...unfortunately. Ever hit ^C in the SVGALib Quake or Quake 2 and find that the game exitted without resetting the console? I sent the fix for that to Zoid a couple of times but it never seemed to get his attention. Granted, it was a big piece of stupidity in the svgalib code, but it would have been nice for him to take the 2 minutes to fix it, even if it didn't bother him.
I rarely read the Katz tripe, but did he ever actually get Linux installed? Last I remember, he came up with some unbelievable story about his computer getting torn apart in shipment and then being unable to get it to boot or something like that, then promptly ended the "Linux" series of articles without explanation.
You're on the right track, but the problem is that Apple themselves seem to be impeding any sort of progress on the Sorenson codec for xanim. From the xanim homepage: I have contacted Sorenson about licensing their codec. They responded that Apple won't allow them to license it to others. It's known that Mark Podlipec (the xanim guy) is pretty competent and doesn't even require codecs to be released as open source; yet Apple still won't let him write one. I personally could care less about "genuine" quicktime for Linux, but I just want to be able to watch all of the trailers.
No, actually Linus himself has said that he *wants* as many people to use development kernels, *even if they're not developers*. So long as you don't mind putting up with some possible instability (or worse), there's no reason not to play with development kernels.
Not quite, the manufacturing process for plastics (ie one of the ingredients in a DVD) generates waste, uses petroleum etc.
It's like the old argument against electronic cars being true "zero emissions" vehicles - even if the car itself produces no waste, you don't help the environment if you power it from a plant which burns coal to generate power.
Debug symbols don't get loaded into memory when an executable runs; they stay on disk. However, as you also said, it could be that the current builds contain a lot of extra debugging crap which is bloating the footprint...
If you want to use Kerberos IV you're almost certainly better off getting KTH Kerberos IV, which is much more up to date than that included in any of the BSDs (unless any of them have moved to KTH, last I knew they all used a derivitive of the original MIT release). You can get the KTH distribution at http://www.pdc.kth.se/kth-krb/
While, I haven't used Heimdahl, the version of Kerberos IV which KTH produced was excellent, worlds better than the MIT release. I'd expect Heimdahl to be similar, although from what I've heard the current cuts are still a little rough.
They'll probe some of your ports at irregular intervals. As far as I know, they don't have any problems with you running servers or masquerading, they're just looking for open wingates and the like.
I agree with your sentiment. However, while I don't think that a Libertarian-controlled state would be ideal (Better than the current situation? Maybe, maybe not), I think the Libertarian party is the one who would best pull the political spectrum in the right direction. That's why I vote Libertarian. Would I keep voting for them always if they became a real political force a la the Dems or Repubs? Almost certainly not. But (IMO) what the company needs now is a good dose of *real* conservatism, not the fake stuff the Republicans preach. Just something to consider, this viewpoint probably isn't for everyone.
While I agree with the sentiment (it comes down to the whole splinter thing), the problem, as others have said, is the "Really good" part. You think MS Windows has a good window manager...I think it sucks rocks. The nice thing about having a flexible system like X is that one person's view of "good" doesn't keep you from implementing your view of "good." Of course, you can also claim this as one of its biggest problems since it admittedly leads to consistency problems. As for me, I like the fact that even tho everyone seems to like the NeXT look (I don't), I can still use fvwm2 and not be stuck with afterstep or windowmaker.
I don't know if I'd say it's Arnold's best, but I agree that Katz seems to have some sort of prejudice against this. You don't go to a movie like this for intellectual stimulation - you go for entertainment. I liked "Terminator" a lot, but calling "original" and "striking" is waaaay too much credit for it. It's the same thing as EoD - you go to see some neat special effects, Arnold blowing some stuff up and some adventure. Oh yeah, Gabriel Byrne is pretty cool too.
Oh well, this just continues to reinforce my opinion of Katz - a blowhard who under the best of circumstances has little idea what he's talking about. (At least he didn't try to tie in EoD to "the plight of geeks and nerds")
Except scientology is even more bizarre than what you described - many "religions" have leaders who claim to be god or whatnot, but from what I remember their beliefs include stuff like o The earth was seeded thousands of years ago for life by some alien warlord o Said warlord will someday return to earth for some reason or another. o There is an intergalactic war that's been going on for a few thousand years and the earth is somehow involved. It's sad that scientology is as popular as it is.
