Well, I'd like to say I was able to look at the site...but I haven't found a way to resolve this problem where I install the java jre plugin in mozilla, and it starts crashing left and right when visiting pages with java.
Anyone know of a way to fix that? Flash, etc... works fine. Just Java crashes. (BTW, this is Mozilla on Linux (slackware 9 to be exact).
Now that Microsoft has to seriously compete, they're dropping prices and will probably improve the quality of their software. Capitalism is a rather nice thing when it works.
True, but for me to start buying their products again, they will have to drop the palladium idea and get rid of WPA (and neither of those are likely to happend so I'm sticking with Linux). And before someone tries to say WPA isn't a pain in the arse, ask any of my clients who had to call up MS to "re-register" windows after I had to replace parts in their computer, and WPA decided to "unregister" itself. As a tech (and at home as a hardware tinker-er), I find WPA a PITA!
Sorry for getting a bit off topic there... just had to vent that.
I agree with you on Win XP. It's all hype. Plus, I can't stand that primary colored playschool interface! (Yes, you can change it, blah blah...) I run Windows 2000 on this machine in dual boot with Linux. At one time, I had decided to switch to XP on this machine. EEEK!! At first, everything seemed OK, other than a slight sluggish feeling compared to Win 2K. Then, about 2 weeks after I installed XP, the machine wouldn't boot. I got a blue screen before it would completely boot (i.e. didn't make it to the GUI). I tried just about everything to recover it. So, I'm back on Windows 2000:) (and before someone tries to quote me as an XP n00b, I'm not. I support it every day at work. I have many happy customers. MY machine, OTOH, just hates XP).
Summary: Windows 2000 loves this machine, as does Linux -- Windows XP blows up on this machine. End of story.
You know what cases I like? (Besides Lian Li, I mean.) Bear in
mind I'm talking just about the cases, but those new Dell models,
the cases *rock*. You push in two easy buttons, and the thing
opens just like a book. Drives on one side, motherboard on the
other side -- so the drives don't block access to any part of it.
Very very cool. If I were buying a prebuilt PC (instead of
building my own, as all true geeks do in order to individually
select each component) I would be seriously tempted to get a Dell
just so as to have a nice case to work with
I happen to like the "book" style cases that Dell has for the towers, but I find that the desktop models can be a little cramped. Thus it's a little bit of a pain sometimes to change parts or upgrade them. Overall, I like Dell's systems, too, as far as prebuilt systems go. I myself have always preferred to build my own. Back to the Apple end of things: I like the looks of the new tower. It's an Apple, yet not fruity colored;) Brushed aluminum always reminds me of the Lian Li cases, of course. Just this one has an easy access panel. (Also a plus).
(begin rant on bad cases)
Kinda OT, but while we're on the cases subject... as far as the company who gets my vote for worst cases (and I have worked on enough of these particular systems that if you give me $5 for each one I'd be rich...) is COMPAQ. The design I hated most were the "pink" presario mini-towers. Reasons:
On some models, the powersupply was NOT a standard micro-ATX. It was about the same size, but a micro-ATX powersupply would not mount in it's place.
On the model(s) with the non-standard powersupply, the powersupply was mounted at the bottom of the case, opposite the motherboard, attached to a huge bracket running vertically in the case. It blocked practically everything such that removall of the powersupply was mandatory, unless someone with really small hands was nearby to lend a hand (and even then, the part you are removing/installing has to be small enough to fit by).
Also, if you needed to remove the cdrom drive, you had to dismount the backplane the motherboard was mounted to in order to reach the 2 screws on that side. Might I mention that any cards plugged into the PCI/ISA slots had to be removed first to pull out the back plane, and to get the cards out the powersupply had to be removed! Which goes right back to points 1 & 2.
Those were my major reasons for hating those particular models. Mainly because the most common things I had to replace on those customers PCs were CDROMS, where I was having to get the mobo & backplane out of the way to even see those 2 screws in the cdrom.) The other common thing was upgrading the memory. My hands just aren't small enough to fit in that gap... thus I had to pull the powersupply just to add ram! sheesh!
(end rant)
True, it is based off of the quake source, but they have added to the engine some of the abilities found in Doom 3 as far as eye candy goes (not the physics stuff).
