Well, not really. Netscape 5.0 was the code that Netscape originally released in an incomplete form to the free software community. Mozilla, in its current form, contains pretty much none of that code.
And a dual 1 Ghz G4 gets over twice as many RC5 keys per second than the fastest AMD dual MP mobo out there. (mainly because Macs have a large L3 cache and AMDs have no L3 cache)
Hardly. It's because PPCs have a particular CPU instruction (that doesn't exist in most other CPUs, including Athlons) that happens to be very useful for the kind of calculations that RC5 requires. Doesn't help for any normal sort of load though. Go read the RC5 FAQ, f'chrissakes.
Nah, it's cause MS salescreatures were getting their asses laughed out of every company they went to when they started up their 'Linux is CANCER! Linux will SUCK you DRY!' rant.
MS: "Our software is your software. Your software is your software, except for the parts that you didn't write. But you can put those parts in your software since that's why we sold you this software-making-thing."
Don't be a dork. The GPL doesn't apply to anything you might happen to create with GPL'd interpreters, compilers, editors, software-making-things or anything else - it only applies when you use CODE that's been GPLd in your program.
Believe me, if you happened to get some Windows source code and used it in your own program without paying MS through the nose for it, you'd be hearing from their lawyers in very short order.
Dump your graphic designer. I've yet to meet a real graphic designer who wouldn't spend an hour or two spouting off about typefaces, given half a chance.
Nah, it's a tiny little company from Fukuoka (on Kyushu, the westernmost of the four main islands of Japan) called SP, Inc. They've got a grand total of six employees.
Interestingly enough, the distribution chosen by Sony for the PS2 kit (Kondara Linux, not Kondora as the article states) is about to shut down.
There hasn't been an English announcement yet, but their Japanese site says that the Kondara Project servers (the free development group behind the Kondara distribution, which was retailed by Digital Factory, a commercial enterprise) will be closed down on July 15.
The reason for this is that Digital Factory, which owns the Kondara trademark, has sold its distribution business to another company, and the project was forced to quit using the name Kondara.
Luckily for fans of the distribution, a new group, which looks suspiciously like the old Kondara group, has just kicked off the Momonga Project (momonga is Japanese for flying squirrel).
It'll be interesting to see what Sony do, if anything, in the way of providing an upgrade path for PS2/Linux users.
Ahem... twelve years in Japan and counting. I used the word 'apparent' because I, too, have had no problems. That does not mean that nobody has any problems.
Learning that everyone is not the same as you is an important step towards becoming an adult - I suggest you work harder at it.
I own two IBM 42H1292 keyboards, and they're huge, heavy, clumsy and noisy, but by God, they're TOUGH.
I love 'em.
I dread the day when motherboards all move to USB and I won't be able to use my beloved keyboards (hmmm... maybe I should start stocking up on PS2/USB adaptors...)
They're going to boost their ADSL rate to 12Mbps fairly soon. I still wouldn't use them, though... I applied for YahooBB in July last year, and in October they still couldn't tell me when they'd get the line in (although they were advertising my area as being ready for applications).
I cancelled the application, when over to Flets ADSL, and had a line in two weeks later.
Apparently, when he told the bath owners that he had Japanese citizenship (and even brought along his passport to prove it), they told him that he couldn't use the bath because 'he looked like a foreigner'.
I've got a couple of servers running 6.2 at the moment (300-day uptimes), and at one time or another I've tried out 4.2, 5.0, 5.2 and 7.1.
I've found the way to keep a Red Hat system running happily is to _never_ install anything that isn't an official RPM - and when you're doing updates, go back and diff all the updated config files against your older versions (RH got me once with an update to sendmail.cf that blocked connections from anywhere other than localhost - and that was our main mailserver...).
Sure, that makes for a crappy desktop system, but if you're using it as a server, you don't really need that CVS version of Xine or mplayer.
I suppose people will flame me for saying this, but hey, it works for me.
I hope they change some more stuff besides Gnome, Apache, and GCC to justify a point-oh.
