microsoft does business with the gov't. it will be nice to see their new site.:)
sure, the net is more then the us, but the us doesn't have to be alone here. somewhere on the european union's website (http://europa.eu.int) are noises about disabled rights (i hope). wonder if the eu and it's member states can enact similar legislation?
i am seriously impressed. i use redhat, and don't really have plans to change, but i think n.p.'s description of caldera's install rocks.
why?
1. it installs from windows directly. smart move. i doubt they're as open with their install program as debian and redhat are (which is fine, it's their choice). be nice if the other distributions added a gpl workalike, but then hopefully win9x will go away...
2. tetris. *brilliant* i can see hardware benchmarks now: this new pentium iii cthulu chip is so fast i ony got through 5 levels of tetris during a full caldera linux install. it doesn't just answer the "hard to install" complaint, it takes it out back and shoots it.
3. in general it sounds very "innovative." while bill gates is making innovative a dirty word, caldera has shown it's alive and well in the linux world, and i hope the other distributions can show that innovation is constuctive - not something you use to whallop your cometitors with.
please don't take this in a negative way, but caldera seems a little less open then redhat and debian wrt code they write. even so they've contributed a large amount to the community. i wish them luck and i hope the other distributions see openlinux 2.2 as a constructive challenge. maybe redhat can get xbill going for their distribution.
OK, first of all there's one point that needs to be addressed. I didn't read through the report and add up the time required to do the benchmark. But to set it up and repeat it enough times to be valid I suspect it would take the three days described in the report. So at best the best responses are several days away.
That said, I was a tad disappointed with the ZD article. It had no hard figures to prove the idea that Linux is faster. ZD recently did a benchmark test of some sort comparing NT and Linux, but I can't remember if it was web and file serving.
What I'd really love to see is for Linus to rebut the report at Comdex. More specifically I'd like him to do explain in understandable detail (perhaps referring to a more informative url to move things along better) why Mindcraft's Linux "tuning" was inappropriate. I'd like him to offer up a few bits of documentation explaining the Linux tuning process to deflect the rightly earned lack of docs critique. And before doing the new benchmark results, explain any new patches that help improve the system that were brought to light thanks to the benchmark - it wouldn't hurt to mention that those patches were coded, tested, and put in place within a week.
Finally, of course, benchmark results demonstrating that Linux bets out NT in this newly conducted test. That would be quite nice, and save Linus the effort of coming up with a speech *and* a topic.
college taught me cs history that helped me understand where we've been.
it taught me theory that made java old hat when i first saw it four years later.
it taught me practical things, so that the technical side of developing was easy.
it taught me subjects outside of cs, which sadly included ethics. (sad that it was outside, not that it was something i learned)
it exposed me to other cultures, and other people.
i suppose it would be better to say that "i learned," rather then "it taught." college provided me with access to those things, it was up to me to take them.
it might not be for everyone, but i find it interesting to note that bill gates dropped out and has spent the past 20 years reinventing the wheel badly. linus completed his degree and (due to licensing issues) recreated a well known wheel and used it to sringboard experiments in not very well known wheels: scheduling, memory management (well researched in low memory eras, but not well covered in high memory situations) and smp.
college taught me cs history that helped me understand where we've been.
it taught me theory that made java old hat when i first saw it four years later.
it taught me practical things, so that the technical side of developing was easy.
it taught me subjects outside of cs, which sadly included ethics. (sad that it was outside, not that it was something i learned)
it exposed me to other cultures, and other people.
i suppose it would be better to say that "i learned," rather then "it taught." college provided me with access to those things, it was up to me to take them.
it might not be for everyone, but i find it interesting to note that bill gates dropped out and has spent the past 20 years reinventing the wheel badly. linus completed his degree and (due to licensing issues) recreated a well known wheel and used it to sringboard experiments in not very well known wheels: scheduling, memory management (well researched in low memory eras, but not well covered in high memory situations) and smp.
for a company supporting charity and philanthropy your attack on OSS was absolutely revolting. OSS is responsible for the internet - from tcp/ip implementations to the software that makes www.microsoft.com resolve to the software that makes http://www.microsoft.com display on your screen. over twenty years people invested their time, their creativity, and sometimes their money into creating the net.
now companies like microsoft are deliberately making their software incompatable with everyone elses in order to get more market share; locking people and companies out; and slowing overall creativity and innovation around the world.
and you support that?
if you're a friend of charities and a supporter of altruism i'm honestly frightened to know what the enemies of them are like.
Here's an interesting fact to consider: as an American citizen living overseas I still need to file taxes. Not only that but I have a few other forms to fill out then I did when I lived in the states.
