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the word "beowulf"
Subject of the article
Beat subject of article, beowulf cluster, and linux in a large mixing bowl, bake at 350 degrees for 42 minutes, and let cool before serving. Excample:
I want to see a beowulf cluster of these running linux!
Anyway, this is a cool concept, but the page is already slashdotted it seems. Anyway, what i'd like to see is something designed to be like this that will run using less power and generating less heat, preferrably something that will run fine from telnet instead of an actual monitor if you want to. i just wish i could see if this is it...stupid slashdot effect
I may just have to get this to support linux game development. It's the same reason I bought the Quake I version they put out. I know ID is decent about linux support, but if somebody is making money off linux gamers then more companies will want a slice of that pie. Now granted I wasn't a big fan of UT1's physics and feel as opposed to that of Half Life and Quake, but I've heard decent things about death in this one that would at least be fun to check out...
Doesn't change the fact that any way you slice it, you're still giving them an awful lot of information that I know I'd prefer them not to have. You're not going to convert me by repeatedly saying that you don't see my point, because I flat out think this entire thing is a bad idea and a huge potential breach of privacy. And don't even say crypto, because there isn't a key big enough that can be stored as my password (i don't trust that tiny 128-bit SSL, personally), and if the key's on their server i'm screwed anyway. So if I have to keep a floppy with my secret half of my PGP key pair with me to read my calendar, then I may as well put the calendar in a text file on a floppy instead. Not saying that the idea doesnt have its merits as a basic concept, but there's no way i'd use a corporate thing for this. The closest i'd get is finding a friend who had a server to put the information discreetly on in a locked directory, preferrably right in my home directory at a layer that Apache wasn't likely to find since it's not anywhere in public_html. Corporate services are not the answer for nearly as many people as corporations want use to think.
I am talking about information you would like to access anytime, anywhere, like calendar, address book, phone book.
I am talking about information you are willing to disclose like the fact that I want the temperature to be expressed in Celsius degrees, I want the distance to be expressed in meters, and the price in Euros.
you just contradicted yourself. You said that you weren't talking about crap ISPs want to know about me, but you were talking about my calendar, my address book, and my phone book. How is it any different for me to give them access to my calendar and all my contact list and phone book, but not to my own info? And if you can't find a way that doesn't involve me having to give them tons of information or a login just to get the weather in my own preferred units of heat measurement, like a cookie (Which i'm also not a fan of but would prefer it over what you propose) then I don't think I really care about the weather.
do you really think we want to trust someone else with that information? and if we did, would it be a commercial interest? I lied on my profiles from the time I got my first Hotmail acount more than half a decade ago. And I've seen more problems with companies having people's information than i care to count since then. So I don't see anyone with a background in information security or an idea of what goes on with that information, particularly those of us who are paranoid, as liking this concept one bit, regardless of who controls it.
ISPs don't want to take Linux seriously for one large reason: it makes setting up a server affordable. They don't want you setting up a server, they want you to pay to use theirs, and to use less bandwith all around so they can make more money off you. Hell, just installing Debian asks you for a domain name for the box to be part of. You think ISPs want to help support user-box subdomains, or explain to a user that they won't help them with it? I didn't think so. Anyway, yeah...UNIX is powerful. ISPs desire sheep users as clientele, not technocrats and l33t h4x0rZ. Stereotypes i know, but thats how business works. Sucks, don't it?
that this is like trying to stuff the Nuclear Genie back into a bottle. Computers without DRM are so widespread that it would be ridiculous to make anything previously unrestricted illegal, as well as an infringement of the First Amendment to make Linux illegal as source code has been declared as a form of free speech. The way I see it, either this will drive an additional nail into the coffin of the DMCA, or I'll move to another country. If you tell Jimmy Sixpack that his computer that he uses to play Deer Hunter on is now illegal to own or use just because it doesn't have a palladium chip or something to that extent, he's gonna be pissed. There is little to no chance of the citizens standing for this shit, as well as large corporations who don't need copyright law to keep them going, I.E. banks and accounting firms who have thousands upon thousands of computers in use every day, who would fight against this as well, I would think. Or at least hope. So this will be either extremely good, or extraordinarily bad. There is no in-between.
Many issues are covered, including copyright reform, fraudulent accounting on the part of record labels, and how selling a quarter million albums can leave you owing your label $14,000."
Meanwhile, at the bottom of the article page, it says "Blessed is he who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed. -- Alexander Pope"
very fitting.
