Exactly. I read this and immediately thought - "Wow, Germany now becomes the national equivalent of a proxy. I guess 'torrent will survive after all.' Snark aside, If you don't have to log IP addys, awesome. If you can't log IP addys, uh, wha..?
This seems like a good question for a poll. If you really want to know how./ users would refocus linux development, give us 10-15 options, and let us vote.
According to http://www.wikipedia.org/: "Fascism is an authoritarian political ideology (generally tied to a mass movement) that considers individual and other societal interests subordinate to the needs of the state... ".
How is this different from 'Unitary Executive Privilege', in any real, practical, way? If the Prez thinks that it's necessary, then it's a go.
This is perfect - this new 'Linux Foundation' has the oomph to say 'If you want the protection of the OSDL, you now have to adhere to the LSB! If you do not accept distro-independent packaging, you will not get our lawyer-umbrella!'
Thank you for that last comment. I've just been turned onto alternate root servers by a friend (I'm young:), and now that I'm more aware of the situation, I'm all in favor of it.
The internet is directed by dotted quads, people. ICANN is just a database!
I mean, if SCO can get away with 'producing' litigation for money, why not this guy? Though, I'll admit, picking on Linux/FLOSS is a far cry from picking on the rest of the world
Yeah, but a fifth of a milliwatt is probably enough to power a simple RFID-style chip whose only purpose is to monitor things like tension on vessel walls, thus helping prevent CVA's and coronary crises. Another application, still on the wireless side, would be to transmit data from a scoping device - of course we have that now, but the images are sometimes crude, and the range is limited, and the opporitunity to feed more power into a transmitting device would help.
The applications for new tech are there, but applications for existing tech are quite exciting.
This reminds me of a friend who had a weekend solo-IT job that sucked rocks. His only solace was that he had a number of knoppix disks and would cluster all the unused boxes in his cube farm and use the processing power to render graphics. He thought about hiring it out, not by hour but by project, but we both agreed that no one would want the service...
I'm not a rank noob, as I've only been on Linux for a couple of years (not counting a flirting with it back in '98), but it seems to me that the greatest strength of Linux in a business environment would be best shown by using multiple distros. RHEL or FC for the server, Mandrake or a Debian flavor for the joe-user workstations. The Sysadmin can use Slack if he wants, and if you've got a truly hoary machine in the back room of the basement with ancient dust-covered ISA cards in it, or a brand-spanking-bleedingedge-new box that the Boss's cousin said 'was the best thing out there [sic]' well, that's what Gentoo is for.
The point is that to try to button down Linux into one distro is, IMHO, an artificial limitation to the OS that does more harm than good. Those in charge of the eventual switchover to Linux should get used to one of the its most attractive facets: choice.
Most rants against Bill are just that, Ad Hominem arguments. I agree with the poster - it's M$ that's often the problem, not Bill Gates. In fact, I'm very impressed with the philanthropic activity of the Gates Foundation, especially regarding malaria. The OS sucks, but flames often disregard that it was in the early days that Bill was a mover/shaker in the company, and now there should be more Ballmer than Gates rants. As for the philanthropic activity of the Gates Foundation, I'm just happy he's not using his excess millions building a M$-themed amusement park.
I understand your frustration - it mirrors mine for digital multitrack recorders. There is a whole crop of (fairly) cheap, small, 4- and 8-track recorders out there from the likes of Fostex, Tascam, Boss, and Zoom - they all have on-board digital effects processing and all record to CF or MicroDrive or such and all have a usb-port with which one may, among other things, 'upgrade the firmware'. So why not port a copy of mU-linux or Midori or such to it so that we can use c-sound or snd on it, run LADSPA plugins in it, or even after a crafty hack of the CF port, use it as a standalone multitrack recording card? No one wants to open the firmware, or even give out the specs. Hell, some of them (most notoriously Fostex: See http://www.zilber.org/fdms3rip/) record to a proprietary file format, that then needs a proprietary program to decipher it, available only to Win users. Really frustrating. I'd like to think that the manufacturers just don't understand what kind of possibilities exist for profit if they would only let the open-source community play with their machines (ie - the venerable Linksys WRT54G blue-box), and not that they know and 1) don't care or 2) only see short-term loss and not long-term gain.
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10 years? Right. The next real anniversary will be 2012-2013, the 20th anniversary of the founding of Slackware/Debian.
Exactly. I read this and immediately thought - "Wow, Germany now becomes the national equivalent of a proxy. I guess 'torrent will survive after all.' Snark aside, If you don't have to log IP addys, awesome. If you can't log IP addys, uh, wha..?
http://ask.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=311455&cid=20781875/ Seconding this. A T40 or T42 is your best bet. Secondly, an R series, next a G series, and only as a last resort, an X series.
This seems like a good question for a poll. If you really want to know how ./ users would refocus linux development, give us 10-15 options, and let us vote.
According to http://www.wikipedia.org/: "Fascism is an authoritarian political ideology (generally tied to a mass movement) that considers individual and other societal interests subordinate to the needs of the state
How is this different from 'Unitary Executive Privilege', in any real, practical, way? If the Prez thinks that it's necessary, then it's a go.
That's fascism.
This is perfect - this new 'Linux Foundation' has the oomph to say 'If you want the protection of the OSDL, you now have to adhere to the LSB! If you do not accept distro-independent packaging, you will not get our lawyer-umbrella!'
The internet is directed by dotted quads, people. ICANN is just a database!
I mean, if SCO can get away with 'producing' litigation for money, why not this guy? Though, I'll admit, picking on Linux/FLOSS is a far cry from picking on the rest of the world
What, he couldn't be an expat Aussie, Brit, or Canadian?
The applications for new tech are there, but applications for existing tech are quite exciting.
I wonder if he's seen this article
The point is that to try to button down Linux into one distro is, IMHO, an artificial limitation to the OS that does more harm than good. Those in charge of the eventual switchover to Linux should get used to one of the its most attractive facets: choice.
Most rants against Bill are just that, Ad Hominem arguments. I agree with the poster - it's M$ that's often the problem, not Bill Gates. In fact, I'm very impressed with the philanthropic activity of the Gates Foundation, especially regarding malaria. The OS sucks, but flames often disregard that it was in the early days that Bill was a mover/shaker in the company, and now there should be more Ballmer than Gates rants. As for the philanthropic activity of the Gates Foundation, I'm just happy he's not using his excess millions building a M$-themed amusement park.
I understand your frustration - it mirrors mine for digital multitrack recorders. There is a whole crop of (fairly) cheap, small, 4- and 8-track recorders out there from the likes of Fostex, Tascam, Boss, and Zoom - they all have on-board digital effects processing and all record to CF or MicroDrive or such and all have a usb-port with which one may, among other things, 'upgrade the firmware'. So why not port a copy of mU-linux or Midori or such to it so that we can use c-sound or snd on it, run LADSPA plugins in it, or even after a crafty hack of the CF port, use it as a standalone multitrack recording card? No one wants to open the firmware, or even give out the specs. Hell, some of them (most notoriously Fostex: See http://www.zilber.org/fdms3rip/) record to a proprietary file format, that then needs a proprietary program to decipher it, available only to Win users. Really frustrating. I'd like to think that the manufacturers just don't understand what kind of possibilities exist for profit if they would only let the open-source community play with their machines (ie - the venerable Linksys WRT54G blue-box), and not that they know and 1) don't care or 2) only see short-term loss and not long-term gain.
Thanks for the image; now I can say to other geeks "It looks like a long CF card"