The kernel has been hacked to death by Apple, so they call it xnu
[-macinstein-:~] p% uname -a Darwin -Macinstein- 8.2.0 Darwin Kernel Version 8.2.0: Fri Jun 24 17:46:54 PDT 2005; root:xnu-792.2.4.obj~3/RELEASE_PPC Power Macintosh powerpc
With a good OSS layer available, the cost of "writing software" should be going down...which might be why big software companies nervous.
But the cost of new software is a small part of the total capital investment of these big companies. Their main costs are in bugfixing and upgrades. So it is with OSS, which is why TFA concluded:
For the open source movement, perhaps a better way to position the change that OSS is making is this: we're converting warrants on future maintenance and enhancements into options, which means that instead of having a sole supplier (warrants), we have created a third-party market (options) of these derivatives.
Note the article is analysing the enterprise model, where companies like Red Hat, Novell(Suse), MySqlAB, are filling that 3rd party market. But how do you support something like the home Linux desktop? Where a myriad interlinking libs and packages are maintained by an unseen army of geeks and hackers, none of whom is beholden to another, nor to any corporate discipline which pays their wages. I would like to see a reasoned analysis of what it should cost your mom to use Linux.
Don't look at me like that;-) I have a day job which requires me to sacrifice virgins on the altars of MS and Apple, so in the evening I find I have little enthusiam left for analysing config.log or make errors, then scouring the 'net for the "correct" versions of circular dependencies...
It's amazing how many programs that still haven't clued in that installing account is not always identical to user account.
Word of cheer(!) to the would-be switchers: Macs have this problem too.
The installer of MacOS is assumed to be admin, the first acct created. For a single user machine the question is, should Joe-six-pack then make himself a non-admin acct. for everyday use, does he know how, and could he be bothered?
Mac application installers can be just as stupid as Windows. Apple have provided an installer application, which with admin password will install all parts of an app. with proper permissions in all the necessary parts of the filesystem, without needing to log out and back. Maybe one third of apps use this. About a third are "drag'n drop", so they will probably be executable by other users, but are owned by with permissions of the current user. The remainder are a ragtag bunch of leftovers from Classic MacOS with all sorts of perverse behaviour.
I have just been thru an exercise of installing copy protected software with machine hardware dependent keys, requiring admin authority, which must then be transmuted to a generic non-admin acct in a student lab. Several times I wondered if Windows would make my task any easier. We're looking more closely at open source now with OS-X, but worried to find a lot of so-called open source apps in the multi-media field are being developed to run primarily on Windows OS.
c'mon, isn't this what GPL, CC, public domain, is all about, or have I missed something? Publish, full disclosure, anybody can do it, nobody can patent it. Oh wait, Signa is based in the U S of A....
Seriously, I wondered about this. Because TFA says deprecatingly of methanol fuels cells that "methanol is flammable". And I thought, uhuh, these guys have invented non-flammable hydrogen, WTF good is that in an automotive engine?
OK cheap jokes out of the way, the process may be intended to combine hydrogen generation and re-absorption within one "closed cycle" container. Seems to me they might have a better chance of a prize to get the electrons directly off the sodium and eliminate hydrogen from the whole process...
The problem seems to be that lawmakers and practitioners and publishers, haven't yet found the relationship between the old and new methods of publishing. It used to be that if you wanted some information, pictures, sheet music, recordings, movies, you went into a shop, paid the man some money, and received a physical object. You could order it by mail, and subject to payment and shipping constraints, get the physical object delivered to some physical address. There are libraries (physical;-) of legislation and case law to deal with the copying of physical objects.
That nice Mr. Berners-Lee has given us a mechanism by which the information, pictures, etc, can be delivered instantly to anywhere on the planet without a coin being touched. If somebody puts material on a publicly accessible webpage, isn't this the same as putting it on a soapbox outside the shop front door? You have lost control over who can read it, when or where. You rely on trust in the unseen client to respect any copyright notice, which may or may not be required by law, and may or may not be prominently displayed on your page, and may or may not be applicable in the jurisdiction where the reader resides.
