It should be "If you have an old computer that had been lying around"
It should be "If you have an old computer that has been lying around" or "If you had an old computer that had been lying around"
You are mistaken. My comment was about tense. Read it again.
When dropping the "kilo," it is correct to capitalize "Calorie." This is accepted and correct. a "Calorie" is a measurement for food and a "calorie" is for science. Now, food science...?
Yeah. X doesn't support this while both the SunRay and RDP do. People using LTSP have been clamoring for this since I started using it about five years ago.
No, the third world needs a source of clean drinking water, democratic governments instead of tinpot dictators and warlords, education on how to grow crops instead of remaining nomadic herders, better housing, and public schools to name a few things. Computers don't even rate on any list of things the third world needs.
I'm just still wondering where in that description you got that the poster was from the US. Do you know him personally? Did you assume that he was from the US?
The fact is that many people in the third world DO need clean water more than computers, but computers with some form of network WILL help these kind of people to get fair prices for their crops, which they often do not.
Since you are the bastion of morality here, have you ever spent time in villages where people still use shallow, bug-covered wells or the local stream as their primary source of drinking water? I have. They need clean drinking water.
The poster that you poured your vitrol out onto never said what you claimed he did, and you concluded that, because you found him ignorant, he must be from the US. Use a mirror next time.
Typical ignorant jerk who thinks that ignorance only exists in the US. Does US bashing (when you don't even know if you're accusing correctly) make you feel superior? Does putting words in peoples' mouth make you feel intelligent. Wake up and treat people like people.
Is each letter of a certain font size a texture, which is composited on the GPU, or does the CPU composite the window then blit it out to the video card? We're not talking about the same thing here. this is NOT 2D drawing.
In order for X to work here, they would need an X server on the machine. With no system RAM and only 2MB of VRAM, no CPU and only an FGPU, I rather suspect that it's how they claim, and the pixmap for the whole screen is transported across the LAN. A look at their bandwidth graph supports this idea.
Everyone else is trying to minimize the bandwidth use by moving to servers like NX, but these guys are going the opposite direction.
I have used large thin client networks, too. This setup is a little sifferent, though. They are claiming a FGPU with 2MB RAM and, apparently, no systyem RAM. The screen pixmap is apparently piped directly over the LAN, and, from the look of their 20 client setup, they won't be able to support anything larger than that. I guess that you would need a special server, as well, and not just one running X.
I'm still wondering how this is preferable to something like a Geode with 32MB RAM in a small enclosure connecting via normal X or even NX.
http://ltsp.org/ and http://k12ltsp.org/ can boot this kind of setup, but you'll need another, low-powered server to store the boot images. It can then find the rdesktop sewrver and work from there. Piece of cake, and your employees may never know that Linux sits under the system at all.
Since Tiger successfully moved all widget drawing into OpenGL on the video GPU, I doubt that XP eye candy utilizes fewer CPU resources than Tiger. Maybe you can read the great, but lengthy, Ars Technica article on the subject.
Hey! That means no more easy karma by creating a link for some insightful individual who was too lazy / ignorant to do it in his own post. Bummer. test -- http://oss-in-efl.info/
Well, I specifically remember where I read about the whole series, before Empire -- Dynamite Magazine. I remember the whole plot line revealed... most of which never materialized.
I have vividly remembered for 25 years the story of Obi Wan and Vader fighting by a volcano, with Vader losing his limbs and falling in, as the rationalization for why he needed to wear the suit. I was glad to see Smith remember it as well as I do.
I Thailand, it doesn't much matter, because you have to "report" every three months in country and get a passport stamp showing the date that you reported, or face a fine. Even using type "O" and "B" visas (not needing normal visa runs), I filled twenty pages in about three years. Digusting. Now I'm on 48 pages and about full at 5 1/2 years.
I would just like some countries to get smaller visas and smaller stamps, so that those of us who travel through Asia often can keep our passports for more than a couple of years.
Have you tried any of the accounting packages on web services like http://sourceforge.net/projects/ck-ledger? There are a couple under there. eGroupware is lining up with accounting and ERP solutions like this, so take a look at them.
If you're worried about long-term availability of updates, then use Debian. They're kind of famous for crawling along. You can still be running Potato from four years ago if you want. Sarge will likely still be getting updates in three or four years, as well, and, after that, there won't likely be very many bugs left at all.
You know what? I'm totally with you on this one. Larry had the right to stop that license whenever he wanted. I just don't know why everyone's blaming Tridge for it.
