cvs/ssh network access set up properly being a headach the last time i tried, and UNIX permissions (in general, not just regarding cvs) have been known to trip up people who have been working with them for years if you need to accomplish anything remotely out of the ordinary with them.
If you cant work that sort of stuff out, I don't see what place you have in software development - Particularly unix applications or the kernel.
The GNU/Linux operating system benefits from Samba and OpenOffice.org which are built on reverse engineering Microsoft's underdocumented and changing protocols and file formats.
Both of which have nothing to do with Linus.
He built linux to be an open-source unix work-alike, based on open standards. He never intended to write a Windows clone - that is the goal of others.
Yes, it has a compressed air tank. Compressing air still needs to be done at some point - I presume this task is just offloaded to the power grid, to be performed by our nice clean (sarcasm) environmentally friendly nuclear/coal/gas power plants?
Hmmm....
All this does is relocate the source of the pollution (or handball the problem of environmentally friendly energy source to someone else - take your pick) - its about as useful (IMHO) as me making a rubber band powered car that has to be wound up every day...
how much do you want to bet that once you start piling on the drivers and applications that boot time goes to shit? I can configure a linux system to boot in 10 seconds by taking out a lot of shit, it doesn't mean much though.
How about you leave the commenting on BEOS's performance to people who actually use/used it? There's plenty of them on here...
Unless you have something more to say than random un-substantiated speculation, I suggest you stop posting stuff that makes you look ignorant:)
What you're suggesting would mean that BeOS has some super magical ULTRA SPECIAL fast multimedia decoding algorithms that no one else in the entire world has even come close to creating.
Either that, or they've got a task scheduler in the kernel that doesn't suck.
Whaddya know...
For the record, "back in the day", i ran multiple copies of Doom under X/Linux on a P200 class machine, and it ran them just fine. Its not inconceivable.
I've also used BEOS R5 and can vouch that its very responsive - I never had any media on the drive I tested it on to play with though:D
Fixing computers isn't quite the same as fixing a car.
When you fix a car, you typically get a warranty on the parts, and they fail in a limited number of ways. Software is different.
You don't get, for example, replacement brake pads that mysteriously decide to cause your engine to spontaneously explode.
Now, given that, the vast number of un-related problem causes, and speed of software development (compare cars we drove in 1980 to today. now compare software/pc hardware) - means that
no matter how much you are trained, a large amount of knowledge becomes useless by the time you're trained in it
as a result, troubleshooting is more a matter of "common sense" and a process of elimination than training
Scenario: Manager takes his laptop home on the weekend, or (even better), takes it on a business trip, and plugs into the wireless lan at the airport.
He picks up a copy of MyDoom version super alpha turbo+.
2 days later, he gets back and plugs it into the corporate network in your office.
How many of you can say that *every* windows machine you have on the corporate network is up to date? Thats assuming there's already a patch for Mydoom version supera alpha turbo+ at that point?
The days of the perimeter firewall being all you need are well and truly over (and some would say they were never apparent anyway).
So you're saying Linus, who has been quoted many times as running Redhat on his own machines (not sure if he still does, but still), is not a Linux fan?
Why is it that in all the screenshots I see for easy to use distros, it seems that the user is logged in as root?
Part of the huge benefit of going to linux in the first place is limiting priviledges, and yet the easy to use distro makers fuck it all up and encourage use of root....
OpenOffice - yes its not quite so polished, but its "good enough" if you don't run access
OpenExchange by SuSE
Linux - is much better with hardware than it used to be. All my reasonably recent hardware works on Linux, even my USB printer/scanner
Its all a matter of priorities. If you don't play games (for businesses, check), pay a consultant to build your network (check), and are willing to choose hardware properly (as *any* IT dept worth a pinch of shit should... check), migration is definately possible.
Most "nerds" are intellectuals, and that includes political debate.
Personally, I think NK's "fuck you" attitude towards negotiations with the US is great. Its about time someone had the balls to stand up and tell the US administration to mind their own fucking business.
However, when HURD-Mach was able to run a GUI and a browser, the developers decided to start from scratch and port the project to the high-performance L4 microkernel. As a result development was slowed by years, but now HURD developer Marcus Brinkmann made a historic step and finished the process initialization code, which enabled him to execute the first software on HURD-L4. He says: 'We can now easily explore and develop the system in any way we want. The dinner is prepared!'"
