And yes, de Raadt really should set up a non-profit for OpenBSD, under the OpenBSD name.
Not as easy as one might think - especially when dealing internationally. I personally know of one instance where a very large company in the UK gave up trying to form a non-profit in the U.S. because of all the tax issues. They just gave up and pulled out.
Anyway, probably a non-profit in canada may not be recognized as a non-profit in Boliva, etc...
My first release will be MyBSD2010. Note the large quasi futuristic number on the name - clearly it is a better product. Sure the code may be the same, and I may have no intentions of patching or improving, but I DO intend to re-release it in several months as MyBSD2030.
Note the 20 increment in there - clearly BIG BIG things have happened.
With the release of MyBSD2050 I plan on addind a large graphic and a pleasing startup sound my daughter shall compose on the toy keyboard she has.
This will clearly be a superiour product!
And if I feel particularly good, I may start to release hundreds of service packs each release... some of which shall just randomly change about lines of source code. If enough people run this, one of them has to randomly produce a code improvement (Following the million monkey theory). That person shall be slightly better off for the microsecond before one of the many bad mutations crashes the system.
Whoops, just accidentally release MyBSD2010 SP1
And BAH to a simple CD you can buy that comes complete with a full set of installation instructions! No, my new and improved (signifying nothing) distrobution will come in a very large box - very brightly colored, with no instructions, but a large legal document (also signifying nothing) and a hefty price tag because that - more than anything - is what the market demands!
About four or five years ago we did some development for a company from New Zealand called DeepVideo. They had a screen that was two LCD displays with one in front of the other.
Basically it was connected to by a dual head video card, and you basically had is spanned. The first half was on the front screen, the second was on the back.
LOL, I just looked up deepvideo and its the same guys. I guess its a re-release or something.
My experience with the original displays were that they we neat, but not terribly useful. Hopefully over the last few years they got it nice and crisp.
Next take the whole thing and work it in with a lego mindstorms system that spins the box around. Have it stop with a web cam focusing on the dice and read the numbers.
Then put it on the internet so people can argue over if it is secure using someone elses password generator.
No I have not compared the stills to the motion pictures for that purpose - just what I have seen of older photos and the moon landing stuff from memory. I will give it a whirl the next time I have some from the 50's on hand... This is just my theory on it...
Also, if you bought a camera at kmart, it probably was the same technology that was used in WW2:)
I dont recall the footage from the movies, but as I remember they were not very high quality, compared to the super fantastic moon landing photo stills.
The comment about conspiricy theorists being morons is unfair on the whole... If someone told you oliver north was trading drugs for guns down south they would say your nuts, your crazy, your a conspiricy theorist.
That is not to say a great deal of them could be crazy... it just gets dangerous to label them all morons off the cuff.
Bah on all of you. I have a feeling everyone is right... I really think that we did land on the moon - but I also think the photos were faked due to some snafu with the cameras or film.
It would explain a whole lot if it turns out that radiation screwed up the film, or they just plain old forgot it or something. I think we did land there (due to the laser reflectors), but some of the rational for the faked photos seems to make some sense.
So we were there IMO, but someone botched up the film, or they just looked crappy enough that someone said... ughhh - they are going to kill us for spending all that money and someones glove finger was over the lense.
First off, I love kung-fu movies, action flicks, video games and all that. Not denying that.
All that aside, the sheer fact that we as a society find simulated violence entertaining just shows that we have not progressed as a species (technology aside) much over the past few thousand years.
What makes the prospect of someone being shot, someone suffering or people being blown into little pieces attractive and entertaining to us? Why do we find that appealing? The romans had gladitorial games which in some ways were worse (they were real people), but if you are sitting up in the grandstands of the roman colossium - someone getting stabbed was probably a lot less up close than watching someone chainsaw off someones head in a movie. Heck with HDTV its now JUST LIKE BEING THERE:)
Do I think games cause people to kill people? No, I don't think they do - after seeing thousands of acts of simulated violence over the course of a lifetime has to affect the mind somehow though. Enough to start killing? In some addle brained people, maybe thats enough.
My point is that we enjoy the act of killing, we love watching it and we love acting it out in video games. We love watching shows that highlight tragedy and human suffering. Why?
The aspect of death and killing has infused our entire culture. Its in the way we talk "Drop dead date", "killing projects", etc, etc. How often do we mutter that "I am gonna kill him/her" even jokingly. Why is that acceptable as a joke even? For example, we don't jokingly say "I am going to shit in his mouth and piss on his face", even though it would probably be a good alternative to being killed. We have socially accepted killing - the image of killing someone is more acceptable. If you say that the otherwise is just disgusting, why would killing someone be less disgusting?
