I was close to paying for vmware, but honestly I don't use it that much. I can get nearly the same performance on a $500 pc as I can with a $2000 pc and vmware.
I gotta admit, the whole 'It's gotta be free!' thing bothers me a bit. I personally like the idea of giving your software away and paying for support. The people get free software, the companies gets people who love to code to fix their stuff and corperations have somebody to turn to when it's broken.
Free software is here and it's not going away any time soon. I like to see some people using open source the right way like digital creations. Granted, here are some who will do things a bit odd (SUN comes to mind) but overall open source works for great for me.
I don't think mozilla is a failure. Even if it is, it's one thing. Look at all the other great things the community has come up with.
As for quake. I think games will forever be something we pay for. Simply because of their nature. I for one am somebody who thinks a business should pay for the software you use. If the work of somebody else puts food on your table, you should compensate them.
I think using the LGPL would be a given, since this would esentially be a library depository. What about something like how debian groups free/non free software in their apt system. LGPL/GPL libs and non GPLed libs. I know I'd prefer to use LGPL libs in my software whenever possible, but if it comes down to it I'll live with a restrictive license to get the job done in time.
A certain college uses names of gods for it's boxen, tyr, loki, thor, odin, etc. You can name boxes according to what the gods were known for. Works pretty good.
Lets not forget that a SACDIN system uses (usually) a KG-84 Krypto (yes that's spelled right) to crypt the modem lines. A KG-84 uses a hardware system of endering codes, impossible to change without actually touching it.
It's a neon green soda (pop, coke, whatever) that has a citrus flavor, is loaded with sugar and caffiene. Pretty good stuff actually. I have a friend who prefers mellow yellow to it, which is almost the same thing. Whatever. IMO, one of the good things about mountain dew is when the hours melt away whilst staring at a display, the mountain dew goes flat, but it still tastes ok. Jolt on the other hand tastes like crap flat. I've recently tried bawls, made from guarana beans (speeling?). It's pretty good also. There's always the standby coffee too, controlled via X10 and crontab to wake me up with the smell in the morning.. mmmmm
Well, IMO Python is a real good choice. I had stumbled with c++ before, not for a lack of understanding the syntax, but how it all fits together (if i can understand obtuse perl programs i can understand c++ syntax). It was just to low level to get a good picture of how it works without writing alot of code. Then I started looking at python, nice high level language that's OO. Both books programing python and learning python cover the basics of OOP. I feel much better about writing clean code now that I've used python as a stepping stone. That's my suggestion for OOP anyway. As to other things I have a copy of 'The practice of programing' (Addison Wesley). It covers alot of skills a programer needs to know, asuming you already know a language.
Part of what was addressed in this article was that the people making money and eventually controling the standards are stepping on the backs of the people who innovated. The comments about HTML are very true. I learned html from viewing source, as did most of you probobly. But with other companies adding their own additions, fragmenting, closing up the 'standards', we're going to be lucky if the W3C even comes close to keeping standards straight. Like it or not, IE is more popular, and from a users point of view a great product. They're still gaining, and eventually they will control the 'standards'. Sounds like why sendmail went commercial.
Anyway, enough about microsoft vs oss. What struck up the most thought were the remarks on the future of the web being sites working together. I'm a regular reader of scripting.com/davenet so this is something that interests me greatly. (XML-RPC was developed by userland - scripting.com) What if every web site could talk to every other website? Right now i can put slashdot headlines on my homepage, along with a completly up to date article on todays weather. It's syndication, it's people working together, it's what make the web work, and it's changing right now. We had the trump card, we still do, we're faster and more agile than big companies.
I probobly just rambled to much, but those are my thoughts. The beast(s) will adjust to us, and before we know it the companies will have control again. I don't know what we can do to change it other than lose our big heads about 'linux r00ls' and think about the big picture. We have a chance to change the world, lets see what we can come with, lets innovate.
A bridge near where I grew up had this, not a fancy brige, but all it's metal was always rusted. One day I asked some people about it and found out the rust was supposed to be there. Kind of odd, but it does seem like a sound idea.
Ahh the smoke theory. For those of you not familiar with it, some electronics techs (I picked it up in the air force) believe in a smoke theory. It states that all electronics run on smoke. If you do something wrong, the smoke escapes, causing an odd smell. Once the smoke escapes, the components don't have anything to run on.
I have seen alot of comments from this bozo. Most of them off topic or flaimbait. It would be nice if slashdot had a good way to get rid of repeats of people like this. The sad thing, is due to the way slashdot's moderation works, more posts = more moderation chances. I've been reading slashdot since before it was on a domain, yet I've never moderated because of my lack of posting. I know I could post and join in and make slashdot better for all, but I don't because I usually don't think I have anything worthwhile to add unless I'm an expert on the topic. It looks like other users don't share my views (see above posts).
Where are more people like you? I've looked, honestly. All the female 'geeks' I've ran into have been maried. Oh well, guess I'll have to stick to dating art/music women for now.
