I love Linux I run an ISP with it. I am also working for a company that wants to relese linux on their high end Intel boxs (Hint, they are currently supporting NT and do UNIX on relly colorful boxs), anyways I am having a tough time finding drivers and HOWTO's on doing high end stuff with Linux. like Fiber channel scsi, Gigabit eathernet, heck even handling more then 9 scsi drives at a time. The OS needs to grow out of the "Keep a 386 useful" to a higher level now.
How the hell cares about the hype, when did making money become a bad thing. Lucas has said himself that he doesn't like all the hype. It isn't him that is putting starwars on the cover of all these magazines and whatnot, it is the owners of the magazines. And why wouldn't they it sells! And so what if George lucas makes some money off the movie? it is his right isn't it? It is not like the quality of the movie is going to suffer because of it. He didn't take all of these promoters suggestions on making the movie or anything they all came after the fact. So the phantom menace is 100% pure lucas. As it should be. But hey if someone wants to give me 2 billion dollars to promote a movie i made on my own am i going to say no?? HELL NO!! would you? Would you be saying something like, "oh no Pepsi, i can't take your two billion dollars then it would look like i was selling out." No sir! I say sure keep the money rolling in! I think the important thing to understand here is that Lucas didn't go out looking for all of this hype, it came to him. Pepsi came to him and asked for the rights to use his movie to sell their products, the magazines came to him asking to use his characters to sell their magazines. If he benefits from their use of his ideas then good for him! He deserves it. The second and most important thing to remember is that Lucas made this movie wholly on his own, in his own studios with his own employee's with his own money. It totally his vision and ideas that created it. all of the money that is now comming in is after the movie has been made. Had pepsi and all the rest had a hand in making the movie THEN lucas would have truely sold out because he compromised his vision for corporate money. As things are that has not happened and any money he is getting is well earned!
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Posted by F1reB1rd:
Hi,
I had a quick look, and I must say, I'm impressed. I am also creating a distro (yes another one), aimed at students, and home users (more at students, while I don't pay for bandwidth to other students). There are 4 people working on it at the moment.
We will give the choice of various WM's, and install GTK and Qt as a matter of course. We will have an rpm and deb and pkgtool-supporting database (hurrah!) and we will have graphical config tools for all the servers we package, and be all user-friendly (but not user-sichophantic).
Well, enough plugging... our minimal pages (while we are hacking on the tools) can be found at http://lunariX.org. The site will be updated later, as soon as there's something worth looking at.
I have to agree with you on this one. I don't have ADD but my sister and father both have it. I've seen my sister sit for hours doing her homework and you go over there to see what kind of progress she is making and you see she hasn't done one thing because her mind has been wandering to God knows where and she doesn't realize hardly any time has gone by. I've also seen my mom yelling at the top of her voice at my sister and my sister is basically paying no attention to her because she is so caught up in what she is doing and when you finally get action out of her by disciplining her it's just enough action to keep mom from disciplining her any more but even all through this yelling and whatever she still is focused on whatever she's fantasizing about. I do see how this could have it's advantages but it sure makes the person seem VERY selfish and uncaring. I think this is why this is considered a disorder. I also think this could be very dangerous in situations (i.e. driving) were you really need to focus on something that is boring.
Wow, after hearing so much about them, and how everyone who's anyone is building or providing parts for them, its nice to hear about one eactually existing. The term "set-top-box" has been bandied about by (up to this point), mostly flailing/failing companies looking for a yet-to-exist market that they can claim leadership in, in order to appease shareholders shortly before delivering a disastrous quarterly report.
Reminds me of previous Netscape press releases -
"We're a browser company" (Netscape loses browser war) "We're a server company" (Netscape loses server war) "We're an enterprise software company" (Netscape never actually enters enterprise war) "We're a portal" (Netscape tries but never seriously challenges Yahoo) "We're being acquired by AOL!"
I can respond to several subsatially different IM conversations and write fiction at the same time... does that count?
ps I'm working on a SF story right now that involves that multitasking ability. In the story, it is an increased memory storage capacity that allows multithreaded activities.
