There's no way AOL could monitor everything. If Germany wants to make it so that the cost of monitoring is more than the benefit of providing an online service, the online services will shut down. Then Germany can sit around and fall behind while the rest of the Internet-connected world laughs at them (or forgets that they exist).
How old does AltaVista think they are that they were the first to do this, even if only applied to Internet technologies? I used the gopher and archie index searches before the World Wide Web existed.
What I don't understand is how you don't know. You were there once also, maybe you just don't want to think about the reality. Or maybe it's so far in the past you don't remember. A little self-observation would tell you.
It's in the personality. I was already different before I entered school. I had already become mean to people by the time I entered kindergarten, after the time I spent in a pre-school/daycare place. The K teacher tried to correct my attitude, and I learned to be more respectful or tolerant at least. But the social differences persisted and people highlighted them. I grew apart, or maybe I just didn't change. But fortunately for me my interest in computers was supported by my parents and teachers for the most part so I got the attention I needed without things like changing my appearance or messing up my academic performance. My mom tried to force me into activities like sports but I got out of that quickly and into something tolerable, playing the piano.
During that time I was never severely picked on, but nobody really knew me. It wasn't that the other students disliked me though, I just wasn't interesting to them. They knew I was smart and into computers though. I wasn't interested in what they were doing either. People aren't going to know you just because you exist, it's not fulfilling. The difference is that most people learn to please. They learn what makes others like them, which makes them feel good, and continue with that behavior. That's what makes people popular, that's what makes leaders. And that's simply not a part of my personality. Now that I'm so aware of myself and others it actually hurts me when I feel the need to please someone rather than be myself, even for really insignificant things. For most people it's just natural though. Given all this time to observe social interaction instead of participate, I've built up my own standards. I think people generally suck now, most people are stupid, but I'll give them a chance to open mouth and remove all doubt. I don't want people to annoy me and I won't annoy people. That doesn't help me get any friends but I'm not trying to please people. I don't want friends if there isn't a real interest. If someone is going to be a friend they'll already have a similar interest. In high school and college it's all the same deal for me. I'm so unique in many of my ways and interests that there is no group that I hang out with. I'm alone just about everywhere I go.
My best friend has similar interests, though I don't know his full perspective on people and life. The rest of the people that know just a little more than my name are people with computing interests. I spend my time on IRC in technology-related channels, waiting to catch some humor or the latest technology update, or inject some. I don't really like most of the people though, but I'm not about to dig a hole and hide in it. Rarely someone will try to get to know a little about me, but their interest quickly fades. This goes for girls too. Many people talk of girls like they're a game, "never had the guts to talk to a girl." Why would you need guts? It's all about interests, if I find a girl that has an interest in computers I might share more than a "hi" with her. The guts saying in a game perspective implies finding a way to please someone without being who you are. Am I single because I don't have the will to talk to a girl or simply because there are very few around that share my interests and even less that meet my standards? It's the latter. I'm also an occasional smart-ass and I have a sense of humor that doesn't cooperate with everyone else. I love sarcasm. So I usually keep my mouth shut (and in turn other people always describe me simply as quiet or shy). My mom, relatives, and female friends of my parents may comment that I'm handsome, but that doesn't mean anything.
People who actually wish to understand something of what I do call me "talented" and leave it at that. That's what the last girl I talked to said after I set up a school e-mail account on her laptop and she asked about what I do. She knew what "Linux" was, which helped, and I explained the project I was helping with. A year and a half later we still exchange e-mails occasionally, but it's about school stuff. We're on the same campus but we've only run into each other twice since I set up the e-mail. She seems distant, but is it because I'm somehow repulsive? No, she simply doesn't share my interests, so she doesn't want to know much about me. She wants to keep in contact but she'll never know me this way. Only the classes I'm taking and how my vacation went. Maybe I want to know a little about her, I don't have a reason to dislike her yet, but will I ever find out? Unlikely. That's the reality. Maybe she knows something and I could ask her exactly these questions. I'm not motivated enough to bother her about my insecurities. What a way to scare someone off that would be.
