When I was setting up my LTSP-style arrangement at home, I shopped around a bit for clients. I already had an old Javastation Krups, but found it much to slow for heavy use.
These thin clients are $599 to about $629, similar to the prices I found but I can't understand why companies make them so expensive. I decided to build my own using VIA mini-ITX boards for less than $300.
It amazes me when companies fail to analyze why previous thin client computing initiatives haven't caught on, and put out thin clients that cost the same as a full desktop PC. My local bank (Barclay's) have replaced old X Terminals with Dell desktop PCs (P4s!) running Exceed, and I assume they chose this based on price.
Yes it does. Where in the GPL does it say that the software cannot be used in commercial applications?
It does not! It only requires that you provide the source (which has nothing to do with whether the software is commercial or not).
As with all of the pages that I've seen that use CSS for layout, if you take the text size up a few notches then it all overlaps and the end result is unreadable.
I'm making a web app using CSS right now, and the lack of cross browser standardization (*all* of them are different) is a real pain.
My favourite is MrPostman, which is a webmail to POP3 gateway, so any mail client can be used and it's entirely in Java, so there's just a jar-file to download then it's as easy as "java -jar MrPostman.jar".
"Piracy" has been fed into common usage via the media by the FUD-slinging industries that want to disguise their real motives for inhibiting legal media distribution. You're not annoyed at that? I'm annoyed at people that use overblown, emotional words like "piracy" so that it will sound of life-or-death importance; the implication being that most people can be mind controlled to agree with their notion of copyright infringement - they'll try to make it sound as harmful as possible.
Having recently completed a physics PhD, I decided to learn how to program more rigorously. As the reviewer suggested, I read Beginning Java Objects followed by Thinking in Java. Having browsed through a few other books before reading BJO, I really think that it is particularly useful at highlighting and explaining the important concepts of OO programming. After reading this book I found that many aspects of Java that previously seemed very confusing were crystal clear and I wondered why I hadn't picked it up sooner.
In Jackie Barker's book she often uses a Student Registration System as an example application. I enjoyed following her thought process in developing this application, and learnt a lot from it.
After reading this book as a basic introduction to Java, I read Thinking in Java and found that I was able to get more from it. It filled in many gaps in my knowledge, and extended many of the ideas presented by Barker.
For anyone wanting to learn Java or OO programming, I highly recommend BJO as a starting point.
Related to this topic, I would like to know if I can run OpenGL programs on one of my thin clients over X, i.e. what hardware and software is required?
I know that people have done this with SGI kit, but most commodity X drivers don't seem to support remote OpenGL and there is precious little information around. Has anyone tried this?
Their contacts page lists a couple of people who have email addresses at intellectuk.org.
Hmm...I recognise that name from somewhere. Oh yes, from their unbiased report that appeared on/.in June:
UK Govt Warned: Don't Buy GPL
Q. Will the British Government be ignorant enough to be taken in my a self-appointed "key advisory group on Broadband"? A. Yes, probably.
Why does the possibility of lesser competition benefitting from a blow to Microsoft's perceived biggest threat make you believe that they wouldn't be responsible for backing the FUD?
The Forbes article is unbearably basic and takes the view that SCO have a good chance because Caldera won a previous case against Microsoft. No attempts to examine any facts are made, with the assumption being that Caldera won the DR-DOS case only because the judge agreed with them and not because Microsoft actually did anything wrong. Whilst the judge's decision does determine the outcome, if you want to analyse the situation before the end of the case then you must look at the facts yourself, i.e. they are not irrelevant!
I found that GCC didn't like one of the files, so I changed it and here is a patch. The other thing it needed was "-Wno-deprecated" adding to the WFLAGS line in the Makefile (after running./configure).
