Does my "reverse engineered" linux driver have this bug. I guess not. Why is it that a bunch of people who don't get paid come up with bug-free solutions? I guess, either they love their job very very much, or its just the development philosophy or both:)
Still, this system should be fixed, but it's not a major thing, and now you've just told anybody who's interested (in a bad way) how to take advantage of the flaw. Thanks.
Please. No more of "If you are not with us, you are with the terrorist crap!"
Certification for this requirement is often an expensive process and often, certified and uncertified parts are identical in everything but price (or availability, more often). I think he's a little bit out there on this one.
There is a reason why military equipment is expensive. There's a difference between "should work" and "works". That's the $$ right there.
3. Use of non-shielded cable in "secure" communications systems.
If they paid for it, why are they not getting it? Someone is pocketing the difference.
It's also a factor that Bollywood rolls out more movies than Hollywood. Plus, there are a lot of regional movie industries, almost one for every state (and there are 26 of them, with a completely different language).
Hence, 1 in 12 is not bad at all.
Microsoft has a very good research team in place,but that does not ensure innovation. I think they are having problems with translating research into products. Previously, their research was market oriented...say UI design for the common man etc. which did well for their prodcuts initially.That has now saturated.
The kind of innovation we see from MS nowadays is generally of a kind not needed, like what they did with RSS. (it's a standard for a bloody reason!).
Also, MS has spread themselves too thin by stepping into too many areas...OS'es, Search Engines, Spyware, etc. Well, maybe it's time to let go and focus on what they are...an OS company.
BTW, does anyone know how many MS innovations were by acquiring companies. Does that count?
I am treading out in unknown terriroty here, but is it not possible to use some authentication mechanism on a central server, and verify it, u know like Kerberos/Passport/alternative? Or is open-id trying to do exactly that?
To those people who detest using Fortran, check out http://www.scipy.org/.All these libraries are based on the same dependant Fortran code.
For signal,image processing and more, in a nice python syntax. Nice readable code, no learning curve!
From the website: SciPy is an open source library of scientific tools for Python. SciPy supplements the popular Numeric module, gathering a variety of high level science and engineering modules together as a single package.
SciPy includes modules for graphics and plotting, optimization, integration, special functions, signal and image processing, genetic algorithms, ODE solvers, and others.
SciPy is developed concurrently on both Linux and Windows. It has also been compiled successfully on Sun and Mac, and should port to most other platforms where Python is available.
YDL was the first Linux distro I was able to put on my powerbook when I was new to Linux in general. It was very easy to install, X, soundcards were detected & configured automatically.
I got used to using Linux, then I got tired of yum and the whole rpm thing. So, i went the Debian way for about 6 months.
I installed Panther, and ever since have not looked back.
No the Airport Extreme wireless is based on the now infamous 'broadcom ' wireless chipset.Most Linux users on the PPC platform have given up any hope of getting this to work, ever!
On the x86 platform, broadcom cards use the excellent ndiswrapper http://ndiswrapper.sf.net/ project.
I've been following the development of open source apps on the OS X platform. Almost everything I use on my OS X is open source,except the entire OS itself.
Browser:Camino
Text Editor: vi and Smultron
Chat: Adium
ftp: cyberduck
terminal: iterm
Notable exception here is quicksilver, which is not open-source, but one app which I cannot live without.
Quality:
Coming to the point, open source apps are necessarily not better quality than closed source apps, but open-source apps have a greater potential to become better.
Creativity:
Most of these apps use growl, which is a open source notification system for the mac.There are about 60 apps(grew from 10 apps to 50 or so in one week!) which are supported by growl, and it's basically a simple idea, A common notification system. Mindblowing results!
I am sure there are more parameters, but this is what came to mind immediately.
Nowadays, there is so much of development on the mac that I generally find open-source alternatives to closed source apps almost immediately.
Waiting for Tiger to release to see what new development it fosters!!
I have seen Ubuntu. Yeah, it's good that it's based on Debian. Most of the drivers are built in, so you don't have to compile your own. It's a bit freaky when you have to compile drivers right off the bat when all you want is to get your sound/wireless/hardware working.
But what's the big deal with Kubuntu anyways. I really don't get it!! all you need to do is 'apt-get install kde-base kdm' on ubuntu.
I think it's a big wate of time, and all the guy need to have done is to post on ubuntu wiki on how to get kde on a ubuntu machine.
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Does my "reverse engineered" linux driver have this bug. I guess not. Why is it that a bunch of people who don't get paid come up with bug-free solutions? I guess, either they love their job very very much, or its just the development philosophy or both :)
Still, this system should be fixed, but it's not a major thing, and now you've just told anybody who's interested (in a bad way) how to take advantage of the flaw. Thanks.
Please. No more of "If you are not with us, you are with the terrorist crap!"
Certification for this requirement is often an expensive process and often, certified and uncertified parts are identical in everything but price (or availability, more often). I think he's a little bit out there on this one.
There is a reason why military equipment is expensive. There's a difference between "should work" and "works". That's the $$ right there.
3. Use of non-shielded cable in "secure" communications systems.
If they paid for it, why are they not getting it? Someone is pocketing the difference.