Like I said, I watch all this stuff and don't think that I am better or anything. Its just something to think about, or not.
I work out of the home office, and one day I said... hey, I've got all these extra monitors that are connected to other machines that I just use remotely... why not connect a second one to my desktop. So I did that. Got a both heads on my Radeon card working in Linux and all was peachy until I realized that I could run the mythtv frontend and connect to my mythbox. Whoop there goes all that extra real estate. So I had to go out and get another card, so I could get a third monitor working.
So now, I have a triple head Linux system (which a spare head I am not sure I could get to work even if I had room for another monitor). I rarely fireup the third since I moved into a room with a TV... The default boots to two monitors, and half the time I have one off.
But if I am troubleshooting a web app or something - nothing beats the extra real estate for log outputs, or whatever.
And with each kernel release it gets better. I had it fine under 2.4.x, but 2.6 made so much more work better. The only thing left is an ACPI issue with not showing batteries if I boot under AC power - so its not a show stopper. I have not tried firewire yet, but I don't see why that would not work.
Glad to see that someone is going to ship it installed though - wouldn't make my decision on a notebook based on that though
I think if you took a 5 cd changer tray out of a box, added it onto a high speed motor. So now you have this wicked fast spinning tray with 5 little depressions. Put an enclosure around it so that the cds will only leave at one point (via centrificule force), have a spindle gravity feed down into the whole thing. So as a the tray spins it goes under the spindle allowing a cd to fall into the tray where centrificul force pushes it outwards until the tray hits that open spot and then voom away it goes.
This will never work though, but I need to the spare parts for my cd changer, so if you could mail them too me when your done...
What did he ever do good in his life? Ever job he got including his current one was given to him by his dad, who basically gave all his old buddies jobs back (chenny, rummy, etc).
The man is a complete idiot... why do you think he never talks without reading a speech? Have you heard it when he did? Its amazing! If anything good comes out of the white house you can be assured Bush did not come up with it... Cheney just made him do it.
Between Jeb giving him florida and the whole Christian coalition believing his suddenly finding god the same time he went into politics... what are the chances?
BTW whats up with Ken Lay? The head of Enron and Bush's personal buddy? Haven't seen much about having him hauled off to jail lately... hmmmmm
Disclaimer: I hated clinton also. Give me a candidate that I can pick cause I want to... not cause I like the other guy less. Don't give me two idiots to pick from and then say I have to support one of them.
This is a fair warning. I have just received a patent for "small pointy things growing off the end of an arm". I have decided to call them fingers. The "fingers" were discovered in 1987 at a grateful dead concert. Granted they seemed a lot more significant that night, but that does not matter...
In short, I now have the patent on these and if you are using them without my permission then you are in violation. My legal advisors Mr. Riaa and Mr. Sco have advised me that anyone sending typed correspondance must be using "fingers" and can be named on a mass supeana and sued.
Heh, aparently nobody thats against this has bothered to read the Big U (I think its neal stephensons first book).
The Big U
Just what are they hidding down there...
IT workers just get paid too much. We have become fat and lazy and awfully impressed with ourselves. I personally know people in other professions that have what I consider to be much more skill than I, yet command a fraction of what I was making. I have a friend that graduated with a 4.0 GPA in some sort of art degree, went on to get a masters and makes next to nothing. I did not graduate from college 10 years ago, but was making almost 6 figures. Was I smarter? No, I was just positioned better at the right time.
Add in the great.com boom - now there is a flood of people that got trained (barely) and are still out looking for six digit salaries.
I did get laid off from a U.S. company, but not due to Outsourcing - the company was just falling apart from poor management and was selling itself off piecemeal. It was not due to Outsourcing overseas, but I can see the concern with that.
Since then I have done a few things. One, I drastically reduced my standard of living. I got rid of the $2k / mo mortgage and got it down to $800 in rent. I did not get a new car, but kept my old 96. I stopped buying every new toy and tried to get back in touch with life.
In the past year, my life has gotten so much better with so much less. I do freelance consulting for anyone who needs it, I take a college course every semester so I can get cheap insurance through the school, not to mention have use of the gym, pool, library, etc. Now I work between 15-20 hours a week. The rest of the time is spent with my daughter, reading, excersizing, etc.
We need to accept that the days of high paying IT jobs are gone. Programming has become so easy that most anyone can be trained to do it. Granted really good programming is still a skill, but how many companies really want a well designed program? Not at the technical level, but at the management level. 9 out of 10 will take the fast, cheap way and forgo quality. Since programs are useful for less and less time now is it really important.