Save the rest of the post after the patch command to a file called ehpatch, and then run the following two commands (and then make). cat ehpatch |mimencode -u |bunzip2 -c >EventHandler.patch patch EventHandler.cpp EventHandler.patch
IBM entered into a contract with AT&T way back in 1985 to produce AIX, its own version of UNIX, and SCO ended up with AT&T's interest in that contract
It says in this article:
"We've reviewed our contracts, and our Unix license is irrevocable and perpetual," Mike Fay, vice president of communications for IBM's systems group
Cringely says: "Let's try to make some sense of all this", but to me he doesn't manage to do this because all of the claims are just presented without enough questioning. E.g:
"At stake is certainly Linux and perhaps FreeBSD, NetBSD, and any other Unix that doesn't come with an SCO license."
Which (non-SCO) Unixes come with a SCO license? As I understood it The Open Group permit products to be called "Unix".
"What matters is the approaching June 13th deadline, which is when SCO can yank IBM's Unix license, making any subsequent copies of AIX not Unix."
Again, which license?
- Brian.
Re:JDO vs EJB Entity Beans?
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I've heard the opposite.
Of course he's biased, but Marc Fleury (of JBoss) is very enthusiastic about CMP (Container Managed Persistence) v2.0 EJB's.
In his "Blue" Whitepaper on the subject he wrote that the CMP (Container Managed Persistence) v1.1 of EJBs was seriously lacking in various critical aspects, and goes on to say the following:
In other words, if the CMP2.0 engine s applicability goes beyond EJB alone, why couldn t we imagine a CMP engine working on abstract plain old java objects? We will look at making it the default service for persistence in JBoss. In fact I would argue that CMP2.0 is doing what JDO failed to do, providing a robust and frameworkworthy persistence engine for java (once generalized). While it was widely used in designs a year ago, JDO will probably go down in history as the proverbial chicken that crossed the road when the CMP2.0 truck came along.
I use Fetchmail's ODMR support to pull mail into my Postfix server, and it works very well (and avoids the problems that POP3 has).
I can heartily recommend Gradwell in the UK.
They ARE inferior because they only contain 10 percent of the original data.
This is a common misconception. Less data doesn't necessarily mean that there is less informational content which is why non-lossy compression methods work.
MP3's are lossily compressed of course, but they are still more sophisticated than just removing 90% of the information.
People here (like this comment) keep naively thinking that the supposed standardizations will lead to a wonderful cross platform programming nirvana.
Microsoft *will* scupper these efforts because they have retained the power to do so and they want to ensure the continuation of their monopoly.
It is easy to mentally sweep the problems under the carpet and focus too closely on the wonderful promises (which is why so many IT managers can't see alternatives to MS servers). With.NET the real showstoppers for me are:
Microsoft's CLI bugs will be the standard
The parts that aren't standardized will require serious kludges (like using Wine with Mono)
In your opinion, do residents of Europe and other US-friendly (business-wise) areas have a hope of avoiding being adversely affected by the DMCA (or superDMCA) or its foreign implementations (e.g. EUCD) and is technological civil disobedience the best form of activism to follow?
From the/. post:
The fine is about $55,000 and was based on an estimated cost to NTT of 1.2 yen per undelivered spam ($0.01) for the 4 million spams that were undeliverable. What is most startling is NTT DoCoMo assertion that... each day, 880 million are not deliverable!
If this is true, doesn't that make the cost of spam to NTT DoCoMo around $12M per day, or $4.4Billon per year.
This seems a bit much, although I agree with the size of the fine - I'm just questioning the way it is rationalized.
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When I was setting up my LTSP-style arrangement at home, I shopped around a bit for clients. I already had an old Javastation Krups, but found it much to slow for heavy use.
These thin clients are $599 to about $629, similar to the prices I found but I can't understand why companies make them so expensive. I decided to build my own using VIA mini-ITX boards for less than $300.
It amazes me when companies fail to analyze why previous thin client computing initiatives haven't caught on, and put out thin clients that cost the same as a full desktop PC. My local bank (Barclay's) have replaced old X Terminals with Dell desktop PCs (P4s!) running Exceed, and I assume they chose this based on price.
