According to this: http://opennet.net/research/profiles/iran Nokia/siemens sold filtering software to iran, quite the nefarious thing to do, perhaps even bypassing some boycott agreements and US export regulations, if containing any US code. now's the time to make them disclose what sofware they sold, and everything they know about the filtering system. a lot of lives are at stake, now's the time. if any nokia/siemens employees are reading this, pass this on!
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These come to mind:
* BeOS/BeIA code: no idea how relevant it is today, but could still prove worthwhile.
* Palm-sized device expertise: maybe some of the knowledge and technologies palm has could go to make an even-better iPod. (can't wait to see that).
* Application Base: maybe we're going to see an app translator?
* Synchronization software: maybe newer iPods will need to sync apps and documents too. might want to have access to well-established code for that.
what does being NICE have to do with it?
do they really have good reputation?
should all organizations develop audio and video recording solutions?
because i think there should be a place for a nice linux company here and there...
This is all assuming that A) you know what distro you want and B) you have already checked that software packages can match your business demands.
These are the deployment options you can apply, for example: if you are using RIS or DHCP, adding a linux loader as a menu item is a snap - both redhat and debian can start their installers - which you can automate. if users are installing via custom made CD-roms, it's easy to make an auto-deployment CD. redhat and debian have extensive support for that. i've personally worked with anaconda and found it quite customizable to my needs. i'll forego LTSP and similars as you already noted they're not appropriate for your setup - but "real" linux can also run directly off PXE and do network mounting - you might want to try that.
Why couldn't VT hold their horses? my bet is... they could. no one likes building any cluster (not to mention a supercomputer) out of desktops, esp. ones configured like desktops (gfx, no ecc,...) but apple really wanted the PR of having the computer cluster, and perhaps to list the revenue in 4Q2003. so i can't blame them - looks like a fair deal.
i don't get it. getting a credit card number is *easy*. just post fake job listingsor something...
so why code a virtual world full of monsters and quests just to get a credit card number?
sheesh. in my days, exploits used to be a few kilobytes each...
(My apologize to those who had their CC number stolen and for the humor impaired in general)
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University students, perhaps. System Administrators, Maybe. Coders, Probably. home users, Not at all. the mass of computer users or would-be/soon to be computer users still fight even the friendliest interfaces of todays' computing. obviously, what they really need is a new innovative standard to replace pop3 and happily hack into. or a new OS, perhaps. or perhaps not. innovativeness is still out there. same as always. perhaps somewhat harder to find within all the commercial mumbo-jumbo and frantic race for userbase... have a look at the berlin project - trying to push windowing systems into new bounds. EROS (a project of the academia, and one of the most innovative and ambitious one's i've seen) and tunes, a project putting itself utmost demands. as for the languages part, Perl is one of the newest and most impressive innovations i've seen. it's an entirely new concept in languages, and it didn't come from a commercial company, no. innovativeness is out there. it just manifests itself in another way. on a sidenote, note all of these are infrastructure. coincidance?
Computing is not what it used to be in it's early days. stop ranting about how you liked the old days and get ready to face tomorrow!
To begin with, i think your prospect is a bit too optimistic. i'd say at least 50 years before this happens (IMHO). however, humankind in general tends not to have a far-fetched view. it is inevitable that sooner or later, humankind in general will have nothing to do. self-programming programs would seemingly be the peak of that, occupying the 'thinking' part we like to attribute to living things alone. that'd also be the point where capitalism will probably fail. if there are no workers, who will buy the products? i believe the internet is one of the great inventions ever because it's one of the few oppertunities for us to try and switch to a more cooperative (instead of competitive) way of life. if we won't do that in time, there will be no one to compete with anyway.
so that's my summary. work is overrated. that's why the whole 'ron' doesn't matter at all. maybe i'm too demanding, but even 20 years isn't enough planning ahead. by the time the change comes, we *have* to be ready for it. and it will come, whether we like it or not.
