According to http://developer.apple.com/java/faq/ Java 1.5 is available to download for Tiger, albeit as a "Developer Preview" - still it's there, and will be coming soon for full release
> 5. Speed. X os slow. It will always be slow. On
> a 1.3 Ghz proc it is slow. If you think it is
> fast maybe you haven't used Windows in a while.
> I encourage you to go buy a copy of Windows 2000
> and see for yourself what a computer can do.
X is faster then MS's gui for me... What in the hell else are you running that is taking up CPU? Are you comparing E and Windows? That's an unbalanced comparison because E was designed for looks, not speed. If you want speed in an interface, try one of the ultra lightweight WMs that are geared for performance instead of prettiness. I don't need transparancy to be able to move a window, just something to grab and move. For an equivalant comparison, try running TWM and then compare your speed.
Second, where in the hell do you get the idea that Windows 2000 is faster than a UNIX for anything? Take a look at the top 500 supercomputer list. 499 of the 500 use a UNIX like OS, and the one NT entry is a hack done by NCSA at UIUC, not even something that MS themselves could do. Think again. If all you've compared is Win2k to the likes of RedHat, then you've got another thing coming. Try using a commercial UNIX, like AIX or HP/UX and compare again.
Thirdly, since when did ease of use and speed/performance coincide? A formula car is fast, but is hella hard to drive compared to say a VW Beetle which is all style and ergonomics, but could never keep up with that formula car.
Better look again, I don't think that body is as dead as you thought...
Yes, but can I embed my GPG key in my sleeve?
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Seriously, the possibilities for electronics embedded clothing are pretty endless. Imagine:
- Cell phones embedded in tennis shoes
- Jacket-Fax
- a virtual 80" screen from your ball cap
- personal certificates in your undies ( who would want to steal an old pair of underwear?)
Just don't forget any of it anywhere, or you'll be screwed:)
Yep - the same functionality as Windows, except without the support,...
- IBM, SGI, Red Hat, SuSE, etc. provide commercial support. ... without the depth of applications available,...
- You mean breadth. I can replace all the functionality I need in Windows with *nix software, [Ff]ree or not ...without the polish,...
- UI polish? try Helix Gnome - very shiny indeed. traditionally difficult tasks such as printing are abstracted can be abstracted to easy point-and-click interfaces, and most already have been. ...without the ease...
- My hates-using-a-computer-and-would-rather-cheerlead sister uses StarOffice on one of my Linux boxes, and has no problems doing so, either. ...etc. etc. etc.
-Keep em coming:)
Note that these benchmarks are on XFree86 3.3.x that ships w/ RH 6.2 - XFree86 4.0 should change the playing field quite a bit. It's nice that these guys benchmarked with a "standard" configuration, but IIRC, RH 6.2 is compiled and optimized for a i386, not the i686 class processor that they benchmarked on. With the boost that the G400 gets from CPU, an optimized set of binaries should improve the performance on this card quite a bit.
This just goes to prove that the software they are releasing uses good, strong algorithms that don't rely on hiding the source for their effectiveness.
I agree that bad themes/chrome abound - I look at the chrome that mozilla developers have decided to use, and want to start changing it, but stop, as it looks like Netscape is set on using the mozilla default. Oh well. Thank God for lynx.
With the onslaught of new users working solely as root, many of these virus threats could become an issue, at least for those users. The more experienced user understands that root is reserved for administrative tasks, and should not be used for menial, day to day tasks. The newbie doesn't understand this, and thus is vulnerable. Moreover, A crafty virus coder could have the virus exploit a root hole in something like the recent PAM exploits and then wreck havoc as desired...
I did - I was responding to the first paragraph of the article:
REDMOND, Wash., Feb. 28, 2000 -- Three years ago, Bill Bolosky and two Microsoft colleagues were brainstorming technology advances when an idea occurred to them -- why not save operating system disk space by storing duplicate files as links that point to a single file housed in a central location?
That was in 1997, and I know I've been using symlinks since before then. It's *got* to be a joke, because these guys weren't innovating, they were copying, but the article makes them look like geniuses.
Actually, some of the stuff available from Black Box has a standard, albeit uncommon connector. I've seen adapters produced for the express purpose of adapting their small connector to a larger connector to allow connection to standard antennae.
Actually, As I mentioned in my posting above, I have worked with 802.11b stuff. I don't know if Wavelan has always been DSSS or if it started out as FHSS, like some Motorola chipset stuff, but it's always been 2.4 GHz and thus easily amplified with common antennae. As far as the FCC is concerned, these devices are of such low wattage that they don't even care. And as far as distance is concerned, I've gotten 15 miles out of a similar device with a 23 dBi antenna at around 7 degrees of coverage. Fairly impressive, IMHO
I've worked with some 802.11, and it's interesting how much fun you can have with a low wattage, high frequency device. If you can find a way to hack the antenna on the device so that you can connect a higher gain antenna, you can get much greater distance out of the device, albeit much more directionally biased. I'd be interested to see if these cards can handle something like a 13-23dBi antenna, cause you could get some *mad* distances with that, something on the order of a few miles. I've seen it done with the more expensive units - I'd buy these cards if they could do the same.
