I tried the gift-a-linux-box thing one time for my wife's parents. They're british and senior. Lots of support issues with "Double click" versus "single click".
My view: Set it up once, make it idiot-proof. "Rock-solid". Make it really really easy to use. It worked for a while but they had interopability issues. WordPerfect for Linux didn't exactly render Word files properly. And of course they turned it off improperly and I had to fsck it for them. Also Linux apps have wildly different UI habits.
They now have some ancient crappy version of win98se. It's horrible but I don't have to take every call about why this $5.99 card game cd-rom doesn't work.
This was all in the pre-Ubuntu days. I use Ubuntu, and I still would not want to take a telephone call to explain how to use apt-get to them.
Born Canadian; I lived in Parkes between 1988 and 1989. Nobody else in/. can say that. Even the ozzies I meet say "wtf?".
My advice:
Can you trust somebody who lives next to a giant space telescope? Who knows what planet their allegiance lies with?
Re:He used g++ to compare C++ with Java...
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Java Faster Than C++?
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Intel gives their c++ compiler away free for non-commercial hobbyist use on linux.
The windows version has a free trial that runs for 30 days.
Try it. See if it makes a difference. If it doesn't, torch it. If you find it makes your critical code run 2x faster, then... have a look at what a computer that runs 2x faster will cost you, and then decide what to do.
Google and apache are pretty much ubiquitous. I would expect that in excess of 9 in 10 web surfers rely on resources provided by computers running linux.
FYI - The retail and investment banking parts of RBC are independent member companies: About RBC
The teller making $32000 a year is not going to have a clue what up with the boys in Investment Banking. These guys can make up to seven figures doing a job very few people in the population can understand. Bottom line: IB guys will never hear about it.
It would be more influential if you were a big retail investor, like a pension fund, and you said "you guys are facilitating a scam that is dicking around with my $50M in IBM stock".
I found two particular bits on the extras discs interesting: The discussion of Arwen at Helm's Deep, as it pertains to 'net fans. (Liv Tyler cried about the "Xena" debate). The other was the bit where Faramir sees Frodo turn into a Gollum-like monster, deformed by the ring.
It showed more fully the sacrifices made in a very bittersweet way -- especially as you see Frodo, who risked so much to save the Shire, relegated to a side-note among his own people. Merry and Pippin, who really did not contribute much (with the possible exception of Merry) to the overall victory.
My understanding is that Tolkein was writing about the homecoming experience of many sad WWI veterans. (He saw many friends killed in this war).
1) the cocoa version of emacs I was using is broken by panther
2) the version of x11 I downloaded from apple is not automatically updated. You must update it manually from disc 3. Note that the old one is broken by panther.
I also needed to reinstall Microsoft Office X, but it is working fine now.
Two things I have heard - you need to have a credit card with a billing address in the US. I could tell my powerbook that I lived in the US (versus Canada, where I really live) and plug in my brother's credit card, and all would be well. But it's a hassle. The second thing - supposedly if you buy in the US and then move to, say, Canada -- your music will stop working if you update your billing address to non-US.
FWIW - I could be wrong; I haven't tested any of this.
I've recently started a new job where I have to use NT on the desktop. Missing Solaris/Linux, I downloaded Cygwin. After using it every day for a month, I am surprised and quite impressed with the Cygwin developer toolchain. I have access to Hummingbird Exceed at work, but prefer using the Cygwin/Xfree86 because I know it better.
A couple of caveats though: XFree86 runs in a frame buffer. So, no "rootless" mode. Also, it's surpisingly tricky/not possible to get ntemacs to run on XFree86. Use Xemacs instead.
I believe they do have a binary though; the 3dmd thing that rebuilds arrays etc. I bought a 6400 (cheap) last year and it works great. However, at one point last autumn, they (3ware) said they were going to stop making escalades altogether. A few weeks later they recanted. But one gets the idea that if they de-support the escalade, then it's the scenario the nvidia alarmists point to.
I'm curious if the configurer considered JBOD and software raid5?
I have one of the cheapie 3ware cards (6400, $100 on sale). When configuring I read an interesting web page (Google cache) about using arrays of 6800's in JBOD mode (and letting the O/S do the RAID5 math.)
The advantage to this is that if you have 32 drives, you have 31 drives worth of information and 1 drive of redundancy information. With four 8-drive cards, you get 1 raid5 checksum drive per sub-array and hence only 28 drives worth of information.
