There's just one tiny little problem with that. It only supports ext2. Try it with a journalling filesystem, and... bye bye Linux partition!
At least, last time I checked that's how it was. There may have been improvements made. It would require somewhat major changes to the VM and each filesystem in the current Linux implementation to get it working with journalled systems, or if Linux finally gets a journal-capable VM (similar to IRIX's, perhaps), it would just require some VM changes if it's done right.
(Begin semi-OT stuff)
Oh, and please, please everyone ask Linus not to rip out memory zones just because it's a BSD-like idea.
Kernel 2.6 will probably be able to support hibernation without funkiness in the filesystems themselves, just a good VM setup. The new framebuffer system (Ruby) will rock, too (think 'echo "640x480-16@60" >/dev/gfx/fb/0/mode'), especially because DRI is going to be separated from X so console applications can take advantage of OpenGL as well.
I've been reading over some of the comments here, and I must say that I am appalled at the unjustified criticism and uneducated stereotyping being thrown around. Salt Lake City is not an inbred hick town, Mormons don't have horns, and Utahns are not polygamists (Those that are do so in violation of federal law and are the exception, not the rule. Besides, all the polygamists live in their own cities with unfinished houses to dodge taxes.), and the term "Mormon Olympics" is simply uncalled for. I am speaking as a former resident of Salt Lake City and current resident of Utah, and a Mormon all my life. Isn't this (Open Source) community supposed to be open minded and unjudging (except toward Microsoft products, of course;p)? Shame on you all. Learn a little bit about a group of people before you go up and down criticizing it for things that aren't even true.
The fact that the website runs IIS and is incompatible with Lynx says nothing about the character of the people who live in the state. Not everyone is an incompetent MCSE (I, for example, have written several
useful
projects).
Surely I will get moderated down for this post.
-nitrogen
Re:My biggest complaint about Gnome/Gtk+
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Actually, I was annoyed by that for a long time, but I realized that Gtk+ has command line completion. Try hitting TAB instead of Enter -- it will navigate to the directory. If you have a filename typed in with part of a directory name like this:
(pipe indicates cursor position)
direc|filename.tar.gz
becomes
directory/|filename.tar.gz
and then it goes into the directory and becomes
filename.tar.gz
Not as good as being able to hit enter and not lose your filename and all that, but Windows doesn't do that now does it? It also does TAB completion for filenames.
Note: I had pretty ASCII-art line graphics drawn, but the lameness filter wouldn't have anything to do with it;p.
My one big complaint about Gtk+/Gnome applications is with the file select dialog. When I click on a directory, it erases the filename that was already typed in! This is lame. If they can improve the file selection dialog, I will be happy.
That said, if my biggest complaint is something so small, I think things are going quite well. Oh, and it needs to be faster too:). I want to be able to run Gnome and KDE on my 266MHz Cyrix as well, not just my 800MHz Duron. Until that time there's Blackbox I guess, which screams on anything.
How is it that somewhat-well-thought-out, sincere, calmly worded posts get moderated as a Troll, while arrogant, conceited, poorly worded, angry posts are moderated as Insightful?
"Users should be in control of how their data is used" -- Bill Gates
Translation: [serious] Users should be made to think that our ideas of how their data should be used are also their ideas.
-or-
[humorous] Microsoft should be in control of how its users are used.
Seriously, though, all those who fit Microsoft's definition of user already think they are in control of their data. They believe that Microsoft provides them freedom to do what they want. Look at those Windows XP flying commercials. People actually believe that stuff. Just a thought.
First of all, trying to encode the video in software would be moronical. My theory: there's a hardware chip with its own dedicated memory that takes care of that. It then sends the data straight to the hard drive with almost no help from the CPU. There's also a hardware chip that handles video decoding, so full streaming media can be done while the CPU is full tilt into some other task. I can't think of any game that uses 100% CPU. If the operating system is designed with a realtime scheduler, the video subsystem can demand that its necessary CPU power is given to it. Since gaming is less important, it might drop speed by a few fps to handle sending the video to the disk.
"One box to rule them all...and in the darkness bind them"
Looks like the clones themselves are the ones being attacked. For once Hollywood (or Lucas at least) actually listened!
