Of course, they may be saving Ocelot for when they release a PDA, so they can have ocelot as the codename for the desktop OS, and margay for the PDA OS. After all, a margay is an ocelittle (or is that ocefew?).
Actually, both are correct, depending on the part of the world you're in. The article submitter is probably British, where one refers to company actions in the plural, even when the company's name is in the singular form.
Okay, I gotta admit, I was trolling a bit here. Trying to show that this issue is more complicated than just being about the oil. You have to take all the matters into consideration here, not just the ones you agree with. You're not challenged and you don't grow if you're just surrounded by facts you agree with; you've got to seek discourse, change your opinion as new facts come to light, even if it means alienating former friends. To do otherwise is to slip into zealotry.
I'll agree that I'd liked to have seen the thing end simply through military presence and not force. Iraq's disarmament probably would have happened anyways. However, I think ad hominem attacks are out of place here; most people who study Bush say that though he is direct, he is more intelligent than many people give him credit for. Besides, there have been far worse American presidents, Jimmy Carter, LBJ, and Andrew Johnson were all far worse presidents; their policies were much more ineffective, and LBJ caused far more damage to world security than Bush has through his actions in Vietnam.
I've got serious reservations, but you can't be intellctually honest unless you consider the extensive contracts that corporations such as the French-based corporation Fina and the like have with the Iraqi government, contracts that will be null and void if there is military action. Contracts that definitely influence their own governments actions.
Or is it somehow "unfair" to talk about the left's economic involvement in the middle east?
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Well, Intel's compiler's free for noncommercial use, and as such, would be free for this project; I wouldn't be providing the compiler with the distribution, wouldn't be charging from it, but would tell people how to get a copy of Intel's compiler, GCC, or another compiler. My whole interest in the project is as an educational project/politial statement; to learn the art of porting software, and to tell RMS that he and the GNU project are not as important as they think they are, and that if they piss enough people off, there are free alternatives to the GNU toolset that people can and will migrate to. Yes, they do have some tradeoffs, but alternatives exist nonetheless.
Right now. the biggest issue with alternative compilers seems to be the handling of inline assembly code. Most compilers do it, it's just that their methods are different. If I had enough time, I may even consider looking at that code, see if I can convert at least some of the assembly to use the style compilers such as Watcom's expects.
Now that's more like it. it's gotta be wide -- most of the washes in the Mohave aren't very imposing, but you still don't want to get stuck in one. It's also going to be pretty durable, which means that no overly complex mechanical systems should be onboard. I think the key here is definitely simplicity -- you go too complex, you're going to break something.
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I'll definitely have to look into that. I was using FreeBSD's userland system, and that seemed to be working fairly well. A few kinks here and there, nothing major, but maybe the NetBSD folks have already solved the problems I was beginning to tackle when I put the project aside due to lack of time.
BSD/Linux is just what I'm calling it for want of a better name. I'm actually leaning towards something like FreeNIX or LibreLin, though admittedly, those names both kinda suck.
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Unfortunately, like many non-gcc compilers, it doesn't support inline assembly, and thus, can't compile the kernel. I mentioned Intel's compiler because it explicitly states that it can build a kernel.
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Intel's C compiler compiles the kernel just fine; there's no need for GCC to build anything under Linux.
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I use Linux, not GNU/Linux, Linux. This bit of ego puffery and self importance is stupid, okay. There is no reason for it, other than stroking your own fragile egos.
The GNU utilities aren't as important as you make them out to be in order to have a working Linux system. The last time the GNU/Linux people came out of the woodwork, I began a bit of a project to see how easy it is to compile the BSD toolchain to run under Linux. Guess what, it's not that hard at all. So you keep it up, I may have to finish the project, couple it with Intel's compile and start BSD/Linux, sans GNU software. I'm just that tired of the GNU zealots' bullshit
Unfortunately, the design would fail in this competition for the exact reasons you just described. Between LA and LV is a range of 10000 foot mountains, and the Mohave Desert. Now, the winds have gotten so bad in the mohave that they've been known to take a 20 foot trampoline, and set it airborne. Happened to a buddy of mine -- the flying trampoline took off into the desert, smashing an electical pole and fence, and then was never seen again. So any design that utilizes aerodynamics is a bad thing, as a gust of wind is going to send the thing flying. A successful design is probably going to be a tanklike vehicle, something with a lot of traction to handle the brutality of the desert.
