If memory serves there has been a quite a bit of speculation that Microsoft has been having a really hard time with their new FS, WinFS. Have you thought of approaching them to port Reiser4 to Longhorn (or some later Windows release)? IIRC Reiser4 and WinFS had some major design goals in common (i.e. lots of metadata in the FS and a more database like design).
IIRC you (Hans Reiser) once said that once V4 was stable you could get on to the fun stuff. Namly designing plugins. What kind of plugins do you have in mind?
It seems to me that it is a real waste of time to tell someone that what they are doing (or have done) is a waste of time. Why even worry about what he is doing if it isn't affecting your life, liberty or persuit of happyness?
"The man who says it can't be done should not inturupt the man doing it"
Instead of buying a single Kenmore 15,100 BTU Room Air Conditioner for $US380 (39.7 BTUs per dollar) why not buy three Kenmore 5,250 BTU Room Air Conditioners for US$99 each (53.0 BTUs per dollar)? Install each of the three units in different sections of the house or appartment. Some of the benifits of this solution are as follows:
-> More uniform distribtion of power leads to greater effiency
-> Slightly lower equipment cost
-> Multipule "zones" (at night, or whenever you sleep only one "zone" needs to be cooled)
-> Smaller units are usually quieter leading to a quieter "zone"
-> A few more BTUs total
Just a thought.
--adam
"Go back to bed America... your government is in control." --Bill Hicks
Looking at the FSF Projects I don't see any mention of a "Free Software Defense Fund" or similar project? I haven't been able to find any non-FSF project like this either. It seems that something like this is really needed.
i don't know too much about the real world of spam checking but it seems from the spam that i do revive much of it is redundant per domain. would it reduce the computation if you checked for redundant messages (mass spam messages) before you fed the stream of messages into the spam filter?
--adam
In addition, we can now write sloppy code and just tell people to install this patch first!
Protected/virtual address spaces help avoid a plethra of security/stability issues. Does this mean in your opinion that such virtual addressing encourages sloppy programming?
Very cool. I wonder how accurate it would be if I took one of their six degrees of freedom devices and strapped it to my torso. Add a small laptop or iPaq and (D)GPS for a complete solution. When ever possible correct the system with a good (D)GPS signal (when above ground) or a survay marker. Log all your data in a GIS compatible file format and you could have a powerful little tool.
I live in the Northwest United States. I would have loved to have gone to this. I have never been attend a Linux/OSS conference because of my location. It just would have been nice to know a bit earlier. Three days seems like kind of short notice to me. A week would have been nice (my employer schedules a week in advance).
Unfortunatly due to this "economy" (especially out here) I was forced to take a job that requires me to work most weekends. If I had a bit more notice I may have been able to get the day off.
--adam
P.S. Sorry about my ranting. I just hate always missing things like this.
I've always liked the combo scrollwheel/middle button. I can scroll up and down in Konqueror and open links in new windows/tabs quickly.
The one thing I would like is a finner grained detent on the wheel. Two to four time greater resolution would be nice. I'm not talking about the distance (number of lines) scrolled with each detent/click of the wheel. I want a greater number of clicks/detents per revolution of the actaul wheel.
Actually, some software is indeed subject to no license. I have worked on software projects that were the product of United States government employees in the persuit of their jobs. This software or any other such software created by such persons in a simiar situtation would also be subject to no license. These products/projects are property of the United States people. They are "In the Public Domain.
I have my hard drives mounted in accoustic enclosures. I hate the whine of hard drives.
I built mine from scratch but you can order them for ~US$30 from places like QuitePC.com.
--adam
Have browsers *really* been truely inovative since the days of Mosaic? Think about it. It wasn't The Web browser (even Mosaic) that was inovative (at least in the scope that most people think), it was The Web. The Web truely change things not the way we viewed it (The Web).
--adam
My opinion, yes a bird can change it's feather. Look at XFS, JFS, EVMS, iSCSI, Jikes, Linux Test Project, Linux NUMA and other projects. SCO (nee Caldera) has contibuted not much more then a distro, one of many.
--adam
People keep bitching that IBM is famous for spreading FUD. Hell, they invented it. This comes down to the age old question of can a bird change it's feathers.
--adam
All that this does is to reward companies acting like this. Companies like SCO (nee Caldara, nee SCO) will keep overloading the United States et. al. court systems with frivolous law suits in the same vein as this.
--adam
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If memory serves there has been a quite a bit of speculation that Microsoft has been having a really hard time with their new FS, WinFS. Have you thought of approaching them to port Reiser4 to Longhorn (or some later Windows release)? IIRC Reiser4 and WinFS had some major design goals in common (i.e. lots of metadata in the FS and a more database like design).
