Does India even have the funds for a spy satellite ? There's a lot of poverty in that country. Hey, here's a thought: Let's celebrate this as a technical achievement on behalf of the Indian engineers who are amoungst the best in the world.
When I get to work in the morning I browse 5 websites: User Friendly, Dilbert, Slashdot, Freshmeat and Yahoo UK. Four of these sites tell me what I want to know. Guess which ones. I now only glance at Yahoo because the news headlines generally include some useless celebrity news. I really hate all the celebrity gossip that it presented. Unfortunately, TV and media are aimed at the interests of the masses and public celebrity obsession is huge in the UK when compared to the USA.
Celebrity-bashing aside I think that to get the most out of 'me-media' you need to clearly define 'me'. Dilbert, User-Friendly, Slashdot-et-al is 'me'. Broadsheet (as opposed to tabloid) newspapers are 'me'.
Finding a 'me' on the internet is easy if you know what you are doing and what you want. At least with the internet everything is tailored for.
On the topic of moderation, I think that it is a fair enough process although a more detailed reason for moderation could be considered. People should not take moderation too seriously, after all, it's a pretty subjective view. But then again so are comments you publish on such sites. Put together it's a discussion where everyone can give their own view and be heard. This is important for free speech.
Claric.
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Think about it. How would you get CVS to update every file in its repository ? You'd write a script to go through everything, checking whether it's changed and updating the repository if it has. Don't you think that would be a waste of resources. Most backup software uses 'tar' in the backup process. How much traffic does it use to tar something over the network. Probably the same as downloading it.
What do you do if the disk with the CVS fails though ? You'd need to back that up. In which case you might as well just back things up anyway.
Speaking of backups, I'm getting mighty pissed off at the amount of time its taking Veritas NetBackup to index some tapes for the recovery of one small file. Oh well.
CVS is not meant for backup - and in any case, you would do backups when network traffic was low.
How is this different from a Sony notebook with a Crusoe processor running Windows ? I'll tell you how - IT ISN'T !
Just because it's a Microsoft box doesn't mean much. You people seem to forget one thing. Linus works for Transmeta, not the other way round. If you were a hardware manufacturer and Microsoft approached you asking to use your hardware for a major product what would you say ?
Microsoft obviously see the advantages of using a Crusoe processor what with its decreased power consumption and size.
Frankly, I'd be most upset if I'd been working my bum off to get our flagship product out only then to be made redundent. Look at the timing here. Eazel is released then the workforce goes. That's pretty bad.
This looks to me like the first of the free-software company bubbles to burst. Unfortunately with these type of companies it's hard to predict who may start laying of employees, etc as they have a lot of respect and support from the open-source community.
Let this be a warning to the rest of us: You need a really good business plan to make money out of free software.
I've lived in Brighton for 21 years. Brighton (town center) is relatively safe apart from the drunk teenagers spilling out of the clubs/pubs at kicking out time. I know that that is not really where the problem is. The problem is poverty breeding crime. Look at Whitehawk. Moolescoomb is pretty bad. My university is in Moolescoomb but I've got to be honest in that I've not really seen any problems there.
I agree that Brighton won't have the problems that Brighton has because of the relative sizes. And again it depends on where you go.
The state of the education system in the UK can also be to blame. Kids just don't care. They are violent and disruptive (my mother works in one) so consequently they are all as thick as pig-sh*t.
CCTV cameras are a good start but the bigger picture needs to be focused on:
Poverty + lack of education = crime
I'd LOVE Frontier: First Encounters to be ported over to Linux. I can't even play it on my Windows box (it can't cope with my Voodoo3 or SB128). Anyone agree. I know that Elite 4 may have a Linux port but I really want a bug free FFE right now.
I have always been a little dubious of the popular internet as a means for business - popular internet being the stuff aimed at the non-techies. As far as I can see it there are only three ways you can survive as an internet company.
You are a big multi-national with all your own funding.
You are already well established (like Amazon).
You run a free software site as a hobby, regiser it as a dot-org and advertise to the people who would be interested. IE. Other techies.
Naturally I'm going for number three, I reakon that you could make quite a good site on the cheap with a DSL connection, a P133 acting as a router/firewall and something a little better as a webserver. Get established (like Ximian) and you may get the funding to do it full time.
What most annoys me about the internet is the seemingly pointless dot-coms with silly names. Give it back to the techies, that's what I say...
Oddly enough, in the UK, The Guardian (formerly The Manchester Guardian) is seen as a trendy middle-class pseudo-intellectual broadsheet
Well, what the Grauniad (it's known for its spelling) seems to be doing is a sort of trendy middle-class pseudo-intellectual form of scare-mongering - much like the tabloids do with things like pedophiles and ecstacy and other modern dangers.
