eliminating all "broken" packages - a "broken" package is one that does not build, install or de-install cleanly (as determined by bulk builds on NetBSD/i386)..
Anyone have any details on this Bulk Builds? Is this like FreeBSD bento automated builds?
If you are going to get life in prison, why wouldnt you kill to stay out? Most people would rather die than spend life in prison.
I hope all you slashdot readers are teaching your kids about these injustices, so when they grow up, and become the majority, they can vote these laws down. Cant change them now, too many people who vote, who dont understand computers and buy this "Hacker Hype" laws.
Just like you cant get a law passed without the "Blue Hair" votes, when we are the "Blue Hair" people, maybe times will change.
Unreal2003 engine sells for 100,000 per license. Im sure the Half-life2 engine will be double that.
Also, i bet the first mod with valve code gets shutdown within minutes. Easy enough to call the ISP, get the website shutdown, then have valve lawyers eat the modder for lunch.
Wouldnt cat'ing a whole directory during bootup take more time and resources? I know there all these stories about speeding up booting for linux, wouldnt you do this after you boot into X? Save the cache for the initial processes and X startup. Then cache all your applications, terminals, office, mozilla, xmms, etc. Thou, seems like overkill for a couple seconds off the application start time, to read the file twice. (My head hurts thinking about it)
Kinda like windows, it boots up into the login screen, the loads the services. And linux, loads all the services, then boots into the login screen.
I was working on a startup ISP in Spokane at cet.com. And was promised to be made partner after we got off the ground. I worked nights, weekends, everything to help customers out. Then I found out my boss had a drug problem, and was taking money from company... Long story short, the day after the company was incorporated, I asked about my partnership. I was let go. Then the company was turned over to his GF and my boss was let go. Very strange.
I just Chalk it up to work/life experience, young enough it hurt me job wise. I moved away from Spokane during the.com days and went to work for a wireless telco. Corporate jobs are different beast, but its a steady paycheck.
How can you afford a US$500 video card? Save for a US$200 video card, a US$300 second computer or reused parts, a KVM switch and use the best of both worlds. Seriously.
How you are right, right now the 9600 pro overclocks rather nicely and can be bought for 110 bux. Still faster than those Nvidia ti4800's that are more expensive. Thou, the real need for the faster cards are shader and anti-aliasing. Most games will run with great FPS without anti-aliasing, but turn 6x AA on, and thats when you need the 9800 type cards. I personally still play counter-strike, but with high-resolution skins, and 6xAA. The game looks smooth, looks sharp, and pumps out 100+fps. But when I play Unreal with the same anti-aliasing, it drops in real active battles to sub 20's, but hovers around 50fps.
I have a 9700 pro, I picked up last year, and it still gets good FPS in games, should tide me over till next year, but I might have to drop down anti-aliasing levels for higher FPS in HL2. Still, ATI did a good job, almost a year, and my video card is still only a frames per second behind the 9800 and the FX 5900 ultra. Good job ATI.
Forget it, the only bundled item I want to see are the hardware specifications for their card, so that someone can build decent free drivers for them. Is it so much to ask that you know how to use what you're buying?
And this is going to stop windows gamers from buying the card? Its a bitch to get games working under linux, its easier to buy another PC and buy some cheaper, better supported hardware. If the only multimedia is music/video then you dont need an the fastest GFX card out ther, an old Geforce or Matrox will just fine. Hell, even cheap 11 dollar yamaha sound cards have full duplex drivers for linux/bsd.
I have 4 machines, my main pc which runs winxp for games/etc, dual p400 linux box, dual 1.42ghz power mac, and my p233 linux firewall. Really, an all 1 one machine doesnt exist.
Speaking of supported hardware, Maximum PC has a list of best budget and best top end hardware. IS there a list like this for linux/bsd? So you can just build the best budget linux box with best support, or a top end bsd/linux workstation with full drivers?
