Not just that, that's the most family hostile city out there. Imagine if you live somewhere: parking is a nightmare anywhere you go within the city. You'd ultimately find parking far enough that you might as well have taken MUNI. But living w/o a car ain't too comfortable either, since one does have to do things like groceries often (or do they deliver home?) So w/ all that congestion, that's one of the least healthy places to live.
If you have money to burn, just move a little out to Daly City or Brisbane, or on the other end, in Marin county or Oakland, and you'd get a lot more bang for buck in terms of living
There are so many cellphone apps like WhatsApp, WeChat, et al which would allow you to do that w/ just a cellphone and a WiFi network in range. You can even disable your cellular data connection just to ensure that there's no way you can be charged for that one.
I looked at the projects from 2008, and AFAIK none of them have really made much progress or are already dead. Gnash, really? Luckily for everyone (except Adobe) Flash is in it's death knell in 2017. Coreboot is a great concept (I have used LinuxBIOS in a couple of projects) but ultimately doomed because firmware/BIOS is intimately tied to hardware - it will be great for hobby projects but by definition never be useful for mainstream PCs. And so it goes down the list...
And the 2017 list... Free smartphone OS basically seems to be "free Android" - I'm sure it will be about as successful at the 2008 goal with "gNewSense". FSF personal assistant? Could it be possible they don't understand how these work? It's trivial client software with billions of dollars in server hardware behind it. And seriously, "projects that replace Google, Facebook Apple, and so on"? Again, you don't replace those unless you have billions in backend investment and billions of users.
I commend them on finally trying to address the totally dysfunctional open source community in terms of female and minority inclusion, but they still need to prioritize actual useful *projects*, not just processes...
This is pretty much right, although I like some of the newer priorities they have, such as 'driver development, internationalization, accessibility.' At least, that would largely reduce the barriers that exist in their 'Libre-Linux' being accepted. About Replicant, I just don't see the point - why don't they look at partnering w/ LineageOS to produce something? They can fork it so that they have a GPL3 version while LineageOS has maybe a BSD one.
But the larger point you made is correct - they need to look at their budget, pick the ones that are not just essential for entry to adaption - such as drivers, but also projects that do not require heavy investment in backend infrastructure. Like lose things like GNU Network and GNU Social, and focus instead on things that would enable them to handle documents or sites created from 'non-Free' software. Sorta like LibreOffice or Epiphany, but in ways where adapting those does not mean that one loses one's ability to experience the entire web, or edit MS Office documents.
This - absolutely this!!! I don't use Siri or Cortana or Alexa or any other 'assistant'. The last thing I want or need is an AI telling me that I have any sort of accent. Besides, it's not very complicated for me to open up Fandango if I'm checking for movies, or Yelp if I want to find a good restaurant for Mongolian food in my locality
About things I post publicly, I've made it a point to only post under assumed names and addresses, and use my real identity only for things like bill payments and so on.
Incidentally, is the FSF still RMS' alter ego, or are there saner people running it? I actually like some of their newer priorities, such as 'driver development, internationalization, accessibility, decentralization and self-hosting.' If they get these done, so that their 'libre' stuff will run on at least the most common things out there, then it will at least make better headway than what they have been doing so far - zealously trying to remove binary blobs or intermediate formats, such as bytecode.
It'd be something different than all these ARM boards. An Intel Atom chip could work, but I don't know if AMD has anything of the equivalent.
Can't the Via Nano be used for something like this? I doubt it would have much use in the mainstream netbook market, given how strongly the Celeron, Atom and A8 chips have been hitting it, but it could find a niche in something like this. And what's even better - it has some very good embedded OSs available, like Minix, QNX and of course every Linux and BSD out there.
Actually, both Arduino and Beaglebone are competitors. Plus they have more options in terms of OSs that are targeted at them. For instance, Minix is there on the Beaglebone, but not on the Pi.
