I would much prefer something where you just plug the drive in like it were a card and off it goes
It's been done. Look up microchannel architecture (or better yet, open up an old IBM PS/2). Everything slid in and out on rails, and where other computers would use screws, they used fat plastic pins. Drives connected to the contoller by a riser card with edge connectors.
When did mini computer stop meaning mini computer (as opposed to a mainframe) and start meaning a small x86 box?
When the last real minicomputer was replaced with an x86 box of 1/100th the size and twice the computing power, or sometime around 1988.
Sheesh, yet another grumpy oldtimer:-)
4) The product sells for $100. Slashdot readers bitch and moan because somebody is selling something based on linux and that's a violation of the GPL. (It's not, but most slashbots take it as an article of faith that the text of the GPL is "Thou shalt not sell software" or something close to that. Lindows slowly fades into obscurity.
5) Geeks boycott Lindows because of licensing issues and it's "Microsoft-ish-ness" Windows users are, well, already using windows, and see no reason to switch from a badly designed OS to a badly-written emulation of a badly designed OS. Lindows fades into obscurity.
6) RMS has a tantrum because somebody is making money by selling software. He writes nasty email to the company and scathing editorials on gnu.org, and threatens legal action (or failing that, to take his shell and his compiler and go crying home to mommy). To appease him, every desktop computer running gnu software must be called a "GNU/PC"
That will hopefully change when the native 1394 hard drives start coming out. The current crop of so called "firewire" drives (at least the ones I've seen) are just ATA/66 drives with an ATA to 1394 interface stuck on the back. No wonder they're only half as fast as ATA/100, they're only transferring at 66MHz to start with, and there's the overhead of translating 1394 commands to ATA.
point your browser over to Xwinman.org. Some of the info seems a little out of date, but they still have a good overview of the popular window managers.
Illegal to distribute, maybe, but not to use. Remember, the GPL doesn't apply until you start distributing the software.
Aviplay is tied to the (binary only) win32 codecs. Anyone who really cares about the politics of licensing would find that an unacceptable solution too.
Even if someone built binary packages, Debian would never distribute them. OpenDivX is open-source, but it is not under a GPL-compatible license. That means distributing a product that has linked OpenDivX to GPL code (like the rest of Mplayer) is a violation of the GPL.
Also, Mplayer configures itself based on what libraries you have installed on your system (ffmpeg, OpenDivX, SDL, win32 codecs, etc). Including all these libraries would be redundant, including none would build an Mplayer that can't play movies ( which would be worthless). This could be overcome if Mplayer built video decoders as plugins that could be loaded at run-time, but it doesn't.
Lastly, all the decoding and video output is optimized at compile time for MMX, 3D-now, SSE or whatever CPU-specific speedups it detects. If the build host has an Intel chip and you have an AMD, the player would crash and burn on your machine. This could probably be overcome by adding CPU-detection code, but including a different version of every decoder for every CPU would add unnecessary bloat.
Yes, usenet is that unusable to most of us, at least for music downloading. A lot (probably most, by now) of the large ISPs do not carry the alt.binaries.* groups. If you want access to those groups you have to either pay for access to a commercial nntp server (something your average mp3 swapper isn't about to do) or live on campus at a large university. (even more expensive than commercial usenet service, and the food sucks, too).
So the secret isn't out yet, you haven't told us where to find a broadband provider with free, unfiltered newsfeeds.
Gates' wealth is probably 90% theoretical. It's all in M$ stock. The minute he starts selling off significant amounts of it (like he would have to to buy out an entire industry) the share price will drop like a lead balloon. First because the increased supply would drive down prices, then because investors would see Gates selling, assume that he knows M$ is going down the tubes in the near future and sell their shares as well.
Now, if he could convince all the movie studios to sell out in a stock-swap deal, that would be a different story...
PS - I bet all those liberals who insisted the Bushies sell all their Enron stock a year ago are fucking pissed:)
Not really, Bush may have made his money, but at least my tax dollars aren't bailing out Enron. I suspect we would be, if he still owned boatloads of stock...
