Most of those things were only 20 years ago, not 30. Plus you have a different definition of "exciting." How about: - i386 architecture - true multitasking, virtual memory machines for the masses. Amazingly long-lived architecture. - Lotus 1-2-3, Microsoft Excel - if you don't classify those as amazing and revolutionary, then I don't know what is. These products changed the computer landscape - AutoCad - yes I know there were cad programs in the 70s, but in the 80s they actually became usable - practical laser printers for small businesses and homes - Desktop publishing software - Photo scanners - in their infancy, and a pretty big deal that we take for granted today - Borland's Turbo language series IDEs and fast compilers brought hobby programming (and professional) to the PC. - Wordperfect, Wordstar - again, like spreadsheets, if you don't recognize this as an amazing leap forward for the time, I don't know what else would be.
Just about everything we take for granted today and which is just ho hum now was really amazing and innovative back in the mid to late 80s. It was in some ways a golden age of lots of tiny companies putting out useful software packages. Sometimes just for nostalgia I'll read old PC Magazines from the late 80 and early 90s on Google Books. A trip down memory lane. And a time when computers were fairly new and inspired imagination. Today they are ubiquitous and we often take them for granted. At the same time we have kids that want to go from zero to 3D games, not realizing only the tiniest bit of the complexity and depth of what goes on in a computer.
Back then men were real men, women were real women, and little fury creatures from Alpha Centauri were real little creatures from Alpha Centauri.
But that's mainly because I was 30 years younger back then and everything was pretty new and exciting whereas I'm now middle-aged and jaded by the Microsofts, Googles, Apples, and Amazons of the world.
A lot of things happened during the PC revolution that were revolutionary, particularly from the point of view of users and businesses. Spreadsheets, for example, had a huge impact on business (for better or worse). I argue that smartphones are as as revolutionary today.
In some ways the pace of innovation has slowed. In other ways it's sped up dramatically in recent years.
Just wait until trump hears that computers themselves can be weaponized, and used to spread extremist propaganda. We must stop the spread of computers and related technology ASAP. The children are depending on it. Let's also not forget cars and trucks, which are often involved in terrorist acts.
But guns are okay. In fact more guns will just make everything more peaceful and better.
Pottering himself wrote a non-systemd ConsoleKit, but no one was interested in taking it up, not even the other distro makers who weren't so keen on systemd, so he let it drop. My point still stands. The link I shared includes instructions and patches for using consolekit2, and elogind with Gnome 3.
There used to be a scenery generator for X-plane that would download Google Maps tiles for ground scenery. But it was always against Google's terms of service before. Now it could be done legitimately. And if they opened up the 3D building data too, that would be great for scenery generation as well. Looking forward to it! Especially in VR... brings a whole new dimension to flight simulation (pun intended, although it is pretty amazing), especially with real scenery. The only problem with today's VR systems is it's too low res to really read the instrument panels very well.
I shouldn't feed the trolls, but the answer is, technically, no, Gnome does not require systemd to run. It does, however require a number of services such as ConsoleKit, which are provided by systemd. For most distros, then, systemd is a hard dependency. But it's only that way because no one seems that interested in providing the necessary services outside of systemd proper. There's nothing that says systemd has to be the system that provides this and other services. Distros are free to build their own equivalents of these services without using systemd if they want. In fact early on there was a non-systemd ConsoleKit, but no one seemed that interested in it, so it died.
You can whine about this all you want, but I don't see you coding your own init system and providing third-party daemons and services to replace its functionality. There is someone who is doing this, though, and could probably use some additional resources: https://github.com/dantrell/ge...
Actually no. Even if you don't read the article, the summary accurately states that the law passed does nothing at all, and likely never will. The only thing Florida can do is opt out of DST, but the bill passed does not do that. So no, the end result is not the same. You'll be changing your clocks like everyone else, at least unless Florida opts out of DST completely.
As for people adjusting their hours to suit the daylight, that is unlikely. What usually happens is that without DST more morning daylight hours are simply slept through, and people stay up late into the evening past sunset. If we were more disciplined as humans, and went to bed earlier, then you'd be correct about DST not mattering to how much daylight we get to enjoy during our waking hours.
