The latest Unix client for Yahoo! (1.0.4) was released just recently. From the Freshmeat notes:
The last release of Yahoo! Messenger based on the GTK1.2 codebase, this is mainly a bugfix release with a lot of stability, rendering, and speed fixes. It adds some enhancements and features such as an Addressbook tab, tab-aware URLs, active identities, and many archiving enhancements. More details and information are available via the publicly-accessible Yahoo! group, which provides a mechanism to interact with the Unix client developers.
Is it remarkable that the previous story on/. is the one on Grid Computing Coming Of Age. Perhaps all we need is a story on the DoD building a system that someone called Skynet.:)
A classic paper on the fact that sometimes solutions that are incomplete and do not cover all cases are superior and preferable to a "perfect" solution. Examples you say:
For those who are left in the dark, the bike shed reference is the following:
16.19. Why should I care what color the bikeshed is?
The really, really short answer is that you should not. The somewhat longer answer is that just because you are capable of building a bikeshed does not mean you should stop others from building one just because you do not like the color they plan to paint it. This is a metaphor indicating that you need not argue about every little feature just because you know enough to do so. Some people have commented that the amount of noise generated by a change is inversely proportional to the complexity of the change.
While on the subject of India and FLOSS, check out the site for Linux Bangalore/2002 the second conference in the series. Here's stuff on last year's event, Linux Bangalore/2001.
-- start quote -- Linux Bangalore/2002 is a three day conference on understanding and using Linux technologies. This conference aims to cover a large number of areas that include Core Linux technologies, Open Source, Embedded Systems and other allied technologies. -- end quote --
The motto of the conference is "Technology for a free world". And yes, HP and IBM are sponsoring this event together, no less.
A fairly detailed list of various memory debuggers for Linux was covered in the August Issue of Linux Gazette, available here. It's interesting to note that the article actually says the following:
Purify The big daddy of memory tools, does not work on Linux, so you can stop asking that question.
This story is very very shady. Note that there isn't a paper called Hindustani (note the i) Times. There's Hindustan Times and it's online version has no mention of this at all.
There have been various messages flying up and down Indian telco lists such as India-GII that this is blatently untrue. Move along, there's nothing here to see.
Err, just for clarification, not _all_ genetic algorithms need to have sex (aka exchange of genetic material). In reality what is being described is Evolutionary Programming or sometimes as genetic programming.
The Unix crowd might be interested to note that Yahoo has renewed interest in the Unix clients. An updated version was on freshmeat.net today, this is a 0.99.17 release that supports Linux (RPMs _and_ DEBs), Solaris and FreeBSD. While it doesn't have VoIP just yet (nearly all other features), it does seem fairly certain to do VoIP and Webcam.
Seems like the closest to a true cross platform VoIP app
I've been working and needing GNU tools on Solaris and the best site that I've found to date is www.sunfreeware.com. The site rocks in terms of the software you need as well as how it's organized. Try it once and I promise you will be hooked.
And, oh yes, Yahoo! Messenger now has an officially supported client on Solaris (as well as updated clients for other Unixes 0.99.17), available at in.messenger.yahoo.com. And for more human interest value, this version was built by a bunch of folks in India:)
Of all the damm smart things to do - haven't you ever heard of SPAM proofing an email address? The last thing we need to do is to get the man swamped with offers for diplomas and the like!
do the standard things, replace a . with a DOT etc etc...
For an interesting view on liability, see this month's issue of Bruce Schneier's newsletter CryptoGram here. Apart from his own thoughts on Microsoft, the first letter from a reader is the one on liability. Must read!
Although it may not be news well known elsewhere, the watch was actually developed at IBM's India offices where the Linux division is *RATHER* active. The offices also recently got a SEI CMM Level 5 rating!
The Official IBM Website isn't very infomative about this though!.
Apart from the nice pun, the title and this situation quite reminds me of what preceded the launch of the Indian space program.
