come on now. solaris is plain crap on x86. it's only use is learning the solaris quirks if you're going to use it on real iron someplace. sun only releases this version to allow people to learn the os.
with solaris your choice of desktops are very limited, your choices of tools are also limited. sure there's a lot of packages released, but it's still limited.
linux (and bsd) are the unix of choice hands down. ask the largest software services company out there (IBM) what they think?
with that said. i might agree that the binary drivers aren't quite a good thing, but when lexmark releases binary drivers for a cheep-arse printer i have, i'm going to use their drivers. and when releases drivers for their scanner, i'm going to take what i can get to make my hardware work. (note: both my scanners, a lexmark aiw and a HP par-port don't work vary easily).
i've never had a problem getting acceleration working with an ati card. sure my ati cards are a bit outdated (r128 and radeon 7000), but it gives acceleration with open source drivers.
what ati doesn't give in the way of drivers, they give in the way of technical specifications to driver writers. so, it takes these (probably) unpaid writers a while to get the drivers out. heck, ati even donates hardware to the open source driver writers see the aiw 9700 section of this page: http://gatos.sourceforge.net/supported_cards.php i'd bet with some heavy sponsors, there would be excellent ati drivers that heavily competed with these binary nvidia drivers.
dud3, that's so, like 90's... iso certs are great for manuf. industry, but in service industry, it's basically hogwash. weather or not dell manuf. anything is absolutely questionable. being a service company though is also hightly questionable.
IIRC, the courts have said that to use software you have to copy it into memory. thus when you recieve software, you get a license to copy it with certain restrictions on your rights to copy the software.
design patterns are concerned with the design, and anti patterns are more concerned with the implementation. ok, so the two meld a little. if your design had you using J2EE CMP entity beans, you're kinda sorta stuck w/ an anitpatern.
i see more the design patterns describing general stuff, and the anti patterns books describing lessons learned, and good (or bad) implementation practices.
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i'd beg to differ that these are oop specific. there's design patterns all over the place. there's a problem, a common solution, and general name.
take freeway exists. there's different freeway exiting implementation depending on the problem at hand. very high traffic, you'll see the four circles around the exit. lower traffic, and possibly just straight exit and entrance ramps w/out the loops.
that's how common sense would have it, but from _their_ point of view... software is licensed to the user, not a physical product. their license for using that software is invalid because 1. the license itself is invalid (gpl is invalid), and 2. the works contain their copyright stuff so the original licenser couldn't give a license to use the software.
just a little reminder of their mangled point of view.
After all, KDE and Gnome need a base. That base is an X server. Improvements have to be made there as well.
i can't speak much to Gnome, but IIRC, KDE's base is QT, not an X server. it would be interesting to see how kde could be built on other (win2) qt libs.
not to say that the X server couldn't use improvements. really, "other" os desktops have been able to adjust the Screen area (ACTUAL resolution and display) on the fly for ages.
http://gatos.sourceforge.net/supported_cards.php at video capture/tv tuner cards are supported by gatos. the 9700 is listed as "support on the way thanks to ATI", but nothing on the 9600. you might want to check the mail list archives or post to the list to see. i have aiw 128 pro and it works nicely w/ linux, though i haven't tried capture in a year or so. it was rough at the time i last tried it. i just want to easily record vcd compliant mpeg video from the input card. (via cron if possible). maybe that functionality exists now.
note, lots of these sites are buckling to best buy and removing content!
http://www.andy-akb.com/bf/bb.html
some don't tell you that bb has been removed, but you'll not see it anywhere on the sites. i've been able to find a _few_ places where it is. frankly there's nothing i see there really worth interest except perhaps a video game, but maybe i'll settle for last years version somewhere else.
i've been a gentooer for over a year now, and i'm very interested in trying out debian. the gentoo install docs are very nice and well laid out. installation is now a breeze with gentoo, though some graphical installers will help out the process much.
what i don't like about gentoo is the mess with the etc files. sure there's some strange etc-update script that's suppose to help you decide what to update, but that shouldn't be much of a user decision as much as a software decision (has the user modified a particular file in/etc since it was installed? yes? then try to merge their changes in with the new file, or alternatively give them a holler to manually merge the file. user hasn't modified the file since it was installed? it's more than likely safe to use the newer version of the/etc file.
how does debian handle etc files for a xfree upgrade along with a kde/gnome upgrade (perhaps all 3 at once?)? i like to setup kdm to accept remote connections and not have an upgrade clobber that because i make a mistake in the 99 etc files i have to merge together with this etc-update tool.