Of course the 6xxx series has poor performance raid5 anyway, so software raid5 makes more sense.
According to TORN, most places will be able to see the trailer friday, not saturday.
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Actually, another ice age has been theorized. Europe could enter another ice age because of global warming.
Worldwide ecology is a complicated system, and Europe owes much of its warmth to actions of salty atlantic ocean currents. We don't know if the North Atlantic thermohaline circulation locations will move farther from europe... but if it did, let's just note that in Canada, there are polar bears at Edinburgh's latitude. Of course, it might also move closer, and europe could get even warmer.
I live in Canada and heard about these a month ago. According to my favorite retailer, the Rino isn't approved for Canada yet. I looked into things in a little more detail and also discovered that travelling worldwide with GMRS equipment is of dubious legality outside the US.
This is how my DSL provider works. I get 5 Gigs free downloads per month, but if I use their proxy, that doesn't count towards my total. If I go over 5 gigs per month (which is about 170mb per day), I pay what my ISP pays for additional bandwidth: $10 per additional GB.
I have never gone over the 5 gigs.
Fave feature on my GPS
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I have an eTrex by Garmin. It has MapSource installed, giving it points of interest data. Finding the nearest bank machine or pub or gas station is pretty cool, and has proved truly useful at times.
If anyone is interested, you can browse the maps online; e.g. Like Here
I thought this was great, too. But for the non-book-reader crowd, there is a movie foreshadow: Bilbo alluded to this at his party, when he was entertaining some wee little hobbits.
Slashdot Mirror
I tried the gift-a-linux-box thing one time for my wife's parents. They're british and senior. Lots of support issues with "Double click" versus "single click".
My view: Set it up once, make it idiot-proof. "Rock-solid". Make it really really easy to use. It worked for a while but they had interopability issues. WordPerfect for Linux didn't exactly render Word files properly. And of course they turned it off improperly and I had to fsck it for them. Also Linux apps have wildly different UI habits.
They now have some ancient crappy version of win98se. It's horrible but I don't have to take every call about why this $5.99 card game cd-rom doesn't work.
This was all in the pre-Ubuntu days. I use Ubuntu, and I still would not want to take a telephone call to explain how to use apt-get to them.
Born Canadian; I lived in Parkes between 1988 and 1989. Nobody else in /. can say that. Even the ozzies I meet say "wtf?".
My advice:
Can you trust somebody who lives next to a giant space telescope? Who knows what planet their allegiance lies with?
Intel gives their c++ compiler away free for non-commercial hobbyist use on linux.
The windows version has a free trial that runs for 30 days.
Try it. See if it makes a difference. If it doesn't, torch it. If you find it makes your critical code run 2x faster, then... have a look at what a computer that runs 2x faster will cost you, and then decide what to do.
Google and apache are pretty much ubiquitous. I would expect that in excess of 9 in 10 web surfers rely on resources provided by computers running linux.
FYI - The retail and investment banking parts of RBC are independent member companies: About RBC
The teller making $32000 a year is not going to have a clue what up with the boys in Investment Banking. These guys can make up to seven figures doing a job very few people in the population can understand. Bottom line: IB guys will never hear about it.
It would be more influential if you were a big retail investor, like a pension fund, and you said "you guys are facilitating a scam that is dicking around with my $50M in IBM stock".
I found two particular bits on the extras discs interesting: The discussion of Arwen at Helm's Deep, as it pertains to 'net fans. (Liv Tyler cried about the "Xena" debate). The other was the bit where Faramir sees Frodo turn into a Gollum-like monster, deformed by the ring.
It showed more fully the sacrifices made in a very bittersweet way -- especially as you see Frodo, who risked so much to save the Shire, relegated to a side-note among his own people. Merry and Pippin, who really did not contribute much (with the possible exception of Merry) to the overall victory.
My understanding is that Tolkein was writing about the homecoming experience of many sad WWI veterans. (He saw many friends killed in this war).
There is evidence to suggest working batteries in use 2000 years ago:
The Baghdad Battery
The ads ran in BYTE iirc. Seemed like a neat idea, but impractical.
I tried the directions on this web page --
/usr/local/bin/emacs
I get the following now:
$
Fatal error (6).Abort trap
Any advice?
Agreed -- but if you already have X11 installed, the default Panther installer will fail to detect it, and at the end, the version you have won't run.
When you insert disc 3, the X11 installer will find your old X11 installation and upgrade it.