Are you sure? IIRC, Showtime was one of the first to use pop-up station ID logos. I don't get showtime anymore, but I have tapes from the mid 1980s that display the Showtime logo in the bottom right corner for about 5 seconds every 10 minutes or so. If showtime doesn't do it now, then they've only stopped recently.
Been reading the Pravda dictionary to the english language again, have you? Hate to break it to you, but comrade dictionary seems to be wrong here (or at least highly biased). My dictionary makes no mention of having to derive power fro[m] capital to be a capitalist.
Capitalistn 1: an owner of wealth used in business 2: an upholder of capitalism 3: a wealthy person
(from Webster's New World Dictionary, 1996)
WINE = Wine Is Not an Emulator
Why can't people get this through their heads??
Mostly because we can see beyond semantic games. If pine was an acronym for "Pine Is Not Email" would you believe it? If it walks like a duck and quacks like a duck, it's probably emulating a duck...
Due to U.S. Exports Regulations, all cryptographic software on this site is subject to the following legal notice:
This site includes publicly available encryption source code which, together with object code resulting from the compiling of publicly available source code, may be exported from the United States under License Exception "TSU" pursuant to 15 C.F.R. Section 740.13(e).
Kerneli.org was no longer needed because the usgov finally loosened up crypto export restrictions. Do a little research before you post your paranoid rantings
Manufacturing plants have always had searches like this. True dat.
I worked as temporary manufacturing help for A large mobile phone company. We had to enter and leave through metal detectors, and any bags or boxes you carried were searched as you left. And since the plant was in a free trade zone, there were warnings posted all over that any crime committed on the premises was a federal offense.We had the "right" to refuse to be searched, but if we did, they had the right to tell us not to come back the next day. It was a hassle, but it maked sense to search poeple there, you could carry out the pieces of a phone with a lot less trouble than Johnny Cash had trying to sneak a Caddy out one piece at a time.
Aah, but you forgot WinXP's ace in the hole, a large installed base of WindowsME. WinME is *so unstable* that M$ must have done it intentionally, probably so people who get WinME bundled with a new computer will buy XP.
It's impossible. Every concievable identification device must interface with the computer at some point, and be exposed to the user at another. Any method of input is vulnerable to a sufficiently motivated and wealthy advisary (eg the US/Russian/Chinese government, Microsoft, the Catholic church, or whoever). The point to remember is physical access to the hardware trumps any computer security measures.
If you want to be really paranoid, check your computer every few days. Look for dongles or adapters you don't remember putting on. Use keyboard cables without ferrites, they could be replaced with a keylogger. Epoxy over the heads of your keyboard screws. Look inside the computer case, see if anything has been added or moved. Then, if you find a key logger, fill up it's entire memory with "h4h4! j00 5ux0r!!" ^_^
Yes it is. Just because taco quoted a line from "Lain" does not make this a forum for discussing anime. Do you really think we should turn every thread where someone quotes the phrase "use the force" or "beam me up, Scotty" into discussions on Star Wars of Star Trek?
. Do yourself a favor and take a look at all the applications you really need from KDE...
Kmail - becuase evolution is bloated and buggy, and if I wanted to use pine I would telnet to the school's UN*X servers from a Macintosh instead of running Linux.
Konqueror - becuase Mozilla is slow, Netscape 4.x crashes too often, and Galeon just won't compile on my system.
KFM - because Nautilus gobbles up monstrous amounts of memory, doesn't support tab-completion, and looks like Win95 on acid.
Gnome is winning in the office-software department, Abiword and Gnumeric are far ahead of the Koffice stuff.
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I would much prefer something where you just plug the drive in like it were a card and off it goes
It's been done. Look up microchannel architecture (or better yet, open up an old IBM PS/2). Everything slid in and out on rails, and where other computers would use screws, they used fat plastic pins. Drives connected to the contoller by a riser card with edge connectors.
When did mini computer stop meaning mini computer (as opposed to a mainframe) and start meaning a small x86 box?
