The DMCA is starting to rear one of its real intent. Its use of takedown notices to suppress Linux and other OSS operating systems ability to get advanced technology because if the OSS OSes gain traction they could lose the control they have over multimedia and users could regain fair use rights.
Hopefully, this project made it to the mplayer people in Hungary, or PLF. So it will still be availible.
With all thats gone on today, am I the only one sitting here waiting for the anti-Linux horror story that is the sum of all fears for Linux users? I keep thinking to myself: The next story is going to say something nightmarishly horrible, like -
"U.S. Government decrees that in the name of Jesus Christ, all Linux users are traitors to the US of A, and shall be imprisoned." or something that bad.
I'm, all in favor of terminating botnet infestations even if it means terminating the OS of the computer infected. I've wondered why the computer security feild has not had more people working hard of find ways of rendering these insecure machines useless. Seriously. If its infected, terminate it.
The idea isn't to create another application. Its to foster interoperability between the ones we have right now.We don't need another Kontact, another Evolution.. We need Kontact and Evolution, and Geeklog, and Knowlege Tree, and FireFox, and just about everything else to talk to each other. It MUST support Kerberos, it MUST support LDAP because those are the things we have authentication Modules for. It MUST support iCal and it MUST support XMLRPC because Thats the authentication module support Kontact has.
Exchange and Active directory win these victories because they talk to each other.
For this to work, I need to be able to tell KDE where to get its user information from LDAP, I need a "Use GSSAPI" checkbox in Kontact for XML-RPC. I need an LDAP Schema fore Fire Fox. I need bug fixes to mod_auth_krb5 so it works right with HTTPS. I need all sorts of fixes to start happening because people think the objective here is to clone outlook.
Actally, there is collaboration wares that compete with Outlook and Exchange.
Couple things. eGroupware can talk XML-RPC to Kontact and synchronize Calendar, Addressbook, transparently. Just one problem. No Kerberos. No Kerberos means I have to hand configure each user's login name and password for every user. This is bad.
Secondly. I need to be able to configure Kontact settings and FireFox's settings with OpenLDAP Schemas. Why? Because I have no other way of standardizing trusted Kerberos URIs in FireFox other than copying prefs.js to every machine with the URIs I want.
Sharepoint.
There are two things I can foresee competing with sharepoint. One is Geeklog. The other is Knowledge Tree. But in order for this to be so, Geeklog/Knowledge Tree would need to be able to again, store data in OpenLDAP, (maintaining a separate database in MySQL is a non-starter) Authenticate with Kerberos, and eGroupware and Geeklog/Knowlege Tree need to communicate via XML-RPC.
All the peices are in place but I don't have the skill to put it together otherwise I would have. These things have to be done to destroy Exchange.
I just took a look at the site. Many of these PWADs I have on my Linux based Doom installation of PrBoom. These will work on any Doom source port. I saw screenshots from Wolfendoom: Operation Arctic Wolf. So these Wads will work on any Doom source port.
9/11 was not an inside job. A small band of Islamic fanatics really did hijack some airplanes and fly them into buildings. Now....
Couple things. They don't have the technology to conquer the west. They don't. We know that. The leaders of the USA know that. We both out number and out gun them. If we really were as threatened by [the Muslims] as the media says, lets evaluate what would happen.
Navy Seals would be dispatched to seize every oil facility in Saudi Arabia. After that. We would carpet bomb and drop fuel air bombs on Saudi Arabia, Iraq, Iran, Yemen, Sudan, Pakistan, and Afghanistan until there was no one left alive.
But we didn't. We didn't because we don't need too and we know it.
Linux is headed for a bloody conflict with the commercial gaming industry and probably the U.S. Government. The computer gaming industry will not cooperate with Linux due to IP concerns and will fight tooth and nail to preserve the Windows monopoly.
I foresee a future where Linux has sizable market share where MS is in a panic and really wishes they hadn't cooperated with Hollywood and the DRM makers, and Linux gains share such that the gaming industry shrieks of blood. With the steady gain in Linux users, the game industry will entrench in Windows. both MS and other content providers will go to congress and probably try and get Linux outlawed because it may jeopardize the "Information Economy" the US holds so dear.
