Word has it that just after the "quiet period" Linus is leaving TM. It's not such a secret that "The Management" and Linus have very dirrerent views of the direction
TM should take. Too bad, they seemed to make a good team. Who knows, maybe Steve Jobs would pick him up.
I would hire him to work on Linux... seriously. Linus, come knocking, I've got a job for you whenever you want it.
I can't see how they would know you're doing maquerading.
I plan on using a VPN, however, to provide a small number of real, routable addresses to my home machines while using the single random DHCP address I get from the cable modem providers.
I'm actually serious... LOTS of people use AOL because it covers up the complexity of connecting to and using the internet on _Windows_ and the _Mac_, two systems routinely proffered as more user-friendly than Linux. With AOL clients on Linux, those people can use it. Toss in StarOffice and maybe Netscape/Mozilla/Opera, and they've got all they need.
I wonder if the AOL/linux web browser will be Mozilla? The Windows version uses IE... but now AOL has this spiffy portable web browser...
I fully support the convergence of existing media outlets into digital media rental, so that I can pick what I want, when I want, and may pay more or less if it comes with ads or doesn't. So I can still watch "friends" with all the commercials for free, or pay $0.50 and not see the commercials. Or whatever (insert 28-comment-long nitpicking about proposed system here).
Audio and video are just software, at best. Really just data files these days, because there's not any interactivity. So sell it online! I understnad networks' desire to have a "prime time" where they can launch new shows in front of a captive audience, charge more for ads, etc. -- but they will just have to move into the future. I don't think we should let them hold us back.
The government is supposed to protect citizens from force and fraud. Price-fixing is not good capitalism, it is a type of both force and fraud. Price-fixing distorts the market, preventing people from being able to freely negotiate price. Therefore it is a legitimate function of government to prevent price fixing -- along with other acts of collusion and conspiracy -- from happening.
Mosix is pretty cool, and will be even nicer when they have Distributed Shared Memory, Migratable Sockets and Direct Filesystem Access issues worked out (currently Mosix does i/o remotely through the home node, which makes it slower and loads the home node; DFSA allows remote nodes to access files locally rathen than via remote-I/O).
It provides preemptive process migration among cluster members. If you log into your "home node" and start a process, it will get migrated around the cluster according to its memory and CPU needs. Take a look at their remote monitor.
Currently it's Intel-only, but a mixed-architecture version would be sweet. Imagine a cluster of intel, alpha, PPC and sparc CPUs such that you log into any of them, run any Linux binary, and the loader cranks it up on the appropriate machien for you, transparently...
From the website:
MOSIX is a software package that enhance the Linux kernel with cluster computing capabilities. The enhanced kernel allows any size cluster of X86/Pentium based workstations and servers to work cooperatively as if part of a single system.
To run in a MOSIX cluster, there is no need to modify applications or to link with any library, or even to assign processes to different nodes. MOSIX does it automatically and transparently, like an execution in an SMP - just "fork and forget". For example, you can create many processes in your (login) node and let MOSIX assign these processes to other nodes. If you type "ps", then you will see all your processes, as if they run in your node.
The core of MOSIX are adaptive resource management algorithms that monitor and respond (on-line) to uneven work distribution among the nodes in order to improve the overall performance of all the processes. These algorithms use preemptive process migration to assign and reassign the processes among the nodes, to continuously take advantage of the best available resources. The MOSIX algorithms are geared for maximal performance, overhead-free scalability and ease-of-use.
Because MOSIX is implemented in the Linux kernel, its operations are completely transparent to the applications. It can be used to define different cluster types, even a cluster with different machine or LAN speeds, like our 100 processors cluster:
combine this sucker with bluetooth and you can use it to send pics to the PDA in your pocket, or the laptop in your bag, etc. Also use it as remote cameras for, e.g., day care centers!
Now what would be cool is a pcmcia/compact flash version. Just use it like a camera, then jam it into your laptop to get the pics.
You obviously haven't heard of CUPS, the Commom Unix Printing System.
Yes, I have. It's a new version of LPR, essentially, and is simply for delivery of postscript to printers. It's not an imaging model for use by applications.
Or, as Francis Crick puts it, the body is the mind. Any mind/body duality is more religious hocus-pocus than actual fact. Do you think that a head in a jar would think in the same was as when it was attached to the rest of the body?
The same old point -- I don't think it compensates in any way. Let me ask you: because Jenny put a webcam in her apartment, does she now have a right to come into your home and put a webcam there? Can she invade your privacy because she has none?
