Prospective parents should have to pass a test. It goes something like this:
Your infant child is crying in public? Do you:
A> Scold them for crying.
B> Ignore them and continue dragging them behind.
C> Hug them.
You child is crying durring curch/movie/presentation/etc. Do you:
A> Scold them for crying.
B> Ignore them and contine watching.
C> Take them out of earshot of the rest of the audience.
Your child is 5. You want to go see Hanibal in theaters. Do you:
A> Hire a babysitter.
B> Leave the child with the grandparents.
C> Recruit the older sibling into taking the child to the latest Disney movie while you see your movie.
D> Buy them a ticket to the R rated movie.
And so and and so fourth. Now, some of those answers seem like "Well DUH!" but people are strange, rarely do I see parents try to calm the child, or get them out of earshot of the audience. Ignore or scold them. Or ignore them now and scold later. I've been in curch services where the minister interrupted their service to remind the audience of the crying rooms at the back of the curch. It's nearly a weekly occurance! C'mon people!
And what kind of crack do you smoke to bring your 5 year old to Hannibal and then tell other adults that it's none of there business. Well, the parents are right, it is none of your business. But if you aren't going to make it yours someone has to...
The most disturbing thing I heard lately was from the mother of a 2 year old. "When I need a break I just pop in Bear in the Big Blue House. He doesn't know what's going on, but he's facinated by it for the next hour." Now with this mother the TV isn't going to replace parenting of babysitting, but each case is different, and there are people who will let the TV replace sitters, and even them. Sad it is.
Now I'm only 21 and single, but come on! Use common sense! Oh wait, your parents didn't, so your not going to...sigh. We're scrwed.
What do you mean it won't work? This is just a formal proposal to do what they allready do. Every few years release a new version of Windows or Office, and encourage everyone to upgrade.
Granted with Windows 2000 everyone really should, unless you can go to Linux or some other Open Unix. Office is another story. Nothing really useful except a more usable Outlook came out Office development in the upgrade from 95 to 97 or 2000. (Unless you consider office assistant useful...)
So now, Office XP is here, and Windows XP is on the way. Three years down the road, Windows and Office 2000 will be a distant memory, and Windows LC (Lame Codename) will be on the way.
So this plan is only different in that it is forcing you to upgrade, which they do anyway by getting the latest and greatest in schools and large coperations. Then everyone has to upgrade to be 100% compatible...
It doesn't take a rocket scientest to figure this one out...the thing that will save our collective asses is time. The sooner we detect something on a collision course with Earth, the better. A small force applied over a long time (rockets, thrusters, whatever...) has a better chance of succeeding than a big force over a short time (nuke). Kinda like compounding interest...once you get the thing moving in one direction it will keep moving in that direction, and keep accelerating in that direction as long as you apply the force. Given enough time, you could send the offending object anywhere.
So invest in early detection. When you do find something on a collision course, well, certin death has a way of motivating those who control spending. Then again, there's that time thing. We still have 30 years before this thing hits, we have time to budjet it in later...
So we end up at the big force over a short time, when there's only a few months left before the thing hits...
After all, if those who control the money understood basic physics (or could even get a basic understanding with the compounding interest analogy) they wouldn't be in politics.:)
The ISP my server is colocated at is, in the Middle of Nowhere, MN. It's the only game in the area. AOL dosen't even have a POP in this area. If AOL did move in, new business would dry up, and current users might gradually move to AOL. But for now, things just run with minimum staff, minimum breakage, and manage to turn a modest profit.
You can boot off of ReiserFS just fine with lilo. Ealier versions or lilo and Reiser required that you used the --notail option when mounting the root partition. Since this negates the usefulness of reiser, it was recomended that you lop off a/boot partition and mount that with the notail option. I belive newer versions of lilo don't need the notail option, but the ReiserFS docs haven't been updated.
ReiserFS really shines with lots of small files. (your mp3 collection for example) You'll generally reclaim some space on your drive when you go from ext2 or vfat to reiser.
XFS is good when high performance is needed when dealing with large file systems (terabytes) and large files (1,2 gb files.) For a standard home user, it's overkill.:) But many slashdot readers like overkill...
The patent you mentioned above is interesting. But, didn't Sega try this and fail? (Anyone remember Sega Channel where you could pay a fee to play Sega games over your cable lines? Yeah the patent specifies modem.)
