I often mistype Linus as Linux. You have to remember that us Linux geeks spend a lot of time typing the word "linux". Either in online discussion or compiling source code, the letters l-i-n-u-x cross our keyboards very often. So when we try to type Linus, habit takes over and the 's' is replaced with 'x'. I even find that almost any word starting with 'lin' quickly becomes 'linux' purely by habit.
Remember that the last time Ken Brown was in the news (for his still-as-yet unreleased book) he made a point of referring to Open Source(tm) as "hybrid source". His reasoning was based on his belief that F/OSS contains stolen commercial "IP" and was thus composed of a a hybrid of open/closed source code. So now he's calling it public domain. Sounds like he can't even stick to a single consistent message.
Yes! I too can thoroughly recommend LyX and PDFLaTeX (did I get the capitalization right?). My only tip is to set the LyX Document to use the "Times" font. Then the output PDF uses the built-in font (or something like that) and the file size is super small. Otherwise it includeds a bitmap font and it blows out by a few hundred KB.
And I know what you mean about wordprocessors. They feel so very antiquated. They're really still just electronic typewriters. Or at least they are the way most people use them. I've heard you can use "styles" in Word and OO.o Writer, but since I very rarely use them I've never investigated that feature.
According to one MythTV HOWTO I read, the nVidia geForce FX-5200 is the most powerful fanless video card currently available. I don't know how well it would do in a gaming system, but it would certainly be enough for a MythTV box!
I don't know why the PC world stays with the PS/2 ports. Most mice now seem to be USB, but I still don't see many USB keyboards. I bought a Logitech USB keyboard back in 2000 with a built-in 2 port USB hub. I plug my mouse into one port and use the other for USB flash drives. I thought it was the way to go, but I'm still waiting for the world to catch up!
The Linux kernel does have quite a few forks. They're just not big, seperate forks. Their work gets routinely folded back into Linus' fork. There's the personal forks like Alan Cox's -ac patch, Andrew Mortons' -mm patch, etc. Many architectures and sub-projects also maintain their own forks. So forks aren't bad on their own. Open Source licenses allow the different forks to share their work. It's just that the big commercial entities like to keep reminding people of the devastating Unix fork. To their commercial mindset it's the only type of fork they can imagine. And they're obviously trying to slow the commoditization of software through adoption of Open Source.
Nope, what they describe *is* spidering. The difference between DDoS attacks and ligitimate spidering by search engines, etc is probably the "niceness". e.g, the delay between requests, respecting robots.txt, etc. Any implication "that spidering is related to DDoS and botnets" is all in your imagination. Go put your tinfoil hat back on bud.
I doubt it's just Apple that's pushing autovectorization. What about SSE/SSE2 on Intel and AMD CPU's? The UltraSPARC (IIRC) also has some vector ops, as did *sniff* the Alpha.
I also actually like CDE and the old Motif look. It's clean, simple, easy to work with, and doesn't try to be Microsoft Windows or MacOS.
Really? I always though that Motif was modelled heavily after Windows 3. Certainly scroll bars, buttons, and menus were very similar. A simple change of colour scheme (in either one) and they looked almost alike, except that (IIRC) MWM used embossing on the system/minimize/maximize buttons and the window borders. If you like that, fine. Whatever. But I prefer a window manager and widget theme that uses more than a dozen colours on my 24-bit display. I find it nicer on my eyes.
Paul Debevec has probably already done something like that. He's done a lot of work with "image based rendering", including reconstructing scenes from photos and extracting "light probes" from photos of shiny spheres. He's got a lot of papers and demos on his home page there.
Sorry bud. I know how you feel! I've had similar experiences myself.
Autopano and Autopano-sift. I have't had good experiences with the SIFT-based software. They always tend to pick the most inappropriate points, like trees/leaves (that move between shots) and the middle of objects (where there aren't many features). I almost always have to go through and remove the bad points, adding in my own reliable ones (corners, unique features, etc). I just don't use them anymore because I actually spend less time if I do all the points myself manually. The GUI of Hugin usually saves me plenty of time already. It does a good job of picking the matching point when I click on one photo. That's all I need anymore.
