Zeroconf is not a protocol for letting devices talk to each other. As others have already pointed out, there are already protocols which are far better at doing that.
Zeroconf is a protocol for letting devices discover that other devices exist -- without requiring a human to explicitly tell each device.
Don't think that Zeroconf is trying to replace anything.
As for IPv6, true it already has link-local addressing. Thats 1 of the 4 things Zeroconf does. The auto-discovery of *other* devices isn't built into IPv6.
Calling this variant of the GNU system "Linux" plays into the hands of people who choose their software based only on technical advantage, not caring whether it respects their freedom.
I can assure you, the vast majority of Free Software/Open Source (or whatever you want to call it) will be evaluated and deployed based on its technical merits and value.
Give RMS what he wants -- ideology over technical merit -- and you cede the Internet and the entire software market to Microsoft.
Personally, I use Mac OS X, a BSD OS with a nice GUI and none of the ideological crap.
I never bought into user stereotypes. I have definately noticed that a TYPICAL pre-OS X Mac user knows far less about how computers in general work than PC users. But I could say the same thing of modern PC users versus the pre-Windows 95 PC users. Anybody remember tweaking your AUTOEXEC.BAT and CONFIG.SYS endlessly to coax another 9K of conventional RAM out of DOS? Arranging and re-arranging LOADHIGH instructions to shuffle drivers around in upper memory and going seven rounds with QEMM and the myriad other memory managers to use that extra 2 MB stick you paid $200 for?
So tweaking your autoexec.bat means you 'know how computers in general work'?
Thats the funniest damn thing I've read on Slashdot in awhile:)
Using a PC doesn't mean you know squat, other than how to use a PC. You don't magically know how to program all of the sudden, or how to design a PCB, or even how to swap out a PCI card (you think the vast majority of PC users ever even open their machine's case? To them its a commodity, more akin to a toaster oven than to a personal hobby.)
The biggest developments are around email prevention, experts say. Elaborate content filtering software, which can run upwards of $30,000 to install, can block all but the tamest incoming emails, and most attachments, said Trend Micro's Genes.
Corporations, particularly those that were stung hard by the wave of virus and worm attacks during the past two years, are considering it a top priority.
Here's a free clue: QUIT USING MICROSOFT SOFTWARE.
Sheesh, how stupid can you be? And what a stupid solution to the problem, cutting your nose off to spite your face.
Seriously, damned near all the email viruses are targeted directly at Outlook. So the solution is to ban email? Why not just, ya know, not use Outlook?
As the person you are responding to said, you should always be planning for retirement. At some point, whether thats 10 years from now or 50, you will be unable to work and therefore wholly dependent on what you've saved. The longer you wait the less you'll have...
Now, that does NOT mean find a company to work for for 30 years that will plan your retirement for you. Nobody is looking out for you except YOU, and any trust you place in someone else footing the bill for your retirement is naive. Even blue chips can go under and take their employee pension funds with them.
Hell I don't even have much faith that I'll ever be able to collect on Social Security. By the time I'm ready to retire I expect the baby boomers to have eaten that up and then some.
You should be taking care of your own business. Think IRAs and 401ks.
Easy to use GPG front end for Mail.app on OS X
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Good luck if you can see the difference between this color and white! You should be able to just see it
Umm, on my color calibrated Apple Studio Display, its quite easy to see, and its clearly beige -- actually more in the Crayola "Flesh Tone(TM)" range.
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Actually I believe its a quote from the James Bond movie where the villain challenges Bond to a game of World Domination where every point scored causes an increase in voltage to the electric current being applied to the loser's hand.
The villain says that the game is played 'to the pain', i.e. the game ends when the pain is too excruciating for one player.
Before sun thought of it though..Larry Ellison, from Oracle corp was actually saying it first. SO it's really the Oracle way of thinking if you want to say who's thinking it is!
No, it's not the Larry Ellison way of thinking. It's the 1960's, mainframe terminals, IT pinhead way of thinking. Application servers are just a warmed over version of dumb terminals.
Why not just buy a used iMac? You can get a Rev b. iMac for a few hundred bucks, about the same as that card you're talking about. Then you'll be able to use it and your PC simultaneously.
I've never understood the desire for hardware based emulators. I'd *much* rather have 2 complete machines.
possibly more significant (in the long run)
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... was the announcement that Mac OS X is now the default boot OS on every new Mac Apple ships.
At last the long awaited dream is realized: UNIX for the masses. The last, best hope of stemming the Redmond tide. Laugh at my hyperbole but Moms everywhere are a lot more likely to be UNIX users now than ever before. Thats really something.
pretty much exactly what the rumormongers said
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So last year the rumor mongers predicted both these items, a flat panel iMac and a digital photo "i" application. Apple didn't announce either and everyone blamed the rumor mongers for hyping peoples expectations too high.
So this year Apple itself hypes like crazy ("Beyond the rumors. Way beyond") and then announces pretty much exactly what the rumor mongers predicted *last* year. Apple opens mouth, inserts foot, has no one else to blame but itself.
