Kai Staats, main developer for Yellow Dog Linux, from Terra Soft (the firm Sony contracted), says "they're working hard" to [convince? Sony? NVIDIA?] to let Linux access the GPU.
Sony has payed the Yellow Dog Linux guys to port Linux to the PS3, so it's probably more optimized for it than Fedora (even though it's based on Fedora), for instance, by using the Enlightenment window manager.
You're not against proprietary licenses. You like them - you think MySQL's dual-licensing scheme is cool. When MySQL developers makes US$ 1.1 billion perverting the GPL, it's all right. You just hate when Redmond makes a billion.
What a fucking lopsided logic. You either are against proprietary licenses, or you aren't. That is Stallman's religion and you are on the road to apostasy.
You just don't like business-friendly licenses. Well, Apache just got US$ 100,000, Apple gave FreeBSD patches and a security framework, etc.
Face it: GPL world domination is not gonna happen, Perens. It's better that the Windows people use better quality software - like Apache - it makes the world a better, safer, more interoperable place.
One thing you do need for this to work is a community full of stupid people who will gladly waive all copyrights to MySQL - or any other such dual-license GPL/proprietary-license software house - in such a manner that they can incoporporate your patches in their source code, and say "so long, and thanks for all the fish - sucker!" to you, while they go on to become rich.
How ironic that Perens, whilst all the time deriding the Apache license and sanctimoniously gloating about the purported high moral ground and the higher intelligence ("Stallman has a Macarthur 'genius award'") that delivered unto this poor world of ours the Holy GPL - for us, the hoi polloi - unabashedly supports proprietary licenses - just as long as it's MySQL's.
I just can't take Linux advocates seriously anymore.
The only nuisance is that you have to create accounts on all these systems.
Bullshit. Clearly, you never had to search for hard answers.
The real nuisance is having to surf through various PHP forums and tidbits of information here, there and everywhere Google offers you, making you waste precious time. And where exactly, in the 30-plus options you have to post your question, should you post? And have you ever tried to find an answer in a PHP forum? Try Ubuntu's forum. The same answer will be posted, incompletely in, like, three different posts. It's all very stupid. Web forums suck. I accept nothing less than a new decentrelized protocol to replace NNTP. Anything that's not a protocol and decentralized is sub-standard.
The Usenet alternative is much faster. Got a question about Perl/dsp/symbolic mathematical systems/lisp/food? Post to a Usenet group. There's an expert there and he/she'll be glad to be of help.
Gmane rocks because it's bidrederctional mailing-listUsenet. So, for instance, if you wanted to post to comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc or linux.debian.user, the usual way is through mailing-lists that *afterwards* get propagated to newsgroups. If you posted directly on the newsgroup few people would read it. With Gmane you post on the newsgroup and it goes to the mailing-list and vice-versa (so you don't acutally have to sign-up for the mailing-list). At least, that was the way I used it many moons ago.
If you wanted an answer to a complicated technical question, it was the best place to go. If you wanted to discuss obscure music theory, it was the place to go.
Still is. For instance, a few months ago I worried that a spreadsheet program gave funny answers. Lo and behold, the developer of the thing was reading the newsgroup and I got a pretty reasonable explanation.
For programming languages and OS, nothing beats Usenet. Can you live without comp.lang.* ? Only if you're an amateur. All the experts are on Usenet. This also goes for some members of the scientific community, in particular the math dudes.
Usenet had better features than any stupid Web forum you see today. NNTP is decentralized. You can't "own" NNTP like you can own a forum.
But with all the legislators legislating so leisurely about leashing our privacy and putting corporations first, I expect more darknets and more crypto and stego. That's the way forward.
I have found that in the past 3-4 years, I almost never need to post a question, because the internet has grown so enormous that someone else has already asked it.
Huh. Funny that. Tech evolves. How could somebody have asked a question years ago about a system that came out now?
The kids today go crazy about Facebook, etc, but what will happen to your data, posts, etc. when the company folds? When the guy running your beloved PHP community gest tired of it? Lost to oblivion!
The thing with Usenet is that it's based on a protocol, NNTP, so it's part of the very thing that's the internet. So, really, it belongs to everyone and no-one in particular. It's a protocol, so it's a beautiful thing.