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This sounds very similar to fibre optic technology.
Does anyone know if this new technology would have a reduced power consumption ? It all sounds really promising. Well done University of Surrey (15 miles from where I live).
Hmm, I wouldn't rate this as flamebait as the author makes some valid points. I didn't even know about O'Reilly's software division. But look at the bigger picture here. O'Reilly is primarily a publisher so they were right in making this decision. Also, the software was Windows only which doesn't really fit in with their reputation of writing the best tech books for all platforms IMHO.
In response to the Dreamcast running Windows CE Sony joked that the development kits for the Playstation 2 would run on Linux "so they have a stable foundation". I read this in PC Plus magazine back in 98 I think it was. It may have been Sony rubbing Sega and Microsoft up the wrong way for a cheap joke - maybe someone can enlighten me as to whether the Linux development kits was real or not.
Anyway, if this were true then surely a port to the PS2 would not be hard.
Umm... There isn't even a double negatives in there, let alone triple negatives !
Don't use no double negatives.
Don't never use no triple negatives.
Allow me to prove my sig logically:
There does not exist a problem, p, where p cannot be solved with a suiltable about of high explosives. Let us assume that the bigger the problem the bigger the amount of high explosives you'd use to solve it. Let's say that f(p) gives you the required amount of high explosive. We can state that f(p)=0 where p is a member of the set of real numbers and cannot be less than 0 and 0Using the above formula f(p)=0 given the range of p we can calculate that f(p) can never be 0 therefore there does not exist a problem (rated 0 for no problem to whatever for a huge problem) where using the value f(p) as the amount of high explosive to use where we cannot solve the problem and make f(p)=0 and solving the problem.
I think that due to the publicity this will generate it would be easy for Sealand to get funding to have its own ISP (if not already). This seems to be similar to the data haven idea in Cryptonomicon. How much power the RIAA will have to stop this is debatable.
Why would you even be running X on a server that wasn't an X server ? A P100 with 16Mb RAM is perfectly adequate for something like a router for a home or small business.
You what ? Like a P3 1000Mhz jobbie. I think you'll find that the sparc arcitecture is a helluva lot faster.
Personally, I'd absolutely love this machine. Look at it. It's powerful, cheap and sexy. Apparently it runs Windows NT as well. Not that you'd want to. Time to start saving my pennies.
You what ? Like a P3 1000Mhz jobbie. I think you'll find that the sparc arcitecture is a helluva lot faster.
Personally, I'd absolutely love this machine. Look at it. It's powerful, cheap and sexy. Apparently it runs Windows NT as well. Not that you'd want to. Time to start saving my pennies.
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de Icaza recognises that the two desktops are competing. KDE on the other hand are sitting back saying "Quoi ?". You need at least two parties for a competition and KDE just can't be bothered - and not sould Miguel. At the end of the day people moved over to the free Unix clones because they didn't like being told what to buy, what software to use and so on. Mature people like choice. Choice is good. I say use what ever you want. For the record I use Gnome at work and KDE at home. In fact, I usually stick to the command line at home !
Honestly, does it matter which is better ? This is another symptom of personal politics interfering with the bigger issue. The bigger issue being that with Unix these days you have such a wide choice and it's not competing with each other - everyone's working for a common goal with out (I'd hope) this "this is better than that cos I say so, so use it" mentallity. We all know that RPM is easier to use but apt-get is so much more powerful.
Oops, I went off on a bit of a tangent then but I hope you see what I mean.
Each package manager has its own merits. People will always use which ever they prefer. Personally, I don't have a permanent net connection so the full benefits of apt-get is lost on me.
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Well done India !
Claric
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Celebrity-bashing aside I think that to get the most out of 'me-media' you need to clearly define 'me'. Dilbert, User-Friendly, Slashdot-et-al is 'me'. Broadsheet (as opposed to tabloid) newspapers are 'me'.
Finding a 'me' on the internet is easy if you know what you are doing and what you want. At least with the internet everything is tailored for.
On the topic of moderation, I think that it is a fair enough process although a more detailed reason for moderation could be considered. People should not take moderation too seriously, after all, it's a pretty subjective view. But then again so are comments you publish on such sites. Put together it's a discussion where everyone can give their own view and be heard. This is important for free speech.
Claric.
PS. I apologise that this comment is slightly all over the place, too many views, too little time.
