If you say it's possible to resolve analogue data generated from a laser to produce comparable frequency response to a similar priced friction turntable, I'll believe you but I'm very very surprised.
Not simply possible, but the only way. When the source data is analogue, you cannot read it in a digital manner. If you *want* digital, you'll have to use an ADC.
As I said before, there is nothing magic about lasers that make all apps automatically digital.
Trust me about this, I used to work on something called Kinotex where we developed an analogue sensor out of fiber optic cable, foam, a light sensor (usually photodiode), and a light source, of which we used LEDs, incandescent bulbs, and lasers. I even came up with the ultimate dirt-cheap (but unreliable under industrial conditions) method of coupling fiber-optic cable to cheap-o laser pointers (hint: never underestimate the engineering power of the hot-glue stick).
...which, BTW, would seem to miss the warmth of analog point most vinyl fans seem to make?
Why would you think that? CD lasers output digital data because that's what's on the CD. There's nothing magic about lasers that makes something instantly 'digital'.
At my last job, I was designing analog fiber-optic applications. It was a lot of fun to play with.
On the other hand, the community prefers companies that pay the coders. Codeweavers, Troll Tech, SuSE, Mandrake and Red Hat all pay people to do major work on Free Software projects.
Like many others, I'm only too happy to pay for that.
You obviously have no grasp on the concept of Free Software.
It has nothing to do with getting software without paying for it. It has everything to do with being able to modify the source to fix bugs, extend functionality, etc. The software I posted a link to has source available here. The big difference is that Codeweavers, a major contributor to the Wine project, packaged it up nicely for me.
Hey, if you think programmers should work hard and not get paid, that's fine. That's your opinion, albeit childish. I'm a programmer at a Linux company and I like being able to eat. I pay for my Free Software and I get it packaged nicely, on a DVD, with books. Free Software developers end up getting paid this way, too.
I am totally convinced that you are either a troll, or less than 15 years old. Either way, people like you make the rest of us look like war3z fiends, which is not the case.
Chances are you already have a CD around, so it won't cost you a cent.
Actually, I don't have one around.
I've been using Linux for around 8 years now and I'll be damned if I'm going to blast away my OS for one that doesn't have the applications I need/use.
To be fair, some of those apps are available for Windows, but those versions always lag the UNIX ones. It's also a major pain-in-the-ass to install everything. I really cannot stand the endless download-install-download-install cycle just to get a usable system (for me, a fresh Windows install is unusable). My OS already comes with everything I need.
To the idiots who keep trashing the GPL based on this myth, let me repeat: The "viral" nature ONLY applies to when you have to RE-distribute the GPL'ed program as part of your own. You don't have to do that unless you merged your code with the GPL code in some way. If you didn't do that, you wouldn't need to redistributed the GPL code as part of your own.
Do remember that the GPL is intended to increase your freedom, not limit it.
If you do not agree to the GPL, that's fine. It falls under standard copyright in that case. Standard copyright, the law that applies automatically for any written work if you're in the States or any commonwealth country, specifies that you are not to copy it at all. That is undeniably less freedom than the GPL gives.
The point, kids, is that the GPL is much more lenient than the standard ways. You get, as RMS (yes I think he is insane, but I still prefer GPL) says, much more freedom.
(If you can understand that last sentence, you are either a programmer or not nearly as drunk as I am.)
Yeah, sure, what do you think most porn site webmasters are using ?
Actually, PHP is quite popular in the net-pr0n world. It makes sense, too. It's cheap and quick, like the content. It's low maintenance, as well.
I was watching a show one time (I forget what it was called, some business show, I think) that had a story about Danni Ashe (sp?). She said that she started her popular site on a Linux box in her bedroom and did the administration herself. I thought that was pretty cool...
ObStandardDisclaimer: Oh, and I know all of this because, er, a friend told me, yeah!:-)*
Hmmm, I have 2 8139s and a Rhine and I have never had a single problem with them other than the fact that I get about twice the performance out of the Rhine...
I also upgrade my kernel regularly.
Are you sure that your cards or MB chipset aren't bad or anything?
Also remember that DB wrote many rock-solid drivers for high-end cards like 3Com, etc. I have some of those, too.
Besides, when you buy cheap-ass $5 NICs and they don't work properly, you should blame the cards first.
Yes it makes sense because a search program will not have to open up each individual file to get it's ID3 tag. To simply query the filesystem is multiple orders of magnitude faster.
I once put a windowed PIC 16c54 backwards into a circuit I built on a breadboard.
I found out very quickly what colour the die turned when a lot of undesired current coarses through it...
...blindingly bright orange...
