I'm not American, I'm actually Australian, but I seriously do not understand these nutjobs and their conspiracy theories about Big Oil, and what not.
Saddam Hussein was a appalling leader, I don't think anybody would argue against that. Him, his sons, and their cronies raped, pillaged and mass-murdered *their own people*, and used chemical weapons against their own frigging people. I mean, seriously, what sort of person can do that, and go to sleep at night? You think it's ok to rape random women off the street, then kill them afterwards, and keep doing this? And look, the whole WMD thing may have been some massive con-job by Hussein perpetrated on Bush and other idiots in the West too willing to believe him, but look, he tried to play poker with them, and lost. That's how it is. He pretended to have them, pretended to give concessions, and played games back and forth with weapons inspectors.
His own people were all too willing to hang him for his crimes. That's got to tell you something. As horrific as he was, I still don't believe in the death penalty, but that's got to tell you something.
So sure, people argue, oh, there's heaps of oppressive regimes, it's not our job to be the world's police, blah blah, let them sort out their own problems. Oh, and we wasted billions on this war, that we could have spend on our own people. Then you turn around and say it was all about profit, and Big Oil. Please, considering the billions ploughed in to eradicate this tyrant, and rebuild the country, it would have been cheaper to just buy the damn stuff. You can't have it both ways - either it was an idealistic war fought that was none of our business, or it was some cynical profit-driven war of convenience.
Personally, I'm of the opinion that Bush and his gang, whilst not the brightest bulbs in the bunch, actually didn't like Hussein, and just really wanted to topple the stupid son of a b*tch. You can argue that it was a stupid thing to do, and a waste of resources, but I don't think anybody would argue that the world's not better off without him. I bet if Bush thought he could take down Kim Il Jong, without risking nuclear recriminations, he wouldn't have thought twice. Sure, it's a bit of a black-and-white view of the world, and some would say a bit primitive, but I challenge anybody to actually tell me they think that these two clowns are good men, who really look out for their people.
heya,.
Actually, if you look at the issues, you'll see a number of people make the very valid point (e.g. comment 66, http://code.google.com/p/go/issues/detail?id=9#c66), that the languages are "go", and "Go!".
And a lot of languages already differ by one character - C, C++. and C#. Or A+ and A++. Or Alef and ALF. Or GM and GML? Or how about Modula-2, Modula-2+ and Modula3?
Look it happens, you don't see anybody flaming each other on those languages, getting them to change. I don't see K&R flaming Microsoft about C#.
Cheers,
Victor
Err, I'm sorry to say this, but you Sir, are an a*sehat...
Google is asking for a way to disable the Windows Indexer, which currently can't be disabled. And having *two* indexers running at the same time introduces a
And guess what, if somebody is actually installing Google Desktop, gee, gosh...maybe it's cause they want to actually try Google Desktop, rather than run it and the Windows Indexer at the same time. It's called making life easier for your users - you run the Google Desktop installer, and gosh, it installs it for you and turns off the in-built Windows Indexer. You un-install Google Desktop, and it turns the Windows Indexer back on. Not that hard, mate, really...(and yes, gee golly gosh, you can script something like that in an uninstaller).
Seriously, what is it with Google bashing lately, anyway? Everybody's making it sound like Google is seeding some kind of spyware that disables Windows Search (which, not that relevant, but I actually dislike it. I don't like Google Desktop either, or Spotlight...still haven't found the perfect search, and Beagle is a hog...lol), no, they're letting users who choose to install Google Desktop disable it so it doesn't slow your computer to a crawl.
See...haha...pah, Mr. Intel, you fought vat your 80-cores could stand before me? Mwahaha.....behold, my invicible weapon, the slashdot....
Still, it'll be interesting to see how Intel markets this to the everyday Joe user. I mean, the whole HT thing was marketted as helping you to burn a CD while you watched a movie...wonder if they'll use the same line here.
"See, now you can burn *79 CDs* and watch 1 movie, all without breaking a sweat"...
Sure, if you pick up Process Explorer, you'd think there's hundreds of threads running, but the truth is, most of those are idling. And I always figured that you actually had to pre-plan how to split up a task parallelised, to really take advantage of this kind of thing.
I mean, seriously, it's been GPL all these years, the developers were putting in the hours and the hard work (And don't give me that c*ap about community contributions, because in relative terms, there wasn't really any).
