True.. IA64 will be very compiler dependant.. but there are still 3-4years to develop good and efficient compiler. I really don't see a point in
buying Itanium atm. (except if you are an OS developer). If you really need supercomputer for server.. get yourself a CRAY:)
Isn't gcc already available in an Itanium form?
OK, I know GCC is not the best compiler in terms of code produced, but if it works then that means you cn happily recompile Linux and all related apps for it.
..especially if the hacked science satellite had enough manoevering fuel to be used to crash into a GPS or military satellite.
Satellites are getting larger: if the satellite was sufficiently large to enable large lumps to reenter and you could predict reentry then you could attempt to use it as a missile, but this is obviously a very hit and miss affair.
In the light of September 11I don't think you should assume that civilian targets (or civilian satellites) will be left alone by a terrorist.
I've been running the stuff in my house as I remodel rooms. This way I can pull anything wire-like in the future whereever I want it.
Conduit...
I CAT5'ed my house and wish I'd read this advice before I did it. Running conduit is a damn good way of not having to take the walls apart again if you change your mind about your network layout
Why do we keep spreading Linxu propaganda?
We want our OS to become usable by the majority of intellectually inferior, technologically unsavvy computer types. You see when we succeed that means there is something called a MASS MARKET and business types can see the sense in investing money in us technologically savvy Unix sysadmins and developers, and maybe just maybe games will start coming out for Linux at the same time as they do for Windows, 'cos there is a mass market.
So the answer is don't look down on unsavvy users, as directly or indirectly they can pay our way to savvy nirvana!
Now lets go on to the other point - computers in Schools. Ask yourself why Microsofts proposed settlement included giving away lots of educational resource - the answer is he who controls education and fun controls the OS world, as every student leaving will at least know about the OS's they've used at school and what they can do - it's not enough for Linux to do its job sitting in the backroom - unless it is in front of the user we won't get more disciples and converts. Idon't care what a persons IQ is, if he adopts and uses Linux he/she should be able to join the congregation.
..then I would've used my mod points to up your comments!
Anyhow, both KDE and GNOME are too damn slow. Log-in/startup speed, ugh...
I love KDE too, but KDE startup and application startup does seem a bit stone aged. I suppose its part of the trade off between being a fully featured GUI and ther limited features which KDE possessed less than 2 years ago. The distance that it has come is impressive. When two things happen I will be giving Windows the boot for all professional work
a) KOffice gets a Word and Excel Input/Output doc filter which works reliably. [Followups mentioning StarOffice will be ignored.]
b) Konqueror speeds up - I loved it and then its startup time seemed to slow down drastically.
Not totally convinced about this although my system did go through a dodgy GUI phase which has disappeared since I upgraded to RH7.2 and KDE 2.2.1.
As for the tech support side, once I setup an environment for my almost computer illiterate wife I have not been bothered with any Unix support issues from her!
Difficult to install is also heading fro the past - the only real difference between a Unix install and a Windows install is that you get offered and should normally use the disk partitioning options you typically get offered in a Linux install. Oh and the fact that a Unix install often asks you for an IP address during installation rather than leaving that till later.
does anyone know how the Ion Drives performed? No, but if you find a Star Wars technical manual it'll tell you; after all TIE Fighters are Twin Ion Engine Fighters!!
consider, say I watch a lot of p0rn when my wife and/or girlfriend is away or goes to bed early, and my wife suddenly wonders why all the targetted TV ads are for sex chatlines and hot hard action......
There are several falws in your rules, although it may make trolls work more difficult.
a) fine, but you can just start laying down accounts regularly
b) no argument shere but I think anonymous comments in a few select cases are a good thing, we don't want someone beging able to subpeona Slashodot for records just because some disgruntled employeee has told the truth about his/here company.
c)& d) most ISPs will give you as many aliases as you like
e) one mans offense is anothers humour. Censorship is not a good thing
f) With address translation, company proxy servers etc its getting increasingly difficult to tie addresses to specific computers. You COULD perhaps block multiple account setups from the same IP for a limited time [24 hrs maybe] but even this has it's problems
Nope, it's a semi serious question asked by someone with a low userid number. Anyway, the whole thread has a sense of baclk humour in it, so why should answering this one be any different?
Lighter than air craft can have solid skins either in total or in part, and even if it didn't if the craft exploded right next to the building it could cause damage. Anyway I think even a soft skinned vehicle wouldn't bounce if it was going fast enough.
Anyway I think the original poster was also considering the possibility of heavier than air hydrogen powered craft too.
The Hindenburg was erroneously responsible for the end of the use of hydrogen as a means of propulsion or lighter than air vehicles for a long time.
