1) debian : apt-get update. 2) XFree4.0.1 has accelerated GL built in when you use a supported card. 3) rapid advances are being made to do the updates more cleanly on the redhat side. 4) I have seen plenty of Windows 98 machines lock hard, with the latest DX6, and the latest drivers, while Linux just keeps on running under OpenGL.
look up the slashdot artcle on win98 openGL speed verses Linux. Linux hit 97% of Win98 in some of the tests -- the tests using the NVidia cards and drivers.
This is actually kind of suprising, since Linux is a true multitasking, multiuser machine, and Win98 is still kinda dos-based underneath. Win98 should have been much faster than Linux in every case, if your suppositions were true.
Win2K? NT? not exactly the ideal gaming platforms, last time I checked.
Perhaps you are posting about DirectX performance under Linux. I admit, that ain't working so well.
...the part about linux having poor driver support and not supporting standards.
these comments are not true in every case, and are becoming less of an issue rapidly.
example: linux uses the openGL *standard*. MS does not. if anything, MS should have gotten a "0" and Linux a "10" for this *standards* issue alone.
example: both debian and redhat derived systems use package managers that greatly simplify driver installation. in many cases, there is no "build" at all -- only an install. And XFree86 4.0.1 takes care of the driver issues for the most part -- it's all there!
I tried running SO on Linux about three years ago, when the JVM pickings for Linux were rather slim, but it ran and the performance was almost acceptable.
I seriously doubt any major portion of SO is written in Java.
I share your concerns, but I think you may be overly pessimistic. Here are a few of my thoughts on the same subjects:
>1. Sun is now admitting that the idea of giving >away a free office suite is non-viable and they >are opening the source as a way to divest their >engineering resources. Don't expect help from Sun >in this area.
Giving away a free office suite was not gaining them much in the way of hardware sales, which doesn't do Sun a lot of financial good. I don't think that was ever the reason they did it -- I think they did it to annoy Gates. This move should annoy Gates even more -- thousands of programmers working on a GPL office suite that is fairly mature has to be scary for MS. MS Office is their Killer App. -- the only other thing they have is Exchange, which is facing increasing competition from Domino and OpenMail.
The UI sucks. It made sense to take over the desktop some years ago, but let's face it the desktop is becoming homogenized pretty fast. The heavy interface is no longer necessary.
Maybe Sun wants to divest their engineering resources -- have them go work on Java, XML, Solaris, whatever. That's ok. I bet the people most familiar with the design will continue guiding and contributing to the open side.
>2. Cross-platform support will die. Open Source >projects of significant magnitude just don't >happen on the major GUI OSes. StarOffice for >Windows will lag far enough behind StarOffice for >Linux that it won't be the cross-platform >solution that it is touted as today.
Tell you the truth, I think the cross platform support will increase. XFree and Gnome have spread far beyond the X86 platform at this point. If the basic UI of SO gets fixed, and Gnomified, this could be a cross-platform bonanza, at least on the free side. Perhaps somene will use one of the free crossplatform toolkits (like wxWindows) to do the platform dependent work. That would keep things stable.
In all honesty, I don't think a lot of places would seriously consider using SO on a windows machine if thay already had Office. But I do think a lot of places might consider running SO on Linux if the whole ASP/online registration thing continues.
I don't think people realize, the way Bill Gates realizes, that internet software could become like the video store -- your company uses MS Office for $.50 cents an hour, etc., and you get "popups" for security patches, upgrades, etc. that prompt for your credit card number -- Net connection required to even use the S/W. I suspect a lot of companies will switch entirely to Linux and SO when this stuff hits the 'net.
Sensitive parts of the government will have to switch to something standalone to do their work, for example. I don't know of any security model that would let someone do analyses on advanced military aircraft or nuclear weaponry over an ASP based web app model. The security people just can't allow that.
>3. This might even spell the death of StarOffice. >GPL has produces a whole bunch of useful code, >but the inevitable branching of the project will >kill the corporate acceptability of StarOffice. >Branching has proven inevitable on all but the >simplest of projects.
Funny, I know of only a couple small projects that have branched, and they only branched because the Author wouldn't accept patches or didn't like the mods. In one case, the Author stopped working on the project, refused to answer emails about bugs, and took the GPL code off his webpage. Someone else took over, on a new webpage, and the original author started screaming "branch!" -- but that's not really a branch, IMHO.
If you mean that GPLing SO will make Sun lose control of SO, I agree. But I see no reason for it to branch that heavily. There are no Gimp branches, for example. This was always a behind-the-scenes project for Sun, it's not that big of a deal.
>4. If all that's not enough, GPL'd projects don't >generally produce good end user software in terms >of UI. Granted StarOffice pretty well sucks now >in this regard, GPL won't help.
