I, for one, wish that IBM would take over the reigns of Java. I love Java and have been using it for years (alongside C, Perl, PHP, etc.), but I can't seem to like a single thing about Sun. They may have top quality hardware, but, even then, I still don't want them and their hardware.
IBM, OTOH, has done well by the community and I would vote for them if a new steward for Java was ever sought.
Nagios does hardware monitoring. I just looked at their front homepage and there's a piece of hardward that monitors temperature, etc. Who knows what else it monitors...?
If they were at all aware that the memo would be leaked, it sounds like they're trying to sabotage Java. Perhaps they've realized that IBM is doing a better job of implementing Java and Java solutions.
At any rate, it sounds more like the death knell of Solaris.
Recently, RedHat has stated supporting their free download products for no longer than 1 year. This is understandable since relatively little really pay for that service and most people who don't use it for dedicated server purposes tend to upgrade or install the latest version. Now we can add that upgrading or installing the latest (as opposed to updating old systems) might be a practice that should be encouraged.
RH has also expressed their plans of coming out with server products in between their free and Advanced Server products. I'm sure these will be cheap enough that mom & pop type shops can afford them and will be supported for far longer than a year.
Perhaps now they'll have more people working on making ClearCase work with more versions of the Linux kernel. It seems they have their own proprietary filesystem for accessing ClearCase VOBs and they're only supporting a few kernel versions. It would be nice if they opened up that part of the software so more kernels will be supported.
And support! Mon Dieu. Rational's Linux support is atrocious. I develop mainly on Linux and it's irritating to have to have someone make a tarball for me just so I can update and merge software bits.
I just emailed sales@edimensional.com asking if they had Linux support. If anyone else is interested, take a few minutes to email them and let them know. I don't think they sell enough of these devices that they can afford Linux users with money to spend. Well? What r u waiting for?
I just shimmied over to Nokia's website and looked at the featureset for each phone. Glancing at the Nokia 7250's featureset, this jumped out right at me:
Key features: Visually provocative design, integrated camera, high-resolution color display, downloadable applications via Java(TM) technology, advanced MMS (Multimedia Messaging Service), polyphonic (MIDI) ringing tones, stereo FM radio with handsfree speaker option, Digital Right Management (DRM), SyncML
I hope that doesn't mean what I think it means. If it does, I am staying away from this phone like the plague.
Would you consider a video of a puppet real? If so, I have to admit I couldn't distinguish scenes where they used a puppet to play Yoda or where they used CG. I'd say it is getting photorealistic just fine.
I'm a software developer and am not threatened at all by opensource software and the opensourcing of any kind of software. First of all, there are so many projects to work on and each opensourced project becomes something that we can build on or learn from. I can't see a day when there won't be a need for new software or the customization of one thereby removing the need for paid developers.
Aside from coming up with new software, there's also improving on an existing one for private companies. People actually get paid to develop opensource software and some of these improvements actually go back to the community.
Is there a fontconfig support patch for Phoenix? Actually, is the source code even out for it? I've been trying to find it in the repository, but haven't yet.
Is Fraunhoffer, et al., charging for the use of their decoder or any decoder that works on their technology? If it's the former, don't most Linux MP3 players (ie. mpg321) use their own MPEG Layer-3 decoders? If it's the latter, is that even legal? I mean if it is, what's stopping Microsoft from charging any program that reads MS Word files?
Do they charge the software developers or the users?
I keep hearing people mention that ATI releases information needed to develop drivers to the public, and sometimes I hear the contrary. Is the information they're releasing (specifically with regards to the Radeon 9700 Pro) sufficient to produce drivers that compete with the windoze version? (3D as well as 2D)
(This is addressed more to the XFree86 developers)
As much as the hardware's a technological wonder, the card is useless to me since I only have Linux on my machine. I would spend $399 this very minute if I were sure there'd be decent Linux/XFree86 drivers. As it is, it looks like I'll have to wait for the NV3x cards,
(I wouldn't even mind spending $600 for the 3DLabs VP 870 if it had accelerated XFree86 drivers)
There are some that would say the OOP is the way programming should be done in the first place. In structured programming, one tries to create a model of a real-world situation using variables and writes a program around this data model. Why take a step back when one should intuitively go straight to modelling them as objects?
