The biggest pain for me is manually configuring an optimal.config file.
There are two related problems which explain why the kernel is this way. The first is that there's no hardware probing, and the second is that everything is therefore left switched on by default in case the hardware is there.
Since KNOPPIX can automatically probe hardware, why can't they include code to probe the machine and construct a first pass at.config that contains only the hardware found? Then I could just skip through the various config screens, turn on stuff it missed, and be done.
I assume you don't have a microwave oven. Even with the shielding, those things leak enough microwaves to drown out a WiFi network.
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Apparently you missed the part where I said "exact same code", "don't need to rewrite anything" and "don't even need to recompile".
Java RMI requires source code changes. SOAP requires major source code changes. RPC requires writing RPC client code (and server code if you don't already have an RPC server).
The response you are currently reading is sadly disappointing. It takes an already overdone joke and attempts to outdo the meta-joke by introducing self-referential deconstruction. The result is more than a little pretentious, and simply not funny.
The responses to the response you are currently reading predictably miss the point--though that can be forgiven, given the author's stylistic quirks. What is harder to forgive is the poor spelling and punctuation, and general lack of grammatical flair.
Call it a psychological defect, call it a mental block, call it what you will... I just cannot write anything with someone watching me. Doesn't matter whether it's code, documentation, an essay, a letter, or a postcard. Try and force me to do pair programming and my productivity will drop to zero.
Code review, on the other hand, I'm fine with. Test harnesses, formal QA, documentation, extensive commenting, frequent releases, UML, it's all good. Just don't look over my shoulder while I'm trying to create something.
My wife bought an import EP by Interpol. It wouldn't play in any of our CD players or DVD players. So I put it into the Linux MP3 server, and it ripped straight away with no messing around.
Get "UML Distilled" by Fowler. It's the K&R of UML, it describes what you need to know in simple terms in as concise a fashion as possible.
It's also "low ceremony" and "non-religious"--the author doesn't believe in unnecessary busywork for the sake of 'methodological correctness', and is happy to discard stuff that isn't appropriate for particular contexts.
Really, UML is dead simple; after all, it's just a standard notation for diagrams of software entities. You can learn the basics in a weekend.
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OK, here's a simple example of CORBA being a silver bullet.
I have a Java agent which I wrote to run on a Lotus Domino server and perform some tricky data processing on some database on that server. Eventually, the server load gets too high, and I want to offload some of the processing.
I simply take my Java code, take the notes.jar CORBA stub library, put 'em on another machine, and run the exact same code. I don't need to rewrite anything, I don't even need to recompile. The code transparently connects to the server via CORBA and does exactly what it did before, only now the processing is distributed across two machines.
I've done this. It's useful. So please, don't tell me that CORBA has no purpose; not having to write a client/server implementation in Java sounds good to me.
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See, this is exactly the problem with Java.
We've already had two iterations of basic collection classes, with different interfaces, and now we're going to have to move to a third. I really wish Sun would put more thought into getting things right before throwing them over the wall.
I'm in the US now, so I can't easily start selling 'em...
Best bet for mail order military surplus satchels in the US would probably be Sportsman's Guide. They have a few large ones, if that's too big there may be smaller available. Their selection changes from month to month.
Or, check the yellow pages for your local military surplus places.
That's the OS being closed, not the hardware. The problem isn't building a clone of Mac hardware, it's that Apple only supports OS X on Apple hardware.
Second of all, special relativity isn't *based* on electrodynamics at all
Right. Just as a reminder to anyone reading this thread, the three axioms from which special relativity can be derived are:
The laws of physics are the same for all non-accelerating observers.
The speed of light in vacuum is a constant.
Causality always applies.
The third is often not stated, as it's implicit in most of physics anyway. I wish I could remember the entire proof, but it's been a few years. It's not especially arcane or incomprehensible, though, and you don't need a degree in physics to understand it.
The fact that special relativity has so few dependencies, and is relatively simple, is part of its brilliance. It's also why theories that special relativity is flawed tend to be treated with extreme skepticism--it's hard to think of a theory that's more solid.
Maxwell's theory of electrodynamics supports the idea that the speed of light in a vacuum is a constant, but it's not the only evidence; there's the Michelson-Morley experiment, for starters. So Maxwell's theory falling over would not prove that the speed of light wasn't constant, and would not knock down special relativity.
If you want to knock down special relativity in favor of your own masterpiece, though, axiom #2 is certainly the one to go for... Throwing out either of the others tends to be a bit self-defeating. That's why most aether-theory crackpots claim that the Michelson-Morley experiment is flawed in some bizarre way.
