Why did this get rated troll? In all seriousness, Broadcom refuses to write drivers or help or anything to get their wireless cards working natively in Linux. They do not care. Currently the best way to get the BCM43xx chipsets working is to use bcm43xx-fwcutter, but that of course violates patents because it uses the actual firmware of the wireless card to work.
So now if I were to get a Mac and triple boot Windows OSX and Linux...
Linux will only be able to read the Windows NTFS partition.
Linux won't be able to do anything with the OSX partition (unless I use FUSE).
Windows won't have access to anything other than itself.
And I'm not sure about OSX, I've never used it.
Is that correct?
First of all, did you forget the other formats Linux can read?
Why NOT use FUSE?
Windows could (although I don't recommend) use MacDrive to read the Mac partition (maybe ZFS in the future), and there is IFS for ext (and others I believe) partitions. You can also use Explore2fs to read the Linux partition (not write to ext3). I don't recommend IFS very much either. It does not respect permissions.
OS X has drivers to read NTFS, not sure about ext or Reiser and such.
Cool, but not all the stuff included is free stuff. I hope this project would be 100% free open source software, with separate sections for Proprietary and Unsupported, just like Synaptic or Adept (I prefer Synaptic). I would love to see programs like HijackThis, Keyfinder, etc under a proprietary/unsupported section.
I was actually thinking about making something like this a while back. I was thinking to base it upon zip files (7z to save bandwidth maybe) with binaries and silent install scripts (NSIS with/s?), because with open source software and most other software packages it's always possible to reverse the installer and write a separate script, which is the basis of how portable applications work. I have written a few myself using NSIS. I think zip files work better than relying upon the developers' setups that may or may not have silent installation. Every program in an application like this should install silently by default in my opinion.
This would be great for anyone running a server to hold the applications and then have this software be the client software so any administrator can install or remove applications as needed. With the ability to select some to remove and some to install, and then do it all in batch it greatly speeds up the process of removing/installing software (where Add/Remove can only do one at a time, and installs would also have to be done one at a time).
At my work, we currently do something similar, except with AutoPatcher. I have to make an Autopatcher reference file, find out the setup's silent install command line and AutoPatcher does the rest (most of the reference file is a batch file). It speeds up system updates and software to install on customer machines (ffdshow, Adobe Reader, QuickTime (ugh), etc).
Well... maybe not over there, but at least in places where the BSA will come in and kick your ass. Think Photoshop here - I haven't bought a copy, but if I ever use it professionally, I will, rather than just using a copy of the GIMP or some other 'equivalent'.
How does the BSA have anything to do with using the GIMP? The BSA would not come in and kick your ass for using the GIMP over Photoshop. They are not "use proprietary software for professional works only" police. Since I've been using the GIMP solely after a fair amount of experience with Photoshop I have no plans to try and run Photoshop again (not even Photoshop 6 under Wine). I think everyone learning Photoshop should learn GIMP as well (how can that NOT be beneficial?).
If I ever run my own business I will ONLY use free open source solutions for software, like GIMP over Photoshop, Inkscape/Sodipodi over Illustrator, OpenOffice over "Office"/WP Office, etc. If everyone started with Linux (instead of Windows, by the way Microsoft loves kids!) as young ones (the idea behind OLPC), then they would be under Linux (hopefully free software) lock-in, which I don't think is necessarily a bad thing because of the philosophy (in basic terms, the idea of sharing).
I do agree on the vendor lock-in part of your post. I find it very sad that most file formats being used around the world are almost completely closed. Luckily,.doc can open (almost entirely) with OpenOffice, which is a great start for anyone thinking about switching over.
I agree, and would not mind an ad-supported (no DoubleClick annoying ads; maybe Google got rid of the annoying ones) tab/lyric site. A lot of tabs posted come with lyrics too (this helps anyone trying to learn the song). I am glad I can learn by ear pretty easily but I know there are people out there who simply cannot or have not spent enough time and do not want to spend that time to get into learning by ear, so I see why people like tab sites (although I avoid them at all cost pretty much).
