Yeah, it'd be nice to see both systems interoperate a LOT better.
On my K6-233 RH6.0 system, using the KDE desktop, it takes up to fifteen minutes for a GTK app to show up on the desktop. The system's a vanilla "workstation" load! Where's that at?
I don't know about you, but I hate the term "passed on", what's wrong with "died"? --x-- You're not going to pass on to anywhere, you're gonna croak, and be eaten by worms.
That's a good enough reason for it right there.
"In times to come, the Twentieth Century will be remembered as that quaint period when society ignored the fact of reincarnation."
That's a (mis)quote (I don't have my air-tape available to queue up to get exact wording) of MZB in an interview given on KPFK-FM's SF program Hour 25 (perhaps someone asociated with Eric Foss, the program's archivist, can produce the exact quote, I'm pretty sure Hodel and Gilden conducted the interview).
Your belief that the end of physical life means the total extinction of the entity is by no means universal. You are free to used the simple term died as you wish. Whether it be the Wiccan crossing over or the Christian passing on or another such phrase entirely, though, others have the freedom to reaffirm and align themselves with another endpoint by describing the process differently.
Knew I kept my Ampro 1A and floppies for a reason. Looks funny with a P166 laptop for CON:, but... is there a decent CP/M emulator for Linux? DAZLSTAR is still one of the neatest (for its time and context) full-screen debuggers.
I work in the embedded field. Now I seriously expect the "Z80" on my resume to get noticed for more than scut maintenance and port-offs. Other old CP/Mers should expect the same.
It's as capitalist as the Gillette safety razor, as American as barn-raising.
One other little distinction: communism, instituted by force, failed wherever it was tried. Open-source, appealing to rational self-interest, is winning.
Now, how does it compare to the "toreador" licensing on Caldera's DR-DOS (whatever its name is this week)? From an informed viewpoint, does it look like Sun can wait for the herds to migrate and then **YANK** "sorry, no longer available, now you owe us $XXX to put it on any more desktops"? If so, the PR damage done to Sun for acting like Unisys (the GIF horse) will be reflected into our Linux user community.
This has been the real annoyance about the movie for many of us. We in DALnet's #wicca have had people coming in since before the movie started its theatre run asking us if it was true, if real Witches really eat children, even AFTER we pointed out the coverage on The Witches Voice (http://www.witchvox.com), including the interview with the directors discussing this very truth/fiction issue.
You'll have to be more careful to have good airflow throughout that box, compared to an equivalent metal box, because the wood is a better thermal insulator than metal, so the case itself won't throw off as much heat.
Use copper-clad steel sheet if you can get it. That way you get the benefits of magnetic as well as electric shielding (an RF emission has both aspects). If you really want to cut emissions, get some tin-snips so you can cut sheet stock to shape. Look at current cases to see how they even have petaled shielding cupping the keyboard connector to prevent leaks there. You'll also want to get some clamp-on ferrite beads (All Electronics in LA is my source) for the cables. The beads are lossy inductors at the intended frequencies, so they eat signals that would otherwise be emitted (or injected: you're protecting the system from arriving interference as well as preventing it from emitting interference, after all).
I wish they would... then I wouldn't have to be one of the First Five Callers After A Slashdot Posting in order to get to see the site. At least PGG (megadodo) has sense enough to run on a real OS...
Such wanking by SCO's CEO suggests to me that he's seeing something extremely unpleasant in the company's bottom-line forecasts, something we don't see but can probably guess. My guess is that Linux and *BSD between them are projected to eat SCO alive.
This puerile public performance can only hasten SCO's demise. Maybe when they go Chapter 7 whoever picks up the codebase and legal trademark known as "UNIX" out of the rubble will GPL the whole thing so they can fix what's wrong using GNU tooling and Linux code, and allow free migration into Linux of whatever nuggets of functionality Linux hasn't already surpassed.
They need to require all registrars to maintain fully redundant TLD database servers, load-sharing and synching laterally, rather than relying only on the ones at NSI. The original IP-based Internet design stressed fault-tolerance by decentralization. DNS continues to be the exception to that. Unless I'm missing something here, anybody who takes out the NSI database servers has taken out DNS (even if the degradation and collapse is not immediate). That's gotta be fixed, it's a too-inviting target.
Then we'd better start collecting and posting the versions of the GPL/LGPL as such, and referring to them by their revision levels. If business, government, non-profit orgs, schools, etc., -- all the suits that came to the party -- can't point at a specific immovable document and say "that's the document our cooperation is founded upon" without fear of someone changing it on them, most of our momentum will die in confusion and permanent distrust. FSF will have devalued its most powerful product.
