One thing that I'm confused about concerns some of the leaked information. I read somewhere that MS offer includes the debundling of IE with Windows. This doesn't make any sense to me.
As part of the case, MS tried to show that IE could not be bebundled from Windows; DoJ tried to show that it could be done. This was part of the flawed/doctored videotape demonstration that was displayed during the trial. This is also important, as the "integration" of IE into Windows was a loophole exploited by MS to circumvent the initial 1995(?) court ruling.
This is all speculation on my part as I'm not privy to the actual offer that MS faxed (well, at least they didn't use snail mail:-)) to DoJ.
Hiawatha Bray (Boston Globe) recently wrote a nice article about this case. He called the initial offering from MS to be their version 1.0. And as he pointed out, we all know how MS handles 1.0 releases of their software.
WTF? I just got asked if I wanted a cookie from doubleclick when I reloaded this article. I was ready to reply to this DARPA story, but like I said, WTF???? The only other web page I have up is the DARPA page. I don't think that they would have a link to doubleclick.
Anybody else see this?
Anyway, back OT. DARPA/ARPA funds futuristic items. They always have, and hopefully, always will. Not all of DARPA projects turn out to be successes. Cutting edge stuff often (usually?) fail. However, some stuff do turn out to be winners. The general idea is to push the envelope. In theory this sounds great, in practice, things may be less than ideal.
A lot depends on the Program Managers who control the budgets and equally important put forth the initiatives. While it is tempting to speculate, I will not think about what movies this program Manager saw. Nah, obviously watched RoboCop.
Thanks for the info. I saw this book at Borders and flipped thru it. It looked interesting although I didn't buy it. Maybe I'll look at it again.
BTW, MS was never socially acceptable.:-)
One book that I really liked was A Few Good Men From Univac by Lundstrom. This book gives you a good impression of what it was like to work in the computer industry back in the 50's and 60's. Wonder why computer cards (and hence, why some default terminals are set at 80 columns) are 80 columns wide? It gives you an appreciation of how far the industry has progressed from the days of programming in machine language. And there is a great recollection of Seymour Cray, the god of computers IMHO. Univac to CDC to Cray.
The switch from 32 to 64 bit programming is as you stated; long==64 bits, long!=int, and pointers are 64 bits. Hell, I remember going from 16 to 32 bits meant that short!=int.
My experience/problems in transitioning from a 32 to 64 in an Unix programming environment is in dealing with various data types (e.g., size_t, time_t). If one substitutes int for size_t, one then runs into problems. OTOH, if one used size_t, time_t, etc... in a somewhat consistent manner, then the transition is not as bad.
Pointers can cause lots of compiling warning messages if one does a lot of X Window programming. What is XtPointer and what if one passes an int variable as an XtPointer?
As for efficiency in running 32 bit compiled code in a 64 bit environment? SGI, for instance, provides compiler options to handle pure 32 bit, hybrid 32/64 bit, and pure 64 bit code and executables. This is not a definitive answer, but my code does run faster in this order: 32, 32/64, 64 bit. IOW, 64 is better.
Kingston has posted a summary statement concerning this suit. An interesting point raised is why isn't Sun suing computer OEM's. Kingston is merely manufacturer memory in accordance to the specs of the computer manufacturers. Interesting point.
I normally don't post at my default +2, but I do so now so that the moderators can go after the trolls.
Yes and no, IMHO. The politics of the Cold War space race is well documented. The Soviets were the 1st to put a satellite in Earth orbit. This was a major event that really kicked the US in the butt. What ensued was a lot of rhetoric and some action to improved education in the US. As a side note, this was also the acme of the role of the scientific advisor (and committee) to the President. But more significantly, the ability to place a satellite into orbit == the ability to place nukes world-wide in the view of the politicians. The moon had no relevance in this regard.
The Soviets also put the 1st man into Earth orbit. This was also a major bummer as far as the US was concerned. How do you top this? Kennedy promised a man on the moon, and NASA was more than willing to comply. Take that back, the military-industrial complex that Eisenhower warned about was more than willing to comply. Flashforward to today. International Space Station? Money to Lockheed-Martin, Boeing, and their subcontractors. Money for science? Here's a dime kid, go buy a candybar.
