We have a few in the UT campus area already. Mojo's, JP's Java, Flightpath, and Lava Java all have setups, and there may be more.
They all either signed up for a cheap business cable modem or DSL (speakeasy.net has a good policy - we don't care what you do), put a sub $100 linksys router, and don't charge extra for access.
Initially, Flightpath was the only one with wireless. JP's was second afaik. The other ones had to install 802.11b just to keep their business up - free markets at work!
At times it does get slow because of people abusing kazaa, etc, but I don't think its worth enough effort to warrant QoS or other traffic limiting. Even when its bogged down with filesharers, I can still browse./ and check my email, run ssh sessions, etc.
This guy just used VirtualPC for everything. (nearly) Useless. The VPC networking is rather shoddy, vmware blows it away. You cannot have 2 virtual machines talk to each other without having an 'active' physical interface.
He could have installed PPC OpenBSD, Linux, and NetBSD easily then done something useful like debugging on big endian...
http://austin.indymedia.org/front.php3?article_id= 9239&group=webcast
Here's a recording of a speech & Q/A given by the co-author of the PATRIOT act - Viet Dinh.
Please mod this up so others may see it.
I recently saw Sun's Executive VP, Jonathan Schwartz speak here on UT Campus, and the Microsoft/Eolas case was one topic he touched on.
He said Microsoft sent out a letter to Sun, among others (Macromedia, etc) saying that they thought it was their problem, and they may simply drop plugin support. If Microsoft were to embed their own technologies into the browser, they have re-established noncompetition at the mere cost of $521 million. Not only would they be using unfair practices, they could testify in court that they were forced to - a scary situation.
Of other note, he mentioned that Sun was working on some Mozilla additions, which would be released soon, to embed content in web pages without violating the patent. This has already been tied into their 'Mad Hatter' desktop.
This is vaporware. Those pictures are 3d rendered, not photos.
From their descriptions, this is just a simple board with an off-the-shelf Motorola 68HC12 microcontroller. These are used in many universities, such as UT Austin for embedded systems interfacing and programming courses. True, there are a fair amount of students out there that might be capable of writing games, but I don't see this creating a business demand. The graphics are handled by an Altera FPGA. This looks amazingly like some reference boards I've seen used by universities as well.
Here's a good HC12 programming resource if you want to get an idea of HC12 features/programming: http://www.ece.utexas.edu/~ valvano/index.html
Does Qualcomm really want to sell to only the United States and Iraq? Why not give them GSM, then Qualcomm loses the burden of dual development and gains a wider market for the single product line. Simple economics.
Also, Motorola is an American company, they do GSM as well...
I was 100% M$ free for the last year and a half, then I got back into music production. My former linux workstation is now a Windows XP Pro machine, and most likely I'll be moving to a Mac within the next year for additional stability. Why?
Linux does not have what we need for pro audio.
1) NO GOOD SOUND API's. Cups is moving in the right direction, but nothing matches ASIO on windows or mac for sample-accurate synchronization across multiple input and output devices. If I wanted to, could use a SBLive, Echo Mia, and RME Hammerfall all at the same time, and have every one synced down to the sample. Software programs have the ability to set parameters like buffer sizes, sample rates, etc with no hassle.
2) Inconsistent platform. We do not have a uniform development platform. Each distro ships a different version of GCC with its own inconsistencies, different GLIBC, same issue, and so on down to GTK or QT, XFree86, etc. With a product like Cubase taking at least 6 months to port, no doubt the platform will keep changing underneath them. What solution would they have other than supporting ONE distro only or shipping their own?
3) Lack of hardware support. Yes, vendors like my personal favorite, Echo, aren't releasing enough specs to the community for a free driver. But on the other hand, the community isn't providing them a stable platform to develop on, see #2.
4) Lack of unchanging commercial plugin standards. VST works. The API doesn't have a million tiny revisions, and any VST plugin works great on anything from Logic to Fruity Loops to the latest Cubase SX. The API was published WHEN IT WAS FINISHED, and NOT CHANGED.
Don't shoot the messenger.
Sueing the delivery method doesn't stop the problem. What they need to do is simply scare the kiddies, then the illegal activity will go back underground where it belongs if anywhere. I don't know of 1 person who stopped sharing because 1) napster went down, or 2) audiogalaxy went down, plus others. They just downloaded another app and the piracy continued.