The one thing about Handspring that keeps me happy with my Visor Deluxe is the fact that InfoGear is coming out with an MP3 player Springboard Module. Yes, color is nice, but for things that need color to display properly, 160x160 just doesn't cut it. I'll use my 1600x1200x32bpp display on my PC for stuff like that. Just doesn't compare. Now audio, if that Springboard module can play 160kbps 44.1kHz MP3s at a respectable signal-to-noise ratio, I'll be snug as a bug in a rug, baby, yeah!
Cool! Now we can start seeing boxed Linux distros sitting next to Mac OS 9 in stores! I'm psyched! I've been tinkering with LinuxPPC for about a year and I like what they're doing. Keep up the good work!
well, I'm checking what this thing does on a VMWare virtual machine. Curiously, it seems to just sit there. I'm stracing it, and it's hanging on a read. Course, i'm not running it as root on the VM, either. Wonder if it's trying to bind itself to a port or something. Nevertheless, I see no odd network traffic, nor do I see any other activity, other than large consumption of memory, kinda like a certain office application suite on a certain platform.
I like the fact that Linus made his stand on the issue on the DeCSS case. Way to be outspoken, Linus, although we all knew where you stood.
<OffTopic> What's most interesting is that, in the DVD case, the prosecution submitted the *source code* as evidence, thus making it publicly accessible, above and beyond what has already been done with respect to the DeCSS source distribution. They've shot themselves in their own foot. Even if they win, the source will always be available, since it's now cataloged as evidence.</OffTopic>
Here's a copy of what I sent to the 2600 guys. What do you guys think? Is my logic correct? ---begin quote--- - From the injunction:
3. Certain terms use in this order are defined as follows:
(a) "DVD" means digital versatile disc.
(b) "CSS" means the Contents Scramble System used to encrypt,
scramble or otherwise protect the contents of certain DVDs from being
copied.
(c) "DeCSS" means any computer program, file or device that may be
used to decrypt or unscramble the contents of DVDs that are protected, or
otherwise to circumvent the protection afforded, by CSS and that permits the
copying of the contents or any portion thereof.
Under the above restraining order, *any* product that can decrypt CSS and play back its contents is so termed "DeCSS" which means that all hardware DVD players are "DeCSS" and thus must not be distributed. Likewise, under this injunction, it seems that Xing, Creative, et. al. cannot distribute their software DVD players.
For example, my Philips set top DVD player:
1. is a device 2. decrypts CSS encoded DVDs 3. plays them back over a unencrypted output ( the video/audio connections ), thus allowing me to copy them to any device that accepts video input e.g. my RCA VCR, my computer via my Pinnacle DC30 capture card, et. al.
and thus , being that it fits the description in 3.(c), is "DeCSS"
Hmmm. Interesting, eh? Contact Circuit City and tell them to cease and desist selling all DVD players that putput an unencrypted video feed, otherwise they are violating the restraining order. You might want to forward this insight on to whoever at the EFF is doing their defense. This is way too wide and could be overturned quite easily on the basis that this document includes the licensees of the CSS decryption method present in DVD players and software.
*Disclaimer*: I am not a lawyer. I never will be. I just thought through this logically, and saw a large hole.
What kind of mechanism is going to be there to prevent someone from swaying the election through some clever brute-force guessing of the relevant information from which the verification of uniqueness and identity is keyed? Are they going to restrict it to one vote per IP? That'll shut down nearly all voting behind a firewall or other masqueraded connection. Are they going to assign some kind of one time key to use along with their SSN or something? I don't think that these guys have or are willing to get the technological mojo to pull this thing off 100%, but then again, I still feel slightly unsafe at the nominal 128 bit encryption that current browsers offer.
I don't know about you guys, but I'm glad to see any kind of advancement toward better long-range prediction of the weather. I'm tired of the weatherpeople being wrong about the third and fourth days of the forecast. It was going to be a sunny 53 degrees F today, according to Sunday's forecast, but according to the news this morning, it's going to stay below freezing all day, and it's supposed to sleet this evening.
