LOL, i instantly get modded down to offtopic. Thanks for your insight moderator, a 'big' change in the way with how slashdot deals with its users is indeed not relavent on slashdot at all;-)
It seems the./ crew got so sick and tired of people trying to get 50 karma, they now changed it to a less quantifying system. (this is based on something i remeber reading a short time ago where a./ member mentioned that giving karma a name and a value was the worst mistake they made with slashdot)
My karma used to be 50, but when i now view my info page, it now shows 'excelent'.
Very OT, i know, but i didnt find a reference to it yet, so i figured it was a interesting tid-bit to share
I think you would've had a lot more success with posting this story without the obvious tie ins to conspiracy theories. It is sad enough that it happened, but why tie in the anouncement with conspiracies instead of condolences. (I would say leave the conspiracy to the follow ups / replies if you realy need to get them out of your system)
My condolences to his family and friends and all those who he touched in his life, and it's always a sad event when one of us decides he doesnt want to live on anymore.
When something like this is gonna penetrate the US/EU market. I for one would love a wired cafe with instant noodles, drinks, games and like minded ppl where you can surf, game, mail and ssh to my servers to code
I mean ppl who love football have hangouts, ppl who love cars have hangouts, etc.. When is the computer loving part of the world gonna get over their nerd-stigmata, and hang out as well?;-)
If anyone is setting something like this up in Amsterdam (NL), letme know, ill be a regular
Well thats a simple question to awnser. Depening on your intrests you might want to:
1) Make a microsoft sponsored linux box / workstation (they loose money on the hardware, so what could be sweeter!)
2) Make a microsoft sponsored DVD / MPG / DivX / MP3 player
3) Make a microsoft sponsored Top set box
4) Make a nice quiet, cheap, fast enough, linux web / email / ftp server / etc, sponsored by microsoft!
5) All of the above?;-)
Personaly i can not wait. The xbox is nice and small, and still relativly quiet. I think my first use for it will be to hook up a (usb?) network to it, and use it to play movies and mp3's from my server on my tv, saving my self the hassle of having to drag around notebooks or dedicate a big, ugly noisy pc to that function.
Then hook up a nice wireless usb keyboard w/ intergrated trackball, and do a full screen galeon to create a nice web surfing / topset box experiance from the comfort of my couch.
Then maybe hook up all the posible home automation gimics to a nice interface thru the xbox / tv, and be able to control my house from my tv?
Then, install some tv cards on my server, and pipe its output to the xbox.. posibly extend with those nice linux mpg recording programs to make my own tivo style setup
Also, I wonder if my current colocation facility will accept xbox's ?
Man, the posibilities are endless, for a little under 300 bucks (and going down) and the sheere thought of microsoft sponsoring my linux projects, it's worth every bit of effort these developers are putting in to it!
>> font support Already prety damn decent, if you use freetype 2.1.1, and the bytecode intepreter. For better-then-windows-type-support, please try out the (beta) Xft2 stuff people are working on, its extremely impressive
>> color management Donno about this one
>> alpha blending support Keith (the one who does the Xft and AA work) has also included this in his set of X updates, alpha support is included
>> usable configuration (Think Mac, Windows, ven BeOS) Actualy redhat, mandrake, etc are comming a long way with this. (admitedly not there, but closing in)
>> changing resolutions on the fly Configure your X for multiple resolutions, and switch between them with ctrl-alt +/-
>> vnc (or other RFB) server support, so I can view my desktop -- the one shown on the monitor from another computer VNC was made by AT&T, had has clients & servers for almost every platform, including linux
Most of the stuff you mention is pure FUD, or outdated.. (so outdated that you should be comparing linux to windows95 then)
Please research a bit more before trying to spread more FUD
Ok, let me get this straight, they plan to route all voice calls from/to $TARGET thru verisign.. There's a lot of different phone / conference apps out there, which all use different ports, and most of the time ports are configurable. Presumably the fbi/cia/nsa/mib do not want their wiretaping so easely defeated, so they would want all trafic routed thru verisign right?
