Yes, and poking around abit, I see that there is also one for AOL and IE but none for Opera, Netscape or Safari. I'm not quite sure what to make of all this, but there you have it.
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A couple of people have mentioned the gentoo live cd for PPC, but I'm comfused about that. I tried that once and all it seemed to be was enough of a command prompt to install to disk. Most of the standard commands were missing, and there certainly wasn't any GUI. Was I doing something wrong, or has the live CD come farther along since then? I don't want to waste my bandwidth downloading it if it hasn't changed any.
It's nice to see that major ISP's are making an effort to shut spammers down and kick them off of their networks.
That's just like having an article about someone at the Patent office who investigates prior art for tech patents and saying "at least the patent office is making an effort". What good does it do if it is still completely and tragically uneffective?
Can you tell me the one single shortcut that will close the currently selected application, no matter what application it is? No? Yeah, because it can be different in different apps.
Umm..Yes. It's called alt+F4. And it does work consistently becasue it is a call to the windows explorer to quit the current app instead of a method to ask the app to close itself. For the record, I am a mac fan and I think OS X is way superior to win XP, but you are not correct about that point.
You have a point, but I have to agree with ESR when he said:
"To behave like a hacker, you have to believe that the thinking time of other hackers is precious -- so much so that it's almost a moral duty for you to share information, solve problems and then give the solutions away just so other hackers can solve new problems instead of having to perpetually re-address old ones."
Original reference here. I think this is the whole foundation behind the kind of abstraction that software development takes today. For example, the low-level details behind network communication, and making a socket connection to a database server -- all of that has been worked out, tested, debugged, secured, re-done, etc. by other developers already so that we can focus on the task at hand and just issue a command like mysql_connect(); It doesn't make any sence to be constantly re-inventing the wheel when you write software. If we did, we would spend too much time solving the old problems to make any real progress. For the security benifits alone it is worth it. Every layer of computer action can open it's own security holes, and if you re-use someone else's code you don't run the risk of opening up a hole that was already found and patched by someone else. There is something to be said about fighting bloat, but I am definately a fan of abstraction.
Keep in mind also, that they have said nothing about file attachment sizes. It wouldn't surprise me at all if there is a very small limit on the size an attachment can be, 2mb maybe, which would mean that you are still encouraged to not use this service for file transfers, which means that the bulk of that 1GB would end up being text which will compress significantly.
As much as I hate responding to an AC, I have to agree with you. My first thought was "great, just what the OSS community needs, ANOTHER Linux startup". Seriously, call me a cynic but I can't see how this can possibly help an already fragmented community. It seems to me like this is just some people who wanted to start a consulting business so they make thier own distro and get a/. story about it. Instant publicity. If they REALLY wanted to help the community they would put thier skills to good use helping an existing distro. There are plenty of them already that focus on a 'lightweight' feel. Did you see that PayPal donate button on thier site? Does anyone else have a problem with that? Hey, I made my own customized Knoppix CD, maybe I should put a donation button on my homepage.
I like the concept of passport, but I'm not going to get in bed with Microsoft to put it on my web servers. Besides, it has always seemed to me that doing a scheme like that would introduce so many more points of failure to your web system, that it wouldn't be worth the trouble. That's not to mention security. Somehow I just feel safer when I have to log in to each site separatly.
I hope they finally get nailed on this one. I knew that insider trading would never stick because 1) they sold off a bunch of stock, but the price has only gone up so it wasn't a "sell before it drops" ploy ala Martha Stewart. 2) It was easy enough to say they were low on cash and sold the stock to get equity. Now this whole scandle seems a lot more viable. Let the witch hunt begin!
Yes, but every time I do a LAN party I do Serious Sam co-op. Co-op isn't for playing with random stranger on the internet that hogs all the good action and do things to make you mad, it's for chillin' with people you know. It goes right back to the old days for me. When I was a kid (think mid to late 80's when the Nintendo was big) I had a best friend who I would always play video games with. Almost every weekend we would beg our parents until they gave us money to rent a game, then we would run down to the rental place and look on the back of all the boxes until we found the ones marked "two player simaltenous action!" or whatever. One player games sucked because one of us would always be sitting there bored, and if the two player wasn't simeltenious it wasn't nearly as good.
I know everyone will have a different opinion about this issue, but for us the goal was to beat the game, and that was a lot more easy with co-op. Try beating Contra by yourself! If a game wasn't co-op then we ended up competing with each other and we would end up getting in a fight by the end of the night. With co-op we felt like a team and it left me with some of my favorite childhood memories.
