We must share account managers as I've had the same experience with Dell Australia. Order servers, haggle a bit over price, specify linux, and they arrive a couple of weeks later, with the stickers, manuals and RH 7.1 pre-installed.
The technical docs even included instructions on how to use ibm's network driver module instead of the default one.
Trying to reimplement BeOS from scratch. Never going to happen, what kind of crack are they on?
The same $3 crack as the average/. moderator, amiga diehard and beos fanatic (no, Palm is working on it in secret... just you wait). Then there's the free GNU crack, the slightly harder to obtain *bsd crack and MSFT crackwhores. All in all, not a healthy bunch of people around here.
That's total bullshit. The QT API is a dream to use. Consistent, well documented and easily extendable. The widgets have a meaningful inheritance heirachy, and the STL style libraries save you from the STL. Smart design, such as use of iterators on UI elements make programming much simpler.
While data-aware widgets don't thrill me, the other improvements (including again, improved documentation) in QT 3 make the API even more professional.
The only thing that has kept RJ popular is readers caring about the characters and suspense between the first 3 or 4 books.
I'm guessing a lot of readers stopped caring a while ago as all the characterisations became shallow and annoying. When the series is finished, all RJ is going to be left with is a series of cutting, all too accurate reviews about RJ's take on life, women and sniffing.
I believe the truth is that most people that use Linux in production do not roll their own kernels
I don't think your right there at all. Companies are more likely to tweak the default installation, recompile the kernel for a known set of hardware, and then roll out a "company standard", using for instance RedHat's kickstart scripts.
Using the stock kernel is made very difficult at least for RedHat users. RedHat's ongoing refusal to support reiserfs while installing, only recently while upgrading, and shipping (at least with 7.1 from memory) a reiserfs module that was significantly slower due to debugging being left on makes kernel recompilation necessary.
I can understand their reservations, but faster fsck times isn't the only reason to move away from ext2
Re:Distro elitism
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First Slashdotters ragged on everyone that didn't use Linux. Then that got boring and now everyone who doesn't use Debian is clueless. Let me guess, next target: GNOME users.
Nah, Linux itself is too easy for the elite. BSD is the way to go now.
Python lacks metaclasses, lacks a true unified object hierarchy, and supports multiple inheritance (considered a very bad idea by most experts in OO. Like the "goto" statement, multiple inheritance may seem useful at times but it leads to unmaintainable code).
I'd argue exactly the opposite. The OO purists insist on MI, while languages that get-by without it aren't truly OO.
Maintaining code is a pretty thankless job, but at least with MI the changes only have to be made in one place. Java's interface based MI either forces similar code to be included in each class that implements an interface or the inclusion of lots of little stub routines that to call the smae named routine on a different class.
This totally breaks the ISA relationship and turning it into more a sort of ISA, but I've also got a copy of the class as a private member as well.
In languages that implement MI sanely and give you explicit options on resolving name clashes (eg Eiffel) means there is no ambiguity about the class structure or which routine is called. http://www.elj.com/elj/v1/n1/gew/ provides a good evalutation of Eiffel's implemenation.
I can understand people being damaged and mentally scarred by C++'s implementation of MI, but to say its as bad as the goto statement is surely a troll.
I think that the people who retain the ability (or a part of it) to view things as a child are probably the ones who loved ST:TPM as I did and yes, they will even like Jar Jar.
Children's lack of ability to criticially filter information is one of the reasons to further despise TPM. The first three films had some plot, pretensiouns of grandeur, but were enjoyed by adults and children alike as something very different.
TPM was nothing but a marketing device aimed straight at children.
Re:Men are the targets of these witchhunts.
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This is discrimination and stereotyping of men - could you imagine if blacks were treated this way?
Be Inc is in big trouble. It abandoned BeOS and jumped on the nearest buzzword hyped bandwagon to produce the BeIA.
The BeIA has come out to mostly negative reviews, "Too slow", "Overpriced", "Too Big" and at $500 US is unlikely to beat the low end PC market.
Be Inc itself has hired a bank to sell the company and is due to be delisted from the NASDAQ on the 20th August unless it can pull its share price above a dollar.
After all this, BeOS stands a whelks chance in a supernova of ever being updated.
Be Inc jumped ship first, but didn't tell anyone, the developers have been slowly catching on, the users somewhat later and all thats left are a hard core of fanatics.
