I've found my knowledge of ed quite useful at least once (some corrupted filesystem, was unable to load shared libraries, and the only editor available was the good ol' standard editor), where not even vi was available.
Not trying to be a prick here, but... please, PLEASE don't compare MS Edit to any incarnation of vi... There is nothing in the Microsoft world that is anywhere near vi (except vi clones ported by third-parties who couldn't stand what there was in MS).
Four monitors perhaps, at 1280x1024 each? That seems reasonable (I don't know if it is possible, though; xinerama may have some way to take care of it)
As much as i support them though, you are left thinking this is starting to give the government a bit too much control - as these systems dont just record you when you speed or have no tax, they record you all the time.
Aren't you happy, Citizen? Unhappiness is treason, and treason is punished with death!/ha ha, only serious.
what on Earth kind of data do they anticipate will take a petabyte of contiguous storage?
I know. They don't know I know, but I do. It's data gathered by the black helicopters, by Echelon, by Carnivore, by our very own printers, by RFID, about every movement of every single one of us... *They* do it. They.
Dijkstra is not $DEITY. There is a difference between a competent programmer and a brilliant programmer. Sometimes one has to be clever in order to get the job done.
Yeah, please don't hurt the feelings of both of us!
But, seriously, BSD > any Linux flavor > Microsoft's sorry-excuse-for-an-OS.
The BSDs don't have the fragmentation that Linux has. If anyone asks me what is my OS, I say simply "FreeBSD". By that I qualify my package management, my system boot scripts, where my conf files are, how the system works. "Linux", on the other hand, can mean a bunch of things: maybe the kernel, maybe one of those hundreds of distros, each with its own idea of package management, file placement, system configuration, or boot method. Of course, they are all Linux, they all run roughly the same software (Apache is Apache no matter in which Linux distro you run it), but the details, the little differences, do hurt Linux (okay, Stallman, GNU/Linux, as you wish) by making it into a moving target for support and maintenance.
Back on topic, that Linux machine must have had some hardware flaw. Bad memory comes to mind...
If someone is running Konqueror or Safari and pretending to be IE, well... he must face the consequences!
Seriously, now. I wish I could do that, but too many people, potential customers, visit my sites that both insist on IE and don't know jack shit about even installing a new application on windows. Furthermore, if they were to install a piece of software just to browse my site, that would be too much trouble, and it would be easier to clickety-click to the store the other side of the street. Unfortunately, supporting the cancer is a necessary evil.
Or maybe are people being duped into buying 256mb $500 video cards to do word processing
You would be amazed, if you ever worked at a computer shop, on how easily people with more money than brains can be duped into buying $500 video cards to do internet surfing.
That would be neat indeed; but how could such a hardware pointer be included in the modern, convoluted, ubiquous x86 instruction set? Yeah, not all the world is a x86, but most of it is.
Could some similar feature be supported by the operating system, or even the libc, by keeping track of every malloc, calloc, realloc, and whatever, reserving some memory space to store information about malloc'ed objects and their sizes?
I'm happy to say that in my country (Brazil), the software for tax returns is, since this year, written in Java, and it works like a charm on Linux, BSD or whatever operating system that has a JVM.
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I second that. Until then, ATI can go suck one, and I'll stick to nVidia
What spoon? There is no spoon!
Or go work elsewhere. Victory?
I've found my knowledge of ed quite useful at least once (some corrupted filesystem, was unable to load shared libraries, and the only editor available was the good ol' standard editor), where not even vi was available.
Not trying to be a prick here, but... please, PLEASE don't compare MS Edit to any incarnation of vi... There is nothing in the Microsoft world that is anywhere near vi (except vi clones ported by third-parties who couldn't stand what there was in MS).
Four monitors perhaps, at 1280x1024 each? That seems reasonable (I don't know if it is possible, though; xinerama may have some way to take care of it)
As much as i support them though, you are left thinking this is starting to give the government a bit too much control - as these systems dont just record you when you speed or have no tax, they record you all the time.
/ha ha, only serious.
Aren't you happy, Citizen? Unhappiness is treason, and treason is punished with death!
Actually, one of the novelties brought by C99 was the possibility of declaring variables anywhere in the code, just like C++; therefore,
for (int i = 0; i < something; i++)
is perfectly valid C (according to the latest standard).
In this case, let me be the first to say:
I, for one, welcome our new ergonomic mice overlords!
what on Earth kind of data do they anticipate will take a petabyte of contiguous storage?
I know. They don't know I know, but I do. It's data gathered by the black helicopters, by Echelon, by Carnivore, by our very own printers, by RFID, about every movement of every single one of us... *They* do it. They.
Haha, since when have people ever been given a choice?
Since there is *BSD, Linux, MacOS and a plethora of other operating systems for personal computers?
Dijkstra is not $DEITY. There is a difference between a competent programmer and a brilliant programmer. Sometimes one has to be clever in order to get the job done.
No, they are important for playing all those new OpenGL 2-powered games on a decent operating system.
And coincidently you wouldn't show up at work the next morning...
And, last I heard, jet engines and a cruising speed of 716 mph wasn't street-legal anywhere
Not even in German Autobahns?
*Sigh*
Yeah, please don't hurt the feelings of both of us!
But, seriously, BSD > any Linux flavor > Microsoft's sorry-excuse-for-an-OS.
The BSDs don't have the fragmentation that Linux has. If anyone asks me what is my OS, I say simply "FreeBSD". By that I qualify my package management, my system boot scripts, where my conf files are, how the system works. "Linux", on the other hand, can mean a bunch of things: maybe the kernel, maybe one of those hundreds of distros, each with its own idea of package management, file placement, system configuration, or boot method. Of course, they are all Linux, they all run roughly the same software (Apache is Apache no matter in which Linux distro you run it), but the details, the little differences, do hurt Linux (okay, Stallman, GNU/Linux, as you wish) by making it into a moving target for support and maintenance.
Back on topic, that Linux machine must have had some hardware flaw. Bad memory comes to mind...
Works great with lynx, too!
Ah, the old days...
There is one Language, C, and Ritchie is it's prophet!
It may look ugly but it's quite simple.
Aren't the two mutually exclusive?
It's Perl we are talking about here...
RTFS (Source):If someone is running Konqueror or Safari and pretending to be IE, well... he must face the consequences!
Seriously, now. I wish I could do that, but too many people, potential customers, visit my sites that both insist on IE and don't know jack shit about even installing a new application on windows. Furthermore, if they were to install a piece of software just to browse my site, that would be too much trouble, and it would be easier to clickety-click to the store the other side of the street. Unfortunately, supporting the cancer is a necessary evil.
Okay, now can I say a Slashdot meme? What about a South Korea joke?
Or maybe are people being duped into buying 256mb $500 video cards to do word processing
You would be amazed, if you ever worked at a computer shop, on how easily people with more money than brains can be duped into buying $500 video cards to do internet surfing.
That would be neat indeed; but how could such a hardware pointer be included in the modern, convoluted, ubiquous x86 instruction set? Yeah, not all the world is a x86, but most of it is.
Could some similar feature be supported by the operating system, or even the libc, by keeping track of every malloc, calloc, realloc, and whatever, reserving some memory space to store information about malloc'ed objects and their sizes?
I'm happy to say that in my country (Brazil), the software for tax returns is, since this year, written in Java, and it works like a charm on Linux, BSD or whatever operating system that has a JVM.
good-woodworker but bad-artist.
That's what I am, and that is what UI designers and software engineers are for.