I'm fine with RMS's clarifying his terminology, tho at this point I can't decide whether it sounds more like later Ayn Rand (in ONL etc.) or early L. Ron Hubbard.
He must not touch the words or language of the GPL or LGPL, though. This entire movement -- freely shared creative programming as anything but strictly a hobbyist category -- will sink into quicksand immediately if he does.
Time to remind everybody and/or point out to the newcomers that "cypherpunks/cypherpunks" works just fine for login/password on the NYT site. Just remember to clean your cookies afterwards if you're into being paranoid/careful.
stormr -- GPL Win32 UNDER RICO!! Let some REAL programmers fix it!
i got the timeout message too after writing my msg into their form...so i copied my text, went back to slashdot and hit the above link to get a fresh session number, pasted my text into the fresh form, and that submission was accepted. could be that the slashdot effect is causing their site to close sessions early, or could be that the session timeout is really low.
I sent the following to the above-mentioned input page. On reflection, these argument points might be useful in all such NDA cases, so here's the text.
--- Why are you stonewalling Linux developers on IrDA? These people want to do driver development for you. This saves you R&D money; you should be glad to cooperate. Why aren't you? Is your chipset a really crummy design and you're ashamed of it? Was it stolen and you're afraid that anybody comparing registers and commands will find out? Ostriches are fabled to hide their heads in the sands when threatened. This is silly anywhere, but ostriches who do that in front of an advancing tidal wave are very likely to drown. I won't specify, recommend or buy Toshiba computer equipment until you change your position with regard to Linux. (signed)
Just for laughs, you might want to have a hardware-type check the quality of the power going to all the boxes in the signal chain. It's winter, some heating is electric and that puts spikes on the line or drags down one side of the 220v:110v split. Ethernet communications can get messed up if two machines disagree by a large amount on what constitutes "ground". It might also be time to vacuum out the dust-puppies in the servers.
Slashdot Mirror
I just came across this while chasing CVS clients...
Arachne
Kinda free, promised to be GPL'd Real Soon Now, and targeted to Mac/X11/Win... tho the Win part seems to be win3.1
fwiw
Yeah, it'd be nice to see both systems interoperate a LOT better.
On my K6-233 RH6.0 system, using the KDE desktop, it takes up to fifteen minutes for a GTK app to show up on the desktop. The system's a vanilla "workstation" load! Where's that at?
I don't know about you, but I hate the term "passed on", what's wrong with "died"?
--x--
You're not going to pass on to anywhere, you're gonna croak, and be eaten by worms.
That's a good enough reason for it right there.
"In times to come, the Twentieth Century will be remembered as that quaint period when society ignored the fact of reincarnation."
That's a (mis)quote (I don't have my air-tape available to queue up to get exact wording) of MZB in an interview given on KPFK-FM's SF program Hour 25 (perhaps someone asociated with Eric Foss, the program's archivist, can produce the exact quote, I'm pretty sure Hodel and Gilden conducted the interview).
Your belief that the end of physical life means the total extinction of the entity is by no means universal. You are free to used the simple term died as you wish. Whether it be the Wiccan crossing over or the Christian passing on or another such phrase entirely, though, others have the freedom to reaffirm and align themselves with another endpoint by describing the process differently.
---
B*B M*P MZB, you will be missed.
Knew I kept my Ampro 1A and floppies for a reason.
Looks funny with a P166 laptop for CON:, but...
is there a decent CP/M emulator for Linux? DAZLSTAR is still one of the neatest (for its time and context) full-screen debuggers.
I work in the embedded field. Now I seriously expect the "Z80" on my resume to get noticed for more than scut maintenance and port-offs. Other old CP/Mers should expect the same.
Read the second page, paste the right link and you might become webmaster, as far as that pre-cracked mail system is concerned.
AFAIK these people still own the only complee functional TLD database... single point of failure, anyone?
It's as capitalist as the Gillette safety razor, as American as barn-raising.
One other little distinction: communism, instituted by force, failed wherever it was tried. Open-source, appealing to rational self-interest, is winning.
Now, how does it compare to the "toreador" licensing on Caldera's DR-DOS (whatever its name is this week)?
From an informed viewpoint, does it look like Sun can wait for the herds to migrate and then **YANK** "sorry, no longer available, now you owe us $XXX to put it on any more desktops"? If so, the PR damage done to Sun for acting like Unisys (the GIF horse) will be reflected into our Linux user community.
