Uhhh, moving those tools out of the X11R6 subdir would break anything that expects those files to be there.
Have you heard of the wonderful Unix technology known as symlinks?
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Re:I've said it before and I'll say it again
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Which worls great if your monitor supports DDC.
If it doesn't, you may be firing up vi and entering refresh rates manually. Or trying every "Generic VGA Monitor" your ncurses-based X configurator has until you stumble across one that works.
I must admit I don't have a problem with the above: compared to what we had in the XFree86 3.x series, this is bliss.
I can't imagine my mum going to all that trouble though: you'd need to at least remain in some sort of generic graphics mode during the configuration and test. Not this "until (decent display) {run configurator && change something && startx}" song and dance.
I'm guessing it would have to be at least a clock, or a text editor, something that actually provides function.
The license said the program has to add substantial value.:(
That's one wierd-ass prerequisite.
You could argue that javahelloworld adds substantial value as it helps programmers take that first step into Java programming. 8)
One of the ways I keep up with technology is via reading slashdot. I also find people railing against a process they barely understand to be somewhat amusing, and hope that I can educate some people on how the process works.
How much credibility is AMD really lacking when buck for buck they've almost always been a better deal for the speed than Intel?
Well this may not be AMD's fault but I've found that most motherboards that support AMD have been less reliable than their Intel counterparts. I'm fairly happy with my Asus A7V8X (Via chipset, AMD) but it required BIOS updates to get working properly...
Of course that's got little to do with the chip but a CPU is fairly useless without a motherboard (and RAM, for that matter) and as far as I'm concerned, getting a decent motherboard is extremely important: CPUs have rarely given me problems for over 15 years of computing. Motherboards have.
My housemate has an A7N8X which is almost equivalent to mine but utilises the Nvidia NForce chipset rather than Via and supports 400MHz FSB rather than 333Mhz. It's performance and reliability in windows is extremely good and I had thought for a while "Hey it looks like Nvidia are going to save AMD's arse! Who'd 'a thunk it?"
I hate to say this but if it's 100% reliability you want (rather than bang for buck) I'd still recommend Intel. Not because of the chips but because of the boards. Also the 800MHz FSB is rather enticing (admittedly AFAIK AMD doesn't require such a fast FSB but hey).
To be fair though I wasn't burnt by the Rambus thing (I smelt the stink of that from a mile away and opted to stay away) so I avoided a lot of bitterness towards Intel.
It significantly subsidises drugs for Australians but, equally important:
"Before a medicine can be subsidised via the PBS, the Pharmaceutical Benefits Advisory Committee (PBAC) must recommend it for listing on the PBS. When recommending a medicine be listed on the PBS, the PBAC takes into account the medical conditions for which the medicine has been approved for use in Australia, its clinical effectiveness, safety and cost-effectiveness (value for money) compared with other treatments."
With the avent of the Free Trade Agreement with the US, the American drug companies are pressuring Australia to dismantle the PBS. They hate it because it subsidises drugs (heaven forbid!) and their drug needs to be proven effective before it's put on the market.
you don't want every other women within earshot saying "asshole" under her breath
Actually, I do. Assholes get laid. "Nice guys" don't. Sorry.
Speaking as a "nice guy" I call bullshit.
Every woman will have a different set of criteria for finding you attractive or unattractive.
I really ought to write a book or at least a HOWTO. In the meantime let me suggest two behaviours that will help:
1. Honesty. This is a challenge: the most important thing is to be honest with yourself which is _really_ difficult. I'm lucky enough to have been with women who've told me honestly what I needed to improve on. I'm still working on it;) 2. Assertiveness. From my experience most (not all) women don't like a guy to be too submissive. They like a dude to have a spine. This doesn't mean you should be nasty and forceful, just don't be a doormat. Some women like to wear the pants in a relationship but most seem to not appreciate being forced into that position.
yeah, and it's even tougher--what would your wife say if she came home to find you helping the attractive woman move her stuff in? Your wife might understand, but only if you have a history of helping pretty much everyone who shows up.
