Re:More like BeOS's filesystem?
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Would this MySQL-based file system be more like BeOS's file system, where files can have arbitrary attributes at the FS level, and you can query based on them?
No, the MySQL filesystem will only provide the means to access regular databases as if they were filesystems.
I imagine that in the root of the mount point there will be a directory tables/ with a list of tables in it. This is not like the BeOS's filesystem that stores files in a table.
Nontheless (sp.) this is pretty cool, if a stable version of this thing is released (which is probably not for the near feauture) I imagine using this to make backups to a CVS server (like the article suggested).
One more thing: quantum computing, if it exists/work, would effectively nullify encryption. Ouch.
Yes, but with quantum technology also comes the nifty key transmition that would allow to people to exchange a key without anyone else listening (or at least it would be known if someone listened).
If then keys are transmitted that are as long as the actual message then a simple XOR operation would provide a means for sending the message over a conventional, insecure, line. Basicly this would provide the most secure communication possible!
What do you mean? Weren't Win16 applications "assimilated" in the sense that they ran under Win32 with the same look&feel as the other 32-bit programs? I thought a lot of early "for Windows 95" software was actually Win16/win32s?
It's been a while but I seem to recall that menus looked different. A thing that was annoying though not widget-related was that those old programs used the ~1 names, not that much of a problem as the long filenames were kept intact (except for Win32s programs) but annoying enough to switch. This kind of little annoyance is something that is also present in Wine as users are confronted with C:, D:, etc. drives that don't really exist.
If SOAP really replaces DCOM, CORBA, Bonobo, et.al. then who is going to really need an emulator? If you are instantiating a SOAP object then who cares what OS it was written for or runs on?
For one thing: people might want to run their old applications; another thing is that your statement doesn't go for games, those will stay on the client side.
As long as our company keeps turning the $$$ over we'll keep giving you code"
I personally don't have problems with *some* companies doing this. See, one of the motivations for free (as in speech) software is that you have the possibility to alter a program yourself or _hire_someone_to_alter_the_program_. So basicly there will be 200,000 people hiring these people to alter Wine so they can play their favorite games, seems fair to me.
WINE is certainly a nice thing to have. However, I'm wondering whether it really is doing more good than harm, as there is a theory that one of the factors which led to the demise of OS/2 was precisely its ability to run Windows (3.1) applications.
I doubt Wine will ever hurt Linux:
Linux is free as in beer: why would anyone want to buy Windows if they can run their applications on a gratis OS?
One could have said the same thing when Windows 95 came out, I believe that people didn't want to run Win3.1 applications on this Win32 "beast" because the widgets didn't look that advanced. Linux has this same advantage with Gnome and KDE. Think about it, people don't even run KDE apps in Gnome (or Gnome applications in KDE).
Linux offers a lot of alternatives for Windows programs, Wine thus only easyers the transition until people are used to the alternatives. Of course this isn't true for games hence this whole article;-).
Now, the first program I looked at (being the beer program) contains a small error.
You see, the line before the last line (eh, is their a word for that in English?) not counting newlines will print "1 bottles of beer on the wall..."
function beer n
arg Int n; var Str bot
if n = 1
bot:= " bottle"
else
bot:= " bottles"
if n = 0
console "No more bottles of beer on the wall!" eol
else
console n bot " of beer"
console " on the wall, " n bot " of beer." eol
console "Take one down, pass it around." eol
if n > 1
console n-1 bot " of beer on the wall..." eol eol
beer n-1
beer:100
An improved version would be (mind you, I have not compiled this):
function beer n
arg Int n; var Str bot
if n = 0
console "No more bottles of beer on the wall!" eol
else
if n = 1
bot:= " bottle"
else
bot:= " bottles"
console n bot " of beer"
console " on the wall, " n bot " of beer." eol
if n > 1
if n = 2
bot:= " bottle"
else
bot:= " bottles"
console n-1 bot " of beer on the wall..." eol eol
beer n-1
beer:100
Now, the first program I looked at (being the beer program) contains a small error.
