Sun is clearly just trying to make money off people thinking it will be made open source in a few months.
Exactly. And not to mention no one has picked up on the article (I believe in CRN) that quoted the Sun exec as saying, "we haven't decided exactly which open source license we're going to use, but it will most definitely not include redistribution."
They are *totally* playing the Open Source crowd with this one. Don't be fooled - this is NOT our version of free.
Which explains why I'm going to switch to satellite...
Okay, but remember, its a $1,000 box for sat hdtv and you don't get your local DTV channels upconverted to HDTV. That, and the fact that Comcast will never let any satellite provider offer Comcast Sportsnet (home of the Flyers) to the Philadelphia market are what are keeping me locked in. Its just not worth losing HDTV (equivalent) for Fox NFL games just for one season (hopefully) only to return when hockey comes back. Particularly when the Eagles are doing so well.
I'm lucky enough to live in one of the 10 towns nationwide that Verizon is rolling out their fibre -to-the-home, but I live in a condo, and they'll never get fibre to me. They chose their test markets specifically to compete with Comcast in their markets with high HDTV and cablemodem penetration. Hell, I'd move out of the condo and into a house just to get that! 5Mb/2Mb Internet and a full channel lineup including HDTV content!
I didn't mention my condo (not even a *real* house) which has gone up $100k in 6 years. Trust me, I've read Money magazine for years, I see my investment advisor twice a year and review my returns and get new asset mixes and allocations. When I say I'm "on it", I am. This with 21 to 26 years left to work (haven't decided yet). You have a low id -- you should be thinking about these things, too, assuming you're gainfully employed.
Exactly, my friend. If any Americans under the age of 40 are still including social security in their retirement planning (you DO do retirement planning if you're over 18, don't you?) then they are setting themselves up to being sadly let down. I max out 2 Roth IRAs, give 10% to 401(k) and 5% to my employee stock purchase plan knowing full well that when my SS check comes in, I'll be able to say, "hey honey, wanna go see a movie?"
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I have Comcast's current HDTV/PVR offering, and it pales in comparison to my series 1 standalone TiVO. To get a season pass, you search by title, and individually record each episode that shows up in the search results.
Just about everything you like about the TiVO ain't there yet for "Com-assed". The one big thing the box has going for it is direct firewire access to the current video stream including on demand content, hdtv, and stuff from the dvr library. Of course, once MS gets loaded on the box, you know they're going to lock it down.
The XServe's keep track of their fans and internal temperature, automatically letting the admin know when a machine is GOING TO FAIL and preemptively swap out faulty components before they cause serious damage to the systems
Just like the IBM xSeries servers I'm deploying right now. Our servers automatically order replacement components if/when components fail. This includes CPUs, memory, fans, hard drives.. just about anything. IBM big boxes have been doing this for decades, and distributed systems for a number of years now. Don't get too excited.
A HA! *THAT* was what I was looking for as a tip. Thank you! And so far, after over 12 hours, the yum upgrade is finally kicking off.. the downloads barfed so frequently that I had to run
while true ; do yum upgrade ; sleep 600 ; done
and periodically check on it. I haven't counted how many times it's had to restart, but its been a lot. I hope it'll finish today.
Thanks, after posting, I just changed $releasever to 3 and kicked it off. I just hate hardwiring it that way (to borrow from your other replier). IMHO one of the biggest hindrances to wider-scale adoption of Linux on the desktop is the inability to easily keep most distros up to date in cron. This is just another example. Someone had a great idea for handling version changes (see "pkgversion = newest" or something along those lines) but it wasn't fully implemented.
#[development] #name=Fedora Core $releasever - Development Tree #baseurl=http://download.fedora.redhat.com/p ub/fedora/linux/core/development/$basearch/
(ignore the/.ified spaces) Where exactly do I repoint it to FC3? The variables $releasever and $basearch aren't even environment variables. Any help appreciated.