And they were suffering because people were essentially taking their work and simply rebranding it and selling it as their own. Isn't it only fair that Tenable themselves should now have the opportunity to sell what is, after all predominantly their work?
I'm quick sick of all these GPL-fanatical twits going on about how evil Tenable is for doing what any reasonable person would have done. It's a wonder that Tenable put up with all the other companies selling their work for as long as they did.
Also, guys, lay off the whole "haha, we slash-dotted your server" cracks..I mean, what can possible stand before the might of/., huh? Sun, eBay, Amazon, all of these petty masses shall cower before us, for we shall crush them under teh (sic) boot of our T1 1337-ness....
Looks interesting...I give it 20 minutes before a copy is up on the torrent...*grins*. Then the script-kiddies can all go use it to spy on each other and prove their "1337-ness"...
Althought, truth be told - why exactly is the government telling us this? I mean, for all we know, they could have been developing these sorts of computer surveillance programs for years...in fact, they probably have. So why tell us about it now, in a highly-publicised press release? Or are they just trying to be seen to doing something, and seeming like they're on the cutting edge of technology? So maybe in truth they're actually quite clueless, and this program is nothing more than a hashed-up, worthless keylogger that looks like sample code from "Windows Internals"?
One wonders about their motives for this news release, though...
I can just see how this is going to get the already paranoid all aflutter...
Still, I can definitely see some potential for this. I mean, say, listening to my sister b*tch about me to her friends in her room, or what my parents talk about in the sanctity of their bedroom. Mwahahaha...you shall have no secrets from me, feeble people who trust in walls, cower before my might...
Also, is it just me, but does the NewScientist site seem to be a bit...slow...*evil grin*...hehe...even the great NS cowers before the might of the barbarian Slashdot hordes.
So, Stallman says that this issue is just blowing smoke, and that it distracts from the issue at hand, namely his pet causes...
Well, I would say that names are incredibly important, possibly even more so than all these political causes (simply because people can't be bothered to read long political theses, but can deal with name recognition).
Why do you think Linux has proven so much more "successful" that the *BSDs in the business sphere?
The name "Linux" has brand recognition - at the moment, it's trendy, hip and cool (go the Peter Russel reference =)...and companies want to be seen to be riding the wave. I've seen idiotic people say Linux is cool, I want to use Linux, with absolutely no idea what it is, simply because they've heard that all the geeky computer people are apparently using it.
Torvalds, and all the other contributors have worked hard to build up this name, and if companies can be made to respect this, then all the better.
As an Australian, I'd have to say this isn't entirely unexpected...
Some of the judges here have been a little slow on the uptake...the Sony mod-chipping debacle is but one example, as is the whole lack of "fair use" right for electronic works...
Was the man found guilty of linking to a list of pirated mp3s? Or did he link to a site which contained, among a lot of other things, pirated mp3s? In the case of the latter, I don't see how you can argue that he was intending for them to pirate material...
Seriously, has anybody thought about the ramification of this for free speech? The recent debacle with record companies whining about the BBC releasing those free tracks has some echoes of this...
hah, yes, one of the first posts (note the one of).
lol...anyway, sounds tasty
but considering my experience of SE asia, i dont' think i might want to eat it....at least not before boiling it in a vat of super-pressurised steam for a few days....
Lol....well, at least somebody is going to be happy *rolls eyes*....
Seriously though, who on earth is bankrolling this little anyway? It'd be really cool if they could hit the break-even point...then I could get one of these to power my flashy new twin-GF7800s...but we're looking at a 10-year time schedule here.
Is there actually going to be enough dosh within Europe to keep this project going in 10 years time? Who's to say Europe won't become some economic backwater in a decade or so? No offence, but at the rate they're going, countries like China and India (well, if they get over the endemic corruption, and manage to attract more FI) are looking to overtake them in less time that that, and in the meantime the US is chugging along quite happily, with 30% of the world's economy in the palm of its hands, and racking up the foreing debt bonus points....
What I'm really waiting for is the O'Reilly "MythTV in a Nutshell", or "MythTv Hacks"...now that would be sweet...
Until then, I'm stuck with consulting the massive tome of Myth links I've collected over the years, half of which are out-of-date, or unmaintained (although the official docs are a good effort). Would be nice if O'Reilly brought their professionalism to it.
