Maybe I just finally got that hardware monkey off my back, but I haven't had the urge to go buy upgrades for quite a while. 17" monitor, 128M ram, 2x450Mhz Celerons, AGP TNT, and about 15 gigs of disk space. That's pretty old hardware, by today's standards, but I don't really feel like it's slowing me down (except when I recompile glibc.... yeesh...)
Some of it is that I'm not playing games so much anymore (I really think games drive cutting edge PC hardware in the consumer space...) but I just haven't seen the need to upgrade.
Has hardware temporarily outpaced applications? 1.3Ghz processors, 60MB hard drives, video cards with outrigger power supplies... maybe I'm out of touch. Who needs it right now, in Q4 2000?
It's a very small market and there really won't be enough developers interested.
Well, that's why I'd like to see some gov't funding for it. You aren't going to attract the Rastermans (Rastermen?) of the world to work on it - but it would be in the govt's best interest to pay people to develop it, and retain the rights to the source code...
I don't understand - why didn't you release it? Because you thought nobody was interested? Try releasing it, advertise it on Freshmeat, let the SEUL/edu people know (www.seul.org) and see what you get...
Just because 3 high schools in your area didn't immediately get excited doesn't mean that nobody would be interested...
Well, I know they do exist. My wife used one, and it was ok. But it had a proprietary format, and no export capability, and no way to integrate with the district-wide system. So, she'd keep her grades on it, and at the end of the semester, manually copy grades from it, to the district's system... and then to 3 floppies, and 2 printouts.:) An integrated, open, free system would be a huge advantage, IMHO.
I've posted this before, but I've always thought that public schools could benefit greatly from this sort of thing.
Develop a standard school administration file format (XML...) and some free applications that can run on top of it, for teacher's gradebooks, district records, management, & reporting, etc. Make it open source... heck, get [insert government entity] to pay for it's development.
Think of how much the school systems could save, if each district didn't have to pay millions for crappy on-off, outdated applications from houghton-mifflin or macmillan or whatever...
My wife used to teach highschool here in Texas. The systems they had for teacher's gradbooks (required, mind you) were horrendous. DOS-based, for starters, always breaking down ("submit 2 floppies, and 3 printouts, just in case"). A huge waste of time and money...
I'd love to see open source make headway in this area. I'd love to see some gov't money going to fund it...
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They don't even have to be fair, I don't think...
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MAPS' decision-making process is laid out on their website, AFAIK. Anyone who uses it knows exactly what it takes to get on their list. So, I don't think that the fairness of their assertions should even be called into question. I mean, they could put rule #37 at the bottom: "All sites with system admins named Tony shall also be blocked."
Now, that would suck, but they're not forcing it on anybody, and it's up to their subscribers to read up on their methods, and decide whether they want to subscribe. If MAPS just says "these are our criteria:" and sticks to it, they should be in the clear, regardless of the criteria...
Now, if they deviate from those criteria, and go off on a personal vendetta, that could be cause for concern, and possibly legal action.
I'm disappointed by the Bush campaign's attacks against Al Gore regarding
his statements about the internet. You would do well to read a
couple of articles:
Basically, Gore never did say "I invented the Internet," and two
of the men who DID invent it (Robert Kahn and Vinton Cerf )
have said:
"there is no question in our minds that while serving as Senator, Gore's initiatives had a
significant and beneficial effect on the still-evolving Internet. The fact of the matter is that Gore
was talking about and promoting the Internet long before most people were listening."
If you want to tackle Gore on the issues, great. But get your facts straight,
stop promoting misconceptions, and fight an honest fight....
Thanks,
-Eric
I have no doubt that this will turn the tide in the election.:)
But think of Columbine - these kids got a freakin' arsenal from some joe-average schmuck who was willing to go buy them. If there was just a _bit_ more accountability when you buy a gun (I don't think Gore's license idea is that bad... you do it for your car, which is probably on the same level of lethal potential...) then perhaps you wouldn't go buy glocks and give them to 14 year olds. And I kind of doubt that said 14 year old, if he can't get it from his babysitter, is really going to go to the underbelly of new york or wherever to buy it from mobsters...
I agree that making schools better is a great step... but I don't discount the notion of better regulation in an effort to get cheap, untraceable guns off the street. No, you can't get all of them. But you can make a difference.
And Bush's idea that you need to enforce the laws better ("We've added more beds to our juvenile prison system") doesn't help in a case like Columbine. Once they get the guns, it's all over. The judicial system has nothing to do with it...
I know the ISOs are the same, but I was wondering if the redhat network update thingy required a password to connect to the server, available only to paying customers...?
I don't know how the update agent works, but does it do anything if you dont' have an "official" cd from Red Hat? i.e. if you just got an ISO, is the update manager able to do anything, or does it need a password, etc?
So why is spam any different? It isn't is the answer. In fact, spam is if anything superior to traditional advertising channels because it costs the originating company nothing...
Ok, there's a nice contradiction. Spam is different, because it costs the target of the ad, not the sender. "Just delete it" is often the answer, but I don't agree with that. I shouldn't have to put up with it.
How would you like it if someone snuck over to your house at night and used watercolors to paint a big 10' x 5' ad for Coke on the side of it? "Hey, it washes right of... and besides, that's what you like to drink, anyway, right?" - and that's OK?
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There is currently no partition type allocated for XFS... any type should work (i.e. mkfs won't complain) but until there's a type allocated, 83 will work. I think reiserfs uses 83 as well...
And technically, "83" is a "Linux Native" partition, not ext2, so perhaps it's not so bad.:)
Just keep it in mind when you use a filesystem tool...
