I bought a Toshiba laptop late November, which came with XP on it, with a free upgrade to Vista (with $25 for shipping).
The disk was immediately resized, and Kubuntu 6.10 Edgy Eft was installed on it. Windows XP was never even booted, but kept there "just in case it is needed".
For the free upgrade, I did all the paperwork for it, paid the shipping fee, and have not received it yet. I don't intend to boot it either, but I ordered it "just in case".
So, I am counted as an XP user and a Vista user, while I am neither.
I have been running 64-bit on an AMD server without any problems (apart from a trivial quirk in PHP's PEAR/PECL which has an easy workaround [just add ini_set('memory_size', 16MB) in some script]).
One problem here is that they lived together, so probably they shared a computer. They were not estranged or separated. The way people setup home computers is that anyone can use it, so we cannot know if the searches are done by her, or by him.
The article discusses other computers, but does not say what searches were found on which computers.
Of course, other evidence goes against her, such as buying the sedative and the gun, but just want to point out that the search alone cannot be tied to her exclusively on its own.
I use 802.11 wireless as a perfect example of that - amongst the 'warm and fuzzy' distro's (SuSe, Ubuntu, Mandrake, Lycoris), I have yet to be able to set up a system where there wasn't a fairly significant amount of rigmoral to get something as simple as wireless with basic encryption running.
It depends on the hardware.
I had nothing but trouble from laptops that use Broadcom (often AMD CPU equipped ones).
But when using laptops that have Intel PRO wireless, it was a breeze. Worked just by putting the ESSID and WAP key in the wireless assistance (I use Kubuntu).
This already happened in some countries that were captive markets.
An example is Egypt. In the early 1990s, everyone pirated Microsoft's products. By the mid 1990s, there was no presence for any other operating system there (Linux was hardly mature, and Mac was expensive because of the hardware).
Then the "Intellectual Property Police" was sent after businesses to check licenses, and fine people not having legal copies of Microsoft Windows, Office, Oracle and Autocad.
The results are huge amounts of money for Microsoft and the local businessman who was the Microsoft monopoly (with whatever connections with the government they have), specially when Bill Gates visits Egypt, he is a guest of the president himself.
For consumers (home PC use), pirating is still the norm, and I don't know what they do about WGA. For business, this is no longer an option.
Happy side effect: Some small businesses converted to Linux, although they are very few.
A few months ago, I bought an HP laptop, nice machine, with AMD X2 Turion dual core. However, there was a problem with the Broadcom wireless card. I got IRQ conflicts between the wireless and touchpad mouse. Took it back to the store and got a refund.
Ended up with a Toshiba laptop that has Intel PRO/Wireless 3945ABG. Works well. Pity, because I like AMD's CPUs.
The one thing missing from what you wrote is the hiring manager.
HR alone cannot write what technical skills and responsibilities the position requires.
They have to rely on the hiring manager writing that up for them. The interview process will have to be at least two interviews, or one with two people present: the hiring manager, and the HR person. Neither of them can veto the other or force a candidate down their throat. In most places the hiring manager has the upper hand, and the HR person is there to ensure that company policy is followed.
I am surprised that a company leaves all this in the hands of HR completely.
I have been using and programming UNIX systems for 20 years, starting with early versions of UNIX System V. Before Linux existed even, and before Sun worked with AT&T to create SVR4 (and later, Solaris).
It is not extended tool chest, nor editable text configuration.
It was just et cetera, and contained some text configuration files, such as passwd, group, inittab,...etc.
In those days,/etc/ even containing binaries such as/etc/init and/etc/telinit.
So, rebooting was done by invoking/etc/init. This was before/sbin and/usr/sbin came into existance.
Moreover, several of the suspects have been freed on bail, one youth had the charges stayed, and some had the charges reduced to "training with a terrorist group".
Two informants (both Canadian Muslims) were in on this, including one who made national TV. One of them (the anonymous one probably had money as a motive to be a snitch.
