It's a pity these two topics were smooshed together because they have very little to do with each other.
The Windows thing is obvious. Sun sell Opteron boxes and it helps their marketing if they're an official Windows OEM.
The filesystem stuff is much more interesting. It seems to me that the Lustre purchase is to fill a gap in the ZFS firmament: distribution. ZFS as it currently exists only works on single computers. The natural next step is to allow simple clustering. I imagine they did the old buy-vs-build weighoff before deciding to buy an existing clustering fs technology.
It may also be that Lustre is the subject of patents that might be useful to own were -- just a hypothetical here -- a NAS/SAN company were to start a lawsuit regarding ZFS.
Seriously. This looks a lot like those "help me do my homework!!11@1!" posts you see on Usenet a lot. Perhaps the original author is doing it for a job, or looking for arguments to win an internet shitfight on some obscure forum. It doesn't matter, he should do his own damn work.
TFA says Transmeta shot to prominence due to Crusoe. This is wrong; Transmeta shot to prominence because it hired Linus Torvalds and refused to talk about what it was doing.
A lot of disputes in the old wild west arose from open ranges, where "anyone" could graze. In practice it led to nasty disputes and illegal attempts to fence off ranges. I reckon it might be amenable to economic approaches.
But since one of the two major parties (the Labor Party) has a "3 Mines Policy", no mining company has been prepared to invest in finding and opening up uranium reserves.
In fact we have a quarter of the world's known reserves, and that's just what was found in the 60s and 70s. New exploration is beginning and our total is going up. If Labor overturn their 3 mines policy, expect to see a uranium boom (no pun intended) down under.
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"...which can be that much harder than putting up with yet another proprietary editor scripting language"
TextMate gets a lot of its cleverness by working through the shell. Most TextMate hackers use Ruby for extension, but you can use shell scripts, Perl, Python, whatever you like that can be called from the shell.
You may be thinking of the language grammars, which are driven by Perl-like regular expressions. Is that right? I'm just struggling to see how you came to the conclusion that TextMate uses some new language.
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"A couple of things I have not yet figured out how to do in Textmate yet that I really am jonesing for are Line numbering,"
View -> Gutter -> Line Numbers
" and the ability to mark a set of lines and change them to comment lines in a language aware fashion."
Command-/ (apple key + slash) will do just that.
It is a good book
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Definitely one of those books which causes me to say "Aha!" every page or so.
TextMate is a very impressive editor. I use it for almost everything now - PHP work during the day and other languages by night - because it combines Mac OS X accessibility to Emacsesque power. Already I have a little personal library of clippings, scripts, doohickeys and thingamajigs I've whipped up based on the guidance in the book reviewed above.
I'd recommend the editor and this book as a good introduction to it.
"OMG, I was thinking the other day: what if we spent the total petty cash budget on sugar? Would that leave enough money to buy the coffee needed to Synergise the Enterprise Customer Service Orientation Systems Matrix Method?"
Wow, an inane hypothetical. How is this news for nerds?
Slashdot today released a report showing that stupid Garter Group releases will never come to an end.
Instead of critical evaluation or even serious research, the respected organisation will stick by its tried-and-true method of spatial-temporal probability matrix randomisation (marketed under the trademark Making Shit Up, Even If Obviously Stupid).
At a recent demonstration of this technique, Garter Group analysts showed releases on their drawing boards for next week's bullshit sessions, including:
* IBM to buy Apple and force the line back to PowerPC, in order to cripple Microsoft's XBox. * Sun will no longer release any hardware products, pending a buyout offer from SCO. * George Lucas will admit he's a dud and bankroll a new new trilogy written and directed by competent artists, such as Britney Spears.
At the time of writing, no Garter analysts were available to comment; being too busy trying to find where the crack pipe got to.
On Windows one can use the Sound Recorder applet that ships with Windows to record anything coming off the system-wide Wave Out device. On Mac OS X one can download programs that do similar. On Linux there're probably two or three godzillion programs for this purpose.
Although you are recording for a radio show, others ought to bear in mind the laws related to recording such conversations. In Australia at least it is an offence under the Telecommunications Act 1997 (Cth) to record a conversation conducted via telecommunications devices (including VOIP) without all parties giving their express or implied consent (s 289, 290). Check with your lawyer (since IANAL) to be sure of your position.
Oh, unless you're the NSA. In which case, do what you like, the judge won't care.
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It's a pity these two topics were smooshed together because they have very little to do with each other.
The Windows thing is obvious. Sun sell Opteron boxes and it helps their marketing if they're an official Windows OEM.
The filesystem stuff is much more interesting. It seems to me that the Lustre purchase is to fill a gap in the ZFS firmament: distribution. ZFS as it currently exists only works on single computers. The natural next step is to allow simple clustering. I imagine they did the old buy-vs-build weighoff before deciding to buy an existing clustering fs technology.
It may also be that Lustre is the subject of patents that might be useful to own were -- just a hypothetical here -- a NAS/SAN company were to start a lawsuit regarding ZFS.
