Um, duh, are there any other freely available, widely used compilers? Remember, Linux stuff needs to be free/GPL/whatever, and prudence demands that the compiler be ubiquitous.
Another possibility...
1) IT requires people who can think very abstractly (anyone else "hear" the TCP and UDP packets on the wire but me?). If you think "SYN/ACK" when you hear people talking, you know what I mean.
2) Good IT people are ones who have the greatest ability to think out abstract concepts and focus on all of the details.
Thus: Good IT people have high intelligence.
My thesis:
People of high intelligence realize that the current cultural and philosophical system is designed aginst them. The greater your intellectual capacity, the greater potential you have to create wealth, and under the American system, the greater your "obligation" (in terms of taxes) to provide for those less able.
Thus, the better you are, the less you work for your own profit.
Nobody wants to work as a slave. I'm in semi-retirement, supplementing my coffee-and-capuccino-slinging job with the occasional networking or VBA programming gig.
Let the people who try to seize the products of our minds learn the error of their ways.
I have rarely met a certified person who is worth their salt, and know several very good networking and server system designers who have no certifications at all. My feeling is that certifications help CEOs and CIOs feel good, because then they're not at the mercy of technology which left them in the dust long ago. They can trust someone else, anyone else, it doesn't matter as long as THEY don't take the blame, for hiring someone who turns out to be an idiot.
In fact, I scoff as much as possible at mentions by clients and associates of certification programs - I'm trying to avoid the buzzword-compliant world, and teach others to do the same.
So that 7.2 will have the stable version of 2.4.x, and the newest (working?) X 4.0.x, and quite possibly SSH. Remember folks, RedHat.0 versions usually stink, and the RedHat.2 versions are good.
According to the US Constitution:
From Section 8 -
Clause 3: To regulate Commerce with foreign Nations, and among the several States, and with the Indian Tribes;
Thus the FCC is justified, as is the SEC,
FBI and all the other alphabet-soup Federal
groups.
This is an anachronism to the times when the States taxed each other's products, and charged customs/duties on imports/exports, all of which is left over from the original Confederation. So in knee-jerk response to that, Congress gave the individual states the smack-down, and now we get the FCC.
then they lost it. Working for the Census has shown me the obscene waste of taxpayer cash, hiring the least competent, and total disorganization of the US Govt. Thanks Bill.
I'm a networking guy, so network setup and configuration plays a big part of my vote for an OS.
In Linux, to add an ethernet card, and assign it an IP address, you have to either recompile the kernel or modules, then:
insmod
ifconfig eth0 ip.address up
Because Linux doesn't care about PnP-esque things, you can then move that NIC anywhere in the system and it will still work.
If you install a NIC in Win2000 (Professional),
Win2000 will find it and prompt for the driver.
Then you reboot, assign it an IP address, etc., then reboot again.
But, since WinX tracks PCI devices, if you MOVE that NIC, it suddenly gets ugly. You have to re-add the driver and re-configure the card, with the appropriate reboots. Then you get a message like "The IP address you assigned conflicts with the IP address assigned to another card. If that card is ever reinserted, a conflict will occur. Do you want to continue?" So Win2000 has some sort of configuration memory, and its waiting for the NIC to "come back" into the old PCI slot, at which point it will "remember" the old configuration."
This is all a pain, IMO. I prefer Linux because the OS is almost completely decoupled from the daemons (services) you're running, so that if you need to upgrade your SMB and NMB servers or their configurations, you simply restart them. IANAWin2000 Server guy, but I can't imagine that you can simply change your workgroup name, WINS server info, or heck, the actual SMB server code, without a reboot. The same goes for Apache/IIS.
Under WinX, all the system services are too integrated with the system itself. No wonder that my Win2000 Professional system is using 60MB at startup, without any apps running. Linux provides more of a "base platform" to run stuff ON, while Win2000 seems to assimilate your environment and daemons into one sort of ueber-OS.
That all being said, its a wonderful improvement over NT Workstation - USB support, IRQ sharing, multiple monitors, FAT32 support, while still retaining the NT-style security and full 32bitness.
This is a stupid article, akin to saying that today's cars are so slow because they use chemical energy of burning hydrocarbons, instead of directly converting the chemicals to energy, I'm guessing in some sort of dilithium crystal chamber. That this got published is sad.
I'd like to read some of them.
"This is a graph showing how many of each medal each country has won. Sorry, its generated dynamically, so we can't actually describe it."
"This is a picture of an athlete, however, your ISP uses a stealth cacheing proxy, so when this page renders, it will be the wrong picture."
"This is a person smiling, we don't know who."
"Here's a picture of the entire corp of prostitutes booked a year in advance for the execs and bigwigs visiting the Olypics. Please use a "touchy-feely" mouse for full detail."
Seriously, this is stupid. And stupider, is a non-technical "activist" deciding how much it "should" cost. Next we'll have some government savage telling us how much is "too much" to pay for M$ Office.
Since some people (Sony, Apple?) own Firewire, I've heard it said that every Firewire device manufacturer has to pay licensing fees to the above Evil Empires. USB 2.x OTOH, is, AFAIK,
free. So while Firewire is becoming ubiquitous, and yes, it comes on digital video cameras -
Who has one of these cameras?
Do you want to pay someone a %% every firewire gizmo you buy?
NO! Talent is NOT a "responsibility" to provide for society. If you are able to do something, and nobody else is, and you don't do it, the other person is no worse off than before. Claiming that private ability is only justified if placed in the service of "society" is savage. It sounds like Marx's "From each according to his ability, to each according to his need."
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Why wouldn't they focus their release on where the money comes from? They're a business, for chrissake.
Um, duh, are there any other freely available, widely used compilers? Remember, Linux stuff needs to be free/GPL/whatever, and prudence demands that the compiler be ubiquitous.