I think you mean United Launch Alliance, not SpaceX. SpaceX merely gets grudging respect, with politicians grumbling about how SpaceX is milking government contracts, as if ULA hasn't been doing that for its entire existence.
Been coming here for 20 years now (hard to believe how the time has gone). Likewise, thank you, keep up the good work. Although I must say the last couple of days have been a bit more productive!;)
Actually no, the problems have nothing to do with Slashcode or perl. The problems were farther up stream. The entire Sourceforge family of web sites were down. This appears to be an infrastructure problem. A few days ago they were subject to a denial of service attack, and I suspect that caused some pieces of critical infrastructure to fall over. Slashdot is just one part of the bigger failure.
Today's DDoS attacks are nothing like what web sites experienced on 9/11, so comparing traffic to then is a bit silly.
Kudos to the admins for getting everything (SF.net, slashdot, etc) all back up and running. Must have been a pretty bad situation.
A week late here, but no you didn't quite understand what I was getting at. Sure you can remove suggestions like you say, but not if the word that you want to remove was the word it chose. That's because the word it chose is not listed in the list of 3 suggestions. It's placed in the actual input field. And I have no idea how to remove that one from the suggestions.
No I shouldn't think so. Why would you think that? I'm sure there are loads of patents involved, but patents as you know are open and accessible. Anyone can read them, and anyone skilled in the art should (theoretically) be able to reproduce the technology described by the patent. Don't confuse patents with copyright, or with trade secrets.
Sure wish gboard would let me remove words from the dictionary. There is a way to remove suggestions from the list of alternate words, but if the word that it chose is a word I want to remove I can't see any way to do it. I'd sure like to know how, if there's a way!
Which is insane. I mean the PCI card was the dongle. What good with their software do anyone without the hardware? I've seen this sort of idiocy in the science instrumentation niche also. They sell a half a million dollar instrument and then require a dongle. Insane. But I guess everyone wants to cash checks.
In more recent soviet days, as long as the scientists towed the party line they were treated pretty well, at least theoretically. Science was praised. Scientists were rewarded relatively well. Perhaps times have changed. This incident makes me wonder just how bad things are getting these days in Russia for scientists, economically. I would not be surprised if these guys were pretty poor off and decided to help themselves to some of the resources at their disposal. I'm just trying to understand what might have tempted these guys to use the super computer in this way. Unfortunately they appear to have brought the wrath of the state down on them.
There's s difference between redundancy and having lots of small engines aggregated together. If the reliability of an engine is the same between large and small engine, then clearly it's far better to have one large engine than two engines working together. To my mind redundancy means I have two units, but i only use one until it fails, then I can use the other. Redundancy is built into the SpaceX design to be sure (it can reach orbit with only 7 or 8 engines firing), but it's not quite the same thing as say redundancy in airplane avionics.
Also I note that long-range twin engine airplanes are rapidly displacing the older 4-engine variety. And I think this is for the same reason. More engines means more changes for things to go wrong.
It would be highly unlikely and highly improper if any Windows 2000 code found its way into the Linux kernel. And it would also be instantly known by Microsoft. Copyright is still copyright, even if proprietary code leaks. I think we can safely say there was no Windows 2000 code that found its way into the kernel. Furthermore I would bet kernel developers made it their policy to not even so much as look at the leaked code.
It was this leak that really spooked Wine developers. I remember that they introduced a strict policy during this time that any person who so much looked at the leaked code was forbidden from contributing to wine to avoid copyright infringement.
I'm quite sure there were no batteries at all in that Tesla. They simply aren't designed for being in a vacuum and probably would have exploded from internal pressure. I'm actually quite surprised how much of the car seemed to take the vacuum without issues. None of the dashboard plastics or foams seemed to swell or deform.
In my last job we ran some binaries designed for RedHat 6.2 (kernel 2.2 if I'm not mistaken) on RHEL 6 with kernel 2.6. Worked just fine. The thing that keeps binaries from running isn't usually the kernel; it's the C library and dynamic linker loader. In my case I had to set up a complete RH 6.2 chroot environment to run this app in. Think about that. Redhat 6.2 user space running on a then-current 2.6 kernel.