I think that even if we had a 50% Linux 50% Windows split right now, games would still be released only for Linux. Because they don't want to go back to the Dos days where games were easy as pie to copy.
Windows isn't collapsing yet, but it is weakening. It is weakening such that Linux has a chance to survive outside obscurity.
More clearly, every year that Linux can survive, gain steam, gain development, is *a* year of Linux, maybe not *The* year. Linux has offered some of us a kind of redemption.
Years ago, we thought DOS would last forever. Windows including Windows 95 was just a DOS Program. Back as late as 1999, alot of games were still made for just DOS. In the mid 90s, you couldn't possibly exit Windows fast enough. But we were wrong. DOS did die. at least MS-DOS. Linux offers new things beyond what DOS ever could.
Yet, there are still things from DOS that can never be run on Linux without a Virtual machine. Like Blood. Those of us who remember back when computers were Heterogeneous, and remember when all Microsoft made that was particularly useful was DOS, and other vendors filled other voids, owe it to themselves and have a duty to redeem themselves by supporting Linux, code for Linux.
If your a programmer, do everything you can. Code Engine replacements for games like Blood. For where games go, so goes the rest of the computer industry. For those of you supporting Microsoft, do you really want to spend the next twenty years in slavery? I don't.
A hypothetical question, and keep in mind, I'd like to know what you think. Its not that I actually believe this is the way it is, its just, a what if.
What if 500 years from now we are a space fareing species that travels to other planets in space ships, and so on and so fourth. We start exploring the unknowns of the galaxy. Well, eventually, we find... something.... it wanders the universe exploring just like we do, only its been around a lot longer than we have.
More accurately, when we find it, and figure out how to talk to it, it explains to us that when it reached its level of sentience, nothing else that was living could think for itself. This creature was the first thing to ask "Why am I me and not someone else." "Why is there something and not nothing."
Part of the idea is such that, most of the mono-theists think God is really all about them. God is so they can justify what they want. It justifies the suppression of the rights of minorities, It justifies the abuse of women, and children.
Its a little bit selfish to think that you matter so much to the creator of the universe, if there is such a thing, that he cares about small pointless things, that Humanity and its Earth somehow hold some special place in the cosmos. If there is a "First one." does it not stand to reason that we really wouldn't matter?
For example. Christians argue against abortion. but that has nothing to do with God really. It has everything to do with Muslims not outnumbering Christians because of population control.
Its even more self centered to think that a creator of the Universe would want to entertain or torment us until the end of time. Thats completely and utterly pointless.
You see where I'm going with this? its a Huge huge universe. Human beings are small, insignificant. The creator of the universe if he exists wouldn't blink twice at what Humans care about.
Theists are not more socially adapted to survival. Quite the opposite. The rational survive in an emergency. The religious panic and pray, and as a result die. As a result of religion, we have county school boards embroiled over "intelligent design." We have propoganda that claims that Evolution is completely random. We have politicians telling students that condoms don't work (They can break/tear but thats different.)and as a result STDs are rampant. Religion is a mad house that delights in psychotic behavior of all kinds. Its a cauldron and opiate.
I think Wine may be what turns the tide here. Really. Make Wine so compatible with Windows applications that its easier to make it run on Wine than it is to run on real Windows. This has already happened on a few select games. Wine is going to have to make Starcraft II run. Games determine where the computer industry goes. Not business. He who controls the games controls the industry.
It depends on how well supported your hardware is, I plan my hardware purchases around Linux support. That really is a case that hardware makers won't either provide working drivers OR give up hardware specs.
Easy to use has nothing to do with it. Focus on Application and Hardware support. Easy to use doesn't help you if your applications won't install or some chipset goes unsupported. These people need to work on building the needed applications for the Linux that exists now.
I have managed to get Novell's ODF Converter working on Mandriva Linux. It took some packaging, but it works.
