>Can you guarantee that the heat sink won't fall off? Is the method of securing the heat sink stable or is it a piece of metal secured by bending the metal over two tabs? Do you crack open the case and check everything EVERY time the computer is moved?
I'll assume you didn't know about the "mounting holes" around each socket. AMD motherboards and heat sinks actually mount the heatsink to the montherboard, so your heatsink can't damage the motherboard. I believe Pentium 4 boards have this now (not certain about Intel because I don't care -- the P4 chip costs more than an entire Athlon-based system, and is not any faster!)
Try reading the specs sometime.
And there are no guarantees in life - not from AMD, Intel, Microsoft, or Linux.
>In the review (posted on/.) it demonstrated heatsinks being removed from the CPU while in operation. Both the PIII & PIV survived but the Athlons fried up with one taking the motherboard with it.
Yes, but that's a *catastrophic* failure. Heatsinks are not moving parts and generally don't fail.
Now, Fans DO fail, but then in that case the temperature increase is much more gradual and the chipset or software can power off the box in time.
Even in a 1U box, you have good directional airflow so I would expect it not to fry.
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>OO can't accept pure GPL code coz they need to able to integrate proprietry code.
So? Wouldn't you want as many projects as possible using these filters? Accomodate them and offer the MS Word filters as LGPL... seems perfect from my angle.
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>If you really want your file to look the way you intended it, use PDF!
This does not ALWAYS work. Ghostscript can produce PDF files that cannot be read in Acrobat, or xpdf. And vice-versa.
If I generate a PDF (and I have many times, I ALWAYS proof the file by rebooting to Windows and using Win Acrobat. Even then... it's possible my file will be opened on a Mac.
You raise a good point tho. Gnumeric (Excel clone for GNOME) has an "Export as PDF" option. PDF is very useful, and should be standard in any document software.
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I for one would like to put aside the KDE & GNOME bias that pushes many to adopt this word processor or that.
Our fundamental problem to be solved is a lack of UNIVERSAL and fully functional MS-Office import *and* export filters. At this point, I would say it's the biggest problem Linux users must struggle with (emphasis on "users" here... the administrators must still struggle with Linux's crappy font management, etc).
RTF, HTML, and the "other" semi-formatted languages don't support popular features very well, such as tables and frames. Would YOU export your resume from a Linux app as HTML or RTF, and leave it to Office to render correctly? HR people are the most "clingy to Office types", and if your resume looks shitty - it's YOUR fault not theirs (world is not fair).
If your RTF resume looks bad in Office, *obviously* you are not a good candidate. You show little attention to detail to allow your resume to overlap characters and corrupt text. I've seen Office mangle some RTF docs that look PERFECT elsewhere -- it's an anti-competitive feature of MS Office. RTF documents from Office, re-import perfectly.
SO... to get to my point, we need good filters. The KDE Office and AbiWord folks should get together on the OpenOffice mailing list, and work to make sure the OpenOffice filters are exactly what they need. There's NO EXCUSE for not standardizing our I/O filters now.
As a great example of co-operation between KDE and GNOME applications, look at gPhoto. This started as a Gnome digital camera app, but the code became something better... a standard Linux API for cameras. Now there's a ton of KDE and Gnome apps, all of which run on top of gPhoto.
Just because KDE and GNOME use fundamentally incompatible desktop libraries, does not forgive these folks for not working together on EXTENSIONS to the desktop. We need more success stories like gPhoto, in areas like Printing, Font Management, pretty Wizards for Samba, etc.
I think about the lack of such examples in Linux, and the thought depresses me...
_Scott
When is Slashdot moderation going to favor less frequent "signal" posts, over "dozen posts a day" noise accounts?
I installed and ran SuSE way back (5.x). It was cool because it was a big distro, and pioneered a few usability enhancements.
Today though, I don't see what sets them out as unique. For example, Mandrake is different because they have LOTS of usability enhancements (like SuSE used to, but more so). Red Hat is, well, Red Hat.;-) Debian is the only non-commercial distributionn (arguably volunteers make the most dedicated workers).
