Why spend $11,000 on new motorcycles when that sort of investment in more efficient police cars would have a much greater environmental impact? (Not to mention savings at the pump) Traditional motorcycles don't use that much gas, and can easily get 2-3 times the mpg of a car. Halving the energy consumption of a motorcycle is nowhere near as interesting as halving the energy consumption of a car.
You can't re-license the code even without the advertising clause.
True, but you can add the restrictions of the GPL to modified BSD code. I can also add the restriction that you must pay me $5 billion to sell you back your BSD code. Hope you kept the original:)
Why do you not report uptimes for Linux 2.6 or FreeBSD 6 ?
We only report uptimes for systems where the operating system's timer runs at 100Hz or less. Because the TCP code only uses the low 32 bits of the timer, if the timer runs at say 1000Hz, the value wraps around every 49.7 days (whereas at 100Hz it wraps after 497 days). As there are large numbers of systems which have a higher uptime than this, it is not possible to report accurate uptimes for these systems.
Well if people are going to pay Oracle for support, then Oracle better be able to provide it.
The RedHat engineers will fix bugs reported by people with RedHat contracts. Your Oracle contract means nothing to them, and a trip to the back of the line for you. The kernel developers get paid by RedHat, the fixes for bugs reported by people with RedHat contracts will continue to be under the GPL, and everyone benefits.
If Oracle does provide support, then the kernel developers get paid by Oracle, the fixes for bugs reported by people with Oracle contracts will continue to be under the GPL, and everyone benefits.
I'm not saying you're wrong or that I'm right, but as per rfc 2445:
The file type code of "iCal" is to be used in Apple MacIntosh operating system environments to designate a file containing calendaring and scheduling information consistent with this MIME media type.
iCal is often used as an abbreviation for the file format's full name. Witness Google, who at calendar.google.com say "Google Calendar can import event information in iCal or CSV (MS Outlook) format."
Anyway, ics is the file extension for iCalendar files.
ical is a file format. It an open format for sharing calendaring data defined in RFCs 2445-2447. It was originally created with Microsoft's help. Tons of programs (web & standalone) support it, except ironically Outlook.
What I want you to realize is that monopoly is possible in a world economy, just as it is possible in the world's largest economy. The internet's world economy is what, effectively 10 years old? There will be monopolies. They will just be larger than the ones we have right now.
Monopoly is definitely possible in a world economy.. just as it is possible in an economy as large as the US. Can you name one economy without a monopoly? Can you say De Beers?
I've been very happy with NearlyFreeSpeech.net for web hosting. PHP, MySQL, phpMyAdmin, is the stuff I use. Oh, they have https too.
My favorite thing is that they have a subversion client running on the ssh service they provide, so all you have to do is 'svn up' to upload all your changes. No monthly fee, just pay bandwidth and storage ($1/gig x-fer, $0.01/meg storage/month)
IMHO, the biggest thing slowing Linux down right now for the average desktop Linux user is that the defaults are not set with the desktop user in mind. Take for instance the swappiness setting that was discussed on/. earlier. Mandrake 10 ships with swappiness=60, which is okay for a server, but when it is being used as a desktop, setting swappiness=20 or 30 _really_ speeds things up.
(For those who don't know, swappiness is a 0-100 setting, where 0 tries to keep all processes in ram, while 100 tries to keep all but the running process(es) in swap. 0 is good for the desktop user, because then they can multitask faster - the program they're switching to doesn't have to get loaded from swap. Think about how it would affect you when every time you go to switch to a different window, odds were 60% that it would have to load that other application from swap. 100 is good for a server because the server process gets all the ram it needs, and any time it does disk i/o, it gets to use the huge amounts of available ram for cache. NOTE: This is not a completely true definition of swappiness, but it should give you a good idea of what it does)
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The KDE4.0 release is about so much more than memory usage!
o. Complete library overhaul
o. Complete graphical overhaul
o. Simplification (see Dolphin)
o. New desktop, taskbar, dashboard
The changes to a desktop environment don't get any bigger than that. I'm very surprised that the article summary only seems to mention memory usage.
Why spend $11,000 on new motorcycles when that sort of investment in more efficient police cars would have a much greater environmental impact? (Not to mention savings at the pump) Traditional motorcycles don't use that much gas, and can easily get 2-3 times the mpg of a car. Halving the energy consumption of a motorcycle is nowhere near as interesting as halving the energy consumption of a car.
You can't re-license the code even without the advertising clause.
