It's horrible? ok, the Window manager isn't the best, but it is a decent X server... If you can grab the old free one, is great for use, I started using it a while ago, as as a student with a limited budget, it fits my needs quite well, have had no problems with it....
Acording to this, the FBI is scared that they can't tap the phones easily, and when they can they can't trace it to a location. I happen to like that... What business does the FBI have having my location and phone call audio handed to them? If it's really that important for them to monitor a few "national security" cases, they can expend the energy themselves. However, making the phone companies set up their systems to trace everyone smacks of random monitoring and other Orwelian measures... I don't like our governments stand on privacy these days... Not at all.. It's only getting worse too...
What does all this drivel mean for ipV6? In case you don't know, with ipV6, ipSEC(an end to end encryption protocal) is mandatory. How will this be distributed in Wassanaar Nations? Right now our only hope is open source. Besides, as a network security guy, the only products I use are ones that I can do a full audit on...
Actually, what you are reasoning about sounds like Judiasm, not Christianity. In the Bible, Paul says that, "All things are permissible for me, but not all are beneficial." People who actually take time to read the New Testament(the Christian part of the Bible, which is added to the Old Testament, the Jewish bible) find that Christianity is not about following rules, but being in a relationship with God, learning his character and trying to be more like him. Real Christians have analysed the claims and evidences for Christ, and have reasoned for themselves that it is the right way. Real Christians use both their heads and hearts in making decisions. As for you, it is much easier to say "christianity is bad" because you don't like what you think the conclusions are. To be able to make this statement, you should test its validity based on the premesis, rather then the conclusion. I don't like the fact that I will almost definatly die, but I must accept that as the most likely senario. Secondly, if you are going to judge based on the conclusion, make sure you know what the conclusion is. If I was to make comments about evolutionary theory or existentialism without really knowing much about either of those topics, you would have every right to laugh my statements off. I would encourage you to learn more about religions other then your own. And yes, everyone has a religion, world view, or however you want to put it. It is worth honestly and fairly evaluating all the possibilities, even if you end up at the same place at the end. If you have any questions, comments, or snide remarks, send them to pinkham@monmouth.com. I'm too tired to write much more intelligently right now...
Or just have people download it seperatly... Or include it as a "special free gift offer" on seperate media.. Or just ask them for an exemption, I'm sure they would allow it to be bundled with any open software... They seem to just be concerned with people selling a service based wholly or to a large extent on their product...
Darn, read the license... You can distribute it for free always.. The only way you can get paid for a product that includes rdist is to ask them if it's ok... So, you can sell people your product and have them download rdist seperatly or send it as a "free gift" with their purchase... Many more loopholes then you gave them credit for;-)
Just like not all free software is pirated(though some is), not all free music is pirated(some is). The music industry is not only trying to shut down pirated music(which is their right), they are trying to stop artists from having a direct voice without going through the company. Basically, all these companies do is trade music, and are really afraid that the artists might be able to trade music themselves, either for free or for cost. Notice how many artists are fighting mp3's.. I estimate it to be about 0.
MP3's are the shareware/freeware of the music world, and the retail music companies are getting pissed about this trend.
Um, my mail gets returned saying there is no such user on this system. This sounds cool, please could someone give me information on the real address, if there is one?
What the heck are you talking about? He is not talking about releasing any for-profit software for free, he is talking about releasing already free(beer) software as open(free speech) software. I don't know of any company who makes money on their drivers, their drivers are just a way of selling the hardware, and as such it makes sense to have the drivers avalible to the largest number of people possible for the lowest cost possible.
Well, lets see here... "56k" (about 45 k for me) was 15 bucks a month. @Home is 50 bucks a month for me. "56k" = 33.6 upload stream, @home= 128 upload. About 3 times the cost, 4 times the speed... Not too bad a deal.. However a FAR cry from their adverised "100x faster" montra... If it was not for the advertising part of this, I really wouldn't mind...
