All the SCO FUD news are marked with Caldera logo. It's true Caldera is owned by SCO but it's not Caldera that claims to have code stolen and placed in the kernel. Someone PLEASE use some real SCO logo or whatever from now on with all SCO vs Linux news and stop bringing shame to otherwise innocent Caldera people.
So you haven't looked well. They are still being developed and currently are ones of the best heaters available on market. Damn advanced and effective devices that every nerd could drool at (and more talented ones would gladly made a case mod basing on some of them too). You're outdated, dad.
Yes, gradually Internet becomes for me one of the top information mediums. But don't call it "source". I didn't buy a paper book in quite a while, but I read more books than ever. I download them from the net. But they are still the same books as the ones written on paper. I connect to university sites and read papers online. But these are the same papers I would read in their library. I read news on newspapers' pages. The news are brought by the same reporters as to the paper.
So, what is the source? The universities? The authors? The redactions? Or the Internet? Did the Internet write the books, the papers? Was Internet present by most famous events? Are power lines the source of electricity, or is it the power plant?
Microsoft presents "sources of windows" to China. Source gets examined. No backdoors are found. Code is accepted. Microsoft sells binaries to China. Difference between what appears after compilation of presented sources and what is in the binaries gets blamed on compilers... Backdoors are present on all copies that were sold as binary and not compiled from the "cleared source" by the chineese themselves.
That's about the point: All progress is stopped. Stasis. No real change. Not destruction, not regression, just stop. By the way, I remember spending long afternoons in bathtub filled with cold water in summer or using wood in my home's fireplace to keep it warm. Use common sense to survive that time, and if you can't, thanks Evolution for taking its course and removing you from the gene pool. If you sit in your flat, complaining how hot it is and that AC doesn't work, instead of finding some water, it's your fault...
The society has enough spare resources to survive pretty harmlessly even quite long blackouts. And they don't mean serious problem. Simply - everything goes "on hook", it's a perfect excuse for not having your work done - and a real one. Simply - "time of stasis", all activities get stopped until the power is back on. Downtime gets forgiven, contracts get postponed, meetings made highly optional. It doesn't mean any real harm. Just a stop. (note, your competition gets stopped just as well:)
And about the blackout activities... In Poland, in times of worst crisis, blackouts were very common. Connecting this fact with limited availablity of condoms, this explains the sudden peak in nation's birth rate with 9 month shift from that period...
...that are usually shut down by pressing the power button, it doesn't have th have any exit point:) As for entry point - just have all the bits in CPU, RAM and the rest set as frozen at arbitrary operation point and start ticking the clock. Not a normal entry point either. But I agree, it's still a binary. Even a core dump is a binary:)
Codec, API, compression format... Let's look at a site of people who know what this is all aboutQuicktime 4 linux
CODECS
Be aware of one thing: Quicktime for Linux won't read any of the movies you download from the internet. Quicktime is a wrapper for many different kinds of compression formats. What you knew as "Quicktime 4", "Quicktime 5", "Quicktime 6", are really different distributions of compression formats. The codecs we support are mainly uncompressed.
So, basically, you confuse two things that come under the same name. True, Quicktime is a player and API, and it's pretty much open. But there are the quicktime compression formats too (just like divx, mpeg or xvid which are yet another compression formats), which are decompressed using proprietary software only, and which could be decompressed using standarised codecs, to be played i.e. in WMO or The Playa, if just said codecs were written - and were legal to write.
We are confusing several terms: File format: Wrapper for some content..avi,.mov,.rm... May contain data created using different compression methods. Compression method: mpeg, mpeg2, divx, ogg vorbis, qt5, qt6... Data compressed using given method can be contained within certain file format (many different methods in 1 file format). Codec: Standarised software layer (de)compressing specific compression format to standarised media player. Note, "standard" codecs for qt* as such are nonexistent. There are some highly proprietary codecs that come with QT package, and allow to play QT-compressed content (from.mov file format) to be played only in QT player (which is by no way "standard") and Apple doesn't seem to be willing to allow anyone to create anything more standarised, i.e. codec that would allow to play qt-compressed data in WMP.
