Imagine a whole company full of coders looking into code to find loopholes to exploit. [Tt]hat's what they'll end up doing! Sure, the firefox developers will be fast about plugging holes the minute they find them, but people are bound to get a little upset by getting hammered (ie) once every week, then having to patch their browser weekly...
I work for a team in research at HP. This latch has potential, but it hasn't been fully tested. The PR dept just simply went off and decided to get everyone excited.
Just pray it ends up passing all testing and becoming everything they expect. Otherwise we might end up with an Intel-like pentium division problem on our hands...
When I thought I was onto something I find my job is, once again, outsourced to India!!!
Perhaps I should work on plan B, clicking spam links to boost spammers confidence.
Lets not forget that Java, itself, isn't open source. Its fun to tout something open, but you have to PAY for the source (which, no doubt, you can't "share") and we all know that java, and the JVM, are closed proprietary software that Sun is clingy on for dear life.
Whats worse is running multimedia on Java. My fourth wife was asked to be a part of this project, but declined mostly due to it containing java (the other part was it never gave us time together, which we needed, because we were trying to have a baby and needed 'baby making time'. She doesn't like doing it in the light, so we could only do it at night, and the job took a lot of night hours away that could be better spent on working on getting pregnant. And, funny as it may sound, she left me before I could knock her up, so maybe she should have taken the job). Multimedia programs should involve assembly or C. Programs that won't take the speed nor memory away from the multimedia that needs it.
Remember, spam targetted for a specific audience is not all that bad.
I used to work for a bulk email service. We pride(d) ourselves on the fact that we supplied game offers to gamers. If you were a hardcore gamer, you didn't mind the mail. If you didn't care about games, you didn't get our emails.
Is that such a bad thing?
Sure, a large sum of spam isn't targetted for a specific audience, just as many people as possible. That should be blocked. Targetted mail, however, should not.
First of all, allow me to say that this was a VERY simple webapp to create, and I encourage everyone else to make something similar.
Secondly, allow me to state that this can get you into trouble. We lost on member (though we aren't allowed to speak about it) to some foreign agent. She was about to date four of the other developers (I was included) and disappeared right before the dates. The police could not find any evidence of foul play so it was dismissed.
However, the FBI and CIA started asking questions around campus. That's when we thought something was fishy.
If anyone knows the whereabouts of Anne Malle, please contact me!
Watch out poster, you may feel the wrath of Eugenia (head of osnews.org). She claims to be all about free OS's and such, but the moment you directly quote the site (like in a comment to avoid slashdotting), she immediately gets angry and lashes out. You directly quoted the article!
Be wary!
Using PHP on a professional site
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...is like using visual basic for a windows manager.
Honestly, use the best language for the app. Using PHP for personal home pages (hey, see how that works?) is a great idea. Using PHP instead of something like Java/J2EE for an enterprise size site is not the best choice. And, OTOH, using Java/J2EE for a personal home page is just as rediculous.
When you make a complete enterprise site, you use the language that will give you the most advantage for maintainability and design.
1) Front-end savings on licensing.(perhaps offset by re-training costs)
No licensing gives you savings, but, not only do you have to retrain your employees on how to use their new computer altogether, but you have to TRAIN (not RE-train) them on a whole new stack of software.
2) Savings on future licensing
No new licensing required, unless, of course, you want support. If you need redhat (et al) support, it'll cost you.
3) Less tech support headaches and consequently less staffing requirements.
First of all, if you don't allow your employees to d/l and install garbage software from the net, and don't give them access to tweak and mess with drivers, you usually don't have trouble with 'tech support headaches'. Unless you are referring to the people that don't know how to hit the 'print' button to print. If that's the case, multiply your headache by 15, and you'll have an idea of what you are in for.
Second, *nix admins cost more the Windows admins, so get ready to dish out money.
Now, what about the point of time. How much time does it take to switch it all over, retrain your employees, etc? Now translate that time to money.
Sorry, just a little tired of hearing the 'money' excuse is the reason to switch a couple hundred machines into a brand new OS (and don't give me crap about upgrading windows, cause it can be done over the evening, and its not a significant amount of change that requires people a whole set of training and time to get used to).
