A question: Is it possible to run DVD software in WINE? Could this be an interim solution? If you really are desperate to use that DVD player in Linux just have the windows software do its job and just watch it.
Uhh... maybe I missed the point but why should they? Think about it perhaps they should hire someone who actually can write crypto code that actually works. If you have the big bucks there is really no excuse to have crap. If I were bullied by someone there is no way in hell that I would actually help them what so ever in any way shape or form; that's just my way. I have been threatened by people (mostly because they're narrow minded and greedy) and have plotted revenge for quite a while. In the real world if you are good enough that you can crack crypto systems in production level environments on flagship products then perhaps you should go it alone and put that right near the top of your resume instead. How much work routinely goes to the credit of another? How many of the tasks at your daily job actually see you getting credit? Apart from explicit things in coding (games/Major software packages) that have credits most people go unsung.
Well I really don't do that sort of thing due to some really obvious things. One of them is that there are really not a whole lot of guides that are up to date enough to give a person who is just starting out some fair idea of how to do it. If anyone knows of one please give me a call. I really break out in a cold sweat when I have to handle several hundred dollars worth of expensive equipment.
I have always wondered about this but wouldn't that be the best place for say a really seriously overclocked group of machines? Just leave them outside during the winter in waterproof cases and let them go. Just keep the displays indoors. Since antartica has almost no precipitation anyway.
Well that isn't necessarily true. If you do things sneakily enough anonymous e-mail/webpage/internet access you really can go quite far with things. What is the upshot? You can definately get away with everything. They could even get some nobody and have him put his name on all the code and produce it without anyone knowing? I severly doubt that anyone could figure out that one.
The main difference in their eyes is that it's almost more of an emergent technology and medium. They want to control it steadily and slowly so that all people from here on out have to pay to use them with different taxes and encoders and various schemes. They just think that people who use linux are bad. Maybe this is perhaps because for the oversimplified reason that if I use a free OS then it makes me a cheap scate. Many people involved in making upper level policy devisions are usually not the type of people who can make strong intellectual arguments for or against a certain topic. It seems that free time activities are now more important than work. I would think that the increasing desire for measures like these are actions made by people who hate their current line of work and want to do something that they are perhaps better suited for. Their thought is why should an artist's life be hard and fraught with suffering. Now I know this is probably a really bad argument when such artists usually make several million dollars per picture enough to make them completely comfortable for the rest of their lives but it is an argument that is frequently used.
Well from what I have heard China is a really popular place to put material that people want and distribute it illegally. Even though the mainstream press has given them a bad pr image they still continue to thrive. I really would thing that any major third world country that hasn't anything really much to loose or is perhaps self contained could work for that purpose in theory. It's only in places where people are afraid of looking bad because it might endanger their payments on their new Porche or palatial home.
I have a good question does anyone have a copy of this program outside the country? If so something could be done that is similar to OpenBSD and gnupg! Just go to a country like Iran or perhaps China or Cuba and do all the development based there and in a distributed manner. No muss no fuss. I really can relate to having hardware that is not supported by people or not working properly. Since in the linux world the most expensive thing is not the OS it's the hardware.
there's a program called alien which does a fairly good job of converting between stampeede's, redhat's, and debian's package formats. Plus good ol'.tar.gz or.tgz (dos version/Slackware) format.
1. They have to my knowledge "system profiles" or the type of installation that you would like say something for developers, servers, standard workstations, etc
2. Quite excellent if you use packages that aren't too beta. Usually most of even the really far out pre alpha stuff usually works fine. Much better that a comparative level in Red Hat. As Rob mentioned apt-get can remotely update the system overnight or anytime with a cron job or such. I actually have never yet had to destroy my debian partition to upgrade from slink to any of the unstable stuff so I guess that says something.
On a somewhat debian related note.
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I have spent time with gnome and wondered about gdm. I installed the newest version for quite a while and have never had any success with it. It complains saying "module unknown" whenever I try to login as any user at the login prompt. And nothing I do seems to help. It appears to be that the package uses pam to get its data for logins or something but that may not be the problem. Oh that and I have some packages that refuse to purge themselves from my system (with dpkg --purge "package name").
Ok maybe I am new to the concept but on a regular machine (not a server console) that many terminals is not only overkill but almost suicide. Now I am not saying that linux would crash but it would be far more likely to take a really long time to respond. Case in point I have a machine that I wanted a little more hd space on. I had the e2compr patch in the kernel to compress things so I decided last night to compress the libraries in/lib and the gimp ones in/usr/lib/gimp or something like that. Well I started the application and waited this morning by about 7am or so it was still not finished with the load screen. The machine wasn't in a crashed state but it wouldn't respond to any commands mouse events in a timely manner or even allow me to quit the window manager. I was forced to restart the machine with the reset button. the point is if you find that you are having a hard time keeping things straight just do one important task at a time or at least a few. Maybe even use say splitvt to organize the window into halves and cut down on the number of xterms used in the first place. What might be better is to have say a tree structure with labels and things using XML or whatever is en vouge and label things with text with the task being accomplished. that way organization would be better. I could just see some large multidimentional grid system with a never ending sea of windows. I don't know about confusion but I have to move a mouse around in that see of crap I would soon get so lost I might just cry.
it was because it was so expensive, failure prone.