Yeah, but the advantage with this bike is that it does save you time. Most electric devices take a couple hours to charge. With this bike, you can hop down to the Circle-K, and a minute or so later, have a full tank of gas. Additionally, while most people don't live and/or work at a gas station, most people pass by one on their way to/from their errands.
It's definitely one of those awesome little surplus places filled with quirky electronics items. Solid steel keyboards that put Model Ms to shame, old satelite test equipment, hell, they even have a generator to drive an industrial laser. Plus, they've got more traditional surplus fare, like military garb and the like. Great place to shop
Addy for the interested is:
10805 Central Ave NE,
Albuquerque, NM
87123-2727
There's another surplus store a few doors down that I haven't been in yet (hey, stop throwing things at me), but seems to be better kept up. Judging from experience in now closed surplus places, well kept-up means that their prices are higher and they have less interesting stuff.
I'd love to go out for a drink or two, but my apartment is entirely too small to accomodate anyone other than closest friends and family. A year from now, I'd probably say sure, but that's once I can get a house, etc.
Wrong. Debain applies a few patches to their kernels as well. While not as many as the level of patches Redhat et al apply, they still apply some. Looking at the README.Debian included with 2.4.20, the big ones I can see are the bigmem patch, cramfs support, NFS performance tweaks, and a few dozen other patches.
Ah, Albuquerque, my stomping grounds for the moment. Though you're probably not too interested, as you're probably not gonna bring your laptop, there seems to be a decent amount of open connectivity in this town. Downtown area especially -- the Shell/McDonalds at Lomas and Broadway has open ethernet, the Doubletree on 3rd has open wifi, as does the KOA on the east side of town.
There's really only one choice for road food. You have to eat at the Frontier if you want to get your full dosage of what the people of Albuquerque are like. It's on Central right across from the University. Ask any local and they'll tell you exactly where it is. The Route 66 cafe is also good, as is the May cafe, if you like Vietnamese food. The most important thing to remember about food in Albuquerque is that the food here is spicy; green chiles dominate the menu. So if you have an ulcer, you're not going to have a good time, but if you have a good stomach, you'll love it.
For sightseeing, you've got to head up to Sandia Ridge, either via the Tramway, or via the back road through Tijeras. Great view. If you head into town a bit early, which it sounds like you will if you're coming from Roswell, check out the acquarium and botanic garden down near the Rio Grande. The moon jelly exhibit in and of itself is worth the cost of admission. Also worth checking out is the National Atomic Museum. Most guides have its location as being on the Air Force base, but it's moved across town, due to post-9/11 hysteria.
As far as the rest of your trip, definitely sounds like a great journey. Make sure to take the side roads out of Kingman, for whichever way you decide to get out to Vegas. Going over the Hoover dam is great, and you've got to take the tour; fascinating stuff. Though if you don't want to take the dam tour, I'd recommend taking old route 66 over into Oatman and taking 95 up into Vegas. It's slow, but it's a great drive through stark scenery on a wonderfully old, windy, mountain road.
Good luck on your trip. You may want to bring your laptop, if just to use to dump all your photos. Trust me, you're going to be taking a lot of them on that route.
I'd suggest looking at Ositech's equipment. They've got connectors for most phones, and they work all right, though like any cell service, some areas may be a bit spotty. Most of their equipment is pcmcia-based, but they do have a few USB offerings as well. Don't know about mac support, though. I'd imagine it shouldn't be that much of a problem.
For most people, they don't cope well at all. Nearly everyone has a subconscious self-image, what they look like in their mind. If that's dramatically changed, most people will slip into some form of depression or another. Because of this, one of the most important persons to help someone after a truly disfiguring accident is a psychologist, who can help the person cope with what happened.
Though reading this article has brought forth a question at least in my mind. Do people who have a tendancy to role play and the like have an easier time recovering from a serious accident than someone who's more "down to earth"?
Well, if you had read the article, you'd learn that you're only partially right. They'd take more than just the skin -- they'd also take some of the underlying muscles and bone mass, to try to meet halfway, so to speak, in the reconstruction job. The end result would be a person who doesn't look like they used to, but doesn't look like the donor either.
