Did you know that there is a federal law determining the minimum width of a pickle on your McDonald's hamburger?
Would you mind giving the law's statute number, so we know you aren't pulling this out of some nether region? I would guess that the "law" you are quoting is more of a regulation by the FDA, which is not a law!
Moreover, McyD's may elect not to put any pickles on your burger. They are not required to make burgers with pickles. They have a choice.
As you (and other posters) have observered, breaking up MS will
increase their total market capitalization by increasing the stock price of each company
allow MS to enter other markets
give MS a chance to abandon the legacy crap and move forward. In other words, "Don't throw me into dat briar patch Breir Bear!" If anything, this makes structural remedies more likely to be accepted by MS.
You might ask, "Why then is MS saying they are opposed to breakup if it will benefit them?" Simple: by playing this game they depress their stock price, allowing the head softies to buy up more of the company stock. Then, the breakup happens and their wealth skyrockets.
I ran into a rather unexpected behavior with Gnome: I have two computers running Linux and Gnome, one running the CleanBig theme and one runing the Basic theme. I telnet'ed from the machine running Basic to the one running CleanBig, set DISPLAY, and launched a GTK app (Grip). Instead of using the Basic theme, it used the CleanBig theme. In other words, it did not use the theme of the display it was running on, it used the theme of the computer it was running on.
Therefor: Are there any plans to allow the theme to be fetched from the remote WM, rather than the local system?
Just chop their cable, or feed it into an outlet or something.
I hope you are not serious about routing their cable into an outlet. That could very easily kill somebody, and I'd like to advise everyone reading against that.
However, routing all their traffic to the Barney website, now that's funny!
There's just one other thing that's been bothering me.</voice> Will there be an option in 7.0 to set the default RPM options to build for Pentium/PPro/PII[I]?
And let's face it. The first place that tries to copy Slashdot in a non parody form will die a horrible death.
Excuse me? Several sites are "copying"/. already, and in a "non parody form". Go over and look at Gnome's news site, or several other sites that are using the Slash code. IIRC, at one time Rob had a list of all the sites using Slash (if you are reading this Cmdr Taco, you ought to put that up as a Slashbox).
To paraphrase the last couple of US presidential elections, "IT'S THE INFRASTRUCTURE, STUPID!". To whit: while we have far better technology than we did in the Sixtys, we don't even have the infrastructure to put a man on the moon today.
Consider:
Day after tomorrow, the 20th of March, every nation on earth receives the following message, clearly origonating from the moon:
People of earth, greetings! We represent General Products, an intersteller retailer. We'd like the opportunity to do business with you: we have total conversion, FTL, nanotech computers, a complete breakdown on protein folding, an Open Source replacement for DVD, and can probably crack the genetic codes of every living thing on your planet. We just want interstellar distribution rights to some of your Great Works (Shakespere, Tolkein, you know).
Just to reassure you, we are absolutely forbidden to take anything by force or without your permission. We are also absolutely forbidden to do business with any race that isn't a spacefaring race, so here's the deal: You have to meet us here, on the moon. We're a hundred meters away from your Apollo 12 landing site. Once you've sent a representative of your race (living, not a machine), we can deal.
We'll be here for one year. After that, we have to leave. We look forward to your business.
Now, let's suppose that the message is confirmed absolutely genuine. No doubt about it. My point is, that even under these circumstances, with the entire world pulling behind the mission, we couldn't get a man to the moon in one year. We just don't have the infrastructure to build a launch vehicle and landing craft that could get to the moon. I assert that even if we were willing to sacrifice the man we sent - give him a one-way ticket and a pat on the back - we couldn't get him to the lunar surface in one piece and keep him alive long enough to do anything of value. Let alone Mars.
Now, I know I am preaching to the choir here, but most sheeple think that the Space Program is a huge waste of money, even while they are talking on their cell phone in their car with radial tires and checking their stress level with their pulse-detecting watch. What we in the pro-space community must do is tirelessly try to educate these downers (read Larry Niven's Sprials for the reference) about why spending money on the Space Program is A Good Thing.
The No-code license didn't hurt Amateur Radio, the lack of enforcement from the FCC did. Just listen to 75 Meters, which a no-coder like me is prohibited from operating on. It's the biggest cesspool imaginable. While some of the operating practices on 2 meters (where most no-coders operate) have dropped a little, the major problem is a lack of substantive enforcement.
