The site they redirect traffic too is horribly misconfigured. It will accept traffic on ports 80 and 25 but silently drop everything on other ports. So if you telnet, ssh, rsync, etc to a nonexistant domain it will hang for several minutes before timing out instead of even giving a "connection refused" message.
While I respect his coding skills greatly, Carmack's games are frightfully dull and unimaginative. They are always the same - run around and shoot everything in sight. Depth is what makes games worth playing.
Damn, if only every demo at ComputerWare Palo Alto was as impressive as that. I used to notice the employees there were VERY fast at hitting control-cmd-power in event of a crash. It's almost as if they were trained to minimize their response time to the appearance of a bomb box.
If this is a lighter-weight frontend to mozilla, why didn't they just make the normal Mozilla frontend lighter weight? You can already disable mail/news etc on Mozilla; what other features does Phoenix remove?
If Phoenix were native (GTK,X11,etc), I could understand, but it's writen in XUL, the same slow, crossplatform platform that the main Mozilla UI is writen in. So what's the big difference?
The DMCA prohibits systems that break COPY PROTECTION. I don't know what planet you live on, but on this one CDR drives don't have copy protection yet. What the fuck does the dmca have to do with them?
Uh... CD-R speed is the most effective copy protection I know. It keeps me from churning out thousands of CDs full of oggs and divxs and vcds per day!
Isnt that a HUGE security hole on the part of whatever OS they're refering to? That's insane; somebody could send you a CD that does mallicious activities or comprimizes your security.
XML is a very wasteful and generic file format. By using a custom binary file format, file sizes could easilly be decreased hundredfold. It's a pity that people use XML for reasons of "interoperability" when the only siginificant gain is that parsing the file format is done in a uniform way. XML wastes CPU time, drive space, and memory by trying to use a generic file format for nongeneral data. It should be shunned.
Every lame PC "standard" has continuous artificial limitations like this. Remember the 8086's memory addressing? Go with SCSI on a 64bit processor and you won't have to deal with this crap.
When I glanced at this article, my first thought was "Arent Fox?". This law firm continuously pushes the limits of bullying people over trademark-related "crimes". Here's a short list of what I've seen them do:
Force a "Made with Macintosh" logo off the Church of Satan's web pages.
Threaten the authors of a Mac theme editor because "the editor could be used to extract trademarked graphics from the Mac OS" and "they must have used reverse engineering to write the software".
If Arent Fox was hired by the MPAA, they would start threatening people who mentioned DeCSS.
I agree with you, but you're just restating what I said! I quote myself: "Code reuse is sometimes a good thing, but often it results in awfully bloated software."
Okay, but what if I don't _want_ any of those applications? Well, I have AbiWord installed but it has no Gnome dependency (as long as I'm a developer...)
The package maintainer for Debian should consider splitting gnucash into itself and a -doc package. That way people will have more flexibility. I like to install all documentation on my fileserver but keep my workstations light.
I didn't say that I liked it. My applications link against X, libc, glib, and gtk. No berkeley DB, sorry.
I think SDL is pretty great. Just because whatever messed up version you got from your distribution was bad, well... SDL itself can use either or any of aalib, xlib, svgalib, or even GGI iirc for video. It supports esd, oss, and/or alsa for audio. Every single one of these is optional, although it helps to include at least one:).
Come on. I'm sure they could have done better. Installing gnucash on my system, not counting the libraries I already have installed, would take 35332k! (yes I actually checked).
This isn't a troll. Code reuse is sometimes a good thing, but often it results in awfully bloated software.
AIM is notorious for being proprietary, controlling, and locking competitors out. It may be a fun statement to trade music over TimeWarner/AOL's network, but they can and will lock your software out. It's a medium that AIMster doesn't control, and only AOL does. That's why smart elitist cyberpunks boycott AIM.
Besides, AIM is so stupid in the first place that it's a mediocre way of trading MP3's. It's centralized, which creates the above issues. Also, what happens when someone "warns" you for trading MP3's? Or AOL deletes your account for it. This is not a true peer-to-peer network.
It is a bug in the router if it doesn't pass through ECN packets. Some paranoid routers Hotmail was using thought ECN was some kind of security exploit and screwed up all communications _trying_ to use it, i.e. those attempting from ECN-enabled Linux 2.4 hosts. I'm not sure what the resolution has been but it's clear that blocking ECN is an abnormal activity that violates RFC's as well as common sense.
The licensing terms on Prime Curios! are pretty standard, preventing copying, for one. I realized that the prime number is based on the DeCSS source code, and therefore protected by the GPL.
...Which brings up an interesting question... can a _number_ be GPL'd? What about patented? This scheme allows basically any computer program to be represented as a number, and if you want a prime all you have to do is append trailing garbage (ignored by gzip) until the number is prime.
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The site they redirect traffic too is horribly misconfigured. It will accept traffic on ports 80 and 25 but silently drop everything on other ports. So if you telnet, ssh, rsync, etc to a nonexistant domain it will hang for several minutes before timing out instead of even giving a "connection refused" message.