The amount of money that was spent to win the Cold War is difficult to comprehend. As Sagan used to say, billions and billions. But to me at least, the Cold War came to an end as the US bankrupted the Soviet Union. I have no idea how historians will view this, but to me the Cold War probably was unique in it being more of an economic war instead of a major blood thirsting conflict. Note: I'm not saying that economic sanctions will win a battle. No, I'm talking about no holds barred, spend, spend, spend.
Some ppl have said that the proposed SDI (Star Wars missile defense) was the straw that broke the camel's back. I don't necessarily agree with this, but I can't disprove it.
Back on topic. When space exploration returned to the realm of science, the funding level dropped to a level commensurate closer to other scientific projects. If funding for space exploration increases, then you have to suspect lobbying efforts by the prime contractors will be of some significance.
Hope you see this. Thanks for your reply, BTW. MSINT? ROTFL. MS (Microsoft) intelligence? Actually, its MASINT, Measurement and Sensor(?) Intelligence. This refers to the ability to measure the capabilities of a sensor. What can it measure and record, what are its sensitity, noise reduction, etc... ELINT==Emission(?) Intelligence. This involves monitoring the transmission of signals. For instance, monitoring the movement of a car cell phone thereby knowing the position of the car.Radio silence would be a countermeasure against ELINT.
I'll send you some links to more of this as you seem interested in this subject. Once again, thank you. At least there is someone else that wants to expand their mind instead of posting flamebait material.
Everytime one of these types of articles get posted we get the typical responses. You know what they are so I won't repeat them.
News for Nerds? Screw that. If you were really into this type of thing and a nerd, your questions would be how do they do this? What kind of equipment do they use? Can I do this? How do I stop this? In a nutshell, give me more technical information. What is the state of the art of the technology? Okay, the spooky dudes probably have better stuff. What could they use?
Okay, I'll start this discussion. Is the CIA using local bugging devices? This would require the limited range transmission of the recording to a localized receiver (just like the Russian diplomat sitting on a park bench outside the State Department). Nah, they would use satellites to intercpet international communications. I guess one must just focus the receiving antenna at the fixed transmitting attenna and retransmit back another receiver. Land-lines? Need a tap somewhere. Hmmm, how much American telephone switches are in place. What would it take to tap a few lines. Data storage and transmission? Backdoor entrances?
According to a recent book, the US tapped a Soviet communication link by placing a recording pod attached to an undersea cable. Farradays' Law I guess.
Sorry for this rambling discourse. I'm in a foul mood due to work and I don't expect sympathy from this crowd.:-) You could pour hot grits down my pants right now and I wouldn't notice a pertified statue right next to me.
This will be a slightly different post. You see, I went to grad school with the two scientists (Jim Garvin and Maria Zuber) mentioned in this article. They are really great people.
Jim was a CS major as an undergraduate (Brown) and got a MS in CS (Stanford). But he love space stuff so he decided to become a planetary geologist. Jim was (still is?) an ice hockey goalie. This should really tell you something about him. He once crashed the IBM mainframe (JCL, yuck) by screwing around with variables in APL program. He actually liked APL. He is the only person I know that was told by his thesis adviser to stop writing more chapters (papers) for his thesis. No Jim, you're done, stop writing!
Maria Zuber used to play women's basketball as an undergrad (Penn). She also played with us on our intramural basketball team. We sucked, but Maria did okay. The other teams would let her shoot as she was the only female in the entire league. And should could hit the outside shot.
In our small building, the floor that I had my office on only had one woman on it (our secretary). When Maria moved to our floor we had an office warming party to celebrate her introduction into what we called the last bastillion of male supremacy. This meant beer then more beer, then off to the bar.
When Maria got married, a bunch of us gave her a basketball, ears of corn (don't ask), and a car baby seat as her wedding present. She wasn't pregnant, but what the hell, she was Catholic and came from a large family. BTW, the priest thought it was a great gift.:-)
BTW, I got this nick (craw) when I was in grad school.
You might be one of the lucky ppl. To get hardware 3-D graphics acceleration you need to bypass X and get directly at the graphics board. 3dfx is well supported for the DRI.
For the end-user, XFree4.0 provides support for DRI and GLX. This means (for supported hardware, like some 3dfx cards) that 3-D acceleration (especially texture mapping, IIRC) is well supported.
At least you are not running Mesa3.0. I don't think that you will have problems with 3.1.
