Is this me or seems like Slashdot seems to be completely dominated by leftists and liberals. When was a last time you saw any story presented from conservative point of view?
Actually, I'd rather see *both* points of view. You make very good rebuttal points in your post against what might be a bit too sensationalist a piece of literature. This is good. What I'm sick of is people who are zombie-like in their following of a particular political organization's viewpoints who then close their minds to rational discussion of the pros and cons of the opposition. Everything doesn't have to be a fight. Giving people all of the correct info to fairly draw their own conclusions is a Good Thing.
Or, put another way, how is OpenBSD like FORTH? OpenBSD is simple (that is, it doesn't contain a ton of stuff.). (For several good articles on this , see Chuck Moore's writings on ultratechnology.com...) I take everything with a grain of salt, of course. Being super-minimalist isn't appropriate for everything, but there's a hell of a lot out there that could benefit from being implemented simply and straightforwardly.
... I also just found the comment funny, as I like BSD flavored Unixes, and I like FORTH.:)
Is the software OpenSource? We believe that it conforms to the provisions of the Open Source Definitions (OSD), and have submitted the license for certification, but we have not heard back.
... perhaps since OSI isn't contacting them, they can choose a ready-made Free Software License -- there's 15 to choose from that will maximize the real ksh's availabilty, adoption, etc...
I have a Panasonic Gigarange Extreme, and I'm pretty disappointed with how susceptible it is to interference. The "Channel" button (to change channels) always fails (3-fast beeps) even when right next to the unit, and often (I can only theorize due to a neighbor in my apt complex using 900mhz stuff) I hear a repeating burst of noise that oscillates on and off every 2 seconds. Also it's not in the least bit intuititive to program -- for my next purchase I'm skipping Panasonic.
Wow, I didn't know that one.:-) However according to the Hobart company history they've had that name since the year 1897 -- so Horowitz and Bartok must've gotten together quite a while ago!:-)
I am named after one of the two protagonists from The Adventures of Hobart Floyt and Alacrity Fitzhugh trilogy by Brian Daley, who died on Feb 11, 1996. He wrote the novelization of Tron. He also wrote many Han Solo novels, and Robotech novels under the pseudonym "Jack McKinney". The trilogy is a pretty decent read, it includes:
REQUIEM FOR A RULER OF WORLDS
JINX ON A TERRAN INHERITANCE
FALL OF THE WHITE SHIP AVATAR
Unfortunately I believe all three are out of print. It'd be nice if Del Rey or someone would release never-to-be-reprinted novels on the 'net under some free license:-P
Further history: Upon getting a modem in 1985 at age 11 for my Atari 8-bit, the first handle I used with any regularity was Asmodeus, then The Shadow. When I signed on to DiversiDial #6 (DDials were a 6-line 300 baud multiuser chat system run on Apple IIs with all 6 slots filled with modems! They were networked to each other like some giant realtime Fidonet!) which was "Silly Chat", I ran into "Alacrity" who was already a user (and I think another Atari user). He pretty much said that there were several other "The Shadow"s, and suggested Hobart. The name stuck.
For the record, I've also been using the nick on EFNet since 1990, and I am not the alternative-lifestyled gent from Australia.;-)
Funny bit --
Extensively quoted in the Dreamcast article about Sega getting out of the hardware business because of a failed home video game console and moving exclusively into the software business is none other than Trip Hawkins, (co?)founder of Electronic Arts and 3DO (both of which had rather similar logos;-)... who is the all-time-undisputed-king of "Overhyped Console Maker drops its Console and goes Software Only"!:-) (Any/. readers old enough to remember how CRAZY the early Wired magazine from the early '90s hyped this thing up know what I'm talking about...;)
Other than a Multia, or one of those 21064/164 failed DEC desktops designed for NT -- Where do you get an Alpha box for a fair price to run this on?
If I have to pay 3x the hardware cost (Cheapest alphas I've been able to find start at $4.5K), why wouldn't I run Tru64 with the DEC compilers since they won't release optimizations for GCC?
What concerns me even more than this is as I understand it, the DTV that the FCC has mandated that we migrate to will be, by law, encoded in pay-to-license formats. (Dolby Digital and MPEG.) Currently, NTSC television is (to my knowledge) license free. This means all sorts of nasty private corporate interests between people who want to make stuff and the Evil Companies. ("No, it won't run Ogg or on Linux.")
Re:What makes Wintel better than anything else...
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Who won? IE. Not because it was necessarily better than Netscape, but simply because the company that owned it had more market share and more money to throw at it.
