I have enjoyed the GTA series, and really hope that EA does not take over Take Two. I can't remember a single game that ever came out EA that I would want to play again. The last game I remember playing was Need for Speed, number 2. EA would destroy that what makes Take Two such an awesome game publishing company!
FreeBSD brings a stable OS to the desktop user. Since both userland and kernel are in the same source tree, and are developed concurrently, any changes in the kernel will be immediately reflected in the userland utilities. What does this mean? Well, if I upgrade my kernel and my world, I will know that I always have a perfectly functioning system. It takes the guess work out of upgrades.
Besides that? I find that it is more consistent. If you move from one Linux distribution to another, you need to go hunting for the configuration files, they are not in a set location as specified by man hier. I know that when I install something from the ports tree, the configuration files can always be found in/usr/local/etc/, which is a nice change from having to hunt in/var/www/httpd for Apache's configuration file and/opt/etc/ for the dhcp servers config file.
I am personally looking forward to 7.0 as it will bring many speed improvements and enhancements. There have been some tests done to compare FreeBSD 7 performance to FreeBSD 6, and the gains are impressive.
FreeBSD 6.3 for me and my servers will be the last update to the series before switching over to the new hopefully soon to be released 7.0. My suggestion for anyone planning on trying FreeBSD out after having heard about this new release, grab whatever the latest RC disc is of 7.0 and play with that. There is practically no difference between the two, when it comes to userland and will make it easier to stay up to date by already being being on the right branch.
I definitely need to check out freebsd-update. See if it can be used in our systems to keep them up to date, with less down time than using the rebuild world and kernel steps that we take currently.
Thing is, by posting it on the Daily WTF, we are not allowed to write anything remotely similar to any of the screwed up code Microsoft has produced, so it is a catch 22. I want to see it, at the same time, I don't!
I live in a house with 7 people, if we were limited to 60 GB a month we would have gone over the limit every single month. We are all technology students, we download Linux ISO's, stream music from Pandora, watch movies online from NetFlix and other such things. Just considering that a movie from NetFlix is anywhere from 1 - 3 GB's in size, it adds up quickly. Now with iTunes rental coming out, even more movies to download and stream from the web.
FIRST Robotics is what inspired me to go further with embedded systems. I am currently a Software Engineer at UAT, and am working a lot with embedded systems and microprocessors to create robots. FIRST Robotics also provided me with a real insight into the building, developing and creating ideas to build a finished product. Even as our Robot was being crated we were still working on it.
FIRST has also taught me to assume that all hardware is faulty, and especially expect it to be wrong, or not working as I would expect it to work. That was the hardest part for me, as I always thought developing software that the hardware would work as one would be expected.
I joined FIRST my senior year in school, and I am sad that I had not joined earlier. It provided me with a huge amount of fun and a great group of friends who I still talk to, especially since they are great guys and girls!
In this case you may modify Postfix as you please without having to hand over the code (IANAL, the document is written for lawyers, and it is extremely lengthy).
Where are they ignoring the GPL? Show some clear proof, and then maybe we can take you serious. O wait, you don't want to be taken seriously, that is why you posted as an AC.
Okay, so this guy decides he will follow his non-compete clause, and thus does not go to work for Google for a year.
What does he do in the mean time? Does he sit at home fiddling his thumbs? Where does he get any money? It just does not make sense to me. He can't get a job in the field where he is specialized, so even if he were to find a job, it would be low paying, and could cost him part of his lifestyle, his house or whatever.
Who cares? Groklaw had some information to post on this topic as well, Microsoft wanted to do a report together with OSDL, but OSDL decided against it as they would feel that it would be unfair.
Uh huh. Microsoft buys up SCO. Admitting at the same time that they are an unfair monopoly. This would be suicide for Microsoft, as it would proof that they indeed want to destroy any other OS besides their own.
Where is the surprise. Everyone at the beginning said that there was nothing wrong with it.
What i find particularly funny, is the fact that Darl did not even make up the idea himself, but rather he got it from someone elsed in the company. He is nothing but someone who thought it could not be true, eventhough there was proof to the contrary.
As PJ tells you, there were articles out that cleared Linux of all copyright infringement before, as there was none. This has just shown all of use Open Source users, that our code is clean, and that they can not take us down. Instead of doing what they had hoped, generate business, they are now losing it.
