Isn't gravity an example of something that travels FTL? As in, information about the location and mass of an object seems to be transmitted to other objects instantly. Or has the "speed of gravity" actually been measured as non-instantaneous (sp?).
I've always been amazed how we only loses 1 disks worth of space in raid 5, regardess of number of disks (and yeah, I know it's not one physical drive that is unavailable). How does this work? Seems like magic to me.
except what happened to loki had little to do with the size of the linux-using, game-playing market (per wired). Sounds like it was mostly mis-management to almost illegal level (ie: not paying employees and shifty accounting practices).
3 times this summer Valve updated their Valve-Anti_Cheat software without testing it against Counter-Strike (or Day of Defeat) running in winex or wine.
3 times we (the linux-using, counter-strike-playing community) were unable to play online for about 1 week while Transgaming figured out what Valve messed up and got them to fix it.
Countless hours have been spent by the developers of wine, winex, and the many gamers who play counter-strike in linux in getting it to work as great as it does (and it does work great).
But, Steam does not run in linux (at least not the CS client) so once again we will be left in the cold with no support or consideration from Valve.
Fuck you Valve, you arrogant bastards! Pull your head out of the sand and realize that there are plenty of us don't use windows and gladly pay for games.
I understand you not wanting to port Half-Life. But I do not understand why you keep making us go back to the drawing board in order for us to play our games. Is Steam that valuable - fuck no. It's a bloated, unneeded piece of crap that the gaming community (regardless of OS) doesn't want and hasn't asked for.
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There's no need to be rude in your post - so what if you disagree with what the person said. Now, lets talk about research....
VIFFing (vectoring in forward flight), a strategy limited to the Harrier and other VTOL aircraft capable of redirecting their thrust mid-flight, is a favourite dog fight strategy of Harrier pilots. One minute you're on his tail, lining him up for a shot, then next minute the Harrier's no longer in front of you because its pilot has "jumped" vertically. And, by the time you've worked it all out, he's dropped back down behind you and is about to missile lock your aircraft.
There's been quite a bit of speculation about the usefulness of this trick in combat (for both the harrier and the "cobra"-capable Russian fighters) and the general concensus is that it's a sure-fire way to be missle-bait. Speed is you friend in air-air combat!
They'd pull the rug out from under linux in an instant if it made buisness sense.
I think you give SCO too much credit. I'm sided with the "they're smoking crack!" crowd - SCO is going to be a black smoking grease-filled hole in the desert soon.
Folks, what we have here is the ramblings of a demented, paranoid person, in the guise of a software company.
There was an article on slash a year ago about a guy who placed his mobo into a styrofoam cooler full of mineral oil. What about fill a heatpipe (ala shuttle computers) with a non-conductive liquid and fitting the heat pipe in such a way that the chip is inside it?
Well, I could be wrong about the relationship between fire and redwood tree germination. Wouldn;t be the first time.
You are right about the fog - we get tons of it in the coastal parts of Humboldt County - and the eastern edge of the redwoods clearly demarks the end of the fog belt.
The definition of rainforest that I'm more familiar with has to do with yearly rainfall - 100 inches (or 254cm). And there is at least 2 parts of California that easily exceed this amount - The Smith River valley near the oregon border and the Matole River valley in southern Humboldt County (both coastal). Last December alone, the town of Honeydew received over 100 inches IN ONE MONTH (while arcata, ca - home of HSU - had just over 30 or so inches in the same month).
First off, our relationship with naturally occuring forest fires need to change in a big way (and not by cutting down all the trees as our idiotic president suggested recently). And, of course, fire is needed by some pine and fir trees. That said, I'm 99.9% positive this is not true of redwoods. For one thing, fire is very rare in areas where coastal redwood trees grow (but it does happen - mostly lightning strikes)...
I'm not a forester, rather a geographer by education and computer geek by profession, but I've lived in Humboldt County for the last 16 years, and I think I would have heard about the redwood tree germination/fire connection if there was one.
On a side note, I've meet the professor from Humboldt State University in the article, Steve Sillett (I used to drive fieldtrips when I was a student at HSU). He (and his students) use crossbows to shoot a thin line over a sturdy branch (sometimes over 100 feet high), and then pull over sucessivly thicker lines. Then they pull out the "climbing ascenders" (pull up and clamp the right one, step up, pull up and clamp the left one, step up - repeat a couple hundred times). Every effort is made to do no harm to the trees. There truly is a whole ecosystem in those redwoods, including newts and other creatures that have never been on the ground.