Let's not forget that these sheet music books cost $15 upwards! They are supposedly very accurate, sometimes written with the help of the artist, but $15 is most of the time more than the album. And yes, a nice glossy cover (front, spine and bank) with the same design as the album, can be quite costly to produce and even break even. The pages are never printed on recycled paper or anything cheap (to look nice, so to speak), except new expensive paper, on purpose, to raise the final cost. The music stores make literally nothing on these books and some carry little to no music books now because no one buys them. They are too expensive to even consider. Maybe these companies should reduce the cost of production so the retailer can reduce the retail cost, and maybe people who need the tabs will at least rationalise for at least one minute over getting the book or not. Maybe a smaller size book would work out better, at a price, like $3-5. I do not think people would fret over that, but $15 upwards is insane. Apparently you can listen to the CD for $10 (I think listening is more interesting than reading), but reading the notes to each song is DEFINITELY "gonna cost ya."
By attempting to shut down more sites, they are hurting the free exchange of information on the internet, forcing it underground rather than embracing and attempting to make money. We hear more and more how corporations are trying to shut down sites hosting literally TEXT. By this I mean tabs and lyrics, and even documentation (like the 09f9 number). Looks to me everyone who is not involved with a corporation is simply going to go in hiding on-line as best they can soon enough, because freedoms are being restricted based upon how much money people have now, more than ever.
Who knows if Dance Dance Revolution will be going after people who imitate their dance steps 10 years from now.
Konami, the producer of DDR, keeps a very close watch on the open source project StepMania (not GPL), which has enabled all players to play their copyrighted songs AND the copyrighted steps on their computer all for free. Konami is also trying to protect the concept of DDR, which they have a patent for. They already are suing one company who based their game off StepMania and so far nothing has happened but it it is still scheduled. Konami, however, never licensed the Japanese version of the game for North America (most DDRs, especially DDR Extremes at Namco arcades, are pirated in the US; you should ask the manager to let you see the CD in the arcade cabinet, it'll be a CDR). ITG (In the Groove), the commercial StepMania derivative, was made after 3 years of having no new DDR version come out beyond the fact that the Japanese versions are technically illegal in North America. The last legal one for US was made in 2000 and is very dated in that sense. Only last year did Konami make a new DDR version (in response to ITG) licensed for US, realising that DDR is still popular around the world, unlike in Japan where it is nearly dead.
Much like the guitar tab posting community, the so-called "DDR community" online has been copying the exact step patterns from the games for years and converting them into a plain-text format that can be used with a number of game simulators (including StepMania). These do take time and people are just nice enough to share. Different is that there's also music being copied which makes sites that host much more liable for copyright infringement, and they also feel the need to rip the graphics associated with each song (StepMania, with skins, can look near-perfectly the same as a real DDR game; the ripped graphics from the game further enhance this capability). Konami has got a few sites hosting dance steps and songs to shut down before and has threatened legal action.
Basically, Konami is fully aware of the "DDR community" and its activities (there have been other simulators threatened legal action in Japan by Konami as well), and it has been since about late 2002 when a fair number of step patterns, song recordings, and graphics were stolen from a beta testing machine (of the new version of the time) in an arcade in Japan, and then were subsequently converted to a format usable by StepMania. People were not supposed to be allowed to record at all at the beta testing, but apparently they did not check well enough. Now Konami never lets anyone come to beta test a machine without a full check to make sure they do not have any kind of recording device, including a cell phone that can do more than calls (which is every phone in Japan).
I'm running Kubuntu 7.04 and Firefox 2.0.0.3 and I tried to access a song on MusicNotes.
"We're sorry, but we are unable to show you this digital sheet music. That would require our Viewer plugin, which is not yet available for your current web browser and/or operating system."
They ought to consider using open formats like MusicXML and running the picture||PDF generator for the browser to show on the server-end.
Beyond that, why do web authors continually insist on fixed width pages where upped font sizes will never work and plus it looks bad? My Firefox is set to 12 pt minimum so it messes up that page. Ever since I really started looking into web accessibility like a year ago, I have stemmed away from using invisible tables for page layout and fixed width for my designs.
Agreed. Although I hardly ever use tabs to learn a song (I learn by ear only and in my experience on-line ones have been inaccurate), I often do write my own. What really can take up time sometimes is slowing the song down in Audacity and listening to it countless times to get the notes down and transcribed into a text file. Normally, I do not share them, however I would not see the problem AT ALL if I decided to share it, whether it be torrents or even on a website like OLGA or MXTabs.
Don't support Windows but I have installed ATI 'drivers' on a Windows box for a relative. Their 'drivers' include a media player and rely on the.NET framework, their Linux drivers display similar incompetence and even copyright-infringement (needless bundling of Linux AGP code).
