I just cannot understand why Linksys used Linux in WRT54G instead of BSD.
Taking a BSD (NetBSD being the obvious choice here) would have been a lot better for them, as they wouldn't have had to release their (Linux firmware) code, so no open firmwares would exist, so they wouldn't have to move to VxWorks, so they wouldn't be paying VxWorks licenses now.
Your comment is stupid and shows a large lack of knowledge about Gtk and Qt.
Gtk is ugly to develop with, inconsistent, lacks a lot of functionality and it is a complete joke for multi-platform development.
Qt is so superior to Gtk it pays for itself so soon you will never regret buying it. A Qt license is worth half the pay of one developer for one month. Your company will recover that money immediately.
Had Suse used Gtk instead of Qt, Novell would be firing twice the people they are firing now. And the movement from Qt to Gtk is so stupid they are firing theirselves on the foot.
Bye, bye, Novell, you had the best (Suse Linux, ZenWorks and eDirectory) and you decided to suicide.
Last month I saw users rejecting a new, lots better CMS, just because they had a very good friendship with the Support guy of the old company. You may have a rock-solid, very good software, but you cannot fight against those kind of non-software-related affairs.
One factor seldomly taken in account is the user's reluctance to the new system.
You may have a 100% working new system, with a 1000% improvement over the old system, but if users are not excited about the new system and they do not want to use it for whatever-the-reason (maybe just because he/she now has to learn new things), the new system is going to fail. Users will make sure it fails. I have seen that many times.
Oh, you stupid people, you don't grasp what's really happenning here. I have to tell you everything.
Apple is turning to Intel because The Evil Empire (AKA Microsoft) will at last buy 100% Apple stock and Mac OS X 11.0 will be the much-hyped Longhorn.:-D
Some important features Linux has been lacking for a long long time has been ease to deploy software & patches from a central location and a highly-integrated and easy-to-use directory service.
Sure, you could use scripts and LDAP, but they suck. Those are time-consuming and limited solutions.
With Novell entering the Linux market (I'd rather say Novell is betting everything to Linux), these is changing: eDirectory, ZenWorks (6.6 works great, I can't wait for 7.0), etc are superior tools and services.
A lot of companies (mine included) are starting to use SuSe because of the awesome integration of Novell tools with SuSe. We are even deploying it to our clients. Is this the return of Netware, in shape of a Netwared Linux?
It's a Linux distribution developed by the regional government of Extremadura (Spain) for elementary schools and high schools.
It's in Spanish and it's currently being used by hundreds (if not thousands) of schools. It's exactly what you need. And you can do a centralized remote management of the computers.
Microsoft not appealing, the EU trying to approve software patents... Duh... no, sure there is no connection...
Quantum physics, of course
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Well, taking in account Santa works at night, I think I can offer a easier explanation.
This particularity makes possible a Quantum Physics explanation: actually Santa is very very small and travels so fast that what we have is a lot of different small Santa Claus, all of them working hard. Of course, no one can see him, the wave function does not collapse.
Beware this behaviour could be destroyed by a foolish kid, hidden in the dark, watching Santa at work. This would collapse the wave function, rendering the other quantum-Santa Claus impossible. Moral: be sure your children are sleeping tonight!
Project Odin does a binary to binary dynamic translation from Win32 to OS/2. And it does quite well.
Odin has been circulating for some years now (it was called "w32os2" when it started). Extending Odin idea to other architectures is not trivial or easy, but it can be done.
Sequence numbers in Windows are continuous. Other operating systems randomize seq numbers, making ip spoofing far more difficult (not impossible, though, if you have a lot of bandwidth).
Why would someone hire people to click banners when you could automate it?
You just need a bit of programming to parse webpages looking for Google (or other companies' ads).
Add some ip-spoofing (easy if the destination web server runs Windows) and make the program distribute clicks using some kind of probability distribution (for instance, a Gauss distribution), and it will look perfectly legal.
Indeed, if you find any ads company that still pays per click, and set some of those banners in a site of yours, you could earn a lot of money.
