I dissagree. Breaking up MS would be a Good Thing(tm) if done properly. I am very afraid that too few people know this and that it will not be implemented. If not implemented then you are completely right, we will have two big bad Microsofts.
The key lies in the restrictions placed upon the baby Bills. They want to tightly integrate applications into the OS. Fine let them. But this means that the OS company has to make the OS specs avalible to the Applications company. What must be prohibited is the OS company making an exclusive aggreement with the Applications company for the OS specs. The OS company must be forced to release the OS specs to anyone that wants them. This is what will foster compition! Imagine wine that actually works.....:-)
I am working on a research project to use Linux to record and edit professional quality video such as S-VHS video cassettes. We are using frame accurate methods to record so editing is pretty minimal.
Each frame is rendered on a Linux Beowulf cluster and stored on a large hard drive in PPM format. Next each frame is loaded into a frame buffer that supports component video out. The image is then recorded onto a Sony LVR/LVS 5000. A Linux machine completely controls the LVR. (Code is GPL'd of course.) From there we use the rs-422 remote control interface of the LVR and a JVC S-VHS VCR BR-S822U to edit and make S-VHS and VHS recordings.
The problem that I have is finding a frame buffer card for Linux that supports component video out. There is lots of stuff for getting video in but that is not what I need at this point. Currently, I am using an SGI O2 for video out. Unfortunately, the video hardware is crippled forcing me to reduce the quality of video it will produce. Any one have any suggestions about a frame buffer?
With the proper frame buffer I will be able to quickly record with excellent quality each frame. (These frames make up a scientific animation of myoglobin.)
The website is a bit out of date but will be updated soon. You can also e-mail me at jjneely@eos.ncsu.edu with any questions, comments or sugfgestions on video cards. You may be interested in the group of people I am researching with. Please see http://prisant.ncsu.edu
One of the outstanding goals of this project is to create a complete Linux and Open Source solution. We would also like to create DVDs of these animations but that's a completely different story.
This looks like more media mess that Mozilla has put up with for so long. I doubt that the final product from Mozilla will be done this spring. M13 is considered "alpha" and I think that is a great step forward (works VERY well too) but there is still MUCH to do. It has been proven time and time again that you cannot put a future release date on Open Source Software. It will be "finished" when it is finished.
I don't understand the bull about letting companies offer thier own customized version of Mozilla. This is Open Source -- *I* can release my own version of it.
And explain "Until now, Netscape has relied partly on its open-source development organization, Mozilla.org, to speed development of its Communicator browser, with volunteers and paid developers refining the product." What is the "until now" part mean? I don't like this....
I am proud to be attending North Carolina State University and studying computer science here. Why? This college supports Open Source. We have our own linux distribution called EOS Linux that has tools for connecting to the campus AFS and Kerberos network. Most all of the computer labs are Solaris, Of course, we do have a few NT labs. C++ is taught with GNU tools. In one of my programming classes we were told that if we wanted to work at home on our own computer to install linux.
I really could not ask for a better computing environment. Jack Neely
There is an upside to this. Many of us feared that a judge would say that linking to the source code would be illegal. After reading what the judge wrote he is VERY clear that making linking illegal would be a very bad thing.
Don't these guys realize that it's not copy protection that keeps the cash flowing into their hands? It is copyprotection that will eventually be broken. What will this copyprotection be used for? To keep DVD Audio unfair just like with DVDs.
What will keep pirated copies to a minimum and money in their hands will be media that is cheap, availible to anyone that wants it at the same low price, media that is in a format that is easy to write players for. (How many of us have seen a REALLY buggy DVD player?) I would much rather just go across the street and buy this media than find it on the internet and download an illegal copy. It's more conveniant. (And my Linux box would be able to play them.)
I think that everyone is too quick to compare this to the famous AT&T breakup. I admit to being too young to know of AT&T's breakup and that there are lots of similarities with MS's position. But, I do not want MS to be broken up. I'm not sure that 10 little baby Microsofts are any better than 1 big Microsoft. What I would like to see happen to MS is for them to be forced to open (to anyone) the complete documentation and specifications for all past, present, and future operating systems. These specs and docs should be enough so that any software company could make their own version of Windows that will run the same applications as MS Windows. Remeber when IBM clones first came out? Where would we be now if only IBM new how to build the computers we use?
The FAQ on www.slackware.com states that there will be no ISO images made avalible of the Slackware CDs. The reason given is that it would take too much bandwidth, I believe.