I think as the jobs go overseas, then eventually it will level out. It may take a long time, but it is already happening. I have heard that the better programmers in india are making up to $65k a year. For where I live, and what I require to live that would be fine for here. As the people over there make more, the cost of living will rise as other people realize that they can charge these people more. Eventually it will even all over.
Quality? I have heard both good and bad about overseas. It seems like the executives are under the belief that the quality is better, but the technical people think it is worse. This could be the technical people protecting thier jobs and executives just buying the latest Gartner hype. I do not know first hand - I do directly know people who have been tasked with running people overseas that have complaints.
Remember that all things are transient. What is now will be gone tomorrow. Our happiness and our suffering is all temporary. In a universe level view of everything, I am not even a dust mote. If I have a roof over my head, and enough food to not be hungry then life is good, even great. In this country we have been trained by the media and our peers that if we are not happy all the time, then we are lacking. If we are not death-camp-thin then we are not attractive. If we do not have a giant house then we are substandard.
Did you ever notice that when your income changes your expenses do also? In two years I went from making $30k to $60k with only one job change. You know what? After a year I had exactly the same amount of extra money left over each month. Why is that? Because all the sudden I could acquire more and more. When I look around at my posessions, I find that sometimes it was the smallest things that give me the most joy.
Hah, I think I will post this into an essay somewhere.
This is all my opinion, and subject to change as events develop. Be well.
I count all my bookstore costs (Computer books) toward taxes. I grabbed a bunch out of my wallet and the text had completely faded.
If I held them at the right angle to the light, I could make out what it was. Since it was only taxes I submitted it anyway, but since then I try not to keep them in my wallet.
You gotta admit the self erasing proof of purchase is a pretty sneaky trick
While they were all pretty cool, they should probably seperate out a music video category - Personally I liked the blood gulch series much more and thought they should have won.
I recommend the rest of the series (its like 13 parts). I have never even played HALO, but its pretty funny...
I think I have to go buy an XBox now so I can play halo...
Yeah that would be great. The last IT support group I worked with was understaffed by about 50%. I am not sure they had the energy and time to do this. Aside from that, the department was laying off people left and right so I am not sure how much they really cared at that point...
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And yes, de Raadt really should set up a non-profit for OpenBSD, under the OpenBSD name.
Not as easy as one might think - especially when dealing internationally. I personally know of one instance where a very large company in the UK gave up trying to form a non-profit in the U.S. because of all the tax issues. They just gave up and pulled out.Anyway, probably a non-profit in canada may not be recognized as a non-profit in Boliva, etc...
It's been discussed on misc a few times.
Yes thats right, I am forking the OpenBSD tree.
My first release will be MyBSD2010. Note the large quasi futuristic number on the name - clearly it is a better product. Sure the code may be the same, and I may have no intentions of patching or improving, but I DO intend to re-release it in several months as MyBSD2030.
Note the 20 increment in there - clearly BIG BIG things have happened.
With the release of MyBSD2050 I plan on addind a large graphic and a pleasing startup sound my daughter shall compose on the toy keyboard she has.
This will clearly be a superiour product!
And if I feel particularly good, I may start to release hundreds of service packs each release... some of which shall just randomly change about lines of source code. If enough people run this, one of them has to randomly produce a code improvement (Following the million monkey theory). That person shall be slightly better off for the microsecond before one of the many bad mutations crashes the system.
Whoops, just accidentally release MyBSD2010 SP1
And BAH to a simple CD you can buy that comes complete with a full set of installation instructions! No, my new and improved (signifying nothing) distrobution will come in a very large box - very brightly colored, with no instructions, but a large legal document (also signifying nothing) and a hefty price tag because that - more than anything - is what the market demands!
About four or five years ago we did some development for a company from New Zealand called DeepVideo. They had a screen that was two LCD displays with one in front of the other.
Basically it was connected to by a dual head video card, and you basically had is spanned. The first half was on the front screen, the second was on the back.
LOL, I just looked up deepvideo and its the same guys. I guess its a re-release or something.
My experience with the original displays were that they we neat, but not terribly useful. Hopefully over the last few years they got it nice and crisp.
But new, nope they've been doing it for years.
Then put it on the internet so people can argue over if it is secure using someone elses password generator.
I heartily second this one... the fifth hope speeches are a great listen.
I had the previous hope also, which I believe is available from the 2600.org ftp.
Also, Off The Hook from 2600.org are fantastic (and come out often)
No I have not compared the stills to the motion pictures for that purpose - just what I have seen of older photos and the moon landing stuff from memory. I will give it a whirl the next time I have some from the 50's on hand... This is just my theory on it...
