Arrgh NFS is annoying... ever temporarily mount a path and forget to unmount it before you reboot the server? (not a main server or anything, just the one providing NFS). I have some nested mounts on one machine, and there's nothing more fun than doing a "mount" on the command line and seeing it mounted 14-15 times because you can't unmount it. And yes, I tried soft mounting, but I get seek errors...
Phoebe (8.0.94) has 2.4.20 (too many versions!!!)... it includes the O(1) scheduler and some latency patches... the desktop is really quite snappy (X 4.3 will be included, Phoebe is working off a pre-4.3 snapshot). I hope 9 includes Nautilus 2.2.2 because the GNOME team added some speed increases there too.
Anyways, the nVidia drivers (the kernel module component) needs some changes to be able to run on the beta (they're available, but not from nvidia directly), but I suspect nVidia will have this released shortly after RH9. Additionally, some third-party stuff will have to be relinked, because of thread local storage stuff and the new NTPL -- Redhat backported a lot of stuff from the 2.5 series. Hence the 9.0 release (IMHO) since an 8.1 release would seem to imply that it's relatively backwards-compatible. It seems there are too many low-level interface changes to justify a point release.
Some drivers are already ready for the 2.5 kernel (as ready as you can get for software-in-progress), so you just need to hack the version numbers a little bit to get it to compile properly -- for example, the PowerVR drivers. Specifically, the VM API has changed quite a bit, so when RH backported these changes, they got the new API as well.
The beta looks really nice though, especially with GNOME 2.2. And CD burning is integrated in Nautilus (drag-and-drop, then click the burn icon, and it writes it to disc). Very nice stuff is on its way...
RTFA: The stickers came first... the criminals WANT the stickers there so people can call them and can get scammed out of their money.
So the police record the number and spam it at 20-second intervals. The police _did not_ put up the stickers, the criminals did -- that's where the police get the numbers.
That you will... (c) indemnify, hold harmless, and defend Microsoft from and against any claims or lawsuits, including attorneys' fees, that arise or result from the use or distribution of your modifications to the Software and any additional software you distribute along with the Software.
It's worse than that... if somebody sues Microsoft because you distributed modified versions of their software, and someone's balls get cut off, you have to agree to defend Microsoft including attorneys' fees against such lawsuits.
My understanding was the code morphing technology would convert IA code to the native transmeta chip's code, a bit like microinstructions. So it doesn't necessarily support any other architecture. But I could be wrong... nss
I wonder what portions of 'you' would be noticeably different to your family & friends?
I don't think the word should be "different", but "better". Things like Alzheimer's can be disastrous to your family. You disappear, and a completely different, and usually unwanted, person is the replacement. It's a horrible disease.
When snow collects on mountains, it increases the earth's radius ever so slightly... so the actual day span increases by a fraction of a second. It's a small fraction though, but it still exists. This happens more during the winter when the earth is farther away from the sun. Anyways, it's nothing to get worried about. We've been dealing with rotational inconsistencies for awhile.
What's the average length of a day? Something like 23 hours, 59 minutes and 56 seconds or something like that. Which is why we have a leap year:
If the year is divisible by 4
Unless it's divisible by 100
But always if it's divisible by 400
So hey... leapYear = ((year%400)==0)||(((year%4)==0)&&((year%100)!=0));
Can someone answer this though: Do we manually synchronize our clocks every once and awhile (say every few years anyways) just to make sure? I heard a rumor about it (most people have to reset their clocks after the power goes out anyways, and PC clocks are horribly inaccurate), so is this true?
Oh wait, I was wrong. That 1997 filing was in a previous case with which Intel settled. Intergraph then sued a bunch of PC makers in 2002, and I'm assuming the alleged infringement would have been for no later than 1996... so 6 years between the initial infringement and the filing of the suit.
OK, so I guess Intergraph missed the mark... I believe they had patents on their Clipper chip from no later than 1993... so the Pentium came out when?... I can't remember, 1995 maybe?... Intergraph filed suit in 1997, which is only two years. Still, there's something to be said about 97% of your net profit coming from lawsuits:).
Trademarks suffer social degredation over time. They can become common words (aspirin, xerox, kleenex, bandaids, etc, etc, etc). Additionally, they're only a name or logo, not a design or structured idea.