Same thing for Linux: We must enforce rules to prevent the spread of viruses and trojans. Minimize suid programs, discourage binary-only distributions, encourage distro vendors to close known security holes by default, and last but not least, nuke the living hell out of anybody who creates a virus! Find the person responsible, and make sure they only get to see striped sunlight for a long time.
I think you've all missed the point of why this patent was applied for.
Assumption: The patent is "that which promotes plant growth and comes from a male bovine"
Applicant applies for patent.
Absent prior art, patent is granted. Remember, it's not the PTO's job to say what won't work.
Applicant starts company: "Look at me! I have a wormhole generator! No foolin', here's the patent number!!!!"
Applicant advertises via any number of channels. I expect to see spam on this RSN.
Fools buy into company. After all, with a valid patent number, it must be true, right?
Applicant skips out with the money
If my hypothesis of the sequence of events is proven correct, however, then the applicant has falsified government documents with the intent of committing fraud. I hope he is nailed, jailed, and won't be bailed....
(BTW, I wonder why US doesn't just elect companies for Congress and President -- they are "persons" under american laws that have "rights".)
Either you aren't a US citizen, or you slept through your Civics classes. A corporation is a "legal person", but they do not have all the "rights" a real person has. In the law, a corporation can sign contracts, own property, and perform a few other acts that only a "person" can perform, but a corporation cannot receive Social Security when it turns 65, it cannot vote, it cannot run for office (nor can it donate money directly to canditate ("hard money") in excess of $1000), etc.
This is an often misquoted part of American law, and I would suggest that you actually do some research before publicly expressing an opinion.
Formation committee members, representing firms ranging from startups to Global 500 computer hardware and software companies, include Accelent Systems Inc.; Aisys Inc.; Cendio Systems; Centura Software Corporation; Coollogic; IBM; Infomatec IAS GmbH; Lineo; LinuxDevices.com; Lynx Real-time Systems, Inc.; Microtronix Datacom Ltd.; MontaVista Software, Inc.; Moreton Bay; Motorola Computer Group; NewMonics, Inc.; OpenSystems Publishing; QNX Software Systems Ltd.; Red Hat, Inc.; TimeSys Corporation; Transvirtual Technologies, Inc.; Troll Tech; Wind River Systems, Inc.
I missed this when I looked at the www.linuxdevices.com page (I just had my morning coffee and the caffine hasn't kicked in yet). This is damn good news: the company I work for signed a large-ish contract with Wind River over a year ago. At that time, we asked about support for Wind River tools under Linux (i.e. hosting Tornado development under Linux). At that time, we were told "it's in the works, it'll be here RSN". Great! We can get rid of our WinNT boxes. Guess what? No Linux support for Tornado yet.
Tornado, for those of you how aren't embedded software developers, is Wind River's development toolset for their real time OS, VxWorks. IMHO, having worked with both Linux and VxWorks, VxWorks is great for a) Hard real-time (I must service this interrupt in 150 nsec DAMMIT) or b) small devices (tens of kBytes to hundreds of k). However, when you do the embedded megabyte monsters I do, VxWorks tops out and won't do the job. Also, I've had problems getting WRS to solve issues with their code. My next project will be Linux based for the GUI side.
The point of all this is that I'm surprise that WRS would support Linux moving into the embedded market at a target: whether they believe it or not, Linux is a competitor to VxWorks.
And once more, the fact that Apple has no desire to really support Open Source (save when it benefits them) denys an entire section of the Internet access to the movies.
Has anybody converted these clips into something that can be viewed under OS's other than Windows or Mac?
Somewhat off-topic: re: Burning money on Open source: how about licensing the Sorenson codec, and making an Xanim plugin?
Perhaps a jihad is needed against Apple and Sorenson...
You are making the mistake of performing what is often call "static analysis": failing to take into account what changes in the system would occur given an event.
Right now, Linux may be 3% of the business desktop market, but that is because MSOffice is not available for it. Were MS to release Office for Linux, that number would jump to about 25%, or much larger than the Mac.
The Mac market WRT business is saturated: you are unlikely to see a huge increase in the number of Macs being used in a business sense (by this I mean word processing, spreadsheets, presentations, etc., not graphics manipulation or page layout.) The Linux market is like a supersaturated solution: one disruption and the system will undergo a massive state change.
This is both why MS won't port Office in the near term (since it would "knife the baby") and why they must port it in the long run. Eventually, all that potential money just sitting there waiting for somebody else to grab it will be too much.
However, the day MS announces Office for Linux is the day MSWindows has a sheet pulled over its head and a toe-tag tied on.