I think people are missing the point of what's on sale here... It's not an old piece of hardware, it's the first of many peaces of hardware that affected what each of us do today. I don't care who you are, what you do. Apple affected EVERYBODY's life on the planet. They were the first to develop a computer for the peons that was actually feasable. I don't care if Xerox developed the gui first, it was the first apples that gave apple the chance to take Xerox's stuff and develop it into the mac. If it wasn't for that, gates wouldn't have stole the mac os. X would not exist, you'd probobly be staring at a dumb term hooked to a time share through your ulra fast 2400 bps link playing adventure XIIV.
The computers that started our lifes today are on sale, not old hardware. I thank apple for having the guts to do what nobody else would, change history.
As i sit here looking at X11R6 inspired by the mac os running WM which is inspired by next which was developed by steve jobs who was inspired by his mac and was inspired for that by the Xerox system and got to see the Xerox system all because him and Woz decided to build a computer in their garage. I can think of my mother the school teacher sitting at her house happily clicking away in claris works making the computer do what she wants, and not even know it. Even though she's not a computer person, she was touched by what apple did.
Your hard drives do that right now. Data doesn't move to your drive in serial, it uses a parallel style. That's why you have that wide ribbon cable that can only be so long. Hard drives can usually write more than one thing at a time also. Much of the technology they use is a 'trade secret' as I recall though. You may be able to find some more info on how it works at a college research site or something. Trust me, the hd makers are pushing as much as they can. Raid does help alot, but the problem is still latency. Cache helps that some... We'll have to see what happens.
I'm in the USAF and work in a computer maintence shop. Fortunatly I don't work on NT systems, but the computers in the actual shop are NT. The sun system just got purged because people didn't know how to use it (2 of us did). Unix is hard for people to use even if you're comp maint (which is hardware maintence fyi) it's still hard to use unix for most people. The Air Force can't justify spending the money on training people to use unix when they can install an almost idiot proof os, and still run their proprietary posix apps on them. I'm pretty sure CAMS uses the posix api, which used to be run on dumb terms, CAMS is very important for maintence troops because it catalogs everything that that needs to be done/has been done. Just an example. I wish I saw more solaris systems sitting around, but there's nothing I can do about it. It's a sad fact that it's going the way of the dodo, but I have no solotion. At least our vaxen are still running strong.
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I was close to paying for vmware, but honestly I don't use it that much. I can get nearly the same performance on a $500 pc as I can with a $2000 pc and vmware.
I gotta admit, the whole 'It's gotta be free!' thing bothers me a bit. I personally like the idea of giving your software away and paying for support. The people get free software, the companies gets people who love to code to fix their stuff and corperations have somebody to turn to when it's broken.
Free software is here and it's not going away any time soon. I like to see some people using open source the right way like digital creations. Granted, here are some who will do things a bit odd (SUN comes to mind) but overall open source works for great for me.
I don't think mozilla is a failure. Even if it is, it's one thing. Look at all the other great things the community has come up with.
As for quake. I think games will forever be something we pay for. Simply because of their nature. I for one am somebody who thinks a business should pay for the software you use. If the work of somebody else puts food on your table, you should compensate them.
Just my $.02
I think using the LGPL would be a given, since this would esentially be a library depository. What about something like how debian groups free /non free software in their apt system. LGPL/GPL libs and non GPLed libs. I know I'd prefer to use LGPL libs in my software whenever possible, but if it comes down to it I'll live with a restrictive license to get the job done in time.
A certain college uses names of gods for it's boxen, tyr, loki, thor, odin, etc. You can name boxes according to what the gods were known for. Works pretty good.
Lets not forget that a SACDIN system uses (usually) a KG-84 Krypto (yes that's spelled right) to crypt the modem lines. A KG-84 uses a hardware system of endering codes, impossible to change without actually touching it.
It's a neon green soda (pop, coke, whatever) that has a citrus flavor, is loaded with sugar and caffiene. Pretty good stuff actually. I have a friend who prefers mellow yellow to it, which is almost the same thing. Whatever. IMO, one of the good things about mountain dew is when the hours melt away whilst staring at a display, the mountain dew goes flat, but it still tastes ok. Jolt on the other hand tastes like crap flat. I've recently tried bawls, made from guarana beans (speeling?). It's pretty good also. There's always the standby coffee too, controlled via X10 and crontab to wake me up with the smell in the morning.. mmmmm
Well, IMO Python is a real good choice. I had stumbled with c++ before, not for a lack of understanding the syntax, but how it all fits together (if i can understand obtuse perl programs i can understand c++ syntax). It was just to low level to get a good picture of how it works without writing alot of code. Then I started looking at python, nice high level language that's OO. Both books programing python and learning python cover the basics of OOP. I feel much better about writing clean code now that I've used python as a stepping stone. That's my suggestion for OOP anyway. As to other things I have a copy of 'The practice of programing' (Addison Wesley). It covers alot of skills a programer needs to know, asuming you already know a language.
