ugly pants carrying Windows laptops around.
I must admit I never related ugly pants with Windows laptops.
I sense a follow-up study, but firstwhat is the definition of ugly
pants?
md
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On Thu, Mar 4, 2010 at 6:00 PM, Benjamin Scott dragonh...@gmail.com wrote:
On Thu, Mar 4, 2010 at 2:37 PM, Tom Buskey t...@buskey.name wrote:
Freedom, and low cost, and robustness, and
security, and choice, and all that good stuff.
s/Linux/MacOSX/
Yes and no. MacOS X certainly has a
On Thu, Mar 4, 2010 at 10:48 PM, Ben Eisenbraun b...@klatsch.org wrote:
On Thu, Mar 04, 2010 at 06:12:53PM -0500, Star wrote:
There have been a couple of great releases specifically targeting Linux
as a platform. I'm thinking of Unreal, EVE, and Farcry (i think?)
There have been some. I
On Fri, Mar 5, 2010 at 9:23 AM, Tom Buskey t...@buskey.name wrote:
I remember that! Computers with the hottest graphics hardware on
the planet, and Doom still did all rendering in software and just
blitted bitmaps to X. :)
Didn't Doom use OpenGL as its engine? Id is one of the reasons
On Fri, Mar 5, 2010 at 9:52 AM, Benjamin Scott dragonh...@gmail.com wrote:
You mean Android right? Droid is one model of phone using the Android
platform.
Yes and no, because...
I've read of fragmentation in the Android market.
Exactly. Droid seems like the first Android phone that's
On Fri, Mar 5, 2010 at 11:18 AM, Thomas Charron twaf...@gmail.com wrote:
Except for the fact that Andriod is pretty much all written in Java.
:-D And doesn't use X. And must be run in a VM which isn't the Java
VM.
Oh. I didn't know that. I don't have much interest in mobile phone
On Fri, Mar 5, 2010 at 12:05 PM, Joshua Judson Rosen
roz...@geekspace.com wrote:
BUT: I wonder if maybe Ben isn't talking about it being a `gateway drug'
that draws people to platforms that are *technologically similar*,
but if he instead is talking about it drawing people to platforms
that
On Fri, Mar 5, 2010 at 12:31 PM, Benjamin Scott dragonh...@gmail.com wrote:
On Fri, Mar 5, 2010 at 11:18 AM, Thomas Charron twaf...@gmail.com wrote:
Except for the fact that Andriod is pretty much all written in Java.
:-D And doesn't use X. And must be run in a VM which isn't the Java
VM.
Hi,
I am doing some consulting about Why Linux is good for cloud
computing (and for that matter Software as a Service (SaaS), which I
consider more or less one and the same).
I am going to start with the fact that Unix systems were designed
(almost) from the beginning to be multi-tasking and
On Fri, Mar 5, 2010 at 1:22 PM, Benjamin Scott dragonh...@gmail.com wrote:
On Fri, Mar 5, 2010 at 10:41 AM, Alan Johnson a...@datdec.com wrote:
Well, except MacOSX has specific hardware.
Indeed, that's a big part of Apple's strategy. Design the hardware
and the software together, and
On Fri, Mar 5, 2010 at 12:46 PM, Jon 'maddog' Hall mad...@li.org wrote:
Any other ideas on the topic of Why Linux for Cloud Computing?
Virtualization?
Any blatant negatives for Linux as a platform?
Too many choices. Once you've chosen linux over other options, you've
still got a ton of
O.K., I will wade in here. :-)
For the most part, Ben is right. Vendors who completely control both
hardware and software can make the best products, if your definition
of best is a limited market of items, and you are willing to pay for
them. MVS, VMS, Digital Unix. Rock solid, stable,
Between everyone here I continue to learn a helluva lot about what's going
on with Linux vs. everything else, and am always grateful for it,
particularly for the input from md and Ben recently. So, while having
nothing much to contribute at this time other than congratulations and
thanks for such
On 03/05/2010 02:03 PM, Brian St. Pierre wrote:
Virtualization?
Yes, and to drive home that point, this is what's being chosen
empirically by the extant service providers. Amazon's EC2 is Xen on
RHEL. I seem to recall that Rackspace also went this route.
And if you don't like Xen on
On Fri, Mar 5, 2010 at 2:28 PM, Bill McGonigle b...@bfccomputing.comwrote:
On 03/05/2010 02:03 PM, Brian St. Pierre wrote:
Virtualization?
Yes, and to drive home that point, this is what's being chosen
empirically by the extant service providers. Amazon's EC2 is Xen on
RHEL. I seem to
On 03/05/2010 12:36 PM, Thomas Charron wrote:
But there's a whole slew of
custom-google-glue-and-tweaks, which was disappointing.
Yeah, Google likes to grab a project, modify it to its own needs, and
throw the code over the wall. Same as happens for Chrome. Tom Callaway
at Fedora did
Virtualization?
Well, I did not mention virtualization before, since there are so many
answers for virtualization for different operating systems, but there is
an element of efficiency in virtualization and
Too many choices.
A good point, but I think it is overblown for uber cloud computing
Does anybody have a favorite tool for spitting a print job across
multiple pages (enlargement to be re-assembled / poor-man's large-format
output)?
I've tried a few tools which claim to do that, but they've all failed to
take a run-of-the-mill PDF chart and turn out working output.
Last time
On Fri, Mar 05, 2010 at 03:18:35PM -0500, Bill McGonigle wrote:
Does anybody have a favorite tool for spitting a print job across
multiple pages (enlargement to be re-assembled / poor-man's large-format
output)?
