I was at the chicago art institute a weekend ago
and they had a display of swords and armor. How
is this related to this thread? At one point,
everything used to be art. Everything was about
creating something interesting and unique, even
weapons. Not anymore. The only things that
matter now are those that make millions for their
publishers. Movies, music, books, etc. And games.
Almost every screenshot I see these days is
a first person POV holding a gun. The graphics
get prettier, but nothing else matters it seems.
doom III, return to wolfstein, unreal II, etc.
Who cares? THEY ARE ALL THE SAME GAME --
Deepak Saxena
[obdisclaimer: I worked on the drivers, so I'm somewhat biased] I2O is the "Intelligent I/O Software Architecuture". It's a really cool mechanism that allows for offloading of I/O handling tasks from the main CPU down to a separate proccessor (IOP). The idea of intelligent I/O isn't really new, but I2O is really cool b/c it is platform and OS independent. If a device suports I2O, and an OS supports I2O, it'll work. No special driver needed for the device. Intelligent I/O isn't that exciting of a thing at the moment, but it'll become really important in a few more years as more and more people start pounding those big porn servers;) ~ Deepak -- Deepak Saxena
I saw F2K and loved it...but the stupid introductions should be cut out of each and every reel by hand and burned. For those that haven't seen it yet, before each song, they have some famous celebrity (can a celebrity not be famous? does a tree falling in the forest with no one around make a sound? such are the questions we must ponder to truly understand the universe...) introduce each piece...Bette Midler, Steve Martin, Penn/Teller, etc. Just annoying... -- Deepak Saxena
The PSX2 is a cool machine...however I don't have any plans on getting one. Why? Because it's can only 480 interlaced NTSC...ick. I'm dishing out $3K for a HDTV ready TV, so why would I want to buy something that has lower resolution than my PC? Maybe for the everyday person, but I just don't think it's quite worth it. Also...by this time next year, PC GFX will probably outperform the PSX2. Yawn.
Ok, devfs won't solve all the problems, but devfs support is one major step that needs to be taken by the kernel to make whole device management easier. The device namespace in Linux is so incredible polluted it's just too much for new and experienced users to deal with. There are 5103 entries in/dev under RH 6.1. With the 2.4 kernel, this will increase even more with the new devices (I2O, Firewire, USB, etc.) It's completely ridiculous. If/dev only showed the devices that were actually on the system instead of every possible one, it would be much easier for people to tell what's what. Imagine if/dev/modem only appeared if a modem device was detected? -- Deepak Saxena
This is cool news. LXCR, IMHO, is one of the companies with probably the best business plan out there. Look at the big companies like Entex that do nothing but provide enterprise computing support. My company has over 60,000 employees, most of whom have at least one PC that is running windows and thus supported by Entex. I think LinuxCare has very good prospects of making it.
They're solving the chicken and egg problem. People don't want to get into Linux because there are not many support solutions, and Linuxcare doesn't have too much revenue b/c there aren't that many people using Linux. Show the world that there is good support, and more people will give Linux a try. This leads to more revenue for LXCR, thus improving services, thus attracing more people to Linux, and so on... -- Deepak Saxena
> I keep saying that OSS is a great alternative to > M$ bullpoop, but that we must offer it as a free > choice, not as "you're either with us or against us". Agreed. But most people a)don't know that there is a viable choice, or b) if they have heard of Linux, are not going to go out and install it on their own. This gives them an opportunity to see what Linux is all about and find out about the local Linux community.
I concurr, the date might not be the best, but like I said below(above?), most people are not doing something on the 17th itself. They're doing something that weekend(19th) or waiting another week before doing anything. It's the principle more than the actual event details that matter: Let people know that there is choice. -- Deepak Saxena
I'm the organizer of the event, and most of the people participating so far are waiting anywhere from a few days to week or two after Win2K releases and than putting together some sort of event at a local store/library. This will let MS have the spotlight, let people get caught up in the hype of Win2K, and than go learn about Linux
As for media coverage and the issue of stupid people, I am specifically asking people to behave in a proper manner. We don't want people running around making fools of themselves trying to advocate Linux. We don't want people who do nothing but say "Microsoft bad. Linux good." It's up to each LUG to try to inform their membership that this is meant to be a well organized, well presented event. Hopefully some idiot won't fsck it up.