One thing I've never figured out - why aren't there more companies mass-marketting and selling these? How come say, Phillips or some other company hasn't picked this up and prettified it to sell to the end consumer who's never heard of Linux? (It's not like companies haven't taken Linux and put it inside devices to sell to the "Just Works" crowd - all that embedded stuff, for example, a lot of routers/firewall products etc.)
Looking at the article, I'd have to say it rates 5 out of 5 - truly up to O'Reilly's normal standards - well set out, doesn't talk down to users, and pretty pictures...*in colour* (man...talk about innovation...I have *never* seen a colour O'Reilly article/book...althought since this is/., I give it 5 mins before somebody finds one, in some random alternative universe somewhere).
Slashdot-syndrome strikes another victim....it'd be ironic if the server was hosted on Js/UNIx...(probly not, but a funny thought nonetheless)
Still, going to try this out to sate my uncontrollable new-OS syndrome...definitely one for the cool factor when my friends ask me how come all my windows have crashed, but I'm still working in my web browser....
Hmm, in reply to all those who claim that you don't learn anything, and that you're just following instructions, and who recommend Gentoo, how about putting your money where your mouth is and building it yourself? (and pasting the proof here, which will usually take the form of "oh fsck this......how do i fix this?")
Take it from me, when you've stayed up to 2am trying to figure out why this fsck-ing package won't install, and why you keep getting "Error 1:...blah blah", then when you finally figure out why, it tends to stick in your head.
Sure, if you copy and paste everything from the single-html file, you won't learn much - the learning comes from actually *reading* the document instead of mindlessly pasting/copying, and skimming through the mailing lists, to see why they chose to do things a certain way, and hanging on the IRC channel.
The BLFS which follows afterwards is also definitely recommended - in fact, I often use it as a hints guide to installing stuff on top of my normal distro (Slack)...(not for my WinXP box..lol)
Also, using something like checkinstall or paco is recommended - and there's also cpucaps is also useful (link at end).
re-create dead actors in the flesh...check...(SW movies)
re-create dead performers playing...check...
Hmm...what exactly do we need people for? W00t!!! Death to the humans, computers conquer all...wait a sec *looks down*...hey...I'm real flesh and blood...uhoh
ok, yeah, this isn't exactly anonymous but what the heck, who cares about one post among several thousand...
someone i umm...know...was asked to "transfer" from his school several few weeks before finishing after penetrating the school network, writing a report on it, submitting it to his principal, then being a little less than canny about it...
for some unfathomable reason *rolls eyes*, high school staff don't like being told that their IT security sucks, or that the consulting firm they hired in the 6 figures is staffed with incompetent inebriates who wouldn't know how to set up a network without the funky Wizard crutches offered by Windows 2000...
Or whose idea of security is to store all the critical admin passwords in cleartext in a.bat file, in the root folder of a world-readable server...
Oh well....they'll get their comeuppance when I make their microwaves spontaneously combust, their goldfish grow 3 eyes, and their televisions mysteriously lock on to a paytv adult channel...hehehe...
I think I'd have to agree with the guy above that this is an utter load of tosh...
"Doesn't yet deliver?".
On the basis that *gasp* it's proprietary? When was the last time you saw a ZDNet reviewer lambast Windows because it's proprietary? The reviewer sounds like some childish linux fanboy attempting to take cheap potshots at a sturdy, well-featured, commercial OS with a heck of a lot of new *useful* features (Dtrace, Janus, ZFS, all of which he either fails to mention, or writes some bogus statement showing he doesn't understand them).
Here's a quote from a osnews comment on the story: Very Funny
By Smartpatrol (IP: ---.galileo.com) - Posted on 2005-04-21 22:34:38 I almost choked when he mentioned Solaris as a Linux alternative....What?
To begin with, it's important to understand that you're still dealing with a proprietary OS here.
So what! spoken like a true Linux zealot! Its a question of usability and picking the best tool to enable business. Not whether or not the product you choose supports the OSS religion or not...what a wanker this guy is.
Speaking of features, his comments are supreficial at best, and show a profound lack of knowledge. He never mentions what this magical hardware that doesn't work with the OS is, he is assumedly too lazy to see the DVD image download on the page he links to, and he whines childishly about the download - can ZDNet somehow not afford cable internet?
