I masked all versions of udev above 171 because of the/usr merge. There are some nice things that udev does, mainly ensure consistent matching of device names to actual hardware. However, (for any of my systems anyway) the plug-and-play stuff isn't really needed until after the OS is up and running. I really don't need the system to do anything with random USB thumb drives or game controllers at boot time. The thought had occurred to me to simply go back to a static/dev.
I've looked into alternatives. There is tmpfs-based/udev support in the kernel that seems to work well (minus security settings). mdev, from busybox, seems to work well. I've also looked at mudev, though not much past the project page.
If Gentoo devs are forking udev into a new project that supports separate disk partitions for root directories, then I'll fully support and install it.
They call themselves "Progressives", as in progressing past the restrictions on government power in the Constitution.
As to the definition of "Progressivism", I'll let one of the icons of the Progressive movement define it's views relating to the Constitution in his own words:
"Justly revered as our great Constitution is, it could be stripped off and thrown aside like a garment, and the nation would still stand forth in the living vestment of flesh and sinew, warm with the heart-blood of one people, ready to recreate constitutions and laws." -- Woodrow Wilson
I'm not sure how the quote supports your definition of "Progressive". At first glance, the quote suggests that we, the American people, are of such great character that we would restore the Constitution if it were to be discarded. I do not generally study political history. However, this conflict of logic piqued my curiosity. I thought that maybe, within context, the quote would support your definition. A quick Google search only returned links to political propaganda sites. I thought it a bit strange that I couldn't find this quote in a historical context. Even Wikiquote.org doesn't seem to have it.
However, someone will observe you traveling faster than light, going from point A to point B faster than light would travel the same distance. If nobody sees you traveling faster than light, then how can you say you did so at all?
I'm a little confused by this idea. At no point does the warp ship go from point A to point B faster than light would travel the same distance. The path that the ship takes is shorter than the path that the light takes. The distance is not equal.
If an observer were near point B, I can see how it might appear that the ship arrived before it left. However, this would be an optical illusion based on the greater distance that the light traveled.
I've used Citadel. It is not a bad groupware package. It is open source, easy to install, and actively maintained. I don't believe it supports encryption of the database and it uses a file attachment model rather than a file server model. However, it works fairly well for calenders and messaging.
This is not a fix for machines already pwned. It is a precautionary step to foil copycats
I figured as much. I just thought the loop was funny...
Microsoft releases all updates as separately downloadable packages.
I see that this patch does offer an executable download. However, not all patches are available as executables. I'm not on the machine now. So I'm not sure of the patch numbers. However, I have a Vista machine that has 2 security updates, from May, permanently stuck in an install loop. They successfully install about every 10 minutes. I tried several solutions. Microsoft has a FixIt application that told me Windows Update needed to be repaired. It claims to fix it every time it is run. However, the problem does not go away. So I tried to find the downloadable version of the update to see if installing it in Safe Mode would work. No Go. The only file available for download was a.msu file. Unfortunately, msu files require that Windows Update be running with an active network connection. They do not work in Safe Mode. At this point I think a reinstall is needed. However, Vista is a major pain. If I have to reinstall, I'm putting XP back on the machine.
Microsoft also released its new updater for certificates as a critical update for Windows Vista and later versions as part of today's July Patch Tuesday.... and how the attackers were able to forge a Microsoft certificate and then use it to impersonate a Windows Update server."
So, to protect users from potentially trusting a fake Windows Update server, Microsoft is releasing this update through a Windows Update server, which potentially could be fake? I suppose that if your computer already trusts a fake server, it is too late. However, I wish Microsoft would go back to providing downloadable updates that didn't depend on Windows Update.
Web surfing? Most home computers were windows 3.1, NCSA Mosiac was only two years old, and, if you believe Wikipedia, there were only 50 websites to visit [wikipedia.org], and yahoo had just begun.
Yep, and then Microsoft created a free web browser and included it in their OS in August of that year. Everyone was quick to jump onboard. Al Gore invented the Internet and Netscape copied Microsoft and then sued.
