I'd take anything that reduces my fuel consumption by 15%. I'm mighty glad right now that I didn't buy an SUV.
Chances are, this won't be the only time in this millenium that gas prices will be inflated for no good reason...kudos to the researcher!
I wonder if a genetic algorithm could be applied to find an alternate fuel thats still good for the economy (or at least the pockets of those it would take to implement a new fuel system)
I wish the article had more information, though. I guess i'll have to wait for the full article in the "International Journal of Engine Research".
I would be interested in running a *smaller, quicker gnome* on my PC.
Actually, I just downloaded Gnome 2.0 and I love it. Its a little slow on my pentium pro w/ 64 megs but that's prolly cause I've got enlightenment 16.4 running on top of that. I really like the look, so I sacrifice for the speed.
I think the key is the definitions of "lightweight" and whether they are targeting today's PDA's or establishing a base for future PDA development. Unfortunately, the site is/.'ed, so I guess I'll have to wait and see.
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hmm. maybe not a house, but wouldn't a car engine make a nice computer case?
Seriously, I agree. Also, I found your comment funny and refreshing, however, no mod access today.
Recently I shelled out $70 for the Cygnus Gnu Pro Toolkit. It claimed that it could optimize better than MVC++. I don't remember if it said anything about Borland C++, and unfortunately I don't have the box with me.
I guess they all make thier claims...
I used Borland on DOS/Windows quite a bit in college, but since then have been stuck with the company tools. (VisualAge for C++ and C++ Set for AIX, as well as MVC++).
I'm not big on profiling anyways, but my impression from the GNUPro Dev Kit marketing was that the g++ tools were pretty good at optimizing.
Man, you must have watched *too* many A-Team episodes. You sound like Mr. T.
Isn't gcc & egcs and the Cygnus (read RedHat) visual tools better (optimizing-ly) than Borland anyways? I bet the only thing Borland might have brought to the table is more developers who coud crossover from programming in other environments.
These programmers probably work for big software companies who are unikely to want to distribute thier stuff in anything but executable format, which means proprietary apps for Linux.
Obviously, Borland likes that idea.
You think that companies would see the parallel between (open-source vs. proprietary) and (IBM PC compatible vs. Apple proprietary). If Borland let you write open-source then they gain more acceptance...they could end up hooking you with some other tools (which is not always a bad thing)
If you think about it, every society sets up limits on what is proper/normal and accepted within that society. Some of these things are taboo or left unspoken (out of sight/out of mind) while yet others are actively punished. Thats why we set up laws and prisons. The internet is a society and people will set up limits--even if they are hard to regulate. One of the oldest ways to curtail unaccepted behavior is to shame the person involved (i.e. the scarlet letter). This is probably just step one in the world defining what will be accepted and what will not be accepted on the internet. I think that a society that can not be regulated enforcably by law, regulating by shame may become the only way to notify others of thier acts against society. You still have a choice whether or not you want to do something not acceptable by the majority, but you face the chances of being uncovered...not unlike the cops who pose as hitmen...
It seems to me that the point of Microsoft releasing this spec is not so others can implement thier own versions. They are releasing the spec in order that security experts can review it as well as third-parties can take advantage of interacting with it in Win2000.
This is in no way a step towards opening it up for open-source contribution.
Think about it...even if M$ is broken up, one of those companies will be ther operating system group, and that group will be interested in getting good reviews from security experts and third party integration. It's pretty much the way Microsoft has built its empire from the beginning: giving and collabarating with a heavy advantage.
What do you expect? This is big business. This is Microsoft's new OS. Do you really think they would open it up?
Microsoft is not built on the foundation of open-source, and like any pure software company, will not lose money to increase collabaration unless the customers demanded it in such a way that Microsoft gains revenue.
> Recently the Slashdot community was debating the advantages and > disadvantages of LILO, and GRUB was recommended as a > viable alternative. I am wondering what GRUB is still > trying to accomplish before going public.
There are also some remaining problems, which may affect beginners. For example, Gordon who is the chief maintainer of this project is considering if the LBA support bitmap check should be disabled by default. LBA is one of the nightmares in PC, so we need more time to determine what is the Right Thing.