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When something costs incredibly large ammounts of money or has a good chance of failure (such as the aeroplane) then people don't really like to take chances.
I feel that if people would not "waste" their time (being defined as something nonproductive) then perhaps we would have cures for AIDS, cancer, and for people who are alone on Saturday nights. It's because people are naturally lazy that we have such slow progress. The people who are so gifted should maximize the work that can be done so that perhaps we can in some future time have more gifted people. Eventually under the right conditions most of us could become like Einstein or better if only for a better environment patterned after a better learning style.
Until people make this better for the average man on an average budget people will not buy this anyway; especially if microsoft gets into the game. Operations on a 3d world cost of LOT of CPU cycles and a TON of memory. Until quad Overclocked Merceed, or Beowulf systems with a Terabyte of ram in them this will be difficult.
Why do ideas that are new or "innovative" always get touted as the best ideas? Ok I have an innovative idea why don't we just take nuclear waste that we have buried in the ground and use it for snack cakes? Maybe we can eventually adapt to the radiation and make it our friend. What about bringing back byplanes with 10 wings on them they were pretty good weren't they? The point is that in some areas of human endeavours people have advanced to the point that they cannot progress very far with a significant ammount of resources being expended. Take computers. Eventually processors will stop increasing in speed and power and prices will corespondingly rise because no one can innovate anymore. Then we will return to the era of the 1970's where only the very rich could even see a computer let alone touch one.
Alright I see something here but.
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So called "futurists" like Caral Sagan and other scifi/philosophers have said that we should have moon bases established and be to mars and back by now. I don't see any of that happening.
1. Cost 1.1. It will cost quite a bit to produce machines at the mollecular and sub mollecular level. The smaller the parts the more you have to spend to build it. 1.1.1. (ex) Swiss Watch 1.1.2. Intel CPU's 1.1.3. gem work 1.2. To get a technology to be widespread in industry you need to have it cheaply mass produced 1.2.1. Overhead will prevent this due to creation of machines. 2. Speed 2.1. Something has to have speed to have any value in modern society. 2.1.1. Competition will see to this and naturally force others to increase speed of their creation process. 2.1.2. Supply and Demand 2.1.2.1. Cost will skyrocket with increasing demand due to slow time 3. Range of Tasks 3.1. Anything on even a small scale to humans will not be possible cheaply. 3.1.1. They are small and even if they work fast will not be able to do anything faster than a group of humans. 3.2. Tasks that are dangerous will still mostly be preformed with people just paid more. 3.2.1. (ex) Most people wouldn't part their new Fararri in the slums for a couple of weeks and leave the keys in the ignition. 3.2.2. No one wants to risk an investment on something that has little possibility of success.
Well one problem is that you can't anything really interesting with Mindstorms anyway. Can you create something that could map out a terain of a room on demand. Cary a load and move out of the way? Can it sense depth? If this cannot be done with what lego has provided in the box it is largely useless. Since most people have no knowledge about constructing, building, and maintaining.
The AI argument is almost impossible. I have never even seen anything (well except the doctor eliza type things) that do anything really cool. Most of AI is based on complex very difficult to understand principles that almost no one can understand without the use of at least 4 years of post calculus math anyway. If it's so easy why hasn't anyone produced an opensourced AI program for communication. The day I can have a scintiliating discussion on Voltaire, Dickens, and the Existential nature of man with my computer I will believe.
Isn't this more of a curiousity thing than something useful. Legos cannot do anything more than act as a semi-regid structure. They cannot take extremes of heat, chemical spills or pressures. You really couldn't use these robots for anything except to boost your robot building ego.
Well for most sites that might work to have it updated in such a fashion. However for something like slashdot or perhaps ebay it would not. Due to almost up to the second updates.
What would would be better would be to have something that is independent of the CPU or memory of the system. Maybe something with a LCD on the front running top or something so that one could see all the interesting things that are there.
As I understand it gateway makes 90%+ of it's money from family systems and not from business class servers which these appear to be. How many people are going (besides geeks) to buy one of these? I really don't go to some computer store and buy a sytem for $15,000 just to have it outdated in a couple of years when a new motherboard design or a new chipset comes out.
