Does anybody remember on June 12 when Slashdot posted this? The only difference is, the RIAA was the one being sued - that story was much more fun to read.
They (Google) seem really proud of it. On thier page, their main graphic says "GIGA Google" and it proclaims "Google index: 1,060,000,000 web pages."
Still, I like Google. Clean and simple, and the caching bit is kind of neat. And I can't argue with something that rate s my site #1 under the one query it deserves, 'oscar fish'! Thank you very much Yahoo! for not updating their description of it, which is now over two years old (after three requests).
On my home LAN I have no problems streaming MP3 files from one computer to another. I can listen to music on my webcam machine streamed over the LAN from downstairs at my primary machine. Sure, there's a lot of data being transferred, but it doesn't really interfere with other traffic on the home LAN - the MP3 streaming is all within a firewall, which manages Internet access for...it's now five client machines...off of a single cable modem connection.
Places like beyond.com are really into Electronically Distributed Software packages - that is, you purcase a piece of software, and you download it to your computer instead of waiting for it to arrive via postal mail. I like the idea - there's no waiting, and there's no packaging. You can burn the software to a CD-R and work with it as normal.
I don't know how much the ESD idea has caught on, but it is intriguing, and if I ever paid for any software I'd use it:)
This is an excellent resource for more information about the DivX codec as well as MPEG-4 compression in general. Now, if only FlasK could be ported to Linux...we'd be made in the shade.
...on CNBC there was a bit on AIM. It said over a billion messages were sent everyday. And, because of the AOL/Time Warner merger, yes, the FTC may consider this a monopolistic position.
AOL representatives stated that they didn't want to open the source of AIM because it would most likely let in chain letters and spam, as ICQ suffers from. I have to say, from my experience with GAIM, I have recevied hardly any unwanted messages. I remember a coupla years ago, I had ICQ, and it was horrible.
This Washi ngton Post article reports that Los Alamos employees are concerned about their image, because most everybody thinks they're running a really sloppy ship. I think they should be less concerned with their image and more concerned with the massively confidential and top-secret U.S. and Russian nuclear data they're missing.
The Reuters story at excite is pretty thorough; basically it's unclear whether the two hard drives were destroyed, lost, or stolen. Funny thing is, they were discovered lost May 7 - but the Energy Department wasn't notified until June 1. Employees are to take lie detector tests, and it seems they whole search setup is becoming a big mess.
The Washington Post story also has a good wrap-up. According to most sources, the drives were last seen in a suitcase in a vault in a Los Alamos lab. I think the confusion of the evacuation due to the recent fires might have something to do with this...
By morning I guess most major newspapers will have it in print and on their websites, but in the case of something like this I've always thought earlier is better. Let's just hope the drives are recovered...
MR. GARBUS: Mr. Schumann, is it or is it not true that while at Computex in Taipei, Taiwan, last week, you stole a Taiwanese boy's pants and used them for your own private use? Did you know you were in fact commiting a crime against major movie studios, and that the MPAA are very concerned about this?
While browsing IBM's Linux pages, I saw a page explaining their position on Linux support. This is the first time I recall a major OEM (you know, excluding Linux-specific vendors like VA Linux) having such an optimistic outlook on Linux support, and not leaving anything ambiguous to the consumer. This part sums it all up for me:
We are now offering the same kind of operating system support for Linux as we do for AIX, OS/2, OS/390, OS/400 and NT.
The Register reports that Crusoe chips should hit 1GHz by year end, consuming only 4 to 5 watts of power (for comparison, mobile Pentium III chips at 900 MHz use 29 watts). If IBM uses Crusoe chips like this in their thinkpads, running a version of Linux that is enhanced for the Crusoe's architecture and unique power consumption, I think we'll have some very interesting laptop machines going around, at speeds up to 1GHz.
Too bad there won't be any machines like this based on Athlons anytime soon. AMD is having some serious problems with power consumption.
On the news updates portion of the front page at my page I did a couple of short pieces as a parody of the latest Microsoft situation. Check it out if you'd like...
I didn't need this story to tell me Daikatana sucks - Thresh's put up a review this morning. They tore it up, just like everybody else did, with a score of 25%.
I would like to get the 3Com PC Digital Camera (USB) working under Linux. I've tried the latest versions of Red Hat and Mandrake, both with original kernels and the latest 2.4.0-test one. No luck yet.
Maybe 7.1 will work? Any ideas/successess/failures you'd like to share? Thanks.
I wouldn't trust Tom's review. He's a whore for bad benchmarking (remember his GeForce flub which completely alienated him from other sites?). Here's Sharky's, and I'm waiting for the FiringSquad to do theirs.
Don't rush out to buy your T-Birds just yet. To take advantage of the chip (or in many cases for it to work at all) you need to get a motherboard based on the KT133 chipset. That's KT, not KZ folks, because it was renamed at the last minute. KZ was an abbreviation for German concentration camps - now that's a naming flub, forget about Intel's "E" and "B" debacle!
To be honest, I'm disappointed. Previously the cache divider had held Athlons back behind CuMine chips at higher speed, and now that it's integrated I would have figured the T-Bird would have been kicking ass all around the block. I'm sticking with my P III 700E overclocked to 1008 MHz for now...