Just an installation thing. X11 should have been autodetected, and wasn't.
I forgot to add there is this new "Xcode" disc... which supposedly replaces Project Builder. I use the command line, so I note the following:
....
gcc --version
gcc (GCC) 3.3 20030304 (Apple Computer, In. build 1495)
Copyright (C) 2002 Free Software Foundation Inc.
Panther is cool; I like "Expose" pretty well.
For those unix types I have two issues so far:
1) the cocoa version of emacs I was using is broken by panther
2) the version of x11 I downloaded from apple is not automatically updated. You must update it manually from disc 3. Note that the old one is broken by panther.
I also needed to reinstall Microsoft Office X, but it is working fine now.
Two things I have heard - you need to have a credit card with a billing address in the US. I could tell my powerbook that I lived in the US (versus Canada, where I really live) and plug in my brother's credit card, and all would be well. But it's a hassle. The second thing - supposedly if you buy in the US and then move to, say, Canada -- your music will stop working if you update your billing address to non-US.
FWIW - I could be wrong; I haven't tested any of this.
PS - iTunes in Canada this fall?
I've recently started a new job where I have to use NT on the desktop. Missing Solaris/Linux, I downloaded Cygwin. After using it every day for a month, I am surprised and quite impressed with the Cygwin developer toolchain. I have access to Hummingbird Exceed at work, but prefer using the Cygwin/Xfree86 because I know it better.
A couple of caveats though: XFree86 runs in a frame buffer. So, no "rootless" mode. Also, it's surpisingly tricky/not possible to get ntemacs to run on XFree86. Use Xemacs instead.
I believe they do have a binary though; the 3dmd thing that rebuilds arrays etc. I bought a 6400 (cheap) last year and it works great. However, at one point last autumn, they (3ware) said they were going to stop making escalades altogether. A few weeks later they recanted. But one gets the idea that if they de-support the escalade, then it's the scenario the nvidia alarmists point to.
I'm curious if the configurer considered JBOD and software raid5?
I have one of the cheapie 3ware cards (6400, $100 on sale). When configuring I read an interesting web page (Google cache) about using arrays of 6800's in JBOD mode (and letting the O/S do the RAID5 math.)
The advantage to this is that if you have 32 drives, you have 31 drives worth of information and 1 drive of redundancy information. With four 8-drive cards, you get 1 raid5 checksum drive per sub-array and hence only 28 drives worth of information.
Of course the 6xxx series has poor performance raid5 anyway, so software raid5 makes more sense.
According to TORN, most places will be able to see the trailer friday, not saturday.
Actually, another ice age has been theorized. Europe could enter another ice age because of global warming.
Worldwide ecology is a complicated system, and Europe owes much of its warmth to actions of salty atlantic ocean currents. We don't know if the North Atlantic thermohaline circulation locations will move farther from europe... but if it did, let's just note that in Canada, there are polar bears at Edinburgh's latitude. Of course, it might also move closer, and europe could get even warmer.
Some more information: Natural Science Article, The Atlantic Online
ps - I'm not sure if I really buy all this, but the lack of certainty does inspire some concern.
I live in Canada and heard about these a month ago. According to my favorite retailer, the Rino isn't approved for Canada yet. I looked into things in a little more detail and also discovered that travelling worldwide with GMRS equipment is of dubious legality outside the US.
This is how my DSL provider works. I get 5 Gigs free downloads per month, but if I use their proxy, that doesn't count towards my total. If I go over 5 gigs per month (which is about 170mb per day), I pay what my ISP pays for additional bandwidth: $10 per additional GB.
I have never gone over the 5 gigs.
I have an eTrex by Garmin. It has MapSource installed, giving it points of interest data. Finding the nearest bank machine or pub or gas station is pretty cool, and has proved truly useful at times.
If anyone is interested, you can browse the maps online; e.g. Like Here
I thought this was great, too. But for the non-book-reader crowd, there is a movie foreshadow: Bilbo alluded to this at his party, when he was entertaining some wee little hobbits.
If you are worried about your machine being out of date, just do this:
% telnet 127.0.0.1 22
Trying 127.0.0.1...
Connected to localhost.localdomain (127.0.0.1).
Escape character is '^]'.
SSH-1.99-OpenSSH_2.9p2
if you see OpenSSH before version 2.3, you may be vulnerable (iff you have fallback to ssh1)
Just a quick note -- I am pretty sure the LCD is more like 12" on the iBook. Other than that, it is pretty nice.