Mere gamers are not worthy of the blessed codewater. I hide mine at parties so that only I can get to it.
Another tip is to put your secret fridge and server on a separate breaker from the computers, so the gaming doesn't interfere with your drinking and coding.
One patent is ignored, while the other in eforced. I don't see many people crying over the GIF patent, especially when M$IE has yet to implement support for PNG.
of the "Microsoft profits from piracy." idea. Another facet of this is that many of these companies get caught and are forced to pay up.
A rival computer store in my town has been peddling the same Windows XP key for an entire year. This hurts the business of legitimate sellers who can't compete with the price as well, and it hurts Microsoft's goal of making several hundred dollars from every desktop computer in America. Now I don't know what to believe...
I've been coding since I was 8, but ironicly I have the opposite problem:
I cannot write in manuscript! That's right, I can only write in cursive. It's hard being the only one when 95% of my graduating class can't read or write the shit. It isn't that they are learning to type instead, most couldn't get past 20gwam after a whole semester of keyboarding class.
Thank goodness I'm not a native of this civilization-forsaken part of our nation...
patent and the possibility of DRM
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Patent encomberment is a serious deal. It means than a legal OSS player is nearly out of the questions. If I can't play the things on my iBook(Linux), iMac(Linux), server(Linux), palmtop(Linux), and at school (OS X) then I won't be using it. Quality is irrelevant at that point.
Ogg Vorbis, because of its openness and mpeg, becase people ignore the patent, are my best two options. AAC is not an option, so its quality means nothing.
Would you rather use a train that can safely travel at 100mph along prelaid tracks that don't follow your route or a car that can safely go 60mph along much more convenient roads?
(Oh yeah, Linux is a rocket car in the analogy because it has to be stuck in there somewhere. Windows is a horse in that it can go anywhere if at a crawling pace while shitting over everything, but a rocket car can go more places...
I've had much better luck with it, and a pocket pc port is more likely than one of Java.
Java and.NET aren't a very good idea on embedded platforms, even if I use them. It's much better to just recompile when dealing with limited conditions, such as the new Zauruses that only have 32mb of ram.
Isn't AAC used for its DRM features?
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If so, why should I care about its quality?
Even if I'm not interested in the round, my bets are on Ogg Vorbis for the next round. Ogg rules! (Even if the iPod with Linux is too slow to play them.)
Send it to me! The NetBSD port is only a few days away. I could patch in a keyboard and a numeric coprocessor and a hard disk and wifi/wired ethernet...
Whenever I'm on a windows box (without PuTTY for ssh), I use Webmin. It provides all the functionality for remote configuration graphically through a web browser.
Linuxconf used to (and still is?) a good tool for configuration. Drakconf, shipped with Mandrake, can configure the entire system graphically.
Debian is written by and for those who know what they are doing. "ifdown eth1 && ifup eth0" can save a LOT of clicking. If you want to compare windows (the OS for idiots) with Linux, at least compare it to an idiot-friendly distribution. When you know what you're doing, a CLI is faster.
I have had a Linux-powered tablet pc for a few years running zipslack. Pre-M$ hype of course. Linux-conf and the rest of that shit makes it relatively easy to use, but I can't live without a keyboard.
In general, screw tablets. Buy a laptop; it's cheaper and well worth the investment.
1. The code went from Linux to sco and not the other way around. The NDA prevents us from knowing how far back the violtion goes in each source tree.
2. The code came to Linux from UNIX by way of BSD, in which case it is already covered by the BSD lawsuit of years past.
3. The 80 lines are not consecutive and/or are no big deal to replace. SCO would look like winey little brats if a single member of the OSS community corrected the violations in an hour.
4. SCO placed the code in Linux to sue. They are scared as hell of companies switching from their precious and decrepit UNIX kernel to Linux.
1 Sharp zaurus + 1 copy of kismet == 1 transcription of the entire chat session
Any decent packet sniffer will reveal all that is said. I suspect that they are offering this not to make it safer or get more subscribers, but rather to cover up certain activity.
AOL's servers record chat sessions of members, I'm not certain as to whether or not they do it for non-members. The point is that anyone over there with the requisite access rights can spy on these things. End-to-end encryption will not be default, might require a subscription charge, and might mean end-to-end(AOL)-to-end.
Forgive my pessimism, but I don't trust AOL in any situation. They screw over their members, they screw over those of us with smaller servers, they screw over friends of members. I think they are realizing that they cannot mainttain their current empire in the face of broadband, this may just be a feeble attempt to profit from their other markets. Subscription Netscape anyone?
If you have no skill but don't mind pretending that you do visit the public high school of Jefferson County, TN.
The techs there spent a week with no results trying to get an OS X box on the school lan (DHCP, http proxies on 10.0.0.1 and 10.0.0.2; they configured neither.)
Other duties would include leaving the proxy servers running warez copies of NT 4 on service pack 3. Wasting tax payer money on piece of shit security packages is optional.
