Ha! I bet they pay for this "spying software" too. Just download a copy of BackOrifice 2000 and you're on your way!:-)
This is why I use my own box at work. Well, ok, it's not really why, but it's one nice side-effect. Generally companies large enough to do this sort of thing have standardized on NT, and have nothing but point-and-drool admins who have no idea what to do with a Linux box. My workstation: I built it, I own it, I administer it, and it runs Linux. I trust my new employers though, so I don't think it'll be an issue.:-) They ran SMS at my last job-- funny story: When I first got there, they installed NT on my machine (of course it was going to get wiped and Linux-ed as soon as they left the room). I had to sit there and watch for 1/2 hour while they installed the system, set it up, created a user for me, blah blah blah. Finally at the end they set up SMS, and told me "I'm sure you know how to disable this, but please don't, because we need it to... yadda yadda yadda." I just nodded and smiled. Weirdly enough, although I was not allowed to disable SMS if I used NT, removing NT entirely was fine with everyone.
I agree that this would be a great AI accomplishment, and it's been "being worked on" for quite some time.
People who think this sounds cool should definitely check out the book Godel, Escher, Bach by Douglas Hofstadter. I'm just getting through the last pages, and... wow. Anyway, he addresses your argument, that "creativity can only be programmed as a matter of randomness (or chaoticness?), not as one of observation." Why should that be so? What's to keep a sufficiently complex computer from observing it's "environment" (whatever kind of environment that may be) and making sensible observations, similar to those a human would make? The way humans express creativity doesn't seem to be the result of chaos or randomness in our thoughts, but instead a process of drawing connections between similar things, or finding similarities (or interesting differences) between things that seem to have no relation. But we do it according to processes, which seems to imply that similar processes could be programmed. Basically, what would it be about a human that would allow us to engage in creativity which could never be programmed, or result from a logical structure-- that is, be an emergent epiphenomenon of a lower-level program.
For the NSA to get involved in certain actions would be beyond the scope of their charter, it'd be illegal.
The NSA doesn't officially have a charter. Or at least, if it does, you, I, and everyone else are not allowed to see it. The desription on the web page is filtered through some rose-colored glasses. NSA does not, and is not legeally required to, stick solely to foreign SIGINT. They tend to, because otherwise they piss off other US spy agencies, but they will do, and have done, whatever they feel is necessary, including domestic snooping on many occasions.
In general, though, your conclusions are sensible. The FBI is not nearly as competent, so I'd much rather have them trying to decode my bomb plans, or laundry list, or whatever.:-)
Seriously, I love/. and freshmeat, but no way is this a better investment than RedHat. Where's the revenue stream? Banner ads? I'd agree that Andover is a better investment than most '.com' IPO's, because I know that their sites are quality products and have a strong following. But at this point, web IPO's are still matters of faith. Investing in one means that either:
A) You believe that sooner or later, someone will come up with a workable business model for website profitability, or B) You believe that the stock will be hot because the majority of investors are idiotic sheep, and you intend to buy low, and sell high, quickly.
Now neither of these is a bad thing in itself, but given the web IPO market lately, choice B is no longer a guaranteed path to riches, and choice A still relies on your believing that foo.com will still be around when someone figures out how to make money with "new media." On that score, I'd say Andover's a better bet than most, but I don't think I'd drop my cash here.
And given the choice between Redhat at 12 and Andover at 12, I'd take RH in a heartbeat. And YES I was one of the few who said that RH was a very strong buy before the IPO, and subsequent skyrocketing. I kept telling my coworkers to buy, even when it was at 60 in the first couple weeks. Wish I had had some money to buy it myself.:-)
Anyway, best of luck to Andover, and the/.-FM crew!
Look here or here for all sorts of other domain registrars. Screw NSI-- enough is enough. There are literally hundreds of other top-level-domains. Find one that's better, and use it.
I can't see that the computer era would do anything but facilitate it.
