Yes, they freaked out. However, it was not Bruce Peren's or the slashdot author's fault. They said clearly in the article Be was doing anything terribly wrong and Bruce was even letting them go head and distrubate the code. He simply wanted to show what problems mixing closed source and open source could create. I don't see why everyone was in complete freak out mode about it. Heh. If people only read the articles that they post about I think the world would be a much, much happier place.
I downloaded/installed the drivers... found all the XMMS plugins crash when I try to use them. Hmph. Anyone else expeirencing this? Pulsar -fps gets 70fps and I'm running in 32bit 1280x1024. Oh ya, glplanet seems to not work either.
is decent printing. Right now you cannot even print off email! I probaly print a couple emails a day. I _need_ to be able to print. For some reason the bug to fix printing has been pushed back to M20! How can you expect anyone to be able to 'full-time' test a webbrowser/mail client that cannot print? Even pages without frames get completely mangled. *sigh*
If I have heard the GNU GhostScript story correctly, you worked with Aladdin software to get a free implementation of ghostscript. Further, you expected the free version to quickly surpass the non-free version in performance and features relatively quickly. However, the GNU GhostScript project seems to be a failure. Development is at a snails pace because -- after all -- it is already done in Aladdin GhostScript. Today, if you have any relatively new printer want to use the new features, you have to get Alladin-GS. Would you agree the free model of having one older, free product and another closed newer project is failed model?
or if someone like netscape communications opened their webbrowser? Oh nm, they already did.;) I think you'd see the same kind of effect with other projects.
Read this This is the actual security alert from bugtraq. I've learned not to trust slashdot's security reporting. It tends to be rather uh biased. ESR does security news. Oh yay.
I have an Asus videocapture card. The Asus 3400TNT/TV. The videocapture uses the i2c bus. Now, I have written asus, and they told me the chipset specifications are open, and the bus is i2c, which is also open. I have absolutely zero expeirence in writing device drivers and such. So, I have two questions: is there plans to make a generic pci i2c interface driver? (or is this question dumb?) I know the chipset is the Philips SAA7111, the same one the buz uses. So how can use the existing SAA7111 and make it use the i2c bus? And.. where can I find information on writing device drivers period?
Whoah.. that program looks _cool_ what prog is that?
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This katz's article is probaly the best I've read so far. Everytime I read Katz's article, I think what a bunch of canned hype. This illustrates that point nicely. hehe. Next, I'd have to say the Salon April's fools issue. Now THAT is a well done page. All of their stuff is fairly well done. The google one is slightly amusing. Now, the worst is going to be the slashdot language April's fools. For one reason, it doesn't fool anyone. You view slashdot, it's in several other language on April 1st. Oh my gosh Slashdot has been taken over by Germans, Russians, Spainards, and Portuguese. Oh wait, that's not quite likely. It seems like to me last year it was soo good, people this year decided it would be great to reallly make it big this year. When in fact, it only lost its tact.
Ah well, I'm sure we'll get links to the really good hacks tommorrow.
but wasn't Solaris 7's code name "darwin"? What's up with the reuse of the name? I mean, couldn't they come up with something original? Or was Apple darwin out before sun's? Or was it just complete coincidence they have the same name? I would think sun would be unhappy. As a matter of a fact, we have a solaris 7 machine at work named "Darwin" after the codename of solaris 7.
* Sair Linux and GNU Certified Administrator (LCA), Red Hat Certified Engineer (RHCE), or equivalent certification * 6 months experience using Linux or equivalent * Compaq Systems Technologies
That kind of stuff scares me. Would Alan Cox(Err stratch that he works for RH.) would Linus be able to attend? Does he has a LCA or RHCE? I mean, most of your true linux professionals do not have these kind of certifications. But, I guess those kind of people wouldn't be wanting linux training from compaq, so perhaps my fear is unwarnated. Although, I still think prequisites for linux class is insane. You simply cannot rely on certifications in the Linux world.
