Interest move - sounds like Novell are interested in dodging the case without having the issue of copyrights decided.
Why? What possible advantage would there be in this to them? Are they just trying to avoid costs of ongoing litigation (understandable)? Because I can't otherwise see any use in a decision along these lines - I would have thought it's just setting the stage for another ownership row later on.
Well yes, but that's not an alternative client - it's the official one. Unofficial ones are needed to integrate multiple accounts, and also to operate on different platforms. And NetMeeting is drastically NAT unfriendly - not its fault, just the protocol it implements.
At this moment, for example, I have iChat and Fire open. The reason I have iChat open is purely for the AV side of things - Fire can't handle that.
On Windows, I have Messenger installed too, again to handle video conferencing. I know of no alternative which can do that, and I'd love one - video-conferencing with MSN user on my Mac would be a great boon to me, but MS's official Mac client can't handle that. As it is, I have to persuade people to install AOL 5.5 or put away my laptop and go use the desktop PC upstairs. Can't move the PC over to Linux either - same reason, no AV support for IM networks.
I should point out that I use this feature a lot, so it really does matter to me.
The smug "switch to Gaim" comment rather let the side down there, I think. Gaim is not a full-featured replacement. The particular deficiency I'm referring to is common to many alternative IM clients - yes, they all handle chat but very few go the whole hog and support video chats. Alternative MSN client supporting video? Not that I can find, though I'd be happy to be proved wrong here.
A quick search reveals a fork of the Gaim project here, which, err, aims to add video functionality. Looks good from the shots, though I haven't tried it myself.
The point of this is that people should think things through before just spouting off the top of their head. It doesn't help to have people say "yeah, use this free alternative!" and then have people turn round and say it doesn't work. I'd love to recommend a non-AOL AIM client to people, but until AV is handled I simply can't. Same for MSN -all very nice for text and file transfer, but not up to scratch for the advanced functions yet.
Interesting. On the page you get by following the parent's link:
"DO NOT CLICK DOWNLOAD IF YOU ARE UPDATING JUST ONE COMPUTER: A smaller, more appropriate download will be available soon on Windows Update."
'More appropriate'? Are they just talking about installing only the missing patches through Windows Update, or is there likely to be anything genuinely different about it?
I'm downloading from the link above anyway - I have family on dial-up and intend to burn this to CD and post it up. Still, interested in the paragraph above.
Love to. I'll just export all my contacts from OS X's Address Book into multiple vCard format, then import them into Thunderbird using...
Err....what? It can't import vCards from files? Ah. Migration over then for this season.
Bugzilla link here (they don't accept Slashdot as a referrer:
http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=79709
And yes, that's me at the bottom of the report offering to help out if someone will talk me through the build process on OS X - I get nothing but errors trying to build Thunderbird.
I maintain, however, that space development will not simply follow the same timeline as that of the Americas, due to the difficulties inherent in the hostile space environment.
And this is agreed. The timeline will not be the same, due to environmental difficulties.
Do you think Earth will continue to remain the center of operations, or will it be seen as the bastion of those "afraid of technology" who don't want to test the unknown?
I suspect both. Tech is likely to be higher in an area of trade, and Earth will be the initial hub of trade. However, spirit is likely to be higher in those wishing to move to the colonies, so social behaviour may well take the colonies' lead.
Will humanity always be tied to Earthlike planets, or will they use technology to transform themselves to a true spacefaring race?
I desperately hope the second one. Has to be done at some time if the species is to surive.
these colonies will be so dependent on Earth for raw material that is NOT found on, say, the Moon, but which was found abundantly (and provided freely) at their corporate HQ on Earth.
Yes, we agree completely here. And in the case you describe, the colony would lose its independence bid as the originating entity would be able to apply enough force to bring it back in line.
It seems we're possibly looking at different stages of this idea's evolution. The relationship with the originating power will initially be very strong, and that may continue for some time. However, clearly resources from Earth cannot supply the whole of space. At some point, colonies would have to become self-sufficient, and then you may see the situations I'm describing crop up.
The problem with what you're describing is you're assuming that all the space settlements will be done by terrestrial governments...The paradigm is shifting to true private enterprise, and the space colonies will be a "FutureCorp" colony and a "Maximum Space Travel" colony...These ventures will still have terrestrial presences, but will paricipate on a level playing field with other nations, representing the concerns of their space-based constituency.
Government-based, private corporation colony-based, commune-based...doesn't matter. The principle is exactly the same. Can the entity wishing to be independent enforce that indpendence against the home power? FutureCorp may well have paid for the development of that project, but as coups followed by state takeovers here on Earth have already shown, the private company doesn't necessarily get to keep those assets in the case of political upheaval.