I agree with your post. But that particular analogy isn't quite right -- I switched to IE when Microsoft made a BETTER browser -- up 'til 4.0 Netscape was better -- but IE4 / 5 were actually/better browsers/ and (until the release of Netscape 6) more standards-compliant. (What made the decision for me was the ability to surf using only TAB, w/o using a mouse). For a while, Netscape got lazy, and that cost them the browser war. (Similarly -- that's why Micro$oft has a tenuous hold on the marketplace -- it would take less than 6 months if someone started seriously kicking their ass for them to become the next also-ran, a-la Novell)
However, Iraq already has figured out how to get around the restrictions. Followers of Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein reportedly bought 1,400 PlayStation 2 units last year with the intent of developing a military system with the chips they contain. The gaming machines aren't subject to the same export rules as computers.
I'd think they're more interested in unlocking Kasumi's costumes than flying some ramshackle Emotion-engine missiles around.
Debian does security audits and has an excellent central repository.
Debian is my favorite Linux distribution. However, the concept of having every component in the OS be a "Package" with many interrelated varying dependencies is more confusing (for me) to keep track of what's on your system, than if a certain set of utilities is just marked "Core", and it's all updatable / maintainable / compileable from a single point w/o having to worry about the complexities of package management. For/ADD-ON/ programs, I'm all for package management though.
Anyway, what's the point of compiling everything from source when you don't have to?
Read Reflections on Trusting Trust by Ken Thompson, author of Unix. Compiling everything from source means that you can be sure of everything that's going on. (And you can use different compilers to verify that your results are the same, etc.)
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My two favorite (edited) highlights: DDJ: What's the main difference between BSD and Linux? WL: The strong central source repository. You know what you're building. With Linux, "You need this, and you need this, and get this somewhere else, and today we just discovered that you need these twelve patches." There's no way to keep up with that. It's crazy-making.
With the BSDs, you synchronize to the sources, "make world" or "make build", and you know exactly what's running on your machine. From a security point of view, that's good.
DDJ: What's the thing with IKE? There are guys running around here wearing buttons, "I don't like IKE." AK: The problem is 300 pages of specification. The implementation we have of this in OpenBSD is about 36,000 lines of code without the crypto. That's just the protocol. I can't think of one single piece of code that size and start to debug it. TdR: The Boeing 747 flight control deck has about 30,000 lines of code, separated into 12 independent modules. That's the right way to do things.
I'm shocked that nobody else has mentioned this, so I'm giving up my right to moderate to say it. (Btw: Mod up that guy who did the Amazon: / Guild: conversation.;)
Amazon has been blowing venture capital money out the window for quite a while now. They are NOT raking in profits the way EBay is. They're selling actual products CHEAP, running a megagigantic database-backed site, and paying God-knows how many staff in marketing / corporate whatevertheheck. All they've got going for them is a really strong BRAND (I know that's where I go to find a book I'm looking for, then I take the ISBN off to Pricescan or Bookpool).
Used book sales actually increase Bezos' chance of his company moving "into the black", because he wants a chunk of what eBay's got: Taking (real, profit) money for bringing together used book exchanges.
Wanna know Bezos' worst nightmare? I'll tell ya -- eBay buying out a database of Books in Print or something, then adding it to eBay so you can right away go there and post that you want new or used books or bid on them or sell them.
Time will tell if Amazon survives -- I don't think they're profitable yet.
(disclaimer: I'm not some investor who knows a lot about 'em, this is all hearsay.)
I'm afraid I don't know any of the details, but I think you might have much more success (that is, "do what you're looking for") by recording the data as Super Video CD (which I think is also known as Chaoji VCD)... a company called Amoisonic makes a SuperVCD recorder for about $1200 / $1300... And I think you can encode them on your PC legally. Potentially useful links:
I haven't gotten to monkey around with the one I picked up for work much yet, but the ThinkNIC box ($199, no strings attached, Cyrix266 x86 + 100M ethernet + linuxfriendly modem -- no HD, runs linux/x/netscape/openssh/vnc off cdrom) looks like a kickass little box to me. (In fact, I'm rather stunned that slashdot hasn't been raving all over these things regularly.) If anyone knows of anything that delivers as much punch for $200 as the thinknic, by all means please let me know!;-) (Man, imagine when the LinuxBIOS project has an image that'll run on this...)
Better definition than the current Jargon File ...
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http://mp3licensing.com/royalty/swenc.h tml mp3 Software Encoders
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If you have developed your own implementation of an mp3 encoder or if you have licensed such an implementation from a third party, you need a patent-only license.
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Actually, I'd rather see *both* points of view. You make very good rebuttal points in your post against what might be a bit too sensationalist a piece of literature. This is good. What I'm sick of is people who are zombie-like in their following of a particular political organization's viewpoints who then close their minds to rational discussion of the pros and cons of the opposition. Everything doesn't have to be a fight. Giving people all of the correct info to fairly draw their own conclusions is a Good Thing.
What does this mean? /. article).
