Basically, the one question that there have been tons upon tons of papers in the recent literature for is "where is this gigantic particle accelerator nearby us?"
I dont know where it is, but its probably run by some mice.
Considering how linux is no longer just a nitch OS that is used by geeks, but rather one of the only viable alternatives to a desktop OS, I would have hoped that the maintainer of the current stable kernel would have shown a bit more intrest in what was being asked of him.
Ah, cut the crap! Where do people get the attitude from, that the kernel developer owe them anything? He did this on his free time as a hobby. Sure, now he's getting paid for it and is famous and all, but that doesn't mean that he has any special responsibility in advancing the "only viable alternative to a desktop OS."
Also, when Blinkenlights are taken down (hopefully not to soon, but hey!, I just live ten minutes away), you can always enjoy part of the performance in the new video by the Toten Hosen, a German punk-band (from Hamburg, that is).
Take a longer vacation, travel around the world and visit places you always wanted to visit and places you've never heard of before.
It'll give you lots of input, you'll gain lots of experience and some memories you'll never want to miss. Even if it doesn't help you with your CS studies, it will help you focus of the goals that are important to you and judging from your post, CS still seems to be one these goals.
And yes, it can be done on a small budget, even/especially as a student.
The research that Tog cites proves the exact opposite of this claim.
Uhh, what research? The bit about replacing every character "|" to "e" in a paragraph. Sorry, here's how you do it with the keyboard and a decent editor that actually has a usable user interface
- Position cursor somewhere in the paragraph. It's probably there already, and if not, this action has to be done, both with the mouse and the keyboard.
- Now type: {v}s/|/e/g
- Done
Needs no more then 5 seconds, is -- after a learning period -- totally intutive, and also won't miss any instance of the character |. (Emacs users, please forgive me, I don't use Emacs, but there is no doubt a equivalent alternative for you.)
And regarding the fact, that remembering a short cut is a high-level cognitive process that makes me suffer from amnesia, every time I try to remember a short cut. Complete and utter bullshit. If every high-level cognitive process would make you forget what you are doing, how the hell are you supposed to do any more complex task? By this logic, we couldn't remember what happened when we e.g. drive a car or solve a non-trivial mathematical problem.
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sid (named after the evil kid who breaks your toys) will be 'unstable' forever.
Really? Didn't know that.
But, as I said, the joys of Debian!
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the dvd-distro is innovative, but i'd be more interested if there was a change in how the installation process was handled - right now, it feels out-of-date and is rather frustrating.
Yeah, that might be true, but then again, you'll only go through the installation system once.
I've went slink -> potato -> woody -> sid and then changing back and forth between the last for four years now, without a single re-install.
Ahh, the joys of Debian.
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unstable has been given the permanent codename sid
sid is not the permanent codename of unstable. Rather, the distro codenamed sid is currently marked unstable. When woody (not testing) becomes stable and a new unstable branch is opened (yet to be codenamed), sid will be marked testing.
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Woody testing is usually VERY stable, as all packages that are in woody have been in sid for several weeks prior to their introduction into woody!
It's two weeks and unfortunately this doesn't mean, that woody is the most stable distro around. Also, because of the conditions for a package to move into testing, it is often incomplete and very broken.
I'd say, that at most given points, sid (unstable) is more stable than woody (testing).
This makes sense, testing is there to test the next release -- it's tested for stableness (hence the two weeks) and completeness.
Problems in testing are usually found immediately, and patches released
But still need two weeks to go into testing.
upgrading involves ONE command as root
Well, it's at least two commands.
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I seem to remember that one of Debian's strong points was the fact that its kernel packages were the stock Linus source, though.
Debian's stock kernel have been patched. At least in slink, I remember that the Debian kernel (image and source) included patches (Big memory area, I think, and others). This makes sense, a couple of Debian packages contain patches for the upstream sources and the new deb_helper infrastructure makes this extremely easy, too.
I take it that most of the QT apps you use are actually KDE apps. Well, I hate to break it to you, but KDE apps simply won't work. KDE needs DCOP and DCOP needs interclient communication provided by X.
So, your DirectFB running QT apps would need a communication interface integrated. Well, you could copy the mechanism used by X, but why not use the original thing, then?
To all those people screaming "X is old" and "X is bloated": Please note that X has been around since 1985, IIRC. It's a proven system (almost like Unix) and it has adapted very well to new needs (like DRI -- the Direct Rendering Interface). Yes, it can be complicated in setup[1], but it's also extremely powerful -- which should not be confused with bloated.
BTW, do you realize the irony in your sig?
[1] Last time I had to setup XFree86, a simple XFree86 -configure actually sufficed. Only the pointer setup was screwed. Ah well.
Really! Horrendous half-life and completely lethal. Too bad those two statements are contradictory. The longer the half-life the less radiation emitted over a given period of time.
You're argument ist totally flawed. Plutoniom is so toxic, that it'll kill you by physiological means before the radiation has even gotten a chance to harm you.
However, all of your constitutional rights are "alienable", meaning that you can surrender them by contract, should you choose to do so. (Think of Non-Disclosure Agreements, for example).
Not so fast. Although you can waive certain rights in a contract (eg a NDA), not all of your rights can be surrendered by contract. See for example the 13th amendment.
An important distinction to note is that you cannot give up ANY constitutional rights.
An example would be that you cannot waive your right to free speach. Microsoft can make that part of the contract yet it will mean nothing in court.
Crap. If that were the case, then NDAs and trade secrets wouldn't work. Your Constitution makes sure that your government can't take away your right to free speech, but if you declare that you waive it to another party (note: not the government) and start singing afterwards, the other party will very likely kick your ass in court.
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The people you quote are not users of your software. At least the XP people are definately not.
