And if I remember the time sequence right, this is what spawned the idea of the Railgun in Quake2 (including the FX), which introduced most (not all) of the folks here to the idea.
Just a zing on Mozilla's logo, which has gotten them in trouble with whoever owns the Godzilla franchise. If you look at the Windows version of Mozilla 1.3 it now has a plain orange splash screen instead of a firespewing dragon/lizard.
They may have invented the word "Mozilla", but they too have gotten into similar issues as the Firebird naming. It just happened that they pissed off someone with corporate lawyers before instead of a small OSS project.
Asian trademarks aside, what do you think the Mozilla group would have done if a small SQL database had decide to adopt the name MozillaSQL?
If Mozilla is going to keep the new name for its new browser... the least these folks deserve is a little publicity. At the minimum it has gotten the word out enough that folks like myself who pay some attention but not a LOT of attention to OSS will not get the 2 projects confused.
My wife and I went through the same thing a little over a year ago looking for rings (in fact, our anniversary is Monday... we're getting her a motorcycle so we can ride together... screw "paper anniversary", this is our "v-twin anniversary"). This is something I've spent alot of time on a year ago, and we are very happy with the results, so this is one in-depth posting:)
We found a number of custom jewelers online and emailed/phoned a few of them to get a feel for the process. We ended up going with the folks at Tradeshop.com. Ray (the master jeweler) was very easy to work with and tradeshop produced very high quality work. At first I was going to go with another artist who had a better designed website, but we found that in this case the site design was a reverse indicator of quality:) It's not that there's not LOTS of great content on Tradeshop.com... if anything, there's too much... we felt a bit lost on their page the first couple of times... but if you have an hour or two to surf through all the information it is quite amazing!
If you have the time, browse their site and look at their works in progress. There are literally thousands of examples of custom designs on their website. You can also see predesigned Celtic rings at their Celticrings.com for more examples of their detail work, just remember that Tradeshop will do just about any design, not just celtic.
While you can send Ray a few simple sketches and let him go wild (and he does a great job with this), we already knew what we wanted. We were involved in every facet of the design process and he still has our stuff online so here's a quick list of what we did including links to pictures. It's important to realize I'm anal retentive with my graphics (and I wanted to minimize design costs:)... if you don't want to go through all of the steps below, Ray will be perfectly willing to do up your design based on sketches.
NOTE: If you want even more crisp designs, gold is actually a better option (a white gold or low-karat yellow gold will be a bit firmer than 24 karat gold... don't by high karat gold just because it sounds good). We wanted platinum because we tend to beat on jewelry and my wife's engagement ring is platinum with a sapphire and 2 diamonds (the sapphire in my ring matches hers quite well... another benefit to using Tradeshop was they have a great selection of stones and I designed our rings to match her engagament ring while still having a celtic design).
1) I roughly sketched out the design we wanted (zoomorphic cats and triskellions) in a paint program based on some hand drawings and scans
2) I used a vector program to then trace the sketches... the vector format allowed me to export to whatever resolution Ray needed to have to get a crisp design and also allowed me to tweak it for a tattoo later;) I sent Ray a very quick and cheesy 3D rendering of what we were looking for using this black and white design as a bump map. He has a low-res (high res for the web, low res compared to print) version of the design that was touched up a bit (we wanted platinum, so he had to change the line weights a bit to improve the casting process) online here.
It took 2-3 weeks for him to have the time to work on our design and then we went back and forth for a week or two approving tweaks and making tweaks ourselves. Tradeshop has a large number of custom designs on order at any given time and this is a FIFO (first in, first out) process, so make sure you start this process at least 2 months before your wedding. We cut ou
Mine has always had progressive scan, too... yours probably does as well. The problem is most games don't use it and it is enabled on a per-game basis. The only game we have that uses progressive scan is Tekken 4, so we switch to the DTV input on our TV for that (it's weird, our Samsung calls component 480i "DVD" and component 480p "DTV"). We don't see much difference since our TV has a scan doubler, but it does make it somewhat more crisp.
Perhaps this announcement means that Sony will enable progressive scan output on games that use 480i normally. If so, and if your TV has a scan doubler (most screens capable of 480p do), you're likely not going to see any difference, but it will make it easier to remember the input it needs to be switched to. Useful, but not amazing.