AAhhh! Yes, that is what I was talking about. I have not yet been trained in configuring routers and such. I have just been told about the different protocols and market techniques. I was told you could nearly make them plug and play. Ah well, I guess I'll find out when I'm told to set one up:) We should be getting some new cisco routers into the lab for playing around. So.. I should be able to learn then:)
As I recently began working for a company that does a lot of networking diagnosis, implementing, whatnot, I have began to realize that Cisco has a huge monopoly and DOES use it to increase their sales. Only instead of breaking everyone elses protocols, they just make their protocols "plug and play" if you will. You plug them into a network, they automagically talk with the other routers to setup routes. I forget the name of the exact protocol it uses; however, it is properiety. By closing that protocol no one else can enter cisco arena. So, you have a network built with cisco routers, are you going configure the whole thing to use a open protocol that is not plug 'n' play just to get a cheaper 3com router? It's going to have be WAY cheaper.
Um, this article confused me. This company is going to sell a card that will allow two users on a linux machine. Well, last time I checked, you didn't need a card for that. You could use virtual terminals. Oh, if you don't want to use virtual terminals, I wonder if they're selling 10Base-T ethernet cards? I was rather confused by the article, is linux going to be running on some sort of a cash register server?
I think it's cool. Think about this keyboard under X we could bind the keys to anything we wanted. A "PGP Sign" key. Perhaps a "slashdot" key. I'm sure any talented windows user could also set their keyboard to bring them to sites such as betanews or bugtraqnt. Heck it's a free keyboard. Why not? I personally have keyboards coming out my ears. They seem to multiply or something. I don't see anyone perticulary using these keyboards. I'm looking forward to getting one in the mail with a free AOL disk:) At one point, I was receiving a redidiculeous amount of online service cds. I tried to collect enough to cover my room in them. However, it didn't work well, about two weeks into it I started through the things like frisbies at trees and such. Lately, I've been thinking about microwaving them. HEY! I wonder... what would happen if you microwaved a keyboard? Oh ya, and the obligitory: Man, think about the WPM on a beowolf clusters of these things:)
Dang it, I know the the parent of this comment was flamebait, but I will bite it this once. Would you PLEASE leave signal 11 alone? Why don't _YOU_ post something slightly insightful rather than say his comments are drivel. I for one find his comments to almost always be insightful into the topic at hand. I've read on some his "private" discussion and such he was getting sick of all the signal11 trolls and, for awhile, actually wasn't posting. I find it sad that you people affect him. If you don't like his postings, get moderator points, by posting good comments, and moderate his postings down. Signal11, thanks for all the great comments.
Native widgets were not flexible enough for CSS1/2. They had to write their own widget, and why keep the native libraries for what? Scrolling? It's clearly better in the long run to just eat the development time, and write your own platform indepedent widget rather than keep 4 native widgets, while implementing your own. The skinnablity of Mozilla wasn't probaly that difficult to add concidering they had to write their own widget within specifications anyway.
So you make a patch under a closed source license. (With NONE of the GPL code) Now, you want to distrubate a binary. Oh, whoops, you have to apply the patch and compile. Then it's all under the GPL again. Remember, people, even even _linking_ to a GPL library (unelse it's LGPL) makes that program GPL.
Hmm.. you find Sawmill SLOW? I use sawmill because it was the fastest pixmap themeable wm I've used. I even thought it was faster than the non-pixmap-theme blackbox. Blackbox looks nice even w/o them though... I think sawmill would a perfect match with gnome. I've only ONCE had sawmill crash on me, and that was a good while ago with an older version.
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Yes, they freaked out. However, it was not Bruce Peren's or the slashdot author's fault. They said clearly in the article Be was doing anything terribly wrong and Bruce was even letting them go head and distrubate the code. He simply wanted to show what problems mixing closed source and open source could create. I don't see why everyone was in complete freak out mode about it. Heh. If people only read the articles that they post about I think the world would be a much, much happier place.
