"The iTunes Music Store recently stopped supporting iTunes versions below 4.7 in an attempt to shut out 3rd party clients. I have reverse engineered the iTMS 4.7 crypto which will once again enable 3rd party clients to communicate with the iTMS."
Hm, is Apple to stupid or Jon Lech Johansen just to clever for them?
> They also have a CAT-5 connector right next to the USB
> port. It does not seem to be hooked up to anything
> meaningful though.
They don't run a DHCP server.
But have you tried to access network 10.254.254.x?
10.254.254.100 should be the primary aribus flight computer, 10.254.254.101 the backup computer. If the pilot has forgotten to change the default password, you may find some default passwords at google.
Digital photography can be done very well with Linux. At least since Bibble-Labs has released their "Professional Raw Workflow software" for Linux.
I have been using Bibble 4.0 quite some time now and the results and it's speed are amazing.
Gimp is a nice program, but if it comes to RAW images, Bibble can save you much time.
See http://www.bibblelabs.com/
Bibble 4.1 LE costs 69$ more than the free Raw converter "dcraw", but hey, if you can afford a professional digital camera...;-)
So your claim "Until GIMP receives more power (features, interface) under the hood, or Adobe or Jasc start porting their products, professional photographers CAN'T use Linux" may have been true some months ago - but today Linux is very usable for "professional photographers".
Mir-2 should have been the successor of the science station MIR. Parts of it are incorparated into the ISS.
Mir-2 has nothing to do with this "battle station" Polyus.
The SX8 uses a 90nm CPU clocked two times as high as the one used in the SX6 respective the erarth simulator.
Taking into account all the additional improvements it's save to say the SX-8 will be twice as fast as the old one - so 65 TFlops seem reachable.
For those interested in how vector processing compares with scalar
processing in terms of absolute performance and computational efficience,
this paper of Leonid Oliker et.al. is definetely worth reading:
> This article's been up for over quarter of an hour now and...
> where's the KDE v Gnome flamewar?
The flamewar is included in the article, no need for a flamewar at slash dot.
The reviewer should have called his article^W^Wflamewar not "First Look at SUSE LINUX Professional 9.1" but "My First Look at SUSE LINUX from a Gnome's point of view".
Let's start the flamewar with Yast (there is a QT-based (->evil) GUI for it)
My only concern (and this has been a standing concern for some time now) is that the YaST-based (Yet another Setup Tool) installation process is too lengthy. The installer asks a lot of configuration -related questions which could most likely be automated or, at the very least, give the user an option for a 'beginner' install.
Huh? If you want, you only need to click "Next" and "Yes".
OK, you have to type your root password and login+password for a user account, but that's it.
I really don't mind the more complicated questions during installation, but it might be a bit intimidating for new users to Linux.
Of course, because there are no complicated questions for beginners to answer.
I half expected Ximian GNOME to be the desktop of choice with this release. Instead, a very vanilla GNOME 2.4.2 was included.[...]You can definitely tell that far more effort was put into KDE development as there was into GNOME, as it look very 'stock' and unattended to.
Maybe you should say that to the gnome people? Is it Suse's problem if Gnome looks bad?
Granted this software is in beta4 release, so there is still room for improvement, but so far all of the development effort has been on KDE. Even still, it hasn't gone unnoticed. KDE has never looked better.
Can you prove that "all" of the development effort has been on KDE? Hey, the reason for KDE looking better is not Suse, but the release of KDE 3.2.x! ->Screenshot
SUSE, as usual, has spent some time tweaking the KDE desktop to look the best it can.
Nice try, but the KDE-Menu of Suse 9.1 looks like a KDE-3.2 standard-menu.
None of the visual effects (drop shadows, transparency, etc.) are turned on by default but can easily be adjusted within the KDE Control Center (Kcontrol).
That should give Gnome an edge over KDE.
The K Menu (similar to the Windows Start menu) has been reworked and organized to an extent that it makes many other distros look pale in comparison.
It looks like the K-Menu from Suse 9 or Suse 8.2 or any other distro. Welcome to KDE 3.2!
As I stated earlier in the review, I chose the default system configuration to see how well it equipped me to do everything I would need to do on a daily basis. Well, I was not pleased with the results.
Let's see...
While it had several very useful applications, and very well could satisfy most users needs, I found it lacking a few key components. For one, the Mozilla web browser was noticeably missing, as was Gaim instant messenger.