You had folks screaming all over the place saying o-so-sweet facts like you "Indians" don't have food, etc etc and you want to launch a satellite? Almost every stereotype that is assoicated with India was a reason for India not to think of a satellite. And to think that the Insat 2B worked for more years than folks can remember!
The net result is that today ISRO spinoffs are working in areas as far as groundwater estimations throughout India to poor fishermen in the Bay of Bengal who depend the eye in the sky that tells them where fish can be found.
It's easy to dismiss as a pipe dream, but remember, if you want to aim, aim for the stars, you may not get there, but you won't end up with a handful of mud either!
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Part of America's obsession with a lossless, painless war is deep wounds that still linger from Vietnam. The laser guided bombs, the tomahawks, the overwhelming air superiority are just more reasons for less body bags returning to America. But, as the Bosnia episode shows, Operation Desert Shield, later Desert Storm was an isolated and *rare* event. IT isn't always that simple! In my country, India, where we just fought a unrequired, unnecessary skirmish with Pakistan (no value judgements please!) the country watched stunned as bodies and men flew back from the warzone. War is as always a bloody and nasty mess. There are rarely if ever one right side and one wrong side. But the tragedy of watching a wife soldier salute the body of her husband returning from the front in a coffin is something that no one wants to see. It made me gulp back feelings that I didn't know I would feel. And the fools that start the wars are the ones that it rarely affects. The greatest tragedy of the lot. K.
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Since you don't need boxes all the time and running using Amazon's EC2 seems to be the way to go:
http://aws.amazon.com/ec2/
Also gives you the ability to experiment at scale, while paying $0.10 / hour.
The latest Unix client for Yahoo! (1.0.4) was released just recently. From the Freshmeat notes:
The last release of Yahoo! Messenger based on the GTK1.2 codebase, this is mainly a bugfix release with a lot of stability, rendering, and speed fixes. It adds some enhancements and features such as an Addressbook tab, tab-aware URLs, active identities, and many archiving enhancements. More details and information are available via the publicly-accessible Yahoo! group, which provides a mechanism to interact with the Unix client developers.
The group referenced is here.
If you want some of the scoop on what Yahoo is up to, you should probably be reading Jeremy Zawodny's blog, for example:
:)
* Y! Blogs releases in Korea
* Y! Unix messenger group begun
* Y! Search group begun
And other goodies
> Open source has been the only way to go for IM on linux
Not if you really just want one service. Look here for more details on the Unix Yahoo! messenger and go here to download the latest client.
Is it remarkable that the previous story on /. is the one on Grid Computing Coming Of Age. Perhaps all we need is a story on the DoD building a system that someone called Skynet. :)
... :p
p.s. if you got the subject good for you
For those who are left in the dark, the bike shed reference is the following:
16.19. Why should I care what color the bikeshed is?
The really, really short answer is that you should not. The somewhat longer answer is that just because you are capable of building a bikeshed does not mean you should stop others from building one just because you do not like the color they plan to paint it. This is a metaphor indicating that you need not argue about every little feature just because you know enough to do so. Some people have commented that the amount of noise generated by a change is inversely proportional to the complexity of the change.
More details at the link.
While on the subject of India and FLOSS, check out the site for Linux Bangalore/2002 the second conference in the series. Here's stuff on last year's event, Linux Bangalore/2001 .
-- start quote --
Linux Bangalore/2002 is a three day conference on understanding and using Linux technologies. This conference aims to cover a large number of areas that include Core Linux technologies, Open Source, Embedded Systems and other allied technologies.
-- end quote --
The motto of the conference is "Technology for a free world". And yes, HP and IBM are sponsoring this event together, no less.
..... pretty cool, you've got to hand it to these guys
A fairly detailed list of various memory debuggers for Linux was covered in the August Issue of Linux Gazette, available here.
It's interesting to note that the article actually says the following:
Purify
The big daddy of memory tools, does not work on Linux, so you can stop asking that question.
