We don't nearly as much press (in fact, almost none to date) compared to some of the other X projects such as Gnome or KDE and no external funding, but we do progress.
I think the difference is that we have basically gone through the low level architectural stages. We have picked a base design which is powerful and yet flexible and now that that's done, developmental pace is starting to pick up.
Of course, a little PR never hurt and we could certainly use more developers and some funding.
I believe in the end, X is doomed. It's controlled by a closed consortium, has 15 years of baggage and is the essense of monolithic programming.
It provides very few of the modern GUI services that Windows or MacOS provide, so what you see is window managers and toolkits taking up the slack attempting to add these services, basically fracturing X the say Unix was fragmented. You get programs which have been reimplemented to work on a specific toolkit or specific window manager over and over again. Duplication of work is common, and unfortunate.
As far as 3D interface, it has been spoken of. Unfortunately there has been no clear model for 3D interface for the 2D desktop world we live in. Microsoft actually has shown a 3D interface demo which was quite interesting as have a few other companies, but none of them were complete.
Well either that or place a few thousand heads per platter in a drive. For every head you place on a drive per platter, you increase access times, transfer rates, etc. At least logically this makes sense,
I can imagine one really big head the size of the platter itself with 1 mini reader/writter per track, hell you wouldn't have the spin the thing:)
Because when you buy things on the Internet, you are taking money your state would usually get from sales tax.
Mail order wasn't taxed this way because it simply didn't generate enough business and current Internet sales still aren't very big, but it's growing by leaps and bounds.
Both ISDN and HDSL use something called Pulse Amplitude Modulation which is the physical layer of the connection. By the time the digital signal reaches the receiver, the levels have diffused into eachother. An equalizer goes through and restores the levels to their original values. By definition, it modulates and demodulates, but not in the typical sense like an analog modem.
As for ADSL. ADSL does modulate and demodulate in the typical sense. A digital signal is encoded as a carrier wave and sent down the line to receiver. DMT or descrete multitone modulation uses the fast fourier transform as it's modulator and demodulator.
'ADSL modem' is a valid term in every sense of the word.
Well this isn't quite correct. As I understand it, if it is blatently obvious that the person who patented something disreguarded prior work, the judge will not issue an injunction against a product to stop it from shipping. This was the case with the whole Sony emulator issue where Sony sued for patent infringement but the judge saw the case was weak.
As far as the branches of the government is concerned, the legislative branch nor the executive branch do much more than take a quick look at the law when creating and passing bills. It is the job of the judicial branch to make sure the laws are just.
Then again, I'm not a lawyer, this is all information I gathered from school years back.
You know, I've never quite understood what people have against lawsuits.
Ok, so we make the patent office research every patent before issusing a patent. What happens? Well, the US government starts spending huge amounts of money in order to research patents and delays the time to patent by months, years or decades (yes, more than 5 patents a year are filed in the US) resulting in lost money by everyone involved.
In the current system, a patent is issued to a person. If someone else violates the patent, the person who originally patented the item may sue, however if the person who violated the patent has ample proof that the patent is invalid, then they will win the lawsuit.
The people who are paying for these lawsuits are private citizens or corporations, not the US people as it should be.
The same thing basically happens when a law is passed by the executive branch of the government. The executive branch's job is not to make sure laws passed are constitutional, that is why we have 3 branches of government.
I find it rediculous when people bitch and complain about how the US government is corrupt when an unconstituional law is passed (like the CDA) because people do not fully understand how the government works.
Of course, that's just my opinion, I could be wrong.
There were no installation instructions. Oh sure I figured it out myself in short order but really there should have been some kind of sheet or card telling you how to install the product. That was problem #1.
Some people received a little card with instructions, however all I got was this wordperfect 8 cupon. The instructions were actually located in a README file... tho they basically said, "run install":)
Problem #2, nearly 400MB got copied to my hard disk. Is that really necessary? This is a CD ROM game; why can't I play it off the CD ROM?
366 Megs to be exact, and that's without the movies installed. Games today are silly like that, but I suppose it's better to use up disk space then cache 60 megs of graphics in RAM.
Look at Quake 2, damn thing is over 500 megs with CTF and other levels.
Problem #6: I can't play the game under KDE or Gnome. Even with the panel hidden, enough of it is still there to sufficiently block a good bit of the game. I started X with no window manager in order to play the game.
