Well, since you have posted it here, you could as well post add ons to the bug report on the appropriate place, and write the developers for it.
You could also pick up the U$50,00 you would pay for any other proprietary software and pay someone to check the bugs for you, and at least see if it is feasible in the short term, if not fix it.
Understand that when I caln for Free Software Nvidia drivers, I mean that they could keep the same people taht work opn the drivers today, and just make them free. That simply would not hurt anyone but, possibly, the egos of said programers which might be afraid to expose possibly bad written code to the world.
For example, SCO lists the files "include/linux/ctype.h" and
"lib/ctype.h", and some trivial digging shows that those files are
actually there in the original 0.01 distribution of Linux (ie September of
1991). And I can state
- I wrote them (and looking at the original ones, I'm a bit ashamed:
the "toupper()" and "tolower()" macros are so horribly ugly that I
wouldn't admit to writing them if it wasn't because somebody else
claimed to have done so;)
Instead of loosing time and money fighting proprietary software that does not even allow one to give proper feedback to the developers?
One with reverse engineered drivers is far better of, since blocker bugs are resolved in a matter of days by any Free Software developer group.
What are they so afraid of that they do not put these drivers under a Free SOftware License? That people will have copies of thge software without paying them? AFAIK everyone that is interested in such a driver is already a card owner and won't pay anyway.
Keeping these as proprietary is "The Wrong Thing To Do"(tm) under any thinkable point of view.
I keep said for those among the comunity that think it is allright that the drivers are proprietary as far as they exist. Actually it is far worse - in fact proprietary drivers are as incompatible with the Linux Kernel as any Windows only driver. The difference is that instead of a technical incompatibility there is a license incompatibility.
I am stuck with no 3D graphics even in a 5 year old architeture. I bought a S3 compatible videocard because I assembled my box in a budget. And it seens that the only hack to enable 3D on it is available for Xfree 4.2, and was never ported to Xfree 4.3.
I do not plan powergamming (or I would aim at a higher card), but I'd like to try with OpenGL hacking and programing, and even to get the KDE OpenGL screensavers running.
I just plead them to make an open architeture and provide either Open Source drivers, or information for the comunity to build them without pain.
We better get another article to link here. Because the one I F. Read has almost zero about anything Linux, and is covered top to botton with microsoftish stuff.
Mandrake linux is mentioned but once, and in this context: " and the ministry is testing localized builds of Mandrake Linux. ".
I mean....there is by no ways a contrac, or anything. The only contractes mentioned on the F.A. are the ones signed to microsoft, both old and new.
Nowere in the article it is said anything about money saving in changing into FLOSS. Actually, by reading it one gets the impression that FLOSS alternatives will cost far higher than current deals with microsoft.
Open office itself is mentioned three times, one of them in a quote from m$ spokespersons saing it is worse tah microsoft office 97.
To sun it up, IMO, either this article is pro microsoft, or there is nothing going on over there - move along.
With those links to a windoze emulator,I wonder if there could be anyone who cares so much about free software that he will want to free his calculator from proprietary crap (it is just fine up to here - I myself would install free software in a calculator if I had one) and would test said software in an emulator under windo~1.
Well, sorry pal. It was in Brazil. Campinas city,more precisely, and it ain't planned to happen back so soon.
But it was part of a Free Software interchange initiative among cities - a guy froma city a couple hundred kilometers came up to coordinate this workshop. In exchange, one of ours will travel there to work out a Python workshop in January. Maybe you could try to organize stuff like this with your local LUGs or other groups.
I just had a blender workshop this week, and I can say: What a piece of software!
It si just great..definetivelly not ewasy to learn on one's self from the ground up. At elast not with another miriad of multimedia packages that come in any modern distro.
I have always being a POVray fan, and I'd say that some kinds of work I still could do faster on POVRay than on Blender, but it is great to see even more features in it.
We were living a dilemma here in Brazil, as our law doesn't recognize a contract written in a language other than Portuguese. On the other hand, the FSF would not recognize any translation of the GPL as official.
But now it does. As of yesterday, this article at creative commons talks about the very first official translation of the GPL into a language other than English. (Full text of the CC-GPL in Brazillian Portuguese is here.)
The news I've read about it also say that there are some modifications to make the license valid according to brazillian laws, but I had no checked this so far.
Please, do not think I intend to start any distro war, or whatever.
But since you mentioned RedHat already had a patch, I'd like to say that the updated Mandrake package is also avalilable. And yes, it works for everybody, not just for mandrake club subscribers.
The main reason I am posting this is for people to see that there are options among the "big distros" to remain with a secure system without having to worry about having an expensive subscription contract signed.
I hope this gives them an upperhand. In the last couple of days, I have been found that googleing has just become like the 40 minutes search engines journeys for a single subject of the past.
