If the story is for real, what on earth was a test missile doing with an active war-head?
There are different stages of testing. Its possible that they had already tested the missles without a warhead, and they were looking into how well they faired when fired at an actual target (probably that british sub that was in the area).
the names are normally linked in some way to the previous release. the last release was zoot which is a kind of soot worn in the 30's by the pimps of that time. the zoot soots had these things on them called pinstripes.
i am a grad student. i was ta'ing a class that required the students to use a math package that only ran in windows. i was having the students submit/store their homework via ftp to my linux box. i wanted them to be able to always have access to their files so they could work on their assignments and fetch their grades.
the problem was that i needed to grade the homework in windows. so i tried vmware (too slow), but wine worked really well execpt the greek fonts used in mathcad really got screwed up.
re: 1) since i am a grad student i have very little extra money in the bank to devote to a new computer so that i can run this one windows program. this makes wine very important.
re:2) 90$ oem/$300 retail for an shrinkwrapped pile crap seems like alot to me.
re:3) i would prefer not to steal software even a steaming pile like windows.
Legal stuff gets kinda fuzzy. Most likely they are preparing a more longwinded story (more than the usual quote with a link), and it's taking time to sort out all of the facts. I'm sure they will post it in due time.
When I first saw your post I thought it was a joke. I remembered the advanced features from the bottom of this page, and I thought yours was something simular. This is very sad-there going after these guys because they didnt think they could afford lawyers.
I wonder if they can get support from microsoft. Doesn't IE have a news reader that decodes binaries.
Also, I bet they'd have a wonderful time rewriting all of slash to use Postgres instead of MySQL.
There's going to be alot of rewriting involved in implementing any features added to MySQL. Rollback is something you have to do on the scripting side-the server doesn't take care of that for you. Since they are using DBI in perl it shouldnt be that hard to fix the preexsisting code.
What I dont understand is why they didnt do the right thing in the first place. Everyone seems to be saying they did it for speed. If I cared about my data I would have opted for the robustness.
People also dont seem to understand that MySQL is fast due to it's lack of features. Once the features are added it will be just as slow as PostgreSQL.
the article also mentions that they have md5 sums of the offending files. that implies that they downloaded each file. now that they have a db of md5 sums they can now automate the screening of mp3s.
download mp3 ---> get md5sum --->see if its in db ---> if it is report the person to napster
this method has promise... that is until they make napster clients that filp a random bit in the id3 tag.
PostgreSQL isn't that diffacult to install. It comes standard with redhat now.
2) It's very fast
About a year ago I was considering using MySQL for some stuff I'm working, on but I decided against it. IIRC the reason MySQL is fast because it doesnt support things like transactions and replication. If you add few features then you essentially have PostgreSQL with a few different datatypes. It appeared that If I ever wanted data integrity I would have to either use Postgresql or pay for something like Informix
3) PostgreSQL only really came of age recently
Actually Postgres has been around for quite a while (officially started in 1996). I'm pretty sure it supported transactions back in 1998 (possibly before that).
Fault tolerance was a big issue. We've started by load balancing anything that could easily be balanced, but balancing MySQL is harder. We're funding development efforts with the MySQL team to add database replication and rollback capabilities to MySQL (these improvements will of course be rolled into the normal MySQL release as well).
If this was a big issue why did you choose MySQL over PostgreSQL? I dont know about replication, but Postgres does support transactions/rollback.
Now think of the following scenario--you are running linux with staroffice as the main office suite. As far as I know SO doesn't have good built in support for either clarisworks, or word. (the office suites of choice in most schools)
You are aware that there is a version of star office for windows that can be downloaded for free right? So the students can install it at home and use it for free-their parents can save the money they would have spent on ms office and get a memory upgrade.
As it is, there is going to be a problem when you attempt to do cross platform disk reads.
This is not going to be a problem. I take floppies/mo disks formatted with fat partitions between my linux computer and my roomates 98 box all the time.
UH OH...it is in whatever format SO or WP defaults to... Most teachers I know do not have the technical expertise to deal with situations like that.
If they have star office installed at home this wont be an issue.
oh baby. i love it when you talk dirty to me.... so your saying that when i type out the characters: < TR >< TD >cell</TD& gt;</TR > its somehow different from when there is a button that i click on that makes those characters for me? thats all dream weaver does... it types for you. the line separating form and content isnt always clear. anyone can throw a bunch of html tags together-just like anyone can throw a bunch of words together ("Another fucking retard" for example).
content isn't just the words/images displayed by the webpage. content is also the method by which they are displayed. The orginanization of the information can be just as important as the information itself. If the reader cannot extract the information then you might as well not display the information at all.