Just incase you're no businessmen, here's the translation: "yes, ofcourse we'll do it" - ummm, maybe, depends on lots of factors. "it's possible" - but we won't do it, we might say it for publicity though. "we can't do that! it's impossible" - not applicable, that sentence does not exist in business language.
that really puts 'confirmed the possibility' in another light, doesn't it? but ask SGI if it's possible that it will run irix or unicos, or windows, and they'll confirm it's "possible" aswell:)
that's what happens when you mix limited understanding of concept and knowledge of terminology. good for laugh, really. perhaps they linked 'mp3' with mpeg? but i still don't see how that ends up in 'forcing' users to do anything... "the GPLing of the rtsp mpeg streaming causes a general IQ fault at the slot inserted between the chair and the keyboard. change IQ, re-insert user and try again"
To begin with, *lart* to slashdot editors for not classifying this under the right category - should've been "it's funny, laugh". first - note this is more like a survey, where anyone tells their own story. how much science does that hold, i don't know. likewise i could tell my story of how i bluescreened my linux (yes, i did - a blue ascii screen displayed with 3 black columns, with OS lockup) and it would have no scientific value whatsoever. furthermore - when your target (what counts as better) is making things worse, you just need to take slower computers and load more programs. hardly a challange. i could make my NT box try to spawn 1,000,000,000 processes in my login and watch it crumble. what i'm saying is, that there's not much challange in such a thing. all in all this makes a funny interlude, but hardly something of any scientific value.
speaking of btw, linux will sometimes not reboot on itself at all. is anyone else familiar with the screen 'Incosistancy check: run fsck MANUALLY. give root password for maintanence or press Ctrl-D to reboot'? i've seen this one quite a few times.
While some people are not going to like this, here's what i think to be a good solution for cybersquatting: a good heirarchy. first, scrap.com,.net, and.org . there should be a.co.us and.net.us instead. the whole idea of a global domain pool is stupid, esp. when it coexists with a wide selection of TLDs. what would be so wrong with com.us or net.us for us-only companies, instead of.com? now, if companies were allowed to register only in their respective heirarchy, wouldn't most problems be solved? also, the attempt to divide domains into 4 or 5 major types is also rather silly. why not have lots of domain types? there are so many reasons why one would want to register a domain, making the current division unsuitable. this is also already being attempted: see the GTLD project and iDNS for such attempts. the more domains available, the less options there are for squatting, and the more fair the sharing becomes.
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While not being the main topic of the article, this one really bothers me: it describes the course of the cracker as he proceeds to serially trash sites. what does that say about system security and professionality of system administrators? i dare to say this person does not look like an especially talented programmer/coder/hacker to me. i don't know what kept microsoft safe so far. fear of FBI? if so, we're going to see a lot more attempts. really secured machines? probably, and probably not, they use mostly the same software other people do. better sysadmins? maybe that's it... and then again, maybe not. did anyone ever stop and ask himself why is breaking systems so damn easy?
For those who do not know, IO has been called "the pizza moon". note the small images in color - they capture the essence of this much better than a black and white image (which i'd never use for a background anyway. too depressing). i suppose this is just one more proof it isn't really pizza, more like a pile of frozen SO2 and nitrogen. maybe if they had a color version i'd use it as a background - would remind me i need to disconnect to order a pizza now and then;)
Fair enough. but isn't it up to you to educate your sons to be better 'netizens'? or schools? or professionals? it's certainly isn't part of the DOJ's work. and the document is slanted to achieve a specific result, namely, stop children from becoming hackers. but that's wrong. how about a sane list of do's and don'ts? how about a general lesson about software precautions? also, interest in computing is good, hacking system internals (as opposed to cracking/"system hacking") is a very productive pastime hobby. didn't you ever break up radio transistors when young, or mess around with chem-kits??
you want to be a responsible parent. that's great, i commend you for that. would you leave your children's education to DOJ's biased views, or take matters into your own hands??