I group everything as NT or DOS. Win2k identifies itself as NT5, so I call it that. XP identifies itself as NT5.1, so I call it that.
"Windos" means a version of windows such as 3.1 or ME that is a direct descendant of MS-DOS rather than a VMS hybrid. When I want to insult Windows(NT or DOS) without a specific reason, I call it "Micros~1 Winshit".
As I recall, it was some sort of remote-access dealy they sold the US government for DOS 3.3. If I remembered where I read it, I'd quote the specifics.
With MoL, I can run OS X in realtime. It's a decent operating system, but Debian's package manager makes it a better choice for me.
Porting it from Linux/x86 or Linux/UltraSparc should be as simple as crosscompiling; nothing as complicated as the OS X port.
I use Kaffe, GCJ, and Blackdown's 1.3.1 java port on my PowerPC boxes. Wonka works well on my Zaurus. Sun's java seems to have a monopoly on Swing. IBM's seems interesting, but I haven't had the time to look into it yet.
If MoL has been ported to OS X, it would be a much faster alternative to VPC.
If you had enough computing power to run the Matrix, you could sure as hell break a little 128 bit key.
Anyone needed crypto that can stand up to that should look into FlameCrypt 5. It is nearly complete; I'm using a 512 megabyte key in Linux, Mac OS X, and Windows with perfect MD5 matches. It's faster than other cryptographic methods. Pre-orders will be taken soon (15 days or so).
A FlameCrypt5 shell server is under consideration; it would most likely be a free upgrade.
As I constantly bitch on my programming site, J2DK/RE 1.4 still hasn't been released for Linux on PowerPC. I love my iBook and plan to buy an iMac; if the two are left further behind for Java I just might abandon it. "Write once run anywhere." is meaningless if most platforms don't have new features for years.
I recently switched to C for a few projects; the speed is surreal by comparison
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Mere gamers are not worthy of the blessed codewater. I hide mine at parties so that only I can get to it.
Another tip is to put your secret fridge and server on a separate breaker from the computers, so the gaming doesn't interfere with your drinking and coding.
I am sick of people thinking that Linux is lacking in drivers! All of my hardware works, period.
Try running windows on a Sun or Macintosh, see how well the drivers stack up then! We all know that a window sure as hell won't survive the G-Force.
To get this back on topic: Can an 802.11b card really reach the ground? I seem to remember that space is more than 300 feet away.
One patent is ignored, while the other in eforced. I don't see many people crying over the GIF patent, especially when M$IE has yet to implement support for PNG.
of the "Microsoft profits from piracy." idea. Another facet of this is that many of these companies get caught and are forced to pay up.
A rival computer store in my town has been peddling the same Windows XP key for an entire year. This hurts the business of legitimate sellers who can't compete with the price as well, and it hurts Microsoft's goal of making several hundred dollars from every desktop computer in America. Now I don't know what to believe...
if pr0n spam was involved?
lose quality. If you convert from AAC to MP3 for example, you deal with both the shit from AAC and the shit from MP3.
I've been coding since I was 8, but ironicly I have the opposite problem:
I cannot write in manuscript! That's right, I can only write in cursive. It's hard being the only one when 95% of my graduating class can't read or write the shit. It isn't that they are learning to type instead, most couldn't get past 20gwam after a whole semester of keyboarding class.
Thank goodness I'm not a native of this civilization-forsaken part of our nation...
Patent encomberment is a serious deal. It means than a legal OSS player is nearly out of the questions. If I can't play the things on my iBook(Linux), iMac(Linux), server(Linux), palmtop(Linux), and at school (OS X) then I won't be using it. Quality is irrelevant at that point.
Ogg Vorbis, because of its openness and mpeg, becase people ignore the patent, are my best two options. AAC is not an option, so its quality means nothing.
Would you rather use a train that can safely travel at 100mph along prelaid tracks that don't follow your route or a car that can safely go 60mph along much more convenient roads?
(Oh yeah, Linux is a rocket car in the analogy because it has to be stuck in there somewhere. Windows is a horse in that it can go anywhere if at a crawling pace while shitting over everything, but a rocket car can go more places...
I've had much better luck with it, and a pocket pc port is more likely than one of Java.
.NET aren't a very good idea on embedded platforms, even if I use them. It's much better to just recompile when dealing with limited conditions, such as the new Zauruses that only have 32mb of ram.
Java and
If so, why should I care about its quality?
Even if I'm not interested in the round, my bets are on Ogg Vorbis for the next round. Ogg rules! (Even if the iPod with Linux is too slow to play them.)
Send it to me! The NetBSD port is only a few days away. I could patch in a keyboard and a numeric coprocessor and a hard disk and wifi/wired ethernet...
and that was before apple forked Konqueror.
A friend asked me to close his account for him. I run a mailserver, so I'd never use that shit myself.
Whenever I'm on a windows box (without PuTTY for ssh), I use Webmin. It provides all the functionality for remote configuration graphically through a web browser.
