Be careful, you can't use a partition bigger than 400M (or was it 500). I forget. It's a limitation of plex86 and it's LBA code. Other than that you are correct though. I think you can just dd the partition to a file and that should do it,
It wasn't announced. It's a flat-out lie. It runs Win95 all the way up but crashes on some applications and it runs WinNT up through login to the desktop and atleast a handful of apps. I haven't seen any official word on 98 though. Sorry,
Actually it does do some emulation and more is on the way from what I've heard. As of now it emulates the BIOS calls, which could be called virtualization. However, they are going to have the ability to "emulate" hardware eventually. So you can tell you OS you have hardware devices that you don't have.
Can you imagine how great it would be for testing device drivers if you could just do it inside a plex86 instance of your OS, cause then you could change your hardware config to whatever you wanted and see how it performs.
Cool stuff.
Also, as for the performance issue and how useless it makes the product. That is a very nearsighted point of view. What do you think that 10ghz machine is gonna use all it's power for? Abiword and Gnumeric?:-). Hell no. You'll be able to run three or for plex86 session at FULL speed. I can't wait.
What in the name of god are you talking about? Why couldn't they make money off of it? Everyone else does?
What if they wrote a replacement for X, prolly a port of their Win32 GUI API, and that, of course, would not have to be free or open source. Then they can package that with the stock linux kernel and commercial versions of Word and Excel and sell it all for $150.
Everything you are saying is wrong because you seem to believe that everything related to linux is required to be open-source and free and that is a complete lie. Everything that is covered by the GPS has to be open-source and free although you can even get binary-only kernel modules, but if you have ever downloaded debian you probably noticed that gigantic non-free directory full of commercial products for linux.
Microsoft could sell linux and the GNU tools as well as their proprietary GUI toolkit and ports of Word/Excel and there would be no way to get the proprietary parts for free. Oh, well.
I am soooo pissed off at all of those people out there that tie their language to their culture and then their culture to their identity. I see this the most in chicano and french writing. This does not have ANY positive effects. All this does is make people close-minded and against change all because they want to "preserver their culture." Whatever...
We aren't saying, you must give up all of your holidays, cultural events, history and ancestry. But is absorbing 100 or so english words to make communication easier over the internet THAT big a deal? Is it really going to DESTROY your culture? I don't think so...
Eventually EVERYONE will be on the internet and EVERYONE will be able to communicate. So, shouldn't we have some kind of common vocabulary we can use to discuss things?
1) The head-up-ass remark was not meant as a direct response to the parent of the message I posted but as a general remark to those who claim that java native compilers are the work of god and solve all of java's speed/size problems. I just meant to point out that there is more to the bloat and just VM overhead, it is the nature of the language and can't be cured by a compiler. The comment I replied to was very sensible and I meant the poster no insult. I apologize if you took it personally.
2) I'm not confusing OO with High-Level. You are correct in the rest of your post though. Java is both. And both OO and High-Level tend to lead to larger memory footprints and slower execution.
High level does this simply because of the abstraction and some of the things that this entails.
OO does this, atleast in java's case, because you tend to write lots of little classes with lots of little methods with a whole lot of inter-communication. It is the same as the difference between a monolithic kernel and a microkernel. The microkernel may be better organized, easier to maintain and such, but there is a performance and a memory hit associated with said flexibility.
3) I am not stating that any of this is a BAD thing. It's great. I am not the biggest fan of java as a language, but of higher-level more abstract languages, I am a huge proponent. All of this new found processor speed has to go somewhere and I say it should go to adding more and more levels of abstraction to make software development as well as software use easier and easier. Java IS a good language, and it IS bloated relative to C, as it should be, and that's NOT a bad thing.
Any attempt to get rid of crime WILL fail. Crime IS a fundamental part of life. Anyone who says differently has a fundamental misunderstanding of human nature. I think Mark Twain would back this up if he were still around.
