Eventually there's probably going to be a few high-profile break-ins or espionage. VPNs and/or SSH tunneling will become mandatory, and all this monitoring crap that takes advantage of remnants of the kinder, gentler computing world 20 years ago is going to be dead in the water.
I'm awfully unimpressed when someone up here says says "I administer a 2 million dollar clustered E10K rig" or something like that. My first thought is that, if you knew what the hell you were doing, why couldn't you have done things more cheaply? Vague promises of "reliability" or "quality" don't really register with me -- people paying 3x for a hard drive (can't you just get three cheaper hard drives and use RAID?) or for a high-end system from Sun or IBM (what, you're not willing to do a little work yourself to save a ton of money), or for Oracle (most Oracle folks seem to just buy Oracle because it's "good" or because they've heard things about it, not because they've used all the alternatives and can make an informed purchasing decision).
The guy that impresses me is the guy that says "I replaced our old $20K Sun setup with a $5K pair of generic, load-balanced servers, either of which can be swapped out at any time."
And the same goes for software. You're using a $2k, a $20k, a $100k software package? What is it that you can't accomplish with a less expensive package? You're using PVCVS instead of CVS? Why?
Since it seems that Slashdot editors aren't perfect either, how about reinstating M1 and M2 privs to those of us who lost their privs in the Great Censored Thread fiasco?
TI does hold a monopoly over TI calculators, though that's kind of a meaningless statement.
Applying it to Apple at least makes more sense. Apple *had* competition at one point (when they allowed clones in the early PPC days), was stomped by them in price and performance, lost money, and promptly cut off their licenses and killed all of them. Yeah, I'd call that a monopoly.
You don't *need* to do so. The system I just gave as an example does not trust unknown code on any one computer -- faulty information *cannot* be propogated throughout the system.
If you have ten people, any six of whom can trust each other, this system would reduce the maximum load on any system from calculating the full world to calculating half as many things going on -- each piece of information is calculated by five different people, and hashes exchanged. You *cannot* slip something by in an environment like that. Any conspiracy would involve at most four people, and the system checks against five different values.
Take SETI@Home. Their solution to the problem -- they want to build a trustworthy system as a whole, but cannot trust individual nodes -- is to have nodes compute blocks, and then have randomly chosen other nodes recompute those blocks.
Actually, to some degree a well-made distributed id gaming system would be more secure -- you can't have someone set up a bogus server (or just break into the server) and immediately have godlike ability to cheat.
In comparison I have seen CD-RW drives for $80 and media for under $1 a disk...The big problem is that there is absolutely not backup media on the market that is as cost effective as an IDE hard disk drive...An IDE drive...can be bought for just over $1 per GB and requires only a $20 caddy to make it into a removable medium.
Something about the math is not working out for me here.
Fortunately, id has network software engineers like you to explain to them how to design game engines.
You think they're stupid? There are plenty of ways to deal with this...do things like have several computers maintain duplicate state (though no computer stores all state), then compute hashes based on known game state and exchange them periodically (and that's off the top of my head).
Now, with that system you may be able to cheat if there are multiple players in collusion and have complete control over the binaries (sounds good in theory...may not be that nasty in practice) -- if half the people are working together, you may just be screwed.
I rather suspect that id is going to do something new and interesting with distributed program design, and that Carmack really doesn't need lots of video gamers telling him what to do.
1. Make startup 2. Make product 3. Get purchased by Microsoft 4. Profit
becomes
1. Make startup 2. Make product 3. Get ripped off by Microsoft -- sue them 4. Profit
Re:Mosfet.org updated about why this is bad
on
KDE Gets The Hat
·
· Score: 2
Your web site is awfully boring at the moment...I get an "access denied" message for "/" with both lynx and dillo.
Re:Mosfet.org updated about why this is bad
on
KDE Gets The Hat
·
· Score: 2
So some big wheels in KDE think KDE must be a package deal. Other people writing KDE disagree.
So let those "package deal" foks write their package deal system, and let it compete with RH's stock system. Make a RH binary release. Whichever is better will come out on top, plain and simple.
