Qt is available for Windows Unix, MacOSX and embedded linux making it hard to reproduce as pure OSS with no commercial entanglements. A Quick Cost analysis of Qt vs GTK. (and lets not forget at Qt does much more than GTK does, so it's really a huge job recreating it)
Is this really where linux is going, one distro for this kind of utilities and one distro for security, another for network-chores and this one for mailservers etc.
I know you can't win them all, aren't there enough distroes out there. What the world needs now is more people contributing to the existing projects rather than people forking new projects.
I'd rather see 10 new RedHat/Debian/Whatever developers than 10 new distroes specializing in their own thing. Why not create the necessary packages for a smashing audio-distro and submit them to your favourite distro ?
URLs would be an easy thing to check too... I and seriously thought slashcode had stuff in place to take care of the obvious dupes, but I guess this proved me wrong...
not to mention the possibility of somebody unbiased seeing the code and it reaching the papers (electronic or not). This would certainly create bad publicity for SCO both court-wise and.biz-wise.
Most pointyhaired-bosses don't believe a thing until it reaches their particular newspaper or magazine
I can't really see which benefits this gives over using PayPal and the infamous "Donate" button. But that being said, all incentives that generate more OSS either through money or other means, is a good incentive.
Further it's not like this makes OSS a dayjob. If you contribe to OSS it shouldn't be because of financial gains but rather because you think you can add something to the project. I guess not many projects will get so much money that it would be something to really argue over. As I see this wouldn't be the way big corporations would sponsor projects like they do today. I think they'll still contant the projects directly and either put somebody on their payroll to work on the project or donate equipment.
This service will probably be where joe-schmoe puts his dollars to work, and donating a $5'er here and a $5 there...
It's just as much a language as ciphertext. ASCII is nothing but a way of transscribing text written with symbols that we like to call letters into text written with symbols that we like to call numbers...
Deciphering that message (had it been a bit longer) is just as hard as dechipering a caesar-shift with a rotation of 13 (rot-13). ASCII is only a rotation of 65 for CAPITALS or 97 for minuscules.
So I can't see why people have any more trouble with this than any other direct marketing.
Somebody should coin a goatse.cx law similar to Godwins law.
If somebody mentions goatse, EOT (end of thread) immediatly and lots of bad karma, same goes for tubgirl and all the other pictures (even ASCII pictures, just to stay on topic here;-) I don't wanna see when I'm eating breakfast and slashdotting at the same time!
To make IPv6 catch on, the biggest players needs to be on the ball. Right now the US is one of the biggest players on the net, and as it seems there isn't a *real* shortage of IPs (IPv4 that is) in the states. It's just a matter of redistributing the ones that are already assigned... or revoke certain class A's and redistribute them to somebody that will use them.
For China it would be instrumental to have several million more IP addresses, something that I can't see how can be solved with redistribution. It's just gonna fragment the IP-space even more...
The bottom line is, force everybody onto IPv6, or in short terms; convince the US that IPv6 is the way to go...
Still the Secretary of Education is more than just a "secretary" though. The person would still make decisions that would have consequences for somebody (pupils or students in the case of education) down the road...
Be it our, theirs, somebodys politicians; when the US catch up with the rest of the world cellular-wise these cases will start popping up there too...
I think we've all played games or read magazines in class; but you kinda choose to go to school (at least at uni-level). Being an elected politician or scholar it's a whole different thing.
It's scary to think that your society is run by people playing games instead of paying attention to what they're voting over.
Norway had a similar case not long ago, where one politician was caught on camera playing games on his cellphone while in session with the parliament.It certainly didn't go down well;-)
Is it just me or is more and more of the stories on slashdot something that should've been posted on freshmeat and not even mentioned on slashdot.
This story being the ultimate freshmeat-candidate, it doesn't contain *ANY* usefull information what so ever about what this new YD-linux release contains...
*sheez*
Getting a friend to format your drive would be one way to get a NTFS-partition w/o actually touching windows yourself.
I've numerous times connected friends harddrives up to my computer do dump stuff on them. Dumping it in a fs they can recognize would certainly be a big +. So I guess this means no more FAT for Linux users;-)
there doesn't seem to be a good match between requirements for gaming and PDAs, which probably explains why there's still room for PS2/XBOX/Gamecube etc.... Controllers for playing games are usually not the best controllers for planing your next big project
It's kind of in the nature of a caching-nameserver to cache the lookups it does.
This doesn't only apply to BIND, it applies to any nameserver used for cachingpurposes. Be it djbdns, MS-dns, etc.
I can't see why people disrespect the author, it's a proof-of-concept; ie. it can be done. Nobody says it should be done at all... (and it seems to me like half of the posters here either didnt RTFA or has misunderstood major parts of the article)
it's not only the best, it might be the only options; serialconsole is really hard if the installer depends on using graphics for something so simple as installing an os (!).
The installer, especially if made even more automagical should remain textbased.
While I agree to some point, there are issues of running tests on old hardware.
CPUs change, a Pentium4 (or even a Xeon) have more ops than the P3 does, so a proper compiler would be able utilise the processor differently, hence ending up with a test that compares apples and oranges instead of two old apples...
Sounds like he could use a tiny linux/bsd box with enough ram and disk to play printspool.
(Given that the printer supports postscript or has opensource(ish) drivers)
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This Mixer would be interesting for those students enrolled in "Oilspill cover-ups 101" and "Advanced Globalexploitation".
Qt is available for Windows Unix, MacOSX and embedded linux making it hard to reproduce as pure OSS with no commercial entanglements.
A Quick Cost analysis of Qt vs GTK.