We had a 400 pg. Word document at work that was BSOD'ing NT on a P3/500/128 mb. machine. I was able to load and scroll fwd. and backward through the document with SO on a P1/200/32 mb. box using SO. Mangement still wouldn't let us use SO -- and I admit some of the formatting was wrong.
Gnome and KDE seem to be decent user interface software, and both are GPL'd. Both are improving rather strongly, I'd say. Some of the g[fill in the blank] programs -- gphoto, gimp, gnumeric, etc. -- don't have bad UI's at all. gimp could use some work:-)
I've never throught the SO interface was "bad" -- at least not at the level of the child apps. The MDI thing that wraps all the child apps has to go! Only a few people I know actually like that.
I think GPL will help the UI. I just bet that within a few releases of a GPL'd SO, the root interface will be completely redone.
>Assuming Sun goes forward with GPLing StarOffice, >we can all pretty much stop watching it.
...and start using it.
>Just my controvertial $.02.
...your $.02 has been "controvertally" raised to $.04.
I strongly suggest you get a Unix/Linux consultant (perhaps from SCO) to come in and write something up, or even better, hire a good Unix/Linux admin.
That being said, I'd go with RedHat, since it's pretty well supported and has a large presence on the web for QA sessions.
I'm rolling out about 300 desktops "soon". I'd love to do it with my preferred destop -- HelixCode's gnome and debian -- but the install is just a little over the top.
try replacing Enlightenment with Sawmill/Sawfish.
32 MB. might not be too good if you plan on running any real apps.
today there has been an article about "x is doomed" and now "carmack chooses the dark side".
big deal. i think the xbox is going to take a dump, other than the keyboard i use i know of no MS hardware that is a comm'l success.
the spec web benchmark reamed win2K, and a couple weeks ago a little 32/64 bit, full mutitasking os, complete with src code (that many of us know and love) hit some 97% of the win98 openGL performance.
so, even though JC has not had a lot of nice things to say about linux, my personal experience today was installing debian, NT4 and redhat on three dual cpu P3 500 dells, brand new, out of the box.
NT blue screened on machine 1, redhat and debian installed flawlessly. just for grins, i installed RH on machine 1 as well -- no problems whatsoever. all three are burning in over the weekend. i'll check dell support monday for the NT install issues.
i think linux has a stong future, esp. with the big embedded/japan announcement a day or so ago. carmack has a right to his opinions on linux, and the right to "go MS".
choose your own path, and be proud of it. it ain't no big deal, except so many kids look up to carmack. from that point of view, it doesn't do a lot for the concept of open-mindedness, fairness or a free market. maybe he'll say something like those sports figures say : "i'm not a role model"...
many question why simple devices should run linux.
for many embedded systems, there is a low production count. they may actually make more profit per device by using a full-blown PC-on-a-chip over a small microcontroller.
the time to market is shorter, and the development costs are much lower.
if you can't amortize the higher cost engineering that goes into a microcontroller based system over many devices, then the pc-on-a-chip is a better deal.
Sometimes when I use use for extended periods of time, especially after downloaded a phat tarball and compiling that byatch, I start shaking and writhing in ecstasy.
I have also been late to work several times due to my Linux use.
On occasions when I can't use Linux at least 2-3 times a day, I become angry and distant; often lashing out in anger at those around me.
All those "formulas" downloadable from the web -- the population must be protected! It is the duty of a caring government!
Corporate greed fleecing people; serving their shareholder's tireless need for profit at the expense of people.
Poultry in america is already reported to have a 10% increase in fecal contamination now that "irradiation" can be used to sterilize it -- after all, if a corporation can serve you sterile shit with your food, why not eat it, if it means higher profits through increased efficiency! Plus, that chicken can sit on the shelf at the market for weeks now, without expiring. yummy.
And that liberal clinton government. They signed in a law so fruits and vegetables may be labeled "cold pasteurized" instead of "irradiated". After all, who would buy food labeled "irradiated" if the bin next to it says "organic"? What do you want to feed your baby? The baby food manufacturers have already decided to skip on "irradiated" products. Wouldn't Louis Pasteur be proud!!
