OK, this pretty much pushes me over. I've been considering becoming a slashdot troll for some time and I think this article finishes it. First interesting story in a week or two. It gets more moronic posts than anything I've ever seen on slashdot. The best posts here are of the type "this is way over my head". If this is over your head, but you think it's interesting stfu and don't post anything. I don't even want to talk about others. The compost bin story got a more meaningful discussion that this. 90% of people here think that case mods are cool 99% of people here look at a program which allows you to traceroute without icmp or udp (just to name one thing) and say "yeah, but what's the use"? WTF?
I shall go and troll in the story about case with 6 neon lights attached to it now. See ya.
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yes! yes! please! Let's have article moderation! If there was article moderation this crap would be off the main page 20 minutes ago!
I've got to agree. This blows. The editors don't seem to realize, that when they post crap on slashdot it not just funny, it also means hundreds of productive man-hours wasted.
I know that this has been discussed a lot, but let me cast my vote again: stories must be moderated too.
I'm sorry, but I have to disagree. I've dealt with a number of ATI drivers on windows and I do not think that ATI is able to produce drivers for their cards better than a random guy you pick up on the street. If knowing specifications did not help them produce a single stable driver on windows, why would it help them on Linux?
Just to get it straight: I was shooting for +3 Funny, not +3 Insightful here. I was born too late to prefer the correct control placement. However I must disagree with you that the battle was lost 12 years ago. First of all I have encountered at least 2 Sparcs with the right keyboards. I am not positive that they were *shipped* with these keyboards though. However: check out this link: http://store.yahoo.com/pfuca-store/
You can see it clearly in the datasheet here: http://hw.tadpole.com/pdf/products/mobile/s parcboo k/datasheet.pdf at zoom level of 800% or so. What is that key between tab and shift? This has to be a mistake. Do they really expect any self-respecting Unix user will by this???
Prejudice aside, I think I want this toy even more than Zaurus. I wonder if FreeBSD 5.0 will work on it;)
And yes, there are people who really do need it.
how to be on slashdot and not be slashdotted?
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Easy: make you site in fscking Flash.
Sorry, but I can't agree that a site that cannot be viewed without a plugin suffering from a certain sexual perversion can be called "solidly designed"
Is it me, or is this story confusing? They took ipfilter out, but there is pf, so how is it without packet filter? And what's up with that "the most secure os" sarcasm? OpenBSD *is* secure.
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FreeBSD threading is not the main problem here. The problem is that it is different from Linux and Solaris idea of what pthreads are and Sun did bother to jump through the Linux porting loop, but didn't bother to do the same for FreeBSD. The port of Java on FreeBSD is actually based on Solaris source, not on Linux. With FreeBSD 5.0 release threads support will be even more complete and we will see 1.4 and 1.3 HotSpot working on FreeBSD in the near future, I'm sure. And I hope that this presentation will become the wakeup call for Sun in terms of *BSD support.
When we say "desktop" do we also mean "developer's desktop" or is that called workstation? Because as developer's desktop Linux (or in my case FreeBSD) is much nicer than any of win32s. I know a guy who refuses to use Linux on his desktop, but he also refuses to do any programming on his win2k and does everything on Linux. So my point is that Unix is not only suitable for servers, but also for desktops used for work.
No, "kh" is used to translitirate sound 'h' as in 'hello'. In Russian translation and, I assume, in Polish original, the best way to describe the sound of the name is English word 'hurry'.
If the new movie is really based on the book, there is no point in comparing it to the Tarkovsky's film. The "Solaris" movie has little to do with the book, the main idea is completely different. The gap between book and film is even bigger than with his adaptation of Strugatsky's "Roadside picnic" ("Stalker").
Now if I had to decide whether to go see this or Terminator 3, I think T3 would have won: Holaris will either be a complete pop or 'Event Horizon' style crap.
There was the famous Internet Worm which infected a bunch of different Unix versions. Pretty famous story. There was the famous DoS attack on Yahoo and Ebay. Was it mounted from Windows boxes?
Anyone remembers Zortech C++? It was my introduction to "open source" -- a great C++ compiler for DOS and windows 3.11 (maybe something else, I don't know). It was commercial of course, but shipped with full library sources. Maybe even compiler sources, I don't remember. Zortech was later aquired by Symatnec, I think....
