I agree 100%. Hopefully you're not suggesting that governments currently don't spend money on software? My point is that the money that is spent should go to benefit the public, not shareholders of an individual company. (If there is an appropriate solution that fits the problem that is being solved with the software in question. I think the government should be pragmatic too.)
> Trying to accomplish it by government dictate with taxpayer's dollars is doomed to failure and is just socialist social engineering.
Again, I said that there needs to be cost/benefit analysis showing that Free Software makes economic sense, I didn't say anything about mandating laws to do anything. But without some voice in the government, noone will ever see the cost benefit analysis. AFAIK, and I'm not an expert so tell me if I'm wrong, if you want a voice in government in this day and age, you need a lobby. I don't pretend to know how to do this, but I'm sure there are lobbies for hire, which was my original point. Hiring a lobbyist will cost money, but there are a few organizations out there that could possibly bankroll such an effort.
My personal opinion is the that government should be Free Software's biggest friend. I feel that public monies should be used to benefit as many people as possible (not frivously though), and that by supporting Free Software development, more people will benefit than buy investing in proprietary applications.
So, how does one get the government to buy into this plan? Perhaps it's time that the Free Software Foundation or Software in the Public Interest hires a professional lobbyist to make some inroads into the US and other governments. Free Software is reaching the point where it is a highly viable alternative to propietary solutions. With the proper lobbying and data showing positive cost/benefit analysis, perhaps we can get more momentum behind Free Software.
"some kind of snapshots of filesystems" sounds like a "chrooted" environment for each app to run on. So, I think all of the software exists to do what you're saying.
Here's the common speculation on where that wives tale came about. Basically since cats like to lie in warm places, it's possible that a large cat could lay on a small baby alseep in its crib and suffocate it. That's sufficiently close to "sucking the breath out" in my mind.;-)
2.4.11 wouldn't even compile for me with either
the old or new Adaptec 7xxx driver enabled. This is the 3rd or 4th 2.4.x kernel that would not compile "out of the box" for me. 2.4.9-ac18 compiled and seems OK on that particular box.
On the bright side, 2.4.11 does seem to have decent VM. And the firewire support seems to be better than before with my Digital 8 camcorder.
MS keeps arguing "everyone should benefit" from the software the government is paying for, and that since companies can't benefit from GPL software, tge government shouldn't be spending any morney on it. Fine.
But what I can't understand is how if the government buys 10M copies of Word, how anyone but MS benefits. So by their own logic, I think MS software AND GPL software should be banned from the purchasing choices of the government. That still leaves quite a few choices, all of which are better than MS.
Did they manage to speed up g++ at all? In the prerelease versions, I was seeing compilation times that would put g++ 3.0 at about 2-3 times slower than 2.95.2. And 2.95.2 was significantly slower than any egcs version. Anyone know if there are plans to address this?
Well, I went to the Office XP launch and I can tell you that smart tags aren't evil at all. It's a kind of regular expression that applies to "all" content. If I'm in Word, I might have a smart tag that recognizes addresses. A little icon pops up that says "I can do stuff with this!" - and then I have choices of actions that apply to addresses, like looking them up in Outlook or mapping them in MapQuest or something.
Could I use them to redirect IE to different pages based on keywords? Sure, of course. But I don't think that's necessarily the focus - it's much more general than that.
Government funding should be for work that is available to everybody. Open source is not available to commercial companies.
So, which is closer to "work that is available to everybody"?
1) Windows and MS software
2) Linux and Free Software
MS certainly can choose to use GPLed software in every product they make - they've got that right. Can I start shipping Windows with my new apps too? Thanks for letting me know, Steve, I'll start today!
Re:What matters is which FS _reads_ the fastest.
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Actually, I've read papers that make the opposite claim that you're making. Reading for the most part happens from disk cache, or from OS buffers of disk, so you don't need to optimize reading as much.