:)
Also, if you bought a camera at kmart, it probably was the same technology that was used in WW2
Anyway - moving on...
I dont recall the footage from the movies, but as I remember they were not very high quality, compared to the super fantastic moon landing photo stills.
The comment about conspiricy theorists being morons is unfair on the whole... If someone told you oliver north was trading drugs for guns down south they would say your nuts, your crazy, your a conspiricy theorist.
That is not to say a great deal of them could be crazy... it just gets dangerous to label them all morons off the cuff.
It would explain a whole lot if it turns out that radiation screwed up the film, or they just plain old forgot it or something. I think we did land there (due to the laser reflectors), but some of the rational for the faked photos seems to make some sense.
So we were there IMO, but someone botched up the film, or they just looked crappy enough that someone said... ughhh - they are going to kill us for spending all that money and someones glove finger was over the lense.
But thats just my opinion
All that aside, the sheer fact that we as a society find simulated violence entertaining just shows that we have not progressed as a species (technology aside) much over the past few thousand years.
What makes the prospect of someone being shot, someone suffering or people being blown into little pieces attractive and entertaining to us? Why do we find that appealing? The romans had gladitorial games which in some ways were worse (they were real people), but if you are sitting up in the grandstands of the roman colossium - someone getting stabbed was probably a lot less up close than watching someone chainsaw off someones head in a movie. Heck with HDTV its now JUST LIKE BEING THERE :)
Do I think games cause people to kill people? No, I don't think they do - after seeing thousands of acts of simulated violence over the course of a lifetime has to affect the mind somehow though. Enough to start killing? In some addle brained people, maybe thats enough.
My point is that we enjoy the act of killing, we love watching it and we love acting it out in video games. We love watching shows that highlight tragedy and human suffering. Why?
The aspect of death and killing has infused our entire culture. Its in the way we talk "Drop dead date", "killing projects", etc, etc. How often do we mutter that "I am gonna kill him/her" even jokingly. Why is that acceptable as a joke even? For example, we don't jokingly say "I am going to shit in his mouth and piss on his face", even though it would probably be a good alternative to being killed. We have socially accepted killing - the image of killing someone is more acceptable. If you say that the otherwise is just disgusting, why would killing someone be less disgusting?
Like I said, I watch all this stuff and don't think that I am better or anything. Its just something to think about, or not.
I am honestly not sure, but I thought a faraday cage was grounded. That way it could abosorb and then do something with all that energy.
Will just slapping bunch of copper particles onto your house and not grounding them just bounce crap around?
IANAEE (I am not an electrical engineer)
I work out of the home office, and one day I said... hey, I've got all these extra monitors that are connected to other machines that I just use remotely... why not connect a second one to my desktop. So I did that. Got a both heads on my Radeon card working in Linux and all was peachy until I realized that I could run the mythtv frontend and connect to my mythbox. Whoop there goes all that extra real estate. So I had to go out and get another card, so I could get a third monitor working.
So now, I have a triple head Linux system (which a spare head I am not sure I could get to work even if I had room for another monitor). I rarely fireup the third since I moved into a room with a TV... The default boots to two monitors, and half the time I have one off.
But if I am troubleshooting a web app or something - nothing beats the extra real estate for log outputs, or whatever.
And with each kernel release it gets better. I had it fine under 2.4.x, but 2.6 made so much more work better. The only thing left is an ACPI issue with not showing batteries if I boot under AC power - so its not a show stopper. I have not tried firewire yet, but I don't see why that would not work.
Glad to see that someone is going to ship it installed though - wouldn't make my decision on a notebook based on that though
I wish I had mod on this one... that was priceless
This will never work though, but I need to the spare parts for my cd changer, so if you could mail them too me when your done...
What did he ever do good in his life? Ever job he got including his current one was given to him by his dad, who basically gave all his old buddies jobs back (chenny, rummy, etc).
The man is a complete idiot... why do you think he never talks without reading a speech? Have you heard it when he did? Its amazing! If anything good comes out of the white house you can be assured Bush did not come up with it... Cheney just made him do it.
Between Jeb giving him florida and the whole Christian coalition believing his suddenly finding god the same time he went into politics... what are the chances?
BTW whats up with Ken Lay? The head of Enron and Bush's personal buddy? Haven't seen much about having him hauled off to jail lately... hmmmmm
Disclaimer: I hated clinton also. Give me a candidate that I can pick cause I want to... not cause I like the other guy less. Don't give me two idiots to pick from and then say I have to support one of them.
