At Diamondway Teachings we use a simple Java client (don't remember which one) for the purpose. We're streaming Ogg, as it sounds LOTS better than MP3 at very low bitrates.
That certainly depends on your definition of 'nature'!
If you check out this years Nobel Price winners (it's about Quarks and the Strong force in atomic nuclei, Quantum ChromoDynamics, QCD), you'll find that nature, at its innermost core, is described in terms of waves and quite advanced mathematics. The deeper you examine the nature of space and matter, the more mathematical and abstract it gets.
It's quite fortunate that it simplifies to Newtonian physics in most everyday situations, or it'd be a nightmare to make stuff like cars etc. work.
Eulers Formula is a reminder that the Universe is a much more magical place than we usually think of. With all due respect for the others, this one wins my heart.
I'm working for a Danish computer magazine (Komputer for alle), and am somewhat annoyed by this having happened already. But it's official, it's internet, not Internet etc.
It would indeed be great to switch to all-Flash hard drives - I've seen way too many rotating drives die.
Unfortunately, the chance for prices to drop the way old-fashioned drives have dropped (and upped capacity) is slim - for the simple reason that Flash technology as we know it dows not scale down in size nearly as well as ram/CPU/conventional chips do.
I hardly remember who said that - was it Microsoft? Don't listen, they don't know what they're talking about:)
Libertarians may be a pain in the ass (myself included), but they're good for Freedom. Founding fathers would have taken the NYT statement as a compliment, I do.
A couple bottles wine is my favorite. I never have to buy any, there's always some coming along.
I'm surprised nobody managed to get laid in connection with fixing ladies' computers. I had at least three offers myself (but in typical geek manner messed them all up - one hint: don't come late for your appointment!!). Or perhaps this happens only in Old Europe, not in the USA?
Uh - I'm afraid it's a yes:(( Email isn't dead, it just smells that way:(
Since one of the large virus outbreaks last falls, I've been at 300+ emails a day, mostly virus, spam second. It just doesn't fade away. Bogofilter does a good job, and it's doable to weed out most of the useful stuff from the junk, but it's still much more timeconsuming than it used to be.
My solution is to take important projects away from email to alternative forums like Wiki's, SourceForge and the like.
For LiveCD's, I would love to have KOffice. It's good-looking, functional and fast. I understand the political reasons (MSOffice user migration), but would love to see a version with KOffice, LaTeX and possibly other stuff.
Ideally, someone would set up a server where one can pick and drop whatever modules needed and drop the rest (I don't use GIMP, for one), within the space limitations of your standard ISO. Download ISO, burn, and you have your very own Linux boot CD with the best of both worlds:
LiveCD
Misconfiguration impossible
Hard drive & HD install not needed
No virus
Runs on any machine at hand
Installed
You get to choose the SW packages
Heck, I'd even pay to have such a CD beside my SuSE install.
Since I did some kernel upgrades, my ALSA config went six feet under, and I've been struggling to resolve it.
Installing a beta of SuSE 9.1 _almost_ did the trick, but now I get sound only in one channel. And the other if I use the audio in front plug. Running from a Live-CD or Windows works fine.
Where is the 'Configure ALSA from scratch' guide???
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Well I doubt they're going to come out with a stable one for win32.
Damn, you're right:
The procedure entry point XML_SetDoctypeDeclHandler could not be located in the dynamic link library xmlparse.dll
Do not try to delete both partitions on the drive so you can create one large partition. This will not work. You have to leave the two partitions separate in order to use them.
Uh-oh. This supports the 'Currupted Partition Table' theory. If the space was real, this wouldn't happen. I do have a spare drive, but I ain't gonna try this...
I wonder how SCO determined that Autozone is a Linux user.
It's mentioned in the IBM lawsuit:
Autozone switched from SCO to Linux. Is well known. The core of this issue is that SCO claims that they were using SCO shared libraries even after switching to Linux.
They had to do something to keep their stock from tanking on the financial results, I guess. Now IBM and RedHat lawyers will have more to work on.
In fact, anyone worried about SCO's claims on Linux would merely be acting in "good faith" by removing allegedly infringing lines from the kernel. Courts assume that anyone acting to mitigate damages (whether real or imagined) is acting in good faith and scores bonus points.