Also, as per other points in this thread, crime isn't always immoral and is definitly not boring. Most people don't care about right and wrong when reading a novel, there care about entertainment value.
Oh, and in response to your second paragraph, that's one of those little things called "Freedom of Speech". To badly mangle a great quote from The American President: True freedom exists when people are willing to spend a lifetime defending the right to speak of that which they would spend a lifetime fighting against.
The bloat he was referring to has NOTHING to do with the size of the runtime download, nor with the size of the developer files. He was referring to the memory overhead that java puts on programs.
Before you say "Use JNI, it's the VM not java", let me explain to you why you have your head up your ass.
Yes, the VM causes a larger memory overhead and bloating. That's the nature of a VM, and I don't fault java for it because you can compile natively and not use the VM. However, the bloat I am referring to comes from the nature of the java language.
It is a "True OO" language. It's is a "High Level" language. The higher level the language, and the more OO the language, the slower it runs and the more memory it takes up. That's a FACT.
If you want fast small programs, use assembler. It'll take you a week to write Hello World but it'll only take a single clock cycles to run. C is slower and bigger than assembler, but faster to code in and more portable. C++ is even more scalable but a little slower and bigger memory-wise. Java is bigger and slower than C++ because it's higher-level and more OO. Lisp and Scheme are even higher.
As an obvious starting point, garbage collection. It's very nice and you can be lazy about keeping track of your objects, but it causes overhead. True OO design makes code more modular and more scalable and a hell of a lot easier to program big projects. But it also makes it slower and take up more memory. That's a truth of OO programming that you learn to live with.
You can write a big project in java in fractions of the time it would take you in C, much less assembler, but I guarantee you that when it did get finished in assembler it would blow your java code out of the water in terms of speed. But your code would blow the assembler out of the water in terms of maintainability.
The world is full or tradeoffs and that's one of 'em.
1) Language is more High Level -> Language is slower and takes up more memory
2) Language is closer to machine code -> You have more power over the machine -> Code can be faster
3) Code is abstracted -> Less control over actual generated machine code -> Code is slower
Do they mean "fragment" in the same way that Windows already has, under the direction of but one company.
No two versions of windows are completely binary compatible due to dll version differences.
Most people haven't upgraded to WinME so right now most home users are split amongst Win95/98/ME and even NT in some cases.
I know businesses that run NT 3.51 and 4.0 and 2000 in the same freaking room. Don't even begin to tell me they are compatible...
And to a lesser extent what about the crap Microsoft pulled with shipping 2000 itself in 30 different versions (Professional, Server, Advanced Server, Super Dooper Advanced Server).
Anyway, just trying to draw a parallel... As long as linux stays with a common C library (glibc) and keeps with one windowing system (X) and Gnome/KDE don't let themselves become incompatible than things can only become so fragmented. Although, a uniform configuration/filesystem standard(s) may be a good idea.
I agree with your point entirely. It is possible that a lot of the reason behind this is that it is easier to make an interface prettier and a lot harder to make it more powerful.
Simple focus group testing will tell you that people want something bigger of a different font here and there or a start menu twice the size of your screen. It's easy to make those aesthetic changes like flat windows. There's no REAL new thinking involved.
Designing a new way to say more with less is THE struggle with HCI and the reason it exists. It's just not easy to figure out how to do and takes FAR more effort and making the start menu blue. Anyway, I agree with you completely, just wanted to try to explain why it may be like that.
Justin Dubs
You can call it a "hoverboard" all you want, but that makes me think Back To The Future II, which is a problem for two reasons. First, that was the worst movie of the series and second, the ones in the movie were MUCH cooler. You haven't made a hoverboard. It's a freaking miniature hovercraft with a handle. Nice try tho...
You are right, it would need some sort of reasoning to figure that out. So would you. And in neither case must that reason be hardcoded. You would not assocate the text below the key with the key itself had you not seen or heard of something similar to that before. Would a small child be able to make that same deduction? I doubt it.