6. Notice it fails: scripts/Configure: line 5: drivers/net/hnd/Config.in: No such file or directory
and
Notice that the driver wl.o makes several imports from the kernel that are not included in a stock 2.4.5 kernel. In particular, note that the symbols bcm_*, pkt*, dma_*, sb_*, osl_*, and srom_* are imported by the module, but not included in the kernel source.
then states
Clearly, the kernel source that Linksys provided cannot be used to recreate the kernel that they are shipping with their product. Therefore, they have been, and still remain in violation of the GPL.
Exactly, what I was asking... Just because they didnt provide the modules, doesnt make it violate the GPL. Or is everyone 100% sure that the code is kernel src modifications and not drivers?
Since a modified kernel is a derived work of the original GPL-ed kernel they have to release the source to their modified kernel.
Well, kernel yes, module drivers no. This is how ATI and Nvidia release binary driver. But if Nvidia or ATI released a compiled kernel, they would have to release thier driver source?
Am I reading it wrong, but it says the drivers are missing, not the kernel modifications. And no where in the GPL does it say they have to help you compile the kernel.;)
I use to play the Battletech muse when it was out, it was one of my favorites. Turn based, not a real moo wich chat, but pretty good.
Plain color Ansi, was pretty fun. TradeWars was also ansi, we would chat in game also. Now its all IRC, which works for me, when Im playing a game, Im too busy to chat.
Stupid me, they call themselves a record company, so you think they would so everything a label would do, studio time, promote your music, etc.
So "We are not Evil" is also "We are not a real Record Company". Shame, unless someone steps up and offers to sign artists, not just resell the music. My Mistake, they are the same as CDBaby, PeopleSound, CDStreet, HipHop spot, etc.
Thou, more people are using in-home studios, and equipment is cheap enough, maybe you dont need it. But with so much music, unless some ratings system comes out, i can only listen to so much music in a day... And no, billboard top 10 doesnt count...
Well its a true record company, you get studio time, and equipment, and maybe backup artists, to make a product. CDBaby helps you with a finished product, same with iTunes.
Think of the work/cost to replace hardware each time you upgrade. But with 1xRTT and Edge out, next year we will see even faster speeds. Its almost 2004, just as the telcos said they would have the fast UTMS networks out.
Comparing Europe to America is a little silly, when we need hundreds of thousands of basestations to cover all of America. And then you we have the FCC only permitting so much spectrum per carrier. Cell sites are coming down in price, but its a little more expensive when you have to make it look like a tree, cactus, palm tree or church steepel.
Those billion dollar loans from foreign telcos are for infrastructure. First to cover North America with a high speed data network, wins.
I love how people blame phone companies for mobiles phone problems. Really, Motorola phone, try blaming motorola.
I havnt seen any good benchmark sites for phones, but seems there would be a need when you can pick 20 types of phone for each carrier. Even nokia alone has 50+ phones that might work on a carrier, and each have different problems, battery life, attenna strength, etc.
I know this is a CPU benchmark, but look at the GFX cards they use.
Every benchmark shows the ATI 9800 Pro to be faster than the FX 5900 Ultra, in every benchmarked, (3dmark2001 included) except 3DMark2003.
Using 3DMark2003 while informative, shows a negative performance compared to all other benchmarks. The raw FPS scores prove that 3DMark2003 is not giving true proformance of games out today.
Be nice when HL2/Doom3 is out, we can compare and see if 3DMark2003 is providing true numbers for features not out yet. But then, whats the use of a benchmark program that doesnt provide benchmarks for data thats currently out?
Other than that, good stats on the new AMD FX line, and with SSE2, makes up for those games favoring Intel.
Sitting here, and wondering why Yahoo wasnt working in trillian. Then I see it on slashdot.
Really, I dont use Yahoo for IM, but I know people that do. And I'd rather not run 4 IM programs, one for everyone. Trade out on advanced features, but I can use 1 program. Also been testing Gaim and consoleicq on my linux box. Both nice multi-im clients..
If they use a nvidia gfx card, the newer drivers let you rotate your video 90 degrees or 180/etc.. Less hassle, if they dont know about the advanced options in the display settings.
Another nice Windows one, using net send, rename your computer to "Microsoft" and sending messages about "Please Reboot your Machine" or Your software is pirated, please call blahblah blah. Just send lots of pop-ups when they are working. Lots of uses for net send.
