Sadly, that's the most realistic thing I've read in this thread. We'll probably see a new/. post in a month describing Microsoft's crackdown on the Mexican school system. And right or wrong, Microsoft has to hate the negative publicity they'll get for cracking down on the poor Mexican schoolchildren (but not as much as they love money, so you know they'll go for it.)
Check out his links at the bottom, specifically how he built his engine He didn't build the engine to cool beer, he did it just for the hack; just because he could. IMHO, this is even better.
Not that the beer page wasn't funny or anything...
Well, maybe it's just me (or my RedHat 7.1 install) but when I finally decided to give Ximian GNOME another go I had nothing but problems.
First, the freshly-installed Ximian Red Carpet installer hung whenever I selected an unsubscribed channel. It would say "Receiving channel data..." or something like that and do nothing for many minutes. I finally installed a Red Carpet RPM that I grabbed via ftp and was then able to use Red Carpet to get Evolution Beta 0.11.
Now in Evolution Beta 0.11, with "Leave Mail on Server" and "Check for new mail every 1 minute" options set, it pulls the same mail off my server every minute. I didn't notice until I had ten copies of everything.
Finally, I tried sending mail. No matter what I select for authentication options (authentication required or not, authentication method=password/CRAM-MD5/DIGEST-MD5/NT Server) Evolution tells me my server doesn't support authentication type PLAIN.
What's up with that? Is anyone getting this to work? Seems like alpha software to me. Right in line with Taco's recent rant about Linux usability, I guess. I suppose I'll try the MonkeyTalk or Bug Buddy thing next...
I think we know all too well that Microsoft would never use their hardware information database in a user-benevolent fashion. They would use it to increase their profits (like most corporations would, btw).
But couldn't an OS like Linux or FreeBSD really benefit from this kind of hardware tracking? Think about focusing development efforts on mainstream hardware.
...I'd hate to see is a little popup window that says "Compare to Illustrator!" like the packaging violators on many private-label consumer products. You know, like the "Our Home" dental floss that says "Compare to Glide!" or the store-brand vitamins that say "Compare to Centrum!"
So I wonder (not having read the article, flame if you must) how often these 14,000 residents will have to deal with reduced power due to refrigerated nitrogen problems. What fraction of full power do you figure the unrefrigerated cables can carry? Complicated feats of engineering often precede complicated problems.
And have you seen it? Half the stuff looks as well-engineered as a carnival ride. And that pod is awfully small-looking. He better bring a sweater.
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You forget the Moore's law part of the equation. If CPRM is implememted, technology will eventually force you to upgrade to CPRM... unless, of course you want to do your computing on old technology. It might be like using a '386 today.
Saying you'll never buy a CPRM HD is similar to the "no one will ever need more than 640k" mentality.
Well, I imagine this alien could find work as a housekeeper or gardener while trying to acquire a green card. In the end I'm sure some slashdotter would offer to marry the alien, easing the naturalization process.
Ooh, then on the census form the alien could check the new "mixed race" box...
This is a Slashdot story in itself. How very like Microsoft to lay the groundwork for exclusion of competitors based on their monopoly, while simultaneously appealing the Justice Department's decision that they have violated the Sherman Anti-trust act.
The problem with buying the boxes is that things are changing so quickly. I thought about buying a new distribution with kernel 2.4, but there aren't any on my store shelves. RedHat 7.0 is supposed to be 2.4-ready, but I haven't seen anything about 2.4 outside of RawHide. And GNOME is progressing towards 1.4 and certainly anti-aliased fonts via XFree86 4.02's render extension--gotta keep up with KDE. Anything I buy now will be obsolete in a few months (like my boxes of RedHat 5.2 and SuSE 6.1).
Is there a distribution that has a *real* update mechanism that will keep you in line with their current release instead of trying to sell you another box? I'd pay for that box, and probably a yearly support fee as well.
Well that's exactly the point. When are game consoles and PC's going to merge? Or better yet, why haven't they yet?
Ok, so there are advantages to having the exact same hardware. The main reason is probably the opportunity for profits that come with keeping your hardware proprietary; you can only buy PS2 accessories/upgrades from Sony, for example. But look what that did for Apple.
You'd think they'd see that video/audio/gaming/telephony apps will trivial for low-cost PC's by the time the PS3 would be ready.
Or do you think there will always be a market for the newest, cutting-edge bells and whistles applied to entertainment?
Yeah. Anyone else editing their modules.conf tonight?
