I'm a member of the Libertarian Party, but I agree it needs PR help. Joe Sixpack probably can't even spell "Libertarian", let alone define it. I think the LP might be more successful as the "Freedom Party". Everyone knows what freedom means and who is AGAINST freedom?:) The Freedom Party could downplay some of the LP's "loony" stances (such as removing the Department of Education and legalizing crack and heroin). The Freedom Party could focus on issues that "everyone" agrees on: less gub'mint corruption and power, lower taxes, balanced budgets, education improvements (through school choice AKA vouchers and transfers), make other nations' pay for their own military defense.
I often find that the bugs that are most difficult to find are the easiest to fix. They are often some tiny corner case in one line of code that someone never thought of.
In the last product I worked on, we had a killer crash bug that different developers spent WEEKS investigating it, giving up, and then "hot potatoing" the bug to another developer. About two months later, I finally fixed the bug. A BSTR allocated using SysAllocString() should have been freed using SysFreeString(), but it was being "freed" using COM's CoTaskMemFree(). This would corrupt COM's heap causing random COM crashes in unrelated code much later!:(
While thinking about version numbers, I wonder what awaits us in APR 2.0? Most of the common portability concerns seemd to have been wrapped up pretty well in APR 1.0 (for the basic features Apache needed). What's left?
After Firefox 1.0, Mozilla should consider ditching NSPR for APR. The engineering and QA time spent on NSPR (which is pretty much done/frozen) can be redirected to APR. That work would benefit the open-source community, but Mozilla would also benefit from other people fixing bugs in APR.:D
I guess if Kerry skirts all responsibility for the Iraq war if he voted to give the President the authority to go to war. If someone authorizes another's actions, I believe the authorizer is demonstrating approval and should share responsibility.
Kerry says that he would AGAIN vote in favor of the Iraq War, even given EVERYTHING we NOW know about Saddam Hussein and his supposed WMDs and supposed 9/11 ties.
Sure, the Republicans are "against" universal healthcare, but they sure appear to be in favor of HUGE medicare payouts to senior citizens.
now the KDE people have to maintain TWO code bases: one for OSes with reiser4 and one for OSes without reiser4. Note that code base (without reiser4) would still work (without code changes) on an OS with reiser4. So KDE has decided to not double their work needlessly.
I think I am beginning to feel the initial symptoms of this attack. I clicked on a web site linked from here on Slashdot and the web site was overloaded and then went offline! Must be cyberterrorists... won't someone please think of the CHILDREN?!!
If there is an internet meltdown tomorrow, then this guy looks smart. If there is NO internet meltdown tomorrow, then this guy can claim his warning PREVENTED the catastrophe. He can't lose!
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Why in the world would Google buy Sun? Google does not want to sell hardware or Java. Google's data centers run el-cheapo commodity x86 servers. And Sun is not even profitable.
I'd LOVE to be able to point one of my tech support callers to a free online version of this book.
Who wouldn't like free stuff? But since this information has obvious value to you and your tech support callers. If your time is worth something, then saving your time (by buying this book) should be worth something, too.
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I'm a member of the Libertarian Party, but I agree it needs PR help. Joe Sixpack probably can't even spell "Libertarian", let alone define it. I think the LP might be more successful as the "Freedom Party". Everyone knows what freedom means and who is AGAINST freedom?
I often find that the bugs that are most difficult to find are the easiest to fix. They are often some tiny corner case in one line of code that someone never thought of.
In the last product I worked on, we had a killer crash bug that different developers spent WEEKS investigating it, giving up, and then "hot potatoing" the bug to another developer. About two months later, I finally fixed the bug. A BSTR allocated using SysAllocString() should have been freed using SysFreeString(), but it was being "freed" using COM's CoTaskMemFree(). This would corrupt COM's heap causing random COM crashes in unrelated code much later!
While thinking about version numbers, I wonder what awaits us in APR 2.0? Most of the common portability concerns seemd to have been wrapped up pretty well in APR 1.0 (for the basic features Apache needed). What's left?
After Firefox 1.0, Mozilla should consider ditching NSPR for APR. The engineering and QA time spent on NSPR (which is pretty much done/frozen) can be redirected to APR. That work would benefit the open-source community, but Mozilla would also benefit from other people fixing bugs in APR.
When I create a facsimile of a document, it looks nearly like the original document! Amazing!
yes, but to put it more simply: the President is elected by the STATES, not the citizens.
If whitespace has no meaning, then why does your code include whitespace?
I guess if Kerry skirts all responsibility for the Iraq war if he voted to give the President the authority to go to war. If someone authorizes another's actions, I believe the authorizer is demonstrating approval and should share responsibility.
Kerry says that he would AGAIN vote in favor of the Iraq War, even given EVERYTHING we NOW know about Saddam Hussein and his supposed WMDs and supposed 9/11 ties.
Sure, the Republicans are "against" universal healthcare, but they sure appear to be in favor of HUGE medicare payouts to senior citizens.
Any legislator that votes for a law that is later overturned as unconstitutional should be FIRED (or worse).
Today, monolithic kernels dominate the desktop market, the only exception is OSX with its Mach kernel.
Mach is microkernel, but technically Mac OS X is NOT a microkernel. The BSD subsystem is in kernel address space for performance.. just like NT.
Why doesn't Apache just ship a leaner default config file?
You should just give up now. You're fighting a loosing battle..
now the KDE people have to maintain TWO code bases: one for OSes with reiser4 and one for OSes without reiser4. Note that code base (without reiser4) would still work (without code changes) on an OS with reiser4. So KDE has decided to not double their work needlessly.
but then KDE (or at least KDE Spotlight) would only work on Linux. No other OS (free or otherwise) supports reiser4.
I think I am beginning to feel the initial symptoms of this attack. I clicked on a web site linked from here on Slashdot and the web site was overloaded and then went offline! Must be cyberterrorists... won't someone please think of the CHILDREN?!!
Come on now, what does Linus really know about Linux?
If there is an internet meltdown tomorrow, then this guy looks smart. If there is NO internet meltdown tomorrow, then this guy can claim his warning PREVENTED the catastrophe. He can't lose!
Why in the world would Google buy Sun? Google does not want to sell hardware or Java. Google's data centers run el-cheapo commodity x86 servers. And Sun is not even profitable.
Advertising, by definition, is something consumers do not want. Otherwise, consumers would PAY for advertising.
Google now serves annoying banner ads, so their annoyance factor will increase..
2101 PROFIT!!1!
Why are they even bothering with WEP? It is known to be easily crackable. They should just skip ahead to WPA, which is secure (for now
I'd LOVE to be able to point one of my tech support callers to a free online version of this book.
Who wouldn't like free stuff? But since this information has obvious value to you and your tech support callers. If your time is worth something, then saving your time (by buying this book) should be worth something, too.
You said you wanted it to "Just Work". From that statement, I don't think it's a great leap of faith to assume that you might have been new to Linux.
so you assumed that if he had more Linux experience, he would have known Linux does not "Just Work"?
Forget memorization. The game would TELL you where to go if you followed the flashing lights!