Now, if you are such a fan, why not to get involved in the projects?
It is not hard, believe me. Sometimes, just giving the right ideas tot he right people an make wonders for OSS.
For instance, I always tought that something like this expose, but that would animate the zoom in and zoom out of the windows with 3D rendering would be a nice feature. I am not able to program it myself, I don'tknow if OS X, or XP, or any other thing has implemented or plans to implement it, but I keep hinting it here and there.
Now, if you like inovation and originality this much, join your favorite OSS project discussion list, be it Mozilla, KDE, or OpenOffice, and throw in ideas for inovation.
BTW, I am an educator, and IMO, one of the main points of "OSS" (I rather prefer the "Free Software" denomination), is that it changes a thrend of computer users being ever more passive, to get actively involved in costructing things - even if it is just suggesting features they'd want to see.
GIMP 1.3.23 is also out today. It is expected to be the last release before the 2.0 pre-release cicle starts (and strings are frozen for translators to work on them)
I imagine the technology used to simulate p2p netwroks can also be embeded in an app that could have a dynamic user configurable protocol one could change on the fly.
That would be the ultimate chaotic p2p network, and would be something ultimately funny to see go live.
Yes, that was my first x386, in late 1993 (Or was it 94?). (a whooping 486DX2 66, 8MB/270MB) video card. Could do 640x480x24 and 800x600x 16 under Windos 3.1.
While writing a presentation on Low Earth Orbit communications (late Iridium, and 2 other would-be satellite constelations), I came accross a project to generate Microwave power in Iridum like satellites and bean it down. I digged up some data on the possible hazards at the time, and it looked like safe enough. It seens there are some people still thinking about it outhere. Eather way, googling for space microwave power will bring up a truckfull of ideas, options and even projects.
PS[offtopic]: As you will note in the above URL, I have this habit of configuring google for a different and weird-looking language on each box I have an account at.
I was wondering, which was the first option for 24 bit color (truecolor)?
Both at high end workstations, and for home desktop? I remember seeing ads for true color boards in 1989 Mac magazines. When were them avaliable to the PC? Where they at all avaliable to Intel PCs or Amigas earlier than for Macs?
If someone is kind enough to answer in a nice way (I could not find an answer in google), please consider making it ready for a write up at E2.
M$ pushing a honnest, realistic line of businness, without threats, extorsions, or etc?? It is more than time for we to get out of those 1970ish interfaced Cobol APPS buried in mainframes. Unfortunattely not even me could think of a way of bashing micro$oft off for that...All that is left for us to do is hurry up and deploy some PYTHON CGI, or anything nearly as maintenable, free (speech) and scalable before thay go further with their.net junk.
Here in Brazil, were we have had last year the largest elections using proprietary-software-equiped-polls, it seens that there have been more than a couple of frauds last year.
There have surfaced accuatins of votings being sold at R$10,00 (~U$3.30) each one, and of a candidate that had more than 1000 votes while they were being counted ending up with zero votes.
I just hope they get to the only one true: these eletronic polls, as they are, are nothing but election-buying machinnes.
Until now, one PHB or other could be tempted to think that there was somre reasoning to them.
But that is it. With these claims, in any country were law and rights could be barely understood as such, it would be a matter of FSF stepping in and getting SCO shut down forever.
In USA lets see how much time does it take to happen.
From the Xouvert HOWTO on the very link you posted above: -- 1.1 What is Xouvert? Contrary to popular opinion, Xouvert is not a fork of the XFree86 project.
Xouvert wishes to provide a development branch of XFree86. What this means is, Xouvert is an attempt to create, implement, test, and bring new features and ideas to XFree86 sooner.
Xouvert has now just started. Currently, Xouvert simply is XFree86. The purpose of this document is to help people get to a point where they can help contribute to Xouvert.
Even with a "5 funny" score, parent seens the only post to touch the question asked.
I would not mind calling a Linux Specialist one that would be capable to comply with the 4 first itens in parents list:
-Properly secure a firewall -Compile and install a kernel -Configure the third button on thier mouse -Print to a Panasonic KXP-8410 printer in color
Itens 3 and 4 - or maybe some other semi-random tasks - would assure that the guy really can handle it, and not someone who just overworked a couple howtos.
Slashdot Mirror
Well, since you have posted it here, you could as well post add ons to the bug report on the appropriate place, and write the developers for it.
You could also pick up the U$50,00 you would pay for any other proprietary software and pay someone to check the bugs for you, and at least see if it is feasible in the short term, if not fix it.
Understand that when I caln for Free Software Nvidia drivers, I mean that they could keep the same people taht work opn the drivers today, and just make them free. That simply would not hurt anyone but, possibly, the egos of said programers which might be afraid to expose possibly bad written code to the world.