On the contrary, if that's an exception to the rule, you could end up in a heap o'....you know.
That's actually a damn good point. If I had a dollar for the number of times I've gone out of my way to (innocently mind you) help one woman and got another woman jealous as a result...
First let me say that I understand the difficulties of getting a unique name that doesn't suck: the company I work for is trying to release a new product and getting a unique name for it wasn't easy: you'll be suprised how many words are taken.
So to prevent confusion I reccommend "FireFox" follow in Princ^H^H I mean Love Symbol's footsteps and change their name to: @
Actually it seems that if one close to the matter were to do something positive it would be to seek legal advice.
Indeed removing the code may be interpreted as an admission of guilt but leaving it there doesn't seem any less problematic: couldn't SCO claim "The Linux guys saw the lines of code in dispute and did _nothing_ to resolve it"?
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Re:Before the trolls come out.
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Huh?
Why would anyone let facts get in the way of a good Troll? Isn't that missing the whole point?
Slashdot Mirror
On the contrary, the ending is awesomely funny: Half the cinema I went to cracked up laughing.
It's so gay and hammy it's great. I'm still unsure as to whether PJ was taking the piss...
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Uhhh, moving those tools out of the X11R6 subdir would break anything that expects those files to be there.
Have you heard of the wonderful Unix technology known as symlinks?
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Which worls great if your monitor supports DDC.
If it doesn't, you may be firing up vi and entering refresh rates manually. Or trying every "Generic VGA Monitor" your ncurses-based X configurator has until you stumble across one that works.
I must admit I don't have a problem with the above: compared to what we had in the XFree86 3.x series, this is bliss.
I can't imagine my mum going to all that trouble though: you'd need to at least remain in some sort of generic graphics mode during the configuration and test. Not this "until (decent display) {run configurator && change something && startx}" song and dance.
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I agree wholeheartedly.
/. signature:
It's like that dude's
"Think of it as evolution in action"
I think this mess is the best thing to happen to X for a long time. FFS, David Dawes doesn't even use X: he switched to Windows years ago.
X really needed a shake-up and here it is. Woot.
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That's one wierd-ass prerequisite.
You could argue that javahelloworld adds substantial value as it helps programmers take that first step into Java programming. 8)
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One of the ways I keep up with technology is via reading slashdot. I also find people railing against a process they barely understand to be somewhat amusing, and hope that I can educate some people on how the process works.
We're listening, buddy. =)
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How much credibility is AMD really lacking when buck for buck they've almost always been a better deal for the speed than Intel?
Well this may not be AMD's fault but I've found that most motherboards that support AMD have been less reliable than their Intel counterparts. I'm fairly happy with my Asus A7V8X (Via chipset, AMD) but it required BIOS updates to get working properly...
Of course that's got little to do with the chip but a CPU is fairly useless without a motherboard (and RAM, for that matter) and as far as I'm concerned, getting a decent motherboard is extremely important: CPUs have rarely given me problems for over 15 years of computing. Motherboards have.
My housemate has an A7N8X which is almost equivalent to mine but utilises the Nvidia NForce chipset rather than Via and supports 400MHz FSB rather than 333Mhz. It's performance and reliability in windows is extremely good and I had thought for a while "Hey it looks like Nvidia are going to save AMD's arse! Who'd 'a thunk it?"
I hate to say this but if it's 100% reliability you want (rather than bang for buck) I'd still recommend Intel. Not because of the chips but because of the boards. Also the 800MHz FSB is rather enticing (admittedly AFAIK AMD doesn't require such a fast FSB but hey).
To be fair though I wasn't burnt by the Rambus thing (I smelt the stink of that from a mile away and opted to stay away) so I avoided a lot of bitterness towards Intel.
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I am, of course, very grateful to the XFree84 Project for their work.
