How many people here flamed Canonical 3 years ago when their developers ditched working on Gnome3 in favor of Unity for this very reason? Are you now going to flame Intel because their developers are saying the same thing?
I should also point out that this is a prime example of how open source development works; if you don't like what one group has to offer, switch to something else. It is the same reason GTK/Gnome came into existance, the developers didn't like QT (for licensing reasons). It is the same reason Cinnamon and Mate exist. It is the same reason MariaDB exists.
And it is the same reason Mir/Unity exists.
Note that I do not work for Canonical, but I do work with ALL of the major commercial distributions daily. For ease of installation and deployment to my customers and users, I can't beat Ubuntu.
Back in 2007 I was writing a short biography for a college writing class about my high school years, and referenced a story I had written in 1984 on my old Atari 800. My teacher was intrigued, so I pulled the boxes of Atari stuff out of the basement and found the 5 1/4 floppy that had the file. I then used my Atari Floppy disk hooked up to my PC with the PC Xformer cable and an emulater that would read the disks and save them as image files. Once the files were saved, I pulled the text out using dd. Very complex setup for 5 pages of text, but was fun to do. It was also interesting to see how my writing style has changed in ~23 years.
While the ISS may not be the best for this, how about zero G paintball? That would kick ass.
ISS is relatively confined to have much in the way of sports. Zero G Racketball could get interesting, but again, need more space.
Could it have something to do with the Nigerian Government's purchase of Classmate Systems preloaded with Mandriva and wiped on delivery? The two do seem close together.
I also use Amarok, and the one irritating feature is that every storage device I plug in to the usb port gets picked up by Amarok (it pops up a screen asking if it should sync music). I have 3 iRirver IFP-79x series mp3/ogg players, two are using their IFP firmware, the third is using a UMS firmware. All three work perfectly with Amarok.
Why do you say that? It is true. Unfortunately, I didn't have a digital camera back in 1990, otherwise I would have taken a picture of his setup. I still have one of the drives he gave me, a Microscience 40M 5.25 RLL drive, hooked up to an adaptec RLLSCSI controller. And yes, I have to shake it to get it to spin up.
If you are refering to the other story, I still have the backup tapes, and the database program in question was marketed by Tandy Computers, called filePro 16. Look it up, you pathetic welp.
Back in the day of Atari ST computers, a friend of mine purchased several boxes of 5, 10, 20, and 40 meg hard drives from a computer store bankrupcy auction. He then build a wood shelving unit that mounted to the wall over his computer desk, and set all the drives on the shelves, using cereal boxes as separators. He then wired them up to scsi controllers, 6 drives per. On one end, he had a set of lighted low voltage toggle switches attached to low and high voltage regulators. It looked like an old computer from the 50's. Each drive had a label, and if he wanted something off a particular drive, he'd flip several toggle switches, throw the main power switch, and boot up. The entire wall would vibrate with the drives spinning. It was great to watch. A couple of drives would not spin up sometimes, so he'd pick them up and shake them until they started spinning.
Another one of my favorites was this database system running in the catalog sales office of an art gallery. I had taken them on as clients, fixing bugs in this database, and working on a migration path to Foxpro. One day I got a call that they had garbage data for the two years prior, when they went to review a customer's history. Turned out the hard drive was full, but the database system was happily writing new data over old files. Fortunately, I had all the data on tape as part of my development efforts.
Not necessarily. It's actually cheaper to strap one of these to a raid array in a separate rack case than to build a raid array into it. Also makes it easier to manage. Besides, rack file storage is migrating to iSCSI and iSATA, where the network storage systems are sending SCSI and SATA data through gigabit ethernet.
I can easily see one or two of these small units in a rack full of iSCSI drives, running a large scale database. The internal drive holds the OS, and can be easily backed up to an external unit with ghost or partimage. Simplicity at work.
The only think I'd be concerned with is the processor. Using a proc based on the P4 core technology doubles the heat output, and the Core 2's are readily available (currently playing with a Core 2 Extreme here).
First, I'd get them started in an area that will capture their imagination: Games programming. My son is taking a game programming class, and he's having fun learning loop controls, collision detection, etc. He recently wrote a program that converts Doom3 character mesh data to XML file format, and another that renders them on the screen. He also ported the game "Blocks" from the TI-85 calculator to Linux from scratch.
As to books, Game Programming All in One, 2nd Edition is a fairly good comprehensive book. It covers most of the basics, and comes with a cd with sample code and development tools.
