You know at first I was going to agree with you. This sounds like something MS would be behind. But the tact of these guys is so bad that I can't help but think it's going to backfire on them. Could they possibly expect Zaurus owner or the US government to pay them? Heck no! They're about to launch themselves firmly into irrelivance. And Linux will emerge stonger legally then ever before....
A long time ago I searched what was Deja-news then for typical pppd log messages. Low-and-behold there were usenet posts from Linux newbies trying to get into their isp complete with phone number, username, and password.
Pine and Mutt both suck. I used Mutt for a long time. I could never remember the key neumonics. Then I used Sylpheed for a while but I started using IMAP on the server which was too slow with Sylpheed. That compelled me to switch to Pine because it has good IMAP support. But after using Sylpheed for a while configuration drove me stir crazy. When I set up IMAP on the server I also setup SquirrelMail. I didn't think I would convert entirely because I much prefer to use vi as my editor but I find myself using it more and more. Another user on the same machine converted to it entirely shortly after I installed it. Webmail for Nuts!
I don't care about printing. I just want to look at the plot for 15 seconds before deleting it. I would do the same thing about once a day. Fact is Excel doesn't plot it the way I want either (but it does plot it without any problems which is better than nothing).
2.4 latency also stinks on my laptop regardless of what I'm doing. Once every few days my machine just sits there with the disk grinding for 5-10 seconds (yes I upgraded to the latest kernel for RHL 7.3, same problem, used to happen once a day). It would have been nice if you could just echo something into proc to tell it it's not a server.
What's a good way to create charts (simple scatter plots) from data in a CSV file? Gnumeric just runs the CPU up to infinity when I try to create a chart with 10000 points. Any tips? Right now I have to use Excel:(
Many eyes can. How many actually do? Unless you're talking about the really big projects, probably very few indeed -- one, I suspect, in many cases.
Dispite the fact that the topic of this article is stupid I would have to disagree with your claim that the "many eyes" statement about OSS is a myth. I run a medium sized OSS project and only a very select few have ever contributed any worthwhile code but what is usefull is that occationally someone finds something genuinely important. A bug. A simple code change to get around a problem. Etc. It's actually one of the few things that I think isn't a myth about OSS. That and the benifits of having a large base of users against which to test the code. That's the real benifit. It's the claim that OSS projects benifit from many different code contributors that is a myth. I reject a lot of code that I'm sure would have otherwise been accepted other maintainers. It's the patchy collage of code that becomes a spineless inflexible blob.
As for being on the desktop, well, it will. It's only a matter of time.
No. I use Linux ~70% of the time for development. With a couple of XTerms and vi it cannot be beaten for writing C code. I have used it since Slackware 2.0.3x days. But I am absolutely certain of one thing; Linux is not going to make it on the desktop. At least not with GNOME or KDE. Those desktops are very shallow. There is ZERO integration. MS has COM, OLE, a clipboard that actually works, etc. Everything works together *enough* to use and built *integrated* desktop applications. Linux is not going to the desktop mainstream. Deal with it.
Dr. Evil> Let's blackmail them for one-hundred-thousand dollars. Bwhahahahah... Robert Wagner> You know Dr. Evil, one-hundred-thousand dollars isn't nearly that much money. Dr. Evil> Oh, really? Then let's blackmail them for one-thousand-thousand dollars! Bwhahahaha...
Dr. Evil> Let's blackmail them for one-meealion-thousand dollars. Bwhahahahah... Robert Wagner> You know Dr. Evil, one-hundred-thousand dollars isn't nearly that much money. Dr. Evil> Oh, really? Then let's blackmail them for one-thousand-thousand dollars! Bwhahahaha...
Has anyone using RHL 7.3 noticed that occasionally X will freeze for 5-10 seconds while the disk grinds? This happends to me about once a day. It's very annoying. Also, when typing into an xterm I frequently type more quickly than the system is willing to accept. This is very annoying and more importantly it didn't use to happen prior to RHL 7.2. I recently upgraded the kernel to 2.4.20-13 and X 4.3 and there has been no change. How can this not be a high prority problem for people? It's very annoying!
Just from reading the post description it left me wondering which urban legend they were going to disprove; that java isn't slow or that it really is after all.
Seriously, saying "Java is slow" is not a very sophisticated viewpoint. Using String objects a lot is slow. The Swing UI is slow. This knocks out a lot of potential uses. No improvements in JVM technology are going to fix that I'm afraid. And.NET will have this problem too as will any language with a builtin String type and garbage collection.
