Benchmarks in the article shows that it is slower than XEN.
Do you know why?
The test was done without the new KVM MMU optimizations that were included in Linux 2.6.20-rc4 (the tests in the article were done with Linux 2.6.20-rc3).
The new optimizations gives almost 20 time speedup for context switches, with further optimizations still possible.
In particular, I'd like to see DjVu files (see DjVuLibre) supported on this and similar E-Ink devices. DjVu, in summary, is a lot faster and a lot smaller than PDF files.
About DjVu:
DjVu is a web-centric format and software platform for distributing documents and images. DjVu can advantageously replace PDF, PS, TIFF, JPEG, and GIF for distributing scanned documents, digital documents, or high-resolution pictures. DjVu content downloads faster, displays and renders faster, looks nicer on a screen, and consume less client resources than competing formats. DjVu images display instantly and can be smoothly zoomed and panned with no lengthy re-rendering. DjVu is used by hundreds of academic, commercial, governmental, and non-commercial web sites around the world.
DjVuLibre is an open source (GPL'ed) implementation of DjVu, including viewers, browser plugins, decoders, simple encoders, and utilities.
How do you put OpenDocument and other format files on the reader? I noticed even PDF files have to be converted to the Sony proprietary BBEB format before being loaded to the device...
How do you perform the file conversions when loading PDF:s from a Linux host?
I didn't see anything that looked like a conversion program among the published GPL files for the device.
Please mod parent up, insightful. It's not the first time we see Microsoft do this. In fact, it's the only thing they do, all the time. Feeding the monopoly.
Apparently a troll moderator modded the parent post down to 0, currently.
It allows users to grab ownership[1] of files in certain per-user configured paths, whenever they need to (sample config file included). This allowed us to manage the incoming ftp directories without going insanse.
It was written some 15 years ago by Matti Aarnio.
[1] Ownership is "omistus" in Finnish, hence the name of the tool
For inspiration, see R. T. Fishall's (pseudonym for Sir Patrick Moore) 1981 book Bureucrats: How to annoy them. The dedication in the book says: To all bureucrats and Civil Servants, everywhere. If this book makes your lives even the tiniest bit more difficult, it will have been well worth writing.:-)
Obligatory link to Daniel C Dennet's essay Where am I?, which is more of a Sci-Fi short story, originally published in his book Brainstorms: Philosophical Essays on Mind and Psychology.
In today's society computers are too important to be controlled by corporations. Free/Libre Open Source Software ultimately guarantees the freedom of its users. It's not in itself important to convince people to use Free software, but to make them understand why Free software is important. Once people understand, the choice of freedom follows automatically.
Having followed the evolution of Free software over the last 20 years, I'm quite pleased with the progress so far. We're a force.
In Finland, there's no need to buy a new license. After a court decision a year or two back, it was determined that the license is transferred to the new user, presumably if the seller and buyer so agrees. If you get a donated machine in Finland, make sure to agree that license is transferred as well. Don't bother with the hologram license thingie, it carries no legal strentgh in Finland, as is the case with mouseclick licenses, AFAIK.
If you can get the drivers that allows you to do that signed, sure. Don't hold your breath.
To avoid confusion: sure you could get that open source driver signed (for a hefty fee of course), but that driver wouldn't allow you to do any of the things you're thinking about. Changing the source to the driver after the signing won't help either, of course, as it then doesn't pass the signature test and thus isn't accepted into the so called trusted part the system.
Well. I started running XP on QEmu in September, last year. No QEmu related problems. I'd say that page is outdated, as is some other QEMu pages (speed comparison from 2003, for example).
It's fast enough that booting Knoppix off the CD-ROM with the QEmu acceleator module loaded, much of the boot process is IO-bound rather than CPU-bound.
You can play Frozen-Bubble in QEmu and still have idle CPU on the host... It's fast enough!:-)
Now this also means that all of a sudden, the cost of migrating large organisations to GNU/Linux, while running that last application in a Windows install in an emulator got a _lot_ cheaper. No more VMWare needed. München, are you listening?
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You assume that TV watchers are actually living, thinking and have active control of their lives.:-)
Joking aside, watching ads is necessary to stay informed on new product offerings so while you think you win something by skipping ads, you're loosing something as well.
Skipping ads for non-interesting products or services isn't hurting anyone - no matter how many times one would watch one of those, the product or service is still not interesting, so no sale.
Ad-supported versions are necessary even if you could buy an ad-free version of any show for 1 cent or other micropayment, some people would still think that's too much -and some of us actually enjoy watching ads(!)-, so there's got to be both a convenient ad-free version at a very "low" cost (or it will be pirated), as well as an ad-supported version for those who really don't want/can't pay that "low" price.