This has the smell of a GPL violation. One thing I have always wondered is if and, if so, how much does MS violate the GPL? After all, their source is closed so how do you tell?
Secondly, these MS and Open Source rumors have been floating around for some time. This probably means that the idea has gone through (and left) Bill's mind. Can't we safely say that any such rumor is a hoax?
FUD -- definately. Purposeful FUD -- I don't think so.
The media does not comperhend what open source software is like and the development process that developes it.
Some media guys has seen that Mozilla is behind schedule -- and started a feeding frenzy. Last time I checked AOL doesn't have that much control over the project. And I love how the "delays" are apperently related to Mozilla.org!
The media just cannot understand that unlike a "normal" development process, Mozilla is being developed to be stable, robust, standards compliant browser. They are not going to release it until it's finished.
One of the things that linux needs is an "insanely great" bowser. I think that Mozilla will be darned close to it. And I am willing to wait AND HELP CODE for the Mozilla project.
It seems to me that the Goverment (Big Brother) has very carefully arranged society so that all of us are brainwashed, programmed to think only inside "the Box".
There are those who can see this and who do not think within certain confines. It is our responciblity to help others break through the box.
This is yet another tactic of Big Brother to program us. To program us in our early years in school where the rest of such programming is also done.
Why? For control, for control of everything. This is why the government wants to ban encryption as well.
Fortunately, there are those of us that are not part of Big Brother that *are* in the know. Hackers included. It is we that fight for our freedom and keep the goverment in check.
I will be starting a project next week to write linux drivers to record movies on laser disks. When things get started there will be some information on the programming/pascal section of my web page. (No I'm NOT writing this in pascal!!)
Might fragmentation be a good thing for Windows? The UNIX market fragmented. Each guy took a copy and rewrote it and made it better and better. Then linux came along. Now every guy could add their own improvments but keep it non-propiatary.
What if we could get the Windows market to fragment in the same fasion? Could we end up with a Windows that might actually be usable and stable?
Jack
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I dissagree. Breaking up MS would be a Good Thing(tm) if done properly. I am very afraid that too few people know this and that it will not be implemented. If not implemented then you are completely right, we will have two big bad Microsofts.
The key lies in the restrictions placed upon the baby Bills. They want to tightly integrate applications into the OS. Fine let them. But this means that the OS company has to make the OS specs avalible to the Applications company. What must be prohibited is the OS company making an exclusive aggreement with the Applications company for the OS specs. The OS company must be forced to release the OS specs to anyone that wants them. This is what will foster compition! Imagine wine that actually works..... :-)
Jack Neely
I am working on a research project to use Linux to record and edit professional quality video such as S-VHS video cassettes. We are using frame accurate methods to record so editing is pretty minimal.
Each frame is rendered on a Linux Beowulf cluster and stored on a large hard drive in PPM format. Next each frame is loaded into a frame buffer that supports component video out. The image is then recorded onto a Sony LVR/LVS 5000. A Linux machine completely controls the LVR. (Code is GPL'd of course.) From there we use the rs-422 remote control interface of the LVR and a JVC S-VHS VCR BR-S822U to edit and make S-VHS and VHS recordings.
The problem that I have is finding a frame buffer card for Linux that supports component video out. There is lots of stuff for getting video in but that is not what I need at this point. Currently, I am using an SGI O2 for video out. Unfortunately, the video hardware is crippled forcing me to reduce the quality of video it will produce. Any one have any suggestions about a frame buffer?
With the proper frame buffer I will be able to quickly record with excellent quality each frame. (These frames make up a scientific animation of myoglobin.)
Please take a look at the website at http://prisant.ncsu.edu/~neely
The website is a bit out of date but will be updated soon. You can also e-mail me at jjneely@eos.ncsu.edu with any questions, comments or sugfgestions on video cards. You may be interested in the group of people I am researching with. Please see http://prisant.ncsu.edu
One of the outstanding goals of this project is to create a complete Linux and Open Source solution. We would also like to create DVDs of these animations but that's a completely different story.
Jack Neely
This looks like more media mess that Mozilla has put up with for so long. I doubt that the final product from Mozilla will be done this spring. M13 is considered "alpha" and I think that is a great step forward (works VERY well too) but there is still MUCH to do. It has been proven time and time again that you cannot put a future release date on Open Source Software. It will be "finished" when it is finished.
