IIRC lame (or another MP3 encoder? well, search freshmeat for "MP3 encoder live") is able to produce "live" streams on Pentium 166 MHz. for now i did not try that. but it was mentioned on the homepage of the encoder.
with both things published (and published well - while the best documentation is actual source code) you:
don't have to break MS anymore
lover MS' ability to damage market (competitors nor customers)
motivate MS to create realy good things (not just things which are useless or even dangerous and then brainwash people so they thing "those "new features" are realy cool. i can't live without them. i have to buy.")
almost imidietly cause alternatives come to existence (lots of "compatible" spreedsheets, word processors, media players,... available for almost every platform in existence in wide variety of prices, quality, feature set,...). so people can chooose
i think, in such short time we/they/... did not have enought time to observe how such system can work for a long time.
primary principle of capitalism is fine: freedom. from freedom comes also competition (if i can do that, than some other guy can do that too. if not now than in few days, months, years for sure).
but till now (or till 70's) there were no giants which grew that big, that they stifle all competition.
there is also another good principle: your rights ends where rights of others begin.
so while MS (IBM, whoever) has right to be big and sucessfull they do not have right to prevent others from being sucessfull (and big and whatever) too.
that's why i think that in this exceptional situation government have to do exceptional thing to correct this big problem.
----------
you also mentioned that MS (i.e. Windows) are great motivation for GNOME and KDE developers (and others too). well, it is. but what if MS has been prevented to gain todays influence some time before? maybe by this time we should have not just one "perfect" OS (Windows) but maybe tens or thousand of desktops or even not just desktops but whole OSes.
----------
and about "but the entire reason they're so successful is that the vast majority of computer users *don't* feel that way": are we (as society, as mankind) going to function based on feelings or are we going to use our brains (which makes us people) and think?!
i understand MS success as prove that we as whole are stupid. and i do not want us to be stupid so i'm correcting this problem (or at least trying to correct it).
It's a weird philisophical issue that's at fault, not the underlying technology.
i agree that this problem is psychological. but i do not agree it's weird:).
but what's more important: as tweek poited out (for driving) every system have to have some simple rules otherwise it won't work. with driving, if you do not know on which side to drive, how to signalize your intensions, when you got priority, when others got priority then you are endangering other drivers and you should be banned off the road.
and IMO same have to be applied to Internet too: if you have no idea that sending 2 GB e-mails, posting a lot of garbage to forums, publishing garbage,... are cousing others troubles, than you should be banned from the Net.
and same with computers in general, linux on desktop, climbing to mount everest, flying with F14,...,...,...
and now back to linux & desktop: if we apply same rules as MS just to get more desktop audience than linux will become just aother windows like bloat because SOME things can be made efficiently withou ANY knowledge about the issue. so here i fully agree with tweak that linux community have to educate people in order to make them able to use linux desktop.
imagine having two BIG identical files (say 200 MB?) and copy creation when difference is made (as you outlined it):
we wait for system to "merge" them and right after that we append 1 B to the end of one - system is for a long time (seconds? minutes?) busy with making copy of changed 200 MB file to make it possible to append that one byte.
this does not looks like increase in performace even when we do such thing very seldom.
to avoid that, one have to be able to limit such automatic merging.
and without automatic merging this SIS is just `ln -s file1 file2` with aditional "daemon" which is causing problems from time to time (can't say how often) - i.e. SIS is just less reliable ln.
i heard that developers of 3D visual apps like OpenGL much more than DirectX because of easier use, better performance, more/better "API" (functionality) and better graphics...
but
... because of some "politics" 3D accelerated graphics card vendors are prefering iplementing DirectX acceleration and sometimes also add some OpenGL support through DirectX-is-emulating-OpenGL thing (which give not that good performance for OpenGL).
so now i wonder (like you) if this "open sourcing" of OpenGL give some advantage to OpenGL and if it is not alredy too late.
also i'm looking for some more info about "OpenGL vs. DirectX" issue. do someone got some URLs?
