Why dont you just install slink, or a minnimal install of Woody, debian is very easy to pare down. I think a decent install w/ X is still around 300-600 megs. And I know it can easily be trimmed further with aptitude.
The closest thing I've seen to that is OroboroX which makes things look nativish. Or you can use Tenon X tools Click Here which apparently is built using Carbon/Quartz
I fully understand having to pay royalties for playing music that is copyrighted, but I am wondering if I play music that the owner of the music licenses me to play do I still have to pay RIAA? Maybe one of the legal eagles out there can answer this for me.
Hmm... this has gotten me thinking, why not make GPL patent licenses, ie. we agree to license this patent to you on the grounds that any software derived from this is distributed under the GPL
http://www.dbmail.org/
I was looking thru their site, havent actually used it but it sounds like it might reduce the load on you're servers massively. tho i'd want to use postgres and not mysql for the back end.
I think you'd want something like EZMLM and the manager software for it, it's not the prettiest thing but you can make an interface for it pretty easy. as long as the program can create directories and add to files you're interface is done. gotta love Qmail's config system.
I really dont see how this represents OSS, I'm mean would anyone really consider Brilliant Digital (the mal-ware bundled with Kazaa) an example of what proprietary software is.
I'm not that familiar with the.NET infrastructure, but does this mean that I can take a.NET application that works on my Windows box and uses the Win32 GUI and have it work on my Linux Box?
Just wondering if this thing actually "works" or if its just part of the whole picture.
This is bullshit, I only agree with this if the perpetrator is given the same conditions of anonimity, imagine sitting in a court room and being told that some unknown financial institution is accuseing you of breaking into their systems yet you cannot question them. This is on the same level of bullshit as the US trying to convict people of terrorism charges and not releaseing the evidence on grounds of nation security, they should really make up their fucking mind, either terrorist are "enemy combatants" and should be treated under the Geneva convention, or they should be regarded as terrorists and given the rights ordinary citizens have. If you call them enenmy combatants you cant charge them with terrorism laws because then they are fighting a war and in war you blow the shit out of the enemy.
I don't see why this is flamebait, personally I would mod it up had i any points, the author has a great point, even *after* you have ALSA working you still have to mess around with at least GNOME and KDE's sound servers to get them to cooperate thru ALSA instead of using OSS and recieving an exclusive lock on the sound card. It's really anoying that it takes so long to get things working on debian, however the alternative is something like mandrake that is easy to install but takes years to get anything not on the CD's working. then there is Mac OS X, it works, its stable, but if you want to run non-OS X apps you're back in the same boat of spending lots of time changing code to work.
I can't count the number of tarballs i've compiled that were designed for Linux / FreeBSD and compiled clean under OpenBSD, really there is no OS that is generally easy to use for an advanced user. My main beefs are:
OS X: Almost nothing will compile.
OpenBSD: Everything needs to be installed from source.
Linux: Unless you are using debian most things of things need to be compiled from source. If you are using debian its a nightmare to configure.
It all generally boils down to spending alot of time to get basic things working. Once you attain advanced user status its basically a matter of spending lots of time getting everything working no matter what OS you use.
Umm... this how-to appears to be very well written, in fact much better written then the lack of documentation that comes with the package, the last time i setup ALSA it took me about 48 hours mainly because no where was it clearly explained how to do things, it was read as much documentation as you can and try to make up the manual yourself based on what you know from the API. Essentially this how-to is now the manual
If convicted 2 more times of Felony Monopolization will Microsoft be jailed for life in California under the 3 strikes law?
Just wondering if this only applies to persons and not other legal entities.
Since the CEO is responsible for the actions of the company, does this mean that Balmer and/or Gates are now felons under violation of Section 2 of the Sherman Act? I'm not a lawyer, but with all the laws against CEO misconduct that Bush is passing would this be the case?