For the record, I use Linux, I just think you're being a bit naive.
Do you ever sit down and think that you are being anal retentive about something that isn't really that important?
I'm not going to give you the "GET SOME PRIORITIES" troll, here, but don't you think this is a silly thing to get in a tiff about? Since when does anyone follow the standards already trying to overcome the net? The net is just this amoeba that will never truely take form.
I am sincere in my question, because I saw my third wife get really gun-ho about a standard (which standard? I'm not at liberty to say), and ended up eventually passing away (God rest her soul) due to the effects of what she was trying to accomplish. Why someone would be so stubborn about something simple like a standard is confusing to me.
Associated Press: Paris, France - It has just been announced today in the capital of France: Upon learning that if any asteroids are on their way to collide with the earth in under ten years, it would cause complete genocide without the ability to do anything about it, France has unconditionally surrendered to all extraterrestrial foreign bodies. The French, so proud of their culture that they will surrender to maintain it, regardless of rule, support the decision of their government.
Frenchman Jaques Fernoi states, "As long as I can make my cheese and drink wine freely, I welcome our new leaders in this asteroid."
More updates as they present.
A few months ago Paul Allen's Digeo [http://www.digeo.com] company acquired Moxi, who at the time was working on a TiVo-like PVR Linux-based solution, also named Moxi [http://www.digeo.com/prodserv/mediacenter.jsp]. Many expected [http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/03/29/14592 08&mode=thread&tid=129&threshold=2] that the co-founder of Microsoft would modify the product to use WindowsCE, but instead the Moxi has continued to be developed with Linux. In fact, Digeo seems really happy with the popular open source kernel. Continue reading to learn more about this exciting new product and view the exclusive screenshots we have for you.
We talked with Toby Farrand, Digeo's CTO last week, and he provided us with some exclusive insight on the inner workings of the Moxi product. Digeo specifically chose Linux as the underlying operating system because of its open nature that allows all kinds of modifications and because it is fast and stable. "It was a very easy decision", Mr Farrand told us. "Linux is secure, complete and reliable".
Digeo's developers have made a large number of check-ins to the 2.4 and 2.5 versions of the Linux kernel. These changes were mostly to do with partitioning code and its security options, but Digeo are also the main maintainers of the ext3 filesystem. In addition, the Linux implementation used in Moxi boots from Open Firmware.
The Moxi product is the most powerful PVR system to be found today in this specific embedded market. It runs on a 733 Mhz C3 Cyrix x86 CPU, uses a Broadcom graphics chipset with dedicated video capabilities and is fully configurable by a cable provider. It comes with 40 GB of hard drive, but can easily use more than 100 GB. Moxi supports HDTV and has a TV-out (naturally), but no VGA output. Providers can customize the machine and the OS will also provide the required software for any additional peripherals (for example, a DVD or a CD-RW drive).
Digeo is concentrating on making Moxi a presentation device and a media center (it includes decoders for MPEG, MP3, DVD, Real but not Quicktime) and direct camcorder support is being considered for the future.
However, another very useful feature of Moxi is its ability to be... a server. It can function as an internet gateway and has a built-in firewall and router. It includes a modem so you can connect to the Internet directly, while it also supports plain ethernet and even wireless. Although these features will not be useful to all people, they bring Moxi a step ahead of the competition and they come pretty much "for free" due to the use of the GNU/Linux operating system. However, the Moxi is not (yet) an internet appliance so it does not offer a web browser.
Moxi can also be used as a VideoPhone. It can connect to other Moxis or via the PC, and supports the H.323 protocol. It will include MSN Messenger as well.