Also, how long have you been able to play Xbased solitarie with XDMCP?:)
I'm just skimming this one, but it is kinda funny. Maybe it has some merit, but it looks like someone could come up with some prior art. IE, we're doing this with diskless terminals. They've just adapted the technology for home entertainment devices. Perhaps they think by staying with video games that they can escape those.
Such is the way of patents. This current one doesn't sound too original. Dig back, you hit FPS games, and UO can be more chat that game. 3D is just a natural evoultion from the 2D worlds laid down by Doom and others. ImagiNation had a avatar based chat, and the idea has been around much longer than the patent.
Tothe casual slashdot reader this patent seems like an easy one to blow away, but if they have a patent and are willing to look at other sites you can bet they've looked at similar works and have worded their patent to thread through every loophole they could find. Their description may be different from anything else out there. (language really sucks. Lets make everyone write patents in latin! Then they'll really have to think about what they're writing.) Just listen to George Carlin for good examples of language use. ie: Flight attendedt: Get on the plane, get on the plane. Carlin: *$^# you, I'm getting IN the plane. There seems to be less wind in here. Let Evil Kenivel get ON the plane. Language is often what get's these patents approved.
Think about it a bit longer. It's not in their best interests to go after id, Monilith, etc. A dot com vs. an established and successful game developer (or mutiple developers?) Please. They would have to go after Nintendo as well (How about glove ball? It's kinda 3d, and the hand is kinda an avatar...) No, they're going to stick to going after other dotcoms, but I can't see how that will be any more profitable than taking Nintendo, id, etc. to court.
So lets see, TOC can't retrive away messages, file transfers, buddy icons, direct IM, voice chat, etc. So in reverse order:
Voice chat: is a pain in the ass anyway. Try playing with H323 with NAT. Thankfully there's Roger Wilco.
Direct IM: Ok, this is major. But when you use jabber, all your AOL, ICQ, MSN messages pass through your Jabber server anyway.
buddy icons: I don't need the blinky icons, in most cases they're just bottled self expression anyway. I know a few users who have created their own however.
file transfers: I haven't sent or recived a file through any IM client for a long time. See e-mail, ftp, http, and scp...
away message: Oh, so I can't tell why my friend isn't at their machine. Oh well. Would be nice.
Overall, I don't feel like I'm missing anything if I have to use TOC instead of Oscar. But that's just me.
The problem with porting Windows code to Linux, espically games, is that the code wasn't designed with cross platform compatiblity in mind. So you get things like Railroad Tycoon II not able to do multiplayer with Windows. (Works fine with Mac as they ported the Mac version, not the Windows version.)
Quake 3 is thankfully a different kettle of fish and a slightly better plan. It's at least designed to be cross platform. Until Loki came along, id was fine with the one box mutiple platforms. id never officially supported their games on linux though. (You couldn't call tech support and expect help with getting things working on Linux.) With Quake3, Loki took that job and put out a special Linux edition. The special Linux edition isn't all that special. You get a tin box, and the cd has the linux biniaries instead of the windows biniaries. The CD still works on any platform once you download the point release. I got the Linux version, but played under windows for some time before I got 3D working under Linux.
BioWare has the right idea with Neverwinter Nights. Design the game for cross platform from the ground up. With that design, there is minimal effort in getting the game running on four platforms. Should keep the patch levels unified across platforms as well. The ability to move between platforms will be nice. I'm sure BioWare will include support for EAX, and I've found that those audio extentions add something special to the game, and are just darn cool. I don't expect they work on Linux anytime soon however, so maybe I'll want to boot into windows from time to time.
Another hurdle with the port the windows code that recently came to light is voice communication. From what I know (and I could be wrong) Tribes 2 has intigrated voice communication, but the Windows version and Linux version are incompatible. (Should be fixed in a later patch.) Big bummer. I use Roger-Wilco all the time with Counter-Strike. Linux needs something similar that is compatible.
Sometimes it's the little things that make or break a title/company/etc. Loki definitly has the big things taken care of, but some of those small details get overlooked all too often...
The advantage of using Linux over Palm or CE on a PDA is that they don't have to sell as many Linux based units as they would if they went with Palm or CE as they don't have to pay licensing fees to Palm or MS.
On the downside they had to write all their own applications for the thing. No shortage of "gee wiz" toys for Palm and CE platforms. For now, WYSIWYG. That shouldn't take too long as long as the Linux community embraces it and writes stuff on it. As it's running Linux, they should pick up a good handful of sales just for that reason, hopefully keeping the "chicken or egg problem" to a minimum. (ie, how do you get users to buy a platform that has a minimal amount of apps?)
