I do RAID on Linux all the time, and I've never had problems with kernel versions causing incompatibility, or system flakiness. What kind of RAID are you using?
Eventually I managed to order one during a 6 minute period when it was in stock at Toys"R"Us. It was a bundle, but bundled with 2 games I was planning to get anyway.
Other than the console, Wii hardware seems to be available now. I picked up a spare remote and nunchuck at Target the other day.
Oh, and while you're waiting, skim Craiglist every day and flag the fucking scalpers.
So what? The full GNOME desktop environment, as released by the GNOME project, includes Tomboy and hence requires Mono. Therefore, Mono is a part of a working GNOME desktop environment.
I just hope they've done some of the important stuff too, like fixing multiprocessor multithreading and fixing RPM so it doesn't crap all over its own databases every now and again.
Actually, I'm even a little sympathetic to Microsoft over Java. Not over the proprietary extensions, but over the fact that Windows doesn't support Java out of the box. After the lawsuit over the language extensions was settled, Sun basically told Microsoft "You must ship our Sun-branded Java runtime with Windows, or nothing". Microsoft quite reasonably chose the latter option. Sun then tried to sue Microsoft to force them to ship Java, but that lawsuit went nowhere as far as I know, and quite right too.
It would be a better world if Microsoft and Sun had been able to come to an agreement, like Apple apparently did with Sun. It would also have been nice if Sun could have worked with the Linux community better; then we could have had Java applications deployable pretty much anywhere.
Sadly, Sun used to be pretty much uninterested in supporting any platform except Solaris. I think Sun got caught up in their own hype, and thought every OS platform would have to do the work and ship Java just to be competitive.
But I'm hopeful that the Linux situation will improve once the full JRE is released under the GPL. The tools already exist to let you run.jar binaries just like any other binary, they just need to be integrated properly into the various distributions. I'd love to see Kubuntu ship with Java integrated and working.
What's really ironic is that Sony has made the most open console, and no one seems to want to mention this. If it weren't so expensive, we'd see an incredible surge of hack activity on the product. With a free and fairly good linux distro already available, the sky is really the limit.
No, the crippling of the Linux distribution is the limit. Sony don't actually allow Linux to access all the PS3 hardware.
Anyway, a cutting edge CPU and a BR drive for $600 is a good price.
Only if you actually want a Bluray player.
Sure, you could pay $300 for a console now, and then $300 for an HD player in 2 years, but why bother?
Most people who lack TVs bigger than 40" or so literally can't see the improvement from Bluray versus a DVD player with a good (e.g. Faroudja) scaler. So why bother with Bluray at all?
And in most countries other than the US, region-free DVD is the norm. Why switch to a format with region protection?
The other thing that's interesting about Netscape vs Microsoft is that Netscape tried to play Microsoft's game: they ignored pre-existing web standards and implemented their own proprietary crap. (Specific examples: they failed to implement standard HTML tables and invented their own attributes; they ignored CSS completely and invented something they called JavaScript style sheets, and then when JSSS failed to take off they kludged together a translation layer in NS4 that converted CSS to JSSS under the hood, and completely failed to work if you had JavaScript turned off.)
Netscape also tried to tie their browser to their server products via browser sniffing. That's one of the big reasons why IE reported "Mozilla" in its browser string--at the time, there were Netscape server products that would break if they didn't see that.
Microsoft, in contrast, started to support open standards. IE on the Mac was not only a much better browser than Netscape, it also supported web standards better. When the Mac IE team were found to have added the marquee tag and were criticized, they actually apologized and didn't add any new stuff. And IE on Windows supported CSS better than Netscape 4. Microsoft also got involved with web standards like P3P.
Of course, all this came to a screeching halt once IE became dominant in the marketplace and Microsoft no longer needed to compete.
...if a label feels that it needs to sell something in Fooistan for US3 that sells for US$18 in the United States, because that's what the market bears and that's how they've chosen to price it - which is their right - without some of the controls of DRM, how can the $3 version be restricted to Fooistan?
That's not a bug, it's a feature. The same corporations told us globalization was a great thing when they were outsourcing our jobs to Fooistan. Well, now we can outsource our purchases to Fooistan too, that's a great thing as well, right?
Wikipedia is already a search engine, because the no original content rule means that it doesn't contain anything that isn't summarized from somewhere else, usually somewhere on the web.
But I just revised my profile in line with Jimbo's decision that it didn't matter to lie about credentials! Now all my work inventing a fake history for myself is going to be useless?
Think how quickly WINE would gain compatibility with legacy Windows applications if Microsoft put their resources behind it--implemented their secret APIs, implemented the stuff the WINE folks don't dare touch for IP reasons.
Later this year, you'll be able to pay $600 to play something that's like Second Life with HD advertising, but without the ability to create your own stuff.
Imagine there is this guy whose online curriculum says is a M.S. in Computer Science, Java Certified and whatnot [...] Canonical decides to hire him, just to discover that he is really only an undergraduated in C.S. Canonical hires him anyway.
Three questions: 1) Would it be the wrong decision?
Of course it bloody would. You don't hire someone who lies on their CV, unless you're an idiot or looking to hire crooks.
That was the exact model of electronics kit I had as a kid. I remember it as being pretty good. Interested me enough that I went on to study electronics to university level.
There are already differences in usage rights on tracks on the iTunes store. TV shows can't be burned to a disc; music tracks can. Audiobooks can be bookmarked; music tracks can't.
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I do RAID on Linux all the time, and I've never had problems with kernel versions causing incompatibility, or system flakiness. What kind of RAID are you using?