The Buslogic SCSI driver from Linux will show you what your disk accesses look like in/proc/scsi/Buslogic/ (where "n" is the number of the controller, 0 through the number of Buslogic controllers.) On my machine with an uptime currently at about one week, used for surfing and reading email, right now it says it has read 853,097,472 bytes, and written 1,269,571,584 bytes. So it's definitely doing more writing than reading to the actual disks. At the OS level I can't tell if it's reading or writing more. If it _is_ reading more, then the buffers are doing a great job of hiding it from the physical disks. On my machine, at the FS level, optimizing writes looks like a win.
I'm curious what the major objections to incorporating GGI into the mainstream kernel were? It always seemed like a good idea to me, and I never saw an objection that wasn't immediately shown invalid when the discussion was raging way back. What did Linus and the other developers not like about it?
Buslogic driver in 2.4.x (x 3) is messed up
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If you've got a Buslogic BT948 or BT958, you want
to update to kernel 2.4.3. It has fixes for a
problem that have caused ext2fs problems for myself and others.
I don't see this listed in the changelogs so I thought I would mention it.
For me, the killer app would be a Sony Playstation I emulator. Until the X-Box can do that, I'm probably not buying one. If it can do that, I'll consider it over a PS2...
While your statements are true, the fact that there has been life on Earth for so long would imply that there are feedback mechanisms in place.
Certainly we know that volcanos have erupted, large meteors have hit, etc and the climate has always returned to a state that supports life.
Wouldn't they have to have a margin of error of less than.02% (2 ballots per 10,000) to be able
to call this election? (942 votes/5818021 = 0.000162)
I would think that given things like the carboard punchouts coming stuck/unstuck that you couldn't get that accurate of a count.
How to pick a presidential candidate
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I think that the most important thing a president does is make lifetime appointments of supreme court judges. Everything else is really more up to the house and the senate than the president themselves. Even military decisions are (hopefully) made more by advisors than the president.
So pick a candidate that will pick judges who will uphold your view of the constitution, and vote that way.
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Actually, while Verilog is more popular in the US, VHDL is more popular in Europe. It's pretty hard to say overall which is more popular.
Have you seen this?
> More government handouts are not a solution.
I agree 100%. Hopefully you're not suggesting that governments currently don't spend money on software? My point is that the money that is spent should go to benefit the public, not shareholders of an individual company. (If there is an appropriate solution that fits the problem that is being solved with the software in question. I think the government should be pragmatic too.)
> Trying to accomplish it by government dictate with taxpayer's dollars is doomed to failure and is just socialist social engineering.
Again, I said that there needs to be cost/benefit analysis showing that Free Software makes economic sense, I didn't say anything about mandating laws to do anything. But without some voice in the government, noone will ever see the cost benefit analysis. AFAIK, and I'm not an expert so tell me if I'm wrong, if you want a voice in government in this day and age, you need a lobby. I don't pretend to know how to do this, but I'm sure there are lobbies for hire, which was my original point. Hiring a lobbyist will cost money, but there are a few organizations out there that could possibly bankroll such an effort.
My personal opinion is the that government should be Free Software's biggest friend. I feel that public monies should be used to benefit as many people as possible (not frivously though), and that by supporting Free Software development, more people will benefit than buy investing in proprietary applications.
So, how does one get the government to buy into this plan? Perhaps it's time that the Free Software Foundation or Software in the Public Interest hires a professional lobbyist to make some inroads into the US and other governments. Free Software is reaching the point where it is a highly viable alternative to propietary solutions. With the proper lobbying and data showing positive cost/benefit analysis, perhaps we can get more momentum behind Free Software.
If you use a distribution, which one and why? How about a GUI environment? VI or emacs?
"some kind of snapshots of filesystems" sounds like a "chrooted" environment for each app to run on. So, I think all of the software exists to do what you're saying.
Look at the source of the page:
;-)
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Oops, that's the copyright symbol
Here's the common speculation on where that wives tale came about. Basically since cats like to lie in warm places, it's possible that a large cat could lay on a small baby alseep in its crib and suffocate it. That's sufficiently close to "sucking the breath out" in my mind. ;-)
2.4.11 wouldn't even compile for me with either
the old or new Adaptec 7xxx driver enabled. This is the 3rd or 4th 2.4.x kernel that would not compile "out of the box" for me. 2.4.9-ac18 compiled and seems OK on that particular box.
