In my mind while this does raise a slew of new questions, it still amounts to increasing proof of some form of evolution (even if Darwin's exact description of the process doesn't turn out to be all that accurate).
On the funny side, this will be the second time in recent history the right has been upset over hanging chads (from trees this time:)
Sounds like a good project, why don't you write one and GPL it? Make it use GTK or QT for the GUI and OpenGL for the wireframing and previewing and whatnot, and backend it to povray.
Corporations took over the entire Internet long ago. The current crisis is that completely evil corporations with very short-sighted profit motives are beginning to push out the well-rounded corporations that understood how important the Internet's ideals are.
While agree with you in general on the kt333 being a fairly useless upgrade to a kt266a...
1) There is pc2700 cas2.0 ram available, I bought mine over a month ago, and it runs great and reliable in the A7V333 with all the timings tweaked as fast as the BIOS allows.
2) Even though the Athlon only has pc2100's FSB bandwidth, other devices do use the memory. DMA is in heavy use on most PCs for harddrive access - as well as auxillary PCI devices like soundcards. Don't forget the AGP video card can use the extra memory bandwidth as well. Given all of that, I wish I had more ram bandwidth than even the KT333 allows.
I've got lots of experience building PCs, going back over a decade ago to the earliest home computers all the way up to my current athlon, and lots of other hardware and software experience to boot (I'm comfortable with a soldering iron, with C++, and everything inbetween the two) - and I have to say that in my not so humble experience ASUS is a great motherboard brand. You do the community a disservice to push people onto inferior solutions.
All motherboard companies have bad stories out there about support and drivers and whatnot. In the case of the A7V333 (I have one too), there's nothing wrong with it as a KT333 implementation. Really, it's one of the better ones around. The problems that exist are mostly the KT333's fault. If you don't like the KT333, ASUS offers alternative boards with just about every other chipset under the sun to meet your needs.
Actually, in an A7V333 with a Palomino Athlon-XP, the FSB is still 133 Mhz. The ram runs at 166Mhz DDR, hence the 333 moniker, but the ram and the processor's FSB are asynchronous with each other.
Be careful of rupturing electrolytic capacitors (they're the cylinder shaped ones with polarity markings). As a general rule the ugly stuff that blows out of one is highly toxic. If the cap actually blows up next to you, tinfoil shrapnel covered in this toxic goop can lodge into your skin and poison you.
I'm not sure what chemical is in there that's supposed to be so toxic, or how bad the effects of poisoning with it are... an eletronics teacher mentioned it breifly to me over a decade ago.. but I would still be careful.
It should be pretty trivial to wrap unix print clients and servers in an openssl tunnel. The same has been doen before with mail (smtp, pop3, imap, etc) protocols and others, with minimal (in some cases zero) modification to the original client/server source code.
(By the way, can I stick in a flame here against losers who aren't willing to make a controversial post without being an AC? Maybe you're worried about your own karma?)
I don't care about my karma, I have plenty to burn. What I care about is my opinion being supressed. If everyone with a dissenting opinion is modded down as "flamebait", then there's not much discussion going on is there?
I gave my reasons. To me the show *is* worthless. The dialogue and acting *are* terrible. My opinion *is* valid, and it's not flamebait. I do believe people who watch it have poor taste, and that still doesn't make this flamebait.
Bleh I hope you get metamodded to hell and never moderate again. Then again I'm sure there's tons of Buffy-loving metamoderators who will exert their influence instead of being correct and fair.
Now, if my above comment had instead been "BUFFY SUX AZZ" or something, I could see "Flamebait", or maybe even "Troll" (not that there's really much difference) - but I posted an intelligent comment, based on my experience with the subject matter.
I'll re-state it again:
Buffy the Vampire Slayer is a bad sitcom with a dark side. It's extremely repetitive, and the dialogue is repetitive of itself and other shows. They jump from trick device to trick device to make the shows ratings (note especially what was discussed in a Slashdot poll before abou the ever-changing identity of the shygirl-goth-slut-lesbian-witch character).
They play to the same crowd as "Charmed" and anything else that goes toward the pseudo-goth-ish witch/vampire themes. Charmed is even worse than Buffy, but it's buffy that's under the microscope in this article.