Moxi is the realisation of what Microsoft and Apple are trying to achieve with their notions of a "digital hub". Moxi is a PVR with the ability to play DVDs and other multimedia files, connect to a digital camera, view PhotoCDs (or view images on TV via an ethernet link to your computer), provide access to the internet and more. Mr Farrand believes that PCs can't be as successful in this particular area, because home computers do not interact correctly with TVs and cable providers, and that computers can't work as integrated with a channel (e.g. a scrambled cable channel like HBO which needs special bypassing) as a dedicated solution can offer. PCs take a "top-down" approach to try to behave as specialized devices, while in reality they are multi-purpose devices. This can create specific problems in usability and functionality of the system. Also, PCs are not secure enough for the PVR purpose, as most channel providers won't like to see their content easily pirated. Moxi provides such security after special agreements with the cable provider or channels. Another critical problem with PCs is latency and multithreading. "You don't want your recording to freeze or lose frames while you are checking your email or running a scheduled CRON job you had forgotten about", says Mr Farrand. "You expect recording and playback to work as well as when watching it on TV, live. Microsoft's or other solutions wouldn't have the same sophistication and seamless integration that a dedicated product would".
The current focus of the company is the USA market, but creating compatible versions for other regions wouldn't be too hard, Mr Farrand told us. In the US TV market, the Moxi can record on 5.1 surround sound, at 256 KB/sec and preserve this quality on playback. Users can change these settings via the TV user interface (which uses Macromedia Flash!).
The company plans to add OpenGL (and CGL) and 3D support and also license and port some games to their platform. The current games included in the device are simple games using Flash. Another useful feature of Moxi is that the ROM and operating system can be completely upgraded on the fly from the cable operator via the included modem. This way any bugs or other problems on the customer's device can easily be fixed.
Moxi will be available via cable providers or other Premium TV companies, and the hardware will be custom for each one of them. The price is not set in stone yet, but the company expects it to be in the same price range as the competition. Leasing options will also be available.
Moxi is expected to be launched in the begining of the new year, and it looks set to be an interesting player in the growing market of the PVRs and personal media center systems.
Seeing as I'm a bit of an expert on conspiracy theories, let me explain to you that it will always be deemed as a conspiracy theory.
Its like religion. You can show undeniable evidence that god doesn't exist, and the religious person would say "god made it this way to test my faith."
It was just a document for teachers to show their students when their students would ask about it.
My fourth wife is a teacher, and it never came up with her students. Perhaps its because she is a biology teacher. In fact, her studies are the reason we got divorced.
Anyway, remember that all conspiracy theories aren't necessarily false, and those that are the most rediculous are usually the ones that are true.
The NSA is probably the most secretive organization in the world, after the Freemasons and the Elks
Something tells me you are forgetting an organization.
Lets be philosophical, shall we. The most secretive organizations in the world you (read: your average person) probably don't even know about, or its something people 'joke about'.
Warren Spector is a true game innovator.
Look at thief, system shock, ultima underworld, deus ex. I'm always for the lookout of his latest games.
Thief 2 was especially heinous. I used to play that game for hours. My first wife eventually gave me the "you love that game or me" speech, and I ended up choosing the game. That divorce led me down the road to many other ones. Its sad really. But damn was that game fun!
My second wife was a beta tester for the latest version (release candidate).
She told me all about it to stuff it in my face. One of the differences for us that caused the divorce was that I was a big Windows user (although I did run Linux on one of my machines, which she took through the divorce), and she was a big Linux and BSD user. I can honestly say that I am strictly a windows user because she took all the boxes with Linux on them.
Anyway, she said it has some features that will 'blow windows AND linux users away.' I'd say more, but don't know if I'm allowed to tell the info legally (trust me, she's already taken me to the cleaners, once).
Viewing Yahoo's press releases, you can see no information that leads us to believe that they are switching at all?
Is this a story just to grab attention to the presentation?!?
It's marketing, that's all. Anyone who thinks that they're being altruistic is very naive.
Now, they have a great marketing campaign. So how do they make money?
Advertising! No, the open source community will make a product without ads.
Support! No, the open source community will work out bugs and be cheaper to hire.
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Imagine a whole company full of coders looking into code to find loopholes to exploit. [Tt]hat's what they'll end up doing! Sure, the firefox developers will be fast about plugging holes the minute they find them, but people are bound to get a little upset by getting hammered (ie) once every week, then having to patch their browser weekly...
I work for a team in research at HP. This latch has potential, but it hasn't been fully tested. The PR dept just simply went off and decided to get everyone excited.
Just pray it ends up passing all testing and becoming everything they expect. Otherwise we might end up with an Intel-like pentium division problem on our hands...