One of the major factors that makes people feel they are smarter than machines is experience. The experiences logged in your memory, short or long term, which you have available to draw upon to make deductions and inferences is a major difference. Computers don't have that.
The problems with AI mostly hinge on relations. How do you represent information in some kind of relational form so that inferences and deductions can be made, such as the one you stated. This goes, more or less, hand in hand with the problems of language understanding as those relational rules would have to be stored in some manner of "language". Anyway, I'm just rambling now so I'll go away,
Doesn't this plan rather ignorantly assume that the MP3 files will be traded purely. What if you were to gzip it first, or even just rename it to.gz. They can't possibly scan EVERY file as that would be an absurd amount of computer power. Anyway, this seems like a complete and utter waste of effort because people will ALWAYS work around this kind of crap.
This one has got a log less chance of success than any of it's predecessors. Why? Two things:
AOL
Gateway
Sure, it doesn't have any real use, etc. but that is exactly what most younger, richer complete morons are looking for. I can see the little morons lining up to get at these things. Knowing that their trusty parents/grandparents will foot the bill for anything that sounds like it's a computer. They also won't have to worry about any of those annoying features like usability, local storage or having any good companies backing it. For the ignorant bastard this is the ideal waste of money. The people who will flock to these are either already losers or have many friends/relatives who are. With two crap-ass (to the technical user) companies behind it these have a lot less going for them than even gateway's own products. All of the failures so far have either been a) unheard of start-ups or b) well known for other things so this product will still fail, but because of the companies backing it it will be a loud, publicized failure.
Of course turn-of-the-century technology isn't that bad considering it just turned 11 months ago. Guess that phrase will have to go out of use for a few years...
I'm sure that EVERY candidate has people that are going to vote for them doing this. They are probably not officially related to the compaign in any way, just random voters. Just because the ones that were caught support Gore doesn't mean shit. They were just the only ones that were caught.
Come on people, if any of you really think that elections are honest, fair, [insert any optimistic, positive word here] then you have your head up your ass. The system is corrupt, the electoral college sucks and dead guys voting is the least of our worries. How about trying to change the system rather than pointing out it's obvious shortcomings and the bad circumstances that it breeds...
Yeah "Choice Good". Maybe in some fantasy world where no two people need to be able to talk to eachother. Yeah, you can sit in your room and have the most customized OS/Office Suite/Theme of all, but what good is it if no one else can look at the documents you create.
We don't need choices, we need standards. Then we can have choices. First we settle on a standard document format, be it XML, be it LaTeX, whatever. First we pick a standard reusable object model for the GUI systems, be it Corba or COM, and then we make choices.
If everyone is using their own choice of software we are going to have horrible compatability problems if things keep moving like they are now. Gnome and KDE NEED, I'll say it again, NEED to define compatability standards so that they can be completely integrated together if we want to have a viable desktop for linux AND have choices.
The two terms appear at odds, but they aren't. We must decide on common interfaces and then we can have all the customizability and duplication and choice in the world.
The hell it isn't a fork of C++. The syntax is IDENTICAL. They took namespaces and called them "packages", removed pointers and called it a new langauge. Oh, and made it compile to bytecode so it would be slow as shit due to JVM overhead. What a great new language...
Come on people, don't listen to this fool. He's responsible for stealing three hours of my life under the guise that I'd be seeing a film with certain characteristics, such as acting and things that happen to keep my interest.
For THREE HOURS of my life I stared at Kevin Costner (the man responsible for such one-liners as "muh boat") ride a horse and obstinately persist in not acting.
If the movie was bad than the book must suck and therefore all of this man's opinions are void, null, undef, and so forth...
I should sleep more...
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odd sig... everyone loves phi and fibanocci i guess...
Maybe I'm crazy, but boycotting MP3s is crazy. MP3s have done nothing wrong. It's just a freaking file format. This is like boycotting JPeGs because you can find kiddie pr0n in that format.