Also, last time I checked, many linux distros came on quite a few cds...let's see, Fedora comes on how many discs again? How about Suse? Mandrake? Even my beloved Slackware is two...
How about judging an OS on useability, features, stability, and how it fits the purposes it was designed for? Not some blatant rant on your own fanatical adherence to your pet ideology, and some idiotic statements on a product you probably haven't even actually tested...and reading comments on alt.linux doesn't count as testing it...
Sounds interesting....and if you believe all the church conspiracy stuff from the books and movies, they'll send Vatican Knights after the handsome and square-jawed hero archaeologists, who will then escape with his beautiful, exotic and sultry assistant, along with the crucial evidence needed to prove , replete with requisite car chases, one-eyed villains who speak in a funny non-descript European accent, and the ending scene where the evidence is destroyed for the greater good *gasp*.
And I'm sure some bumbling idiot director will come along and make a movie of it, to join all those other quasi-religious movies...(viz. Dogma, Constantine, EOD etc.)
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Well, it's not so much a case of us-versus-them, but a matter of accountability and proesecuting them. An earlier poster made the case that this makes it somehow easier to track, but I think this is an absolute load of claptrap
Remind me again, exactly how many people are there in India? So how exactly does the fact that you know it originated from India help you? Or say Brazil, China, etc - all of these places, though poor, are in fact heavily populated, densely packed, and often the authorities are loathe to co-operate with foreign officials (honestly - whose side do you think the Indian police force/bureacrats are on?)
Outsourcing critical infrastructure, and potentially dangerous data that can bite you back later is a recipe for disaster.
I'm Australian, and recently there was a furor over Boeing's court victory allowing them to discriminate against Australian workers, and select only US citizens - a lot of Australian's were mad, but I myself thought that Boeing had a perfectly logical argument.
You can call me a racist (fyi, I'm chinese - and the US's witch-hunting of Chinese "spies" irks me, but hey, it's another one on a growing pile of 'em...lol), so what the heck...
Sorry about that, I guess I just assumed that everybody reading this far down would know Sony's products =).
The MZ-NH1 is their flagship Minidisc recorder, released mid-to-late last year. Hence
And also, yes, I am using SonicStage 3, and yes, the trashing tracks issue is still there - and yes, I am a member of "your" forums (forum.minidisc.org), my nick is victorhooi (original, I know *grin*).
Also, to clear up something - yes, as somebody pointed out, I *am* Australian, and yes, that *is* how I spell analogue (Australia, by and large, follows British spelling in most things.)
Well, I recently bought a Sony MZ-NH1. The hardware side of the device is brilliant, but the software is quite frankly a piece of s*it...
The DRM is annoying, if you record say, a lecture on the MD using analogue, it *deletes* your files on the MD on the 2nd upload, it randomly trashes tracks (ie breaks them into hundreds of 2-second tracks, which you have to manually join - and about 8% of those tracks are corrupted) - and because of the stupid encryption that Sony useds to prevent *gasp* copy protection (why they prevent analogue copies and not just digital is beyond me)
SonicStage itself (the interface software) is a piece of badly coded rubbish - and the random encryption and DRM only makes it worse - if they spent half the time coding software as they did DRM to supposedly prevent copyright breaches (who on earth would buy a MD player to copy music? Most customers, judging by the minidisc forums are musicians or those like me recording lectures).
Anyway, to cut a long story short, Sony has a history of , ever since MD over 10 years, Atrac3, then memory stick etc. pushing consumers into draconian, proprietary technologies that both rake in more money, and preserve their music sales (stupid idea, since people who copy music will just buy an mp3 player, which hurts them twice - they lose MD sales, and their original idea of protecting copyright is a failure right away).
I only hope that efforts to free up the PSP carry over into other Sony technologies, like the Vaio (don't own one, but I feel for those who have to put up wiht the SS/Memory Stick issues), MD, Clie etc.
Microsoft has just filed for the patent for it's new concept of a "helpful thingy that runs on electricity".
In a press release on Tuesday describing the company's new innovation, company representative Michael Wells said "well, like, you know...it just does stuff...and it runs off this thing called electricity...so yeah, you know, we figured, we came up with it first...so yeah, it's like, totally ours...we're gonna make billions off stupid, I mean...errr...trend-setting consumers"
First Comment - yay!...lol (unlesss somebody commments before I press enter)
Seriously though, the irony is killing me...distributors of largely illegal content decide to stage an elaborate hit-and-run ruse on the freeloader community...*sigh*....
