It seems to me that is more of an issue with the ext driver for Windows, and not Windows itself; it is doing what the filesystem driver does not forbid. IMHO the fault does not lie with Microsoft there, as much as I'd LOVE to blame them.:)
I hope he is not guilty; I hope that his wife simply tried to pull a scam and is actually OK and is found hiding in Russia or somewhere. Even though it'd have been a scummy thing for her to do, at least their kids would not have lost their mother. That's the single worst part of the whole thing -- oh wait, am I saying "think of the children?" Shoot me now, please!
What would happen if (god forbid) Linus were in Reiser's place? Would everyone here be distancing themselves from using Linux? Would Novell, IBM, etc. abandon the use of Linux, throwing out the baby with the bathwater?
This is why when the story hit I posed legitimate questions regarding the filesystem's future (and got flamed for it, BTW, here and on linuxquestions); a person's career work should be viewed independently of his or her personal misdeeds. Otherwise, we should abandon electricity and incandescent lights (Edison was a bit of a bastard, and his invention of the electric chair "tainted" AC), jets (Heinkel was a nazi), Mercury and Apollo programs should never have happened (Wernher von Braun, the brain behind those programs, was a nazi, willing or otherwise). There are many, many worthwhile inventions proposed, designed, and/or implemented by evil people, and yet we use them on a daily basis, because regardless of the creators' nature, philosophy, or misdeeds, they have produced some worthwhile things that abandoning them because of the heritage would be somewhere between silly and irresponsible.
ReiserFS is touted to be a zero-slack filesystem, whereas ext3 still ties up entire blocks (groups of sectors, usually 4K, 8K, 16K depending on formatting options) on, say, a 1k text file, or a file which spills over into a tiny fraction of another block. When you have thousands of files which take up only a portion of a block, resulted in a lot of wasted space (how many files are exact multiples of the block size?). Some may argue "yeah, but disk space is cheap" but even so, 750GB drives are the largest we can buy now (yeah I know, RAIDs, but the point still remains), and if you fill it up doing projects and need just 80MB additional space to complete a job, a 300MB of allocated space is unused portions of blocks (slack), it sucks knowing that you could have finished a job if the filesystem weren't so inefficient.
If you're doing transcoding or 3D rendering, you want it to be fast, and you certainly do not want non-reenntrant libraries (like some shared Gnome or KDE GUI libraries) hogging processor time. Hopefully a realtime kernel will help to ensure that the background threads receive the processor allocation they should be getting.
Yep. Depending on where you are dragging from/to, Windows assumes one of these:
Copy Create shortcuts Move
Unless you know the nature of the source and destination filesystems, you may not get the action you expect. With windows you can right-click, drag, then select from the context menu to force the action you desire.
And even more shortsighted, if someone is going to sneak through a back door in one of the shops/vendors, wouldn't he or she simply remove the tag, leaving it in a spot (like the back of a seat) where one would like to remain stationary, or have an accomplice carry his tag while wanders off to do Bad Guy(tm) stuff? I know this will sound cliche: but if everyone is tagged, only criminals won't have tags.
If analog is going away, shouldn't it be unlawful for manufacturers to ship analog-only television receivers? I mean, I STILL can't find a portable digital TV set. Hauppauge still sells only analog TV cards (yeah, I should have bought PCHDTV, but I *KNOW* the hauppauge card will run under Myth with minimal effort on any distribution using the distro's stock kernel). Handhelds and televisions 20" and smaller are still all analog. Oh sure, mid-range and higher LCD televisions will 'accept' an 'HDTV' input via component video, but that isn't very portable now, is it? More stuff to lug around, plus the TV tuner is essentially worthless.
I just installed XGL/Compiz on a box with an on-board Intel chipset, a chipset which chokes when trying to run just an OpenGL screensaver like 'flurry' on Windows. XGL works VERY smoothly. I was extremely surprised.
Microsoft's DRM is fascist. If they could force you to pay a separate license for each ear for listening to music in stero rather than mono, they would. Even average customers are beginning to grow wise to Microsoft, and when Vista is released and they find to run Aero they have to add RAM AND a video card, and then later upgrade their hard drive (and reinstall because they won't have ghost or dd or partimage) and oops, sorry, they just used up their last activation, time to buy again per the EULA. . . or in the case of music specifically, they just bought a new MP3 player? It won't sync, too bad, so sad, Microsoft will tell you to buy it again.