It's from this DDJ article (linked to from this
Or, put another way, how is OpenBSD like FORTH? ...) I take everything with a grain of salt, of course. Being super-minimalist isn't appropriate for everything, but there's a hell of a lot out there that could benefit from being implemented simply and straightforwardly.
:)
OpenBSD is simple (that is, it doesn't contain a ton of stuff.). (For several good articles on this , see Chuck Moore's writings on ultratechnology.com
... I also just found the comment funny, as I like BSD flavored Unixes, and I like FORTH.
How can Slashdot have missed this one?
On the Worldgame site under "Suggested New Worldometers" is how many Windows Operating System Crashes have occurred so far this year!
(No, I don't hate Windows, this is just seriously funny.)
We believe that it conforms to the provisions of the Open Source Definitions (OSD), and have submitted the license for certification, but we have not heard back.
I have a Panasonic Gigarange Extreme, and I'm pretty disappointed with how susceptible it is to interference. The "Channel" button (to change channels) always fails (3-fast beeps) even when right next to the unit, and often (I can only theorize due to a neighbor in my apt complex using 900mhz stuff) I hear a repeating burst of noise that oscillates on and off every 2 seconds. Also it's not in the least bit intuititive to program -- for my next purchase I'm skipping Panasonic.
Wow, I didn't know that one. :-) However according to the Hobart company history they've had that name since the year 1897 -- so Horowitz and Bartok must've gotten together quite a while ago! :-)
I am not named after the capital of Tasmania, nor am I named after an industrial dough mixer brand.
:-P
;-)
I am named after one of the two protagonists from The Adventures of Hobart Floyt and Alacrity Fitzhugh trilogy by Brian Daley, who died on Feb 11, 1996. He wrote the novelization of Tron. He also wrote many Han Solo novels, and Robotech novels under the pseudonym "Jack McKinney". The trilogy is a pretty decent read, it includes:
REQUIEM FOR A RULER OF WORLDS
JINX ON A TERRAN INHERITANCE
FALL OF THE WHITE SHIP AVATAR
Unfortunately I believe all three are out of print. It'd be nice if Del Rey or someone would release never-to-be-reprinted novels on the 'net under some free license
Further history: Upon getting a modem in 1985 at age 11 for my Atari 8-bit, the first handle I used with any regularity was Asmodeus, then The Shadow. When I signed on to DiversiDial #6 (DDials were a 6-line 300 baud multiuser chat system run on Apple IIs with all 6 slots filled with modems! They were networked to each other like some giant realtime Fidonet!) which was "Silly Chat", I ran into "Alacrity" who was already a user (and I think another Atari user). He pretty much said that there were several other "The Shadow"s, and suggested Hobart. The name stuck.
For the record, I've also been using the nick on EFNet since 1990, and I am not the alternative-lifestyled gent from Australia.
Funny bit -- ;-) ... who is the all-time-undisputed-king of "Overhyped Console Maker drops its Console and goes Software Only"! :-) (Any /. readers old enough to remember how CRAZY the early Wired magazine from the early '90s hyped this thing up know what I'm talking about... ;)
Extensively quoted in the Dreamcast article about Sega getting out of the hardware business because of a failed home video game console and moving exclusively into the software business is none other than Trip Hawkins, (co?)founder of Electronic Arts and 3DO (both of which had rather similar logos
OK, so this sounds excellent.
Other than a Multia, or one of those 21064/164 failed DEC desktops designed for NT -- Where do you get an Alpha box for a fair price to run this on?
If I have to pay 3x the hardware cost (Cheapest alphas I've been able to find start at $4.5K), why wouldn't I run Tru64 with the DEC compilers since they won't release optimizations for GCC?
What concerns me even more than this is as I understand it, the DTV that the FCC has mandated that we migrate to will be, by law, encoded in pay-to-license formats. (Dolby Digital and MPEG.) Currently, NTSC television is (to my knowledge) license free. This means all sorts of nasty private corporate interests between people who want to make stuff and the Evil Companies. ("No, it won't run Ogg or on Linux.")
Who won? IE. Not because it was necessarily better than Netscape, but simply because the company that owned it had more market share and more money to throw at it.
/better browsers/ and (until the release of Netscape 6) more standards-compliant. (What made the decision for me was the ability to surf using only TAB, w/o using a mouse). For a while, Netscape got lazy, and that cost them the browser war. (Similarly -- that's why Micro$oft has a tenuous hold on the marketplace -- it would take less than 6 months if someone started seriously kicking their ass for them to become the next also-ran, a-la Novell)
I agree with your post. But that particular analogy isn't quite right -- I switched to IE when Microsoft made a BETTER browser -- up 'til 4.0 Netscape was better -- but IE4 / 5 were actually
In the ZDNET article about these restrictions was this absolutely hilarious paragraph:
However, Iraq already has figured out how to get around the restrictions. Followers of Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein reportedly bought 1,400 PlayStation 2 units last year with the intent of developing a military system with the chips they contain. The gaming machines aren't subject to the same export rules as computers.
