It occured to me that it would be fun (and possibly significant) to ship ubuntu with a tool to make new ubuntu CDs. Of course you can do that with the built in CD burning tool but I mean making the process a bit more explicit with a prominent menu option (Make new Ubuntu CD) which asks for the install CD, extracts the ISO, burns a new CD ancd optionally prints the official CD label.
Its the kind of functionality you won't be seeing in Windows 7 any time soon.
Most ppl above me seem to be freaking out like hicks thinking the government is coming to take their guns. Its a joke guys. Its kind of interesting but they can't srsly suggest eating our pets.
Pretty easy talk from a guy that has obviously had the government come and take away many of your vowels.
I know somebody who works on network infrastructure for Telstra. I suggested to him that a lot of traffic which currently goes through wireless and wired LANs will soon run through the cellular networks. He was horrified at the idea. Apparently TCP/IP traffic from 3G cells has to go all the way back to the internet backbone, so anything resembling P2P still saturates the links between the base stations and the back end. Thats a minor issue just now but in addition the links to the 3G cells are only just keeping up with demand right now.
I pointed to the European environment where 3G data is much cheaper and more bandwidth is available. He says that we don't do that kind of investment here. So at the end of the day its a money problem. Lots of profit being taken while they can get away with it.
But so far, you can still buy a printed book and keep it for ever. If you look at it from a publisher's point of view, if they can't comfortably release a book as a computer file without it easily being copied and shared, then they simply won't pursue the technology, and everyone will suffer because the portable reader will lose its usefulness.
Lots of stuff gets sold as "computer files" without significant technical restrictions on copying and sharing. CDs for example.
The way you express it, DEC would have a had a case against Microsoft for stealing their technology.
How so? Any non-disclosures DEC might have had with Cutler were long expired, no code was copied, so unless DEC had patents on specific elements of VMS which NT infringed and Microsoft didn't license, DEC could not have had any case.
Reminds me of arguments in the free software world about reimplementation and derived works. If you rewrite product A to make product B, and you have first seen the code in product A then its going to be hard to prove that B is not derived from A. Of course if B is MATLAB and A is VMS you should be okay. But when A and B are both operating systems and have eerily similar architectures...
Its very simple. we can choose either to have DRM, or to retain control of our infromation. We can't have both and the middle ground between the two is shrinking as software becomes more crucial to different areas of commerce.
A guy I work with likes to point out that we always protect against the last terrorist attack, not the next one. You have listed a bunch of things which probably won't work and are not a concern. We should try to think about the things which we are outside our idea of the scope of terrorist operations. Prior to 911 we didn't consider suicide hijackings to be a threat.
When did VMS take-over Windows? Which iteration? NT5 (2000/XP) or NT6 (Vista/Win7)? Or earlier?
Dave Cutler, the architect of VMS developed Windows NT. Lots of Windows NT kernel mode terminology - working sets, paged pools, IRQLs, IRPS and so come from VMS and were not present in 16 bit Windows (which didn't really have any architecture).
The way you express it, DEC would have a had a case against Microsoft for stealing their technology. Are you aware of any evidence that this happened?
When did VMS take-over Windows? Which iteration? NT5 (2000/XP) or NT6 (Vista/Win7)? Or earlier?
All that happened was a few VMS developers went over to Microsoft to work on Windows NT. Thats as far as the relationship went. There is no VMS code in Windows.
Its an interesting question. I am 44 years old, which is about half way to certain death. I would like to think that if I keep up the bike riding and other activities I could live forever. Unfortunately that approach hasn't worked for anybody else. I will stay as active as possible for as long as possible, but if I avoid heart failure and cancer I will probably spend my last years unable to move around under my own steam.
The content on here has definitely changed. I still find some engaging comment threads, but it just seems like the truly geeky content has gotten watered down with posts about new products, jokes, etc.
Exactly. And since both nature and my cat abhor vacuums, where the hell are the good geek new sites now?
I used to enjoy Technocrat. I wish Bruce had shown an interest in letting the community move off his server.
I don't think we will have "disk drives" for much longer. My eeepc has flash soldered in. Desktop motherboard manufacturers will start to do that too. Laptop manufacturers will save space by eliminating drive bays.
Its less flexible but that just promotes obsolescence, which the manufacturers love.
My wife runs ubuntu on her laptop. He is away in Malaysia at the moment taking care of family business and she needed to get online. So she goes to this internet cafe and they give her a CAT5 cable which she plugs in. I have set her up with a VPN so comms are secure. She thinks something is wrong so she asks for help. The internet cafe people start stuffing around with network interfaces and she types her password in for them. So now all I know is that she gave these people root access when she had no idea what was going on.
She is a non-technical person and she will do the stupidest things, regardless of the OS she runs.
after all, none of the GNU software is dual licenced
I wish they would. It would give them money they could use to fund GNU development. In my experience companies have always chosen to redevelop libraries to work around GPL license issues, rather than GPLing their products.
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It occured to me that it would be fun (and possibly significant) to ship ubuntu with a tool to make new ubuntu CDs. Of course you can do that with the built in CD burning tool but I mean making the process a bit more explicit with a prominent menu option (Make new Ubuntu CD) which asks for the install CD, extracts the ISO, burns a new CD ancd optionally prints the official CD label.
Its the kind of functionality you won't be seeing in Windows 7 any time soon.
How typical is an SUV that is driven for only 10000km per year? That's what, less than 7k miles? Average mileage (in the USA is 12k miles or more).
This is just another "study" where the numbers have been "stretched" to make a point.