But SuSE?
Of course, none of this matters if the Linux Standards Base gets adopted by ALL the distros (ahem.. RH.. cough)
Panasonic had the first "consumer" DVD-R at under $1000, the DVR-A03. You can find it at Best Buy for a rather high $799, or find it on Pricewatch.com for $620. Blank DVD-R disks are $7 each online.
My strike price is about $400 which is high, but considering I have a *bazillion* mp3s it is still cost-effective (factoring in TIME). The REAL "killer app" for DVD-R will be mp3 players that read the disk. Currently DVD players that do MP3's, only do so off of an ISO-9660 CD. THAT is a crying shame. An Apex 5-DVD changer with 25GB of MP3's would just be too much fun...:-)
This information isn't super-secret... the reason Slashdot credits HP is because most Slashdot publishing is "headline based", with research about as deep as a beer cap. Not only has the Panasonic been available for MONTHS (and shipping inside certain Apple models), but even that was not the first DVD-R -- there were various drives for the last few years at about the US$5,000 mark.
Please, Slashdot, the moderation system already sucks. At least do a 30-second Google to make sure your facts are OK. (FWIW - I'm one of the "original" users #54xx and I will not moderate because, because the criteria for being selected is NOT how well you moderate, it is HOW OFTEN YOU POST [this does WONDERS for signal-to-noise... duh!] )
CDDA extraction predates DMCA laws, but if I recall... CD audio tracks have a "copyright bit" which is set to 1 if the works are copyrighted.
Granted, this is more of a FLAG than "protection", but I read somewhere that CDDA was supposed to "respect" this bit. Therefore, one could stretch this as any ripper who doesn't play dead at sight of the bit, is a violation of DMCA.
There's too much water under the bridge for this now, but the DMCA doesn't require copyright protection to be CLEVER... it just has to exist, and be violated.
Just a thought..
PS - Wow, my first post in AGES. I usually don't bother because my post gets lost... seems it's only "worth it" posting to a story, if the story is a few hours old. No self-respecting professional moderator uses his points on a 20-hour story. The moderation system seriously favors repeat posters and abusers, and is why as user #45xx something, I deselected moderation. Sorry for the rant (no one will read this anyways:)
It's exactly this SHOUTING MATCH of wanna-be whiners is why I'm drifting away from Slashdot. That, and the *shitty* moderation system that rewards too-frequent posting, or people with dummy accounts. I see Slashdot spiraling downwards into that "was-cool-once" memory bin.
I suspect there are more people using warez copies of Windows XP than Linux.
I've been waiting for AGES for a Linux handheld, besides the expensive and Linux-unsupported iPaq/Itsy. I still need to justify the expense, but I think it's impressive to be able to port a Linux app right over, and with one ability to code you can write for two "platforms".
Anyone who believes Microsoft will allow Linux to ride.NET in "First Class" is fooling themselves. We won't even get a *seat* in "cargo".
Sure, there will "be" some support for Linux. One only has to remember Microsoft's other "efforts":
1) Office on the Mac (think it's reliable? Send your resume out from it, without proofing on the Windows version..)
2) Streaming Media on UNIX. They even had a Linux binary, remember. It was so clever of them to trumpet "crossplatform support", while withholding minor features like the CODECS needed to play video!
3) IE For UNIX. Stop laughing... I have this friend who says he knows someone who once had a neighbor who downloaded it. Don't laugh -- IE is now required by companies with lazy QA departments and HTML coders with dyslexia. My credit card company's onliine application pages have *broken HTML tages* that render a blank page in Netscape. They won't even fix something that simple... but they will miss the point by saying "we're following the marketshare of Linux closely". Grr...
They can't even properly support HTML. They go out of their way to hide service packs for Windows, so you have to use Windows Update which of course mandates IE (it's HTML, but structured so if you don't use IE, there's no fallback rendering of the page... not even an FTP-like list of files).
