I don't think so. The purists are already on Debian,
those in the middle are on Mandrake or Suse. Seems to
me that Red Hat has targetted the corporate market lately,
who generally could care less about open source, GPL,
etc. Most large businesses would love to see huge
backing (AOL) for Red Hat.
I've got a sony clie and I use Linux 100%. JPilot works perfectly with Palms (including Sony). The USB interface doesn't work, but there are two other options:
1. I use the IR port to my laptop for syncing. A little slower, but it works on the road and I don't have to take the cradle.
2. I also ordered a serial port cable for it from a third-party company in Hong Kong. I don't remember the company name, but I found it on an old post of slashdot 6 months ago or so.
The memory stick, while I wish they had used more standard cards, is not that bad. I have the sony PCMCIA card reader for memory sticks, and Linux (Mandrake) recognizes it perfectly as/dev/hdc. It's just a VFAT filesystem that can be mounted like anything else. No drivers or installs, I just slid it in and it was recognized as a removable hard drive.
SpeakEasy's [speakeasy.net] greatest policy is they let you run whatever you want (servers, ssh, etc.). They don't complain unless you take too much bandwidth, at which time they complain to you. That's the way it should be: give users the freedom and deal with the poor citizens (i.e. idiots) as they come up.
Most other companies take the other approach, and assume we're all idiots and poor citizens, so they feel they have to limit our freedom.
Sorry for the shameless plug, but I hope SpeakEasy can weather the onslaught of the bells.
This one's easy, although it's not really the form factor of the case.
Why don't laptop manufacturers include wireless mice? Almost everyone hates trackpads, eraser heads, etc. when compared with real, scrollable, optimal mice.
Yes, I know that wireless mice exist, but why not put the receiver *inside* the laptop itself. So a little mouse is the only extra part outside of the case.
You might say the people would lose them, but then again, manufacturers could make a killing with replacements for dumb users who can't keep track of their mice.
I know this is redundant, but LaTeX is probably your answer. I've used docbook as well, but I personally prefer LaTeX. IMO, DocBook goes too far for most documents.
Either is better than a proprietary format. You have to think in terms of Longevity, and Word is definately bad because it is incompatible from one version to another. Of course, it's a screwed up program as well too (and that is not a hack against MS, it's a hack against Word itself; ther MS issues are something entirely different that could take all day as well.:)
A few months ago, I would wholeheartedly agree. I wrote my dissertation in WP and it worked perfectly. My fellow students who wrote in Word had constant problems.
However, I suggest you check out LaTeX. It is reveal codes on steroids. I've fully switched to LaTeX from WP and it's awesome. I use LaTeX for structured documents like documentation, papers, and books. I still use WP for simple letters, pamphlets, etc.
Check out: http://www-cryst.bioc.cam.ac.uk/~paul/latex.html for an install guide.
I had serious problems with CTS in the early 1990's. My Karate teacher taught me to do exercises almost exactly like the site you link, and it worked wonders for me. I had visited specialists and was on the verge of surgery (your strength is never the same afterward).
After doing exercises each night for several months, my CTS was basically nullified. I still have to do the exercises, and I still have to be careful of how much work I do with my wrists, but I've avoided surgery for almost a decade.
For those interested, see the site above. I made 10 fists in front of me (as in the pictures), then I made 10 fists with my hands above my head. Then 10 with hands down at sides, then 10 with hands straight out left and right.
Finally, (AND MOST IMPORTANTLY), bend your palms and fingers back to stretch the carpal area. This is what really achives the benefit. After the exercise, you stretch to increase your range of motion and decrease the swelling.
There is a very big difference between Konqueror and IE. Sure, they both integrate file and web browsing, but Konqueror is limited to what my user can do. It is not integrated into the Linux *kernel*. It runs as a User application with only user rights.
On the other hand, IE is integrated right into Windows itself. It effectively has administrator (Unix speak--root) priviledges. Hence much more drastic effects when it runs rogue code.