I'm fairly confident the same binary would, with the chroot environment and supporting libc and ld.so, run on RHEL 7, and probably would work fine with kernel 4.x (though I doubt it would work with selinux without some serious tinkering).
By and large, the Linux kernel is quite compatible with older binaries, if you can get a linker and libc version that work with the binary in question. Certainly it's much more compatible than you claim.
Used to run a real Apple server some years ago. It was 1U and very pretty. Their first Intel server. Was a very rocky road. Ended up using stock Samba on it because the Apple version that integrated with Open Directory's SASL password server store continually hung up. Password server was a neat idea but buggy. It combined Kerberos with SASL and a few other password protocols.
Along the way I figured out how to replicate all of the functionality of Open Directory with a normal LDAP server and Kerberos, ditching the need for the password server. I still had to store some password hashes for samba in LDAP, which meant password changing needed to change several things at once, but it was way smoother than Apple's system.
As Mate Desktop has been progressing, they've been slowly replacing Gnome 3 apps (things like certain settings apps, the NetworkManager GUI, etc) with ones more consistent with the Mate Desktop, which is traditional and has regular window title bars.
I for one never use the title bar for moving a window. I exclusively use Alt-click to move a window from anywhere in the window. However I want title bars because they distinguish one window from another using the color theme of window decorations that I want. I can make them small and efficient use of space. Gnome is what is making server-side title bars so big and wasteful. Also with HeaderBar CSDs it's very difficult to distinguish between windows as the headerbar isn't distinct form the body of other windows. This is something I've always had a hard time with on Mac, especially in recent years.
The other thing I use title bars for is to roll up or shade the window, which I use nearly every day, particularly with terminal windows! I think Gnome 3 has the ability to shade apps, even with CSD, but I'm not sure. I saw at least one bug report that said it's no longer possible. But again, where would you click to do that? CSD header bars don't offer consistency in where you can click. Do you click on what looks like a title? blank space between buttons? Hard to know.
With Linux desktops we used to celebrate diversity and choice. Now it appears Gnome 3 would be perfectly happy to be the only choice (getting rid of KDE, Mate, etc), and have all apps be Gnome 3 apps. Why would Blender ever want to integrate into Gnome 3's header bar? Blender doesn't need to look integrated, nor would it benefit it to do so. In fat it might even harm it. Better to look different and remind users that they are operating in a specific environment with a specific methodology that must be learned.
The OS doesn't seem to matter much anymore to more than a few people. I was pretty shocked when my parents, who are die-hard mac users, told me they both found Windows 10 to be pretty Mac-like and easy to use, and they had no difficulty moving back and forth. The idea of drive letters is a bit hokey to them, but other than that, they found more similarities than differences. And the software they and most people use, is available on Windows also. So I don't think my parents' experiences are unique. I've heard (yeah you know how that goes) that a lot of photography types are abandoning Mac and moving back to Windows. Adobe's suite works just great for them on Windows, and if I'm not mistaken, the much-maligned subscription program allows them to move between platforms.
Malware is still a huge issue for Microsoft (and an image problem). If that was resolved in some way, there's simply no reason to choose MacOS over Windows for a huge number of people. As it is I no longer recommend Macs to friends and family (although that might be because they no longer ask my opinion... haha) as they just don't seem to offer much value anymore.
As for keyboard, I think he might simply be referring to the quality of the keyboard. In Apple's endless quest to be the thinnest, they've made the keyboard feel just awful. I can't type well at all on their latest crop of keyboards. I understand that 2mm throw can be faster and less tiring than 4mm, like we used to have, but 1mm or less is just mushy feeling. It's all been downhill since the Aluminum Powerbook keyboards! Sadly other venders are copying Apple's crappy keyboards. That's why I plan to hang onto my X220 for as long as I can.
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Most of those things were only 20 years ago, not 30. Plus you have a different definition of "exciting." How about:
- i386 architecture - true multitasking, virtual memory machines for the masses. Amazingly long-lived architecture.
