They are currently working with two service providers to integrate services with. As for other jabber servers, if you email federation@google.com and tell them you'd like to run server2server with them, they'll set it up. Keep in mind Google Talk just came out so they may have bigger issues to confront first. One of their main concerns with just opening up the jabber server to any other jabber server is spamming from instant messengers. Regards, Steve
Well until Google gives me a reason not to trust them, I will. They actively compete on their merits, not on monopoly or force. If you search for an address they still give you links for Google Maps, Yahoo Maps, and Mapquest. They have donated large sums of money to OSS and have paid for many developers to work on it over them summer. Now they are using their weight to standardize instant messaging the way e-mail is standardized. If you read Google Talk's site, you'll see that a big initiative is getting instant messaging into a state like e-mail is where you can IM anyone on any network from any IM client. Jabber has server2server capabilities and thus will greatly help this effort. If I ever sense that they are misusing my information, then I'll think about leaving them, but until then, they have my full support. They have literally made the internet a better place to be. Regards, Steve
Don't worry,it appears the server was just up temporarily and is down again. They probably had it up for testing unless I see it come back on again in the next few minutes. Regards, Steve
I gave this some thought and it's completely possible that the main interface to the IM server will be web based. It would leave it completely portable, and because Google already has a video plugin based on VLC, it supports streaming of video and audio. In fact, if google releases this IM service without some kind of revolutionary web frontend, I'll be disappointed. They are trying to move the desktop away from the desktop, and not using their current technologies to assist in that would be a bad move. Making this IM some kind of operating system dependant program that is just an addon to the desksearch bar or something would really be go against what they are trying to achieve and just support MS's dominance of the desktop. Regards, Steve
yea, me too. Well actually I still have a bit of friends on AIM but I use Gaim which supports jabber, assuming Google is basing their service off of jabber. Something tells me that this instant messenger's main interface though is going to be web based. As far as video and audio streaming go, they've already got that covered with their video player, based on vlc, which does streaming and can play just audio. They've also recently released an update to their video player so it makes complete sense that they'd make a web based interface with all the functionality of a traditional client. Regards, Steve
Hey, I've never poked around in any quake source, but was thinking of giving this a look. Is this just a graphics engine? Or does it have physics code too? Maybe even code for networking,or any other little tidbits? If its just the graphics engine, I don't need it because I have Ogre, even if its graphics+physics, i could still use Ogre+ODE. I'm just trying to figure out what advantage the quake source gives me and if I should even spend time giving it a go (Oh another big thing is, does it handle terrains well, or just indoor environments?). Thanks.
Regards, Steve
For all this shit people give AOL, I recommend it to every novice user I know. It has integrated spyware detection, some of the best spam and phishing blocking, comes with access to AOL's large library of music and videos, news, etc... It sets up your buddy list and everything for you. All of this is accessible by running one program, and for all of the functionality packed into it, the gui isn't half bad. For the price you pay, you can't beat it.
Most people think that it is just a regular ISP but it isn't. You get a ton of extras to go along with it (streaming music, videos, stock tracking, games, spyware removal, a clean inbox, self configuration, and alot more). Very rarely will you see spam coming from an AOL user, if you do see it, it's probably being forged from somewhere else. Considering all of the zombies that comcast and verizon let live on their networks, AOL's active approach seems refreshing. Just like credit card companies, if they notice unusual activity, they'll notify you, if its really bad they'll lock your account until you can let them know that it isn't a spammer that took control of your account. Anyway... even if AOL is just for noobs, I'd rather most peopl be using AOL for Broadband, rather then Comcast and degrading the quality of the net. Regards, Steve
I don't understand what all this broadband non-sense is about? I don't know a single person without cable or dsl, and this is throughout about 12 states. The only regions in the U.S. without broadband are places miles from cities (with some few exceptions). If people chose to live life away from cities and the latest technology, good for them, but we should have no desire to run wire to their houses just so we can say everyone has broadband. Everyone who wants it, has it and thats what matters. The United States is huge, way larger then the Koreas or Japan. (Now this will be followed by posts claiming that they or someone they know can't get it, but keep in mind you are the exception rather then the rule) Regards, Steve
Oh shit! Calculus has roots going back like a few millenium (Ancient Egyptians), we better get rid of that stuff quickly! Let's move on, kids.
