This adolescent squabbling over licenses is pathetic. It is really sad to see people trying to use the [L]GPL as a weapon. I think I'll just use Rewind
I don't see any evidence of why this would be so catastrophic. I can't imagine why a lighting system would be using anything but a narrowband transmission, whereas all the communication technologies use spread-spectrum techniques to avoid exactly this type of narrowband interference.
Secondly, the RF lighting seems to be targetted at industrial applications (e.g. lighting warehouses and factory floors) without the need to run cables - *exactly* the same market for RF comms technologies and for exactly the same reasons. The RF lighting people are the new entrant, so if *they* don't interoperate then they'll be the one seeking chapter 11:)
You don't take photovoltaic cells to the moon, you build a factory on the moon and make the cells there. Just about everything you need is there: water, minerals and even some things that you don't find that often on Earth.
This is probably as far beyond our immediate capability as getting to the moon was to people of the 1940's - just a matter of time, money and will. The latter seems to be the most lacking.
I wish that PERL had a GUI abstraction layer, similar to DBI for databases. Perl would kick Java's ass as a cross-platform app development language if it did.
It has got nothing to do with how often the machine is rebooted and everything to do with the frequency of latency increasing events.
The event which caused the 215ms even probably only happens once or twice per day. Perhaps it was some weird code path that the LL patch didn't touch, or some unlikely combination of events occuring "simultaneously"
Huh? IOS 12.2 does support IPv6, I recall a Cisco TAC newsletter from midway through *last* year stating that their TACs are willing and prepared to support IPv6.
12.2 hasn't reached a GD release yet, but it is pretty widely used anyway - especially if you want to run DSL.
The rewards for though who watch us through the telescreens to exceed their power will always outweigh our capacity to effectively police them.
Individuals, institutions and governments don't want to be embarrassed and would much rather sweep transgressions under the carpet than tackle them openly. A prime example is the Australian govt's response to revelations that our intelligence agencies spied on Australian citizens - i doubt that this will ever be properly investigated. It is all too easy for the watchers to invoke the specter of "national security" to scuttle any public investigation.
Are there any _good_ java VMs and class libraries? Kaffe looked decent, but appears to be a little "stale" wrt the current state of the art. Are there any projects working to address this?
It is probably not common knowledge to those of you not in Australia, but the governement's "tough" handling of the Tampa issue* practically won it the federal election last year.
* - The Tampa issue in a nutshell:
Norweigan ship, the NV Tampa receives a call from the Australian Coast Guard telling it of a vessel in distress near its location
The Captain rescues 438 refugees from the sinking ship
Captain makes way to nearest port, being Christmas island - in.au territory
Government says that he is not allowed to land and that the refugees should return to the port from which they came (in Indonesia)
Government sends in the SAS (Australia's elite special forces) to "control" the situation
Indonesia refuses to take refugees
Australian government devises so-called "pacific solution" whereby refugees are shipped for "processing" in poor pacific states in return for millions of aid dollars
So basically they only need a six-fold increase in polygons to reach what Shrek had- not to mention that the environment is constantly changing as characters interact with it, whereas Shrek was always the same. Oops.
To be fair - he never said anything about interaction, only about polygon count. A six-fold difference in polycount is _very_ close for something that is rendered realtime, less than an order of magnitude.
Look, anybody who is deploying a kernel on the day it is released on a production server deserves what they get.
You must be kidding, right? These are supposed to be stable kernels. I expect buggy "stable" software from Microsoft, but not from the Open Source community.
I can't believe that a major Linux software vendor still recommends something this utterly clueless.
When you follow these instructions, you are downloading and blindly executing binary code from an untrusted, unencrypted webserver. Reflect for a moment on how many ways such a system could be subverted.
Please Ximian: if you want people to use a binary installer, please ditch this stupid and totally insecure process and publish a PGP-signed binary with decent instuctions.
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What "massive forking"? The only real fork has been *because* of the licensing change.
This adolescent squabbling over licenses is pathetic. It is really sad to see people trying to use the [L]GPL as a weapon. I think I'll just use Rewind
How about embedding Gnumeric files in Abiword? That's what I'd love to see.
I don't see any evidence of why this would be so catastrophic. I can't imagine why a lighting system would be using anything but a narrowband transmission, whereas all the communication technologies use spread-spectrum techniques to avoid exactly this type of narrowband interference.
