You don't need maglev to go fast. The chunnel train connecting London to Paris already has a peak speed of 186 miles per hour. There's no good reason that this same "bullet train" technology can't be used elsewhere. I'd love to see a fast train connecting all airports in the Bay Area to all the airports in LA. Then include Sacramento and Tahoe and Las Vegas. Then start north to Seattle and east to Pheonix. 186 mph is almost as fast as an airplane (250 mph, IIRC) and if boarding times are faster, you could easily save time with the train.
Not technically better, because I don't know that. But Apple is better because they can get people to LINE UP THE NIGHT BEFORE to pay $129 for what is basically a free BSD OS.
Remember, free as in speech, not as in beer. Giving away your labour is not the idea. The idea is that you don't hamstring your customers so that they can't tinker around with your OS if they want to.
Apple's OS X seems to be the best of both worlds. Fast and sexy, non-technical people seem to love it. Get under the hood and its just BSD. Download any POSIX source, compile and install. Tons of documentation, read the kernel source, do whatever you want.
And people were like having a party just to buy the thing. I think geeks should be 1000% behind this product and Apple too.
I don't if this will work or not, but remember how lawmakers fell all over themselves promoting the do-not-call list after 50 million Americans registered on it?
That's what might get Congress's attention. Put 50 million email addresses on their do-not-spam list. Put the fear of losing an election in your Congressman.
I wouldn't register my REAL email address on that list, of course. Heaven forbid that the spammers get ahold of it. But I have a couple of Hotmail addresses that I use for all dubious lists, postings, and web sign-in forms. (Hotmail because it amuses me to send the spam to Microsoft and make them pay for the bandwidth.) If we could all register 50 million addresses of ANY sort on that list I think there might be a chance to get real legislation passed.
Maybe it's not a fool proof plan (this is the US Congress we are talking about here) but it can't hurt. So sign up and sign your immaginary friends up too. I know I'll be making email accounts just to add to this list, in case I like suddenly need a new spam free email account.
I sail on the west coast and in San Francisco Bay. This saying comes the east coast and it has to do with the moisture content in the air. It does work for them but doesn't work on the west coast.
I'm not sure what the equivalent saying would be for SF. Probably something pithy about five to seven fog cycles, which is the biggest hazard on the bay.
Because these "adminstrators" know little to nothing about development, I spend hours in meetings working on stifling buzz-word compliant "Enterprise Architecture" plans. If we all just sat down and coded first, our productivity would soar.
Good idea! You stay here and start coding. Meanwhile, I'll go out and try to get the project requirements from the customer!
I couldn't get NFS working with Windows a while back, and Samaba was too complicated for this home user. So I just went with anonymous FTP.
Everything on my home network is heavily firewalled, so there is no danger of intrusion. Anonymous FTP lets me browse my Linux box with Internet Explorer. It very convenient and easy to use. I can create, delete, rename, and copy with no problem. I haven't tried it yet (I don't run a gui on my Linux box) but using Mozilla from Linux to anonymous FTP on Windows should work exactly the same.
Well, I'm pretty disappointed. I'm not sure there's much to do other than wait for the backlash for this POS. I can't believe how obviously venal our federal legislature is.
Maybe a little activism will help? Anyone interested in writing letters to congress-critters and newspaper editors? Maybe appearing on local news explaining the issues? Post a follow up to this if you are. I ain't the most photogenic or articulate guy so I have to help out in the background. If more than a few responses show up, we'll get organized and do, I don't know what, but something. I'm just P.O.'d right now.
(I'll be the one holding the 10 yr old motherboard; can't use the comp for anything else, so might as well go to a good cause).
I'm hanging on to my 10 year old MB, it's got ISA slots, which are much easier to work with than PCI for the hobbiest.
Good god, never get rid of old hardware. Just store it in a box somewhere like your grandma saving old National Geographics. They'll be good for something eventually, I'm sure.
When I signed up for Yahoo!, I gave them my throw-away Hotmail account. Then I made a throw-away Yahoo! account and set my Hotmail to point there. So basically each of these guys can send as many "important promotions" as they like, I don't get a one.
