The scale get is notice but it's wrong either way.
I have agreed with Metalica's right to do with their music from the start. It just like a software developers right to choose a license for their work. I may not always like the choice but I respect it and would people to do the same for my work.
I think it's clear in this interview that Lars is being hypocritical when it comes to copies. An illegal copies is an illegal copy. It doesn't matter how good or how bad your Xerox was.
That is the thing that bugged me about this interview. He flips back and forth from strong ethical arguments to strong cash flow arguments. It's my work I should have control over it's distribution to Well that's different it was an analog copy.
You're absolutely right. I attended a seminar some years about this topic. The navy has researched this for sometime. He(3) is an isotope of Helium. Very rare. On earth is is produced during the natural decay of Plutonium. Very rare indeed.
If fused perfectly (assuming my memory holds) it releases heat + water + hydrogen.
What a great fuel for deep space travel. You get the energy from the fusion to propell your ship and as a byproduct water to drink and more fuel.
The talk I attended discussed mining it from the surface of the moon. see this link . not sure if this is the same group but it is the same idea.
And again this link (gotta love google). This one discusses fusion with deutrium. The talk I saw was He3+He3.
I was just reading through this article thinking the exact same thing. Maybe it's a side effect of having pets.
I can see the organ factories now, harvesting a ripe organ for transplant and shipping the leftovers to oscar-meyer before they rot. I know that there is an organ shortage but with the world population growing at an incredible rate what would it take to keep up with the demand?
I hope martians don't figure out how to genetically alter humans for their organ transplants...
You won't hear a lot of complaints about violation of the freebsd license because this is not a violation of the license. This in no way keeps you from using Linux on your PC or me from using FreeBSD on my PC. FreeBSD development is dominated by - well the FreeBSD developers (big surprise). I'm holding my breath for that Athalon port.:) Actually a PowerPC port would be neat though. I think the point that you are confusing is that this project uses the FreeBSD code - it doesn't take it over. If IBM had used Linux for this project would your post read about how you're abandoning Linux kernel for the Hurd project?
The posting is fine the way it is. I think that people are upset because they think slashdot is encroaching on freshmeat domain. But sometimes new software is news also.
A different section would actually be more like encroaching on freshmeat domain. If slashdot and freshmeat merged then a different section would be appropriate.
If people don't like it posted here they can simply ignore it like I do with articles that I don't find interesting.
Personally I very much like to get kernel updates posted here because I don't follow the unstable releases as closely as I'd like to. This allows me to listen in and get some ideas about what features are in there and how stable the kernel is becoming.
After running Linux for a couple years I installed FreeBSD and it's ports collection. I'm running KDE and Blackbox right now. I haven't found anything yet that I run on Linux that I don't have on FreeBSD. In fact it's hard to tell the difference. My debian box never crashes and neither does my freebsd box. I think this is what will hurt the BSD in the number of users department. The bulk of the users are likely using the OS as a desktop/workstation. If there isn't much of a difference and there are 5 times the number of people using Linux which do you choose?
I don't know why more people chose Linux. Maybe the license is why more people use it. I think GPL sounds more glamorous but has it ever been an issue? Even if somebody takes code and folds it in to their program, it doesn't take the code away. It's just more people using the code.
I would think that the reason they cover is because of the apps that they have in common.
There are some big projects which work on both like KDE and gnome. Blackbox is developed on a FreeBSD system but I use it on Linux...
I am trying out FreeBSD 3.3 at home and it is quite similiar to Linux. The first thing I did was got into the ports directory and added all of my favorite Linux programs. My Linux partition and freebsd partition are almost indistinguishable from a user point of view.
I actually had an easier time setting up my super cheapo sound card on freebsd than linux. On the other hand I haven't gotten my cheapo scsi card working yet but it works fine with linux.
I just sat through a seminar a few weeks ago given by a patent lawyer. The picture painted wasn't as grim as the piece painted above.
I thought it was interesting that to be a patent lawyer they have to take a special bar exam which requires them to have a degree in the sciences.
Instead of litigation the first step is usually a invitation to stop what you're doing. Like what happened to Expedia. MS decided they would rather fight the patent than stop so they're going to court.