But, honestly, the masses are uneducated. Look at how people complain about copyright bills, privacy issues, etc., when they could be using Freenet (Freenet not USenet, BTW).
Usenet ignorance is terrible. But Usenet was never very easy to begin with. For instance, how to do you start a new Usenet group (on that has to be replicated) - it's kinda hard, IIRC.
What I think is fucking shameful is Ubuntu and Apple developers promoting Usenet ignorance. Even Microsoft has newsgroups.
Some Usenet providers will grant you registration-fee-only access and no rights to binaries.
This news server is at the University of Berlin and costs 10 euros/year. No binaries.
Unfortunately, Usenet today is a paid service. It would be nice if somebody created a Usenet free-for-all non-profit (of course, no binaries).
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Some Usenet providers will grant free access or for a very low cost with the caveat that you won't be able to download binaries. So no alt.food for pics of sandwiches.
It probably went down, because there's a whole generation that thinks PHP forums and Google will help you find *all* the answers when, in fact, early internet engineers were pretty smart guys and designed something in which you would go to one place to concentrate your searches. Furhtermore, the posting would be replicate to all servers.
Personally, I think googling for a technical answer in particular regarding programming languages is a PITA. Too many forums to search for. Usenet makes it much simpler, but witness the moronity level when Ubuntu and Apple don't propagate their mailing list to Usenet (which just about every other self-repecting OS crowd does - Debian, FreeBSD, etc.)
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Kai Staats, main developer for Yellow Dog Linux, from Terra Soft (the firm Sony contracted), says "they're working hard" to [convince? Sony? NVIDIA?] to let Linux access the GPU.
http://it.youtube.com/watch?v=lSP9b4Qcu4M
Maybe this will change if the community puts enough pressure on Sony and NVIDIA.
The ps3 has 8 cores. It's cheap. Something, e.g., with Sun's UtraSparc T2 costs over US$ 14,000.
http://www.sun.com/servers/coolthreads/t5140/
The ps3 is multicore for the masses. They're here.
This is, like, having an Apple ][ in 1977 :-).
Absolutely. Linux on the PS3 is for Cell programming.
Because you're cheap laptop you bought on eBay does not have a high-end multicore chip like Cell
See my other post - you should probably be using the Yellow Dog Linux, as Sony payed Terra Soft to port the thing to PS3.
http://www.terrasoftsolutions.com/products/ydl/
No tweaking necessary, and all the development tools you need, and updated.
Why? Because of the Cell chip.
If you still don't understand why, than you're not the kind of person who should buy a ps3 for Linux.
Sony has payed the Yellow Dog Linux guys to port Linux to the PS3, so it's probably more optimized for it than Fedora (even though it's based on Fedora), for instance, by using the Enlightenment window manager.
http://www.terrasoftsolutions.com/products/ydl/
You're not against proprietary licenses. You like them - you think MySQL's dual-licensing scheme is cool. When MySQL developers makes US$ 1.1 billion perverting the GPL, it's all right. You just hate when Redmond makes a billion.
What a fucking lopsided logic. You either are against proprietary licenses, or you aren't. That is Stallman's religion and you are on the road to apostasy.
You just don't like business-friendly licenses. Well, Apache just got US$ 100,000, Apple gave FreeBSD patches and a security framework, etc.
Face it: GPL world domination is not gonna happen, Perens. It's better that the Windows people use better quality software - like Apache - it makes the world a better, safer, more interoperable place.
One thing you do need for this to work is a community full of stupid people who will gladly waive all copyrights to MySQL - or any other such dual-license GPL/proprietary-license software house - in such a manner that they can incoporporate your patches in their source code, and say "so long, and thanks for all the fish - sucker!" to you, while they go on to become rich.
How ironic that Perens, whilst all the time deriding the Apache license and sanctimoniously gloating about the purported high moral ground and the higher intelligence ("Stallman has a Macarthur 'genius award'") that delivered unto this poor world of ours the Holy GPL - for us, the hoi polloi - unabashedly supports proprietary licenses - just as long as it's MySQL's.
I just can't take Linux advocates seriously anymore.
The only nuisance is that you have to create accounts on all these systems.
Bullshit. Clearly, you never had to search for hard answers.