Oh wait, it might not have happened that way. You should check your facts... Of course, I remember using an account a friend had at the university to access the Internet in 1985 and using Netscape Navigator in 94.
when majority of US people are rather unemployed than move to places with jobs
It is something I thought about while looking for work. I even did some searches on the idea. I didn't find much information. I did find jobs for teaching english as a second language. However, those required that you speak the native language fluently. I also found advice that I should become employed in the USA with an international company and after working there for some time, get transfered overseas. But then, that still requires employment in the USA. You are asking why the unemployed in the USA do not just jump on a boat and start working overseas. I'd be very interested in any information you have on how to accomplish this. It is not like I can just drive 50 miles and do an interview.
Columbus was sponsored by the Portuguese crown in a search for wealth in trade routes.
You might want to revisit the history books on this one...
Columbus was sponsored by Queen Isabella of Spain. There were several reasons for this sponsorship, though Columbus's personal wealth and power certainly came into play. At the time, the Ottomans and other Islamic nations controlled the trade routes to the east. Europe wanted the spices and medicines available in China. One of the hopeful outcomes was an allegiance with Murtada Khan of the Golden Horde. Murtada had expressed an interest in Christianity. With the recent defeat of the Moors in Spain and expulsion of the Jews, Spain was looking for new allies to continue the Christian assault on Islam and the capture of Jerusalem. Then too, I've also heard the rumor that King Ferdinand just wanted Columbus out of Spain so he would quit flirting with his wife. However, I've not found much to support this.
Given the events of the time, I'd say that religion and politics were the primary motivators, with profitability being a nice side-effect.
Well, I guess it all depends on your definition of full. There are those people that won't believe there is an over population problem until the bodies are stacked to the upper reaches of the atmosphere and fed by single-cell organisms. Then there are those people who think a place is crowded if they can see a neighbor from their front porch. You can enjoy living like a cockroach so long as I can't see you from my front porch...
But, you're right that MythTV does not natively support Netflix. Maybe it could be accessed via MythBrowser? Or is a real Win/Mac (on a PC) client necessary?
Netflix depends on Silverlight. Silverlight is not supported (or usable) on Linux. Doesn't even work under Wine. A good alternative to Netflix is Hulu. It uses Flash for video.
Just a quick search shows "Newt Gingrich" has not yet been claimed as a trademark. However, "Sarah Palin" filled for trademark protection on 11/5/2010. Maybe Newt should file before an opponent claims the trademark...
So on some primal level I get entertained when it happens to someone I don't like a lot, like when I'm watching professional wrestling or a soap opera.
This is how everyone I know treats politics. Substitute American football for American politics. Look at how fans react. Fans will stand behind their favorite team, no matter how bad that team is. They will argue how theirs is the greatest team no matter how poor the team. Once you have team loyalty, nothing else matters. I see the same thing happen in politics all the time. The devil could rise from hell and offer to accept American servitude. Americans would jump at the opportunity as long as he was signed to their favorite political team.
when your laptop goes belly-up and you want to waste IT's time to try and recover it
Do people really expect the company's IT to take over administration and maintenance of their personal computers? I thought the restriction on personal computers had more to do with data walking out the door.
How about when there is a lawsuit and all emails, IMs, etc., must be collected?
People store that stuff on personal computers? My place of employment keeps that stuff on the email server and makes regular backups. All emails and IMs would be covered by handing over the backups.
I received a message a few months ago from Gentoo that Oracle had changed their licensing back to a distribution unfriendly version. Gentoo turned on the fetch restriction switch and gave me a link to download the needed files. I followed the link and read their new license only to discover that it forbade installing Java on Netbooks and cell phones. Three of the computers I maintain are Netbooks. I opted to skip updating Java until I learned more. Then life happened and I stopped paying attention to Java.