Maybe he's just planning on compressing them 100:1 with that new algorithm so that nobody can see them. Perhaps due to the repetitive and unoriginal nature of all "clone" (or "popular") music, a higher compression ratio would be achieved. Think of it, I only need to store one song to hear every 500 out there
This is after the big.com boom/crash. And most of those people were fresh college grads who took Computer Science because it sounded like something with a six digit income. This guy's company did contract work for numerous large corporations. He's not some dot-com moron with no business sense. On the other side of the table you have the former CEO of MP3.com, a very successful venture. Had both of these gentlemen failed their prior attempts at running their own business, I'd tend to agree with you. But most people have learned their lesson after the dot-com crash.
An Australian man spotted a bit of molasses moving uphill in the summer month of January, blown by incredibly strong winds. Apparently, these winds were generated by an enormous fart coming from (pick least favorite slashdot editor].
This indirectly demonstrates that the old but simple GNUStep system (based on several other failed attempts at making a "perfect" GUI) is, in fact, slow as molasses moving uphill in January.
I know a guy in my neighborhood who's a really good Windows/MFC programmer. He used to own his own company, Axiom Technologies, maybe you've heard of it. He sold it to some big firm somewhere so he could move his family to San Diego. That's right, he's moving his family to go work on Lindows. Somehow I doubt that this guy would be spending all his spare time learning Linux as well as he knows Windows, and moving to San Diego, to partner with a guy who has no product.
Now all I need to do is see if I can get a job with them;p.
Uh-huh, yeah. So they want me to pay $99 to become an Insider. "As close as you can get to being a Lindows employee without actually becoming one" means "free work." What's more, you're not even guaranteed to be given any software to review. At least if you pay $99 to the sales division you know you'll get what you want.
This could easily have applications in quantum computing. Just as easily as tunafish sandwiches can have applications in vulcanization of rubber. Any discovery can have applications in practically any field. Heck, this could even result in a new form of cataract surgery or something. It's the braindead nature of congress (You want HOW MUCH to fund the worlds biggest atom smasher and you DON'T EVEN KNOW WHAT WILL HAPPEN?) that keeps scientific progress at a pace slower than it could be. You never know what you're going to learn before you've learned it, now do you?
If this is the case, and this isn't a hoax (neither of which I believe to be true), then the data (as stated by other posters) is not random. No algorithm could fare well with truly random data because there really is no pattern. That said, there is no such thing as truly random data, and even/dev/urandom uses a mathematical algorithm to generate data with very little (or at least a very hard to find) pattern, but a pattern still exists. So, if the compression system figured out that algorithm, all it would need to determine is what value to seed the algorithm with, and the entire sequence can be regenerated flawlessly. It's like doing srand(36); and printing out a sequence of numbers. You'll get the same sequence every time. Basically, if their compression system knows what my house looks like, and how my video camera works, then they could take a video of my house and compress it down to a very small size since they just have to recreate my house mathemagically.
Even more importantly, however, is that their "Technical Information" reeks so strongly of buzzwords and technobabble it's hard to read it without the urge to hold my nose. This alone discredits their entire proposition. I feel like I've just been subjected to corporate brainwashing..er.. I mean marketing.
I see. So by your classification, a movie is not good if it omits system("unzip; mount; yes; unmount");... Personally, I was impressed at how LoTR wasn't destroyed by Hollywood "people" trying to "modernize" it by adding steamy sex seens, scantily clad females, and incredibly foul language (unlike slashdot, which exhibits all of those traits... but that's beside the point).
Most CG studios already use Linux. There was an article here on/. a while back about it. Maya is available for Linux. Most CG studios also make their own software, usually for Linux. Rendering is done on hundreds or thousands of Linux render servers.
I for one am looking forward to installing KDE3 when it's all good and ready. Both KDE and Gnome have made incredible progress in the last few years. I think that the Open Source desktop systems are advancing much more quickly than any proprietary system. It's only a matter of time before KDE and Gnome surpass (if they haven't already) all proprietary GUI systems as far as appearance and usability go. My only complaint about KDE is that it's all C++, and it takes forever to load on an older computer. As I recall that's a problem with the dynamic C++ linker, and not KDE itself, though.
It would seem that "The Dot" is already fallen under the Slashdot effect.
... I also know someone who is working on Lindows. He's moving to San Diego in 3 weeks so he can. Lindows may help Linux get to the desktop. It seems that it's not as likely to be vaporware. This guy used to own his own business (Axiom Technologies) that did custom software for tons of clients, including Adobe and Metacreations (I think).