Not necessarily. A lot of people seem to have lost the distinction between sources of random data and sources of pseudo-random data in the era of the computer. Or discovered that what they thought was random really wasn't, even though they were really careful. Really, this has always been pretty much the only weakness of one time pads, though. And you can bet the folks broadcasting this stuff know where to get some grade A randomness.:-)
Interesting ideas. I think though, that the influence of the internet, and the web especially, on politics in America will be more gradual and subtle. Sure, at some point, the mass media is going to latch on to someone and proclaim him/her "the person who brought the net to Washington," but, as usual, they'll be mostly wrong.
We're already making inroads in the more flexible world of non-profits and lobbying groups. Take a look at NetCapitol. They offer a product for webmasters of interest groups to make it easy for their users to email or otherwise contact their representatives about whatever issue the lobbying group is concerned with.
Eventually, I think the net will be a strong force in American politics. We can only hope it'll be a force "by the people, for the people."
Actually, why not make karma be an average of post moderations?
That's an interesting idea, but what if someone only posts one comment, and it gets a 5. Then they post at 5 automatically, without really earning it. I mean, who knows-- maybe they just got an account to post "FIRST PO5T D00D!!!" and happened to say something useful the first time. But then we suffer a couple FP's that start at 5. That would suck. That's where I see the problem with averages being. In the current system, karma's a total, but it only does anything based on certain thresholds. I think that's probably better, overall.
Leveraging over five years of Amiga's revolutionary Vapor-Tech development, Amiga Inc. announced their first product under the direction of Gateway, Amiga Cloud 1.0. Amiga Inc. will collect large amounts of their previously released VaporWare and place them in the Earth's lower atmosphere, initially over large cities, but later we hope to deploy them nationwide, end even worldwide.
We at Amiga believe that despite the fact, nay, even because of the fact that we haven't released a product since 1995, we are perfectly positioned to become a market leader in the revolutinary new technology.
Our Cloud 1.0 product will be years, millenia, ahead of it's time, providing both advanced irrigation services, and also a totally new graphical paradigm. Our GUI interface is so simple, even a three year old child can master it. The user simply must lie down on their back, and observe any Amiga Cloud 1.0 installation, and Amiga Cloud 1.0 will immediately reconfigure itself into a wide variety of multimedia shapes and presentation styles.
A banana, a horse, a big weasel eating sausage links-- all these and more can be called forth effortlessly by the new Amiga Cloud 1.0. Cloud is fully multiuser and multitasking, features a "form once, rain anywhere" portable architecture, and will soon be available in multiple "flavors" including "original white," "titanium gray," "fishbelly silver," and "tornado plum." And for our customers in Florida, look for "Floyd gray," debuting tonight!
Yes, Amiga's Cloud 1.0 will be so damn revolutionary, worldchanging, and downright original, that I can barely contain myself! I mean, seriously, this will change everything! Those other companies won't know what hit them! Together, we shall rule the world, and crush all the heretic nonbelievers!!!! They will burn and suffer for all time in their eternal Wintel torment!!!!!!
Man, this is kinda offtopic, but has anyone else noticed that 9 of every 10/. banners these days seem to be the ones the previous poster's alluding to? Sun musta put some serious $$ in Rob's coffers lately. You go, Wesle^H^H^H^H^HRob!
Exactly, and that's where thye trouble comes in. Really, the patent office shouldn't particularly be in the business of determining what's "obvious" or not, to the extent that would be required to deny doubleclick's patent application. But the process that should do that (the legal system) is so damn expensive that the little guy ends up getting screwed. This is a general symptom of the US legal system, and I have no idea what could be done about that. I still think "the little guy" gets screwed way less here than in an awful lot of other countries, though, FWIW...
