Check out the Resource Kit. I'd say you should consider it as a necessary part of the OS for any real work, ESPESCIALLY adminstering via the commandline. It comes with commandline utilites for admistering services, etc. And you can always run regedit via the commandline to change things, if you know the registry key you want to change.
You're forgetting that WELL TESTED is VERY different than proven and reliable. WELL TESTED usually means DISproven. For example, between apache 1.3.9 and 1.3.12, many bugs were fixed. Were huge new features added? no. Were lots of non-security related bugs that would help keep your website from being more stable and reliable fixed? YES. All Debian is doing in this case is refusing to release bugfixes. True, these could possibly introduce new bugs. But this is fairly unlikely.
Would two get corrupted simultaneously? The minute the first gets corrupted, you can update it based on the other two. And who says you have a limit of three copies? You could always expand the idea to make sure you have 20 or so, and as soon as any of them got corrupted they would be replaced by good data from the rest.
I've found that the curriculum in and of itself isn't that important. Some may be better than others, but I've ultimately found that a school with a number of professors committed to undergraduate research have helped me to learn more than I ever could have in classes. Getting to know professors you can talk to about your interests in CS can help you learn a lot. They can recommend good books, give you background on subjects, and quite often even allow you to get involved in very interesting research that can expand your horizons far more than any class could. If I were looking into schools, I'd try to find some self starters in the program (look on the CIS dept's webpage, under undergraduate research or CIS-related clubs, such as ACM etc.), and try to talk to them to find out about these things. If you're motivated, opportunites for learning outside the curriculum end up teaching you a lot more than any classes will.
The real answer is not to use CVS. You should be checking in related changes as a unit when they work, not just in progress/won't compile/buggy as hell. CVS is really a horrible tool for large group development, espescially in its "Argh! I give up" handling of conflicts. A decent version control system can handle most merging on its own, and then give the user an easier way of dealing with the/real/ conflicts.
That's because Haskell has lazy evaluation that make it possible... ML or scheme or LISP cannot accept similar code, so it's not a matter of it being functional.
What? Overexposure can't be done with digital cameras? I beg to differ... mine can handle it. It's not quite the exact same thing, but the CCD keeps taking image data and it simulates overexposure quite happily.
And if you think negatives have no problems with resolution you have never messed with photography that much IMO. Graininess can get pretty bad. Analog and digital differ in that respect only in that Analog cameras currently happen to have higher resolution. There is nothing magical that says that just because its analog it can be blown up. Of course, it may be slightly less noticable, but that doesn't mean you can't make the pixel borders fuzzy in digital images either.
I believe so... and from my experiences in contest programming, there is no room for that anyway. It is more of a contest of how fast you can code a correct solution, not so much how fast it is.
Sure... but on your machine, you could still change your UID to that of anyone, and access someone else's files........
Basically NFS has no real security model for inhomogenous networks like this... you need something like samba, or maybe ncpfs or coda or AFS might work, I'm not familiar with them...
But samba with automounter would probably be the best bet by far.....
Actually the growth of an economy is more money circulating through the hands of more people than it is the existance of more money. There is not really that much more money today, just more IOU's floating around that in effect increase the amount of monetary value.
Also, the entepreneur who cures aids IS making money off of the people who buy it. He is the only one being served by charging for it. Linus Torvalds could have also charged for Linux, for example.
A good UPS that outputs a sinewave power at a small voltage range will help a lot to reduce and/or eliminate most power supply problems. I recommend getting one just for that reason, even if you don't worry about uptime due to power loss.
But just how many students, corporations, and consumers have an extra fab or two to produce and test their improvements? The high cost of entry and production is a primary reason why open source hardware does not have significant benefit except to those with very deep pockets.
Microsoft estimates that 65% of NT crashes are due to third-party drivers. Why is this significant? In Linux, there are VERY few non-GPL'd drivers, but if the trend increases, then there will be a LOT of binary-only drivers for Linux making it almost as unstable as NT.
No driver at all may very well be better than one that is not open source, as it prevents people from developing their own GPL'd drivers, which will work more correctly and be more stable in the long run.
I apologize. I realize his comments were related to taxation, but his statements and implications were much broader than that, and he seemed to be talking about the government's right to regulate interstate commerce in general, not specifically taxation.
And no, I don't think lower rates are an injustice. Rather, I cite that as a benefit of the regulation of interstate commerce and government "meddling".
I did, however, forget about the prohibition on taxing exports from states. Thank you for reminding of it, and I apologize for forgetting it.
They're the only ones capable of prosecuting it after the fact. Once the company has been paid by the credit card company, the credit card company can do nothing.
Value added taxes are similar to sales taxes, however with a different twist. Rather than being taxed simply on sales price, they tax based on value added in the manufacturing process. So, for instance, Diamond takes silicon and turns it into a video card, pays a VAT tax on the difference between raw materials and final price. Dell assembles a computer from the video card and other components, and pays a tax on the difference.
The sale and/or resale of the item, however, is not taxed. I feel that a VAT tax is much more fair than either an income or sales tax because it is simpler as only manufacturers would have to pay the tax and is much less complex than an income tax, and it also subtly encourages the reuse of items, helping the environment and important in a throw-away culture such as the US.
For one, they protect you against fraud if the entity you order from collects your money without shipping the product. Without that, e-commerce would be dead.
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Check out the Resource Kit. I'd say you should consider it as a necessary part of the OS for any real work, ESPESCIALLY adminstering via the commandline. It comes with commandline utilites for admistering services, etc. And you can always run regedit via the commandline to change things, if you know the registry key you want to change.
