It seems to be a great problem solver for what you're trying to do. First off, on initial start it only connects to computers it knows, or downloads info about a couple of nodes from the main website, but if you were to export your noderef and import it into all of your other systems instead of the default noderefs, then you could have a distributed storage network set up among all of your computers.
Granted, you'd have to have a bit more storage dedicated than you'll be storing, but if you want every file to have a decent backup, then that's one of the prices you'll have to pay. Also, it's self cleaning when it comes to backups, because it automatically pushes out the old, less requested files in favor of the newer, more requested files.
Another solution, should your systems be using Linux is maybe something like GNUnet, which is built upon the sharing of files in both a distributed and an anonymous manner.
Just what I want, Windows drivers on my Linux box. Just what I need, the very things which Microsoft tends to blame for the majority of its software hiccups to be on my Linux box, making it as crash-worthy, slow, and crappy as can be.
Personally, I think that the best solution may be to crete a sort of universal spec. for drivers, where everybody would write drivers to that spec, and then, after a bit of testing, the drivers could be impletmented into any OS which implements that spec, like BSD, Linux, Plan9, even the proprietary Unices. Personally, I think that this may be better in the long run, because then the hardware companies only have to write one driver, and then it'll work with every system.
And of course, the best are open-sourced drivers, like the vast majority of Linux and BSD's drivers today (except for a few *cough*nVidia*cough*). That way everybody can have a look at the source code, see where any problems may lie, and then fix them themselves. I'm sure that any well-used drivers will quickly have virtually all bugs stomped out of them, making everybody's overall experience much better.
Hmm, let's see, so now they have a nice delete function. Plus they have these wonderful supernodes which know the locations of all of the shared files on your computer (if not more, because you're already sending file info, why not just backpack on a few more?)
So they have the supernodes which everybody connects to to search. So what would happen if all they had to do was to send a different malformed packet to any one supernode, which would distribute it to any other known supernodes, etc. Then the supernodes just begin to send all of these malformed delete packets to the clients and delete their files.
Or they could just have some command to download a list of all of the files you've pirated to their servers, which I'm sure would make a nice little christmas gift for the RIAA.
And because this is all done outside US jurisdiction, there's no real way to enforce any constitutional procections or laws.
Exactly. Take Nevada. Here we still haven't deregulated, and we haven't had one major blackout. We have some minor ones during the summer when substations get overloaded because everyone has AC (needed in 120F/50C weather). But that's it. Not only that, but many times we have a surplus of power in this state, especially in the north.
Their improper usage of capitalization (at least by standard practice).
For example: "Claims Submitted Through The Website Will BE Invalid Because They Will Not Be Signed."
WhY, oH wHy WoUlD oNe CaPiTaLiZe ThE fIrSt LeTtEr Of EvErY wOrD? Unless of course it is to emphasize a point. But if that was the case, it would be much more effective to COMPLETELY capitalize certain words instead (like just capitalizing the "WILL" instead of every letter and the "BE").
StarOffice's and OO's formats are XML, always. It's just that they zip them up afterwords to save on space. Just feed the files through any unzip program (you may have to change the file endings, but you usually don't), and you can get at the styles and the raw XML data.
That's all that this is. If all that they're claiming is the right to plug-ins. Come on, Unix has supported pluggable modules which can be installed at runtime for user benefit for decades. Fonts are a semi-plugin to enhance the user experience, and those have been around since moveable type. So will they start to claim that fonts (and the ability to load new ones at runtime) are applicable under this too?
Seems way too broad to me. I mean, Apache uses runtime module loading. Perl has done this for years. And C has had the ability to dynamically load modules, should they be needed by the end user, for decades.
But if you care about your data so much that you are seriously going into replicated systems, the couple of most popular free packages at least aren't there yet even in basic ACID reliability.
What are you talking about? PostgreSQL has supported ACID reliability for years.