You've merely managed to get lucky, as hot swapping IDE drives is potentially a very bad thing. As it's not designed to be done, protections aren't in place to keep transient voltage, such as static shocks, from wiping out your controller and/or drive. Yes it may work for you most of the time, but I would not trust doing such a procedure on a computer which I'd put important information on.
You're playing russian roulette by swapping out drives. You're probably best off getting a good case, and an extra controller card for your spare drives.
Essentially, the fork came from a different design philosophy and set of priorities. One of the big reasons was that the Film GIMP (now CinePaint) crew wanted support for 16 bit per channel color, something that the GIMP crew wasn't going to be getting around to until GIMP 2.0. While GIMP 1.3.x now has that support, CinePaint now has support for other color models, such as floating point colors. Also, GIMP is migrating to GTK 2.x, and CinePaint is still using 1.2.
They just know the capabilities of the kernel, even if just those parts are released. The interesting stuff, like applications are can definitely be hidden. Indeed, even device drivers, etc, can be hidden with binary loaders and the like, much like nVidia's GFX drivers. So realy, open code in this situation is a non-issue
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Of course, they may be saving Ocelot for when they release a PDA, so they can have ocelot as the codename for the desktop OS, and margay for the PDA OS. After all, a margay is an ocelittle (or is that ocefew?).
Actually, both are correct, depending on the part of the world you're in. The article submitter is probably British, where one refers to company actions in the plural, even when the company's name is in the singular form.
I'll agree that I'd liked to have seen the thing end simply through military presence and not force. Iraq's disarmament probably would have happened anyways. However, I think ad hominem attacks are out of place here; most people who study Bush say that though he is direct, he is more intelligent than many people give him credit for. Besides, there have been far worse American presidents, Jimmy Carter, LBJ, and Andrew Johnson were all far worse presidents; their policies were much more ineffective, and LBJ caused far more damage to world security than Bush has through his actions in Vietnam.
Or is it somehow "unfair" to talk about the left's economic involvement in the middle east?
Right now. the biggest issue with alternative compilers seems to be the handling of inline assembly code. Most compilers do it, it's just that their methods are different. If I had enough time, I may even consider looking at that code, see if I can convert at least some of the assembly to use the style compilers such as Watcom's expects.
Now that's more like it. it's gotta be wide -- most of the washes in the Mohave aren't very imposing, but you still don't want to get stuck in one. It's also going to be pretty durable, which means that no overly complex mechanical systems should be onboard. I think the key here is definitely simplicity -- you go too complex, you're going to break something.
I'll definitely have to look into that. I was using FreeBSD's userland system, and that seemed to be working fairly well. A few kinks here and there, nothing major, but maybe the NetBSD folks have already solved the problems I was beginning to tackle when I put the project aside due to lack of time.
BSD/Linux is just what I'm calling it for want of a better name. I'm actually leaning towards something like FreeNIX or LibreLin, though admittedly, those names both kinda suck.
Unfortunately, like many non-gcc compilers, it doesn't support inline assembly, and thus, can't compile the kernel. I mentioned Intel's compiler because it explicitly states that it can build a kernel.
Intel's C compiler compiles the kernel just fine; there's no need for GCC to build anything under Linux.
The GNU utilities aren't as important as you make them out to be in order to have a working Linux system. The last time the GNU/Linux people came out of the woodwork, I began a bit of a project to see how easy it is to compile the BSD toolchain to run under Linux. Guess what, it's not that hard at all. So you keep it up, I may have to finish the project, couple it with Intel's compile and start BSD/Linux, sans GNU software. I'm just that tired of the GNU zealots' bullshit
Lemme guess, you'd also like to slam DARPA for builing that blasted ARPAnet? I mean, what good ever came of that?
Unfortunately, the design would fail in this competition for the exact reasons you just described. Between LA and LV is a range of 10000 foot mountains, and the Mohave Desert. Now, the winds have gotten so bad in the mohave that they've been known to take a 20 foot trampoline, and set it airborne. Happened to a buddy of mine -- the flying trampoline took off into the desert, smashing an electical pole and fence, and then was never seen again. So any design that utilizes aerodynamics is a bad thing, as a gust of wind is going to send the thing flying. A successful design is probably going to be a tanklike vehicle, something with a lot of traction to handle the brutality of the desert.