An exerpt from the page: "Tenebrae is a modification of the quake source that adds stencil shadows and per pixel lights to quake. Stencil shadows allow for realistic shadow effects on every object in the game world. Per pixel lighting allows you to have fine surface details correctly lit. These are essentially the same algorithms as used by the new Doom game."
Anyway, turning on all the eyecandy with tenebrae brings my P4 1.7Ghz / 512MB Ram / Geforce 3 to it's knees just as the (although ATI optimized) Doom 3 alpha leak. Tenebrae is in no way short on eye candy. I was amazed at things like looking to a pool of water and seeing my quake character staring back at me... and yet i could see down into the water at the same time! And the lights dancing on the walls reflected off the water was cool, too. Of course, to experience all this coolness, you need the water vis'ed maps, and grab all the redone textures so the engine can really do some work for ya;) Bad ass I tell ya... I just need a faster card to enjoy it.
Even if you install packages from CD-Rom, you'll use the same interface as if you were getting it live from HTTP. The only difference is that it'll prompt you to insert the right disc first... and since most packages are small, it'll often take more time for you to find the disc than to just get it from the server.
You're making me think I'm not going to like the installer... related packages should be on the same CD. Then again, I go by categories instead of individual package selection... takes too long, and hard drives are cheap... use that space!
You didn't mention if you had downloaded the stable or testing Debian... testing is generally prefered, because it's not as painfully obselete. If you value stability, "stable" is good of course. But if you want to have fun and experiment, then newer is better. And if you're using "testing", then you'll probably want to keep up with changes made after the CDs were burnt. Debian "testing" CD-Roms go obselete really fast.
I downloaded the 3.0r1 Stable. It's not going on a very fast machine, anyway. Part of the reason why I am even investigating other distros is that Red Hat is making some choices in their package selection (or deselection as it may be) that I don't agree with. I just happened to have a need for dosemu recently, only to find out it hasn't been shipped in RedHat for at least the last couple releases. Upon downloading the source I find there are other packages not installed that was needed to compile dosemu (an assembler -- bin86 i think it was). I even fetched that package... more problems. I would imagine that Debian still includes dosemu, although I may be wrong on that. Either way, the machine will be a server and so stable appeals to me...
Of course, RedHat users can optionally run apt-get themselves, but that's not formally supported by the distribution developer.
We can also run "up2date packagename" and it will grab it... as long as it was something shipped with the distro, that is. And up2date does dependencies for you, which is nice. Unfortunately, up2date doesn't grab programs that weren't in the distrobution.:(
Why would anyone download multiple Debian CDs before installing? That just doesn't make sense. The most you should download is a 150 meg bootable CDROM image, then let the rest of the packages you want come over HTTP when you choose to install them.
Because I've never used Debian before, I may fsck it up and wanna reinstall (I'm not a guru by any stretch of the imagination -- the Unix shell scripting course I just finished last quarter still gives me nightmares...)
I like hard copies. I have a shelf full of downloaded and paid-for CD's of Linux software... probably about 100 discs of Linux software altogether.
And last but not least, because I can!
Debian prides itself on an enormous amount of packages... nearly twice as many, counting bytes, as RedHat provides. To attempt to download "a copy of Debian" is wrong and wasteful.
Lots of packages = Choice. I like choice;) Wrong and Wasteful? In the sense of bandwidth (for the server), yes. Although, I am spending $50/mo for cablemodem, so I got my money's worth this month! Can't say so for kernel.org:( However, if I really like Debian, I will probably buy a copy from now on. As I said, I like hard copies.
The fun of Debian comes in when you decide, on the spur of the moment, to try some exotic free software program and can apt-get it in a much less time that it would take to even figure out the name of the RPM you'd need to install on a "normal" Linux system.
Yes, I have heard of the great "apt-get" and will definitely exercise it a bit. I don't know why you have a problem with the naming of RPMs. I find that it is usually the same as the program or package name. Then again, I've been dealing with RPMs almost entirely since '97, when I started out on RH 5.2 Matter of fact, RPMs are a nice idea, just implemented somewhat wrong, IMHO.
Even if the desired install computer doesn't have fast internet access, burning 7 CDs is excessive. There probabably won't even be 2 CDs worth of packages you really want to install. Of the top ten largest packages in Debian, six of them are only desirable for hardcore software developers.