Seriously. Does anyone else think/. should incorporate torrents into their RSS feed for bt client integration? It would create the opposite of the/. effect. The quicker that non-automated readers click on a torrent, the better they'll find the performance thanks to the rest of us automatically kicking off downloads like these.
i also keep azureus up 24/7 on fc2. I usually keep the FC3 test 3 DVD iso up and occasionally the latest weekly sarge DVD build. I can usually tell when a new FC release is out b/c my uplink speed tanks. I also have the RSS parser plugins, but they hardly ever work for me. I mean how hard can "punk" be for a filter!?!?
I recently started seeking out college radio stations that publish their show archives. Does anyone have any pointers to any college radio stations doing the RSS/BT thing?
And finally, a little OT here, but I'm giving gentoo another go 'round here, and when I went to load Azureus, I quickly found that the j2re142.bin doesn't install. What's the best way to get j2re up in gentoo? Thanks.
I was trying to remember the name of the Toyota model in Scotland. It was a basic 4-door hatchback. But in any case, my mom's Camry has that TRAF button and my friend's '03 Trailblazer has it, too. Those are just quick RDS searches. I can also search up TRAFFIC in RDS in my Murano, but as you say, no one here uses it properly. There's a station in Orlando, for instance, that just leaves it on all the time. So when you do an RDS seek for TRAFFIC down there, you get oldies or "sunny hits" or whatever the f is on.
This system in Scotland was way different, though, since the gps coordinates and road names were broadcast in the signal. The car warned as I was approaching the rear of the traffic jam. It was really amazing. And the black & white LCD for the stereo would actually change to display the layout of the upcoming intersections. I have a completely separate full-color nav system in the Murano. Its display is not shared with the radio functions (prior to being aggregrated on-screen, that is).
Thanks for the interesting details. My town was specifically listed as one of three in Bucks County, PA slated to receive the service shortly. They say next year, we'll also be able to order TV services from them. Finally, a real competitor to Comcast. Its too bad that when the Flyers come back in '06, they probably STILL won't be carried on competing tv distribution systems.
Comcast is based in Philly and refuses to let anyone else carry the vast majority of the Flyers and Phillies games to us local folk. Part of the "benefit" of living in Comcast Country. Til then, its 3000/256, no (real) Usenet, and waiting everyday to get that threatening letter.
I'm going on my usual route to work but to keep me alert of any problems on my path
On a trip to Scotland, I called Hertz three times to ask if they had GPS and all three times they said, "no". I got in and found that the Toyota had a funky GPS feature hidden in the radio. Having GPS in my car, I knew what features to expect and being a geek, I was able to figure it out.;) Well, I found my hotel in the list and before leaving the lot, the GPS proceeded to tell me about problems on my way there, including "road work", and a "traffic jam". She also warned me as I was driving along the M-whatever, "Warning: last chance to exit before... traffic jam".
It was the coolest car gadget I've ever had the pleasure of using. I will be very happy when that comes stateside. Part of me never expects it to, however, as I'm sure we could never agree on a nationwide standard format for the messages.
Pure FUD. I converted my nav to also a TV, and I put the news on in stop-and-go traffic all the time. No huge spike in accidents in my little world. Not worth becoming one of your freaks, but but its FUD nonetheless.
RFID is readable from a few inches. Its not like you can hover in a helicopter over the landfill and id a body buried in there. But once you find the body using traditional methods, at least you'll have an easier way to id it.
Good to see a comment like this, finally. I was coming in here to mention that Verizon gives free 802.11 access throughout New York City to their existing DSL customers. WTF would someone want to plug their iPod into a public phone just to download MP3s? Unlike your complaint, however, I see people sitting on benches and low walls all the time near hotspot payphones. You can spot the booths because they have an antenna the size of a hockey puck on top (and they have "Verizon High Speed Enabled" written in huge letters, too) From a high enough room at the Hilton in midtown, I often hit two or three different booths. Nice big warning about being insecure at the sign-in page and they even place a dot on a map to show you the specific hotspot you've just logged into.
This is free to all Verizon DSL customers nationwide, so if you're visiting from out-of-town, try it out.