I just wish something could be done to limit spammers globally. So fine, there's this wonderful new law in the States that says you have to include a means for the spam-ee to request the removal of his address from your list, but this doesn't really help those of us in the UK who end up on US lists. I should probably also point out that I can't ever remember getting spam pertinent to British residents (and yes, I do skim through them - if only to satisfy a primal urge to know that people really are that stupid). More often than not, the end of a spam mail tells me to call some US phone number to get my email address removed - so not only is the mail totally wasted on me, but it would probably cost me in excess of a tenner to get my address removed. Personally, I have to admit to having no idea how one might go about making spam illegal over here, or preventing UK addresses from ending up on US lists. I'd love it if someone could suggest something though.
But it's going to suck anyway. There is no way that it can live up to the expectations. I know this is probably a load of bollocks, but the media are saying that previews aren't too positive, and that the kid is crap.
I'm going to see it for the entertainment factor alone, not because I'm a Star Wars nut. But I can't (unfortunately) see it living up to the hype (which Im sick of). But I hope it blows Titanic out of the water!
That is a pathetic thing to say. It really pisses me off when people expect everything for Linux to be free. I guess I'm the minority who think that commercial and free software can co-exist. I guess I'm also in the minority when I prefer to pay for my software legally.
Don't steal any IDEAS!? The word steal tries to bias the thing, but even so the comment is strange.
Not that I agree with the possibility of software patents anyway, but let's just assume we are talking about ideas that are not subject to patents (prior art, insufficient originality, etc.). Taking ideas from products in the same area is one of the major inspirations for making any product better. It is not about "stealing code", but just about doing what winds up working well.
Just a trivial example. I think that the idea of creating a real-time markup spell-check flags in a word-processor is a pretty good idea. It can be implemented better or worse, of course; but it is sometimes useful to see an unobtrusive mark (like a special color underline) by words that are possible misspellings. Sad to say, the first product that I know of that did this was MS-Word (There may well be a prior example that I am not familiar with). It is hardly WRONG for WordPerfect (which I actually use, and is better than MS-Word in many ways, including its implementation of this feature) to implement this same useful feature. Corel may well even have gotten the idea from MS's implementation of it.
Further, it would not be wrong for me to add this feature to an Open Source editor that I wanted to contribute to. If the idea is a good one, more power to whomever wants to implement it. That leads to software innovation, and generally improving products.
Actually, there is a Linux port of StarCraft. As far as I know, it is not in any way sanctioned by Blizzard (grr, fools). If you search around the Linux gaming sites, you might come across it. Unfortunately, when I tried to access their web site, it was down and thus I forgot to bookmark it.:-) I'm not even sure if the project got off the ground.
At any rate, you could always try running it in Wine. I've never gotten that to work, but the error I get suggests that it's because of my Banshee video card.
Good luck! =========================================== ========= Joakal "In a world without walls and fences,
The SourceXchange and the Free Software Bazaar have the similarity that both involve the commissioning of works of software. There might be some call to ask if "Open Source" is the same thing as "Free Software," although that's not too crucial.
There are, however, enough differences as to consider them both potentially viable in their own "corners."
The Free Software Bazaar is nothing if not informal.
You can pick your license, and there's no one to ask permission of to participate.
This means that participation is cheap and easy for both "commissioners" and developers.
Unfortunately, the informality may not sit well with Pointy Haired Managers. Big, complex projects probably need not apply.
In contrast, what SourceXchange offers is a fairly formal system for arranging "commissioned works."
If an organization wants something fairly big, involving substantial effort and cost, this formality is quite necessary.
Unfortunately, the formality will tend to restrict participation to those with fairly "deep pockets."
I expect that someone that wants to sponsor someone to hack their favorite elisp script to work with both Xemacs and GNU Emacs will find the bureaucracy prohibitive
As a result, I would not regard these "commissioning bodies" as actually competing with one another.
Indeed, it is at least as possible that they could "feed" one another. Jobs "too big" for the informality of the FSB could be directed to "SX," and jobs "too small" for "SX" could be directed to the FSB.
"So I stick to Netscape. Not only because they got the perfect browser which has made my life perfect, but because the brand new halo they bought looks so good on them that I just can't resist "
Huh? You call Netscape perfect? (I'm presuming you mean the Linux version) It's horribly bloated and unstable. Hmmmmmmm. Were you joking?
>>I don't know who their technical consultants are, but they obviously don't have a f*cking clue what's going on.