Even disregarding the possible bonus points in court, I think this is the time to write the 'Goodbye SCO' patch to deal with this code. It has been said over and over from Linus and all that any possibly infringing code would be removed quickly when SCO got down to telling what code it's about. Given the speed of discovery from SCO, it can even be done faster than they can make their claims.
The mere existence would look very good in the press and in court as well. Wether Linus would accept this patch is another matter - perhaps he could present this to SCO and ask if applying the patch would solve the outstanding issues:)
SCO seems to act as if they have patent on RCU, NUMA, etc. As it happens, they don't, and should just shut up.
Oops. Parent.sig goes:
Some are gibberish, like the Copenhagen interpretation. -David Deutsch
Grrr...:) I have the Niels Bohr heritage all around me, his old lab is downtown from here! All atoms in the universe are offended by this.sig! On their behalf I'll sue for slander! I'm a modest person (compared to SCO)! I'll sue you for only $5 million! Considering to the number of atoms involved, that's symbolic!
They should know, some of human DNA is stolen IP from SCO. They just compared random samples of DNA to one SCO employee and found a lot of common secuences in the code. They will start asking for payments the next week.
... Silicon Image 3112 driver [..], this does work on some boxes, but NO SUCCESSFUL REPORTS on AMD64!
Damn...
Also I do like X and KDE (or Gnome for that matter) - being dropped to a raw shell is not tops. With the SI 3112 issues, I guess I'll have to add patience:)
Which is not at all what I have in mind. I know about Morphix, too, that's more like it.
What I want to see is a distro that you'll never configure, you just choose the modules you want, and go. Joe A. User can use this just as easily as Windows. Or Jane A. Administrator could get a custom bootdisk for the 100 desktop PC she rules. No configuration, no installation, no tweaking - just switch on and use, like a modern car.
Got my binaries from a mirror which had not replicated competely yet. Missed out kdelibs and stuff. Didn't notice, *KA-POOF!*. Fortunately Opera works outside KDE and I'm getting the rest now.
We can live with having this posted just a little later to/.:)
The virus, I mean. I've got almost a thousand of it in my inbox, now I hardly dare to boot Windows, I'll use SuSE for a few days. My autoreply is now set up with an autoreply urging Windows users to install a virus scanner. I know it's gonna hit east and west due to forged 'From'-fields, but hopefully it'll get someone to clean up their computer. My ISP is only barely holding up, the autoreply is a hundred minutes to come. Bruce Perens did very well in his reply, well done.
You might want to check out the work that Tomas Matejicek (the creator of Slax is doing). He is attempting to create a script that will box up a linux distro that you configure.
So you install your distro, then you configure the hell out of it.
That's interesting, but not what I'm looking for.
One of the main points about 'MandrakeMorph' is that it's be usable by your average non-techie user - just select base module, office module, games module and click go, and any Windows-addict will have a customized no-install Linux that requires no tech knowledge to use. Simpler and more robust than Windows, easy. It must be doable.
As others noticed, omitting MandrakeMove is strange. It's very slick, even the beta was solid as a rock, and I got a lot of work done.
Now, this and Morphix ("Unfortunately, noone can be told what the Morphix is") got me thinking:
It should be technically feasible to automate the creation of customized.ISO files for live Linux distros: Suppose MandrakeSoft sets up some heavy servers with a shop frontend (pricing just an example):
$20: Choose packages and have ISO created for download.
$10 Have a CD burned and mailed to you.
$10 Reconfigure your package choice and get a fresh ISO.
$10 Have a fresh ISO made out using the current kernel/KDE/OpenOffice/whatever.
$20 Upgrade to DVD size image.
$?? Support (not much to do here)
$20 Printed manual
You'll have your name put somewhere into it so you won't have to type it in (thus you won't like to redistribute it wildly, either), and you'd set the default language, permanent storage options etc.
Advantages:
Never install or update applications manually.
Update whenever you feel like it - often or rarely.
Never have a failed dependency or inconsistent versions after getting an update.
No product activation or other licensing hassle.
You can't mess up your install (except by physically destroying the CD:).
Hackers can't put backdoors on your machine.
Virus infection not possible.
Even a harddrive crash doesn't destroy your install.
You can even run without any hard drive in the first place.
