It is great that IBM is offering a choice of distributions, rather thatn just RedHat (whihc is what most OEMs do), but there doesn't seem to be any mention of Debian or Slackware, which I thought were very popular. I don't know if they count as "top 4" which is what the article says IBM is supporting, but I know they're very widely used. Is this a sign of corporate foul play or just financial necessity. It doesn't seem that if they're supporting (or at least installing) four different distributions that it would hurt them terribly to install one or two more, especially since Slack users tend to be pretty Linux-savvy already and one could probably say the same about Debian users, too. I'd be inclined to say that IBM is just afraid of non-commercial backing for the distributions it supports, which is unfounded if you ask me.
check here (for KDE). I am yet to find evidence of this functionality in GNOME, but some user said it might be coming soon, which would be good as long as it's customizable. I think that users should have as many options as possible (with minimal performance drag) and all should be customizable.
USA Today, man. What a junk paper. If you look at a reliable new source it says there was no ruling. The only unanimous decision of the court was not to sign the ruling. That's right they just sent the case back to Florida for carification and further consideration. And anyway, you think that even if the supreme court ruled against him that GOre would give up? Gore will not give up until November 2, 2004. After the supreme court, there is the International Court of Justice, and then Gore will probably promote space exploration to find a higher court, ruling over the galaxy. I would not be surprised if this "case" ended up in the hands of the imperial senate. Politics in America are a joke...and not a very good one at that.
I also find it interesting that you belive each candidate cares about federal/state power. Each candidate wants all the power concentrated in the hands of the chief executive and wants to be that chief executive. This election was obviously the a horse race of slime from the start. I cast my vote for Nader who, when he says he cares about "people" does not just mean himself and his running-mate (though gore obviously doesn't care about his running mate & chose conservative leiberman to pander to the right, hoping that picking a jew (yes, I am jewish too) to appease liberals.
Are there any plans on implementing a journaling file system for OpenBSD? I know that this (along with SMP) is a major factor for enterprise acceptance. IBM has released what it calls "JFS for Linux" and SGI has released its XFS under GPL as a Linux kernel extension, plus there is ReiserFS (now in 2.4, I believe). Because of the GPL, these projects could not be completely integrated into OpenBSD. Although I will remain a faithful OpenBSD user regardless, I was wondering if we can expect a journaling file system in any upcoming releases of OpenBSD.
www.openbsd.org is just a mirror on a SUNsite (hence the solaris) done as a favor to the OpenBSD project. www.usa.openbsd.org and openbsd.groupbsd.org both run OpenBSD. openbsd.rt.fm has just been added. Note: www.usa.openbsd.org is run from canada (assumedly by the project itself), but I was unable to determine the locations of the other OpenBSD sites, although their IPs are similar. the sunsite running openbsd.org is also in canada.
I just ordered my CDs yesterday (I know...I was stalling, what can I say). Hopefully, they will come soon. I can't wait. Not such a big fan of the anime guy, even with all the guns, etc., but I will manage:-). OpenBSD rules.
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According the this, the CD is powerpc bootable. Built binary support isn't so great, but you can have fun building your own. I'm thinking of installing this on an iMac...should be an interesting experiement.
Once The NetBSD Project finishes its Sega Dreamcast Port, and you can upgrade the modem in the Dreamcast to a network card, there will be no reason that you cannot use a dreamcast as a server (as far as I know). They are cheap (relative to the price of a computer) and the wow-factor of running a server off of a Dreamcast is way up there. Of course, network cards may never actually come and the full NetBSD port may never actually come, but I'd love to see this if it ever becomes possible.
Personally, my experience with linux was not so great (I used redhate 5.2 and 6.0 neither of which was very stable or powerful) so I would recommend BSD which is both (not to mention secure as all hell if your machine supports OpenBSD). Perhaps I will give Linux another go when I get another box to put it on. Honestly, it doesn't really matter, as long as you are committed to using a free Unix-like OS and are willing to put in the time to learn the OS, pretty much any BSD or linux will do. Just find what agrees with you most and what is best for your tasks.
