We can get 0.05 K easily here with one of our dilution fridges or our ADR. 1.9K is nothing to boast about but I guess it's the sheer size of what they are cooling which makes it impressive.
Foxmarks is OK for syncing bookmarks, but GBS also synced your history, open tabs, passwords (if you were brave enough) and cookies. Having a synced history and cookies was very useful because you could stay logged in to the same sites across any GBS'd computer.
Yonks ago when I wrote a door for the Renegade BBS system, I thought I'd be able to make some money out of it by selling it as Shareware. At the time there was an immensely popular game called "Legend of the fwibble bwibble (can't remember what it was called - something to do with dragons, I think)" which I and many other people registered, obviously making the authors some money. "If they can do it, so can I" I naively thought. What I didn't realise is that for every popular piece of CSS software that makes money, there are about 1000 that don't - and, of course, mine was one of them. It was used by quite a few people in unregistered mode but people just didn't buy the full version. With hindsight, I wish I'd just released it with the source so that more people could have enjoyed it and maybe contributed to it. As it was, all my effort was almost completely wasted, which is a shame.
Since then I've made infinitely more money by writing bespoke software for companies, and this is where the money is made. Selling "boxed" software can obviously make you very rich, but only for a tiny fraction of the people who do. The rest write bespoke software, relying on tools from the few who make money from CSS and the many who write OSS.
And this is where contributing to the general Open Source community really pays. By keeping the spirit of OS going in whatever way, either by writing software or supporting a project with money or even just bug reports, you are inspiring others to create more software, which will include the tools that you use for the jobs that actually make money.
So it seems to me that the obvious sensible choice to get a guaranteed return for your efforts is to write exclusively open source software.
Is this really happening? I mean in real life, as opposed to the imagination of the people who lobby for knee-jerk laws? I never heard of it before I read TFA.
Sounds to me like one of those ploys where, in order to get some unpopular measure through with little public resistance, you propose a far more draconian version to public outcry, before backtracking to the original one you wanted. Everyone accepts it and says "phew, that could have been worse" and it gets through.
Why the hell does anyone ever buy a domain from GoDaddy in the first place? I've heard nothing but bad things about them. Over here in the UK there are about a bajillion places you can get a domain name from, so there must be even more in the US.
Why keep records at all? If I was organising something that could be used for civil disobedience then I'd make sure it was all anonymous with no records kept for precisely this reason.
I think that this will be a lot more popular with everyone, not just Linux/Mac users. I haven't tried it myself (being a Linux geek), but by all accounts the iPlayer is a PITA. I suspect that in a couple of years time the iPlayer will be quietly dropped due to lack of interest leaving just the Flash player.
I went to the Twine site to find out what it was all about but I just got bombarded with meaningless buzzwords and technodrivel. This is what you tend to get from people who want to sound cutting edge but haven't got a clue, so I concluded that they didn't really know what it was all about either.
I liked KTorrent so much I made a donation to them. I thought I'd say "thanks" in a real and meaningful way.
One interesting thing I've seen is that when I look at the peers I'm connecting to, between 2-4% of them are also using KTorrent. Is this a genuine reflection of how many people are using it, or does KTorrent prefer to connect to other KTorrent clients, skewing the figures?
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This is on my route to work. Another bloody gaggle of tourists standing in the road for me to try to avoid mowing down with my bike.
I hate my own country.
You attitude has been logged for future reference.
Oh bugger. Lost the disk it was on. What did you say again?
"...things went all wonky (no sex, she started crying all the time, etc.)"
I was sitting here thinking "that's normal, isn't it?" You wait until you have kids.
What is with the "Signed" tag that is appearing on pretty much every /. story at the moment? What does it mean?
We can get 0.05 K easily here with one of our dilution fridges or our ADR. 1.9K is nothing to boast about but I guess it's the sheer size of what they are cooling which makes it impressive.
If I could mod myself -1 Troll I would, but you can't moderate threads you are participating in, sorry.
I'll get my coat.
Foxmarks is OK for syncing bookmarks, but GBS also synced your history, open tabs, passwords (if you were brave enough) and cookies. Having a synced history and cookies was very useful because you could stay logged in to the same sites across any GBS'd computer.
It sounds like a load of balls to me.
Yonks ago when I wrote a door for the Renegade BBS system, I thought I'd be able to make some money out of it by selling it as Shareware. At the time there was an immensely popular game called "Legend of the fwibble bwibble (can't remember what it was called - something to do with dragons, I think)" which I and many other people registered, obviously making the authors some money. "If they can do it, so can I" I naively thought. What I didn't realise is that for every popular piece of CSS software that makes money, there are about 1000 that don't - and, of course, mine was one of them. It was used by quite a few people in unregistered mode but people just didn't buy the full version. With hindsight, I wish I'd just released it with the source so that more people could have enjoyed it and maybe contributed to it. As it was, all my effort was almost completely wasted, which is a shame.
Since then I've made infinitely more money by writing bespoke software for companies, and this is where the money is made. Selling "boxed" software can obviously make you very rich, but only for a tiny fraction of the people who do. The rest write bespoke software, relying on tools from the few who make money from CSS and the many who write OSS.
And this is where contributing to the general Open Source community really pays. By keeping the spirit of OS going in whatever way, either by writing software or supporting a project with money or even just bug reports, you are inspiring others to create more software, which will include the tools that you use for the jobs that actually make money.
So it seems to me that the obvious sensible choice to get a guaranteed return for your efforts is to write exclusively open source software.
Is this really happening? I mean in real life, as opposed to the imagination of the people who lobby for knee-jerk laws? I never heard of it before I read TFA.
On second thoughts - don't. It's illegal now.
Sounds to me like one of those ploys where, in order to get some unpopular measure through with little public resistance, you propose a far more draconian version to public outcry, before backtracking to the original one you wanted. Everyone accepts it and says "phew, that could have been worse" and it gets through.
"aptly named Exherbo" I've read both FAs and I can't see why. Am I missing something obvious?
It's this one: http://www.sodwork.com/piccies/piccyitem.php?id=19
That'll be about 5.9GHz then...
Why the hell does anyone ever buy a domain from GoDaddy in the first place? I've heard nothing but bad things about them. Over here in the UK there are about a bajillion places you can get a domain name from, so there must be even more in the US.
Why keep records at all? If I was organising something that could be used for civil disobedience then I'd make sure it was all anonymous with no records kept for precisely this reason.
I think that this will be a lot more popular with everyone, not just Linux/Mac users. I haven't tried it myself (being a Linux geek), but by all accounts the iPlayer is a PITA. I suspect that in a couple of years time the iPlayer will be quietly dropped due to lack of interest leaving just the Flash player.
For fucks sake, can't anyone in the media tell the difference? There is nothing to stop a closed source software using an open standard.
Ben Worthen - "That's my fault for writing sloppy". And another irony meter explodes...
I went to the Twine site to find out what it was all about but I just got bombarded with meaningless buzzwords and technodrivel. This is what you tend to get from people who want to sound cutting edge but haven't got a clue, so I concluded that they didn't really know what it was all about either.
http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20071011205044141
I liked KTorrent so much I made a donation to them. I thought I'd say "thanks" in a real and meaningful way.
One interesting thing I've seen is that when I look at the peers I'm connecting to, between 2-4% of them are also using KTorrent. Is this a genuine reflection of how many people are using it, or does KTorrent prefer to connect to other KTorrent clients, skewing the figures?
No it isn't. That library is required to play DVDs that have been encrypted with CSS. Any other DVD plays fine without it.