hey hey, after this story was posted on slashdot the all ftp servers have mysteriously cleared up. I think CmdrTaco is a secretly a RH user and he just wanted to be able to download it:-)
devfs is optional. I've tried it, I didn't like all the new names, somehow/dev/ide0/target0/host0.....
just doesn't do it for me. Although It's still a good idea, just not the new naming scheme. I also had problems with it not remembering some of my permissions (some where remembered, other weren't). It's a bit of a pain. I guess that's what the distributors are for, they worry about getting these kind of things working for their users.
I manage to do an ftp install last night from metalab.unc.edu, was perty slow, started install at 1:00AM, went to bed, woke up, install was complete:-). FTP install is the best thing since sliced bread.
But damn, it's been a week and all the mirrors are still swamped with people downloading it. Unbeleivable. Now im trying to get extra packages that I forgot to specify and I'm having a hard time finding a decent ftp site. It's terrible.
I guess redhat learned their lesson, after my install, all services (telnet, ftp, ssh, etc.) were dissabled by default.
I think one would require citizens to live on the moon. Canada, for example, keeps an outposts of people (mostly scientist) in the far north in order to maintain it's claim to that land. If the people leave, the land is up for grabs.
The same would apply to the Moon, treaties prevent that however. Although, nothing is stopping martians from moving to the moon and claiming it since they have not signed our treaties.
Yes, but the true case is often hiden, for example in windows, directories such as WINNT are automatically converted Winnt for "easy" user viewing. Thus README becomes Readme and no longer stands out. Further, Readme will appear in the middle of the directory listing, there's no way for a developer to force it to appear at the top (other then calling it Aaa_readme).
The best reason I can give is sorting, files that start with an uppercase always appear at the top of an "ls". This is handy when you want a file to stand out in a large directory-- "README" comes to mind (Unix people have a tendency to just use lower case only for regular files). This applies to GUI file browsers too (well, the good ones anyway).
And anyways, with bash's <tab> auto complete mixing uppercase and lowercase isn't that bothersome, in fact it's a blessing. If README is the only "R" starting file in a directory (because it's special), you can type:"less R<tab><enter>" to view it's contents, saves time don't you think?
Alot of windows users seem to find the command prompt annoying and extra time consumming. I think this is primarily because they've only been exposed to DOS. It doesn't have very many keystroke saving tricks (the DOSKEY history is perty much the only thing I can think of), and so they'd end up typing alot more than us unix people to do the same task. Also, without an auto-complete, you kinda have to guess commands.
Below is a link to a redhat employee's ftp space. He makes unofficial rpms of the latest kde betas. Currently there's 1.93. Hopefully he should have 1.94 up soon (1-2 weeks, from the 1.93 dates).
I was perty impressed with the latest KDE beta, konqueror has gained significant speed (I have a slow p133, so I notice these things!!).
What I like the most about it is that you can set what the browser it reports its self as to a server. You can make the server think you're using Netscape or IE on variety of OSes. IE on Linux? With konqueror it's possible:-) (may look like shit though)
BUT...I have never found a site that I can only view with IE.
Well, not exactly what you're looking for, but vision.yahoo.com only works with windows 95, 98 NT or 2000 (with NS or IE). Try it, click on "Click to Watch FinanceVision" on the site using anything else but an MS OS and you'll get a popup message telling you so!
I'm afraid the internet is getting more and more MS-centric.
I think the ironic thing is that intel doesn't even use equipment that's powered by intel processors to test their processors. They use the Schlumberger testers which are powered by sparcs and come with a sun workstation (the software is only offered on sparcs). It should also be noted that intel is schlumberger biggest customer!
Testers are used for characterising chips (timing, functionality, input currents, etc.).
Schlumberger's fastest tester (the ITS9000KX) reach 1Gbps, although according to the a schlumberger employee they mostly use a slower model (I think it was ~400Mbps) so intel may not be testing these things at speed (although, are there any pins that run above 400MHZ?). They might have left the at-speed testing to a bench setup (i.e. a computer) running windows, and that may be why they missed the bugs.
Considering the obvious problems reported on Tom's hardware, you have to wonder if they're giving enough coffee to their product engineers.
IBM has a plant Bromont Quebec(an hour or so from Montreal, I think they make some PPCs there), So it may have been produced there. I remember reading something about IBM being partners with TM, so it would make sense.
Do flash sites have to support different OS'? I was at the "flash site of the day": disney's toy story 2 and after clicking " Yes, I have Flash already -- take me to the Flashed site. " I got an error page saying that I basically had to install windows or get a mac.
this is similar to the fox fiasco of a few weeks ago (although they prevent the viewing of the entire web site) and i'm shure there are plenty of other sites that do the same thing. I guess my question is: is this the result of web site designer's ignorance or does the linux version of flash have some "bugs" which requires the redesigning of the flash site?
> This technology doesn't work on the move. It isn't meant for vehicle platforms. Fixed sites only.
What type of modulation/access scheme does newbridge use for it wireless systems (if you don't mind me asking)?