You see, the line before the last line (eh, is their a word for that in English?) not counting newlines will print "1 bottles of beer on the wall..."
function beer n
arg Int n; var Str bot
if n = 1
bot:= " bottle"
else
bot:= " bottles"
if n = 0
console "No more bottles of beer on the wall!" eol
else
console n bot " of beer"
console " on the wall, " n bot " of beer." eol
console "Take one down, pass it around." eol
if n > 1
console n-1 bot " of beer on the wall..." eol eol
beer n-1
beer:100
An improved version would be (mind you, I have not compiled this):
function beer n
arg Int n; var Str bot
if n = 0
console "No more bottles of beer on the wall!" eol
else
if n = 1
bot:= " bottle"
else
bot:= " bottles"
console n bot " of beer"
console " on the wall, " n bot " of beer." eol
if n > 1
if n = 2
bot:= " bottle"
else
bot:= " bottles"
console n-1 bot " of beer on the wall..." eol eol
beer n-1
beer:100
Looks like it's susceptible to the Slashdot Effect... but this time I wouldn't expect any mirrors.
Since everyone who's trying Pliant is essentially mirroring it (the default site for the http server is the same as their homepage) I wouldn't worry too much;-).
X will not be usable to the average consumer until these programs stop looking so damned different. Control-F4 to close a program, or Alt-W?
Gotta hurt when you try to go to console 4;). I'd suggest stricking with Ctrl+W or Ctrl+Q as is now done in most Gnome programs (what's up with the difference anyway, it's probably confusing for beginners).
Next we'll need a skin-format-manager that can simultaneously select different skins in all managed applications. Yuck.
Helix Code is working on such a program that they call IIIRC a meta theming engine. It currently has support for Gtk, Sawfish and XMMMS but it should be very modular.
Besides, BeOS boots in about 15 seconds into GUI, even if you previously turned off the PC without shutting down. So, journaled filesystems DO have advantages. Linux may never achieve such high speeds in booting up, but still, I predict that a good JFS will benefit it.
Actually, it does. If you just disable services like Apache, proftpd, etc. I counted this starting at kernel boot till GDM was up and running on an Athlon 700. My P166 could do the same, but without GUI (it doesn't have X installed so I couln't test).
Debian has the Debian Menu System. All window managers and packages use this system by default, so your default menu in X will always have all of the installed software.
Oh really? To name some of the applications that I had to manually enable in the menu: gedit, gnutella, quake, tux racer, x-racer.
I actually heard about this central menu sysem in Debian but it doesn't seem to work for me (running Woody BTW). F.e. the distribution menu show a nice Debian logo but is totally empty. Strange eh?
Dang, why do other teachers get all the bright ones? I spent a year teaching computers at a middle school and when I arrived none of them could write a web page or "Hello World". (A few of them could by the end of the year). It was kind of disappointing; I was hoping for an apprentice jedi or two.
Dang, why do other students get all the bright ones? I spent a year learning computers at high school and when I arrived my teacher Java couldn't write a "Hello World" program in languages other than COBOL. (She now manages to write applets). It was kind of disappointing; I was hoping to learn something.
Interested in moving to Belgium to teach a class with about two/. reading students?;-)
Slashdot Mirror
No, the MySQL filesystem will only provide the means to access regular databases as if they were filesystems.
I imagine that in the root of the mount point there will be a directory tables/ with a list of tables in it. This is not like the BeOS's filesystem that stores files in a table.
Nontheless (sp.) this is pretty cool, if a stable version of this thing is released (which is probably not for the near feauture) I imagine using this to make backups to a CVS server (like the article suggested).
Philips, on the other hand, sold its record company (forgot which one it was) when it started producing CD-Writers.
Yes, but with quantum technology also comes the nifty key transmition that would allow to people to exchange a key without anyone else listening (or at least it would be known if someone listened).
If then keys are transmitted that are as long as the actual message then a simple XOR operation would provide a means for sending the message over a conventional, insecure, line. Basicly this would provide the most secure communication possible!
Yes, but X doesn't take that much space actually. It's GTK and GNOME that take up all your RAM (and HD).
Like: Copyright (C) 2001 Name 1 & Name 2
I'm currently doing this and I wonder if it's legal ;-).
It's been a while but I seem to recall that menus looked different. A thing that was annoying though not widget-related was that those old programs used the ~1 names, not that much of a problem as the long filenames were kept intact (except for Win32s programs) but annoying enough to switch. This kind of little annoyance is something that is also present in Wine as users are confronted with C:, D:, etc. drives that don't really exist.
