But hey, it's funny when they're finding some kid's Guile fansite or bringing bomb threats to a furry con (and then bitching when the police have something to say about bomb threats right next to an airport), right? So it has to be fun when they're trying the same form of character assassination and harassment on as large a scale as to attack a multi-million dollar international company... right?
Right? Ha ha? So funny? Right?
Look, if you're going to put up websites about how you like to dress up in anthropomorphic animal suits or pretend to be characters out of Final Fantasy for sexual gratification, then you are eventually going to be humiliated by someone.
Either don't make it public or deal with the shit you're going to attract. This is a free society and nobody is going to protect your ridiculous fucking hobbies from public disapproval.
Why? Because it's 128 bits! One hundred and twenty eight fucking bits! That's 64 bits more than any other FS, so any fool can see that it's twice as good as the alternatives.
It may be new and untested, but that's hardly important in the face of 128 fucking bits is it? Besides it's designed by Sun engineers and nobody has more experience in FS design and implementation. That's why all the previous Solaris filesystems rocked so hard. Nothing can beat UFS in terms of stability and performance after all.
Oh, and I nearly forgot - because it's made by Sun it's going to be 10 times as Enterprisey as any half-baked, so-called "tried and tested" RAID/SAN solution that those other suppliers are going to come up with.
Quite frankly, the fact that you're even asking this question suggests you are guilty of criminal hype evasion.
I was under the impression that XBMC was basically a modified version of Mplayer. Now I can't believe that they coded their own OS to run on the bare metal and I somehow doubt they were using Windows. So that basically leaves Linux, right?
So they're porting a Linux based Linux media player to Linux?
Would anyone like to correct me or alternatively join me in a severe case of WTF?
You're new here, aren't you? All people who praise Microsoft or proprietary software or admonish open source or Linux are automatically deemed to be shills.
Why not setup your own Slashdot style site praising Microsoft & proprietary software whilst admonishing open source and Linux? You can simply re-mortgage your house to get the necessary funding, because I really don't see any way in which an idea like that could possibly fail. Unless you turn out to be just a whiney bitch, so lacking in motivation that you'll spend years posting on a site whose views you fundamentally disagree with. I guess that could be an issue.
Hopefully Greg KH and Linus will realise this one day but until then we are stuck with waiting 3 years after a piece of hardware was released for someone in the community to reverse engineer the windows driver and create their (our) own.
It would definitely be "their" and not "our", because "our" would imply that you had some kind of ownership over the driver. Since your post demonstrates a total failure to understand the current Linux development model and advocates a new model which would basically ruin it, I don't think that you can really consider yourself a part of the community.
I know you'll argue that you have just as much right as anyone else to try and steer Linux kernel development in the right direction through argument, but actually you don't because you're not a kernel developer. Contributing a lot of time wasting whining is not the same as making a useful contribution.
This is the main thing holding back linux from supporting a great deal of the hardware that is currently supported by Windows, OSX or BSD.
Linux supports a much greater range of hardware than OSX and I'm pretty sure that BSD doesn't have a stable binary API. A Windows driver for 95/98 will not work on 2000/XP and a 2000/XP driver probably won't work on Vista. The 64bit versions of XP has been available for some time now, but isn't exactly blessed with an over-abundance of drivers. How can that be so when the stable API makes it so easy to develop drivers?
So basically all of your examples are flawed. You should have used Solaris as an example, since that has the most stable binary API. Of course, it also supports the smallest amount of hardware which is even worse for your argument but that's just nitpicking at this point.
The current approach might well produce a better quality driver (and kernel) but it is far to slow. Who wants to spend several hundred pounds on new hardware only to find it is obsolete before the linux kernel supports it.
If you're willing to trade quality and stability for the ability to use the latest whizz-bang hardware, then what's stopping you from using Windows? It's clearly not a financial consideration if you're willing to spend hundreds of pounds on hardware.
Since you fundamentally disagree with the philosophy and development path of Linux, I don't see why you would want to use it anyway. Also, any ideas you have to "improve" Linux must automatically be treated with suspicion.
