Get this Then get this (your copy doesn't work right) Copy all the files in the main dir into the "data" dir (I couldn't be bothered figuring out which ones are required) I had to edit synd.bat to change iirq to 7 instead of 5 Enjoy!
I wasn't talking about Slashdot and the web, except as a news source for these figures. I was talking about the IDC figures that I linked to. Are you perhaps suggesting that companies are buying these Linux servers and then never looking at them? Or perhaps you're suggesting that the industry figures are wrong, because you've never seen a Linux server in use in a business? Where are you coming from here?
Sure, Linux is excellent, but until a critical mass of support confidence arrives managers won't even look at it (at least from my own experiences)
I really don't understand this. Sure, your boss may not even look at it, but you read Slashdot don't you? You must have occasionally seen links to stories about Linux server shipment figures? Like this?
I mean, how can you write that "managers won't even look at it" when it's clearly a matter of fact that they do?
Seriously, I would like to know, because I keep seeing people posting in this way. It's not just you. How is it that people can post their simplistic theory and argue that it must lead to this conclusion, when it's flatly contradicted by basic reality?
Microsoft's consumer OS ships with... COMMAND.COM.
Minor correction: command.com is actually the DOS emulator. cmd.exe is the command line now. I suppose to be fair to Microsoft I should really mention something about the Windows Scripting Host...but then, I can't think of any reason why I should be fair to Microsoft...
Sounds like the private system actually is "way better"...
Sounds like it if you believe crap like that article, you mean. "Oh, this country is worse than the USA on X, while this totally different country is worse on Y, so that makes us best!" How stupid do you have to be to fall for that?
Technology-wise: yeah, of course...the USA invented everything. If it wasn't for the USA the rest of the Universe would stagnate. Grow up and actually learn something about science.
"Taxes would have to double": I see. Let's take the fact that the USA pays far more for less treatment than the rest of the world, work out what these insurance costs are going to be in a few years time, and then pretend it'll cost the same for a nationalised service. Oh! Taxes will double!
You're an idiot. If it takes me a small personal fortune and a half a decade of work to refine and perfect a procedure for doing $foo, what is my motivation for doing it if as soon as I make my first widget $BIG_COMPANY can simply take it and copy it, making a fortune off of my hard work and research and investment?
You're an idiot. If it takes me a small personal fortune and a half a decade of work to refine and perfect a procedure for doing $foo, what is my motivation for doing it if as soon as I make my first widget $BIG_COMPANY can simply wave a pile of patents at me, making a fortune off of my hard work and research and investment?
Well I have a Linksys WUSB12 wireless USB stick for access. As far as I can tell it's not supported under Linux at all (bummer). Any hints?
This guy has an article telling how he got his working.
I've no idea why your keyboard and mouse aren't working since I've never had that problem, ever. Doesn't matter that they're Microsoft, since they should still work as standard (I use an MS mouse on my Linux box).
But only because Christianity has become less about religion and more pop culture. Christian cheerleading camps, Christian goth bands, Christian ministers telling you, "don't think of it as Church... think of it as a party!"
No, it's not. The mainstream Christian churches have never believed that everything in the bible was literally true, and still don't. Only a small number of fundamentalist groups do. The rest of your comment is based on this flawed premise, so it doesn't really need responding to.
This isn't BBC News apologising, it's the BBC channel. If a complaint is upheld against any of the UK broadcast channels they are obliged to apologise. I don't know why this was described as "unusual" because it's actually quite common.
As far as the quotes go, it seems you don't know how journalists work (in the UK anyway, I don't know if it's worldwide).
Step 1: Write your story with likely sounding quotes
Step 2: Secure your quotes Journalist: "So, would you say you don't want to be typecast as The Doctor?" Christopher: "Yeah, I suppose so"
Step 3: Print "I don't want to be typecast as The Doctor," said Christopher.
Your explanation is good, but I think maybe too complicated for the average punter. I tried to write the simplest one I could and came up with the following. Any comments appreciated (especially if it makes it simpler; the only vaguely technical word I've used in it is "compresssion" and since that's the topic, I think that fair):
Why you can't keep compressing a computer file and why no system of compression can compress every file.
The most important thing to remember here is that computer files are just numbers. BIG numbers, right enough, but numbers none the less. For example:
could be computer files (pretty short ones, but they're just examples). Now, obviously, if you're compressing a file, you're representing a big file by a smaller one. For instance, we could represent the first number by the second one.
Consider if you had to represent all the numbers up to 100 with just 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5. Not "51" or "43", just those five numbers. Well, of course, you can't. You could have 1 == 67 and 2 == 83 and 3 == 98 and 4 == 55 and 5 == 12 but then you're out of numbers. You can only represent five different ones.
So, that's why you can't have a universal compression scheme, and why you can't keep compressing a compressed file: because there are more big numbers than there are small numbers!
Well, it's obviously difficult to get desktop numbers, but of commercial offerings, IDC predicts about 16 percent growth over the next couple of years.
If you look at stats from w3schools.com, Linux hits increased from 2.2 percent to 3.2 percent over the past two years which is a 45% increase.
Five years ago, there wasn't a single UK Linux magazine, now there are three.
I think these suggest that it's growing fairly rapidly.