I heard that ofdm (a.k.a. MCM or even cofdm) (used in digital radio/tv (not hdtv)) has great multipath resistance and can performed with doppler shifts up to 400km/h (i think). Any reason why this is not used? I can see that it would be dificult to use for the uplink, but I don't see why it couldn't be used for downlink.
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hey hey, after this story was posted on slashdot the all ftp servers have mysteriously cleared up. I think CmdrTaco is a secretly a RH user and he just wanted to be able to download it :-)
devfs is optional. I've tried it, I didn't like all the new names, somehow /dev/ide0/target0/host0.....
just doesn't do it for me. Although It's still a good idea, just not the new naming scheme. I also had problems with it not remembering some of my permissions (some where remembered, other weren't). It's a bit of a pain. I guess that's what the distributors are for, they worry about getting these kind of things working for their users.
But damn, it's been a week and all the mirrors are still swamped with people downloading it. Unbeleivable. Now im trying to get extra packages that I forgot to specify and I'm having a hard time finding a decent ftp site. It's terrible.
I guess redhat learned their lesson, after my install, all services (telnet, ftp, ssh, etc.) were dissabled by default.
The same would apply to the Moon, treaties prevent that however. Although, nothing is stopping martians from moving to the moon and claiming it since they have not signed our treaties.
Yes, but the true case is often hiden, for example in windows, directories such as WINNT are automatically converted Winnt for "easy" user viewing. Thus README becomes Readme and no longer stands out. Further, Readme will appear in the middle of the directory listing, there's no way for a developer to force it to appear at the top (other then calling it Aaa_readme).
And anyways, with bash's <tab> auto complete mixing uppercase and lowercase isn't that bothersome, in fact it's a blessing. If README is the only "R" starting file in a directory (because it's special), you can type:"less R<tab><enter>" to view it's contents, saves time don't you think?
Alot of windows users seem to find the command prompt annoying and extra time consumming. I think this is primarily because they've only been exposed to DOS. It doesn't have very many keystroke saving tricks (the DOSKEY history is perty much the only thing I can think of), and so they'd end up typing alot more than us unix people to do the same task. Also, without an auto-complete, you kinda have to guess commands.
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Daniel
I beleive it's MOSX (Mac OS X), pronounced "Mow"-"Six", although some people claim it's "Mo(re)"-"Sex", but I think that's a little silly.
From bero's web page: "Some experimental packages for Red Hat Linux 6.2..."
They appear to be updated today, but they're still marked as 1.93.
And for the http people: http://people.redhat.com/bero/experimental/
Below is a link to a redhat employee's ftp space. He makes unofficial rpms of the latest kde betas. Currently there's 1.93. Hopefully he should have 1.94 up soon (1-2 weeks, from the 1.93 dates).
ftp://people.redhat.com/bero/RPMS/
What I like the most about it is that you can set what the browser it reports its self as to a server. You can make the server think you're using Netscape or IE on variety of OSes. IE on Linux? With konqueror it's possible :-) (may look like shit though)
Well, not exactly what you're looking for, but vision.yahoo.com only works with windows 95, 98 NT or 2000 (with NS or IE). Try it, click on "Click to Watch FinanceVision" on the site using anything else but an MS OS and you'll get a popup message telling you so!
I'm afraid the internet is getting more and more MS-centric.
Testers are used for characterising chips (timing, functionality, input currents, etc.). Schlumberger's fastest tester (the ITS9000KX) reach 1Gbps, although according to the a schlumberger employee they mostly use a slower model (I think it was ~400Mbps) so intel may not be testing these things at speed (although, are there any pins that run above 400MHZ?). They might have left the at-speed testing to a bench setup (i.e. a computer) running windows, and that may be why they missed the bugs.
Considering the obvious problems reported on Tom's hardware, you have to wonder if they're giving enough coffee to their product engineers.
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Daniel
IBM has a plant Bromont Quebec(an hour or so from Montreal, I think they make some PPCs there), So it may have been produced there. I remember reading something about IBM being partners with TM, so it would make sense.
Do flash sites have to support different OS'? I was at the "flash site of the day": disney's toy story 2 and after clicking " Yes, I have Flash already -- take me to the Flashed site. " I got an error page saying that I basically had to install windows or get a mac.
this is similar to the fox fiasco of a few weeks ago (although they prevent the viewing of the entire web site) and i'm shure there are plenty of other sites that do the same thing. I guess my question is: is this the result of web site designer's ignorance or does the linux version of flash have some "bugs" which requires the redesigning of the flash site?
does anybody know?
Dan
> This technology doesn't work on the move. It isn't meant for vehicle platforms. Fixed sites only.
What type of modulation/access scheme does newbridge use for it wireless systems (if you don't mind me asking)?
I heard that ofdm (a.k.a. MCM or even cofdm) (used in digital radio/tv (not hdtv)) has great multipath resistance and can performed with doppler shifts up to 400km/h (i think). Any reason why this is not used? I can see that it would be dificult to use for the uplink, but I don't see why it couldn't be used for downlink.
Dan