I guess some people reading this may be more used to Windows and therefore not entirely familiar with the functionality of the Unix packages that were mentioned. Allow me to summarise :
OpenSSH - A service you can install on a Unix system to enable remote admin access for known users.
Sendmail - A service you can install on a Unix system to enable remote admin access for complete strangers.
I support free speech and think the MPAA is overreacting. But at the same time, this guy (and everyone else who has plastered the key everywhere) is acting in a provocative manner. This whole argument is starting to sound like the brother/sister act of "I'm not touching you". Maybe if both sides grew up and actually tried to understand the other sides argument, this type of thing could be resolved.
Sorry, I'm confused. Are you trying to be funny, or did you actually put effort into writing the most pointless and unrealistic statement I've ever seen on the Internet?
Simply write a script that runs MD5sum on every file in the filesystem once per minute and then copies any that have changed over the network to a central VMS server (which will take care of the versioning for you).
That's what you get for not listing cost effectiveness or efficiency amongst your requirements. Be more careful in future.
As a protocol, IPv6 seems to have so many glaring omissions or just bad engineering issues. The first one... no use of firewalls or NAT devices. Hello here... firewalls are critically needed on the Internet, and many laws and regulations specify use of one.
I think you have an overly negative view due to your half-baked opinions being based on badly written, idiot-level Slashdot summaries of already poor articles, rather than being based on even the most minimal understanding of the pros and cons of different network protocols.
Now, I don't want you to think that I'm defending IPv6. If I was doing that, I would point out that there is nothing in IPv6 that stops you using a firewall and that iptables and pf have supported IPv6 for years. No, I am attacking you. I just have this thing about the clueless spouting factually incorrect statements in public forums. Deliberate trolling is fine with me, but I've always had a thing about loud idiots.
However, since the graphics are so appalling it must automatically be at least ten times more fun than the PS3 or 360 versions. I'm told that's how it works with Nintendo systems.
And to be fair, there is an extra dimension to the game for the real Nintendo fanboys. When they flick their Wiimote around, the spooge which they have previously deposited on it during bouts of unbridled fanboy lust will fly off in great stringy lumps, accurately simulating Spidey's web emitters in a way unachievable on any of the so-called next generation systems.
In some areas, the closed linux binary driver maintains feature parity with the Windows counterpart.
Meanwhile the 3d performance is consistently between a third and a half that of the Windows counterpart. Even the top of the range ATI parts consistently get hammered by mid-range Nvidia cards.
Have a look at this page from the Phoronix ATI Linux year in review :
You would think that having released that many driver revisions, the performance would have varied a bit in one direction or other simply by accident. But no, absolutely static with perhaps a slight downward trend. Feel free to look up the benchmarks for more recent releases if you honestly think there will be the slightest difference.
Combined with the fact that they have obviously diverted a great deal of development effort into producing a shitty control panel applet that nobody wanted and which does fuck all, while ignoring the demands for GLX_EXT_texture_from_pixmap support, the only conclusion one can draw is that ATI's Linux support not only sucks but sucks deliberately.
Now, normally one qould use ':q' to exit a file without saving, but he was in the habit of using ':x', which is a convenient way of saving and exiting at the same time.
Ooh, I know someone who did that. Except worse. I forget the exact command and the Vi man page is too long to plough through, but he used something like capital X to quit. Which quits, saves and encrypts the file. He figured this out only after having edited a number of rather important files in/etc on a number of different systems.
I know Vista Home can run VMWare Server as a host (tried it) and Parallels on the Mac can run the MSDN version as a guest (seen it).
To get decent Video, I/O and Network performance for the guest OS it really needs the VMWare tools installed, which are basically just a set of customised drivers. So I would imagine the most significant change in the new release is that it now includes a set of VMWare tools for Vista guests.
Without those drivers, Vista would run like a pig. With the drivers the situation is greatly improved - it will run like a pig with lipstick.
Why should anyone interested in developing open solutions for set top boxes limit themselves to the OSD's closed embedded-style hardware, when Apple has provided a full PC that you can run whatever you want on (Mac OSX, linux, MythTV, etc...) in a nice neat package for almost the same price ($229 vs $299)?