Linuxconf used to (and still is?) a good tool for configuration. Drakconf, shipped with Mandrake, can configure the entire system graphically.
Debian is written by and for those who know what they are doing. "ifdown eth1 && ifup eth0" can save a LOT of clicking. If you want to compare windows (the OS for idiots) with Linux, at least compare it to an idiot-friendly distribution. When you know what you're doing, a CLI is faster.
I have had a Linux-powered tablet pc for a few years running zipslack. Pre-M$ hype of course. Linux-conf and the rest of that shit makes it relatively easy to use, but I can't live without a keyboard.
In general, screw tablets. Buy a laptop; it's cheaper and well worth the investment.
1. The code went from Linux to sco and not the other way around. The NDA prevents us from knowing how far back the violtion goes in each source tree.
2. The code came to Linux from UNIX by way of BSD, in which case it is already covered by the BSD lawsuit of years past.
3. The 80 lines are not consecutive and/or are no big deal to replace. SCO would look like winey little brats if a single member of the OSS community corrected the violations in an hour.
4. SCO placed the code in Linux to sue. They are scared as hell of companies switching from their precious and decrepit UNIX kernel to Linux.
but setting konqueror or mozilla to send MSIE identification HTTP directives did the trick.
Is it actually required, or do they just say it is? Have you tried a different browser?
1 Sharp zaurus
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1 copy of kismet
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1 transcription of the entire chat session
Any decent packet sniffer will reveal all that is said. I suspect that they are offering this not to make it safer or get more subscribers, but rather to cover up certain activity.
AOL's servers record chat sessions of members, I'm not certain as to whether or not they do it for non-members. The point is that anyone over there with the requisite access rights can spy on these things. End-to-end encryption will not be default, might require a subscription charge, and might mean end-to-end(AOL)-to-end.
Forgive my pessimism, but I don't trust AOL in any situation. They screw over their members, they screw over those of us with smaller servers, they screw over friends of members. I think they are realizing that they cannot mainttain their current empire in the face of broadband, this may just be a feeble attempt to profit from their other markets. Subscription Netscape anyone?
You couldn't fit the kernel into ram, much less enough to do anything useful.
If you want it bad enough, steal the PDP11 UNIX source from SCO and port that. BSD or Linux will never fit.
How many more hours until NetBSD is ported? Or has it finally merged with OpenBeOS to become BeSD? Has this been abandoned?
If the author is reading this: Good job; I hope to be able to do that some day.
I tried it with a lowercase 'o' and thought the feature was unimplemented.
If you have no skill but don't mind pretending that you do visit the public high school of Jefferson County, TN.
The techs there spent a week with no results trying to get an OS X box on the school lan (DHCP, http proxies on 10.0.0.1 and 10.0.0.2; they configured neither.)
Other duties would include leaving the proxy servers running warez copies of NT 4 on service pack 3. Wasting tax payer money on piece of shit security packages is optional.
wget -o foo.txt http://osnippets.org/ && cat foo.txt | pig >> bar.txt && mv bar.txt foo.txt
Replace osnippets.org with whatever domain you want to get, and be sure to have a pightml renderer.
I group everything as NT or DOS. Win2k identifies itself as NT5, so I call it that. XP identifies itself as NT5.1, so I call it that.
"Windos" means a version of windows such as 3.1 or ME that is a direct descendant of MS-DOS rather than a VMS hybrid. When I want to insult Windows(NT or DOS) without a specific reason, I call it "Micros~1 Winshit".
As I recall, it was some sort of remote-access dealy they sold the US government for DOS 3.3. If I remembered where I read it, I'd quote the specifics.
With MoL, I can run OS X in realtime. It's a decent operating system, but Debian's package manager makes it a better choice for me.
Porting it from Linux/x86 or Linux/UltraSparc should be as simple as crosscompiling; nothing as complicated as the OS X port.
I use Kaffe, GCJ, and Blackdown's 1.3.1 java port on my PowerPC boxes. Wonka works well on my Zaurus. Sun's java seems to have a monopoly on Swing. IBM's seems interesting, but I haven't had the time to look into it yet.
If MoL has been ported to OS X, it would be a much faster alternative to VPC.
If you had enough computing power to run the Matrix, you could sure as hell break a little 128 bit key.
Anyone needed crypto that can stand up to that should look into FlameCrypt 5. It is nearly complete; I'm using a 512 megabyte key in Linux, Mac OS X, and Windows with perfect MD5 matches. It's faster than other cryptographic methods. Pre-orders will be taken soon (15 days or so).
A FlameCrypt5 shell server is under consideration; it would most likely be a free upgrade.
As I constantly bitch on my programming site, J2DK/RE 1.4 still hasn't been released for Linux on PowerPC. I love my iBook and plan to buy an iMac; if the two are left further behind for Java I just might abandon it. "Write once run anywhere." is meaningless if most platforms don't have new features for years.
I recently switched to C for a few projects; the speed is surreal by comparison