The model number on the back of my 18 month old U.S. NTSC PS2 is:
You can get a refurbed / used unit at alot of game stores for $149 (and if you're going to mod a box or add a bigger hard drive, why pay the "new" tax).
Plus, there is an unsubstantiated rumor that the Xbox will be lowere to $149 in the US to match the price drop that just happened in Europe, though it may be awhile before it happens.
Going offtopic... this was in response to my.sig... I think moderators and metamoderators who do a good job are GrrrrREAT! However, after seeing too many people who make claims like "I always mark negative moderations as unfair" (metamoderating) or just plain dumb moderations like a truly informative post getting knocked into score:0 hell, I just don't see it being worthwhile.
Besides, part of my.sig is an invitation -not- to mod me up... my karma is as good as it gets (with no whoring in my past;) and I can't redeem them for anything real, so I would much rather hear back from someone who might agree with me to get their opinion on things. Just as I'd rather hear from someone who -disagrees- with me rather than just get modded down, since otherwise I don't know what they were disagreeing with.
Most times that I get modpoints myself I end up wasting them because any article I have enough interest to read through I end up posting to before I get to the end, thereby invalidating my mod points.
It most likely is missing alot of the TiVo goodness like season passes. However, it also has 2 things that TiVo is missing...
Playing live TV in a smaller window in the guide... handy to be able to actually see what's going on instead of the overlay method TiVo uses.
Picture-in-Picture... you can do this if your tv supports it with a TiVo, but it's the -tv- that does it, meaning folks who use DirecTV combo units (like me) can't do that. Yes, you can record 2 streams at once on the combo TiVo, but not view 2 at once.
Overall, I think I'm much happier with my TiVo, I live for season passes and wishlists, but I can see where this box might make some people (like sports nuts) happier in some ways.
That $200 box is not engineered to look/sound decent in the living room and doesn't have an optical audio or component video output. To get a compact box with the same specs you're going to spend more than $200.
Besides, I don't need a full PC in the living room, but a good game machine that can double as a linux-based Ogg/MP3/MPEG/etc player is quite handy.
I've been heavily considering getting an Xbox for a media player, right now it's a wait-and-see as to which happens first... an Xbox that can run linux (or Evolution X) AND still run on Xbox Live -or- DirecTV getting off their buts and letting me buy their media option on my HDVR2.
Going with the/. model, meta-meta-moderation would be the moderation of a meta-moderation.
This would have to be called a super-moderation or oderation or somesuch.
However, still a very valid idea.
BTW, Sun will not be coming out within the next few (3-6) months. They will be coming out with a dual 2.8 and 3.06 GHz system in the next few (4-6) weeks.
The earliest you'll see an opteron system from Sun will be 6-9 months. Probably more like 10-15 months. And yes, I do know for sure, and yes, that's why I'm anonymous.
Is the patch smart enough to pre-de-re-encode so that you don't have to wait for the next song to be re-encoded before it plays? My server is a dual 1.4GHz P3, so assuming the encoding isn't multi threaded, I suppose I'll always have 1 CPU fairly free from encoding issues. If there is no wait between tracks for encoding, maybe the slimp3 will work good enough.
How is the quality of the re-encoded songs? Do you lose alot coming from Oggs?
SliMP3 would be perfect for me if only it handled Ogg natively. The patch to play Ogg by decoding to.wav and then encoding to MP3 is a bit clunky and seems like it would eat up a lot of CPU. I'm still considering it given it's remote control capability... but -ugh- so close.
I telecommute for Sun... I'm in Colorado but my group is in California. Overall it's pretty easy. I work from home, and I have a separate home office along with a separate desktop machine for work use.
My 2 big hints:
1) Make -sure- you take them up on office visits. 6-8 weeks? It's been over 6 months since I've seen the people in my group. Way too long. Make sure you get in at least once every quarter-year to keep up facial recognition with your peers.
2) Try and get them to either pay for a 2nd phoneline, or an account with someone like AccessLine (www.accessline.com) or both. I have a 2nd line that never rings unless it is work or someone from the phone company. Sun pays for it along with an AccessLine account. AccessLine allows you to schedule your work number (which is not the same as your actual home number, rather it forwards and takes voicemail when you don't answer or after hours) to only ring during office hours. For me it's great, I have my phone on from 9am to 6pm Mountain, which is 8am to 5pm Pacific, putting me on the same basic schedule as my workgroup.