...blinding...
It's a good thing that PICs are cheap.
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Printing onto paper *is* a printer related task. We're talking about using it for other things, such as screen rendering, etc.
What I pointed to was the use of it as a general programming language. Don Lancaster uses it as such. He even builds robots that are controlled by PostScript (he calls them flutterwumpers).
As a format instead of a language, GhostScript can do a lot of neat stuff with it. If I were grabbing a document to print, I'd take PS over MS DOC anyday.
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How come no one is using Postscript directly outside of printer-related tasks?
Don Lancaster uses PostScript as his primary programming language.
You can do some really cool stuff with it, as is discussed at length on his site.
Before you go and download it, remember that this only works if you dual-boot.
I don't dual-boot, and it died looking for OpenGL. I tried installing OpenGL drivers and that failed miserably. Not that I was really expecting an OpenGL installation to work...
Last time they released a Linux test first. I'm disappointed...
BeFS, used in BeOS has a metadata system that's pretty cool. You can do searches of that metadata, too. I've seen it mostly to store MP3 info so that you can do searches for particular songs/bands/albums without the search program having to open up all of your MP3 files.
The next major version of ReiserFS is intended to have a plugin system, allowing things like metadata and encryption, I highly recommend you check it out before continuing your own project.
Agggh!!! My eyes are burning!!! That's worse than telnet...
I suddenly remember when I was reading Cryptonomicon and very late in the book, the protagonist, who is ultra-paranoid and a crypto expert, actually telnets into a server. When I saw the telnet command, I almost threw the book at a wall. It was kind of like watching the funniest, most intelligent movie ever and then, near the end, it turned into "Freddy Got Fingered."
Fortunately, it explained a bit later that he was using a VPN, and my faith was restored... mostly. Depending on where the endpoint was (the machine itself, or a router somewhere in between), SSH is most likely more secure.
Then again, maybe I take it all too seriously. I type 'ssh' or 'scp' at least 100 times a day, on average (toooo many boxes...).
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Not simply possible, but the only way. When the source data is analogue, you cannot read it in a digital manner. If you *want* digital, you'll have to use an ADC.
As I said before, there is nothing magic about lasers that make all apps automatically digital.
Trust me about this, I used to work on something called Kinotex where we developed an analogue sensor out of fiber optic cable, foam, a light sensor (usually photodiode), and a light source, of which we used LEDs, incandescent bulbs, and lasers. I even came up with the ultimate dirt-cheap (but unreliable under industrial conditions) method of coupling fiber-optic cable to cheap-o laser pointers (hint: never underestimate the engineering power of the hot-glue stick).
AFAIK, neither SuSE or Red Hat have ever laid off developers.
I'm not saying they won't, though, but history has proven that they value the developers over the admin staff.
Why would you think that? CD lasers output digital data because that's what's on the CD. There's nothing magic about lasers that makes something instantly 'digital'.
At my last job, I was designing analog fiber-optic applications. It was a lot of fun to play with.
Nothing, nobody can stop anyone from doing that.
On the other hand, the community prefers companies that pay the coders. Codeweavers, Troll Tech, SuSE, Mandrake and Red Hat all pay people to do major work on Free Software projects.
Like many others, I'm only too happy to pay for that.
You obviously have no grasp on the concept of Free Software.
It has nothing to do with getting software without paying for it. It has everything to do with being able to modify the source to fix bugs, extend functionality, etc. The software I posted a link to has source available here. The big difference is that Codeweavers, a major contributor to the Wine project, packaged it up nicely for me.
Hey, if you think programmers should work hard and not get paid, that's fine. That's your opinion, albeit childish. I'm a programmer at a Linux company and I like being able to eat. I pay for my Free Software and I get it packaged nicely, on a DVD, with books. Free Software developers end up getting paid this way, too.
I am totally convinced that you are either a troll, or less than 15 years old. Either way, people like you make the rest of us look like war3z fiends, which is not the case.
So, you felt the need to express your penchant for piracy, why?
I suggest you grow up.
I highly enjoyed "Space Race" there. It reminded me of a classic Norman McLaren short.
For something they won't show on Lego.com, check out Rick & Steve: The Happiest Gay Couple in All the World.
It's pretty funny.
Actually, I don't have one around.
I've been using Linux for around 8 years now and I'll be damned if I'm going to blast away my OS for one that doesn't have the applications I need/use.
To be fair, some of those apps are available for Windows, but those versions always lag the UNIX ones. It's also a major pain-in-the-ass to install everything. I really cannot stand the endless download-install-download-install cycle just to get a usable system (for me, a fresh Windows install is unusable). My OS already comes with everything I need.
