The 'exif' program from the libexif project can modify exif tags. libexif can also modify the gps tags, but the exif program doesn't support that, so you'll have to write some code yourself.
Actually, Linus doesn't do very much programming
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He reviews the much of the changes that are going in, and he has designed some of the larger changes, but the bulk of the programming is done by others. This is why comparing the rate of the merging of patches makes sense in the first place, that is mostly what Linus does.
Just from following the kernel development from the outside it is obvious that things have been working much more smoothly after Linus started using bitkeeper than it has in a long time. In the past there has been several periods where the tension has gotten very high mostly because large number of patches has been dropped by Linus without explanation. Lately this seems to have been no problem at all. And this has happened when the rate of the patches going into the kernel has increased significantly.
There may be other reasons for this too, ofcourse. Things I can think of is that the cooperation with the "kernel lieutenants" has been working better. In particular Andrew Morton seems to do a remarkable good job. And, the fact that Linus now is working full time on Linux probably also helps.
Given that the instruction sets are compatible, you don't need to do much investigation to figure out that they have looked at AMD's x86-64.
Apparently, there is still some confusion about whether the instructions sets are compatible or not, and people such as Linus has been critisizing Intel for trying to hide the fact that they are indeed compatible by giving the instruction set another name.
When it comes to licensing of technology, AMD and Intel has had cross-licensing agreements since the seventies, and there has been roumors for a long time that these has included x86-64.
Long file names has nothing to do with FAT32. The long filenames are stored in extra directory entries, and this works just fine with FAT16 and FAT12 too.
Trident 4DWave NX/DX based cards are excellent! Not sure if they're still available though. For about $20 you get a card with S/PDIF out and at least 16 stereo pcm devices with ALSA. I bought a couple of them at Hoontech Taiwan (just checked. no longer available from their site).
No, they are no longer available, and haven't been for a while either.
The SoundBlaster Live is an example of a cheap soundcard that does hardware mixing.
For example in my latop Intel soundcard which seems to only play at 44 Khz if using xmms. Now I know this is a software problem but it would be nice if it worked out the box.
It's quite possible that the soundcard can't play anything but 44kHz, but xmms should convert the samplerate if necessary. If that doesn't happen there is a bug somewhere, probably in your soundcard driver.
...but the term "Mozilla" has been associated with Netscape for a long, long time, even before the open source project.
The Mozilla name seems to have been coined by jwz back in 1994 (see the 5 August entry). The Mozilla name seems to have been associated with Netscape longer than the Netscape name actually. At that time the company was called Mosaic Communications Corporation.
How far would Microsoft have gotten if they "broke binary compatibility" with major releases of Windows? Basically, not far at all. That's not to say that Windows has perfect backward compatibility, but I don't think it's too strong a statement to say that one of the reasons Microsoft has dominated is that they have given people an upgrade path for their old applications.
Just keep the old major version around, what's the problem with that? I have both Qt 1.x and Qt 2.x installed already and I can happily run programs linked against both.
Windows has problems with having different versions of a dll installed at once leading to what is often called dll hell, but this is not a problem with Unix.
Steve Scherf and Ti Kan created CDDB in 1995 and wrote every line of code.
...and released both the server and a client (xmcd) under the GPL. Apparently they later has figured out that this was a bad idea, but they still can't revoke the software.
I haven't really understood what Gracenote has sued Roxio for, and this letter did not make it any clearer.
The paragraph about The Gathering managed to get just about everything wrong. First, The Gatering is in Norway, not The Netherlands. As for the number of attendes, the previous story got it right, and this one got it wrong. The official numbers are here. Last, The Gathering is not (at least not originally) a gaming fest, but a demo scene party.
I attended The Gathering the first time in 1993, and it was actually more fun before there was a large network and a high speed internet connection, although I had a really good time in 1996 too.
Interoperability between the Windows and Linux versions hopefully will be good, because exchanging themes between the two versions of Sonique will hopefully be easier than exchanging themes between Winamp and XMMS.
What problems do you have with exchanging skins between Winamp and XMMS?
Was CDDB GPL'ed when it started or at some point during its life? If so, does that version contain this "encoding" in it?
xmcd the orginal cddb-client has AFAIK always been GPL and it still is. xmcd certainly includes the disc-id algorithm. Originally, the cddb server software was also GPL, but newer versions is not. The software FreeDB is running is based on the original GPLed software
> Cox was swamped by adoring follows of the Linux hoping perhaps that a little of his coding expertise might rub of on them.
This sentence now reads: [...], Cox was swamped by adoring Linux followers hoping perhaps that a little of his coding expertise might rub off on them.
Which is a litle better atleast. Maybe ZDNet reads Slashdot:)
Re:Linux ready for world dominiation?
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"World domination" was something Linus put in his.plan file a looong time ago, is was ment as a joke. Noone could imagine that it ever was going to happen.
The article says GnuPG is in the public domain. Is this true? No GPL or LGPL? If its really in the public domain they must have abandoned the copyright too. This must, if it is correct, be very unusual for GNU.