If you write Java like you write C it's not slow. If you're not doing constant string processing it's not slow. It depends.
I got certified at 7.2. Going to 9 this quick makes my certification go out...
No one should run 8.0 or "9" or anything but 7.3, 7.2, or 6.2 in production environments anyway. If RH says otherwise then I would rather you fault them for *that*.
Well your logic is screwy but there's no doubt the commitments from the brits is bigger than the numbers will show. I wish we had Blair for president . Would he be a democrat or republican:~)
One of our offshore guys accedentally deleted several thousand company records using access. We had to restore from backup. It was pretty ugly. And the guy didn't fess up to it until they back tracked it to a session being shared over cytrix and worked out the timing. Like just about everything in this industry you cannot beleive the hype. There might be very good reasons to outsource some code work but until the manangers realise that programmers and architects are not a commodity this will just go on and on.
Squid and winbind are probably two of the more difficult things to setup. You can't be serious if you're saying this is The Solution. It's not.
My understanding is that there is a problem with the way Mozilla handles multiple requests in the same session. Techically the NTLM SSP negotiation is non-HTTP conformant in this context. So now we have a deadlock where no one want's to get it working because it's technically not a bug. Whatever. Call it a "feature enhancement". I think we have to bow to this one and just do it. It's a very important feature because it centralizes user management. It's really required on corporate intranets at this point.
especially if the report indicates how long the user spent on the site. And there needs to be a ratings system indicating the quality of the graphics and how lustful the site made the user feel.
Your estimates are highly exaggerated I think. If I can insert and delete a million elements testing my linkedlist implementation in an hour using my i686 they could just place a couple cheap mail relays running BSD specifically designed to bounce crap mail at the front gates. If you use the right tools the job is easy.
After upgrading from RH 7.2 to RH 7.3 w/ 2.4.18 I noticed X hangs for literally several seconds (possibly 5 seconds) if anacron kicks off some significant disk activity like when updating the slocate database. Anyone know if this is a known problem?
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Is there an API reference of some kind for this? Or are we supposed to just look at the DOM spec on the W3C site?
You know at first I was going to agree with you. This sounds like something MS would be behind. But the tact of these guys is so bad that I can't help but think it's going to backfire on them. Could they possibly expect Zaurus owner or the US government to pay them? Heck no! They're about to launch themselves firmly into irrelivance. And Linux will emerge stonger legally then ever before....
A long time ago I searched what was Deja-news then for typical pppd log messages. Low-and-behold there were usenet posts from Linux newbies trying to get into their isp complete with phone number, username, and password.
Mike
You know it was Richard Stallman that suggested the term "POSIX" which is now the official name of some important Open Group standards.
Pine and Mutt both suck. I used Mutt for a long time. I could never remember the key neumonics. Then I used Sylpheed for a while but I started using IMAP on the server which was too slow with Sylpheed. That compelled me to switch to Pine because it has good IMAP support. But after using Sylpheed for a while configuration drove me stir crazy. When I set up IMAP on the server I also setup SquirrelMail. I didn't think I would convert entirely because I much prefer to use vi as my editor but I find myself using it more and more. Another user on the same machine converted to it entirely shortly after I installed it. Webmail for Nuts!
I don't care about printing. I just want to look at the plot for 15 seconds before deleting it. I would do the same thing about once a day. Fact is Excel doesn't plot it the way I want either (but it does plot it without any problems which is better than nothing).
2.4 latency also stinks on my laptop regardless of what I'm doing. Once every few days my machine just sits there with the disk grinding for 5-10 seconds (yes I upgraded to the latest kernel for RHL 7.3, same problem, used to happen once a day). It would have been nice if you could just echo something into proc to tell it it's not a server.
What's a good way to create charts (simple scatter plots) from data in a CSV file? Gnumeric just runs the CPU up to infinity when I try to create a chart with 10000 points. Any tips? Right now I have to use Excel :(
Many eyes can. How many actually do? Unless you're talking about the really big projects, probably very few indeed -- one, I suspect, in many cases.
Dispite the fact that the topic of this article is stupid I would have to disagree with your claim that the "many eyes" statement about OSS is a myth. I run a medium sized OSS project and only a very select few have ever contributed any worthwhile code but what is usefull is that occationally someone finds something genuinely important. A bug. A simple code change to get around a problem. Etc. It's actually one of the few things that I think isn't a myth about OSS. That and the benifits of having a large base of users against which to test the code. That's the real benifit. It's the claim that OSS projects benifit from many different code contributors that is a myth. I reject a lot of code that I'm sure would have otherwise been accepted other maintainers. It's the patchy collage of code that becomes a spineless inflexible blob.