Mozilla is missing because there is Konqueror 3.2.1 and Firefox. Gaim is missing because there is Kopete, which offers more features and better integration.
There was also no graphical FTP clients available such as KBear or gFTP.
Welcome to KDE 3.2. KBear or Gftp is not installed by default, because there is KWallet + Konqueror. With KDE 3.2 there is nearly no need for a stand alone Gui-FTP-Client.
Sure, they are technically GNOME applications (on a certain level anyway), but that's no reason to leave them out of the configuration.
There are good reasons, see above.
YaST has been tightly integrated into Kcontrol (see the screenshots below) to allow centralised administration of all system settings. This is an excellent modification to the package.
> Maybe because some Web pages have editable text?
Why do you need a Cut Icon on editable web pages? Most web pages are not editable. Some are. At some of those you need to cut text. That's why there is a "edit/cut" menu.
No other webbrowser does have a cut or copy or paste icon on the default tool bar. That just makes konquerors toolbar look unprofessional and crowded.
> If you'd bother to use a version that isn't almost a year
> old (hint: KDE 3.2, we've had alpha and even beta
> releases out for a few weeks now) you'd know that it does
> pass.
Thats one of KDEs problems:
It's a matter of one minute to update Mozilla.
There is no possibility to update Konqueror 3.1 besides updating your whole desktop environment to a beta version.
So he doesn't use a version that is "lmost a year old" but he is using the newest stable release.
> but Konq is surprisingly good these days.
Look at the toolbar:
Why is Konqueror showing a "cut" icon on a webpage?
> Nvidia drivers for both nForce motherboard > chipset and GeForce Graphics chipsets has never > _EVER_ been of production quality.
Then, which other 3D-capable driver has ever been of production quality?
You are writing best of FUD.
- Nvidia is one of the few companies that releases fast and feature rich x86,AMD64,IA64,...drivers - They even provide a own AGP Gart driver if the standard Kernel driver does not work well. - Their first drivers have had really some problems but over the years(!) they got the best working and most feature rich drivers for XFree.
It's good to see a hardware company that actually employes several Linux-driver-developers.
"However, the compromised system had both an IDS and a file integrity checker installed"
Gentoo realized that they got hacked after one day.
GNU Savannah realized that they got hacked after one month.
It's time to propagate the use of file integrity checkers!
They can detect the effects of any new exploit and can't be circumvented (when properly used!).
Also, i2c and the lm sensors interface is built right in as well. So now I don't have to compile i2c and lm sensors to know how hot my mobo and cpu are running.
You don't need lm_sensors to check voltage, temperature or rpm. Mbmon does the same as lm_sensors but is a userspace program. So no more kernel patching and recompiling.
Even hardware compatibility is sometimes better.
> Is it just me, or is testing an optimized compiler on > processors it isn't optimized for a little silly?
No, it's not. That compiler is (in many cases) the best compiler for Opteron. The Intel Compiler is able to optimize for P3-like CPUs and Athlon and Opteron CPUs have many P3 characteristics.
> It's the Intel compiler.
Yes, it is Intel's compiler. But an Opteron with this Intel compiler is faster than an comparable Intel CPU. That's what matters for High Performance Computing.
> It's not going to take advantage of things like 3dnow that the AMD chips use.
It's going to take advantage of things like SSE and SSE2 that the AMD Chip uses. 3Dnow has no real advantage over SSE/SSE2 even on an Opteron.
But if you want, search www.spec.org for some P4 gcc Spec numers and compare them with ICC numbers. ICC is faster, no question, but even there GCC manages to achieve some comparable results. At some sub-benchmarks it is even faster.
> Eh, I wouldn't say that GCC is "worthless", it's just that its worth lies in an
> area that has nothing to do with high-performance computing. Or even
> mid-performance computing.:)
The author of this is should be "Dr. Stefan Hildemann" . But google knows no "Dr. Stefan Hildemann". Google also knows no "Dr. Hildemann" working at a software firm. -> Fake?
No really -- do you have any evidence that these were US bombs?
The failure rate of most "smart" bombs and cruise missiles is less then 100%. It's between 85% and 95%.
Iraq does not use ground to air missiles inside Bagdad (It's a huge six million people town). They use anti-aircraft artillery because SAMs would have been already destroyed by anti radar missiles.
"The KDE scanning application Kooka and the commercial OCR tool Kadmos enable users to scan both printed and hand-written texts into the word processing application."