Why not make an equivlent site for the DOJ, Senate and various other Government authorities?
"Lawmaking: do's and don'ts:"
1. Do not make stupid cryptography laws. 2. Do not waste taxpayer's money on stupid sites. 3. Do not feed our childern with bullshit. 4. Above all, try not to be hypocrite.
or,
"Are you a good Legislator?"
1. "my friend D. from the FBI and I wanted to bug people, but it cost a lot of money. then joey found out he can use taxpayer money to do this FOR FREE! but i've heard wasting taxpayers money is bad"
2. "my friend Z from the NSA brags that he can boycott every piece of high-cryptography software from being exported outside of the US. and then, he can toy around with people's basic rights with total disregard to the constitution. he wants me to help him by cancelling the constitution altogether".
or, how about "Stupid laws hurt Senators, making it harder for them to get re-elected"?
The possibilities are limitless:) and that is what i call good use of taxpayer money!
The article looks like it wants to associate opensource development with communism. let's assume for a while this is true. in such case, "normal" commercial development would be tyranny. consider this example:
(Programmer) Listen... i'm tired of working on product X. it no longer interests me like it did before. is there anything you can do? (Boss) well, there's a vacancy at Y. other than that, nothing. (Programmer) but i don't want to do Y! Z is what i'm really enthusiastic about... (Boss) sorry. we just don't do Z.
do you think the programmer would be happier? more enthusastic to contribute? these are definately prime factors in productivity, as any good manager knows. now, let's examine the "communist" example:
(Programmer) X technology doesn't interest me anymore. i think i have contributed quite a lot, and i should move on now. hey, Z sounds like a great thing! i'd love to do Z... i have this neat idea for a Z-Widget which turns doorknobs... (Programmer dreaming up ideas for the next 2 hours:) )
well, you get the point. coding is quite a bit of an artwork. did you ever see a company forcing an artist to draw picture-this/picture-that?
This article deals with software development, focusing on a specific development type (open-source community development model) however - note what this article isn't. it is not a comparison. and there's a good reason why it is not a comparison, too. most of the problems attributed to opensource development are well-known problems in regular commercial development. how would a given microsoft project do, if developers started to lose interest? how can *any* project overcome a loss/burnout of a head developer? this article does a great service to the opensource community, putting a mirror infront of our faces - something that should have been done quite a long ago. but the conclusions it draws upon are wrong. you cannot deduct opensource is inferior to normal development, without doing a comparison. and as far as my observations have taught me - opensource is nonetheless superior to normal commerical software development.Mbr Regarding the MS issue: Opensource always seemed to me like a natural filling of a gap. when we clients, can barely dicatate our desires and wishes on the supplier. linux was created to fill a genuine need for the home user desiring free, specifically-typed software - something MS doesn't supply. not because it can't - because it doesn't want to. it's more than safe to assume most slashdot readers do not share computing needs with the common computer user. look at hardware reports coming in drawing so much interest - not to mention software.
last but not least, the field proves this does work, and work nicely. opensource has managed to produce some of the finest software around, by any scale (even commercial). we should just treat this document as an (excellent) TODO list concerning our culture and behavior
well, isn't that what intel does? furthermore, once a chip has already begun to get old, it will not stay at "consumer item" level for such a long time. some of those skip the "consumer" stage entirely. watch the consumer market behavior - they always buy the newest... pentiums and clones. why? because those are designated for the consumer market. they will not buy a comparable, 2-year-old chip. and since those would be out of production by that time, they'd probably still cost more, not come with support, etc etc.
