Let us take for example my 802.11b wireless USB adapter. Had it running in windows in 5 minutes with no reboots and all I had to do was stick a CD in the drive and click a few times on the mouse. Contrast this with Linux.
Well, so you're saying you prefer Windows over Linux because of vendor support. Fair enough. That's one of our chicken-egg problems, of course: vendors don't support Linux because there's not enough users because vendors don't support Linux, ad nauseaum. (I do understand the vendors concerns about the problems with supporting Linux (different distros, etc.))
Vendor support is one aspect where Windows beats Linux hands down, and I'm sure we can think of others. However, the reason I pick Linux over Windows or Mac OSX, and I know I may well be in the minority here, is because it is free software (open source). I support this idea and that's why I use it even though driver support is lacking (heck, I'm porting GoboLinux in my iBook, talk about unsupported...) and encourage my friends to "dump Windows". I do respect those who think differently, of course.
I think that for a long time Slashdot was a Linux-oriented site, and sometimes I forget that it has morphed into a more "generic tech site" as it grew.
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You can sign your code using a public key scheme like GPG. No need for a middle-man like VeriSign. Users can get your public key at your project's website and verify that the code is really yours.
Of course, your project's website may be compromised... but so can VeriSign's...
Don't get me wrong, I love Firefox as much as the next Slashdotter, but don't we all want a more secure Internet Explorer for our Windows-using friends as well?
I thought we wanted our Windows-using friends to dump Internet Explorer, as a first step in the process of dumping Windows.
The tag was called Blink, not Flash. Perhaps you mixed it up because of the old FLASH command from the Apple II?:) (which made text blink somewhat like the tag)
And just for kicks, here's Marquee in Applesoft Basic:
10 TEXT: HOME 20 INPUT "ENTER MESSAGE: "; A$ 30 HOME 40 R = INT(RND(1)*20)+1 50 FOR A = 1 TO LEN(A$) 60 VTAB R: HTAB 1 70 PRINT RIGHT$(A$, A) 80 GOSUB 1000 90 NEXT A 100 FOR A = 1 TO 40 110 B$ = LEFT$(A$, LEN(A$)-(40-A)) 120 VTAB R: HTAB A 130 PRINT " " + B$ 140 GOSUB 1000 150 NEXT A 160 GOTO 30 1000 REM ** A DELAY 1010 FOR D = 1 TO 100: NEXT 1020 RETURN
More like a screensaver, actually. Oh boy, writing this made me remember how good it is not to have to write line numbers anymore....
One may or may not agree with the guys opinions (especially about his stance on non-technical issues), but the fact is that Hans Reiser is one of the top experts in the field of filesystems.
I for one would like to know what Hans has to say on this fs.
As a Trek fan all I can say is "power to those guys", I'm looking forward to check out their stuff once their server recovers, but...
what are the legal ramifications of this? Isn't there some Big Corporation who owns the rights to the Star Trek names? If New Voyages makes it big I fear they'll be sued out of existance...:(
Earlier in the design, the SPU's were called Streaming Processing Units (you know like SSE, Streming SIMD Extensions). However, they didn't want to give the impression that the SPU's were designed only for "streaming data" kind of tasks, so they decided to change its name.
I guess "SPU" had already stuck with the developer team, so they just switched the word to "some meaningless word with S" so they could keep the acronym. And as far as meaningless words with S go, "Synergistic" fits the bill quite nicely.;)
After the fact, of course, they can let the marketroids make up explanations on how the name is actually about the "synergy" between the main processor and the SPUs, blah blah blah...:)
Well, all those Linksys hacks are based on the tarballs originally released by Linksys in their process of complying to the GPL.
While it's not impossible to do it without vendor support (XBox Linux, etc), the cool hacks are greatly helped by packages released by vendors.
Hopefully, as companies see the benefits that ensue from this relation, they develop a different attitude towards Linux (Sony wrt Linux on the PlayStations is a good example -- here's hoping their announcements for Linux on the PS3 will materialize (but I'm not holding my breath)).
I agree with your comment, but you mention that the bet is that companies will foster further development of the projects even if they're not forced to provide code back [I'd quote but I'm posting this from links]. I have my doubts.
This is an interesting development. Companies have been using Linux in their wireless boxes due to the lack of any viable alternative. Due to the GPL, these companies were forced to publish their changes to the kernel, which has allowed the number of cool hacks we've been seing. Clearly, those companies would rather keep their changes proprietary, so BSD based systems are much more attractive to them.
While it's nice to see improved hardware support to another free operating system, this might bring adverse consequences in the long run.
We'll see...
Isn't "color-coded threat levels" an excessively paranoid way to describe what we've always known as outdated, buggy software?
This kind of representation paints a very fake picture -- as if those "threats" are a given and that all we can do is "try to protect ourselves", when in fact what we're dealing with is simply the result of flawed operating system design.
These threats are only symptoms, not the root of the problem. I wonder who benefits from making people focus on the former instead of the latter.