So true. Their Windows drivers are horrendous, and their web site used to be so confusing to navigate. Their drivers for Linux are okay, at least their is not crap included like a media player. Unfortunately I'm stuck with dealing with them right now (my main PC is a notebook). Every time I've used Nvidia after using ATI for the same thing, Nvidia was always more stable and the driver support is so much simpler. Now ATI is just playing catch-up with Nvidia, as it always has been. They are hoping to get ahead with this announcement.
Or, just not run Internet Explorer, which as far as I can tell, is the most effective solution overall.
Completely agree. The problem I see with people receiving warnings and reporting errors on web sites is that this is mostly involving IE. So many of the problems are IE-specific and IE, in my opinion, should simply not be used if that is the case. Are people too dumb to realise the alternatives? The other thing I hate is that Microsoft refuses to restart the code from scratch or something really close to it, fixing bugs one by one instead of coming up with a better strategy.
And no, I didn't RTFA.
So right. Screw Vista. I'm on Kubuntu 7.04 Feisty Fawn right now on a HP Pavilion dv5000 with all hardware working (the ATI video card, and the Broadcom wireless (both proprietary:()).
Plus, and this is a different topic, Adobe doesn't get on kids' cases about having pirated copies of their software, since it's only affordable by industry (who pays for it) anyway.
Yes, they do. Photoshop starting with CS had product activation, which is cracked by the release groups, but it's much more than before where it didn't verify at all whether a serial number was real.
For the most part, students learn to do all equations and graphs on paper before learning to do the same thing on a calculator. They also learn the caveat of using a calculator is, of course, slight inaccuracy due to decimals instead of fractions, which work better and since no calculator I've seen can do fractions after say a sinewave equation or quadratic formula, it must be done or at least partially done on paper.
Open source FREE software where everyone (who wants to) contributes? I don't get how they are going to convince anyone who isn't paying now to pay for software or ANYTHING for that matter. All those "dev'ers need food"-type statements to scare people just DON'T work IMO.
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Why did this get rated troll? In all seriousness, Broadcom refuses to write drivers or help or anything to get their wireless cards working natively in Linux. They do not care. Currently the best way to get the BCM43xx chipsets working is to use bcm43xx-fwcutter, but that of course violates patents because it uses the actual firmware of the wireless card to work.
So now if I were to get a Mac and triple boot Windows OSX and Linux...
Linux will only be able to read the Windows NTFS partition.
Linux won't be able to do anything with the OSX partition (unless I use FUSE).
Windows won't have access to anything other than itself.
And I'm not sure about OSX, I've never used it.
Is that correct?
First of all, did you forget the other formats Linux can read?
Why NOT use FUSE?
Windows could (although I don't recommend) use MacDrive to read the Mac partition (maybe ZFS in the future), and there is IFS for ext (and others I believe) partitions. You can also use Explore2fs to read the Linux partition (not write to ext3). I don't recommend IFS very much either. It does not respect permissions.
OS X has drivers to read NTFS, not sure about ext or Reiser and such.
My last question is: have you ever used Linux?
Cool, but not all the stuff included is free stuff. I hope this project would be 100% free open source software, with separate sections for Proprietary and Unsupported, just like Synaptic or Adept (I prefer Synaptic). I would love to see programs like HijackThis, Keyfinder, etc under a proprietary/unsupported section.
I was actually thinking about making something like this a while back. I was thinking to base it upon zip files (7z to save bandwidth maybe) with binaries and silent install scripts (NSIS with /s?), because with open source software and most other software packages it's always possible to reverse the installer and write a separate script, which is the basis of how portable applications work. I have written a few myself using NSIS. I think zip files work better than relying upon the developers' setups that may or may not have silent installation. Every program in an application like this should install silently by default in my opinion.
This would be great for anyone running a server to hold the applications and then have this software be the client software so any administrator can install or remove applications as needed. With the ability to select some to remove and some to install, and then do it all in batch it greatly speeds up the process of removing/installing software (where Add/Remove can only do one at a time, and installs would also have to be done one at a time).
At my work, we currently do something similar, except with AutoPatcher. I have to make an Autopatcher reference file, find out the setup's silent install command line and AutoPatcher does the rest (most of the reference file is a batch file). It speeds up system updates and software to install on customer machines (ffdshow, Adobe Reader, QuickTime (ugh), etc).
Uh...this is Slashdot. How long have you been here?
How is this news? Apple fixes flaws. Linux distro communities fix flaws too. Next time Kubuntu gets an update I'm going to make a page here.