Seriously. This looks a lot like those "help me do my homework!!11@1!" posts you see on Usenet a lot. Perhaps the original author is doing it for a job, or looking for arguments to win an internet shitfight on some obscure forum. It doesn't matter, he should do his own damn work.
Yes, because a bug in the Debian copy of Firefox will totally destroy the Mozilla brand everywhere.
You know, the one where NASA spends hojillions on a space-pen, and the Russians just use a pencil.
TFA says Transmeta shot to prominence due to Crusoe. This is wrong; Transmeta shot to prominence because it hired Linus Torvalds and refused to talk about what it was doing.
is that we know that the movie will be more than met the eye.
A lot of disputes in the old wild west arose from open ranges, where "anyone" could graze. In practice it led to nasty disputes and illegal attempts to fence off ranges. I reckon it might be amenable to economic approaches.
Blackboard is awful, terrible software. Microsoft have simply filtered it out as part of their quality assurance program.
MySpace is next.
But since one of the two major parties (the Labor Party) has a "3 Mines Policy", no mining company has been prepared to invest in finding and opening up uranium reserves.
In fact we have a quarter of the world's known reserves, and that's just what was found in the 60s and 70s. New exploration is beginning and our total is going up. If Labor overturn their 3 mines policy, expect to see a uranium boom (no pun intended) down under.
"...which can be that much harder than putting up with yet another proprietary editor scripting language"
TextMate gets a lot of its cleverness by working through the shell. Most TextMate hackers use Ruby for extension, but you can use shell scripts, Perl, Python, whatever you like that can be called from the shell.
You may be thinking of the language grammars, which are driven by Perl-like regular expressions. Is that right? I'm just struggling to see how you came to the conclusion that TextMate uses some new language.
"A couple of things I have not yet figured out how to do in Textmate yet that I really am jonesing for are
Line numbering,"
View -> Gutter -> Line Numbers
" and the ability to mark a set of lines and change them to comment lines in a language aware fashion."
Command-/ (apple key + slash) will do just that.
Definitely one of those books which causes me to say "Aha!" every page or so.
TextMate is a very impressive editor. I use it for almost everything now - PHP work during the day and other languages by night - because it combines Mac OS X accessibility to Emacsesque power. Already I have a little personal library of clippings, scripts, doohickeys and thingamajigs I've whipped up based on the guidance in the book reviewed above.
I'd recommend the editor and this book as a good introduction to it.
I'd love to have one of those monsters. Wowza.
I live in Darwin.
This is a true story, which turned up in that estimable journal of record, the NT News.
As far as I know it's not called Pee Wee's beach, but there is a restaurant on East Point called "Pee Wee's on the Point".
Cheers.
All the anonymised computers which heated up had Pentium 4s.
These patents are so amazing that Slashdot can't find anything to say.
It only seems suitable for first past the post voting. How about those of us with instant runoffs?
"OMG, I was thinking the other day: what if we spent the total petty cash budget on sugar? Would that leave enough money to buy the coffee needed to Synergise the Enterprise Customer Service Orientation Systems Matrix Method?"
Wow, an inane hypothetical. How is this news for nerds?
Let my post above demonstrate that humour and undergarments do not mix.
Except in Vegas.
Slashdot today released a report showing that stupid Garter Group releases will never come to an end.
Instead of critical evaluation or even serious research, the respected organisation will stick by its tried-and-true method of spatial-temporal probability matrix randomisation (marketed under the trademark Making Shit Up, Even If Obviously Stupid).
At a recent demonstration of this technique, Garter Group analysts showed releases on their drawing boards for next week's bullshit sessions, including:
* IBM to buy Apple and force the line back to PowerPC, in order to cripple Microsoft's XBox.
* Sun will no longer release any hardware products, pending a buyout offer from SCO.
* George Lucas will admit he's a dud and bankroll a new new trilogy written and directed by competent artists, such as Britney Spears.
At the time of writing, no Garter analysts were available to comment; being too busy trying to find where the crack pipe got to.
On Windows one can use the Sound Recorder applet that ships with Windows to record anything coming off the system-wide Wave Out device. On Mac OS X one can download programs that do similar. On Linux there're probably two or three godzillion programs for this purpose.
Although you are recording for a radio show, others ought to bear in mind the laws related to recording such conversations. In Australia at least it is an offence under the Telecommunications Act 1997 (Cth) to record a conversation conducted via telecommunications devices (including VOIP) without all parties giving their express or implied consent (s 289, 290). Check with your lawyer (since IANAL) to be sure of your position.
Oh, unless you're the NSA. In which case, do what you like, the judge won't care.
Well that was a spectacular waste of a few minutes of my life.
I'm glad that Slashdot is here to forward every lame video - now I don't need email.
Serenity came out in Australia last week. It was a pretty sweet change of the usual order of things.
Makes me wonder if Rupert Murdoch is a closet Firefly fan.
I think it's fair to say that 100% of poms are upset about the recent Ashes result.
The ATO refuse to consider "e-tax" as an authoritative source anyhow. It's just an easy way to submit returns.
Do the smart thing - keep records, see an accountant. Accountants support all operating systems, including PenAndPaper(tm) and ReceiptsInShoebox(r).