On Debian boxes that have vim-rt installed you have a binary called 'vimtutor'. You might have it on other distros. But why on earth would you be running a non-Debian distro? (I wonder if I can introduce a distro religious war into this editor religious war.:-)
There are also how-tos as part of the Linux Documentation Project. And I discovered on my latest trip to vim.org, that there's now a book on learning vim.
My personal method was learn a bit at a time until I knew enough, then learn some more.
Oh...and you will hate it at first! But don't give up. It will make sense given time.
It's already been slashdotted out of existence.
The question I have is: how quickly does it boot?
I've seen projects that use a 1U box with a pentium chip and a 20GB harddrive before, but since they're all just regular PCs, they probably take the same two minutes to boot that my home PC does. I don't want to wait for the music...
And just imagine when it exceeds the maximal mount count... Yuck!
Do any of these things play oggs?
Not wanting to risk patent infringement suits causing me problems, I removed all of my mp3s and re-ripped everything as ogg vorbis files. Does anything out there play them? I'd love to have an ogg player that can replace my measly 10-disc changer.
I voted Libertarian, yet that 'unelected' bit annoyed me, because he was elected, regardless of how many popular votes he got, because popular votes don't matter.
It's not hypocracy.
The FSF philosophy is based on copyright. You'll notice that his 'license' at the bottom gives you the right to reproduce it, etc., as long as you give him credit.
I love that quote. I've been sending it around for the last week. Unfortunately most people are all too willing to give up their liberties for a false sense of security.
I just an email at work about tomorrow officially being "US Pride Day", because of the attacks. Of course it asked me to forward it to everybody I know to spread the word.
It's sad how low spammers will sink.
I think the spammer who initiated this should make up for it by giving blood. 8 pints should do it...
Why not just download the free demo that most game companies produce? You get to play the first level (or whatever) for free. Then if you like it you go buy the full version.
If a quality operating system (which are abundant for IA32) could have been produced for IA64 before Windows was, it would have made a huge dent in the Windows IA64 market share.
Linux supported the IA64 the day the chip was released. But since IA64 chips are rare, support for it didn't help Linux acceptance.
Kid (Avid reader of Pointy Haired Weekly for Teens) logs into computer, discovers that there is no C:\ prompt, and give up.
Try kid logs into computer and doesn't see a start button, so has no clue how to do anything. When was the last time somebody actually used the ms dos prompt? I think there were four reported cases in the year 2000.
It sounded like they just buy regular business mailing lists to find people to harass. But the BSA members have a decent list of their own...the people who send in registration cards.
I'm glad I never sent in one of those, even if I did miss out on important update news.:>
For years I've read comments to Jon Katz stories pointing out what a moron he is...now I understand why.
Just because one person doesn't 'get' the most original storyline I've ever seen, doesn't mean it's not good. It simply means the movie wasn't intended for simple minds that think Tomb Raider was a good movie.
I'd love to have a subscription to an online version of PC gamer and The Linux Journal (the only two I subscribe to right now). It'd be cheaper, faster to publish, better for the trees of the world, and I'd be able to search the archives more easily than thumbing through a four foot stack of old issues.
But I'm sure they're worried about people sharing subscription logins or saving off the articles and sending them to friends. And a lot of people don't have the fulltime access that would be needed to make something like that viable.
Perhaps a magazine on a CD...that's something to think about...
Why bother with a decent password on your account, when sysadmins all over the world make all the workstations have the same easy password?
_ALL_ of the NT workstations where I work have the administrator password 'password'. Fortunately my NT is a vmware install running under Debian...maybe I should change my root password from password tho...
I use apt-get usually. If I only want one or two packages, I find it easier to type a simple command than to look through the huge dselect list.
I use dselect when I'm not sure about the exact package name, or want better dependency control.
Oops...
near the 'and and' part it should say , , and .
Why does it interpret those as html, when I posted as plain text? Damn it! I didn't preview very well...
I noticed lots of problems with VC++ and standards, when I was forced to use it .
for (int i....) { } leaves i scoped after the for loop is done.
Including and and caused it to spit out huge amounts of errors in iostream. I think they want you to use their nonstandard classes like CList or CString instead of STL or the standard library. At the time it was listed in VC 6's help that STL did not work properly in most cases.
Windoze (and VC) also contain a nonstandard threading system, and non-standard system interaction functions (basically most of the functions in unistd.h or sys/).
gcc seems to be very standards compliant. I've only had one problem with it. There was a keyword that wasn't implemented yet.
