... much better interfaces to the slashdot thread engine and its database.
Why does it *have* to be that we use a 'web browser' to read these objects?
Anyone done anything with the database which pushes the edge of interface design in interesting ways, such as giving us alternative views of threads, more flexible display options, etc?
Some sort of 'xfm'-like view of slashdot would be nice. Visualization for prime-time.
Nothing. Three critical events occured during 1997-2000. Red Hat was able to capitalize itself for the long term. The Linux kernel continued to scale in performance and application availability with each increase in performance which helped to drive the enterprise adoption of Red Hat. These were matters of when and not if.
This is a profound statement, and the buzzword prone 'scaling' issue should not be overlooked, because an extraordinary strength of Linux is its platform coverage. Very few OS'es run on as much weird/high/low/up/down CPU's and chipsets as Linux. The Linux kernel is breathing all sorts of interesting life into exotic vendor chipsets and development - while it may not 'have the desktop' (as if that matter any more) - it most certainly rules embedded, vis a vis competitive products and operating systems.
Considering this issue a little deeply (hey, positive/. moment) while reading this article, it really made me realize that Linux is a *big* thing. It is without question pushing the edge of things from a hardware perspective. And yet it is still able to keep pace in other fronts, as well, such as offiice apps, etc.
{I used Linux to help make surfboards once.}
I think it is very positive to read such perspectives - particularly strong industrial ones, and I think it ought to be said that any Linux-observer/-user/-contributor must face the fact that RedHat is not doing so bad for itself after 'all these years' for a company that started with a pretty bold vision.
*sigh* At this juncture, I imagine its time to start keeping an eye on Microsoft and their i-tron initiative... not that I feel like it from an aesthetic bent, which is where it all begins for me in this technology...
We're only seeing the 'larval' stage of these organisms, which happens to be a few hundred years old... and the next stage is a monstrous life-stealing alien invader of Earth, eating brains and demolishing cities?
That would be cool. Hope its not for a few hundred years though, that would suck...
Well, for one, thats a 'pun', since 'brilliance' is of course a type of optical quality, and its use in science is derived from its context in gemology, where a 'brilliant' (gemstone) often is carved in a manner which implies orbital angular momentum, which is incidentally, or 'was' (in the days of gemology) a measure of its worth, since its supposed to be difficult to carve a diamond in such a manner that its outer edge implies such things...
When I was younger I wrote a sci-fi story about a religious sect called the "Lingists" (hey, 16 years old, c'mon...) whose soul purpose was the rapid creation of new languages as a means of deterring interception.
The "Lingists" made their fortune renting themselves out - two at a time. Each pair would 'invent a special language' designed *specifically* for the situation they needed to communicate about - if it were a military situation, they had their own tools to describe it in a radically different-sounding 'new' language, or if they were being used for a business negotiation, something entirely different. A sort of 'human' public/private key generation method.
The plot of the story mostly revolved around the kinds of situations that a pair of Lingists would find themselves in - leased out to the Mafia to be used as translators across contintental divides, negotiating business deals, etc. But I was always fascinated with the kinds of rules such a system would require in order to truly work.
I lost this story when I moved to another country, but I keep thinking I ought to go back to it and re-visit it in new, technological light. Perhaps there is a future for a group whose purpose is the invention of entirely new forms of human language for new situations.
When I see stories like this, about a language as simple as "4 vowels, 4 consonents", it inspires me to have a closer look at this idea... any Language Majors' know of similar 'language invention' schemes?
Because, if you read the article, the script to make this possible in the FreeBSD build process has been recently introduced, and is a good tool to do this with.
It doesn't matter if 'dynamic linking' is old technology or not - the fact that this change has been made (and, it appears, generally accepted) is news.
How the/bin &&/sbin binaries are treated in a release as significant as FreeBSD, is definitely news for nerds, stuff that matters.
