However, people who accept "terms of service" already distributed with Brilliant's and Kazaa's software are already agreeing to let their computers be used without any payment at all.
"You hereby grant (Brilliant) the right to access and use the unused computing power and storage space on your computer/s and/or Internet access or bandwidth for the aggregation of content and use in distributed computing," the terms of service read. "The user acknowledges and authorizes this use without the right of compensation."
So nope, looks like they won't. It mentioned compensation in the way of gift certificates or free videos.
Personally I think this technology is great, but that the end users should absolutely be paid for the contribution. If Brilliant Networks is going to collect money from corporations to farm out idle CPU cycles then the owners of the CPUs that do the work should get the majority of the money.
I would think it would be acceptable to allow for a small percentage to go to Brilliant they are performing a service for the end users, similar to a media agent really.
Give me the source to Mail.app, so I can add support for certificates. It's not like your competition is going to steal anything useful out of that excellent, Cocoa-centric app.
You can add your own libraries to Mail.app. Look for the pgp add on @ versiontracker. I can encrypt / sign my mail with gpg that I installed via fink.
All the those apps are able to be messed with if only you knew how. You basically just drop loadable modules into their application directories ( a lot of mac apps are just a directory that holds their resources ).
Like I said before, I have been folding with my linux box. I understand the process and how long work units and frames take. When I start the OS X terminal client on my G3 iBook, it freezes before it gets to the point where it starts working on frames, and if I leave it there over night or running for a few days it still does not complete a single frame. It's like it gets hung up in the initialization process.
Jim
I've been folding for a while now from my linux box. I recently downloaded and installed the OS X terminal client but haven't had any luck with it. Has anyone gotten it to work on an iBook successfully? I haven't seen it complete a frame yet....
I've become such a huge fan. I think that apple has done a fine job making a quick, responsive gui ( aqua ), and the shell access feels like a nice BSD system.
I don't use any of the apple system 9 stuff. To run it you have to have the whole system installed and I already have all the apps I need from the unix or OS X side.
One of the coolest things I've found has been fink. It's a port of debian's package management system. It's generally pretty bleeding edge, and I've used it to cleanly and easily build many packages, like the latest XFree86, xemacs, ethereal, mysql, etc...
I've been able to use apples mail client to cleanly manage multiple accounts, and assign all the standard rules, filters, etc.. and I use iTunes to listen to my music. I've also messed around with Office and haven't had any real issues with it ( other then the whole microsoft issue ). The majority of my development however is done with X apps and in shells.
The pretty finish is just a little added style to whats been a really stable system for me.:)
The laptop as the centralized development workstation is a tramendious aid to telecommuting.
I work, and go to school, and teach. I am constantly hopping between locations and connectivity points. Until recently I was using one machine at work, one at school, and one at home. Development was always a pain, all of the environments were slightly different. Then I got an iBook. Hallaluyah! I can run every app I might concievably want to and I only need bandwidth for email and cvs, tho I spose I still forward x sessions around a bit too...
But the laptop definatly makes telecommuting much, much easier...
I've noticed a lot of people complaining about Linux's IPv6 support or lack there of, and just wanted to point people over to the BSD flavours that have a lot of IPv6 support.
Personally I'm more farmilar with netBSD, there IPv6 package list can be viewed here.
Most of the BSD's also have great multicast support and mbone packages..
Jim
I doubt linux will fade away for any real reason. It has too large of a development base for that to happen. It might be behind the standards for various amounts of time at different points in the future but big deal, it's still a good free alternative for a lot of people.
But, the real thing I was going to mention is that if you want to do IPv6 stuff now try looking at the various BSDs. netBSD has a lot of IPv6 packages available.
Hardware implementation is most deffinatly the bottle neck that has to be dealt with, but some of the tunneling solutions that are out there now are not as bad as they might seem.
They basically just wrap an IPv4 wrapper around the IPv6 packet and send it back out across the net. A lot of network edge routers do similar types of things already, and many edge routers are doing IPv6 tunneling now.
Check out info about netBSD's IPv6 packages to see what solutions are already available and starting to become more wide spread.
I completely agree that more recently games have been a lot more bells and whistles then down right responsive playability. The original quakeworld is the _best_ graphical multiplayer game I've ever had the experience of playing. If you weren't on the edge of you seat the entire time you were playing it then you weren't playing it right.