>>>"Apparently you haven't been to America:) There's nothing honest about capitalism here. They bribe politicians, destroy small companies, propagandize until the public doesn't know anything about anything. I oppose capitalism gladly. I consider it a point of pride, just as I take pride in opposing the lowly thugs who mug people in dark alleys."
Yes, I agree with you here. FYI, I grew up and live in the USA. I'm as American as anyone else. However, my point is that capitalism is the best thing yet. I know it has *serious* drawbacks. But I take it any day over communism, pure socialism, or anything else history has to show us. I hope for the day when scarce resources are a thing of the past and we no longer need capitalism to keep people and companies in check.
I realize that many companies are totally unethical (I dislike MS vehemently), but at least our system keeps them in check to some level. Capitalism makes for a great life because it caters to people's greed. On the whole, people want to work and innovate because they want $. Capitalism works because it accepts this fact at our society's current stage of development. Most other systems that have been tried give people too much ethical credit.
This discussion comes up on Slashdot every couple of months or so.
The article's assumptions might be true for some people, but there are still many, many people who still develop out of love for doing something useful. In fact, there are probably more today because the Internet has allowed people to contribute and connect that never could before. The network effect has been made possible by the Internet.
I develop open source software because, yes, I do love it and I want to do something useful. One of the primary reasons I got a PhD and live an academic life is so I can do this and still support my family. I have must students contribute to my projects as part of their assignments, as well. Many of them have gotten the open source bug and are contributing now as well.
I develop open source because:
1. I don't want to support it. Let people find usefulness in it. Let them contribute as well. But I don't want to spend 80 percent of my waking hours solving naive questions.
2. I don't want the risk that comes with marketing software for money. I don't want to risk my livelihood by starting a business to support my software, either. Really marketing something takes 3-5 good years of your life to do it right, and it involves risk.
3. Yes, I like to help people and I benefit from what they contribute. I'm not anal about having to have GNU software only, but I do support what they do. I feel like I am giving back to the common pool when I develop open source apps.
4. I am not a competitive person. In fact, I absolutely dislike it. I prefer to develop a useful app to the best of my abilities. I find joy in the fact that if someone else solves the same problem I do, we can e-mail each other and combine our efforts and be friendly to each other rather than compete and try to drive one another out of business. Everyone benefits when we work together.
Disclaimer: I am not socialist. I love free and open economies. IMHO, competitive business economies are the best thing we've come up with yet. They keep people honest. But in those economies, there is plenty of room for community-welfare ideas as well.
I can't believe P2P gets such a rap from this crowd. There are *lots* of things you can do with it besides file sharing or MP3 thieving. First, let's take a look at what has already been done with it (although it wasn't called P2P at the time):
1. The WWW itself is purely P2P. links form the backbone of the P2P network. Search engines make the spidering more efficient, but they are really just cached spidering. At the base level, to get around, you spider just as in Gnutella.
2. Samba is P2P.
3. CUPS is P2P, letting you share your printers.
4. NFS is P2P when you connect to and start using enough servers (although when you do this, let the hacking begin...)
Here is what *could* be done with it:
1. I'm currently heading a project to share genealogical information. Post your GEDCOM to your computer's P2P app, and it is automatically spiderable on the network. For those interested, its still at alpha/beta stage and at gntp.sourceforge.net.
2. Wouldn't a world wide library application be wonderful? Input your book or article, and all of the libraries worlwide that have your book show up. No, I'm not talking about the textual WWW. I'm talking about a strongly-data-typed library network.
3. What about a P2P e-business network. Again, it could be strongly-typed and object oriented. Much more powerful than WWW. I developed one of these and I'm publishing a paper on it right now. It would make today's registries and marketplaces useless. Allow anyone on, user-customizable categorization scheme, etc. This one would take a big player like MS or IBM to really implement, though, because you need lots of people on it all at once to make it useful.