Anyways, I'm done venting, proceed to moderate badly with impunity.
I'm sorry, but I don't think Buffy is deserving of any awards. It's not really a very good show - the plots are pretty unoriginal, the dialogue is pretty uninspired, etc, etc..
I'm on the anti-ide side of this argument - I've used some recent ones and they still bug me. And I still have lots of beef with the over-use and over-complication of OO. However, I will point out here that getters and setters are useful. They're there to plan for the future. By taking would could have been public variables and wrapping them in trivial get/set functions, you allow the freedom to change the behviour in the future without breaking the class interface. At some point down the road it might be important for your class (or some inheritor of your class) to return some calculated value in place of the variable.
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I get more good code written in vi than anywhere else. I'm sure lots of programmers are more comfortable in Visual Studio, but then again lots of programmers are only comfortable using Visual Basic too. Personally, I've never liked IDE's at all.
... but more needs to be done. This is an excellent precedent, and I hope it stands the test of time. Religion invades our government in far too many places - could this be the start of a move back towards proper seperate of church and state?
UL is repackaging a distro. It's not all that hard work, relatively speaking. The only things they'll contribute in the way of code will be things on the order of graphical installers. They'll employ a few hackers, but they won't have the budget to do much on that front in the long run.
IBM does make huge, significant contributions to Linux. They employ tons of linux people. They employ kernel hackers. They contribute significant code in all areas, both at the kernel and application level. They back linux publicly on their website, giving it corporate legitimacy. They back it with their basketball/linux commercials, which I'm sure cost a pretty penny to produce.
The bottom line is that IBM is doing right by the community, and by the spirit that made all of this software to come to be. They are giving back, and they are making the Linux model work. They are making their money off of hardware and service, and dumping money into linux (both the kernel and the larger "os" sense).
UL is doing wrong by the community and the spirit of things. They're taking a huge body of work performed by tons of people in the spirit of OSS, and they're repackaging it with a few frills and compatibility gaurantees. That alone is fine, that's basically what RedHat and everyone else does today. The difference is UL's domineering attitude, and their willingness to sacrifice the spirit of the open software just to attempt to make some cash. They may be complying with the written letter of the GPL and other licenses (I would hope), but you can bet that a large percentage of the code authors never envisioned their code being twisted into something like this, and that it makes them feel uneasy at best.
Take your own advice. I can't believe someone with a sig that claims that can't code and have only used linux since '99 is giving me advice. You'll understand some day I hope.
I don't how easy or hard it is to get a mirror from them - but ftp.funet.fi has always been my favorite high speed mirror. It has been the most stable, reliable, and high-speed mirror I've used for downloading various stuff over the past 8 years or so, and they mirror *tons* of useful things on the net.
He's not out to get anyone, and I didn't imply it. He is out to exploit the fruits of others' labor. He is a hollow shell marketing droid, another symptom of the empty american economy, which creates fake wealth out of thin air. I'm putting him down because he and his type are lame and statistically doomed to failure in the long run, not because he poses any direct threat to me.
Oh sure, that would be a good point, if it weren't so fatally flawed. Please elaborate on your use of the word "so". In what context does it really apply here?
Or... perhaps it's not about being established, but just about doing things right. Perhaps Redhat (especially having no hardware) and LNUX just weren't doing it well. IBM is doing a good job so far, they're poised quite well. Sun is more than capable of doing it better than IBM, but they refuse to.
The past and current failures of a handful of companies don't invalidate the idea that software should be commoditized, and that computer companies should make money from hardware/support/maintenance. They may not make the stellar killing that Microsoft made, but then again they probably won't end up being Convicted Criminals either.
He dodged most of the important questions. What little of his views came to light showed that he is just trying to reap (or is it rape) profits off the backs of the open source community. Profit motives have a place in the Linux community, but this isn't the way to do it.
UnitedLinux and Sun are both going the wrong way here. Heed the advice that has been around for years now - Give Away the Software (that means code and binaries, in a usable form), and Sell Hardware, Support, and Maintenance.
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In my mind while this does raise a slew of new questions, it still amounts to increasing proof of some form of evolution (even if Darwin's exact description of the process doesn't turn out to be all that accurate).