I'm watching Jerry Sanders, AMD's CEO, on CNBC TV right now talk about the T-Birds and I'm nonplussed.
Quick, everybody,/. NASA so they can't do the final burn like they need to. With any luck it will hit a city where either Metallica, Madonna, or the RIAA happens to be.
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Man....blocking a merger like this...next thing you know, they'll be trying to split up Microsoft.
Wait a minute...
Does anybody remember on June 12 when Slashdot posted this? The only difference is, the RIAA was the one being sued - that story was much more fun to read.
Still, I like Google. Clean and simple, and the caching bit is kind of neat. And I can't argue with something that rate s my site #1 under the one query it deserves, 'oscar fish'! Thank you very much Yahoo! for not updating their description of it, which is now over two years old (after three requests).
Oh man, I am really not looking forward to the Wasszup/Wassabi! posts.
I don't believe in COPPA regulation and will not comply with it as long as I possibly can.
On my home LAN I have no problems streaming MP3 files from one computer to another. I can listen to music on my webcam machine streamed over the LAN from downstairs at my primary machine. Sure, there's a lot of data being transferred, but it doesn't really interfere with other traffic on the home LAN - the MP3 streaming is all within a firewall, which manages Internet access for...it's now five client machines...off of a single cable modem connection.
I don't know how much the ESD idea has caught on, but it is intriguing, and if I ever paid for any software I'd use it :)
This is an excellent resource for more information about the DivX codec as well as MPEG-4 compression in general. Now, if only FlasK could be ported to Linux...we'd be made in the shade.
RMS & Linus Torvalds & David Boies & the Gej (of DivX fame) & Anonymous Coward vs. Bill Gates & Jack Valenti & Hillary Rosen & Jon Katz & Steve Jobs
AOL representatives stated that they didn't want to open the source of AIM because it would most likely let in chain letters and spam, as ICQ suffers from. I have to say, from my experience with GAIM, I have recevied hardly any unwanted messages. I remember a coupla years ago, I had ICQ, and it was horrible.
This Washi ngton Post article reports that Los Alamos employees are concerned about their image, because most everybody thinks they're running a really sloppy ship. I think they should be less concerned with their image and more concerned with the massively confidential and top-secret U.S. and Russian nuclear data they're missing.
The Reuters story at excite is pretty thorough; basically it's unclear whether the two hard drives were destroyed, lost, or stolen. Funny thing is, they were discovered lost May 7 - but the Energy Department wasn't notified until June 1. Employees are to take lie detector tests, and it seems they whole search setup is becoming a big mess.
The Washington Post story also has a good wrap-up. According to most sources, the drives were last seen in a suitcase in a vault in a Los Alamos lab. I think the confusion of the evacuation due to the recent fires might have something to do with this...
And here's the Los Angeles Times article.
By morning I guess most major newspapers will have it in print and on their websites, but in the case of something like this I've always thought earlier is better. Let's just hope the drives are recovered...
MR. GARBUS: Mr. Schumann, is it or is it not true that while at Computex in Taipei, Taiwan, last week, you stole a Taiwanese boy's pants and used them for your own private use? Did you know you were in fact commiting a crime against major movie studios, and that the MPAA are very concerned about this?
MR. SCHUMANN: No, I was not aware.
We are now offering the same kind of operating system support for Linux as we do for AIX, OS/2, OS/390, OS/400 and NT.
Way to go IBM!
Too bad there won't be any machines like this based on Athlons anytime soon. AMD is having some serious problems with power consumption.
On the news updates portion of the front page at my page I did a couple of short pieces as a parody of the latest Microsoft situation. Check it out if you'd like...
2000-06-07 17:35:59 Major Solar Storm Coming (articles,space) (rejected)
I cannot count dude
the patents screw with my head
as I read Slashdot
New ad serve method
I see my privacy disappear
into bad patents
I didn't need this story to tell me Daikatana sucks - Thresh's put up a review this morning. They tore it up, just like everybody else did, with a score of 25%.
2000-06-06 13:21:54 Linux supports Ultra ATA/100 (articles,linux) (rejected)
Maybe 7.1 will work? Any ideas/successess/failures you'd like to share? Thanks.
Don't rush out to buy your T-Birds just yet. To take advantage of the chip (or in many cases for it to work at all) you need to get a motherboard based on the KT133 chipset. That's KT, not KZ folks, because it was renamed at the last minute. KZ was an abbreviation for German concentration camps - now that's a naming flub, forget about Intel's "E" and "B" debacle!
To be honest, I'm disappointed. Previously the cache divider had held Athlons back behind CuMine chips at higher speed, and now that it's integrated I would have figured the T-Bird would have been kicking ass all around the block. I'm sticking with my P III 700E overclocked to 1008 MHz for now...
I'm watching Jerry Sanders, AMD's CEO, on CNBC TV right now talk about the T-Birds and I'm nonplussed.
Break out the Alpha coolers and overclock this to kingdom come.
Quick, everybody, /. NASA so they can't do the final burn like they need to. With any luck it will hit a city where either Metallica, Madonna, or the RIAA happens to be.