IIRC, she [Sandra Johnson] is the head of one of IBM's Linux Technology Centers. It was pretty interesting and I got to skim the book for a while. Looked good, but I always have the fear that books like this get outdated fast. It had half a page on top -- I told her to include htop in the next edition. No plug is as shameless as when you do it in person.;)
You might want to consider installing Linux. FreeType has a very configurable font smoothing system integrated into X (but X is teh suck! blah blah blah -- not anymore).
From the KDE Control Center, you can, with a few clicks, indicate what kind of font smoothing you want.
Go to Control Center -> Fonts. Check the "Use anti-aliasing for fonts" box. The "Configure..." button becomes active. Click it.
You have the following options:
[ ] Exclude range [8.0pt] to [15.0pt] (if you want it to behave like (IIRC) Win2K, which only smoothes large fonts)
[ ] Use sub-pixel hinting (This is the ClearType-like feature) -> it has a combo where you can specify how are the subpixels of your LCD laid out -- just do some trial and error and see what looks best for you.
Hinting style: [None/Slight/Medium/Full] -> here you can adjust how "aggressive" you want font smoothing to be.
Posted by Hisham on 23:11 Saturday 23 July 2005 from the penguins-for-brains dept. Anonymous Coward writes "Linux technology drives a new fully-autonomous vehicle developed for a major U.S. competition. From the article: 'While enterprise and desktop discussions grab headlines, Linux is quietly infiltrating into much more mundane applications -- such as running the on-board computers of the University of Central Florida's entry for the DARPA Grand Challenge autonomous, unmanned vehicle competition. Prof. Kien Hua of the College of Engineering and Computer Science heads up the UCF program as team leader.'"
(Straight from the Bizarro World, where/. is still a Linux-oriented website.)
That it was a Beatles song, it was not a Beatles track. It's Paul McCartney and U2, doing a Beatles cover. Compare with the actual downloads of the Beatles catalog (if it's in iTMS, I don't know since I don't use it) and then we'll talk.
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Let us take for example my 802.11b wireless USB adapter. Had it running in windows in 5 minutes with no reboots and all I had to do was stick a CD in the drive and click a few times on the mouse. Contrast this with Linux.
Well, so you're saying you prefer Windows over Linux because of vendor support. Fair enough. That's one of our chicken-egg problems, of course: vendors don't support Linux because there's not enough users because vendors don't support Linux, ad nauseaum. (I do understand the vendors concerns about the problems with supporting Linux (different distros, etc.))
Vendor support is one aspect where Windows beats Linux hands down, and I'm sure we can think of others. However, the reason I pick Linux over Windows or Mac OSX, and I know I may well be in the minority here, is because it is free software (open source). I support this idea and that's why I use it even though driver support is lacking (heck, I'm porting GoboLinux in my iBook, talk about unsupported...) and encourage my friends to "dump Windows". I do respect those who think differently, of course.
I think that for a long time Slashdot was a Linux-oriented site, and sometimes I forget that it has morphed into a more "generic tech site" as it grew.
You can sign your code using a public key scheme like GPG. No need for a middle-man like VeriSign. Users can get your public key at your project's website and verify that the code is really yours. Of course, your project's website may be compromised... but so can VeriSign's...
Don't get me wrong, I love Firefox as much as the next Slashdotter, but don't we all want a more secure Internet Explorer for our Windows-using friends as well?
I thought we wanted our Windows-using friends to dump Internet Explorer, as a first step in the process of dumping Windows.
Well, at least I do.
SQL ain't relational.
That says "SQL and the relational model". Compare:
Apples ain't oranges.
That is not a logical reply.
The "all it needs now is a text editor" must be, like, the oldest Emacs joke _ever_!
And you can't be excused for being new here, because I've seen you around for a long time by now, Mr. Coward.
The tag was called Blink, not Flash. Perhaps you mixed it up because of the old FLASH command from the Apple II? :) (which made text blink somewhat like the tag)
And just for kicks, here's Marquee in Applesoft Basic:
10 TEXT: HOME
20 INPUT "ENTER MESSAGE: "; A$
30 HOME
40 R = INT(RND(1)*20)+1
50 FOR A = 1 TO LEN(A$)
60 VTAB R: HTAB 1
70 PRINT RIGHT$(A$, A)
80 GOSUB 1000
90 NEXT A
100 FOR A = 1 TO 40
110 B$ = LEFT$(A$, LEN(A$)-(40-A))
120 VTAB R: HTAB A
130 PRINT " " + B$
140 GOSUB 1000
150 NEXT A
160 GOTO 30
1000 REM ** A DELAY
1010 FOR D = 1 TO 100: NEXT
1020 RETURN
More like a screensaver, actually. Oh boy, writing this made me remember how good it is not to have to write line numbers anymore....
One may or may not agree with the guys opinions (especially about his stance on non-technical issues), but the fact is that Hans Reiser is one of the top experts in the field of filesystems.
I for one would like to know what Hans has to say on this fs.
As a Trek fan all I can say is "power to those guys", I'm looking forward to check out their stuff once their server recovers, but...
