There's alot of dark fiber, companies go bankrupt,
because there are no users. I heard some 5% of
fiber is being utilized, combine that with new
technologies, that send data over multiple wavelengths, drumming up terabytes of data a
second on single strand of wire, no one will need
'Brick and mortar' distribution systems. Just
like with photography now, there is major shift
coming from Paper to Digital, next 5-10 years,
35mm photography will be obsolete. Digital now
sucks but its sheer accessibity and intstanteneousness, beats 35mm by far.
Same with everything else, we will go to 24bit
sound, and with all that fiber still being laid,
once interconnected and used, real distribution systems will be near obsolete.
And oh, it will be terribly cheap to deliver
and send gobs of data that will represent movies
in HDTV format, 24bit uncomressed music,albums
of pictures @ 6000x3500 resolutions with little
compression. That is all coming fast down the
pipe with light based switches for fiber,
media companies are all very very worried.
And they should be. Why? Because anyone with
2-3k in their pocket in 3-5 years will get a fiber
into their house and start their own distribution
company, or become a warez king, empowered by
latest encryption techology and Peer-to-Peer
bombshell. Now that exists now, but later everyone
will do it and it will be even more convinient
and faster than napster and it will be cheap...
to distribute works that rival analog forms of
distribution, like CD vs Audio DVD -> internet pipe.
They are squealing like bunch of afraid puppies,
alas big ones, that says all what the future
holds - freedom and sharing.
Now most of my friends listen to techno streamed
for free by people who provide fiber or
other networking services, which adds to them a cool
and 'we are the future' factor. If to relax they
tune into phishcast, or M O S T L Y C L A S S I C A L.
They spend few bucks here and there for phish
and trance CDs, and rarely download any pop
culture trash that is being imposed on poor kids
and everyone else these days.
Micropayments are acceptable if company does
ethical business and does business the open
way. When people share information, say I send
a chapter of the book from stephens latest book
for free to my friend with link attached to
watch page where he can get another chapter for
10c, whenever it comes out, I think it will
benefit the company in the end.
Internet relinqueshes control of the content.
The business will become more realtime, more
speedy. Those who establish communities around
their businesses will benefit the advantages
of the new economy, prehaps one with micropayments.
Present practices will be abolished, especially
by media companies. I think future will crunch
up the media companies and ones that own
copyrighted works, who wish to hoard them.
Old information if not freed will become old
uninteresting and will be out of the culture.
New information that is traded freely, broadcasted
over internet medium with gobs of available
badwidth will ultimately transform future,
it open society. Where irresponsible and greedy
will suffer and perhaps adapt, but will shrink
like grape that becomes rasin, in a process.
What you describe are minor problems software
upgrades can solve with cable modems.
Each modem does not see other modem's traffic,
on same subnet. There can be some creative
solutions crafted out, but as we know it
corporations are not about creativity but heavy
handed control, held back by what law and consumer
spending really says. Now I see that government
will tell the union to cough up development
money, do research by specific date or pay lots
and lots of money and be restricted and controlled
by bueracratic heads in the government.
Sharing links is not an issue, just at same place
have different boxes and have different channels
assigned to each competing provider. Limiting
rules might be applied as to userbase and bandwidth pollution by hundreds of other providers,
but all that demands more creativity... and having
fun, which is what most businesses are not about.
I'd disagree with last line. Although PC programmer
by the social pressure and availability of work,
I have always admired Mac hardware.
Its expensive, yes. But it is very beautiful, in
technical ways. The ways it fits together.
I am a UNIX coder, and I love Macs. Windows
is an ugly mutt, horrible rendition of attempt
@ merging two types of environments. OSX has done
what NT was trying for last 10 years and with
no gasping.
Hardware from apple was always on cutting edge.
If you wanted to see PC in 3-5 years in advance,
all you had to do is look @ the Mac - software
and hardwarewise. It is not true anymore.
Super quiet working PCs were around for a while,
and desing of a cube was there by COBALT.
Mac is really pressed to make something up that
will beatiful in hardware as well as in design
as well is in software. Software is done - OS X
is here, design? Here as well. Now hardware isn't
all that cutting edge. ATA100 + UDMA5 is as good
as any of SCSIs for consumer and professional use
(not server use)
And PC is where graphics is happening thanks to
NVidia and their relentless accelleration of
accelleration of improvement process. Macs are
beautiful,elegant, but they do not have as much
headroom anymore over PCs. It would be nice
though to have something that you can look at and
say oh, yeah, this is the future, I'll write
some software for that and will get rich.
I just hear saying we called it open protocol,
because you could use 'open' function to interface
it. Hah... hahahh. hah...
The worst yet to come, as M$ will softent its grip
will reinforce and renew its bag of dirty tricks
to contaminate mindspace of IT industry and make
life of coding grunts very bleak and unattractive,
while selling hook beridden products, with joyful
spint to managerial+corporate honchos who know no
better. With.NET MS is realising it is going to
be shifted out of the server markets, because
things don't have to be complicated and convoluted
as they are with commercial software.
Present bloat of M$ software although great
improvement over what it was before, still
requires premium hardware to run. I can play
quake III, run webserver and do mailing lists in
the background on my 350MB duron 700 system.
Good luck doing that with IIS, Exchange and Win2000.
you silly you, lawyers will sue over anything and
if there is no reputation at stake but money and
company is struggling - everything goes.
Now that is not a smart idea, because in most
countries, lawyers are required to be licenced,
and law schools are a tough cookie to grind on.