The very thing that you should take into account is, however, that GRUB is not only a replacement with LILO. I know some Linux-side people presume that GRUB is a Linux loader which is maybe better than LILO, but GRUB has many other aspects. For most of us, it is very important how useful GRUB is for OS development. If you read the document carefully, you can see how many features GRUB has and then that most of the features are not very useful for "ordinary" users.
Does anyone know what is holding GRUB from being released? (ie, what is still alpha about it?) According to the information posted, It seems to me that LILO doesn't compete.
I noticed in the comments section there is a claim that GNU GRUB never had that problem. Has anyone used GRUB? I am interested in knowing if LILO has any advantages over it. I'm not trying to start a flame war, but I have noticed that LILO and loadlin seem to be the boot loaders of choice among the HOWTOS.
According to the grub page, grub isn't publicly available. Only alphas are--can an alpha bootloader really be better than LILO? (which is more established) Is there any meat to this guys comment?
I think the question being addressed is whether or not it is possible for a software business to profit on open source. Obviously, by opening your code you are limiting your revenue to distrubution/web portal advertising. And most corporations trying to make a buck in software aren't going to jump headlong into this... but that doesn't mean open source isn't righteous...
I don't like when I ask a question in the context of a certain programming language and get an answer about how I should use a different language, so please understnd I am not advocating one over the other.
Can anyone explain to me what the red maze was at the end? I know this is just a movie, but what was the point of this maze thing? Do the creatures on this planet normally create mazes with little chambers to run through in the middle of thier castle? I liked the whole garbage disposal idea on the starships in the first trilogy but it made sense to think they might dump junk in the middle of space. The red maze thing had no obvious purpose other than to create a setting for the chase scene. Why would all the doors open and close at the same time? I hope GL includes some alternate endings on the DVD when it comes out...but if the second movie ends anything like the first then I bet the lord of the rings will be the trilogy of the '00's
This sounds like a classic example of the age old question: "Does life imitate art or art imitate life?" A rich man whose life was led in solitude, his only pleasure stealing a collection of art from a museum, and hot on his trail a woman who will either fall in love with him or sell him out...
The problem with life imitating art is that it never works out the way the movies do..(like the scene in Tommy Boy where Chris Farley straps a bunch of road flares around his chest and runs into a building to get news coverage in order to keep his late fathers company in business... Try that in real life and you'll be looking out from the inside of some institution for at least a year)
While it is true that the most recent events in Linux history and the ruling against Microsoft certainly level the playing field, it is NOT a complete turning of the tables. Microsoft may still get away with little more than a handslap: after all, it was NOT proven that they competed unfairly in including Internet Exploder on the Desktop. That means that it is unlikely that they will be broken up. They don't even call the impending judgement a "punishment" but a "relief." (almost as if it is an accident that microsoft extended theier monopoly unfairly) Microsoft was also not convicted on the charge that they forced 3rd parties to chose their products specifically or else be cut from the OS cash cow (even though this was true for 98% of the third parties). All in all, I think it only means that Microsoft shares might be a bargain for a little while. Microsoft will always be something to contend with-- Besides, a POST MIcrosoft World? When the NASDAQ doesn't drop 300 some points because of Microsoft....then maybe it would be a post Microsoft WORLD. Microsoft's core strength lies in thier connections and partnerships with other large companies in and out of the industry, some who will not tuck thier tails and run away because of a judges ruling Of course, this is only my opinion. I could be wrong...
Personal Financial Software is one of the reasons I was still dual-booting NT. I am excited to hear this and can't wait to check it out. My question is (I didn't find this on the website) does it support Saving Goals?
Saving goals are a way to hide money in your checking account so that you don't see it but when you reconcile, it's taken care of. I use them quite a bit. Anyways, kudos to the GnuCash team. &/. for the news.
"LinuxPPC Inc. will not be providing technical support for the software. Instead, the company will set up a new Mac-on-Linux mailing list, which will be available for users to assist other users in setting up the software. "
Technical support on a mailing list? You gotta be kidding me. The mailing list will be technical, but I bet confusion will reign instead of support.