If you cannot come up with a clever way to insult someone, then you insult is just a palutry as the next AC.
"... they didn't do any design, and any code they had was generated by a commercial program!"
I believe the fact that they used a commercial program is irrelevant.
for example: If some artist created something in photoshop they dont own the rights to it, but if they used the gimp they do?
If you create a website in wordpad then your rights to the work are somehow lessened because you didn't use vi?
I have a friend that is a very good artist, but he has the technical skills of a goat. He uses front page or something simular to do web page design. He turns out some nice stuff, but he shouldnt hold the rights to it because it wasnt done with vi.
or perhaps rob and the guys can give out thepope.org guy's mailing address on next weeks geeks in space. then everyone with a revoked login id can go to the webpage and request that their login be reinstated as kurt.
what i want to know is why they seem to have plenty iopeners to send to compusa, but they cannot fill orders placed at their company (phone/web) from before march 19th.
i know that my intentions dont fall within their 'business model'-i make no illusions otherwise. what about the people who do want to use the netpliance like it was intended. if they ordered during that time they are screwed.
that aside. the company seems very unorganized and unable to communicate issues to their sales people. i also feel that they avoid the truth when confronted (gee i dont want to call them liars).
john
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runs mobile linux or is he saying its uses a transmeta?
Linux is heading into the mobile market full steam with Transmeta developing Mobile Linux and devices like the Samsung YOPY PDA being created to run it.
I thought it used and strongarm processor and it was running arm-linux? is arm-linux a derivative of mobile linux? i dont think this it is since arm linux has been out for quite a while?
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If the story is for real, what on earth was a test missile doing with an active war-head?
There are different stages of testing. Its possible that they had already tested the missles without a warhead, and they were looking into how well they faired when fired at an actual target (probably that british sub that was in the area).
john
the names are normally linked in some way to the previous release. the last release was zoot which is a kind of soot worn in the 30's by the pimps of that time. the zoot soots had these things on them called pinstripes.
john
if mozilla is facing competition in galeon is linux facing competition in redhat?
john
i am a grad student. i was ta'ing a class that required the students to use a math package that only ran in windows. i was having the students submit/store their homework via ftp to my linux box. i wanted them to be able to always have access to their files so they could work on their assignments and fetch their grades.
the problem was that i needed to grade the homework in windows. so i tried vmware (too slow), but wine worked really well execpt the greek fonts used in mathcad really got screwed up.
re: 1) since i am a grad student i have very little extra money in the bank to devote to a new computer so that i can run this one windows program. this makes wine very important.
re:2) 90$ oem/$300 retail for an shrinkwrapped pile crap seems like alot to me.
re:3) i would prefer not to steal software even a steaming pile like windows.
john
picture
is that a younger sexier bill in the loewer left corner? it looks like a picture of the founding members of ms from the 70's. thats a trip.
john
Legal stuff gets kinda fuzzy. Most likely they are preparing a more longwinded story (more than the usual quote with a link), and it's taking time to sort out all of the facts. I'm sure they will post it in due time.
When I first saw your post I thought it was a joke. I remembered the advanced features from the bottom of this page, and I thought yours was something simular. This is very sad-there going after these guys because they didnt think they could afford lawyers.
I wonder if they can get support from microsoft. Doesn't IE have a news reader that decodes binaries.
john
are the moderators on crack today?
plus shouldn't you say could fit up a sparrows ass or something simular to imply that their knowlege is small.
john
Also, I bet they'd have a wonderful time rewriting all of slash to use Postgres instead of MySQL.
There's going to be alot of rewriting involved in implementing any features added to MySQL. Rollback is something you have to do on the scripting side-the server doesn't take care of that for you. Since they are using DBI in perl it shouldnt be that hard to fix the preexsisting code.
What I dont understand is why they didnt do the right thing in the first place. Everyone seems to be saying they did it for speed. If I cared about my data I would have opted for the robustness.
People also dont seem to understand that MySQL is fast due to it's lack of features. Once the features are added it will be just as slow as PostgreSQL.
john
the article also mentions that they have md5 sums of the offending files. that implies that they downloaded each file. now that they have a db of md5 sums they can now automate the screening of mp3s.
download mp3 ---> get md5sum --->see if its in db ---> if it is report the person to napster
this method has promise... that is until they make napster clients that filp a random bit in the id3 tag.
john
1) It's very simple to install
PostgreSQL isn't that diffacult to install. It comes standard with redhat now.
