Yea, but then you get into other issues. AMD doesn't support many of the new Intel instruction sets such as SSE2 and HT. Misrespending the chip name would cause it to comple incompatiable code. Better solution: don't use icc if you don't own an Intel!
I really hope they think about fully replacing the current system. I remember trying to get the transparency and shadowing working when I got Gnome 2.8. It worked all right...except for crashing every 15 mins and leaving the desktop unusuable...oh and fucking up mplayer (tried every vo option and still ran into some...interesting problems)
It's sad that Windows does transparency painlessly and yet we still struggle with it in X. X is such a piece of crap.
I mean don't get me wrong, this device seems to be good at what it does, but the cost! You could buy a plasma screen TV for how much you'll be paying for audio!
I'm really surprised no one has come up with a full opensource do-it-yourself solution. The squeezebox from slimdevices.com seems to work all right, but at $200 ~ $300 a pop, they are also kinda pricey for an overglorified wi-fi audio system.
With mini-ITX boards so cheap, you could build one of this things easily for under $100. What's missing is embeded Linux software to make it work.
The tickey part is syncing audio. The best way to acomplish this is probably to send the audio data as UDP datagram broadcasts to ever device on the media players subnet.
Although I'm sure there are a few free software solutions that exist here and there, I'm waiting for the day when one becomes as efficent and popular as say MythTV giving us nerds to make cool systems like this on a budget.
Bittorrent was never meant to be a P2P program as much as a mass distribution program for new releases of stuff such as movies, Linux CDs, etc.
I think because of that is has avoided that spy-ware mess for a while. I remember downloading a copy of The Ring II before it came out only to discover after you downloaded the zip file, there was an exe in it. Of course running in Linux, I decided to run the exe in a clean VMware install for fun and sure enough, it was spyware.
With Bittorrent becoming more distributed like with exeem and Azurus implementing their own tracker-less systems, I think there is going to be a lot more clutter on bittorrent. At least we won't have the problem with incomplete files we had with P2P. I hated downloading a porn only to find out it cut out right before the end.
I remember when I got my piece of paper that said I was smart. I got it from Tennessee Tech, the worst school in the south east. I had a professor who hated me and got me fired and had two years of research destroied. I was also fired my freshman year for stealing 3,000 free newspapers.
And in the end my roommate Coleman got a job in Alabama, without finishing his degree, paying a large sum of money. I got my degree and get a smaller sum of money. Coleman however, wishes he had the piece of paper.
So why am I in graduate school now? Because I want to be able to teach Computer Science. That's what I've always wanted to do. However I'm really not learning anything horibly new I couldn't learn on my own. The piece of paper simply shows I've met some ambigious standard.
However, it is a standard, and there is a guy in my current IT department who is a total dumbass who didn't even go to a 2 year college. When it comes to the hiring process, for a beginnger with no experience, that degree means a lot.
And there is a lot about "Computer Science" I would have never learned on my own. There is a lot of theory that you simply can't pick up in the real world and yes, the theory does help you a better programmer.
Did the editor really need to keep in the link to the actual web server? Like a 3Mhz server made out of hundreds of small chips is really going to withstand a link on slashdot! Why even include it?
The regular site is down too, so screw all your "RTFA" guys, we can't unless we use a google cache or mirrordot.
I can remember when my favorite genre died, Adventure Games (Inventory, point n click, story driven games). There simply wasn't a market for hard games that almost required hint books with no replay value.
Now as game consoles sport hard drives and usb ports (USB keyboard, joysticks, etc), even games like World of WarCraft will soon make their home on a console. Less spyware on a console and in theory, they should be easier to secure and have less complicated file systems. Right now the graphics quality on a computer screen is still better, but soon that will change too.
This isn't a bad thing through. Games are the last challenge. With games removed from the PC, it will be easier to convert people over to Linux or MacOS! All their office and Internet applications will be avaiable (or have reasonable equivilants) making the switch seem much more plausable as a change to escape the evils of Windows based spy-ware.