I guess that means there are no Mac CPU upgrades from third party vendors... no disk controller cards from third party vendors... no thriving market in third-party optical and hard drives... and I'm sure Apple keeps a lock on the hardware so you can't install Linux or BSD. Yeah, Microsoft would just be doing what Apple do.
I use Windows 2000 every day at work. It's shitty. It still crashes, except by default it automatically clears the embarrassing blue screen and just spontaneously reboots.
Just today my laptop suddenly decided it didn't want to recognize the network any more. Wouldn't renew a DHCP lease, even. Reboot, everything's fine. It's never done that before, so I'm hoping it's a one-off thing.
The machine at work will get stuck with one or more modifier keys pressed, about once a week. Sometimes you can shake it back to normal by switching between windows a few times. Sometimes you have to reboot.
Our admin assistant had the same problem... I found out because by the time she'd worked out what was going on, she'd accidentally dragged the task bar across the screen, and couldn't work out how to drag it back.
Sure, it's stable compared to Windows 95 or 98. I haven't had it randomly reboot in weeks, it just acts all flaky and I have time to do a controlled reboot. It still sucks though.
I should point out that I'm talking about three different machines, OS installed by three different people. I say this because I know the Windoze fanboys will try to find an excuse like "Oh, you have a bad motherboard" or "Oh, you must have an incompetent Windows admin".
I carry a (UK) military surplus black canvas satchel. The first one lasted me from 1987 through 1996, the second one has lasted me from 1996 to the present day. Considering they only cost a fiver, that's pretty good. I stitched an Aphex Twin patch onto mine.
Put yourself in the spammer's shoes (or slime-covered bedroom slippers). Why would you want to go to a lot of work to build a bot that will harvest the email addresses of the very people you don't want to get your spam
Uh, are we talking about the same spammers who put a great deal of effort into trying to bypass my SpamAssassin filters?
Yes, since the few who make it past get immediately reported, it's hard to see why they put in the effort. Nevertheless, they do.
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That's exactly why the Mono project should be killed. All it's doing is helping Microsoft.
You'd be getting 'em all right now.
The biggest pain for me is manually configuring an optimal .config file.
.config that contains only the hardware found? Then I could just skip through the various config screens, turn on stuff it missed, and be done.
There are two related problems which explain why the kernel is this way. The first is that there's no hardware probing, and the second is that everything is therefore left switched on by default in case the hardware is there.
Since KNOPPIX can automatically probe hardware, why can't they include code to probe the machine and construct a first pass at
...has anyone put together a Columbine High School map for Quake?
I assume you don't have a microwave oven. Even with the shielding, those things leak enough microwaves to drown out a WiFi network.
Apparently you missed the part where I said "exact same code", "don't need to rewrite anything" and "don't even need to recompile".
Java RMI requires source code changes. SOAP requires major source code changes. RPC requires writing RPC client code (and server code if you don't already have an RPC server).
The response you are currently reading is sadly disappointing. It takes an already overdone joke and attempts to outdo the meta-joke by introducing self-referential deconstruction. The result is more than a little pretentious, and simply not funny.
The responses to the response you are currently reading predictably miss the point--though that can be forgiven, given the author's stylistic quirks. What is harder to forgive is the poor spelling and punctuation, and general lack of grammatical flair.
Call it a psychological defect, call it a mental block, call it what you will... I just cannot write anything with someone watching me. Doesn't matter whether it's code, documentation, an essay, a letter, or a postcard. Try and force me to do pair programming and my productivity will drop to zero.
Code review, on the other hand, I'm fine with. Test harnesses, formal QA, documentation, extensive commenting, frequent releases, UML, it's all good. Just don't look over my shoulder while I'm trying to create something.
My wife bought an import EP by Interpol. It wouldn't play in any of our CD players or DVD players. So I put it into the Linux MP3 server, and it ripped straight away with no messing around.
So, what exactly was the point of that?
Get "UML Distilled" by Fowler. It's the K&R of UML, it describes what you need to know in simple terms in as concise a fashion as possible.
It's also "low ceremony" and "non-religious"--the author doesn't believe in unnecessary busywork for the sake of 'methodological correctness', and is happy to discard stuff that isn't appropriate for particular contexts.
Really, UML is dead simple; after all, it's just a standard notation for diagrams of software entities. You can learn the basics in a weekend.
OK, here's a simple example of CORBA being a silver bullet.
I have a Java agent which I wrote to run on a Lotus Domino server and perform some tricky data processing on some database on that server. Eventually, the server load gets too high, and I want to offload some of the processing.
