I'm sorry, but even though I use an RPM based distro (SuSE), I can't stand the RPM tools. Why can't they use something much nicer, like the DEB tools. I'd kill for a version of apt-get for SuSE, but nope, I've gotta go through their YaST software to get updates. Icky stuff. Go with the Debian Package Manager, nicer and more friendly.
A distro where you can select what gets installed. I'm not sure about other distros, but in SuSE, during the installation, just deslect everything, and select only those things which you need. Then everything that those programs depends on is also automatically installed. Easy as that. Plus, with SuSE, there's an automatic network installer, just as RedHat has one. So it sounds to me as if they're doing nothing but repackaging ideas that already exist and claiming them as their own. And as to the custom kernel stuff. That's what modules are for, so only the stuff that you need gets loaded.
Can't mplayer read windows media files? And if it can, can't you then just convert them into your favorite format (mp3, ogg, etc.) with mplayer? I know that you can do this with other sound files and media like Qicktime, RealMedia, DVDs, etc. If that's the case, the DRM might not work as well as planned...:) (hopefully)
I know that many of you don't like to use it, but last I heard, PostgreSQL supports subselects. And from my experience with it, it's extreamely fast and easy to set up and administer.
I think that that's kind of different though. I mean, I can point out other countries with lower murder rates. I mean, look at Canada. Their murder rate's incredibly low, and they still let their kids have those things.
I don't think that there's any real correlation between video games and violence. I was playing Wolfenstein 3D and Doom back in 5th and 6th grade, and shooters ever since. I've always, and all of my friends have always been able to separate the real world from that of games. I've never gone on a killig spree and no one that I know has either, at least in real life;).
What's a big deal though is that they're not even allowed to have them out on the shelves. What the hell. Even here, there's porn right there in the racks of Suncoast Video in the mall. Granted, they're covered by some crappy plastic shield things (funny stuff when someone takes them:) but they're still there accessable. And we can advertise for those things. They're completely banning this game's advertising and shelf space. This game which shows no real violence unlike any of the UT/Quake games simply because it's a war game which 'portrays war as the only way to resolve conflicts.' Go fig. It's a war game.
I went over there during Christmas. All night after about 10:00/11:00 it's nothing but porn on the regular public channels. They've got no problem with some kids watching a chick piss into a guy's mouth, but when it comes to them making a bunch of tanks with what look like high-tech christmas trees attached to them shooting lightning at everything, that's over the lines there.
Come on man, the game would suck if they were to add a negotiate module that you had to go through before that. I can just imagine: Friends: "Dude, come on over, I've got the new Halo game on my GameCube." Kid: "No, I can't, it's really intense right now. I'm buisy negotiating the terms under which we capitalists and the communists can resolve our differences. Wait, yes, I did it. Now I can play... What? We resolved our differences, so there's no war. This sucks!"
wow, at 900 W/m2, than at the rate of 0.05% increase, in 20 years it would increase to 909W/m2, right? Or is that just at the surface, and our percieved increase would be much smaller? All in all, and interesting read.
Are there any links to something describing Slashdot's architecture? Or something describing how they are able to handle the massive loads that our readership does tend to impose:)?
And how about regarding other web architectures? (PHPNuke, PostNuke, Plone, Zope, Drupal, Tikiwiki, etc.) What has the readership of Slashdot experienced when it comes to creating scalable websites? And are there any suggestions that you may have for designing scalable web sites?
Check here, here, and here (I know that ha isn't exactly hot-swapping, but if you can bring up a new server and take down the old one without a hitch, then doesn't it do the same thing?). Also, I would suggest a Google search for "linux cpu hot-swap."
It's not like we voted him in. The supreme court did, 5-4 vote if I recall, rather close.
But that was the court's decision, and the government, and more importantly the judiciary must be respected when it comes to these things. Because without respect for the laws and those who interpret them, what do we have?
I don't know about those academic discounts. Although they are pretty deep, a copy of Office Standard still would cost me about $120.00. Kind of steep for a college student. So I run OpenOffice.org, no biggie. Plus, it can open Word, Powerpoint, Excel, and WordPerfect documents. So I get all the benefits of an office suite without the price (and about the grammar check peoples, come on, we're in college now, if you can't write with proper grammar, then that's what the mandatory English classes are for).
Exactly, and like he said, the only hard part is setting it up. Once it's working, it'll keep on going for years, like the energizer bunny. There was a guy in my local LUG whose computer only went down because the fans inside failed and the chip shut itself down. Once they're up, Unix based systems tend to stay up.
I really don't want to think of all of the changes that might have happened had I not done what I've done. Granted I've made some mistakes, but I've grown from them. If I were to change anything in the past, no matter how minute, it would completely change who and what I am right now. That IS NOT what I would want. I like who I am for the first time in a long time. I'm at peace for the first time in a long time. And I'm completely head over heals in love with a member of the opposite sex, who I doubt I would have met had anything been changed. I like and love where I am now. Nothing needs to be changed. Nothing.
