I have no mod points, and you're already at +5, but I just wanted to add my +1, Insightful to your comment.
Religion has caused, and is causing, more hate and violence than any political ideology that I can think of in recent times. The tax-free status of religions needs to be revoked immediately.
As a former Christian, I've abandoned the "faith" and I'm currently trying to stop my wife from giving away my hard earned salary to an organisation that cannot prove anything it stands for.
with temperatures hitting 107 degrees Fahrenheit in some areas
That's 41C, and not entirely accurate. The island-state of Tasmania, the coldest (on average) place in Australia, reached 41C. Some areas on the mainland have reached 49C, which is 120F. My home in central NSW (six hours west of Sydney) was 40-42C for 4-5 days, with high winds for the last couple. Bushfires were burning several kilometers from my home, with over a hundred firefighters fighting to contain them. Emergency vehicle sirens have been common, and I've received SMS messages from the Rural Fire Service warning about how close the fires are.
Thankfully a cool change appeared yesterday, but there are still many fires burning around the country and temperatures are expected to increase again tomorrow.
As an aside, why won't Slashdot let me post the degree symbol (alt-248)?
Exactly which tradition or long held belief that anyone might hold would this patently offend?
Although I'm not sure of the basis of it, the Australian Aborigine believes that viewing images of a dead person to be sacrilege. It is for this reason that ABC television places notices before some programs to warn Aborigines that the show may contain images of dead people.
It's part of the Debian packaging guidelines that packages are required to place an entry in the global menuing system. Even if it's not placed in the GNOME or KDE menus, it's guaranteed to be in the Debian apps menu.
Jabber Australia was incorporated several days ago, and has half a dozen young enthusiasts on the committee. The article in The Age probably ran a little early, because we don't currently have any services to offer the public...yet. We are in the process of putting together our website/forums/server/services, and it should all be up and running within a week or so.
Our current website is very basic, but it's standing up to the Slashdot Effect so far.:)
The short answer is - yes. However it doesn't require a seperate system to make the servers talk to each other.
Jabber is similar in concept to email, in that all net-connected Jabber servers can talk to all other net-connected Jabber servers. When you send a message to a friend on another server, your server simply passes the message along to the other server, which then delivers it to your friend.
People have been saying for years that Slashdotters don't read the article, so I thought that I'd test the theory. I'd submitted the story and highlighted something insignificant about the article in the submission. Browsing through this page, I see lots of people discussing merely what I wrote at the top - 'locking down' students. If people actually read the article, they'd see that it was more about teaching software development in an open source environment, and also the fact that they can give free Linux cds to the students to replicate their training systems at home.
What I'd like to know is - how can the Slashdot Effect exist when no-one clicks through to read the article?
This karma-reducing social experiment was proudly brought to you by kNIGits in Australia.
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Good to hear about how good life is over in the northern hemisphere. Lots of DSL and Cable options.
<sad_tale> I live in the suburbs of the the capital of Queensland, Australia. So far I have been able to get neither cable or DSL. There are only two cable providers in this country, and only one of them has cabled my area. The nearest cable run ends four houses away from mine, and the company refuses to lay any more.
To top it off, I live within the required distance to my local digital telphone exchange, yet I can't get DSL either. Every time I call the telco, they give me a different excuse. It doesn't matter how much I want to give them AU$80 (divide by 2 for US$) a month, they don't seem to want my business... </sad_tale>
I have had the opportunity to use friends' cable and DSL services. In this country, it seems that cable is at least 500% faster and more reliable than DSL. The most common ADSL connection is 256/64, and averages around 50Kb/sec download speeds, and frequent dropouts. On the other hand, cable is always-on (with no dropouts), and often gets 400-500Kb/sec. On the down side, most home broadband plans have a 3Gb download limit. 'Unlimited', my arse.
-Tony
PS. Hey Taco! Why do I have to use html code to get angle brackets in 'Plain Old Text' mode?
Even though my wife doesn't send email to usenet, belongs to no mailing lists, and doesn't sign up for any web services, she still gets spammed to hell.
Why? A clueless friend of hers keeps filling out those "recommend this page to a friend" forms on unscrupulous websites. Even though we know may know better, most people don't.
Trust me, for months I've been drooling over those flat-panel iMacs with MacOSX. Why didn't I just go out and buy one? A sad fact of life is that I simply don't have the cash to go out and purchase one of Apple's fantastic computing experiences.