Keep checking http://www.xpbargains.com/wii_locator.php
Eventually I managed to order one during a 6 minute period when it was in stock at Toys"R"Us. It was a bundle, but bundled with 2 games I was planning to get anyway.
Other than the console, Wii hardware seems to be available now. I picked up a spare remote and nunchuck at Target the other day.
Oh, and while you're waiting, skim Craiglist every day and flag the fucking scalpers.
So what? The full GNOME desktop environment, as released by the GNOME project, includes Tomboy and hence requires Mono. Therefore, Mono is a part of a working GNOME desktop environment.
# apt-cache depends tomboy tomboy Depends: mono-runtimeThe fact that you can hack bits out of the full GNOME release and have it still work isn't good enough, which is why I've switched back to KDE.
I don't care if they add XGL as a bonus.
I just hope they've done some of the important stuff too, like fixing multiprocessor multithreading and fixing RPM so it doesn't crap all over its own databases every now and again.
[Opinions mine, not IBM's.]
...removed Mono from it? Or is technology known to be covered by Microsoft patents still part of the GNOME desktop?
Actually, I'm even a little sympathetic to Microsoft over Java. Not over the proprietary extensions, but over the fact that Windows doesn't support Java out of the box. After the lawsuit over the language extensions was settled, Sun basically told Microsoft "You must ship our Sun-branded Java runtime with Windows, or nothing". Microsoft quite reasonably chose the latter option. Sun then tried to sue Microsoft to force them to ship Java, but that lawsuit went nowhere as far as I know, and quite right too.
.jar binaries just like any other binary, they just need to be integrated properly into the various distributions. I'd love to see Kubuntu ship with Java integrated and working.
It would be a better world if Microsoft and Sun had been able to come to an agreement, like Apple apparently did with Sun. It would also have been nice if Sun could have worked with the Linux community better; then we could have had Java applications deployable pretty much anywhere.
Sadly, Sun used to be pretty much uninterested in supporting any platform except Solaris. I think Sun got caught up in their own hype, and thought every OS platform would have to do the work and ship Java just to be competitive.
But I'm hopeful that the Linux situation will improve once the full JRE is released under the GPL. The tools already exist to let you run
No, the crippling of the Linux distribution is the limit. Sony don't actually allow Linux to access all the PS3 hardware.
Only if you actually want a Bluray player.
Most people who lack TVs bigger than 40" or so literally can't see the improvement from Bluray versus a DVD player with a good (e.g. Faroudja) scaler. So why bother with Bluray at all?
And in most countries other than the US, region-free DVD is the norm. Why switch to a format with region protection?
The other thing that's interesting about Netscape vs Microsoft is that Netscape tried to play Microsoft's game: they ignored pre-existing web standards and implemented their own proprietary crap. (Specific examples: they failed to implement standard HTML tables and invented their own attributes; they ignored CSS completely and invented something they called JavaScript style sheets, and then when JSSS failed to take off they kludged together a translation layer in NS4 that converted CSS to JSSS under the hood, and completely failed to work if you had JavaScript turned off.)
Netscape also tried to tie their browser to their server products via browser sniffing. That's one of the big reasons why IE reported "Mozilla" in its browser string--at the time, there were Netscape server products that would break if they didn't see that.
Microsoft, in contrast, started to support open standards. IE on the Mac was not only a much better browser than Netscape, it also supported web standards better. When the Mac IE team were found to have added the marquee tag and were criticized, they actually apologized and didn't add any new stuff. And IE on Windows supported CSS better than Netscape 4. Microsoft also got involved with web standards like P3P.
Of course, all this came to a screeching halt once IE became dominant in the marketplace and Microsoft no longer needed to compete.
Oh, now you're just flogging a dead horse.
That's not a bug, it's a feature. The same corporations told us globalization was a great thing when they were outsourcing our jobs to Fooistan. Well, now we can outsource our purchases to Fooistan too, that's a great thing as well, right?
"How to Surf Anonymously without a Trace"
As opposed to how to surf anonymously while being traceable?
Yeah, CookieSafe makes cookies work the way they should do. It ought to be standard.
Wikipedia is already a search engine, because the no original content rule means that it doesn't contain anything that isn't summarized from somewhere else, usually somewhere on the web.
But I just revised my profile in line with Jimbo's decision that it didn't matter to lie about credentials! Now all my work inventing a fake history for myself is going to be useless?
Think how quickly WINE would gain compatibility with legacy Windows applications if Microsoft put their resources behind it--implemented their secret APIs, implemented the stuff the WINE folks don't dare touch for IP reasons.
What do you mean "our pubic lice"?
This is Slashdot, most of us haven't had the opportunity to get public lice, you insensitive clod!
Later this year, you'll be able to pay $600 to play something that's like Second Life with HD advertising, but without the ability to create your own stuff.
And this is going to sell systems how, exactly?
Why not? Linux does. Check syslog.
Of course it bloody would. You don't hire someone who lies on their CV, unless you're an idiot or looking to hire crooks.
No, it means you would expect them to have the same usage capabilities and user interface.
Oh, come off it. Both are audio recordings. I have music that's 4 hours long, one continuous performance.
Really, the mental gymnastics some people will go through to try and rationalize Apple's clinging to DRM are quite remarkable.
That was the exact model of electronics kit I had as a kid. I remember it as being pretty good. Interested me enough that I went on to study electronics to university level.
Audiobooks and music are NOT, however, entirely different things. But Apple gives you different usage rights to the two.
Nice try though.
There are already differences in usage rights on tracks on the iTunes store. TV shows can't be burned to a disc; music tracks can. Audiobooks can be bookmarked; music tracks can't.