Considering the recent stories about booting Linux from iPods, I'd say YES. Any FW (USB?) device will probably do. I've heard there's even a (OpenFirmware?) feature where you hold down 'T' when the Mac boots and all the harddrives will then be accessable over the FW bus. Not sure if that also works for optical drives. That'd be cool if you could borrow someone elses' Mac so you can use their DVD drive over FW to your iBook. Must stop rambling now...
Just a correction, you've gotten your Latham quotes confused. I believe he called the coalition "a conga-line of suck-holes" and PM Howard specifically an "American arse-licker".
That is true. But the majority of Open Source "Linux" software is still produced and maintained by people who aren't employed to do so. The commercial vendors are there to polish it, add the missing pieces that enterprise customers want, provide support, etc.
The problem with calling them "competitors" is that Linux isn't a product. There's no Linux Inc. It was never meant to compete or take market share away from a specific target. For most of the developers it's a hobby, a past-time. They make and improve the software because they want some free software that does exactly what they want. And for several years now they've had themselves and their work slandered and insulted in the press. Somehow it doesn't seem fair to me.
Well, I've been using Linux since the 1.2 days, so I beat you there. The only problem I've had with cut and paste under Linux is stupid Java programs that want to act like Windows programs (or is it the JVM?). In everything else, I select text and then middle-click to paste. What is so inconsistant about that? It works everywhere for me.
Yes, that's 1920 x 1080 x 3 = 6220800. I can't wait until the camera manufacturers catch onto this new method to inflate the number of "megapixels" in their cameras. Fifteen megapixels here we come!
(Just don't mention the bayer pattern used on CCD's)
Sure. We could all have big, fast, and noisy computer sitting on each desk and have to invest in special cooling equipment. Or we could use thin clients. Put some big beefy computers in a seperate room, cool them with a seperate AC system, and put small quiet computers on everyone's desks. Very few people use their big CPUs 100% of the time, mostly on in bursts, so an office can get away with having perhaps only 10-20% of the previous CPU power in its centralized servers. It's a shame that the MS-centric media has almost killed the idea of thin clients. They're busy hyping up all sorts of other uses for fast networks, but not X11-style remote GUI's. *sigh*
You might want to look at peltier devices. No moving parts, all semiconductor. The overclocking crowd experimented with them years ago, but I think they turned out to be too unreliable. They were usually used inbetween the CPU and heatsink/fan to cool the CPU while making the heatsink hotter. The problem (from what I gather) is that when when (not if) they failed, they suddenly become an insulator between your CPU and heatsink. Not good.
You're not alone in not liking Star Trek and especially Enterprise. I used to be a Trek fan. I started watching the original series on late-night television in my senior year of highschool. By the time I moved out of home a few years later I was a pretty big fan and your typical walking-encyclopedia Trek nerd. But then I got into reading books (public transport to work and all that) and learnt what real Science Fiction was all about. I'm still impartial to Star Trek and other TV shows. I like new stuff like SG-1 and the new BattleStar Galactica series. But if you want some really interesting stories and situations, get into books. Most of the stuff called "Sci Fi" on TV is about drama, special effects, and short stories that fit into a 45 minute timeslot. SF books hold the real what if...? questions and conjectures.
Sounds like they've setup a virus/spam filter on their outgoing email as well as incoming. The upside and goal is to stop viruses and spam being sent out by their clients. The downside, as you demonstrate, is that the same system stops these types of emails from being forwarded to people who can do something about these fraudulent emails. One wonders how/why you received the email in the first place, but you can't forward it. Bizarre.
Does eBay have a web form where you can input emails instead of forwarding them? My other suggestion would be to get a webmail account (Yahoo, Gmail, even Hotmail) and use that to forward the emails. Just hope they don't have similarly configured filters:)
I'm currently looking at the Shuttle SN45G (Athlon XP) or even the SN85G4 (Athlon 64) cases. They both appear to have the CPU near the back and use heat pipes to place the heatsink and fan above the back panel connectors. As shown here and here. I had previously been looking at large heatsinks like the Thermaltake pipe 101 or even the monstrous Thermalright XP-120. But if the Shuttle cases come with their own heatsinks/pipes, then I could still replace the fans with some nice quiet ones, if they aren't quiet enough that is. For video, the nVidia FX-5200 is the quietest fanless video card available, according to one MythTV HOWTO I read. The proprietary nVidia drivers support XvMC, which will take some load off of the CPU.
