Yeah sure, lets start sending massive amount of whois request via a shell script generating random senseless domain names!, wait, what about the TOS? have you ever used whois and had this one pop up?
"TERMS OF USE: You are not authorized to access or query our Whois database through the use of electronic processes that are high-volume and automated except as reasonably necessary to register domain names or modify existing registrations; the Data in VeriSign Global Registry Services' ("VeriSign") Whois database is provided by VeriSign for information purposes only, and to assist persons in obtaining information about or related to a domain name registration record. VeriSign does not guarantee its accuracy. By submitting a Whois query, you agree to abide by the following terms of use: You agree that you may use this Data only for lawful purposes and that under no circumstances will you use this Data to: (1) allow, enable, or otherwise support the transmission of mass unsolicited, commercial advertising or solicitations via e-mail, telephone, or facsimile; or (2) enable high volume, automated, electronic processes that apply to VeriSign (or its computer systems). The compilation, repackaging, dissemination or other use of this Data is expressly prohibited without the prior written consent of VeriSign. You agree not to use electronic processes that are automated and high-volume to access or query the Whois database except as reasonably necessary to register domain names or modify existing registrations. VeriSign reserves the right to restrict your access to the Whois database in its sole discretion to ensure operational stability. VeriSign may restrict or terminate your access to the Whois database for failure to abide by these terms of use. VeriSign reserves the right to modify these terms at any time."
Right "You are not authorized to access or query our Whois database through the use of electronic processes that are high-volume and automated", lets see how far can we stretch the high-volume and automated part of it.
Another silly patent from Amazon, if Peer to Patent where working when this thing got in I'm sure it would rain shit over it, as noted by parent there is tons of prior art. People from slashdot who don't like stupid software patents should join peer 2 patent, the amount of prior art and applications marked as invalid (prior art or obviousness) would increase drastically, there is always someone that know some obscure references or has the reference on hand already for this.
There are several advantages of Silverlight over Flash, the most notable being the "open" specification, we have the moonlight project as a prof of that.
With an open source implementation the only limits are software patents, with OSS implementation we can port it to any platform, making it available everywhere, even Windows, I'm quite sure that with time the moonlight implementation will be better on MacOSX than Microsoft's.
With a complete open source implementation we can extend it and make moonlight more attractive to web developers than plain silverlight.
Although we already have many crappy web sites that abuse Flash, flash based Ads, now imagine silverlight based ads! ah the joys of web browsing!
I think that another way to look at the problem of lack of documentation of open source projects is that they are "for fun" or itch scratching, writing documentation can be not so exciting, but today we have nice documentation generators from source, most projects (libraries) have API documentation, but most of them lack internal documentation.
Most of the time new developers don't know where to start, what file has a given code, what does what, why things are done this way. It would be nice if developers could also share some of their insight of the code in the documentation.
That would be good!, however I don't think it will be very successful, the problem is market share, they got it, remember the HTML5 canvas extension? Firefox, Opera, most of the big players except IE (there are plugins of course), however, how many sites have you seen using canvas? It is a really nice extension but not being supported out of the box in the major web browser (the default web browser) makes it a no no for many designers, same with silverlight, the extension is not supported on MS Silverlight? don't use it!, you'll probably loose compatibility with most of your audience.
However it may actually work, by MS implementing all the cool extensions of Moonlight.
I live in the frontier of USA and Mexico, I used to cross to USA and buy things from american stores, things like clothes, electronics, etc.
We need a special visa card in order to get to USA, your passport is not enough, after 9/11 things got just wrong, is more difficult to cross the border to shop, prices are getting higher, gasoline for example used to be cheaper on USA and many crossed the border just to load, now nobody really goes to USA unless is to buy electronics or random stuff from the "dollar" shops on the border which are property of chinese people selling chinese merchandise.
On the city from the USA side there is a Walmart, Keymart and many big stores, but there is really low population, Mexico side has a high population level (and high density) and now that we got many big stores of our own there is little or no reason to cross to USA to shop.
USA is shooting themselves on the foot with this crap, they will realize when the money from the War is over, they wont get a penny from me and many people that used to cross to USA just to do their shopping.
That depends, if you are using a powerpoint presentation in a conference that's one thing, but using it for a class is a whole other thing. In class you won't have a podium or even notes, but for this case I have found quite suited to just include few key words or phrases, nobody really reads the presentations, they read the books, use the presentation for graphics that will help you illustrate the class or topic and give you a few reminders of the topic.
