M$ seem to suffer from the delusion that they are the only people in the world actually writing computer programs.
Well aren't they? Isn't all the rest not programs, but this odd "open source"- stuff? I heard it's "written" by hackers! That means all the code MUST be stolen... from us since they are they only ones writing programs! I'd someone else makes a real program, we can alway just buy it. Yeah! Long live MICROSOFT! Hrm...
Yes. All two of them. OR you could get 2.4.13pre1 and apply that.
Changelog for pre1:
- Trond Myklebust: deadlock checking in lockd server
- Tim Waugh: fix up parport wrong #define
- Christoph Hellwig: i2c update, ext2 cleanup
- Al Viro: fix partition handling sanity check.
- Trond Myklebust: make NFS use SLAB_NOFS, and not play games with PF_MEMALLOC
- Ben Fennema: UDF update
- Alan Cox: continued merging
- Chris Mason: get/proc buffer memory sizes right after buf-in-page-cache
[OT] Kernel 2.4.11 marked as "don't use"
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Torvalds Tells All
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kernel 2.4.12 is out and 2.4.11 has been marked as "don't use". The Changelog is here:
final:
- Greg KH: USB update (fix UHCI timeouts, serial unplug)
- Christoph Rohland: shmem locking fixes
- Al Viro: more mount cleanup
- me: fix bad interaction with link_count handling
- David Miller: Sparc updates, net cleanup
- Tim Waugh: parport update
- Jeff Garzik: net driver updates
In pascal, you use ':=' and not '=' to assign values, and thus reserve '=' for equality comparition instead of that horrible '=='. This, unfortunately is one of the things about C that Java should NOT have borrowed. On the other hand '=+' and '=-' are ok. 'a++' and 'b--' are also, but not when used in assignments:
String copying from 'The C programming language' by K&R:
while (*s++ = *t++);
This neat little piece of code copies the string t to s. Scary..
Does it still leak memory like crazy? No, but now worries, you can do like me and switch to evolution. Actually evolution is quite slick and as long as Ximian will be patient before branding it 1.0 (otherwise it could gain a bad rep..) I think it will become the PIM of choise for most GNOME-users. (Most excludes those that still use Pine or Mutt..:)
The Department of Computer Science in the University of Helsinki has all its desktop machines running linux. Some dual boot to W2K. The machine listing is here: Status of machines
No, I did not count them.
Re:what's the difference?
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VIM 6.0 is Out
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Emacs will do everything except pick your nose
So I've heard. Care to post a coffee-making script?
Then why do screensavers display anything at all if nobody is looking? Hmm.. imagine if those flying toasters would be marked "Philips". This world is going to hell so fast we should have been there by now. Hey..who's that horned guy with the trident?!?
what Windows OS comes with CD burning and DVD playback out of the box?
Just THINK about the fuzz this would rise if M$ would do it. First the integrate a browser in the OS. Now they integrate a DVD player! Isn't this kind of Apple misusing their monopoly in the Mac market? I mean, who can ship DVD/CD-R software for Macs now?
Really, they should all be thrown in jail for all eternity even including a GUI, which is not an integral part of the OS. And Linux? Kernel httpd? This is a crime most vile!! Repent! Repent whi...
Most companies start saving whenever some authority, usually banks and "experts" start talking about recession, even if the economy is still going strong. When everybody starts to save, the recession becomes a fact. Sounds stupid? Well, it isn't. By preparing ahead of time companies make sure they won't get into real trouble and we avoid an economical *depression* (which is bad). recessions come and go every five years or so. Depressions should stay away altogether.
One thing I hate about VB (the language) is that some things are done very differently from others. Whenever new features are added they use the new semi-OO style API, but older stuff user other API- styles (QuickBasic or even GWBasic-style). This easily leads to code that is hard to read. You have two file access interfaces that are both good for some things but not for others and suprise suprise, the things the new FileSystemObject-way doesn't do well are the things the old one does. Also, debugging is hell. Get your program in an endless loop and you have to kill VB and reload/find the bug/dabug again. VB doesn't do well as a programming environment. Help sucks as well. It's easy to pick up but in the end, you just end up bashing your head against the wall.
