Funny, I thought the ISA is still called POWER, not PowerPC? PowerPCs implement the POWER ISA, although until the introduction of the PPC 970 they were limited to a 32-bit subset of the full ISA.
The Russian's, Chinese and maybe India and ESA, especially the Russian's, could probably take a pretty good shot at the Moon and Mars if they had a couple hundred billion to spend.
Russians are the best bet, since China is not known for design innovations; their Shenzou spacecraft is an enlarged Soyuz! And Indians have yet to launch a man to orbit, though they are currently in a race with China to reach the moon.
Of course, due to politics it would be impossible for NASA to outsource to Russia (thanks to Iran) and even more so, China (nuclear collaboration with Iran, Pakistan *and* North Korea; most likely future strategic competitor etc.).
A joint ESA-Chinese mission is not so far-fetched though. Both are already cooperating on the GPS replacement project, Galileo.
Knoppix installed on the hard disk actually behaves like standard Debian, which was somewhat disconcerting - one loses the hardware detection, etc. and colorful boot messages.
So yes, it is actually stock Debian once installed. You could install discover if you want to get hardware auto-detection back, or kudzu, but they were not installed by default last time I checked.
I might be mistaken, I have not used Knoppix to do an install for a few months; been using Fedora Core. Progeny's Componentized Linux project looks interesting though. They provide ISO images of Debian sarge using Red Hat's installer Anaconda so you get LVM+RAID setup.
The problem is that the freetype font rendering library for Linux is unable to use font hints because the required algorithms are patented (by Apple, which seems to like FOSS products unless they encroach on its desktop turf).
The patented hinting algorithms are in the source but #def'ed out by default, you could recompile if you want to. Most people are fine with the replacement auto-hinting though.
At this point they would have to delay the OS to fit GNOME; you don't just rip out the default desktop and downgrade to the previous version without invalidating all the manhours put into bug testing.
Evolution was reverted to the 1.4.x series, but I believe further regressions would be unlikely at this point.
Actually, the more senior developers at investment banks, not to mention the traders, tend to have two or even three LCDs side by side. More useful for doing work than a single widescreen monitor.
And all due respect to Mandrake, I don't see many businesses using it, to be honest.
You're like a high school student who is afraid that they won't be cool and unique if everyone else listens to the same music they do.
Sometimes, though, artists compromise their music to appeal to mainstream audiences. I used to buy Shakira's Spanish-language albums but her English records have been disappointing. Sell-out.
Now, some bands manage to get good coverage without losing their uniqueness.. people like the Black Heart Procession, which I heartily recommend to people who like dark, hauntingly melancholic music:)
the copy of Mandrake I tried a few months ago didn't work with my Radeon 9000 card
Ironic, isn't it? nVidia gets slammed so often for producing closed-source drivers, and now that ATi has followed suit, I actually specced out the last PC I built with a GeForce FX.
Now that both makers are forcing us to use binary drivers to get acceleration, at least nVidia has a better track record at updating drivers (and the open-source nv driver is further along too).
A planet is a bunch of little rocks held together by their own gravity.
We don't know that the gas giants even have solid rocky cores underneath...
But yes, a mass body substantial enough to hold on to an atmosphere could be a valid definition of a planet. Not *the* valid definition since we have planets like Mercury buffeted by solar winds..
Not true; while Microsoft's first C# compiler was probably written in C++ and ASM (do they use plain C at Redmond?), Ximian's C# compiler was written from the beginning in C#.
Remember they could simply use Microsoft's C# compiler to bootstrap it.
Will probably do that soon. At the very least, Turboprint's documentation should be fixed - not only did it not mention print admins, it claimed to automatically create a raw queue for each printer.
It's a similar situation to using binary-only kernel drivers, I suppose. Yep, my major problems with sharing that Canon printer via Samba are publishing the print drivers (FC1's cups has an older version of the script) and figuring out I had to recreate the turboprint queue.
The article was insightful, and it contains some things I still did not know after wrestling with integrating CUPS, Turboprint (crappy Canon printer) and Samba, but to be fair to the CUPS developer, they did not write redhat-config-printer; Red Hat did.
CUPS and Turboprint works well, as it turns out, the problem is that printing from OOo (Linux), printing from OOo (Win) using CUPS' postscript driver, and printing from OOo (Win) to a Windows printer results in different page margins being used. Bummer. At least the fonts look identical if the same fonts are used on both ends.
And for those people with new Winprinters wondering why raw printing from Samba does not work anymore, you need to add the Windows user as a printer admin. Not documented *anywhere*.
what good is that when the spammer lives in a country that has no laws against spam?
It would be much easier to accurately blacklist them, really. Currently some poor people get erroneously blacklisted by mail admins because spammers spoof their e-mail addresses.
Ironically for Yahoo's involvement in blocking spam, I was recently forced to switch my mailing list subscriptions from my Yahoo account because Yahoo's servers are considered insecure and some mail servers tag Yahoo mails as possible spams...
you can read Robert M. Love's Linux Kernel Development, authored by the person who brought us kernel pre-emption, and is now working at Ximian/SuSE on kernel-desktop integration. Can you say Utopia ?
Considering people who go to university tend to be smarter and make more money than those who don't - on average, that is - they're more likely to be able to afford a Mac too.
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Funny, I thought the ISA is still called POWER, not PowerPC? PowerPCs implement the POWER ISA, although until the introduction of the PPC 970 they were limited to a 32-bit subset of the full ISA.
Poor Kenny... you bastard!
Obviously, this must have been meant for publication on April 1st!
