Hate to reply to myself but my comment was stupid. If humans had bred cats in favour of a particular level of noise, then they would come without vocal cords.
bash-2.05a$ gunzip/dev/urandom gunzip:/dev/urandom is not a directory or a regular file - ignored bash-2.05a$ dd if=/dev/urandom of=test.gz count=1024 bs=1024 1024+0 records in 1024+0 records out bash-2.05a$ file test.gz test.gz: data bash-2.05a$ gunzip test.gz
Employee number. Benefits: Unique, ties into company systems. Drawbacks: Difficult to remember (especially if your not the relevant employee).
Some combo of the employees name: e.g. initialsurname: mpacey (me). Benefits: Easy to remember, even if your not the employee. Drawbacks: duplicates - jsmith (though you can always have jsmith001-999.
I know of no other systems that I'd consider useful for large numbers of users.
Is there an equivalent for Linux? I have a Logitech Optical Cordless and I love it for it's nice feel, convenience, and the fact my NiMH rechargeables last for months, but it's sampling rate seems a bit slow (jerky movement).
The interesting thing is, while I was working my way up to 50, I was motivated to post comments people would find informative, entertaining and occasionally insightful. I would climb the kharma ladder in occasional leaps and bounds.
The when I hit fifty and the cap muted my progress, the impulsion to contribute in a positive way left me. I ended up posting silly, throwaway remarks. In short, I forgot the golden rules of kharma: post early, post often, post well.
One problem is, how do you define copying? EULAs often (usually) define copying as including the copying of the program code from the media onto a hard disk and from hard disk into memory. In which case, if you don't accept the license, then you can do whatever you like with the copy of the code you 'purchased', except copy it from the installation media, thus rendering it useless.
This is also how EULAs (have tried to) restrict the number of 'copies' of the software you may run simultaneously, thus preventing multiple end-users legally running the apparently same installation of software on a single computer.
I don't know how well this has stood up in court, it's a while since I cared to use software restricted by such a license.
LyX has all those! You need to put the MS Word mindframe to one side, of course, but LyX can produce any kind of document under the sun with great efficiency.
One thing I like is that LyX can do equations very, very well. Much better than Word, even, and I respected Equation Editor when I used Word 2.0. Show me formulas working properly in Abiword (not there yet) or KWord (severely broken).
So if they start to bundle Office with Windows and leverage their power with OEMs to prevent them unbundling and installing some competitor to Office (if there are any viable ones left) that's fine.
Because the Office suite is now part of the operating system.
Yes that makes sense.
Not.
This has nothing to do with 'linux party line', this is the US government who has determined Microsoft to be a monopolistic business.
I *do* see a benefit to having the OS render HTML in a window of an app I build, and you can do this quite easily with IE currently. Removing it would break apps that expect this to be there. That wouldn't be a good thing.
So why doesn't he just let developers bundle the dll with their software if that's what they want to use? After all, if an application depends on a library function, that's the application vendor's concern, not the licensee of the operating system.
They can make it a shared library, their installation routines can install the library if and only if it's the latest version, and if they want to bundle Gecko instead, why be Bill's guest.
Perhaps he meant OpenOffice which is still Free in both senses of the word. StarOffice has extra bells and whistles but at core they're the same. For features OpenOffice blows away KWord and Abiword. For stability and speed, well, I'm told OO is much better nowadays.
Anyway, LyX beats them all hands down. If only it didn't depend on XForms.
If your company doesn't release the patches, they will have to be reworked into new releases of the vanilla source tree.
However that doesn't mean everybody else will do your work for you. If there's a conflict between your code and someone else's, you might be expected to fix your code. But being in first gives you an advantage.
So, sell patch release as reducing the code maintenance overhead.
None of this from experience, just common sense and observation.
Even the with the biggies like WebSphere, WebLogic, HPAS you still see SysAdmins tweaking in the config files as often as using the management interfaces.
Hehehe that's funny, I've just spent the entire night through to 5 in the morning fucking with Websphere suffering under the sheer inadequacy and instability of the stupid slow crash-promoting java-based stinking pile of shit fucking admin console. Thank fuck for wscp in WAS4. Oh how I wish it didn't take half a minute to start every time I run it.
Hmmm, regexp is documented well in the sed docs. Why don't you just create a bookmark to the appropriate page. I'm not going to find it for you because you need to learn not to be such a lazy ass.