I forgot some technical details: most DSL won't give you static IP. I think http://www.speakeasy.net/ will. But even if you don't have static IP, you can get a hostname associated with a dynamic ip from the great guys at http://www.dyndns.org/ They can also host your domain name, I think, or you can get free domain name hosting and webhop redirection from http://www.mydomain.com/
I mean this might sound stupid, but we are running a marginally popular web site on a DSL connection. I don't know what kind of traffic you are talking about here, but I'm serving some 10-15Gb a month from my Earthlink DSL on a PII-300 running FreeBSD. Can I take a slashdot effect with this setup? No. Will I ever be slashdotted? Not likely:) So before answering the question of hosting, you have to (realistically) estimate what kind of traffic you are facing.
it depends on the demographic situation. If we are in China and want to limit number of children, yes. If we are in USA or Europe, then by all means we should tax childless people very heavily and use the money on education, day care, etc.
um... you got it wrong. Public transportation costs should be pushed to people who buy cars/gasoline because cars are bad for society (e.g. polution) and public transportation is very good for everyone. In a society with good public transportation system cars becomes more of a luxury (which it should be) and should be taxed.
I'm all for this kind of targeted taxes policies. People who buy SUVs should pay for environment protection, people who make money of building/renting houses/apartments should pay for affordable housing projects etc. People who buy scifi stuff should fund NASA. Sounds fair.
Note that I like scifi and don't care much for NASA, but I still think that this makes sense.
To "duh" and all people saying how bad this article is: yes, I agree, it ain't no review or comparison. But it is something a lot of people can show to their bosses and say "See, I told you. Let's switch." I mean, and boss which would answer "it's not really a comparison" would prefer running Apache anyway:)
We are currently running a weird mix of ASP through IIS and JSP through Tomcat where I work. I hope this will help me migrate the server to pure Tomcat on FreeBSD soon... I hope last week's 11 patches were last drop.
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3D projection, heh? And a 3D browser?
Anyway, why does it have to be 3D? I think 2D projections (directly onto the eye?) are the mobile interfaces of the future.
a) You never mention what OS are supported. Is my understanding that it should compile on FreeBSD, OpenBSD and Linux correct?
;)
b) 'bug report': you have docs directory stored inside itself along with the CVS subdir (paketto-1.0.tar.gz)
c) Ain't no way I'm building this on my machine before someone smarter than me looks at it. Sorry
OK, this pretty much pushes me over. I've been considering becoming a slashdot troll for some time and I think this article finishes it. First interesting story in a week or two. It gets more moronic posts than anything I've ever seen on slashdot. The best posts here are of the type "this is way over my head". If this is over your head, but you think it's interesting stfu and don't post anything. I don't even want to talk about others.
The compost bin story got a more meaningful discussion that this.
90% of people here think that case mods are cool
99% of people here look at a program which allows you to traceroute without icmp or udp (just to name one thing) and say "yeah, but what's the use"?
WTF?
I shall go and troll in the story about case with 6 neon lights attached to it now. See ya.
yes! yes! please! Let's have article moderation! If there was article moderation this crap would be off the main page 20 minutes ago!
I've got to agree. This blows. The editors don't seem to realize, that when they post crap on slashdot it not just funny, it also means hundreds of productive man-hours wasted.
I know that this has been discussed a lot, but let me cast my vote again: stories must be moderated too.
I'm sorry, but I have to disagree. I've dealt with a number of ATI drivers on windows and I do not think that ATI is able to produce drivers for their cards better than a random guy you pick up on the street. If knowing specifications did not help them produce a single stable driver on windows, why would it help them on Linux?
Just to get it straight: I was shooting for +3 Funny, not +3 Insightful here. I was born too late to prefer the correct control placement.
However I must disagree with you that the battle was lost 12 years ago. First of all I have encountered at least 2 Sparcs with the right keyboards. I am not positive that they were *shipped* with these keyboards though. However: check out this link: http://store.yahoo.com/pfuca-store/
You can see it clearly in the datasheet here:s parcboo k/datasheet.pdf
;)
http://hw.tadpole.com/pdf/products/mobile/
at zoom level of 800% or so.
What is that key between tab and shift? This has to be a mistake. Do they really expect any self-respecting Unix user will by this???
Prejudice aside, I think I want this toy even more than Zaurus. I wonder if FreeBSD 5.0 will work on it
And yes, there are people who really do need it.
Easy: make you site in fscking Flash.