So if you want to find out if you are being wiretaped, simply do a couple of traceroutes and see if you hit verisigns switches? It beats listening to clicking sounds in the background of the phone conversation i gues;-)
When you say that nothing is likely to happen there because they are owned by large telecom / cable companies, i think you kinda missed the point;-)
KPN/Quest is/was the largest and fastest fibre network in europe, and is/was owned by KPN Telecom (NL/Europe) and Quest (Mainly US), both of which are very big cable -)
Tabs, spaces, dots and even backspaces... *sigh* those were the days directories could still be confusing, hidden and full of illegal software.. On second thought, nothing changed realy, except that now nothing on the net is hidden anymore;-)
Ok, first take microsoft.com (alternate spelling), name your mail gateways identitcal to microsoft's, and then send out emails (as balmer@microsoft.com?) to a lot of MS employees, telling them to remove IE from XP..
From there on, it only gets better and better. Think of the countries you would be able to influance, technology developement you could steer, and leaked memo's you could fabricate..
Yea, deviance had a bad crack on the original release, the released a -CRACKFIX version (30 minutes after the original release) , which was obviously on to much crack to do any good.
Then 20 minutes later they released the CRACKFIX-REPACK, which does work correctly..
I gues you are right, safedisc3 is still secure, for atleast 60 minutes worth of hacking;-) (or: now that they went thru the process once, they will easely do it in half the time)
Don't underestimate how smart some of the crackers of some of the warez groups are. Good ones are rare, but often highly gifted (the ones i knew were satelity programmers, compression specialists, etc) and often get big offers from agencies and game companies.. The main reason why they do not accept these job offers is because they know if they invent a great new protection scheme, its gonna get cracked within days, and they will have to start developing the next revission right away;-)
Oh, cmon, thats not being completely fair (the age thing that is;-)
A lot of GNU tools are not a part of the OS either.. gcc, and other devel tools do not _have_ to be included, whats more, for all you know i could be using intel's compiler.
Then the lower level tools (for example: ls, rmdir, mkdir, etc) all have valid counterparts that are non GNU (such as many embeded developers know, the GNU tools are not always desiriable).
Now the last point, how how would define what is and isnt part of the OS? Is creating a directory 'part of the OS' ? is being able to send mail or ssh or ftp part of the OS? is a web or file server part of the OS?
Especialy with linux distributions, this line of what is and isnt part of the OS is extremely vauge, and can in no way be drawn as 'GNU is, the rest of the world isnt'.
You also seemed to very confidently seem to skip over the fact that a lot of other groups (BSD, Redhat, cygnus, etc) have contributed a lot to the existing GNU tools, and added quite a few to them. (file system manipulation, networking, startup -)
The one thing i do not get is that stallman thinks any linux distribution or user group should be called GNU/Linux, because it includes and involves the GNU toolset.
However, (almost) all distributions include tool sets and programs from redhat, mandrake, the apache group, the xfree group, gnome, kde, etc, etc.. So folowing his logic we should actualy be refering to
GNU/Apache/XFree/Redhat/Mandrake/Debian/Gnome/KD E/ Linux ?
To me it seems unfair to specificly having to mention one component, and leave the rest, equaly hard working, software groups out of the title..
And yes, i do agree with stallman that we need to value our freedom, and we need to keep growing awareness with people that it's not only about open source (for some it is, which is ok to) but can be / is also about freedom. However i do think he is picking the wrong battles to fight..
Two great places to get info & book links are http://www.useit.com http://www.asktog.com the 2 people from those sites are considered to be the among best in the field
"Sorry, links to Bugzilla from Slashdot are disabled."
Bwahaahaha!! I sugested doing this before when slashdot linked to bugzilla directly from the story description, i never thought they would actualy do this!
Actualy, yes a amazing amount of bugs have been fixed in the last months and weeks. Ofcource it is worth keeping in mind this is a.0 release. So all critical bugs should've been found and fixed, but there's bound to be a slew of little ones left.
More exiting though, is the fact that they can now begin on the next gtk release, which amongst other things will include a new file selector (open / save, etc) dialog ! This is something that a _lot_ of users are hoping and waiting for.
(check http://mail.gnome.org/archives/gtk-devel-list/2002 -March/msg00179.html for notes on the file selector.
This patch patches mozilla to fully use Xft rendering. The other patch patched mozilla to use GDK rendering.
Mozilla is trying to move away from using gdk for its font rendering to make it more portable and less reliant on gdk. Also it should be more flexiable and faster.
I gues the difference in size comes from the fact that it takes more code to use Xft directly then to use libgdkxft. (this is kinda obvious, since the Xft using code is then in libgdkxft).
Bottom line though, the libgdkxft patch didnt have a chance to get included in main stream mozilla, where as this ones probably does.
I find my self lost, does this picture remind me more of a leftover from the old Dr. Who episodes, or does it remind me of a future battle-bots participant?
