Raising fee from LUG members counts as news for me. Who else does it? Wrong policy in a poor country IMHO.
Nevermind that these ~90 members and people related but uncounted are the national LUG for a nation of, er, some 65 Million people.
Turkiye does count as an especially interesting area since
- computing expenses are high compared to average income, free beer would help
- the nation struggles with human rights problems, examples of success through openness and sharing might help change that in long run
- communication channels such as Internet might help the oppressed get their word out (note both above)
- it is an extremely M$ish area.
For my own part I hope/. would post more free software movement news outside US.
BTW: It was somewhat interesting to get a server in Istanbul back online after hard disk damage due to earthquake, by phone from Finland. It was/not/ that exciting to hear about the overall damages though, praying for friends' and their relatives' lives. Best wishes for the rebuilding efforts.
Is anyone working on a secure JVM that would be used for generic CPU time / disk storage distributement? In a good future we'd be able to hire extra power in and out.
--
When I get a laptop with wireless connectivity, I'll have it register to work server regularly + on every boot.
Done some DB development on PgSQL, I feel forced to point out that in some cases at least the version we used back in 1998 quite exploded on some SELECTs. It filled both RAM and its temporary disk partition and had to be killed. The workaround was to use overly simplistic selections, which caused extra work on the programming side, and might be found quite restrictive on serious projects. I hope these issues have been covered in later versions, but have not followed the development.
I took the freedom to quote you in an email to said PhD Greenfield:
Sorry to be perhaps a bit expressive below; however, I'm trying to criticize a few points in your survey that I found most touching (as in me feeling quite concerned by the matter). To offer you a secondary clue. Also, judging by a quick glance to http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=99/08/24/123325 3 it seems what follows are feelings concerning the same survey dealt by quite a few of my fellow netizens. I might take the freedom to post this there too, for reference.
Quoth a fabled fellow at slashdot: "The problem I've got with this little test and with the rest of the site is that it focuses on netsex and chatting with strangers."
"That's not MY problem, though I admit I seem addicted. I'm NOT a net-junkie as such though, I'm an info-junkie, and to a certain extent a debate-junkie who actually enjoys a good argument."
Your virtual addiction test (actually a survey, isn't it?) at https://drac.safe-order.net/virtual-addiction/surv ey2.html seems to me a bit unfavorably tilted toward sexual matters. I am a 100% net addict by the ways of both a respectable profession and an emerging lifestyle, yet the survey seems unable to figure my problem and only seems to try to force some correlation among net usage and some kind of sexual harrassment/addiction. I do not feel insulted, but left out of something I feel a need to express myself at.
The biggest problem I do have with the net is that I skip taking care of my partner's sexual and my overall environment's social needs as I try but fail to concentrate on work. This has something to do with some kind of _information_greed_ I've developed. However sexuality-related that might be in a Freudian view, I do not hunt for porn/babes in the net, but rather for intellectual challenge. Even that can be a problematic addiction, believe it or not:)
Also, as my home is in the company intranet, and I work and spend all my free time on this very same chair, your questions of dividing time between work/home usage just plain fail. There is no such distinction, not for us; remember, it's a lifestyle. We are not your traditional average family fathers; yet, we count in hundreds of thousands.
Third, most of us are not American. Nor aim to be:)
I hope you will work toward a more accurate preset in any real scientific research you decide to take on in the future. As of now I refuse to be a part of your survey. Still, not to say most of it weren't good. I just don't want to be used to show a correlation I am not part of.
Come to think of it, what does it tell about us that we find social behavior (such as seeking contacts in the net) conspicuous but not any effects that force people to adapt that behavior (ie. importance put on working and owning computers with net access, instead of keeping up more first person "waste of time")?
Looking forward to be one more case on our blessed social security unless I can help myself out of wasting my life in search for stunning news, cheers.
Well, now that my problem's been pointed out, I guess I'll start dealing with it. Just ask work roots to configure firewall to drop all connections to slashdot;)
Not really. Couldn't do it. Hurt too much. Maybe if this doesn't go over by itself in a few years.
See BBC for a statistically more informative article.
I request more info on the nature and effects of dopamine (which was not mentioned by BBC).