Computers (and thus, computer chips) are no longer only a luxury product. and again, a new chip is released, with high-end designation. it's interesting to see how many chips are low-end designated, and how much of them really are low-end. when a company designates a "low-end", 2999$ chip, it doesn't constitute as low-end for me. i'll most probably never going to get use that kind of chip. that's a real pity, isn't it? my current tally of lowend chips counts only a handful of vendors, while there's a lot more. why can't we get better computing at more affordable prices, than seeing companies release yet another high-performance, high-end, highly-overpriced chip?? also have a look at the old post about the ultra-5 "lowend" machine.
seems like linux4u definately has a good intention. it also has well-known figures in opensource community and IT world. but is it really wise to put it on the net as video? there's quite a bit of material on this subject, readily available for viewing on the net. i personally think a good collection of several such resources would have a similar effect, instead of wasting lots of bandwidth (money?) on videos. it's also interesting to note that several of those giving speeches in the subject have written these documents. have a look at these few urls, which probably encapsulate what the videos do, at a fragment of the data www.linux.com www.opensource.org - tech cases, explanation of opensource and businessperson/customer cases www.samba.org www.redhat.com and so on... this is the internet! the data is out there! why send it out on bandwidth-consuming video?
sidenote: bandwidth is a very precious resource where i live (outside the states), so that's a touchy subject...
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According to this: http://opennet.net/research/profiles/iran
Nokia/siemens sold filtering software to iran, quite the nefarious thing to do, perhaps even bypassing some boycott agreements and US export regulations, if containing any US code. now's the time to make them disclose what sofware they sold, and everything they know about the filtering system. a lot of lives are at stake, now's the time.
if any nokia/siemens employees are reading this, pass this on!
These come to mind:
* BeOS/BeIA code: no idea how relevant it is today, but could still prove worthwhile.
* Palm-sized device expertise: maybe some of the knowledge and technologies palm has could go to make an even-better iPod. (can't wait to see that).
* Application Base: maybe we're going to see an app translator?
* Synchronization software: maybe newer iPods will need to sync apps and documents too. might want to have access to well-established code for that.
what does being NICE have to do with it?
do they really have good reputation?
should all organizations develop audio and video recording solutions?
because i think there should be a place for a nice linux company here and there...
This is all assuming that A) you know what distro you want and B) you have already checked that software packages can match your business demands.
These are the deployment options you can apply, for example:
if you are using RIS or DHCP, adding a linux loader as a menu item is a snap - both redhat and debian can start their installers - which you can automate.
if users are installing via custom made CD-roms, it's easy to make an auto-deployment CD. redhat and debian have extensive support for that. i've personally worked with anaconda and found it quite customizable to my needs.
i'll forego LTSP and similars as you already noted they're not appropriate for your setup - but "real" linux can also run directly off PXE and do network mounting - you might want to try that.
that should be enough to set you off piloting.
Ergo,
the forces that act upon the newton are, ummm, "unbalanced".
yup. makes sense.
Disclaimer: this is a joke.
Why couldn't VT hold their horses? ...)
my bet is... they could.
no one likes building any cluster (not to mention a supercomputer) out of desktops, esp. ones configured like desktops (gfx, no ecc,
but apple really wanted the PR of having the computer cluster, and perhaps to list the revenue in 4Q2003.
so i can't blame them - looks like a fair deal.
i don't get it. getting a credit card number is *easy*. just post fake job listingsor something...
so why code a virtual world full of monsters and quests just to get a credit card number?
sheesh. in my days, exploits used to be a few kilobytes each...
(My apologize to those who had their CC number stolen and for the humor impaired in general)
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University students, perhaps. System Administrators, Maybe. Coders, Probably.
home users, Not at all.
the mass of computer users or would-be/soon to be computer users still
fight even the friendliest interfaces of todays' computing.
obviously, what they really need is a new innovative standard to replace pop3 and happily hack into. or a new OS, perhaps. or perhaps not.
innovativeness is still out there. same as always.
perhaps somewhat harder to find within all the commercial mumbo-jumbo and frantic race for userbase...
have a look at the berlin project - trying to push windowing systems into new bounds.