I hope that clarifies the problem and shuts up those who insist QT is not a codec. By some means, it isn't. What people mean as QT codecs is some obscure software layer in official Apple QT player that does nearly but not quite what codecs should do and because of some dumb law regulations, can't be made into something a real codec should be.
Mozilla has something like 40.000 unresolved bugs. But in the other hand, they consider everything a bug: A broken coffee engine on 2nd floor of Netscape building, a party held on some major release, some website admins being idiots who need to be evangelised or lack of kitchen sink in the browser.
There's no real sense to make 10 years plans, when you have no idea what hardware will be available then, what will people need, what do they require. Most of GNU software follows the evolution system. Submit a "bug" to Mozilla, submit a patch, get it revieved and it will be included only if people won't decide it's generally a Bad Idea and ditch it. Similar with kernel - think of a wise feature, create a module, submit it, and maybe in a month after you first thought of it, people will be downloading it from ftp.kernel.org - if your idea was really good. Nobody knows the future and there are no specific plans... except to make things better - more stable, more compilant, more effective, more whatever... Maybe in 20 years ix86 will be completely abandonned and Linux mainstream will move to some new hardware (quantum computers?), maybe in 10 years Linux will become the leading platform in graphics and Kernel will require better gfx handling procedures, maybe someone gets enough balls and brains to integrate X with Kernel in some intelligent way. And maybe Linux will get forgotten, like nowadays VAXen are, replaced by something better? Maybe Microsoft will abandon its old kernels and build its new OS on top of Linux kernel? Nobody knows. What we know is, that as long as at least one nerd on this planet breathes, Linux will be developed and made better:)
...guide to the galaxy. Obviously this maneuver is very unnatural for all space vehicles, but it looks so cool rich people will surely want to have stuff that does that implemented in their spaceships. Just for showoff, no matter how inefficient and ridiculous that would seem:)
I think anybody running a website on anything other than Apache on some *nix like OS should be shot.
Hell, if I run several different servers on a 16M RAM 486, I really don't need the super-cow of Apache eating up half of my resources. I use something lightweight like Boa, thttpd or mathopd for that!
Of course if the system resources allow that, I'd be the first one to hand you a gun:)
I guess if they used full DVD capacity (4-sided recording, 16G/disk) and some decent compression, they could fit it maybe in a typical 4 CD case.
But then it wouldn't have such a marketing impact. 4 DVD set? What's so special about that?
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I use Afterstep (it's Great!) for that, with desktop size like 7000x7000, and I often use more than 50% of it - in rather random pattern so that if it was smaller, things would get locally crowded. Afterstep has that great app of Pager that allows you to navigate the desktop quickly, move windows around, etc. Plus looks that beat most of the others. (say, Enlightenment was prettier, but Enlightenment wasn't something that one could use as a standalone DM.)
I just never use "minimise":)
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It's all matter of scrolling distance setup. If you have edgescroll set to 50-100%, it's real pain in the ass. Set scroll to 5% and the fact that your screen shifts when you touch the edge with your cursor becomes a great feature instead of a problem.
...port SETI@home to gameboy! Imagine that number-crunching power spread over billions of homes worldwide!
I'm waiting for a decent Quake port to Gameboy too - with spare CPU power of 4 GBAs extra, it should be able to generate 3d gfx easily. On one of them only, true:)
And when will Nintendo release a TCP stack for GBA? I want to start a portable pocket webserver!
...I have practices as a teacher at school. So, a 16yo kid asks me during a class - "What software for downloading music from the net would you recommend?"
So I think, and answer: "You know, I',m a teacher at work now, and most of the good ones make it illegal. So if you want to know, meet me after the classes and we can talk privately".
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All the SCO FUD news are marked with Caldera logo. It's true Caldera is owned by SCO but it's not Caldera that claims to have code stolen and placed in the kernel. Someone PLEASE use some real SCO logo or whatever from now on with all SCO vs Linux news and stop bringing shame to otherwise innocent Caldera people.
He says "set up", not "install". It's misconfigured!
