They should call it FS.net and when bundled with Outlook Express, makes Windows the ultimate in File/Email Sharing technology.
Lets take Slashdotting to a new level...
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Google Juice
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Ok lets have some polls about how users feel about various things, say microsoft, linux, mozilla etc. And then if the results are what malda likes we should use the raw number of slashdot readers to make it so on google. Like say, we all bomb operating system so that linux becomes the first one to show up... or even better, it comes up for inovation and computer. Same with mozilla. And Microsoft we can bomb it to come up as satan. Hell if we play our cards right, Microsoft won't come up at all... and if it does it'll be surrounded in little geocities sites and nobody reads those anymore.
Of course... sony definitly wants to limit what users can do. Don't forget, this is their system and their rules. Especially due to the fact that their is no system remotely like it. And why the hell would you want to turn it into a media player? Or even an emulator? PS2 is the best system I've seen yet... why would I want to downgrade it? Some people have the strangest ideas.
I'm looking forward to this. I realize you can't make your own games for greedy reasons, but I'd love to know how that system works. Something like 5 processors: emotion engine, graphics, sound, io and the vectors (this is not meant to be detailed but very general). This seems like a great system to get a feel for parallel processing programming, due to the fact that the entire system I've heard is a bitch to program because its all in parallel. On another note, I find it very pleasing to see how informative their faq was. It basically answered any question I didn't know I had and even covered "If linux is free, why are you selling it". Haha... oh well, back to bed.
Re:Fragmentation...
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Ok #1) MacOS X is beautiful... but its also the Mach kernel with a BSD compatibility layer on it. Its definitly not linux and typical linux apps won't run on it without a little tweaking.
#2) Have you played with the KD3 beta2 yet? Did it last night and its gorgeous... has some bugs left, but we're talking beta software here. I think if we fix up the config file mess (slackware people excluded, because they like them;-)) and put kde3 on a machine, windows users should have no problem.
On a side note, my two little brothers accidently logged into my linux box. One didn't know he wasn't in windows and was using it fine and the other knew he was in linux but liked it better. Just something to think about.
So this guy actually made quite a bit of money from being laid off. I suppose its only fair they take any unemployeement benefits away, being that he now successfully has a (paying) job being jobless. Saddly the people who donated money to him are probably the same people who cast their eyes away from homeless people or those who are on welfare and can't afford a computer and a web diary. Guess being in the media does pay.
It would have to be in the hardware level or this won't work. Yeah I'm sure Microsoft would do this and maybe even Apple. But whos gonna tell the free community that they need to limit what they can do?
RIAA: "Hi Mr. Torvalds, we need you to enforce the DMCA in your kernel" RIAA: "Hi Redhat, we need you to enforce the DMCA more and Mr. Torvalds told us to contact you."
RedHat: "Umm... we don't actually do the coding for those media projects, you'll have to contact Gnome, KDE, and all the other little developers"
RIAA: "Oh... thank you, you wouldn't happen to the phone number for 1337hac0rz34 would you?"
RedHat: "Haha... click".
Actually this would be funny, I'd like to see them do something like this, because in linux the dmca,etc will never be software. So unless they're hacking firmware which would be a whore, this won't work.
I know the courts don't make the laws. However the courts must use the laws and try them. If the courts find the laws unjust, counter-productive or unconstitutional then it is their duty to change it or influence a change. What i meant by "passing" is that the courts continually allow these laws to screw people over even though those said laws are inhertently counter-productive for our economy and promote monopolies due to anti-competitive practices (licenses fees are expensive, why do you think that it took ibm (and whoever they worked with, i'm sure they paid the license fees for the css) and some open source people (although their copy is illegal) to make software dvd players for linux).
Alright sun just took some awesome software, made it only available by cost and is now running it up against a free version from the same orginal tree. I like this, I'd like to see who ends up better... star office or open office. Of course star office seems alittle more polished but... how many non geeks used it? i use it because it was the best alternative to microsoft office (it had all the feautures... even the massive ram needed). This seems kinda like mozilla vs netscape 6 now... personally i don't like netscape as much as mozilla.
Either the courts are going to keep passing dehabilitating laws such as the DMCA and allow the RIAA and Movie industry to keep screwing its customers or its going to realize "Oh gee... I didn't realize that all this piracy was a result of the entertainment industry fattening its wallets with the money of joe consumer, who doesn't really have the money to buy a hdtv but is told by the guy at "Tv world" that he needs it to watch tv and movies". I think that at some time, like with the recent napster thing, that maybe the courts will realize that they are here to defend the best interest of its citizens... not its corporations. Everyone bitchs about this... but i don't see anyone standing outside of radioshack, best buy, audio visual or circuit city with little flyers and such. I mean the hippies do it for starbucks, etc... why don't the nerds unite. We should use our knowledge of technology for good purposes and spread the info that joe consumer doesn't have. I'm sure this could lead to laws like the dmca, etc being looked at more seriously by the courts and maybe even some hilarious hyjinx along the way.