Here's the real shit about freedom -- it's not maintaining the staus quo -- it's about working every day to end the reign of power structures that desperately want to control you mind and poison your body (salt, sugar and fat are the cheapest (and unhealthiest) ways to satisfy your body's cravings for nutrition) while picking your pocket:
> > Subject: Declaration of Independence > > > > > > Have you ever wondered what happened to the 56 men who signed the > > Declaration of Independence? > > > > Five signers were captured by the British as traitors, and tortured > > before they died. > > Twelve had their homes ransacked and burned. > > Two lost their sons serving in the Revolutionary Army; another had two > > sons captured. > > Nine of the 56 fought and died from wounds or hardships of the > > Revolutionary War. > > They signed and they pledged their lives, their fortunes, and their > > sacred honor. > > > > What kind of men were they? > > > > Twenty-four were lawyers and jurists. Eleven were merchants, nine were > > farmers and large plantation owners; men of means, well educated. But > > they signed the Declaration of Independence knowing full well that the > > penalty would be death if they were captured. > > Carter Braxton of Virginia, a wealthy planter and trader, saw his > > ships swept from the seas by the British Navy. He sold his home and > > properties to pay his debts, and died in rags. > > Thomas McKeam was so hounded by the British that he was forced to > > move his family almost constantly. He served in the Congress without > > pay, and his family was kept in hiding. His possessions were taken from > > him, and poverty was his reward. > > Vandals or soldiers looted the properties of Dillery, Hall, Clymer, > > Walton, Gwinnett, Heyward, Ruttledge, and Middleton. At the battle of > > Yorktown,Thomas Nelson Jr, noted that the British General Cornwallis had > > taken over the Nelson home for his headquarters. He quietly urged > > General George Washington to open fire. The home was destroyed, and > > Nelson died bankrupt. > > Francis Lewis had his home and properties destroyed. The enemy jailed > > his wife, and she died within a few months. > > John Hart was driven from his wife's bedside as she was dying.Their > > 13 children fled for their lives. His fields and his gristmill were laid > > to waste. For more than a year he lived in forests and caves, returning > > home to find his wife dead and his children vanished. A few weeks later > > he died from exhaustion and a broken heart. > > Norris and Livingston suffered similar fates. > > Such were the stories and sacrifices of the American Revolution. > > These were not wild-eyed, rabble-rousing ruffians. They were > > soft-spoken men of means and education. They had security, but they > > valued liberty more. Standing tall, straight, and unwavering, they > > pledged: "For the support of this declaration, with firm reliance on the > > protection of the divine providence, we mutually pledge to each other, > > our lives, our fortunes, and our sacred honor." > > They gave you and me a free and independent America. The history > > books never told you a lot about what happened in the Revolutionary War. > > We didn't fight just the British. We were British subjects at that time > > and we fought our own government! > > Some of us take these liberties so much for granted, but we > > shouldn't. > > So, take a few minutes while enjoying your 4th of July holiday and > > silently thank these patriots. It's not much to ask for the price they > > paid. Remember: freedom is never free! I hope you will show your > > support by please sending this to as many people as you can. It's time > > we get the word out that patriotism is NOT a sin, and the Fourth of July > > has more to it than beer, picnics, and baseball games.
[to the tune of Cyndi Lauper's "Girls Just Want To Have Fun"]
she won't stare at the monitor's light society says "don't you wanna hack all night?" we just don't care about zeros and ones and grrls, don't wanna be geeks no, grrls don't wanna be geeks.
lasted three days in a programming class those "for loops" and "call stacks" really kicked my teen ass just can't log into those x-terminals and grrls don't wanna be geeks no, grrls don't wanna be geeks.
not what they want, not a geek, let the boys balance red-black trees, cuz grrls don't wanna be geeks. no, grrls, don't wanna be geeks.
they don't wanna, they don't wanna, they don't wanna, they don't wanna, grrls, oh, grrls, don't wanna be geeks.
first off, there are a lot of careers that women, for the most part, don't enter. mechanics, most engineering fields other than 'putes, welders, etc. why single out 'puting?
second, no individual should let the herd decide what they want to do with their life. if you don't wanna be a geek, don't do it. but don't blame men.
if i had cared what the average american male (or female) throught, before, during or after adolescence, i'd probably go kill myself. this is a very sick, putrid society. i'd say we are the cave people of the future, but i think cave people were far more civil that "modern society" with its racist, sexist entrenched corporate greed. so don't listen to anything but your heart, your loved ones, and the facts.
third, two of the best programmers i've worked with are women, and several top computer people are women. most of the girls i knew growing up couldn't study or concentrate for long periods of time. that's a killer for any analytical career.
the women i know who are accomplished scientists all had strong families. that doesn't bode well for the future of today's kids. you can do it, it will require more concentration.
take it or leave it, that's my opinion. Girls, if you want to grow up to be geeks, you're probably going to have to deprive yourself and study just as much as the the penis people. don't know any other way around it.
the imbalance will continue, until you make the change. of course, with so much politics in the technolgies, i'm not sure, if i had to do it all over again, that i would choose CS. quite frankly, there's a massive push in corporate USA to move software and technology overseas, and to bring the top overseas people here.
i'd strongly consider teaching or bio if i were in junior high right now. if your a teacher, you can pick up and go pretty much anywhere -- every town needs a teacher.
but engineers? you're constrained to the cities. make more, but everything costs much more. you'd have the same problem with bio. still gotta study hard!!!