I started out by getting an associates in accounting, which took less than a year. I then used that knowledge to start a computer consulting business, specializing in small business accounting.
By catering to small businesses, you will gain a lot of word-of-mouth advertising for free (if you're good). Link up with a local computer store for hardware, or go through a big mail order place like Dell. Don't try to do both custom hardware and consulting sales, as you'll spread yourself thin very quickly.
Later, if you decide to further your career, you'll want to get a full degree. Lately, even a BS in Computer Science will barely get you in the door for large corporations.
Also, try to spread your knowledge around a bit. As a consultant, you'll need to know Windows systems, but also knowing Linux systems will give you an edge, as you can undercut competative bids by placing Linux in areas where it works best and costs the least, in the server rooms.
These are the same tacktics that Bush is pushing for. HP can argue that they were using government sanctioned methods to fight corporate espionage and financial terrorism, because that is exactly what Bush wants to be able to do to every citizen in the United States. Maybe they jumped the gun a litte, but this is exactly what Bush's anti-terrorism policies allow (Patriot Act, etc).
Don't believe me? Read the bills sent to congress. Thoroughly.
Of course, I only like HP for their printers. Never did like working for them, even though it was brief.
To save even more, line them up front to back. I'm not sure how many deep could be taken out at once, but I do know that a bullet fired from an SKS assault rifle at 40 yards will go through 4 hard drives (2cm from the spindle - two platters per drive). Should be good for about 5-6 with a head shot (empty space).
Their online course doesn't list Linux in the system requirements. Interesting, considering how many D&D computer literate players are also Linux buffs. They almost are synonymous.
It should work on Linux, though. Java, Netscape, Shockwave Flash. I'm online at the University of Phoenix (actual degree courses), and I can get their Windows loving crap to run on Linux most of the time.
One explanation that seems to have been overlooked, is that there is a lot of code that was written by engineers that are no longer there, and it was written in a way that no one there really knows how to debug it. If one function has exploites, and it takes weeks just to parse the code in that function (which may also use sub functions that are obfuscated and broken), it is often easier to rewrite it, but that also takes a lot of time. Also, after veiwing a sample of their XML coding for Office 12, It's no wonder they have issues fixing thier code. Furthermore, they really need to start by fixing their tools. Some of the autogenerated code that comes out of Visual Studio is really bad (from what I've heard on other sites). As to OSS patching, the majority of open source applications follow a cleaner coding style from the beginning, although there have been applications that went through complete rewrites.
Another area in Windows that can't easily be rewritten, is the undocumented function calls. They do exist, and they are used heavily internally by Microsoft. The Wine team is constantly running into them when they try to get a Microsoft app to run in Wine/Linux. And I remember when I talked to a friend that works there 12 years ago (he's still there, just haven't heard from him), that they often pass information on undocumented api calls via email or word of mouth. That really limits the documentation internally. They can't easily just do a complete rewrite for this reason. If they could, wine would be fully functional now, because all of the documented function calls are available through third party programers guides (I have 2).
Looks like several of the posts are not reading the question correctly (typical). Having run into this myself, I know how hard it is getting to be. Walk into any local store and look at their variying audio players. All of them list MP3 (plus usually their own format). However, having originally purchased a Sony Psyche due to the size and advertised usability (MP3, Sony's format, standard usb memory device design), I thought I could plug it into my Linux system, copy my legitimatly made MP3 files to the mounted usb device, and play. After spending about 2 hours trying to figure out why it wasn't detecting my MP3 files that work with all my other player software, I discovered (buried deep in their online forum), that their Windows software will easily convert your MP3 files to their proprietary, DRM riddled format, and that the player only recognized that format. Otherwise, it was a $130 512Mb usb memory stick.
I returned it after doing more research on linux-usb.org, and purchased an iRiver IFP-795 (works great with MP3 & OGG files). I recently learned that iRiver's new line of players in the US & Europe are now Windows Media Player only (Austrailia's versions will apparently work fine). They did this because of a new "Agreement" with Microsoft (or, "Do it this way, and Bubba will let you continue walking").
The original question is quite valid. Media players, while not advertising Linux compatability, don't advertise their lock-in either. The RIAA is putting a stranglehold on the market, and other corporations are eager to jump on board with the promise of proprietary , locked-in revenue. Microsoft, being the OS monopoly that it is (as found by many government courts world wide), has the advantage of telling non-conforming manufacturers (iRivier, etc), that they won't have access to their wma formats if they don't comply.
