Flash runs inside of the Firefox process. They die together. On a side note, I've been running Firefox 3 on 3 Ubuntu machines and a Windows machine without any crashes so far.
Fine, then use a tab. Python doesn't care if you use a tab, a space, or twenty spaces. Just keep it consistent within an indent level. If you can't manage this, you probably shouldn't be programming anyway.
However, note that most projects will only accept code with 4 spaces as an indent as outlined in PEP 8. Fortunately, there are handy tools like indent to automatically fix this for you if you really insist on using tabs.
Although it is true that FreeBSD and OSX have/will be getting ZFS, its also true that Linux is much bigger than either of these in the server room. So it is still true that most people on their current platform will not be able to benefit from ZFS under its current license.
There used to be this honour system on the internet called "published ports."
It's an antiquated honour system now because there's plenty of application developers that have no honour.
Oh yeah? Well back in my day we had an honor system called "don't screw with my freaking packets while they travel over your routers that I'm paying you to use". If y
In general, cars with larger engines will have a higher speed where they get the highest fuel economy. This is because the engine is under so little load when traveling at a "normal" speed. As the engine gets under a more moderate load, its efficiency will increase.
Of course with SUVs and their "brick in the wind" aerodynamics, this is still true but not quite as extreme.
The NT kernel has been ported to Alpha, PowerPC, Itanium, MIPS, SPARC, Xen and x86_64 architectures that I can remember.
Its not that they can't do it, there's just nothing in it for them. Why waste the money on supporting Windows on Alpha when 99.9999% of your customers are on x86, especially considering the manufacturer of the Alpha is actually a competitor in the OS market?
Now as for NT on handhelds or supercomputers as GP suggested, that may be a bit more of a challenge.
(Yes, I know the Alpha is dead. Its just an example.)
Python is about simplicity and elegance. Its little wonder that there aren't many Python developers that are interested in SOAP. SOAP itself is a bloated piece of garbage.
That said, soaplib seemed like a very clean design when I looked at it about a year ago but could use a little love in a few areas. I'm sure any competent Python dev could fix most deficiencies relatively easily.
Yes, but people _need_ to download the WoW patches as soon as they come out to continue to feed their addictive whereas Windows users are usually (or should be) scared to download the newest service pack when it first comes out.
ApacheDS too and its not too terrible. http://directory.apache.org/
Kerberos, DHCP, DNS and user information all storing their information in a multi-master LDAP database out of the box. I think it could be a pretty exciting project once it matures.
The project really has deteriorated with this news. An organization that sets out to change the world and abandons one of main principals will get no support from me.
btrfs is a completely new ground up filesystem. I would expect it to take a while longer than ext4 which is just another incremental improvement on ext2.
btrfs isn't stabilized at all yet. I would consider the running out of space issue a non-issue at their current stage in development.
This is why we have XFS. I fscked a 9TB partition is under 10 minutes. Hopefully they've done some improvements for ext4 in this area. A volume that takes days to fsck might as well just die completely.
I hope not. Although this may sound rough, I really do mean it.
By shipping Windows (or other proprietary software) on the OLPC, they are undermining the very ideals that the organization was built on. For doing so, the company deserves to die.
OpenOffice (and others) have had a pretty darn good Microsoft Office compatibility for quite a few years before OOXML came around. Although it would be nice to have a formal and proper standard rather than a moving black box, I don't think it would cause a mass migration away from Microsoft Office.
Why? Outlook for one. Outlook is the only real client for exchange which many businesses/schools/governments happen to use for email and calendaring. Another reason is sharepoint which is also becoming increasingly popular. As far as I know, Microsoft Office is the only suite that offers real working and reliable connectivity to these Microsoft systems.
We won't get into retraining or the matter that OOo is hideous... I don't think that those are that huge of a hurdle.
I've heard bad things about CXFS reliability and administration but it certainly looks interesting.
My biggest beef with XFS is that barriers can't be used with LVM, although I'm not sure if that's an LVM or an XFS problem. I've always been happy with the performance, scalability(I'm up to 20TB now!) and reliability of XFS(never lost a file). I really think its the best thing Linux has for file servers.
Recently, I cooked a RAID controller and XFS complained that it needed to be repaired. It took just 15 minutes to check a file system with over 3 million files and 9TB of data!
Did you remember to flush the cache between runs? Since the subsequent runs took about half the time as the first, and having a good deal of experience with XFS and ext3, I'd venture to say "no".
If anyone really cared about ReiserFS, they would pick it up.
Even before all of this happened, SuSE abandoned Reiser as the default file system. RHEL has never supported it AFAIK.
Although it has superior performance to ext3, its not a consistent performer and its never been remarkably stable. It shouldn't be a big surprise that development isn't going anywhere fast without Reiser.
We're not talking about designs, we're talking about drivers. Two totally different things.
Also, neither NVidia nor ATI produce open source drivers although ATI recently released specs to aid in development of open source drivers. Again, these are just specs how to interface with the card, not super top secret details about the inner workings of the card. There is nothing valuable about the interface.
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Flash runs inside of the Firefox process. They die together. On a side note, I've been running Firefox 3 on 3 Ubuntu machines and a Windows machine without any crashes so far.
After all, where is Windows NT v1.0 and 2.0?
See OS/2.