On the funny side, this will be the second time in recent history the right has been upset over hanging chads (from trees this time
Sounds like a good project, why don't you write one and GPL it? Make it use GTK or QT for the GUI and OpenGL for the wireframing and previewing and whatnot, and backend it to povray.
Corporations took over the entire Internet long ago. The current crisis is that completely evil corporations with very short-sighted profit motives are beginning to push out the well-rounded corporations that understood how important the Internet's ideals are.
While agree with you in general on the kt333 being a fairly useless upgrade to a kt266a...
1) There is pc2700 cas2.0 ram available, I bought mine over a month ago, and it runs great and reliable in the A7V333 with all the timings tweaked as fast as the BIOS allows.
2) Even though the Athlon only has pc2100's FSB bandwidth, other devices do use the memory. DMA is in heavy use on most PCs for harddrive access - as well as auxillary PCI devices like soundcards. Don't forget the AGP video card can use the extra memory bandwidth as well. Given all of that, I wish I had more ram bandwidth than even the KT333 allows.
I've got lots of experience building PCs, going back over a decade ago to the earliest home computers all the way up to my current athlon, and lots of other hardware and software experience to boot (I'm comfortable with a soldering iron, with C++, and everything inbetween the two) - and I have to say that in my not so humble experience ASUS is a great motherboard brand. You do the community a disservice to push people onto inferior solutions.
All motherboard companies have bad stories out there about support and drivers and whatnot. In the case of the A7V333 (I have one too), there's nothing wrong with it as a KT333 implementation. Really, it's one of the better ones around. The problems that exist are mostly the KT333's fault. If you don't like the KT333, ASUS offers alternative boards with just about every other chipset under the sun to meet your needs.
Actually, in an A7V333 with a Palomino Athlon-XP, the FSB is still 133 Mhz. The ram runs at 166Mhz DDR, hence the 333 moniker, but the ram and the processor's FSB are asynchronous with each other.
Be careful of rupturing electrolytic capacitors (they're the cylinder shaped ones with polarity markings). As a general rule the ugly stuff that blows out of one is highly toxic. If the cap actually blows up next to you, tinfoil shrapnel covered in this toxic goop can lodge into your skin and poison you.
I'm not sure what chemical is in there that's supposed to be so toxic, or how bad the effects of poisoning with it are... an eletronics teacher mentioned it breifly to me over a decade ago.. but I would still be careful.
It should be pretty trivial to wrap unix print clients and servers in an openssl tunnel. The same has been doen before with mail (smtp, pop3, imap, etc) protocols and others, with minimal (in some cases zero) modification to the original client/server source code.
(By the way, can I stick in a flame here against losers who aren't willing to make a controversial post without being an AC? Maybe you're worried about your own karma?)
I don't care about my karma, I have plenty to burn. What I care about is my opinion being supressed. If everyone with a dissenting opinion is modded down as "flamebait", then there's not much discussion going on is there?
I gave my reasons. To me the show *is* worthless. The dialogue and acting *are* terrible. My opinion *is* valid, and it's not flamebait. I do believe people who watch it have poor taste, and that still doesn't make this flamebait.
Mathematics for the Million (ISBN 0-393-31071-X) Even Albert Einstein had good things to say of this book.
FLAMEBAIT???
Bleh I hope you get metamodded to hell and never moderate again. Then again I'm sure there's tons of Buffy-loving metamoderators who will exert their influence instead of being correct and fair.
Now, if my above comment had instead been "BUFFY SUX AZZ" or something, I could see "Flamebait", or maybe even "Troll" (not that there's really much difference) - but I posted an intelligent comment, based on my experience with the subject matter.
I'll re-state it again:
Buffy the Vampire Slayer is a bad sitcom with a dark side. It's extremely repetitive, and the dialogue is repetitive of itself and other shows. They jump from trick device to trick device to make the shows ratings (note especially what was discussed in a Slashdot poll before abou the ever-changing identity of the shygirl-goth-slut-lesbian-witch character).
They play to the same crowd as "Charmed" and anything else that goes toward the pseudo-goth-ish witch/vampire themes. Charmed is even worse than Buffy, but it's buffy that's under the microscope in this article.
