The problem isn't with them doing their own Linux-related code that isn't GPL. That would be fine. MetroX, AcceleratedX, linux WordPerfect, etc. are all considered Linux programs and perfectly-valid commercial products. The problem is that they're releasing other peoples' GPLed programs, such as the Linux kernel and the Debian package manager and the like, under a closed commercial license. That is a Very Bad Thing. People put their code under the GPL for this very reason - so a commercial company doesn't take their code and sell it as their own under non-GPL terms. Just because you don't care about some hypothetical code which you didn't put under GPL being usurped doesn't mean the various authors of the GPLed programs don't. --- "'Is not a quine' is not a quine" is a quine.
Mrs. Fletcher (the name of the woman in that ad - "Don't worry, Mrs. Fletcher, we'll be right there!") is my hero. One of my first MODs was called Mrs. Fletcher... it involved the infamous line, followed by "music" which sounded more like she was trapped in an alien mothership and being tortured or something. At one point, Church Lady says, "Could it be, I dunno, SATAN?!?!"
Ahh, for the days when my music sucked in an inspiredly-stupid way. Nowadays it's just mediocre.:) --- "'Is not a quine' is not a quine" is a quine.
Jeeze... most of these patents look like they're just trying to exert patents on parts of HTTP and logical extensions thereof. What utter crap. I've seen web-based realtime statistics reporting being used for years before these patents were filed, and although GUI frontends to httpd logfiles aren't exactly common, they're a painfully-obvious logical step when you've got textual logfiles.
I seriously hope these don't hold up in court. Hopefully those AOL lawyers will actually do something good for a change... --- "'Is not a quine' is not a quine" is a quine.
Performer is a high-level interface on top of OpenGL. It's like the difference between using the C++ STL vector template and hand-realloc()ing your data as needed. It has its own set of problems and frustrations and its own additional bunch of overhead, but in general it's easier to get something working decently and almost as fast as rolling it yourself.
Performer would, in fact, be great for a game engine; in fact, it's used for realtime military simulations all the time, and that's about as close to a game as you can get in the SGI-based professional graphics world.:) --- "'Is not a quine' is not a quine" is a quine.
One problem I've had with the Opensound drivers in general is that they are intended for non-hardcore users who don't want to configure their system just how they want. This is all well and good except that it means that you have to have your kernel compiled with a specific set of options (namely module versions enabled, which often breaks some of the less-maintained drivers as I've found) and have to use one of their supported kernel versions. Unfortunately, by having OSS "support" soundcards under Linux, that just leads the hardware manufacturers to think that they have no reason to support non-NDA drivers. Additionally, they make no concessions for people who want a bit more performance out of their system; I got in a bit of a flamewar with one of the 4Front guys over the commercial OSS drivers not working with my kernel compiled with a higher-frequency scheduler. He also didn't seem to know the difference between that and overclocking, but also tried to belittle me for being a "stupid overclocker" and saying all sorts of false claims, such as that it was "well known" that soundcards don't work on an overclocked motherboard (funny, I don't see how making my motherboard think a Celeron 300 is a P2-450 would stop the ISA bus from working - after all, soundcards work just fine on a normally-clocked P2-450, right?)
I'm fine with 4Front having a closed-source configuration tool. That I'd be willing to pay money for, in certain circumstances. However, by alienating the more technical users, who are the ones who tend to actually need the support for the more obscure/powerful soundcards, and only wanting to cater to newbies, who tend to have some generic WSS-compatible chip which came on their motherboard, they rather defeat the purpose of the whole thing, and also, sadly, end up keeping Linux's sound driver support quite far in the past. --- "'Is not a quine' is not a quine" is a quine.
I couldn't take the article seriously after the headline, in which it calls female geeks "she-geeks," and then whose subtitle was about battling sexism. I'm sure the article was informative, but it just seemed to laughably hypocritical to, right off the bat, make female geeks seem like something to be belittled. --- "'Is not a quine' is not a quine" is a quine.