Haha. LMAO. Seriously.
How does the BSA have anything to do with using the GIMP? The BSA would not come in and kick your ass for using the GIMP over Photoshop. They are not "use proprietary software for professional works only" police. Since I've been using the GIMP solely after a fair amount of experience with Photoshop I have no plans to try and run Photoshop again (not even Photoshop 6 under Wine). I think everyone learning Photoshop should learn GIMP as well (how can that NOT be beneficial?).
If I ever run my own business I will ONLY use free open source solutions for software, like GIMP over Photoshop, Inkscape/Sodipodi over Illustrator, OpenOffice over "Office"/WP Office, etc. If everyone started with Linux (instead of Windows, by the way Microsoft loves kids!) as young ones (the idea behind OLPC), then they would be under Linux (hopefully free software) lock-in, which I don't think is necessarily a bad thing because of the philosophy (in basic terms, the idea of sharing).
I do agree on the vendor lock-in part of your post. I find it very sad that most file formats being used around the world are almost completely closed. Luckily, .doc can open (almost entirely) with OpenOffice, which is a great start for anyone thinking about switching over.
Sad when nearly a whole-website is in Flash; bad for compatibility (old computers) and accessibility.
Ugh that site looks like crap on my Firefox. I love how people still do not understand developing to W3C standards (even the government workers).
I agree, and would not mind an ad-supported (no DoubleClick annoying ads; maybe Google got rid of the annoying ones) tab/lyric site. A lot of tabs posted come with lyrics too (this helps anyone trying to learn the song). I am glad I can learn by ear pretty easily but I know there are people out there who simply cannot or have not spent enough time and do not want to spend that time to get into learning by ear, so I see why people like tab sites (although I avoid them at all cost pretty much).
Let's not forget that these sheet music books cost $15 upwards! They are supposedly very accurate, sometimes written with the help of the artist, but $15 is most of the time more than the album. And yes, a nice glossy cover (front, spine and bank) with the same design as the album, can be quite costly to produce and even break even. The pages are never printed on recycled paper or anything cheap (to look nice, so to speak), except new expensive paper, on purpose, to raise the final cost. The music stores make literally nothing on these books and some carry little to no music books now because no one buys them. They are too expensive to even consider. Maybe these companies should reduce the cost of production so the retailer can reduce the retail cost, and maybe people who need the tabs will at least rationalise for at least one minute over getting the book or not. Maybe a smaller size book would work out better, at a price, like $3-5. I do not think people would fret over that, but $15 upwards is insane. Apparently you can listen to the CD for $10 (I think listening is more interesting than reading), but reading the notes to each song is DEFINITELY "gonna cost ya."
By attempting to shut down more sites, they are hurting the free exchange of information on the internet, forcing it underground rather than embracing and attempting to make money. We hear more and more how corporations are trying to shut down sites hosting literally TEXT. By this I mean tabs and lyrics, and even documentation (like the 09f9 number). Looks to me everyone who is not involved with a corporation is simply going to go in hiding on-line as best they can soon enough, because freedoms are being restricted based upon how much money people have now, more than ever.
Sad.
Scan the books, OCR to a text format, and then burn them.
Konami, the producer of DDR, keeps a very close watch on the open source project StepMania (not GPL), which has enabled all players to play their copyrighted songs AND the copyrighted steps on their computer all for free. Konami is also trying to protect the concept of DDR, which they have a patent for. They already are suing one company who based their game off StepMania and so far nothing has happened but it it is still scheduled. Konami, however, never licensed the Japanese version of the game for North America (most DDRs, especially DDR Extremes at Namco arcades, are pirated in the US; you should ask the manager to let you see the CD in the arcade cabinet, it'll be a CDR). ITG (In the Groove), the commercial StepMania derivative, was made after 3 years of having no new DDR version come out beyond the fact that the Japanese versions are technically illegal in North America. The last legal one for US was made in 2000 and is very dated in that sense. Only last year did Konami make a new DDR version (in response to ITG) licensed for US, realising that DDR is still popular around the world, unlike in Japan where it is nearly dead.
Much like the guitar tab posting community, the so-called "DDR community" online has been copying the exact step patterns from the games for years and converting them into a plain-text format that can be used with a number of game simulators (including StepMania). These do take time and people are just nice enough to share. Different is that there's also music being copied which makes sites that host much more liable for copyright infringement, and they also feel the need to rip the graphics associated with each song (StepMania, with skins, can look near-perfectly the same as a real DDR game; the ripped graphics from the game further enhance this capability). Konami has got a few sites hosting dance steps and songs to shut down before and has threatened legal action.