I don't care if it's "clickless" shopping, I am not paying $59 for a mouse.
1) IT requires people who can think very abstractly (anyone else "hear" the TCP and UDP packets on the wire but me?). If you think "SYN/ACK" when you hear people talking, you know what I mean.
2) Good IT people are ones who have the greatest ability to think out abstract concepts and focus on all of the details.
Thus: Good IT people have high intelligence.
My thesis:
People of high intelligence realize that the current cultural and philosophical system is designed aginst them. The greater your intellectual capacity, the greater potential you have to create wealth, and under the American system, the greater your "obligation" (in terms of taxes) to provide for those less able.
Thus, the better you are, the less you work for your own profit.
Nobody wants to work as a slave. I'm in semi-retirement, supplementing my coffee-and-capuccino-slinging job with the occasional networking or VBA programming gig.
Let the people who try to seize the products of our minds learn the error of their ways.
Who the hell are all these people and -isms?
Maybe on your ghetto hardware, it runs fine here.
I have rarely met a certified person who is worth their salt, and know several very good networking and server system designers who have no certifications at all. My feeling is that certifications help CEOs and CIOs feel good, because then they're not at the mercy of technology which left them in the dust long ago. They can trust someone else, anyone else, it doesn't matter as long as THEY don't take the blame, for hiring someone who turns out to be an idiot. In fact, I scoff as much as possible at mentions by clients and associates of certification programs - I'm trying to avoid the buzzword-compliant world, and teach others to do the same.
So that 7.2 will have the stable version of 2.4.x, and the newest (working?) X 4.0.x, and quite possibly SSH. Remember folks, RedHat.0 versions usually stink, and the RedHat.2 versions are good.
Redhat is not an OS.
How do I set the SCSI ID on my $100 DVD drive? Oh wait, I can't, the $100 drives are IDE...
From Section 8 -
Thus the FCC is justified, as is the SEC, FBI and all the other alphabet-soup Federal groups.
This is an anachronism to the times when the States taxed each other's products, and charged customs/duties on imports/exports, all of which is left over from the original Confederation. So in knee-jerk response to that, Congress gave the individual states the smack-down, and now we get the FCC.
Because HTTP uses one TCP connection, FTP uses two. It's much easier on the servers.
then they lost it. Working for the Census has shown me the obscene waste of taxpayer cash, hiring the least competent, and total disorganization of the US Govt. Thanks Bill.
No, because then the front page would be simply filled with Micros~1 service pack and hotfix announcements.
- Download the patch
- Use my bzipped kernel source and make a clean kernel tree
- Apply the 2.2.17 patch
- Apply the IDE patch (needed for ATA66)
- Apply the USB backport patch
- Apply the raid patch
- Recompile
Fortunately, recompiling only takes 2 minutes, but still...Linus and Alan - I love you, but please just finish 2.4 !
In Linux, to add an ethernet card, and assign it an IP address, you have to either recompile the kernel or modules, then:
- insmod
- ifconfig eth0 ip.address up
Because Linux doesn't care about PnP-esque things, you can then move that NIC anywhere in the system and it will still work.If you install a NIC in Win2000 (Professional),
But, since WinX tracks PCI devices, if you MOVE that NIC, it suddenly gets ugly. You have to re-add the driver and re-configure the card, with the appropriate reboots. Then you get a message like "The IP address you assigned conflicts with the IP address assigned to another card. If that card is ever reinserted, a conflict will occur. Do you want to continue?" So Win2000 has some sort of configuration memory, and its waiting for the NIC to "come back" into the old PCI slot, at which point it will "remember" the old configuration."
This is all a pain, IMO. I prefer Linux because the OS is almost completely decoupled from the daemons (services) you're running, so that if you need to upgrade your SMB and NMB servers or their configurations, you simply restart them. IANAWin2000 Server guy, but I can't imagine that you can simply change your workgroup name, WINS server info, or heck, the actual SMB server code, without a reboot. The same goes for Apache/IIS.
Under WinX, all the system services are too integrated with the system itself. No wonder that my Win2000 Professional system is using 60MB at startup, without any apps running. Linux provides more of a "base platform" to run stuff ON, while Win2000 seems to assimilate your environment and daemons into one sort of ueber-OS.
That all being said, its a wonderful improvement over NT Workstation - USB support, IRQ sharing, multiple monitors, FAT32 support, while still retaining the NT-style security and full 32bitness.
So write them at their info address, and tell them they're being ridiculous. Thats what I did.
This is a stupid article, akin to saying that today's cars are so slow because they use chemical energy of burning hydrocarbons, instead of directly converting the chemicals to energy, I'm guessing in some sort of dilithium crystal chamber. That this got published is sad.
Of coursey you don't, you live in a socialist country.
I'd like to read some of them.
"This is a graph showing how many of each medal each country has won. Sorry, its generated dynamically, so we can't actually describe it."
"This is a picture of an athlete, however, your ISP uses a stealth cacheing proxy, so when this page renders, it will be the wrong picture."
"This is a person smiling, we don't know who."
"Here's a picture of the entire corp of prostitutes booked a year in advance for the execs and bigwigs visiting the Olypics. Please use a "touchy-feely" mouse for full detail."
Seriously, this is stupid. And stupider, is a non-technical "activist" deciding how much it "should" cost. Next we'll have some government savage telling us how much is "too much" to pay for M$ Office.
Face it, English is the lingua franca of the Internet. Look at any MUD, or heck, even humble (heh) Slashdot.
- Who has one of these cameras?
- Do you want to pay someone a %% every firewire gizmo you buy?
- People HAVE USB already.
Just my USDBut if he rolls a natural 20, to whom does he do double damage???
no no, thats heroin