DRI does *not* support hardware 3d acceleration. Loading the DRI module does not mean DRI is enabled, since it falls back to software rendering if supported hardware or drivers are not present. Run 'glxinfo' and look for a line saying: direct rendering: Yes/No. This will tell you if DRI is actually enabled or not. The same info can be found in the XFree86 startup log, which is in/var/log on my computer at least.
A GUI in the Linux kernel tree? That would be like..windows. It's the distros that are the operating systems, Linux is just the kernel. In order to have, say KDE in the kernel tree you would also need to have all libraries and other packages you need to run it in the tree as well, like glibc, X and a big bunch of other things. An entire desktop distro in fact. Bury that idea in your back yard, right next to those irritating ex-neighbors of yours (joke). I give thumbs up for more desktop cooperation between distros, though.
The company I'm working in uses Notes. The corporation that owns us keeps screaming for us to start using Exchange. So far our answers have been "over our dead bodies". Imagine porting some 50 custom databases (Notes is a groupware suit/database server/web server/database application platform/...) to.. hrm... what? Access and VB (shudder)? Your'e just as stuck in Notes as in.NET. The difference is, it doesn't feel as bad.
Ignore user feedback, give the users only what the developers imagine, or have read, they want... Maybe you should read that book again.
Did you read it? Did you read Cooper's About Face as well? Cooper advocates good defaults instead of grassroots configurability. The old Gnome 1.4 was cluttered with config options. Is it not an improvment to remove 50% of these for the benefit of 99% of the user base? In the Sawfish vs. Metacity discussion, Metacity got rid of a bunch of useless features and implemented simple, working defaults. The only thing I missed was the dragging across desktops- feature, until I found the "Move to Workspace"- command when right-clicking on the window title bar.
I'm just started on Leiber's Lanhkmar saga. Ill met in Lankhmar is chronicles the first adventures of Fafhrd and the Grey Mouser. I have this nice paperback with the first four Lankhmar books, and it's great.
No. I don't see any indication on trolling either. Spam mostly seem to be based on some "spam template", the different messages are that much alike. Advanced relevance feedback mechanisms (Search for J. Rocchio jr. and relevance feedback on google if your'e intrested) should be very efficient if used to filter spam. Just start telling your mail client (with support for such filtering) what is spam by rating all messages and it will start recognising spam patterns very quickly. The important thing would of course be to have 0% false positives, so that you could happily have spam automatically removed. Otherwise you might end up doing what Miranda did to A.J:s mail in UF: deleting all mail with the subject "I love you".
The company I work for uses East-Tec's Disk Sanitizer to erase hard drives before selling any old computers. It's available for windows, linux or as a dos-based boot disk and there is a fully functional 30-day demo, so anyone can download it and clean some hard drives. We finally licensed it, after some 25 computers over a year. Better late than never, I guess.
Compared to the other mainstream alternatives available at the time (DOS, Windows 1 - 3 and 95, MacOS) OS/2 was great. Compared to BeOS or some of the Unix clones available today, it is nothing special. It all depends on your point of reference.
I'm kinda sceptic about the performance in "demo systems" vs. performance in real systems. Remember Intels claims for how much MMX would speed just about everything up?
I don't see this changing until everyone is running an OS that allows apps to be ported between arches with a simple recompile.
That would be one of the fine open source operating systems around then. Well, you can always dream...
Both the micro-channel and the push for PPC also had another reason: the "PC platform" is 70's hardware patched up with many ugly hacks and a few good ones that thrive on other platforms as well (USB, PCI...) . The much hyped IA64 platform will hopefully finally kill off the antiquated crap mots of us are using now.
They must have rewritten the entire kernel for PPC, which is more than just a port. Much work down the drain then. Of course this makes sense since IBM was pushing for PPCs to become a real player in the PC market (Apple has succeeded somewhat). And in 1995 OS/2 was still going strong, so maybe it was rewritten for (well ok, ported to) PPC so that it could act as a bridge between the two architectures. Were the i386 and PPC version source level compatible? (I didn't bother to read the whole FAQ)
I remember having to install fixpacks from floppies. I actually found some unofficial utility/hack to install them while the system was running and then reboot immediately, but the official way was kinda lame, especially since fixpacks were some 20-30MB. That's just too many floppies. This was on Warp 3.0.
Was supposed to yes, but the NT kernel has nothing in common with the OS/2 kernel. This only means NT was portable and OS/2 wasn't, since M$ ran away with their new sexy microkernel shouting "Mine! Mine! My preciousssss..". Of course, they ruined it all later by staring to run all sorts of userland things as kernel threads...does wonders to performance and (ahem) wonders to stability.