:(
what are the legal ramifications of this? Isn't there some Big Corporation who owns the rights to the Star Trek names? If New Voyages makes it big I fear they'll be sued out of existance...
Earlier in the design, the SPU's were called Streaming Processing Units (you know like SSE, Streming SIMD Extensions). However, they didn't want to give the impression that the SPU's were designed only for "streaming data" kind of tasks, so they decided to change its name.
;)
:)
I guess "SPU" had already stuck with the developer team, so they just switched the word to "some meaningless word with S" so they could keep the acronym. And as far as meaningless words with S go, "Synergistic" fits the bill quite nicely.
After the fact, of course, they can let the marketroids make up explanations on how the name is actually about the "synergy" between the main processor and the SPUs, blah blah blah...
I don't know quite what happened but it didn't boot anymore.
/dev/hda, you just ruined your boot sector. fdisk would have fixed it.
/dev/hda[x] (the partitions), IIRC you ruined the superblock, but there's a copy of that in another sector, fsck should be able to recover.
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Well, all those Linksys hacks are based on the tarballs originally released by Linksys in their process of complying to the GPL.
While it's not impossible to do it without vendor support (XBox Linux, etc), the cool hacks are greatly helped by packages released by vendors.
Hopefully, as companies see the benefits that ensue from this relation, they develop a different attitude towards Linux (Sony wrt Linux on the PlayStations is a good example -- here's hoping their announcements for Linux on the PS3 will materialize (but I'm not holding my breath)).
Actually, KHTML is LGPL.
I agree with your comment, but you mention that the bet is that companies will foster further development of the projects even if they're not forced to provide code back [I'd quote but I'm posting this from links]. I have my doubts.
This is an interesting development. Companies have been using Linux in their wireless boxes due to the lack of any viable alternative. Due to the GPL, these companies were forced to publish their changes to the kernel, which has allowed the number of cool hacks we've been seing. Clearly, those companies would rather keep their changes proprietary, so BSD based systems are much more attractive to them. While it's nice to see improved hardware support to another free operating system, this might bring adverse consequences in the long run. We'll see...
It's because you're doing E=MC2, not E=MC^2. Redo your calculations and you'll see everything makes sense now. ;)
:)
Now seriously, I don't get it either.
(Another thing I don't get: why isn't <super> allowed HTML?)
Who says one can't learn new useful things on Slashdot?
Isn't "color-coded threat levels" an excessively paranoid way to describe what we've always known as outdated, buggy software? This kind of representation paints a very fake picture -- as if those "threats" are a given and that all we can do is "try to protect ourselves", when in fact what we're dealing with is simply the result of flawed operating system design. These threats are only symptoms, not the root of the problem. I wonder who benefits from making people focus on the former instead of the latter.
He didn't want to infringe the patent. :)
But... do they fly?
I'm not a salesman, indeed. But there is a "comparsion between top and htop" there, and a screenshot section. :)
Any other suggestions?
Thanks,
IIRC, she [Sandra Johnson] is the head of one of IBM's Linux Technology Centers. It was pretty interesting and I got to skim the book for a while. Looked good, but I always have the fear that books like this get outdated fast. It had half a page on top -- I told her to include htop in the next edition. No plug is as shameless as when you do it in person. ;)
You might want to consider installing Linux. FreeType has a very configurable font smoothing system integrated into X (but X is teh suck! blah blah blah -- not anymore).
From the KDE Control Center, you can, with a few clicks, indicate what kind of font smoothing you want.
Go to Control Center -> Fonts. Check the "Use anti-aliasing for fonts" box. The "Configure..." button becomes active. Click it.
You have the following options:
[ ] Exclude range [8.0pt] to [15.0pt] (if you want it to behave like (IIRC) Win2K, which only smoothes large fonts)
[ ] Use sub-pixel hinting (This is the ClearType-like feature) -> it has a combo where you can specify how are the subpixels of your LCD laid out -- just do some trial and error and see what looks best for you.
Hinting style: [None/Slight/Medium/Full] -> here you can adjust how "aggressive" you want font smoothing to be.
Easy, powerful and free!
I did submit this, and it was rejected.
Posted by Hisham on 23:11 Saturday 23 July 2005
/. is still a Linux-oriented website.)
from the penguins-for-brains dept.
Anonymous Coward writes "Linux technology drives a new fully-autonomous vehicle developed for a major U.S. competition. From the article: 'While enterprise and desktop discussions grab headlines, Linux is quietly infiltrating into much more mundane applications -- such as running the on-board computers of the University of Central Florida's entry for the DARPA Grand Challenge autonomous, unmanned vehicle competition. Prof. Kien Hua of the College of Engineering and Computer Science heads up the UCF program as team leader.'"
(Straight from the Bizarro World, where
Never heard of "pagamento à vista"? That means you're paying in a single payment. (As opposed to "pagamento a prazo", ie, split in several payments).
That it was a Beatles song, it was not a Beatles track. It's Paul McCartney and U2, doing a Beatles cover. Compare with the actual downloads of the Beatles catalog (if it's in iTMS, I don't know since I don't use it) and then we'll talk.