There are a lot of things on Linux that may be apealling for any user.
a) Easy, show them Amarok, search some music from your collection, fetch some CDs covers, use music brainz to complete an MP3 tags, they'll be amazed and will want it, along with Linux.
b) Help them recover some "infected" documents from a flash memory with OpenOffice on Linux, I did that with a friend that needed to print some documents but the flash memory was infected with virus and won't open because AV alerts.
c) Show them Xgl-AIGLX with Beryl/Compiz, the wooow factor will get them.
d) Boot a LiveCD and show them how it works out of the box.
I'm typing this on Firefox 3 Alpha, the rendering engine feels faster, other than that, this realease looks exactly the same as Firefox 2, but is nice. I really doubt cairo is HW accelerated right now but maybe betas will do.
I find silly that companies use patents as excuses to no release documentation of their hardware to do drivers, I understand that some "IP" may be licensed from 3th party, but saying that releasing these documents will help the other companies is SILLY, got patents? use them, they protect your inventions soo other vendedors can't get hold of your new stuff without your permision.
They may even have an extra revenue stream by licensing their card designs or techniques.
RPG titles had awesome 2D graphics back in the SNES days, like FF3. How about Chrono Trigger?, this one even had a mini racing game that was 3D like (camera movements), graphics and gameplay blended very well on those games, I hope square-enix keeps producing quality titles.
Actually I assume that the parent refered to "Artificial" chemicals, created by man, not grow in the nature. A lot can be produced syntetically this days who know what we are really eating!
Well, as I see it Novell will work with hw companies that want to put Linux Drivers for their product, but the cool thing about this is that once working they could ship a wifi card or a printer with a CD that says "Novell SUSE Linux Support", you can open yast, add an "Add-On Product" and be done with it, what can be easier to install "supported" drivers?, not even windows is this easy (not always).
Yes, at the begining I'm sure we'll lots of binary only drivers, but I'm sure that with time some will open, I don't think that they'll want to keep up with the kABI updates for long, altough Novell will mantain their shiped kernel ABI for longer time.
I think this can be a good movement for Novell, to increse their acceptation as an OS provider and Linux in general, this may give them a better position to talk with hardware manufacturers to open up their drivers, I think Novell can take a polite aproach and be better heard after working with them in this way.
Not so obvious, but goubernamental does make sense on my native language (Spanish), my confusion.
I do care if the australian goverment is adopting OSS, I do care if Latin American countries are adoption OSS (Brazil, panama, peru, etc), because I care for my country, and that other countries are going OSS make factible the idea of using it in my country goverment.
Anyways, you are right, why do I care to even reply to the topic. Better go back idling.
Why whould you want your goverment to be limited and controled by closed software from other countries?, OpenSource software is not tied to one company or country, even if its Novell or RedHat selling the shrink wrapped package.
That is what matters, control over the software, Open Source gives you that, if Novell or RedHat goes out of bussines you still have the right to use and modify the software and there will be people to hire as consultants for it.
Using propietary software (Microsoft) in goubernamental institutions should be considered a thread to the national security (Note: i'm not from US) it gives control of our information and critical systems to organizations not controlled by the goverment.
Linux does run on old hardware pretty well, by Linux I mean base kernel and utils, even with X and a basic WM it will perform fantastic, my specs:
IBM Thinkpad 760XL * Pentium 133mhz * 72mb Ram * 2GB HD
It worked with new 2.6 kernel and xorg 6.8, not bad, trow in IceWM+ROX or XFCE and you have a pretty desktop, the problem was OpenOffice, it did run, very slow but it did, not comparable with office 2000 and win98 on the same machine, that combo was pretty fast for it:)
The article does make a point, Linux does bring some life to your old HW, but new apps aren't designed for old hardware anymore.
Ofcourse, I used LyX for documents, or abiword and gnumeric, and worked, but looking for something more integrated leaved me with KOffice which did perform fine.
Yes, there is a lot of good mp3 players out there, iPod is all about style, it is certainly one of the best designed mp3 player out there, but I still prefer my iRiver, Why?
Well, it plays mp3s as everyone else, but also plays ogg, which imho has better quality and smaller size and is free (both in price and patents) soo i can just pop a CD on my linux box rip all the tracks as ogg, add to my collection and play everything with xmms or amarok and upload my favorite tracks to my iRiver to go.
Priceless, not counting it's ability to record voice (handy for interviews) and FM radio playing, which is really good (there is a couple of good rock stations over here).
Isn't Education free of religions on USA?, well in my country it is by law, it's only natural that ID teached on the class room whould be inconstitutional unless as part of a theology class.