Regards, Steve
Google will do it right and in a way that promotes competition. Go search for an address and you'll get a link to google maps, yahoo maps, and map quest... google hopes that through its innovation and features that you'll make the decision to use them. They are relying on their innovation and not on their monopoly of the search market. They are that confident in the quality of their work, if only other companies were like that. Regards, Steve
Yea, nothing like spending your time coding something with the intent of furthering the community, only to have someone take your code, give you no credit, and profit from it. In general, people must be motivated or forced to do the right thing, the GPL enforces a strong community where as the BSD license places too much trust in corporations. I assure you that without the GPL you would not have huge companies working together on advancing linux. Do you really think Red Hat and Novell would be swapping security patches and other code enhancements if they weren't forced to? The proprietary advantage is too enticing for corporations, in fact a good lawyer could even argue that a corporation couldn't make such changes public simply because it would not be giving share holders maximum value. The GPL enforces cooperation and stimulates growth, it is a good license. This is not to say that the BSD license should never be used, but I feel much more comfortable contributing code to projects where I know my code will go to furthering the community as a whole. Regards, Steve
To edit gnome menus, you don't need a separate tool, just drag and drop, but because of many KDE folks not figuring that out, the next version will have a configue tool. As far as the compressed XML files go, I have yet to run across any of them, perhaps the GUI related ones are, but in all honesty if a tool is designed to edit a conf file, most likely you shouldnt be editing it by hand, and that holds true for quite a few popular open source CLI apps too. Fedora does *NOT* cut off updates until 2 releases later, also they recently extended the development time to 9 months to give them some time for some really advanced features in the next release. Upgrades have never failed for me and I have no lost functionality. If you decide to not upgrade, Fedora Legacy is active now and effective at keeping older Cores up to date with security fixes.
The reason Fedora tends to be integrated so well is simply because you have literally the best of the best linux engineers working on the stuff. The GUI works so well because of great guys like Havoc and Seth, the kernel tends to have the latest and greatest (i.e. Xen, SELInux, LVM, GFS). Fedora also consistently has security updates out faster then other distros, typically a few days, sometimes over a week. I've used every distro out there including Debian, Gentoo, Mandrake, Yoper, Knoppix, Ubuntu, and Suse, but find myself always going back to Fedora. Who better to get my distro from other then the guys who do a large portion of the coding and whose job it is to ensure clean integration with other components. Not to mention, Fedora has a very strict free software only stance which sits well with me. Regards, Steve
As one who works with the Department of Defense, our research in the U.S. is not lacking (hell, look at the Grand Challenge, we're being practical), but most of the cool stuff is classified. Also, most universities have pretty good robotics departments with things not much different then what you see coming out of Japan. The Japanese are just more about pride and less about the tech, they do something minimal and shout it to the mountains.Take Honda'a ASIMO for instance. It seems like a really advanced piece of tech (and in many ways it is), but the way honda shows it off is misleading. If you've ever seen their labs then you'd see that ASIMO stays in a nice special closet like area, all the reasearch is done on seemingly random robot parts "thrown" around. When ASIMO is ready to be used, he is configured and callibrated for about 8 hours and then can only be used for about an hour and a half before a) the battery dies and b) he needs to be recallibrated. Also, ASIMO is fully capable of being controlled remotely by a human and in more then one instance he has been fully controlled by humans during public showings. From what I've seen, the Japanaese aren't far ahead at all, and in some cases lacking quite a bit, its just that they like to boast to make their ego's bigger. Regards, Steve
Umm... Suse is owned by Novell... which is an American corporation, why on earth would English not be their main language? Also English is the "language of commerce" and it is very widely spoken. On a side note, its funny how the whole world who "hates" America is more or less nothing but a bunch of cowards. Its like Europeans didn't learn anything from the past 2 world wars... you don't let your enemy keep growing out of control simply because he says he'll be good... The U.S. is preventing World War III and the rest of the world is too damn ignorant to realize that we are saving their asses again.
