easy, you go to the URL. do whatever the app is supposed to do. save locally. like in hotmail how you can upload an attachment? saving works too. why couldn't a basic word processor work that way (in theory, forget about shitty browsers for the moment)? you don't HAVE to save your data on a server, you just use the app served to you to do the work and then save locally or remotely. whatever you need.
that's how it works. whether that fits your situation or not is another question.
this makes me laugh. hell the writers of the Constitution specifically permanently banned any sort of "per capita" tax and what did we get come the the 20th century? an amendment scratching out that bit of the Constitution so we could have an income tax. the only permanent thing in government is government itself.
ya, it's a wrapper for init not the kernel.. hrm... graphical kernel wrapper. now that'd be damn cool, seeing those nice kernel messages scrolling by in a nice graphical screen. course, it'd have to work with fb* as well as standard vga displays.. maybe if you were interested in doing that you could score a job at corel or something?
Arkeia is cool, but it can't cascade drives which would be a major PITA (for me anyway).
i don't know if you know this or not, but Seagate Backup Exec is now Veritas Backup Exec and last i heard, a new linux client is included w/ the latest binaries. of course, you're still stuck w/ NT as your manager but maybe that will change if ppl comment to Veritas enough.
#define cascade, linking multiple drives into one pool that make the pool look like one giant tape drive.
you can use any type of drive on a linux software RAID system. the only constraint is partition size. for instance, if you had a SCSI RAID 5 system, you could have a spare IDE as a failover device. at my old workplace at Austin Community College we had no budget so with a aha2940uw and a couple 4.3gb wide scsi drives they had "just lying around," i set up 2 RAID arrays. a 6GB RAID 0 array which was our main SAMBA share, and a 1GB RAID 1 arrary for nightly backups (no money so no tape drive...). works great. no problems at all.
you must be w/i 17000 feet of your local exchange for it to be physically possible. 10000 feet for full bandwidth. they probably haven't bought all the $10k equipment for all the surrounding exchanges yet. just call them a whole bunch about service and make sure they log your call. hell, ask for a pointy-hair and tell them how bad you want service.
1) RMS is not a communist. he claims to be a libertarian, though i'm sure that you've noticed in life that the farthest right and farthest left ppl aren't all that different from each other.:)
2) the GPL has a different understanding of "freedom" than BSD licensing does. the intent of GPL as virus is to ensure that every person who comes across the software has the same rights to modify and pass on the code as every other preceding person. BSD allows an author anywhere in the code-chain the power to restrict access to the code to the next ppl down the chain. so, BSD is mostly concerned with giving the creator and derivative creator more control over her software whereas GPL is more concerned with allowing every person equal access at every level. at this point the argument is whether a creator should or should not have such control over her output. and given that software is a) not a tangible thing and b) is easily replicated and modified, can software be treated the same way as say a painting or a chair? see: http://old.law.columbia.edu/my_pubs/anarchism.html (ya, i got this off slashdot).
just some thoughts for you to digest if you're thinking of a follow-up article.
stephen waters internal systems admin amicus networks
geez. i have to write something like 20pp of documentation of our current system so that the next braindead sysadmin (and before that my braindead boss!!!) can manage the system after i leave.
1. print first draft. ~5pp. 2. she reads a little bit of the details. 3. this is too hard; i don't understand this;etc. 4. translation: i don't care about this. write a g-zillion more pp with details like "press the start button. now click run. type in "telnet 123.45.67.89" wait i don't understand the concept of "telnet". explain it, though i won't actually read it and will bother you at your new job instead, anyway.
ARGH! any linux ppl in college in austin, tx who don't mind working part-time (officially. normally ~35hrs week; the position will be converted to fulltime in september) for $10.49 should email me and i'll give you my bosses email and you can keep the ACC RGC universe from falling to pieces.
i think that their point is that ideas should not be considered property. once you have given your idea to someone else, you cannot seriously expect them not to do with it what they please. their point is that it is morally wrong to expect that and therefore your idea cannot be considered truly free because it is morally impaired by your expectation.
it is this understanding which has led many (most?) countries not to allow patents on software. the US is the big exception and i must disagree with its interpretation of patent law.
see HBO's the making of the matrix. they have like 122 cameras in a semicircle at different angles. what's cool is you can reverse the shot as you go and other neat stuff.
The Matrix, starring Keanu Reeves and Laurence Fishburne began showing yesterday (Wed 03/31). The basic premise of the film is the "brains in a vat" theory that you learned about in PHIL 101. Humans in the future (circa 2099) have been conquered and subjugated by the same reproductive machines that they created. In the human-machine war preceding subjugation, machines used solar power for energy. A last ditch effort by H. sapiens to stop the machines' energy source by nuclear detonation and the consequent pollution of the atmosphere with impenetrable clouds fails because the machines discover a new, abundant, self-replicating power source at their fingertips: human bioenergy.
