I would LOVE to know how my comment is redundant, since there were 8 comments when I posted this. MGS1 is quite possibly one of the best games ever, and playing a REAL MGS game and not some turn-based half-RPG half Pokemon card game like Metal Gear Ac!d on the PSP would indeed be a breakthrough. Jesus this place has gone to hell in a handbasket.
How is this different from the web server logging every page and image you load?
Is the concern that the 'ping' comes from your browser and not any proxy server you may be using? In most cases your proxy server is also your NAT server so the 'ping' isn't going to give much of anything about your IP....
Of course this should be disabled by default, I just don't see this as a huge privacy issue.
...that current outsourcing trends slow enough due to a competent IT worker shortage in India (for what piddling amounts the US companies are currently willing to shell out for outsourced positions anyway), such that the US labor costs can drop slowly. This would allow existing US IT workers can continue to find *some* work and do nice things like FEED THEIR FAMILIES until the global economies even out. This will likely take years though, so I'm not holding my breath.
At the megacorp where I worked we tried filling a Perl/sysadmin type position to work from India for a YEAR. I know those poeple are out there, they just need to pay them more $$$.
What, exactly, are you talking about? Scheduling meetings via Outlook only requires that
1) People keep their calendar free/busy updated (we do this). 2) Conference rooms are booked as part of the process (we have this).
No human intervention required, this works GREAT in Outlook/Exchange, and this is coming from a 6 year Linux sysadmin. I would love nothing more than running SOMETHING besides outlook, but when you look at these two issues, stability and integration, there is nothing for us to switch to if we move desktops to Linux.
The problem keeping Linux from the desktop at my large corporate environment is not just email, it's email integration and reliability. I can get email all I want, but if I can't request and accept meeting requests, book meeting rooms reliably through email, etc, Linux has no chance here. The exchange connector plugin for Evolution has historically been completely unstable, which does not even give us a migration path away from M$ exchange.
Yes, we should use remote applications wherever possible, why stop at the e-mail client level. I should have to be connected to the network to boot up my computer! Diskless workstations are indeed the future, local applications are doomed!
Wasn't overly interested when/. linked to another site's review of this game several months ago, does this game (or any game) merit two review articles in as many months?
or did it seem like (to those of you who actually READ TFA) that this wasn't really a preview at all? For the majority of the new features and differences between V2 and V3, RMS answered to the effect of 'well, if we can find a way to do that' or 'well we're not done studying the issue'. I understand the word preview, but I didn't get the feeling from the interview that there definitely ARE any significant changes from v2 yet.
My advise: but the losses. Remove any claim that the LSB will ensure any additional level of assurance for developers. To some extend, I think, the claims a scaled back meanwhile, if I understood Art correctly. It might be useful to still provide the test suites but given their quality, this is questionable at best, too. I'd rather see new tests to be written, maybe as an extension of the POSIX test suite Intel started. After they added the 100+ reports I sent and those others sent the test suite is a somewhat good reflection of who a Linux implementation should behave (important: I wrote Linux and not POSIX).
I think another duplicate story about the US not releasing control over ICANN would generate more interest than this story. FWIW I love the original game as well, but would NOT expect to see a review of the sequel as a slashdot story.
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How about some more computer raps? "Ratz" and "Boy's dont cry" are the closest I've heard of your work to a computer-related song, any chance of getting some Linux-related rhymes?:)
But also, About time! Original ETA of Launch was May. Still nice to have a new release of this wonderfully portable OS. Hopefully the ddefault kernel install includes filesystem crypto.
I'm very happy for OpenBSD's and FreeBSD's recent releases, but where the heck is NetBSD 2.0? I thought the original timeline was late May '04? Any NetBSD developers know the inside scoop on this? I'm sure the logo contest did not push back the relase of the whole OS!
that the date stamps are not preserved. I was looking at the old SLS distributions and all the date stamps say September 2003. You want to see 199[1234] for it to be really 3117 retro:)
Well, nano is, the bug you refer to is for the 1.1 (development) series, not the 1.0 series. The segfaults mentioned in that bug report referred to the in-progress syntax hilighting and.nanorc file support. 1.0 has been out for over a year, and as I said originally the fix for the wrapping issue has been out for 4 months.
some of the speed issues are rather maddening. Consider: I work very closely with the debian maintainer for nano, in fact I'd say we are friends. He has done his best to get a particular nasty issue, in fact the problem was annoying enough that it required a fix upstream (on my end). But even though two official releases have gone by since the fix was put in upstream, it may not in fact end up in the first release of woody, four months later. I have used debian for probably 5 years now, but I have to wonder if source distros like gentoo have the right idea about making the user decide how to compile his or her package which severely cuts down the burden on the package maintainers. I guess it all comes back to how to balance the burden of upstream/package maintainer/end user...
Unfortunately, CMatrix currently and will probably always need a terminal to run in, because it uses ncurses. What many people seem to like doing is running it in a transparent terminal the size of the root window that is lowered/always on bottom. More simply, you could use xmatrix from jwz's Xscreensaver . It depends on which program you prefer and how much hassle you want to deal with.
I believe 0.9.8 is due out tomorrow. Is anyone else foaming at the mouth for this release like me?:) Can't wait... well I can wait long enough not to download nightlies and pretend it's the real release.