...and on the whole they're smart people. BUT. The way the system works enforces a weird kind of tunnel vision, which I suspect is responsible for a lot of these silly patents. Basically, the first patent application is always denied. That one's just a rubber stamp. If you're examining an application that's already been denied once, then you check the documents for correctness. If one comma or period is out of place, it's denied again. The third submission get checked for conflict with existing patents. If there's no conflicts, then the situation's more murky. The application can be rejected for a lot of reasons, still, such as insufficiently demonstrating the originality of the process or item, etc etc. Or, if it seems fairly original to the examiner, and it's never been patented before, it might be approved. But basically, patent examiners aren't required to do any broad cultural thinking. If it's something that is simply ridiculous to patent, like "Dirt" or "The Act of Respiration," that'll obviously be denied. But there's nothing stopping something which may seem, to specialists in the field unpatentable from getting patented anyway. What might seem like an obvious idea to us is still only obvious in a fairly well-defined field. The other thing to keep in mind is that patent examiners are generally not experts in the particular fields they're examining for. The ones I know all have science BS's (chem, bio), and are examining mainly electronic and mechanical patent applications.
Basically, this isn't all that surprising. And anyway, if the USPTO allows a patent, it can still always be thrown out in court. They don't really see themselves as a judiciary office. They're much more paperwork-oriented.
Ok, I don't have any names, but in either the book "Chaos" or "Complexity" there was a whole section about this. Basically they recapped what other people have said here (Miller's experiment was totally unrealistic, doesn't mesh with what we know of the Earth's atmospheric history, and didn't really produce "the building blocks of life" anyway), and then proposed a different theory, based on the fact that certain chains of chemical reactions can basically repeat and amplify, given the right initial conditions. As in the byproducts of a several-reaction chain will be the starting point for a new cycle of the same chain of reactions. It's your basic positive feedback loop. Someone (I believe) demonstrated that amino acids could be formed this way, and it'd be way more likely that amino acids would have formed and become so common due to a self-feeding reaction like this, than if the "primordial soup" had sat around and waited to get struck by lightning in the right spot. They also did some statistical estimation on what the actual chances of that were (the Miller scenario, based on what we now believe the early atmospheric conditions of the Earth to have been), and discovered that probability says we should still be waiting for that lightning strike.
If anyone else read (or has) the book this was in, please add some facts to my vague memory of it!:-)
If this is really something that should be done. Generally, there are only 2 reasons I upgrade a working kernel:
Because a new kernel has new functionality I could use
Because I get a new device or something, and need to recompile the kernel anyway to add something. I'll generally just snag the latest if I have to re-kernel anyhoo.
So, in either case, an auto-kernel-update thing wouldn't be much use, since I'd still have to make config and select new stuff to compile in. Overall point here, don't get too sucked in to updating the kernel whenever one comes out. If everyhting works, stick with it till you know you'll get some benefit from updating.
Ok, that said, I can also see the coolness factor here:-). So here's how I'd do it, probably. First, I'd make sure there was a working.config file somewhere. Then, I'd whip up something that I could attach to a button on my gnome panel, probably in gtk/perl or tk/perl that asked a coupla basic questions: Where should I find the kernel/patch? When should I do this? Where's the config file?
That little doo-dad would edit the crontab (have to be root's crontab) to run another perl script at xx:00 (whenever you said to run it). That second script would fetch the patch/source, config it with your pre-defined file, make dep, make clean, make install (and do some trickery w/lilo to keep the old kernel accessable-- maybe make install does this already? I forget.), make modules, make modules_install, then (this bit's important)-- I'd have it write a line into/etc/rc.d/rc.local that would run a third script on successful reboot. Then run/sbin/init 6, and wait till the box comes back up. On clean reboot, your third script would clean out the crontab, delete it's own calling line in rc.local, check out the system, and email some stats and a success report to root, or whoever.
Now what if the new kernel bombed? Hmm. I don't know, honestly. To reboot into it, you'd have to set it as default in lilo, and if it died, there's no way a user app could regain control. I guess it'd sit there until you checked the next morning. But if it got all the way through the compile/install, then chances are slim the system wouldn't work at all. Wow. This ended up being really long. I guess I'll stop now. If anyone wants to write this, I'd probably help. Drop an email:-)
I, too, do love Nedit, and yes, the syntax stuff is all taken care of, and it'll do until someone comes out with something that's just way better. My question was more about something that does ALL those things, instead of some/most. But I will look into the macro stuff you mentioned.