This could explain certain behavioral patterns that I have, based on feelings reflecting (usually failure of) finding surprising news. Searching for news constantly feels most important. I sometimes pass getting to bed even if need for sex is expressed, to catch up work undone because of news hunt, but still fail to work for the same reason. Thus, I think a chemical addiction might apply to me.
I still don't understand just why I start salivating when reading especially tech related news. What was the original trigger that connected this chemical reaction to the event of finding impressive news articles? Feeling of power through knowledge, hardly?
If peoples behaviors are this easily activated, well... Who controls the nanomachines, controls not only the world, but peoples feelings and behavior as well. Hmm (mental note: reread end of Diamond Age). Might explain certain history events. Scary that civilizedness is no protection. Actually the particular chain of, er, psycho-chemical events is likely an essential part of it. (Mental notes: nothing new, be more conscious that feelings are chemical and do control behavior.)
(surreal mindflow follows. Sorry for the language, need to express is too high)
The car was not created, it evolved. The computer is still evolving. Science and technology are all about evolvement through inventions becoming standards.
Nanobots are made by other nanobots. Only way to create the first egg (chicken?) is to bootstrap a programmable molecular factory by a ladder. First steps are half biological, half chemical. It gets hazier in the next generations. I guess we won't be able to distinct bacteria and nanobots after some time.
Time, duration, lag, of evolvement in itself is irrelevant - full development might take anything from 20 to 200 years. The steps will be taken as they evolve, long as the scientific infrastructure (universities, labs) sustain.
There's a bunch of changes/risks lurking: * malforming through - poor factory control - mutation - external distraction * malfunction leading to - overreplication - destruction/malformation of close environment - loss of control
Risks should be handled with * self coherence checks * self disposal at any error etc?
Assume we'll be able to construct * programmable nanobot factory * information exchange between nano- and human-sized level * connect to, control and listen to nanodevices * brain connection leading to mindinternetwork
Think how a world will be where you can grow a remote physical device anywhere you can send data to.
Wonder when we'll be able to grow wings? Remote bodies?
In the meanwhile, we have overpopulation, pollution, wars and famine. Oh, and religious zealots in Kansas and/.
Dunno 'bout the "really" part (#define objective reality?) but I do have a habit of idling (soft-drinking) in a city park after lunch, and chat with anyone who comes over (usually sidesteppers of our society). I never have to be afraid. Only a total lunatic would pack a gun in a country where it is strictly prohibited. Robbery doesn't pay that well in a society where money is dealt somewhat evenly between individuals. Even big corps, including the gov't, with huge wealth (==power) tend to behave themselves because they are led by people grown in this society. Everyone can see that this stability is nice and want to keep it such. We even have laws strictly restricting use of databases of persons and explicitly stating it an individual's right to see the info gathered of oneself.
I like playing paranoid and to think of most encounters as possibly hostile, play with ideas of black holes of power, but it makes me amused, not afraid. It doesn't rule my actions.
America seems built with Colts and Winchesters; no surprise sensible worries might turn into panic. It will always be so in any society that leaves too steep a hill between loss and gain for individuals. Establish soft limits to both, and power loses some of its importance. Enough, hopefully, that life will cease to be just a fight. All hail content middle class:P
Organizing a society that - or any - way becomes quite a hassle if its population is as enormous as quite a few nations/unions nowadays are. Too mucha fsckin' noise. So I don't see much hope for the Spirit of US to raise. They seem forced to have a war going on all the time somewhere now to keep it together. Have fun.
Hmm, sun has risen. Time for some ice cream in the park.
Off the point: VMware feels beautiful. Never to boot again. If we only had a hotswappable kernel.
...I noticed. Besides, if there's no equal way to leave responses, we'll never have hot flame wars.
It's really nice to be able to use more senses as input channels - less time-slicage on vision. Then again, we do have speech synthesizers - anyone have a slashdot reader script for festival?
Distributions can include the GPL version. No deals are needed at all. I have no idea where you got that idea from, since GPL is spelled all over it.
Question was not about deals or no deals, but where to make money from. That problem arises when they try to make a (/some) living out of their fs. But actually it's just that 'ages old' opensores business model: A good piece of code will be supported by those who find it useful. Even with cash, where that's appropriate.
Misunderstanding is natural considered the hazy nature of my wonderings above.
Code forking between the different licenses might become a problem. Then again, problems are just something to solve.