Don't assume that one size fits all either. This is a mind development thing, it can go either way. Interests can drive personality just as much as personality can drive interests, it happens at the same time.
You don't need to pay someone to figure this out. It's all about reflecting upon yourself and how you relate to others, breaking it down as far as you can. Maybe that takes some of the fun out of life but more people need to do that.
I give IE credit for being a good browser, perhaps the best released browser right now. I've used IE4 and IE5, and although they had problems, Netscape had just as many if not more. IE5 definitely wins some points. Unfortunately all of this advice is worthless. IE runs only on Microsoft OS's and some Apple OS's and whatever other proprietaristic companies Microsoft can make a deal with. While IE6 may be the best browser, Windows and MacOS (before X at least) are not the best operating systems. This means for a "full-featured" browser in a worthwhile OS it's Netscape/Mozilla or nothing. I'd rather deal with browser inconveniences than OS inconveniences, especially if one way gives me source for both and the other source for neither. However, if there were an IE for Linux, even though closed source, I would probably be using it right now. I'd still be waiting for Mozilla to complete though, which is what I'm using right now. The bugs I experience are slowly disappearing, but there isn't any alternative. (Unless someone wants to donate a machine for Windows...)
> And don't even bother talking about the idea of automatic, computer-controlled flyways and such nonsense. You may love your OS, but you would not actually risk your life on it. It only takes a drop of about 20 to 30 feet to kill you.
I wouldn't have a problem with it if I wrote it.:) I just wouldn't trust anyone else's code without seeing many other people live first, or rather zero people die.:)
We need to automate the existing ground system before we try to automate systems in the air. Until someone does that (Microsoft is trying, just watch out for the Blue Windshield of Death as it speeds toward your head) we shouldn't even consider this. Most people shouldn't be driving (and I'm not excluding myself from that:), and I'd really hate to see the same stupid things in the air. It pretty much has to be automated if the average person gets a chance at it, nevermind the energy costs. And that's how it should be for cars too, just waiting for the technology to catch up.
The comparison fails because it tries to map the open source development model to the traditional development model. Of course there are going to be a lot of similarities as much of the open source development model output set easily fits into the definition of the traditional model. However, try mapping the traditional development model to the open source development model. One finds that the traditional model is restrictive and the open source development model is much more flexible.
The traditional model has more of a solid state, whereas the open source model is like a liquid. The management structure only resembles traditional development because those are the roles that people evolve theirselves. Liquids settle if undisturbed. However, no role is required and no pathway through the system is the only pathway. Should a manager fall out of the chain, or change goals, the open source model flows around it and meets at the next link. The article points out that Linux kernel development slowed when Linus had to take some time off. That's not true. The "official" releases dropped off, but development continued and releases were still made by the other managers. The development simply flowed around Linus and he caught up with it when he came back. Of course in the open source model all of the managers are developers. When anyone, not just Linus, disconnects from any network of developers, there is a loss of total production potential. However, if he disappeared from the face of the earth the same thing would happen, except a respected individual would be declared the "official" release source, and any specific skills he had been providing would need to be taken up by new developers. Also on this subject, releases occur at all points, not at the top level. I've made a change to the kernel for the benefit of myself and a very few other people. Although the audience was very small it was still a release, I became the manager. I set the goal, I followed the goal to completion, I checked the quality, and I made the decision to put the patch out. Note that this was also a highly parallel development, as the entire workload was handled by myself. No supervision was required. Being part of the network, I did consult the existing developers though. Eventually my patch was obsoleted by a parallel effort from another part of the development network.
As other posters have pointed out, the control of the management is with the developers. The development model graph really does look like the Bazaar network for many of the projects, it's just that the links between developers are redundant. The connections are there but aren't used frequently unless another link breaks. Keep in mind that large projects like the Linux kernel aren't just the tar ball put out by Linus. There are numerous projects running in parallel that provide modules for the kernel that aren't contained in the kernel, and none of those people have to report to or accept goals from anybody in the core kernel deveopment. It just happens that they do so in order to maintain compatibility. Some of these modules make it into the "official" kernel, even though they were never in the goals of the official kernel.