I have bought seriously hundreds of cds that I heard first in mp3, illegal at the time. Those mp3's are all gone now, but I spent thousands I wouldn't have otherwise spent on cd's since I wasn't finding artists I was interested in listening the radio or MTV. Now that I have no mp3's (due to hard drive crash), I've found that I don't miss them. I buy everything on vinyl, and most online vinyl shops have realaudio or low quality mp3 samples. I hear before I buy, and I BUY. Better selection to check out than P2P, faster, and guaranteed to be online.
Sure, it would be fun to do, but I could just as easily toss a Mini-ITX motherboard, which has a tvout, into a pizzabox with a 100w atx power supply, hd, and dvd and come out just over the price of an x-box. No hacking required. Plus, you have a PCI slot for something like maybe a REAL audio card. Then you have decent sound quality, plus AC3 passthrough if you want it:)
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Yes.
I think having that class of speaker, whether its Stallman, Linus, hell, even Steve Jobs, would be worth it. For the sake of advocacy and a great speaker, a minor name change is no big deal.
IMHO, to be so caught up in 4 letters whether you're RMS or someone working against changing the name, you're thinking too much of yourself, not the greater good.
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The problem here is that many of us (us being UTACM's SIGLinux group) are too worried about what amounts to the name of our mailing list than actually making some waves across campus. We've done campus-wide installfests the last 2 semesters, but what do you know, 99% CS and Engineering.
This campus reeks of sweaty sex w/ Microsoft on a daily basis. I have spoken to sources who specifically told me that Microsoft dictates what we put in the public computer labs, they have no say. We have a 300 machine lab of P2's with 128 megs ram all crawling through Windows XP Pro and Office XP Pro. Why aren't we on NT 4 or something the machines handle? Oh yeah, we're a beta site and we don't have a say.
The first step to getting that changed is to make people aware of it. This is where Stallman comes in. Too many members of UTACM SIGLinux are just plain missing the big picture because they're too caught up in 4 bytes. 10 people could end up whining about the change, while a campus of 50k gets a speech from Stallman, sounds good, doesn't it?
Here's the full arguments from the SIGLinux archives.
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We have a few in the UT campus area already. Mojo's, JP's Java, Flightpath, and Lava Java all have setups, and there may be more. They all either signed up for a cheap business cable modem or DSL (speakeasy.net has a good policy - we don't care what you do), put a sub $100 linksys router, and don't charge extra for access. Initially, Flightpath was the only one with wireless. JP's was second afaik. The other ones had to install 802.11b just to keep their business up - free markets at work! At times it does get slow because of people abusing kazaa, etc, but I don't think its worth enough effort to warrant QoS or other traffic limiting. Even when its bogged down with filesharers, I can still browse ./ and check my email, run ssh sessions, etc.
Got xprobe2 functioning on big endian.
This guy just used VirtualPC for everything. (nearly) Useless. The VPC networking is rather shoddy, vmware blows it away. You cannot have 2 virtual machines talk to each other without having an 'active' physical interface.
He could have installed PPC OpenBSD, Linux, and NetBSD easily then done something useful like debugging on big endian...
http://austin.indymedia.org/front.php3?article_id= 9239&group=webcast
Here's a recording of a speech & Q/A given by the co-author of the PATRIOT act - Viet Dinh.
Please mod this up so others may see it.
He said Microsoft sent out a letter to Sun, among others (Macromedia, etc) saying that they thought it was their problem, and they may simply drop plugin support. If Microsoft were to embed their own technologies into the browser, they have re-established noncompetition at the mere cost of $521 million. Not only would they be using unfair practices, they could testify in court that they were forced to - a scary situation.
Of other note, he mentioned that Sun was working on some Mozilla additions, which would be released soon, to embed content in web pages without violating the patent. This has already been tied into their 'Mad Hatter' desktop.
This is vaporware. Those pictures are 3d rendered, not photos.
~ valvano/index.html
From their descriptions, this is just a simple board with an off-the-shelf Motorola 68HC12 microcontroller. These are used in many universities, such as UT Austin for embedded systems interfacing and programming courses. True, there are a fair amount of students out there that might be capable of writing games, but I don't see this creating a business demand. The graphics are handled by an Altera FPGA. This looks amazingly like some reference boards I've seen used by universities as well.