Funny how that changed so quick!
This story is very very shady. Note that there isn't a paper called Hindustani (note the i) Times. There's Hindustan Times and it's online version has no mention of this at all.
There have been various messages flying up and down Indian telco lists such as India-GII that this is blatently untrue. Move along, there's nothing here to see.
Err, just for clarification, not _all_ genetic algorithms need to have sex (aka exchange of genetic material). In reality what is being described is Evolutionary Programming or sometimes as genetic programming.
Err, a black _hole_ is about the only thing that can (theoretically of course) hold an infinite amount of information.
......." :))
of course, the obligatory, "imagine a beowulf cluster of those
>The other one I can't remember the name of right now,
>but it has to do with directory structure.
Perhaps it's the File Hierarchy Standard that you mean.....
Hmm. Have you tried this on their _latest_ Unix client? It sure didn't work for me.
obligatory std::disclaimer: this is version 0.99.17 released just recently on Freshmeat on the 14th of May.
The Unix crowd might be interested to note that Yahoo has renewed interest in the Unix clients. An updated version was on freshmeat.net today, this is a 0.99.17 release that supports Linux (RPMs _and_ DEBs), Solaris and FreeBSD. While it doesn't have VoIP just yet (nearly all other features), it does seem fairly certain to do VoIP and Webcam.
Seems like the closest to a true cross platform VoIP app
I've been working and needing GNU tools on Solaris and the best site that I've found to date is www.sunfreeware.com. The site rocks in terms of the software you need as well as how it's organized. Try it once and I promise you will be hooked.
:)
And, oh yes, Yahoo! Messenger now has an officially supported client on Solaris (as well as updated clients for other Unixes 0.99.17), available at in.messenger.yahoo.com. And for more human interest value, this version was built by a bunch of folks in India
Of all the damm smart things to do - haven't you ever heard of SPAM proofing an email address? The last thing we need to do is to get the man swamped with offers for diplomas and the like!
...
do the standard things, replace a . with a DOT etc etc
For an interesting view on liability, see this month's issue of Bruce Schneier's newsletter CryptoGram here. Apart from his own thoughts on Microsoft, the first letter from a reader is the one on liability. Must read!
Although it may not be news well known elsewhere, the watch was actually developed at IBM's India offices where the Linux division is *RATHER* active. The offices also recently got a SEI CMM Level 5 rating!
The Official IBM Website isn't very infomative about this though!.
Folks,
Apart from the nice pun, the title and this situation quite reminds me of what preceded the launch of the Indian space program.
You had folks screaming all over the place saying o-so-sweet facts like you "Indians" don't have food, etc etc and you want to launch a satellite? Almost every stereotype that is assoicated with India was a reason for India not to think of a satellite. And to think that the Insat 2B worked for more years than folks can remember!
The net result is that today ISRO spinoffs are working in areas as far as groundwater estimations throughout India to poor fishermen in the Bay of Bengal who depend the eye in the sky that tells them where fish can be found.
It's easy to dismiss as a pipe dream, but remember, if you want to aim, aim for the stars, you may not get there, but you won't end up with a handful of mud either!
Part of America's obsession with a lossless, painless war is deep wounds that still linger from Vietnam. The laser guided bombs, the tomahawks, the overwhelming air superiority are just more reasons for less body bags returning to America. But, as the Bosnia episode shows, Operation Desert Shield, later Desert Storm was an isolated and *rare* event. IT isn't always that simple!
In my country, India, where we just fought a unrequired, unnecessary skirmish with Pakistan (no value judgements please!) the country watched stunned as bodies and men flew back from the warzone. War is as always a bloody and nasty mess. There are rarely if ever one right side and one wrong side. But the tragedy of watching a wife soldier salute the body of her husband returning from the front in a coffin is something that no one wants to see. It made me gulp back feelings that I didn't know I would feel.
And the fools that start the wars are the ones that it rarely affects. The greatest tragedy of the lot.
K.