Looks pretty cool.... Article was written in 1996... And says will come out "about 2000"... I would love to have one of these, but is this for real? First of all, I tend to discount revolutionary products that say their time of arrival is "about 2000", usually means "probably never". Especailly if written 4 years before with no real updates... 2ndly, thought I am no real harware guy, isn't that a lot of memory for that die size?
Basically, the ideal would be to have all computer parts run at core processor speed, but this just isn't goint to happen. We have registers, L1 cache, L2 cahce, (k6-3 L3 cache in some boards), main memory, hard drives... Sure, it would be ideal for all storage to be as fast as the processor, but the current cached model works pretty well provided you have enough rams and a OS that makes good use of that ram... If you really need more performance, use RAID... www.cdrom.com doesn't seem to be disk limited, that's because it has boku memory and raid arrays. Besides, hard drives today are about 10x as fast (10x more throughput, initial latency has been cut about 4x) as those of 10 years ago, which isn't too bad in machanical engineering terms...
I've had trouble saving a file w/ Word 97, and then opening it with the exact same program 5 minutes later... I usually have to shut down Word and start it up again and then have a 50% chance of it being read correctly... There is something VERY wrong about that!
This is the normal way things run... Supply and demand, mostly... They are all the same chips, off the same lines... Some have defects and have to be thrown out, some are only good enough to make a certain speed, and a few are good enough to go higher. The few good quality chips which test out good at higher frequencies command a price premium.
for me, Linux Router project + about 3 hours + old hardware I already had = router. Now that the initial work is done, it takes about 10 min. per new box. Definalty worth it for small jobs. These are for home networks. However, I'm not gonna try to replace my 7500 routers at work though. Basically, a small amount of knowledge saves a lot of money, but specialized solutions are still needed for really large jobs. We also run Linux and FreeBSD at work for a lot of internal tasks, but run solaris on huge multiprocessor machines for production. Linux is good and cheep and as easy as any other comparible system out there, but is not good for all things... At least not yet.....
Darn, I don't want one of those, I want about 20.... Though it still is kinda kludgy... Why hasn't a bios maker put this feature in before? Suns have had this capibility for a long time...
Ultra 2's are better in my opinion... 2 processor capability amoung other things... I'd really like is a SGI O2 or octane.. They have unbelivible I/O capibilities, really nice cases (important;-), nice openGL performance, and you can play quake2 on them;-) Of course, they're freakin expensive... I'd settle for a measily 64 Alpha Beowolf cluster too(Imagine my RC5 score;-) OOTC... I love the way microsoft places the blame for a problem on the OS, when I bet it has nothing to do w/ the OS. Possibly hardware (unlikely), probably stupid software error. I'd like to see ANY large site use ASP or other crappy MS web ideas and try to run a mostly dynamic page.... That's like Quake3's attempted online server list useing Visual Basic... Just not a gonna happen....
Re:You want to get rid of legacy?
on
Cool PC Cases
·
· Score: 1
Merced code is all compiler reordered, dependancy checked and re-aliged, leaving more usable chip space for Real Work, or smaller chips and higher MHZ... Seems to be a good step, albeit a small one...
If they want to test TCP/IP networking using this system, I will kindly allow then to run one of these bad boys to my house;-) Seriously though, it will be nice to watch phone prices come into the penny a minute range soon maybe... At 6-10 bucks an hour phone calls to my gilrfriend add up fast... In anouther random comment, when high bandwidth comes to the house, do you think we will have a digital subchannel for voice (like ISDN? I think that's how it works...) or TCP/IP phoning?