I have been trying to make this point for ages -- that Qt can't be used for internal/research projects w/o paying $1500, or more, per workstation, to TrollTech.
Very well written. I agree that it would be better to use any of the others (even give up and go MS) before using anything that depends on Qt.
The fee for the commercial license is ridiculous. I can get a great OS, window system, window manager, thousands of programs, distribute them thoughout a company and develop on them internally for free, without releasing any code (as long as GPL licensed code is not modified).
Add TrollTech's Qt libs and all of that grinds to a halt. The MS solution is far cheaper in such a case.
NFS is a huge security hole that lets evil college students share their files seamlessly. It must be stopped, by any means necessary.
Additionally, rumors have been flying that some male students have been writing little bits of drivel on paper, then passing these notes to women they find attractive. It must stop now. All pencils, pens, crayons and tablets must be seized and burned. Our young women must be protected.
The best and final solution is to simply stop educating the young. The "teacher-student" interface is a massive security hole that fosters the communication of ideas between people without the tacit approval of the state. These evil young people may then use the technology in ways the tribe of elders have not approved. This must be stopped.
a lot of people are complaining that the government shouldn't be protecting people this way, that it's easy to do the math, if people are that stupid, they deserve to lose their money, blah, blah, blah.
i completely disagree. the gov exist for all people, even the stupid ones. a company with some decent marketing can do a lot of damage to consumers before the gov catches up and puts a stop to it, and if the FTC wants to come down on these dumb ads, more power to them.
one of my friends works with autistic people, and *some* of them just give their money away. they have no idea what it is. they just figure "if you want it, here ya go".
presumably, there are other people out there that are more functional, but still gullible enough to fall for this "free pc" bs.
i see no reason why the wolves of our society should be able to prey on them unhindered. if you have to spend money to get the device, then it's not free, and the ads should be clearer.
If this dude publishes those names, and someone dies, he's a murderer, and I hope he gets thrown in prison.
As far as the times criticising anyone who scans their documents for security flaws, they should be whipped. the times should be heavily criticised for this failure to adequately insure the names were removed from the document. they should be thankful someone wrote in.
but for anyone to continue publishing the names...once the problem has been exposed...if that's not a crime, it should be.
incidentally, i did not see the list published, only that the times reporter was "angry" that someone exposed their failure to safeguard the names and emailed them (?!).
Two developers arguing about the best way to do something is a crisis in Linux politics?
Gimme a break. The whole idea of open source is that (like some kind of chaotic genetic algorithm) it will weed out the best way to do things.
My criticism of Linux is that, in a case like the JFS, it fails to leverage the commercial entities who have a lot to offer -- SGI and IBM. It was just several months ago that SGI seemed strongly interested in moving it's JFS to Linux. IBM has made similar offerrings, as I recall.
Apache has done very well working with the com types, but Linux seems to prefer hiding in a cave, with a score of unrelenting primitives camped at the opening, shouting "Ugga Bugga!" at any which seek to enter, and poking them with a sharp stick.
Go ask Joerg Schilly(sp?) about scsi generic. Surely SGI, Sun, IBM or Adaptec could do something about the horrid state of CD Writing under Linux.
...i speak as one of many when i say that the whole cdrom burning infrastructure is pretty thrashed, but recovering.
whether using scsi or atapi, on any distribution, and performing all the steps in the cdrom-writing howto, and using the lastest cdrecord, something is definately wrong.
prior to about 6-8 months ago, i had never made a coaster (unless i did something stupid).
lately, after a lot of kernel rebuilding and s/w updates, i have a debian install that is burning fairly solid.
still occasional kernel messages and lockups, or the scsi just disappears, requiring a reboot.
three machines, three distros, two different writers (1 scsi, 1 atapi), many updates and tests, and i'm down to about 1/10 coasters. a year ago, it was NO coasters.
cd writing is important to a lot of people. something went wrong in the s/w infrastructure for burning cdroms several months ago, and it has yet to totally recover.
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1) debian : apt-get update.
2) XFree4.0.1 has accelerated GL built in when you use a supported card.
3) rapid advances are being made to do the updates more cleanly on the redhat side.
4) I have seen plenty of Windows 98 machines lock hard, with the latest DX6, and the latest drivers, while Linux just keeps on running under OpenGL.
depends what side you're on, doesn't it?
One man's freedom fighter is another man's terrorist.
look up the slashdot artcle on win98 openGL speed verses Linux. Linux hit 97% of Win98 in some of the tests -- the tests using the NVidia cards and drivers.
This is actually kind of suprising, since Linux is a true multitasking, multiuser machine, and Win98 is still kinda dos-based underneath. Win98 should have been much faster than Linux in every case, if your suppositions were true.