My University added Internet2 routers just as I was graduating. If I remember correctly, when you send a request to another Internet2 site, say utk.edu, the Internet2 router then determines if the traffic should be sent across I2.
Can students really choose to use either the Internet or I2 if they're going to communicate with another Internet2 enabled school?
People keep bringing up the problems with WEP. It's obvious it doesn't work very well at all, however most of your really secure traffic, credit card numbers etc, are going to be sent over SSL anyway.
People can park a car outside your house, break WEP and sniff your non-SSL traffic, but people at an ISP can do that anyway. Although using wireless does make it easier for them, the most they're gonna be able to do is read your email (if you don't use secure pop or secure imap) or logon your IM.
Although these things can be annoying, as long as you keep your private traffic restricted to SSL (https, pops, imaps, etc) you should be fine.
TV Shows. I download massive amounts of cartoons and entertainment. Plus my mp3 collection is well over 40GB (I rip every Cd I own and only play burns so not to destory the originals...they tend to get scratched up on the car).
I have a Gentoo file server with Amy/120GB (dedicated for porn), Hermes/80GB (mp3s/oggs, 43% full), Fry/160GB (various funny video clips, flash animation, photos, general storage), Bender/160GB (TV shows and movies that I haven't watched and burned off yet)
And yes they're all named after Futurama Characters (all my computers are named after Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle characters)
I've noticed the posts with the highest ratings are either praising or protesting gnome and the decision to not offically package it in slackware.
From what I can tell, dropline Gnome seems to be the best option for Slackware users, so it's not really a big deal that it's being offically dropped. What is a big deal is what's gonna happen to Slackware's maintainer. I've seen other posts about his recent health problems.
Slackware was my first distro. I used 3.6 and up all the way until I had to learn Redhat 7.0 for a job. I used RedHat until 9 and now I'm at Gentoo, however I still am glad my original distro has a maintainer that won't let the project die, even while he struggles with his own health.
Let's give him a hats off for all the work put into maintaining one of the original distros.
That's the first thing I though when I read this article. Slackware was my first distrobution and it's one that has a maintainer who's put hear, soul and blood into keeping it from not dieing.
A Billionaire. Well that's good and fine if you want to be a billionaire. Personally I prefer some decent radio once in a while or some good old Zepplin CDs when I don't want to think.
Remember, according to Edwin Robinson, Richard Cory was richer than a king, but that didn't keep him from going home one night and putting a bullet through his head.
I've read some of the comments and aparently there were some mistranslations. Anyway, after a psychoogical evaluation, many of these people who play a game similar to D&D (not D&D itself) are given low security clearance cause they don't have a clear sense of reality.
Now think about all those RPG players in your dorm rooms. I'm not sure about you guys, but I knew quite a few who were in the lobby playng EVERY NIGHT and they never took a shower. Man they smelled bad.
Not all RPG players were like that, but there was a good percentile that really did have troulbe escaping that fantasy world.
Now I've been telling my friends this for a while. Instead of $1 songs, we need $1 CDs. Afterall, Britney Spears isn't worth a dollar a song. Hell it's not even worth five cents a song.
If we had a dollar download service for an entire CD, both you and the record industry would be getting a good deal
I'm pretty sure all devices require you to be in real dos mode to upgrade firmware. There are some Dell laptops that can do live firmware updates while in XP, but that's rare.
Why couldn't you just use a FreeDOS boot disk? Most firmware today comes with freeDOS boot images
Just because no jobs require an MS in CS doesn't mean it won't help. I personally plan to get one becasue I want to teach Computer Science. I guess if you don't plan on teaching, it might not be that big a help.
Certification (Sun/Java, Red Hat, etc) will help a lot.
If you want to move up into managment, I'd suggest an MBA and if you'd like to get jobs doing more documentation, presentations, technical writing, etc. an English or Technical Writing undergrad might be a good idea too.