Russians are the best bet, since China is not known for design innovations; their Shenzou spacecraft is an enlarged Soyuz! And Indians have yet to launch a man to orbit, though they are currently in a race with China to reach the moon.
Of course, due to politics it would be impossible for NASA to outsource to Russia (thanks to Iran) and even more so, China (nuclear collaboration with Iran, Pakistan *and* North Korea; most likely future strategic competitor etc.).
A joint ESA-Chinese mission is not so far-fetched though. Both are already cooperating on the GPS replacement project, Galileo.
Knoppix installed on the hard disk actually behaves like standard Debian, which was somewhat disconcerting - one loses the hardware detection, etc. and colorful boot messages.
So yes, it is actually stock Debian once installed. You could install discover if you want to get hardware auto-detection back, or kudzu, but they were not installed by default last time I checked.
I might be mistaken, I have not used Knoppix to do an install for a few months; been using Fedora Core. Progeny's Componentized Linux project looks interesting though. They provide ISO images of Debian sarge using Red Hat's installer Anaconda so you get LVM+RAID setup.
A question for those who have used SuSE recently / are using it now:
Is it possible to boot a live CD, install it to your hard drive, and then use Yast Online Update to pull packages not provided on the CD?
The same way one could download Knoppix and use it as a Debian installer.
Would be a cool halfway solution between buying a full-set distro and having to bootstrap a netinstall from floppies.
The problem is that the freetype font rendering library for Linux is unable to use font hints because the required algorithms are patented (by Apple, which seems to like FOSS products unless they encroach on its desktop turf).
The patented hinting algorithms are in the source but #def'ed out by default, you could recompile if you want to. Most people are fine with the replacement auto-hinting though.
At this point they would have to delay the OS to fit GNOME; you don't just rip out the default desktop and downgrade to the previous version without invalidating all the manhours put into bug testing.
Evolution was reverted to the 1.4.x series, but I believe further regressions would be unlikely at this point.
Actually, the more senior developers at investment banks, not to mention the traders, tend to have two or even three LCDs side by side. More useful for doing work than a single widescreen monitor.
And all due respect to Mandrake, I don't see many businesses using it, to be honest.
Err yes, but due to the DMCA will Mandrake-running HPs be able to play encrypted DVDs out-of-the-box?
Sometimes, though, artists compromise their music to appeal to mainstream audiences. I used to buy Shakira's Spanish-language albums but her English records have been disappointing. Sell-out.
Now, some bands manage to get good coverage without losing their uniqueness.. people like the Black Heart Procession, which I heartily recommend to people who like dark, hauntingly melancholic music
Ironic, isn't it? nVidia gets slammed so often for producing closed-source drivers, and now that ATi has followed suit, I actually specced out the last PC I built with a GeForce FX.
Now that both makers are forcing us to use binary drivers to get acceleration, at least nVidia has a better track record at updating drivers (and the open-source nv driver is further along too).
Yes, there are binary-only ATI drivers. No, I don't know how well they work.
You just made my friends list. Cool link, like your no-holds-barred attitude.
We don't know that the gas giants even have solid rocky cores underneath...
But yes, a mass body substantial enough to hold on to an atmosphere could be a valid definition of a planet. Not *the* valid definition since we have planets like Mercury buffeted by solar winds..
Not true; while Microsoft's first C# compiler was probably written in C++ and ASM (do they use plain C at Redmond?), Ximian's C# compiler was written from the beginning in C#.
Remember they could simply use Microsoft's C# compiler to bootstrap it.
Will probably do that soon. At the very least, Turboprint's documentation should be fixed - not only did it not mention print admins, it claimed to automatically create a raw queue for each printer.
It's a similar situation to using binary-only kernel drivers, I suppose. Yep, my major problems with sharing that Canon printer via Samba are publishing the print drivers (FC1's cups has an older version of the script) and figuring out I had to recreate the turboprint queue.
The article was insightful, and it contains some things I still did not know after wrestling with integrating CUPS, Turboprint (crappy Canon printer) and Samba, but to be fair to the CUPS developer, they did not write redhat-config-printer; Red Hat did.
CUPS and Turboprint works well, as it turns out, the problem is that printing from OOo (Linux), printing from OOo (Win) using CUPS' postscript driver, and printing from OOo (Win) to a Windows printer results in different page margins being used. Bummer. At least the fonts look identical if the same fonts are used on both ends.
And for those people with new Winprinters wondering why raw printing from Samba does not work anymore, you need to add the Windows user as a printer admin. Not documented *anywhere*.
It would be much easier to accurately blacklist them, really. Currently some poor people get erroneously blacklisted by mail admins because spammers spoof their e-mail addresses.
Ironically for Yahoo's involvement in blocking spam, I was recently forced to switch my mailing list subscriptions from my Yahoo account because Yahoo's servers are considered insecure and some mail servers tag Yahoo mails as possible spams...
Can't believe nobody made a torrent of this yet ..
It is almost ready. It seems that gcj from the pre-3.4 GCC suite is getting quite usable; it is also capable of compiling IBM's Eclipse IDE properly.
And will be available on Fedora Core 2 soon. Yum.
you can read Robert M. Love's Linux Kernel Development , authored by the person who brought us kernel pre-emption, and is now working at Ximian/SuSE on kernel-desktop integration. Can you say Utopia ?
Considering people who go to university tend to be smarter and make more money than those who don't - on average, that is - they're more likely to be able to afford a Mac too.
You should bug the university if they provide student lists, especially *with* grades, on the web. Scary.
Hang on a minute, he's minting free money! You forgot to deduct the money from Linux users' accounts :P