...Dmitri who wrote Turck mmcache was offered a job at Zend and, shock horror, took it. However, as mmcache is GPL'd it lives on at sourceforge, with a new cvs commiter appointed (IIRC) and dev work continuing. To be honest though, it's pretty much feature complete so all they need to do is sure up support for PHP5 (still beta at the moment).
I didn't use the xpinstall method, I just downloaded the java runtime from suns site and installed it, it detected firefox and installed the java plugin automagically.
...how about the forthcoming Tiger preview stuff (Redmond start your copiers etc.) to do with the new iChat video interface, the dashboard (a konfabulator ripoff) etc.?
However, that's being released next year, not in 4 years so your point does have some merit;o)
1) If you tamper with a StorageTek library you can enable unlicensed slots (cells) and enable it to store more tapes than you have paid for. StorageTek are very good in that they allow you to expand your library as you require, rather than making you get a new fully expanded one because you may need the storage space in the future.
Then that is a fundamental flaw in the way these products are designed. Now, if the machine was delivered with only the slots ordered but room for more (which could be added as a bolt-on) and some kind of hardware dongle to stop the robot arm from accessing these unless they are licensed, problem solved.
2) StorageTek rely upon support contracts to make their libraries profitable. If they allow other companies to support their hardware they will have to charge more for the hardware in the first place.
Any business model that relies on monies brought in from a service contract is fatally flawed from the outset. Let's say for a minute that they build good machines that work 100% of the time, they make no money on support (people wouldn't buy/renew the contract). If they don't make money on their machines they are a loss-leader, which is not only dumb but also illegal in several western countries (IIRC Belgium for one, where I had the pleasure of seeing one of these machines up close at a summer job I had whilst at university).
3) These bits of kit are seriously advanced robotics, there are a lot of trade secrets etc that STK don't really want people to be examining.
So do many production cars, but they don't stop you opening the bonnet and tinkering with them, do they? If you ship a product out, that someone has purchased (not licensed) then you should have no right to stop people opening it up and having a look inside.
...and running it through a decent compressor/limiter stage. There is no real need for amateurs to use crap software these days, there is a plethora of cheap and even free c/l's that rival the "big boys" in quality.
I still use Wavelab 3 which you can probably get on ebay for next to nothing, tc native bundle (ok, still expensive but worth every penny) and the old Waves C1 direct x compressor plugin, I've also got the Steinberg Mastering edition around for occasional use (the loudness maximiser does a good job of making everything "feel" louder if you're in a hurry and the multi-band compressor is useful if you actually know how to use it properly, which I do).
However, there is no substitute for recording at almost the maximum amplitude you can to begin with as when you use a "normalization" or similar function you will also be amplifying any digital or analogue interference in your signal path - often to very noticable levels (especially with entry-level and 'prosumer' kit).
If possible, record at 24-bit and then use a decent resampling algorithm to go down to 16-bit...it will always sound better than 16-16.
...first of all, it adds an extra word that has to be put in the already limited SMS message (160 chars).
Secondly, does the average teen using SMS want to remember a password for every single person they send SMS messages to?
Thirdly unless you made it a "proper" "secure" password (which would be a bitch to enter with predictive text) it is vulnerable to a simple dictionary based attack.
Now all we need is a huge list for "why your SMS spam prevention technique will not work" (a la smtp one that's always popping up on/.)/
...they didn't realise at that point that this could be launched without user interaction, that is what was posted to full disclosure - when that was written it was believed that a user had to be fooled into clicking on that link - a whole different ballgame.
True, I think this was something that should have been looked at earlier, but the same day the no-user interaction vuln was posted, there was a fix.
Is there a (proper) fix yet for the download.ject problem? No, even with the temporary "sticking plaster" that microsoft launched onto windows update this week there are still ways to exploit the problem. It will be months until a proper patch that fixes that will be released, if it is ever released at all.
Lets keep things in perspective and in context please.
...he says that on Firefox the fancy popup menus don't appear, and after loading up explorer I see what's missing...the exact same functionality that countless free cross browser AND cross platform javascript/dhtml popup scripts provide (for example, young pups ypSlideoutMenu which is used on the Blender foundations' homepage).
I think it's another case of Microsoft making stuff look crap in other browsers for no good reason.
Haven't tried it on a mac yet, but I'm betting it looks like ass in safari too.
