Specifically, Charles Forelle spake thusly in the Wall Street Journal:
The Islandia, N.Y., company, one of the biggest makers of corporate software, said that although it signed the licenses, it didn't pay for them -- and never would. It said it agreed to sign the licenses only to settle a lawsuit with the Canopy Group, one of SCO's major investors.
The nice thing about the current situation is we can decide when to use the vendor drivers and when to ignore them. It would be pointless to build DRM into nvidia's driver, because the user can always remove that module and procees with whatever he wants to do. There are perfectly great 2D and video drivers for every popular display card. The vendor drivers are *only* needed for OpenGL acceleration.
ATI doesn't support their driver on Linux, so there are no "support" issues at all.
I have ATI hardware but I'm considering switching to nvidia. They very frequently release drivers, their drivers actually work correctly, and their drivers are available for Opteron and even Itanium.
The 3.7.0 drivers (which, btw, have been out for over a month before this Slashdot headline) are absolutely terrible. I was getting 10-15fps in UT2004 at any resolution on a Radeon 9700. I reverted to the previous release.
There's lots of long-haul dark fiber, but almost zero metro fiber. The latter is required for fiber-to-premises service. Long-haul is just overbuilt presently.
Totally incorrect on your part. SPF won't work much at all until every ISP on the planet implements it. Without that, the spammers can simply choose a sending domain that hasn't yet deployed SPF, or chose an ISP with a wide open SPF record. Either way, SPF will have little benefit while handing over an enomous amount of control to the ISP.
You don't need to have key signing events, because in the case of email public keys, it is assumed that the key will be signed by at least one party other than the subject: their ISP. So if Yahoo! lists your email-signing public key in their DNS, they will have signed it as well.
SPF is incredibly broken because it allows ISPs to control who sends mail from where. We should be resisting SPF and all other similar proposals and backing public keys in DNS.
A lot of people buy a quiet hard drive then mount it hard to the case with screws. The case can amplify the sounds of the hard drive. If yours is mounted that way, try mounting it on rubber grommets instead. Use the screw holes on the bottom of the drive and run the mounting screws through rubber grommets used to mount servos in radio controlled aircraft. You can get these at hobby stores. Tighten the screws gently: overtightening defeats the sound isolating properties of the grommet.
Obviously you didn't read the SGI article. His point is that such encapsulating APIs make the details inaccessible, thereby frustrating attempts to make any decent video applications.
One can build fancy mechanisms which have network transparency, compression/decompression, format conversion, graph-based dataflow management, etc. on top of a well-designed video I/O API, and such mechanisms might be useful for some applications. But SGI's big mistake--one which hampered development of useful audio/video applications for years--was to try to build and offer those fancier mechanisms to developers instead of offering a simple API that worked on multiple video devices.
RS-232 is an extremely useful interface. If I had to choose a port to jettison from PC laptops, the parallel port would be my first preference. I don't understand why this huge and useless connector is still included on most PC laptops.
This is an Akamai server. Shouldn't you expect it to load quickly? That's the whole point after all. Even so, I am always impressed that the usgs quake site works quickly after major quakes.
Dan's Data has amazing heat sink reviews. Dan tests each heat sink with a heater simulating the Pentium or Athlon CPU. He publishes the R-theta values for each sink tested and has a very straightforward scientific view of the whole process.
This "technology" was pushed through the FCC and has no benefit whatsoever for the listener. ClearChannel supports it because it is going to crowd out weaker adjacent local channels. I suggest a thorough reading of the Google results for "iBiquity codec".
Using a full blown RH 8 installations eems like an odd thing to do. Lots of people are using Soekris computers as routers, firewalls, access points, and VPNs, but they are generally run off stripped BSD or Linux installations with hardly any extraneous crap. Mine is running a very bare Debian installed into a 256MB compact flash.
What you said doesn't jive with anything I've ever read on the subject. More than 60% of Mexico City children have inflamed lungs, and more than half have scarring of the airways. Air pollution is clearly the #1 issue for respiratory health. And asthma rates are highest (in the USA) among the very poor, which are people not likely to get excessive health care. These people are likely to live in the most polluted areas however.
The public perception of Boies is widespread buy wrong. Boies is really just a very wealthy ambulance chaser with a lot of broadcast time. He faces disciplinary action from the Florida and New York bars for unethical conduct. See this story for the short version, and use Google for the fascinating tale of how Boies tried to extort a small Florida gardening business.
GRUB has changes in CVS as recently at October 21, 2003, which is less than two months prior to this writing. I'd say it's alive, and even if it's dead, who cares as long as it works properly?
I guess you've never run into LILO's "timestamp mismatch" error, which is undocumented and has nothing to do with timestamps. It prevents machines with large numbers of SCSI devices from booting. This is also precisely the market XFS serves.
