I'm very happy with my X10 ultimate remote, annoying popup ads notwithstanding. I like real buttons rather than an LCD screen -- much better in the dark. It doesn't have a huge amount of RAM, so you have to plan out what you're going to do a little bit (and make sure to reset everything when you first start, because there's likely to be junk cluttering up the memory out-of-the-box). But being able to control your lights (and talk to your computer) is pretty nifty, and it's hard to beat $25. (Again, annoying ads notwithstanding.)
That's nice and all, but they've actually got a staff and people who are paid to produce content. Unlike software, reporting/commentary isn't exactly something around which one can build a service/support revenue model. The other web site you mention is just a part of a huge publishing conglameration -- Salon is independent, and the banner-ad thing wasn't working for them. You're certainly well within your rights to stop reading them, but don't complain later when MSNBCDisneyAOLTimeWarnerGE is the only source of news in the world.
Instead of ditching CVS, you might want to look at some tools which can complement it. The Mozilla project has several which might address some of the complaints.
So therefore, one shouldn't complain about bad laws? How can bad laws possibly get changed if no one complains? How will we stop even worse laws from being passed?
You just need one of these. Despite the site name, this isn't a troll - the PC Weasel is an ISA or PCI card that provides serial access to any BIOS. I think this was on Slashdot sometime before, actually....
We use (commercial) AFS extensively at Boston University. We've historically had some trouble with getting updated client software for new operating system versions in a timely matter, so OpenAFS is pretty exciting to us. We have been using arla as our Linux client, but unfortunately have some serious reliability issues, so we've been testing OpenAFS and will probably ship that in the upcoming BU Linux 2.0.
About every cab and bus -- as well as a large number of billboards -- in the greater Boston area has a Peace/Love/Linux ad. And that's not even counting the infamous sidewalk graffiti.
The 'h' in "/dev/hda1" is a bit weird, but beyond that it makes totally sense and isn't arbitrary at all: All devices are in "/dev/". "hd" means IDE hard drive -- SCSI hard drives are "sd". It's "a" because it's the first device of this type -- "hd0" would have been reasonable too. And "1" because it's the first partition on that drive. So it's actually a fairly reasonable hierarchical naming scheme. It may not be "intuitive", but few things in computers really are: it's just a matter of what you're used to.
The situation on Unix seems better than the one on DOS/Windows, where hard drives and partitions are given letters in basically random order, with CDROM and other devices thrown into the mix -- and since the second floppy drive (what power user would buy a system with only one floppy drive, right?) is "B", hard drives always start at C. Now *that's* arbitrary and unintuitive.
Well, I hope what you're saying happens, but it sounds a bit too idyllic to me. The vast majority of the public has no idea what the ACM is -- I've been a computer geek all my life, and only learned of the ACM in the last few years. But there's a further problem -- the public doesn't tend to trust college professors and scientists at all. The "corrupt industry moneyboys" are adept at manipulating public opinion (look at the girl-band/boy-band phenomenon) and I'd be willing to bet that the average citizen trusts Disney way more than a Harvard prof -- let alone some egghead organization they've never heard of.
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Right, but the current trend is towards stifiling progress permanently. That's not doing anyone any good -- except the big corporations which currently hold extremely lucrative IP.
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Yeah, it's really unfortunate that they're such a sleazy company, 'cause they make neat geek toys. I complain to them periodically. :)
They've got a better version which *is* feature-loaded:
ur24a.
I dunno why they bother also having the lame remote for about the same price.
I'm very happy with my X10 ultimate remote, annoying popup ads notwithstanding. I like real buttons rather than an LCD screen -- much better in the dark. It doesn't have a huge amount of RAM, so you have to plan out what you're going to do a little bit (and make sure to reset everything when you first start, because there's likely to be junk cluttering up the memory out-of-the-box). But being able to control your lights (and talk to your computer) is pretty nifty, and it's hard to beat $25. (Again, annoying ads notwithstanding.)
