... I'm already running 64-bit linux on both server and desktop environments (server for ~5 months and desktop for ~2) and loving it, thank you very much.
They sure compile applications fast. I couldn't be happier.
It was recently brought to my attention (by a more educated person than I am) that by using Gmail I am trusting Google with my personal information -- whatever that may be -- forever. Because deleting something from Gmail almost assuredly means nothing more than a "deleted" flag in a database somewhere, not an actual deleted file.
Of course, after having this pointed out to me it I realised -- "too late" -- that this should have been obvious to me, only I had never bothered to give it any thought.
My point is, thanks for reminding us all of this fact in an appropriate forum. Google fanboys may mod you down but, you raise a very important and relevant point that deserves consideration. I hope I'm not the only one who thinks so.
I recall there being a post on/. a few months ago about how this has already done to a lesser extent -- on Linux -- in (South?) Africa, where one PC is providing displays, keyboards and mice for four simultaneous users to cut down the cost per seat. I'm sure the information on how they pulled it off is readily available online with a little bit of digging.
That is to say, using an existing, good database technology? Yes, I use my email as a database and store lots of data in there. I never want to delete anything because I don't want to get caught with my pants down when someone calls me out claiming "I never said that."
So -- Is there a package out there that actually uses a FOSS database like MySQL or Postgres for us email hogs that makes searching records, cataloguing items, making backups, separating attachments from body content, etc. more convenient? Or should I just shut the hell up and stick with what Outlook (and soon-to-be Evolution) give me because they already work, albeit slowly?
I'm not a lawyer and this certainly doesn't constitute legal (or even good-) advice... But my understanding is that it is and always has been illegal to share the music; it's downloading the music that is considered not to be illegal.
The second you turn around and share something you downloaded, ripped, whatever, is when I believe you're breaking Canadian copyright law.
... Which is written by none other than Mr. Amon Tobin. As a good friend observed, the album is a return to form, and I can personally attest that it makes for excellent listening.
Not that having the Mozilla guys address the "next generation" pop-up problems for the masses wouldn't be a bad thing, but...
Isn't the whole problem with popups (as with so many other annoying or outright malicious software) caused from a lack of diversity or genetic stock?
Nature teaches organisms this lesson often; do we all stampede toward the same vaccination which will eventually fail, or quietly, subtly change our composition to present more diverse ranks which are more difficult to break?
There are some pretty "heavy" changes to get the EPIA working well -- Kernel patches, a Unichrome (graphics) driver for Xfree86 (none for X.org yet, sadly:( ), etc.
There are also some "positive" things that come out of the VIA -- Like the CLE266 being one of the best-supported video cards by the DirectFB project. That said, I'm actually very, very happy that there are places like the EPIA Wiki to walk you through how to get all of this stuff working on your own distribution instead of being railroaded into using VIA's. Mine runs Freevo on Gentoo, which suits me just peachy.
I'm sure VIA just baked everyone else's Linux patches into a single distribution to roll out with their hardware -- Not that there's anything wrong with that, of course -- But I would undoubtedly have preferred VIA to have spent more time contributing to the success of existing, frequently-used projects (similar to how they did for Xine to get it to run with their mpeg4 acceleration, I guess, although preferrably in a more package-neutral manner) for their hardware than building their own distribution on the backs of all of the fine folks that have worked so hard to make these adorable little boxes go.
Warning to AMD64 Users - Don't download yet!
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Users wishing to take the plunge and install Gentoo on an AMD64 should wait a day or three before attempting to download an image from the mirror. As described in the thread on the Gentoo Forums, the wrong image has been propagated by accident.
Gentoo's master mirror was staged with the wrong amd64 livecds which don't boot due to a missing bootsector!
We're currently shipping the correct images to all the mirrors.
Not that this will probably impact any/. readers, but I read the AMD64 forums religiously as I have two AMD64 Gentoo installations at my house. I don't go reading the forums before installing though, so hopefully this saves at least one person some time/frustration before installing.
... I have the 1GHz EPIA-M, and it makes a fantastic little digital media box (I run Freevo off of mine in a little Casetronic Travla case that makes it about the size of a VCR). There is some great help out there for how to get it running under Gentoo and several other flavours of Linux; The CLE266's DirectFB support is second, it seems, only to Matrox.
All that said, I don't know why I'd upgrade for that purpose -- Even high-resolution video now plays buttery smooth (ever since I set Freevo/Mplayer to output video using cvidix). I already have an Athlon64 running as a file and development server, and don't want to trade "down" -- even for a dual processor configuration where I don't have to drop my gigabit ethernet.
... Which is actually a nearly stock roll-out of a rather popular Content Management System called Plone. They added their logo and replaced some icons with the GNU logo and changed the blues to greys. An excellent use of multiple tiers of free software to illustrate their point succinctly; my hat goes off to the FSF and to the Plone team for a job well-done.