Sorry, just a minor correction - Apple have actually provided a full PC which they will do everything within their power to stop you running Mac OSX, Linux & MythTV on.
The fact that Apple are shit at that kind of thing, and their protections usually end up being defeated within a few days by a bunch of 15 year old Romanian hackers does not make them a champion of open platforms.
I know it's difficult to see the difference when you have been blinded by the intense sunlight eminating from Mr Job's ringpiece.
The PSX is almost an audiophile quality CD player.
According to one of the linked articles, it has a very bog standard looking 16 bit DAC. The analogue output stage looks singularly unremarkable.
Some other choice quotes from the articles :
"Michael told me to look for a PlayStation with the model number SCPH-1001, which is the unit with separate audio and video RCA output jacks. That particular model allows audiophiles to use their own (expensive) audio cables to get "perfect" sound."
"Before I started my listening tests, Michael had a warning for me: "Plug in the units -- turn 'em on -- and don't turn them off." It seems the PlayStations sound best when left on all the time. Michael was right. You shouldn't even listen for the first three days. Both units need every second of the break-in period."
To me, both of those quotes raise red flags. The flags have "Audiophool" written on them in big letters.
I also doubt that simply removing two caps and replacing them with the expensive polyester variety is going to make a difference audible to anybody not already skilled in the art of self deception. And apparently if you have one with a mod chip, you should definitely remove it just in case it ruins the sound. I would have thought it would be obvious whether it does or not to somebody with such golden ears.
But apart from virtualization with VMI, paravirtualization, live migration and host suspend/resume supportsupport for kvm, a tickless idle loop mechanism with unified high resolution timer handling, bigger kernel parameter-lines, support for the PA SEMI PWRficient CPU and for the Cell-based 'celleb' Toshiba architecture, NFS IPv6 support, IPv4 IPv6 IPSEC tunneling, UFS2 write, kprobes for PPC32, kexec and oprofile for ARM, public key encryption for ecryptfs, Fcrypt and Camilla cipher algorithms, NAT port randomization, audit lockdown mode, some new drivers and many other small improvements, what has Linus ever done for us?
Make it look really snazzy and remove 90% of the features.
The Mac advocates will fucking cream themselves.
Sorry, I hit submit too fast. I meant to add that they should change the license to Shareware and charge at least $40 for it (and also add a feature that deletes your home directory if you try and pirate it).
The money can then be put towards funding development on non-proprietary hardware and operating systems.
It would be more relevant to know how does it perform real life tasks, eg kernel compilation time comparison...
Interesting definition of "real life tasks" you have there.
For the majority of the computing population, I would suggest that "real life tasks" would be more accurately defined as downloading and playing porn, rendering MySpace pages and running Norton Antivirus together with the 28 different systray applets installed by Dell during the manufacture of their shitwreck of a PC. Furthermore I would also suggest that more cycles have been burned running just one of the 8735 variants of CoolWebSearch shitware than will ever be used for kernel compilation.
Pity it's still so ugly though - someone needs to steal away an OSX designer or two hehe
I tell you what - why don't you just use the $1500 you saved on buying a Mac and buy some really fucking nice designer furniture?
Then everyone gets to see what great taste you have without having to look at your Mac. Likewise everyone will assume you're gay without having to look at your Mac.
I bet that less than 5% of the posters to this thread have ever run Vista.
First you complain about anti-Windows FUD. Then you claim that Vista's market penetration is so ridiculously low that less than 1 in 20 people on this technical website have even tried it.
The tool need Admin priveledges to work, and guess what you can do with that? Yes! Anything you like!
The whole fucking point is that you're not supposed to be able to do anything to protected processes no matter how many priveleges you have. Your total failure to grasp this simple fact is what makes your smug little comment so deliciously humiliating.
Shame on you.
If you had any sense of shame you would never post anything on the Internet again.
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But hey, it's funny when they're finding some kid's Guile fansite or bringing bomb threats to a furry con (and then bitching when the police have something to say about bomb threats right next to an airport), right? So it has to be fun when they're trying the same form of character assassination and harassment on as large a scale as to attack a multi-million dollar international company... right?
Right? Ha ha? So funny? Right?