Personally, I think it's because real user friendliness is a QA issue. And not just QA of software but of a whole system, how all the modules and packages work together.
That's something that most "geek" projects have a hard time handling. It's just too large of a problem. They don't have the time or resources to QA their's and everyone else's work.
And as I think about it, it might be tough for a large company too. Take all that work and QA it, turn it into something useful. Hard, hard, and that's what most people like doing, right, is fixing some one else's work? Not.
So I was going to try to give you an answer but no I've talked myself out of it. Too big for geeks, and too big for companies too. I think perhaps we need a paradigm shift. Something that allows individual geek projects to work together better. Something like Extreme Distributed Software Engineering. So that the QA of an integrater for a distro is much smaller and easier.
Hmm, maybe this is a role that the DLC or OSDL could play.
My assumption would be that they don't. New worms and virii will get through and infect new systems.
However, once those new worms and virii are dissected, then they can take action. An FPGA is a exactly that -- Field Programmable Gate Array. I assume they choose FPGAs instead of ASICs because they intend to re-program in the field. Then this baby can sit on your network and squish the new problems along with the old, preventing further infection.
I think that's the intended mode of operation. Kinda like a super hardware virus checker, it prevents virii and worms from infection new systems, by stoping them on the local net.
Well, that wasn't the worst ever experience of my life. But it was pretty close.
FYI, samba is not the easiest solution for anything, ever, period. To many fucking configuration options. Maybe if you set up samba servers for a living, but I don't. NFS was simple enough that I could follow the HOW-TO and get it working, samba there's no hope, unless you want to talk me through the options.
I think I'll try an ftp server and just browse it on windows. That sounds easy.
Two big things dissuade me from using Samba. First is installaion. Step two right after download is "compile", and that tends to make it a non-trivial package to use.
The other is the mere presence of the whole windows domain groupware print etc. stuff. Even if I don't use it, it's still in the executable, and I still have to read the documentation to make sure I have it disabled properly.
Well, I've downloaded Samba, so we'll see how easy it if for me to compile, install and configure. Crossing my fingers....
This is kinda a funny coincidence. I was just looking yesterday for an easy, free solution to mounting NFS drives on windows. I have a small network at home and I don't want to go through the trouble of installing Samba on my server / NAT box, which runs Linux. I already export NFS mounts and I'd like to continue to use them.
So does anyone know of an easy, free solution for NFS on Windows? All the ones I could find were comercial products. Emphasis on free, this is home and I just don't want to pay for the mimimal functionality I need.
I don't know anyone who's lost weight with Atkins. Mostly it makes people sick, and all the meat drives their cholesterol levels up. (Didn't know that, did you?)
Actually I take that back. One woman I know did loose weight on a high protein diet. She had been trying to get pregnant for many years, and when she did she went to the doctor and got a stern talking to about her weight, which when combined with the pregnancy wasn't a good thing. Like nearly life threatening.
So after the baby was born, she went on a high protein diet that was recommended by her doctor. Since she was very obese, her medical health insurance paid for it. She went through a special medical firm that specialized in this program. She had heart check-ups like daily to make sure there were no imbalances in um potassium I think, and she had a boatload of proscribed vitamins that she was taking to replace what she was loosing daily due to ketosis.
That medically managed program worked for her. Buy the book do-it-yourself jobbies are disasters. If you think you might qualify, see a doctor and find out if your health insurance will cover a medical program.
If not, then there is only one answer. I'm sorry I don't have the Opus cartoon to link to, but I do remember the quote after Opus's latest fad diet, a combination of the Parsley and Prunes diet and the Frog legs and Flatulence diet.
You can get MSYS from Mingw.Org for a native Win32 port of bash and most (all?) other binutils tools, plus a few other goodies. Works great and is actually (to me) just a bit more convenient than Cygwin.
Well, I think it's a good idea at least for the short term. I'm on the freedesktop.org mailing list, which gets a lot of debate about things like "Why is X so darn slow?" Alan Cox and other have opined that X seems to be slow because there is little to no 2D hardware accelleration in most Linux video drivers. I'm talking about things like moving the mouse cursor in hardware, or fast hardware blits to copy rectangles (eg windows) around on the screen.
