> I suspect the BSA is run by rampant free market ideologues. If you pressed them about their > philosophy, they would probably say something like that open source software is a threat to the free > enterprise system
Could you please explain how open source is in any way contradictory with the free market ? In the contrary : by favorising more efficient usage of ressources and lowering barriers to innovation, it makes the market more dynamic. Maybe you should rethink your own ideology and open up your vision a bit. The BSA has no ideology nor philosophy, and no hidden agenda : they are just protecting special interests and they are very open about it, like any self-respecting mob syndicate would be...
I agree : everyone should know that Robert Novak is performing gruesome experiments involving duct tape and small rodents, infecting baby animals with various assorted viruses before shipping them to unsuspecting american youths, selling pools specially fitted for seal clubbing contests, and selling aquarium rocks that are in fact the bones that remain from their daily slaughter of cute fury critters that they eviscerate before eating their still beating heart.
And they are terrorists (but then, who isn't these days...).
petSWEARhouse, buy from them and you'll be swearing!
My little brother uses Windows, and I was videoconferencing with him yesterday evening using Gnomeeting. No problem at all :
http://www.gnomemeeting.org/
From http://freshmeat.net/projects/gnomemeeting/ :
"GnomeMeeting is an H.323 Video Conferencing application which uses the H.323 protocol. It can connect to a variety of other H323 applications including Microsoft NetMeeting. It also supports ILS servers. GnomeMeeting can work with or without a webcam, and is able to create pure audio communications or traditionnal audio+video communications."
You are merely protecting the path between your workstation and the server through which you access the IRC network of your choice. Don't
forget that IRC is a network, and that that it's distributed nature puts the security of your communications beyond your own control. Tunneling will not change much to IRC security. What would noticeably increase privacy would be encrypted discussions between client side scripts communicating through DCC. It would add a layer and would use the IRC server as a directory and session initiation environment.
"Gallery is a slick web based photo album written using PHP. Easy to install (it includes a config wizard), it provides users with the ability to create and maintain their own albums in the album collection via an intuitive web interface. Photo management includes automatic thumbnail creation, image resizing, rotation, ordering, captioning, searching and more. Albums can have read, write and caption permissions per individual authenticated user for an additional level of privacy."
But if you want more choice, have a look around and you will really be spoilt for choice.
On a side note, Slashdot is not freshmeat! Get a clue and learn how to use a search engine !
We've been able to copy VHS for over a decade and they're still making movies. Does anyone really think that the movie industry will be eradicated due to copyright infringment?
You are not being objective : VHS copy is lossy, digital copy is not. The movie industry will survive : they own the talents, they just have to find out new creative way of creating value from it. CD sales may be dead, but there are many other ways. For example, I know a label that publishes CDs but mainly lives off advertising, movies and evenemential performances. In any case, they are in for a hell of a rough ride : reinventing a business model from the ground up is not for the faint of heart.
I had a similar problem with a standard case in which I stuffed a dual processor motherboard and eight peripherals. I simply connected five of the eight drives to a second power supply. Cheap and effective, it just means that I have a second power switch to flick, but since it happens about once a month that's not a big deal. On the other hand, the second power supply was ripped from another PC and sitting on top of the tower with the dangling cables it is indeed quite ugly and my wife hates it, although I like the extra cachet that exposed guts provide.
Most address block registration information contains geographical adresses. It's just a matter of pluging Whois into an application to provide location.Of course, it is not so easy since the records are mostly free form, but still it's a beginning.
This piece, by John Perry Barlow (barlow@eff.org) is all I have to say about Internet borders.
"Governments of the Industrial World, you weary giants of flesh and steel, I come from Cyberspace, the new home of Mind. On behalf of the future, I ask you of the past to leave us alone. You are not welcome among us. You have no sovereignty where we gather.
We have no elected government, nor are we likely to have one, so I address you with no greater authority than that with which liberty itself always speaks. I declare the global social space we are building to be naturally independent of the tyrannies you seek to impose on us. You have no moral right to rule us nor do you possess any methods of enforcement we have true reason to fear.
Governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed. You have neither solicited nor received ours. We did not invite you. You do not know us, nor do you know our world. Cyberspace does not lie within your borders. Do not think that you can build it, as though it were a public construction project. You cannot. It is an act of nature and it grows itself through our collective actions.
You have not engaged in our great and gathering conversation, nor did you create the wealth of our marketplaces. You do not know our culture, our ethics, or the unwritten codes that already provide our society more order than could be obtained by any of your impositions.