I'm developing the CC backend for a company and we went with AuthorizeNet. We tried using Ibill for a short time, but their customer service was terrible (responsive but mean) and the restrictions were ridiculous. We were also harassed by a CardServices "agent" who called us a "dictator" like "Hitler or Saddam Hussain" and insisted that we have relationships problems with women when we refused to sign up, so we really look down upon that company. I couldn't find an e-mail address on the main CardServices site to complain to, which seems very bad for a company that does business online.
AuthorizeNet has done pretty well and has reasonable response time on their support. However they did have a several hour outage last week for unknowns reasons. They never told us what happened before, during, or after. (I assume an NT-powered database crashed and took half the day to reboot/restore.) Other than that it's been real nice. They have several interfaces you can use, although the documentation isn't complete yet. We're using the one where we accept the credit card info (for recurring billing later) over our secure server and then send it to their secure server gateway with an https POST. They process it and send back a simple delimited response about how well it went. This is easily implemented in perl, and I'm in the process of rewriting our current interface to their system as a perl module.
8 fans (case*3 + ps + cpu*2 + cd-r + video) creates quite a bit of noise, but the mostly white noise was good for sleeping while I was in a dorm. Otherwise I can hardly hear the hard disks. I usually have TV, radio, or other music playing loud enough over the 4.1 speaker+sub system so I really don't notice it.
My keyboard already has 18 or so "internet hot buttons". Theoretically I guess I could set them to do whatever I want in Linux but I haven't gotten to that yet. Right now they don't do anything in Linux. They used to print messages in syslog about unrecognized scancodes, so I'll take that as a hint it wouldn't be hard to make them handled any way I want. No predefined links though, but mostly common web functions in Windows. Buttons are: Logitech (brings up a menu of user-defined links), www, history, open url, home, send to back, print, back, forward, stop, refresh, search, find, add favorite, open favorites, hot links, scroll up, scroll down.
No, unbased MS bashing is based on past experience with heavily used MS software. People who use MS software exclusively and don't even know about unix will bash MS. Just because a lot of people feel the same way doesn't mean they're wrong or conforming to popular opinion. Of course paid development is going to get a lot more done. Those programmers have to do what they're told and complete it by a deadline, and it's their primary job. That isn't that case for most open source projects. There's very little risk of losing a job, there's almost never a deadline, and it's almost never their primary job. If you want some piece of software done that isn't very fun to complete then you're going to have to find a place that will pay people to do it and there aren't many of those for Linux.
Why do I keep hearing people complain about a lack of SMP support in the SB Live! driver? The SB Live! driver has had SMP support since mid-November, about two weeks after it became open source! It's certainly not hard to find if you look for it. Go to opensource.creative.com and grab a snapshot or check it out of CVS. It will work under the latest 2.2.x or 2.3.x. Just watch out for the recently introduced occasional device-close freeze bug that's still being tracked down. (Haven't been able to reliably reproduce the bug yet so it may be a couple weeks or so)
And I got it before you, and someone else before me. Both were declined. What do you want, a cookie? I'm interested to know why they were declined with such a big time span, but it's not important that mine be posted over any other version.
VHS tape is not really an issue though. There are video and decoder cards with video-out that make copying anything to VHS very easy. You can also do that with regular entertainment system players, you don't even need a computer much less DeCSS for that.
All hardware is troublesome under the right conditions. I've encountered some mean tulip cards also. My 3Com 905B is working great. No troubles at all.
It's almost the year 2000! Get with the times! Give these conference people some computers, Internet access, a chat server with digitally signed messages, some live video conferencing software, and a copy of Quake to settle arguments (or maybe one of those games like Command and Conquer would be more appropriate). If they ever expect to solve their trade problems they need to get up to date with the tools. The WTO website seems advanced enough. Meeting in person isn't that important. Online all they have to worry about are DoS attacks and the usual Internet troubles. (Hmm, an incentive for more widespread high-bandwidth availability and reliability?) At least they won't be (as) physically bothered. It'd much more peaceful if the protesters just defaced their web site. Don't have to worry about the unrelated rioters either... ok we can build virtual stores for them to wreck with virtual hammers... Java's good for something! or is that just another Quake add-on?