Okay, maybe the subject was a little dramatic, but do you not think it's funny GNU/Linux is UNIX, while GNU specifically stands for GNU's Not Unix. Just a little stupid, misguided drama on their part (I guess I am guilty of a similar stupid, misguided drama). GNU's Not Unix is definitely Unix. Makes you go, "hmm."
From their about page: "Let's face it: GNU/Linux is Unix." (4 paragraphs down after the bold) What a glaring error this is (anyone remember a little ditty that goes something like this: "GNU'S NOT UNIX"?!?) Linux is Linux, GNU is GNU (and most definitely not UNIX). Both are UNIX-like and arguably better, but definitely not the same.
Other than that (a rather large philosophical error in my opinion) the site looks very nice. A very valuable resource, I think. The best of luck to them.
it was a joke...jeez. most higher mathematics courses are beyond the realm of physicists (not that they would need most of a mathematician's "tools," nor am I saying that physicists wouldn't understand the finer points of analysis, advanced algebra, topology, etc...just that most in the path from application->theory, I think that engineering->physics->mathematics is a pretty decent progression that's all. ----------------------------------------------
Yay...more meaningless statistics. I can bearly contain myself.
Seriously, this is such a biased sampling. It pays no attention to any specialties within fields besides EE as a subfield of engineering and the entire field of parks, recreation, and leisure (whatever that means). It doesn't even explicitly say what it's plotting on the last page (even though it's pretty obvious). Overally, very sketchy. It fails to mention that EE acounted for over 25% of all engineering degrees (I say accounted because these stats are from 1997!).
Make a big stink if you like, but these number mean nothing.
This is just another example of dirty business overrunning politics. I sincerely hope that the FTC does not see AOL opening up to Microsoft as a reason to let the AOL/Time-Warner merger go through. Jeez...out of the pot and into the fire if I've ever been there. Maybe I will just stay o n a university campus forever so I don't have to deal with the ugly direction in which the cable business is going.:-) Oh, I wish. Anyway, once MS get its grubby hands on cable, open access is pretty much through the window. SPeaking of which, since when are these two nasty corporations on good terms? Anyone remember the MSN messenger/AIM thing? They hate each other. This is obviously just a nasty attempt to get more money/lobbying done for AOL & Time Warner. If this works, I'm declaring independence.:-)
Migrating to those technologies from (relatively) stable, secure Unix-based solutions seems silly. I know that if I wre a LAN manager, I would be more likely to ban all use of Outlook Express than to make everyone standardize to it. Of course, next time Melissa comes to town, your job will become a whole lot more interesting...
That being said, unless you're experiencing major problems, why change at all? (on the other hand, if you are migrating to win2k-based solutions, I'd be more than willing to take those ultra 2's off your hands) just reply to this and we will work something out.
I am viewing/. on Amaya right now and I must say that it looks awful compared to its usual Netscape apperance. I checked a bunch of other sites (most notably altavista and netscape which look absolutely abysmal, and slashdot and Yahoo!, which looks quite poorly coded). Even the w3c's website looks a little different. I think webmasters who are a little to liberal in their coding practices need to re-evaluate the ease of producing nice, clean HTML. Of course, I am a guilty party as well, but this seems to be a serious and widespread problem.
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No offense or anything, but using the Internet to vote is the worst idea ever! There is no guaranteed security. There is no guaranteed anonymity (especially if a citizen has to log in and provide a password). And I hate to break it to you, but Internet access is not even at the halfway mark. Maybe it will be by '04, but disenfranchising 50% of the population is not my idea of a solution to the voting problem. Sure there are internet cafes in most cities, but you shouldn't have to pay to vote. (Why not reinstate the poll tax while you're at it?)