You can probably do with -either- a 2nd line -or- AccessLine, I like having both but it's not mandatory. If you set AccessLine up on your main home phoneline you still will be able to give out your AccessLine number instead of your home phone.
FWIW, Sun has a long-standing behavior of taking extra time to test new hardware, losing the cutting edge in favor of higher stability. "Near future" in this case probably means a year or so away.
The upcoming round of x86 servers that John Loiacano alludes to, which by the definition of "near future" are coming out in the "extremely near future", are definitely not going to be based on the Opteron. It has already been leaked that the servers will be Intel Xeon processors running at least 2.8Ghz speeds.
Just trying to clarify without being too specific:) since this reminds me a lot of the "leaked" specs on the Cobalt RaQ XTR, which about 2 weeks before it was released with Pentium 3 chips, was reported here that it would be using AMD Athlons (mostly because the RaQ 4 and Qube 3 had used AMD K6 chips and someone extrapolated Sun / Cobalt would continue to use AMD chips).
The x86 groups within Sun are relatively processor agnostic. They try to choose the best match for the product's price/performance. Sun currently has various product lines that use both the Intel and AMD x86 processors.
I tried to use BitTorrent for RH9... I never saw more than 20K and usually was stuck down around 5K. I gave up... I'd have happily left it running to serve back up, but it wasn't worth waiting. Someone on my company's VPN mirrored it so I slurped from there.
Is there a way to tell BitTorrent to serve existing files? I'm still willing to serve it up for awhile.
As for the colored ball that is getting so popular, I think I'll build one to monitor my ever fluctuating network connection (my ISP is wireless) just for giggles... much easier than logging into my router to check stats.
Hence the beauty of a caching network-based filesystem like Intermezzo. If it's offline, you use your cache. This requires hard drive space, but gives much more flexibility and still retains the good bits (except for no local space requirements) of other networked filesystem schemes.
I believe NFSv3 supports caching, too, though I don't believe it has the same synchronization abilities as Intermezzo.
I'm about to implement a mobile $HOME at my home... my plan is to use a main server to store the data. I'm plannint to use the Intermezzo fs for my laptops so that they can run connected to the network or not (Intermezzo caches data, so I can take my laptop on the road, continue to work on documents, and when I plug back into my home network it will populate my edits back to the server). For these machines and my linux desktop I'm planning to roam everything in $HOME so that I have a single install of custom fonts, Star Office, mozilla settings, etc.
However, I'm giving up on having a roaming desktop between Windows boxes and my wife's iMac. For those I'm just using Samba / Netatalk to link to the documents and bookmark files but not roaming anything else. It's just not worth the hassle for me to try and make those systems any more portable.
I did consider using the Unison service to do synchronization between Windows and Linux, but I think I'm happier with Intermezzo since I can afford the dedicated partition space on the Linux machines. I really do wish that Intermezzo could support the sharing of individual files, but then it would just be a synchronizer, not a filesystem.
The way I remember it from biology (which is a stretch at this point;), each person interprets the information from the cones and rods differently.
In other words, each picture taken off the optic nerve would be relative to the person who saw it.
We learn to associate a color with the information we get, but one person might see "red" when a cone is active, another might see "red" when a rod is active.
If you could tap into the light coming direclty into the eye, maybe, but that is a hardware mod, not a signal tap, and I don't see it being taken very well.
Maybe if you could create individual filters for each person easily it would work... but really, I don't think I -want- people to have access to what I see:)
It's happened to me, too... in fact, that's why I'm running 1.3... I had 1.2.1 running and one day, close browser, go boom! It trashed my prefs, bookmarks, etc. Luckily, this is just my gaming box, so nothing tragic was at stake. I cleaned it all off and downloaded the latest (1.3 had just been released).
However, to the parent of this thread, I can load that Google News page fine on Win2K and Moz1.3.
As I understood it at the time, if you use free Qt then your program can never be non-GPL (or at least non-free). That is, any work done with free Qt has be free software, which means that even the original developer (who is normally free to fork to a non-free version) can't fork his/her project into a commercial, closed version.
Depends on your interpretation of "original developer"... the person writing code in this case it building on top of the Qt codebase. Therefore in some ways the "original developer" would be Trolltech.