If I find an application worth using, it seldom has to do with the UI in itself.
You've obviously never used Sodipodi, Inkscape's parent project. Its interface is enough to make mothers abort and milk curdle; it's why Inkscape exists at all.
The reply above covers most of the points, but not all. When you say "MythTV does more" you might quantify that -- It does more with television viewing. MythTV is nearly (if not completely) useless for watching movies, listening to music, or looking at image media -- all things that Freevo does very well, which is all I, and a number of other Freevo users, employ it for.
I don't really watch any TV to speak of, and don't even have a tuner in my set-top box.
I've been using Freevo on an EPIA 10000M exclusively for watching movies and listening to music on a little set-top computer (Mini-ITX) for at least a year before the Mac Mini appeared on the scene. It's also much more convenient for showing friends and guests our digital photos without all having to crowd into the office as Freevo has a great built-in image viewer. And the whole thing is 100% controlled via a remote using LIRC.
As I understand it, the ethane/methane "rain" will also be the size of golf balls because of the low gravity. This is only, I confess, according to Stephen Baxter's Titan which I just finished reading.
Anyone looking for a good, very hard sci-fi read on the subject of Titan, the book is a great one. It has the added bonus of picking up more or less exactly right now, timeline-wise. It also has some rather frighteningly accurate forecasts with relation to the... ah, U.S. political sentiment of the time. It was published in 1997.
PHP probably isn't even an option (ludicrous or not). The U.S. Federal Government, for example, has mandated something about future software (for their use) having to be developed in either J2EE or.NET. I work in the eLearning industry and that's what we've been handed down from OPM, GSA, etc.
Healthcare is probably the same, if not even more restricted. Software developed for US healthcare is pretty anal. As I understand it, every user-driven event has to be audited and signed with a key.
As I already mentioned, I have continued using Firefox despite this and other shortcomings. I think I made it perfectly clear that I do not mind if the page is coded badly, if it includes ActiveX plugins, or if it is specifically designed for IE (or whatever else) and, as a result, does not display/operate properly in Firefox or other browsers. If I actually care about the site or its contents, I'm more than happy to email the webmaster and let them know that I won't be visiting their site, buying their products, or whatever until they remediate their site to work with web standards. They can evaluate for themselves if my business/readership is important enough to consider the value of considering a change of tack.
What I do mind is when Firefox crashes in an attempt to render these malformed pages, instead of catching an exception then closing that tab, for example, or displaying a blank grey page and an error message -- perhaps with debugging information as to what went wrong to pass on to the Firefox team via the feedback agent or other error reporting avenue.
... Something that IE trounces the rest of them with. It's undoubtedly been the greatest frustration of using it for my wife and I after switching from using IE for so many years -- IE was very stable. Firefox, on the other hand, runs into problems with specific pages (usually ones that are badly written/formed). The article lists stability as a "red herring" and that it is of "limited value" but allow me to differ in opinion.
While I'm actually relatively indifferent if someone's site uses Javascript or DHTML that Firefox doesn't support, it is aggravating to have a single, badly-coded web page take out that browser window and everything else I was tabbing to at that moment, especially if I hadn't bookmarked what I was looking at. In this sense, Firefox has unwittingly upped the ante on application crashes, since you're more likely to have more pages browsed to at any given moment than with MSIE.
Don't get me wrong: I love Firefox and I have no plans to switch back to MSIE. But I would definitely suggest one of Firefox's greatest weaknesses would be the stability issue. At this point, anything to prevent the browser from utterly disappearing when it hits a malformed (or whatever) page would be a welcome addition to the code.
Slashdot Mirror
You know it's a robust server when the editors slashdot the site before it's even posted.
Get a grip.
... I'm already running 64-bit linux on both server and desktop environments (server for ~5 months and desktop for ~2) and loving it, thank you very much. They sure compile applications fast. I couldn't be happier.
... As this silly design was already covered more than a week ago at a more appropriate site for hardware fanboyism and unpaid product advertisement.
Of course, after having this pointed out to me it I realised -- "too late" -- that this should have been obvious to me, only I had never bothered to give it any thought.
My point is, thanks for reminding us all of this fact in an appropriate forum. Google fanboys may mod you down but, you raise a very important and relevant point that deserves consideration. I hope I'm not the only one who thinks so.
I recall there being a post on /. a few months ago about how this has already done to a lesser extent -- on Linux -- in (South?) Africa, where one PC is providing displays, keyboards and mice for four simultaneous users to cut down the cost per seat. I'm sure the information on how they pulled it off is readily available online with a little bit of digging.