Which brings me to the point: I find sed to be just about the most powerful Unix tool in the box. Any intro to unix should showcase sed and how easy a life it makes for administrators and shell script afficianados.
Of course it's most powerful combined with the other text manipulation tools. In fact this is the key to the power of Unix for developers and administrators - text and text manipulation, and the mature tools available for this.
Of course, Unix has other benefits like stability, flexibility and a structured file system.
Zulux: Hey you Frenchies! You think you understand liberty? It's time to wake up and smell the coffee! The good ol' US of A can teach you all there is to know about liberty! It's about responsibility and accountability! These are standards at the core of our national psyche! That should be obvious. Now look at our wonderful country!
Jacques: Wot iz zis mad American on about? 'E comes over 'ere, telling us, ze French, about ze Liberty!
Claude: Zut! I know wot you mean... but 'e 'as been doing zis wiz everyone 'e 'as met! I say, 'umour 'im.
Jacques: Ah, oui...Yes Zulux! You are so right... I wish I 'ad understood earlier!
Well, I haven't seen the license for the integerised codec. But Xiph want to charge for it. Yes you can do that with Free Software.
But no, it doesn't make business sense. It just takes one person to pay for it then put the code up for free on their FTP server, and no-one else is going to pay.
So I concluded that Xiph weren't going to be that daft, and that they were releasing the code under a non-free license.
Yes I'm jumping to a conclusion, but it's a higly probable one.
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Hate to reply to myself but my comment was stupid. If humans had bred cats in favour of a particular level of noise, then they would come without vocal cords.
Alternatively, it might be that humans have bred cats to meow, subconsciously favouring the more 'appealing' animals when pairing mates.
The domestic cat is quite far removed from anything natural.
You don't need to be fit for a 'natural' purpose to survive, providing the environment is suitably artificial.
Many thanks.
:])
(For those reading at +something:
search google for "tuneps2" and click the first link
(to lazy to paste link here
)
So why does this not work?
/dev/urandom /dev/urandom is not a directory or a regular file - ignored
bash-2.05a$ gunzip
gunzip:
bash-2.05a$ dd if=/dev/urandom of=test.gz count=1024 bs=1024
1024+0 records in
1024+0 records out
bash-2.05a$ file test.gz
test.gz: data
bash-2.05a$ gunzip test.gz
gunzip: test.gz: not in gzip format
(I'm just joking...)
Employee number. Benefits: Unique, ties into company systems. Drawbacks: Difficult to remember (especially if your not the relevant employee).
Some combo of the employees name: e.g. initialsurname: mpacey (me). Benefits: Easy to remember, even if your not the employee. Drawbacks: duplicates - jsmith (though you can always have jsmith001-999.
I know of no other systems that I'd consider useful for large numbers of users.
Is there an equivalent for Linux? I have a Logitech Optical Cordless and I love it for it's nice feel, convenience, and the fact my NiMH rechargeables last for months, but it's sampling rate seems a bit slow (jerky movement).
I'm offtopic? Did the dickwad moderator read the inanity of the parent post????????
Why did you post?
Besides having nothing to say, you chose a sickening way to say it, the word 'sweet'.
I bet in your head you heard it as "shweet" too, but you didn't know how to spell it. That's even more sickening.
Isn't an infinte number of computers enough?
/dev/random > ebooks
cat
I have been sitting at 49/50 for some months.
The interesting thing is, while I was working my way up to 50, I was motivated to post comments people would find informative, entertaining and occasionally insightful. I would climb the kharma ladder in occasional leaps and bounds.
The when I hit fifty and the cap muted my progress, the impulsion to contribute in a positive way left me. I ended up posting silly, throwaway remarks. In short, I forgot the golden rules of kharma: post early, post often, post well.
Now I post comments like this.
Doff the kharma cap!
One problem is, how do you define copying? EULAs often (usually) define copying as including the copying of the program code from the media onto a hard disk and from hard disk into memory. In which case, if you don't accept the license, then you can do whatever you like with the copy of the code you 'purchased', except copy it from the installation media, thus rendering it useless.
This is also how EULAs (have tried to) restrict the number of 'copies' of the software you may run simultaneously, thus preventing multiple end-users legally running the apparently same installation of software on a single computer.
I don't know how well this has stood up in court, it's a while since I cared to use software restricted by such a license.
Read my post you braindead mutant.