Win2K? NT? not exactly the ideal gaming platforms, last time I checked.
Perhaps you are posting about DirectX performance under Linux. I admit, that ain't working so well.
...the part about linux having poor driver support and not supporting standards.
these comments are not true in every case, and are becoming less of an issue rapidly.
example: linux uses the openGL *standard*. MS does not. if anything, MS should have gotten a "0" and Linux a "10" for this *standards* issue alone.
example: both debian and redhat derived systems use package managers that greatly simplify driver installation. in many cases, there is no "build" at all -- only an install. And XFree86 4.0.1 takes care of the driver issues for the most part -- it's all there!
So, my take on the article is:
Overall : 5
Standards commentary : 0
Driver Commentary : 2
...i had to stop reading after the driver and standards section; they were just too wrong.
whot?
AFAIK, most of SO is written in C++.
I tried running SO on Linux about three years ago, when the JVM pickings for Linux were rather slim, but it ran and the performance was almost acceptable.
I seriously doubt any major portion of SO is written in Java.
I share your concerns, but I think you may be overly pessimistic. Here are a few of my thoughts on the same subjects:
:-)
>1. Sun is now admitting that the idea of giving
>away a free office suite is non-viable and they
>are opening the source as a way to divest their
>engineering resources. Don't expect help from Sun
>in this area.
Giving away a free office suite was not gaining them much in the way of hardware sales, which doesn't do Sun a lot of financial good. I don't think that was ever the reason they did it -- I think they did it to annoy Gates. This move should annoy Gates even more -- thousands of programmers working on a GPL office suite that is fairly mature has to be scary for MS. MS Office is their Killer App. -- the only other thing they have is Exchange, which is facing increasing competition from Domino and OpenMail.
The UI sucks. It made sense to take over the desktop some years ago, but let's face it the desktop is becoming homogenized pretty fast. The heavy interface is no longer necessary.
Maybe Sun wants to divest their engineering resources -- have them go work on Java, XML, Solaris, whatever. That's ok. I bet the people most familiar with the design will continue guiding and contributing to the open side.
>2. Cross-platform support will die. Open Source
>projects of significant magnitude just don't
>happen on the major GUI OSes. StarOffice for
>Windows will lag far enough behind StarOffice for
>Linux that it won't be the cross-platform
>solution that it is touted as today.
Tell you the truth, I think the cross platform support will increase. XFree and Gnome have spread far beyond the X86 platform at this point. If the basic UI of SO gets fixed, and Gnomified, this could be a cross-platform bonanza, at least on the free side. Perhaps somene will use one of the free crossplatform toolkits (like wxWindows) to do the platform dependent work. That would keep things stable.
In all honesty, I don't think a lot of places would seriously consider using SO on a windows machine if thay already had Office. But I do think a lot of places might consider running SO on Linux if the whole ASP/online registration thing continues.
I don't think people realize, the way Bill Gates realizes, that internet software could become like the video store -- your company uses MS Office for $.50 cents an hour, etc., and you get "popups" for security patches, upgrades, etc. that prompt for your credit card number -- Net connection required to even use the S/W. I suspect a lot of companies will switch entirely to Linux and SO when this stuff hits the 'net.
Sensitive parts of the government will have to switch to something standalone to do their work, for example. I don't know of any security model that would let someone do analyses on advanced military aircraft or nuclear weaponry over an ASP based web app model. The security people just can't allow that.
>3. This might even spell the death of StarOffice.
>GPL has produces a whole bunch of useful code,
>but the inevitable branching of the project will
>kill the corporate acceptability of StarOffice.
>Branching has proven inevitable on all but the
>simplest of projects.
Funny, I know of only a couple small projects that have branched, and they only branched because the Author wouldn't accept patches or didn't like the mods. In one case, the Author stopped working on the project, refused to answer emails about bugs, and took the GPL code off his webpage. Someone else took over, on a new webpage, and the original author started screaming "branch!" -- but that's not really a branch, IMHO.
If you mean that GPLing SO will make Sun lose control of SO, I agree. But I see no reason for it to branch that heavily. There are no Gimp branches, for example. This was always a behind-the-scenes project for Sun, it's not that big of a deal.
>4. If all that's not enough, GPL'd projects don't
>generally produce good end user software in terms
>of UI. Granted StarOffice pretty well sucks now
>in this regard, GPL won't help.
We had a 400 pg. Word document at work that was BSOD'ing NT on a P3/500/128 mb. machine. I was able to load and scroll fwd. and backward through the document with SO on a P1/200/32 mb. box using SO. Mangement still wouldn't let us use SO -- and I admit some of the formatting was wrong.
