I saw a documentary where a farm family collected methane from their pig sty and used it as cooking fuel. This has to have some applications for transporatation -- a self-fueling pig-truck! Think of the implications for the cattle-transportation industry.
2.The platform isn't as popular, so maintaining
the ppc tree at the expense of the x86 one would
be ludicrous.
PPC is still king in the embedded world. That's why Motorola
can offer PPC chips at commodity prices -- the volume
is there. Now Apple popularity is a different matter...
Dial 1-800-GOOD-SIG to find out what should be here.
A few years ago Discover magazine ran an article
on the electoral system. It was shown mathematically
that the electoral system protects the minority
voice,
and it gives more power to "swing" voters in a close race
(like the current one). The statement about how it keeps people from voting is true, but only because the
general public doesn't understand the numbers.
This is certainly not off-topic. I don't know
if anyone else looked at the Specweb report,
but _Dell_ submitted those results on their own
machines. While it may be true that Apache on
RH 6.2 doesn't do as well as IIS, you can easily install a Linux 2.4 pre-release kernel on RH 7.0,
and install the TUX khttpd. It may still be beta quality, but IIS doesn't even hold a candle to TUX.
I believe specweb reported roughly a 400% performance increase over IIS.
Does anyone have a link to the actual specweb results?
I agree. I don't like the way that Katz discusses moral issues. He always seems to imply that his views are obviously correct to any intelligent person. Obviously, if there were a easy, simple answers
there wouldn't be nearly as much debate.
I'm getting ahead of myself. I should say -- If more people were to seriously consider the easy,
simple answers, we wouldn't have nearly as many problems. A few small examples:
Abstinence from extramarital sex prevents _all_ STDs and unwanted pregnancy.
Parents conscientiously keeping guns away from children would prevent nearly all accidental shootings.
If the whole world shunned MS software on the basis of their business ethics, we wouldn't be wasting so much money on the anti-trust suit!
What's the common theme I see here? Personal responsibility? I know, it could never work.
(Where's my asbestos suit when I need it ?)
Let's hear it for good ole'-fashioned right and wrong!
To answer the obvious question:
No, Mac is not a valid choice here (at least,
not yet).
10. After dividing into its separate entities, Microsoft will be able to reform into one gigantic
robot - but only if the fate of the galaxy is threatened by evil. - lostbrain.com -- proposed MS penalties
I believe my point stands (at least on a small
scale). I have a friend at work that asked me
to help him install Linux because he could do all
of the things I mentioned above (equivalence, as
you rightly stated), learn administration, and make it all look like his Mac desktop at home.
That's not to say that you can't get Mac-alike packages for Windows (believe me, he's used all of
them). But on Linux, it's much easier, and it works better. For him, the configurable desktop
is the killer app.
No apps! What's all of this GNOME/Staroffice/Evolution/Mozilla/Nautilus vs. KDE/Koffice/Konqueror stuff all about, then?
I haven't rebooted this machine to Windows in (uptime 12:04pm up) 185 days (, 21:08, 1 user,
load average: 0.39, 0.25, 0.19),
but somehow I manage to run simulations, read mail, surf the net, create documents, spreadsheets, and presentations, and write lots of code -
all from Linux! (And I run neither Apache nor sendmail, so there)
Last time I had a good sig, honest.
Re:Where is everybody? The above is funny. Laugh.
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I don't know what happened, but this may signify
the beginning of the end for Slashdot.
If Jon has lost his power to divert flame energy away from the central core of interesting discussions,
there may be no hope for the future...
...or maybe everyone just got up late on Friday.
10. After dividing into its separate entitites, Microsoft will be able to reform into one gigantic
robot - but only if the fate of the galaxy is threatened by evil. -- lostbrain.com - proposed MS remedies
I don't see what all the fuss is about. Whatever
the "theoretical" SMP restrictions on Linux have
been, I used Linux on a dual PII Dell with
kernel 2.1.x, and it really screamed for the
applications we ran. I even benchmarked against
NT, and Linux was executing our simulations 40% faster.
(Compared with the non-SMP Linux, which was only
slightly faster than WinNT 4.0 doing SMP;-)
When making blanket statements like, ">When is Linux going to get decent SMP support?",
remember that performance is measured by execution time of your particular workload (Hennesy & Patterson).