Typo. That should have read "increasing its debt".
Back to your point.
First, I don't agree that Iraq supported terrorism. There were absolutely no Al-Qaeda activity in Iraq prior to the 2003 invasion by the USA. Now, it has become a haven for terrorists, because a) the instability, b) the alienation of the people because of civilian deaths.
So, in the USA's attempt to combat terrorism, it has created more terrorists and more sympathizers.
By disrupt and strike, the target should be limited to the terrorist camps, or terrorist hideouts, or leaders. This is why you have things like the CIA, intelligence, covert operations.
Using armies and invasions is counterproductive, and not only will not eliminate terrorism, but it alienates foreign countries (not those invaded, but even third parties, such as Europe), as well as suck money, and allow other world power to be to become more powerful.
China is too lucrative a market, that American corporations are pressuring the US government to be lenient with China, despite of all the problems that you listed.
Some decades in the future, China will turn out to be a real and formidable rival (economically, geopolitically, culturally,...etc.), and will probably be the next empire.
Meanwhile, instead of preparing for such a prospect, the US has forsaken the obvious means of combating terrorism, for example intelligence, infiltration, disruption, and targeted strikes, and went into a full all out war on two countries, draining its budget, increasing its dead, and earning it the wrath of much of the world.
About Qt and interaction with the user, I don't see that at all, but let us leave that argument to personal preference, what one person likes is a dislike for another.
I agree with you on the part where Linus is not helping by his inflammatory attitude on the matter.
I don't see cooperation, or the lack of it as the main problem. The problem is not KDE/Gnome developers, but projects/companies who have products that need a GUI. When they want to port to Linux, they ask Gnome or KDE? They either dump the whole concept of making a Linux version, or chose just one an not the other. Doing a native version for each is cost prohibitive.
Look at how gtk applications need to load the whole gtk stuff when running in KDE, and vice versa for Qt and Gnome. This bloat is not good, since we (Linux) used to run in GUI desktops happily on 64MB. I just tried to install an Ubuntu 6.10 machine that has 128MB, and it wouldn't even run the install. I had to put an additional 128MB (total 256MB) to get it to install.
I disagree on the choice part. Yes, choice is good in most cases, this is not one of those cases, since it causes fragmentation, while Mac and Windows have a single API and user interface.
This fragmentation is bad, and has hurt the desktop.
I personally use KDE as my daily desktop, and I like it. My kids and wife also use it on a daily basis on their machines.
This split of KDE/Gnome has hurt Linux on the desktop more than anything else. The reason is historical, if you remember Troll Tech and their Qt library being not free (Libre), and then some folks going off and writing gtk, and Gnome on top of it. This issue is now moot because Qt is now free (Libre). However, it was too late to heal the rift.
Another observation is that Gnome is popular in the USA, but KDE is popular almost everywhere else. There have been some reports on developers leaving KDE because of so-called Anti-Americanism, but that is just an interesting side anecdote.
Although my preference is KDE, and I wish Gnome to fade away for the sake of a single Desktop platform that everyone can write to, I can't see why Linus has to be so confrontational about it. Regardless of whether he really has some valid criticism, or to move people away from Gnome for the sake of unifying the desktop, he is going about the wrong way doing so.
You just described Teradata, which has been around since 1979, and do just what you said.
Initially, they used parallelized hardware with each "node" having its own disks, with tables partitioned, and a specialized interconnect. They then migrated all that in software.
Did you miss the last 4 years. I am a canadian and we noticed in the last 4 years you've changed a lot. You went from a mostly harmless slightly loud giant with too much money to an antogonistic bully who doesn't have the sense not to spend himself into massive debt. I don't think you've been paying much attention.
Very well said.
Seconded from another Canadian.
Judging from the responses to your original post, it seems that even discussing how the USA has changed is not an option, let alone holding a mirror up to how the US has changed.
I use Kubuntu, but the concept is the same. When I use aptitude, it hits something.archive.ubuntu.com, and I get counted as one person, since I am behind NAT.