Excellent as it was, OS/2 was also hopelessly tied to the i386 architecture. Not that it would likely have mattered, M$ dropped their alpha-version of NT and it didn't seem to hit their sales very much (not so sure about alphas sales, though). The problem with OS/2 (I used it for about 2 years) was the lack of productivity and entertainment apps. Actually it was the lack of variety in said types of apps. IBM made a good java implementation, but java didn't take off fast enough on the desktop (some might argue it still hasn't, even though there are some nice java apps available today) so the risk they took by putting their money on java didn't pay off.
IBM marketed OS/2 Warp 3 very agressively, but it seemed that once Windows 95 was out, they forgot to market OS/2 Warp 4. I think this was one of the reasons it died.
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I'm still waiting for moderator access after moderating *that* troll statistics post. Anyway, get help. It seems you have actually been reading your spam. Spam is not good for your health. Become a vegetarian instead.
KDE picked the then QPL'd QT which didn't allow redistribution of the qt source, but you could modify it and release source patches for it. It was only later that Troll Tech decided to dual license qt to gain more open source credibility for KDE. This meant more users, which meant more potential customers of commercial qt licenses. LGPL would be out of the question, it would allow anyone to port qt to, say win32 allowing commercial apps to use that port instead of Troll Techs official port without paying for a commercially licensed qt. Troll Tech would stand to lose it all if qt were LGPL.
I have Galeon 1.3 installed: get your Moz build from Komodo and compile galeon from cvs or get a reasonably new build. Looks good, lacks lots of features that are in 1.2 and crashes a lot. Give it a month or two and it might be good enough for replacing 1.2 with.
Lets feed the starving troll, then: The linux 2.6 kernel promises better overall scalability and performance on high-end machines whereas 2.4 is kind of lame in these respects (VM is worse than 2.2 infact) so maybe 2.4 really isn't the best (free) choice for a supercomputer? It remains to be seen exactly how good 2.6 is, coming 2003 to an ftp site near you!
The Soviet Union would have fallen apart even if they never started the Afghanistan campaign. It's economy was altogether inefficient, corrupted and rotten, producing poor quality goods that no-one needed. This was made worse by the fact that "quality" of production was measured by quantity - the "best" factories were those that produced a lot of crap. Add the fact that no-one was allowed to critisise this unil Gorbatchov's glasnost, when it was already too late, and the result is clear for all to see. The Soviet Union was not only stagnated, it was recessing and it was too big and slow to turn around. Game over.
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DRI does *not* support hardware 3d acceleration. Loading the DRI module does not mean DRI is enabled, since it falls back to software rendering if supported hardware or drivers are not present. Run 'glxinfo' and look for a line saying: direct rendering: Yes/No. This will tell you if DRI is actually enabled or not. The same info can be found in the XFree86 startup log, which is in /var/log on my computer at least.
A GUI in the Linux kernel tree? That would be like..windows. It's the distros that are the operating systems, Linux is just the kernel. In order to have, say KDE in the kernel tree you would also need to have all libraries and other packages you need to run it in the tree as well, like glibc, X and a big bunch of other things. An entire desktop distro in fact. Bury that idea in your back yard, right next to those irritating ex-neighbors of yours (joke). I give thumbs up for more desktop cooperation between distros, though.
The company I'm working in uses Notes. The corporation that owns us keeps screaming for us to start using Exchange. So far our answers have been "over our dead bodies". Imagine porting some 50 custom databases (Notes is a groupware suit/database server/web server/database application platform/...) to .. hrm ... what? Access and VB (shudder)? Your'e just as stuck in Notes as in .NET. The difference is, it doesn't feel as bad.
Did you read it? Did you read Cooper's About Face as well? Cooper advocates good defaults instead of grassroots configurability. The old Gnome 1.4 was cluttered with config options. Is it not an improvment to remove 50% of these for the benefit of 99% of the user base? In the Sawfish vs. Metacity discussion, Metacity got rid of a bunch of useless features and implemented simple, working defaults. The only thing I missed was the dragging across desktops- feature, until I found the "Move to Workspace"- command when right-clicking on the window title bar.
I'm just started on Leiber's Lanhkmar saga. Ill met in Lankhmar is chronicles the first adventures of Fafhrd and the Grey Mouser. I have this nice paperback with the first four Lankhmar books, and it's great.
No. I don't see any indication on trolling either. Spam mostly seem to be based on some "spam template", the different messages are that much alike. Advanced relevance feedback mechanisms (Search for J. Rocchio jr. and relevance feedback on google if your'e intrested) should be very efficient if used to filter spam. Just start telling your mail client (with support for such filtering) what is spam by rating all messages and it will start recognising spam patterns very quickly. The important thing would of course be to have 0% false positives, so that you could happily have spam automatically removed. Otherwise you might end up doing what Miranda did to A.J:s mail in UF: deleting all mail with the subject "I love you".
The company I work for uses East-Tec's Disk Sanitizer to erase hard drives before selling any old computers. It's available for windows, linux or as a dos-based boot disk and there is a fully functional 30-day demo, so anyone can download it and clean some hard drives. We finally licensed it, after some 25 computers over a year. Better late than never, I guess.
