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See the first paragraph in the article?
Nobody is stealing anything here. Not to mention the notion that ideas are property is completely unintuitive. Legally established, yes, but nonsenese nonetheless.
I'm surprised, seeing as how this is Slashdot, that nobody's mentioned a Linux solution...
It's possible to boot from a Linux CD and back up that way. You can make a disk image of your partition and back it up to multiple CD's. I think that it can even be done direct-to-CD. Mkcdrec might help you out, though I think it's targeted at Linux installations with additional partitions from other OSes, and might need a Linux distribution installed on the hard drive. Do a Google or Linux.org search for a data rescue distribution. I'm pretty sure I've heard of one or more distributions designed for affordable and easy backups of any OS.
There are advantages to having every graphics driver installed. There is little code duplication between drivers compared to Windows drivers, so they don't take up that much disk space. The best thing, though, is that you can have ultimate plug-n-play: you put in a new video card, and you don't have to search for drivers or download or compile anything new; the drivers were included, so you can just plug in the card and go.
So, OCG, what were those two announced flaws, and what were those nine announced flaws? What subsystems? What software? All kernel flaws?
Most flaws in Linux and other Unix-like operating systems are local exploits that require one to already have some kind of executable access to the system. These worms get themselves onto Windows boxes without such access, so-called remote exploits.
There are cases where a flaw in a software program, such as wu-ftpd, combined with a local exploit in the kernel, will result in a remotely exploiatable situation, but rarely is the kernel itself remotely exploitable.
Lumping all Linux-compatible software together (i.e. Apache, Sendmail, Wu-ftpd (why does anybody still use that?), ProFTPD, Postfix, Qmail, etc.) doesn't count. You need to break those nine flaws down and give details.
Honestly... how many people can install Windows? If they can figure out how to install Windows, they can most definitely install LindowsOS (a breeze if you're installing it as the only OS), and probably install Mandrake.
The lenticular screen idea is similar to what I thought of when I read about this; one could possibly manufacture a laptop screen with a strip of cellophane over every other vertical column, or possibly alternating columns with each row for a kind of "dithered" effect. This could allow normal viewing of 2D images without glasses, and 3D viewing with polarized glasses.
The very next story in the business section of the SLTrib is also about SCO (click the blue right arrow at the bottom of the original article or click the link below):
We probably have the technology now with cochlear implants and high precision DSPs/DACs to develop an all-digital ear that simply has a coaxial digital input; I bet all the audiophiles would love to find out that they can hear Beethoven's 5th symphony in all its original glory wherever they are without having to lug around their $80000/pr speakers or $1200 headphones and $800 headphone amp, when they're walking past a TV in a store window and suddenly their ears turn off because their bionic audio licensing software malfunctioned and mistook MTV for a pirate song.
I don't do it; it's just an idea. Usually when I have friends over we all go to the store and pitch in on the goodies. Having a good time with people is worth 30 cents an hour.
Besides, if friends won't be your friends after you ask them to pitch in once in a while, maybe they're not really friends but just moochers, taking advantage of you for your home theater hardware.
Re:HDTV - Check availability, and buy if you can
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Agreed. CSI is one of the several shows broadcast with amazing quality in 1080i. The Tonight Show is also in HD, though sometimes technical problems at the local network affiliate force me to switch to the analog broadcast.
Even SDTV at 480i is better if the compression ratio isn't too high, because there's no more static or fuzzy images.
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Look bucko, in your wealthy world, maybe every 19 year old has his own home theater system. But out here in the rest of the world, mom and dad don't pay our bills anymore, we go to school, get a good education, work our ass off, get laid off, and still find ways to pay the rent.
Look, I worked 8 hours a day for quite a while to save up the money for what I have. My laptop ($1.6G), desktop ($1.1G), and home theater ($2G+) I paid for myself. I don't come from a rich family; I worked for what I have. My parents work dang hard to provide for our large family. We hardly even see them sometimes. I don't mean to be inflammatory or insulting, but I don't accept people accusing me falsely. It's not impossible to make a living. Just calm down; keeping your cool will be a big help in job interviews. Oh, and when you get a job, donate at least 10% of your income to some worthwhile charity, to help balance out the universe.
When are you planning your party? I bet I could get at least one person and myself to come, for a second SCO protest (I think Provo LUG had the first).
Well, if you amortize the cost of a bulb over the bulb's life, I think it's worth the 30 cents an hour for a 110" diagonal screen with 1024x768 progressive resolution. If you just have friends over frequently, and have each one donate a dollar to your "bulb fund," you can easily cover the costs.