OpenGL is they're baby after all, and OpenAL and OpenIL could be confused (Espically with the Image vs. Graphic, the great unwashed won't see a difference.) OpenAL IS trying to do for 3D audio (enviormental audio, whatever audio) that OpenGL did/does for graphics, so SGI definitly has a case. What they're IP and trademark lawyers aren't remembering is that mimicing is the highest form of flattery. I guess flattery doesn't go very far with the IP and TM crowd.
Remember that if you allready have 2.4.0, 2.4.1, or 2.4.2 source, you don't need to download the full tarball, just the patches. Apply in order until your at the current version.
Most of the time I do skip the commercials. But now and then 20 years of TV viewing habits kick in and I forget that I can skip the commercials. I often even rewind to catch a commercial. (Either do to missing the start of the show after the commercials or because I saw something interesting [movie trailer])
I expect that advertising are getting the same amount of advertising into my head, after all, before TiVo I used commercial breaks to catch up on e-mail, get a drink, empty my bladder, take a nap, etc.
As TiVO and other similar devices become more popular, the airtime for live events will go up and as well as the rates for the slot right before programming starts. This will be good for local programms (local news and sporting events will generate more revenue, and can thus get better equipment, reporters, etc..)
In the end, it's good for TiVo owners for TiVo to give out this info. It's much better for TiVo to sell this info. Wy? Think of how you're TiVo works.
When TiVo sells the viewing anonymous viewing info, it shows the advertisers what it is you're watching. As more and more TiVo's are sold, networks will show more programming geared to the TiVo crowd. (say filling their late night timeslots with decent programming instead of infomercials and TiVo enabling advertising.)
Plus it help fund things like the TiVo magazine and buy the airtime (On latenight Discovery) for their weekly program that you TiVo will record by default (Anyone else think they need a better host for that show?)
If the networks see value in TiVo, they will become more TiVo friendly. Maybe SiFi will actually update their schedules when the run B5 movies instead of their normal schedule. Comedy Central finally made BattleBots TiVo friendly by adding [very short] descriptions to every showing of BattleBots (just what bots are fighting in what round, it's not much, but it's enough to allow the new features in v2.0 of the TiVo software to function. [v2.0 should be out soon for those of you who aren't on the beta program]:) (The specific feature is the one that won't record reruns for 28 days. For this to work, program descriptions are needed.)
In the end, I think that TiVo selling viewing information can only benifit me in the long run, so I have nothing agnist it as long as it is anonymous. (Anonymous to the point where marketers can't target advertising to my tivo unit, that would suck.)
If you have digital cable, the capiblaty is there to target advertising based on your location. I've even seen it happen (Timewarner kinda goofed and the commercials overlapped. One was for a national product, the overlay was a local business.) Go worry about your cable company instead, they're not as open as TiVo is about these issues.
This means that every TalkingWhizKid sold in Texas will come with its own p0rn detector in case the child gets the idea to write an erotic novel on it...?
How about the Playstation2? In the near future I'll be able to surf the net with it.
Hopefully Garcia has some more clued in opponents.
That this isn't much better than MS deciding that all Windows machines much have Internet Explorer preinstalled? I know I don't want the government forcing me to pay for software I don't want and will never use. It's bad enough that MS does it.
I can see it now...NCR's lawyers will dismiss anyone who owns a Palm or Handspring, while Palm/Handspring try to keep those same people in the jury. That's if some judge decides to hear the trial. NCR may be a little late with this one, even with trial by jury it's going to be hard to get the jury to side with them (or not laugh at them.)
Where I work I have a couple extra accounts in AD for support people for some of our custom software. Whenever I need to show them what's going wrong, I have them login via Citrix and shadow their session. Works rather well. When their done, the AD account is disabled. TO ensure they use the correct settings (128bit SSL encryption) I have the java client installed as an applet. Overall pretty slick. (Keep everything properly firewalled...)
This soultion from Compaq looks interesting, but I don't see enough advantages to make it useful for UNIX. For NT though...
Debian 2.2 OpenSSH package has allready been fixed. As usual, they have backported the fix to the version of ssh in stable (v1.2.3).
