I'm sure you meant it as a troll but nothing stops you writing TTF render engines for the console frame buffer. Many language users already do use bitmap consoles and tools like bterm to see 'console' displays.
Government bodies do pull money on projects in order to make ends meet, and its a US government which has dropped many schools, a complete health program and a lot more in equivalent value on Iraq. The OpenBSD funding may just have been converted into a couple of missiles instead.
Theo can still have the last laugh, I dread to think how many holes in common government used software the OpenBSD audit team could find in one hackathon.
Current SATA stuff isn't going to give you a good idea of what SATA can deliver. Most of the really nice stuff is a few months from hitting the shelves.
I think I'd second that. Assuming you care about the customer then you owe it to them to say "Look I think this is wrong. I'll do it your way its your call but....", and in one or two cases where there way genuinely cannot be done you actually have to turn down a job with a good customer. Its bad for the short term sometimes but its good long term business. Especially if you are carefully to say "I can't do that job in that time for you this way" not "You are a dork" 8)
Humourous or otherwise, it demonstrates one of the reasons the US cannot handle this - source code is speech so protected.
The entire western economic system is going to implode, just as Japan has done (partly saved by its wildly different culture and huge farming protection rules). The same process - the innovators dilemma - works for countries too. We are inefficient, we are expensive, we lose the layers of industry just as the model says. Soon all that will be viable is lawyers and finance houses, then the whole pile collapses.
Ironically the USA and EU had the power to stop this - they could have imposed taxes on incoming goods. They could have ringfenced that money to go back to workers in those countries, creating ecomic growth,. driving up demand for luxury goods and creating markets, instead they signed GATT and NAFTA and other treaties that drive work to the poorest without rewarding them. When there is no work left in the EU/USA who will buy the cars, the tv sets, the dvd players ?
Thats what the LSB is for really. If its an LSB compliant distribution the LSB compliant apps should work, whether its numbered 8, 9 or 5001.
Its also why United Linux and Red Hat both have business oriented distributions which change much more slowly.
Alan
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Same as now. X extensions are negotitated and its done with compatibility covered. Shared memory is an extension, Video overlay is an extension , Xrender is an extension...
Its just X is so good at this people don't notice 8)
Firewire is ok - the ACPI one is a good point, and its one reason I want to get the newer ACPI and the patches to handle buggy but not detected by MS ACPI into the -ac tree.
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Actually Keith has been working on this for some time. Take a look at the hw/kdrive tree in XFree86, that produces very small Xservers and supports a few chips so far (notably things like the iPaq use it).
Also a lot of the rest of the XFree binary package set is fonts, weird prehistoric applications (wtf uses xsetpointer, xkbbell, xstdcmap...) and ancient unused (but important for back compatibility libraries) like Xaw.
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Thats crap to put it midly. You write an X application right and it works everywhere. Please already run a huge range of X servers, including WeirdX, MetroX, Accelerated X, eXceed and the like all of which are different codebases, and WeirdX is even in a different language.
Its like arguing that you can't write a tcp/ip application if NetBSD and OpenBSD forked. The truth is that since both speak the same protocol it doesn't matter at all.
Our current house is about 100 years old. Like pretty much every other hundred year old british building its still here because its been fixed. It suprises some people when they discover there are three hundred year old buildings where the walls are in fine condition because someone supported all the innards carefully, removed the outside walls and rebuillt them around it again.
It helps that brickwork is a little flexible (it isnt an earthquake country so old houses are not built on solid plinths), but when we bought it we still had to remove a small lake from the cellar and get the beams across the front strengthened as they sagged over time.
Don't built a house to last four hundred years, build a house thats easy to maintain. The roof will develop leaks, the window frames will decay, the plaster will crumble. If you use plastic it will age and crack, if you use concrete it'll decay crack and powder.
"This is my grandfathers broom" as the saying goes "My father replaced the brush, and I replaced the handle"
Caldera provided me the SMP machine that was used to write Linux SMP support, that was why they provided it and thats one big reason it happened at that time.
