Doing the Quickee Boogie 65
First up is a pretty cool Slashdot bit:
drwii sent us a link to Scanned in
Proof
that Slashdot is actually in the Feb print edition of PC Magazine.
Spiffy.
An anonymous reader sent us a
wired article explaining Wired. Wired the deal with MP4s.
`PEZ sent
us a couple of links to more information about the 'Yepp'
MP3 player- The samsung
announcement
and the Yepp Web Page
will quench your thirst for knowledge.
svetz wrote
in to say that Gnome 0.99.3
is on.
desertAngel was the first
to squeel that 2.2.0pre7 is out.
Alron Dameon-ArkMoon wrote
in to say that LinuxBox.com is providing free hosting for
Open Source developers.
schvin wrote in
to plug portico.org, a new
*Nix tips and tricks page.
saturated wrote
in to say that apparently
Linux Now! is back on line after a
little absence.
Michael Howard sent us a
must see penguin image.
ToiletDuk sent us
a great pyromaniac web site- fireballs with bic lighters?
Don't burn yourself.
soren.harward wrote
in to tell us that
stomped.com
has Quake III Arena movies
if you're curious what your future will look like.
cynbe sent us a link
to an amusing piece called
The
Last Dinosaur and the Tarpits of Doom: How Linux
Smashed Windows. It's funny. I think.
Last Dino and the Elvis Analysis (Score:1)
The classic demonstration in the flaws of unlimited extrapolation is the Elvis Analysis: In 1977, there were three Elvis impersonators. Last year, there were 28,000 Elvis impersonators. If you extrapolate this into the future, in the year 2015, every third person on the planet will be an Elvis impersonator.
The danger in any extrapolation is that as you "near" saturation, the growth curve must fall off, ultimately turning into an asymptotic approach to 100% (of whatever the environment is, anyway). There will always be some machine running Windows, thus Linux saturation will never reach 100%. The difference in any given extrapoation is that the definition of "near" will vary depending on the circumstances. "Near" could be as low as 40-50 percent - when X reaches 50% saturation, growth starts to slow.
I suspect that (a) We have to consider the server market separate from the desktop market; (b) When Linux reaches some significant fraction of units in each market (25%?), Microsoft will begin an all-out blitz which will affect growth in Linux's market share. In any case, this means that the idea of the continued exponential growth of Linux into the PC market is a short-term view -- the circumstances will not support it for much longer.
...way too much free time :) (Score:1)
Microsoft | "Windows 3.1" | (Microsoft & Windows) | Win95 | Win98 | "Windows NT" | WinNT | "Win NT" | w2k | "Windows 2000" | Windows2000
3,332,724
java & !(indonesia | island)
1,794,448
linux | GNU
744,700
(Apple & (computer | Macintosh | Mac | Gershwin | Rhapsody)) | MacOS | "Yellow Box" | iMac
590,037
Solaris | SunOS | "Sun Microsystems"
483,895
freebsd | netbsd | openbsd
117,799
"hp/ux"
101,940
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dont take face value (Score:1)
the different OSs. im sure there alot more web
traffic per capita about linux than the MacOS for
example, partly just because linux and the
majority of the software we use are developed over
the net.
Say it ain't so... (Score:1)
Tomorrow, a guest spot on Regis and Kathie Lee.
Please, please, oh creators of Slashdot, promise me you'll never wind up doing mall appearances with Fred Imus pushing jars of salsa.
Although the idea of "Rob's Hot Sauce" does intrigue me. GPL'd party mix?
Gee, PC Mag does suck (Score:1)
Boy that does sound exciting.
That article looks like hell too. They lifted all the graphics from the actual web-pages, so there are these pixelated blobs all over their nice glossy pages. And they used the TCWWW in the link! Will the horrors never cease?
my q3a mirror site (Score:1)
quake3 vids (Score:1)
the mirror. I hope it dont bounce weapon shots as well, casue if it were placed in the right area, I'd be shootin myself
that q3 powerup thingie - the guy looked freakin cool...the animated skin idea frightens me.
transparency and fog - that lil window looked freakin rad, as did walkin through the fog
teleports - q1 style teleports. woohoo!
this just looks like q2 mappers/skinners/mod developers are gonna have a ball playin with it
and about the guy above me - the stomped.com was runnin fine for me: abt 90k/s in the dorms here...