You claim there are problems among us that you need to solve. You use this claim as an excuse to invade our precincts. Many of these problems don't exist. Where there are real conflicts, where there are wrongs, we will identify them and address them by our means. We are forming our own Social Contract . This governance will arise according to the conditions of our world, not yours. Our world is different.
Cyberspace consists of transactions, relationships, and thought itself, arrayed like a standing wave in the web of our communications. Ours is a world that is both everywhere and nowhere, but it is not where bodies live.
We are creating a world that all may enter without privilege or prejudice accorded by race, economic power, military force, or station of birth.
We are creating a world where anyone, anywhere may express his or her beliefs, no matter how singular, without fear of being coerced into silence or conformity.
Your legal concepts of property, expression, identity, movement, and context do not apply to us. They are all based on matter, and there is no matter here.
Our identities have no bodies, so, unlike you, we cannot obtain order by physical coercion. We believe that from ethics, enlightened self-interest, and the commonweal, our governance will emerge . Our identities may be distributed across many of your jurisdictions. The only law that all our constituent cultures would generally recognize is the Golden Rule. We hope we will be able to build our particular solutions on that basis. But we cannot accept the solutions you are attempting to impose.
In the United States, you have today created a law, the Telecommunications Reform Act, which repudiates your own Constitution and insults the dreams of Jefferson, Washington, Mill, Madison, DeToqueville, and Brandeis. These dreams must now be born anew in us.
You are terrified of your own children, since they are natives in a world where you will always be immigrants. Because you fear them, you entrust your bureaucracies with the parental responsibilities you are too cowardly to confront yourselves. In our world, all the sentiments and expressions of humanity, from the debasing to the angelic, are parts of a seamless whole, the global conversation of bits. We cannot separate the air that chokes from the air upon which wings beat.
In China, Germany, France, Russia, Singapore, Italy and the United States, you are trying to ward off the virus of liberty by erecting guard posts at the frontiers of Cyberspace. These may keep out the contagion for a small time, but they will not work in a world that will soon be blanketed in bit-bearing media.
Your increasingly obsolete information industries would perpetuate themselves by proposing laws, in America and elsewhere, that claim to own speech itself throughout the world. These laws would declare ideas to be another industrial product, no more noble than pig iron. In our world, whatever the human mind may create can be reproduced and distributed infinitely at no cost. The global conveyance of thought no longer requires your factories to accomplish.
These increasingly hostile and colonial measures place us in the same position as those previous lovers of freedom and self-determination who had to reject the authorities of distant, uninformed powers. We must declare our virtual selves immune to your sovereignty, even as we continue to consent to your rule over our bodies. We will spread ourselves across the Planet so that no one can arrest our thoughts.
We will create a civilization of the Mind in Cyberspace. May it be more humane and fair than the world your governments have made before."
The evolution of the desktop interface is multidimensional, but not in the 3D + voice sense. The additional dimensions are time and social context. A truly discursive interface is more closely matched to the human user's cognitive habilities. Naïve users intuitively keep attachments with their messages in Oultook instead of saving them to the filesystem : what they are doing is actually conserving contextual information. An look at all the weblogs : this is only information storage, but with emphasis on context. The diary metaphor, not glitter and glitz is what will pull the desktop interface toward the future.
Electronic commerce on a mass scale exists since 1981 in France. You could (and still can) order train tickets, clothes or whatever else from a dumb terminal plugged into the telephone network. It was connected (for a time based fee) mostly to services through France Telecom's proprietary gateways. France telecom distributed heavily subsidised terminals in order to ensure dominance of the market.
A movie is software, so a DVD indeed is software, and so are a VHS tape and a vinyl record : although analogical, they still contain instructions that are interpreted by a device, so they qualify as software.
Using FPGA hardware, Rob McCready, the original poster achieved around an 88% face detection rate in real-time from black and white pictures with a 30 frames per second video camera.
This explains his crazy requirements : looks like he is busy thinking about large scale applications of his work.
http://www.nce.gc.ca/en/success/9920/micronet3_e.h tm
Bluetooth = cable substitute. With cables, connecting n devices together means n^2 different cables. With Bluetooth, that's zero cables. It is meant to connect your camera, your cellphone and your PDA together with your PC.
802.11 = local area radio network. Same as Ethernet, but wireless.