It purely comes down to whether the originating entity can exert enough force (armies, sanctions on food etc.) to bring the rebelling entity back to the fold. If it can't do that, and in space the distances and expense could make it a real problem, then FutureCorp's colony just became a formerly FutureCorps's colony and is free to strike out on its own.
This question will be settled by force, not law. If an offworld entity decides to split from the homeland, it will be a question of enforcement against them as to whether they can be brought to heal or whether they get to float freely. Note that they would need to be truly offworld, as any trace of their entity on Earth (a corporation, a nation state etc.) could be penalised much more easily.
Does this situation sound familiar to any US-based people? As a hint, it sounds fairly familiar to me as a Brit.
As a developer it is a pretty easy choice to make...
Yes, it's the easy choice for these developers to make. It's not the correct one though - the correct one would be to figure out your environment and build accordingly.
For example, thanks to the wonders of "./configure ; make" I now build similar software for the three Unix environments I regularly use - SPARC Solaric, x86 Debian and OS X (PPC). Never have to worry about 'personalities', it just gets compiled and run.
It certainly is about developers, but it's about those developers becoming less sloppy and making fewer assumptions about environment. In many cases the sloppiness I refer to is entirely understandable: it was a pet project, only had to run in one environment, they only had access to x86 Lionux to test under etc.. All good arguments, but they don't really apply to the kind of applications you're likely to be running on your Solaris servers. These will be mostly custom-ordered vendor jobs, and the vendors should know better.
Cheers,
Ian
(Oh, and hi Ben - fancy running into you here. I'm the person who helped you out with your old Mac format floppies).
What is a good program to use to batch change all ID3 tags to match the file name, or better yet, to match the file name minus the ".mp3"?
Which OS? I used to use Tag&Rename when I ran my music stuff under Windows - excellent program. Don't know for Linux, and under OS X I just use iTunes to manage stuff.
Any news if this will work with the Airport Express? I'm guessing yes, because I'd imagine AirTunes to be a rendezvous (err... I mean OpenTalk)-based service working at the application level, rather than requiring any extra low level networking code. Still, worth a check.
OK, I'm mostly pro-open source but this one is interesting. What happened here is that a company had a product, fired the staff developing that product, and then still released a new version utilising the continuing free labour of those who it had put out of a job.
Maybe a paragon of Corporate Virtue and Transparency
CVT eh? Funny - to me that stands for Continuously Variable Transmission. And that is a damned near perfect description of SCO's communications so far.
for(;P("\n"),R-;P("|"))for(e=C;e-;P("_"+(*u++/8)%2 ))P("| "+(*u/4)%2);
To think that modern programmers would try to use a language that allowed such a statement was beyond our comprehension!
Add in a network card (I bought a Cachecard - have a look at 9thtee.com I believe)
Telnet in and install vserver
That's it - connect to vserver using mplayer or I believe vlc and you've got streamed recordings. Identifying the recording number is awkward, but not if you install TivoWeb or TivoWeb Plus
No links to provide - do a few searches for the above software with 'Tivo' included in the search and you should find something.
Cheers,
Ian
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The code wont even execute on the processor. the anti-virus software is not going to have deffinitions for viruses that dont exist on the platform that the software was designed for.
Yes, they do have definitions for other platforms. Doesn't matter in the slightest what processor the virus was meant for, virus scanners don't check things are viruses by running the code, they do it by pattern recognition.
I have Clam anti-virus software running on a Linux server. It's happily catching Windows viruses all day long...
On a side note, I remember as late as I think the early 1990s that Target was STILL selling bargain-basement game titles for the Commodore 64.
I bought a C64 from eBay a couple of months ago. It's amazing, but it's still possible to buy unopened, shrink-wrapped games if you look hard enough. I bought Psi 5 Trading Company on disk, and it arrived shrink-wrapped complete with registration card and a question about "which computers do you own?"
15 years ago. 1989. One thing this article can't pick up on due to it being a PC magazine is the amount of platform diversity there was then.
In 1989 I had an ST I think. The Amigas were going strong, and the C64 was hanging on in there by its fingertips. The magazine awards best PC to a Mac IIcx. In the UK at least, there were things such as the Amstrad PCW range - CPM-based (I believe) green screen business machines that did well for themselves as straight wordprocessing devices.
Then slowly it all died away, until now we're basically on a PC-only world on the desktop, even if a few flickers of OS competition are stirring. Only the Mac remains outside the fold, and I say this as an OS X user. Even so, just two hardware platforms for personal computing is hardly the same as the plethora of makes available in the 80s.