Question on posibility of advanced networking
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Mega Public WAN In Sydney
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· Score: 5, Interesting
What could you _realy_ do with a network like this? It seems obvious that a lot of nodes will go on / off, packets will get droped, and the optimal routes will be ever changing.
Would a good BGP routing setup deal with this? Preferable you would even setup multiple outbound gateways (thru ip-masq if need be for adsl/cable outbound routes)
Also a nice amount of squid clusters could realy help out here..
I think that if you would release a complete high-tech network design on this style of setup, you could truely create a decentralised, flexible and unstopable network.
Now imagine, if they would link up a lot of outgoing gateways (cable, adsl thru ip masq), and allow notebook users to link up @ any location in the city thats within the area covered.
Add to this some nice ftp mirrors, BBS style websites, and you would have a hackers dream;-)
ALPHA Release, still plenty of bugs in builds
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GNOME 2.0 Desktop Alpha
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· Score: 5, Informative
Please all keep in mind, that this is a very much alpha style release.
This means a couple of base packages don't compile without any manual labor, and a few packages won't compile unless you become a leet gnome hacker and fix the source on the fly;-)
It's a great way to get a first preview of the platform,but for general consumption or testing, this platform just int it yet.
If you prefer not hacking to much source, it might be worth wile to wait for the.rpm's of the packages, before you jump into the deep and start testing. The Gnome Packaging project is working hard on these, so i'm sure they will be along soon.
Actualy moore's law is about the comutational power and the amount of transistors on a chip. Not the amount of Hz's a chip processes instructions at
Theoreticly, a chip with twice the amount of transistors but running at the same clock speed, would be twice as powerfull as the model with half the transistors.
the P4 is a nice example of this, higher Hz's, but lower amount of instructions per tick;-)
Slashdot Mirror
Yea its always beatifull when that kind of duality of slashdot leads to:
Moderation Totals: Offtopic=3, Insightful=1, Interesting=2, Total=6.
I wonder what the record amount of mod points spend on one posting is.. gota be prety high
LOL, i instantly get modded down to offtopic. Thanks for your insight moderator, a 'big' change in the way with how slashdot deals with its users is indeed not relavent on slashdot at all ;-)
Owell, my karma is still 'excelent'
It seems the ./ crew got so sick and tired of people trying to get 50 karma, they now changed it to a less quantifying system. (this is based on something i remeber reading a short time ago where a ./ member mentioned that giving karma a name and a value was the worst mistake they made with slashdot)
My karma used to be 50, but when i now view my info page, it now shows 'excelent'.
Very OT, i know, but i didnt find a reference to it yet, so i figured it was a interesting tid-bit to share
I think you would've had a lot more success with posting this story without the obvious tie ins to conspiracy theories. It is sad enough that it happened, but why tie in the anouncement with conspiracies instead of condolences. (I would say leave the conspiracy to the follow ups / replies if you realy need to get them out of your system)
My condolences to his family and friends and all those who he touched in his life, and it's always a sad event when one of us decides he doesnt want to live on anymore.
When something like this is gonna penetrate the US/EU market. I for one would love a wired cafe with instant noodles, drinks, games and like minded ppl where you can surf, game, mail and ssh to my servers to code
;-)
I mean ppl who love football have hangouts, ppl who love cars have hangouts, etc.. When is the computer loving part of the world gonna get over their nerd-stigmata, and hang out as well?
If anyone is setting something like this up in Amsterdam (NL), letme know, ill be a regular
Well thats a simple question to awnser. Depening on your intrests you might want to:
;-)
.. posibly extend with those nice linux mpg recording programs to make my own tivo style setup
1) Make a microsoft sponsored linux box / workstation (they loose money on the hardware, so what could be sweeter!)
2) Make a microsoft sponsored DVD / MPG / DivX / MP3 player
3) Make a microsoft sponsored Top set box
4) Make a nice quiet, cheap, fast enough, linux web / email / ftp server / etc, sponsored by microsoft!
5) All of the above?
Personaly i can not wait. The xbox is nice and small, and still relativly quiet. I think my first use for it will be to hook up a (usb?) network to it, and use it to play movies and mp3's from my server on my tv, saving my self the hassle of having to drag around notebooks or dedicate a big, ugly noisy pc to that function.
Then hook up a nice wireless usb keyboard w/ intergrated trackball, and do a full screen galeon to create a nice web surfing / topset box experiance from the comfort of my couch.