See, this is why i don't buy anything from the RIAA anymore, aside from the fact that I don't want my money going to fund copyright laws that I don't want. If i want to hear them bad enough, I'll go see them when they come to town, if I hear about it, since I don't listen to the radio...but thats what band websites are for.
the *AA's won't stop you from using it...they'll make you pay per use of each catch phrase...
Sample phone bill
"can you hear me now" $1 "What'chou talkin' bout, willis?" (from a phone call with your friend willis) $1 "Use the Force" $20 x 456 uses $456...and down on the line...
now all we need is a hack for these to use open wireless networks to make calls to japan for free...without some poor sap to foot the bill for the phone charge, just the bandwith. Does anyone else foresee a new phreaking frontier?
I'm with you on this. you don't screw with a huge superpower nation and expect them to ignore it. Though I'm betting that's what they were hoping when they did it...
either way, thank you, lamz
stop with the flamebait. Universities were one of the last bastions of real internet providing (i.e. you're a peer, not a client) till all this crap started. I say screw the RIAA...the Constitution grants certain copyright exemptions to educational institutions, and these should not be infringed. This doesn't mean that all educational use is free use, but it does mean that the free exchange of information should not be infringed of those in educational institutions. Therefore, a student should be free to pass the fruits of their labors over the college network for the benefit of other students as well as other people who desire access to it, especially if they are in a music program and want comments and criticism. So before you go and bitch about "the real world" keep in mind that even the framers of the constitution believed in the free access of information, especially for those in higher learning.
jury duty just got more fun...just imagine the look on the 80 year old great grandmother on the jury's face when asked to compare these two photographs...
The problem with GAIM is that it requires GTK+ 2. As far as I know, this cannot be used for windows yet, unless someone has done some uberhack that I'm not aware of. So until it's cross platform, or until you find a way to get these places to put a *nix on the desktop, then good luck, man.
(note: I am a KDE user with GAIM as my primary AIM client, and like the program. not trying to flame GAIM in any way.)
All it takes is one box being set up to mirror, or finding an unblocked box to route through...they're shooting themselves in the foot. For every major page they want to censor, there's a thousand more that aren't as prominent that will have the same political gist...
i realize that its important that the GPL be preserved and enforced, but it's a pain in the ass for users like me who bought the scanner the day the software was pulled and can't get it now...and considering i tried getting normal SANE running by both recompiling and now soon by completely upgrading from redhat 7.2 to 7.3, it's annoying to go nearly a month without being able to use a piece of equipment...
The web pages are not obsolete. They are either "crufty", "poorly-written", "error-covered", or "non-compliant with standards and browsers". I don't hear anyone saying ASCII is obsolete just because it's old...in fact, it's my favourite form of verbal file. So saying that because a web page is either badly written or does not conform to every browser it is obsolete is incorrect. Bad code/tagging is simply that, and if the browser can't handle pages written to the standards, it is the browser that is broken, not the page.
I flew to my new home (with a stop off to a police department at the destination to pick up my new car) six days before the attack, and I'm just glad i didn't wait another week. I would hate to have missed my appointment to get the car and delay my move...
but frankly, the terrorists won. They win more every day as more of these stupid laws get passed. Paste the obligatory franklin or jefferson quote here. You all have it memorized by now i'm sure anyway.
Here at work, I was trying to install 98 first edition on a Dell PIII 750. Not all the hardware will run on it correctly, despite the sticker on the front which clearly reads "designed for 95/98/2000". One important thing to remember is that even if the OS could run on it, would Jimmy User have tons of trouble getting their drivers etc. running on it, causing them endless frustration? It doesnt mean that their decision is 100% correct, but it doesnt mean that it doesnt have good reasons, either. When you modify a hardware architecture, there are gains and sacrifices that have to be weighed.
and they say they can increase my bust naturally up to two cup sizes without surgery...oh wait...i dont have a bust! so it suddenly wants to enlarge my penis by three inches...and give me prescription free viagra...and hot college coeds who want to...
but this is like when people try to get the latest version of Office to do the same damn thing they did with Office 95 the same way they did it with Office 95, which is collecting dust on their shelf. while they run Office XP on their 2.7 gigahertz box running Windows XP doing the same thing at the same speed they did on a 486DX4 100mhz running Win95 and Office 95...which to be honest is one of the things i like about most opensource projects, the fact that they normally strive for compatibility and improvement...
ok, enough run-on sentences from me.
by doing this, it greatly reduces the strength of a EULA i would think...clickwrap's value as a legal tool is being shown here as not being what companies would like it to be, which is good considering the draconian things they put in them...i seem to recall one a while back where the eula said you could not write an unfavorable review of the software....
