Well, Real would probably have a lot more happy users if they didn't abuse their users by screwing up the whole fucking OS when installing it on Windows..
This sounds just like the game I've been waiting for since the end of the 80s: The Last Ninja 4.. First releasedate was sometime in 2000, then the releasedate has drifted about half a year every 6 months... It was supposed to be released for the Game Cube Q4 2003, but I haven't heard a single word about it for a long time now... SimonSays still says "September 2003" for the X-Box version but no more news there... Amazon says February 2004... The story continues...;)
One way for an ISP to inform clueless users before shutting them down is to SNAT all outgoing port 80 connections to an informationpage saying something like "Your computer is infected by a virus and is causing problems for the rest of the network. Click here to install an antivirus program!" A bit extreme maybe but still better than just shutting the thing down..
I've been playing around with PeerCast lately and it's really great although it has some major shortcomings. For example if you have dynamic IP the channel ID will change every time you get a new IP, you can't have multiple sources feeding the same channel (mirrored Shoutcast/Peercast stations or simply a redundant feeder), and you can't get the stream from multiple sources if one of them don't have the bandwidth to send the complete stream.
What is needed is a PeerCast-like service with support for multicast and stream-rebuilding from multiple sources and something that identifies the channels by a public key instead of building the ID by making a hash from a number of variables on your system (including your own IP and the IP of the feed).
We're using RH ES 2.1 for a few servers at work (a big hospital in Sweden).. Most servers are still HPUX and NT4 but we're slowly (too slowly IMHO) migrating to Linux. I had been praising Linux for a LONG time when we finally got our first copy of RH ES to install on a production-server. It was a big surprise for me.. I have been using Linux since 1996. Started with RH 4.2, then Debian and have been running Gentoo for little more than 2 years now.
RH ES 2.1 was like a time warp back to the 90s. Only ext2/3 filesystems. Where the hell is LVM?? It was hard to convince my fellow coworkers (HPUX and Solaris fanatics) how a Unix without LVM can be considered "enterprise"... But eventually I convinced then.:) We now have 3 production servers running RH ES2.1 (two running webservices with apache+tomcat, one running Sybase).
We've had a lot of problems with them though.. They start to become SLOOOOW after a few days of uptime under load.. Load avg is 0.0 to 0.1, cpu is 99% idle, but they are so slow it takes a good minute or two just to start "top". I think I tracked the problem down to the cciss-driver and upgrading to the latest kernel (e.27) seemed to fix the problem somewhat (still slow but not nearly as slow as when running e.16). I really hope ES3.0 will fix our problems! Otherwise my dream of someday running Linux on all of our servers just went down the drain because I don't think that neither management or my fellow coworkers will let me install another distribution (oh no! not ANOTHER set of commands/configfile-system to learn!)
Thanks for the links! BXML was new to me but it seems very similar to EBML which is used and developed by the Matroska-team. I wonder what their pros/cons are...
Price: $9.99/month for a year or $14.99/month for 3 months. UNLIMITED download! Format: LAME.mp3 --preset standard. VERY high quality! (200kbit+/sec). Ethics: Labels get 50%.. Selection: Lots!
* QSplashScreen (add splash screens to applications)
I really hope that one will be able to disable this by a standard Qt-argument (--no-splash) or by a env-variable because I'm afraid this will be abused..:P
I agree with you 100%, but the problem is that kiddie porn sites are only like 2 or 3 clicks away from the Freenet webinterface's first page. No searching needed...:P
That's Ragnarök, or more correctly "Ragnarokr" (original ancient spelling), not Ragnarok!;) Ragnarök is Ancient Nordic (sweden/norway/denmark/iceland - the language the Vikings were speaking) and is the name of "the end of the world" according to Aesir religion.
