Apparently it will make you French if you buy 33cl bottle of beer instead of a pint...
Funny, the bottle of Theakson's Old Peculier here by my elbow is 500ml - the so-called "metric pint". Only a few beers are (still) sold in pint bottles these days - Marston's Pedigree, for example.
I buy a router/etc for the hardware, not for the companies excellent firmware
Well, I don't know about you, but I do buy Cisco routers because of IOS. That's the secret sauce that makes Cisco routers Cisco routers, and makes them better than the others out there - it'a all in the excellent firmware.
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how did you manage the MTA change in all your apps
Postfix presents itself as sendmail; it just drops in as a direct replacement. From my Mandrake box:
% file `which sendmail`/usr/sbin/sendmail: symbolic link to `/etc/alternatives/mta' % file/etc/alternatives/mta/etc/alternatives/mta: symbolic link to `/usr/sbin/sendmail.postfix'
Good example. You did know that VNC originated from the AT&T lab in Cambridge (England). Development and support for it is continued by the original authors, as Real VNC, didn't you?
True, but Bluetooth tends not to come on an integrated chip anyway, becasue of the analogue radio part. It's almost always a discrete part, and often two - the digital part for the control, and the analogue radio frequency part. The digital control is normally CMOS, and the radio is (exopensive) BiCMOS. CSR manage to combline both digital and analogue parts on a single CMOS chip, which makes it extremely cheap.
This low cost (less than $10) that is the thing that makes Blutooth chepa enough to put in keyboarsd and mice. And that cheapness, and ease of integration, is why Bluetooth is very far from dead.
I'm from the UK too. We don't have to pony up our papers to the cops just because they ask.
Even if they stop you when driving, and ask to see your driving licence etc, you don't have to produce it on the spot, nor can they haul you in for not having it with you - you have a full 7 days to present it at any police station in the UK.
Yes, I'd be freaked if we suddely had to start carrying papers, and producing them whenever J Random Cop wanted to see them. But I suspect that Blunkett would rather like them to have those powers, so I'm expecting a fight pretty soon.
honestly how many people do you know that actually regged it
Well, I've paid for it (v5 and v7), on my own Linux and Windows boxes, as well as the Windows boxes of my parents and brother. And my girlfriend has paid for it for her iMac.
When people have deep disagreements, companies and dev teams can split, and the leavers go off and found new companies. Fairchild to Intel. Cisco to Juniper. So why does this is Good Thing in business become a bad thing in Open Source world?
And how do we, the consumers, know when the leading lights of a closed-source program development team leave? We don't, so we get newer versions of ever decreasing quality. People don't work on the same products all their lives.
If a compiler isn't available to the recipient, than it isn't machine readable, and should be a GPL violation.
Er, no; if Emacs or Vi can load it, then it's machine readable. Hell, technically, providing it in 5-bit Baudot code on Mylar Tape is machine readable. The compiler simply doesn't enter into it.
Isn't it odd how, according to Joe Slashdot, copyright is so important when it relates to the GPL, but so irrelevant when it relates to music or movies?
Rubbish. Slashdot is a community; the is NO Joe Slashdot; just as many pople here defend copyright here as claim the right to free music at other's expense.
Acorn Computers is the daddy of all UK computing. While the rest of the geeky kids were using Ti's the UK kids were hacking away on BBC Micros.
I still have mine here.
The ARM processor is one of the best CPUs in existence.
Of course, the Beeb didn't actually use the ARM processor, which came much later. The Acorn Atom, Electron, BBC A and B, and the later Masters, were all 6502-based systems. There were NS32032, MC68000, and later, ARM co-pros available, conencted to the main machine via The Tube bus.
This company happens to be called Apple Corp and it has been going internationally since the 1960's. Its logo also happens to be an apple with a bite out of it.
Nope; Apple Corps' logo is a simple green apple. No bite. Check the back of your Beatles LPs.
Oh, you're old enough? OK, try your parents' or grandparents' collections, then.
Does not the current IPv6 address allocation standard specify using your MAC address as the suffix portion of the IPv6 address?
Not quite:
It should be noted that the 128-bit address space is divided into three logical parts, with the usage of each component managed differently. The rightmost 64 bits, the Interface Identifier [RFC2373], will
often be a globally-unique IEEE identifier (e.g., mac address). Although an "inefficient" way to use the Interface Identifier field from the perspective of maximizing the number of addressable nodes, the numbering scheme was explicitly chosen to simplify Stateless Address Autoconfiguration [RFC2462].
(my emphasis) From ripe-246 - http://www.ripe.net/ripe/docs/ipv6policy.html
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Apparently it will make you French if you buy 33cl bottle of beer instead of a pint...
Funny, the bottle of Theakson's Old Peculier here by my elbow is 500ml - the so-called "metric pint". Only a few beers are (still) sold in pint bottles these days - Marston's Pedigree, for example.