2) It's very fast
About a year ago I was considering using MySQL for some stuff I'm working, on but I decided against it. IIRC the reason MySQL is fast because it doesnt support things like transactions and replication. If you add few features then you essentially have PostgreSQL with a few different datatypes. It appeared that If I ever wanted data integrity I would have to either use Postgresql or pay for something like Informix
3) PostgreSQL only really came of age recently
Actually Postgres has been around for quite a while (officially started in 1996). I'm pretty sure it supported transactions back in 1998 (possibly before that).
john
Fault tolerance was a big issue. We've started by load balancing anything that could easily be balanced, but balancing MySQL is harder. We're funding development efforts with the MySQL team to add database replication and rollback capabilities to MySQL (these improvements will of course be rolled into the normal MySQL release as well).
If this was a big issue why did you choose MySQL over PostgreSQL? I dont know about replication, but Postgres does support transactions/rollback.
john
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john
i was under the impressions that linux didnt make effective use of having more than 2 cpus (at least on i386 machines). Has this changed?
If so whats the max number of cpu's linux can make effective use of on alpha/intel?
john
you are a schmuck. it was posted at almost the same time as the post befor it. its sad you dont take the time to read closer.
john
Now think of the following scenario--you are running linux with staroffice as the main office suite. As far as I know SO doesn't have good built in support for either clarisworks, or word. (the office suites of choice in most schools)
You are aware that there is a version of star office for windows that can be downloaded for free right? So the students can install it at home and use it for free-their parents can save the money they would have spent on ms office and get a memory upgrade.
As it is, there is going to be a problem when you attempt to do cross platform disk reads.
This is not going to be a problem. I take floppies/mo disks formatted with fat partitions between my linux computer and my roomates 98 box all the time.
UH OH...it is in whatever format SO or WP defaults to... Most teachers I know do not have the technical expertise to deal with situations like that.
If they have star office installed at home this wont be an issue.
If you want to discuss this further email me.
john
oh baby. i love it when you talk dirty to me.... so your saying that when i type out the characters: /TD& gt;< /TR >
< TR >< TD >cell<
its somehow different from when there is a button that i click on that makes those characters for me? thats all dream weaver does... it types for you.
the line separating form and content isnt always clear. anyone can throw a bunch of html tags together-just like anyone can throw a bunch of words together ("Another fucking retard" for example).
content isn't just the words/images displayed by the webpage. content is also the method by which they are displayed. The orginanization of the information can be just as important as the information itself. If the reader cannot extract the information then you might as well not display the information at all.
If you cannot come up with a clever way to insult someone, then you insult is just a palutry as the next AC.
john
"... they didn't do any design, and any code they had was generated by a commercial program!"
I believe the fact that they used a commercial program is irrelevant.
for example:
If some artist created something in photoshop they dont own the rights to it, but if they used the gimp they do?
If you create a website in wordpad then your rights to the work are somehow lessened because you didn't use vi?
I have a friend that is a very good artist, but he has the technical skills of a goat. He uses front page or something simular to do web page design. He turns out some nice stuff, but he shouldnt hold the rights to it because it wasnt done with vi.
john
so we should rip our metallica mp3's at metallica concerts. then we would have effectivly recorded them at a live concert-thus it would be a bootleg.
john
his makes me wonder where this hard copy claim got started and if I should consider it FUD?
originally metallica delivered the names in paper format. the napster guys said they would comply if the names were given in soft format.
we are now seeing the hazy transition between: i thought they only recieved it in hard format -TO- oh they got a copy on disk.
john
or perhaps rob and the guys can give out thepope.org guy's mailing address on next weeks geeks in space. then everyone with a revoked login id can go to the webpage and request that their login be reinstated as kurt.
john
That's why I can choose a different long distance company for my phone.
its interesting you brought up the phone.. and appliance that is pretty much useless without a monthly service.
john
what i want to know is why they seem to have plenty iopeners to send to compusa, but they cannot fill orders placed at their company (phone/web) from before march 19th.
i know that my intentions dont fall within their 'business model'-i make no illusions otherwise. what about the people who do want to use the netpliance like it was intended. if they ordered during that time they are screwed.
that aside. the company seems very unorganized and unable to communicate issues to their sales people. i also feel that they avoid the truth when confronted (gee i dont want to call them liars).
john
I think this would make a better icon.
john
runs mobile linux or is he saying its uses a transmeta?
Linux is heading into the mobile market full steam with Transmeta developing Mobile Linux and devices like the Samsung YOPY PDA being created to run it.
I thought it used and strongarm processor and it was running arm-linux? is arm-linux a derivative of mobile linux? i dont think this it is since arm linux has been out for quite a while?
john
it looks like ms bought interix to quote:
Microsoft acquired Softway Systems, Inc. to help ensure that customers have reliable interoperability tools between Windows and Unix
whatever.
john