I would certainly consider purchasing OS X if it was cross-platform. That's why Linux, in my opinion, has a better shot at the desktop than OS X. I want to be able to build my own box, I want to pay dirt-cheap prices, and I want it to run open source (or at the very least cross-platform) software. It doesn't help Linux, though, that Macromedia Flash, and numerous other plugins, run like 4 times as slow in Linux as they do in Windows, and that drivers have to be written by hackers in their bedrooms (so to speak - I know that VA Linux, RedHat, and others have/had people working on drivers).
It is my opinion that while OS X has a better interface, Linux will only continue to progress because of its lower cost, and the Open Source nature of it.
That said, Aqua is smooooth!
Mandrake is pretty good for desktop users, and SuSE is pretty good for Windows "Power Users" and above.
I think there's a place for both OS X and Linux. Macintosh has a very loyal following, and so does Linux, so I don't see either team dying out any time soon. Personally, I'd rather have source code than fluff.
Me too! Commander keen was one of the finest games I ever played. It was truly an artistic accomplishment to have a game like that run on a 4.77MHz 8088 with decent speed.
I would really like to see half-life released under the GPL one day, but that's not likely.
I think K&R style is pretty good. Personally I code to the Linux kernel standard, which is quite similar to K&R.
Speaking as one who is about to undergo a major rewrite of a minor program (actually, not even a program.. [shameless plug]Palace is my XMMS plugin), which was based on XPLSISNJASP, I can say I understand and appreciate all the comments shared in this discussion. If the XPLSISNJASP source code had been cleaner, non-leaky, commented, etc., it wouldn't have taken me a month to figure out how it works, just so I could pick up where the authors left off over a year ago. The code in releases up to 0.1.3 is in likely worse state, but 0.2.0 should be the "killer app" of parallel port light shows. I plan to incorporate all the applicable advice from this article. Anyone who's interested can e-mail me (my address is in the Palace readme) and see how my rewrite works, suggest features for the new Palace, and learn from my mistakes.
How does something like this get moderated as insightful? It's just another vulgar flame. Take out the insults and swearing, and there wouldn't be much left.
While it's true that software piracy is damaging to a company, and should not be practiced (do as I say, not as I do;p j/k), many many people do it. Does that make it right? No. But is it true? Yes.
Personally I intend to use my recently downloaded source for ideas, and to recompile the source with the latest glibc etc. so it will work on my latest system, and debug that annoying segfault at sound initialization with newer kernels and libs, etc. I might even make a little toy with it.
Besides, notice the (*cough*) at the end of his comment? I suspect he may have been trying to make a joke.
Slashdot Mirror
That's the oldest trick in the book. Remember x86 asm optimizations?
sub reg,128 => add reg,-128
I found that one on Ken Silverman's page. Prior art!
Okay, okay, so it's the opposite transformation (not using sub instead of not using add), but still...
Do not moderate this post.
There's just one tiny little problem with that. It only supports ext2. Try it with a journalling filesystem, and ... bye bye Linux partition!
/dev/gfx/fb/0/mode'), especially because DRI is going to be separated from X so console applications can take advantage of OpenGL as well.
At least, last time I checked that's how it was. There may have been improvements made. It would require somewhat major changes to the VM and each filesystem in the current Linux implementation to get it working with journalled systems, or if Linux finally gets a journal-capable VM (similar to IRIX's, perhaps), it would just require some VM changes if it's done right.
(Begin semi-OT stuff)
Oh, and please, please everyone ask Linus not to rip out memory zones just because it's a BSD-like idea.
Kernel 2.6 will probably be able to support hibernation without funkiness in the filesystems themselves, just a good VM setup. The new framebuffer system (Ruby) will rock, too (think 'echo "640x480-16@60" >
The fact that the website runs IIS and is incompatible with Lynx says nothing about the character of the people who live in the state. Not everyone is an incompetent MCSE (I, for example, have written several useful projects).
Surely I will get moderated down for this post.
-nitrogen
Actually, I was annoyed by that for a long time, but I realized that Gtk+ has command line completion. Try hitting TAB instead of Enter -- it will navigate to the directory. If you have a filename typed in with part of a directory name like this:
;p.