I am not sure how it is in Germany, maybe there
you can buy licences to practice in local grocery
store, who knows... If being a lawyer is much
easier, while you have more power it would be more
attractive to swing the axe around that is not
hard earned.
Besides I would say shop around for lawyers,
get mininal advice. Looks like extortion to me.
For one I am using mutt and boy am I glad that I
do. It has threaded message viewing - best for
those pesky mailing lists like linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org. It has built in, well if you compile it in, GPG support, so you can start sending these secure verified emails right away. Oh, and its free. All keys of kbd can be remapped to your liking, though it can take sometime. Colours galore! Mark different parts of interface un cyan, magenta, blue!
Now I have been using pine for some 5 years, was a little uncomfrotable with mutt at first, now I cannot read mail without it. Now pine is great for beginners, and often installed on freenet machines that are free for public dialup. Now I consider pine clunky and convoluted. Theres way too many layers of iterfaces, with mutt its pretty much flat.
And what is with these licencing issues now, everyone wants a piece of linux action? Read 'just for fun' by torvalds and some other guy, and write code, coding is fun, and stop squabbling over the details, see the bigger picture - trampling vertical market software industry that is dominated by way too fat corporations and where's no place for innovation and little guy making some cash. GPL it.
Certain groups will install massive amounts of
cameras in places. There will be omnious presense
but cameras will be not analysed by single
entity. Then one of the three letter agencies,
will demand and threaten government officials to
put a law in that will demand feeding unencumberd
images to them via a secured internet service,
for further analysis. All it takes is massive
presence, single law, and police enforcement.
News is by far more useful service, and has
not been shutdown by RIAA or any other entity.
Sure @home groups were, but that was stupid
move on their part.
Now I wonder if the cancer had to do anything with
computer radiation or not. People already know
that there are some adverse effects in facing,
low freq. radiation most monitors produce.
Now it is tons better than even 3 years ago.
Overall question is this article brought onto me,
will human flesh integrate well it increasingly
very much radioradiation(Wireless ethernet, cells,
cordless phoens, radio based remotes,...)
polluted space? Kinda sitting back sipping coffee,
pondering to get an LCD for work, out of my
pocket, which contains a cellphone...
Education courses as you say aren't paid by
your employer, unless there are two things
happeing:
1. Large cash inflow into your company
2. What you do is vital, and paying for your
education is extra insurance that you won't
leave pocketing the code for future exploits
and sharing cracker community.(Read: you are a
big cheese)
3. You are one of the big cheeses and you wouldn't
want to take boring classes anyway.
Other than that you either will get either:
1. fuck you Bob are worthless, and we will replace
you, if you don't stop complaining.
2. Sorry Bob but our finances do not allocate
fundes for education.
3. Bob we will look into it next month on our
financial meeting; repeat;
All the information is important, especially when
you are tracking down features that were inserted
into kerenel, by suse people and break my
network card drivers. All I knew my bootup was
failing, but I did not know where. Proximity
of failures maybe keypoint in determening why
current kernel does not work. I like to see
all subsystems reporting to me, at boot. For
ones who want pretty screens you can use Aurora,
it works well without any modifications, but
adding framebuffer console to kernel.
I agree "Reiserfs brought to you by MP3.COM"
should be gone. I could not believe my eyes,
whe 2.4.0 loaded.
I don't know, but reiserfs corrupted on me
horribly and I could not find a single disk
without reiserfsck, so I was fscked.
I haven't tried JFS yet, still using ext2.
Yes cash recovery bad, but I don't get mysteriosly
missing files and directories, in place of which
new ones cannot be created. That was 2.4.3 kernel
BTW.
Logging filesystems are have an inch think layer
of complexity, so each variation will inarguably
will offer its own perks and will come with
disadvantages. The more the merrier.
I hope that will not fragment the useshare, of
bugfinders though. Before ext2 was hacked on
by so many people all bugs were out in no time.
Now with fifty FS types in kernel, bugs are
more 'deep'. ESR - "with enough eyes all bugs are shallow"?
As 'bonus' I would praise IBM for Linux push, but
their highend hardware people suck and know shit,
for capabilities of hardware. There was a demo
S/390 @ office, and they the techies did not know
small endian from big endian. Not impressed at
all. Maybe its better closer to IBM motherland
who knows. Until then its sun stuff for us.
Microsoft IS irrelevant. They are an old way of
building software. Businessmen do like to control
what techies do and that what MS does so
effectively. We, the tinkerers and builders, if
we see something that we need - we make it because
its easy. We define scope - well usually it is
defined at time you decide to solve idea, and
then you do it the way you want. Now heres the
catcher - you build idea, and often theres a
hundred or more people that never got around to
it. Pile of these, evolved overtime, becomes the
software that grows onto people. Bar is higher
for enterance into linux, but thats all because
of preconceptions to the way computers suppose to
be. Linux base maybe shrink under some propoganda
of MS and them giving their software away for
free with shovels.Being coniving business, they
will make you do shrinkwrap licence that will
allow you to use only MSN with that free software -
they can plant hooks into their software. People
will learn they already do. Nowadays, it is
almost impossible to have dualplatform (read Win + Unix) environments, beyond basic file and printer
sharing. There are some little points on which
Win and Unix touch, but MS makes it hell to
mix'n'match their software and other peoples
software - many hundreds learned that in company
it worked at, so they will never make mistake
again of going with windows server solutions...