Just forget releases. Apt-get update/install all the latest changes from the development tree. Then put up with what breaks and wait for someone to fix it (or fix it yourself). Works for me.:) Most of the time its stable enough.
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Not to support script kiddiez or anything, but I'll be laughing my ass off when everyone's (including business and government) software is remotely disabled after the shutdown codes are posted all over the Internet!
Fortunately I'll still be able to laugh at them online thanks to free(dom) software.
NVIDIA has been very quiet about Linux, but I have information about their support (and recent good news from the riva-liberty mailing list).
NVIDIA now has 3 people working on the Linux drivers (GLX/Mesa for XFree86 4.0). There is the original Linux developer, a new guy (their "best driver guy") that used to be working on the Microsoft drivers, and another part-time engineer. All Riva chips will have 3D support. No word yet on if it will be open source.
Does anyone know when XF86 4.0 should be out? The XFree86 group seems to not like giving ETA's. I don't care if the date turns out to be wrong, it'd be nice to know when it might be out.:)
Another interesting piece of info from riva-liberty is that NVIDIA is moving all of their code control over to PerForce and Linux.
I've also been told to check their website from time to time for any other info.
As for me, I'm getting a TNT2, not just because Linux support is on the horizon, but because it seems to be the better card anyway.
1. NVIDIA now has 3 people working on GLX/Mesa for XFree86 4.0. That doesn't sound like "bugger off" to me. (Anyone know when XF86 4.0 is predicted to be out?) I've been told that all Riva chips will be 3D accelerated at that time.
2. Not lying. All of the information I've read says boards will be clocked at many different speeds, and that there will be 175/200 boards.
...I'll complete the driver I'm working on for my Mustek 600 III EP Plus. If only I could code all day without this "school" thing putting this "homework" stuff in the way...
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There's no way AOL could monitor everything. If Germany wants to make it so that the cost of monitoring is more than the benefit of providing an online service, the online services will shut down. Then Germany can sit around and fall behind while the rest of the Internet-connected world laughs at them (or forgets that they exist).
How old does AltaVista think they are that they were the first to do this, even if only applied to Internet technologies? I used the gopher and archie index searches before the World Wide Web existed.
What I don't understand is how you don't know. You were there once also, maybe you just don't want to think about the reality. Or maybe it's so far in the past you don't remember. A little self-observation would tell you.
It's in the personality. I was already different before I entered school. I had already become mean to people by the time I entered kindergarten, after the time I spent in a pre-school/daycare place. The K teacher tried to correct my attitude, and I learned to be more respectful or tolerant at least. But the social differences persisted and people highlighted them. I grew apart, or maybe I just didn't change. But fortunately for me my interest in computers was supported by my parents and teachers for the most part so I got the attention I needed without things like changing my appearance or messing up my academic performance. My mom tried to force me into activities like sports but I got out of that quickly and into something tolerable, playing the piano.
During that time I was never severely picked on, but nobody really knew me. It wasn't that the other students disliked me though, I just wasn't interesting to them. They knew I was smart and into computers though. I wasn't interested in what they were doing either. People aren't going to know you just because you exist, it's not fulfilling. The difference is that most people learn to please. They learn what makes others like them, which makes them feel good, and continue with that behavior. That's what makes people popular, that's what makes leaders. And that's simply not a part of my personality. Now that I'm so aware of myself and others it actually hurts me when I feel the need to please someone rather than be myself, even for really insignificant things. For most people it's just natural though. Given all this time to observe social interaction instead of participate, I've built up my own standards. I think people generally suck now, most people are stupid, but I'll give them a chance to open mouth and remove all doubt. I don't want people to annoy me and I won't annoy people. That doesn't help me get any friends but I'm not trying to please people. I don't want friends if there isn't a real interest. If someone is going to be a friend they'll already have a similar interest. In high school and college it's all the same deal for me. I'm so unique in many of my ways and interests that there is no group that I hang out with. I'm alone just about everywhere I go.