I find it faster to dial someone's number if they're located somewhere in the middle of my phonebook
Have you tried hitting the first letter of their entry while looking at your phonebook? That jumps right to their area on most phones. Also, if the second letter is pretty far down in the alphabet, try hitting the next letter that comes AFTER the first letter of your desired entry. For instance, to look up Stuart, hit T (8) to get to the T's and then go up from there instead of scrolling down through all the S's. Try it out sometime. It really is better than dialing the whole number, especially if you're driving.
psi is a good looking client. fwiw, gaim-encryption has configurable keylengths, and 1024-bit by default. I wouldn't call psi "more secure" just because it uses pgp. But again, it looks great. I didn't see the pgp plugin at the site, after a quick browse. How does it work if I want to encrypt chats with my friends? Where does the encryption occur? At the client or the Jabber server? What about chats with non-PSI users on non-jabber networks? Can I at least encrypt to the jabber server and then go plaintext via the jabber gateway? (i believe that's a function of plain ole jabber anyway)
With gaim-encryption, my buds and I get 1024-bit encryption across 7 networks, ciphered before it leaves my laptop, and my family members have no idea that I'm giving them the same when they ask me for IM solutions. PSI looks good and all, but I find it much harder to get people to switch clients *and* networks to get encryption than it is to get equivalent (imho) encryption on the same old networks just by switching clients.
I do need to setup a jabber server at school I'm supporting, and I'll give PSI a look, particularly since we'll only be allowing Jabber clients on the desktop.
Wouldn't it be much easier and more cost effective if they would just announce "hey gmail users, now your id & pwd work on our Jabber IM server!" It would instantly become the most popular Jabber server on the net, and the only effort would be in creating a cluster resilient enough to handle the onslaught, something they seem to be "pretty good" at. Wasn't that one of the original design goals of Jabber? So people could reuse their email addresses as IM uids, and service providers can host their own IM servers?
Finally, for everyone pushing Gaim, don't forget to mention Gaim-encryption to go along with it. It staples SSL and its own key management over top of any protocol Gaim supports. No SSL proxies or shyte like that. The chats are encrypted the entire path, client-to-client.
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Sun is clearly just trying to make money off people thinking it will be made open source in a few months.
Exactly. And not to mention no one has picked up on the article (I believe in CRN) that quoted the Sun exec as saying, "we haven't decided exactly which open source license we're going to use, but it will most definitely not include redistribution."
They are *totally* playing the Open Source crowd with this one. Don't be fooled - this is NOT our version of free.
It would be nice if I could IM someone through a cell phone without being stuck in front of a computer
I have unlimited AOL IM on my Nextel for $5/mo. I think Cingular also offers the service.
It caught on about as well as esperanto
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Hey! At least Esperanto was in Gattaca!!!
Which explains why I'm going to switch to satellite...
Okay, but remember, its a $1,000 box for sat hdtv and you don't get your local DTV channels upconverted to HDTV. That, and the fact that Comcast will never let any satellite provider offer Comcast Sportsnet (home of the Flyers) to the Philadelphia market are what are keeping me locked in. Its just not worth losing HDTV (equivalent) for Fox NFL games just for one season (hopefully) only to return when hockey comes back. Particularly when the Eagles are doing so well.
I'm lucky enough to live in one of the 10 towns nationwide that Verizon is rolling out their fibre -to-the-home, but I live in a condo, and they'll never get fibre to me. They chose their test markets specifically to compete with Comcast in their markets with high HDTV and cablemodem penetration. Hell, I'd move out of the condo and into a house just to get that! 5Mb/2Mb Internet and a full channel lineup including HDTV content!
I didn't mention my condo (not even a *real* house) which has gone up $100k in 6 years. Trust me, I've read Money magazine for years, I see my investment advisor twice a year and review my returns and get new asset mixes and allocations. When I say I'm "on it", I am. This with 21 to 26 years left to work (haven't decided yet). You have a low id -- you should be thinking about these things, too, assuming you're gainfully employed.
What kind of geek crowd is this!?!?!
The movie opens with an armed home defense robot that went berserk.
Exactly, my friend. If any Americans under the age of 40 are still including social security in their retirement planning (you DO do retirement planning if you're over 18, don't you?) then they are setting themselves up to being sadly let down. I max out 2 Roth IRAs, give 10% to 401(k) and 5% to my employee stock purchase plan knowing full well that when my SS check comes in, I'll be able to say, "hey honey, wanna go see a movie?"
