New York state already has something similar in substance to this. You simply fill out the IT-100 form, fill in your wages earned for the year and sent it to the state. They take the info provided, and send you a complete statement of what taxes you paid with annotated explanations.
Is it me, or is the Death Star shown at the end of Episode III way too complete? At the beginning of Episode IV, there is some doubt about whether the station is fully operational, but there is a full skeleton of the Death Star visible at the end of III. Surely this is a mistake, just for continuity's sake. The DS could not have taken 16-18 years (as long as it takes Luke and Leia to grow up) to complete!
But this difference in culture, while well described, alone does not explain why this freeware used to be plentiful and isn't now. I offer that a lot of the coders that are now writing OSS on free platforms used to work in Windows, before free unix variants were as widespread as they are now.
Perhaps this was implicit in your analysis, but still worth pointing out to completely answer the question.
The most important thing that happened today is that the way most popular distro is developed has been heaviliy structurally changed.
I wonder how this new commitment to more frequent releases and more "community involvement" will square with RH's recent RHN strategy, and specifically new releases being released to subscribers first. We now see that the emphasis on "instant isos," embargoed releases, RHN marketing blitz and subsequent discounts were a desperate last try to replace the retail channel-- which was doomed in the long run-- with something that would still leave an end-user revenue stream in place. This pretty obviously didn't work, because if it had this project business probably wouldn't ahve happened. If RH could have turned a profit on the slower development cycle + RHN revenue, there would be no "project."
Perhaps more importantly, it sounds like RedHat, although emphasizing retention of "editorial control," is showing some intent to hand editorial decisions over to outside developers: In general, you will see much more aggressive change to the distribution. Red Hat will incorporate more external contributions of code and documentation. Some changes we don't yet know -- we can only assume that the community of users and developers will make recommendations for changes we have not yet envisioned or considered.
Along those lines, if others outside of RedHat are to begin working more, and releases are to be more frequent, it stands to reason that RPM-- at least RPM in the absence of apt-- has finally been dealt a body blow. RPM is made for RH's old, slow development cycle. Compatability hell that goes along with a faster development cycle may finally force some significant changes to RPM that people have been requesting for years, maybe even a distributed distribution network that will displace previous efforts of RedHat to emulate something like Debian (see rhn above). No one likes downloading and burning three CDs every nine months, let alone every four.
These are just my first impressions, I'm sure there are many more implications here yet unexplored.
The consensus here is this is a non-event. That being said, even if it is a slow news night, is it responsible to slashdot the USGS site? This is infrastructure that is useful to those affected at times like this, and there is no overwhelming interest to herding users to the USGS network.
When your local 911 operator upgrades its systems and uses Linux, are we all to call 911 because it's all of the sudden geek chic? Should we all of the sudden be junior geologists for the USGS if there's a small tremor in the Bay Area?
I'm not saying that linking to breaking news is a bad thing, even if thst site goes down as a result. What I am saying is that the USGS site should not be subject to overwhelming traffic for such a non-event. You say it was an event? Read the posts, even at level 2 and up. They all say the same thing.
At the very least it should be noted to visit the USGS site now only to report info if you live in the area.
There is an open-source project called GNU Keyring that uses Triple-DES to encrypt info on a PalmOS machine. I have been using 1.0 for a few months now, and I like it a lot. I don't trust it enough to store irreplacable stuff, but it does a good job of storing passwords and such. It also has a random password generator built in, although it is noted on their page that the PalmOS random number generator isn't that great. All in all though, it's a great little program that gets the job done.
I am a former NeXT user that is making the transition to Linux from Mac/Win as well. I was looking to use pine, but now you've got me thinking. There are all the Mail.app clones on freshmeat, but I wonder if GNUstep is to the point where the REAL Mail.app from my old nextstation will work with Linux? And if it isn't now, it surely will work sometime in the future (hopefully not so distant).
This to me would be the greatest option, because despite it's quirks, Mail.app is my favorite e-mail client hands down (not trying to start a flame war, just saying).