They're trying to give the peception that this thing is as inevitable as anything they do. It will be vaporware long after the mainstream press reports on this as if it already happened...
I don't see OS X as a "threat" to Linux. Either the poster is trolling for responses, trying to turn UNIX against UNIX, or generally hasn't thought this through.
Apple went to BSD for one major reason: to keep the Mac RELEVENT. Apple was under pressure to go next-gen in their OS. It *could* have been the NT kernel... they gave it serious consideration. Rumor was Bill threw one of his famous tantrums when Apple dissed him for the BSD kernel.
BSD does not require Apple to give back code to the community -- yet Apple does exactly this with Apache and others. This allows Apple to transition to "semi-free" OS status, while they make whatever plans they have for the future. This tells me Steve Jobs "gets it", even if he doesn't do what WE would want him to do, like make a damn QuickTime for Linux client. Thanks to AVIPLAY, the Microsoft Media stuff is one of the best multimedia technologies on Linux (yeah, it's just wine thunking evil MS.dll's I know...)
Apple at this point gets to ride the coattails of the free software revolution. I say more power to 'em... Linux is not that polished yet, and even when it's close, the hardware still needs to be managable also.
SO... had OS X been out 18 months ago when I had my Mac, I may have not dug into Linux quite as much.
Now tho, when I look at the new Macs, I think "what GREAT LinuxPPC boxes they would make... NO fans!!".
I've asked this question once to a visiting student.
Just get yourself a shell account in Hong Kong, and run a slip connection. Or look for a Windows webproxy... they're usually unsecured and don't have logging (logging has a tendancy to lag inferior OS's like Microsoft's:)
Heck, if they block everything well enough, they could resort to that TCP/IP over DNS trick posted here a while back.
Of course, if the government fails to maintain hold on power, it won't become a pipe-dream democracy. It will probably be controlled by the same corporations owned by the China goverment... who will promptly buy out all of the national press (much like the USA with self-sensoring networks).
If things REALLY look radical in China, they could just impose an Electoral College. It's a time-tested technique for maintaining a duopoly.
Posted anonymously, because my name is in my email address, and someday my employer could always be bought out by a foreign corporation...
While running Gnome on Windows is a novelty -- you probably won't find a lot of apps that will make it worthwhile.
I know this is a technology demo, but you still have to ask yourself what could you do with such a setup? Most Windows X display servers do not support everything you'd get on Linux. It's been a while since I ran X on Windows, but a lot of apps had wierd repaints, and other subtle misbehaviours. While this is minor, other problems exist such as the desktop... you can't exactly discard the MS Toolbar (Start button) for the ole Gnome foot.
What WOULD be cool is if this could run without Windows... just run it on top of DOS, like Windows 3.1 did (and Windows 98 still does, though it's deliberately more difficult to run a non MS DOS 7 underneath the GUI).
Why run this on DOS when you could use Linux? DOS is simpler to install, runs on very old hardware (286's), and while lacking memory protection and multitasking... DOS was rather stable. Many older NT admins cut their teeth on DOS (course, the new ones think a system log is mouse turd behind the rackmount).
I know you're talking about speed, but remember these are not high-speed tracks capable of Woe the day when gasoline hits $7.00 in the US. 185mph. Plus, the US is so subburbanized that there are few places you can move trains that fast.... gots to "protect the children" as the mother lobby calls it. As George Carlin calls it, "FUCK the children".:-D
It's insane. Welcome to US Energy Policy: corporate welfare to the highest bidder.
Of *course* it is economically cheaper for even high-speed trains than flying, but thanks to a government that shifts costs around, the end result is fuel prices are subsudized.
Don't think so? Consider that 55% of the US trade defecit is *oil*. That's all -- over half our economic drain is just one product... amazing.