If compiling, don't forget to install gtk-devel package (Gtk1 not Gtk2), and configure with the following options:./configure --prefix=/usr --enable-gui --with-codecsdir=/usr/lib/win32
The download the All codecs package from MPlayer page, uncompress and copy them to/usr/lib/win32
Download the default skin from MPlayer page and uncompress it on/usr/share/mplayer/Skin
Run gmplayer and you have mplayer with GUI which will play practically anything. You can also download kplayer which is a KDE based GUI on top of MPlayer:
Well, most distros are just the Linux kernel, the GNU utils and a lot of other programs which are not integrated because they are separated projects, thats fine.
Thats why integration is not so easy as it seems, but there is already Desktop Enviroments like KDE and GNOME which take all those apps and integrate them with their frameworks.
About configuration files, all GNOME apps use GConf for configuration, and KDE Apps has something similar, the only problem is console apps (apache, X, proftp, etc). There is really a ton of configuration management APIs out there that use everything from XML files to SQL DBs, but then we get caugh on the same problem as with Graphics Toolkits.
As for device framework there is already udev + hal + dbus, but for now is a bit inmature and dbus API is not stable, so we are half away still.
And for the toolkits, not all of them are tied to X:) Gtk works on Framebuffer or DFB:)
Overall i think you should just stick with one framework and you'll be mostly fine (and have installed everything else as well;))
If TCPA is supported on kernel and we can use access it like any other device, then it is a really good inclusion to the kernel, now we can brute force keys faster by having on hardware encryption/decryption plus the CPU working on parallel, this will surely come handy.... muhahahahaha
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Yeah sure, lets start sending massive amount of whois request via a shell script generating random senseless domain names!, wait, what about the TOS? have you ever used whois and had this one pop up?
"TERMS OF USE: You are not authorized to access or query our Whois
database through the use of electronic processes that are high-volume and
automated except as reasonably necessary to register domain names or
modify existing registrations; the Data in VeriSign Global Registry
Services' ("VeriSign") Whois database is provided by VeriSign for
information purposes only, and to assist persons in obtaining information
about or related to a domain name registration record. VeriSign does not
guarantee its accuracy. By submitting a Whois query, you agree to abide
by the following terms of use: You agree that you may use this Data only
for lawful purposes and that under no circumstances will you use this Data
to: (1) allow, enable, or otherwise support the transmission of mass
unsolicited, commercial advertising or solicitations via e-mail, telephone,
or facsimile; or (2) enable high volume, automated, electronic processes
that apply to VeriSign (or its computer systems). The compilation,
repackaging, dissemination or other use of this Data is expressly
prohibited without the prior written consent of VeriSign. You agree not to
use electronic processes that are automated and high-volume to access or
query the Whois database except as reasonably necessary to register
domain names or modify existing registrations. VeriSign reserves the right
to restrict your access to the Whois database in its sole discretion to ensure
operational stability. VeriSign may restrict or terminate your access to the
Whois database for failure to abide by these terms of use. VeriSign
reserves the right to modify these terms at any time."
Right "You are not authorized to access or query our Whois database through the use of electronic processes that are high-volume and automated", lets see how far can we stretch the high-volume and automated part of it.
I remember when I got my first TFT panel, it was a 14" Viewsonic, it was beautiful and a bit expensive, 400 a pop.
A few days ago I bought a replacement, a 20" Samsung, awesome, for less than 250 bucks.
Another silly patent from Amazon, if Peer to Patent where working when this thing got in I'm sure it would rain shit over it, as noted by parent there is tons of prior art. People from slashdot who don't like stupid software patents should join peer 2 patent, the amount of prior art and applications marked as invalid (prior art or obviousness) would increase drastically, there is always someone that know some obscure references or has the reference on hand already for this.
Join in!
www.peertopatent.org
There are several advantages of Silverlight over Flash, the most notable being the "open" specification, we have the moonlight project as a prof of that.
With an open source implementation the only limits are software patents, with OSS implementation we can port it to any platform, making it available everywhere, even Windows, I'm quite sure that with time the moonlight implementation will be better on MacOSX than Microsoft's.
With a complete open source implementation we can extend it and make moonlight more attractive to web developers than plain silverlight.
Although we already have many crappy web sites that abuse Flash, flash based Ads, now imagine silverlight based ads! ah the joys of web browsing!
I think that another way to look at the problem of lack of documentation of open source projects is that they are "for fun" or itch scratching, writing documentation can be not so exciting, but today we have nice documentation generators from source, most projects (libraries) have API documentation, but most of them lack internal documentation.