Linux has an awesome way to get new code into the kernel. It also has been proven now that it is a system that works. The code is clean from any infringement, as even Darl and all of his lawyers can not find any infringement in the code. Only some stuff that looks alike just because there is no other way to name the variables. No clearcut copyright infringement.
Darl, do us all a favor. Apologize to the world, and then take your company and shove it up your ass. After that, eat your lawsuit, as IBM is going to bury you with it, and you are not getting out of it unless you can eat your way out.
I also have Advanced Unix Programming, and i have to say i love the book.
I will certainly be picking Steven's book up at barnes and nobles when i get a chance to drop in. It looks interesting, and probably covers things that Rochkind did not go into.
On the homepage it says it is adding support, and or experimental support, and or full support has been added for:
Quicktime 7 x264.h Alac
"(Jan 24, 2005) Eagle-eyed observers may have noticed the recent CVS addition of a VC-9 decoding implementation. It is still highly experimental but should eventually serve as a basis for decoding Microsoft VC-1/VC-9/WMV3/WMV9 video data." - http://ffmpeg.sourceforge.net/index.php
WMV is supported in the latest version in CVS of ffmpeg, so support for it should trickle down into VLC once a new release of FFmpeg is slated. Which can be now. Download FFmpeg, build it from cvs, and then rebuild VLC, and you are set.
RealMedia however is not in the works yet. And who cares, it is not like it really matters:P
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I wish I had mod points.
I have enjoyed the GTA series, and really hope that EA does not take over Take Two. I can't remember a single game that ever came out EA that I would want to play again. The last game I remember playing was Need for Speed, number 2. EA would destroy that what makes Take Two such an awesome game publishing company!
Was not that far off with their idea of making a VERY big laser?
FreeBSD brings a stable OS to the desktop user. Since both userland and kernel are in the same source tree, and are developed concurrently, any changes in the kernel will be immediately reflected in the userland utilities. What does this mean? Well, if I upgrade my kernel and my world, I will know that I always have a perfectly functioning system. It takes the guess work out of upgrades.
/usr/local/etc/, which is a nice change from having to hunt in /var/www/httpd for Apache's configuration file and /opt/etc/ for the dhcp servers config file.
Besides that? I find that it is more consistent. If you move from one Linux distribution to another, you need to go hunting for the configuration files, they are not in a set location as specified by man hier. I know that when I install something from the ports tree, the configuration files can always be found in
I am personally looking forward to 7.0 as it will bring many speed improvements and enhancements. There have been some tests done to compare FreeBSD 7 performance to FreeBSD 6, and the gains are impressive.
FreeBSD 6.3 for me and my servers will be the last update to the series before switching over to the new hopefully soon to be released 7.0. My suggestion for anyone planning on trying FreeBSD out after having heard about this new release, grab whatever the latest RC disc is of 7.0 and play with that. There is practically no difference between the two, when it comes to userland and will make it easier to stay up to date by already being being on the right branch.
I definitely need to check out freebsd-update. See if it can be used in our systems to keep them up to date, with less down time than using the rebuild world and kernel steps that we take currently.
I wish I had modpoints to mod you up!
Thing is, by posting it on the Daily WTF, we are not allowed to write anything remotely similar to any of the screwed up code Microsoft has produced, so it is a catch 22. I want to see it, at the same time, I don't!
I live in a house with 7 people, if we were limited to 60 GB a month we would have gone over the limit every single month. We are all technology students, we download Linux ISO's, stream music from Pandora, watch movies online from NetFlix and other such things. Just considering that a movie from NetFlix is anywhere from 1 - 3 GB's in size, it adds up quickly. Now with iTunes rental coming out, even more movies to download and stream from the web.
Awwww, and here I was thinking about getting an Thinkpad. :-(
Is there no other laptop besides the eee PC that is only sold with Linux on it?
FIRST Robotics is what inspired me to go further with embedded systems. I am currently a Software Engineer at UAT, and am working a lot with embedded systems and microprocessors to create robots. FIRST Robotics also provided me with a real insight into the building, developing and creating ideas to build a finished product. Even as our Robot was being crated we were still working on it.
FIRST has also taught me to assume that all hardware is faulty, and especially expect it to be wrong, or not working as I would expect it to work. That was the hardest part for me, as I always thought developing software that the hardware would work as one would be expected.