A public library could run their computers off a stack of these and not have to worry about people hacking the config - nothing to hack. Even a stolen CD is not a problem, you just bring out a backup copy. It's all Free Software anyway, you can let anyone steal it.
The selling of individual ISO's is automated, the distributor merely maintains the packages on the server and collects the money. Sends a donation to OSDL once in a while:)
I much prefer to use Knoppix because of its ability to mount hard drives, but MandrakeSoft have been very perceptive in their implementation of USB keys.
Actually, MandrakeMove mounts the hard drives just fine. The beta had icons on the desktop for it, but they took them out for the final (which I think is good). Over the holidays I used MandrakeMove on PC's of friends and family, and it worked very well, got much done. It's slick, fast (!), Just Works (TM).
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At Diamondway Teachings we use a simple Java client (don't remember which one) for the purpose. We're streaming Ogg, as it sounds LOTS better than MP3 at very low bitrates.
That certainly depends on your definition of 'nature'!
If you check out this years Nobel Price winners (it's about Quarks and the Strong force in atomic nuclei, Quantum ChromoDynamics, QCD), you'll find that nature, at its innermost core, is described in terms of waves and quite advanced mathematics. The deeper you examine the nature of space and matter, the more mathematical and abstract it gets.
It's quite fortunate that it simplifies to Newtonian physics in most everyday situations, or it'd be a nightmare to make stuff like cars etc. work.
Eulers Formula is a reminder that the Universe is a much more magical place than we usually think of. With all due respect for the others, this one wins my heart.
I'm working for a Danish computer magazine (Komputer for alle), and am somewhat annoyed by this having happened already. But it's official, it's internet, not Internet etc.
Unfortunately, the chance for prices to drop the way old-fashioned drives have dropped (and upped capacity) is slim - for the simple reason that Flash technology as we know it dows not scale down in size nearly as well as ram/CPU/conventional chips do.
Wishing myself to be wrong :)
These are not directly fixable by myself, world needs to move along. In the meantime, I practice patience & PHP :)
I hardly remember who said that - was it Microsoft? Don't listen, they don't know what they're talking about :)
Libertarians may be a pain in the ass (myself included), but they're good for Freedom. Founding fathers would have taken the NYT statement as a compliment, I do.
I'm surprised nobody managed to get laid in connection with fixing ladies' computers. I had at least three offers myself (but in typical geek manner messed them all up - one hint: don't come late for your appointment!!). Or perhaps this happens only in Old Europe, not in the USA?
Since one of the large virus outbreaks last falls, I've been at 300+ emails a day, mostly virus, spam second. It just doesn't fade away. Bogofilter does a good job, and it's doable to weed out most of the useful stuff from the junk, but it's still much more timeconsuming than it used to be.
My solution is to take important projects away from email to alternative forums like Wiki's, SourceForge and the like.
I guess someone will change the new version anyway, it's supposed to be easy.
For LiveCD's, I would love to have KOffice. It's good-looking, functional and fast. I understand the political reasons (MSOffice user migration), but would love to see a version with KOffice, LaTeX and possibly other stuff.
Ideally, someone would set up a server where one can pick and drop whatever modules needed and drop the rest (I don't use GIMP, for one), within the space limitations of your standard ISO. Download ISO, burn, and you have your very own Linux boot CD with the best of both worlds:
LiveCD
Installed
Heck, I'd even pay to have such a CD beside my SuSE install.
Installing a beta of SuSE 9.1 _almost_ did the trick, but now I get sound only in one channel. And the other if I use the audio in front plug. Running from a Live-CD or Windows works fine.
Where is the 'Configure ALSA from scratch' guide???
Damn, you're right:
The procedure entry point XML_SetDoctypeDeclHandler could not be located in the dynamic link library xmlparse.dll
Does GIMP have a Bugzilla somewhere?
Caution
Do not try to delete both partitions on the drive so you can create one large partition. This will not work. You have to leave the two partitions separate in order to use them.
Uh-oh. This supports the 'Currupted Partition Table' theory. If the space was real, this wouldn't happen. I do have a spare drive, but I ain't gonna try this...
It's mentioned in the IBM lawsuit:
Autozone switched from SCO to Linux. Is well known. The core of this issue is that SCO claims that they were using SCO shared libraries even after switching to Linux.