My best friend has similar interests, though I don't know his full perspective on people and life. The rest of the people that know just a little more than my name are people with computing interests. I spend my time on IRC in technology-related channels, waiting to catch some humor or the latest technology update, or inject some. I don't really like most of the people though, but I'm not about to dig a hole and hide in it. Rarely someone will try to get to know a little about me, but their interest quickly fades. This goes for girls too. Many people talk of girls like they're a game, "never had the guts to talk to a girl." Why would you need guts? It's all about interests, if I find a girl that has an interest in computers I might share more than a "hi" with her. The guts saying in a game perspective implies finding a way to please someone without being who you are. Am I single because I don't have the will to talk to a girl or simply because there are very few around that share my interests and even less that meet my standards? It's the latter. I'm also an occasional smart-ass and I have a sense of humor that doesn't cooperate with everyone else. I love sarcasm. So I usually keep my mouth shut (and in turn other people always describe me simply as quiet or shy). My mom, relatives, and female friends of my parents may comment that I'm handsome, but that doesn't mean anything.
People who actually wish to understand something of what I do call me "talented" and leave it at that. That's what the last girl I talked to said after I set up a school e-mail account on her laptop and she asked about what I do. She knew what "Linux" was, which helped, and I explained the project I was helping with. A year and a half later we still exchange e-mails occasionally, but it's about school stuff. We're on the same campus but we've only run into each other twice since I set up the e-mail. She seems distant, but is it because I'm somehow repulsive? No, she simply doesn't share my interests, so she doesn't want to know much about me. She wants to keep in contact but she'll never know me this way. Only the classes I'm taking and how my vacation went. Maybe I want to know a little about her, I don't have a reason to dislike her yet, but will I ever find out? Unlikely. That's the reality. Maybe she knows something and I could ask her exactly these questions. I'm not motivated enough to bother her about my insecurities. What a way to scare someone off that would be.
Don't assume that one size fits all either. This is a mind development thing, it can go either way. Interests can drive personality just as much as personality can drive interests, it happens at the same time.
You don't need to pay someone to figure this out. It's all about reflecting upon yourself and how you relate to others, breaking it down as far as you can. Maybe that takes some of the fun out of life but more people need to do that.
I give IE credit for being a good browser, perhaps the best released browser right now. I've used IE4 and IE5, and although they had problems, Netscape had just as many if not more. IE5 definitely wins some points. Unfortunately all of this advice is worthless. IE runs only on Microsoft OS's and some Apple OS's and whatever other proprietaristic companies Microsoft can make a deal with. While IE6 may be the best browser, Windows and MacOS (before X at least) are not the best operating systems. This means for a "full-featured" browser in a worthwhile OS it's Netscape/Mozilla or nothing. I'd rather deal with browser inconveniences than OS inconveniences, especially if one way gives me source for both and the other source for neither. However, if there were an IE for Linux, even though closed source, I would probably be using it right now. I'd still be waiting for Mozilla to complete though, which is what I'm using right now. The bugs I experience are slowly disappearing, but there isn't any alternative. (Unless someone wants to donate a machine for Windows...)
> And don't even bother talking about the idea of automatic, computer-controlled flyways and such nonsense. You may love your OS, but you would not actually risk your life on it. It only takes a drop of about 20 to 30 feet to kill you.
:) I just wouldn't trust anyone else's code without seeing many other people live first, or rather zero people die. :)
:), and I'd really hate to see the same stupid things in the air. It pretty much has to be automated if the average person gets a chance at it, nevermind the energy costs. And that's how it should be for cars too, just waiting for the technology to catch up.
I wouldn't have a problem with it if I wrote it.
We need to automate the existing ground system before we try to automate systems in the air. Until someone does that (Microsoft is trying, just watch out for the Blue Windshield of Death as it speeds toward your head) we shouldn't even consider this. Most people shouldn't be driving (and I'm not excluding myself from that
The comparison fails because it tries to map the open source development model to the traditional development model. Of course there are going to be a lot of similarities as much of the open source development model output set easily fits into the definition of the traditional model. However, try mapping the traditional development model to the open source development model. One finds that the traditional model is restrictive and the open source development model is much more flexible.
