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Re:Now we can go for REAL multi-media
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Turn-Key Linux Audio
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If you are running Mandrake, Cinelerra is packaged by the friendly people at Penguin Liberation Front. I haven't tried this particular package, but other packages with lots of complicated dependencies (like Video-dvdrip) installs without a hitch.
Who owns Eolas? Is it just Mike Doyle or does he have a bunch of shareholders to answer for? If it's the latter, wouldn't it be very easy for Microsoft just to buy the company? It might potentially be much cheaper than fighting it in court (esp. if they lose).
By the sound of the article, Mike Doyle won't be selling out any time soon, but he might not be the only one in this descision.
C# really is a nice language. It is more powerful than other.NET languages (such as VB.NET) because it allows you to write unsafe code (ie, code that doesn't have to go through the garbage collector). Not that most MS programmers will need this capability, but its nice to have if you need the extra performance over maintainability/safety.
No, C# doesn't allow you to write unsafe code, you have to use C++ for that. What's new about C++ in the.NET framework is that it allows you to mix safe ("managed") code with unsafe code. In managed mode, it's a rather castrated C++ (particularly the lack of templates), but with the niceties of GC.
Of course you didn't say such a thing, and I hope I didn't imply it. I'm just pointing out that there are areas where Matrox driver support could be a LOT better.
Besides, as was the original point, did Matrox ever tell you that it supported tv out under linux? Um, NO. Actually, has Matrox ever claimed 'Official Support For Linux'? Um, NO. Can you send me a Matrox card package that says that the card supports linux? Um, NO.
If I still had the box I could. Actually, you can look it up on the web instead. On this page it clearly says that Linux is one of the supported OSes.
IIRC, the box for G450 says "Linux support" and "TV-out support", so it's not unreasonable to expect TV-out to work under Linux.
(Of course, in the small print on the web site it clearly says that TV-out is not supported under Linux, but as TV-out IS supported in the G400 linux drivers, it's not really a unreasonable thing to expect)
I have been using a matrox G450 dual monitor card for over 2 years at work, never once have I wanted to change it and get another card, never once have I had any problems of any sort. At home however, where I do my gaming, you certainly won't find any matrox cards. (A great big stack of various s3, ati and nvidia cards, but nary a matrox in sight.)
They still broadcast ads before/after/during reruns, and advertisers still pay. Maybe less than what they would pay for appearing next to the initial broadcast of a show, but probably enough to cover the costs and more. Why else would 30+ year old shows still be rerun?
Ever notice how many ads there are in recorded shows being spread around file sharing networks?
Regarding "undocumented file format": You can get the source code for bitkeeper. What other doc do you need?
Re:64-bit life?
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Unix (first OSF/1, then Linux) has been running on 64-bit Alpha processors for the better part of a decade. Also, Solaris and linux runs on 64-bit Ultrasparc processors. Win64 is so late in the game it's not even funny.
A lot of (C/C++) programs which assume things about how large a int is is going to break spectacularly when compiled to native 64-bit code. I would guess this will be a bigger problem in the proprietary (windows) world, since a lot of open source software is routinely compiled to, packaged for, and tested on Alpha and/or UltraSPARC, so a lot of it is 64-bit clean.
I have unmetered GPRS (aka 2.5 G) access right now, real cheap as well. Of course, this is partly because my carrier wants people to become used to the service, then they will probably start some sort of metered access... then again, maybe not, as one of the virtual carriers here in sweden just introduced unmetered SMS service. I don't find it improbable that specialized virtual carriers will offer unmetered data transfer.
Re:what about SOAP?
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SOAP is the external interface of the web service. The idea is that you implement this interface using Java or the.NET framework.
Of course, a SOAP-compliant web service could be implemented through Perl, C, shell scripts, REXX or specially-trained gerbils, the client program using the web service shouldn't know (or care).
By the same logic, the problem with breaking and entering is not the burglars, but rather the homeowner who doesn't install enough locks and anti-burglar alarms. I don't buy that.
Why should I have to make it harder for people to legitimatley contact me, by for instance obscuring my email address on my web page [well, actually my webpage is down, so don't click that link]?
Anyway, spammers can guess your address even if it has never been published anywhere. Try to set up a mail server acting as a MX for some newly registered.com domain. It *will* get probes by spammers trying to send a email to "joe@somecompany.com"
Actually, the X has a fairly sophisticated clipboard
model, maybe a little bit too sophisticated. Hence it has traditionally been poorly understood and badly implemented in apps and toolkit.