What will make linux win is evolution of natural
software, that does not restrain smart people,
instead of helping retarted ones. Microsoft rides
on that, and it will for a long while. Now,
bad news is most business people, that drive most
computer businesses are rather dim in therms of
computer knowlege. That what microsoft does,
offers lump of code that will start doing things,
with press of big red button that labeled press
here. Windows even if opensourced is not really
that opensource friendly.
I bet building windows from sratch to make a release is multidepartment multiday dronage.
Building properly made linux software would take
few hours to few days, depending of cheapness of
your machine. And its all automated.
You want program to do something more, grab source
recompile. You're done. That oversimplyfying things.
The point here is that source, is friendly to
relative newcomers, and almost everyone who
runs servers has compiled apache by hand,
therefor knows configure and friends.
It would be hard for MS to break into this
mindspace. Tell this to your IT department -
today we upgrade our IIS by recompiling it with
Visual C++ and Interdev. Days later site is live,
whatthe, we compiled in the debugging support!
Debuggers popping up all over the place,
magical clippy appears - "your webserver farm is on
fire, may I help?"
breaking into art community with completely new
way of doing things would be very hard. It is
very hard for people to associate something that
was produced with a assistance of something very
complex but nonetheless engeneered machinery,
like computers. It will come as more and more
people use their computers to express what they
feel. However computer tools now are still very
constraining in terms of expression and putting
it onto paper. You just cannot just throw computer
around and expect it to produce some art.
Passionate waving of brush and way paint lays on
to canvas , flexibility of brushes and they way they streak randomly.... as well as abstract things
where people paint themselves and throw
themselves against walls of paper, things like
that would be very costly and hard to implement.
With compter technology now it is possible to
integrate some things like photography which is
considered as an art with computer editing.
There must be large element which can be 'winged'?
like dependent on time and emotions rather than
diligence of creator. Inablity to have this
hands on thing with computer, does turn off
rather computer unsavvy art community. It will
come.
Truth is they will try to pull it off, as long
as possible. They can sell support for each work
station, so your users will call their helpdesk
instead of having fulltime help person in the
place. One person can be fixing everything and
for 10.000 a year you can support facility of...
oh 1000 machines. Now that would require a few
staff and that would be at least 40K each. I don't
see how they can stop copying of stuff, but
I see if they visit facility hand dozen disks,
and do round sum for the support of entire building.
However SuSE does already sells only packaged
CDs and never distributes.iso files, on the net.
They sprinkle few packages in that are commercial
and so you will be locked into not copying isos
because that would violate licence of commercial
bits spread thru cds. You will have to rebuild
iso, after removing commercial bits, but I wonder
if installer would operate properly.
Thats why I use mandrake, for simplicity, and
relative superriority to most RH distros(didn't
try7.1 yet) but if there was a call for corporate
linux, i would say Mandrake because it is very
simple and very linuxish - complies to most
standarts, comes with all software that you can
sanely run on your system.
Anyway back to beginning, if caldera does
predatory business practices, ala MS, ala any
old fashioned business, good for them. It just as
easy to install new distro if you partitioned
your drive well -/usr/opt/var/home/tmp ?
What I really suspect, is that./ crew putting
their spin on things. Company makes money @ linux,
good. They are bunch of bastards, well, we use
the net make it public, and no one buys shit from
them because they are slimeballs. There has not
been a hard proof of that, beside the fact that
their distro sucks, fitted with all sorts of
propietary gizmos.
Why? DCMA & friends. New laws issued in canada
made it legal to patent collections of data, since
some collections will take time and money to put
together. I see gracenote using these laws,
to hammer people out of business if they don't pay
up. For cripes sake we used their network
resoures, that someone had to pay for. They are
looking for return on investment, however small
that was.
And there no single defined opposing party anyway,
just public, from all over the world. Good for the
player maker to stand on public's side, cuz no
one else will. Free advertisement skeptics will
say. Ay, hell ya.
The earth is flat - here a piece of science that is right, but when? All science is built on
networks of interdependecies, so really something is not alway absolutely right. Now often some information may be used to do something in this world. Even then proof that something is right,
does not describe surrounding ideas such as cellphons vs high freq. radio vs living tissue, so theres always evolution of stuff. Even in basic things, laws are rewritten and adjusted every day.
However when someone has invested into something and the idea is appealing to most people, if theres something that negating usefulness of a thing to people there must be more research which is more costly. Often it means discarding previous previous research competely, because inital assumptions were wrong, so croporatiods start to gripe about their existence and profit margins, so as to keep their jobs justified to investors, or the owner. This has reversal results on the innovation. This is natural to present envirnment, government can however impose restraints and choose to allow only trustworthy companies to deal with universeties in non-intrusive way, like patenting every document in sight of the universety a corporation has sponsored. Definetly it will wash out the large fish with grabby little hands but then longterm it will release future researchers from constraints on public research.
Creative control can be applied as well, like company can have advantage of 1 year over competitors on some products that will derive from research, but no longer than that, and put a lockout clause that will not allow extension of this period.Companies however will not have patents on things in labs. Thats a no-no with current state of patenting system, and precenents surrounding it.
.... and be sued out of existance due to profit loss for telling the truth, because of binding document they have signed. Life is not easy, and allowing for corporations to contominate research in such backhanded way is rather disturbing. I would make universeties allow acceptance and sharing of research results, but no the other way around. It is all smells very microsoftish, where company tries to plant as many legal hooks everywhere, for little cash, so it would make good return on ivestment, and if it does not force it not to be published, and if it is to cut revenue stream threaten the researcher. Plain as that. Thats how american business works, on control and intimidation for the mighty buck.