The real nuisance is having to surf through various PHP forums and tidbits of information here, there and everywhere Google offers you, making you waste precious time. And where exactly, in the 30-plus options you have to post your question, should you post? And have you ever tried to find an answer in a PHP forum? Try Ubuntu's forum. The same answer will be posted, incompletely in, like, three different posts. It's all very stupid. Web forums suck. I accept nothing less than a new decentrelized protocol to replace NNTP. Anything that's not a protocol and decentralized is sub-standard.
The Usenet alternative is much faster. Got a question about Perl/dsp/symbolic mathematical systems/lisp/food? Post to a Usenet group. There's an expert there and he/she'll be glad to be of help.
Gmane rocks because it's bidrederctional mailing-listUsenet. So, for instance, if you wanted to post to comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc or linux.debian.user, the usual way is through mailing-lists that *afterwards* get propagated to newsgroups. If you posted directly on the newsgroup few people would read it. With Gmane you post on the newsgroup and it goes to the mailing-list and vice-versa (so you don't acutally have to sign-up for the mailing-list). At least, that was the way I used it many moons ago.
But spamming could be resolved with Bayesian filtering, right?
Why did it die? Spam.
And the most horrible type of spam: porn sites started cross-posting in *every* group. So you got *.fatgirls in *.thingirls and that ruined it.
Yeah. Wankers done it.
Fuck you for spamming /.
If you wanted an answer to a complicated technical question, it was the best place to go. If you wanted to discuss obscure music theory, it was the place to go.
Still is. For instance, a few months ago I worried that a spreadsheet program gave funny answers. Lo and behold, the developer of the thing was reading the newsgroup and I got a pretty reasonable explanation.
For programming languages and OS, nothing beats Usenet. Can you live without comp.lang.* ? Only if you're an amateur. All the experts are on Usenet. This also goes for some members of the scientific community, in particular the math dudes.
You read. You do know how to read and write, apparently.
Usenet had better features than any stupid Web forum you see today. NNTP is decentralized. You can't "own" NNTP like you can own a forum.
But with all the legislators legislating so leisurely about leashing our privacy and putting corporations first, I expect more darknets and more crypto and stego. That's the way forward.
I have found that in the past 3-4 years, I almost never need to post a question, because the internet has grown so enormous that someone else has already asked it.
Huh. Funny that. Tech evolves. How could somebody have asked a question years ago about a system that came out now?
Not true. You can use a fake e-mail address and not get spammed. Google groups won't let you do that, though, you have to use a true Usenet provider.
The kids today go crazy about Facebook, etc, but what will happen to your data, posts, etc. when the company folds? When the guy running your beloved PHP community gest tired of it? Lost to oblivion!
The thing with Usenet is that it's based on a protocol, NNTP, so it's part of the very thing that's the internet. So, really, it belongs to everyone and no-one in particular. It's a protocol, so it's a beautiful thing.
But, honestly, the masses are uneducated. Look at how people complain about copyright bills, privacy issues, etc., when they could be using Freenet (Freenet not USenet, BTW).
Google is doing all of great service in having bought the early Usenet archives. This is a human knowledge base.
Usenet ignorance is terrible. But Usenet was never very easy to begin with. For instance, how to do you start a new Usenet group (on that has to be replicated) - it's kinda hard, IIRC.
What I think is fucking shameful is Ubuntu and Apple developers promoting Usenet ignorance. Even Microsoft has newsgroups.
Some Usenet providers will grant you registration-fee-only access and no rights to binaries.
This news server is at the University of Berlin and costs 10 euros/year. No binaries.
http://news.individual.net/
Unfortunately, Usenet today is a paid service. It would be nice if somebody created a Usenet free-for-all non-profit (of course, no binaries).
Some Usenet providers will grant free access or for a very low cost with the caveat that you won't be able to download binaries. So no alt.food for pics of sandwiches.
Search for free Usenet servers.
It probably went down, because there's a whole generation that thinks PHP forums and Google will help you find *all* the answers when, in fact, early internet engineers were pretty smart guys and designed something in which you would go to one place to concentrate your searches. Furhtermore, the posting would be replicate to all servers.
Personally, I think googling for a technical answer in particular regarding programming languages is a PITA. Too many forums to search for. Usenet makes it much simpler, but witness the moronity level when Ubuntu and Apple don't propagate their mailing list to Usenet (which just about every other self-repecting OS crowd does - Debian, FreeBSD, etc.)