I figured security fixes were lumped in with bug fixes
exactly. i just "explained" special case of bug fix to newbies (i hope).
special king of bugfixes: security fixes
on
Linux Kernel 2.2.14
·
· Score: 1
you mentioned all reasons for/against upgrading the kernel very good.
i just want to point out security holes
with rule "not unless you need to fix a bug, or gain a feature." you can consider not to upgrade just because of for example tulip driver error because you are not experiencing troubles even when using tulip card. BUT if this tulip bug is security hole you SHOULD update even when usual usage is OK. hackers are not producing usual thinkg on systems:)
well, i'm not sure whether someone wanting w2k will: a) buy PC with linux preinstalled b) be able to cope with linux boot disks, root logins and linux' fdisk (someone also mentioned backups?:)
but it could be fun to watch someone without linux/unix experience trying to replace linux with w2k using mentioned instructions
amaricens will be for sure happy buying cheaper cuban sugar.
but will amaricans be happy also with a lot of cheaper cuban workers in US? i think not.
but making free market without free labor market is anythink but good for everyone. free market with restricted flow of people is just exploit to allow rich ones to benefit from poor ones.
maybe i'm wrong but not making everythink free (not just goods market) looks "without principle" to me.
your scenarion (owning stock) is fine... but only to part of world population (and i think it is small part).
imagine you are citizen of some poor 3rd world country (does not matter which): you are poor and your whole income got spend to survive. can you buy some stock? no. only happy citizens of rich contries can afford such thing - to own part of copany. company, which "exploits" those poor making bareer between succesfull stock holders and poor 3rd world workers higher and higher.
and in "free market" world this bareer wont be equivalent of (only) geographical borders.
in a "corporate world" (we are heading to it) todays poor will be even more poor and todays milionair will be bilionair.... not a real solution for WHOLE world.
you reminded me of press in my country - slovakia.
there are basicaly two groups (but one have about 90% "market share") of press but both are just plain black & white: ours are good and others are bad. same as riot reports mentioned by you.
but here slovakia it looks like people are too tired to protest (unlike czechs) against results of our "tender revolution" - tired of dirty and filthy politics which takes place here no matter if prime minister is meciar or his opposition.
maybe it would be better if november '89 has been somehow more violent - to show the previous establisment we realy do not like them thus prevent them to reapear - as it happens now (a lot of previously hi ranks communists are now in high politics again).
Make it public.. let people try to crack it. If it stands the test of time... THEN it's secure, and not before then.
sorry but i have to say that even after such public test, thing can't be considered secure. it can be considered just "not hacked yet". it's almost same like proving application is without error - we can't do that so we run test and then we say "we did not found bug for now".
remember article about MS Windows 2000 security test site? remember "our" arguments against MS claiming "nobody cracked our box so w2k are secure"?
however i agree that allowing public to review the product is the best thing author/creator can do to test correctness/validity/robustness/whatever of the thing (of course after proper desing and review by himself:).
Dodger, good review. after thinking about it (but not seeing actual interview, only reading it's transcript on web) i come to almost same conclusions (regarding mr. gates).
there's one saying: path to hell is marked by good intensions.
The best way to avoid this dilemma is to immediately add your personal user account to the administrators local group of the system.
that's the think which causes ordinary applications not working when user is not administrator - like photoshop concerning about disk error when importing EPS with custom palette when loged without admin right (when doing same thing with admin rights, "do you want to use custom palette?" dialog appears and atfter pressing buton import proceeds hapily).
plain silly. developers get accustomed to program apps for "administrators" and forget about "real" users.
Jeremy couldn't think of anything else to ask him, but was relieved when he realised he wasn't getting a straight answer and could keep asking the same question.
well, are politicians same all around the world?
our "famous" slovak politician (vladimir meciar) have been asked very straight yes|no question about one year ago (he has been prime minister by that time) about something he have to know to answer (as prime minister). bu he [politiacian] started answering with looooooong sentences quickly getting away from subject. interviewer asked same question 5 (if i remember correctly) times and then interview ended (it was live interview in TV and time for it ended).
well... maybe i'm too tired (it's 00:30 in slovakia) but i do not think that "falamebait" (even with score 4) is apropriate for parent post. "normal" and any positive score looks more appropriate to me.
while i feel need to ask mr. gates something, i'm unable to come up with some question which i realy want and care mr. gates to answer.
now, review of "business @ the speed of thought" comes to my mind: as almost all reviewers (all of whom reviews i have read) written, there is nearly no usefull information in this book. considering other notes/interviews/articles from mr. gates i read i think that there is little probability of some usefull (for me) information being said by mr. gates. and i'm not that interested in just hearing his voice or just see his image or just see characters which represents some sounds he produced.
now we have goot opportunity to make more freedom in the future because the "only" thing we have to do is at least defend existing freedom of Internet against "wiretapping & co.".
as Internet gains more importance in the future, Internet freedom gains more importance too.
what a coincidence: just yesterday i saw one part of "marfy brown" serie on TV which concerns just about "political correctness"
i have to agree with main cahracter of this series (marfy brown) that people are just getting too fragile about what thay hear and that they are also loosing sense of humor. and i also have to point out that such attitude do not help us to solve problems which are referenced as "hot topics" and which are named using some "better" words just to be more "politicaly correct": it just masquerade them not solve them!
