Yeah, it is funny, but I have resigned myself to the fact that there is proprietary hardware in there that they don't want anyone else copying. I don't know how much an open source driver would give away, as I've never written a device driver in my life, but I believe that both Nvidia and ATI keep each other in check. Neither can really abuse their market share, because it's split 50/50. If Nvidia plays hardball, I go to ATI. If ATI plays hardball, I go to Nvidia. If they both play hardball, I go to Playstation.
I won't complain about non open-source drivers as long as they decide to supply me with good drivers that support my hardware. As gaming becomes more common on Linux, they will have to put more work into the drivers, or let someone else write them. It's their choice, not mine, not Linus', not Richard Stallman's.
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Umm, right now, that's the definition.
From Miguel's Netcraft interview (also linked on Slashdot): -----Start-------- Q. What do you see as the greatest danger to the continuing adoption and progress of open source?
A. Microsoft realises today that Linux is competing for some of the green pastures that it's been enjoying for so long; I think that Longhorn is a big attempt to take back what they owned before. Longhorn has kind of a scary technology called Avalon, which when compounded with another technology called XAML, it's fairly dangerous. And the reason is that they've made it so it's basically an HTML replacement. The advantage is it's probably as easy as writing HTML, so that means that anybody can produce this content with a text editor.
It's basically an HTML Next Generation. A lot more widgets, a lot more flexibility, more richer experience - way, way richer experience. You get basically the native client experience with Web- like deployments. So you develop these extremely rich applications but they can be deployed as easily as the Web is. It's just like going to a URL: you go to Google, and you get the Web page and it works. So it's the same deployment model but the user interface interaction is just fantastic.
Of course, the only drawback is that this new interaction is completely tied to.Net and WinFX. So we see that as a very big danger. A lot of people today cannot migrate to Linux or cannot migrate to Mozilla because a lot of their internal Web sites happen to use IE extensions. Now imagine a world where you can only use XAML.
It's massive - I'm so scared. ------END--------
So take your flame elsewhere. Web services are currently SOAP over HTTP. Web services will become XAML, essentially.NET extensions. And that has everything to do with browsers, and platforms.
whatever circus tricks they pull can be reverse-engineered. We have WINE, we have Mono, we have Samba, and a dozen others like them
But that all takes time. Do you want to use the web now, or use it in three months? We have Mono, sure. But even Mono's creator and lead developer are afraid of what Microsoft it attempting to do. I've never agreed with Miguel's politics, but his coding and expertise belie his arrogance. I've also lived through countless embrace-extend-extinguish product cycles, so I am also afraid for my Internet.
Microsoft will win this round as well.
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Microsoft is attempting to reinvent the Internet with it's.NET initiative. This initiative will include MS Specific code for web services, which will undoubtedly break interoperability between platforms, and between browsers.
Microsoft wants you to use the MS Internet(trademark pending), and will make certain that HTML and XML become irrelevant. Windows.Forms is the future, unfortunately, and because they control the specs, they will win the next round of browser wars.
Low end IT has become a blue collar job. The network design, project management, software engineering, database administration, and other specialized aspects will be more than blue-collar. The helpdesk, repair, and maintenance skills will be abundant enough to not require PhD.'s
Solely for the fact that if your competitor has it, and you don't, he's not your competitor, he's the guy who just beat the crap out of your bottom line.
The current ethos in the United States of America is all to do with surface and nothing to do with substance. It doesn't matter that Britney Spears has nothing to say and is about as deep as a birdbath. It matters that she has cute tits, and that's all that matters. She doesn't sing in concert; none of them do. Those are samples. Push a button, out comes the vocal. Do you ever notice, when you're listening to them in a live concert -- any of them, Janet Jackson, any of the rest of them -- that they're not breathing heavy? Even though they're dancing like crazy. That's because you're not hearing what they're singing. You're hearing a tape.
Voice network hacking has gone overlooked by both hackers and security professionals alike. With enough know-how, one can hack a PBX and make long distance calls, copy voice mail, do all kinds of evil stuff. The stakes were raised when they (the voicemail companies) tied voicemail and e-mail together.