The good news is that there are a lot of these that are available for a potential IoT market, and hopefully, it'll stay that way
I get calls that initially seem personal, but turn out to be robocalls promising me a cruise vacation in Florida. It starts like this
I: Hello
R: Hello,... Oh, sorry, I was talking to my husband. Here's what I called you about. You have been selected for an all-expenses paid cruise to Florida...
I: Ma'am, I'm not interested
The voice keeps talking, and I am left w/ no choice but to hang up. It looks smart only the first time, when the reference to the husband leaves one w/ the idea that one is talking to an actual person
Actually, this is a good candidate for automation. How many people like making cold calls soliciting sales to anybody, be it insurance, cruises or anything else? If anything, call centers should be set up only for warm calling i.e. receiving calls, and not bother people
UBI is needed by the millions of unemployed to pay their rent and bills, not the people you describe who have to float on cash to pay for stuff like this
Why are students getting H-1B Visas? Isn't this program for professionals who have expertise that can't be found locally?
Good question. Actually, H1B is something that both foreign grad students from US universities - F1 visa holders - have to get once they've completed their OPT (Optional Practical Training). In other words, the 1-2 year period that they are allowed to remain in the US to work - that's under the extended provision of an F1 visa, but after that, they need to get an H1B
Which is the same visa that any foreign worker who's never studied in the US would have to get, if his employer wants to send him here. And that is a part of the issue that Trump ran into last year, when he mentioned how he wanted foreign graduates of US universities to be allowed to stay, even while cracking down on H1Bs. Point is that he was drawing a distinction b/w 2 categories of people, who happen to need the same category of visas in order to live and work in the US
Instead, changing the visa of graduates to something else, or giving them a pathway to a green card is a better approach. That way, the 2 categories of people are not conflated. Foreign students who graduate from US universities do have the expertise US companies need; OTOH, foreign workers just happen to meet the wage desires of their employers, rather than the legal requirements of H1B visas
During the 2nd Unix wars - b/w Unix International and the Open Software Foundation, the former was made up of AT&T/USL and Sun, vs the latter, which was IBM, DEC and HP. So how was the latter something based on System V - something under the proxy control of Sun? It would have been BSD, right?
IMO, the thing that killed VMS was DEC giving more importance to OSF/1 or Digital Unix. Unfortunately for them, NT on Alpha never caught on, and they tried to make up the difference w/ OSF/1. Instead, had they focused on OpenVMS/AXP, they'd have been a lot better off. That, plus had they complemented NT/AXP w/ Linux/AXP and *BSD/AXP, Alpha might have survived, and w/ it, OpenVMS.
Interestingly enough, Linux has killed off all corporate Unixes - AIX, HP/UX and now Solaris. Only ones left standing are the FOSS distros out there - OpenBSD, NetBSD and FreeBSD on the BSD side, and OpenIndiana, Schillix, Nexenta on the System V side. Ironically enough, it was x86 that enabled Linux to pull this off, even if Linux was cross-platform and supported on just about every CPU out there
So the last of the System V Unixes is dead? The only other one I can think of was SCO, but Xinuos has switched completely to a FreeBSD based Unix. So on the BSD side of things, you have NetBSD, OpenBSD, FreeBSD and its derivatives, but is there anything left on the System V side? Just OpenIndiana, Schillix, Nexenta?
So in the System V vs BSD wars, has BSD finally emerged the victor? Not counting Linux in this, and not factoring in OS X within BSD, just considering the above distros in the picture
No, they can either run Linux (which still supports SPARC binaries, even if RedHat may have dropped support for it ages ago), or one of the BSDs - OpenBSD, FreeBSD or NetBSD
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Not just that, that's the most family hostile city out there. Imagine if you live somewhere: parking is a nightmare anywhere you go within the city. You'd ultimately find parking far enough that you might as well have taken MUNI. But living w/o a car ain't too comfortable either, since one does have to do things like groceries often (or do they deliver home?) So w/ all that congestion, that's one of the least healthy places to live.