* A softwarepatent would last for 3 years after first public release (including betas) of something implementing it. They will have a maximum of 2 years to release an implementation or the patent will be voided. That is plenty of IT-time to get R&D costs back, and build a strong marketshare. * They would have to be specific about its field of usage. Someone with a patent for an algorithm used in video encoding should not be able to sue someone using the same algorithm in for example a networking protocol. * Patents should not be transferable. * If (A) is granted a patent and sues (B) for infrigement and prior art is found within two years, (A) will have to give ALL money back to (B), including legal costs and lost revenue, and with interest. That would stop big companies applying for 100s of patents per week, for every silly little thing they come up with, without thinking. * Only the inventor him/herself should be able to be granted the patent. This would include the company they were hired by to invent it. A person should be able to say "Yes, I came up with that!".
I just have to brag a bit here, recently one of the major swedish broadband providers announced a new service, called Scream!. Up to 26 Mbits in both directions for about 50$ / month, including your own IP number..
Actually, you get four IPs!;) And it is not capped in neither direction...
The whitespace/indention problem could be fixed by converting the line to lowercase and removing all whitespace before calculating the MD5... Maybe also remove "{", "}" and ";"..
>> Quartz would actually be useful for many other projects, which is why Apple doesn't do it.
> How? The source is only useful to people a) debugging the code, or b) interested in by-passing the API to shoot themselves in the foot by using internal, unpublished features.
I think he meant that it would be useful for other BSDs and Linux because Quartz could (and would) then be ported to them, giving Open Source OSes (a big part of) the same advantage as MacOS X... And that is of course why Apple doesn't Open Source it.
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Well, Real would probably have a lot more happy users if they didn't abuse their users by screwing up the whole fucking OS when installing it on Windows..
This sounds just like the game I've been waiting for since the end of the 80s: The Last Ninja 4.. First releasedate was sometime in 2000, then the releasedate has drifted about half a year every 6 months... It was supposed to be released for the Game Cube Q4 2003, but I haven't heard a single word about it for a long time now... ;)
SimonSays still says "September 2003" for the X-Box version but no more news there... Amazon says February 2004...
The story continues...
Try MPlayer for OS X! I haven't tried it myself since I don't have a Mac, but I've heard that it's great and can play just about everything!
I'll start.
Metroid Prime? F-Zero GX? Starfox Adventures?
One way for an ISP to inform clueless users before shutting them down is to SNAT all outgoing port 80 connections to an informationpage saying something like "Your computer is infected by a virus and is causing problems for the rest of the network. Click here to install an antivirus program!"
A bit extreme maybe but still better than just shutting the thing down..
I've been playing around with PeerCast lately and it's really great although it has some major shortcomings. For example if you have dynamic IP the channel ID will change every time you get a new IP, you can't have multiple sources feeding the same channel (mirrored Shoutcast/Peercast stations or simply a redundant feeder), and you can't get the stream from multiple sources if one of them don't have the bandwidth to send the complete stream.
What is needed is a PeerCast-like service with support for multicast and stream-rebuilding from multiple sources and something that identifies the channels by a public key instead of building the ID by making a hash from a number of variables on your system (including your own IP and the IP of the feed).
We're using RH ES 2.1 for a few servers at work (a big hospital in Sweden).. Most servers are still HPUX and NT4 but we're slowly (too slowly IMHO) migrating to Linux. I had been praising Linux for a LONG time when we finally got our first copy of RH ES to install on a production-server. It was a big surprise for me.. I have been using Linux since 1996. Started with RH 4.2, then Debian and have been running Gentoo for little more than 2 years now.
:) We now have 3 production servers running RH ES2.1 (two running webservices with apache+tomcat, one running Sybase).
RH ES 2.1 was like a time warp back to the 90s. Only ext2/3 filesystems. Where the hell is LVM?? It was hard to convince my fellow coworkers (HPUX and Solaris fanatics) how a Unix without LVM can be considered "enterprise"... But eventually I convinced then.
We've had a lot of problems with them though.. They start to become SLOOOOW after a few days of uptime under load.. Load avg is 0.0 to 0.1, cpu is 99% idle, but they are so slow it takes a good minute or two just to start "top". I think I tracked the problem down to the cciss-driver and upgrading to the latest kernel (e.27) seemed to fix the problem somewhat (still slow but not nearly as slow as when running e.16).