I strongly encourage everyone on/. to boycott this site and company. They are spamming people on/. about this site. I received an E-Mail this morning from this guy just because I had posted to this page about the yopy.
Not only did this guy register a domain name that he really shouldn't have, but he is now spamming/.ers to get them to come to his site. The above post was plenty, but spamming crosses the line.
I've said for a long time that what systems needed was a user attribute for experience level. Ideally, in a GUI, your user prefs page would have a slider. One side would be labeled "Newbie", the other "Guru". Apps could look at this slider to determine how much of the feature set to show you. Additionally, the app would have it's own "opinion" of you: when you first started using it, it could weight you down toward "newbie", even if your default setting was "master", but the app would then advance you faster toward your default setting (anyone at "guru" automatically gets "guru" in all apps.)
Ideally, as you used the system, it would slowly move the slider up for you, and eventually you would reach "master". You wouldn't get "guru" unless you moved the slider.
It seems to me that if all it takes to make this card a RAID controller is changing the BIOS and moving a pullup resistor, that it is very likely the card is doing software RAID anyway. To properly do hardware RAID, the card must have it's own processor, IDE interfaces, and an interface to the main CPU. While it is not impossible that Promise has condensed all this into one chip, I find it unlikely they have.
Rather, I suspect that they are just replacing the DOS INT 13H (hdd control) interrupt handler with their own at system startup, and are having the main CPU do the RAID work in software. I would futhur guess that the Windows drivers for the card then do the same work in protected mode in the driver. If I am correct, then there is no advantage to using this card in its own native RAID mode vs. using software RAID.
The only advantage HW RAID gives you is that the main processor is freed up to do other tasks. In the case of a file server, there are no other tasks and therefor hardware RAID buys you very little. As others have said, SW RAID allows you to
use system memory for buffer. Your system almost certainly has more RAM than the card
Better detect, log, and correct disk errors. HW RAID tends to hide this sort of thing from the system.
use drives on different controllers. This allows you to spread your RAID array across controllers, so that a controller failure will not take the array out. Now, I could be dead wrong on the Promise not having its own CPU. If anybody out there can correct me by telling me the specs of the CPU (RAM size, type, operating speed, etc.) then I will be greatful. However, this smells to me like a WinModem, WinPrinter, software "wavetable" sound card, etc.: "We just won't tell the user his CPU is being used to do the work, and he'll be fat dumb and happy...."
Could be worse. My alma mater, Wichita State University, during my undergraduate time there, changed their name to The Wichita State University. Their SLD is now twsu.edu. They did this, I guess, because of Washburn State University, Washington State University, etc.
Needless to say, during the conversion, there was much ado made of the change.
Such stupid behavior for an alleged institute of higher learning....
I have an old Intel Netport Express 3 port print server: it's dumb as a rock, and must boot over the network. Does it speak TFTP? Hell no! It will only boot over IPX/Novell or NetBEUI/SMB (NOT TCP/IP/SMB). Since my server is Linux, NetBEUI is out, so I had to set up Mars/NWE to allow the damn thing to boot (once booted, it speaks LPR). If I could do NetBEUI, then that would be one less daemon running on my server.
Yes, it's an old protocol. Yes, nobody in their right mind wants it on their network. But, along with TokenRing, DECNET, TCP/IP, IPX, and Appletalk, if we add NetBEUI, we get to be the glue that holds the network together. That's not a bad way to force your way into the server room...
I've been earning my pay using C++ for about ten years now, and in general the language has been what I needed. Thank you for making many things much easier.
However, I have watched with great dismay the direction in which the language and its libraries are going, with the addition of internationalization to the streams library. As an embedded systems programmer, the fat now associated with I18N makes the streams library completely unusable in my environment. IMHO, I18N belongs in the GUI layer, not the streams layer.
That said, I'd like to ask why more useful (to systems programmers) constructs like guaranteed size types (int16, unsigned int32, etc.), XINU structures (bigendian on littleendian and vis-versa), and forced structure layouts (the _packed attribute) were not added, while all this facet crap was added. I thought you designed C++ as a systems language!
Do any of the filters even bother with blocking the IP numbers?
Where I work we use the Raptor firewall product, which includes censorware software that blocks on IP numbers. This is even worse than blocking on keywords: here's why
Many web sites today are virtual hosted: the same machine hosts several sites, and selects content based on the URL given in the HTTP request. The problem is that the same site (same IP address) might host www.nothingdirtyhere.com and www.chicksandhotdogs.com (I made these up on the spot, they don't exist...) However, to the blocking software, an IP address is as bad as the worst thing on it, so you try to go to www.nothingdirtyhere.com and you get blocked.
