"Any"? Spurious assertion. I've just viewed the test site, and didn't get a crash. Mind you, I only tried Konqueror, Eudora and lynx.
This is exactly why I think it is a browser bug - Mozilla takes untrusted input so it should sanitize the font sizes.
X doesn't actually *crash* (at least when I tried it.) It *exits* (annoyingly, but gracefully) and puts up a "Fatal error", which is what I'd expect from an application when it's been told to use up too much memory.
Transmeta either have to decrease their MHz or drum into the public somehow that "MHz has nothing to do with performance".
Not really. Certainly, at the moment, Transmeta doesn't really compete directly with Intel for the home computer market. They specifically market with regard to the Crusoe's very low power consumption. This isn't likely to matter very much to the home user, but in large server farms where monthly power costs matter, or in dedicated hosting facilities where your power consumption per rack is limited, Transmeta processors make a difference.
Note that although the Crusoe does compete well with Intel type technology when compared processor for processor, the difference when power consumption is compared is
staggering!
All of the contributors to United Linux would be taking a step backwards if they didn't also inlude and support GNOME.
The list of 2.4.18, KDE 3.0.... is more a "look at our software, it's the latest and greatest" rather than "this is what we offer take it or leave it". After all, every linux distribution has a kernel - what they're emphasising is that they have an up to date version.
You said yourself, GNOME 2 is a couple of weeks from release. *When* it does get released it becomes something for would be distributers to shout about.
Re:Transgaming isn't bad. (CounterStrike)
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Cool you do that while I play Counter Strike on my box thanks to Transgaming
Cool. You do that. Everyone else will continue to play Counter Strike using WINE like they did well before Transgaming.
In terms of the actual game performance (in my experience) WineX doesn't have real advantage over Wine for CounterStrike
Unfortunately, the cheat protection in the latest version of Half-Life broke both Wine and WineX. Apparently now WineX has a patch for this, but I downloaded the CVS version of WineX and it still didn't work. I surmise that it's one of these "protected" things that they only release in their binaries. Shame.
This means that since uk2.net stopped running any servers in '-insecure' mode I have not been able to play CounterStrike at all.
Still, it means my abysmal railing skills in Quake III have been getting better. At least Jon Carmack seems to like linux, so I've got a native version of some games to play.
I don't want to hear solutions based on using the software; the model here is someone who wants to be a programmer, not to remain an architect.
If they want to be a programmer, and only a programmer, then why are you asking ways in which they can get paid for distributing software and manuals?
If they were just a programmer, then they would be doing bespoke software - someone comes to them (be it a separate company or just their boss) and tells them what they need a program to do. It gets written, and they get paid for their time. IMO the GPL can work very well in this situation - if the customer gets the software they asked for, what do they care if others can use it? After all, they're paying for the programmers time, not the software.
(Examples of this way of working are the improvements RMS made to Emacs for various companies - the improvements were GPLd and RMS was paid for his time)
Obviously a lot of software is not developed in this way, and this is where trying to make money from writing GPLd software falls down:
In the current software market it is obviously cheaper to develop one program and sell it to lots of people because that can spread out the cost of development (as apposed to bespoke software.)
Unfortunately, this means you can't "just be a programmer", because all your many customers aren't going to pay you in advance for, lets say, the new MS Office. You have to build your product with feature creap, so that it appeals to as many people as possible. On top of this, you then have to market your product at consumers. Only then do you see a return on your investment.
Anyway, this is why you can't use a GPL in this existing software industry and make millions.
Note, I'm not saying it's impossible to make money, and I'm not saying you can't make a living (you don't have to be dirty stinking rich to be successful), I'm not saying that the software industry will always be this way. But at the moment people are more concerned with making money than software, and trying to put the GPL in that kind of industry is like trying to bang a round peg into a square hole.
I could point out, as others have, that Richard himself said that you can use a non-free tool when there is no good free alternative.
Did he? I'm not 100% sure, but I thought RMS attitude was 'Free, or not at all'. I remember reading that all the computers at the EFF ran only free software.
This sounds more like what Linus said - something about using the best tool for the job, whatever the license.
Christ, you are such an idiot. I feel pretty comfortable in saying that I know a lot more about the Internet (including DNS), and how it works than you do.
Yet still you seem to have a fundamental misunderstanding of the reasons for having (and the differences between) DNS and search engines.
Ever wondered why books of names (the kind that expecting parents buy) are so popular? To put it into computing jargon: we like to give our children 'meaningful identifiers'.
So it is with computers, not least because system administrators in charge of large sites would have a hard time remembering all the individual IP addresses.
The fact that well chosen names can sometimes help you guess the identity of a machine (or, in this case, a website on a machine), is irrelevant - DNS is purely to provide *memorable* and *meaningful* identifiers.
In contrast search engines are there specifically to help you *find* websites, and on the whole they do their job quite well.
Imagine you were looking for a date. DNS is the telephone directory, and the search engine is a dating agency. Looked at in this way, your claim that the telephone directory is a kludge because it doesn't help you find the woman of your dreams is somewhat....well....ludicrous. However, if you had found a date, but lost her number (gasp!), the telephone directory might just save your bacon.
Furthermore, I find it quite insulting to the inventors of DNS (both the protocol and the associated daemons like bind) that you refer to it as a 'kludge' because it does not fulfill a purpose that it wasn't designed for (finding rather than remembering).
