How does Red Hat screw me? By loosing its legal pit bulls against the community that it could not exist without. CentOS is not damaging the Red Hat mark in any way on its web site, and given more equity in legal representation I doubt RHAT would get far in this form of harassment anyway.
If this had been SCO or Microsoft instead of Red Hat, would you feel any differently?
I am a paying Red Hat customer. I am also a CentOS user (at home) and have contributed to the CentOS project. You are now pissing on your own customers.
I am going to do everything in my power to get CentOS validated now as a computing platform for my employer, one of the top 5 largest pharma companies in the world, and work to migrade all new Linux servers to CentOS.
I'm picking up a firewire card on the way home from work tonight so I can try it.
The gist of it is, with.17 you can add the 6200 as a capture device, and in mythsetup you can point to the script to have myth trigger channel changes externally. It just means myth doesn't have the internal ability at this point to directly issue a channel change (and may never need it).
Sure, but that is just one of many changes, and one of the ones that affects only a very small number of people. A lot of non-Apple people are going to completely miss this announcement.
And it's a shame that you can't get RCN. I've got it now, and it's the best service I've had (telephone, internet, and cable TV). Their digital cable service actually works with MythTV (having nothing more than a firewire port and a big hard drive on your Myth box)
The CIO for the city of Philadelphia was at a meeting for Philadelphia Cares that I was also in attendance at. This was a technology summit on how to bridge the technology divide.
At one point in the meeting I suggested that a grassroots effort to creat neighborhood mesh networks could be of great benefit to connecting hte neighborhoods both internally and externally. CIO asked a few questions but didn't seem to want to work with the community on it.
I see where this is going now. Mayor Street's office gets a hold of a great idea that would cost the city very little to implement, but then turns it around to line the pockets of his inner circle. His brother Milton is already busy with a lucrative city contract so maybe it will be someone else in the mayor's family.
I think that the bigger news here...
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...is that a lot of digital/HDTV cable customers will be able to use their digital cable box as a capture device, and plug into the MythTV back end host with firewire. This uses almost none of the host CPU as the cable box is spewing raw MPEG2 over firewire, and MythTV just needs to save it to disk.
That right there just tripled the number of channels I could record, and gave me HDTV capabilities as well as premium channels.
I'm one of the people scratching my head over why this was put in the Apple category where few people would see it. Most of the people running Myth are on PC/Linux platform.
Chives spring immediately to mind. They do need to be watered regularly, but provide abundantly with fresh seasoning for your lunches. They also reproduce vegetatively so one cluster of bulbs will spawn additional clusters so you can afford to give some away or grow more.
Mints do well, but need a larger pot, lots of water, and will take over a good part of your window. The upside is that they smell great if you do so much as rub against the leaves, and the leaves are great as an herbal infusion.
If you are lousy at watering your plants, aloe vera thrives on neglect. I wouldn't look to it for culinary uses but its healing properties are the stuff of legend (and, in my experience, it's a reputation that is largely deserved).
I live in a suburb of Philadelphia that offers both Comcast and RCN. I opted for RCN. I get 7Mbps down, 800Kbps up, a static IP, and I can run servers.
As I mentioned in another recent Slashdot headline, Ed Yourdon is our modern day chicken little. He made a zillion dollars selling books and talking about how we were all going to die when Y2K hit. He was wrong on all counts. Now he's looking for his next paycheck. Don't buy into this quack.
Having lived in both Philadelphia and the greater Raleigh area, I can say that the smaller cities of the south just don't provide enough to do for someone used to a busy city lifestyle. The cultural diversions are few and far between. There is an art museum in Raleigh but it is so small you can breeze through it in a couple of hours. Up in Philadelphia, there are huge museums all over and lots of small ones, too, that can take weeks to explore by someone who is determined to see them all. Big cities have zoos, most smaller southern cities do not. No public aquariums for the most part. No theme parks for the most part. The night clubs are small and hokey.
On the upside, I think Raleigh has a much richer geek community than Philadelphia. And is a much nicer place to live if you are into outdoor activities.
The south has a hard enough time as it is attracting geeks. The east coast silicon valley, Research Triangle Park, is about the best thing going for geeks and yet many of the companies there complain that it is hard to lure talent in because so many geeks just don't want to live in the Old South.
Austin, Texas seems to be about as close as you can get to being a geek magnet in the south, and it isn't even really part of the Old South.
If North Carolina can't pull it off, Louisiana sure isn't.
Yourdon is one of those chiefly responsible for the Y2K pre-non-event panicking in the streets. Of course, he had some books out on the subject so it was in his financial interests to scare people.