- Brian
No, that does NOT conform with the GPL.
Yes it does. Where in the GPL does it say that the software cannot be used in commercial applications?
It does not! It only requires that you provide the source (which has nothing to do with whether the software is commercial or not).
Almost right. You said:
You can use mySQL for free anywehere and in any manner that conformed to the GPL.
So this means that it can be distributed and embedded in commercial applications.
The Wired article about making diamonds describes how General Clarke bought Russian machines and imported some techs to run them. One of them says:
"I felt myself all the time in a sauna," remembers Nickolay Patrin, who now lives full-time in Sarasota.
Sounds like hard work...
people with a shared philosophy to gain mutual benefit from their labours
This is freedom. It makes no sense to define freedom as you do where it means that anyone can do anything.
- Brian
How do these pages display well on small screens?
As with all of the pages that I've seen that use CSS for layout, if you take the text size up a few notches then it all overlaps and the end result is unreadable.
I'm making a web app using CSS right now, and the lack of cross browser standardization (*all* of them are different) is a real pain.
- Brian
My favourite is MrPostman, which is a webmail to POP3 gateway, so any mail client can be used and it's entirely in Java, so there's just a jar-file to download then it's as easy as "java -jar MrPostman.jar".
- Brian
There's a notice on ir.sco.com about the SCO forum, which was to be held in Las Vegas next week:
Notes: SCO Forum in Las Vegas has been postpoined until Autumn 2003
Read into that what you will...
- Brian.
"Piracy" has been fed into common usage via the media by the FUD-slinging industries that want to disguise their real motives for inhibiting legal media distribution. You're not annoyed at that?
I'm annoyed at people that use overblown, emotional words like "piracy" so that it will sound of life-or-death importance; the implication being that most people can be mind controlled to agree with their notion of copyright infringement - they'll try to make it sound as harmful as possible.
- Brian
Send them One Million Dollars!.
Having recently completed a physics PhD, I decided to learn how to program more rigorously. As the reviewer suggested, I read Beginning Java Objects followed by Thinking in Java. Having browsed through a few other books before reading BJO, I really think that it is particularly useful at highlighting and explaining the important concepts of OO programming. After reading this book I found that many aspects of Java that previously seemed very confusing were crystal clear and I wondered why I hadn't picked it up sooner.
In Jackie Barker's book she often uses a Student Registration System as an example application. I enjoyed following her thought process in developing this application, and learnt a lot from it.
After reading this book as a basic introduction to Java, I read Thinking in Java and found that I was able to get more from it. It filled in many gaps in my knowledge, and extended many of the ideas presented by Barker.
For anyone wanting to learn Java or OO programming, I highly recommend BJO as a starting point.
Related to this topic, I would like to know if I can run OpenGL programs on one of my thin clients over X, i.e. what hardware and software is required?
I know that people have done this with SGI kit, but most commodity X drivers don't seem to support remote OpenGL and there is precious little information around.
Has anyone tried this?
- Brian
But he might be right.
The people behind the BSG are not the ISPs but intellectuk (according to the contact email addresses).
IntellectUK are an IT industry body backed by Microsoft who told the government not to buy GPL
Their contacts page lists a couple of people who have email addresses at intellectuk.org.
Hmm...I recognise that name from somewhere.
Oh yes, from their unbiased report that appeared on
Q. Will the British Government be ignorant enough to be taken in my a self-appointed "key advisory group on Broadband"?
A. Yes, probably.
Why does the possibility of lesser competition benefitting from a blow to Microsoft's perceived biggest threat make you believe that they wouldn't be responsible for backing the FUD?
The Forbes article is unbearably basic and takes the view that SCO have a good chance because Caldera won a previous case against Microsoft.