As for being on the desktop, well, it will. It's only a matter of time.
No. I use Linux ~70% of the time for development. With a couple of XTerms and vi it cannot be beaten for writing C code. I have used it since Slackware 2.0.3x days. But I am absolutely certain of one thing; Linux is not going to make it on the desktop. At least not with GNOME or KDE. Those desktops are very shallow. There is ZERO integration. MS has COM, OLE, a clipboard that actually works, etc. Everything works together *enough* to use and built *integrated* desktop applications. Linux is not going to the desktop mainstream. Deal with it.
Go ahead and mod me down now.
Dr. Evil> Let's blackmail them for one-hundred-thousand dollars. Bwhahahahah...
Robert Wagner> You know Dr. Evil, one-hundred-thousand dollars isn't nearly that much money.
Dr. Evil> Oh, really? Then let's blackmail them for one-thousand-thousand dollars! Bwhahahaha...
Dr. Evil> Let's blackmail them for one-meealion-thousand dollars. Bwhahahahah...
Robert Wagner> You know Dr. Evil, one-hundred-thousand dollars isn't nearly that much money.
Dr. Evil> Oh, really? Then let's blackmail them for one-thousand-thousand dollars! Bwhahahaha...
Has anyone using RHL 7.3 noticed that occasionally X will freeze for 5-10 seconds while the disk grinds? This happends to me about once a day. It's very annoying. Also, when typing into an xterm I frequently type more quickly than the system is willing to accept. This is very annoying and more importantly it didn't use to happen prior to RHL 7.2. I recently upgraded the kernel to 2.4.20-13 and X 4.3 and there has been no change. How can this not be a high prority problem for people? It's very annoying!
Just from reading the post description it left me wondering which urban legend they were going to disprove; that java isn't slow or that it really is after all.
.NET will have this problem too as will any language with a builtin String type and garbage collection.
Seriously, saying "Java is slow" is not a very sophisticated viewpoint. Using String objects a lot is slow. The Swing UI is slow. This knocks out a lot of potential uses. No improvements in JVM technology are going to fix that I'm afraid. And
If you write Java like you write C it's not slow. If you're not doing constant string processing it's not slow. It depends.
If I didn't know any better I would think this post was about a gozilla movie.
apocalyptic fool
Are you a pessimist?
Yet another dupe on ./ was originally posted in the yes 2128. Sorry I don't have a link at this time.
I got certified at 7.2. Going to 9 this quick makes my certification go out...
No one should run 8.0 or "9" or anything but 7.3, 7.2, or 6.2 in production environments anyway. If RH says otherwise then I would rather you fault them for *that*.
Well your logic is screwy but there's no doubt the commitments from the brits is bigger than the numbers will show. I wish we had Blair for president . Would he be a democrat or republican :~)
One of our offshore guys accedentally deleted several thousand company records using access. We had to restore from backup. It was pretty ugly. And the guy didn't fess up to it until they back tracked it to a session being shared over cytrix and worked out the timing. Like just about everything in this industry you cannot beleive the hype. There might be very good reasons to outsource some code work but until the manangers realise that programmers and architects are not a commodity this will just go on and on.
Squid and winbind are probably two of the more difficult things to setup. You can't be serious if you're saying this is The Solution. It's not.
My understanding is that there is a problem with the way Mozilla handles multiple requests in the same session. Techically the NTLM SSP negotiation is non-HTTP conformant in this context. So now we have a deadlock where no one want's to get it working because it's technically not a bug. Whatever. Call it a "feature enhancement". I think we have to bow to this one and just do it. It's a very important feature because it centralizes user management. It's really required on corporate intranets at this point.
especially if the report indicates how long the user spent on the site. And there needs to be a ratings system indicating the quality of the graphics and how lustful the site made the user feel.
Your estimates are highly exaggerated I think. If I can insert and delete a million elements testing my linkedlist implementation in an hour using my i686 they could just place a couple cheap mail relays running BSD specifically designed to bounce crap mail at the front gates. If you use the right tools the job is easy.
After upgrading from RH 7.2 to RH 7.3 w/ 2.4.18 I noticed X hangs for literally several seconds (possibly 5 seconds) if anacron kicks off some significant disk activity like when updating the slocate database. Anyone know if this is a known problem?