Humans are grown in fields and maturated singly in hollow nests covering the sides of massive cliffs. These nests are filled with a pink liquid reminiscent of the liquid oxygen used in The Abyss. All subjugates are networked together by a massive computer program which produces through direct neurochemical stimulation an almost perfect replica of the peak of human civilization in 1999. This virtual reality is known commonly as the Matrix.
The only non-subjugate humans are a small group of crackers who "enter" the Matrix on pirate signal generated from their small hovership and an unconquered city known as Zion located hundreds of miles beneath the Earth's crust, near the core where it is still warm. This band of revolutionaries seeks the prophesied savior who can bend the Matrix at will and bring humankind out of subjugation and into the bittersweet darkness of the real world. Positive
Maybe I have seen Dune way too many times, but I still like the idea of a Kwisatz Haderach ubermensch savior of the future (even if it is Keanu Reeves, see below). The religious imagery, though drawn from different sources, is not Bible-, Ramayana-, or Koran-thumping. Carrie-Anne Moss' character's name, Trinity, is the identifier of the prophetic connection between Neo (Reeves), Morpheus (Fishburne), and herself. A young English boy, in monks' robes, bends a spoon with his mind and speaks Hindu philosophy to Neo to explain it, which makes sense within the context of the Matrix. The notion of jihad does not go unnoticed as the underdog H. sapiens battles the incarnately evil Darwinian machines in their pursuit of unfettered self-evolution. And there are others as well, but none seem overdone to me.
The setting in the real world was phenomenal. A blend of Descent, Geiger, the Borg, the Terminator future, and a few other splashes like the abovementioned pink fluid, the world is nicely rendered and extremely immersive. Bordering on sensory overload, this film was like a Matrix unto itself for me. Make sure you see this in a good theatre. Negative why? His deadpan (is he ever not deadpan?) portrayal lacks chemistry with the other actors and is generally boring. The character itself has plenty of room for working out various elements so he really does not have an excuse except that he is always that way. Alas, I think my friend said it best: "I think they chose him because of the way he says 'Whoa' in the Jump program scene." Though I am not a huge Fishburne fan, his religious Morpheus is much better than Reeves' normal-guy-[h,cr]acker-turns-savior-wannabe.
Item 2: This is sort of a nitpick, but is not out of place on/. A Sentient, a machine which can enter the Matrix disguised as a human, accuses Neo of numerous incidents of illegal "hacking." Now we all know that he should have said "cracking," not only because that is the correct term but because it would have been a good opportunity to educate movie-goers about this term. One would have thought that by 2099 they would have gotten it right.
Item 3: To find out where in the Matrix to send themselves, the revolutionaries have to have a real world visual interface to it. Since they do not have the computing power or whatever to display it in 3D on their LCD panels, they just read the object code, which looks like horizontal streams of cuneiform or ideograms, directly. Two words: yeah right. Now this is not quite so bad for a bunch of film people who would not know about what they are talking anyway. However, it is their further artistic indulgence that bugged the hell out of me. Neo, when he figures out all of his powers, starts to see all of the Matrix in object code, and not just strings of it in his head, but object code forming the outlines of everything in the Matrix (like using just ASCII to make a picture). ARGH! Conclusion
On the whole, I really enjoyed this film. It probably will not win any awards for being a groundbreaking artistic masterpiece, but the imagery is engrossing and immersive and the plot has that nice mixture of believability and unbelievability that makes for good science fiction. Go see it at a matinee tomorrow all you people who have Friday off, or Saturday even.
I know, I know: This review sucks, I suck,/. sucks, Rob is an idiot, Katz is a windbag, etc.
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Jimi's stage name on all of his albums is Jimi Hendrix, not "Jimmy."
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easy, you go to the URL. do whatever the app is supposed to do. save locally. like in hotmail how you can upload an attachment? saving works too. why couldn't a basic word processor work that way (in theory, forget about shitty browsers for the moment)? you don't HAVE to save your data on a server, you just use the app served to you to do the work and then save locally or remotely. whatever you need.
that's how it works. whether that fits your situation or not is another question.
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glibc2.1 is binary compatible with glibc2.0 (theoretically anyway.. the netscape glibc2.0 releases have sucked on glibc2.1 for me anyway.. YMMV)
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this makes me laugh. hell the writers of the Constitution specifically permanently banned any sort of "per capita" tax and what did we get come the the 20th century? an amendment scratching out that bit of the Constitution so we could have an income tax.
the only permanent thing in government is government itself.