1 - Well, bringing community changes from under GPL to the proprietary version sounds still like breaking the rules:P
2 - This sounds very reasonable. So they expect 'real' unices as paying customers. In a world somewhat fair, I can figure them getting funds from several big-time distributors, opensores or not.
This project is GPL'd, but I sell exceptions to the GPL to commercial OS vendors and file server vendors.
Seems like you'd have to derive your own version of GPL in order to not break the original by yourself - unless it already makes this possible. Well, I guess I should read it myself before making comments like this:P
An interesting situation will arise if reiserfs or major parts of it will be applied in Linus' kernel releases or optionally patched into distributions. Namesys' effort to fund itself with its GPL'd code might fail, if their product gets provided implicitly. Practically and hopefully this might be solved by RedHat et al striking a deal with Namesys. However it's a stretch of the spirit of GPL to assume a reward although the code is free. This kind of self-funding free development should be supported, but is it really? Or am I so mislead that I should just bury my nose to the dear old source of GPL?
Anyone shed some light on this fundability vs. GPL issue?
cd/usr/local/bin is a whole lot easier than cd/right/right/left/right/left/right/right/right.
It dramatically decreases different technical details, doesn't it? Must be more user friendly then. Like mice with less buttons and parameters hidden behind multitudes of dialogs.
His hose is seemingly full of us by now:I Shall we give it a rest?
Shame, I was hoping to find out what he's up to now except for the teaching and stuff. Would he like to do something for free software movement for instance?
Speaking of which, a pal back at work showed me a bit of a component library for VB. IMHO the concept was way cool. Now *nix is all about components laying around like legos in kids' rooms, but if we'd be able to provide a consistent visual interface for combining events, that would provide the end users with something useful.
I got the idea from the festival speech synthesizer I installed today. If there was an easy way for lusers to combine such events as arriving email with noisy notifications, that'd wake up some stir about what *nix can do for you on the desktop.
Required would be a linuxconf-style centralized event control panel with interfaces to such things as procmailrc, crontab, irc client, write (yes, the command), widget sets (add a visual widget builder), A/V players and speech synthesizers. Let people connect signals to responses with drag&drop. Add a, say, XML RPC service for remote connections and you'd get something a perl kiddie can build any day, just finally available for the average luser.
Gosh. Maybe I'll just sign in for KDE one of these nights...
I remember a "Project X" or something like that that Apple played around a bit back in 1996 or so. It built a fisheye view of your file system where you could zoom into places with mouse (why not pen) and click on files.
Gimme 3D or gimme death! I want to save my loads of miscellanea on the first level of Doom 1.666, run for that DBI room through the projects hallway, and return to the starting door to access / fs. All the while blasting others accessing same NFS branches of course:)
BTW1, document writer's name is Finnish.
BTW2, ghostview couldn't open the.ps? Download.pdf in first place if you have restricted bandwidth.
At least the "United States Postal Service" story seems unverifiable. Prove me wrong, or it should be erased. Link to claim itself is 404, and usps.gov does not mention Linux (according to altavista).
Imagine a desktop with depth to push all those overlapping windows (er... wormholes?) away. Hang icons on walls. Turn your view for more space, and navigating on the fly:P
It isn't hard if you try.
X3DM: Instead of just catching up on the latest drag'n'drop features, offering the option of fly-or-fall.
Seriously, I'm happy & productive enough with XFree+[a functional wm] as it is, but it's veery nice to read of inspirated development on areas such as multihead support - the one and only thing I miss in Macs. Inspirated, I consider, due to more than one line mentioning clarified design. Good [XFree developers' favorite item here]!
"Sorry, your flue messed our medical care. We have to shut you down."
Imagine the future:
All services, selling and buying are based on the Net. The Net v2 is based on proprietary products. Nobody can detect what this closed system does. Except for the corporations running it. Who yields the power? Books (like 1984) would burn again:)
Will the international community buy to I2 if it's closed source?
Funny idea, that 5 hour version. Now how long is the actual movie going to be, 3 hours at most? Would they have done all the CGI (light sabers for instance) and sound (kosh... kosh...) for two extra hours of film knowing they will throw it away? Imagine the cost! Better yet, imagine seeing all those actors with only Blue Screen behind. Worse than death, it would kill the illusion.