The static nature of/sbin has been a significant issue in Unix-user/-admin land for many, many years. This change now sets in place a new scheme for administrators to understand and work around - with the new linking flag, admins can set up systems in new and interesting ways.
Any FreeBSD admin who now doesn't understand the reasoning and potential problems of this new linking scheme will *definitely* need to learn it and understand it if they want to continue doing a good admin job in the future.
One good way to learn about this and use it is to read the comments from slashdot readers about this issue... and thus, this *IS* important news for slashdot.
Just because SCO/MICROSOFT/LINUX isn't in the article, doesn't mean its not important...
ppc can go smaller, lighter, faster, with IBM's help, than the current x86-centric set of CPU's...
And thats the point. IBM, making products out of the PPC, would give us an alternative, competing platform. Isn't that what consumer choice is all about?
The LART is perfect - its cheap (okay, 200UKP+) and the design is completely open - including schematics - so you've got the best hardware combo for your Linux software:
Last I checked (2 months ago) they still had LART boards available from a 'community-production run' of boards made for other LART hackers... so you could spend a few hundred bucks and easily get yourself a nice little board for experimenting with.
That said, I'll give you another bit of advice for eval boards for Linux: GO DIRECTLY TO THE CHIP VENDORS. Do not pass google. Do not spend $200.
Chip vendors (Motorola/Intel/HP/AMD/etc.) make evaluation boards for their embeddable CPU designs, and you can guess which OS is the most commonly supported, at the engineering level... yes, Linux.
Pick your CPU, check if there's a port for it (there probably is), then go to the CPU vendor and get their eval board for it...
Samsung have some good ARM920T-based designs which are cheap and supported by eval board vendors around the world (check www.mizi.com for example)... and the Motorola Coldfire team love Linux.
Slashdot won't give you a good answer. Go for the CPU vendors...
I just moved to Germany after a 15-year stint in Southern California.
All I can say is this:
German business is a blatant economic force to be reckoned with, if you're an American business. Germans are hot on your heels in pretty much every sector, and then some...
It is only after actually living here for a while that I've come to sense a value in the characterization of Germans by Americans.
Do you mean 'true real-time' OS, or do you mean 'true... OS', or do you mean... 'true, real-time, OS'...
There are many ways of acheiving 'real-time'.
'real-time' is a performance measure based on arbitrary assumptions. Those arbitraries are distinct within the definition of 'real-time'.
The 'interrupt abstraction' method implemented by FSMLabs and subsequently studied (and copied) by others in the 'real-time market' (hint: real-time is just a market) provides nothing *but* real-time performance... functionaly, it means you just have to consider that your OS tasks are happening in *one* real-time thread.
Its no big deal. You do all your "OS-specific" stuff at start time, stay in 'pure real-time' thread land through your infinite_loop(); Even when the OS switches in, the context switches are handled by the MediaOS layer, so DSP-wise, you can plan for the event if you really need to.
What Linux means for DSP is a standardized package and deployment system with good tools available for development, hacking, and debugging.
I have to say, this is a golden new age of Linux-friendly DSP packages being put out by smart folks...
Slashdot Mirror
... much better interfaces to the slashdot thread engine and its database.
Why does it *have* to be that we use a 'web browser' to read these objects?
Anyone done anything with the database which pushes the edge of interface design in interesting ways, such as giving us alternative views of threads, more flexible display options, etc?
Some sort of 'xfm'-like view of slashdot would be nice. Visualization for prime-time.
When asked what he'd change, Matthew responded:
Nothing. Three critical events occured during 1997-2000. Red Hat was able to capitalize itself for the long term. The Linux kernel continued to scale in performance and application availability with each increase in performance which helped to drive the enterprise adoption of Red Hat. These were matters of when and not if.
This is a profound statement, and the buzzword prone 'scaling' issue should not be overlooked, because an extraordinary strength of Linux is its platform coverage. Very few OS'es run on as much weird/high/low/up/down CPU's and chipsets as Linux. The Linux kernel is breathing all sorts of interesting life into exotic vendor chipsets and development - while it may not 'have the desktop' (as if that matter any more) - it most certainly rules embedded, vis a vis competitive products and operating systems.