I don't no why somebody labelled this as flamebait except to think that they have never used a Mac. IIRC, MacOS6 (maybe 5?) supported dual monitors. The 1st graphic controller was on the motherboard, while the second controller was a Nu-Bus controller (well, duh, it had to be nu-bus). This was probably at least 10 years ago technology.
If this technology was available with the 1st Nu-Bus Mac, then this was available in either 1987 or 1988. The computer was the MacII.
I hope I don't totally screw this one up. I been trying to determine if transparency is a supported visual attribute on any of the supported graphic cards. As far as I can tell, the answer is no as this is more of a hardware issue. Additionally, are overlays available in openGL? I believe that this is not the same as having pseudocolor and true color overlays visual classes available; for instance, this is a feature of some Matrox cards in the pre-XFreee86-4 releases. Also note that having transparency in X is likely to be related to having overlays in openGL. Please correct me if I'm wrong on this.
Evans and Sutherland has a graphics card that supports overlays in openGL, and that they seem to indicate that they now have Linux support (nice to see Tux on their web site). But their card costs about $500. Additionally, xig also has indicated that they have openGL overlay support for some selected graphic cards.
I can't remember the guy's name, but in the opengl/X book their is code to check if transparency/overlays is supported. IIRC, one program is call sovinfo (X) while the glut example is dino(something). Overlays are not supported for all the graphic cards that I have tried.
Wow, Ijust wanted to see what the other/. readers thought of Debian/Alpha and all I got was a serious flame/troll war. Well, that was a waste of my limited modem bandwidth (Hey, I want DSL in my neighborhood). BTW, I personally like RMS for what he started in the 80's when Unix was being torn apart by competing factions. Thanks also to Linus.
That said, I have always wondered about Compaq's commitment to the Alpha and to Linux. This goes back to when Compaq bought DEC. Did they do this for DEC's established base of user support licences (to me this would be relatively short sighted) or was it to get the Alpha?/. had a discussion when this takeover happened and the speculation on this issue was obviously mixed.
Is Compaq committed to Linux or is this merely an attempt to recoup their losses? What is the future of the Alpha? Will Transmeta make the Alpha old news?
Sorry if these questions are mundane but I not an expert on these subjects. However, I am interested in learning more about this and to really figure out if the Alpha has a future.
I said it once before but I'll say it again. Any domain related to SSH should be registered in Italy. The.it should do it (no pun intended).
The ppl who try to filter out the offensive domains will have a quandry. Sorry, openshit.it is not allow. We don't want any shi, ah woops, cra, woops, ah, poop here.
POOP, People Outraged for Opensource Privacy. (Actually this sucks. Does Echelon filter poop?).
Hopefully you will see this as this is posted real late. Holy shit! 200' off the deck? The ship I was one was just about 200' *long*. A old AGOR class boat/ship that rolled like a good rocking chair.
200' mast? You are a better man that me Gunga Din.:-)
Normally I am a big supporter of NASA. Unfortunately, the ISS is simply a pork barrel project to keep the major defense contractors in business. A few years ago, one justification of the ISS was scientific research. This really ticked off a lot of scientists. What research? How much is going to cost?
In the early days of planning for the ISS, NASA officials were not gaga about the project. However, do you want to piss off Congress?
For those of you who would be inclined to critize NASA for this, I would like to say the following. Don't totally blame NASA. NASA does not really want the ISS. NASA wants cheaper, faster, woops...where did it go? (Sorry, I couldn't resist:-))
Great reply. Everybody was a beginner once. A long time ago, I took a electronics summer school class (7/8 grade level). Our final project was to build a one transistor radio (remember, this was a long long time ago). Breadboard model worked. Final sodered model was DOA. Woops, is a heat sink important?
You learn from your mistakes.
I learned how to solder.
Many years later. I'm soldering up a bunch of connections on a research ship that is bobbing up and down. After many failures, the final connections works. Unfortunately, the person (me) using the soldering iron learns a new lesson. Remember to get some fresh air. Soldering fumes suck. Soldering on a moving platform really sucks.
If you are moderated down then it is because you said that you might be moderated down. OTOH, your point is generally correct. IBM does this all the time. A lot of companies do this. A lot of ppl here do not know the difference between a patent and a trademark or a copyright.
Ultimately, the blame/credit is placed on the courts. I'm always amazed when ppl criticize the USPTO and don't say a peep about the courts. The USPTO is forced to abide by the decisions of the courts. Yes, the USPTO may not ultimately fully understand the limitiation of the court rulings, but I blame this on the judicial branch.
