Have you ever used Solaris? On Sun Hardware? It's great to able to send the OS a 'break', and get an OK> prompt, where you can configure low-level stuff. It's one of the things that makes me love Sun+Solaris way more than I love linux.
Even better would be if we could have a standard co-processor-thingie listening on the serial port, like on SUN, where "lights-out-management" could be done. I really like that feature of Sun hardware too:p
HP's ILO and Dell's DRAC really doesn't cut the muster compared to Sun's LOM/ALOM/whatever-they-call-it-today:)
Of course the last two paragraphs can't be addressed by linuxbios, but the first one can. It's one of those things I really, really miss in Linux.
I remember using xev back in '97 or something.. and have never used it since.. often trying to search for it. Always being frustrated that I didn't find it again. Getting those keycodes is just _nice_.
The earth is 510,065,600km^2, which equals to 5100656000000000000cm^2 (far less than a square foot).
There are 2^128 possible IP addresses with ipv6. That equals to 340282366920938463463374607431768211456
This means there will be aproximately 66713451548377005519 IP's per cm^2, which actually is 66713451548 billion IP's per cm^2, or aprox 66 Quintillion IP's per cm^2.. Way more than the paltry 10 devices per square feet you're talking about.
If you do not know what GPG is, you're not a nerd - and you're on the wrong site.
Seriously: Go away.
Or at least: DO NOT comment articles. It's pretty damn obvious that you don't know enough to do so. And rude? Rude is to be at a site where you obviously do not belong - irritating the people who has frequented the site since the 90s.
Konqueror is slow as a dog on my system. And after only opening three of norways major newspapers (www.vg.no, www.dagbladet.no, www.aftenposten.no) this is the memory consumption:
I know a lot of you will protest, but for users, NAT is quite simply bad. A lot of protocols won't work properly over NAT, as an end-to-end connection is difficult to make, especially with new protocols. Would skype work if both end was behind NAT devices? Not unless connected via a third party... which there would be fewer of.
Would bittorrent work well if everyone was behind NAT devices? Nope.
NAT is often a necessity if you have multiple computers. Except for that - it's bad. You can argue all you want, but it breaks the simplest things. It's difficult to run a home ssh server to tunnel your applications. I couldn't visit friends and log onto my home computer to show them stuff.. and so forth.
I'll screamn, yammer and be really nasty if someone try to force NAT onto me at home.
No problem at all. Only negative thing about it is that it might be that you don't check your posting to check for a response - as you won't have a link to it from your profile.;-)
or watch Knut Nærum in Nytt På Nytt or Jon Stewart in The Daily Show.
I don't have a television, but I've watched The Daily Show several times at a friends place who records them. It's a great show.
I would like to know if you can actually make a case for Otto being satirical, what or who exactly is it that you think he's satirizing?
He's mostly making satire out of the anti-linux crowd, with a few good punches thrown at "us" in between. From what I can gather from the wikipedia article, he's using "high burlesque" style. I quote from the theregister article:
"Worn down with labors from morning to night, and day to day; knowing them as fruitless to others as they are vexatious to myself, committed singly and in desperate and eternal contest against a host who are systematically undermining the public liberty and prosperity"
Use of semicolon, use of words/phrases such as 'vexation', 'eternal contest' 'undermining the public liberty and prosperity". He's taking a very, very lofty view of things - lifting himself above others.
Then goes on to:
"Before I get started, my mother asked to have a few words with you this week".. oooh, a cute story, to make people feel at home!
"While impressive, being featured in the New York Times means nothing to me."
Lofty... and then he does a switch right into low burlesque style for a few paragraphs.
And then we have a kick against 'us':
"wondering when the Linux freaks are going to solve their Ubuntu versus Mandriva color scheme debate or maybe even write a printer driver so that something I buy actually works with my open sores PC."
While the first thing is a cute thing about open source development - that is - long debates about totally irrelevant things such as color schemes.. he does have a very, very good point about plug-in devices. Printers / other USB devices.. which often isn't supported... and the end is just more fun.