There is an IMAX film called Adventures in Wild California which features Steve climbing and studying tall trees (this time sequoias rather than coastal redwoods). While not the best IMAX movies I've seen, the scenery is awesome.
I started Damiens book, and it was way to dense for me. I just picked up Randals book and started it last night. It truly starts where learning perl (and the coookbook) ends and I feel that I'll be much more successdful understanding this book (and hence, becoming an OO perl programmer).
I'm not bagging on Damiens book at all - it just started above my head.
As for the poeple baggin on Randals book, my guess is is started at too low a level for them, so they think its useless - completly forgetting that they are just 1 of many perl programmers - all at different levels of ability.
when I was promoted/transfered from help desk to engineering was add a 2nd drive and install linux on the box that came with the cube I moved to.
Months later, I walked away after initiating an (infrequent) reboot. After making the rounds, I came back to an NT login. WTF I thought - then realized I'd set NT as the default in lilo in case someone needed to use the copmuter.
I think this is an unfair point of view. IBM's main concern is (and should be) defending itself in a court of law from these unbased claims. While I agree that the fight for peoples heart and minds is very important - I also think it's fair that that battle rest with us, the users and fans (and coders) of Linux.
I agree that qcad is not for the big boys (don't get me wrong - i've used it for a while in linux and love it - but autocad it's not).
It's too bad AutoCad dunmped their unix versions about 7 or 8 years ago (somehwere around version 11 I think). I used it in unix back in college and was blown away at how pewerful it is.
It is true that the G5 is up to snuff - maybe this is just the begining...
To be honest even Linux ported games still seem to have major issues. It appears that you can get most to work, but I have found that there is almost always a "catch-22" with software, something you will need that breaks something else.
I would like you to provide a game related example of this.
I own a gentoo-based game center with both linux-native and transgaming-enabled games. I have about 20 major games and some 30 or more little games (the onles that come with most linux desktop installs). I have yet top see this problem occur even once.
I agree about needing an nvidia card - I couldn't imagine trying to do this with an ati card. I also agree that transgaming is a stopgap measure until more games are ported to linux nativly. The good news is some *very* important games like Half-Life (and it's mods), Jedi Knights 2, and Everquest work great in winex.
Support for battlefield 1942 still need a little work, but I have yet to test winex 3.1 yet.
First of all, microsoft doesn't chase and fix bugs, and they are not out of business. In fact, they are the most profiting company in this half of the world (probably the whole world).
Yeah, sad, isn't it? I stand corrected.....
As for the rest of your post - I agree. I do think the 5 years is important for those who don't have a good in-house *nix staff.
The point I was trying to make was this:
Just because RedHat packages an Enterprise edition doesn't mean that thier regular distro gets any less bugfixes (at least for the duration of official support status)
And why pay Red Hat big bucks unless you need their expertise?
Agreed. Some do, some don't. But those who don't, shouldn't.
Are they going to stop chasing bugs in the consumer division because of the obvious conflict of interest with their revenue stream selling support?
Um, this has *got* to be a troll. First off, any company that doesn't chase and fix bugs should (and will) go out of business. Second, selling support if *not* about fixing bugs, it's about set up, maintenance, and *applying* bug fixes.
FWIW I don't use Red Hat anymore (gentoo now), but am a big fan since they helped me get into linux.
I think you answered your own question here. Red Hat, more than likely, does not market the enterprise edition to "good linux hackers". Rather, it's for companies that don't have a large *nix I.T. staff, want to save moeny over traditional unix, but expect the support options of traditional unix.
Search for a keyword, in the name or description: apt-cache search keyword
Yeah, that would be kinda cool
Search just in the name: apt-cache search --names-only keyword
qpkg keyword
qpkg is a program in the gentool package - flags include:
-v print available versions -i print package information -d print packages that have multiple versions ins talled -f find package that owns file -l print package contents and many more options
Simulate what would happen without doing it: apt-get -s install package apt-get --no-act install package
emerge -p package
The nice thing about apt is that it doesn't take a year to do a simple search and the package descriptions are actually useful, instead of one cryptic line.