Don't discount the value of co-op on PC. You should hear the people raving about UT 2004 demo and the onslaught game mode. That is a perfect set up for one of the best co-op games ever. They have set it up so that it's next to impossible to win without a good team effort, as opposed to traditional CTF where you commonly get 'that one player' who is 100 frags above the curve and scores all the points for the whole team.
And no, I didn't spell check this, so go ahead and flame me.
Well it all depends on what games you want to be able to play, and how many parts you already have. I got my cab from a local retro arcade for $50. It still had the coin door, the neon light, the speaker, and all the buttons and such. It used to be a Street Fighter II cab so it has 2 players with 6 buttons each. Then I took an old 166 mhz Pentium and put that inside running Wind98. That cost me zero. Instead of investing in a TV I used a 17' monitor that someone had given to me. At first I did my own keyboard hack for the controls, but after having troubles I bought an ipac from ultimarc for $50 (that includes shipping from the UK to USA). Add on another $50 for random hardware parts that I didn't think I would need and I invested a whopping $150 in my arcade machine. It will play all the '80s classics like Pac-Man, Frogger, Galaga, Donky Kong, etc just fine. If that is all you want to play, then that is all you need to invest. However, I really wanted to play Street Fighter II since that was "my game" back in the day. I found that it (and all the other similar fighter games of that time period) runs great on a Pentium II 350 mhz with 128 megs of ram. If you want to play more modern arcade games, I suggest you get something like a 1 ghz Athlon. People are practically tossing them away these days and it will play any Mame game that I have tried. Any game that bogs down a ghz box is new enough that there isn't going to be any nestalgia with it, and you might as well be playing it on your Playstation or whatever. In a $1000 premade arcade cab, half the price is the computer in it, and they give you WAY more than you need.
They don't just sell it to the government. They sell it to government presidential candidates like John F'n Kerry. If data mining is good enough for his employees, it's good enouf for the whole nation right?
I'll second that. I love that program. There is this one particular spyware program that I hate: it creates a browser search bar and tracks all your surfing habbits and gives popup ads as you surf. If you turn it off it comes back when you start up IE again. All of my 1337 registry hacking was never able to get rid of it. I found an exe that seemed to be launching it, and deleted it, but it still came back. Then I tried Ad-Aware and it cleaned it right up.
And before anyone asks, this was on a clients machine, not on mine. I've seen it a few times.
That is why you don't put REAL personal info in your $CHAT_PROGRAM profile. As long as it thinks that I was born on 1/1/1900 and live on 123 main st. Beverly Hills 90210, I'm not worried about data mining.:)
I couldn't agree with you more. In fact I had a very similar experiance. You can see my previous rant about that. It's a shame that the grandparent poster so quickly discounted what ESR said. I found it very refreshing. In fact I was relieved! It was great to hear about so renound a hacker havings the same dumb problems that I have. I had almost the same experiance with CUPS, and I remember feeling stupid. The interface looked so simple that I felt dumb when I couldn't get it to work, but I feel much better having heard ESR rant about the same thing. I hope more OSS projects take his advice to heart.
You're joking right? Your problem is that you keep buying iBooks! The iBook is the LOW-END model. If you are looking for performance increases you should buy a Powerbook. That's what they are for. The G4 in the iBooks is basically a G3 anyway, and is seriously crippled compared to the G4 in the Powerbook. Especially when you compare all the bus/architeture enhancements. This is simmilar to the Pentium vs. Celeron issues.
Go to any major PC vendor and you will see that they do the same thing with all comptuers, laptops included. If you browse through Dell's laptops for excample, you will see a line that are cheap, has Celeron processors and yesterdays parts, and won't give you a whole lot of performance difference than models a few years ago. OR you can go for the high end models that have bleeding-edge parts and major performance increases. You are buying an item that you are not the target market for and then complaining that it doesn't meet your needs. You might argue that the powerbook is too expensive, but that is an entirely different problem and has nothing to do with performance increases.
New commenters should appear at the top rather than the bottom and be given a better opportunity for exposure and moderation.
I really hope you know that you can change that, right? Right under the article and before the comments start there is this handly little section where you choose the sort order of the comments, and what moderation threshold you want to read at. And for even more control, if you don't like the defaults then you can CHANGE THEM IN YOUR PREFERENCES! Please tell me you knew that?!
Windows gets accused of bugs it's often not responsible for.
