Personally, I pronounce it "LI-nux" with the long "i". I always thought it was a good way to differentiate old-school vs. new- school Linux users. Back in the day, we didn't have any way of knowing how it was pronounced, because the word was only in print! So we decided on the long "i" version because it just sounded right;).
Yeah, when I was there 94-98 they didn't seem to crack down on anything like this. However, I get the impression it is the RIAA that forced the change, not CMU.
CMU is a great school, and they are NOT invading privacy by doing this; they were public machines so they had every right...
I have a TNT2 (Diamond v770 Ultra) and it's fantastic under Linux. I love the 32m of texture memory, but 64 would sure be nice... I do OpenGL development and it suits all my needs.
Well, the fact that everyone can make their own distro is good for us hard-core Linux types, but bad for the general user.
A week ago I went into the local Best Buy store, and went to the Linux section just to see what all they had. There was a lady there who looked confused, and just kept picking up different distro boxes, not sure which to buy.
I felt bad, because she can go right over to the windoze section, and buy *the* windoze 98 box. She had no idea that SuSe, RedHat, OpenLinux, et al were all just Linux.
In that regards, this is a Bad Thing[tm], because it confuses the average Joe user. I do think there would be some advantage to having The Linux Distrubution.
Now I'm sure you'll all reply "well we don't want people that don't know to buy Linux!", but if we want global desktop domination, this spread of distros will NOT help. People don't like actually doing research when it comes to technology. They want to be told what to buy or have no choice. Hence the popularity of windoze.
Just compiled M10 this morning, and I'm not impressed at all. On my AMD K6/2 400 Mhz it's really jumpy and slow. Also, the proxy info dialog doesn't let you enter in anything. The text fields are there, but no input is possible, so I couldn't even test out the browsing. However, just trying to open windows and pull down menus was quite slow.
I just did a default configure and make; did I miss something?
There is a large percentage of college grads around here, which is why the high-tech and internet stuff is so pervasive.
This is in general a very educated area.
Also, the high-tech numbers are based on DC and Northern VA. No. VA accounts for all the internet business, and most of the telcomm.
I work for a startup in Herndon, VA, which is the town that claims to be the "internet capital" since most Internet traffic routes through there. Internic, AOL, etc.
Okay, this is strange. At home I have a RedHat 6.0 system. Downloaded the new player, and it worked just fine; streaming audio from the 'net.
Then I get to work this morning, where I also have a RedHat 6.0 system. Download the new player, but it just flashes up the initial screen then core dumps.
I've never gotten it to work here, even the older version. I cannot seem to get the proxy working to get around our firewall, even though I manually configure the proxy information. Also, when I try to start it up in standalone, it complains that it cannot find my audio device. Any way to tell it explicitly where to find it?
Light doesn't have mass. It's just that a huge massive object (planet) bends space-time around it, so when light travels in its own straight line, it follows a curved space-time.
Think of a large sheet on which you place a heavy bowling ball. It'll sag the sheet in where it is resting. If you then try to roll a small ball on the sruface of the sheet, it'll bend around where the bowling ball is. In the reference frame of the smaller ball it IS following a straight line, but in the frame of the bowling ball, it's curving. Weird, eh?
Photons are weird things. They can act as waves and as particles. Don't think about it too much without the proper amount of caffeine...
> I'm inclined to think of the Tom Waits song: > "What's he doing in there?"
I belive it's "What's he _building_ in there?". Sorry, just had to point that out, as it seems that everyone has to correct at least one error on every Slashdot post;).
One comment I would have related to this is the scary fact that when you go to download some new game or software package for Linux, there are about 5 or 6 different targets to choose from. glibc2, glibc2.1, dyn, static, et al.
It's not that big a deal to me, but I just think about all the newbies that don't have a clue. I imagine it's a bit intimidating.
I graduated from the CMU CS dept in 1998 and I think there were 4 females, and about 100 males. I think there were 8 when I started, and 4 of 'em switched majors.