Dos=glorified program loader Win 3.1=glorfied program loader w/gui and "task switching", 3rd party TCP/ip stack addon Windoze 95=single user, Multitasking OS with all the crappy leavings of DOS, and an added integral TCP/IP stack(easily crashed, but hard to break in.. No multi user capabilities) Windoze NT=Single user, Multitasking OS, written from scratch to be compatible with win 95(removed some of the crappy DOS leavings), integral TCP/IP stack(easily crashed) and very insecure web serving addons. None of the above come anywhere close to OpenBSD(or even Linux;-) for security, usefulness, or anything.. yet people keep buying and using Microcrap, just cuz they bought it 10 years ago... Sigh... NT is not a server OS, and not even a good desktop OS. And I have heard that only about 40% of current win32 programs are compatible with NT5.0 (win 2000) right now... Maybe people will kick Windows for a real OS soon. (As soon as Unix{Linux, FreeBSD, etc...) gets game support, and some good games avalible only for Unix, I think a lot of young people will switch anyway.. I think that's the direction Free software should start taking more... Oh yeah... Back to the original train of thought.. If your IT department insists on running NT, they need to be Clued...
Re:Hot rods and compaqs ... er, compacts.
on
Cool PC Cases
·
· Score: 1
However, car~=$20,000, fashion computer probably ~=800-1,200. If it lasts 2 years for an average user, that's a pretty good value... My parents have never upgraded their computer, just because they use it until it is hopelessly out of date (read, still really freakin fast, but not good enough for the newest Bloatware). In two years, the whole archeticture will probably have changed, making it necessary to buy a whole new system anyway... (all this from someone w/ a pile of 386's, 486's, and clasic pentiums in his room that still do real work on a real OS very nicely.)
Re:Why the bitterness?
on
Cool PC Cases
·
· Score: 1
This is very true... Some people don't care if a computer has upgrade slots (like my parents). They will just use it till it is too old, then spend 700ish to get a new one (not bad prices now adays, huh?). I doubt few Slashdot readers are like this, but ye oldschool cases will be around for quite some time for us powerusers... For my parents, Designer PC's are a good idea (just someone come up with some better designes please;-) The bunny one doesn't look too bad though... And the Big LCD monster is pretty cool too;-)
Slashdot Mirror
It's horrible?
ok, the Window manager isn't the best, but it is a decent X server...
If you can grab the old free one, is great for use, I started using it a while ago, as as a student with a limited budget, it fits my needs quite well, have had no problems with it....
Acording to this, the FBI is scared that they can't tap the phones easily, and when they can they can't trace it to a location. I happen to like that...
What business does the FBI have having my location and phone call audio handed to them? If it's really that important for them to monitor a few "national security" cases, they can expend the energy themselves. However, making the phone companies set up their systems to trace everyone smacks of random monitoring and other Orwelian measures...
I don't like our governments stand on privacy these days... Not at all.. It's only getting worse too...
For some reason, this was segfaulting on my box, switching to windowed(--windowed) mode fixed it for me. Don't know why DGA wasn't working...
What does all this drivel mean for ipV6?
In case you don't know, with ipV6, ipSEC(an end to end encryption protocal) is mandatory. How will this be distributed in Wassanaar Nations? Right now our only hope is open source. Besides, as a network security guy, the only products I use are ones that I can do a full audit on...
Sorry dude, some one invented one-time-pads a while ago...
Beyond that, everything is breakable...
Actually, what you are reasoning about sounds like Judiasm, not Christianity.
In the Bible, Paul says that, "All things are permissible for me, but not all are beneficial."
People who actually take time to read the New Testament(the Christian part of the Bible, which is added to the Old Testament, the Jewish bible) find that Christianity is not about following rules, but being in a relationship with God, learning his character and trying to be more like him.
Real Christians have analysed the claims and evidences for Christ, and have reasoned for themselves that it is the right way.
Real Christians use both their heads and hearts in making decisions.
As for you, it is much easier to say "christianity is bad" because you don't like what you think the conclusions are. To be able to make this statement, you should test its validity based on the premesis, rather then the conclusion.
I don't like the fact that I will almost definatly die, but I must accept that as the most likely senario. Secondly, if you are going to judge based on the conclusion, make sure you know what the conclusion is. If I was to make comments about evolutionary theory or existentialism without really knowing much about either of those topics, you would have every right to laugh my statements off.
