It would seem that this would preclude not only the use of the the message files under RedHat or Slackware, or whatever other Linux distribution, but the Windows port of StarOffice as well.
Now there's a significant Linux program unavailable under Windows.
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It seems like they're intentionally screwing up their English usage today.
But related
I've got this theory that Roger Ebert intentionally puts an incorrect minor plot point in each of his movie reviews, just to see who'll catch it. I used to think that he was just careless, or saw too many movies to remember each correctly, but I've seen way too many instances of it to think that it's not intentional.
I'm not an expert in convection, but it seems that trying to make a fanless rack-mount server would be difficult. Most rackmount cases vent either from front to back or side to side because there's another big heater right on top, and below. So pumping more heat to the next unit doesn't really help, unless you're only really concerned about the machines on the bottom of your rack. And I don't think it's possible for the convection that they use in the fanless Macs to work in that way. But then again, I don't really understand how sailboats sail into the wind.
Which is not to say that they shouldn't make rackmount machines. I believe that they should, and maybe if MacOS X takes off in the server arena, as it should, then they will.
Okay, poor choice of words on my part. Obviously, I know that it is not currently possible. However, unless I am mistaken, one of the objectives of the Crusoe is to allow code-morphing firmware patches or upgrades. If that's possible, then it should be possible to roll your own. If that's possible, then it should be possible to write a bridge to their ISA. Unless their ISA just doesn't really map to the ISAs that we're familiar with. Maybe it just doesn't make sense to write natively to it. I don't know, because I don't know what their native ISA looks like. Maybe someone else out there does.
Seems to me that it'd be pretty cool to write to the native Crusoe architecture rather than going through the x86 ``emulation''. Does anyone know if it's even possible to bypass the emulation at all, and write native machine code? Regardless of how good the ``emulation'' is, it seems like it'd be faster and more efficient to optimize for the real hardware. And it ought to still keep it's low-power, low-heat features.
As I've always understood it, you cannot go out and buy a THX-certified ``solution'' (for lack of a better word). In order for something to be THX-certified, a THX engineer has to come out to the site and inspect all the equipment, take readings, and so on. Only his word makes something THX-certified. I assume some osrt of certificate is installed.
At the same time, I've never quite understood why there are THX logos on certain home entertainment products. I've assumed that it means that that component can be part of a THX-certified solution. Not that others can't, but you've got a better shot, THX has found it to be of superior quality, etc.
Of course, this could all just apply to movie theaters. Maybe they have more relaxed restrictions for consumer products.
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At least this ostensibly pro-OpenSource movie has interviews with OpenSource folks on its web site in Quicktime format using anti-OpenSource Sorenson codecs.
This is an incredibly useful feature that has been one of the big selling point of VxFS (probably the most respected filesystem out there) for quite some time. Solaris just added it to their UFS implementation, I believe that SGI's XFS has it, etc...
Are you sure you know what you're talking about? (He didn't say automatically, but atomically.)
Our technology permanently attaches nano-scale structures that are 1/1000 the size of a conventional cotton fiber to the fabric using cutting-edge applications of polymer chemistry.
It's nice to see that the author thinks that 802.11b cannot go through walls. Patently untrue.
Also, this is not an Apple-developed system. I believe that it was pioneered by Lucent. In fact, I'm pretty sure that Apple's implementation is Lucent's.
For those of us that attended North Carolina State University, ``Up, Up, Down, Down'' has other connotations.
I guarantee that if you say it in sort of a southern drawl (kinda ``Uhhp, Uhhp, Dah-owwn, Dah-owwn'') to any NCSU alumnus, it will elicit giggles or moans, as this was repeated for five minutes continuously to each freshman while forced to step up and down on and off the first step of a bleacher as part of an initial health course.
As someone already mentioned, HP OpenMail exists as an Exchange replacement. However, unless I'm mistaken, it replicates Exchange's proprietary mail protocols.
I'm currently in a similar situation in needing to fight Exchange, and I've come across Steltor (formerly CS&T) CorporateTime . It's a Calendar Server, but it has an Outlook plugin that makes its calendaring functions look just like Exchange's, plus it adds support back into Outlook for IMAP (which is, for some reason, taken away in the Exchange-enabled version). And the IMAP server looks like an Exchange server for email.
