Of course people should see this. I still can't believe this election is going down to 50-50 in the polls. I mean come on. How many people you know off that got laid off? I know of 3 just in my imediate family. And some of them STILL can't find a job. Also the whole Iraq thing, don't get me started on this.
ummm they are not hard drives you have to think of OS Support for something like that, plus you'd need a completely new case and mobo design to make something like that hot swapable. Try pulling something that connects directly to your mobo without opening a case. Hard drives are easy to hot swap since they connect to mobo via cable not directly. Plus from what I read they really don't scale so well, so putting two cards together will give you about 10-25% more performance. So I assume that puting 5 of them together couldn't give you more than 50-100% extra performance hardly worth the $1000 you might spend on those five cards.
It's a damn good thing to have these bounty hunts. It really involves a lot of people but at the same time it repays the people who have worked so hard to get some of the things done.
As far as the licences goes, does it matter? I mean if i wrote something got $1000 for it and decided it was worth selling my code, I'd have no problem with it. It seems that there are people out there who would like you to have a choice on what to do with the code as long as you let everyone see and use your code as they please. Not a lot of choice there, right? In my opinion it all comes down to the developer, if he wants to do something let him. As far as I'm concerned those devs got paid for by Novell for whatever they did, so at least Novell should be able to use some of that code elswhere also.
Let's say Novell comes out with Evolution and Evolution PRO. Regular version is Open Source, the Pro version is $100. If I as a dev submited some code that found it's way in both versions I'd have no problem with it since there is a free version that uses my code anyways. If i submited a code that found it's way only in Pro then I'd have a problem with it. Basically what I'm getting at is that the $100 Novell charges you for pro is probably not due to my code, but some other code that Novell developed not under GPL but under some propiatery license or something.
I bought a laptop about 3 years ago for around $2000 and at the time it was an average laptop. Look at what you can get for $2000 today, it's usually top of the line stuff, mine would probably cost around $1000 now. I guess the price change goes along with the time no matter what the only thing is that we are blind to the fact that some things that used to cost thousands of dollars ten years ago where top of the line back then, while now they're considered garbage. Look at these new plasma displays and stuff that sell for few thousands. I bet our grandkids will make fun of us and call us dumbasses because we spent so much money on displays that they could get (in year 2030) for about $150 each with a FARRR better quality and size.
It seems that Solaris is having a real hard time getting trough no matter what. With the availability of so many BSDs and Linux distros Solaris is a lone wolf in the whole story. Also I don't think that people who are currently running Linux will be very eager to just jump up and switch since all of a sudden Solaris supports Linux binaries.
Well it seems like "Linux Certified" hardware is getting easier and easier to find. I bought a laptop about 2-3 years ago from Sony and it was a pain to get USB to work, I had to user the patch, but with successive kernel releasies it got acctually fixed in the kernel code and it started working straight out of box after kernel 2.4.22 or so.
Now that HP is getting their certified laptops out there I feel that rest of the manufacturers would also start geting their act together. After all people who buy these things and run Linux on them are probably the people who'll recomend these computers to their Joe Sixpack friends. I can't count how many times I recomended a computer or a piece of hardware based on how well it worked with Linux, just so to support the cause and support companies that acctually use standards and are not biased towards a certian OS.
you have to realize that no matter what battery you get it seems that as they age the time they give you goes down, so at the end you always end up with solid 1-2 hours of usage. I'm not sure what the deal is with the Centrino based ones, but I think they'd do the same after few months of continuous usage.
One key point that Gnome has, btw I use Gnome as my one and only WM, are the standards. I think there should be more of this and similiar things in Open Source community. The GNOME Human Interface Guidelines is a great way to let the developers know what's a good way to code the apps so that when you make them those apps don't look off from the rest of the desktop. I believe that if every project at one point had a version that standardized it, we would get much better software at the end of it. I know many people are all about freedom to do whatever the hell they want, and they should have that freedom, but if there are few standards set then the interoperability of Open Source software would be much easier to implement and it would be much easier on a user to use and on a developer to code and write new features for.
So what exactly do they do with these software patents? what about prior art??? doesn't that apply to software patents? Also could I just like license a certain type of for loop or something and charge for it? It seems to me that this is all just bunch of corporate crap talk that will eventually not get anywhere and you'll only be able to get the patents on something trully revolutionary and quite unique.
