Simple answer. The code is terrible. The UI's great, but look at all the problems that have arisen recently (this thing is a very mature piece of sw). We've seen many security problems with it.
This is all due to the poor codebase. Just try digging through the code and you'll find that it's littlered with #defines because it tries too hard to accomplish everything.
Freenet has a inherent mechanism that allows frequently accessed data to move closer to you.
This should decrease external traffic for large campus networks as the data you want will probably be on a computer in your network. (if all goes well) =)
Yes, until we hear from him we're all making assumptions. But if he were to do what you just said to withhold the domain name in order to publicize both projects, it seems unethical.
But it's the wrong way to approach it. There's a difference between advocacy of other projects and just plain interfering with a project by taking it's most logical domain name.
I agree with your point C, despite what others have said. Users think of *a program* (ie single entity) and you're violating the metaphor by using a series of files to do the same job.
Your solution is a good idea. I've thought of something along the same lines. Ok now consider this:
Solution #2 What if the VFS was partially user space? ie. everyone starts out with the default file structure and you can build ontop of that per user.
Im not a kernel developer, but think of the flexibility of this. You don't haveta be root to mount smb shares wherever. You put a program in your ~/apps and when you log in it shows up in/usr/bin/.
But keep in mind that this occured during an age of computers where the enduser was relatively sophisticated. I doubt that if it happened today, arc would be dropped for zip because it's "uncool."
What you're urging us to do may sounds very rational. You sound like an engineer.
But think of it this way. We ( the/. community) are essentially a fringe group of programmers, etc compared to everyone else. The way I see it, eveyone else only pays attention to us if we do something huge. (hence some of the hacking groups out there)
While I don't urge hacking sites and posting messages for this cause, only something with the same effect will work. Essentially fear is your friend in this situation. What I'm urging is tell everyone about this and outline the effects of this law on a large, public publication (doesn't haveta be tv, but that seems to be the most popular.) We don't even need to make any FUD in this case, just state the horrible truth.
This is the quickest way to get the problem solved, IMHO.
Yes, the mass media is littered with politics. Yes, this is going to be hard to pull off.
Im currently on GTE dsl. Im getting 756kbit/s downstream and 128kbit/s upstream.
Other than the fact that it's expensive and used to suffer from frequent outtages (this seems to have been resolved), i'm satisfied enough with the service. It could be better.
They offer dynamic ip, which makes me pretty dependent on dynamic dns, but the upside is that i can have as many ip's as i need.
Supposedly there's some kind of frame relay/ quality of service system that ensures that i get the proper amount of bandwidth (no more, no less) and it seems to work ok.
Tech support is... well tech support;) Expect to get charged service fees here and there if you request small changes. Expect to get bounced around alot. But if you're persistant, you'll get it completed. Their infrastructure seems kind of new, but it's slowly improving.
Oh, and sometimes my network latency gets up to 100ms but that's about it.
Most important are the bugfixes. XFree86's problems make linux in general look bad to endusers, even thought it has nothing to do with the linux kernel.
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Good question.
Simple answer. The code is terrible.
The UI's great, but look at all the problems that have arisen recently (this thing is a very mature piece of sw). We've seen many security problems with it.
This is all due to the poor codebase. Just try digging through the code and you'll find that it's littlered with #defines because it tries too hard to accomplish everything.
We need a text based browser that's not lynx.
>1.Well for starters I really don't know a whit of Java so that renders me almost useless same for perl because I
haven't been formally taught either.
I do have a c client in development, but currently it's been kept pretty low profile.
if you want to take a look: http://lar2.dyndns.org/~larry/freeclient
doesn't work as of now.
But if you do know whats on your harddrive you can theoretically be sued/prosecuted for it.
;)
Freenet solves this problem.
Sometimes it's better not to know
Freenet has a inherent mechanism that allows frequently accessed data to move closer to you.
This should decrease external traffic for large campus networks as the data you want will probably be on a computer in your network. (if all goes well) =)
Personally I'd like to see C++Builder ported to linux eventually since I'm a religious c++ programmer.
Yes, until we hear from him we're all making assumptions. But if he were to do what you just said to withhold the domain name in order to publicize both projects, it seems unethical.
But it's the wrong way to approach it. There's a difference between advocacy of other projects and just plain interfering with a project by taking it's most logical domain name.