Y2K came and went, Yourdon's predictions fell flat, and now he's trying to scare you out of your money to buy a book on something else that he doesn't really know about.
That he's getting any attention after Y2K is amazing to me.
The reviewer was a whiny kid that tried comparing OS X to Linux, and then pitched a fit because he like Debian & Gentoo better than Red Hat but YDL runs like Red Hat. Boo hoo. The review didn't really say much worth reading.
So how come we don't see torrent search engines popping up in safer locations, like Havenco? The MPAA would literally have to hire mercenaries to take down the server, and there's a pretty good chance that Havenco has spent a little money on defending Sealand from attacks like this.
When I go home, I breed and sell tropical fish for the pet industry. Price per fish is low, like a buck each, but considering each pair of parents has several hundred babies every ten days or so, having a few pairs around is good side money.
"I hardly believe that you have any right to say what the rest of the world realises, or does not realise. About 46% of your nation are cluless to what the rest of the world realises."
Actually, those of you coming from socialist nations may not realize it, but I do have the right to do just that.
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances. - U.S. Constitution, Amendment I
It's a true blessing to be American by birth and by choice.
Of course it's ironic when you take it completely out of context. You missed the very next statement that I wrote after the bit you conveniently held up by itself.
People outside of the US are of course free to express their opinions. Just as I am free to ignore them as irrelevant noise. That was my first point, and the one that you seem to have read.
The other point I had is that our international policies are not the viewpoints of all (dare I say most) Americans.
The USA was founded on different values than it operates under today. Many of us would love to see a return to the Jeffersonian philosophy of "Peace, commerce, and honest friendship with all nations -- entangling alliances with none."
What the rest of the world fails to realize is that the men running for this office do not need the approval of anyone but Americans with the right to vote. The rest of you are, like it or not, irrelevant.
A lot of us Americans are frankly weary of the outside world trying to influence our internal politics. And many of us are just as weary of our tax dollars being used to influence internal events of other countries.
Many of us would be pleased as punch to be out of the UN as it is clearly irrelevant and has an agenda that counters recognized civil liberties in the US.
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How does Red Hat screw me? By loosing its legal pit bulls against the community that it could not exist without. CentOS is not damaging the Red Hat mark in any way on its web site, and given more equity in legal representation I doubt RHAT would get far in this form of harassment anyway.
If this had been SCO or Microsoft instead of Red Hat, would you feel any differently?
Fuck you.
I am a paying Red Hat customer. I am also a CentOS user (at home) and have contributed to the CentOS project. You are now pissing on your own customers.
I am going to do everything in my power to get CentOS validated now as a computing platform for my employer, one of the top 5 largest pharma companies in the world, and work to migrade all new Linux servers to CentOS.
You screw me, I screw you back.
I'm picking up a firewire card on the way home from work tonight so I can try it.
.17 you can add the 6200 as a capture device, and in mythsetup you can point to the script to have myth trigger channel changes externally. It just means myth doesn't have the internal ability at this point to directly issue a channel change (and may never need it).
The gist of it is, with
Sure, but that is just one of many changes, and one of the ones that affects only a very small number of people. A lot of non-Apple people are going to completely miss this announcement.
And it's a shame that you can't get RCN. I've got it now, and it's the best service I've had (telephone, internet, and cable TV). Their digital cable service actually works with MythTV (having nothing more than a firewire port and a big hard drive on your Myth box)
The CIO for the city of Philadelphia was at a meeting for Philadelphia Cares that I was also in attendance at. This was a technology summit on how to bridge the technology divide.
At one point in the meeting I suggested that a grassroots effort to creat neighborhood mesh networks could be of great benefit to connecting hte neighborhoods both internally and externally. CIO asked a few questions but didn't seem to want to work with the community on it.
I see where this is going now. Mayor Street's office gets a hold of a great idea that would cost the city very little to implement, but then turns it around to line the pockets of his inner circle. His brother Milton is already busy with a lucrative city contract so maybe it will be someone else in the mayor's family.
But don't take my word for it. Check for yourself.
...is that a lot of digital/HDTV cable customers will be able to use their digital cable box as a capture device, and plug into the MythTV back end host with firewire. This uses almost none of the host CPU as the cable box is spewing raw MPEG2 over firewire, and MythTV just needs to save it to disk.
That right there just tripled the number of channels I could record, and gave me HDTV capabilities as well as premium channels.
I'm one of the people scratching my head over why this was put in the Apple category where few people would see it. Most of the people running Myth are on PC/Linux platform.
Chives spring immediately to mind. They do need to be watered regularly, but provide abundantly with fresh seasoning for your lunches. They also reproduce vegetatively so one cluster of bulbs will spawn additional clusters so you can afford to give some away or grow more.