Plus, PostgreSQL also now supports replication, the same as the one that PostgreSQL, INC. has been selling as an add-on for years (they finally opensourced it).
Another database that I would check out is SAPdb. SAP originally created it to be a competitor to Oracle, so that their customers wouldn't have to buy Oracle databases (read: pretty complicated setup, but worth it). But now they've opensourced it too, and as far as I know, it supports replication. And in the next release when MySQL takes over (Q4 2003, it'll be renamed MaxDB, and MySQL will be working on the code as well as SAP), it will have a proxy available so that you can just use MySQL database drivers to access it.
Yeah, but what's kind of scary is this one: http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewIte m&item =3524695224&category=112
Shit, who needs militant Islamic extremeists when you can buy a CD set with all of the info to royally screw over all of those people who fucked with you in high school for $35.00.
As you yourselves have published a distribution of GNU/Linux, you are bound to the GPL and all restrictions found therein. This includes Section 7 of the GPL, whereby you release all claims upon your patents when used for GPLed code (which Linux is). So in other words, you've just fucked yourselves.
There's something seriously messed up with the display of the eWeek site in Konqueror. The center text section completely spills out over into the righthand bar area thing.
We can already play Windows Media files on Linux. You just have to install either MPlayer or Xine as well as the Windows DLLs, easily available from the MPlayer website. I think that Microsoft's kind of behind the curve here.
Ok, I admit it, I do tend to go out front of other's places and use their wireless connections. And yes, most of the time it's for email. But you have to realize that just because you're sending out a dozen or so emails, it doesn't mean that it's spam. I like to use my email client in offline mode, and so I kind of "save up" the emails to send later, and then send them all at once. It's not spam, it's just communication.
3. Migrate to MySQL (or other free DB) and rewrite front-end: Again, you will need to figure out server maintenance, as well as finding an open-source front end. I'd be positively giddy to find/learn about an Access/Oracle Forms-like open-source tool.
I know that PostgreSQL has a semi-decent front end program called pgaccess (I know that it's in Linux, but I'm not sure about Windows), which you can use to create forms/reports for. And the best thing about it is that all of the form data is stored in the databse, so you don't have to go around updating everybody's software every revision you make to the front end. It may take a bit more work than just using simply Access, but it seems to be easy to use, and it's completely GPLed and written in TCL/TK.
All of the computer illiterate folks just call us God, while between each other we just keep the old names we're used to like DBA, Sys Admin, Net Admin, etc.
After all: "Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic." --Arthur C. Clarke
$30? I want to go there. It still costs me $100 to get a copy of educational edition Office. Screw that when I'm a college student having to count every penny. I just went with OpenOffice.org. That way everything on my PC's legit(aah, freely downloaded Linux), and I can still export to MS Office if I need to.
I would like to make the comment that having a completely anonymous filesharing network like freenet is a great thing. Now it just needs a freesite with some sort of central music repository, and I'd be willing to bet that it'd really take off.
Exactly. That's what my biggest complaint about RPM is. I can't stand the dependencies and the incompatibility between distros. Say I try to install something compiled into RPM for RedHat onto my SuSE machine, and because the packages are named/numbered differently, I get a bunch of error messages because they're "incompatible" even though I know that the new piece of software'll play nice with my current installation. But nope, I have go go and try to remember the option to ignore the package dependencies and then use that. So now every time that I try to do an update with YaST, after every piece of software that I check or uncheck, I get a nice warning dialog popping up telling me that I've got a problem.
I find it a whole lot easier to do just as you said, just use apt-get to download not only the package that I want but those it's dependent upon too.
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It seems to be a great problem solver for what you're trying to do. First off, on initial start it only connects to computers it knows, or downloads info about a couple of nodes from the main website, but if you were to export your noderef and import it into all of your other systems instead of the default noderefs, then you could have a distributed storage network set up among all of your computers.