It's also a factor that Bollywood rolls out more movies than Hollywood. Plus, there are a lot of regional movie industries, almost one for every state (and there are 26 of them, with a completely different language). Hence, 1 in 12 is not bad at all.
He did it for free porn!!
Well, Linux runs well on older hardware too. Infact, the older...the better!
Btw, Linux also runs on toasters, coffee machines, ipod's etc.
This sounds very very similiar to this. http://www.aeonflux.com/
Charlize Theron is the new Natalie Portman.
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If such a move was made, does this make AMD's anti-trust case against Intel more convincing?
Maybe now (because of the lawsuit), intel will not provide such deals to Apple. Is then, Apple in deep shit?
Yes!
How about a Firefox extension...Password Maker http://passwordmaker.org/. I think this would work just fine!
Microsoft has a very good research team in place,but that does not ensure innovation. I think they are having problems with translating research into products. Previously, their research was market oriented...say UI design for the common man etc. which did well for their prodcuts initially.That has now saturated.
The kind of innovation we see from MS nowadays is generally of a kind not needed, like what they did with RSS. (it's a standard for a bloody reason!).
Also, MS has spread themselves too thin by stepping into too many areas...OS'es, Search Engines, Spyware, etc. Well, maybe it's time to let go and focus on what they are...an OS company.
BTW, does anyone know how many MS innovations were by acquiring companies. Does that count?
It works on Linux, even on PPC ones. Finally, google released a product for Linux users.
Does this mean that Google is going to migrate some more of their products from Google Labs http://labs.google.com/ on linux now?
I am treading out in unknown terriroty here, but is it not possible to use some authentication mechanism on a central server, and verify it, u know like Kerberos/Passport/alternative? Or is open-id trying to do exactly that?
Wordpress is a blog tool using php.
You can generate html using this plugin.
http://photomatt.net/2004/07/26/staticize-25/
Just wait for IE 7. You won't need to change the internet!
Instead of rebuilding it from scratch, can't we just correct what's not working. Please!
And while you are at it, get linux on everybody's desktop!
Did anyone else wonder why it's is MS unveiling something as important as IE7 multi-tabbed and RSS feeds in a browser at something called "GNOMEdex".
What's Ballmer going to do now? What new slogans is he gonna come up with...
I can't wait...
To those people who detest using Fortran, check out http://www.scipy.org/ .All these libraries are based on the same dependant Fortran code.
For signal,image processing and more, in a nice python syntax. Nice readable code, no learning curve!
From the website:
SciPy is an open source library of scientific tools for Python. SciPy supplements the popular Numeric module, gathering a variety of high level science and engineering modules together as a single package.
SciPy includes modules for graphics and plotting, optimization, integration, special functions, signal and image processing, genetic algorithms, ODE solvers, and others.
SciPy is developed concurrently on both Linux and Windows. It has also been compiled successfully on Sun and Mac, and should port to most other platforms where Python is available.
YDL was the first Linux distro I was able to put on my powerbook when I was new to Linux in general. It was very easy to install, X, soundcards were detected & configured automatically. I got used to using Linux, then I got tired of yum and the whole rpm thing. So, i went the Debian way for about 6 months. I installed Panther, and ever since have not looked back.
No the Airport Extreme wireless is based on the now infamous 'broadcom ' wireless chipset.Most Linux users on the PPC platform have given up any hope of getting this to work, ever! On the x86 platform, broadcom cards use the excellent ndiswrapper http://ndiswrapper.sf.net/ project.
- Browser:Camino
- Text Editor: vi and Smultron
- Chat: Adium
- ftp: cyberduck
- terminal: iterm
Notable exception here is quicksilver, which is not open-source, but one app which I cannot live without.Quality:
Coming to the point, open source apps are necessarily not better quality than closed source apps, but open-source apps have a greater potential to become better.
Creativity:
Most of these apps use growl, which is a open source notification system for the mac.There are about 60 apps(grew from 10 apps to 50 or so in one week!) which are supported by growl, and it's basically a simple idea, A common notification system. Mindblowing results!
I am sure there are more parameters, but this is what came to mind immediately.
Nowadays, there is so much of development on the mac that I generally find open-source alternatives to closed source apps almost immediately.
Waiting for Tiger to release to see what new development it fosters!!
Damn...missed it...next time, I wont RTFA!
Yay...my first frist post!
Just post the link/ip/whatever on slashdot :)
I have seen Ubuntu. Yeah, it's good that it's based on Debian. Most of the drivers are built in, so you don't have to compile your own. It's a bit freaky when you have to compile drivers right off the bat when all you want is to get your sound/wireless/hardware working. But what's the big deal with Kubuntu anyways. I really don't get it!! all you need to do is 'apt-get install kde-base kdm' on ubuntu. I think it's a big wate of time, and all the guy need to have done is to post on ubuntu wiki on how to get kde on a ubuntu machine.
If you read TFA, you will notice that it's only the newer Dell's which need not go thru the process.
Maybe everyone with a older machine moves to Linux, or better still, gets a Mac.
All in good timing for Tiger!!