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Think about it. How would you get CVS to update every file in its repository ? You'd write a script to go through everything, checking whether it's changed and updating the repository if it has. Don't you think that would be a waste of resources. Most backup software uses 'tar' in the backup process. How much traffic does it use to tar something over the network. Probably the same as downloading it.
Claric
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Speaking of backups, I'm getting mighty pissed off at the amount of time its taking Veritas NetBackup to index some tapes for the recovery of one small file. Oh well.
CVS is not meant for backup - and in any case, you would do backups when network traffic was low.
Claric
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How is this different from a Sony notebook with a Crusoe processor running Windows ? I'll tell you how - IT ISN'T !
Just because it's a Microsoft box doesn't mean much. You people seem to forget one thing. Linus works for Transmeta, not the other way round. If you were a hardware manufacturer and Microsoft approached you asking to use your hardware for a major product what would you say ?
Microsoft obviously see the advantages of using a Crusoe processor what with its decreased power consumption and size.
Just my 2p
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This looks to me like the first of the free-software company bubbles to burst. Unfortunately with these type of companies it's hard to predict who may start laying of employees, etc as they have a lot of respect and support from the open-source community.
Let this be a warning to the rest of us: You need a really good business plan to make money out of free software.
Claric
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I agree that Brighton won't have the problems that Brighton has because of the relative sizes. And again it depends on where you go.
The state of the education system in the UK can also be to blame. Kids just don't care. They are violent and disruptive (my mother works in one) so consequently they are all as thick as pig-sh*t.
CCTV cameras are a good start but the bigger picture needs to be focused on:
Poverty + lack of education = crime
Claric
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Naturally I'm going for number three, I reakon that you could make quite a good site on the cheap with a DSL connection, a P133 acting as a router/firewall and something a little better as a webserver. Get established (like Ximian) and you may get the funding to do it full time.
What most annoys me about the internet is the seemingly pointless dot-coms with silly names. Give it back to the techies, that's what I say...
Claric
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Well, what the Grauniad (it's known for its spelling) seems to be doing is a sort of trendy middle-class pseudo-intellectual form of scare-mongering - much like the tabloids do with things like pedophiles and ecstacy and other modern dangers.
Claric
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This sounds very similar to fibre optic technology.
Does anyone know if this new technology would have a reduced power consumption ? It all sounds really promising. Well done University of Surrey (15 miles from where I live).
Claric
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Anyway, if this were true then surely a port to the PS2 would not be hard.
Claric
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Don't use no double negatives.
Don't never use no triple negatives.
Allow me to prove my sig logically:
There does not exist a problem, p, where p cannot be solved with a suiltable about of high explosives. Let us assume that the bigger the problem the bigger the amount of high explosives you'd use to solve it. Let's say that f(p) gives you the required amount of high explosive. We can state that f(p)=0 where p is a member of the set of real numbers and cannot be less than 0 and 0Using the above formula f(p)=0 given the range of p we can calculate that f(p) can never be 0 therefore there does not exist a problem (rated 0 for no problem to whatever for a huge problem) where using the value f(p) as the amount of high explosive to use where we cannot solve the problem and make f(p)=0 and solving the problem.
Claric
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I think that due to the publicity this will generate it would be easy for Sealand to get funding to have its own ISP (if not already). This seems to be similar to the data haven idea in Cryptonomicon. How much power the RIAA will have to stop this is debatable.
Claric
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"It was a time of war. It was a time of rebellion. Cockroaches ruled the world. Man was extinct apart from one..."
You know where this is heading. A big special-effects filled climatic battle between good and evil where evil is quelled and eaten by the roaches.
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You can get a PCI card with a Celeron chip on it for $495 which will run many types of windows. I've installed a few of these.
Claric AKA brain isn't fast enough today
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Either way, I'll stick to faster systems...
You what ? Like a P3 1000Mhz jobbie. I think you'll find that the sparc arcitecture is a helluva lot faster.
Personally, I'd absolutely love this machine. Look at it. It's powerful, cheap and sexy. Apparently it runs Windows NT as well. Not that you'd want to. Time to start saving my pennies.
Claric
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You what ? Like a P3 1000Mhz jobbie. I think you'll find that the sparc arcitecture is a helluva lot faster.
Personally, I'd absolutely love this machine. Look at it. It's powerful, cheap and sexy. Apparently it runs Windows NT as well. Not that you'd want to. Time to start saving my pennies.
Claric
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Just chill and enjoy what ever you want to enjoy.
Claric
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Oops, I went off on a bit of a tangent then but I hope you see what I mean.
Each package manager has its own merits. People will always use which ever they prefer. Personally, I don't have a permanent net connection so the full benefits of apt-get is lost on me.
Claric
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