Apple has discovered a balance between hindering blatent "piracy" and fair use which most people find tolerable, almost downright customer-friendly. If they were to offer iTunes for Linux, I just might buy music from Apple.
However, they (Apple) still have to realize that when I buy it, I OWN it, and I have the right by law to transfer ownership of what I purchased to someone else if I damn well desire to, just as I can sell or give away a used CD I no longer want.
There is something about the Gimp GUI that I absolutely abhor; when I have palettes open and several documents, when I bring one of the document windows forward, the open palette dialogs should come forward at the same time. I find that I have to hunt through all the dock buttons (or the task menu) to find the palette dialogs to bring them all forward individually. IMHO that is the single worst flaw in the Gimp's GUI.
One thing though; once I learned The Gimp I really loved it, despite its shortcomings. When I had to use Photoshop the other day on a Windows box (Uh, yes, it's actually paid for. Shocking, I know, but some people actually pay for software, and would buy Adobe CS for Linux in a heartbeat were it available) and I was lost for a couple of minutes; I had become so acclamated to the gimp that I had forgotten where things are in Photoshop.
Well it's a commodity good, not a work for hire created under contract and licensed directly to the customer, so the EULA won't hold its weight under scruitiny in a court. You can do pretty much whatever you please with the software aside from violate the copyright (e.g., make copies for distribution outside of fair use). So, when the cracks come out to allow unlimited connections, to crack activation, etc. go right ahead. I know if I were to choose Vista over Linux that's what I'd be doing. I'd buy one per PC but there is NO way in hell they can take away my rights to use what I OWN.
Instead, I'll avoid the whole issue by continuing to run Linux and migrating customers who are not already locked into Windows by vendors.
That should not matter; trademarks are only protected for the specific industry niche in which they are filed and actively used. Unless Hormel plans to expand their business to sending out billions of unsolicited emails advertising v1aagra and c1a1is, phishing scams, and the like, they have no business staking a claim for the word "spam" in the email/telecommunications industry niche. First off, it would go against trademark law, and second of all, well, really, it goes back to the main point. Thankfully, the USPTO doesn't rubber stamp every single trademark claim like they do patents, and I hope that the EU equivalent to the USPTO is equally sensible as time goes on, as they have been in this case.
You have a lower user number than I, and you have never heard of Spam? WTF kind of slashdotter are you? Have you not watched Monty Python, per/. requirements? You have obviously failed to memorize the Spam skit.
I believe I speak for all present here when I declare that it is time for you to turn in your geek card. Sorry, no more slashdot for you.
Seriously though, given the frequent Monty Python references here indicating its vast popularity, I'm surprised there are folks here who haven't heard of Hormel Spam. It's a godawful canned ham product which is more salty than seawater. If you have never tried it, imagine the saltiest hot dog you have ever eaten, mixed with flavorless gelatin (for texture), lard, and a good heaping pile of salt. That is what Spam tastes like. It's okay to accentuate certain hors d'oeuvres, and might even be OK is some sushi varieties (I've never tried such maki rolls, I refuse to out of principle), but in anything more than tiny doses is the grossest, most disgusting "food" product one could possibly ingest.
Considering that your average "Dude, you're getting a $299 Dell" special comes with Spyware preloaded, Windows' being on entry-level budget systems where they are priced to the point where the kindly-preinstalled spyware subsidizes the cost of the machine, I do not think that Linux is going to be much of an option for most Joe Sixpack-type consumers, and with the upcoming vista, unfortunately, it is likely that big-box-branded preinstalled spyware is going to be a whole lot more difficult to remove.
Also, if you do photo editing, if you have sprung for Photoshop and use "droplets" (basically, Photoshop macros tied to a desktop icon), SMP will cut down processing time considerably. If, for example, you went on a week-long trip with your family to Disney (I know, this is slashdot, so the likelihood of having a spouse is infinitely close to zero, hahaha, I had to toss in a/. cliche in here somehow) and want to downsample your 6MP photos to something web-friendly, a droplet makes the job much easier, faster, and SMP will make the job go twice as fast, or 3x faster if you have a four-way box combined with a decent HDD.