The goal is to educate people that there is an alternative. I don't want Linux to be shoved down everyone's throats, but just to let people be aware that there is something other than what the big media machine tells you there is. I don't want Microsoft to die, but I do think there are a lot of small/medium size companies that will just get caught up in the Win2K hype and spend gobs of money to get it up and and running without ever knowing what alternatives exist. Maybe some of these people know that Linux exists, but how many of them do you think have given it a test drive on their own? Probably not many. I'm not trying to go into Intel or some other large company and talk them out of using NT. It's the small companies, with limited funds, that really need to learn about Linux. The idea of an OS upgrade will already be in their mind due to the Win2K release hype, so why not take the opportunity to show them some alternatives.
I think the problem is the clueless education administration that is pushing technology as a silver bullet to repair our educational system. Our governement and the media have mad it seem as if just shoving computers in front of kids will suddenly make them more intelligent. Wrong. The problem is much larger than just technology alone. I'm a software engineer making ~$60K a year, while most teachers earn around half of that. IMHO that is just sick. Teachers should be payed at least around $70-80K/year. They play one of the most important roles in our society, that of making sure that the next generation is well educated and prepared to face tommorrow's challenges. What we need is s total educational reform which puts more money into hiring good teachers and focuses on teaching the students how to learn instead of making sure they pass stupid standardized tests. In my home state (AZ), standardized test scores were low, so the state government is looking into changing our curricillum into one that would focus more on what's needed to do well on these tests. We're going to raise a generation of multiple choice test takers who never understand the value of learning for learning's sake.
I think this technology is amazing, but like many other medical technologies that are available, I fear it will lead to a larger gap between rich and poor. I can just imagine a world where those with money live to ther 120's due to the wonders of modern science while the impovershid(sp??) wither away. I've said this before to friends and will say it again: technology is moving at a much faster pace than we can deal with at a socio-political level. We need to get away from scientists and engineer shoving technology into people's faces and saying "this will make your life better" to a world where there is open public discourse about a medical method before it is widely used. Somewhat of an utopian dream? Probably, but I think it's something we should work towards. -- Deepak Saxena
If you are interested in kernel hacking, pickup "Writing Linux Device Drivers" published by O'Reilley, "Linux Kernel Internal" (forget who publishes it), and most importantly, use the source.
When will slash 0.x code be released? Will user patches be applied/.?
How do you decide whether or not a submitted story is accepted or not? Given that/. is now part of a multi-million dollar company, will we see more mainstreaming of articles? Will you publish some sort of guidelines on what will and will not be rejected? The reason I ask is because I(and others I know) have submitted articles on interesting topics such as genetic engineering, science and philosophy, and have had them rejected and instead we see articles that are totally unrelated to science or technology being posted. This has been brought up by others before, but this site seems more like "stuff that we think is cool" instead of "news for nerds. stuff that matters". Related to this, we have seen story moderators(is that the right term?) post something and rant and rave about it only to later find out that the whole story has not been told. So...to sum it up: Is anything being done to address the quality and integrity of/. stories?
What is being done about the fact that it takes forever between article sumbission and it being posted? You guys have a huge staff now, yet it's obvious from some of the links in stories that a story was posted a few days ago. Why?
Will rejected submissions ever be made browsable in a non-comment posting area?