While I respect his coding skills greatly, Carmack's games are frightfully dull and unimaginative. They are always the same - run around and shoot everything in sight. Depth is what makes games worth playing.
My favorite game is nethack.
...by Asterix and Obelix.
Damn, if only every demo at ComputerWare Palo Alto was as impressive as that. I used to notice the employees there were VERY fast at hitting control-cmd-power in event of a crash. It's almost as if they were trained to minimize their response time to the appearance of a bomb box.
If this is a lighter-weight frontend to mozilla, why didn't they just make the normal Mozilla frontend lighter weight? You can already disable mail/news etc on Mozilla; what other features does Phoenix remove?
If Phoenix were native (GTK,X11,etc), I could understand, but it's writen in XUL, the same slow, crossplatform platform that the main Mozilla UI is writen in. So what's the big difference?
The DMCA prohibits systems that break COPY PROTECTION. I don't know what planet you live on, but on this one CDR drives don't have copy protection yet. What the fuck does the dmca have to do with them?
Uh... CD-R speed is the most effective copy protection I know. It keeps me from churning out thousands of CDs full of oggs and divxs and vcds per day!
Isnt that a HUGE security hole on the part of whatever OS they're refering to? That's insane; somebody could send you a CD that does mallicious activities or comprimizes your security.
XML is a very wasteful and generic file format. By using a custom binary file format, file sizes could easilly be decreased hundredfold. It's a pity that people use XML for reasons of "interoperability" when the only siginificant gain is that parsing the file format is done in a uniform way. XML wastes CPU time, drive space, and memory by trying to use a generic file format for nongeneral data. It should be shunned.
Umm, or you could use a plugin system.
Every lame PC "standard" has continuous artificial limitations like this. Remember the 8086's memory addressing? Go with SCSI on a 64bit processor and you won't have to deal with this crap.
If Arent Fox was hired by the MPAA, they would start threatening people who mentioned DeCSS.
Well, it is a tiny bit more relevent because VA owns and operates Slashdot. Read the freaking post.
I agree with you, but you're just restating what I said! I quote myself: "Code reuse is sometimes a good thing, but often it results in awfully bloated software."
Okay, but what if I don't _want_ any of those applications? Well, I have AbiWord installed but it has no Gnome dependency (as long as I'm a developer...)
The package maintainer for Debian should consider splitting gnucash into itself and a -doc package. That way people will have more flexibility. I like to install all documentation on my fileserver but keep my workstations light.
I think that's a pretty funny thing to say about a Gnome program.
I didn't say that I liked it. My applications link against X, libc, glib, and gtk. No berkeley DB, sorry.
:).
I think SDL is pretty great. Just because whatever messed up version you got from your distribution was bad, well... SDL itself can use either or any of aalib, xlib, svgalib, or even GGI iirc for video. It supports esd, oss, and/or alsa for audio. Every single one of these is optional, although it helps to include at least one
Come on. I'm sure they could have done better. Installing gnucash on my system, not counting the libraries I already have installed, would take 35332k! (yes I actually checked).
This isn't a troll. Code reuse is sometimes a good thing, but often it results in awfully bloated software.
Windows has DLL hell. Well, so does Gnome. Gnome tries hard to emulate windows in all ways.
Look at the motif version of gnucash - how many dependencies does that have?
Me, I write software with minimal dependencies. Often just the C library, but sometimes libraries like GTK or SDL.
AIM is notorious for being proprietary, controlling, and locking competitors out. It may be a fun statement to trade music over TimeWarner/AOL's network, but they can and will lock your software out. It's a medium that AIMster doesn't control, and only AOL does. That's why smart elitist cyberpunks boycott AIM.
Besides, AIM is so stupid in the first place that it's a mediocre way of trading MP3's. It's centralized, which creates the above issues. Also, what happens when someone "warns" you for trading MP3's? Or AOL deletes your account for it. This is not a true peer-to-peer network.
Ooops, "reclaims" has those 3 letters in sequence... I take my comment back.
It is a bug in the router if it doesn't pass through ECN packets. Some paranoid routers Hotmail was using thought ECN was some kind of security exploit and screwed up all communications _trying_ to use it, i.e. those attempting from ECN-enabled Linux 2.4 hosts. I'm not sure what the resolution has been but it's clear that blocking ECN is an abnormal activity that violates RFC's as well as common sense.
Only if it's a 128-bit int
Rewrite it in assembler. You're guarenteed to get an improvement.
The licensing terms on Prime Curios! are pretty standard, preventing copying, for one. I realized that the prime number is based on the DeCSS source code, and therefore protected by the GPL.
...Which brings up an interesting question... can a _number_ be GPL'd? What about patented? This scheme allows basically any computer program to be represented as a number, and if you want a prime all you have to do is append trailing garbage (ignored by gzip) until the number is prime.
What if the number turned out to be .253....0000? How would trailing zeroes not be lost?