So if you don't mind, leave the IRS alone. It's a lot easier to download pdf files off the net then it is to take a half day off work to go down to the American Embassy in Ballsbridge through Dublin traffic. Assuming they even have tax forms there.
In lieu of cracking www.irs.gov, why not write your congressperson and ask them why Americans living overseas have to *file* tax returns even though most often they don't have to pay US taxes (so I end up wasting time, and the IRS ends up wasting time, to determine that I owe $0)? Just a thought...
this is more a linuxtoday, or lwn.net thing, but it would be nice to get a report from a real tech perspective, and not just from the mainstream media. so if anyone's going, it would be nice to get some detail.
i think in some ways it's nice to see, especially in light of esr and bruce parens little war of words. it will be a nice example of parens "hydra" marketing approach - both linus and john representing linux (and free software) instead of a single esr.
and no offense to esr, but i think linus and john will make a better impression. as opposed to the rms and esr approach to marketing (weird outfits, and outrageous statements), this pair will present a very toned down yet persuasive message for people to consider. not so much "in your face" as "in your head."
actually, it's good that you avoided the the effort of making a point since your basis for one was all messed up. many communities do have audible signals at traffic lights - arlington, ma and dublin ireland spring to mind. not all techies are interested in more visual tech. lastly i seem to recall a story recently about a man who got his vision back after over fifty years - he lost it around the age of 5. he was able to process it, but he found it frightening.
my understanding was that gcc performed badly on an alpha. digital, er, compaq's compiler produced far better code. any word on whether compaq was going to help the gcc/egcs team out?
also, anyone try building an alpha/linux distribution with the compaq compiler? (sorry rms, just think of it as goal setting)
let's see, the us gov't between the 60's and 90's came up with the internet. a worldwide network with standard protocols.
private industry came up with prodigy, aol, and compuserv. online services that wouldn't interoperate.
since private industry went net.happy, we've had a slew of closed protocols hit the net, limiting people's ability to communicate.
sorry, i still find the gov't much less noxious then anything "the market" and private industry is coming up with. at the very least the gov't has a mandate towards openness and public service that it has to try and fulfill. "the market" has no such mandate and in fact trumpets it's lack of interest in the public good as a selling point.
"our prying gov't." here in ireland we elect our gov't. we can vote them out. last i checked, i didn't get a chance to vote for the ceo's of irish companies, never mind american ones.
in case you didn't notice my dear little clueon challenged friend, a private company (being sued by, among others, several gov'ts) came up with the guid.
try voting, running for office or (if you don't have a representative gov't) overthrowing the dictatorship you live in (and surprise the world by replacing it with something that isn't a dictatorship). hey, and in the free time you'll have that's not spent whining you can get a clue!
to tell the truth, i was rather disappointed. only a thousand? c'mon lurkers, be more active! i've heard around 30,000 people read slashdot on a regular basis - 1000 is only 1/30th.
i finally started using them at work. excellent. don't truck cd's back and forth, no wondering if the cleaners'll pinch cd's on my desk. great stuff.
they really can't stop it, they're going to need to spend the time creating a new economic model. even the idea of watermarking mp3's is silly, there's no way that will stop reasonably clueful "pirates."
first a few kudos to the gov't. first, they listened. that's nice, but not really surprising. there are many people in gov't who actually do believe it's important to serve the people. the big point is that they appear to have listened intelligently.
huh?
many right-wing organisations in the us set up phone banks - even using mobile phones at rallies. so they swamp congress members with "grassroots" support. email being so easily forged could easily lead to a similar situation. currently spammers use address lists for recipients, but what if some policy organisation used such lists to fill in To: fields?
one of the fdic people noted that the email messages were unique - not computer generated. that's an important thing for gov't people to notice. smart, i hope they all pay attention as much.
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no one will study software engineering because there won't be any great
jobs in it?
really?
i guess that's why no one studies philosophy, theology, history, theoretical
physics, or even primary and secondary education.
oops.
nice fud, but alan cox's paycheck proves you wrong.
come to think of it, so does his rejection of your job offer.
microsoft does business with the gov't. it will be nice to see their new site. :)
sure, the net is more then the us, but the us doesn't have to be alone here. somewhere on the european union's website (http://europa.eu.int) are noises about disabled rights (i hope). wonder if the eu and it's member states can enact similar legislation?
time to go find my mep...
i am seriously impressed. i use redhat, and don't really have plans to change, but i think n.p.'s description of caldera's install rocks.
why?