(and lets not forget at Qt does much more than GTK does, so it's really a huge job recreating it)
Is this really where linux is going, one distro for this kind of utilities and one distro for security, another for network-chores and this one for mailservers etc.
I know you can't win them all, aren't there enough distroes out there. What the world needs now is more people contributing to the existing projects rather than people forking new projects.
I'd rather see 10 new RedHat/Debian/Whatever developers than 10 new distroes specializing in their own thing. Why not create the necessary packages for a smashing audio-distro and submit them to your favourite distro ?
The word core makes me instantly think of core-dumps... Kind of like if Microsoft named their next Windows version "Microsoft BlueScreen"
URLs would be an easy thing to check too... I and seriously thought slashcode had stuff in place to take care of the obvious dupes, but I guess this proved me wrong...
not to mention the possibility of somebody unbiased seeing the code and it reaching the papers (electronic or not). This would certainly create bad publicity for SCO both court-wise and .biz-wise.
Most pointyhaired-bosses don't believe a thing until it reaches their particular newspaper or magazine
and you "lose" the 5% to paypal or sourceforge?
I can't really see which benefits this gives over using PayPal and the infamous "Donate" button.
But that being said, all incentives that generate more OSS either through money or other means, is a good incentive.
Further it's not like this makes OSS a dayjob.
If you contribe to OSS it shouldn't be because of financial gains but rather because you think you can add something to the project.
I guess not many projects will get so much money that it would be something to really argue over. As I see this wouldn't be the way big corporations would sponsor projects like they do today. I think they'll still contant the projects directly and either put somebody on their payroll to work on the project or donate equipment.
This service will probably be where joe-schmoe puts his dollars to work, and donating a $5'er here and a $5 there...
It's just as much a language as ciphertext.
ASCII is nothing but a way of transscribing text written with symbols that we like to call letters into text written with symbols that we like to call numbers...
Deciphering that message (had it been a bit longer) is just as hard as dechipering a caesar-shift with a rotation of 13 (rot-13). ASCII is only a rotation of 65 for CAPITALS or 97 for minuscules.
So I can't see why people have any more trouble with this than any other direct marketing.
Somebody should coin a goatse.cx law similar to Godwins law.
;-) I don't wanna see when I'm eating breakfast and slashdotting at the same time!
If somebody mentions goatse, EOT (end of thread) immediatly and lots of bad karma, same goes for tubgirl and all the other pictures (even ASCII pictures, just to stay on topic here
To make IPv6 catch on, the biggest players needs to be on the ball. Right now the US is one of the biggest players on the net, and as it seems there isn't a *real* shortage of IPs (IPv4 that is) in the states. It's just a matter of redistributing the ones that are already assigned... or revoke certain class A's and redistribute them to somebody that will use them.
For China it would be instrumental to have several million more IP addresses, something that I can't see how can be solved with redistribution. It's just gonna fragment the IP-space even more...
The bottom line is, force everybody onto IPv6, or in short terms; convince the US that IPv6 is the way to go...
what's worse.. screwing your intern or screwing your country ?
(yes I didn't think of that myself)
Still the Secretary of Education is more than just a "secretary" though. The person would still make decisions that would have consequences for somebody (pupils or students in the case of education) down the road...
Be it our, theirs, somebodys politicians; when the US catch up with the rest of the world cellular-wise these cases will start popping up there too...
I think we've all played games or read magazines in class; but you kinda choose to go to school (at least at uni-level). Being an elected politician or scholar it's a whole different thing.
;-)
It's scary to think that your society is run by people playing games instead of paying attention to what they're voting over.
Norway had a similar case not long ago, where one politician was caught on camera playing games on his cellphone while in session with the parliament.It certainly didn't go down well
Is it just me or is more and more of the stories on slashdot something that should've been posted on freshmeat and not even mentioned on slashdot.
This story being the ultimate freshmeat-candidate, it doesn't contain *ANY* usefull information what so ever about what this new YD-linux release contains... *sheez*
Getting a friend to format your drive would be one way to get a NTFS-partition w/o actually touching windows yourself. I've numerous times connected friends harddrives up to my computer do dump stuff on them. Dumping it in a fs they can recognize would certainly be a big +. So I guess this means no more FAT for Linux users ;-)
not forgetting the fact that the only thing the supreme court can do is to overturn the verdict and refer the case back to a lower court.
there doesn't seem to be a good match between requirements for gaming and PDAs, which probably explains why there's still room for PS2/XBOX/Gamecube etc....
Controllers for playing games are usually not the best controllers for planing your next big project
Head over to http://www.whatismyip.com It's already done...
It's kind of in the nature of a caching-nameserver to cache the lookups it does.
This doesn't only apply to BIND, it applies to any nameserver used for cachingpurposes. Be it djbdns, MS-dns, etc.
I can't see why people disrespect the author, it's a proof-of-concept; ie. it can be done. Nobody says it should be done at all...
(and it seems to me like half of the posters here either didnt RTFA or has misunderstood major parts of the article)
it's not only the best, it might be the only options; serialconsole is really hard if the installer depends on using graphics for something so simple as installing an os (!).
The installer, especially if made even more automagical should remain textbased.
A mandelbrot is recursive, some people might even argue they are pretty ;-)
While I agree to some point, there are issues of running tests on old hardware.
CPUs change, a Pentium4 (or even a Xeon) have more ops than the P3 does, so a proper compiler would be able utilise the processor differently, hence ending up with a test that compares apples and oranges instead of two old apples...
Sounds like he could use a tiny linux/bsd box with enough ram and disk to play printspool.
(Given that the printer supports postscript or has opensource(ish) drivers)