No. Posts are not necessrily redundant within previous posts. It might be redundant with the story, the linked article, or be one of the redundant soviet russia, profit... jokes.
Locking some mods won't solve the problem of unfair modding.
By that logic, assembly language programs must be the clearest and best organized programs of all.
That's not what I meant, but I think you know it. I mean that features such as strong typing, mandatory exception handling, encouraging good organisation of the source provide much more readable code.
Just as has happened with those other highly portable, standardized, cross-platform languages like Tcl/Tk, Perl, Python, etc. (Oh wait, I forgot, there are no other portable, standardized, cross-platform languages, my mistake.)
Enlightened script languages, I would say.
And the best part about using java? It's low-level C/C++-like syntax and data structures means that you get to write many times more lines of code than you would need to to code the equivalent in tcl or perl or python. Why is that good? More money for programmers to write and (especially) to maintain all that extra code!
Yes, the best part. All this extra code allows the programs to be clearer, better organized... Maybe you're also one of the people who find java crappy because it forces you to catch exceptions ?
Oh yeah, and all three of those other languages I mentioned have all settled on a single cross-platform GUI toolkit to share (Tk). How many GUI toolkits are fighting for dominance in the java world these days? I stopped counting after three. Boy, that there's some good standardization! Uhm ? For tcl only... I can name Perl/tk, perl/gtk...
And as of Java ? Except for crappy OSS projects, Swing and AWT only are used.
people who usually don't have a clue what else is out there.
Funny. I tried it in wine (not x), and it work quite well. The only problem was that starcraft was trying to use RAS, which is not implemented... So no net.
only if you assume that driver support in linux will be on par with windows (personally i do not think that is too far off), since reactos is meant to be able to be compatible with windows driver binaries.
Actually, for me, linux has better hardware support than windows. I just bought a Dimension 8300 and installed both w2k server and red hat on it. Everything except the soft modem worked on redhat. On 2k, the nic, the sound card, and the firewire card didn't work.
Interesting. As we all know, in the context of security, OSS is considered better because it is viewed by many eyes and holes are noticed easily.
Here, it is not security but trust. Even if the client is well designed, IMHO, it won't prevent someone to give false results.
Actually, to counter this , seti uses two methods. The first is, as you said, to give the same WUs to several people and compare the results. The second way they use is to check if the result is coherent with the WUs, on their servers (they use a checksum-like method).
So, you're probably right and opensourcing the client won't be such a big deal.
In this case, I'm not sure that these advantages of XML are necessary : the data files (in projects/setiboinc.ssl.berkeley.edu_ap) are full of uuencoded stuff, except for small headers. It would have definitely been more efficient to have binary files (both bandwith-wise and cpu-wise).
No-one would want to convert these files. They're only temporary : download them, analyse them, dump them.
nope it can't. The open source stuff is BOINC. It is a wrapper over seti@home which manages networking et all.
The clients which do the actual processing are still binary only. Opensourcing them would be a problem, since it'll allow people to find weaknesses more easily and forge results, so they get a better rating (pretty lame ain't it ?).
Actually, the binary setiathome is even OS dependant (not only processor):
projects/setiboinc.ssl.berkeley.edu_ap/setiathome_ 3.08_i686-pc-linux-gnu: ELF 32-bit LSB executable, Intel 80386, version 1 (SYSV), dynamically linked (uses shared libs), not stripped
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That's normal. The nv driver doesn't support 3d hardware acceleration. Only the nvidia does. So metisse was running with the mesa software emulation.
No. Posts are not necessrily redundant within previous posts. It might be redundant with the story, the linked article, or be one of the redundant soviet russia, profit... jokes.
Locking some mods won't solve the problem of unfair modding.
By that logic, assembly language programs must be the clearest and best organized programs of all.
That's not what I meant, but I think you know it. I mean that features such as strong typing, mandatory exception handling, encouraging good organisation of the source provide much more readable code.
