IMHO, Roblimo didn't honestly try out Windows XP, but instead just wanted to write down some often repeated statements. Why take the trouble to work with an OS if you're prejudiced from the start?
XP has its good things and its bad, but this article is far from an honest overview of them.
(I am writing this on a GNU/Linux system, by the way, but I also use XP once in a while)
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For a research project I've actually been doing a bit of reading about RDF and OWL yesterday. When you do, you occasionally come across these types of remarks.
> java + XML = demand for 4+ghz CPUs
Let's make one thing clear: RDF is not an instantiation of the XML syntax. You can use XML to transfer RDF statements, but for reasoning other, internal, representations are to be preferred.
As I'm working on a Prolog project that needs RDF I use the SWI-Prolog RDF library, which, according to this recent paper (pdf)* speeds up processing 22 folds compared to using the RDF/XML serialization syntax. Please note that Mozilla uses Prolog+RDF as well.
So, let the games begin. How many messages did you receive? I'll double dare you! My personal records stand at:
1.5 per minute for 24 consequtive hours (on wednesday)
and
1 per second in the last half an hour (!)
Today I'll be leaving for a few days, but I won't dare to power off my computer, since my ISP's emailbox will become flooded in a few hours this way... aargh (oh, and I use linux, so no, it is not my own fault). My ISP does have a spambox, but they don't delete attachments, so what's the use?
As a C/C++ developer I'm not very familiar with java environments. How ever, after reading this post I decided to ask god and he gave me this insightful link: apparently, you can forget about the performance issue when compiling java/swt apps locally. According to the author it should work on Windows, gnome, and possibly more.
Perhaps it is time to revisit java after all those years.
Peripheral rival Logitech said that it had no plans to introduce a competing mouse that adds horizontal scrolling.
I am actually using a Logitech Trackman Marble FX trackball that doubles as a 2d scrollweel. Unfortunately the nice people at logitech stopped making these things.
oh, and I never got the scrolling to work in Linux, nor Mozilla under windows. Logitech also doesn't do Linux it seems.
Disregarding the usual legal vs. legitimate discussion that always takes place after these kinds of posts for a second, let's focus on the technical hurdles the RIAA has to take.
There are plenty of options out there to cover your tracks if your dealing with illegal content, e.g. the new Kazaalite and Freenet. What about doing it the other way around?
Do a massive rename of legal songs into Britney Spears, Michael Jackson, etc. The songs are legal, yet the RIAA will try to sue you. If enough people do it they won't know where to begin. You don't think they actually listen to the songs, right? It's the same they where trying to do on the Kazaa network a year or so ago, themselves.
To make sure these servers don't bring the networks down a few precautions have to be made. Don't actually share your content: throttle down the upload transfer maximum. Then, open up your listing to everyone. You will be spotted soon enough.... and use a different client for your real downloading needs. If 40M people would try this the RIAA would have to stop soon enough.
As a dutch citizen I have seen many Tulip computers through the years. The company has been on the brink of bankrupcy a number of times. To divert this they have tried to reuse the commodore brand name previously. I'm not quite sure when it was. Even google (= god) couldn't tell me. It was probably somewhere around 1995
"Global re-launch of COMMODORE by TULIP COMPUTERS N.V. and IR" by SCouT on Sat, Jul 12, 2003 15:00:25
Amersfoort, July 11, 2003
Today Tulip Computers NV (Tulip) and Ironstone Partners Ltd. (Ironstone) signed a licence agreement for a partnership, which is a major step in the global re-launch of the Commodore brand name.
Tulip will receive a license fee for all Commodore C64 products delivered by Ironstone, installed on all computer brands using the Microsoft or any other operating system and all Commodore 64 branded products. In addition, Tulip will receive a license fee over the revenue from software downloads, subscriptions and advertising.
Even today there is still an extensive group of about 6 million loyal Commodore users and enthusiasts around the world. This community is currently spread over hundreds of unofficial websites. The community craves acknowledgement and authenticity from the true Commodore C64 brand. Tulip is the owner of the brand name Commodore. Through this partnership Tulip grants to Ironstone the exclusive rights to exploit the official Commodore C64 web-portal and use of the Commodore 64 brand name.
Ironstone and Tulip invite the Commodore community to join the official Commodore C64 web-portal. Currently there are about 300 commercial websites that use the name Commodore or Commodore 64 without having a license from Tulip. Tulip will not allow unauthorised use of the Commodore brand.