OK, I'll give you that, but the problem is that it doesn't ever fail gracefully. If a 3rd party program sends a hardware call that causes a problem the whole friggin system stops cold and you have to turn it off! You can't blame Malware for that. It is no ones fault but Microsofts that their system can't handle errors. Thier.NET languages are moving in the right direction with the Try, Catch, control structure but it will be a while before that has enough market penetration to matter. Case in point: A few years ago I bought a GeForce 2 MX 400 video card from a generic maker. I had nothing but problems with it. I had a friend who had the exact same computer as me, but he bought his GeForce from a name brand and he didn't have any trouble at all. My system would crash after about 30 seconds. After I had given up, nVidia released an updated driver for it, and after I installed that, my system never crashed again. So what caused the problem? I'm sure the generic brand had either bad parts or a faulty implementation of the chipset, but Windows simply couldn't handle the problem. I'm amazed how we are supposed to give Microsoft a free pass on this and just accept it. Under linux with that same exact card it would run totally fine with no problems as long as I was doing 2D stuff. If I ran a 3D app X windows would crash and I would be back to the command line, but the OS wouldn't stop! All I had to do was type startx again and I was back on the desktop. Granted X should have more graceful handleing of that too, but I never had to do a cold shut down. On a mac if you have hardware problems like that it will either detect it at boot time and not boot, or it will disable the device so it won't cause problems.
Another example is my CD Burner. It's a Plextor drive, so name brand, but for some reason about 1 out of every 3 that I burned ended up with a Blue Screen (tm) and a cold reboot. There is just no excuse for that. If a CD burning app is terribly written then when the problem happens Windows should just halt the application, not just roll over and quit. The worst thing that should ever happen is you end up with a wasted CD. Once again, under Linux with the same drive, I never once had an application or system crash. I've had a few coasters instead of cd's but it never crashes the whole system.
So to sum up, no Windows doesn't have decent hardware support, but it had more to do with error handling than anything else.
There definately seems to be a retro-gaming kick going on right now in the industry. I'm all for it considering how much I use my homemade MAME cabinet, but there is one thing that I don't get at all. Companies like this and Nintendo, Atari, Namco, etc. have all these old titles that they keep releasing on controler packages or collections for Playstation or whatever, but yet they refuse to give people a legal way to use roms to play the games (with the exception of Atari of course who struck a deal with StarRoms). This kind of retro gaming would be a lot more popular if they gave people more choice about it. Imagine if instead of selling a handheld controler with 20 set games in it, instead they have thier whole collection online you bought the thing online (or activated it online) and got to choose 20 of the games that you actually like to be able to play on the unit. I wouldn't even care if they DRM'ed the files like iTunes does with purchased music, just give me a cross-platform app that I can use to flash the games onto the handheld unit. If I had choice about it and could do it without breaking the law, I would be all over it. The problem with those units, and with StarRoms is that 99% of the games are games that I don't like. I would be willing to pay for roms if they gave me ones that I like.
Fielding claims that it doesn't really matter what the FSF thinks about the matter, because according to the Apache Software Foundation, derived works can just be distributed under the GPL.
1)Add some new comments to the Apache code 2)Recompile 3)... 4)Profit!!!
So that's the answer then, we just change a few comments, recompile, and call it a derived work? Surly it can't be that simple?
You're right, we might as well give up open sourcing anything because MS might use it against us. In fact let's just give up this whole OSS thing and go back to proprietary systems.
Seriously, what makes you think that MS would corrupt Java when it hasn't done a single thing to Python, PHP, Perl, Ruby, or any of the other hundreds of open source languages/platforms?
That's way off base. You must not have paid any attention at all to the XServe and how it has affected the market. When I heard the keynote anouncing the XServe the first thing I did was go around to all the big web sites, dell, hp, sun, etc. and price 1U servers. I could not find a single one that had anywhere CLOSE to what the XServe was offering for the same price. Most 1U servers with any kind of horse power started around $5000 and went up from there. How ever the XServe has totally changed that in just a few months. Just last week we ordered an new HP 1U server with dual 2ghz Xeons for under $2000. I blame Apple for that. Everyone has been slasing thier prices so that people don't flock to Apple. The more competition the better.
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Yes, and poking around abit, I see that there is also one for AOL and IE but none for Opera, Netscape or Safari. I'm not quite sure what to make of all this, but there you have it.
A couple of people have mentioned the gentoo live cd for PPC, but I'm comfused about that. I tried that once and all it seemed to be was enough of a command prompt to install to disk. Most of the standard commands were missing, and there certainly wasn't any GUI. Was I doing something wrong, or has the live CD come farther along since then? I don't want to waste my bandwidth downloading it if it hasn't changed any.
Keep in mind also, that they have said nothing about file attachment sizes. It wouldn't surprise me at all if there is a very small limit on the size an attachment can be, 2mb maybe, which would mean that you are still encouraged to not use this service for file transfers, which means that the bulk of that 1GB would end up being text which will compress significantly.