Ignoring environmental costs for a simplified arguement, the true cost of oil is many times what a barrel costs. If oil is not subsidized, as some might argue, then let's try pulling back the US Navy carrier FLEETS stationed in the Middle East, since they are there to promote Democracy and not to keep the shipping lanes open (riiiigght?:)
While we're at it, we could scale back our economic aid to Egypt and Israel (billions per year each), and put the savings toward our budget defecit or even some loan forgiveness to sub-Saharan Africa.
The point is, weaning Amtrak off government subsidies while not doing the same for the massive highway projects is a total joke.
Most people are so widely distributed in the subburbs, someday it'll take $15 in gas to get $2.00 in milk. Heh. Anyone factor in WALKING DISTANCE to the store when shopping for a home??
If any country in the world rigged the electoral and debate system to lock out all except two centrist candidates, we'd slap embargos on them and call the election fraudulent.
As much as I like Nader and Brown dislike Buchanan, a country THIS BIG can afford to put more people on the stage to hear what they have to say. When the primary elections were so fragmented, Gore and Bush did not mind 4 way debates, but once past that stage they rig the main election to parties that got 25% of the vote in last election (jesus why not be more obvious and make it 49%??)
If this really WERE two candidates, I might vote for the lesser evil of Gore, but there's Nader and Browne to consier. If Green or Libertarian party only got ~5% last time, maybe I can help them to get 6%.
If the 2 party system won't reform itself from within, somehow, someway it will be reformed from without.
A government for the people, by the people... sounds pretty radical today doesn't it?
And if Gore loses because of Nader, tough shit -- you should remember who your friends are.
Damn! I've misunderstood licensing again. This takes more patience than learning to program:(
I thought if Qt was finally GPL-compatible and/or GPL'd directly, one could take the code and do nearly anything, including building Windows version.
If this isn't true, I'm disappointed, because any good Free UI toolkit has got to be easily portable to Windows if we're ever going to Borg the Windows shareware people. A good free Delphi/VB like environment that's 1-CLick To Compile (patent pending) for both Linux and Windows/Mac would do LOTS to loosen Microsoft's stranglehold on development.
Sure, GTK *compiles* on Windows... if you own Visual C++ and are adept and workarounds and hacking makefiles. GTK is not a viable development environment on Windows.
wxWindows looks GREAT... but it hasn't caught on and no environment uses it by default (if Python endorsed it as a replacement for dead-ugly Tkinter that would be great).
I might as well stick to MFC on Windows, and Tk on Linux. Not an ideal compromise...
Westerners (I am one) typically base world languages against their own personal experience. That is, English to be #1, Spanish is #2, and French is a quaint but dying language (grin)
I would not be totally surprised if China someday unseats the US as a world power, and having totally devestated their own country's ecology, they look to Sibera, Alaska, northern India and Russia for land to rape and "resettle".... like they are doing to Mongolia and Tibet.
Chinese as a world language is usually dismissed on the bases that the concentration of speakers is localized - but what if they weren't? We're talking about over 1/4 of the world's people under the thumb of a dictatorship always looking to distract their people. As the population gets on the net and becomes dissatisfied, one could speculate that a nice diversionary war would fan the flames of nationalism (remember the near-riots after the US bombed the Chinese embesy in Yugoslavia?).
More accurately, English is the world's BUSINESS language. I don't expect that to change in the next few hundred years however...
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For "cracking" my IP, these people are in violation of the DMCA.
This is God's lawyer.
>Can you guarantee that the heat sink won't fall off? Is the method of securing the heat sink stable or is it a piece of metal secured by bending the metal over two tabs? Do you crack open the case and check everything EVERY time the computer is moved?
I'll assume you didn't know about the "mounting holes" around each socket. AMD motherboards and heat sinks actually mount the heatsink to the montherboard, so your heatsink can't damage the motherboard. I believe Pentium 4 boards have this now (not certain about Intel because I don't care -- the P4 chip costs more than an entire Athlon-based system, and is not any faster!)
Try reading the specs sometime.
And there are no guarantees in life - not from AMD, Intel, Microsoft, or Linux.