Why don't they just run a bunch of freenet nodes? First off, it's completely encrypted, so the university/RIAA would be completely screwed if they wanted to find out what you were doing. Plus, the files are optimally distributed across several systems, so then when there is a file to be downloaded, it won't be too hard upon the univerity's internet connection (that's assuming that it's a popular file and it's also distributed among several of your piers on the university's network). Not only that, but if the university wanted to try to filter out all filesharing, then you could just run your freenet node through port 80, and it'll look something like ssl traffic if I'm not mistaken (please correct me if I'm wrong in that bit of info).
Why don't you just throw another nic into the web and LDAP servers? Then set up a private (10.x.x.x) network off of that nic which is connected to any of the internal servers you might need to access. That way you don't have to worry about the encryption overhead or having your LDAP server exposed to the internet.
If things keep on going like they are, I don't think that it'll be very freedomless, but that's just because most of the smart people will just pick up and leave to some place where their rights are protected. Kind of like how all the doctors and anyone with half a brain left Cambodia after the Khymer Rouge came into power (after all, the smart people only had their brains, the stupid ones had the guns and weapons, so there really isn't much of a choice ther, isn't there?). If you look at what's happening today, it seems as if all of the bright and innovative ones are being persecuted (take the DeCSS case for example). I know that I for one don't want to live in a society as fucked up as that, and now that the ruling has come back in Norway's DeCSS case, those countries where your fundamental rights are preserved are looking a whole lot better. (And yes, I am an extreamely proud American, it's just that the whole system and society here seems to be so fucked up that it would take nothing short of a miracle to fix all the problems, especially with the legal system).
Wasn't HyperCard around long before this? As I recall, HyperCard had linking with menus, possible dynamic content, etc long before this patent was applied for.
I seem to remember an article in a LinuxJournal a while back talking about uploading the entire Debian archive onto freenet and then using apt-get to download it. If that's the case, then you just have to point it to the correct freesite and let apt-get do the rest for you. I'm sure that a similar program, if not apt, can be created to automatically download and update new opensource programs. So maybe instead of trying to reinvent the wheel, they could just do that. Plus, maybe then, there'd be a decent number of people with semi-permanant nodes on freenet.
Just my $0.02, La Camiseta
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They're still around here in Nevada. We can't buy them in the county (Clark County, pretty much Las Vegas), so we drive 30 min away to an indian reservation and can stock up on all sorts of fun stuff.
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I'm sorry, but even though I use an RPM based distro (SuSE), I can't stand the RPM tools. Why can't they use something much nicer, like the DEB tools. I'd kill for a version of apt-get for SuSE, but nope, I've gotta go through their YaST software to get updates. Icky stuff. Go with the Debian Package Manager, nicer and more friendly.
A distro where you can select what gets installed. I'm not sure about other distros, but in SuSE, during the installation, just deslect everything, and select only those things which you need. Then everything that those programs depends on is also automatically installed. Easy as that. Plus, with SuSE, there's an automatic network installer, just as RedHat has one. So it sounds to me as if they're doing nothing but repackaging ideas that already exist and claiming them as their own. And as to the custom kernel stuff. That's what modules are for, so only the stuff that you need gets loaded.
Can't mplayer read windows media files? And if it can, can't you then just convert them into your favorite format (mp3, ogg, etc.) with mplayer? I know that you can do this with other sound files and media like Qicktime, RealMedia, DVDs, etc. If that's the case, the DRM might not work as well as planned... :) (hopefully)
I know that many of you don't like to use it, but last I heard, PostgreSQL supports subselects. And from my experience with it, it's extreamely fast and easy to set up and administer.
I think that that's kind of different though. I mean, I can point out other countries with lower murder rates. I mean, look at Canada. Their murder rate's incredibly low, and they still let their kids have those things.
I don't think that there's any real correlation between video games and violence. I was playing Wolfenstein 3D and Doom back in 5th and 6th grade, and shooters ever since. I've always, and all of my friends have always been able to separate the real world from that of games. I've never gone on a killig spree and no one that I know has either, at least in real life;).
What's a big deal though is that they're not even allowed to have them out on the shelves. What the hell. Even here, there's porn right there in the racks of Suncoast Video in the mall. Granted, they're covered by some crappy plastic shield things (funny stuff when someone takes them :) but they're still there accessable. And we can advertise for those things. They're completely banning this game's advertising and shelf space. This game which shows no real violence unlike any of the UT/Quake games simply because it's a war game which 'portrays war as the only way to resolve conflicts.' Go fig. It's a war game.
I went over there during Christmas. All night after about 10:00/11:00 it's nothing but porn on the regular public channels. They've got no problem with some kids watching a chick piss into a guy's mouth, but when it comes to them making a bunch of tanks with what look like high-tech christmas trees attached to them shooting lightning at everything, that's over the lines there.
Come on man, the game would suck if they were to add a negotiate module that you had to go through before that. I can just imagine:
Friends: "Dude, come on over, I've got the new Halo game on my GameCube."
Kid: "No, I can't, it's really intense right now. I'm buisy negotiating the terms under which we capitalists and the communists can resolve our differences. Wait, yes, I did it. Now I can play... What? We resolved our differences, so there's no war. This sucks!"