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ya, one of the beauties of linux is its ability to run on Piece Of Shit (POS) machines.
;)
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ya, it's a wrapper for init not the kernel.. hrm... graphical kernel wrapper. now that'd be damn cool, seeing those nice kernel messages scrolling by in a nice graphical screen. course, it'd have to work with fb* as well as standard vga displays.. maybe if you were interested in doing that you could score a job at corel or something?
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well, i think you slowed it down, but it was still kind enough to give me that nice screenshot posted above.
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maybe this is a bad time... but i read that with this kind of high-pitched whiny "for the LOVE of GOD" voice in my head. quite amusing, i must say.
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use Alt+reload (or is it shift... i forget. have to use winderz at werk) and it'll pull up a non-cached version.
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VERITAS Backup Exec UNIX Client:
http://support.veritas.com/menu _ddProduct_BEWNT.htm
Arkeia is cool, but it can't cascade drives which would be a major PITA (for me anyway).
i don't know if you know this or not, but Seagate Backup Exec is now Veritas Backup Exec and last i heard, a new linux client is included w/ the latest binaries. of course, you're still stuck w/ NT as your manager but maybe that will change if ppl comment to Veritas enough.
#define cascade, linking multiple drives into one pool that make the pool look like one giant tape drive.
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i'm glad all these centuries of whaling technology hasn't gone to waste.
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you can use any type of drive on a linux software RAID system. the only constraint is partition size. for instance, if you had a SCSI RAID 5 system, you could have a spare IDE as a failover device.
at my old workplace at Austin Community College we had no budget so with a aha2940uw and a couple 4.3gb wide scsi drives they had "just lying around," i set up 2 RAID arrays. a 6GB RAID 0 array which was our main SAMBA share, and a 1GB RAID 1 arrary for nightly backups (no money so no tape drive...). works great. no problems at all.
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mmm... DMT.
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you must be w/i 17000 feet of your local exchange for it to be physically possible. 10000 feet for full bandwidth. they probably haven't bought all the $10k equipment for all the surrounding exchanges yet. just call them a whole bunch about service and make sure they log your call. hell, ask for a pointy-hair and tell them how bad you want service.
just an idea.
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woohoo! finally something i can GO to. i hate all the "should we have XYZ conference on the east coast or on the west coast" crap.
now i just need $350...
die troll.
hope this helps.
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1) RMS is not a communist. he claims to be a libertarian, though i'm sure that you've noticed in life that the farthest right and farthest left ppl aren't all that different from each other. :)
l (ya, i got this off slashdot).
2) the GPL has a different understanding of "freedom" than BSD licensing does. the intent of GPL as virus is to ensure that every person who comes across the software has the same rights to modify and pass on the code as every other preceding person. BSD allows an author anywhere in the code-chain the power to restrict access to the code to the next ppl down the chain. so, BSD is mostly concerned with giving the creator and derivative creator more control over her software whereas GPL is more concerned with allowing every person equal access at every level.
at this point the argument is whether a creator should or should not have such control over her output. and given that software is a) not a tangible thing and b) is easily replicated and modified, can software be treated the same way as say a painting or a chair? see: http://old.law.columbia.edu/my_pubs/anarchism.htm
just some thoughts for you to digest if you're thinking of a follow-up article.
stephen waters
internal systems admin
amicus networks
frame buffer console is also nice for having better console options than boring 80x25.
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damn beginners.
geez. i have to write something like 20pp of documentation of our current system so that the next braindead sysadmin (and before that my braindead boss!!!) can manage the system after i leave.
1. print first draft. ~5pp.
2. she reads a little bit of the details.
3. this is too hard; i don't understand this;etc.
4. translation: i don't care about this. write a g-zillion more pp with details like "press the start button. now click run. type in "telnet 123.45.67.89" wait i don't understand the concept of "telnet". explain it, though i won't actually read it and will bother you at your new job instead, anyway.
ARGH! any linux ppl in college in austin, tx who don't mind working part-time (officially. normally ~35hrs week; the position will be converted to fulltime in september) for $10.49 should email me and i'll give you my bosses email and you can keep the ACC RGC universe from falling to pieces.
i think that their point is that ideas should not be considered property. once you have given your idea to someone else, you cannot seriously expect them not to do with it what they please. their point is that it is morally wrong to expect that and therefore your idea cannot be considered truly free because it is morally impaired by your expectation.
it is this understanding which has led many (most?) countries not to allow patents on software. the US is the big exception and i must disagree with its interpretation of patent law.