For one it hasn't mounted my 2 windows partitions (linux can read ntfs can't it? I- I thought it could anyhow)
Yes. Go to Computer...Disks. Double click on hda1. This will mount the first partition and put an icon on your desktop. The second one is probably called hda5 or something.
To install software, go to Computer...System Configuration and slick on Synaptic Package Manager. Tick the software you want to install and click Apply. You can drag the item from the menu to your desktop and it will be copied there for quicker access.
Slashdot Mirror
Way off topic, but...
Get this
Then get this (your copy doesn't work right)
Copy all the files in the main dir into the "data" dir (I couldn't be bothered figuring out which ones are required)
I had to edit synd.bat to change iirq to 7 instead of 5
Enjoy!
"insanely great" is well known. In fact, it's in the Jargon File
All modern distros have a good update system.
Anyway, if you want a recommendation, try the latest SUSE.
I wasn't talking about Slashdot and the web, except as a news source for these figures. I was talking about the IDC figures that I linked to. Are you perhaps suggesting that companies are buying these Linux servers and then never looking at them? Or perhaps you're suggesting that the industry figures are wrong, because you've never seen a Linux server in use in a business? Where are you coming from here?
I mean, how can you write that "managers won't even look at it" when it's clearly a matter of fact that they do?
Seriously, I would like to know, because I keep seeing people posting in this way. It's not just you. How is it that people can post their simplistic theory and argue that it must lead to this conclusion, when it's flatly contradicted by basic reality?
Technology-wise: yeah, of course...the USA invented everything. If it wasn't for the USA the rest of the Universe would stagnate. Grow up and actually learn something about science.
"Taxes would have to double": I see. Let's take the fact that the USA pays far more for less treatment than the rest of the world, work out what these insurance costs are going to be in a few years time, and then pretend it'll cost the same for a nationalised service. Oh! Taxes will double!
You're an idiot. If it takes me a small personal fortune and a half a decade of work to refine and perfect a procedure for doing $foo, what is my motivation for doing it if as soon as I make my first widget $BIG_COMPANY can simply take it and copy it, making a fortune off of my hard work and research and investment?
You're an idiot. If it takes me a small personal fortune and a half a decade of work to refine and perfect a procedure for doing $foo, what is my motivation for doing it if as soon as I make my first widget $BIG_COMPANY can simply wave a pile of patents at me, making a fortune off of my hard work and research and investment?
I've no idea why your keyboard and mouse aren't working since I've never had that problem, ever. Doesn't matter that they're Microsoft, since they should still work as standard (I use an MS mouse on my Linux box).
I was referring to *his* journal, regarding his old sig. Doesn't matter now...
see journal.
It used to: it was fixed in Service Pack 2.
here?
This isn't BBC News apologising, it's the BBC channel. If a complaint is upheld against any of the UK broadcast channels they are obliged to apologise. I don't know why this was described as "unusual" because it's actually quite common.
As far as the quotes go, it seems you don't know how journalists work (in the UK anyway, I don't know if it's worldwide).
Step 1: Write your story with likely sounding quotes
Step 2: Secure your quotes
Journalist: "So, would you say you don't want to be typecast as The Doctor?"
Christopher: "Yeah, I suppose so"
Step 3: Print
"I don't want to be typecast as The Doctor," said Christopher.
Someone screwed up and forgot to do Step 2.
Your explanation is good, but I think maybe too complicated for the average punter. I tried to write the simplest one I could and came up with the following. Any comments appreciated (especially if it makes it simpler; the only vaguely technical word I've used in it is "compresssion" and since that's the topic, I think that fair):
1 10 00000000000000000000000000000000000000000000111111 111111111111111111111111111
Why you can't keep compressing a computer file and why no system of compression can compress every file.
The most important thing to remember here is that computer files are just numbers. BIG numbers, right enough, but numbers none the less. For example:
11111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111
or
10110001 00101101 10100001
could be computer files (pretty short ones, but they're just examples). Now, obviously, if you're compressing a file, you're representing a big file by a smaller one. For instance, we could represent the first number by the second one.
Consider if you had to represent all the numbers up to 100 with just 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5. Not "51" or "43", just those five numbers. Well, of course, you can't. You could have 1 == 67 and 2 == 83 and 3 == 98 and 4 == 55 and 5 == 12 but then you're out of numbers. You can only represent five different ones.
So, that's why you can't have a universal compression scheme, and why you can't keep compressing a compressed file: because there are more big numbers than there are small numbers!
Well, it's obviously difficult to get desktop numbers, but of commercial offerings, IDC predicts about 16 percent growth over the next couple of years.
If you look at stats from w3schools.com, Linux hits increased from 2.2 percent to 3.2 percent over the past two years which is a 45% increase.
Five years ago, there wasn't a single UK Linux magazine, now there are three.
I think these suggest that it's growing fairly rapidly.
Q: Would you like to be able to share this software with whoever you want, and change it in any way you like?
A1: Yeah, of course. That's a no brainer. -- This is a zealot
A2: No way! Keep that stuff away from me! I want to be arrested if I even *think* of copying it! -- This is a normal, well balanced individual
Wow! I'd never quite looked at it like that before...
To install software, go to Computer...System Configuration and slick on Synaptic Package Manager. Tick the software you want to install and click Apply. You can drag the item from the menu to your desktop and it will be copied there for quicker access.