If you have money to burn, just move a little out to Daly City or Brisbane, or on the other end, in Marin county or Oakland, and you'd get a lot more bang for buck in terms of living
There are so many cellphone apps like WhatsApp, WeChat, et al which would allow you to do that w/ just a cellphone and a WiFi network in range. You can even disable your cellular data connection just to ensure that there's no way you can be charged for that one.
I looked at the projects from 2008, and AFAIK none of them have really made much progress or are already dead. Gnash, really? Luckily for everyone (except Adobe) Flash is in it's death knell in 2017. Coreboot is a great concept (I have used LinuxBIOS in a couple of projects) but ultimately doomed because firmware/BIOS is intimately tied to hardware - it will be great for hobby projects but by definition never be useful for mainstream PCs. And so it goes down the list...
And the 2017 list... Free smartphone OS basically seems to be "free Android" - I'm sure it will be about as successful at the 2008 goal with "gNewSense". FSF personal assistant? Could it be possible they don't understand how these work? It's trivial client software with billions of dollars in server hardware behind it. And seriously, "projects that replace Google, Facebook Apple, and so on"? Again, you don't replace those unless you have billions in backend investment and billions of users.
I commend them on finally trying to address the totally dysfunctional open source community in terms of female and minority inclusion, but they still need to prioritize actual useful *projects*, not just processes...
This is pretty much right, although I like some of the newer priorities they have, such as 'driver development, internationalization, accessibility.' At least, that would largely reduce the barriers that exist in their 'Libre-Linux' being accepted. About Replicant, I just don't see the point - why don't they look at partnering w/ LineageOS to produce something? They can fork it so that they have a GPL3 version while LineageOS has maybe a BSD one.
But the larger point you made is correct - they need to look at their budget, pick the ones that are not just essential for entry to adaption - such as drivers, but also projects that do not require heavy investment in backend infrastructure. Like lose things like GNU Network and GNU Social, and focus instead on things that would enable them to handle documents or sites created from 'non-Free' software. Sorta like LibreOffice or Epiphany, but in ways where adapting those does not mean that one loses one's ability to experience the entire web, or edit MS Office documents.
They could do something like AGPL based datacenters, which companies that prefer FOSS solutions can then use
This - absolutely this!!! I don't use Siri or Cortana or Alexa or any other 'assistant'. The last thing I want or need is an AI telling me that I have any sort of accent. Besides, it's not very complicated for me to open up Fandango if I'm checking for movies, or Yelp if I want to find a good restaurant for Mongolian food in my locality
About things I post publicly, I've made it a point to only post under assumed names and addresses, and use my real identity only for things like bill payments and so on.
Incidentally, is the FSF still RMS' alter ego, or are there saner people running it? I actually like some of their newer priorities, such as 'driver development, internationalization, accessibility, decentralization and self-hosting.' If they get these done, so that their 'libre' stuff will run on at least the most common things out there, then it will at least make better headway than what they have been doing so far - zealously trying to remove binary blobs or intermediate formats, such as bytecode.
"We can't build a kernel in a reasonable amount of time, so instead we'll take on projects that meld AI, natural language and voice recognition!!"
I believe they had long given up on HURD, after trying 4 or 5 different microkernels, all of which failed
It'd be something different than all these ARM boards. An Intel Atom chip could work, but I don't know if AMD has anything of the equivalent.
Can't the Via Nano be used for something like this? I doubt it would have much use in the mainstream netbook market, given how strongly the Celeron, Atom and A8 chips have been hitting it, but it could find a niche in something like this. And what's even better - it has some very good embedded OSs available, like Minix, QNX and of course every Linux and BSD out there.
Actually, both Arduino and Beaglebone are competitors. Plus they have more options in terms of OSs that are targeted at them. For instance, Minix is there on the Beaglebone, but not on the Pi.
The good news is that there are a lot of these that are available for a potential IoT market, and hopefully, it'll stay that way
Thanks, I'll try that next time
They are better off moving their headquarters from Seattle to Hydrabad
Rudy can in his new cyber role spin out a new FreeBSD distro and then have that made the official OS of the federal government
You still can. Order a TrueOS DVD or USB stick from OSdisc.com, and you're good to go
I get calls that initially seem personal, but turn out to be robocalls promising me a cruise vacation in Florida. It starts like this
I: Hello
R: Hello,... Oh, sorry, I was talking to my husband. Here's what I called you about. You have been selected for an all-expenses paid cruise to Florida...