My point is that there are many, many uses for P2P. People just need to open their minds to what has already been done and what could be done. File sharing is great, but it is only the beginning of the types of networks we could build.
If this were a small little startup company, I would be the first to say that it's a wonderful little advertising trick.
But this is one of the largest accounting/consulting firms in the world. They don't need tricks like this to advertise. The negative press they're going to get off of it is much worse because it discredits them. Despite this stupid move, KPMG is actually very reputable and is great company to work for.
Advertising and quality of company issues aside, I'm trying to determine whether which is funnier, this request about links or the silly legal statement they append to every e-mail sent from kpmg mail servers:
The information in this email is confidential and may be legally privileged.
It is intended solely for the addressee. Access to this email by anyone else
is unauthorized.
If you are not the intended recipient, any disclosure, copying, distribution
or any action taken or omitted to be taken in reliance on it, is prohibited
and may be unlawful. When addressed to our clients any opinions or advice
contained in this email are subject to the terms and conditions expressed in
the governing KPMG client engagement letter.
I'm sure a C++ product will follow, much like C++Builder followed Delphi. However, I can understand why they didn't implement this for C++ first: their target audience is not C++ programmers.
Any C++ programmers who are already programming for Linux are probably using gcc and the many tools available. Borland is trying to woo Windows programmers to Linux. Since Delphi already has a large source code base out there, making it source code compatible with the Windows version helps Windows people feel comfortable in Linux. These people would have a much harder time switching if they had to start using gcc and vim.
Once they feel they've wooed as many Delphi developers to Kylix for Linux/Windows development, I'll bet we see a C++Builder for Linux as well.
The satellite stays in orbit above the equator, although it still points it's beam at Japan. Since it is at the equator and because it is miles above the earth, it only falls into earth's shadow for a couple hours a night during mid-Spring and mid-Fall.
During the summer and winter (for non-equatorial regions, of course), the Earth is rotated enough that the shadow never covers the satellite.
Therefore, you only get a week or two a year that the satellite is behind the shadow for a few hours.
I recently discussed this idea with a planetary scientist. We did a little research and here's what we came up with:
The microwave beam does not disrupt any planes, etc. because they are made of metal. Even a small amount of metal shields microwaves in the frequency that would be used -- same reason that metal won't heat in your home microwave -- it just reflects the light waves.
Organic beings that come into the focused beam cone are not affected much by the beam. Microwave s only sink into your skin about 1-2 inches. At most it raises your body temperature one or two degrees. Of course, people won't normally be inside of these beam cones anyway.
Earth-based solar stations have to put up with night. Orbital solar arrays only have a few hours of blackout each year. Most of the year they can beam the microwave down 24 hours per day, even in geosynchronous orbit over a country like Japan.
It may not be the best alternative for countries such as the U.S., but it makes more sense for smaller countries such as Japan that have almost no natural energy resources.
A private, secure network is by definition fairly small. The larger the network became (as would be necessary given the size of the US gov't), the more opportunity crackers would have to get in.
The goverment is simply too large to expect that a separate network would make it that much harder for crackers to get in.
Try Resin at http://www.caucho.com/. It is a direct competitor to Tomcat but is much faster and easier to administer. It is also rock solid.
However, I haven't tried Tomcat 4.0 yet, FWIW.
Another difference is that Tomcat's free, while Resin is only free if you're not making money on your site.
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Are we missing the point? It is all about perception. In most of the business community's eyes', it IS MS against Linux. Therefore, when Linux wins like this on the business forum, it is a huge blow to Microsoft. It matters not that the OS used to be Solaris.
We may know better, but it is the perception of the regular business users that matters in this case.
I am heading a research group at Brigham Young University to create a worldwide peer-to-peer genealogy network. People publish their genealogy directly from their own computers (on the network, not the web). Others can search the entire network with precision--much better than the web because the data is structured.
We're rolling it out July 1, so it's not just vaporware. This is totally legit because genealogy information wants to be shared. We don't have the copyright problems that other systems do. However, it is specific to genealogy files only, not general file sharing.