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A question: Is it possible to run DVD software in WINE? Could this be an interim solution? If you really are desperate to use that DVD player in Linux just have the windows software do its job and just watch it.
Uhh... maybe I missed the point but why should they? Think about it perhaps they should hire someone who actually can write crypto code that actually works. If you have the big bucks there is really no excuse to have crap. If I were bullied by someone there is no way in hell that I would actually help them what so ever in any way shape or form; that's just my way. I have been threatened by people (mostly because they're narrow minded and greedy) and have plotted revenge for quite a while. In the real world if you are good enough that you can crack crypto systems in production level environments on flagship products then perhaps you should go it alone and put that right near the top of your resume instead. How much work routinely goes to the credit of another? How many of the tasks at your daily job actually see you getting credit? Apart from explicit things in coding (games/Major software packages) that have credits most people go unsung.
Well I really don't do that sort of thing due to some really obvious things. One of them is that there are really not a whole lot of guides that are up to date enough to give a person who is just starting out some fair idea of how to do it. If anyone knows of one please give me a call. I really break out in a cold sweat when I have to handle several hundred dollars worth of expensive equipment.
I have always wondered about this but wouldn't that be the best place for say a really seriously overclocked group of machines? Just leave them outside during the winter in waterproof cases and let them go. Just keep the displays indoors. Since antartica has almost no precipitation anyway.
Well that isn't necessarily true. If you do things sneakily enough anonymous e-mail/webpage/internet access you really can go quite far with things. What is the upshot? You can definately get away with everything. They could even get some nobody and have him put his name on all the code and produce it without anyone knowing? I severly doubt that anyone could figure out that one.
The main difference in their eyes is that it's almost more of an emergent technology and medium. They want to control it steadily and slowly so that all people from here on out have to pay to use them with different taxes and encoders and various schemes. They just think that people who use linux are bad. Maybe this is perhaps because for the oversimplified reason that if I use a free OS then it makes me a cheap scate. Many people involved in making upper level policy devisions are usually not the type of people who can make strong intellectual arguments for or against a certain topic. It seems that free time activities are now more important than work. I would think that the increasing desire for measures like these are actions made by people who hate their current line of work and want to do something that they are perhaps better suited for. Their thought is why should an artist's life be hard and fraught with suffering. Now I know this is probably a really bad argument when such artists usually make several million dollars per picture enough to make them completely comfortable for the rest of their lives but it is an argument that is frequently used.
Well from what I have heard China is a really popular place to put material that people want and distribute it illegally. Even though the mainstream press has given them a bad pr image they still continue to thrive. I really would thing that any major third world country that hasn't anything really much to loose or is perhaps self contained could work for that purpose in theory. It's only in places where people are afraid of looking bad because it might endanger their payments on their new Porche or palatial home.
I have a good question does anyone have a copy of this program outside the country? If so something could be done that is similar to OpenBSD and gnupg! Just go to a country like Iran or perhaps China or Cuba and do all the development based there and in a distributed manner. No muss no fuss. I really can relate to having hardware that is not supported by people or not working properly. Since in the linux world the most expensive thing is not the OS it's the hardware.
there's a program called alien which does a fairly good job of converting between stampeede's, redhat's, and debian's package formats. Plus good ol' .tar.gz or .tgz (dos version/Slackware) format.
1. They have to my knowledge "system profiles" or the type of installation that you would like say something for developers, servers, standard workstations, etc
2. Quite excellent if you use packages that aren't too beta. Usually most of even the really far out pre alpha stuff usually works fine. Much better that a comparative level in Red Hat. As Rob mentioned apt-get can remotely update the system overnight or anytime with a cron job or such. I actually have never yet had to destroy my debian partition to upgrade from slink to any of the unstable stuff so I guess that says something.
I have spent time with gnome and wondered about gdm. I installed the newest version for quite a while and have never had any success with it. It complains saying "module unknown" whenever I try to login as any user at the login prompt. And nothing I do seems to help. It appears to be that the package uses pam to get its data for logins or something but that may not be the problem. Oh that and I have some packages that refuse to purge themselves from my system (with dpkg --purge "package name").
Ok maybe I am new to the concept but on a regular machine (not a server console) that many terminals is not only overkill but almost suicide. Now I am not saying that linux would crash but it would be far more likely to take a really long time to respond. Case in point I have a machine that I wanted a little more hd space on. I had the e2compr patch in the kernel to compress things so I decided last night to compress the libraries in /lib and the gimp ones in /usr/lib/gimp or something like that. Well I started the application and waited this morning by about 7am or so it was still not finished with the load screen. The machine wasn't in a crashed state but it wouldn't respond to any commands mouse events in a timely manner or even allow me to quit the window manager. I was forced to restart the machine with the reset button. the point is if you find that you are having a hard time keeping things straight just do one important task at a time or at least a few. Maybe even use say splitvt to organize the window into halves and cut down on the number of xterms used in the first place. What might be better is to have say a tree structure with labels and things using XML or whatever is en vouge and label things with text with the task being accomplished. that way organization would be better. I could just see some large multidimentional grid system with a never ending sea of windows. I don't know about confusion but I have to move a mouse around in that see of crap I would soon get so lost I might just cry.