If they want Technical SUPPORT, they better wait for the Mini-HOWTO
"I'd say that NT is good for the enterprise environment." As long as you are talking about desktops, not servers! UNIX-based machines are much more reliable, IMHO, in the server arena.
I have used both windows 2000 server and the UNIX systems.
My point is that people who are used to the desktop win nt/95/98/2000 are more likely to install windows 2000 server and with W2K, M$ is trying to break into the enterprise market. I don't think they are trying to make an alternative UNIX. Quite the opposite... They are trying to transfer the success of the desktop into an ENTERPRISE market.
(WINNT broke into the server market in general, but is to unreliable, IMHO, for enterprise serving)
Science is the study of cause and effect in this material world using the 5 senses. Since faith is not one of the five senses, and God is not part of the material world, you can't prove God exists/doesn't exist with science.
I think that Microsoft's main stab with Windows 2000 is to get a stronger position in the network server enviroment. They are attempting to transfer thier desktop popularity to the ENTERPRISE server environment....
In other words, they are just now thinking about reliability in the terms of enterprise. Until now, thier main stab has been to target the small business and new start-ups with servers that are similar to thier desktop enviroment.
From my experience, NT is very unreliable...but windows 2000 is a formidable challenge to the unix based systems.
The thing that most lusers overlook is the fact that Linux servers with thier UNIX heritage target enterprise by default...
So linux still has an advantage from the fact that it is enterprise capable and open for development..
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I'd take anything that reduces my fuel consumption by 15%. I'm mighty glad right now that I didn't buy an SUV.
Chances are, this won't be the only time in this millenium that gas prices will be inflated for no good reason...kudos to the researcher!
I wonder if a genetic algorithm could be applied to find an alternate fuel thats still good for the economy (or at least the pockets of those it would take to implement a new fuel system)
I wish the article had more information, though. I guess i'll have to wait for the full article in the "International Journal of Engine Research".
I would be interested in running a *smaller, quicker gnome* on my PC.
/.'ed, so I guess I'll have to wait and see.
Actually, I just downloaded Gnome 2.0 and I love it. Its a little slow on my pentium pro w/ 64 megs but that's prolly cause I've got enlightenment 16.4 running on top of that. I really like the look, so I sacrifice for the speed.
I think the key is the definitions of "lightweight" and whether they are targeting today's PDA's or establishing a base for future PDA development. Unfortunately, the site is
hmm. maybe not a house, but wouldn't a car engine make a nice computer case?
Seriously, I agree. Also, I found your comment funny and refreshing, however, no mod access today.
Recently I shelled out $70 for the Cygnus Gnu Pro Toolkit. It claimed that it could optimize better than MVC++. I don't remember if it said anything about Borland C++, and unfortunately I don't have the box with me.
I guess they all make thier claims...
I used Borland on DOS/Windows quite a bit in college, but since then have been stuck with the company tools. (VisualAge for C++ and C++ Set for AIX, as well as MVC++).
I'm not big on profiling anyways, but my impression from the GNUPro Dev Kit marketing was that the g++ tools were pretty good at optimizing.
Man, you must have watched *too* many A-Team episodes. You sound like Mr. T.
Isn't gcc & egcs and the Cygnus (read RedHat) visual tools better (optimizing-ly) than Borland anyways? I bet the only thing Borland might have brought to the table is more developers who coud crossover from programming in other environments.
These programmers probably work for big software companies who are unikely to want to distribute thier stuff in anything but executable format, which means proprietary apps for Linux.
Obviously, Borland likes that idea.
You think that companies would see the parallel between (open-source vs. proprietary) and (IBM PC compatible vs. Apple proprietary). If Borland let you write open-source then they gain more acceptance...they could end up hooking you with some other tools (which is not always a bad thing)
?