I am willing to buy a DVD of the product or pay for it in a regular way - but I must keep the right to skip those ads.
Agreed - any distributor trying to force-feed ads at all cost (for example by forcing you to use their player program) will fail miserably.
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From the article:
For the real solution, media moguls might refer to Chernin's first rule of survival -- the one about consumers wanting control, choice and convenience. Logging onto the Net and quickly downloading your favourite show in HDTV fulfills that principle. Until makers of entertainment can satisfy this desire, the piracy fight is likely to keep getting bloodier.
I've been wondering for a long time why they don't simply set up a well-working torrent tracker that serves torrents with real, paid ads inserted in the material. This should work great for TV-based media, which is mostly prepared for hosting ads anyway.
Ads could be inserted with an overlapping, rolling, three-week schedule, for example - at any time there'd be - say - three different torrents of the same show, differing only in ad contents. The ad contents would get updated on a weekly bases then, thus serving fresh ads all the time, while not breaking away too far from the well-working torrent distribution model. It's been said many times before: all other industries would be overjoyed by getting free distribution of their product - how long until the TV industry figures out how to do ads online and start providing free highquality downloads?
By the way, you can watch a recording (in various formats) of Larry Lessig's interesting and entertaining talk on Free Culture in Helsinki in May 2004 here.
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About DjVu:
(quoted from the DjVuLibre homepage)How do you perform the file conversions when loading PDF:s from a Linux host?
I didn't see anything that looked like a conversion program among the published GPL files for the device.
Apparently a troll moderator modded the parent post down to 0, currently.
What good is a fingerprint reader, when your fingerprints are all over the laptop? Dust, copy, spoof, login.
Watch Ordering pizza (turn on your speakers!)
Although this film was made in response the the U.S. Information Awareness Office program, it is equally relevant here.
My bet is on Electromagnetically induced transparency.
ftp://ftp.funet.fi/pub/local/src/omi-file.tar.gz
It allows users to grab ownership[1] of files in certain per-user configured paths, whenever they need to (sample config file included). This allowed us to manage the incoming ftp directories without going insanse.
It was written some 15 years ago by Matti Aarnio.
[1] Ownership is "omistus" in Finnish, hence the name of the tool
For inspiration, see R. T. Fishall's (pseudonym for Sir Patrick Moore) 1981 book Bureucrats: How to annoy them. The dedication in the book says: To all bureucrats and Civil Servants, everywhere. If this book makes your lives even the tiniest bit more difficult, it will have been well worth writing. :-)
And you thought philosophy was no fun. ;-)
Having followed the evolution of Free software over the last 20 years, I'm quite pleased with the progress so far. We're a force.
... of losers to Linux. :-)
Landmark Victory in World's First Case Against Biopiracy!!
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To avoid confusion: sure you could get that open source driver signed (for a hefty fee of course), but that driver wouldn't allow you to do any of the things you're thinking about. Changing the source to the driver after the signing won't help either, of course, as it then doesn't pass the signature test and thus isn't accepted into the so called trusted part the system.
Well. I started running XP on QEmu in September, last year. No QEmu related problems. I'd say that page is outdated, as is some other QEMu pages (speed comparison from 2003, for example).
You can play Frozen-Bubble in QEmu and still have idle CPU on the host... It's fast enough! :-)
Now this also means that all of a sudden, the cost of migrating large organisations to GNU/Linux, while running that last application in a Windows install in an emulator got a _lot_ cheaper. No more VMWare needed. München, are you listening?
You mean object prevalence like in Prevayler? See also here for a general presentation (intro here: Object Prevalence in C++).
Joking aside, watching ads is necessary to stay informed on new product offerings so while you think you win something by skipping ads, you're loosing something as well.
Skipping ads for non-interesting products or services isn't hurting anyone - no matter how many times one would watch one of those, the product or service is still not interesting, so no sale.
Ads could be inserted with an overlapping, rolling, three-week schedule, for example - at any time there'd be - say - three different torrents of the same show, differing only in ad contents. The ad contents would get updated on a weekly bases then, thus serving fresh ads all the time, while not breaking away too far from the well-working torrent distribution model. It's been said many times before: all other industries would be overjoyed by getting free distribution of their product - how long until the TV industry figures out how to do ads online and start providing free highquality downloads?
By the way, you can watch a recording (in various formats) of Larry Lessig's interesting and entertaining talk on Free Culture in Helsinki in May 2004 here.
In the past, it has been shown that Microsoft blocks search results that are contrary to its own business interests.
The theme is very appropriately named Human.