hmm considering these guys were working on it long before the Matrix every came out, I have a hard time excepting your "good ideas from Western media" theory.
Actually I would venture I guess that some of our
better programs and movie come from a decidely non-Western influence.
Come down off your Western Civilization high horse and enjoy the Global Economy
True both have config files that are a mess. But try this...
hose for XF86Config to the point X won't start
-no problem go in and fix with vi
hose your registry to the point Windows won't start
-no problem go in and fix with....
wait a minute there is no command line program
that can edit the registry with windows, its
not ASCII text. If you are going to write some
funky file format at least have a good command
line based editor for it. Oh sure regedit can do
imports from the command line. So you could DUMP
the whole registry, find the problem, patch, and
test, but DAMN what a hassle
Hey moderators...Please read the article before moderating sonmething up. This is up to Score:4 with the comments are completely wrong and show a lack of any insight into what really happened.
Gee let me get a high moderation by saying something that seems highly insightful even if its dead wrong.
I find this interesting as I have seen an fansub'd version and the theater version and didn't notice any major differences. Can you name anything specific?
So don't read it, much less respond to it. I don't read every Slashdot article and certainly don't post in ones I don't care about. If you have no interest in the article ignore it. Many people do find this interesting. Heck even if you don't like anime, you gotta admit changing Disney's mind with 4500 names submitted of the web is pretty cool.
Buy a quality motherboard from a good company. Lots of those bargain bin motherboards about 15-20 dollars cheaper never update the BIOS. Buy from a quality source, check previous motherboards and see if they are updating old motherboard BIOSs.
I follow the hyperlink in Netscape 4 with javascript off under linux and get a blank page with a lock-in redirect. It would take a whole lot for me to ever want to go there again.
"Shays' Rebellion--- a sometimes-violent uprising of farmers angry over conditions in Massachusetts in 1786--- prompted Thomas Jefferson to express the view that "a little rebellion now and then is a good thing" for America. Unlike other leaders of The Republic, Jefferson felt that the people had a right to express their grievances against the government, even if those grievances might take the form of violent action."
Everyday I'm convinced more and more of the need for a new revolution. Free speech is becoming a joke, privacy is a joke, the innocent until proven guilty is backwards (guilty until proven innocent (duh)). The basic rights are tread on so much these days its getting hard to stomach.
I once was in the US military and love this country, however I love the ideals of this country much more!
Like the article states it should be more generic. I mean not even all of open source would want to use that...not all Open Source in GNU license or uses GNU software. Granted most does but that seems like having a.mac or.mcs for mac and microsoft people. BLAH!
I don't even try to remeber URLs that is what bookmarks and email is for....I wouldn't care if slashdot was www.slashdotistheplacetobe.dot or anything else for that matter. I have my bookmarks linked to into my homepage so all I have to remember is one URL.
I agree Linux may not be the best use here but I'm no expert in embedded systems so I'll stay out of that arguement. Where I do take exception with your comments is
"(1) Security - This is a big concern for me. Imagine some evil hacker getting control of this baby...now imagine if this was used in your bank or a military instituion. See the problem? While I commend the design of Open Souce, perhaps allowing the innerworkings of this to be accessable by a hacker is not good, even more so when it's an embedded system. "
Security through obsecurity is worthless. The point of Open Source is bugs will be spotted and fixed because anyone using the product can know exactly what is happening at a given moment. They can read the code, check exactly what chips are being used, anything else that want. Now a closed system, someone discovers a bug never tells anyone and continues to exploit. Don't blame the spreading of information for security bugs...they are still there in closed systems but only the corporations and an elite few know about them.
God sues GenCo for patent violation on the Human Genome. God is quoted "I created and have 'soul' rights to DNA multipulation. Reversing engineering the Human source code is against the terms of use contract you agreed to by being born. I will have to revoke the use of Human DNA from all GenCo employees, unforunately you cannot live without DNA...sorry."
I stopped reading Tom's years ago. As far as I'm concerned he got great (and was one of the first good hardware sites) and has just been resting on his laurels. I haven't seen it recently but he used to do updates about once a week, but then updates seemed fewer and far between. I stopped reading when updates became 3-4 weeks. There are lots of alternatives now and most the guys who run them are nice and down to earth (not I'm so cool because AMD sent me the specs before you). Not to mention how hard to navigate the site has become. I don't mean to flame here, but there are better alternatives.
I was so disgusted at the site I had to look around to see how bad it could get. After viewing serveral animated gif 'movies' the next one took me to the useless entry page. The lack of navigation is insane. I'm going to take web design advice from a guy with a site like that, I think not.
If you go read the web page, you will see that it will run the Linux 2.2 Kernel. The CD probably contains the kernel, enough to get into X, and Netscape.