Make sure you have the Debian security sources in/etc/apt/sources.list, then apt-get update && apt-get upgrade.
deb http://security.debian.org/ stable/updates main contrib non-free
deb-src http://security.debian.org/ stable/updates main contrib non-free
/usr/share/doc/ssh/changelog.Debian.gz
openssh (1:1.2.3-9.2) stable; urgency=high
* Non-maintainer upload by Security Team
* Added backported fix for a buffer overflow (thanks to Piotr Roszatycki)
* Added modified build dependencies from unstable for convenience
* Added patch that fixes an rsa key exchange problem made public by CORE SDI.
3. When will SUN ship it's systems with a protocol a bit less bloated than X? (Ica?)
You don't really get X do you? The idea of X is that it's open, in theory any X client (Programs like Netscape) can display on any Xserver. X isn't a bloated protocol, but it isn't the best. But it's open. Sun will never go to ICA unless Citrix makes it a completely open protocol, but they aren't going to do anything to stop Citrix from making a Metaframe server for Solaris. As for MS, why don't they support something like X? There's RDP, but there are only Windows based clients for RDP. (Yeah, someone created an open source client, but last I checked it required an 8bit display so it wasn't really useful.) To get ICA out of Windows 2000, you have to buy Metaframe. (Which is more expensive than the OS it runs on.)
...we'll tether 5 worlds togther and ride them to escape the Core Explosion...
No no no, you teather your worlds together and make the rest of known space think you're fleeing the core explosion, and after everyone else flees the radiation, you turn around and go back through it to a deserted galaxy. After all, if you're moving five planets at near lightspeed, you've obviously dealt with the radiation issues. Puppeteers don't go to war, they just meddle with your species until you aren't a threat to them.
From what I read, there are different physical networks for different security clearences. As a result, a computer in the classified class can't access info in lower clearance levels, so the worker need a different computer for each clearance level. How does that make sence? So here I am writing a top secret document that references a few sensitive documents and a top-secret document. To properly reference the document in this system, I would have to physically switch to a different computer.
They're security just seems flawed, and this soultion isn't a fix. I'm sure they have reasons for doing so (probally classified reasons), but what about useing different NICs for the different networks (hey, a Quad ethernet adapter or two and you would be set.) of just get one and use IP Aliasing? Why use seperate networks at all? Different servers for each level of access, with strick control over who can access the info from where, and strong encryption, and you have a perhaps better soultion.
If anyone can figure out their securiy model and reasons behind it, please enlighten the rest of us.:)
Well, go dig on Microsoft's Site. There are FrontPage server extentions for UNIX (including Linux) webservers (including Apache). It's when users want to run VB based cgi or asp that you run into trouble. Unless their a big business customer, they're outta luck. (Hell, how many ISPs let you create and run your own cgi anyway? I knwo a few who let you do it through cgiwrap but it isn't mainstream...)
Obviously the target audience for the recent Microsoft statements is for those who don't take a moment to compare the features, benifits, advantages, and disavantages. And most of the quotes are from marketing personell, so the bottom line is "make the sale" not "help the customer make the best choice for their situation."
There are some area's where Microsoft platforms do excel. Public internet servers and high security aren't one of those areas. But on an internal managed network of Windows 2000 servers and Windows 2000 clients, Microsoft platforms are excellent. The applications are there, and I'm not talking about Office. The real reason many companies are stuck on MS platforms are their business specific applications. Document Managment, MRP/ERP/EDI/etc, shipping software (From UPS, FedEx, and other shipping lines), MLS (reality), and others that I don't deal with on a daily basis are heavily tied to Windows.
So here is my plea. Let's not jump on the FUD bandwagon. Instead, let's sit down and start comparing. Platform A does this better than Platfrom B, but Platform B is better for this than Platform A... In the end you would have an extremely long list of strengths and weakness, and have a list of things to improve (or whine about if you're not into helping the community.) Really people, FUD from Microsoft is not news, it's old hat. It's them seeing their stock value drop a couple point and they need something to get those points back. (And be honest, they're only going to gain a point or two with this, then the next big bug will hit BugTraq.)
It's really time MS started being honest with themselves and their customers (heh...they're probally prefectly honest with their internal developers, after all, how else are the developers going to know what to improve?) but if they were honest with their customers and investors about what is good and bad about their platforms, new bugs, benchmarks, etc. wouldn't have such a huge impact on their stock value, their bottom line.
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Your infant child is crying in public? Do you: A> Scold them for crying. B> Ignore them and continue dragging them behind. C> Hug them.