Look, if you're going to put up websites about how you like to dress up in anthropomorphic animal suits or pretend to be characters out of Final Fantasy for sexual gratification, then you are eventually going to be humiliated by someone.
Either don't make it public or deal with the shit you're going to attract. This is a free society and nobody is going to protect your ridiculous fucking hobbies from public disapproval.
Why? Because it's 128 bits! One hundred and twenty eight fucking bits! That's 64 bits more than any other FS, so any fool can see that it's twice as good as the alternatives.
It may be new and untested, but that's hardly important in the face of 128 fucking bits is it? Besides it's designed by Sun engineers and nobody has more experience in FS design and implementation. That's why all the previous Solaris filesystems rocked so hard. Nothing can beat UFS in terms of stability and performance after all.
Oh, and I nearly forgot - because it's made by Sun it's going to be 10 times as Enterprisey as any half-baked, so-called "tried and tested" RAID/SAN solution that those other suppliers are going to come up with.
Quite frankly, the fact that you're even asking this question suggests you are guilty of criminal hype evasion.
I was under the impression that XBMC was basically a modified version of Mplayer. Now I can't believe that they coded their own OS to run on the bare metal and I somehow doubt they were using Windows. So that basically leaves Linux, right?
So they're porting a Linux based Linux media player to Linux?
Would anyone like to correct me or alternatively join me in a severe case of WTF?
You're new here, aren't you? All people who praise Microsoft or proprietary software or admonish open source or Linux are automatically deemed to be shills.
Why not setup your own Slashdot style site praising Microsoft & proprietary software whilst admonishing open source and Linux? You can simply re-mortgage your house to get the necessary funding, because I really don't see any way in which an idea like that could possibly fail. Unless you turn out to be just a whiney bitch, so lacking in motivation that you'll spend years posting on a site whose views you fundamentally disagree with. I guess that could be an issue.
Hopefully Greg KH and Linus will realise this one day but until then we are stuck with waiting 3 years after a piece of hardware was released for someone in the community to reverse engineer the windows driver and create their (our) own.
It would definitely be "their" and not "our", because "our" would imply that you had some kind of ownership over the driver. Since your post demonstrates a total failure to understand the current Linux development model and advocates a new model which would basically ruin it, I don't think that you can really consider yourself a part of the community.
I know you'll argue that you have just as much right as anyone else to try and steer Linux kernel development in the right direction through argument, but actually you don't because you're not a kernel developer. Contributing a lot of time wasting whining is not the same as making a useful contribution.
This is the main thing holding back linux from supporting a great deal of the hardware that is currently supported by Windows, OSX or BSD.
Linux supports a much greater range of hardware than OSX and I'm pretty sure that BSD doesn't have a stable binary API. A Windows driver for 95/98 will not work on 2000/XP and a 2000/XP driver probably won't work on Vista. The 64bit versions of XP has been available for some time now, but isn't exactly blessed with an over-abundance of drivers. How can that be so when the stable API makes it so easy to develop drivers?
So basically all of your examples are flawed. You should have used Solaris as an example, since that has the most stable binary API. Of course, it also supports the smallest amount of hardware which is even worse for your argument but that's just nitpicking at this point.
The current approach might well produce a better quality driver (and kernel) but it is far to slow. Who wants to spend several hundred pounds on new hardware only to find it is obsolete before the linux kernel supports it.
If you're willing to trade quality and stability for the ability to use the latest whizz-bang hardware, then what's stopping you from using Windows? It's clearly not a financial consideration if you're willing to spend hundreds of pounds on hardware.
Since you fundamentally disagree with the philosophy and development path of Linux, I don't see why you would want to use it anyway. Also, any ideas you have to "improve" Linux must automatically be treated with suspicion.
Can I trademark Linux Adult Publishing?
Penguins gone wild?
Does the .ms registrar allow obscenity in domain names?
Well, they've already allowed Microsoft to subvert their TLD. I'd say that ranks at least 3 MegaGoatses on the obscenity scale.
I guess some people reading this may be more used to Windows and therefore not entirely familiar with the functionality of the Unix packages that were mentioned. Allow me to summarise :
OpenSSH - A service you can install on a Unix system to enable remote admin access for known users.