I have Comcast's current HDTV/PVR offering, and it pales in comparison to my series 1 standalone TiVO. To get a season pass, you search by title, and individually record each episode that shows up in the search results.
Just about everything you like about the TiVO ain't there yet for "Com-assed". The one big thing the box has going for it is direct firewire access to the current video stream including on demand content, hdtv, and stuff from the dvr library. Of course, once MS gets loaded on the box, you know they're going to lock it down.
The XServe's keep track of their fans and internal temperature, automatically letting the admin know when a machine is GOING TO FAIL and preemptively swap out faulty components before they cause serious damage to the systems
Just like the IBM xSeries servers I'm deploying right now. Our servers automatically order replacement components if/when components fail. This includes CPUs, memory, fans, hard drives.. just about anything. IBM big boxes have been doing this for decades, and distributed systems for a number of years now. Don't get too excited.
A HA! *THAT* was what I was looking for as a tip. Thank you! And so far, after over 12 hours, the yum upgrade is finally kicking off.. the downloads barfed so frequently that I had to run
while true ; do yum upgrade ; sleep 600 ; done
and periodically check on it. I haven't counted how many times it's had to restart, but its been a lot. I hope it'll finish today.
Thanks, after posting, I just changed $releasever to 3 and kicked it off. I just hate hardwiring it that way (to borrow from your other replier). IMHO one of the biggest hindrances to wider-scale adoption of Linux on the desktop is the inability to easily keep most distros up to date in cron. This is just another example. Someone had a great idea for handling version changes (see "pkgversion = newest" or something along those lines) but it wasn't fully implemented.
Thanks again!
"All in time due"
Take that RIAA. There is a good use for BT. HA!
/. should incorporate torrents into their RSS feed for bt client integration? It would create the opposite of the /. effect. The quicker that non-automated readers click on a torrent, the better they'll find the performance thanks to the rest of us automatically kicking off downloads like these.
Seriously. Does anyone else think
i also keep azureus up 24/7 on fc2. I usually keep the FC3 test 3 DVD iso up and occasionally the latest weekly sarge DVD build. I can usually tell when a new FC release is out b/c my uplink speed tanks. I also have the RSS parser plugins, but they hardly ever work for me. I mean how hard can "punk" be for a filter!?!?
I recently started seeking out college radio stations that publish their show archives. Does anyone have any pointers to any college radio stations doing the RSS/BT thing?
And finally, a little OT here, but I'm giving gentoo another go 'round here, and when I went to load Azureus, I quickly found that the j2re142.bin doesn't install. What's the best way to get j2re up in gentoo? Thanks.
I was trying to remember the name of the Toyota model in Scotland. It was a basic 4-door hatchback. But in any case, my mom's Camry has that TRAF button and my friend's '03 Trailblazer has it, too. Those are just quick RDS searches. I can also search up TRAFFIC in RDS in my Murano, but as you say, no one here uses it properly. There's a station in Orlando, for instance, that just leaves it on all the time. So when you do an RDS seek for TRAFFIC down there, you get oldies or "sunny hits" or whatever the f is on.
This system in Scotland was way different, though, since the gps coordinates and road names were broadcast in the signal. The car warned as I was approaching the rear of the traffic jam. It was really amazing. And the black & white LCD for the stereo would actually change to display the layout of the upcoming intersections. I have a completely separate full-color nav system in the Murano. Its display is not shared with the radio functions (prior to being aggregrated on-screen, that is).
Thanks for the interesting details. My town was specifically listed as one of three in Bucks County, PA slated to receive the service shortly. They say next year, we'll also be able to order TV services from them. Finally, a real competitor to Comcast. Its too bad that when the Flyers come back in '06, they probably STILL won't be carried on competing tv distribution systems.
Comcast is based in Philly and refuses to let anyone else carry the vast majority of the Flyers and Phillies games to us local folk. Part of the "benefit" of living in Comcast Country. Til then, its 3000/256, no (real) Usenet, and waiting everyday to get that threatening letter.