Those Linux counts are of machines shipping with the OS. You're right about them being a joke, because most installs are done after the machine ships.
It's very good as a workstation. I'm using right now as an X server to connect to a Sun box, where we develop our products. And I can try things, like Apache and Jakarta, out and make sure they work the way we need them to before. I also use it at home, as do many people I know. The only problem I have with it is the lack of commercial game support. And that is the _only_ thing I don't use it for at home. I dual-boot for Baldur's Gate II (but for Neverwinter Nights I won't have to).
Most people at those tradeshows are probably in marketing or sales, the useful people are back at corporate headquarters doing work. Of course marketing people are going to use windows, they don't want to learn new things. Most people don't that's one of the main reasons the Mac won't cut into windows sales. It's different.
I agree about apple owing nothing to the FSF community (since they used BSD code, not GPL code), but I disagree with this whole notion about apple bringing Unix to the masses.
How does the 3-5% of the market that apple has count as "masses", especially since most of those with OS 9 (or lower) aren't going to spend the $100+ to upgrade to OS X?
Some of the statistics producing firms say that MacOS has more users than Linux, and some say that Linux has more, and this doesn't accurately count the number of people who download Linux, go to an install fest, or borrow a CD from a friend. But in most cases the numbers are very close. So it looks like Linux has brought Unix to as many people as or more people than OS X has yet, and that will probably be true until OS X runs on commodity hardware (or better yet a dozen different chips like Linux).
I'd prefer it if the two communities would cooperate better. Since they're the two largest non MS groups, they have the best shot at keeping MS from making the internet proprietary, through it's control of most client machines.
They've been doing it for over 100 years. Remember the Spanish-American War? It was started by Charles Foster Kane...er...William Randolph Hurst to sell more newspapers.
If all they have is a boring story, they'll sensationalize it, if they don't even have that, they'll just make stuff up.
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Woah! My story exactly! (except mine is closer to 2.5 years now).
I haven't gone back and wouldn't want to.
On Debian boxes that have vim-rt installed you have a binary called 'vimtutor'. You might have it on other distros. But why on earth would you be running a non-Debian distro? (I wonder if I can introduce a distro religious war into this editor religious war. :-)
There are also how-tos as part of the Linux Documentation Project. And I discovered on my latest trip to vim.org, that there's now a book on learning vim.
My personal method was learn a bit at a time until I knew enough, then learn some more.
Oh...and you will hate it at first! But don't give up. It will make sense given time.
It's already been slashdotted out of existence.
The question I have is: how quickly does it boot?
I've seen projects that use a 1U box with a pentium chip and a 20GB harddrive before, but since they're all just regular PCs, they probably take the same two minutes to boot that my home PC does. I don't want to wait for the music...
And just imagine when it exceeds the maximal mount count... Yuck!
The phat box by phatnoise is still listed. So maybe theirs will release.
I didn't see anything about price just now, but I believe I saw it at well under $1000, the last time I was there.
But it doesn't list ogg vorbis as a supported format. X-(
Do any of these things play oggs?
Not wanting to risk patent infringement suits causing me problems, I removed all of my mp3s and re-ripped everything as ogg vorbis files. Does anything out there play them? I'd love to have an ogg player that can replace my measly 10-disc changer.
I interviewed with them 14 months ago. I thought it'd be cool to work at a place that did Linux based development. Now I'm glad I took this job.
I voted Libertarian, yet that 'unelected' bit annoyed me, because he was elected, regardless of how many popular votes he got, because popular votes don't matter.
It's not hypocracy.
The FSF philosophy is based on copyright. You'll notice that his 'license' at the bottom gives you the right to reproduce it, etc., as long as you give him credit.
I love that quote. I've been sending it around for the last week. Unfortunately most people are all too willing to give up their liberties for a false sense of security.
I just an email at work about tomorrow officially being "US Pride Day", because of the attacks. Of course it asked me to forward it to everybody I know to spread the word.
It's sad how low spammers will sink.
I think the spammer who initiated this should make up for it by giving blood. 8 pints should do it...
Why not just download the free demo that most game companies produce? You get to play the first level (or whatever) for free. Then if you like it you go buy the full version.
If a quality operating system (which are abundant for IA32) could have been produced for IA64 before Windows was, it would have made a huge dent in the Windows IA64 market share.
Linux supported the IA64 the day the chip was released. But since IA64 chips are rare, support for it didn't help Linux acceptance.