Even Intel is developing this DRM technology, right into the processor and chipset (the real reason Apple is converting). Don't believe it? Do a google search on "Intel DRM".
But Piracy isn't the answer either. That only legitimizes the need for DRM, which is just another glorified locking mechanism. Locks wouldn't exist if there wasn't the threat of theft in the world. The only way we can say we don't want this, is through our wallets. Buy non-drm format media only, whenever possible. Learn to spot the signs of DRM enabled cds (they all have specific, if not obscure, markings when they have DRM protection).
Write to your government representatives. Stop them from passing more Disney bills (DMCA, Copyright extensions, etc). It's time for government to represent the people, not the corporations. And it's time for corporations to respect their consumers, not their wealthy stock holders interests.
Here's mine.
magnet:?xt=urn:btih:SD36UE42IMPAKVUXAXRF3FQH4QYM23 FS
I just finished downloading, and will leave my torrent running for a while (it's better to give than to receive).
GrueMaster
I used one from when I was 10 until it died when I was 19. Thing mowed great. There was no throttle (most basic push mowers have a fixed throttle even now). It was light enough to hang on the wall of our shed. As to bagging, as long as the blade was sharpened regularly (seasonally), then it mulched the grass to a very fine grade, which in turn kept the grass fertilized. We had 3/4 of an acre of grass, some of it on a ~45 degree slope. Instead of pushing a mower up and down, I would go side to side, standing above the mower (try that with a conventional mower). The only drawbacks to the one I had, was that it was 2 stroke (different mix than our weed eater or chainsaws), and to start it, you held the handle straight up abothe the engine, placed your left foot on the mower deck side (there was a non-slip foot pad there), tilted the mower towards you, and pulled like a SOB hoping it would start. You also had to keep your lawn well cut, because if it got too high to mulch, the grass would clump and you'd have to rack & remow the areas that were collapsed by the clumps.
My dad still has it hanging in his shop (he's moved twice since I grew up), thinking that he'll repair it some day. As a mechanic, he makes a great lawyer. Guess I'll end up inhereting it.
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How many people here flamed Canonical 3 years ago when their developers ditched working on Gnome3 in favor of Unity for this very reason? Are you now going to flame Intel because their developers are saying the same thing? I should also point out that this is a prime example of how open source development works; if you don't like what one group has to offer, switch to something else. It is the same reason GTK/Gnome came into existance, the developers didn't like QT (for licensing reasons). It is the same reason Cinnamon and Mate exist. It is the same reason MariaDB exists. And it is the same reason Mir/Unity exists. Note that I do not work for Canonical, but I do work with ALL of the major commercial distributions daily. For ease of installation and deployment to my customers and users, I can't beat Ubuntu.
Don't need any nefarious remote flushing going on.
Back in 2007 I was writing a short biography for a college writing class about my high school years, and referenced a story I had written in 1984 on my old Atari 800. My teacher was intrigued, so I pulled the boxes of Atari stuff out of the basement and found the 5 1/4 floppy that had the file. I then used my Atari Floppy disk hooked up to my PC with the PC Xformer cable and an emulater that would read the disks and save them as image files. Once the files were saved, I pulled the text out using dd. Very complex setup for 5 pages of text, but was fun to do. It was also interesting to see how my writing style has changed in ~23 years.
To real life Cyberball. I'd pay to see that in an arena.
While the ISS may not be the best for this, how about zero G paintball? That would kick ass. ISS is relatively confined to have much in the way of sports. Zero G Racketball could get interesting, but again, need more space.
"Willy Wonka for President! The Oompa Loompas will rule!"
Larry will be proud.
Could it have something to do with the Nigerian Government's purchase of Classmate Systems preloaded with Mandriva and wiped on delivery? The two do seem close together.
The number listed was ISDN ###-###-####. Are people still using ISDN? No wonder the USPTO is a bit behind.
I also use Amarok, and the one irritating feature is that every storage device I plug in to the usb port gets picked up by Amarok (it pops up a screen asking if it should sync music). I have 3 iRirver IFP-79x series mp3/ogg players, two are using their IFP firmware, the third is using a UMS firmware. All three work perfectly with Amarok.
Why do you say that? It is true. Unfortunately, I didn't have a digital camera back in 1990, otherwise I would have taken a picture of his setup. I still have one of the drives he gave me, a Microscience 40M 5.25 RLL drive, hooked up to an adaptec RLLSCSI controller. And yes, I have to shake it to get it to spin up.
If you are refering to the other story, I still have the backup tapes, and the database program in question was marketed by Tandy Computers, called filePro 16. Look it up, you pathetic welp.