unless they're providing something for an email tax such as email service, it's completely insaine.
i'm sure there's no politicians reading/. but, what the hell. when your income is declining due to lack of sources, then cut down on your freaking spending. cut down on it tremendously. we're at the point where it's time for a massive reengineering of this "government". business have been doing it since the 80's and even well before. cut costs and improve productivity by 100's of % ages, not 5-10% increases. the government currently has the largest but laziest bunch of stock holders around. man, to these people piss me off with their new ideas to raise money instead of increasing productivity.
without documented benchmarks, it's all just dust in the wind. your qualitatively significantly faster than Mandrake or Debian gentoo is most likely a placebo effect. from what i've heard, most benchmarks show you're not going to get more than 5-10% boost by optimizing the compiler settings. that's basically a processor upgrade there.
i use gentoo also, but not because it's any faster than any other distro's out there. i like it b/c i get to constantly mess with upgrades and changes to files in/etc that gentoo can't handle. i like trying to figure out why the freaking thing doesn't work properly after any major upgrade (not unlike any other distro i guess). but mainly, i like that there's a TON of stuff in the portage system that makes installing stuff fairly easy. i guess debian is about the same, but when i tried it a few years back i just couldn't get it to install. the docs really sucked at the time for debian.
did your sata controler include a windows driver on cd or floppy in the box? most "boxed" computers also include a winXP cd and a pre-installed winXP version. most baseball card packages include a stick of gum, but it's not worth chewing...
linux kernel does support SATA drives, but perhaps some controlers don't have drivers yet. weather or not _your_ distribution's kernel had controlers is a different issue. some people don't like the gentoo plugs all the time but whatever gets the job done. http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=105732&hi ghlight=sata i guess the 2.6 series kernel is needed for better sata support.
remember, linux didn't really have usb support until the 2.4 kernel which was releases MUCH after usb was common on nearly ALL motherboards. sata isn't found on many commercial motherboards and will probably be another few years before it gets widespread use if that.
most people are finally realizing that our computers really are fast enough for desktop work.
having one vendor across the board can be a good thing. one person to work with, contacts, etc.
second regarding the support. lots of companies like to have some sort of support contract or whatever no matter if they use it or not. kinda like linus's (snoopy) blanket that he just holds onto. look at what people typically pay for a bea/oracle installation. is their support services used much? no, but when it is they'd better get it frixed in a jiffy or someone's ass is going to be really sore.
to sum it up: some companies require software support contracts no matter how minimum the support level needed.
most user changes for fstab are at the top of the file and are not displayed during a normal etc-update. you have to know that "hey this looks like fstab, and i have my own version of that file" to know not to update it.
gentoo could use a way to know that a file in/etc was updated by the user after it was emerged and give explicit directions on those files. an update of xfree will give 80 or so file changes in/etc which makes the mundane process of updating them all subject to human error of accidently updating a file like fstab or some such. if i've updated my kdm to allow x connections via xdmcp, i don't want etc-update to be able to mudge that up.
it could also use a way for users to just give a list of files that should not be looked at by normal etc-update. if i know that fstab, smb.conf, and others should not be touched by a normal etc-update, i should be able to provide a list of those (though those again are files edited after an emerge).
i'd say that a LOT of bugs for gentoo occur because etc files get updated when they shouldn't or etc files don't get updated when they should.
they probably won't _give_ them root, but it only takes one person to figure out how to boot to single user mode, and change the root password. remote desktop? that's another story. boxless workstations would be very ideal for a sysadmin and a user (sun ray).
it isn't joe random user accessing _other peoples_ phones. it's joe finding out where is other phone happens to be atm. the fact that joe gave that phone to his 16 year old son who has been doing "bad" things that joe needs to correct is another issue.
parents are legally and most often financially responsible for the actions of their children. if they have a need to monitor their whereabouts, that's their RIGHT and RESPONSIBILITY to do so.
therefore, parents, track your children via a cell phone, it's your responsibility to do so!
the whole jboss certification seems to be a mess. my take is that they originally didn't have $$ to get certification, and so they just didn't waste time going about getting it. then they had some $$ and tried to contact sun about it, and sun ignored them.
yes, b/c of the relationship of sun to apache (lots of funding), they'll get certification. hell, isn't tomcat the RI for the servlet container?