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ingredients: linux the word "beowulf" Subject of the article Beat subject of article, beowulf cluster, and linux in a large mixing bowl, bake at 350 degrees for 42 minutes, and let cool before serving. Excample: I want to see a beowulf cluster of these running linux! Anyway, this is a cool concept, but the page is already slashdotted it seems. Anyway, what i'd like to see is something designed to be like this that will run using less power and generating less heat, preferrably something that will run fine from telnet instead of an actual monitor if you want to. i just wish i could see if this is it...stupid slashdot effect
I may just have to get this to support linux game development. It's the same reason I bought the Quake I version they put out. I know ID is decent about linux support, but if somebody is making money off linux gamers then more companies will want a slice of that pie. Now granted I wasn't a big fan of UT1's physics and feel as opposed to that of Half Life and Quake, but I've heard decent things about death in this one that would at least be fun to check out...
Doesn't change the fact that any way you slice it, you're still giving them an awful lot of information that I know I'd prefer them not to have. You're not going to convert me by repeatedly saying that you don't see my point, because I flat out think this entire thing is a bad idea and a huge potential breach of privacy. And don't even say crypto, because there isn't a key big enough that can be stored as my password (i don't trust that tiny 128-bit SSL, personally), and if the key's on their server i'm screwed anyway. So if I have to keep a floppy with my secret half of my PGP key pair with me to read my calendar, then I may as well put the calendar in a text file on a floppy instead. Not saying that the idea doesnt have its merits as a basic concept, but there's no way i'd use a corporate thing for this. The closest i'd get is finding a friend who had a server to put the information discreetly on in a locked directory, preferrably right in my home directory at a layer that Apache wasn't likely to find since it's not anywhere in public_html. Corporate services are not the answer for nearly as many people as corporations want use to think.
I am talking about information you would like to access anytime, anywhere, like calendar, address book, phone book.
I am talking about information you are willing to disclose like the fact that I want the temperature to be expressed in Celsius degrees, I want the distance to be expressed in meters, and the price in Euros.
you just contradicted yourself. You said that you weren't talking about crap ISPs want to know about me, but you were talking about my calendar, my address book, and my phone book. How is it any different for me to give them access to my calendar and all my contact list and phone book, but not to my own info? And if you can't find a way that doesn't involve me having to give them tons of information or a login just to get the weather in my own preferred units of heat measurement, like a cookie (Which i'm also not a fan of but would prefer it over what you propose) then I don't think I really care about the weather.
do you really think we want to trust someone else with that information? and if we did, would it be a commercial interest? I lied on my profiles from the time I got my first Hotmail acount more than half a decade ago. And I've seen more problems with companies having people's information than i care to count since then. So I don't see anyone with a background in information security or an idea of what goes on with that information, particularly those of us who are paranoid, as liking this concept one bit, regardless of who controls it.
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ISPs don't want to take Linux seriously for one large reason: it makes setting up a server affordable. They don't want you setting up a server, they want you to pay to use theirs, and to use less bandwith all around so they can make more money off you. Hell, just installing Debian asks you for a domain name for the box to be part of. You think ISPs want to help support user-box subdomains, or explain to a user that they won't help them with it? I didn't think so. Anyway, yeah...UNIX is powerful. ISPs desire sheep users as clientele, not technocrats and l33t h4x0rZ. Stereotypes i know, but thats how business works. Sucks, don't it?
then, um...*plays his original nintendo instead*
that this is like trying to stuff the Nuclear Genie back into a bottle. Computers without DRM are so widespread that it would be ridiculous to make anything previously unrestricted illegal, as well as an infringement of the First Amendment to make Linux illegal as source code has been declared as a form of free speech. The way I see it, either this will drive an additional nail into the coffin of the DMCA, or I'll move to another country. If you tell Jimmy Sixpack that his computer that he uses to play Deer Hunter on is now illegal to own or use just because it doesn't have a palladium chip or something to that extent, he's gonna be pissed. There is little to no chance of the citizens standing for this shit, as well as large corporations who don't need copyright law to keep them going, I.E. banks and accounting firms who have thousands upon thousands of computers in use every day, who would fight against this as well, I would think. Or at least hope. So this will be either extremely good, or extraordinarily bad. There is no in-between.
Many issues are covered, including copyright reform, fraudulent accounting on the part of record labels, and how selling a quarter million albums can leave you owing your label $14,000."
Meanwhile, at the bottom of the article page, it says "Blessed is he who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed. -- Alexander Pope"
very fitting.