An important question though:
are you buying this to watch TV frequently for long periods of time? In other words, do you have kids who watch the afternoon cartoons every day? Projectors are better used in situations where you watch maybe an hour or two a day average, and mostly focus on high-quality content, like DVD's (or DVHS) and DTV.
I have a 20" Mitsubishi TV from the late 80's that's fallen 4 feet twice and 6 feet once, and is still going without any repairs, except for one button on the front panel and the tuner doesn't stop on channels (happened when somebody spilled water in it). Oh, and the CRT is dislodged. But it still freaking WORKS!!! It's used as a monitor for the Playstation2 now. Sony might be good, but I don't know if they're the best.
Don't go buy an ordinary TV
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HDTV standards are stabilized. HDTV is awesome. All stations in my area broadcast digital SDTV or better. I'd recommend an HDTV tuner card in an HTPC, with a projector. It'll be a little bit more than $1000, but the improved screen size and picture detail over a conventional TV are definitely worth it.
If you're buying a TV now, unless your room is very small, it's definitely worth going for a projector or an HDTV capable set, if it's within your budget. Generally, if you do the ceiling mount and screen yourself (which even the most well-monied individuals can enjoy doing as a refreshing change), a mid-range projector will cost less than HDTV tubes, plasmas, and RPTV's. I personally use an XGA DLP projector, and while the rainbows (it's an older DLP model; newer ones are much better) were mildly annoying at first, I'm very satisfied with the purchase.
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While I sympathize with your economic situation, usually 17 year olds living in their parents' basement aren't supposed to have $1000 to spend on a TV. Okay, so I'm 19, and I'm about to move out, and I already own a complete home theater including DLP projector.. but that's not the rule. Just because you don't have $1000, doesn't mean you should complain someone else does. There is a remedy to your situation. If you are unemployed, take a job at the supermarket. If you have a crappy job, learn new skills in your spare time so you'll have a way to pitch yourself to a new employer. If you really are 17 and living at home, stop complaining. Otherwise, make your life better.
Anyhow, how do you know the guy hasn't already been to China? A TV will last 10 years or more. A 1 week vacation to china will last 1 week, but those intenstinal parasites you'll carry around for a lifetime. Or, you could get SARS. I bet that's why airfare's so cheap.
Did you know that Linux is actually older than OS/2? Linux has survived since 1991. GNU was started before then. Linux has already demonstrated it can survive better than OS/2. Running Photoshop under a API reimplementation is just another drop of gasoline in the Linux Porsche(/BMW/whatever).
What's your tile cache set to? I bet Gimp's having problems with having too much data swapped to disk. Maybe you're running out of disk space on your disk tile cache. Photoshop by default uses 50% of system RAM, and I know a lot of people that turn that up to 75 or 80%. Gimp by default uses 32MB for tile cache. Try setting that to something like 256MB or more (if you are indeed opening 40+layer images, I hope you have at least 512MB of RAM).
Dude... You know, you (probably) have two hands too. You're reading through all this documentation. Just write the freaking thing down on a sticky note.
I use Gimp a lot to design graphics for my home theater user interface. If I have to use Photoshop for some reason (haven't got around to installing Gimp for Windows and need to do something quicker than rebooting), I'm always frustrated with how far I have to move the mouse to get to everything. All of Gimp's features are just a right click away.
Also, people can't complain about not knowing how to do something that is in one of the Gimp's start-up tips (right-click on the image to get started).
What I heard from a guy at Iomega is they have an in-house proprietary version control system called Slime, that they very carefully guard as they believe it is one of the secrets to their success.
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And YET AGAIN another Slashdot poster fails to read the whole article!
You may re-publish this material. You may excerpt it, reformat it and translate it as necessary for your presentation. You may not edit it to deliberately misrepresent my opinion.
See the first paragraph in the article?
Nobody is stealing anything here. Not to mention the notion that ideas are property is completely unintuitive. Legally established, yes, but nonsenese nonetheless.
I'm surprised, seeing as how this is Slashdot, that nobody's mentioned a Linux solution...
It's possible to boot from a Linux CD and back up that way. You can make a disk image of your partition and back it up to multiple CD's. I think that it can even be done direct-to-CD. Mkcdrec might help you out, though I think it's targeted at Linux installations with additional partitions from other OSes, and might need a Linux distribution installed on the hard drive. Do a Google or Linux.org search for a data rescue distribution. I'm pretty sure I've heard of one or more distributions designed for affordable and easy backups of any OS.