Now, maybe this is a really dumb idea or maybe it's just that no one has gotten around to mentioning it yet, but why not go through some trouble and create a large, formal online petition for US citizens against this case or against the DMCA in general?
Make it good. Make it include full name and social security number, or address, or phone number, or something of that sort.
Get people to throw some money at it for advertising. Make the ads persuasize. Make them point out how much freedom the DMCA is taking from us in plain english. Make it point out the evils of the MPAA and how it will impact the Average Joe Citizen(tm). Whatever. Advertise it everywhere. Put it on your webpage. The crazy punks amongst us can spray paint things with info about it. You get the idea.
Maybe if we got enough signatures and sent them to the right people then things would happen. This is after all supposed to be a democracy. Maybe it will work. Or, maybe I'm just an idiot. Probably a mixture of the two.
You normally use a windowing toolkit to develop X apps on linux. Take a look at GTK, it's one of the more popular windowing toolkits and is, duh, open source.:-)
http://www.gtk.org/tutorial/gtk_tut.html#toc4
There a nice tutorial on GTK v1.2 for you. Have a good time,
Maybe I'm just stupid, however I just don't understand why we need to censor anything, especially pornography. What are we afriad will happen if a little kid accidentally sees two people having anal sex online? Chances are that it WON'T scar him for life. Chances are that it will just give him a healthier attitude towards sex.
Why, in this "land of the free", we are so deathly afraid of the subject of sex is completely beyond me. It is the biggest taboo that I have ever seen.
Here's another possibility: The libraries shouldn't stop kids from seeing porn, PARENTS SHOULD. We know that no filter method works, the only good way to do it it for parents to monitor internet use when their kids are at an age that they feel is too young to be seeing that sort of thing. I think that maybe this filtering is just an attempt by parents to shirk some more of the responsibility they should have.
Anyway, just some babblings. Take them for what you want. Have a good time.
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Be careful, you can't use a partition bigger than 400M (or was it 500). I forget. It's a limitation of plex86 and it's LBA code. Other than that you are correct though. I think you can just dd the partition to a file and that should do it,
Justin Dubs
It wasn't announced. It's a flat-out lie. It runs Win95 all the way up but crashes on some applications and it runs WinNT up through login to the desktop and atleast a handful of apps. I haven't seen any official word on 98 though. Sorry,
Justin Dubs
Actually it does do some emulation and more is on the way from what I've heard. As of now it emulates the BIOS calls, which could be called virtualization. However, they are going to have the ability to "emulate" hardware eventually. So you can tell you OS you have hardware devices that you don't have.
:-). Hell no. You'll be able to run three or for plex86 session at FULL speed. I can't wait.
Can you imagine how great it would be for testing device drivers if you could just do it inside a plex86 instance of your OS, cause then you could change your hardware config to whatever you wanted and see how it performs.
Cool stuff.
Also, as for the performance issue and how useless it makes the product. That is a very nearsighted point of view. What do you think that 10ghz machine is gonna use all it's power for? Abiword and Gnumeric?
Justin Dubs
What in the name of god are you talking about? Why couldn't they make money off of it? Everyone else does?
What if they wrote a replacement for X, prolly a port of their Win32 GUI API, and that, of course, would not have to be free or open source. Then they can package that with the stock linux kernel and commercial versions of Word and Excel and sell it all for $150.
Everything you are saying is wrong because you seem to believe that everything related to linux is required to be open-source and free and that is a complete lie. Everything that is covered by the GPS has to be open-source and free although you can even get binary-only kernel modules, but if you have ever downloaded debian you probably noticed that gigantic non-free directory full of commercial products for linux.
Microsoft could sell linux and the GNU tools as well as their proprietary GUI toolkit and ports of Word/Excel and there would be no way to get the proprietary parts for free. Oh, well.
Justin Dubs
I am soooo pissed off at all of those people out there that tie their language to their culture and then their culture to their identity. I see this the most in chicano and french writing. This does not have ANY positive effects. All this does is make people close-minded and against change all because they want to "preserver their culture." Whatever...