If MacOSX ran on x86 hardware, my article wouldn't mention Windows XP at all. I'd have gone 'forward' to OSX instead of 'back' to Windows XP. Perhaps one day I'll have the money to get a real computer, with a beautiful, usable *NIX based OS on it. Until then, I have to stick with what I can afford.
If they were really so pro-Linux, they would have Open Source drivers so that you wouldn't have to jump through the hoops that you did. Place the blame where it belongs -- with NVidia.
This is the same load of rubbish that I keep hearing from OpenSource/FreeSoftware advocates ALL THE TIME - "They should opensource their drivers/software/protocols/whatever". Have you noticed that nVIDIA's Detonator drivers work for every single card they make (except a couple of very early ones)? The reason is simple - each card they release has basically the same interfaces as the previous one. If they were to completely Open Source their drivers, their competitors would quickly get an insight into where they're headed with their next product, and possibly pre-empt it.
How about getting down off the OpenSource soapbox and start letting commercial companies turn a profit! At least nVIDIA is providing good support for GNU/Linux users. Besides, having the full source available wouldn't have made the previous poster's experiences any better - you can't point n click to install drivers from source.
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I'm not saying Red Hat or Mandrake arn't any good:) What I *am* saying is that the tool used to install the packages is a fairly minor issue.
Unfortunately, there is a fundamental flaw with rpm compared to dpkg. A Debian package (.DEB) depends on other Debian packages, while RPMs depend on other files. Have you ever had an RPM say that it couldn't be installed because it depends on lib****.so.4? I have, and I've even had that file in the correct directory. Compare that to dpkg, which tells you which package you need to install in order to fulfil the dependency.
Or have I seen 3 open source dvd players but not one of promised commercial players for linux available here and now?
I keep reading this type of comment, and I'm wondering... haven't any of you heard of LinDVD? Sure, the site says that they don't deal directly with consumers at this stage, but they're definately getting their product out there. Take a look at this spec sheet from IBM.
As tragic as this situation is, why does this story warrant posting on Slashdot?
Think about it people. The only reason it's here is because the boy was suspended for cracking the school computer systems. It's not here because someone cares about the fact that he died, but so that we can all blame the big people in authority for driving the little geeks to their deaths.
Who cares why he was suspended! I'm upset at the loss of the boy's life!
I agree wholeheartedly. Below is the email that I just sent to Sorenson. Let's all be at least as polite as I tried to be.
Dear Sir / Madam
Today, many video clips are powered by the Sorenson codec. I notice that there are decoders / viewers for Microsoft Windows and Apple Macintosh, yet there are none for GNU/Linux and UNIX in general.
There is a UNIX video stream player called 'Xanim', found at http://xanim.va.pubnix.com/ . This program has the ability to plugin binary decoder modules, to allow playback of many different codecs. I note that the Sorenson codec is not among them.
Because of Xanim's ability to accept binary modules, the source code to your codec does not need to be revealed to anyone. Please consider supporting the Linux and UNIX communities by providing a module for Xanim. We all look forward to watching videos powered by Sorenson!
Regards
My name here
The last thing we need is them refusing, on account of rude people emailing them...
One of the events being held at ace2k is a "Geek Party". Among other things, they plan to have multiplayer games there.
I've been asked to provide the PCs for these games. Hmmm, since they don't want any windows machines there, I may have to ask my mates to lend a hand...
Bruce Maguire lodged the complaint because large parts of the site were inaccessible to blind people.
Hmmm. Does this mean that any little web site in Australia comes under this judgement? I have a small site on my (permanently online) computer at home, am I likely to have action taken against me if I don't have ALT tags everywhere on it? (I do have them, btw).
URL withheld so I don't get slashdotted, of course. _______________________________________
Is that an African or European swallow?
The Biblical book of Corinthians was also known as the "Letter to the Church at Corinth".
Corinthians was the name given to those who lived at the City of Corinth, which had undoubtably been around a long time before the Apostle Paul founded the Church there, and sent them his letters.
What if the someone who lived in Corinth today wanted to promote the City? Would they have more of a right to the corinthians.com domain name than some soccer team from Brazil?
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Trump, you say? I'm pretty sure that IBM's new system enables the police to search for orange-skinned criminals, too.
There is no forking this project," Red Hat EVP Paul Cormier told a Texas couple
On the contrary. I expect that there will be lots of forking on their wedding night, and likely quite a bit during the honeymoon as well.