These DSL Modems cannot be that expensive. GTE gave me one free for signing up for a year of service. Not free rental for the contract life but free as in you now own the modem. They used to charge about $200 dollars but even that doesn't seem too bad since now I can just hook any ole NIC up to it. I can run any type of machine that speaks TCP/IP on their DSL line. I even got my ISP to give me a static IP address so I don't even need a DHCP Client.
I completely agree. The movie wasn't that great but I'll buy the DVD for the Darth Maul fight and the music during sed fight.
I'm voting with my $$$, I will not buy SW:TPM until a DVD version is released. If everyone who wanted a DVD version did the same, I think Lucas would notice. That's the only power we have over corporate America...mass denial of cash.
Bah! George didn't make anyone buy the VHS version. I personally, and several other I know, are not buying the film until a DVD version comes out. Face it, it wasn't that great of a film. I hope that the sales of the VHS have been less than expected because other people are refusing to buy an ole VHS technology version. This could prompt Lucas to release a DVD version quickier than he originally intended. If not at least I didn't waste my money on some VHS crap-o-rama. The day a bought my DVD I swore never to buy another VHS, they just don't last. Some of my older VHS tape that I've watched alot are already beginning to breakdown..yuck! DVD will last much much longer.
Your analogy against a 4 and 8 cylinder car holds up. In the end you were paying for performance, your 8 cylinder blew the doors off the 4 cylinder. Here I believe with the latest and greatest processor you are paying for the engineering behind the processor. After a while they roll the technology, that people who have to have the latest and greatest have had for months, down to the rest of us. I have a Celeron 300A running at 450 (overclocking could be like adding a turbo-charger) when I buy a new processor (not likely anytime soon my 300A is plenty fast for my linux box) it will be a Celeron because I don't need the bleeding edge. Besides, you don't get ripped off because Celerons cost much less than their big brother counter part. I paid less than $100 for my Celeron back when a PII 450 cost about $250-$300.
Well I would say something like ActiveX is bad is not common at all. But I prefer to address the embedded perl statement, since I program in Perl. Why would I want the perl to run on the client machine? The problem with Javascript, JScript or any other client-side technology is the client. Major vendor refuse to follow any sort of standard forcing me to write 4 different version of the code to do the same thing and detect what platform and browser its running on. Cross-platfrom does not mean to me writing it for each platform then choosing the correct one to run. Server-Side technology such as PERL, PHP, C++ etc... allow me to access databases, generate dynamic code, but still spit out plain ole HTML.
If you have an idea don't pass the buck and say all these "famous" OpenSourcers need to do this. Go do it yourself...then maybe you won't be so quick to say how easy and quick it would be.
The monkey has to take it because when else can you say you just wasted 2 mil for 30 secs of Ad time. They can play the wazoo comerical forever and it would still be funny. The Monkey commercial was good for one shot only - the superbowl, and it was the best. Those Mountain Dew commercials just annoyed me and I love Dew.
This is how I think it works...now this is just a buddy and me asking ourselves how would we do this. But here goes....As I read it, this is a software rendered OpenGL implementation without some of the software optimizers. However you take this piece combine it with the specs of what your particular card can do in hardware...and doing alot of coding...and you end up with a hardware-accelerated OpenGL driver for whatever card you were working with.
Try this! That 530 message in not a real 530 message. They have posted it to fool you. FTP to 140.174.127.95 (the site listed on their webpage). try Anonymous login. first you get back. 530-There are too many users... but next you get back a real 530 message 530 Login Incorrect I think linuxone does not want anyone to download linuxone and make everyone think lots of people are downloading it
My problem with these new lines of color cases is they miss the best feature of the new Mac case. The first time I saw the new Blue and White G3, I said 'Dang, that's ugly' (thats my opinion). Then my Mac buddy pulls the little handle on the site and the whole motherboard and cards swing down. WOW! Thats what I want. Sure make a neat looking case but I want an ATX case that have a swing down side panel. It should work just like the Mac (ie. I can open it while the computer is fully assembled and running).
It seems this goes back to the saying 'Having your cake and eating it too'. I see it as a large benefit to be able to work from home. I plan to do so on heavy snow days. I don't think this benefit should turn into other benefits. If you want the nice company chair and the company computer goto the office. If you want to work from home, use your own stuff. Even though I work from home (sometimes) I don't expect my employer to pay for my computer, ADSL, chair. I use this equipment for personal use. I guess if the company required you to work from home, they should provide the equipment necessary, but this equipment should have the same terms of use as your office equipment (determined by the company). Anyway keep OSHA outta my house, if I want that pizza box on the floor next to my ADSL modem so be it.
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hmm considering these guys were working on it long before the Matrix every came out, I have a hard time excepting your "good ideas from Western media" theory.