Of course, I didn't say there were no advantages to having just the drivers you need... :)
I also build a custom kernel. I agree with points made by those on both sides of the argument.
There are advantages to having every graphics driver installed. There is little code duplication between drivers compared to Windows drivers, so they don't take up that much disk space. The best thing, though, is that you can have ultimate plug-n-play: you put in a new video card, and you don't have to search for drivers or download or compile anything new; the drivers were included, so you can just plug in the card and go.
Office, Outlook, etc. are all from a single vendor. Apache, Sendmail, Linux, etc. are all produced independently.
Irix.
IrisGL or OpenGL (I think OpenGL is based on IrisGL, so Irix probably now uses OpenGL) is used extensively in Irix, for both 2D and 3D.
So, OCG, what were those two announced flaws, and what were those nine announced flaws? What subsystems? What software? All kernel flaws?
Most flaws in Linux and other Unix-like operating systems are local exploits that require one to already have some kind of executable access to the system. These worms get themselves onto Windows boxes without such access, so-called remote exploits.
There are cases where a flaw in a software program, such as wu-ftpd, combined with a local exploit in the kernel, will result in a remotely exploiatable situation, but rarely is the kernel itself remotely exploitable.
Lumping all Linux-compatible software together (i.e. Apache, Sendmail, Wu-ftpd (why does anybody still use that?), ProFTPD, Postfix, Qmail, etc.) doesn't count. You need to break those nine flaws down and give details.
Honestly... how many people can install Windows? If they can figure out how to install Windows, they can most definitely install LindowsOS (a breeze if you're installing it as the only OS), and probably install Mandrake.
The lenticular screen idea is similar to what I thought of when I read about this; one could possibly manufacture a laptop screen with a strip of cellophane over every other vertical column, or possibly alternating columns with each row for a kind of "dithered" effect. This could allow normal viewing of 2D images without glasses, and 3D viewing with polarized glasses.
The very next story in the business section of the SLTrib is also about SCO (click the blue right arrow at the bottom of the original article or click the link below):
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http://www.sltrib.com/2003/Aug/08122003/business/
We probably have the technology now with cochlear implants and high precision DSPs/DACs to develop an all-digital ear that simply has a coaxial digital input; I bet all the audiophiles would love to find out that they can hear Beethoven's 5th symphony in all its original glory wherever they are without having to lug around their $80000/pr speakers or $1200 headphones and $800 headphone amp, when they're walking past a TV in a store window and suddenly their ears turn off because their bionic audio licensing software malfunctioned and mistook MTV for a pirate song.
I don't do it; it's just an idea. Usually when I have friends over we all go to the store and pitch in on the goodies. Having a good time with people is worth 30 cents an hour.
Besides, if friends won't be your friends after you ask them to pitch in once in a while, maybe they're not really friends but just moochers, taking advantage of you for your home theater hardware.
Agreed. CSI is one of the several shows broadcast with amazing quality in 1080i. The Tonight Show is also in HD, though sometimes technical problems at the local network affiliate force me to switch to the analog broadcast.
Even SDTV at 480i is better if the compression ratio isn't too high, because there's no more static or fuzzy images.
Look bucko, in your wealthy world, maybe every 19 year old has his own home theater system. But out here in the rest of the world, mom and dad don't pay our bills anymore, we go to school, get a good education, work our ass off, get laid off, and still find ways to pay the rent.
Look, I worked 8 hours a day for quite a while to save up the money for what I have. My laptop ($1.6G), desktop ($1.1G), and home theater ($2G+) I paid for myself. I don't come from a rich family; I worked for what I have. My parents work dang hard to provide for our large family. We hardly even see them sometimes. I don't mean to be inflammatory or insulting, but I don't accept people accusing me falsely. It's not impossible to make a living. Just calm down; keeping your cool will be a big help in job interviews. Oh, and when you get a job, donate at least 10% of your income to some worthwhile charity, to help balance out the universe.
$ lftp ftp://ftp.sco.com/pub/updates/OpenLinux/3.1.1/Serv er/CSSA-2003-020.0/SRPMS/- 020.0/SRPMSS SA-2003-020.0/SRPMS> ls linux*S SA-2003-020.0/SRPMS> pget linux-2.4.13-21S.src.rpm
cd ok, cwd=/pub/updates/OpenLinux/3.1.1/Server/CSSA-2003
lftp ftp.sco.com:/pub/updates/OpenLinux/3.1.1/Server/C
-rw-r--r-- 1 ftp ftp 26701141 May 9 17:51 linux-2.4.13-21S.src.rpm
lftp ftp.sco.com:/pub/updates/OpenLinux/3.1.1/Server/C
26702096 bytes transferred in 71 seconds (365.3K/s)
Note that pget opens four parallel connections to download the file.