[sarcasm]GNU Software: It works! Fuck, lets re-write it before people find some sort of use for it![/sarcasm]
I know HURD must be more of a research project than anything else - otherwise they'd be trying to get something at least usable to arouse some interest in the project.
I admire what HURD attempts to achieve, but at the moment its a bit of an incomplete solution to a non-problem (find an open-source kernel for the GNU operating environment)....
The big deal is that if they don't enforce their trademark, they could lose it. Just like how aspirin is now a generic term in the US but a trademark everywhere else. If that were to happen, anyone could start calling their spreadsheet software Excel.
However, as per the article, they don't actually own the trademark, so there's no way to lose it anyway.
People have been able to call their spreadsheet "Excel" for 19 years already:D
This is supposed to be an "easy to use" and "works out of the box" distribution.
The people this is aimed at really couldn't give a shit about C flags, proprietry AA font support, or starting from scratch to get a few percent speed increase by stripping out libraries they don't need, etc. They don't want to spend 2 days waiting for everything they need to compile. They just want to print a letter.
Part of this audience is the type of person who rings you up with "i can't print", and you tell them to change their paper size from letter to a4 so their printer doesn't barf (I'm in australia, we use a4...).
The other part of the audience, is people like myself (been messing with Linux since '96), who went through the stage of playing with compiling software, wanking around getting the latest packages to work, etc - and have decided that they just want something to do work on, rather than play with. CPU speed is cheap. If you need every last drop of speed for research projects, etc - you're not in the target audience - feel free to go use Gentoo, Slackware, LFS or whatever...
The O/S is a means to an end - its not the purpose of using a computer, for most people. Most people have tasks they wish to perform (browse the net, print a letter, etc) that do not entail wanking around with compiler flags.
Don't get me wrong, I think Gentoo has a niche, for those who like to play and learn how Linux works. They're not who this distro is aimed at.
You'd best think about the drum you're beating here. When ficticiousmegacorp inc. fails to recoup their assests from the next virus, how soon before they start suing the admins involved for not patching the system soon enough/correctly?
You miss the point.
"Failing to patch" a machine is in a totally different league to deliberately spending your time building destructive software.
What you propose is akin to sueing people simply because they forgot to lock their car, which was then used in a bank robbery - which is clearly insane.
Patches, locks, alarms, etc are all *safeguards* or "back up" devices to attempt to protect you/your posessions in the event that someone else decides to break the law to damage/steal them.
Crimes such as theft and vandalism (be it physical or electronic) do not just "happen", there is always a perpetrator involved.
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He built linux to be an open-source unix work-alike, based on open standards. He never intended to write a Windows clone - that is the goal of others.
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Pay the extra $2 and sleep easier?
For $2, it really isn't worth screwing around, IMHO. If your supplier can't supply hardware that works, tough luck for them...
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I doubt the energy potential capable of being stored in a compressed air tank will be useful in practice...
For all intents and purposes, its like a hydrogen powered combustion engine, without the energy available from actual combustion...
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Yes, it has a compressed air tank. Compressing air still needs to be done at some point - I presume this task is just offloaded to the power grid, to be performed by our nice clean (sarcasm) environmentally friendly nuclear/coal/gas power plants?
Hmmm....
All this does is relocate the source of the pollution (or handball the problem of environmentally friendly energy source to someone else - take your pick) - its about as useful (IMHO) as me making a rubber band powered car that has to be wound up every day...
smash.
I played with BEOS R5 and there was a terminal.
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How about you leave the commenting on BEOS's performance to people who actually use/used it? There's plenty of them on here...
Unless you have something more to say than random un-substantiated speculation, I suggest you stop posting stuff that makes you look ignorant :)
smash.
Either that, or they've got a task scheduler in the kernel that doesn't suck.
Whaddya know...
For the record, "back in the day", i ran multiple copies of Doom under X/Linux on a P200 class machine, and it ran them just fine. Its not inconceivable.
I've also used BEOS R5 and can vouch that its very responsive - I never had any media on the drive I tested it on to play with though :D
smash.
