yeah, like a CueCat. And WinModems, too. Although that's more a fault of the distributer, not the hardware creator.
All humor aside, I agree, sort of. You dont see processors which are *designed* at a hardware level to only work for a particular operating system. This is demonstrated best by the fact that dreamcasts run linux, amongst other computing devices, which were only ever designed to run the SEGA proprietry operating system. Admittedly some hardware peripheral companies are being less cooperative with releasing drivers for other operating systems... perhaps *there* we might be better off open sourcing hardware. Opensource modems, for instance, might get better compression with bz2, and we could get up to 64k on a standard phone line (I dont need someone to tell me I'm talking out my ass, its a pie in the sky example). But processors? I think the companies there are already doing a pretty good job.
troll? Would someone point out exactly why that would be considered a troll? The examples given are factual (if dumbed down) representations of both protocols... moderators who have no knowledge of the subject matter should refrain from moderating examples of protocol down.
Uhuh. So I, John Q Public, find a security flaw in Bind. Then, being the good netizen that I am, I go and report it to ISC, saying "Your software is flawed, and I am root". They in turn say "Oh, let us inform our paying customers, fix this, and after that is done, tell the world. Thankyou." And proceed to make money off my work. They give me a thankyou, take a thousand* bucks from all involved, and then fix the hole. Thanks, but no thanks.
* DISCLAIMER: This is a guestimation of charges at best only. No weight should be given on the amount of money received by ISC for access to the closed list. Any at all is too much.
yeah. I also read the ars article. It stated that the frau* encoder worked amazingly good at very low bitrates (they have some hell of an algorithm) but at higher bitrates it put its self to shame against encoders such as BladeEnc and some other one I dont hear much about; which turned out to be better than BladeEnc too, at 160 and 192.
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Readers who know about Bender will notice that it is skinnable. If Taco wants to alleviate users such as the user who posted, he will make user definable skins. (yikes, talk about a way to open yourself up to HUGE storage problems though). Personally I like slashdot the way it is though. At least it doesnt use some huge font size that makes things quite difficult to read (Although I didnt look on fmII to see if that was customisable in the user preferences... which would rock)
Mmmm. I envy your internet connection if you plan on slashdotting a 100Mbit internet connection with only www/ftp connections. (is slashdot even *capable* of slashdotting kernel.org???)
depends on the encoder. most encoders sound average at 128 and pick up some credibility from 160+. OTOH Some encoders sound absolutely terrible at 160 and fantastic at 128... Fraunhoffer just shouldnt be used at all. (great sub 128, *for that bitrate*, terrible at that and anything above).
Australasia is the term for asia-pacific. Australasia refers to more than just the island of australia and tasmania. It also includes Indonesia, Taiwan, and other asian islands. (ex-resident)
Actually, I'm not too convinced that Microsoft thinks it would be taking it a bit far to stop a JVM from running. Remember Win3.* that would not run under ANY DOS unless it was MS DOS? I think Microsoft has absolutely no problem shoving its clout to say "No JAVA on our OS from now on, period"
Which is pretty much what they did do. They said "Personal users, we wont contest it, but we wont make it 100% right, so you cant bug us if it doesnt work".
If you read the Informative post by one individual that translated the FAQ, it stated they would not contest personal use, but that any commercial distribution could not use it without written permission of SuSE. Read that, twice. This license is NEGOTIABLE, and they WONT contest PERSONAL use. So if you are RedHat, too bad. If you only RUN RedHat, that's okay, they wont contest your use.
And so when you finally do get SMP, we will rain all over your parade, proclaiming:
"That's a great way to make yourself look good. Go from crappy to average, and have the press all over you. Meanwhile, Linux has been doing it all along.."
Not everything done well is revolutionary, but just because it has been done before doesnt make it easier when someone else does it. Sure they *could* have used BSDs ipf. But they didnt. They did it their own way, and it was hard. Just acknowledge the effort. THAT isnt hard. Why not just be happy that there is one less crappy TCP firewalling mechanism in the world. Ever heard of a pat on the back and say "Well done".
I havent used linux firewalling since the days of ipfwadm, but from what I see here, iptables has some rather extreme leaps here, the likes of which have usually only been seen in commercial firewall packages. What I want to know though, is exactly how *does* this compare to commercial firewall packages, inparticular: Checkpoint Firewall1
Of course its machine dependant. Are you stupid? The original poster thought a whole five seconds before pushing the submit button, and didnt read the article, nor did they go to the E/Raster websites to confirm their theories. They were in it purely for the karma. But I'm telling you, they *had* to have know what they were talking about... after all.. they *did* push the submit button, didnt they?