It is only recently [last 15 yrs?] that it has been realised that the main cause of fire on the Hindenburg was the coating on the fabric, which contained powdered aluminium amongst other things, and was remarkably similar to rocket fuel and thermite explosives!
The hydrogen fuel in the Hindenburg simply burnt and escaped upwards and was not really responsible for any deaths in the incident. Even so IIRC about 2/3 of the people escaped, which is more than be said for current day aircraft incidents.
If such a craft did ram a large building, the fuel would burn off/escape quickly and be unlikely to generate the intense fires generated by aviation fuel in the WTC attack. Even better, the burning fuel would not run down inside the building, setting fire to multiple floors.
If automation were that simple, they'd have done it on aircraft before now. Your carcraft is going to have to have one mother of a computer to analyse ground returns, transponder returns from other cars. It'll have to be its own little air traffic controller for monitoring all surrounding cars and it'll have to know how they are going to respond to its actions. Trust me it isn't simple - if you do find a way Air Traffic Control would fall to their knees and worship you as 'free flight' is the Holy Grail of Air Traffic Control. You also have to know how all the cars are going to behave when a fault develops too, since I'm sure with say 5 million of the beggars flying round New York, you can guarentee someone misses their last service.
You can make them read only so hackers cant modify them.
Who gives a damn how many files are in the bin directory provided
a) there's no performance loss
b) a decent package manager exists?
c) your partition is big enough
That said I do prefer packages to install in their own private dirs and have symlinks from the bin directories.
There are lots of reasons for aircraft to follow highways in the sky, the main one being that some point to point routes are bound to be heavily congested. I for one would dread flying round New York if everyione was performing point to point flying. Anticipating what someone is going to to in mid air is extremely hard and remember that closure speeds are going to be much faster (400-1000mph!).
Traffic management can only do so much and the best software in the world is going to go into screaming fits trying to manage point to point flying. If it has some highway rules, then there is the possibility it can do it.
Sure like thats going to work. The UK is planning similar laws, but most spam is sent from outside the long arm of the UK or even EC net police so enforcing this is going to be damn near impossible.
Read the message and grow up. If you know what the words are I'm sure you can convert asterisks to real letters. If you don't then mummy won't complain that you've been picking up rude words....
The FSF only step in where copyright of the GPL software is assigned to them. There are legal reasons for doing this, because to bring an action you have to have 'standing' in the action i.e. you have to be an aggrieved party, not a bystander. There are good reasons for this; I understand in some countries (Germany) you can be a b**t**d and bring a case whether or not you have standing - witness Adobe and KIllustrator, and the bunch of ambulance chasers who brought the action.
I'm not entirely on Fisks side; my impression from his resignation letter is that he came up with a great idea for an Open Source project but was not very good at managing the project. I'm sure other Open Source developers get similar hassles but the better ones find some way of keeping the s**t at arms length by means of for example bug submission procedures, dividing the work amongst other developers etc. Most of his complaints in the letter were along those lines. If he managed it well, he could've had the exposure he (justly) deserved and stood mainly out of the firing line of c**p.
Funnily enough, the Advogato article has a letter from a manager offering to manage the project. I'm a little leery of real managers, viewing them in much the same way Scott Adams does in Dilbert! But it seems projects do require an engineer with a talent for organisation. I'm under the impression one reason KDE appears to be succeeding is that the organisation is much better than most Open Source Projects. [Maybe what we need is a group of Germans in charge of every project!]
The Free Software Foundation has persuaded numerous people to back off in the face of the GPL. The reason is simple - it is a license giving you EXTRA FREEDOMS over standard copyright restrictions and you can choose to abide by it or be taken to court under standard copyright legislation, which IS well tested.
In giving you those extra freedoms, you have to accept the terms of the license. The GPL is not like a shrink wrapped license which restricts your freedom, you may only see after opening the package, and therefore may be legally invalid.
If the GPL is held to be invalid the person who is breaking the GPL terms is guilty under standard copyright law, which carries very hefty penalties. The cleverness of the GPL is it is a catch-22, i.e. break the terms of it, and they can get you whether or not the GPL is valid.
Some years ago, Teletext type services became available over the phone, and had a charge system of varying costs per page. These services were known as Prestel in the UK and Minitel in Franmce. Minitel is still going strong AFAIK.
Anyway the number of times I hit reload on Slashdot to get "First Post" would cost me a fortune!:-)
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True.. IA64 will be very compiler dependant.. but there are still 3-4years to develop good and efficient compiler. I really don't see a point in
buying Itanium atm. (except if you are an OS developer). If you really need supercomputer for server.. get yourself a CRAY:)
Isn't gcc already available in an Itanium form?
OK, I know GCC is not the best compiler in terms of code produced, but if it works then that means you cn happily recompile Linux and all related apps for it.