What's to stop MS from controlling and directing the direction of C#? It's been their general strategy to offer two parts to things: a service pack fixes a security problem but installs spyware. They add neat features to the latest version of their Office file format but lock everyone else out.
They're just playing on Americans' indifference. As Lessig put it in his speech at OSCON, small grassroots movements are no match for large corporations because they control the media and what little people who're aware of the situation there are aren't even raising a finger.
They "own" the language because no one will say otherwise.
Well they don't HAVE to go after all of them... just those who're making money off of the name's use (and, by extension, those who they can make money off of)
The Japanese don't even pronounce it zilla... they pronounce it something like "goh'zirra". If they win, does that mean that Stan Lee can go after anyone useing the name "Super-something"? (Superman was a Stan Lee creation, wasn't he?)
That's like saying if bank robbers decided to escape from the scene of a crime by using a getaway car, the government should make driving illegal!
Look... stealing cellphones is already considered illegal. If someone gets caught stealing a phone and modifying the IMEI, who care about the latter? The only thing that is certainly illegal is stealing.
It's obviously an extension of the statement "innocent until proven guilty". If a person's intentions for modifying the IMEI is unknown, he/she shouldn't be presumed to be doing something illegal.
Same goes for backing up legally bought videos on digital format or watching legally bought DVD videos in Europe on a Linux computer in the US.
I like electronic books, but when something's good and long, I prefer reading them in printed form. Probably due to my failing eyesight.
At any rate, I went to Green Tea Publishing's homepage and that's got to take the cake for the most bare website i've seen. They make mention of printing copies for a reasonable price, but they don't say how one can make that request nor any contact info.
Would someone tell me how I can get printed versions of the book?
If anyone wants it bad and has US$24.95 to spare, support Linux software developer and invest in CodeWeavers plugin. Full Flash and Shockwave support (among other things. ie. Quicktime, MS Mediaplayer, etc.)
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That's odd ... I've been doing that for years. (Whoops ... did I really post that with my user account?)
I, for one, wish that IBM would take over the reigns of Java. I love Java and have been using it for years (alongside C, Perl, PHP, etc.), but I can't seem to like a single thing about Sun. They may have top quality hardware, but, even then, I still don't want them and their hardware.
IBM, OTOH, has done well by the community and I would vote for them if a new steward for Java was ever sought.
Nagios does hardware monitoring. I just looked at their front homepage and there's a piece of hardward that monitors temperature, etc. Who knows what else it monitors...?
If they were at all aware that the memo would be leaked, it sounds like they're trying to sabotage Java. Perhaps they've realized that IBM is doing a better job of implementing Java and Java solutions.
At any rate, it sounds more like the death knell of Solaris.
Recently, RedHat has stated supporting their free download products for no longer than 1 year. This is understandable since relatively little really pay for that service and most people who don't use it for dedicated server purposes tend to upgrade or install the latest version. Now we can add that upgrading or installing the latest (as opposed to updating old systems) might be a practice that should be encouraged.
RH has also expressed their plans of coming out with server products in between their free and Advanced Server products. I'm sure these will be cheap enough that mom & pop type shops can afford them and will be supported for far longer than a year.
Well said. Perhaps IBM might open the source to mvfs, at least, so that most of the kernels will be supported.
Perhaps now they'll have more people working on making ClearCase work with more versions of the Linux kernel. It seems they have their own proprietary filesystem for accessing ClearCase VOBs and they're only supporting a few kernel versions. It would be nice if they opened up that part of the software so more kernels will be supported.
And support! Mon Dieu. Rational's Linux support is atrocious. I develop mainly on Linux and it's irritating to have to have someone make a tarball for me just so I can update and merge software bits.
So ... is Bill Gates flying to Brazil this time? He seems to be doing a lot of "damage control" nowadays.
typo ... i meant I don't think they sell enough of these devices that they can afford TO IGNORE Linux users with money to spend.
If they DO port to linux, I'd buy two.
I just emailed sales@edimensional.com asking if they had Linux support. If anyone else is interested, take a few minutes to email them and let them know. I don't think they sell enough of these devices that they can afford Linux users with money to spend. Well? What r u waiting for?