Considering this issue a little deeply (hey, positive
{I used Linux to help make surfboards once.}
I think it is very positive to read such perspectives - particularly strong industrial ones, and I think it ought to be said that any Linux-observer/-user/-contributor must face the fact that RedHat is not doing so bad for itself after 'all these years' for a company that started with a pretty bold vision.
*sigh* At this juncture, I imagine its time to start keeping an eye on Microsoft and their i-tron initiative
Imagine a beowulf clu ... oh, never mind.
We're only seeing the 'larval' stage of these organisms, which happens to be a few hundred years old ... and the next stage is a monstrous life-stealing alien invader of Earth, eating brains and demolishing cities?
That would be cool. Hope its not for a few hundred years though, that would suck...
Typical cynical hyper-crtical bullshit.
He's not doing *work* on Linux he's *using* it.
There's a difference, kid. One day you'll learn it.
Well, for one, thats a 'pun', since 'brilliance' is of course a type of optical quality, and its use in science is derived from its context in gemology, where a 'brilliant' (gemstone) often is carved in a manner which implies orbital angular momentum, which is incidentally, or 'was' (in the days of gemology) a measure of its worth, since its supposed to be difficult to carve a diamond in such a manner that its outer edge implies such things
Those wacky scientists.
746f72706f72 as well ...
... cross-coordinates ... any, and all, with the digits "8008" in them, in that string ...
It is precisely this pedantic finesse which gives Star Wars geeks such a fine odor.
what use would learning a dead language be?
As anyone with half a bit can tell you, language is useful for two reasons:
1) because other people can speak it
and
2) because other people can not speak it
Who is to say that the language R2D2 spoke wasn't the most common language in the known galaxy?
...
Why should droids have to learn a *human* language, if in fact humans are an insignificant minority in the grand scheme of the Star Wars universe
Frankly, I find your lack of faith disturbing.
When I was younger I wrote a sci-fi story about a religious sect called the "Lingists" (hey, 16 years old, c'mon...) whose soul purpose was the rapid creation of new languages as a means of deterring interception.
... any Language Majors' know of similar 'language invention' schemes?
The "Lingists" made their fortune renting themselves out - two at a time. Each pair would 'invent a special language' designed *specifically* for the situation they needed to communicate about - if it were a military situation, they had their own tools to describe it in a radically different-sounding 'new' language, or if they were being used for a business negotiation, something entirely different. A sort of 'human' public/private key generation method.
The plot of the story mostly revolved around the kinds of situations that a pair of Lingists would find themselves in - leased out to the Mafia to be used as translators across contintental divides, negotiating business deals, etc. But I was always fascinated with the kinds of rules such a system would require in order to truly work.
I lost this story when I moved to another country, but I keep thinking I ought to go back to it and re-visit it in new, technological light. Perhaps there is a future for a group whose purpose is the invention of entirely new forms of human language for new situations.
When I see stories like this, about a language as simple as "4 vowels, 4 consonents", it inspires me to have a closer look at this idea
Because, if you read the article, the script to make this possible in the FreeBSD build process has been recently introduced, and is a good tool to do this with.
It doesn't matter if 'dynamic linking' is old technology or not - the fact that this change has been made (and, it appears, generally accepted) is news.
Of course it is.
/bin && /sbin binaries are treated in a release as significant as FreeBSD, is definitely news for nerds, stuff that matters.
/sbin has been a significant issue in Unix-user/-admin land for many, many years. This change now sets in place a new scheme for administrators to understand and work around - with the new linking flag, admins can set up systems in new and interesting ways.
... and thus, this *IS* important news for slashdot.
...
How the
The static nature of
Any FreeBSD admin who now doesn't understand the reasoning and potential problems of this new linking scheme will *definitely* need to learn it and understand it if they want to continue doing a good admin job in the future.