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And who thought that this was a *good* idea? Coffee tables are for holding *LIQUID BEVERAGES*, and PC + liquid = spectacular failure
According to http://developer.apple.com/java/faq/ Java 1.5 is available to download for Tiger, albeit as a "Developer Preview" - still it's there, and will be coming soon for full release
In what twisted bassackward world does *any* of the uses for a broadcast flag serve the public interest?
the page is broken... link verification would be a good thing
> 5. Speed. X os slow. It will always be slow. On
> a 1.3 Ghz proc it is slow. If you think it is
> fast maybe you haven't used Windows in a while.
> I encourage you to go buy a copy of Windows 2000
> and see for yourself what a computer can do.
X is faster then MS's gui for me... What in the hell else are you running that is taking up CPU? Are you comparing E and Windows? That's an unbalanced comparison because E was designed for looks, not speed. If you want speed in an interface, try one of the ultra lightweight WMs that are geared for performance instead of prettiness. I don't need transparancy to be able to move a window, just something to grab and move. For an equivalant comparison, try running TWM and then compare your speed.
Second, where in the hell do you get the idea that Windows 2000 is faster than a UNIX for anything? Take a look at the top 500 supercomputer list. 499 of the 500 use a UNIX like OS, and the one NT entry is a hack done by NCSA at UIUC, not even something that MS themselves could do. Think again. If all you've compared is Win2k to the likes of RedHat, then you've got another thing coming. Try using a commercial UNIX, like AIX or HP/UX and compare again.
Thirdly, since when did ease of use and speed/performance coincide? A formula car is fast, but is hella hard to drive compared to say a VW Beetle which is all style and ergonomics, but could never keep up with that formula car.
Better look again, I don't think that body is as dead as you thought...
Seriously, the possibilities for electronics embedded clothing are pretty endless. Imagine:
:)
- Cell phones embedded in tennis shoes
- Jacket-Fax
- a virtual 80" screen from your ball cap
- personal certificates in your undies ( who would want to steal an old pair of underwear?)
Just don't forget any of it anywhere, or you'll be screwed
Yep - the same functionality as Windows, except without the support,...
... without the depth of applications available,...
...without the polish,...
...without the ease...
...etc. etc. etc. :)
- IBM, SGI, Red Hat, SuSE, etc. provide commercial support.
- You mean breadth. I can replace all the functionality I need in Windows with *nix software, [Ff]ree or not
- UI polish? try Helix Gnome - very shiny indeed. traditionally difficult tasks such as printing are abstracted can be abstracted to easy point-and-click interfaces, and most already have been.
- My hates-using-a-computer-and-would-rather-cheerlead sister uses StarOffice on one of my Linux boxes, and has no problems doing so, either.
-Keep em coming
Remember, FreeBSD at least has "linux emulation", so this *should* run fine on FreeBSD at least...
It's more than the kernel that needs to be optimized. X, Utah-GLX, and Mesa need to be optimized as well, not to mention the C libraries and...
You get the point...
Note that these benchmarks are on XFree86 3.3.x that ships w/ RH 6.2 - XFree86 4.0 should change the playing field quite a bit. It's nice that these guys benchmarked with a "standard" configuration, but IIRC, RH 6.2 is compiled and optimized for a i386, not the i686 class processor that they benchmarked on. With the boost that the G400 gets from CPU, an optimized set of binaries should improve the performance on this card quite a bit.
This just goes to prove that the software they are releasing uses good, strong algorithms that don't rely on hiding the source for their effectiveness.
I agree that bad themes/chrome abound - I look at the chrome that mozilla developers have decided to use, and want to start changing it, but stop, as it looks like Netscape is set on using the mozilla default. Oh well. Thank God for lynx.
With the onslaught of new users working solely as root, many of these virus threats could become an issue, at least for those users. The more experienced user understands that root is reserved for administrative tasks, and should not be used for menial, day to day tasks. The newbie doesn't understand this, and thus is vulnerable. Moreover, A crafty virus coder could have the virus exploit a root hole in something like the recent PAM exploits and then wreck havoc as desired...
I did - I was responding to the first paragraph of the article:
REDMOND, Wash., Feb. 28, 2000 -- Three years ago, Bill Bolosky and two Microsoft colleagues were brainstorming technology advances when an idea occurred to them -- why not save operating system disk space by storing duplicate files as links that point to a single file housed in a central location?
That was in 1997, and I know I've been using symlinks since before then. It's *got* to be a joke, because these guys weren't innovating, they were copying, but the article makes them look like geniuses.
IS it April 1st yet?
Actually, some of the stuff available from Black Box has a standard, albeit uncommon connector. I've seen adapters produced for the express purpose of adapting their small connector to a larger connector to allow connection to standard antennae.