Yes, I know, bittorent is nice for distributing legal content (eg i use it for getting my half-yearly Whoppix dose)...but like it or not, Loki was more or less in the gray area if not the dark-antimatter side of the law..
bye,
Victor
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heya,
I'm not American, I'm actually Australian, but I seriously do not understand these nutjobs and their conspiracy theories about Big Oil, and what not.
Saddam Hussein was a appalling leader, I don't think anybody would argue against that. Him, his sons, and their cronies raped, pillaged and mass-murdered *their own people*, and used chemical weapons against their own frigging people. I mean, seriously, what sort of person can do that, and go to sleep at night? You think it's ok to rape random women off the street, then kill them afterwards, and keep doing this? And look, the whole WMD thing may have been some massive con-job by Hussein perpetrated on Bush and other idiots in the West too willing to believe him, but look, he tried to play poker with them, and lost. That's how it is. He pretended to have them, pretended to give concessions, and played games back and forth with weapons inspectors.
His own people were all too willing to hang him for his crimes. That's got to tell you something. As horrific as he was, I still don't believe in the death penalty, but that's got to tell you something.
So sure, people argue, oh, there's heaps of oppressive regimes, it's not our job to be the world's police, blah blah, let them sort out their own problems. Oh, and we wasted billions on this war, that we could have spend on our own people. Then you turn around and say it was all about profit, and Big Oil. Please, considering the billions ploughed in to eradicate this tyrant, and rebuild the country, it would have been cheaper to just buy the damn stuff. You can't have it both ways - either it was an idealistic war fought that was none of our business, or it was some cynical profit-driven war of convenience.
Personally, I'm of the opinion that Bush and his gang, whilst not the brightest bulbs in the bunch, actually didn't like Hussein, and just really wanted to topple the stupid son of a b*tch. You can argue that it was a stupid thing to do, and a waste of resources, but I don't think anybody would argue that the world's not better off without him. I bet if Bush thought he could take down Kim Il Jong, without risking nuclear recriminations, he wouldn't have thought twice. Sure, it's a bit of a black-and-white view of the world, and some would say a bit primitive, but I challenge anybody to actually tell me they think that these two clowns are good men, who really look out for their people.
Cheers, Victor
heya,. Actually, if you look at the issues, you'll see a number of people make the very valid point (e.g. comment 66, http://code.google.com/p/go/issues/detail?id=9#c66), that the languages are "go", and "Go!". And a lot of languages already differ by one character - C, C++. and C#. Or A+ and A++. Or Alef and ALF. Or GM and GML? Or how about Modula-2, Modula-2+ and Modula3? Look it happens, you don't see anybody flaming each other on those languages, getting them to change. I don't see K&R flaming Microsoft about C#. Cheers, Victor
Err, I'm sorry to say this, but you Sir, are an a*sehat...
Google is asking for a way to disable the Windows Indexer, which currently can't be disabled. And having *two* indexers running at the same time introduces a
And guess what, if somebody is actually installing Google Desktop, gee, gosh...maybe it's cause they want to actually try Google Desktop, rather than run it and the Windows Indexer at the same time. It's called making life easier for your users - you run the Google Desktop installer, and gosh, it installs it for you and turns off the in-built Windows Indexer. You un-install Google Desktop, and it turns the Windows Indexer back on. Not that hard, mate, really...(and yes, gee golly gosh, you can script something like that in an uninstaller).
Seriously, what is it with Google bashing lately, anyway? Everybody's making it sound like Google is seeding some kind of spyware that disables Windows Search (which, not that relevant, but I actually dislike it. I don't like Google Desktop either, or Spotlight...still haven't found the perfect search, and Beagle is a hog...lol), no, they're letting users who choose to install Google Desktop disable it so it doesn't slow your computer to a crawl.
Victor
PS: And for the record, it's spelt *euphemism*.
See...haha...pah, Mr. Intel, you fought vat your 80-cores could stand before me? Mwahaha.....behold, my invicible weapon, the slashdot....
Still, it'll be interesting to see how Intel markets this to the everyday Joe user. I mean, the whole HT thing was marketted as helping you to burn a CD while you watched a movie...wonder if they'll use the same line here.