Think about it from this perspective, if YOU were the one that the RIAA had contracted to save their butts at what $100, maybe $200 per hour would you work 8 hours on the problem and say "Sorry, you're fscked. Give up now." take your check and go home? Or would you think, "Hey this is a multi billion dollar industry, they'll pay me indefintely if they think that I can save them." and say "Yes Mr. Schmuckateli I think I have a solution in mind for your 'little' problem." and milk them for every cent you can get?
The consultants that they've hired should understand how things work on the internet. It's the company executives who do not. They're the ones who think that the internet is like a power grid or the telephone system.
With the type of people involved, the truth isn't what they want, they want near simple easy to understand answers. I had a client once who had to claim that the network at her school was infected with a virus in order to get administration to pay for a service call so that I could fix her broken computers. We said that it had to be some type of stealth virus because I couldn't find any traces of it. The suits don't care about reality, just their little piece of the pie.
I find step 1 to be the hardest--not because writing code is all that hard but because finding projects can be difficult. That's why I love the idea of the sourceXchange (althought I hate BiCapitaLization).
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Posted by The Mongolian Barbecue:
1) Performance of NT as massive numeric processor for simulations.
2) Performance of NT as specialized SEM driver.
on second thought screw the second one. its really not possible to go very fast unless you can add speed hacks to your driver.
if NT wins the first one I'll switch! (It never, ever will)
Posted by ZeeC:
I love Linux I run an ISP with it. I am also working for a company that wants to relese linux on their high end Intel boxs (Hint, they are currently supporting NT and do UNIX on relly colorful boxs), anyways I am having a tough time finding drivers and HOWTO's on doing high end stuff with Linux. like Fiber channel scsi, Gigabit eathernet, heck even handling more then 9 scsi drives at a time. The OS needs to grow out of the "Keep a 386 useful" to a higher level now.
Posted by Jester Hat:
How the hell cares about the hype, when did making money become a bad thing. Lucas has said himself that he doesn't like all the hype. It isn't him that is putting starwars on the cover of all these magazines and whatnot, it is the owners of the magazines. And why wouldn't they it sells!
And so what if George lucas makes some money off the movie? it is his right isn't it? It is not like the quality of the movie is going to suffer because of it. He didn't take all of these promoters suggestions on making the movie or anything they all came after the fact. So the phantom menace is 100% pure lucas. As it should be. But hey if someone wants to give me 2 billion dollars to promote a movie i made on my own am i going to say no?? HELL NO!! would you? Would you be saying something like, "oh no Pepsi, i can't take your two billion dollars then it would look like i was selling out." No sir!
I say sure keep the money rolling in!
I think the important thing to understand here is that Lucas didn't go out looking for all of this hype, it came to him. Pepsi came to him and asked for the rights to use his movie to sell their products, the magazines came to him asking to use his characters to sell their magazines. If he benefits from their use of his ideas then good for him! He deserves it. The second and most important thing to remember is that Lucas made this movie wholly on his own, in his own studios with his own employee's with his own money. It totally his vision and ideas that created it. all of the money that is now comming in is after the movie has been made. Had pepsi and all the rest had a hand in making the movie THEN lucas would have truely sold out because he compromised his vision for corporate money. As things are that has not happened and any money he is getting is well earned!
-Jester Hat
"The opinionated one"
Posted by FascDot Killed My Previous Use:
First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win. - Ghandi
Posted by F1reB1rd:
Hi,
I had a quick look, and I must say, I'm impressed. I am also creating a distro (yes another one), aimed at students, and home users (more at students, while I don't pay for bandwidth to other students). There are 4 people working on it at the moment.
We will give the choice of various WM's, and install GTK and Qt as a matter of course. We will have an rpm and deb and pkgtool-supporting database (hurrah!) and we will have graphical config tools for all the servers we package, and be all user-friendly (but not user-sichophantic).
Well, enough plugging... our minimal pages (while we are hacking on the tools) can be found at http://lunariX.org. The site will be updated later, as soon as there's something worth looking at.
Posted by The Mongolian Barbecue:
Right here folks- the most pathetic thread by the most immature ACs on the net. As always, slashdot has the crem de crem.