Although Binary only, there is no reason odf-converter won't work on any given Linux distribution.
I would never ever advocate the concept of running a program from an application vendor to install a program. That gave us our adware industry. DOS and Windows's methods are bad too.
End users should ever EVER do./configure && make && make install. We really need to fight that mentality, its unacceptable. There should be packages, RPM or DEB or both, of EVERYTHING, and if a bug is discovered; there needs to be a new packages ASAP../configure && make && make install of end users really needs to stop. For good.
Now,./configure && make && make install for developers as a stage in developers should be mandatory. And a baseline SPEC for the production of package for any given application or library. We are in the fight for our future people, and Microsoft is going at us like a sack of doorknobs, End users should NOT be doing./configure && make && make install.
MDA, CGA, TDA/Tandy and EGA adapters used an inverted 9-pin port that looked like a female serial port but wasn't. That connected to the respective monitor that was male. Was supposed to be an April Fools joke but nobody got it.
I'm going to be madder then Hell if I take a monitor home, and look at the connector, and it has a 9-pin RS-232 Connector (Thats not a serial connector, the Serial ones are Female.)
And I can say without a doubt that Windows is a huge boon for anyone wanting to dig up dirt on anything anyone else does. That class, which was a 400 level State University class taught me every registry key and every hiding place Windows uses to record everything the user does. Its scary.
The funny thing is, I'm interested in what happens if MS loses.
I can see MS Going... "You know, it doesn't really matter if you make us an ISO standard or not, we are entrenched in 90% of your infrastructure. Good luck replacing that infrastructure. It will be over out dead bodies ODF is supported by MS-Office, and you are about to find some very unfriendly code in the next service pack that breaks Linux Dual Boot loaders, Breaks existing ODF Plugins, and adds a DRM Key to all documents opened."
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The DMCA is starting to rear one of its real intent. Its use of takedown notices to suppress Linux and other OSS operating systems ability to get advanced technology because if the OSS OSes gain traction they could lose the control they have over multimedia and users could regain fair use rights.
Hopefully, this project made it to the mplayer people in Hungary, or PLF. So it will still be availible.
With all thats gone on today, am I the only one sitting here waiting for the anti-Linux horror story that is the sum of all fears for Linux users? I keep thinking to myself: The next story is going to say something nightmarishly horrible, like -
"U.S. Government decrees that in the name of Jesus Christ, all Linux users are traitors to the US of A, and shall be imprisoned." or something that bad.
I'm, all in favor of terminating botnet infestations even if it means terminating the OS of the computer infected. I've wondered why the computer security feild has not had more people working hard of find ways of rendering these insecure machines useless. Seriously. If its infected, terminate it.
The idea isn't to create another application. Its to foster interoperability between the ones we have right now.We don't need another Kontact, another Evolution.. We need Kontact and Evolution, and Geeklog, and Knowlege Tree, and FireFox, and just about everything else to talk to each other. It MUST support Kerberos, it MUST support LDAP because those are the things we have authentication Modules for. It MUST support iCal and it MUST support XMLRPC because Thats the authentication module support Kontact has.
Exchange and Active directory win these victories because they talk to each other.
For this to work, I need to be able to tell KDE where to get its user information from LDAP, I need a "Use GSSAPI" checkbox in Kontact for XML-RPC. I need an LDAP Schema fore Fire Fox. I need bug fixes to mod_auth_krb5 so it works right with HTTPS. I need all sorts of fixes to start happening because people think the objective here is to clone outlook.
It has to work, and I need it to work NOW!
Not a chance.
Actally, there is collaboration wares that compete with Outlook and Exchange.
Couple things. eGroupware can talk XML-RPC to Kontact and synchronize Calendar, Addressbook, transparently. Just one problem. No Kerberos. No Kerberos means I have to hand configure each user's login name and password for every user. This is bad.
Secondly. I need to be able to configure Kontact settings and FireFox's settings with OpenLDAP Schemas. Why? Because I have no other way of standardizing trusted Kerberos URIs in FireFox other than copying prefs.js to every machine with the URIs I want.