If the KDE folks are so pissed off at RH's release (the best stab so far at integrating KDE and GNOME), then they can release to RH a bunch of alternate code/settings that implements things the way they'd like. If RH goes for it, great, everyone's again happy. If RH doesn't, then they can fork the distro.
Linux needs ONE stable, flexible, powerful and good looking GUI.
Fortunately, Linux has plenty of parasitic non-coding visionaries to help advise coders on exactly what they should be doing, which makes up for the above lack.
If you have a *single* mp3 on your hard drive, you're probably looking at a good 5 million characters blown right there. Text files are not the primary drain on resources any more.
Besides, if you compress your text files, gzipped or whatever, you save more than just using tabs instead of spaces.
Can HURD *run* blackbox, joe, objective C, amaya, *or* Eiffel?
BTW, Eiffel looks like a *sweet* language...for apps what C is for system stuff.
Re:This is the way it should be...
on
KDE Gets The Hat
·
· Score: 2
If you don't like their choices, choose another distro
Or change the default settings. Or, hell, don't use GNOME or KDE at all -- I think RH does a good job of maintaing a distro, so I use theirs, but don't use any "desktop environment".
This is almost a complete non-story. Seriously, think about it -- "The default GNOME and KDE themes in some distro look alike!" Oh no, lets run around screaming and waving our hands!
Re:choice / customization is a *GOOD* thing
on
KDE Gets The Hat
·
· Score: 2
I have little respect for the sort of people who parade around their choice of distro as some sort of badge showing how badass they must be. I've known gurus who use Red Hat and newbies who use Slackware. No one really cares. If you want to impress someone, pull out the code you've written, not the brand name of your distro.
They *do*. You download the goddamn ISOs for free, burn them, and then purchase commercial support.
MS is still on top because more people know their software, because they're agressive and nasty about keeping file formats and protocols their own, because there is no good free MS Word equivalent for Linux, and because they can afford pay off the right people.
Slashdot Mirror
It was to feature the *standard* rendering engine.
Any wasted CPU cycles in a reference engine make a lot of people unhappy by making their computers less usable.
That doesn't mean that it actually *needs* that much CPU time, just that it uses that much.
Some of us despise CPU cycle waste.
Eventually there's probably going to be a few high-profile break-ins or espionage. VPNs and/or SSH tunneling will become mandatory, and all this monitoring crap that takes advantage of remnants of the kinder, gentler computing world 20 years ago is going to be dead in the water.
I'm awfully unimpressed when someone up here says says "I administer a 2 million dollar clustered E10K rig" or something like that. My first thought is that, if you knew what the hell you were doing, why couldn't you have done things more cheaply? Vague promises of "reliability" or "quality" don't really register with me -- people paying 3x for a hard drive (can't you just get three cheaper hard drives and use RAID?) or for a high-end system from Sun or IBM (what, you're not willing to do a little work yourself to save a ton of money), or for Oracle (most Oracle folks seem to just buy Oracle because it's "good" or because they've heard things about it, not because they've used all the alternatives and can make an informed purchasing decision).
The guy that impresses me is the guy that says "I replaced our old $20K Sun setup with a $5K pair of generic, load-balanced servers, either of which can be swapped out at any time."
And the same goes for software. You're using a $2k, a $20k, a $100k software package? What is it that you can't accomplish with a less expensive package? You're using PVCVS instead of CVS? Why?
Since it seems that Slashdot editors aren't perfect either, how about reinstating M1 and M2 privs to those of us who lost their privs in the Great Censored Thread fiasco?
TI does hold a monopoly over TI calculators, though that's kind of a meaningless statement.
Applying it to Apple at least makes more sense. Apple *had* competition at one point (when they allowed clones in the early PPC days), was stomped by them in price and performance, lost money, and promptly cut off their licenses and killed all of them. Yeah, I'd call that a monopoly.
They *do* put up their ISOs online for free, which really does bring the price down to zero+download time.
You don't *need* to do so. The system I just gave as an example does not trust unknown code on any one computer -- faulty information *cannot* be propogated throughout the system.
If you have ten people, any six of whom can trust each other, this system would reduce the maximum load on any system from calculating the full world to calculating half as many things going on -- each piece of information is calculated by five different people, and hashes exchanged. You *cannot* slip something by in an environment like that. Any conspiracy would involve at most four people, and the system checks against five different values.
