As far as I'm aware, there is nothing out there which can create (Bochs and Qemu can read) VMWare disk images, and they're more advanced than simple raw or dd-created files with filesystems slapped onto them.
However, given the compatibility problems with previous versions of VMWare I am not sure how much use it will be to people who download Open Source VMs off of the web to run (and I assume that's part of who this is aimed at). I've read a couple of places, for instance, that the current version of VMWare won't run the VMWare installation of Plan 9 that you can download from Bell Labs.
That said, you can run Qemu with kernel acceleration on Linux, FreeBSD (a platform VMWare doesn't even support) and 2000/XP and get pretty good performance - and it's probably a better option than a mere 'runtime' given that not only does it support an additional platform (FreeBSD), but you can create a VM on one platform and run it on all the others (even ones w/out accerlation, such as NetBSD -though you really would not want to).
ITP I fix the typo from the parent post:
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Let me ask you, in Saudi Arabia how likely is it to put forth atheistic and/or anti-muslim views and have them broadcast...and if, by some miracle you were able to; what would happen to you?
In America, you can go on television and air criticisms of Republican, Christian or any other viewpoints; and you may get a debate or -at worse- a reprimand.
Let me ask you, how likely is it to put forth atheistic and/or anti-muslim views and have them broadcast...and if, by some miracle you were able to; what would happen to you?
I, for one, welcome our decadent western infidels, and would like to remind them that as a trusted cleric I could be useful in rounding up the faithful to toil in their underground filth mines.
>...hopefully that blunt statement will minimize the "yeah but does it run..." comments - time will tell.
I imagine they needed a beowulf cluster of linux machines for the election. Of course, it it was still Soviet Estonia, linux would have run on the election!
No body else saw that coming. Anyways, how is that going to affect PostgreSQL (IE, will the lack of real competition from mysql help them, or not effect them at all?)
I'm surprised that MS hasn't gotten either the GPL (or the concept of Open Source) legislated out of practice yet. After all, supposedly what's good for Business (and to most legislators MS==IT) is what's supposed to be good for america.
Hopefully any government bodies which adopt OpenDocument will thoroughly test any suites they do purchase for compatibility (so that they aren't stuck creating 'open' documents which are only able to be opened by products from one company). However, given the corrupt and incompetent nature of governments, I'm very much not counting on it.
For one thing, there is no reason why the Gaim developer cannot continue work on Gaim while working for Google.
depends on what his contract says, I imagine. Most employers have non compete clauses in their contracts, and GAIM would certainly qualify as a competitor to google talk.
So, Microsoft and AOL combine, which will doubtlessly have the effect of bringing about server changes which will shut out current GAIM users, and now their competitor (google also has a chat service) buys out the developer of the one decent OSS proggie which can connect reliably to the MSN/AOL servers?
It looks to me as though Google wants to make sure their chat is the only one supported on *nix.
Not quite, this is one case where (because of its' community-edited nature) you have to take what wikipedia says with a large grain of salt. (though in my googling I found a discussion of this in a wiki talk page.)
Regardless, here's the story
The File Allocation Table (FAT) was designed and coded in Feb., 1976 by a kid named Bill Gates during a five day stay at the Hilton Hotel in Albuquerque. He developed it for a version of Basic that could store programs and data on floppy disks. The FAT design was incorporated by Tim Patterson in an early version of an operating system for the Intel 8086 chip. Gates bought the rights to the system, then rewrote it to create the first version of DOS. As a direct result, Gates is the richest man in America.
1)wrote or co-wrote one of the first mainstream implementations of BASIC 2)created the FAT file sytem (originally for use with #1, a few years before Patterson's DOS.
Have you been on IRC lately? There's two types of rooms; ones made up of perpetual lurkers and ones made up of idiots flaming, powertripping and spouting (oftentimes literal) gibberish.
These days IRC is like slashdot at a threshold of -1; except only half as intelligent.
Basically it boils down to the fact that smaller nations want the right to filter and censor everything for everyone they find objectionable. Good riddance, let them go, I say.
Whether you agree with my stance on certain commercials being vulgar/etc; you have to admit...
I grew up during the free-wheeling 70's, and I pride myself on being less prudish and repressed than pretty much anyone I (currently) know. However, that said, I always wince whenever I'm eating dinner and a masingil ad comes on, or seeing an commercial for herpes while I'm watching a movie, and yeah I get offended over the Viagra ads too (mostly because of the shyster factor).