Journalists like to pit things against each other to generate drama. It makes their analysis less bland. Too bad that it completely screws up their vision of the market . Bluetooth and 802.11 are filling two entirely different ecological niches. True, there is a little bit of overlap, but they are more complementary than anything.
We now have clients a plenty, but no way to share selected parts of our calendar with groups or individuals. A server would be really great and also be a step on the quest for a mSexChange replacement. What are the open standards for calendar sharing ?
Every time one of our fleet of laptops break, we call Dell and the following day a technician comes with spare parts and performs repairs on site. Sometimes it's not perfect, but most of the time I consider this a very adequate service.
Laptops have a very hard life if they are really used as they were meant to. Things *will* break from time to time. Do not ever consider buying a laptop without all the support contract you can buy. And having spare laptops to use while broken ones are under repair is also a good idea. Having an extra 5% of your fleet as spares is what I recommand based on my past three years of experience.
> Forget DSL, get a cheap T1 from an ILEC,
> they will let you run BGP.
Actually, the whole point of multihoming on consumer DSL/cable access is to pool neighborhood accesses to the Internet. Considering the profile of consumer taffic, the whole neighborhood would benefit from the aggregate capacity. Add a bit of community wireless lan... Maybe I should stop daydreaming...
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> I suspect the BSA is run by rampant free market ideologues. If you pressed them about their
> philosophy, they would probably say something like that open source software is a threat to the free
> enterprise system
Could you please explain how open source is in any way contradictory with the free market ? In the contrary : by favorising more efficient usage of ressources and lowering barriers to innovation, it makes the market more dynamic. Maybe you should rethink your own ideology and open up your vision a bit. The BSA has no ideology nor philosophy, and no hidden agenda : they are just protecting special interests and they are very open about it, like any self-respecting mob syndicate would be...
http://www.petswarehouse.com/cgi-bin/ubb/ultimateb b.cgi :"Sorry, this bulletin board is temporarily unavailable, while we perform some routine maintenance. Please try back again later."
Could it be in any way related to somebody having posted the address here ?
I agree : everyone should know that Robert Novak is performing gruesome experiments involving duct tape and small rodents, infecting baby animals with various assorted viruses before shipping them to unsuspecting american youths, selling pools specially fitted for seal clubbing contests, and selling aquarium rocks that are in fact the bones that remain from their daily slaughter of cute fury critters that they eviscerate before eating their still beating heart.
And they are terrorists (but then, who isn't these days...).
petSWEARhouse, buy from them and you'll be swearing!
Hail SourceForge ! Make sure that you have a .cvspass file (even if it is empty) in your home directory. Then execute the following commands :
v sroot/bnetd login
v sroot/bnetd co bnetd
cvs -d:pserver:anonymous@cvs.bnetd.sourceforge.net:/c
cvs -z3 -d:pserver:anonymous@cvs.bnetd.sourceforge.net:/c
And presto... You've got the latest CVS tree. Enjoy it while it last !
Did anyone ever think about CVS over Freenet ? Now would be a good time !
I am the only one who jumped to the article thinking that some guys ported role playing games to the AS/400 ?
My little brother uses Windows, and I was videoconferencing with him yesterday evening using Gnomeeting. No problem at all :
http://www.gnomemeeting.org/
From http://freshmeat.net/projects/gnomemeeting/ :
"GnomeMeeting is an H.323 Video Conferencing application which uses the H.323 protocol. It can connect to a variety of other H323 applications including Microsoft NetMeeting. It also supports ILS servers. GnomeMeeting can work with or without a webcam, and is able to create pure audio communications or traditionnal audio+video communications."
> Now, if they invent a device that washes your
> clothes when they are thrown on the floor and you
> can buy it for 50plat EQ currency
I've got one, it's called a wife. But it's much more expensive than the price point you're aiming for.
You are merely protecting the path between your workstation and the server through which you access the IRC network of your choice. Don't forget that IRC is a network, and that that it's distributed nature puts the security of your communications beyond your own control. Tunneling will not change much to IRC security. What would noticeably increase privacy would be encrypted discussions between client side scripts communicating through DCC. It would add a layer and would use the IRC server as a directory and session initiation environment.
Punkbuster
Paladin
I may have forgotten some, but these are the main ones.
What ? Offtopic ? Surely sire you jest !
The Gallery is my definite favorite. Features and ease of installation are unbelievable.