Great to see them actively recruit now. All of us sci/eng majors at least had the huge art department in which to find some girls...;-)
I'm out here in L.A. at SIGGraph '99, and I must say I'm impressed with SGI's position. They have a new 1400L on the floor, along with a 320 running Linux and (here's the best part) Performer running on Linux. They're handing out tons of little "Linux and SGI" buttons and cool OpenGL buttons with Tux on them.
They still have a large NT section, but it's not as big as I thought; most of their presence is large terrain modeling and visualization with their huge Origin and Onyx2 systems. Everyone I've talked to is *really* psyched about the Linux bit. Seems they're all ready to dump NT and run with the Irix/Linux integration.
...that great story a year ago of a new Navy battleship that had all its firing and navigation systems ported over to run on NT. They went to test the ship in a war game and NT crashed, leaving the ship dead in the water for 20 hours. It had to be towed back to base.
Yeah, that's the technology I want defending my nation.
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Personally, I pronounce it "LI-nux" with the ;).
long "i". I always thought it was a good
way to differentiate old-school vs. new-
school Linux users. Back in the day, we
didn't have any way of knowing how it was
pronounced, because the word was only in
print! So we decided on the long "i"
version because it just sounded right
Yeah, when I was there 94-98 they didn't seem
to crack down on anything like this. However,
I get the impression it is the RIAA that
forced the change, not CMU.
CMU is a great school, and they are NOT invading
privacy by doing this; they were public machines
so they had every right...
I have a TNT2 (Diamond v770 Ultra) and it's
fantastic under Linux. I love the 32m of
texture memory, but 64 would sure be nice...
I do OpenGL development and it suits all my
needs.
I highly recommend it.
I bet there's a scary percentage of /. readers who actually got that reference. ;-)
Umm, no, I didn't.
The pre-compiled build didn't even run.
Gave some GTK warnings then exited.
So, why don't you type more than three words
and explain why you think I missed something
in the rel notes.
Well, the fact that everyone can make their own
distro is good for us hard-core Linux types, but
bad for the general user.
A week ago I went into the local Best Buy store,
and went to the Linux section just to see what
all they had. There was a lady there who looked
confused, and just kept picking up different
distro boxes, not sure which to buy.
I felt bad, because she can go right over to the
windoze section, and buy *the* windoze 98 box.
She had no idea that SuSe, RedHat, OpenLinux,
et al were all just Linux.
In that regards, this is a Bad Thing[tm], because
it confuses the average Joe user. I do think
there would be some advantage to having The Linux
Distrubution.
Now I'm sure you'll all reply "well we don't want
people that don't know to buy Linux!", but if
we want global desktop domination, this spread
of distros will NOT help. People don't like
actually doing research when it comes to
technology. They want to be told what to buy or
have no choice. Hence the popularity of windoze.
Just compiled M10 this morning, and I'm not
impressed at all. On my AMD K6/2 400 Mhz it's
really jumpy and slow. Also, the proxy info
dialog doesn't let you enter in anything.
The text fields are there, but no input is
possible, so I couldn't even test out the
browsing. However, just trying to open windows
and pull down menus was quite slow.
I just did a default configure and make; did I
miss something?
There is a large percentage of college grads
around here, which is why the high-tech and
internet stuff is so pervasive.
This is in general a very educated area.
Also, the high-tech numbers are based on DC and
Northern VA. No. VA accounts for all the
internet business, and most of the telcomm.
I work for a startup in Herndon, VA, which is
the town that claims to be the "internet
capital" since most Internet traffic routes
through there. Internic, AOL, etc.
Hey, DC has the largest population of high-tech
workers (we just passed silicon valley) at like
400,000.
All telecomm, internet, and simlution companies.
It's really quite amazing how many are here.
DC rules. Sure, no tall buildings, but that's
okay.