I would say opensource studies that are going out, without patenting stuff. GPL would be nice.
I think list should announce unilaterally to be
blackholed(not RBL kind) - recieve but not send
out any emails for few days, with announcement for
everyone to cool off, and then continue on. In
fact I think it should be blackholed without
announcement, because that group it seems has
exploded into whirlwind, just like group of small
kinds in a room, just looking for each own intersts disturbing everyone near them, in same space. What parents do in this case? Turn the
light off in the room... =)
Interesting to see that Gnome spawned by GNU crowd
looking to do some GNU damage, in response for
creation of KDE under not so free licence, that
was posed to dominate linux desktop.
Being politically motivated group seems exploding
onto itself(imploding?) with arguing over little
details, when big picture comes to mind as Miguel
pointed out.
People who do not have inherent interest or
qualifying knowlege standing behind them as plus
some logical skills on top are ones who struggle.
Some have more luck than others, but otherwise.
As for old schoolers, we have 2 old timers and
really they are more clueless than ones with 2-5
years of expeience in the field. Old timer status
does not mean that you will do a better job, faster.
I know of quite a few old timers, that have ~20yrs
behind their backs, and I will know that will not
hire then no matter how desperate I get in business, if I have one.
I know really of a handful of people who have
have decent grasp on techologies, and apt to get
job done right and fast. Just because you can sit
in a chair for twenty years, since mainframes were
there does not mean you have inquisitive,
open and flexible mind to find decent solutions
fast.
A rude awakening out of the hyperbole that.com
was is good thing that it happend now, not later,
so less damage would be done. I have queasy
feeling in my stomach 'bout that tho, wondering if
this has irreversibly damaged computer market,
from healy codition that was in pre-dotcom era...
Threads are hard to program well, agreed.
However if proper locking is done, much
more work can be done without complexities
of forking and dealing with file handles and
other relevant crap. You can do multiplexing
in code, like those mega_case statements in
Win32 C programs, message arrives, you process it,
sometimes you send one somewhere else.
What happens if program is a system where
code has to way for key input from one stream,
while doing active analysis of the other streams
and as well output data onto screen in smooth
way? Latency with each stream will make system
clunky and irresponsive. With multiprocess model,
you will have to double up the plumbing anyway,
and introduce nexus/router/decider - 10 times
more complex than with threads, alas more safe.
It the same case again, maybe it is harder to
prove mathematically that threaded programs are
good, but practically they work better.Its sort
of like try to get mathmatitian to prove that your
irregular sex patterns are 'right' or good for you.
I am sure it will be tough for them, but you
just know its better.
DLL is wrong name for one thing, here made to spite
*NIX jocks. Shared library is proper term.
Anyhow, those who make libraries, know there
are api freezes on major version numbers, and
only internal bugs are fixed on particular
versions. Functionality may be added but not
documented.
Linux has some sort of mechanism of recognising
between different lib*.so.* files, by linker.
I am not expert on the issue, but libc2 and libc1
apps happily coexist on my system.
Now those who do not follow *featureset* freezes
and should be LARTed at that. This means that
GNUCash will suffer some degradation in size of
its userbase, not linux.
Why wouldn't there be a slashdot like
system for bills and all the politians that
put forward that bill. That way there can be quick
statistical analysis of who should really be
replaced, so that they really represent people
who elected them not the corporations who fitted
election campaingn bill, for sake of who they
do write legislations.
I mean just hire for each state a dept of 10 ppl
each so they will place the information on to
computer database, that would probably be web accessible.
Everything will be translated into simple talk
but each person in govenrment that has ability
to change laws will have identification.
As pattern analysis can be done and procorporate
anti-people rights heads can be snapped.
just 2c
Java is rather mediore example laguage since it
was made on compromises, did not take any ideal
to extreme like Smalltalk C, or Effiel did.
Java is opaque language that tries to take
advantages of many little things, and sacrifices
hitting absolute targets perfectly, so it can
cover solving most it problems more or less ok way.
As such it is poor language to teach anything,
but how to be practical in computer world. And so
many universeties forget that they teach computer
science, sacrificing computer science for fads and
corporate funding.
Linux that is a vessel for JVM? Java? Linux in
itself is very capable crossplatform OS. Sticking
something that a corporation owns, into Linux
standart is herecy. java is great tool, however
making it part of specification begs for trouble.
Having Notice how the only definitive software
component of the whole thing is JVM. The rest
exists already, like Nvidia drivers...
Specification is statement of the obvious...
Companies like Lokigames donating SDL and alike
packages thus making their own standarts, being
proactive, rather than formalizing stuff that already exists there.
Such constrains will ultimately tie linux down,
in the future, just like it did Windows.
Windows could not been rewritten, because of the
large set of applications was depending on API
bugs went unfixed for years. Same is to come for
Linux as corporatoids demand higher profits with
less investment, that would be part of these
nonsense political groups swaying enduser crowd.
What made the linux are hackers, donations of
software under GPL, or BSD licences, and clear
documentation if code is not, same goes for *BSD.
In the end these groups will lay things out how
things are ought to be done, and thats bull, cuz
if I do code for my enjoyment, I will not listen
to *no* corporate head, part of the group of
people who like sitting around and telling
everyone what is the right thing to do. I will
just write code.
