Depends on the Linksys card, I guess. Mine runs ok on the broadcom compatibility workaround thing (RH9). Just a matter of fishing around, maybe? Or that wlan-ng project might help.
No absolute solution, just possible leads. Hopefully it helps somewhat.
I saw something about clustering support. Not much of a list. There's gotta be more than that. "Focusing on the desktop" does not make a list...it's too vague. Any specifics?
Then again, I suppose you're not going to get very specific on an e-week article.
Don't get me wrong. I'm all excited about 2.6 making the distros and then hearing about what awesome stuff they'll have on 2.7 -- but this article really just leaves me hanging.
Clueless semi-N00B question...
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Ok, so I admit it (and continue to do so) -- I run Red Hat 9. Not exactly the KDE-loving distro out there. I feel like I lose out on a lot of the KDE goodness since I don't get a lot of KDE-related apps over RPM (nor APT for RPM).
What method is the easiest, most convenient way to get KDE stuff running on my machine? I always figured compiling from source and solving dependencies would be one of the final options. Not that I haven't done that before...as I try to mangle back some geek cred. I've also heard of an automation process that does the whole source thing but am not sure how well it works)
I'm looking for stuff like K3B, Komba (currently run nautilus:smb but it crawls), the latest KDE itself, Quanta, and maybe I'll try KOffice again (been using OOo 1.0)
I like my KDE but haven't brought myself to procuring downloadable ISOs of KDE-Friendlier distros. I'm pretty sure I'm not the only one in this predicament.
So he'll take some bayesian filtering software, integrate it into the next MS Outbreak or if he's wiser than not, slap it straight into his Virus Exchange Server and the world shall rejoice. Ok, rejoice more than usual at a MS product.
As for laughing at the way we do personal computing, I believe there will be tears shed as well, as people realize they'll need to upgrade their hardware in two years to accomodate whatever behemoth they've unleashed with all these new features. Maybe each OS will ship with a copy of ISA (sans the security vulns, of course) and require at least a Gig of RAM.
Between the firewall, anti-virus, and spam filtering...and their history of bloat and memory leaks, you'll need top-of-the-line hardware to run their next generation OS. A very good way to incorporate DRM, if you ask me.
Folks, it's easy to dismiss this as a non-issue but it's a scary thing, this Congress...stuff that doesn't make sense gets passed as law...because corporations LOBBY for it. (not to mention throw around campaign contribution money)
Also, SCO isn't the only company out there lobbying against Linux. This is something Redmond has been actively pursuing long before, and we know how much of a pull those guys have in American government.
We may think it's a stupid threat, but folks, I've seen stupider things happen in politics.
Ok, so we send mice in space, right...and two of them hijack the hubble and uses its lenses to melt the polar ice caps...which would flood the world, letting dolphins swim freely. These dolphins have since been trained to emit a subliminal message which would, at the completion of the mission, compel every man, woman, and child to surrender to Overlord Brain.
I think sending mice in space is a very big mistake.
These glasses must be standard issue in American government nowadays. No WMDs? Well, since we've gotten these here glasses we know you're lying. Send the troops. Oh you want to visit our country? Better line you up for fingerprints and photos 'cause we KNOW y'all foreigners are terrorists. This gadget could justify what racial profiling wanted to accomplish.
If this is anywhere near as accurate as face-recognition, I hope it crashes and burns. The last thing we need in these days of extreme paranoia is another false-positive tool that helps turn neighbor against neighbor.
Once again, Linus shatters previous misconceptions...Geeks do bathe!!!
It shows how these great OSS community leaders have a great sense of humor and humility to put themselves in this situation for worthwhile causes.
I know the great Gates donates money left and right and gets good press for it. Getting dunked gives you more PR goodwill (whether or not that's what these folks wanted) because of the rather personal involvement to the cause.
These are the sorts of people you'd want to be associated with. Not the uptight snobbish boss-types who just don't "get it."