Key features: Visually provocative design, integrated camera, high-resolution color display, downloadable applications via Java(TM) technology, advanced MMS (Multimedia Messaging Service), polyphonic (MIDI) ringing tones, stereo FM radio with handsfree speaker option, Digital Right Management (DRM), SyncML
I hope that doesn't mean what I think it means. If it does, I am staying away from this phone like the plague.
Would you consider a video of a puppet real? If so, I have to admit I couldn't distinguish scenes where they used a puppet to play Yoda or where they used CG. I'd say it is getting photorealistic just fine.
I'm a software developer and am not threatened at all by opensource software and the opensourcing of any kind of software. First of all, there are so many projects to work on and each opensourced project becomes something that we can build on or learn from. I can't see a day when there won't be a need for new software or the customization of one thereby removing the need for paid developers.
Aside from coming up with new software, there's also improving on an existing one for private companies. People actually get paid to develop opensource software and some of these improvements actually go back to the community.
Is there a fontconfig support patch for Phoenix? Actually, is the source code even out for it? I've been trying to find it in the repository, but haven't yet.
Is Fraunhoffer, et al., charging for the use of their decoder or any decoder that works on their technology? If it's the former, don't most Linux MP3 players (ie. mpg321) use their own MPEG Layer-3 decoders? If it's the latter, is that even legal? I mean if it is, what's stopping Microsoft from charging any program that reads MS Word files?
Do they charge the software developers or the users?
I keep hearing people mention that ATI releases information needed to develop drivers to the public, and sometimes I hear the contrary. Is the information they're releasing (specifically with regards to the Radeon 9700 Pro) sufficient to produce drivers that compete with the windoze version? (3D as well as 2D)
(This is addressed more to the XFree86 developers)
As much as the hardware's a technological wonder, the card is useless to me since I only have Linux on my machine. I would spend $399 this very minute if I were sure there'd be decent Linux/XFree86 drivers. As it is, it looks like I'll have to wait for the NV3x cards,
(I wouldn't even mind spending $600 for the 3DLabs VP 870 if it had accelerated XFree86 drivers)
There are some that would say the OOP is the way programming should be done in the first place. In structured programming, one tries to create a model of a real-world situation using variables and writes a program around this data model. Why take a step back when one should intuitively go straight to modelling them as objects?
What's to stop MS from controlling and directing the direction of C#? It's been their general strategy to offer two parts to things: a service pack fixes a security problem but installs spyware. They add neat features to the latest version of their Office file format but lock everyone else out.
They're just playing on Americans' indifference. As Lessig put it in his speech at OSCON, small grassroots movements are no match for large corporations because they control the media and what little people who're aware of the situation there are aren't even raising a finger.
They "own" the language because no one will say otherwise.
Well they don't HAVE to go after all of them ... just those who're making money off of the name's use (and, by extension, those who they can make money off of)
The Japanese don't even pronounce it zilla ... they pronounce it something like "goh'zirra". If they win, does that mean that Stan Lee can go after anyone useing the name "Super-something"? (Superman was a Stan Lee creation, wasn't he?)
That's like saying if bank robbers decided to escape from the scene of a crime by using a getaway car, the government should make driving illegal!
... stealing cellphones is already considered illegal. If someone gets caught stealing a phone and modifying the IMEI, who care about the latter? The only thing that is certainly illegal is stealing.
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It's obviously an extension of the statement "innocent until proven guilty". If a person's intentions for modifying the IMEI is unknown, he/she shouldn't be presumed to be doing something illegal.
Same goes for backing up legally bought videos on digital format or watching legally bought DVD videos in Europe on a Linux computer in the US.
I like electronic books, but when something's good and long, I prefer reading them in printed form. Probably due to my failing eyesight.
At any rate, I went to Green Tea Publishing's homepage and that's got to take the cake for the most bare website i've seen. They make mention of printing copies for a reasonable price, but they don't say how one can make that request nor any contact info.
Would someone tell me how I can get printed versions of the book?
If anyone wants it bad and has US$24.95 to spare, support Linux software developer and invest in CodeWeavers plugin. Full Flash and Shockwave support (among other things. ie. Quicktime, MS Mediaplayer, etc.)
If it just got released, what the heck is in RedHat Limbo that's marked perl-5.8.0-29?