I'm used to swapping 3 discs around during an install... I started out with RedHat & Mandrake...
Anywho, it's pointless, as the downloads are already finished. I've already started burning the images to disc.
... I almost snorted my pepsi straight out my nose when I saw 2.4.21 was released, because this morning I decided I was going to try Debian, and had chsen ftp://mirrors.kernel.org/debian-cd/i386 as my download location. I'm on the last CD now... that's #7... getting 240K/sec at the moment:0
IMHO. Exim and Postfix are each remarkable mail systems in their own right and have way simplified the process of setting up a mail server.
I myself have switched to using Postfix both at work and for my home server;) It is wonderful... especially since the config files make sense (at least, it does to me). I never truly had control of sendmail because I didn't really understand everything in the config file.
And hey, why do people buy IDE drives? Because they're cheaper than SCSI. And here's one reason why!
I've always liked my SCSI drives better, although they cost me an arm and a leg.;) This is one case where (especially in servers, etc...) where the phrase you get what you pay for still holds true.
Well, I can't say it's been that good.
I'm in university accomodation and we all share a 34Mbit leased line, which is usually pretty damn fast, so I was expecting great things from BitTorrent. I downloaded the Linux version for myself and also the Windows version to distribute around the place a bit. Linux is now finished and I am now still downloading the Windows one at about 2kB/s and uploading at about 8kB/s.
The Linux version peaked at about 180, but most of the time it was either stalled or just moving very slowly, although of course the upload was zipping along very nicely all the while.
I downloaded both versions as well. I started the windows version a couple minutes before the linux version (expecting a decent transfer rate) and it was 14kb/s... i started the linux download about 5 minutes later.... its done now... and the windows version is at 16% still...and its still only 14kb/s... to many windows users being leaches and not leaving their window open is the problem.
Anyway, I have left my linux download window open so others may get the smooth download i received... I will do the same for the windows users out there.. although they don't deserve it:P
If the GPL does stand up and is declared valid in such a case, you can expect large companies to avoid it like the plague. They will not want have to vett every line of code they distribute under the GPL against every line of code in their proprietary portfolio to make sure somebody, somewhere, didn't insert stolen code.
While companies may very well avoid the GPL like the plague as you put it, those companies might as well blacklist every other open source license as well. BSD, LGPL, etc... if you release any source under any of those licenses and it was your trade secret/intellectual property -- you lose it (as many other posters have noted in their replies).
On a side note: The GPL has been called "viral", but I don't see how it is worse than the BSD license when you consider the following:
1. OK, Company XYZ unknowingly releases code under GPL. Well, now all their competitors can look at the code, but then have to write their own implementation using that knowlege (i.e. can't copy word for word) or they fall into the trap of using GPL code in their product.
2. Or, another possibility: Company XYZ unknowingly releases code under the BSD license. Now, not only can their competitors look at the code and understand how it works, but they don't even have to rewrite it because of the way the BSD license works... at least that is my understanding of the BSD license at the moment.
Thus, I would see the BSD scenario as even worse, because your competitor now HAS your code/product (basically) straight from you! DOH!
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2: Every piece of "FUD" about the GPL will be proven--it IS a viral license, that can irrevocably infect your code without your express wishes.
Actually, in this case it doesn't matter what open license it is. If the license used was the BSD license, SCO would still be losing their "intellectual property" because the source would still be there for everyone to see. Thus, we need not worry about the "viral FUD" if the above point is brought to attention.
Oh heck, get some incindiary ammo and blow right through the thing. I'd love to see what it does to that. A.223 incindiary round is supposed to blow through 3/8inch steel. Hmm... where's that old 6GB bigfoot drive at?
Only 3/8 in. steel? That's not all that hard. My friends Chineese SKS rifle (using full metal jacket) was able to make a clean hole through 5/8 in. steel plate we had laying around.;) Now, if you like the whole "larger exit wound than entry wound" deal, check out hollow points. They are cool. We shot a wooden fence post with his SKS w/ hollow points and the entry was small but out the backside the post was total gone!:) Good fun!