So -- Is there a package out there that actually uses a FOSS database like MySQL or Postgres for us email hogs that makes searching records, cataloguing items, making backups, separating attachments from body content, etc. more convenient? Or should I just shut the hell up and stick with what Outlook (and soon-to-be Evolution) give me because they already work, albeit slowly?
The second you turn around and share something you downloaded, ripped, whatever, is when I believe you're breaking Canadian copyright law.
... Which is written by none other than Mr. Amon Tobin. As a good friend observed, the album is a return to form, and I can personally attest that it makes for excellent listening.
Reasons for buying? Gaming isn't one of them:
P.S.: Gizmodo posted about this piece of hardware no less than four months ago. Old news, editors. Old news.
Incidentally, I will hopefully post a review of this excellent book soonish, if nobody beats me to it.
Isn't the whole problem with popups (as with so many other annoying or outright malicious software) caused from a lack of diversity or genetic stock?
Nature teaches organisms this lesson often; do we all stampede toward the same vaccination which will eventually fail, or quietly, subtly change our composition to present more diverse ranks which are more difficult to break?
There are also some "positive" things that come out of the VIA -- Like the CLE266 being one of the best-supported video cards by the DirectFB project. That said, I'm actually very, very happy that there are places like the EPIA Wiki to walk you through how to get all of this stuff working on your own distribution instead of being railroaded into using VIA's. Mine runs Freevo on Gentoo, which suits me just peachy.
I'm sure VIA just baked everyone else's Linux patches into a single distribution to roll out with their hardware -- Not that there's anything wrong with that, of course -- But I would undoubtedly have preferred VIA to have spent more time contributing to the success of existing, frequently-used projects (similar to how they did for Xine to get it to run with their mpeg4 acceleration, I guess, although preferrably in a more package-neutral manner) for their hardware than building their own distribution on the backs of all of the fine folks that have worked so hard to make these adorable little boxes go.
All that said, I don't know why I'd upgrade for that purpose -- Even high-resolution video now plays buttery smooth (ever since I set Freevo/Mplayer to output video using cvidix). I already have an Athlon64 running as a file and development server, and don't want to trade "down" -- even for a dual processor configuration where I don't have to drop my gigabit ethernet.
... Which is actually a nearly stock roll-out of a rather popular Content Management System called Plone. They added their logo and replaced some icons with the GNU logo and changed the blues to greys. An excellent use of multiple tiers of free software to illustrate their point succinctly; my hat goes off to the FSF and to the Plone team for a job well-done.
You've obviously never used Sodipodi, Inkscape's parent project. Its interface is enough to make mothers abort and milk curdle; it's why Inkscape exists at all.
The reply above covers most of the points, but not all. When you say "MythTV does more" you might quantify that -- It does more with television viewing. MythTV is nearly (if not completely) useless for watching movies, listening to music, or looking at image media -- all things that Freevo does very well, which is all I, and a number of other Freevo users, employ it for.
I've been using Freevo on an EPIA 10000M exclusively for watching movies and listening to music on a little set-top computer (Mini-ITX) for at least a year before the Mac Mini appeared on the scene. It's also much more convenient for showing friends and guests our digital photos without all having to crowd into the office as Freevo has a great built-in image viewer. And the whole thing is 100% controlled via a remote using LIRC.
I used to draw in a smaller one. Actually spoke to Lord Jazz on the phone once or twice. Good times, good times.
Anyone looking for a good, very hard sci-fi read on the subject of Titan, the book is a great one. It has the added bonus of picking up more or less exactly right now, timeline-wise. It also has some rather frighteningly accurate forecasts with relation to the ... ah, U.S. political sentiment of the time. It was published in 1997.
Healthcare is probably the same, if not even more restricted. Software developed for US healthcare is pretty anal. As I understand it, every user-driven event has to be audited and signed with a key.
I don't know, I have a fondness for 'Faithful clear'. Of course, this is coming from someone whose favourite musician is Thomas Köner.
What I do mind is when Firefox crashes in an attempt to render these malformed pages, instead of catching an exception then closing that tab, for example, or displaying a blank grey page and an error message -- perhaps with debugging information as to what went wrong to pass on to the Firefox team via the feedback agent or other error reporting avenue.
While I'm actually relatively indifferent if someone's site uses Javascript or DHTML that Firefox doesn't support, it is aggravating to have a single, badly-coded web page take out that browser window and everything else I was tabbing to at that moment, especially if I hadn't bookmarked what I was looking at. In this sense, Firefox has unwittingly upped the ante on application crashes, since you're more likely to have more pages browsed to at any given moment than with MSIE.
Don't get me wrong: I love Firefox and I have no plans to switch back to MSIE. But I would definitely suggest one of Firefox's greatest weaknesses would be the stability issue. At this point, anything to prevent the browser from utterly disappearing when it hits a malformed (or whatever) page would be a welcome addition to the code.