I don't see much hope. It's not as bad as the beginnhing of the perpetual september, but the slide continues.
Slashdot use to be a good information source. Now it's *rare* to see any technical news that I haven't *already* seen in the Wall Street journal. I keep giving up, and then looking again when I'm trying to avoid something (such as grading papers:). I used to wonder about the folks who announced their departures but then stuck around, but I'm real close now.
> Yet when it comes to other peoples privacy, ie
> Anonymous Cowards, it's just unacceptable.
There's absolutely no ontradiction there. Experience (dating to long before slashdot) has shown that someone willing to be identifried generally has far more to say than someone hiding behyind anonymity. There's a *huge* difference between saying that someone shouldn't be able to be anonymous and saying that as a group, they're not worth my time to read. They have no underlying right to *my* time.
> Things need to work both ways here. Now go ahead and mod me down for
> "trolling".
"redundant" would be far more accurate, or "ovverrated." Still, "troll" or "flamebait" would be appropriate for this tired old argument. Best of all, though, would be "karma whore," as the combination of a misstatement of reality, tired old hack, and speculation as to being moderated is another tired old combination . . .
That was critical! I had a 180 which went through three of those wretched IBM 80M adrives, and then you couldn't get scsi drives anymore!
I had a seven disk boot set. The first disk was a mofified Norton (symantec?) resuce disck which loaded a dearchiver, put a system onto the ram disk, and installed word 4 and excel 3.
Fortunately, I had 14mb of ram n that thing.
Now it sits in my attic in pieces. I should have taken the $400 I was offered for it; I never did put it back togeather . . .
> Apple couldn't compete with the clone makers who were releasing
> cheaper and superior hardware -- that's why the clones were killed.
The problem went deeper than that. Apple was doing all the R&D, and the clone makers got a free ride. Their royalties were based on the low end machines, yet they were shipping the higher end machines that paid for the R&D. Apple didn't so much kill the clones as inform the manufacturors that the royalties were going to start reflecting the costs involved--which made making the clones unattractive.
are still running. Can you get one? No. Most of us thaat own them put them in the "cold, dead fingers" category.
Occasionally I still pull it out. Iteven still has a couple of files I need (Including the recipe for the best stout I've ever tasted [and the same goes for the judges at that contest:)]). It's reliable, it's fixable, and it runs forever. If only I could get the power socket to stay soldered into the board, I'd use it more often . . .
It has tem, but they're not usable. The transmitter is locating after the 640th Newton, and using noncontiguous thrust would put it in a tailspin. So although all 965 are installed, the last 25 aren't useable. (however, there is speculation that it may be possible to make a TSO system: Terminate, Stay in Orbit., to use the extra Newtons. [Failing that, they'll be wrapped in cookies as snacks for the martians.]).
NASA has already shown a variety of orbits for martian probes, not feeling obligated to stay with the traditional elliptical orbit, or the one-tyme hyperbolic "orbit" used with the outer planets. The last two were parabolic. What will this one be--they're running out of conic sections to choose from . .
I don't think I've seen *anything* I've missed since switching over. (ok, the occasional package dependency fiasco, but I don't think that's what you mean:)
what in the world am I missing? What's available for linux and not bsd?
Brisish law allowed the royal navy to do this to *british* ships, and their captains failed to recognize the U.S. citizenship of former british subjects, snagging them from U.S. Flagged ships. This (and the fact that both sides were spoiling for a fight) to the war of 1812.
>I noticed it in the CompUSA store yesterday (Gaithersburg, MD)-- in a
>theft-control case. Which I took to be an excellent sign... when
>someone wants your operating system bad enough to steal it, you must
>be doing something right.:)
Meanwhile, out in front of the store, was the kid trying to give away kittens. "And if you take the kitten, I'll thrown in a free Windows XP. OK, never mind the kitten, but would you at least take the XP? *please*?"
>I'm switching to FreeBSD. Those guys update MUCH more slowly...
It's a good idea, but you get continual updates. If you run stable, you can update to cvs daily if you feel the need . . . however, if you're builidng from source (doesn't everyone?:), the transitions across major versions are barely noticable.
> Don't worry. Some people, for whatever reason, use the male form all
> the time.
Several years ago, I took a class from Halmos (Yes, *that* Halmos, though I did
n't realize who he was at the time. It set in years later when a graduate class
stopped cold at a mention of taking his class).
Anyway, in the middle of his first lecture, he suddenly went on a detour about l
anguage, adjectives, and the like. He noted that some languages have the male a
nd female gender, some have male, female, and neutral, and that some have a pron
oun for uknown gender. And I quote rather directly, "English is one of those la
nguages. The pronoun is 'he'. So you will excuse me if I do not say 'he or she
'."