Take SETI@Home. Their solution to the problem -- they want to build a trustworthy system as a whole, but cannot trust individual nodes -- is to have nodes compute blocks, and then have randomly chosen other nodes recompute those blocks.
Actually, to some degree a well-made distributed id gaming system would be more secure -- you can't have someone set up a bogus server (or just break into the server) and immediately have godlike ability to cheat.
In comparison I have seen CD-RW drives for $80 and media for under $1 a disk...The big problem is that there is absolutely not backup media on the market that is as cost effective as an IDE hard disk drive...An IDE drive...can be bought for just over $1 per GB and requires only a $20 caddy to make it into a removable medium.
Something about the math is not working out for me here.
I'd like to see a good cooperative mode, a la Bungie's Marathon and Halo.
Fortunately, id has network software engineers like you to explain to them how to design game engines.
You think they're stupid? There are plenty of ways to deal with this...do things like have several computers maintain duplicate state (though no computer stores all state), then compute hashes based on known game state and exchange them periodically (and that's off the top of my head).
Now, with that system you may be able to cheat if there are multiple players in collusion and have complete control over the binaries (sounds good in theory...may not be that nasty in practice) -- if half the people are working together, you may just be screwed.
I rather suspect that id is going to do something new and interesting with distributed program design, and that Carmack really doesn't need lots of video gamers telling him what to do.
Matrox supports *more* functionality than NVidia.
Oh, you mean in hardware, not in their Linux drivers? Well...yes, there is that...
New Economy transition?
1. Make startup
2. Make product
3. Get purchased by Microsoft
4. Profit
becomes
1. Make startup
2. Make product
3. Get ripped off by Microsoft -- sue them
4. Profit
Your web site is awfully boring at the moment...I get an "access denied" message for "/" with both lynx and dillo.
So some big wheels in KDE think KDE must be a package deal. Other people writing KDE disagree.
So let those "package deal" foks write their package deal system, and let it compete with RH's stock system. Make a RH binary release. Whichever is better will come out on top, plain and simple.
If the KDE folks are so pissed off at RH's release (the best stab so far at integrating KDE and GNOME), then they can release to RH a bunch of alternate code/settings that implements things the way they'd like. If RH goes for it, great, everyone's again happy. If RH doesn't, then they can fork the distro.
Linux needs ONE stable, flexible, powerful and good looking GUI.
Fortunately, Linux has plenty of parasitic non-coding visionaries to help advise coders on exactly what they should be doing, which makes up for the above lack.
You use tabs for *compression*?
If you have a *single* mp3 on your hard drive, you're probably looking at a good 5 million characters blown right there. Text files are not the primary drain on resources any more.
Besides, if you compress your text files, gzipped or whatever, you save more than just using tabs instead of spaces.
Unless I'm missing sarcasm here...
Can HURD *run* blackbox, joe, objective C, amaya, *or* Eiffel?
BTW, Eiffel looks like a *sweet* language...for apps what C is for system stuff.
If you don't like their choices, choose another distro
Or change the default settings. Or, hell, don't use GNOME or KDE at all -- I think RH does a good job of maintaing a distro, so I use theirs, but don't use any "desktop environment".
This is almost a complete non-story. Seriously, think about it -- "The default GNOME and KDE themes in some distro look alike!" Oh no, lets run around screaming and waving our hands!
I have little respect for the sort of people who parade around their choice of distro as some sort of badge showing how badass they must be. I've known gurus who use Red Hat and newbies who use Slackware. No one really cares. If you want to impress someone, pull out the code you've written, not the brand name of your distro.
"Stop thinking about copyrighted data!"
When I saw his snow-on-the-rocks in _Saturn as Seen From Titan_ in the story, I immediately throught "Bryce rendering". :-)
This is some really nice art. Good work.
They *do*. You download the goddamn ISOs for free, burn them, and then purchase commercial support.
MS is still on top because more people know their software, because they're agressive and nasty about keeping file formats and protocols their own, because there is no good free MS Word equivalent for Linux, and because they can afford pay off the right people.