Granted, you'd have to have a bit more storage dedicated than you'll be storing, but if you want every file to have a decent backup, then that's one of the prices you'll have to pay. Also, it's self cleaning when it comes to backups, because it automatically pushes out the old, less requested files in favor of the newer, more requested files.
Another solution, should your systems be using Linux is maybe something like GNUnet, which is built upon the sharing of files in both a distributed and an anonymous manner.
Just what I want, Windows drivers on my Linux box. Just what I need, the very things which Microsoft tends to blame for the majority of its software hiccups to be on my Linux box, making it as crash-worthy, slow, and crappy as can be.
Personally, I think that the best solution may be to crete a sort of universal spec. for drivers, where everybody would write drivers to that spec, and then, after a bit of testing, the drivers could be impletmented into any OS which implements that spec, like BSD, Linux, Plan9, even the proprietary Unices. Personally, I think that this may be better in the long run, because then the hardware companies only have to write one driver, and then it'll work with every system.
And of course, the best are open-sourced drivers, like the vast majority of Linux and BSD's drivers today (except for a few *cough*nVidia*cough*). That way everybody can have a look at the source code, see where any problems may lie, and then fix them themselves. I'm sure that any well-used drivers will quickly have virtually all bugs stomped out of them, making everybody's overall experience much better.
Hands down. I love their fibre tips.
Hmm, let's see, so now they have a nice delete function. Plus they have these wonderful supernodes which know the locations of all of the shared files on your computer (if not more, because you're already sending file info, why not just backpack on a few more?)
So they have the supernodes which everybody connects to to search. So what would happen if all they had to do was to send a different malformed packet to any one supernode, which would distribute it to any other known supernodes, etc. Then the supernodes just begin to send all of these malformed delete packets to the clients and delete their files.
Or they could just have some command to download a list of all of the files you've pirated to their servers, which I'm sure would make a nice little christmas gift for the RIAA.
And because this is all done outside US jurisdiction, there's no real way to enforce any constitutional procections or laws.
Until it gets fixed, you can read it at http://www.freedesktop.org/bin/rdiff/Software/dbus
Exactly. Take Nevada. Here we still haven't deregulated, and we haven't had one major blackout. We have some minor ones during the summer when substations get overloaded because everyone has AC (needed in 120F/50C weather). But that's it. Not only that, but many times we have a surplus of power in this state, especially in the north.
Their improper usage of capitalization (at least by standard practice).
For example:
"Claims Submitted Through The Website Will BE Invalid Because They Will Not Be Signed."
WhY, oH wHy WoUlD oNe CaPiTaLiZe ThE fIrSt LeTtEr Of EvErY wOrD? Unless of course it is to emphasize a point. But if that was the case, it would be much more effective to COMPLETELY capitalize certain words instead (like just capitalizing the "WILL" instead of every letter and the "BE").
StarOffice's and OO's formats are XML, always. It's just that they zip them up afterwords to save on space. Just feed the files through any unzip program (you may have to change the file endings, but you usually don't), and you can get at the styles and the raw XML data.
SuSE. The company is based in Germany. (that's why I use them, their support for foreign languages is great, at least Spanish, German, and English)
That's all that this is. If all that they're claiming is the right to plug-ins. Come on, Unix has supported pluggable modules which can be installed at runtime for user benefit for decades. Fonts are a semi-plugin to enhance the user experience, and those have been around since moveable type. So will they start to claim that fonts (and the ability to load new ones at runtime) are applicable under this too?
Seems way too broad to me. I mean, Apache uses runtime module loading. Perl has done this for years. And C has had the ability to dynamically load modules, should they be needed by the end user, for decades.
But if you care about your data so much that you are seriously going into replicated systems, the couple of most popular free packages at least aren't there yet even in basic ACID reliability.
What are you talking about? PostgreSQL has supported ACID reliability for years.
Plus, PostgreSQL also now supports replication, the same as the one that PostgreSQL, INC. has been selling as an add-on for years (they finally opensourced it).