Fine, then use a tab. Python doesn't care if you use a tab, a space, or twenty spaces. Just keep it consistent within an indent level. If you can't manage this, you probably shouldn't be programming anyway.
However, note that most projects will only accept code with 4 spaces as an indent as outlined in PEP 8. Fortunately, there are handy tools like indent to automatically fix this for you if you really insist on using tabs.
Unless you modify ZFS which is CDDL licensed.
Although it is true that FreeBSD and OSX have/will be getting ZFS, its also true that Linux is much bigger than either of these in the server room. So it is still true that most people on their current platform will not be able to benefit from ZFS under its current license.
There used to be this honour system on the internet called "published ports."
It's an antiquated honour system now because there's plenty of application developers that have no honour.
Oh yeah? Well back in my day we had an honor system called "don't screw with my freaking packets while they travel over your routers that I'm paying you to use". If y
By the time XP is really gone or starts smelling too bad, most ultra-portables will probably be able to run Vista anyway.
In general, cars with larger engines will have a higher speed where they get the highest fuel economy. This is because the engine is under so little load when traveling at a "normal" speed. As the engine gets under a more moderate load, its efficiency will increase.
Of course with SUVs and their "brick in the wind" aerodynamics, this is still true but not quite as extreme.
The NT kernel has been ported to Alpha, PowerPC, Itanium, MIPS, SPARC, Xen and x86_64 architectures that I can remember.
Its not that they can't do it, there's just nothing in it for them. Why waste the money on supporting Windows on Alpha when 99.9999% of your customers are on x86, especially considering the manufacturer of the Alpha is actually a competitor in the OS market?
Now as for NT on handhelds or supercomputers as GP suggested, that may be a bit more of a challenge.
(Yes, I know the Alpha is dead. Its just an example.)
Python is about simplicity and elegance. Its little wonder that there aren't many Python developers that are interested in SOAP. SOAP itself is a bloated piece of garbage. That said, soaplib seemed like a very clean design when I looked at it about a year ago but could use a little love in a few areas. I'm sure any competent Python dev could fix most deficiencies relatively easily.
Yes, but people _need_ to download the WoW patches as soon as they come out to continue to feed their addictive whereas Windows users are usually (or should be) scared to download the newest service pack when it first comes out.
If I were you, I would have scripted everything and brought a cot to work with me.
ApacheDS too and its not too terrible. http://directory.apache.org/ Kerberos, DHCP, DNS and user information all storing their information in a multi-master LDAP database out of the box. I think it could be a pretty exciting project once it matures.
The project really has deteriorated with this news. An organization that sets out to change the world and abandons one of main principals will get no support from me.
I'm sure the recent surge in Mac sales has nothing to do with this.
There is more to computing than desktops. To many businesses, 16TB is almost nothing.
To quote Linus... "Their file system is complete and utter crap, which is scary."
Based on real life experience with HFS+, I'm inclined to agree.
btrfs is a completely new ground up filesystem. I would expect it to take a while longer than ext4 which is just another incremental improvement on ext2. btrfs isn't stabilized at all yet. I would consider the running out of space issue a non-issue at their current stage in development.
This is why we have XFS. I fscked a 9TB partition is under 10 minutes. Hopefully they've done some improvements for ext4 in this area. A volume that takes days to fsck might as well just die completely.
I hope not. Although this may sound rough, I really do mean it. By shipping Windows (or other proprietary software) on the OLPC, they are undermining the very ideals that the organization was built on. For doing so, the company deserves to die.
OpenOffice (and others) have had a pretty darn good Microsoft Office compatibility for quite a few years before OOXML came around. Although it would be nice to have a formal and proper standard rather than a moving black box, I don't think it would cause a mass migration away from Microsoft Office. Why? Outlook for one. Outlook is the only real client for exchange which many businesses/schools/governments happen to use for email and calendaring. Another reason is sharepoint which is also becoming increasingly popular. As far as I know, Microsoft Office is the only suite that offers real working and reliable connectivity to these Microsoft systems. We won't get into retraining or the matter that OOo is hideous... I don't think that those are that huge of a hurdle.
I've heard bad things about CXFS reliability and administration but it certainly looks interesting.
My biggest beef with XFS is that barriers can't be used with LVM, although I'm not sure if that's an LVM or an XFS problem. I've always been happy with the performance, scalability(I'm up to 20TB now!) and reliability of XFS(never lost a file). I really think its the best thing Linux has for file servers.
Recently, I cooked a RAID controller and XFS complained that it needed to be repaired. It took just 15 minutes to check a file system with over 3 million files and 9TB of data!
Did you remember to flush the cache between runs? Since the subsequent runs took about half the time as the first, and having a good deal of experience with XFS and ext3, I'd venture to say "no".
If anyone really cared about ReiserFS, they would pick it up.
Even before all of this happened, SuSE abandoned Reiser as the default file system. RHEL has never supported it AFAIK.
Although it has superior performance to ext3, its not a consistent performer and its never been remarkably stable. It shouldn't be a big surprise that development isn't going anywhere fast without Reiser.
BTRFS will come and save us.
We're not talking about designs, we're talking about drivers. Two totally different things.
Also, neither NVidia nor ATI produce open source drivers although ATI recently released specs to aid in development of open source drivers. Again, these are just specs how to interface with the card, not super top secret details about the inner workings of the card. There is nothing valuable about the interface.