I used to believe that we should try to block
or boycott Katz.
Now I have come to understand that Jon serves an
important purpose in the Slashdot world by absorbing all of the extra "flame energy" in the
discussions, making Slashdot a much nicer place
to visit overall.
I've listened to the flames long enough. Jon Katz remains on/. because he generates so much traffic.
If you really can't stand the guy, do the proper thing: boycott.
No free speech advocate (not even Jon Katz himself) can argue with that. A boycott does not restrict anyone's freedom to say anything. A month or so without any posts should achieve the desired result.
There are many reasons I disagree with Jon Katz, but others have addressed almost all of them.
One thing is missing, however, The Information age (or Geek Ascension, whatever you want to call it) has increased the dichotomy between the rich and the poor. These days you can almost completely define social classes by their access to technology -- i.e. schools in rich areas have better computers (at least in the USA).
Linux addresses some of these issues, but that was not intentional. It just happens to be free. This dichotomy should be one of the defining factors when we talk about "social responsibility" and technology.
It would be especially nice if technology did more for people than providing bloated office suites and more pr0n for the masses
I know we have to impress the suits and everything, but it seems like installers are the only thing anyone is interested in anymore. If the OS is designed correctly (or if you're really lucky), you should only install once.
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I saw a documentary where a farm family collected methane from their pig sty and used it as cooking
fuel. This has to have some applications for transporatation -- a self-fueling pig-truck!
Think of the implications for the cattle-transportation industry.
-Your favorite sig goes here-
Slight correction...
2.The platform isn't as popular, so maintaining
the ppc tree at the expense of the x86 one would
be ludicrous.
PPC is still king in the embedded world. That's why Motorola
can offer PPC chips at commodity prices -- the volume
is there. Now Apple popularity is a different matter...
Dial 1-800-GOOD-SIG to find out what should be here.
Solaris 8 includes both bash and tcsh -- out of the box. No witty sig this time :-(
Actually, Mach is big and slow. There's a strong consensus to move the HURD to a small, fast
microkernel like L4.
In fact, they have already started that project (according to the KC HURD summaries).
Nothing to see here, please move along...
A few years ago Discover magazine ran an article on the electoral system.
It was shown mathematically that the electoral system protects the minority voice,
and it gives more power to "swing" voters in a close race (like the current one).
The statement about how it keeps people from voting is true, but only because the
general public doesn't understand the numbers.
Have you seen my sig?
This is certainly not off-topic. I don't know if anyone else looked at the Specweb report,
but _Dell_ submitted those results on their own machines. While it may be true that Apache on
RH 6.2 doesn't do as well as IIS, you can easily install a Linux 2.4 pre-release kernel on RH 7.0,
and install the TUX khttpd. It may still be beta quality, but IIS doesn't even hold a candle to TUX.
I believe specweb reported roughly a 400% performance increase over IIS.
Does anyone have a link to the actual specweb results?
Random mutating sig.
I agree. I don't like the way that Katz discusses moral issues. He always seems to imply
that his views are obviously correct to any intelligent person. Obviously, if there were a easy, simple answers
there wouldn't be nearly as much debate.
I'm getting ahead of myself. I should say -- If more people were to seriously consider the easy,
simple answers, we wouldn't have nearly as many problems. A few small examples:
Abstinence from extramarital sex prevents _all_ STDs and unwanted pregnancy.
Parents conscientiously keeping guns away from children would prevent nearly all accidental shootings.
If the whole world shunned MS software on the basis of their business ethics, we wouldn't be wasting so much money on the anti-trust suit!
What's the common theme I see here? Personal responsibility? I know, it could never work. (Where's my asbestos suit when I need it ?)
Let's hear it for good ole'-fashioned right and wrong!
Random mutating sig...
To answer the obvious question:
No, Mac is not a valid choice here (at least, not yet).
10. After dividing into its separate entities, Microsoft will be able to reform into one gigantic
robot - but only if the fate of the galaxy is threatened by evil. - lostbrain.com -- proposed MS penalties
I believe my point stands (at least on a small scale). I have a friend at work that asked me
to help him install Linux because he could do all of the things I mentioned above (equivalence, as
you rightly stated), learn administration, and make it all look like his Mac desktop at home.