Software patents are an interesting area (makes me glad to be an ME). On one hand the idea is that you give full disclosure of you idea and the goverment grants you a 20 year monopoly on your patent. Society benefits from the open exchange of ideas and rewards you by giving you open access to the market.
In a lot of ways it's an open source idea. Just you have to wait 20 years or buy the rights to use the ideas before the patent is up.
Of course 20 years is an eternity in the software business.
I think the real solution is to go into patent law and sit around being exposed to cutting edge technology while helping your own bottom line.
I've installed FreeBSD a few weeks ago. The setup is similar to the different Linux Distros. And the package management (/usr/ports) isn't really that much different than moving from rpm to deb. In fact I'd say the ports are easier to use than both. Instead of fiddling with a new program (dselect) or fiddling w/ syntax (apt) or hunting RPMs it is based on things you are already familiar with - directories and Make.
wmaker dropped in without problems and if I didn't use different themes in deb partition I wouldn't have a clue about which I was running.
Of course it seems really easy to set-up etc.. However, I think Linux experience helped out tremendously.
I think the FreeBSD community would be well serviced by a quickstart guide for Linux users.
ie:
In Linux In FreeBSD ls ls cp cp pwd pwd vi vi netscape netscape startx startx dselect cd/usr/ports
Naturally the popularity of Linux is creating a lot of apps for all the free nixes out there.
Looking at the numbers they predict it seems that they make the assumption that every pirated copy is one lost sale.
If it were possible for them to be more strict with pirateers I suspect there would be more people running Windows 95 instead of 98 and the original software that shipped with their computer.
I know that IBM released some specs for a PowerPC chip. Did this spec include the G4?
I have an bunch of old parts sitting around a P133 that would be happier stuck on one of these boards but I'll wait to see some products before I start looking for my screwdriver....
I just installed FreeBSD 3.2 on Saturday. After a few hours of toying around I've got a set up I'm quite happy with. The ports collection is quite nice. I may have to break down and buy a box set of 3.3. I like the ports collection way of installing just what you need. After moving from the RH rpms where I keep having to go going and getting all of the supporting rpms and fighting with dependencies to the point where I just give up and compile everything myself. Then to debian deselect - better but kind of like being at cafe and choosing lunch from a list of every dish available on earth. Ports is a nice middle ground between organization and automagic installation. Not clearing my debian partition or anything yet though:)
I read an article where Linus commented that he had the numbering a little off. 2.0 should have been 1.X. And that 2.2 should have been 2.0.
2.2 was just to big of a step.
Going from 2.2 to 2.4 isn't a jump like this. Which is evident my the early feature freeze. In my mind this is more of an enhancement and refinement release. More like Netscape 4.5 to 4.6.
Actually workstation prices have been dropping to resonable levels.
I'm not convinced that 21264 systems are cheaper than the HP's. HP-UX is a miserable Unix? I'm just a user but I am still getting work done on a very old 735 which has uptimes that have corresponded to power outages in my building for years.
As far as performance HP's 8500's were comperable at lower clock speeds with the 21264. I'm not sure what the 8600 will do for numbers or price but....
From Microway's site Alpha Screamer 21264 @500MHz SpecInt95 28.6 Specfp95 42.9
From HP's site on a
C3000 (8500 @400MHz) SpecInt95 30.3 Specfp95 48.6
B1000 (8500 @300MHz) SpecInt95 22.4 Specfp95 38.8
Prices?
(Compaq's site was very slow) Microway 21264 -> 8,995 HP C3000 -> 13,475 HP B1000 -> 7,795
The hp c3000 has more ram, hd, graphics than the b1000 or microway.
I've also heard of extreme discounts on the HP's from my sys admin. I like the idea of an alpha heating my feet at better prices but the 21264 alpha's are not that compelling. And if you read that article, the 8X00 HP's are heading to clock speed in Alpha teritory.
I really have not idea but it seems to me that it's not.
Personally I'm keeping my eyes on the Alpha and the PowerPC. Out of curiosity I tried out one of the prerelease PowerPC linux distros on an old 7200 mac on it's way to the bone yard and was almost disappointed. It was pretty much just like sitting at a redhat box (accept slower - times have changed a bit since that 7200).