People think it's understandable when a site goes down because it is slashdotted - how many more people use DNS every hour than read Slashdot in a day? In fact, it wouldn't surprise me if the DNS system is the largest distributed database in the world. It is a testament to the inventors that they came up with such an expandable, distributed, hierarchial system.
I agree with this instant messaging idea, and I've found it to be especially useful during debugging.
A patch I submitted for the Unreal IRC daemon needed needing tweaking before it could be committed to the CVS, and the code maintainer and I corrected it in a matter of minutes while discussing it over IRC.
Slashdot Mirror
This is exactly why I think it is a browser bug - Mozilla takes untrusted input so it should sanitize the font sizes.
X doesn't actually *crash* (at least when I tried it.) It *exits* (annoyingly, but gracefully) and puts up a "Fatal error", which is what I'd expect from an application when it's been told to use up too much memory.
Not really. Certainly, at the moment, Transmeta doesn't really compete directly with Intel for the home computer market. They specifically market with regard to the Crusoe's very low power consumption. This isn't likely to matter very much to the home user, but in large server farms where monthly power costs matter, or in dedicated hosting facilities where your power consumption per rack is limited, Transmeta processors make a difference.
Note that although the Crusoe does compete well with Intel type technology when compared processor for processor, the difference when power consumption is compared is staggering!
Enforce KDE?
I doubt it
All of the contributors to United Linux would be taking a step backwards if they didn't also inlude and support GNOME.
The list of 2.4.18, KDE 3.0.... is more a "look at our software, it's the latest and greatest" rather than "this is what we offer take it or leave it". After all, every linux distribution has a kernel - what they're emphasising is that they have an up to date version.
You said yourself, GNOME 2 is a couple of weeks from release. *When* it does get released it becomes something for would be distributers to shout about.
In terms of the actual game performance (in my experience) WineX doesn't have real advantage over Wine for CounterStrike
Unfortunately, the cheat protection in the latest version of Half-Life broke both Wine and WineX. Apparently now WineX has a patch for this, but I downloaded the CVS version of WineX and it still didn't work. I surmise that it's one of these "protected" things that they only release in their binaries. Shame.
This means that since uk2.net stopped running any servers in '-insecure' mode I have not been able to play CounterStrike at all.
Still, it means my abysmal railing skills in Quake III have been getting better. At least Jon Carmack seems to like linux, so I've got a native version of some games to play.
If they want to be a programmer, and only a programmer, then why are you asking ways in which they can get paid for distributing software and manuals?
If they were just a programmer, then they would be doing bespoke software - someone comes to them (be it a separate company or just their boss) and tells them what they need a program to do. It gets written, and they get paid for their time. IMO the GPL can work very well in this situation - if the customer gets the software they asked for, what do they care if others can use it? After all, they're paying for the programmers time, not the software.
(Examples of this way of working are the improvements RMS made to Emacs for various companies - the improvements were GPLd and RMS was paid for his time)
Obviously a lot of software is not developed in this way, and this is where trying to make money from writing GPLd software falls down:
In the current software market it is obviously cheaper to develop one program and sell it to lots of people because that can spread out the cost of development (as apposed to bespoke software.)
Unfortunately, this means you can't "just be a programmer", because all your many customers aren't going to pay you in advance for, lets say, the new MS Office. You have to build your product with feature creap, so that it appeals to as many people as possible. On top of this, you then have to market your product at consumers. Only then do you see a return on your investment.
Anyway, this is why you can't use a GPL in this existing software industry and make millions.
Note, I'm not saying it's impossible to make money, and I'm not saying you can't make a living (you don't have to be dirty stinking rich to be successful), I'm not saying that the software industry will always be this way. But at the moment people are more concerned with making money than software, and trying to put the GPL in that kind of industry is like trying to bang a round peg into a square hole.
From the interview:
Did he? I'm not 100% sure, but I thought RMS attitude was 'Free, or not at all'. I remember reading that all the computers at the EFF ran only free software.
This sounds more like what Linus said - something about using the best tool for the job, whatever the license.
Yet still you seem to have a fundamental misunderstanding of the reasons for having (and the differences between) DNS and search engines.
Ever wondered why books of names (the kind that expecting parents buy) are so popular? To put it into computing jargon: we like to give our children 'meaningful identifiers'.
So it is with computers, not least because system administrators in charge of large sites would have a hard time remembering all the individual IP addresses.The fact that well chosen names can sometimes help you guess the identity of a machine (or, in this case, a website on a machine), is irrelevant - DNS is purely to provide *memorable* and *meaningful* identifiers.
In contrast search engines are there specifically to help you *find* websites, and on the whole they do their job quite well.
Imagine you were looking for a date. DNS is the telephone directory, and the search engine is a dating agency. Looked at in this way, your claim that the telephone directory is a kludge because it doesn't help you find the woman of your dreams is somewhat....well....ludicrous. However, if you had found a date, but lost her number (gasp!), the telephone directory might just save your bacon.
Furthermore, I find it quite insulting to the inventors of DNS (both the protocol and the associated daemons like bind) that you refer to it as a 'kludge' because it does not fulfill a purpose that it wasn't designed for (finding rather than remembering).
People think it's understandable when a site goes down because it is slashdotted - how many more people use DNS every hour than read Slashdot in a day? In fact, it wouldn't surprise me if the DNS system is the largest distributed database in the world. It is a testament to the inventors that they came up with such an expandable, distributed, hierarchial system.
A patch I submitted for the Unreal IRC daemon needed needing tweaking before it could be committed to the CVS, and the code maintainer and I corrected it in a matter of minutes while discussing it over IRC.