Gnome does the Right Thing with respect to clipboards, while QT2/KDE2 uses a more limited clipboard model. The good news is that QT3 and thereby KDE3 will do the Right Think and therefore interoperate a lot better with Gnome (as well as properly written X apps such as XEmacs)
These comments are somewhat enlighening: http://dot.kde.org/1013076354/
Also read this for a backgrounder about clipboard and X: http://www.jwz.org/doc/x-cut-and-paste.html
In Europe, particularly in scandinavia, this has been the biggest hype for the last six months. A lot of companies have started around providing WAP based services, with very strong industry interest.
However, in light of this, i cannot understand why anyone would consider doing anything with HDML as its a dead technology. HDML is a predeseccor to WML, that phone.com developed. Phone.com is now one of the founders of the standards commission Wap Forum.
And stop whining about small screens and no HTML support!
People seem to have the misconception that WML is dumbed-down HTML. Not so! It improves on HTML in several important ways, notably variables (with variable interpolation in text) and the deck-of-cards concept. Please read the spec on www.wapforum.org before passing judgement. There are a lot of things that you can do easily and elegant with WML that are difficult or impossible with HTML.
As for the disadvantage of the semi-open nature of wapforum.org: The advantage of having a tight connection between the industry and the standards body is that new functionality gets adapted FAST -- how long did it take until we had decent CSS1 support in common web browsers? Having said that, i'm not sure the advantages balance the disadvantages.
Check out http://www.wapgateway.org/ -- a GPL'ed WAP gateway
I'm hoping they keep the nice PalmOS interface, but rip out the pathetic excuse for a OS that reside underneath it, replacing it with the Epoc kernel. The layered approach of Epoc would probably make such an attempt feasible. Similarly, there is one or two things the Epoc UI designers could learn from Palm (whoever came up with the idea of double-tap?)
I wish people would realise there's more to the Internet than web serving. A lot of existing and planned services would be very useful even without a normal UI.
If you think of mobile internet access as the web, only smaller, slower and worse, you're missing the point. Sure, accessing the WWW via a handheld can be a great timekiller on the train, but the real promise of connected mobile computing its that it allows the introduction of computers and associated benefits in areas where you normally don't see computers at all: think of doctors making the rounds and having instant access to their patients journals, salesmen that always can check the inventory and place orders from anywhere, construction workers who have instant access to instructions, work flow, incoming deliveries etc.
And you people who whine that if everyone wrote correct HTML 4.0, the whole world would be nice and rosy: Give it a rest! For example, the kind of information that you want on a PDA or cell phone display is drastically different than what you want on a normal computer screen. For example, the normal Slashdot front page might be perfect HTML 4.0 Strict, but it still doesn't display great on a PDA because of the navigation sidebars, slashboxes and other stuff that doesn't make sense on a PDA. And you certainly don't want to download 50k of HTML on todays wireless links (between 1.2 and 9.6 kbps, typically). XML, combined with different XSL style sheets for adopting the information to different requirements, goes a long way to make things better here. WML (The markup language of WAP, Wireless Application Protocol) builds on, and improves the HTML concepts with a number of very useful concepts (Deck of cards and variable substitution, to name a few). HTML simply cannot adapt to these kinds of requirements.
One last thing, about the eventual merge of the PDA and the cellphone: A lot of people seem to take for granted that a solution where different devices each do one thing well (voice communication, display, computing, storage, wireless/radio connectivety, to name a few things), is the only sane way to go. If bluetooth (for the lower layers of communication) and Jini or Universal PnP (for the upper layers) take of, we might indeed see this vision become reality. But there will always be room for an end-all solutions that does all of these things in an integrated unit, with excellent integration between the different capabilities (check out the Nokia 9110, for example). If configuring your personal BAN (Body Area Network) becomes as complicated as getting a Windows PC, a Linux Box and a Mac to share files, printers and outside network connections, then we really haven't learned anything about usability in the last 15 years....
It looks like a cool system... and before you moan about it being java based and therefore intrinsically slow, remember that java was originally based for appliances like settop boxes and handhelds. They're partnering with Espial for java class libraries, and Espial has done some great java libraries with a very small footprint. Will be interesting to see if it will be interoperable with the Palm + KJava
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Don't forget "In Soviet Russia, the bride kisses YOU!"
If you are running Mandrake, Cinelerra is packaged by the friendly people at Penguin Liberation Front. I haven't tried this particular package, but other packages with lots of complicated dependencies (like Video-dvdrip) installs without a hitch.
Who owns Eolas? Is it just Mike Doyle or does he have a bunch of shareholders to answer for? If it's the latter, wouldn't it be very easy for Microsoft just to buy the company? It might potentially be much cheaper than fighting it in court (esp. if they lose).