"Gallery is a slick web based photo album written using PHP. Easy to install (it includes a config wizard), it provides users with the ability to create and maintain their own albums in the album collection via an intuitive web interface. Photo management includes automatic thumbnail creation, image resizing, rotation, ordering, captioning, searching and more. Albums can have read, write and caption permissions per individual authenticated user for an additional level of privacy."
But if you want more choice, have a look around and you will really be spoilt for choice.
On a side note, Slashdot is not freshmeat! Get a clue and learn how to use a search engine !
The Gallery is my definite favorite. Features and ease of installation are unbelievable. "Gallery is a slick web based photo album written using PHP. Easy to install (it includes a config wizard), it provides users with the ability to create and maintain their own albums in the album collection via an intuitive web interface. Photo management includes automatic thumbnail creation, image resizing, rotation, ordering, captioning, searching and more. Albums can have read, write and caption permissions per individual authenticated user for an additional level of privacy." But if you want more choice, have a look around and you will really be spoilt for choice. On a side note, Slashdot is not freshmeat! Get a clue and learn how to use a search engine !
We've been able to copy VHS for over a decade and they're still making movies. Does anyone really think that the movie industry will be eradicated due to copyright infringment? You are not being objective : VHS copy is lossy, digital copy is not. The movie industry will survive : they own the talents, they just have to find out new creative way of creating value from it. CD sales may be dead, but there are many other ways. For example, I know a label that publishes CDs but mainly lives off advertising, movies and evenemential performances. In any case, they are in for a hell of a rough ride : reinventing a business model from the ground up is not for the faint of heart.
I had a similar problem with a standard case in which I stuffed a dual processor motherboard and eight peripherals. I simply connected five of the eight drives to a second power supply. Cheap and effective, it just means that I have a second power switch to flick, but since it happens about once a month that's not a big deal. On the other hand, the second power supply was ripped from another PC and sitting on top of the tower with the dangling cables it is indeed quite ugly and my wife hates it, although I like the extra cachet that exposed guts provide.
Most address block registration information contains geographical adresses. It's just a matter of pluging Whois into an application to provide location.Of course, it is not so easy since the records are mostly free form, but still it's a beginning.
This piece, by John Perry Barlow (barlow@eff.org) is all I have to say about Internet borders.
"Governments of the Industrial World, you weary giants of flesh and steel, I come from Cyberspace, the new home of Mind. On behalf of the future, I ask you of the past to leave us alone. You are not welcome among us. You have no sovereignty where we gather.
We have no elected government, nor are we likely to have one, so I address you with no greater authority than that with which liberty itself always speaks. I declare the global social space we are building to be naturally independent of the tyrannies you seek to impose on us. You have no moral right to rule us nor do you possess any methods of enforcement we have true reason to fear.
Governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed. You have neither solicited nor received ours. We did not invite you. You do not know us, nor do you know our world. Cyberspace does not lie within your borders. Do not think that you can build it, as though it were a public construction project. You cannot. It is an act of nature and it grows itself through our collective actions.
You have not engaged in our great and gathering conversation, nor did you create the wealth of our marketplaces. You do not know our culture, our ethics, or the unwritten codes that already provide our society more order than could be obtained by any of your impositions.
You claim there are problems among us that you need to solve. You use this claim as an excuse to invade our precincts. Many of these problems don't exist. Where there are real conflicts, where there are wrongs, we will identify them and address them by our means. We are forming our own Social Contract . This governance will arise according to the conditions of our world, not yours. Our world is different.
Cyberspace consists of transactions, relationships, and thought itself, arrayed like a standing wave in the web of our communications. Ours is a world that is both everywhere and nowhere, but it is not where bodies live.
We are creating a world that all may enter without privilege or prejudice accorded by race, economic power, military force, or station of birth.
We are creating a world where anyone, anywhere may express his or her beliefs, no matter how singular, without fear of being coerced into silence or conformity.
Your legal concepts of property, expression, identity, movement, and context do not apply to us. They are all based on matter, and there is no matter here.
Our identities have no bodies, so, unlike you, we cannot obtain order by physical coercion. We believe that from ethics, enlightened self-interest, and the commonweal, our governance will emerge . Our identities may be distributed across many of your jurisdictions. The only law that all our constituent cultures would generally recognize is the Golden Rule. We hope we will be able to build our particular solutions on that basis. But we cannot accept the solutions you are attempting to impose.
In the United States, you have today created a law, the Telecommunications Reform Act, which repudiates your own Constitution and insults the dreams of Jefferson, Washington, Mill, Madison, DeToqueville, and Brandeis. These dreams must now be born anew in us.