...some of our clients want real-time chat facilities on their sites (a bit like the liverperson support system), we provide this using a custom built Java chat server.
Now that we've got proper Non Blocking I/O and you don't need a thread for every connection (or to implement your own multiplexor with JNI) the memory usage of our server app has come down considerably.
Looking at the latest stats on my performance monitor it's currently dealing with 463 concurrent connections and using roughly 70 megs of memory, which on a server with 2 gigs is nothing.
...they do all the hard work for you, and if your company can afford it they could even pay them so you can do a zone xfer. That way you're blocking spam easily plus supporting a valuable organisation.
...however the grandparents post still incorrectly claims that you cannot download and build the Java Runtime Environment, which is categorically untrue.
Re-reading my post I think i made it clear that in no way was Java open, but neither was.net.
One thing that bothers me, reading the shared source license it seems to insinuate that you cannot use the source for commercial purposes or create derivative works of it, so how is that open? If I am wrong please point that out (the license is linked from the main page).
...the source code for the java class libraries comes with all Java 2 SDK's, and the source code for the JVM and Hotspot JITs is available for download from sun..
I know this because to run Java on FreeBSD you have to compile it from source, which you have to download from sun independantly and then patch.
.Net on the otherhand is the one that is not open, true, parts of the C# spec have been submitted to ECMA as standards, but the cast majority of the platform is under tight microsoft control (and covered by numerous patents).
Care to give me the URL of the C# compiler and the CLR source code? No? That's becuase they exist only in your imagination.
Never took a look at LADSPA as I'm stuck on windows until we see a version of Cubase for linux, or a linux solution that provides all of the functionality of cubase.
But for your own comparison take a look at Kvr-VST which is a vst plugin news/listing site.
There are basically two types of plugin, a simple VST which is for things like effects units and then there are VSTi's which are virtual instruments. Native Instruments do a whole load that emulate synths of bygone days almost perfectly. Korg has also just released three classic synth's as VSTi's which sound so much like the real thing it's scary.
...world for some time. There is a widely adopted "open" standard (VST-Virtual Studio Technology). They are not cross platform as they are native software, however I can load up one of a number of sequencers on Windows and use the same plugins.
There are competing plugin formats such as Direct X, but VST's seem to have the market pretty sewn up - there's even bindings for java:o)
One the mac side of things Apple introduced AudioUnits which seem to be gaining popularity.
The great thing is, since developers no longer have to target a certain platform (i.e. only one sequencer family) you see a huge wealth of plugins available to be used on anything - hopefully we'll see that same kind of developer community flourish around rich-content plugins for the web.
...I've had a full Cardiac Checkup (all my brothers did after our dad had a heart attack at age 55 - which in Belgium is far less common than in the US of A). Stress ECG, the works. Best bit? The Ultrasound they did of my heart, you can see your own heart beating on the screen. Anyway, one normal sized heart in this body:o)
Realise that installer automatically imports IE favourites
Select the Internet Explorer icon, press "Del" key
When asked if you are sure,say yes (with extreme prejudice)
it's really that simple, for added effect you could try replacing the firefox icon with the explorer one (right click|properties|change icon|browse to iexplore.exe|select the icon from the ones that come up), that's what I did as I was used to clicking on a blue e. After a while I weaned myself off.
...at the moment Eclipse only has a polished "perspective" for Java, that is true, however Eclipse is a rich client-side application framework, not just a kick-ass JDE.
Currently in development is a perspective for php - last time I used it there were a few bugs but it was usable. You could create a perspective for PostgreSQL database development if you wanted, the specs are out there any open, it's just that nobody has bothered yet.
...Real open sourced the Helix code a couple of years ago under a different license (probably CPL), they have an active OSS developer base working on it, they are simply adding the GPL as another licensing option.
Real has been more about content and their server offerings than anything else of late, which is funneled through their player. They "grasped" at open source a few years ago when they decided to do a netscape.
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...Dmitri who wrote Turck mmcache was offered a job at Zend and, shock horror, took it. However, as mmcache is GPL'd it lives on at sourceforge, with a new cvs commiter appointed (IIRC) and dev work continuing. To be honest though, it's pretty much feature complete so all they need to do is sure up support for PHP5 (still beta at the moment).
The texturizer firefox faq has the details.
I didn't use the xpinstall method, I just downloaded the java runtime from suns site and installed it, it detected firefox and installed the java plugin automagically.