By the sound of the article, Mike Doyle won't be selling out any time soon, but he might not be the only one in this descision.
Admins (and environments) who use Kerberos tend to be just a bit more clueful than your average admins.
My bad -- I wrongly associated "unsafe code" with pointer arithmetic and similar stuff, the kind of things you cannot do in managed C++.
C# really is a nice language. It is more powerful than other
No, C# doesn't allow you to write unsafe code, you have to use C++ for that. What's new about C++ in the
I'd guess that AOL already has paid the $50000 one-time licence fee instead.
Of course you didn't say such a thing, and I hope I didn't imply it. I'm just pointing out that there are areas where Matrox driver support could be a LOT better.
Besides, as was the original point, did Matrox ever tell you that it supported tv out under linux? Um, NO. Actually, has Matrox ever claimed 'Official Support For Linux'? Um, NO. Can you send me a Matrox card package that says that the card supports linux? Um, NO.
If I still had the box I could. Actually, you can look it up on the web instead. On this page it clearly says that Linux is one of the supported OSes.
IIRC, the box for G450 says "Linux support" and "TV-out support", so it's not unreasonable to expect TV-out to work under Linux.
(Of course, in the small print on the web site it clearly says that TV-out is not supported under Linux, but as TV-out IS supported in the G400 linux drivers, it's not really a unreasonable thing to expect)
I have been using a matrox G450 dual monitor card for over 2 years at work, never once have I wanted to change it and get another card, never once have I had any problems of any sort. At home however, where I do my gaming, you certainly won't find any matrox cards. (A great big stack of various s3, ati and nvidia cards, but nary a matrox in sight.)
So, I guess you haven't tried to use the video-out feature of the G450 under Linux at work? If you had, you might agree with the frustrated users on the matrox linux forums.
No, IE 5 *appeared to be* slimmed down since it just upgraded the components that had changed between IE4 and 5.
Funnily enough, so does ADTI. HTTP/1.0 200 OK Date: Mon, 10 Jun 2002 19:41:00 GMT Server: Rapidsite/Apa/1.3.20 (Unix) FrontPage/4.0.4.3 mod_ssl/2.8.4 OpenSSL/0.9.6 Last-Modified: Mon, 10 Jun 2002 06:09:04 GMT ETag: "9020935-1af5-3d044280" Accept-Ranges: bytes Content-Length: 6901 Connection: close Content-Type: text/html
They still broadcast ads before/after/during reruns, and advertisers still pay. Maybe less than what they would pay for appearing next to the initial broadcast of a show, but probably enough to cover the costs and more. Why else would 30+ year old shows still be rerun?
Ever notice how many ads there are in recorded shows being spread around file sharing networks?
Regarding "undocumented file format": You can get the source code for bitkeeper. What other doc do you need?
Unix (first OSF/1, then Linux) has been running on 64-bit Alpha processors for the better part of a decade. Also, Solaris and linux runs on 64-bit Ultrasparc processors. Win64 is so late in the game it's not even funny.
A lot of (C/C++) programs which assume things about how large a int is is going to break spectacularly when compiled to native 64-bit code. I would guess this will be a bigger problem in the proprietary (windows) world, since a lot of open source software is routinely compiled to, packaged for, and tested on Alpha and/or UltraSPARC, so a lot of it is 64-bit clean.
I have unmetered GPRS (aka 2.5 G) access right now, real cheap as well. Of course, this is partly because my carrier wants people to become used to the service, then they will probably start some sort of metered access... then again, maybe not, as one of the virtual carriers here in sweden just introduced unmetered SMS service. I don't find it improbable that specialized virtual carriers will offer unmetered data transfer.
SOAP is the external interface of the web service. The idea is that you implement this interface using Java or the .NET framework.
Of course, a SOAP-compliant web service could be implemented through Perl, C, shell scripts, REXX or specially-trained gerbils, the client program using the web service shouldn't know (or care).
By the same logic, the problem with breaking and entering is not the burglars, but rather the homeowner who doesn't install enough locks and anti-burglar alarms. I don't buy that.
.com domain. It *will* get probes by spammers trying to send a email to "joe@somecompany.com"
Why should I have to make it harder for people to legitimatley contact me, by for instance obscuring my email address on my web page [well, actually my webpage is down, so don't click that link]?
Anyway, spammers can guess your address even if it has never been published anywhere. Try to set up a mail server acting as a MX for some newly registered
Actually, the X has a fairly sophisticated clipboard
model, maybe a little bit too sophisticated. Hence it has traditionally been poorly understood and badly implemented in apps and toolkit.