Back in the day of Atari ST computers, a friend of mine purchased several boxes of 5, 10, 20, and 40 meg hard drives from a computer store bankrupcy auction. He then build a wood shelving unit that mounted to the wall over his computer desk, and set all the drives on the shelves, using cereal boxes as separators. He then wired them up to scsi controllers, 6 drives per. On one end, he had a set of lighted low voltage toggle switches attached to low and high voltage regulators. It looked like an old computer from the 50's. Each drive had a label, and if he wanted something off a particular drive, he'd flip several toggle switches, throw the main power switch, and boot up. The entire wall would vibrate with the drives spinning. It was great to watch. A couple of drives would not spin up sometimes, so he'd pick them up and shake them until they started spinning.
Another one of my favorites was this database system running in the catalog sales office of an art gallery. I had taken them on as clients, fixing bugs in this database, and working on a migration path to Foxpro. One day I got a call that they had garbage data for the two years prior, when they went to review a customer's history. Turned out the hard drive was full, but the database system was happily writing new data over old files. Fortunately, I had all the data on tape as part of my development efforts.
Not necessarily. It's actually cheaper to strap one of these to a raid array in a separate rack case than to build a raid array into it. Also makes it easier to manage. Besides, rack file storage is migrating to iSCSI and iSATA, where the network storage systems are sending SCSI and SATA data through gigabit ethernet. I can easily see one or two of these small units in a rack full of iSCSI drives, running a large scale database. The internal drive holds the OS, and can be easily backed up to an external unit with ghost or partimage. Simplicity at work. The only think I'd be concerned with is the processor. Using a proc based on the P4 core technology doubles the heat output, and the Core 2's are readily available (currently playing with a Core 2 Extreme here).
First, I'd get them started in an area that will capture their imagination: Games programming. My son is taking a game programming class, and he's having fun learning loop controls, collision detection, etc. He recently wrote a program that converts Doom3 character mesh data to XML file format, and another that renders them on the screen. He also ported the game "Blocks" from the TI-85 calculator to Linux from scratch. As to books, Game Programming All in One, 2nd Edition is a fairly good comprehensive book. It covers most of the basics, and comes with a cd with sample code and development tools.
I started out by getting an associates in accounting, which took less than a year. I then used that knowledge to start a computer consulting business, specializing in small business accounting.
By catering to small businesses, you will gain a lot of word-of-mouth advertising for free (if you're good). Link up with a local computer store for hardware, or go through a big mail order place like Dell. Don't try to do both custom hardware and consulting sales, as you'll spread yourself thin very quickly.
Later, if you decide to further your career, you'll want to get a full degree. Lately, even a BS in Computer Science will barely get you in the door for large corporations.
Also, try to spread your knowledge around a bit. As a consultant, you'll need to know Windows systems, but also knowing Linux systems will give you an edge, as you can undercut competative bids by placing Linux in areas where it works best and costs the least, in the server rooms.
Good Luck!
These are the same tacktics that Bush is pushing for. HP can argue that they were using government sanctioned methods to fight corporate espionage and financial terrorism, because that is exactly what Bush wants to be able to do to every citizen in the United States. Maybe they jumped the gun a litte, but this is exactly what Bush's anti-terrorism policies allow (Patriot Act, etc). Don't believe me? Read the bills sent to congress. Thoroughly. Of course, I only like HP for their printers. Never did like working for them, even though it was brief.
To save even more, line them up front to back. I'm not sure how many deep could be taken out at once, but I do know that a bullet fired from an SKS assault rifle at 40 yards will go through 4 hard drives (2cm from the spindle - two platters per drive). Should be good for about 5-6 with a head shot (empty space).
Their online course doesn't list Linux in the system requirements. Interesting, considering how many D&D computer literate players are also Linux buffs. They almost are synonymous. It should work on Linux, though. Java, Netscape, Shockwave Flash. I'm online at the University of Phoenix (actual degree courses), and I can get their Windows loving crap to run on Linux most of the time.