Slashdot Mirror
There's alot of dark fiber, companies go bankrupt,
because there are no users. I heard some 5% of
fiber is being utilized, combine that with new
technologies, that send data over multiple wavelengths, drumming up terabytes of data a
second on single strand of wire, no one will need
'Brick and mortar' distribution systems. Just
like with photography now, there is major shift
coming from Paper to Digital, next 5-10 years,
35mm photography will be obsolete. Digital now
sucks but its sheer accessibity and intstanteneousness, beats 35mm by far.
Same with everything else, we will go to 24bit
sound, and with all that fiber still being laid,
once interconnected and used, real distribution systems will be near obsolete.
And oh, it will be terribly cheap to deliver
and send gobs of data that will represent movies
in HDTV format, 24bit uncomressed music,albums
of pictures @ 6000x3500 resolutions with little
compression. That is all coming fast down the
pipe with light based switches for fiber,
media companies are all very very worried.
And they should be. Why? Because anyone with
2-3k in their pocket in 3-5 years will get a fiber
into their house and start their own distribution
company, or become a warez king, empowered by
latest encryption techology and Peer-to-Peer
bombshell. Now that exists now, but later everyone
will do it and it will be even more convinient
and faster than napster and it will be cheap...
to distribute works that rival analog forms of
distribution, like CD vs Audio DVD -> internet pipe.
They are squealing like bunch of afraid puppies,
alas big ones, that says all what the future
holds - freedom and sharing.
Now most of my friends listen to techno streamed
for free by people who provide fiber or
other networking services, which adds to them a cool
and 'we are the future' factor. If to relax they
tune into phishcast, or M O S T L Y C L A S S I C A L.
They spend few bucks here and there for phish
and trance CDs, and rarely download any pop
culture trash that is being imposed on poor kids
and everyone else these days.
Micropayments are acceptable if company does
ethical business and does business the open
way. When people share information, say I send
a chapter of the book from stephens latest book
for free to my friend with link attached to
watch page where he can get another chapter for
10c, whenever it comes out, I think it will
benefit the company in the end.
Internet relinqueshes control of the content.
The business will become more realtime, more
speedy. Those who establish communities around
their businesses will benefit the advantages
of the new economy, prehaps one with micropayments.
Present practices will be abolished, especially
by media companies. I think future will crunch
up the media companies and ones that own
copyrighted works, who wish to hoard them.
Old information if not freed will become old
uninteresting and will be out of the culture.
New information that is traded freely, broadcasted
over internet medium with gobs of available
badwidth will ultimately transform future,
it open society. Where irresponsible and greedy
will suffer and perhaps adapt, but will shrink
like grape that becomes rasin, in a process.
What you describe are minor problems software
upgrades can solve with cable modems.
Each modem does not see other modem's traffic,
on same subnet. There can be some creative
solutions crafted out, but as we know it
corporations are not about creativity but heavy
handed control, held back by what law and consumer
spending really says. Now I see that government
will tell the union to cough up development
money, do research by specific date or pay lots
and lots of money and be restricted and controlled
by bueracratic heads in the government.
Sharing links is not an issue, just at same place
have different boxes and have different channels
assigned to each competing provider. Limiting
rules might be applied as to userbase and bandwidth pollution by hundreds of other providers,
but all that demands more creativity... and having
fun, which is what most businesses are not about.
p.
I'd disagree with last line. Although PC programmer
by the social pressure and availability of work,
I have always admired Mac hardware.
Its expensive, yes. But it is very beautiful, in
technical ways. The ways it fits together.
I am a UNIX coder, and I love Macs. Windows
is an ugly mutt, horrible rendition of attempt
@ merging two types of environments. OSX has done
what NT was trying for last 10 years and with
no gasping.
Hardware from apple was always on cutting edge.
If you wanted to see PC in 3-5 years in advance,
all you had to do is look @ the Mac - software
and hardwarewise. It is not true anymore.
Super quiet working PCs were around for a while,
and desing of a cube was there by COBALT.
Mac is really pressed to make something up that
will beatiful in hardware as well as in design
as well is in software. Software is done - OS X
is here, design? Here as well. Now hardware isn't
all that cutting edge. ATA100 + UDMA5 is as good
as any of SCSIs for consumer and professional use
(not server use)
And PC is where graphics is happening thanks to
NVidia and their relentless accelleration of
accelleration of improvement process. Macs are
beautiful,elegant, but they do not have as much
headroom anymore over PCs. It would be nice
though to have something that you can look at and
say oh, yeah, this is the future, I'll write
some software for that and will get rich.
I just hear saying we called it open protocol,
.NET MS is realising it is going to
because you could use 'open' function to interface
it. Hah... hahahh. hah...
The worst yet to come, as M$ will softent its grip
will reinforce and renew its bag of dirty tricks
to contaminate mindspace of IT industry and make
life of coding grunts very bleak and unattractive,
while selling hook beridden products, with joyful
spint to managerial+corporate honchos who know no
better. With
be shifted out of the server markets, because
things don't have to be complicated and convoluted
as they are with commercial software.
Present bloat of M$ software although great
improvement over what it was before, still
requires premium hardware to run. I can play
quake III, run webserver and do mailing lists in
the background on my 350MB duron 700 system.
Good luck doing that with IIS, Exchange and Win2000.
you silly you, lawyers will sue over anything and
if there is no reputation at stake but money and
company is struggling - everything goes.
Now that is not a smart idea, because in most
countries, lawyers are required to be licenced,
and law schools are a tough cookie to grind on.
