Miguel and the control of Gnome all reside outside of the Red Hat world. Miguel works for unam, who afaik don't have anything to do with E development or have an official policy on it.
Try inflicting Enlightenment on your grandmother or using imlib on a 486SX machine. There will always be a difference between end user ease and reliability and the Rastermans flair for the bizarre and incredibly flexible.
Enlightenment is a beautiful toy, if you want to do wild and wonderful things. But to a lot of people the fact that all buttons behave the same way is a feature they like.
Good luck Raster, E may not be the WM everyone uses at work, but its the one everyone uses for shows.
Its very very easy for a vendor to recover a poll from slashdot aberrations. The nice visible spike makes it easy to drop results for a given time period, and also to drop results via referrer tracking.
Don't forget there is also a work in progress free player for the old Sierra games too.
Re:Corporate Violation
on
VA on Upside
·
· Score: 3
Red Hat have a pile of people, VA now have a good collection, SuSE have some
I don't think there is a monopoly problem. Any vendor doing serious commercial support needs a pet hacker.
This is already occuring. The FBI now has to chose between US citizens using Indian etc crypto which may have holes in it favouring non US governments and letting people use US crypto freely, where at least they get to put most of the trapdoors in.
"We may see". The Cuban internet connection already goes via Canada for some strange reason.
The good thing is that the internet routes around failures (including Clinton 8)) so that if the US did cut off satellite links then Im sure while it may be a bit loaded the links via their allies in the Russian block will be taking the load.
The iranian government isnt evil, your US propoganda knowledge is out of date. The Iranians are next to the Iraqi's who are this years bad guys. Please go back for a current indoctrination.
Americans have a very odd idea about much of the middle east where "good" is defined in terms of arms sales, and money dictates "truth".
Number of iranian children who shot each other in school this year: 0
Number of chinese embassies bombed by iran in error: 0
Live there - no I don't speak the language, follow the culture or fit the religious philosophy. (Anyone about to make cracks on that point should count the number of abortion centres bombed in the USA and shut up).
Iranians contribute to the kernel, Iranians have beowulf clusters and Iranians have plenty of options for buying Linux from countries who have the sense to tell the US where to go.
So America may be crippling your business but thats between you and your parliament. You may want to look at moving to another EEC state that is freer ?
The big problem is X11. There are ways to shrink X11 a lot, and the nano-gui project is now beginning to get workable code. See http://www.linuxhacker.org
Using glibc2.1 as the standard reference is being done because glibc2.1 closely follows the actual POSIX and unix standards. That makes it much cleaner and easier to specify the paper reference as it will say "xyz function performs as per SuSv2 with the following additions". It doesn't mean people will have to use glibc 2.1 either just something functionally equivalent and binary compatible.
They are still refusing to provide info on their DVD products, on their sound cards, and only plan a binary only driver of some sort it seems. The trident 4D wave cards on the other hand have vendor provided Linux drivers for ALSA, ESS tech have provided reference source code for some of their PCI cards which Im working on currently. USB audio is an open spec.
This seems a bit of a red herring. The issues with working on GPL code and working on any third party vendor code are identical. An IBM employee reading Linux code, or code from a book is in the same situation and the legal issues are clear and simple ( by intellectual 'property' law anyway).
Similarly the reverse is also true. Companies already tend to have agreements with their employees in their contracts about what may be released by whom and when.
Genetically modified food
on
Gene Leakage
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· Score: 3
There are a whole load of reasons GM food should be a point of concern
1. There is evidence GM soya causes immune system damage
2. One of the primary goals of the GM food industry is crops you have to buy from them each year. Right now third world farmers do rather better by saving some seeds and replanting them. This is like windows licensing your crops.
And if they decide to stop supplying a country that is dependant on these terminator crops (eg the US interfering in another war) everyone starves to death. Good isnt it.
3. One of the reasons for such tight current control on GM plants is we don't know enough about genetics yet. We are at the same stage in genetics as the early explosives people were. They knew it could do wonderful things but were never quite sure what was going to happen, and likewise if you got it wrong you made a very big mess.
