This important article from 98' is what introduced me to open source. This is when netscape was releasing their source. http://dir.salon.com/21st/feature/1998/04/cov_14 feature.html
How about a textbook!?:
Free Software, Free Society: Selected Essays of Richard M. Stallman
Free as in Freedom: Richard Stallman's Crusade for Free Software
This has got to be the all time lamest slashdot story I have ever seen posted. I don't need to waste my time thinking about bashing AOL install CDs any more then I need to read the install manual for Windows. Cliff, the poster of this story, should be violently fired.
Ian Murdock, of debIan and Progeny fame, had a project called LinuxNOW which causes workstations on the network to share hard drive space as if a single drive, and also share processor cycles as in clustering.
Here is an older article on LinuxNOW. http://www.linuxworld.com/linuxworld/lw -2001-03/lw -03-murdock.html
A proposal I am working on replaces email and saved the problem of spam. Rather then sending emails to user@server, everyone is just a 1024bit PGP key. That is your identity. Then the program just runs a distributed search over its locatation P2P network to find the user. A secure connection is established for all transactions. Im looking for more conceptual people to assit in the launching of this idea.
We are still forced to use the AOL server, which limits us to the features they provide. And ICQ didn't come out of nullsoft, though I can see how one might mistake the software as from the same makers. BUT Gnutella DID come out of nullsoft, which is the p2p software I am recommending to be transformed from a file location program to a user location program.
Since AOL holds an IM monopoly because they own the centralized server, how about creating a decentralized IM network.
This would work over the Gnutella protocol, and the decententralized searches would be user location requests with the user being a Public PGP key. The user then simply responds with the answer to the PGP key request, and whala! the identity has been verified and a connection can commence for Instant Messaging,video, whatever!
It is called Market Segmentation, and another example is when products first hit the market, there is always that group of people who are willing to pay top prices because something is new... despite that it will cost way less in just a couple of weeks.
"Yes, but I can bet that an application like Nautilus is necessary if you ever want to have a decent market share on the desktop . By decent I mean 10% or more. "
I agree with you that it is an important application for linux to ever become a large player in the desktop market share. What is interesting, is that there is only 1 person doing this work who doesn't even used Gnome as a window manager because as a hacker he says he uses emacs and terminal. He has one other person helping him. So basically, what does that say about OpenSource?
"Yes, but I can bet that an application like Nautilus is necessary if you ever want to have a decent market share on the desktop . By decent I mean 10% or more. "
I agree with you that it is an important application for linux to ever become a large player in the desktop market share. What is interesting, is that there is only 1 person doing this work who doesn't even used Gnome as a window manager because as a hacker he says he uses emacs and terminal. He has one other person helping him. So basically, what does that say about OpenSource?
If OGG takes twice the amount of processor time to decode, couldn't it still be possible but with just 6 hours play time instead of 12?
Why is it that they can support WMA and not OGG then? Doesn't WMA also take twice the amount to decode? Arn't WMA and OGG comparable formats as far as size and quality, and WMA simply is controlled by Microsoft?
How is it possible for Microsoft to get WMA on all these devices, but the open source version OGG, you say can not be handled? Doesn't make any sense. Who do you work for?
If I have a plate of spagetti, and you take my spagetti, then I don't have any spagetti anymore. With software it is different. You can copy it and copy it and copy it.
What do you think you are going to acheive? Why do you need to acheive it? Why not create your own education rather then conforming to a system?
Out educational system is like making books only based upon all the other books already written in the library.
Be creative.
P.S. - there are far more valuable things you can do for your career then go to college. College won't hurt, but it may just be a tremendous waste of time.
What about a different kind of abuse, like AOL's grip on their instant messaging database of users and the subsequent monopoly. This is because of the routing! All requests have to get routed to a central server. Things would be different if we had a decentralized user location system, which these new routing tables are bringing!
> I thought the Internet was already decentralized, so I'm curious about what exactly they're fixing.
The DNS is what they are decentralizing, among other things. If someone takes out the root domain server, the internet would be pretty screwed right now. If we had an easy system for routing information that wasn't based on DNS, it would change a lot of systems. Web Sites, Email accounts, Instant Messaging, are all dependent on DNS. If this project works, we may be able to say goodbye to AOL's monopoly on IM.