I really hope ES3.0 will fix our problems! Otherwise my dream of someday running Linux on all of our servers just went down the drain because I don't think that neither management or my fellow coworkers will let me install another distribution (oh no! not ANOTHER set of commands/configfile-system to learn!)
Thanks for the links! BXML was new to me but it seems very similar to EBML which is used and developed by the Matroska-team. I wonder what their pros/cons are...
The intention was to show compilable but buggy code. It should had said char *str; instead. I was tired. :P
And you're aware of some elusive Open Source software program that "hardly ever" needs a patch?
/* hello_world.c v1.0 (c)2003 Per Wigren */
/* Relesed under the GNU GPL v2 or higher. */
Here is one:
#include <stdio.h>
int main()
{
char str[5];
str = "hello world!";
printf("%s\n",str);
}
I have to keep my computer running at night because I rather hear the noise from the computer than the tinitus beeeeeep :P
Dont forget EMusic!
.mp3 --preset standard. VERY high quality! (200kbit+/sec).
Price: $9.99/month for a year or $14.99/month for 3 months. UNLIMITED download!
Format: LAME
Ethics: Labels get 50%..
Selection: Lots!
* QSplashScreen (add splash screens to applications)
:P
I really hope that one will be able to disable this by a standard Qt-argument (--no-splash) or by a env-variable because I'm afraid this will be abused..
I agree with you 100%, but the problem is that kiddie porn sites are only like 2 or 3 clicks away from the Freenet webinterface's first page. No searching needed... :P
No actually, it's Ragnarok. Cause you see well, its a Korean MMORPG, and thats how they spell the name of their game.
Look again: Ragnarök
That's Ragnarök, or more correctly "Ragnarokr" (original ancient spelling), not Ragnarok! ;)
Ragnarök is Ancient Nordic (sweden/norway/denmark/iceland - the language the Vikings were speaking) and is the name of "the end of the world" according to Aesir religion.
Apparently export fosters is quite good.
:-P
The people who like Foster's are the same people who like Budweiser so I doubt it...
* A softwarepatent would last for 3 years after first public release (including betas) of something implementing it. They will have a maximum of 2 years to release an implementation or the patent will be voided. That is plenty of IT-time to get R&D costs back, and build a strong marketshare.
* They would have to be specific about its field of usage. Someone with a patent for an algorithm used in video encoding should not be able to sue someone using the same algorithm in for example a networking protocol.
* Patents should not be transferable.
* If (A) is granted a patent and sues (B) for infrigement and prior art is found within two years, (A) will have to give ALL money back to (B), including legal costs and lost revenue, and with interest. That would stop big companies applying for 100s of patents per week, for every silly little thing they come up with, without thinking.
* Only the inventor him/herself should be able to be granted the patent. This would include the company they were hired by to invent it. A person should be able to say "Yes, I came up with that!".
Is that the list of fixed bugs or new features?
GZip has been around a LOT longer than BZip2!
pr0n of course!
I just have to brag a bit here, recently one of the major swedish broadband providers announced a new service, called Scream!. Up to 26 Mbits in both directions for about 50$ / month, including your own IP number..
;) And it is not capped in neither direction...
Actually, you get four IPs!
The whitespace/indention problem could be fixed by converting the line to lowercase and removing all whitespace before calculating the MD5... Maybe also remove "{", "}" and ";"..
>> Quartz would actually be useful for many other projects, which is why Apple doesn't do it.
> How? The source is only useful to people a) debugging the code, or b) interested in by-passing the API to shoot themselves in the foot by using internal, unpublished features.
I think he meant that it would be useful for other BSDs and Linux because Quartz could (and would) then be ported to them, giving Open Source OSes (a big part of) the same advantage as MacOS X... And that is of course why Apple doesn't Open Source it.