It's bullshit like this why I'm glad all my domains are Christmas Island. Not only do I get better and cheaper service than NSI domain holders, but they have very strict privacy policies, you can even opt out of being visible in the whois database, and in the case of trademark contention they'll only act based on a court order, end of story. And they're hosted by a British company, too, so I don't think even an American court order would suffice - it'd have to be tried in the British courts. Maybe that's not as good a thing though.:)
.cx domains rule. They're relatively uncommon and not even close to saturated, you get an insanely long "free" period to play with a domain (and technically it'd be possible to never have to pay for a domain, though that's quite dishonest), and if you want uniqueness, no better way than that. "Dot cx? That's weird man... must be some cool thing!"
Oh, and they only have authenticated web-based access for modification. I don't think they use https, though, but then again, email-based NSI updates aren't exactly secure either.
This just settles it for me. I'm never going to trust NSI with any domainnames. --- "'Is not a quine' is not a quine" is a quine.
Technically, when the hypishness is being generated by the background and not by the company itself, it's considered to be "buzz," not hype. That is, Transmeta == buzz, Merced == hype. Dolphin == buzz, PSX2 == hype. Then, of course, you get the artificial buzz, like Blair Witch Project and DIVX, which entails hype disguised as buzz.
Just to clear things up. That is, that there isn't a single piece of Transmeta hype out there right now, though admittedly the buzz is being generated specifically due to a lack of hype. --- "'Is not a quine' is not a quine" is a quine.
I'm not sure about the number of Bs and Ps, but it definitely starts with a K. I've seen it as Krabaple, Krabbaple, Krabapple, and Krabbapple. Whatever.:)
As for the person who seems so deeply offended that he was so deeply offending regarding spelling: Get over it. --- "'Is not a quine' is not a quine" is a quine.
Don't be picky about spelling, lest I respond like this: (alterations in boldface)
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Hemos, it's "neutrino." Man, you need a spelling checker....;)
Sorry to be picky, but using.... where... should be, and vice-versa, and having missing commas, and using "its" instead of "it's," and incorrectly quoting your punctuation, and having atrocious sentence syntax, and then having the gall to point out one insignifigant typo is just a bit asinine. --- "'Is not a quine' is not a quine" is a quine.
The DualShock's sticks are fine, but the buttonpads just suck for me. I've always found them uncomfortable and unresponsive. I've not yet used a DreamCast's controller, though, but it looks like they took some design lessons from Nintendo (say what you want, the N64 pads work GREAT - for me, anyway). To each their own. --- "'Is not a quine' is not a quine" is a quine.
Yeek, now I'm glad I have a dedicated DVD player. Ultimate Tenchi (all 13 episodes of the original series, plus a complete encyclopedia of all the characters, settings, etc.) is on 3 double-layered DVDs.
Myself, I'm not too eager for the PSY. Yeah, the specs are very impressive, but they still have those crappy controllers, and it seems that the Dreamcast already has more than enough computing power for quite some time; I think the PSY will have the problem the Jaguar did - too much of a legacy 'feel' while really being far ahead of its time. Also, the fact that they apparently won't try to improve PSX games being emulated (like, why don't they improve the color blending and lack of perspective correction at least? and maybe add in texture filtering and stuff) doesn't make me want to get one for PSX games, not that there's any that I really want which isn't out/coming out for the PC anyway.
I'll wait on getting a Dreamcast (want to see a commitment to a 10baseT adapter, want to see the price come down, and need it to be in stock anyway:) and I'll probably also get a Dolphin, since as bad of a company Nintendo is, they have Shigeru Miyamoto whose games are just fun, but so far, the only reason I see for getting a PSY is that I could theoretically develop fun stuff on it, assuming they release the SDKs and the like, which I highly doubt. Just because they use Linux as a dev platform doesn't mean they use Linux ideals, after all. --- "'Is not a quine' is not a quine" is a quine.
Ya know, I was just thinking about the very same thing, and then I saw your post. I like! This seems like it's just crazy enough to work.
With the lack of InterNIC idea, I see something slightly better. The underground could just establish a new TLD,.udg or something, and anyone participating in the underground could point their nameservers to look at the.udg rootservers (which would, of course, be distributed to anyone who wants to run one). It'd require cooperation, but it could easily be done. Anyone who wants to be a NIC can be one, and in the case of contention there could be - guess what - compromise!
Say I registered porcupine.udg on some nearby NIC, then someone somewhere else did it on a different one, causing contention when both are synchronized. Well, it just mails us both and lets us know, and we can deal with it in a civilized way. No lawsuits or anything need apply.