From what I understand from reading Win 2k Advanced Server's help section on Windows clustering, it is mostly for stability. Kind of like a massive mirror raid system. I really don't see any performance advantage if you're looking for supercomputer speeds, unless your measure performance by uptime. As a side note, what were you using for clustering? I'm currently doing a cluster using mosix for my school and it seems to be going nice. I'm just curious as to what gives the best speed performance on the linux end.
Ok, clicked on Help->Privacy Statement and was taken to this page: Privacy Statement
Seems kind of self explanatory... again this is the same with any software... if you don't like using it, then don't... i really couldn't care if microsoft is keeping track of what music I listen to or dvds... if in the end all it means is i get information on something i might like (like amazon does) then... i suppose thats ok. I think I'd only have a problem with it, if they used it for evil purposes... which I'm failing to see. Now if they somehows used this to help the RIAA, then i'd be pissed because thats none of their business as an Operating System provider. (IMHO of course)
Not to be too offtopic, but a few people have been saying mips is dying. I'd disagree... the ps2 uses a Mips III clocked at 300 megahertz amoung its handful of processors. I think mips has a good thing going with sony, and should keep some money in the bank. I mean TI does the same thing with sun and they're staying afloat.
Actually this is slightly offtopic but IBM is the worlds largest software company, its just that while the software is commercial IBM's biggest customer is itself.
So when I have kids, am I supposed to let them stay up late? Ok besides that... somethings I'd like to see *wink, wink, nudge, nudge, you know who you are research people* linked to living longer:
1)Beer
2)Video Games
3)hacking
4)the simpsons
5)smokes
6)anything else that a decent slacker needs
Now some stuff I'd like to see linked to a shorter life:
I aim to be honest yet sarcastic. Anyway, me and my friends just use cd-rw to trade big stuff. Otherwise theres nothing I really need that I can't get with my modem and 3 hours between 3-6AM;-).
python & forte 3.0 tonite and java 1.4 last nite... not bad for 6.5 kB max bandwidth per sec (56kb modem is 6.5 kB transfer rate... I think they probably just use bit to make it sound faster).
Hyper-cube? Cylnar tree? All this for giving someone else a file? What happened to the good old days when you either used ftp or walked over and gave the guy a floppy.
Ok Microsoft's bug policy is a little shifty, but... linux still isn't bugfree either. Basically we're talking millions of lines of code so the number of bugs is going to be in the thousands. Now with open source the thought is that anyone can review the source and find and fix bugs. Now in actuallity I would say that the number of people that actually have the ability to understand the code is much much much smaller than the number that use the software. How many people here have written software? And how many times does your a bug show up over the littest mistake, that took you 3 hours to track down? Its for this reason that bugs will always be around. Microsoft might not have the manpower due to be a private company to track down and fix all but open source (linux, bsd,etc) don't have the raw numbers of abled programmers to track down the bug. At least open source is alittle bit more, well open about it.
I have the *cough, pirated, cough* copy of Xp Pro corporate, and was playing around with it last night. On exlorer (i think, not internet but the file one) if you click help, theres an option : "Is this copy of Windos legal?"... i almost died laughing. When you click on it, it takes you to an asp script on microsofts server... thank god I don't have a net connection or I might have been in some trouble.
notice they're about the same group... so yeah i think its possible... practical with the dreamcast being $50? hell no... those babies are awesome... too bad about the lack of games recently though (drop hardware price... people buy more... cut off game supply, games dry up)
Its very possible. The problem with reading the g-cd with a cdrom drive is that the intensity of the laser isn't high enough. However a DVD drive can comfortably go into that range. Basically it works roughly the same as custom cd readers such as ISOBuster, etc that use their own system to read in data from the disks and not do it through the OS.
I mean come on, this is so 2 years ago. They used to use these cables to get dumps of information off the dreamcast so they could copy the games. The current way is to pop the dreamcast g-cd (yamaho propetary format that holds 1 gig a disk, with 35 meg (approx) being readable in a cdrom and the rest unreadable for laser issues) into a dvd drive and download a program/driver that changes the way your dvd drive uses its laser to read the disk. From what I understand the new way, while very dangerous for your drive is a hell of alot faster than the 20+ hours that it used to take to make a dreamcast iso, especially when you're worried about it melting.
Slashdot Mirror
They should call it FS.net and when bundled with Outlook Express, makes Windows the ultimate in File/Email Sharing technology.