Actually HIV does enter into saliva, it is not usually in high enough concentration to cause infection, no matter where you put it. (although if you had cuts or abbrasions in your mouth, and some *other* bodily fluid of someone else got in your mouth, that would be a different story)
I'll grant you the inbox, but hth do you propose a developer to make a compose dialog box without using that interface??
Pine uses a suspiciously similar interface too (It has To:, CC:, Subject: and the message body!) It must be copying Outlook as well!!
heresay. Tell me why you think what you said would help the medium at all. Everything you said have a distinct *negatively impact* on the subculture of IRC.
Maybe you have researched it. To fit it into a website though? IRC doesnt belong on websites anyway. What sort of information did you glean during this period that made you think you had the knowledge to make that sort of decision properly? A website is (by and large) single subject only, and by that rule, would (generally) only use one IRC channel in the first place. This would, of course support your theory, because "this is how IRC is used anyway!". HOWEVER, this is not how regular IRC users interact. It is a diverse place, where people on coding channels are just as likely to be in irc newbie channels, teen chat channels, pornography channels, the whole kit. I like IRC because of the vast subject matter available. I can go get anything I want from any one particular network. After MP3s? Try #MP3Jukebox. Interested in network collaborated developing? Try #Developers. After some raw, not so clean, flaky chat? Try #teenchat. Want linux help? Try #Linux, #RedHat or #SuSE. If you break it down, you break it. flat out.
If you would like to convince me you have an argument that counters that, by all means, tell me.
The emporer is not naked. In fact, the emporer is not even standing there...
Anyone who has worked at any large corporation knows that Microsoft makes a Select series of installation CDs. These CDs are often (always?) free of needing any CD Keys, and do not require any additional registration. High security installations are usually government, and I'm sure that any government department which requires that level of security *probably* has a Select subscription anyway. I'm not condoning clearinghouse registration, just that scenario most probably wont be a problem.
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I gotta remember to turn off the +1 bonus. *mutters about high karma being a pain in the ass*.
Sure thing. Go, take my place, and pay the taxes I owe, and build my credit up =) *grin*
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yeah, like a CueCat. And WinModems, too. Although that's more a fault of the distributer, not the hardware creator.
All humor aside, I agree, sort of. You dont see processors which are *designed* at a hardware level to only work for a particular operating system. This is demonstrated best by the fact that dreamcasts run linux, amongst other computing devices, which were only ever designed to run the SEGA proprietry operating system. Admittedly some hardware peripheral companies are being less cooperative with releasing drivers for other operating systems... perhaps *there* we might be better off open sourcing hardware. Opensource modems, for instance, might get better compression with bz2, and we could get up to 64k on a standard phone line (I dont need someone to tell me I'm talking out my ass, its a pie in the sky example). But processors? I think the companies there are already doing a pretty good job.
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always did when I lived there ;)
*Why* did I emmigrate? Mmmm. I dont know, but I know why I'm not going back.
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troll? Would someone point out exactly why that would be considered a troll? The examples given are factual (if dumbed down) representations of both protocols... moderators who have no knowledge of the subject matter should refrain from moderating examples of protocol down.
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Uhuh. So I, John Q Public, find a security flaw in Bind. Then, being the good netizen that I am, I go and report it to ISC, saying "Your software is flawed, and I am root". They in turn say "Oh, let us inform our paying customers, fix this, and after that is done, tell the world. Thankyou." And proceed to make money off my work. They give me a thankyou, take a thousand* bucks from all involved, and then fix the hole. Thanks, but no thanks.
* DISCLAIMER: This is a guestimation of charges at best only. No weight should be given on the amount of money received by ISC for access to the closed list. Any at all is too much.
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A slashdot staffer (actually) checked the story, and found it wasnt true.. Then posted the results! This has to be a first... doesnt it?
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emmigration in that context.
immigrating *to* new earth, emmigrating *from* earth.
'nuf said.
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yeah. I also read the ars article. It stated that the frau* encoder worked amazingly good at very low bitrates (they have some hell of an algorithm) but at higher bitrates it put its self to shame against encoders such as BladeEnc and some other one I dont hear much about; which turned out to be better than BladeEnc too, at 160 and 192.
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Readers who know about Bender will notice that it is skinnable. If Taco wants to alleviate users such as the user who posted, he will make user definable skins. (yikes, talk about a way to open yourself up to HUGE storage problems though). Personally I like slashdot the way it is though. At least it doesnt use some huge font size that makes things quite difficult to read (Although I didnt look on fmII to see if that was customisable in the user preferences... which would rock)
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Mmmm. I envy your internet connection if you plan on slashdotting a 100Mbit internet connection with only www/ftp connections. (is slashdot even *capable* of slashdotting kernel.org???)