LyX has all those! You need to put the MS Word mindframe to one side, of course, but LyX can produce any kind of document under the sun with great efficiency.
One thing I like is that LyX can do equations very, very well. Much better than Word, even, and I respected Equation Editor when I used Word 2.0. Show me formulas working properly in Abiword (not there yet) or KWord (severely broken).
So if they start to bundle Office with Windows and leverage their power with OEMs to prevent them unbundling and installing some competitor to Office (if there are any viable ones left) that's fine.
Because the Office suite is now part of the operating system.
Yes that makes sense.
Not.
This has nothing to do with 'linux party line', this is the US government who has determined Microsoft to be a monopolistic business.
OEMs, OEMs. Forced to bundle MS apps. Not gleffler, but OEMs.
That's what it's about.
I take it you know what an OEM is.
I *do* see a benefit to having the OS render HTML in a window of an app I build, and you can do this quite easily with IE currently. Removing it would break apps that expect this to be there. That wouldn't be a good thing.
So why doesn't he just let developers bundle the dll with their software if that's what they want to use? After all, if an application depends on a library function, that's the application vendor's concern, not the licensee of the operating system.
They can make it a shared library, their installation routines can install the library if and only if it's the latest version, and if they want to bundle Gecko instead, why be Bill's guest.
Perhaps he meant OpenOffice which is still Free in both senses of the word. StarOffice has extra bells and whistles but at core they're the same. For features OpenOffice blows away KWord and Abiword. For stability and speed, well, I'm told OO is much better nowadays.
Anyway, LyX beats them all hands down. If only it didn't depend on XForms.
If your company doesn't release the patches, they will have to be reworked into new releases of the vanilla source tree.
However that doesn't mean everybody else will do your work for you. If there's a conflict between your code and someone else's, you might be expected to fix your code. But being in first gives you an advantage.
So, sell patch release as reducing the code maintenance overhead.
None of this from experience, just common sense and observation.
Even the with the biggies like WebSphere, WebLogic, HPAS you still see SysAdmins tweaking in the config files as often as using the management interfaces.
Hehehe that's funny, I've just spent the entire night through to 5 in the morning fucking with Websphere suffering under the sheer inadequacy and instability of the stupid slow crash-promoting java-based stinking pile of shit fucking admin console. Thank fuck for wscp in WAS4. Oh how I wish it didn't take half a minute to start every time I run it.
Did I say fuck?
That's 'proposal' not 'purposal', 'proposed' not 'purposed'.
Aside from that, right on.
Of course, I'm a moron and forgot to format my post as 'code'...
sed -e's/moron/genius/' < file
Yes but remember, you never need cat.
instead of cat file | sed -e's/genius/moron'
do
sed -e's/moron/genius/' file
and save yourself a fork.
Hmmm, regexp is documented well in the sed docs. Why don't you just create a bookmark to the appropriate page. I'm not going to find it for you because you need to learn not to be such a lazy ass.
Which brings me to the point: I find sed to be just about the most powerful Unix tool in the box. Any intro to unix should showcase sed and how easy a life it makes for administrators and shell script afficianados.
Of course it's most powerful combined with the other text manipulation tools. In fact this is the key to the power of Unix for developers and administrators - text and text manipulation, and the mature tools available for this.
Of course, Unix has other benefits like stability, flexibility and a structured file system.
Zulux: Hey you Frenchies! You think you understand liberty? It's time to wake up and smell the coffee! The good ol' US of A can teach you all there is to know about liberty! It's about responsibility and accountability! These are standards at the core of our national psyche! That should be obvious. Now look at our wonderful country!
Jacques: Wot iz zis mad American on about? 'E comes over 'ere, telling us, ze French, about ze Liberty!
Claude: Zut! I know wot you mean... but 'e 'as been doing zis wiz everyone 'e 'as met! I say, 'umour 'im.
Jacques: Ah, oui...Yes Zulux! You are so right... I wish I 'ad understood earlier!
Well, I haven't seen the license for the integerised codec. But Xiph want to charge for it. Yes you can do that with Free Software.
But no, it doesn't make business sense. It just takes one person to pay for it then put the code up for free on their FTP server, and no-one else is going to pay.
So I concluded that Xiph weren't going to be that daft, and that they were releasing the code under a non-free license.
Yes I'm jumping to a conclusion, but it's a higly probable one.