When I thought I was onto something I find my job is, once again, outsourced to India!!!
Perhaps I should work on plan B, clicking spam links to boost spammers confidence.
Lets not forget that Java, itself, isn't open source. Its fun to tout something open, but you have to PAY for the source (which, no doubt, you can't "share") and we all know that java, and the JVM, are closed proprietary software that Sun is clingy on for dear life.
Whats worse is running multimedia on Java. My fourth wife was asked to be a part of this project, but declined mostly due to it containing java (the other part was it never gave us time together, which we needed, because we were trying to have a baby and needed 'baby making time'. She doesn't like doing it in the light, so we could only do it at night, and the job took a lot of night hours away that could be better spent on working on getting pregnant. And, funny as it may sound, she left me before I could knock her up, so maybe she should have taken the job). Multimedia programs should involve assembly or C. Programs that won't take the speed nor memory away from the multimedia that needs it.
Excellent. Our agents in the SEC have worked wonderfully!
Fnord!
Open Source DRM is an obvious ploy by the Illuminati to spread "acceptible" DRM to the resistant open source community
..umm... are just sitting back and doing nothing! Yeah, thats it!
Umm... no its not... we
BTW - Just a heads up. We can get around the tin foil hats, now.
which other fields would you recommend getting in
How about 'drama'?
Remember, spam targetted for a specific audience is not all that bad.
I used to work for a bulk email service. We pride(d) ourselves on the fact that we supplied game offers to gamers. If you were a hardcore gamer, you didn't mind the mail. If you didn't care about games, you didn't get our emails.
Is that such a bad thing?
Sure, a large sum of spam isn't targetted for a specific audience, just as many people as possible. That should be blocked. Targetted mail, however, should not.
First of all, allow me to say that this was a VERY simple webapp to create, and I encourage everyone else to make something similar.
Secondly, allow me to state that this can get you into trouble. We lost on member (though we aren't allowed to speak about it) to some foreign agent. She was about to date four of the other developers (I was included) and disappeared right before the dates. The police could not find any evidence of foul play so it was dismissed.
However, the FBI and CIA started asking questions around campus. That's when we thought something was fishy.
If anyone knows the whereabouts of Anne Malle, please contact me!
We're onto you.
Watch out poster, you may feel the wrath of Eugenia (head of osnews.org). She claims to be all about free OS's and such, but the moment you directly quote the site (like in a comment to avoid slashdotting), she immediately gets angry and lashes out. You directly quoted the article!
Be wary!
...is like using visual basic for a windows manager.
Honestly, use the best language for the app.
Using PHP for personal home pages (hey, see how that works?) is a great idea. Using PHP instead of something like Java/J2EE for an enterprise size site is not the best choice. And, OTOH, using Java/J2EE for a personal home page is just as rediculous.
When you make a complete enterprise site, you use the language that will give you the most advantage for maintainability and design.
1) Front-end savings on licensing.(perhaps offset by re-training costs)
No licensing gives you savings, but, not only do you have to retrain your employees on how to use their new computer altogether, but you have to TRAIN (not RE-train) them on a whole new stack of software.
2) Savings on future licensing
No new licensing required, unless, of course, you want support. If you need redhat (et al) support, it'll cost you.
3) Less tech support headaches and consequently less staffing requirements.
First of all, if you don't allow your employees to d/l and install garbage software from the net, and don't give them access to tweak and mess with drivers, you usually don't have trouble with 'tech support headaches'. Unless you are referring to the people that don't know how to hit the 'print' button to print. If that's the case, multiply your headache by 15, and you'll have an idea of what you are in for.
Second, *nix admins cost more the Windows admins, so get ready to dish out money.
Now, what about the point of time. How much time does it take to switch it all over, retrain your employees, etc? Now translate that time to money.
Sorry, just a little tired of hearing the 'money' excuse is the reason to switch a couple hundred machines into a brand new OS (and don't give me crap about upgrading windows, cause it can be done over the evening, and its not a significant amount of change that requires people a whole set of training and time to get used to).
For the record, I use Linux, I just think you're being a bit naive.