I think that if Compaq works with the Linux community a bit with regards to compilers and the like they could have an excellent future. I'd love to have an alpha to beat up on my code and warm my feet:).
Anyway even if 2nd generation Intel/HP cpu is the roadmap for all hardware (it sounds good but Compaq and IBM/Motorola are not sitting on their hands) how much money do you think compaq could make before that sees the light of day?
And how much is that thing going to cost? Will I be able to get an Alpha for 1/2 as much by that time?
I think that charactizing the media as public servants is a idealistic (nice - but idealistic).
All of those commercial breaks should be telling us something.
And those JFK jr. comments are likely sarcasm alluding to the over-coverage.
It would be nice if we could all just take in the data and process it. However, this would take up to much time. We hope that the news people filter/package it and present it to us in a clean format but it's just not possible. They have to keep ratings up to keep selling those commercials. And they have to keep from upsetting the people who are buying commercials.
The conflict of interest is huge.
I don't have a TV temporarily and don't really miss it.
'The news is just stories about the same events happening to different people' -HDT
Slashdot Mirror
The scale get is notice but it's wrong either way.
I have agreed with Metalica's right to do with their music from the start. It just like a software developers right to choose a license for their work. I may not always like the choice but I respect it and would people to do the same for my work.
I think it's clear in this interview that Lars is being hypocritical when it comes to copies. An illegal copies is an illegal copy. It doesn't matter how good or how bad your Xerox was.
That is the thing that bugged me about this interview. He flips back and forth from strong ethical arguments to strong cash flow arguments. It's my work I should have control over it's distribution to Well that's different it was an analog copy.
come on...
will these be rendered useless with the windows 2000 kerbos discussion that was posted a few weeks ago?
Perhaps Gateway can legally impliment the MS additions to the samba protocol to let 2000 boxes access it properly.
their usefulness on windos networks will be short lived if they can't.
Couldn't get the review...
:)
Is the ports collection available? I also wonder how open it is. I've been hearing rumbling about a FreeBSD for the PowerPC.
The ports and the ease of CVSupping lured me away from linux. Apple would need these to lure me from FreeBSD.
You're absolutely right. I attended a seminar some years about this topic. The navy has researched this for sometime. He(3) is an isotope of Helium. Very rare. On earth is is produced during the natural decay of Plutonium. Very rare indeed.
If fused perfectly (assuming my memory holds) it releases heat + water + hydrogen.
What a great fuel for deep space travel. You get the energy from the fusion to propell your ship and as a byproduct water to drink and more fuel.
The talk I attended discussed mining it from the surface of the moon.
see this link . not sure if this is the same group but it is the same idea.
And again this link (gotta love google). This one discusses fusion with deutrium. The talk I saw was He3+He3.
I was just reading through this article thinking the exact same thing. Maybe it's a side effect of having pets.
I can see the organ factories now, harvesting a ripe organ for transplant and shipping the leftovers to oscar-meyer before they rot. I know that there is an organ shortage but with the world population growing at an incredible rate what would it take to keep up with the demand?
I hope martians don't figure out how to genetically alter humans for their organ transplants...
hence the smile. The original poster said something about a 'port' to Athalon I think
You won't hear a lot of complaints about violation of the freebsd license because this is not a violation of the license. This in no way keeps you from using Linux on your PC or me from using FreeBSD on my PC. FreeBSD development is dominated by - well the FreeBSD developers (big surprise). I'm holding my breath for that Athalon port. :) Actually a PowerPC port would be neat though. I think the point that you are confusing is that this project uses the FreeBSD code - it doesn't take it over. If IBM had used Linux for this project would your post read about how you're abandoning Linux kernel for the Hurd project?
warning off topic
The posting is fine the way it is. I think that people are upset because they think slashdot is encroaching on freshmeat domain. But sometimes new software is news also.
A different section would actually be more like encroaching on freshmeat domain. If slashdot and freshmeat merged then a different section would be appropriate.
If people don't like it posted here they can simply ignore it like I do with articles that I don't find interesting.