Yeah, but the advantage with this bike is that it does save you time. Most electric devices take a couple hours to charge. With this bike, you can hop down to the Circle-K, and a minute or so later, have a full tank of gas. Additionally, while most people don't live and/or work at a gas station, most people pass by one on their way to/from their errands.
Addy for the interested is:
10805 Central Ave NE,
Albuquerque, NM
87123-2727
There's another surplus store a few doors down that I haven't been in yet (hey, stop throwing things at me), but seems to be better kept up. Judging from experience in now closed surplus places, well kept-up means that their prices are higher and they have less interesting stuff.
I'd love to go out for a drink or two, but my apartment is entirely too small to accomodate anyone other than closest friends and family. A year from now, I'd probably say sure, but that's once I can get a house, etc.
Not entirely true. Stable has 2.4.18. By default, it installs a 2.2 series kernel, but a command line option on install gets you 2.4.18
Wrong. Debain applies a few patches to their kernels as well. While not as many as the level of patches Redhat et al apply, they still apply some. Looking at the README.Debian included with 2.4.20, the big ones I can see are the bigmem patch, cramfs support, NFS performance tweaks, and a few dozen other patches.
There's really only one choice for road food. You have to eat at the Frontier if you want to get your full dosage of what the people of Albuquerque are like. It's on Central right across from the University. Ask any local and they'll tell you exactly where it is. The Route 66 cafe is also good, as is the May cafe, if you like Vietnamese food. The most important thing to remember about food in Albuquerque is that the food here is spicy; green chiles dominate the menu. So if you have an ulcer, you're not going to have a good time, but if you have a good stomach, you'll love it.
For sightseeing, you've got to head up to Sandia Ridge, either via the Tramway, or via the back road through Tijeras. Great view. If you head into town a bit early, which it sounds like you will if you're coming from Roswell, check out the acquarium and botanic garden down near the Rio Grande. The moon jelly exhibit in and of itself is worth the cost of admission. Also worth checking out is the National Atomic Museum. Most guides have its location as being on the Air Force base, but it's moved across town, due to post-9/11 hysteria.
As far as the rest of your trip, definitely sounds like a great journey. Make sure to take the side roads out of Kingman, for whichever way you decide to get out to Vegas. Going over the Hoover dam is great, and you've got to take the tour; fascinating stuff. Though if you don't want to take the dam tour, I'd recommend taking old route 66 over into Oatman and taking 95 up into Vegas. It's slow, but it's a great drive through stark scenery on a wonderfully old, windy, mountain road.
Good luck on your trip. You may want to bring your laptop, if just to use to dump all your photos. Trust me, you're going to be taking a lot of them on that route.
I'd suggest looking at Ositech's equipment. They've got connectors for most phones, and they work all right, though like any cell service, some areas may be a bit spotty. Most of their equipment is pcmcia-based, but they do have a few USB offerings as well. Don't know about mac support, though. I'd imagine it shouldn't be that much of a problem.
Though reading this article has brought forth a question at least in my mind. Do people who have a tendancy to role play and the like have an easier time recovering from a serious accident than someone who's more "down to earth"?
Well, if you had read the article, you'd learn that you're only partially right. They'd take more than just the skin -- they'd also take some of the underlying muscles and bone mass, to try to meet halfway, so to speak, in the reconstruction job. The end result would be a person who doesn't look like they used to, but doesn't look like the donor either.
You're playing russian roulette by swapping out drives. You're probably best off getting a good case, and an extra controller card for your spare drives.
Essentially, the fork came from a different design philosophy and set of priorities. One of the big reasons was that the Film GIMP (now CinePaint) crew wanted support for 16 bit per channel color, something that the GIMP crew wasn't going to be getting around to until GIMP 2.0. While GIMP 1.3.x now has that support, CinePaint now has support for other color models, such as floating point colors. Also, GIMP is migrating to GTK 2.x, and CinePaint is still using 1.2.
They just know the capabilities of the kernel, even if just those parts are released. The interesting stuff, like applications are can definitely be hidden. Indeed, even device drivers, etc, can be hidden with binary loaders and the like, much like nVidia's GFX drivers. So realy, open code in this situation is a non-issue