One explanation that seems to have been overlooked, is that there is a lot of code that was written by engineers that are no longer there, and it was written in a way that no one there really knows how to debug it. If one function has exploites, and it takes weeks just to parse the code in that function (which may also use sub functions that are obfuscated and broken), it is often easier to rewrite it, but that also takes a lot of time. Also, after veiwing a sample of their XML coding for Office 12, It's no wonder they have issues fixing thier code. Furthermore, they really need to start by fixing their tools. Some of the autogenerated code that comes out of Visual Studio is really bad (from what I've heard on other sites). As to OSS patching, the majority of open source applications follow a cleaner coding style from the beginning, although there have been applications that went through complete rewrites. Another area in Windows that can't easily be rewritten, is the undocumented function calls. They do exist, and they are used heavily internally by Microsoft. The Wine team is constantly running into them when they try to get a Microsoft app to run in Wine/Linux. And I remember when I talked to a friend that works there 12 years ago (he's still there, just haven't heard from him), that they often pass information on undocumented api calls via email or word of mouth. That really limits the documentation internally. They can't easily just do a complete rewrite for this reason. If they could, wine would be fully functional now, because all of the documented function calls are available through third party programers guides (I have 2).
Looks like several of the posts are not reading the question correctly (typical). Having run into this myself, I know how hard it is getting to be. Walk into any local store and look at their variying audio players. All of them list MP3 (plus usually their own format). However, having originally purchased a Sony Psyche due to the size and advertised usability (MP3, Sony's format, standard usb memory device design), I thought I could plug it into my Linux system, copy my legitimatly made MP3 files to the mounted usb device, and play. After spending about 2 hours trying to figure out why it wasn't detecting my MP3 files that work with all my other player software, I discovered (buried deep in their online forum), that their Windows software will easily convert your MP3 files to their proprietary, DRM riddled format, and that the player only recognized that format. Otherwise, it was a $130 512Mb usb memory stick.
I returned it after doing more research on linux-usb.org, and purchased an iRiver IFP-795 (works great with MP3 & OGG files). I recently learned that iRiver's new line of players in the US & Europe are now Windows Media Player only (Austrailia's versions will apparently work fine). They did this because of a new "Agreement" with Microsoft (or, "Do it this way, and Bubba will let you continue walking").
The original question is quite valid. Media players, while not advertising Linux compatability, don't advertise their lock-in either. The RIAA is putting a stranglehold on the market, and other corporations are eager to jump on board with the promise of proprietary , locked-in revenue. Microsoft, being the OS monopoly that it is (as found by many government courts world wide), has the advantage of telling non-conforming manufacturers (iRivier, etc), that they won't have access to their wma formats if they don't comply.
Even Intel is developing this DRM technology, right into the processor and chipset (the real reason Apple is converting). Don't believe it? Do a google search on "Intel DRM".
But Piracy isn't the answer either. That only legitimizes the need for DRM, which is just another glorified locking mechanism. Locks wouldn't exist if there wasn't the threat of theft in the world. The only way we can say we don't want this, is through our wallets. Buy non-drm format media only, whenever possible. Learn to spot the signs of DRM enabled cds (they all have specific, if not obscure, markings when they have DRM protection).
Write to your government representatives. Stop them from passing more Disney bills (DMCA, Copyright extensions, etc). It's time for government to represent the people, not the corporations. And it's time for corporations to respect their consumers, not their wealthy stock holders interests.
Here's mine. magnet:?xt=urn:btih:SD36UE42IMPAKVUXAXRF3FQH4QYM23 FS
I just finished downloading, and will leave my torrent running for a while (it's better to give than to receive).
GrueMaster
That's ok. IE can't display the images either. Could be the ./ effect on the server, but I doubt it.
If the woman in the apartment across the street were to walk around naked, how fast would each level turn & focus on her?
I used one from when I was 10 until it died when I was 19. Thing mowed great. There was no throttle (most basic push mowers have a fixed throttle even now). It was light enough to hang on the wall of our shed. As to bagging, as long as the blade was sharpened regularly (seasonally), then it mulched the grass to a very fine grade, which in turn kept the grass fertilized. We had 3/4 of an acre of grass, some of it on a ~45 degree slope. Instead of pushing a mower up and down, I would go side to side, standing above the mower (try that with a conventional mower). The only drawbacks to the one I had, was that it was 2 stroke (different mix than our weed eater or chainsaws), and to start it, you held the handle straight up abothe the engine, placed your left foot on the mower deck side (there was a non-slip foot pad there), tilted the mower towards you, and pulled like a SOB hoping it would start. You also had to keep your lawn well cut, because if it got too high to mulch, the grass would clump and you'd have to rack & remow the areas that were collapsed by the clumps.
My dad still has it hanging in his shop (he's moved twice since I grew up), thinking that he'll repair it some day. As a mechanic, he makes a great lawyer. Guess I'll end up inhereting it.
Is if your goats died or ran away.