IBM has announced that it intends to spend 1 billion dollars on this Linux operating system this year. Given the size of this investment, how comfortable are you with the current "benign dictatorship" model of kernel development? Do you feel that there will eventually be a need for a Linux Kernel Foundation to direct development, similar to the Gnome Foundation? Is it possible that disagreements over the future of the kernel could lead to a fork?
I work at a steel mill, which is a major consumer of electricity, so we have been closely following the local power utility's preparations. They have told us that the main opportunity for power failure will be at 7PM EST (12AM GMT). According to them, the entire US power grid runs on GMT to avoid time conversions when stations are communicating across time zones. They claim if the grid survives 7PM it should have no problem with midnight.
Apparently Zhirinovsky sees the parallel between himself and Buchanan. Buchanan won't admit it though. Here's an excerpt from a bio of Zhirinovsky:
In February, 1996, Vladimir Zhirinovsky hailed Pat Buchanan's victory in the New Hampshire presidential primary. He wrote a letter to Buchanan, saying: ``You say that Congress is 'Israeli-occupied territory.' We have the same situation in Russia. So, to survive, we could set aside places on U.S. and Russian territory to deport this small but troublesome tribe.'' Zhirinovsky called Buchanan a ``brother in arms'' and wished him a ``convincing victory'' in November's U.S. presidential ballot. Buchanan rejected Zhirinovsky's endorsement. Zhirinovsky then changed tone. "I thought you were really defending the interests of your nation," said the letter, the text of which was released by Zhirinovsky's office. "And you've turned out to be just like Clinton and other corrupt politicians, moved by greed and vanity, not by love for the fatherland."
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Actually the XBox runs on a modified version of Windows 98. 98 was chosen over CE because DirectX 8 wasn't yet available for CE.
An interesting story about the decision was posted over on Salon a while ago.
Command line piping works just fine under VMS. See the PIPE command:
http://vmsbox.cjb.net/help?key=PIPE
Admittedly this was added on in response to Unix, but has been available in VMS for quite a while.
IBM has announced that it intends to spend 1 billion dollars on this Linux operating system this year. Given the size of this investment, how comfortable are you with the current "benign dictatorship" model of kernel development? Do you feel that there will eventually be a need for a Linux Kernel Foundation to direct development, similar to the Gnome Foundation? Is it possible that disagreements over the future of the kernel could lead to a fork?
Something really slimy about this guy. After reading some of his stuff I have an urge to go take a shower.
I work at a steel mill, which is a major consumer of electricity, so we have been closely following the local power utility's preparations. They have told us that the main opportunity for power failure will be at 7PM EST (12AM GMT). According to them, the entire US power grid runs on GMT to avoid time conversions when stations are communicating across time zones. They claim if the grid survives 7PM it should have no problem with midnight.
But then again nothing is gonna happen, right?
Apparently Zhirinovsky sees the parallel between himself and Buchanan. Buchanan won't admit it though.
Here's an excerpt from a bio of Zhirinovsky:
In February, 1996, Vladimir Zhirinovsky hailed Pat Buchanan's victory in the New Hampshire presidential primary. He wrote a letter to Buchanan, saying: ``You say that Congress is 'Israeli-occupied territory.' We have the same situation in Russia. So, to survive, we could set aside places on U.S. and Russian territory to deport this small but troublesome tribe.'' Zhirinovsky called Buchanan a ``brother in arms'' and wished him a ``convincing victory'' in November's U.S. presidential ballot. Buchanan rejected Zhirinovsky's endorsement. Zhirinovsky then changed tone. "I thought you were really defending the interests of your nation," said the letter, the text of which was released by Zhirinovsky's office. "And you've turned out to be just like Clinton and other corrupt politicians, moved by greed and vanity, not by love for the fatherland."