Most of the time new developers don't know where to start, what file has a given code, what does what, why things are done this way. It would be nice if developers could also share some of their insight of the code in the documentation.
That would be good!, however I don't think it will be very successful, the problem is market share, they got it, remember the HTML5 canvas extension? Firefox, Opera, most of the big players except IE (there are plugins of course), however, how many sites have you seen using canvas? It is a really nice extension but not being supported out of the box in the major web browser (the default web browser) makes it a no no for many designers, same with silverlight, the extension is not supported on MS Silverlight? don't use it!, you'll probably loose compatibility with most of your audience.
However it may actually work, by MS implementing all the cool extensions of Moonlight.
I live in the frontier of USA and Mexico, I used to cross to USA and buy things from american stores, things like clothes, electronics, etc.
We need a special visa card in order to get to USA, your passport is not enough, after 9/11 things got just wrong, is more difficult to cross the border to shop, prices are getting higher, gasoline for example used to be cheaper on USA and many crossed the border just to load, now nobody really goes to USA unless is to buy electronics or random stuff from the "dollar" shops on the border which are property of chinese people selling chinese merchandise.
On the city from the USA side there is a Walmart, Keymart and many big stores, but there is really low population, Mexico side has a high population level (and high density) and now that we got many big stores of our own there is little or no reason to cross to USA to shop.
USA is shooting themselves on the foot with this crap, they will realize when the money from the War is over, they wont get a penny from me and many people that used to cross to USA just to do their shopping.
That depends, if you are using a powerpoint presentation in a conference that's one thing, but using it for a class is a whole other thing. In class you won't have a podium or even notes, but for this case I have found quite suited to just include few key words or phrases, nobody really reads the presentations, they read the books, use the presentation for graphics that will help you illustrate the class or topic and give you a few reminders of the topic.
Triple linked list? how about binary trees?, one pointer for left node, one for right node and one for parent, sounds similar?, well SUE ME:
http://odkit.sourceforge.net/
I have similar stuff on my project, including doubly linked list, there, be happy.
There are a lot of things on Linux that may be apealling for any user.
a) Easy, show them Amarok, search some music from your collection, fetch some CDs covers, use music brainz to complete an MP3 tags, they'll be amazed and will want it, along with Linux.
b) Help them recover some "infected" documents from a flash memory with OpenOffice on Linux, I did that with a friend that needed to print some documents but the flash memory was infected with virus and won't open because AV alerts.
c) Show them Xgl-AIGLX with Beryl/Compiz, the wooow factor will get them.
d) Boot a LiveCD and show them how it works out of the box.
e) etc, etc, etc.
f) Profit!
I'm typing this on Firefox 3 Alpha, the rendering engine feels faster, other than that, this realease looks exactly the same as Firefox 2, but is nice. I really doubt cairo is HW accelerated right now but maybe betas will do.
I find silly that companies use patents as excuses to no release documentation of their hardware to do drivers, I understand that some "IP" may be licensed from 3th party, but saying that releasing these documents will help the other companies is SILLY, got patents? use them, they protect your inventions soo other vendedors can't get hold of your new stuff without your permision.
They may even have an extra revenue stream by licensing their card designs or techniques.
Yes, they donate another millon on software to some schools or poor countries, strengthening further the M$ empire...
Wait, aren't they supposed to lose?
RPG titles had awesome 2D graphics back in the SNES days, like FF3. How about Chrono Trigger?, this one even had a mini racing game that was 3D like (camera movements), graphics and gameplay blended very well on those games, I hope square-enix keeps producing quality titles.
Actually I assume that the parent refered to "Artificial" chemicals, created by man, not grow in the nature. A lot can be produced syntetically this days who know what we are really eating!
Just a tough...
Well, as I see it Novell will work with hw companies that want to put Linux Drivers for their product, but the cool thing about this is that once working they could ship a wifi card or a printer with a CD that says "Novell SUSE Linux Support", you can open yast, add an "Add-On Product" and be done with it, what can be easier to install "supported" drivers?, not even windows is this easy (not always).
Yes, at the begining I'm sure we'll lots of binary only drivers, but I'm sure that with time some will open, I don't think that they'll want to keep up with the kABI updates for long, altough Novell will mantain their shiped kernel ABI for longer time.
I think this can be a good movement for Novell, to increse their acceptation as an OS provider and Linux in general, this may give them a better position to talk with hardware manufacturers to open up their drivers, I think Novell can take a polite aproach and be better heard after working with them in this way.
