I reinstalled SUSE 9.3 last night, and I realized that doh! I had to turn everything on. With that done, I downloaded the matching KDE RPMs from KDE's mirror and unpacked and was done.
OS/2 actually had file meta deta way back in the days of OS/2 2.0. They called them "Extended Attributes". Unfortunately HPFS was not journaled or transacted, so in the event of system failures, your meta data would get screwed up and you would have to run some goofy utility to fix things.
There's a beta version available to developers now. There was a lot of criticism of it when it was first unveiled so they went back to the drawing board and released a new version that claims to address those concerns.
Are you running 64 bit? I was surprised that KDevelop wasn't included. In any other SUSE distribution, it was.
My problem is that Suse 9.3 Eval edition, for 64 bit, did not have KDevelop as part of the distribution, so it does not show up in Yast.
I went and downloaded the KDevelop rpms and found that I needed many other things that I'm honestly still sorting out.
1. the package named Arts with my distribution is not the right version for KDevelop.
2. subversion was not part of the Suse 9.3 AMD distribution, so I have to get that. 3. there's stuff for libjpeg and other things that didn't fly either.
I'm assuming, now, as I think about it, that KDevelop for 64 bit wasn't included in 9.3 Eval because they want me to upgrade to 9.3 Professional, but I really can't glean a way as to see what is on 9.3 Eval.
I also tried Red Hat FC4, which is supposed to actually have everything for 64 bit, but, it kernel panics the moment I try to boot the install CD.
The Federal Reserve is a private institution, not a government one. Bush and the Congress appoint the chairman, true, but they are not allowed to do anything to influence his behavior.
The most recent and most famous example of this was that Bush the Eldar would have liked to have seen interest rates fall beginning in 1990 to get the economy rolling, but Greenspan waited longer and thus Clinton was elected on the famous line: "It's the economy, stupid".
The way that you get software onto Linux, the very nature of open source, is a trojan horse disaster waiting to happen.
With Linux, installation is endless. How I so wish that I could just get one fricking package from online for KDevelop or any other tool I use and run one installation process.
Instead I have dependency hell.
KDevelop wants a package called Graphviz, something called Arts (the SUSE version isn't good enough), a new kind of source control system. I have to go to fifty different web sites that I find by Googling just to try and figure out what to get?
This is fraught with danger.
If I'm a hacker, I wouldn't even bother trying to find a buffer overrun somewhere, I would just put up a legitimate looking web site claiming I have a binary for something like CVS or RPM or any of the myriad packages that Linux uses, stuff my own code in it, and wait. Some Linux nooby would download it, run the rpm as root, and I'm in.
Source code devotees stay silent. I could probably put a tarball out there with rm -rf / in the middle of a makefile somewhere and no one would notice. Hell, I could just delete one file... what is all this make install gnu auto configu stuff?
Stupid stuff in RPMs would be useful.
a) the package should specify whether it requires root permissions
b) packages should have a list of certified sites for their dependencies. OR, there should be an https repository for ALL packages.
Until you eliminate people googling for dependent packages to be run as root, Linux is just as unsafe as Windows, if not more unsafe.
The theory of computing is what gives you a real competitive advantage over Chubb school people. If you can look at an algorithm and classify it based on N, N log N, N^2, N^N, then, you have a huge advantage over people that really just don't know the difference.
Similarly, once you get that all computers is are is twisting trees and networks from one shape to another, everything sorta falls into place.
As opposed to some new age crystal rock worshippers overseas or up north? At least my Volcano God promises me something when I die. Your Mother Earth hurricanes you, volcanoes you, gives you Zilch and you go prancing around because you think buying too much stuff offends her.
Earth is a rock, get over it. Don't let a stupid frog stop you from building the freeway,
Raymond promotes himself as more than Kernighan, Ritchie, Stroustrap, Torvalds, Joy, Stallman, Ramey, and Wall and yet I don't think he's even close to being as valuable.
Look at his email. He takes credit for an entire movement? Cut me a break. His cathedral and bazaar paper was a bunch of pot smoking nonsense. What a blow hard. What did he write that was so amazing or complicated? His web site is all "I contributed to, was in a meeting with..."
That makes some sense but it is easy enough to explain like this: Silverados and Cobalts are both Chevy, and then you say that Gentoo might be the Silverado and Lindows the Cobalt...
I think people like the idea of having bazillions of different kinds of applications available.
The problem with Linux is that installing new stuff is a rough road for newbies. I think the thing that Linux advocates need to stress is that most end users wouldn't generally need to install new stuff because a good Linux distribution already has nearly everything.
I'm a Windows developer with a kid. I can't afford to keep blowing money on Visual Studio licenses when I have a son I have to put through college. I'm hoping that Linux developer tools should be good enough and constantly improving, and in any case, they are free.
The GPL to me is a red herring brought up by Microsoft to plant this crazy idea that you should only develop for Windows because on Linux you aren't allowed to make money. I can't see any reason why I can't make shareware on Linux as opposed to Windows.