Secure access tied to an online payment system establishes a more formal contract between supplier and client. Anecdotal evidence suggests that those who have paid, even 99c. per track, are much less likely to throw it out on p2p. Some web-based newspapers are moving to a subscription model, partly to bolster income from flagging print sales, partly to avoid some of the/. effect, but also as a claim of ownership on the material.
Reliance on robots.txt is a folorn hope. There are already no-cache directives in the http protocol which should provide stronger protection. My own radical opinion is that the sum total of human knowledge belongs to all mankind. I believe this thinking is behind the GPL and Creative Commons. So the question then devolves to: How do we get clues to those of the law whose main concern is to divvy up the credits for contributors and debits from consumers? How do we get them to look up from their bean counting and see the big picture?
Sorry to report, it worked for me. I reported a bug in QuickTime Player v.6 for Windows, Preferences had a link for extra help which went to a totally outdated irrelevant part of Apple's website. They took 15 months to get back to me, asked if it was still a problem with the latest version, yes I told them, latest official version 6.5.2 was still broken. 3 weeks later they get back to me, try the v.7 preview, and now it's fixed.
Can't anything good be free? No, or p'raps mebbe it's not good. TFA links to the real story about what the music industry execs said. But WTF? One para. then Click here to buy this article for £1.
No, you're not out of the loop, in spite of the cries from the fanboys, FCKeditor is out of the loop. An editor which relies on browser features (and yes, quirky java is a browser feature) is guaranteed to write those pages we all try to avoid: This page best viewed in version abc of browser XYZ
For a standards based editor/browser try Amaya. But even Amaya users complain when it fails to render pages carefully broken to render on browser XYZ.
If you read the literature on DIY Fission Bombs you'll find it is rather difficult to get an efficient explosion. It's quite a trick, learned by a few military organisations over long repetitive testing, to get the material all together in one lump at criticality. The GP talked about "warm rocks". The rocks in which radium and uranium are usually found will naturally prevent criticality, otherwise the remnants of this planet would be barren and cratered. If you try to amass lumps of concentrated ore the rocks will still moderate the reaction enough that you will get plenty of warning that this is no ordinary furnace.
Say No to Software Patents! Heheh, notice how the curve of US Patents issued tips sharply up again with the patenting of software. My guess is the dudes at USPTO rumbled Heubner 12 years ago, and made darn sure they weren't gonna be out of a job.
If exponential growth is insupportable, then there are two possible outcomes, inflexion, or singularity. Odd thing is if you project technological innovation on a logarithmic scale with the first point about 4*10^9 years BP, the asymptotic point, or singularity, happens rather close to where Heubner's curve hits the axis. mebbe he's onto something...
Who cares what the rate of innovation per unit of population is? That peculiar measure of progress would only matter if benefits of innovation somehow didn't scale with the population size.
Question: how did "the people who chronicle technological history" calibrate their unit of innovation? Across time, across population redistributions, across the whole field of human endeavour? Assuming, and that's a big if, they got it right, then Heubner's Index is just one measure of human inventiveness. I think he's just being polite in suggesting we've run out of things to invent. The corollary is that people are getting dumber.
And you can't blame television or/., they weren't around in 1873;-)
And yes, I know that we *CAN* use raw IP addresses to bypass the DNS
To display my ignorance I will ask: why is client-side DNS caching not enforced? I have observed sectors of our local LAN where ~50% of traffic thru a single client switch port is port53. Imagine how the phone service would work if every single call had to be routed thru Directory Service, oh wait..., didn't the American phone system work like that till quite recently?
6.0.0.0/8 DoD Network Information Center
7.0.0.0/8 Defense Information Systems Agency
8.0.0.0/8 Level 3 Communications, Inc
9.0.0.0/8 IBM Corporation
11.0.0.0/8 DoD Intel Information Systems
12.0.0.0/8 AT&T WorldNet Services
13.0.0.0/8 Xerox Palo Alto Research Center
15, 16.0.0.0/8 Hewlett-Packard Company
17.0.0.0/8 Apple Computer, Inc.