"Amiga will be the Internet-appliance infrastructure company. We don't intend to build anything," says a source close to the company.
If there's one thing Amiga has proven itself to be incredibly good at over the last few years, it would have to be "not building anything." So this looks like a sensible strategic move, given that they seem to be recognizing and leveraging their core competency.
Ok, so I write an awful lot of perl, and mainly, perl development just doesn't need all this "project" crap, makefiles, yadda yadda. But here's what I wish: I wish there was a GUI text editor that did perl/html/php3/etc. syntax highlighting (I use NEdit now, which rocks BTW), could run my scripts (if they're that kind of thing) or do a perl -cw on them (if they're not), that would integrate seamlessly with ftp and cvs (most of my work really lives on other servers anyway), and could give me some debugging functions of some sort.
Now, I'm not going to give up Perl, of course, but this would make me just another, slightly happier, perl hacker. Anyone have any leads on something like this?
And to qualify: don't even bother saying emacs. Seriously. No thanks, I already have an operating system.:-)
The answer to this one is glaringly simple. The whole point (or one of the whole points, at least) of Open Source is to deal with issues like this. Say Sun developed Java for redhat, but made it real open source software. It'd be maybe a month after they released it for RedHat that energetic hackers would have it "ported" to every other Linux distro. A lot of people are interested in Java, and everyone wants it to run on their favorite platform, so why is Sun wasting expensive developers on crud work like figuring out where to put the libraries in Debian? This is an example, IMHO, of a common type of corporate nearsightedness. They can see all the drawbacks of Open Source (and there are some) in perfect 20/20 clarity, but they totally fail to see where those drawbacks would be offset by benefits, like simply not having to screw with multiple distributions.
I don't see Java becoming the universal platform Sun wants it to be, simply because of this grasping control they maintain over it. Who owns C? Who owns C++? But Java will always be married to Sun in everyone's mind, and a single company simply cannot muster the kind of critical momentum needed to make a language the "standard." At this point, Perl is way closer to "write once, run anywhere" than Java, and it wasn't even intended to be! (BTW-- who owns Perl? Ok, I guess the point is made:-) ).
None of the above is meant to be an attack on Sun, or any sort of "Java sucks" flamage, but hopefully, a coherent analysis of the situation. I just wish more companies would spend some of the effort they spend imagining all the horrible things that could result from going Open Source trying to imaging benefits they might reap from it...
I'm a webmaster for a DARPA contractor, and we do a lot of work for the MEMS projects there, as well. For lots and lots of MEMS-related links, check out memsmarket.sysplan.com. The official DARPA MEMS site is here.
I think the original post for this article is a little confused. "MEMS" is an acronym for "Microelectromechanical systems," which spans a broad range of nano-tech applications-- including perhaps nano-computing devices. But the canonical application-- accelerometers for car airbags-- have been in use for some time now. Bet you never even knew you were already using nano-tech, huh?:-)
Al Pisano is a very smart guy, and he will be missed. If any of you have an opportunity to see him speak, and are interested in this sort of thing, it's likely to be interesting.
Check out especially the WaveLAN. It's 1-2 Mb/s instead of 11, but it doesn't (necessarily) require a base station. These are the frontrunner right now for a wireless Linux-based kiosk system my company is developing. Enjoy!
PS-- obReality check for Apple Zealots: Wireless LAN is not new. Sorry. Their system looks cool, though, I will say:-)
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This is why I use my own box at work. Well, ok, it's not really why, but it's one nice side-effect. Generally companies large enough to do this sort of thing have standardized on NT, and have nothing but point-and-drool admins who have no idea what to do with a Linux box. My workstation: I built it, I own it, I administer it, and it runs Linux. I trust my new employers though, so I don't think it'll be an issue. :-) They ran SMS at my last job-- funny story: When I first got there, they installed NT on my machine (of course it was going to get wiped and Linux-ed as soon as they left the room). I had to sit there and watch for 1/2 hour while they installed the system, set it up, created a user for me, blah blah blah. Finally at the end they set up SMS, and told me "I'm sure you know how to disable this, but please don't, because we need it to... yadda yadda yadda." I just nodded and smiled. Weirdly enough, although I was not allowed to disable SMS if I used NT, removing NT entirely was fine with everyone.
