There are 9000 ports in the FreeBSD ports system. Why post an article on gettext? Why not post articles on p5-X11-IdleTime 0.01 (8/25/2003 10:49)? At least it's a NEW port, not not just a minor release of something that's been in the ports tree for years.
It isn't just because it's a slow news day. There was an announcement this morning that Sun FINALLY approved the distribution of Java binaries for FreeBSD.
Definitely use basic bourne shell for your scripting needs. It's standard and expected. But feel free to keep bash around for your actual user shell. But whatever you do, DON'T make/bin/sh a link to bash! That's just evil.
Probably because developers, even *NIX developers, are used to the Windows GUI. Without understanding the fundamental principles of GUI design, they fall back to equating familiarity with usability. Sun shipping a desktop deliberately designed to look like Windows is no different from Redhat shipping with fwwm95 by default back in the day.
Take a look at the new WinXP root menu. There are several proposals for that style of menu at kde-look. Objectively, it sucks. It's based on the way Microsoft thinks people should be working. There's nothing wrong with a "task based" interface, but Microsoft's ideas on what my tasks should be are way off the mark.
You base the dependency on a file, but you still use a package. For example, the dependency is listed as "libfoo.so.1 | libfoo-1.3a.pkg". So when you're installing FooApp, it looks for libfoo.so.1, knowing that it is provided in libfoo-1.3a.pkg. So if the file isn't there, the package can be installed.
The same way most non-RPM package managers do it. Duh!
You base your dependencies upon the contents of other packages, and not the names of the other packages. You make the package dependent upon the presence of libfoo.so.1 and not libfoo-1.3ar78.rpm.
I hope you're exaggerating. I haven't used an RPM based system in years, but it was minor cases of this sort of rot that caused me to switch to Slackware (I'm now using FreeBSD). But somehow if it were true, I don't think I would be surprised.
Because you're always preaching to the rest of us?
I have nothing against vegetarians. I have nothing against meals that lack meat or meat by-products. But I have a distinct disgust at the holier-than-thou attitudes of those who refer to themselves as "vegan".
If only we had this in the US. And there's absolutely no reason why we don't. It would certainly eliminate ballot boxes being found floating in San Fransisco bay.
The US had a system like that in the last century. It's where we got the term "slate" and "ticket". It's also where we got the term "ballot stuffing", unfortunately.
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If you actually bother to reread the book, you'll see that Faramir was indeed tempted by the ring, but in a different manner than Boromir.
Taking the hobbits to osgiliath may have been a mistake, as was the casting of David Wenham (too wooden, IMHO), but portraying Faramir as a fallible human being was not.
The scene shows the differences between Boromir and Faramir wonderfully. The ring played upon Boromir's ego (it should be mine) but it played on Faramir's duty instead (the ring will go to Gondor).
p.s. Also notice was is seldom emphasized in the books: Boromir is a good and worthy person and not a two-dimensional Judas.
August 22nd, 8:00pm PST: "The Fellowship of the Ring"
In tonight's episode, Aragorn relates the tale of Tinuviel to Frodo, as the other hobbits sleep. Insider scoop: according to New Line Television, the actual Tinuviel backstory was filmed, but due to protests by geeks it was dropped in favor of a true-to-book one hour narration by Viggo Mortensen.
Perhaps these problems would go away if we all switched to a software ownership model
Hear hear!
The software industry has been pulling a fast one on the consumer for about twenty years now, ever Bill Gates put copies of Basic in ZipLock baggies at Radio Shacks.
I go into a store and see a shrinked wrapped box of WindowsXP. The label says WindowsXP. The price tag says WindowsXP. I go to the check and buy WindowsXP. My sales receipt says Windows XP. My Visa card statement says WindowsXP. BUT NO!!! According to Microsoft I never bought WindowsXP! All I bought was the opportunity to enter into a agreement to get a license to use WindowsXP under some limited circumstances.