We aren't saying, you must give up all of your holidays, cultural events, history and ancestry. But is absorbing 100 or so english words to make communication easier over the internet THAT big a deal? Is it really going to DESTROY your culture? I don't think so...
Eventually EVERYONE will be on the internet and EVERYONE will be able to communicate. So, shouldn't we have some kind of common vocabulary we can use to discuss things?
Justin Dubs
Just to clear up a few things:
1) The head-up-ass remark was not meant as a direct response to the parent of the message I posted but as a general remark to those who claim that java native compilers are the work of god and solve all of java's speed/size problems. I just meant to point out that there is more to the bloat and just VM overhead, it is the nature of the language and can't be cured by a compiler. The comment I replied to was very sensible and I meant the poster no insult. I apologize if you took it personally.
2) I'm not confusing OO with High-Level. You are correct in the rest of your post though. Java is both. And both OO and High-Level tend to lead to larger memory footprints and slower execution.
High level does this simply because of the abstraction and some of the things that this entails.
OO does this, atleast in java's case, because you tend to write lots of little classes with lots of little methods with a whole lot of inter-communication. It is the same as the difference between a monolithic kernel and a microkernel. The microkernel may be better organized, easier to maintain and such, but there is a performance and a memory hit associated with said flexibility.
3) I am not stating that any of this is a BAD thing. It's great. I am not the biggest fan of java as a language, but of higher-level more abstract languages, I am a huge proponent. All of this new found processor speed has to go somewhere and I say it should go to adding more and more levels of abstraction to make software development as well as software use easier and easier. Java IS a good language, and it IS bloated relative to C, as it should be, and that's NOT a bad thing.
Justin Dubs
Any attempt to get rid of crime WILL fail. Crime IS a fundamental part of life. Anyone who says differently has a fundamental misunderstanding of human nature. I think Mark Twain would back this up if he were still around.
Also, as per other points in this thread, crime isn't always immoral and is definitly not boring. Most people don't care about right and wrong when reading a novel, there care about entertainment value.
Oh, and in response to your second paragraph, that's one of those little things called "Freedom of Speech". To badly mangle a great quote from The American President: True freedom exists when people are willing to spend a lifetime defending the right to speak of that which they would spend a lifetime fighting against.
Justin Dubs
The bloat he was referring to has NOTHING to do with the size of the runtime download, nor with the size of the developer files. He was referring to the memory overhead that java puts on programs.
Before you say "Use JNI, it's the VM not java", let me explain to you why you have your head up your ass.
Yes, the VM causes a larger memory overhead and bloating. That's the nature of a VM, and I don't fault java for it because you can compile natively and not use the VM. However, the bloat I am referring to comes from the nature of the java language.
It is a "True OO" language. It's is a "High Level" language. The higher level the language, and the more OO the language, the slower it runs and the more memory it takes up. That's a FACT.
If you want fast small programs, use assembler. It'll take you a week to write Hello World but it'll only take a single clock cycles to run. C is slower and bigger than assembler, but faster to code in and more portable. C++ is even more scalable but a little slower and bigger memory-wise. Java is bigger and slower than C++ because it's higher-level and more OO. Lisp and Scheme are even higher.
As an obvious starting point, garbage collection. It's very nice and you can be lazy about keeping track of your objects, but it causes overhead. True OO design makes code more modular and more scalable and a hell of a lot easier to program big projects. But it also makes it slower and take up more memory. That's a truth of OO programming that you learn to live with.
You can write a big project in java in fractions of the time it would take you in C, much less assembler, but I guarantee you that when it did get finished in assembler it would blow your java code out of the water in terms of speed. But your code would blow the assembler out of the water in terms of maintainability.
The world is full or tradeoffs and that's one of 'em.
1) Language is more High Level -> Language is slower and takes up more memory
2) Language is closer to machine code -> You have more power over the machine -> Code can be faster
3) Code is abstracted -> Less control over actual generated machine code -> Code is slower
Justin Dubs
Do they mean "fragment" in the same way that Windows already has, under the direction of but one company.