Slashdot Mirror
IIRC lame (or another MP3 encoder? well, search freshmeat for "MP3 encoder live") is able to produce "live" streams on Pentium 166 MHz. for now i did not try that. but it was mentioned on the homepage of the encoder.
you can save one sound card and degradation (resultiung from digital -> analog -> digital conversion) by "grabbing" the CD
with both things published (and published well - while the best documentation is actual source code) you:
i think, in such short time we/they/... did not have enought time to observe how such system can work for a long time.
primary principle of capitalism is fine: freedom. from freedom comes also competition (if i can do that, than some other guy can do that too. if not now than in few days, months, years for sure).
but till now (or till 70's) there were no giants which grew that big, that they stifle all competition.
there is also another good principle: your rights ends where rights of others begin.
so while MS (IBM, whoever) has right to be big and sucessfull they do not have right to prevent others from being sucessfull (and big and whatever) too.
that's why i think that in this exceptional situation government have to do exceptional thing to correct this big problem.
----------
you also mentioned that MS (i.e. Windows) are great motivation for GNOME and KDE developers (and others too). well, it is. but what if MS has been prevented to gain todays influence some time before? maybe by this time we should have not just one "perfect" OS (Windows) but maybe tens or thousand of desktops or even not just desktops but whole OSes.
----------
and about "but the entire reason they're so successful is that the vast majority of computer users *don't* feel that way":
are we (as society, as mankind) going to function based on feelings or are we going to use our brains (which makes us people) and think?!
i understand MS success as prove that we as whole are stupid. and i do not want us to be stupid so i'm correcting this problem (or at least trying to correct it).
i agree that this problem is psychological. but i do not agree it's weird :) .
but what's more important: as tweek poited out (for driving) every system have to have some simple rules otherwise it won't work. with driving, if you do not know on which side to drive, how to signalize your intensions, when you got priority, when others got priority then you are endangering other drivers and you should be banned off the road.
and IMO same have to be applied to Internet too: if you have no idea that sending 2 GB e-mails, posting a lot of garbage to forums, publishing garbage, ... are cousing others troubles, than you should be banned from the Net.
and same with computers in general, linux on desktop, climbing to mount everest, flying with F14, ..., ..., ...
and now back to linux & desktop: if we apply same rules as MS just to get more desktop audience than linux will become just aother windows like bloat because SOME things can be made efficiently withou ANY knowledge about the issue.
so here i fully agree with tweak that linux community have to educate people in order to make them able to use linux desktop.
we wait for system to "merge" them and right after that we append 1 B to the end of one - system is for a long time (seconds? minutes?) busy with making copy of changed 200 MB file to make it possible to append that one byte.
this does not looks like increase in performace even when we do such thing very seldom.
to avoid that, one have to be able to limit such automatic merging.
and without automatic merging this SIS is just `ln -s file1 file2` with aditional "daemon" which is causing problems from time to time (can't say how often) - i.e. SIS is just less reliable ln.
and this does not looks like great innovation.
but
... because of some "politics" 3D accelerated graphics card vendors are prefering iplementing DirectX acceleration and sometimes also add some OpenGL support through DirectX-is-emulating-OpenGL thing (which give not that good performance for OpenGL).
so now i wonder (like you) if this "open sourcing" of OpenGL give some advantage to OpenGL and if it is not alredy too late.
also i'm looking for some more info about "OpenGL vs. DirectX" issue. do someone got some URLs?
exactly. i just "explained" special case of bug fix to newbies (i hope).
i just want to point out security holes
with rule "not unless you need to fix a bug, or gain a feature." you can consider not to upgrade just because of for example tulip driver error because you are not experiencing troubles even when using tulip card. :)
BUT if this tulip bug is security hole you SHOULD update even when usual usage is OK. hackers are not producing usual thinkg on systems
disclaimer: take it as advice to newbies.
