The number at the end of each row is an index, with the 1GHz PowerMac as the reference point. The 2.2 GHz Athlon64 FX 51 is therefore more than three times faster than that, whereas the 2GHz G5 is only two times faster.
In my view there are a lot of "By it now"s, being based on a "free desktop". When did a Windows user pay for Acrobat Reader, Real Audio Real Player, or Macromedia Flash Player 6; apart from the fancy versions?
Where is the incentive in opening the gates for Ximian hell here?! Who is duped? Perens?! Aren't Ximian just like any other money drainer?! To me, it sure looks like that. But, as always, I may be wrong again...
Adobe payed for using Qt and they can probably afford it. How many Mexicans can afford Miguel de Icaza's Ximian? 99$ for a desktop(!) with Acrobat Reader, Real Player, and Flash Player?!
How many Mexicans can afford Miguel de Icaza's Ximian, apart from Miguel himself?
Hrmmmm... Somehow, my thoughts are in the direction that this LGPL talk is a setup for giving Ximian a get-go start harvesting all the multimillion dollar berries. But, I may be as wrong as many a time before.
Yes, sure: ftp://ftp.ximian.com/pub/xd2/redhat-9-i386. But, the one who has the copyright on the code does set the agenda to a large extent, and that may be what all this is about.
I have no idea who is pushing the LGPL agenda besides Perens, but Ximian seems to me being a likely candidate. Maybe, I should RTFA...;)
In my view there are a lot of "By it now"s, being based on a "free desktop". When did a Windows user pay for Acrobat Reader, Real Audio Real Player, or Macromedia Flash Player 6; apart from the fancy versions?
Where is the incentive in opening the gates for Ximian hell here?! Who is duped? Perens?! Aren't Ximian just like any other money drainer?! To me, it sure looks like that. But, as always, I may be wrong again...
Adobe payed for using Qt and they can probably afford it. How many Mexicans can afford Miguel de Icaza's Ximian? 99$ for a desktop(!) with Acrobat Reader, Real Player, and Flash Player?!
How many Mexicans can afford Miguel de Icaza's Ximian, apart from Miguel himself?
Here are some brave words: "Ximian is offering a complete, low-cost productivity solution for Linux." Mike Rogers, VP and General Manager Desktop and Office Productivity Software Sun Microsystems
Hrmmmm... Somehow, my thoughts are in the direction that this LGPL talk is a setup for giving Ximian a get-go start harvesting all the multimillion dollar berries. But, I may be as wrong as many a time before.
Yes, sure: ftp://ftp.ximian.com/pub/xd2/redhat-9-i386. But, the one who has the copyright on the code does set the agenda to a large extent, and that may be what all this is about.
I have no idea who is pushing the LGPL agenda besides Perens, but Ximian seems to me being a likely candidate. Maybe, I should RTFA...;)
The two main reasons being unease and cost?! That is wrong. The simple truth is poor performance. So far, no system has been able to match faces better than 60-80% in real life tests. That is still far too poor to be really useful for police work and other, similar purpose.
I know several distros have their kernels heavily patched (e.g. RedHat). Does anyone know if there is a distro which leaves the kernel totally untouched? Or, perhaps RedHat and a few others are unique in their capacity to actually fiddle with it.
Considering that SuSE is a German company, and that SCO already had trouble with convincing the German courts about its case (since they refused to show evidence for their claims...), we may end up with a nothingness here, i.e. SCO has no case, again.
Whoever wins this case, there will be Schadenfreude in the end. Oh, yes; I learned German at school, but still haven't found a good English equivalent for that word.
In an effort to kick-start the building of applications that leverage directory technology, Novell here at the NetWorld+Interop conference announced plans to offer its eDirectory free to developers, equipment manufacturers, and independent software vendors
But, what happened to that initiative? Is it free today? Or, what is free, really?
Will this be bad for Linux? Will MS now be able to say - Hey that open source thang you're doin', couldn't you just pace down a bit? I wonder: how much is open source worth, for an already a big pocket?