That link is actually a bit old, the ProPack distro for the XFS beta is version 1.4... basically, it's a modified Red Hat installer that "overlays" some nice new features (kernel w/ modifications, kdb, some other stuff) on a supported distribution (red hat, turbolinux, or SuSe, I think...). Makes it _really_ easy to get an XFS box up and running. It does things "automatically" though, so if you like more control over the process, just grab the RPMs or the CVS tree instead.
StegFS is a Steganographic File System for Linux. Not only does it encrypt data, it also hides it such that it cannot be proved to be there.
You know it's hard core when the docs refer vaguely to the ability to keep data secret in the face of torture. 1024-bit public-key encryption is all well and good, but threaten me with a glass rod, and I'll hand that key right over. Plausible deniability is where it's at!:)
Doesn't really bear repeating, I suppose, but if you want to communicate with all those folks (and the yahoos, too) just use Jabber.
Plus, it's not owned by a global media conglomerate...
I thought the argument they were making is that every time you buy a blank tape or a mini-disk, you pay a tax to The Man which goes back to the RIAA, since of course you're infrigining their copyright with the blank media.
They further argued that since you had paid no such tax on your hard drive, that it was clearly illegal to put copies of music on THAT.
When digital recording devices such as the DAT and Minidisc became available to the public, consumers had for the first time the means to make very high quality recordings of the music in their collections, and to make copies of those copies with virtually no decrease in sound quality. To compensate for the fact that some level of piracy would result, and to provide the manufacturers and consumers immunity from a contributory copyright infringement liability suit, the AHRA required manufacturers of digital recording devices and media (such as DAT tapes) to: (1) register with the Copyright Office; (2) pay a statutory royalty (to the copyright holder or artist) on each device and piece of media sold; and (3) implement serial copy management technology which prevents the copying of copies. To learn more about the royalty system of the AHRA, see the section on AARC.
I can't find the argument that "therefore, copying your own CDs to your hard drive is illegal." Maybe they dropped that...
Red Hat made plenty of money pre-ipo, and now they are taking calculated losses to advertise and grow. They expect to be profitable again in the near future.
There is most certainly money to be made in Linux...
How hard would it be to hack together a clone of the Tivo service? There are lots of online program guides - could there be a "free" version of the Tivo service, with no privacy concerns?
It'd be best if you could put a NIC in the Tivo, of course...
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Some of it is that I'm not playing games so much anymore (I really think games drive cutting edge PC hardware in the consumer space...) but I just haven't seen the need to upgrade.
Has hardware temporarily outpaced applications? 1.3Ghz processors, 60MB hard drives, video cards with outrigger power supplies... maybe I'm out of touch. Who needs it right now, in Q4 2000?
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Well, that's why I'd like to see some gov't funding for it. You aren't going to attract the Rastermans (Rastermen?) of the world to work on it - but it would be in the govt's best interest to pay people to develop it, and retain the rights to the source code...
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Just because 3 high schools in your area didn't immediately get excited doesn't mean that nobody would be interested...
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Develop a standard school administration file format (XML...) and some free applications that can run on top of it, for teacher's gradebooks, district records, management, & reporting, etc. Make it open source... heck, get [insert government entity] to pay for it's development.
Think of how much the school systems could save, if each district didn't have to pay millions for crappy on-off, outdated applications from houghton-mifflin or macmillan or whatever...
My wife used to teach highschool here in Texas. The systems they had for teacher's gradbooks (required, mind you) were horrendous. DOS-based, for starters, always breaking down ("submit 2 floppies, and 3 printouts, just in case"). A huge waste of time and money...
I'd love to see open source make headway in this area. I'd love to see some gov't money going to fund it...
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Now, that would suck, but they're not forcing it on anybody, and it's up to their subscribers to read up on their methods, and decide whether they want to subscribe. If MAPS just says "these are our criteria:" and sticks to it, they should be in the clear, regardless of the criteria...
Now, if they deviate from those criteria, and go off on a personal vendetta, that could be cause for concern, and possibly legal action.
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This prompted me to go to http://www.bush2000.com/contact.asp ; and submit the following...
I have no doubt that this will turn the tide in the election.
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TeX... you may have heard of it...
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For instance, I doubt we'd take the figure skaters...
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It's archived here.
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So why is spam any different? It isn't is the answer. In fact, spam is if anything superior to traditional advertising channels because it costs the originating company nothing...
Ok, there's a nice contradiction. Spam is different, because it costs the target of the ad, not the sender. "Just delete it" is often the answer, but I don't agree with that. I shouldn't have to put up with it.
How would you like it if someone snuck over to your house at night and used watercolors to paint a big 10' x 5' ad for Coke on the side of it? "Hey, it washes right of... and besides, that's what you like to drink, anyway, right?" - and that's OK?
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And technically, "83" is a "Linux Native" partition, not ext2, so perhaps it's not so bad.
Just keep it in mind when you use a filesystem tool...
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You might try "jarl" too (TK version) at jarl.sourceforge.net
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You know it's hard core when the docs refer vaguely to the ability to keep data secret in the face of torture. 1024-bit public-key encryption is all well and good, but threaten me with a glass rod, and I'll hand that key right over. Plausible deniability is where it's at!
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They further argued that since you had paid no such tax on your hard drive, that it was clearly illegal to put copies of music on THAT.
Silly logic, but that's what they said:
I can't find the argument that "therefore, copying your own CDs to your hard drive is illegal." Maybe they dropped that...
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There is most certainly money to be made in Linux...
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Certainly corporations have had a part in building this country, but they've shackled it as well.
Bah, nevermind, it was a troll. And I stand by my
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HANDYHBT.... bravo!
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It'd be best if you could put a NIC in the Tivo, of course...
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