IIRC you (Hans Reiser) once said that once V4 was stable you could get on to the fun stuff. Namly designing plugins. What kind of plugins do you have in mind?
It seems to me that it is a real waste of time to tell someone that what they are doing (or have done) is a waste of time. Why even worry about what he is doing if it isn't affecting your life, liberty or persuit of happyness?
"The man who says it can't be done should not inturupt the man doing it"
Instead of buying a single Kenmore 15,100 BTU Room Air Conditioner for $US380 (39.7 BTUs per dollar) why not buy three Kenmore 5,250 BTU Room Air Conditioners for US$99 each (53.0 BTUs per dollar)? Install each of the three units in different sections of the house or appartment. Some of the benifits of this solution are as follows:
-> More uniform distribtion of power leads to greater effiency
-> Slightly lower equipment cost
-> Multipule "zones" (at night, or whenever you sleep only one "zone" needs to be cooled)
-> Smaller units are usually quieter leading to a quieter "zone"
-> A few more BTUs total
Just a thought.
--adam
"Go back to bed America... your government is in control." --Bill Hicks
Looking at the FSF Projects I don't see any mention of a "Free Software Defense Fund" or similar project? I haven't been able to find any non-FSF project like this either. It seems that something like this is really needed.
i don't know too much about the real world of spam checking but it seems from the spam that i do revive much of it is redundant per domain. would it reduce the computation if you checked for redundant messages (mass spam messages) before you fed the stream of messages into the spam filter? --adam
Protected/virtual address spaces help avoid a plethra of security/stability issues. Does this mean in your opinion that such virtual addressing encourages sloppy programming?
--adam
Very cool. I wonder how accurate it would be if I took one of their six degrees of freedom devices and strapped it to my torso. Add a small laptop or iPaq and (D)GPS for a complete solution. When ever possible correct the system with a good (D)GPS signal (when above ground) or a survay marker. Log all your data in a GIS compatible file format and you could have a powerful little tool.
I live in the Northwest United States. I would have loved to have gone to this. I have never been attend a Linux/OSS conference because of my location. It just would have been nice to know a bit earlier. Three days seems like kind of short notice to me. A week would have been nice (my employer schedules a week in advance). Unfortunatly due to this "economy" (especially out here) I was forced to take a job that requires me to work most weekends. If I had a bit more notice I may have been able to get the day off. --adam P.S. Sorry about my ranting. I just hate always missing things like this.
I don't know much about CDE but isn't it's development more stagnant then "stable"? Or does "stagant==stable"?
I've always liked the combo scrollwheel/middle button. I can scroll up and down in Konqueror and open links in new windows/tabs quickly.
The one thing I would like is a finner grained detent on the wheel. Two to four time greater resolution would be nice. I'm not talking about the distance (number of lines) scrolled with each detent/click of the wheel. I want a greater number of clicks/detents per revolution of the actaul wheel.
This really isn't anything new or unique to printers, computers or anything else. It's called Planned Obsolescence .
Actually, some software is indeed subject to no license. I have worked on software projects that were the product of United States government employees in the persuit of their jobs. This software or any other such software created by such persons in a simiar situtation would also be subject to no license. These products/projects are property of the United States people. They are "In the Public Domain.
I have my hard drives mounted in accoustic enclosures. I hate the whine of hard drives. I built mine from scratch but you can order them for ~US$30 from places like QuitePC.com. --adam
Has somebody been reading "How to Lie With Statistics" by Darrell Huff?
Rings with compartments were very common durring the late 70's and the 80's. They were used for storing cocaine.
Have browsers *really* been truely inovative since the days of Mosaic? Think about it. It wasn't The Web browser (even Mosaic) that was inovative (at least in the scope that most people think), it was The Web. The Web truely change things not the way we viewed it (The Web). --adam
Just more confusion for Wine.
My opinion, yes a bird can change it's feather. Look at XFS, JFS, EVMS, iSCSI, Jikes, Linux Test Project, Linux NUMA and other projects. SCO (nee Caldera) has contibuted not much more then a distro, one of many. --adam
People keep bitching that IBM is famous for spreading FUD. Hell, they invented it. This comes down to the age old question of can a bird change it's feathers. --adam
All that this does is to reward companies acting like this. Companies like SCO (nee Caldara, nee SCO) will keep overloading the United States et. al. court systems with frivolous law suits in the same vein as this. --adam
In my opinion it is important to pursue this if for no other reason then possibly keep this from happening to others.