Perhaps the simple concept of a WikiBadge (http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?WikiBadge) will help here. It's a way to tag pages so that a simple search turns them all up.
You could start tagging pages in your Wiki with badges like CategorySsh, CategoryPerl, CategorySecurity and so on. Click on any of these links, then click on the page's title and you see all related pages. It's a very simple way to associate pages with one another without any hierarchical organization.
But isn't the phone system also end to end?
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From the article:
Worse, [the Internet] was designed as an end-to-end system, where all the power to create, distribute and consume are located at the ends of the system and not in the middle.
The Net's end-to-end nature is so severely anathema to cable and telco companies that they have done everything they can to make the Net as controlled and asymmetrical as possible.
But the phone system is also end-to-end in nature. Cable and telco companies know they are just selling access, same as they sell access to the phone system or the cable system (most cable providers produce little by way of content; that's left to people like USA Networks and HBO.)
I think the situation at the telcos and cablecoms is far more complicated than how the author protrays. Witness the trouble Verizon took recently to block the subpoena of a customer whom the RIAA wanted. And one of the megacorps is Sony who both sells music and produces devices to copy that music.
al-Jazeera in this month's National Geographic too
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I read the article on Qatar in this month's issue of National Geographic just today. I was surprised by what a disruptive force al-Jazeera is in the Arab world; it reaches 35 million people in the Middle East and airs a lot of controversial material. As another poster pointed out, it can be a very unpopular channel in the Arab world because it unapologetically airs all sides of the issues (even things like women against polygamy). al-Jazeera is an island of free press in an oppressed region of the world.
The leader of Qatar funded it with $140 million of his own money. Qatar is one of the U.S.-friendly countries where we have two bases.
...no, I wouldn't inflict Emacs on *any* non-hacker, but Emacs does what good software should do: be easy to use (just a few commands is all you need to know to edit files), but is infinitely customizable (to the point where you can learn Lisp and really customize it!)
I recently upgraded my Linux box and was horrified by Gnome2. It is anti-user. More to the point, it's anti- power user. I couldn't even change the window manager! Emulating Microsoft Windows may help Linux make inroads in the desktop market, but aesthetically, it's really offensive. Let me use Icewm or Sawfish! Let me choose my keybindings!
Gnome2 feels like a UI dungeon from which I cannot escape. For now I'm alternating between Icewm standalone and Blackbox.
One of the killer things about my OS X Powerbook is how I can plug my digital camera or FireWire cd burner and it not only has a driver, it already knows what to do with the device. With my camera, it automatically asks me if I want to transfer all the pictures off the camera.
I've never bothered hooking it up to my Linux box. I'm sure nothing would happen.
Where Apple goes, often most of the industry follows. Jobs' "Digital Hub" strategy is dead on once you've seen it in action. It makes a computer really useful for the home user.
For the business, I am increasingly in doubt. Microsoft file formats are so common it's futile to try to use Linux in the office. If the free office suites do the job, fine. But I think the only place Linux will succeed are in custom installations (like the Burlington Coat Factory point of sales units) or where cost is essential (like the city using Linux for offices in the Florida Keys).
For the business user on the go, Linux won't make it unless there is a desktop with the kind of commercial development behind it like Apple's or Microsoft's. The level of integration and consistency of interface needed is far, far away in the Linux world.
...and it's Mac OS X Developer's Guide by Jesse Feiler. It's probably best described as "a developer's introduction." It is very broad, covering topics from the Mach kernel to the Interfact Builder. It's at least worth a look.
The short of it, Jon, is that the story is not interesting to the general public or the press. The Chandra Levy case involves sex and scandal so it gets all the headlines. A Russian programmer broke the security on ebook technology? Most people don't know (and don't care) what an ebook is or what happens to a Russian programmer.
Journalists want their job to be interesting. Explaining the dry details of the DMCA is not interesting to most journalists, and when they are forced to do it they just get the details wrong.
Slashdot came to popularity because: it was riding the crest of the Linux revolution, and it had the right street tech smarts.
Since "it's all over except the shouting" as far as Linux dominance is concerned, the new rage is MP3 and the peer-to-peer networks that are scaring the RIAA and MPAA.
And beyond that? Maybe the multicasting revolution?
if metcalfe were to read only one reply to his worthless piece i'd make it this one. he's probably never used linux, and his sole exposure to open source appears to be two whole conference talks. he's washed up.
If you watched, end to end, all 21 seasons and 8 (9?) feature films, the amount of camp couldn't exceed 25%. Most of the camp is in the original season. I don't think you've watched much Trek, Jon. I like the Rainbow Coalition analogy though.
The world of the major labels is about to be wiped out by the mp3 supernova. When a group like TLC can sell 10 million albums, yet only be paid $250,000 EACH, and they have to file Chapter 11, there is something very very wrong with the business model.
in fact he said this when the whole 'open source' thing started; that he was extroverted enough to be the outspoken advocate he has been, but that he didn't want to do it for very long. so this shouls really come as no surprise.
Slashdot Mirror
...are more interesting!
3 = profit!
(Oh, I just couldn't resist).
...be called GONAD?
...with links to articles: tiles
Perhaps the simple concept of a WikiBadge (http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?WikiBadge) will help here. It's a way to tag pages so that a simple search turns them all up.
You could start tagging pages in your Wiki with badges like CategorySsh, CategoryPerl, CategorySecurity and so on. Click on any of these links, then click on the page's title and you see all related pages. It's a very simple way to associate pages with one another without any hierarchical organization.
