Rightly mentioned. There a lot of open source projects that started off with a wonderful idea but down the line have somhow lost vision and ended up being un-supported anymore. I think this is the place where commercial organizations shine. Their releases are well controlled and gives the third party vendors to time theirs too. This is where mozilla missed out. Now I think they are in a better shape than they were earlier.
So i think another major challenge for an open source project to keep going is to keep the goals attainable and make sure that things keep chugging along.
When people talk about.NET , J2EE in the context of web development, how come XPCOM is missed out. It might not be a complete framework as.NET or J2EE are, but with C++, the mozilla hackers have managed to make a framework, which is faster and is also based on C++.
How come it is missed out ?
Accepted that moz had the backing of AOL, but that does not mean that it survived only because of AOL. There has been a marked contribution of mozilla to the open source world in specific and to the browser world in general.
I think that as an organization and community the mozilla.org deserves the credit - they were able to see themselves through the dot com bust, the economic recession and ofcourse the increasing share of IE , to go on. They had the spirit and tenor to go on.
Neatly elucidated.Let me add a few lines to this. Engineering is a science in its own right. But S/W is not a complete science. It is an auxillary science extending on the mighty shoulders of pure mathematical science.
Also look at a simple fact. S/W made by 'engineers' is *never* 100 % fool proof. Can a civil engineer or a mechanical engineer afford to do the same ?
The direct impact of Swarm Intelligence could be a set of routines in software which correct themselves . There can exist (say) n functions which talk among themselves and, if there exists an error they try to correct themselves. Its like the ants which try to find the shortest path.
Also the mindset mentioned by the prof does exist. The only way one can get over it would be by using more proof of concepts.
Even though the project did not take as expected, one has to realise that there are copyright problems that are prevalent. The laws are different in different countries and the enforcement is equally varied. So in this setting, I think that Gutenberg has done a decent job. Only if there were less strict copyright laws, may be people would be interested to convert data.
Even though XML is a nice piece of technology, the bandwidth overhead incurred in transmitting a pure text file across is non-trivial. I helped move an application which was using XML, into using a binary format. I understand this would mean diverting from standards, but given the delay attributed to the data sizes of the xml file, this could not be done. I think as the above comment mentions, when you have heterogenous systems trying to communicate to each other then XML would definitely help, otherwise I dont see a point in using XML, just because it is the in thing.
I think the view is valid. All Transmeta needs is someone to let them market their chips. Once it is known that the chips are worth their salt, heck man, it does not matter if it is M$ or any other firm. At the end of the day the customer does not bother who made the chip, hez bothered abt how good it is. But another thing to be noted is wether Transmeta would fall under the M$ licensing whirlpool. It should look properly into it.. cmon u dont want linus to be writing code that is *closed*;)
10 years is a long time for one to understand the intricacies of the trade. You have been associated with ibiblio for so long, you have seen so many transitions in the industry (dot com boom, the growth of linux, M$ and its anti trust, the visa restrictions so on and so forth). ibiblio has continued unfazed, so what do you forsee is the future of web publishing, both in terms of commercial and a personal interest ? thank you
Interesting note. And true in some cases. So who do we blame the user or the OS or the people who make the software. I donot know. I personally feel that the OS also has a part (a major one though) in this. When a user installs / uninstalls some app on Tux there is no problem of unclean registry entries / left over Dlls. That is an example of a robust operating system, which carries over to people develping applications on the OS. As an example I would like to quote yahoo messenger on windows. Even after you uninstall the app, there are entries leftover in the registry. What does this reflect, bad QA by the people making the apps, well of course.
I think people making applications for windows should take a leaf from the way applications are being built for linux.
In some ways I do agree . Yes indeed, if there are people willing to work better than you are working, for lesser pay, then why not go for cheap labor. This way, both the parties (the company and the new employee) are happy. Just because one is a citizen that does not mean that the company is bound to give you a job. Admittedly, USA's unemployment rate is far less than that of the third world countries from which these H1B visa entrants come from.