Looking through this post, I think all my choices are weighted for what I want to do: teach Comptuer Science and/or write magazine articles and technical documentation.
You really need to custom taylor your post-grad education to what you really want to do.
Wow...depending on the.NET install, that can be larger than the Java Runtime. I like some of the.NET features better. C#'s overloaded operators are cool, but other than that, the.NET framework really sucks.
The graphical components pale in comparison to Java's Swing toolkit. Last I checked,.NET didn't even have a multicolumned list!
However, you do have to give it to Microsoft. The.NET framework i designed to be used by two programming languages, C# and VB (and I think some people have made python compilers too). And you can access either language though the shitty ASP layer for web sites/services.
I think I'll stick to good ole mono.NET on Linux. Hmm, I wonder if I can install some of that spyware onto my Gentoo system:-P
Ok, let's honestly read through this article. They compared Windows 2003 to Red Hat Enterprise 3 "...On average, the Windows setup had just over 30 days of risk versus 71 days for the Red Hat setup, their study found...."
There isn't enough detail on how this study was actually preformed. Days of risk? What is that.
I'll be honest that I do use Linux on all my computers but one, but I'm not a Linux Natzi. Windows 2003 isn't that bad, but studies like this are flawed because they don't explain in detail how they actually came up with their results.
Does anyone have links to implementations of this MIPS arch? Are there embeded versions of Gentoo or Debian that have been showen to work on this chip? Are there any media players like mplayer that are designed to support its instruction sets. What type of embeded boad solutions are there? Has anyone tried this and what are your experiences?
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Yea, but then you get into other issues. AMD doesn't support many of the new Intel instruction sets such as SSE2 and HT. Misrespending the chip name would cause it to comple incompatiable code. Better solution: don't use icc if you don't own an Intel!
Why would you be using icc anyway if you had an AMD? Sheesh!
I really hope they think about fully replacing the current system. I remember trying to get the transparency and shadowing working when I got Gnome 2.8. It worked all right...except for crashing every 15 mins and leaving the desktop unusuable...oh and fucking up mplayer (tried every vo option and still ran into some...interesting problems)
It's sad that Windows does transparency painlessly and yet we still struggle with it in X. X is such a piece of crap.
I mean don't get me wrong, this device seems to be good at what it does, but the cost! You could buy a plasma screen TV for how much you'll be paying for audio!
I'm really surprised no one has come up with a full opensource do-it-yourself solution. The squeezebox from slimdevices.com seems to work all right, but at $200 ~ $300 a pop, they are also kinda pricey for an overglorified wi-fi audio system.
With mini-ITX boards so cheap, you could build one of this things easily for under $100. What's missing is embeded Linux software to make it work.
The tickey part is syncing audio. The best way to acomplish this is probably to send the audio data as UDP datagram broadcasts to ever device on the media players subnet.
Although I'm sure there are a few free software solutions that exist here and there, I'm waiting for the day when one becomes as efficent and popular as say MythTV giving us nerds to make cool systems like this on a budget.
-Sumit
Bittorrent was never meant to be a P2P program as much as a mass distribution program for new releases of stuff such as movies, Linux CDs, etc.
I think because of that is has avoided that spy-ware mess for a while. I remember downloading a copy of The Ring II before it came out only to discover after you downloaded the zip file, there was an exe in it. Of course running in Linux, I decided to run the exe in a clean VMware install for fun and sure enough, it was spyware.
With Bittorrent becoming more distributed like with exeem and Azurus implementing their own tracker-less systems, I think there is going to be a lot more clutter on bittorrent. At least we won't have the problem with incomplete files we had with P2P. I hated downloading a porn only to find out it cut out right before the end.
-Sumdog
I remember when I got my piece of paper that said I was smart. I got it from Tennessee Tech, the worst school in the south east. I had a professor who hated me and got me fired and had two years of research destroied. I was also fired my freshman year for stealing 3,000 free newspapers.