1. it installs from windows directly. smart move. i doubt they're as open with their install program as debian and redhat are (which is fine, it's their choice). be nice if the other distributions added a gpl workalike, but then hopefully win9x will go away...
2. tetris. *brilliant* i can see hardware benchmarks now: this new pentium iii cthulu chip is so fast i ony got through 5 levels of tetris during a full caldera linux install. it doesn't just answer the "hard to install" complaint, it takes it out back and shoots it.
3. in general it sounds very "innovative." while bill gates is making innovative a dirty word, caldera has shown it's alive and well in the linux world, and i hope the other distributions can show that innovation is constuctive - not something you use to whallop your cometitors with.
please don't take this in a negative way, but caldera seems a little less open then redhat and debian wrt code they write. even so they've contributed a large amount to the community. i wish them luck and i hope the other distributions see openlinux 2.2 as a constructive challenge. maybe redhat can get xbill going for their distribution.
OK, first of all there's one point that needs to be addressed. I didn't read through the report and add up the time required to do the benchmark. But to set it up and repeat it enough times to be valid I suspect it would take the three days described in the report. So at best the best responses are several days away.
That said, I was a tad disappointed with the ZD article. It had no hard figures to prove the idea that Linux is faster. ZD recently did a benchmark test of some sort comparing NT and Linux, but I can't remember if it was web and file serving.
What I'd really love to see is for Linus to rebut the report at Comdex. More specifically I'd like him to do explain in understandable detail (perhaps referring to a more informative url to move things along better) why Mindcraft's Linux "tuning" was inappropriate. I'd like him to offer up a few bits of documentation explaining the Linux tuning process to deflect the rightly earned lack of docs critique. And before doing the new benchmark results, explain any new patches that help improve the system that were brought to light thanks to the benchmark - it wouldn't hurt to mention that those patches were coded, tested, and put in place within a week.
Finally, of course, benchmark results demonstrating that Linux bets out NT in this newly conducted test. That would be quite nice, and save Linus the effort of coming up with a speech *and* a topic.
college taught me cs history that helped me understand where we've been.
it taught me theory that made java old hat when i first saw it four years later.
it taught me practical things, so that the technical side of developing was easy.
it taught me subjects outside of cs, which sadly included ethics. (sad that it was outside, not that it was something i learned)
it exposed me to other cultures, and other people.
i suppose it would be better to say that "i learned," rather then "it taught." college provided me with access to those things, it was up to me to take them.
it might not be for everyone, but i find it interesting to note that bill gates dropped out and has spent the past 20 years reinventing the wheel badly. linus completed his degree and (due to licensing issues) recreated a well known wheel and used it to sringboard experiments in not very well known wheels: scheduling, memory management (well researched in low memory eras, but not well covered in high memory situations) and smp.
college taught me cs history that helped me understand where we've been.
it taught me theory that made java old hat when i first saw it four years later.
it taught me practical things, so that the technical side of developing was easy.
it taught me subjects outside of cs, which sadly included ethics. (sad that it was outside, not that it was something i learned)
it exposed me to other cultures, and other people.
i suppose it would be better to say that "i learned," rather then "it taught." college provided me with access to those things, it was up to me to take them.
it might not be for everyone, but i find it interesting to note that bill gates dropped out and has spent the past 20 years reinventing the wheel badly. linus completed his degree and (due to licensing issues) recreated a well known wheel and used it to sringboard experiments in not very well known wheels: scheduling, memory management (well researched in low memory eras, but not well covered in high memory situations) and smp.
for a company supporting charity and philanthropy your attack on
OSS was absolutely revolting. OSS is responsible for the internet -
from tcp/ip implementations to the software that makes www.microsoft.com
resolve to the software that makes http://www.microsoft.com display
on your screen. over twenty years people invested their time,
their creativity, and sometimes their money into creating the net.
now companies like microsoft are deliberately making their software
incompatable with everyone elses in order to get more market share;
locking people and companies out; and slowing overall creativity
and innovation around the world.
and you support that?
if you're a friend of charities and a supporter of altruism i'm
honestly frightened to know what the enemies of them are like.
Here's an interesting fact to consider: as an American citizen living overseas I still need to file taxes. Not only that but I have a few other forms to fill out then I did when I lived in the states.
So if you don't mind, leave the IRS alone. It's a lot easier to download pdf files off the net then it is to take a half day off work to go down to the American Embassy in Ballsbridge through Dublin traffic. Assuming they even have tax forms there.