I think I noticed some of that too... back somewhere. Mostly I've been relieved getting rid of the crap.
I'd rather see moderators removing stories that were sended twice, or dead links, or hoaxes
Or do a s/sended/sent/ where requirt;) Removal sucks - that's what the points are all about. They have to be unable to remove anything, in order to retain the freedom of writing.
Moderators should not be allowed to post on the main page.
Err... How come the main page has not received any flood from these 400 extra people? I read through the moderator rulepage or whatever, it didn't mention that - what am I missing?
That number thing would be nice, especially if you could choose your lucky^H^H^Hfavorite numbers to follow. But that's a bit of a load of work. Then again, I'm beginning to want to adopt these scripts myself... Hmmm... There seems to be a 'code' link on the left...
The next mail in that thread said following, and guess what? At least I had to apply that patch to get it to compile. Assume a 2.2.4-oops soon as The Man returns from vacation.
Date: Tue, 23 Mar 1999 19:35:04 -0500 From: Arvind Sankar
acct.c: In function `sys_acct': acct.c:197: too few arguments to function `filp_close' acct.c:203: too few arguments to function `filp_close'
Should the second parameter be NULL? (guessing wildly after looking at binfmt*)
Slashdot Mirror
Raising fee from LUG members counts as news for me. Who else does it? Wrong policy in a poor country IMHO.
/. would post more free software movement news outside US.
/not/ that exciting to hear about the overall damages though, praying for friends' and their relatives' lives. Best wishes for the rebuilding efforts.
Nevermind that these ~90 members and people related but uncounted are the national LUG for a nation of, er, some 65 Million people.
Turkiye does count as an especially interesting area since
- computing expenses are high compared to average income, free beer would help
- the nation struggles with human rights problems, examples of success through openness and sharing might help change that in long run
- communication channels such as Internet might help the oppressed get their word out (note both above)
- it is an extremely M$ish area.
For my own part I hope
BTW: It was somewhat interesting to get a server in Istanbul back online after hard disk damage due to earthquake, by phone from Finland. It was
Is anyone working on a secure JVM that would be used for generic CPU time / disk storage distributement? In a good future we'd be able to hire extra power in and out.
--
When I get a laptop with wireless connectivity, I'll have it register to work server regularly + on every boot.
Done some DB development on PgSQL, I feel forced to point out that in some cases at least the version we used back in 1998 quite exploded on some SELECTs. It filled both RAM and its temporary disk partition and had to be killed. The workaround was to use overly simplistic selections, which caused extra work on the programming side, and might be found quite restrictive on serious projects. I hope these issues have been covered in later versions, but have not followed the development.
I took the freedom to quote you in an email to said PhD Greenfield:
5 3 it seems what follows are feelings concerning the same survey dealt by quite a few of my fellow netizens. I might take the freedom to post this there too, for reference.
v ey2.html seems to me a bit unfavorably tilted toward sexual matters. I am a 100% net addict by the ways of both a respectable profession and an emerging lifestyle, yet the survey seems unable to figure my problem and only seems to try to force some correlation among net usage and some kind of sexual harrassment/addiction. I do not feel insulted, but left out of something I feel a need to express myself at.
:)
:)
;)
Sorry to be perhaps a bit expressive below; however, I'm trying to criticize a few points in your survey that I found most touching (as in me feeling quite concerned by the matter). To offer you a secondary clue. Also, judging by a quick glance to http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=99/08/24/12332
Quoth a fabled fellow at slashdot:
"The problem I've got with this little test and with the rest of the site is that it focuses on netsex and chatting with strangers."
"That's not MY problem, though I admit I seem addicted. I'm NOT a net-junkie as such though, I'm an info-junkie, and to a certain extent a debate-junkie who actually enjoys a good argument."
Your virtual addiction test (actually a survey, isn't it?) at https://drac.safe-order.net/virtual-addiction/sur
The biggest problem I do have with the net is that I skip taking care of my partner's sexual and my overall environment's social needs as I try but fail to concentrate on work. This has something to do with some kind of _information_greed_ I've developed. However sexuality-related that might be in a Freudian view, I do not hunt for porn/babes in the net, but rather for intellectual challenge. Even that can be a problematic addiction, believe it or not
Also, as my home is in the company intranet, and I work and spend all my free time on this very same chair, your questions of dividing time between work/home usage just plain fail. There is no such distinction, not for us; remember, it's a lifestyle. We are not your traditional average family fathers; yet, we count in hundreds of thousands.