18.0.0.0/8 Massachusetts Institute of Technology
19.0.0.0/8 Ford Motor Company
20.0.0.0/8 Computer Sciences Corporation
21, 22.0.0.0/8 DoD Network Information Center
25.0.0.0/8 Royal Signals and Radar Establishment
26, 28, 29, 30.0.0.0/8 DoD Network Information Center
32.0.0.0/8 AT&T Global Network Services
33.0.0.0/8 DoD Network Information Center
34.0.0.0/8 Halliburton Company
35.0.0.0/8 Merit Network Inc.
38.0.0.0/8 Performance Systems International Inc.
40.0.0.0/8 Eli Lilly and Company
41.0.0.0/8 African Network Information Center
44.0.0.0/8 Amateur Radio Digital Communications
45.0.0.0/8 Interop Show Network
47.0.0.0/8 Bell-Northern Research
48.0.0.0/8 Prudential Securities Inc.
51.0.0.0/8 Department of Social Security of UK
52.0.0.0/8 E.I. du Pont de Nemours and Co., Inc.
53.0.0.0/8 cap debis ccs (c/o Mercedes Benz AG
54.0.0.0/8 Merck and Co., Inc.
55.0.0.0/8 DoD Network Information Center
56.0.0.0/8 U.S. Postal Service
57.0.0.0/8 SITA-Societe Internationale de Telecommunications Aeronautiques
1,2,3,4,5,14, 23, 27, 31, 36, 37, 39, 42, 46, 49, 50 are reserved to IANA
It would be tempting to say: Nothing to see here people... please move along..., but amongst all the squatters is one new allocation, a single class A net allocated this year for the entire African continent. It works too, I've already had two 419s from it;-)
... be aware that the sample chapter -- and even the table of contents -- are offered only as PDFs, but the two links give no warning.
It was plainly visible in my status bar that the link was.pdf. When a reviewer abdicates responsibility by blind clicking on every tasty looking link, suspicion of incompetence makes it so much more difficult to read the rest of an otherwise entertaining review...
How do I playback video?
In order to playback video on Google Video, you first need to install the Google Video Viewer (VideoLAN 0.8.2). Once installed, you will be able to playback the video from within your browser. This viewer will not interfere with the other video players on your system.
So I have VLC 0.8.2 already installed, MacOS 10.4.1, use it to watch all sorts of formats that other players won't touch, now what? Sorry, but Googleviewer.exe just don't cut it. Anyhow, enter search term: balloon 4 out of 5 socalled links have a comment "Video is currently not available"...
The tragedy is not that two outages occurred near simultaneously about 200 miles apart. Those two cables feed in/out of Wellington, the capital city. A lot of head office command and control functions are located in Wellington, like as was reported telecoms, the stock exchange, banking, railway signalling (altho' they have an independent system, parallel & ~100 yards away from the ones that faulted, and also fault prone). This capital city sits astride an earthquake fault equal to the San Andreas.
Why? It was chosen as a settlement for its harbor, deep, sheltered water, big enough for any fleet. The capital moved there a few years before two major earthquakes in the region. One virtually destroyed the young town and lifted the western harbour headland five feet out of the water. Putting cables in steel conduit may be little protection against these forces. Handwringing over the past 150 years has proved only that nobody can find any better place for the capital (at least we get the benefit of a clean sweep of politicians when the big one comes;-).
Drifting slightly OT one of the shocks of 9/11 was that nobody imagined that such an act could be committed. For many years the main telecoms cables southbound out of Auckland passed thru a section of PVC conduits on steel racking alongside a public walkway. I often wondered "what if" one day someone chucked a gasoline soaked rag there and lit a match...