It was announced on the 27th, but since then the stock has actually risen. (Not much, but its going up)
Its like laying off people raises your stock price... I guess it just shows that you'll do anything for a profit... and investors like it!
Your kidding right? Damn, either I am doing something wrong or whoever your with is doing something incredibly right!
This is a fair warning. I have just received a patent for "small pointy things growing off the end of an arm". I have decided to call them fingers. The "fingers" were discovered in 1987 at a grateful dead concert. Granted they seemed a lot more significant that night, but that does not matter...
In short, I now have the patent on these and if you are using them without my permission then you are in violation. My legal advisors Mr. Riaa and Mr. Sco have advised me that anyone sending typed correspondance must be using "fingers" and can be named on a mass supeana and sued.
(that counts for mod'ng me down also)
The big U
Heh, aparently nobody thats against this has bothered to read the Big U (I think its neal stephensons first book). The Big U Just what are they hidding down there...
IT workers just get paid too much. We have become fat and lazy and awfully impressed with ourselves. I personally know people in other professions that have what I consider to be much more skill than I, yet command a fraction of what I was making. I have a friend that graduated with a 4.0 GPA in some sort of art degree, went on to get a masters and makes next to nothing. I did not graduate from college 10 years ago, but was making almost 6 figures. Was I smarter? No, I was just positioned better at the right time.
Add in the great
I did get laid off from a U.S. company, but not due to Outsourcing - the company was just falling apart from poor management and was selling itself off piecemeal. It was not due to Outsourcing overseas, but I can see the concern with that.
Since then I have done a few things. One, I drastically reduced my standard of living. I got rid of the $2k / mo mortgage and got it down to $800 in rent. I did not get a new car, but kept my old 96. I stopped buying every new toy and tried to get back in touch with life.
In the past year, my life has gotten so much better with so much less. I do freelance consulting for anyone who needs it, I take a college course every semester so I can get cheap insurance through the school, not to mention have use of the gym, pool, library, etc. Now I work between 15-20 hours a week. The rest of the time is spent with my daughter, reading, excersizing, etc.
We need to accept that the days of high paying IT jobs are gone. Programming has become so easy that most anyone can be trained to do it. Granted really good programming is still a skill, but how many companies really want a well designed program? Not at the technical level, but at the management level. 9 out of 10 will take the fast, cheap way and forgo quality. Since programs are useful for less and less time now is it really important.
I think as the jobs go overseas, then eventually it will level out. It may take a long time, but it is already happening. I have heard that the better programmers in india are making up to $65k a year. For where I live, and what I require to live that would be fine for here. As the people over there make more, the cost of living will rise as other people realize that they can charge these people more. Eventually it will even all over.
Quality? I have heard both good and bad about overseas. It seems like the executives are under the belief that the quality is better, but the technical people think it is worse. This could be the technical people protecting thier jobs and executives just buying the latest Gartner hype. I do not know first hand - I do directly know people who have been tasked with running people overseas that have complaints.
Remember that all things are transient. What is now will be gone tomorrow. Our happiness and our suffering is all temporary. In a universe level view of everything, I am not even a dust mote. If I have a roof over my head, and enough food to not be hungry then life is good, even great. In this country we have been trained by the media and our peers that if we are not happy all the time, then we are lacking. If we are not death-camp-thin then we are not attractive. If we do not have a giant house then we are substandard.
Did you ever notice that when your income changes your expenses do also? In two years I went from making $30k to $60k with only one job change. You know what? After a year I had exactly the same amount of extra money left over each month. Why is that? Because all the sudden I could acquire more and more. When I look around at my posessions, I find that sometimes it was the smallest things that give me the most joy.
Hah, I think I will post this into an essay somewhere.
This is all my opinion, and subject to change as events develop. Be well.
I count all my bookstore costs (Computer books) toward taxes. I grabbed a bunch out of my wallet and the text had completely faded. If I held them at the right angle to the light, I could make out what it was. Since it was only taxes I submitted it anyway, but since then I try not to keep them in my wallet. You gotta admit the self erasing proof of purchase is a pretty sneaky trick
While they were all pretty cool, they should probably seperate out a music video category - Personally I liked the blood gulch series much more and thought they should have won. I recommend the rest of the series (its like 13 parts). I have never even played HALO, but its pretty funny... I think I have to go buy an XBox now so I can play halo...
Yeah that would be great. The last IT support group I worked with was understaffed by about 50%. I am not sure they had the energy and time to do this. Aside from that, the department was laying off people left and right so I am not sure how much they really cared at that point...
Your the same bastard that was welcoming our new robot blimp masters! Where did that get you pal? Nowhere you stinkin collaborator!
Shame, shame on you!