Sendmail - A service you can install on a Unix system to enable remote admin access for complete strangers.
Hope this helps.....
I support free speech and think the MPAA is overreacting. But at the same time, this guy (and everyone else who has plastered the key everywhere) is acting in a provocative manner. This whole argument is starting to sound like the brother/sister act of "I'm not touching you". Maybe if both sides grew up and actually tried to understand the other sides argument, this type of thing could be resolved.
Sorry, I'm confused. Are you trying to be funny, or did you actually put effort into writing the most pointless and unrealistic statement I've ever seen on the Internet?
Simply write a script that runs MD5sum on every file in the filesystem once per minute and then copies any that have changed over the network to a central VMS server (which will take care of the versioning for you).
That's what you get for not listing cost effectiveness or efficiency amongst your requirements. Be more careful in future.
As a protocol, IPv6 seems to have so many glaring omissions or just bad engineering issues. The first one... no use of firewalls or NAT devices. Hello here... firewalls are critically needed on the Internet, and many laws and regulations specify use of one.
I think you have an overly negative view due to your half-baked opinions being based on badly written, idiot-level Slashdot summaries of already poor articles, rather than being based on even the most minimal understanding of the pros and cons of different network protocols.
Now, I don't want you to think that I'm defending IPv6. If I was doing that, I would point out that there is nothing in IPv6 that stops you using a firewall and that iptables and pf have supported IPv6 for years. No, I am attacking you. I just have this thing about the clueless spouting factually incorrect statements in public forums. Deliberate trolling is fine with me, but I've always had a thing about loud idiots.
Also...Your writing style...Is annoying.
I would say, based on the screenshots from Spiderman 3, that it's more like Gamecube 0.5 :
http://gamenationbase.com/?p=177
However, since the graphics are so appalling it must automatically be at least ten times more fun than the PS3 or 360 versions. I'm told that's how it works with Nintendo systems.
And to be fair, there is an extra dimension to the game for the real Nintendo fanboys. When they flick their Wiimote around, the spooge which they have previously deposited on it during bouts of unbridled fanboy lust will fly off in great stringy lumps, accurately simulating Spidey's web emitters in a way unachievable on any of the so-called next generation systems.
In some areas, the closed linux binary driver maintains feature parity with the Windows counterpart.
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Meanwhile the 3d performance is consistently between a third and a half that of the Windows counterpart. Even the top of the range ATI parts consistently get hammered by mid-range Nvidia cards.
Have a look at this page from the Phoronix ATI Linux year in review :
http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&ite
You would think that having released that many driver revisions, the performance would have varied a bit in one direction or other simply by accident. But no, absolutely static with perhaps a slight downward trend. Feel free to look up the benchmarks for more recent releases if you honestly think there will be the slightest difference.
Combined with the fact that they have obviously diverted a great deal of development effort into producing a shitty control panel applet that nobody wanted and which does fuck all, while ignoring the demands for GLX_EXT_texture_from_pixmap support, the only conclusion one can draw is that ATI's Linux support not only sucks but sucks deliberately.
Now, normally one qould use ':q' to exit a file without saving, but he was in the habit of using ':x', which is a convenient way of saving and exiting at the same time.
/etc on a number of different systems.
Ooh, I know someone who did that. Except worse. I forget the exact command and the Vi man page is too long to plough through, but he used something like capital X to quit. Which quits, saves and encrypts the file. He figured this out only after having edited a number of rather important files in
I know Vista Home can run VMWare Server as a host (tried it) and Parallels on the Mac can run the MSDN version as a guest (seen it).
To get decent Video, I/O and Network performance for the guest OS it really needs the VMWare tools installed, which are basically just a set of customised drivers.
So I would imagine the most significant change in the new release is that it now includes a set of VMWare tools for Vista guests.
Without those drivers, Vista would run like a pig. With the drivers the situation is greatly improved - it will run like a pig with lipstick.
Why should anyone interested in developing open solutions for set top boxes limit themselves to the OSD's closed embedded-style hardware, when Apple has provided a full PC that you can run whatever you want on (Mac OSX, linux, MythTV, etc...) in a nice neat package for almost the same price ($229 vs $299)?