Then maybe hook up all the posible home automation gimics to a nice interface thru the xbox / tv, and be able to control my house from my tv?
Then, install some tv cards on my server, and pipe its output to the xbox
Also, I wonder if my current colocation facility will accept xbox's ?
Man, the posibilities are endless, for a little under 300 bucks (and going down) and the sheere thought of microsoft sponsoring my linux projects, it's worth every bit of effort these developers are putting in to it!
>> How many things in X will we need to fix?
>> font support
Already prety damn decent, if you use freetype 2.1.1, and the bytecode intepreter. For better-then-windows-type-support, please try out the (beta) Xft2 stuff people are working on, its extremely impressive
>> color management
Donno about this one
>> alpha blending support
Keith (the one who does the Xft and AA work) has also included this in his set of X updates, alpha support is included
>> usable configuration (Think Mac, Windows, ven BeOS)
Actualy redhat, mandrake, etc are comming a long way with this. (admitedly not there, but closing in)
>> changing resolutions on the fly
Configure your X for multiple resolutions, and switch between them with ctrl-alt +/-
>> vnc (or other RFB) server support, so I can view my desktop -- the one shown on the monitor from another computer
VNC was made by AT&T, had has clients & servers for almost every platform, including linux
Most of the stuff you mention is pure FUD, or outdated.. (so outdated that you should be comparing linux to windows95 then)
Please research a bit more before trying to spread more FUD
>> Being a PFY and [..]
For those of us who never read the 'net clasic BOFH (basterd operator from hell) PFY stands for "Pimple Faced Youth"
What am i saying, if you do not know the BOFH, go read it now! http://bofh.ntk.net/
Ok, let me get this straight, they plan to route all voice calls from/to $TARGET thru verisign.. There's a lot of different phone / conference apps out there, which all use different ports, and most of the time ports are configurable. Presumably the fbi/cia/nsa/mib do not want their wiretaping so easely defeated, so they would want all trafic routed thru verisign right?
;-)
So if you want to find out if you are being wiretaped, simply do a couple of traceroutes and see if you hit verisigns switches? It beats listening to clicking sounds in the background of the phone conversation i gues
Actualy this was mentioned on the 6 and 8 o'clock news on nederland 1 and 3.. Old media isnt that dead yet ;-)
When you say that nothing is likely to happen there because they are owned by large telecom / cable companies, i think you kinda missed the point ;-)
KPN/Quest is/was the largest and fastest fibre network in europe, and is/was owned by KPN Telecom (NL/Europe) and Quest (Mainly US), both of which are very big cable -)
Tabs, spaces, dots and even backspaces... *sigh* those were the days directories could still be confusing, hidden and full of illegal software.. On second thought, nothing changed realy, except that now nothing on the net is hidden anymore ;-)
Ok, first take microsoft.com (alternate spelling), name your mail gateways identitcal to microsoft's, and then send out emails (as balmer@microsoft.com?) to a lot of MS employees, telling them to remove IE from XP ..
;-)
From there on, it only gets better and better. Think of the countries you would be able to influance, technology developement you could steer, and leaked memo's you could fabricate..
Damn i wish i had thought of it
Yea, deviance had a bad crack on the original release, the released a -CRACKFIX version (30 minutes after the original release) , which was obviously on to much crack to do any good.
;-) (or: now that they went thru the process once, they will easely do it in half the time)
;-)
Then 20 minutes later they released the CRACKFIX-REPACK, which does work correctly..
I gues you are right, safedisc3 is still secure, for atleast 60 minutes worth of hacking
Don't underestimate how smart some of the crackers of some of the warez groups are. Good ones are rare, but often highly gifted (the ones i knew were satelity programmers, compression specialists, etc) and often get big offers from agencies and game companies.. The main reason why they do not accept these job offers is because they know if they invent a great new protection scheme, its gonna get cracked within days, and they will have to start developing the next revission right away
Oh, cmon, thats not being completely fair (the age thing that is ;-)
A lot of GNU tools are not a part of the OS either.. gcc, and other devel tools do not _have_ to be included, whats more, for all you know i could be using intel's compiler.
Then the lower level tools (for example: ls, rmdir, mkdir, etc) all have valid counterparts that are non GNU (such as many embeded developers know, the GNU tools are not always desiriable).
Now the last point, how how would define what is and isnt part of the OS? Is creating a directory 'part of the OS' ? is being able to send mail or ssh or ftp part of the OS? is a web or file server part of the OS?