according to this computerworld article http://www.computerworld.com/developmenttopics/dev elopment/story/0,10801,85236,00.html they are waiting on sun's lawyers now to sort out the mess.
to me jboss's move to join the jcp and obtain certification would be like microsoft admitting their.NET platform was really too close to jave and deciding to migrate it to a certified j2ee platform. a stretch yes, but jboss has had issues with pr and customer relations in the past.
i would use jboss for current development but always keep in mind a potential migration to Geronimo (or something else).
and we originally thought that DVD encryption was extremely robust.
they beam this information back and forth between satalites? in the open air? and that's considered safe, eh? just because the OnStar hasn't been hacked might just mean there's not much demand. now a system which controls all the hazardous (for now) vehicles, that might be inticing.
it is rather unfortunate that the economy isn't a freaking car that can just be jumpstarted whenever the battery goes dead or insidiously over valued dot-bomb stocks all go to hell.
every single government entity is spending their time, 1, trying to jump start the tech sector economy, 2, recover from economic hardships, or 3, locate vapourware WMD's that were never really developed during the late 90's internet boom.
face it Mr. Politician, the economy is going to take a good 5 years to get solid again. it's going to take a great deal of education and re-trainning of the work force to migrate into other sectors. "webmaster" isn't really a long term profession.
face it Mr. Politician, the H1B program needs to be expunged. will this send software development dollars off shore? some, but, i think the software industry is similar to other service industries (news, weather, etc). there will always be a large local presence.
face it Mr. Politician, the IT industry grew too large, too fast, and there were many many people there who DID not belong there and were riding on the boom. these people need to be retrained and put into their proper industries.
free as in money? that's debatable. using ie specific objects in an application isn't illegal, but neither is using any other ms specific objects that i know of. what is illegal, from my impression, is when a software developer distributes the needed ie controls w/o consent of microsoft. that's not free as in money to me. you have to spend time and money to get approval for your distribution.
i guess it's exactly the same as with sun's jdk. they just don't let anyone distribute their jdk, you have to go to java.sun.com and click through some silly agreement, or be a partner of theirs.
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come on now. solaris is plain crap on x86. it's only use is learning the solaris quirks if you're going to use it on real iron someplace. sun only releases this version to allow people to learn the os.
with solaris your choice of desktops are very limited, your choices of tools are also limited. sure there's a lot of packages released, but it's still limited.
linux (and bsd) are the unix of choice hands down. ask the largest software services company out there (IBM) what they think?
with that said. i might agree that the binary drivers aren't quite a good thing, but when lexmark releases binary drivers for a cheep-arse printer i have, i'm going to use their drivers. and when releases drivers for their scanner, i'm going to take what i can get to make my hardware work. (note: both my scanners, a lexmark aiw and a HP par-port don't work vary easily).
i've never had a problem getting acceleration working with an ati card. sure my ati cards are a bit outdated (r128 and radeon 7000), but it gives acceleration with open source drivers.
what ati doesn't give in the way of drivers, they give in the way of technical specifications to driver writers. so, it takes these (probably) unpaid writers a while to get the drivers out. heck, ati even donates hardware to the open source driver writers see the aiw 9700 section of this page: http://gatos.sourceforge.net/supported_cards.php
i'd bet with some heavy sponsors, there would be excellent ati drivers that heavily competed with these binary nvidia drivers.
Dell wasn't ISO compliant on anything
dud3, that's so, like 90's... iso certs are great for manuf. industry, but in service industry, it's basically hogwash. weather or not dell manuf. anything is absolutely questionable. being a service company though is also hightly questionable.
IIRC, the courts have said that to use software you have to copy it into memory. thus when you recieve software, you get a license to copy it with certain restrictions on your rights to copy the software.
design patterns are concerned with the design, and anti patterns are more concerned with the implementation. ok, so the two meld a little. if your design had you using J2EE CMP entity beans, you're kinda sorta stuck w/ an anitpatern.
i see more the design patterns describing general stuff, and the anti patterns books describing lessons learned, and good (or bad) implementation practices.
i'd beg to differ that these are oop specific. there's design patterns all over the place. there's a problem, a common solution, and general name.
take freeway exists. there's different freeway exiting implementation depending on the problem at hand. very high traffic, you'll see the four circles around the exit. lower traffic, and possibly just straight exit and entrance ramps w/out the loops.
that's how common sense would have it, but from _their_ point of view... software is licensed to the user, not a physical product. their license for using that software is invalid because 1. the license itself is invalid (gpl is invalid), and 2. the works contain their copyright stuff so the original licenser couldn't give a license to use the software.
just a little reminder of their mangled point of view.
