I can't wait until we just get rid of all the countries and start cooperating
heh, you're serious? competition is the reason we exist and continue to thrive. the trick is to keep it friendly competition. without competition, innovation becomes impossible.
We ARE supposed to be modern and civilized, aren't we?
whatever gave you that silly idea? just saying that we're civilised is hardly going to undo billions of years of hardwired behaviour.
heh, was it star trek that brought this idea of civilised humanity being ruled by a single government? dunno, but I'd say we have a long way to go before that pipedream is ever realised. for the most part, we 'civilised' people are in the minority, so if we were to try to put representative or direct democracy into the picture... just imagine the nightmare.
oh well, all hail whatever god the government decides on.
if it updated his qb database during the update, it may be that the he can't open it without updating... very nasty little updates. in the multiuser version, if one client updates, all the others have to in order to read the db.
if you want a graphical SVGA-Lib browser for Linux, have a look at Arachne. the interface is awful and it's a little buggy, but browsing without X11 is nice:
http://www.arachne.cz/
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yes, but you wouldn't be allowed to legally do anything with the source you extracted....you would also need to have the equipment to get to the code....
if you have the equipment to get the code from a ROM, then yes it would be no problem...
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this was my thought, as well.....in fact, the fact that it is a RTOS lead me to initially believe that this was the aim. I still haven't really seen the point, except that the guy wanted to do it.
it would be a cool embedded OS, though. the GUI is decent enough, to make it worth the time. it really looks like it would be a good alternative to QNX or NT embedded...BUT, would licensing issues make it impossible for a small company to use it without releasing their source, considering the entire OS seems to be under the GPL? the GPL is great, but the companies that produce POS's and other such devices that could use a GUI generally try to be pretty proprietary with their software.
yes, that's why he bothered to tell us he was upgrading to "Linux 7.0", instead of letting us believe that 5 and 6 were development versions that didn't make the cut, as reported elsewhere.
BUT, he still made the jump to 8 for whatever reason.
it seems to me that it isn't even really about churning things out, these days. it's all about the number...if my number is higher than yours, it must be better, right? take the Slackware jump as an example, everyone else is at 7.0, so we have to be, too.
why not back off on the numbers and start spending some time fixing the issues you already know exist....maybe the open source companies should start looking at making a stable release, then releasing stable updates at regular intervals, like Sun, IBM, Apple and others.
it's fine now, but it seems like the marketing scheme starts to back fire as the numbers start to get higher....one would hope that when Mandrake gets to release 10(next month?), it would be an "uber operating system"....I mean they've had at least 10 tries, right? that's what the numbers are supposed say.
and they still haven't gotten it right.
as long as development is continuing, I see no reason to see this as a bad thing.
I'm not a big Mandrake fan, but you can't really fault them for that. Sun actually bothered to ask users about Gnome and received some good feedback, if a bit anal. maybe Gnome will get some of that polish soon, but until there is actually a more or less common UI, there are always going to be rough areas.
seems a bit ridiculous to me. it would seem to me that money would go to better use creating a better distribution. I guess the marketing crew decided they could market the fact that it was once owned by Corel. yeah right, no one took Corel's distro seriously since the first release.
one wonders exactly what Corel has in the Linux dept that would be worth 2M....
I would have just bought a CD from cheapbytes and forked...
errr...sorry, but Terrasoft is only a reseller of the briQ's. other than selling them, and giving them the stylish Yellow Dog look, they don't have much to do with the briQ. if Apple, for whatever reason, decided to invest in a company that competes with them not only on the OS front, but also on the hardware side(the honeypot)...I would hope that they would invest in the actual OEM, rather than one of their retail channels.
>>Best thing there is... until Slackware makes a PPC version:-)
yes, that would be a great option....but, considering the SPARC port isn't finished and there isn't even a slackware-current/ right now, I won't be holding my breath.
YDL is a bit too Red Hat for my tastes...the company would do well to do more than a simple fork, like Mandrake has...even though it's still to Red Hat, for my tastes.
>>Linux runs smoothly on dozens of different hardware platforms
I would disagree with the smoothly part when it comes to SPARC platforms, but it does run well on PPC...I wish they would put as much into the ports as the NetBSD crew does, though.
what does Solaris have to do with Mac hardware or Linux? there hasn't been a PPC port of Solaris for quite a while, and it was designed for IBM hardware, in the first place.