I'd think they're more interested in unlocking Kasumi's costumes than flying some ramshackle Emotion-engine missiles around.
Debian does security audits and has an excellent central repository.
/ADD-ON/ programs, I'm all for package management though.
Debian is my favorite Linux distribution. However, the concept of having every component in the OS be a "Package" with many interrelated varying dependencies is more confusing (for me) to keep track of what's on your system, than if a certain set of utilities is just marked "Core", and it's all updatable / maintainable / compileable from a single point w/o having to worry about the complexities of package management. For
Anyway, what's the point of compiling everything from source when you don't have to?
Read Reflections on Trusting Trust by Ken Thompson, author of Unix. Compiling everything from source means that you can be sure of everything that's going on. (And you can use different compilers to verify that your results are the same, etc.)
According to the Salon article:
http://www.dekaresearch.com/
...is the inventor's homepage.
My two favorite (edited) highlights:
DDJ: What's the main difference between BSD and Linux?
WL: The strong central source repository. You know what you're building. With Linux, "You need this, and you need this, and get this somewhere else, and today we just discovered that you need these twelve patches." There's no way to keep up with that. It's crazy-making. With the BSDs, you synchronize to the sources, "make world" or "make build", and you know exactly what's running on your machine. From a security point of view, that's good.
DDJ: What's the thing with IKE? There are guys running around here wearing buttons, "I don't like IKE."
AK: The problem is 300 pages of specification. The implementation we have of this in OpenBSD is about 36,000 lines of code without the crypto. That's just the protocol. I can't think of one single piece of code that size and start to debug it.
TdR: The Boeing 747 flight control deck has about 30,000 lines of code, separated into 12 independent modules. That's the right way to do things.
I'm shocked that nobody else has mentioned this, so I'm giving up my right to moderate to say it. (Btw: Mod up that guy who did the Amazon: / Guild: conversation. ;)
Amazon has been blowing venture capital money out the window for quite a while now. They are NOT raking in profits the way EBay is. They're selling actual products CHEAP, running a megagigantic database-backed site, and paying God-knows how many staff in marketing / corporate whatevertheheck. All they've got going for them is a really strong BRAND (I know that's where I go to find a book I'm looking for, then I take the ISBN off to Pricescan or Bookpool).
Used book sales actually increase Bezos' chance of his company moving "into the black", because he wants a chunk of what eBay's got: Taking (real, profit) money for bringing together used book exchanges.
Wanna know Bezos' worst nightmare? I'll tell ya -- eBay buying out a database of Books in Print or something, then adding it to eBay so you can right away go there and post that you want new or used books or bid on them or sell them.
Time will tell if Amazon survives -- I don't think they're profitable yet.
(disclaimer: I'm not some investor who knows a lot about 'em, this is all hearsay.)
I'm afraid I don't know any of the details, but I think you might have much more success (that is, "do what you're looking for") by recording the data as Super Video CD (which I think is also known as Chaoji VCD) ... a company called Amoisonic makes a SuperVCD recorder for about $1200 / $1300 ... And I think you can encode them on your PC legally. Potentially useful links:
0 811.pdf
http://www.licensing.philips.com/partner/data/sl0
http://www.uwasa.fi/~f76998/video/svcd/overview/
http://www.amoisonic.com/vdr/VDR2000.html
http://www.twocom.net/dvdvcdmp3/vdr2000.html
Some info on the patents on MPEG4 is here: http://www.m4if.org/
I haven't gotten to monkey around with the one I picked up for work much yet, but the ThinkNIC box ($199, no strings attached, Cyrix266 x86 + 100M ethernet + linuxfriendly modem -- no HD, runs linux/x/netscape/openssh/vnc off cdrom) looks like a kickass little box to me. (In fact, I'm rather stunned that slashdot hasn't been raving all over these things regularly.) If anyone knows of anything that delivers as much punch for $200 as the thinknic, by all means please let me know! ;-) (Man, imagine when the LinuxBIOS project has an image that'll run on this ...)
Mr. Granade's description of the term "warez" and similar terms come across as more impartial and informative than the current Jargon File entry.
Kudos to Mr. Granade for the work.
Chris Beveridge's excellent AnimeOnDVD site has had this forever and a day.
Anime on DVD FAQ - Anime Title Information - #1: Akira
http://slashdot.org/articles/ol der
...oops, no, wait...
http://slashdot.org/articles/0 0/0 7/01/2323250.shtml
How have I "Not done my homework" as you claim?
For all the popularity of MP3, remember that Fraunhofer holds patents on it, making the creation of a legal, legitimate, Free encoder impossible.
... use Ogg Vorbis for your audio encoding/storage needs. ;-)
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