Yes, but samba being a windows file system does not do permissions and the like. I love samba it is my PDC for all the windows boxen on the networks I maintain. It porvides excelent integration between winders and *NIX. Samba is fast and solid, but If I was going to export a share from one *NIX to another I would use anything else because as a *NIX network FS SMB is not exactly robust.
"Xine has been always my player because don't depends on external libraries"
So ffmpeg it uses to decode quicktime according to the article is what then. The people behind ffmepg have done amazing work, and their product is an encoding/decoding backend for lots of software including my favorite player VLC. Credit where it is due and credit is due FFmpeg!
Now muscians will have to do clean room work. This is great pretty soon all performing artists will have to be sure to never listen to copyright works that are in anyway similar to there music/product. Now more people that the mainstreem pays more attention to will fell the hurt. I used to be really opposed to this kinda nosense but recently I have realized nonsense is what it is gonna take for regular people to recognize all this bad legislation , legal precedent, entertainment industry lobbing, as creating an insane restriction on them. Things NEED to get worse before we can have a real backlash/revolution and they can get better.
Well I don't like patents on obviouse technology
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This is not a good thing, its just another nail in the coffin for those of us who would like to see and end to pointless patents but, at least in the short term if he has any success this could destroy the economics of the pop-up and rid us all of it.
Actually no multicasting is not avalible in the IPV4 spec, trust me I just took the final in my telecom course. You can broadcast with IPv4 and through the use of tech like VLANS you can get multicast like results with a broadcast but only if all the switches, bridges, and routers being used can be tol d which ports to propogate broadcasts to, and option you don't have on the internet. True muliticasting lets you specify a group or rage of hosts to address a packet too.
No! I mean seriously would you go some place that has no internet access for an extended stay? Life without slashdot, just because you have posted on this site suggests to me that you need your slashdot, is just un-thinkable. Yes it will be an extended stay for the time and expense traveling to another planet you'd better be staying a few months.
Ok, everyone who is about to suggest a boycott, or state they are never buying a CD again, I say wait. I can't offer a suggestion that is better so this post is only a small step above the boycott posts but I am asking the right question here I think. Follow me: 1.We need to stop these guys. 2.We still have no way to really put the hurt on, the boycotts won't work and they won't ever work because we havent the numbers. There are to many pre-teens outthere to young to really uderstand what freedom is and why they should protect it. There are to many stupid adults with the same problem and even more apethetic ones. 3.Our not so little community of Geeks here on slashdot need to put our heads into a new question and that is "What can we do to make RIAA/MPAA/Curpt Politicans/Record labels/Complacent(sp?) Artists/ and all the rest actually feel some pain?" 4.Where pain is most keenly felt is the pocket book but we need to do more the small time boycott, how can we take the most cash away from these people and I do think we need to take it away slowing the inflow is not enough these people won't reform untill a quarter or two goes by where the bottom line is red, and or they have lost some elections.
I agree with you. This is the most retarded idea I have ever seen in my life. I have a much better idea why don't we put everything under programs on the C: drive, this root idea is too old oh wait.... Being hit with sudden realization that the thing I dislike most about windows is that there is no ablility to manage the file system because the layout is stupid. Hmm maybe we should stick with the tried an ture directory heirarchy untill someone comes up with a good idea with obvious usablility benefits beyond "Hey cledus look I don'ts needs to takes no more time to learn what's got to go in what darn place." Why don't ppl think before the come up with dumb crap like this? There are two things software develops should be taught before anything else in school.
1. If it ain't broke don't fix it.
2. Before you try and solve a problem make sure there actually is one.
2b. Before you submit a solution make sure it actually solves a problem.
Hey you MHS folks maybe you can see if there is a way to make it so we have to reboot to change our IP address while your at it.
Bochs sets up a emulated virtual computer. The processor core compoents could perhaps be used as you say but you then have to map the other functions onto the host machine such as memory. This would be much more complex then just emulating memory as well. At least this is my guess, I am not a systems level programer. The part I think I can fairly comment on is passing infromation form the VM to the host machine running wine's libs. Binaries expect entry points in libs that have to be correct, or they don't work, try running a program that was built with gcc 2.x against update libs built on gcc 3.x, its a no go most of the time. The code to map the hooks over to the wine libs built for some other platform which may have different byte order and alignment would be as complex and CPU intensive as running all the libs in the emulated machine, if your gonna do that you may as well do that and run wine on x86 *nix simple display your app on your real Xserver. Performance would be about the same and the software to do that later already exists with some maturity.
UMM there is no need to develop a new system to authenticate mails. Its called PGP and its been around for years, when needs to happen is people need to be made to use, ISP terms of service would be a good place to start.
Well, I remember watching TLC and they said the burried lines are almost 3 times more likely to be hit by lightning. Which in some areas is probably a great deal of concern due to the fire risks. Not to mention, when an underground line is damaged its much more time consuming and costly to fix then an overhead line for obvious(well I hope obvious) reasons.