Your point is very good and is one that pragmatically agree with.
Of course, there is the possibility that Amazon is just trying to make more money by enforcing this patent. Additionally, Amazon may be just putting road blocks in front of their main competition.
Sorry for the late response, but thanks. I missed the the/. post on the release of XFree86 3.9.18. I knew about the release because I been going to this site almost every day. I do not think the problem is motif. We have a commercial motif package that we also tried and still had the same problem. Because of you, I read the posts on the Tuesday story and one person indicated that the 3.9.18 version fixes this problem.
Another person indicated that he/she had problems compiling the package. I have had problems that required me to tweak things. The docs are okay but are not idiot proof.
I'm finally able to compile the package on a RedHat 6.0 distro. However, I am not sure that the compile was successful.
Too bad that I missed the original/. story because I have had lots of problems with the pre-4 distro. Imlib with a -fbbpp 32 -cc4 option on a Matrox G400 card results in "interesting" results.
Since most of the comments so far have been date related or somewhat OT, I have decided to ask a fairly OT question. I have a need to use some of the features in XFree4 and have been playing around with beta release. Unfortunately, netscape (4.7.1) has gone somewhat nuts. Not certain, but it seems that java or java script stuff blows up. Starting up the java console crashes netscape if java-script (in preferences) is disabled. Some web pages refuse to load in java-script is enabled. Selecting the security option also brings netscape to a halt.
WTF am I doing wrong? Is this a netscape problem (same thing happens when running 4.5) or is this a X problem?
Bulk food cooking is a very efficient way to prepare food. I had a grad school roommate that used to do this with the aid of one of them vacuum-sealing systems. He then used to boil a pot of water, insert the bag, then voila, open a nice hot meal. Note: we didn't have a microwave oven, although this should have been on the must get list.
You also mentioned your fine rice cooker; I think that we have the same model! Why is having a fine rice cooker important (that is, if you like rice)? Because using a good rice cooker is idiot proof and does not need constant attention. I also recommend a rice cooker that is a sealed unit that serves as a cooker/warmer unit. Additionally, rice is cheap and also goes well with a wide range of meals. A piece of additional advice (not to you, but to others), use rice that does not easily dry out. That way one can cook a bunch of rice, then also reheat and eat the leftovers (zap it in the microwave).
I got a whole bunch of grad school collegues hooked on rice cookers because of the ease of use.
Hey, who gave out the secret recipe?:-) If you want additional ideas of what to toss into the mix just get some Chinese fried rice and look at the ingredients. The noodles are a substitute for the rice.
Depending on your taste, the following stuff can be tossed in: egg (shaken not stirred), green onions, regular onions, soy sauce (try low sodium soy), roast pork (okay, you're a beef guy), ground pork (kind of fatty so cook and drain in a separate pan), kamaboko (japanese fish cake), crushed hot red peppers (smoking!), sesame seed oil, Korean kim chee (spicy cabbage), etc... The bottom line is that a lot of things can be mixed with ramen.
BTW, ramen in Japan (called saimin in Hawaii) is an art form. There is nothing like the perfect bowl of hot noodles. And please, do not use a fork to eat or cook all of this. Just the thought of using a fork make me puke.:-)
Finally, if you live in the US then I suggest using the finest soy sauce in the world, Kikkoman Shoyu brewed (that's right, brewed/fermented) in good old Wisconsin.
I recently got another book that so far has been very informative and well written; the ones you cited are classics that should be mandatory reading. This new book is entitled "Linux System Security", written by Scott Mann and Ellen Mitchell. I haven't finished reading it but it covers all the pertinent topics, and it has a decidedly linux slant on things.
Like all good security books it covers the usual suspects (ssh, inetd, tcp_wrappers, etc...), and also tries to pass on the proper mentality that one needs to have. It also has a good appendix section that has a bunch of good www sites, including slashdot (Linux and computing news). The URL is interesting, tho, http://www.slashdot.org.
The only negative thing is that the book is a hardcover edition and is therefore a little bit more costly than a paperback version.
All this recent wave of "fun" has led me to contemplate the following issue that has been previously discussed here. The government's solution to all of this is to pass laws that make all of this activities illegal. In their zest to appease the public, civil liberties (at least in the US) will be pushed aside. Later, the courts will eventually issue their decisions. Much later, the US Supreme Court will overturn these decisions.
