Unfortunately it does not handle tree-like threads currently.. call the first message A, and the two replies B and C. If now D and E are attached to B and F to C, and so on.. GMail will still show the messages as part of a *linear* structure, which is not as clear as it could be.
Nobody mentioned yet that the article title is misleading? It's not that there's no WiFi in Grantsdale, it's just that the Grantsdale wi-fi card will be a normal client and won't be able to double as an access point.
BTW it is quite odd to consider IA-64 a small tweak over RISC chips. IA-64 is the most dissimilar of all viable architectures today.
Emphasis mine.. should it not be IA-64 is the most dissimilar to all viable architectures today? After all, it's not exactly viable.. in a level playing field, anyway.
You *can* have good binary drivers. It's the interface between the binary drivers and the kernel that is normally provided in source form, and that needs to be recompiled against the target kernel.
Ask nVidia, VMware, and.. what's that modem with binary Linux drivers, can't remember.
Aluminium enclosure for 2.5" hard drives; available in Firewire and USB models. I currently use the USB2 model and it's brilliant.. it can be powered through the USB connection, and if your USB port does not supply enough power, there's an additional USB plug that is only used to supply power that you can connect to another free port.
From my experience so far, avoid Firewire+USB combo devices like the plague. My old external enclosure cannot be made to work using kernels > 2.6.4 using either USB2 or Firewire.. and even in Windows, Firewire does not work anymore with SP2. Ugh.
I hope Firefox and crew kick your sorry, ownable, hackable, broken code writing, specification ignoring, partial standard supporting, no tab having, pop up generating butts.
Actually, with SP2 installed, IE blocks pop ups by default.. and its notification is much more visually elegant (it displays a blue-colored bar underneath the location toolbar), and so you *know* when a pop up is being blocked.
The pop-up blocker was a pleasant surprise, and as for better standard compliance, it seems from Tech9 blogs that they're about to start work on it. Nothing like Mozilla gaining 1% market share to turn heads..
For example, IIRC, the fork() call on Windows is VERY slow for some reason that I don't remember.
AFAIR Linux (and probably other Unices?) is unique in this regard - fork() on Linux is similar to threads in Windows when it comes to overheads. But I read this 3 years ago so I might have misremembered it.
A language should be built to be tool agnostic, not pick and choose ways of doing things based on the currently available tools
Tools like Eclipse allow the use of plug-ins to support new languages, so provided the language you want to use is not too esoteric (or you are willing to get dirty and write a plugin), code completion should just work. AFAIR Eclipse, with the appropriate plug-ins, could indent and code-assist Java, C, C++, C# and Python, and I'm sure I'm missing some.
As for Python and importing vs Java/PHP- the two ideas are exactly equivalent. If you're going to import it, you need to know it exists, which means you did as much reading/memorizing as everyone doing Java/PHP. If you didn't, you'll end up writing the functionality yourself.
Not quite; if you use a decent IDE with code completion / code assist / whatever, having namespaces really help in pinning down that function you need, e.g. if you need a string function, it's easy to just type string. , press CTRL+Space, then scroll through the string functions till you find the one you want.
With a standardized naming system, this could work with a ton of functions in a flat namespace too, but hard to enforce.
IBM does not have much an incentive to put an Athlon 64 on a Thinkpad then, if you won't even consider buying another brand that does use that CPU.
The first of IBM, Sony, Fujitsu or Toshiba.. perhaps even Dell, but that seems a very remote possibility - to ship with Mobile Athlon 64 will probably get my business. Bought a Centrino-based Acer laptop for my sister and she was not too impressed by it, so I think I'll skip Acer for now.
If they make the kids sign agreements not to use the connection to break laws, they've effectively absolved themselves from any liability
In the universities' network terms of use I have seen, such requirements are already inbuilt. And university sysadmins certainly should be logging traffic anyway, so they should be able to find out who's been downloading what.
Haha, EDO RAM. Yes, I remember getting excited when 850MB HDDs go down below the magical Rp 1 million in price. (about 300 GBP.. is it called UKP now?)