NZ is a lot smaller than the UK. The SUVs are smaller there too.
Most ppl above me seem to be freaking out like hicks thinking the government is coming to take their guns. Its a joke guys. Its kind of interesting but they can't srsly suggest eating our pets.
Pretty easy talk from a guy that has obviously had the government come and take away many of your vowels.
He must have been to boingboing recently.
I guess your comparison would work better if it was Cars vs Horses.
I know somebody who works on network infrastructure for Telstra. I suggested to him that a lot of traffic which currently goes through wireless and wired LANs will soon run through the cellular networks. He was horrified at the idea. Apparently TCP/IP traffic from 3G cells has to go all the way back to the internet backbone, so anything resembling P2P still saturates the links between the base stations and the back end. Thats a minor issue just now but in addition the links to the 3G cells are only just keeping up with demand right now.
I pointed to the European environment where 3G data is much cheaper and more bandwidth is available. He says that we don't do that kind of investment here. So at the end of the day its a money problem. Lots of profit being taken while they can get away with it.
But so far, you can still buy a printed book and keep it for ever. If you look at it from a publisher's point of view, if they can't comfortably release a book as a computer file without it easily being copied and shared, then they simply won't pursue the technology, and everyone will suffer because the portable reader will lose its usefulness.
Lots of stuff gets sold as "computer files" without significant technical restrictions on copying and sharing. CDs for example.
The way you express it, DEC would have a had a case against Microsoft for stealing their technology.
How so? Any non-disclosures DEC might have had with Cutler were long expired, no code was copied, so unless DEC had patents on specific elements of VMS which NT infringed and Microsoft didn't license, DEC could not have had any case.
Reminds me of arguments in the free software world about reimplementation and derived works. If you rewrite product A to make product B, and you have first seen the code in product A then its going to be hard to prove that B is not derived from A. Of course if B is MATLAB and A is VMS you should be okay. But when A and B are both operating systems and have eerily similar architectures...
Its very simple. we can choose either to have DRM, or to retain control of our infromation. We can't have both and the middle ground between the two is shrinking as software becomes more crucial to different areas of commerce.
See The Right to Read by RMS.
A guy I work with likes to point out that we always protect against the last terrorist attack, not the next one. You have listed a bunch of things which probably won't work and are not a concern. We should try to think about the things which we are outside our idea of the scope of terrorist operations. Prior to 911 we didn't consider suicide hijackings to be a threat.
When did VMS take-over Windows? Which iteration? NT5 (2000/XP) or NT6 (Vista/Win7)? Or earlier?
Dave Cutler, the architect of VMS developed Windows NT. Lots of Windows NT kernel mode terminology - working sets, paged pools, IRQLs, IRPS and so come from VMS and were not present in 16 bit Windows (which didn't really have any architecture).
The way you express it, DEC would have a had a case against Microsoft for stealing their technology. Are you aware of any evidence that this happened?
When did VMS take-over Windows? Which iteration? NT5 (2000/XP) or NT6 (Vista/Win7)? Or earlier?
All that happened was a few VMS developers went over to Microsoft to work on Windows NT. Thats as far as the relationship went. There is no VMS code in Windows.
Fat binaries on Linux would mean you could run the same binary on Linux/x86 and Linux/ARM, for example, but that's not exactly a massive advantage.
On my intel based laptop I wouldn't mind the space for ARM binaries. But on my ARM based openmoko I want everything to be as light as possible.
Its an interesting question. I am 44 years old, which is about half way to certain death. I would like to think that if I keep up the bike riding and other activities I could live forever. Unfortunately that approach hasn't worked for anybody else. I will stay as active as possible for as long as possible, but if I avoid heart failure and cancer I will probably spend my last years unable to move around under my own steam.
google found it
No thats the 2038 time_t apocalypse.
What does she do if the is in another hemisphere and timezone from you, and she needs to configure a static IP address?
The content on here has definitely changed. I still find some engaging comment threads, but it just seems like the truly geeky content has gotten watered down with posts about new products, jokes, etc.
Exactly. And since both nature and my cat abhor vacuums, where the hell are the good geek new sites now?
I used to enjoy Technocrat. I wish Bruce had shown an interest in letting the community move off his server.
Ummm you know you don't need the Roland filter any more? Don't you? No I guess you missed that last article.
I don't think we will have "disk drives" for much longer. My eeepc has flash soldered in. Desktop motherboard manufacturers will start to do that too. Laptop manufacturers will save space by eliminating drive bays.
Its less flexible but that just promotes obsolescence, which the manufacturers love.
My wife runs ubuntu on her laptop. He is away in Malaysia at the moment taking care of family business and she needed to get online. So she goes to this internet cafe and they give her a CAT5 cable which she plugs in. I have set her up with a VPN so comms are secure. She thinks something is wrong so she asks for help. The internet cafe people start stuffing around with network interfaces and she types her password in for them. So now all I know is that she gave these people root access when she had no idea what was going on.
She is a non-technical person and she will do the stupidest things, regardless of the OS she runs.
The best place to set fire to your mixture is in the basement of your houses of parliament.
rm -rf /
AdaCore is another. Their business model does include dual licensing but for me, their support services are of more value.
after all, none of the GNU software is dual licenced
I wish they would. It would give them money they could use to fund GNU development. In my experience companies have always chosen to redevelop libraries to work around GPL license issues, rather than GPLing their products.
Or as in the case of Major Major Major Major, mum was out of it when the birth cert got filled out, and dad wasn't very imaginative.