I laughed for minutes when I read "Without further adieu" in the article. What a wonderful new way to announce I'm a total illiterate and blissfully unaware of it!
Debian's great that way. And I wouldn't want to take any credit away from it, or from Bruce.
I'm running Gentoo today, though. It's a better match for me. And what really amazes me about Gentoo is that when you do the moral equivalent of a big apt-get upgrade, and it's "emerging" the world... at the end of all that compilation, it just works, just like Debian did, but with binaries customized for my machine and built with the compiler version I chose myself.
I've been using UNIX for over 20 years now and I can't tell you how impressed I am with the quality of modern Linux distributions. Hats off, and thanks.
Hi, I'm the guy who wrote the Bluetooth HID (keyboard/mouse) driver for Linux so that I could use the M$FT Bluetooth desktop. More recently, I've picked up an Apple Bluetooth keyboard. I really like it a lot, and prefer it to the M$FT keyboard. And not just because you can rearrange the keys into a sane layout (Dvorak) without ending up with a mishmash of different key heights; more important, the Apple keyboard actually has an ON/OFF switch, so you won't have to pull out the batteries when you're done using it for the day.
I'm 40, and use Internet services for much of my daily news fix (along with public radio). I don't have a television.
But I still mostly use real paper books for most "reference" queries. I've got the two-volume Shorter Edition of the Oxford English Dictionary, which I utterly love to browse. And I also use atlases (Rand-McNally), almanacs, and the New York Times Desk Reference.
Part of the reason I cling to these and other works is the immediacy of seeking out answers to new questions that spring to mind as I probe the work. One never looks up a single word in the OED without browsing at least the other entries that are nearby on the page. And even with high-speed Internet access, it's hard to approach the data bandwidth between a high-quality atlas and your eyeballs.
The user has made the choice to run Windows and to put the computer on the Internet, despite Microsoft's well-publicized vulnerabilities. At some point, accountability for the establishment of an "attractive nuisance" should kick in.
Of course, if Microsoft were to indemnify its users against these fines, perhaps under the condition that the user maintain a reasonably well-patched system, it would be a real selling point vs. Linux, where you're essentially on your own.
... should be feasible, at least for Linux. The Microsoft Optical Desktop for Bluetooth runs just great with Linux, using the BlueZ stack and a HID daemon that I wrote (see my website), and this new Apple kit should work with that software with little or no modification to it. I may pick up the Apple keyboard and try it out, but probably not the one-button mouse.
Foo on Apple for not providing a Dvorak option.
If you want to use this keyboard on a Windows PC, you'll probably have to get the Microsoft kit (for the software), keep the software and Bluetooth transceiver, throw away the Microsoft keyboard, power up the Apple one, and pray that Microsoft used standard HID encoding in their driver instead of hard-coding the input notifications that their keyboard generates.
Well, I've wanted an alternative source for laptops comparable to the Dells I've been using, so I checked out both of the sites that you mentioned. Neither of them had a unit with 1600x1200 resolution, and powernotebooks.com showed some warning signs of being run by religious zealots. Too bad. I may just have to use the small-claims court approach to a Windows refund the next time that I upgrade my laptop -- an idea that sounds even better when I realize that it's Dell that probably has to eat the cost of the refund, a fit punishment for claiming to be a Linux-friendly company and then not making it available on their notebook gear.
You might think that I should just stand on principle and get a 1440x1050 display or whatever it was that these guys sell, but once you've enjoyed 1600x1200 and all the code you can see clearly at once with lots of windows and tiny fonts, you just can't ever go back.
My question is: are all the elementary errors in English usage that appear in/. stories the result of (1) not editing submissions, (2) not knowing the difference between "its" and "it's', "who's" and "whose", etc., or (3) just not caring?
I occasionally get a crack at candidates for experienced systems programming positions, and I like to see whether they know what they don't know. So I like to ask simple programming questions like:
How does struct member layout differ between little-endian and big-endian architectures?
Can integer division ever overflow?
The Cray X1 has an instruction that atomically ANDs a word in memory with one register value and then XQRs the result with another. How would you use this to implement an atomic "set bit" or "clear bit" primitive?
Tell me about a compiler bug that's bitten you and how you worked around it (or better, fixed it)
The QWERTY layout is the *original* layout designed by Christopher Sholes in 1872 for the Remington Type Writer. It has zero years of user interface experience behind it. Using it is like still running Windows 1.0. It works, but it's suboptimal.
Me, I'm using Linux with a Dvorak Bluetooth keyboard. I've tried to evolve a better layout, but I haven't been able to beat Dvorak yet.
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This is the first story on /. in ages that actually punctuated the possessive "its" correctly, i.e. without an apostrophe.
I laughed for minutes when I read "Without further adieu" in the article. What a wonderful new way to announce I'm a total illiterate and blissfully unaware of it!
In today's world of video drivers for Linux, I'll take a binary driver with superb documentation over open-source with little or none.
I'd prefer open source with good docs, of course. I'd also like a pony.
... for yet another great desktop background image.
Reason enough for space exploration, IMO.
Debian's great that way. And I wouldn't want to take any credit away from it, or from Bruce.