Personally I very much like to get kernel updates posted here because I don't follow the unstable releases as closely as I'd like to. This allows me to listen in and get some ideas about what features are in there and how stable the kernel is becoming.
my 2c anyway.
-P
Most apps are on both platforms.
After running Linux for a couple years I installed FreeBSD and it's ports collection. I'm running KDE and Blackbox right now. I haven't found anything yet that I run on Linux that I don't have on FreeBSD. In fact it's hard to tell the difference. My debian box never crashes and neither does my freebsd box. I think this is what will hurt the BSD in the number of users department. The bulk of the users are likely using the OS as a desktop/workstation. If there isn't much of a difference and there are 5 times the number of people using Linux which do you choose?
I don't know why more people chose Linux. Maybe the license is why more people use it. I think GPL sounds more glamorous but has it ever been an issue? Even if somebody takes code and folds it in to their program, it doesn't take the code away. It's just more people using the code.
I would think that the reason they cover is because of the apps that they have in common.
There are some big projects which work on both like KDE and gnome. Blackbox is developed on a FreeBSD system but I use it on Linux...
I am trying out FreeBSD 3.3 at home and it is quite similiar to Linux. The first thing I did was got into the ports directory and added all of my favorite Linux programs. My Linux partition and freebsd partition are almost indistinguishable from a user point of view.
I actually had an easier time setting up my super cheapo sound card on freebsd than linux. On the other hand I haven't gotten my cheapo scsi card working yet but it works fine with linux.
I just sat through a seminar a few weeks ago given by a patent lawyer. The picture painted wasn't as grim as the piece painted above.
I thought it was interesting that to be a patent lawyer they have to take a special bar exam which requires them to have a degree in the sciences.
Instead of litigation the first step is usually a invitation to stop what you're doing. Like what happened to Expedia. MS decided they would rather fight the patent than stop so they're going to court.
Software patents are an interesting area (makes me glad to be an ME). On one hand the idea is that you give full disclosure of you idea and the goverment grants you a 20 year monopoly on your patent. Society benefits from the open exchange of ideas and rewards you by giving you open access to the market.
In a lot of ways it's an open source idea. Just you have to wait 20 years or buy the rights to use the ideas before the patent is up.
Of course 20 years is an eternity in the software business.
I think the real solution is to go into patent law and sit around being exposed to cutting edge technology while helping your own bottom line.
They are just to fragment the market by funding all of these different projects!
Keep your damn money - we don't want it...
errr
nevermind I'd like some too.
> no pico, a good console editor for
> newbies and html editing
I think the newbies should go with kedit or gxedit.
My guess is caldera is going for corporate users who don't know what the console is or if they do would just use vi.
Kind of like the old doom menu (sorry - not up on the games)
/etc; mkdir /etc/rc.d
Install options:
[ ] I'm just a child
[ ] Hurt me a little
[ ] Hurt me plenty
[ ] Knee deep in the tgz
[ ] mkdir
Agreed.
/usr/ports
I've installed FreeBSD a few weeks ago. The setup is similar to the different Linux Distros. And the package management (/usr/ports) isn't really that much different than moving from rpm to deb. In fact I'd say the ports are easier to use than both. Instead of fiddling with a new program (dselect) or fiddling w/ syntax (apt) or hunting RPMs it is based on things you are already familiar with - directories and Make.
wmaker dropped in without problems and if I didn't use different themes in deb partition I wouldn't have a clue about which I was running.
Of course it seems really easy to set-up etc.. However, I think Linux experience helped out tremendously.
I think the FreeBSD community would be well serviced by a quickstart guide for Linux users.
ie:
In Linux In FreeBSD
ls ls
cp cp
pwd pwd
vi vi
netscape netscape
startx startx
dselect cd
Naturally the popularity of Linux is creating a lot of apps for all the free nixes out there.
I have often wondered the same thing.
:)
Looking at the numbers they predict it seems that they make the assumption that every pirated copy is one lost sale.
If it were possible for them to be more strict with pirateers I suspect there would be more people running Windows 95 instead of 98 and the original software that shipped with their computer.
Perhaps more people running free software also...
Piracy is hurting Linux more than MS
Where have you been hiding these?
I know that IBM released some specs for a PowerPC chip. Did this spec include the G4?