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Would you mind giving the law's statute number, so we know you aren't pulling this out of some nether region? I would guess that the "law" you are quoting is more of a regulation by the FDA, which is not a law!
Moreover, McyD's may elect not to put any pickles on your burger. They are not required to make burgers with pickles. They have a choice.
As you (and other posters) have observered, breaking up MS will
increase their total market capitalization by increasing the stock price of each company
allow MS to enter other markets
give MS a chance to abandon the legacy crap and move forward. In other words, "Don't throw me into dat briar patch Breir Bear!" If anything, this makes structural remedies more likely to be accepted by MS.
You might ask, "Why then is MS saying they are opposed to breakup if it will benefit them?" Simple: by playing this game they depress their stock price, allowing the head softies to buy up more of the company stock. Then, the breakup happens and their wealth skyrockets.
Therefor: Are there any plans to allow the theme to be fetched from the remote WM, rather than the local system?
I hope you are not serious about routing their cable into an outlet. That could very easily kill somebody, and I'd like to advise everyone reading against that.
However, routing all their traffic to the Barney website, now that's funny!
There's just one other thing that's been bothering me.</voice>
Will there be an option in 7.0 to set the default RPM options to build for Pentium/PPro/PII[I]?
Will the RSA patent expire in time for SSH to make it into 7.0?
Excuse me? Several sites are "copying"
Consider:
Day after tomorrow, the 20th of March, every nation on earth receives the following message, clearly origonating from the moon: Now, let's suppose that the message is confirmed absolutely genuine. No doubt about it. My point is, that even under these circumstances, with the entire world pulling behind the mission, we couldn't get a man to the moon in one year. We just don't have the infrastructure to build a launch vehicle and landing craft that could get to the moon. I assert that even if we were willing to sacrifice the man we sent - give him a one-way ticket and a pat on the back - we couldn't get him to the lunar surface in one piece and keep him alive long enough to do anything of value. Let alone Mars.Now, I know I am preaching to the choir here, but most sheeple think that the Space Program is a huge waste of money, even while they are talking on their cell phone in their car with radial tires and checking their stress level with their pulse-detecting watch. What we in the pro-space community must do is tirelessly try to educate these downers (read Larry Niven's Sprials for the reference) about why spending money on the Space Program is A Good Thing.
Same thing for Linux: We must enforce rules to prevent the spread of viruses and trojans. Minimize suid programs, discourage binary-only distributions, encourage distro vendors to close known security holes by default, and last but not least, nuke the living hell out of anybody who creates a virus! Find the person responsible, and make sure they only get to see striped sunlight for a long time.
Assumption: The patent is "that which promotes plant growth and comes from a male bovine"
If my hypothesis of the sequence of events is proven correct, however, then the applicant has falsified government documents with the intent of committing fraud. I hope he is nailed, jailed, and won't be bailed....
It must be pretty bad when buying (for the sake of argument let's call it) food from MickeyD's is better than this movie.
Either you aren't a US citizen, or you slept through your Civics classes. A corporation is a "legal person", but they do not have all the "rights" a real person has. In the law, a corporation can sign contracts, own property, and perform a few other acts that only a "person" can perform, but a corporation cannot receive Social Security when it turns 65, it cannot vote, it cannot run for office (nor can it donate money directly to canditate ("hard money") in excess of $1000), etc.
This is an often misquoted part of American law, and I would suggest that you actually do some research before publicly expressing an opinion.
I missed this when I looked at the www.linuxdevices.com page (I just had my morning coffee and the caffine hasn't kicked in yet). This is damn good news: the company I work for signed a large-ish contract with Wind River over a year ago. At that time, we asked about support for Wind River tools under Linux (i.e. hosting Tornado development under Linux). At that time, we were told "it's in the works, it'll be here RSN". Great! We can get rid of our WinNT boxes. Guess what? No Linux support for Tornado yet.
Tornado, for those of you how aren't embedded software developers, is Wind River's development toolset for their real time OS, VxWorks. IMHO, having worked with both Linux and VxWorks, VxWorks is great for a) Hard real-time (I must service this interrupt in 150 nsec DAMMIT) or b) small devices (tens of kBytes to hundreds of k). However, when you do the embedded megabyte monsters I do, VxWorks tops out and won't do the job. Also, I've had problems getting WRS to solve issues with their code. My next project will be Linux based for the GUI side.