No two versions of windows are completely binary compatible due to dll version differences.
Most people haven't upgraded to WinME so right now most home users are split amongst Win95/98/ME and even NT in some cases.
I know businesses that run NT 3.51 and 4.0 and 2000 in the same freaking room. Don't even begin to tell me they are compatible...
And to a lesser extent what about the crap Microsoft pulled with shipping 2000 itself in 30 different versions (Professional, Server, Advanced Server, Super Dooper Advanced Server).
Anyway, just trying to draw a parallel... As long as linux stays with a common C library (glibc) and keeps with one windowing system (X) and Gnome/KDE don't let themselves become incompatible than things can only become so fragmented. Although, a uniform configuration/filesystem standard(s) may be a good idea.
Justin Dubs
I agree with your point entirely. It is possible that a lot of the reason behind this is that it is easier to make an interface prettier and a lot harder to make it more powerful. Simple focus group testing will tell you that people want something bigger of a different font here and there or a start menu twice the size of your screen. It's easy to make those aesthetic changes like flat windows. There's no REAL new thinking involved. Designing a new way to say more with less is THE struggle with HCI and the reason it exists. It's just not easy to figure out how to do and takes FAR more effort and making the start menu blue. Anyway, I agree with you completely, just wanted to try to explain why it may be like that. Justin Dubs
And how exactly do these turtles harness these machine guns to lay eggs?
You can call it a "hoverboard" all you want, but that makes me think Back To The Future II, which is a problem for two reasons. First, that was the worst movie of the series and second, the ones in the movie were MUCH cooler. You haven't made a hoverboard. It's a freaking miniature hovercraft with a handle. Nice try tho...
You are right, it would need some sort of reasoning to figure that out. So would you. And in neither case must that reason be hardcoded. You would not assocate the text below the key with the key itself had you not seen or heard of something similar to that before. Would a small child be able to make that same deduction? I doubt it.
One of the major factors that makes people feel they are smarter than machines is experience. The experiences logged in your memory, short or long term, which you have available to draw upon to make deductions and inferences is a major difference. Computers don't have that.
The problems with AI mostly hinge on relations. How do you represent information in some kind of relational form so that inferences and deductions can be made, such as the one you stated. This goes, more or less, hand in hand with the problems of language understanding as those relational rules would have to be stored in some manner of "language". Anyway, I'm just rambling now so I'll go away,
Justin Dubs
Doesn't this plan rather ignorantly assume that the MP3 files will be traded purely. What if you were to gzip it first, or even just rename it to .gz. They can't possibly scan EVERY file as that would be an absurd amount of computer power. Anyway, this seems like a complete and utter waste of effort because people will ALWAYS work around this kind of crap.
This one has got a log less chance of success than any of it's predecessors. Why? Two things:
AOL
Gateway
Sure, it doesn't have any real use, etc. but that is exactly what most younger, richer complete morons are looking for. I can see the little morons lining up to get at these things. Knowing that their trusty parents/grandparents will foot the bill for anything that sounds like it's a computer. They also won't have to worry about any of those annoying features like usability, local storage or having any good companies backing it. For the ignorant bastard this is the ideal waste of money. The people who will flock to these are either already losers or have many friends/relatives who are. With two crap-ass (to the technical user) companies behind it these have a lot less going for them than even gateway's own products. All of the failures so far have either been a) unheard of start-ups or b) well known for other things so this product will still fail, but because of the companies backing it it will be a loud, publicized failure.
Of course, this is all just in theory.
Of course turn-of-the-century technology isn't that bad considering it just turned 11 months ago. Guess that phrase will have to go out of use for a few years...
I'm sure that EVERY candidate has people that are going to vote for them doing this. They are probably not officially related to the compaign in any way, just random voters. Just because the ones that were caught support Gore doesn't mean shit. They were just the only ones that were caught.