The best ideas I've heard so far are:
Oregon's system of mail in ballots: Everyone gets mail. (And if not everyone, certainly more people than people who get the Internet...you have to give a mailing address when you register to vote anyway). Oregon had 70% voter turnout. While this is still pathetic (there is really almost no excuse for not voting) It is much better than the national average of ~50%. Mail in ballots will have to be postmarked by a certain date, and will be processed within a couple weeks. That might even take care of the media circus that surrounds this ridiculous election day.
Scantron Ballots: Everyone goes to the polling place, takes a number two pencil and bubles in the bubble next to their choice's name. There is no confusion and no binding mis-marked ballot a la florida-buchanan fiasco. The ballots are scanned into a computer which compiles the results. This way, however, is secure because the ballot machines would not be connected to the Internet, but are reported by printout. Plus, if there is data failure, the board of elections still has a hard copy of all the ballots for recount, as opposed to the all electronic system where a network error, power spike, tripping over the power cord, or accidental pressing of the "delete" key can ruin the entire election.
In summary, an all electronic solution is completely stupid and will ruin this country. Thank you for your time.
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Is there any clustering technology available for *BSD? I mean, for someone who has assorted old hardware with many different processors and platforms, NetBSD seems ideal. And for a group of Intel boxes, FreeBSD has always been choice. (sorry:it's just more stable & higher performance than most linux distros--please don't take this as flame-bait, it's just my opinion; what i'm really looking for here is BSD alternatives to Beowulf clustering). And of course, anything that runs on OpenBSD is just kick-ass, although if you're running a cluster that's not connected to the Internet, securing everything is not really necessary, performance is more key. but i guess this might be a case of "just because i can."
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The reason for taxing the stock market has little to do with corporate power. It's more that a tax on the stock market (one fourth of one percent is all he's suggesting...which is nearly statistically insignificant compared to the 2% brokerage fee and is definitely insignificant compared to the price of the stock) because it will raise a lot of money for the government. And Ralph doesn't want that money for the unweildy Democrat- and Republican-run government; he wants it for a new, progressive, helpful government that will provide universal healthcare and education. The politicians don't need this right now because they don't need money for such programs, all they want to do is talk about programs like that and how nice it would be to have that, but how impossible it is. Then, they raise their salaries and raise the defense budget. This comment is probably wasted because you don't seem to either favor or go against the progressive tax. Nevertheless, the comment shall go up.
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It is great that IBM is offering a choice of distributions, rather thatn just RedHat (whihc is what most OEMs do), but there doesn't seem to be any mention of Debian or Slackware, which I thought were very popular. I don't know if they count as "top 4" which is what the article says IBM is supporting, but I know they're very widely used. Is this a sign of corporate foul play or just financial necessity. It doesn't seem that if they're supporting (or at least installing) four different distributions that it would hurt them terribly to install one or two more, especially since Slack users tend to be pretty Linux-savvy already and one could probably say the same about Debian users, too. I'd be inclined to say that IBM is just afraid of non-commercial backing for the distributions it supports, which is unfounded if you ask me.
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check here (for KDE). I am yet to find evidence of this functionality in GNOME, but some user said it might be coming soon, which would be good as long as it's customizable. I think that users should have as many options as possible (with minimal performance drag) and all should be customizable.
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whoa...is this related to M$'s .NET thingie? what's the deal with Mcafee .NET "initiative?"
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do they sell this in I-V form? maybe they can hook it into my brainstem instead...
this kind of bandwith sounds seriously amazing. i hope they deliver.
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isn't that the new kind of ice cream being marketed as "the ice cream of the future"? maybe i'm thinking of something else...
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USA Today, man. What a junk paper. If you look at a reliable new source it says there was no ruling. The only unanimous decision of the court was not to sign the ruling. That's right they just sent the case back to Florida for carification and further consideration. And anyway, you think that even if the supreme court ruled against him that GOre would give up? Gore will not give up until November 2, 2004. After the supreme court, there is the International Court of Justice, and then Gore will probably promote space exploration to find a higher court, ruling over the galaxy. I would not be surprised if this "case" ended up in the hands of the imperial senate. Politics in America are a joke...and not a very good one at that.