Study political history. This has been the pattern whenever a "new" issue and threat has scared ppl. The politicans will always overreact.
What most ppl will not want to address is that the internet is not secure and that this is a highly technical (ie, protocol) issue. To make the net more secure will require ppl to probe for its weakeness. But the lawmakers will have made this type of research illegal. But the lawmakers will then make only research efforts legal. But then again, this is what is now the status quo!
Ppl are going to try and crack. Making this illegal is not the ultimate solution. Monitoring is also not the ulimate solution. Perhaps there might be a technology solution, like coming up and implementing a new set of protocols? Unfortunately, the money hungry lobbyists will not push for this.
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Sheesh, the next thing that's going to happen is that User Friendly is being forced to shut down. If you don't know, don't ask.;-)
One thing that I'm confused about concerns some of the leaked information. I read somewhere that MS offer includes the debundling of IE with Windows. This doesn't make any sense to me.
As part of the case, MS tried to show that IE could not be bebundled from Windows; DoJ tried to show that it could be done. This was part of the flawed/doctored videotape demonstration that was displayed during the trial. This is also important, as the "integration" of IE into Windows was a loophole exploited by MS to circumvent the initial 1995(?) court ruling.
This is all speculation on my part as I'm not privy to the actual offer that MS faxed (well, at least they didn't use snail mail:-)) to DoJ.
Hiawatha Bray (Boston Globe) recently wrote a nice article about this case. He called the initial offering from MS to be their version 1.0. And as he pointed out, we all know how MS handles 1.0 releases of their software.
Anybody else see this?
Anyway, back OT. DARPA/ARPA funds futuristic items. They always have, and hopefully, always will. Not all of DARPA projects turn out to be successes. Cutting edge stuff often (usually?) fail. However, some stuff do turn out to be winners. The general idea is to push the envelope. In theory this sounds great, in practice, things may be less than ideal.
A lot depends on the Program Managers who control the budgets and equally important put forth the initiatives. While it is tempting to speculate, I will not think about what movies this program Manager saw. Nah, obviously watched RoboCop.
Back Off-topic. Doubleclick?
BTW, MS was never socially acceptable.:-)
One book that I really liked was A Few Good Men From Univac by Lundstrom. This book gives you a good impression of what it was like to work in the computer industry back in the 50's and 60's. Wonder why computer cards (and hence, why some default terminals are set at 80 columns) are 80 columns wide? It gives you an appreciation of how far the industry has progressed from the days of programming in machine language. And there is a great recollection of Seymour Cray, the god of computers IMHO. Univac to CDC to Cray.
My experience/problems in transitioning from a 32 to 64 in an Unix programming environment is in dealing with various data types (e.g., size_t, time_t). If one substitutes int for size_t, one then runs into problems. OTOH, if one used size_t, time_t, etc... in a somewhat consistent manner, then the transition is not as bad.
Pointers can cause lots of compiling warning messages if one does a lot of X Window programming. What is XtPointer and what if one passes an int variable as an XtPointer?
As for efficiency in running 32 bit compiled code in a 64 bit environment? SGI, for instance, provides compiler options to handle pure 32 bit, hybrid 32/64 bit, and pure 64 bit code and executables. This is not a definitive answer, but my code does run faster in this order: 32, 32/64, 64 bit. IOW, 64 is better.
I normally don't post at my default +2, but I do so now so that the moderators can go after the trolls.
The Soviets also put the 1st man into Earth orbit. This was also a major bummer as far as the US was concerned. How do you top this? Kennedy promised a man on the moon, and NASA was more than willing to comply. Take that back, the military-industrial complex that Eisenhower warned about was more than willing to comply. Flashforward to today. International Space Station? Money to Lockheed-Martin, Boeing, and their subcontractors. Money for science? Here's a dime kid, go buy a candybar.
The amount of money that was spent to win the Cold War is difficult to comprehend. As Sagan used to say, billions and billions. But to me at least, the Cold War came to an end as the US bankrupted the Soviet Union. I have no idea how historians will view this, but to me the Cold War probably was unique in it being more of an economic war instead of a major blood thirsting conflict. Note: I'm not saying that economic sanctions will win a battle. No, I'm talking about no holds barred, spend, spend, spend.