Having fewer signups into priesthood, the Catholic Church officially announced that they will be issuing standard lasers to people who complete the training program. The Pope noted that "this is a momentous occasion. Since the film Star Wars came out, the Church had contemplated issuing Light Sabers but did not want the public to know that we had such technology. Until now, we only dress like jedi knights."
On a more serious note, it's a difficult job raising money in a monastery. Unless you happen to attract genetically altered rich folks that answer to the name "47" (Hitman 2), you'll need to find creative ways to earn a living. I've heard quite a few that have products for sale ranging from seasonal fruitcake, chocolates, and now toner cartridges.
Wake me when the amish start selling toner cartridges.
It seems a scary inevitability that entertainment and your home computer network are going to merge one way or another. I first noticed it with TiVo (really, a HD that records TV for you). Ever since then, people have created their own version, as well as other PC->entertainment hookups with features that include streaming music from PC's over to entertainment systems.
You can even hook up your PS2 to your DSL line via a router to trash talk online. This new device would be just another step in that seemingly inevitable integration process.
The best part about this is that there are many players in this game. Thankfully, it's not just an MS Media Center PC dominating the category.
Not only has he already re-edited his own stuff, imagine what he can do with DVD's of other people's movies!!! He'll frickin' P-Diddy his way back into the mainstream with remixes of The Sound of Music, Casablanca, and The Godfather.
It's not copyright infringement, it's sampling!!! Now a "meesa jar jar binks" is just about the same as an "uh huh yeah!"
I suppose you could write an essay to Uncle Darl letting him know how much you believe in him (selling your soul in the process) and maybe, just maybe, you can get your cut after SCO is done with their pump and dump, Boies gets his cut, and the lawsuit gets thrown out.
Then you'll have that unclean feeling of having sold yourself out, not being able to look fellow geeks in the eye, and then having that mark on your techie soul that says "I kissed Darl McBride's Ass and all I got was this guilty feeling"
Ok, so maybe it's not that drastic in reality and it may be what has to get done if you need the cashage from various scholarship sources. There's always going to a Junior College first (covering your general ed and other transferrable units/credits over) -- that way it'll be a bit less of a financial burden. Then you can hopefully save up enough to transfer to a 4-year by the time you're done.
Get a white wizard to ride his horse near the infringing flying machines, have him hold up his staff (AKA his bat-signal-on-a-stick) and voila, the No-Fly Zone is enforced.
All I needed to do was ssh to mars.rover.org and I can see a curses version of the 3D mars landscape. Fuel packs are depicted as % symbols. The rover is depicted as an @ sign.
No, wait, come to think of it, that's nethack. A very good program to take up if you're one of the folks working with the Beagle2.
...but since that's way too obvious, I'll leave it to the casual slashdotter to fill in the joke.
Let's face it, language butchery is funny. To do so automatically is so much more amusing! I mean I installed festival on my machine just so I could hear the synth voice say stuff like "beeeeyotch" and "retaaard" -- imagine how well you could offend in different dialects!
I suppose it does have legitimate uses...but what fun is that? Then again with the quality of translation software nowadays, it should be amusing nonetheless. If nothing else, maybe we can use it to come up with retranslated English to use as virus subjects. Maybe we could come up with gems better than "I send this to ask opinion for you. Don't show anyone!"
Comic Theory: Marvin the Martian just got a new barbecue grill for Christmas.
Conspiracy Theory: World governments chipped in to send the barbecue grill to Marvin so as to appease the martian and prevent a loud Earth-shattering Kaboom!
A lot of people will dismiss this as a "whoop-tee-doo" gesture and that would be an expected knee-jerk reaction. The thing here is that one must consider the source -- WHO is giving the stuff away. It's not the same as me burning a hundred OSS cd's and leaving them out for people to take. This is a GOVERNMENT entity doing this, and thus has more "umph" to it.
From the review, it seems the book was written in the spirit of those DIY projects for younger people. The value is in what you learn and the satisfaction that you were able to create something for yourself.