Another if you log into a windows domain, before they get in the morning, try to log with thier username and wrong password. Few times and the account is locked. Good on pesky managers and you want to have a few more minutes before the morning meeting.
All just hypothetical of course. (My manager reads slashdot)
My favorite was sending on call messages to the oncall person about outages on hardware/markets we dont support. Pretending or asking a NOC person to call the on-call person. Normally right around the time the guy is getting ready to hit the bar.:)
I heard one where engineers would ask the new guy to get a flux capacitor from the electronic store. Or the new guy on a construction crew if he wanted to have Honey Pot duty.
I have to use inhouse applications for order tracking, trouble tickets, one thing that they dont seem to do, remember the text I filled into forms.
So, I have to enter data again, and again. Text input has always been a problem on browser. I have some applications that auto-fill, but things like "date" should be autofilled.
A browser with advanced text input features, would really be useful.
When money and profit is tied to crime, the police force has a reason to bust criminals.
Police bust someone for drugs, take his car, house, bank accounts, good reason to put all those harmless people in prision. Wheres the incentive to bust spammers?
Its all about politics and money. This is why california is passing spam laws now, RE-election time. Dont want to loose out on all that election money.
A friend of mine, who has a business class DSL had his ip block blacklisted. Seems someone on the ISP had a trojan and was sending out spam. So monkeys.com blocked the entire ISP. And monkeys.com response, contact your ISP. All the customers where in a deadlock, the ISP didnt know why they where blocked, the customers couldnt get unblocked, so every customer trys to contact Monkeys. The ISP couldnt contact monkeys either, monkeys email queue was full. So the ISP threatens to sue, customers threaten to break kneecaps, and the spammers win.
Really, if RBL's can be tricked to block good ISPs, and you get get the IP blocks removed, its flawed and needs to end service.
BTW, I know many people who are switching to whitelists, and even at work, whitelists for internal mail only cuts spam almost 100%. Even earthlink etc, sell whitelist features as a value added service.
Slashdot Mirror
eliminating all "broken" packages - a "broken" package is one that
does not build, install or de-install cleanly (as determined by bulk
builds on NetBSD/i386)..
Anyone have any details on this Bulk Builds? Is this like FreeBSD bento automated builds?
Hey you're talking about my family!
If you are going to get life in prison, why wouldnt you kill to stay out? Most people would rather die than spend life in prison.
I hope all you slashdot readers are teaching your kids about these injustices, so when they grow up, and become the majority, they can vote these laws down. Cant change them now, too many people who vote, who dont understand computers and buy this "Hacker Hype" laws.
Just like you cant get a law passed without the "Blue Hair" votes, when we are the "Blue Hair" people, maybe times will change.
Unreal2003 engine sells for 100,000 per license. Im sure the Half-life2 engine will be double that.
Also, i bet the first mod with valve code gets shutdown within minutes. Easy enough to call the ISP, get the website shutdown, then have valve lawyers eat the modder for lunch.
Wouldnt cat'ing a whole directory during bootup take more time and resources? I know there all these stories about speeding up booting for linux, wouldnt you do this after you boot into X? Save the cache for the initial processes and X startup. Then cache all your applications, terminals, office, mozilla, xmms, etc. Thou, seems like overkill for a couple seconds off the application start time, to read the file twice. (My head hurts thinking about it)
Kinda like windows, it boots up into the login screen, the loads the services. And linux, loads all the services, then boots into the login screen.
I was working on a startup ISP in Spokane at cet.com. And was promised to be made partner after we got off the ground. I worked nights, weekends, everything to help customers out. Then I found out my boss had a drug problem, and was taking money from company... Long story short, the day after the company was incorporated, I asked about my partnership. I was let go. Then the company was turned over to his GF and my boss was let go. Very strange.
.com days and went to work for a wireless telco. Corporate jobs are different beast, but its a steady paycheck.
I just Chalk it up to work/life experience, young enough it hurt me job wise. I moved away from Spokane during the
How can you afford a US$500 video card? Save for a US$200 video card, a US$300 second computer or reused parts, a KVM switch and use the best of both worlds. Seriously.
