Inferno is the successor of Plan 9 and very similar in some ways.
Since the project has not taken off as much as it could have, many people have suggested that it be made "open" to further its development. Hopefully, the positive responses from the decision to release Plan 9 as Open Source will convince the guys at Bell Labs that releasing Inferno as well would be a good idea.
Harddisks: IBM has the Deskstar 75GXP series, Seagate the Barrac uda-ATA II, and Quantum apparently owns the patent, so they must be about to release something. Maxtor claim to be shipping ATA/100 drives already (either new versions of the not-so-new DiamondMax Plus 40, for example, or perhaps they had to hold back that announcement until Quantum allowed it).
As for mainboards, the Abit KA7-100 is out and new chipsets will support ATA/100 as well (like the SiS730s).
This is obviously an attempt to blackmail the US government - "if you punish us, you'll lose billions of taxes". Let's see if they'll give in to that, or if it's going to put the last nail in Microsoft's coffin.
If these absurd patent claims continue, programmers should start to simply ignore patents as a form of civil obedience.
The claim in question is absurd both because POST and GET were in use many years before the patent was granted and also because the patent would apply more to RPC-like mechanisms than POST ("and provides an illusion to a user that a desired utility service supported on a remote host resides locally on the user's local host...").
Someone in the vincinity please print out the patent claim and information about the lawsuit and nail it to Mr. Dickinson's forehead.
There are plenty of shopping bots that search online stores for current prices, so you don't get the "special pricwatch price" effect. I run the largest of these in Austria (www.geizhals.at), but I know that there plenty of these in the US. dealtime.com is somewhat well-known these days because of the evenbetter.com merger.
MTV Europe (the German version) might show Dr.Dre less often than MTV in the US. Perhaps I just don't watch enough TV during the day when they play hip-hop and Rap music. Perhaps we generally watch less TV here than you do in the US.:-)
Seagram certainly isn't particularly visible here either. The big players in chemicals over here are Bayer and BASF. Some of the brands in this list look familiar though.
CSS was a bad idea because it went beyond simple copy(right) protection. It was used to control the distribution of DVD material as well and it took away the consumers' right to purchase films wherever they wanted, and consequently in some cases, to play a movie they legally owned on a player the also owned, just because the industry wanted it that way. They didn't respect the consumers' rights, so many people thought that their rights didn't deserve respect either.
By design, the software promotes copyright violation
You could say that about ICQ as well - it makes it easy to transfer files between users, it just isn't too mp3-centric. You could say it about Usenet, which even provides an infrastructure for anyonymous trading of child pornography. You could say that the Internet promotes piracy because "it allows you to use Napster". But where do you draw the line?
The real issue is that copyrights can't be enforced efficiently on the Internet without limiting the users' ability to use mechanisms like Napster or Usenet for legal purposes. It's up to the interested parties to create a technology that makes the protection of copyrights possible, instead of demanding that personal freedom be restricted because they can't protect themselves otherwise.
You mean most of the US? Perhaps your view (and that of the people who wrote more inflammatory responses I won't bother dealing with) is too US-centric. I certainly hadn't heard of Dr.Dre before the Napster incident and while I'm not a music freak, I even watch MTV occasionally. As for Seagram - OK, I was wrong in deducing from the bland look of their pages and the stupidity of their president that they're not important. But tell me, why should I have heard of them? Is there anything about that company that should matter to someone not involved with the film industry?
What does that Seagram company have to do with Napster anyway? This smells like an unknown company trying to get some visibility through controversial press releases. It worked for unkown artists like Dr. Dre, so why shouldn't it work for some company noone has ever heard of, eh? I wish they wouldn't get the visibility on/. at least.
Here in Europe, the record industry and their associated bloodsucking associations get royalties from sales of CD recordables and recently they've sued Hewlett-Packard to force royalties on CD recorders as well. Also, they're demanding royalties for mp3 players, but downloading mp3's is still illegal. The consumer has to pay, but has no rights to what he paid for.
I was fascinated with programming when my dad typed in a small "number guessing" program to keep me busy. Perhaps a modern equivalent would be something written in Quake-C...
XML has got to be the best config file format; other text formats have problems with being parsed after you hand edit them; this should not.
Argh. XML is hardly any easier to parse than, say,.INI files. It's more verbose, i.e. wastes space and time (you need to close tags usually) and you also have to be careful with "" etc. XML is just so over-hyped that everyone thinks it must be the best file format for any content.
I found the answers to the small fonts problem pretty lame. It is a fact that on some X systems such as mine (XF4, 75dpi), the font displayed is scaled down to such a small size, that it's distorted and for the most part, unreadable without much effort. Zeldman can blame Netscape as much as he wants, but if he considers himself unable to work around browser deficiencies, he should give it up and stick with .
A "2/3rds" solution is just not something a good web designer should be satified with.
Unreasonable deadlines and too few programmers are usually the reason for pulling all-nighters, it seems to me. Other environments where those kind of things aren't necessary can be found in the vincinity of banks and insurance companies, so look there if you want relaxed programming jobs.
That number is way inflated. I think you can safely assume that those "net cops" did their best to get as a large a number as possible - and who can verify whether those people actually traded Metallica mp3, just performed search queries, were just innocent bystanders in chat rooms where Metallica mp3's were traded, or were not involved at all?
I haven't looked at slash recently, but it didn't look like it was written in a way that should waste a lot of memory when running with mod_perl.