In this partnership, Ironstone will create the official Commodore C64 games and community portal designed to focus and harness the power of the Commodore C64 user base and to efficiently provide the services required by these individuals for a fee. The founders of Ironstone are experienced and successful, in previous similar projects Ironstone achieved a subscriber to pay subscriber conversion rate that was unparalleled in the Internet space.
The main objective of the Ironstone official C64 portal is to unite this massive global fan base of passionate enthusiasts. Through its web portal, Ironstone will market the official C64 emulator in various software and hardware formats. The games offered by the Ironstone web-portal will include the famous 'classic' C64 games as well as exciting new games and will also sell its Commodore-branded products through the site.
Tulip will get full access to the estimated 6 million users and will also sell its Commodore branded products through this portal. Tulip will introduce, the upcoming months, new hardware products under the Commodore brand name, being able to use the C64 emulator.
According to Bjorn Bruggeman, Brand Manager Commodore: "Through strategic partnerships we're creating a web of Commodore partner companies. Each partner, or licensee, is selected on his unique expertise and will focus on a specific market segment within the Commodore strategy. The synergy advantages are huge. The license agreement with Ironstone is an important step in this process and will enable Tulip to enter a complete new era with almost unlimited e-commerce opportunities. "
Darren Melbourne, Creative Director, Ironstone Partners commented, " The license deal with Tulip is a huge breakthrough for the millions of C64 enthusiasts and retro gamers around the world who are still loyal to this incredible games system. Ironstone is committed to bringing this technology and games library back to prominence on every platform available to us."
Commodore C64 facts and figures
The C64 is the biggest selling home computer in world history. The C64 has an unparalleled heritage as a groundbreaking games and home use PC. The C64's role in the evolution of the modern games industry was incredible powerful and the echoes of its influence still reverberate through the industry today. Even today there is still an extensive group of about 6 million loyal Commodore users and enthusiasts around the world. A countless number of hobbyists and Commodore
"[...] For years, as they steadily lost market share to the European challenger, the Americans have been outspokenly critical of Airbus. In the 1980s the beef was the huge subsidies that European governments poured into the industry. Now that Airbus repays such launch aid, that is less relevant, especially as Boeing receives indirect subsidies through America's defence budget and space programme. [...] "
Airbus is actually having to repay previous loans, while Boeing is still getting a steady cashflow by working for the US military.
Your statement used to be true, however its validity date has long passed.
Reading through the information on the haystack website I got a small deja vu feeling... a few years ago I designed a system that indexes information on your harddrive using (among others) the google directory to create dynamic categorical hierarchal views on your data ( also in RDF ).
Since then the project kind of stopped, but if you're interested in this sort of research, please check it out at http://atoms.sourceforge.net/
Being the work of a single person, atomsnet is far from a polished application. I still believe the underlying idea has potential, though. I just can't find the time to expand the number of indexing plugins to make it more useful at the moment.
NB A paper about atomsnet was published at CIVR2002
"We believe the Linux community will be best served by consolidating most of the performance projects into one or two projects, and then move that functionality into the kernel."
in the kernel? why oh why would we want profiling tools embedded in the kernel?
Does anyone believe this anti-piracy trick will actually work? That it is beneficial to the user?
Firstly, WinXP Service Packs are available through Kazaa and other P2P networks (or so I've heard;) and they are based on essentially the same protection scheme.
Second, you can read the line
"[...] providing a bonus pack and further downloads"
also as
"[...] stripping down the cd to the bare system".
I personally like it when I can install a complete game without having to download MBs of additional content. Ofcourse, it's good that companies supply updates when problems are detected. This is another issue, though.
Weren't/. readers supposed to be a critical croud? Don't believe the hype.
What I don't understand is why everyone actually talks about `gnutella2' here. There are many different P2P protocols available. This guy named his gnutella2 and now we should believe it actually is the second version of the gnutella protocol?
Shouldn't we have a discussion about what makes a good protocol before adopting it as a (pseudo)standard?
In this context I'm afraid the commercial vendors might have a point.
As a dutch resident I can remember a recent story where a dutch family was extradited to the US for shoplifting... although this is not civil law it still raised some eyebrows over here.