And most of the theory for it came not from secret unix knowledge but a book 8)
People break into routers. Also you don't have to break into a BGP router if you can spoof interior routes and get it to believe them. You can also intercept BGP sessions, although some systems do at least basic MD5 challenges.
Thats not to say the original article isn't overhyping it. You can bring the internet down that way, but its an awfully hard way to do it, only affects some chunks are is much easier to fix than many other attacks.
With computing security as poor as it is why would a terrorist go to so much unneccessary trouble
They say its not used GPL code in some old editions, and they wont be doing so in future. Its not clear if there is some release they did. They don't say they havem't done it with current code. Since they are making a floppy of the relevant code available that is a good step and means someone can check nicely and settle the question for good.
Actually there is a much simpler way to defeat please enter the word on the image web sites, and one that actually raises a real issue. Those image tricks are discriminating horribly against the blind, the old and those with eye problems in general, as well in some cases dyslexics
I too have a 600 (for real use its 90% of the speed of a new laptop, better supported and so on...). Batteries seem to be a little better than the sony ones (SR1K battery is so bad I think its the last Sony product anyone who bought one will buy 8)). One thing that I found and while obvious might be worth saying. Keep your junk dead battery, use that when you are running off the mains for long periods of time.
So far my best laptop for batteries has been the IBM PC110. The batteries lasted about four years a set and they are a standard (cheap!) camcorder battery part.
|Whatever encumberences people in the US work under are |nothing compared to conditions in China, where you could be |sent to jail for reading this post.
Don't mix efficiency and business freedom with the rather more important issue of personal freedom. Unless I was from the middle east I'd much rather be in the USA than China.
|Germany [bbc.co.uk] go to jail for a web post.
Umm DMCA, 2600, DeCSS ?
|The case of "hate laws" in France an elswhere is well known.
I guess I'm typical of europeans here in that I find the US dislike of anti-hate laws as strange as their predilection for firearms. I guess its a fundamental cultural difference.
The monarchy is kind of an investment. You can view if cynically as the equivalent of the gladiatorial games in Rome, or business cynically as a good ROI through tourism.
One thing you have to realise is that twenty years from now nobody will care if one wacky bankrupt state has banned Linux. There will be no real IT industry left in the USA by then anyway. The odd billion chinese people are slightly more significant.
People like PANIP are the final death throes. The innovators dilemma is destroying the west. We lost the heavy industry, we have to pay farmers to avoid losing farming, we are losing the support businesses, gradually the more efficient nations munch their way up the food chain. Soon all that will be left are the futile attempts to own ideas and lawyers.
That won't last long either. There are a lot of non US companies building huge patent pools. Their staff are cheaper, their lawyers don't charge outrageous fees and they have lots of young and bright staff encouraged to think rather than to conform for fear of liability and lawsuits for being original.
Something to think about as you watch the US drop your tax money out of bombers over the desert
I only buy second hand stuff from mainstream artists. Thankfully much of the great and innovative music today isnt from them.. its just *much* harder to find bands like Show of Hands, Machinae Supremacy and a whole army of cool Newfoundland bands in your local music shop.
Yeah some artists aren't getting any money from me now. It's an unfortunate side effect but it also might help persuade them to move.. lets face it with current music rates they aren't making *any* money anyway.
If you want to make money in the music industry,w ear a suit and work in the office 9-5. Musicians don't make any of the money executives do.
People keep trying to avoid the fact that the innovators dilemma applies to nation states as well as to businesses. A long time ago this was mitigated by the fact that social standards influenced import rules. GATT buried that so now the west can't easily refuse goods created in dangerous circumstances by underpaid workers and child labour.
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I'm sure you meant it as a troll but nothing stops you writing TTF render engines for the console frame buffer. Many language users already do use bitmap consoles and tools like bterm to see 'console' displays.
