So you can enjoy a consistent, clean user interface that even your mother can use. So you can install new drivers simply by dragging their files into a folder. So you can run a huge range of professional quality software packages.
oh hang on...that's MacOS, not the Mac. whoops. you're right...there's no need for a Mac.
Utilites like "telnet" and "finger" are not even included in Mandrake anymore? And yes, I did the "expert" install and selected everything.
umm...no, you didn't select everything. finger and telnet are most definitely still included in mandrake 8...i'm telnetted into 3 different boxes here at work right now from my manrake 8 machine. the v8.0 packages you want are:
that is a great great thing, unless you make a mistake and cant figure out why your have a varible initialized at zero
which is why we have use strict. it makes a lot of strange "what the hell is my variable doing?!?!" type problems go away instantly. and, as with everything else in perl, you don't have to use it if you don't want to.
Hopefully Hans will also provide an NFS plugin too...relatively recent versions of ReiserFS cause large-scale crapping out of your NFS server when you try and export ReiserFS volumes.
I won't be rushing again to stick ReiserFS on an NFS system any time soon....
we have some guys developing some smallish FLTK apps in house...i don't know if it's their lack of design skills or FLTK itself, but damn do those apps look ugly!!
i was at a demo yesterday, and without exaggeration, their FLTK app was the ugliest looking GUI app i've ever seen on any platform.
do FLTK apps on windows look the same as they do on linux? i sure hope not...
It doesn't just have to be perl...but since so much down-in-the-trenches bioinformatics involves sorting, manipulating and processing text strings of DNA and protein sequences, perl is, for the most part, a perfect fit. there's also a really nice set of perl classes available at bioperl for doing a lot of the more tedious sequence processing jobs.
also, just because you're dealing with genetic information doesn't necessarily mean you need to use a 'genetic' programming technique either...they're quite different things.
Why would I want to run some Wintel box with all of the fun of IRQ, base address and rest of their friends
how much trouble are you really going to run into with IRQ conflicts on a firewall machine? you've got 2 NICs, and that's about it. it's not like you'll be using both serial ports, a sound card, internal modem, SCSI adapter and a video grabber board all jammed into the one system or anything.
Solaris can mirror the root partition (not many people like Disksuite, but it seems more powerful than md)
so can linux. i have mandrake 7.1 installed and running with its root partition on a software RAID-1 partition. i also have another linux machine with the root directory running off a RAID-1 pair of drives controlled by a Mylex AcceleRAID 170.
just to quickly address 2 of your other points....2.4 does large file sizes nicely now, and as for journalling filesystems, you'll soon have ext3, ReiserFS, JFS and XFS to choose from...for free.
Yes...I remember going through the same hardware grief when I was experimenting with OS/2 versions 3 and 4 a few years back. You had to choose your hardware carefully if you wanted to actually use any of it with OS/2. But how was this any different from Linux in its not-so-distant past? Hardware support under Linux can sometimes still be hit and miss...admittedly it has improved very rapidly (whereas OS/2 support never really improved all that much at all)...but I don't think hardware support was the thing that killed OS/2....'cos Linux has had the same problems
it isn't an 80 pin cable, it's an 80 wire cable...with 40 pins, just like a regular IDE cable. the extra wires are for shielding. you'll get one in the box with any newish motherboard or UltraATA/66 or UltraATA/100 controller card.
John Carmack of Id Software fame has gotten deep into serious amateur rocketry
I knew Carmack must have been scraping the bottom of the barrel for new ideas when he announced Doom III, but this is way too close to Commander Keen for my liking. Does he wear his big brother's football helmet while launching these rockets too?
(btw: was it Apogee or id (or both) that did the original Commander Keen?)
yeah i've got the IE 6 beta and the link comes up in the status bar as what it is (ie: goatse.cx)
Re:Marketing mindset a little strong.
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vi might have been hot shit in the age of line editors, but even if i had written vi, i wouldn't be going around bragging about it nowadays...or holding it up as some sort of testament of greatness whilst hero worshipping either, for that matter.
what coding of bill's can you point to recently to show that he's still 'da man'?