And in the end my roommate Coleman got a job in Alabama, without finishing his degree, paying a large sum of money. I got my degree and get a smaller sum of money. Coleman however, wishes he had the piece of paper.
So why am I in graduate school now? Because I want to be able to teach Computer Science. That's what I've always wanted to do. However I'm really not learning anything horibly new I couldn't learn on my own. The piece of paper simply shows I've met some ambigious standard.
However, it is a standard, and there is a guy in my current IT department who is a total dumbass who didn't even go to a 2 year college. When it comes to the hiring process, for a beginnger with no experience, that degree means a lot.
And there is a lot about "Computer Science" I would have never learned on my own. There is a lot of theory that you simply can't pick up in the real world and yes, the theory does help you a better programmer.
-Sumit
Did the editor really need to keep in the link to the actual web server? Like a 3Mhz server made out of hundreds of small chips is really going to withstand a link on slashdot! Why even include it?
The regular site is down too, so screw all your "RTFA" guys, we can't unless we use a google cache or mirrordot.
-Sumit
I can remember when my favorite genre died, Adventure Games (Inventory, point n click, story driven games). There simply wasn't a market for hard games that almost required hint books with no replay value.
Now as game consoles sport hard drives and usb ports (USB keyboard, joysticks, etc), even games like World of WarCraft will soon make their home on a console. Less spyware on a console and in theory, they should be easier to secure and have less complicated file systems. Right now the graphics quality on a computer screen is still better, but soon that will change too.
This isn't a bad thing through. Games are the last challenge. With games removed from the PC, it will be easier to convert people over to Linux or MacOS! All their office and Internet applications will be avaiable (or have reasonable equivilants) making the switch seem much more plausable as a change to escape the evils of Windows based spy-ware.
-Sumit
My University added Internet2 routers just as I was graduating. If I remember correctly, when you send a request to another Internet2 site, say utk.edu, the Internet2 router then determines if the traffic should be sent across I2.
Can students really choose to use either the Internet or I2 if they're going to communicate with another Internet2 enabled school?
-Sumit
Before you skip over this as a dupe, you need to check out the flash animation.
Damn this thing screams a nerd verion of school house rock!
People keep bringing up the problems with WEP. It's obvious it doesn't work very well at all, however most of your really secure traffic, credit card numbers etc, are going to be sent over SSL anyway.
People can park a car outside your house, break WEP and sniff your non-SSL traffic, but people at an ISP can do that anyway. Although using wireless does make it easier for them, the most they're gonna be able to do is read your email (if you don't use secure pop or secure imap) or logon your IM.
Although these things can be annoying, as long as you keep your private traffic restricted to SSL (https, pops, imaps, etc) you should be fine.
-Sumdog
TV Shows. I download massive amounts of cartoons and entertainment. Plus my mp3 collection is well over 40GB (I rip every Cd I own and only play burns so not to destory the originals...they tend to get scratched up on the car).
I have a Gentoo file server with Amy/120GB (dedicated for porn), Hermes/80GB (mp3s/oggs, 43% full), Fry/160GB (various funny video clips, flash animation, photos, general storage), Bender/160GB (TV shows and movies that I haven't watched and burned off yet)
And yes they're all named after Futurama Characters (all my computers are named after Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle characters)
-Sumdog
I've noticed the posts with the highest ratings are either praising or protesting gnome and the decision to not offically package it in slackware.
From what I can tell, dropline Gnome seems to be the best option for Slackware users, so it's not really a big deal that it's being offically dropped. What is a big deal is what's gonna happen to Slackware's maintainer. I've seen other posts about his recent health problems.
Slackware was my first distro. I used 3.6 and up all the way until I had to learn Redhat 7.0 for a job. I used RedHat until 9 and now I'm at Gentoo, however I still am glad my original distro has a maintainer that won't let the project die, even while he struggles with his own health.
Let's give him a hats off for all the work put into maintaining one of the original distros.