Third, most of us are not American. Nor aim to be
I hope you will work toward a more accurate preset in any real scientific research you decide to take on in the future. As of now I refuse to be a part of your survey. Still, not to say most of it weren't good. I just don't want to be used to show a correlation I am not part of.
Come to think of it, what does it tell about us that we find social behavior (such as seeking contacts in the net) conspicuous but not any effects that force people to adapt that behavior (ie. importance put on working and owning computers with net access, instead of keeping up more first person "waste of time")?
Looking forward to be one more case on our blessed social security unless I can help myself out of wasting my life in search for stunning news, cheers.
Well, now that my problem's been pointed out, I guess I'll start dealing with it. Just ask work roots to configure firewall to drop all connections to slashdot
Not really. Couldn't do it. Hurt too much. Maybe if this doesn't go over by itself in a few years.
see subject
See BBC for a statistically more informative article.
/. Addicted Developer)
I request more info on the nature and effects of dopamine (which was not mentioned by BBC).
This could explain certain behavioral patterns that I have, based on feelings reflecting (usually failure of) finding surprising news. Searching for news constantly feels most important. I sometimes pass getting to bed even if need for sex is expressed, to catch up work undone because of news hunt, but still fail to work for the same reason. Thus, I think a chemical addiction might apply to me.
I still don't understand just why I start salivating when reading especially tech related news. What was the original trigger that connected this chemical reaction to the event of finding impressive news articles? Feeling of power through knowledge, hardly?
If peoples behaviors are this easily activated, well... Who controls the nanomachines, controls not only the world, but peoples feelings and behavior as well. Hmm (mental note: reread end of Diamond Age). Might explain certain history events. Scary that civilizedness is no protection. Actually the particular chain of, er, psycho-chemical events is likely an essential part of it. (Mental notes: nothing new, be more conscious that feelings are chemical and do control behavior.)
YaSAD (Yet another
"It means: buckle up your seatbelt, Dorothy, 'cause Kansas is going bye-bye!"
Sorry, had to. Is it even correct?
Movie in a totally different class than Star Wars, yet still unperfect mainstream sci-fi. Too bad nanobots can only be heros and aides in Anime.
(surreal mindflow follows. Sorry for the language, need to express is too high)
/.
The car was not created, it evolved. The computer is still evolving. Science and technology are all about evolvement through inventions becoming standards.
Nanobots are made by other nanobots. Only way to create the first egg (chicken?) is to bootstrap a programmable molecular factory by a ladder. First steps are half biological, half chemical. It gets hazier in the next generations. I guess we won't be able to distinct bacteria and nanobots after some time.
Time, duration, lag, of evolvement in itself is irrelevant - full development might take anything from 20 to 200 years. The steps will be taken as they evolve, long as the scientific infrastructure (universities, labs) sustain.
There's a bunch of changes/risks lurking:
* malforming through
- poor factory control
- mutation
- external distraction
* malfunction leading to
- overreplication
- destruction/malformation of close environment
- loss of control
Risks should be handled with
* self coherence checks
* self disposal at any error
etc?
Assume we'll be able to construct
* programmable nanobot factory
* information exchange between nano- and human-sized level
* connect to, control and listen to nanodevices
* brain connection leading to mindinternetwork
Think how a world will be where you can grow a remote physical device anywhere you can send data to.
Wonder when we'll be able to grow wings? Remote bodies?
In the meanwhile, we have overpopulation, pollution, wars and famine. Oh, and religious zealots in Kansas and
Recompile your mind regularly.
The dark side of being a SAD is never to make enough money to fly over :I
Then again, keep the chick(s?), I've got mine.
Waiting for remote party 'bots to hit the market^H^H^Hdance floor. "Hit the pogo script!"
Gotta gmake an All Night Original Helsinki University Linux Conference to keep up.
Question 2 - is it better elsewhere? REALLY?