Perhaps we should all become residents of
the principality of sealand, I guess Bush has no idea where that is;-)
I've watched a few episodes that were broadcast at the 'bbc learning zone', nighttime educational programming, and in one of these they talk about disturbing the local island radio with one of their homebuilt devices. As far as I know this island was somewhere in the caribbean, but I forgot the name. I guess they had to drive at most a half an hour before hitting the first cocktail bar after taping an episode. That basically defies the entire survivor idea, right?
Most Linux users I know (including myself) have a dual boot system, since you sometimes really need to have a Windows laying around. As far as I know all OS-usage stats simply deny this fact. Therefore, how should dual boots be counted? I personally use Linux 95% of the time, but have to switch to windows for internet banking and some IE specific websites. Do I count as a Linux user? or as both?
the moral of the story is: supply test information with the stats, or don't show the stats.
True. The fact that the physical layer of the network plays a large part in the performance of a P2Pnet is often neglected. I personally believe that the best performance increase in the next couple of months/years will come from designing 'virtual networks' around physical sublayers instead of just mathematical analysis. Both are important, but for now, one of these is completely overlooked.
Since I'm seriously considering writing my masters thesis about coupling physical with virtual nets in the most efficient manner I'd like to hear about current research related to per peer bandwith and latency issues (being the first to address this sounds just as well, though;) ).
Mathematical proofs are very important when practicing 'good' research, but practical issues always seem to screw up these theoretical proofs, so I believe we should try to address these too.
Slashdot Mirror
clickable link : http://www.scyld.com/products/beowulf/software/mon te.html
( for lazy surfers)
IMHO, Roblimo didn't honestly try out Windows XP, but instead just wanted to write down some often repeated statements. Why take the trouble to work with an OS if you're prejudiced from the start?
XP has its good things and its bad, but this article is far from an honest overview of them.
(I am writing this on a GNU/Linux system, by the way, but I also use XP once in a while)
For a research project I've actually been doing a bit of reading about RDF and OWL yesterday. When you do, you occasionally come across these types of remarks.
> java + XML = demand for 4+ghz CPUs
Let's make one thing clear: RDF is not an instantiation of the XML syntax. You can use XML to transfer RDF statements, but for reasoning other, internal, representations are to be preferred.
As I'm working on a Prolog project that needs RDF I use the SWI-Prolog RDF library, which, according to
this recent paper (pdf)* speeds up processing 22 folds compared to using the RDF/XML serialization syntax. Please note that Mozilla uses Prolog+RDF as well.
(*) here's google's html version of the paper
Saturday the NYTimes (reg, you know the drill) reviewed this book. here's the link.
I don't care how many eyecandy they put into their user interface.... just don't put everything in explorer.exe!
It's true, the OS windows xp seems to be more stable than win 9x. Instead of the OS hanging, it's now the user interface.
Software development 101 : modularize!
So, let the games begin. How many messages did you receive? I'll double dare you! My personal records stand at :
1.5 per minute for 24 consequtive hours (on wednesday)
and
1 per second in the last half an hour (!)
Today I'll be leaving for a few days, but I won't dare to power off my computer, since my ISP's emailbox will become flooded in a few hours this way... aargh
(oh, and I use linux, so no, it is not my own fault). My ISP does have a spambox, but they don't delete attachments, so what's the use?
apparently they hit the netherlands too. I get about 2 a minute. These are some of the subject lines :
Re : Approved
Re : My Details
Re : Thank you
Returned Mail: (quite a good one, actually)
oh, and besides the standard aol and hotmail accounts a lot seem to come from rutgers.edu (although they probably don't)
It's time to readjust those filters, I guess. Unfortunately, mine still works manually.
As a C/C++ developer I'm not very familiar with java environments. How ever, after reading this post I decided to ask god and he gave me this insightful link: apparently, you can forget about the performance issue when compiling java/swt apps locally. According to the author it should work on Windows, gnome, and possibly more.
Perhaps it is time to revisit java after all those years.
then again, printf("%s\n","maybe not").
eWeek also runs an article on MadHatter and LookingGlass:
link here
does anyone know of photo's of the GUI?
Peripheral rival Logitech said that it had no plans to introduce a competing mouse that adds horizontal scrolling.
I am actually using a Logitech Trackman Marble FX trackball that doubles as a 2d scrollweel. Unfortunately the nice people at logitech stopped making these things.
oh, and I never got the scrolling to work in Linux, nor Mozilla under windows. Logitech also doesn't do Linux it seems.
the biggest reason of all, I want to support Gentoo.
then just donate directly. There's a link to paypal at the gentoo homepage. $10 in donations far outweights buying $15 of CD's.
