It's almost useless to mention fre alternatives to TiVo / Replay on/. Take a look at this thread... I have never seen this level of trolling and anti-OSS rhetoric, except possibly from Microsoft. You guys should be ashamed of yourselves.
What we really need is for Mozilla to be bundled into Java! Think about it... Mozilla binaries already exist for all of major platforms on which Java runs. All that's needed is a Java wrapper for it and presto, reliable, native-optimized browsing (and more) anywhere you've got a JVM.
Did the candidate declare the solution to be complete even when it was terribly flawed?
After much cajoling by a friend who works there, I once interviewed at Microsoft. I actually did poorly because I would NOT declare my solution correct without testing it. The interviewer, zeroing in on this flaw in my character, informed me that yes, in fact, my solution was correct, and I should have been more confident.
Just then, I noticed a glaring flaw in the code and pointed it out. I don't think this garnered me many interview "points".
The rest of the people who were scheduled to interview me found out about these events in near-real time via email, and the exact same scenario replayed itself later in the day. Solution designed, my refusal to declare this non-trivial problem completely solved without testing, chastisement, and my discovery of a problem on further inspection of the code!
I didn't want their lousy job anyway, but it still hurt not to be offered it.
It's not the RECORDING industry that's ailing -- it's the MEDIA DISTRIBUTION industry. Artists will always need good studios, producers, technicians, and equipment. The RIAA is misnamed. Their weakening stranglehold on the distibution of the final product (bits) is the only reason they get a piece of the pie, and not a flat fee (like the tour bus driver).
Ironic that this article immediately follows one about keeping the same cell phone number for life. The "private" thing to do would be to get a different cell # every time you make or receive a call. If you don't want your friends to have to do a search every time they want to find you, you're going to need to commit to that phone #. And then what's the difference between it, and a big-brother government ID number?
I totally agree, and I'm not even a real Sci-Fi fan. I found the shoot-up sequences in the original Matrix totally boring, and got hung up on the inconsistencies and begged questions.
As part of a class on entrepreneurship in "high technology" I heard Bushnell speak and even had the opportunity to have lunch with him (along with 8 or other students who picked him over the other options which included the likes of Scott McNealy).
I don't remember anything he said during lunch, but I do remember that he was 30 minutes late and stayed and hour past the scheduled end time.
From the lecture, I remember two things. One was he wanted to build a high-speed underground traind from New York to Los Angeles... okay three, things, I just rememberd that he also wanted to build Minority-Report-sytle freeways that take control of your car because "we don't mind our own dirt, but we don't like other people's dirt" and the other (third) thing was the simple quote "ideas are shit" in reference to secret business plans and stealth mode when creating a startup. His point was that everything is in the execution.
I read with enthusiasm your proposals for H1-B reform. However I think many of the suggestions will be difficult to implement, and they only attack the problem indirectly.
The problem with the H1-B program is that foreign workers should be sponsored by American WORKERS, not American companies.
Each H1-B Visa should bear the signature of an American worker who was offered the job at his or her current pay level, and refused it.
Please see that the authors of your excellent proposal on H1-B reform are aware of this enforcement option.
I built a new flex ATX box this past weekend and, after discovering that the world of Red Hat mirrors goes far beyond those listed on Red Hat's official page, downloaded 8.0 and installed it.
I use Linux on servers heavily at work and also have a web / imap / general purpose Linux (rh 7.2) server at home. However I have not used a Linux desktop very much.
After exploring GNOME, KDE, etc. for a few days, I have come to the conclusion that, for an administrator today, a Linux desktop is a good way to host multiple terminal sessions but the GUI is of little help.
What happened to linuxconf? Am I now supposed to begin the nightmare of configuring sendmail completely by hand? It looks like Red Hat has ripped out linuxconf completely and replaced it with the Helix stuff for SOME of the functions.
Does GNOME/Nautilus have a CD icon at all?
Why is there no applet to that centralizes metacity settings? Yet we have whole applications to manage a single binary switch.
The Mac and Windows do a lot more to let the administrator stay in the GUI for many simple tasks. Linux is definitely not there yet.
I sure hope the backers of the Motor Vehicle Right to Repair Act are not giving up the drive to get that legislation passed just because of a few crumbs thrown by the automakers.
As several in this thread have pointed out, the diagnostic codes are already available. What made this proposed legislation a leap forward is that it mandated in very general terms that the automakers had to empower independent repair shops to fix cars as well as their own dealerships, by whatever means necessary.
Frightened with the prospect of losing their share of the lucrative service business, they are trying to nip this populist movement in the bud.
A little further down, the article points out that Wal-Mart sells the exact same hardware with Windows (not sure which version) for $299 instead of $199 -- the difference is the cost of a Windows license.
So now Windows is 33% of the cost of a PC. This is the situation that Nick Petreley predicts will change the economics of the PC industry enough to unseat Microsoft.