As much as I hate responding to an AC, I have to agree with you. My first thought was "great, just what the OSS community needs, ANOTHER Linux startup". Seriously, call me a cynic but I can't see how this can possibly help an already fragmented community. It seems to me like this is just some people who wanted to start a consulting business so they make thier own distro and get a /. story about it. Instant publicity. If they REALLY wanted to help the community they would put thier skills to good use helping an existing distro. There are plenty of them already that focus on a 'lightweight' feel. Did you see that PayPal donate button on thier site? Does anyone else have a problem with that? Hey, I made my own customized Knoppix CD, maybe I should put a donation button on my homepage.
I like the concept of passport, but I'm not going to get in bed with Microsoft to put it on my web servers. Besides, it has always seemed to me that doing a scheme like that would introduce so many more points of failure to your web system, that it wouldn't be worth the trouble. That's not to mention security. Somehow I just feel safer when I have to log in to each site separatly.
I hope they finally get nailed on this one. I knew that insider trading would never stick because 1) they sold off a bunch of stock, but the price has only gone up so it wasn't a "sell before it drops" ploy ala Martha Stewart. 2) It was easy enough to say they were low on cash and sold the stock to get equity. Now this whole scandle seems a lot more viable. Let the witch hunt begin!
Because the blurb said quite clearly that Apple is the only company not paying up. You didn't even have to RTFA to see that.
I know everyone will have a different opinion about this issue, but for us the goal was to beat the game, and that was a lot more easy with co-op. Try beating Contra by yourself! If a game wasn't co-op then we ended up competing with each other and we would end up getting in a fight by the end of the night. With co-op we felt like a team and it left me with some of my favorite childhood memories.
Don't discount the value of co-op on PC. You should hear the people raving about UT 2004 demo and the onslaught game mode. That is a perfect set up for one of the best co-op games ever. They have set it up so that it's next to impossible to win without a good team effort, as opposed to traditional CTF where you commonly get 'that one player' who is 100 frags above the curve and scores all the points for the whole team.
And no, I didn't spell check this, so go ahead and flame me.
Well it all depends on what games you want to be able to play, and how many parts you already have. I got my cab from a local retro arcade for $50. It still had the coin door, the neon light, the speaker, and all the buttons and such. It used to be a Street Fighter II cab so it has 2 players with 6 buttons each. Then I took an old 166 mhz Pentium and put that inside running Wind98. That cost me zero. Instead of investing in a TV I used a 17' monitor that someone had given to me. At first I did my own keyboard hack for the controls, but after having troubles I bought an ipac from ultimarc for $50 (that includes shipping from the UK to USA). Add on another $50 for random hardware parts that I didn't think I would need and I invested a whopping $150 in my arcade machine. It will play all the '80s classics like Pac-Man, Frogger, Galaga, Donky Kong, etc just fine. If that is all you want to play, then that is all you need to invest. However, I really wanted to play Street Fighter II since that was "my game" back in the day. I found that it (and all the other similar fighter games of that time period) runs great on a Pentium II 350 mhz with 128 megs of ram. If you want to play more modern arcade games, I suggest you get something like a 1 ghz Athlon. People are practically tossing them away these days and it will play any Mame game that I have tried. Any game that bogs down a ghz box is new enough that there isn't going to be any nestalgia with it, and you might as well be playing it on your Playstation or whatever. In a $1000 premade arcade cab, half the price is the computer in it, and they give you WAY more than you need.
Was I the only one that was thinking "The iPod sold out? What a poser! Down with conformity! Sold out luser!"
Perhaps you should be looking at some official sites? You might find info a lot faster that way.
They don't just sell it to the government. They sell it to government presidential candidates like John F'n Kerry. If data mining is good enough for his employees, it's good enouf for the whole nation right?
And before anyone asks, this was on a clients machine, not on mine. I've seen it a few times.
That is why you don't put REAL personal info in your $CHAT_PROGRAM profile. As long as it thinks that I was born on 1/1/1900 and live on 123 main st. Beverly Hills 90210, I'm not worried about data mining. :)
I couldn't agree with you more. In fact I had a very similar experiance. You can see my previous rant about that. It's a shame that the grandparent poster so quickly discounted what ESR said. I found it very refreshing. In fact I was relieved! It was great to hear about so renound a hacker havings the same dumb problems that I have. I had almost the same experiance with CUPS, and I remember feeling stupid. The interface looked so simple that I felt dumb when I couldn't get it to work, but I feel much better having heard ESR rant about the same thing. I hope more OSS projects take his advice to heart.