I guess you have to realize that this is only one company doing that if more and more companies started doing that and then recieved huge 50% or more discounts from MS, then for sure MS stock would just plumit since their earnings will be half of what they got now (remember MS makes money on OS and Office, rest of the stuff mostly looses money, maybe MSN isn't, but most other stuff sure is).
Eventually this will work in Linux's favor since it's doing exactly what it's needed, weakening MS's position in the market and exposing corporations at least tot he word Linux which hasn't been accepted that much by most companies.
I was looking at the Goneme Project website and it seems like everything that they want to change is basically changable by the ways of plug-ins, new themes, different config options and so forth. I don't see anything new or revolutionary about this project.
It seems that everyone here fails to realize the difference between guitar and power amps. Of course for power amps you'd want to have transistors to have as much as power as cleanly as possible and have it be as consistent as possible.
On the other hand if you want a guitar amp tubes are definitely a way to go. You get a certain response from them that you just can't get from small silicon squares:). If you ever tried a Marshall's JCM 800 or any other all tube amp you'll notice that the sound changes dramatically as you increase the volume, which in my opinion is a desirable thing for any guitar player that wants to have different types of distortion easily on his disposal.
So the moral of this story is to use tubes on guitar amps since they sound sooo much better although if you plug them into an oscilloscope you'll get some pretty noisy graphs.
http://freedesktop.org/~keithp/screenshots/
It's the part of the new XServer from guys at freedesktop.org. It looks pretty sweet and it's been around for a while. I just can't wait till it makes it to one of the more stable releases.
I'd suggest not buying any computer racks. They are pretty damn pricey, $400+ maybe less if you find them in used computer stores, and they are usually wayyyy too big, like 6 feet high and stuff. What I found works the best is recording equipment rackmounts they can be found from $80+. The one I have was $120 and it's rock solid. I already have 3 cases in it and a rackmount switch.
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Of course people should see this. I still can't believe this election is going down to 50-50 in the polls. I mean come on. How many people you know off that got laid off? I know of 3 just in my imediate family. And some of them STILL can't find a job. Also the whole Iraq thing, don't get me started on this.
The dude has to goooooo.
Finally Linux benchmarks :). They are sooo hard to find and finally they are being used.
ummm they are not hard drives you have to think of OS Support for something like that, plus you'd need a completely new case and mobo design to make something like that hot swapable. Try pulling something that connects directly to your mobo without opening a case. Hard drives are easy to hot swap since they connect to mobo via cable not directly. Plus from what I read they really don't scale so well, so putting two cards together will give you about 10-25% more performance. So I assume that puting 5 of them together couldn't give you more than 50-100% extra performance hardly worth the $1000 you might spend on those five cards.
ahahaha definitely a good reply :) I was hopping for something like this, and you hit it dead on. Good job :D.
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Then as far as I'm concerned couldn't we use the November dummies for the launching experiments
It seems that nobody pays any attention to the dummies, they are the real victims here, but nobody cares.
What kind of world are we living? I say it's end of the world when we stop carying for dummies.
It's a damn good thing to have these bounty hunts. It really involves a lot of people but at the same time it repays the people who have worked so hard to get some of the things done.
As far as the licences goes, does it matter? I mean if i wrote something got $1000 for it and decided it was worth selling my code, I'd have no problem with it. It seems that there are people out there who would like you to have a choice on what to do with the code as long as you let everyone see and use your code as they please. Not a lot of choice there, right? In my opinion it all comes down to the developer, if he wants to do something let him. As far as I'm concerned those devs got paid for by Novell for whatever they did, so at least Novell should be able to use some of that code elswhere also.
Let's say Novell comes out with Evolution and Evolution PRO. Regular version is Open Source, the Pro version is $100. If I as a dev submited some code that found it's way in both versions I'd have no problem with it since there is a free version that uses my code anyways. If i submited a code that found it's way only in Pro then I'd have a problem with it. Basically what I'm getting at is that the $100 Novell charges you for pro is probably not due to my code, but some other code that Novell developed not under GPL but under some propiatery license or something.
I bought a laptop about 3 years ago for around $2000 and at the time it was an average laptop. Look at what you can get for $2000 today, it's usually top of the line stuff, mine would probably cost around $1000 now. I guess the price change goes along with the time no matter what the only thing is that we are blind to the fact that some things that used to cost thousands of dollars ten years ago where top of the line back then, while now they're considered garbage. Look at these new plasma displays and stuff that sell for few thousands. I bet our grandkids will make fun of us and call us dumbasses because we spent so much money on displays that they could get (in year 2030) for about $150 each with a FARRR better quality and size.