IIRC, it took AMD and Intel some five years to match the DSP speeds produced Texas Instruments in the late nineties (>1 GHz). If that analogy holds for anything, it would indicate we may have them on our desktops this decade!
NOTICE: SCO has suspended new sales and distribution of SCO Linux until the intellectual property issues surrounding Linux are resolved. SCO will, however, continue to support existing SCO Linux and Caldera OpenLinux customers consistent with existing contractual obligations. SCO offers at no extra charge to its existing Linux customers a SCO UNIX IP license for their use of prior SCO or Caldera distributions of Linux in binary format. The license also covers binary use of support updates distributed to them by SCO. This SCO license balances SCO's need to enforce its intellectual property rights against the practical needs of existing customers in the marketplace.
Dear SCO customer,
Starting on November 1, 2003, SCO will institute new procedures for you to access binary updates and source rpms. If you own an SCO licensed copy of Linux (such as such as OpenLinux, eDesktop, etc.), it will be necessary for you to register (or re-register) in order to continue to receive support files. During the registration process you will receive instructions on how the new access procedure will work or you can visit:
Actually, there are 200 fish species described as new every year. And it has been like that for the last twenty years. BTW, check out www.fishbase.org, the best site there is on fish. H.U.G.E. database.
Oh, some bragging rights on behalf of myself... I have described three new fish species myself; giving them scientific names and all that.:) No, I won't tell you their name; please, let G3ck0G33k have some his mysteries of his own.:)
The article states: "Although its casing is still made of plastic, it looks like if it was made of aluminium or similiar alloy."
Duh? Since when did aluminum (or aluminium) become an alloy? Bronze, steel, or brass are alloys, but aluminum never was. Yes, aluminum is mostly used in aluminum alloys, but, still...
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Athlon G5 vs Athlon 64 FX 51 - the Athlon64 FX 51 wins big, based on Overall performance in 15 test calculations on Mathematica 5.0.
AMD Athlon 64 FX-51 3200+, 512 MB, Windows: 3.02386
Athlon 2800+, 512 KB cache, 333 MHz FSB, Win. XP Pro: 2.50588
P4-B, 3Ghz, 4GB, W2K3: 2.1325
PowerMac G5, 2 GHz, 2.5 GB, MacOS 10.2.8: 2.04471
Alpha 21264C, 1250MHz, Unix: 1.96207
Dell P IV 2.4 GHz, 512MB, Win2000: 1.89181
Pentium 4, 2.4GHz, 512MB, Linux: 1.81
Pentium Xeon, 2.4GHz, 1GB, Linux: 1.79268
Athlon XP 1800+, 512MB, Linux: 1.65654
Gateway 700XL Pentium 4, 2.2GHz, 1GB RAM, WinXP Pro: 1.5303
Athlon 1.3 GHz, 768 MB, Windows XP home: 1.39993
Pentium P4, 2.0 Ghz, 1.5 GB RAM, 512kB cache, XP SP1: 1.2771
PowerMac 1GHz, 768MB, MacOS 10.2.8: 1.0
The number at the end of each row is an index, with the 1GHz PowerMac as the reference point. The 2.2 GHz Athlon64 FX 51 is therefore more than three times faster than that, whereas the 2GHz G5 is only two times faster.
Isn't Gnome's own, independent, development near being trifled since Ximian took on? And, then, where does Ximian lead us for Free Desktops?
;)
See this:
The suggested retail price is $99 (U.S.)
In addition to the Bitstream fonts bundled with GNOME 2.2, Ximian Desktop 2 includes MS-Windows compatible fonts from AGFA*, so your applications, documents and web pages look their best. AGFA fonts available only with Ximian Professional Edition - Buy it now!
Access virtually all print, media, audio and video web content with the bundled Adobe Acrobat Reader, Real Audio Real Player, Macromedia Flash Player 6, and Java 2 Run-time Environment. Available only with Ximian Professional Edition - Buy it now!