I actually double counted them because some stuff are quite redundant (ie Panel vs JPanel), not because they are independent.
partition your big project in several small parts
That's exactly what oop is for.
what exactly can C,perl,python etc etc do that asssembly cannot ?
Then why are there other languages than assembly ?
Could you elaborate on why AWT is such a mess ? I personnaly find it pretty good.
Just as has happened with those other highly portable, standardized, cross-platform languages like Tcl/Tk, Perl, Python, etc. (Oh wait, I forgot, there are no other portable, standardized, cross-platform languages, my mistake.)
Enlightened script languages, I would say.
And the best part about using java? It's low-level C/C++-like syntax and data structures means that you get to write many times more lines of code than you would need to to code the equivalent in tcl or perl or python. Why is that good? More money for programmers to write and (especially) to maintain all that extra code!
Yes, the best part. All this extra code allows the programs to be clearer, better organized... Maybe you're also one of the people who find java crappy because it forces you to catch exceptions ?
Oh yeah, and all three of those other languages I mentioned have all settled on a single cross-platform GUI toolkit to share (Tk). How many GUI toolkits are fighting for dominance in the java world these days? I stopped counting after three. Boy, that there's some good standardization!
Uhm ? For tcl only... I can name Perl/tk, perl/gtk...
And as of Java ? Except for crappy OSS projects, Swing and AWT only are used.
people who usually don't have a clue what else is out there.
Maybe you ?
Funny. I tried it in wine (not x), and it work quite well. The only problem was that starcraft was trying to use RAS, which is not implemented... So no net.
BTW, I have a 1800+ with 512megs.
Mine (a ~1997) compaq keyboard with windows keys is as heavy.
I've noticed that most of the time, heavy keyboards are of very good quality. You should perhaps refrain from using yours as a weapon...
where do you see Sun ?
k6=AMD
alpha=Digital
only if you assume that driver support in linux will be on par with windows (personally i do not think that is too far off), since reactos is meant to be able to be compatible with windows driver binaries.
Actually, for me, linux has better hardware support than windows. I just bought a Dimension 8300 and installed both w2k server and red hat on it. Everything except the soft modem worked on redhat. On 2k, the nic, the sound card, and the firewire card didn't work.
Except it's the Beasties who should be modded funny. That is on the real site.
dd if=/dev/zero of=$PARTITION
No. Firebird SQL predates the browser. That's why the browser's name changed, not the db's.
ZZ
only two keystrokes.
That should be modded redundant ;)
Interesting. As we all know, in the context of security, OSS is considered better because it is viewed by many eyes and holes are noticed easily.
Here, it is not security but trust. Even if the client is well designed, IMHO, it won't prevent someone to give false results.
Actually, to counter this , seti uses two methods. The first is, as you said, to give the same WUs to several people and compare the results.
The second way they use is to check if the result is coherent with the WUs, on their servers (they use a checksum-like method).
So, you're probably right and opensourcing the client won't be such a big deal.
The subject says it all.
You could try that, although it does not seem to implement fully the X protocol (or maybe I messed up something when trying it).
erm ?
mpg123 *.mp3 is perfectly ok.
As well as mpg123 -@ playlist
framebuffer would be quite nicer if you don't need to watch your movies remotely;)
In this case, I'm not sure that these advantages of XML are necessary : the data files (in projects/setiboinc.ssl.berkeley.edu_ap) are full of uuencoded stuff, except for small headers. It would have definitely been more efficient to have binary files (both bandwith-wise and cpu-wise).
No-one would want to convert these files. They're only temporary : download them, analyse them, dump them.
The clients which do the actual processing are still binary only. Opensourcing them would be a problem, since it'll allow people to find weaknesses more easily and forge results, so they get a better rating (pretty lame ain't it ?).
Actually, the binary setiathome is even OS dependant (not only processor)
If you don't trust BOINC, you can create a new user account just to run it (with proper priviledges of course).
Therefore, even if it starts acting like a trojan, it will have nothing interesting to show/modify.