Yes it is. Crux Broker in Helsinki, Finland are selling K6-2+:s for some 550 FIM (0.90 ). I'm guessing they are not the only one in the world doing it. Concidering you can get these babys to run at 600Mhz (2,0 (or 2,1) core voltage, check if your MB supports this before buying) on a 100Mhz FSB system (2X multiplier translates to 6x) they may be just the right upgrade to all these K6-2:s in the hands of the poor students of the world..
The other problem is that because Intel is making this
Like they made PCI 2.x?
They *have* to release "APIs" in order to allow card makers to use the bus and VIA can just make a device that duplicates this API. Backward compatibility is a must, or we will see motherboards with both PCI 2.x and 3.x slots.
No matter what publishers would like to think the consumers control the market. If we just keep buying books, this will be a commercial failure. Just as if all of us would stop buying DVDs this whole affair of region codes and trials would go away. The industry is testing new media. We decide what will succeed and what will be forgotten.
I can just about guarantee you that the FBI would know what type of keyboard this guy had, would buy one exactly like it
What? One like my black six-year-old fujitsu/ICL keyboard with grey buttons originally sold with an old ICL MikroMikko Indiana computer? This does't exactly sound like a foolproof plan. How about wear? What if your favourite coffee stain just moved a bit one morning? The enter key makes a slightly different sound? The more I think about it the less probable it seems that the someone could just swap your keyboard. Especially since the target group - hackers (as in h4s3r d00dz) are likely to stick with keyboards they like until they (either of them) fall apart..
Oddly, I don't see many Swedes or Finns , good socialists they are
The Socialdemocratic party get some 25% of the votes every election. I suppose someone living in "the land of freedom" assume democracy doesn't exist anywhere else and that it is best achived by having two gigantic parties and presidential elections where you don't neccesarily win even if you get the most votes, but around here 25% socialists means 75% non-socialists.
This is something X Windows should be able to do much better than MS Windows.
It can. It's called virtual terminals. A virtual terminal can run an X-client that connects to your X server. Then you can switch back and forth between them (the clients). You can even (kind of) do this from a remote terminal or even a windows box via ssh, as long as the ssh client and server are both configured to support x11 forwarding. You can run any x11 app in windows this way (It isn't really *run* on your windows box, but the UI is displayed there instead of locally on the Unix box). Not that this is undoable on a windows box either, just install an X-server and a ssh-server with x11 forwarding..
Re:Ximian taking over GNOME development?
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Bonobo 1.0 released
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I'm a GNOME user. (ducks)
This does worry me, since I don't recall bonobo being a called Ximian project before. It was originally intended to get graphics in gnumeric using a guppi component in gnumeric at runtime. (It was probably intended for more at the time, but this was the most immediate application) Helix/Ximian GNOME wasn't even around then. So since when has Ximian "taken over" bonobo?
On the other hand, companies writing open source software is good. I'm sure they want to build their Ximian GNOME brand so they can sell it some day (Buy Ximian GNOME with full commercial support!), but this means that we who manage without this commercial support get stuff for free. Like RedHat gave us RPM.
Bonobo is an architecture to allow applications to share some of their components with other apps at runtime. This allows gnumeric (the gnome-office spreadsheet) to draw graphics in its own app window using a Guppi (a gnome plotting program) bonobo component without actually having to run Guppi. The drawn picture is handled (moved, sized, printed, saved) just like it would be a native gnumeric object. Gnumeric programmers don't have to implement graphics in gnumeric, they just use Guppi.
One of the reasons 2.4.0 was released when it was was to get a larger base of testers. Distros aren't goint it use 2.4 for a while yet, RedHat started using 2.2.0 (and 2.2.1/2.2.1 were released pretty quickly after 2.2.0..)