In lieu of cracking www.irs.gov, why not write your congressperson and ask them why Americans living overseas have to *file* tax returns even though most often they don't have to pay US taxes (so I end up wasting time, and the IRS ends up wasting time, to determine that I owe $0)? Just a thought...
this is more a linuxtoday, or lwn.net thing, but it would be nice to get a report from a real tech perspective, and not just from the mainstream media. so if anyone's going, it would be nice to get some detail.
i think in some ways it's nice to see, especially in light of esr and bruce parens little war of words. it will be a nice example of parens "hydra" marketing approach - both linus and john representing linux (and free software) instead of a single esr.
and no offense to esr, but i think linus and john will make a better impression. as opposed to the rms and esr approach to marketing (weird outfits, and outrageous statements), this pair will present a very toned down yet persuasive message for people to consider. not so much "in your face" as "in your head."
yes, but probably posted on the first. if jwz had dated his resignation as 1.4.99, no one would have believed him. hence the 31.3.99 date.
and you point is?
actually, it's good that you avoided the the effort of making a point since your basis for one was all messed up. many communities do have audible signals at traffic lights - arlington, ma and dublin ireland spring to mind. not all techies are interested in more visual tech. lastly i seem to recall a story recently about a man who got his vision back after over fifty years - he lost it around the age of 5. he was able to process it, but he found it frightening.
my understanding was that gcc performed badly on an alpha. digital, er, compaq's compiler produced far better code. any word on whether compaq was going to help the gcc/egcs team out?
also, anyone try building an alpha/linux distribution with the compaq compiler? (sorry rms, just think of it as goal setting)
private industry does software well?
really?
let's see, the us gov't between the 60's and 90's came up with the internet. a worldwide network with standard protocols.
private industry came up with prodigy, aol, and compuserv. online services that wouldn't interoperate.
since private industry went net.happy, we've had a slew of closed protocols hit the net, limiting people's ability to communicate.
sorry, i still find the gov't much less noxious then anything "the market" and private industry is coming up with. at the very least the gov't has a mandate towards openness and public service that it has to try and fulfill. "the market" has no such mandate and in fact trumpets it's lack of interest in the public good as a selling point.
"our prying gov't." here in ireland we elect our gov't. we can vote them out. last i checked, i didn't get a chance to vote for the ceo's of irish companies, never mind american ones.
in case you didn't notice my dear little clueon challenged friend, a private company (being sued by, among others, several gov'ts) came up with the guid.
try voting, running for office or (if you don't have a representative gov't) overthrowing the dictatorship you live in (and surprise the world by replacing it with something that isn't a dictatorship). hey, and in the free time you'll have that's not spent whining you can get a clue!
bonus!
wonderful idea, but can all cdrom drives read audio data off the cd? and in the same format? and what effect would small scratches on the cd have?
yeah, but if you use that link you make money for slashdot. heh.
question raised in my mind...
linux port to psx2? it could do 128 bits before nt did 64...
i can't seem to reply to the article? help?
anyway, i just wanted to congratulate theo. it appears that in addition to openbsd kernel hacking, he can hack lawyers too.
theo's a contractor to some degree i think. he gets some payments for porting openbsd, and generally seems rather entrepenurial. except spelled right.
(hey rob, when're ya plugging in a spell checker? =-] )
to tell the truth, i was rather disappointed. only a thousand? c'mon lurkers, be more active! i've heard around 30,000 people read slashdot on a regular basis - 1000 is only 1/30th.
i finally started using them at work. excellent. don't truck cd's back and forth, no wondering if the cleaners'll pinch cd's on my desk. great stuff.
they really can't stop it, they're going to need to spend the time creating a new economic model. even the idea of watermarking mp3's is silly, there's no way that will stop reasonably clueful "pirates."
not only that, but scott mcneilly banned microsoft powerpoint. result? productivity went up, fileservers with low disk space went down.
not surprising really.
...i agree with newt gingrich. will wonders ever cease?
i find the "us" vs "them" attitude towards the gov't to be rather self defeating and pointless.
they did good this time, why berate them? what does it solve?
first a few kudos to the gov't. first, they listened. that's nice, but not really surprising. there are many people in gov't who actually do believe it's important to serve the people. the big point is that they appear to have listened intelligently.
huh?
many right-wing organisations in the us set up phone banks - even using mobile phones at rallies. so they swamp congress members with "grassroots" support. email being so easily forged could easily lead to a similar situation. currently spammers use address lists for recipients, but what if some policy organisation used such lists to fill in To: fields?
one of the fdic people noted that the email messages were unique - not computer generated. that's an important thing for gov't people to notice. smart, i hope they all pay attention as much.