How you are right, right now the 9600 pro overclocks rather nicely and can be bought for 110 bux. Still faster than those Nvidia ti4800's that are more expensive. Thou, the real need for the faster cards are shader and anti-aliasing. Most games will run with great FPS without anti-aliasing, but turn 6x AA on, and thats when you need the 9800 type cards. I personally still play counter-strike, but with high-resolution skins, and 6xAA. The game looks smooth, looks sharp, and pumps out 100+fps. But when I play Unreal with the same anti-aliasing, it drops in real active battles to sub 20's, but hovers around 50fps.
I have a 9700 pro, I picked up last year, and it still gets good FPS in games, should tide me over till next year, but I might have to drop down anti-aliasing levels for higher FPS in HL2. Still, ATI did a good job, almost a year, and my video card is still only a frames per second behind the 9800 and the FX 5900 ultra. Good job ATI.
Forget it, the only bundled item I want to see are the hardware specifications for their card, so that someone can build decent free drivers for them. Is it so much to ask that you know how to use what you're buying?
And this is going to stop windows gamers from buying the card? Its a bitch to get games working under linux, its easier to buy another PC and buy some cheaper, better supported hardware. If the only multimedia is music/video then you dont need an the fastest GFX card out ther, an old Geforce or Matrox will just fine. Hell, even cheap 11 dollar yamaha sound cards have full duplex drivers for linux/bsd.
I have 4 machines, my main pc which runs winxp for games/etc, dual p400 linux box, dual 1.42ghz power mac, and my p233 linux firewall. Really, an all 1 one machine doesnt exist.
Speaking of supported hardware, Maximum PC has a list of best budget and best top end hardware. IS there a list like this for linux/bsd? So you can just build the best budget linux box with best support, or a top end bsd/linux workstation with full drivers?
6. Notice it fails:
scripts/Configure: line 5: drivers/net/hnd/Config.in: No such file or
directory
and
Notice that the driver wl.o makes several imports from the kernel
that are not included in a stock 2.4.5 kernel. In particular, note
that the symbols bcm_*, pkt*, dma_*, sb_*, osl_*, and srom_* are
imported by the module, but not included in the kernel source.
then states
Clearly, the kernel source that Linksys
provided cannot be used to recreate the kernel that they are shipping
with their product. Therefore, they have been, and still remain in
violation of the GPL.
Exactly, what I was asking... Just because they didnt provide the modules, doesnt make it violate the GPL. Or is everyone 100% sure that the code is kernel src modifications and not drivers?
Since a modified kernel is a derived work of the original GPL-ed kernel they have to release the source to their modified kernel.
;)
Well, kernel yes, module drivers no. This is how ATI and Nvidia release binary driver. But if Nvidia or ATI released a compiled kernel, they would have to release thier driver source?
Am I reading it wrong, but it says the drivers are missing, not the kernel modifications. And no where in the GPL does it say they have to help you compile the kernel.
I use to play the Battletech muse when it was out, it was one of my favorites. Turn based, not a real moo wich chat, but pretty good.
Plain color Ansi, was pretty fun. TradeWars was also ansi, we would chat in game also. Now its all IRC, which works for me, when Im playing a game, Im too busy to chat.
Stupid me, they call themselves a record company, so you think they would so everything a label would do, studio time, promote your music, etc.
So "We are not Evil" is also "We are not a real Record Company". Shame, unless someone steps up and offers to sign artists, not just resell the music. My Mistake, they are the same as CDBaby, PeopleSound, CDStreet, HipHop spot, etc.
Thou, more people are using in-home studios, and equipment is cheap enough, maybe you dont need it. But with so much music, unless some ratings system comes out, i can only listen to so much music in a day... And no, billboard top 10 doesnt count...
Well its a true record company, you get studio time, and equipment, and maybe backup artists, to make a product. CDBaby helps you with a finished product, same with iTunes.
Think of the work/cost to replace hardware each time you upgrade. But with 1xRTT and Edge out, next year we will see even faster speeds. Its almost 2004, just as the telcos said they would have the fast UTMS networks out.