If this product could solve the problem of 2D hardware acceleration, then it might ease the desktop adoption of Linux and *BDS.
I don't think of course that they could truly extinguish Linux, but I'm sure they could make some proprietory tools or what not that would make it harder on the competition. I'd in fact expect that this is a pre-emptive strike on their competition, which has probably been gaining on their Tornado tools and WindRiver OS. I even won't put it past them to try to put a few competitors out of business, then start pushing existing embedded Linux users over to their proprietary OS.
At some point, keystroke recorders got installed on several machines at Valve. Our speculation is that these were done via a buffer overflow in Outlook's preview pane. This recorder is apparently a customized version of RemoteAnywhere created to infect Valve (at least it hasn't been seen anywhere else, and isn't detected by normal virus scanning tools).
That's what the official response says. Funny that about five stories above this one on the front page there's an article about Microsoft being sued for insecure software.
I'd say it's time to delete Outlook from your hard drive and find something else.
This is indeed only the beginning. People all over the globe are becoming sick of paying big bucks for buggy OSes. (Particularly the kind of OS that forces reboots for program crashes.)
Damn straight! I want my buggy software for free!!
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Linux is still cheaper tho. :-D
You don't need maglev to go fast. The chunnel train connecting London to Paris already has a peak speed of 186 miles per hour. There's no good reason that this same "bullet train" technology can't be used elsewhere. I'd love to see a fast train connecting all airports in the Bay Area to all the airports in LA. Then include Sacramento and Tahoe and Las Vegas. Then start north to Seattle and east to Pheonix. 186 mph is almost as fast as an airplane (250 mph, IIRC) and if boarding times are faster, you could easily save time with the train.
Remember, free as in speech, not as in beer. Giving away your labour is not the idea. The idea is that you don't hamstring your customers so that they can't tinker around with your OS if they want to.
Apple's OS X seems to be the best of both worlds. Fast and sexy, non-technical people seem to love it. Get under the hood and its just BSD. Download any POSIX source, compile and install. Tons of documentation, read the kernel source, do whatever you want.
And people were like having a party just to buy the thing. I think geeks should be 1000% behind this product and Apple too.
Stop talking about our President like that!!
That's what might get Congress's attention. Put 50 million email addresses on their do-not-spam list. Put the fear of losing an election in your Congressman.
I wouldn't register my REAL email address on that list, of course. Heaven forbid that the spammers get ahold of it. But I have a couple of Hotmail addresses that I use for all dubious lists, postings, and web sign-in forms. (Hotmail because it amuses me to send the spam to Microsoft and make them pay for the bandwidth.) If we could all register 50 million addresses of ANY sort on that list I think there might be a chance to get real legislation passed.
Maybe it's not a fool proof plan (this is the US Congress we are talking about here) but it can't hurt. So sign up and sign your immaginary friends up too. I know I'll be making email accounts just to add to this list, in case I like suddenly need a new spam free email account.
I'm not sure what the equivalent saying would be for SF. Probably something pithy about five to seven fog cycles, which is the biggest hazard on the bay.
Good idea! You stay here and start coding. Meanwhile, I'll go out and try to get the project requirements from the customer!
Everything on my home network is heavily firewalled, so there is no danger of intrusion. Anonymous FTP lets me browse my Linux box with Internet Explorer. It very convenient and easy to use. I can create, delete, rename, and copy with no problem. I haven't tried it yet (I don't run a gui on my Linux box) but using Mozilla from Linux to anonymous FTP on Windows should work exactly the same.
I think it's chafes, not chaps. Look those words up if you don't know what they mean, darn it.
Maybe a little activism will help? Anyone interested in writing letters to congress-critters and newspaper editors? Maybe appearing on local news explaining the issues? Post a follow up to this if you are. I ain't the most photogenic or articulate guy so I have to help out in the background. If more than a few responses show up, we'll get organized and do, I don't know what, but something. I'm just P.O.'d right now.
I'm hanging on to my 10 year old MB, it's got ISA slots, which are much easier to work with than PCI for the hobbiest.