I downloaded/installed the drivers... found all the XMMS plugins crash when I try to use them. Hmph. Anyone else expeirencing this? Pulsar -fps gets 70fps and I'm running in 32bit 1280x1024. Oh ya, glplanet seems to not work either.
Ian
dang sed s/slashdot/geek on this post and JonKatz has a new article:)
is decent printing. Right now you cannot even print off email! I probaly print a couple emails a day. I _need_ to be able to print. For some reason the bug to fix printing has been pushed back to M20! How can you expect anyone to be able to 'full-time' test a webbrowser/mail client that cannot print? Even pages without frames get completely mangled. *sigh*
If I have heard the GNU GhostScript story correctly, you worked with Aladdin software to get a free implementation of ghostscript. Further, you expected the free version to quickly surpass the non-free version in performance and features relatively quickly. However, the GNU GhostScript project seems to be a failure. Development is at a snails pace because -- after all -- it is already done in Aladdin GhostScript. Today, if you have any relatively new printer want to use the new features, you have to get Alladin-GS. Would you agree the free model of having one older, free product and another closed newer project is failed model?
or if someone like netscape communications opened their webbrowser? Oh nm, they already did. ;) I think you'd see the same kind of effect with other projects.
Kuro5hin has a write-up on this here and Advogato has one here. They've had these articles for most of today they have some interesting posts already.
Read this This is the actual security alert from bugtraq. I've learned not to trust slashdot's security reporting. It tends to be rather uh biased. ESR does security news. Oh yay.
Ian
I have an Asus videocapture card. The Asus 3400TNT/TV. The videocapture uses the i2c bus. Now, I have written asus, and they told me the chipset specifications are open, and the bus is i2c, which is also open. I have absolutely zero expeirence in writing device drivers and such. So, I have two questions: is there plans to make a generic pci i2c interface driver? (or is this question dumb?) I know the chipset is the Philips SAA7111, the same one the buz uses. So how can use the existing SAA7111 and make it use the i2c bus? And.. where can I find information on writing device drivers period?
Whoah.. that program looks _cool_ what prog is that?
This katz's article is probaly the best I've read so far. Everytime I read Katz's article, I think what a bunch of canned hype. This illustrates that point nicely. hehe. Next, I'd have to say the Salon April's fools issue. Now THAT is a well done page. All of their stuff is fairly well done. The google one is slightly amusing.
Now, the worst is going to be the slashdot language April's fools. For one reason, it doesn't fool anyone. You view slashdot, it's in several other language on April 1st. Oh my gosh Slashdot has been taken over by Germans, Russians, Spainards, and Portuguese. Oh wait, that's not quite likely. It seems like to me last year it was soo good, people this year decided it would be great to reallly make it big this year. When in fact, it only lost its tact.
Ah well, I'm sure we'll get links to the really good hacks tommorrow.
but wasn't Solaris 7's code name "darwin"? What's up with the reuse of the name? I mean, couldn't they come up with something original? Or was Apple darwin out before sun's? Or was it just complete coincidence they have the same name? I would think sun would be unhappy. As a matter of a fact, we have a solaris 7 machine at work named "Darwin" after the codename of solaris 7.
Ian
Prerequisites
* Sair Linux and GNU Certified Administrator (LCA), Red Hat Certified Engineer (RHCE), or equivalent certification
* 6 months experience using Linux or equivalent
* Compaq Systems Technologies
That kind of stuff scares me. Would Alan Cox(Err stratch that he works for RH.) would Linus be able to attend? Does he has a LCA or RHCE? I mean, most of your true linux professionals do not have these kind of certifications. But, I guess those kind of people wouldn't be wanting linux training from compaq, so perhaps my fear is unwarnated. Although, I still think prequisites for linux class is insane. You simply cannot rely on certifications in the Linux world.