Was that a Freudian slip?
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In Australia, we have a system called the Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme
It significantly subsidises drugs for Australians but, equally important:
With the avent of the Free Trade Agreement with the US, the American drug companies are pressuring Australia to dismantle the PBS. They hate it because it subsidises drugs (heaven forbid!) and their drug needs to be proven effective before it's put on the market.
Is health a privilege in the US?
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As a scientist I will jealously guard my research and results up to practical applications as my own property.
I can't believe you think you're a scientist. The word is "opportunist".
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The only reason I'm running xp on this laptop is so i can put it to sleep.
;)
Hmm? I thought you'd be running xp on it so that you can launch your applications...
Otherwise, leave it off... problem solved!
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Mostly it's just renaming and updating /etc/redhat-release
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Ugh. Looks like my modem will be getting a workout again soon.
;)
Not to mention your 386SX with 2M Ram
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What the hell, it's just one big .vbs file!
Well for God's Sake man, don't click on it! It's a virus!
If you want to download it safely, manually type the URL into your Addess bar.
HTH.
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you don't want every other women within earshot saying "asshole" under her breath
;)
Actually, I do. Assholes get laid. "Nice guys" don't. Sorry.
Speaking as a "nice guy" I call bullshit.
Every woman will have a different set of criteria for finding you attractive or unattractive.
I really ought to write a book or at least a HOWTO. In the meantime let me suggest two behaviours that will help:
1. Honesty. This is a challenge: the most important thing is to be honest with yourself which is _really_ difficult. I'm lucky enough to have been with women who've told me honestly what I needed to improve on. I'm still working on it
2. Assertiveness. From my experience most (not all) women don't like a guy to be too submissive. They like a dude to have a spine. This doesn't mean you should be nasty and forceful, just don't be a doormat. Some women like to wear the pants in a relationship but most seem to not appreciate being forced into that position.
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yeah, and it's even tougher--what would your wife say if she came home to find you helping the attractive woman move her stuff in? Your wife might understand, but only if you have a history of helping pretty much everyone who shows up.
....you know.
On the contrary, if that's an exception to the rule, you could end up in a heap o'
That's actually a damn good point. If I had a dollar for the number of times I've gone out of my way to (innocently mind you) help one woman and got another woman jealous as a result...
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These booth girls... if i'm new to Linux, will they 'mount' my 'hard drive'?
Well if you keep up that sweet talk, I believe you'll be beating them off with a stick!
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*sigh*... I have two comps, one runs Slack, the other runs FreeBSD. Seems I just can't win....
Hey man,
Do you like, have bets on which OS will die first? 8)
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Personally I believe that the metadata that packages use (dependencies, build, etc) need to be pushed down into autoconf.
./configure && make && make install smarter so that package managers can just read _that_ to build their dependecy trees?
What's so hard about making
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First let me say that I understand the difficulties of getting a unique name that doesn't suck: the company I work for is trying to release a new product and getting a unique name for it wasn't easy: you'll be suprised how many words are taken.
So to prevent confusion I reccommend "FireFox" follow in Princ^H^H I mean Love Symbol's footsteps and change their name to: @
"At Symbol: The Choice of a GNU Generation"
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Right.
What are the Indonesians going to do huh? Fire themselves out of cannons at us?
C'mon be realistic.
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Yes it was available in RH9. NPTL was developed by Ulrich Drepper of RedHat.
KernelTrap Announcement
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Nothing was logged, there is no record of where the code came from.
Ehem... mailing lists? email?
Linus never used CVS but other developers did.
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Actually it seems that if one close to the matter were to do something positive it would be to seek legal advice.
Indeed removing the code may be interpreted as an admission of guilt but leaving it there doesn't seem any less problematic: couldn't SCO claim "The Linux guys saw the lines of code in dispute and did _nothing_ to resolve it"?
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Huh?
Why would anyone let facts get in the way of a good Troll? Isn't that missing the whole point?
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