I described deeply this procedure in 1999 in a paper called Simulating hits to a HTTP server. Sadly, it is only in Catalan (if you have interest, e-mail me and I'll try to translate it for you).
I can show you lots and lots of web sites that comply 100% with W3C standards and DO NOT render well in Internet Explorer or Mozilla or Konqueror or some other browser.
There are a lot of problems: - Browsers usually do not implement the full CSS standard - There are bugs (lots of them!) in MSIE, Mozilla, Konqueror... - The DOM is NOT the same in MSIE and Mozilla, so scripting is crippled
If you have a simple web site (and the CSS Zen Garden is a SIMPLE one), you won't need to know which browser your visitor is using.
But if you have and ellaborate web site, you DO need to know which browser the visitor is using, which version and create slightly different code for Mozilla and Internet Explorer (sometimes code can be completely different).
Heck, you don't have a clue what you are talking about! Web programming is a damn!
When I had an Spectrum, a company called Labware created something like this. Its name was EDOS. Given that in 1988 computers used to work with cassettes (Spectrum, Amstrad, Commodore 64 & 128...), it recorded software to cassettes.
It was a computer with a tape recorder and was to be installed in software stores. When you wanted a program, the EDOS connected (through a modem) to Labware, downloaded it and recorded to the tape. Software didn't stay in the EDOS longer than the time it needed to record.
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I just cannot understand why Linksys used Linux in WRT54G instead of BSD. Taking a BSD (NetBSD being the obvious choice here) would have been a lot better for them, as they wouldn't have had to release their (Linux firmware) code, so no open firmwares would exist, so they wouldn't have to move to VxWorks, so they wouldn't be paying VxWorks licenses now.
Your comment is stupid and shows a large lack of knowledge about Gtk and Qt.
Gtk is ugly to develop with, inconsistent, lacks a lot of functionality and it is a complete joke for multi-platform development.
Qt is so superior to Gtk it pays for itself so soon you will never regret buying it. A Qt license is worth half the pay of one developer for one month. Your company will recover that money immediately.
Had Suse used Gtk instead of Qt, Novell would be firing twice the people they are firing now. And the movement from Qt to Gtk is so stupid they are firing theirselves on the foot.
Bye, bye, Novell, you had the best (Suse Linux, ZenWorks and eDirectory) and you decided to suicide.
No, you are completely wrong.
Last month I saw users rejecting a new, lots better CMS, just because they had a very good friendship with the Support guy of the old company. You may have a rock-solid, very good software, but you cannot fight against those kind of non-software-related affairs.
One factor seldomly taken in account is the user's reluctance to the new system.
You may have a 100% working new system, with a 1000% improvement over the old system, but if users are not excited about the new system and they do not want to use it for whatever-the-reason (maybe just because he/she now has to learn new things), the new system is going to fail. Users will make sure it fails. I have seen that many times.
Oh, you stupid people, you don't grasp what's really happenning here. I have to tell you everything.
:-D
Apple is turning to Intel because The Evil Empire (AKA Microsoft) will at last buy 100% Apple stock and Mac OS X 11.0 will be the much-hyped Longhorn.
Doing that in Spain for years, too. Sadly, I can't recall when Mobipay started its business.
Oh my god, this already exists in Spain: Mobipay, Paybox. Little success, by the way.
I swear I was not in drugs when I wrote that! I don't know how could I wrote so many grammar errors in so little text! %-)
Some important features Linux has been lacking for a long long time has been ease to deploy software & patches from a central location and a highly-integrated and easy-to-use directory service.
Sure, you could use scripts and LDAP, but they suck. Those are time-consuming and limited solutions.
With Novell entering the Linux market (I'd rather say Novell is betting everything to Linux), these is changing: eDirectory, ZenWorks (6.6 works great, I can't wait for 7.0), etc are superior tools and services.
A lot of companies (mine included) are starting to use SuSe because of the awesome integration of Novell tools with SuSe. We are even deploying it to our clients. Is this the return of Netware, in shape of a Netwared Linux?
Use LinEx.
It's a Linux distribution developed by the regional government of Extremadura (Spain) for elementary schools and high schools.