Ah well. Fun while it lasted. Time to dig out the Spectrum vs C64 vs Beeb flamewars of the school playground...
15 years ago. 1989. One thing this article can't pick up on due to it being a PC magazine is the amount of platform diversity there was then.
In 1989 I had an ST I think. The Amigas were going strong, and the C64 was hanging on in there by its fingertips. The magazine awards best PC to a Mac IIcx. In the UK at least, there were things such as the Amstrad PCW range - CPM-based (I believe) green screen business machines that did well for themselves as straight wordprocessing devices.
Then slowly it all died away, until now we're basically on a PC-only world on the desktop, even if a few flickers of OS competition are stirring. Only the Mac remains outside the fold, and I say this as an OS X user. Even so, just two hardware platforms for personal computing is hardly the same as the plethora of makes available in the 80s.
Ah well. Fun while it lasted. Time to dig out the Spectrum vs C64 vs Beeb flamewars of the school playground...
Cheers,
Ian
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Why? What possible advantage would there be in this to them? Are they just trying to avoid costs of ongoing litigation (understandable)? Because I can't otherwise see any use in a decision along these lines - I would have thought it's just setting the stage for another ownership row later on.
Cheers,
Ian
Well yes, but that's not an alternative client - it's the official one. Unofficial ones are needed to integrate multiple accounts, and also to operate on different platforms. And NetMeeting is drastically NAT unfriendly - not its fault, just the protocol it implements.
At this moment, for example, I have iChat and Fire open. The reason I have iChat open is purely for the AV side of things - Fire can't handle that.
On Windows, I have Messenger installed too, again to handle video conferencing. I know of no alternative which can do that, and I'd love one - video-conferencing with MSN user on my Mac would be a great boon to me, but MS's official Mac client can't handle that. As it is, I have to persuade people to install AOL 5.5 or put away my laptop and go use the desktop PC upstairs. Can't move the PC over to Linux either - same reason, no AV support for IM networks.
I should point out that I use this feature a lot, so it really does matter to me.
Cheers,
Ian
A quick search reveals a fork of the Gaim project here, which, err, aims to add video functionality. Looks good from the shots, though I haven't tried it myself.
The point of this is that people should think things through before just spouting off the top of their head. It doesn't help to have people say "yeah, use this free alternative!" and then have people turn round and say it doesn't work. I'd love to recommend a non-AOL AIM client to people, but until AV is handled I simply can't. Same for MSN -all very nice for text and file transfer, but not up to scratch for the advanced functions yet.
Cheers,
Ian
"DO NOT CLICK DOWNLOAD IF YOU ARE UPDATING JUST ONE COMPUTER: A smaller, more appropriate download will be available soon on Windows Update."
'More appropriate'? Are they just talking about installing only the missing patches through Windows Update, or is there likely to be anything genuinely different about it?
I'm downloading from the link above anyway - I have family on dial-up and intend to burn this to CD and post it up. Still, interested in the paragraph above.
Cheers,
Ian
Err....what? It can't import vCards from files? Ah. Migration over then for this season.
Bugzilla link here (they don't accept Slashdot as a referrer:
http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=79709
And yes, that's me at the bottom of the report offering to help out if someone will talk me through the build process on OS X - I get nothing but errors trying to build Thunderbird.
Cheers,
Ian
And this is agreed. The timeline will not be the same, due to environmental difficulties.
Do you think Earth will continue to remain the center of operations, or will it be seen as the bastion of those "afraid of technology" who don't want to test the unknown?
I suspect both. Tech is likely to be higher in an area of trade, and Earth will be the initial hub of trade. However, spirit is likely to be higher in those wishing to move to the colonies, so social behaviour may well take the colonies' lead.
Will humanity always be tied to Earthlike planets, or will they use technology to transform themselves to a true spacefaring race?
I desperately hope the second one. Has to be done at some time if the species is to surive.
Cheers,
Ian
Yes, we agree completely here. And in the case you describe, the colony would lose its independence bid as the originating entity would be able to apply enough force to bring it back in line.
It seems we're possibly looking at different stages of this idea's evolution. The relationship with the originating power will initially be very strong, and that may continue for some time. However, clearly resources from Earth cannot supply the whole of space. At some point, colonies would have to become self-sufficient, and then you may see the situations I'm describing crop up.
Interesting thread.
Cheers,
Ian
Government-based, private corporation colony-based, commune-based...doesn't matter. The principle is exactly the same. Can the entity wishing to be independent enforce that indpendence against the home power? FutureCorp may well have paid for the development of that project, but as coups followed by state takeovers here on Earth have already shown, the private company doesn't necessarily get to keep those assets in the case of political upheaval.