Why can't I own my copy of software? I'm not asking for the industry to forego copyright. I'm just asking for the right to treat the software like I treat a book. Let me install it on my desktop *and* laptop. Let me sell it used at a garage sale. Let me use it without having to activate or register it.
I want a software industry that doesn't presume that I'm a criminal.
I don't know about the membrane stuff. A description of 'eat pipes I heard elsewhere said that the sealed copper tube is filled with sintered copper and a small amount of water.
I'm running a 2.8GHz P4 system (2x7200rpm drives, 2x5400 optical drives, gpu) and a 19" CPU through an APC 650. I don't know how much it's drawing, but its output is only 400W.
The ability to run a different window manager in Windows would be awesome. Even the ability to run a different desktop or taskbar would be great.
Frankly, the only reason why people think Windows is easy is simply because they're used to it. The actual window manager component is lame. No snap-to's, no z-order control, no window shading. Sure, it looks pretty, but in terms of functionality, even Blackbox has it beat.
If I could run a native (not cygwin) KDE, GNOME or Xfce under Windows, I would do it in a heartbeat.
Hence, while Linux distros tend to get things first, BSD tends to get things right.
Actually, BSD gets a lot things first. First to have a commercial support, first to have a free and complete operating system, and first to get sued by obnoxious companies:-). More recently, first to implement IP6, Serial ATA, Hyperthreading, etc. I would have to check, but I think they got USB and Firewire first as well.
Why is it that half the world wants to dump X just because of network transparency, while the other half is standing in line to kiss Bill Gates for Terminal Services?
There was no deregulation, merely a change in the form of regulation, some of which actually turned out to be more regulation. See this article for one analysis.
Woohoo! I hope she's cute! One quick question though, is this a full french kiss, or just a quick Aunt Maybelle peck?
Anyway, here's some articles from the Cato Institute. The first two came our immediately after AB1890, but before any effects of it occured. Maybe they don't count because of the date, but they do have references to pre-AB1890 articles: "Stranded In Sacramento", and "High-Voltage Swindle".
There was no deregulation of the power industry in California. Repeat. There was no deregulation of the power industry in California.
"Deregulation" means the reduction of the total regulatory load. This did not happen. The power industry was every bit as regulated in 2001 as it was in 1991. Bureaucratic micromanagement of power production and distribution remained unchanged.
So why do people think that it was deregulated? For the same reason they think NAFTA is a "free trade" agreement: the government lied to them.
There was a recent state initiative that allowed competition in the arena of power delivery. This was not deregulation. In terms of just the competition, it actually worked with regards to some alternative energy companies. But the massive load of regulation made it foolish to startup a mainstream power company in California.
The crisis in California came about because the population was continuing to grow at a high rate, while no knew power plants were being built. Any first year economics student can tell you the result: when demand grows while supply remains fixed, the cost will go up. The crisis escalated because of government mismanagement.
Where there criminal acts by power companies that contributed? Of course there were! But the status of an industry's regulation has nothing to do with crime.
Shun the Orwellian newspeak that claims that deregulation caused the power crisis. Do not trust the politicians who say the solution is to give more power to the politicians.
Maybe the power industry should be regulated, or maybe not. That's a side issue. But don't perpetuate the lie that the industry was deregulated. No political opinion is so noble it can afford the mantle of deception.
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There are 9000 ports in the FreeBSD ports system. Why post an article on gettext? Why not post articles on p5-X11-IdleTime 0.01 (8/25/2003 10:49)? At least it's a NEW port, not not just a minor release of something that's been in the ports tree for years.
It isn't just because it's a slow news day. There was an announcement this morning that Sun FINALLY approved the distribution of Java binaries for FreeBSD.
Definitely use basic bourne shell for your scripting needs. It's standard and expected. But feel free to keep bash around for your actual user shell. But whatever you do, DON'T make /bin/sh a link to bash! That's just evil.