Another database that I would check out is SAPdb. SAP originally created it to be a competitor to Oracle, so that their customers wouldn't have to buy Oracle databases (read: pretty complicated setup, but worth it). But now they've opensourced it too, and as far as I know, it supports replication. And in the next release when MySQL takes over (Q4 2003, it'll be renamed MaxDB, and MySQL will be working on the code as well as SAP), it will have a proxy available so that you can just use MySQL database drivers to access it.
realistic 3D pr0n ;)
Yeah, but what's kind of scary is this one:e m&item =3524695224&category=112
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewIt
Shit, who needs militant Islamic extremeists when you can buy a CD set with all of the info to royally screw over all of those people who fucked with you in high school for $35.00.
As you yourselves have published a distribution of GNU/Linux, you are bound to the GPL and all restrictions found therein. This includes Section 7 of the GPL, whereby you release all claims upon your patents when used for GPLed code (which Linux is). So in other words, you've just fucked yourselves.
Fuck you all you patent whores.
Sincerely,
Nathan
So now maybe I can get back that account that I forgot the password for. Sweet.
Penny-Arcade tends to crash webservers whenever they post something.
There's something seriously messed up with the display of the eWeek site in Konqueror. The center text section completely spills out over into the righthand bar area thing.
Just an observation.
We can already play Windows Media files on Linux. You just have to install either MPlayer or Xine as well as the Windows DLLs, easily available from the MPlayer website. I think that Microsoft's kind of behind the curve here.
Ok, I admit it, I do tend to go out front of other's places and use their wireless connections. And yes, most of the time it's for email. But you have to realize that just because you're sending out a dozen or so emails, it doesn't mean that it's spam. I like to use my email client in offline mode, and so I kind of "save up" the emails to send later, and then send them all at once. It's not spam, it's just communication.
3. Migrate to MySQL (or other free DB) and rewrite front-end:
Again, you will need to figure out server maintenance, as well as finding an open-source front end. I'd be positively giddy to find/learn about an Access/Oracle Forms-like open-source tool.
I know that PostgreSQL has a semi-decent front end program called pgaccess (I know that it's in Linux, but I'm not sure about Windows), which you can use to create forms/reports for. And the best thing about it is that all of the form data is stored in the databse, so you don't have to go around updating everybody's software every revision you make to the front end. It may take a bit more work than just using simply Access, but it seems to be easy to use, and it's completely GPLed and written in TCL/TK.
Hope that was of some help.
All of the computer illiterate folks just call us God, while between each other we just keep the old names we're used to like DBA, Sys Admin, Net Admin, etc.
After all:
"Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic."
--Arthur C. Clarke
So they have to go and download the patches singly and then execute them. Big deal.
$30? I want to go there. It still costs me $100 to get a copy of educational edition Office. Screw that when I'm a college student having to count every penny. I just went with OpenOffice.org. That way everything on my PC's legit(aah, freely downloaded Linux), and I can still export to MS Office if I need to.
I would like to make the comment that having a completely anonymous filesharing network like freenet is a great thing. Now it just needs a freesite with some sort of central music repository, and I'd be willing to bet that it'd really take off.
Beautiful stuff, anonymity.
Exactly. That's what my biggest complaint about RPM is. I can't stand the dependencies and the incompatibility between distros. Say I try to install something compiled into RPM for RedHat onto my SuSE machine, and because the packages are named/numbered differently, I get a bunch of error messages because they're "incompatible" even though I know that the new piece of software'll play nice with my current installation. But nope, I have go go and try to remember the option to ignore the package dependencies and then use that. So now every time that I try to do an update with YaST, after every piece of software that I check or uncheck, I get a nice warning dialog popping up telling me that I've got a problem.
I find it a whole lot easier to do just as you said, just use apt-get to download not only the package that I want but those it's dependent upon too.