Yes, it would be easier to buy something but for a lot of people, having made one for yourself is a much more gratifying experience. This is especially true for people who follow Linux and the Open Source community.
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TechTV did a bit a while back on some form of digital answering machine. Leo was designing a Linux box with vgetty to replace They Might Be Giants' "Dial-A-Song" machine.
For those that don't know, some public libraries offer a Dial-A-Story function for kids where they call up a local number and a recording plays a story that gets changed weekly or so.
I was trying to follow it as we are looking to implement something similar for an aging system that uses 8-track. I figure a low-cost, stable, low-maintenance, little-fuss system should do the trick for a public library.
Leo's hangup (apologies for the bad pun) was on tracking down a compatible voice modem to work with vgetty. I lost the trail since then.
Does any retail outlet sell compatible stuff or is it really a treasure hunt for one of those voice modems that work well with vgetty?
I figured it could be a cool thing to introduce Linux to a library that has seen nothing but MS products (thanks to a grant from the B&M Gates Foundation).
Online Features? What exactly DO we need in features? Near CD-quality, not very restrictive DRM, a good selection, and a decent price. Searches, reviews, and recommendations would be cool, too. You can get most of that in a record store with a knowledgeable music buff on the other side of the counter.
What you don't get is the rustic appeal of going into a music store and enjoying the crowd and ambience. It's not the same when you're quoting NIN lyrics to a friend while passing by people who are shopping the contemporary christian aisle. Not the same as being able to watch people in goth clothing walk by. Not the same as being able to say "Chris I-Suck" (Chris Isaak) in public.
Shop online for convenience, but it's still an experience. Brick and mortar stores still have something to offer. If nothing else, it makes getting music a social event instead of a personal thing. If you're the type to get the latest Britney Spears album, though...you may want to buy online and save yourself some ridicule.:)
One electronic version of "dumpster diving" would be looking through a company's website/anonymous FTP server. Sometimes, a few moronic folks decide to store otherwise-vital information in these "undisclosed" locations that anyone can get into over the web.
Somewhat popular among the consulting types, they upload client data to an FTP server, then fly off to the client's office, and download it from there...or maybe use it as a means to "share" data among themselves. Some forget to password-protect it, relying instead on security through obscurity.
How is this related to dumpster diving? Well, if you look hard enough, those servers are just like public-access trash bins fit for people to...um...recycle data.
If you're a consulting group, make sure you treat your client data with absolute confidentiality. If you're a business working with consultants, make sure they don't leak your info to the world.
Why GNOME over KDE, I don't know. Then again, I'm sure we all have our personal biases. (I happen to like KDE).
A possible danger here would be the road to.NET -- and how heavily Novell/Ximian will be pursuing it. If this is the direction GNOME itself is going and MS suddenly pulls a patent-fit (released as open standards, blah blah...note SCO distributing their code under GPL doesn't shut them up).
Support for both would be great, if not needed, though. I like kuickshow too much to give it up. I know that's a trivial app, but put a more heavily-relied-upon app in its place. There are people who couldn't work without at least KDE app support.
If in the end, there can be only one, I hope it's a product of convergence, and not the demise of one environment (to be technical, the rest of the environments).
An open source firm issued the patch a while back -- It was called mozilla.
How does this affect IE, the MS EULA, and all the other wonderful legal stuff that could be dragged out simply because you modified software that wasn't meant to be modified outside the confines of One Microsoft Way?
Patch on, I guess...if you must. I sleep much more soundly with my RH9 and Firebird.
can wait a bit longer. The kind of stability they need right now isn't in a computer operating system, it's in a governing system. They also need stability in what we consider basic utilities -- electricity, running water, etc. It also helps not to have to worry about car bombs, suicide bombers, and other daily attacks.
If you look through Maslow's heirarchy of needs, a good, cheap, stable, tweakable operating system doesn't make it in the radar quite yet.
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Depends on the Linksys card, I guess. Mine runs ok on the broadcom compatibility workaround thing (RH9). Just a matter of fishing around, maybe? Or that wlan-ng project might help.