Ok lets have some polls about how users feel about various things, say microsoft, linux, mozilla etc. And then if the results are what malda likes we should use the raw number of slashdot readers to make it so on google. Like say, we all bomb operating system so that linux becomes the first one to show up... or even better, it comes up for inovation and computer. Same with mozilla. And Microsoft we can bomb it to come up as satan. Hell if we play our cards right, Microsoft won't come up at all... and if it does it'll be surrounded in little geocities sites and nobody reads those anymore.
Of course... sony definitly wants to limit what users can do. Don't forget, this is their system and their rules. Especially due to the fact that their is no system remotely like it. And why the hell would you want to turn it into a media player? Or even an emulator? PS2 is the best system I've seen yet... why would I want to downgrade it? Some people have the strangest ideas.
I'm looking forward to this. I realize you can't make your own games for greedy reasons, but I'd love to know how that system works. Something like 5 processors: emotion engine, graphics, sound, io and the vectors (this is not meant to be detailed but very general). This seems like a great system to get a feel for parallel processing programming, due to the fact that the entire system I've heard is a bitch to program because its all in parallel. On another note, I find it very pleasing to see how informative their faq was. It basically answered any question I didn't know I had and even covered "If linux is free, why are you selling it". Haha... oh well, back to bed.
Ok #1) MacOS X is beautiful... but its also the Mach kernel with a BSD compatibility layer on it. Its definitly not linux and typical linux apps won't run on it without a little tweaking.
;-)) and put kde3 on a machine, windows users should have no problem.
#2) Have you played with the KD3 beta2 yet? Did it last night and its gorgeous... has some bugs left, but we're talking beta software here. I think if we fix up the config file mess (slackware people excluded, because they like them
On a side note, my two little brothers accidently logged into my linux box. One didn't know he wasn't in windows and was using it fine and the other knew he was in linux but liked it better. Just something to think about.
So this guy actually made quite a bit of money from being laid off. I suppose its only fair they take any unemployeement benefits away, being that he now successfully has a (paying) job being jobless. Saddly the people who donated money to him are probably the same people who cast their eyes away from homeless people or those who are on welfare and can't afford a computer and a web diary. Guess being in the media does pay.
It would have to be in the hardware level or this won't work. Yeah I'm sure Microsoft would do this and maybe even Apple. But whos gonna tell the free community that they need to limit what they can do?
RIAA: "Hi Mr. Torvalds, we need you to enforce the DMCA in your kernel"
RIAA: "Hi Redhat, we need you to enforce the DMCA more and Mr. Torvalds told us to contact you."
RedHat: "Umm... we don't actually do the coding for those media projects, you'll have to contact Gnome, KDE, and all the other little developers"
RIAA: "Oh... thank you, you wouldn't happen to the phone number for 1337hac0rz34 would you?"
RedHat: "Haha... click".
Actually this would be funny, I'd like to see them do something like this, because in linux the dmca,etc will never be software. So unless they're hacking firmware which would be a whore, this won't work.
Oh how about:
print "hello world"
Thats it in python, damn I love that language.
I know the courts don't make the laws. However the courts must use the laws and try them. If the courts find the laws unjust, counter-productive or unconstitutional then it is their duty to change it or influence a change. What i meant by "passing" is that the courts continually allow these laws to screw people over even though those said laws are inhertently counter-productive for our economy and promote monopolies due to anti-competitive practices (licenses fees are expensive, why do you think that it took ibm (and whoever they worked with, i'm sure they paid the license fees for the css) and some open source people (although their copy is illegal) to make software dvd players for linux).
Alright sun just took some awesome software, made it only available by cost and is now running it up against a free version from the same orginal tree. I like this, I'd like to see who ends up better... star office or open office. Of course star office seems alittle more polished but... how many non geeks used it? i use it because it was the best alternative to microsoft office (it had all the feautures... even the massive ram needed). This seems kinda like mozilla vs netscape 6 now... personally i don't like netscape as much as mozilla.
Either the courts are going to keep passing dehabilitating laws such as the DMCA and allow the RIAA and Movie industry to keep screwing its customers or its going to realize "Oh gee... I didn't realize that all this piracy was a result of the entertainment industry fattening its wallets with the money of joe consumer, who doesn't really have the money to buy a hdtv but is told by the guy at "Tv world" that he needs it to watch tv and movies". I think that at some time, like with the recent napster thing, that maybe the courts will realize that they are here to defend the best interest of its citizens... not its corporations. Everyone bitchs about this... but i don't see anyone standing outside of radioshack, best buy, audio visual or circuit city with little flyers and such. I mean the hippies do it for starbucks, etc... why don't the nerds unite. We should use our knowledge of technology for good purposes and spread the info that joe consumer doesn't have. I'm sure this could lead to laws like the dmca, etc being looked at more seriously by the courts and maybe even some hilarious hyjinx along the way.