If you think about it, every society sets up limits on what is proper/normal and accepted within that society. Some of these things are taboo or left unspoken (out of sight/out of mind) while yet others are actively punished. Thats why we set up laws and prisons. The internet is a society and people will set up limits--even if they are hard to regulate. One of the oldest ways to curtail unaccepted behavior is to shame the person involved (i.e. the scarlet letter). This is probably just step one in the world defining what will be accepted and what will not be accepted on the internet. I think that a society that can not be regulated enforcably by law, regulating by shame may become the only way to notify others of thier acts against society. You still have a choice whether or not you want to do something not acceptable by the majority, but you face the chances of being uncovered...not unlike the cops who pose as hitmen...
It seems to me that the point of Microsoft releasing this spec is not so others can implement thier own versions. They are releasing the spec in order that security experts can review it as well as third-parties can take advantage of interacting with it in Win2000.
This is in no way a step towards opening it up for open-source contribution.
Think about it...even if M$ is broken up, one of those companies will be ther operating system group, and that group will be interested in getting good reviews from security experts and third party integration. It's pretty much the way Microsoft has built its empire from the beginning: giving and collabarating with a heavy advantage.
What do you expect? This is big business. This is Microsoft's new OS. Do you really think they would open it up?
Microsoft is not built on the foundation of open-source, and like any pure software company, will not lose money to increase collabaration unless the customers demanded it in such a way that Microsoft gains revenue.
I mailed the grub list. Here is the response:
(slightly edited for context)
From: Christopher Kailden
Subject: Information on GRUB
Date: Thu, 27 Apr 2000 12:35:22 -0700 (PDT)
> What is keeping GRUB in alpha?
Please take a look at my past mail in the archive:
here
> Recently the Slashdot community was debating the advantages and
> disadvantages of LILO, and GRUB was recommended as a
> viable alternative. I am wondering what GRUB is still
> trying to accomplish before going public.
There are also some remaining problems, which may affect
beginners. For example, Gordon who is the chief maintainer of this
project is considering if the LBA support bitmap check should be
disabled by default. LBA is one of the nightmares in PC, so we need
more time to determine what is the Right Thing.
The very thing that you should take into account is, however, that
GRUB is not only a replacement with LILO. I know some Linux-side
people presume that GRUB is a Linux loader which is maybe better than
LILO, but GRUB has many other aspects. For most of us, it is very
important how useful GRUB is for OS development. If you read the
document carefully, you can see how many features GRUB has and then
that most of the features are not very useful for "ordinary" users.
Okuji
I wouldn't shell out $600 dollars if I couldn't listen to NPR on the way home.
Does anyone know what is holding GRUB from being released? (ie, what is still alpha about it?) According to the information posted, It seems to me that LILO doesn't compete.
I noticed in the comments section there is a claim that GNU GRUB never had that problem. Has anyone used GRUB? I am interested in knowing if LILO has any advantages over it. I'm not trying to start a flame war, but I have noticed that LILO and loadlin seem to be the boot loaders of choice among the HOWTOS.
According to the grub page, grub isn't publicly available. Only alphas are--can an alpha bootloader really be better than LILO? (which is more established) Is there any meat to this guys comment?
I think the question being addressed is whether or not it is possible for a software business to profit on open source. Obviously, by opening your code you are limiting your revenue to distrubution/web portal advertising. And most corporations trying to make a buck in software aren't going to jump headlong into this... but that doesn't mean open source isn't righteous...
I don't like when I ask a question in the context of a certain programming language and get an answer about how I should use a different language, so please understnd I am not advocating one over the other.
I believe it would be a clean approach to use a Java Application server such as JServ or Websphere and take advantage of the multi-lingual capabilities of JAVA on the server-side.
Can anyone explain to me what the red maze was at the end? I know this is just a movie, but what was the point of this maze thing? Do the creatures on this planet normally create mazes with little chambers to run through in the middle of thier castle? I liked the whole garbage disposal idea on the starships in the first trilogy but it made sense to think they might dump junk in the middle of space. The red maze thing had no obvious purpose other than to create a setting for the chase scene. Why would all the doors open and close at the same time? I hope GL includes some alternate endings on the DVD when it comes out...but if the second movie ends anything like the first then I bet the lord of the rings will be the trilogy of the '00's
This sounds like a classic example of the age old question: "Does life imitate art or art imitate life?" A rich man whose life was led in solitude, his only pleasure stealing a collection of art from a museum, and hot on his trail a woman who will either fall in love with him or sell him out...