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So when person/company XYZ release Crayon Linux they'll get Cray on the legalese phone saying "We Own Cray-On" =P
Just think, we could miss out on a linux aimed at two year olds! Oh. Windows. Never mind. Cray-On it is.
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depends on the encoder. most encoders sound average at 128 and pick up some credibility from 160+. OTOH Some encoders sound absolutely terrible at 160 and fantastic at 128... Fraunhoffer just shouldnt be used at all. (great sub 128, *for that bitrate*, terrible at that and anything above).
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Absolutely correct. I mean hell, Linux has tools to convert VB to C/C++.
There cant be that much difference if they have automated products that can convert a VB project to a C/C++ project.
think. just a little bit. it wont hurt (too much), I promise.
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Australasia is the term for asia-pacific. Australasia refers to more than just the island of australia and tasmania. It also includes Indonesia, Taiwan, and other asian islands. (ex-resident)
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Actually, I'm not too convinced that Microsoft thinks it would be taking it a bit far to stop a JVM from running. Remember Win3.* that would not run under ANY DOS unless it was MS DOS? I think Microsoft has absolutely no problem shoving its clout to say "No JAVA on our OS from now on, period"
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Which is pretty much what they did do. They said "Personal users, we wont contest it, but we wont make it 100% right, so you cant bug us if it doesnt work".
If you read the Informative post by one individual that translated the FAQ, it stated they would not contest personal use, but that any commercial distribution could not use it without written permission of SuSE. Read that, twice. This license is NEGOTIABLE, and they WONT contest PERSONAL use. So if you are RedHat, too bad. If you only RUN RedHat, that's okay, they wont contest your use.
Take five next time,.
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And so when you finally do get SMP, we will rain all over your parade, proclaiming:
"That's a great way to make yourself look good. Go from crappy to average, and have the press all over you. Meanwhile, Linux has been doing it all along.."
Not everything done well is revolutionary, but just because it has been done before doesnt make it easier when someone else does it. Sure they *could* have used BSDs ipf. But they didnt. They did it their own way, and it was hard. Just acknowledge the effort. THAT isnt hard. Why not just be happy that there is one less crappy TCP firewalling mechanism in the world. Ever heard of a pat on the back and say "Well done".
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I havent used linux firewalling since the days of ipfwadm, but from what I see here, iptables has some rather extreme leaps here, the likes of which have usually only been seen in commercial firewall packages. What I want to know though, is exactly how *does* this compare to commercial firewall packages, inparticular: Checkpoint Firewall1
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Of course its machine dependant. Are you stupid? The original poster thought a whole five seconds before pushing the submit button, and didnt read the article, nor did they go to the E/Raster websites to confirm their theories. They were in it purely for the karma. But I'm telling you, they *had* to have know what they were talking about ... after all .. they *did* push the submit button, didnt they?
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Actually HIV does enter into saliva, it is not usually in high enough concentration to cause infection, no matter where you put it. (although if you had cuts or abbrasions in your mouth, and some *other* bodily fluid of someone else got in your mouth, that would be a different story)
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I'll grant you the inbox, but hth do you propose a developer to make a compose dialog box without using that interface??
Pine uses a suspiciously similar interface too (It has To:, CC:, Subject: and the message body!) It must be copying Outlook as well!!
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heresay. Tell me why you think what you said would help the medium at all. Everything you said have a distinct *negatively impact* on the subculture of IRC.
Maybe you have researched it. To fit it into a website though? IRC doesnt belong on websites anyway. What sort of information did you glean during this period that made you think you had the knowledge to make that sort of decision properly? A website is (by and large) single subject only, and by that rule, would (generally) only use one IRC channel in the first place. This would, of course support your theory, because "this is how IRC is used anyway!". HOWEVER, this is not how regular IRC users interact. It is a diverse place, where people on coding channels are just as likely to be in irc newbie channels, teen chat channels, pornography channels, the whole kit. I like IRC because of the vast subject matter available. I can go get anything I want from any one particular network. After MP3s? Try #MP3Jukebox. Interested in network collaborated developing? Try #Developers. After some raw, not so clean, flaky chat? Try #teenchat. Want linux help? Try #Linux, #RedHat or #SuSE. If you break it down, you break it. flat out.
If you would like to convince me you have an argument that counters that, by all means, tell me.
The emporer is not naked. In fact, the emporer is not even standing there...
CK
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Anyone who has worked at any large corporation knows that Microsoft makes a Select series of installation CDs. These CDs are often (always?) free of needing any CD Keys, and do not require any additional registration. High security installations are usually government, and I'm sure that any government department which requires that level of security *probably* has a Select subscription anyway. I'm not condoning clearinghouse registration, just that scenario most probably wont be a problem.
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