Sorry, just a minor correction - Apple have actually provided a full PC which they will do everything within their power to stop you running Mac OSX, Linux & MythTV on.
The fact that Apple are shit at that kind of thing, and their protections usually end up being defeated within a few days by a bunch of 15 year old Romanian hackers does not make them a champion of open platforms.
I know it's difficult to see the difference when you have been blinded by the intense sunlight eminating from Mr Job's ringpiece.
The PSX is almost an audiophile quality CD player.
According to one of the linked articles, it has a very bog standard looking 16 bit DAC. The analogue output stage looks singularly unremarkable.
Some other choice quotes from the articles :
"Michael told me to look for a PlayStation with the model number SCPH-1001, which is the unit with separate audio and video RCA output jacks. That particular model allows audiophiles to use their own (expensive) audio cables to get "perfect" sound."
"Before I started my listening tests, Michael had a warning for me: "Plug in the units -- turn 'em on -- and don't turn them off." It seems the PlayStations sound best when left on all the time. Michael was right. You shouldn't even listen for the first three days. Both units need every second of the break-in period."
To me, both of those quotes raise red flags. The flags have "Audiophool" written on them in big letters.
I also doubt that simply removing two caps and replacing them with the expensive polyester variety is going to make a difference audible to anybody not already skilled in the art of self deception. And apparently if you have one with a mod chip, you should definitely remove it just in case it ruins the sound. I would have thought it would be obvious whether it does or not to somebody with such golden ears.
But apart from virtualization with VMI, paravirtualization, live migration and host suspend/resume supportsupport for kvm, a tickless idle loop mechanism with unified high resolution timer handling, bigger kernel parameter-lines, support for the PA SEMI PWRficient CPU and for the Cell-based 'celleb' Toshiba architecture, NFS IPv6 support, IPv4 IPv6 IPSEC tunneling, UFS2 write, kprobes for PPC32, kexec and oprofile for ARM, public key encryption for ecryptfs, Fcrypt and Camilla cipher algorithms, NAT port randomization, audit lockdown mode, some new drivers and many other small improvements, what has Linus ever done for us?
Make it look really snazzy and remove 90% of the features.
The Mac advocates will fucking cream themselves.
Sorry, I hit submit too fast. I meant to add that they should change the license to Shareware and charge at least $40 for it (and also add a feature that deletes your home directory if you try and pirate it).
The money can then be put towards funding development on non-proprietary hardware and operating systems.
Make it look really snazzy and remove 90% of the features.
The Mac advocates will fucking cream themselves.
It's shit because it's not BeOS.
It would be more relevant to know how does it perform real life tasks, eg kernel compilation time comparison...
Interesting definition of "real life tasks" you have there.
For the majority of the computing population, I would suggest that "real life tasks" would be more accurately defined as downloading and playing porn, rendering MySpace pages and running Norton Antivirus together with the 28 different systray applets installed by Dell during the manufacture of their shitwreck of a PC. Furthermore I would also suggest that more cycles have been burned running just one of the 8735 variants of CoolWebSearch shitware than will ever be used for kernel compilation.
Pity it's still so ugly though - someone needs to steal away an OSX designer or two hehe
I tell you what - why don't you just use the $1500 you saved on buying a Mac and buy some really fucking nice designer furniture?
Then everyone gets to see what great taste you have without having to look at your Mac. Likewise everyone will assume you're gay without having to look at your Mac.
I bet that less than 5% of the posters to this thread have ever run Vista.
First you complain about anti-Windows FUD. Then you claim that Vista's market penetration is so ridiculously low that less than 1 in 20 people on this technical website have even tried it.
http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/irony
Hope this helps, have a nice day.
The tool need Admin priveledges to work, and guess what you can do with that? Yes! Anything you like!
The whole fucking point is that you're not supposed to be able to do anything to protected processes no matter how many priveleges you have.
Your total failure to grasp this simple fact is what makes your smug little comment so deliciously humiliating.
Shame on you.
If you had any sense of shame you would never post anything on the Internet again.