I joined FIRST my senior year in school, and I am sad that I had not joined earlier. It provided me with a huge amount of fun and a great group of friends who I still talk to, especially since they are great guys and girls!
Fanfic would include this aforementioned female making out with Beastie.
You have not left your mum's basement for the last 16 years, so how will that work out?
Postfix is not GPL at all. It is the IBM Public License, it has never been GPL either.
Now here is the license for the IBM public license, included with Postfix: ftp://mirrors.loonybin.net/pub/postfix/LICENSE.
In this case you may modify Postfix as you please without having to hand over the code (IANAL, the document is written for lawyers, and it is extremely lengthy).
The Onion qouted as real "news for nerds". This has got to be the worst screwup zonk has ever performed.
Where are they ignoring the GPL? Show some clear proof, and then maybe we can take you serious. O wait, you don't want to be taken seriously, that is why you posted as an AC.
By building dikes that hold the water back :P
Most Mac OS X updates DO increase performance, and get more out the of the same box/laptop than the versions before it.
Can we get the code that removes Gator? One could make millions selling the program to remove gator.
Okay, so this guy decides he will follow his non-compete clause, and thus does not go to work for Google for a year.
What does he do in the mean time? Does he sit at home fiddling his thumbs? Where does he get any money? It just does not make sense to me. He can't get a job in the field where he is specialized, so even if he were to find a job, it would be low paying, and could cost him part of his lifestyle, his house or whatever.
Just seems weird to me.
Who cares? Groklaw had some information to post on this topic as well, Microsoft wanted to do a report together with OSDL, but OSDL decided against it as they would feel that it would be unfair.
This makes me wonder as well. Why would they go after the company that gets them the most hits, and thus ad-revenue. It makes no sense.
Uh huh. Microsoft buys up SCO. Admitting at the same time that they are an unfair monopoly. This would be suicide for Microsoft, as it would proof that they indeed want to destroy any other OS besides their own.
Where is the surprise. Everyone at the beginning said that there was nothing wrong with it.
What i find particularly funny, is the fact that Darl did not even make up the idea himself, but rather he got it from someone elsed in the company. He is nothing but someone who thought it could not be true, eventhough there was proof to the contrary.
As PJ tells you, there were articles out that cleared Linux of all copyright infringement before, as there was none. This has just shown all of use Open Source users, that our code is clean, and that they can not take us down. Instead of doing what they had hoped, generate business, they are now losing it.
Linux has an awesome way to get new code into the kernel. It also has been proven now that it is a system that works. The code is clean from any infringement, as even Darl and all of his lawyers can not find any infringement in the code. Only some stuff that looks alike just because there is no other way to name the variables. No clearcut copyright infringement.
Darl, do us all a favor. Apologize to the world, and then take your company and shove it up your ass. After that, eat your lawsuit, as IBM is going to bury you with it, and you are not getting out of it unless you can eat your way out.
I also have Advanced Unix Programming, and i have to say i love the book.
I will certainly be picking Steven's book up at barnes and nobles when i get a chance to drop in. It looks interesting, and probably covers things that Rochkind did not go into.
I am happy to see that i am not the only one that remembers AirWolf!
VLC plays whatever codecs ffmpeg supports.
1 6 It contains all the codecs.
http://ffmpeg.sourceforge.net/index.php
On the homepage it says it is adding support, and or experimental support, and or full support has been added for:
Quicktime 7
x264.h
Alac
"(Jan 24, 2005) Eagle-eyed observers may have noticed the recent CVS addition of a VC-9 decoding implementation. It is still highly experimental but should eventually serve as a basis for decoding Microsoft VC-1/VC-9/WMV3/WMV9 video data." - http://ffmpeg.sourceforge.net/index.php
For all the supported codecs either download, and build ffmpeg and run it with -formats or take a look at http://ffmpeg.sourceforge.net/ffmpeg-doc.html#SEC
WMV is supported in the latest version in CVS of ffmpeg, so support for it should trickle down into VLC once a new release of FFmpeg is slated. Which can be now. Download FFmpeg, build it from cvs, and then rebuild VLC, and you are set.
:P
RealMedia however is not in the works yet. And who cares, it is not like it really matters