If anything, writing something on Linux is at least something of a safe harbor from waiting on Windows for MS to snatch your idea as yet another feature in Office.
Why does Linux keep getting faulted for installation issues while Windows gets a pass? Linux installation is not a reason to avoid switching at a corporate or oem level.
I downloaded and installed Suse 9.3 64 bit on my new dual Opteron the night before last. The installation went really smooth but of course there was a hiccup. I had to install sensors. That involved a trip to a web site, yasting around a bit, etc.
It would be easy to blast Linux for not automatically doing everything and retreat to M$ land, except that Windows 64 bit doesn't even have drivers out of the box for my SATA hard drive and thus wouldn't work at all. If I really wanted fans to work badly enough, and could not get a device, I could write a kernel module myself and all Linux hardware stuff has excellent documentation to at least get me started.
The bulk of all OS distributions are either OEMs or corporate rollouts. OEMS have a team that prepare images for a fixed hardware, and so do corporate rollout centers. Whether you wade through driver compatibility issues on Windows or Linux doesn't matter. Both systems have similar problems and Windows wizards at that level don't really help someone who should already be an expert on the topic.
I would think that OEMs might consider locking down Linux PCs so that end users do not have the root password. So they can't break it...
This must be caused by Global Warming. Everyone knows that if Bush would have signed Kyoto and all the Americans were driving better cars, the sun wouldn't be getting out of hand with these dangerous solar flares.
While all of the Europeans complain about Americans and their love of cars, isn't it true that the Germans are building low gas mileage high performance cars for export to the USA?
A BMW M3 gets the same gas mileage as a truck, as does nearly anything Mercedes AMG.
BMW is widely regarded as having started the horsepower wars by releasing a BMW 3 series in the mid 90s that had more horsepower and thus gas consumption than other car manufacturers. It was BMW's "Ultimate driving machine" campaign that put a renewed emphasis on 0-60 times.
All of which, I think is very cool. But Europeans should not be complaining about cars in America when their own economy is driven by our insatiable lust for automotive performance and power.
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Doctors are the only field that doesn't compete on either price or quality. Yet, we wonder why it is expensive and the doctors make so many mistakes.
I reinstalled SUSE 9.3 last night, and I realized that doh! I had to turn everything on. With that done, I downloaded the matching KDE RPMs from KDE's mirror and unpacked and was done.
OS/2 actually had file meta deta way back in the days of OS/2 2.0. They called them "Extended Attributes". Unfortunately HPFS was not journaled or transacted, so in the event of system failures, your meta data would get screwed up and you would have to run some goofy utility to fix things.
There's a beta version available to developers now. There was a lot of criticism of it when it was first unveiled so they went back to the drawing board and released a new version that claims to address those concerns.
Are you running 64 bit? I was surprised that KDevelop wasn't included. In any other SUSE distribution, it was.
My problem is that Suse 9.3 Eval edition, for 64 bit, did not have KDevelop as part of the distribution, so it does not show up in Yast.
I went and downloaded the KDevelop rpms and found that I needed many other things that I'm honestly still sorting out.
1. the package named Arts with my distribution is not the right version for KDevelop.
2. subversion was not part of the Suse 9.3 AMD distribution, so I have to get that.
3. there's stuff for libjpeg and other things that didn't fly either.
I'm assuming, now, as I think about it, that KDevelop for 64 bit wasn't included in 9.3 Eval because they want me to upgrade to 9.3 Professional, but I really can't glean a way as to see what is on 9.3 Eval.
I also tried Red Hat FC4, which is supposed to actually have everything for 64 bit, but, it kernel panics the moment I try to boot the install CD.
The Federal Reserve is a private institution, not a government one. Bush and the Congress appoint the chairman, true, but they are not allowed to do anything to influence his behavior.
The most recent and most famous example of this was that Bush the Eldar would have liked to have seen interest rates fall beginning in 1990 to get the economy rolling, but Greenspan waited longer and thus Clinton was elected on the famous line: "It's the economy, stupid".
Why does God have to be nice?
The way that you get software onto Linux, the very nature of open source, is a trojan horse disaster waiting to happen.
.. what is all this make install gnu auto configu stuff?
With Linux, installation is endless. How I so wish that I could just get one fricking package from online for KDevelop or any other tool I use and run one installation process.
Instead I have dependency hell.
KDevelop wants a package called Graphviz, something called Arts (the SUSE version isn't good enough), a new kind of source control system. I have to go to fifty different web sites that I find by Googling just to try and figure out what to get?
This is fraught with danger.
If I'm a hacker, I wouldn't even bother trying to find a buffer overrun somewhere, I would just put up a legitimate looking web site claiming I have a binary for something like CVS or RPM or any of the myriad packages that Linux uses, stuff my own code in it, and wait. Some Linux nooby would download it, run the rpm as root, and I'm in.
Source code devotees stay silent. I could probably put a tarball out there with rm -rf / in the middle of a makefile somewhere and no one would notice. Hell, I could just delete one file.