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I don't think so. The purists are already on Debian,
those in the middle are on Mandrake or Suse. Seems to
me that Red Hat has targetted the corporate market lately,
who generally could care less about open source, GPL,
etc. Most large businesses would love to see huge
backing (AOL) for Red Hat.
I've got a sony clie and I use Linux 100%. JPilot works perfectly with Palms (including Sony). The USB interface doesn't work, but there are two other options:
/dev/hdc. It's just a VFAT filesystem that can be mounted like anything else. No drivers or installs, I just slid it in and it was recognized as a removable hard drive.
1. I use the IR port to my laptop for syncing. A little slower, but it works on the road and I don't have to take the cradle.
2. I also ordered a serial port cable for it from a third-party company in Hong Kong. I don't remember the company name, but I found it on an old post of slashdot 6 months ago or so.
The memory stick, while I wish they had used more standard cards, is not that bad. I have the sony PCMCIA card reader for memory sticks, and Linux (Mandrake) recognizes it perfectly as
Great. Anyone want to buy my Clie 760 which I just purchased for $100 more?!?
SpeakEasy's [speakeasy.net] greatest policy is they let you run whatever you want (servers, ssh, etc.). They don't complain unless you take too much bandwidth, at which time they complain to you. That's the way it should be: give users the freedom and deal with the poor citizens (i.e. idiots) as they come up.
Most other companies take the other approach, and assume we're all idiots and poor citizens, so they feel they have to limit our freedom.
Sorry for the shameless plug, but I hope SpeakEasy can weather the onslaught of the bells.
This one's easy, although it's not really the form factor of the case.
Why don't laptop manufacturers include wireless mice? Almost everyone hates trackpads, eraser heads, etc. when compared with real, scrollable, optimal mice.
Yes, I know that wireless mice exist, but why not put the receiver *inside* the laptop itself. So a little mouse is the only extra part outside of the case.
You might say the people would lose them, but then again, manufacturers could make a killing with replacements for dumb users who can't keep track of their mice.
I know this is redundant, but LaTeX is probably your answer. I've used docbook as well, but I personally prefer LaTeX. IMO, DocBook goes too far for most documents.
:)
Either is better than a proprietary format. You have to think in terms of Longevity, and Word is definately bad because it is incompatible from one version to another. Of course, it's a screwed up program as well too (and that is not a hack against MS, it's a hack against Word itself; ther MS issues are something entirely different that could take all day as well.
A few months ago, I would wholeheartedly agree. I wrote my dissertation in WP and it worked perfectly. My fellow students who wrote in Word had constant problems.
However, I suggest you check out LaTeX. It is reveal codes on steroids. I've fully switched to LaTeX from WP and it's awesome. I use LaTeX for structured documents like documentation, papers, and books. I still use WP for simple letters, pamphlets, etc.
Check out: http://www-cryst.bioc.cam.ac.uk/~paul/latex.html for an install guide.
I had serious problems with CTS in the early 1990's. My Karate teacher taught me to do exercises almost exactly like the site you link, and it worked wonders for me. I had visited specialists and was on the verge of surgery (your strength is never the same afterward).
After doing exercises each night for several months, my CTS was basically nullified. I still have to do the exercises, and I still have to be careful of how much work I do with my wrists, but I've avoided surgery for almost a decade.
For those interested, see the site above. I made 10 fists in front of me (as in the pictures), then I made 10 fists with my hands above my head. Then 10 with hands down at sides, then 10 with hands straight out left and right.
Finally, (AND MOST IMPORTANTLY), bend your palms and fingers back to stretch the carpal area. This is what really achives the benefit. After the exercise, you stretch to increase your range of motion and decrease the swelling.
FWIW, it worked for me.
Cable TV had this approach at first: premium TV with no ads. While some stations had ads, most were commercial free. Seems like deja vu here.