"See, now you can burn *79 CDs* and watch 1 movie, all without breaking a sweat"...
Sure, if you pick up Process Explorer, you'd think there's hundreds of threads running, but the truth is, most of those are idling. And I always figured that you actually had to pre-plan how to split up a task parallelised, to really take advantage of this kind of thing.
Victor.
I, for one, welcome our new chimpanzee overlords
Now, don't we all feel better that we've got that out of our system, children?
I mean, seriously, it's been GPL all these years, the developers were putting in the hours and the hard work (And don't give me that c*ap about community contributions, because in relative terms, there wasn't really any).
And they were suffering because people were essentially taking their work and simply rebranding it and selling it as their own. Isn't it only fair that Tenable themselves should now have the opportunity to sell what is, after all predominantly their work?
I'm quick sick of all these GPL-fanatical twits going on about how evil Tenable is for doing what any reasonable person would have done. It's a wonder that Tenable put up with all the other companies selling their work for as long as they did.
Also, guys, lay off the whole "haha, we slash-dotted your server" cracks..I mean, what can possible stand before the might of
cya,
Victor
Looks interesting...I give it 20 minutes before a copy is up on the torrent...*grins*. Then the script-kiddies can all go use it to spy on each other and prove their "1337-ness"...
Althought, truth be told - why exactly is the government telling us this? I mean, for all we know, they could have been developing these sorts of computer surveillance programs for years...in fact, they probably have. So why tell us about it now, in a highly-publicised press release? Or are they just trying to be seen to doing something, and seeming like they're on the cutting edge of technology? So maybe in truth they're actually quite clueless, and this program is nothing more than a hashed-up, worthless keylogger that looks like sample code from "Windows Internals"?
One wonders about their motives for this news release, though...
cya, Victor
I can just see how this is going to get the already paranoid all aflutter...
Still, I can definitely see some potential for this. I mean, say, listening to my sister b*tch about me to her friends in her room, or what my parents talk about in the sanctity of their bedroom. Mwahahaha...you shall have no secrets from me, feeble people who trust in walls, cower before my might...
Also, is it just me, but does the NewScientist site seem to be a bit...slow...*evil grin*...hehe...even the great NS cowers before the might of the barbarian Slashdot hordes.
cya,
Victor
So, Stallman says that this issue is just blowing smoke, and that it distracts from the issue at hand, namely his pet causes...
Well, I would say that names are incredibly important, possibly even more so than all these political causes (simply because people can't be bothered to read long political theses, but can deal with name recognition).
Why do you think Linux has proven so much more "successful" that the *BSDs in the business sphere?
The name "Linux" has brand recognition - at the moment, it's trendy, hip and cool (go the Peter Russel reference =)...and companies want to be seen to be riding the wave. I've seen idiotic people say Linux is cool, I want to use Linux, with absolutely no idea what it is, simply because they've heard that all the geeky computer people are apparently using it.
Torvalds, and all the other contributors have worked hard to build up this name, and if companies can be made to respect this, then all the better.
cya,
Victor
Some of the judges here have been a little slow on the uptake...the Sony mod-chipping debacle is but one example, as is the whole lack of "fair use" right for electronic works...
Was the man found guilty of linking to a list of pirated mp3s? Or did he link to a site which contained, among a lot of other things, pirated mp3s? In the case of the latter, I don't see how you can argue that he was intending for them to pirate material...
Seriously, has anybody thought about the ramification of this for free speech? The recent debacle with record companies whining about the BBC releasing those free tracks has some echoes of this...
cya, Victor
lol...anyway, sounds tasty
but considering my experience of SE asia, i dont' think i might want to eat it....at least not before boiling it in a vat of super-pressurised steam for a few days....
Seriously though, who on earth is bankrolling this little anyway? It'd be really cool if they could hit the break-even point...then I could get one of these to power my flashy new twin-GF7800s...but we're looking at a 10-year time schedule here.
Is there actually going to be enough dosh within Europe to keep this project going in 10 years time? Who's to say Europe won't become some economic backwater in a decade or so? No offence, but at the rate they're going, countries like China and India (well, if they get over the endemic corruption, and manage to attract more FI) are looking to overtake them in less time that that, and in the meantime the US is chugging along quite happily, with 30% of the world's economy in the palm of its hands, and racking up the foreing debt bonus points....
cya, Victor
Until then, I'm stuck with consulting the massive tome of Myth links I've collected over the years, half of which are out-of-date, or unmaintained (although the official docs are a good effort). Would be nice if O'Reilly brought their professionalism to it.