Forgetting that I was on Slashdot and not on Google+, I instinctively reached to click the +1 button. You've hit the nail on the head, my friend.
I have no mod points, and you're already at +5, but I just wanted to add my +1, Insightful to your comment.
Religion has caused, and is causing, more hate and violence than any political ideology that I can think of in recent times. The tax-free status of religions needs to be revoked immediately.
As a former Christian, I've abandoned the "faith" and I'm currently trying to stop my wife from giving away my hard earned salary to an organisation that cannot prove anything it stands for.
Quote from the linked Mashable article:
with temperatures hitting 107 degrees Fahrenheit in some areas
That's 41C, and not entirely accurate. The island-state of Tasmania, the coldest (on average) place in Australia, reached 41C. Some areas on the mainland have reached 49C, which is 120F. My home in central NSW (six hours west of Sydney) was 40-42C for 4-5 days, with high winds for the last couple. Bushfires were burning several kilometers from my home, with over a hundred firefighters fighting to contain them. Emergency vehicle sirens have been common, and I've received SMS messages from the Rural Fire Service warning about how close the fires are.
Thankfully a cool change appeared yesterday, but there are still many fires burning around the country and temperatures are expected to increase again tomorrow.
As an aside, why won't Slashdot let me post the degree symbol (alt-248)?
From the site's "Software" page: No thanks.
It's part of the Debian packaging guidelines that packages are required to place an entry in the global menuing system. Even if it's not placed in the GNOME or KDE menus, it's guaranteed to be in the Debian apps menu.
Jabber Australia was incorporated several days ago, and has half a dozen young enthusiasts on the committee. The article in The Age probably ran a little early, because we don't currently have any services to offer the public...yet. We are in the process of putting together our website/forums/server/services, and it should all be up and running within a week or so.
:)
Our current website is very basic, but it's standing up to the Slashdot Effect so far.
- Tony (Jabber Australia Committee)
The short answer is - yes. However it doesn't require a seperate system to make the servers talk to each other.
Jabber is similar in concept to email, in that all net-connected Jabber servers can talk to all other net-connected Jabber servers. When you send a message to a friend on another server, your server simply passes the message along to the other server, which then delivers it to your friend.
I've always thought it ironic how DNF is also a TLA for "Did Not Finish"...
I disagree; I think the idea of "everything's already been done at least twice" is a common phallacy.
No, a six inch penis is a common "phallacy".
People have been saying for years that Slashdotters don't read the article, so I thought that I'd test the theory. I'd submitted the story and highlighted something insignificant about the article in the submission. Browsing through this page, I see lots of people discussing merely what I wrote at the top - 'locking down' students. If people actually read the article, they'd see that it was more about teaching software development in an open source environment, and also the fact that they can give free Linux cds to the students to replicate their training systems at home.
What I'd like to know is - how can the Slashdot Effect exist when no-one clicks through to read the article?
This karma-reducing social experiment was proudly brought to you by kNIGits in Australia.
Good to hear about how good life is over in the northern hemisphere. Lots of DSL and Cable options.
<sad_tale>
I live in the suburbs of the the capital of Queensland, Australia. So far I have been able to get neither cable or DSL. There are only two cable providers in this country, and only one of them has cabled my area. The nearest cable run ends four houses away from mine, and the company refuses to lay any more.
To top it off, I live within the required distance to my local digital telphone exchange, yet I can't get DSL either. Every time I call the telco, they give me a different excuse. It doesn't matter how much I want to give them AU$80 (divide by 2 for US$) a month, they don't seem to want my business...
</sad_tale>
I have had the opportunity to use friends' cable and DSL services. In this country, it seems that cable is at least 500% faster and more reliable than DSL. The most common ADSL connection is 256/64, and averages around 50Kb/sec download speeds, and frequent dropouts. On the other hand, cable is always-on (with no dropouts), and often gets 400-500Kb/sec. On the down side, most home broadband plans have a 3Gb download limit. 'Unlimited', my arse.
-Tony
PS. Hey Taco! Why do I have to use html code to get angle brackets in 'Plain Old Text' mode?
Even though my wife doesn't send email to usenet, belongs to no mailing lists, and doesn't sign up for any web services, she still gets spammed to hell.
Why? A clueless friend of hers keeps filling out those "recommend this page to a friend" forms on unscrupulous websites. Even though we know may know better, most people don't.