Besides, I agree with one the other respondents, I'm sure Trolltech would happily upgrade you to a commercial license if you wanted to fork a closed branch.
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That's never been the case, even with Cobalt appliances. The Cobalt appliances had -no- hardware support beyond their warranty. If you modified the software, you didn't void the hardware warranty, only your free software support. If you modified the hardware (beyond adding supported PCI cards), then you did void your hardware warranty (they are "appliances" after all, not meant for general purpose modification).
It was unfortunate that we didn't offer hardware service contracts, but for the low-cost appliances it (especially for a start-up company) it was not feasible. The cost of the hardware contracts would have been prohibitive to the customer (more than the cost of the box itself) -or- would have been a loss for us (the manufacturer). We looked at many was of providing this but it just never worked out. Even once we were a part of Sun, Sun came to the same determination. You would be surprised how expensive it is to stock a worldwide hardware service organization, even with commodity components and even when you already have an organization for your high-end systems.
As for the x86 general purpose stuff, yes, we provide separate hardware and software support contracts in addition to the base hardware warranty. If you want to run Debian on an LX50 and still have a Sun hardware service contract, no problem and you don't pay for software service that you don't run.
(For those intimately familiar with Sun's service levels, note that the LX50 doesn't offer Sun's high-end "Metals" programs (Bronze, Silver, Gold, Platinum). Future products may, but to get "Metals" you have to be running both Sun hardware AND software. However, if you're happy with "Hardware Only" and/or "Software Only" support, you can mix and match as you please.)
Before saying how little commitment Sun has to Open Source.
The fact that they (ok, "we") are going to be offering -multiple- Linux distributions coming soon notwisthstanding, all you have to do is look at how much of Solaris already uses Open Source (like Linux) and watch the coming releases to see how much MORE we support Open Source utilities in Solaris in the future.
Sun is one of the largest commercial contributors to the Open Source community and is also a strong supporter of open standards.
Your comment about Linux has some merit, as Sun obviously has more resources working on Solaris. Your comment has no footing in relation to Open Source commitment.
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And if I remember the time sequence right, this is what spawned the idea of the Railgun in Quake2 (including the FX), which introduced most (not all) of the folks here to the idea.
Just a zing on Mozilla's logo, which has gotten them in trouble with whoever owns the Godzilla franchise. If you look at the Windows version of Mozilla 1.3 it now has a plain orange splash screen instead of a firespewing dragon/lizard.
They may have invented the word "Mozilla", but they too have gotten into similar issues as the Firebird naming. It just happened that they pissed off someone with corporate lawyers before instead of a small OSS project.
So the members of this group are "asses"?
... the least these folks deserve is a little publicity. At the minimum it has gotten the word out enough that folks like myself who pay some attention but not a LOT of attention to OSS will not get the 2 projects confused.
Asian trademarks aside, what do you think the Mozilla group would have done if a small SQL database had decide to adopt the name MozillaSQL?
If Mozilla is going to keep the new name for its new browser
First, congrats :)
... we're getting her a motorcycle so we can ride together ... screw "paper anniversary", this is our "v-twin anniversary"). This is something I've spent alot of time on a year ago, and we are very happy with the results, so this is one in-depth posting :)
:) It's not that there's not LOTS of great content on Tradeshop.com ... if anything, there's too much ... we felt a bit lost on their page the first couple of times ... but if you have an hour or two to surf through all the information it is quite amazing!
:) ... if you don't want to go through all of the steps below, Ray will be perfectly willing to do up your design based on sketches.
... don't by high karat gold just because it sounds good). We wanted platinum because we tend to beat on jewelry and my wife's engagement ring is platinum with a sapphire and 2 diamonds (the sapphire in my ring matches hers quite well ... another benefit to using Tradeshop was they have a great selection of stones and I designed our rings to match her engagament ring while still having a celtic design).
... the vector format allowed me to export to whatever resolution Ray needed to have to get a crisp design and also allowed me to tweak it for a tattoo later ;) I sent Ray a very quick and cheesy 3D rendering of what we were looking for using this black and white design as a bump map. He has a low-res (high res for the web, low res compared to print) version of the design that was touched up a bit (we wanted platinum, so he had to change the line weights a bit to improve the casting process) online here.