You know everyone says this happens on their machine, yet it doesn't on mine. I have Gnome w/ E installed and when I run Civ, it runs full screen. I don't see any part of the gnome panel.
Problem #7: This is the big one. After many hours of gameplay, the game burps. Segmentation fault. This has happened to me three times in a row. Seems to happen after many hours of play, but I haven't been watching memory or anything to know if there is a leak.
Haven't had one problem with crashing yet. I played for about 10 hour straight without so much of a hiccup.
My system, for reference is a Debian Potato (bleeding edge). Glibc 2.1.1, Gnome Panel 1.0.5, etc. Basically it's synched with June 1st Potato dist.
Ok, as mentioned there are several types of DSL. ADSL being what is geared towards consumers. HDSL, which is currently being used in about 60% of the T1 installations around the country, and SDSL, which is basically HDSL with 1 pair of wires.
ADSL and SDSL have a maximum range of 18,000 ft and ADSL has a maximum speed of around 8 Mbps, although VDSL a variation of ADSL can go much, much faster, but requires a very short distance to a DSLAM.
There are a few reasons why DSL is better than cable. The main reason is the bottleneck is pushed much further back. With cable, everyone in your neighborhood (up to a 15 square mile area sometimes) shares the cable's max bandwidth, so your neighbor can suck down all your bandwidth and ruin your latency.
With DSL, that bottleneck is pushed all the way back to the ISP itself. So instead of a 10 Mbps maximum cable bandwidth bottleneck, you have a DS3 or more bottleneck. People checking their mail and accessing the local web proxy cache won't affect you at all.
The major problem with these highspeed technologies is the money you are paying. ISPs will have to oversell their bandwidth roughly 30:1 in order to make a profit on DSL and cable. In some areas it's even worse, upwards of 300:1.
The fact of the matter is, don't expect a great service for the small amount of money you pay. The old saying is true, you do get what you pay for.
Don't go for the cheapest ISP, look for a provider which doesn't provide their customers with outrageous amounts of bandwidth for $5/month. These types of ISPs will not give you good service.
This is incorrect. The FCC limits specific levels of power output on phone systems to prevent crosstalk seepage. USR could not figure out a way to get to 56K without exceeding these limits, so they imposed a limit of 53K.
However, Rockwell and Lucent both make chipsets that are capable of reaching the full 56K because they devised a solution that didn't require exceeding the FCC limits on power output.
So you can get a true 56000 connection with v.90 or K56flex, just not with x2 or USR's v.90.
They AREN'T! they're 56k modems! using "K" means you're talking about kilobytes per second, but you're not-- you're talking about kilobits per second, "k". there's, like an 8x difference in bandwidth there. i realize i'm nitpicking, but keep in mind that misleading labeling of speed numbers is the point they sued to begin with!
The way I always understood it, the 'k' simply ment kilo, bytes or bits were not implied. You don't say, "i'm going to drive 56 k" and expect everyone to know you are talking about kilometers.
Bits are a lowercase 'b' and bytes are uppercase 'B'. The 'k' is supposed to be lowercase, but people use it in uppercase because 'kB' looks sorta funny.
56 KB or 56 kB - 56 kilobytes 56 kb or 56 Kb - 56 kilobits
Not to mention this is pretty worthless. My modem can go 56 Kb. What does that mean? Does that mean it can do 56 Kb a minute, 56 Kb a day, it can hold 56 Kb of data?
Anyway, this point is moot as USR/3com modems are marketed as '56K' (capital K) modems so them refering to them as 56K modems makes perfect sense.
Seriously, isn't this what goes on with all high speed technologies.
Let's take a look at cable mdoems. Your cable modem provider, let's just say @home says you will get a 1.5 Mbit/sec downstream bandwidth cap and a 256k upload cap.
Now, the chances of you actually getting 192 KB/s is not possible. You have protocol overhead, other people on your segment eating bandwidth, @home's limited bandwidth, the ISP you are pulling files from limited bandwidth, and the limited bandwidth of the backbone provider in between.
The fact of the matter is, at least where I am, the max speed you'll ever see is around 60 KB/s, with packet loss, high latency and unstable routes.
No ISP out there tells customers what the average speed they will get is (unless you are selling guaranteed rate circuits), so why should 3com?
The modem business has always listed the maximum speed of the modem. Buy a 33,600 modem and put it on a shit line, you won't get 33.6. Buy a 56k modem and put it on a line not capable of 56k and you won't get it.