>In the review (posted on /.) it demonstrated heatsinks being removed from the CPU while in operation. Both the PIII & PIV survived but the Athlons fried up with one taking the motherboard with it.
Yes, but that's a *catastrophic* failure. Heatsinks are not moving parts and generally don't fail.
Now, Fans DO fail, but then in that case the temperature increase is much more gradual and the chipset or software can power off the box in time.
Even in a 1U box, you have good directional airflow so I would expect it not to fry.
>OO can't accept pure GPL code coz they need to able to integrate proprietry code.
So? Wouldn't you want as many projects as possible using these filters? Accomodate them and offer the MS Word filters as LGPL... seems perfect from my angle.
>If you really want your file to look the way you intended it, use PDF!
This does not ALWAYS work. Ghostscript can produce PDF files that cannot be read in Acrobat, or xpdf. And vice-versa.
If I generate a PDF (and I have many times, I ALWAYS proof the file by rebooting to Windows and using Win Acrobat. Even then... it's possible my file will be opened on a Mac.
You raise a good point tho. Gnumeric (Excel clone for GNOME) has an "Export as PDF" option. PDF is very useful, and should be standard in any document software.
I for one would like to put aside the KDE & GNOME bias that pushes many to adopt this word processor or that.
Our fundamental problem to be solved is a lack of UNIVERSAL and fully functional MS-Office import *and* export filters. At this point, I would say it's the biggest problem Linux users must struggle with (emphasis on "users" here... the administrators must still struggle with Linux's crappy font management, etc).
RTF, HTML, and the "other" semi-formatted languages don't support popular features very well, such as tables and frames. Would YOU export your resume from a Linux app as HTML or RTF, and leave it to Office to render correctly? HR people are the most "clingy to Office types", and if your resume looks shitty - it's YOUR fault not theirs (world is not fair).
If your RTF resume looks bad in Office, *obviously* you are not a good candidate. You show little attention to detail to allow your resume to overlap characters and corrupt text. I've seen Office mangle some RTF docs that look PERFECT elsewhere -- it's an anti-competitive feature of MS Office. RTF documents from Office, re-import perfectly.
SO... to get to my point, we need good filters. The KDE Office and AbiWord folks should get together on the OpenOffice mailing list, and work to make sure the OpenOffice filters are exactly what they need. There's NO EXCUSE for not standardizing our I/O filters now.
As a great example of co-operation between KDE and GNOME applications, look at gPhoto. This started as a Gnome digital camera app, but the code became something better... a standard Linux API for cameras. Now there's a ton of KDE and Gnome apps, all of which run on top of gPhoto.
Just because KDE and GNOME use fundamentally incompatible desktop libraries, does not forgive these folks for not working together on EXTENSIONS to the desktop. We need more success stories like gPhoto, in areas like Printing, Font Management, pretty Wizards for Samba, etc.
I think about the lack of such examples in Linux, and the thought depresses me...
_Scott
When is Slashdot moderation going to favor less frequent "signal" posts, over "dozen posts a day" noise accounts?
I installed and ran SuSE way back (5.x). It was cool because it was a big distro, and pioneered a few usability enhancements.
;-) Debian is the only non-commercial distributionn (arguably volunteers make the most dedicated workers).
Today though, I don't see what sets them out as unique. For example, Mandrake is different because they have LOTS of usability enhancements (like SuSE used to, but more so). Red Hat is, well, Red Hat.
But SuSE?
Of course, none of this matters if the Linux Standards Base gets adopted by ALL the distros (ahem.. RH.. cough)
-Scott
Yes, my mistake, and thank you for correcting my post.
:-)
/ DV R-A03_WEB-BROCHURE_2001329111775070.pdf
Believe you me, I've been pricewatch.com tracking this baby for WEEKS
Here's the URL to the product flyer @ Pioneer.
http://www.pioneerelectronics.com/Pioneer/Files
I am SOOO psyched to get one (soon!).