I don't agree with Bush on everything, I did not vote for him, but the wars he is fighting are worth every penny and every life. The europeans just kept going about their lives letting Saddam gain more and more power, same thing with N. Korea. The U.N. is useless, corrupted, and is known to not enforce anything, so the U.S. stepped in. If it wasn't for the U.S., the Europeans would wake up one day again only to find troops invading their country and taking over. Then the rest of europe would say, "Well fine, but don't take anymore countries and we'll let this whole thing go", then they'll wake up one morning to find themselves being invaded. Learn from your history, burn the fire out before it gets out of control. Regards, Steve
Many advances and breakthroughs have come from people who were nothing but armchair tinkerers in their field, including mathematics. I wouldn't be surprised if it was a tinkerer who cracked RSA. Regardless, you shouldn't insult or deride people for trying, what makes you think its not easy to factor large integers other then the fact that its never been done. I have yet to see a proof and until then, RSA is only secure because of an oversight by humans as far as I'm concerned. Say what you want, but show me a proof Mr. Supreme Cryptologist who is so great that he can mock others for something he hasn't been able to do! Regards, Steve
Its not sad. The experiment wasn't a failure, we got a reusable space exploration vehicle and used it hundreds of times for the first time in history. Unfortunately, it was still costing way too much money just to get the thing up. Sure the idea is cool, and the shuttle looks cool, but then reality hits and cargo needs to go up and personnel need to go up as cheap & safe as possible. NASA has alot of different things it needs to spend money on. This new shuttle design will allow them to lift 5 times as much weight (100 tons versus 20 tons) for less money then was spent on one launch before. I'd rather see them do this for a bit rather than burn through their budget and go the way of other space agencies around the world. Oh and for those who are thinking this is just old technology, if you read the article you'd see that just like new jets resemble old jets, but new jets are significantly different, this new shuttle design resembles the old one, yet is much more advanced and improved. Regards, Steve
Acid2 does not test every possible web standard or even all of the CSS standard. Passing it implies nothing as far as sticking to a standard goes. Passing it does show that you have a good implemention that works well, but thats about it. Regards, Steve
Only one web browser passes Acid2, and that might not even hold true anymore because that was using the CVS version and that code may have changed since then. It was safari, and it rendered it fine, but they only showed us screenshots, there is a hover part of the css too that needs to be tested which as far as I know has yet to be verified (one part of the happy face changes upon hover). Regards, Steve
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They are currently working with two service providers to integrate services with. As for other jabber servers, if you email federation@google.com and tell them you'd like to run server2server with them, they'll set it up. Keep in mind Google Talk just came out so they may have bigger issues to confront first. One of their main concerns with just opening up the jabber server to any other jabber server is spamming from instant messengers.
Regards,
Steve
Well until Google gives me a reason not to trust them, I will. They actively compete on their merits, not on monopoly or force. If you search for an address they still give you links for Google Maps, Yahoo Maps, and Mapquest. They have donated large sums of money to OSS and have paid for many developers to work on it over them summer. Now they are using their weight to standardize instant messaging the way e-mail is standardized. If you read Google Talk's site, you'll see that a big initiative is getting instant messaging into a state like e-mail is where you can IM anyone on any network from any IM client. Jabber has server2server capabilities and thus will greatly help this effort. If I ever sense that they are misusing my information, then I'll think about leaving them, but until then, they have my full support. They have literally made the internet a better place to be.
Regards,
Steve
Slashdot messed up my thing. That was: set your user name as ${name}@gmail.com but replace ${name} with your real name, i.e. lnxaddct@gmail.com
Try setting your user name as @gmail.com and the server you connect to as talk.google.com.
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Steve
How on earth did you figure that out?
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Steve
Don't worry,it appears the server was just up temporarily and is down again. They probably had it up for testing unless I see it come back on again in the next few minutes.
Regards,
Steve
I believe upoon release it will be 4.6 Ghz.
Regards,
Steve
I gave this some thought and it's completely possible that the main interface to the IM server will be web based. It would leave it completely portable, and because Google already has a video plugin based on VLC, it supports streaming of video and audio. In fact, if google releases this IM service without some kind of revolutionary web frontend, I'll be disappointed. They are trying to move the desktop away from the desktop, and not using their current technologies to assist in that would be a bad move. Making this IM some kind of operating system dependant program that is just an addon to the desksearch bar or something would really be go against what they are trying to achieve and just support MS's dominance of the desktop.
Regards,
Steve
yea, me too. Well actually I still have a bit of friends on AIM but I use Gaim which supports jabber, assuming Google is basing their service off of jabber. Something tells me that this instant messenger's main interface though is going to be web based. As far as video and audio streaming go, they've already got that covered with their video player, based on vlc, which does streaming and can play just audio. They've also recently released an update to their video player so it makes complete sense that they'd make a web based interface with all the functionality of a traditional client.
Regards,
Steve
The submitter is the owner of a company specializing in RSS editing/creation software.