I see, instead of using an open development model X-Windows is run by a bunch of companies who all have their hands in Microsoft's pockets (for the most part that is).
While Linux and alike champion open source software, I feel it is equally important to work in an open environment instead of this silly closed development model X-Windows has taken. Sure, you can modify window managers which sit ontop of X, or toolkits which applications use... but just try adding new features to X itself and see how well it goes or modifying existing features in X (that would break standards that is).
And don't give me that, "you can add it to xfree86" crap:) PC's running Linux or *BSD* aren't the only machines on the planet running X.
Not true... you must remember that the human brain is massively parallel and doesn't work on a binary system, but rather analog. An electrical pulse may have variable intensity and the reaction may introduce variable amounts of chemical reactions...
This speeds things along considerably. Now... if we just had a more efficient way of exporting and importing data into our brains... we'd be set. I mean, if you could just plug yourself in and learn everything there is to know about a particular subject in a fraction of a second... you'd be set:)
You should really see a shrink and get checked out but, what you described is a classic example of ADD.
ADD allows a person to hyperfocus on most things are interested in. The problem is that if that person is put in a situration where there is more than one thing that requires concentration or they are not interested in a particular task, they tend to get "lost".
I personally have an appointment with a shrink to get diagnosed properly for ADD, however my mother has ADHD.. which is similar to ADD, but with hyperactivity as well as do various other people in my family.
No one quite understands how ADD works. Last I read it seemed to be more of the way you grow up rather than a genetic trait.
You can use an industry standard encryption and authentication protocol with FTP supported by various clients.
First, go to http://www.openssl.org/. OpenSSL is based on SSLeay and is the basis for open source SSL communications in unix. You'll want to grab openssl and compile it and install it. It provides a number of useful programs including md5 & sha for generating checksums on files and a whole suite of other cipher routines.
Next visit http://www.psy.uq.oz.au/~ftp/Crypto/ and go find an FTP server and client pair which have SSL support. There are also a few general proxy deals which can handle it with any standard FTP server.
Now there are a few ways to do authentication, you can do normal authentication or authentication based on certificate which requires a CA server (things like verisign will work if you want to shell out some cash, but you can also build your own CA).
The great thing about SSL is it can autodetect encryption support. So you can take a standard telnet server, make a few minor modifications to get it SSL capable and connect to it using SSL capable telnet client or a vanilla telnet client and it'll use the strongest security possible.
No need for silly third party daemons or special ports. Although the official TLS service ports are different from their unencrypted couterparts.
This is good if you are behind a corporate lan which doesn't like allowing anything besides telnet, ftp, and web traffic through their proxy.
Uhm, Frontpage won't obliterate SHTML tags. If the server has Apache frontpage extensions installed or WebDav (for frontpage 2000)... the file will be sent to the user as-is with now server processing done whatsoever.
You pull down an SHTML page in Frontpage, the tags will remain in the HTML and appear as comments. Unless you delete them.. they will still remain when you save the file to the server.
First there is of course CVS from http://www.cyclic.com. CVS isn't just for source code you know. It provides all that's needed to do complete web site management between a number of webmasters at once. It keeps a copy of every revision of every file, giving you access to it in case you change something by mistake. Other control systems like Aegis and RCS are equally usable.
There are MS Frontpage Extentions from http://www.rtr.com for Apache. These automate common tasks such as access controls, simple CGI. Frontpage, even thought it is a Microsoft product, isn't that bad of a program. It provides a fairly good UI for WYSIWYG editing of web pages along with a file manager resembling Microsoft Explorer. Frontpage 2000 will also feature a way to directly access your web pages from Microsoft Explorer via Network Neighborhood... which is pretty cool.
There is WebDAV from http://www.webdav.org for Apache. WebDAV is the "standard" extensions for Apache for web site editing. All your favorite programs should be using it in the future including Frontpage 2000, Dreamweaver (unconfirmed.. but hinted at), etc. It is currently supported by IE5's little editor dealy as well as a few simple clients for Unix.
More and more webmasters are having to conceed to using a WYSIWYG editor, as well they should. Web standards today are not exactly the simple tags they used to be. You have CSS, XML, XSL, HTML 4 with their complex box algorithms and silly incompatibilities between web browsers which make WYSIWYG programs very attractive. WYSIWYG editors have their place, don't dismiss them simply because the common-folk use them as well.
