliance. They were the first to ship an Itanium distribution, back in June 2001!
No, as a matter of fact it hasn't been shipping for weeks.
There have been 'beta' releases redily available, but the release is very recent.
I am aware of the betas, and _yes_ the _official_ release _has_ been out for a while. True, not everywhere at the same time, but my first notice that it was out was from a _MediaMarkt_ in Switzerland, of all places... been out _at least_ for 1 1/2 weeks. And no, it hasn't arrived yet at the place where I usually pick it up, so the distribution definitely isn't uniform around Europe.
See subject - SuSE 8.0 has been shipping for a while, I've been seeing comments about it in german and swiss newsgroups. These comments range from rather critical to absolutely enthusiastic.
Unfortunately, it's been "in" for a while to bash the "Windows from Nürnberg". IMHO SuSE is very easy to setup for newbies and gurus alike (no time to waste on configuring stuff, leaving time for tinkering on the non-obvious things) and gives you all the power of linux in a nice package.
Can't wait to get my hands on this new version, the features list is quite impressive. I'll get around to it this weekend, probably...
(using SuSE, Debian, RedHat, IPCop, ... on x86,
UltraSparc, Alpha)
Are you blocking ads? I wonder if that has anything to do with it.
Actually no, I'm surfing with all enabled, with the exception of popup windows.
What's more, after *cutting out* the html code for the ad, mozilla still choked on the page. Weird...
Did anyone else notice this? On my SuSE 7.3 with Mozilla 0.9.9, viewing this page (be that online or offline after wget'ing the page) crashed Mozilla! It's not the ads code, I just cut it out and re-opened the disk file, Mozilla still crashed. It's the first time I have this kind of problems with Mozilla, and I'm not amused for it to happen on *slashdot*.
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A good Flash-based lines-and-boxes program, like early Visio, would be valuable.
What's wrong with xfig?
Not flash, but definitely a good and useful vector-based drawing program.
There is such a thing, at least for USB.
TechnoTrend offers an USB DVB-S device. I wouldn't
count on a Linux driver just yet, though. They do
work on a driver for the PCI models.
One problem with DVB on Linux - hardly any drivers
support multicast transmissions, which are needed
for data transmissions. If you want that, pressure
the manufacturers for drivers or at least the data
needed for writing a driver.
If I had moderator points right now, you'd get a +1 insightful from me.
I've been working with streaming media for a while - windows media (yeah, I know, that's one of the reasons why I quit). Guess why this corp would go for WM - because "everyone" has WMP, and they get the server "for free" with Win2k server. Real is extremely expensive (they'd have needed the unlimited license), and they don't even consider QuickTime an alternative - they don't want clients to have to download a player, anyway.
Lessons: 1. corps don't want their clients to have to download a player. 2. They don't want to pay horrid licences (MPEG-LA - hear that? You're losing one hell of a business with that licensing scheme!).
A most interesting point is right at the end of the article:
One of the key points stressed by the ARB is that the "open" needs to go back into OpenGL. The group has pledged that all ideas submitted for OpenGL, if adopted, are then open for use and not licensable as IP.
So, they won't pull a "Rambus" here... hopefully.