If filtering, as described, were widely implemented, SPAM would become ineffective to the point that it would no longer exist. The cost of "making each link in the chain liable" is much greater than the benefit which can be achieved by other means.
I just finished writing a UDP file transfer protocol that goes just as fast as TCP on a clean network and handily outperforms it on noisy ones.
Exponential backoff is braindead when you need good thoughput on a fat but noisy pipe. The reason TFTP gets lousy throughput is not because it uses UDP but because it waits for every ACK before it sends the next packet rather than having a receiver window feature like TCP does.
Apparently you have to be smarter than mister Top 2 Percent to make this work.
It's Free Software they don't like. Anything with a license like BSD or Apache can easily be exploited by MS whenever they decide it's to their advantage. The real trick would be to convince them to drop their campaign of FUD against GPL, LGPL, MPL and other such licenses which prohibit the distribution of binaries without making source available.
But why is Salon publishing his piece?
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Someone needs to figure out how much money MS gave Salon to put this article on their site and how the payment was made.
Do any of the DVD-R drives work under Linux just for archiving data? It would be nice to make video DVD's but I would just like to use them to make backups.
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screenshot for comparison. On the right is the screenshot from ximian/~jacob and on the left is It mozilla displaying the same page on an NT4 workstation.
For some reason mozilla chose a sans-serif font under windows and a serif font under Gnome, but despite this it is still possible to see that anti-aliasing actually makes the text look blurry.
What makes small fonts look so nice under windows is proper rendering with hints and not anti-aliasing.
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They claim to have released a complete system as open source but the code for the compiler/ide (kettle), which run only under windows, is not on the site. From reading the docs it looks like a well designed template language but the compiler/ide is completely necessary to make everything go.
A decent, modern JIT (Symantec, Borland and even MS have *very* good ones) will run Java with a similar, or even better, performance than C++
True enough for Java but Swing is another story. Swing is a very nice, full featured, well structured, flexible GUI API but its performance is still abysmal. I mean sure, it is passable under Windows if you have a late model box with enough RAM but even the tiniest real application under Swing has a memory footprint of at least 15Mb. Even if you have enough memory to keep it from paging to disk it still has to slogging all that stuff around on the heap. It is noticeably slower than a native app.
But don't take my word for it. Go download Sun's Forte for Java IDE, which is itself written in Java, and see for yourself. Running on Windows under JDK 1.2.2 it uses over 50Mb before you even open a file.
Here is the bad news... if any state passes the ammendment to the Unform Commerce Code a software vendor can still force that the licence be interpreted under that state's law even though the user's state has not passed the ammendment unless the state had passed legislation to forbid that.
Which state are you in? It sounds like it might be the best place to start with a campaign for anti-UCITA legislation.
The bottomline, IMHO, is that the sooner we have fusion - or another cheap, environmentally clean energy source, the less likely we are to destroy the rest of this planet and hence ourselves.
Yeah, right. And computers will lead to a paperless office hence saving the rainforest.
Cheap power will only lead to increased production capacity and will intensify the demand for raw materials.
People will be able to live in places where it is currently uneconimical to live. The use of said power will also generate a lot of waste heat.
The government will build huge roving automatons with fusion reactors in their bellies to control the population.
All life will be consumed by nanobots which will turn the entire surface of the planet into grey goo which resembles an as yet uninvented flavor of McDonald's shake.
I do not think you should take it so personally. The point of moderation is to improve the signal-to-noise ratio. That your post and all but one of the others with the same basic content were moderated down as "redundant" seems to me to be useful and correct.
"Even without this kind of posturing, some resellers say they find the notion of a religious operating system to be offensive. To quote one anonymous reseller, 'Yup. Linux is officially a religion now. What's next, crucifixion of NT users?'"
Windows users always run everything as root. Even in NT where they have an option to run as an unpriviledged user, they don't. It's too inconvenient.
It's not the users fault either. NT needs a facility for granting adminstrative privileges on a temporarly basis without requiring the user to logout first.
Uhh, Windows NT has only been out since 1993. The file permission system is argueably better than unix's.
Uhh, It's true that you could run as a non-privileged user and get the same safety benefits as a unixoid but it's too inconvenient for most NT users to do this. You can't change any hardware settings or do half a dozen other admin tasks without closing your whole session and logging back in. In Unix you can just start a new shell and su to root.
This is something that NT needs: temporary privileges
Even though the form your response looks like a "dispute" of the statements I reported, you don't actually end up disputing them.
X)I can't understand what "Gnome uses C bindings" means.
OK then, I'll deconstruct it for you: "Bindings" is a term used by programmers to refer to the information needed by a program called "the linker" to make it so an application can call functions and access data in an external collection of code and data called a "library". "C bindings" then, are bindings which designed for use with programs written in a programming language called "C".
Y)It is as out as GNOME was a couple of months ago: beta state
I was only referring to what he said in the interview. Clearly he's got a lot of emotional investment in Gnome so he's not going to say KDE/QT is better than Gnome/GTK. By "diplomatic" I meant he kept his comparison comments to things which are undisputed:
QT is C++ centric while Gnome uses more language neutral C bindings
the open source QT isn't out yet
Gnome uses CORBA
He took a noticeable pause to think before he started off on that topic. Perhaps he has learned from past experience that inflammatory comments on that score are counterproductive. You will grant that this is possible no?