He then proceed mid-sentence on set theory.
In the enlish language, "he" does not imply gender unless the context shows othe
rwise. It is used for both the male and unknown pronoun. "She," on the other h
and, does indicate gender.
So for those of you wondering why some of us always use "he" in the unknown or g
eneral case, it could very well be because we're speaking English, rather than e
ngaging in an Orwellian campaign to change the way people think by modifying the
language.
>So can we imagine that Linux binaries could become a de facto standard
>for executables?
This is likely to be the most important contribution linux makes, though perhaps not at the binary level.
Unix is defragmenting at the moment, even the versions not using linux binaries. What has been missing is a feasible reference point. With competing Unices, all with pointless differences, no vender could "concede" my moving to a competitor's standard. Linux removes that problems (and in many cases, makes sense to adopt). Still, the benefit of Linux's *existence* gives a common "standard" which the rest can move to while having political cover/saving face . . .
>WINE runs Windows apps and I don't hear many complaints about
> license violations there.
yeah, but you don't hear many reports about successfully running the programs, either:)
(Yes, I know that many do, and I've used it on a few things that surprised me when they work. It still doesn't seem to fall in the category of "generally usuable in the forseeable future")
If one is going to jump immediately to conclusions, the *more reasonable* question is whether they used BSD code, which would be legal--because that would be a more reasonable way to handle the emulation.
Compare the immediate reaction of "did they violate GPL" with a absolutely no basis, in the face of the fact that it would be *more* difficult to get appropriate code from linux than from bsd, to the "wait and ask why" reaction to theft of bsd code by linux a couple of weeks ago.
Then let's all head down to the High Church of Emacs and sing the hymn, "GPL, GPL, uber alles" . . .
with 2.5, you lose that ability without the subscription. ISTR that you can only record for thirty minutes at a time, manually, without the package. Nt only that, but down below someone suggests that you need the service just to set the time . . .
I understand that it's their business model. Yes some folks like the season pass. I just don't see it as useful, or as a step up from the regular satellite/cable listings (ok, the tvguide provicded listings on analog cable are garbage).
I'd be perfectly happy to continue clicking on the programs I want from my regular listing, and to have the ability to set it to recortd the same time & station each week. I suppose this deal is a step in that direction, but unless sony makes boxes that let you do that, it doesn't help much.
It was after the Earthquake, and another Irishman was subdividing what would become the block. He gave my great-grandfather the coin (family history has lost whether it was $5 or $10) to bid up the price on the first lot.
Cornelius built the house, my grandmother was born there and bought it after her mother's death, and now my father and uncle own it.
The return from nothing back then to a lot today in Menlo Park two blocks from SRI is staggering . . .
Slashdot Mirror
Slashdot use to be a good information source. Now it's *rare* to see any technical news that I haven't *already* seen in the Wall Street journal. I keep giving up, and then looking again when I'm trying to avoid something (such as grading papers
hawk, probably not long for slashdot, either.
hawk
> Anonymous Cowards, it's just unacceptable.
There's absolutely no ontradiction there. Experience (dating to long before slashdot) has shown that someone willing to be identifried generally has far more to say than someone hiding behyind anonymity. There's a *huge* difference between saying that someone shouldn't be able to be anonymous and saying that as a group, they're not worth my time to read. They have no underlying right to *my* time.
> Things need to work both ways here. Now go ahead and mod me down for
> "trolling".
"redundant" would be far more accurate, or "ovverrated." Still, "troll" or "flamebait" would be appropriate for this tired old argument. Best of all, though, would be "karma whore," as the combination of a misstatement of reality, tired old hack, and speculation as to being moderated is another tired old combination . . .
hawk
> actually a neat idea.
That's what they sell? From the couple of ads that got past me before getting junkbuster working, I assumed they sold naked women . . .
hawk
I had a seven disk boot set. The first disk was a mofified Norton (symantec?) resuce disck which loaded a dearchiver, put a system onto the ram disk, and installed word 4 and excel 3.
Fortunately, I had 14mb of ram n that thing.
Now it sits in my attic in pieces. I should have taken the $400 I was offered for it; I never did put it back togeather . . .
hawk
> cheaper and superior hardware -- that's why the clones were killed.