It purely comes down to whether the originating entity can exert enough force (armies, sanctions on food etc.) to bring the rebelling entity back to the fold. If it can't do that, and in space the distances and expense could make it a real problem, then FutureCorp's colony just became a formerly FutureCorps's colony and is free to strike out on its own.
Cheers,
Ian
Does this situation sound familiar to any US-based people? As a hint, it sounds fairly familiar to me as a Brit.
Cheers,
Ian
Yes, it's the easy choice for these developers to make. It's not the correct one though - the correct one would be to figure out your environment and build accordingly.
For example, thanks to the wonders of "./configure ; make" I now build similar software for the three Unix environments I regularly use - SPARC Solaric, x86 Debian and OS X (PPC). Never have to worry about 'personalities', it just gets compiled and run.
It certainly is about developers, but it's about those developers becoming less sloppy and making fewer assumptions about environment. In many cases the sloppiness I refer to is entirely understandable: it was a pet project, only had to run in one environment, they only had access to x86 Lionux to test under etc.. All good arguments, but they don't really apply to the kind of applications you're likely to be running on your Solaris servers. These will be mostly custom-ordered vendor jobs, and the vendors should know better.
Cheers,
Ian
(Oh, and hi Ben - fancy running into you here. I'm the person who helped you out with your old Mac format floppies).
Ah. Well I'm afraid we may be out of luck then.
Cheers,
Ian
Great Britain?
Cheers,
Ian
Which OS? I used to use Tag&Rename when I ran my music stuff under Windows - excellent program. Don't know for Linux, and under OS X I just use iTunes to manage stuff.
Cheers,
Ian
Cheers,
Ian
Yes please. The clip art alone should make it worth my time.
Cheers,
Ian
Bit of a cautionary tale perhaps?
Cheers,
Ian
CVT eh? Funny - to me that stands for Continuously Variable Transmission. And that is a damned near perfect description of SCO's communications so far.
Cheers,
Ian
To think that modern programmers would try to use a language that allowed such a statement was beyond our comprehension!
And this was before Perl...
Cheers,
Ian
I know. And then the one I post in its own thread, after explictly making sure the other one was marked as "Please Ignore", gets marked redundant.
Strange be the ways of the moderation system...
Cheers,
Ian
No links to provide - do a few searches for the above software with 'Tivo' included in the search and you should find something.
Cheers,
Ian
Yes, they do have definitions for other platforms. Doesn't matter in the slightest what processor the virus was meant for, virus scanners don't check things are viruses by running the code, they do it by pattern recognition.
I have Clam anti-virus software running on a Linux server. It's happily catching Windows viruses all day long...
Cheers,
Ian
I bought a C64 from eBay a couple of months ago. It's amazing, but it's still possible to buy unopened, shrink-wrapped games if you look hard enough. I bought Psi 5 Trading Company on disk, and it arrived shrink-wrapped complete with registration card and a question about "which computers do you own?"
God I was tempted to send that card in.
Cheers,
Ian
In 1989 I had an ST I think. The Amigas were going strong, and the C64 was hanging on in there by its fingertips. The magazine awards best PC to a Mac IIcx. In the UK at least, there were things such as the Amstrad PCW range - CPM-based (I believe) green screen business machines that did well for themselves as straight wordprocessing devices.
Then slowly it all died away, until now we're basically on a PC-only world on the desktop, even if a few flickers of OS competition are stirring. Only the Mac remains outside the fold, and I say this as an OS X user. Even so, just two hardware platforms for personal computing is hardly the same as the plethora of makes available in the 80s.
Ah well. Fun while it lasted. Time to dig out the Spectrum vs C64 vs Beeb flamewars of the school playground...
Cheers,
Ian
15 years ago. 1989. One thing this article can't pick up on due to it being a PC magazine is the amount of platform diversity there was then. In 1989 I had an ST I think. The Amigas were going strong, and the C64 was hanging on in there by its fingertips. The magazine awards best PC to a Mac IIcx. In the UK at least, there were things such as the Amstrad PCW range - CPM-based (I believe) green screen business machines that did well for themselves as straight wordprocessing devices. Then slowly it all died away, until now we're basically on a PC-only world on the desktop, even if a few flickers of OS competition are stirring. Only the Mac remains outside the fold, and I say this as an OS X user. Even so, just two hardware platforms for personal computing is hardly the same as the plethora of makes available in the 80s. Ah well. Fun while it lasted. Time to dig out the Spectrum vs C64 vs Beeb flamewars of the school playground... Cheers, Ian
My only defence is that Slashdot was acting strangely - 503 errors all the time, taking years to respond.
Cheers,
Ian