My wife and I went through the same thing a little over a year ago looking for rings (in fact, our anniversary is Monday
We found a number of custom jewelers online and emailed/phoned a few of them to get a feel for the process. We ended up going with the folks at Tradeshop.com. Ray (the master jeweler) was very easy to work with and tradeshop produced very high quality work. At first I was going to go with another artist who had a better designed website, but we found that in this case the site design was a reverse indicator of quality
If you have the time, browse their site and look at their works in progress. There are literally thousands of examples of custom designs on their website. You can also see predesigned Celtic rings at their Celticrings.com for more examples of their detail work, just remember that Tradeshop will do just about any design, not just celtic.
While you can send Ray a few simple sketches and let him go wild (and he does a great job with this), we already knew what we wanted. We were involved in every facet of the design process and he still has our stuff online so here's a quick list of what we did including links to pictures. It's important to realize I'm anal retentive with my graphics (and I wanted to minimize design costs
NOTE: If you want even more crisp designs, gold is actually a better option (a white gold or low-karat yellow gold will be a bit firmer than 24 karat gold
1) I roughly sketched out the design we wanted (zoomorphic cats and triskellions) in a paint program based on some hand drawings and scans
2) I used a vector program to then trace the sketches
It took 2-3 weeks for him to have the time to work on our design and then we went back and forth for a week or two approving tweaks and making tweaks ourselves. Tradeshop has a large number of custom designs on order at any given time and this is a FIFO (first in, first out) process, so make sure you start this process at least 2 months before your wedding. We cut ou
Ah! So it will have 480p for DVDs -and- games, not just games. That makes more sense.
Mine has always had progressive scan, too ... yours probably does as well. The problem is most games don't use it and it is enabled on a per-game basis. The only game we have that uses progressive scan is Tekken 4, so we switch to the DTV input on our TV for that (it's weird, our Samsung calls component 480i "DVD" and component 480p "DTV"). We don't see much difference since our TV has a scan doubler, but it does make it somewhat more crisp.
Perhaps this announcement means that Sony will enable progressive scan output on games that use 480i normally. If so, and if your TV has a scan doubler (most screens capable of 480p do), you're likely not going to see any difference, but it will make it easier to remember the input it needs to be switched to. Useful, but not amazing.
The model number on the back of my 18 month old U.S. NTSC PS2 is:
SCPH-30001
You can get a refurbed / used unit at alot of game stores for $149 (and if you're going to mod a box or add a bigger hard drive, why pay the "new" tax).
Plus, there is an unsubstantiated rumor that the Xbox will be lowere to $149 in the US to match the price drop that just happened in Europe, though it may be awhile before it happens.
Going offtopic ... this was in response to my .sig ... I think moderators and metamoderators who do a good job are GrrrrREAT! However, after seeing too many people who make claims like "I always mark negative moderations as unfair" (metamoderating) or just plain dumb moderations like a truly informative post getting knocked into score:0 hell, I just don't see it being worthwhile.
.sig is an invitation -not- to mod me up ... my karma is as good as it gets (with no whoring in my past ;) and I can't redeem them for anything real, so I would much rather hear back from someone who might agree with me to get their opinion on things. Just as I'd rather hear from someone who -disagrees- with me rather than just get modded down, since otherwise I don't know what they were disagreeing with.
Besides, part of my
Most times that I get modpoints myself I end up wasting them because any article I have enough interest to read through I end up posting to before I get to the end, thereby invalidating my mod points.
It most likely is missing alot of the TiVo goodness like season passes. However, it also has 2 things that TiVo is missing ...
... handy to be able to actually see what's going on instead of the overlay method TiVo uses.
... you can do this if your tv supports it with a TiVo, but it's the -tv- that does it, meaning folks who use DirecTV combo units (like me) can't do that. Yes, you can record 2 streams at once on the combo TiVo, but not view 2 at once.
Playing live TV in a smaller window in the guide
Picture-in-Picture
Overall, I think I'm much happier with my TiVo, I live for season passes and wishlists, but I can see where this box might make some people (like sports nuts) happier in some ways.
That $200 box is not engineered to look/sound decent in the living room and doesn't have an optical audio or component video output. To get a compact box with the same specs you're going to spend more than $200.
... an Xbox that can run linux (or Evolution X) AND still run on Xbox Live -or- DirecTV getting off their buts and letting me buy their media option on my HDVR2.