Just snailmail them to random people from poor countries. They will be absolutely happy to receive them!
Build a beowulf cluster of these!
So you haven't looked well. They are still being developed and currently are ones of the best heaters available on market. Damn advanced and effective devices that every nerd could drool at (and more talented ones would gladly made a case mod basing on some of them too). You're outdated, dad.
Yes, gradually Internet becomes for me one of the top information mediums. But don't call it "source". I didn't buy a paper book in quite a while, but I read more books than ever. I download them from the net. But they are still the same books as the ones written on paper. I connect to university sites and read papers online. But these are the same papers I would read in their library. I read news on newspapers' pages. The news are brought by the same reporters as to the paper.
So, what is the source? The universities? The authors? The redactions? Or the Internet? Did the Internet write the books, the papers? Was Internet present by most famous events? Are power lines the source of electricity, or is it the power plant?
Just buy an oil heater then.
Microsoft presents "sources of windows" to China.
Source gets examined. No backdoors are found. Code is accepted.
Microsoft sells binaries to China.
Difference between what appears after compilation of presented sources and what is in the binaries gets blamed on compilers... Backdoors are present on all copies that were sold as binary and not compiled from the "cleared source" by the chineese themselves.
That's about the point: All progress is stopped. Stasis. No real change. Not destruction, not regression, just stop. By the way, I remember spending long afternoons in bathtub filled with cold water in summer or using wood in my home's fireplace to keep it warm. Use common sense to survive that time, and if you can't, thanks Evolution for taking its course and removing you from the gene pool. If you sit in your flat, complaining how hot it is and that AC doesn't work, instead of finding some water, it's your fault...
The society has enough spare resources to survive pretty harmlessly even quite long blackouts. And they don't mean serious problem. Simply - everything goes "on hook", it's a perfect excuse for not having your work done - and a real one. Simply - "time of stasis", all activities get stopped until the power is back on. Downtime gets forgiven, contracts get postponed, meetings made highly optional. It doesn't mean any real harm. Just a stop. (note, your competition gets stopped just as well :)
And about the blackout activities... In Poland, in times of worst crisis, blackouts were very common. Connecting this fact with limited availablity of condoms, this explains the sudden peak in nation's birth rate with 9 month shift from that period...
...that are usually shut down by pressing the power button, it doesn't have th have any exit point :) As for entry point - just have all the bits in CPU, RAM and the rest set as frozen at arbitrary operation point and start ticking the clock. Not a normal entry point either. But I agree, it's still a binary. Even a core dump is a binary :)
Codec, API, compression format... Let's look at a site of people who know what this is all aboutQuicktime 4 linux
.avi, .mov, .rm... May contain data created using different compression methods. .mov file format) to be played only in QT player (which is by no way "standard") and Apple doesn't seem to be willing to allow anyone to create anything more standarised, i.e. codec that would allow to play qt-compressed data in WMP.
CODECS
Be aware of one thing: Quicktime for Linux won't read any of the movies you download from the internet. Quicktime is a wrapper for many different kinds of compression formats. What you knew as "Quicktime 4", "Quicktime 5", "Quicktime 6", are really different distributions of compression formats. The codecs we support are mainly uncompressed.
So, basically, you confuse two things that come under the same name. True, Quicktime is a player and API, and it's pretty much open. But there are the quicktime compression formats too (just like divx, mpeg or xvid which are yet another compression formats), which are decompressed using proprietary software only, and which could be decompressed using standarised codecs, to be played i.e. in WMO or The Playa, if just said codecs were written - and were legal to write.
We are confusing several terms:
File format: Wrapper for some content.
Compression method: mpeg, mpeg2, divx, ogg vorbis, qt5, qt6... Data compressed using given method can be contained within certain file format (many different methods in 1 file format).
Codec: Standarised software layer (de)compressing specific compression format to standarised media player. Note, "standard" codecs for qt* as such are nonexistent. There are some highly proprietary codecs that come with QT package, and allow to play QT-compressed content (from
I hope that clarifies the problem and shuts up those who insist QT is not a codec. By some means, it isn't. What people mean as QT codecs is some obscure software layer in official Apple QT player that does nearly but not quite what codecs should do and because of some dumb law regulations, can't be made into something a real codec should be.