I simply take my Java code, take the notes.jar CORBA stub library, put 'em on another machine, and run the exact same code. I don't need to rewrite anything, I don't even need to recompile. The code transparently connects to the server via CORBA and does exactly what it did before, only now the processing is distributed across two machines.
I've done this. It's useful. So please, don't tell me that CORBA has no purpose; not having to write a client/server implementation in Java sounds good to me.
See, this is exactly the problem with Java.
We've already had two iterations of basic collection classes, with different interfaces, and now we're going to have to move to a third. I really wish Sun would put more thought into getting things right before throwing them over the wall.
I'm in the US now, so I can't easily start selling 'em...
Best bet for mail order military surplus satchels in the US would probably be Sportsman's Guide. They have a few large ones, if that's too big there may be smaller available. Their selection changes from month to month.
Or, check the yellow pages for your local military surplus places.
The V5 is certainly a classic, but I've just found the Sanford Uni-ball Gel RT, and I think it's even better than the V5...
Of course, nothing's as good as a Rotring Rapidograph, but they're a bit impractical. Particularly if you spend a lot of time on planes.
You have got to be kidding. Having that many identical-looking identifiers in close proximity is just asking for trouble.
That's the OS being closed, not the hardware. The problem isn't building a clone of Mac hardware, it's that Apple only supports OS X on Apple hardware.
Right. Just as a reminder to anyone reading this thread, the three axioms from which special relativity can be derived are:
The third is often not stated, as it's implicit in most of physics anyway. I wish I could remember the entire proof, but it's been a few years. It's not especially arcane or incomprehensible, though, and you don't need a degree in physics to understand it.
The fact that special relativity has so few dependencies, and is relatively simple, is part of its brilliance. It's also why theories that special relativity is flawed tend to be treated with extreme skepticism--it's hard to think of a theory that's more solid.
Maxwell's theory of electrodynamics supports the idea that the speed of light in a vacuum is a constant, but it's not the only evidence; there's the Michelson-Morley experiment, for starters. So Maxwell's theory falling over would not prove that the speed of light wasn't constant, and would not knock down special relativity.
If you want to knock down special relativity in favor of your own masterpiece, though, axiom #2 is certainly the one to go for... Throwing out either of the others tends to be a bit self-defeating. That's why most aether-theory crackpots claim that the Michelson-Morley experiment is flawed in some bizarre way.
If DivX would support MPEG-4 fully, and in preference to .AVI, I'd consider purchasing their products.
Apple hardware is closed to third party vendors?
I guess that means there are no Mac CPU upgrades from third party vendors... no disk controller cards from third party vendors... no thriving market in third-party optical and hard drives... and I'm sure Apple keeps a lock on the hardware so you can't install Linux or BSD. Yeah, Microsoft would just be doing what Apple do.
Or maybe you're full of it.
I use Windows 2000 every day at work. It's shitty. It still crashes, except by default it automatically clears the embarrassing blue screen and just spontaneously reboots.
Just today my laptop suddenly decided it didn't want to recognize the network any more. Wouldn't renew a DHCP lease, even. Reboot, everything's fine. It's never done that before, so I'm hoping it's a one-off thing.
The machine at work will get stuck with one or more modifier keys pressed, about once a week. Sometimes you can shake it back to normal by switching between windows a few times. Sometimes you have to reboot.
Our admin assistant had the same problem... I found out because by the time she'd worked out what was going on, she'd accidentally dragged the task bar across the screen, and couldn't work out how to drag it back.
Sure, it's stable compared to Windows 95 or 98. I haven't had it randomly reboot in weeks, it just acts all flaky and I have time to do a controlled reboot. It still sucks though.
I should point out that I'm talking about three different machines, OS installed by three different people. I say this because I know the Windoze fanboys will try to find an excuse like "Oh, you have a bad motherboard" or "Oh, you must have an incompetent Windows admin".
Yeah, and Goldeneye's developers left long ago.
emerge apache ; rc-update add apache2 default ; /etc/init.d/apache2 start
There, that wasn't so hard was it? And all with the standard init procedure.
Word of mouth is all very well, but somehow Network Solutions still seem to be in business don't they?
I carry a (UK) military surplus black canvas satchel. The first one lasted me from 1987 through 1996, the second one has lasted me from 1996 to the present day. Considering they only cost a fiver, that's pretty good. I stitched an Aphex Twin patch onto mine.
Uh, are we talking about the same spammers who put a great deal of effort into trying to bypass my SpamAssassin filters?
Yes, since the few who make it past get immediately reported, it's hard to see why they put in the effort. Nevertheless, they do.