Part of what was addressed in this article was that the people making money and eventually controling the standards are stepping on the backs of the people who innovated. The comments about HTML are very true. I learned html from viewing source, as did most of you probobly. But with other companies adding their own additions, fragmenting, closing up the 'standards', we're going to be lucky if the W3C even comes close to keeping standards straight. Like it or not, IE is more popular, and from a users point of view a great product. They're still gaining, and eventually they will control the 'standards'. Sounds like why sendmail went commercial.
Anyway, enough about microsoft vs oss. What struck up the most thought were the remarks on the future of the web being sites working together. I'm a regular reader of scripting.com/davenet so this is something that interests me greatly. (XML-RPC was developed by userland - scripting.com) What if every web site could talk to every other website? Right now i can put slashdot headlines on my homepage, along with a completly up to date article on todays weather. It's syndication, it's people working together, it's what make the web work, and it's changing right now. We had the trump card, we still do, we're faster and more agile than big companies.
I probobly just rambled to much, but those are my thoughts. The beast(s) will adjust to us, and before we know it the companies will have control again. I don't know what we can do to change it other than lose our big heads about 'linux r00ls' and think about the big picture. We have a chance to change the world, lets see what we can come with, lets innovate.
Is there any real proof out there? I recall something about hacker groups rating each other out not to long ago. Seems like some kids need to grow up.
Nice to see more hardware vendors supporting linux with open source drivers.
A bridge near where I grew up had this, not a fancy brige, but all it's metal was always rusted. One day I asked some people about it and found out the rust was supposed to be there. Kind of odd, but it does seem like a sound idea.
Geo, what's wrong with you? You remember the hordes of webtv users we had to deal with on our network? You really want more of this?
Ahh the smoke theory. For those of you not familiar with it, some electronics techs (I picked it up in the air force) believe in a smoke theory. It states that all electronics run on smoke. If you do something wrong, the smoke escapes, causing an odd smell. Once the smoke escapes, the components don't have anything to run on.
I have seen alot of comments from this bozo. Most of them off topic or flaimbait. It would be nice if slashdot had a good way to get rid of repeats of people like this. The sad thing, is due to the way slashdot's moderation works, more posts = more moderation chances. I've been reading slashdot since before it was on a domain, yet I've never moderated because of my lack of posting. I know I could post and join in and make slashdot better for all, but I don't because I usually don't think I have anything worthwhile to add unless I'm an expert on the topic. It looks like other users don't share my views (see above posts).
Where are more people like you? I've looked, honestly. All the female 'geeks' I've ran into have been maried. Oh well, guess I'll have to stick to dating art/music women for now.
I think people are missing the point of what's on sale here... It's not an old piece of hardware, it's the first of many peaces of hardware that affected what each of us do today. I don't care who you are, what you do. Apple affected EVERYBODY's life on the planet. They were the first to develop a computer for the peons that was actually feasable. I don't care if Xerox developed the gui first, it was the first apples that gave apple the chance to take Xerox's stuff and develop it into the mac. If it wasn't for that, gates wouldn't have stole the mac os. X would not exist, you'd probobly be staring at a dumb term hooked to a time share through your ulra fast 2400 bps link playing adventure XIIV.
The computers that started our lifes today are on sale, not old hardware. I thank apple for having the guts to do what nobody else would, change history.
As i sit here looking at X11R6 inspired by the mac os running WM which is inspired by next which was developed by steve jobs who was inspired by his mac and was inspired for that by the Xerox system and got to see the Xerox system all because him and Woz decided to build a computer in their garage. I can think of my mother the school teacher sitting at her house happily clicking away in claris works making the computer do what she wants, and not even know it. Even though she's not a computer person, she was touched by what apple did.
It all started with those first few computers.
Your hard drives do that right now. Data doesn't move to your drive in serial, it uses a parallel style. That's why you have that wide ribbon cable that can only be so long. Hard drives can usually write more than one thing at a time also. Much of the technology they use is a 'trade secret' as I recall though. You may be able to find some more info on how it works at a college research site or something. Trust me, the hd makers are pushing as much as they can. Raid does help alot, but the problem is still latency. Cache helps that some... We'll have to see what happens.
I'm in the USAF and work in a computer maintence shop. Fortunatly I don't work on NT systems, but the computers in the actual shop are NT. The sun system just got purged because people didn't know how to use it (2 of us did). Unix is hard for people to use even if you're comp maint (which is hardware maintence fyi) it's still hard to use unix for most people. The Air Force can't justify spending the money on training people to use unix when they can install an almost idiot proof os, and still run their proprietary posix apps on them.
I'm pretty sure CAMS uses the posix api, which used to be run on dumb terms, CAMS is very important for maintence troops because it catalogs everything that that needs to be done/has been done. Just an example.
I wish I saw more solaris systems sitting around, but there's nothing I can do about it. It's a sad fact that it's going the way of the dodo, but I have no solotion. At least our vaxen are still running strong.