Solaris wasn't really designed for that type of environment anyway...install it on real hardware with a proxy and slam it with 400 requests and then you'll see why some of us like it...as for NAT on Solaris, try IP-filter:
http://coombs.anu.edu.au/~avalon/
has Windows so thoroughly destroyed our thinking that we have to look for "masquerading options" and such, and then when we fail to find it, decide that the platform is clearly inferior?
maybe not MCSE, but MCSE + Internet and MCP + Internet most certainly did...and anyone else who took TCP/IP as an elective....and it was the most popular elective. however, to be fair the test itself was more geared towards NetBIOS over TCP/IP and WINS was more important than DNS in the NT4 name services scheme, at least according to the test.
it's too bad MS seems to have deleted all of the objectives for the retired tests.
what's going on with/. lately...seems like there are quite a few touchy MCSE's here lately.
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moron? maybe, but I'm not using IIS, so where does that put you, AC?
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oops...it seems that an MCSE(obviously running IIS) has modded me down....I guess I'll have to send a retraction to all the MCSE's on our help desk(1st tier), too.....
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it's obvious the patches aren't working....so, can we round up all the useless MCSE's and string them up this time?
I'll have to reread the story again, but I see what you're saying....it would also seem that a higher frequency would only rule out music that was recorded by converting the signal to analog at some point in the process...a straight cd burn would preserve any signals hidden in the higher frequencies....
but, the piracy that they're trying to fight wouldn't normally be created with analog equipment...the recording industry realises that people have been taping stuff from the radio or cd/tape to tape for years, the fact that it's so easy to create CD or nearly CD quality recordings with cheap equipment seems to have them running scared...
how about mp3 compression, would the compression destroy a simple hide-it-in-the-highs type of watermark, or are there ways to get around it?
if the signal does remain in the audible range, the only ways I can see of injecting a message without altering the original song would be playing "tricks" with amplitude or duration...both of which would be totally useless for digital-analog recordings and would probably send epileptic or tell every tenth kid that "it's time to kill"......hmmmmm, maybe they've just modified the old subliminal message tricks? hehehe...be prepared to buy every crappy record that comes out.
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I can't wait until we just get rid of all the countries and start cooperating
heh, you're serious? competition is the reason we exist and continue to thrive. the trick is to keep it friendly competition. without competition, innovation becomes impossible.
We ARE supposed to be modern and civilized, aren't we?
whatever gave you that silly idea? just saying that we're civilised is hardly going to undo billions of years of hardwired behaviour.
heh, was it star trek that brought this idea of civilised humanity being ruled by a single government? dunno, but I'd say we have a long way to go before that pipedream is ever realised. for the most part, we 'civilised' people are in the minority, so if we were to try to put representative or direct democracy into the picture... just imagine the nightmare.
oh well, all hail whatever god the government decides on.
well, it was only mildly annoying until this, now if the accountant pays, so will you. should have seen this one coming...
I actually have no problem with the software subscription idea, but I'd like to know that's what I'm getting into upfront.
if it updated his qb database during the update, it may be that the he can't open it without updating... very nasty little updates. in the multiuser version, if one client updates, all the others have to in order to read the db.
if you want a graphical SVGA-Lib browser for Linux, have a look at Arachne. the interface is awful and it's a little buggy, but browsing without X11 is nice:
http://www.arachne.cz/
yes, but you wouldn't be allowed to legally do anything with the source you extracted....you would also need to have the equipment to get to the code....
if you have the equipment to get the code from a ROM, then yes it would be no problem...
this was my thought, as well.....in fact, the fact that it is a RTOS lead me to initially believe that this was the aim. I still haven't really seen the point, except that the guy wanted to do it.
it would be a cool embedded OS, though. the GUI is decent enough, to make it worth the time. it really looks like it would be a good alternative to QNX or NT embedded...BUT, would licensing issues make it impossible for a small company to use it without releasing their source, considering the entire OS seems to be under the GPL? the GPL is great, but the companies that produce POS's and other such devices that could use a GUI generally try to be pretty proprietary with their software.
yes, but assembly RTOS's can go where Windows can not go.
I don't really think the developer had the desktop in mind while he was writing it.
I wasn't suggesting that you switch, personally I prefer Solaris to either...
I was simply suggesting that the reasons for the choice you supplied were trivial.
>>I myself don't use *BSD simply because I prefer the Sys V init
it would be easy enough to modify the init process and the startup scripts to behave more like SysV, if that's what you like.