No matter what redundancy you put in the comms channels, they will converge on your control centers, so you also need redundant control centers. Who knows if anyone really did the risk analysis and decided it wasn't worth it here...
hmmm, this makes me reconsider the definition of "Open Source". I just d/l'ed a 3M tarball of.Net code??? I don't want to sound like the poster who refused the Java EULA, but compiling.Net for ppc isn't exactly "free" as in time to go to the ball game...
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But the cost of new software is a small part of the total capital investment of these big companies. Their main costs are in bugfixing and upgrades. So it is with OSS, which is why TFA concluded: Note the article is analysing the enterprise model, where companies like Red Hat, Novell(Suse), MySqlAB, are filling that 3rd party market. But how do you support something like the home Linux desktop? Where a myriad interlinking libs and packages are maintained by an unseen army of geeks and hackers, none of whom is beholden to another, nor to any corporate discipline which pays their wages. I would like to see a reasoned analysis of what it should cost your mom to use Linux.
Don't look at me like that
...the band is encouraging fans to download tracks, demos, and works in progress from their website.
As reported on that subversive commie website the BBC. We know they're a hotbed of evil anti-American perversion, why they even gave away their own music for free. Worse, the Open Source idiots are giving away their own software. They should be filtered off the internet.
</sarcasm>
It's amazing how many programs that still haven't clued in that installing account is not always identical to user account.
Word of cheer(!) to the would-be switchers: Macs have this problem too.
The installer of MacOS is assumed to be admin, the first acct created. For a single user machine the question is, should Joe-six-pack then make himself a non-admin acct. for everyday use, does he know how, and could he be bothered?
Mac application installers can be just as stupid as Windows. Apple have provided an installer application, which with admin password will install all parts of an app. with proper permissions in all the necessary parts of the filesystem, without needing to log out and back. Maybe one third of apps use this. About a third are "drag'n drop", so they will probably be executable by other users, but are owned by with permissions of the current user. The remainder are a ragtag bunch of leftovers from Classic MacOS with all sorts of perverse behaviour.
I have just been thru an exercise of installing copy protected software with machine hardware dependent keys, requiring admin authority, which must then be transmuted to a generic non-admin acct in a student lab. Several times I wondered if Windows would make my task any easier. We're looking more closely at open source now with OS-X, but worried to find a lot of so-called open source apps in the multi-media field are being developed to run primarily on Windows OS.
of the Trinity test can be found at the Nuclear Weapon Archive, and Trinity site, and even the DOE is trying to make a buck on the side by selling the movie.
will probably never be found now. It is of course Bob Swartz' report.
A company spends a large amount of money developing a technology like this
Eh? A bit of school lab glassware and a green balloon?
c'mon, isn't this what GPL, CC, public domain, is all about, or have I missed something? Publish, full disclosure, anybody can do it, nobody can patent it. Oh wait, Signa is based in the U S of A ....
Seriously, I wondered about this. Because TFA says deprecatingly of methanol fuels cells that "methanol is flammable". And I thought, uhuh, these guys have invented non-flammable hydrogen, WTF good is that in an automotive engine?
OK cheap jokes out of the way, the process may be intended to combine hydrogen generation and re-absorption within one "closed cycle" container. Seems to me they might have a better chance of a prize to get the electrons directly off the sodium and eliminate hydrogen from the whole process...
The problem seems to be that lawmakers and practitioners and publishers, haven't yet found the relationship between the old and new methods of publishing. It used to be that if you wanted some information, pictures, sheet music, recordings, movies, you went into a shop, paid the man some money, and received a physical object. You could order it by mail, and subject to payment and shipping constraints, get the physical object delivered to some physical address. There are libraries (physical ;-) of legislation and case law to deal with the copying of physical objects.
/. effect, but also as a claim of ownership on the material.
That nice Mr. Berners-Lee has given us a mechanism by which the information, pictures, etc, can be delivered instantly to anywhere on the planet without a coin being touched. If somebody puts material on a publicly accessible webpage, isn't this the same as putting it on a soapbox outside the shop front door? You have lost control over who can read it, when or where. You rely on trust in the unseen client to respect any copyright notice, which may or may not be required by law, and may or may not be prominently displayed on your page, and may or may not be applicable in the jurisdiction where the reader resides.