I: Ma'am, I'm not interested
The voice keeps talking, and I am left w/ no choice but to hang up. It looks smart only the first time, when the reference to the husband leaves one w/ the idea that one is talking to an actual person
Actually, this is a good candidate for automation. How many people like making cold calls soliciting sales to anybody, be it insurance, cruises or anything else? If anything, call centers should be set up only for warm calling i.e. receiving calls, and not bother people
Can J1 visas work that way?
UBI is needed by the millions of unemployed to pay their rent and bills, not the people you describe who have to float on cash to pay for stuff like this
Why are students getting H-1B Visas? Isn't this program for professionals who have expertise that can't be found locally?
Good question. Actually, H1B is something that both foreign grad students from US universities - F1 visa holders - have to get once they've completed their OPT (Optional Practical Training). In other words, the 1-2 year period that they are allowed to remain in the US to work - that's under the extended provision of an F1 visa, but after that, they need to get an H1B
Which is the same visa that any foreign worker who's never studied in the US would have to get, if his employer wants to send him here. And that is a part of the issue that Trump ran into last year, when he mentioned how he wanted foreign graduates of US universities to be allowed to stay, even while cracking down on H1Bs. Point is that he was drawing a distinction b/w 2 categories of people, who happen to need the same category of visas in order to live and work in the US
Instead, changing the visa of graduates to something else, or giving them a pathway to a green card is a better approach. That way, the 2 categories of people are not conflated. Foreign students who graduate from US universities do have the expertise US companies need; OTOH, foreign workers just happen to meet the wage desires of their employers, rather than the legal requirements of H1B visas
During the 2nd Unix wars - b/w Unix International and the Open Software Foundation, the former was made up of AT&T/USL and Sun, vs the latter, which was IBM, DEC and HP. So how was the latter something based on System V - something under the proxy control of Sun? It would have been BSD, right?
By the time OSF/1 had replaced Ultrix, Bob Palmer had replaced Ken Olsen
Was Multics ever ported to the x86?
IMO, the thing that killed VMS was DEC giving more importance to OSF/1 or Digital Unix. Unfortunately for them, NT on Alpha never caught on, and they tried to make up the difference w/ OSF/1. Instead, had they focused on OpenVMS/AXP, they'd have been a lot better off. That, plus had they complemented NT/AXP w/ Linux/AXP and *BSD/AXP, Alpha might have survived, and w/ it, OpenVMS.
Interestingly enough, Linux has killed off all corporate Unixes - AIX, HP/UX and now Solaris. Only ones left standing are the FOSS distros out there - OpenBSD, NetBSD and FreeBSD on the BSD side, and OpenIndiana, Schillix, Nexenta on the System V side. Ironically enough, it was x86 that enabled Linux to pull this off, even if Linux was cross-platform and supported on just about every CPU out there
So the last of the System V Unixes is dead? The only other one I can think of was SCO, but Xinuos has switched completely to a FreeBSD based Unix. So on the BSD side of things, you have NetBSD, OpenBSD, FreeBSD and its derivatives, but is there anything left on the System V side? Just OpenIndiana, Schillix, Nexenta?
So in the System V vs BSD wars, has BSD finally emerged the victor? Not counting Linux in this, and not factoring in OS X within BSD, just considering the above distros in the picture
What license does OpenZFS have? Is it still CDDL or is it something like one of the BSD licenses?
Was this for an x86 or a SPARC?
No, they can either run Linux (which still supports SPARC binaries, even if RedHat may have dropped support for it ages ago), or one of the BSDs - OpenBSD, FreeBSD or NetBSD
One thing - why did OpenIndiana become an x86 only OS, given that its parent OS was mainly there on the SPARC?