Posted by Open Matrix:
I have to agree with you on this one. I don't have ADD but my sister and father both have it. I've seen my sister sit for hours doing her homework and you go over there to see what kind of progress she is making and you see she hasn't done one thing because her mind has been wandering to God knows where and she doesn't realize hardly any time has gone by. I've also seen my mom yelling at the top of her voice at my sister and my sister is basically paying no attention to her because she is so caught up in what she is doing and when you finally get action out of her by disciplining her it's just enough action to keep mom from disciplining her any more but even all through this yelling and whatever she still is focused on whatever she's fantasizing about. I do see how this could have it's advantages but it sure makes the person seem VERY selfish and uncaring. I think this is why this is considered a disorder. I also think this could be very dangerous in situations (i.e. driving) were you really need to focus on something that is boring.
Posted by pennacook:
:)
i was thinking bushbites.com
pennacook
Posted by d106ene5:
Wow, after hearing so much about them, and how everyone who's anyone is building or providing parts for them, its nice to hear about one eactually existing. The term "set-top-box" has been bandied about by (up to this point), mostly flailing/failing companies looking for a yet-to-exist market that they can claim leadership in, in order to appease shareholders shortly before delivering a disastrous quarterly report.
Reminds me of previous Netscape press releases -
"We're a browser company"
(Netscape loses browser war)
"We're a server company"
(Netscape loses server war)
"We're an enterprise software company"
(Netscape never actually enters enterprise war)
"We're a portal"
(Netscape tries but never seriously challenges Yahoo)
"We're being acquired by AOL!"
Posted by LuneKat:
I can respond to several subsatially different IM conversations and write fiction at the same time... does that count?
ps I'm working on a SF story right now that involves that multitasking ability. In the story, it is an increased memory storage capacity that allows multithreaded activities.
Posted by Tom Cleghorn:
I just wish something could be done to limit spammers globally. So fine, there's this wonderful new law in the States that says you have to include a means for the spam-ee to request the removal of his address from your list, but this doesn't really help those of us in the UK who end up on US lists. I should probably also point out that I can't ever remember getting spam pertinent to British residents (and yes, I do skim through them - if only to satisfy a primal urge to know that people really are that stupid). More often than not, the end of a spam mail tells me to call some US phone number to get my email address removed - so not only is the mail totally wasted on me, but it would probably cost me in excess of a tenner to get my address removed. Personally, I have to admit to having no idea how one might go about making spam illegal over here, or preventing UK addresses from ending up on US lists. I'd love it if someone could suggest something though.
Posted by stodge:
But it's going to suck anyway. There is no way that it can live up to the expectations. I know this is probably a load of bollocks, but the media are saying that previews aren't too positive, and that the kid is crap.
I'm going to see it for the entertainment factor alone, not because I'm a Star Wars nut. But I can't (unfortunately) see it living up to the hype (which Im sick of). But I hope it blows Titanic out of the water!
Posted by stodge:
That is a pathetic thing to say. It really pisses me off when people expect everything for Linux to be free. I guess I'm the minority who think that commercial and free software can co-exist. I guess I'm also in the minority when I prefer to pay for my software legally.
Posted by Lulu of the Lotus-Eaters:
Don't steal any IDEAS!? The word steal tries to bias the thing, but even so the comment is strange.
Not that I agree with the possibility of software patents anyway, but let's just assume we are talking about ideas that are not subject to patents (prior art, insufficient originality, etc.). Taking ideas from products in the same area is one of the major inspirations for making any product better. It is not about "stealing code", but just about doing what winds up working well.
Just a trivial example. I think that the idea of creating a real-time markup spell-check flags in a word-processor is a pretty good idea. It can be implemented better or worse, of course; but it is sometimes useful to see an unobtrusive mark (like a special color underline) by words that are possible misspellings. Sad to say, the first product that I know of that did this was MS-Word (There may well be a prior example that I am not familiar with). It is hardly WRONG for WordPerfect (which I actually use, and is better than MS-Word in many ways, including its implementation of this feature) to implement this same useful feature. Corel may well even have gotten the idea from MS's implementation of it.
Further, it would not be wrong for me to add this feature to an Open Source editor that I wanted to contribute to. If the idea is a good one, more power to whomever wants to implement it. That leads to software innovation, and generally improving products.