... Try that in real life and you'll be looking out from the inside of some institution for at least a year)
The problem with life imitating art is that it never works out the way the movies do..(like the scene in Tommy Boy where Chris Farley straps a bunch of road flares around his chest and runs into a building to get news coverage in order to keep his late fathers company in business
While it is true that the most recent events in Linux history and the ruling against Microsoft certainly level the playing field, it is NOT a complete turning of the tables. Microsoft may still get away with little more than a handslap: after all, it was NOT proven that they competed unfairly in including Internet Exploder on the Desktop. That means that it is unlikely that they will be broken up. They don't even call the impending judgement a "punishment" but a "relief." (almost as if it is an accident that microsoft extended theier monopoly unfairly) Microsoft was also not convicted on the charge that they forced 3rd parties to chose their products specifically or else be cut from the OS cash cow (even though this was true for 98% of the third parties). All in all, I think it only means that Microsoft shares might be a bargain for a little while. Microsoft will always be something to contend with--
Besides, a POST MIcrosoft World? When the NASDAQ doesn't drop 300 some points because of Microsoft....then maybe it would be a post Microsoft WORLD.
Microsoft's core strength lies in thier connections and partnerships with other large companies in and out of the industry, some who will not tuck thier tails and run away because of a judges ruling
Of course, this is only my opinion. I could be wrong...
Personal Financial Software is one of the reasons I was still dual-booting NT. I am excited to hear this and can't wait to check it out.
/. for the news.
My question is (I didn't find this on the website) does it support Saving Goals?
Saving goals are a way to hide money in your checking account so that you don't see it but when you reconcile, it's taken care of. I use them quite a bit.
Anyways, kudos to the GnuCash team.
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Perl is something most females wouldn't mind having....try that with a Python....
Seriously, PERL wasn't meant to have a killer app...just meant to fill all those gaps in the supposedly killer apps you already bought.
"LinuxPPC Inc. will not be providing technical support for the software. Instead, the company will set up a new Mac-on-Linux mailing list, which will be available for users to assist other users in setting up the software. "
Technical support on a mailing list? You gotta be kidding me. The mailing list will be technical, but I bet confusion will reign instead of support.
If they want Technical SUPPORT, they better wait for the Mini-HOWTO
"I'd say that NT is good for the enterprise environment."
As long as you are talking about desktops, not servers! UNIX-based machines are much more reliable, IMHO, in the server arena.
I have used both windows 2000 server and the UNIX systems.
My point is that people who are used to the desktop win nt/95/98/2000 are more likely to install windows 2000 server
and
with W2K, M$ is trying to break into the enterprise market. I don't think they are trying to make an alternative UNIX. Quite the opposite...
They are trying to transfer the success of the desktop into an ENTERPRISE market.
(WINNT broke into the server market in general, but is to unreliable, IMHO, for enterprise serving)
Science is the study of cause and effect in this material world using the 5 senses. Since faith is not one of the five senses, and God is not part of the material world, you can't prove God exists/doesn't exist with science.
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It prolly does...
but one would have to ask if *any* hardware that can only be used under windows is "supportable"
if you know what i mean.
I think that Microsoft's main stab with Windows 2000 is to get a stronger position in the network server enviroment. They are attempting to transfer thier desktop popularity to the ENTERPRISE server environment....
In other words, they are just now thinking about reliability in the terms of enterprise. Until now, thier main stab has been to target the small business and new start-ups with servers that are similar to thier desktop enviroment.
From my experience, NT is very unreliable...but windows 2000 is a formidable challenge to the unix based systems.
The thing that most lusers overlook is the fact that Linux servers with thier UNIX heritage target enterprise by default...
So linux still has an advantage from the fact that it is enterprise capable and open for development..
and the market is swinging in its favor!
Maybe a linux start-up should mail free cds of linux to all of the ford employees....