The problem went deeper than that. Apple was doing all the R&D, and the clone makers got a free ride. Their royalties were based on the low end machines, yet they were shipping the higher end machines that paid for the R&D. Apple didn't so much kill the clones as inform the manufacturors that the royalties were going to start reflecting the costs involved--which made making the clones unattractive.
hawk
Occasionally I still pull it out. Iteven still has a couple of files I need (Including the recipe for the best stout I've ever tasted [and the same goes for the judges at that contest
hawk
It has tem, but they're not usable. The transmitter is locating after the 640th Newton, and using noncontiguous thrust would put it in a tailspin. So although all 965 are installed, the last 25 aren't useable. (however, there is speculation that it may be possible to make a TSO system: Terminate, Stay in Orbit., to use the extra Newtons. [Failing that, they'll be wrapped in cookies as snacks for the martians.]).
hawk
:)
hawk
Still in beta, isn't it? I'll have to stick with vmware 2.0, which runs just fine, until then.
hawk
what in the world am I missing? What's available for linux and not bsd?
hawk
hawk
>theft-control case. Which I took to be an excellent sign... when
>someone wants your operating system bad enough to steal it, you must
>be doing something right.
Meanwhile, out in front of the store, was the kid trying to give away kittens. "And if you take the kitten, I'll thrown in a free Windows XP. OK, never mind the kitten, but would you at least take the XP? *please*?"
hawk
It's a good idea, but you get continual updates. If you run stable, you can update to cvs daily if you feel the need . . . however, if you're builidng from source (doesn't everyone?
hawk
the difference here is that your quirky guy s good, while the one in hte article is just quirky . . .
heck, if all you want is quirky, just go downtown in any big city . . .
hawk
> Don't worry. Some people, for whatever reason, use the male form all
> the time.
Several years ago, I took a class from Halmos (Yes, *that* Halmos, though I did
n't realize who he was at the time. It set in years later when a graduate class
stopped cold at a mention of taking his class).
Anyway, in the middle of his first lecture, he suddenly went on a detour about l
anguage, adjectives, and the like. He noted that some languages have the male a
nd female gender, some have male, female, and neutral, and that some have a pron
oun for uknown gender. And I quote rather directly, "English is one of those la
nguages. The pronoun is 'he'. So you will excuse me if I do not say 'he or she
'."
He then proceed mid-sentence on set theory.
In the enlish language, "he" does not imply gender unless the context shows othe
rwise. It is used for both the male and unknown pronoun. "She," on the other h
and, does indicate gender.
So for those of you wondering why some of us always use "he" in the unknown or g
eneral case, it could very well be because we're speaking English, rather than e
ngaging in an Orwellian campaign to change the way people think by modifying the
language.
hawk
>for executables?
This is likely to be the most important contribution linux makes, though perhaps not at the binary level.
Unix is defragmenting at the moment, even the versions not using linux binaries. What has been missing is a feasible reference point. With competing Unices, all with pointless differences, no vender could "concede" my moving to a competitor's standard. Linux removes that problems (and in many cases, makes sense to adopt). Still, the benefit of Linux's *existence* gives a common "standard" which the rest can move to while having political cover/saving face . . .
hawk
> license violations there.
yeah, but you don't hear many reports about successfully running the programs, either
(Yes, I know that many do, and I've used it on a few things that surprised me when they work. It still doesn't seem to fall in the category of "generally usuable in the forseeable future")
hawk
Compare the immediate reaction of "did they violate GPL" with a absolutely no basis, in the face of the fact that it would be *more* difficult to get appropriate code from linux than from bsd, to the "wait and ask why" reaction to theft of bsd code by linux a couple of weeks ago.
Then let's all head down to the High Church of Emacs and sing the hymn, "GPL, GPL, uber alles" . . .
hawk
hawk
I'd be perfectly happy to continue clicking on the programs I want from my regular listing, and to have the ability to set it to recortd the same time & station each week. I suppose this deal is a step in that direction, but unless sony makes boxes that let you do that, it doesn't help much.
hawk
OK, so it's not foolproof. SHe didn't think that that plaid suit & plaid shirt went together, but , really, they did!
hawk
:)
hawk
It was after the Earthquake, and another Irishman was subdividing what would become the block. He gave my great-grandfather the coin (family history has lost whether it was $5 or $10) to bid up the price on the first lot.
Cornelius built the house, my grandmother was born there and bought it after her mother's death, and now my father and uncle own it.
The return from nothing back then to a lot today in Menlo Park two blocks from SRI is staggering . . .
hawk
> doesn't deserve to get my business anyway.
*he* doesn't deserve it? I don't understand *either* the merchant *or* the customer dealing with one another again after a dispute . . .
hawk