Eventually I might give RH9 and KDE3 a try, but not right now.:)
I am currently sitting in front of RH9 + KDE3, and I can say it is much nicer and faster than before.:)
BTW, I am using a Geforce 3 Ti200 (an Asus one) w/ the latest Nvidia drivers (with the cool new auto detect and installation!) They work great so far in 2D, haven't tried the 3D yet, although the last version of the drivers work fine (but that was on RH8). Guess I'll have to dig for my Quake III Linux cdrom (still have the metal tin it came in!) and try some 3D.
I'm glad I haven't had an unpleasant experience like that. I've been to quite a few Hamventions here in Dayton, and (knocking on wood) not had anything stolen as of yet. Here's to hoping this year will be cool, too!;)
Sorry to hear the valley is lacking...
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but those things are still around here in Ohio.:)
We have Hamvention, of course, every year. We also have a large surplus store called Mendelsons in Dayton (cool place to get any and everything electronic -- well almost). There are some other places to get stuff, too. (In Fairborn, we have a little store called Midwest Electronics Surplus.)
However, you are correct... I love eBay for grabbing cheap stuff. I aquired my beige G3 desktop from eBay;)
Anyhow, I love Hamvention.:) I just don't get to go every year.:( And there are plenty of other electronics besides radios at Hamvention each year.
Peace!
~Steve
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Thanks for that link to ROX! Drag and drop saving of files is a neat idea. Also, the application directories idea is pretty interesting. Good for the not-so-computer-inclined folk. (Like my mom & dad).
Would be interesting to see ROX get a little more attention in the world of window managers / desktop environments.:)
The only way to test the speed of X is to test it by itself. Take it down to minimal and then try it on various hardware and compare it to windows.
X by itself is fast and efficient on my computers. I don't know why yours aren't. Try setting up X with twm or another lightweight window manager. See how fast it runs? Even on my old and crusty AMD K6-2 450MHz, X pops up very quickly in twm or another lightweight window manager. It is only when I run KDE/Gnome/(insert bloated desktop here). Hell, with a lightweight window manager, X11 runs peachy on a 486!
What this shows is that all of the modern "fancy" toolkits and window managers are the bottleneck, not X! IANAP, but I would say that the optimization needs to happen in the upper layers. Also, using the networking functionality doesn't slow my X sessions down at all when using fvwm/twm/blackbox/etc. Acutally, I haven't really noticed a slowdown for KDE or Gnome... at least not enough to catch my attention when I wasn't looking for it.
Oh yeah, I like my networkability (is that a word?) with X11.:P
Slashdot Mirror
Well, I'd like to say I was able to look at the site...but I haven't found a way to resolve this problem where I install the java jre plugin in mozilla, and it starts crashing left and right when visiting pages with java.
Anyone know of a way to fix that? Flash, etc... works fine. Just Java crashes. (BTW, this is Mozilla on Linux (slackware 9 to be exact).
True, but for me to start buying their products again, they will have to drop the palladium idea and get rid of WPA (and neither of those are likely to happend so I'm sticking with Linux). And before someone tries to say WPA isn't a pain in the arse, ask any of my clients who had to call up MS to "re-register" windows after I had to replace parts in their computer, and WPA decided to "unregister" itself. As a tech (and at home as a hardware tinker-er), I find WPA a PITA!
Sorry for getting a bit off topic there... just had to vent that.I agree with you on Win XP. It's all hype. Plus, I can't stand that primary colored playschool interface! (Yes, you can change it, blah blah...) I run Windows 2000 on this machine in dual boot with Linux. At one time, I had decided to switch to XP on this machine. EEEK!! At first, everything seemed OK, other than a slight sluggish feeling compared to Win 2K. Then, about 2 weeks after I installed XP, the machine wouldn't boot. I got a blue screen before it would completely boot (i.e. didn't make it to the GUI). I tried just about everything to recover it. So, I'm back on Windows 2000 :) (and before someone tries to quote me as an XP n00b, I'm not. I support it every day at work. I have many happy customers. MY machine, OTOH, just hates XP).
Summary: Windows 2000 loves this machine, as does Linux -- Windows XP blows up on this machine. End of story.