Especialy with linux distributions, this line of what is and isnt part of the OS is extremely vauge, and can in no way be drawn as 'GNU is, the rest of the world isnt'.
You also seemed to very confidently seem to skip over the fact that a lot of other groups (BSD, Redhat, cygnus, etc) have contributed a lot to the existing GNU tools, and added quite a few to them. (file system manipulation, networking, startup -)
The one thing i do not get is that stallman thinks any linux distribution or user group should be called GNU/Linux, because it includes and involves the GNU toolset.
D E/ Linux ?
However, (almost) all distributions include tool sets and programs from redhat, mandrake, the apache group, the xfree group, gnome, kde, etc, etc.. So folowing his logic we should actualy be refering to
GNU/Apache/XFree/Redhat/Mandrake/Debian/Gnome/K
To me it seems unfair to specificly having to mention one component, and leave the rest, equaly hard working, software groups out of the title..
And yes, i do agree with stallman that we need to value our freedom, and we need to keep growing awareness with people that it's not only about open source (for some it is, which is ok to) but can be / is also about freedom. However i do think he is picking the wrong battles to fight..
Two great places to get info & book links are
http://www.useit.com
http://www.asktog.com
the 2 people from those sites are considered to be the among best in the field
Going to the review now gives me the folowing page:
./ effect is still stylin' and crushing any who oppose it.
"Unable to connect to the database. Please email"
Gues the old
Anyone manage to catch a mirror of the page?
"Sorry, links to Bugzilla from Slashdot are disabled."
;-)
Bwahaahaha!! I sugested doing this before when slashdot linked to bugzilla directly from the story description, i never thought they would actualy do this!
Very nice way to prevent the slashdot effect
Actualy, yes a amazing amount of bugs have been fixed in the last months and weeks. Ofcource it is worth keeping in mind this is a .0 release. So all critical bugs should've been found and fixed, but there's bound to be a slew of little ones left.
2 -March/msg00179.html for notes on the file selector.
More exiting though, is the fact that they can now begin on the next gtk release, which amongst other things will include a new file selector (open / save, etc) dialog ! This is something that a _lot_ of users are hoping and waiting for.
(check http://mail.gnome.org/archives/gtk-devel-list/200
This patch patches mozilla to fully use Xft rendering. The other patch patched mozilla to use GDK rendering.
Mozilla is trying to move away from using gdk for its font rendering to make it more portable and less reliant on gdk. Also it should be more flexiable and faster.
I gues the difference in size comes from the fact that it takes more code to use Xft directly then to use libgdkxft. (this is kinda obvious, since the Xft using code is then in libgdkxft).
Bottom line though, the libgdkxft patch didnt have a chance to get included in main stream mozilla, where as this ones probably does.
I find my self lost, does this picture remind me more of a leftover from the old Dr. Who episodes, or does it remind me of a future battle-bots participant?
What could you _realy_ do with a network like this? It seems obvious that a lot of nodes will go on / off, packets will get droped, and the optimal routes will be ever changing.
;-)
Would a good BGP routing setup deal with this? Preferable you would even setup multiple outbound gateways (thru ip-masq if need be for adsl/cable outbound routes)
Also a nice amount of squid clusters could realy help out here..
I think that if you would release a complete high-tech network design on this style of setup, you could truely create a decentralised, flexible and unstopable network.
Now imagine, if they would link up a lot of outgoing gateways (cable, adsl thru ip masq), and allow notebook users to link up @ any location in the city thats within the area covered.
Add to this some nice ftp mirrors, BBS style websites, and you would have a hackers dream
Please all keep in mind, that this is a very much alpha style release.
;-)
.rpm's of the packages, before you jump into the deep and start testing. The Gnome Packaging project is working hard on these, so i'm sure they will be along soon.
This means a couple of base packages don't compile without any manual labor, and a few packages won't compile unless you become a leet gnome hacker and fix the source on the fly
It's a great way to get a first preview of the platform,but for general consumption or testing, this platform just int it yet.
If you prefer not hacking to much source, it might be worth wile to wait for the
Actualy moore's law is about the comutational power and the amount of transistors on a chip. Not the amount of Hz's a chip processes instructions at
;-)
Theoreticly, a chip with twice the amount of transistors but running at the same clock speed, would be twice as powerfull as the model with half the transistors.
the P4 is a nice example of this, higher Hz's, but lower amount of instructions per tick