In my view there are a lot of "By it now"s, being based on a "free desktop". When did a Windows user pay for Acrobat Reader, Real Audio Real Player, or Macromedia Flash Player 6; apart from the fancy versions?
Where is the incentive in opening the gates for Ximian hell here?! Who is duped? Perens?! Aren't Ximian just like any other money drainer?! To me, it sure looks like that. But, as always, I may be wrong again...
Adobe payed for using Qt and they can probably afford it. How many Mexicans can afford Miguel de Icaza's Ximian? 99$ for a desktop(!) with Acrobat Reader, Real Player, and Flash Player?!
How many Mexicans can afford Miguel de Icaza's Ximian, apart from Miguel himself?
Here are some brave words: "Ximian is offering a complete, low-cost productivity solution for Linux." Mike Rogers, VP and General Manager Desktop and Office Productivity Software Sun Microsystems
Hrmmmm... Somehow, my thoughts are in the direction that this LGPL talk is a setup for giving Ximian a get-go start harvesting all the multimillion dollar berries. But, I may be as wrong as many a time before.
Yes, sure: ftp://ftp.ximian.com/pub/xd2/redhat-9-i386. But, the one who has the copyright on the code does set the agenda to a large extent, and that may be what all this is about.
I have no idea who is pushing the LGPL agenda besides Perens, but Ximian seems to me being a likely candidate. Maybe, I should RTFA...
Isn't Gnome's own, independent, development near being trifled since Ximian took on? And, then, where does Ximian lead us for Free Desktops?
;)
See this:
The suggested retail price is $99 (U.S.)
In addition to the Bitstream fonts bundled with GNOME 2.2, Ximian Desktop 2 includes MS-Windows compatible fonts from AGFA*, so your applications, documents and web pages look their best. AGFA fonts available only with Ximian Professional Edition - Buy it now!
Access virtually all print, media, audio and video web content with the bundled Adobe Acrobat Reader, Real Audio Real Player, Macromedia Flash Player 6, and Java 2 Run-time Environment. Available only with Ximian Professional Edition - Buy it now!
In my view there are a lot of "By it now"s, being based on a "free desktop". When did a Windows user pay for Acrobat Reader, Real Audio Real Player, or Macromedia Flash Player 6; apart from the fancy versions?
Where is the incentive in opening the gates for Ximian hell here?! Who is duped? Perens?! Aren't Ximian just like any other money drainer?! To me, it sure looks like that. But, as always, I may be wrong again...
Adobe payed for using Qt and they can probably afford it. How many Mexicans can afford Miguel de Icaza's Ximian? 99$ for a desktop(!) with Acrobat Reader, Real Player, and Flash Player?!
How many Mexicans can afford Miguel de Icaza's Ximian, apart from Miguel himself?
Here are some brave words:
"Ximian is offering a complete, low-cost productivity solution for Linux."
Mike Rogers, VP and General Manager
Desktop and Office Productivity Software
Sun Microsystems
Hrmmmm... Somehow, my thoughts are in the direction that this LGPL talk is a setup for giving Ximian a get-go start harvesting all the multimillion dollar berries. But, I may be as wrong as many a time before.
Yes, sure: ftp://ftp.ximian.com/pub/xd2/redhat-9-i386. But, the one who has the copyright on the code does set the agenda to a large extent, and that may be what all this is about.
I have no idea who is pushing the LGPL agenda besides Perens, but Ximian seems to me being a likely candidate. Maybe, I should RTFA...
Boy, that ain't ... Guano, eh... ;)
"Remember that this is the person who claimed the judge "flipped a coin" in deciding to rule in favour of IBM's motion to compel discovery."
:)
Is there any hope the judge reads Slashdot?
The two main reasons being unease and cost?! That is wrong. The simple truth is poor performance. So far, no system has been able to match faces better than 60-80% in real life tests. That is still far too poor to be really useful for police work and other, similar purpose.