You child is crying durring curch/movie/presentation/etc. Do you: A> Scold them for crying. B> Ignore them and contine watching. C> Take them out of earshot of the rest of the audience.
Your child is 5. You want to go see Hanibal in theaters. Do you: A> Hire a babysitter. B> Leave the child with the grandparents. C> Recruit the older sibling into taking the child to the latest Disney movie while you see your movie. D> Buy them a ticket to the R rated movie.
And so and and so fourth. Now, some of those answers seem like "Well DUH!" but people are strange, rarely do I see parents try to calm the child, or get them out of earshot of the audience. Ignore or scold them. Or ignore them now and scold later. I've been in curch services where the minister interrupted their service to remind the audience of the crying rooms at the back of the curch. It's nearly a weekly occurance! C'mon people!
And what kind of crack do you smoke to bring your 5 year old to Hannibal and then tell other adults that it's none of there business. Well, the parents are right, it is none of your business. But if you aren't going to make it yours someone has to...
The most disturbing thing I heard lately was from the mother of a 2 year old. "When I need a break I just pop in Bear in the Big Blue House. He doesn't know what's going on, but he's facinated by it for the next hour." Now with this mother the TV isn't going to replace parenting of babysitting, but each case is different, and there are people who will let the TV replace sitters, and even them. Sad it is.
Now I'm only 21 and single, but come on! Use common sense! Oh wait, your parents didn't, so your not going to...sigh. We're scrwed.
What do you mean it won't work? This is just a formal proposal to do what they allready do. Every few years release a new version of Windows or Office, and encourage everyone to upgrade.
Granted with Windows 2000 everyone really should, unless you can go to Linux or some other Open Unix. Office is another story. Nothing really useful except a more usable Outlook came out Office development in the upgrade from 95 to 97 or 2000. (Unless you consider office assistant useful...)
So now, Office XP is here, and Windows XP is on the way. Three years down the road, Windows and Office 2000 will be a distant memory, and Windows LC (Lame Codename) will be on the way.
So this plan is only different in that it is forcing you to upgrade, which they do anyway by getting the latest and greatest in schools and large coperations. Then everyone has to upgrade to be 100% compatible...
It doesn't take a rocket scientest to figure this one out...the thing that will save our collective asses is time. The sooner we detect something on a collision course with Earth, the better. A small force applied over a long time (rockets, thrusters, whatever...) has a better chance of succeeding than a big force over a short time (nuke). Kinda like compounding interest...once you get the thing moving in one direction it will keep moving in that direction, and keep accelerating in that direction as long as you apply the force. Given enough time, you could send the offending object anywhere.
:)
So invest in early detection. When you do find something on a collision course, well, certin death has a way of motivating those who control spending. Then again, there's that time thing. We still have 30 years before this thing hits, we have time to budjet it in later...
So we end up at the big force over a short time, when there's only a few months left before the thing hits...
After all, if those who control the money understood basic physics (or could even get a basic understanding with the compounding interest analogy) they wouldn't be in politics.
The ISP my server is colocated at is, in the Middle of Nowhere, MN. It's the only game in the area. AOL dosen't even have a POP in this area. If AOL did move in, new business would dry up, and current users might gradually move to AOL. But for now, things just run with minimum staff, minimum breakage, and manage to turn a modest profit.
Location, location, location...
You can boot off of ReiserFS just fine with lilo. Ealier versions or lilo and Reiser required that you used the --notail option when mounting the root partition. Since this negates the usefulness of reiser, it was recomended that you lop off a /boot partition and mount that with the notail option. I belive newer versions of lilo don't need the notail option, but the ReiserFS docs haven't been updated.
:) But many slashdot readers like overkill...
ReiserFS really shines with lots of small files. (your mp3 collection for example) You'll generally reclaim some space on your drive when you go from ext2 or vfat to reiser.
XFS is good when high performance is needed when dealing with large file systems (terabytes) and large files (1,2 gb files.) For a standard home user, it's overkill.
The patent you mentioned above is interesting. But, didn't Sega try this and fail? (Anyone remember Sega Channel where you could pay a fee to play Sega games over your cable lines? Yeah the patent specifies modem.)
:)
Also, how long have you been able to play Xbased solitarie with XDMCP?
I'm just skimming this one, but it is kinda funny. Maybe it has some merit, but it looks like someone could come up with some prior art. IE, we're doing this with diskless terminals. They've just adapted the technology for home entertainment devices. Perhaps they think by staying with video games that they can escape those.