You have to defend trademarks, not patents or copyrights. You can sit and let a patent stagnate for 10 years and then sue the balls off everyone later. The justification? They should have done their market research.
Look at Intergraph... CNet news claims (got this from the last posting about SCO vs. IBM): "In 2002, Intergraph's income from operations was $10 million, but its net income including legal settlements was $378 million."
Nasty stuff. Anyways, IIRC, Intergraph sued Intel and some other companies because of some kind of architecture design the Pentium used, specifically the system bus. Not sure if that's accurate, but try here and here.
I don't know where you're getting the PowerVR. I haven't been terribly impressed with their drivers. Until recently, they didn't even have AGP support, nor XVideo support. The XVideo support is still very buggy. Specifically, I've been experiencing the following on RH8:
- No RH8 support (the last driver release was Oct. 2002) - Drivers built with GCC 2.95.x, so they won't load safely with stock kernels built with GCC 3.x - Complete system freezes when watching full-screen TV. - Horrible sound quality when watching TV and playing sound at the same time. - Disgusting flicker in 3D apps, including texture blockiness and artifacts.
Ever hear measurements like "the length of 3 football fields"? It puts it in perspective. Granted, the picture of the chip next to the fly did it for me, but "a web server in a housefly" is a little more zany (and understandable wrt to size) than a web server in a 10mm x 10mm x 3mm chip (or whatever the dimensions are).
I don't agree with that at all. Imagine an accountant, sitting at her desk, working on a balance sheet, and she gets a tap on her shoulder. She loses complete focus, makes a mistake, and has to take several minutes to get back into things. Her work suffers because she has all these people tapping her on the shoulder asking for help. She's not a programmer, but this situation represents many in thousands of occupations.
Similar with programmers. If you have a roomful of programmers, they can be the most social animals in the world (I say "could"). But when it's time to work, they sit quietly for hours on end, doing their work. A second of interruption can cause minutes of lost time. Several interruptions during the day and those minutes add up to an hour, or more.
Instead, you have a small applet/icon on your panel/taskbar that changes color when you have an incoming message. So you can take 30-45 seconds or so to finish your idea so you don't lose it right on the spot.
There's nothing more startling than a roomful of people, quietly typing away, not much noise, etc., and all of a sudden somebody says, "Hey Bob! What did you think you were doing on line 435 of someprojectmarshal.c?". Everybody loses their train of thought automatically, because they sense a disruption.
Even if you're used to people shouting across the room or talking to a person 4 feet away from them, it can still be disruptive. You subconsciously pick up pieces of the sentences until your brain gets interested in that and you completely lose focus on your work.
I don't care if it's 4 inches, 4 feet, or 4 yards. Any special sounds (special ie: talking, not special ie: keypress, tapping, breathing, etc.) can disrupt your work more than you might think, because it's directed, focused, and rarely ambient.
And these same people who can sit quietly and work can go out that same evening and throw back a few beers, hit on some chicks, etc, etc. Some are geeks, some aren't. But most people would like relative silence when they work.
(Just trying to debunk your cool if programmers had social skills, though I doubt it'll work).
And turn off those "UH OH!"'s in ICQ. They somewhat defeat the purpose of silent messaging.
Red Hat 8.1 beta (Phoebe) has xfree86 4.2.99.3 packaged... since then, XFree86.org has released several more snapshots (.4,.901 and.902)... I've been running the snapshots (.3 and most recently.902) for awhile now....3 had a problem with the nvidia driver... once X came up, I couldn't Ctrl+Alt+F# to a terminal, but that was fixed fairly quickly.
Anyways, RH is likely waiting to test all these newfangled toys. GNOME 2.2 came out, and now that X4.3 is out, RH8.1 shouldn't be too far behind:). Be patient!;)
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... that's strange, I thought they were considering Opteron.
$150,000 * 652,000
... ohh, about a factor of a thousand?
= $97,800,000,000
= $97,800,000 thousand
= $97,800 million
= $97.8 billion
I think they're off by,
At my university:
Classes tought with C#: 0
Classes tought with Java: 6
Classes taught for spelling: priceless
Some things standards can buy. For everything else, there's bad grammar.
strange NFS starvation
Arrgh NFS is annoying... ever temporarily mount a path and forget to unmount it before you reboot the server? (not a main server or anything, just the one providing NFS). I have some nested mounts on one machine, and there's nothing more fun than doing a "mount" on the command line and seeing it mounted 14-15 times because you can't unmount it. And yes, I tried soft mounting, but I get seek errors...