Would this work now? Franklin Gordon Bynum Undergraduate Student at The University of Texas at Austin
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Most of the geeks I know aren't big on stuffed animals. Would there be a market for this? I don't know. Novelties are plenty cool, but not the best business proposition.
Someone will do it, though. If the name "Linux" can send a stock up 900% or whatever, it might be able to sell a few stuffed penguins.
Personally, I still think the best way to go is custom-building your own PC. The Dells and Gateways of the world are nice, especially for business purchases (as a small business owner, I can assure you this!). But there are still the limitations present from before. For example, I order Dells for my business, but I am building a new machine for myself. Why? Flexibility and options. I want an Athlon, but only Gateway offers Athlon configs, and only in the 600 MHz flavor. I want my choice of motherboards. I want a cool color case (or one with brushed metal. Cool). I want to pick the brand of my hard drive. All such things are not possible with Dell/Gateway. And especially if you want to run alternate OSes, such as Linux, building your own allows you to choose compatible HW (even though this is not as big of an issue now, it still is one, especially with video cards). I run Openstep, which has pretty stringent HW requirements, on one of my machines so I have little choice. For the power user, there's still only one way to go, and that's doing it yourself. (Unless you're talking about a laptop, which I can't see doing better than the big boys considering heat and other factors, but I could be wrong). F
Amazon had posted all over their site the deadline for orders to arrive by the 24th: the 22nd. Confident in seeing all this, I ordered my late gifts the 22nd in the afternoon, halfway curious if they could do it. Alas, they could not.
I kept checking the order status page, which said that my items were "shipping soon" until finally I get an e-mail the evening of the 23rd saying that they could not ship my order in time for X-mas. An hour later they shipped part of my order. Houss later they shipped the third item of the three.
Yeah, it's mostly my fault; I'm aware of the realities of the eCommerce world. I did get a $10 gift certificate, though!;)
I just checked the eBay link, but five of the nine give "Invalid Item" pages. Although there are other reasons this happens, the only time I ever see these is when eBay ends an auction prematurely because the item in question is illegal (a la Warez, pirated CD-R music, etc). Hope eBay allows some of these transactions to go through; I have got to see this.
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New York state already has something similar in substance to this. You simply fill out the IT-100 form, fill in your wages earned for the year and sent it to the state. They take the info provided, and send you a complete statement of what taxes you paid with annotated explanations.
Is it me, or is the Death Star shown at the end of Episode III way too complete? At the beginning of Episode IV, there is some doubt about whether the station is fully operational, but there is a full skeleton of the Death Star visible at the end of III. Surely this is a mistake, just for continuity's sake. The DS could not have taken 16-18 years (as long as it takes Luke and Leia to grow up) to complete!
Not to be a smartass, but Ogg is just the name of the larger project. The actual audio compression format is called "Vorbis."
Perhaps this was implicit in your analysis, but still worth pointing out to completely answer the question.
The most important thing that happened today is that the way most popular distro is developed has been heaviliy structurally changed.
I wonder how this new commitment to more frequent releases and more "community involvement" will square with RH's recent RHN strategy, and specifically new releases being released to subscribers first. We now see that the emphasis on "instant isos," embargoed releases, RHN marketing blitz and subsequent discounts were a desperate last try to replace the retail channel-- which was doomed in the long run-- with something that would still leave an end-user revenue stream in place. This pretty obviously didn't work, because if it had this project business probably wouldn't ahve happened. If RH could have turned a profit on the slower development cycle + RHN revenue, there would be no "project."
Perhaps more importantly, it sounds like RedHat, although emphasizing retention of "editorial control," is showing some intent to hand editorial decisions over to outside developers:
In general, you will see much more aggressive change to the distribution. Red Hat will incorporate more external contributions of code and documentation. Some changes we don't yet know -- we can only assume that the community of users and developers will make recommendations for changes we have not yet envisioned or considered.