Besides, I don't need a full PC in the living room, but a good game machine that can double as a linux-based Ogg/MP3/MPEG/etc player is quite handy.
I've been heavily considering getting an Xbox for a media player, right now it's a wait-and-see as to which happens first
I fail to understand what is new about this ... you do realize this is Slashdot, right?
I guess it helps to click the "anonymous" option. Bah. Oh well, I didn't give anything that hadn't already leaked to the press.
Going with the /. model, meta-meta-moderation would be the moderation of a meta-moderation.
This would have to be called a super-moderation or oderation or somesuch.
However, still a very valid idea.
BTW, Sun will not be coming out within the next few (3-6) months. They will be coming out with a dual 2.8 and 3.06 GHz system in the next few (4-6) weeks.
The earliest you'll see an opteron system from Sun will be 6-9 months. Probably more like 10-15 months. And yes, I do know for sure, and yes, that's why I'm anonymous.
Is the patch smart enough to pre-de-re-encode so that you don't have to wait for the next song to be re-encoded before it plays? My server is a dual 1.4GHz P3, so assuming the encoding isn't multi threaded, I suppose I'll always have 1 CPU fairly free from encoding issues. If there is no wait between tracks for encoding, maybe the slimp3 will work good enough.
How is the quality of the re-encoded songs? Do you lose alot coming from Oggs?
SliMP3 would be perfect for me if only it handled Ogg natively. The patch to play Ogg by decoding to .wav and then encoding to MP3 is a bit clunky and seems like it would eat up a lot of CPU. I'm still considering it given it's remote control capability ... but -ugh- so close.
I telecommute for Sun ... I'm in Colorado but my group is in California. Overall it's pretty easy. I work from home, and I have a separate home office along with a separate desktop machine for work use.
My 2 big hints:
1) Make -sure- you take them up on office visits. 6-8 weeks? It's been over 6 months since I've seen the people in my group. Way too long. Make sure you get in at least once every quarter-year to keep up facial recognition with your peers.
2) Try and get them to either pay for a 2nd phoneline, or an account with someone like AccessLine (www.accessline.com) or both. I have a 2nd line that never rings unless it is work or someone from the phone company. Sun pays for it along with an AccessLine account. AccessLine allows you to schedule your work number (which is not the same as your actual home number, rather it forwards and takes voicemail when you don't answer or after hours) to only ring during office hours. For me it's great, I have my phone on from 9am to 6pm Mountain, which is 8am to 5pm Pacific, putting me on the same basic schedule as my workgroup.
You can probably do with -either- a 2nd line -or- AccessLine, I like having both but it's not mandatory. If you set AccessLine up on your main home phoneline you still will be able to give out your AccessLine number instead of your home phone.
FWIW, Sun has a long-standing behavior of taking extra time to test new hardware, losing the cutting edge in favor of higher stability. "Near future" in this case probably means a year or so away.
:) since this reminds me a lot of the "leaked" specs on the Cobalt RaQ XTR, which about 2 weeks before it was released with Pentium 3 chips, was reported here that it would be using AMD Athlons (mostly because the RaQ 4 and Qube 3 had used AMD K6 chips and someone extrapolated Sun / Cobalt would continue to use AMD chips).
The upcoming round of x86 servers that John Loiacano alludes to, which by the definition of "near future" are coming out in the "extremely near future", are definitely not going to be based on the Opteron. It has already been leaked that the servers will be Intel Xeon processors running at least 2.8Ghz speeds.
Just trying to clarify without being too specific
The x86 groups within Sun are relatively processor agnostic. They try to choose the best match for the product's price/performance. Sun currently has various product lines that use both the Intel and AMD x86 processors.
I tried to use BitTorrent for RH9 ... I never saw more than 20K and usually was stuck down around 5K. I gave up ... I'd have happily left it running to serve back up, but it wasn't worth waiting. Someone on my company's VPN mirrored it so I slurped from there.
... much easier than logging into my router to check stats.
Is there a way to tell BitTorrent to serve existing files? I'm still willing to serve it up for awhile.
As for the colored ball that is getting so popular, I think I'll build one to monitor my ever fluctuating network connection (my ISP is wireless) just for giggles
Hence the beauty of a caching network-based filesystem like Intermezzo. If it's offline, you use your cache. This requires hard drive space, but gives much more flexibility and still retains the good bits (except for no local space requirements) of other networked filesystem schemes.