Phoebe (8.0.94) has 2.4.20 (too many versions!!!)... it includes the O(1) scheduler and some latency patches... the desktop is really quite snappy (X 4.3 will be included, Phoebe is working off a pre-4.3 snapshot). I hope 9 includes Nautilus 2.2.2 because the GNOME team added some speed increases there too.
Anyways, the nVidia drivers (the kernel module component) needs some changes to be able to run on the beta (they're available, but not from nvidia directly), but I suspect nVidia will have this released shortly after RH9. Additionally, some third-party stuff will have to be relinked, because of thread local storage stuff and the new NTPL -- Redhat backported a lot of stuff from the 2.5 series. Hence the 9.0 release (IMHO) since an 8.1 release would seem to imply that it's relatively backwards-compatible. It seems there are too many low-level interface changes to justify a point release.
Some drivers are already ready for the 2.5 kernel (as ready as you can get for software-in-progress), so you just need to hack the version numbers a little bit to get it to compile properly -- for example, the PowerVR drivers. Specifically, the VM API has changed quite a bit, so when RH backported these changes, they got the new API as well.
The beta looks really nice though, especially with GNOME 2.2. And CD burning is integrated in Nautilus (drag-and-drop, then click the burn icon, and it writes it to disc). Very nice stuff is on its way...
RTFA: The stickers came first... the criminals WANT the stickers there so people can call them and can get scammed out of their money.
So the police record the number and spam it at 20-second intervals. The police _did not_ put up the stickers, the criminals did -- that's where the police get the numbers.
hmmmmm. I think Im going to whip out monkey
You might want to put the keyboard and mouse down before you do that.
Pam Anderson has already cornered this market.
Twice!
That you will ... (c) indemnify, hold harmless, and defend Microsoft from and against any claims or lawsuits, including attorneys' fees, that arise or result from the use or distribution of your modifications to the Software and any additional software you distribute along with the Software.
It's worse than that... if somebody sues Microsoft because you distributed modified versions of their software, and someone's balls get cut off, you have to agree to defend Microsoft including attorneys' fees against such lawsuits.
"The Real-time Operating system Nucleus" should be called "TROSN"
Bless you.
My understanding was the code morphing technology would convert IA code to the native transmeta chip's code, a bit like microinstructions. So it doesn't necessarily support any other architecture. But I could be wrong... nss
Are there any neat things you would like to see in a case?
I would love to see a giant wad of cash in my case. Then I'd use it to buy a laptop.
I wonder what portions of 'you' would be noticeably different to your family & friends?
I don't think the word should be "different", but "better". Things like Alzheimer's can be disastrous to your family. You disappear, and a completely different, and usually unwanted, person is the replacement. It's a horrible disease.
Actually, the MS Word XP autosummary might look a little more like this:
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Ouch, you're absolutely right.
Very cool...
When snow collects on mountains, it increases the earth's radius ever so slightly... so the actual day span increases by a fraction of a second. It's a small fraction though, but it still exists. This happens more during the winter when the earth is farther away from the sun. Anyways, it's nothing to get worried about. We've been dealing with rotational inconsistencies for awhile.
;
What's the average length of a day? Something like 23 hours, 59 minutes and 56 seconds or something like that. Which is why we have a leap year:
If the year is divisible by 4
Unless it's divisible by 100
But always if it's divisible by 400
So hey... leapYear = ((year%400)==0)||(((year%4)==0)&&((year%100)!=0))
Can someone answer this though: Do we manually synchronize our clocks every once and awhile (say every few years anyways) just to make sure? I heard a rumor about it (most people have to reset their clocks after the power goes out anyways, and PC clocks are horribly inaccurate), so is this true?
Oh wait, I was wrong. That 1997 filing was in a previous case with which Intel settled. Intergraph then sued a bunch of PC makers in 2002, and I'm assuming the alleged infringement would have been for no later than 1996... so 6 years between the initial infringement and the filing of the suit.
OK, so I guess Intergraph missed the mark... I believe they had patents on their Clipper chip from no later than 1993... so the Pentium came out when?... I can't remember, 1995 maybe?... Intergraph filed suit in 1997, which is only two years. Still, there's something to be said about 97% of your net profit coming from lawsuits :).