I would encourage you to learn more about religions other then your own. And yes, everyone has a religion, world view, or however you want to put it. It is worth honestly and fairly evaluating all the possibilities, even if you end up at the same place at the end.
If you have any questions, comments, or snide remarks, send them to pinkham@monmouth.com. I'm too tired to write much more intelligently right now...
Or just have people download it seperatly... Or include it as a "special free gift offer" on seperate media..
Or just ask them for an exemption, I'm sure they would allow it to be bundled with any open software... They seem to just be concerned with people selling a service based wholly or to a large extent on their product...
Darn, read the license... ;-)
You can distribute it for free always..
The only way you can get paid for a product that includes rdist is to ask them if it's ok...
So, you can sell people your product and have them download rdist seperatly or send it as a "free gift" with their purchase... Many more loopholes then you gave them credit for
Just like not all free software is pirated(though some is), not all free music is pirated(some is). The music industry is not only trying to shut down pirated music(which is their right), they are trying to stop artists from having a direct voice without going through the company. Basically, all these companies do is trade music, and are really afraid that the artists might be able to trade music themselves, either for free or for cost.
Notice how many artists are fighting mp3's.. I estimate it to be about 0.
MP3's are the shareware/freeware of the music world, and the retail music companies are getting pissed about this trend.
Um, my mail gets returned saying there is no such user on this system. This sounds cool, please could someone give me information on the real address, if there is one?
What the heck are you talking about? He is not talking about releasing any for-profit software for free, he is talking about releasing already free(beer) software as open(free speech) software.
I don't know of any company who makes money on their drivers, their drivers are just a way of selling the hardware, and as such it makes sense to have the drivers avalible to the largest number of people possible for the lowest cost possible.
Well, lets see here...
"56k" (about 45 k for me) was 15 bucks a month. @Home is 50 bucks a month for me. "56k" = 33.6 upload stream, @home= 128 upload. About 3 times the cost, 4 times the speed... Not too bad a deal..
However a FAR cry from their adverised "100x faster" montra... If it was not for the advertising part of this, I really wouldn't mind...
Looks pretty cool....
Article was written in 1996... And says will come out "about 2000"...
I would love to have one of these, but is this for real? First of all, I tend to discount revolutionary products that say their time of arrival is "about 2000", usually means "probably never". Especailly if written 4 years before with no real updates...
2ndly, thought I am no real harware guy, isn't that a lot of memory for that die size?
Basically, the ideal would be to have all computer parts run at core processor speed, but this just isn't goint to happen. We have registers, L1 cache, L2 cahce, (k6-3 L3 cache in some boards), main memory, hard drives...
Sure, it would be ideal for all storage to be as fast as the processor, but the current cached model works pretty well provided you have enough rams and a OS that makes good use of that ram...
If you really need more performance, use RAID...
www.cdrom.com doesn't seem to be disk limited, that's because it has boku memory and raid arrays.
Besides, hard drives today are about 10x as fast (10x more throughput, initial latency has been cut about 4x) as those of 10 years ago, which isn't too bad in machanical engineering terms...
He did exempt religions from his statement. ;-)
I've had trouble saving a file w/ Word 97, and then opening it with the exact same program 5 minutes later...
I usually have to shut down Word and start it up again and then have a 50% chance of it being read correctly... There is something VERY wrong about that!
This is the normal way things run...
Supply and demand, mostly...
They are all the same chips, off the same lines...
Some have defects and have to be thrown out, some are only good enough to make a certain speed, and a few are good enough to go higher. The few good quality chips which test out good at higher frequencies command a price premium.
for me, Linux Router project + about 3 hours + old hardware I already had = router.
Now that the initial work is done, it takes about 10 min. per new box. Definalty worth it for small jobs. These are for home networks. However, I'm not gonna try to replace my 7500 routers at work though.