..especially if the hacked science satellite had enough manoevering fuel to be used to crash into a GPS or military satellite.
Satellites are getting larger: if the satellite was sufficiently large to enable large lumps to reenter and you could predict reentry then you could attempt to use it as a missile, but this is obviously a very hit and miss affair.
In the light of September 11I don't think you should assume that civilian targets (or civilian satellites) will be left alone by a terrorist.
First decent post from a user id > 150K ?
LMAO!
I want conduit.
I've been running the stuff in my house as I remodel rooms. This way I can pull anything wire-like in the future whereever I want it.
Conduit...
I CAT5'ed my house and wish I'd read this advice before I did it. Running conduit is a damn good way of not having to take the walls apart again if you change your mind about your network layout
I know this is a flame...but what the hell
Why do we keep spreading Linxu propaganda?
We want our OS to become usable by the majority of intellectually inferior, technologically unsavvy computer types. You see when we succeed that means there is something called a MASS MARKET and business types can see the sense in investing money in us technologically savvy Unix sysadmins and developers, and maybe just maybe games will start coming out for Linux at the same time as they do for Windows, 'cos there is a mass market.
So the answer is don't look down on unsavvy users, as directly or indirectly they can pay our way to savvy nirvana!
Now lets go on to the other point - computers in Schools. Ask yourself why Microsofts proposed settlement included giving away lots of educational resource - the answer is he who controls education and fun controls the OS world, as every student leaving will at least know about the OS's they've used at school and what they can do - it's not enough for Linux to do its job sitting in the backroom - unless it is in front of the user we won't get more disciples and converts. Idon't care what a persons IQ is, if he adopts and uses Linux he/she should be able to join the congregation.
..then I would've used my mod points to up your comments!
Anyhow, both KDE and GNOME are too damn slow. Log-in/startup speed, ugh...
I love KDE too, but KDE startup and application startup does seem a bit stone aged. I suppose its part of the trade off between being a fully featured GUI and ther limited features which KDE possessed less than 2 years ago. The distance that it has come is impressive. When two things happen I will be giving Windows the boot for all professional work
a) KOffice gets a Word and Excel Input/Output doc filter which works reliably. [Followups mentioning StarOffice will be ignored.]
b) Konqueror speeds up - I loved it and then its startup time seemed to slow down drastically.
Not totally convinced about this although my system did go through a dodgy GUI phase which has disappeared since I upgraded to RH7.2 and KDE 2.2.1.
As for the tech support side, once I setup an environment for my almost computer illiterate wife I have not been bothered with any Unix support issues from her!
Difficult to install is also heading fro the past - the only real difference between a Unix install and a Windows install is that you get offered and should normally use the disk partitioning options you typically get offered in a Linux install. Oh and the fact that a Unix install often asks you for an IP address during installation rather than leaving that till later.
does anyone know how the Ion Drives performed?
No, but if you find a Star Wars technical manual it'll tell you; after all TIE Fighters are Twin Ion Engine Fighters!!
May the Force be With You!!
It's claimed that none of the actors who did the movie knew who Kayzer Sose (also off, but closer) was till the end of the movie.
If you look at a script you can see its Verbal who says it. And don't give the plot away to those who haven't seen it!
consider, say I watch a lot of p0rn when my wife and/or girlfriend is away or goes to bed early, and my wife suddenly wonders why all the targetted TV ads are for sex chatlines and hot hard action......
There are several falws in your rules, although it may make trolls work more difficult.
a) fine, but you can just start laying down accounts regularly
b) no argument shere but I think anonymous comments in a few select cases are a good thing, we don't want someone beging able to subpeona Slashodot for records just because some disgruntled employeee has told the truth about his/here company.
c)& d) most ISPs will give you as many aliases as you like
e) one mans offense is anothers humour. Censorship is not a good thing
f) With address translation, company proxy servers etc its getting increasingly difficult to tie addresses to specific computers. You COULD perhaps block multiple account setups from the same IP for a limited time [24 hrs maybe] but even this has it's problems
Nope, it's a semi serious question asked by someone with a low userid number. Anyway, the whole thread has a sense of baclk humour in it, so why should answering this one be any different?
Lighter than air craft can have solid skins either in total or in part, and even if it didn't if the craft exploded right next to the building it could cause damage. Anyway I think even a soft skinned vehicle wouldn't bounce if it was going fast enough.
Anyway I think the original poster was also considering the possibility of heavier than air hydrogen powered craft too.
The Hindenburg was erroneously responsible for the end of the use of hydrogen as a means of propulsion or lighter than air vehicles for a long time.