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I often mistype Linus as Linux. You have to remember that us Linux geeks spend a lot of time typing the word "linux". Either in online discussion or compiling source code, the letters l-i-n-u-x cross our keyboards very often. So when we try to type Linus, habit takes over and the 's' is replaced with 'x'. I even find that almost any word starting with 'lin' quickly becomes 'linux' purely by habit.
Remember that the last time Ken Brown was in the news (for his still-as-yet unreleased book) he made a point of referring to Open Source(tm) as "hybrid source". His reasoning was based on his belief that F/OSS contains stolen commercial "IP" and was thus composed of a a hybrid of open/closed source code. So now he's calling it public domain. Sounds like he can't even stick to a single consistent message.
Yes! I too can thoroughly recommend LyX and PDFLaTeX (did I get the capitalization right?). My only tip is to set the LyX Document to use the "Times" font. Then the output PDF uses the built-in font (or something like that) and the file size is super small. Otherwise it includeds a bitmap font and it blows out by a few hundred KB.
And I know what you mean about wordprocessors. They feel so very antiquated. They're really still just electronic typewriters. Or at least they are the way most people use them. I've heard you can use "styles" in Word and OO.o Writer, but since I very rarely use them I've never investigated that feature.
According to one MythTV HOWTO I read, the nVidia geForce FX-5200 is the most powerful fanless video card currently available. I don't know how well it would do in a gaming system, but it would certainly be enough for a MythTV box!
I don't know why the PC world stays with the PS/2 ports. Most mice now seem to be USB, but I still don't see many USB keyboards. I bought a Logitech USB keyboard back in 2000 with a built-in 2 port USB hub. I plug my mouse into one port and use the other for USB flash drives. I thought it was the way to go, but I'm still waiting for the world to catch up!
You're right, I/we did use the wrong term. Now please explain how I and others are BS'ing?
The Linux kernel does have quite a few forks. They're just not big, seperate forks. Their work gets routinely folded back into Linus' fork. There's the personal forks like Alan Cox's -ac patch, Andrew Mortons' -mm patch, etc. Many architectures and sub-projects also maintain their own forks. So forks aren't bad on their own. Open Source licenses allow the different forks to share their work. It's just that the big commercial entities like to keep reminding people of the devastating Unix fork. To their commercial mindset it's the only type of fork they can imagine. And they're obviously trying to slow the commoditization of software through adoption of Open Source.
Nope, what they describe *is* spidering. The difference between DDoS attacks and ligitimate spidering by search engines, etc is probably the "niceness". e.g, the delay between requests, respecting robots.txt, etc. Any implication "that spidering is related to DDoS and botnets" is all in your imagination. Go put your tinfoil hat back on bud.
I doubt it's just Apple that's pushing autovectorization. What about SSE/SSE2 on Intel and AMD CPU's? The UltraSPARC (IIRC) also has some vector ops, as did *sniff* the Alpha.
Really? I always though that Motif was modelled heavily after Windows 3. Certainly scroll bars, buttons, and menus were very similar. A simple change of colour scheme (in either one) and they looked almost alike, except that (IIRC) MWM used embossing on the system/minimize/maximize buttons and the window borders. If you like that, fine. Whatever. But I prefer a window manager and widget theme that uses more than a dozen colours on my 24-bit display. I find it nicer on my eyes.
Paul Debevec has probably already done something like that. He's done a lot of work with "image based rendering", including reconstructing scenes from photos and extracting "light probes" from photos of shiny spheres. He's got a lot of papers and demos on his home page there.
Sorry bud. I know how you feel! I've had similar experiences myself.
Autopano and Autopano-sift. I have't had good experiences with the SIFT-based software. They always tend to pick the most inappropriate points, like trees/leaves (that move between shots) and the middle of objects (where there aren't many features). I almost always have to go through and remove the bad points, adding in my own reliable ones (corners, unique features, etc). I just don't use them anymore because I actually spend less time if I do all the points myself manually. The GUI of Hugin usually saves me plenty of time already. It does a good job of picking the matching point when I click on one photo. That's all I need anymore.
Considering the recent stories about booting Linux from iPods, I'd say YES. Any FW (USB?) device will probably do. I've heard there's even a (OpenFirmware?) feature where you hold down 'T' when the Mac boots and all the harddrives will then be accessable over the FW bus. Not sure if that also works for optical drives. That'd be cool if you could borrow someone elses' Mac so you can use their DVD drive over FW to your iBook. Must stop rambling now...