Such is the way of patents. This current one doesn't sound too original. Dig back, you hit FPS games, and UO can be more chat that game. 3D is just a natural evoultion from the 2D worlds laid down by Doom and others. ImagiNation had a avatar based chat, and the idea has been around much longer than the patent.
Tothe casual slashdot reader this patent seems like an easy one to blow away, but if they have a patent and are willing to look at other sites you can bet they've looked at similar works and have worded their patent to thread through every loophole they could find. Their description may be different from anything else out there. (language really sucks. Lets make everyone write patents in latin! Then they'll really have to think about what they're writing.) Just listen to George Carlin for good examples of language use. ie: Flight attendedt: Get on the plane, get on the plane. Carlin: *$^# you, I'm getting IN the plane. There seems to be less wind in here. Let Evil Kenivel get ON the plane. Language is often what get's these patents approved.
Think about it a bit longer. It's not in their best interests to go after id, Monilith, etc. A dot com vs. an established and successful game developer (or mutiple developers?) Please. They would have to go after Nintendo as well (How about glove ball? It's kinda 3d, and the hand is kinda an avatar...) No, they're going to stick to going after other dotcoms, but I can't see how that will be any more profitable than taking Nintendo, id, etc. to court.
If you patenet it, they will come.
So lets see, TOC can't retrive away messages, file transfers, buddy icons, direct IM, voice chat, etc. So in reverse order:
Voice chat: is a pain in the ass anyway. Try playing with H323 with NAT. Thankfully there's Roger Wilco.
Direct IM: Ok, this is major. But when you use jabber, all your AOL, ICQ, MSN messages pass through your Jabber server anyway.
buddy icons: I don't need the blinky icons, in most cases they're just bottled self expression anyway. I know a few users who have created their own however.
file transfers: I haven't sent or recived a file through any IM client for a long time. See e-mail, ftp, http, and scp...
away message: Oh, so I can't tell why my friend isn't at their machine. Oh well. Would be nice.
Overall, I don't feel like I'm missing anything if I have to use TOC instead of Oscar. But that's just me.
The problem with porting Windows code to Linux, espically games, is that the code wasn't designed with cross platform compatiblity in mind. So you get things like Railroad Tycoon II not able to do multiplayer with Windows. (Works fine with Mac as they ported the Mac version, not the Windows version.)
Quake 3 is thankfully a different kettle of fish and a slightly better plan. It's at least designed to be cross platform. Until Loki came along, id was fine with the one box mutiple platforms. id never officially supported their games on linux though. (You couldn't call tech support and expect help with getting things working on Linux.) With Quake3, Loki took that job and put out a special Linux edition. The special Linux edition isn't all that special. You get a tin box, and the cd has the linux biniaries instead of the windows biniaries. The CD still works on any platform once you download the point release. I got the Linux version, but played under windows for some time before I got 3D working under Linux.
BioWare has the right idea with Neverwinter Nights. Design the game for cross platform from the ground up. With that design, there is minimal effort in getting the game running on four platforms. Should keep the patch levels unified across platforms as well. The ability to move between platforms will be nice. I'm sure BioWare will include support for EAX, and I've found that those audio extentions add something special to the game, and are just darn cool. I don't expect they work on Linux anytime soon however, so maybe I'll want to boot into windows from time to time.
Another hurdle with the port the windows code that recently came to light is voice communication. From what I know (and I could be wrong) Tribes 2 has intigrated voice communication, but the Windows version and Linux version are incompatible. (Should be fixed in a later patch.) Big bummer. I use Roger-Wilco all the time with Counter-Strike. Linux needs something similar that is compatible.
Sometimes it's the little things that make or break a title/company/etc. Loki definitly has the big things taken care of, but some of those small details get overlooked all too often...
The advantage of using Linux over Palm or CE on a PDA is that they don't have to sell as many Linux based units as they would if they went with Palm or CE as they don't have to pay licensing fees to Palm or MS.
On the downside they had to write all their own applications for the thing. No shortage of "gee wiz" toys for Palm and CE platforms. For now, WYSIWYG. That shouldn't take too long as long as the Linux community embraces it and writes stuff on it. As it's running Linux, they should pick up a good handful of sales just for that reason, hopefully keeping the "chicken or egg problem" to a minimum. (ie, how do you get users to buy a platform that has a minimal amount of apps?)