However, I have six machines, all of them on Ubuntu server or Kubuntu. One is AMD64, the rest are i386.
So, that skews the numbers for sure.
I wish the Linux Counter is taken more seriously. They used to put an automated email message in Slackware, so the likelyhood of you registering was high. Otherwise, it is only good for comparative studies only, not absolute numbers.
In some countries they can, regardless of what the EULA or the law says.
Not because it is the normal course of events, but rather because corrupt officials high up in the hierarchy are on the take, and can influence police work.
Example, see the "Artistic Classification police" and how Microsoft influences them in an article I wrote a while back. This practice goes back to the mid to late 1990s.
If you are a small time software developer, artist or author, you don't have the clout to have the strings pulled for the police to act.
- "Normal" users (i.e. consumers using computers at home), would not have access to either a Solaris workstation or a HP/UX machine either.
- That developer only considered IE 5 ON WINDOWS, because to him, and his management at the IT provider they worked for, this was the only thing that existed.
I think FireFox is to take part of the credit for the turnaround.
Working with a big portal in the Middle East, I was concerned that this Windows MS IE centric mentality would still be there. However, I found the developers use FireFox, and hence start with clean standard XHTML and CSS, then they have to jump through the hoops for making MS IE work. That was a pleasant surprise.
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This affects some purchasers from the Canadian retailers Winners, and HomeSense, as per this CBC article.
More importantly, there has been recent arrests in Florida relating to this case.
I bought a Toshiba laptop late November, which came with XP on it, with a free upgrade to Vista (with $25 for shipping).
The disk was immediately resized, and Kubuntu 6.10 Edgy Eft was installed on it. Windows XP was never even booted, but kept there "just in case it is needed".
For the free upgrade, I did all the paperwork for it, paid the shipping fee, and have not received it yet. I don't intend to boot it either, but I ordered it "just in case".
So, I am counted as an XP user and a Vista user, while I am neither.
Your reasons are valid mainly for the desktop.
However, on the server they don't apply.
I have been running 64-bit on an AMD server without any problems (apart from a trivial quirk in PHP's PEAR/PECL which has an easy workaround [just add ini_set('memory_size', 16MB) in some script]).
This is akin to the old saying : no one was ever fired for buying IBM.
It appeals to the CYA mentality in large corporations, and playing it safe.
If people continue to buy into this, then the status quo will not change.
The vendor, be it IBM or Microsoft spread this FUD around to make buyers, recommenders and approvers more risk averse.
The fact of the matter is : the field of technology is constantly changing, and nothing is a safe buy for ever.
One problem here is that they lived together, so probably they shared a computer. They were not estranged or separated. The way people setup home computers is that anyone can use it, so we cannot know if the searches are done by her, or by him.
The article discusses other computers, but does not say what searches were found on which computers.
Of course, other evidence goes against her, such as buying the sedative and the gun, but just want to point out that the search alone cannot be tied to her exclusively on its own.
The site was built using Drupal.
Google bought Reqwireless in 2005, which is based in Waterloo, Ontario, Canada, where I live.
... Is it a mobile phone? Maybe not. But it sure has something to do with them.
This FAQ says that their original products are no longer available.
Meanwhile, they post jobs occasionally, such as this product manager position in Waterloo.
So, they must be doing something
It depends on the hardware.
I had nothing but trouble from laptops that use Broadcom (often AMD CPU equipped ones).
But when using laptops that have Intel PRO wireless, it was a breeze. Worked just by putting the ESSID and WAP key in the wireless assistance (I use Kubuntu).
This already happened in some countries that were captive markets.
An example is Egypt. In the early 1990s, everyone pirated Microsoft's products. By the mid 1990s, there was no presence for any other operating system there (Linux was hardly mature, and Mac was expensive because of the hardware).
Then the "Intellectual Property Police" was sent after businesses to check licenses, and fine people not having legal copies of Microsoft Windows, Office, Oracle and Autocad.