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People who think this sounds cool should definitely check out the book Godel, Escher, Bach by Douglas Hofstadter. I'm just getting through the last pages, and... wow. Anyway, he addresses your argument, that "creativity can only be programmed as a matter of randomness (or chaoticness?), not as one of observation." Why should that be so? What's to keep a sufficiently complex computer from observing it's "environment" (whatever kind of environment that may be) and making sensible observations, similar to those a human would make? The way humans express creativity doesn't seem to be the result of chaos or randomness in our thoughts, but instead a process of drawing connections between similar things, or finding similarities (or interesting differences) between things that seem to have no relation. But we do it according to processes, which seems to imply that similar processes could be programmed. Basically, what would it be about a human that would allow us to engage in creativity which could never be programmed, or result from a logical structure-- that is, be an emergent epiphenomenon of a lower-level program.
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Government Authorities [Eyeing my big-ass, uncrackable safe]: Open that safe! We need the bad stuff you keep in there for evidence.
Me: No. Go to hell, pig.
G.A.: Ok, then, you go to jail for contempt of court until you open that safe!
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Scenario 2:
G.A. [Eyeing my encrypted HDD]: Decrypt that email! We need it for evidence.
Me: No. Go to hell, pig.
G.A.: Drat! We're useless without key escrow! Whinge whinge whinge... Me: Ha! Ha! I have won again...
Does this make any sense? Don't we already have laws for this? Hello?
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The NSA doesn't officially have a charter. Or at least, if it does, you, I, and everyone else are not allowed to see it. The desription on the web page is filtered through some rose-colored glasses. NSA does not, and is not legeally required to, stick solely to foreign SIGINT. They tend to, because otherwise they piss off other US spy agencies, but they will do, and have done, whatever they feel is necessary, including domestic snooping on many occasions.
In general, though, your conclusions are sensible. The FBI is not nearly as competent, so I'd much rather have them trying to decode my bomb plans, or laundry list, or whatever. :-)
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Seriously, I love /. and freshmeat, but no way is this a better investment than RedHat. Where's the revenue stream? Banner ads? I'd agree that Andover is a better investment than most '.com' IPO's, because I know that their sites are quality products and have a strong following. But at this point, web IPO's are still matters of faith. Investing in one means that either:
A) You believe that sooner or later, someone will come up with a workable business model for website profitability, or
B) You believe that the stock will be hot because the majority of investors are idiotic sheep, and you intend to buy low, and sell high, quickly.
Now neither of these is a bad thing in itself, but given the web IPO market lately, choice B is no longer a guaranteed path to riches, and choice A still relies on your believing that foo.com will still be around when someone figures out how to make money with "new media." On that score, I'd say Andover's a better bet than most, but I don't think I'd drop my cash here.
And given the choice between Redhat at 12 and Andover at 12, I'd take RH in a heartbeat. And YES I was one of the few who said that RH was a very strong buy before the IPO, and subsequent skyrocketing. I kept telling my coworkers to buy, even when it was at 60 in the first couple weeks. Wish I had had some money to buy it myself. :-)
Anyway, best of luck to Andover, and the /.-FM crew!
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Look here or here for all sorts of other domain registrars. Screw NSI-- enough is enough. There are literally hundreds of other top-level-domains. Find one that's better, and use it.
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Not necessarily. A lot of people seem to have lost the distinction between sources of random data and sources of pseudo-random data in the era of the computer. Or discovered that what they thought was random really wasn't, even though they were really careful. Really, this has always been pretty much the only weakness of one time pads, though. And you can bet the folks broadcasting this stuff know where to get some grade A randomness. :-)
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We're already making inroads in the more flexible world of non-profits and lobbying groups. Take a look at NetCapitol. They offer a product for webmasters of interest groups to make it easy for their users to email or otherwise contact their representatives about whatever issue the lobbying group is concerned with.