As for encryption, that's what ssh and vpn are for. Any protocol can be wrapped through ssh's port redirection (in fact, a trivial/common way to do a VPN under Linux is by doing PPP over an ssh telnet connection).
I'm all for this. --- "'Is not a quine' is not a quine" is a quine.
Ah, cool, thanks for clearing that up. What about its TCP/IP stack though? Is it based on BSD's still, and hence still filled with the fun vulnerabilities (such as Ping O' Death)? --- "'Is not a quine' is not a quine" is a quine.
Hence why it's not vulnerable to the same oversized ping o' death that the other TCP/IP stacks are.
On a related note: when I was in college, a friend of mine and I found an easy way to crash Macintoshes. Just send a couple of pingfloods from different hosts. MacOS locks HARD (even the mouse stops responding). We had to do this to take care of some joker who kept changing his IP address to be the same as the Macs we were trying to use (all of the Linux boxes in the lab were full at the time, leaving just Macs - yuck). --- "'Is not a quine' is not a quine" is a quine.
Yes, I know that MacOS X and MacOS are different things. The first paragraph was a crude attempt at humor, the second paragraph was a crude attempt at humor, and the third paragraph was a crude attempt at humor. The second paragraph was a vague implication of a connection between two unconnected things, which I know fully well doesn't exist. And hell, I blatantly stated I was just making fun of Macs.
So much for people having a sense of humor.;)
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Wow, so instead of having a nice big blue screen one can see across the room, they'll have to squint and constantly make sure there isn't a bomb on the screen. Hm, what if it does bomb? Would they think the computer was about to explode?;)
Did the MacOS X guys fix that problem yet where running two instances of a CGI binary simultaneously would cause a bomb screen? Oh well, at least Macs can't be hacked - it's not like you can get a rootshell on a system that doesn't have a shell.:) (Yeah, I know, there's CLIs available for MacOS, and there's probably telnet servers too, but it's still fun to make fun of.)
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The problem isn't with them doing their own Linux-related code that isn't GPL. That would be fine. MetroX, AcceleratedX, linux WordPerfect, etc. are all considered Linux programs and perfectly-valid commercial products. The problem is that they're releasing other peoples' GPLed programs, such as the Linux kernel and the Debian package manager and the like, under a closed commercial license. That is a Very Bad Thing. People put their code under the GPL for this very reason - so a commercial company doesn't take their code and sell it as their own under non-GPL terms. Just because you don't care about some hypothetical code which you didn't put under GPL being usurped doesn't mean the various authors of the GPLed programs don't.
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Ahh, for the days when my music sucked in an inspiredly-stupid way. Nowadays it's just mediocre. :)
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I seriously hope these don't hold up in court. Hopefully those AOL lawyers will actually do something good for a change...
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Narrator: Blossom, Bubbles, and Buttercup-- wait, wrong series...
[Narrator leaves]
Yogi: Hey, Booboo, I see a picnic basket! Let's have lunch!
Booboo: I don't know, Yogi, what if the Knight Sabers catch us?
Yogi: Not to worry, Booboo! I am a bear! I can maul them easily!
[Yogi reaches into a basket. Suddenly, his arm is shot off.]
Priss: Eat death, evil!
[Priss and Sylia swoop down from the sky, guns blazing. Yogi dies.]
Booboo: Nooooooooooo! CURSE YOU, KNIGHT SABERS!
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Performer would, in fact, be great for a game engine; in fact, it's used for realtime military simulations all the time, and that's about as close to a game as you can get in the SGI-based professional graphics world. :)
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Um, try reading the whole article. The guy already stated he doesn't have $15k to blow on AFS.
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I'm fine with 4Front having a closed-source configuration tool. That I'd be willing to pay money for, in certain circumstances. However, by alienating the more technical users, who are the ones who tend to actually need the support for the more obscure/powerful soundcards, and only wanting to cater to newbies, who tend to have some generic WSS-compatible chip which came on their motherboard, they rather defeat the purpose of the whole thing, and also, sadly, end up keeping Linux's sound driver support quite far in the past.
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Sad thing is, it still kinda made sense in the context of this thread. :)
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Guess I'll just Install Nitrozac@home and await further instructions.