Gnome and KDE seem to be decent user interface software, and both are GPL'd. Both are improving rather strongly, I'd say. Some of the g[fill in the blank] programs -- gphoto, gimp, gnumeric, etc. -- don't have bad UI's at all. gimp could use some work
I've never throught the SO interface was "bad" -- at least not at the level of the child apps. The MDI thing that wraps all the child apps has to go! Only a few people I know actually like that.
I think GPL will help the UI. I just bet that within a few releases of a GPL'd SO, the root interface will be completely redone.
>Assuming Sun goes forward with GPLing StarOffice,
>we can all pretty much stop watching it.
...and start using it.
>Just my controvertial $.02.
...your $.02 has been "controvertally" raised to $.04.
...you're already on the wrong track.
I strongly suggest you get a Unix/Linux consultant (perhaps from SCO) to come in and write something up, or even better, hire a good Unix/Linux admin.
That being said, I'd go with RedHat, since it's pretty well supported and has a large presence on the web for QA sessions.
I'm rolling out about 300 desktops "soon". I'd love to do it with my preferred destop -- HelixCode's gnome and debian -- but the install is just a little over the top.
try replacing Enlightenment with Sawmill/Sawfish.
32 MB. might not be too good if you plan on running any real apps.
dear god, i'd be stunned if *any* company missed a deadline, but a SOFTWARE COMPANY!?!?!? Lord Jesus, say it ain't so!
today there has been an article about "x is doomed" and now "carmack chooses the dark side".
big deal. i think the xbox is going to take a dump, other than the keyboard i use i know of no MS hardware that is a comm'l success.
the spec web benchmark reamed win2K, and a couple weeks ago a little 32/64 bit, full mutitasking os, complete with src code (that many of us know and love) hit some 97% of the win98 openGL performance.
so, even though JC has not had a lot of nice things to say about linux, my personal experience today was installing debian, NT4 and redhat on three dual cpu P3 500 dells, brand new, out of the box.
NT blue screened on machine 1, redhat and debian installed flawlessly. just for grins, i installed RH on machine 1 as well -- no problems whatsoever.
all three are burning in over the weekend. i'll check dell support monday for the NT install issues.
i think linux has a stong future, esp. with the big embedded/japan announcement a day or so ago. carmack has a right to his opinions on linux, and the right to "go MS".
choose your own path, and be proud of it. it ain't no big deal, except so many kids look up to carmack. from that point of view, it doesn't do a lot for the concept of open-mindedness, fairness or a free market. maybe he'll say something like those sports figures say : "i'm not a role model"...
what did you do 15 years ago that couldn't use some updating now?
nothing, huh?
well, maybe instead of bitching you could help XFree and PI come up with something a bit lighter.
byatch.
many question why simple devices should run linux.
for many embedded systems, there is a low production count. they may actually make more profit per device by using a full-blown PC-on-a-chip over a small microcontroller.
the time to market is shorter, and the development costs are much lower.
if you can't amortize the higher cost engineering that goes into a microcontroller based system over many devices, then the pc-on-a-chip is a better deal.
Sometimes when I use use for extended periods of time, especially after downloaded a phat tarball and compiling that byatch, I start shaking and writhing in ecstasy.
I have also been late to work several times due to my Linux use.
On occasions when I can't use Linux at least 2-3 times a day, I become angry and distant; often lashing out in anger at those around me.
All those "formulas" downloadable from the web -- the population must be protected! It is the duty of a caring government!
Amerika Uber Alles!
...run more than 5 minutes without crashing, at least on "hello world" size programs?
Perhaps they can progess to simple dialogs from that point.
Sorry, never tried a version that didn't crash within five minutes.
...and have a shot of vodka to celebrate.
great job!
BTW, is this unmanned? russia is the leader in unmanned spaceflight methinks.
Corporate greed fleecing people; serving their shareholder's tireless need for profit at the expense of people.
Poultry in america is already reported to have a 10% increase in fecal contamination now that "irradiation" can be used to sterilize it -- after all, if a corporation can serve you sterile shit with your food, why not eat it, if it means higher profits through increased efficiency! Plus, that chicken can sit on the shelf at the market for weeks now, without expiring. yummy.
And that liberal clinton government. They signed in a law so fruits and vegetables may be labeled "cold pasteurized" instead of "irradiated". After all, who would buy food labeled "irradiated" if the bin next to it says "organic"? What do you want to feed your baby? The baby food manufacturers have already decided to skip on "irradiated" products. Wouldn't Louis Pasteur be proud!!
Here's the real shit about freedom -- it's not maintaining the staus quo -- it's about working every day to end the reign of power structures that desperately want to control you mind and poison your body (salt, sugar and fat are the cheapest (and unhealthiest) ways to satisfy your body's cravings for nutrition) while picking your pocket:
> > Subject: Declaration of Independence
> >
> >
> > Have you ever wondered what happened to the 56 men who signed the
> > Declaration of Independence?
