You know how Gnome started, right? KDE was first, but the hippy GNU purists weren't happy with the licensing terms for the QT libraries, so they basically said, "screw you guys, we're making our own."
I am not sure how feesible it would be, but it would be very cool to see the core technologies of these projects abstracted from the interface.
That's never going to happen. The biggest problem the open src community faces is that everyone has a different idea of what's best... i.e., there's never going to be any consistency. I mena, look at Gentoo, which was just forked.
Oh, cut the bullshit. Unless you examine every code update, line by line, you're the one being ridiculous.
And most distribution updaters (e.g., apt) provide binary updates, not source, so unless you're a whiz assembly programmer disassembling each package's binaries, -> shut up.
When I saw Anonvmous Coward's response to this complete bullshit, I lowered my threshold so I see who wrote this and add you to my foes list. Then realized that you were already there.
Is there anybody out there who *didn't* drop out of electrical engineering after a year because their stuff never worked have any actual engineering-based ideas or opinions re: the above-described audio controller idea?
Yeah, you can do it all with 7400 Quad-input NANDs. Lots of 'em!
Back to reality --- depends what you want to do. You can use the parallel port and use it to send simple high/low digital logic; this would be trivial to implement. If you went the serial route, you'd need a ucontroller at the control-box end to send out the serial commands, and have to write the software for both it (probably in assembler, easier though, with a BASIC stamp) and the host PC. Or if you went the parallel way, you could use a PLD (make friends with someone who has a chip programmer!) which would be about a dollar. In either case, you'd probably need a line driver/receiver at each end to carry the signal the longer distance.
Yeah this seemed trivial. Winamp actually uses 0% CPU when playing on my 1 Ghz Box with WinXP. It'll peak at 1 but that' sif you're manipulating the on-screen controls.
You can fit three pairs of AES/EBU digital audio lines in a cat5 cable (one pair left cause you need a ground wire), although I'm not too sure about crosstalk.
You don't understand... by submitting this to Ask Slashdot, he's implicitly saying "I want to spend a total of $75 on this project, all things inclusive."
The site cgi.ebay.com is running Microsoft-IIS/4.0 on NT4/Windows 98. The site www.ebay.com is running Microsoft-IIS/4.0 on NT4/Windows 98. The site search.ebay.com is running Zeus/3.3 on Solaris 8. The site search-cache.ebay.com is running Apache/1.3.6 (Unix) on Solaris 8. The site bibo.ebay.com is running Microsoft-IIS/5.0 on Windows 2000.
You've been listening to bigots too much. 76% of machines rooted in May were Linux boxes, while 15% Windows. I'd be more leary if they were running PHP....
With the price of PC components dropping so rapidly, and how much Linux's iptables absolutely blows as a firewall compared to, say, OpenBSD's pf, this was a sure thing destined to fail.
Just think about this for a moment -- "single floppy distro." You take one of the most unreliable forms of disk media, the floppy disc, and expect it to run something continuously and reliably, such as a firewall/router. You can easily build a PC for $50, put BSD on it (which by the way is easier to install than Debian and easier to configure than iptables), and spend your time doing something more useful, like partying with girls instead of configing your firewall.
I see your point. This is why I love Winamp... 0% CPU usage when playing!
Winword can use 8-10% of CPU when typing... but ask yourself why is that. Whilst you are typing, it's cross referencing your words against the spelling dictionary and the sentence structure against grammar checker. I don't mind using CPU power to do that so long as the paper I turn in is reasonably correct English!
It all comes down to the concept of trust. Do you trust a supposedly "experienced" ISP admin to make sure his DNS server is secured, or do you trust yourself enough to make sure your local copy of BIND isn't hacked instead?
This seems hard to prevent unless you do get your DNS from the root servers. I, for example run an OpenBSD firewall on my cable modem. It gets its external interface address from DHCP. But that would be moot if AT&T's DHCP server was hacked, as it would simply would be polluted with bad DNS server information... unless I had that set statically. Where is that in/etc anyway?:)
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You know how Gnome started, right? KDE was first, but the hippy GNU purists weren't happy with the licensing terms for the QT libraries, so they basically said, "screw you guys, we're making our own."
I am not sure how feesible it would be, but it would be very cool to see the core technologies of these projects abstracted from the interface.
That's never going to happen. The biggest problem the open src community faces is that everyone has a different idea of what's best... i.e., there's never going to be any consistency. I mena, look at Gentoo, which was just forked.
Oh, cut the bullshit. Unless you examine every code update, line by line, you're the one being ridiculous.