Sorry, but I can't agree that a site that cannot be viewed without a plugin suffering from a certain sexual perversion can be called "solidly designed"
Is it me, or is this story confusing? They took ipfilter out, but there is pf, so how is it without packet filter?
And what's up with that "the most secure os" sarcasm? OpenBSD *is* secure.
FreeBSD threading is not the main problem here. The problem is that it is different from Linux and Solaris idea of what pthreads are and Sun did bother to jump through the Linux porting loop, but didn't bother to do the same for FreeBSD.
The port of Java on FreeBSD is actually based on Solaris source, not on Linux.
With FreeBSD 5.0 release threads support will be even more complete and we will see 1.4 and 1.3 HotSpot working on FreeBSD in the near future, I'm sure.
And I hope that this presentation will become the wakeup call for Sun in terms of *BSD support.
take your time to prove P=NP and design a perpetuum mobile while you are at it. Then release everything together as a package.
Editors? Hello? Any clue?
Postgres supports stored procedures.
When we say "desktop" do we also mean "developer's desktop" or is that called workstation? Because as developer's desktop Linux (or in my case FreeBSD) is much nicer than any of win32s. I know a guy who refuses to use Linux on his desktop, but he also refuses to do any programming on his win2k and does everything on Linux. So my point is that Unix is not only suitable for servers, but also for desktops used for work.
No, "kh" is used to translitirate sound 'h' as in 'hello'. In Russian translation and, I assume, in Polish original, the best way to describe the sound of the name is English word 'hurry'.
If the new movie is really based on the book, there is no point in comparing it to the Tarkovsky's film. The "Solaris" movie has little to do with the book, the main idea is completely different. The gap between book and film is even bigger than with his adaptation of Strugatsky's "Roadside picnic" ("Stalker").
Now if I had to decide whether to go see this or Terminator 3, I think T3 would have won: Holaris will either be a complete pop or 'Event Horizon' style crap.
There was the famous Internet Worm which infected a bunch of different Unix versions. Pretty famous story. There was the famous DoS attack on Yahoo and Ebay. Was it mounted from Windows boxes?
Stupid article, if you ask me.
Anyone remembers Zortech C++?
It was my introduction to "open source" -- a great C++ compiler for DOS and windows 3.11 (maybe something else, I don't know). It was commercial of course, but shipped with full library sources. Maybe even compiler sources, I don't remember.
Zortech was later aquired by Symatnec, I think....
I forgot some technical details:
most DSL won't give you static IP. I think http://www.speakeasy.net/ will. But even if you don't have static IP, you can get a hostname associated with a dynamic ip from the great guys at http://www.dyndns.org/
They can also host your domain name, I think, or you can get free domain name hosting and webhop redirection from http://www.mydomain.com/
it's already here, you are just not looking hard enough :)
I mean this might sound stupid, but we are running a marginally popular web site on a DSL connection. :)
I don't know what kind of traffic you are talking about here, but I'm serving some 10-15Gb a month from my Earthlink DSL on a PII-300 running FreeBSD.
Can I take a slashdot effect with this setup? No. Will I ever be slashdotted? Not likely
So before answering the question of hosting, you have to (realistically) estimate what kind of traffic you are facing.
it depends on the demographic situation. If we are in China and want to limit number of children, yes. If we are in USA or Europe, then by all means we should tax childless people very heavily and use the money on education, day care, etc.
um... you got it wrong. Public transportation costs should be pushed to people who buy cars/gasoline because cars are bad for society (e.g. polution) and public transportation is very good for everyone. In a society with good public transportation system cars becomes more of a luxury (which it should be) and should be taxed.
I'm all for this kind of targeted taxes policies.
People who buy SUVs should pay for environment protection, people who make money of building/renting houses/apartments should pay for affordable housing projects etc. People who buy scifi stuff should fund NASA. Sounds fair.
Note that I like scifi and don't care much for NASA, but I still think that this makes sense.
it gets better and better.
We should use free software because it uses JPEG image format.
To "duh" and all people saying how bad this article is: :)
yes, I agree, it ain't no review or comparison. But it is something a lot of people can show to their bosses and say "See, I told you. Let's switch." I mean, and boss which would answer "it's not really a comparison" would prefer running Apache anyway
We are currently running a weird mix of ASP through IIS and JSP through Tomcat where I work. I hope this will help me migrate the server to pure Tomcat on FreeBSD soon... I hope last week's 11 patches were last drop.