AAhhh! Yes, that is what I was talking about. I have not yet been trained in configuring routers and such. I have just been told about the different protocols and market techniques. I was told you could nearly make them plug and play. Ah well, I guess I'll find out when I'm told to set one up:) We should be getting some new cisco routers into the lab for playing around. So.. I should be able to learn then:)
I'm betting this is a joke. "Will computers take over the human race by 2100?" please. stanford is not The Matrix,
Ian
As I recently began working for a company that does a lot of networking diagnosis, implementing, whatnot, I have began to realize that Cisco has a huge monopoly and DOES use it to increase their sales. Only instead of breaking everyone elses protocols, they just make their protocols "plug and play" if you will. You plug them into a network, they automagically talk with the other routers to setup routes. I forget the name of the exact protocol it uses; however, it is properiety. By closing that protocol no one else can enter cisco arena. So, you have a network built with cisco routers, are you going configure the whole thing to use a open protocol that is not plug 'n' play just to get a cheaper 3com router? It's going to have be WAY cheaper.
Ian
Um, this article confused me. This company is going to sell a card that will allow two users on a linux machine. Well, last time I checked, you didn't need a card for that. You could use virtual terminals. Oh, if you don't want to use virtual terminals, I wonder if they're selling 10Base-T ethernet cards? I was rather confused by the article, is linux going to be running on some sort of a cash register server?
I think it's cool. Think about this keyboard under X we could bind the keys to anything we wanted. A "PGP Sign" key. Perhaps a "slashdot" key. I'm sure any talented windows user could also set their keyboard to bring them to sites such as betanews or bugtraqnt. Heck it's a free keyboard. Why not? I personally have keyboards coming out my ears. They seem to multiply or something. I don't see anyone perticulary using these keyboards. I'm looking forward to getting one in the mail with a free AOL disk:) At one point, I was receiving a redidiculeous amount of online service cds. I tried to collect enough to cover my room in them. However, it didn't work well, about two weeks into it I started through the things like frisbies at trees and such. Lately, I've been thinking about microwaving them. HEY! I wonder... what would happen if you microwaved a keyboard? Oh ya, and the obligitory: Man, think about the WPM on a beowolf clusters of these things:)
Can you make a beowolf neighborehood out of these? Or maybe more importantly, do they use the bazaar or cathederal type artitecture?
Dang it, I know the the parent of this comment was flamebait, but I will bite it this once. Would you PLEASE leave signal 11 alone? Why don't _YOU_ post something slightly insightful rather than say his comments are drivel. I for one find his comments to almost always be insightful into the topic at hand. I've read on some his "private" discussion and such he was getting sick of all the signal11 trolls and, for awhile, actually wasn't posting. I find it sad that you people affect him.
If you don't like his postings, get moderator points, by posting good comments, and moderate his postings down.
Signal11, thanks for all the great comments.
Ian
Native widgets were not flexible enough for CSS1/2. They had to write their own widget, and why keep the native libraries for what? Scrolling? It's clearly better in the long run to just eat the development time, and write your own platform indepedent widget rather than keep 4 native widgets, while implementing your own. The skinnablity of Mozilla wasn't probaly that difficult to add concidering they had to write their own widget within specifications anyway.
So you make a patch under a closed source license. (With NONE of the GPL code) Now, you want to distrubate a binary. Oh, whoops, you have to apply the patch and compile. Then it's all under the GPL again. Remember, people, even even _linking_ to a GPL library (unelse it's LGPL) makes that program GPL.
Impoverished opensource coders? DMZ==JonKatz?!
Hmm.. you find Sawmill SLOW? I use sawmill because it was the fastest pixmap themeable wm I've used. I even thought it was faster than the non-pixmap-theme blackbox. Blackbox looks nice even w/o them though... I think sawmill would a perfect match with gnome. I've only ONCE had sawmill crash on me, and that was a good while ago with an older version.
Ian Zink
Am I the only one who finds it very strange reading information about Yahoo! on excite? hmm....