From what I understand from reading Win 2k Advanced Server's help section on Windows clustering, it is mostly for stability. Kind of like a massive mirror raid system. I really don't see any performance advantage if you're looking for supercomputer speeds, unless your measure performance by uptime. As a side note, what were you using for clustering? I'm currently doing a cluster using mosix for my school and it seems to be going nice. I'm just curious as to what gives the best speed performance on the linux end.
Ok, clicked on Help->Privacy Statement and was taken to this page: Privacy Statement
Seems kind of self explanatory... again this is the same with any software... if you don't like using it, then don't... i really couldn't care if microsoft is keeping track of what music I listen to or dvds... if in the end all it means is i get information on something i might like (like amazon does) then... i suppose thats ok. I think I'd only have a problem with it, if they used it for evil purposes... which I'm failing to see. Now if they somehows used this to help the RIAA, then i'd be pissed because thats none of their business as an Operating System provider. (IMHO of course)
Not to be too offtopic, but a few people have been saying mips is dying. I'd disagree... the ps2 uses a Mips III clocked at 300 megahertz amoung its handful of processors. I think mips has a good thing going with sony, and should keep some money in the bank. I mean TI does the same thing with sun and they're staying afloat.
Actually this is slightly offtopic but IBM is the worlds largest software company, its just that while the software is commercial IBM's biggest customer is itself.
So when I have kids, am I supposed to let them stay up late? Ok besides that... somethings I'd like to see *wink, wink, nudge, nudge, you know who you are research people* linked to living longer:
1)Beer
2)Video Games
3)hacking
4)the simpsons
5)smokes
6)anything else that a decent slacker needs
Now some stuff I'd like to see linked to a shorter life:
1)DMCA
2)homework and goddamn flowcharts
3)talk shows like springer
4)anyone that comes into the helpdesk i work at
5)anything that pisses me off
Now all I need is beer, video games and hacking to be linked to living longer and I'm set.
;-)
ps - I mean what else am I going to do when its 3:20 in the morning... oh wait, we have slashdot for that
I aim to be honest yet sarcastic. Anyway, me and my friends just use cd-rw to trade big stuff. Otherwise theres nothing I really need that I can't get with my modem and 3 hours between 3-6AM ;-).
python & forte 3.0 tonite and java 1.4 last nite... not bad for 6.5 kB max bandwidth per sec (56kb modem is 6.5 kB transfer rate... I think they probably just use bit to make it sound faster).
Hyper-cube? Cylnar tree? All this for giving someone else a file? What happened to the good old days when you either used ftp or walked over and gave the guy a floppy.
Ok Microsoft's bug policy is a little shifty, but... linux still isn't bugfree either. Basically we're talking millions of lines of code so the number of bugs is going to be in the thousands. Now with open source the thought is that anyone can review the source and find and fix bugs. Now in actuallity I would say that the number of people that actually have the ability to understand the code is much much much smaller than the number that use the software. How many people here have written software? And how many times does your a bug show up over the littest mistake, that took you 3 hours to track down? Its for this reason that bugs will always be around. Microsoft might not have the manpower due to be a private company to track down and fix all but open source (linux, bsd,etc) don't have the raw numbers of abled programmers to track down the bug. At least open source is alittle bit more, well open about it.
I have the *cough, pirated, cough* copy of Xp Pro corporate, and was playing around with it last night. On exlorer (i think, not internet but the file one) if you click help, theres an option : "Is this copy of Windos legal?"... i almost died laughing. When you click on it, it takes you to an asp script on microsofts server... thank god I don't have a net connection or I might have been in some trouble.
you know taco has a harem, i mean come on... hes king geek
one link, kind of low detail but same idea
heres another from cnet: 2nd link
notice they're about the same group... so yeah i think its possible... practical with the dreamcast being $50? hell no... those babies are awesome... too bad about the lack of games recently though (drop hardware price... people buy more... cut off game supply, games dry up)
Its very possible. The problem with reading the g-cd with a cdrom drive is that the intensity of the laser isn't high enough. However a DVD drive can comfortably go into that range. Basically it works roughly the same as custom cd readers such as ISOBuster, etc that use their own system to read in data from the disks and not do it through the OS.
I mean come on, this is so 2 years ago. They used to use these cables to get dumps of information off the dreamcast so they could copy the games. The current way is to pop the dreamcast g-cd (yamaho propetary format that holds 1 gig a disk, with 35 meg (approx) being readable in a cdrom and the rest unreadable for laser issues) into a dvd drive and download a program/driver that changes the way your dvd drive uses its laser to read the disk. From what I understand the new way, while very dangerous for your drive is a hell of alot faster than the 20+ hours that it used to take to make a dreamcast iso, especially when you're worried about it melting.