- Lotus 1-2-3, Microsoft Excel - if you don't classify those as amazing and revolutionary, then I don't know what is. These products changed the computer landscape
- AutoCad - yes I know there were cad programs in the 70s, but in the 80s they actually became usable
- practical laser printers for small businesses and homes
- Desktop publishing software
- Photo scanners - in their infancy, and a pretty big deal that we take for granted today
- Borland's Turbo language series IDEs and fast compilers brought hobby programming (and professional) to the PC.
- Wordperfect, Wordstar - again, like spreadsheets, if you don't recognize this as an amazing leap forward for the time, I don't know what else would be.
Just about everything we take for granted today and which is just ho hum now was really amazing and innovative back in the mid to late 80s. It was in some ways a golden age of lots of tiny companies putting out useful software packages. Sometimes just for nostalgia I'll read old PC Magazines from the late 80 and early 90s on Google Books. A trip down memory lane. And a time when computers were fairly new and inspired imagination. Today they are ubiquitous and we often take them for granted. At the same time we have kids that want to go from zero to 3D games, not realizing only the tiniest bit of the complexity and depth of what goes on in a computer.
Back then men were real men, women were real women, and little fury creatures from Alpha Centauri were real little creatures from Alpha Centauri.
But that's mainly because I was 30 years younger back then and everything was pretty new and exciting whereas I'm now middle-aged and jaded by the Microsofts, Googles, Apples, and Amazons of the world.
A lot of things happened during the PC revolution that were revolutionary, particularly from the point of view of users and businesses. Spreadsheets, for example, had a huge impact on business (for better or worse). I argue that smartphones are as as revolutionary today.
In some ways the pace of innovation has slowed. In other ways it's sped up dramatically in recent years.
Just wait until trump hears that computers themselves can be weaponized, and used to spread extremist propaganda. We must stop the spread of computers and related technology ASAP. The children are depending on it. Let's also not forget cars and trucks, which are often involved in terrorist acts.
But guns are okay. In fact more guns will just make everything more peaceful and better.
Pottering himself wrote a non-systemd ConsoleKit, but no one was interested in taking it up, not even the other distro makers who weren't so keen on systemd, so he let it drop. My point still stands. The link I shared includes instructions and patches for using consolekit2, and elogind with Gnome 3.
Not sure there's a good reason to try xfce when he already said the Mate desktop works well for him. In my opinion Mate is host better than xfce.
There used to be a scenery generator for X-plane that would download Google Maps tiles for ground scenery. But it was always against Google's terms of service before. Now it could be done legitimately. And if they opened up the 3D building data too, that would be great for scenery generation as well. Looking forward to it! Especially in VR... brings a whole new dimension to flight simulation (pun intended, although it is pretty amazing), especially with real scenery. The only problem with today's VR systems is it's too low res to really read the instrument panels very well.
I shouldn't feed the trolls, but the answer is, technically, no, Gnome does not require systemd to run. It does, however require a number of services such as ConsoleKit, which are provided by systemd. For most distros, then, systemd is a hard dependency. But it's only that way because no one seems that interested in providing the necessary services outside of systemd proper. There's nothing that says systemd has to be the system that provides this and other services. Distros are free to build their own equivalents of these services without using systemd if they want. In fact early on there was a non-systemd ConsoleKit, but no one seemed that interested in it, so it died.
You can whine about this all you want, but I don't see you coding your own init system and providing third-party daemons and services to replace its functionality. There is someone who is doing this, though, and could probably use some additional resources: https://github.com/dantrell/ge...
Actually no. Even if you don't read the article, the summary accurately states that the law passed does nothing at all, and likely never will. The only thing Florida can do is opt out of DST, but the bill passed does not do that. So no, the end result is not the same. You'll be changing your clocks like everyone else, at least unless Florida opts out of DST completely.
As for people adjusting their hours to suit the daylight, that is unlikely. What usually happens is that without DST more morning daylight hours are simply slept through, and people stay up late into the evening past sunset. If we were more disciplined as humans, and went to bed earlier, then you'd be correct about DST not mattering to how much daylight we get to enjoy during our waking hours.