I think it has a lot to do with the new technical resources available to developers. When you look at simple strategy, or adventure games, the best around will be old 8-bit nintendo games. More time had to be put into the game design and playability since there was only so much you could do with graphics and sound. Now everyone spends all night worring about graphics and sound and forgets to develop the rest of the game.
Fink works really well. It doesn't take much time at all to figure out, escpecially if you have used dpkg or dselect. I've never really used FreeBSD's port system though, but in all honesty I've not really had any problems with fink. It's done everything that I've needed it to do.
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I still have my newton too. Altho the screen is all busted up...:( But the newtons were awsome. I remember buying one for just 100$ when I was in high school. Most pda's today still aren't that cheap.
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MacSlash has a good bullet point criteque of the 'iWalk' story.
Apparently SpyMac has done some fakes before, and some mac addicts don't like the way this story smells.
It seems like you aren't grasping the big picture. Which is precisely what young people tend to miss. How do you think your company views you? When they look at you, with that big evil corporate eye, they mostly just see a kid they hired out of highschool, for a reduced wage, who doesn't mind doing the grunt work that the other people don't want to do. If you suddenly cease to exist, They'll simply hire another young clueless highschool grad, or if they feel like spending extra maybe they'll get a college intern or college grad. But, your position to them is expendable. It would be very hard for you indeed to get there respect that way.
I've seen a lot of wired apparetments located near college campuses. I guess the dorm kiddies are used to it so some land lords have started seeing it as a decent selling point. I know appartments near the University of Oregon and the University of Washingtons have appartment complexes that offer cat5.
It may not convince many people to switch their main home/work stations, but the power that OS X offers in a laptop is a god send. I recently got an iBook and I can't help but be more and more impresed as I use it. Aqua is does everything that most linux GUI's will never be able to do. Linux's GUI keeps it out of mainstream. I think that Linux will always remain a developer's or garage hackers or hobbiest's OS, And there's nothing wrong with that! I think thats where Linux belongs. But Aqua lets novice users ( ie common denominator ) do anything that they want, easily. Even more important, OS X lets you do anything that you want with it's BSD system. You can build all your standard *nix apps easy enough, and the X servers run smoothly.
After finding things like fink ( a port of debian's package management system ) I'm only more enthused by what the BSD install has to offer.
I've also noticed a lot of new users being turned onto *nix stuff. They never had all those choices before an now they find it apealing.
Another nice side effect of merging mac stuff with a BSD system is software availablity. An advanced user generally has A LOT of choices about different types of software to use. Don't like *nix IDE's? Fine use a Mac one! (or vice-versa).
Basically I think that OS X could win out as a OS that the masses could use. Grandma can use it, and your run of the mill CS geek can geek out just fine with it. (Lord knows I do!)...
I agree, the problem there lies in finding the best way for conversion, or using a different approach like redundency. I like the idea of being able to store in both ways so that the lookup still happens quickly.
I don't think that heirarchical db's have any real chance of taking over or replacing relational dbs in the future. There may start to be more of a place for them, but many application service providers that use XML still have a fair amount of relational data that needs to be maintained. XML is mainly being used for communication protocals and not so much for internal data structure storage. I think the more likely db trend in the future will be for many users to maintain both relational and heirarchical databases..
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So nope, looks like they won't. It mentioned compensation in the way of gift certificates or free videos.
Personally I think this technology is great, but that the end users should absolutely be paid for the contribution. If Brilliant Networks is going to collect money from corporations to farm out idle CPU cycles then the owners of the CPUs that do the work should get the majority of the money. I would think it would be acceptable to allow for a small percentage to go to Brilliant they are performing a service for the end users, similar to a media agent really.
Jim
You can add your own libraries to Mail.app. Look for the pgp add on @ versiontracker. I can encrypt / sign my mail with gpg that I installed via fink.
All the those apps are able to be messed with if only you knew how. You basically just drop loadable modules into their application directories ( a lot of mac apps are just a directory that holds their resources ).
Jim
The project page at sourceforge has some info up, but I haven't seen a lot of documentation for it.
Jim
Like I said before, I have been folding with my linux box. I understand the process and how long work units and frames take. When I start the OS X terminal client on my G3 iBook, it freezes before it gets to the point where it starts working on frames, and if I leave it there over night or running for a few days it still does not complete a single frame. It's like it gets hung up in the initialization process. Jim
I've been folding for a while now from my linux box. I recently downloaded and installed the OS X terminal client but haven't had any luck with it. Has anyone gotten it to work on an iBook successfully? I haven't seen it complete a frame yet....