Secure access tied to an online payment system establishes a more formal contract between supplier and client. Anecdotal evidence suggests that those who have paid, even 99c. per track, are much less likely to throw it out on p2p. Some web-based newspapers are moving to a subscription model, partly to bolster income from flagging print sales, partly to avoid some of the
Reliance on robots.txt is a folorn hope. There are already no-cache directives in the http protocol which should provide stronger protection. My own radical opinion is that the sum total of human knowledge belongs to all mankind. I believe this thinking is behind the GPL and Creative Commons. So the question then devolves to: How do we get clues to those of the law whose main concern is to divvy up the credits for contributors and debits from consumers? How do we get them to look up from their bean counting and see the big picture?
Sorry to report, it worked for me. I reported a bug in QuickTime Player v.6 for Windows, Preferences had a link for extra help which went to a totally outdated irrelevant part of Apple's website. They took 15 months to get back to me, asked if it was still a problem with the latest version, yes I told them, latest official version 6.5.2 was still broken. 3 weeks later they get back to me, try the v.7 preview, and now it's fixed.
One happy camper, if a little tired...
Can't anything good be free?
/.
No, or p'raps mebbe it's not good. TFA links to the real story about what the music industry execs said. But WTF? One para. then Click here to buy this article for £1.
Spare a quid, guvnor, so I can read a link from
from: http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio3/beethoven/downloads.s
No, you're not out of the loop, in spite of the cries from the fanboys, FCKeditor is out of the loop. An editor which relies on browser features (and yes, quirky java is a browser feature) is guaranteed to write those pages we all try to avoid: This page best viewed in version abc of browser XYZ
For a standards based editor/browser try Amaya. But even Amaya users complain when it fails to render pages carefully broken to render on browser XYZ.
If you read the literature on DIY Fission Bombs you'll find it is rather difficult to get an efficient explosion. It's quite a trick, learned by a few military organisations over long repetitive testing, to get the material all together in one lump at criticality. The GP talked about "warm rocks". The rocks in which radium and uranium are usually found will naturally prevent criticality, otherwise the remnants of this planet would be barren and cratered. If you try to amass lumps of concentrated ore the rocks will still moderate the reaction enough that you will get plenty of warning that this is no ordinary furnace.
Say No to Software Patents! Heheh, notice how the curve of US Patents issued tips sharply up again with the patenting of software. My guess is the dudes at USPTO rumbled Heubner 12 years ago, and made darn sure they weren't gonna be out of a job.
If exponential growth is insupportable, then there are two possible outcomes, inflexion, or singularity. Odd thing is if you project technological innovation on a logarithmic scale with the first point about 4*10^9 years BP, the asymptotic point, or singularity, happens rather close to where Heubner's curve hits the axis. mebbe he's onto something...
Who cares what the rate of innovation per unit of population is? That peculiar measure of progress would only matter if benefits of innovation somehow didn't scale with the population size.
/., they weren't around in 1873 ;-)
Question: how did "the people who chronicle technological history" calibrate their unit of innovation? Across time, across population redistributions, across the whole field of human endeavour? Assuming, and that's a big if, they got it right, then Heubner's Index is just one measure of human inventiveness. I think he's just being polite in suggesting we've run out of things to invent. The corollary is that people are getting dumber.
And you can't blame television or
Never in this universe.
And there's an army of Parking Wardens out on those mean streets to prove it...
And yes, I know that we *CAN* use raw IP addresses to bypass the DNS
To display my ignorance I will ask: why is client-side DNS caching not enforced? I have observed sectors of our local LAN where ~50% of traffic thru a single client switch port is port53. Imagine how the phone service would work if every single call had to be routed thru Directory Service, oh wait..., didn't the American phone system work like that till quite recently?