Great article. I'm working on a laptop to picture-frame conversion too.
Mine is an old Toshiba 205CDS with 24 meg running Debian and hooked up to a new flat-panel display, so the display itself is the frame.
The software is Mozilla 1.1 in full-screen mode. It simply tunes into a page on a web server (could be the same server, but in my case it's not) that serves up refreshes are regular intravals. My friends and family have access to a web page where they can directly upload their pictures into my frame and provide captions. They can also build pages of their own and just sent the URL (this is a big advantage of having a real browser running in the frame).
The poster was a lot more ambitious than me in many ways. I never even thought of chopping up the laptop and making such a professional-looking package. Now I think at least I'll get rid of the laptop's LCD panel.
Wow, the posts so far really bear out your point -- a lot of long-winded opinions but in 115 posts, only one mention of actual production traffic.
Go for it. I have been running tomcat in production on a public site for 2 years. Currently it's getting half a million hits a day and purring along at 3% CPU usage per Xeon. Over half of these are dynamic.jsp's that talk sockets to the back-end (no database -- use Slashdot for your example there).
Tomcat 3.3 was an improvement over the last 3.2 update. Haven't tried 4.0 in production yet.
The ideal place for an address book is NOT on the PDA, but back at home on an LDAP server, where it can also be accessed from home and work email programs.
So I want the thing to access my LDAP server. Live, if possible, but at least sync'ed every so often. Use LDAP attributes for people's address info, email address, IRC nick, birthday, everything.
I grew up with my parents telling me the Golden Gate bridge had the longest span of any suspension bridge in the world. I thought I remembered hearing that it had been surpassed, but now I find out that even when they were telling me this (the 1970's) it was a lie!
I'll be switching every computer I control to Mozilla when 1.0 is released. Although I've been following Mozilla's development closely for 4 years, this will be the first time I've committed to using it.
Just give me space at my local CO and let me install my own equipment. Is this possible? At least *I* won't be delisted if my hypefactor falls below 2.6.
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It's almost useless to mention fre alternatives to TiVo / Replay on /. Take a look at this thread... I have never seen this level of trolling and anti-OSS rhetoric, except possibly from Microsoft. You guys should be ashamed of yourselves.
What we really need is for Mozilla to be bundled into Java! Think about it... Mozilla binaries already exist for all of major platforms on which Java runs. All that's needed is a Java wrapper for it and presto, reliable, native-optimized browsing (and more) anywhere you've got a JVM.
Did the candidate declare the solution to be complete even when it was terribly flawed?
After much cajoling by a friend who works there, I once interviewed at Microsoft. I actually did poorly because I would NOT declare my solution correct without testing it. The interviewer, zeroing in on this flaw in my character, informed me that yes, in fact, my solution was correct, and I should have been more confident.
Just then, I noticed a glaring flaw in the code and pointed it out. I don't think this garnered me many interview "points".
The rest of the people who were scheduled to interview me found out about these events in near-real time via email, and the exact same scenario replayed itself later in the day. Solution designed, my refusal to declare this non-trivial problem completely solved without testing, chastisement, and my discovery of a problem on further inspection of the code!
I didn't want their lousy job anyway, but it still hurt not to be offered it.
It's not the RECORDING industry that's ailing -- it's the MEDIA DISTRIBUTION industry. Artists will always need good studios, producers, technicians, and equipment. The RIAA is misnamed. Their weakening stranglehold on the distibution of the final product (bits) is the only reason they get a piece of the pie, and not a flat fee (like the tour bus driver).
Ironic that this article immediately follows one about keeping the same cell phone number for life. The "private" thing to do would be to get a different cell # every time you make or receive a call. If you don't want your friends to have to do a search every time they want to find you, you're going to need to commit to that phone #. And then what's the difference between it, and a big-brother government ID number?
I totally agree, and I'm not even a real Sci-Fi fan. I found the shoot-up sequences in the original Matrix totally boring, and got hung up on the inconsistencies and begged questions.
As part of a class on entrepreneurship in "high technology" I heard Bushnell speak and even had the opportunity to have lunch with him (along with 8 or other students who picked him over the other options which included the likes of Scott McNealy).
I don't remember anything he said during lunch, but I do remember that he was 30 minutes late and stayed and hour past the scheduled end time.
From the lecture, I remember two things. One was he wanted to build a high-speed underground traind from New York to Los Angeles... okay three, things, I just rememberd that he also wanted to build Minority-Report-sytle freeways that take control of your car because "we don't mind our own dirt, but we don't like other people's dirt" and the other (third) thing was the simple quote "ideas are shit" in reference to secret business plans and stealth mode when creating a startup. His point was that everything is in the execution.
Dear DPE,
I read with enthusiasm your proposals for H1-B reform. However I think many of the suggestions will be difficult to implement, and they only attack the problem indirectly.
The problem with the H1-B program is that foreign workers should be sponsored by American WORKERS, not American companies.