Then again, don't abandon source editing altogether, nothing beats a text editor when you need a quick fix:)
Well realize they were and still are a horrible development platform (with exception of MacOS X with BSD kernel.. and even then I'm not very fond of ObjectiveC).
Not to mention Apple did horrible things to their developers in terms of licensing and that damn "made for macintosh" deal.
You know, I'm kind of sick of everyone blaming schools for these kids going off when in reality it is poor parenting.
On one side you have the bullies. They have always existed, but you don't hear about kids blowing up schools and going on killing rampages 20 years ago. Nothing has changed, they still mock and hurt in the same sadistic ways.
On the other side you have parents. Parents which no longer spend a lot of time with their kids. Kids are coming into schools with low self-esteem and no social skills. This is becoming worse as computers are being put in every home and kids are spending less and less time with other people.
So you have a ticking timebomb. Kids which don't know how to deal with social pressures and access to guns, plans for bombs, etc.
What is the answer? Well it's really simple, the parenting needs to change. Every high school or college should have a mandatory parenting class of some sort which emphises the correct way to bring up a child so that they are well adjusted.
I personally was not brought up under ideal conditions, but I spent a large portion of my early years in constant contact with friends. I practically lived at friends houses and I think that helped me adjust in school. We moved a lot so my computers were the only way I could keep in constant contact with a group of people. It was the stability I needed in my childhood.
Remember, being a nerd doesn't mean you have to lack social skills. Children should be forced to develop them at an early age so, even if they get mocked in high scool... they know how to deal with it.
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We don't nearly as much press (in fact, almost none to date) compared to some of the other X projects such as Gnome or KDE and no external funding, but we do progress.
I think the difference is that we have basically gone through the low level architectural stages. We have picked a base design which is powerful and yet flexible and now that that's done, developmental pace is starting to pick up.
Of course, a little PR never hurt and we could certainly use more developers and some funding.
I believe in the end, X is doomed. It's controlled by a closed consortium, has 15 years of baggage and is the essense of monolithic programming.
It provides very few of the modern GUI services that Windows or MacOS provide, so what you see is window managers and toolkits taking up the slack attempting to add these services, basically fracturing X the say Unix was fragmented. You get programs which have been reimplemented to work on a specific toolkit or specific window manager over and over again. Duplication of work is common, and unfortunate.
As far as 3D interface, it has been spoken of. Unfortunately there has been no clear model for 3D interface for the 2D desktop world we live in. Microsoft actually has shown a 3D interface demo which was quite interesting as have a few other companies, but none of them were complete.
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Well either that or place a few thousand heads per platter in a drive. For every head you place on a drive per platter, you increase access times, transfer rates, etc. At least logically this makes sense,
:)
:
I can imagine one really big head the size of the platter itself with 1 mini reader/writter per track, hell you wouldn't have the spin the thing
Of course, that might cost too much
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Because when you buy things on the Internet, you are taking money your state would usually get from sales tax.
Mail order wasn't taxed this way because it simply didn't generate enough business and current Internet sales still aren't very big, but it's growing by leaps and bounds.
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Both ISDN and HDSL use something called Pulse Amplitude Modulation which is the physical layer of the connection. By the time the digital signal reaches the receiver, the levels have diffused into eachother. An equalizer goes through and restores the levels to their original values. By definition, it modulates and demodulates, but not in the typical sense like an analog modem.
As for ADSL. ADSL does modulate and demodulate in the typical sense. A digital signal is encoded as a carrier wave and sent down the line to receiver. DMT or descrete multitone modulation uses the fast fourier transform as it's modulator and demodulator.
'ADSL modem' is a valid term in every sense of the word.
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Various words use the same greek root:
de'cath'lon, bi'ath'lon, de'cath'lon
I'd assume athlon would be ath'lon.
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From spending a few minutes on a few search engines, I found out "athlon" is greek. It means "activity carried out for a prize" or simply "prize".
I wonder if AMD knows this. You would have figured they would have at least used the Pentium style prefixes, for instance, 'Eptathlon' or 'Pentathon'.
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Well this isn't quite correct. As I understand it, if it is blatently obvious that the person who patented something disreguarded prior work, the judge will not issue an injunction against a product to stop it from shipping. This was the case with the whole Sony emulator issue where Sony sued for patent infringement but the judge saw the case was weak.
