I did some google research and found some interesting stuff.
Gendlin, the CEO of AtomChip and Dr. NakaMats founded the Gendlin-NakaMats Institute. NakaMats is either a dreamer, a genius inventor or just simply nuts - his website. Here is an interview and an article about that guy.
NakaMats admits, that he's getting royalties from IBM for every single floppy drive sold.
It all sounds very strange to me, but on the other hand... who knows.
The CEO has a patent on his invention. Hm... And here is a somehow interesting post about the guy and his company. As a teenager he invented the floppy disk and leased it to IBM.???
I think it doesn't make sense to try to convince the author of ReBorn to continue his project. I've never seen any source and I guess it was a closed-source project.
If you're looking for open-source audio, MIDI and sound software, you should take a look at this site (jack applications) and also this one.
They are called Propellerhead (without the trailing 's') and there is also a small note over at O'Reilly. d-lusion is considering to release the source code and maybe a Linux version. There is a discontinued open source project, called Reborn.
The Navy has hired Houston-based Halliburton Co. to restore electric power, repair roofs and remove debris at three naval facilities in Mississippi damaged by Hurricane Katrina.
Halliburton subsidiary KBR will also perform damage assessments at other naval installations in New Orleans as soon as it is safe to do so. KBR was assigned the work under a "construction capabilities" contract awarded in 2004 after a competitive bidding process. The company is not involved in the Army Corps of Engineers' effort to repair New Orleans' levees.
Why? I mean, why would you like to put audio, video, maps(?), voice (audio), voip into a _document_? What is this good for?
How often do I get emails from morons with attached.DOC files and when I open them in OOo, I just find a message that could be written in ASCII anyways? How often do I get emails with attached.PPT files with just _one_ picture in it? Next time, somebody wants to call me via VoIP, I'm getting an email with an attached.DOC file...
Just write the message in the body, attach just the picture (not PPT) and call me directly via VoIP. And if you wanna send me a map, don't put it in a.DOC file, just send me the google/a9 map link.
Sage Line 50 is a great example of corporate greed. You pay £800 for the piece of software but lord if you want to insert or update information in a third-party program you need to pay around £1500 a year for the developer license.
The same is true with Seapines bug tracking system TestTrack Pro. After a lot of reverse engineering, I was able to put data into their proprietary bug database, but to get the data out of the db, you have to pay for the SDK.
A floating licence costs about 800 bucks (per user), the SDK is another 1000 bucks per SOAP client!
The product is not bad, but I just wanted to build an automated bug entry system on top of it...
It seems that you have to be and act like that, if you wanna be successful in the big corporate world.
It is actually a chivalry to be as aggressive as possible to climb the carrier ladder and if you wonder why you are still waiting for a promotion, you should consider to throw a chair in the presence of your boss while you're ranting against the competition.
It's sarcastic, but unfortunately there is a truth in it.
What I miss the most are audio applications, but as hard as I think about it, I can't find anything else. When I wanna play games, I use my PS2/PSP.
Let's come to a compromise and say that yes, there is a lack of applications, but this is not limited to a specific opterating system. I'd not recommend a Linux box for audio applications, but on the other hand, I'd not recoomend a Windows box for (anything else:-)) networking tasks, movie creation and such.
Ever considered to contact your favourite software company and complain about the lack of a Linux version? Finally, it's not the fault of the FOSS community.
The point is, that your list of examples was just plain BS. I know what you mean and everybody else does on/., but your rant wasn't remotely based on facts. If you would've ranted about the lack of professional audio applications, most of us would agree on that.
is a pretty good example of who sensitive some of you guys are, when somebody is being just remotely critical of the OS.
Not true, what you said was not critical, but just plain wrong.
I don't see a lot of/.-posts about the lack of professional-Linux-only-software (Massive, other 3d software) on Windows. Do you? I don't think so. But whenever possible, Windows-zealots are posting comments like yours - and even worse - without any knowledge and fact-checking.
Now you're complaining, that your original comment has been bashed...
Okay, I'll retract the 3D apps comment since the commercial apps all apperently are getting available by now.
Not even that is true. There is a lot of 3D software available for Linux, where you simply can't get a Windows or MacOS version. For example Massive (software requirements)
You're obviously not up-to-date and I suggest, you should check the facts first, before you make statements like "where's the Maya/3DS/LW/Softimage alternative? It doesn't exist (dont be a bone head and suggest Blender here, its like comaring a 79' VW to a Ferrai). where's the video editing solutions? We have one decent one, but all with haggid no-useable interfaces (seen from a non-linux-fanboiii perspective)."
where's the Maya/3DS/LW/Softimage alternative? It doesn't exist (dont be a bone head and suggest Blender here, its like comaring a 79' VW to a Ferrai).
Are you nuts? Maya, Softimage and Lightwave are all available for Linux and the major studios are using mostly Linux clients and render farms.