I've got a huge old CGI script running under mod_perl (worked after a few kludges and lots of "my" statements) that causes the httpd processes to look like this:
Ugly, eh? I had to put 512M in the webserver after getting more than 40.000 views/day for some time (the static content is served by a thttpd already).
Slashdot Mirror
On the other hand, both examples look much better than the non-antialiased text I'm used to looking at under Linux... :-/
Since the project has not taken off as much as it could have, many people have suggested that it be made "open" to further its development. Hopefully, the positive responses from the decision to release Plan 9 as Open Source will convince the guys at Bell Labs that releasing Inferno as well would be a good idea.
OK, OK, so it's late...
As for mainboards, the Abit KA7-100 is out and new chipsets will support ATA/100 as well (like the SiS730s).
Now, if they ship a Playstation 2 emulator with it, it might become one even if it's 1 year late.
This is obviously an attempt to blackmail the US government - "if you punish us, you'll lose billions of taxes". Let's see if they'll give in to that, or if it's going to put the last nail in Microsoft's coffin.
Just use
mpg123 -s file.mp3|encoder_example>file.ogg
(encoder_example is from vorbis/examples).
Also, they should seriously consider making an Open Source toolkit available for Unix if they want more support...
I meant disobedience, of course.
The claim in question is absurd both because POST and GET were in use many years before the patent was granted and also because the patent would apply more to RPC-like mechanisms than POST ("and provides an illusion to a user that a desired utility service supported on a remote host resides locally on the user's local host...").
Someone in the vincinity please print out the patent claim and information about the lawsuit and nail it to Mr. Dickinson's forehead.
There are plenty of shopping bots that search online stores for current prices, so you don't get the "special pricwatch price" effect. I run the largest of these in Austria (www.geizhals.at), but I know that there plenty of these in the US. dealtime.com is somewhat well-known these days because of the evenbetter.com merger.
Seagram certainly isn't particularly visible here either. The big players in chemicals over here are Bayer and BASF. Some of the brands in this list look familiar though.
CSS was a bad idea because it went beyond simple copy(right) protection. It was used to control the distribution of DVD material as well and it took away the consumers' right to purchase films wherever they wanted, and consequently in some cases, to play a movie they legally owned on a player the also owned, just because the industry wanted it that way. They didn't respect the consumers' rights, so many people thought that their rights didn't deserve respect either.
You could say that about ICQ as well - it makes it easy to transfer files between users, it just isn't too mp3-centric. You could say it about Usenet, which even provides an infrastructure for anyonymous trading of child pornography. You could say that the Internet promotes piracy because "it allows you to use Napster". But where do you draw the line?
The real issue is that copyrights can't be enforced efficiently on the Internet without limiting the users' ability to use mechanisms like Napster or Usenet for legal purposes. It's up to the interested parties to create a technology that makes the protection of copyrights possible, instead of demanding that personal freedom be restricted because they can't protect themselves otherwise.
I apologize not knowing Dr.Dre, but ... I don't feel too bad about it.
You mean most of the US? Perhaps your view (and that of the people who wrote more inflammatory responses I won't bother dealing with) is too US-centric. I certainly hadn't heard of Dr.Dre before the Napster incident and while I'm not a music freak, I even watch MTV occasionally. As for Seagram - OK, I was wrong in deducing from the bland look of their pages and the stupidity of their president that they're not important. But tell me, why should I have heard of them? Is there anything about that company that should matter to someone not involved with the film industry?
What does that Seagram company have to do with Napster anyway? This smells like an unknown company trying to get some visibility through controversial press releases. It worked for unkown artists like Dr. Dre, so why shouldn't it work for some company noone has ever heard of, eh? I wish they wouldn't get the visibility on /. at least.
Here in Europe, the record industry and their associated bloodsucking associations get royalties from sales of CD recordables and recently they've sued Hewlett-Packard to force royalties on CD recorders as well. Also, they're demanding royalties for mp3 players, but downloading mp3's is still illegal. The consumer has to pay, but has no rights to what he paid for.
I was fascinated with programming when my dad typed in a small "number guessing" program to keep me busy. Perhaps a modern equivalent would be something written in Quake-C...
That's a good example of things to watch out for when editing HTML or XML while thinking of the content and not of syntax... :-/
Argh. XML is hardly any easier to parse than, say, .INI files. It's more verbose, i.e. wastes space and time (you need to close tags usually) and you also have to be careful with "" etc. XML is just so over-hyped that everyone thinks it must be the best file format for any content.
A "2/3rds" solution is just not something a good web designer should be satified with.
Unreasonable deadlines and too few programmers are usually the reason for pulling all-nighters, it seems to me. Other environments where those kind of things aren't necessary can be found in the vincinity of banks and insurance companies, so look there if you want relaxed programming jobs.
That number is way inflated. I think you can safely assume that those "net cops" did their best to get as a large a number as possible - and who can verify whether those people actually traded Metallica mp3, just performed search queries, were just innocent bystanders in chat rooms where Metallica mp3's were traded, or were not involved at all?
I've got a huge old CGI script running under mod_perl (worked after a few kludges and lots of "my" statements) that causes the httpd processes to look like this:
5808 nobody 2 0 25848K 7964K accept 0:45 0.00% 0.00% apache
5807 nobody 2 0 30476K 15428K accept 0:44 0.00% 0.00% apache
5809 nobody 2 0 31736K 17108K accept 0:44 0.00% 0.00% apache
Ugly, eh? I had to put 512M in the webserver after getting more than 40.000 views/day for some time (the static content is served by a thttpd already).