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Well aren't they? Isn't all the rest not programs, but this odd "open source"- stuff? I heard it's "written" by hackers! That means all the code MUST be stolen ... from us since they are they only ones writing programs! I'd someone else makes a real program, we can alway just buy it. Yeah! Long live MICROSOFT! Hrm...
Changelog for pre1: /proc buffer memory sizes right after buf-in-page-cache
- Trond Myklebust: deadlock checking in lockd server
- Tim Waugh: fix up parport wrong #define
- Christoph Hellwig: i2c update, ext2 cleanup
- Al Viro: fix partition handling sanity check.
- Trond Myklebust: make NFS use SLAB_NOFS, and not play games with PF_MEMALLOC
- Ben Fennema: UDF update
- Alan Cox: continued merging
- Chris Mason: get
final: - Greg KH: USB update (fix UHCI timeouts, serial unplug) - Christoph Rohland: shmem locking fixes - Al Viro: more mount cleanup - me: fix bad interaction with link_count handling - David Miller: Sparc updates, net cleanup - Tim Waugh: parport update - Jeff Garzik: net driver updates
I'd like to think it was "FIRST P0ST!"
instead of:
x
In pascal, you use ':=' and not '=' to assign values, and thus reserve '=' for equality comparition instead of that horrible '=='. This, unfortunately is one of the things about C that Java should NOT have borrowed. On the other hand '=+' and '=-' are ok. 'a++' and 'b--' are also, but not when used in assignments:
String copying from 'The C programming language' by K&R:
while (*s++ = *t++);
This neat little piece of code copies the string t to s. Scary..
balsa for e-mail
:)
Does it still leak memory like crazy?
No, but now worries, you can do like me and switch to evolution. Actually evolution is quite slick and as long as Ximian will be patient before branding it 1.0 (otherwise it could gain a bad rep..) I think it will become the PIM of choise for most GNOME-users. (Most excludes those that still use Pine or Mutt..
Status of machines
No, I did not count them.
So I've heard. Care to post a coffee-making script?
Come to Oxford! We offer better stuff to do than staring at screensavers!
Then why do screensavers display anything at all if nobody is looking? Hmm.. imagine if those flying toasters would be marked "Philips". This world is going to hell so fast we should have been there by now. Hey..who's that horned guy with the trident?!?
what Windows OS comes with CD burning and DVD playback out of the box?
Just THINK about the fuzz this would rise if M$ would do it. First the integrate a browser in the OS. Now they integrate a DVD player! Isn't this kind of Apple misusing their monopoly in the Mac market? I mean, who can ship DVD/CD-R software for Macs now? Really, they should all be thrown in jail for all eternity even including a GUI, which is not an integral part of the OS. And Linux? Kernel httpd? This is a crime most vile!! Repent! Repent whi...
Hrm. Sorry about that. Got carried away.
Most companies start saving whenever some authority, usually banks and "experts" start talking about recession, even if the economy is still going strong. When everybody starts to save, the recession becomes a fact. Sounds stupid? Well, it isn't. By preparing ahead of time companies make sure they won't get into real trouble and we avoid an economical *depression* (which is bad). recessions come and go every five years or so. Depressions should stay away altogether.
Or upgrade a KERNEL (the crowd goes ooh!) that doesn't have any updates that concern you (the crowd goes aah!)
One thing I hate about VB (the language) is that some things are done very differently from others. Whenever new features are added they use the new semi-OO style API, but older stuff user other API- styles (QuickBasic or even GWBasic-style). This easily leads to code that is hard to read. You have two file access interfaces that are both good for some things but not for others and suprise suprise, the things the new FileSystemObject-way doesn't do well are the things the old one does. Also, debugging is hell. Get your program in an endless loop and you have to kill VB and reload/find the bug/dabug again. VB doesn't do well as a programming environment. Help sucks as well. It's easy to pick up but in the end, you just end up bashing your head against the wall.