>>ps -ef far more than ps auxw
you could always create an alias and just type 'ps'. if you wanted to, depending on the shell you're using, of course.
yes, that's why he bothered to tell us he was upgrading to "Linux 7.0", instead of letting us believe that 5 and 6 were development versions that didn't make the cut, as reported elsewhere.
BUT, he still made the jump to 8 for whatever reason.
it seems to me that it isn't even really about churning things out, these days. it's all about the number...if my number is higher than yours, it must be better, right? take the Slackware jump as an example, everyone else is at 7.0, so we have to be, too.
why not back off on the numbers and start spending some time fixing the issues you already know exist....maybe the open source companies should start looking at making a stable release, then releasing stable updates at regular intervals, like Sun, IBM, Apple and others.
it's fine now, but it seems like the marketing scheme starts to back fire as the numbers start to get higher....one would hope that when Mandrake gets to release 10(next month?), it would be an "uber operating system"....I mean they've had at least 10 tries, right? that's what the numbers are supposed say.
and they still haven't gotten it right.
as long as development is continuing, I see no reason to see this as a bad thing.
>>The GUI install was a custom job
ah, that's it? well it explains a little about the price, but one wonders why you would pay for a GUI installer when LIZARD is under the GPL.
I'm not a big Mandrake fan, but you can't really fault them for that. Sun actually bothered to ask users about Gnome and received some good feedback, if a bit anal. maybe Gnome will get some of that polish soon, but until there is actually a more or less common UI, there are always going to be rough areas.
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seems a bit ridiculous to me. it would seem to me that money would go to better use creating a better distribution. I guess the marketing crew decided they could market the fact that it was once owned by Corel. yeah right, no one took Corel's distro seriously since the first release.
one wonders exactly what Corel has in the Linux dept that would be worth 2M....
I would have just bought a CD from cheapbytes and forked...
Total Impact is the OEM, BTW.
Terra Soft Partners page
http://www.openppc.org
a more or less open platform combined with an open OS sounds like the perfect set of Legos to me... err...GNU/Legos
>>Best thing there is... until Slackware makes a PPC version :-)
yes, that would be a great option....but, considering the SPARC port isn't finished and there isn't even a slackware-current/ right now, I won't be holding my breath.
YDL is a bit too Red Hat for my tastes...the company would do well to do more than a simple fork, like Mandrake has...even though it's still to Red Hat, for my tastes.
I would disagree with the smoothly part when it comes to SPARC platforms, but it does run well on PPC...I wish they would put as much into the ports as the NetBSD crew does, though.
what does Solaris have to do with Mac hardware or Linux? there hasn't been a PPC port of Solaris for quite a while, and it was designed for IBM hardware, in the first place.
Solaris wasn't really designed for that type of environment anyway...install it on real hardware with a proxy and slam it with 400 requests and then you'll see why some of us like it...as for NAT on Solaris, try IP-filter:
http://coombs.anu.edu.au/~avalon/
has Windows so thoroughly destroyed our thinking that we have to look for "masquerading options" and such, and then when we fail to find it, decide that the platform is clearly inferior?
lets get with the times, people. -GNU/Michael
it's too bad MS seems to have deleted all of the objectives for the retired tests.
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what's going on with /. lately...seems like there are quite a few touchy MCSE's here lately.
moron? maybe, but I'm not using IIS, so where does that put you, AC?
oops...it seems that an MCSE(obviously running IIS) has modded me down....I guess I'll have to send a retraction to all the MCSE's on our help desk(1st tier), too.....
it's obvious the patches aren't working....so, can we round up all the useless MCSE's and string them up this time?
but, the piracy that they're trying to fight wouldn't normally be created with analog equipment...the recording industry realises that people have been taping stuff from the radio or cd/tape to tape for years, the fact that it's so easy to create CD or nearly CD quality recordings with cheap equipment seems to have them running scared...
how about mp3 compression, would the compression destroy a simple hide-it-in-the-highs type of watermark, or are there ways to get around it?
if the signal does remain in the audible range, the only ways I can see of injecting a message without altering the original song would be playing "tricks" with amplitude or duration...both of which would be totally useless for digital-analog recordings and would probably send epileptic or tell every tenth kid that "it's time to kill"......hmmmmm, maybe they've just modified the old subliminal message tricks? hehehe...be prepared to buy every crappy record that comes out.