DB/2 is very expensive, on par if not more pricy then Oracle
DB2 is actually a fair bit cheaper than Oracle, especially when you start running it on fast SMP machines. Oracle charges you based on the number of CPUs in your server, multiplied by the CPU speed in MHz, multiplied by a $ amount. You also pay an additional premium if your CPUs are RISC, rather than plain-jane Intel.
DB2 is priced on a flat per-CPU basis, irrespective of CPU speed. Basically you're penalised for running Oracle on fast CPUs, whereas with DB2 you aren't. Run Oracle on newer high MHz CPUs (like an Alpha, UltraSPARC III or PIII-Xeon) and your wallet starts to bleed pretty badly.
MySQL also offers transaction support using two other table types (with their associated back-ends)...Gemini (from NuSphere i think...might be wrong), and InnoDB from Innobase. I've been playing around with the InnoDB tables in the last few days with MySQL 3.23.37 and they seem to support transactions nicely. InnoDB tables also support row level locking, so MySQL shoudn't slow down as much under a heavy insert load.
but you don't have marauding laser-packing cylon warriors to fend off in the earth's atmosphere either. i think that deep-space specific threat balances out terrestrial contingencies rather nicely.
I don't know if I should be impressed or not. We've been able to fly remote craft halfway across the solar system, land them on alien planets, and deploy ground vehicles successfully from them in the past.
It's a cool achievement and all...it just seems a little low-key compared to the other interplanetary adventures that remote-piloted machines have these days.
I just have to say that I have been installing Slackware for the last six years
whoa dude...you have to get a faster CD-ROM drive or something...6 years is a hell of a long time for a Slackware install. i have an old quad-speed lying around here somewhere...i'll send it to you if you want. even off floppies, Slackware shouldn't take more than an hour or two.
try installing Debian directly onto a software RAID-1 root partition, or onto a system drive running off a Mylex AcceleRAID 170. see you in about a week.
Be will probably be dead in a couple of months, the slew of *nixen are all shipping with (or talking about it) Linux compatibility layers, and if you're using Win32 or Mac then you're lucky enough to have Internet Explorer.
What was the point of an agonizingly drawn out cross-platform browser development saga again?
For me the best thing about perl is the huge CPAN library...just about anything you could think of, all categorised and indexed...and the cpan.pm module makes everything really easy to download and install too. i don't see that newer scripting languages like Ruby can take off unless they have a similar centralised mass of ready to go modules...a clean object model can only get you so far when you have to code everything yourself 'cos there's no huge library of modules. does anyone know what the state of the supporting Ruby modules are like? anything approaching CPAN yet?
possibly this could go in an ask slashdot, but will the FCC decency laws extend to, say:
-surfing the web naked
- telling your PC to "go fuck itself" when netscape crashes for the 12th time today
- and related to that, calling netscape 'nutscrape'
- first-posting naked.
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oh hang on...that's MacOS, not the Mac. whoops. you're right...there's no need for a Mac.
umm...no, you didn't select everything. finger and telnet are most definitely still included in mandrake 8...i'm telnetted into 3 different boxes here at work right now from my manrake 8 machine. the v8.0 packages you want are:
telnet-0.17-7mdk.i586.rpm
telnet-server-0.17-7mdk.i586.rpm
finger-0.17-3mdk.i586.rpm
finger-server-0.17-3mdk.i586.rpm
which is why we have use strict. it makes a lot of strange "what the hell is my variable doing?!?!" type problems go away instantly. and, as with everything else in perl, you don't have to use it if you don't want to.
I won't be rushing again to stick ReiserFS on an NFS system any time soon....
i was at a demo yesterday, and without exaggeration, their FLTK app was the ugliest looking GUI app i've ever seen on any platform.
do FLTK apps on windows look the same as they do on linux? i sure hope not...
also, just because you're dealing with genetic information doesn't necessarily mean you need to use a 'genetic' programming technique either...they're quite different things.
this is one of the finest trolls i've ever seen. debian easy to install...tee hee.
how much trouble are you really going to run into with IRQ conflicts on a firewall machine? you've got 2 NICs, and that's about it. it's not like you'll be using both serial ports, a sound card, internal modem, SCSI adapter and a video grabber board all jammed into the one system or anything.
so can linux. i have mandrake 7.1 installed and running with its root partition on a software RAID-1 partition. i also have another linux machine with the root directory running off a RAID-1 pair of drives controlled by a Mylex AcceleRAID 170.
just to quickly address 2 of your other points....2.4 does large file sizes nicely now, and as for journalling filesystems, you'll soon have ext3, ReiserFS, JFS and XFS to choose from...for free.