This can have positive effects too!
Yast is notably faster now, at least the main window loads faster. The new package manager works faster too.
Not so obvious, but goubernamental does make sense on my native language (Spanish), my confusion.
I do care if the australian goverment is adopting OSS, I do care if Latin American countries are adoption OSS (Brazil, panama, peru, etc), because I care for my country, and that other countries are going OSS make factible the idea of using it in my country goverment.
Anyways, you are right, why do I care to even reply to the topic. Better go back idling.
Why whould you want your goverment to be limited and controled by closed software from other countries?, OpenSource software is not tied to one company or country, even if its Novell or RedHat selling the shrink wrapped package.
That is what matters, control over the software, Open Source gives you that, if Novell or RedHat goes out of bussines you still have the right to use and modify the software and there will be people to hire as consultants for it.
Using propietary software (Microsoft) in goubernamental institutions should be considered a thread to the national security (Note: i'm not from US) it gives control of our information and critical systems to organizations not controlled by the goverment.
Linux does run on old hardware pretty well, by Linux I mean base kernel and utils, even with X and a basic WM it will perform fantastic, my specs:
:)
IBM Thinkpad 760XL
* Pentium 133mhz
* 72mb Ram
* 2GB HD
It worked with new 2.6 kernel and xorg 6.8, not bad, trow in IceWM+ROX or XFCE and you have a pretty desktop, the problem was OpenOffice, it did run, very slow but it did, not comparable with office 2000 and win98 on the same machine, that combo was pretty fast for it
The article does make a point, Linux does bring some life to your old HW, but new apps aren't designed for old hardware anymore.
Ofcourse, I used LyX for documents, or abiword and gnumeric, and worked, but looking for something more integrated leaved me with KOffice which did perform fine.
Yes, there is a lot of good mp3 players out there, iPod is all about style, it is certainly one of the best designed mp3 player out there, but I still prefer my iRiver, Why?
Well, it plays mp3s as everyone else, but also plays ogg, which imho has better quality and smaller size and is free (both in price and patents) soo i can just pop a CD on my linux box rip all the tracks as ogg, add to my collection and play everything with xmms or amarok and upload my favorite tracks to my iRiver to go.
Priceless, not counting it's ability to record voice (handy for interviews) and FM radio playing, which is really good (there is a couple of good rock stations over here).
Isn't Education free of religions on USA?, well in my country it is by law, it's only natural that ID teached on the class room whould be inconstitutional unless as part of a theology class.
Well, i'm running SUSE 9.3 Pro (Retail), and MPlayer plays anything you can trow at it.
./configure --prefix=/usr --enable-gui --with-codecsdir=/usr/lib/win32
/usr/lib/win32
/usr/share/mplayer/Skin
Compile MPlayer yourself if you want to get best results, if you don't want or care to compile download the following packages from:
http://packman.links2linux.de/?action=index
MPlayer
w32codecs
Lame
lzo
If compiling, don't forget to install gtk-devel package (Gtk1 not Gtk2), and configure with the following options:
The download the All codecs package from MPlayer page, uncompress and copy them to
Download the default skin from MPlayer page and uncompress it on
Run gmplayer and you have mplayer with GUI which will play practically anything. You can also download kplayer which is a KDE based GUI on top of MPlayer:
http://kplayer.sourceforge.net/
There, more than enough to get you going. One more thing, use the alsa plugin for sound.
Well, most distros are just the Linux kernel, the GNU utils and a lot of other programs which are not integrated because they are separated projects, thats fine.
:) Gtk works on Framebuffer or DFB :)
;))
Thats why integration is not so easy as it seems, but there is already Desktop Enviroments like KDE and GNOME which take all those apps and integrate them with their frameworks.
About configuration files, all GNOME apps use GConf for configuration, and KDE Apps has something similar, the only problem is console apps (apache, X, proftp, etc). There is really a ton of configuration management APIs out there that use everything from XML files to SQL DBs, but then we get caugh on the same problem as with Graphics Toolkits.
As for device framework there is already udev + hal + dbus, but for now is a bit inmature and dbus API is not stable, so we are half away still.
And for the toolkits, not all of them are tied to X
Overall i think you should just stick with one framework and you'll be mostly fine (and have installed everything else as well
If TCPA is supported on kernel and we can use access it like any other device, then it is a really good inclusion to the kernel, now we can brute force keys faster by having on hardware encryption/decryption plus the CPU working on parallel, this will surely come handy.... muhahahahaha