OpenGL is they're baby after all, and OpenAL and OpenIL could be confused (Espically with the Image vs. Graphic, the great unwashed won't see a difference.) OpenAL IS trying to do for 3D audio (enviormental audio, whatever audio) that OpenGL did/does for graphics, so SGI definitly has a case. What they're IP and trademark lawyers aren't remembering is that mimicing is the highest form of flattery. I guess flattery doesn't go very far with the IP and TM crowd.
Remember that if you allready have 2.4.0, 2.4.1, or 2.4.2 source, you don't need to download the full tarball, just the patches. Apply in order until your at the current version.
/usr/src /usr/src
cd
gzip -cd patchXX.gz | patch -p0
or
cd
bzip2 -dc patchXX.bz2 | patch -p0
Oh, and access via http seems to be working better than ftp.
Most of the time I do skip the commercials. But now and then 20 years of TV viewing habits kick in and I forget that I can skip the commercials. I often even rewind to catch a commercial. (Either do to missing the start of the show after the commercials or because I saw something interesting [movie trailer])
I expect that advertising are getting the same amount of advertising into my head, after all, before TiVo I used commercial breaks to catch up on e-mail, get a drink, empty my bladder, take a nap, etc.
As TiVO and other similar devices become more popular, the airtime for live events will go up and as well as the rates for the slot right before programming starts. This will be good for local programms (local news and sporting events will generate more revenue, and can thus get better equipment, reporters, etc..)
Heh. I have my bosses web logs. I don't care if he gets my TiVO viewing habits. :)
In the end, it's good for TiVo owners for TiVo to give out this info. It's much better for TiVo to sell this info. Wy? Think of how you're TiVo works.
:) (The specific feature is the one that won't record reruns for 28 days. For this to work, program descriptions are needed.)
When TiVo sells the viewing anonymous viewing info, it shows the advertisers what it is you're watching. As more and more TiVo's are sold, networks will show more programming geared to the TiVo crowd. (say filling their late night timeslots with decent programming instead of infomercials and TiVo enabling advertising.)
Plus it help fund things like the TiVo magazine and buy the airtime (On latenight Discovery) for their weekly program that you TiVo will record by default (Anyone else think they need a better host for that show?)
If the networks see value in TiVo, they will become more TiVo friendly. Maybe SiFi will actually update their schedules when the run B5 movies instead of their normal schedule. Comedy Central finally made BattleBots TiVo friendly by adding [very short] descriptions to every showing of BattleBots (just what bots are fighting in what round, it's not much, but it's enough to allow the new features in v2.0 of the TiVo software to function. [v2.0 should be out soon for those of you who aren't on the beta program]
In the end, I think that TiVo selling viewing information can only benifit me in the long run, so I have nothing agnist it as long as it is anonymous. (Anonymous to the point where marketers can't target advertising to my tivo unit, that would suck.)
If you have digital cable, the capiblaty is there to target advertising based on your location. I've even seen it happen (Timewarner kinda goofed and the commercials overlapped. One was for a national product, the overlay was a local business.) Go worry about your cable company instead, they're not as open as TiVo is about these issues.
This means that every TalkingWhizKid sold in Texas will come with its own p0rn detector in case the child gets the idea to write an erotic novel on it...?
How about the Playstation2? In the near future I'll be able to surf the net with it.
Hopefully Garcia has some more clued in opponents.
That this isn't much better than MS deciding that all Windows machines much have Internet Explorer preinstalled? I know I don't want the government forcing me to pay for software I don't want and will never use. It's bad enough that MS does it.
I can see it now...NCR's lawyers will dismiss anyone who owns a Palm or Handspring, while Palm/Handspring try to keep those same people in the jury. That's if some judge decides to hear the trial. NCR may be a little late with this one, even with trial by jury it's going to be hard to get the jury to side with them (or not laugh at them.)
Where I work I have a couple extra accounts in AD for support people for some of our custom software. Whenever I need to show them what's going wrong, I have them login via Citrix and shadow their session. Works rather well. When their done, the AD account is disabled. TO ensure they use the correct settings (128bit SSL encryption) I have the java client installed as an applet. Overall pretty slick. (Keep everything properly firewalled...)
This soultion from Compaq looks interesting, but I don't see enough advantages to make it useful for UNIX. For NT though...
Debian 2.2 OpenSSH package has allready been fixed. As usual, they have backported the fix to the version of ssh in stable (v1.2.3).
/etc/apt/sources.list, then apt-get update && apt-get upgrade.