Basically, a small amount of knowledge saves a lot of money, but specialized solutions are still needed for really large jobs.
We also run Linux and FreeBSD at work for a lot of internal tasks, but run solaris on huge multiprocessor machines for production. Linux is good and cheep and as easy as any other comparible system out there, but is not good for all things... At least not yet.....
Darn, I don't want one of those, I want about 20....
Though it still is kinda kludgy...
Why hasn't a bios maker put this feature in before?
Suns have had this capibility for a long time...
Ultra 2's are better in my opinion... 2 processor capability amoung other things... ;-), nice openGL performance, and you can play quake2 on them ;-) ;-)
I'd really like is a SGI O2 or octane.. They have unbelivible I/O capibilities, really nice cases (important
Of course, they're freakin expensive...
I'd settle for a measily 64 Alpha Beowolf cluster too(Imagine my RC5 score
OOTC... I love the way microsoft places the blame for a problem on the OS, when I bet it has nothing to do w/ the OS. Possibly hardware (unlikely), probably stupid software error.
I'd like to see ANY large site use ASP or other crappy MS web ideas and try to run a mostly dynamic page....
That's like Quake3's attempted online server list useing Visual Basic... Just not a gonna happen....
Merced code is all compiler reordered, dependancy checked and re-aliged, leaving more usable chip space for Real Work, or smaller chips and higher MHZ...
Seems to be a good step, albeit a small one...
If they want to test TCP/IP networking using this system, I will kindly allow then to run one of these bad boys to my house ;-)
Seriously though, it will be nice to watch phone prices come into the penny a minute range soon maybe...
At 6-10 bucks an hour phone calls to my gilrfriend add up fast...
In anouther random comment, when high bandwidth comes to the house, do you think we will have a digital subchannel for voice (like ISDN? I think that's how it works...) or TCP/IP phoning?
Dos=glorified program loader ;-) for security, usefulness, or anything.. yet people keep buying and using Microcrap, just cuz they bought it 10 years ago... Sigh...
Win 3.1=glorfied program loader w/gui and "task switching", 3rd party TCP/ip stack addon
Windoze 95=single user, Multitasking OS with all the crappy leavings of DOS, and an added integral TCP/IP stack(easily crashed, but hard to break in.. No multi user capabilities)
Windoze NT=Single user, Multitasking OS, written from scratch to be compatible with win 95(removed some of the crappy DOS leavings), integral TCP/IP stack(easily crashed) and very insecure web serving addons.
None of the above come anywhere close to OpenBSD(or even Linux
NT is not a server OS, and not even a good desktop OS.
And I have heard that only about 40% of current win32 programs are compatible with NT5.0 (win 2000) right now... Maybe people will kick Windows for a real OS soon. (As soon as Unix{Linux, FreeBSD, etc...) gets game support, and some good games avalible only for Unix, I think a lot of young people will switch anyway.. I think that's the direction Free software should start taking more...
Oh yeah... Back to the original train of thought.. If your IT department insists on running NT, they need to be Clued...
However, car~=$20,000, fashion computer probably ~=800-1,200. If it lasts 2 years for an average user, that's a pretty good value...
My parents have never upgraded their computer, just because they use it until it is hopelessly out of date (read, still really freakin fast, but not good enough for the newest Bloatware).
In two years, the whole archeticture will probably have changed, making it necessary to buy a whole new system anyway...
(all this from someone w/ a pile of 386's, 486's, and clasic pentiums in his room that still do real work on a real OS very nicely.)
This is very true... Some people don't care if a computer has upgrade slots (like my parents). They will just use it till it is too old, then spend 700ish to get a new one (not bad prices now adays, huh?). I doubt few Slashdot readers are like this, but ye oldschool cases will be around for quite some time for us powerusers... For my parents, Designer PC's are a good idea (just someone come up with some better designes please ;-) The bunny one doesn't look too bad though... ;-)
And the Big LCD monster is pretty cool too