The author was reporting that the size of the file is all bloated up. Of course there was a reply explaining how it can be done. But can someone reflect on the forensics and guess what *could* be the reason that this particular file got bloated. Any pennies for the thoughts;-)
An interesting note. What I want to know now is that if Palermo scale is the one for professional astronomers then why on NT7 was it quoted at all. And there was a talk about a tilt in the asteroids orbit. The article also mentioned that the particular area in space was not looked properly and more care has to be taken looking at it now. So what does this mean ? I am not an astronomer, someone who is (or who knows about this) can help me out .
What you suggest is interesting, but there is one major thing i think people are missing out here. The idea behind the research was to protect people's privacy. Would one trust it or not is one's own prerogative but then if there is someone working to achieve the same, i guess the effort should be appreciated and if there are any suggestions do let them know. I think your suggestion of using a randomize button does allay people's scares. I think this idea should be backed up by IBM and I am sure people would respond.
A final small observation. Spammers generally are a subject of disregard. When we use the NYTimes random generator are we not doing something similar to that? Are we not generating scores of fake e-mail ids. It is TRUE that NYTimes should not ask information for reading an article, but can someone reflect on the amount of random emails that are getting stored there in NYTimes' database
Agreed to the fact that $100 can be demeaning to a software developer who works on open source developer who is working *off-time*. But if there are people who are willing to look at other's code and try and make a bug-fix then the amount, though paltry, can be some reason to earn few fast bucks. Given the fact that there are a lot of coding demons amongst us who can find a bug real fast this money can be used for donating to other free software projects. There is another thing to be taken into consideration...
The money is in $...what about people who donot live in US of A. What about the business model in that case ? How does one get to reap the benefits of one's hardwork. It would be an interesting note if you could elucidate your business model.
And my my would the mice need a real big transformer. But as suggested the power plug is a *wonderful* idea, but there is *no* standardized voltage for that also. If it is 110v in the US of A then it is 230 v in South Asia. So how do we go about solving this problem ? Any suggestions on that.
I think www.ibm.com/developerworks is a wonderful place. I thoroughly enjoyed articles by Gentoo Robins especially the ones on threads on Linux. And the security section is fabulous. I think it is a must read
yes indeed, I can see u feeling it. Man ! it seems your server is takin it all. This is completely out of interest, what are you running your server on. I want to know how much it takes for a server to getting hit like this. Can you share with us all from the web logs how your server took this
'code/. ';)
It was a wonderful link given by you. I guess the guy wanted something like this. I still have few questions unanswered though. The person wanted to know how to keep the ACKs for the upstream going without affecting his downstream. Does the QoS scheduler provided by Win 2k provide an option to fine grain what you want. And any idea what is the algorithm that win 2k uses ?
Yes indeed, I agree to the same comment. If there are OSes built specifically for the embedded environmen, why would anyone want to use an OS built for the desktop. Somehow it does not fit in. And what I also wonder about is how come Volvo engineers missed out on the number of other OSes that exist for embedded systems. It would be very interesting to know how the volvo engineers decided on Win 98.
it indeed is true..y such a RAM constraint. Can anyone think of a technical reason y the RAM has been restricted ? Atleast if the RAM were a lil more then the build time would reduce.. M$ people out there..any answers ?
But what you are talking about is an application that sends the clock number. The number of packtets hitting the time server though many would not be very big. This means that the load may not be very much. Whereas when we talk about a gaming application the payload *can* be heavy. In which case there are chances of packet loss.