> >
> > Five signers were captured by the British as traitors, and tortured
> > before they died.
> > Twelve had their homes ransacked and burned.
> > Two lost their sons serving in the Revolutionary Army; another had two
> > sons captured.
> > Nine of the 56 fought and died from wounds or hardships of the
> > Revolutionary War.
> > They signed and they pledged their lives, their fortunes, and their
> > sacred honor.
> >
> > What kind of men were they?
> >
> > Twenty-four were lawyers and jurists. Eleven were merchants, nine were
> > farmers and large plantation owners; men of means, well educated. But
> > they signed the Declaration of Independence knowing full well that the
> > penalty would be death if they were captured.
> > Carter Braxton of Virginia, a wealthy planter and trader, saw his
> > ships swept from the seas by the British Navy. He sold his home and
> > properties to pay his debts, and died in rags.
> > Thomas McKeam was so hounded by the British that he was forced to
> > move his family almost constantly. He served in the Congress without
> > pay, and his family was kept in hiding. His possessions were taken from
> > him, and poverty was his reward.
> > Vandals or soldiers looted the properties of Dillery, Hall, Clymer,
> > Walton, Gwinnett, Heyward, Ruttledge, and Middleton. At the battle of
> > Yorktown,Thomas Nelson Jr, noted that the British General Cornwallis had
> > taken over the Nelson home for his headquarters. He quietly urged
> > General George Washington to open fire. The home was destroyed, and
> > Nelson died bankrupt.
> > Francis Lewis had his home and properties destroyed. The enemy jailed
> > his wife, and she died within a few months.
> > John Hart was driven from his wife's bedside as she was dying.Their
> > 13 children fled for their lives. His fields and his gristmill were laid
> > to waste. For more than a year he lived in forests and caves, returning
> > home to find his wife dead and his children vanished. A few weeks later
> > he died from exhaustion and a broken heart.
> > Norris and Livingston suffered similar fates.
> > Such were the stories and sacrifices of the American Revolution.
> > These were not wild-eyed, rabble-rousing ruffians. They were
> > soft-spoken men of means and education. They had security, but they
> > valued liberty more. Standing tall, straight, and unwavering, they
> > pledged: "For the support of this declaration, with firm reliance on the
> > protection of the divine providence, we mutually pledge to each other,
> > our lives, our fortunes, and our sacred honor."
> > They gave you and me a free and independent America. The history
> > books never told you a lot about what happened in the Revolutionary War.
> > We didn't fight just the British. We were British subjects at that time
> > and we fought our own government!
> > Some of us take these liberties so much for granted, but we
> > shouldn't.
> > So, take a few minutes while enjoying your 4th of July holiday and
> > silently thank these patriots. It's not much to ask for the price they
> > paid. Remember: freedom is never free! I hope you will show your
> > support by please sending this to as many people as you can. It's time
> > we get the word out that patriotism is NOT a sin, and the Fourth of July
> > has more to it than beer, picnics, and baseball games.
[to the tune of Cyndi Lauper's "Girls Just Want To Have Fun"]
she won't stare at the monitor's light
society says "don't you wanna hack all night?"
we just don't care about zeros and ones
and grrls, don't wanna be geeks
no, grrls don't wanna be geeks.
lasted three days in a programming class
those "for loops" and "call stacks" really kicked my teen ass
just can't log into those x-terminals
and grrls don't wanna be geeks
no, grrls don't wanna be geeks.
not what they want, not a geek,
let the boys balance red-black trees,
cuz grrls don't wanna be geeks.
no, grrls, don't wanna be geeks.
they don't wanna, they don't wanna,
they don't wanna, they don't wanna,
grrls, oh, grrls, don't wanna be geeks.
first off, there are a lot of careers that women, for the most part, don't enter. mechanics, most engineering fields other than 'putes, welders, etc. why single out 'puting?
second, no individual should let the herd decide what they want to do with their life. if you don't wanna be a geek, don't do it. but don't blame men.
if i had cared what the average american male (or female) throught, before, during or after adolescence, i'd probably go kill myself. this is a very sick, putrid society. i'd say we are the cave people of the future, but i think cave people were far more civil that "modern society" with its racist, sexist entrenched corporate greed. so don't listen to anything but your heart, your loved ones, and the facts.
third, two of the best programmers i've worked with are women, and several top computer people are women. most of the girls i knew growing up couldn't study or concentrate for long periods of time. that's a killer for any analytical career.
the women i know who are accomplished scientists all had strong families. that doesn't bode well for the future of today's kids. you can do it, it will require more concentration.
take it or leave it, that's my opinion. Girls, if you want to grow up to be geeks, you're probably going to have to deprive yourself and study just as much as the the penis people. don't know any other way around it.
the imbalance will continue, until you make the change. of course, with so much politics in the technolgies, i'm not sure, if i had to do it all over again, that i would choose CS. quite frankly, there's a massive push in corporate USA to move software and technology overseas, and to bring the top overseas people here.
i'd strongly consider teaching or bio if i were in junior high right now. if your a teacher, you can pick up and go pretty much anywhere -- every town needs a teacher.
but engineers? you're constrained to the cities. make more, but everything costs much more. you'd have the same problem with bio. still gotta study hard!!!