Just a correction, you've gotten your Latham quotes confused. I believe he called the coalition "a conga-line of suck-holes" and PM Howard specifically an "American arse-licker".
That is true. But the majority of Open Source "Linux" software is still produced and maintained by people who aren't employed to do so. The commercial vendors are there to polish it, add the missing pieces that enterprise customers want, provide support, etc.
The problem with calling them "competitors" is that Linux isn't a product. There's no Linux Inc. It was never meant to compete or take market share away from a specific target. For most of the developers it's a hobby, a past-time. They make and improve the software because they want some free software that does exactly what they want. And for several years now they've had themselves and their work slandered and insulted in the press. Somehow it doesn't seem fair to me.
Well, I've been using Linux since the 1.2 days, so I beat you there. The only problem I've had with cut and paste under Linux is stupid Java programs that want to act like Windows programs (or is it the JVM?). In everything else, I select text and then middle-click to paste. What is so inconsistant about that? It works everywhere for me.
From TFA:
Yes, that's 1920 x 1080 x 3 = 6220800. I can't wait until the camera manufacturers catch onto this new method to inflate the number of "megapixels" in their cameras. Fifteen megapixels here we come!
(Just don't mention the bayer pattern used on CCD's)
Sure. We could all have big, fast, and noisy computer sitting on each desk and have to invest in special cooling equipment. Or we could use thin clients. Put some big beefy computers in a seperate room, cool them with a seperate AC system, and put small quiet computers on everyone's desks. Very few people use their big CPUs 100% of the time, mostly on in bursts, so an office can get away with having perhaps only 10-20% of the previous CPU power in its centralized servers. It's a shame that the MS-centric media has almost killed the idea of thin clients. They're busy hyping up all sorts of other uses for fast networks, but not X11-style remote GUI's. *sigh*
You might want to look at peltier devices. No moving parts, all semiconductor. The overclocking crowd experimented with them years ago, but I think they turned out to be too unreliable. They were usually used inbetween the CPU and heatsink/fan to cool the CPU while making the heatsink hotter. The problem (from what I gather) is that when when (not if) they failed, they suddenly become an insulator between your CPU and heatsink. Not good.
Stereo? mpg123 reports this when playing:
Doesn't look stereo to me.
You're not alone in not liking Star Trek and especially Enterprise. I used to be a Trek fan. I started watching the original series on late-night television in my senior year of highschool. By the time I moved out of home a few years later I was a pretty big fan and your typical walking-encyclopedia Trek nerd. But then I got into reading books (public transport to work and all that) and learnt what real Science Fiction was all about. I'm still impartial to Star Trek and other TV shows. I like new stuff like SG-1 and the new BattleStar Galactica series. But if you want some really interesting stories and situations, get into books. Most of the stuff called "Sci Fi" on TV is about drama, special effects, and short stories that fit into a 45 minute timeslot. SF books hold the real what if...? questions and conjectures.
Sounds like they've setup a virus/spam filter on their outgoing email as well as incoming. The upside and goal is to stop viruses and spam being sent out by their clients. The downside, as you demonstrate, is that the same system stops these types of emails from being forwarded to people who can do something about these fraudulent emails. One wonders how/why you received the email in the first place, but you can't forward it. Bizarre.
Does eBay have a web form where you can input emails instead of forwarding them? My other suggestion would be to get a webmail account (Yahoo, Gmail, even Hotmail) and use that to forward the emails. Just hope they don't have similarly configured filters :)
I've never had a credit card in my life and I signed up with eBay (Australia) probably a year or so ago. PayPal probably wants your CC though.
I'm currently looking at the Shuttle SN45G (Athlon XP) or even the SN85G4 (Athlon 64) cases. They both appear to have the CPU near the back and use heat pipes to place the heatsink and fan above the back panel connectors. As shown here and here. I had previously been looking at large heatsinks like the Thermaltake pipe 101 or even the monstrous Thermalright XP-120. But if the Shuttle cases come with their own heatsinks/pipes, then I could still replace the fans with some nice quiet ones, if they aren't quiet enough that is. For video, the nVidia FX-5200 is the quietest fanless video card available, according to one MythTV HOWTO I read. The proprietary nVidia drivers support XvMC, which will take some load off of the CPU.