I'm going on my usual route to work but to keep me alert of any problems on my path
;) Well, I found my hotel in the list and before leaving the lot, the GPS proceeded to tell me about problems on my way there, including "road work", and a "traffic jam". She also warned me as I was driving along the M-whatever, "Warning: last chance to exit before... traffic jam".
On a trip to Scotland, I called Hertz three times to ask if they had GPS and all three times they said, "no". I got in and found that the Toyota had a funky GPS feature hidden in the radio. Having GPS in my car, I knew what features to expect and being a geek, I was able to figure it out.
It was the coolest car gadget I've ever had the pleasure of using. I will be very happy when that comes stateside. Part of me never expects it to, however, as I'm sure we could never agree on a nationwide standard format for the messages.
So what happens when you hit a bomb? Does the car crash into the vehicle in front of you?
;)
No, about 10 cars on that block suddenly blow up at once
Pure FUD. I converted my nav to also a TV, and I put the news on in stop-and-go traffic all the time. No huge spike in accidents in my little world. Not worth becoming one of your freaks, but but its FUD nonetheless.
RFID is readable from a few inches. Its not like you can hover in a helicopter over the landfill and id a body buried in there. But once you find the body using traditional methods, at least you'll have an easier way to id it.
Good to see a comment like this, finally. I was coming in here to mention that Verizon gives free 802.11 access throughout New York City to their existing DSL customers. WTF would someone want to plug their iPod into a public phone just to download MP3s? Unlike your complaint, however, I see people sitting on benches and low walls all the time near hotspot payphones. You can spot the booths because they have an antenna the size of a hockey puck on top (and they have "Verizon High Speed Enabled" written in huge letters, too) From a high enough room at the Hilton in midtown, I often hit two or three different booths. Nice big warning about being insecure at the sign-in page and they even place a dot on a map to show you the specific hotspot you've just logged into.
This is free to all Verizon DSL customers nationwide, so if you're visiting from out-of-town, try it out.
I find it faster to dial someone's number if they're located somewhere in the middle of my phonebook
Have you tried hitting the first letter of their entry while looking at your phonebook? That jumps right to their area on most phones. Also, if the second letter is pretty far down in the alphabet, try hitting the next letter that comes AFTER the first letter of your desired entry. For instance, to look up Stuart, hit T (8) to get to the T's and then go up from there instead of scrolling down through all the S's. Try it out sometime. It really is better than dialing the whole number, especially if you're driving.
I would sooner see Barbara Bush's escaped breast that sister of Michael's
;) )
Hell, who wouldn't?!?! Jenna, Barbara, what's the difference?
(yes I know that's not what you meant
psi is a good looking client. fwiw, gaim-encryption has configurable keylengths, and 1024-bit by default. I wouldn't call psi "more secure" just because it uses pgp. But again, it looks great. I didn't see the pgp plugin at the site, after a quick browse. How does it work if I want to encrypt chats with my friends? Where does the encryption occur? At the client or the Jabber server? What about chats with non-PSI users on non-jabber networks? Can I at least encrypt to the jabber server and then go plaintext via the jabber gateway? (i believe that's a function of plain ole jabber anyway)
With gaim-encryption, my buds and I get 1024-bit encryption across 7 networks, ciphered before it leaves my laptop, and my family members have no idea that I'm giving them the same when they ask me for IM solutions. PSI looks good and all, but I find it much harder to get people to switch clients *and* networks to get encryption than it is to get equivalent (imho) encryption on the same old networks just by switching clients.
I do need to setup a jabber server at school I'm supporting, and I'll give PSI a look, particularly since we'll only be allowing Jabber clients on the desktop.
Wouldn't it be much easier and more cost effective if they would just announce "hey gmail users, now your id & pwd work on our Jabber IM server!" It would instantly become the most popular Jabber server on the net, and the only effort would be in creating a cluster resilient enough to handle the onslaught, something they seem to be "pretty good" at. Wasn't that one of the original design goals of Jabber? So people could reuse their email addresses as IM uids, and service providers can host their own IM servers?
Finally, for everyone pushing Gaim, don't forget to mention Gaim-encryption to go along with it. It staples SSL and its own key management over top of any protocol Gaim supports. No SSL proxies or shyte like that. The chats are encrypted the entire path, client-to-client.