Today, I see this headline and I follow it to see what is going on. The comments seem to fall into two groups, Windows fan boys and OpenJDK discussion. OpenJDK is new to me and useful information. I've never heard of it before. Unfortunately, "emerge -s jdk" doesn't show an OpenJDK. I'll have to research it more. Perhaps it has a different name in Portage?
I originally installed Sun's JDK because my bank said I needed Sun's specific implementation to access my account on-line. I also worked for a company at the time that insisted that any data you wanted to capture needed to have an application coded in Java. I had played around with the idea of learning the language for work. That was given up when I figured out that any application I wrote wouldn't be approved for work use. I just did what most people did there, keep the data in Excel and away from the databases. It was that, or wait for the Dev team's multi-year backlog to clear.
I'll have to see what I can learn about OpenJDK and see if it covers my banking needs...
After glancing at the article, I have to ask, what is a TV? From the article:
a few factors that could be at play, including more people watching TV shows online
So that tells me that a TV is not a video unit capable of displaying television shows. Perhaps they are referring to those old all-in-one units that had a television decoder built into the display? I have a 42-inch plasma display connected to a computer and home network. It is primarily used to view NetFlix, Hulu, and some light gaming. I also have a DTV tuner in a different computer on the same network. It can send video out to about ten other computers scattered around the house. Not a single display in the house has an integrated tuner. Does that mean I have zero televisions, or ten?
On a side note, I do laugh when I read Hulu's message that the current program is not viewable on televisions, then proceeds to display the show on my television.
I always figured Microsoft was at odds with itself. On one side, you have an operating system company that needs to recruit 3rd parties to write applications for their OS. On the other hand, you have an application company that needs to prevent 3rd parties from producing better software than you. Novel needed to trust Microsoft as their OS vendor. It has to be a weird situation to depend on your biggest competitor to deliver a stable platform that runs your software.
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I've always enjoyed World of Padman. It is a cartoon-styled world of paint ball fights based on the Quake III Arena engine.
I imagine that one of their complaints about the Xbox was that it couldn't be tied into Windows or Office either
My 2 seconds of Googling didn't find it. However, I remember Gates talking about a completely sealed computer system running Windows NT. The idea was that the system would only run MS software on MS hardware. No upgrades would be possible. I always figured the Xbox evolved from that prototype.
It would've been incredibly irresponsible of Oracle to allow Google to create a wholly incompatible "Java" under the Java name.... this is more like horning in on somebody else's trademark
This is the part I really don't understand. My understanding, and I could be wrong, is that Oracle is going after Google for patent, not trademark violations. From what I can see, this has nothing to do with any trademarks being used inappropriately. Rather, it has to do with Google implementing a solution based on the published Java specifications. I haven't read the license that those specifications are published under. However, I'd guess that they do not grant license to freely use the specifications to generate code that could compete with Java.
So I'm not sure where all the discussion about trademark violation is coming from. Did Oracle claim trademark, as well as patent, violations? As to the future viability of Java, I'm not sure that any of this will really have an impact. So far, it only seems to matter if you want to reimplement Java. You can make the case that several embedded device manufactures do want to reimpliment Java, because of hardware limitations. It will certainly impact those interests. It may come about that those interests will create the next popular language that meets their needs, rather than use Java. However, I do not see it having an impact on Java, where it is commonly used today.
A little off topic, but I do find the cell-phone environment interesting. Everybody seems to want to exclude cell-phones from general computing. It is fascinating to watch all of these big companies fighting over who can do what on these little devices. It is very similar to the way modern warfare works. Everybody is afraid of the big patent war, much like the cold war's nukes. However, the players still want to test out their war-craft. So they pick small targets (cell phones or 3rd world countries) to do their battle.
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I masked all versions of udev above 171 because of the /usr merge. There are some nice things that udev does, mainly ensure consistent matching of device names to actual hardware. However, (for any of my systems anyway) the plug-and-play stuff isn't really needed until after the OS is up and running. I really don't need the system to do anything with random USB thumb drives or game controllers at boot time. The thought had occurred to me to simply go back to a static /dev.