Come on people, if any of you really think that elections are honest, fair, [insert any optimistic, positive word here] then you have your head up your ass. The system is corrupt, the electoral college sucks and dead guys voting is the least of our worries. How about trying to change the system rather than pointing out it's obvious shortcomings and the bad circumstances that it breeds...
Yeah "Choice Good". Maybe in some fantasy world where no two people need to be able to talk to eachother. Yeah, you can sit in your room and have the most customized OS/Office Suite/Theme of all, but what good is it if no one else can look at the documents you create.
We don't need choices, we need standards. Then we can have choices. First we settle on a standard document format, be it XML, be it LaTeX, whatever. First we pick a standard reusable object model for the GUI systems, be it Corba or COM, and then we make choices.
If everyone is using their own choice of software we are going to have horrible compatability problems if things keep moving like they are now. Gnome and KDE NEED, I'll say it again, NEED to define compatability standards so that they can be completely integrated together if we want to have a viable desktop for linux AND have choices.
The two terms appear at odds, but they aren't. We must decide on common interfaces and then we can have all the customizability and duplication and choice in the world.
The hell it isn't a fork of C++. The syntax is IDENTICAL. They took namespaces and called them "packages", removed pointers and called it a new langauge. Oh, and made it compile to bytecode so it would be slow as shit due to JVM overhead. What a great new language...
Come on people, don't listen to this fool. He's responsible for stealing three hours of my life under the guise that I'd be seeing a film with certain characteristics, such as acting and things that happen to keep my interest.
For THREE HOURS of my life I stared at Kevin Costner (the man responsible for such one-liners as "muh boat") ride a horse and obstinately persist in not acting.
If the movie was bad than the book must suck and therefore all of this man's opinions are void, null, undef, and so forth...
I should sleep more...
odd sig... everyone loves phi and fibanocci i guess...
Maybe I'm crazy, but boycotting MP3s is crazy. MP3s have done nothing wrong. It's just a freaking file format. This is like boycotting JPeGs because you can find kiddie pr0n in that format.
Now, maybe this is a really dumb idea or maybe it's just that no one has gotten around to mentioning it yet, but why not go through some trouble and create a large, formal online petition for US citizens against this case or against the DMCA in general?
Make it good. Make it include full name and social security number, or address, or phone number, or something of that sort.
Get people to throw some money at it for advertising. Make the ads persuasize. Make them point out how much freedom the DMCA is taking from us in plain english. Make it point out the evils of the MPAA and how it will impact the Average Joe Citizen(tm). Whatever. Advertise it everywhere. Put it on your webpage. The crazy punks amongst us can spray paint things with info about it. You get the idea.
Maybe if we got enough signatures and sent them to the right people then things would happen. This is after all supposed to be a democracy. Maybe it will work. Or, maybe I'm just an idiot. Probably a mixture of the two.
You normally use a windowing toolkit to develop X apps on linux. Take a look at GTK, it's one of the more popular windowing toolkits and is, duh, open source. :-)
http://www.gtk.org/tutorial/gtk_tut.html#toc4
There a nice tutorial on GTK v1.2 for you. Have a good time,
Justin Dubs
Maybe I'm just stupid, however I just don't understand why we need to censor anything, especially pornography. What are we afriad will happen if a little kid accidentally sees two people having anal sex online? Chances are that it WON'T scar him for life. Chances are that it will just give him a healthier attitude towards sex.
Why, in this "land of the free", we are so deathly afraid of the subject of sex is completely beyond me. It is the biggest taboo that I have ever seen.
Here's another possibility: The libraries shouldn't stop kids from seeing porn, PARENTS SHOULD. We know that no filter method works, the only good way to do it it for parents to monitor internet use when their kids are at an age that they feel is too young to be seeing that sort of thing. I think that maybe this filtering is just an attempt by parents to shirk some more of the responsibility they should have.
Anyway, just some babblings. Take them for what you want. Have a good time.
Justin