OK, it's nice to know how you work... still I think that new releases of software should be included only after they have been thoroughly tested instead of including a lot of really fresh releases. Either that or you should make clear that the RedHat X.0 and X.1 releases are not meant to be reliable and that users should wait for the X.2 release until switching.
At least Patrick made it public why he bounced up from 3.9 to 7.0: in order to take away some of the confusion about "Why are you still running Linux 4.0? Man! 7.0 is out already!".
But I am sure that it won;t be long until Slackware is lagging behind again... as it should! I prefer Slackware and Debian stability to RedHat Beta 6.0, 6.1 and Alpha 6.2 which include the newest and most unstable of all releases.
Bah! Each time the version number of glibc is increased by 0.0.1, RedHat grabs the new version and uses it to bounce up its version number by 1.0. Thanks but no thanks RedHat, I prefer the stability and thoroughness of Debian and Slackware.
Dude, Slackware 7.1 is the Smoothest install I have ever encountered in ANY dinstribution. And there's more: 1) at least with Slackware I know I'm getting a System that has been engineered for stability instead of for keeping up with the latest beta version of glib; 2) with slackware I'n sure there's no Graphical Dummy-Mode config program which F*CKS up my hand-crafted configuration files.
I study in the Netherlands at the EIndhoven University of Technology and they als use Pascal for the first project... but there have been some discussions that they should switch to a functional language because they'd like to first teach the students to reason about programming before teaching them bad habits in an imperative language. I thing they have a point there...
Actually my wife-to-be codes. She was trained to work in a hospital X-Ray lab but she felt she had more potential than that and she applied for a training with a major IT firm. (Cap Gemini). Now she's a programmer and she actually is a very god one too! Still she couldn;t be called a geek though. She prefers reading novels and going out to coding;-)
I think IDE's are bad for producing maintainable code. When, after 15 years, you find that you need to alter a program that was once written using a command line C compiler and make, you can just recompile it using those same tools. If, however the same program was written using some kind of IDE with its own kind of project files and stuff you're going to have a hard time finding a copy of the same 15 year old IDE the program was developed with, not to mention a computer that can run the thing!
I think IDE's are only good for write-once programs.
Actually some freeware products do exist for enabling multiple desktops on Windos. (Tucows lists quite a number of them, including one freeware program: JS Pager Virtual Desktop 2.3).
Uhm... the obvious question would be: so why the **** do you use exchange?
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Hey, I was just thinking... maybe I could build a spam filter based upon a training set of spam e-mail. A neural network could maybe be trained to recognise junk-mail. Or maibe I could design a statistical test which checks for a number of characteristic words (EARN, SAVE, etc).
Does anyone have any more ideas on possible solutions?
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Nope, I tried it and it doesn't work. I heard about someone having pulled it off in BeOS safemode.
Btw. the VMWare site explicitly says they don't have any plans for supporting BeOS in the (near) future.
Damn, you are so lost! When did this weird strike of paranoia hit you?
OK, so you're saying that in places where guns have been banned home invasion has risen. Well, let's assume that you are right (which I doubt). Does that scare you more that knowing the number of people killed yearly in the US using guns? I don;t live in the US but if I had the choice to lower the number of break-ins in the Netherlands by 50% while increasing the number of people killed in shootings by 50% the choice would be easy: I would prefer people living to a couple less break-ins.
Well... obviously that would be Slackware. All the other distributions are OK if you have no wish to know how things work. Slackware on the contrary is a bit more true to the unix way of doing things: it's a bit harder to get used to but once you master it you can do anything you want with it.
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You just helpt him poove his case.
I've written a LOT of perl in the past but I switched to python because of the strange artefacts like $_.
OK, sorry ... now that I re-read my flame I must conclude that it was my mad mood speaking.
OK, it's nice to know how you work ... still I think that new releases of software should be included only after they have been thoroughly tested instead of including a lot of really fresh releases. Either that or you should make clear that the RedHat X.0 and X.1 releases are not meant to be reliable and that users should wait for the X.2 release until switching.
At least Patrick made it public why he bounced up from 3.9 to 7.0: in order to take away some of the confusion about "Why are you still running Linux 4.0? Man! 7.0 is out already!".
... as it should! I prefer Slackware and Debian stability to RedHat Beta 6.0, 6.1 and Alpha 6.2 which include the newest and most unstable of all releases.
But I am sure that it won;t be long until Slackware is lagging behind again
Bah! Each time the version number of glibc is increased by 0.0.1, RedHat grabs the new version and uses it to bounce up its version number by 1.0. Thanks but no thanks RedHat, I prefer the stability and thoroughness of Debian and Slackware.
If you get a slackware distrib from CDROM.com you get a CD with a live filesystem too.
Dude, Slackware 7.1 is the Smoothest install I have ever encountered in ANY dinstribution. And there's more: 1) at least with Slackware I know I'm getting a System that has been engineered for stability instead of for keeping up with the latest beta version of glib; 2) with slackware I'n sure there's no Graphical Dummy-Mode config program which F*CKS up my hand-crafted configuration files.
I study in the Netherlands at the EIndhoven University of Technology and they als use Pascal for the first project ... but there have been some discussions that they should switch to a functional language because they'd like to first teach the students to reason about programming before teaching them bad habits in an imperative language. I thing they have a point there ...
Actually my wife-to-be codes. She was trained to ;-)
work in a hospital X-Ray lab but she felt she had more potential than that and she applied for a
training with a major IT firm. (Cap Gemini).
Now she's a programmer and she actually is a very god one too! Still she couldn;t be called a geek though. She prefers reading novels and going out to coding
And even if the timestamps were generated ... on unix you can change the date on a file to 1-1-1960 using the touch command.
I think IDE's are bad for producing maintainable code. When, after 15 years, you find that you need
to alter a program that was once written using a command line C compiler and make, you can just recompile it using those same tools. If, however
the same program was written using some kind of IDE
with its own kind of project files and stuff you're going to have a hard time finding a copy of the same 15 year old IDE the program was developed with, not to mention a computer that can run the thing!
I think IDE's are only good for write-once programs.
Actually some freeware products do exist for enabling multiple desktops on Windos. (Tucows lists quite a number of them, including one freeware program: JS Pager Virtual Desktop 2.3).
Uhm ... the obvious question would be: so why the
**** do you use exchange?
Hey, I was just thinking ... maybe I could build a spam filter based upon a training set of spam e-mail. A neural network could maybe be trained to recognise junk-mail. Or maibe I could design a statistical test which checks for a number of characteristic words (EARN, SAVE, etc).
Does anyone have any more ideas on possible solutions?
Nope, I tried it and it doesn't work. I heard about someone having pulled it off in BeOS safemode.
Btw. the VMWare site explicitly says they don't have any plans for supporting BeOS in the (near) future.
Damn, you are so lost! When did this weird strike of paranoia hit you?
OK, so you're saying that in places where guns have been banned home invasion has risen. Well, let's assume that you are right (which I doubt).
Does that scare you more that knowing the number of people killed yearly in the US using guns? I don;t live in the US but if I had the choice to lower the number of break-ins in the Netherlands by 50% while increasing the number of people killed in shootings by 50% the choice would be easy: I would prefer people living to a couple less break-ins.
Hey ... I just thought it would be funny to try out M$-Xenix. Would anyone have a clue where to het hold of a copy?
Well ... obviously that would be Slackware.
All the other distributions are OK if you have no wish to know how things work. Slackware on the contrary is a bit more true to the unix way of doing things: it's a bit harder to get used to but once you master it you can do anything you want with it.