True, but you can add the restrictions of the GPL to modified BSD code. I can also add the restriction that you must pay me $5 billion to sell you back your BSD code. Hope you kept the original :)
http://uptime.netcraft.com/up/accuracy.html#hz100
Why do you not report uptimes for Linux 2.6 or FreeBSD 6 ?
We only report uptimes for systems where the operating system's timer runs at 100Hz or less. Because the TCP code only uses the low 32 bits of the timer, if the timer runs at say 1000Hz, the value wraps around every 49.7 days (whereas at 100Hz it wraps after 497 days). As there are large numbers of systems which have a higher uptime than this, it is not possible to report accurate uptimes for these systems.
A tickless kernel gives the scheduler much finer control, and down the line will probably improve performance.
http://lwn.net/Articles/223185
Your timer frequency must be set to 100HZ. The default for 2.6.20 was 1000HZ, and thus wraps at 49.7 days. Other settings are 250 and 300 HZ.
It wraps after 49.7 days on kernels with a faster tick rate than yours.
faking out the installer?
Well if people are going to pay Oracle for support, then Oracle better be able to provide it.
The RedHat engineers will fix bugs reported by people with RedHat contracts. Your Oracle contract means nothing to them, and a trip to the back of the line for you. The kernel developers get paid by RedHat, the fixes for bugs reported by people with RedHat contracts will continue to be under the GPL, and everyone benefits.
If Oracle does provide support, then the kernel developers get paid by Oracle, the fixes for bugs reported by people with Oracle contracts will continue to be under the GPL, and everyone benefits.
I don't see any downside here..
> Instead give them a nicely layed out booklet or a page with the formulas, explain how they work, and ask them, using this booklet to solve problems.
wow. that sounds exactly like the regents (NYS standardized public school test)
I'm not saying you're wrong or that I'm right, but as per rfc 2445:
The file type code of "iCal" is to be used in Apple MacIntosh operating system environments to designate a file containing calendaring and scheduling information consistent with this MIME media type.
iCal is often used as an abbreviation for the file format's full name. Witness Google, who at calendar.google.com say "Google Calendar can import event information in iCal or CSV (MS Outlook) format."
Anyway, ics is the file extension for iCalendar files.
Zimbra does what you want. It is open source (+ free:) also. Try the demo at www.zimbra.com.
ical is a file format. It an open format for sharing calendaring data defined in RFCs 2445-2447. It was originally created with Microsoft's help. Tons of programs (web & standalone) support it, except ironically Outlook.
What I want you to realize is that monopoly is possible in a world economy, just as it is possible in the world's largest economy. The internet's world economy is what, effectively 10 years old? There will be monopolies. They will just be larger than the ones we have right now.
I noticed that you weren't able to name an economy without a monopoly
Monopoly is definitely possible in a world economy.. just as it is possible in an economy as large as the US. Can you name one economy without a monopoly? Can you say De Beers?
They were counting hits to general websites (a/k/a usage) not downloads
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My favorite thing is that they have a subversion client running on the ssh service they provide, so all you have to do is 'svn up' to upload all your changes. No monthly fee, just pay bandwidth and storage ($1/gig x-fer, $0.01/meg storage/month)
Here is the answer to the question you almost asked:
http://rpm.pbone.net/
Ctrl+F[Desktop #] to switch to a desktop
(Ctrl+F1 is first desktop, Ctrl+F2 is second, etc)
Ctrl+Tab to switch desktops like how Alt+Tab switches windows
That's the full definition from Merriam-Webster (www.m-w.com), btw.
You realize that any argument that says that an athiest believes in God is false, right?
One entry found for atheist.
Main Entry: atheist
Pronunciation: 'A-thE-ist
Function: noun
: one who believes that there is no deity
I mean, sure athiests can believe in God if you change the meaning of God, but c'mon. Let's be realistic here.
IMHO, the biggest thing slowing Linux down right now for the average desktop Linux user is that the defaults are not set with the desktop user in mind. Take for instance the swappiness setting that was discussed on /. earlier. Mandrake 10 ships with swappiness=60, which is okay for a server, but when it is being used as a desktop, setting swappiness=20 or 30 _really_ speeds things up.
(For those who don't know, swappiness is a 0-100 setting, where 0 tries to keep all processes in ram, while 100 tries to keep all but the running process(es) in swap. 0 is good for the desktop user, because then they can multitask faster - the program they're switching to doesn't have to get loaded from swap. Think about how it would affect you when every time you go to switch to a different window, odds were 60% that it would have to load that other application from swap. 100 is good for a server because the server process gets all the ram it needs, and any time it does disk i/o, it gets to use the huge amounts of available ram for cache. NOTE: This is not a completely true definition of swappiness, but it should give you a good idea of what it does)