The example file he provides is quite interesting - there seem to be three major dependency points; fileutils (which you'd expect), perl (ditto), and python (huh?).
I guess the python dependency comes from some of the configuration tools that Red Hat includes - can anyone confirm that?
I think he's just trying to recycle Aibo (which actually comes from the Japanese word 'aibou'="partner"). Aineko doesn't really make a lot of sense, though - it'd be like calling a cat robot "Lovely Cat". I'm sure Sony can come up with something catchier than that...
Time for you to go back to school and learn the difference between lossless and lossy compression, methinks.
GIF only appears lossy because what you're compressing with it requires more colours than it can provide. The GIF format itself uses only lossless compression.
Don't bet on digital being cheaper - I remember reading something written by an ex-celpainter in Japan, where he said that no-one made enough money from celpainting to live on, so they all did extra work on the side. The pay per cel is very, very cheap.
Mozilla does it for me without any special settings. I'm using 1.0 (Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; WinNT4.0; en-US; rv:1.0.0) Gecko/20020530) on NT and 1.1a+ (Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.1a+) Gecko/20020709) on Linux.
I had a server at my old company that (until the HD died) was running kernel 2.0.36 on TurboLinux 1.4 with a maximum uptime of around 360 days (it was shut down annually over the New Year period).
Not really. Japan is pretty much sewn up by VineLinux (a Japanese-only distribution, which is why you've never heard of it).
TurboLinux was reasonably popular a couple of years ago, but they switched from selling a packaged distribution to having it pre-installed on servers sold by large manufacturers. I don't actually know anybody using it, though...
It's a free implementation of DjVu, an interesting format that appeared in the late 90s and disappeared a couple of years later.
Quick summary: It separates an image in high-contrast and low-contrast areas, and uses different compression schemes for them. That gives you sharp, clear text and good compression ratios overall.
DjVu was actually kinda cool in that there were Linux versions of the browser plugin before most people had even heard of Linux. I remember downloading and using it on Red Hat 5.0...
Starbucks may be nasty for a host of reasons -- it's the WalMart of coffee shops killing off the little guys, it's got a nasty corporatized lifestyle thing going on, whatever -- but they offer great bennies and have some nice policies as well. Does McDonald's extend medical, dental and vision benefits to part-timers and their domestic partners? Do they support sustainable agricultural practices? Recycle as much as possible?
Watch all that go out the window as soon as their bottom line undergoes a serious downturn...
If I bought one of MS's coding suites and wrote an application in it, *any* sample code I got from MSDN would be fair game to use, extend, embrace, and do just about whatever I want with.
If I did the same thing with a GPL'd compiler, I very well might get dragged into court for using the same sample code to solve a common problem. I'd definitly get hosed if I used the "example code" to fix a *unique* problem.
WTF are you talking about? MSDN sample code is presumably in the public domain. If you want to compile that code with Visual Studio XIX or gcc, go right ahead. Using a GPL'd compiler makes *no difference*.
If you're complaining that the free software community doesn't supply public domain code samples, then that's a totally different issue. What does any of this have to do with the GPL???
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The example file he provides is quite interesting - there seem to be three major dependency points; fileutils (which you'd expect), perl (ditto), and python (huh?).
I guess the python dependency comes from some of the configuration tools that Red Hat includes - can anyone confirm that?
Why use Ghost when dd will do the same job quite nicely?
The point is, it's not really a pun in Japanese - too obvious.
I think he's just trying to recycle Aibo (which actually comes from the Japanese word 'aibou'="partner"). Aineko doesn't really make a lot of sense, though - it'd be like calling a cat robot "Lovely Cat". I'm sure Sony can come up with something catchier than that...
Tips on communicating with upper management via graphs:
1) Does it go up toward the right? Good!
2) Does it go down toward the right? Bad!
Time for you to go back to school and learn the difference between lossless and lossy compression, methinks.
GIF only appears lossy because what you're compressing with it requires more colours than it can provide. The GIF format itself uses only lossless compression.
Don't bet on digital being cheaper - I remember reading something written by an ex-celpainter in Japan, where he said that no-one made enough money from celpainting to live on, so they all did extra work on the side. The pay per cel is very, very cheap.
Mozilla does it for me without any special settings. I'm using 1.0 (Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; WinNT4.0; en-US; rv:1.0.0) Gecko/20020530) on NT and 1.1a+ (Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.1a+) Gecko/20020709) on Linux.
Please, go get a job at Microsoft.
Just use this and shut up already.
They're taking for ever to do a stupid translation, how hard can it be?!
Well, it's pretty obvious that *you* wouldn't know...
HAH!
I had a server at my old company that (until the HD died) was running kernel 2.0.36 on TurboLinux 1.4 with a maximum uptime of around 360 days (it was shut down annually over the New Year period).
Not really. Japan is pretty much sewn up by VineLinux (a Japanese-only distribution, which is why you've never heard of it).
TurboLinux was reasonably popular a couple of years ago, but they switched from selling a packaged distribution to having it pre-installed on servers sold by large manufacturers. I don't actually know anybody using it, though...
I installed cygwin on my PC at work a couple of weeks ago (after the /. article). SSH client and server both work fine.
Please explain how showing a federally-issued ID makes either you or me safer.
Most people on /. probably wouldn't be affected, but it might have been a good idea to note that accessing that URL could actually INFECT your PC.
It's a free implementation of DjVu, an interesting format that appeared in the late 90s and disappeared a couple of years later.
Quick summary: It separates an image in high-contrast and low-contrast areas, and uses different compression schemes for them. That gives you sharp, clear text and good compression ratios overall.
DjVu was actually kinda cool in that there were Linux versions of the browser plugin before most people had even heard of Linux. I remember downloading and using it on Red Hat 5.0...
Starbucks may be nasty for a host of reasons -- it's the WalMart of coffee shops killing off the little guys, it's got a nasty corporatized lifestyle thing going on, whatever -- but they offer great bennies and have some nice policies as well. Does McDonald's extend medical, dental and vision benefits to part-timers and their domestic partners? Do they support sustainable agricultural practices? Recycle as much as possible?
Watch all that go out the window as soon as their bottom line undergoes a serious downturn...
What part of "of course with the computer off" did you not understand?
Ahem... MacOS X aka Darwin is basically a FreeBSD release reworked to run on Mach.
If I bought one of MS's coding suites and wrote an application in it, *any* sample code I got from MSDN would be fair game to use, extend, embrace, and do just about whatever I want with.
If I did the same thing with a GPL'd compiler, I very well might get dragged into court for using the same sample code to solve a common problem. I'd definitly get hosed if I used the "example code" to fix a *unique* problem.
WTF are you talking about? MSDN sample code is presumably in the public domain. If you want to compile that code with Visual Studio XIX or gcc, go right ahead. Using a GPL'd compiler makes *no difference*.
If you're complaining that the free software community doesn't supply public domain code samples, then that's a totally different issue. What does any of this have to do with the GPL???
I think he meant "#2 from the bottom".
And it doesn't help you one bit, since you've got no way of verifying whether that mail address actually exists, even if it is RFC-compliant.
I'm so glad to know my PC has an infinite amount of memory to parse XML! Jeez, I guess I didn't need to buy that extra stick of RAM after all.
Haven't people got sick of biggest dick UID wars yet?