I find this whole thread to be somewhat ridiculous. ESR or the CEO of Novell for president? This is the reason I sometimes just want to throw my computer in the ditch and disassociate myself from the whole geek community: We are not more important than other people. There is a very worrisome elitist trend within the technology community in which people believe that they are more important to society that other people because they can use a computer. Whatever. Sorry, but I don't see ESR or Mr. CEO coming up with a good solution for dealing with some of the issues that will truly be important in the beggining of the next century:
How to get our relationship with Sino-Russia back on track. This IMHO is the greatest threat to us not just as a nation, but as a race. Our relationship with Russia has just been going downhill the last few years, and I for one think that we are on the brink of another cold war with both Russia and China.
How do we get the disenfranchised in our society back on track. Affirmative action as a method of helping those in bad socio-economical conditions is a joke. It doesn't work and it will just fall apart as more and more hispanic immigrants enter into this country. If we don't do something soon, we will have a repeat of the riots we saw earlier this century, but this time with hispanics instead of blacks.
I do think that it's important to have technically knowlegeable people involved with the proccess, and I think it would be great to see people like ESR working close to the government to make sure that their technology policies make sense. But the idea of putting a geek in charge simply because technology is now a big part of our society to be absurd. -- Deepak Saxena
is absolutely the best movie to come out of America in the last ten years. It's one of those movies you can easilly see several times (I've seen it twice) and still be able to discuss it after seeing it. A great plot, and amazing cast, and many different themes (sexuality, the meaning of life, free will, etc) make this into a wonderful viewing experience! -- Deepak Saxena
Anyone know if the letters are only going out to coders or also to people who've done advocacy work? Like for example, Linux Demo Day (ok, I admit, I'm a selfish, greedy little bastard), LinuxChix, SEUL, etc, etc. -- Deepak Saxena
I decided to sit through it just so I can say I did and didn't die of laughter. It was very bad. Disaster movies in genereal suck, but this was worst than any other I have ever seen (I didn't see Godzilla though, and I've heard horrid things about it). At least with most disaster flicks, they try to develop the characters so we have some reason to care for them. Not so in this case. It was just a hodge podge of characters that had nothing to with each other, an idiotic premise,... I'll stop now. It's just bad. Be glad you didn't sit through it. -- Deepak Saxena
I'm getting really tired of this "RedHat is growing, they might become like Microsoft" nonsense. If (IMNHO, that's a big if) RHAT decides to start making things closed-source and propietary and start screwing customers like Microsoft, guess what...people will stop using RedHat leading to lower earnings, leading to a lower stock price.
Why? Because we, the Linux community, will tell them not to user RedHat. I think what Andrew Leonard and other journalists don't quite grasp yet is the power and voice that the community has. When I tell my friends which Linux to use, I tell them RedHat. When a business person comes into one of our LUG meetings asking for advice on what distro to run on his servers, the most common response is RedHat. Would this be the same if RedHat suddenly decided to close-source parts of their distro? I strongly suspect _no_. If they did, I for one would finally make the jump over to Debian that I've been pondering for a while. I think that you'd see a lot of others doing the same. The community is the marketing force for Linux. If any Linux company does something to piss off the community, they are going to feel the repercussions.
I'll probably loose karma for this, but why was the above post moderated down to 0? -- Deepak Saxena
Neverness is _first_ in a series!
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Neverness is the first book in the series followed by Broken God, The Wild, and lastly, War In Heaven. So if you plan to read The Broken God, I would defintely read Neverness first since it will add a lot of context to the second book. BTW, my domain plexity.net, comes from this book:) -- Deepak Saxena
But can't we, the consumers in our free-market economy do something about this and other blatant abuses of the patent system? If a patent a) hurts customers by increasing the price of what would be otherwise a not so expensice service/good/technology or b) interferes with day to day living (say company Foo doesn't use the patented method to fix y2k issues, thus causing major problems for the phone system). It just astounds me that a company would do something as inane as this...it's more shocking that the patent office would allow this. Maybe instead of legal action against the company, we can take legal action against the patent office.
