the feds don't exactly approve of a system that's more privacy-protective than the heavily regulated banking system.
Mike Godwin said the raid evokes memories of the notorious Steve Jackson Games raid by the Secret Service a decade ago, which led to the formation of the Electronic Frontier Foundation.
or at least the software that runs the hardware. Yes I am talking about those see through drivers that ASUS had released. See this article to refresh your memory. Yes, these drivers have been revoked, but what I am ranting about is the ability for someone to forge the drivers so that servers who check for them are fooled, or else for some insane person to actually code them from the ground up. Well, he really should be insane!!
You could have avoided to blatently copy this post from the article!! It was posted beforehand. Some people can't manage to suck up more for some karma these days.
Oh yeah, and once we are at it, you should have at least "embraced and extended" by addind something of your own from the post you stole. Microsoft at least extend... or wait, do they ?
I don't want to sound like the devil's advocate but we were almost on the verge of getting such terms from Microsoft. Windows XP uses Passport authentication to log in to your workstation. While this was primarily used to sync your mail from hotmail and other Microsoft online services, it also gave Passport (a Microsoft affiliate) to own all your documents. In a twisted way, this actually implies what you have just denied. Don't bet all your horses on your claim dude.
I would consider such an option, only if it were LEGAL. Right now, DivX;-) movies are the synonymous with the dark side of the movie industry. None of the movie companies offers a service where you can legitemately download a movie. I would be very willing to pay for half the price and download my own copy of the movie. But until they keep their eye blinkers on and want to protect their investment in the DVD business, I do not see this happen in the near future.
Download a DivX;-)??... Its illegal. I would prefer wait until they screen it on my cable movie channel:-) !!
I believe you are right in saying that these toys are not suitable for a webserving farm, because of the reliability factoy. These machines have been tested to run for hours, but surely not days and weeks.
I would still like to note that the CPUs on these computers can still be used for a great Beowulf cluster. They got the CPUs and the memory. The ethernet is standard. In a cluster, reliability is still an issue, but you can balance it out with a certain level of redundancy. I think that it pays much more in that department. And after all, Beowulf clusters are usually a bunch of old unused computers that are put together to be still of use. I am not trying to say that it will be easy.
Microsoft have claimed that it will be difficult to get passed their encrypted BIOS. So I guess that we all take up the challenge.
Would be cool if I can run a remote KDE2 session on this baby beast toy:-))
>>What we need is a complete OS abstraction layer on which people >>can build platform independent software. There have been many >>efforts to do this (SDL, etc.), but these have mostly been fairly specialized, >>which means you usually need several different libraries to wrap >>all of the OS-specific functionality you use. Chances are that each >>library will have different supported platforms and other conflicting >>requirements. Sorting these out can be just as much of a pain as >>manually porting your code.
I guess that Crystal Space would be a mature enough product, in a years time. It supports many platforms and makes it extremely easy to port a game to different platforms, almost at compile time. Its also under LGPL.. so it will make everybody happy. Developers are flexible to tweak the engine to optimise it more, and still can keep their product closed and get money. Sounds a win-win situation for all computer platforms who want their favourite software publishers to use it. Its also good for all the lazy dudes who don't want to do a 3d engine from scratch. But aren't we all lazy ??:-)
I think you are over generalising!! This really seems like you are saying that the FSF has brain washed all Linux users to use only free software. When people go to the Luna park, they expect a good evening of entertainment. That applies for computer gaming. Everyone expects a good experience from a game and that is why Linux users would be ready to pay for a Linux native product. If the product is a malformed port from Windows, then they will screw the whole concept and dual-boot as usual.
Life is great when you can play Q3A and still keep that uptime going:-) Keep it up iD!!
and Microsoft is damn scared about it. They are helpless to the opensource environment because company politics are now useless. They surely produce some free products and we apreciate their effort, but I think the real problem over here is not the pricing of the package. OK... Opensource OSes are cool because they come with a $0 +Bandwidth price tag. But ultimately we do not use such an OS cause of that. Its the ability for me to have a say and do something about a piece of software at my own will that empowers me with this opensource OS. I do not have to respond to company orders in developing a product further than it is, and they do not have control over that. THIS maddens them.
Hmmm, the title got me excited at first. My mouth was already watering with the idea of a new source for music. Hey this score is 70 years old !! Sure great for remixing new songs, but is it still relevant today ?
I mean how many of you actually listen to 70 year old "Top Ten" hits, if they existed !?!?
Here is a link
describing on how i-node works. This stuff can get quite cool if
you really have access to this technology. (Where are the towers,
buddy?). I guess that finally, Europe will finally start reaping
from this new technology.
But wait a sec, where is the bill for that UMTS phone I have
prepaid!?!
Slashdot Mirror
Code dead or alive ?
And you still insist on using that toy as an OS ?
;-) movies on a Linux box. Who needs 10x CPU power anyway !!
sheesh !!
Even 266Mhz is good enough to watch DivX
or at least the software that runs the hardware. Yes I am talking about those see through drivers that ASUS had released. See this article to refresh your memory. Yes, these drivers have been revoked, but what I am ranting about is the ability for someone to forge the drivers so that servers who check for them are fooled, or else for some insane person to actually code them from the ground up. Well, he really should be insane!!