How long before satellite radio is no different from cable TV? Sure, it's available everywhere, but the presence of ads every 1/2 hour keep me on NPR.
There is a very big difference between Konqueror and IE. Sure, they both integrate file and web browsing, but Konqueror is limited to what my user can do. It is not integrated into the Linux *kernel*. It runs as a User application with only user rights.
On the other hand, IE is integrated right into Windows itself. It effectively has administrator (Unix speak--root) priviledges. Hence much more drastic effects when it runs rogue code.
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:) There's nothing honest about capitalism here. They bribe politicians, destroy small companies, propagandize until the public doesn't know anything about anything. I oppose capitalism gladly. I consider it a point of pride, just as I take pride in opposing the lowly thugs who mug people in dark alleys."
>>>"Apparently you haven't been to America
Yes, I agree with you here. FYI, I grew up and live in the USA. I'm as American as anyone else. However, my point is that capitalism is the best thing yet. I know it has *serious* drawbacks. But I take it any day over communism, pure socialism, or anything else history has to show us. I hope for the day when scarce resources are a thing of the past and we no longer need capitalism to keep people and companies in check.
I realize that many companies are totally unethical (I dislike MS vehemently), but at least our system keeps them in check to some level. Capitalism makes for a great life because it caters to people's greed. On the whole, people want to work and innovate because they want $. Capitalism works because it accepts this fact at our society's current stage of development. Most other systems that have been tried give people too much ethical credit.
This discussion comes up on Slashdot every couple of months or so.
The article's assumptions might be true for some people, but there are still many, many people who still develop out of love for doing something useful. In fact, there are probably more today because the Internet has allowed people to contribute and connect that never could before. The network effect has been made possible by the Internet.
I develop open source software because, yes, I do love it and I want to do something useful. One of the primary reasons I got a PhD and live an academic life is so I can do this and still support my family. I have must students contribute to my projects as part of their assignments, as well. Many of them have gotten the open source bug and are contributing now as well.
I develop open source because:
1. I don't want to support it. Let people find usefulness in it. Let them contribute as well. But I don't want to spend 80 percent of my waking hours solving naive questions.
2. I don't want the risk that comes with marketing software for money. I don't want to risk my livelihood by starting a business to support my software, either. Really marketing something takes 3-5 good years of your life to do it right, and it involves risk.
3. Yes, I like to help people and I benefit from what they contribute. I'm not anal about having to have GNU software only, but I do support what they do. I feel like I am giving back to the common pool when I develop open source apps.
4. I am not a competitive person. In fact, I absolutely dislike it. I prefer to develop a useful app to the best of my abilities. I find joy in the fact that if someone else solves the same problem I do, we can e-mail each other and combine our efforts and be friendly to each other rather than compete and try to drive one another out of business. Everyone benefits when we work together.
Disclaimer: I am not socialist. I love free and open economies. IMHO, competitive business economies are the best thing we've come up with yet. They keep people honest. But in those economies, there is plenty of room for community-welfare ideas as well.
I can't believe P2P gets such a rap from this crowd. There are *lots* of things you can do with it besides file sharing or MP3 thieving. First, let's take a look at what has already been done with it (although it wasn't called P2P at the time):
1. The WWW itself is purely P2P. links form the backbone of the P2P network. Search engines make the spidering more efficient, but they are really just cached spidering. At the base level, to get around, you spider just as in Gnutella.
2. Samba is P2P.
3. CUPS is P2P, letting you share your printers.
4. NFS is P2P when you connect to and start using enough servers (although when you do this, let the hacking begin...)
Here is what *could* be done with it:
1. I'm currently heading a project to share genealogical information. Post your GEDCOM to your computer's P2P app, and it is automatically spiderable on the network. For those interested, its still at alpha/beta stage and at gntp.sourceforge.net.
2. Wouldn't a world wide library application be wonderful? Input your book or article, and all of the libraries worlwide that have your book show up. No, I'm not talking about the textual WWW. I'm talking about a strongly-data-typed library network.
