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Seriously, whatever happened to the Larry Augustin interview? I had a really good question pending but for some reason the interview answers never got posted. I don't mind if I don't get an answer to my question, but it's kind of insulting for YOU not to explain why we didn't get a promised story. --- This comment powered by Mozilla!
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I see a lot of responses that say "chords are no good, keep the keyboard"
But it's so big and clunky! Look at the Palm. With no keyboard it fits in your shirt pocket. With a keyboard it has to go in your backpack/briefcase/etc. But put 8 keys on the back (which would fit, at least on my Pilot 5000) and you have the power and speed of keying, but the size is constant. The retraining to use chords would probably be similar to Graffiti.
Example: Let's say you put the remote client in the kitchen like you mentioned. Where's the most natural place? On the fridge. But if it has a keyboard that won't work. Either the keys are vertical (making it impossible to type) or it sticks out (making it hazardous and ugly). So now you've got to put it on the counter along with the toaster, food processor, blender, drying rack, etc, etc, etc. No damn good.
With my specs, you put the unit on the fridge. Then you can either interface via touch screen (for quick browsing) or pluck it off the surface and key it in (for more detailed work).
I don't want a "webpad" with a pen interface. I want a wireless, diskless laptop running as an X terminal to my PC. Think about it:
-Runs on Crusoe so it is quiet, cool, light
-no disk so it is even quiter, cooler and lighter AND there's no need to sync with the mothership AND it is more robust (HD's are delicate and often fail)
Obviously this is fairly useless once I leave the house (until wireless Internet gets popular), but so what? I'm sick of being stuck in one location while I'm browsing/programming/reading-docs/looking-at-porn
Furthermore, with some intelligent design you could even get rid of the keyboard. Put 8 buttons on the back of an LCD screen (4 on left and 4 on right). Your fingers would rest on these keys as you hold the pad. Pressing them in "chords" causes characters to appear on the screen--just like typing only using more than one finger at a time. Even using only 2 fingers at a time you get 256 different characters.
BTW, if this device is ever patented, the above is "prior art".... --- This comment powered by Mozilla!
From your ranting I'm guessing you are the same person who posted for a while under the name of "GNUs-not-good". When you stopped responding during our debate I assumed (as did everyone following it, I'm sure) that you had imploded beneath your illogic.
It's not so much about Java. It's mostly about threading under Linux. The meat of the article is about how to improve the scheduler.
But the BEST part was the scientific attitude AND clear explanation (and proof) of the issues. This is EXACTLY what Linux needs. Maybe IBM would like to fund an idea I've had for a while:
Set up a lab that does nothing but Linux benchmarking. This lab would research things like the scheduler issue from this article, memory access patterns, filesystem layout, etc. All of this research would be available to the public for kernel development, third-party developers, benchmarketing (and rebuttals thereof), etc. The lab could also provide patches to "fix" issues, but that would be of secondary concern. The main purpose would be to supplement the (usually excellent) intuition of the kernel programmers with some hard science.
To do it right this should really be a separate non-profit, but it could start out as an internal project at some large company. --- This comment powered by Mozilla!
SHARE THE WEALTH FAST I was a decadent capitalist and then I got this email. It changed my life. Now I work with my comrades in the rice fields.... --- This comment powered by Mozilla!
"...functionally it works almost exactly like a collection of Perl scripts Nate and I hacked out a year..."
"Now can I please have a Linux port?"
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The fact that they didn't pre-announce when they thought of it is the best part of this news. They went ahead and did the work of removing the proprietary stuff, bundled it up and set an exact time and location for the release. THEN they told everyone.
'Generation X' refers to people born between 1960 and 1980.
Leaving aside the 60's for a second...
If I was born in 1970, then I'd be "20-something" during the 90's. If I was born in 1980 I'd be a teen during the 90's. So far this is exactly what I said.
As for the 60's: Are you seriously telling me that you consider someone who is within months of being 40 in 1999 a Generation Xer? Get real. ---
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First let me thank you from the bottom of my heart for demonstrating that:
/. community know, en-masse what the situation is? A quickie even?
a) You read comments
b) You care to respond
c) You are continuing to follow up with VA Linux
d) You feel bad about not posting the followup story
Second, maybe you could let the
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Seriously, whatever happened to the Larry Augustin interview? I had a really good question pending but for some reason the interview answers never got posted. I don't mind if I don't get an answer to my question, but it's kind of insulting for YOU not to explain why we didn't get a promised story.
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There's nothing in the GPL that says you can't "sell commercially". Look at RedHat, for instance.
The GPL only requires that you give source code that matches the binaries.
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...Bill was what? 20? 19?
(SARCASM=ON)Can't tell he was raised by a lawyer.(SARCASM=OFF)
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"We can't just trust the end-user to solve these problems themselves," Valentine said.
So the implication is that W2k sys admins are incompetent to maintain security and can't be trusted (his word) to do it right?