I find the writing style hilarious. From writing in a lofty and "I'm high above others" style to lowering himselves into butt plugs, and then going on to actually point out something - for then to end it all with a complete logical fallacy.
I'm sad to see that you, my fellow countryman, is a fine example of a person not able to understand satire.
Otto Z. Stern is a pseudonym. El reg runs a lot of satirical stories with him as the author.
Others of his excellent stories are: "Big Google is much worse than Big Oil" "CEOs should follow NBA and make geeks wear real clothes" "Geeks agree - 'We need to dress better'"
Seriously - if you don't understand satire.. then you're losing out. On the other hand, if you remember newspaper articles in VG/Dagbladet/Aftenposten - then they write about how norwegian youths don't understand the satirical articles when doing their Exams in the end of Upper Secondary School.
I don't get this. I consider anything that is ATX based acceptable fast. I've mostly scrapped my AT based machines, as it's quite hard to find replacement components these days.
A P266, if I remember correctly, was never produced as an AT product. Thus, for my use, it's acceptable fast.
I do have to add that I've scrapped (or are scrapping) most of my older hardware. The only reason for that, though, is power consumption. I don't see why I should use a P100 when I can have a mini-itx machine with a hell of a lot more raw power -- using the same or less watts.
Dupes have always been a part of slashdot - and it will probably be parts of slashdot in five years time too. It doesn't really matter in the big picture.
Personally I just tend to *smile* when I see a duplicate of a story I liked. It reminds me of the previous time I read it - and in this case made a big grin on my face - due to remembering the coloured soap bubbles!:-)
I'm quite disappointed that so few people have read 'The Shockwave Rider'. It's understandable as the book is a tad difficult to get (at least it was difficult when I got hold of it.. it hadn't been in print for 10-15 years or so).
It's a great book. It's given us so much terminology.
The problem isn't only that the linux support is non-existant. One of the problems is that you often have to download the drivers, then you need to recompile the kernel with that driver, then you.. oh, the non-geek users just reinstalled windows.
Personally I would absolutely love the idea of getting pre-compiled binary drivers from the various hardware vendors - however, the *licence* to use the API, if possible, should mandate that the source code is released too - so that the driver may be included in *future* distro-releases.
I've got some SuSE 9.0 boxes around. They are a few years old now. It sucks to have to recompile a lot of things just to add some hardware.
No, do not consider the source - fix it!
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The author of the article had documents to back his claims. They may be specially tailored to make openoffice look bad - but I doubt it. In my experience, OO Calc is a pig compared to for example gnumeric - and that, quite frankly, sucks.
I only use OO to view documents various people send me. That's the *only* thing I use it for. When I write documents, they're either written in HTML (using quanta), or written in lyx (to make them pretty and printable!:)
Some of the software available as Open Source unfortunately sucks quite a lot. In my opinion, OpenOffice is one of those pieces of software. It's nice for compatability - but it sucks in usability.
This is bullshit. Doom1 was a great game. I could not, from scratch, build an engine as good as doom1. But I am still able to tell you that quake1's engine is MUCH better FOR THE END USER. It looks better, allows more control, etc. This whole "well if you can't write it, you can't judge it" is total and utter bullshit.
You're attacking a straw man. Nobody will complain about someone saying "Personally I think the Source engine is superior to the quake3 engine".
If you're going to say "The quake3 engine sucks!! Look at source!" - then reactions are going to be "Well, let's see if you can build something that's as good as quake3 then.."
#3. Put an HTML one-click-to-unsubscribe at the TOP of the message. And UNSUBSCRIBE the addresses right then. None of this "72 hour" bullshit. None of this "enter your password" bullshit.
By the gods! Make it an option for people to receive non-HTML email, and DO NOT put any HTML links in a non-html email.
Bullshit. It does not make sense to develop it for windows only. In Norway we've got a web based system which are pretty standard-compatible - and thus compatible with most browsers.
Heck, even our new "Bank-ID" system, a common system to identify yourself to all the banks, are standards-based. It requires a web browser with a Java-plugin, and that's it.
Develop for a standard first, and you won't have stupid restrictions later on. Developing for 'one platform first' is nothing but pure stupidity.