Which distro are you talking about? I find that neither of those describe gentoo.
Listen, you are more than welcome to like debian/fink over gentoo/gentoo-ppc (or any other distro or even os). No skin off my nose.
But don't spread untruths about another distro - it serves no usefull purpose.
Um, SGI is not the *latest* to suffer from the economic downturn - they were one of the first. They used to have *many* more employees than the 4k they have now. They started laying people off in droves almost 3 years ago.
I think the reason they are fixing the old design rather than using a new one is obvious - money and commitment.
First the money part: while in the long run it will cost more to keep the old fleet alive rather than build new, cheaper shuttles, the short term investment is much lower for the redesign. Especially in this day and age with a monster defecit.
Second, commitment. We have a manned space station up there. On that (this is a guess) will not stand up well to be un-manned. Yes, we have russian rockets we can use, but nasa isn't too happy about not having a backup method to get people up/down. A new shuttle would take 5-10 years to design, build, and test. By that time, all the money invested in the space station would be a waste it it was un-manned for so long.
You're right... Last year Readhat issued nearly twice as many security bulletins as Microsoft.
I'm sure the above is a troll, but I'll answer anyways. When you install windows, you get, well, windows. And internet explorer, and freecell. That's about it.
When you install linux from RedHat (or Mandrake or...) you get the OS, severl browsers and mail clients, 2+ office suites, 4+ text editors, java, perl, c, python, 25+ games, 3+ window manages, etc (not that you have to install all that - but they're available in the install).
I'd say Redhat is doing great to only have 2x the security bulletins as microsoft considering they supply 4x or 5x the software on their cd's.
Plus, it's been documented many times before that bugfixes are available much quicker in the OS world than the MS world.
I'm increasingly convinced that Linux is dying off. The lies and distortions we are seeing on slashbot have become more and more desperate over the past two years.
Name one "lie" regarding linux that you've seen on slashdot that's demonstratable not true (articles only, not posts). Remember, nobody is going to agree with all the opinions expressed on this site.
Yes, you are correct about the gpl - but not it's application in this respect. No one is saying it's illegal to redistribute - just that is may be immoral. Look, all RedHat is doing is try to make a buck by asking people to pay if they want it a week early. This is no way confilcts with the gpl.
Strange that people seem to be so religious about all the details of the GPL, except when it might hurt RedHat, in which case it's okay for them to sell it like proprietary software.
Once again - you are wrong. Redhat is not trying to circumvent the gpl at all. Just trying to make some cash. All we are saying "hey, if you want it now - pay for it - otherwise wait a week."
FWIW - I haven't used RedHat for 2 years - but they did help me get started into linux.
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Isn't gravity an example of something that travels FTL? As in, information about the location and mass of an object seems to be transmitted to other objects instantly. Or has the "speed of gravity" actually been measured as non-instantaneous (sp?).
Thanks - that did help!
I've always been amazed how we only loses 1 disks worth of space in raid 5, regardess of number of disks (and yeah, I know it's not one physical drive that is unavailable). How does this work? Seems like magic to me.
except what happened to loki had little to do with the size of the linux-using, game-playing market (per wired). Sounds like it was mostly mis-management to almost illegal level (ie: not paying employees and shifty accounting practices).
3 times this summer Valve updated their Valve-Anti_Cheat software without testing it against Counter-Strike (or Day of Defeat) running in winex or wine.
3 times we (the linux-using, counter-strike-playing community) were unable to play online for about 1 week while Transgaming figured out what Valve messed up and got them to fix it.
Countless hours have been spent by the developers of wine, winex, and the many gamers who play counter-strike in linux in getting it to work as great as it does (and it does work great).
But, Steam does not run in linux (at least not the CS client) so once again we will be left in the cold with no support or consideration from Valve.
Fuck you Valve, you arrogant bastards! Pull your head out of the sand and realize that there are plenty of us don't use windows and gladly pay for games.
I understand you not wanting to port Half-Life. But I do not understand why you keep making us go back to the drawing board in order for us to play our games. Is Steam that valuable - fuck no. It's a bloated, unneeded piece of crap that the gaming community (regardless of OS) doesn't want and hasn't asked for.
Nice, but I like the beta redhat screenies better: https://listman.redhat.com/archives/rhl-devel-list /2003-August/msg00117.html
Gnome sure can be pretty - it mught be time for me to switch back from kde....