Yes it is. Crux Broker in Helsinki, Finland are selling K6-2+:s for some 550 FIM (0.90 ). I'm guessing they are not the only one in the world doing it. Concidering you can get these babys to run at 600Mhz (2,0 (or 2,1) core voltage, check if your MB supports this before buying) on a 100Mhz FSB system (2X multiplier translates to 6x) they may be just the right upgrade to all these K6-2:s in the hands of the poor students of the world..
The other problem is that because Intel is making this
Like they made PCI 2.x?
They *have* to release "APIs" in order to allow card makers to use the bus and VIA can just make a device that duplicates this API. Backward compatibility is a must, or we will see motherboards with both PCI 2.x and 3.x slots.
No matter what publishers would like to think the consumers control the market. If we just keep buying books, this will be a commercial failure. Just as if all of us would stop buying DVDs this whole affair of region codes and trials would go away. The industry is testing new media. We decide what will succeed and what will be forgotten.
I can just about guarantee you that the FBI would know what type of keyboard this guy had, would buy one exactly like it
What? One like my black six-year-old fujitsu/ICL keyboard with grey buttons originally sold with an old ICL MikroMikko Indiana computer? This does't exactly sound like a foolproof plan. How about wear? What if your favourite coffee stain just moved a bit one morning? The enter key makes a slightly different sound? The more I think about it the less probable it seems that the someone could just swap your keyboard. Especially since the target group - hackers (as in h4s3r d00dz) are likely to stick with keyboards they like until they (either of them) fall apart..
Oddly, I don't see many Swedes or Finns , good socialists they are
The Socialdemocratic party get some 25% of the votes every election. I suppose someone living in "the land of freedom" assume democracy doesn't exist anywhere else and that it is best achived by having two gigantic parties and presidential elections where you don't neccesarily win even if you get the most votes, but around here 25% socialists means 75% non-socialists.
This is something X Windows should be able to do much better than MS Windows.
It can. It's called virtual terminals. A virtual terminal can run an X-client that connects to your X server. Then you can switch back and forth between them (the clients). You can even (kind of) do this from a remote terminal or even a windows box via ssh, as long as the ssh client and server are both configured to support x11 forwarding. You can run any x11 app in windows this way (It isn't really *run* on your windows box, but the UI is displayed there instead of locally on the Unix box). Not that this is undoable on a windows box either, just install an X-server and a ssh-server with x11 forwarding..
This does worry me, since I don't recall bonobo being a called Ximian project before. It was originally intended to get graphics in gnumeric using a guppi component in gnumeric at runtime. (It was probably intended for more at the time, but this was the most immediate application) Helix/Ximian GNOME wasn't even around then. So since when has Ximian "taken over" bonobo?
On the other hand, companies writing open source software is good. I'm sure they want to build their Ximian GNOME brand so they can sell it some day (Buy Ximian GNOME with full commercial support!), but this means that we who manage without this commercial support get stuff for free. Like RedHat gave us RPM.
Bonobo is an architecture to allow applications to share some of their components with other apps at runtime. This allows gnumeric (the gnome-office spreadsheet) to draw graphics in its own app window using a Guppi (a gnome plotting program) bonobo component without actually having to run Guppi. The drawn picture is handled (moved, sized, printed, saved) just like it would be a native gnumeric object. Gnumeric programmers don't have to implement graphics in gnumeric, they just use Guppi.
One of the reasons 2.4.0 was released when it was was to get a larger base of testers. Distros aren't goint it use 2.4 for a while yet, RedHat started using 2.2.0 (and 2.2.1/2.2.1 were released pretty quickly after 2.2.0..)
<B>How the hell am I going to program in BASIC? Using a gamepad? That'll be fun.</B>
A PS fanatic would claim it's only slightly more difficult than typing SMS-messages on a cellphone..
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