You are terrified of your own children, since they are natives in a world where you will always be immigrants. Because you fear them, you entrust your bureaucracies with the parental responsibilities you are too cowardly to confront yourselves. In our world, all the sentiments and expressions of humanity, from the debasing to the angelic, are parts of a seamless whole, the global conversation of bits. We cannot separate the air that chokes from the air upon which wings beat.
In China, Germany, France, Russia, Singapore, Italy and the United States, you are trying to ward off the virus of liberty by erecting guard posts at the frontiers of Cyberspace. These may keep out the contagion for a small time, but they will not work in a world that will soon be blanketed in bit-bearing media.
Your increasingly obsolete information industries would perpetuate themselves by proposing laws, in America and elsewhere, that claim to own speech itself throughout the world. These laws would declare ideas to be another industrial product, no more noble than pig iron. In our world, whatever the human mind may create can be reproduced and distributed infinitely at no cost. The global conveyance of thought no longer requires your factories to accomplish.
These increasingly hostile and colonial measures place us in the same position as those previous lovers of freedom and self-determination who had to reject the authorities of distant, uninformed powers. We must declare our virtual selves immune to your sovereignty, even as we continue to consent to your rule over our bodies. We will spread ourselves across the Planet so that no one can arrest our thoughts.
We will create a civilization of the Mind in Cyberspace. May it be more humane and fair than the world your governments have made before."
Davos, Switzerland
February 8, 1996
And to save you some googling, here are a few links
Photo know-how : Infrared 101
Infrared photography
A comparison of infrared films
Infrared photography
The evolution of the desktop interface is multidimensional, but not in the 3D + voice sense. The additional dimensions are time and social context. A truly discursive interface is more closely matched to the human user's cognitive habilities. Naïve users intuitively keep attachments with their messages in Oultook instead of saving them to the filesystem : what they are doing is actually conserving contextual information. An look at all the weblogs : this is only information storage, but with emphasis on context. The diary metaphor, not glitter and glitz is what will pull the desktop interface toward the future.
Electronic commerce on a mass scale exists since 1981 in France. You could (and still can) order train tickets, clothes or whatever else from a dumb terminal plugged into the telephone network. It was connected (for a time based fee) mostly to services through France Telecom's proprietary gateways. France telecom distributed heavily subsidised terminals in order to ensure dominance of the market.
A movie is software, so a DVD indeed is software, and so are a VHS tape and a vinyl record : although analogical, they still contain instructions that are interpreted by a device, so they qualify as software.
> Do you work for that new "Homeland
4 92 879
> Security" agency??
Maybe he would like to...
http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=23094&cid=2
Using FPGA hardware, Rob McCready, the original poster achieved around an 88% face detection rate in real-time from black and white pictures with a 30 frames per second video camera.h tm
This explains his crazy requirements : looks like he is busy thinking about large scale applications of his work.
http://www.nce.gc.ca/en/success/9920/micronet3_e.
Bluetooth = cable substitute. With cables, connecting n devices together means n^2 different cables. With Bluetooth, that's zero cables. It is meant to connect your camera, your cellphone and your PDA together with your PC.
802.11 = local area radio network. Same as Ethernet, but wireless.
Journalists like to pit things against each other to generate drama. It makes their analysis less bland. Too bad that it completely screws up their vision of the market . Bluetooth and 802.11 are filling two entirely different ecological niches. True, there is a little bit of overlap, but they are more complementary than anything.
We now have clients a plenty, but no way to share selected parts of our calendar with groups or individuals. A server would be really great and also be a step on the quest for a mSexChange replacement. What are the open standards for calendar sharing ?
Every time one of our fleet of laptops break, we call Dell and the following day a technician comes with spare parts and performs repairs on site. Sometimes it's not perfect, but most of the time I consider this a very adequate service.
Laptops have a very hard life if they are really used as they were meant to. Things *will* break from time to time. Do not ever consider buying a laptop without all the support contract you can buy. And having spare laptops to use while broken ones are under repair is also a good idea. Having an extra 5% of your fleet as spares is what I recommand based on my past three years of experience.
> Forget DSL, get a cheap T1 from an ILEC, > they will let you run BGP.
Actually, the whole point of multihoming on consumer DSL/cable access is to pool neighborhood accesses to the Internet. Considering the profile of consumer taffic, the whole neighborhood would benefit from the aggregate capacity. Add a bit of community wireless lan... Maybe I should stop daydreaming...