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I was at the chicago art institute a weekend ago and they had a display of swords and armor. How is this related to this thread? At one point, everything used to be art. Everything was about creating something interesting and unique, even weapons. Not anymore. The only things that matter now are those that make millions for their publishers. Movies, music, books, etc. And games. Almost every screenshot I see these days is a first person POV holding a gun. The graphics get prettier, but nothing else matters it seems. doom III, return to wolfstein, unreal II, etc. Who cares? THEY ARE ALL THE SAME GAME
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[obdisclaimer: I worked on the drivers, so I'm somewhat biased] I2O is the "Intelligent I/O Software Architecuture". It's a really cool mechanism that allows for offloading of I/O handling tasks from the main CPU down to a separate proccessor (IOP). The idea of intelligent I/O isn't really new, but I2O is really cool b/c it is platform and OS independent. If a device suports I2O, and an OS supports I2O, it'll work. No special driver needed for the device. Intelligent I/O isn't that exciting of a thing at the moment, but it'll become really important in a few more years as more and more people start pounding those big porn servers ;) ~ Deepak
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I saw F2K and loved it...but the stupid introductions should be cut out of each and every reel by hand and burned. For those that haven't seen it yet, before each song, they have some famous celebrity (can a celebrity not be famous? does a tree falling in the forest with no one around make a sound? such are the questions we must ponder to truly understand the universe...) introduce each piece...Bette Midler, Steve Martin, Penn/Teller, etc. Just annoying...
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Ok, devfs won't solve all the problems, but devfs support is one major step that needs to be taken by the kernel to make whole device management easier. The device namespace in Linux is so incredible polluted it's just too much for new and experienced users to deal with. There are 5103 entries in /dev under RH 6.1. With the 2.4 kernel, this will increase even more with the new devices (I2O, Firewire, USB, etc.) It's completely ridiculous. If /dev only showed the devices that were actually on the system instead of every possible one, it would be much easier for people to tell what's what. Imagine if /dev/modem only appeared if a modem device was detected?
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They're solving the chicken and egg problem. People don't want to get into Linux because there are not many support solutions, and Linuxcare doesn't have too much revenue b/c there aren't that many people using Linux. Show the world that there is good support, and more people will give Linux a try. This leads to more revenue for LXCR, thus improving services, thus attracing more people to Linux, and so on...
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> M$ bullpoop, but that we must offer it as a free
> choice, not as "you're either with us or against us".
Agreed. But most people a)don't know that there is a viable choice, or b) if they have heard of Linux, are not going to go out and install it on their own. This gives them an opportunity to see what Linux is all about and find out about the local Linux community.
I concurr, the date might not be the best, but like I said below(above?), most people are not doing something on the 17th itself. They're doing something that weekend(19th) or waiting another week before doing anything. It's the principle more than the actual event details that matter: Let people know that there is choice.
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As for media coverage and the issue of stupid people, I am specifically asking people to behave in a proper manner. We don't want people running around making fools of themselves trying to advocate Linux. We don't want people who do nothing but say "Microsoft bad. Linux good." It's up to each LUG to try to inform their membership that this is meant to be a well organized, well presented event. Hopefully some idiot won't fsck it up.
The goal is to educate people that there is an alternative. I don't want Linux to be shoved down everyone's throats, but just to let people be aware that there is something other than what the big media machine tells you there is. I don't want Microsoft to die, but I do think there are a lot of small/medium size companies that will just get caught up in the Win2K hype and spend gobs of money to get it up and and running without ever knowing what alternatives exist. Maybe some of these people know that Linux exists, but how many of them do you think have given it a test drive on their own? Probably not many. I'm not trying to go into Intel or some other large company and talk them out of using NT. It's the small companies, with limited funds, that really need to learn about Linux. The idea of an OS upgrade will already be in their mind due to the Win2K release hype, so why not take the opportunity to show them some alternatives.