In theory this *SHOULD* work, however where I see it failing is upon switch over, personally I would look at hardware that is less likely to fail, ie. a Sun, IBM, etc solution (yes, its expensive), otherwise, i would just keep a spare computer on hand, when things die on server 1, remove external scsi connector from box A, plug in to box B, mount drive. or possibly rig up an electronic A/B switch that will trip upon signal from machine b, so when machine b can no longer contact machine a, it switches the a/b switch and mounts the drive, keeping them both connected to the chain at once will probably lead to serious problems in the event that machine a comes back or some other weird thing that is bound to happen. I would definately recommend a switching solution to having them both connected to the drive chain.
It will be a revolution until Linux becomes mainstream on the desktop and every computer on the corporate LAN is part of a cluster, when users log off the computer re-joins the cluster. Companies should look at what they already have before shelling out more money.
UNIX doomsday, this only applies to 32-bit integers if you recompile your code with time as a 64-bit integer (like on 64-bit processors) then the 32 bit integer which represents time as seconds since circa 1970, will last for 70 ish years, however a 64 bit integer can store 2^32 times more numbers, meaning it will last for 70 * (2^32) years. So as long as all UNIX machines are on 64 bit processors by 2038, doomsday will be avoided until the year 300647712690. In other words approx. 280 billion years. Given that we estimate that the universe is approaching its mid life crisis, 64 bits should keep time for 9.3 universe life times. I have a feeling my math may be a bit off can someone double check this for me. I do know that 64 bit UNIX time will last for a the forseeable future.
All networks have some centralized point of vulnerability. I really fail to see how distributed hash tables will reduce the vulnerability. The internet is probably the most decentralized network in the world, and even it has very vulnerable points. Someone attacking the internet would have a hard time taking it down, completely. However taking it down to a point of general unusability is within feasability given the current situtation and architechure. Today's internet has some very vulnerable points, namely the clients. A worm written in java that abused multiple platform security hole could easily render the internet unusable. I really fail to see how any sort of research is going to solve this problem. A better approach IMHO would be to 1) elminate completely the use of plaintext protocols 2)Start using our CPU's to the fullest using the computer to gaurd against software failure. One easy step would be to eliminate decrementing stacks. It's alot hard to overflow into a a memory space behind you then ahead of you.
Hehe, the lawyers just put those words in because I bet somewhere in case or patent law there is a requirement for the idea to be "novel, original, unique" now my question is can Judges start suing lawyers for IP infringement if they copyright their decisions. Umm... I'm sorry you can't use that case law until you pay the Judge $14.99 don't think its a rip off, there are 18 other pieces of case law on that CD. But if you only pay 14.99 you only get the right to view it on your computer and not present it to the court.
short wave is generally used for long distance communications, its very useful if say you want to listne to a world cup game in italian and live in a non-italian country. Shortwave is used by many people but its not as popular as your standard commerical AM / FM frequencies. If you want to listen to your local KISS 96.whatever station this card isnt for you. If however you want international radio and things like that then shortwave is very cool. I don't know if the reciever my ham friend was using was short wave or not but we always listen to the space shuttle comms. channels with his gear. Someone on here can probably tell me if shortwave is the frequency they use. something tells me its in the 140Mhz area which is not shortwave.
This looks pretty cool, and does 6Mhz AM, little known fact that you can listen to lightning storms on 6Mhz AM world wide. If forget the homepage of the group but there is a group using 6 Mhz AM and RDF equiptment to plot lightning strikes across the world. If anyone has a link to the group it would be much appreciated, can't even find it on google.
--morph
A wager like that is usually considered a game of skill and not a game of chance, that is why many competitions can have prizes in places where gambling is illegal. Just wanted to point that out:). Funny post tho.
I love the OLED on my timeport, im in the process of ordering several OLEDs for modding my computers at home. Nothing like an MP3 control panel / syslog / nice graphing doohickey on the front of the computer.
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Why dont you just install slink, or a minnimal install of Woody, debian is very easy to pare down. I think a decent install w/ X is still around 300-600 megs. And I know it can easily be trimmed further with aptitude.