That's nice and all, but they've actually got a staff and people who are paid to produce content. Unlike software, reporting/commentary isn't exactly something around which one can build a service/support revenue model. The other web site you mention is just a part of a huge publishing conglameration -- Salon is independent, and the banner-ad thing wasn't working for them. You're certainly well within your rights to stop reading them, but don't complain later when MSNBCDisneyAOLTimeWarnerGE is the only source of news in the world.
SCSI 160 cards -- Adaptec 29160, for example. Also, I think some high-end PCI graphics cards.
Instead of ditching CVS, you might want to look at some tools which can complement it. The Mozilla project has several which might address some of the complaints.
Hah, I've got that beat. Just yesterday I was playing the original Master of Orion. :)
So therefore, one shouldn't complain about bad laws? How can bad laws possibly get changed if no one complains? How will we stop even worse laws from being passed?
That's nice and all, but have you read the MPL?
(Section 3.7, for example.)
Huh. Long day. :)
Having fully read the post, though, let me say: why not get a RealWeasel? It seems like the perfect solution, "integrated" or not.
You just need one of these. Despite the site name, this isn't a troll - the PC Weasel is an ISA or PCI card that provides serial access to any BIOS. I think this was on Slashdot sometime before, actually....
Geez.
And he doesn't really "praise" anything, although his comments are interesting.
pay for [the creation of] free software.
By doing something like 'cat /proc/cpuinfo'?
What a novel idea!
Sarcasm aside -- the SPEC benchmarks have been around for a long time and are well respected. You can see some SPEC CPU 2000 results here.
I've got the wireless version of this, and port forwarding works fine for me. I'm using it right now, in fact.
We use (commercial) AFS extensively at Boston University. We've historically had some trouble with getting updated client software for new operating system versions in a timely matter, so OpenAFS is pretty exciting to us. We have been using arla as our Linux client, but unfortunately have some serious reliability issues, so we've been testing OpenAFS and will probably ship that in the upcoming BU Linux 2.0.
About every cab and bus -- as well as a large number of billboards -- in the greater Boston area has a Peace/Love/Linux ad. And that's not even counting the infamous sidewalk graffiti.
It's not too late. Have you seen the GNOME usability report from Sun? http://developer.gnome.org/projects/gup/ut1_report /report_main.html.
(So, um, biting down on the troll, here: )
The 'h' in "/dev/hda1" is a bit weird, but beyond that it makes totally sense and isn't arbitrary at all: All devices are in "/dev/". "hd" means IDE hard drive -- SCSI hard drives are "sd". It's "a" because it's the first device of this type -- "hd0" would have been reasonable too. And "1" because it's the first partition on that drive. So it's actually a fairly reasonable hierarchical naming scheme. It may not be "intuitive", but few things in computers really are: it's just a matter of what you're used to.
The situation on Unix seems better than the one on DOS/Windows, where hard drives and partitions are given letters in basically random order, with CDROM and other devices thrown into the mix -- and since the second floppy drive (what power user would buy a system with only one floppy drive, right?) is "B", hard drives always start at C. Now *that's* arbitrary and unintuitive.
and they probably do an ineffective job of blocking porn, for that matter.
Well, I hope what you're saying happens, but it sounds a bit too idyllic to me. The vast majority of the public has no idea what the ACM is -- I've been a computer geek all my life, and only learned of the ACM in the last few years. But there's a further problem -- the public doesn't tend to trust college professors and scientists at all. The "corrupt industry moneyboys" are adept at manipulating public opinion (look at the girl-band/boy-band phenomenon) and I'd be willing to bet that the average citizen trusts Disney way more than a Harvard prof -- let alone some egghead organization they've never heard of.
Right, but the current trend is towards stifiling progress permanently. That's not doing anyone any good -- except the big corporations which currently hold extremely lucrative IP.
While the article doesn't go into the detail that was covered on TV ...
Now there's something you don't hear every day....
um, not that it matters too much, but cid != user #. look again -- the user id is under 2000. :)