That's stupid. She voluntarily gave up her privacy. That doesn't mean I have to give up mine. If I somehow forced Jenny to give up her privacy, then perhaps I should be forced to gve up mine as well.
I argues for limiting certain uses by certain entities.
Like the use of encryption by private individuals? The publishing of information necessary to make LSD? The sale of anhydrous ammonia to certified large-scale farmers only, because it might use used to make a bomb, never mind the garden I have? Limiting what government can do is different that limiting what citizens can do. The people of a free republic grant certain powers to the government, not the other way around. Just say no to victimless crimes.
To repeat myself, your loss of privacy does not compensate me for my loss of privacy.
It should be included in the debate. I'm not saying it's a panacea.
As for "the legal system" preventing use of technology to invade your privacy, haw. Tell that to the Republicans that Clinton obtained the FBI files on (for instance). As if the government is some kind of shining bastion of ethical purity. The government is made of people, jsut like companies and families. And what people are usually afraid of is not that what they're doing is wrong, but that they will get caught.
When there is no way to ensure personal privacy, it's a good idea to ensure that the people who would invade it have no privacy either. If DoubleClick wants to track my browsing patterns, I can run Junkbuster. If it was not possible to run junkbuster, I would demand that DoubleClick executives publically reveal their personal browsing practices, both at work and at home. And I would take measures to discover what they were independantly, if possible.
Outlawing technology because it can be used for nefarious purposes is never a good idea. Who gets to decide what is dangerous? Let's say that your bank wanted to provide secure access to ATMs without requiring a breakable, loseable, insecure ATM card. They could have their ATMs perform face recognition, and/or ask for a voiceprint, etc. to grant access to your accounts. It would be more secure and more convenient. Now, if the government mandated use of the system for tracking "criminals," that would be bad. If it is not possible to make them not use the system in that way, then we can simply demand that those officials publically reveal their locations and movement habits as well, using the same or another system. It's about accountability and control. When "privacy" is used to increase power over someone else, that's bad. When it's used to increase power over your own life, that's good.
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Word has it that just after the "quiet period" Linus is leaving TM. It's not such a secret that "The Management" and Linus have very dirrerent views of the direction TM should take. Too bad, they seemed to make a good team. Who knows, maybe Steve Jobs would pick him up.
I would hire him to work on Linux... seriously. Linus, come knocking, I've got a job for you whenever you want it.
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I wonder where Linus would work if Transmeta went under...
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Without an enterprise level OS (or at least one that traditional IT techs PERCIEVE
Umm... HPUX.
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You can copy an encypted DVD disc bit for bit, and play it back on a licensed player. In other words, you don't need DeCSS to pirate DVDs.
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I can't see how they would know you're doing maquerading.
I plan on using a VPN, however, to provide a small number of real, routable addresses to my home machines while using the single random DHCP address I get from the cable modem providers.
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I look forward to the next round of single-user single-task machines!
Hrm... maybe they're already here: Palm, Cellphones, DoCoMo iMode thingies, dreamcasts...
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I'm actually serious... LOTS of people use AOL because it covers up the complexity of connecting to and using the internet on _Windows_ and the _Mac_, two systems routinely proffered as more user-friendly than Linux. With AOL clients on Linux, those people can use it. Toss in StarOffice and maybe Netscape/Mozilla/Opera, and they've got all they need.
I wonder if the AOL/linux web browser will be Mozilla? The Windows version uses IE... but now AOL has this spiffy portable web browser...
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I fully support the convergence of existing media outlets into digital media rental, so that I can pick what I want, when I want, and may pay more or less if it comes with ads or doesn't. So I can still watch "friends" with all the commercials for free, or pay $0.50 and not see the commercials. Or whatever (insert 28-comment-long nitpicking about proposed system here).
Audio and video are just software, at best. Really just data files these days, because there's not any interactivity. So sell it online! I understnad networks' desire to have a "prime time" where they can launch new shows in front of a captive audience, charge more for ads, etc. -- but they will just have to move into the future. I don't think we should let them hold us back.
Choice good! RIAA Bad!
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You need more tinfoil ... the orbital mind-control laser (in pink now!) appears to be leaking through.
Redhat releases all of their software GPL. TriTeal and CDE date to before there were ANY desktop environments for Linux, beyond FVWM.