Each H1-B Visa should bear the signature of an American worker who was offered the job at his or her current pay level, and refused it.
Please see that the authors of your excellent proposal on H1-B reform are aware of this enforcement option.
Sincerely,
Wish I could help you there. I filtered him out a year ago. It has made Slashdot ever so much more enjoyable.
You simply have to hand it to a company whose latest financial report has the words Zeon PDF Driver Trial emblazoned across every page.
Has anyone posted a version without ESR's self-serving commentary? I'd like to read the whole thing and draw my own conclusions.
I built a new flex ATX box this past weekend and, after discovering that the world of Red Hat mirrors goes far beyond those listed on Red Hat's official page, downloaded 8.0 and installed it.
I use Linux on servers heavily at work and also have a web / imap / general purpose Linux (rh 7.2) server at home. However I have not used a Linux desktop very much.
After exploring GNOME, KDE, etc. for a few days, I have come to the conclusion that, for an administrator today, a Linux desktop is a good way to host multiple terminal sessions but the GUI is of little help.
What happened to linuxconf? Am I now supposed to begin the nightmare of configuring sendmail completely by hand? It looks like Red Hat has ripped out linuxconf completely and replaced it with the Helix stuff for SOME of the functions.
Does GNOME/Nautilus have a CD icon at all?
Why is there no applet to that centralizes metacity settings? Yet we have whole applications to manage a single binary switch.
The Mac and Windows do a lot more to let the administrator stay in the GUI for many simple tasks. Linux is definitely not there yet.
I sure hope the backers of the Motor Vehicle Right to Repair Act are not giving up the drive to get that legislation passed just because of a few crumbs thrown by the automakers.
As several in this thread have pointed out, the diagnostic codes are already available. What made this proposed legislation a leap forward is that it mandated in very general terms that the automakers had to empower independent repair shops to fix cars as well as their own dealerships, by whatever means necessary.
Frightened with the prospect of losing their share of the lucrative service business, they are trying to nip this populist movement in the bud.
A little further down, the article points out that Wal-Mart sells the exact same hardware with Windows (not sure which version) for $299 instead of $199 -- the difference is the cost of a Windows license.
So now Windows is 33% of the cost of a PC. This is the situation that Nick Petreley predicts will change the economics of the PC industry enough to unseat Microsoft.
Great article. I'm working on a laptop to picture-frame conversion too.
Mine is an old Toshiba 205CDS with 24 meg running Debian and hooked up to a new flat-panel display, so the display itself is the frame.
The software is Mozilla 1.1 in full-screen mode. It simply tunes into a page on a web server (could be the same server, but in my case it's not) that serves up refreshes are regular intravals. My friends and family have access to a web page where they can directly upload their pictures into my frame and provide captions. They can also build pages of their own and just sent the URL (this is a big advantage of having a real browser running in the frame).
The poster was a lot more ambitious than me in many ways. I never even thought of chopping up the laptop and making such a professional-looking package. Now I think at least I'll get rid of the laptop's LCD panel.
Mozilla 1.0 has a setting for automatic software update notifications, which I have enabled. Why wasn't I notified of this?!
Wow, the posts so far really bear out your point -- a lot of long-winded opinions but in 115 posts, only one mention of actual production traffic.
.jsp's that talk sockets to the back-end (no database -- use Slashdot for your example there).
Go for it. I have been running tomcat in production on a public site for 2 years. Currently it's getting half a million hits a day and purring along at 3% CPU usage per Xeon. Over half of these are dynamic
Tomcat 3.3 was an improvement over the last 3.2 update. Haven't tried 4.0 in production yet.
BEA has no clothes!
The ideal place for an address book is NOT on the PDA, but back at home on an LDAP server, where it can also be accessed from home and work email programs.
So I want the thing to access my LDAP server. Live, if possible, but at least sync'ed every so often. Use LDAP attributes for people's address info, email address, IRC nick, birthday, everything.
I grew up with my parents telling me the Golden Gate bridge had the longest span of any suspension bridge in the world. I thought I remembered hearing that it had been surpassed, but now I find out that even when they were telling me this (the 1970's) it was a lie!
Ah those youthful prejudices die hard.
YES. I agree. I immediately thought of this experiment. Would have moderated you up if I had the power.
I'll be switching every computer I control to Mozilla when 1.0 is released. Although I've been following Mozilla's development closely for 4 years, this will be the first time I've committed to using it.
I wonder how many more like me there are?
The minute Mozilla 1.0 comes out, I'm switching to it on every machine I use. I wonder how many more like me there are out there?
Just give me space at my local CO and let me install my own equipment. Is this possible? At least *I* won't be delisted if my hypefactor falls below 2.6.
I didn't know there WERE sections.
Go looking for the IBM SecureWay Directory Management Tool (DMT). It's a Java LDAP client that lets you edit the directory manually.