4. Faced with a removal of their normal target insects and bacteria either move or adapt. If they adapt your genetically modified food is now useless because they've eaten it, and if they move well then you risk destroying another habitat. Also remember the largest target to move onto is Humans.
In the UK and most of Europe people tend to prefer their food grown to engineered. We don't allow growth hormone in cattle so our meat tastes a lot better, and most UK supermarkets are talking about ceasing to sell any GM foodstuffs.
Use xpdf. You may need to get it from Europe for the crypto add on. Adobe made PDF basically an open protocol like postscript but one they already had a good lead on. Nice sensible way to do things
There is no such thing. There was up to 8 way Pentium Pro - but even the PII upgrade powerup crap for these didnt do over dual CPU boards.
If you want over 2 processors you are in Xeon land which is bad for the pocket. People like VA sell them, you can also get the a fair bit cheaper elsewhere. But even "a fair bit cheaper" is in the youch ! category.
Are you sure you need a quad CPU box ? Maybe a pair of duals (probably you can get 4 or 5 dual Celeron hacks for the same price)
People may even release a GPL'd UDI for the Linux kernel. I don't think anyone should expect it to make the main kernel tree. Like streams its one of those dumb ideas that doesn't merit mainstream kernel support.
I know a whole collection of people doing a good million hits a day. These include big sites like Dejanews.com. I wouldnt mind betting linux.org, redhat.com, suse.com are getting those sorts of figures off their boxes.
Anyway the big proof of the pudding this time is amusing. Count the %age of porn sites running Linux or FreeBSD. Compare it to those running AIX
Slashdot Mirror
Linuxtoday seem to manage to do their research just fine.
Miguel and the control of Gnome all reside outside of the Red Hat world. Miguel works for unam, who afaik don't have anything to do with E development or have an official policy on it.
Alan
Try inflicting Enlightenment on your grandmother or using imlib on a 486SX machine. There will always be a difference between end user ease and reliability and the Rastermans flair for the bizarre and incredibly flexible.
Enlightenment is a beautiful toy, if you want to do wild and wonderful things. But to a lot of people the fact that all buttons behave the same way is a feature they like.
Good luck Raster, E may not be the WM everyone uses at work, but its the one everyone uses for shows.
Alan
Its very very easy for a vendor to recover a poll from slashdot aberrations. The nice visible spike makes it easy to drop results for a given time period, and also to drop results via referrer tracking.
Don't forget there is also a work in progress free player for the old Sierra games too.
Red Hat have a pile of people, VA now have a good
collection, SuSE have some
I don't think there is a monopoly problem. Any
vendor doing serious commercial support needs a
pet hacker.
Well the computing solution would be to switch from using checksums to spot bad cells as it seems to do now and start using hamming coded DNA.
That might take a few technology advances yet
The big problem was most people thought that was
a Red Hat advert.
This is already occuring. The FBI now has to chose
between US citizens using Indian etc crypto which may have holes in it favouring non US governments and letting people use US crypto freely, where at least they get to put most of the trapdoors in.
I hope it does boost his sales by over 10K. Open
Source/Free Software can be creating win-win situations.
"We may see". The Cuban internet connection already goes via Canada for some strange reason.
The good thing is that the internet routes around failures (including Clinton 8)) so that if the US did cut off satellite links then Im sure while it may be a bit loaded the links via their allies in the Russian block will be taking the load.
Alan
The iranian government isnt evil, your US propoganda knowledge is out of date. The Iranians are next to the Iraqi's who are this years bad guys. Please go back for a current indoctrination.
Americans have a very odd idea about much of the middle east where "good" is defined in terms of arms sales, and money dictates "truth".
Number of iranian children who shot each other in school this year: 0
Number of chinese embassies bombed by iran in error: 0
Live there - no I don't speak the language, follow the culture or fit the religious philosophy. (Anyone about to make cracks on that point should count the number of abortion centres bombed in the USA and shut up).
Alan
Iranians contribute to the kernel, Iranians have beowulf clusters and Iranians have plenty of options for buying Linux from countries who have the sense to tell the US where to go.