RedHat didn't include KDE/QT until the licensing was sorted out, because they support the GPL.
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> do you really believe that all copyright should be abolished?
Yes!
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I dont want to end private property!
... um... what, exactly do you think copyright is? And how would you define "fair use?" "Fair" as in "free for me?" Or what?
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they created copyright... and continue to issue them.
do you really believe that all copyright should be abolished? That's pretty shortsighted. Do you want to nationalize industry while you're at it?
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The typical assignment of the copyright to the publisher, not the artist, is a problem. But the government is not causing it, or perpetuating it.
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The government is supposed to protect citizens from force and fraud. Price-fixing is not good capitalism, it is a type of both force and fraud. Price-fixing distorts the market, preventing people from being able to freely negotiate price. Therefore it is a legitimate function of government to prevent price fixing -- along with other acts of collusion and conspiracy -- from happening.
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Have you ever haggled for a CD? Thought not.
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homer.simpson@742.evergreen-terrace.springfield.il .us? Or what?
(not that they're really in Illinois)
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It provides preemptive process migration among cluster members. If you log into your "home node" and start a process, it will get migrated around the cluster according to its memory and CPU needs. Take a look at their remote monitor.
Currently it's Intel-only, but a mixed-architecture version would be sweet. Imagine a cluster of intel, alpha, PPC and sparc CPUs such that you log into any of them, run any Linux binary, and the loader cranks it up on the appropriate machien for you, transparently...
From the website:
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No, NWA stands for Niggers With Attitude. Sheesh.
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combine this sucker with bluetooth and you can use it to send pics to the PDA in your pocket, or the laptop in your bag, etc. Also use it as remote cameras for, e.g., day care centers!
Now what would be cool is a pcmcia/compact flash version. Just use it like a camera, then jam it into your laptop to get the pics.
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You obviously haven't heard of CUPS, the Commom Unix Printing System.
Yes, I have. It's a new version of LPR, essentially, and is simply for delivery of postscript to printers. It's not an imaging model for use by applications.
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On Windows and the Mac, there is a common printing model. On Unix, there's not; each application must generate postscript itself.
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You work for a privacy-software company? Is "Kaa" the snake in "Jungle Book?"
Just curious...
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Or, as Francis Crick puts it, the body is the mind. Any mind/body duality is more religious hocus-pocus than actual fact. Do you think that a head in a jar would think in the same was as when it was attached to the rest of the body?
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And people do.. read the Unix Hater's Handbook.
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That's stupid. She voluntarily gave up her privacy. That doesn't mean I have to give up mine. If I somehow forced Jenny to give up her privacy, then perhaps I should be forced to gve up mine as well.
Like the use of encryption by private individuals? The publishing of information necessary to make LSD? The sale of anhydrous ammonia to certified large-scale farmers only, because it might use used to make a bomb, never mind the garden I have? Limiting what government can do is different that limiting what citizens can do. The people of a free republic grant certain powers to the government, not the other way around. Just say no to victimless crimes.
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To repeat myself, your loss of privacy does not compensate me for my loss of privacy.
It should be included in the debate. I'm not saying it's a panacea.
As for "the legal system" preventing use of technology to invade your privacy, haw. Tell that to the Republicans that Clinton obtained the FBI files on (for instance). As if the government is some kind of shining bastion of ethical purity. The government is made of people, jsut like companies and families. And what people are usually afraid of is not that what they're doing is wrong, but that they will get caught.
When there is no way to ensure personal privacy, it's a good idea to ensure that the people who would invade it have no privacy either. If DoubleClick wants to track my browsing patterns, I can run Junkbuster. If it was not possible to run junkbuster, I would demand that DoubleClick executives publically reveal their personal browsing practices, both at work and at home. And I would take measures to discover what they were independantly, if possible.
Outlawing technology because it can be used for nefarious purposes is never a good idea. Who gets to decide what is dangerous? Let's say that your bank wanted to provide secure access to ATMs without requiring a breakable, loseable, insecure ATM card. They could have their ATMs perform face recognition, and/or ask for a voiceprint, etc. to grant access to your accounts. It would be more secure and more convenient. Now, if the government mandated use of the system for tracking "criminals," that would be bad. If it is not possible to make them not use the system in that way, then we can simply demand that those officials publically reveal their locations and movement habits as well, using the same or another system. It's about accountability and control. When "privacy" is used to increase power over someone else, that's bad. When it's used to increase power over your own life, that's good.
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