The plan all along was to lose money? I just can't resist..
1. Lose money
2. ???
3. Profit!
Yes. It's their product and they are not a monopoly. It's also fair for you to buy antoher brand of car instead if you don't like Ford's products.
Compared to the other mainstream alternatives available at the time (DOS, Windows 1 - 3 and 95, MacOS) OS/2 was great. Compared to BeOS or some of the Unix clones available today, it is nothing special. It all depends on your point of reference.
I don't see this changing until everyone is running an OS that allows apps to be ported between arches with a simple recompile.
That would be one of the fine open source operating systems around then. Well, you can always dream...
Both the micro-channel and the push for PPC also had another reason: the "PC platform" is 70's hardware patched up with many ugly hacks and a few good ones that thrive on other platforms as well (USB, PCI...) . The much hyped IA64 platform will hopefully finally kill off the antiquated crap mots of us are using now.
They must have rewritten the entire kernel for PPC, which is more than just a port. Much work down the drain then. Of course this makes sense since IBM was pushing for PPCs to become a real player in the PC market (Apple has succeeded somewhat). And in 1995 OS/2 was still going strong, so maybe it was rewritten for (well ok, ported to) PPC so that it could act as a bridge between the two architectures. Were the i386 and PPC version source level compatible? (I didn't bother to read the whole FAQ)
I remember having to install fixpacks from floppies. I actually found some unofficial utility/hack to install them while the system was running and then reboot immediately, but the official way was kinda lame, especially since fixpacks were some 20-30MB. That's just too many floppies. This was on Warp 3.0.
1. Make money
2. ???
3. PROFIT!!!
Was supposed to yes, but the NT kernel has nothing in common with the OS/2 kernel. This only means NT was portable and OS/2 wasn't, since M$ ran away with their new sexy microkernel shouting "Mine! Mine! My preciousssss..". Of course, they ruined it all later by staring to run all sorts of userland things as kernel threads...does wonders to performance and (ahem) wonders to stability.
Excellent as it was, OS/2 was also hopelessly tied to the i386 architecture. Not that it would likely have mattered, M$ dropped their alpha-version of NT and it didn't seem to hit their sales very much (not so sure about alphas sales, though). The problem with OS/2 (I used it for about 2 years) was the lack of productivity and entertainment apps. Actually it was the lack of variety in said types of apps. IBM made a good java implementation, but java didn't take off fast enough on the desktop (some might argue it still hasn't, even though there are some nice java apps available today) so the risk they took by putting their money on java didn't pay off.
IBM marketed OS/2 Warp 3 very agressively, but it seemed that once Windows 95 was out, they forgot to market OS/2 Warp 4. I think this was one of the reasons it died.
I'm still waiting for moderator access after moderating *that* troll statistics post. Anyway, get help. It seems you have actually been reading your spam. Spam is not good for your health. Become a vegetarian instead.
Since fines are income dependent in Finland, we should try to get Bill Gates to do some speeding here too.
KDE picked the then QPL'd QT which didn't allow redistribution of the qt source, but you could modify it and release source patches for it. It was only later that Troll Tech decided to dual license qt to gain more open source credibility for KDE. This meant more users, which meant more potential customers of commercial qt licenses. LGPL would be out of the question, it would allow anyone to port qt to, say win32 allowing commercial apps to use that port instead of Troll Techs official port without paying for a commercially licensed qt. Troll Tech would stand to lose it all if qt were LGPL.
I have Galeon 1.3 installed: get your Moz build from Komodo and compile galeon from cvs or get a reasonably new build. Looks good, lacks lots of features that are in 1.2 and crashes a lot. Give it a month or two and it might be good enough for replacing 1.2 with.
Yeah, I've got a friend with (I know, we should be taking better care of him) well over 150 hours of FFX gameplay (one game).
Distros ship customised kernels anyway, so they can put in LVM if they want.
Lets feed the starving troll, then: The linux 2.6 kernel promises better overall scalability and performance on high-end machines whereas 2.4 is kind of lame in these respects (VM is worse than 2.2 infact) so maybe 2.4 really isn't the best (free) choice for a supercomputer? It remains to be seen exactly how good 2.6 is, coming 2003 to an ftp site near you!
The Soviet Union would have fallen apart even if they never started the Afghanistan campaign. It's economy was altogether inefficient, corrupted and rotten, producing poor quality goods that no-one needed. This was made worse by the fact that "quality" of production was measured by quantity - the "best" factories were those that produced a lot of crap. Add the fact that no-one was allowed to critisise this unil Gorbatchov's glasnost, when it was already too late, and the result is clear for all to see. The Soviet Union was not only stagnated, it was recessing and it was too big and slow to turn around. Game over.