Actually, As I mentioned in my posting above, I have worked with 802.11b stuff. I don't know if Wavelan has always been DSSS or if it started out as FHSS, like some Motorola chipset stuff, but it's always been 2.4 GHz and thus easily amplified with common antennae. As far as the FCC is concerned, these devices are of such low wattage that they don't even care. And as far as distance is concerned, I've gotten 15 miles out of a similar device with a 23 dBi antenna at around 7 degrees of coverage. Fairly impressive, IMHO
I've worked with some 802.11, and it's interesting how much fun you can have with a low wattage, high frequency device. If you can find a way to hack the antenna on the device so that you can connect a higher gain antenna, you can get much greater distance out of the device, albeit much more directionally biased. I'd be interested to see if these cards can handle something like a 13-23dBi antenna, cause you could get some *mad* distances with that, something on the order of a few miles. I've seen it done with the more expensive units - I'd buy these cards if they could do the same.
The one thing about Handspring that keeps me happy with my Visor Deluxe is the fact that InfoGear is coming out with an MP3 player Springboard Module. Yes, color is nice, but for things that need color to display properly, 160x160 just doesn't cut it. I'll use my 1600x1200x32bpp display on my PC for stuff like that. Just doesn't compare. Now audio, if that Springboard module can play 160kbps 44.1kHz MP3s at a respectable signal-to-noise ratio, I'll be snug as a bug in a rug, baby, yeah!
Cool! Now we can start seeing boxed Linux distros sitting next to Mac OS 9 in stores! I'm psyched! I've been tinkering with LinuxPPC for about a year and I like what they're doing. Keep up the good work!
well, I'm checking what this thing does on a VMWare virtual machine. Curiously, it seems to just sit there. I'm stracing it, and it's hanging on a read. Course, i'm not running it as root on the VM, either. Wonder if it's trying to bind itself to a port or something. Nevertheless, I see no odd network traffic, nor do I see any other activity, other than large consumption of memory, kinda like a certain office application suite on a certain platform.
I like the fact that Linus made his stand on the issue on the DeCSS case. Way to be outspoken, Linus, although we all knew where you stood.
<OffTopic> What's most interesting is that, in the DVD case, the prosecution submitted the *source code* as evidence, thus making it publicly accessible, above and beyond what has already been done with respect to the DeCSS source distribution. They've shot themselves in their own foot. Even if they win, the source will always be available, since it's now cataloged as evidence.</OffTopic>
Here's a copy of what I sent to the 2600 guys. What do you guys think? Is my logic correct?
---begin quote---
- From the injunction:
3. Certain terms use in this order are defined as follows:
(a) "DVD" means digital versatile disc.
(b) "CSS" means the Contents Scramble System used to encrypt,
scramble or otherwise protect the contents of certain DVDs from being
copied.
(c) "DeCSS" means any computer program, file or device that may be
used to decrypt or unscramble the contents of DVDs that are protected, or
otherwise to circumvent the protection afforded, by CSS and that permits the
copying of the contents or any portion thereof.
Under the above restraining order, *any* product that can decrypt CSS
and play back its contents is so termed "DeCSS" which means that all
hardware DVD players are "DeCSS" and thus must not be distributed.
Likewise, under this injunction, it seems that Xing, Creative, et.
al. cannot distribute their software DVD players.
For example, my Philips set top DVD player:
1. is a device
2. decrypts CSS encoded DVDs
3. plays them back over a unencrypted output ( the video/audio
connections ), thus allowing me to copy them to any device that
accepts video input e.g. my RCA VCR, my computer via my Pinnacle DC30
capture card, et. al.
and thus , being that it fits the description in 3.(c), is "DeCSS"
Hmmm. Interesting, eh? Contact Circuit City and tell them to cease
and desist selling all DVD players that putput an unencrypted video
feed, otherwise they are violating the restraining order. You might
want to forward this insight on to whoever at the EFF is doing their
defense. This is way too wide and could be overturned quite easily on
the basis that this document includes the licensees of the CSS
decryption method present in DVD players and software.
*Disclaimer*: I am not a lawyer. I never will be. I just thought
through this logically, and saw a large hole.
See Ya
----end quote----
What kind of mechanism is going to be there to prevent someone from swaying the election through some clever brute-force guessing of the relevant information from which the verification of uniqueness and identity is keyed? Are they going to restrict it to one vote per IP? That'll shut down nearly all voting behind a firewall or other masqueraded connection. Are they going to assign some kind of one time key to use along with their SSN or something? I don't think that these guys have or are willing to get the technological mojo to pull this thing off 100%, but then again, I still feel slightly unsafe at the nominal 128 bit encryption that current browsers offer.
XenoWolf
I don't know about you guys, but I'm glad to see any kind of advancement toward better long-range prediction of the weather. I'm tired of the weatherpeople being wrong about the third and fourth days of the forecast. It was going to be a sunny 53 degrees F today, according to Sunday's forecast, but according to the news this morning, it's going to stay below freezing all day, and it's supposed to sleet this evening.
XenoWolf