They had to do something to keep their stock from tanking on the financial results, I guess. Now IBM and RedHat lawyers will have more to work on.
Not?
One could hope...
Even disregarding the possible bonus points in court, I think this is the time to write the 'Goodbye SCO' patch to deal with this code. It has been said over and over from Linus and all that any possibly infringing code would be removed quickly when SCO got down to telling what code it's about. Given the speed of discovery from SCO, it can even be done faster than they can make their claims.
The mere existence would look very good in the press and in court as well. Wether Linus would accept this patch is another matter - perhaps he could present this to SCO and ask if applying the patch would solve the outstanding issues :)
SCO seems to act as if they have patent on RCU, NUMA, etc. As it happens, they don't, and should just shut up.
Oops. Parent .sig goes:
Some are gibberish, like the Copenhagen interpretation. -David Deutsch
Grrr... :) I have the Niels Bohr heritage all around me, his old lab is downtown from here! All atoms in the universe are offended by this .sig! On their behalf I'll sue for slander! I'm a modest person (compared to SCO)! I'll sue you for only $5 million! Considering to the number of atoms involved, that's symbolic!
Have fun! -Henrik
A bunch of monkeys, all of them :)
Gentoo AMD64
Whoa, a Live-CD :)
Trouble, though:
Damn...
Also I do like X and KDE (or Gnome for that matter) - being dropped to a raw shell is not tops. With the SI 3112 issues, I guess I'll have to add patience :)
What I want to see is a distro that you'll never configure, you just choose the modules you want, and go. Joe A. User can use this just as easily as Windows. Or Jane A. Administrator could get a custom bootdisk for the 100 desktop PC she rules. No configuration, no installation, no tweaking - just switch on and use, like a modern car.
No fun, the SATA driver is not included, it doesn't see my hard drive. Guess I'll have to do it the tricky way, modifying the install CD.
Any Linux's out there in 64 bit versions with a SATA driver out of the box?
We can live with having this posted just a little later to /. :)
So you install your distro, then you configure the hell out of it.
That's interesting, but not what I'm looking for.
One of the main points about 'MandrakeMorph' is that it's be usable by your average non-techie user - just select base module, office module, games module and click go, and any Windows-addict will have a customized no-install Linux that requires no tech knowledge to use. Simpler and more robust than Windows, easy. It must be doable.
Now, this and Morphix ("Unfortunately, noone can be told what the Morphix is") got me thinking:
It should be technically feasible to automate the creation of customized .ISO files for live Linux distros:
Suppose MandrakeSoft sets up some heavy servers with a shop frontend (pricing just an example):
- $20: Choose packages and have ISO created for download.
- $10 Have a CD burned and mailed to you.
- $10 Reconfigure your package choice and get a fresh ISO.
- $10 Have a fresh ISO made out using the current kernel/KDE/OpenOffice/whatever.
- $20 Upgrade to DVD size image.
- $?? Support (not much to do here)
- $20 Printed manual
You'll have your name put somewhere into it so you won't have to type it in (thus you won't like to redistribute it wildly, either), and you'd set the default language, permanent storage options etc.Advantages:
- Never install or update applications manually.
- Update whenever you feel like it - often or rarely.
- Never have a failed dependency or inconsistent versions after getting an update.
- No product activation or other licensing hassle.
- You can't mess up your install (except by physically destroying the CD
:). - Hackers can't put backdoors on your machine.
- Virus infection not possible.
- Even a harddrive crash doesn't destroy your install.
- You can even run without any hard drive in the first place.
A public library could run their computers off a stack of these and not have to worry about people hacking the config - nothing to hack. Even a stolen CD is not a problem, you just bring out a backup copy. It's all Free Software anyway, you can let anyone steal it.The selling of individual ISO's is automated, the distributor merely maintains the packages on the server and collects the money. Sends a donation to OSDL once in a while :)
Any reason this should not work?
Actually, MandrakeMove mounts the hard drives just fine. The beta had icons on the desktop for it, but they took them out for the final (which I think is good). Over the holidays I used MandrakeMove on PC's of friends and family, and it worked very well, got much done. It's slick, fast (!), Just Works (TM).
Yes, MandrakeMove is a glaring omission.