"I personally prefer a universe that will collapse in on itself and then re-Big Bang so to speak, circle of life on a grand scale."
Actually, as Steven Hawkins explains, a universe with matter spread infinitely flat in every direction...with nothing else relative to it (since that would be in the known universe too)... is mathematically and relatively exactly equal to a infinite point (from which the big bang starts!)
Maybe someone can provide the exact quote of this theory. Thanks.
Overcoming the acheivement of money is the same as fullfilling our survival need, its just a higher level need. But what happens after those needs are fulfilled, and then the needs after that, and then maybe all of them ? Once results have been acheived, then we can start to understand the causes.
"The practical study of concentration opens to us the world not only of results, but also of causes, and lifts us beyond the slavery of uncontrolled feelings and thoughts." - Mouni Sadhu
"What is needed, rather than running away or controlling or suppressing or any other resistance, is understanding fear; that means, watch it, learn about it, come directly into contact with it. We are to learn about fear, not how to escape from it." - Krishnamurti
"When all the units of mankind are finally Awakened, will the values of the subject-object consciousness be abanoned in every sense?" - Franklin Merrell-Wolff
Well, maybe wrong is a little harsh. This is all opinion. I'd strongly say that the reason why though is that they don't want companies or people writing their own instructions on the ROM. After all, they strongly support PALM OS, and they wouldn't want to make it easier for people to migrate to other software.
No one must know about it. Yeemp is a decentralized encrypted messaging system, intended to fulfill the same functions as things like Jabber, ICQ, and AIM.
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Here is a nice open source timeline:
http://www.linuxcertification.com/manpage/timel
The history of the open source initiative:
http://www.opensource.org/docs/history.html
Richard Stallman - 15 Years of Freedom
- 03-17-003-10-NW-LF
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http://linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=1999
This important article from 98' is what introduced me to open source. This is when netscape was releasing their source.
http://dir.salon.com/21st/feature/1998/04/cov_1
How about a textbook!?:
Free Software, Free Society: Selected Essays of Richard M. Stallman
Free as in Freedom: Richard Stallman's Crusade for Free Software
This has got to be the all time lamest slashdot story I have ever seen posted. I don't need to waste my time thinking about bashing AOL install CDs any more then I need to read the install manual for Windows. Cliff, the poster of this story, should be violently fired.
"Debian-Installer is an actively developed replacement for the older and now rather delapidated boot-floppies installer."
correct spelling:
dilapidated
Ian Murdock, of debIan and Progeny fame, had a project called LinuxNOW which causes workstations on the network to share hard drive space as if a single drive, and also share processor cycles as in clustering.
w -2001-03/lw -03-murdock.html
Here is an older article on LinuxNOW.
http://www.linuxworld.com/linuxworld/l
A proposal I am working on replaces email and saved the problem of spam. Rather then sending emails to user@server, everyone is just a 1024bit PGP key. That is your identity. Then the program just runs a distributed search over its locatation P2P network to find the user. A secure connection is established for all transactions. Im looking for more conceptual people to assit in the launching of this idea.
-Steve
I call it a cell phone.
Hey gcondon!
Can you recommend and books on Memes?
This is in reference to your comment to Dan Gillmor.
Thanks,
Shwag
first post
We are still forced to use the AOL server, which limits us to the features they provide. And ICQ didn't come out of nullsoft, though I can see how one might mistake the software as from the same makers. BUT Gnutella DID come out of nullsoft, which is the p2p software I am recommending to be transformed from a file location program to a user location program.
Since AOL holds an IM monopoly because they own the centralized server, how about creating a decentralized IM network.
This would work over the Gnutella protocol, and the decententralized searches would be user location requests with the user being a Public PGP key. The user then simply responds with the answer to the PGP key request, and whala! the identity has been verified and a connection can commence for Instant Messaging,video, whatever!
It is called Market Segmentation, and another example is when products first hit the market, there is always that group of people who are willing to pay top prices because something is new ... despite that it will cost way less in just a couple of weeks.