I'm hearing the same lame critiques of the new iMac on Slashdot that I heard when the original iMac was released. Didn't matter then and doesn't matter now. The Slashdot crowd is -- and probably always will be -- for the most part incapable of thinking past their own noses. If the iMac was designed to appeal to you all, these criticisms might matter, but it isn't.
If there's one thing I've learned in the years that I've been reading/participating on Slashdot, its that if a story doesn't directly relate to Linux then the Slashdot crowd is no better or worse at predictions or product critiques than any other random collection of folks.
Opinions are like... well, you know how the saying goes.
I'll add my nit to the flashback to the last war.. The war was the last alliance of the West, called so because it was the last war the Elves actively participated in.
The main theme throughout all of Tolkien's Middle Earth writings is the passage of the Elves from prominence and the ascendency of Men. The First and Second Ages are the Elves' time, and the Third Age is the time when the Elves fade away and Men come to the fore.
The Last Alliance of the West is the last gasp of the Elves. Led by Gil-Galad (not even mentioned in the movie), the Elves and their Human allies are able to defeat the darkness with strength.
The problem with Galadriel not getting a chance to explain that the War of the Ring - whether won or lost - is the end of the Elves' time in Middle Earth is just a small part of this. What didn't come through in sufficient clarity in the movie is that the Elves were once great enough to challenge Melkor and then Sauron outright. The Elves represent the mythical past. Tolkien was trying to create a fantastical pre-history that reconciles myth with history. The transition from their time to the time of Men is the central theme.
Not to mention all the other things you attribute to the 19th century, which ancient Rome had (or had facsimiles of). And its not like Rome was singularly unique in any of those respects.
You might want to take a western civ. course, genius.
And proprietary software is censorship of the employed programmers? Oh dear.
Of course not. Just as a columnist writing for a newspaper assigns copyrights to that newspaper, code written by a programmer is copyrighted by his employer.
Its been tried, and it failed. Now whether they could do things differently this time, or whether the market has changed and would be more receptive, is moot. Steve Jobs is in charge of Apple and since he was burned once, I doubt he'll try again.
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You can buy digital VCRs now.
.. is one example.
http://www.mitsubishi-tv.com/dvhs.html
Someone should get to work on an open implementation of AAC (the audio codec for MPEG-4).
Zeroconf is not a protocol for letting devices talk to each other. As others have already pointed out, there are already protocols which are far better at doing that.
Zeroconf is a protocol for letting devices discover that other devices exist -- without requiring a human to explicitly tell each device.
Don't think that Zeroconf is trying to replace anything.
As for IPv6, true it already has link-local addressing. Thats 1 of the 4 things Zeroconf does. The auto-discovery of *other* devices isn't built into IPv6.
MPEG-4 includes a video codec, and any system which purports to support MPEG-4 support had better be able to decode the standard codec bitstream.
.mp4 files should be just as standard as .mpg and .mp2 files.
Ergo, no, the
What exactly is subversive about that?
pr0n jokes aside :-)
They really shouldn't be building up expectations in people's minds that "Internet2" is going to make things faster for them.
These types of stories eventually wind up in the Tech section of the local newspapers etc. and its A Bad Thing TM to build up mis-perceptions.
Internet2 is not going to solve last mile bandwidth limitations.
Calling this variant of the GNU system "Linux" plays into the hands of people who choose their software based only on technical advantage, not caring whether it respects their freedom.
I can assure you, the vast majority of Free Software/Open Source (or whatever you want to call it) will be evaluated and deployed based on its technical merits and value.
Give RMS what he wants -- ideology over technical merit -- and you cede the Internet and the entire software market to Microsoft.
Personally, I use Mac OS X, a BSD OS with a nice GUI and none of the ideological crap.
I never bought into user stereotypes. I have definately noticed that a TYPICAL pre-OS X Mac user knows far less about how computers in general work than PC users. But I could say the same thing of modern PC users versus the pre-Windows 95 PC users. Anybody remember tweaking your AUTOEXEC.BAT and CONFIG.SYS endlessly to coax another 9K of conventional RAM out of DOS? Arranging and re-arranging LOADHIGH instructions to shuffle drivers around in upper memory and going seven rounds with QEMM and the myriad other memory managers to use that extra 2 MB stick you paid $200 for?
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So tweaking your autoexec.bat means you 'know how computers in general work'?
Thats the funniest damn thing I've read on Slashdot in awhile
Using a PC doesn't mean you know squat, other than how to use a PC. You don't magically know how to program all of the sudden, or how to design a PCB, or even how to swap out a PCI card (you think the vast majority of PC users ever even open their machine's case? To them its a commodity, more akin to a toaster oven than to a personal hobby.)
The biggest developments are around email prevention, experts say. Elaborate content filtering software, which can run upwards of $30,000 to install, can block all but the tamest incoming emails, and most attachments, said Trend Micro's Genes.
Corporations, particularly those that were stung hard by the wave of virus and worm attacks during the past two years, are considering it a top priority.