You're forgetting that WELL TESTED is VERY different than proven and reliable. WELL TESTED usually means DISproven. For example, between apache 1.3.9 and 1.3.12, many bugs were fixed. Were huge new features added? no. Were lots of non-security related bugs that would help keep your website from being more stable and reliable fixed? YES. All Debian is doing in this case is refusing to release bugfixes. True, these could possibly introduce new bugs. But this is fairly unlikely.
Would two get corrupted simultaneously? The minute the first gets corrupted, you can update it based on the other two. And who says you have a limit of three copies? You could always expand the idea to make sure you have 20 or so, and as soon as any of them got corrupted they would be replaced by good data from the rest.
I've found that the curriculum in and of itself isn't that important. Some may be better than others, but I've ultimately found that a school with a number of professors committed to undergraduate research have helped me to learn more than I ever could have in classes. Getting to know professors you can talk to about your interests in CS can help you learn a lot. They can recommend good books, give you background on subjects, and quite often even allow you to get involved in very interesting research that can expand your horizons far more than any class could. If I were looking into schools, I'd try to find some self starters in the program (look on the CIS dept's webpage, under undergraduate research or CIS-related clubs, such as ACM etc.), and try to talk to them to find out about these things. If you're motivated, opportunites for learning outside the curriculum end up teaching you a lot more than any classes will.
It's called RAID. modern harddisk systems do this all the time. And you could refresh the data every once in a while, and correct the degraded copies.
The real answer is not to use CVS. You should be checking in related changes as a unit when they work, not just in progress/won't compile/buggy as hell. CVS is really a horrible tool for large group development, espescially in its "Argh! I give up" handling of conflicts. A decent version control system can handle most merging on its own, and then give the user an easier way of dealing with the /real/ conflicts.
That's because Haskell has lazy evaluation that make it possible... ML or scheme or LISP cannot accept similar code, so it's not a matter of it being functional.
What? Overexposure can't be done with digital cameras? I beg to differ... mine can handle it. It's not quite the exact same thing, but the CCD keeps taking image data and it simulates overexposure quite happily.
And if you think negatives have no problems with resolution you have never messed with photography that much IMO. Graininess can get pretty bad. Analog and digital differ in that respect only in that Analog cameras currently happen to have higher resolution. There is nothing magical that says that just because its analog it can be blown up. Of course, it may be slightly less noticable, but that doesn't mean you can't make the pixel borders fuzzy in digital images either.
You do seem to have a rather narrow objective, which could possibly be seen as close-minded and not open to learning new things....
I believe so... and from my experiences in contest programming, there is no room for that anyway. It is more of a contest of how fast you can code a correct solution, not so much how fast it is.
Err.. I meant samba would be the easiest by far, not necessarily the best....
Sure... but on your machine, you could still change your UID to that of anyone, and access someone else's files........
Basically NFS has no real security model for inhomogenous networks like this... you need something like samba, or maybe ncpfs or coda or AFS might work, I'm not familiar with them...
But samba with automounter would probably be the best bet by far.....
Have you tried gqview? It is a nice ACDSee-like application.
Hmm. except it is slow as hell and you can't use most of your hardware.
But if you're poor, at least you can dream of being rich and have a goal to shoot for.
Actually the growth of an economy is more money circulating through the hands of more people than it is the existance of more money. There is not really that much more money today, just more IOU's floating around that in effect increase the amount of monetary value.
Also, the entepreneur who cures aids IS making money off of the people who buy it. He is the only one being served by charging for it. Linus Torvalds could have also charged for Linux, for example.
A good UPS that outputs a sinewave power at a small voltage range will help a lot to reduce and/or eliminate most power supply problems. I recommend getting one just for that reason, even if you don't worry about uptime due to power loss.
Long ints are the same size as normal ints on 32 bit platforms at least, such as 386. So that's 2^31 = 68 years - still nothing to worry about :)
What is worth worrying about is that the time_t for absolute date will overflow in 2038
But just how many students, corporations, and consumers have an extra fab or two to produce and test their improvements? The high cost of entry and production is a primary reason why open source hardware does not have significant benefit except to those with very deep pockets.
Microsoft estimates that 65% of NT crashes are due to third-party drivers. Why is this significant? In Linux, there are VERY few non-GPL'd drivers, but if the trend increases, then there will be a LOT of binary-only drivers for Linux making it almost as unstable as NT.
No driver at all may very well be better than one that is not open source, as it prevents people from developing their own GPL'd drivers, which will work more correctly and be more stable in the long run.
Stock market scams: the fcc What in the world does the fcc have to do with that? Isn't that the SEC's jurisdiction? Joseph Malicki
I apologize. I realize his comments were related to taxation, but his statements and implications were much broader than that, and he seemed to be talking about the government's right to regulate interstate commerce in general, not specifically taxation.
And no, I don't think lower rates are an injustice. Rather, I cite that as a benefit of the regulation of interstate commerce and government "meddling".
I did, however, forget about the prohibition on taxing exports from states. Thank you for reminding of it, and I apologize for forgetting it.
Joseph Malicki
They're the only ones capable of prosecuting it after the fact. Once the company has been paid by the credit card company, the credit card company can do nothing.
Value added taxes are similar to sales taxes, however with a different twist. Rather than being taxed simply on sales price, they tax based on value added in the manufacturing process. So, for instance, Diamond takes silicon and turns it into a video card, pays a VAT tax on the difference between raw materials and final price. Dell assembles a computer from the video card and other components, and pays a tax on the difference.
The sale and/or resale of the item, however, is not taxed. I feel that a VAT tax is much more fair than either an income or sales tax because it is simpler as only manufacturers would have to pay the tax and is much less complex than an income tax, and it also subtly encourages the reuse of items, helping the environment and important in a throw-away culture such as the US.
For one, they protect you against fraud if the entity you order from collects your money without shipping the product. Without that, e-commerce would be dead.