Bloomington North High School is piloting about 120 linux machines in their school running NLD, Linspire and Edubuntu. 700 students are using them. The Bloomington Linux Users Group is helping them by providing support.
Get out there and do interesting things people. Stop making window managers, CMS systems and text editors and start making new things. Things that are useful.
Well, it does help to post a question about it to "ask slashdot". I did the same thing 3 years ago with my num-utils programs. After that, I definately saw increased usage and it was added to a few Linux distributions. If you're lucky, the same will happen to you.
Honestly, I don't trust MySQL either. Every since they started going more commercial, there have been indications that eventually MySQL will be more closed up than open. But that's just speculation. So I've been slowly switching my stuff to use Postgresql. The only problem I have with postgresql is that it doesn't handle user administration as well. Other than that, its awesome.
Also from the article: The lowest was the XMMS audio player, with 0.051 defects per 1,000 lines of code.
Being someone who has used Amanda for many years and also XMMS, I find it hard to believe. Amanda has few problems (unless its the tape drive itself) and XMMS crashes sometimes when you just push a button in the "wrong way".
I think there can be a big difference between actual number of bugs and the perceived number of bugs. This almost makes counts like this useless for actually comparing software.
I think part of people's willingness to upgrade is that they see the obsoleteness of the older format. Its a little bit harder to see that CDs are lower quality and less durable than DVDs or mp3s. mp3s would probably last longer because they would just move from hard drive to hard drive and never lose quality.
The parent may have been marked up as funny, but I think its time that we start taking seriously the possibility that events like these could be triggered by other life in the universe. Their space wars and so on. It would be difficult to generate phenomenon on the same scale as a supernova though. This of course is not a very scientific observation, but it is indeed a possibility.
REXX is something that the Amiga had too. But I think that REXX only really works if the majority of applications have hooks for it. Linux and Windows will never have useful REXX support because they have been going for too long without it. There would have to be a massive grass roots effort to add it to all the software, somewhat like when the Unisys started enforcing the gif patent
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Bloomington North High School is piloting about 120 linux machines in their school running NLD, Linspire and Edubuntu. 700 students are using them. The Bloomington Linux Users Group is helping them by providing support.
I hope you're right. I just turned 30 a few weeks ago and am close to releasing my own disruptive technology that will hopefully start a new industry.
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Get out there and do interesting things people. Stop making window managers, CMS systems and text editors and start making new things. Things that are useful.
Well, it does help to post a question about it to "ask slashdot". I did the same thing 3 years ago with my num-utils programs. After that, I definately saw increased usage and it was added to a few Linux distributions. If you're lucky, the same will happen to you.
This is one of the major reasons I use open source software. Its hard to trust corporations who only tell you lies to preserve their public image.
Its a good thing I don't use GPG to sign my emails. Oh wait.
We're fighting for freedom and democracy. You'll notice that you have none of those things in the military.
Actually, I guess any military has neither of those.
Fighting for freedom are we?
I don't trust Oracle
Honestly, I don't trust MySQL either. Every since they started going more commercial, there have been indications that eventually MySQL will be more closed up than open. But that's just speculation. So I've been slowly switching my stuff to use Postgresql. The only problem I have with postgresql is that it doesn't handle user administration as well. Other than that, its awesome.
Also from the article: The lowest was the XMMS audio player, with 0.051 defects per 1,000 lines of code.
Being someone who has used Amanda for many years and also XMMS, I find it hard to believe. Amanda has few problems (unless its the tape drive itself) and XMMS crashes sometimes when you just push a button in the "wrong way".
I think there can be a big difference between actual number of bugs and the perceived number of bugs. This almost makes counts like this useless for actually comparing software.
I think part of people's willingness to upgrade is that they see the obsoleteness of the older format. Its a little bit harder to see that CDs are lower quality and less durable than DVDs or mp3s. mp3s would probably last longer because they would just move from hard drive to hard drive and never lose quality.
Why'd have to tell me that.
The parent may have been marked up as funny, but I think its time that we start taking seriously the possibility that events like these could be triggered by other life in the universe. Their space wars and so on. It would be difficult to generate phenomenon on the same scale as a supernova though. This of course is not a very scientific observation, but it is indeed a possibility.
Is it really pro-bono if the council has to be compensated? Is this what normally happens?
REXX is something that the Amiga had too. But I think that REXX only really works if the majority of applications have hooks for it. Linux and Windows will never have useful REXX support because they have been going for too long without it. There would have to be a massive grass roots effort to add it to all the software, somewhat like when the Unisys started enforcing the gif patent
Appearently Half Life 2 had more than 6 grams of fat.
Sounds kinda like American Computer Company
John Dvorak == Waste of carbon and water molecules.
There should be a John Dvorak section so that you can ignore it.
That means that 2/3s are actually using it for actual work.
They might want to check with the RIAA first to make sure that *that* is ok.
I would think that this kind of reasoning would justify murderers to call for a ban on CBS (Crime Broadcasting Station).
Things transpiring now remind me a lot of the first couple chapters of snowcrash. Soon we'll be living in U-stor-its.
But can you transfer warp power through the nacels with it.
It reminds me of the IOBrush.
No, I meant with RFIDs.