Comparing Europe to America is a little silly, when we need hundreds of thousands of basestations to cover all of America. And then you we have the FCC only permitting so much spectrum per carrier. Cell sites are coming down in price, but its a little more expensive when you have to make it look like a tree, cactus, palm tree or church steepel.
Those billion dollar loans from foreign telcos are for infrastructure. First to cover North America with a high speed data network, wins.
I love how people blame phone companies for mobiles phone problems. Really, Motorola phone, try blaming motorola.
I havnt seen any good benchmark sites for phones, but seems there would be a need when you can pick 20 types of phone for each carrier. Even nokia alone has 50+ phones that might work on a carrier, and each have different problems, battery life, attenna strength, etc.
I know this is a CPU benchmark, but look at the GFX cards they use.
Every benchmark shows the ATI 9800 Pro to be faster than the FX 5900 Ultra, in every benchmarked, (3dmark2001 included) except 3DMark2003.
Using 3DMark2003 while informative, shows a negative performance compared to all other benchmarks. The raw FPS scores prove that 3DMark2003 is not giving true proformance of games out today.
Be nice when HL2/Doom3 is out, we can compare and see if 3DMark2003 is providing true numbers for features not out yet. But then, whats the use of a benchmark program that doesnt provide benchmarks for data thats currently out?
Other than that, good stats on the new AMD FX line, and with SSE2, makes up for those games favoring Intel.
Heres one that teaches, and is kinda fun. Change Maker
Thought it would be easy, but when you get into currency with 2 cent coins, made you think for a moment.
Sitting here, and wondering why Yahoo wasnt working in trillian. Then I see it on slashdot.
Really, I dont use Yahoo for IM, but I know people that do. And I'd rather not run 4 IM programs, one for everyone. Trade out on advanced features, but I can use 1 program. Also been testing Gaim and consoleicq on my linux box. Both nice multi-im clients..
If they use a nvidia gfx card, the newer drivers let you rotate your video 90 degrees or 180/etc.. Less hassle, if they dont know about the advanced options in the display settings.
Another nice Windows one, using net send, rename your computer to "Microsoft" and sending messages about "Please Reboot your Machine" or Your software is pirated, please call blahblah blah.
Just send lots of pop-ups when they are working. Lots of uses for net send.
Another if you log into a windows domain, before they get in the morning, try to log with thier username and wrong password. Few times and the account is locked. Good on pesky managers and you want to have a few more minutes before the morning meeting.
All just hypothetical of course. (My manager reads slashdot)
My favorite was sending on call messages to the oncall person about outages on hardware/markets we dont support. Pretending or asking a NOC person to call the on-call person. Normally right around the time the guy is getting ready to hit the bar. :)
I heard one where engineers would ask the new guy to get a flux capacitor from the electronic store. Or the new guy on a construction crew if he wanted to have Honey Pot duty.
I have to use inhouse applications for order tracking, trouble tickets, one thing that they dont seem to do, remember the text I filled into forms.
So, I have to enter data again, and again. Text input has always been a problem on browser. I have some applications that auto-fill, but things like "date" should be autofilled.
A browser with advanced text input features, would really be useful.
When money and profit is tied to crime, the police force has a reason to bust criminals.
Police bust someone for drugs, take his car, house, bank accounts, good reason to put all those harmless people in prision. Wheres the incentive to bust spammers?
Its all about politics and money. This is why california is passing spam laws now, RE-election time. Dont want to loose out on all that election money.
A friend of mine, who has a business class DSL had his ip block blacklisted. Seems someone on the ISP had a trojan and was sending out spam. So monkeys.com blocked the entire ISP. And monkeys.com response, contact your ISP. All the customers where in a deadlock, the ISP didnt know why they where blocked, the customers couldnt get unblocked, so every customer trys to contact Monkeys. The ISP couldnt contact monkeys either, monkeys email queue was full. So the ISP threatens to sue, customers threaten to break kneecaps, and the spammers win.
Really, if RBL's can be tricked to block good ISPs, and you get get the IP blocks removed, its flawed and needs to end service.
BTW, I know many people who are switching to whitelists, and even at work, whitelists for internal mail only cuts spam almost 100%. Even earthlink etc, sell whitelist features as a value added service.