"With the comfortable and enhanced SuSE configuration profile manager, notebook users, who commute between different locations, can switch to the network and hardware configurations of every office site and therefore, can use scanners and printers of the respective location with a simple mouse click."
"[...] and the possibility to store folders in the running system in a crypto file system without the need for a new partitioning." That sounds really cool.
Slashdot Mirror
> How long before someone figures out how to make
> PyMusique look like iTunes 4.7?
Already broken again!
http://nanocrew.net/blog/apple/itms47.html
"The iTunes Music Store recently stopped supporting iTunes versions below 4.7 in an attempt to shut out 3rd party clients. I have reverse engineered the iTMS 4.7 crypto which will once again enable 3rd party clients to communicate with the iTMS."
Hm, is Apple to stupid or Jon Lech Johansen just to clever for them?
> They also have a CAT-5 connector right next to the USB
> port. It does not seem to be hooked up to anything
> meaningful though.
They don't run a DHCP server.
But have you tried to access network 10.254.254.x?
10.254.254.100 should be the primary aribus flight computer, 10.254.254.101 the backup computer. If the pilot has forgotten to change the default password, you may find some default passwords at google.
Have you ever used a recent version of K3B?
Surely K3B has some bugs (see bugs.kde.org) but burning files (even "--readme.txt") just works.
Digital photography can be done very well with Linux. At least since Bibble-Labs has released their "Professional Raw Workflow software" for Linux.
I have been using Bibble 4.0 quite some time now and the results and it's speed are amazing.
Gimp is a nice program, but if it comes to RAW images, Bibble can save you much time.
See http://www.bibblelabs.com/
Bibble 4.1 LE costs 69$ more than the free Raw converter "dcraw", but hey, if you can afford a professional digital camera...;-)
So your claim "Until GIMP receives more power (features, interface) under the hood, or Adobe or Jasc start porting their products, professional photographers CAN'T use Linux" may have been true some months ago - but today Linux is very usable for "professional photographers".
Mir-2 should have been the successor of the science station MIR. Parts of it are incorparated into the ISS. Mir-2 has nothing to do with this "battle station" Polyus.
The SX8 uses a 90nm CPU clocked two times as high as the one used in the SX6 respective the erarth simulator. Taking into account all the additional improvements it's save to say the SX-8 will be twice as fast as the old one - so 65 TFlops seem reachable.
/ pap247.pdf
For those interested in how vector processing compares with scalar processing in terms of absolute performance and computational efficience, this paper of Leonid Oliker et.al. is definetely worth reading:
http://www.sc-conference.org/sc2004/schedule/pdfs
OK, if there is a Gbrowser/growser will there be a Krowser, too?
-- written with Konqueror
Huh? What are you talking about?
> 1. Start gedit.
> 2. Type in something. Select all and click Copy.
> 3. Start kedit.
> 4. Click Paste. It works.
Ok, that works, but what about:
1. Start gnumeric
2. Type in something. Create a chart. Select the chart and click Copy.
3. Start OOo Writer.
4. Click Paste. It works *not*!
Copy and paste of "Text" is trivial. But there is more to copy and paste than unformatted "Text".
Let's face reality.
> This article's been up for over quarter of an hour now and...
> where's the KDE v Gnome flamewar?
The flamewar is included in the article, no need for a flamewar at slash dot.
The reviewer should have called his article^W^Wflamewar not "First Look at SUSE LINUX Professional 9.1" but "My First Look at SUSE LINUX from a Gnome's point of view".
Let's start the flamewar with Yast (there is a QT-based (->evil) GUI for it)
My only concern (and this has been a standing concern for some time now) is that the YaST-based (Yet another Setup Tool) installation process is too lengthy. The installer asks a lot of configuration -related questions which could most likely be automated or, at the very least, give the user an option for a 'beginner' install.
Huh? If you want, you only need to click "Next" and "Yes". OK, you have to type your root password and login+password for a user account, but that's it.
I really don't mind the more complicated questions during installation, but it might be a bit intimidating for new users to Linux.
Of course, because there are no complicated questions for beginners to answer.
I half expected Ximian GNOME to be the desktop of choice with this release. Instead, a very vanilla GNOME 2.4.2 was included.[...]You can definitely tell that far more effort was put into KDE development as there was into GNOME, as it look very 'stock' and unattended to.
Maybe you should say that to the gnome people? Is it Suse's problem if Gnome looks bad?
Granted this software is in beta4 release, so there is still room for improvement, but so far all of the development effort has been on KDE. Even still, it hasn't gone unnoticed. KDE has never looked better.