Disregarding the usual legal vs. legitimate discussion that always takes place after these kinds of posts for a second, let's focus on the technical hurdles the RIAA has to take.
... and use a different client for your real downloading needs. If 40M people would try this the RIAA would have to stop soon enough.
There are plenty of options out there to cover your tracks if your dealing with illegal content, e.g. the new Kazaalite and Freenet. What about doing it the other way around?
Do a massive rename of legal songs into Britney Spears, Michael Jackson, etc. The songs are legal, yet the RIAA will try to sue you. If enough people do it they won't know where to begin. You don't think they actually listen to the songs, right? It's the same they where trying to do on the Kazaa network a year or so ago, themselves.
To make sure these servers don't bring the networks down a few precautions have to be made. Don't actually share your content: throttle down the upload transfer maximum. Then, open up your listing to everyone. You will be spotted soon enough.
As a dutch citizen I have seen many Tulip computers through the years. The company has been on the brink of bankrupcy a number of times. To divert this they have tried to reuse the commodore brand name previously.
I'm not quite sure when it was. Even google
(= god) couldn't tell me. It was probably somewhere around 1995
from http://www.c64.org/ :
"Global re-launch of COMMODORE by TULIP COMPUTERS N.V. and IR"
by SCouT on Sat, Jul 12, 2003 15:00:25
Amersfoort, July 11, 2003
Today Tulip Computers NV (Tulip) and Ironstone Partners Ltd. (Ironstone) signed a licence agreement for a partnership, which is a major step in the global re-launch of the Commodore brand name.
Tulip will receive a license fee for all Commodore C64 products delivered by Ironstone, installed on all computer brands using the Microsoft or any other operating system and all Commodore 64 branded products. In addition, Tulip will receive a license fee over the revenue from software downloads, subscriptions and advertising.
Even today there is still an extensive group of about 6 million loyal Commodore users and enthusiasts around the world. This community is currently spread over hundreds of unofficial websites. The community craves acknowledgement and authenticity from the true Commodore C64 brand. Tulip is the owner of the brand name Commodore. Through this partnership Tulip grants to Ironstone the exclusive rights to exploit the official Commodore C64 web-portal and use of the Commodore 64 brand name.
Ironstone and Tulip invite the Commodore community to join the official Commodore C64 web-portal. Currently there are about 300 commercial websites that use the name Commodore or Commodore 64 without having a license from Tulip. Tulip will not allow unauthorised use of the Commodore brand.
In this partnership, Ironstone will create the official Commodore C64 games and community portal designed to focus and harness the power of the Commodore C64 user base and to efficiently provide the services required by these individuals for a fee. The founders of Ironstone are experienced and successful, in previous similar projects Ironstone achieved a subscriber to pay subscriber conversion rate that was unparalleled in the Internet space.
The main objective of the Ironstone official C64 portal is to unite this massive global fan base of passionate enthusiasts. Through its web portal, Ironstone will market the official C64 emulator in various software and hardware formats. The games offered by the Ironstone web-portal will include the famous 'classic' C64 games as well as exciting new games and will also sell its Commodore-branded products through the site.
Tulip will get full access to the estimated 6 million users and will also sell its Commodore branded products through this portal. Tulip will introduce, the upcoming months, new hardware products under the Commodore brand name, being able to use the C64 emulator.
According to Bjorn Bruggeman, Brand Manager Commodore: "Through strategic partnerships we're creating a web of Commodore partner companies. Each partner, or licensee, is selected on his unique expertise and will focus on a specific market segment within the Commodore strategy. The synergy advantages are huge. The license agreement with Ironstone is an important step in this process and will enable Tulip to enter a complete new era with almost unlimited e-commerce opportunities. "
Darren Melbourne, Creative Director, Ironstone Partners commented, " The license deal with Tulip is a huge breakthrough for the millions of C64 enthusiasts and retro gamers around the world who are still loyal to this incredible games system. Ironstone is committed to bringing this technology and games library back to prominence on every platform available to us."
Commodore C64 facts and figures
The C64 is the biggest selling home computer in world history.
The C64 has an unparalleled heritage as a groundbreaking games and home use PC.
The C64's role in the evolution of the modern games industry was incredible powerful and the echoes of its influence still reverberate through the industry today.
