The population of the earth is around 6 billion. How can there be 450 billion people in Europe? Probably a typo of the order of 10^3. They must mean 450 million.
A couple of weeks back, I started off to build my own PC "from scratch".
I found the following information on Intel's website to be very helpful:
http://www.intel.com/personal/resources/index.htm
NOTE: All the above information at this website gives information for building a PC using only Intel branded components (surprise??).
However, for a first-time PC assembler like myself, it was extremely helpful. I did a lot of reading and I assembled my PC with no problems whatsoever.
Next time I build my PC, I'll get more adventurous and try "not so well documented but cool" hardware (i.e. AMD alongwith other cheaper priced motherboards).
I bought the components at www.zipzoomfly.com and I loved the free shipping and frugal pricing.
It would be a good point to note that only the more recent releases of the Linux kernel suport Serial ATA.
I recently assembled a PC with a IBM-Hitachi Deskstar SATA hard drive and Redhat 9 would not recognize it. I then downloaded SUSE Personal edition 9.1 and I had no problems installing SUSE Linux. However, I need a Linux distro with more bundled software than what the SUSE personal edition provides. As I post this note, I'm downloading Fedora Core-2. I hope that Fedora Core-2 recognizes my SATA drive.
I found very little information regarding Linux SATA support on the web. I also posted some questions to comp.os.linux.redhat and got no replies.
It would be nice to know which sites offer up information on Linux SATA support and more important which distros support SATA "out of the box".
I have just begun to work on VAJ, coming from a UNIX command line environment. I have done a lot of Java development using the JDK and command line tools.
VAJ is quite frustrating for me presently. It gives me the kind of feeling you get when you switch from driving a stick shift to an automatic. Loss of control.
The IDE generates a ton of code and presents a visual information overload... ALso getting rid of stuff is tedious... you have to delete from the workspace, then the repository and then compact the repository to get rid of stuff..
Then there is the concept of the repository, and their justification for it is that files are troublesome to deal with... DUH?? I have written tons of C++ code.. and used make... never had a problem... also should your repository on Windoze get corrupted, you are screwed.. repositor backup is all or nothing.. you cannot fine grain it...such as limit it to a few files... And then there's the workspace vs. repository concept.. and try doing remote development over a dialup and try downloading a remote repository.... you will be screaming for files...
MS is getting pretty anal about their licensing.. so if you have several PC's at home and u wanted to upgrade to the latest version of Windoze u would have to buy copies for each of the machines in the future.. Not so when it comes to buying a Linux upgrade...
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The population of the earth is around 6 billion. How can there be 450 billion people in Europe? Probably a typo of the order of 10^3. They must mean 450 million.
http://world.honda.com/FuelCell/
Also, an article on this story at Honda's website: http://world.honda.com/news/2005/4050629.html
A couple of weeks back, I started off to build my own PC "from scratch".
I found the following information on Intel's website to be very helpful:
http://www.intel.com/personal/resources/index.htm
NOTE: All the above information at this website gives information for building a PC using only Intel branded components (surprise??).
However, for a first-time PC assembler like myself, it was extremely helpful. I did a lot of reading and I assembled my PC with no problems whatsoever.
Next time I build my PC, I'll get more adventurous and try "not so well documented but cool" hardware (i.e. AMD alongwith other cheaper priced motherboards). I bought the components at www.zipzoomfly.com and I loved the free shipping and frugal pricing.
It would be a good point to note that only the more recent releases of the Linux kernel suport Serial ATA.
I recently assembled a PC with a IBM-Hitachi Deskstar SATA hard drive and Redhat 9 would not recognize it. I then downloaded SUSE Personal edition 9.1 and I had no problems installing SUSE Linux. However, I need a Linux distro with more bundled software than what the SUSE personal edition provides. As I post this note, I'm downloading Fedora Core-2. I hope that Fedora Core-2 recognizes my SATA drive.
I found very little information regarding Linux SATA support on the web. I also posted some questions to comp.os.linux.redhat and got no replies.
It would be nice to know which sites offer up information on Linux SATA support and more important which distros support SATA "out of the box".
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I have just begun to work on VAJ, coming from a UNIX command line environment. I have done a lot of Java development using the JDK and command line tools.
VAJ is quite frustrating for me presently. It gives me the kind of feeling you get when you switch from driving a stick shift to an automatic. Loss of control.
The IDE generates a ton of code and presents a visual information overload... ALso getting rid of stuff is tedious... you have to delete from the workspace, then the repository and then compact the repository to get rid of stuff..
Then there is the concept of the repository, and their justification for it is that files are troublesome to deal with... DUH?? I have written tons of C++ code.. and used make... never had a problem... also should your repository on Windoze get corrupted, you are screwed.. repositor backup is all or nothing.. you cannot fine grain it...such as limit it to a few files... And then there's the workspace vs. repository concept.. and try doing remote development over a dialup and try downloading a remote repository.... you will be screaming for files...
Ok.., I'm done bitchin...
MS is getting pretty anal about their licensing.. so if you have several PC's at home and u wanted to upgrade to the latest version of Windoze u would have to buy copies for each of the machines in the future.. Not so when it comes to buying a Linux upgrade...