I believe NFSv3 supports caching, too, though I don't believe it has the same synchronization abilities as Intermezzo.
I'm about to implement a mobile $HOME at my home ... my plan is to use a main server to store the data. I'm plannint to use the Intermezzo fs for my laptops so that they can run connected to the network or not (Intermezzo caches data, so I can take my laptop on the road, continue to work on documents, and when I plug back into my home network it will populate my edits back to the server). For these machines and my linux desktop I'm planning to roam everything in $HOME so that I have a single install of custom fonts, Star Office, mozilla settings, etc.
However, I'm giving up on having a roaming desktop between Windows boxes and my wife's iMac. For those I'm just using Samba / Netatalk to link to the documents and bookmark files but not roaming anything else. It's just not worth the hassle for me to try and make those systems any more portable.
I did consider using the Unison service to do synchronization between Windows and Linux, but I think I'm happier with Intermezzo since I can afford the dedicated partition space on the Linux machines. I really do wish that Intermezzo could support the sharing of individual files, but then it would just be a synchronizer, not a filesystem.
The way I remember it from biology (which is a stretch at this point ;), each person interprets the information from the cones and rods differently.
... but really, I don't think I -want- people to have access to what I see :)
In other words, each picture taken off the optic nerve would be relative to the person who saw it.
We learn to associate a color with the information we get, but one person might see "red" when a cone is active, another might see "red" when a rod is active.
If you could tap into the light coming direclty into the eye, maybe, but that is a hardware mod, not a signal tap, and I don't see it being taken very well.
Maybe if you could create individual filters for each person easily it would work
It's happened to me, too ... in fact, that's why I'm running 1.3 ... I had 1.2.1 running and one day, close browser, go boom! It trashed my prefs, bookmarks, etc. Luckily, this is just my gaming box, so nothing tragic was at stake. I cleaned it all off and downloaded the latest (1.3 had just been released).
However, to the parent of this thread, I can load that Google News page fine on Win2K and Moz1.3.
Depends on your interpretation of "original developer" ... the person writing code in this case it building on top of the Qt codebase. Therefore in some ways the "original developer" would be Trolltech.
Besides, I agree with one the other respondents, I'm sure Trolltech would happily upgrade you to a commercial license if you wanted to fork a closed branch.
That's never been the case, even with Cobalt appliances. The Cobalt appliances had -no- hardware support beyond their warranty. If you modified the software, you didn't void the hardware warranty, only your free software support. If you modified the hardware (beyond adding supported PCI cards), then you did void your hardware warranty (they are "appliances" after all, not meant for general purpose modification).
It was unfortunate that we didn't offer hardware service contracts, but for the low-cost appliances it (especially for a start-up company) it was not feasible. The cost of the hardware contracts would have been prohibitive to the customer (more than the cost of the box itself) -or- would have been a loss for us (the manufacturer). We looked at many was of providing this but it just never worked out. Even once we were a part of Sun, Sun came to the same determination. You would be surprised how expensive it is to stock a worldwide hardware service organization, even with commodity components and even when you already have an organization for your high-end systems.
As for the x86 general purpose stuff, yes, we provide separate hardware and software support contracts in addition to the base hardware warranty. If you want to run Debian on an LX50 and still have a Sun hardware service contract, no problem and you don't pay for software service that you don't run.
(For those intimately familiar with Sun's service levels, note that the LX50 doesn't offer Sun's high-end "Metals" programs (Bronze, Silver, Gold, Platinum). Future products may, but to get "Metals" you have to be running both Sun hardware AND software. However, if you're happy with "Hardware Only" and/or "Software Only" support, you can mix and match as you please.)
Please see:
http://www.sunsource.net/
Before saying how little commitment Sun has to Open Source.
The fact that they (ok, "we") are going to be offering -multiple- Linux distributions coming soon notwisthstanding, all you have to do is look at how much of Solaris already uses Open Source (like Linux) and watch the coming releases to see how much MORE we support Open Source utilities in Solaris in the future.
Sun is one of the largest commercial contributors to the Open Source community and is also a strong supporter of open standards.
Your comment about Linux has some merit, as Sun obviously has more resources working on Solaris. Your comment has no footing in relation to Open Source commitment.