Go to Codeweavers. It'll cost you a couple of bucks, but it's worth it.
Oh, and yes, this is the only thing out there that works.
Don't forget the caps between pin 2 and 1 and between 3 and 1.
Do remember that the GPL is intended to increase your freedom, not limit it.
If you do not agree to the GPL, that's fine. It falls under standard copyright in that case. Standard copyright, the law that applies automatically for any written work if you're in the States or any commonwealth country, specifies that you are not to copy it at all. That is undeniably less freedom than the GPL gives.
The point, kids, is that the GPL is much more lenient than the standard ways. You get, as RMS (yes I think he is insane, but I still prefer GPL) says, much more freedom.
(If you can understand that last sentence, you are either a programmer or not nearly as drunk as I am.)
Britain is a larger military power. 'Nuff said.
Actually, PHP is quite popular in the net-pr0n world. It makes sense, too. It's cheap and quick, like the content. It's low maintenance, as well.
I was watching a show one time (I forget what it was called, some business show, I think) that had a story about Danni Ashe (sp?). She said that she started her popular site on a Linux box in her bedroom and did the administration herself. I thought that was pretty cool...
ObStandardDisclaimer: Oh, and I know all of this because, er, a friend told me, yeah!
Hmmm, I have 2 8139s and a Rhine and I have never had a single problem with them other than the fact that I get about twice the performance out of the Rhine...
I also upgrade my kernel regularly.
Are you sure that your cards or MB chipset aren't bad or anything?
Also remember that DB wrote many rock-solid drivers for high-end cards like 3Com, etc. I have some of those, too.
Besides, when you buy cheap-ass $5 NICs and they don't work properly, you should blame the cards first.
Don McLean is Canadian...
Yes it makes sense because a search program will not have to open up each individual file to get it's ID3 tag. To simply query the filesystem is multiple orders of magnitude faster.
I once put a windowed PIC 16c54 backwards into a circuit I built on a breadboard.
I found out very quickly what colour the die turned when a lot of undesired current coarses through it...
...blindingly bright orange...
...blinding...
It's a good thing that PICs are cheap.
Printing onto paper *is* a printer related task. We're talking about using it for other things, such as screen rendering, etc.
What I pointed to was the use of it as a general programming language. Don Lancaster uses it as such. He even builds robots that are controlled by PostScript (he calls them flutterwumpers).
As a format instead of a language, GhostScript can do a lot of neat stuff with it. If I were grabbing a document to print, I'd take PS over MS DOC anyday.
Don Lancaster uses PostScript as his primary programming language.
You can do some really cool stuff with it, as is discussed at length on his site.
...and your post helps this guy out how?
This is obviously a vendor driver problem, not a Microsoft or Linux problem.
Having the source *does* help, but that, again, is up to the vendor.
How does an obviously offtopic troll post get moderated up to 5? There appears to be a lot of freebasing going on amongst the moderators today...
Before you go and download it, remember that this only works if you dual-boot.
I don't dual-boot, and it died looking for OpenGL. I tried installing OpenGL drivers and that failed miserably. Not that I was really expecting an OpenGL installation to work...
Last time they released a Linux test first. I'm disappointed...
BeFS, used in BeOS has a metadata system that's pretty cool. You can do searches of that metadata, too. I've seen it mostly to store MP3 info so that you can do searches for particular songs/bands/albums without the search program having to open up all of your MP3 files.
The next major version of ReiserFS is intended to have a plugin system, allowing things like metadata and encryption, I highly recommend you check it out before continuing your own project.
AFAIK, only Red Hat is selling access to an update server, called the "Red Hat Network."
What's more, they didn't release the source for that server.
I know for a fact that Ximian, Mandrake and SuSE don't do anything like this.
The KDE team is very good about letting new developers into the fold, and they gladly accept patches.
Their bug system also has a very active wish-list. Many items actually get into KDE this way.
Agggh!!! My eyes are burning!!! That's worse than telnet...
I suddenly remember when I was reading Cryptonomicon and very late in the book, the protagonist, who is ultra-paranoid and a crypto expert, actually telnets into a server. When I saw the telnet command, I almost threw the book at a wall. It was kind of like watching the funniest, most intelligent movie ever and then, near the end, it turned into "Freddy Got Fingered."
Fortunately, it explained a bit later that he was using a VPN, and my faith was restored... mostly. Depending on where the endpoint was (the machine itself, or a router somewhere in between), SSH is most likely more secure.
Then again, maybe I take it all too seriously. I type 'ssh' or 'scp' at least 100 times a day, on average (toooo many boxes...).