CRTs are almost as bad at displaying a true black. Heck, at 1920x1440 right now (not the highest resolution my monitors can run) the letters in the textarea I am typing in are a dark grey at best, not black.
The only people that can truly make use of multicore chips would be scientists and people who do any other kind of intensive parallel processing, like like graphics rendering.
The way people use PCs is drastically changing. Now SMP benefits any gamer, anyone transcoding video (not everyone does it? Uh, Windows Media, digital camcorders, Windows Media Center|MythTV|Other PVR app, and in the case of Windows users, running various spyware in the background without totally dragging down the system;), and other now-not-so-cutting-edge activities which are rapidly becoming commonplace. Add to that image processing (digital camera apps, Photoshop w/plugins, etc.) which nearly everyone does, printing large photos on an inkjet printer, and now you've argued that 90%+ of home users can now gain (knowingly or unknowingly) from SMP.
FWIW, I've had those same complaints about LCD, with the primary concern being the resolution, since LCD color has vastly improved recently. This year, 1920x1200 displays have not only become available, but 24" models are downright affordable. I'll miss being able to run 2048x1536, but when you can run two 1920x1440 displays side by side with perfect clarity (no fuzziness of CRT) the lack of higher resolutions isn't much of an issue. Back when they were stuck at 1280x1024, yeah, I'd agree completely.
Yep, and anyone here who criticised me for presenting a legitimate question but has enjoyed watching The Naked Gun on or after June 12, 1994 are as tasteless as they accuse me of being. Likewise, if Ballmer or Jobs kills someone tomorrow, everyone who does not immediately quit running Windows or OS X is equally guilty. I merely asked what everyone else is likely thinking, and a person'w career should be viewed independently of unrelated misdeeds.
I honestly hope that Hans is innocent, and if and only if is truly innocent, is cleared, but if he is convicted, would you quit using a product of his design?
But then again, trolls love to flame anyone for any reason, however contrived.
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It seems to me that is more of an issue with the ext driver for Windows, and not Windows itself; it is doing what the filesystem driver does not forbid. IMHO the fault does not lie with Microsoft there, as much as I'd LOVE to blame them. :)
I hope he is not guilty; I hope that his wife simply tried to pull a scam and is actually OK and is found hiding in Russia or somewhere. Even though it'd have been a scummy thing for her to do, at least their kids would not have lost their mother. That's the single worst part of the whole thing -- oh wait, am I saying "think of the children?" Shoot me now, please!
What would happen if (god forbid) Linus were in Reiser's place? Would everyone here be distancing themselves from using Linux? Would Novell, IBM, etc. abandon the use of Linux, throwing out the baby with the bathwater?
This is why when the story hit I posed legitimate questions regarding the filesystem's future (and got flamed for it, BTW, here and on linuxquestions); a person's career work should be viewed independently of his or her personal misdeeds. Otherwise, we should abandon electricity and incandescent lights (Edison was a bit of a bastard, and his invention of the electric chair "tainted" AC), jets (Heinkel was a nazi), Mercury and Apollo programs should never have happened (Wernher von Braun, the brain behind those programs, was a nazi, willing or otherwise). There are many, many worthwhile inventions proposed, designed, and/or implemented by evil people, and yet we use them on a daily basis, because regardless of the creators' nature, philosophy, or misdeeds, they have produced some worthwhile things that abandoning them because of the heritage would be somewhere between silly and irresponsible.
ReiserFS is touted to be a zero-slack filesystem, whereas ext3 still ties up entire blocks (groups of sectors, usually 4K, 8K, 16K depending on formatting options) on, say, a 1k text file, or a file which spills over into a tiny fraction of another block. When you have thousands of files which take up only a portion of a block, resulted in a lot of wasted space (how many files are exact multiples of the block size?). Some may argue "yeah, but disk space is cheap" but even so, 750GB drives are the largest we can buy now (yeah I know, RAIDs, but the point still remains), and if you fill it up doing projects and need just 80MB additional space to complete a job, a 300MB of allocated space is unused portions of blocks (slack), it sucks knowing that you could have finished a job if the filesystem weren't so inefficient.