Can you prove that "all" of the development effort has been on KDE? Hey, the reason for KDE looking better is not Suse, but the release of KDE 3.2.x! ->Screenshot
SUSE, as usual, has spent some time tweaking the KDE desktop to look the best it can.
Nice try, but the KDE-Menu of Suse 9.1 looks like a KDE-3.2 standard-menu.
None of the visual effects (drop shadows, transparency, etc.) are turned on by default but can easily be adjusted within the KDE Control Center (Kcontrol).
That should give Gnome an edge over KDE.
The K Menu (similar to the Windows Start menu) has been reworked and organized to an extent that it makes many other distros look pale in comparison.
It looks like the K-Menu from Suse 9 or Suse 8.2 or any other distro. Welcome to KDE 3.2!
As I stated earlier in the review, I chose the default system configuration to see how well it equipped me to do everything I would need to do on a daily basis. Well, I was not pleased with the results.
Let's see...
While it had several very useful applications, and very well could satisfy most users needs, I found it lacking a few key components. For one, the Mozilla web browser was noticeably missing, as was Gaim instant messenger.
Mozilla is missing because there is Konqueror 3.2.1 and Firefox. Gaim is missing because there is Kopete, which offers more features and better integration.
There was also no graphical FTP clients available such as KBear or gFTP.
Welcome to KDE 3.2. KBear or Gftp is not installed by default, because there is KWallet + Konqueror. With KDE 3.2 there is nearly no need for a stand alone Gui-FTP-Client.
Sure, they are technically GNOME applications (on a certain level anyway), but that's no reason to leave them out of the configuration.
There are good reasons, see above.
YaST has been tightly integrated into Kcontrol (see the screenshots below) to allow centralised administration of all system settings. This is an excellent modification to the package.
NEWS?? Have you ever look
> Maybe because some Web pages have editable text?
Why do you need a Cut Icon on editable web pages?
Most web pages are not editable. Some are. At some of those you need to cut text. That's why there is a "edit/cut" menu.
No other webbrowser does have a cut or copy or paste icon on the default tool bar.
That just makes konquerors toolbar look unprofessional and crowded.
> old (hint: KDE 3.2, we've had alpha and even beta
> releases out for a few weeks now) you'd know that it does
> pass.
Thats one of KDEs problems:
So he doesn't use a version that is "lmost a year old" but he is using the newest stable release.
> but Konq is surprisingly good these days.
Look at the toolbar:
Why is Konqueror showing a "cut" icon on a webpage?
> Nvidia drivers for both nForce motherboard
> chipset and GeForce Graphics chipsets has never
> _EVER_ been of production quality.
Then, which other 3D-capable driver has ever been of production quality?
You are writing best of FUD.
- Nvidia is one of the few companies that releases fast and feature rich x86,AMD64,IA64,...drivers
- They even provide a own AGP Gart driver if the standard Kernel driver does not work well.
- Their first drivers have had really some problems but over the years(!) they got the best working and most feature rich drivers for XFree.
It's good to see a hardware company that actually employes several Linux-driver-developers.
From the Gentoo Altert:
Gentoo realized that they got hacked after one day.
GNU Savannah realized that they got hacked after one month.
It's time to propagate the use of file integrity checkers! They can detect the effects of any new exploit and can't be circumvented (when properly used!).
AIDE
Tripwire
> So, on iTunes, I have 3 control buttons, a pretty
> status meter, and a search field. That is it.
Yes, that's it. Either it's enought for you or you have a problem.
> Now look at JuK. There is a crapload of buttons
> making the interface completely suck.
You don't have to use those buttons. You can remove them or add new ones.
It would be cool if you could clean the JuK toolbar and send the patch (or screenshot) to the Juk developers.
That's the reason for a beta version!
- Also, i2c and the lm sensors interface is built right in as well. So now I don't have to compile i2c and lm sensors to know how hot my mobo and cpu are running.
You don't need lm_sensors to check voltage, temperature or rpm. Mbmon does the same as lm_sensors but is a userspace program. So no more kernel patching and recompiling. Even hardware compatibility is sometimes better.http://freshmeat.net/projects/xmbmon/
> Is it just me, or is testing an optimized compiler on
> processors it isn't optimized for a little silly?
No, it's not. That compiler is (in many cases) the best compiler for Opteron. The Intel Compiler is able to optimize for P3-like CPUs and Athlon and Opteron CPUs have many P3 characteristics.