That's the first thing I though when I read this article. Slackware was my first distrobution and it's one that has a maintainer who's put hear, soul and blood into keeping it from not dieing.
A Billionaire. Well that's good and fine if you want to be a billionaire. Personally I prefer some decent radio once in a while or some good old Zepplin CDs when I don't want to think.
Remember, according to Edwin Robinson, Richard Cory was richer than a king, but that didn't keep him from going home one night and putting a bullet through his head.
I've read some of the comments and aparently there were some mistranslations. Anyway, after a psychoogical evaluation, many of these people who play a game similar to D&D (not D&D itself) are given low security clearance cause they don't have a clear sense of reality.
Now think about all those RPG players in your dorm rooms. I'm not sure about you guys, but I knew quite a few who were in the lobby playng EVERY NIGHT and they never took a shower. Man they smelled bad.
Not all RPG players were like that, but there was a good percentile that really did have troulbe escaping that fantasy world.
Now I've been telling my friends this for a while. Instead of $1 songs, we need $1 CDs. Afterall, Britney Spears isn't worth a dollar a song. Hell it's not even worth five cents a song.
If we had a dollar download service for an entire CD, both you and the record industry would be getting a good deal
Good thing Maddox doesn't live in Australia. Afterall, I think his sucicide ideas are the best:
How to kill yourself like a man
I'm pretty sure all devices require you to be in real dos mode to upgrade firmware. There are some Dell laptops that can do live firmware updates while in XP, but that's rare.
Why couldn't you just use a FreeDOS boot disk? Most firmware today comes with freeDOS boot images
-Sumdog
Just because no jobs require an MS in CS doesn't mean it won't help. I personally plan to get one becasue I want to teach Computer Science. I guess if you don't plan on teaching, it might not be that big a help.
Certification (Sun/Java, Red Hat, etc) will help a lot.
If you want to move up into managment, I'd suggest an MBA and if you'd like to get jobs doing more documentation, presentations, technical writing, etc. an English or Technical Writing undergrad might be a good idea too.
Looking through this post, I think all my choices are weighted for what I want to do: teach Comptuer Science and/or write magazine articles and technical documentation.
You really need to custom taylor your post-grad education to what you really want to do.
-Sumit
Wow...depending on the .NET install, that can be larger than the Java Runtime. I like some of the .NET features better. C#'s overloaded operators are cool, but other than that, the .NET framework really sucks.
.NET didn't even have a multicolumned list!
.NET framework i designed to be used by two programming languages, C# and VB (and I think some people have made python compilers too). And you can access either language though the shitty ASP layer for web sites/services.
:-P
The graphical components pale in comparison to Java's Swing toolkit. Last I checked,
However, you do have to give it to Microsoft. The
I think I'll stick to good ole mono.NET on Linux. Hmm, I wonder if I can install some of that spyware onto my Gentoo system
-Sumit
It woudl give Slashdot readers topics to write about for years? You're kidding man. Do you know the attention span of the average slashdot reader?
-Sumdog
That reminds me of kid who built a nuclear reactor out of duct tape, old clocks and dead smoke detectors. I realize it's a far cry from a nuclear bomb, but it still makes you wonder.
Ok, let's honestly read through this article. They compared Windows 2003 to Red Hat Enterprise 3 "...On average, the Windows setup had just over 30 days of risk versus 71 days for the Red Hat setup, their study found...."
There isn't enough detail on how this study was actually preformed. Days of risk? What is that. I'll be honest that I do use Linux on all my computers but one, but I'm not a Linux Natzi. Windows 2003 isn't that bad, but studies like this are flawed because they don't explain in detail how they actually came up with their results.
Does anyone have links to implementations of this MIPS arch? Are there embeded versions of Gentoo or Debian that have been showen to work on this chip? Are there any media players like mplayer that are designed to support its instruction sets. What type of embeded boad solutions are there? Has anyone tried this and what are your experiences?