Eventually, I think the net will be a strong force in American politics. We can only hope it'll be a force "by the people, for the people."
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(See Previous Article) :-)
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That's an interesting idea, but what if someone only posts one comment, and it gets a 5. Then they post at 5 automatically, without really earning it. I mean, who knows-- maybe they just got an account to post "FIRST PO5T D00D!!!" and happened to say something useful the first time. But then we suffer a couple FP's that start at 5. That would suck. That's where I see the problem with averages being. In the current system, karma's a total, but it only does anything based on certain thresholds. I think that's probably better, overall.
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Leveraging over five years of Amiga's revolutionary Vapor-Tech development, Amiga Inc. announced their first product under the direction of Gateway, Amiga Cloud 1.0. Amiga Inc. will collect large amounts of their previously released VaporWare and place them in the Earth's lower atmosphere, initially over large cities, but later we hope to deploy them nationwide, end even worldwide.
We at Amiga believe that despite the fact, nay, even because of the fact that we haven't released a product since 1995, we are perfectly positioned to become a market leader in the revolutinary new technology.
Our Cloud 1.0 product will be years, millenia, ahead of it's time, providing both advanced irrigation services, and also a totally new graphical paradigm. Our GUI interface is so simple, even a three year old child can master it. The user simply must lie down on their back, and observe any Amiga Cloud 1.0 installation, and Amiga Cloud 1.0 will immediately reconfigure itself into a wide variety of multimedia shapes and presentation styles.
A banana, a horse, a big weasel eating sausage links-- all these and more can be called forth effortlessly by the new Amiga Cloud 1.0. Cloud is fully multiuser and multitasking, features a "form once, rain anywhere" portable architecture, and will soon be available in multiple "flavors" including "original white," "titanium gray," "fishbelly silver," and "tornado plum." And for our customers in Florida, look for "Floyd gray," debuting tonight!
Yes, Amiga's Cloud 1.0 will be so damn revolutionary, worldchanging, and downright original, that I can barely contain myself! I mean, seriously, this will change everything! Those other companies won't know what hit them! Together, we shall rule the world, and crush all the heretic nonbelievers!!!! They will burn and suffer for all time in their eternal Wintel torment!!!!!!
oops. I think I wet 'em.
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Man, this is kinda offtopic, but has anyone else noticed that 9 of every 10 /. banners these days seem to be the ones the previous poster's alluding to? Sun musta put some serious $$ in Rob's coffers lately. You go, Wesle^H^H^H^H^HRob!
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Exactly, and that's where thye trouble comes in. Really, the patent office shouldn't particularly be in the business of determining what's "obvious" or not, to the extent that would be required to deny doubleclick's patent application. But the process that should do that (the legal system) is so damn expensive that the little guy ends up getting screwed. This is a general symptom of the US legal system, and I have no idea what could be done about that. I still think "the little guy" gets screwed way less here than in an awful lot of other countries, though, FWIW...
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Basically, this isn't all that surprising. And anyway, if the USPTO allows a patent, it can still always be thrown out in court. They don't really see themselves as a judiciary office. They're much more paperwork-oriented.
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In shock I am by the balance of secular and religious opinions here... When 900 years old you reach, look as good, you will not!
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If anyone else read (or has) the book this was in, please add some facts to my vague memory of it! :-)
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- Because a new kernel has new functionality I could use
- Because I get a new device or something, and need to recompile the kernel anyway to add something. I'll generally just snag the latest if I have to re-kernel anyhoo.
So, in either case, an auto-kernel-update thing wouldn't be much use, since I'd still have to make config and select new stuff to compile in. Overall point here, don't get too sucked in to updating the kernel whenever one comes out. If everyhting works, stick with it till you know you'll get some benefit from updating.Ok, that said, I can also see the coolness factor here :-). So here's how I'd do it, probably. First, I'd make sure there was a working .config file somewhere. Then, I'd whip up something that I could attach to a button on my gnome panel, probably in gtk/perl or tk/perl that asked a coupla basic questions: Where should I find the kernel/patch? When should I do this? Where's the config file?