Both were far within their rights to do what they did (Though maybe not say what was said), and everyone should just move on. Even Linus has said that this was guaranteed to happen eventually.
File formats are another area that are open since you want to be able to have a way to share documents written for different applications. So reverse engineering file formats is considered acceptable.
So tridge wanted to have a way to get at the FULL history of the source without using BK (What was it you called that? "written for different applications"). I don't see the difference that you're trying to point out. He just wanted to interoperate.
So, you can have all your buddies export to RTF (and lose a bunch of formatting) if you want to avoid using MSWord, and BK can export only the most recent version (losing much of the history) if you want to use something else. No logical difference.
Maybe because Tridge is an employee, he shouldn't have done it in his free time, but I don't think many kernel hackers want to argue for that.
You do know that the servers will talk to normal clients with minimal information (IIRC, only the current source) and that, from reports (Tridge is keeping silent), the effort was made by observing packets, not by communicating with the server.
I agree that it would be neat. I think that the sound of genkernel (don't use Gentoo, myself) is neat, too, with auto-.config for you.
I do think that the idea would be more productive applied to binaries, though. save everyone unnecessary time and bandwidth. The ration of binary downloads to source has to be staggering.
Part of Bastille's goal is to educate the admin, as well, so (even if your distro is very secure out of the box) you can run the program, listen to all the checks and changes, learn from Bastille why things should be set up that way, and maybe admin your box better. Alas, though, most distros are not as secure as they should be, and Bastille will make you think about what tradeoffs you really want to make between ease of use and security.
check out the flash demos of beagle at http://nat.org/demos/. Watch as, in a chat window, a man discusses snow, and it instantly appears in the search results. Not a new search. The chat log appears in the old search window, because of inotify. This is waaay beeter than grep, dude.
I may be ignorant, but I thought that Google search didn't do the same thing. There's a great *ugh* flash demo of Beagle where a chat mentions the word "snow" and the chat log (because it was modified) was immediately added to the search results in the open Beagle search box. (I won't link to it to save their servers) I'm pretty sure that Google Desktop Search can't do that. Spotlight will, and I guess MS's will. That was the point.
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It should be "If you have an old computer that had been lying around"
It should be "If you have an old computer that has been lying around" or "If you had an old computer that had been lying around"
You are mistaken. My comment was about tense. Read it again.
When dropping the "kilo," it is correct to capitalize "Calorie." This is accepted and correct. a "Calorie" is a measurement for food and a "calorie" is for science. Now, food science...?
Why would you mix present and past perf together? I think you are mistaken.
Yeah. X doesn't support this while both the SunRay and RDP do. People using LTSP have been clamoring for this since I started using it about five years ago.
No, the third world needs a source of clean drinking water, democratic governments instead of tinpot dictators and warlords, education on how to grow crops instead of remaining nomadic herders, better housing, and public schools to name a few things. Computers don't even rate on any list of things the third world needs.
I'm just still wondering where in that description you got that the poster was from the US. Do you know him personally? Did you assume that he was from the US?
The fact is that many people in the third world DO need clean water more than computers, but computers with some form of network WILL help these kind of people to get fair prices for their crops, which they often do not.
Since you are the bastion of morality here, have you ever spent time in villages where people still use shallow, bug-covered wells or the local stream as their primary source of drinking water? I have. They need clean drinking water.
The poster that you poured your vitrol out onto never said what you claimed he did, and you concluded that, because you found him ignorant, he must be from the US. Use a mirror next time.
Typical ignorant jerk who thinks that ignorance only exists in the US. Does US bashing (when you don't even know if you're accusing correctly) make you feel superior? Does putting words in peoples' mouth make you feel intelligent. Wake up and treat people like people.
Is each letter of a certain font size a texture, which is composited on the GPU, or does the CPU composite the window then blit it out to the video card? We're not talking about the same thing here. this is NOT 2D drawing.
In order for X to work here, they would need an X server on the machine. With no system RAM and only 2MB of VRAM, no CPU and only an FGPU, I rather suspect that it's how they claim, and the pixmap for the whole screen is transported across the LAN. A look at their bandwidth graph supports this idea.
Everyone else is trying to minimize the bandwidth use by moving to servers like NX, but these guys are going the opposite direction.
I have used large thin client networks, too. This setup is a little sifferent, though. They are claiming a FGPU with 2MB RAM and, apparently, no systyem RAM. The screen pixmap is apparently piped directly over the LAN, and, from the look of their 20 client setup, they won't be able to support anything larger than that. I guess that you would need a special server, as well, and not just one running X.