I can't comment on Gnutella, or Open Office but I am wondering what logic you use to call Linux bloated? I mean its not like when you compile it you can'y opt in or out of almost every kernel funciton save for the absolutly required stuff like the schedualin g system. You can still easily get a kernel down to 500K smaller if you really try I would bet, and that is without modules. To call java bloated is also somewhat trollish because to do what JAVA does it sorta the VM sorta has to beable to do everything, now wether or not you ever really need to use a tool like JAVA or should ever is an other debate. Mozilla is as we comment in the process of shedding its so called bloat. Howver even in its current release if you do your own build and get in no deeper then./configure --diable-featureX you can build a lean mean mozilla with a reasonable memory footprint. Features are never bloat unless you don't need them and as long as you can do your personal installation without the stuff you don't need its not fair to call something bloated.
I can't claim to be part of any largely used OSS projects but in the smaller circles I travle, recognition is all I look for and how I define success. You want to hear "That perl script thing that dude worte to scrape all my assignments off blackboard is really cool." in the Union. That is how you know your project has been a success.
AOL is loosing money hand over fist and then some, Time Warrner is gonna kill the service or more likly turing it into more of a web porthole and less the friendly AOL bbs ppl are familliar with sooner or later anyway. I suspect they will move as many customs to their broadband services, and turn the rest out. I see AOLs future as more of a paid subscription web site then and ISP anyway as they cannot afford to be an ISP much longer at this rate. When that happens it won't matter what they do with e-mail becase "Moms" e-mail address with be at @HerRealIsp.net. If AOL can loose a few customers over this because they don't like not being able to get mail from their frends without using hotmail or something then it will only speed the process along.
I don't see how this maters in privacy
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I assume these tags are removed when you purchase the item and leave the store so how is this any differnet from when you check out? I assume most of use are not yet such fanatics that you only use cash for purchases right? Because you do realize that if you use credit or debit its not at all hard for a merchant to log your purchases and equate them with your name. I doubt most of them do but still. Why does it matter if they know you're carring it around the store when they are gonna find out you have it at the register anyway? Unless you don't plan to visit the register and mother tought you stealing was wrong right?
If these ppl do this they should be jailed and bared from science. I hope they are stopped but if its to late and they do it before the feds can stop them, they need to be severly punished. This is life we are talking about we can't allow ppl to just play with it.
I use busybox on my ipaq in familiar linux, its a great solution for that application. Certain applications in it like ps, for instance does not display as much info as the real gun/ps will. Busy box is great when you NEED small but where you have plenty of room the normal utils are more featureful.
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Yes, but samba being a windows file system does not do permissions and the like. I love samba it is my PDC for all the windows boxen on the networks I maintain. It porvides excelent integration between winders and *NIX. Samba is fast and solid, but If I was going to export a share from one *NIX to another I would use anything else because as a *NIX network FS SMB is not exactly robust.
"Xine has been always my player because don't depends on external libraries"
So ffmpeg it uses to decode quicktime according to the article is what then. The people behind ffmepg have done amazing work, and their product is an encoding/decoding backend for lots of software including my favorite player VLC. Credit where it is due and credit is due FFmpeg!
Now muscians will have to do clean room work. This is great pretty soon all performing artists will have to be sure to never listen to copyright works that are in anyway similar to there music/product. Now more people that the mainstreem pays more attention to will fell the hurt. I used to be really opposed to this kinda nosense but recently I have realized nonsense is what it is gonna take for regular people to recognize all this bad legislation , legal precedent, entertainment industry lobbing, as creating an insane restriction on them. Things NEED to get worse before we can have a real backlash/revolution and they can get better.
This is not a good thing, its just another nail in the coffin for those of us who would like to see and end to pointless patents but, at least in the short term if he has any success this could destroy the economics of the pop-up and rid us all of it.
Actually no multicasting is not avalible in the IPV4 spec, trust me I just took the final in my telecom course. You can broadcast with IPv4 and through the use of tech like VLANS you can get multicast like results with a broadcast but only if all the switches, bridges, and routers being used can be tol d which ports to propogate broadcasts to, and option you don't have on the internet. True muliticasting lets you specify a group or rage of hosts to address a packet too.
No! I mean seriously would you go some place that has no internet access for an extended stay? Life without slashdot, just because you have posted on this site suggests to me that you need your slashdot, is just un-thinkable. Yes it will be an extended stay for the time and expense traveling to another planet you'd better be staying a few months.
Ok, everyone who is about to suggest a boycott, or state they are never buying a CD again, I say wait. I can't offer a suggestion that is better so this post is only a small step above the boycott posts but I am asking the right question here I think. Follow me:
1.We need to stop these guys.
2.We still have no way to really put the hurt on, the boycotts won't work and they won't ever work because we havent the numbers. There are to many pre-teens outthere to young to really uderstand what freedom is and why they should protect it. There are to many stupid adults with the same problem and even more apethetic ones.
3.Our not so little community of Geeks here on slashdot need to put our heads into a new question and that is "What can we do to make RIAA/MPAA/Curpt Politicans/Record labels/Complacent(sp?) Artists/ and all the rest actually feel some pain?"