I would hazard to say that many companies voice networks are just as vulnerable as their data networks, or even moreso, but they are not targetted as much, so they do not get as much attention.
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I'm so sorry that I'm neither a starving orphan nor a cancer patient. I apologize that my life is so good that the thing that bothers me the most, even more than the pedantic and pretentious Slashdot postings, is the fact that I have to scroll sideways on web pages.
I think that I'll take up alcoholism and heroin addiction to obtain a little bit of perspective./joke.
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rtfa:
Minimo provides what is known as Small Screen Rendering (SSR) that uses CSS to massage web pages into a format that looks better on small displays. On most web pages this works great.
So, badly formatted pages may not fit. HTML hacks like frontpage may create pages which will not fit. The next best thing is scaling down the page, which may or may not work.
Perhaps I should have clarified that the developer I was talking about was the webpage author, but I figured that the possessive term their would have alluded to the fact I wasn't talking about the Minimo developrs.
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There's nothing I hate more than having to scroll sideways on a website.
Yes, I know. I was going for the Trifecta of things not going to happen.
Although, I've never tried the dual 5950s. I guess we can replace that line with subtle, abstract humor probably grossly misplaced, is understood on Slashdot.
Yes, they did. Unfortunately, at the time they were too expensive and took up all of your extra slots on your mobo. Now, with integrated everything, it's not so bad.
Strings is a program which attempts to pull any human readable data from a file. I use it on suspect files to look for strange function calls. Viruses and other malware really tend to stand out with mapi calls and registry changes.
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I'd be annoyed if I had to buy more equipment to connect my machines there, only to accomodate bandwidth I'll never realistically utilize.
Get out. You're not welcome around here.
Yeah, it is funny, but I have resigned myself to the fact that there is proprietary hardware in there that they don't want anyone else copying. I don't know how much an open source driver would give away, as I've never written a device driver in my life, but I believe that both Nvidia and ATI keep each other in check. Neither can really abuse their market share, because it's split 50/50. If Nvidia plays hardball, I go to ATI. If ATI plays hardball, I go to Nvidia. If they both play hardball, I go to Playstation.
I won't complain about non open-source drivers as long as they decide to supply me with good drivers that support my hardware. As gaming becomes more common on Linux, they will have to put more work into the drivers, or let someone else write them. It's their choice, not mine, not Linus', not Richard Stallman's.
Umm, right now, that's the definition.
.Net and WinFX. So we see that as a very big danger. A lot of people today cannot migrate to Linux or cannot migrate to Mozilla because a lot of their internal Web sites happen to use IE extensions. Now imagine a world where you can only use XAML.
.NET extensions. And that has everything to do with browsers, and platforms.
From Miguel's Netcraft interview (also linked on Slashdot):
-----Start--------
Q. What do you see as the greatest danger to the continuing adoption and progress of open source?
A. Microsoft realises today that Linux is competing for some of the green pastures that it's been enjoying for so long; I think that Longhorn is a big attempt to take back what they owned before. Longhorn has kind of a scary technology called Avalon, which when compounded with another technology called XAML, it's fairly dangerous. And the reason is that they've made it so it's basically an HTML replacement. The advantage is it's probably as easy as writing HTML, so that means that anybody can produce this content with a text editor.
It's basically an HTML Next Generation. A lot more widgets, a lot more flexibility, more richer experience - way, way richer experience. You get basically the native client experience with Web- like deployments. So you develop these extremely rich applications but they can be deployed as easily as the Web is. It's just like going to a URL: you go to Google, and you get the Web page and it works. So it's the same deployment model but the user interface interaction is just fantastic.
Of course, the only drawback is that this new interaction is completely tied to
It's massive - I'm so scared.
------END--------
So take your flame elsewhere. Web services are currently SOAP over HTTP. Web services will become XAML, essentially
whatever circus tricks they pull can be reverse-engineered. We have WINE, we have Mono, we have Samba, and a dozen others like them
But that all takes time. Do you want to use the web now, or use it in three months? We have Mono, sure. But even Mono's creator and lead developer are afraid of what Microsoft it attempting to do. I've never agreed with Miguel's politics, but his coding and expertise belie his arrogance. I've also lived through countless embrace-extend-extinguish product cycles, so I am also afraid for my Internet.