When something costs incredibly large ammounts of money or has a good chance of failure (such as the aeroplane) then people don't really like to take chances.
I feel that if people would not "waste" their time (being defined as something nonproductive) then perhaps we would have cures for AIDS, cancer, and for people who are alone on Saturday nights. It's because people are naturally lazy that we have such slow progress. The people who are so gifted should maximize the work that can be done so that perhaps we can in some future time have more gifted people. Eventually under the right conditions most of us could become like Einstein or better if only for a better environment patterned after a better learning style.
Until people make this better for the average man on an average budget people will not buy this anyway; especially if microsoft gets into the game. Operations on a 3d world cost of LOT of CPU cycles and a TON of memory. Until quad Overclocked Merceed, or Beowulf systems with a Terabyte of ram in them this will be difficult.
Why do ideas that are new or "innovative" always get touted as the best ideas? Ok I have an innovative idea why don't we just take nuclear waste that we have buried in the ground and use it for snack cakes? Maybe we can eventually adapt to the radiation and make it our friend. What about bringing back byplanes with 10 wings on them they were pretty good weren't they? The point is that in some areas of human endeavours people have advanced to the point that they cannot progress very far with a significant ammount of resources being expended. Take computers. Eventually processors will stop increasing in speed and power and prices will corespondingly rise because no one can innovate anymore. Then we will return to the era of the 1970's where only the very rich could even see a computer let alone touch one.
So called "futurists" like Caral Sagan and other scifi/philosophers have said that we should have moon bases established and be to mars and back by now. I don't see any of that happening.
I actually tried a recent 2.2.7 kernel (back then) and even added verbose scsi support analysis.
411? sounds like some kind of httpd response code can't remember which though.
1. Cost 1.1. It will cost quite a bit to produce machines at the mollecular and sub mollecular level. The smaller the parts the more you have to spend to build it. 1.1.1. (ex) Swiss Watch 1.1.2. Intel CPU's 1.1.3. gem work 1.2. To get a technology to be widespread in industry you need to have it cheaply mass produced 1.2.1. Overhead will prevent this due to creation of machines. 2. Speed 2.1. Something has to have speed to have any value in modern society. 2.1.1. Competition will see to this and naturally force others to increase speed of their creation process. 2.1.2. Supply and Demand 2.1.2.1. Cost will skyrocket with increasing demand due to slow time 3. Range of Tasks 3.1. Anything on even a small scale to humans will not be possible cheaply. 3.1.1. They are small and even if they work fast will not be able to do anything faster than a group of humans. 3.2. Tasks that are dangerous will still mostly be preformed with people just paid more. 3.2.1. (ex) Most people wouldn't part their new Fararri in the slums for a couple of weeks and leave the keys in the ignition. 3.2.2. No one wants to risk an investment on something that has little possibility of success.
Well one problem is that you can't anything really interesting with Mindstorms anyway. Can you create something that could map out a terain of a room on demand. Cary a load and move out of the way? Can it sense depth? If this cannot be done with what lego has provided in the box it is largely useless. Since most people have no knowledge about constructing, building, and maintaining.
The AI argument is almost impossible. I have never even seen anything (well except the doctor eliza type things) that do anything really cool. Most of AI is based on complex very difficult to understand principles that almost no one can understand without the use of at least 4 years of post calculus math anyway. If it's so easy why hasn't anyone produced an opensourced AI program for communication. The day I can have a scintiliating discussion on Voltaire, Dickens, and the Existential nature of man with my computer I will believe.
wasn't Lego keeping the working of mindstorms secret a while ago? Could this be a breach of copyright?
Isn't this more of a curiousity thing than something useful. Legos cannot do anything more than act as a semi-regid structure. They cannot take extremes of heat, chemical spills or pressures. You really couldn't use these robots for anything except to boost your robot building ego.
Well for most sites that might work to have it updated in such a fashion. However for something like slashdot or perhaps ebay it would not. Due to almost up to the second updates.
What would would be better would be to have something that is independent of the CPU or memory of the system. Maybe something with a LCD on the front running top or something so that one could see all the interesting things that are there.
As I understand it gateway makes 90%+ of it's money from family systems and not from business class servers which these appear to be. How many people are going (besides geeks) to buy one of these? I really don't go to some computer store and buy a sytem for $15,000 just to have it outdated in a couple of years when a new motherboard design or a new chipset comes out.