2) formulate a useful bug report?
take a look at /usr/src/linux/REPORTING-BUGS (2.2.X).
i do have such setup: 1st is FAT, second is NTFS. and they are named as follows:
C: FAT
D: NTFS
a) buy PC with linux preinstalled
b) be able to cope with linux boot disks, root logins and linux' fdisk (someone also mentioned backups?
but it could be fun to watch someone without linux/unix experience trying to replace linux with w2k using mentioned instructions
amaricens will be for sure happy buying cheaper cuban sugar.
but will amaricans be happy also with a lot of cheaper cuban workers in US? i think not.
but making free market without free labor market is anythink but good for everyone.
free market with restricted flow of people is just exploit to allow rich ones to benefit from poor ones.
maybe i'm wrong but not making everythink free (not just goods market) looks "without principle" to me.
imagine you are citizen of some poor 3rd world country (does not matter which): you are poor and your whole income got spend to survive. can you buy some stock? no. only happy citizens of rich contries can afford such thing - to own part of copany. company, which "exploits" those poor making bareer between succesfull stock holders and poor 3rd world workers higher and higher.
and in "free market" world this bareer wont be equivalent of (only) geographical borders.
in a "corporate world" (we are heading to it) todays poor will be even more poor and todays milionair will be bilionair.... not a real solution for WHOLE world.
IMO it is better to change direction.
you reminded me of press in my country - slovakia.
there are basicaly two groups (but one have about 90% "market share") of press but both are just plain black & white: ours are good and others are bad. same as riot reports mentioned by you.
but here slovakia it looks like people are too tired to protest (unlike czechs) against results of our "tender revolution" - tired of dirty and filthy politics which takes place here no matter if prime minister is meciar or his opposition.
maybe it would be better if november '89 has been somehow more violent - to show the previous establisment we realy do not like them thus prevent them to reapear - as it happens now (a lot of previously hi ranks communists are now in high politics again).
Just how is a media shop supposed to report on the attrocities committed by Corporation X, if X happens to own the shop?
sad but true
also for software (as toofani pointed out) and maybe other areas even 20 years are too much.
sorry but i have to say that even after such public test, thing can't be considered secure. it can be considered just "not hacked yet".
it's almost same like proving application is without error - we can't do that so we run test and then we say "we did not found bug for now".
remember article about MS Windows 2000 security test site? remember "our" arguments against MS claiming "nobody cracked our box so w2k are secure"?
however i agree that allowing public to review the product is the best thing author/creator can do to test correctness/validity/robustness/whatever of the thing (of course after proper desing and review by himself :).
there's one saying:
path to hell is marked by good intensions.
sometimes it's fun, sometimes it makes me crazy (wile i'm sharing some NT machines with colegues).
that's the think which causes ordinary applications not working when user is not administrator - like photoshop concerning about disk error when importing EPS with custom palette when loged without admin right (when doing same thing with admin rights, "do you want to use custom palette?" dialog appears and atfter pressing buton import proceeds hapily).
plain silly. developers get accustomed to program apps for "administrators" and forget about "real" users.
well, are politicians same all around the world?
our "famous" slovak politician (vladimir meciar) have been asked very straight yes|no question about one year ago (he has been prime minister by that time) about something he have to know to answer (as prime minister). bu he [politiacian] started answering with looooooong sentences quickly getting away from subject. interviewer asked same question 5 (if i remember correctly) times and then interview ended (it was live interview in TV and time for it ended).
"normal" and any positive score looks more appropriate to me.
while i feel need to ask mr. gates something, i'm unable to come up with some question which i realy want and care mr. gates to answer.
now, review of "business @ the speed of thought" comes to my mind: as almost all reviewers (all of whom reviews i have read) written, there is nearly no usefull information in this book.
considering other notes/interviews/articles from mr. gates i read i think that there is little probability of some usefull (for me) information being said by mr. gates.
and i'm not that interested in just hearing his voice or just see his image or just see characters which represents some sounds he produced.
sorry
as Internet gains more importance in the future, Internet freedom gains more importance too.
i have to agree with main cahracter of this series (marfy brown) that people are just getting too fragile about what thay hear and that they are also loosing sense of humor.
and i also have to point out that such attitude do not help us to solve problems which are referenced as "hot topics" and which are named using some "better" words just to be more "politicaly correct": it just masquerade them not solve them!