Just a note for the nun-British: in the UK, the Coastguard are not a part of the millitary.
I buy a router/etc for the hardware, not for the companies excellent firmware
Well, I don't know about you, but I do buy Cisco routers because of IOS. That's the secret sauce that makes Cisco routers Cisco routers, and makes them better than the others out there - it'a all in the excellent firmware.
how did you manage the MTA change in all your apps
/usr/sbin/sendmail: symbolic link to `/etc/alternatives/mta' /etc/alternatives/mta /etc/alternatives/mta: symbolic link to `/usr/sbin/sendmail.postfix'
Postfix presents itself as sendmail; it just drops in as a direct replacement. From my Mandrake box:
% file `which sendmail`
% file
TightVNC
Good example. You did know that VNC originated from the AT&T lab in Cambridge (England). Development and support for it is continued by the original authors, as Real VNC, didn't you?
Then we can all go out and laugh at the Australian Dollar, or Pacific Peso as it will shortly be renamed.
True, but Bluetooth tends not to come on an integrated chip anyway, becasue of the analogue radio part. It's almost always a discrete part, and often two - the digital part for the control, and the analogue radio frequency part. The digital control is normally CMOS, and the radio is (exopensive) BiCMOS. CSR manage to combline both digital and analogue parts on a single CMOS chip, which makes it extremely cheap.
This low cost (less than $10) that is the thing that makes Blutooth chepa enough to put in keyboarsd and mice. And that cheapness, and ease of integration, is why Bluetooth is very far from dead.
I'm from the UK too. We don't have to pony up our papers to the cops just because they ask.
Even if they stop you when driving, and ask to see your driving licence etc, you don't have to produce it on the spot, nor can they haul you in for not having it with you - you have a full 7 days to present it at any police station in the UK.
Yes, I'd be freaked if we suddely had to start carrying papers, and producing them whenever J Random Cop wanted to see them. But I suspect that Blunkett would rather like them to have those powers, so I'm expecting a fight pretty soon.
Actually, SE get their Bluetooth from Cambridge Silicon Radio. As do Nokia, for some of their newer devices.
And pretty much everyone making something with Bluetooth in it is buying fron CSR (unless they are making it themselves).
honestly how many people do you know that actually regged it
Well, I've paid for it (v5 and v7), on my own Linux and Windows boxes, as well as the Windows boxes of my parents and brother. And my girlfriend has paid for it for her iMac.
Shame you can't spell "pagan", then.
It's wrong,
No, it's not: CS is more, a lot more, than just programming.
When people have deep disagreements, companies and dev teams can split, and the leavers go off and found new companies. Fairchild to Intel. Cisco to Juniper. So why does this is Good Thing in business become a bad thing in Open Source world?
And how do we, the consumers, know when the leading lights of a closed-source program development team leave? We don't, so we get newer versions of ever decreasing quality. People don't work on the same products all their lives.
or move to Europe, where I hear they don't force you to take jobs outside of your profession
I'm in Eurpope, and I don't even know what this means...
How will common file systems and OS designs have to change to accommodate WORM media?
Plan 9 from Bell Labs already has.
A better niche for Newton in modern society would have been a research job at a national lab
We don't have any National Labs left in Britain - the government sold them all off.
Look at what Cisco did with Aironet support: clear and fully open: this is a LInksys foul-up, not a Cisco one.
If a compiler isn't available to the recipient, than it isn't machine readable, and should be a GPL violation.
Er, no; if Emacs or Vi can load it, then it's machine readable. Hell, technically, providing it in 5-bit Baudot code on Mylar Tape is machine readable. The compiler simply doesn't enter into it.
Isn't it odd how, according to Joe Slashdot, copyright is so important when it relates to the GPL, but so irrelevant when it relates to music or movies?
Rubbish. Slashdot is a community; the is NO Joe Slashdot; just as many pople here defend copyright here as claim the right to free music at other's expense.
You make the assumption that everyone in the world harbours a desire to go to the US.
Trust me, this is not the case.
All the ones since have just been techno-fluff.
Acorn Computers is the daddy of all UK computing. While the rest of the geeky kids were using Ti's the UK kids were hacking away on BBC Micros.
I still have mine here.
The ARM processor is one of the best CPUs in existence.
Of course, the Beeb didn't actually use the ARM processor, which came much later. The Acorn Atom, Electron, BBC A and B, and the later Masters, were all 6502-based systems. There were NS32032, MC68000, and later, ARM co-pros available, conencted to the main machine via The Tube bus.
The BBC now reports Zimbawean matters from over the border, in South Africa.
Oh, you're old enough? OK, try your parents' or grandparents' collections, then.
Not quite:
(my emphasis) From ripe-246 - http://www.ripe.net/ripe/docs/ipv6policy.html