...http://www.pcmag.com/print_article/0,1761,a=131 189,00.asp
No annoying ads either.
Yup, he's got down the value of 6^(6^6) and not 6^6^6.
...how about the forthcoming Tiger preview stuff (Redmond start your copiers etc.) to do with the new iChat video interface, the dashboard (a konfabulator ripoff) etc.?
;o)
However, that's being released next year, not in 4 years so your point does have some merit
1) If you tamper with a StorageTek library you can enable unlicensed slots (cells) and enable it to store more tapes than you have paid for. StorageTek are very good in that they allow you to expand your library as you require, rather than making you get a new fully expanded one because you may need the storage space in the future.
/renew the contract). If they don't make money on their machines they are a loss-leader, which is not only dumb but also illegal in several western countries (IIRC Belgium for one, where I had the pleasure of seeing one of these machines up close at a summer job I had whilst at university).
Then that is a fundamental flaw in the way these products are designed. Now, if the machine was delivered with only the slots ordered but room for more (which could be added as a bolt-on) and some kind of hardware dongle to stop the robot arm from accessing these unless they are licensed, problem solved.
2) StorageTek rely upon support contracts to make their libraries profitable. If they allow other companies to support their hardware they will have to charge more for the hardware in the first place.
Any business model that relies on monies brought in from a service contract is fatally flawed from the outset. Let's say for a minute that they build good machines that work 100% of the time, they make no money on support (people wouldn't buy
3) These bits of kit are seriously advanced robotics, there are a lot of trade secrets etc that STK don't really want people to be examining.
So do many production cars, but they don't stop you opening the bonnet and tinkering with them, do they? If you ship a product out, that someone has purchased (not licensed) then you should have no right to stop people opening it up and having a look inside.
...and running it through a decent compressor/limiter stage. There is no real need for amateurs to use crap software these days, there is a plethora of cheap and even free c/l's that rival the "big boys" in quality.
I still use Wavelab 3 which you can probably get on ebay for next to nothing, tc native bundle (ok, still expensive but worth every penny) and the old Waves C1 direct x compressor plugin, I've also got the Steinberg Mastering edition around for occasional use (the loudness maximiser does a good job of making everything "feel" louder if you're in a hurry and the multi-band compressor is useful if you actually know how to use it properly, which I do).
However, there is no substitute for recording at almost the maximum amplitude you can to begin with as when you use a "normalization" or similar function you will also be amplifying any digital or analogue interference in your signal path - often to very noticable levels (especially with entry-level and 'prosumer' kit).
If possible, record at 24-bit and then use a decent resampling algorithm to go down to 16-bit...it will always sound better than 16-16.
...first of all, it adds an extra word that has to be put in the already limited SMS message (160 chars).
/.)/
Secondly, does the average teen using SMS want to remember a password for every single person they send SMS messages to?
Thirdly unless you made it a "proper" "secure" password (which would be a bitch to enter with predictive text) it is vulnerable to a simple dictionary based attack.
Now all we need is a huge list for "why your SMS spam prevention technique will not work" (a la smtp one that's always popping up on
...they didn't realise at that point that this could be launched without user interaction, that is what was posted to full disclosure - when that was written it was believed that a user had to be fooled into clicking on that link - a whole different ballgame.
True, I think this was something that should have been looked at earlier, but the same day the no-user interaction vuln was posted, there was a fix.
Is there a (proper) fix yet for the download.ject problem? No, even with the temporary "sticking plaster" that microsoft launched onto windows update this week there are still ways to exploit the problem. It will be months until a proper patch that fixes that will be released, if it is ever released at all.
Lets keep things in perspective and in context please.
...he says that on Firefox the fancy popup menus don't appear, and after loading up explorer I see what's missing...the exact same functionality that countless free cross browser AND cross platform javascript/dhtml popup scripts provide (for example, young pups ypSlideoutMenu which is used on the Blender foundations' homepage).
I think it's another case of Microsoft making stuff look crap in other browsers for no good reason.
Haven't tried it on a mac yet, but I'm betting it looks like ass in safari too.
...looks like somebody will be looking for new employers come tomorrow.
...some of our clients want real-time chat facilities on their sites (a bit like the liverperson support system), we provide this using a custom built Java chat server.