Quoting Linus in the Article:
;)
:
d efine toupper(c) (_ctmp=c,islower(_ctmp)?_ctmp+('A'-'a'):_ctmp)
For example, SCO lists the files "include/linux/ctype.h" and
"lib/ctype.h", and some trivial digging shows that those files are
actually there in the original 0.01 distribution of Linux (ie September of
1991). And I can state
- I wrote them (and looking at the original ones, I'm a bit ashamed:
the "toupper()" and "tolower()" macros are so horribly ugly that I
wouldn't admit to writing them if it wasn't because somebody else
claimed to have done so
Quoting Linus in ctype,h, linux 0.0.1
#define tolower(c) (_ctmp=c,isupper(_ctmp)?_ctmp+('a'+'A'):_ctmp)
#
Instead of loosing time and money fighting proprietary software that does not even allow one to give proper feedback to the developers?
One with reverse engineered drivers is far better of, since blocker bugs are resolved in a matter of days by any Free Software developer group.
What are they so afraid of that they do not put these drivers under a Free SOftware License? That people will have copies of thge software without paying them? AFAIK everyone that is interested in such a driver is already a card owner and won't pay anyway.
Keeping these as proprietary is "The Wrong Thing To Do"(tm) under any thinkable point of view.
I keep said for those among the comunity that think it is allright that the drivers are proprietary as far as they exist. Actually it is far worse - in fact proprietary drivers are as incompatible with the Linux Kernel as any Windows only driver. The difference is that instead of a technical incompatibility there is a license incompatibility.
I am stuck with no 3D graphics even in a 5 year old architeture.
I bought a S3 compatible videocard because I assembled my box in a budget. And it seens that the only hack to enable 3D on it is available for Xfree 4.2, and was never ported to Xfree 4.3.
I do not plan powergamming (or I would aim at a higher card), but I'd like to try with OpenGL hacking and programing, and even to get the KDE OpenGL screensavers running.
I just plead them to make an open architeture and provide either Open Source drivers, or information for the comunity to build them without pain.
We better get another article to link here. Because the one I F. Read has almost zero about anything Linux, and is covered top to botton with microsoftish stuff.
Mandrake linux is mentioned but once, and in this context: " and the ministry is testing localized builds of Mandrake Linux. ".
I mean....there is by no ways a contrac, or anything. The only contractes mentioned on the F.A. are the ones signed to microsoft, both old and new.
Nowere in the article it is said anything about money saving in changing into FLOSS. Actually, by reading it one gets the impression that FLOSS alternatives will cost far higher than current deals with microsoft.
Open office itself is mentioned three times, one of them in a quote from m$ spokespersons saing it is worse tah microsoft office 97.
To sun it up, IMO, either this article is pro microsoft, or there is nothing going on over there - move along.
With those links to a windoze emulator,I wonder if there could be anyone who cares so much about free software that he will want to free his calculator from proprietary crap (it is just fine up to here - I myself would install free software in a calculator if I had one) and would test said software in an emulator under windo~1.
Well, sorry pal. It was in Brazil. Campinas city,more precisely, and it ain't planned to happen back so soon.
But it was part of a Free Software interchange initiative among cities - a guy froma city a couple hundred kilometers came up to coordinate this workshop. In exchange, one of ours will travel there to work out a Python workshop in January. Maybe you could try to organize stuff like this with your local LUGs or other groups.
I just had a blender workshop this week, and I can say: What a piece of software!
It si just great..definetivelly not ewasy to learn on one's self from the ground up. At elast not with another miriad of multimedia packages that come in any modern distro.
I have always being a POVray fan, and I'd say that some kinds of work I still could do faster on POVRay than on Blender, but it is great to see even more features in it.
Anyway, blender is wellcome to the team.
We were living a dilemma here in Brazil, as our law doesn't recognize a contract written in a language other than Portuguese. On the other hand, the FSF would not recognize any translation of the GPL as official.
But now it does. As of yesterday, this article at creative commons talks about the very first official translation of the GPL into a language
other than English. (Full text of the CC-GPL in Brazillian Portuguese is here.)
The news I've read about it also say that there are some modifications to make the license valid according to brazillian laws, but I had no checked this so far.
Please, do not think I intend to start any distro war, or whatever.
But since you mentioned RedHat already had a patch, I'd like to say that the updated Mandrake package is also avalilable. And yes, it works for everybody, not just for mandrake club subscribers.
The main reason I am posting this is for people to see that there are options among the "big distros" to remain with a secure system without having to worry about having an expensive subscription contract signed.
I hope this gives them an upperhand. In the last couple of days, I have been found that googleing has just become like the 40 minutes search engines journeys for a single subject of the past.
Now,
if you are such a fan, why not to get involved in the projects?