Hrmm... The land area of Texas is 670 million quarter acres. So *if* the mean worldwide family size was 10, your proposal would take up the entire state. By the way, a quarter acre is not enough to agriculturally support an entire family.
In California motorcycles above a certain displacement are required to have an exhaust catalyst and be certified by the California Air Resources Board. I'd be a little surprised if the same wasn't true in at least parts of Europe.
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The nice thing about the current situation is we can decide when to use the vendor drivers and when to ignore them. It would be pointless to build DRM into nvidia's driver, because the user can always remove that module and procees with whatever he wants to do. There are perfectly great 2D and video drivers for every popular display card. The vendor drivers are *only* needed for OpenGL acceleration.
I have ATI hardware but I'm considering switching to nvidia. They very frequently release drivers, their drivers actually work correctly, and their drivers are available for Opteron and even Itanium.
The 3.7.0 drivers (which, btw, have been out for over a month before this Slashdot headline) are absolutely terrible. I was getting 10-15fps in UT2004 at any resolution on a Radeon 9700. I reverted to the previous release.
Fake phone #s in whois are not suspicious. Nobody wants to be cold-called or faxspammed from whois. Try whois redhat.com
Every n-way Opteron where n > 1 in the field is a NUMA, so your "rarely" no longer applies.
There's lots of long-haul dark fiber, but almost zero metro fiber. The latter is required for fiber-to-premises service. Long-haul is just overbuilt presently.
Totally incorrect on your part. SPF won't work much at all until every ISP on the planet implements it. Without that, the spammers can simply choose a sending domain that hasn't yet deployed SPF, or chose an ISP with a wide open SPF record. Either way, SPF will have little benefit while handing over an enomous amount of control to the ISP.
SPF is incredibly broken because it allows ISPs to control who sends mail from where. We should be resisting SPF and all other similar proposals and backing public keys in DNS.
A lot of people buy a quiet hard drive then mount it hard to the case with screws. The case can amplify the sounds of the hard drive. If yours is mounted that way, try mounting it on rubber grommets instead. Use the screw holes on the bottom of the drive and run the mounting screws through rubber grommets used to mount servos in radio controlled aircraft. You can get these at hobby stores. Tighten the screws gently: overtightening defeats the sound isolating properties of the grommet.
Obviously you didn't read the SGI article. His point is that such encapsulating APIs make the details inaccessible, thereby frustrating attempts to make any decent video applications.
Substitute audio for video when necessary.
RS-232 is an extremely useful interface. If I had to choose a port to jettison from PC laptops, the parallel port would be my first preference. I don't understand why this huge and useless connector is still included on most PC laptops.
This is an Akamai server. Shouldn't you expect it to load quickly? That's the whole point after all. Even so, I am always impressed that the usgs quake site works quickly after major quakes.
Dan's Data has amazing heat sink reviews. Dan tests each heat sink with a heater simulating the Pentium or Athlon CPU. He publishes the R-theta values for each sink tested and has a very straightforward scientific view of the whole process.
This "technology" was pushed through the FCC and has no benefit whatsoever for the listener. ClearChannel supports it because it is going to crowd out weaker adjacent local channels. I suggest a thorough reading of the Google results for "iBiquity codec".
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What you said doesn't jive with anything I've ever read on the subject. More than 60% of Mexico City children have inflamed lungs, and more than half have scarring of the airways. Air pollution is clearly the #1 issue for respiratory health. And asthma rates are highest (in the USA) among the very poor, which are people not likely to get excessive health care. These people are likely to live in the most polluted areas however.
185W/h, very interesting. So after a few years of ownership, it must need it's own fission reactor.
The public perception of Boies is widespread buy wrong. Boies is really just a very wealthy ambulance chaser with a lot of broadcast time. He faces disciplinary action from the Florida and New York bars for unethical conduct. See this story for the short version, and use Google for the fascinating tale of how Boies tried to extort a small Florida gardening business.
GRUB has changes in CVS as recently at October 21, 2003, which is less than two months prior to this writing. I'd say it's alive, and even if it's dead, who cares as long as it works properly?
GRUB is good. Boots anything. Wish we had OF.
That's a dipshit definition, since broadband (and its opposite, baseband) refer to signalling techniques, not bit rate.
Hrmm... The land area of Texas is 670 million quarter acres. So *if* the mean worldwide family size was 10, your proposal would take up the entire state. By the way, a quarter acre is not enough to agriculturally support an entire family.
In California motorcycles above a certain displacement are required to have an exhaust catalyst and be certified by the California Air Resources Board. I'd be a little surprised if the same wasn't true in at least parts of Europe.