Trust me, for months I've been drooling over those flat-panel iMacs with MacOSX. Why didn't I just go out and buy one? A sad fact of life is that I simply don't have the cash to go out and purchase one of Apple's fantastic computing experiences.
If MacOSX ran on x86 hardware, my article wouldn't mention Windows XP at all. I'd have gone 'forward' to OSX instead of 'back' to Windows XP. Perhaps one day I'll have the money to get a real computer, with a beautiful, usable *NIX based OS on it. Until then, I have to stick with what I can afford.
If they were really so pro-Linux, they would have Open Source drivers so that you wouldn't have to jump through the hoops that you did. Place the blame where it belongs -- with NVidia.
This is the same load of rubbish that I keep hearing from OpenSource/FreeSoftware advocates ALL THE TIME - "They should opensource their drivers/software/protocols/whatever". Have you noticed that nVIDIA's Detonator drivers work for every single card they make (except a couple of very early ones)? The reason is simple - each card they release has basically the same interfaces as the previous one. If they were to completely Open Source their drivers, their competitors would quickly get an insight into where they're headed with their next product, and possibly pre-empt it.
How about getting down off the OpenSource soapbox and start letting commercial companies turn a profit! At least nVIDIA is providing good support for GNU/Linux users. Besides, having the full source available wouldn't have made the previous poster's experiences any better - you can't point n click to install drivers from source.
--
I'm not saying Red Hat or Mandrake arn't any good :) What I *am* saying is that the tool used to install the packages is a fairly minor issue.
Unfortunately, there is a fundamental flaw with rpm compared to dpkg. A Debian package (.DEB) depends on other Debian packages, while RPMs depend on other files. Have you ever had an RPM say that it couldn't be installed because it depends on lib****.so.4? I have, and I've even had that file in the correct directory. Compare that to dpkg, which tells you which package you need to install in order to fulfil the dependency.
--
Or have I seen 3 open source dvd players but not one of promised commercial players for linux available here and now?
I keep reading this type of comment, and I'm wondering... haven't any of you heard of LinDVD? Sure, the site says that they don't deal directly with consumers at this stage, but they're definately getting their product out there. Take a look at this spec sheet from IBM.
As tragic as this situation is, why does this story warrant posting on Slashdot?
Think about it people. The only reason it's here is because the boy was suspended for cracking the school computer systems. It's not here because someone cares about the fact that he died, but so that we can all blame the big people in authority for driving the little geeks to their deaths.
Who cares why he was suspended! I'm upset at the loss of the boy's life!
T
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Is that an African or European swallow?
Dear Sir / Madam
Today, many video clips are powered by the Sorenson codec. I notice that there are decoders / viewers for Microsoft Windows and Apple Macintosh, yet there are none for GNU/Linux and UNIX in general.
There is a UNIX video stream player called 'Xanim', found at http://xanim.va.pubnix.com/ . This program has the ability to plugin binary decoder modules, to allow playback of many different codecs. I note that the Sorenson codec is not among them.
Because of Xanim's ability to accept binary modules, the source code to your codec does not need to be revealed to anyone. Please consider supporting the Linux and UNIX communities by providing a module for Xanim. We all look forward to watching videos powered by Sorenson!
Regards
My name here
The last thing we need is them refusing, on account of rude people emailing them...
_______________________________________
Is that an African or European swallow?
One of the events being held at ace2k is a "Geek Party". Among other things, they plan to have multiplayer games there.
I've been asked to provide the PCs for these games. Hmmm, since they don't want any windows machines there, I may have to ask my mates to lend a hand...
_______________________________________
Is that an African or European swallow?
Hmmm. Does this mean that any little web site in Australia comes under this judgement? I have a small site on my (permanently online) computer at home, am I likely to have action taken against me if I don't have ALT tags everywhere on it? (I do have them, btw).
URL withheld so I don't get slashdotted, of course.
_______________________________________
Is that an African or European swallow?
The Biblical book of Corinthians was also known as the "Letter to the Church at Corinth".
Corinthians was the name given to those who lived at the City of Corinth, which had undoubtably been around a long time before the Apostle Paul founded the Church there, and sent them his letters.
What if the someone who lived in Corinth today wanted to promote the City? Would they have more of a right to the corinthians.com domain name than some soccer team from Brazil?
_______________________________________
Is that an African or European swallow?
As the Co-ordinator of the Linux Gamers League (in Australia), I can tell you that there's plenty of call for gaming under Linux.
In fact, we're about to have our fourth event...
T
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Is that an African or European swallow?