No absolute solution, just possible leads. Hopefully it helps somewhat.
I saw something about clustering support. Not much of a list. There's gotta be more than that. "Focusing on the desktop" does not make a list...it's too vague. Any specifics?
Then again, I suppose you're not going to get very specific on an e-week article.
Don't get me wrong. I'm all excited about 2.6 making the distros and then hearing about what awesome stuff they'll have on 2.7 -- but this article really just leaves me hanging.
Ok, so I admit it (and continue to do so) -- I run Red Hat 9. Not exactly the KDE-loving distro out there. I feel like I lose out on a lot of the KDE goodness since I don't get a lot of KDE-related apps over RPM (nor APT for RPM).
What method is the easiest, most convenient way to get KDE stuff running on my machine? I always figured compiling from source and solving dependencies would be one of the final options. Not that I haven't done that before...as I try to mangle back some geek cred. I've also heard of an automation process that does the whole source thing but am not sure how well it works)
I'm looking for stuff like K3B, Komba (currently run nautilus:smb but it crawls), the latest KDE itself, Quanta, and maybe I'll try KOffice again (been using OOo 1.0)
I like my KDE but haven't brought myself to procuring downloadable ISOs of KDE-Friendlier distros. I'm pretty sure I'm not the only one in this predicament.
Longhorn in (maybe) two years...coincidence?
So he'll take some bayesian filtering software, integrate it into the next MS Outbreak or if he's wiser than not, slap it straight into his Virus Exchange Server and the world shall rejoice. Ok, rejoice more than usual at a MS product.
As for laughing at the way we do personal computing, I believe there will be tears shed as well, as people realize they'll need to upgrade their hardware in two years to accomodate whatever behemoth they've unleashed with all these new features. Maybe each OS will ship with a copy of ISA (sans the security vulns, of course) and require at least a Gig of RAM.
Between the firewall, anti-virus, and spam filtering...and their history of bloat and memory leaks, you'll need top-of-the-line hardware to run their next generation OS. A very good way to incorporate DRM, if you ask me.
Folks, it's easy to dismiss this as a non-issue but it's a scary thing, this Congress...stuff that doesn't make sense gets passed as law...because corporations LOBBY for it. (not to mention throw around campaign contribution money)
Also, SCO isn't the only company out there lobbying against Linux. This is something Redmond has been actively pursuing long before, and we know how much of a pull those guys have in American government.
We may think it's a stupid threat, but folks, I've seen stupider things happen in politics.
Ok, so we send mice in space, right...and two of them hijack the hubble and uses its lenses to melt the polar ice caps...which would flood the world, letting dolphins swim freely. These dolphins have since been trained to emit a subliminal message which would, at the completion of the mission, compel every man, woman, and child to surrender to Overlord Brain.
I think sending mice in space is a very big mistake.
These glasses must be standard issue in American government nowadays. No WMDs? Well, since we've gotten these here glasses we know you're lying. Send the troops. Oh you want to visit our country? Better line you up for fingerprints and photos 'cause we KNOW y'all foreigners are terrorists. This gadget could justify what racial profiling wanted to accomplish.
If this is anywhere near as accurate as face-recognition, I hope it crashes and burns. The last thing we need in these days of extreme paranoia is another false-positive tool that helps turn neighbor against neighbor.
Once again, Linus shatters previous misconceptions...Geeks do bathe!!!
It shows how these great OSS community leaders have a great sense of humor and humility to put themselves in this situation for worthwhile causes.
I know the great Gates donates money left and right and gets good press for it. Getting dunked gives you more PR goodwill (whether or not that's what these folks wanted) because of the rather personal involvement to the cause.
These are the sorts of people you'd want to be associated with. Not the uptight snobbish boss-types who just don't "get it."