And most distribution updaters (e.g., apt) provide binary updates, not source, so unless you're a whiz assembly programmer disassembling each package's binaries, -> shut up.
When I saw Anonvmous Coward's response to this complete bullshit, I lowered my threshold so I see who wrote this and add you to my foes list. Then realized that you were already there.
Is there anybody out there who *didn't* drop out of electrical engineering after a year because their stuff never worked have any actual engineering-based ideas or opinions re: the above-described audio controller idea?
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Yeah, you can do it all with 7400 Quad-input NANDs. Lots of 'em!
Back to reality --- depends what you want to do. You can use the parallel port and use it to send simple high/low digital logic; this would be trivial to implement. If you went the serial route, you'd need a ucontroller at the control-box end to send out the serial commands, and have to write the software for both it (probably in assembler, easier though, with a BASIC stamp) and the host PC. Or if you went the parallel way, you could use a PLD (make friends with someone who has a chip programmer!) which would be about a dollar. In either case, you'd probably need a line driver/receiver at each end to carry the signal the longer distance.
I didn't lose you, did I?
Yeah this seemed trivial. Winamp actually uses 0% CPU when playing on my 1 Ghz Box with WinXP. It'll peak at 1 but that' sif you're manipulating the on-screen controls.
You can fit three pairs of AES/EBU digital audio lines in a cat5 cable (one pair left cause you need a ground wire), although I'm not too sure about crosstalk.
You don't understand... by submitting this to Ask Slashdot, he's implicitly saying "I want to spend a total of $75 on this project, all things inclusive."
The site cgi.ebay.com is running Microsoft-IIS/4.0 on NT4/Windows 98.
The site www.ebay.com is running Microsoft-IIS/4.0 on NT4/Windows 98.
The site search.ebay.com is running Zeus/3.3 on Solaris 8.
The site search-cache.ebay.com is running Apache/1.3.6 (Unix) on Solaris 8.
The site bibo.ebay.com is running Microsoft-IIS/5.0 on Windows 2000.
You've been listening to bigots too much. 76% of machines rooted in May were Linux boxes, while 15% Windows. I'd be more leary if they were running PHP....
That won't help since most SPAM comes from Asia and other places around the world.
Yeah IIS just whips Apache in terms of performance. The only server that can compete with IIS in terms of performance is Zeus, but it's about $1000+.
And it's a good think they don't, cause then they'd all be super-villains too, bwhaha!
How about GIMP, CinePaint, Blender, the various LaTeX environments, GhostScript, OpenOffice.org, etc.
How about "no," "no," "no," "no," "no," and "no?"
but which one is on top today?
The one that was easier to use, supported more mainstream commercial software, and had good marketing.
Which in this case, Apple vs. Linux, would be.... DING DING DING!
BSD is easier to configure than iptables?
Fark off you farking troll.
Yes, about a hundred-fold, you dumbass.
You need to ask these people -- they've apparently figured this one out, before we have.
With the price of PC components dropping so rapidly, and how much Linux's iptables absolutely blows as a firewall compared to, say, OpenBSD's pf, this was a sure thing destined to fail.
Just think about this for a moment -- "single floppy distro." You take one of the most unreliable forms of disk media, the floppy disc, and expect it to run something continuously and reliably, such as a firewall/router. You can easily build a PC for $50, put BSD on it (which by the way is easier to install than Debian and easier to configure than iptables), and spend your time doing something more useful, like partying with girls instead of configing your firewall.
Till Slashdot links to it.
Some of these are just downright funny.
Why is it that some people from the Linux camp are all about free speech... that is, when the free speech is not targeted against them.
How's that flamebait? I thought it was pretty damn funny myself?
I see your point. This is why I love Winamp... 0% CPU usage when playing!
Winword can use 8-10% of CPU when typing... but ask yourself why is that. Whilst you are typing, it's cross referencing your words against the spelling dictionary and the sentence structure against grammar checker. I don't mind using CPU power to do that so long as the paper I turn in is reasonably correct English!
It all comes down to the concept of trust. Do you trust a supposedly "experienced" ISP admin to make sure his DNS server is secured, or do you trust yourself enough to make sure your local copy of BIND isn't hacked instead?
This seems hard to prevent unless you do get your DNS from the root servers. I, for example run an OpenBSD firewall on my cable modem. It gets its external interface address from DHCP. But that would be moot if AT&T's DHCP server was hacked, as it would simply would be polluted with bad DNS server information... unless I had that set statically. Where is that in /etc anyway? :)
I thought that was the Aimster guy.