Probably because developers, even *NIX developers, are used to the Windows GUI. Without understanding the fundamental principles of GUI design, they fall back to equating familiarity with usability. Sun shipping a desktop deliberately designed to look like Windows is no different from Redhat shipping with fwwm95 by default back in the day.
Take a look at the new WinXP root menu. There are several proposals for that style of menu at kde-look. Objectively, it sucks. It's based on the way Microsoft thinks people should be working. There's nothing wrong with a "task based" interface, but Microsoft's ideas on what my tasks should be are way off the mark.
Those that did were merely redirected to a porn site, no damage done.
No damage done! My dear poor mother got redirected to goatse.cx! The psychiatry bills alone will cost a quarter of a million dollars.
No no no! You missed the entire point!
You base the dependency on a file, but you still use a package. For example, the dependency is listed as "libfoo.so.1 | libfoo-1.3a.pkg". So when you're installing FooApp, it looks for libfoo.so.1, knowing that it is provided in libfoo-1.3a.pkg. So if the file isn't there, the package can be installed.
And how exactly is it supposed to do that?
The same way most non-RPM package managers do it. Duh!
You base your dependencies upon the contents of other packages, and not the names of the other packages. You make the package dependent upon the presence of libfoo.so.1 and not libfoo-1.3ar78.rpm.
I hope you're exaggerating. I haven't used an RPM based system in years, but it was minor cases of this sort of rot that caused me to switch to Slackware (I'm now using FreeBSD). But somehow if it were true, I don't think I would be surprised.
Because you're always preaching to the rest of us?
I have nothing against vegetarians. I have nothing against meals that lack meat or meat by-products. But I have a distinct disgust at the holier-than-thou attitudes of those who refer to themselves as "vegan".
If only we had this in the US. And there's absolutely no reason why we don't. It would certainly eliminate ballot boxes being found floating in San Fransisco bay.
The US had a system like that in the last century. It's where we got the term "slate" and "ticket". It's also where we got the term "ballot stuffing", unfortunately.
If you actually bother to reread the book, you'll see that Faramir was indeed tempted by the ring, but in a different manner than Boromir.
Taking the hobbits to osgiliath may have been a mistake, as was the casting of David Wenham (too wooden, IMHO), but portraying Faramir as a fallible human being was not.
The scene shows the differences between Boromir and Faramir wonderfully. The ring played upon Boromir's ego (it should be mine) but it played on Faramir's duty instead (the ring will go to Gondor).
p.s. Also notice was is seldom emphasized in the books: Boromir is a good and worthy person and not a two-dimensional Judas.
August 22nd, 8:00pm PST: "The Fellowship of the Ring"
In tonight's episode, Aragorn relates the tale of Tinuviel to Frodo, as the other hobbits sleep. Insider scoop: according to New Line Television, the actual Tinuviel backstory was filmed, but due to protests by geeks it was dropped in favor of a true-to-book one hour narration by Viggo Mortensen.
What kind of lame crap is this? I managed to get through three "chapters" before spewing. After three chapters:
1) I have no clue what they're talking about
2) I want to punch them in the face
3) I wonder what this has to do with video games
Save your time, don't read this crap.
Perhaps these problems would go away if we all switched to a software ownership model
Hear hear!
The software industry has been pulling a fast one on the consumer for about twenty years now, ever Bill Gates put copies of Basic in ZipLock baggies at Radio Shacks.
I go into a store and see a shrinked wrapped box of WindowsXP. The label says WindowsXP. The price tag says WindowsXP. I go to the check and buy WindowsXP. My sales receipt says Windows XP. My Visa card statement says WindowsXP. BUT NO!!! According to Microsoft I never bought WindowsXP! All I bought was the opportunity to enter into a agreement to get a license to use WindowsXP under some limited circumstances.
Why can't I own my copy of software? I'm not asking for the industry to forego copyright. I'm just asking for the right to treat the software like I treat a book. Let me install it on my desktop *and* laptop. Let me sell it used at a garage sale. Let me use it without having to activate or register it.
I want a software industry that doesn't presume that I'm a criminal.