One thing I've never figured out - why aren't there more companies mass-marketting and selling these? How come say, Phillips or some other company hasn't picked this up and prettified it to sell to the end consumer who's never heard of Linux? (It's not like companies haven't taken Linux and put it inside devices to sell to the "Just Works" crowd - all that embedded stuff, for example, a lot of routers/firewall products etc.)
Looking at the article, I'd have to say it rates 5 out of 5 - truly up to O'Reilly's normal standards - well set out, doesn't talk down to users, and pretty pictures...*in colour* (man...talk about innovation...I have *never* seen a colour O'Reilly article/book...althought since this is /., I give it 5 mins before somebody finds one, in some random alternative universe somewhere).
Still, going to try this out to sate my uncontrollable new-OS syndrome...definitely one for the cool factor when my friends ask me how come all my windows have crashed, but I'm still working in my web browser....
Hmm, in reply to all those who claim that you don't learn anything, and that you're just following instructions, and who recommend Gentoo, how about putting your money where your mouth is and building it yourself? (and pasting the proof here, which will usually take the form of "oh fsck this......how do i fix this?")
Take it from me, when you've stayed up to 2am trying to figure out why this fsck-ing package won't install, and why you keep getting "Error 1:...blah blah", then when you finally figure out why, it tends to stick in your head.
Sure, if you copy and paste everything from the single-html file, you won't learn much - the learning comes from actually *reading* the document instead of mindlessly pasting/copying, and skimming through the mailing lists, to see why they chose to do things a certain way, and hanging on the IRC channel.
The BLFS which follows afterwards is also definitely recommended - in fact, I often use it as a hints guide to installing stuff on top of my normal distro (Slack)...(not for my WinXP box..lol)
Also, using something like checkinstall or paco is recommended - and there's also cpucaps is also useful (link at end).
cya,
Victor
(http://members.jcom.home.ne.jp/jacobi/linux/softw ares.html
re-create dead actors in the flesh...check...(SW movies)
re-create dead performers playing...check...
Hmm...what exactly do we need people for? W00t!!! Death to the humans, computers conquer all...wait a sec *looks down*...hey...I'm real flesh and blood...uhoh
ok, yeah, this isn't exactly anonymous but what the heck, who cares about one post among several thousand...
someone i umm...know...was asked to "transfer" from his school several few weeks before finishing after penetrating the school network, writing a report on it, submitting it to his principal, then being a little less than canny about it...
for some unfathomable reason *rolls eyes*, high school staff don't like being told that their IT security sucks, or that the consulting firm they hired in the 6 figures is staffed with incompetent inebriates who wouldn't know how to set up a network without the funky Wizard crutches offered by Windows 2000...
Or whose idea of security is to store all the critical admin passwords in cleartext in a .bat file, in the root folder of a world-readable server...
Oh well....they'll get their comeuppance when I make their microwaves spontaneously combust, their goldfish grow 3 eyes, and their televisions mysteriously lock on to a paytv adult channel...hehehe...
cya,
Victor
"Doesn't yet deliver?".
On the basis that *gasp* it's proprietary? When was the last time you saw a ZDNet reviewer lambast Windows because it's proprietary? The reviewer sounds like some childish linux fanboy attempting to take cheap potshots at a sturdy, well-featured, commercial OS with a heck of a lot of new *useful* features (Dtrace, Janus, ZFS, all of which he either fails to mention, or writes some bogus statement showing he doesn't understand them).
Here's a quote from a osnews comment on the story:
Very Funny
By Smartpatrol (IP: ---.galileo.com) - Posted on 2005-04-21 22:34:38
I almost choked when he mentioned Solaris as a Linux alternative....What?
To begin with, it's important to understand that you're still dealing with a proprietary OS here.
So what! spoken like a true Linux zealot! Its a question of usability and picking the best tool to enable business. Not whether or not the product you choose supports the OSS religion or not...what a wanker this guy is.
Speaking of features, his comments are supreficial at best, and show a profound lack of knowledge. He never mentions what this magical hardware that doesn't work with the OS is, he is assumedly too lazy to see the DVD image download on the page he links to, and he whines childishly about the download - can ZDNet somehow not afford cable internet?