When you fix a car, you typically get a warranty on the parts, and they fail in a limited number of ways. Software is different.
You don't get, for example, replacement brake pads that mysteriously decide to cause your engine to spontaneously explode.
Now, given that, the vast number of un-related problem causes, and speed of software development (compare cars we drove in 1980 to today. now compare software/pc hardware) - means that
- no matter how much you are trained, a large amount of knowledge becomes useless by the time you're trained in it
- as a result, troubleshooting is more a matter of "common sense" and a process of elimination than training
This is why pc techs are "unqualified"...smash.
VOIP is very tolerant of high latency and packet loss (as a large part of voic is very easily compressible silence :) - online gaming, etc isn't.
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Kinda makes the running costs of Voyager seem insignificant now doesn't it.
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I thought windows was supposed to be LOWER TCO?
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Logically plugged in... ie, using their SSID. A few hundred thousand other /. readers seemed to figure that out just fine :D
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Scenario: Manager takes his laptop home on the weekend, or (even better), takes it on a business trip, and plugs into the wireless lan at the airport.
He picks up a copy of MyDoom version super alpha turbo+.
2 days later, he gets back and plugs it into the corporate network in your office.
How many of you can say that *every* windows machine you have on the corporate network is up to date? Thats assuming there's already a patch for Mydoom version supera alpha turbo+ at that point?
The days of the perimeter firewall being all you need are well and truly over (and some would say they were never apparent anyway).
smash.
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Part of the huge benefit of going to linux in the first place is limiting priviledges, and yet the easy to use distro makers fuck it all up and encourage use of root....
Ah well.
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Its all a matter of priorities. If you don't play games (for businesses, check), pay a consultant to build your network (check), and are willing to choose hardware properly (as *any* IT dept worth a pinch of shit should... check), migration is definately possible.
smash.
Simple, no?
Most "nerds" are intellectuals, and that includes political debate.
Personally, I think NK's "fuck you" attitude towards negotiations with the US is great. Its about time someone had the balls to stand up and tell the US administration to mind their own fucking business.
smash.
[sarcasm]GNU Software: It works! Fuck, lets re-write it before people find some sort of use for it![/sarcasm]
I know HURD must be more of a research project than anything else - otherwise they'd be trying to get something at least usable to arouse some interest in the project.
I admire what HURD attempts to achieve, but at the moment its a bit of an incomplete solution to a non-problem (find an open-source kernel for the GNU operating environment)....
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"stuff i am looking for" filetype:torrent
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People have been able to call their spreadsheet "Excel" for 19 years already :D
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Now they're proving that our notions of evolution are wrong.
Damn bees :D
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This is supposed to be an "easy to use" and "works out of the box" distribution.
The people this is aimed at really couldn't give a shit about C flags, proprietry AA font support, or starting from scratch to get a few percent speed increase by stripping out libraries they don't need, etc. They don't want to spend 2 days waiting for everything they need to compile. They just want to print a letter.
Part of this audience is the type of person who rings you up with "i can't print", and you tell them to change their paper size from letter to a4 so their printer doesn't barf (I'm in australia, we use a4...).
The other part of the audience, is people like myself (been messing with Linux since '96), who went through the stage of playing with compiling software, wanking around getting the latest packages to work, etc - and have decided that they just want something to do work on, rather than play with. CPU speed is cheap. If you need every last drop of speed for research projects, etc - you're not in the target audience - feel free to go use Gentoo, Slackware, LFS or whatever...
The O/S is a means to an end - its not the purpose of using a computer, for most people. Most people have tasks they wish to perform (browse the net, print a letter, etc) that do not entail wanking around with compiler flags.
Don't get me wrong, I think Gentoo has a niche, for those who like to play and learn how Linux works. They're not who this distro is aimed at.
smash.
"Failing to patch" a machine is in a totally different league to deliberately spending your time building destructive software.
What you propose is akin to sueing people simply because they forgot to lock their car, which was then used in a bank robbery - which is clearly insane.
Patches, locks, alarms, etc are all *safeguards* or "back up" devices to attempt to protect you/your posessions in the event that someone else decides to break the law to damage/steal them.
Crimes such as theft and vandalism (be it physical or electronic) do not just "happen", there is always a perpetrator involved.
smash.