Redhat: you own the software, and pay a yearly subscription fee for support.
that implies that i could do what ever i want with it right? like install it on another machine if i choose? use it without that subscription service?
After all, KDE and Gnome need a base. That base is an X server. Improvements have to be made there as well.
i can't speak much to Gnome, but IIRC, KDE's base is QT, not an X server. it would be interesting to see how kde could be built on other (win2) qt libs.
not to say that the X server couldn't use improvements. really, "other" os desktops have been able to adjust the Screen area (ACTUAL resolution and display) on the fly for ages.
http://gatos.sourceforge.net/supported_cards.php
at video capture/tv tuner cards are supported by gatos. the 9700 is listed as "support on the way thanks to ATI", but nothing on the 9600. you might want to check the mail list archives or post to the list to see. i have aiw 128 pro and it works nicely w/ linux, though i haven't tried capture in a year or so. it was rough at the time i last tried it. i just want to easily record vcd compliant mpeg video from the input card. (via cron if possible). maybe that functionality exists now.
note, lots of these sites are buckling to best buy and removing content!
http://www.andy-akb.com/bf/bb.html
some don't tell you that bb has been removed, but you'll not see it anywhere on the sites. i've been able to find a _few_ places where it is. frankly there's nothing i see there really worth interest except perhaps a video game, but maybe i'll settle for last years version somewhere else.
i've been a gentooer for over a year now, and i'm very interested in trying out debian. the gentoo install docs are very nice and well laid out. installation is now a breeze with gentoo, though some graphical installers will help out the process much.
/etc since it was installed? yes? then try to merge their changes in with the new file, or alternatively give them a holler to manually merge the file. user hasn't modified the file since it was installed? it's more than likely safe to use the newer version of the /etc file.
what i don't like about gentoo is the mess with the etc files. sure there's some strange etc-update script that's suppose to help you decide what to update, but that shouldn't be much of a user decision as much as a software decision (has the user modified a particular file in
how does debian handle etc files for a xfree upgrade along with a kde/gnome upgrade (perhaps all 3 at once?)? i like to setup kdm to accept remote connections and not have an upgrade clobber that because i make a mistake in the 99 etc files i have to merge together with this etc-update tool.
unless they're providing something for an email tax such as email service, it's completely insaine.
/. but, what the hell. when your income is declining due to lack of sources, then cut down on your freaking spending. cut down on it tremendously. we're at the point where it's time for a massive reengineering of this "government". business have been doing it since the 80's and even well before. cut costs and improve productivity by 100's of % ages, not 5-10% increases. the government currently has the largest but laziest bunch of stock holders around. man, to these people piss me off with their new ideas to raise money instead of increasing productivity.
i'm sure there's no politicians reading
without documented benchmarks, it's all just dust in the wind. your qualitatively significantly faster than Mandrake or Debian gentoo is most likely a placebo effect. from what i've heard, most benchmarks show you're not going to get more than 5-10% boost by optimizing the compiler settings. that's basically a processor upgrade there.
/etc that gentoo can't handle. i like trying to figure out why the freaking thing doesn't work properly after any major upgrade (not unlike any other distro i guess). but mainly, i like that there's a TON of stuff in the portage system that makes installing stuff fairly easy. i guess debian is about the same, but when i tried it a few years back i just couldn't get it to install. the docs really sucked at the time for debian.
i use gentoo also, but not because it's any faster than any other distro's out there. i like it b/c i get to constantly mess with upgrades and changes to files in
did your sata controler include a windows driver on cd or floppy in the box? most "boxed" computers also include a winXP cd and a pre-installed winXP version. most baseball card packages include a stick of gum, but it's not worth chewing...
i ghlight=sata
linux kernel does support SATA drives, but perhaps some controlers don't have drivers yet. weather or not _your_ distribution's kernel had controlers is a different issue. some people don't like the gentoo plugs all the time but whatever gets the job done. http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=105732&h
i guess the 2.6 series kernel is needed for better sata support.
remember, linux didn't really have usb support until the 2.4 kernel which was releases MUCH after usb was common on nearly ALL motherboards. sata isn't found on many commercial motherboards and will probably be another few years before it gets widespread use if that.
most people are finally realizing that our computers really are fast enough for desktop work.
it was BayStar Capital:
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- just because you're paranoid, doesn't mean they're really not out there.
having one vendor across the board can be a good thing. one person to work with, contacts, etc.
second regarding the support. lots of companies like to have some sort of support contract or whatever no matter if they use it or not. kinda like linus's (snoopy) blanket that he just holds onto. look at what people typically pay for a bea/oracle installation. is their support services used much? no, but when it is they'd better get it frixed in a jiffy or someone's ass is going to be really sore.
to sum it up: some companies require software support contracts no matter how minimum the support level needed.
most user changes for fstab are at the top of the file and are not displayed during a normal etc-update. you have to know that "hey this looks like fstab, and i have my own version of that file" to know not to update it.