There were some weird systems being sold with Pentium-on-VESA bus too back then. Ah, the old days:)
I still have a stack of Windows 95 installation floppies (which I'm not going to dig out and count)
13. There was an amusing incident whereby some of the disks were shipped from Microsoft infected by a virus, which was why when some Mandrake ISOs triggered anti-viral false alarms a few years down the road it gave me quite a déja vù.
The corresponding count of diskettes for Office 4.3 (Win16) is.. 33, I believe.
Novell is releasing their own Novell Linux Destkop, which is their own Gnome-based WM running on SuSE
Interesting; is this simply the next version of the 'SuSE Linux Desktop' - which was SuSE Personal + Crossover Office AFAIR - with GNOME replacing KDE, or will Novell still sell SLD?
You could hardly expect them to continue packaging Ximian Desktop, at least for other platforms. Now that Novell owns its own Linux distro why would it be packaging a GNOME desktop for its competitors? Besides, Red Hat/Fedora has quite a nice GNOME desktop set-up; and packaging for Debian is rather hard since most of their desktop users are not staying with the stable Debian 3.0.
It would be quite interesting to see if they pull the same move on SuSE and call the next Linux release 'Novell Linux X' or something similar though. I'm curious to see what the desktop'd look like, having heard claims that it would bring the best of both KDE and GNOME together.
They won't be able to deliver that if they suddenly have to support hundreds of varieties of commodity hardware flying out of factories in East Bumblefuck, Asia
Please stop the racist comments. Granted Apple hardware is different from commodity hardware, but they are manufactured in Taiwan (laptops) and China (iPods).
I've just commissioned a dual opteron 248 (2.2 GHz)... This is far and away the most powerful machine I've ever ordered, and it doesn't meet the Longhorn 'average'... Something smells...
Microsoft probably spec'ed out the average using a super-P4 Intel CPU, in which case 4 GHz is equivalent to your Opteron:)
Very nice diagram and it'll continue to grow with other interesting projects such as Tao which adds OpenGL, OpenAL, SDL, etc as your opensource alternative to DirectX.
Sweet. Considering Managed DirectX is still new and not widely deployed yet, this might even gain traction. Let's hope the Mono team manages to ship 1.0 for the key desktop platforms as planned (Win32, Linux and OS X)
.. the interview summarizes neatly what Miguel has been saying for the past few weeks; it even links to the "two stacks" diagram. Hopefully distributions would start shipping with the unencumbered stack of Mono once Mono 1.0 is out.. between that and gcj/classpath Linux should see an influx of new developers.
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Unfortunately it does not handle tree-like threads currently.. call the first message A, and the two replies B and C. If now D and E are attached to B and F to C, and so on.. GMail will still show the messages as part of a *linear* structure, which is not as clear as it could be.
Dating back from OS/360 and possibly before, user program "asks for help" from the OS so that they could run.
Oh wait, that's prior art =)
Nobody mentioned yet that the article title is misleading? It's not that there's no WiFi in Grantsdale, it's just that the Grantsdale wi-fi card will be a normal client and won't be able to double as an access point.
Emphasis mine.. should it not be IA-64 is the most dissimilar to all viable architectures today? After all, it's not exactly viable.. in a level playing field, anyway.
You *can* have good binary drivers. It's the interface between the binary drivers and the kernel that is normally provided in source form, and that needs to be recompiled against the target kernel.
Ask nVidia, VMware, and.. what's that modem with binary Linux drivers, can't remember.
Aluminium enclosure for 2.5" hard drives; available in Firewire and USB models. I currently use the USB2 model and it's brilliant.. it can be powered through the USB connection, and if your USB port does not supply enough power, there's an additional USB plug that is only used to supply power that you can connect to another free port.
From my experience so far, avoid Firewire+USB combo devices like the plague. My old external enclosure cannot be made to work using kernels > 2.6.4 using either USB2 or Firewire.. and even in Windows, Firewire does not work anymore with SP2. Ugh.
Is that in real infrastructure mode (can support multiple client) or can you only share your connection with one other computer (ad-hoc) though?
Sounds interesting.
Actually, with SP2 installed, IE blocks pop ups by default.. and its notification is much more visually elegant (it displays a blue-colored bar underneath the location toolbar), and so you *know* when a pop up is being blocked.
The pop-up blocker was a pleasant surprise, and as for better standard compliance, it seems from Tech9 blogs that they're about to start work on it. Nothing like Mozilla gaining 1% market share to turn heads..