Cynbe Ru Taren! (Score:1)
I am in that man's debt for starting the Citadel BBS craze in Seattle. If it weren't for the availability of source code, I'd have been stuck hacking on "wack-ass proprietary shit"(TM).
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_the_ TCWWW? (Score:1)
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Help! Help! I'm being oppressed! (Score:1)
...uhuh...
dylan_-
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Beware of MP4 (Score:1)
Well, it seems that MP4 can *only* be used as a single EXE file. Connect the dots by yourself...
Updated AltaVista Numbers for Last Dinosaur articl (Score:1)
Article Today (1/13/99) % Diff
Windows 2,530,775 11,506,413 455
Linux 502,053 2,003,198 399
Solaris 251,513 800,206 318
HP/UX 105,833 99,610 6% less
FreeBSD 81,781 317,334 388
MacOS 70,851 219,970 310
UnixWare 23,386 49,320 210
Ultrix 15,133 34,040 225
Digital Unix --- 13,380 -
OpenBSD 11,892 26,400 222
Interesting, but I bet Windows gets LOTS of non-Microsoft related hits.
Cheers
Eric
Flame -- two can play the version game (Score:1)
title (Score:1)
THERE'S NOTHING WRONG WITH STUPID TITLES!
Beware of MP4 -- Agree Wholeheartedly (Score:1)
Do you know why it's in
I wonder how long before someone makes an mp4 player that plays without anyone actually running the executable. Even if that is illegal, there is very little they can do about public domain code that is not attributed to anyone...
Wine runs it (Score:1)
what??? (Score:1)
grrrrrrrr!
Happily Spreading FUD (Score:1)
Fear - Uncertainty - Doubt.
Method perfected by IBM in its heyday, now happily "embraced and extended" by Microsoft.
To attempt to steer customers away from competitors by badmouthing the competing product, planting seeds of doubt, inventing rumors, etc.
See The Jargon File, a.k.a. New Hacker's Dictionary, for more info.
Elvis penguins and fireballs (Score:1)
Dinosaurs (Score:1)
I don't know if I agree with the analysis (a number of people here have already pointed out serious flaws), but it was still a fun article, and I think should be taken in that light. There is no doubt Linux is growing, but there are still plenty of unknowns out there. I've a gut feeling that the Y2K problem is going to put more pressure on people to switch to open standards and software (easier to validate). NT is going to continue to slip. More people are going to just get so fed up with MS's inability to deliver that they will start to consider alternatives. Unix was never seen as an alternative OS for "the masses" like Linux (and even FreeBSD) is. It's time for a change.
Funny thing is, even if the DoJ suit fails, I think it's provided a "window" of opportunity, getting people to think if they really want to sell their soul (and their data center) to a company like that.
These next few years are going to be interesting... ;-)
Student Effects...careful (Score:1)
Repeat... (Score:1)
Just READ slashdot before posting to it. That's all i'm asking.
Growth in a culture dish - Linux on the rise (Score:1)
A few important points he has forgotten to mention / overlooked.
a) Just as there were waves of propriatary that flowed into open standards, the wave does flow back and forth. Look at the propriatary *nix around (Sun, Digital, SGI).
b) Just as "in the begining there was one" AT&T Unix was cast out from the Tower of Babel and made to speak many languages unknown to eachother. (If he can do Dinosuars, I can do Old Testament.) When will the great fork occur in Linux? It will come one day, it's just a when.
c) And by his logic Linux will one day be surplanted by something else, *shrug*, but that's no big thing. (And will take at least 15 years by his numbers)
d) A big question is: Does Linux want to be the biggest? I know most reactions will be "hell yah!", but that leads to the question why?
e) And here's the scariest extrapolation from his logic. Just as the dinosaurs died out and mammals eventually took over, now it is assumed that the dinosuars actually became today's birds. Will windows make a similiar sideways leap in evolution, giving up size for flight? (I hope it doesn't peck out my eyes)
Any and all views voiced here are mine right now, they might be different tomorrow, but I don't think so.