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I'd personally rather that those of us with higher karma get preference... ;)
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I couldn't take the article seriously after the headline, in which it calls female geeks "she-geeks," and then whose subtitle was about battling sexism. I'm sure the article was informative, but it just seemed to laughably hypocritical to, right off the bat, make female geeks seem like something to be belittled.
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Oh, and they only have authenticated web-based access for modification. I don't think they use https, though, but then again, email-based NSI updates aren't exactly secure either.
This just settles it for me. I'm never going to trust NSI with any domainnames.
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Just to clear things up. That is, that there isn't a single piece of Transmeta hype out there right now, though admittedly the buzz is being generated specifically due to a lack of hype.
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As for the person who seems so deeply offended that he was so deeply offending regarding spelling: Get over it.
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Sorry to be picky, but usingHemos, it's "neutrino." Man, you need a spelling checker.... ;)
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The DualShock's sticks are fine, but the buttonpads just suck for me. I've always found them uncomfortable and unresponsive. I've not yet used a DreamCast's controller, though, but it looks like they took some design lessons from Nintendo (say what you want, the N64 pads work GREAT - for me, anyway). To each their own.
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Connected Edition or something.
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But what of all the animals whose sole source of food is mosquitos? Would you mourn the sparrow?
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Myself, I'm not too eager for the PSY. Yeah, the specs are very impressive, but they still have those crappy controllers, and it seems that the Dreamcast already has more than enough computing power for quite some time; I think the PSY will have the problem the Jaguar did - too much of a legacy 'feel' while really being far ahead of its time. Also, the fact that they apparently won't try to improve PSX games being emulated (like, why don't they improve the color blending and lack of perspective correction at least? and maybe add in texture filtering and stuff) doesn't make me want to get one for PSX games, not that there's any that I really want which isn't out/coming out for the PC anyway.
I'll wait on getting a Dreamcast (want to see a commitment to a 10baseT adapter, want to see the price come down, and need it to be in stock anyway :) and I'll probably also get a Dolphin, since as bad of a company Nintendo is, they have Shigeru Miyamoto whose games are just fun, but so far, the only reason I see for getting a PSY is that I could theoretically develop fun stuff on it, assuming they release the SDKs and the like, which I highly doubt. Just because they use Linux as a dev platform doesn't mean they use Linux ideals, after all.
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You need to insert the Amiga CD32 inbetween 1 and 2 up there. :)
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With the lack of InterNIC idea, I see something slightly better. The underground could just establish a new TLD, .udg or something, and anyone participating in the underground could point their nameservers to look at the .udg rootservers (which would, of course, be distributed to anyone who wants to run one). It'd require cooperation, but it could easily be done. Anyone who wants to be a NIC can be one, and in the case of contention there could be - guess what - compromise!
Say I registered porcupine.udg on some nearby NIC, then someone somewhere else did it on a different one, causing contention when both are synchronized. Well, it just mails us both and lets us know, and we can deal with it in a civilized way. No lawsuits or anything need apply.
As for encryption, that's what ssh and vpn are for. Any protocol can be wrapped through ssh's port redirection (in fact, a trivial/common way to do a VPN under Linux is by doing PPP over an ssh telnet connection).
I'm all for this.
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Ah, cool, thanks for clearing that up. What about its TCP/IP stack though? Is it based on BSD's still, and hence still filled with the fun vulnerabilities (such as Ping O' Death)?
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On a related note: when I was in college, a friend of mine and I found an easy way to crash Macintoshes. Just send a couple of pingfloods from different hosts. MacOS locks HARD (even the mouse stops responding). We had to do this to take care of some joker who kept changing his IP address to be the same as the Macs we were trying to use (all of the Linux boxes in the lab were full at the time, leaving just Macs - yuck).
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So much for people having a sense of humor. ;)
(For the sarcasm-impaired moderators: that last smiley was a wink. To show I'm being sarcastic and silly. Don't get riled up because I'm indirectly flaming moderators. I've been a moderator on many occasions. And I can take a joke. I see the 'flamebait' moderation of my previous post as a joke. So there. :)
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Did the MacOS X guys fix that problem yet where running two instances of a CGI binary simultaneously would cause a bomb screen? Oh well, at least Macs can't be hacked - it's not like you can get a rootshell on a system that doesn't have a shell. :) (Yeah, I know, there's CLIs available for MacOS, and there's probably telnet servers too, but it's still fun to make fun of.)
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