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OK, I'll put in a few harsh words:) (These are meant as constructive criticisms, I'm a Debian user but dpkg has some deficiencies) 1) Speed - RPM is an order of magnitude faster at doing queries 2) Why does dpkg not offer a way to view untruncated package names with -l ? 3) Package names are goofy. In redhat it's easy to guess what a package name would be. apt-get kicks ass but would be even better if I could say "apt-get install svgalib" rather than having to know that the svgalib package name is really "svgalibg1" 4) The fact that the install is based on apt-get makes it somewhat uncomfortable to install on a space-limitted machine, since the install insists on downloading all packages before it starts installing them. Use CD, right? Ergh, what if this is a laptop or something w/o a CD-Rom. Those are my big complaints. Overall Debian is excellent however. I probably wouldn't recommend it to a newbie, but if you're pretty comfortable with Linux/Unix you should try Debian out. (I used Slackware for 2 years or so, Redhat for about 3.5 and I switched to Debian about 6 months ago)
I wasn't really responding to the DXR2 (I have indeed never seen one), but more to the following assertion: > What do you mean the picture is better than > television? The DVD itself is made as a TV-video > format. The scan lines themselves match the way > the interlaced scan lines of the TV's CRT are drawn. Which simply isn't true.
The picture going to a monitor is better than a television (given an equivelent sized screen, obviously few people have 27" monitors) because on the monitor the DVD can be displayed in "progressive scan" mode - that is, it doesn't need to do the crappy interlacing that NTSC video requires where it only draws every other line per frame. In addition, the DVD spec is for 740x480 video...this exceeds what many televisions can produce. So, in summary, watching on your monitor will probably give you a better picture, but I doubt it would make up for the size difference.
> This would be the equivilent of not only > programming it all in C/C++, but building it in > as an Apache module. Well, not quite. "Compiling" a perl program consists of compiling it to byte code, a preparsed format which the perl interpreter can execute much quicker since it doesn't have to parse syntax on it. So, C/C++ code will still be faster that perl code in many cases, however modperl does eliminate the need for reparsing and bytecompiling which are probably the most signifigant issues with start up time.
As I understand it, however, much of the code in the "Linux DVD" codebase has been generated by disassembling Windows code and converting to C. This is pretty shady at best from a legal perspective. Anyone care to clear this up?
You can get set-top players that are easily made regionfree...I believe the Samsung ones can be done from the *remote* and several Pioneer players can be modified with a single soldering connection or something. There are also places in the UK that will region free almost any player, if you can take the wait.
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That's odd. I use a Rage Pro here at work and it's never caused me any problems whatsoever, and I've had experience with other Mach64 chipsets as well...
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...unfortunately. Ever hit ^C in the SVGALib Quake or Quake 2 and find that the game exitted without resetting the console? I sent the fix for that to Zoid a couple of times but it never seemed to get his attention. Granted, it was a big piece of stupidity in the svgalib code, but it would have been nice for him to take the 2 minutes to fix it, even if it didn't bother him.
Kerberos itself doesn't guarantee that a connection is encrypted but as a matter of course most kerberized applications do encrypt traffic.
I rarely read the Katz tripe, but did he ever actually get Linux installed? Last I remember, he came up with some unbelievable story about his computer getting torn apart in shipment and then being unable to get it to boot or something like that, then promptly ended the "Linux" series of articles without explanation.
You're on the right track, but the problem is that Apple themselves seem to be impeding any sort of progress on the Sorenson codec for xanim. From the xanim homepage:
I have contacted Sorenson about licensing their codec. They responded that Apple won't allow them to license it to others.
It's known that Mark Podlipec (the xanim guy) is pretty competent and doesn't even require codecs to be released as open source; yet Apple still won't let him write one. I personally could care less about "genuine" quicktime for Linux, but I just want to be able to watch all of the trailers.
No, actually Linus himself has said that he *wants* as many people to use development kernels, *even if they're not developers*. So long as you don't mind putting up with some possible instability (or worse), there's no reason not to play with development kernels.
I'm no Mitnick expert, but didn't his lawyer waive his right to a speedy trial?
Not quite, the manufacturing process for plastics (ie one of the ingredients in a DVD) generates waste, uses petroleum etc.
It's like the old argument against electronic cars being true "zero emissions" vehicles - even if the car itself produces no waste, you don't help the environment if you power it from a plant which burns coal to generate power.
Debug symbols don't get loaded into memory when an executable runs; they stay on disk.
However, as you also said, it could be that the current builds contain a lot of extra debugging crap which is bloating the footprint...
If you want to use Kerberos IV you're almost certainly better off getting KTH Kerberos IV, which is much more up to date than that included in any of the BSDs (unless any of them have moved to KTH, last I knew they all used a derivitive of the original MIT release). You can get the KTH distribution at http://www.pdc.kth.se/kth-krb/
While, I haven't used Heimdahl, the version of Kerberos IV which KTH produced was excellent, worlds better than the MIT release. I'd expect Heimdahl to be similar, although from what I've heard the current cuts are still a little rough.
They'll probe some of your ports at irregular intervals. As far as I know, they don't have any problems with you running servers or masquerading, they're just looking for open wingates and the like.