I don't understand the bull about letting companies offer thier own customized version of Mozilla. This is Open Source -- *I* can release my own version of it.
And explain "Until now, Netscape has relied partly on its open-source development organization, Mozilla.org, to speed development of its Communicator browser, with volunteers and paid developers refining the product." What is the "until now" part mean? I don't like this....
Jack Neely
I am proud to be attending North Carolina State University and studying computer science here. Why? This college supports Open Source. We have our own linux distribution called EOS Linux that has tools for connecting to the campus AFS and Kerberos network. Most all of the computer labs are Solaris, Of course, we do have a few NT labs. C++ is taught with GNU tools. In one of my programming classes we were told that if we wanted to work at home on our own computer to install linux.
I really could not ask for a better computing environment.
Jack Neely
There is an upside to this. Many of us feared that a judge would say that linking to the source code would be illegal. After reading what the judge wrote he is VERY clear that making linking illegal would be a very bad thing.
Jack Neely
Don't these guys realize that it's not copy protection that keeps the cash flowing into their hands? It is copyprotection that will eventually be broken. What will this copyprotection be used for? To keep DVD Audio unfair just like with DVDs.
What will keep pirated copies to a minimum and money in their hands will be media that is cheap, availible to anyone that wants it at the same low price, media that is in a format that is easy to write players for. (How many of us have seen a REALLY buggy DVD player?) I would much rather just go across the street and buy this media than find it on the internet and download an illegal copy. It's more conveniant. (And my Linux box would be able to play them.)
My 2 cents....
Jack Neely
I think that everyone is too quick to compare this to the famous AT&T breakup. I admit to being too young to know of AT&T's breakup and that there are lots of similarities with MS's position. But, I do not want MS to be broken up. I'm not sure that 10 little baby Microsofts are any better than 1 big Microsoft. What I would like to see happen to MS is for them to be forced to open (to anyone) the complete documentation and specifications for all past, present, and future operating systems. These specs and docs should be enough so that any software company could make their own version of Windows that will run the same applications as MS Windows. Remeber when IBM clones first came out? Where would we be now if only IBM new how to build the computers we use?
Jack Neely
I correct myself. The *NEW* FAQ says that they are in the slackware/iso directory...and low! They are.
Jack Neely
The FAQ on www.slackware.com states that there will be no ISO images made avalible of the Slackware CDs. The reason given is that it would take too much bandwidth, I believe.
Jack Neely
This has the smell of a GPL violation. One thing I have always wondered is if and, if so, how much does MS violate the GPL? After all, their source is closed so how do you tell?
Secondly, these MS and Open Source rumors have been floating around for some time. This probably means that the idea has gone through (and left) Bill's mind. Can't we safely say that any such rumor is a hoax?
FUD -- definately. Purposeful FUD -- I don't think so.
The media does not comperhend what open source software is like and the development process that developes it.
Some media guys has seen that Mozilla is behind schedule -- and started a feeding frenzy. Last time I checked AOL doesn't have that much control over the project. And I love how the "delays" are apperently related to Mozilla.org!
The media just cannot understand that unlike a "normal" development process, Mozilla is being developed to be stable, robust, standards compliant browser. They are not going to release it until it's finished.
One of the things that linux needs is an "insanely great" bowser. I think that Mozilla will be darned close to it. And I am willing to wait AND HELP CODE for the Mozilla project.
It seems to me that the Goverment (Big Brother) has very carefully arranged society so that all of us are brainwashed, programmed to think only inside "the Box".
There are those who can see this and who do not think within certain confines. It is our responciblity to help others break through the box.
This is yet another tactic of Big Brother to program us. To program us in our early years in school where the rest of such programming is also done.
Why? For control, for control of everything. This is why the government wants to ban encryption as well.
Fortunately, there are those of us that are not part of Big Brother that *are* in the know. Hackers included. It is we that fight for our freedom and keep the goverment in check.
I will be starting a project next week to write linux drivers to record movies on laser disks. When things get started there will be some information on the programming/pascal section of my web page. (No I'm NOT writing this in pascal!!)
Might fragmentation be a good thing for Windows? The UNIX market fragmented. Each guy took a copy and rewrote it and made it better and better. Then linux came along. Now every guy could add their own improvments but keep it non-propiatary.
What if we could get the Windows market to fragment in the same fasion? Could we end up with a Windows that might actually be usable and stable?
Jack
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