I have an bunch of old parts sitting around a P133 that would be happier stuck on one of these boards but I'll wait to see some products before I start looking for my screwdriver....
I just installed FreeBSD 3.2 on Saturday. After a few hours of toying around I've got a set up I'm quite happy with. The ports collection is quite nice. I may have to break down and buy a box set of 3.3. I like the ports collection way of installing just what you need. After moving from the RH rpms where I keep having to go going and getting all of the supporting rpms and fighting with dependencies to the point where I just give up and compile everything myself. Then to debian deselect - better but kind of like being at cafe and choosing lunch from a list of every dish available on earth. Ports is a nice middle ground between organization and automagic installation. Not clearing my debian partition or anything yet though :)
I guess my sysadmin is just a god then. Nice going matt!
I read an article where Linus commented that he had the numbering a little off. 2.0 should have been 1.X. And that 2.2 should have been 2.0.
2.2 was just to big of a step.
Going from 2.2 to 2.4 isn't a jump like this. Which is evident my the early feature freeze. In my mind this is more of an enhancement and refinement release. More like Netscape 4.5 to 4.6.
Actually workstation prices have been dropping to resonable levels.
I'm not convinced that 21264 systems are cheaper than the HP's. HP-UX is a miserable Unix? I'm just a user but I am still getting work done on a very old 735 which has uptimes that have corresponded to power outages in my building for years.
As far as performance HP's 8500's were comperable at lower clock speeds with the 21264. I'm not sure what the 8600 will do for numbers or price but....
From Microway's site Alpha Screamer 21264 @500MHz
SpecInt95 28.6
Specfp95 42.9
From HP's site on a
C3000 (8500 @400MHz)
SpecInt95 30.3
Specfp95 48.6
B1000 (8500 @300MHz)
SpecInt95 22.4
Specfp95 38.8
Prices?
(Compaq's site was very slow)
Microway 21264 -> 8,995
HP C3000 -> 13,475
HP B1000 -> 7,795
The hp c3000 has more ram, hd, graphics than the b1000 or microway.
I've also heard of extreme discounts on the HP's from my sys admin.
I like the idea of an alpha heating my feet at better prices but the 21264 alpha's are not that compelling.
And if you read that article, the 8X00 HP's are heading to clock speed in Alpha teritory.
I can't wait to download so I can grep it for bad words.
As far as running solaris - FreeBSD is next on my list.
Is the 2nd Gen. 64 bit intel even still x86?
:).
I really have not idea but it seems to me that it's not.
Personally I'm keeping my eyes on the Alpha and the PowerPC. Out of curiosity I tried out one of the prerelease PowerPC linux distros on an old 7200 mac on it's way to the bone yard and was almost disappointed. It was pretty much just like sitting at a redhat box (accept slower - times have changed a bit since that 7200).
I think that if Compaq works with the Linux community a bit with regards to compilers and the like they could have an excellent future. I'd love to have an alpha to beat up on my code and warm my feet
Anyway even if 2nd generation Intel/HP cpu is the roadmap for all hardware (it sounds good but Compaq and IBM/Motorola are not sitting on their hands) how much money do you think compaq could make before that sees the light of day?
And how much is that thing going to cost? Will I be able to get an Alpha for 1/2 as much by that time?
I didn't really care for this movie either. I didn't know about the webpage but a lot of people have been discussing this movie.
I haven't read any critical reviews but did anybody else see some contradictions in the plot?
Also, the scipt mistook forshadowing for beating the audience over the head with what is going to happen next.
I'm not sure it was net hype but it was definately over-hype.
I think that charactizing the media as public servants is a idealistic (nice - but idealistic).
All of those commercial breaks should be telling us something.
And those JFK jr. comments are likely sarcasm alluding to the over-coverage.
It would be nice if we could all just take in the data and process it. However, this would take up to much time. We hope that the news people filter/package it and present it to us in a clean format but it's just not possible. They have to keep ratings up to keep selling those commercials. And they have to keep from upsetting the people who are buying commercials.
The conflict of interest is huge.
I don't have a TV temporarily and don't really miss it.
'The news is just stories about the same events happening to different people' -HDT