Totally =)
It's like getting the flexibility of a S/390
I agree with your point C, despite what others have said. Users think of *a program* (ie single entity) and you're violating the metaphor by using a series of files to do the same job.
/usr/bin/.
Your solution is a good idea. I've thought of something along the same lines. Ok now consider this:
Solution #2
What if the VFS was partially user space?
ie. everyone starts out with the default file structure and you can build ontop of that per user.
Im not a kernel developer, but think of the flexibility of this. You don't haveta be root to mount smb shares wherever. You put a program in your ~/apps and when you log in it shows up in
Only your user can see this.
Good idea, but i think as of the tech we have now, freenet is probably the best chance.
Go work on it guys. =)
If you dont already know, check it out =)
sorry, dont remember the url
Add to that:
Should whole operating systems be written towards the OO pardigm (eg eros) or should we stick to c?
I read somewhere that some company added to the kernel to allow rt features and was planning to incorporate the changes into the kernel under gpl.
Could anyone confirm this? (Provide links =) )
I do find suse to be pretty good, but youre missing some other flaws:
Most RPM's are written for redhat so anything using rc.d's need to be rewritten for suse, which is a pain.
I can usually find new rh-rpm's faster than suse ones. They're simply released faster because of the number of people using them.
As for pluses:
Yast's heirarchial installer is beautiful.
If they claim it's an "MP3 Player" but it doesn't really play mp3's, isn't that false advertising?
>The moral? 'Innovate, don't litigate'.
But keep in mind that this occured during an age of computers where the enduser was relatively sophisticated. I doubt that if it happened today, arc would be dropped for zip because it's "uncool."
What you're urging us to do may sounds very rational. You sound like an engineer.
/. community) are essentially a fringe group of programmers, etc compared to everyone else. The way I see it, eveyone else only pays attention to us if we do something huge. (hence some of the hacking groups out there)
But think of it this way. We ( the
While I don't urge hacking sites and posting messages for this cause, only something with the same effect will work. Essentially fear is your friend in this situation. What I'm urging is tell everyone about this and outline the effects of this law on a large, public publication (doesn't haveta be tv, but that seems to be the most popular.) We don't even need to make any FUD in this case, just state the horrible truth.
This is the quickest way to get the problem solved, IMHO.
Yes, the mass media is littered with politics. Yes, this is going to be hard to pull off.
Just a though =)
We need some popular primetime newsmagazine to do a special this thing to really kill it.
Yes, I do think it's that huge. Everyone computer user should know about this conspiracy.
ok i give up... i'll just put it on my website: patch
I had to change this bit of code to make it run properly on my mandrake 7 box.
the turtle demo now works for me (kinda crude, but works)
--- sphinx2-0.1/src/libsphinx2/ad_i386_linux.c Mon Jan 31 13:04:08 2000
***************
*** 303,310 ****
}
if (length recording))
--- 303,313 ----
}
if (length recording))
How are you doing with your services?
;)
Im currently on GTE dsl. Im getting 756kbit/s downstream and 128kbit/s upstream.
Other than the fact that it's expensive and used to suffer from frequent outtages (this seems to have been resolved), i'm satisfied enough with the service. It could be better.
They offer dynamic ip, which makes me pretty dependent on dynamic dns, but the upside is that i can have as many ip's as i need.
Supposedly there's some kind of frame relay/ quality of service system that ensures that i get the proper amount of bandwidth (no more, no less)
and it seems to work ok.
Tech support is... well tech support
Expect to get charged service fees here and there if you request small changes. Expect to get bounced around alot. But if you're persistant, you'll get it completed. Their infrastructure seems kind of new, but it's slowly improving.
Oh, and sometimes my network latency gets up to 100ms but that's about it.
Altogether I'd recommend gte dsl to everyone.
just upgraded with the mandrake rpms and it feels very smooth
Most important are the bugfixes. XFree86's problems make linux in general look bad to endusers, even thought it has nothing to do with the linux kernel.
fractals and wavelets have been proven to be mathematically similar to one another.
i read this somewhere a while back... dont quite remember the link.
or even better: if you can get their program to run in vmware and use the virtual machine as your gateway...
;)
or something like that... sorry, only spent about 10 seconds thinking about it
isn't there a way to update your certs?
In an rpms for ns 4.70 i saw a diff for the cert file...