Sorry, I misread what you were asking. I think Xserve does something like this, so I imagine Mac OS X server would be able to do the same.
The closest thing I've seen to that is OroboroX which makes things look nativish. Or you can use Tenon X tools Click Here which apparently is built using Carbon/Quartz
I fully understand having to pay royalties for playing music that is copyrighted, but I am wondering if I play music that the owner of the music licenses me to play do I still have to pay RIAA? Maybe one of the legal eagles out there can answer this for me.
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I'm sure someone is offering to sell you a degree in your email. If not? get a hotmail account you sure to get an offer you cant refuse. :)
Cheers
Hmm... this has gotten me thinking, why not make GPL patent licenses, ie. we agree to license this patent to you on the grounds that any software derived from this is distributed under the GPL
http://www.dbmail.org/ I was looking thru their site, havent actually used it but it sounds like it might reduce the load on you're servers massively. tho i'd want to use postgres and not mysql for the back end.
I think you'd want something like EZMLM and the manager software for it, it's not the prettiest thing but you can make an interface for it pretty easy. as long as the program can create directories and add to files you're interface is done. gotta love Qmail's config system.
I really dont see how this represents OSS, I'm mean would anyone really consider Brilliant Digital (the mal-ware bundled with Kazaa) an example of what proprietary software is.
I'm not that familiar with the .NET infrastructure, but does this mean that I can take a .NET application that works on my Windows box and uses the Win32 GUI and have it work on my Linux Box?
Just wondering if this thing actually "works" or if its just part of the whole picture.
This is bullshit, I only agree with this if the perpetrator is given the same conditions of anonimity, imagine sitting in a court room and being told that some unknown financial institution is accuseing you of breaking into their systems yet you cannot question them. This is on the same level of bullshit as the US trying to convict people of terrorism charges and not releaseing the evidence on grounds of nation security, they should really make up their fucking mind, either terrorist are "enemy combatants" and should be treated under the Geneva convention, or they should be regarded as terrorists and given the rights ordinary citizens have. If you call them enenmy combatants you cant charge them with terrorism laws because then they are fighting a war and in war you blow the shit out of the enemy.
I don't see why this is flamebait, personally I would mod it up had i any points, the author has a great point, even *after* you have ALSA working you still have to mess around with at least GNOME and KDE's sound servers to get them to cooperate thru ALSA instead of using OSS and recieving an exclusive lock on the sound card. It's really anoying that it takes so long to get things working on debian, however the alternative is something like mandrake that is easy to install but takes years to get anything not on the CD's working. then there is Mac OS X, it works, its stable, but if you want to run non-OS X apps you're back in the same boat of spending lots of time changing code to work.
I can't count the number of tarballs i've compiled that were designed for Linux / FreeBSD and compiled clean under OpenBSD, really there is no OS that is generally easy to use for an advanced user.
My main beefs are:
OS X: Almost nothing will compile.
OpenBSD: Everything needs to be installed from source.
Windows: Security, stability, proprietary protocols.
Linux: Unless you are using debian most things of things need to be compiled from source. If you are using debian its a nightmare to configure.
It all generally boils down to spending alot of time to get basic things working. Once you attain advanced user status its basically a matter of spending lots of time getting everything working no matter what OS you use.
Computing sucks.
Umm... this how-to appears to be very well written, in fact much better written then the lack of documentation that comes with the package, the last time i setup ALSA it took me about 48 hours mainly because no where was it clearly explained how to do things, it was read as much documentation as you can and try to make up the manual yourself based on what you know from the API. Essentially this how-to is now the manual
If convicted 2 more times of Felony Monopolization will Microsoft be jailed for life in California under the 3 strikes law? Just wondering if this only applies to persons and not other legal entities.
Since the CEO is responsible for the actions of the company, does this mean that Balmer and/or Gates are now felons under violation of Section 2 of the Sherman Act? I'm not a lawyer, but with all the laws against CEO misconduct that Bush is passing would this be the case?