Here's a free clue: QUIT USING MICROSOFT SOFTWARE.
Sheesh, how stupid can you be? And what a stupid solution to the problem, cutting your nose off to spite your face.
Seriously, damned near all the email viruses are targeted directly at Outlook. So the solution is to ban email? Why not just, ya know, not use Outlook?
Myopic. Utterly myopic.
As the person you are responding to said, you should always be planning for retirement. At some point, whether thats 10 years from now or 50, you will be unable to work and therefore wholly dependent on what you've saved. The longer you wait the less you'll have...
Now, that does NOT mean find a company to work for for 30 years that will plan your retirement for you. Nobody is looking out for you except YOU, and any trust you place in someone else footing the bill for your retirement is naive. Even blue chips can go under and take their employee pension funds with them.
Hell I don't even have much faith that I'll ever be able to collect on Social Security. By the time I'm ready to retire I expect the baby boomers to have eaten that up and then some.
You should be taking care of your own business. Think IRAs and 401ks.
http://www.sente.ch/software/GPGMail/index.html
Umm, on my color calibrated Apple Studio Display, its quite easy to see, and its clearly beige -- actually more in the Crayola "Flesh Tone(TM)" range.
Actually I believe its a quote from the James Bond movie where the villain challenges Bond to a game of World Domination where every point scored causes an increase in voltage to the electric current being applied to the loser's hand.
The villain says that the game is played 'to the pain', i.e. the game ends when the pain is too excruciating for one player.
No, it's not the Larry Ellison way of thinking. It's the 1960's, mainframe terminals, IT pinhead way of thinking. Application servers are just a warmed over version of dumb terminals.
Bleh.
I think he meant if the software configuration gets screwed up somehow, not that there would be a hardware failure.
Why not just buy a used iMac? You can get a Rev b. iMac for a few hundred bucks, about the same as that card you're talking about. Then you'll be able to use it and your PC simultaneously.
I've never understood the desire for hardware based emulators. I'd *much* rather have 2 complete machines.
... was the announcement that Mac OS X is now the default boot OS on every new Mac Apple ships.
At last the long awaited dream is realized: UNIX for the masses. The last, best hope of stemming the Redmond tide. Laugh at my hyperbole but Moms everywhere are a lot more likely to be UNIX users now than ever before. Thats really something.
So last year the rumor mongers predicted both these items, a flat panel iMac and a digital photo "i" application. Apple didn't announce either and everyone blamed the rumor mongers for hyping peoples expectations too high.
So this year Apple itself hypes like crazy ("Beyond the rumors. Way beyond") and then announces pretty much exactly what the rumor mongers predicted *last* year. Apple opens mouth, inserts foot, has no one else to blame but itself.
I'm hearing the same lame critiques of the new iMac on Slashdot that I heard when the original iMac was released. Didn't matter then and doesn't matter now. The Slashdot crowd is -- and probably always will be -- for the most part incapable of thinking past their own noses. If the iMac was designed to appeal to you all, these criticisms might matter, but it isn't.
If there's one thing I've learned in the years that I've been reading/participating on Slashdot, its that if a story doesn't directly relate to Linux then the Slashdot crowd is no better or worse at predictions or product critiques than any other random collection of folks.
Opinions are like... well, you know how the saying goes.
I'll add my nit to the flashback to the last war.. The war was the last alliance of the West, called so because it was the last war the Elves actively participated in.
The main theme throughout all of Tolkien's Middle Earth writings is the passage of the Elves from prominence and the ascendency of Men. The First and Second Ages are the Elves' time, and the Third Age is the time when the Elves fade away and Men come to the fore.
The Last Alliance of the West is the last gasp of the Elves. Led by Gil-Galad (not even mentioned in the movie), the Elves and their Human allies are able to defeat the darkness with strength.
The problem with Galadriel not getting a chance to explain that the War of the Ring - whether won or lost - is the end of the Elves' time in Middle Earth is just a small part of this. What didn't come through in sufficient clarity in the movie is that the Elves were once great enough to challenge Melkor and then Sauron outright. The Elves represent the mythical past. Tolkien was trying to create a fantastical pre-history that reconciles myth with history. The transition from their time to the time of Men is the central theme.
Umm, what??
There were no riots in ancient Rome?
Not to mention all the other things you attribute to the 19th century, which ancient Rome had (or had facsimiles of). And its not like Rome was singularly unique in any of those respects.
You might want to take a western civ. course, genius.
Firewire is standard on all Macs and Sony Vaios, and is available on one or more models from several other PC manufacturers.
How many users out there have a machine with USB 2?
Of course not. Just as a columnist writing for a newspaper assigns copyrights to that newspaper, code written by a programmer is copyrighted by his employer.
and Apple had nothing to do with the development of FireWire, right? Not.
Its been tried, and it failed. Now whether they could do things differently this time, or whether the market has changed and would be more receptive, is moot. Steve Jobs is in charge of Apple and since he was burned once, I doubt he'll try again.