Sharepoint.
There are two things I can foresee competing with sharepoint. One is Geeklog. The other is Knowledge Tree. But in order for this to be so, Geeklog/Knowledge Tree would need to be able to again, store data in OpenLDAP, (maintaining a separate database in MySQL is a non-starter) Authenticate with Kerberos, and eGroupware and Geeklog/Knowlege Tree need to communicate via XML-RPC.
All the peices are in place but I don't have the skill to put it together otherwise I would have. These things have to be done to destroy Exchange.
I just took a look at the site. Many of these PWADs I have on my Linux based Doom installation of PrBoom. These will work on any Doom source port. I saw screenshots from Wolfendoom: Operation Arctic Wolf. So these Wads will work on any Doom source port.
I said they can't conquer us, I didn't say that they couldn't kill a bunch of people and make our lives miserable. Two different things.
9/11 was not an inside job. A small band of Islamic fanatics really did hijack some airplanes and fly them into buildings. Now....
Couple things. They don't have the technology to conquer the west. They don't. We know that. The leaders of the USA know that. We both out number and out gun them. If we really were as threatened by [the Muslims] as the media says, lets evaluate what would happen.
Navy Seals would be dispatched to seize every oil facility in Saudi Arabia. After that. We would carpet bomb and drop fuel air bombs on Saudi Arabia, Iraq, Iran, Yemen, Sudan, Pakistan, and Afghanistan until there was no one left alive.
But we didn't. We didn't because we don't need too and we know it.
er only for Windows, not only for Linux.
Linux is headed for a bloody conflict with the commercial gaming industry and probably the U.S. Government. The computer gaming industry will not cooperate with Linux due to IP concerns and will fight tooth and nail to preserve the Windows monopoly. I foresee a future where Linux has sizable market share where MS is in a panic and really wishes they hadn't cooperated with Hollywood and the DRM makers, and Linux gains share such that the gaming industry shrieks of blood. With the steady gain in Linux users, the game industry will entrench in Windows. both MS and other content providers will go to congress and probably try and get Linux outlawed because it may jeopardize the "Information Economy" the US holds so dear. I think that even if we had a 50% Linux 50% Windows split right now, games would still be released only for Linux. Because they don't want to go back to the Dos days where games were easy as pie to copy.
Windows isn't collapsing yet, but it is weakening. It is weakening such that Linux has a chance to survive outside obscurity. More clearly, every year that Linux can survive, gain steam, gain development, is *a* year of Linux, maybe not *The* year. Linux has offered some of us a kind of redemption. Years ago, we thought DOS would last forever. Windows including Windows 95 was just a DOS Program. Back as late as 1999, alot of games were still made for just DOS. In the mid 90s, you couldn't possibly exit Windows fast enough. But we were wrong. DOS did die. at least MS-DOS. Linux offers new things beyond what DOS ever could. Yet, there are still things from DOS that can never be run on Linux without a Virtual machine. Like Blood. Those of us who remember back when computers were Heterogeneous, and remember when all Microsoft made that was particularly useful was DOS, and other vendors filled other voids, owe it to themselves and have a duty to redeem themselves by supporting Linux, code for Linux. If your a programmer, do everything you can. Code Engine replacements for games like Blood. For where games go, so goes the rest of the computer industry. For those of you supporting Microsoft, do you really want to spend the next twenty years in slavery? I don't.
I'm saying its response was that it didn't KNOW of any other living organism capable of responding to it.
Thats a reasonable supposition.
A hypothetical question, and keep in mind, I'd like to know what you think. Its not that I actually believe this is the way it is, its just, a what if.
What if 500 years from now we are a space fareing species that travels to other planets in space ships, and so on and so fourth. We start exploring the unknowns of the galaxy. Well, eventually, we find... something.... it wanders the universe exploring just like we do, only its been around a lot longer than we have.
More accurately, when we find it, and figure out how to talk to it, it explains to us that when it reached its level of sentience, nothing else that was living could think for itself. This creature was the first thing to ask "Why am I me and not someone else." "Why is there something and not nothing."