Some ppl have said that the proposed SDI (Star Wars missile defense) was the straw that broke the camel's back. I don't necessarily agree with this, but I can't disprove it.
Back on topic. When space exploration returned to the realm of science, the funding level dropped to a level commensurate closer to other scientific projects. If funding for space exploration increases, then you have to suspect lobbying efforts by the prime contractors will be of some significance.
I'll send you some links to more of this as you seem interested in this subject. Once again, thank you. At least there is someone else that wants to expand their mind instead of posting flamebait material.
News for Nerds? Screw that. If you were really into this type of thing and a nerd, your questions would be how do they do this? What kind of equipment do they use? Can I do this? How do I stop this? In a nutshell, give me more technical information. What is the state of the art of the technology? Okay, the spooky dudes probably have better stuff. What could they use?
Okay, I'll start this discussion. Is the CIA using local bugging devices? This would require the limited range transmission of the recording to a localized receiver (just like the Russian diplomat sitting on a park bench outside the State Department). Nah, they would use satellites to intercpet international communications. I guess one must just focus the receiving antenna at the fixed transmitting attenna and retransmit back another receiver. Land-lines? Need a tap somewhere. Hmmm, how much American telephone switches are in place. What would it take to tap a few lines. Data storage and transmission? Backdoor entrances?
According to a recent book, the US tapped a Soviet communication link by placing a recording pod attached to an undersea cable. Farradays' Law I guess.
Sorry for this rambling discourse. I'm in a foul mood due to work and I don't expect sympathy from this crowd.:-) You could pour hot grits down my pants right now and I wouldn't notice a pertified statue right next to me.
Jim was a CS major as an undergraduate (Brown) and got a MS in CS (Stanford). But he love space stuff so he decided to become a planetary geologist. Jim was (still is?) an ice hockey goalie. This should really tell you something about him. He once crashed the IBM mainframe (JCL, yuck) by screwing around with variables in APL program. He actually liked APL. He is the only person I know that was told by his thesis adviser to stop writing more chapters (papers) for his thesis. No Jim, you're done, stop writing!
Maria Zuber used to play women's basketball as an undergrad (Penn). She also played with us on our intramural basketball team. We sucked, but Maria did okay. The other teams would let her shoot as she was the only female in the entire league. And should could hit the outside shot.
In our small building, the floor that I had my office on only had one woman on it (our secretary). When Maria moved to our floor we had an office warming party to celebrate her introduction into what we called the last bastillion of male supremacy. This meant beer then more beer, then off to the bar.
When Maria got married, a bunch of us gave her a basketball, ears of corn (don't ask), and a car baby seat as her wedding present. She wasn't pregnant, but what the hell, she was Catholic and came from a large family. BTW, the priest thought it was a great gift.:-)
BTW, I got this nick (craw) when I was in grad school.
For the end-user, XFree4.0 provides support for DRI and GLX. This means (for supported hardware, like some 3dfx cards) that 3-D acceleration (especially texture mapping, IIRC) is well supported.
At least you are not running Mesa3.0. I don't think that you will have problems with 3.1.
If this technology was available with the 1st Nu-Bus Mac, then this was available in either 1987 or 1988. The computer was the MacII.
Evans and Sutherland has a graphics card that supports overlays in openGL, and that they seem to indicate that they now have Linux support (nice to see Tux on their web site). But their card costs about $500. Additionally, xig also has indicated that they have openGL overlay support for some selected graphic cards.
I can't remember the guy's name, but in the opengl/X book their is code to check if transparency/overlays is supported. IIRC, one program is call sovinfo (X) while the glut example is dino(something). Overlays are not supported for all the graphic cards that I have tried.
I also want an answer to your question.
That said, I have always wondered about Compaq's commitment to the Alpha and to Linux. This goes back to when Compaq bought DEC. Did they do this for DEC's established base of user support licences (to me this would be relatively short sighted) or was it to get the Alpha? /. had a discussion when this takeover happened and the speculation on this issue was obviously mixed.
Is Compaq committed to Linux or is this merely an attempt to recoup their losses? What is the future of the Alpha? Will Transmeta make the Alpha old news?
Sorry if these questions are mundane but I not an expert on these subjects. However, I am interested in learning more about this and to really figure out if the Alpha has a future.
The ppl who try to filter out the offensive domains will have a quandry. Sorry, openshit.it is not allow. We don't want any shi, ah woops, cra, woops, ah, poop here.