You could have avoided to blatently copy this post from the article!! It was posted beforehand. Some people can't manage to suck up more for some karma these days. Oh yeah, and once we are at it, you should have at least "embraced and extended" by addind something of your own from the post you stole. Microsoft at least extend... or wait, do they ?
I don't want to sound like the devil's advocate but we were almost on the verge of getting such terms from Microsoft. Windows XP uses Passport authentication to log in to your workstation. While this was primarily used to sync your mail from hotmail and other Microsoft online services, it also gave Passport (a Microsoft affiliate) to own all your documents. In a twisted way, this actually implies what you have just denied. Don't bet all your horses on your claim dude.
acl.shot.jpg screenshot of NT (in vmware, via VNC (from a laptop)) using Samba+ACL's under FreeBSD Removed due to lack of bandwidth
Looks more like fragging someone with a rocket launcher while he only has a knife !!
I would consider such an option, only if it were LEGAL. Right now, DivX ;-) movies are the synonymous with the dark side of the movie industry. None of the movie companies offers a service where you can legitemately download a movie. I would be very willing to pay for half the price and download my own copy of the movie. But until they keep their eye blinkers on and want to protect their investment in the DVD business, I do not see this happen in the near future.
Download a DivX ;-)?? ... Its illegal. I would prefer wait until they screen it on my cable movie channel :-) !!
I believe you are right in saying that these toys are not suitable for a webserving farm, because of the reliability factoy. These machines have been tested to run for hours, but surely not days and weeks.
I would still like to note that the CPUs on these computers can still be used for a great Beowulf cluster. They got the CPUs and the memory. The ethernet is standard. In a cluster, reliability is still an issue, but you can balance it out with a certain level of redundancy. I think that it pays much more in that department. And after all, Beowulf clusters are usually a bunch of old unused computers that are put together to be still of use. I am not trying to say that it will be easy.
Microsoft have claimed that it will be difficult to get passed their encrypted BIOS. So I guess that we all take up the challenge.
Would be cool if I can run a remote KDE2 session on this baby beast toy :-))
>>What we need is a complete OS abstraction layer on which people
>>can build platform independent software. There have been many
>>efforts to do this (SDL, etc.), but these have mostly been fairly specialized,
>>which means you usually need several different libraries to wrap
>>all of the OS-specific functionality you use. Chances are that each
>>library will have different supported platforms and other conflicting
>>requirements. Sorting these out can be just as much of a pain as
>>manually porting your code.
I guess that Crystal Space would be a mature enough product, in a years time. It supports many platforms and makes it extremely easy to port a game to different platforms, almost at compile time. Its also under LGPL.. so it will make everybody happy. Developers are flexible to tweak the engine to optimise it more, and still can keep their product closed and get money. Sounds a win-win situation for all computer platforms who want their favourite software publishers to use it. Its also good for all the lazy dudes who don't want to do a 3d engine from scratch. But aren't we all lazy ?? :-)
Why not write a poem normally and then just gzip it. Yet again you have to keep the gzip file small, but we have upped the ante. No ?
I think you are over generalising!! This really seems like you are saying that the FSF has brain washed all Linux users to use only free software. When people go to the Luna park, they expect a good evening of entertainment. That applies for computer gaming. Everyone expects a good experience from a game and that is why Linux users would be ready to pay for a Linux native product. If the product is a malformed port from Windows, then they will screw the whole concept and dual-boot as usual.
Life is great when you can play Q3A and still keep that uptime going :-) Keep it up iD!!
Cheers
and Microsoft is damn scared about it. They are helpless to the opensource environment because company politics are now useless. They surely produce some free products and we apreciate their effort, but I think the real problem over here is not the pricing of the package. OK... Opensource OSes are cool because they come with a $0 +Bandwidth price tag. But ultimately we do not use such an OS cause of that. Its the ability for me to have a say and do something about a piece of software at my own will that empowers me with this opensource OS. I do not have to respond to company orders in developing a product further than it is, and they do not have control over that. THIS maddens them.
Hmmm, the title got me excited at first. My mouth was already watering with the idea of a new source for music. Hey this score is 70 years old !! Sure great for remixing new songs, but is it still relevant today ?
I mean how many of you actually listen to 70 year old "Top Ten" hits, if they existed !?!?
FreeCiv anyone ?!?
Are these guys ready to pay for foreign processing power too ?
If so, which companies ?
Here is a link describing on how i-node works. This stuff can get quite cool if you really have access to this technology. (Where are the towers, buddy?). I guess that finally, Europe will finally start reaping from this new technology.
But wait a sec, where is the bill for that UMTS phone I have prepaid!?!
The guys from Project Mayo have released their newest native library(decoder core) & Xmps have already support for it.
Does this remind you of your OO classes ?!? *grin*
I think this server will surely be much slower. Remember the Potato-Powered Web Server article ?
Oops, I guess the potato got slashdotted yet again :-)