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I think this technology is amazing, but like many other medical technologies that are available, I fear it will lead to a larger gap between rich and poor. I can just imagine a world where those with money live to ther 120's due to the wonders of modern science while the impovershid(sp??) wither away. I've said this before to friends and will say it again: technology is moving at a much faster pace than we can deal with at a socio-political level. We need to get away from scientists and engineer shoving technology into people's faces and saying "this will make your life better" to a world where there is open public discourse about a medical method before it is widely used. Somewhat of an utopian dream? Probably, but I think it's something we should work towards.
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- How to get our relationship with Sino-Russia back on track. This IMHO is the greatest threat to us not just as a nation, but as a race. Our relationship with Russia has just been going downhill the last few years, and I for one think that we are on the brink of another cold war with both Russia and China.
- How do we get the disenfranchised in our society back on track. Affirmative action as a method of helping those in bad socio-economical conditions is a joke. It doesn't work and it will just fall apart as more and more hispanic immigrants enter into this country. If we don't do something soon, we will have a repeat of the riots we saw earlier this century, but this time with hispanics instead of blacks.
I do think that it's important to have technically knowlegeable people involved with the proccess, and I think it would be great to see people like ESR working close to the government to make sure that their technology policies make sense. But the idea of putting a geek in charge simply because technology is now a big part of our society to be absurd.--
Deepak Saxena
is absolutely the best movie to come out of America in the last ten years. It's one of those movies you can easilly see several times (I've seen it twice) and still be able to discuss it after seeing it. A great plot, and amazing cast, and many different themes (sexuality, the meaning of life, free will, etc) make this into a wonderful viewing experience!
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Anyone know if the letters are only going out to coders or also to people who've done advocacy work? Like for example, Linux Demo Day (ok, I admit, I'm a selfish, greedy little bastard), LinuxChix, SEUL, etc, etc.
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I decided to sit through it just so I can say I did and didn't die of laughter. It was very bad. Disaster movies in genereal suck, but this was worst than any other I have ever seen (I didn't see Godzilla though, and I've heard horrid things about it). At least with most disaster flicks, they try to develop the characters so we have some reason to care for them. Not so in this case. It was just a hodge podge of characters that had nothing to with each other, an idiotic premise, ... I'll stop now. It's just bad. Be glad you didn't sit through it.
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Who here is old enough to remember this from the good old days of b4 Doom? :)
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Why? Because we, the Linux community, will tell them not to user RedHat. I think what Andrew Leonard and other journalists don't quite grasp yet is the power and voice that the community has. When I tell my friends which Linux to use, I tell them RedHat. When a business person comes into one of our LUG meetings asking for advice on what distro to run on his servers, the most common response is RedHat. Would this be the same if RedHat suddenly decided to close-source parts of their distro? I strongly suspect _no_. If they did, I for one would finally make the jump over to Debian that I've been pondering for a while. I think that you'd see a lot of others doing the same. The community is the marketing force for Linux. If any Linux company does something to piss off the community, they are going to feel the repercussions.
My 0x2 bytes worth.
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I'll probably loose karma for this, but why was the above post moderated down to 0?
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Neverness is the first book in the series followed by Broken God, The Wild, and lastly, War In Heaven. So if you plan to read The Broken God, I would defintely read Neverness first since it will add a lot of context to the second book. :)
BTW, my domain plexity.net, comes from this book
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Somewhat related...Ultima 9 went gold on Monday and should be in shelves by the 24th! There goes all my productivity :)
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As someone who has been doing Linux device driver development for about a year and gotten annoyed at the lack of kernel development tools, it's really nice to see this. Now if only Linus would make Andrea Arcangeli's Intergrated Kernel Debugger a part of the standard tree, it would make day.
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Any lawyer types think this is possible?
Maybe it's time for a community led organization that informs the general populace of the problems with the patent system?
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If this game supports color when the color palm comes out, I will have to get one. That's really what 3Com needs...a killer app that makes everyone want the color feature.
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