Do you ever sit down and think that you are being anal retentive about something that isn't really that important?
I'm not going to give you the "GET SOME PRIORITIES" troll, here, but don't you think this is a silly thing to get in a tiff about? Since when does anyone follow the standards already trying to overcome the net? The net is just this amoeba that will never truely take form.
I am sincere in my question, because I saw my third wife get really gun-ho about a standard (which standard? I'm not at liberty to say), and ended up eventually passing away (God rest her soul) due to the effects of what she was trying to accomplish. Why someone would be so stubborn about something simple like a standard is confusing to me.
Associated Press: Paris, France - It has just been announced today in the capital of France: Upon learning that if any asteroids are on their way to collide with the earth in under ten years, it would cause complete genocide without the ability to do anything about it, France has unconditionally surrendered to all extraterrestrial foreign bodies. The French, so proud of their culture that they will surrender to maintain it, regardless of rule, support the decision of their government.
Frenchman Jaques Fernoi states, "As long as I can make my cheese and drink wine freely, I welcome our new leaders in this asteroid."
More updates as they present.
No need to mod up, just read.
2 08&mode=thread&tid=129&threshold=2] that the co-founder of Microsoft would modify the product to use WindowsCE, but instead the Moxi has continued to be developed with Linux. In fact, Digeo seems really happy with the popular open source kernel. Continue reading to learn more about this exciting new product and view the exclusive screenshots we have for you.
A few months ago Paul Allen's Digeo [http://www.digeo.com] company acquired Moxi, who at the time was working on a TiVo-like PVR Linux-based solution, also named Moxi [http://www.digeo.com/prodserv/mediacenter.jsp]. Many expected [http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/03/29/1459
We talked with Toby Farrand, Digeo's CTO last week, and he provided us with some exclusive insight on the inner workings of the Moxi product. Digeo specifically chose Linux as the underlying operating system because of its open nature that allows all kinds of modifications and because it is fast and stable. "It was a very easy decision", Mr Farrand told us. "Linux is secure, complete and reliable".
Digeo's developers have made a large number of check-ins to the 2.4 and 2.5 versions of the Linux kernel. These changes were mostly to do with partitioning code and its security options, but Digeo are also the main maintainers of the ext3 filesystem. In addition, the Linux implementation used in Moxi boots from Open Firmware.
The Moxi product is the most powerful PVR system to be found today in this specific embedded market. It runs on a 733 Mhz C3 Cyrix x86 CPU, uses a Broadcom graphics chipset with dedicated video capabilities and is fully configurable by a cable provider. It comes with 40 GB of hard drive, but can easily use more than 100 GB. Moxi supports HDTV and has a TV-out (naturally), but no VGA output. Providers can customize the machine and the OS will also provide the required software for any additional peripherals (for example, a DVD or a CD-RW drive).
Digeo is concentrating on making Moxi a presentation device and a media center (it includes decoders for MPEG, MP3, DVD, Real but not Quicktime) and direct camcorder support is being considered for the future.
However, another very useful feature of Moxi is its ability to be... a server. It can function as an internet gateway and has a built-in firewall and router. It includes a modem so you can connect to the Internet directly, while it also supports plain ethernet and even wireless. Although these features will not be useful to all people, they bring Moxi a step ahead of the competition and they come pretty much "for free" due to the use of the GNU/Linux operating system. However, the Moxi is not (yet) an internet appliance so it does not offer a web browser.
Moxi can also be used as a VideoPhone. It can connect to other Moxis or via the PC, and supports the H.323 protocol. It will include MSN Messenger as well.