/udev support in the kernel that seems to work well (minus security settings). mdev, from busybox, seems to work well. I've also looked at mudev, though not much past the project page.
I've looked into alternatives. There is tmpfs-based
If Gentoo devs are forking udev into a new project that supports separate disk partitions for root directories, then I'll fully support and install it.
Not if most of those 21 million webpages reference the same small set of licensed images.
I've always liked Clam AntiVirus. I really like the email feature. It notifies me via email whenever a computer that I monitor gets infected.
They call themselves "Progressives", as in progressing past the restrictions on government power in the Constitution.
As to the definition of "Progressivism", I'll let one of the icons of the Progressive movement define it's views relating to the Constitution in his own words: "Justly revered as our great Constitution is, it could be stripped off and thrown aside like a garment, and the nation would still stand forth in the living vestment of flesh and sinew, warm with the heart-blood of one people, ready to recreate constitutions and laws." -- Woodrow Wilson
I'm not sure how the quote supports your definition of "Progressive". At first glance, the quote suggests that we, the American people, are of such great character that we would restore the Constitution if it were to be discarded. I do not generally study political history. However, this conflict of logic piqued my curiosity. I thought that maybe, within context, the quote would support your definition. A quick Google search only returned links to political propaganda sites. I thought it a bit strange that I couldn't find this quote in a historical context. Even Wikiquote.org doesn't seem to have it.
However, someone will observe you traveling faster than light, going from point A to point B faster than light would travel the same distance. If nobody sees you traveling faster than light, then how can you say you did so at all?
I'm a little confused by this idea. At no point does the warp ship go from point A to point B faster than light would travel the same distance. The path that the ship takes is shorter than the path that the light takes. The distance is not equal.
If an observer were near point B, I can see how it might appear that the ship arrived before it left. However, this would be an optical illusion based on the greater distance that the light traveled.
I've used Citadel. It is not a bad groupware package. It is open source, easy to install, and actively maintained. I don't believe it supports encryption of the database and it uses a file attachment model rather than a file server model. However, it works fairly well for calenders and messaging.
This is not a fix for machines already pwned. It is a precautionary step to foil copycats
I figured as much. I just thought the loop was funny...
Microsoft releases all updates as separately downloadable packages.
I see that this patch does offer an executable download. However, not all patches are available as executables. I'm not on the machine now. So I'm not sure of the patch numbers. However, I have a Vista machine that has 2 security updates, from May, permanently stuck in an install loop. They successfully install about every 10 minutes. I tried several solutions. Microsoft has a FixIt application that told me Windows Update needed to be repaired. It claims to fix it every time it is run. However, the problem does not go away. So I tried to find the downloadable version of the update to see if installing it in Safe Mode would work. No Go. The only file available for download was a .msu file. Unfortunately, msu files require that Windows Update be running with an active network connection. They do not work in Safe Mode. At this point I think a reinstall is needed. However, Vista is a major pain. If I have to reinstall, I'm putting XP back on the machine.
Microsoft also released its new updater for certificates as a critical update for Windows Vista and later versions as part of today's July Patch Tuesday. ... and how the attackers were able to forge a Microsoft certificate and then use it to impersonate a Windows Update server."
So, to protect users from potentially trusting a fake Windows Update server, Microsoft is releasing this update through a Windows Update server, which potentially could be fake? I suppose that if your computer already trusts a fake server, it is too late. However, I wish Microsoft would go back to providing downloadable updates that didn't depend on Windows Update.
Web surfing? Most home computers were windows 3.1, NCSA Mosiac was only two years old, and, if you believe Wikipedia, there were only 50 websites to visit [wikipedia.org], and yahoo had just begun.
Yep, and then Microsoft created a free web browser and included it in their OS in August of that year. Everyone was quick to jump onboard. Al Gore invented the Internet and Netscape copied Microsoft and then sued.