Yes indeed, I was driving at the same point. What is interesting is that technology in the form of broadband is helping nurture the already strong social ties. Unlike in few other situations wherein PCs are a way to isolate oneself (this of course does not include the geeks;) )
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Rightly mentioned. There a lot of open source projects that started off with a wonderful idea but down the line have somhow lost vision and ended up being un-supported anymore. I think this is the place where commercial organizations shine. Their releases are well controlled and gives the third party vendors to time theirs too. This is where mozilla missed out. Now I think they are in a better shape than they were earlier. So i think another major challenge for an open source project to keep going is to keep the goals attainable and make sure that things keep chugging along.
When people talk about .NET , J2EE in the context of web development, how come XPCOM is missed out. It might not be a complete framework as .NET or J2EE are, but with C++, the mozilla hackers have managed to make a framework, which is faster and is also based on C++.
How come it is missed out ?
I think that as an organization and community the mozilla.org deserves the credit - they were able to see themselves through the dot com bust, the economic recession and ofcourse the increasing share of IE , to go on. They had the spirit and tenor to go on.
Neatly elucidated.Let me add a few lines to this. Engineering is a science in its own right. But S/W is not a complete science. It is an auxillary science extending on the mighty shoulders of pure mathematical science. Also look at a simple fact. S/W made by 'engineers' is *never* 100 % fool proof. Can a civil engineer or a mechanical engineer afford to do the same ?
The direct impact of Swarm Intelligence could be a set of routines in software which correct themselves . There can exist (say) n functions which talk among themselves and, if there exists an error they try to correct themselves. Its like the ants which try to find the shortest path. Also the mindset mentioned by the prof does exist. The only way one can get over it would be by using more proof of concepts.
Even though the project did not take as expected, one has to realise that there are copyright problems that are prevalent. The laws are different in different countries and the enforcement is equally varied. So in this setting, I think that Gutenberg has done a decent job. Only if there were less strict copyright laws, may be people would be interested to convert data.
Even though XML is a nice piece of technology, the bandwidth overhead incurred in transmitting a pure text file across is non-trivial. I helped move an application which was using XML, into using a binary format. I understand this would mean diverting from standards, but given the delay attributed to the data sizes of the xml file, this could not be done. I think as the above comment mentions, when you have heterogenous systems trying to communicate to each other then XML would definitely help, otherwise I dont see a point in using XML, just because it is the in thing.
I think the view is valid. All Transmeta needs is someone to let them market their chips. Once it is known that the chips are worth their salt, heck man, it does not matter if it is M$ or any other firm. At the end of the day the customer does not bother who made the chip, hez bothered abt how good it is. But another thing to be noted is wether Transmeta would fall under the M$ licensing whirlpool. It should look properly into it.. cmon u dont want linus to be writing code that is *closed* ;)
10 years is a long time for one to understand the intricacies of the trade. You have been associated with ibiblio for so long, you have seen so many transitions in the industry (dot com boom, the growth of linux, M$ and its anti trust, the visa restrictions so on and so forth). ibiblio has continued unfazed, so what do you forsee is the future of web publishing, both in terms of commercial and a personal interest ?
thank you
Interesting note. And true in some cases. So who do we blame the user or the OS or the people who make the software. I donot know. I personally feel that the OS also has a part (a major one though) in this. When a user installs / uninstalls some app on Tux there is no problem of unclean registry entries / left over Dlls. That is an example of a robust operating system, which carries over to people develping applications on the OS. As an example I would like to quote yahoo messenger on windows. Even after you uninstall the app, there are entries leftover in the registry. What does this reflect, bad QA by the people making the apps, well of course. I think people making applications for windows should take a leaf from the way applications are being built for linux.
In some ways I do agree . Yes indeed, if there are people willing to work better than you are working, for lesser pay, then why not go for cheap labor. This way, both the parties (the company and the new employee) are happy. Just because one is a citizen that does not mean that the company is bound to give you a job. Admittedly, USA's unemployment rate is far less than that of the third world countries from which these H1B visa entrants come from.