I happen to like the "book" style cases that Dell has for the towers, but I find that the desktop models can be a little cramped. Thus it's a little bit of a pain sometimes to change parts or upgrade them. Overall, I like Dell's systems, too, as far as prebuilt systems go. I myself have always preferred to build my own. Back to the Apple end of things: I like the looks of the new tower. It's an Apple, yet not fruity colored
(begin rant on bad cases)
Kinda OT, but while we're on the cases subject... as far as the company who gets my vote for worst cases (and I have worked on enough of these particular systems that if you give me $5 for each one I'd be rich...) is COMPAQ. The design I hated most were the "pink" presario mini-towers. Reasons:
- On some models, the powersupply was NOT a standard micro-ATX. It was about the same size, but a micro-ATX powersupply would not mount in it's place.
- On the model(s) with the non-standard powersupply, the powersupply was mounted at the bottom of the case, opposite the motherboard, attached to a huge bracket running vertically in the case. It blocked practically everything such that removall of the powersupply was mandatory, unless someone with really small hands was nearby to lend a hand (and even then, the part you are removing/installing has to be small enough to fit by).
- Also, if you needed to remove the cdrom drive, you had to dismount the backplane the motherboard was mounted to in order to reach the 2 screws on that side. Might I mention that any cards plugged into the PCI/ISA slots had to be removed first to pull out the back plane, and to get the cards out the powersupply had to be removed! Which goes right back to points 1 & 2.
Those were my major reasons for hating those particular models. Mainly because the most common things I had to replace on those customers PCs were CDROMS, where I was having to get the mobo & backplane out of the way to even see those 2 screws in the cdrom.) The other common thing was upgrading the memory. My hands just aren't small enough to fit in that gap... thus I had to pull the powersupply just to add ram! sheesh!(end rant)
... you might have noticed this:
LRP == R.I.P. (1997-2002)
Thus he spent alot more than 6 months on the project... it was 5 years!
Have you seen Tenebrae?
;) Bad ass I tell ya... I just need a faster card to enjoy it.
True, it is based off of the quake source, but they have added to the engine some of the abilities found in Doom 3 as far as eye candy goes (not the physics stuff).
An exerpt from the page:
"Tenebrae is a modification of the quake source that adds stencil shadows and per pixel lights to quake. Stencil shadows allow for realistic shadow effects on every object in the game world. Per pixel lighting allows you to have fine surface details correctly lit. These are essentially the same algorithms as used by the new Doom game."
Anyway, turning on all the eyecandy with tenebrae brings my P4 1.7Ghz / 512MB Ram / Geforce 3 to it's knees just as the (although ATI optimized) Doom 3 alpha leak. Tenebrae is in no way short on eye candy. I was amazed at things like looking to a pool of water and seeing my quake character staring back at me... and yet i could see down into the water at the same time! And the lights dancing on the walls reflected off the water was cool, too. Of course, to experience all this coolness, you need the water vis'ed maps, and grab all the redone textures so the engine can really do some work for ya
Even if you install packages from CD-Rom, you'll use the same interface as if you were getting it live from HTTP. The only difference is that it'll prompt you to insert the right disc first... and since most packages are small, it'll often take more time for you to find the disc than to just get it from the server.
:(
You're making me think I'm not going to like the installer... related packages should be on the same CD. Then again, I go by categories instead of individual package selection... takes too long, and hard drives are cheap... use that space!
You didn't mention if you had downloaded the stable or testing Debian... testing is generally prefered, because it's not as painfully obselete. If you value stability, "stable" is good of course. But if you want to have fun and experiment, then newer is better. And if you're using "testing", then you'll probably want to keep up with changes made after the CDs were burnt. Debian "testing" CD-Roms go obselete really fast.
I downloaded the 3.0r1 Stable. It's not going on a very fast machine, anyway. Part of the reason why I am even investigating other distros is that Red Hat is making some choices in their package selection (or deselection as it may be) that I don't agree with. I just happened to have a need for dosemu recently, only to find out it hasn't been shipped in RedHat for at least the last couple releases. Upon downloading the source I find there are other packages not installed that was needed to compile dosemu (an assembler -- bin86 i think it was). I even fetched that package... more problems. I would imagine that Debian still includes dosemu, although I may be wrong on that. Either way, the machine will be a server and so stable appeals to me...
Of course, RedHat users can optionally run apt-get themselves, but that's not formally supported by the distribution developer.
We can also run "up2date packagename" and it will grab it... as long as it was something shipped with the distro, that is. And up2date does dependencies for you, which is nice. Unfortunately, up2date doesn't grab programs that weren't in the distrobution.