Talk about the pot calling the kettle black.
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Wait....what's "WAP"?
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I see a lot of responses that say "chords are no good, keep the keyboard"
But it's so big and clunky! Look at the Palm. With no keyboard it fits in your shirt pocket. With a keyboard it has to go in your backpack/briefcase/etc. But put 8 keys on the back (which would fit, at least on my Pilot 5000) and you have the power and speed of keying, but the size is constant. The retraining to use chords would probably be similar to Graffiti.
Example: Let's say you put the remote client in the kitchen like you mentioned. Where's the most natural place? On the fridge. But if it has a keyboard that won't work. Either the keys are vertical (making it impossible to type) or it sticks out (making it hazardous and ugly). So now you've got to put it on the counter along with the toaster, food processor, blender, drying rack, etc, etc, etc. No damn good.
With my specs, you put the unit on the fridge. Then you can either interface via touch screen (for quick browsing) or pluck it off the surface and key it in (for more detailed work).
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I don't want a "webpad" with a pen interface. I want a wireless, diskless laptop running as an X terminal to my PC. Think about it:
-Runs on Crusoe so it is quiet, cool, light
-no disk so it is even quiter, cooler and lighter AND there's no need to sync with the mothership AND it is more robust (HD's are delicate and often fail)
Obviously this is fairly useless once I leave the house (until wireless Internet gets popular), but so what? I'm sick of being stuck in one location while I'm browsing/programming/reading-docs/looking-at-porn
Furthermore, with some intelligent design you could even get rid of the keyboard. Put 8 buttons on the back of an LCD screen (4 on left and 4 on right). Your fingers would rest on these keys as you hold the pad. Pressing them in "chords" causes characters to appear on the screen--just like typing only using more than one finger at a time. Even using only 2 fingers at a time you get 256 different characters.
BTW, if this device is ever patented, the above is "prior art"....
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...just curious
What does CorelDRAW provide that GIMP doesn't (or couldn't)?
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From your ranting I'm guessing you are the same person who posted for a while under the name of "GNUs-not-good". When you stopped responding during our debate I assumed (as did everyone following it, I'm sure) that you had imploded beneath your illogic.
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What if Larry Wall had called his language "BeeGeesAirSupply"? Would you want to use it?
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This article gave me a hard-on.
It's not so much about Java. It's mostly about threading under Linux. The meat of the article is about how to improve the scheduler.
But the BEST part was the scientific attitude AND clear explanation (and proof) of the issues. This is EXACTLY what Linux needs. Maybe IBM would like to fund an idea I've had for a while:
Set up a lab that does nothing but Linux benchmarking. This lab would research things like the scheduler issue from this article, memory access patterns, filesystem layout, etc. All of this research would be available to the public for kernel development, third-party developers, benchmarketing (and rebuttals thereof), etc. The lab could also provide patches to "fix" issues, but that would be of secondary concern. The main purpose would be to supplement the (usually excellent) intuition of the kernel programmers with some hard science.
To do it right this should really be a separate non-profit, but it could start out as an internal project at some large company.
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So pretty soon I'll be seeing email like this:
SHARE THE WEALTH FAST
I was a decadent capitalist and then I got this email. It changed my life. Now I work with my comrades in the rice fields....
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When is M13 due out?
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"...functionally it works almost exactly like a collection of Perl scripts Nate and I hacked out a year..."
"Now can I please have a Linux port?"
Why? You have software that works the same. If your concern is for other people, just make your scripts available for them to download. I don't understand the problem.
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No, not the game--I've never heard of it.
The fact that they didn't pre-announce when they thought of it is the best part of this news. They went ahead and did the work of removing the proprietary stuff, bundled it up and set an exact time and location for the release. THEN they told everyone.
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What ever happened to the Larry Augustine bonus interview?
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'Generation X' refers to people born between 1960 and 1980.
Leaving aside the 60's for a second...
If I was born in 1970, then I'd be "20-something" during the 90's. If I was born in 1980 I'd be a teen during the 90's. So far this is exactly what I said.
As for the 60's: Are you seriously telling me that you consider someone who is within months of being 40 in 1999 a Generation Xer? Get real.
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...as long as you give me royalties.
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Me Generation. I Generation. Get it?
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I just realized what the people like Jon Katz are going to call the "children of the 90's". I'll lead up to it.
The 90's teens/20-somethings used to be "Generation X", but that's old now so we need a new name.
The most significant occurrence in the late 90's was the explosion of the Internet.
The 80's were the "Me Generation".
We will be "The iGeneration".
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I realize I'm going to sound like a fanatic, but really, I didn't mean for any of this to happen...
First, I have an Opus stuffed doll from way back. Remove the tie and it looks a little like Tux (actually better).
Then my wife got (from her parents) some flannel pajamas with little penguins all over.
Then my wife bought little penguin socks for my one-year-old.
To paraphrase Robert Benchley: "I'm penguin poor, I have so many".
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