I haven't had a lot of time to look at it, but it looks like a real option (and it runs under a variety of Unices). It might even be possible to fake out your users. Anyone else know anything?
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...to paraphrase Hobbes.
It seems to have become commonplace to redefine words or to simply make words up in order to promulgate ones own view of the world. Then these new words (for a word with a different definition is a new word) tend to change everyone else's view of the world. This has been going on for quite some time, but now people seem to be explicitly using it.
Before long, all English words will have many various meanings that will no longer be understandable through context.
As I remember from somewhere (perhaps Neil Gaiman's biography(?)) you had a real hands-on approach to Infocom's HHGTTG (one of their best games) and Bureaucracy (one of the hardest). What can you tell us about working with Steve Meretzky (and the rest of the gang), being in the early PC industry (late '84), how that affected you as a writer, etc. Basically, I'm just interested in how dealing with actual programming affected someone whose life is not based around that.
Also, your thoughts about Java, that bastard son of Infocom's wonderful virtual machine...;)
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Now there's a significant Linux program unavailable under Windows.
Not that I can read Czech.
It seems like they're intentionally screwing up their English usage today.
But related
I've got this theory that Roger Ebert intentionally puts an incorrect minor plot point in each of his movie reviews, just to see who'll catch it. I used to think that he was just careless, or saw too many movies to remember each correctly, but I've seen way too many instances of it to think that it's not intentional.
I told you it was offtopic.
Which is not to say that they shouldn't make rackmount machines. I believe that they should, and maybe if MacOS X takes off in the server arena, as it should, then they will.
Fractal-based grammar. Hmmmm....
Of course, this ignores all the supporting hardware around it, but I seem to be ignoring reality left-and-right today, anyway.
Sorry for the rambing....
Oh, and by the way, fuck you, too.
NetBSD awaits...
To me, the motion of aliased straight lines (jaggies) really distracts me. It's like a moving moire pattern. Shudder.
At the same time, I've never quite understood why there are THX logos on certain home entertainment products. I've assumed that it means that that component can be part of a THX-certified solution. Not that others can't, but you've got a better shot, THX has found it to be of superior quality, etc.
Of course, this could all just apply to movie theaters. Maybe they have more relaxed restrictions for consumer products.
At least this ostensibly pro-OpenSource movie has interviews with OpenSource folks on its web site in Quicktime format using anti-OpenSource Sorenson codecs.
This is an incredibly useful feature that has been one of the big selling point of VxFS (probably the most respected filesystem out there) for quite some time. Solaris just added it to their UFS implementation, I believe that SGI's XFS has it, etc...
Are you sure you know what you're talking about? (He didn't say automatically, but atomically.)
You've abviously never been deep in the Smoky Mountains.
Also, this is not an Apple-developed system. I believe that it was pioneered by Lucent. In fact, I'm pretty sure that Apple's implementation is Lucent's.
I guarantee that if you say it in sort of a southern drawl (kinda ``Uhhp, Uhhp, Dah-owwn, Dah-owwn'') to any NCSU alumnus, it will elicit giggles or moans, as this was repeated for five minutes continuously to each freshman while forced to step up and down on and off the first step of a bleacher as part of an initial health course.
I giggle now just thinking about it.
There's actually at least some work being done on getting native anti-aliasing and translucency in X. Check out http://www.xfree86.org/~keithp/render/
I'm currently in a similar situation in needing to fight Exchange, and I've come across Steltor (formerly CS&T) CorporateTime . It's a Calendar Server, but it has an Outlook plugin that makes its calendaring functions look just like Exchange's, plus it adds support back into Outlook for IMAP (which is, for some reason, taken away in the Exchange-enabled version). And the IMAP server looks like an Exchange server for email.
I haven't had a lot of time to look at it, but it looks like a real option (and it runs under a variety of Unices). It might even be possible to fake out your users. Anyone else know anything?
It seems to have become commonplace to redefine words or to simply make words up in order to promulgate ones own view of the world. Then these new words (for a word with a different definition is a new word) tend to change everyone else's view of the world. This has been going on for quite some time, but now people seem to be explicitly using it.
Before long, all English words will have many various meanings that will no longer be understandable through context.
Also, your thoughts about Java, that bastard son of Infocom's wonderful virtual machine... ;)