...drop funding for students...
People used to get paid for being students! If there's places outside of MN that still pay people to be students, then sign me up!
I don't know about the membrane stuff. A description of 'eat pipes I heard elsewhere said that the sealed copper tube is filled with sintered copper and a small amount of water.
I'm running a 2.8GHz P4 system (2x7200rpm drives, 2x5400 optical drives, gpu) and a 19" CPU through an APC 650. I don't know how much it's drawing, but its output is only 400W.
The ability to run a different window manager in Windows would be awesome. Even the ability to run a different desktop or taskbar would be great.
Frankly, the only reason why people think Windows is easy is simply because they're used to it. The actual window manager component is lame. No snap-to's, no z-order control, no window shading. Sure, it looks pretty, but in terms of functionality, even Blackbox has it beat.
If I could run a native (not cygwin) KDE, GNOME or Xfce under Windows, I would do it in a heartbeat.
Hence, while Linux distros tend to get things first, BSD tends to get things right.
:-). More recently, first to implement IP6, Serial ATA, Hyperthreading, etc. I would have to check, but I think they got USB and Firewire first as well.
Actually, BSD gets a lot things first. First to have a commercial support, first to have a free and complete operating system, and first to get sued by obnoxious companies
Screw /usr. I still want to know how to recover the server after I accidentally deleted / last week...
Why is it that half the world wants to dump X just because of network transparency, while the other half is standing in line to kiss Bill Gates for Terminal Services?
There was no deregulation, merely a change in the form of regulation, some of which actually turned out to be more regulation. See this article for one analysis.
You can kiss my girlfriend if you'd prefer
Woohoo! I hope she's cute! One quick question though, is this a full french kiss, or just a quick Aunt Maybelle peck?
Anyway, here's some articles from the Cato Institute. The first two came our immediately after AB1890, but before any effects of it occured. Maybe they don't count because of the date, but they do have references to pre-AB1890 articles: "Stranded In Sacramento", and "High-Voltage Swindle".
And two not specifically about California, and before AB1890, so these should count: "A Historical Perspective on Electric Utility Regulation", and "Regulatory Reform in the Electric Power Industry".
And some others for your reading pleasure: "Electric Utility Reform", "Time to Repeal the PUHCA", and "The Public Utility Holding Company Act".
Just a quick trip to Cato. I'm sure there's other stuff from local California publications, but it's time for me to move on to other posts.
p.s. Please send photo of girlfriend, so as to heighten the anticipation...
The exact form of the deregulation, specifically the way that long-term contracts weren't allowed, was also important.
How can rules regulating how contracts be formed be considered "deregulation". Am I using a different dictionary than everyone else?
There was no deregulation of the power industry in California. Repeat. There was no deregulation of the power industry in California.
"Deregulation" means the reduction of the total regulatory load. This did not happen. The power industry was every bit as regulated in 2001 as it was in 1991. Bureaucratic micromanagement of power production and distribution remained unchanged.
So why do people think that it was deregulated? For the same reason they think NAFTA is a "free trade" agreement: the government lied to them.
There was a recent state initiative that allowed competition in the arena of power delivery. This was not deregulation. In terms of just the competition, it actually worked with regards to some alternative energy companies. But the massive load of regulation made it foolish to startup a mainstream power company in California.
The crisis in California came about because the population was continuing to grow at a high rate, while no knew power plants were being built. Any first year economics student can tell you the result: when demand grows while supply remains fixed, the cost will go up. The crisis escalated because of government mismanagement.
Where there criminal acts by power companies that contributed? Of course there were! But the status of an industry's regulation has nothing to do with crime.
Shun the Orwellian newspeak that claims that deregulation caused the power crisis. Do not trust the politicians who say the solution is to give more power to the politicians.
Maybe the power industry should be regulated, or maybe not. That's a side issue. But don't perpetuate the lie that the industry was deregulated. No political opinion is so noble it can afford the mantle of deception.