Mints do well, but need a larger pot, lots of water, and will take over a good part of your window. The upside is that they smell great if you do so much as rub against the leaves, and the leaves are great as an herbal infusion.
If you are lousy at watering your plants, aloe vera thrives on neglect. I wouldn't look to it for culinary uses but its healing properties are the stuff of legend (and, in my experience, it's a reputation that is largely deserved).
I live in a suburb of Philadelphia that offers both Comcast and RCN. I opted for RCN. I get 7Mbps down, 800Kbps up, a static IP, and I can run servers.
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As I mentioned in another recent Slashdot headline, Ed Yourdon is our modern day chicken little. He made a zillion dollars selling books and talking about how we were all going to die when Y2K hit. He was wrong on all counts. Now he's looking for his next paycheck. Don't buy into this quack.
Having lived in both Philadelphia and the greater Raleigh area, I can say that the smaller cities of the south just don't provide enough to do for someone used to a busy city lifestyle. The cultural diversions are few and far between. There is an art museum in Raleigh but it is so small you can breeze through it in a couple of hours. Up in Philadelphia, there are huge museums all over and lots of small ones, too, that can take weeks to explore by someone who is determined to see them all. Big cities have zoos, most smaller southern cities do not. No public aquariums for the most part. No theme parks for the most part. The night clubs are small and hokey.
On the upside, I think Raleigh has a much richer geek community than Philadelphia. And is a much nicer place to live if you are into outdoor activities.
The south has a hard enough time as it is attracting geeks. The east coast silicon valley, Research Triangle Park, is about the best thing going for geeks and yet many of the companies there complain that it is hard to lure talent in because so many geeks just don't want to live in the Old South.
Austin, Texas seems to be about as close as you can get to being a geek magnet in the south, and it isn't even really part of the Old South.
If North Carolina can't pull it off, Louisiana sure isn't.
Yourdon is one of those chiefly responsible for the Y2K pre-non-event panicking in the streets. Of course, he had some books out on the subject so it was in his financial interests to scare people.
Y2K came and went, Yourdon's predictions fell flat, and now he's trying to scare you out of your money to buy a book on something else that he doesn't really know about.
That he's getting any attention after Y2K is amazing to me.
That's a very American-centric joke. Considering this was done in the UK, not nearly as funny.
For those of you that can't RTFA, the torrents are here:
http://cvs.terraplex.com/~owen/ydl4_torrents/
Download early and often.
The reviewer was a whiny kid that tried comparing OS X to Linux, and then pitched a fit because he like Debian & Gentoo better than Red Hat but YDL runs like Red Hat. Boo hoo. The review didn't really say much worth reading.
So how come we don't see torrent search engines popping up in safer locations, like Havenco? The MPAA would literally have to hire mercenaries to take down the server, and there's a pretty good chance that Havenco has spent a little money on defending Sealand from attacks like this.
Have you been approached yet by the producers of Surreal World? Would you consider participating if you were approached?
When I go home, I breed and sell tropical fish for the pet industry. Price per fish is low, like a buck each, but considering each pair of parents has several hundred babies every ten days or so, having a few pairs around is good side money.
...a sheep with a human vagina.
"I hardly believe that you have any right to say what the rest of the world realises, or does not realise. About 46% of your nation are cluless to what the rest of the world realises."
Actually, those of you coming from socialist nations may not realize it, but I do have the right to do just that.
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances. - U.S. Constitution, Amendment I
It's a true blessing to be American by birth and by choice.
Personally, yes, I was against that from the start.
On the flip side, I have always been 100% in support of our operations in Afghanistan.
Of course it's ironic when you take it completely out of context. You missed the very next statement that I wrote after the bit you conveniently held up by itself.
I suppose you didn't read my whole post.
People outside of the US are of course free to express their opinions. Just as I am free to ignore them as irrelevant noise. That was my first point, and the one that you seem to have read.
The other point I had is that our international policies are not the viewpoints of all (dare I say most) Americans.
The USA was founded on different values than it operates under today. Many of us would love to see a return to the Jeffersonian philosophy of "Peace, commerce, and honest friendship with all nations -- entangling alliances with none."
What the rest of the world fails to realize is that the men running for this office do not need the approval of anyone but Americans with the right to vote. The rest of you are, like it or not, irrelevant.
A lot of us Americans are frankly weary of the outside world trying to influence our internal politics. And many of us are just as weary of our tax dollars being used to influence internal events of other countries.
Many of us would be pleased as punch to be out of the UN as it is clearly irrelevant and has an agenda that counters recognized civil liberties in the US.