I've tried a few tools which claim to do that, but they've all failed to
On Fri, March 5, 2010 3:12 pm, Jon 'maddog' Hall wrote:
It has been some time since I have looked at file systems, and
particularly COW file systems, so pardon me if these questions are
naive.
Any traction to ext3cow or using the COW layering capability of the UDB
block driver? Or LVM
On Fri, Mar 5, 2010 at 2:58 PM, Bill McGonigle b...@bfccomputing.comwrote:
On 03/05/2010 02:45 PM, Tom Buskey wrote:
Samba works well here. ZFS also has a CIFS server built in that does
all the ACLs that Windows needs.
But you still have to boot Windows off of a C: block-device, right?
Tom,
Networking Linux can do vlans, VPN, firewalls in the base install. Its
very flexible in what you allow to be exposed.
AWESOME with the networking mention.
The BSD guys often said in the early days that they had a better
networking stack, but I am fairly sure that Linux has caught up. :-)
On Fri, Mar 5, 2010 at 3:12 PM, Jon 'maddog' Hall mad...@li.org wrote:
Bill,
ZFS is only on *Solaris and FreeBSD (albeit an old one). Linux
doesn't yet have a stable, consistent COW filesystem. Certainly a
combination of the two is a great win.
It has been some time since I have looked
I assume 'pdftops foo.pdf | pstopnm | pnmscale x | gv -' makes things
too grainy.
Have you tried scribus or inkscape? I believe one of them (but I forget
which) will manipulate .pdf files.
--Bruce
Bill McGonigle wrote:
Does anybody have a favorite tool for spitting a print job across
On Fri, Mar 5, 2010 at 3:35 PM, Jon 'maddog' Hall mad...@li.org wrote:
So just like I said RIP to Grace Murray Hopper, I now say RIP to
DECnet Linux.
There is still some good stuff happening with VMS, for example if you
are an hp software partner, you can get ssh access to a virtual
machine
http://lifehacker.com/233563/weekend-project-create-a-poster-from-any-image-with-block-posters
http://lifehacker.com/5468489/easy-poster-printer-slices-and-dices-your-posters-for-standard-printers
On Fri, Mar 5, 2010 at 4:02 PM, Bruce Dawson j...@codemeta.com wrote:
I assume 'pdftops foo.pdf
On Fri, Mar 5, 2010 at 10:41 AM, Alan Johnsona...@datdec.com wrote:
Well, except MacOSX has specific hardware.
Indeed, that's a big part of Apple's strategy. Design the hardware
and the software together, and they'll work well together. And there
is something to be
Mark,
There is still some good stuff happening with VMS, for example if you
are an hp software partner, you can get ssh access to a virtual
machine running OpenVMS 8.4 EFT.
I did not mean to imply that there was not good stuff happening with
VMSbut VMS is and was not DECnet.
Even when I was
Also Process Software's MultiNET, which we were using circa '98-2000 at one
site here in Vermont.
On Fri, Mar 5, 2010 at 4:39 PM, Jon 'maddog' Hall mad...@li.org wrote:
Mark,
There is still some good stuff happening with VMS, for example if you
are an hp software partner, you can get ssh
I currently have a Blackberry and will be moving to the Motorola
Backflip shortly. The only issue I have is that I have over 400 entries
in my Blackberry Memo Pad (currently synced with Outlook notes). There
are a number of ways that I can extract my memos from the Blackberry.
One objective is to
Ralph,
While I agree with some things you said:
Not one Linux distro I've seen does a convincing job with consumer
media, an absolutely basic requirement, and something we ought to be
able to get right.
Well, please ask the DVD people not to used royalty bearing patents in
their codecs, and
Jon 'maddog' Hall mad...@li.org writes:
Not one Linux distro I've seen does a convincing job with consumer
media, an absolutely basic requirement, and something we ought to be
able to get right.
Well, please ask the DVD people not to used royalty bearing patents in
their codecs, and
... which has me wondering: how does Ubuntu get away with shipping all
of the stuff necessary to do DVD-authoring!?
Ahhh, what does it meant to do DVD-authoring? Moving encoded bits on
a DVD? No problem! Taking video bits from my video camera (encoded
into Mpeg) and putting it onto my DVD? No
Joshua Judson Rosen roz...@geekspace.com writes:
Jon 'maddog' Hall mad...@li.org writes:
[...]
H.264? Mpeg3/4/2?
Have your friends send you Ogg Vorbis stuff. Plays fine.
Apple and Microsoft have paid up royalties on these things (or at least
Microsoft thought it had paid up
On 3/5/2010 6:27 PM, Joshua Judson Rosen wrote:
Joshua Judson Rosenroz...@geekspace.com writes:
And, actually..., I saw came upon these interesting articles the other day:
http://bemasc.net/wordpress/2010/02/02/no-you-cant-do-that-with-h264/
On Fri, Mar 5, 2010 at 4:53 PM, Jerry Feldman g...@blu.org wrote:
I currently have a Blackberry and will be moving to the Motorola
Backflip shortly. The only issue I have is that I have over 400 entries
in my Blackberry Memo Pad (currently synced with Outlook notes). There
are a number of
Ralph,
So what it really comes down to is not who is in compliance with the
patent but who the patent-holders permit to violate their patent, how
well the patent holder was compensated to look the other way, and
whether at some future date the organization in this state of grace
manages to
Does anybody have a favorite tool for spitting a print job across
multiple pages (enlargement to be re-assembled / poor-man's large-format
output)?
There's a 34x94 poster at
http://joannenova.com.au/2010/01/finally-the-new-revised-and-edited-climategate-timeline/
that comes complete or as a
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