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I would LOVE to know how my comment is redundant, since there were 8 comments when I posted this. MGS1 is quite possibly one of the best games ever, and playing a REAL MGS game and not some turn-based half-RPG half Pokemon card game like Metal Gear Ac!d on the PSP would indeed be a breakthrough. Jesus this place has gone to hell in a handbasket.
Metal Gear Solid on PSP!
Nuff said
How is this different from the web server logging every page and image you load?
Is the concern that the 'ping' comes from your browser and not any proxy server you may be using? In most cases your proxy server is also your NAT server so the 'ping' isn't going to give much of anything about your IP....
Of course this should be disabled by default, I just don't see this as a huge privacy issue.
...that current outsourcing trends slow enough due to a competent IT worker shortage in India (for what piddling amounts the US companies are currently willing to shell out for outsourced positions anyway), such that the US labor costs can drop slowly. This would allow existing US IT workers can continue to find *some* work and do nice things like FEED THEIR FAMILIES until the global economies even out. This will likely take years though, so I'm not holding my breath.
At the megacorp where I worked we tried filling a Perl/sysadmin type position to work from India for a YEAR. I know those poeple are out there, they just need to pay them more $$$.
What, exactly, are you talking about? Scheduling meetings via Outlook only requires that
1) People keep their calendar free/busy updated (we do this).
2) Conference rooms are booked as part of the process (we have this).
No human intervention required, this works GREAT in Outlook/Exchange, and this is coming from a 6 year Linux sysadmin. I would love nothing more than running SOMETHING besides outlook, but when you look at these two issues, stability and integration, there is nothing for us to switch to if we move desktops to Linux.
The problem keeping Linux from the desktop at my large corporate environment is not just email, it's email integration and reliability. I can get email all I want, but if I can't request and accept meeting requests, book meeting rooms reliably through email, etc, Linux has no chance here. The exchange connector plugin for Evolution has historically been completely unstable, which does not even give us a migration path away from M$ exchange.
Yes, we should use remote applications wherever possible, why stop at the e-mail client level. I should have to be connected to the network to boot up my computer! Diskless workstations are indeed the future, local applications are doomed!
Wasn't overly interested when /. linked to another site's review of this game several months ago, does this game (or any game) merit two review articles in as many months?
or did it seem like (to those of you who actually READ TFA) that this wasn't really a preview at all? For the majority of the new features and differences between V2 and V3, RMS answered to the effect of 'well, if we can find a way to do that' or 'well we're not done studying the issue'. I understand the word preview, but I didn't get the feeling from the interview that there definitely ARE any significant changes from v2 yet.
Anyone?
I think another duplicate story about the US not releasing control over ICANN would generate more interest than this story. FWIW I love the original game as well, but would NOT expect to see a review of the sequel as a slashdot story.
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mc, love your stuff!
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How about some more computer raps? "Ratz" and "Boy's dont cry" are the closest I've heard of your work to a computer-related song, any chance of getting some Linux-related rhymes?
Wow, I didn't think I'd have to whip out the tags for something so blatant, I guess the slashdot crowd is more ill-humored than I remember.
the breaking news about Mandrake acquiring Connectiva??
But also, About time! Original ETA of Launch was May. Still nice to have a new release of this wonderfully portable OS. Hopefully the ddefault kernel install includes filesystem crypto.
I'm very happy for OpenBSD's and FreeBSD's recent releases, but where the heck is NetBSD 2.0? I thought the original timeline was late May '04? Any NetBSD developers know the inside scoop on this? I'm sure the logo contest did not push back the relase of the whole OS!
Update: Oops, looks like we don't even know what the fsck GPL stands for and we're supposed to be a mouthpiece for the FS/OS community! Silly us.
Yes, I have a Tungsten E and Aeroplayer works great. Haven' regiestered it yet though, but it is a great player.
that the date stamps are not preserved. I was looking at the old SLS distributions and all the date stamps say September 2003. You want to see 199[1234] for it to be really 3117 retro :)
He probably means Hercules graphics, was there an acronym HGA? :)
Well, nano is, the bug you refer to is for the 1.1 (development) series, not the 1.0 series. The segfaults mentioned in that bug report referred to the in-progress syntax hilighting and .nanorc file support. 1.0 has been out for over a year, and as I said originally the fix for the wrapping issue has been out for 4 months.
some of the speed issues are rather maddening. Consider: I work very closely with the debian maintainer for
nano, in fact I'd say we are friends. He has done his best to get a particular nasty issue, in fact the problem was annoying enough that it required a fix upstream (on my end). But even though two official releases have gone by since the fix was put in upstream, it may not in fact end up in the first release of woody, four months later. I have used debian for probably 5 years now, but I have to wonder if source distros like gentoo have the right idea about making the user decide how to compile his or her package which severely cuts down the burden on the package maintainers. I guess it all comes back to how to balance the burden of upstream/package maintainer/end user...
Unfortunately, CMatrix currently and will probably always need a terminal to run in, because it uses ncurses. What many people seem to like doing is running it in a transparent terminal the size of the root window that is lowered/always on bottom. More simply, you could use xmatrix from jwz's Xscreensaver
. It depends on which program you prefer and how much hassle you want to deal with.
I believe 0.9.8 is due out tomorrow. Is anyone else foaming at the mouth for this release like me? :) Can't wait... well I can wait long enough not to download nightlies and pretend it's the real release.