The amount of money the Norwegian government spends is a drop in the ocean for the U.S. economy
I guess it's a quite big drop though, as Norway is an insanely rich country.:-)
even between friendly countries the tiniest annoying remarks are enough - it has happened more than once that if an almost high-level official makes a derogatory comment about food in another country, that country calls in the ambassador to explain
Naaah, not real diplomatic incidents. Hey, we wanted to serve your Clinton whale-steak when he visited Norway - but he refused, saying he would rather eat at macdonalds.
.. didn't cause an incident, and heck, we changed the damn menu to appease your presidents sensitive palate.
Some of it is low quality, and some of it is covered with clouds and shadows on the ground.. and some of it is taken from ridiculous angels, making everything look funny.:)
Hope they'll improve the coverage of Oslo given some time.:)
How many times has Windows saved the day for a Linux application, or even install?
I've never experienced that. I've experienced it the opposite way (linux saving windows' day) at least 10-20 times.
For myself, back when trying to install Red Hat 8.0 on my machine at home, I had to constantly reboot back into Win2K to download patches/rpms, or read up about bugs and errata, get network drivers, configuration minutae,
I've never had that problem in linux. My network cards has always been supported, and I've never had to reboot into windows.
I've had to reboot to linux to fetch the network drivers for windows though. Windows has extremely sucky hardware support in my experience.
Simula Labs is located in Norway, the country where the Simula programming language originated. The _real_ Simula Labs homepages are at http://www.simula.no/:-)
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I'll give you an answer, from my point of view.
:p
:)
Have you ever used Solaris? On Sun Hardware? It's great to able to send the OS a 'break', and get an OK> prompt, where you can configure low-level stuff. It's one of the things that makes me love Sun+Solaris way more than I love linux.
Even better would be if we could have a standard co-processor-thingie listening on the serial port, like on SUN, where "lights-out-management" could be done. I really like that feature of Sun hardware too
HP's ILO and Dell's DRAC really doesn't cut the muster compared to Sun's LOM/ALOM/whatever-they-call-it-today
Of course the last two paragraphs can't be addressed by linuxbios, but the first one can. It's one of those things I really, really miss in Linux.
Without a problem. It's basically just thinking of the european map and start spitting out the languages.
The Philippines have 171 different languages, alone.
I just have to say straight out:
.. and have never used it since .. often trying to search for it. Always being frustrated that I didn't find it again. Getting those keycodes is just _nice_.
.. I've got it again! :)
:)
THANK YOU!
I remember using xev back in '97 or something
And now
Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you!
The civilized world actually DO laugh at your old and outdated "feet" and "lb"'s.
It's quite ridiculous that you're still using your old and outdated system.
The earth is 510,065,600km^2, which equals to 5100656000000000000cm^2 (far less than a square foot).
.. Way more than the paltry 10 devices per square feet you're talking about.
There are 2^128 possible IP addresses with ipv6. That equals to 340282366920938463463374607431768211456
This means there will be aproximately 66713451548377005519 IP's per cm^2, which actually is 66713451548 billion IP's per cm^2, or aprox 66 Quintillion IP's per cm^2
If you do not know what GPG is, you're not a nerd - and you're on the wrong site.
Seriously: Go away.
Or at least: DO NOT comment articles. It's pretty damn obvious that you don't know enough to do so. And rude? Rude is to be at a site where you obviously do not belong - irritating the people who has frequented the site since the 90s.
Konqueror!?
Right.
Konqueror is slow as a dog on my system. And after only opening three of norways major newspapers (www.vg.no, www.dagbladet.no, www.aftenposten.no) this is the memory consumption:
runevi 28997 21.3 6.4 157080 65476 ? S 20:36 0:09 konqueror [kdeinit] --silent
Plus all the kio_http proocesses, of course. Why the fsck does konq need to fork out a dozen children just for http?
is that NWO site you link to (yours I presume?) also highly burlesque?
... haven't you read Principia Discordia yet?
Burlesque? NWO? No, we're one hundred percent serious
NAT is evil.