Here's a good HC12 programming resource if you want to get an idea of HC12 features/programming:
http://www.ece.utexas.edu/
Does Qualcomm really want to sell to only the United States and Iraq? Why not give them GSM, then Qualcomm loses the burden of dual development and gains a wider market for the single product line. Simple economics.
Also, Motorola is an American company, they do GSM as well...
Posting links to binaries is useless. Where's the damn source? I want to build it on my os (OpenBSD) against my installed libraries.
I was 100% M$ free for the last year and a half, then I got back into music production. My former linux workstation is now a Windows XP Pro machine, and most likely I'll be moving to a Mac within the next year for additional stability. Why?
Linux does not have what we need for pro audio.
1) NO GOOD SOUND API's. Cups is moving in the right direction, but nothing matches ASIO on windows or mac for sample-accurate synchronization across multiple input and output devices. If I wanted to, could use a SBLive, Echo Mia, and RME Hammerfall all at the same time, and have every one synced down to the sample. Software programs have the ability to set parameters like buffer sizes, sample rates, etc with no hassle.
2) Inconsistent platform. We do not have a uniform development platform. Each distro ships a different version of GCC with its own inconsistencies, different GLIBC, same issue, and so on down to GTK or QT, XFree86, etc. With a product like Cubase taking at least 6 months to port, no doubt the platform will keep changing underneath them. What solution would they have other than supporting ONE distro only or shipping their own?
3) Lack of hardware support. Yes, vendors like my personal favorite, Echo, aren't releasing enough specs to the community for a free driver. But on the other hand, the community isn't providing them a stable platform to develop on, see #2.
4) Lack of unchanging commercial plugin standards. VST works. The API doesn't have a million tiny revisions, and any VST plugin works great on anything from Logic to Fruity Loops to the latest Cubase SX. The API was published WHEN IT WAS FINISHED, and NOT CHANGED.
Don't shoot the messenger. Sueing the delivery method doesn't stop the problem. What they need to do is simply scare the kiddies, then the illegal activity will go back underground where it belongs if anywhere. I don't know of 1 person who stopped sharing because 1) napster went down, or 2) audiogalaxy went down, plus others. They just downloaded another app and the piracy continued. I have bought seriously hundreds of cds that I heard first in mp3, illegal at the time. Those mp3's are all gone now, but I spent thousands I wouldn't have otherwise spent on cd's since I wasn't finding artists I was interested in listening the radio or MTV. Now that I have no mp3's (due to hard drive crash), I've found that I don't miss them. I buy everything on vinyl, and most online vinyl shops have realaudio or low quality mp3 samples. I hear before I buy, and I BUY. Better selection to check out than P2P, faster, and guaranteed to be online.
Sure, it would be fun to do, but I could just as easily toss a Mini-ITX motherboard, which has a tvout, into a pizzabox with a 100w atx power supply, hd, and dvd and come out just over the price of an x-box. No hacking required. Plus, you have a PCI slot for something like maybe a REAL audio card. Then you have decent sound quality, plus AC3 passthrough if you want it :)
Yes.
I think having that class of speaker, whether its Stallman, Linus, hell, even Steve Jobs, would be worth it. For the sake of advocacy and a great speaker, a minor name change is no big deal.
IMHO, to be so caught up in 4 letters whether you're RMS or someone working against changing the name, you're thinking too much of yourself, not the greater good.
The problem here is that many of us (us being UTACM's SIGLinux group) are too worried about what amounts to the name of our mailing list than actually making some waves across campus. We've done campus-wide installfests the last 2 semesters, but what do you know, 99% CS and Engineering.
This campus reeks of sweaty sex w/ Microsoft on a daily basis. I have spoken to sources who specifically told me that Microsoft dictates what we put in the public computer labs, they have no say. We have a 300 machine lab of P2's with 128 megs ram all crawling through Windows XP Pro and Office XP Pro. Why aren't we on NT 4 or something the machines handle? Oh yeah, we're a beta site and we don't have a say.
The first step to getting that changed is to make people aware of it. This is where Stallman comes in. Too many members of UTACM SIGLinux are just plain missing the big picture because they're too caught up in 4 bytes. 10 people could end up whining about the change, while a campus of 50k gets a speech from Stallman, sounds good, doesn't it? Here's the full arguments from the SIGLinux archives.