The traditional model has more of a solid state, whereas the open source model is like a liquid. The management structure only resembles traditional development because those are the roles that people evolve theirselves. Liquids settle if undisturbed. However, no role is required and no pathway through the system is the only pathway. Should a manager fall out of the chain, or change goals, the open source model flows around it and meets at the next link. The article points out that Linux kernel development slowed when Linus had to take some time off. That's not true. The "official" releases dropped off, but development continued and releases were still made by the other managers. The development simply flowed around Linus and he caught up with it when he came back. Of course in the open source model all of the managers are developers. When anyone, not just Linus, disconnects from any network of developers, there is a loss of total production potential. However, if he disappeared from the face of the earth the same thing would happen, except a respected individual would be declared the "official" release source, and any specific skills he had been providing would need to be taken up by new developers. Also on this subject, releases occur at all points, not at the top level. I've made a change to the kernel for the benefit of myself and a very few other people. Although the audience was very small it was still a release, I became the manager. I set the goal, I followed the goal to completion, I checked the quality, and I made the decision to put the patch out. Note that this was also a highly parallel development, as the entire workload was handled by myself. No supervision was required. Being part of the network, I did consult the existing developers though. Eventually my patch was obsoleted by a parallel effort from another part of the development network.
As other posters have pointed out, the control of the management is with the developers. The development model graph really does look like the Bazaar network for many of the projects, it's just that the links between developers are redundant. The connections are there but aren't used frequently unless another link breaks. Keep in mind that large projects like the Linux kernel aren't just the tar ball put out by Linus. There are numerous projects running in parallel that provide modules for the kernel that aren't contained in the kernel, and none of those people have to report to or accept goals from anybody in the core kernel deveopment. It just happens that they do so in order to maintain compatibility. Some of these modules make it into the "official" kernel, even though they were never in the goals of the official kernel.
I'm developing the CC backend for a company and we went with AuthorizeNet. We tried using Ibill for a short time, but their customer service was terrible (responsive but mean) and the restrictions were ridiculous. We were also harassed by a CardServices "agent" who called us a "dictator" like "Hitler or Saddam Hussain" and insisted that we have relationships problems with women when we refused to sign up, so we really look down upon that company. I couldn't find an e-mail address on the main CardServices site to complain to, which seems very bad for a company that does business online.
AuthorizeNet has done pretty well and has reasonable response time on their support. However they did have a several hour outage last week for unknowns reasons. They never told us what happened before, during, or after. (I assume an NT-powered database crashed and took half the day to reboot/restore.) Other than that it's been real nice. They have several interfaces you can use, although the documentation isn't complete yet. We're using the one where we accept the credit card info (for recurring billing later) over our secure server and then send it to their secure server gateway with an https POST. They process it and send back a simple delimited response about how well it went. This is easily implemented in perl, and I'm in the process of rewriting our current interface to their system as a perl module.
8 fans (case*3 + ps + cpu*2 + cd-r + video) creates quite a bit of noise, but the mostly white noise was good for sleeping while I was in a dorm. Otherwise I can hardly hear the hard disks. I usually have TV, radio, or other music playing loud enough over the 4.1 speaker+sub system so I really don't notice it.
My keyboard already has 18 or so "internet hot buttons". Theoretically I guess I could set them to do whatever I want in Linux but I haven't gotten to that yet. Right now they don't do anything in Linux. They used to print messages in syslog about unrecognized scancodes, so I'll take that as a hint it wouldn't be hard to make them handled any way I want. No predefined links though, but mostly common web functions in Windows. Buttons are: Logitech (brings up a menu of user-defined links), www, history, open url, home, send to back, print, back, forward, stop, refresh, search, find, add favorite, open favorites, hot links, scroll up, scroll down.
