The Perl programmers will continue using Perl, the Pythonistas will continue improving Zope along with alternatives, PHP will contine to gain in popularity while trying to be all things to all people and other assorted languages and technologies will also be used on Open Source platforms.
There will be no monoculture in the Open Source world. The very people that drive it are too independant, too individualistic and too smart to ever settle on one solution to a problem. Unix is 30 years old and is nowhere near a monoculture, even when Linux has come to be a strong force in the market.
Actually, I can think of one monoculture we have - X. We have so many desktops, toolkits, languages, web servers, ftp servers, dns servers, MTAs, etc: Why haven't the X alternatives gained any traction? Multiple drivers too hard to write? X really is good enough? Has the X monoculture helped or hurt *nix?
Your first two paragraphs remind me of why font hinting is required. Fonts are resolution independant graphics, yet they require help with rendering at low resolutions to maintain readability.
Does SVG have any simple means to create a 'hinting' system?
Since this is turning into a jokefest I'll repost something I sent to the LVLUG:
Someone posted a Microsoft centric How many X does it take to screw in a light bulb so I thought I'd find some Linux ones and post them. I couldn't find any (didn't look real hard though) and so came up with my own (slightly lame) list. Can anyone add to it? Is there a page full of these that I missed?
How many Linux users to screw in a light bulb?
One to say that on Linux their light bulbs never burn out. Another to say that they don't use light bulbs with Linux, they like waving their hands around in the dark better. One to find light_bulb_0.4.12.rpm One to say "you should be using light_bulb.i386.0.4.12.rpm One to solve the dependancy on light_socket.1.0.2.lib.so and light_switch.2.1.0.lib.so One to suggest using Debian, they wouldn't have dependancy problems in the first place. Another to suggest Mandrake, cause with Debian they wouldn't have gotten the wiring installed in the first place. Another to suggest Gentoo, where he just types "emerge light_bulb". Another to complain that with Gentoo he'd be waiting around for light all weekend. One to suggest waiting around for next month's user group meeting where everyone could help screw in the light bulb. One who says candle_3.2 works just fine for him and doesn't see why light_bulb is worth all the trouble. One to start the HOWTO (credit User FWC)
I first ran Norton Undelete about 15 years ago so that makes me a data recovery expert with 15 years experience (and my tools are DOS based as well). I just need a slick website and I'm in business.
Without even downloading it, I'm guessing thats the p2p part. 2 users behind firewalls will get routed through an open host that both can make connections to?
You can see similar solutions on many motherboards today. A few of the visible traces near the CPU and bridge circuitry will appear to wander in aimless squiggles before continuing on to connect with their destination.
As our computer busses are now operating well into RF ranges tiny bits of inductance and capacitance have a significant effect on signal propagation. Those wacky squigly traces help keep the computer from crashing.
My all-time favorite was from back when Blizzard was still a cool company. Not long after Starcraft came out, at the 1998 E3 they released a trailer for the Brood War expansion for Starcraft.
The eerie operatic music combined with the glimpses of ultraviolent combat between zerg and human left a lasting impression on me.
I also remember that as one of the last big files I downloaded over the 28.8 modem before I got my cable-modem. You can still download it from Blizzard's site.
This process took all of 2 days. I don't honestly know if any other OS has this fix in their build process or packages. My guess is that the rest of the Unix world either needs to manually patch and compile their KDE or wait for 3.1.3a.
Debian Unstable
Granted, it is binary packages for the most part (occasionally someone will mention apt-get -b source packagename) but releases and bugfixes come fast and furious in Debian Unstable.
Yeah, no one fits exactly into one of sixteen categories and our personality varies with the mood we're in and lots of other factors.
Some of those tests will offer scores for each of the types and you might find the obvious, that you're very much I and T (or whatever, for me I'm very strongly I and N and the last two letters flip back and forth) and the others could go either way.
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My buddy was bragging about doing this the other day and getting his spam down to manageable levels. I was bragging about my Bayesian filter. Maybe I should try some remove links to unclog my mailboxes...
The problems with NAT and the current crop of applications that assume you're directly connected to the internet don't show up until you have more than one person behind the firewall trying to use the same application.
I've easily reconfigured my firewall/NAT appliance to enable just about every application I've tried. Used this way, I might as well have one IP per computer. But getting multiple computers running the same game or application to connect to the outside world starts to get more difficult. Only a few of the chorus of 'I can make NAT work just fine' mention this hurdle.