I agree with your sentiment. However, while I don't think that a Libertarian-controlled state would be ideal (Better than the current situation? Maybe, maybe not), I think the Libertarian party is the one who would best pull the political spectrum in the right direction. That's why I vote Libertarian. Would I keep voting for them always if they became a real political force a la the Dems or Repubs? Almost certainly not. But (IMO) what the company needs now is a good dose of *real* conservatism, not the fake stuff the Republicans preach.
Just something to consider, this viewpoint probably isn't for everyone.
While I agree with the sentiment (it comes down to the whole splinter thing), the problem, as others have said, is the "Really good" part. You think MS Windows has a good window manager...I think it sucks rocks. The nice thing about having a flexible system like X is that one person's view of "good" doesn't keep you from implementing your view of "good." Of course, you can also claim this as one of its biggest problems since it admittedly leads to consistency problems. As for me, I like the fact that even tho everyone seems to like the NeXT look (I don't), I can still use fvwm2 and not be stuck with afterstep or windowmaker.
Unfortunately, Massive Attack doesn't make an appearance in the movie or on the soundtrack.
I don't know if I'd say it's Arnold's best, but I agree that Katz seems to have some sort of prejudice against this. You don't go to a movie like this for intellectual stimulation - you go for entertainment. I liked "Terminator" a lot, but calling "original" and "striking" is waaaay too much credit for it. It's the same thing as EoD - you go to see some neat special effects, Arnold blowing some stuff up and some adventure. Oh yeah, Gabriel Byrne is pretty cool too.
Oh well, this just continues to reinforce my opinion of Katz - a blowhard who under the best of circumstances has little idea what he's talking about. (At least he didn't try to tie in EoD to "the plight of geeks and nerds")
Except scientology is even more bizarre than what you described - many "religions" have leaders who claim to be god or whatnot, but from what I remember their beliefs include stuff like
o The earth was seeded thousands of years ago for life by some alien warlord
o Said warlord will someday return to earth for some reason or another.
o There is an intergalactic war that's been going on for a few thousand years and the earth is somehow involved.
It's sad that scientology is as popular as it is.
OK, I'll put in a few harsh words :) (These are meant as constructive criticisms, I'm a Debian user but dpkg has some deficiencies)
1) Speed - RPM is an order of magnitude faster at doing queries
2) Why does dpkg not offer a way to view untruncated package names with -l ?
3) Package names are goofy. In redhat it's easy to guess what a package name would be. apt-get kicks ass but would be even better if I could say "apt-get install svgalib" rather than having to know that the svgalib package name is really "svgalibg1"
4) The fact that the install is based on apt-get makes it somewhat uncomfortable to install on a space-limitted machine, since the install insists on downloading all packages before it starts installing them. Use CD, right? Ergh, what if this is a laptop or something w/o a CD-Rom.
Those are my big complaints. Overall Debian is excellent however. I probably wouldn't recommend it to a newbie, but if you're pretty comfortable with Linux/Unix you should try Debian out. (I used Slackware for 2 years or so, Redhat for about 3.5 and I switched to Debian about 6 months ago)
I wasn't really responding to the DXR2 (I have indeed never seen one), but more to the following assertion:
> What do you mean the picture is better than
> television? The DVD itself is made as a TV-video
> format. The scan lines themselves match the way
> the interlaced scan lines of the TV's CRT are drawn.
Which simply isn't true.
The picture going to a monitor is better than a television (given an equivelent sized screen, obviously few people have 27" monitors) because on the monitor the DVD can be displayed in "progressive scan" mode - that is, it doesn't need to do the crappy interlacing that NTSC video requires where it only draws every other line per frame.
In addition, the DVD spec is for 740x480 video...this exceeds what many televisions can produce.
So, in summary, watching on your monitor will probably give you a better picture, but I doubt it would make up for the size difference.
> This would be the equivilent of not only
> programming it all in C/C++, but building it in
> as an Apache module.
Well, not quite. "Compiling" a perl program consists of compiling it to byte code, a preparsed format which the perl interpreter can execute much quicker since it doesn't have to parse syntax on it. So, C/C++ code will still be faster that perl code in many cases, however modperl does eliminate the need for reparsing and bytecompiling which are probably the most signifigant issues with start up time.
As I understand it, however, much of the code in the "Linux DVD" codebase has been generated by disassembling Windows code and converting to C. This is pretty shady at best from a legal perspective. Anyone care to clear this up?
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I'm fairly sure the current Samsungs at least are still easily defeatable. I could be wrong tho, this is only of casual interest to me...
You can get set-top players that are easily made regionfree...I believe the Samsung ones can be done from the *remote* and several Pioneer players can be modified with a single soldering connection or something. There are also places in the UK that will region free almost any player, if you can take the wait.
That's odd. I use a Rage Pro here at work and it's never caused me any problems whatsoever, and I've had experience with other Mach64 chipsets as well...