Good god, never get rid of old hardware. Just store it in a box somewhere like your grandma saving old National Geographics. They'll be good for something eventually, I'm sure.
All's fair in love and war, eh?
That's something that most "geek" projects have a hard time handling. It's just too large of a problem. They don't have the time or resources to QA their's and everyone else's work.
And as I think about it, it might be tough for a large company too. Take all that work and QA it, turn it into something useful. Hard, hard, and that's what most people like doing, right, is fixing some one else's work? Not.
So I was going to try to give you an answer but no I've talked myself out of it. Too big for geeks, and too big for companies too. I think perhaps we need a paradigm shift. Something that allows individual geek projects to work together better. Something like Extreme Distributed Software Engineering. So that the QA of an integrater for a distro is much smaller and easier.
Hmm, maybe this is a role that the DLC or OSDL could play.
That sound you hear is bricks hitting the ground in Redmond.
However, once those new worms and virii are dissected, then they can take action. An FPGA is a exactly that -- Field Programmable Gate Array. I assume they choose FPGAs instead of ASICs because they intend to re-program in the field. Then this baby can sit on your network and squish the new problems along with the old, preventing further infection.
I think that's the intended mode of operation. Kinda like a super hardware virus checker, it prevents virii and worms from infection new systems, by stoping them on the local net.
FYI, samba is not the easiest solution for anything, ever, period. To many fucking configuration options. Maybe if you set up samba servers for a living, but I don't. NFS was simple enough that I could follow the HOW-TO and get it working, samba there's no hope, unless you want to talk me through the options.
I think I'll try an ftp server and just browse it on windows. That sounds easy.
The other is the mere presence of the whole windows domain groupware print etc. stuff. Even if I don't use it, it's still in the executable, and I still have to read the documentation to make sure I have it disabled properly.
Well, I've downloaded Samba, so we'll see how easy it if for me to compile, install and configure. Crossing my fingers....
So does anyone know of an easy, free solution for NFS on Windows? All the ones I could find were comercial products. Emphasis on free, this is home and I just don't want to pay for the mimimal functionality I need.
Actually I take that back. One woman I know did loose weight on a high protein diet. She had been trying to get pregnant for many years, and when she did she went to the doctor and got a stern talking to about her weight, which when combined with the pregnancy wasn't a good thing. Like nearly life threatening.
So after the baby was born, she went on a high protein diet that was recommended by her doctor. Since she was very obese, her medical health insurance paid for it. She went through a special medical firm that specialized in this program. She had heart check-ups like daily to make sure there were no imbalances in um potassium I think, and she had a boatload of proscribed vitamins that she was taking to replace what she was loosing daily due to ketosis.
That medically managed program worked for her. Buy the book do-it-yourself jobbies are disasters. If you think you might qualify, see a doctor and find out if your health insurance will cover a medical program.
If not, then there is only one answer. I'm sorry I don't have the Opus cartoon to link to, but I do remember the quote after Opus's latest fad diet, a combination of the Parsley and Prunes diet and the Frog legs and Flatulence diet.
"Eat less and exercise more."
Darlin' there ain't no other way.
You can get MSYS from Mingw.Org for a native Win32 port of bash and most (all?) other binutils tools, plus a few other goodies. Works great and is actually (to me) just a bit more convenient than Cygwin.
If this product could solve the problem of 2D hardware acceleration, then it might ease the desktop adoption of Linux and *BDS.
Just for the record, the disallowed characters in a windows pathname are: \ / : * ? |
If anyone cares.
I don't think of course that they could truly extinguish Linux, but I'm sure they could make some proprietory tools or what not that would make it harder on the competition. I'd in fact expect that this is a pre-emptive strike on their competition, which has probably been gaining on their Tornado tools and WindRiver OS. I even won't put it past them to try to put a few competitors out of business, then start pushing existing embedded Linux users over to their proprietary OS.
That's what the official response says. Funny that about five stories above this one on the front page there's an article about Microsoft being sued for insecure software.
I'd say it's time to delete Outlook from your hard drive and find something else.
Damn straight! I want my buggy software for free!!
Vive le revolution!
*burp*
Now where's my free beer?