6.0.0.0/8 DoD Network Information Center
7.0.0.0/8 Defense Information Systems Agency
8.0.0.0/8 Level 3 Communications, Inc
9.0.0.0/8 IBM Corporation
11.0.0.0/8 DoD Intel Information Systems
12.0.0.0/8 AT&T WorldNet Services
13.0.0.0/8 Xerox Palo Alto Research Center
15, 16.0.0.0/8 Hewlett-Packard Company
17.0.0.0/8 Apple Computer, Inc.
18.0.0.0/8 Massachusetts Institute of Technology
19.0.0.0/8 Ford Motor Company
20.0.0.0/8 Computer Sciences Corporation
21, 22.0.0.0/8 DoD Network Information Center
25.0.0.0/8 Royal Signals and Radar Establishment
26, 28, 29, 30.0.0.0/8 DoD Network Information Center
32.0.0.0/8 AT&T Global Network Services
33.0.0.0/8 DoD Network Information Center
34.0.0.0/8 Halliburton Company
35.0.0.0/8 Merit Network Inc.
38.0.0.0/8 Performance Systems International Inc.
40.0.0.0/8 Eli Lilly and Company
41.0.0.0/8 African Network Information Center
44.0.0.0/8 Amateur Radio Digital Communications
45.0.0.0/8 Interop Show Network
47.0.0.0/8 Bell-Northern Research
48.0.0.0/8 Prudential Securities Inc.
51.0.0.0/8 Department of Social Security of UK
52.0.0.0/8 E.I. du Pont de Nemours and Co., Inc.
53.0.0.0/8 cap debis ccs (c/o Mercedes Benz AG
54.0.0.0/8 Merck and Co., Inc.
55.0.0.0/8 DoD Network Information Center
56.0.0.0/8 U.S. Postal Service
57.0.0.0/8 SITA-Societe Internationale de Telecommunications Aeronautiques
1,2,3,4,5,14, 23, 27, 31, 36, 37, 39, 42, 46, 49, 50 are reserved to IANA
It would be tempting to say: Nothing to see here people... please move along..., but amongst all the squatters is one new allocation, a single class A net allocated this year for the entire African continent. It works too, I've already had two 419s from it
So I have VLC 0.8.2 already installed, MacOS 10.4.1, use it to watch all sorts of formats that other players won't touch, now what? Sorry, but Googleviewer.exe just don't cut it. Anyhow, enter search term: balloon 4 out of 5 socalled links have a comment "Video is currently not available"
The tragedy is not that two outages occurred near simultaneously about 200 miles apart. Those two cables feed in/out of Wellington, the capital city. A lot of head office command and control functions are located in Wellington, like as was reported telecoms, the stock exchange, banking, railway signalling (altho' they have an independent system, parallel & ~100 yards away from the ones that faulted, and also fault prone). This capital city sits astride an earthquake fault equal to the San Andreas.
;-).
Why? It was chosen as a settlement for its harbor, deep, sheltered water, big enough for any fleet. The capital moved there a few years before two major earthquakes in the region. One virtually destroyed the young town and lifted the western harbour headland five feet out of the water. Putting cables in steel conduit may be little protection against these forces. Handwringing over the past 150 years has proved only that nobody can find any better place for the capital (at least we get the benefit of a clean sweep of politicians when the big one comes
Drifting slightly OT one of the shocks of 9/11 was that nobody imagined that such an act could be committed. For many years the main telecoms cables southbound out of Auckland passed thru a section of PVC conduits on steel racking alongside a public walkway. I often wondered "what if" one day someone chucked a gasoline soaked rag there and lit a match...
No matter what redundancy you put in the comms channels, they will converge on your control centers, so you also need redundant control centers. Who knows if anyone really did the risk analysis and decided it wasn't worth it here...
hmmm, this makes me reconsider the definition of "Open Source". I just d/l'ed a 3M tarball of .Net code??? I don't want to sound like the poster who refused the Java EULA, but compiling .Net for ppc isn't exactly "free" as in time to go to the ball game...