I don't use any of the apple system 9 stuff. To run it you have to have the whole system installed and I already have all the apps I need from the unix or OS X side.
One of the coolest things I've found has been fink. It's a port of debian's package management system. It's generally pretty bleeding edge, and I've used it to cleanly and easily build many packages, like the latest XFree86, xemacs, ethereal, mysql, etc...
I've been able to use apples mail client to cleanly manage multiple accounts, and assign all the standard rules, filters, etc.. and I use iTunes to listen to my music. I've also messed around with Office and haven't had any real issues with it ( other then the whole microsoft issue ). The majority of my development however is done with X apps and in shells.
The pretty finish is just a little added style to whats been a really stable system for me. :)
Hope this helps!
Jim
I work, and go to school, and teach. I am constantly hopping between locations and connectivity points. Until recently I was using one machine at work, one at school, and one at home. Development was always a pain, all of the environments were slightly different. Then I got an iBook. Hallaluyah! I can run every app I might concievably want to and I only need bandwidth for email and cvs, tho I spose I still forward x sessions around a bit too...
But the laptop definatly makes telecommuting much, much easier...
Jim
Personally I'm more farmilar with netBSD, there IPv6 package list can be viewed here.
Most of the BSD's also have great multicast support and mbone packages.. Jim
But, the real thing I was going to mention is that if you want to do IPv6 stuff now try looking at the various BSDs. netBSD has a lot of IPv6 packages available.
They basically just wrap an IPv4 wrapper around the IPv6 packet and send it back out across the net. A lot of network edge routers do similar types of things already, and many edge routers are doing IPv6 tunneling now.
Check out info about netBSD's IPv6 packages to see what solutions are already available and starting to become more wide spread.
I think it has a lot to do with the new technical resources available to developers. When you look at simple strategy, or adventure games, the best around will be old 8-bit nintendo games. More time had to be put into the game design and playability since there was only so much you could do with graphics and sound. Now everyone spends all night worring about graphics and sound and forgets to develop the rest of the game.
Jim
Fink works really well. It doesn't take much time at all to figure out, escpecially if you have used dpkg or dselect. I've never really used FreeBSD's port system though, but in all honesty I've not really had any problems with fink. It's done everything that I've needed it to do.
Jim
Apparently SpyMac has done some fakes before, and some mac addicts don't like the way this story smells.
Jim
yup, sums it up exactly
My advice, save your pennies and go get a degree.
Jim
Jim
It may not convince many people to switch their main home/work stations, but the power that OS X offers in a laptop is a god send. I recently got an iBook and I can't help but be more and more impresed as I use it. Aqua is does everything that most linux GUI's will never be able to do. Linux's GUI keeps it out of mainstream. I think that Linux will always remain a developer's or garage hackers or hobbiest's OS, And there's nothing wrong with that! I think thats where Linux belongs. But Aqua lets novice users ( ie common denominator ) do anything that they want, easily. Even more important, OS X lets you do anything that you want with it's BSD system. You can build all your standard *nix apps easy enough, and the X servers run smoothly.
After finding things like fink ( a port of debian's package management system ) I'm only more enthused by what the BSD install has to offer.
I've also noticed a lot of new users being turned onto *nix stuff. They never had all those choices before an now they find it apealing.
Another nice side effect of merging mac stuff with a BSD system is software availablity. An advanced user generally has A LOT of choices about different types of software to use. Don't like *nix IDE's? Fine use a Mac one! (or vice-versa).
Basically I think that OS X could win out as a OS that the masses could use. Grandma can use it, and your run of the mill CS geek can geek out just fine with it. (Lord knows I do!)...
Jim
Wake up. Data formats dictate system design all the time! Systems work better when they are fine tuned to work with their data sets well!
I agree, the problem there lies in finding the best way for conversion, or using a different approach like redundency. I like the idea of being able to store in both ways so that the lookup still happens quickly.
I don't think that heirarchical db's have any real chance of taking over or replacing relational dbs in the future. There may start to be more of a place for them, but many application service providers that use XML still have a fair amount of relational data that needs to be maintained. XML is mainly being used for communication protocals and not so much for internal data structure storage. I think the more likely db trend in the future will be for many users to maintain both relational and heirarchical databases..