The results are huge amounts of money for Microsoft and the local businessman who was the Microsoft monopoly (with whatever connections with the government they have), specially when Bill Gates visits Egypt, he is a guest of the president himself.
For consumers (home PC use), pirating is still the norm, and I don't know what they do about WGA. For business, this is no longer an option.
Happy side effect: Some small businesses converted to Linux, although they are very few.
Read more about the details on an article I wrote on Arabic on the Internet: Microsoft and Arabization.
Well, I agree with you the extra daylight hours are nice.
However, here in Southern Ontario, we need these extra daylight hours during the winter months, when the days are short. Sunset is 4:40 or so.
So, why not make DST year round, so that in winter, when we need it most, we have an extra hour of daylight after work.
This CBC article says that over the weekend they performed 20 maintenance operations that cause this.
Their web site says that they traced the source of the problem to software maintenance conducted on March 4, 2007.
A few months ago, I bought an HP laptop, nice machine, with AMD X2 Turion dual core. However, there was a problem with the Broadcom wireless card. I got IRQ conflicts between the wireless and touchpad mouse. Took it back to the store and got a refund.
Ended up with a Toshiba laptop that has Intel PRO/Wireless 3945ABG. Works well. Pity, because I like AMD's CPUs.
The one thing missing from what you wrote is the hiring manager.
HR alone cannot write what technical skills and responsibilities the position requires.
They have to rely on the hiring manager writing that up for them. The interview process will have to be at least two interviews, or one with two people present: the hiring manager, and the HR person. Neither of them can veto the other or force a candidate down their throat. In most places the hiring manager has the upper hand, and the HR person is there to ensure that company policy is followed.
I am surprised that a company leaves all this in the hands of HR completely.
You seem to have mentioned the low end of the spectrum (cacti).
So, as long as we are there, let me mention my favorite : Munin.
I have been using and programming UNIX systems for 20 years, starting with early versions of UNIX System V. Before Linux existed even, and before Sun worked with AT&T to create SVR4 (and later, Solaris).
...etc.
/etc/ even containing binaries such as /etc/init and /etc/telinit.
/etc/init. This was before /sbin and /usr/sbin came into existance.
It is not extended tool chest, nor editable text configuration.
It was just et cetera, and contained some text configuration files, such as passwd, group, inittab,
In those days,
So, rebooting was done by invoking
Moreover, several of the suspects have been freed on bail, one youth had the charges stayed, and some had the charges reduced to "training with a terrorist group".
Two informants (both Canadian Muslims) were in on this, including one who made national TV. One of them (the anonymous one probably had money as a motive to be a snitch.
More links to news articles at Canada May 2006 terrorism arrests.
Typo. That should have read "increasing its debt".
Back to your point.
First, I don't agree that Iraq supported terrorism. There were absolutely no Al-Qaeda activity in Iraq prior to the 2003 invasion by the USA. Now, it has become a haven for terrorists, because a) the instability, b) the alienation of the people because of civilian deaths.
So, in the USA's attempt to combat terrorism, it has created more terrorists and more sympathizers.
By disrupt and strike, the target should be limited to the terrorist camps, or terrorist hideouts, or leaders. This is why you have things like the CIA, intelligence, covert operations.
Using armies and invasions is counterproductive, and not only will not eliminate terrorism, but it alienates foreign countries (not those invaded, but even third parties, such as Europe), as well as suck money, and allow other world power to be to become more powerful.
China is too lucrative a market, that American corporations are pressuring the US government to be lenient with China, despite of all the problems that you listed.
...etc.), and will probably be the next empire.
...
Some decades in the future, China will turn out to be a real and formidable rival (economically, geopolitically, culturally,
Meanwhile, instead of preparing for such a prospect, the US has forsaken the obvious means of combating terrorism, for example intelligence, infiltration, disruption, and targeted strikes, and went into a full all out war on two countries, draining its budget, increasing its dead, and earning it the wrath of much of the world.