Who modded the parent to 60 % funny and 20 % overrated? The parent poster is Mike Chambers, Flash Platform Developer Relations Manager (!?) at Macromedia and he should know what he's saying when it comes to the Flash EULA.
Other posts are just guessing, bashing and speculating that this EULA forbids downloading and installing the player on a laptop.
I guess, you're working for a major consulting company. Maybe Accenture, or something. It's always the same: you've been dropped to a project, which involves "IT-Security" and you don't understand anything about that.
Am I right? I think so, because all your replies are indicating that.
You can't learn it in your hotel room. You can't learn how to implement the requirements in a week.
That's one of your replies:
Our facility security officer has a stack of papers that I have been reading over but it is pretty slim in details when it comes to the specifics. Network is a definate no, floppies and CDs are ok, but what about USB harddrives? Etc.
The only reason I asked Slashdot was for a jump start. My manager says we need to have something, at least a plan, by next week.
It must by a joke, isn't it? The "Department of Defense" is asking you (contractor) to build a "secure computer" and you are talking about floppies and CDs? Look at this first.
Ask guys like Secunet or Code Blau. Small companies, but they know how to set up a secure "computer" - computer in quotation marks, because that's just the computer and not the network, it is connected to. It's all about experience, when it comes to IT security.
For me, it is just a troll article. Sorry. It's a joke.
the general purpose core sure is yes, a slow one though. The SPEs might be good for the applications you mentioned but as far as a processor for general purpose computing its not even close to state of the art.
This is great news for customers like the US Navy who rely on Linux-on-PowerPC for important tasks like sonar imaging systems.
IBM just teamed up with a company called Mercury to build Cell-based computers for (military) applications:
As a result, demanding applications such as radar, sonar, MRI, digital X-Ray, and many others can be taken to new levels of sophistication and performance.
And as we all know, the Cell is basically a Power processor.
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Yoshiro Nakamatsu = Dr. NakaMats
I did some google research and found some interesting stuff.
Gendlin, the CEO of AtomChip and Dr. NakaMats founded the Gendlin-NakaMats Institute. NakaMats is either a dreamer, a genius inventor or just simply nuts - his website. Here is an interview and an article about that guy.
NakaMats admits, that he's getting royalties from IBM for every single floppy drive sold.
It all sounds very strange to me, but on the other hand... who knows.
The CEO has a patent on his invention. Hm... And here is a somehow interesting post about the guy and his company. As a teenager he invented the floppy disk and leased it to IBM.???
Hey, don't be that sceptical. Check out an earlier version of the website and you'll see that there are actually a lot of hiqh quality products.
Rock on, Atomchip!
I think it doesn't make sense to try to convince the author of ReBorn to continue his project. I've never seen any source and I guess it was a closed-source project.
If you're looking for open-source audio, MIDI and sound software, you should take a look at this site (jack applications) and also this one.
Last time i checked out rubberduck is came bundled with adware / spyware... Does it still come with this?
There has never been spyware in Rubberduck and the "ad technology" has been removed in the free download version.
They are called Propellerhead (without the trailing 's') and there is also a small note over at O'Reilly. d-lusion is considering to release the source code and maybe a Linux version. There is a discontinued open source project, called Reborn.
How do you attach a .DOC file to a moron? :-)
Easy!
Halliburton hired for storm cleanup
The Navy has hired Houston-based Halliburton Co. to restore electric power, repair roofs and remove debris at three naval facilities in Mississippi damaged by Hurricane Katrina.
Halliburton subsidiary KBR will also perform damage assessments at other naval installations in New Orleans as soon as it is safe to do so.
KBR was assigned the work under a "construction capabilities" contract awarded in 2004 after a competitive bidding process. The company is not involved in the Army Corps of Engineers' effort to repair New Orleans' levees.
Read this.
Why? I mean, why would you like to put audio, video, maps(?), voice (audio), voip into a _document_? What is this good for?
.DOC files and when I open them in OOo, I just find a message that could be written in ASCII anyways? How often do I get emails with attached .PPT files with just _one_ picture in it? Next time, somebody wants to call me via VoIP, I'm getting an email with an attached .DOC file...
.DOC file, just send me the google/a9 map link.
How often do I get emails from morons with attached
Just write the message in the body, attach just the picture (not PPT) and call me directly via VoIP. And if you wanna send me a map, don't put it in a
Sorry for the rant, but I just don't get it.
Kind of OT, but backs your statement:
Sage Line 50 is a great example of corporate greed. You pay £800 for the piece of software but lord if you want to insert or update information in a third-party program you need to pay around £1500 a year for the developer license.
The same is true with Seapines bug tracking system TestTrack Pro. After a lot of reverse engineering, I was able to put data into their proprietary bug database, but to get the data out of the db, you have to pay for the SDK.
A floating licence costs about 800 bucks (per user), the SDK is another 1000 bucks per SOAP client!