Kid (Avid reader of Pointy Haired Weekly for Teens) logs into computer, discovers that there is no C:\ prompt, and give up.
Try kid logs into computer and doesn't see a start button, so has no clue how to do anything. When was the last time somebody actually used the ms dos prompt? I think there were four reported cases in the year 2000.
People will be trying to crack elections.state.florida.us, so they'll miss the real server at elections.state.florda.us. That's thinking ahead!
It sounded like they just buy regular business mailing lists to find people to harass. But the BSA members have a decent list of their own...the people who send in registration cards. :>
I'm glad I never sent in one of those, even if I did miss out on important update news.
I didn't know the internet was designed by hippie anarchists...when did the Defence Department start hiring hippies?
For years I've read comments to Jon Katz stories pointing out what a moron he is...now I understand why.
Just because one person doesn't 'get' the most original storyline I've ever seen, doesn't mean it's not good. It simply means the movie wasn't intended for simple minds that think Tomb Raider was a good movie.
I'd love to have a subscription to an online version of PC gamer and The Linux Journal (the only two I subscribe to right now). It'd be cheaper, faster to publish, better for the trees of the world, and I'd be able to search the archives more easily than thumbing through a four foot stack of old issues.
But I'm sure they're worried about people sharing subscription logins or saving off the articles and sending them to friends. And a lot of people don't have the fulltime access that would be needed to make something like that viable.
Perhaps a magazine on a CD...that's something to think about...
Why bother with a decent password on your account, when sysadmins all over the world make all the workstations have the same easy password?
_ALL_ of the NT workstations where I work have the administrator password 'password'. Fortunately my NT is a vmware install running under Debian...maybe I should change my root password from password tho...
I use apt-get usually. If I only want one or two packages, I find it easier to type a simple command than to look through the huge dselect list.
I use dselect when I'm not sure about the exact package name, or want better dependency control.
Oops... near the 'and and' part it should say , , and .
Why does it interpret those as html, when I posted as plain text? Damn it! I didn't preview very well...
I noticed lots of problems with VC++ and standards, when I was forced to use it . ....) { } leaves i scoped after the for loop is done.
for (int i
Including and and caused it to spit out huge amounts of errors in iostream. I think they want you to use their nonstandard classes like CList or CString instead of STL or the standard library. At the time it was listed in VC 6's help that STL did not work properly in most cases.
Windoze (and VC) also contain a nonstandard threading system, and non-standard system interaction functions (basically most of the functions in unistd.h or sys/).
gcc seems to be very standards compliant. I've only had one problem with it. There was a keyword that wasn't implemented yet.
Those Linux counts are of machines shipping with the OS. You're right about them being a joke, because most installs are done after the machine ships.
It's very good as a workstation. I'm using right now as an X server to connect to a Sun box, where we develop our products. And I can try things, like Apache and Jakarta, out and make sure they work the way we need them to before. I also use it at home, as do many people I know. The only problem I have with it is the lack of commercial game support. And that is the _only_ thing I don't use it for at home. I dual-boot for Baldur's Gate II (but for Neverwinter Nights I won't have to).
Most people at those tradeshows are probably in marketing or sales, the useful people are back at corporate headquarters doing work. Of course marketing people are going to use windows, they don't want to learn new things. Most people don't that's one of the main reasons the Mac won't cut into windows sales. It's different.
I agree about apple owing nothing to the FSF community (since they used BSD code, not GPL code), but I disagree with this whole notion about apple bringing Unix to the masses.
How does the 3-5% of the market that apple has count as "masses", especially since most of those with OS 9 (or lower) aren't going to spend the $100+ to upgrade to OS X?
Some of the statistics producing firms say that MacOS has more users than Linux, and some say that Linux has more, and this doesn't accurately count the number of people who download Linux, go to an install fest, or borrow a CD from a friend. But in most cases the numbers are very close. So it looks like Linux has brought Unix to as many people as or more people than OS X has yet, and that will probably be true until OS X runs on commodity hardware (or better yet a dozen different chips like Linux).
I'd prefer it if the two communities would cooperate better. Since they're the two largest non MS groups, they have the best shot at keeping MS from making the internet proprietary, through it's control of most client machines.
They've been doing it for over 100 years. Remember the Spanish-American War? It was started by Charles Foster Kane...er...William Randolph Hurst to sell more newspapers.
If all they have is a boring story, they'll sensationalize it, if they don't even have that, they'll just make stuff up.