EROS (a project of the academia, and one of the most innovative and ambitious one's i've seen)
and tunes, a project putting itself utmost demands.
as for the languages part, Perl is one of the newest and most impressive innovations i've seen.
it's an entirely new concept in languages, and it didn't come from a commercial company, no.
innovativeness is out there. it just manifests itself in another way.
on a sidenote, note all of these are infrastructure. coincidance?
Computing is not what it used to be in it's early days.
stop ranting about how you liked the old days and get ready to face tomorrow!
To begin with, i think your prospect is a bit too optimistic. i'd say at least 50 years before this happens (IMHO).
however, humankind in general tends not to have a far-fetched view.
it is inevitable that sooner or later, humankind in general will have nothing to do. self-programming programs would seemingly be the peak of that, occupying the 'thinking' part we like to attribute to living things alone.
that'd also be the point where capitalism will probably fail. if there are no workers, who will buy the products?
i believe the internet is one of the great inventions ever because it's one of the few oppertunities for us to try and switch to a more cooperative (instead of competitive) way of life.
if we won't do that in time, there will be no one to compete with anyway.
so that's my summary. work is overrated. that's why the whole 'ron' doesn't matter at all.
maybe i'm too demanding, but even 20 years isn't enough planning ahead. by the time the change comes, we *have* to be ready for it. and it will come, whether we like it or not.
Just incase you're no businessmen, here's the translation:
:)
"yes, ofcourse we'll do it" - ummm, maybe, depends on lots of factors.
"it's possible" - but we won't do it, we might say it for publicity though.
"we can't do that! it's impossible" - not applicable, that sentence does not exist in business language.
that really puts 'confirmed the possibility' in another light, doesn't it? but ask SGI if it's possible that it will run irix or unicos, or windows, and they'll confirm it's "possible" aswell
that's what happens when you mix limited understanding of concept and knowledge of terminology.
good for laugh, really.
perhaps they linked 'mp3' with mpeg? but i still don't see how that ends up in 'forcing' users to do anything...
"the GPLing of the rtsp mpeg streaming causes a general IQ fault at the slot inserted between the chair and the keyboard. change IQ, re-insert user and try again"
To begin with, *lart* to slashdot editors for not classifying this under the right category - should've been "it's funny, laugh".
first - note this is more like a survey, where anyone tells their own story. how much science does that hold, i don't know. likewise i could tell my story of how i bluescreened my linux (yes, i did - a blue ascii screen displayed with 3 black columns, with OS lockup) and it would have no scientific value whatsoever.
furthermore - when your target (what counts as better) is making things worse, you just need to take slower computers and load more programs. hardly a challange. i could make my NT box try to spawn 1,000,000,000 processes in my login and watch it crumble. what i'm saying is, that there's not much challange in such a thing.
all in all this makes a funny interlude, but hardly something of any scientific value.
speaking of btw, linux will sometimes not reboot on itself at all. is anyone else familiar with the screen 'Incosistancy check: run fsck MANUALLY. give root password for maintanence or press Ctrl-D to reboot'? i've seen this one quite a few times.
While some people are not going to like this, here's what i think to be a good solution for cybersquatting: a good heirarchy. .com, .net, and .org . there should be a .co.us and .net.us instead. .com?
first, scrap
the whole idea of a global domain pool is stupid, esp. when it coexists with a wide selection of TLDs.
what would be so wrong with com.us or net.us for us-only companies, instead of
now, if companies were allowed to register only in their respective heirarchy, wouldn't most problems be solved?
also, the attempt to divide domains into 4 or 5 major types is also rather silly. why not have lots of domain types?
there are so many reasons why one would want to register a domain, making the current division unsuitable.
this is also already being attempted: see the GTLD project and iDNS for such attempts.
the more domains available, the less options there are for squatting, and the more fair the sharing becomes.