PostgreSQL Red Hat Edition has a Graphical Tools Suite. Written in Java with SWT for cross-platform goodness
That settles that point, I hope.
That's why URLs should be written as links instead of the address being spelt out as normal text :)
AFAIR Linux (and probably other Unices?) is unique in this regard - fork() on Linux is similar to threads in Windows when it comes to overheads. But I read this 3 years ago so I might have misremembered it.
Tools like Eclipse allow the use of plug-ins to support new languages, so provided the language you want to use is not too esoteric (or you are willing to get dirty and write a plugin), code completion should just work. AFAIR Eclipse, with the appropriate plug-ins, could indent and code-assist Java, C, C++, C# and Python, and I'm sure I'm missing some.
Not quite; if you use a decent IDE with code completion / code assist / whatever, having namespaces really help in pinning down that function you need, e.g. if you need a string function, it's easy to just type string. , press CTRL+Space, then scroll through the string functions till you find the one you want.
With a standardized naming system, this could work with a ton of functions in a flat namespace too, but hard to enforce.
2. I believe this is a problem with DRI; if you do not compile in agpgart and dri, rmmod'ing them before suspending might work.
I have heard of problems with network cards when suspending as well, so personally I have not tried it myself.
IBM does not have much an incentive to put an Athlon 64 on a Thinkpad then, if you won't even consider buying another brand that does use that CPU.
.. perhaps even Dell, but that seems a very remote possibility - to ship with Mobile Athlon 64 will probably get my business. Bought a Centrino-based Acer laptop for my sister and she was not too impressed by it, so I think I'll skip Acer for now.
The first of IBM, Sony, Fujitsu or Toshiba
In the universities' network terms of use I have seen, such requirements are already inbuilt. And university sysadmins certainly should be logging traffic anyway, so they should be able to find out who's been downloading what.
Haha, EDO RAM. Yes, I remember getting excited when 850MB HDDs go down below the magical Rp 1 million in price. (about 300 GBP.. is it called UKP now?)
:)
There were some weird systems being sold with Pentium-on-VESA bus too back then. Ah, the old days
13. There was an amusing incident whereby some of the disks were shipped from Microsoft infected by a virus, which was why when some Mandrake ISOs triggered anti-viral false alarms a few years down the road it gave me quite a déja vù.
The corresponding count of diskettes for Office 4.3 (Win16) is.. 33, I believe.
Interesting; is this simply the next version of the 'SuSE Linux Desktop' - which was SuSE Personal + Crossover Office AFAIR - with GNOME replacing KDE, or will Novell still sell SLD?
You could hardly expect them to continue packaging Ximian Desktop, at least for other platforms. Now that Novell owns its own Linux distro why would it be packaging a GNOME desktop for its competitors? Besides, Red Hat/Fedora has quite a nice GNOME desktop set-up; and packaging for Debian is rather hard since most of their desktop users are not staying with the stable Debian 3.0.
It would be quite interesting to see if they pull the same move on SuSE and call the next Linux release 'Novell Linux X' or something similar though. I'm curious to see what the desktop'd look like, having heard claims that it would bring the best of both KDE and GNOME together.
Please stop the racist comments. Granted Apple hardware is different from commodity hardware, but they are manufactured in Taiwan (laptops) and China (iPods).
Do note that they allocated a lot of engineers to the GNOME project; a lot of the HIG testing was done by Sun engineers.
You kind of wonder who did their GNOME packaging for JDS though.. then again, SuSE 9.1 still has broken GNOME even after they bought Ximian.
Microsoft probably spec'ed out the average using a super-P4 Intel CPU, in which case 4 GHz is equivalent to your Opteron
Sweet. Considering Managed DirectX is still new and not widely deployed yet, this might even gain traction. Let's hope the Mono team manages to ship 1.0 for the key desktop platforms as planned (Win32, Linux and OS X)
.. the interview summarizes neatly what Miguel has been saying for the past few weeks; it even links to the "two stacks" diagram. Hopefully distributions would start shipping with the unencumbered stack of Mono once Mono 1.0 is out.. between that and gcj/classpath Linux should see an influx of new developers.