I think you mean United Launch Alliance, not SpaceX. SpaceX merely gets grudging respect, with politicians grumbling about how SpaceX is milking government contracts, as if ULA hasn't been doing that for its entire existence.
Didn't the TV series and the books come after the Radio version? My understanding is that the radio drama was the original HHGTG.
Been coming here for 20 years now (hard to believe how the time has gone). Likewise, thank you, keep up the good work. Although I must say the last couple of days have been a bit more productive! ;)
Actually no, the problems have nothing to do with Slashcode or perl. The problems were farther up stream. The entire Sourceforge family of web sites were down. This appears to be an infrastructure problem. A few days ago they were subject to a denial of service attack, and I suspect that caused some pieces of critical infrastructure to fall over. Slashdot is just one part of the bigger failure.
Today's DDoS attacks are nothing like what web sites experienced on 9/11, so comparing traffic to then is a bit silly.
Kudos to the admins for getting everything (SF.net, slashdot, etc) all back up and running. Must have been a pretty bad situation.
A week late here, but no you didn't quite understand what I was getting at. Sure you can remove suggestions like you say, but not if the word that you want to remove was the word it chose. That's because the word it chose is not listed in the list of 3 suggestions. It's placed in the actual input field. And I have no idea how to remove that one from the suggestions.
No I shouldn't think so. Why would you think that? I'm sure there are loads of patents involved, but patents as you know are open and accessible. Anyone can read them, and anyone skilled in the art should (theoretically) be able to reproduce the technology described by the patent. Don't confuse patents with copyright, or with trade secrets.
Sure wish gboard would let me remove words from the dictionary. There is a way to remove suggestions from the list of alternate words, but if the word that it chose is a word I want to remove I can't see any way to do it. I'd sure like to know how, if there's a way!
Which is insane. I mean the PCI card was the dongle. What good with their software do anyone without the hardware? I've seen this sort of idiocy in the science instrumentation niche also. They sell a half a million dollar instrument and then require a dongle. Insane. But I guess everyone wants to cash checks.
In more recent soviet days, as long as the scientists towed the party line they were treated pretty well, at least theoretically. Science was praised. Scientists were rewarded relatively well. Perhaps times have changed. This incident makes me wonder just how bad things are getting these days in Russia for scientists, economically. I would not be surprised if these guys were pretty poor off and decided to help themselves to some of the resources at their disposal. I'm just trying to understand what might have tempted these guys to use the super computer in this way. Unfortunately they appear to have brought the wrath of the state down on them.
There's s difference between redundancy and having lots of small engines aggregated together. If the reliability of an engine is the same between large and small engine, then clearly it's far better to have one large engine than two engines working together. To my mind redundancy means I have two units, but i only use one until it fails, then I can use the other. Redundancy is built into the SpaceX design to be sure (it can reach orbit with only 7 or 8 engines firing), but it's not quite the same thing as say redundancy in airplane avionics.
Also I note that long-range twin engine airplanes are rapidly displacing the older 4-engine variety. And I think this is for the same reason. More engines means more changes for things to go wrong.
You remember incorrectly.
It would be highly unlikely and highly improper if any Windows 2000 code found its way into the Linux kernel. And it would also be instantly known by Microsoft. Copyright is still copyright, even if proprietary code leaks. I think we can safely say there was no Windows 2000 code that found its way into the kernel. Furthermore I would bet kernel developers made it their policy to not even so much as look at the leaked code.
It was this leak that really spooked Wine developers. I remember that they introduced a strict policy during this time that any person who so much looked at the leaked code was forbidden from contributing to wine to avoid copyright infringement.
I'm quite sure there were no batteries at all in that Tesla. They simply aren't designed for being in a vacuum and probably would have exploded from internal pressure. I'm actually quite surprised how much of the car seemed to take the vacuum without issues. None of the dashboard plastics or foams seemed to swell or deform.