No, unbased MS bashing is based on past experience with heavily used MS software. People who use MS software exclusively and don't even know about unix will bash MS. Just because a lot of people feel the same way doesn't mean they're wrong or conforming to popular opinion. Of course paid development is going to get a lot more done. Those programmers have to do what they're told and complete it by a deadline, and it's their primary job. That isn't that case for most open source projects. There's very little risk of losing a job, there's almost never a deadline, and it's almost never their primary job. If you want some piece of software done that isn't very fun to complete then you're going to have to find a place that will pay people to do it and there aren't many of those for Linux.
Why do I keep hearing people complain about a lack of SMP support in the SB Live! driver? The SB Live! driver has had SMP support since mid-November, about two weeks after it became open source! It's certainly not hard to find if you look for it. Go to opensource.creative.com and grab a snapshot or check it out of CVS. It will work under the latest 2.2.x or 2.3.x. Just watch out for the recently introduced occasional device-close freeze bug that's still being tracked down. (Haven't been able to reliably reproduce the bug yet so it may be a couple weeks or so)
And I got it before you, and someone else before me. Both were declined. What do you want, a cookie? I'm interested to know why they were declined with such a big time span, but it's not important that mine be posted over any other version.
VHS tape is not really an issue though. There are video and decoder cards with video-out that make copying anything to VHS very easy. You can also do that with regular entertainment system players, you don't even need a computer much less DeCSS for that.
All hardware is troublesome under the right conditions. I've encountered some mean tulip cards also. My 3Com 905B is working great. No troubles at all.
It's almost the year 2000! Get with the times! Give these conference people some computers, Internet access, a chat server with digitally signed messages, some live video conferencing software, and a copy of Quake to settle arguments (or maybe one of those games like Command and Conquer would be more appropriate). If they ever expect to solve their trade problems they need to get up to date with the tools. The WTO website seems advanced enough. Meeting in person isn't that important. Online all they have to worry about are DoS attacks and the usual Internet troubles. (Hmm, an incentive for more widespread high-bandwidth availability and reliability?) At least they won't be (as) physically bothered. It'd much more peaceful if the protesters just defaced their web site. Don't have to worry about the unrelated rioters either... ok we can build virtual stores for them to wreck with virtual hammers... Java's good for something! or is that just another Quake add-on?
Just forget releases. Apt-get update/install all the latest changes from the development tree. Then put up with what breaks and wait for someone to fix it (or fix it yourself). Works for me. :) Most of the time its stable enough.
Not to support script kiddiez or anything, but I'll be laughing my ass off when everyone's (including business and government) software is remotely disabled after the shutdown codes are posted all over the Internet!
Fortunately I'll still be able to laugh at them online thanks to free(dom) software.
nVidia is also working on its own GLX/Mesa drivers already, so they'd probably wait for them to finish that first anyway
NVIDIA has been very quiet about Linux, but I have information about their support (and recent good news from the riva-liberty mailing list).
:)
NVIDIA now has 3 people working on the Linux drivers (GLX/Mesa for XFree86 4.0). There is the original Linux developer, a new guy (their "best driver guy") that used to be working on the Microsoft drivers, and another part-time engineer. All Riva chips will have 3D support. No word yet on if it will be open source.
Does anyone know when XF86 4.0 should be out? The XFree86 group seems to not like giving ETA's. I don't care if the date turns out to be wrong, it'd be nice to know when it might be out.
Another interesting piece of info from riva-liberty is that NVIDIA is moving all of their code control over to PerForce and Linux.
I've also been told to check their website from time to time for any other info.
As for me, I'm getting a TNT2, not just because Linux support is on the horizon, but because it seems to be the better card anyway.
1. NVIDIA now has 3 people working on GLX/Mesa for XFree86 4.0. That doesn't sound like "bugger off" to me. (Anyone know when XF86 4.0 is predicted to be out?) I've been told that all Riva chips will be 3D accelerated at that time.
2. Not lying. All of the information I've read says boards will be clocked at many different speeds, and that there will be 175/200 boards.
...I'll complete the driver I'm working on for my Mustek 600 III EP Plus. If only I could code all day without this "school" thing putting this "homework" stuff in the way...