From his homepage: "Likes: spring, cesaria evora, slashdot, chelsea[...]"
;)
Hey, Mark! That's karma whoring!
Anyhow, GREAT JOB!
lets hope this is not just Wind in sales...
"In the Eclipse Platform, code access and use is controlled through the Common Public License"
Does anyone know what that is and how it differs from GPL?
I know several distros have their kernels heavily patched (e.g. RedHat). Does anyone know if there is a distro which leaves the kernel totally untouched? Or, perhaps RedHat and a few others are unique in their capacity to actually fiddle with it.
Considering that SuSE is a German company, and that SCO already had trouble with convincing the German courts about its case (since they refused to show evidence for their claims...), we may end up with a nothingness here, i.e. SCO has no case, again.
Whoever wins this case, there will be Schadenfreude in the end. Oh, yes; I learned German at school, but still haven't found a good English equivalent for that word.
The IBM and Novell connection just seem stronger now with slide 17.
Apparently, someone has not considered the differences between the various forms of open source.
Now, eventually: "News for Noordas. Stuff that matters."
The SuSE move by Novell is perhaps in line with a previous announcement already back in 2001:
In an effort to kick-start the building of applications that leverage directory technology, Novell here at the NetWorld+Interop conference announced plans to offer its eDirectory free to developers, equipment manufacturers, and independent software vendors
But, what happened to that initiative? Is it free today? Or, what is free, really?
Will this be bad for Linux? Will MS now be able to say - Hey that open source thang you're doin', couldn't you just pace down a bit? I wonder: how much is open source worth, for an already a big pocket?
Think weather forecast, at a finer and finer level. Then you'll get it, in a way.
IIRC, it took AMD and Intel some five years to match the DSP speeds produced Texas Instruments in the late nineties (>1 GHz). If that analogy holds for anything, it would indicate we may have them on our desktops this decade!
On the contrary, Java is an already strong brand name which will survive for even longer now.
It's all about marketing, it's not about being descriptive.
In MS speech recognition version 0.1.4:
"Where are your wanker goatse-gay?"
Here is another "irrelevant" doc from Caldera's site. Check out the 1 Nov 2003 remark.
ftp://ftp.caldera.com/pub/LTP/Legal_Notice:
NOTICE: SCO has suspended new sales and distribution of SCO Linux until
the intellectual property issues surrounding Linux are resolved. SCO will,
however, continue to support existing SCO Linux and Caldera OpenLinux
customers consistent with existing contractual obligations. SCO offers at
no extra charge to its existing Linux customers a SCO UNIX IP license for
their use of prior SCO or Caldera distributions of Linux in binary
format. The license also covers binary use of support updates distributed
to them by SCO. This SCO license balances SCO's need to enforce its
intellectual property rights against the practical needs of existing
customers in the marketplace.
Dear SCO customer,
Starting on November 1, 2003, SCO will institute new procedures
for you to access binary updates and source rpms. If you own an SCO
licensed copy of Linux (such as such as OpenLinux, eDesktop, etc.), it
will be necessary for you to register (or re-register) in order to
continue to receive support files. During the registration process
you will receive instructions on how the new access procedure will
work or you can visit:
http://www.sco.com/support/linux_info.html
Actually, there are 28,000 species known.
Check FishBase for the complete listing and all synonyms.
Actually, there are 200 fish species described as new every year. And it has been like that for the last twenty years. BTW, check out www.fishbase.org, the best site there is on fish. H.U.G.E. database.
:) No, I won't tell you their name; please, let G3ck0G33k have some his mysteries of his own. :)
Oh, some bragging rights on behalf of myself... I have described three new fish species myself; giving them scientific names and all that.
The article states: "Although its casing is still made of plastic, it looks like if it was made of aluminium or similiar alloy."
/., isn't it? ;)
Duh? Since when did aluminum (or aluminium) become an alloy? Bronze, steel, or brass are alloys, but aluminum never was. Yes, aluminum is mostly used in aluminum alloys, but, still...
Hey, this is