Government bodies do pull money on projects in order to make ends meet, and its a US government which has dropped many schools, a complete health program and a lot more in equivalent value on Iraq. The OpenBSD funding may just have been converted into a couple of missiles instead.
Theo can still have the last laugh, I dread to think how many holes in common government used software the OpenBSD audit team could find in one hackathon.
Current SATA stuff isn't going to give you a good idea of what SATA can deliver. Most of the really nice stuff is a few months from hitting the shelves.
I think I'd second that. Assuming you care about the customer then you owe it to them to say "Look I think this is wrong. I'll do it your way its your call but....", and in one or two cases where there way genuinely cannot be done you actually have to turn down a job with a good customer. Its bad for the short term sometimes but its good long term business. Especially if you are carefully to say "I can't do that job in that time for you this way" not "You are a dork" 8)
Humourous or otherwise, it demonstrates one of the reasons the US cannot handle this - source code is speech so protected.
The entire western economic system is going to implode, just as Japan has done (partly saved by its wildly different culture and huge farming protection rules). The same process - the innovators dilemma - works for countries too. We are inefficient, we are expensive, we lose the layers of industry just as the model says. Soon all that will be viable is lawyers and finance houses, then the whole pile collapses.
Ironically the USA and EU had the power to stop this - they could have imposed taxes on incoming goods. They could have ringfenced that money to go back to workers in those countries, creating ecomic growth,. driving up demand for luxury goods and creating markets, instead they signed GATT and NAFTA and other treaties that drive work to the poorest without rewarding them. When there is no work left in the EU/USA who will buy the cars, the tv sets, the dvd players ?
The RHCE scheme will be adjusted to reflect the numbering change. If you want more details contact rhcecert@redhat.com.
This should probably have been announced at the same time but wasn't.
Thats what the LSB is for really. If its an LSB compliant distribution the LSB compliant apps should work, whether its numbered 8, 9 or 5001.
Its also why United Linux and Red Hat both have business oriented distributions which change much more slowly.
Alan
Same as now. X extensions are negotitated and its done with compatibility covered. Shared memory is an extension, Video overlay is an extension , Xrender is an extension ...
Its just X is so good at this people don't notice 8)
Firewire is ok - the ACPI one is a good point, and its one reason I want to get the newer ACPI and the patches to handle buggy but not detected by MS ACPI into the -ac tree.
Actually Keith has been working on this for some time. Take a look at the hw/kdrive tree in XFree86, that produces very small Xservers and supports a few chips so far (notably things like the iPaq use it).
Also a lot of the rest of the XFree binary package set is fonts, weird prehistoric applications (wtf uses xsetpointer, xkbbell,
xstdcmap...) and ancient unused (but important for back compatibility libraries) like Xaw.
Thats crap to put it midly. You write an X application right and it works everywhere. Please already run a huge range of X servers, including WeirdX, MetroX, Accelerated X, eXceed and the like all of which are different codebases, and WeirdX is even in a different language.
Its like arguing that you can't write a tcp/ip application if NetBSD and OpenBSD forked. The truth is that since both speak the same protocol it doesn't matter at all.
Our current house is about 100 years old. Like pretty much every other hundred year old british building its still here because its been fixed. It suprises some people when they discover there are three hundred year old buildings where the walls are in fine condition because someone supported all the innards carefully, removed the outside walls and rebuillt them around it again.
It helps that brickwork is a little flexible (it isnt an earthquake country so old houses are not built on solid plinths), but when we bought it we still had to remove a small lake from the cellar and get the beams across the front strengthened as they sagged over time.
Don't built a house to last four hundred years, build a house thats easy to maintain. The roof will develop leaks, the window frames will decay, the plaster will crumble. If you use plastic it will age and crack, if you use concrete it'll decay crack and powder.
"This is my grandfathers broom" as the saying goes "My father replaced the brush, and I replaced the handle"
Alan
Let me provide specific data on that
Caldera provided me the SMP machine that was used to write Linux SMP support, that was why they provided it and thats one big reason it happened at that time.