This is all during the late afternoon, early evening; it's not a matter of being purient; it's a matter of being gross. I don't want to hear about herpes, diarrhea, yeast infections or impotence while I'm trying to relax.
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As far as I'm aware, there is nothing out there which can create (Bochs and Qemu can read) VMWare disk images, and they're more advanced than simple raw or dd-created files with filesystems slapped onto them.
However, given the compatibility problems with previous versions of VMWare I am not sure how much use it will be to people who download Open Source VMs off of the web to run (and I assume that's part of who this is aimed at). I've read a couple of places, for instance, that the current version of VMWare won't run the VMWare installation of Plan 9 that you can download from Bell Labs.
That said, you can run Qemu with kernel acceleration on Linux, FreeBSD (a platform VMWare doesn't even support) and 2000/XP and get pretty good performance - and it's probably a better option than a mere 'runtime' given that not only does it support an additional platform (FreeBSD), but you can create a VM on one platform and run it on all the others (even ones w/out accerlation, such as NetBSD -though you really would not want to).
Let me ask you, in Saudi Arabia how likely is it to put forth atheistic and/or anti-muslim views and have them broadcast...and if, by some miracle you were able to; what would happen to you?
In America, you can go on television and air criticisms of Republican, Christian or any other viewpoints; and you may get a debate or -at worse- a reprimand.
Let me ask you, how likely is it to put forth atheistic and/or anti-muslim views and have them broadcast...and if, by some miracle you were able to; what would happen to you?
Compare and contrast.
I, for one, welcome our decadent western infidels, and would like to remind them that as a trusted cleric I could be useful in rounding up the faithful to toil in their underground filth mines.
(assuming, of course, that they let me join too >.>)
>...hopefully that blunt statement will minimize the "yeah but does it run..." comments - time will tell.
I imagine they needed a beowulf cluster of linux machines for the election. Of course, it it was still Soviet Estonia, linux would have run on the election!
Estonia
You're welcome.
amirite?
No body else saw that coming. Anyways, how is that going to affect PostgreSQL (IE, will the lack of real competition from mysql help them, or not effect them at all?)
I'm surprised that MS hasn't gotten either the GPL (or the concept of Open Source) legislated out of practice yet. After all, supposedly what's good for Business (and to most legislators MS==IT) is what's supposed to be good for america.
Either suck it up or move (ya right) to another country.
You're wrong; neither consumers nor citizens have the power to effect change. Only corporations and PACs can do that.
Hopefully any government bodies which adopt OpenDocument will thoroughly test any suites they do purchase for compatibility (so that they aren't stuck creating 'open' documents which are only able to be opened by products from one company).
However, given the corrupt and incompetent nature of governments, I'm very much not counting on it.
make a few throw away prototypes before marketing the real thing. Fooey to all those 'evolutionists' and their 'science', I say!
A geek or, more likely, a rich egomaniac who wants to be one of the few (500 afaik) people to venture out into space (regardless of qualifications).
What about it?
depends on what his contract says, I imagine. Most employers have non compete clauses in their contracts, and GAIM would certainly qualify as a competitor to google talk.
So, Microsoft and AOL combine, which will doubtlessly have the effect of bringing about server changes which will shut out current GAIM users, and now their competitor (google also has a chat service) buys out the developer of the one decent OSS proggie which can connect reliably to the MSN/AOL servers?
It looks to me as though Google wants to make sure their chat is the only one supported on *nix.
Regardless, here's the story
And here is the source.
1)wrote or co-wrote one of the first mainstream implementations of BASIC
2)created the FAT file sytem (originally for use with #1, a few years before Patterson's DOS.
Have you been on IRC lately? There's two types of rooms; ones made up of perpetual lurkers and ones made up of idiots flaming, powertripping and spouting (oftentimes literal) gibberish.
These days IRC is like slashdot at a threshold of -1; except only half as intelligent.
Basically it boils down to the fact that smaller nations want the right to filter and censor everything for everyone they find objectionable. Good riddance, let them go, I say.
Thank god I live in the US, where our government would never interfere with our privacy (or other) rights.
I grew up during the free-wheeling 70's, and I pride myself on being less prudish and repressed than pretty much anyone I (currently) know. However, that said, I always wince whenever I'm eating dinner and a masingil ad comes on, or seeing an commercial for herpes while I'm watching a movie, and yeah I get offended over the Viagra ads too (mostly because of the shyster factor).
This is all during the late afternoon, early evening; it's not a matter of being purient; it's a matter of being gross. I don't want to hear about herpes, diarrhea, yeast infections or impotence while I'm trying to relax.
It's just fucking gross.