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the US government is proud to present... :)
SNMP module for humans (tm).
let the US government manage those pesky thoughts, attitudes and behaviour of yours directly, without having to bother the least of bit about it!
check your word transfer stats and make shiny MRTG graphs out of it!
bothered about getting a job, getting a date, or getting rich? let the US government deal with those bothers for you!
yours now for only 19.95$. soon to be bundled with every microsoft product to replace the old model
While not being the main topic of the article, this one really bothers me:
it describes the course of the cracker as he proceeds to serially trash sites. what does that say about system security and professionality of system administrators?
i dare to say this person does not look like an especially talented programmer/coder/hacker to me.
i don't know what kept microsoft safe so far. fear of FBI? if so, we're going to see a lot more attempts.
really secured machines? probably, and probably not, they use mostly the same software other people do. better sysadmins? maybe that's it... and then again, maybe not.
did anyone ever stop and ask himself why is breaking systems so damn easy?
For those who do not know, IO has been called "the pizza moon". note the small images in color - ;)
they capture the essence of this much better than a black and white image (which i'd never use for a background anyway. too depressing).
i suppose this is just one more proof it isn't really pizza, more like a pile of frozen SO2 and nitrogen.
maybe if they had a color version i'd use it as a background -
would remind me i need to disconnect to order a pizza now and then
Fair enough. but isn't it up to you to educate your sons to be better 'netizens'? or schools? or professionals?
it's certainly isn't part of the DOJ's work. and the document is slanted to achieve a specific result, namely, stop children from becoming hackers.
but that's wrong. how about a sane list of do's and don'ts? how about a general lesson about software precautions?
also, interest in computing is good, hacking system internals (as opposed to cracking/"system hacking") is a very productive pastime hobby. didn't you ever break up radio transistors when young, or mess around with chem-kits??
you want to be a responsible parent. that's great, i commend you for that. would you leave your children's education to DOJ's biased views, or take matters into your own hands??
Why not make an equivlent site for the DOJ, Senate and various other Government authorities?
:) and that is what i call good use of taxpayer money!
"Lawmaking: do's and don'ts:"
1. Do not make stupid cryptography laws.
2. Do not waste taxpayer's money on stupid sites.
3. Do not feed our childern with bullshit.
4. Above all, try not to be hypocrite.
or,
"Are you a good Legislator?"
1. "my friend D. from the FBI and I wanted to bug people, but it cost a lot of money. then joey found out he can use taxpayer money to do this FOR FREE! but i've heard wasting taxpayers money is bad"
2. "my friend Z from the NSA brags that he can boycott every piece of high-cryptography software from being exported outside of the US. and then, he can toy around with people's basic rights with total disregard to the constitution. he wants me to help him by cancelling the constitution altogether".
or, how about "Stupid laws hurt Senators, making it harder for them to get re-elected"?
The possibilities are limitless
I've seen a 50-inch screen go for "only" 8.5k$ at pricescan
:( so much for the ultimate quake experience.
the exact address for the item is here
couldn't find more information on it on sony's site though. but for almost 1/3 the price, it's probably a better pick even if it isn't flat.
another issue. did anyone ever ponder the sheer mass of these things? i just look at my computer desk now, and i wonder if it could stand the load.
also, quite a few desk models can't hold a 50" monitor in them.
but then again, if you spend 20k$ on a monitor, buying a table shouldn't be that much of an issue.
as for the resolution... it'll probably look real grainy
The article looks like it wants to associate opensource development with communism.
:) )
let's assume for a while this is true. in such case, "normal" commercial development would be tyranny. consider this example:
(Programmer) Listen... i'm tired of working on product X. it no longer interests me like it did before. is there anything you can do?
(Boss) well, there's a vacancy at Y. other than that, nothing.
(Programmer) but i don't want to do Y! Z is what i'm really enthusiastic about...