For IP4 apps, the fault lies with the programmers. Anyone programming TCP/IP should recognize that their program stands a good chance of being run behind a wide array of firewalls and NAT devices. At the very least, allow the user to configure a port number for the device and don't rely on some tricky sequence of connections on various ports to maintain a connection. Anticiapte more than one copy of your program running from behind a firewall or NAT appliance.
Of course, for some applications, this is easier said than done. But the wide number of applications that successfully work with only one public IP address shows that it can be done.
Based on your results on this carefully conducted Rorschach test, your psychological profile is incompatible with our company's image and needs. Security is waiting at your cubicle to escort you from the premesis.
While it's true that ImageMagick is used quite often for online photo galleries and that Gallery is very popular, Gallery doesn't use ImageMagick (except for the forthcoming v2.0). Instead, it uses NetPBM, another set of opensource image manipulation tools that deserve a little pimping along with ImageMagick.
If we're going to get nitpicky about xbox equivalancy (and I was about some of it, talking about exact graphics equivalents and the like) we have to include either the OS on the PC or the steps to get Linux on the xbox. Now that the software only mod is public we don't have to factor in a modchip if we want to run Linux on it. Now we can start thinking about labor costs - building the low cost PC we're talking about vs whatever mod we want to do with the xbox.
I really think it comes down to the purpose of the machine, you can't really build an xbox equivalent for the money. But if you want a general purpose computational machine, you can do better building a cheap Duron or Athlon or even Celeron machine. And it plays games too.
to answer my question, at least on the client, the free version of AVG on Windows sure does, while it hasn't as yet extracted a 4GB file it sure is taking its sweet time making its way through the file.
(*)Much lower than Pentium III in the 733 to 900 range
(**)Probably cheaper motherboads, searched for one that listed the Celeron at 1.3GHz
Total $257
Cheaper buying used stuff, or if you can get everything from one place, but you're going to be hard pressed to get below the xbox price unless you come across some sweet deals. You're right, higher CPU performance is cheaper. The vid chip in the xbox is somewhat geforce3 era but does some stuff that is only now showing up in pc graphics cards.
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Not sure that it handles forms and whatnot but for basic viewing of PDF files it works great and starts faster than Acrobat. You can even set up a Postscript printer to print to a file and convert that .ps file to a .pdf yourself.
Anyone doing current Windows builds with SVG?
There will be no monoculture in the Open Source world. The very people that drive it are too independant, too individualistic and too smart to ever settle on one solution to a problem. Unix is 30 years old and is nowhere near a monoculture, even when Linux has come to be a strong force in the market.
Actually, I can think of one monoculture we have - X. We have so many desktops, toolkits, languages, web servers, ftp servers, dns servers, MTAs, etc: Why haven't the X alternatives gained any traction? Multiple drivers too hard to write? X really is good enough? Has the X monoculture helped or hurt *nix?
Does SVG have any simple means to create a 'hinting' system?
Since this is turning into a jokefest I'll repost something I sent to the LVLUG:
Someone posted a Microsoft centric How many X does it take to screw in a light bulb so I thought I'd find some Linux ones and post them. I couldn't find any (didn't look real hard though) and so came up with my own (slightly lame) list. Can anyone add to it? Is there a page full of these that I missed?
How many Linux users to screw in a light bulb?
One to say that on Linux their light bulbs never burn out.
Another to say that they don't use light bulbs with Linux, they like waving their hands around in the dark better.
One to find light_bulb_0.4.12.rpm
One to say "you should be using light_bulb.i386.0.4.12.rpm
One to solve the dependancy on light_socket.1.0.2.lib.so and
light_switch.2.1.0.lib.so
One to suggest using Debian, they wouldn't have dependancy problems in the first place.
Another to suggest Mandrake, cause with Debian they wouldn't have gotten the wiring installed in the first place.
Another to suggest Gentoo, where he just types "emerge light_bulb".
Another to complain that with Gentoo he'd be waiting around for light all weekend.
One to suggest waiting around for next month's user group meeting where everyone could help screw in the light bulb.
One who says candle_3.2 works just fine for him and doesn't see why light_bulb is worth all the trouble.
One to start the HOWTO (credit User FWC)
I first ran Norton Undelete about 15 years ago so that makes me a data recovery expert with 15 years experience (and my tools are DOS based as well). I just need a slick website and I'm in business.
Did that a soda machine once. Was quite teh funney.