4.Where pain is most keenly felt is the pocket book but we need to do more the small time boycott, how can we take the most cash away from these people and I do think we need to take it away slowing the inflow is not enough these people won't reform untill a quarter or two goes by where the bottom line is red, and or they have lost some elections.
The point of the net is information exchange! If the www gets too full of crap, then its back to USENET
I agree with you. This is the most retarded idea I have ever seen in my life. I have a much better idea why don't we put everything under programs on the C: drive, this root idea is too old oh wait.... Being hit with sudden realization that the thing I dislike most about windows is that there is no ablility to manage the file system because the layout is stupid. Hmm maybe we should stick with the tried an ture directory heirarchy untill someone comes up with a good idea with obvious usablility benefits beyond "Hey cledus look I don'ts needs to takes no more time to learn what's got to go in what darn place." Why don't ppl think before the come up with dumb crap like this? There are two things software develops should be taught before anything else in school. 1. If it ain't broke don't fix it. 2. Before you try and solve a problem make sure there actually is one. 2b. Before you submit a solution make sure it actually solves a problem. Hey you MHS folks maybe you can see if there is a way to make it so we have to reboot to change our IP address while your at it.
Bochs sets up a emulated virtual computer. The processor core compoents could perhaps be used as you say but you then have to map the other functions onto the host machine such as memory. This would be much more complex then just emulating memory as well. At least this is my guess, I am not a systems level programer. The part I think I can fairly comment on is passing infromation form the VM to the host machine running wine's libs. Binaries expect entry points in libs that have to be correct, or they don't work, try running a program that was built with gcc 2.x against update libs built on gcc 3.x, its a no go most of the time. The code to map the hooks over to the wine libs built for some other platform which may have different byte order and alignment would be as complex and CPU intensive as running all the libs in the emulated machine, if your gonna do that you may as well do that and run wine on x86 *nix simple display your app on your real Xserver. Performance would be about the same and the software to do that later already exists with some maturity.
UMM there is no need to develop a new system to authenticate mails. Its called PGP and its been around for years, when needs to happen is people need to be made to use, ISP terms of service would be a good place to start.
Well, I remember watching TLC and they said the burried lines are almost 3 times more likely to be hit by lightning. Which in some areas is probably a great deal of concern due to the fire risks. Not to mention, when an underground line is damaged its much more time consuming and costly to fix then an overhead line for obvious(well I hope obvious) reasons.
I can't comment on Gnutella, or Open Office but I am wondering what logic you use to call Linux bloated? I mean its not like when you compile it you can'y opt in or out of almost every kernel funciton save for the absolutly required stuff like the schedualin g system. You can still easily get a kernel down to 500K smaller if you really try I would bet, and that is without modules. To call java bloated is also somewhat trollish because to do what JAVA does it sorta the VM sorta has to beable to do everything, now wether or not you ever really need to use a tool like JAVA or should ever is an other debate. Mozilla is as we comment in the process of shedding its so called bloat. Howver even in its current release if you do your own build and get in no deeper then ./configure --diable-featureX you can build a lean mean mozilla with a reasonable memory footprint. Features are never bloat unless you don't need them and as long as you can do your personal installation without the stuff you don't need its not fair to call something bloated.
I can't claim to be part of any largely used OSS projects but in the smaller circles I travle, recognition is all I look for and how I define success. You want to hear "That perl script thing that dude worte to scrape all my assignments off blackboard is really cool." in the Union. That is how you know your project has been a success.
Homestarrunner rules. Yea Trogdor!
AOL is loosing money hand over fist and then some, Time Warrner is gonna kill the service or more likly turing it into more of a web porthole and less the friendly AOL bbs ppl are familliar with sooner or later anyway. I suspect they will move as many customs to their broadband services, and turn the rest out. I see AOLs future as more of a paid subscription web site then and ISP anyway as they cannot afford to be an ISP much longer at this rate. When that happens it won't matter what they do with e-mail becase "Moms" e-mail address with be at @HerRealIsp.net. If AOL can loose a few customers over this because they don't like not being able to get mail from their frends without using hotmail or something then it will only speed the process along.
I assume these tags are removed when you purchase the item and leave the store so how is this any differnet from when you check out? I assume most of use are not yet such fanatics that you only use cash for purchases right? Because you do realize that if you use credit or debit its not at all hard for a merchant to log your purchases and equate them with your name. I doubt most of them do but still. Why does it matter if they know you're carring it around the store when they are gonna find out you have it at the register anyway? Unless you don't plan to visit the register and mother tought you stealing was wrong right?
If these ppl do this they should be jailed and bared from science. I hope they are stopped but if its to late and they do it before the feds can stop them, they need to be severly punished. This is life we are talking about we can't allow ppl to just play with it.
Umm, while I agree with you, I wonder why you posted this here?
I use busybox on my ipaq in familiar linux, its a great solution for that application. Certain applications in it like ps, for instance does not display as much info as the real gun/ps will. Busy box is great when you NEED small but where you have plenty of room the normal utils are more featureful.