- Because I've never used Debian before, I may fsck it up and wanna reinstall (I'm not a guru by any stretch of the imagination -- the Unix shell scripting course I just finished last quarter still gives me nightmares...)
- I like hard copies. I have a shelf full of downloaded and paid-for CD's of Linux software... probably about 100 discs of Linux software altogether.
- And last but not least, because I can!
Debian prides itself on an enormous amount of packages... nearly twice as many, counting bytes, as RedHat provides. To attempt to download "a copy of Debian" is wrong and wasteful.Lots of packages = Choice. I like choice
The fun of Debian comes in when you decide, on the spur of the moment, to try some exotic free software program and can apt-get it in a much less time that it would take to even figure out the name of the RPM you'd need to install on a "normal" Linux system.
Yes, I have heard of the great "apt-get" and will definitely exercise it a bit. I don't know why you have a problem with the naming of RPMs. I find that it is usually the same as the program or package name. Then again, I've been dealing with RPMs almost entirely since '97, when I started out on RH 5.2 Matter of fact, RPMs are a nice idea, just implemented somewhat wrong, IMHO.
Even if the desired install computer doesn't have fast internet access, burning 7 CDs is excessive. There probabably won't even be 2 CDs worth of packages you really want to install. Of the top ten largest packages in Debian, six of them are only desirable for hardcore software developers.
I'm used to swapping 3 discs around during an install... I started out with RedHat & Mandrake...
Anywho, it's pointless, as the downloads are already finished. I've already started burning the images to disc.
... I almost snorted my pepsi straight out my nose when I saw 2.4.21 was released, because this morning I decided I was going to try Debian, and had chsen ftp://mirrors.kernel.org/debian-cd/i386 as my download location. I'm on the last CD now... that's #7... getting 240K/sec at the moment :0
Yeah, the DMCA really is a piece of shit isn't it...
If I had to manage and administrate 5000 users, I'd vastly prefer Exchange to sendmail.conf.
;)
You might want to reread the parent post. He said he was using Postfix, not Sendmail! Postfix has a much better config file.
IMHO. Exim and Postfix are each remarkable mail systems in their own right and have way simplified the process of setting up a mail server.
;) It is wonderful... especially since the config files make sense (at least, it does to me). I never truly had control of sendmail because I didn't really understand everything in the config file.
I myself have switched to using Postfix both at work and for my home server
And hey, why do people buy IDE drives? Because they're cheaper than SCSI. And here's one reason why!
;) This is one case where (especially in servers, etc...) where the phrase you get what you pay for still holds true.
I've always liked my SCSI drives better, although they cost me an arm and a leg.
Well, I can't say it's been that good. I'm in university accomodation and we all share a 34Mbit leased line, which is usually pretty damn fast, so I was expecting great things from BitTorrent. I downloaded the Linux version for myself and also the Windows version to distribute around the place a bit. Linux is now finished and I am now still downloading the Windows one at about 2kB/s and uploading at about 8kB/s. The Linux version peaked at about 180, but most of the time it was either stalled or just moving very slowly, although of course the upload was zipping along very nicely all the while.
... i started the linux download about 5 minutes later.... its done now... and the windows version is at 16% still...and its still only 14kb/s ... to many windows users being leaches and not leaving their window open is the problem.
:P
I downloaded both versions as well. I started the windows version a couple minutes before the linux version (expecting a decent transfer rate) and it was 14kb/s
Anyway, I have left my linux download window open so others may get the smooth download i received... I will do the same for the windows users out there.. although they don't deserve it
If the GPL does stand up and is declared valid in such a case, you can expect large companies to avoid it like the plague. They will not want have to vett every line of code they distribute under the GPL against every line of code in their proprietary portfolio to make sure somebody, somewhere, didn't insert stolen code.
While companies may very well avoid the GPL like the plague as you put it, those companies might as well blacklist every other open source license as well. BSD, LGPL, etc... if you release any source under any of those licenses and it was your trade secret/intellectual property -- you lose it (as many other posters have noted in their replies).
On a side note: The GPL has been called "viral", but I don't see how it is worse than the BSD license when you consider the following:
1. OK, Company XYZ unknowingly releases code under GPL. Well, now all their competitors can look at the code, but then have to write their own implementation using that knowlege (i.e. can't copy word for word) or they fall into the trap of using GPL code in their product.