On the bright side, 2.4.11 does seem to have decent VM. And the firewire support seems to be better than before with my Digital 8 camcorder.
It's closed now! Anyone know if the one in Oxford is still open?
In linux, without executing the virus? I've been wanting to see all of the things I was sent.
It's a patent for the wheel. Check out this link for the patent or this article for more information.
MS keeps arguing "everyone should benefit" from the software the government is paying for, and that since companies can't benefit from GPL software, tge government shouldn't be spending any morney on it. Fine.
But what I can't understand is how if the government buys 10M copies of Word, how anyone but MS benefits. So by their own logic, I think MS software AND GPL software should be banned from the purchasing choices of the government. That still leaves quite a few choices, all of which are better than MS.
I'm sorry, I have to disagree that Open Source == Free Software. Free Software is always Open Source, but the converse isn't always true.
I'm not trying to parrot RMS, but the distinctions are real.
Did they manage to speed up g++ at all? In the prerelease versions, I was seeing compilation times that would put g++ 3.0 at about 2-3 times slower than 2.95.2. And 2.95.2 was significantly slower than any egcs version. Anyone know if there are plans to address this?
Well, I went to the Office XP launch and I can tell you that smart tags aren't evil at all. It's a kind of regular expression that applies to "all" content. If I'm in Word, I might have a smart tag that recognizes addresses. A little icon pops up that says "I can do stuff with this!" - and then I have choices of actions that apply to addresses, like looking them up in Outlook or mapping them in MapQuest or something.
Could I use them to redirect IE to different pages based on keywords? Sure, of course. But I don't think that's necessarily the focus - it's much more general than that.
Government funding should be for work that is available to everybody. Open source is not available to commercial companies.
So, which is closer to "work that is available to everybody"?
1) Windows and MS software
2) Linux and Free Software
MS certainly can choose to use GPLed software in every product they make - they've got that right. Can I start shipping Windows with my new apps too? Thanks for letting me know, Steve, I'll start today!
Actually, I've read papers that make the opposite claim that you're making. Reading for the most part happens from disk cache, or from OS buffers of disk, so you don't need to optimize reading as much.
/proc/scsi/Buslogic/ (where "n" is the number of the controller, 0 through the number of Buslogic controllers.) On my machine with an uptime currently at about one week, used for surfing and reading email, right now it says it has read 853,097,472 bytes, and written 1,269,571,584 bytes. So it's definitely doing more writing than reading to the actual disks. At the OS level I can't tell if it's reading or writing more. If it _is_ reading more, then the buffers are doing a great job of hiding it from the physical disks. On my machine, at the FS level, optimizing writes looks like a win.
The Buslogic SCSI driver from Linux will show you what your disk accesses look like in
I'm curious what the major objections to incorporating GGI into the mainstream kernel were? It always seemed like a good idea to me, and I never saw an objection that wasn't immediately shown invalid when the discussion was raging way back. What did Linus and the other developers not like about it?
If you've got a Buslogic BT948 or BT958, you want to update to kernel 2.4.3. It has fixes for a problem that have caused ext2fs problems for myself and others. I don't see this listed in the changelogs so I thought I would mention it.
For me, the killer app would be a Sony Playstation I emulator. Until the X-Box can do that, I'm probably not buying one. If it can do that, I'll consider it over a PS2...
While your statements are true, the fact that there has been life on Earth for so long would imply that there are feedback mechanisms in place. Certainly we know that volcanos have erupted, large meteors have hit, etc and the climate has always returned to a state that supports life.
As far as I know, Debian will continue to support all platforms...
Wouldn't they have to have a margin of error of less than .02% (2 ballots per 10,000) to be able
to call this election?
(942 votes/5818021 = 0.000162)
I would think that given things like the carboard punchouts coming stuck/unstuck that you couldn't get that accurate of a count.
I think that the most important thing a president does is make lifetime appointments of supreme court judges. Everything else is really more up to the house and the senate than the president themselves. Even military decisions are (hopefully) made more by advisors than the president.
So pick a candidate that will pick judges who will uphold your view of the constitution, and vote that way.