From the article:
Worse, [the Internet] was designed as an end-to-end system, where all the power to create, distribute and consume are located at the ends of the system and not in the middle.
The Net's end-to-end nature is so severely anathema to cable and telco companies that they have done everything they can to make the Net as controlled and asymmetrical as possible.
But the phone system is also end-to-end in nature. Cable and telco companies know they are just selling access, same as they sell access to the phone system or the cable system (most cable providers produce little by way of content; that's left to people like USA Networks and HBO.)
I think the situation at the telcos and cablecoms is far more complicated than how the author protrays. Witness the trouble Verizon took recently to block the subpoena of a customer whom the RIAA wanted. And one of the megacorps is Sony who both sells music and produces devices to copy that music.
I read the article on Qatar in this month's issue of National Geographic just today. I was surprised by what a disruptive force al-Jazeera is in the Arab world; it reaches 35 million people in the Middle East and airs a lot of controversial material. As another poster pointed out, it can be a very unpopular channel in the Arab world because it unapologetically airs all sides of the issues (even things like women against polygamy). al-Jazeera is an island of free press in an oppressed region of the world.
The leader of Qatar funded it with $140 million of his own money. Qatar is one of the U.S.-friendly countries where we have two bases.
...no, I wouldn't inflict Emacs on *any* non-hacker, but Emacs does what good software should do: be easy to use (just a few commands is all you need to know to edit files), but is infinitely customizable (to the point where you can learn Lisp and really customize it!)
I recently upgraded my Linux box and was horrified by Gnome2. It is anti-user. More to the point, it's anti- power user. I couldn't even change the window manager! Emulating Microsoft Windows may help Linux make inroads in the desktop market, but aesthetically, it's really offensive. Let me use Icewm or Sawfish! Let me choose my keybindings!
Gnome2 feels like a UI dungeon from which I cannot escape. For now I'm alternating between Icewm standalone and Blackbox.
...all the more important. Copyright applies to software too. The things we write will be under our copyright control for our lifetimes and beyond.
One of the killer things about my OS X Powerbook is how I can plug my digital camera or FireWire cd burner and it not only has a driver, it already knows what to do with the device. With my camera, it automatically asks me if I want to transfer all the pictures off the camera.
I've never bothered hooking it up to my Linux box. I'm sure nothing would happen.
Where Apple goes, often most of the industry follows. Jobs' "Digital Hub" strategy is dead on once you've seen it in action. It makes a computer really useful for the home user.
For the business, I am increasingly in doubt. Microsoft file formats are so common it's futile to try to use Linux in the office. If the free office suites do the job, fine. But I think the only place Linux will succeed are in custom installations (like the Burlington Coat Factory point of sales units) or where cost is essential (like the city using Linux for offices in the Florida Keys).
For the business user on the go, Linux won't make it unless there is a desktop with the kind of commercial development behind it like Apple's or Microsoft's. The level of integration and consistency of interface needed is far, far away in the Linux world.
...and it's Mac OS X Developer's Guide by Jesse Feiler. It's probably best described as "a developer's introduction." It is very broad, covering topics from the Mach kernel to the Interfact Builder. It's at least worth a look.
I think you want to run a rootless X server as descibed here: http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/mac/2001/08/14/mac _dev.html.
You can then run Xemacs or Emacs as an X client. The article claims cut and paste works between X and Aqua.
~swain
...you wouldn't want to tarnish his career.
The short of it, Jon, is that the story is not interesting to the general public or the press. The Chandra Levy case involves sex and scandal so it gets all the headlines. A Russian programmer broke the security on ebook technology? Most people don't know (and don't care) what an ebook is or what happens to a Russian programmer.
Journalists want their job to be interesting. Explaining the dry details of the DMCA is not interesting to most journalists, and when they are forced to do it they just get the details wrong.
cat internet | lpr
Slashdot came to popularity because: it was riding the crest of the Linux revolution, and it had the right street tech smarts.
Since "it's all over except the shouting" as far as Linux dominance is concerned, the new rage is MP3 and the peer-to-peer networks that are scaring the RIAA and MPAA.
And beyond that? Maybe the multicasting revolution?
i-n-d-e-p-e-n-d-e-n-c-e
;-)
ya know, Linux has the 'look' command which is ideal for this kind of thing
if metcalfe were to read only one reply to his worthless piece i'd make it this one. he's probably never used linux, and his sole exposure to open source appears to be two whole conference talks. he's washed up.
This is just MS defending itself from Christiansen's intiative to create all Unix facilities for NT via Perl. Well, maybe not. I just had to chime in.
This is high performance clustering like Beowulf. Linux needs high reliability clustering, which this is not.
If you watched, end to end, all 21 seasons and 8 (9?) feature films, the amount of camp couldn't exceed 25%. Most of the camp is in the original season. I don't think you've watched much Trek, Jon. I like the Rainbow Coalition analogy though.
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The world of the major labels is about to be wiped out by the mp3 supernova. When a group like TLC can sell 10 million albums, yet only be paid $250,000 EACH, and they have to file Chapter 11, there is something very very wrong with the business model.
The preview was Tusday; you can see my /.-rejected review at http://wcsb.org/~swain/review.txt. Not much different from the aint-it-cool ones though.
isn't this a reprint of petreley's linuxworld article on caldera 2.2?
in fact he said this when the whole 'open source' thing started; that he was extroverted enough to be the outspoken advocate he has been, but that he didn't want to do it for very long. so this shouls really come as no surprise.