3. What about a P2P e-business network. Again, it could be strongly-typed and object oriented. Much more powerful than WWW. I developed one of these and I'm publishing a paper on it right now. It would make today's registries and marketplaces useless. Allow anyone on, user-customizable categorization scheme, etc. This one would take a big player like MS or IBM to really implement, though, because you need lots of people on it all at once to make it useful.
My point is that there are many, many uses for P2P. People just need to open their minds to what has already been done and what could be done. File sharing is great, but it is only the beginning of the types of networks we could build.
But this is one of the largest accounting/consulting firms in the world. They don't need tricks like this to advertise. The negative press they're going to get off of it is much worse because it discredits them. Despite this stupid move, KPMG is actually very reputable and is great company to work for.
Advertising and quality of company issues aside, I'm trying to determine whether which is funnier, this request about links or the silly legal statement they append to every e-mail sent from kpmg mail servers:
The information in this email is confidential and may be legally privileged. It is intended solely for the addressee. Access to this email by anyone else is unauthorized.
If you are not the intended recipient, any disclosure, copying, distribution or any action taken or omitted to be taken in reliance on it, is prohibited and may be unlawful. When addressed to our clients any opinions or advice contained in this email are subject to the terms and conditions expressed in the governing KPMG client engagement letter.
I'm sure a C++ product will follow, much like C++Builder followed Delphi. However, I can understand why they didn't implement this for C++ first: their target audience is not C++ programmers.
Any C++ programmers who are already programming for Linux are probably using gcc and the many tools available. Borland is trying to woo Windows programmers to Linux. Since Delphi already has a large source code base out there, making it source code compatible with the Windows version helps Windows people feel comfortable in Linux. These people would have a much harder time switching if they had to start using gcc and vim.
Once they feel they've wooed as many Delphi developers to Kylix for Linux/Windows development, I'll bet we see a C++Builder for Linux as well.
The satellite stays in orbit above the equator, although it still points it's beam at Japan. Since it is at the equator and because it is miles above the earth, it only falls into earth's shadow for a couple hours a night during mid-Spring and mid-Fall.
During the summer and winter (for non-equatorial regions, of course), the Earth is rotated enough that the shadow never covers the satellite.
Therefore, you only get a week or two a year that the satellite is behind the shadow for a few hours.
- The microwave beam does not disrupt any planes, etc. because they are made of metal. Even a small amount of metal shields microwaves in the frequency that would be used -- same reason that metal won't heat in your home microwave -- it just reflects the light waves.
- Organic beings that come into the focused beam cone are not affected much by the beam. Microwave s only sink into your skin about 1-2 inches. At most it raises your body temperature one or two degrees. Of course, people won't normally be inside of these beam cones anyway.
- Earth-based solar stations have to put up with night. Orbital solar arrays only have a few hours of blackout each year. Most of the year they can beam the microwave down 24 hours per day, even in geosynchronous orbit over a country like Japan.
It may not be the best alternative for countries such as the U.S., but it makes more sense for smaller countries such as Japan that have almost no natural energy resources.My $0.02.
A private, secure network is by definition fairly small. The larger the network became (as would be necessary given the size of the US gov't), the more opportunity crackers would have to get in.
The goverment is simply too large to expect that a separate network would make it that much harder for crackers to get in.
Try Resin at http://www.caucho.com/. It is a direct competitor to Tomcat but is much faster and easier to administer. It is also rock solid.
However, I haven't tried Tomcat 4.0 yet, FWIW.
Another difference is that Tomcat's free, while Resin is only free if you're not making money on your site.
We may know better, but it is the perception of the regular business users that matters in this case.
We're rolling it out July 1, so it's not just vaporware. This is totally legit because genealogy information wants to be shared. We don't have the copyright problems that other systems do. However, it is specific to genealogy files only, not general file sharing.
http://genealogy.byu.edu/