I am not sure how it is in Germany, maybe there
you can buy licences to practice in local grocery
store, who knows... If being a lawyer is much
easier, while you have more power it would be more
attractive to swing the axe around that is not
hard earned.
Besides I would say shop around for lawyers,
get mininal advice. Looks like extortion to me.
For one I am using mutt and boy am I glad that I
do. It has threaded message viewing - best for
those pesky mailing lists like linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org. It has built in, well if you compile it in, GPG support, so you can start sending these secure verified emails right away. Oh, and its free. All keys of kbd can be remapped to your liking, though it can take sometime. Colours galore! Mark different parts of interface un cyan, magenta, blue!
Now I have been using pine for some 5 years, was a little uncomfrotable with mutt at first, now I cannot read mail without it. Now pine is great for beginners, and often installed on freenet machines that are free for public dialup. Now I consider pine clunky and convoluted. Theres way too many layers of iterfaces, with mutt its pretty much flat.
And what is with these licencing issues now, everyone wants a piece of linux action? Read 'just for fun' by torvalds and some other guy, and write code, coding is fun, and stop squabbling over the details, see the bigger picture - trampling vertical market software industry that is dominated by way too fat corporations and where's no place for innovation and little guy making some cash. GPL it.
Certain groups will install massive amounts of
cameras in places. There will be omnious presense
but cameras will be not analysed by single
entity. Then one of the three letter agencies,
will demand and threaten government officials to
put a law in that will demand feeding unencumberd
images to them via a secured internet service,
for further analysis. All it takes is massive
presence, single law, and police enforcement.
News is by far more useful service, and has
not been shutdown by RIAA or any other entity.
Sure @home groups were, but that was stupid
move on their part.
Now I wonder if the cancer had to do anything with
computer radiation or not. People already know
that there are some adverse effects in facing,
low freq. radiation most monitors produce.
Now it is tons better than even 3 years ago.
Overall question is this article brought onto me,
will human flesh integrate well it increasingly
very much radioradiation(Wireless ethernet, cells,
cordless phoens, radio based remotes,...)
polluted space? Kinda sitting back sipping coffee,
pondering to get an LCD for work, out of my
pocket, which contains a cellphone...
Education courses as you say aren't paid by
your employer, unless there are two things
happeing:
1. Large cash inflow into your company
2. What you do is vital, and paying for your
education is extra insurance that you won't
leave pocketing the code for future exploits
and sharing cracker community.(Read: you are a
big cheese)
3. You are one of the big cheeses and you wouldn't
want to take boring classes anyway.
Other than that you either will get either:
1. fuck you Bob are worthless, and we will replace
you, if you don't stop complaining.
2. Sorry Bob but our finances do not allocate
fundes for education.
3. Bob we will look into it next month on our
financial meeting; repeat;
p.
All the information is important, especially when
you are tracking down features that were inserted
into kerenel, by suse people and break my
network card drivers. All I knew my bootup was
failing, but I did not know where. Proximity
of failures maybe keypoint in determening why
current kernel does not work. I like to see
all subsystems reporting to me, at boot. For
ones who want pretty screens you can use Aurora,
it works well without any modifications, but
adding framebuffer console to kernel.
I agree "Reiserfs brought to you by MP3.COM"
should be gone. I could not believe my eyes,
whe 2.4.0 loaded.
I don't know, but reiserfs corrupted on me
horribly and I could not find a single disk
without reiserfsck, so I was fscked.
I haven't tried JFS yet, still using ext2.
Yes cash recovery bad, but I don't get mysteriosly
missing files and directories, in place of which
new ones cannot be created. That was 2.4.3 kernel
BTW.
Logging filesystems are have an inch think layer
of complexity, so each variation will inarguably
will offer its own perks and will come with
disadvantages. The more the merrier.
I hope that will not fragment the useshare, of
bugfinders though. Before ext2 was hacked on
by so many people all bugs were out in no time.
Now with fifty FS types in kernel, bugs are
more 'deep'. ESR - "with enough eyes all bugs are shallow"?
As 'bonus' I would praise IBM for Linux push, but
their highend hardware people suck and know shit,
for capabilities of hardware. There was a demo
S/390 @ office, and they the techies did not know
small endian from big endian. Not impressed at
all. Maybe its better closer to IBM motherland
who knows. Until then its sun stuff for us.
Microsoft IS irrelevant. They are an old way of
building software. Businessmen do like to control
what techies do and that what MS does so
effectively. We, the tinkerers and builders, if
we see something that we need - we make it because
its easy. We define scope - well usually it is
defined at time you decide to solve idea, and
then you do it the way you want. Now heres the
catcher - you build idea, and often theres a
hundred or more people that never got around to
it. Pile of these, evolved overtime, becomes the
software that grows onto people. Bar is higher
for enterance into linux, but thats all because
of preconceptions to the way computers suppose to
be. Linux base maybe shrink under some propoganda
of MS and them giving their software away for
free with shovels.Being coniving business, they
will make you do shrinkwrap licence that will
allow you to use only MSN with that free software -
they can plant hooks into their software. People
will learn they already do. Nowadays, it is
almost impossible to have dualplatform (read Win + Unix) environments, beyond basic file and printer
sharing. There are some little points on which
Win and Unix touch, but MS makes it hell to
mix'n'match their software and other peoples
software - many hundreds learned that in company
it worked at, so they will never make mistake
again of going with windows server solutions...