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see HBO's the making of the matrix. they have like 122 cameras in a semicircle at different angles. what's cool is you can reverse the shot as you go and other neat stuff.
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sorry, forgot to kill the H1 tags.
correction:
Negative
That said, The Matrix was not perfect. Item 1: Keanu Reeves. Why, God, why?
everything else seemed to be at least readable.
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The Matrix , starring Keanu Reeves and Laurence Fishburne began showing yesterday (Wed 03/31). The basic premise of the film is the "brains in a vat" theory that you learned about in PHIL 101. Humans in the future (circa 2099) have been conquered and subjugated by the same reproductive machines that they created. In the human-machine war preceding subjugation, machines used solar power for energy. A last ditch effort by H. sapiens to stop the machines' energy source by nuclear detonation and the consequent pollution of the atmosphere with impenetrable clouds fails because the machines discover a new, abundant, self-replicating power source at their fingertips: human bioenergy.
Humans are grown in fields and maturated singly in hollow nests covering the sides of massive cliffs. These nests are filled with a pink liquid reminiscent of the liquid oxygen used in The Abyss. All subjugates are networked together by a massive computer program which produces through direct neurochemical stimulation an almost perfect replica of the peak of human civilization in 1999. This virtual reality is known commonly as the Matrix.
The only non-subjugate humans are a small group of crackers who "enter" the Matrix on pirate signal generated from their small hovership and an unconquered city known as Zion located hundreds of miles beneath the Earth's crust, near the core where it is still warm. This band of revolutionaries seeks the prophesied savior who can bend the Matrix at will and bring humankind out of subjugation and into the bittersweet darkness of the real world. Positive
Maybe I have seen Dune way too many times, but I still like the idea of a Kwisatz Haderach ubermensch savior of the future (even if it is Keanu Reeves, see below). The religious imagery, though drawn from different sources, is not Bible-, Ramayana-, or Koran-thumping. Carrie-Anne Moss' character's name, Trinity, is the identifier of the prophetic connection between Neo (Reeves), Morpheus (Fishburne), and herself. A young English boy, in monks' robes, bends a spoon with his mind and speaks Hindu philosophy to Neo to explain it, which makes sense within the context of the Matrix. The notion of jihad does not go unnoticed as the underdog H. sapiens battles the incarnately evil Darwinian machines in their pursuit of unfettered self-evolution. And there are others as well, but none seem overdone to me.
The setting in the real world was phenomenal. A blend of Descent, Geiger, the Borg, the Terminator future, and a few other splashes like the abovementioned pink fluid, the world is nicely rendered and extremely immersive. Bordering on sensory overload, this film was like a Matrix unto itself for me. Make sure you see this in a good theatre. Negative why? His deadpan (is he ever not deadpan?) portrayal lacks chemistry with the other actors and is generally boring. The character itself has plenty of room for working out various elements so he really does not have an excuse except that he is always that way. Alas, I think my friend said it best: "I think they chose him because of the way he says 'Whoa' in the Jump program scene." Though I am not a huge Fishburne fan, his religious Morpheus is much better than Reeves' normal-guy-[h,cr]acker-turns-savior-wannabe.
Item 2: This is sort of a nitpick, but is not out of place on /. A Sentient, a machine which can enter the Matrix disguised as a human, accuses Neo of numerous incidents of illegal "hacking." Now we all know that he should have said "cracking," not only because that is the correct term but because it would have been a good opportunity to educate movie-goers about this term. One would have thought that by 2099 they would have gotten it right.
Item 3: To find out where in the Matrix to send themselves, the revolutionaries have to have a real world visual interface to it. Since they do not have the computing power or whatever to display it in 3D on their LCD panels, they just read the object code, which looks like horizontal streams of cuneiform or ideograms, directly. Two words: yeah right. Now this is not quite so bad for a bunch of film people who would not know about what they are talking anyway. However, it is their further artistic indulgence that bugged the hell out of me. Neo, when he figures out all of his powers, starts to see all of the Matrix in object code, and not just strings of it in his head, but object code forming the outlines of everything in the Matrix (like using just ASCII to make a picture). ARGH! Conclusion
On the whole, I really enjoyed this film. It probably will not win any awards for being a groundbreaking artistic masterpiece, but the imagery is engrossing and immersive and the plot has that nice mixture of believability and unbelievability that makes for good science fiction. Go see it at a matinee tomorrow all you people who have Friday off, or Saturday even.
I know, I know: This review sucks, I suck, /. sucks, Rob is an idiot, Katz is a windbag, etc.
Here is the Salon review http://www.s alonmagazine.com/ent/movies/reviews/1999/04/02revi ewa.html
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