It's fairly likely they will look back at their earlier x.0 releases:
4.0: First time RH released for three different architectures (x86, SPARC, Alpha) - SPARC/Alpha didn't really work until 4.2 5.0: First major distribution to use glibc -locales were completely broken, lots of stuff didn't compile properly 6.0: Moved to 2.2 kernel series - heaps of security problems 7.0: Moved to 2.4 kernel series and glibc 2.2 - yet more security problems, major bug in release version
So hopefully they'll have something all sparkling new and totally broken in 8.0 to keep up the tradition.
I almost agree with you, but in actual fact 'keitai' is not necessarily equivalent to cell phone.
Keitai can be used as a general term for mobile phones, but it is also used to distinguish the normal cellphones from PHS phones (which have a more limited range to the base station, but are cheaper, have longer-lasting batteries and provided faster data services before keitai did).
So, you could say that 'keitai' is used to indicate a particular type of Japanese mobile phone, whereas 'cell phone' is a more general term (if you were really pedantic, of course).
The 4" LCD screen (which I think fits into two bays, not three - haven't seen one around for a while though) is meant for use in servers, where you don't have the space to hook up a full monitor.
Of course, it's only necessary if you can't control your server remotely...
His original name was David Oldwinkle, I think. He was U.S.-born, not Canadian. The reason he was refused entry was because the public bath had had trouble with Russian sailors (whether that's an excuse or not is debatable, of course).
Interest on mortgages is a bit more than 2-3 percent - most bank loans hover around 5% at the moment (public housing loans are admittedly cheaper, but there's a relatively low limit to how much you can borrow).
And you're also ignoring the fact that interest on savings is way less than 1% (in my case, I get around 0.01% on a bank account containing the equivalent of more than $US100,000).
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Well, not really. Netscape 5.0 was the code that Netscape originally released in an incomplete form to the free software community. Mozilla, in its current form, contains pretty much none of that code.
And a dual 1 Ghz G4 gets over twice as many RC5 keys per second than the fastest AMD dual MP mobo out there. (mainly because Macs have a large L3 cache and AMDs have no L3 cache)
Hardly. It's because PPCs have a particular CPU instruction (that doesn't exist in most other CPUs, including Athlons) that happens to be very useful for the kind of calculations that RC5 requires. Doesn't help for any normal sort of load though. Go read the RC5 FAQ, f'chrissakes.
Nah, it's cause MS salescreatures were getting their asses laughed out of every company they went to when they started up their 'Linux is CANCER! Linux will SUCK you DRY!' rant.
MS: "Our software is your software. Your software is your software, except for the parts that you didn't write. But you can put those parts in your software since that's why we sold you this software-making-thing."
Don't be a dork. The GPL doesn't apply to anything you might happen to create with GPL'd interpreters, compilers, editors, software-making-things or anything else - it only applies when you use CODE that's been GPLd in your program.
Believe me, if you happened to get some Windows source code and used it in your own program without paying MS through the nose for it, you'd be hearing from their lawyers in very short order.
From the MS page: Linux does not support ASP .NET
I think they're going to have to remove that one soon...
Dump your graphic designer. I've yet to meet a real graphic designer who wouldn't spend an hour or two spouting off about typefaces, given half a chance.
Try looking at Vine Linux - it's a fully Japanized distribution. I'm using it right now.
Nah, it's a tiny little company from Fukuoka (on Kyushu, the westernmost of the four main islands of Japan) called SP, Inc. They've got a grand total of six employees.
My bad. You're correct, although I believe 7.0 was set up to allow 2.4 to be 'dropped in' when it was ready.
One of the reasons Ruby is so popular in Japan is that it was written by default to handle multi-byte characters.
Sure, you can do the same in Perl and Python, but in Ruby it really is painless.
Interestingly enough, the distribution chosen by Sony for the PS2 kit (Kondara Linux, not Kondora as the article states) is about to shut down.
There hasn't been an English announcement yet, but their Japanese site says that the Kondara Project servers (the free development group behind the Kondara distribution, which was retailed by Digital Factory, a commercial enterprise) will be closed down on July 15.
The reason for this is that Digital Factory, which owns the Kondara trademark, has sold its distribution business to another company, and the project was forced to quit using the name Kondara.