The product is not bad, but I just wanted to build an automated bug entry system on top of it...
The federal official in charge of the bungled New Orleans rescue was fired from his last private-sector job overseeing horse shows. - BoingBoing
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It seems that you have to be and act like that, if you wanna be successful in the big corporate world.
It is actually a chivalry to be as aggressive as possible to climb the carrier ladder and if you wonder why you are still waiting for a promotion, you should consider to throw a chair in the presence of your boss while you're ranting against the competition.
It's sarcastic, but unfortunately there is a truth in it.
Get an account on Freshmeat, so you can sort the results of a query by rating, popularity and vitality.
Stay informed and up-to-date all the time and not only if you've been delegated to a project.
Gopher anyone?
No.
What I miss the most are audio applications, but as hard as I think about it, I can't find anything else. When I wanna play games, I use my PS2/PSP.
:-)) networking tasks, movie creation and such.
Let's come to a compromise and say that yes, there is a lack of applications, but this is not limited to a specific opterating system. I'd not recommend a Linux box for audio applications, but on the other hand, I'd not recoomend a Windows box for (anything else
Ever considered to contact your favourite software company and complain about the lack of a Linux version? Finally, it's not the fault of the FOSS community.
The point is, that your list of examples was just plain BS. I know what you mean and everybody else does on /., but your rant wasn't remotely based on facts. If you would've ranted about the lack of professional audio applications, most of us would agree on that.
/.-posts about the lack of professional-Linux-only-software (Massive, other 3d software) on Windows. Do you? I don't think so. But whenever possible, Windows-zealots are posting comments like yours - and even worse - without any knowledge and fact-checking.
is a pretty good example of who sensitive some of you guys are, when somebody is being just remotely critical of the OS.
Not true, what you said was not critical, but just plain wrong.
I don't see a lot of
Now you're complaining, that your original comment has been bashed...
Okay, I'll retract the 3D apps comment since the commercial apps all apperently are getting available by now.
Not even that is true. There is a lot of 3D software available for Linux, where you simply can't get a Windows or MacOS version. For example Massive (software requirements)
Just check the list.
You're obviously not up-to-date and I suggest, you should check the facts first, before you make statements like "where's the Maya/3DS/LW/Softimage alternative? It doesn't exist (dont be a bone head and suggest Blender here, its like comaring a 79' VW to a Ferrai). where's the video editing solutions? We have one decent one, but all with haggid no-useable interfaces (seen from a non-linux-fanboiii perspective)."
where's the Maya/3DS/LW/Softimage alternative? It doesn't exist (dont be a bone head and suggest Blender here, its like comaring a 79' VW to a Ferrai).
Are you nuts? Maya, Softimage and Lightwave are all available for Linux and the major studios are using mostly Linux clients and render farms.
Who modded the parent to 60 % funny and 20 % overrated? The parent poster is Mike Chambers, Flash Platform Developer Relations Manager (!?) at Macromedia and he should know what he's saying when it comes to the Flash EULA. Other posts are just guessing, bashing and speculating that this EULA forbids downloading and installing the player on a laptop.
Hi!
I guess, you're working for a major consulting company. Maybe Accenture, or something. It's always the same: you've been dropped to a project, which involves "IT-Security" and you don't understand anything about that.
Am I right? I think so, because all your replies are indicating that.
You can't learn it in your hotel room. You can't learn how to implement the requirements in a week.
That's one of your replies:
Our facility security officer has a stack of papers that I have been reading over but it is pretty slim in details when it comes to the specifics. Network is a definate no, floppies and CDs are ok, but what about USB harddrives? Etc.
The only reason I asked Slashdot was for a jump start. My manager says we need to have something, at least a plan, by next week.
It must by a joke, isn't it? The "Department of Defense" is asking you (contractor) to build a "secure computer" and you are talking about floppies and CDs? Look at this first.
Ask guys like Secunet or Code Blau. Small companies, but they know how to set up a secure "computer" - computer in quotation marks, because that's just the computer and not the network, it is connected to. It's all about experience, when it comes to IT security.
For me, it is just a troll article. Sorry. It's a joke.
..but does it run Linux?
... via Bochs.
Sure.
the general purpose core sure is yes, a slow one though. The SPEs might be good for the applications you mentioned but as far as a processor for general purpose computing its not even close to state of the art.
We discussed this already.
You can find all the available information here.
But the Power-compatible Cell processor does a good job in imaging applications.
This is great news for customers like the US Navy who rely on Linux-on-PowerPC for important tasks like sonar imaging systems.
IBM just teamed up with a company called Mercury to build Cell-based computers for (military) applications:
As a result, demanding applications such as radar, sonar, MRI, digital X-Ray, and many others can be taken to new levels of sophistication and performance.
And as we all know, the Cell is basically a Power processor.
(Hint: It rhymes with funny, but isn't.)
I don't get it. Gimme another hint.