One good way to learn about this and use it is to read the comments from slashdot readers about this issue
Just because SCO/MICROSOFT/LINUX isn't in the article, doesn't mean its not important
Ummm... the same goes for commercial software.
The thing is: you can't fix commercial software if you need to. You can fix open source software if you need to.
That is the point.
ppc can go smaller, lighter, faster, with IBM's help, than the current x86-centric set of CPU's ...
And thats the point. IBM, making products out of the PPC, would give us an alternative, competing platform. Isn't that what consumer choice is all about?
Come to AMPFEA.ORG ... you are welcome here.
The LART is perfect - its cheap (okay, 200UKP+) and the design is completely open - including schematics - so you've got the best hardware combo for your Linux software:
... so you could spend a few hundred bucks and easily get yourself a nice little board for experimenting with.
... yes, Linux.
... and the Motorola Coldfire team love Linux.
The LinuxDevices page on LART
The LART home page
Last I checked (2 months ago) they still had LART boards available from a 'community-production run' of boards made for other LART hackers
That said, I'll give you another bit of advice for eval boards for Linux: GO DIRECTLY TO THE CHIP VENDORS. Do not pass google. Do not spend $200.
Chip vendors (Motorola/Intel/HP/AMD/etc.) make evaluation boards for their embeddable CPU designs, and you can guess which OS is the most commonly supported, at the engineering level
Pick your CPU, check if there's a port for it (there probably is), then go to the CPU vendor and get their eval board for it...
Samsung have some good ARM920T-based designs which are cheap and supported by eval board vendors around the world (check www.mizi.com for example)
Slashdot won't give you a good answer. Go for the CPU vendors...
I just moved to Germany after a 15-year stint in Southern California.
...
All I can say is this:
German business is a blatant economic force to be reckoned with, if you're an American business. Germans are hot on your heels in pretty much every sector, and then some...
It is only after actually living here for a while that I've come to sense a value in the characterization of Germans by Americans.
The West is a Wilde place sometimes
Do you mean 'true real-time' OS, or do you mean 'true ... OS', or do you mean ... 'true, real-time, OS' ...
...
There are many ways of acheiving 'real-time'.
'real-time' is a performance measure based on arbitrary assumptions. Those arbitraries are distinct within the definition of 'real-time'.
The 'interrupt abstraction' method implemented by FSMLabs and subsequently studied (and copied) by others in the 'real-time market' (hint: real-time is just a market) provides nothing *but* real-time performance... functionaly, it means you just have to consider that your OS tasks are happening in *one* real-time thread.
Its no big deal. You do all your "OS-specific" stuff at start time, stay in 'pure real-time' thread land through your infinite_loop(); Even when the OS switches in, the context switches are handled by the MediaOS layer, so DSP-wise, you can plan for the event if you really need to.
What Linux means for DSP is a standardized package and deployment system with good tools available for development, hacking, and debugging.
I have to say, this is a golden new age of Linux-friendly DSP packages being put out by smart folks
Also, dont expect MS to provide the nice (and necessary) accelerated graphics drivers that emulators normally come with.
You figure we can come up with an open-source solution to this problem, or is it only something that the VirtualPC programmers can really pull off?
But then I have a consistent source of new material from fresh new artists to keep myself entertained with on a weekly basis.
Haven't bought a record in years. I actually went to the shop yesterday to pick up Obie Trice' new album, but guess what: THEY DIDN'T HAVE IT!
Bling bling, off I go for some Poisoned Obie...
No kidding. For that matter, how much do you *really* know about your CPU?
What would you gain from using a different logic board?
Just ignore him. All PC users feel the need to replace bits of their computer that they're not happy with.
I just saw the bundles at the local MediaMarkt.
... then again ... I'm not one to match my decor to my Playstation.
Doesn't really seem like a positive move, to me... but