/etc was updated by the user after it was emerged and give explicit directions on those files. an update of xfree will give 80 or so file changes in /etc which makes the mundane process of updating them all subject to human error of accidently updating a file like fstab or some such. if i've updated my kdm to allow x connections via xdmcp, i don't want etc-update to be able to mudge that up.
gentoo could use a way to know that a file in
it could also use a way for users to just give a list of files that should not be looked at by normal etc-update. if i know that fstab, smb.conf, and others should not be touched by a normal etc-update, i should be able to provide a list of those (though those again are files edited after an emerge).
i'd say that a LOT of bugs for gentoo occur because etc files get updated when they shouldn't or etc files don't get updated when they should.
they probably won't _give_ them root, but it only takes one person to figure out how to boot to single user mode, and change the root password. remote desktop? that's another story. boxless workstations would be very ideal for a sysadmin and a user (sun ray).
it isn't joe random user accessing _other peoples_ phones. it's joe finding out where is other phone happens to be atm. the fact that joe gave that phone to his 16 year old son who has been doing "bad" things that joe needs to correct is another issue.
parents are legally and most often financially responsible for the actions of their children. if they have a need to monitor their whereabouts, that's their RIGHT and RESPONSIBILITY to do so.
therefore, parents, track your children via a cell phone, it's your responsibility to do so!
the whole jboss certification seems to be a mess. my take is that they originally didn't have $$ to get certification, and so they just didn't waste time going about getting it. then they had some $$ and tried to contact sun about it, and sun ignored them.
v elopment/story/0,10801,85236,00.html
.NET platform was really too close to jave and deciding to migrate it to a certified j2ee platform. a stretch yes, but jboss has had issues with pr and customer relations in the past.
yes, b/c of the relationship of sun to apache (lots of funding), they'll get certification. hell, isn't tomcat the RI for the servlet container?
according to this computerworld article http://www.computerworld.com/developmenttopics/de
they are waiting on sun's lawyers now to sort out the mess.
to me jboss's move to join the jcp and obtain certification would be like microsoft admitting their
i would use jboss for current development but always keep in mind a potential migration to Geronimo (or something else).
well, a major player (kinda) is now using gnome as its desktop, but for sun that's quite a step up from their former cde crap.
and we originally thought that DVD encryption was extremely robust.
they beam this information back and forth between satalites? in the open air? and that's considered safe, eh? just because the OnStar hasn't been hacked might just mean there's not much demand. now a system which controls all the hazardous (for now) vehicles, that might be inticing.
it is rather unfortunate that the economy isn't a freaking car that can just be jumpstarted whenever the battery goes dead or insidiously over valued dot-bomb stocks all go to hell.
every single government entity is spending their time, 1, trying to jump start the tech sector economy, 2, recover from economic hardships, or 3, locate vapourware WMD's that were never really developed during the late 90's internet boom.
face it Mr. Politician, the economy is going to take a good 5 years to get solid again. it's going to take a great deal of education and re-trainning of the work force to migrate into other sectors. "webmaster" isn't really a long term profession.
face it Mr. Politician, the H1B program needs to be expunged. will this send software development dollars off shore? some, but, i think the software industry is similar to other service industries (news, weather, etc). there will always be a large local presence.
face it Mr. Politician, the IT industry grew too large, too fast, and there were many many people there who DID not belong there and were riding on the boom. these people need to be retrained and put into their proper industries.
free as in money? that's debatable. using ie specific objects in an application isn't illegal, but neither is using any other ms specific objects that i know of. what is illegal, from my impression, is when a software developer distributes the needed ie controls w/o consent of microsoft. that's not free as in money to me. you have to spend time and money to get approval for your distribution.
i guess it's exactly the same as with sun's jdk. they just don't let anyone distribute their jdk, you have to go to java.sun.com and click through some silly agreement, or be a partner of theirs.