Moxi is the realisation of what Microsoft and Apple are trying to achieve with their notions of a "digital hub". Moxi is a PVR with the ability to play DVDs and other multimedia files, connect to a digital camera, view PhotoCDs (or view images on TV via an ethernet link to your computer), provide access to the internet and more. Mr Farrand believes that PCs can't be as successful in this particular area, because home computers do not interact correctly with TVs and cable providers, and that computers can't work as integrated with a channel (e.g. a scrambled cable channel like HBO which needs special bypassing) as a dedicated solution can offer. PCs take a "top-down" approach to try to behave as specialized devices, while in reality they are multi-purpose devices. This can create specific problems in usability and functionality of the system. Also, PCs are not secure enough for the PVR purpose, as most channel providers won't like to see their content easily pirated. Moxi provides such security after special agreements with the cable provider or channels. Another critical problem with PCs is latency and multithreading. "You don't want your recording to freeze or lose frames while you are checking your email or running a scheduled CRON job you had forgotten about", says Mr Farrand. "You expect recording and playback to work as well as when watching it on TV, live. Microsoft's or other solutions wouldn't have the same sophistication and seamless integration that a dedicated product would".
The current focus of the company is the USA market, but creating compatible versions for other regions wouldn't be too hard, Mr Farrand told us. In the US TV market, the Moxi can record on 5.1 surround sound, at 256 KB/sec and preserve this quality on playback. Users can change these settings via the TV user interface (which uses Macromedia Flash!).
The company plans to add OpenGL (and CGL) and 3D support and also license and port some games to their platform. The current games included in the device are simple games using Flash. Another useful feature of Moxi is that the ROM and operating system can be completely upgraded on the fly from the cable operator via the included modem. This way any bugs or other problems on the customer's device can easily be fixed.
Moxi will be available via cable providers or other Premium TV companies, and the hardware will be custom for each one of them. The price is not set in stone yet, but the company expects it to be in the same price range as the competition. Leasing options will also be available.
Moxi is expected to be launched in the begining of the new year, and it looks set to be an interesting player in the growing market of the PVRs and personal media center systems.
Seeing as I'm a bit of an expert on conspiracy theories, let me explain to you that it will always be deemed as a conspiracy theory.
Its like religion. You can show undeniable evidence that god doesn't exist, and the religious person would say "god made it this way to test my faith."
It was just a document for teachers to show their students when their students would ask about it.
My fourth wife is a teacher, and it never came up with her students. Perhaps its because she is a biology teacher. In fact, her studies are the reason we got divorced.
Anyway, remember that all conspiracy theories aren't necessarily false, and those that are the most rediculous are usually the ones that are true.
The NSA is probably the most secretive organization in the world, after the Freemasons and the Elks
Something tells me you are forgetting an organization.
Lets be philosophical, shall we. The most secretive organizations in the world you (read: your average person) probably don't even know about, or its something people 'joke about'.
Hey, good one!
What, did you think of that yourself, or just used the same line that's been said (in various variations) the past 5 years on slashdot?
Warren Spector is a true game innovator.
Look at thief, system shock, ultima underworld, deus ex. I'm always for the lookout of his latest games.
Thief 2 was especially heinous. I used to play that game for hours. My first wife eventually gave me the "you love that game or me" speech, and I ended up choosing the game. That divorce led me down the road to many other ones. Its sad really. But damn was that game fun!
My second wife was a beta tester for the latest version (release candidate).
She told me all about it to stuff it in my face. One of the differences for us that caused the divorce was that I was a big Windows user (although I did run Linux on one of my machines, which she took through the divorce), and she was a big Linux and BSD user. I can honestly say that I am strictly a windows user because she took all the boxes with Linux on them.
Anyway, she said it has some features that will 'blow windows AND linux users away.' I'd say more, but don't know if I'm allowed to tell the info legally (trust me, she's already taken me to the cleaners, once).
Viewing Yahoo's press releases, you can see no information that leads us to believe that they are switching at all?
Is this a story just to grab attention to the presentation?!?
Wouldn't it be a better load test to make www.slashdot.org the load testing server, and old.slashdot.org the server to go to if something breaks?
Honestly, you aren't getting a good load test by putting up a link (at least, not a good 'slashdot' loadtest).
It's marketing, that's all. Anyone who thinks that they're being altruistic is very naive.
Now, they have a great marketing campaign. So how do they make money?
Advertising! No, the open source community will make a product without ads.
Support! No, the open source community will work out bugs and be cheaper to hire.
I guess you can just call me naive.
I'll be sure to waddle next time I'm at the airport
I'm sure this technology has merit, but its too easy to fake. I hope no one is planning on using this for any security-type jobs.