:-)
When the last real minicomputer was replaced with an x86 box of 1/100th the size and twice the computing power, or sometime around 1988.
Sheesh, yet another grumpy oldtimer
Just wait, you'll eventually need decryption chips in your auditory nerves to hear major label music...
A few more possible scenarios :)
4) The product sells for $100. Slashdot readers bitch and moan because somebody is selling something based on linux and that's a violation of the GPL. (It's not, but most slashbots take it as an article of faith that the text of the GPL is "Thou shalt not sell software" or something close to that. Lindows slowly fades into obscurity.
5) Geeks boycott Lindows because of licensing issues and it's "Microsoft-ish-ness" Windows users are, well, already using windows, and see no reason to switch from a badly designed OS to a badly-written emulation of a badly designed OS. Lindows fades into obscurity.
6) RMS has a tantrum because somebody is making money by selling software. He writes nasty email to the company and scathing editorials on gnu.org, and threatens legal action (or failing that, to take his shell and his compiler and go crying home to mommy). To appease him, every desktop computer running gnu software must be called a "GNU/PC"
That will hopefully change when the native 1394 hard drives start coming out. The current crop of so called "firewire" drives (at least the ones I've seen) are just ATA/66 drives with an ATA to 1394 interface stuck on the back. No wonder they're only half as fast as ATA/100, they're only transferring at 66MHz to start with, and there's the overhead of translating 1394 commands to ATA.
"Hanging is too good for a man who makes puns; he should be drawn and quoted."
Just remember, if puns are outlawed, only outlaws will have puns!
/me ducks and runs
point your browser over to Xwinman.org. Some of the info seems a little out of date, but they still have a good overview of the popular window managers.
Illegal to distribute, maybe, but not to use. Remember, the GPL doesn't apply until you start distributing the software.
Aviplay is tied to the (binary only) win32 codecs. Anyone who really cares about the politics of licensing would find that an unacceptable solution too.
Even if someone built binary packages, Debian would never distribute them. OpenDivX is open-source, but it is not under a GPL-compatible license. That means distributing a product that has linked OpenDivX to GPL code (like the rest of Mplayer) is a violation of the GPL.
Also, Mplayer configures itself based on what libraries you have installed on your system (ffmpeg, OpenDivX, SDL, win32 codecs, etc). Including all these libraries would be redundant, including none would build an Mplayer that can't play movies ( which would be worthless). This could be overcome if Mplayer built video decoders as plugins that could be loaded at run-time, but it doesn't.
Lastly, all the decoding and video output is optimized at compile time for MMX, 3D-now, SSE or whatever CPU-specific speedups it detects. If the build host has an Intel chip and you have an AMD, the player would crash and burn on your machine. This could probably be overcome by adding CPU-detection code, but including a different version of every decoder for every CPU would add unnecessary bloat.
Yes, usenet is that unusable to most of us, at least for music downloading. A lot (probably most, by now) of the large ISPs do not carry the alt.binaries.* groups. If you want access to those groups you have to either pay for access to a commercial nntp server (something your average mp3 swapper isn't about to do) or live on campus at a large university. (even more expensive than commercial usenet service, and the food sucks, too).
So the secret isn't out yet, you haven't told us where to find a broadband provider with free, unfiltered newsfeeds.
Gates' wealth is probably 90% theoretical. It's all in M$ stock. The minute he starts selling off significant amounts of it (like he would have to to buy out an entire industry) the share price will drop like a lead balloon. First because the increased supply would drive down prices, then because investors would see Gates selling, assume that he knows M$ is going down the tubes in the near future and sell their shares as well.
Now, if he could convince all the movie studios to sell out in a stock-swap deal, that would be a different story...
Indeed they did. My folks have a computer like that. Not sure exactly when it was made, but it has a Pentium 200MHz, so it's not very recent.
PS - I bet all those liberals who insisted the Bushies sell all their Enron stock a year ago are fucking pissed :)
Not really, Bush may have made his money, but at least my tax dollars aren't bailing out Enron. I suspect we would be, if he still owned boatloads of stock...