Panasonic had the first "consumer" DVD-R at under $1000, the DVR-A03. You can find it at Best Buy for a rather high $799, or find it on Pricewatch.com for $620. Blank DVD-R disks are $7 each online.
:-)
My strike price is about $400 which is high, but considering I have a *bazillion* mp3s it is still cost-effective (factoring in TIME). The REAL "killer app" for DVD-R will be mp3 players that read the disk. Currently DVD players that do MP3's, only do so off of an ISO-9660 CD. THAT is a crying shame. An Apex 5-DVD changer with 25GB of MP3's would just be too much fun...
This information isn't super-secret... the reason Slashdot credits HP is because most Slashdot publishing is "headline based", with research about as deep as a beer cap. Not only has the Panasonic been available for MONTHS (and shipping inside certain Apple models), but even that was not the first DVD-R -- there were various drives for the last few years at about the US$5,000 mark.
Please, Slashdot, the moderation system already sucks. At least do a 30-second Google to make sure your facts are OK. (FWIW - I'm one of the "original" users #54xx and I will not moderate because, because the criteria for being selected is NOT how well you moderate, it is HOW OFTEN YOU POST [this does WONDERS for signal-to-noise... duh!] )
-Scott
CDDA extraction predates DMCA laws, but if I recall... CD audio tracks have a "copyright bit" which is set to 1 if the works are copyrighted.
:)
Granted, this is more of a FLAG than "protection", but I read somewhere that CDDA was supposed to "respect" this bit. Therefore, one could stretch this as any ripper who doesn't play dead at sight of the bit, is a violation of DMCA.
There's too much water under the bridge for this now, but the DMCA doesn't require copyright protection to be CLEVER... it just has to exist, and be violated.
Just a thought..
PS - Wow, my first post in AGES. I usually don't bother because my post gets lost... seems it's only "worth it" posting to a story, if the story is a few hours old. No self-respecting professional moderator uses his points on a 20-hour story. The moderation system seriously favors repeat posters and abusers, and is why as user #45xx something, I deselected moderation. Sorry for the rant (no one will read this anyways
Isn't it obvious?
You go to HELL! You go to hell and you DIE!
Are you planning to sell your own dictionary? "Support" is with two p's.... go back to school will ya?
Old /.'er? Heh... I guess I could say I'm one.
It's exactly this SHOUTING MATCH of wanna-be whiners is why I'm drifting away from Slashdot. That, and the *shitty* moderation system that rewards too-frequent posting, or people with dummy accounts. I see Slashdot spiraling downwards into that "was-cool-once" memory bin.
I suspect there are more people using warez copies of Windows XP than Linux.
I've been waiting for AGES for a Linux handheld, besides the expensive and Linux-unsupported iPaq/Itsy. I still need to justify the expense, but I think it's impressive to be able to port a Linux app right over, and with one ability to code you can write for two "platforms".
An *amazing* work of art -- a few years old, but easily one of the best multimedia CD's...
First post of the day.... 9 *more* to go if I want to be offered to moderate. Na, never mind...
Anyone who believes Microsoft will allow Linux to ride .NET in "First Class" is fooling themselves. We won't even get a *seat* in "cargo".
Sure, there will "be" some support for Linux. One only has to remember Microsoft's other "efforts":
1) Office on the Mac (think it's reliable? Send your resume out from it, without proofing on the Windows version..)
2) Streaming Media on UNIX. They even had a Linux binary, remember. It was so clever of them to trumpet "crossplatform support", while withholding minor features like the CODECS needed to play video!
3) IE For UNIX. Stop laughing... I have this friend who says he knows someone who once had a neighbor who downloaded it. Don't laugh -- IE is now required by companies with lazy QA departments and HTML coders with dyslexia. My credit card company's onliine application pages have *broken HTML tages* that render a blank page in Netscape. They won't even fix something that simple... but they will miss the point by saying "we're following the marketshare of Linux closely". Grr...