Gnome does the Right Thing with respect to clipboards, while QT2/KDE2 uses a more limited clipboard model. The good news is that QT3 and thereby KDE3 will do the Right Think and therefore interoperate a lot better with Gnome (as well as properly written X apps such as XEmacs)
These comments are somewhat enlighening: http://dot.kde.org/1013076354/
Also read this for a backgrounder about clipboard and X: http://www.jwz.org/doc/x-cut-and-paste.html
That's not a prediction, they announced it over 8 months ago: http://www.pcworld.com/pcwtoday/article/0,1510,126 04,00.html
We use Apache together with Resin to create cookie-less session management. Almost all servlet/JSP engines have support for creating sessions this way; the critical thing to remember is to *not* just write links the normal way, but to use the response.encodeURL method to make sure the servlet engine appends the ";jsessionid=" string to the URL in all links.
However, in light of this, i cannot understand why anyone would consider doing anything with HDML as its a dead technology. HDML is a predeseccor to WML, that phone.com developed. Phone.com is now one of the founders of the standards commission Wap Forum.
And stop whining about small screens and no HTML support!
People seem to have the misconception that WML is dumbed-down HTML. Not so! It improves on HTML in several important ways, notably variables (with variable interpolation in text) and the deck-of-cards concept. Please read the spec on www.wapforum.org before passing judgement. There are a lot of things that you can do easily and elegant with WML that are difficult or impossible with HTML.
As for the disadvantage of the semi-open nature of wapforum.org: The advantage of having a tight connection between the industry and the standards body is that new functionality gets adapted FAST -- how long did it take until we had decent CSS1 support in common web browsers? Having said that, i'm not sure the advantages balance the disadvantages.
Check out http://www.wapgateway.org/ -- a GPL'ed WAP gateway
I'm hoping they keep the nice PalmOS interface, but rip out the pathetic excuse for a OS that reside underneath it, replacing it with the Epoc kernel. The layered approach of Epoc would probably make such an attempt feasible. Similarly, there is one or two things the Epoc UI designers could learn from Palm (whoever came up with the idea of double-tap?)
I wish people would realise there's more to the Internet than web serving. A lot of existing and planned services would be very useful even without a normal UI.
If you think of mobile internet access as the web, only smaller,
slower and worse, you're missing the point. Sure, accessing the WWW
via a handheld can be a great timekiller on the train, but the real
promise of connected mobile computing its that it allows the
introduction of computers and associated benefits in areas where you
normally don't see computers at all: think of doctors making the
rounds and having instant access to their patients journals, salesmen
that always can check the inventory and place orders from anywhere,
construction workers who have instant access to instructions, work
flow, incoming deliveries etc.
And you people who whine that if everyone wrote correct HTML 4.0, the
whole world would be nice and rosy: Give it a rest! For example, the
kind of information that you want on a PDA or cell phone display is
drastically different than what you want on a normal computer
screen. For example, the normal Slashdot front page might be perfect
HTML 4.0 Strict, but it still doesn't display great on a PDA because
of the navigation sidebars, slashboxes and other stuff that doesn't
make sense on a PDA. And you certainly don't want to download 50k of
HTML on todays wireless links (between 1.2 and 9.6 kbps,
typically). XML, combined with different XSL style sheets for
adopting the information to different requirements, goes a long way to
make things better here. WML (The markup language of WAP, Wireless
Application Protocol) builds on, and improves the HTML concepts with a
number of very useful concepts (Deck of cards and variable
substitution, to name a few). HTML simply cannot adapt to these kinds
of requirements.
One last thing, about the eventual merge of the PDA and the cellphone:
A lot of people seem to take for granted that a solution where
different devices each do one thing well (voice communication,
display, computing, storage, wireless/radio connectivety, to name a
few things), is the only sane way to go. If bluetooth (for the lower
layers of communication) and Jini or Universal PnP (for the upper
layers) take of, we might indeed see this vision become reality. But
there will always be room for an end-all solutions that does all of
these things in an integrated unit, with excellent integration between
the different capabilities (check out the Nokia 9110, for example). If
configuring your personal BAN (Body Area Network) becomes as
complicated as getting a Windows PC, a Linux Box and a Mac to share
files, printers and outside network connections, then we really
haven't learned anything about usability in the last 15 years....
ISI Releases Net Device Reference Design
Trio seeks to jump-start Java-based PDAs
It looks like a cool system... and before you moan about it being java based and therefore intrinsically slow, remember that java was originally based for appliances like settop boxes and handhelds. They're partnering with Espial for java class libraries, and Espial has done some great java libraries with a very small footprint. Will be interesting to see if it will be interoperable with the Palm + KJava