Even today there is still an extensive group of about 6 million loyal Commodore users and enthusiasts around the world.
A countless number of hobbyists and Commodore
"Consider this. Your primary competition is subsidized by Europoean governments."
well, according to
the Economist.com article:
"[...]
For years, as they steadily lost market share to the European challenger, the Americans have been outspokenly critical of Airbus. In the 1980s the beef was the huge subsidies that European governments poured into the industry. Now that Airbus repays such launch aid, that is less relevant, especially as Boeing receives indirect subsidies through America's defence budget and space programme.
[...]
"
Airbus is actually having to repay previous loans, while Boeing is still getting a steady cashflow by working for the US military.
Your statement used to be true, however its validity date has long passed.
Reading through the information on the haystack website I got a small deja vu feeling... a few years ago I designed a system that indexes information on your harddrive using (among others) the google directory to create dynamic categorical hierarchal views on your data ( also in RDF ).
Since then the project kind of stopped, but if you're
interested in this sort of research, please check it out at http://atoms.sourceforge.net/
Being the work of a single person, atomsnet is far from a polished application. I still believe the underlying idea has potential, though. I just can't find the time to expand the number of indexing plugins to make it more useful at the moment.
NB A paper about atomsnet was published at CIVR2002
from the website:
"We believe the Linux community will be best served by consolidating most of the performance projects into one or two projects, and then move that functionality into the kernel."
in the kernel? why oh why would we want profiling tools embedded in the kernel?
Does anyone know who implemented the database key sorts mentioned in the article? I couldn't find any references, but it seems fairly interesting
Does anyone believe this anti-piracy trick will actually work? That it is beneficial to the user?
;) and they are based on essentially the same protection scheme.
/. readers supposed to be a critical croud? Don't believe the hype.
Firstly, WinXP Service Packs are available through Kazaa and other P2P networks (or so I've heard
Second, you can read the line
"[...] providing a bonus pack and further downloads"
also as
"[...] stripping down the cd to the bare system".
I personally like it when I can install a complete game without having to download MBs of additional content. Ofcourse, it's good that companies supply updates when problems are detected. This is another issue, though.
Weren't
What I don't understand is why everyone actually talks about `gnutella2' here. There are many different P2P protocols
available. This guy named his gnutella2 and now we should believe it actually is the second version of the gnutella protocol?
Shouldn't we have a discussion about what makes a good protocol before adopting it as a (pseudo)standard?
In this context I'm afraid the commercial vendors might have a point.
I guess since C|Net reports this it is considered news. However, this technique has existed since ages
(in internet time, approx 4 years realtime).
When it first came out some people actually implemented websites using the onmouseover() event, but soon they figured out it was too annyoing.
Well... they're back.
As a dutch resident I can remember a recent story where a dutch family was extradited to the US for shoplifting... although this is not civil law it still raised some eyebrows over here. Perhaps we should all become residents of the principality of sealand, I guess Bush has no idea where that is ;-)
I've watched a few episodes that were broadcast at the 'bbc learning zone', nighttime educational programming, and in one of these they talk about disturbing the local island radio with one of their homebuilt devices. As far as I know this island was somewhere in the caribbean, but I forgot the name. I guess they had to drive at most a half an hour before hitting the first cocktail bar after taping an episode. That basically defies the entire survivor idea, right?
Most Linux users I know (including myself) have a
dual boot system, since you sometimes really need
to have a Windows laying around. As far as I know all OS-usage stats simply deny this fact. Therefore,
how should dual boots be counted? I personally use Linux 95% of the time, but have to switch to windows for internet banking and some IE specific websites. Do I count as a Linux user? or as both?
the moral of the story is: supply test information with the stats, or don't show the stats.
True. The fact that the physical layer of the network plays a large part in the performance of a P2Pnet is often neglected. I personally believe that the best performance increase in the next couple of months/years will come from designing 'virtual networks' around physical sublayers instead of just mathematical analysis. Both are important, but for now, one of these is completely overlooked. Since I'm seriously considering writing my masters thesis about coupling physical with virtual nets in the most efficient manner I'd like to hear about current research related to per peer bandwith and latency issues (being the first to address this sounds just as well, though ;) ).
Mathematical proofs are very important when practicing 'good' research, but practical issues always seem to screw up these theoretical proofs, so I believe we should try to address these too.