Anyways, I'm done venting, proceed to moderate badly with impunity.
Tons, my gf is a huge Buffy fan.
I'm sorry, but I don't think Buffy is deserving of any awards. It's not really a very good show - the plots are pretty unoriginal, the dialogue is pretty uninspired, etc, etc..
It's just another trashy sitcom with a twist.
I'm on the anti-ide side of this argument - I've used some recent ones and they still bug me. And I still have lots of beef with the over-use and over-complication of OO. However, I will point out here that getters and setters are useful. They're there to plan for the future. By taking would could have been public variables and wrapping them in trivial get/set functions, you allow the freedom to change the behviour in the future without breaking the class interface. At some point down the road it might be important for your class (or some inheritor of your class) to return some calculated value in place of the variable.
I get more good code written in vi than anywhere else. I'm sure lots of programmers are more comfortable in Visual Studio, but then again lots of programmers are only comfortable using Visual Basic too. Personally, I've never liked IDE's at all.
I've been an avid hacker and coder on linux for about 9 years now, I think that fairly well qualifies me for having used linux and followed through.
Ok, I'll clear it up for you:
UL is repackaging a distro. It's not all that hard work, relatively speaking. The only things they'll contribute in the way of code will be things on the order of graphical installers. They'll employ a few hackers, but they won't have the budget to do much on that front in the long run.
IBM does make huge, significant contributions to Linux. They employ tons of linux people. They employ kernel hackers. They contribute significant code in all areas, both at the kernel and application level. They back linux publicly on their website, giving it corporate legitimacy. They back it with their basketball/linux commercials, which I'm sure cost a pretty penny to produce.
The bottom line is that IBM is doing right by the community, and by the spirit that made all of this software to come to be. They are giving back, and they are making the Linux model work. They are making their money off of hardware and service, and dumping money into linux (both the kernel and the larger "os" sense).
UL is doing wrong by the community and the spirit of things. They're taking a huge body of work performed by tons of people in the spirit of OSS, and they're repackaging it with a few frills and compatibility gaurantees. That alone is fine, that's basically what RedHat and everyone else does today. The difference is UL's domineering attitude, and their willingness to sacrifice the spirit of the open software just to attempt to make some cash. They may be complying with the written letter of the GPL and other licenses (I would hope), but you can bet that a large percentage of the code authors never envisioned their code being twisted into something like this, and that it makes them feel uneasy at best.
Take your own advice. I can't believe someone with a sig that claims that can't code and have only used linux since '99 is giving me advice. You'll understand some day I hope.
I don't how easy or hard it is to get a mirror from them - but ftp.funet.fi has always been my favorite high speed mirror. It has been the most stable, reliable, and high-speed mirror I've used for downloading various stuff over the past 8 years or so, and they mirror *tons* of useful things on the net.
He's not out to get anyone, and I didn't imply it. He is out to exploit the fruits of others' labor. He is a hollow shell marketing droid, another symptom of the empty american economy, which creates fake wealth out of thin air. I'm putting him down because he and his type are lame and statistically doomed to failure in the long run, not because he poses any direct threat to me.
Oh sure, that would be a good point, if it weren't so fatally flawed. Please elaborate on your use of the word "so". In what context does it really apply here?
Or... perhaps it's not about being established, but just about doing things right. Perhaps Redhat (especially having no hardware) and LNUX just weren't doing it well. IBM is doing a good job so far, they're poised quite well. Sun is more than capable of doing it better than IBM, but they refuse to.
The past and current failures of a handful of companies don't invalidate the idea that software should be commoditized, and that computer companies should make money from hardware/support/maintenance. They may not make the stellar killing that Microsoft made, but then again they probably won't end up being Convicted Criminals either.
Whether he succeeds or not is irrelevant. His *intention* is to to do as I stated.
He dodged most of the important questions. What little of his views came to light showed that he is just trying to reap (or is it rape) profits off the backs of the open source community. Profit motives have a place in the Linux community, but this isn't the way to do it.
UnitedLinux and Sun are both going the wrong way here. Heed the advice that has been around for years now - Give Away the Software (that means code and binaries, in a usable form), and Sell Hardware, Support, and Maintenance.