I also find it interesting that you belive each candidate cares about federal/state power. Each candidate wants all the power concentrated in the hands of the chief executive and wants to be that chief executive. This election was obviously the a horse race of slime from the start. I cast my vote for Nader who, when he says he cares about "people" does not just mean himself and his running-mate (though gore obviously doesn't care about his running mate & chose conservative leiberman to pander to the right, hoping that picking a jew (yes, I am jewish too) to appease liberals.
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Are there any plans on implementing a journaling file system for OpenBSD? I know that this (along with SMP) is a major factor for enterprise acceptance. IBM has released what it calls "JFS for Linux" and SGI has released its XFS under GPL as a Linux kernel extension, plus there is ReiserFS (now in 2.4, I believe). Because of the GPL, these projects could not be completely integrated into OpenBSD. Although I will remain a faithful OpenBSD user regardless, I was wondering if we can expect a journaling file system in any upcoming releases of OpenBSD.
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www.openbsd.org is just a mirror on a SUNsite (hence the solaris) done as a favor to the OpenBSD project. www.usa.openbsd.org and openbsd.groupbsd.org both run OpenBSD. openbsd.rt.fm has just been added. Note: www.usa.openbsd.org is run from canada (assumedly by the project itself), but I was unable to determine the locations of the other OpenBSD sites, although their IPs are similar. the sunsite running openbsd.org is also in canada.
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I just ordered my CDs yesterday (I know...I was stalling, what can I say). Hopefully, they will come soon. I can't wait. Not such a big fan of the anime guy, even with all the guns, etc., but I will manage :-). OpenBSD rules.
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According the this, the CD is powerpc bootable. Built binary support isn't so great, but you can have fun building your own. I'm thinking of installing this on an iMac...should be an interesting experiement.
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Once The NetBSD Project finishes its Sega Dreamcast Port, and you can upgrade the modem in the Dreamcast to a network card, there will be no reason that you cannot use a dreamcast as a server (as far as I know). They are cheap (relative to the price of a computer) and the wow-factor of running a server off of a Dreamcast is way up there. Of course, network cards may never actually come and the full NetBSD port may never actually come, but I'd love to see this if it ever becomes possible.
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If you have a newer (read: iMac or G4 series) PowerPC Mac, you can run OpenBSD/powerpc. For any other PPC system, try NetBSD/macppc. If you're running a 680x0 version Mac, see OpenBSD/mac68k or NetBSD/Mac68k. To compare with a linux distro for mac, try Yellow Dog Linux, Linuxppc.org, mlinux, or Linux/m68k. I believe Debian runs on macs, too.
Personally, my experience with linux was not so great (I used redhate 5.2 and 6.0 neither of which was very stable or powerful) so I would recommend BSD which is both (not to mention secure as all hell if your machine supports OpenBSD). Perhaps I will give Linux another go when I get another box to put it on. Honestly, it doesn't really matter, as long as you are committed to using a free Unix-like OS and are willing to put in the time to learn the OS, pretty much any BSD or linux will do. Just find what agrees with you most and what is best for your tasks.
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Okay, maybe the subject was a little dramatic, but do you not think it's funny GNU/Linux is UNIX, while GNU specifically stands for GNU's Not Unix. Just a little stupid, misguided drama on their part (I guess I am guilty of a similar stupid, misguided drama). GNU's Not Unix is definitely Unix. Makes you go, "hmm."
From their about page: "Let's face it: GNU/Linux is Unix." (4 paragraphs down after the bold) What a glaring error this is (anyone remember a little ditty that goes something like this: "GNU'S NOT UNIX"?!?) Linux is Linux, GNU is GNU (and most definitely not UNIX). Both are UNIX-like and arguably better, but definitely not the same.
Other than that (a rather large philosophical error in my opinion) the site looks very nice. A very valuable resource, I think. The best of luck to them.
it was a joke...jeez. most higher mathematics courses are beyond the realm of physicists (not that they would need most of a mathematician's "tools," nor am I saying that physicists wouldn't understand the finer points of analysis, advanced algebra, topology, etc...just that most in the path from application->theory, I think that engineering->physics->mathematics is a pretty decent progression that's all.