Oh wait, it might not have happened that way. You should check your facts... Of course, I remember using an account a friend had at the university to access the Internet in 1985 and using Netscape Navigator in 94.
when majority of US people are rather unemployed than move to places with jobs
It is something I thought about while looking for work. I even did some searches on the idea. I didn't find much information. I did find jobs for teaching english as a second language. However, those required that you speak the native language fluently. I also found advice that I should become employed in the USA with an international company and after working there for some time, get transfered overseas. But then, that still requires employment in the USA. You are asking why the unemployed in the USA do not just jump on a boat and start working overseas. I'd be very interested in any information you have on how to accomplish this. It is not like I can just drive 50 miles and do an interview.
Columbus was sponsored by the Portuguese crown in a search for wealth in trade routes.
You might want to revisit the history books on this one...
Columbus was sponsored by Queen Isabella of Spain. There were several reasons for this sponsorship, though Columbus's personal wealth and power certainly came into play. At the time, the Ottomans and other Islamic nations controlled the trade routes to the east. Europe wanted the spices and medicines available in China. One of the hopeful outcomes was an allegiance with Murtada Khan of the Golden Horde. Murtada had expressed an interest in Christianity. With the recent defeat of the Moors in Spain and expulsion of the Jews, Spain was looking for new allies to continue the Christian assault on Islam and the capture of Jerusalem. Then too, I've also heard the rumor that King Ferdinand just wanted Columbus out of Spain so he would quit flirting with his wife. However, I've not found much to support this.
Given the events of the time, I'd say that religion and politics were the primary motivators, with profitability being a nice side-effect.
I didn't realize Pete was running again. Good to hear. Lets hope he gets elected this time!
Well, I guess it all depends on your definition of full. There are those people that won't believe there is an over population problem until the bodies are stacked to the upper reaches of the atmosphere and fed by single-cell organisms. Then there are those people who think a place is crowded if they can see a neighbor from their front porch. You can enjoy living like a cockroach so long as I can't see you from my front porch...
But, you're right that MythTV does not natively support Netflix. Maybe it could be accessed via MythBrowser? Or is a real Win/Mac (on a PC) client necessary?
Netflix depends on Silverlight. Silverlight is not supported (or usable) on Linux. Doesn't even work under Wine. A good alternative to Netflix is Hulu. It uses Flash for video.
Just a quick search shows "Newt Gingrich" has not yet been claimed as a trademark. However, "Sarah Palin" filled for trademark protection on 11/5/2010. Maybe Newt should file before an opponent claims the trademark...
So on some primal level I get entertained when it happens to someone I don't like a lot, like when I'm watching professional wrestling or a soap opera.
This is how everyone I know treats politics. Substitute American football for American politics. Look at how fans react. Fans will stand behind their favorite team, no matter how bad that team is. They will argue how theirs is the greatest team no matter how poor the team. Once you have team loyalty, nothing else matters. I see the same thing happen in politics all the time. The devil could rise from hell and offer to accept American servitude. Americans would jump at the opportunity as long as he was signed to their favorite political team.
when your laptop goes belly-up and you want to waste IT's time to try and recover it
Do people really expect the company's IT to take over administration and maintenance of their personal computers? I thought the restriction on personal computers had more to do with data walking out the door.
How about when there is a lawsuit and all emails, IMs, etc., must be collected?
People store that stuff on personal computers? My place of employment keeps that stuff on the email server and makes regular backups. All emails and IMs would be covered by handing over the backups.
I received a message a few months ago from Gentoo that Oracle had changed their licensing back to a distribution unfriendly version. Gentoo turned on the fetch restriction switch and gave me a link to download the needed files. I followed the link and read their new license only to discover that it forbade installing Java on Netbooks and cell phones. Three of the computers I maintain are Netbooks. I opted to skip updating Java until I learned more. Then life happened and I stopped paying attention to Java.