I have been trying to make this point for ages -- that Qt can't be used for internal/research projects w/o paying $1500, or more, per workstation, to TrollTech.
Very well written. I agree that it would be better to use any of the others (even give up and go MS) before using anything that depends on Qt.
The fee for the commercial license is ridiculous. I can get a great OS, window system, window manager, thousands of programs, distribute them thoughout a company and develop on them internally for free, without releasing any code (as long as GPL licensed code is not modified).
Add TrollTech's Qt libs and all of that grinds to a halt. The MS solution is far cheaper in such a case.
...that there's no life east of I-5 :-)
NFS is a huge security hole that lets evil college students share their files seamlessly. It must be stopped, by any means necessary.
Additionally, rumors have been flying that some male students have been writing little bits of drivel on paper, then passing these notes to women they find attractive. It must stop now. All pencils, pens, crayons and tablets must be seized and burned. Our young women must be protected.
The best and final solution is to simply stop educating the young. The "teacher-student" interface is a massive security hole that fosters the communication of ideas between people without the tacit approval of the state. These evil young people may then use the technology in ways the tribe of elders have not approved. This must be stopped.
Thanks You,
The Controller
a lot of people are complaining that the government shouldn't be protecting people this way, that it's easy to do the math, if people are that stupid, they deserve to lose their money, blah, blah, blah.
i completely disagree. the gov exist for all people, even the stupid ones. a company with some decent marketing can do a lot of damage to consumers before the gov catches up and puts a stop to it, and if the FTC wants to come down on these dumb ads, more power to them.
one of my friends works with autistic people, and *some* of them just give their money away. they have no idea what it is. they just figure "if you want it, here ya go".
presumably, there are other people out there that are more functional, but still gullible enough to fall for this "free pc" bs.
i see no reason why the wolves of our society should be able to prey on them unhindered. if you have to spend money to get the device, then it's not free, and the ads should be clearer.
If this dude publishes those names, and someone dies, he's a murderer, and I hope he gets thrown in prison.
As far as the times criticising anyone who scans their documents for security flaws, they should be whipped. the times should be heavily criticised for this failure to adequately insure the names were removed from the document. they should be thankful someone wrote in.
but for anyone to continue publishing the names...once the problem has been exposed...if that's not a crime, it should be.
incidentally, i did not see the list published, only that the times reporter was "angry" that someone exposed their failure to safeguard the names and emailed them (?!).
Two developers arguing about the best way to do something is a crisis in Linux politics?
Gimme a break. The whole idea of open source is that (like some kind of chaotic genetic algorithm) it will weed out the best way to do things.
My criticism of Linux is that, in a case like the JFS, it fails to leverage the commercial entities who have a lot to offer -- SGI and IBM. It was just several months ago that SGI seemed strongly interested in moving it's JFS to Linux. IBM has made similar offerrings, as I recall.
Apache has done very well working with the com types, but Linux seems to prefer hiding in a cave, with a score of unrelenting primitives camped at the opening, shouting "Ugga Bugga!" at any which seek to enter, and poking them with a sharp stick.
Go ask Joerg Schilly(sp?) about scsi generic. Surely SGI, Sun, IBM or Adaptec could do something about the horrid state of CD Writing under Linux.
...i speak as one of many when i say that the whole cdrom burning infrastructure is pretty thrashed, but recovering.
whether using scsi or atapi, on any distribution, and performing all the steps in the cdrom-writing howto, and using the lastest cdrecord, something is definately wrong.
prior to about 6-8 months ago, i had never made a coaster (unless i did something stupid).
lately, after a lot of kernel rebuilding and s/w updates, i have a debian install that is burning fairly solid.
still occasional kernel messages and lockups, or the scsi just disappears, requiring a reboot.
three machines, three distros, two different writers (1 scsi, 1 atapi), many updates and tests, and i'm down to about 1/10 coasters. a year ago, it was NO coasters.
cd writing is important to a lot of people. something went wrong in the s/w infrastructure for burning cdroms several months ago, and it has yet to totally recover.
...about the only high tech thang i remember coming from kansas.