The author was reporting that the size of the file is all bloated up. Of course there was a reply explaining how it can be done. But can someone reflect on the forensics and guess what *could* be the reason that this particular file got bloated. Any pennies for the thoughts ;-)
Medusa http://medusa.fornax.sk/English/project.shtml
is a set of patches that help you secure your Tux kernel. I donot have an indepth knowledge of the workings, but there was an article in LinukJournal http://www.linuxjournal.com/article.php?sid=3811
I think this might help
An interesting note. What I want to know now is that if Palermo scale is the one for professional astronomers then why on NT7 was it quoted at all. And there was a talk about a tilt in the asteroids orbit. The article also mentioned that the particular area in space was not looked properly and more care has to be taken looking at it now. So what does this mean ? I am not an astronomer, someone who is (or who knows about this) can help me out .
What you suggest is interesting, but there is one major thing i think people are missing out here. The idea behind the research was to protect people's privacy. Would one trust it or not is one's own prerogative but then if there is someone working to achieve the same, i guess the effort should be appreciated and if there are any suggestions do let them know. I think your suggestion of using a randomize button does allay people's scares. I think this idea should be backed up by IBM and I am sure people would respond. A final small observation. Spammers generally are a subject of disregard. When we use the NYTimes random generator are we not doing something similar to that? Are we not generating scores of fake e-mail ids. It is TRUE that NYTimes should not ask information for reading an article, but can someone reflect on the amount of random emails that are getting stored there in NYTimes' database
Agreed to the fact that $100 can be demeaning to a software developer who works on open source developer who is working *off-time*. But if there are people who are willing to look at other's code and try and make a bug-fix then the amount, though paltry, can be some reason to earn few fast bucks. Given the fact that there are a lot of coding demons amongst us who can find a bug real fast this money can be used for donating to other free software projects. There is another thing to be taken into consideration... The money is in $ ...what about people who donot live in US of A. What about the business model in that case ? How does one get to reap the benefits of one's hardwork. It would be an interesting note if you could elucidate your business model.
And my my would the mice need a real big transformer. But as suggested the power plug is a *wonderful* idea, but there is *no* standardized voltage for that also. If it is 110v in the US of A then it is 230 v in South Asia. So how do we go about solving this problem ? Any suggestions on that.
I think www.ibm.com/developerworks is a wonderful place. I thoroughly enjoyed articles by Gentoo Robins especially the ones on threads on Linux. And the security section is fabulous. I think it is a must read
yes indeed, I can see u feeling it. Man ! it seems your server is takin it all. This is completely out of interest, what are you running your server on. I want to know how much it takes for a server to getting hit like this. Can you share with us all from the web logs how your server took this 'code /. ' ;)
It was a wonderful link given by you. I guess the guy wanted something like this. I still have few questions unanswered though. The person wanted to know how to keep the ACKs for the upstream going without affecting his downstream. Does the QoS scheduler provided by Win 2k provide an option to fine grain what you want. And any idea what is the algorithm that win 2k uses ?
Yes indeed, I agree to the same comment. If there are OSes built specifically for the embedded environmen, why would anyone want to use an OS built for the desktop. Somehow it does not fit in. And what I also wonder about is how come Volvo engineers missed out on the number of other OSes that exist for embedded systems. It would be very interesting to know how the volvo engineers decided on Win 98.
it indeed is true..y such a RAM constraint. Can anyone think of a technical reason y the RAM has been restricted ? Atleast if the RAM were a lil more then the build time would reduce.. M$ people out there ..any answers ?
But what you are talking about is an application that sends the clock number. The number of packtets hitting the time server though many would not be very big. This means that the load may not be very much. Whereas when we talk about a gaming application the payload *can* be heavy. In which case there are chances of packet loss.
Yes indeed, I was driving at the same point. What is interesting is that technology in the form of broadband is helping nurture the already strong social ties. Unlike in few other situations wherein PCs are a way to isolate oneself (this of course does not include the geeks ;) )
This is very interesting note. Do u hv an idea how this happens ?