I think you give SCO too much credit. I'm sided with the "they're smoking crack!" crowd - SCO is going to be a black smoking grease-filled hole in the desert soon.
Folks, what we have here is the ramblings of a demented, paranoid person, in the guise of a software company.
There was an article on slash a year ago about a guy who placed his mobo into a styrofoam cooler full of mineral oil. What about fill a heatpipe (ala shuttle computers) with a non-conductive liquid and fitting the heat pipe in such a way that the chip is inside it?
Amen Brother! oh, wait.... :)
Well, I could be wrong about the relationship between fire and redwood tree germination. Wouldn;t be the first time.
You are right about the fog - we get tons of it in the coastal parts of Humboldt County - and the eastern edge of the redwoods clearly demarks the end of the fog belt.
The definition of rainforest that I'm more familiar with has to do with yearly rainfall - 100 inches (or 254cm). And there is at least 2 parts of California that easily exceed this amount - The Smith River valley near the oregon border and the Matole River valley in southern Humboldt County (both coastal). Last December alone, the town of Honeydew received over 100 inches IN ONE MONTH (while arcata, ca - home of HSU - had just over 30 or so inches in the same month).
First off, our relationship with naturally occuring forest fires need to change in a big way (and not by cutting down all the trees as our idiotic president suggested recently). And, of course, fire is needed by some pine and fir trees. That said, I'm 99.9% positive this is not true of redwoods. For one thing, fire is very rare in areas where coastal redwood trees grow (but it does happen - mostly lightning strikes)...
I'm not a forester, rather a geographer by education and computer geek by profession, but I've lived in Humboldt County for the last 16 years, and I think I would have heard about the redwood tree germination/fire connection if there was one.
On a side note, I've meet the professor from Humboldt State University in the article, Steve Sillett (I used to drive fieldtrips when I was a student at HSU). He (and his students) use crossbows to shoot a thin line over a sturdy branch (sometimes over 100 feet high), and then pull over sucessivly thicker lines. Then they pull out the "climbing ascenders" (pull up and clamp the right one, step up, pull up and clamp the left one, step up - repeat a couple hundred times). Every effort is made to do no harm to the trees. There truly is a whole ecosystem in those redwoods, including newts and other creatures that have never been on the ground.
There is an IMAX film called Adventures in Wild California which features Steve climbing and studying tall trees (this time sequoias rather than coastal redwoods). While not the best IMAX movies I've seen, the scenery is awesome.
just my 2 cents....
I started Damiens book, and it was way to dense for me. I just picked up Randals book and started it last night. It truly starts where learning perl (and the coookbook) ends and I feel that I'll be much more successdful understanding this book (and hence, becoming an OO perl programmer).
I'm not bagging on Damiens book at all - it just started above my head.
As for the poeple baggin on Randals book, my guess is is started at too low a level for them, so they think its useless - completly forgetting that they are just 1 of many perl programmers - all at different levels of ability.
when I was promoted/transfered from help desk to engineering was add a 2nd drive and install linux on the box that came with the cube I moved to.
Months later, I walked away after initiating an (infrequent) reboot. After making the rounds, I came back to an NT login. WTF I thought - then realized I'd set NT as the default in lilo in case someone needed to use the copmuter.
I think this is an unfair point of view. IBM's main concern is (and should be) defending itself in a court of law from these unbased claims. While I agree that the fight for peoples heart and minds is very important - I also think it's fair that that battle rest with us, the users and fans (and coders) of Linux.
I agree that qcad is not for the big boys (don't get me wrong - i've used it for a while in linux and love it - but autocad it's not).
It's too bad AutoCad dunmped their unix versions about 7 or 8 years ago (somehwere around version 11 I think). I used it in unix back in college and was blown away at how pewerful it is.
It is true that the G5 is up to snuff - maybe this is just the begining...
To be honest even Linux ported games still seem to have major issues. It appears that you can get most to work, but I have found that there is almost always a "catch-22" with software, something you will need that breaks something else.
I would like you to provide a game related example of this.
I own a gentoo-based game center with both linux-native and transgaming-enabled games. I have about 20 major games and some 30 or more little games (the onles that come with most linux desktop installs). I have yet top see this problem occur even once.