Having fewer signups into priesthood, the Catholic Church officially announced that they will be issuing standard lasers to people who complete the training program. The Pope noted that "this is a momentous occasion. Since the film Star Wars came out, the Church had contemplated issuing Light Sabers but did not want the public to know that we had such technology. Until now, we only dress like jedi knights."
On a more serious note, it's a difficult job raising money in a monastery. Unless you happen to attract genetically altered rich folks that answer to the name "47" (Hitman 2), you'll need to find creative ways to earn a living. I've heard quite a few that have products for sale ranging from seasonal fruitcake, chocolates, and now toner cartridges.
Wake me when the amish start selling toner cartridges.
I believe it's the beginning of Hackers right before he starts playing with the TV network programming.
It seems a scary inevitability that entertainment and your home computer network are going to merge one way or another. I first noticed it with TiVo (really, a HD that records TV for you). Ever since then, people have created their own version, as well as other PC->entertainment hookups with features that include streaming music from PC's over to entertainment systems.
You can even hook up your PS2 to your DSL line via a router to trash talk online. This new device would be just another step in that seemingly inevitable integration process.
The best part about this is that there are many players in this game. Thankfully, it's not just an MS Media Center PC dominating the category.
Not only has he already re-edited his own stuff, imagine what he can do with DVD's of other people's movies!!! He'll frickin' P-Diddy his way back into the mainstream with remixes of The Sound of Music, Casablanca, and The Godfather.
It's not copyright infringement, it's sampling!!! Now a "meesa jar jar binks" is just about the same as an "uh huh yeah!"
I suppose you could write an essay to Uncle Darl letting him know how much you believe in him (selling your soul in the process) and maybe, just maybe, you can get your cut after SCO is done with their pump and dump, Boies gets his cut, and the lawsuit gets thrown out.
Then you'll have that unclean feeling of having sold yourself out, not being able to look fellow geeks in the eye, and then having that mark on your techie soul that says "I kissed Darl McBride's Ass and all I got was this guilty feeling"
Ok, so maybe it's not that drastic in reality and it may be what has to get done if you need the cashage from various scholarship sources. There's always going to a Junior College first (covering your general ed and other transferrable units/credits over) -- that way it'll be a bit less of a financial burden. Then you can hopefully save up enough to transfer to a 4-year by the time you're done.
Get a white wizard to ride his horse near the infringing flying machines, have him hold up his staff (AKA his bat-signal-on-a-stick) and voila, the No-Fly Zone is enforced.
All I needed to do was ssh to mars.rover.org and I can see a curses version of the 3D mars landscape. Fuel packs are depicted as % symbols. The rover is depicted as an @ sign.
No, wait, come to think of it, that's nethack. A very good program to take up if you're one of the folks working with the Beagle2.
...but since that's way too obvious, I'll leave it to the casual slashdotter to fill in the joke.
Let's face it, language butchery is funny. To do so automatically is so much more amusing! I mean I installed festival on my machine just so I could hear the synth voice say stuff like "beeeeyotch" and "retaaard" -- imagine how well you could offend in different dialects!
I suppose it does have legitimate uses...but what fun is that? Then again with the quality of translation software nowadays, it should be amusing nonetheless. If nothing else, maybe we can use it to come up with retranslated English to use as virus subjects. Maybe we could come up with gems better than "I send this to ask opinion for you. Don't show anyone!"
Comic Theory:
Marvin the Martian just got a new barbecue grill for Christmas.
Conspiracy Theory:
World governments chipped in to send the barbecue grill to Marvin so as to appease the martian and prevent a loud Earth-shattering Kaboom!
Solution:
Get Duck Dodgers to get our grill back.
A lot of people will dismiss this as a "whoop-tee-doo" gesture and that would be an expected knee-jerk reaction. The thing here is that one must consider the source -- WHO is giving the stuff away. It's not the same as me burning a hundred OSS cd's and leaving them out for people to take. This is a GOVERNMENT entity doing this, and thus has more "umph" to it.
This is most definitely a good thing.