"Yes, but I can bet that an application like Nautilus is necessary if you ever want to have a decent market share on the desktop . By decent I mean 10% or more. "
I agree with you that it is an important application for linux to ever become a large player in the desktop market share. What is interesting, is that there is only 1 person doing this work who doesn't even used Gnome as a window manager because as a hacker he says he uses emacs and terminal. He has one other person helping him. So basically, what does that say about OpenSource?
"Yes, but I can bet that an application like Nautilus is necessary if you ever want to have a decent market share on the desktop . By decent I mean 10% or more. "
I agree with you that it is an important application for linux to ever become a large player in the desktop market share. What is interesting, is that there is only 1 person doing this work who doesn't even used Gnome as a window manager because as a hacker he says he uses emacs and terminal. He has one other person helping him. So basically, what does that say about OpenSource?
If OGG takes twice the amount of processor time to decode, couldn't it still be possible but with just 6 hours play time instead of 12?
Why is it that they can support WMA and not OGG then? Doesn't WMA also take twice the amount to decode? Arn't WMA and OGG comparable formats as far as size and quality, and WMA simply is controlled by Microsoft?
How is it possible for Microsoft to get WMA on all these devices, but the open source version OGG, you say can not be handled? Doesn't make any sense. Who do you work for?
$70-$85!!! With ticket prices that high, who do they expect to show up!?! Microsoft!?!
If I have a plate of spagetti, and you take my spagetti, then I don't have any spagetti anymore. With software it is different. You can copy it and copy it and copy it.
Voice your opinion for editor moderation reform!
What do you think you are going to acheive? Why do you need to acheive it? Why not create your own education rather then conforming to a system?
Out educational system is like making books only based upon all the other books already written in the library.
Be creative.
P.S. - there are far more valuable things you can do for your career then go to college. College won't hurt, but it may just be a tremendous waste of time.
What about a different kind of abuse, like AOL's grip on their instant messaging database of users and the subsequent monopoly. This is because of the routing! All requests have to get routed to a central server. Things would be different if we had a decentralized user location system, which these new routing tables are bringing!
Imaging using gnutella to search for People and Web sites, rather then just files (pr0n).
> I thought the Internet was already decentralized, so I'm curious about what exactly they're fixing.
The DNS is what they are decentralizing, among other things. If someone takes out the root domain server, the internet would be pretty screwed right now. If we had an easy system for routing information that wasn't based on DNS, it would change a lot of systems. Web Sites, Email accounts, Instant Messaging, are all dependent on DNS. If this project works, we may be able to say goodbye to AOL's monopoly on IM.
Who needs a tag line anyways!
"I personally prefer a universe that will collapse in on itself and then re-Big Bang so to speak, circle of life on a grand scale."
...with nothing else relative to it (since that would be in the known universe too) ... is mathematically and relatively exactly equal to a infinite point (from which the big bang starts!)
Actually, as Steven Hawkins explains, a universe with matter spread infinitely flat in every direction
Maybe someone can provide the exact quote of this theory. Thanks.
more on Franklin Merrell-Wolff
http://www.integralscience.org/gsc/
Overcoming the acheivement of money is the same as fullfilling our survival need, its just a higher level need. But what happens after those needs are fulfilled, and then the needs after that, and then maybe all of them ? Once results have been acheived, then we can start to understand the causes.
"The practical study of concentration opens to us the world not only of results, but also of causes, and lifts us beyond the slavery of uncontrolled feelings and thoughts." - Mouni Sadhu
"What is needed, rather than running away or controlling or suppressing or any other resistance, is understanding fear; that means, watch it, learn about it, come directly into contact with it. We are to learn about fear, not how to escape from it." - Krishnamurti
"When all the units of mankind are finally Awakened, will the values of the subject-object consciousness be abanoned in every sense?" - Franklin Merrell-Wolff
Well, maybe wrong is a little harsh. This is all opinion. I'd strongly say that the reason why though is that they don't want companies or people writing their own instructions on the ROM. After all, they strongly support PALM OS, and they wouldn't want to make it easier for people to migrate to other software.
HOW COME NO ONE MENTIONED YeempEMP !?!?
No one must know about it. Yeemp is a decentralized encrypted messaging system, intended to fulfill the same functions as things like Jabber, ICQ, and AIM.
http://deekoo.net/technocracy/yeempemp/