:P
Dunno 'bout the "really" part (#define objective reality?) but I do have a habit of idling (soft-drinking) in a city park after lunch, and chat with anyone who comes over (usually sidesteppers of our society). I never have to be afraid. Only a total lunatic would pack a gun in a country where it is strictly prohibited. Robbery doesn't pay that well in a society where money is dealt somewhat evenly between individuals. Even big corps, including the gov't, with huge wealth (==power) tend to behave themselves because they are led by people grown in this society. Everyone can see that this stability is nice and want to keep it such. We even have laws strictly restricting use of databases of persons and explicitly stating it an individual's right to see the info gathered of oneself.
I like playing paranoid and to think of most encounters as possibly hostile, play with ideas of black holes of power, but it makes me amused, not afraid. It doesn't rule my actions.
America seems built with Colts and Winchesters; no surprise sensible worries might turn into panic. It will always be so in any society that leaves too steep a hill between loss and gain for individuals. Establish soft limits to both, and power loses some of its importance. Enough, hopefully, that life will cease to be just a fight. All hail content middle class
Organizing a society that - or any - way becomes quite a hassle if its population is as enormous as quite a few nations/unions nowadays are. Too mucha fsckin' noise. So I don't see much hope for the Spirit of US to raise. They seem forced to have a war going on all the time somewhere now to keep it together.
Have fun.
Hmm, sun has risen. Time for some ice cream in the park.
Off the point: VMware feels beautiful. Never to boot again. If we only had a hotswappable kernel.
...I noticed. Besides, if there's no equal way to leave responses, we'll never have hot flame wars.
It's really nice to be able to use more senses as input channels - less time-slicage on vision. Then again, we do have speech synthesizers - anyone have a slashdot reader script for festival?
Answer to an implicit question:
Distributions can include the GPL version. No deals are needed at all. I have no idea where you got that idea from, since GPL is spelled all over it.
Question was not about deals or no deals, but where to make money from. That problem arises when they try to make a (/some) living out of their fs. But actually it's just that 'ages old' opensores business model: A good piece of code will be supported by those who find it useful. Even with cash, where that's appropriate.
Misunderstanding is natural considered the hazy nature of my wonderings above.
Code forking between the different licenses might become a problem. Then again, problems are just something to solve.
1 - Well, bringing community changes from under GPL to the proprietary version sounds still like breaking the rules
2 - This sounds very reasonable. So they expect 'real' unices as paying customers. In a world somewhat fair, I can figure them getting funds from several big-time distributors, opensores or not.
My god, am I really already too lazy to read even my own writings?
On a side note, I found Namesys' technical introduction well written.
Quoth Namesys' technical introduction:
:P
This project is GPL'd, but I sell exceptions to the GPL to commercial OS vendors and file server vendors.
Seems like you'd have to derive your own version of GPL in order to not break the original by yourself - unless it already makes this possible. Well, I guess I should read it myself before making comments like this
An interesting situation will arise if reiserfs or major parts of it will be applied in Linus' kernel releases or optionally patched into distributions. Namesys' effort to fund itself with its GPL'd code might fail, if their product gets provided implicitly. Practically and hopefully this might be solved by RedHat et al striking a deal with Namesys. However it's a stretch of the spirit of GPL to assume a reward although the code is free. This kind of self-funding free development should be supported, but is it really? Or am I so mislead that I should just bury my nose to the dear old source of GPL?
Anyone shed some light on this fundability vs. GPL issue?
cd /usr/local/bin is a whole lot easier than cd /right/right/left/right/left/right/right/right.
It dramatically decreases different technical details, doesn't it? Must be more user friendly then. Like mice with less buttons and parameters hidden behind multitudes of dialogs.
:P
[dicklamer: i like macs too]
His hose is seemingly full of us by now :I
Shall we give it a rest?
Shame, I was hoping to find out what he's up to now except for the teaching and stuff. Would he like to do something for free software movement for instance?
Speaking of which, a pal back at work showed me a bit of a component library for VB. IMHO the concept was way cool. Now *nix is all about components laying around like legos in kids' rooms, but if we'd be able to provide a consistent visual interface for combining events, that would provide the end users with something useful.
I got the idea from the festival speech synthesizer I installed today. If there was an easy way for lusers to combine such events as arriving email with noisy notifications, that'd wake up some stir about what *nix can do for you on the desktop.
