So you're basically saying that Apple worked to block *ill-behaved* software, most or all of which happened to be competitors, right?

I have been told that external drives can possibly be comprised of a new enclosure for a remanufactured drive. That's one reason I've been told that the prices can be so low. So watch out for that, in addition to the warranty. I guess a person could call the company and ask, but they often don't know what's in the enclosure at all for an exact external drive order -- not even the drive's manufacturer or model.

So in order to be sure that we're getting a high quality deal, we just have to pay a lot more.

Hey there guys. We're recruiting engineering talent for coding, and we're recruiting reasonably technical testers to install and test MacZFS on Mac OS 10.8.

http://maczfs.org/

And I'd like to know of any suggestions or experiences or recent articles about the concept of code bounties and of personnel recruiting for free software engineering. I know it's kind of a demure subject which has come and gone, mostly focusing on an already-established project which already has its engineering personnel and who just wants to get them paid, or an already-completed project who put a price on the source code (like Blender 3D). In our case, we want to get our current people paid to do what they already know how to do, but we also want to recruit and incentivize entirely new talent.

So far, the only place I've found is http://www.fossfactory.org/ but I haven't researched it yet. Still looking. Thanks.

Yeah I'd never heard of it outside of the announcement of the source code. I have read a lot of comments from its fans. In all of my intensive research over the history of NLEs, I find it hard to believe that there'd be a whole NLE that I'd never heard of!

The original poster is asking about abandonware, and I guess Lightworks is a sort of epically twisted abandonware.

Well thanks for your feedback. It was most LOLworthy.

AVI? Worse than Cinelerra? o m g

Oops. I see now that its source code release date has slipped again. Oh well, for the purposes of the conversation, you can see the historical process and you can see the fact that it's probably coming.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lightworks

Lightworks is an NLE (nonlinear editor, of video) which was recently open sourced due in part to its commercial decline and transfer of ownership.

Mukor rules *all* galaxies.

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No Earth Slime has destroyed Mukor...

FYI, in case it interests anyone, I'd like to state that I finally got Final Fantasy XI working perfectly in Wine. I did it on Mac OS 10.7, having purchased the entire collection for about $20 (including one free month) on Steam. So I'm playing my first MMORPG. http://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.php?sClass=version&iId=2739

ODT is as much of a de facto standard. If you give me an ODT file that conforms to the standard but triggers bugs in OpenOffice.org, what good is it? I'm not going to spend days setting up an OOo build environment, learning whatever awful framework they use, and bisecting this bug in order to read your few paragraphs.

The problem with .doc is not that it's a de facto standard -- all standards that are worth anything must be de facto at least as much as they are de jure -- but that it's a bad one, because it's hard for any program that doesn't share MS Word's internal data structures and algorithms to implement (because a .doc is, to first order, a memory dump of Word's data). HTML doesn't work like that, and it's hard to make it work like that if you tried.

You're using the wrong phone. I find myself not bothering to go get my laptop sometimes.

Do you have a proper, hardware, non-membrane keyboard with a separate number-key row? (Like the Samsung Intercept?)

Virgin Mobile has a nice $25/month "Beyond Talk" deal for unlimited data and SMS and 300 minutes/month for voice (with higher priced plans if you use more voice), motto Go crazy on Android. It's prepaid if you want it to be, so it's nice that way. They only sell a single phone, the Samsung Intercept, but I've found it to be really nice for what I do: it's got a slide-out keyboard with a separate number row and with separate buttons per key (no membrane keyboard). I spend lots of time on SSH via ConnectBot and have found it to be pleasant to use.

It's not the most powerful processor and the resolution isn't mindblowing and it's still Android 2.1, but I run my terminal at 80x21 and am quite happy with it, especially for the price.

There have been attempts at arguing "look and feel" copyrights. It's not clear to me where caselaw stands (see Lotus v. Borland and Apple v. Microsoft, both of which you could read either way in this case) and how the DMCA affects that, but it definitely seems to me that it is not completely obvious that there is no infringement, in which case (IANAL) Namco isn't wrong to file a takedown notice, and certainly isn't doing so in bad faith.

No, incorrect. This is a modification to your .bashrc, which is (already) run every time you start a bash process, within that process (i.e., not a new process). Nothing needs to be spawned on every single process.

Admittedly the bash script does spawn some processes, but a) that's the way .bashrc works, and you have dozens of those in there, and b) it's only one process, a mkdir. The echo and the conditional run within bash itself.

The way that the configuration works, whether done in the kernel or in your .bashrc, is to associate all processes spawned from a single bash shell with a single new scheduling group. This gets you better performance when you're running processes from terminals, by associating logically-similar groups of processes in the kernel instead of letting it see all the processes as a giant pile.

The intended use case, which is pretty clear from the LKML discussion, is to make performance between something intensive (like a compilation) in a terminal and something non-terminal-associated (like watching a movie) better-balanced.