What will make linux win is evolution of natural
software, that does not restrain smart people,
instead of helping retarted ones. Microsoft rides
on that, and it will for a long while. Now,
bad news is most business people, that drive most
computer businesses are rather dim in therms of
computer knowlege. That what microsoft does,
offers lump of code that will start doing things,
with press of big red button that labeled press
here. Windows even if opensourced is not really
that opensource friendly.
I bet building windows from sratch to make a release is multidepartment multiday dronage.
Building properly made linux software would take
few hours to few days, depending of cheapness of
your machine. And its all automated.
You want program to do something more, grab source
recompile. You're done. That oversimplyfying things.
The point here is that source, is friendly to
relative newcomers, and almost everyone who
runs servers has compiled apache by hand,
therefor knows configure and friends.
It would be hard for MS to break into this
mindspace. Tell this to your IT department -
today we upgrade our IIS by recompiling it with
Visual C++ and Interdev. Days later site is live,
whatthe, we compiled in the debugging support!
Debuggers popping up all over the place,
magical clippy appears - "your webserver farm is on
fire, may I help?"
this is just a beginning for MS.
breaking into art community with completely new
way of doing things would be very hard. It is
very hard for people to associate something that
was produced with a assistance of something very
complex but nonetheless engeneered machinery,
like computers. It will come as more and more
people use their computers to express what they
feel. However computer tools now are still very
constraining in terms of expression and putting
it onto paper. You just cannot just throw computer
around and expect it to produce some art.
Passionate waving of brush and way paint lays on
to canvas , flexibility of brushes and they way they streak randomly.... as well as abstract things
where people paint themselves and throw
themselves against walls of paper, things like
that would be very costly and hard to implement.
With compter technology now it is possible to
integrate some things like photography which is
considered as an art with computer editing.
There must be large element which can be 'winged'?
like dependent on time and emotions rather than
diligence of creator. Inablity to have this
hands on thing with computer, does turn off
rather computer unsavvy art community. It will
come.
Truth is they will try to pull it off, as long .iso files, on the net.
/usr /opt /var /home /tmp ?
./ crew putting
as possible. They can sell support for each work
station, so your users will call their helpdesk
instead of having fulltime help person in the
place. One person can be fixing everything and
for 10.000 a year you can support facility of...
oh 1000 machines. Now that would require a few
staff and that would be at least 40K each. I don't
see how they can stop copying of stuff, but
I see if they visit facility hand dozen disks,
and do round sum for the support of entire building.
However SuSE does already sells only packaged
CDs and never distributes
They sprinkle few packages in that are commercial
and so you will be locked into not copying isos
because that would violate licence of commercial
bits spread thru cds. You will have to rebuild
iso, after removing commercial bits, but I wonder
if installer would operate properly.
Thats why I use mandrake, for simplicity, and
relative superriority to most RH distros(didn't
try7.1 yet) but if there was a call for corporate
linux, i would say Mandrake because it is very
simple and very linuxish - complies to most
standarts, comes with all software that you can
sanely run on your system.
Anyway back to beginning, if caldera does
predatory business practices, ala MS, ala any
old fashioned business, good for them. It just as
easy to install new distro if you partitioned
your drive well -
What I really suspect, is that
their spin on things. Company makes money @ linux,
good. They are bunch of bastards, well, we use
the net make it public, and no one buys shit from
them because they are slimeballs. There has not
been a hard proof of that, beside the fact that
their distro sucks, fitted with all sorts of
propietary gizmos.
2c
http://www.hcch.net/e/members/members.html
Look ma , russia isn't part of the convention.
Why? DCMA & friends. New laws issued in canada
made it legal to patent collections of data, since
some collections will take time and money to put
together. I see gracenote using these laws,
to hammer people out of business if they don't pay
up. For cripes sake we used their network
resoures, that someone had to pay for. They are
looking for return on investment, however small
that was.
And there no single defined opposing party anyway,
just public, from all over the world. Good for the
player maker to stand on public's side, cuz no
one else will. Free advertisement skeptics will
say. Ay, hell ya.
The earth is flat - here a piece of science that is right, but when? All science is built on
networks of interdependecies, so really something is not alway absolutely right. Now often some information may be used to do something in this world. Even then proof that something is right,
does not describe surrounding ideas such as cellphons vs high freq. radio vs living tissue, so theres always evolution of stuff. Even in basic things, laws are rewritten and adjusted every day.
However when someone has invested into something and the idea is appealing to most people, if theres something that negating usefulness of a thing to people there must be more research which is more costly. Often it means discarding previous previous research competely, because inital assumptions were wrong, so croporatiods start to gripe about their existence and profit margins, so as to keep their jobs justified to investors, or the owner. This has reversal results on the innovation. This is natural to present envirnment, government can however impose restraints and choose to allow only trustworthy companies to deal with universeties in non-intrusive way, like patenting every document in sight of the universety a corporation has sponsored. Definetly it will wash out the large fish with grabby little hands but then longterm it will release future researchers from constraints on public research.
Creative control can be applied as well, like company can have advantage of 1 year over competitors on some products that will derive from research, but no longer than that, and put a lockout clause that will not allow extension of this period.Companies however will not have patents on things in labs. Thats a no-no with current state of patenting system, and precenents surrounding it.
2c thats 3.5cdn
.... and be sued out of existance due to profit loss for telling the truth, because of binding document they have signed. Life is not easy, and allowing for corporations to contominate research in such backhanded way is rather disturbing. I would make universeties allow acceptance and sharing of research results, but no the other way around. It is all smells very microsoftish, where company tries to plant as many legal hooks everywhere, for little cash, so it would make good return on ivestment, and if it does not force it not to be published, and if it is to cut revenue stream threaten the researcher. Plain as that. Thats how american business works, on control and intimidation for the mighty buck.