Basically, Konami is fully aware of the "DDR community" and its activities (there have been other simulators threatened legal action in Japan by Konami as well), and it has been since about late 2002 when a fair number of step patterns, song recordings, and graphics were stolen from a beta testing machine (of the new version of the time) in an arcade in Japan, and then were subsequently converted to a format usable by StepMania. People were not supposed to be allowed to record at all at the beta testing, but apparently they did not check well enough. Now Konami never lets anyone come to beta test a machine without a full check to make sure they do not have any kind of recording device, including a cell phone that can do more than calls (which is every phone in Japan).
"We're sorry, but we are unable to show you this digital sheet music. That would require our Viewer plugin, which is not yet available for your current web browser and/or operating system."
They ought to consider using open formats like MusicXML and running the picture||PDF generator for the browser to show on the server-end.
Beyond that, why do web authors continually insist on fixed width pages where upped font sizes will never work and plus it looks bad? My Firefox is set to 12 pt minimum so it messes up that page. Ever since I really started looking into web accessibility like a year ago, I have stemmed away from using invisible tables for page layout and fixed width for my designs.
Agreed. Although I hardly ever use tabs to learn a song (I learn by ear only and in my experience on-line ones have been inaccurate), I often do write my own. What really can take up time sometimes is slowing the song down in Audacity and listening to it countless times to get the notes down and transcribed into a text file. Normally, I do not share them, however I would not see the problem AT ALL if I decided to share it, whether it be torrents or even on a website like OLGA or MXTabs.
I hope they would offer Kubuntu, Xubuntu, and Fluxbuntu in addition to Ubuntu. KDE > GNOME FOREVER!
Here are the patents everyone!
Find the ones that Microsoft claims have been infringed upon.
No software patent is valid, ever IMHO.
Don't support Windows but I have installed ATI 'drivers' on a Windows box for a relative. Their 'drivers' include a media player and rely on the .NET framework, their Linux drivers display similar incompetence and even copyright-infringement (needless bundling of Linux AGP code).
So true. Their Windows drivers are horrendous, and their web site used to be so confusing to navigate. Their drivers for Linux are okay, at least their is not crap included like a media player. Unfortunately I'm stuck with dealing with them right now (my main PC is a notebook). Every time I've used Nvidia after using ATI for the same thing, Nvidia was always more stable and the driver support is so much simpler. Now ATI is just playing catch-up with Nvidia, as it always has been. They are hoping to get ahead with this announcement.
Or, just not run Internet Explorer, which as far as I can tell, is the most effective solution overall. Completely agree. The problem I see with people receiving warnings and reporting errors on web sites is that this is mostly involving IE. So many of the problems are IE-specific and IE, in my opinion, should simply not be used if that is the case. Are people too dumb to realise the alternatives? The other thing I hate is that Microsoft refuses to restart the code from scratch or something really close to it, fixing bugs one by one instead of coming up with a better strategy. And no, I didn't RTFA.
Haha. Would you even talk to any of them anyway if there were, what you consider, "enough" women using Linux? :P
So right. Screw Vista. I'm on Kubuntu 7.04 Feisty Fawn right now on a HP Pavilion dv5000 with all hardware working (the ATI video card, and the Broadcom wireless (both proprietary :()).
...USNews.com should learn how to design sites properly, with percentages not exact pixel widths. GRRRRRRR
Plus, and this is a different topic, Adobe doesn't get on kids' cases about having pirated copies of their software, since it's only affordable by industry (who pays for it) anyway. Yes, they do. Photoshop starting with CS had product activation, which is cracked by the release groups, but it's much more than before where it didn't verify at all whether a serial number was real.
For the most part, students learn to do all equations and graphs on paper before learning to do the same thing on a calculator. They also learn the caveat of using a calculator is, of course, slight inaccuracy due to decimals instead of fractions, which work better and since no calculator I've seen can do fractions after say a sinewave equation or quadratic formula, it must be done or at least partially done on paper.
This website is so universal LOL
/sarcasm
Open source FREE software where everyone (who wants to) contributes? I don't get how they are going to convince anyone who isn't paying now to pay for software or ANYTHING for that matter. All those "dev'ers need food"-type statements to scare people just DON'T work IMO.