This is one of the most well thought post on/. in a long time. I am starting to give up on/. Lately when I log on most articles have well over 100 posts, most of them by AC and most of the AC posts are troll. Stop AC posts immediately!
If I leave the keys in my car and it's stolen I could possibly be at risk of negligence... If I allow anyone to send "impossible" IP-packets that is IMHO sorta the same thing...
my dell-box recently had the hardware warranty (!) voided by the fact that I removed Bills junkware and installed Linux. To be perfectly honest I somehow feel that they are trying to limit my choices...
A couple of corrections. 1) inside the chip we're running 1 GHz hopefully the chip is a bit smaller that 7.5 cm;-) 2) The bus is advertized at 200 MHz and that makes the quarter wave antenna about 40 cm. 3) To comply with most countries legislation any appliance must shield transmission of electromagnetic radiation. (Primarily to avoid disrupting valid radio, not to protect people...)
I make a point of having small fonts on my box to make room for lotsa stuff. Red Hat uses small fonts to make room for space??? Hard to navigate, no appeal to the siple style. Let's just say that I hope they didn't pay a lot for this design;-)
They replaced the outdated 2.2.5 with a newer 2.2.9 (that has since been superceeded by 2.2.10) Nothing special at all, more like a service upgrade. They did indeed also upgrade NT with service pack 4.
Isn't that sorta what ESR stated on his page?? Quite frankly I certainly would like more of it. Not because ESR is a bad coder but because RMS does most for the open/free software hidden in front of his computers magnifying his guru status. Every time RMS opens his mouth he is flaming OSI more than M$. That is definitely detrimental to our collective cause. ESR has very effectively taken a whole lot of the zealot geek status away. He is by far our greatest spokesman. I has looked upon RMS with great respect and admiration for 14 years. ESR made that publicly viable...
Flaming M$ is fun but not _at all_ productive. I try to limit my flames to audiences that know me as a (realtively) responsible person.
Flaming anyone trying to learn Linux/Emacs/BSD/... will ONLY deter that person from further association with the product. It may/will also make the person a strong anti-advocate. In other words flaming someone trying to learn helps Bill;-(
Now, instead of whinig and bitching, lets get serious and fix the problems. This is not the last time "Bills Boys" beat us, but if we keep on whining instead of fixing the problems we may just give up here and now! We have to remember a few important things;
1) There is no such thing as bugfree S/W. Linux is good but not perfect.
2) Linux and OSF/FSF has com a long way in a short time. Let's not loose focus now.
3) "Bills Boys" will of course look at this and try to be even better where Linux is deficient.
4) Linux is _way_ more stable than NiceTry, let's open that gap up even more by removing even more bugs.
This is nothing but a modern day variation of the bit-slice processors I worked with 20 years ago. They were at the time many thousand times faster than micro-processors but had limited real life computer use. They were used in specialized equipment such as disk controllers or process industry. Over time some bit-slice technology has entered mainstream processor technology, to make them what they are today. I think it is reasonable to assume that in 5-10 years we will see FPGA technology in mainstream computers.
Yes Richard M Stallman was the Free Software Guru long before Linus Torvalds and Eric Raymond. RMS ideas are a bit more extreme than the other two's. He is still the founder of FSF and should have been mentioned.
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This is one of the most well thought post on /. in a long time. /. Lately when I log on most articles have well over 100 posts, most of them by AC and most of the AC posts are troll.
I am starting to give up on
Stop AC posts immediately!
If I leave the keys in my car and it's stolen I could possibly be at risk of negligence...
If I allow anyone to send "impossible" IP-packets that is IMHO sorta the same thing...
Theoretically, yes. However you are now assuming that NiceTry(tm) is an OS :-)
my dell-box recently had the hardware warranty (!) voided by the fact that I removed Bills junkware and installed Linux.
To be perfectly honest I somehow feel that they are trying to limit my choices...
A couple of corrections. ;-)
1) inside the chip we're running 1 GHz hopefully the chip is a bit smaller that 7.5 cm
2) The bus is advertized at 200 MHz and that makes the quarter wave antenna about 40 cm.
3) To comply with most countries legislation any appliance must shield transmission of electromagnetic radiation. (Primarily to avoid disrupting valid radio, not to protect people...)
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I make a point of having small fonts on my box to make room for lotsa stuff. ;-)
Red Hat uses small fonts to make room for space???
Hard to navigate, no appeal to the siple style. Let's just say that I hope they didn't pay a lot for this design
They replaced the outdated 2.2.5 with a newer 2.2.9 (that has since been superceeded by 2.2.10)
Nothing special at all, more like a service upgrade. They did indeed also upgrade NT with service pack 4.
Isn't that sorta what ESR stated on his page??
Quite frankly I certainly would like more of it. Not because ESR is a bad coder but because RMS does most for the open/free software hidden in front of his computers magnifying his guru status. Every time RMS opens his mouth he is flaming OSI more than M$. That is definitely detrimental to our collective cause.
ESR has very effectively taken a whole lot of the zealot geek status away. He is by far our greatest spokesman.
I has looked upon RMS with great respect and admiration for 14 years. ESR made that publicly viable...
I trust that /. will continue to be a great site only faster ;-)
Flaming M$ is fun but not _at all_ productive. I try to limit my flames to audiences that know me as a (realtively) responsible person.
;-(
Flaming anyone trying to learn Linux/Emacs/BSD/... will ONLY deter that person from further association with the product. It may/will also make the person a strong anti-advocate. In other words flaming someone trying to learn helps Bill
This was probably a pretty unbiased test.
Now, instead of whinig and bitching, lets get serious and fix the problems. This is not the last time "Bills Boys" beat us, but if we keep on whining instead of fixing the problems we may just give up here and now! We have to remember a few important things;
1) There is no such thing as bugfree S/W. Linux is good but not perfect.
2) Linux and OSF/FSF has com a long way in a short time. Let's not loose focus now.
3) "Bills Boys" will of course look at this and try to be even better where Linux is deficient.
4) Linux is _way_ more stable than NiceTry, let's open that gap up even more by removing even more bugs.
5) Whining and crying foul will only hurt us all
This is nothing but a modern day variation of the bit-slice processors I worked with 20 years ago. They were at the time many thousand times faster than micro-processors but had limited real life computer use. They were used in specialized equipment such as disk controllers or process industry.
Over time some bit-slice technology has entered mainstream processor technology, to make them what they are today.
I think it is reasonable to assume that in 5-10 years we will see FPGA technology in mainstream computers.
You can be _pretty_ certain that it won't support M$ Word on Linux, guess why ;-)
Unfortunately MSIE seems to be hardwired into Win9x. Try uninstalling it.....
Yeah and so does Micro$lop Windoze ;->
Gnome rocks!
It is not just you :-)
Sorry dude,
The highest standard of living is in Canada. The US comes a fair bit down on the list...
I am proud to be part of the best country, even though it is not perfect either.
I am afraid you missed the whole point. The 2% that owns the IP is not the people creating the IP.
Heck, they probably don't even "own" the creator of the IP. They just bought the idea (or patent) for a symbolic sum of $.
The creators "owner" (the company or institution employing) gets little and the creator probably nothing.
Thus, patents do in no way promote creating new and better ideas.
No, in the future!
;-)
In the past programmers entered machine instructions directly, much more fun. So they got it all wrong
Yes Richard M Stallman was the Free Software Guru long before Linus Torvalds and Eric Raymond. RMS ideas are a bit more extreme than the other two's. He is still the founder of FSF and should have been mentioned.
I guess this is as good marketing as it gets, for Linux that is ;-)