I agree about needing an nvidia card - I couldn't imagine trying to do this with an ati card. I also agree that transgaming is a stopgap measure until more games are ported to linux nativly. The good news is some *very* important games like Half-Life (and it's mods), Jedi Knights 2, and Everquest work great in winex.
Support for battlefield 1942 still need a little work, but I have yet to test winex 3.1 yet.
Yeah, sad, isn't it? I stand corrected.....
As for the rest of your post - I agree. I do think the 5 years is important for those who don't have a good in-house *nix staff.
The point I was trying to make was this:
And why pay Red Hat big bucks unless you need their expertise?
Agreed. Some do, some don't. But those who don't, shouldn't.
Are they going to stop chasing bugs in the consumer division because of the obvious conflict of interest with their revenue stream selling support?
Um, this has *got* to be a troll. First off, any company that doesn't chase and fix bugs should (and will) go out of business. Second, selling support if *not* about fixing bugs, it's about set up, maintenance, and *applying* bug fixes.
FWIW I don't use Red Hat anymore (gentoo now), but am a big fan since they helped me get into linux.
I think you answered your own question here. Red Hat, more than likely, does not market the enterprise edition to "good linux hackers". Rather, it's for companies that don't have a large *nix I.T. staff, want to save moeny over traditional unix, but expect the support options of traditional unix.
Search for a keyword, in the name or description:
apt-cache search keyword
Yeah, that would be kinda cool
Search just in the name:
apt-cache search --names-only keyword
qpkg keyword
Simulate what would happen without doing it:
apt-get -s install package
apt-get --no-act install package
emerge -p package
The nice thing about apt is that it doesn't take a year to do a simple search and the package descriptions are actually useful, instead of one cryptic line.
Which distro are you talking about? I find that neither of those describe gentoo.
Listen, you are more than welcome to like debian/fink over gentoo/gentoo-ppc (or any other distro or even os). No skin off my nose.
But don't spread untruths about another distro - it serves no usefull purpose.
Um, SGI is not the *latest* to suffer from the economic downturn - they were one of the first. They used to have *many* more employees than the 4k they have now. They started laying people off in droves almost 3 years ago.
I think the reason they are fixing the old design rather than using a new one is obvious - money and commitment.
First the money part: while in the long run it will cost more to keep the old fleet alive rather than build new, cheaper shuttles, the short term investment is much lower for the redesign. Especially in this day and age with a monster defecit.
Second, commitment. We have a manned space station up there. On that (this is a guess) will not stand up well to be un-manned. Yes, we have russian rockets we can use, but nasa isn't too happy about not having a backup method to get people up/down. A new shuttle would take 5-10 years to design, build, and test. By that time, all the money invested in the space station would be a waste it it was un-manned for so long.
just my 2 cents.
You're right... Last year Readhat issued nearly twice as many security bulletins as Microsoft.
I'm sure the above is a troll, but I'll answer anyways. When you install windows, you get, well, windows. And internet explorer, and freecell. That's about it.
When you install linux from RedHat (or Mandrake or...) you get the OS, severl browsers and mail clients, 2+ office suites, 4+ text editors, java, perl, c, python, 25+ games, 3+ window manages, etc (not that you have to install all that - but they're available in the install).
I'd say Redhat is doing great to only have 2x the security bulletins as microsoft considering they supply 4x or 5x the software on their cd's.
Plus, it's been documented many times before that bugfixes are available much quicker in the OS world than the MS world.
I'm increasingly convinced that Linux is dying off. The lies and distortions we are seeing on slashbot have become more and more desperate over the past two years.
Name one "lie" regarding linux that you've seen on slashdot that's demonstratable not true (articles only, not posts). Remember, nobody is going to agree with all the opinions expressed on this site.
Yes, you are correct about the gpl - but not it's application in this respect. No one is saying it's illegal to redistribute - just that is may be immoral. Look, all RedHat is doing is try to make a buck by asking people to pay if they want it a week early. This is no way confilcts with the gpl.
Strange that people seem to be so religious about all the details of the GPL, except when it might hurt RedHat, in which case it's okay for them to sell it like proprietary software.
Once again - you are wrong. Redhat is not trying to circumvent the gpl at all. Just trying to make some cash. All we are saying "hey, if you want it now - pay for it - otherwise wait a week."
FWIW - I haven't used RedHat for 2 years - but they did help me get started into linux.