As far as the branches of the government is concerned, the legislative branch nor the executive branch do much more than take a quick look at the law when creating and passing bills. It is the job of the judicial branch to make sure the laws are just.
Then again, I'm not a lawyer, this is all information I gathered from school years back.
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You know, I've never quite understood what people have against lawsuits.
Ok, so we make the patent office research every patent before issusing a patent. What happens? Well, the US government starts spending huge amounts of money in order to research patents and delays the time to patent by months, years or decades (yes, more than 5 patents a year are filed in the US) resulting in lost money by everyone involved.
In the current system, a patent is issued to a person. If someone else violates the patent, the person who originally patented the item may sue, however if the person who violated the patent has ample proof that the patent is invalid, then they will win the lawsuit.
The people who are paying for these lawsuits are private citizens or corporations, not the US people as it should be.
The same thing basically happens when a law is passed by the executive branch of the government. The executive branch's job is not to make sure laws passed are constitutional, that is why we have 3 branches of government.
I find it rediculous when people bitch and complain about how the US government is corrupt when an unconstituional law is passed (like the CDA) because people do not fully understand how the government works.
Of course, that's just my opinion, I could be wrong.
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There were no installation instructions. Oh sure I figured it out myself in short order but really there should have been some kind of sheet or card telling you how to install the product. That was problem #1.
:)
Some people received a little card with instructions, however all I got was this wordperfect 8 cupon. The instructions were actually located in a README file... tho they basically said, "run install"
Problem #2, nearly 400MB got copied to my hard disk. Is that really necessary? This is a CD ROM game; why can't I play it off the CD ROM?
366 Megs to be exact, and that's without the movies installed. Games today are silly like that, but I suppose it's better to use up disk space then cache 60 megs of graphics in RAM.
Look at Quake 2, damn thing is over 500 megs with CTF and other levels.
Problem #6: I can't play the game under KDE or Gnome. Even with the panel hidden, enough of it is still there to sufficiently block a good bit of the game. I started X with no window manager in order to play the game.
You know everyone says this happens on their machine, yet it doesn't on mine. I have Gnome w/ E installed and when I run Civ, it runs full screen. I don't see any part of the gnome panel.
Problem #7: This is the big one. After many hours of gameplay, the game burps. Segmentation fault. This has happened to me three times in a row. Seems to happen after many hours of play, but I haven't been watching memory or anything to know if there is a leak.
Haven't had one problem with crashing yet. I played for about 10 hour straight without so much of a hiccup.
My system, for reference is a Debian Potato (bleeding edge). Glibc 2.1.1, Gnome Panel 1.0.5, etc. Basically it's synched with June 1st Potato dist.
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Ok, as mentioned there are several types of DSL. ADSL being what is geared towards consumers. HDSL, which is currently being used in about 60% of the T1 installations around the country, and SDSL, which is basically HDSL with 1 pair of wires.
ADSL and SDSL have a maximum range of 18,000 ft and ADSL has a maximum speed of around 8 Mbps, although VDSL a variation of ADSL can go much, much faster, but requires a very short distance to a DSLAM.
There are a few reasons why DSL is better than cable. The main reason is the bottleneck is pushed much further back. With cable, everyone in your neighborhood (up to a 15 square mile area sometimes) shares the cable's max bandwidth, so your neighbor can suck down all your bandwidth and ruin your latency.
With DSL, that bottleneck is pushed all the way back to the ISP itself. So instead of a 10 Mbps maximum cable bandwidth bottleneck, you have a DS3 or more bottleneck. People checking their mail and accessing the local web proxy cache won't affect you at all.
The major problem with these highspeed technologies is the money you are paying. ISPs will have to oversell their bandwidth roughly 30:1 in order to make a profit on DSL and cable. In some areas it's even worse, upwards of 300:1.
The fact of the matter is, don't expect a great
service for the small amount of money you pay. The
old saying is true, you do get what you pay for.
Don't go for the cheapest ISP, look for a provider which doesn't provide their customers with outrageous amounts of bandwidth for $5/month. These types of ISPs will not give you good service.
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This is incorrect. The FCC limits specific levels of power output on phone systems to prevent crosstalk seepage. USR could not figure out a way to get to 56K without exceeding these limits, so they imposed a limit of 53K.
However, Rockwell and Lucent both make chipsets that are capable of reaching the full 56K because they devised a solution that didn't require exceeding the FCC limits on power output.