It is not hard, believe me. Sometimes, just giving the right ideas tot he right people an make wonders for OSS.
For instance, I always tought that something like this expose, but that would animate the zoom in and zoom out of the windows with 3D rendering would be a nice feature. I am not able to program it myself, I don'tknow if OS X, or XP, or any other thing has implemented or plans to implement it, but I keep hinting it here and there.
Now, if you like inovation and originality this much, join your favorite OSS project discussion list, be it Mozilla, KDE, or OpenOffice, and throw in ideas for inovation.
BTW, I am an educator, and IMO, one of the main points of "OSS" (I rather prefer the "Free Software" denomination), is that it changes a thrend of computer users being ever more passive, to get actively involved in costructing things - even if it is just suggesting features they'd want to see.
GIMP 1.3.23 is also out today.
It is expected to be the last release before the 2.0 pre-release cicle starts (and strings are frozen for translators to work on them)
Download mirrors are here
I imagine the technology used to simulate p2p netwroks can also be embeded in an app that could have a dynamic user configurable protocol one could change on the fly.
That would be the ultimate chaotic p2p network, and would be something ultimately funny to see go live.
First, tell that people who like music are thieves and prosecute them.
NOW...arrest and fine victins of bad internet usage.
What is next?
"land of freedom" yeah yeah yeah..I know.
Yes, that was my first x386, in late 1993 (Or was it 94?). (a whooping 486DX2 66, 8MB/270MB) video card. Could do 640x480x24 and 800x600x 16 under Windos 3.1.
While writing a presentation on Low Earth Orbit communications (late Iridium, and 2 other would-be satellite constelations), I came accross a project to generate Microwave power in Iridum like satellites and bean it down. I digged up some data on the possible hazards at the time, and it looked like safe enough.
It seens there are some people still thinking about it outhere. Eather way, googling for space microwave power will bring up a truckfull of ideas, options and even projects.
PS[offtopic]: As you will note in the above URL, I have this habit of configuring google for a different and weird-looking language on each box I have an account at.
I was wondering, which was the first option for 24 bit color (truecolor)?
Both at high end workstations, and for home desktop? I remember seeing ads for true color boards in 1989 Mac magazines. When were them avaliable to the PC? Where they at all avaliable to Intel PCs or Amigas earlier than for Macs?
If someone is kind enough to answer in a nice way (I could not find an answer in google), please consider making it ready for a write up at E2.
M$ pushing a honnest, realistic line of businness, without threats, extorsions, or etc?? .net junk.
It is more than time for we to get out of those 1970ish interfaced Cobol APPS buried in mainframes.
Unfortunattely not even me could think of a way of bashing micro$oft off for that...All that is left for us to do is hurry up and deploy some PYTHON CGI, or anything nearly as maintenable, free (speech) and scalable before thay go further with their
Slashdot will.
There are few things I can think of more Homer-Simpson-ish than post a slashdot link to certains sites to tell the world they are being DoSed.
Here in Brazil, were we have had last year the largest elections using proprietary-software-equiped-polls, it seens that there have been more than a
couple of frauds last year.
The latest news are these ones (In Portuguese. Use
the fish to read in English).
There have surfaced accuatins of votings being sold at R$10,00 (~U$3.30) each one, and of a candidate that had more than 1000 votes while they were being counted ending up with zero votes.
I just hope they get to the only one true: these eletronic polls, as they are, are nothing but election-buying machinnes.
Until now, one PHB or other could be tempted to think that there was somre reasoning to them.
But that is it. With these claims, in any country were law and rights could be barely understood as such, it would be a matter of FSF stepping in and getting SCO shut down forever.
In USA lets see how much time does it take to happen.
From the Xouvert HOWTO on the very link you posted above:
--
1.1 What is Xouvert?
Contrary to popular opinion, Xouvert is not a fork of the XFree86 project.
Xouvert wishes to provide a development branch of XFree86. What this means is, Xouvert is an attempt to create, implement, test, and bring new features and ideas to XFree86 sooner.
Xouvert has now just started. Currently, Xouvert simply is XFree86. The purpose of this document is to help people get to a point where they can help contribute to Xouvert.
"Complex number of functions".
i n the Math Features)
After this one, I believe that all our calculus are belong to them.
(from the HP49+ link provided in the article: http://www.hp.com/calculators/graphing/49gplus/
Even with a "5 funny" score, parent seens the only post to touch the question asked.
I would not mind calling a Linux Specialist one that would be capable to comply with the 4 first itens in parents list:
-Properly secure a firewall
-Compile and install a kernel
-Configure the third button on thier mouse
-Print to a Panasonic KXP-8410 printer in color
Itens 3 and 4 - or maybe some other semi-random tasks - would assure that the guy really can handle it, and not someone who just overworked a couple howtos.