I know a lot of you will protest, but for users, NAT is quite simply bad. A lot of protocols won't work properly over NAT, as an end-to-end connection is difficult to make, especially with new protocols. Would skype work if both end was behind NAT devices? Not unless connected via a third party... which there would be fewer of.
Would bittorrent work well if everyone was behind NAT devices? Nope.
NAT is often a necessity if you have multiple computers. Except for that - it's bad. You can argue all you want, but it breaks the simplest things. It's difficult to run a home ssh server to tunnel your applications. I couldn't visit friends and log onto my home computer to show them stuff.. and so forth.
I'll screamn, yammer and be really nasty if someone try to force NAT onto me at home.
Replying as AC, please don't mind.
;-)
.. oooh, a cute story, to make people feel at home!
... and then he does a switch right into low burlesque style for a few paragraphs.
.. he does have a very, very good point about plug-in devices. Printers / other USB devices .. which often isn't supported. .. and the end is just more fun.
No problem at all. Only negative thing about it is that it might be that you don't check your posting to check for a response - as you won't have a link to it from your profile.
or watch Knut Nærum in Nytt På Nytt or Jon Stewart in The Daily Show.
I don't have a television, but I've watched The Daily Show several times at a friends place who records them. It's a great show.
I would like to know if you can actually make a case for Otto being satirical, what or who exactly is it that you think he's satirizing?
He's mostly making satire out of the anti-linux crowd, with a few good punches thrown at "us" in between. From what I can gather from the wikipedia article, he's using "high burlesque" style. I quote from the theregister article:
"Worn down with labors from morning to night, and day to day; knowing them as fruitless to others as they are vexatious to myself, committed singly and in desperate and eternal contest against a host who are systematically undermining the public liberty and prosperity"
Use of semicolon, use of words/phrases such as 'vexation', 'eternal contest' 'undermining the public liberty and prosperity". He's taking a very, very lofty view of things - lifting himself above others.
Then goes on to:
"Before I get started, my mother asked to have a few words with you this week"
"While impressive, being featured in the New York Times means nothing to me."
Lofty
And then we have a kick against 'us':
"wondering when the Linux freaks are going to solve their Ubuntu versus Mandriva color scheme debate or maybe even write a printer driver so that something I buy actually works with my open sores PC."
While the first thing is a cute thing about open source development - that is - long debates about totally irrelevant things such as color schemes
I find the writing style hilarious. From writing in a lofty and "I'm high above others" style to lowering himselves into butt plugs, and then going on to actually point out something - for then to end it all with a complete logical fallacy.
I'm sad to see that you, my fellow countryman, is a fine example of a person not able to understand satire.
.. then you're losing out. On the other hand, if you remember newspaper articles in VG/Dagbladet/Aftenposten - then they write about how norwegian youths don't understand the satirical articles when doing their Exams in the end of Upper Secondary School.
Otto Z. Stern is a pseudonym. El reg runs a lot of satirical stories with him as the author.
Others of his excellent stories are:
"Big Google is much worse than Big Oil"
"CEOs should follow NBA and make geeks wear real clothes"
"Geeks agree - 'We need to dress better'"
Seriously - if you don't understand satire
It's tragic, really.
I don't get this. I consider anything that is ATX based acceptable fast. I've mostly scrapped my AT based machines, as it's quite hard to find replacement components these days.
A P266, if I remember correctly, was never produced as an AT product. Thus, for my use, it's acceptable fast.
I do have to add that I've scrapped (or are scrapping) most of my older hardware. The only reason for that, though, is power consumption. I don't see why I should use a P100 when I can have a mini-itx machine with a hell of a lot more raw power -- using the same or less watts.
Yet another dup...
:-)
So what?
Dupes have always been a part of slashdot - and it will probably be parts of slashdot in five years time too. It doesn't really matter in the big picture.
Personally I just tend to *smile* when I see a duplicate of a story I liked. It reminds me of the previous time I read it - and in this case made a big grin on my face - due to remembering the coloured soap bubbles!