For those of you that haven't been running 2.4.0-test kernels, you might want to check into that bit about needing insmod version 2.4, which you can get (as package modutils) from ftp.kernel.org or hopefully a mirror site. Or compile everything into the kernel if you just can't wait.;)
He seems offended most that 1. one or a few god-like person(s) chose the scores, when in fact they are rather populistically derived
Populistically derived? Vaguely. What percentage of slashdot readership would it take to moderate a post up to the +5 max? Certainly not a majority. And how many moderators went back to the original story looking for new comments after the first day?
And of course he'd want the scores removed. Any newcomer looking for a TMBG interview would assume the scores to be John's. Sometimes we forget that the Internet is bigger than Slashdot.
I first heard TMBG in 1990. I was in college and a friend loaned me a cassette of Flood (Don't tell the RIAA). Although I'm a huge fan now, my initial experience was quite different. I was frankly pissed off that you didn't make any sense. I almost rejected TMBG like a transplant recipient might reject a bad organ (No pun intended, John). But I really liked the music and I kept listening until it made sense... or maybe I just because 'quirky'.
That said, have you felt any pressure to become more mainstream? And if so, is e-music distribution the way to retaining artistic license?
I'm the Anonymous Coward from above. I'm home for lunch and logged in now...:)
Those are good points. I guess I'm thinking more of the newbie Linux users. Power-users and hackers might get into the implementation details, but newbies don't care. And how many times have you heard "The first time a saw a screenshot of [x desktop] I fell in love with it"?
IMHO, ease of use is about the same. If it has a Windows-esqe start button in the lower left corner, many will be happy (and I don't mean this as a troll). Add drag-n-drop and you're cooking with gas.
The speed thing is an issue for me. It affects responsiveness and the "look & feel" suffers.
I totally agree that no one should put up with instability. Well, maybe all the overclockers would...
Sure, RTFM for ipchains. You can do whatever you want. My rulesets leave a couple ports open so I can connect from work. The same ports are closed to anyone with a different IP address.
should drop any TCP SYN packets coming from 'outside' your box. As I understand it the SYN packets are the ones that request a connection, so response data (telnet, www, etc) should get through ok.
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He probably postponed it so he could include some teasers of Episode 2...
A gold ring with the runes on the inside would distinguish LOTR from your basic wedding theme. Like on the RealPlayer trailers...
Sadly, that's the most realistic thing I've read in this thread. We'll probably see a new /. post in a month describing Microsoft's crackdown on the Mexican school system. And right or wrong, Microsoft has to hate the negative publicity they'll get for cracking down on the poor Mexican schoolchildren (but not as much as they love money, so you know they'll go for it.)
Check out his links at the bottom, specifically how he built his engine He didn't build the engine to cool beer, he did it just for the hack; just because he could. IMHO, this is even better.
Not that the beer page wasn't funny or anything...
Well, maybe it's just me (or my RedHat 7.1 install) but when I finally decided to give Ximian GNOME another go I had nothing but problems.
First, the freshly-installed Ximian Red Carpet installer hung whenever I selected an unsubscribed channel. It would say "Receiving channel data..." or something like that and do nothing for many minutes. I finally installed a Red Carpet RPM that I grabbed via ftp and was then able to use Red Carpet to get Evolution Beta 0.11.
Now in Evolution Beta 0.11, with "Leave Mail on Server" and "Check for new mail every 1 minute" options set, it pulls the same mail off my server every minute. I didn't notice until I had ten copies of everything.
Finally, I tried sending mail. No matter what I select for authentication options (authentication required or not, authentication method=password/CRAM-MD5/DIGEST-MD5/NT Server) Evolution tells me my server doesn't support authentication type PLAIN.
What's up with that? Is anyone getting this to work? Seems like alpha software to me. Right in line with Taco's recent rant about Linux usability, I guess. I suppose I'll try the MonkeyTalk or Bug Buddy thing next...
I think we know all too well that Microsoft would never use their hardware information database in a user-benevolent fashion. They would use it to increase their profits (like most corporations would, btw).
But couldn't an OS like Linux or FreeBSD really benefit from this kind of hardware tracking? Think about focusing development efforts on mainstream hardware.
Or does something like this exist?
...I'd hate to see is a little popup window that says "Compare to Illustrator!" like the packaging violators on many private-label consumer products. You know, like the "Our Home" dental floss that says "Compare to Glide!" or the store-brand vitamins that say "Compare to Centrum!"
Though it's so crazy it just might work...
So I wonder (not having read the article, flame if you must) how often these 14,000 residents will have to deal with reduced power due to refrigerated nitrogen problems. What fraction of full power do you figure the unrefrigerated cables can carry? Complicated feats of engineering often precede complicated problems.
And have you seen it? Half the stuff looks as well-engineered as a carnival ride. And that pod is awfully small-looking. He better bring a sweater.