This has been the real annoyance about the movie for many of us. We in DALnet's #wicca have had people coming in since before the movie started its theatre run asking us if it was true, if real Witches really eat children, even AFTER we pointed out the coverage on The Witches Voice (http://www.witchvox.com), including the interview with the directors discussing this very truth/fiction issue.
You'll have to be more careful to have good airflow throughout that box, compared to an equivalent metal box, because the wood is a better thermal insulator than metal, so the case itself won't throw off as much heat.
Use copper-clad steel sheet if you can get it. That way you get the benefits of magnetic as well as electric shielding (an RF emission has both aspects).
If you really want to cut emissions, get some tin-snips so you can cut sheet stock to shape. Look at current cases to see how they even have petaled shielding cupping the keyboard connector to prevent leaks there.
You'll also want to get some clamp-on ferrite beads (All Electronics in LA is my source) for the cables. The beads are lossy inductors at the intended frequencies, so they eat signals that would otherwise be emitted (or injected: you're protecting the system from arriving interference as well as preventing it from emitting interference, after all).
I wish they would... then I wouldn't have to be one of the First Five Callers After A Slashdot Posting in order to get to see the site.
At least PGG (megadodo) has sense enough to run on a real OS...
Such wanking by SCO's CEO suggests to me that he's seeing something extremely unpleasant in the company's bottom-line forecasts, something we don't see but can probably guess. My guess is that Linux and *BSD between them are projected to eat SCO alive.
This puerile public performance can only hasten SCO's demise. Maybe when they go Chapter 7 whoever picks up the codebase and legal trademark known as "UNIX" out of the rubble will GPL the whole thing so they can fix what's wrong using GNU tooling and Linux code, and allow free migration into Linux of whatever nuggets of functionality Linux hasn't already surpassed.
They need to require all registrars to maintain fully redundant TLD database servers, load-sharing and synching laterally, rather than relying only on the ones at NSI.
The original IP-based Internet design stressed fault-tolerance by decentralization. DNS continues to be the exception to that. Unless I'm missing something here, anybody who takes out the NSI database servers has taken out DNS (even if the degradation and collapse is not immediate). That's gotta be fixed, it's a too-inviting target.
Then we'd better start collecting and posting the versions of the GPL/LGPL as such, and referring to them by their revision levels. If business, government, non-profit orgs, schools, etc., -- all the suits that came to the party -- can't point at a specific immovable document and say "that's the document our cooperation is founded upon" without fear of someone changing it on them, most of our momentum will die in confusion and permanent distrust. FSF will have devalued its most powerful product.
I'm fine with RMS's clarifying his terminology, tho at this point I can't decide whether it sounds more like later Ayn Rand (in ONL etc.) or early L. Ron Hubbard.
He must not touch the words or language of the GPL or LGPL, though. This entire movement -- freely shared creative programming as anything but strictly a hobbyist category -- will sink into quicksand immediately if he does.
Time to remind everybody and/or point out to the
newcomers that "cypherpunks/cypherpunks" works
just fine for login/password on the NYT site.
Just remember to clean your cookies afterwards
if you're into being paranoid/careful.
stormr
--
GPL Win32 UNDER RICO!! Let some REAL programmers fix it!
Next stop: we win.
:)
stormr
----------------------
GPL Win32 UNDER RICO!!
i got the timeout message too after writing my msg ...so i copied my text, went back
into their form
to slashdot and hit the above link to get a fresh
session number, pasted my text into the fresh form,
and that submission was accepted.
could be that the slashdot effect is causing their
site to close sessions early, or could be that
the session timeout is really low.
I sent the following to the above-mentioned
input page.
On reflection, these argument points might be
useful in all such NDA cases, so here's the text.
---
Why are you stonewalling
Linux developers on IrDA?
These people want to do
driver development for you.
This saves you R&D money;
you should be glad to
cooperate. Why aren't you?
Is your chipset a really
crummy design and you're
ashamed of it? Was it
stolen and you're afraid
that anybody comparing
registers and commands will
find out?
Ostriches are fabled to
hide their heads in the
sands when threatened. This
is silly anywhere, but
ostriches who do that in
front of an advancing tidal
wave are very likely to
drown.
I won't specify,
recommend or buy Toshiba
computer equipment until
you change your position
with regard to Linux.
(signed)
Just for laughs, you might want to have a hardware-type check the quality of the power going to all the boxes in the signal chain.
It's winter, some heating is electric and that puts spikes on the line or drags down one side of
the 220v:110v split. Ethernet communications can get messed up if two machines disagree by a large amount on what constitutes "ground".
It might also be time to vacuum out the dust-puppies in the servers.