Yes...I remember going through the same hardware grief when I was experimenting with OS/2 versions 3 and 4 a few years back. You had to choose your hardware carefully if you wanted to actually use any of it with OS/2. But how was this any different from Linux in its not-so-distant past? Hardware support under Linux can sometimes still be hit and miss...admittedly it has improved very rapidly (whereas OS/2 support never really improved all that much at all)...but I don't think hardware support was the thing that killed OS/2....'cos Linux has had the same problems
wouldn't this just compress down to something like:
the RIAA are a bunch of morons {x10000000000000}
like some sort of run length encoding?
it isn't an 80 pin cable, it's an 80 wire cable...with 40 pins, just like a regular IDE cable. the extra wires are for shielding. you'll get one in the box with any newish motherboard or UltraATA/66 or UltraATA/100 controller card.
I knew Carmack must have been scraping the bottom of the barrel for new ideas when he announced Doom III, but this is way too close to Commander Keen for my liking. Does he wear his big brother's football helmet while launching these rockets too?
(btw: was it Apogee or id (or both) that did the original Commander Keen?)
yeah i've got the IE 6 beta and the link comes up in the status bar as what it is (ie: goatse.cx)
what coding of bill's can you point to recently to show that he's still 'da man'?
DB2 is actually a fair bit cheaper than Oracle, especially when you start running it on fast SMP machines. Oracle charges you based on the number of CPUs in your server, multiplied by the CPU speed in MHz, multiplied by a $ amount. You also pay an additional premium if your CPUs are RISC, rather than plain-jane Intel.
DB2 is priced on a flat per-CPU basis, irrespective of CPU speed. Basically you're penalised for running Oracle on fast CPUs, whereas with DB2 you aren't. Run Oracle on newer high MHz CPUs (like an Alpha, UltraSPARC III or PIII-Xeon) and your wallet starts to bleed pretty badly.
MySQL also offers transaction support using two other table types (with their associated back-ends)...Gemini (from NuSphere i think...might be wrong), and InnoDB from Innobase. I've been playing around with the InnoDB tables in the last few days with MySQL 3.23.37 and they seem to support transactions nicely. InnoDB tables also support row level locking, so MySQL shoudn't slow down as much under a heavy insert load.
but you don't have marauding laser-packing cylon warriors to fend off in the earth's atmosphere either. i think that deep-space specific threat balances out terrestrial contingencies rather nicely.
It's a cool achievement and all...it just seems a little low-key compared to the other interplanetary adventures that remote-piloted machines have these days.
whoa dude...you have to get a faster CD-ROM drive or something...6 years is a hell of a long time for a Slackware install. i have an old quad-speed lying around here somewhere...i'll send it to you if you want. even off floppies, Slackware shouldn't take more than an hour or two.
try installing Debian directly onto a software RAID-1 root partition, or onto a system drive running off a Mylex AcceleRAID 170. see you in about a week.
you mean like Milli Vanilli and Bros? those groups were always pretty transparent from the start.
What was the point of an agonizingly drawn out cross-platform browser development saga again?
For me the best thing about perl is the huge CPAN library...just about anything you could think of, all categorised and indexed...and the cpan.pm module makes everything really easy to download and install too. i don't see that newer scripting languages like Ruby can take off unless they have a similar centralised mass of ready to go modules...a clean object model can only get you so far when you have to code everything yourself 'cos there's no huge library of modules. does anyone know what the state of the supporting Ruby modules are like? anything approaching CPAN yet?
-surfing the web naked
- telling your PC to "go fuck itself" when netscape crashes for the 12th time today
- and related to that, calling netscape 'nutscrape'
- first-posting naked.