That's not to say that you can't get Mac-alike packages for Windows (believe me, he's used all of
them). But on Linux, it's much easier, and it works better. For him, the configurable desktop
is the killer app.
Would you like to use my sig? Just cut-and-paste!
Actually, for me Linux itself is the killer app.
I run it so I don't have to use Win NT.
I do like StarOffice, tho (5.2 does MS Office imports quite well).
I guess what this really means is that the re-configurable desktop is the killer app.
Random mutating sig.
No apps! What's all of this
GNOME/Staroffice/Evolution/Mozilla/Nautilus vs. KDE/Koffice/Konqueror stuff all about, then?
I haven't rebooted this machine to Windows in (uptime 12:04pm up) 185 days (, 21:08, 1 user, load average: 0.39, 0.25, 0.19),
but somehow I manage to run simulations, read mail, surf the net, create documents,
spreadsheets, and presentations, and write lots of code -
all from Linux!
(And I run neither Apache nor sendmail, so there)
Last time I had a good sig, honest.
I don't know what happened, but this may signify the beginning of the end for Slashdot.
If Jon has lost his power to divert flame energy away from the central core of interesting discussions,
there may be no hope for the future...
10. After dividing into its separate entitites, Microsoft will be able to reform into one gigantic
robot - but only if the fate of the galaxy is threatened by evil. -- lostbrain.com - proposed MS remedies
I don't see what all the fuss is about. Whatever the "theoretical" SMP restrictions on Linux have ;-)
been, I used Linux on a dual PII Dell with kernel 2.1.x, and it really screamed for the
applications we ran. I even benchmarked against NT, and Linux was executing our simulations 40% faster.
(Compared with the non-SMP Linux, which was only slightly faster than WinNT 4.0 doing SMP
When making blanket statements like, ">When is Linux going to get decent SMP support?",
remember that performance is measured by execution time of your particular workload
(Hennesy & Patterson).
Still looking for a decent sig.
I used to believe that we should try to block
or boycott Katz.
Now I have come to understand that Jon serves an
important purpose in the Slashdot world by
absorbing all of the extra "flame energy" in the
discussions, making Slashdot a much nicer place
to visit overall.
Keep up the good work, Jon!
Can some one loan me a good sig?
Actually, there is still nothing quite like MS Bob (thank goodness).
My first programming epiphany occurred when I
found the CALL -151 command on the Apples that
drops you into the assembler.
That was around 6th grade --
my brain has never fully recovered.
If I remember right, FreeBSD has a read/write
NTFS driver.
You can get samba pre-packaged for Solaris 8
at the Sun freeware site. The site is actually sponsored by Sun.
Solaris 8 includes Perl & Apache, and the media
kit contains a CD-ROM with lots of their freeware
packages.
I've listened to the flames long enough. /. because he generates
Jon Katz remains on
so much traffic.
If you really can't stand the guy, do the
proper thing: boycott.
No free speech advocate (not even Jon Katz
himself) can argue with that. A boycott does
not restrict anyone's freedom to say anything.
A month or so without any posts should achieve
the desired result.
There are many reasons I disagree with Jon Katz,
but others have addressed almost all of them.
One thing is missing, however,
The Information age (or Geek Ascension, whatever you want to call it)
has increased the dichotomy between the rich and the poor.
These days you can almost completely define social classes by their access to technology --
i.e. schools in rich areas have better computers (at least in the USA).
Linux addresses some of these issues, but that was not intentional. It just happens to be free.
This dichotomy should be one of the defining factors when we talk about "social responsibility" and technology.
It would be especially nice if technology did more for people than providing bloated office suites and more pr0n for the masses
I know we have to impress the suits and everything, but it seems like installers are the only thing anyone is interested in anymore. If the OS is designed correctly (or if you're really lucky), you should only install once.
I think that both AC and Donald Becker deserved the prize. Without Donald Becker's ethernet drivers, I might still be an unhappy NT user.
They're not PCs, but the Sun Ultra 5/10 systems are tower cases that rackmount sideways, exactly as you specified.
Ultra 5s start around $2000,
and the Ultra 10s start around $3000.