Now that we've got proper Non Blocking I/O and you don't need a thread for every connection (or to implement your own multiplexor with JNI) the memory usage of our server app has come down considerably.
Looking at the latest stats on my performance monitor it's currently dealing with 463 concurrent connections and using roughly 70 megs of memory, which on a server with 2 gigs is nothing.
it links to microsoft which explains what this does.
...by "software" I take it you mean crap flash animations. I mean, looking at his website, would you buy anything from this loon?
...they do all the hard work for you, and if your company can afford it they could even pay them so you can do a zone xfer. That way you're blocking spam easily plus supporting a valuable organisation.
...however the grandparents post still incorrectly claims that you cannot download and build the Java Runtime Environment, which is categorically untrue.
.net.
Re-reading my post I think i made it clear that in no way was Java open, but neither was
One thing that bothers me, reading the shared source license it seems to insinuate that you cannot use the source for commercial purposes or create derivative works of it, so how is that open? If I am wrong please point that out (the license is linked from the main page).
...the source code for the java class libraries comes with all Java 2 SDK's, and the source code for the JVM and Hotspot JITs is available for download from sun..
.Net on the otherhand is the one that is not open, true, parts of the C# spec have been submitted to ECMA as standards, but the cast majority of the platform is under tight microsoft control (and covered by numerous patents).
I know this because to run Java on FreeBSD you have to compile it from source, which you have to download from sun independantly and then patch.
Care to give me the URL of the C# compiler and the CLR source code? No? That's becuase they exist only in your imagination.
...to a lower value, such as 16, 24 or 32. Does the program still run? If so, stop whining and do that.
I still firmly believe that whilst good on the desktop, Java's real benefits lie on the Server Side, which is where it is mostly used (J2EE etc).
Cubase, Login Audio, Sonar (what cakewalk is now), Reason, Ableton Live, SawStudio...pretty much most prosumer audio apps.
Never took a look at LADSPA as I'm stuck on windows until we see a version of Cubase for linux, or a linux solution that provides all of the functionality of cubase.
But for your own comparison take a look at Kvr-VST which is a vst plugin news/listing site.
There are basically two types of plugin, a simple VST which is for things like effects units and then there are VSTi's which are virtual instruments. Native Instruments do a whole load that emulate synths of bygone days almost perfectly. Korg has also just released three classic synth's as VSTi's which sound so much like the real thing it's scary.
...world for some time. There is a widely adopted "open" standard (VST-Virtual Studio Technology). They are not cross platform as they are native software, however I can load up one of a number of sequencers on Windows and use the same plugins.
:o)
There are competing plugin formats such as Direct X, but VST's seem to have the market pretty sewn up - there's even bindings for java
One the mac side of things Apple introduced AudioUnits which seem to be gaining popularity.
The great thing is, since developers no longer have to target a certain platform (i.e. only one sequencer family) you see a huge wealth of plugins available to be used on anything - hopefully we'll see that same kind of developer community flourish around rich-content plugins for the web.
...I've had a full Cardiac Checkup (all my brothers did after our dad had a heart attack at age 55 - which in Belgium is far less common than in the US of A). Stress ECG, the works. Best bit? The Ultrasound they did of my heart, you can see your own heart beating on the screen. Anyway, one normal sized heart in this body :o)
- go to http://www.mozilla.org/products/firefox
- download the windows installer
- run aforementioned installer
- Realise that installer automatically imports IE favourites
- Select the Internet Explorer icon, press "Del" key
- When asked if you are sure,say yes (with extreme prejudice)
it's really that simple, for added effect you could try replacing the firefox icon with the explorer one (right click|properties|change icon|browse to iexplore.exe|select the icon from the ones that come up), that's what I did as I was used to clicking on a blue e. After a while I weaned myself off....at the moment Eclipse only has a polished "perspective" for Java, that is true, however Eclipse is a rich client-side application framework, not just a kick-ass JDE.
Currently in development is a perspective for php - last time I used it there were a few bugs but it was usable. You could create a perspective for PostgreSQL database development if you wanted, the specs are out there any open, it's just that nobody has bothered yet.
...Real open sourced the Helix code a couple of years ago under a different license (probably CPL), they have an active OSS developer base working on it, they are simply adding the GPL as another licensing option.
Real has been more about content and their server offerings than anything else of late, which is funneled through their player. They "grasped" at open source a few years ago when they decided to do a netscape.