:)
Secondly, the RF lighting seems to be targetted at industrial applications (e.g. lighting warehouses and factory floors) without the need to run cables - *exactly* the same market for RF comms technologies and for exactly the same reasons. The RF lighting people are the new entrant, so if *they* don't interoperate then they'll be the one seeking chapter 11
Fecyk quotes a PGP signed agreement. Unfortunately, he (or perhaps his mail client) has stripped off the signature itself.
The signature on the argument would carry more weight if he left the signature intact so others could verify it from themselves.
Half my kingdom for a mini PC (available in .au) which takes a AMD processor, has built int ethernet, a PCI slot and an AGP slot.
You don't take photovoltaic cells to the moon, you build a factory on the moon and make the cells there. Just about everything you need is there: water, minerals and even some things that you don't find that often on Earth.
This is probably as far beyond our immediate capability as getting to the moon was to people of the 1940's - just a matter of time, money and will. The latter seems to be the most lacking.
I wish that PERL had a GUI abstraction layer, similar to DBI for databases. Perl would kick Java's ass as a cross-platform app development language if it did.
:)
Maybe it does and I am just ignorant
I can't honestly see the areas where gnumeric is 5 years behind Excel. Could you enlighten us?
It has got nothing to do with how often the machine is rebooted and everything to do with the frequency of latency increasing events.
The event which caused the 215ms even probably only happens once or twice per day. Perhaps it was some weird code path that the LL patch didn't touch, or some unlikely combination of events occuring "simultaneously"
Gunhead (gunhed?) was a pretty cool live action Manga - they can be done right, though I doubt that anything could save Dragonball...
you are wasting both
You'll probably get faster sftp xfers with 3.1, we do overlapped read/writes now.
How about reporting these to the developers instead of whining on a public forum.
You can get source and RH72 binary RPMs from the same site as the tarball. Have a look in the rpms' directory.
Huh? IOS 12.2 does support IPv6, I recall a Cisco TAC newsletter from midway through *last* year stating that their TACs are willing and prepared to support IPv6.
12.2 hasn't reached a GD release yet, but it is pretty widely used anyway - especially if you want to run DSL.
The rewards for though who watch us through the telescreens to exceed their power will always outweigh our capacity to effectively police them.
Individuals, institutions and governments don't want to be embarrassed and would much rather sweep transgressions under the carpet than tackle them openly. A prime example is the Australian govt's response to revelations that our intelligence agencies spied on Australian citizens - i doubt that this will ever be properly investigated. It is all too easy for the watchers to invoke the specter of "national security" to scuttle any public investigation.
Are there any _good_ java VMs and class libraries? Kaffe looked decent, but appears to be a little "stale" wrt the current state of the art. Are there any projects working to address this?
It is probably not common knowledge to those of you not in Australia, but the governement's "tough" handling of the Tampa issue* practically won it the federal election last year.
* - The Tampa issue in a nutshell:
Counterstrike runs on the Half-Life engine, which is a (heavily) modified Quake 1 engine.
UT does rock - it is the best online tactical game I have played.
So basically they only need a six-fold increase in polygons to reach what Shrek had- not to mention that the environment is constantly changing as characters interact with it, whereas Shrek was always the same. Oops.
To be fair - he never said anything about interaction, only about polygon count. A six-fold difference in polycount is _very_ close for something that is rendered realtime, less than an order of magnitude.
Look, anybody who is deploying a kernel on the day it is released on a production server deserves what they get.
You must be kidding, right? These are supposed to be stable kernels. I expect buggy "stable" software from Microsoft, but not from the Open Source community.
Come to Melbourne, you get tropical, desert and arctic within the same day!
You obviously haven't read the contents of the web page. The "shell script" contains a uuencoded binary.
> lynx -source http://go-gnome.com/ |sh
I can't believe that a major Linux software vendor still recommends something this utterly clueless.
When you follow these instructions, you are downloading and blindly executing binary code from an untrusted, unencrypted webserver. Reflect for a moment on how many ways such a system could be subverted.
Please Ximian: if you want people to use a binary installer, please ditch this stupid and totally insecure process and publish a PGP-signed binary with decent instuctions.