The question then becomes, what have we found?
Part of the idea is such that, most of the mono-theists think God is really all about them. God is so they can justify what they want. It justifies the suppression of the rights of minorities, It justifies the abuse of women, and children.
Its a little bit selfish to think that you matter so much to the creator of the universe, if there is such a thing, that he cares about small pointless things, that Humanity and its Earth somehow hold some special place in the cosmos. If there is a "First one." does it not stand to reason that we really wouldn't matter?
For example. Christians argue against abortion. but that has nothing to do with God really. It has everything to do with Muslims not outnumbering Christians because of population control.
Its even more self centered to think that a creator of the Universe would want to entertain or torment us until the end of time. Thats completely and utterly pointless.
You see where I'm going with this? its a Huge huge universe. Human beings are small, insignificant. The creator of the universe if he exists wouldn't blink twice at what Humans care about.
Theists are not more socially adapted to survival. Quite the opposite. The rational survive in an emergency. The religious panic and pray, and as a result die. As a result of religion, we have county school boards embroiled over "intelligent design." We have propoganda that claims that Evolution is completely random. We have politicians telling students that condoms don't work (They can break/tear but thats different.)and as a result STDs are rampant. Religion is a mad house that delights in psychotic behavior of all kinds. Its a cauldron and opiate.
I think Wine may be what turns the tide here. Really. Make Wine so compatible with Windows applications that its easier to make it run on Wine than it is to run on real Windows. This has already happened on a few select games. Wine is going to have to make Starcraft II run. Games determine where the computer industry goes. Not business. He who controls the games controls the industry.
It depends on how well supported your hardware is, I plan my hardware purchases around Linux support. That really is a case that hardware makers won't either provide working drivers OR give up hardware specs.
Easy to use has nothing to do with it. Focus on Application and Hardware support. Easy to use doesn't help you if your applications won't install or some chipset goes unsupported. These people need to work on building the needed applications for the Linux that exists now.
I have managed to get Novell's ODF Converter working on Mandriva Linux. It took some packaging, but it works. Although Binary only, there is no reason odf-converter won't work on any given Linux distribution.
I have managed to get Novell's ODF Converter working on Mandriva Linux. It took some packaging, but it works.
Although Binary only, there is no reason odf-converter won't work on any given Linux distribution.
I would never ever advocate the concept of running a program from an application vendor to install a program. That gave us our adware industry. DOS and Windows's methods are bad too.
End users should ever EVER do ./configure && make && make install. We really need to fight that mentality, its unacceptable. There should be packages, RPM or DEB or both, of EVERYTHING, and if a bug is discovered; there needs to be a new packages ASAP. ./configure && make && make install of end users really needs to stop. For good.
./configure && make && make install for developers as a stage in developers should be mandatory. And a baseline SPEC for the production of package for any given application or library. We are in the fight for our future people, and Microsoft is going at us like a sack of doorknobs, End users should NOT be doing ./configure && make && make install.
Now,
MDA, CGA, TDA/Tandy and EGA adapters used an inverted 9-pin port that looked like a female serial port but wasn't. That connected to the respective monitor that was male. Was supposed to be an April Fools joke but nobody got it.
I'm going to be madder then Hell if I take a monitor home, and look at the connector, and it has a 9-pin RS-232 Connector (Thats not a serial connector, the Serial ones are Female.)
And I can say without a doubt that Windows is a huge boon for anyone wanting to dig up dirt on anything anyone else does. That class, which was a 400 level State University class taught me every registry key and every hiding place Windows uses to record everything the user does. Its scary.
The funny thing is, I'm interested in what happens if MS loses.
I can see MS Going... "You know, it doesn't really matter if you make us an ISO standard or not, we are entrenched in 90% of your infrastructure. Good luck replacing that infrastructure. It will be over out dead bodies ODF is supported by MS-Office, and you are about to find some very unfriendly code in the next service pack that breaks Linux Dual Boot loaders, Breaks existing ODF Plugins, and adds a DRM Key to all documents opened."