So you can get a true 56000 connection with v.90 or K56flex, just not with x2 or USR's v.90.
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Oh and one more thing, remember K means means 1000. 56K means 56,000 and when talking about modems it's implied as bits per second.
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They AREN'T! they're 56k modems! using "K" means you're talking about kilobytes per second, but you're not-- you're talking about kilobits per second, "k". there's, like an 8x difference in bandwidth there. i realize i'm nitpicking, but keep in mind that misleading labeling of speed numbers is the point they sued to begin with!
The way I always understood it, the 'k' simply ment kilo, bytes or bits were not implied. You don't say, "i'm going to drive 56 k" and expect everyone to know you are talking about kilometers.
Bits are a lowercase 'b' and bytes are uppercase 'B'. The 'k' is supposed to be lowercase, but people use it in uppercase because 'kB' looks sorta funny.
56 KB or 56 kB - 56 kilobytes
56 kb or 56 Kb - 56 kilobits
Not to mention this is pretty worthless. My modem can go 56 Kb. What does that mean? Does that mean it can do 56 Kb a minute, 56 Kb a day, it can hold 56 Kb of data?
Anyway, this point is moot as USR/3com modems are marketed as '56K' (capital K) modems so them refering to them as 56K modems makes perfect sense.
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Seriously, isn't this what goes on with all high speed technologies.
Let's take a look at cable mdoems. Your cable modem provider, let's just say @home says you will get a 1.5 Mbit/sec downstream bandwidth cap and a 256k upload cap.
Now, the chances of you actually getting 192 KB/s is not possible. You have protocol overhead, other people on your segment eating bandwidth, @home's limited bandwidth, the ISP you are pulling files from limited bandwidth, and the limited bandwidth of the backbone provider in between.
The fact of the matter is, at least where I am, the max speed you'll ever see is around 60 KB/s, with packet loss, high latency and unstable routes.
No ISP out there tells customers what the average speed they will get is (unless you are selling guaranteed rate circuits), so why should 3com?
The modem business has always listed the maximum speed of the modem. Buy a 33,600 modem and put it on a shit line, you won't get 33.6. Buy a 56k modem and put it on a line not capable of 56k and you won't get it.
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I see, instead of using an open development model X-Windows is run by a bunch of companies who all have their hands in Microsoft's pockets (for the most part that is).
:) PC's running Linux or *BSD* aren't the only machines on the planet running X.
:)
While Linux and alike champion open source software, I feel it is equally important to work in an open environment instead of this silly closed development model X-Windows has taken.
Sure, you can modify window managers which sit ontop of X, or toolkits which applications use... but just try adding new features to X itself and see how well it goes or modifying existing features in X (that would break standards that is).
And don't give me that, "you can add it to xfree86" crap
Of course, I'm slightly biased on this topic
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Not true... you must remember that the human brain is massively parallel and doesn't work on a binary system, but rather analog. An electrical pulse may have variable intensity and the reaction may introduce variable amounts of chemical reactions...
:)
This speeds things along considerably. Now... if we just had a more efficient way of exporting and importing data into our brains... we'd be set. I mean, if you could just plug yourself in and learn everything there is to know about a particular subject in a fraction of a second... you'd be set
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You should really see a shrink and get checked out but, what you described is a classic example of ADD.
ADD allows a person to hyperfocus on most things are interested in. The problem is that if that person is put in a situration where there is more than one thing that requires concentration or they are not interested in a particular task, they tend to get "lost".
I personally have an appointment with a shrink to get diagnosed properly for ADD, however my mother has ADHD.. which is similar to ADD, but with hyperactivity as well as do various other people in my family.
No one quite understands how ADD works. Last I read it seemed to be more of the way you grow up rather than a genetic trait.
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Linux kernels are:
2 = Major version
2 = Minor version
8 = Patch level
and optionally
-x = Pre-patch level
Some programs are:
Major.Minor.Build
But I've never seen a program refer to the third number as the "micro" version.
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You can use an industry standard encryption and authentication protocol with FTP supported by various clients.
First, go to http://www.openssl.org/. OpenSSL is based on SSLeay and is the basis for open source SSL communications in unix. You'll want to grab openssl and compile it and install it. It provides a number of useful programs including md5 & sha for generating checksums on files and a whole suite of other cipher routines.