Also, last time I checked, many linux distros came on quite a few cds...let's see, Fedora comes on how many discs again? How about Suse? Mandrake? Even my beloved Slackware is two...
How about judging an OS on useability, features, stability, and how it fits the purposes it was designed for? Not some blatant rant on your own fanatical adherence to your pet ideology, and some idiotic statements on a product you probably haven't even actually tested...and reading comments on alt.linux doesn't count as testing it...
cya,
victor
And I'm sure some bumbling idiot director will come along and make a movie of it, to join all those other quasi-religious movies...(viz. Dogma, Constantine, EOD etc.)
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Well, it's not so much a case of us-versus-them, but a matter of accountability and proesecuting them. An earlier poster made the case that this makes it somehow easier to track, but I think this is an absolute load of claptrap
Remind me again, exactly how many people are there in India? So how exactly does the fact that you know it originated from India help you? Or say Brazil, China, etc - all of these places, though poor, are in fact heavily populated, densely packed, and often the authorities are loathe to co-operate with foreign officials (honestly - whose side do you think the Indian police force/bureacrats are on?)
Outsourcing critical infrastructure, and potentially dangerous data that can bite you back later is a recipe for disaster.
I'm Australian, and recently there was a furor over Boeing's court victory allowing them to discriminate against Australian workers, and select only US citizens - a lot of Australian's were mad, but I myself thought that Boeing had a perfectly logical argument.
You can call me a racist (fyi, I'm chinese - and the US's witch-hunting of Chinese "spies" irks me, but hey, it's another one on a growing pile of 'em...lol), so what the heck...
Victor Hooi
The MZ-NH1 is their flagship Minidisc recorder, released mid-to-late last year. Hence And also, yes, I am using SonicStage 3, and yes, the trashing tracks issue is still there - and yes, I am a member of "your" forums (forum.minidisc.org), my nick is victorhooi (original, I know *grin*).
Also, to clear up something - yes, as somebody pointed out, I *am* Australian, and yes, that *is* how I spell analogue (Australia, by and large, follows British spelling in most things.)
cya, Victor
The DRM is annoying, if you record say, a lecture on the MD using analogue, it *deletes* your files on the MD on the 2nd upload, it randomly trashes tracks (ie breaks them into hundreds of 2-second tracks, which you have to manually join - and about 8% of those tracks are corrupted) - and because of the stupid encryption that Sony useds to prevent *gasp* copy protection (why they prevent analogue copies and not just digital is beyond me)
SonicStage itself (the interface software) is a piece of badly coded rubbish - and the random encryption and DRM only makes it worse - if they spent half the time coding software as they did DRM to supposedly prevent copyright breaches (who on earth would buy a MD player to copy music? Most customers, judging by the minidisc forums are musicians or those like me recording lectures).
Anyway, to cut a long story short, Sony has a history of , ever since MD over 10 years, Atrac3, then memory stick etc. pushing consumers into draconian, proprietary technologies that both rake in more money, and preserve their music sales (stupid idea, since people who copy music will just buy an mp3 player, which hurts them twice - they lose MD sales, and their original idea of protecting copyright is a failure right away).
I only hope that efforts to free up the PSP carry over into other Sony technologies, like the Vaio (don't own one, but I feel for those who have to put up wiht the SS/Memory Stick issues), MD, Clie etc.
Microsoft has just filed for the patent for it's new concept of a "helpful thingy that runs on electricity".
In a press release on Tuesday describing the company's new innovation, company representative Michael Wells said "well, like, you know...it just does stuff...and it runs off this thing called electricity...so yeah, you know, we figured, we came up with it first...so yeah, it's like, totally ours...we're gonna make billions off stupid, I mean...errr...trend-setting consumers"
*rolls eyes*
victor
First Comment - yay!...lol (unlesss somebody commments before I press enter) Seriously though, the irony is killing me...distributors of largely illegal content decide to stage an elaborate hit-and-run ruse on the freeloader community...*sigh*.... Yes, I know, bittorent is nice for distributing legal content (eg i use it for getting my half-yearly Whoppix dose)...but like it or not, Loki was more or less in the gray area if not the dark-antimatter side of the law.. bye, Victor