Java (Score:1)
Last Dino ...hmmm (Score:1)
Rather less than more. If I had a large-budget project where reliability and stability were paramount, I'd choose VMS over any Unix flavour.
K.
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Altavista Stats! Windows, Linux, Mac, Java, FreeBS (Score:1)
afniv
~afniv
"Man könnte froh sein, wenn die Luft so rein wäre wie das Bier"
"We could be happy if the air was as pure as the beer"
Windows vs Linux on the web (Score:1)
I checked the first 30 listings from a search for 'windows':
On the first page, we have 8 MS-Windows related links, and "Windows on Italy - Regions: Toscana", and "Vehicle Routing Problems with Time Windows". The second page gives us 'John Elefante - Windows', another "Vehicle Routing Problems with Time Windows'. The third page gives us 'X-Windows (TK Widgets)'.
So we have about 5/30 (1/6) instances of "Windows" that are completely irrelevent to Microsoft. If this percentage applied for the whole list, we would have 9,550,685 references to Windows.
With Linux at 2,003,229, it only has to double twice relative to Microsoft to have the same number of references. If you consider that most of the references to Windows are in the context of "XXX presents YYY for Windows, the ultimate tic-tac-toe game for the platform", while most of the Linux links are technical in nature, I suspect that Linux is already far superior to Windows in terms of available technical resources and help on the web.
In this context, I'd say Linux' performance in the word count derby is greater than might be expected, and Microsoft Windows' is less. As the Linux market share increases, I feel we can only see improvement.
D
uh, the other kind of hit (Score:1)
But he did in fact do an AltaVista search, which is - to the extent that it is an accurate reflection of the number of pages discussing each OS - a valid measure of the quantity of available resources on the system.
D
Gnome and deb packages (Score:1)
If you just can't wait, you can get unofficial gnome debs from http://master.debian.org/~crow/gnome
If you use apt, just add:
deb http://master.debian.org/~crow/gnome /
to the top of your
AOL and mp3? hrrmmpph (Score:1)
About the fifth or sixth paragraph down...
"The RIAA has the support of heavy hitters AOL, AT&T, IBM, Lucent, Microsoft, Matsushita, RealNetworks, Sony, and Toshiba."
Hmm, could someone explain to me what AOL has to do with MP3/MP4?
I also think that the RIAA is completely wrong in thinking that the mp3 arena is full of piracy and that the artists don't receieve any compensation for their music. There's no telling how many times I've caught myself downloading some "illegal" mp3s of some band I never would have heard otherwise and then going out and buying the CD(s) at a local store or from CDNOW.com! And I'm sure I'm not the only one who does this.
more stats -- listen to the numbers: (Score:1)
linux & (script | scripts) : 56768
Quickies. (Score:1)
Correct me if I'm wrong, but
I've been frequenting this establishment for around 9 months now, and it seems to be "News for Nerds"...not "News for Developer Nerds"...?
mp4 not a good thing (Score:1)
I tried running it under wine and I couldn't get it to work. and I am using the latest version of wine.
I am very disappointed in these companies today that create platform dependant content for the web when any idiot knows that the web is made up of many diferent platforms from Mac to Linux to Windows, and who knows what else.
I for one will boycott mp4 format (as it does me no good on my Linux machine).
I think any company that puts mp4 on its web site shoudl be listed on 'http://www.websitesthatsuck.com'
imho!
The Last Dinosaur and the Tarpits of Doom (Score:1)
Nice article, was a good read. I have to be a bit wary of the stats, but even if they are incorrect, it still gives some nice historical background.
Force Recon Half-Life TC: Check it out [cass.net]
Happily Spreading FUD (Score:1)
Cobratek
>:=
yepp (Score:1)
I was merely a mouse click away from ordering a Rio this morning......
What to do, what to do.
Gnome and deb packages (Score:1)
or bug debian and want a rpm->deb converter from them.
-disq
Gnome and deb packages (Score:1)
I don't want to spend the 14 hours it takes to get all the shit that gnome depends on and compile it.. if they just got the deb packages.. sheet.. i donno