I'm still wondering how this is preferable to something like a Geode with 32MB RAM in a small enclosure connecting via normal X or even NX.
http://ltsp.org/ and http://k12ltsp.org/ can boot this kind of setup, but you'll need another, low-powered server to store the boot images. It can then find the rdesktop sewrver and work from there. Piece of cake, and your employees may never know that Linux sits under the system at all.
Since Tiger successfully moved all widget drawing into OpenGL on the video GPU, I doubt that XP eye candy utilizes fewer CPU resources than Tiger. Maybe you can read the great, but lengthy, Ars Technica article on the subject.
Hey! That means no more easy karma by creating a link for some insightful individual who was too lazy / ignorant to do it in his own post. Bummer. test -- http://oss-in-efl.info/
Well, I specifically remember where I read about the whole series, before Empire -- Dynamite Magazine. I remember the whole plot line revealed... most of which never materialized.
I have vividly remembered for 25 years the story of Obi Wan and Vader fighting by a volcano, with Vader losing his limbs and falling in, as the rationalization for why he needed to wear the suit. I was glad to see Smith remember it as well as I do.
I Thailand, it doesn't much matter, because you have to "report" every three months in country and get a passport stamp showing the date that you reported, or face a fine. Even using type "O" and "B" visas (not needing normal visa runs), I filled twenty pages in about three years. Digusting. Now I'm on 48 pages and about full at 5 1/2 years.
I would just like some countries to get smaller visas and smaller stamps, so that those of us who travel through Asia often can keep our passports for more than a couple of years.
Have you tried any of the accounting packages on web services like http://sourceforge.net/projects/ck-ledger? There are a couple under there. eGroupware is lining up with accounting and ERP solutions like this, so take a look at them.
If you're worried about long-term availability of updates, then use Debian. They're kind of famous for crawling along. You can still be running Potato from four years ago if you want. Sarge will likely still be getting updates in three or four years, as well, and, after that, there won't likely be very many bugs left at all.
Mine was Mandrake 5.0. I guess that kind of makes us brethren, doesn't it?
Tridge has spoken, and I'm wrong
You know what? I'm totally with you on this one. Larry had the right to stop that license whenever he wanted. I just don't know why everyone's blaming Tridge for it.
Both were far within their rights to do what they did (Though maybe not say what was said), and everyone should just move on. Even Linus has said that this was guaranteed to happen eventually.
File formats are another area that are open since you want to be able to have a way to share documents written for different applications. So reverse engineering file formats is considered acceptable.
So tridge wanted to have a way to get at the FULL history of the source without using BK (What was it you called that? "written for different applications"). I don't see the difference that you're trying to point out. He just wanted to interoperate.
So, you can have all your buddies export to RTF (and lose a bunch of formatting) if you want to avoid using MSWord, and BK can export only the most recent version (losing much of the history) if you want to use something else. No logical difference.
Maybe because Tridge is an employee, he shouldn't have done it in his free time, but I don't think many kernel hackers want to argue for that.
You do know that the servers will talk to normal clients with minimal information (IIRC, only the current source) and that, from reports (Tridge is keeping silent), the effort was made by observing packets, not by communicating with the server.
I agree that it would be neat. I think that the sound of genkernel (don't use Gentoo, myself) is neat, too, with auto-.config for you.
I do think that the idea would be more productive applied to binaries, though. save everyone unnecessary time and bandwidth. The ration of binary downloads to source has to be staggering.
Part of Bastille's goal is to educate the admin, as well, so (even if your distro is very secure out of the box) you can run the program, listen to all the checks and changes, learn from Bastille why things should be set up that way, and maybe admin your box better. Alas, though, most distros are not as secure as they should be, and Bastille will make you think about what tradeoffs you really want to make between ease of use and security.
check out the flash demos of beagle at http://nat.org/demos/. Watch as, in a chat window, a man discusses snow, and it instantly appears in the search results. Not a new search. The chat log appears in the old search window, because of inotify. This is waaay beeter than grep, dude.
I may be ignorant, but I thought that Google search didn't do the same thing. There's a great *ugh* flash demo of Beagle where a chat mentions the word "snow" and the chat log (because it was modified) was immediately added to the search results in the open Beagle search box. (I won't link to it to save their servers) I'm pretty sure that Google Desktop Search can't do that. Spotlight will, and I guess MS's will. That was the point.