For one thing: people might want to run their old applications; another thing is that your statement doesn't go for games, those will stay on the client side.
I personally don't have problems with *some* companies doing this. See, one of the motivations for free (as in speech) software is that you have the possibility to alter a program yourself or _hire_someone_to_alter_the_program_. So basicly there will be 200,000 people hiring these people to alter Wine so they can play their favorite games, seems fair to me.
I'd rather see them include the required version of Wine, much like they now include the required version of DirectX
I doubt Wine will ever hurt Linux:
Indenting is all gone.. grrr
So slash doesn't like the pre tag eh,
:= " bottle"
:= " bottles"
:= " bottle"
:= " bottles"
:= " bottle"
:= " bottles"
Now, the first program I looked at (being the beer program) contains a small error.
You see, the line before the last line (eh, is their a word for that in English?) not counting newlines will print "1 bottles of beer on the wall..."
function beer n
arg Int n; var Str bot
if n = 1
bot
else
bot
if n = 0
console "No more bottles of beer on the wall!" eol
else
console n bot " of beer"
console " on the wall, " n bot " of beer." eol
console "Take one down, pass it around." eol
if n > 1
console n-1 bot " of beer on the wall..." eol eol
beer n-1
beer:100
An improved version would be (mind you, I have not compiled this):
function beer n
arg Int n; var Str bot
if n = 0
console "No more bottles of beer on the wall!" eol
else
if n = 1
bot
else
bot
console n bot " of beer"
console " on the wall, " n bot " of beer." eol
if n > 1
if n = 2
bot
else
bot
console n-1 bot " of beer on the wall..." eol eol
beer n-1
beer:100
Now, the first program I looked at (being the beer program) contains a small error.
You see, the line before the last line (eh, is their a word for that in English?) not counting newlines will print "1 bottles of beer on the wall..."
function beer n arg Int n; var Str bot if n = 1 botAn improved version would be (mind you, I have not compiled this):
function beer n arg Int n; var Str bot if n = 0 console "No more bottles of beer on the wall!" eol else if n = 1 botSince everyone who's trying Pliant is essentially mirroring it (the default site for the http server is the same as their homepage) I wouldn't worry too much ;-).
This thing installs in prefix "/". There are two alternative installation directories being /usr/local and $HOME.
Just untar the file to prefix/pliant (where prefix is /, /usr/local or $HOME) and then follow the instructions.
Think again, Lionhead will release Black and White for Windows, Linux, BeOS, Playstation and probably other platforms.
Gotta hurt when you try to go to console 4 ;). I'd suggest stricking with Ctrl+W or Ctrl+Q as is now done in most Gnome programs (what's up with the difference anyway, it's probably confusing for beginners).
Helix Code is working on such a program that they call IIIRC a meta theming engine. It currently has support for Gtk, Sawfish and XMMMS but it should be very modular.
I read all these claims here that they got /.-ed.
This is just more proof that most slashdotters can't read as their homepage obviously says . and not /.
*sigh*
Actually, it does. If you just disable services like Apache, proftpd, etc. I counted this starting at kernel boot till GDM was up and running on an Athlon 700. My P166 could do the same, but without GUI (it doesn't have X installed so I couln't test).
Oh really? To name some of the applications that I had to manually enable in the menu: gedit, gnutella, quake, tux racer, x-racer.
I actually heard about this central menu sysem in Debian but it doesn't seem to work for me (running Woody BTW). F.e. the distribution menu show a nice Debian logo but is totally empty. Strange eh?
And I'm actually supposed to know "the Grinch", I've never heard of him.
It does look like the Gobblin in the Spiderman series though.
I think you got it all wrong... fortunately I could resist to mod u down in favor for replying ;) (J/K.. I'm not even sure I'm right myself ;).
I know no Linux distro that have X open for other machines (heck, some distros don't even have it open for localhost).
I really do hope you know this: X drivers have nothing to do with the Linux kernel.
Dang, why do other students get all the bright ones? I spent a year learning computers at high school and when I arrived my teacher Java couldn't write a "Hello World" program in languages other than COBOL. (She now manages to write applets). It was kind of disappointing; I was hoping to learn something.
Interested in moving to Belgium to teach a class with about two /. reading students? ;-)
They stopped the project when people started hacking the upstreams ;).