No attempts to examine any facts are made, with the assumption being that Caldera won the DR-DOS case only because the judge agreed with them and not because Microsoft actually did anything wrong. Whilst the judge's decision does determine the outcome, if you want to analyse the situation before the end of the case then you must look at the facts yourself, i.e. they are not irrelevant!
- Brian.
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I found that GCC didn't like one of the files, so I changed it and here is a patch.
The other thing it needed was "-Wno-deprecated" adding to the WFLAGS line in the Makefile (after running
Save the rest of the post after the patch command to a file called ehpatch, and then run the following two commands (and then make).
cat ehpatch |mimencode -u |bunzip2 -c >EventHandler.patch
patch EventHandler.cpp EventHandler.patch
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IBM entered into a contract with AT&T way back in 1985 to produce AIX, its own version of UNIX, and SCO ended up with AT&T's interest in that contract
It says in this article:
"We've reviewed our contracts, and our Unix license is irrevocable and perpetual," Mike Fay, vice president of communications for IBM's systems group
So SCO still can't revoke any Unix license.
- Brian.
Cringely says: "Let's try to make some sense of all this", but to me he doesn't manage to do this because all of the claims are just presented without enough questioning. E.g:
"At stake is certainly Linux and perhaps FreeBSD, NetBSD, and any other Unix that doesn't come with an SCO license."
Which (non-SCO) Unixes come with a SCO license? As I understood it The Open Group permit products to be called "Unix".
"What matters is the approaching June 13th deadline, which is when SCO can yank IBM's Unix license, making any subsequent copies of AIX not Unix."
Again, which license?
- Brian.
I've heard the opposite.
Of course he's biased, but Marc Fleury (of JBoss) is very enthusiastic about CMP (Container Managed Persistence) v2.0 EJB's.
In his "Blue" Whitepaper on the subject he wrote that the CMP (Container Managed Persistence) v1.1 of EJBs was seriously lacking in various critical aspects, and goes on to say the following:
From Marc Fleury's "Why I love EJB's" (PDF, page 7):
In other words, if the CMP2.0 engine s applicability goes beyond EJB alone, why couldn t we imagine a CMP engine working on abstract plain old java objects? We will look at making it the default service for persistence in JBoss. In fact I would argue that CMP2.0 is doing what JDO failed to do, providing a robust and frameworkworthy persistence engine for java (once generalized). While it was widely used in designs a year ago, JDO will probably go down in history as the proverbial chicken that crossed the road when the CMP2.0 truck came along.
- Brian
I use Fetchmail's ODMR support to pull mail into my Postfix server, and it works very well (and avoids the problems that POP3 has).
I can heartily recommend Gradwell in the UK.
- Brian.
They ARE inferior because they only contain 10 percent of the original data.
This is a common misconception. Less data doesn't necessarily mean that there is less informational content which is why non-lossy compression methods work.
MP3's are lossily compressed of course, but they are still more sophisticated than just removing 90% of the information.
- Brian.
Microsoft *will* scupper these efforts because they have retained the power to do so and they want to ensure the continuation of their monopoly.
It is easy to mentally sweep the problems under the carpet and focus too closely on the wonderful promises (which is why so many IT managers can't see alternatives to MS servers). With
- Brian
In your opinion, do residents of Europe and other US-friendly (business-wise) areas have a hope of avoiding being adversely affected by the DMCA (or superDMCA) or its foreign implementations (e.g. EUCD) and is technological civil disobedience the best form of activism to follow?
- Brian.
From the /. post:
... each day, 880 million are not deliverable!
The fine is about $55,000 and was based on an estimated cost to NTT of 1.2 yen per undelivered spam ($0.01) for the 4 million spams that were undeliverable. What is most startling is NTT DoCoMo assertion that
If this is true, doesn't that make the cost of spam to NTT DoCoMo around $12M per day, or $4.4Billon per year.
This seems a bit much, although I agree with the size of the fine - I'm just questioning the way it is rationalized.
- Brian.