I've plonked many a relative for doing the same thing. I've plonked tie-wearing microsoft-obsessed upper management types for doing the same thing.
And by the way, MAC also stands for Mandatory Access Control (MLS), Message Authentication Code (SSL, SRT, cryptography) or Membership Advisory Committee (ICANN). I can understand full well the namespace pollution.
A PDP-11 UNIX runs in about 2 Mo of RAM. Although I modded my begemot emulator to do 4 MB (and the address space supports it:). Anyway, my emulator is up and running, and boasting a webserver I coded myself here.
My point, no that wouldn't fit either,Hate to burst your bubble.
Ultimate disadvantage: Skript kiddie slashdot trolls hack into the machines, and suddenly everywhere you look you see the goatse guy and the tubgirl on any flat surface you can precieve. Oh, and the world will look like a pain inducing FPS-game level.
Cringely is missing something...
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Today's SCO News
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SCO does not decide which operating system can call itself UNIX. If SCO yanks the license of AT&T UNIX away from IBM, then AIX can still call itself a UNIX because the Open Group (which controls the UNIX trademark, _not_ SCO) has said that AIX can claim to be a UNIX.
Sure, SCO would like to have the UNIX branding powers, but they don't have it. Period.
Re:First in line for the auditions...
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LOTR The Musical!
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Doh! I need more coffee...
Re:First in line for the auditions...
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LOTR The Musical!
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It's to do with APM interrupt handling. Not sure if it's restricted to PCMCIA cards.
Nope. Since fairly recent desktop machines without PCMCIA slots are perfectly capable of sleeping/hibernating with the apm 1.x spec. And, yes, APM interrupt handling is involved here.
And the last thing I need is having a desktop box fall to sleep when I'm doing benchmarking of (say) C library function calls for an extended period (a.k.a. generating datasets that need to be reliable to make sense).
Although i.e. my desktop machine supports this, I don't see the need of ever turning APM on if the machine I'm using is not something that has/needs a battery and is not always switched on. Also, I doubt that the boards comedi supports will fit inside a laptop, so the point is actually very moot.:-)
But yeah, good advice. I can imagine a VB user missing that one;-)
The technique seemed to work fine for media libraries like ffmpeg, so they can use the codec inside those pesky.dll and directshow filter containers.
Maybe the sci apps developers should investigate how the trunking of manufacturer supplied win32 dll's can be used to give at least x86 machines with free operating systems access to the hardware. It's better than nothing at least.
But yeah, I know it sucks. The hardware vendors shouldn't whine. They shouldn't care what OS is used to drive their hardware, just that intitutions can buy and use it. And institutions are a lot different from normal consumers. The sci-institutions just want to get their work done. And, according to the story poster, with something else than Microsoft's stuff.
Guess this is one of those slashdot sponsored "advertisement" advertising stories huh?
Anyway, LIDS is great. Played with it, and deemed it cool. Now I wish FreeBSD had something that cool (since that's my main OS of choice), but LOMAC comes pretty close.
Heck, I just might give this a whirl on one of my testboxes...
Since I own several.org domains, this concerns me. Good that it's all still working.
One thing puzzles me though, isn't ISOC managing.org nowadays? Or are they still going to? At any rate, I think ISOC will do a better job than Verisign will ever do anyday.
[yeah yeah, troll... but I'll bite this time. I feel like burning a little karma]
Wow, that's a lot of conjecture and speculation you're spouting, yet you haven't given any solid proof of any of your arguments. Most of it is objective (X is better than... Y is faster than...).
There are also quite a few flaws in your diatribe. (i.e. Ximian's Red Carpet is NOT part of "official" Gnome)
Anyway, for the real beef on KDE myths and facts, go here.
...and remember, it's only a desktop environment. Remember you can always opt for something else, because the FOSS has given us choice.
Make sure you burn/microwave these things _outside_ because it will take a couple of weeks for the distinct odor to dissipate. Yes, even if you put the windows open...
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I _knew_ someone was going to pick nits over that.
When a non-acronym word is spelled in capitals, it's either shouting, or you're somehow dealing with FreeBSD revisions or cvs branches :)
me too
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I've plonked many a relative for doing the same thing. I've plonked tie-wearing microsoft-obsessed upper management types for doing the same thing.
And by the way, MAC also stands for Mandatory Access Control (MLS), Message Authentication Code (SSL, SRT, cryptography) or Membership Advisory Committee (ICANN). I can understand full well the namespace pollution.
My point, no that wouldn't fit either,Hate to burst your bubble.
Eek...
No, that makes Conway a great sadist.
*ducks away*
Sure, SCO would like to have the UNIX branding powers, but they don't have it. Period.
Doh! I need more coffee...
Stormtrooper elfs?
Oh, that I did not know. I stand corrected. :)
Nope. Since fairly recent desktop machines without PCMCIA slots are perfectly capable of sleeping/hibernating with the apm 1.x spec. And, yes, APM interrupt handling is involved here.
And the last thing I need is having a desktop box fall to sleep when I'm doing benchmarking of (say) C library function calls for an extended period (a.k.a. generating datasets that need to be reliable to make sense).
Although i.e. my desktop machine supports this, I don't see the need of ever turning APM on if the machine I'm using is not something that has/needs a battery and is not always switched on. Also, I doubt that the boards comedi supports will fit inside a laptop, so the point is actually very moot. :-)
But yeah, good advice. I can imagine a VB user missing that one ;-)
Maybe the sci apps developers should investigate how the trunking of manufacturer supplied win32 dll's can be used to give at least x86 machines with free operating systems access to the hardware. It's better than nothing at least.
But yeah, I know it sucks. The hardware vendors shouldn't whine. They shouldn't care what OS is used to drive their hardware, just that intitutions can buy and use it. And institutions are a lot different from normal consumers. The sci-institutions just want to get their work done. And, according to the story poster, with something else than Microsoft's stuff.
I've met Bram at a few parties, and no, he's not Dutch. Although I did meet him in my home country, which is incidently The Netherlands.
AFAIK, he's a Canuck (canadian). Although I could be wrong about this. He's certainly NOT dutch. :)
*shrug*
Anyway, LIDS is great. Played with it, and deemed it cool. Now I wish FreeBSD had something that cool (since that's my main OS of choice), but LOMAC comes pretty close.
Heck, I just might give this a whirl on one of my testboxes...
Yeah yeah, I'll crawl back under my rock now for saying something this cheesy, but I just had to. I tried to resist, really... I did...
Slashdot has DDoS'ed the damn thing into oblivion.
On the other hand, did anyone get to mirror it?
One thing puzzles me though, isn't ISOC managing .org nowadays? Or are they still going to? At any rate, I think ISOC will do a better job than Verisign will ever do anyday.
Wow, that's a lot of conjecture and speculation you're spouting, yet you haven't given any solid proof of any of your arguments. Most of it is objective (X is better than... Y is faster than...).
There are also quite a few flaws in your diatribe. (i.e. Ximian's Red Carpet is NOT part of "official" Gnome)
Anyway, for the real beef on KDE myths and facts, go here.
Oh, and I'm a full-time KDE user too... albeit not on Linux... KDE has worked wonders for me on FreeBSD and Solaris too! KDE is not Linux-centric.
I found that out the hard way...