They can't even properly support HTML. They go out of their way to hide service packs for Windows, so you have to use Windows Update which of course mandates IE (it's HTML, but structured so if you don't use IE, there's no fallback rendering of the page... not even an FTP-like list of files).
They're trying to give the peception that this thing is as inevitable as anything they do. It will be vaporware long after the mainstream press reports on this as if it already happened...
Heh. One more reason for the LINE project to succeed. ;)
I don't see OS X as a "threat" to Linux. Either the poster is trolling for responses, trying to turn UNIX against UNIX, or generally hasn't thought this through.
.dll's I know...)
Apple went to BSD for one major reason: to keep the Mac RELEVENT. Apple was under pressure to go next-gen in their OS. It *could* have been the NT kernel... they gave it serious consideration. Rumor was Bill threw one of his famous tantrums when Apple dissed him for the BSD kernel.
BSD does not require Apple to give back code to the community -- yet Apple does exactly this with Apache and others. This allows Apple to transition to "semi-free" OS status, while they make whatever plans they have for the future. This tells me Steve Jobs "gets it", even if he doesn't do what WE would want him to do, like make a damn QuickTime for Linux client. Thanks to AVIPLAY, the Microsoft Media stuff is one of the best multimedia technologies on Linux (yeah, it's just wine thunking evil MS
Apple at this point gets to ride the coattails of the free software revolution. I say more power to 'em... Linux is not that polished yet, and even when it's close, the hardware still needs to be managable also.
SO... had OS X been out 18 months ago when I had my Mac, I may have not dug into Linux quite as much.
Now tho, when I look at the new Macs, I think "what GREAT LinuxPPC boxes they would make... NO fans!!".
I've asked this question once to a visiting student.
:)
Just get yourself a shell account in Hong Kong, and run a slip connection. Or look for a Windows webproxy... they're usually unsecured and don't have logging (logging has a tendancy to lag inferior OS's like Microsoft's
Heck, if they block everything well enough, they could resort to that TCP/IP over DNS trick posted here a while back.
Of course, if the government fails to maintain hold on power, it won't become a pipe-dream democracy. It will probably be controlled by the same corporations owned by the China goverment... who will promptly buy out all of the national press (much like the USA with self-sensoring networks).
If things REALLY look radical in China, they could just impose an Electoral College. It's a time-tested technique for maintaining a duopoly.
Posted anonymously, because my name is in my email address, and someday my employer could always be bought out by a foreign corporation...
While running Gnome on Windows is a novelty -- you probably won't find a lot of apps that will make it worthwhile.
I know this is a technology demo, but you still have to ask yourself what could you do with such a setup? Most Windows X display servers do not support everything you'd get on Linux. It's been a while since I ran X on Windows, but a lot of apps had wierd repaints, and other subtle misbehaviours. While this is minor, other problems exist such as the desktop... you can't exactly discard the MS Toolbar (Start button) for the ole Gnome foot.
What WOULD be cool is if this could run without Windows... just run it on top of DOS, like Windows 3.1 did (and Windows 98 still does, though it's deliberately more difficult to run a non MS DOS 7 underneath the GUI).
Why run this on DOS when you could use Linux? DOS is simpler to install, runs on very old hardware (286's), and while lacking memory protection and multitasking... DOS was rather stable. Many older NT admins cut their teeth on DOS (course, the new ones think a system log is mouse turd behind the rackmount).
Anyone try this in Windows under VMWare? Heh.
I know you're talking about speed, but remember these are not high-speed tracks capable of Woe the day when gasoline hits $7.00 in the US. 185mph. Plus, the US is so subburbanized that there are few places you can move trains that fast.... gots to "protect the children" as the mother lobby calls it. As George Carlin calls it, "FUCK the children". :-D
:)
It's insane. Welcome to US Energy Policy: corporate welfare to the highest bidder.
Of *course* it is economically cheaper for even high-speed trains than flying, but thanks to a government that shifts costs around, the end result is fuel prices are subsudized.