The point of all this is that I'm surprise that WRS would support Linux moving into the embedded market at a target: whether they believe it or not, Linux is a competitor to VxWorks.
Has anybody converted these clips into something that can be viewed under OS's other than Windows or Mac?
Somewhat off-topic: re: Burning money on Open source: how about licensing the Sorenson codec, and making an Xanim plugin?
Perhaps a jihad is needed against Apple and Sorenson...
Right now, Linux may be 3% of the business desktop market, but that is because MSOffice is not available for it. Were MS to release Office for Linux, that number would jump to about 25%, or much larger than the Mac.
The Mac market WRT business is saturated: you are unlikely to see a huge increase in the number of Macs being used in a business sense (by this I mean word processing, spreadsheets, presentations, etc., not graphics manipulation or page layout.) The Linux market is like a supersaturated solution: one disruption and the system will undergo a massive state change.
This is both why MS won't port Office in the near term (since it would "knife the baby") and why they must port it in the long run. Eventually, all that potential money just sitting there waiting for somebody else to grab it will be too much.
However, the day MS announces Office for Linux is the day MSWindows has a sheet pulled over its head and a toe-tag tied on.
Not only did this guy register a domain name that he really shouldn't have, but he is now spamming
Ideally, as you used the system, it would slowly move the slider up for you, and eventually you would reach "master". You wouldn't get "guru" unless you moved the slider.
Conclusion: DC will start this up again, as soon as the public furor has died down, and the gov't can be convinced to make it legal.
Second conclusion: I will continue to filter DC out at my proxy.
Rather, I suspect that they are just replacing the DOS INT 13H (hdd control) interrupt handler with their own at system startup, and are having the main CPU do the RAID work in software. I would futhur guess that the Windows drivers for the card then do the same work in protected mode in the driver. If I am correct, then there is no advantage to using this card in its own native RAID mode vs. using software RAID.
The only advantage HW RAID gives you is that the main processor is freed up to do other tasks. In the case of a file server, there are no other tasks and therefor hardware RAID buys you very little. As others have said, SW RAID allows you to
use system memory for buffer. Your system almost certainly has more RAM than the card
Better detect, log, and correct disk errors. HW RAID tends to hide this sort of thing from the system.
use drives on different controllers. This allows you to spread your RAID array across controllers, so that a controller failure will not take the array out. Now, I could be dead wrong on the Promise not having its own CPU. If anybody out there can correct me by telling me the specs of the CPU (RAM size, type, operating speed, etc.) then I will be greatful. However, this smells to me like a WinModem, WinPrinter, software "wavetable" sound card, etc.: "We just won't tell the user his CPU is being used to do the work, and he'll be fat dumb and happy...."
Needless to say, during the conversion, there was much ado made of the change.
Such stupid behavior for an alleged institute of higher learning....
Additionally, Tove will supply hand to hand training for the troops, and lead them into the building....
Yes, it's an old protocol. Yes, nobody in their right mind wants it on their network. But, along with TokenRing, DECNET, TCP/IP, IPX, and Appletalk, if we add NetBEUI, we get to be the glue that holds the network together. That's not a bad way to force your way into the server room...
(although I get a feeling that the first 100 off the line will be going to VLNX/ADVR and
Excuse me, but it is hard to type with all the drool gushing on my keyboard....
FIGHT! FIGHT! FIGHT!
lets see if anyone's Humor Impared
However, I have watched with great dismay the direction in which the language and its libraries are going, with the addition of internationalization to the streams library. As an embedded systems programmer, the fat now associated with I18N makes the streams library completely unusable in my environment. IMHO, I18N belongs in the GUI layer, not the streams layer.
That said, I'd like to ask why more useful (to systems programmers) constructs like guaranteed size types (int16, unsigned int32, etc.), XINU structures (bigendian on littleendian and vis-versa), and forced structure layouts (the _packed attribute) were not added, while all this facet crap was added. I thought you designed C++ as a systems language!
Where I work we use the Raptor firewall product, which includes censorware software that blocks on IP numbers. This is even worse than blocking on keywords: here's why
Many web sites today are virtual hosted: the same machine hosts several sites, and selects content based on the URL given in the HTTP request. The problem is that the same site (same IP address) might host www.nothingdirtyhere.com and www.chicksandhotdogs.com (I made these up on the spot, they don't exist...) However, to the blocking software, an IP address is as bad as the worst thing on it, so you try to go to www.nothingdirtyhere.com and you get blocked.