When are you planning your party? I bet I could get at least one person and myself to come, for a second SCO protest (I think Provo LUG had the first).
Well, if you amortize the cost of a bulb over the bulb's life, I think it's worth the 30 cents an hour for a 110" diagonal screen with 1024x768 progressive resolution. If you just have friends over frequently, and have each one donate a dollar to your "bulb fund," you can easily cover the costs.
An important question though:
are you buying this to watch TV frequently for long periods of time? In other words, do you have kids who watch the afternoon cartoons every day? Projectors are better used in situations where you watch maybe an hour or two a day average, and mostly focus on high-quality content, like DVD's (or DVHS) and DTV.
I have a 20" Mitsubishi TV from the late 80's that's fallen 4 feet twice and 6 feet once, and is still going without any repairs, except for one button on the front panel and the tuner doesn't stop on channels (happened when somebody spilled water in it). Oh, and the CRT is dislodged. But it still freaking WORKS!!! It's used as a monitor for the Playstation2 now. Sony might be good, but I don't know if they're the best.
HDTV standards are stabilized. HDTV is awesome. All stations in my area broadcast digital SDTV or better. I'd recommend an HDTV tuner card in an HTPC, with a projector. It'll be a little bit more than $1000, but the improved screen size and picture detail over a conventional TV are definitely worth it.
If you're buying a TV now, unless your room is very small, it's definitely worth going for a projector or an HDTV capable set, if it's within your budget. Generally, if you do the ceiling mount and screen yourself (which even the most well-monied individuals can enjoy doing as a refreshing change), a mid-range projector will cost less than HDTV tubes, plasmas, and RPTV's. I personally use an XGA DLP projector, and while the rainbows (it's an older DLP model; newer ones are much better) were mildly annoying at first, I'm very satisfied with the purchase.
While I sympathize with your economic situation, usually 17 year olds living in their parents' basement aren't supposed to have $1000 to spend on a TV. Okay, so I'm 19, and I'm about to move out, and I already own a complete home theater including DLP projector.. but that's not the rule. Just because you don't have $1000, doesn't mean you should complain someone else does. There is a remedy to your situation. If you are unemployed, take a job at the supermarket. If you have a crappy job, learn new skills in your spare time so you'll have a way to pitch yourself to a new employer. If you really are 17 and living at home, stop complaining. Otherwise, make your life better.
Anyhow, how do you know the guy hasn't already been to China? A TV will last 10 years or more. A 1 week vacation to china will last 1 week, but those intenstinal parasites you'll carry around for a lifetime. Or, you could get SARS. I bet that's why airfare's so cheap.
Did you know that Linux is actually older than OS/2? Linux has survived since 1991. GNU was started before then. Linux has already demonstrated it can survive better than OS/2. Running Photoshop under a API reimplementation is just another drop of gasoline in the Linux Porsche(/BMW/whatever).
What's your tile cache set to? I bet Gimp's having problems with having too much data swapped to disk. Maybe you're running out of disk space on your disk tile cache. Photoshop by default uses 50% of system RAM, and I know a lot of people that turn that up to 75 or 80%. Gimp by default uses 32MB for tile cache. Try setting that to something like 256MB or more (if you are indeed opening 40+layer images, I hope you have at least 512MB of RAM).
Dude... You know, you (probably) have two hands too. You're reading through all this documentation. Just write the freaking thing down on a sticky note.
I use Gimp a lot to design graphics for my home theater user interface. If I have to use Photoshop for some reason (haven't got around to installing Gimp for Windows and need to do something quicker than rebooting), I'm always frustrated with how far I have to move the mouse to get to everything. All of Gimp's features are just a right click away.
Also, people can't complain about not knowing how to do something that is in one of the Gimp's start-up tips (right-click on the image to get started).
What I heard from a guy at Iomega is they have an in-house proprietary version control system called Slime, that they very carefully guard as they believe it is one of the secrets to their success.
All together now, say it slowly:
RPM is like DPKG
RPM is not like APT
there are other tools intended to work like APT with RPM, like apt-rpm, or urpmi, etc.