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I see another good project starting, Modular Debian, that aims to integrate the pid 1 freedom in the main distribution, without forking https://www.freelists.org/arch...

Further, here is some discussion on just this topic.

(I could've sworn there was an official mention of this on Wikipedia itself, but I can't find one.)

http://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.php?f=47&t=99890

http://fixunix.com/redhat/489285-rhel-5-1-rhel-5-2-dependency-hell.html

http://www.freelists.org/post/oracle-l/Linux-X86-26-Oracle-9204-and-RPM-Dependency-Hell

http://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/53077/firefox-circular-dependency-hell-on-linux-mint-13

http://linuxgazette.net/issue71/tag/3.html

http://lwn.net/Articles/198455/

http://forums.opensuse.org/english/get-technical-help-here/applications/406017-does-dependency-hell-still-exist-2.html
* "The best (worst) way to get dependency hell is to add too many repositories. Eventually one will find the right combination of conflicting repositories to create a situation of dependency hell."
* "The problem is the more repositories that are added, the less and less likely that applications are built against the same set. "
* "Dependency hell ALWAYS exists. ALWAYS (Yes, Debian users, I'm talking to YOU). The question is whether or not if somebody tries to NOT go to dependency hell, is the system going to take them there anyway."

http://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/32594/fedora-16-dependency-hell

http://www.eonlinegratis.com/2013/dependency-hell-trying-to-install-gcc-on-centos4/

Oh, dependency hell is real alright!

True...the real question is science up to the point that it can detect and measure. Think of radiation..first there was a belief that everything must have something to travel though..no vacuum ...ether... then we could not find anything and we said radiation/light/radio can travel in a vacuum... now...
http://www.freelists.org/post/geocentrism/New-Scientist-Mag-The-ether-rediscovered

Everyone has an idea for a game. Here's an example. It just doesn't work like that.

That guy's idea is fairly awesome; however, it's not implementable. To make that many characters, places, and sceneries would take eons. Even algorithmically generated meshes would probably not work, unless someone can come up with an algorithm to generate clothing, weapons, styles etc. of every eon.

Every well known writer has had someone come to them and tell them about their idea. "It's about this guy called Bob. He builds a spaceship and visits lots of planets where exciting adventures happen. Can you write this story for me? I'll split the profits 50/50".

The same applies to studios. Everyone has an idea for a game. Here's an example. It just doesn't work like that.

What actually happens is that someone in the company comes up with a game concept, and producers and designers talk about it. In many cases (especially party games), there's some discussion about whether it's technically possible. It's possible that the technology isn't up to it, so some development effort is spent in making a tech demo to check that the concept works. If that works then the developer will submit a pitch to a publisher. The pitch is, at the very least, a detailed description of the game and how it will work. Ideally the developer will have some idea of the market for this as well.

It's possible that none of the publishers will be interested. In this case, unless the developer is sure enough about it to develop a demo, they just come up with a new idea.

Ideas are cheap. Developed polished realised ideas are wherethe difficulty is.

Man, that response was so uninformed, arrogant and dumb. I suspect some newbie manager type is now explaining to the PR department that his move really saved them a lot of money that was well worth losing face over. Right now the message reads: Cirrus products will not support Linux. There, let google lap it up. Lets hope for Lennert that someone higherup the chain will intervene, otherwise he will need to find a new subject to play with.

Unfortunately a lot of companies seem totally unable to see the benefits of external contributors. They don't even see the point in getting drivers into the mainline kernel. Just take a look at this response from Cirrus Logic regarding their ep93xx boards:

http://www.freelists.org/archives/linux-cirrus/02- 2007/msg00026.html/

Looks like the in house coding team was bummed that Lennert Buytenhek did a better job on the port then their whole team. Ridiculous response! /C.M

"You came in that thing? You're braver than I thought."

http://www.freelists.org/archives/adeel420/12-2002 /msg00017.html

The idea of a common carrier is simple. The carrier has no ability to decide what it will or won't carry, and as such has no liability for such either. It started with the railroads, and was carried over into telecom. As a very simple example of the advantages of this, imagine if phone companies were liable for every illegal act carried out over a phone connection. Likewise, imagine if every cable company carrying a network were fined every time that network went afoul of the FCC.

Right now, the FCC allows cable companies to sell service tiers rather than a la carte channels to their subscribers. As a result, their carriage contracts with the channel owners stipulate that in order to carry the more desirable channels, they must also carry less desirable channels as parts of various service tiers. This means that channels with relatively low viewership that happen to be owned by companies that also own popular channels take up bandwidth that would be more efficiently used on other tasks.