2. Or, another possibility: Company XYZ unknowingly releases code under the BSD license. Now, not only can their competitors look at the code and understand how it works, but they don't even have to rewrite it because of the way the BSD license works... at least that is my understanding of the BSD license at the moment.
Thus, I would see the BSD scenario as even worse, because your competitor now HAS your code/product (basically) straight from you! DOH!
2: Every piece of "FUD" about the GPL will be proven--it IS a viral license, that can irrevocably infect your code without your express wishes.
Actually, in this case it doesn't matter what open license it is. If the license used was the BSD license, SCO would still be losing their "intellectual property" because the source would still be there for everyone to see. Thus, we need not worry about the "viral FUD" if the above point is brought to attention.
Oh heck, get some incindiary ammo and blow right through the thing. I'd love to see what it does to that. A .223 incindiary round is supposed to blow through 3/8inch steel. Hmm... where's that old 6GB bigfoot drive at?
;) Now, if you like the whole "larger exit wound than entry wound" deal, check out hollow points. They are cool. We shot a wooden fence post with his SKS w/ hollow points and the entry was small but out the backside the post was total gone! :) Good fun!
Only 3/8 in. steel? That's not all that hard. My friends Chineese SKS rifle (using full metal jacket) was able to make a clean hole through 5/8 in. steel plate we had laying around.
Eventually I might give RH9 and KDE3 a try, but not right now. :)
:)
I am currently sitting in front of RH9 + KDE3, and I can say it is much nicer and faster than before.
BTW, I am using a Geforce 3 Ti200 (an Asus one) w/ the latest Nvidia drivers (with the cool new auto detect and installation!) They work great so far in 2D, haven't tried the 3D yet, although the last version of the drivers work fine (but that was on RH8). Guess I'll have to dig for my Quake III Linux cdrom (still have the metal tin it came in!) and try some 3D.
w00t!
~Steve
I have a GeForce 3 Ti200 (Asus brand) that has no problems with the Nvidia drivers for Linux whatsoever. And I have used several versions of them.
I'm glad I haven't had an unpleasant experience like that. I've been to quite a few Hamventions here in Dayton, and (knocking on wood) not had anything stolen as of yet. Here's to hoping this year will be cool, too! ;)
but those things are still around here in Ohio. :)
;)
:) I just don't get to go every year. :( And there are plenty of other electronics besides radios at Hamvention each year.
We have Hamvention, of course, every year. We also have a large surplus store called Mendelsons in Dayton (cool place to get any and everything electronic -- well almost). There are some other places to get stuff, too. (In Fairborn, we have a little store called Midwest Electronics Surplus.)
However, you are correct... I love eBay for grabbing cheap stuff. I aquired my beige G3 desktop from eBay
Anyhow, I love Hamvention.
Peace!
~Steve
as I live near Dayton :) WOOHOO!!
Thanks for that link to ROX! Drag and drop saving of files is a neat idea. Also, the application directories idea is pretty interesting. Good for the not-so-computer-inclined folk. (Like my mom & dad).
:)
Would be interesting to see ROX get a little more attention in the world of window managers / desktop environments.
so basically. kick the fat ass outta the driver seat and the damn thing will move on down the road.
:) Thanks.
Exactly! We need to reduce the bloat riding on top of X. I just couldn't find a better way to convey that earlier.
The only way to test the speed of X is to test it by itself. Take it down to minimal and then try it on various hardware and compare it to windows.
:P
X by itself is fast and efficient on my computers. I don't know why yours aren't. Try setting up X with twm or another lightweight window manager. See how fast it runs? Even on my old and crusty AMD K6-2 450MHz, X pops up very quickly in twm or another lightweight window manager. It is only when I run KDE/Gnome/(insert bloated desktop here). Hell, with a lightweight window manager, X11 runs peachy on a 486!
What this shows is that all of the modern "fancy" toolkits and window managers are the bottleneck, not X! IANAP, but I would say that the optimization needs to happen in the upper layers. Also, using the networking functionality doesn't slow my X sessions down at all when using fvwm/twm/blackbox/etc. Acutally, I haven't really noticed a slowdown for KDE or Gnome... at least not enough to catch my attention when I wasn't looking for it.
Oh yeah, I like my networkability (is that a word?) with X11.