Don't think so? Consider that 55% of the US trade defecit is *oil*. That's all -- over half our economic drain is just one product... amazing.
Ignoring environmental costs for a simplified arguement, the true cost of oil is many times what a barrel costs. If oil is not subsidized, as some might argue, then let's try pulling back the US Navy carrier FLEETS stationed in the Middle East, since they are there to promote Democracy and not to keep the shipping lanes open (riiiigght?
While we're at it, we could scale back our economic aid to Egypt and Israel (billions per year each), and put the savings toward our budget defecit or even some loan forgiveness to sub-Saharan Africa.
The point is, weaning Amtrak off government subsidies while not doing the same for the massive highway projects is a total joke.
Most people are so widely distributed in the subburbs, someday it'll take $15 in gas to get $2.00 in milk. Heh. Anyone factor in WALKING DISTANCE to the store when shopping for a home??
Dude!
:-D
They JUST RESTARTED the B5 series in Widescreen, like 6 weeks ago.
Now wear this white cone and stand in the corner for not paying attention.
If any country in the world rigged the electoral and debate system to lock out all except two centrist candidates, we'd slap embargos on them and call the election fraudulent.
As much as I like Nader and Brown dislike Buchanan, a country THIS BIG can afford to put more people on the stage to hear what they have to say. When the primary elections were so fragmented, Gore and Bush did not mind 4 way debates, but once past that stage they rig the main election to parties that got 25% of the vote in last election (jesus why not be more obvious and make it 49%??)
If this really WERE two candidates, I might vote for the lesser evil of Gore, but there's Nader and Browne to consier. If Green or Libertarian party only got ~5% last time, maybe I can help them to get 6%.
If the 2 party system won't reform itself from within, somehow, someway it will be reformed from without.
A government for the people, by the people... sounds pretty radical today doesn't it?
And if Gore loses because of Nader, tough shit -- you should remember who your friends are.
Damn! I've misunderstood licensing again. This takes more patience than learning to program :(
I thought if Qt was finally GPL-compatible and/or GPL'd directly, one could take the code and do nearly anything, including building Windows version.
If this isn't true, I'm disappointed, because any good Free UI toolkit has got to be easily portable to Windows if we're ever going to Borg the Windows shareware people. A good free Delphi/VB like environment that's 1-CLick To Compile (patent pending) for both Linux and Windows/Mac would do LOTS to loosen Microsoft's stranglehold on development.
Sure, GTK *compiles* on Windows... if you own Visual C++ and are adept and workarounds and hacking makefiles. GTK is not a viable development environment on Windows.
wxWindows looks GREAT... but it hasn't caught on and no environment uses it by default (if Python endorsed it as a replacement for dead-ugly Tkinter that would be great).
I might as well stick to MFC on Windows, and Tk on Linux. Not an ideal compromise...
Face it, "English" really means US English.
Westerners (I am one) typically base world languages against their own personal experience. That is, English to be #1, Spanish is #2, and French is a quaint but dying language (grin)
I would not be totally surprised if China someday unseats the US as a world power, and having totally devestated their own country's ecology, they look to Sibera, Alaska, northern India and Russia for land to rape and "resettle".... like they are doing to Mongolia and Tibet.
Chinese as a world language is usually dismissed on the bases that the concentration of speakers is localized - but what if they weren't? We're talking about over 1/4 of the world's people under the thumb of a dictatorship always looking to distract their people. As the population gets on the net and becomes dissatisfied, one could speculate that a nice diversionary war would fan the flames of nationalism (remember the near-riots after the US bombed the Chinese embesy in Yugoslavia?).
More accurately, English is the world's BUSINESS language. I don't expect that to change in the next few hundred years however...
You really think I meant Lightwave *itself* is gone? That's just plain dumb of you. Of course I meant in regards to Amiga OS.
:_)
Newtek no longer actively supports their new products on AMiga. Is that clear ENOUGH for you? Deal with it.
I was at NAB the last few years. Newtek has the best booth doughnuts.