Go figure
About Qt and interaction with the user, I don't see that at all, but let us leave that argument to personal preference, what one person likes is a dislike for another.
I agree with you on the part where Linus is not helping by his inflammatory attitude on the matter.
I don't see cooperation, or the lack of it as the main problem. The problem is not KDE/Gnome developers, but projects/companies who have products that need a GUI. When they want to port to Linux, they ask Gnome or KDE? They either dump the whole concept of making a Linux version, or chose just one an not the other. Doing a native version for each is cost prohibitive.
Look at how gtk applications need to load the whole gtk stuff when running in KDE, and vice versa for Qt and Gnome. This bloat is not good, since we (Linux) used to run in GUI desktops happily on 64MB. I just tried to install an Ubuntu 6.10 machine that has 128MB, and it wouldn't even run the install. I had to put an additional 128MB (total 256MB) to get it to install.
I disagree on the choice part. Yes, choice is good in most cases, this is not one of those cases, since it causes fragmentation, while Mac and Windows have a single API and user interface.
This fragmentation is bad, and has hurt the desktop.
I personally use KDE as my daily desktop, and I like it. My kids and wife also use it on a daily basis on their machines.
This split of KDE/Gnome has hurt Linux on the desktop more than anything else. The reason is historical, if you remember Troll Tech and their Qt library being not free (Libre), and then some folks going off and writing gtk, and Gnome on top of it. This issue is now moot because Qt is now free (Libre). However, it was too late to heal the rift.
Another observation is that Gnome is popular in the USA, but KDE is popular almost everywhere else. There have been some reports on developers leaving KDE because of so-called Anti-Americanism, but that is just an interesting side anecdote.
Although my preference is KDE, and I wish Gnome to fade away for the sake of a single Desktop platform that everyone can write to, I can't see why Linus has to be so confrontational about it. Regardless of whether he really has some valid criticism, or to move people away from Gnome for the sake of unifying the desktop, he is going about the wrong way doing so.
You just described Teradata, which has been around since 1979, and do just what you said.
Initially, they used parallelized hardware with each "node" having its own disks, with tables partitioned, and a specialized interconnect. They then migrated all that in software.
See the diagrams on page 4, 5 and 6 here (PDF).
Very well said.
Seconded from another Canadian.
Judging from the responses to your original post, it seems that even discussing how the USA has changed is not an option, let alone holding a mirror up to how the US has changed.
I use Kubuntu, but the concept is the same. When I use aptitude, it hits something.archive.ubuntu.com, and I get counted as one person, since I am behind NAT.
However, I have six machines, all of them on Ubuntu server or Kubuntu. One is AMD64, the rest are i386.
So, that skews the numbers for sure.
I wish the Linux Counter is taken more seriously. They used to put an automated email message in Slackware, so the likelyhood of you registering was high. Otherwise, it is only good for comparative studies only, not absolute numbers.
In some countries they can, regardless of what the EULA or the law says.
Not because it is the normal course of events, but rather because corrupt officials high up in the hierarchy are on the take, and can influence police work.
Example, see the "Artistic Classification police" and how Microsoft influences them in an article I wrote a while back. This practice goes back to the mid to late 1990s.
If you are a small time software developer, artist or author, you don't have the clout to have the strings pulled for the police to act.
I know they did. They also had a Mac version too.
However, think of this:
- "Normal" users (i.e. consumers using computers at home), would not have access to either a Solaris workstation or a HP/UX machine either.
- That developer only considered IE 5 ON WINDOWS, because to him, and his management at the IT provider they worked for, this was the only thing that existed.
I think FireFox is to take part of the credit for the turnaround.
Working with a big portal in the Middle East, I was concerned that this Windows MS IE centric mentality would still be there. However, I found the developers use FireFox, and hence start with clean standard XHTML and CSS, then they have to jump through the hoops for making MS IE work. That was a pleasant surprise.