In theory this *SHOULD* work, however where I see it failing is upon switch over, personally I would look at hardware that is less likely to fail, ie. a Sun, IBM, etc solution (yes, its expensive), otherwise, i would just keep a spare computer on hand, when things die on server 1, remove external scsi connector from box A, plug in to box B, mount drive. or possibly rig up an electronic A/B switch that will trip upon signal from machine b, so when machine b can no longer contact machine a, it switches the a/b switch and mounts the drive, keeping them both connected to the chain at once will probably lead to serious problems in the event that machine a comes back or some other weird thing that is bound to happen. I would definately recommend a switching solution to having them both connected to the drive chain.
It will be a revolution until Linux becomes mainstream on the desktop and every computer on the corporate LAN is part of a cluster, when users log off the computer re-joins the cluster. Companies should look at what they already have before shelling out more money.
UNIX doomsday, this only applies to 32-bit integers if you recompile your code with time as a 64-bit integer (like on 64-bit processors) then the 32 bit integer which represents time as seconds since circa 1970, will last for 70 ish years, however a 64 bit integer can store 2^32 times more numbers, meaning it will last for 70 * (2^32) years. So as long as all UNIX machines are on 64 bit processors by 2038, doomsday will be avoided until the year 300647712690. In other words approx. 280 billion years. Given that we estimate that the universe is approaching its mid life crisis, 64 bits should keep time for 9.3 universe life times. I have a feeling my math may be a bit off can someone double check this for me. I do know that 64 bit UNIX time will last for a the forseeable future.
All networks have some centralized point of vulnerability. I really fail to see how distributed hash tables will reduce the vulnerability. The internet is probably the most decentralized network in the world, and even it has very vulnerable points. Someone attacking the internet would have a hard time taking it down, completely. However taking it down to a point of general unusability is within feasability given the current situtation and architechure. Today's internet has some very vulnerable points, namely the clients. A worm written in java that abused multiple platform security hole could easily render the internet unusable. I really fail to see how any sort of research is going to solve this problem. A better approach IMHO would be to
1) elminate completely the use of plaintext protocols
2)Start using our CPU's to the fullest using the computer to gaurd against software failure. One easy step would be to eliminate decrementing stacks. It's alot hard to overflow into a a memory space behind you then ahead of you.
Just my 2 cents
Hehe, the lawyers just put those words in because I bet somewhere in case or patent law there is a requirement for the idea to be "novel, original, unique" now my question is can Judges start suing lawyers for IP infringement if they copyright their decisions.
Umm... I'm sorry you can't use that case law until you pay the Judge $14.99 don't think its a rip off, there are 18 other pieces of case law on that CD. But if you only pay 14.99 you only get the right to view it on your computer and not present it to the court.
short wave is generally used for long distance communications, its very useful if say you want to listne to a world cup game in italian and live in a non-italian country. Shortwave is used by many people but its not as popular as your standard commerical AM / FM frequencies. If you want to listen to your local KISS 96.whatever station this card isnt for you. If however you want international radio and things like that then shortwave is very cool. I don't know if the reciever my ham friend was using was short wave or not but we always listen to the space shuttle comms. channels with his gear. Someone on here can probably tell me if shortwave is the frequency they use. something tells me its in the 140Mhz area which is not shortwave.
This looks pretty cool, and does 6Mhz AM, little known fact that you can listen to lightning storms on 6Mhz AM world wide. If forget the homepage of the group but there is a group using 6 Mhz AM and RDF equiptment to plot lightning strikes across the world. If anyone has a link to the group it would be much appreciated, can't even find it on google. --morph
A wager like that is usually considered a game of skill and not a game of chance, that is why many competitions can have prizes in places where gambling is illegal. Just wanted to point that out :). Funny post tho.
In other news books are now banned, Film at 11
I love the OLED on my timeport, im in the process of ordering several OLEDs for modding my computers at home. Nothing like an MP3 control panel / syslog / nice graphing doohickey on the front of the computer.