I got the impression that the O(n^2) nature of IRC made scalability a problem (every change at every server needs to be propagated to every other server). Similarly, this was initially designed for sending 50 byte packets of gibber-gabber, not whole files.
I suspect I'll hear it start creaking at the edges fairly soon...
Reorder your list of platforms, put Axp first. That's how it was. It was supposed to be the joint flagship attempt. MS with theif flagship OS, DEC with their flagship Processor.
Even though I use Linux on my 21164, I never removed my NT boot partition - it's the _stablest_ version of any Windows I've ever seen. I still have I.E. 2.0 on it too - no JavaScript, no nothing!
A very sad story indeed. With a happy ending. I'm now running a Unix varient on every machine I own.
The prior art is the guy who can tell you what a classical album is by reading the groves. I saw him on telly once. He can look at the approximate length of the movements and their dynamics, and tell you what piece of music it's likely to be.
My mum thinks the rubbish I listen to isn't music. I'm sure she thinks the same about _your_ listening tastes too. So we're not covered by this.
FP.
_Two_ non-Catholic meanings of "catholic"
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Everyone previously has stated that catholic means universal. I for instance remember reciting things about being a catholic church even though we were C. of E.
However, a second meaning is the one seems more prevalent nowadays. That is "liberal". As in catholic tastes.
The two are a bit more closely related if you view them both as being not narrow-minded nor bigoted.
However, the "liberal" definition is probably the most likely in-brain translation that would take place in modern day Britain.
I use Wine daily. More accurately I use it constantly. For programs written by friends who don't have Linux. It has it's teeting troubles, it's still cranky in places but it's a life saver (life expectancy of anyone in the same room as me when I am forced into windows is measured in minutes). All progress on Wine is good news.
This has made my day!
FP.
The only people who run the trojan, think that this message is "Pro Linux" and then as a backlash it dissuades them from Linux are such brainless weenies that I don't _want_ them running Linux. (I don't even want them receiving mails, as that implies they're wasting bandwidth that could be used by non-lusers)
Authors of this kind of bullshit have no concerns for "the community", as they aren't part of it? Your appeal is naive and fruitless.
I personally don't care who writes what which destroys whatever. Not my problem. We live in a dynamic system, evolution and survival of the fittest will prevail. It's only the existance of predators the makes the survivirs stronger. Remember - this was not "hacking", this was a stupid _trojan_. The worlds favourite auto-LART.
I think you're really being petty.
How often do you change your hard disk?
I moved my licence from one machine to another, and Wolfram gave me a new code almost instantly.
I've just bought another faster machine, and I'm going to migrate the licence to that now.
It takes 10 times longer to install a new hard disk than it does to type in a new code. Get a perspective, man!
You're right. I turn off style sheets due to fuckwits like them. I assume I don't follow any "style=" hints at all, and that's why the tables are perfectly readable for me.
Sorry for the confusion.
I'm amazed, buttfucker2000. I normally disagree with you, but with this I have to agree with you.
I personally have used MP3.com to give money to the artists themselves, so I don't like you bundling the "uncontrolled distribution" of Napster with the "controlled distribution" of MP3.com. However your sentiments about _most_ users simply wanting these things for their own gain is I think right on.
Say it like it is!
FP.
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From my use of 5 versions spanning 3 distros (too lazy to upgrade old machines) it appears that the only distro that remains _self consistent_ is Debian.
In the past/present Slackware, RedHat and Suse (oops, 4 distros) versions have change the internal "standards" to which they comply. I don't believe that makes them trustworthy to not just come up with other changes.
Debian may appear to be as slow as molasses in January, but you sure as hell know that it hasn't gone off in any perverse directions.
Examples I'm thinking of are config file locations and configuration tools. (XF86, init.d scripts and inetd being 3 good examples)
I foresee many small "splits", which will never get far off the main line. It'll be a cloud of virtual distro- anti-distro- pairs coming into and out of existance, or something.
The thing which will prevent AMD from getting too big for its boots is us consumers. We will stop backing "the underdog", as soon as it is no longer the underdog.
Hmmm, we will then purely chose on the chips themselves, and due to that we will avoid chips with FDIV bugs, F00F bugs, or other recallable problems...
Oh dear, doesn't look good for Intel does it?
Slashdot Mirror
Half way to real cynicism, a good start.
Believe it when you've _played_ with it.
The one you _saw_ was the only one that they made high enough up the bell-curve to run the intel-chosen demo.
FP.
Find lots of primes??? Unusual choice!
FP.
(Co-finder of the worlds largest twin primes)
I got the impression that the O(n^2) nature of IRC made scalability a problem (every change at every server needs to be propagated to every other server). Similarly, this was initially designed for sending 50 byte packets of gibber-gabber, not whole files.
I suspect I'll hear it start creaking at the edges fairly soon...
FP.
The Alpha was launched in 1992, the Pentium Pro in 1997. i.e. comparatively recently.
As soon as any Intel chip was shipped, NT was doomed on it. Doomed to crash repeatedly, to FDIV incorrectly, to F00F itself into oblivion or whatever.
MS, a 2 letter abbrieviation for doom.
FP.