I would say opensource studies that are going out, without patenting stuff. GPL would be nice.
I think list should announce unilaterally to be
blackholed(not RBL kind) - recieve but not send
out any emails for few days, with announcement for
everyone to cool off, and then continue on. In
fact I think it should be blackholed without
announcement, because that group it seems has
exploded into whirlwind, just like group of small
kinds in a room, just looking for each own intersts disturbing everyone near them, in same space. What parents do in this case? Turn the
light off in the room... =)
Interesting to see that Gnome spawned by GNU crowd
looking to do some GNU damage, in response for
creation of KDE under not so free licence, that
was posed to dominate linux desktop.
Being politically motivated group seems exploding
onto itself(imploding?) with arguing over little
details, when big picture comes to mind as Miguel
pointed out.
Peace man...
People who do not have inherent interest or
.com
qualifying knowlege standing behind them as plus
some logical skills on top are ones who struggle.
Some have more luck than others, but otherwise.
As for old schoolers, we have 2 old timers and
really they are more clueless than ones with 2-5
years of expeience in the field. Old timer status
does not mean that you will do a better job, faster.
I know of quite a few old timers, that have ~20yrs
behind their backs, and I will know that will not
hire then no matter how desperate I get in business, if I have one.
I know really of a handful of people who have
have decent grasp on techologies, and apt to get
job done right and fast. Just because you can sit
in a chair for twenty years, since mainframes were
there does not mean you have inquisitive,
open and flexible mind to find decent solutions
fast.
A rude awakening out of the hyperbole that
was is good thing that it happend now, not later,
so less damage would be done. I have queasy
feeling in my stomach 'bout that tho, wondering if
this has irreversibly damaged computer market,
from healy codition that was in pre-dotcom era...
Threads are hard to program well, agreed.
However if proper locking is done, much
more work can be done without complexities
of forking and dealing with file handles and
other relevant crap. You can do multiplexing
in code, like those mega_case statements in
Win32 C programs, message arrives, you process it,
sometimes you send one somewhere else.
What happens if program is a system where
code has to way for key input from one stream,
while doing active analysis of the other streams
and as well output data onto screen in smooth
way? Latency with each stream will make system
clunky and irresponsive. With multiprocess model,
you will have to double up the plumbing anyway,
and introduce nexus/router/decider - 10 times
more complex than with threads, alas more safe.
It the same case again, maybe it is harder to
prove mathematically that threaded programs are
good, but practically they work better.Its sort
of like try to get mathmatitian to prove that your
irregular sex patterns are 'right' or good for you.
I am sure it will be tough for them, but you
just know its better.
DLL is wrong name for one thing, here made to spite
*NIX jocks. Shared library is proper term.
Anyhow, those who make libraries, know there
are api freezes on major version numbers, and
only internal bugs are fixed on particular
versions. Functionality may be added but not
documented.
Linux has some sort of mechanism of recognising
between different lib*.so.* files, by linker.
I am not expert on the issue, but libc2 and libc1
apps happily coexist on my system.
Now those who do not follow *featureset* freezes
and should be LARTed at that. This means that
GNUCash will suffer some degradation in size of
its userbase, not linux.
Why wouldn't there be a slashdot like
system for bills and all the politians that
put forward that bill. That way there can be quick
statistical analysis of who should really be
replaced, so that they really represent people
who elected them not the corporations who fitted
election campaingn bill, for sake of who they
do write legislations.
I mean just hire for each state a dept of 10 ppl
each so they will place the information on to
computer database, that would probably be web accessible.
Everything will be translated into simple talk
but each person in govenrment that has ability
to change laws will have identification.
As pattern analysis can be done and procorporate
anti-people rights heads can be snapped.
just 2c
Java is rather mediore example laguage since it
was made on compromises, did not take any ideal
to extreme like Smalltalk C, or Effiel did.
Java is opaque language that tries to take
advantages of many little things, and sacrifices
hitting absolute targets perfectly, so it can
cover solving most it problems more or less ok way.
As such it is poor language to teach anything,
but how to be practical in computer world. And so
many universeties forget that they teach computer
science, sacrificing computer science for fads and
corporate funding.
Linux that is a vessel for JVM? Java? Linux in
itself is very capable crossplatform OS. Sticking
something that a corporation owns, into Linux
standart is herecy. java is great tool, however
making it part of specification begs for trouble.
Having Notice how the only definitive software
component of the whole thing is JVM. The rest
exists already, like Nvidia drivers...
Specification is statement of the obvious...
Companies like Lokigames donating SDL and alike
packages thus making their own standarts, being
proactive, rather than formalizing stuff that already exists there.
Such constrains will ultimately tie linux down,
in the future, just like it did Windows.
Windows could not been rewritten, because of the
large set of applications was depending on API
bugs went unfixed for years. Same is to come for
Linux as corporatoids demand higher profits with
less investment, that would be part of these
nonsense political groups swaying enduser crowd.
What made the linux are hackers, donations of
software under GPL, or BSD licences, and clear
documentation if code is not, same goes for *BSD.
In the end these groups will lay things out how
things are ought to be done, and thats bull, cuz
if I do code for my enjoyment, I will not listen
to *no* corporate head, part of the group of
people who like sitting around and telling
everyone what is the right thing to do. I will
just write code.