That little doo-dad would edit the crontab (have to be root's crontab) to run another perl script at xx:00 (whenever you said to run it). That second script would fetch the patch/source, config it with your pre-defined file, make dep, make clean, make install (and do some trickery w/lilo to keep the old kernel accessable-- maybe make install does this already? I forget.), make modules, make modules_install, then (this bit's important)-- I'd have it write a line into /etc/rc.d/rc.local that would run a third script on successful reboot. Then run /sbin/init 6, and wait till the box comes back up. On clean reboot, your third script would clean out the crontab, delete it's own calling line in rc.local, check out the system, and email some stats and a success report to root, or whoever.
Now what if the new kernel bombed? Hmm. I don't know, honestly. To reboot into it, you'd have to set it as default in lilo, and if it died, there's no way a user app could regain control. I guess it'd sit there until you checked the next morning. But if it got all the way through the compile/install, then chances are slim the system wouldn't work at all. Wow. This ended up being really long. I guess I'll stop now. If anyone wants to write this, I'd probably help. Drop an email :-)
I, too, do love Nedit, and yes, the syntax stuff is all taken care of, and it'll do until someone comes out with something that's just way better. My question was more about something that does ALL those things, instead of some/most. But I will look into the macro stuff you mentioned.
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There already is article moderation. Get an account. Log in. got to: http://slashdot.org/users.pl?op=edituser. Click the little "don't show me any amiga stories" button.
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"Amiga will be the Internet-appliance infrastructure company. We don't intend to build anything," says a source close to the company.
If there's one thing Amiga has proven itself to be incredibly good at over the last few years, it would have to be "not building anything." So this looks like a sensible strategic move, given that they seem to be recognizing and leveraging their core competency.
PS-- Sarcasm. Humor. :-)
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Now, I'm not going to give up Perl, of course, but this would make me just another, slightly happier, perl hacker. Anyone have any leads on something like this?
And to qualify: don't even bother saying emacs. Seriously. No thanks, I already have an operating system. :-)
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I don't see Java becoming the universal platform Sun wants it to be, simply because of this grasping control they maintain over it. Who owns C? Who owns C++? But Java will always be married to Sun in everyone's mind, and a single company simply cannot muster the kind of critical momentum needed to make a language the "standard." At this point, Perl is way closer to "write once, run anywhere" than Java, and it wasn't even intended to be! (BTW-- who owns Perl? Ok, I guess the point is made :-) ).
None of the above is meant to be an attack on Sun, or any sort of "Java sucks" flamage, but hopefully, a coherent analysis of the situation. I just wish more companies would spend some of the effort they spend imagining all the horrible things that could result from going Open Source trying to imaging benefits they might reap from it...
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I think the original post for this article is a little confused. "MEMS" is an acronym for "Microelectromechanical systems," which spans a broad range of nano-tech applications-- including perhaps nano-computing devices. But the canonical application-- accelerometers for car airbags-- have been in use for some time now. Bet you never even knew you were already using nano-tech, huh? :-)
Al Pisano is a very smart guy, and he will be missed. If any of you have an opportunity to see him speak, and are interested in this sort of thing, it's likely to be interesting.
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-Sleepy ------ I am not a number... I am 100% Microsoft free (Linux PPC AND Linux x86 :-)
Huh?
As to the actual question, see my other comment on this story.
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We all take pink lemonade for granted.
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Check out especially the WaveLAN. It's 1-2 Mb/s instead of 11, but it doesn't (necessarily) require a base station. These are the frontrunner right now for a wireless Linux-based kiosk system my company is developing. Enjoy!
PS-- obReality check for Apple Zealots: Wireless LAN is not new. Sorry. Their system looks cool, though, I will say :-)
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We all take pink lemonade for granted.