> Maybe someone should submit patches to XMMS giving it native ALSA support...
x11amp, no wait, xmms uses a plugin-architecture. There has been a ALSA-plugin available for some time now. The reasons that it has not been included in the official distribution yet is as far as I know: 1. The ALSA-plugin has been a bit buggy. (I have not tested the latest version though) 2. The ALSA API has changed recently.
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The 'exif' program from the libexif project can modify exif tags. libexif can also modify the gps tags, but the exif program doesn't support that, so you'll have to write some code yourself.
Well, yes that is the patch if you are running x86_64.
u de/asm-i386/i387.h@1.5??nav=index.html|ChangeSet@- 7d|cset@1.1447
The 2.4 patch for i386 is here:
http://linux.bkbits.net:8080/linux-2.4/diffs/incl
He reviews the much of the changes that are going in, and he has designed some of the larger changes, but the bulk of the programming is done by others. This is why comparing the rate of the merging of patches makes sense in the first place, that is mostly what Linus does.
Just from following the kernel development from the outside it is obvious that things have been working much more smoothly after Linus started using bitkeeper than it has in a long time. In the past there has been several periods where the tension has gotten very high mostly because large number of patches has been dropped by Linus without explanation. Lately this seems to have been no problem at all. And this has happened when the rate of the patches going into the kernel has increased significantly.
There may be other reasons for this too, ofcourse. Things I can think of is that the cooperation with the "kernel lieutenants" has been working better. In particular Andrew Morton seems to do a remarkable good job. And, the fact that Linus now is working full time on Linux probably also helps.
Given that the instruction sets are compatible, you don't need to do much investigation to figure out that they have looked at AMD's x86-64.
Apparently, there is still some confusion about whether the instructions sets are compatible or not, and people such as Linus has been critisizing Intel for trying to hide the fact that they are indeed compatible by giving the instruction set another name.
When it comes to licensing of technology, AMD and Intel has had cross-licensing agreements since the seventies, and there has been roumors for a long time that these has included x86-64.
Long file names has nothing to do with FAT32. The long filenames are stored in extra directory entries, and this works just fine with FAT16 and FAT12 too.
This is the complete 19MB version.
No, they are no longer available, and haven't been for a while either.
The SoundBlaster Live is an example of a cheap soundcard that does hardware mixing.
It's quite possible that the soundcard can't play anything but 44kHz, but xmms should convert the samplerate if necessary. If that doesn't happen there is a bug somewhere, probably in your soundcard driver.
Musicbrainz may have been officially launced today, but the project has been around for quite some time already.
The Mozilla name seems to have been coined by jwz back in 1994 (see the 5 August entry). The Mozilla name seems to have been associated with Netscape longer than the Netscape name actually. At that time the company was called Mosaic Communications Corporation.
The avi-xmms plugin can play wma.
Just keep the old major version around, what's the problem with that? I have both Qt 1.x and Qt 2.x installed already and I can happily run programs linked against both.
Windows has problems with having different versions of a dll installed at once leading to what is often called dll hell, but this is not a problem with Unix.
I haven't really understood what Gracenote has sued Roxio for, and this letter did not make it any clearer.
I attended The Gathering the first time in 1993, and it was actually more fun before there was a large network and a high speed internet connection, although I had a really good time in 1996 too.
Interoperability between the Windows and Linux versions hopefully will be good, because exchanging themes between the two versions of Sonique will hopefully be easier than exchanging themes between Winamp and XMMS.
What problems do you have with exchanging skins between Winamp and XMMS?
xmcd the orginal cddb-client has AFAIK always been GPL and it still is. xmcd certainly includes the disc-id algorithm. Originally, the cddb server software was also GPL, but newer versions is not. The software FreeDB is running is based on the original GPLed software
Yes, this is correct, reverse engineering is allowed in Norway.
Here is the release notes from Alan:
http://www.linux.org.uk/VERSION/ relnotes.2213.html
Enjoy!
> Cox was swamped by adoring follows of the Linux hoping perhaps that a little of his coding expertise might rub of on them.
:)
This sentence now reads:
[...], Cox was swamped by adoring Linux followers hoping perhaps that a little of his coding expertise might rub off on them.
Which is a litle better atleast.
Maybe ZDNet reads Slashdot
"World domination" was something Linus put in his .plan file a looong time ago, is was ment as a joke. Noone could imagine that it ever was going to happen.
The article says GnuPG is in the public domain. Is this true? No GPL or LGPL? If its really in the public domain they must have abandoned the copyright too. This must, if it is correct, be very unusual for GNU.
> Maybe someone should submit patches to XMMS giving it native ALSA support...
x11amp, no wait, xmms uses a plugin-architecture. There has been a ALSA-plugin available for some time now. The reasons that it has not been included in the official distribution yet is as far as I know:
1. The ALSA-plugin has been a bit buggy. (I have not tested the latest version though)
2. The ALSA API has changed recently.
If you want this plugin you can check: http://server.bohemians.org/~iznogood/
This used to be linked from the old x11amp-homepage.
x11amp has used mpg123 since the first 0.9 alpha versions.