Microsoft is attempting to reinvent the Internet with it's .NET initiative. This initiative will include MS Specific code for web services, which will undoubtedly break interoperability between platforms, and between browsers.
Microsoft wants you to use the MS Internet(trademark pending), and will make certain that HTML and XML become irrelevant. Windows.Forms is the future, unfortunately, and because they control the specs, they will win the next round of browser wars.
Low end IT has become a blue collar job. The network design, project management, software engineering, database administration, and other specialized aspects will be more than blue-collar. The helpdesk, repair, and maintenance skills will be abundant enough to not require PhD.'s
Solely for the fact that if your competitor has it, and you don't, he's not your competitor, he's the guy who just beat the crap out of your bottom line.
Umm, no. The HRDC had to pull the plug on a giant database filled with all kinds of information that it shouldn't have/didn't need access to.
Wonder what happened to the back up tapes.
If David Crosby is calling you an idiot and a criminal, then you know you have problems.
The current ethos in the United States of America is all to do with surface and nothing to do with substance. It doesn't matter that Britney Spears has nothing to say and is about as deep as a birdbath. It matters that she has cute tits, and that's all that matters. She doesn't sing in concert; none of them do. Those are samples. Push a button, out comes the vocal. Do you ever notice, when you're listening to them in a live concert -- any of them, Janet Jackson, any of the rest of them -- that they're not breathing heavy? Even though they're dancing like crazy. That's because you're not hearing what they're singing. You're hearing a tape.
That says it all.
Voice network hacking has gone overlooked by both hackers and security professionals alike. With enough know-how, one can hack a PBX and make long distance calls, copy voice mail, do all kinds of evil stuff. The stakes were raised when they (the voicemail companies) tied voicemail and e-mail together.
I would hazard to say that many companies voice networks are just as vulnerable as their data networks, or even moreso, but they are not targetted as much, so they do not get as much attention.
Stop and start? This is in Canada, where it's sixty kilo-meters in between igloos.
I did a Google on the name and came up with both spellings. 50/50 chance, and I blew it.
A student of Occham, I see.
Brilliant!
I'm so sorry that I'm neither a starving orphan nor a cancer patient. I apologize that my life is so good that the thing that bothers me the most, even more than the pedantic and pretentious Slashdot postings, is the fact that I have to scroll sideways on web pages.
/joke.
I think that I'll take up alcoholism and heroin addiction to obtain a little bit of perspective.
rtfa:
Minimo provides what is known as Small Screen Rendering (SSR) that uses CSS to massage web pages into a format that looks better on small displays. On most web pages this works great.
So, badly formatted pages may not fit. HTML hacks like frontpage may create pages which will not fit. The next best thing is scaling down the page, which may or may not work.
Perhaps I should have clarified that the developer I was talking about was the webpage author, but I figured that the possessive term their would have alluded to the fact I wasn't talking about the Minimo developrs.
There's nothing I hate more than having to scroll sideways on a website.
Gathers much praise, but few friends.
It is never easy to walk the moral high ground.
But what do I know, I traded my morals for a shiny new bike when I was 6.
That, and the fact that you don't see too many people outside of the isles named Noel Markham.
It's a pretty safe guess.
You missed the other definition: A $60,000 fiberglass and aluminium penis extension that gets 8 miles to the gallon.
Yes, I know. I was going for the Trifecta of things not going to happen.
Although, I've never tried the dual 5950s. I guess we can replace that line with subtle, abstract humor probably grossly misplaced, is understood on Slashdot.
Yes, they did. Unfortunately, at the time they were too expensive and took up all of your extra slots on your mobo. Now, with integrated everything, it's not so bad.
Good idea implemented too early. Such is life.
dual Nvidia 5950's under Linux!
Just in time for DNF!
How's that DeSoto holding up?
Get with the times.
Strings is a program which attempts to pull any human readable data from a file. I use it on suspect files to look for strange function calls. Viruses and other malware really tend to stand out with mapi calls and registry changes.