(pipe indicates cursor position)
direc|filename.tar.gz
becomes
directory/|filename.tar.gz
and then it goes into the directory and becomes
filename.tar.gz
Not as good as being able to hit enter and not lose your filename and all that, but Windows doesn't do that now does it? It also does TAB completion for filenames.
Note: I had pretty ASCII-art line graphics drawn, but the lameness filter wouldn't have anything to do with it
Note: this is not a troll.
:). I want to be able to run Gnome and KDE on my 266MHz Cyrix as well, not just my 800MHz Duron. Until that time there's Blackbox I guess, which screams on anything.
My one big complaint about Gtk+/Gnome applications is with the file select dialog. When I click on a directory, it erases the filename that was already typed in! This is lame. If they can improve the file selection dialog, I will be happy.
That said, if my biggest complaint is something so small, I think things are going quite well. Oh, and it needs to be faster too
How is it that somewhat-well-thought-out, sincere, calmly worded posts get moderated as a Troll, while arrogant, conceited, poorly worded, angry posts are moderated as Insightful?
Don't bother moderating me.
Translation: [serious] Users should be made to think that our ideas of how their data should be used are also their ideas.
-or-
[humorous] Microsoft should be in control of how its users are used.
Seriously, though, all those who fit Microsoft's definition of user already think they are in control of their data. They believe that Microsoft provides them freedom to do what they want. Look at those Windows XP flying commercials. People actually believe that stuff. Just a thought.
First of all, trying to encode the video in software would be moronical. My theory: there's a hardware chip with its own dedicated memory that takes care of that. It then sends the data straight to the hard drive with almost no help from the CPU. There's also a hardware chip that handles video decoding, so full streaming media can be done while the CPU is full tilt into some other task. I can't think of any game that uses 100% CPU. If the operating system is designed with a realtime scheduler, the video subsystem can demand that its necessary CPU power is given to it. Since gaming is less important, it might drop speed by a few fps to handle sending the video to the disk.
"One box to rule them all...and in the darkness bind them"
Looks like the clones themselves are the ones being attacked. For once Hollywood (or Lucas at least) actually listened!
Maybe he's just planning on compressing them 100:1 with that new algorithm so that nobody can see them. Perhaps due to the repetitive and unoriginal nature of all "clone" (or "popular") music, a higher compression ratio would be achieved. Think of it, I only need to store one song to hear every 500 out there
This is after the big .com boom/crash. And most of those people were fresh college grads who took Computer Science because it sounded like something with a six digit income. This guy's company did contract work for numerous large corporations. He's not some dot-com moron with no business sense. On the other side of the table you have the former CEO of MP3.com, a very successful venture. Had both of these gentlemen failed their prior attempts at running their own business, I'd tend to agree with you. But most people have learned their lesson after the dot-com crash.
An Australian man spotted a bit of molasses moving uphill in the summer month of January, blown by incredibly strong winds. Apparently, these winds were generated by an enormous fart coming from (pick least favorite slashdot editor].
This indirectly demonstrates that the old but simple GNUStep system (based on several other failed attempts at making a "perfect" GUI) is, in fact, slow as molasses moving uphill in January.
I know a guy in my neighborhood who's a really good Windows/MFC programmer. He used to own his own company, Axiom Technologies, maybe you've heard of it. He sold it to some big firm somewhere so he could move his family to San Diego. That's right, he's moving his family to go work on Lindows. Somehow I doubt that this guy would be spending all his spare time learning Linux as well as he knows Windows, and moving to San Diego, to partner with a guy who has no product.
;p.
Now all I need to do is see if I can get a job with them
Uh-huh, yeah. So they want me to pay $99 to become an Insider. "As close as you can get to being a Lindows employee without actually becoming one" means "free work." What's more, you're not even guaranteed to be given any software to review. At least if you pay $99 to the sales division you know you'll get what you want.
This could easily have applications in quantum computing. Just as easily as tunafish sandwiches can have applications in vulcanization of rubber. Any discovery can have applications in practically any field. Heck, this could even result in a new form of cataract surgery or something. It's the braindead nature of congress (You want HOW MUCH to fund the worlds biggest atom smasher and you DON'T EVEN KNOW WHAT WILL HAPPEN?) that keeps scientific progress at a pace slower than it could be. You never know what you're going to learn before you've learned it, now do you?