It is only recently [last 15 yrs?] that it has been realised that the main cause of fire on the Hindenburg was the coating on the fabric, which contained powdered aluminium amongst other things, and was remarkably similar to rocket fuel and thermite explosives!
The hydrogen fuel in the Hindenburg simply burnt and escaped upwards and was not really responsible for any deaths in the incident. Even so IIRC about 2/3 of the people escaped, which is more than be said for current day aircraft incidents.
If such a craft did ram a large building, the fuel would burn off/escape quickly and be unlikely to generate the intense fires generated by aviation fuel in the WTC attack. Even better, the burning fuel would not run down inside the building, setting fire to multiple floors.
..before the election about his suitability for the GNOME board. Seems the voters agreed with me.
As I said I like what RMS is doing, but I don't think he would be able to dedicate the time GNOME deserves
I mean, 5%! I just can't get excited about 5%. :-)
Depends on how often you get a 5% increase in your pay packet!
If automation were that simple, they'd have done it on aircraft before now. Your carcraft is going to have to have one mother of a computer to analyse ground returns, transponder returns from other cars. It'll have to be its own little air traffic controller for monitoring all surrounding cars and it'll have to know how they are going to respond to its actions. Trust me it isn't simple - if you do find a way Air Traffic Control would fall to their knees and worship you as 'free flight' is the Holy Grail of Air Traffic Control. You also have to know how all the cars are going to behave when a fault develops too, since I'm sure with say 5 million of the beggars flying round New York, you can guarentee someone misses their last service.
You can make them read only so hackers cant modify them.
Who gives a damn how many files are in the bin directory provided
a) there's no performance loss
b) a decent package manager exists?
c) your partition is big enough
That said I do prefer packages to install in their own private dirs and have symlinks from the bin directories.
There are lots of reasons for aircraft to follow highways in the sky, the main one being that some point to point routes are bound to be heavily congested. I for one would dread flying round New York if everyione was performing point to point flying. Anticipating what someone is going to to in mid air is extremely hard and remember that closure speeds are going to be much faster (400-1000mph!).
Traffic management can only do so much and the best software in the world is going to go into screaming fits trying to manage point to point flying. If it has some highway rules, then there is the possibility it can do it.
Sure like thats going to work. The UK is planning similar laws, but most spam is sent from outside the long arm of the UK or even EC net police so enforcing this is going to be damn near impossible.
Oh my got its the grammar police!
Read the message and grow up. If you know what the words are I'm sure you can convert asterisks to real letters. If you don't then mummy won't complain that you've been picking up rude words....
The FSF only step in where copyright of the GPL software is assigned to them. There are legal reasons for doing this, because to bring an action you have to have 'standing' in the action i.e. you have to be an aggrieved party, not a bystander. There are good reasons for this; I understand in some countries (Germany) you can be a b**t**d and bring a case whether or not you have standing - witness Adobe and KIllustrator, and the bunch of ambulance chasers who brought the action.
I'm not entirely on Fisks side; my impression from his resignation letter is that he came up with a great idea for an Open Source project but was not very good at managing the project. I'm sure other Open Source developers get similar hassles but the better ones find some way of keeping the s**t at arms length by means of for example bug submission procedures, dividing the work amongst other developers etc. Most of his complaints in the letter were along those lines. If he managed it well, he could've had the exposure he (justly) deserved and stood mainly out of the firing line of c**p.
Funnily enough, the Advogato article has a letter from a manager offering to manage the project. I'm a little leery of real managers, viewing them in much the same way Scott Adams does in Dilbert! But it seems projects do require an engineer with a talent for organisation. I'm under the impression one reason KDE appears to be succeeding is that the organisation is much better than most Open Source Projects. [Maybe what we need is a group of Germans in charge of every project!]
...is anyone doing a South Park Episode 2 trailer this time round ? :-)
The Free Software Foundation has persuaded numerous people to back off in the face of the GPL. The reason is simple - it is a license giving you EXTRA FREEDOMS over standard copyright restrictions and you can choose to abide by it or be taken to court under standard copyright legislation, which IS well tested.
In giving you those extra freedoms, you have to accept the terms of the license. The GPL is not like a shrink wrapped license which restricts your freedom, you may only see after opening the package, and therefore may be legally invalid.
If the GPL is held to be invalid the person who is breaking the GPL terms is guilty under standard copyright law, which carries very hefty penalties. The cleverness of the GPL is it is a catch-22, i.e. break the terms of it, and they can get you whether or not the GPL is valid.
Some years ago, Teletext type services became available over the phone, and had a charge system of varying costs per page. These services were known as Prestel in the UK and Minitel in Franmce. Minitel is still going strong AFAIK.
:-)
Anyway the number of times I hit reload on Slashdot to get "First Post" would cost me a fortune!