See, this is why i don't buy anything from the RIAA anymore, aside from the fact that I don't want my money going to fund copyright laws that I don't want. If i want to hear them bad enough, I'll go see them when they come to town, if I hear about it, since I don't listen to the radio...but thats what band websites are for.
the *AA's won't stop you from using it...they'll make you pay per use of each catch phrase...
...and down on the line...
Sample phone bill
"can you hear me now" $1
"What'chou talkin' bout, willis?" (from a phone call with your friend willis) $1
"Use the Force" $20 x 456 uses $456
now all we need is a hack for these to use open wireless networks to make calls to japan for free...without some poor sap to foot the bill for the phone charge, just the bandwith. Does anyone else foresee a new phreaking frontier?
I'm with you on this. you don't screw with a huge superpower nation and expect them to ignore it. Though I'm betting that's what they were hoping when they did it... either way, thank you, lamz
stop with the flamebait. Universities were one of the last bastions of real internet providing (i.e. you're a peer, not a client) till all this crap started. I say screw the RIAA...the Constitution grants certain copyright exemptions to educational institutions, and these should not be infringed. This doesn't mean that all educational use is free use, but it does mean that the free exchange of information should not be infringed of those in educational institutions. Therefore, a student should be free to pass the fruits of their labors over the college network for the benefit of other students as well as other people who desire access to it, especially if they are in a music program and want comments and criticism. So before you go and bitch about "the real world" keep in mind that even the framers of the constitution believed in the free access of information, especially for those in higher learning.
jury duty just got more fun...just imagine the look on the 80 year old great grandmother on the jury's face when asked to compare these two photographs...
not yet...but perhaps they should...*devious grin*
The problem with GAIM is that it requires GTK+ 2. As far as I know, this cannot be used for windows yet, unless someone has done some uberhack that I'm not aware of. So until it's cross platform, or until you find a way to get these places to put a *nix on the desktop, then good luck, man. (note: I am a KDE user with GAIM as my primary AIM client, and like the program. not trying to flame GAIM in any way.)
All it takes is one box being set up to mirror, or finding an unblocked box to route through...they're shooting themselves in the foot. For every major page they want to censor, there's a thousand more that aren't as prominent that will have the same political gist...
i realize that its important that the GPL be preserved and enforced, but it's a pain in the ass for users like me who bought the scanner the day the software was pulled and can't get it now...and considering i tried getting normal SANE running by both recompiling and now soon by completely upgrading from redhat 7.2 to 7.3, it's annoying to go nearly a month without being able to use a piece of equipment...
The web pages are not obsolete. They are either "crufty", "poorly-written", "error-covered", or "non-compliant with standards and browsers". I don't hear anyone saying ASCII is obsolete just because it's old...in fact, it's my favourite form of verbal file. So saying that because a web page is either badly written or does not conform to every browser it is obsolete is incorrect. Bad code/tagging is simply that, and if the browser can't handle pages written to the standards, it is the browser that is broken, not the page.
I flew to my new home (with a stop off to a police department at the destination to pick up my new car) six days before the attack, and I'm just glad i didn't wait another week. I would hate to have missed my appointment to get the car and delay my move... but frankly, the terrorists won. They win more every day as more of these stupid laws get passed. Paste the obligatory franklin or jefferson quote here. You all have it memorized by now i'm sure anyway.
Here at work, I was trying to install 98 first edition on a Dell PIII 750. Not all the hardware will run on it correctly, despite the sticker on the front which clearly reads "designed for 95/98/2000". One important thing to remember is that even if the OS could run on it, would Jimmy User have tons of trouble getting their drivers etc. running on it, causing them endless frustration? It doesnt mean that their decision is 100% correct, but it doesnt mean that it doesnt have good reasons, either. When you modify a hardware architecture, there are gains and sacrifices that have to be weighed.
and they say they can increase my bust naturally up to two cup sizes without surgery...oh wait...i dont have a bust! so it suddenly wants to enlarge my penis by three inches...and give me prescription free viagra...and hot college coeds who want to...
but this is like when people try to get the latest version of Office to do the same damn thing they did with Office 95 the same way they did it with Office 95, which is collecting dust on their shelf. while they run Office XP on their 2.7 gigahertz box running Windows XP doing the same thing at the same speed they did on a 486DX4 100mhz running Win95 and Office 95...which to be honest is one of the things i like about most opensource projects, the fact that they normally strive for compatibility and improvement... ok, enough run-on sentences from me.
by doing this, it greatly reduces the strength of a EULA i would think...clickwrap's value as a legal tool is being shown here as not being what companies would like it to be, which is good considering the draconian things they put in them...i seem to recall one a while back where the eula said you could not write an unfavorable review of the software....