What was your point again?
I dont know where it is, but its probably run by some mice.
Nice. Haven't thought of this.
Let's see:
/bin/su
/bin/su: Permission denied
/bin/su
/bin/su
) ,44(video)
20:45 viktor@bart:~ $ which su
/bin/su
21:03 viktor@bart:~ $ echo "virus" >
bash:
21:03 viktor@bart:~ $ ls -l
-rwsr-xr-x 1 root root 23276 22. Okt 17:25
21:04 viktor@bart:~ $ id
uid=1000(viktor) gid=1000(viktor) groups=1000(viktor),24(cdrom),25(floppy),29(audio
Darn!
Ah, cut the crap! Where do people get the attitude from, that the kernel developer owe them anything? He did this on his free time as a hobby. Sure, now he's getting paid for it and is famous and all, but that doesn't mean that he has any special responsibility in advancing the "only viable alternative to a desktop OS."
People, please don't be so uptight!
I mean, a simple lighthearted question about how it "feels" to be in the position he is in, and he has no idea? WTF?
Hmm, I understood that the he doesn't really care about being "The Man". Hint: The dude gave it away.
But maybe that's just me.
I really don't know what I've been smoking. Must have been the good stuff, though! You're sure right.
Also, when Blinkenlights are taken down (hopefully not to soon, but hey!, I just live ten minutes away), you can always enjoy part of the performance in the new video by the Toten Hosen, a German punk-band (from Hamburg, that is).
I mean: 256 grey shades of gray! Way cool!
Sounds a lot like watermarking the music. While this is possible, it is also possible to dispose of the watermark, as the Felten case has shown.
Take a longer vacation, travel around the world and visit places you always wanted to visit and places you've never heard of before.
It'll give you lots of input, you'll gain lots of experience and some memories you'll never want to miss. Even if it doesn't help you with your CS studies, it will help you focus of the goals that are important to you and judging from your post, CS still seems to be one these goals.
And yes, it can be done on a small budget, even/especially as a student.
Which one? The US or the People's Republic? Or both?
Uhh, what research? The bit about replacing every character "|" to "e" in a paragraph. Sorry, here's how you do it with the keyboard and a decent editor that actually has a usable user interface
- Position cursor somewhere in the paragraph. It's probably there already, and if not, this action has to be done, both with the mouse and the keyboard.
- Now type: {v}s/|/e/g
- Done
Needs no more then 5 seconds, is -- after a learning period -- totally intutive, and also won't miss any instance of the character |. (Emacs users, please forgive me, I don't use Emacs, but there is no doubt a equivalent alternative for you.)
And regarding the fact, that remembering a short cut is a high-level cognitive process that makes me suffer from amnesia, every time I try to remember a short cut. Complete and utter bullshit. If every high-level cognitive process would make you forget what you are doing, how the hell are you supposed to do any more complex task? By this logic, we couldn't remember what happened when we e.g. drive a car or solve a non-trivial mathematical problem.
Really? Didn't know that.
But, as I said, the joys of Debian!
Yeah, that might be true, but then again, you'll only go through the installation system once.
I've went slink -> potato -> woody -> sid and then changing back and forth between the last for four years now, without a single re-install.
Ahh, the joys of Debian.
sid is not the permanent codename of unstable. Rather, the distro codenamed sid is currently marked unstable. When woody (not testing) becomes stable and a new unstable branch is opened (yet to be codenamed), sid will be marked testing.
It's two weeks and unfortunately this doesn't mean, that woody is the most stable distro around. Also, because of the conditions for a package to move into testing, it is often incomplete and very broken.
I'd say, that at most given points, sid (unstable) is more stable than woody (testing).
This makes sense, testing is there to test the next release -- it's tested for stableness (hence the two weeks) and completeness.
But still need two weeks to go into testing.
Well, it's at least two commands.
Debian's stock kernel have been patched. At least in slink, I remember that the Debian kernel (image and source) included patches (Big memory area, I think, and others). This makes sense, a couple of Debian packages contain patches for the upstream sources and the new deb_helper infrastructure makes this extremely easy, too.
I take it that most of the QT apps you use are actually KDE apps. Well, I hate to break it to you, but KDE apps simply won't work. KDE needs DCOP and DCOP needs interclient communication provided by X.
So, your DirectFB running QT apps would need a communication interface integrated. Well, you could copy the mechanism used by X, but why not use the original thing, then?
To all those people screaming "X is old" and "X is bloated": Please note that X has been around since 1985, IIRC. It's a proven system (almost like Unix) and it has adapted very well to new needs (like DRI -- the Direct Rendering Interface). Yes, it can be complicated in setup[1], but it's also extremely powerful -- which should not be confused with bloated.
BTW, do you realize the irony in your sig?
[1] Last time I had to setup XFree86, a simple XFree86 -configure actually sufficed. Only the pointer setup was screwed. Ah well.
You're argument ist totally flawed. Plutoniom is so toxic, that it'll kill you by physiological means before the radiation has even gotten a chance to harm you.
Which makes it completely lethal.
Yeah I know, but I couldn't resist the temptation.
Too much pot?
Socialism is an economical concept and has nothing to do with an unique ID for everybody.
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Not so fast. Although you can waive certain rights in a contract (eg a NDA), not all of your rights can be surrendered by contract. See for example the 13th amendment.
Then you should have looked closer, as it isn't Taco who's complaining, but Reycata probably quoting the original author Ed Foster.
Crap. If that were the case, then NDAs and trade secrets wouldn't work. Your Constitution makes sure that your government can't take away your right to free speech, but if you declare that you waive it to another party (note: not the government) and start singing afterwards, the other party will very likely kick your ass in court.