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Steve
Hey, I've never poked around in any quake source, but was thinking of giving this a look. Is this just a graphics engine? Or does it have physics code too? Maybe even code for networking,or any other little tidbits? If its just the graphics engine, I don't need it because I have Ogre, even if its graphics+physics, i could still use Ogre+ODE. I'm just trying to figure out what advantage the quake source gives me and if I should even spend time giving it a go (Oh another big thing is, does it handle terrains well, or just indoor environments?). Thanks.
Regards,
Steve
For all this shit people give AOL, I recommend it to every novice user I know. It has integrated spyware detection, some of the best spam and phishing blocking, comes with access to AOL's large library of music and videos, news, etc... It sets up your buddy list and everything for you. All of this is accessible by running one program, and for all of the functionality packed into it, the gui isn't half bad. For the price you pay, you can't beat it.
Most people think that it is just a regular ISP but it isn't. You get a ton of extras to go along with it (streaming music, videos, stock tracking, games, spyware removal, a clean inbox, self configuration, and alot more). Very rarely will you see spam coming from an AOL user, if you do see it, it's probably being forged from somewhere else. Considering all of the zombies that comcast and verizon let live on their networks, AOL's active approach seems refreshing. Just like credit card companies, if they notice unusual activity, they'll notify you, if its really bad they'll lock your account until you can let them know that it isn't a spammer that took control of your account. Anyway... even if AOL is just for noobs, I'd rather most peopl be using AOL for Broadband, rather then Comcast and degrading the quality of the net.
Regards,
Steve
Same code base, only a name change. I wouldn't worry about it. The devs are doing this to benefit you, the end user.
Regards,
Steve
I don't understand what all this broadband non-sense is about? I don't know a single person without cable or dsl, and this is throughout about 12 states. The only regions in the U.S. without broadband are places miles from cities (with some few exceptions). If people chose to live life away from cities and the latest technology, good for them, but we should have no desire to run wire to their houses just so we can say everyone has broadband. Everyone who wants it, has it and thats what matters. The United States is huge, way larger then the Koreas or Japan. (Now this will be followed by posts claiming that they or someone they know can't get it, but keep in mind you are the exception rather then the rule)
Regards,
Steve
Oh shit! Calculus has roots going back like a few millenium (Ancient Egyptians), we better get rid of that stuff quickly! Let's move on, kids.
Regards,
Steve
OMG! Andrew Tanenbaum reads slashdot! Now all we need is for Linus to step up again and we can recreate 1992!
Regards,
Steve
P.S. Hi Andy!
Google will do it right and in a way that promotes competition. Go search for an address and you'll get a link to google maps, yahoo maps, and map quest... google hopes that through its innovation and features that you'll make the decision to use them. They are relying on their innovation and not on their monopoly of the search market. They are that confident in the quality of their work, if only other companies were like that.
Regards,
Steve
Yea, nothing like spending your time coding something with the intent of furthering the community, only to have someone take your code, give you no credit, and profit from it. In general, people must be motivated or forced to do the right thing, the GPL enforces a strong community where as the BSD license places too much trust in corporations. I assure you that without the GPL you would not have huge companies working together on advancing linux. Do you really think Red Hat and Novell would be swapping security patches and other code enhancements if they weren't forced to? The proprietary advantage is too enticing for corporations, in fact a good lawyer could even argue that a corporation couldn't make such changes public simply because it would not be giving share holders maximum value. The GPL enforces cooperation and stimulates growth, it is a good license. This is not to say that the BSD license should never be used, but I feel much more comfortable contributing code to projects where I know my code will go to furthering the community as a whole.
Regards,
Steve
To edit gnome menus, you don't need a separate tool, just drag and drop, but because of many KDE folks not figuring that out, the next version will have a configue tool. As far as the compressed XML files go, I have yet to run across any of them, perhaps the GUI related ones are, but in all honesty if a tool is designed to edit a conf file, most likely you shouldnt be editing it by hand, and that holds true for quite a few popular open source CLI apps too. Fedora does *NOT* cut off updates until 2 releases later, also they recently extended the development time to 9 months to give them some time for some really advanced features in the next release. Upgrades have never failed for me and I have no lost functionality. If you decide to not upgrade, Fedora Legacy is active now and effective at keeping older Cores up to date with security fixes.
