Yes the goverment suck, they have their crazy prestige projects acts like blackholes sucking in taxpayers money. Think if they put all that money into giving the citizens decent infrastructure for broadband which can to Digital Television, HDTV and whatever you want. Like Fast Ethernet over copper (100 MBit/s) to the flats/apartments/houses and Gigabit Ethernet over fiber for the access network. The NICs are cheap, the cables are cheap, the switches are cheap.
You can never have too much fiber. Here in sweden 95% of all fiber in the ground are dark/unused. We could easily provide Gigabit Ethernet or 10 Gigabit Ethernet in the future to everyones home if the operators that owns the darkfiber wasnt so greedy and charge highprices for the unused fiber they own.
Think of what kind of internet and applications we could build if everyone had unlimited bandwidth. My stinky 512 Kbit bandwidth-capped broadband service from the national telco Telia at home cant even do streaming internet television. It sucks!
Well, the real problem is not adress shortage its that NAT breaks end-to-end communication. That means that things like video-conferencing, ip-telephony, peer-to-peer, IPsec, instant messaging, etc, dont work becouse they require that both ends can connect to each-other. Thats why NAT is a bad longterm solution and we will need IPv6 sooner or later. Another nice thing is the autoconfiguration in IPv6. That means you dont need any special DHCP servers on the network. The same time you plug the cable into the wall or turn on your computer it will autoconfigure the interface IP address from the router.
I have 10 MBit LAN/Ethernet boardband to my house and I have no problems with other people using it then I'm at work and not home or using my connection. On the average I use it maybe 1-2 hours per day, sometimes not in serval days at a row. I cost be $20 a month for 10 Mbit so theres no problems with setting up a WLAN accesspoint that public open.
Urgh, it's almost two years between major kernel releases (2.2 -> 2.4). That means we cannot have any funny kernel discussions on/. for a very long time, is'nt that realy boring?
Yep, convert all music they release with the new locked format to MP3 and spread them from thousands of MP3 pirate websites around the globe. Fuck off RIAA you cant do a shit about MP3
This is great, kudos to John Carmack. For pushing OpenGL as an alternative to DirectX on the gaming scene. For being such a briliant and sharp programmer. For supporting Linux and UNIX. He has done much good for pushing consumer-level OpenGL support. How many low-end graphics cards would support OpenGL without the great games Quake and Quake2 you think?
Played some today with the trial version of Symantec's new 'Visual Cafe' Java development tool. Very nice and easy to build graphical Java applications and applets. I'm mainly an console Emacs / JDK guy but graphical build tools seam to be a nice way to build complex Java applications. It's the tricky part to do the GUI layout in Java. Graphical layout tools like this will save _many_ hours of code writing.
Most computer people/hackers are not anti-social or looners, its just that we like socialize with other "geeks", becoz most normal people are stupid and have boring intressts, etc. And to get good at something means many non-stop hours and night-pullers infront of the screen. You cant get good at something without practice.
"Choose life. Choose a job. Choose a career. Choose a family. Choose a fucking big television. Choose washing machines, cars, compact disc players and electrical tin openers... choose DIY and wondering who the fuck you are on a Sunday morning. Choose sitting on that couch watching mindnumbing, spirit-crushing game shows, stuffing junk food into your mouth. Choose rotting away at the end of it all, pishing your last in a miserable home, nothing more than an embarrassment to the selfish, fucked-up brats you spawned to replace yourself. Choose your future. Choose Life..."
Today I can buy 10 Fast-ethernet 100 Mbit/s cards for the same price as a 1200 bit/s modem would cost me then I started computing. Pretty impressive is'nt it:)
I think RMS should focus his energy on getting more of the GPL software in under the GNU shelter than bitching about the GNU/Linux name, by that why he can write himself and GNU/FSF more into the history than now.
Personaly I have been thinking of moving some of my GPL software projects in under the GNU label then they have matured a bit. I think GNU is good and its good to have a organization that can stand up and defend and protect us.