Today, I see this headline and I follow it to see what is going on. The comments seem to fall into two groups, Windows fan boys and OpenJDK discussion. OpenJDK is new to me and useful information. I've never heard of it before. Unfortunately, "emerge -s jdk" doesn't show an OpenJDK. I'll have to research it more. Perhaps it has a different name in Portage?
I originally installed Sun's JDK because my bank said I needed Sun's specific implementation to access my account on-line. I also worked for a company at the time that insisted that any data you wanted to capture needed to have an application coded in Java. I had played around with the idea of learning the language for work. That was given up when I figured out that any application I wrote wouldn't be approved for work use. I just did what most people did there, keep the data in Excel and away from the databases. It was that, or wait for the Dev team's multi-year backlog to clear.
I'll have to see what I can learn about OpenJDK and see if it covers my banking needs...
a few factors that could be at play, including more people watching TV shows online
So that tells me that a TV is not a video unit capable of displaying television shows. Perhaps they are referring to those old all-in-one units that had a television decoder built into the display? I have a 42-inch plasma display connected to a computer and home network. It is primarily used to view NetFlix, Hulu, and some light gaming. I also have a DTV tuner in a different computer on the same network. It can send video out to about ten other computers scattered around the house. Not a single display in the house has an integrated tuner. Does that mean I have zero televisions, or ten?
On a side note, I do laugh when I read Hulu's message that the current program is not viewable on televisions, then proceeds to display the show on my television.
I always figured Microsoft was at odds with itself. On one side, you have an operating system company that needs to recruit 3rd parties to write applications for their OS. On the other hand, you have an application company that needs to prevent 3rd parties from producing better software than you. Novel needed to trust Microsoft as their OS vendor. It has to be a weird situation to depend on your biggest competitor to deliver a stable platform that runs your software.
I've always enjoyed World of Padman. It is a cartoon-styled world of paint ball fights based on the Quake III Arena engine.
Their sign-up process is broken. I clicked the contact link and wrote something up asking for help, and have yet to hear back from them.
Site is broken with firefox (blank window) but works in IE9.
Seems to be working now. I just signed up using Firefox 7.0.1 on Windows XP.
I imagine that one of their complaints about the Xbox was that it couldn't be tied into Windows or Office either
My 2 seconds of Googling didn't find it. However, I remember Gates talking about a completely sealed computer system running Windows NT. The idea was that the system would only run MS software on MS hardware. No upgrades would be possible. I always figured the Xbox evolved from that prototype.
I'm also on Gentoo. However, my /tmp is on the hard drive. Gentoo has an automatic setting that wipes /tmp upon booting the system.
It would've been incredibly irresponsible of Oracle to allow Google to create a wholly incompatible "Java" under the Java name. ... this is more like horning in on somebody else's trademark
This is the part I really don't understand. My understanding, and I could be wrong, is that Oracle is going after Google for patent, not trademark violations. From what I can see, this has nothing to do with any trademarks being used inappropriately. Rather, it has to do with Google implementing a solution based on the published Java specifications. I haven't read the license that those specifications are published under. However, I'd guess that they do not grant license to freely use the specifications to generate code that could compete with Java.
So I'm not sure where all the discussion about trademark violation is coming from. Did Oracle claim trademark, as well as patent, violations? As to the future viability of Java, I'm not sure that any of this will really have an impact. So far, it only seems to matter if you want to reimplement Java. You can make the case that several embedded device manufactures do want to reimpliment Java, because of hardware limitations. It will certainly impact those interests. It may come about that those interests will create the next popular language that meets their needs, rather than use Java. However, I do not see it having an impact on Java, where it is commonly used today.
A little off topic, but I do find the cell-phone environment interesting. Everybody seems to want to exclude cell-phones from general computing. It is fascinating to watch all of these big companies fighting over who can do what on these little devices. It is very similar to the way modern warfare works. Everybody is afraid of the big patent war, much like the cold war's nukes. However, the players still want to test out their war-craft. So they pick small targets (cell phones or 3rd world countries) to do their battle.