POOP, People Outraged for Opensource Privacy. (Actually this sucks. Does Echelon filter poop?).
200' mast? You are a better man that me Gunga Din.:-)
In the early days of planning for the ISS, NASA officials were not gaga about the project. However, do you want to piss off Congress?
For those of you who would be inclined to critize NASA for this, I would like to say the following. Don't totally blame NASA. NASA does not really want the ISS. NASA wants cheaper, faster, woops...where did it go? (Sorry, I couldn't resist:-))
You learn from your mistakes.
I learned how to solder.
Many years later. I'm soldering up a bunch of connections on a research ship that is bobbing up and down. After many failures, the final connections works. Unfortunately, the person (me) using the soldering iron learns a new lesson. Remember to get some fresh air. Soldering fumes suck. Soldering on a moving platform really sucks.
Ultimately, the blame/credit is placed on the courts. I'm always amazed when ppl criticize the USPTO and don't say a peep about the courts. The USPTO is forced to abide by the decisions of the courts. Yes, the USPTO may not ultimately fully understand the limitiation of the court rulings, but I blame this on the judicial branch.
Your point is very good and is one that pragmatically agree with.
Of course, there is the possibility that Amazon is just trying to make more money by enforcing this patent. Additionally, Amazon may be just putting road blocks in front of their main competition.
Another person indicated that he/she had problems compiling the package. I have had problems that required me to tweak things. The docs are okay but are not idiot proof.
I'm finally able to compile the package on a RedHat 6.0 distro. However, I am not sure that the compile was successful.
Too bad that I missed the original /. story because I have had lots of problems with the pre-4 distro. Imlib with a -fbbpp 32 -cc4 option on a Matrox G400 card results in "interesting" results.
WTF am I doing wrong? Is this a netscape problem (same thing happens when running 4.5) or is this a X problem?
You also mentioned your fine rice cooker; I think that we have the same model! Why is having a fine rice cooker important (that is, if you like rice)? Because using a good rice cooker is idiot proof and does not need constant attention. I also recommend a rice cooker that is a sealed unit that serves as a cooker/warmer unit. Additionally, rice is cheap and also goes well with a wide range of meals. A piece of additional advice (not to you, but to others), use rice that does not easily dry out. That way one can cook a bunch of rice, then also reheat and eat the leftovers (zap it in the microwave).
I got a whole bunch of grad school collegues hooked on rice cookers because of the ease of use.
Depending on your taste, the following stuff can be tossed in: egg (shaken not stirred), green onions, regular onions, soy sauce (try low sodium soy), roast pork (okay, you're a beef guy), ground pork (kind of fatty so cook and drain in a separate pan), kamaboko (japanese fish cake), crushed hot red peppers (smoking!), sesame seed oil, Korean kim chee (spicy cabbage), etc... The bottom line is that a lot of things can be mixed with ramen.
BTW, ramen in Japan (called saimin in Hawaii) is an art form. There is nothing like the perfect bowl of hot noodles. And please, do not use a fork to eat or cook all of this. Just the thought of using a fork make me puke.:-)
Finally, if you live in the US then I suggest using the finest soy sauce in the world, Kikkoman Shoyu brewed (that's right, brewed/fermented) in good old Wisconsin.
Like all good security books it covers the usual suspects (ssh, inetd, tcp_wrappers, etc...), and also tries to pass on the proper mentality that one needs to have. It also has a good appendix section that has a bunch of good www sites, including slashdot (Linux and computing news). The URL is interesting, tho, http://www.slashdot.org.
The only negative thing is that the book is a hardcover edition and is therefore a little bit more costly than a paperback version.
Study political history. This has been the pattern whenever a "new" issue and threat has scared ppl. The politicans will always overreact.
What most ppl will not want to address is that the internet is not secure and that this is a highly technical (ie, protocol) issue. To make the net more secure will require ppl to probe for its weakeness. But the lawmakers will have made this type of research illegal. But the lawmakers will then make only research efforts legal. But then again, this is what is now the status quo!
Ppl are going to try and crack. Making this illegal is not the ultimate solution. Monitoring is also not the ulimate solution. Perhaps there might be a technology solution, like coming up and implementing a new set of protocols? Unfortunately, the money hungry lobbyists will not push for this.
Standard disclaimer, it is late and I'm tired.