In my last job we ran some binaries designed for RedHat 6.2 (kernel 2.2 if I'm not mistaken) on RHEL 6 with kernel 2.6. Worked just fine. The thing that keeps binaries from running isn't usually the kernel; it's the C library and dynamic linker loader. In my case I had to set up a complete RH 6.2 chroot environment to run this app in. Think about that. Redhat 6.2 user space running on a then-current 2.6 kernel.
I'm fairly confident the same binary would, with the chroot environment and supporting libc and ld.so, run on RHEL 7, and probably would work fine with kernel 4.x (though I doubt it would work with selinux without some serious tinkering).
By and large, the Linux kernel is quite compatible with older binaries, if you can get a linker and libc version that work with the binary in question. Certainly it's much more compatible than you claim.
Used to run a real Apple server some years ago. It was 1U and very pretty. Their first Intel server. Was a very rocky road. Ended up using stock Samba on it because the Apple version that integrated with Open Directory's SASL password server store continually hung up. Password server was a neat idea but buggy. It combined Kerberos with SASL and a few other password protocols.
Along the way I figured out how to replicate all of the functionality of Open Directory with a normal LDAP server and Kerberos, ditching the need for the password server. I still had to store some password hashes for samba in LDAP, which meant password changing needed to change several things at once, but it was way smoother than Apple's system.
Am I the only one who misses the XFCE that was originally a clone of the Common Desktop Environment?
As Mate Desktop has been progressing, they've been slowly replacing Gnome 3 apps (things like certain settings apps, the NetworkManager GUI, etc) with ones more consistent with the Mate Desktop, which is traditional and has regular window title bars.
I for one never use the title bar for moving a window. I exclusively use Alt-click to move a window from anywhere in the window. However I want title bars because they distinguish one window from another using the color theme of window decorations that I want. I can make them small and efficient use of space. Gnome is what is making server-side title bars so big and wasteful. Also with HeaderBar CSDs it's very difficult to distinguish between windows as the headerbar isn't distinct form the body of other windows. This is something I've always had a hard time with on Mac, especially in recent years.
The other thing I use title bars for is to roll up or shade the window, which I use nearly every day, particularly with terminal windows! I think Gnome 3 has the ability to shade apps, even with CSD, but I'm not sure. I saw at least one bug report that said it's no longer possible. But again, where would you click to do that? CSD header bars don't offer consistency in where you can click. Do you click on what looks like a title? blank space between buttons? Hard to know.
With Linux desktops we used to celebrate diversity and choice. Now it appears Gnome 3 would be perfectly happy to be the only choice (getting rid of KDE, Mate, etc), and have all apps be Gnome 3 apps. Why would Blender ever want to integrate into Gnome 3's header bar? Blender doesn't need to look integrated, nor would it benefit it to do so. In fat it might even harm it. Better to look different and remind users that they are operating in a specific environment with a specific methodology that must be learned.
The OS doesn't seem to matter much anymore to more than a few people. I was pretty shocked when my parents, who are die-hard mac users, told me they both found Windows 10 to be pretty Mac-like and easy to use, and they had no difficulty moving back and forth. The idea of drive letters is a bit hokey to them, but other than that, they found more similarities than differences. And the software they and most people use, is available on Windows also. So I don't think my parents' experiences are unique. I've heard (yeah you know how that goes) that a lot of photography types are abandoning Mac and moving back to Windows. Adobe's suite works just great for them on Windows, and if I'm not mistaken, the much-maligned subscription program allows them to move between platforms.
Malware is still a huge issue for Microsoft (and an image problem). If that was resolved in some way, there's simply no reason to choose MacOS over Windows for a huge number of people. As it is I no longer recommend Macs to friends and family (although that might be because they no longer ask my opinion... haha) as they just don't seem to offer much value anymore.
As for keyboard, I think he might simply be referring to the quality of the keyboard. In Apple's endless quest to be the thinnest, they've made the keyboard feel just awful. I can't type well at all on their latest crop of keyboards. I understand that 2mm throw can be faster and less tiring than 4mm, like we used to have, but 1mm or less is just mushy feeling. It's all been downhill since the Aluminum Powerbook keyboards! Sadly other venders are copying Apple's crappy keyboards. That's why I plan to hang onto my X220 for as long as I can.