I'm quite disappointed that so few people have read 'The Shockwave Rider'. It's understandable as the book is a tad difficult to get (at least it was difficult when I got hold of it.. it hadn't been in print for 10-15 years or so).
It's a great book. It's given us so much terminology.
Take it as a recommendation.
The problem isn't only that the linux support is non-existant. One of the problems is that you often have to download the drivers, then you need to recompile the kernel with that driver, then you .. oh, the non-geek users just reinstalled windows.
Personally I would absolutely love the idea of getting pre-compiled binary drivers from the various hardware vendors - however, the *licence* to use the API, if possible, should mandate that the source code is released too - so that the driver may be included in *future* distro-releases.
I've got some SuSE 9.0 boxes around. They are a few years old now. It sucks to have to recompile a lot of things just to add some hardware.
The author of the article had documents to back his claims. They may be specially tailored to make openoffice look bad - but I doubt it. In my experience, OO Calc is a pig compared to for example gnumeric - and that, quite frankly, sucks.
:)
I only use OO to view documents various people send me. That's the *only* thing I use it for. When I write documents, they're either written in HTML (using quanta), or written in lyx (to make them pretty and printable!
Some of the software available as Open Source unfortunately sucks quite a lot. In my opinion, OpenOffice is one of those pieces of software. It's nice for compatability - but it sucks in usability.
Considering that I pay $2 per litre, $3 per gallon seems dirt cheap.
Stop whining, you've still got dirt cheap fuel.
This is bullshit. Doom1 was a great game. I could not, from scratch, build an engine as good as doom1. But I am still able to tell you that quake1's engine is MUCH better FOR THE END USER. It looks better, allows more control, etc. This whole "well if you can't write it, you can't judge it" is total and utter bullshit.
.."
You're attacking a straw man. Nobody will complain about someone saying "Personally I think the Source engine is superior to the quake3 engine".
If you're going to say "The quake3 engine sucks!! Look at source!" - then reactions are going to be "Well, let's see if you can build something that's as good as quake3 then
#3. Put an HTML one-click-to-unsubscribe at the TOP of the message. And UNSUBSCRIBE the addresses right then. None of this "72 hour" bullshit. None of this "enter your password" bullshit.
By the gods! Make it an option for people to receive non-HTML email, and DO NOT put any HTML links in a non-html email.
Bullshit. It does not make sense to develop it for windows only. In Norway we've got a web based system which are pretty standard-compatible - and thus compatible with most browsers.
Heck, even our new "Bank-ID" system, a common system to identify yourself to all the banks, are standards-based. It requires a web browser with a Java-plugin, and that's it.
Develop for a standard first, and you won't have stupid restrictions later on. Developing for 'one platform first' is nothing but pure stupidity.
I guess it's a quite big drop though, as Norway is an insanely rich country.
even between friendly countries the tiniest annoying remarks are enough - it has happened more than once that if an almost high-level official makes a derogatory comment about food in another country, that country calls in the ambassador to explain
Naaah, not real diplomatic incidents. Hey, we wanted to serve your Clinton whale-steak when he visited Norway - but he refused, saying he would rather eat at macdonalds.
.. didn't cause an incident, and heck, we changed the damn menu to appease your presidents sensitive palate.
.. Caused lots of laughter though :D
:-) angles, my bad, and thanks for pointing that out for me.
Some of it is low quality, and some of it is covered with clouds and shadows on the ground .. and some of it is taken from ridiculous angels, making everything look funny. :)
:)
Hope they'll improve the coverage of Oslo given some time.
I've never experienced that. I've experienced it the opposite way (linux saving windows' day) at least 10-20 times.
For myself, back when trying to install Red Hat 8.0 on my machine at home, I had to constantly reboot back into Win2K to download patches/rpms, or read up about bugs and errata, get network drivers, configuration minutae,
I've never had that problem in linux. My network cards has always been supported, and I've never had to reboot into windows.
I've had to reboot to linux to fetch the network drivers for windows though. Windows has extremely sucky hardware support in my experience.
Simula Labs is located in Norway, the country where the Simula programming language originated. The _real_ Simula Labs homepages are at http://www.simula.no/ :-)