Even more importantly, however, is that their "Technical Information" reeks so strongly of buzzwords and technobabble it's hard to read it without the urge to hold my nose. This alone discredits their entire proposition. I feel like I've just been subjected to corporate brainwashing ..er.. I mean marketing.
I see. So by your classification, a movie is not good if it omits system("unzip; mount; yes; unmount");... Personally, I was impressed at how LoTR wasn't destroyed by Hollywood "people" trying to "modernize" it by adding steamy sex seens, scantily clad females, and incredibly foul language (unlike slashdot, which exhibits all of those traits... but that's beside the point).
Most CG studios already use Linux. There was an article here on /. a while back about it. Maya is available for Linux. Most CG studios also make their own software, usually for Linux. Rendering is done on hundreds or thousands of Linux render servers.
Can liars really be detected by thermal imaging? I think they're lying.
I for one am looking forward to installing KDE3 when it's all good and ready. Both KDE and Gnome have made incredible progress in the last few years. I think that the Open Source desktop systems are advancing much more quickly than any proprietary system. It's only a matter of time before KDE and Gnome surpass (if they haven't already) all proprietary GUI systems as far as appearance and usability go. My only complaint about KDE is that it's all C++, and it takes forever to load on an older computer. As I recall that's a problem with the dynamic C++ linker, and not KDE itself, though.
It would seem that "The Dot" is already fallen under the Slashdot effect.
... I also know someone who is working on Lindows. He's moving to San Diego in 3 weeks so he can. Lindows may help Linux get to the desktop. It seems that it's not as likely to be vaporware. This guy used to own his own business (Axiom Technologies) that did custom software for tons of clients, including Adobe and Metacreations (I think).
I would certainly consider purchasing OS X if it was cross-platform. That's why Linux, in my opinion, has a better shot at the desktop than OS X. I want to be able to build my own box, I want to pay dirt-cheap prices, and I want it to run open source (or at the very least cross-platform) software. It doesn't help Linux, though, that Macromedia Flash, and numerous other plugins, run like 4 times as slow in Linux as they do in Windows, and that drivers have to be written by hackers in their bedrooms (so to speak - I know that VA Linux, RedHat, and others have/had people working on drivers).
End of ramble.
It is my opinion that while OS X has a better interface, Linux will only continue to progress because of its lower cost, and the Open Source nature of it.
That said, Aqua is smooooth!
Mandrake is pretty good for desktop users, and SuSE is pretty good for Windows "Power Users" and above.
I think there's a place for both OS X and Linux. Macintosh has a very loyal following, and so does Linux, so I don't see either team dying out any time soon. Personally, I'd rather have source code than fluff.
Me too! Commander keen was one of the finest games I ever played. It was truly an artistic accomplishment to have a game like that run on a 4.77MHz 8088 with decent speed.
I would really like to see half-life released under the GPL one day, but that's not likely.
I think K&R style is pretty good. Personally I code to the Linux kernel standard, which is quite similar to K&R.
Speaking as one who is about to undergo a major rewrite of a minor program (actually, not even a program.. [shameless plug]Palace is my XMMS plugin), which was based on XPLSISNJASP, I can say I understand and appreciate all the comments shared in this discussion. If the XPLSISNJASP source code had been cleaner, non-leaky, commented, etc., it wouldn't have taken me a month to figure out how it works, just so I could pick up where the authors left off over a year ago. The code in releases up to 0.1.3 is in likely worse state, but 0.2.0 should be the "killer app" of parallel port light shows. I plan to incorporate all the applicable advice from this article. Anyone who's interested can e-mail me (my address is in the Palace readme) and see how my rewrite works, suggest features for the new Palace, and learn from my mistakes.
What a waste of space that post was...
How does something like this get moderated as insightful? It's just another vulgar flame. Take out the insults and swearing, and there wouldn't be much left.
;p j/k), many many people do it. Does that make it right? No. But is it true? Yes.
While it's true that software piracy is damaging to a company, and should not be practiced (do as I say, not as I do
Personally I intend to use my recently downloaded source for ideas, and to recompile the source with the latest glibc etc. so it will work on my latest system, and debug that annoying segfault at sound initialization with newer kernels and libs, etc. I might even make a little toy with it.
Besides, notice the (*cough*) at the end of his comment? I suspect he may have been trying to make a joke.