Reorder your list of platforms, put Axp first. That's how it was. It was supposed to be the joint flagship attempt. MS with theif flagship OS, DEC with their flagship Processor.
Even though I use Linux on my 21164, I never removed my NT boot partition - it's the _stablest_ version of any Windows I've ever seen. I still have I.E. 2.0 on it too - no JavaScript, no nothing!
A very sad story indeed. With a happy ending. I'm now running a Unix varient on every machine I own.
FP.
Yes - make it 2 part
1) insert CD, grab data, but _don't_ play CD
2) play CD, display previously snarfed data
The prior art is the guy who can tell you what a classical album is by reading the groves. I saw him on telly once. He can look at the approximate length of the movements and their dynamics, and tell you what piece of music it's likely to be.
FP.
My mum thinks the rubbish I listen to isn't music. I'm sure she thinks the same about _your_ listening tastes too. So we're not covered by this.
FP.
Everyone previously has stated that catholic means universal. I for instance remember reciting things about being a catholic church even though we were C. of E.
However, a second meaning is the one seems more prevalent nowadays. That is "liberal". As in catholic tastes.
The two are a bit more closely related if you view them both as being not narrow-minded nor bigoted.
However, the "liberal" definition is probably the most likely in-brain translation that would take place in modern day Britain.
FP.
I use Wine daily. More accurately I use it constantly. For programs written by friends who don't have Linux. It has it's teeting troubles, it's still cranky in places but it's a life saver (life expectancy of anyone in the same room as me when I am forced into windows is measured in minutes). All progress on Wine is good news.
This has made my day!
FP.
Rubbish.
The RAM may contain the same data, but the registers, IP and all, certainly won't.
FP.
I hope this is all signed. I'd hate to see you being send spoofed mails.
FP.
Or does the hand-model just have small hands?
FP.
Fuck you anonymous coward.
"Cute"? Get a fucking life.
Stickers? Stickers? I thought this was a Bloody OS, not a god damn window decoration!
FatPhil
(Not at karma-cap any more...)
The only people who run the trojan, think that this message is "Pro Linux" and then as a backlash it dissuades them from Linux are such brainless weenies that I don't _want_ them running Linux. (I don't even want them receiving mails, as that implies they're wasting bandwidth that could be used by non-lusers)
Authors of this kind of bullshit have no concerns for "the community", as they aren't part of it? Your appeal is naive and fruitless.
I personally don't care who writes what which destroys whatever. Not my problem. We live in a dynamic system, evolution and survival of the fittest will prevail. It's only the existance of predators the makes the survivirs stronger. Remember - this was not "hacking", this was a stupid _trojan_. The worlds favourite auto-LART.
FP.
Well, what other reason can there be for the lack of Finnish FTP site mirrors? I'll have to snarf it from Sweden or Russia instead...
FP.
... the most powerful processor.
I couldn't see an Axp directory on the ftp site I went to.
FP.
"5% of the computer population"
I have 5 PCs, all run Linux.
Does that count as 1 or 5 in the statistics?
FP.
(self proclaimed "linux spazza")
I think you're really being petty.
How often do you change your hard disk?
I moved my licence from one machine to another, and Wolfram gave me a new code almost instantly.
I've just bought another faster machine, and I'm going to migrate the licence to that now.
It takes 10 times longer to install a new hard disk than it does to type in a new code. Get a perspective, man!
FP.
You're right. I turn off style sheets due to fuckwits like them. I assume I don't follow any "style=" hints at all, and that's why the tables are perfectly readable for me.
Sorry for the confusion.
Hmmm, it still ain't a "colour-blind" mistake.
FP.
Stop reading Slashdot, Mark, and get back to work!
FP.
I'm amazed, buttfucker2000. I normally disagree with you, but with this I have to agree with you.
I personally have used MP3.com to give money to the artists themselves, so I don't like you bundling the "uncontrolled distribution" of Napster with the "controlled distribution" of MP3.com. However your sentiments about _most_ users simply wanting these things for their own gain is I think right on.
Say it like it is!
FP.
From my use of 5 versions spanning 3 distros (too lazy to upgrade old machines) it appears that the only distro that remains _self consistent_ is Debian.
In the past/present Slackware, RedHat and Suse (oops, 4 distros) versions have change the internal "standards" to which they comply. I don't believe that makes them trustworthy to not just come up with other changes.
Debian may appear to be as slow as molasses in January, but you sure as hell know that it hasn't gone off in any perverse directions.
Examples I'm thinking of are config file locations and configuration tools. (XF86, init.d scripts and inetd being 3 good examples)
I foresee many small "splits", which will never get far off the main line. It'll be a cloud of virtual distro- anti-distro- pairs coming into and out of existance, or something.
FP.
FatPhil
The thing which will prevent AMD from getting too big for its boots is us consumers. We will stop backing "the underdog", as soon as it is no longer the underdog.
Hmmm, we will then purely chose on the chips themselves, and due to that we will avoid chips with FDIV bugs, F00F bugs, or other recallable problems...
Oh dear, doesn't look good for Intel does it?
FP.
The worrying thing is that a news site can't get its grammar correct.
Do not use 'neither' with three or more things.
FP.
(F*cking Pedant)