So America may be crippling your business but thats between you and your parliament. You may want to look at moving to another EEC state that is freer ?
Alan
Yesterday btw there was an eddieware press release
that their open source web stuff will be doing a
real live test for the next cricket series.
Well cool
The big problem is X11. There are ways to shrink
X11 a lot, and the nano-gui project is now beginning to get workable code. See http://www.linuxhacker.org
There are a whole pile of solutions see
http://www.henge.com/~alanr/ha/
I guess thats a very underpublished URL 8(
See5 204&mode=thread 2 219&mode=thread
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=99/04/08/134
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=98/12/31/115
oh ye of short memories
Using glibc2.1 as the standard reference is being done because glibc2.1 closely follows the actual POSIX and unix standards. That makes it much cleaner and easier to specify the paper reference as it will say "xyz function performs as per SuSv2 with the following additions". It doesn't mean people will have to use glibc 2.1 either just something functionally equivalent and binary compatible.
They are still refusing to provide info on their
DVD products, on their sound cards, and only plan
a binary only driver of some sort it seems.
The trident 4D wave cards on the other hand have
vendor provided Linux drivers for ALSA, ESS tech
have provided reference source code for some of
their PCI cards which Im working on currently.
USB audio is an open spec.
This seems a bit of a red herring. The issues with
working on GPL code and working on any third party
vendor code are identical. An IBM employee reading
Linux code, or code from a book is in the same
situation and the legal issues are clear and simple ( by intellectual 'property' law anyway).
Similarly the reverse is also true. Companies
already tend to have agreements with their
employees in their contracts about what may be
released by whom and when.
There are a whole load of reasons GM food should be a point of concern
1. There is evidence GM soya causes immune system damage
2. One of the primary goals of the GM food industry is crops you have to buy from them each year. Right now third world farmers do rather better by saving some seeds and replanting them. This is like windows licensing your crops.
And if they decide to stop supplying a country that is dependant on these terminator crops (eg the US interfering in another war) everyone starves to death. Good isnt it.
3. One of the reasons for such tight current control on GM plants is we don't know enough about genetics yet. We are at the same stage in genetics as the early explosives people were. They knew it could do wonderful things but were never quite sure what was going to happen, and likewise if you got it wrong you made a very big mess.
4. Faced with a removal of their normal target insects and bacteria either move or adapt. If they adapt your genetically modified food is now useless because they've eaten it, and if they move well then you risk destroying another habitat. Also remember the largest target to move onto is Humans.
In the UK and most of Europe people tend to prefer their food grown to engineered. We don't allow growth hormone in cattle so our meat tastes a lot better, and most UK supermarkets are talking about ceasing to sell any GM foodstuffs.
Alan
Well I know one vendors whose products I won't be
buying for a very very long time.
Alan
Use xpdf. You may need to get it from Europe for
the crypto add on. Adobe made PDF basically an open protocol like postscript but one they already had a good lead on. Nice sensible way to do things
There is no such thing. There was up to 8 way
Pentium Pro - but even the PII upgrade powerup
crap for these didnt do over dual CPU boards.
If you want over 2 processors you are in Xeon land which is bad for the pocket. People like VA sell them, you can also get the a fair bit cheaper elsewhere. But even "a fair bit cheaper" is in the youch ! category.
Are you sure you need a quad CPU box ? Maybe a
pair of duals (probably you can get 4 or 5 dual
Celeron hacks for the same price)
Alan
People may even release a GPL'd UDI for the Linux kernel. I don't think anyone should expect it to make the main kernel tree. Like streams its one of those dumb ideas that doesn't merit mainstream kernel support.
I know a whole collection of people doing a good
million hits a day. These include big sites like
Dejanews.com. I wouldnt mind betting linux.org,
redhat.com, suse.com are getting those sorts of
figures off their boxes.
Anyway the big proof of the pudding this time is
amusing. Count the %age of porn sites running
Linux or FreeBSD. Compare it to those running AIX
Alan