"BeOS isn't dead until they pry it off my cold dead harddrive"
Not true. Data stored on a secure server is only as secure as the clients it trusts to access/modify that data.
The server doesn't trust any client. It doesn't matter where or what software it's running. Access has to be permitted through a pre-established authentication protocol, and its the end-user that is authenticated not the end-client.
You can never trust software running on a remote box.
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The billion dollar figure is ludicrous. MS can claim virtually anything spent on any activity that may affect the sales of WinXP as a marketing dollar. Then claim the same dollar as anti-piracy measure, or discount to consumer, or charity donation, or whatever.
Actually with southern cross cable driving prices to 5c/meg (inc GST), its cheaper to send data from a Melbourne or Sydney to the states than it is to send the data from a Capital to rural areas.
Telstra's pricing on rural connectivity is that bad.
I've got the feeling that I've just been trolled, but....
Your trying to tie nationalist sentiment to commercial reality. Fine, there's been plenty of campaigns to 'Buy back America', but there are plenty of American companies being assessed. In the end one American company has assessed that another American company produces products that may be slighly riskier than using another American company's products or using a free alternative.
Microsoft isn't the only American company that deserves to be supported by some grassroots 'Buy back America' scheme. I'm sure there are plenty of other companies that produce less risky products that could be supported.
The veterans fought for all of America, not just Microsoft.
Mr Alston, your a tosser. You and little Johnie just bend over and let Kerry Packer fuck you and the whole Australian IT industry in the ass.
Your stupid pr0n laws, rediculous gambling laws, corrupt ASIO power extensions and ironically copying the DMCA has demonstrated to anybody remotely connected to IT what an A grade shit you are.
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We must share account managers as I've had the same experience with Dell Australia. Order servers, haggle a bit over price, specify linux, and they arrive a couple of weeks later, with the stickers, manuals and RH 7.1 pre-installed.
The technical docs even included instructions on how to use ibm's network driver module instead of the default one.
Trying to reimplement BeOS from scratch. Never going to happen, what kind of crack are they on?
/. moderator, amiga diehard and beos fanatic (no, Palm is working on it in secret... just you wait). Then there's the free GNU crack, the slightly harder to obtain *bsd crack and MSFT crackwhores. All in all, not a healthy bunch of people around here.
The same $3 crack as the average
The QT api is far from elegant.
That's total bullshit. The QT API is a dream to use. Consistent, well documented and easily extendable. The widgets have a meaningful inheritance heirachy, and the STL style libraries save you from the STL. Smart design, such as use of iterators on UI elements make programming much simpler.
While data-aware widgets don't thrill me, the other improvements (including again, improved documentation) in QT 3 make the API even more professional.
Some $3 crack smoking moderator is probably in tears over that tirade.
Its true though.
Please, both Egypt and Syria launched attacks during Ramadan in 1973, deliberatly during this time because of the supposed prohobition on warfare.
Rofl... well it made me laugh. Some moderators obviously have no sense of humoour.
the appeal is timeless.
The only thing that has kept RJ popular is readers caring about the characters and suspense between the first 3 or 4 books.
I'm guessing a lot of readers stopped caring a while ago as all the characterisations became shallow and annoying. When the series is finished, all RJ is going to be left with is a series of cutting, all too accurate reviews about RJ's take on life, women and sniffing.
They don't really give a shit about Linux itself. They don't have feelings for it. Don't forget that. It is about the money.
If a listed company isn't doing it for the money, all the money, and nothing but the money, they they are liable to be sued.
Companies don't have feelings, likes, dislikes or pet-peeves. Just a set of laws defining their objectives.
I believe the truth is that most people that use Linux in production do not roll their own kernels
I don't think your right there at all. Companies are more likely to tweak the default installation, recompile the kernel for a known set of hardware, and then roll out a "company standard", using for instance RedHat's kickstart scripts.
Using the stock kernel is made very difficult at least for RedHat users. RedHat's ongoing refusal to support reiserfs while installing, only recently while upgrading, and shipping (at least with 7.1 from memory) a reiserfs module that was significantly slower due to debugging being left on makes kernel recompilation necessary.
I can understand their reservations, but faster fsck times isn't the only reason to move away from ext2
First Slashdotters ragged on everyone that didn't use Linux. Then that got boring and now everyone who doesn't use Debian is clueless. Let me guess, next target: GNOME users.