Luckily for fans of the distribution, a new group, which looks suspiciously like the old Kondara group, has just kicked off the Momonga Project (momonga is Japanese for flying squirrel).
It'll be interesting to see what Sony do, if anything, in the way of providing an upgrade path for PS2/Linux users.
Ahem... twelve years in Japan and counting. I used the word 'apparent' because I, too, have had no problems. That does not mean that nobody has any problems.
Learning that everyone is not the same as you is an important step towards becoming an adult - I suggest you work harder at it.
Hello, moron.
I'm so glad you had a good experience installing your YahooBB connection. I certainly didn't.
Not to mention that I live four kilometers from my exchange, so installing an 8Mbps connection would gain me jack shit speedwise.
Now, please kindly go fuck yourself.
I own two IBM 42H1292 keyboards, and they're huge, heavy, clumsy and noisy, but by God, they're TOUGH.
I love 'em.
I dread the day when motherboards all move to USB and I won't be able to use my beloved keyboards (hmmm... maybe I should start stocking up on PS2/USB adaptors...)
Er... no.
'Keitai' does mean portable as an adjective, but in the last five years (used as a noun) it has come to indicate cell phones.
They're going to boost their ADSL rate to 12Mbps fairly soon. I still wouldn't use them, though... I applied for YahooBB in July last year, and in October they still couldn't tell me when they'd get the line in (although they were advertising my area as being ready for applications).
I cancelled the application, when over to Flets ADSL, and had a line in two weeks later.
Apparently, when he told the bath owners that he had Japanese citizenship (and even brought along his passport to prove it), they told him that he couldn't use the bath because 'he looked like a foreigner'.
I've got a couple of servers running 6.2 at the moment (300-day uptimes), and at one time or another I've tried out 4.2, 5.0, 5.2 and 7.1.
I've found the way to keep a Red Hat system running happily is to _never_ install anything that isn't an official RPM - and when you're doing updates, go back and diff all the updated config files against your older versions (RH got me once with an update to sendmail.cf that blocked connections from anywhere other than localhost - and that was our main mailserver...).
Sure, that makes for a crappy desktop system, but if you're using it as a server, you don't really need that CVS version of Xine or mplayer.
I suppose people will flame me for saying this, but hey, it works for me.
I hope they change some more stuff besides Gnome, Apache, and GCC to justify a point-oh.
It's fairly likely they will look back at their earlier x.0 releases:
4.0: First time RH released for three different architectures (x86, SPARC, Alpha) - SPARC/Alpha didn't really work until 4.2
5.0: First major distribution to use glibc -locales were completely broken, lots of stuff didn't compile properly
6.0: Moved to 2.2 kernel series - heaps of security problems
7.0: Moved to 2.4 kernel series and glibc 2.2 - yet more security problems, major bug in release version
So hopefully they'll have something all sparkling new and totally broken in 8.0 to keep up the tradition.
See here for a page that goes into more detail than any sane person could possibly want about the Red Hat release names.
Yeah, for sure. (Remember I said "if you were really pedantic" ;)
I almost agree with you, but in actual fact 'keitai' is not necessarily equivalent to cell phone.
Keitai can be used as a general term for mobile phones, but it is also used to distinguish the normal cellphones from PHS phones (which have a more limited range to the base station, but are cheaper, have longer-lasting batteries and provided faster data services before keitai did).
So, you could say that 'keitai' is used to indicate a particular type of Japanese mobile phone, whereas 'cell phone' is a more general term (if you were really pedantic, of course).
The 4" LCD screen (which I think fits into two bays, not three - haven't seen one around for a while though) is meant for use in servers, where you don't have the space to hook up a full monitor.
Of course, it's only necessary if you can't control your server remotely...
His original name was David Oldwinkle, I think. He was U.S.-born, not Canadian. The reason he was refused entry was because the public bath had had trouble with Russian sailors (whether that's an excuse or not is debatable, of course).
Interest on mortgages is a bit more than 2-3 percent - most bank loans hover around 5% at the moment (public housing loans are admittedly cheaper, but there's a relatively low limit to how much you can borrow).
And you're also ignoring the fact that interest on savings is way less than 1% (in my case, I get around 0.01% on a bank account containing the equivalent of more than $US100,000).