It's in Spanish and it's currently being used by hundreds (if not thousands) of schools. It's exactly what you need. And you can do a centralized remote management of the computers.
And what about an iPod with wificast support?
Microsoft not appealing, the EU trying to approve software patents... Duh... no, sure there is no connection...
Well, taking in account Santa works at night, I think I can offer a easier explanation.
This particularity makes possible a Quantum Physics explanation: actually Santa is very very small and travels so fast that what we have is a lot of different small Santa Claus, all of them working hard. Of course, no one can see him, the wave function does not collapse.
Beware this behaviour could be destroyed by a foolish kid, hidden in the dark, watching Santa at work. This would collapse the wave function, rendering the other quantum-Santa Claus impossible. Moral: be sure your children are sleeping tonight!
"Blue jeans" translated as "bluyins" into Spanish? As a native Spanish and Catalan speaker, I can only say: what a shit of a translation!.
"Blue jeans" = "vaqueros" ("pantalones vaqueros").
Oh, well. So you mean you have reinvented alien
Reinvening Autopackage and OpenPKG once again?
Then Microsoft will buy Sony. The biggest fish is able to catch it...
Oh, this is a small problem for Microsoft. They will just buy SonicFoundry and have no trials
Coral cache for the article and for the map.
Please Slashdot editors, use Coral cache for ALL the links in your stories. Slashdotting effect can led a site to disappear due to bandwidth costs :-/
Project Odin does a binary to binary dynamic translation from Win32 to OS/2. And it does quite well.
Odin has been circulating for some years now (it was called "w32os2" when it started). Extending Odin idea to other architectures is not trivial or easy, but it can be done.
Oh, shit! This again and again.
Cold fusion is impossible and Physics have long demostrated it.
Robert L. Park, the President of the American Physical Society, wrote a book that deals with this and explains it clearly: Voodoo Science. He will probably treat this "rebirth" of the hype on his What's new science column.
How long until the USA Government understands they cannot beat the Second Law of Thermodynamics?
Sequence numbers in Windows are continuous. Other operating systems randomize seq numbers, making ip spoofing far more difficult (not impossible, though, if you have a lot of bandwidth).
Why would someone hire people to click banners when you could automate it?
You just need a bit of programming to parse webpages looking for Google (or other companies' ads).
Add some ip-spoofing (easy if the destination web server runs Windows) and make the program distribute clicks using some kind of probability distribution (for instance, a Gauss distribution), and it will look perfectly legal.
Indeed, if you find any ads company that still pays per click, and set some of those banners in a site of yours, you could earn a lot of money.
I described deeply this procedure in 1999 in a paper called Simulating hits to a HTTP server. Sadly, it is only in Catalan (if you have interest, e-mail me and I'll try to translate it for you).
I can show you lots and lots of web sites that comply 100% with W3C standards and DO NOT render well in Internet Explorer or Mozilla or Konqueror or some other browser.
There are a lot of problems:
- Browsers usually do not implement the full CSS standard
- There are bugs (lots of them!) in MSIE, Mozilla, Konqueror...
- The DOM is NOT the same in MSIE and Mozilla, so scripting is crippled
If you have a simple web site (and the CSS Zen Garden is a SIMPLE one), you won't need to know which browser your visitor is using.
But if you have and ellaborate web site, you DO need to know which browser the visitor is using, which version and create slightly different code for Mozilla and Internet Explorer (sometimes code can be completely different).
Heck, you don't have a clue what you are talking about! Web programming is a damn!
My God! We are reinventing the wheel.
When I had an Spectrum, a company called Labware created something like this. Its name was EDOS. Given that in 1988 computers used to work with cassettes (Spectrum, Amstrad, Commodore 64 & 128...), it recorded software to cassettes.
It was a computer with a tape recorder and was to be installed in software stores. When you wanted a program, the EDOS connected (through a modem) to Labware, downloaded it and recorded to the tape. Software didn't stay in the EDOS longer than the time it needed to record.
Here is a photo.
Where is the revolution, then?