Actually I would venture I guess that some of our
better programs and movie come from a decidely non-Western influence.
Come down off your Western Civilization high horse and enjoy the Global Economy
True both have config files that are a mess. But try this...
hose for XF86Config to the point X won't start
-no problem go in and fix with vi
hose your registry to the point Windows won't start
-no problem go in and fix with....
wait a minute there is no command line program
that can edit the registry with windows, its
not ASCII text. If you are going to write some
funky file format at least have a good command
line based editor for it. Oh sure regedit can do
imports from the command line. So you could DUMP
the whole registry, find the problem, patch, and
test, but DAMN what a hassle
Hey moderators...Please read the article before moderating sonmething up. This is up to Score:4 with the comments are completely wrong and show a lack of any insight into what really happened.
Gee let me get a high moderation by saying something that seems highly insightful even if its dead wrong.
I find this interesting as I have seen an fansub'd version and the theater version and didn't notice any major differences. Can you name anything specific?
So don't read it, much less respond to it. I don't read every Slashdot article and certainly don't post in ones I don't care about. If you have no interest in the article ignore it. Many people do find this interesting. Heck even if you don't like anime, you gotta admit changing Disney's mind with 4500 names submitted of the web is pretty cool.
Buy a quality motherboard from a good company. Lots of those bargain bin motherboards about 15-20 dollars cheaper never update the BIOS. Buy from a quality source, check previous motherboards and see if they are updating old motherboard BIOSs.
I personally buy ABIT, but I like ASUS also.
I follow the hyperlink in Netscape 4 with javascript off under linux and get a blank page with a lock-in redirect. It would take a whole lot for me to ever want to go there again.
"Shays' Rebellion--- a sometimes-violent uprising of farmers angry over conditions in Massachusetts in 1786--- prompted Thomas Jefferson to express the view that "a little rebellion now and then is a good thing" for America. Unlike other leaders of The Republic, Jefferson felt that the people had a right to express their grievances against the government, even if those grievances might take the form of violent action."
Everyday I'm convinced more and more of the need for a new revolution. Free speech is becoming a joke, privacy is a joke, the innocent until proven guilty is backwards (guilty until proven innocent (duh)). The basic rights are tread on so much these days its getting hard to stomach.
I once was in the US military and love this country, however I love the ideals of this country much more!
Like the article states it should be more generic. I mean not even all of open source would want to use that...not all Open Source in GNU license or uses GNU software. Granted most does but that seems like having a .mac or .mcs for mac and microsoft people. BLAH!
I don't even try to remeber URLs that is what bookmarks and email is for....I wouldn't care if slashdot was www.slashdotistheplacetobe.dot or anything else for that matter. I have my bookmarks linked to into my homepage so all I have to remember is one URL.
I agree Linux may not be the best use here but I'm no expert in embedded systems so I'll stay out of that arguement. Where I do take exception with your comments is
"(1) Security - This is a big concern for me. Imagine some evil hacker getting control of this baby...now imagine if this was used in your bank or a military instituion. See the problem? While I commend the design of Open Souce, perhaps allowing the innerworkings of this to be accessable by a hacker is not good, even more so when it's an embedded system. "
Security through obsecurity is worthless. The point of Open Source is bugs will be spotted and fixed because anyone using the product can know exactly what is happening at a given moment. They can read the code, check exactly what chips are being used, anything else that want. Now a closed system, someone discovers a bug never tells anyone and continues to exploit. Don't blame the spreading of information for security bugs...they are still there in closed systems but only the corporations and an elite few know about them.
I can just see the headline now:
God sues GenCo for patent violation on the Human Genome. God is quoted "I created and have 'soul' rights to DNA multipulation. Reversing engineering the Human source code is against the terms of use contract you agreed to by being born. I will have to revoke the use of Human DNA from all GenCo employees, unforunately you cannot live without DNA...sorry."
I stopped reading Tom's years ago. As far as I'm concerned he got great (and was one of the first good hardware sites) and has just been resting on his laurels. I haven't seen it recently but he used to do updates about once a week, but then updates seemed fewer and far between. I stopped reading when updates became 3-4 weeks. There are lots of alternatives now and most the guys who run them are nice and down to earth (not I'm so cool because AMD sent me the specs before you). Not to mention how hard to navigate the site has become. I don't mean to flame here, but there are better alternatives.
BAH! Get back to work, Eric!
I was so disgusted at the site I had to look around to see how bad it could get. After viewing serveral animated gif 'movies' the next one took me to the useless entry page. The lack of navigation is insane. I'm going to take web design advice from a guy with a site like that, I think not.
If you go read the web page, you will see that it
will run the Linux 2.2 Kernel. The CD probably contains the kernel, enough to get into X, and Netscape.