It seems that Solaris is having a real hard time getting trough no matter what. With the availability of so many BSDs and Linux distros Solaris is a lone wolf in the whole story. Also I don't think that people who are currently running Linux will be very eager to just jump up and switch since all of a sudden Solaris supports Linux binaries.
Well it seems like "Linux Certified" hardware is getting easier and easier to find. I bought a laptop about 2-3 years ago from Sony and it was a pain to get USB to work, I had to user the patch, but with successive kernel releasies it got acctually fixed in the kernel code and it started working straight out of box after kernel 2.4.22 or so.
Now that HP is getting their certified laptops out there I feel that rest of the manufacturers would also start geting their act together. After all people who buy these things and run Linux on them are probably the people who'll recomend these computers to their Joe Sixpack friends. I can't count how many times I recomended a computer or a piece of hardware based on how well it worked with Linux, just so to support the cause and support companies that acctually use standards and are not biased towards a certian OS.
you have to realize that no matter what battery you get it seems that as they age the time they give you goes down, so at the end you always end up with solid 1-2 hours of usage. I'm not sure what the deal is with the Centrino based ones, but I think they'd do the same after few months of continuous usage.
One key point that Gnome has, btw I use Gnome as my one and only WM, are the standards. I think there should be more of this and similiar things in Open Source community. The GNOME Human Interface Guidelines is a great way to let the developers know what's a good way to code the apps so that when you make them those apps don't look off from the rest of the desktop. I believe that if every project at one point had a version that standardized it, we would get much better software at the end of it. I know many people are all about freedom to do whatever the hell they want, and they should have that freedom, but if there are few standards set then the interoperability of Open Source software would be much easier to implement and it would be much easier on a user to use and on a developer to code and write new features for.
So what exactly do they do with these software patents? what about prior art??? doesn't that apply to software patents? Also could I just like license a certain type of for loop or something and charge for it? It seems to me that this is all just bunch of corporate crap talk that will eventually not get anywhere and you'll only be able to get the patents on something trully revolutionary and quite unique.
I guess you have to realize that this is only one company doing that if more and more companies started doing that and then recieved huge 50% or more discounts from MS, then for sure MS stock would just plumit since their earnings will be half of what they got now (remember MS makes money on OS and Office, rest of the stuff mostly looses money, maybe MSN isn't, but most other stuff sure is). Eventually this will work in Linux's favor since it's doing exactly what it's needed, weakening MS's position in the market and exposing corporations at least tot he word Linux which hasn't been accepted that much by most companies.
I was looking at the Goneme Project website and it seems like everything that they want to change is basically changable by the ways of plug-ins, new themes, different config options and so forth. I don't see anything new or revolutionary about this project.
It seems that everyone here fails to realize the difference between guitar and power amps. Of course for power amps you'd want to have transistors to have as much as power as cleanly as possible and have it be as consistent as possible. On the other hand if you want a guitar amp tubes are definitely a way to go. You get a certain response from them that you just can't get from small silicon squares :). If you ever tried a Marshall's JCM 800 or any other all tube amp you'll notice that the sound changes dramatically as you increase the volume, which in my opinion is a desirable thing for any guitar player that wants to have different types of distortion easily on his disposal.
So the moral of this story is to use tubes on guitar amps since they sound sooo much better although if you plug them into an oscilloscope you'll get some pretty noisy graphs.
http://freedesktop.org/~keithp/screenshots/ It's the part of the new XServer from guys at freedesktop.org. It looks pretty sweet and it's been around for a while. I just can't wait till it makes it to one of the more stable releases.
I'd suggest not buying any computer racks. They are pretty damn pricey, $400+ maybe less if you find them in used computer stores, and they are usually wayyyy too big, like 6 feet high and stuff. What I found works the best is recording equipment rackmounts they can be found from $80+. The one I have was $120 and it's rock solid. I already have 3 cases in it and a rackmount switch.
Well I've been using an ipod on a Linux box for the past 3 months and it works great. Check out gtkpod.sf.net and be amazed :)
good thing RedHat didn't come accross as the best distro once again :)