Lightwave Maya PRMan Pro/E well, only SGI has around 50-100 commercial 3D applications, and theres alot of heavy duty CAD applications (some costs around $10000 for ONE licence). well, round 500-1000 apps I guess. Many are science and reseach apps, like biological, chemical, VR, molecule modelling and fluid dynamics to name a few.
Slashdot Mirror
Suns JRE: http://java.sun.com/j2se/?frontpage-javaplatform
Kaffe JRE: http://www.kaffe.org
Wrong again. Kaffe 1.0.6 is 3.41 MB
http://www.kaffe.org/
You dont have to download the JDK, only the runtime enviroment. Its only 8 MB.
LimeWire is an good example that you can write usefull and welldesigned GUI applications in Java. I wish they all commercial success.
If Sony could come up with a robotic vacumcleaner that could clean my floors then i'm at work i'd sign up today!
Maybe some of the slashdot chicks here can answer that question. :)
Yes the goverment suck, they have their crazy prestige projects acts like blackholes sucking in taxpayers money. Think if they put all that money into giving the citizens decent infrastructure for broadband which can to Digital Television, HDTV and whatever you want. Like Fast Ethernet over copper (100 MBit/s) to the flats/apartments/houses and Gigabit Ethernet over fiber for the access network. The NICs are cheap, the cables are cheap, the switches are cheap.
You can never have too much fiber. Here in sweden 95% of all fiber in the ground are dark/unused. We could easily provide Gigabit Ethernet or 10 Gigabit Ethernet in the future to everyones home if the operators that owns the darkfiber wasnt so greedy and charge highprices for the unused fiber they own.
Think of what kind of internet and applications we could build if everyone had unlimited bandwidth. My stinky 512 Kbit bandwidth-capped broadband service from the national telco Telia at home cant even do streaming internet television. It sucks!
Well, the real problem is not adress shortage its that NAT breaks end-to-end communication. That means that things like video-conferencing, ip-telephony, peer-to-peer, IPsec, instant messaging, etc, dont work becouse they require that both ends can connect to each-other. Thats why NAT is a bad longterm solution and we will need IPv6 sooner or later. Another nice thing is the autoconfiguration in IPv6. That means you dont need any special DHCP servers on the network. The same time you plug the cable into the wall or turn on your computer it will autoconfigure the interface IP address from the router.
The IPv4 loopback address "127.0.0.1" is represented in IPv6 as "::1".
Yes, but they allow SSL and SSH connections right?
using end-to-end IPsec insted of tunneled IPsec (VPN) should also do fine becouse its not 'VPN'.
The solution would be that everyone start using SSL (https) on their webservers.
I have 10 MBit LAN/Ethernet boardband to my house and I have no problems with other people using it then I'm at work and not home or using my connection. On the average I use it maybe 1-2 hours per day, sometimes not in serval days at a row. I cost be $20 a month for 10 Mbit so theres no problems with setting up a WLAN accesspoint that public open.
Maybe Intel would'nt exist today if they chosen Motorola.
Urgh, it's almost two years between major kernel releases (2.2 -> 2.4). That means we cannot have any funny kernel discussions on /. for a very long time, is'nt that realy boring?
..a beowulf made of these pouring hot gritz down Natalie Portman pants.
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fucking big television. Choose washing machines, cars, compact disc
players and electrical tin openers... choose DIY and wondering who the
fuck you are on a Sunday morning. Choose sitting on that couch watching
mindnumbing, spirit-crushing game shows, stuffing junk food into your
mouth. Choose rotting away at the end of it all, pishing your last in a
miserable home, nothing more than an embarrassment to the selfish,
fucked-up brats you spawned to replace yourself. Choose your future.
Choose Life
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Personaly I have been thinking of moving some of my GPL software projects in under the GNU label then they have matured a bit. I think GNU is good and its good to have a organization that can stand up and defend and protect us.
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