Required would be a linuxconf-style centralized event control panel with interfaces to such things as procmailrc, crontab, irc client, write (yes, the command), widget sets (add a visual widget builder), A/V players and speech synthesizers. Let people connect signals to responses with drag&drop. Add a, say, XML RPC service for remote connections and you'd get something a perl kiddie can build any day, just finally available for the average luser.
Gosh. Maybe I'll just sign in for KDE one of these nights...
I remember a "Project X" or something like that
that Apple played around a bit back in 1996 or so. It built a fisheye view of your file system where you could zoom into places with mouse (why not pen) and click on files.
Gimme 3D or gimme death! I want to save my loads of miscellanea on the first level of Doom 1.666, run for that DBI room through the projects hallway, and return to the starting door to access / fs. All the while blasting others accessing same NFS branches of course
BTW1, document writer's name is Finnish.
BTW2, ghostview couldn't open the
At least the "United States Postal Service" story seems unverifiable. Prove me wrong, or it should be erased. Link to claim itself is 404, and usps.gov does not mention Linux (according to altavista).
This is not a way to boost respect, IMHO.
Imagine a desktop with depth to push all those overlapping windows (er... wormholes?) away. Hang icons on walls. Turn your view for more space, and navigating on the fly
It isn't hard if you try.
X3DM: Instead of just catching up on the latest drag'n'drop features, offering the option of fly-or-fall.
Seriously, I'm happy & productive enough with XFree+[a functional wm] as it is, but it's veery nice to read of inspirated development on areas such as multihead support - the one and only thing I miss in Macs. Inspirated, I consider, due to more than one line mentioning clarified design. Good [XFree developers' favorite item here]!
"Sorry, your flue messed our medical care. We have to shut you down."
:)
Imagine the future:
All services, selling and buying are based on the Net. The Net v2 is based on proprietary products. Nobody can detect what this closed system does. Except for the corporations running it. Who yields the power? Books (like 1984) would burn again
Will the international community buy to I2 if it's closed source?
Funny idea, that 5 hour version. Now how long is the actual movie going to be, 3 hours at most? Would they have done all the CGI (light sabers for instance) and sound (kosh... kosh...) for two extra hours of film knowing they will throw it away? Imagine the cost! Better yet, imagine seeing all those actors with only Blue Screen behind. Worse than death, it would kill the illusion.
:)
Joke of the day
moderators will choose only subjects they like.
;) Removal sucks - that's what the points are all about. They have to be unable to remove anything, in order to retain the freedom of writing.
I think I noticed some of that too... back somewhere. Mostly I've been relieved getting rid of the crap.
I'd rather see moderators removing stories that were sended twice, or dead links, or hoaxes
Or do a s/sended/sent/ where requirt
Moderators should not be allowed to post on the main page.
Err... How come the main page has not received any flood from these 400 extra people? I read through the moderator rulepage or whatever, it didn't mention that - what am I missing?
That number thing would be nice, especially if you could choose your lucky^H^H^Hfavorite numbers to follow. But that's a bit of a load of work. Then again, I'm beginning to want to adopt these scripts myself... Hmmm... There seems to be a 'code' link on the left...
BTW: I'm installing NT now in a vmware-box. ;-)
But compiling the 2.2.4 now makes that install a
little bit slow
I want that software! You claim it really executes software in different OS's in parallel? My gosh!
Any problems? How does it work? How does it hook the OS's to do the swap dance? Can you play mp3's without breaks?
The next mail in that thread said following, and guess what? At least I had to apply that patch to get it to compile. Assume a 2.2.4-oops soon as The Man returns from vacation.
Date: Tue, 23 Mar 1999 19:35:04 -0500
From: Arvind Sankar
acct.c: In function `sys_acct':
acct.c:197: too few arguments to function `filp_close'
acct.c:203: too few arguments to function `filp_close'
Should the second parameter be NULL? (guessing wildly after looking at binfmt*)
Yes, here is the fix
--- linux/kernel/acct.c.~1~ Tue Mar 23 16:14:01 1999
+++ linux/kernel/acct.c Tue Mar 23 16:34:55 1999
@@ -194,13 +194,13 @@
}
if (old_acct) {
do_acct_process(0,old_acct);
- filp_close(old_acct);
+ filp_close(old_acct, NULL);
}
out:
unlock_kernel();
return error;
out_err:
- filp_close(file);
+ filp_close(file, NULL);
goto out;
}