Yeah I made the same mistake, except I just got to this article after lunch. Bad, very bad mental image to finish eating to.
Without even downloading it, I'm guessing thats the p2p part. 2 users behind firewalls will get routed through an open host that both can make connections to?
As our computer busses are now operating well into RF ranges tiny bits of inductance and capacitance have a significant effect on signal propagation. Those wacky squigly traces help keep the computer from crashing.
The eerie operatic music combined with the glimpses of ultraviolent combat between zerg and human left a lasting impression on me.
I also remember that as one of the last big files I downloaded over the 28.8 modem before I got my cable-modem. You can still download it from Blizzard's site.
According to this ancient Seybold report, Dataglyphs can achieve densities of a kilobyte per square inch.
DataGlyphs were featured in this /. article about chess playing scanners.
Granted, it is binary packages for the most part (occasionally someone will mention apt-get -b source packagename) but releases and bugfixes come fast and furious in Debian Unstable.
Some of those tests will offer scores for each of the types and you might find the obvious, that you're very much I and T (or whatever, for me I'm very strongly I and N and the last two letters flip back and forth) and the others could go either way.
My buddy was bragging about doing this the other day and getting his spam down to manageable levels. I was bragging about my Bayesian filter. Maybe I should try some remove links to unclog my mailboxes...
I've easily reconfigured my firewall/NAT appliance to enable just about every application I've tried. Used this way, I might as well have one IP per computer. But getting multiple computers running the same game or application to connect to the outside world starts to get more difficult. Only a few of the chorus of 'I can make NAT work just fine' mention this hurdle.
For IP4 apps, the fault lies with the programmers. Anyone programming TCP/IP should recognize that their program stands a good chance of being run behind a wide array of firewalls and NAT devices. At the very least, allow the user to configure a port number for the device and don't rely on some tricky sequence of connections on various ports to maintain a connection. Anticiapte more than one copy of your program running from behind a firewall or NAT appliance. Of course, for some applications, this is easier said than done. But the wide number of applications that successfully work with only one public IP address shows that it can be done.
Based on your results on this carefully conducted Rorschach test, your psychological profile is incompatible with our company's image and needs. Security is waiting at your cubicle to escort you from the premesis.
using the scientifically proven method of typing a word into google and seeing how many pages it reports.
Genealogy - 9,000,000
porn - 44,000,000
linux - 66,000,000
windows - 66,000,000
so OS are more popular than porn?
sex - 144,000,000
maybe not
YMMV
While it's true that ImageMagick is used quite often for online photo galleries and that Gallery is very popular, Gallery doesn't use ImageMagick (except for the forthcoming v2.0). Instead, it uses NetPBM, another set of opensource image manipulation tools that deserve a little pimping along with ImageMagick.
Where they tried to take some of the repetitive elements of other RPGs out and ended up with a beautiful game that wasn't terribly exciting to play.
If we're going to get nitpicky about xbox equivalancy (and I was about some of it, talking about exact graphics equivalents and the like) we have to include either the OS on the PC or the steps to get Linux on the xbox. Now that the software only mod is public we don't have to factor in a modchip if we want to run Linux on it. Now we can start thinking about labor costs - building the low cost PC we're talking about vs whatever mod we want to do with the xbox.
I really think it comes down to the purpose of the machine, you can't really build an xbox equivalent for the money. But if you want a general purpose computational machine, you can do better building a cheap Duron or Athlon or even Celeron machine. And it plays games too.
to answer my question, at least on the client, the free version of AVG on Windows sure does, while it hasn't as yet extracted a 4GB file it sure is taking its sweet time making its way through the file.
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Are all of the virus scanners going to recursively extract all those zip files?
That way I could continue to use the PGP/GPG tools and keys that I already have and add whatever level of trust available from the USPS.
geforce 3ti: $63
celeron 1.3GHz(*): $40
mboard(**): $58
64MB: $9
20GB: $45
Case, power: $11
DVD Drive: $31
controller ??
(*)Much lower than Pentium III in the 733 to 900 range
(**)Probably cheaper motherboads, searched for one that listed the Celeron at 1.3GHz
Total $257
Cheaper buying used stuff, or if you can get everything from one place, but you're going to be hard pressed to get below the xbox price unless you come across some sweet deals. You're right, higher CPU performance is cheaper. The vid chip in the xbox is somewhat geforce3 era but does some stuff that is only now showing up in pc graphics cards.