Posted by joakal:
:-) I'm not even sure if the project got off the ground.
= =========
Actually, there is a Linux port of StarCraft. As far as I know, it is not in any way sanctioned by Blizzard (grr, fools). If you search around the Linux gaming sites, you might come across it. Unfortunately, when I tried to access their web site, it was down and thus I forgot to bookmark it.
At any rate, you could always try running it in Wine. I've never gotten that to work, but the error I get suggests that it's because of my Banshee video card.
Good luck!
==========================================
Joakal
"In a world without walls and fences,
Posted by d106ene5:
You forgot to mention one thing FreeBSD can do that linux (by definition) cannot: outperform linux any day of the week.
Posted by d106ene5:
Kernels are great!
Kernels are good!
Not everyone untars them,
but everybody should!
Get it installed!
Find where it breaks!
Your system is broken,
forget about Quake!
Posted by d106ene5:
yahoo does not have 1100 web servers.
yahoo has servers with many co-locations, not just frontier. they also use exodus and level 3.
Posted by Sparhawk13:
this sucks...dammit...mp3's rule...why is it that whenever something cool comes along some dumbass tries to get it banned? BAH
The SourceXchange and the Free Software Bazaar have the similarity that both involve the commissioning of works of software. There might be some call to ask if "Open Source" is the same thing as "Free Software," although that's not too crucial.
There are, however, enough differences as to consider them both potentially viable in their own "corners."
- The Free Software Bazaar is nothing if not informal.
- In contrast, what SourceXchange offers is a fairly formal system for arranging "commissioned works."
As a result, I would not regard these "commissioning bodies" as actually competing with one another.You can pick your license, and there's no one to ask permission of to participate.
This means that participation is cheap and easy for both "commissioners" and developers.
Unfortunately, the informality may not sit well with Pointy Haired Managers. Big, complex projects probably need not apply.
If an organization wants something fairly big, involving substantial effort and cost, this formality is quite necessary.
Unfortunately, the formality will tend to restrict participation to those with fairly "deep pockets."
I expect that someone that wants to sponsor someone to hack their favorite elisp script to work with both Xemacs and GNU Emacs will find the bureaucracy prohibitive
Indeed, it is at least as possible that they could "feed" one another. Jobs "too big" for the informality of the FSB could be directed to "SX," and jobs "too small" for "SX" could be directed to the FSB.
Posted by stodge:
"So I stick to Netscape. Not only because they got the perfect browser which has made my life perfect, but because the brand new halo they bought looks so good on them that I just can't resist "
Huh? You call Netscape perfect? (I'm presuming you mean the Linux version) It's horribly bloated and unstable. Hmmmmmmm. Were you joking?
Posted by Fleeno:
I just noticed the spell check button is not available when composing a message. Did I mess something up, or did they change this?
Posted by Fleeno:
.sig! ;)
As a proud Maytag shareholder, I resent seeing "Hoover" and "Microsoft" in the same
Posted by Lord Kano-The Gangster Of Love:
>>I don't know who their technical consultants are, but they obviously don't have a f*cking clue what's going on.
Think about it from this perspective, if YOU were the one that the RIAA had contracted to save their butts at what $100, maybe $200 per hour would you work 8 hours on the problem and say "Sorry, you're fscked. Give up now." take your check and go home? Or would you think, "Hey this is a multi billion dollar industry, they'll pay me indefintely if they think that I can save them." and say "Yes Mr. Schmuckateli I think I have a solution in mind for your 'little' problem." and milk them for every cent you can get?
The consultants that they've hired should understand how things work on the internet. It's the company executives who do not. They're the ones who think that the internet is like a power grid or the telephone system.
With the type of people involved, the truth isn't what they want, they want near simple easy to understand answers. I had a client once who had to claim that the network at her school was infected with a virus in order to get administration to pay for a service call so that I could fix her broken computers. We said that it had to be some type of stealth virus because I couldn't find any traces of it. The suits don't care about reality, just their little piece of the pie.
LK
Posted by FascDot Killed My Previous Use:
1) Write some code.
2) GPL it.
I find step 1 to be the hardest--not because writing code is all that hard but because finding projects can be difficult. That's why I love the idea of the sourceXchange (althought I hate BiCapitaLization).