If you're doing transcoding or 3D rendering, you want it to be fast, and you certainly do not want non-reenntrant libraries (like some shared Gnome or KDE GUI libraries) hogging processor time. Hopefully a realtime kernel will help to ensure that the background threads receive the processor allocation they should be getting.
Yep. Depending on where you are dragging from/to, Windows assumes one of these:
Copy
Create shortcuts
Move
Unless you know the nature of the source and destination filesystems, you may not get the action you expect. With windows you can right-click, drag, then select from the context menu to force the action you desire.
Monitoring console manufactured by Namco I presume?
I would extend that to named sessions so if you work on multiple projects in parallel, it's easy to switch between sessions rapidly.
And even more shortsighted, if someone is going to sneak through a back door in one of the shops/vendors, wouldn't he or she simply remove the tag, leaving it in a spot (like the back of a seat) where one would like to remain stationary, or have an accomplice carry his tag while wanders off to do Bad Guy(tm) stuff? I know this will sound cliche: but if everyone is tagged, only criminals won't have tags.
Aren't the good dots blue or green, and the bad dots red?
Or am I thinking lightsabres?
If analog is going away, shouldn't it be unlawful for manufacturers to ship analog-only television receivers? I mean, I STILL can't find a portable digital TV set. Hauppauge still sells only analog TV cards (yeah, I should have bought PCHDTV, but I *KNOW* the hauppauge card will run under Myth with minimal effort on any distribution using the distro's stock kernel). Handhelds and televisions 20" and smaller are still all analog. Oh sure, mid-range and higher LCD televisions will 'accept' an 'HDTV' input via component video, but that isn't very portable now, is it? More stuff to lug around, plus the TV tuner is essentially worthless.
They shouldn't kill analog.
I just installed XGL/Compiz on a box with an on-board Intel chipset, a chipset which chokes when trying to run just an OpenGL screensaver like 'flurry' on Windows. XGL works VERY smoothly. I was extremely surprised.
Microsoft's DRM is fascist. If they could force you to pay a separate license for each ear for listening to music in stero rather than mono, they would. Even average customers are beginning to grow wise to Microsoft, and when Vista is released and they find to run Aero they have to add RAM AND a video card, and then later upgrade their hard drive (and reinstall because they won't have ghost or dd or partimage) and oops, sorry, they just used up their last activation, time to buy again per the EULA. . . or in the case of music specifically, they just bought a new MP3 player? It won't sync, too bad, so sad, Microsoft will tell you to buy it again.
Apple has discovered a balance between hindering blatent "piracy" and fair use which most people find tolerable, almost downright customer-friendly. If they were to offer iTunes for Linux, I just might buy music from Apple.
However, they (Apple) still have to realize that when I buy it, I OWN it, and I have the right by law to transfer ownership of what I purchased to someone else if I damn well desire to, just as I can sell or give away a used CD I no longer want.
There is something about the Gimp GUI that I absolutely abhor; when I have palettes open and several documents, when I bring one of the document windows forward, the open palette dialogs should come forward at the same time. I find that I have to hunt through all the dock buttons (or the task menu) to find the palette dialogs to bring them all forward individually. IMHO that is the single worst flaw in the Gimp's GUI.
One thing though; once I learned The Gimp I really loved it, despite its shortcomings. When I had to use Photoshop the other day on a Windows box (Uh, yes, it's actually paid for. Shocking, I know, but some people actually pay for software, and would buy Adobe CS for Linux in a heartbeat were it available) and I was lost for a couple of minutes; I had become so acclamated to the gimp that I had forgotten where things are in Photoshop.
Well it's a commodity good, not a work for hire created under contract and licensed directly to the customer, so the EULA won't hold its weight under scruitiny in a court. You can do pretty much whatever you please with the software aside from violate the copyright (e.g., make copies for distribution outside of fair use). So, when the cracks come out to allow unlimited connections, to crack activation, etc. go right ahead. I know if I were to choose Vista over Linux that's what I'd be doing. I'd buy one per PC but there is NO way in hell they can take away my rights to use what I OWN.