Next visit http://www.psy.uq.oz.au/~ftp/Crypto/ and go find an FTP server and client pair which have SSL support. There are also a few general proxy deals which can handle it with any standard FTP server.
Now there are a few ways to do authentication, you can do normal authentication or authentication based on certificate which requires a CA server (things like verisign will work if you want to shell out some cash, but you can also build your own CA).
The great thing about SSL is it can autodetect encryption support. So you can take a standard telnet server, make a few minor modifications to get it SSL capable and connect to it using SSL capable telnet client or a vanilla telnet client and it'll use the strongest security possible.
No need for silly third party daemons or special ports. Although the official TLS service ports are different from their unencrypted couterparts.
This is good if you are behind a corporate lan which doesn't like allowing anything besides telnet, ftp, and web traffic through their proxy.
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Uhm, Frontpage won't obliterate SHTML tags. If the server has Apache frontpage extensions installed or WebDav (for frontpage 2000)... the file will be sent to the user as-is with now server processing done whatsoever.
You pull down an SHTML page in Frontpage, the tags will remain in the HTML and appear as comments. Unless you delete them.. they will still remain when you save the file to the server.
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First there is of course CVS from http://www.cyclic.com. CVS isn't just for source code you know. It provides all that's needed to do complete web site management between a number of webmasters at once. It keeps a copy of every revision of every file, giving you access to it in case you change something by mistake. Other control systems like Aegis and RCS are equally usable.
:)
There are MS Frontpage Extentions from http://www.rtr.com for Apache. These automate common tasks such as access controls, simple CGI. Frontpage, even thought it is a Microsoft product, isn't that bad of a program. It provides a fairly good UI for WYSIWYG editing of web pages along with a file manager resembling Microsoft Explorer. Frontpage 2000 will also feature a way to directly access your web pages from Microsoft Explorer via Network Neighborhood... which is pretty cool.
There is WebDAV from http://www.webdav.org for Apache. WebDAV is the "standard" extensions for Apache for web site editing. All your favorite programs should be using it in the future including Frontpage 2000, Dreamweaver (unconfirmed.. but hinted at), etc. It is currently supported by IE5's little editor dealy as well as a few simple clients for Unix.
More and more webmasters are having to conceed to using a WYSIWYG editor, as well they should. Web standards today are not exactly the simple tags they used to be. You have CSS, XML, XSL, HTML 4 with their complex box algorithms and silly incompatibilities between web browsers which make WYSIWYG programs very attractive. WYSIWYG editors have their place, don't dismiss them simply because the common-folk use them as well.
Then again, don't abandon source editing altogether, nothing beats a text editor when you need a quick fix
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My thoughts exactly.
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Well realize they were and still are a horrible development platform (with exception of MacOS X with BSD kernel.. and even then I'm not very fond of ObjectiveC).
Not to mention Apple did horrible things to their developers in terms of licensing and that damn "made for macintosh" deal.
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You know, I'm kind of sick of everyone blaming schools for these kids going off when in reality it is poor parenting.
On one side you have the bullies. They have always existed, but you don't hear about kids blowing up schools and going on killing rampages 20 years ago. Nothing has changed, they still mock and hurt in the same sadistic ways.
On the other side you have parents. Parents which no longer spend a lot of time with their kids. Kids are coming into schools with low self-esteem and no social skills. This is becoming worse as computers are being put in every home and kids are spending less and less time with other people.
So you have a ticking timebomb. Kids which don't know how to deal with social pressures and access to guns, plans for bombs, etc.
What is the answer? Well it's really simple, the parenting needs to change. Every high school or college should have a mandatory parenting class of some sort which emphises the correct way to bring up a child so that they are well adjusted.
I personally was not brought up under ideal conditions, but I spent a large portion of my early years in constant contact with friends. I practically lived at friends houses and I think that helped me adjust in school. We moved a lot so my computers were the only way I could keep in constant contact with a group of people. It was the stability I needed in my childhood.
Remember, being a nerd doesn't mean you have to lack social skills. Children should be forced to develop them at an early age so, even if they get mocked in high scool... they know how to deal with it.
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Hmm, the USB support in 2.2.7 appears to be an alternate development by Linus & friends rather than from the Linux USB project.
Anyone have any ideas why they wrote their own instead of working with Linux USB project's version?
The Linux USB projects sources seem farther along than what is included in the kernel.
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