/usr/share/doc/ssh/changelog.Debian.gz
Make sure you have the Debian security sources in
deb http://security.debian.org/ stable/updates main contrib non-free deb-src http://security.debian.org/ stable/updates main contrib non-free
openssh (1:1.2.3-9.2) stable; urgency=high
* Non-maintainer upload by Security Team
* Added backported fix for a buffer overflow (thanks to Piotr Roszatycki)
* Added modified build dependencies from unstable for convenience
* Added patch that fixes an rsa key exchange problem made public by CORE SDI.
-- Martin Schulze Thu, 8 Feb 2001 22:15:04 +0100
3. When will SUN ship it's systems with a protocol a bit less bloated than X? (Ica?)
You don't really get X do you? The idea of X is that it's open, in theory any X client (Programs like Netscape) can display on any Xserver. X isn't a bloated protocol, but it isn't the best. But it's open. Sun will never go to ICA unless Citrix makes it a completely open protocol, but they aren't going to do anything to stop Citrix from making a Metaframe server for Solaris. As for MS, why don't they support something like X? There's RDP, but there are only Windows based clients for RDP. (Yeah, someone created an open source client, but last I checked it required an 8bit display so it wasn't really useful.) To get ICA out of Windows 2000, you have to buy Metaframe. (Which is more expensive than the OS it runs on.)
Stop ranting when you're uninformed...
...we'll tether 5 worlds togther and ride them to escape the Core Explosion...
No no no, you teather your worlds together and make the rest of known space think you're fleeing the core explosion, and after everyone else flees the radiation, you turn around and go back through it to a deserted galaxy. After all, if you're moving five planets at near lightspeed, you've obviously dealt with the radiation issues. Puppeteers don't go to war, they just meddle with your species until you aren't a threat to them.
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From what I read, there are different physical networks for different security clearences. As a result, a computer in the classified class can't access info in lower clearance levels, so the worker need a different computer for each clearance level. How does that make sence? So here I am writing a top secret document that references a few sensitive documents and a top-secret document. To properly reference the document in this system, I would have to physically switch to a different computer.
:)
They're security just seems flawed, and this soultion isn't a fix. I'm sure they have reasons for doing so (probally classified reasons), but what about useing different NICs for the different networks (hey, a Quad ethernet adapter or two and you would be set.) of just get one and use IP Aliasing? Why use seperate networks at all? Different servers for each level of access, with strick control over who can access the info from where, and strong encryption, and you have a perhaps better soultion.
If anyone can figure out their securiy model and reasons behind it, please enlighten the rest of us.
Well, go dig on Microsoft's Site. There are FrontPage server extentions for UNIX (including Linux) webservers (including Apache). It's when users want to run VB based cgi or asp that you run into trouble. Unless their a big business customer, they're outta luck. (Hell, how many ISPs let you create and run your own cgi anyway? I knwo a few who let you do it through cgiwrap but it isn't mainstream...)
Obviously the target audience for the recent Microsoft statements is for those who don't take a moment to compare the features, benifits, advantages, and disavantages. And most of the quotes are from marketing personell, so the bottom line is "make the sale" not "help the customer make the best choice for their situation."
There are some area's where Microsoft platforms do excel. Public internet servers and high security aren't one of those areas. But on an internal managed network of Windows 2000 servers and Windows 2000 clients, Microsoft platforms are excellent. The applications are there, and I'm not talking about Office. The real reason many companies are stuck on MS platforms are their business specific applications. Document Managment, MRP/ERP/EDI/etc, shipping software (From UPS, FedEx, and other shipping lines), MLS (reality), and others that I don't deal with on a daily basis are heavily tied to Windows.
So here is my plea. Let's not jump on the FUD bandwagon. Instead, let's sit down and start comparing. Platform A does this better than Platfrom B, but Platform B is better for this than Platform A... In the end you would have an extremely long list of strengths and weakness, and have a list of things to improve (or whine about if you're not into helping the community.) Really people, FUD from Microsoft is not news, it's old hat. It's them seeing their stock value drop a couple point and they need something to get those points back. (And be honest, they're only going to gain a point or two with this, then the next big bug will hit BugTraq.)
It's really time MS started being honest with themselves and their customers (heh...they're probally prefectly honest with their internal developers, after all, how else are the developers going to know what to improve?) but if they were honest with their customers and investors about what is good and bad about their platforms, new bugs, benchmarks, etc. wouldn't have such a huge impact on their stock value, their bottom line.