Go to any major PC vendor and you will see that they do the same thing with all comptuers, laptops included. If you browse through Dell's laptops for excample, you will see a line that are cheap, has Celeron processors and yesterdays parts, and won't give you a whole lot of performance difference than models a few years ago. OR you can go for the high end models that have bleeding-edge parts and major performance increases. You are buying an item that you are not the target market for and then complaining that it doesn't meet your needs. You might argue that the powerbook is too expensive, but that is an entirely different problem and has nothing to do with performance increases.
I really hope you know that you can change that, right? Right under the article and before the comments start there is this handly little section where you choose the sort order of the comments, and what moderation threshold you want to read at. And for even more control, if you don't like the defaults then you can CHANGE THEM IN YOUR PREFERENCES! Please tell me you knew that?!
OK, I'll give you that, but the problem is that it doesn't ever fail gracefully. If a 3rd party program sends a hardware call that causes a problem the whole friggin system stops cold and you have to turn it off! You can't blame Malware for that. It is no ones fault but Microsofts that their system can't handle errors. Thier .NET languages are moving in the right direction with the Try, Catch, control structure but it will be a while before that has enough market penetration to matter. Case in point: A few years ago I bought a GeForce 2 MX 400 video card from a generic maker. I had nothing but problems with it. I had a friend who had the exact same computer as me, but he bought his GeForce from a name brand and he didn't have any trouble at all. My system would crash after about 30 seconds. After I had given up, nVidia released an updated driver for it, and after I installed that, my system never crashed again. So what caused the problem? I'm sure the generic brand had either bad parts or a faulty implementation of the chipset, but Windows simply couldn't handle the problem. I'm amazed how we are supposed to give Microsoft a free pass on this and just accept it. Under linux with that same exact card it would run totally fine with no problems as long as I was doing 2D stuff. If I ran a 3D app X windows would crash and I would be back to the command line, but the OS wouldn't stop! All I had to do was type startx again and I was back on the desktop. Granted X should have more graceful handleing of that too, but I never had to do a cold shut down. On a mac if you have hardware problems like that it will either detect it at boot time and not boot, or it will disable the device so it won't cause problems.
Another example is my CD Burner. It's a Plextor drive, so name brand, but for some reason about 1 out of every 3 that I burned ended up with a Blue Screen (tm) and a cold reboot. There is just no excuse for that. If a CD burning app is terribly written then when the problem happens Windows should just halt the application, not just roll over and quit. The worst thing that should ever happen is you end up with a wasted CD. Once again, under Linux with the same drive, I never once had an application or system crash. I've had a few coasters instead of cd's but it never crashes the whole system.
So to sum up, no Windows doesn't have decent hardware support, but it had more to do with error handling than anything else.
There definately seems to be a retro-gaming kick going on right now in the industry. I'm all for it considering how much I use my homemade MAME cabinet, but there is one thing that I don't get at all. Companies like this and Nintendo, Atari, Namco, etc. have all these old titles that they keep releasing on controler packages or collections for Playstation or whatever, but yet they refuse to give people a legal way to use roms to play the games (with the exception of Atari of course who struck a deal with StarRoms). This kind of retro gaming would be a lot more popular if they gave people more choice about it. Imagine if instead of selling a handheld controler with 20 set games in it, instead they have thier whole collection online you bought the thing online (or activated it online) and got to choose 20 of the games that you actually like to be able to play on the unit. I wouldn't even care if they DRM'ed the files like iTunes does with purchased music, just give me a cross-platform app that I can use to flash the games onto the handheld unit. If I had choice about it and could do it without breaking the law, I would be all over it. The problem with those units, and with StarRoms is that 99% of the games are games that I don't like. I would be willing to pay for roms if they gave me ones that I like.
1)Add some new comments to the Apache code
2)Recompile
3)...
4)Profit!!!
So that's the answer then, we just change a few comments, recompile, and call it a derived work? Surly it can't be that simple?
Seriously, what makes you think that MS would corrupt Java when it hasn't done a single thing to Python, PHP, Perl, Ruby, or any of the other hundreds of open source languages/platforms?
That's way off base. You must not have paid any attention at all to the XServe and how it has affected the market. When I heard the keynote anouncing the XServe the first thing I did was go around to all the big web sites, dell, hp, sun, etc. and price 1U servers. I could not find a single one that had anywhere CLOSE to what the XServe was offering for the same price. Most 1U servers with any kind of horse power started around $5000 and went up from there. How ever the XServe has totally changed that in just a few months. Just last week we ordered an new HP 1U server with dual 2ghz Xeons for under $2000. I blame Apple for that. Everyone has been slasing thier prices so that people don't flock to Apple. The more competition the better.