> It's the Intel compiler.
Yes, it is Intel's compiler. But an Opteron with this Intel compiler is faster than an comparable Intel CPU. That's what matters for High Performance Computing.
> It's not going to take advantage of things like 3dnow that the AMD chips use.
It's going to take advantage of things like SSE and SSE2 that the AMD Chip uses. 3Dnow has no real advantage over SSE/SSE2 even on an Opteron.
But if you want, search www.spec.org for some P4 gcc Spec numers and compare them with ICC numbers. ICC is faster, no question, but even there GCC manages to achieve some comparable results. At some sub-benchmarks it is even faster.
> Eh, I wouldn't say that GCC is "worthless", it's just that its worth lies in an :)
2 000-20030728-02428.html
and2 000-20030728-02417.html
> area that has nothing to do with high-performance computing. Or even > mid-performance computing.
GCC is really fast.
Look at some SPEC_FP numbers:
(1) http://www.spec.org/cpu2000/results/res2003q3/cpu
(2) http://www.spec.org/cpu2000/results/res2003q3/cpu
The c++ benchmarks (177.mesa,179.art,183.equake,188.ammp) were compiled with ICC (1) and gcc (2).
At two out of those four benchmarks (50%), GCC 3.3 is FASTER than the best Intel Compiler.
At least for Opteron (and Athlon) GCC is really good. Opteron with GCC and PGI Fortran compiler is excellent suited for High-Performance-Computing.
A big Thanks to the SuSE team for porting GCC to AMD64 and doing some usefull optimizations. http://www.x86-64.org/contributors/gcc
> Why won't Apple just use the AIX C compiler?
Because the pipeline of the Ppc670 is longer than that of the Power4.
IBM's compiler won't produce fast code for an ppc670 nor will it produce altivec stuff.
The author of this is should be "Dr. Stefan Hildemann" . But google knows no "Dr. Stefan Hildemann". Google also knows no "Dr. Hildemann" working at a software firm. -> Fake?
Sun is now offering UltraSparc IIIi processors:
http://www.sun.com/processors/UltraSPARC-IIIi/
They do have some similarities to AMD's opteron processor:
- 1 MB on-chip L2 cache
- integrated memory controller
- 128bit DDR Ram
- large L1 cache
It should be interesting to compare those two processors.
Sun is now offering UltraSparc IIIi processors:
http://www.sun.com/processors/UltraSPARC-IIIi/
They do have some similarities to AMD's opteron processor:
- 1 MB on-chip L2 cache
- integrated memory controller
- 128bit DDR Ram
- large L1 cache
It should be interesting to compare those two processors.
- Second, since the bush administration has consistently lied about the status of what's happening,
Nonsense. Can you provide any example to back this claim? Any, at all?What about the supposed purchase of large quantities of uranium from Niger? - Fake
http://www.zdf.de/ZDFde/inhalt/0/0,1872,2037280,0
What about the british report which is mostly a copy of the work of an student - they only changed "opposition" with "terrorist"?
http://www.newsday.com/news/nationworld/world/ny-
http://www.number-10.gov.uk/output/Page1470.asp
http://www.dailycollegian.com/vnews/display.v/ART
What about...
- The failure rate of most "smart" bombs and cruise missiles is less then 100%. It's between 85% and 95%.
- Iraq does not use ground to air missiles inside Bagdad (It's a huge six million people town). They use anti-aircraft artillery because SAMs would have been already destroyed by anti radar missiles.
http://www1.iraqwar.ru/iraq-analiz_lenta_w.php?seGeforce1, Nvidia binary driver, Athlon XP 2000 =>
20000 reps @ 0.3140 msec ( 3190.0/sec): 500x500 tiled rectangle (216x208 tile) 320000 reps @ 0.0187 msec ( 53500.0/sec): Char in 80-char rgb line (Courier 12)
"The KDE scanning application Kooka and the commercial OCR tool Kadmos enable users to scan both printed and hand-written texts into the word processing application."
"With the comfortable and enhanced SuSE configuration profile manager, notebook users, who commute between different locations, can switch to the network and hardware configurations of every office site and therefore, can use scanners and printers of the respective location with a simple mouse click."
"[...] and the possibility to store folders in the running system in a crypto file system without the need for a new partitioning." That sounds really cool.
e s/archive03/82.html
Read the full announcement at http://www.suse.com/us/company/press/press_releas