Nah, Linux itself is too easy for the elite. BSD is the way to go now.
Did RedHat drop support for Reiser from the kernel they distribute?
In 7.1 they shipped the reiserfs module with the WITH_EXTRA_CHECKS (or similar) compile time option on totally kiling performance.
Wow. you really know how to use bold tags.
Python lacks metaclasses, lacks a true unified object hierarchy, and supports multiple inheritance (considered a very bad idea by most experts in OO. Like the "goto" statement, multiple inheritance may seem useful at times but it leads to unmaintainable code).
I'd argue exactly the opposite. The OO purists insist on MI, while languages that get-by without it aren't truly OO.
Maintaining code is a pretty thankless job, but at least with MI the changes only have to be made in one place. Java's interface based MI either forces similar code to be included in each class that implements an interface or the inclusion of lots of little stub routines that to call the smae named routine on a different class.
This totally breaks the ISA relationship and turning it into more a sort of ISA, but I've also got a copy of the class as a private member as well.
In languages that implement MI sanely and give you explicit options on resolving name clashes (eg Eiffel) means there is no ambiguity about the class structure or which routine is called. http://www.elj.com/elj/v1/n1/gew/ provides a good evalutation of Eiffel's implemenation.
I can understand people being damaged and mentally scarred by C++'s implementation of MI, but to say its as bad as the goto statement is surely a troll.
I think that the people who retain the ability (or a part of it) to view things as a child are probably the ones who loved ST:TPM as I did and yes, they will even like Jar Jar.
Children's lack of ability to criticially filter information is one of the reasons to further despise TPM. The first three films had some plot, pretensiouns of grandeur, but were enjoyed by adults and children alike as something very different.
TPM was nothing but a marketing device aimed straight at children.
This is discrimination and stereotyping of men - could you imagine if blacks were treated this way?
Presumably black men are...
Be Inc is in big trouble. It abandoned BeOS and jumped on the nearest buzzword hyped bandwagon to produce the BeIA.
The BeIA has come out to mostly negative reviews, "Too slow", "Overpriced", "Too Big" and at $500 US is unlikely to beat the low end PC market.
Be Inc itself has hired a bank to sell the company and is due to be delisted from the NASDAQ on the 20th August unless it can pull its share price above a dollar.
After all this, BeOS stands a whelks chance in a supernova of ever being updated.
Be Inc jumped ship first, but didn't tell anyone, the developers have been slowly catching on, the users somewhat later and all thats left are a hard core of fanatics.
"BeOS isn't dead until they pry it off my cold dead harddrive"
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The server doesn't trust any client. It doesn't matter where or what software it's running. Access has to be permitted through a pre-established authentication protocol, and its the end-user that is authenticated not the end-client.
You can never trust software running on a remote box.
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MOD THIS UP!!!!! +1 Informative!!!!!
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I don't see the advertisments and previews with a disclaimer saying "For FF Fans Only"
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I'd like to see a RedHat reiserfs installer.
Even a generic installer for your choice of RAID & filesystem
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See The Register: MS to blow imaginary $1bn on hyping WinXP to stardom
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The Wheel of Time should be forgotten about. RJ gave up on any semblance of quality or effort a long time ago...
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Actually with southern cross cable driving prices to 5c/meg (inc GST), its cheaper to send data from a Melbourne or Sydney to the states than it is to send the data from a Capital to rural areas.
Telstra's pricing on rural connectivity is that bad.
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I've got the feeling that I've just been trolled, but....
Your trying to tie nationalist sentiment to commercial reality. Fine, there's been plenty of campaigns to 'Buy back America', but there are plenty of American companies being assessed. In the end one American company has assessed that another American company produces products that may be slighly riskier than using another American company's products or using a free alternative.
Microsoft isn't the only American company that deserves to be supported by some grassroots 'Buy back America' scheme. I'm sure there are plenty of other companies that produce less risky products that could be supported.
The veterans fought for all of America, not just Microsoft.
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Mr Alston, your a tosser. You and little Johnie just bend over and let Kerry Packer fuck you and the whole Australian IT industry in the ass.
Your stupid pr0n laws, rediculous gambling laws, corrupt ASIO power extensions and ironically copying the DMCA has demonstrated to anybody remotely connected to IT what an A grade shit you are.
The sooner your kicked out the better.
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