These DSL Modems cannot be that expensive. GTE gave me one free for signing up for a year of service. Not free rental for the contract life but free as in you now own the modem. They used to charge about $200 dollars but even that doesn't seem too bad since now I can just hook any ole NIC up to it. I can run any type of machine that speaks TCP/IP on their DSL line. I even got my ISP to give me a static IP address so I don't even need a DHCP Client.
I completely agree. The movie wasn't that great but I'll buy the DVD for the Darth Maul fight and the music during sed fight.
I'm voting with my $$$, I will not buy SW:TPM until a DVD version is released. If everyone who wanted a DVD version did the same, I think Lucas would notice. That's the only power we have over corporate America...mass denial of cash.
Bah! George didn't make anyone buy the VHS version. I personally, and several other I know, are not buying the film until a DVD version comes out. Face it, it wasn't that great of a film. I hope that the sales of the VHS have been less than expected because other people are refusing to buy an ole VHS technology version. This could prompt Lucas to release a DVD version quickier than he originally intended. If not at least I didn't waste my money on some VHS crap-o-rama. The day a bought my DVD I swore never to buy another VHS, they just don't last. Some of my older VHS tape that I've watched alot are already beginning to breakdown..yuck! DVD will last much much longer.
Your analogy against a 4 and 8 cylinder car holds up. In the end you were paying for performance, your 8 cylinder blew the doors off the 4 cylinder. Here I believe with the latest and greatest processor you are paying for the engineering behind the processor. After a while they roll the technology, that people who have to have the latest and greatest have had for months, down to the rest of us. I have a Celeron 300A running at 450 (overclocking could be like adding a turbo-charger) when I buy a new processor (not likely anytime soon my 300A is plenty fast for my linux box) it will be a Celeron because I don't need the bleeding edge. Besides, you don't get ripped off because Celerons cost much less than their big brother counter part. I paid less than $100 for my Celeron back when a PII 450 cost about $250-$300.
Well I would say something like ActiveX is bad is not common at all. But I prefer to address the embedded perl statement, since I program in Perl. Why would I want the perl to run on the client machine? The problem with Javascript, JScript or any other client-side technology is the client. Major vendor refuse to follow any sort of standard forcing me to write 4 different version of the code to do the same thing and detect what platform and browser its running on. Cross-platfrom does not mean to me writing it for each platform then choosing the correct one to run. Server-Side technology such as PERL, PHP, C++ etc... allow me to access databases, generate dynamic code, but still spit out plain ole HTML.
If you have an idea don't pass the buck and say all these "famous" OpenSourcers need to do this. Go do it yourself...then maybe you won't be so quick to say how easy and quick it would be.
The monkey has to take it because when else can you say you just wasted 2 mil for 30 secs of Ad
time. They can play the wazoo comerical forever and it would still be funny. The Monkey commercial was good for one shot only - the superbowl, and it was the best. Those Mountain Dew commercials just annoyed me and I love Dew.
This is how I think it works...now this is just a buddy and me asking ourselves how would we do this. But here goes....As I read it, this is a software rendered OpenGL implementation without some of the software optimizers. However you take this piece combine it with the specs of what your particular card can do in hardware...and doing alot of coding...and you end up with a hardware-accelerated OpenGL driver for whatever card you were working with.
Am I even close?
Try this! That 530 message in not a real 530 message. They have posted it to fool you. FTP to ...
140.174.127.95 (the site listed on their webpage).
try Anonymous login. first you get back.
530-There are too many users
but next you get back a real 530 message
530 Login Incorrect
I think linuxone does not want anyone to download linuxone and make everyone think lots of people are downloading it
My problem with these new lines of color cases is they miss the best feature of the new Mac case. The first time I saw the new Blue and White G3, I said 'Dang, that's ugly' (thats my opinion). Then my Mac buddy pulls the little handle on the site and the whole motherboard and cards swing down. WOW! Thats what I want. Sure make a neat looking case but I want an ATX case that have a swing down side panel. It should work just like the Mac (ie. I can open it while the computer is fully assembled and running).
It seems this goes back to the saying 'Having your cake and eating it too'. I see it as a large benefit to be able to work from home. I plan to do so on heavy snow days. I don't think this benefit should turn into other benefits. If you want the nice company chair and the company computer goto the office. If you want to work from home, use your own stuff. Even though I work from home (sometimes) I don't expect my employer to pay for my computer, ADSL, chair. I use this equipment for personal use. I guess if the company required you to work from home, they should provide the equipment necessary, but this equipment should have the same terms of use as your office equipment (determined by the company).
Anyway keep OSHA outta my house, if I want that pizza box on the floor next to my ADSL modem so be it.