It'd be kind of hard for AMD to copy Intel now that Intel owns the patent to this technology. Wouldn't that be patent infringement?
wow, at 900 W/m2, than at the rate of 0.05% increase, in 20 years it would increase to 909W/m2, right? Or is that just at the surface, and our percieved increase would be much smaller? All in all, and interesting read.
Are there any links to something describing Slashdot's architecture? Or something describing how they are able to handle the massive loads that our readership does tend to impose :)?
And how about regarding other web architectures? (PHPNuke, PostNuke, Plone, Zope, Drupal, Tikiwiki, etc.) What has the readership of Slashdot experienced when it comes to creating scalable websites? And are there any suggestions that you may have for designing scalable web sites?
I know right where you can get one, although I'm not sure about the parts warranty:
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http://listings.ebay.com/pool2/plistings/list/all
Check here, here, and here (I know that ha isn't exactly hot-swapping, but if you can bring up a new server and take down the old one without a hitch, then doesn't it do the same thing?). Also, I would suggest a Google search for "linux cpu hot-swap."
It's not like we voted him in. The supreme court did, 5-4 vote if I recall, rather close.
But that was the court's decision, and the government, and more importantly the judiciary must be respected when it comes to these things. Because without respect for the laws and those who interpret them, what do we have?
I don't know about those academic discounts. Although they are pretty deep, a copy of Office Standard still would cost me about $120.00. Kind of steep for a college student. So I run OpenOffice.org, no biggie. Plus, it can open Word, Powerpoint, Excel, and WordPerfect documents. So I get all the benefits of an office suite without the price (and about the grammar check peoples, come on, we're in college now, if you can't write with proper grammar, then that's what the mandatory English classes are for).
Exactly, and like he said, the only hard part is setting it up. Once it's working, it'll keep on going for years, like the energizer bunny. There was a guy in my local LUG whose computer only went down because the fans inside failed and the chip shut itself down. Once they're up, Unix based systems tend to stay up.
I clicked on the link and it took me right to the isonews webpage. I wonder if they didn't like their servers getting slashdotted or something?
I really don't want to think of all of the changes that might have happened had I not done what I've done. Granted I've made some mistakes, but I've grown from them. If I were to change anything in the past, no matter how minute, it would completely change who and what I am right now. That IS NOT what I would want. I like who I am for the first time in a long time. I'm at peace for the first time in a long time. And I'm completely head over heals in love with a member of the opposite sex, who I doubt I would have met had anything been changed.
I like and love where I am now. Nothing needs to be changed. Nothing.
Why don't they just run a bunch of freenet nodes? First off, it's completely encrypted, so the university/RIAA would be completely screwed if they wanted to find out what you were doing. Plus, the files are optimally distributed across several systems, so then when there is a file to be downloaded, it won't be too hard upon the univerity's internet connection (that's assuming that it's a popular file and it's also distributed among several of your piers on the university's network).
Not only that, but if the university wanted to try to filter out all filesharing, then you could just run your freenet node through port 80, and it'll look something like ssl traffic if I'm not mistaken (please correct me if I'm wrong in that bit of info).
Why don't you just throw another nic into the web and LDAP servers? Then set up a private (10.x.x.x) network off of that nic which is connected to any of the internal servers you might need to access. That way you don't have to worry about the encryption overhead or having your LDAP server exposed to the internet.
If things keep on going like they are, I don't think that it'll be very freedomless, but that's just because most of the smart people will just pick up and leave to some place where their rights are protected. Kind of like how all the doctors and anyone with half a brain left Cambodia after the Khymer Rouge came into power (after all, the smart people only had their brains, the stupid ones had the guns and weapons, so there really isn't much of a choice ther, isn't there?).
If you look at what's happening today, it seems as if all of the bright and innovative ones are being persecuted (take the DeCSS case for example). I know that I for one don't want to live in a society as fucked up as that, and now that the ruling has come back in Norway's DeCSS case, those countries where your fundamental rights are preserved are looking a whole lot better.
(And yes, I am an extreamely proud American, it's just that the whole system and society here seems to be so fucked up that it would take nothing short of a miracle to fix all the problems, especially with the legal system).
OK, so all that I have to do is run my NAT through a cheap OpenBSD box (can probably get the hardware for well under $100)? That's fine by me.
Wasn't HyperCard around long before this? As I recall, HyperCard had linking with menus, possible dynamic content, etc long before this patent was applied for.
Oh yeah, I forgot, the and then part. ;).
Maybe they should have used this distributed stuff for their website, seems to be down
I seem to remember an article in a LinuxJournal a while back talking about uploading the entire Debian archive onto freenet and then using apt-get to download it. If that's the case, then you just have to point it to the correct freesite and let apt-get do the rest for you. I'm sure that a similar program, if not apt, can be created to automatically download and update new opensource programs. So maybe instead of trying to reinvent the wheel, they could just do that. Plus, maybe then, there'd be a decent number of people with semi-permanant nodes on freenet.
Just my $0.02,
La Camiseta
They're still around here in Nevada. We can't buy them in the county (Clark County, pretty much Las Vegas), so we drive 30 min away to an indian reservation and can stock up on all sorts of fun stuff.