I'm running Gentoo today, though. It's a better match for me. And what really amazes me about Gentoo is that when you do the moral equivalent of a big apt-get upgrade, and it's "emerging" the world... at the end of all that compilation, it just works, just like Debian did, but with binaries customized for my machine and built with the compiler version I chose myself.
I've been using UNIX for over 20 years now and I can't tell you how impressed I am with the quality of modern Linux distributions. Hats off, and thanks.
Hi, I'm the guy who wrote the Bluetooth HID (keyboard/mouse) driver for Linux so that I could use the M$FT Bluetooth desktop. More recently, I've picked up an Apple Bluetooth keyboard. I really like it a lot, and prefer it to the M$FT keyboard. And not just because you can rearrange the keys into a sane layout (Dvorak) without ending up with a mishmash of different key heights; more important, the Apple keyboard actually has an ON/OFF switch, so you won't have to pull out the batteries when you're done using it for the day.
When fabrications appear in the Times, we find out about them first from the Times' open admissions and internal investigations.
When fabrications appear on Fox News, we find out about them (if we do at all) from sources other than Fox.
This distinction is to the Times' credit, and speaks to its greater value of journalistic integrity.
Impliment?
Is that some weird Brit misspelling, like flavour or neighbour?
...it's just that stupidity tends to be its own punishment.
If this guy had given all his money to a church, it wouldn't be in the news.
Public: Congress, we demand fundamental reforms of copyright laws and (other) intellectual property mechanisms!
Congress: Sure, just a moment. Mr. Big Donors, how about it?
RIAA: No way (slap!)
Congress: Sorry, public. Bad idea.
I suspect that ASP is not an abbreviation for Application Service Company.
I'm 40, and use Internet services for much of my daily news fix (along with public radio). I don't have a television.
But I still mostly use real paper books for most "reference" queries. I've got the two-volume Shorter Edition of the Oxford English Dictionary, which I utterly love to browse. And I also use atlases (Rand-McNally), almanacs, and the New York Times Desk Reference.
Part of the reason I cling to these and other works is the immediacy of seeking out answers to new questions that spring to mind as I probe the work. One never looks up a single word in the OED without browsing at least the other entries that are nearby on the page. And even with high-speed Internet access, it's hard to approach the data bandwidth between a high-quality atlas and your eyeballs.
Possibly only a blunt pencil lead would bear the vitality of words flowing from his fingertips.
I'm wiping tears from my eyes as I struggle to comprehend the power of these utterly compelling images. If I wrote with vi, could I be this good too?
The user has made the choice to run Windows and to put the computer on the Internet, despite Microsoft's well-publicized vulnerabilities. At some point, accountability for the establishment of an "attractive nuisance" should kick in.
Of course, if Microsoft were to indemnify its users against these fines, perhaps under the condition that the user maintain a reasonably well-patched system, it would be a real selling point vs. Linux, where you're essentially on your own.
... should be feasible, at least for Linux. The Microsoft Optical Desktop for Bluetooth runs just great with Linux, using the BlueZ stack and a HID daemon that I wrote (see my website), and this new Apple kit should work with that software with little or no modification to it. I may pick up the Apple keyboard and try it out, but probably not the one-button mouse.
Foo on Apple for not providing a Dvorak option.
If you want to use this keyboard on a Windows PC, you'll probably have to get the Microsoft kit (for the software), keep the software and Bluetooth transceiver, throw away the Microsoft keyboard, power up the Apple one, and pray that Microsoft used standard HID encoding in their driver instead of hard-coding the input notifications that their keyboard generates.
... from the Gettysburg Address.
Go to the EFF and search for "SCO". The absence of materials relating to SCO's antics this year is downright weird.
The reviewer has actually done a useful job of literary criticism here, I believe.
If you think that "to criticize" is synonymous with "to complain about" or "to belittle", you may well be a good candidate for technical management.
THINK METRIC!
and remember to take the lens cap off before launch
"Driving home from work with a manual transmission, wearing a dress after her shift, she had to shift her shift in order to shift."
Well, I've wanted an alternative source for laptops comparable to the Dells I've been using, so I checked out both of the sites that you mentioned. Neither of them had a unit with 1600x1200 resolution, and powernotebooks.com showed some warning signs of being run by religious zealots. Too bad. I may just have to use the small-claims court approach to a Windows refund the next time that I upgrade my laptop -- an idea that sounds even better when I realize that it's Dell that probably has to eat the cost of the refund, a fit punishment for claiming to be a Linux-friendly company and then not making it available on their notebook gear.
You might think that I should just stand on principle and get a 1440x1050 display or whatever it was that these guys sell, but once you've enjoyed 1600x1200 and all the code you can see clearly at once with lots of windows and tiny fonts, you just can't ever go back.
My question is: are all the elementary errors in English usage that appear in /. stories the result of (1) not editing submissions, (2) not knowing the difference between "its" and "it's', "who's" and "whose", etc., or (3) just not caring?
The QWERTY layout is the *original* layout designed by Christopher Sholes in 1872 for the Remington Type Writer. It has zero years of user interface experience behind it. Using it is like still running Windows 1.0. It works, but it's suboptimal.
Me, I'm using Linux with a Dvorak Bluetooth keyboard. I've tried to evolve a better layout, but I haven't been able to beat Dvorak yet.