Yeah, I can see it now... "Look what we found in the boot of this old VW; two high-gain solar panels and a radiation-hardened 486!"
Showtime doesn't do it
Are you sure? IIRC, Showtime was one of the first to use pop-up station ID logos. I don't get showtime anymore, but I have tapes from the mid 1980s that display the Showtime logo in the bottom right corner for about 5 seconds every 10 minutes or so. If showtime doesn't do it now, then they've only stopped recently.
imagine the equivalent on radio - some guy whispering "your listening to WGBX Detroit" over and over again in the background.
This sounds strangely like a new RIAA music watermarking scheme...
Been reading the Pravda dictionary to the english language again, have you? Hate to break it to you, but comrade dictionary seems to be wrong here (or at least highly biased). My dictionary makes no mention of having to derive power fro[m] capital to be a capitalist.
Capitalist n 1: an owner of wealth used in business 2: an upholder of capitalism 3: a wealthy person
(from Webster's New World Dictionary, 1996)
WINE = Wine Is Not an Emulator
Why can't people get this through their heads??
Mostly because we can see beyond semantic games. If pine was an acronym for "Pine Is Not Email" would you believe it? If it walks like a duck and quacks like a duck, it's probably emulating a duck...
from the front page of kernel.org
Due to U.S. Exports Regulations, all cryptographic software on this site is subject to the following legal notice:
This site includes publicly available encryption source code which, together with object code resulting from the compiling of publicly available source code, may be exported from the United States under License Exception "TSU" pursuant to 15 C.F.R. Section 740.13(e).
Kerneli.org was no longer needed because the usgov finally loosened up crypto export restrictions. Do a little research before you post your paranoid rantings
Demo consoles *are* in big clear plastic enclosures. They overheat and die anyway, because there isn't enough airflow through the box.
Manufacturing plants have always had searches like this.
True dat.
I worked as temporary manufacturing help for A large mobile phone company. We had to enter and leave through metal detectors, and any bags or boxes you carried were searched as you left. And since the plant was in a free trade zone, there were warnings posted all over that any crime committed on the premises was a federal offense.We had the "right" to refuse to be searched, but if we did, they had the right to tell us not to come back the next day. It was a hassle, but it maked sense to search poeple there, you could carry out the pieces of a phone with a lot less trouble than Johnny Cash had trying to sneak a Caddy out one piece at a time.
Aah, but you forgot WinXP's ace in the hole, a large installed base of WindowsME. WinME is *so unstable* that M$ must have done it intentionally, probably so people who get WinME bundled with a new computer will buy XP.
It's impossible. Every concievable identification device must interface with the computer at some point, and be exposed to the user at another. Any method of input is vulnerable to a sufficiently motivated and wealthy advisary (eg the US/Russian/Chinese government, Microsoft, the Catholic church, or whoever). The point to remember is physical access to the hardware trumps any computer security measures.
If you want to be really paranoid, check your computer every few days. Look for dongles or adapters you don't remember putting on. Use keyboard cables without ferrites, they could be replaced with a keylogger. Epoxy over the heads of your keyboard screws. Look inside the computer case, see if anything has been added or moved. Then, if you find a key logger, fill up it's entire memory with "h4h4! j00 5ux0r!!" ^_^
Yes it is. Just because taco quoted a line from "Lain" does not make this a forum for discussing anime. Do you really think we should turn every thread where someone quotes the phrase "use the force" or "beam me up, Scotty" into discussions on Star Wars of Star Trek?
. Do yourself a favor and take a look at all the applications you really need from KDE...
Kmail - becuase evolution is bloated and buggy, and if I wanted to use pine I would telnet to the school's UN*X servers from a Macintosh instead of running Linux.
Konqueror - becuase Mozilla is slow, Netscape 4.x crashes too often, and Galeon just won't compile on my system.
KFM - because Nautilus gobbles up monstrous amounts of memory, doesn't support tab-completion, and looks like Win95 on acid.
Gnome is winning in the office-software department, Abiword and Gnumeric are far ahead of the Koffice stuff.