It's not a MUD client. It's AI programming language disguised as one...
:)
For all mare lovers out there, feel free to test it on telnet://lintilla.df.lth.se:5010 - talker about zoophilia
6 villagers got trampled by a wild herd of journalists and scientists rushing to the place of accident.
Mozilla has something like 40.000 unresolved bugs. But in the other hand, they consider everything a bug: A broken coffee engine on 2nd floor of Netscape building, a party held on some major release, some website admins being idiots who need to be evangelised or lack of kitchen sink in the browser.
I use it.
I got tired of seeing "changing permissions of (somefile): Operation not permitted" and installed it for all 'doze partitions.
There's no real sense to make 10 years plans, when you have no idea what hardware will be available then, what will people need, what do they require. Most of GNU software follows the evolution system. Submit a "bug" to Mozilla, submit a patch, get it revieved and it will be included only if people won't decide it's generally a Bad Idea and ditch it. Similar with kernel - think of a wise feature, create a module, submit it, and maybe in a month after you first thought of it, people will be downloading it from ftp.kernel.org - if your idea was really good. Nobody knows the future and there are no specific plans... except to make things better - more stable, more compilant, more effective, more whatever... Maybe in 20 years ix86 will be completely abandonned and Linux mainstream will move to some new hardware (quantum computers?), maybe in 10 years Linux will become the leading platform in graphics and Kernel will require better gfx handling procedures, maybe someone gets enough balls and brains to integrate X with Kernel in some intelligent way. And maybe Linux will get forgotten, like nowadays VAXen are, replaced by something better? Maybe Microsoft will abandon its old kernels and build its new OS on top of Linux kernel? Nobody knows. What we know is, that as long as at least one nerd on this planet breathes, Linux will be developed and made better :)
...guide to the galaxy. Obviously this maneuver is very unnatural for all space vehicles, but it looks so cool rich people will surely want to have stuff that does that implemented in their spaceships. Just for showoff, no matter how inefficient and ridiculous that would seem :)
I think anybody running a website on anything other than Apache on some *nix like OS should be shot.
:)
Hell, if I run several different servers on a 16M RAM 486, I really don't need the super-cow of Apache eating up half of my resources. I use something lightweight like Boa, thttpd or mathopd for that!
Of course if the system resources allow that, I'd be the first one to hand you a gun
Somebody bitch at my using tcsh once again!!! :) :) :)
I guess if they used full DVD capacity (4-sided recording, 16G/disk) and some decent compression, they could fit it maybe in a typical 4 CD case.
But then it wouldn't have such a marketing impact. 4 DVD set? What's so special about that?
I use Afterstep (it's Great!) for that, with desktop size like 7000x7000, and I often use more than 50% of it - in rather random pattern so that if it was smaller, things would get locally crowded. Afterstep has that great app of Pager that allows you to navigate the desktop quickly, move windows around, etc. Plus looks that beat most of the others. (say, Enlightenment was prettier, but Enlightenment wasn't something that one could use as a standalone DM.)
:)
I just never use "minimise"
It's all matter of scrolling distance setup. If you have edgescroll set to 50-100%, it's real pain in the ass. Set scroll to 5% and the fact that your screen shifts when you touch the edge with your cursor becomes a great feature instead of a problem.
...port SETI@home to gameboy! Imagine that number-crunching power spread over billions of homes worldwide!
:)
I'm waiting for a decent Quake port to Gameboy too - with spare CPU power of 4 GBAs extra, it should be able to generate 3d gfx easily. On one of them only, true
And when will Nintendo release a TCP stack for GBA? I want to start a portable pocket webserver!
...I have practices as a teacher at school. So, a 16yo kid asks me during a class - "What software for downloading music from the net would you recommend?"
:D
So I think, and answer: "You know, I',m a teacher at work now, and most of the good ones make it illegal. So if you want to know, meet me after the classes and we can talk privately".
Is that the right approach?