Instead, I'll avoid the whole issue by continuing to run Linux and migrating customers who are not already locked into Windows by vendors.
Kazaa is not available for Linux and runs poorly under wine. I don't think you have to worry too much about that.
Amen to that. Microsoft's EULA is rapidly becoming the best possible advertisement for open source alternatives.
That should not matter; trademarks are only protected for the specific industry niche in which they are filed and actively used. Unless Hormel plans to expand their business to sending out billions of unsolicited emails advertising v1aagra and c1a1is, phishing scams, and the like, they have no business staking a claim for the word "spam" in the email/telecommunications industry niche. First off, it would go against trademark law, and second of all, well, really, it goes back to the main point. Thankfully, the USPTO doesn't rubber stamp every single trademark claim like they do patents, and I hope that the EU equivalent to the USPTO is equally sensible as time goes on, as they have been in this case.
You have a lower user number than I, and you have never heard of Spam? WTF kind of slashdotter are you? Have you not watched Monty Python, per /. requirements? You have obviously failed to memorize the Spam skit.
I believe I speak for all present here when I declare that it is time for you to turn in your geek card. Sorry, no more slashdot for you.
Seriously though, given the frequent Monty Python references here indicating its vast popularity, I'm surprised there are folks here who haven't heard of Hormel Spam. It's a godawful canned ham product which is more salty than seawater. If you have never tried it, imagine the saltiest hot dog you have ever eaten, mixed with flavorless gelatin (for texture), lard, and a good heaping pile of salt. That is what Spam tastes like. It's okay to accentuate certain hors d'oeuvres, and might even be OK is some sushi varieties (I've never tried such maki rolls, I refuse to out of principle), but in anything more than tiny doses is the grossest, most disgusting "food" product one could possibly ingest.
Considering that your average "Dude, you're getting a $299 Dell" special comes with Spyware preloaded, Windows' being on entry-level budget systems where they are priced to the point where the kindly-preinstalled spyware subsidizes the cost of the machine, I do not think that Linux is going to be much of an option for most Joe Sixpack-type consumers, and with the upcoming vista, unfortunately, it is likely that big-box-branded preinstalled spyware is going to be a whole lot more difficult to remove.
/. cliche in here somehow) and want to downsample your 6MP photos to something web-friendly, a droplet makes the job much easier, faster, and SMP will make the job go twice as fast, or 3x faster if you have a four-way box combined with a decent HDD.
Also, if you do photo editing, if you have sprung for Photoshop and use "droplets" (basically, Photoshop macros tied to a desktop icon), SMP will cut down processing time considerably. If, for example, you went on a week-long trip with your family to Disney (I know, this is slashdot, so the likelihood of having a spouse is infinitely close to zero, hahaha, I had to toss in a
CRTs are almost as bad at displaying a true black. Heck, at 1920x1440 right now (not the highest resolution my monitors can run) the letters in the textarea I am typing in are a dark grey at best, not black.
The way people use PCs is drastically changing. Now SMP benefits any gamer, anyone transcoding video (not everyone does it? Uh, Windows Media, digital camcorders, Windows Media Center|MythTV|Other PVR app, and in the case of Windows users, running various spyware in the background without totally dragging down the system
FWIW, I've had those same complaints about LCD, with the primary concern being the resolution, since LCD color has vastly improved recently. This year, 1920x1200 displays have not only become available, but 24" models are downright affordable. I'll miss being able to run 2048x1536, but when you can run two 1920x1440 displays side by side with perfect clarity (no fuzziness of CRT) the lack of higher resolutions isn't much of an issue. Back when they were stuck at 1280x1024, yeah, I'd agree completely.
Yep, and anyone here who criticised me for presenting a legitimate question but has enjoyed watching The Naked Gun on or after June 12, 1994 are as tasteless as they accuse me of being. Likewise, if Ballmer or Jobs kills someone tomorrow, everyone who does not immediately quit running Windows or OS X is equally guilty. I merely asked what everyone else is likely thinking, and a person'w career should be viewed independently of unrelated misdeeds.
I honestly hope that Hans is innocent, and if and only if is truly innocent, is cleared, but if he is convicted, would you quit using a product of his design?
But then again, trolls love to flame anyone for any reason, however contrived.