(Boss) sorry. we just don't do Z.
do you think the programmer would be happier? more enthusastic to contribute?
these are definately prime factors in productivity, as any good manager knows. now, let's examine the "communist" example:
(Programmer) X technology doesn't interest me anymore. i think i have contributed quite a lot, and i should move on now. hey, Z sounds like a great thing! i'd love to do Z... i have this neat idea for a Z-Widget which turns doorknobs...
(Programmer dreaming up ideas for the next 2 hours
well, you get the point. coding is quite a bit of an artwork. did you ever see a company forcing an artist to draw picture-this/picture-that?
well... surprisingly, i find linux to be designed as if custom-tailored to most of my wishes.
and i believe quite a few slashdoteers would agree with me on that...
there's a good reason for it actually. (this slogan is used in referance to perl, but is more than suitable here):
"if you think linux is strange, it's because it was designed by people like you, for people like you" (or something similar)
This article deals with software development, focusing on a specific development type (open-source community development model)
however - note what this article isn't. it is not a comparison. and there's a good reason why it is not a comparison, too.
most of the problems attributed to opensource development are well-known problems in regular commercial development.
how would a given microsoft project do, if developers started to lose interest?
how can *any* project overcome a loss/burnout of a head developer?
this article does a great service to the opensource community, putting a mirror infront of our faces - something that should have been done quite a long ago.
but the conclusions it draws upon are wrong. you cannot deduct opensource is inferior to normal development, without doing a comparison.
and as far as my observations have taught me - opensource is nonetheless superior to normal commerical software development.Mbr Regarding the MS issue:
Opensource always seemed to me like a natural filling of a gap. when we clients, can barely dicatate our desires and wishes on the supplier.
linux was created to fill a genuine need for the home user desiring free, specifically-typed software - something MS doesn't supply. not because it can't - because it doesn't want to.
it's more than safe to assume most slashdot readers do not share computing needs with the common computer user. look at hardware reports coming in drawing so much interest - not to mention software.
last but not least, the field proves this does work, and work nicely.
opensource has managed to produce some of the finest software around, by any scale (even commercial).
we should just treat this document as an (excellent) TODO list concerning our culture and behavior
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Just my two Agorot.
(wtf is an agora)?
well, isn't that what intel does?
furthermore, once a chip has already begun to get old, it will not stay at "consumer item" level for such a long time. some of those skip the "consumer" stage entirely.
watch the consumer market behavior - they always buy the newest... pentiums and clones.
why? because those are designated for the consumer market. they will not buy a comparable, 2-year-old chip. and since those would be out of production by that time, they'd probably still cost more, not come with support, etc etc.
Computers (and thus, computer chips) are no longer only a luxury product.
and again, a new chip is released, with high-end designation.
it's interesting to see how many chips are low-end designated, and how much of them really are low-end.
when a company designates a "low-end", 2999$ chip, it doesn't constitute as low-end for me.
i'll most probably never going to get use that kind of chip.
that's a real pity, isn't it?
my current tally of lowend chips counts only a handful of vendors, while there's a lot more.
why can't we get better computing at more affordable prices, than seeing companies release yet another high-performance, high-end, highly-overpriced chip??
also have a look at the old post about the ultra-5 "lowend" machine.
seems like linux4u definately has a good intention. it also has well-known figures in opensource community and IT world.
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but is it really wise to put it on the net as video?
there's quite a bit of material on this subject, readily available for viewing on the net.
i personally think a good collection of several such resources would have a similar effect,
instead of wasting lots of bandwidth (money?) on videos.
it's also interesting to note that several of those giving speeches in the subject have written these documents.
have a look at these few urls, which probably encapsulate what the videos do, at a fragment of the data
www.linux.com
www.opensource.org - tech cases, explanation of opensource and businessperson/customer cases
www.samba.org
www.redhat.com
and so on... this is the internet! the data is out there! why send it out on bandwidth-consuming video?
sidenote: bandwidth is a very precious resource where i live (outside the states), so that's a touchy subject...
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