The cablecos are planning on fixing this bandwidth crunch by moving to switched broadcast video, which will have bandwidth used only by the channels people are actually watching.

Once that's implemented, a strong argument could be made that the cableco is a common carrier, merely acting as the intermediary between the viewer and the channel owner. Of course it would probably take an act of Congress to force that change in classification.
-JMP

Still, I agree totally with your sentiments.

I've given up on Yah**Groups because it loses my messages and has all sorts of bugs for users and owners (it won't currently let me post on a group I *own*), and it would be nice to have a full-featured system like Yah** with a web interface and document archive, which is hopefully what Google's offering will be.

Hopefully it will also be very easy to create a group on Google, so all the organisations I belong to who insist on having their groups on Yah**Groups will move over to GoogleGroups2.

Can anyone here help me with this?

Done. IBM amended their counter claims to include counter suing SCO for violating the GPL.

With this feature, anyone, anywhere in the world can run programs on your machine!

You're kidding, but that's actually pretty close to what they say:

"A security issue has been identified that could allow an attacker to remotely compromise a computer running Microsoft Windows and gain complete control over it."

"A security issue has been identified in Microsoft Windows that could allow an attacker to see information in your computer's memory over a network."

"An identified security issue in Microsoft Data Access Components could allow an attacker to compromise a Microsoft Windows-based system and then take a variety of actions. For example, an attacker could execute code on the system."

This is after about a week of Windows Update not working because at some point it screwed itself-- the "New Windows Update Software required" dialog kept coming up in place of anything useful. (The fix is, among other places, here). Yikes!

Works every time (just ask some former relatives of some Iraqi families).

that pile of crap ? just ask the relative of the former apache crew...
shot down by a farmer with a rifle and was downed in Afghanistan or simply just crashed...
you should be moded funny :-)

By the way, the U.S. Military is not the bad guy here, and by no means do I want anyone to think that I feel that way.

Oh my God, this is so laughable. Let's take a look at history, shall we?

I know there's a whole preconceived notion that when you're young and join the military you're innocent, and deserve some kind of sympathy. It's sad when people die, but the fact of the matter is, when you join the armed forces, knowing you could at one point be ordered to kill people who've done nothing wrong to you, just on the command of one person, you are responsible . Given that, if you disagree with war you don't "support our troops" on principle. If you joined the Armed Forces you made a stupid decision, and even a dishonorable discharge is better than the other result.

I hope our military uses whatever they can, however they can, legally. If you have a problem with the war, run for the PTA, the local council, state government, or federal government. Did you remember to vote?

Yet at the same time you admit previously that stupid American policy is the reason those troops are in danger in the first place? So why do you "hope our military uses whatever they can?" Enlightened people don't waste their time viewing themselves as members of some fictitious nation drew up by manmade borders, with some horrible notion that these lines must be defended. You don't support a war just because your 'country' happens to be involved in it -- this isn't a fucking football game with your local teams playing in it.

Get one of the food patches discussed on here a while ago, and hack it to include some of these.

Instant success. Really. Really you won't die. Oh yeah IAMAD (doctor) or anything. Really, my knowledge of the human body is limited to the parts that give me pain. So try at your own risk :)

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If you are really concerned about it you might try reading this thread. I really don't know enough about it to comment myself, other than to note that it was claimed to be a microkernel, but some have claimed that, like NT, it had so many non-microkernel performance hacks done to it that it really wasn't.

And I agree, it did (does, development is closed but you can still run it) run pretty nicely.

btw, i understand absolutely nothing about what is done in my RH 7.2 about that !
neither prelink nor objprelink seems to be installed or available as packages. very strange because the guy making prelink is from redhat.

even more strange, here is a trace of exec:
$ LD_DEBUG=statistics konqueror
02593:
02593: runtime linker statistics:
02593: total startup time in dynamic loader: 197802673 clock cycles
02593: time needed for relocation: 191792475 clock cycles (96.9%)
02593: number of relocations: 20241
02593: number of relocations from cache: 33562
02593: time needed to load objects: 5807702 clock cycles (2.9%)

considering the low level of relocations, i assume there is some (obj)prelink done somewhere. from what i discussed once with bero, i think it's fully prelinked. but, there are no /etc/prelink.conf or .cache or /usr/sbin/prelink..

moreover, where to find a true website about prelink, FAQ, HOWTO and stuff ? all i can get is mail archive, which is completely clueless.
to add to my confusion, i found that.
well, as u've understood, i'm lost, and i can't even access to people.redhat.com to download the damn thing, i don't know why, but connection's refused. clues anyone ?

and, finally, did someone try to compare prelink and objprelink, or the combination of the two, to see which method is the fastest/more efficient ?