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Yay...more meaningless statistics. I can bearly contain myself.
Seriously, this is such a biased sampling. It pays no attention to any specialties within fields besides EE as a subfield of engineering and the entire field of parks, recreation, and leisure (whatever that means). It doesn't even explicitly say what it's plotting on the last page (even though it's pretty obvious). Overally, very sketchy. It fails to mention that EE acounted for over 25% of all engineering degrees (I say accounted because these stats are from 1997!).
Make a big stink if you like, but these number mean nothing.
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um, engineering == for people who can't hack it in physics
phys ed == for people who can't hack it in engineering
(physics == for people who can't hack it in mathematics)
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This is just another example of dirty business overrunning politics. I sincerely hope that the FTC does not see AOL opening up to Microsoft as a reason to let the AOL/Time-Warner merger go through. Jeez...out of the pot and into the fire if I've ever been there. Maybe I will just stay o n a university campus forever so I don't have to deal with the ugly direction in which the cable business is going. :-) Oh, I wish. Anyway, once MS get its grubby hands on cable, open access is pretty much through the window. :-)
SPeaking of which, since when are these two nasty corporations on good terms? Anyone remember the MSN messenger/AIM thing? They hate each other. This is obviously just a nasty attempt to get more money/lobbying done for AOL & Time Warner. If this works, I'm declaring independence.
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Migrating to those technologies from (relatively) stable, secure Unix-based solutions seems silly. I know that if I wre a LAN manager, I would be more likely to ban all use of Outlook Express than to make everyone standardize to it. Of course, next time Melissa comes to town, your job will become a whole lot more interesting...
That being said, unless you're experiencing major problems, why change at all? (on the other hand, if you are migrating to win2k-based solutions, I'd be more than willing to take those ultra 2's off your hands) just reply to this and we will work something out.
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I am viewing /. on Amaya right now and I must say that it looks awful compared to its usual Netscape apperance. I checked a bunch of other sites (most notably altavista and netscape which look absolutely abysmal, and slashdot and Yahoo!, which looks quite poorly coded). Even the w3c's website looks a little different. I think webmasters who are a little to liberal in their coding practices need to re-evaluate the ease of producing nice, clean HTML. Of course, I am a guilty party as well, but this seems to be a serious and widespread problem.
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The best ideas I've heard so far are:
In summary, an all electronic solution is completely stupid and will ruin this country. Thank you for your time.
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Is there any clustering technology available for *BSD? I mean, for someone who has assorted old hardware with many different processors and platforms, NetBSD seems ideal. And for a group of Intel boxes, FreeBSD has always been choice. (sorry:it's just more stable & higher performance than most linux distros--please don't take this as flame-bait, it's just my opinion; what i'm really looking for here is BSD alternatives to Beowulf clustering). And of course, anything that runs on OpenBSD is just kick-ass, although if you're running a cluster that's not connected to the Internet, securing everything is not really necessary, performance is more key. but i guess this might be a case of "just because i can."
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The reason for taxing the stock market has little to do with corporate power. It's more that a tax on the stock market (one fourth of one percent is all he's suggesting...which is nearly statistically insignificant compared to the 2% brokerage fee and is definitely insignificant compared to the price of the stock) because it will raise a lot of money for the government. And Ralph doesn't want that money for the unweildy Democrat- and Republican-run government; he wants it for a new, progressive, helpful government that will provide universal healthcare and education. The politicians don't need this right now because they don't need money for such programs, all they want to do is talk about programs like that and how nice it would be to have that, but how impossible it is. Then, they raise their salaries and raise the defense budget. This comment is probably wasted because you don't seem to either favor or go against the progressive tax. Nevertheless, the comment shall go up.
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very cool. thanks.
but is there anything like mathworld anywhere else on the Internet?
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sounds like a good idea F=ma
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