And most of the theory for it came not from secret unix knowledge but a book 8)
Take a look at Wizardry on the Apple ][. Thats the game Dungeon Master perhaps aspired to be.
People break into routers. Also you don't have to break into a BGP router if you can spoof interior routes and get it to believe them. You can also intercept BGP sessions, although some systems do at least basic MD5 challenges.
Thats not to say the original article isn't overhyping it. You can bring the internet down that way, but its an awfully hard way to do it, only affects some chunks are is much easier to fix than many other attacks.
With computing security as poor as it is why would a terrorist go to so much unneccessary trouble
They say its not used GPL code in some old editions, and they wont be doing so in future. Its not clear if there is some release they did. They don't say they havem't done it with current code. Since they are making a floppy of the relevant code available that is a good step and means someone can check nicely and settle the question for good.
Actually there is a much simpler way to defeat please enter the word on the image web sites, and one that actually raises a real issue. Those image tricks are discriminating horribly against the blind, the old and those with eye problems in general, as well in some cases dyslexics
I too have a 600 (for real use its 90% of the speed of a new laptop, better supported and so on...). Batteries seem to be a little better than the sony ones (SR1K battery is so bad I think its the last Sony product anyone who bought one will buy 8)). One thing that I found and while obvious might be worth saying. Keep your junk dead battery, use that when you are running off the mains for long periods of time.
So far my best laptop for batteries has been the IBM PC110. The batteries lasted about four years a set and they are a standard (cheap!) camcorder battery part.
Strange != "I am right'
I fact I don't have a direct opinion on that because quite frankly I don't know who is right about hate speech laws
|Whatever encumberences people in the US work under are |nothing compared to conditions in China, where you could be |sent to jail for reading this post.
Don't mix efficiency and business freedom with the rather more important issue of personal freedom. Unless I was from the middle east I'd much rather be in the USA than China.
|Germany [bbc.co.uk] go to jail for a web post.
Umm DMCA, 2600, DeCSS ?
|The case of "hate laws" in France an elswhere is well known.
I guess I'm typical of europeans here in that I find the US dislike of anti-hate laws as strange as their predilection for firearms. I guess its a fundamental cultural difference.
The monarchy is kind of an investment. You can view if cynically as the equivalent of the gladiatorial games in Rome, or business cynically as a good ROI through tourism.
One thing you have to realise is that twenty years from now nobody will care if one wacky bankrupt state has banned Linux. There will be no real IT industry left in the USA by then anyway. The odd billion chinese people are slightly more significant.
People like PANIP are the final death throes. The innovators dilemma is destroying the west. We lost the heavy industry, we have to pay farmers to avoid losing farming, we are losing the support businesses, gradually the more efficient nations munch their way up the food chain. Soon all that will be left are the futile attempts to own ideas and lawyers.
That won't last long either. There are a lot of non US companies building huge patent pools. Their staff are cheaper, their lawyers don't charge outrageous fees and they have lots of young and bright staff encouraged to think rather than to conform for fear of liability and lawsuits for being original.
Something to think about as you watch the US drop your tax money out of bombers over the desert
I only buy second hand stuff from mainstream artists. Thankfully much of the great and innovative music today isnt from them.. its just *much* harder to find bands like Show of Hands, Machinae Supremacy and a whole army of cool Newfoundland bands in your local music shop.
.. lets face it with current music rates they aren't making *any* money anyway.
Yeah some artists aren't getting any money from me now. It's an unfortunate side effect but it also might help persuade them to move
If you want to make money in the music industry,w ear a suit and work in the office 9-5. Musicians don't make any of the money executives do.
Not Walmart - economics.
People keep trying to avoid the fact that the innovators dilemma applies to nation states as well as to businesses. A long time ago this was mitigated by the fact that social standards influenced import rules. GATT buried that so now the west can't easily refuse goods created in dangerous circumstances by underpaid workers and child labour.