You forget the Moore's law part of the equation. If CPRM is implememted, technology will eventually force you to upgrade to CPRM... unless, of course you want to do your computing on old technology. It might be like using a '386 today.
Saying you'll never buy a CPRM HD is similar to the "no one will ever need more than 640k" mentality.
Well, I imagine this alien could find work as a housekeeper or gardener while trying to acquire a green card. In the end I'm sure some slashdotter would offer to marry the alien, easing the naturalization process.
Ooh, then on the census form the alien could check the new "mixed race" box...
This is a Slashdot story in itself. How very like Microsoft to lay the groundwork for exclusion of competitors based on their monopoly, while simultaneously appealing the Justice Department's decision that they have violated the Sherman Anti-trust act.
"per square centimeter of surface area"
Perhaps the read/write mechanism requires six feet of unconventionally moving parts stacked on this credit-card sized device.
Hard to fit in your wallet...
The problem with buying the boxes is that things are changing so quickly. I thought about buying a new distribution with kernel 2.4, but there aren't any on my store shelves. RedHat 7.0 is supposed to be 2.4-ready, but I haven't seen anything about 2.4 outside of RawHide. And GNOME is progressing towards 1.4 and certainly anti-aliased fonts via XFree86 4.02's render extension--gotta keep up with KDE. Anything I buy now will be obsolete in a few months (like my boxes of RedHat 5.2 and SuSE 6.1).
Is there a distribution that has a *real* update mechanism that will keep you in line with their current release instead of trying to sell you another box? I'd pay for that box, and probably a yearly support fee as well.
Well that's exactly the point. When are game consoles and PC's going to merge? Or better yet, why haven't they yet?
Ok, so there are advantages to having the exact same hardware. The main reason is probably the opportunity for profits that come with keeping your hardware proprietary; you can only buy PS2 accessories/upgrades from Sony, for example. But look what that did for Apple.
You'd think they'd see that video/audio/gaming/telephony apps will trivial for low-cost PC's by the time the PS3 would be ready.
Or do you think there will always be a market for the newest, cutting-edge bells and whistles applied to entertainment?
So why would he redirect the slashdotting to MS? Wouldn't he want the /. to go to, say, Netscape?
The really funny part is that his stuff would look just as good in Lynx.
Yeah. Anyone else editing their modules.conf tonight?
;)
For those of you that haven't been running 2.4.0-test kernels, you might want to check into that bit about needing insmod version 2.4, which you can get (as package modutils) from ftp.kernel.org or hopefully a mirror site. Or compile everything into the kernel if you just can't wait.
He seems offended most that 1. one or a few god-like person(s) chose the scores, when in fact they are rather populistically derived
Populistically derived? Vaguely. What percentage of slashdot readership would it take to moderate a post up to the +5 max? Certainly not a majority. And how many moderators went back to the original story looking for new comments after the first day?
And of course he'd want the scores removed. Any newcomer looking for a TMBG interview would assume the scores to be John's. Sometimes we forget that the Internet is bigger than Slashdot.
I first heard TMBG in 1990. I was in college and a friend loaned me a cassette of Flood (Don't tell the RIAA). Although I'm a huge fan now, my initial experience was quite different. I was frankly pissed off that you didn't make any sense. I almost rejected TMBG like a transplant recipient might reject a bad organ (No pun intended, John). But I really liked the music and I kept listening until it made sense... or maybe I just because 'quirky'.
That said, have you felt any pressure to become more mainstream? And if so, is e-music distribution the way to retaining artistic license?
Anyone care to post a translation?
I'm the Anonymous Coward from above. I'm home for lunch and logged in now... :)
Those are good points. I guess I'm thinking more of the newbie Linux users. Power-users and hackers might get into the implementation details, but newbies don't care. And how many times have you heard "The first time a saw a screenshot of [x desktop] I fell in love with it"?
IMHO, ease of use is about the same. If it has a Windows-esqe start button in the lower left corner, many will be happy (and I don't mean this as a troll). Add drag-n-drop and you're cooking with gas.
The speed thing is an issue for me. It affects responsiveness and the "look & feel" suffers.
I totally agree that no one should put up with instability. Well, maybe all the overclockers would...
Sure, RTFM for ipchains. You can do whatever you want. My rulesets leave a couple ports open so I can connect from work. The same ports are closed to anyone with a different IP address.
#ipchains -I input -p tcp -y -s ! 127.0.0.0/24 -j DENY
should drop any TCP SYN packets coming from 'outside' your box. As I understand it the SYN packets are the ones that request a connection, so response data (telnet, www, etc) should get through ok.
Gibson Research will scan your ports for you.