From the review, it seems the book was written in the spirit of those DIY projects for younger people. The value is in what you learn and the satisfaction that you were able to create something for yourself.
Yes, it would be easier to buy something but for a lot of people, having made one for yourself is a much more gratifying experience. This is especially true for people who follow Linux and the Open Source community.
TechTV did a bit a while back on some form of digital answering machine. Leo was designing a Linux box with vgetty to replace They Might Be Giants' "Dial-A-Song" machine.
For those that don't know, some public libraries offer a Dial-A-Story function for kids where they call up a local number and a recording plays a story that gets changed weekly or so.
I was trying to follow it as we are looking to implement something similar for an aging system that uses 8-track. I figure a low-cost, stable, low-maintenance, little-fuss system should do the trick for a public library.
Leo's hangup (apologies for the bad pun) was on tracking down a compatible voice modem to work with vgetty. I lost the trail since then.
Does any retail outlet sell compatible stuff or is it really a treasure hunt for one of those voice modems that work well with vgetty?
I figured it could be a cool thing to introduce Linux to a library that has seen nothing but MS products (thanks to a grant from the B&M Gates Foundation).
Online Features? What exactly DO we need in features? Near CD-quality, not very restrictive DRM, a good selection, and a decent price. Searches, reviews, and recommendations would be cool, too. You can get most of that in a record store with a knowledgeable music buff on the other side of the counter.
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What you don't get is the rustic appeal of going into a music store and enjoying the crowd and ambience. It's not the same when you're quoting NIN lyrics to a friend while passing by people who are shopping the contemporary christian aisle. Not the same as being able to watch people in goth clothing walk by. Not the same as being able to say "Chris I-Suck" (Chris Isaak) in public.
Shop online for convenience, but it's still an experience. Brick and mortar stores still have something to offer. If nothing else, it makes getting music a social event instead of a personal thing. If you're the type to get the latest Britney Spears album, though...you may want to buy online and save yourself some ridicule.
One electronic version of "dumpster diving" would be looking through a company's website/anonymous FTP server. Sometimes, a few moronic folks decide to store otherwise-vital information in these "undisclosed" locations that anyone can get into over the web.
Somewhat popular among the consulting types, they upload client data to an FTP server, then fly off to the client's office, and download it from there...or maybe use it as a means to "share" data among themselves. Some forget to password-protect it, relying instead on security through obscurity.
How is this related to dumpster diving? Well, if you look hard enough, those servers are just like public-access trash bins fit for people to...um...recycle data.
If you're a consulting group, make sure you treat your client data with absolute confidentiality. If you're a business working with consultants, make sure they don't leak your info to the world.
There can be only one!
.NET -- and how heavily Novell/Ximian will be pursuing it. If this is the direction GNOME itself is going and MS suddenly pulls a patent-fit (released as open standards, blah blah...note SCO distributing their code under GPL doesn't shut them up).
Why GNOME over KDE, I don't know. Then again, I'm sure we all have our personal biases. (I happen to like KDE).
A possible danger here would be the road to
Support for both would be great, if not needed, though. I like kuickshow too much to give it up. I know that's a trivial app, but put a more heavily-relied-upon app in its place. There are people who couldn't work without at least KDE app support.
If in the end, there can be only one, I hope it's a product of convergence, and not the demise of one environment (to be technical, the rest of the environments).
An open source firm issued the patch a while back -- It was called mozilla.
How does this affect IE, the MS EULA, and all the other wonderful legal stuff that could be dragged out simply because you modified software that wasn't meant to be modified outside the confines of One Microsoft Way?
Patch on, I guess...if you must. I sleep much more soundly with my RH9 and Firebird.
can wait a bit longer. The kind of stability they need right now isn't in a computer operating system, it's in a governing system. They also need stability in what we consider basic utilities -- electricity, running water, etc. It also helps not to have to worry about car bombs, suicide bombers, and other daily attacks.
If you look through Maslow's heirarchy of needs, a good, cheap, stable, tweakable operating system doesn't make it in the radar quite yet.