Along those lines, if others outside of RedHat are to begin working more, and releases are to be more frequent, it stands to reason that RPM-- at least RPM in the absence of apt-- has finally been dealt a body blow. RPM is made for RH's old, slow development cycle. Compatability hell that goes along with a faster development cycle may finally force some significant changes to RPM that people have been requesting for years, maybe even a distributed distribution network that will displace previous efforts of RedHat to emulate something like Debian (see rhn above). No one likes downloading and burning three CDs every nine months, let alone every four.
These are just my first impressions, I'm sure there are many more implications here yet unexplored.
The consensus here is this is a non-event. That being said, even if it is a slow news night, is it responsible to slashdot the USGS site? This is infrastructure that is useful to those affected at times like this, and there is no overwhelming interest to herding users to the USGS network.
When your local 911 operator upgrades its systems and uses Linux, are we all to call 911 because it's all of the sudden geek chic? Should we all of the sudden be junior geologists for the USGS if there's a small tremor in the Bay Area?
I'm not saying that linking to breaking news is a bad thing, even if thst site goes down as a result. What I am saying is that the USGS site should not be subject to overwhelming traffic for such a non-event. You say it was an event? Read the posts, even at level 2 and up. They all say the same thing.
At the very least it should be noted to visit the USGS site now only to report info if you live in the area.
Frank Bynum
UT Austin undergrad
I am a former NeXT user that is making the transition to Linux from Mac/Win as well. I was looking to use pine, but now you've got me thinking. There are all the Mail.app clones on freshmeat, but I wonder if GNUstep is to the point where the REAL Mail.app from my old nextstation will work with Linux? And if it isn't now, it surely will work sometime in the future (hopefully not so distant).
This to me would be the greatest option, because despite it's quirks, Mail.app is my favorite e-mail client hands down (not trying to start a flame war, just saying).
Would this work now?
Franklin Gordon Bynum
Undergraduate Student at The University of Texas at Austin
Most of the geeks I know aren't big on stuffed animals. Would there be a market for this? I don't know. Novelties are plenty cool, but not the best business proposition.
Someone will do it, though. If the name "Linux" can send a stock up 900% or whatever, it might be able to sell a few stuffed penguins.
Personally, I still think the best way to go is custom-building your own PC. The Dells and Gateways of the world are nice, especially for business purchases (as a small business owner, I can assure you this!). But there are still the limitations present from before. For example, I order Dells for my business, but I am building a new machine for myself. Why? Flexibility and options. I want an Athlon, but only Gateway offers Athlon configs, and only in the 600 MHz flavor. I want my choice of motherboards. I want a cool color case (or one with brushed metal. Cool). I want to pick the brand of my hard drive. All such things are not possible with Dell/Gateway. And especially if you want to run alternate OSes, such as Linux, building your own allows you to choose compatible HW (even though this is not as big of an issue now, it still is one, especially with video cards). I run Openstep, which has pretty stringent HW requirements, on one of my machines so I have little choice. For the power user, there's still only one way to go, and that's doing it yourself. (Unless you're talking about a laptop, which I can't see doing better than the big boys considering heat and other factors, but I could be wrong). F
Amazon had posted all over their site the deadline for orders to arrive by the 24th: the 22nd. Confident in seeing all this, I ordered my late gifts the 22nd in the afternoon, halfway curious if they could do it. Alas, they could not.
;)
I kept checking the order status page, which said that my items were "shipping soon" until finally I get an e-mail the evening of the 23rd saying that they could not ship my order in time for X-mas. An hour later they shipped part of my order. Houss later they shipped the third item of the three.
Yeah, it's mostly my fault; I'm aware of the realities of the eCommerce world. I did get a $10 gift certificate, though!
I just checked the eBay link, but five of the nine give "Invalid Item" pages. Although there are other reasons this happens, the only time I ever see these is when eBay ends an auction prematurely because the item in question is illegal (a la Warez, pirated CD-R music, etc). Hope eBay allows some of these transactions to go through; I have got to see this.
Frank