Trademarks suffer social degredation over time. They can become common words (aspirin, xerox, kleenex, bandaids, etc, etc, etc). Additionally, they're only a name or logo, not a design or structured idea.
You have to defend trademarks, not patents or copyrights. You can sit and let a patent stagnate for 10 years and then sue the balls off everyone later. The justification? They should have done their market research.
Look at Intergraph... CNet news claims (got this from the last posting about SCO vs. IBM): "In 2002, Intergraph's income from operations was $10 million, but its net income including legal settlements was $378 million."
Nasty stuff. Anyways, IIRC, Intergraph sued Intel and some other companies because of some kind of architecture design the Pentium used, specifically the system bus. Not sure if that's accurate, but try here and here.
Makes me want to get an arts degree, frankly.
Wouldn't that be blackmail?
"Hey, I'm calling about your impending doom... I have a way out. Deny my offer, and suffer..."
as PowerVR and nVidia have done
I don't know where you're getting the PowerVR. I haven't been terribly impressed with their drivers. Until recently, they didn't even have AGP support, nor XVideo support. The XVideo support is still very buggy. Specifically, I've been experiencing the following on RH8:
- No RH8 support (the last driver release was Oct. 2002)
- Drivers built with GCC 2.95.x, so they won't load safely with stock kernels built with GCC 3.x
- Complete system freezes when watching full-screen TV.
- Horrible sound quality when watching TV and playing sound at the same time.
- Disgusting flicker in 3D apps, including texture blockiness and artifacts.
Ever hear measurements like "the length of 3 football fields"? It puts it in perspective. Granted, the picture of the chip next to the fly did it for me, but "a web server in a housefly" is a little more zany (and understandable wrt to size) than a web server in a 10mm x 10mm x 3mm chip (or whatever the dimensions are).
Why?... well why not?
I don't agree with that at all. Imagine an accountant, sitting at her desk, working on a balance sheet, and she gets a tap on her shoulder. She loses complete focus, makes a mistake, and has to take several minutes to get back into things. Her work suffers because she has all these people tapping her on the shoulder asking for help. She's not a programmer, but this situation represents many in thousands of occupations.
Similar with programmers. If you have a roomful of programmers, they can be the most social animals in the world (I say "could"). But when it's time to work, they sit quietly for hours on end, doing their work. A second of interruption can cause minutes of lost time. Several interruptions during the day and those minutes add up to an hour, or more.
Instead, you have a small applet/icon on your panel/taskbar that changes color when you have an incoming message. So you can take 30-45 seconds or so to finish your idea so you don't lose it right on the spot.
There's nothing more startling than a roomful of people, quietly typing away, not much noise, etc., and all of a sudden somebody says, "Hey Bob! What did you think you were doing on line 435 of someprojectmarshal.c?". Everybody loses their train of thought automatically, because they sense a disruption.
Even if you're used to people shouting across the room or talking to a person 4 feet away from them, it can still be disruptive. You subconsciously pick up pieces of the sentences until your brain gets interested in that and you completely lose focus on your work.
I don't care if it's 4 inches, 4 feet, or 4 yards. Any special sounds (special ie: talking, not special ie: keypress, tapping, breathing, etc.) can disrupt your work more than you might think, because it's directed, focused, and rarely ambient.
And these same people who can sit quietly and work can go out that same evening and throw back a few beers, hit on some chicks, etc, etc. Some are geeks, some aren't. But most people would like relative silence when they work.
(Just trying to debunk your cool if programmers had social skills, though I doubt it'll work).
And turn off those "UH OH!"'s in ICQ. They somewhat defeat the purpose of silent messaging.
Red Hat 8.1 beta (Phoebe) has xfree86 4.2.99.3 packaged... since then, XFree86.org has released several more snapshots (.4, .901 and .902)... I've been running the snapshots (.3 and most recently .902) for awhile now... .3 had a problem with the nvidia driver... once X came up, I couldn't Ctrl+Alt+F# to a terminal, but that was fixed fairly quickly.
:). Be patient! ;)
Anyways, RH is likely waiting to test all these newfangled toys. GNOME 2.2 came out, and now that X4.3 is out, RH8.1 shouldn't be too far behind