In any case, here at CMU, we'll probly be the first to find out long term effect
of super-caffine-consumption
Boy, that's the truth. Let me just say that
at CMU I had a cappuccino machine in my
dorm room. And it was in quite a used
state after my four years.
Mine won't run either. RedHat 6.0. Just
gives some GTK warnings and exits...
Time to try the source.
Wow, this is amazing. I just tried playing a
local file, and here's the error I get:
"General error. An error occurred."
Boy, talk about your precise error descriptions
and helpful text. This is worse than the
Apple error boxes with only the "OK" button.
Argh.
Okay, this is strange. At home I have a
RedHat 6.0 system. Downloaded the new player,
and it worked just fine; streaming audio from
the 'net.
Then I get to work this morning, where I also
have a RedHat 6.0 system. Download the new
player, but it just flashes up the initial
screen then core dumps.
I've never gotten it to work here, even the
older version. I cannot seem to get the proxy
working to get around our firewall, even though
I manually configure the proxy information.
Also, when I try to start it up in standalone,
it complains that it cannot find my audio
device. Any way to tell it explicitly where
to find it?
Thanks,
Mike
Light doesn't have mass. It's just that a
huge massive object (planet) bends space-time
around it, so when light travels in its own
straight line, it follows a curved space-time.
Think of a large sheet on which you place a
heavy bowling ball. It'll sag the sheet in
where it is resting. If you then try to
roll a small ball on the sruface of the sheet,
it'll bend around where the bowling ball is.
In the reference frame of the smaller ball
it IS following a straight line, but in the
frame of the bowling ball, it's curving.
Weird, eh?
Photons are weird things. They can act as
waves and as particles. Don't think about it
too much without the proper amount of
caffeine...
> I'm inclined to think of the Tom Waits song:
;).
> "What's he doing in there?"
I belive it's "What's he _building_ in there?".
Sorry, just had to point that out, as it seems
that everyone has to correct at least one
error on every Slashdot post
One comment I would have related to this is the
scary fact that when you go to download some
new game or software package for Linux, there
are about 5 or 6 different targets to choose
from. glibc2, glibc2.1, dyn, static, et al.
It's not that big a deal to me, but I just
think about all the newbies that don't have a
clue. I imagine it's a bit intimidating.
I graduated from the CMU CS dept in 1998
;-)
and I think there were 4 females, and
about 100 males. I think there were
8 when I started, and 4 of 'em switched
majors.
Great to see them actively recruit now.
All of us sci/eng majors at least had the
huge art department in which to find some
girls...
-Mike
Hey all,
I'm out here in L.A. at SIGGraph '99, and I
must say I'm impressed with SGI's position.
They have a new 1400L on the floor, along
with a 320 running Linux and (here's the best
part) Performer running on Linux. They're
handing out tons of little "Linux and SGI"
buttons and cool OpenGL buttons with Tux on
them.
They still have a large NT section, but it's
not as big as I thought; most of their presence
is large terrain modeling and visualization with
their huge Origin and Onyx2 systems. Everyone
I've talked to is *really* psyched about the
Linux bit. Seems they're all ready to dump
NT and run with the Irix/Linux integration.
-Mike
I got a sweet black case from A-Pro. Check
them out.
...that great story a year ago of a new Navy
battleship that had all its firing and navigation
systems ported over to run on NT. They went to
test the ship in a war game and NT crashed,
leaving the ship dead in the water for 20 hours.
It had to be towed back to base.
Yeah, that's the technology I want defending
my nation.
just a test.
please ignore.
Yeah, the server is kinda flakey today. Can't
get all the pieces...
Gotta love a tar install that says to run
the untar from
>> if youre not a big sgi fan you shouldnt be
>> commenting.
If you're too afraid to register with your
real name you shouldn't be commenting.
;-)
Why is everyone so confrontational here on
/. anyways? Sheesh. Must be all the caffeine
in the systems.
I read the article, too.
Fascist.
;-/
aah, bite me.
Just chill, man. We're not competing here.
Or did you need to justify your inflated
ego?