Stupid stuff in RPMs would be useful.
a) the package should specify whether it requires root permissions
b) packages should have a list of certified sites for their dependencies. OR, there should be an https repository for ALL packages.
Until you eliminate people googling for dependent packages to be run as root, Linux is just as unsafe as Windows, if not more unsafe.
The theory of computing is what gives you a real competitive advantage over Chubb school people. If you can look at an algorithm and classify it based on N, N log N, N^2, N^N, then, you have a huge advantage over people that really just don't know the difference.
Similarly, once you get that all computers is are is twisting trees and networks from one shape to another, everything sorta falls into place.
As opposed to some new age crystal rock worshippers overseas or up north? At least my Volcano God promises me something when I die. Your Mother Earth hurricanes you, volcanoes you, gives you Zilch and you go prancing around because you think buying too much stuff offends her.
Earth is a rock, get over it. Don't let a stupid frog stop you from building the freeway,
Commodity Server
I didn't like the way it was written. It rambled on too much for me to be called "great".
Raymond promotes himself as more than Kernighan, Ritchie, Stroustrap, Torvalds, Joy, Stallman, Ramey, and Wall and yet I don't think he's even close to being as valuable.
Steve Ballmer and Eric Raymond have the exact same personality.
Me. Me. Me. Me. Me. Me. Me. Me. Me. Me. Me. Me. Me. Me. Me.
Eric should go work for Microsoft. He fits right in.
Look at his email. He takes credit for an entire movement? Cut me a break. His cathedral and bazaar paper was a bunch of pot smoking nonsense. What a blow hard. What did he write that was so amazing or complicated? His web site is all "I contributed to, was in a meeting with..."
The guy is a total fraud.
That makes some sense but it is easy enough to explain like this: Silverados and Cobalts are both Chevy, and then you say that Gentoo might be the Silverado and Lindows the Cobalt...
Or something.
I think people like the idea of having bazillions of different kinds of applications available.
The problem with Linux is that installing new stuff is a rough road for newbies. I think the thing that Linux advocates need to stress is that most end users wouldn't generally need to install new stuff because a good Linux distribution already has nearly everything.
I'm a Windows developer with a kid. I can't afford to keep blowing money on Visual Studio licenses when I have a son I have to put through college. I'm hoping that Linux developer tools should be good enough and constantly improving, and in any case, they are free.
The GPL to me is a red herring brought up by Microsoft to plant this crazy idea that you should only develop for Windows because on Linux you aren't allowed to make money. I can't see any reason why I can't make shareware on Linux as opposed to Windows.
If anything, writing something on Linux is at least something of a safe harbor from waiting on Windows for MS to snatch your idea as yet another feature in Office.
Sale away!
Why does Linux keep getting faulted for installation issues while Windows gets a pass?
Linux installation is not a reason to avoid switching at a corporate or oem level.
I downloaded and installed Suse 9.3 64 bit on my new dual Opteron the night before last. The installation went really smooth but of course there was a hiccup. I had to install sensors. That involved a trip to a web site, yasting around a bit, etc.
It would be easy to blast Linux for not automatically doing everything and retreat to M$ land, except that Windows 64 bit doesn't even have drivers out of the box for my SATA hard drive and thus wouldn't work at all. If I really wanted fans to work badly enough, and could not get a device, I could write a kernel module myself and all Linux hardware stuff has excellent documentation to at least get me started.
The bulk of all OS distributions are either OEMs or corporate rollouts. OEMS have a team that prepare images for a fixed hardware, and so do corporate rollout centers. Whether you wade through driver compatibility issues on Windows or Linux doesn't matter. Both systems have similar problems and Windows wizards at that level don't really help someone who should already be an expert on the topic.
I would think that OEMs might consider locking down Linux PCs so that end users do not have the root password. So they can't break it...
It would be nice to be able to download DVD isos with the premiere open source product.
Well, Wikipedia says they have the 5th largest defense budget in the world.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japan_Self-Defense_F
And a Japanse professor
http://www.lexisnexis.com/academic/2upa/Ias/Occup
Japan's "Self Defense Force" is said to be the third most capable military in the world.
This must be caused by Global Warming. Everyone knows that if Bush would have signed Kyoto and all the Americans were driving better cars, the sun wouldn't be getting out of hand with these dangerous solar flares.
While all of the Europeans complain about Americans and their love of cars, isn't it true that the Germans are building low gas mileage high performance cars for export to the USA?
A BMW M3 gets the same gas mileage as a truck, as does nearly anything Mercedes AMG.
BMW is widely regarded as having started the horsepower wars by releasing a BMW 3 series in the mid 90s that had more horsepower and thus gas consumption than other car manufacturers. It was BMW's "Ultimate driving machine" campaign that put a renewed emphasis on 0-60 times.
All of which, I think is very cool. But Europeans should not be complaining about cars in America when their own economy is driven by our insatiable lust for automotive performance and power.
Well they seem to have skipped New Orleans, so what's your point?