The reason Fedora tends to be integrated so well is simply because you have literally the best of the best linux engineers working on the stuff. The GUI works so well because of great guys like Havoc and Seth, the kernel tends to have the latest and greatest (i.e. Xen, SELInux, LVM, GFS). Fedora also consistently has security updates out faster then other distros, typically a few days, sometimes over a week. I've used every distro out there including Debian, Gentoo, Mandrake, Yoper, Knoppix, Ubuntu, and Suse, but find myself always going back to Fedora. Who better to get my distro from other then the guys who do a large portion of the coding and whose job it is to ensure clean integration with other components. Not to mention, Fedora has a very strict free software only stance which sits well with me.
Regards,
Steve
As one who works with the Department of Defense, our research in the U.S. is not lacking (hell, look at the Grand Challenge, we're being practical), but most of the cool stuff is classified. Also, most universities have pretty good robotics departments with things not much different then what you see coming out of Japan. The Japanese are just more about pride and less about the tech, they do something minimal and shout it to the mountains.Take Honda'a ASIMO for instance. It seems like a really advanced piece of tech (and in many ways it is), but the way honda shows it off is misleading. If you've ever seen their labs then you'd see that ASIMO stays in a nice special closet like area, all the reasearch is done on seemingly random robot parts "thrown" around. When ASIMO is ready to be used, he is configured and callibrated for about 8 hours and then can only be used for about an hour and a half before a) the battery dies and b) he needs to be recallibrated. Also, ASIMO is fully capable of being controlled remotely by a human and in more then one instance he has been fully controlled by humans during public showings. From what I've seen, the Japanaese aren't far ahead at all, and in some cases lacking quite a bit, its just that they like to boast to make their ego's bigger.
Regards,
Steve
Umm... Suse is owned by Novell... which is an American corporation, why on earth would English not be their main language? Also English is the "language of commerce" and it is very widely spoken. On a side note, its funny how the whole world who "hates" America is more or less nothing but a bunch of cowards. Its like Europeans didn't learn anything from the past 2 world wars... you don't let your enemy keep growing out of control simply because he says he'll be good... The U.S. is preventing World War III and the rest of the world is too damn ignorant to realize that we are saving their asses again.
I don't agree with Bush on everything, I did not vote for him, but the wars he is fighting are worth every penny and every life. The europeans just kept going about their lives letting Saddam gain more and more power, same thing with N. Korea. The U.N. is useless, corrupted, and is known to not enforce anything, so the U.S. stepped in. If it wasn't for the U.S., the Europeans would wake up one day again only to find troops invading their country and taking over. Then the rest of europe would say, "Well fine, but don't take anymore countries and we'll let this whole thing go", then they'll wake up one morning to find themselves being invaded. Learn from your history, burn the fire out before it gets out of control.
Regards,
Steve
Many advances and breakthroughs have come from people who were nothing but armchair tinkerers in their field, including mathematics. I wouldn't be surprised if it was a tinkerer who cracked RSA. Regardless, you shouldn't insult or deride people for trying, what makes you think its not easy to factor large integers other then the fact that its never been done. I have yet to see a proof and until then, RSA is only secure because of an oversight by humans as far as I'm concerned. Say what you want, but show me a proof Mr. Supreme Cryptologist who is so great that he can mock others for something he hasn't been able to do!
Regards,
Steve
Its not sad. The experiment wasn't a failure, we got a reusable space exploration vehicle and used it hundreds of times for the first time in history. Unfortunately, it was still costing way too much money just to get the thing up. Sure the idea is cool, and the shuttle looks cool, but then reality hits and cargo needs to go up and personnel need to go up as cheap & safe as possible. NASA has alot of different things it needs to spend money on. This new shuttle design will allow them to lift 5 times as much weight (100 tons versus 20 tons) for less money then was spent on one launch before. I'd rather see them do this for a bit rather than burn through their budget and go the way of other space agencies around the world. Oh and for those who are thinking this is just old technology, if you read the article you'd see that just like new jets resemble old jets, but new jets are significantly different, this new shuttle design resembles the old one, yet is much more advanced and improved.
Regards,
Steve
Acid2 does not test every possible web standard or even all of the CSS standard. Passing it implies nothing as far as sticking to a standard goes. Passing it does show that you have a good implemention that works well, but thats about it.
Regards,
Steve
Only one web browser passes Acid2, and that might not even hold true anymore because that was using the CVS version and that code may have changed since then. It was safari, and it rendered it fine, but they only showed us screenshots, there is a hover part of the css too that needs to be tested which as far as I know has yet to be verified (one part of the happy face changes upon hover).
Regards,
Steve