I forgot to mention that I discovered some hoops you have to jump through to watch. First you have to login (user/pass = cypherpunk/cypherpunk worked for me). Then there's getting the funky javascript link to work. Here's the URL I had to hack together to make it work at 128K.
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If filtering, as described, were widely implemented, SPAM would become ineffective to the point that it would no longer exist. The cost of "making each link in the chain liable" is much greater than the benefit which can be achieved by other means.
Exponential backoff is braindead when you need good thoughput on a fat but noisy pipe. The reason TFTP gets lousy throughput is not because it uses UDP but because it waits for every ACK before it sends the next packet rather than having a receiver window feature like TCP does.
Apparently you have to be smarter than mister Top 2 Percent to make this work.
Here's some links for you:
It's Free Software they don't like. Anything with a license like BSD or Apache can easily be exploited by MS whenever they decide it's to their advantage. The real trick would be to convince them to drop their campaign of FUD against GPL, LGPL, MPL and other such licenses which prohibit the distribution of binaries without making source available.
Someone needs to figure out how much money MS gave Salon to put this article on their site and how the payment was made.
Do any of the DVD-R drives work under Linux just for archiving data? It would be nice to make video DVD's but I would just like to use them to make backups.
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Did the laws of physics change when I wasn't looking? I doubt it. Last I checked, actual data transfer is always a physical process.
Check out this screenshot for comparison. On the right is the screenshot from ximian/~jacob and on the left is It mozilla displaying the same page on an NT4 workstation.
For some reason mozilla chose a sans-serif font under windows and a serif font under Gnome, but despite this it is still possible to see that anti-aliasing actually makes the text look blurry.
What makes small fonts look so nice under windows is proper rendering with hints and not anti-aliasing.
As you stated it does not make a difference for one user but for 1,000 users all accessing the same site at once....
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I think I will stick to Webmacro for now.
A decent, modern JIT (Symantec, Borland and even MS have *very* good ones) will run Java with a similar, or even better, performance than C++
True enough for Java but Swing is another story. Swing is a very nice, full featured, well structured, flexible GUI API but its performance is still abysmal. I mean sure, it is passable under Windows if you have a late model box with enough RAM but even the tiniest real application under Swing has a memory footprint of at least 15Mb. Even if you have enough memory to keep it from paging to disk it still has to slogging all that stuff around on the heap. It is noticeably slower than a native app.
But don't take my word for it. Go download Sun's Forte for Java IDE, which is itself written in Java, and see for yourself. Running on Windows under JDK 1.2.2 it uses over 50Mb before you even open a file.
Circuit City is all out. Who else sells them?
If you liked that, you'll love this.
Here is the bad news ... if any state passes the ammendment to the Unform Commerce Code a software vendor can still force that the licence be interpreted under that state's law even though the user's state has not passed the ammendment unless the state had passed legislation to forbid that.
Which state are you in? It sounds like it might be the best place to start with a campaign for anti-UCITA legislation.
The bottomline, IMHO, is that the sooner we have fusion - or another cheap, environmentally clean energy source, the less likely we are to destroy the rest of this planet and hence ourselves.
Yeah, right. And computers will lead to a paperless office hence saving the rainforest.
Cheap power will only lead to increased production capacity and will intensify the demand for raw materials.
People will be able to live in places where it is currently uneconimical to live. The use of said power will also generate a lot of waste heat.
The government will build huge roving automatons with fusion reactors in their bellies to control the population.
All life will be consumed by nanobots which will turn the entire surface of the planet into grey goo which resembles an as yet uninvented flavor of McDonald's shake.
Or something.
I do not think you should take it so personally. The point of moderation is to improve the signal-to-noise ratio. That your post and all but one of the others with the same basic content were moderated down as "redundant" seems to me to be useful and correct.
Check it out
"Even without this kind of posturing, some resellers say they find the notion of a religious operating system to be offensive. To quote one anonymous reseller, 'Yup. Linux is officially a religion now. What's next, crucifixion of NT users?'"
It's not the users fault either. NT needs a facility for granting adminstrative privileges on a temporarly basis without requiring the user to logout first.
Uhh, It's true that you could run as a non-privileged user and get the same safety benefits as a unixoid but it's too inconvenient for most NT users to do this. You can't change any hardware settings or do half a dozen other admin tasks without closing your whole session and logging back in. In Unix you can just start a new shell and su to root.
This is something that NT needs: temporary privileges
We know what the words mean. Who cares what the uninitiated think?
X) I can't understand what "Gnome uses C bindings" means.
OK then, I'll deconstruct it for you: "Bindings" is a term used by programmers to refer to the information needed by a program called "the linker" to make it so an application can call functions and access data in an external collection of code and data called a "library". "C bindings" then, are bindings which designed for use with programs written in a programming language called "C".
Y) It is as out as GNOME was a couple of months ago: beta state
Which is to say "not out yet".
Z) 3) Gnome uses CORBA
This is true
Hooray!
- QT is C++ centric while Gnome uses more language neutral C bindings
- the open source QT isn't out yet
- Gnome uses CORBA
He took a noticeable pause to think before he started off on that topic. Perhaps he has learned from past experience that inflammatory comments on that score are counterproductive. You will grant that this is possible no?I forgot to mention that I discovered some hoops you have to jump through to watch. First you have to login (user/pass = cypherpunk/cypherpunk worked for me). Then there's getting the funky javascript link to work. Here's the URL I had to hack together to make it work at 128K.
I'm impressed. He's knowledgeable, articulate and diplomatic.