Nearly every O/S out there? Their download page has clients for Windows, Linux, and OS-X. That may represent every O/S you deal with, but it's a short list when I read it.
Notably missing are clients for Solaris, AIX, HP-UX, Irix, *BSD, and DOS, just off the top of my head.
Certainly, some of these operating systems, if added, might have a negligible effect, but others could certainly contribute. One of the best advantages of these distributed efforts is cross-platform support, and while FAH has a good head start, they've got a ways to go.
They're coming, though. From their site:
With the OS X client released, we are now working on porting to other unixes, including Solaris, IRIX, and AIX. At this time, we have not set a release date for these new versions.
Hmm... I am unsure about why this is bad. My filesystem layout (/usr,/var,/lib etc.) is the way it is so that (ostensibly) is most efficient for how my O/S uses it. FreeBSD, for instance, handles filesytems like/var and/etc differently based on how often and in what way files on those mount points are changed.
Also, certain files like those in/etc and/var are there for a reason, since files in those directories are there (mostly) because they serve the same purpose; configurations in the case of/etc, variable data and log files in the case of/var, and so on.
On the other hand, my K Menu is arranged in a manner more consistent with the way I use my computer. My Office-like programs are in one place, shells and so forth in another, et cetera.
I'm not sure I'd want everything arranged one way for my use and my O/S's health and speed.
Right. A well-behaved windowing application should never steal focus from the current focused window, unless you've explicitly instructed it to do so (though I lack an example; I don't know of any instance in which I'd want this to happen).
If the app doesn't have that capabilty, crack open the source tar and add it/change it at your whim. Some folks may even like your change, like, oh, I dunno, the author?
That's Open Source, to me. Perhaps behaviour isn't standardized in the GUI space, perhaps it shouldn't be, but on MY machine it is, since I can change what I don't like.
I wasn't very clear, either. =) I was rushed, and intended to support you, not dissemble with you.
I don't think your argument is made weaker by the existence of secret programs - the goals were very different from what the "Moon Hoaxers" purport NASA did: Betchley and the Stealth program tried to keep secret something which was acutally occurring; the "Moon Hoax" allegedly attempted to display as fact something which did not actually happen - a much harder task, and therefore much less likely to succeed.
I do think there are much better arguments against the accusations the moon hoax proponents make, though. We have the facts on our side; the burden of proof that the moon missions "didn't happen" is on those who claim such. For many reasons, when people start droning on about how it was all "faked", I leave the room, since I get angry at them for suggesting it. My reason is very personal: I was present at the launch of the shuttle Columbia's first flight.
I remember so vividly the incredible sound it made; that thunderous, inescapible roar. Even at the distance from which we watched, I felt the reality of the space program within my very bones. The child I was that day didn't fully understand the majesty of the power he witnessed, but the adult I am now, I think, does. It still makes me choked with pride when I think of it.
The idea that people would suggest that what I feel was one of mankind's greatest acheivements was nothing more than an elaborate parlor trick makes me sick to my stomach. I think Buzz Aldrin had the right idea. =)
I can't help but believe that anyone who's been present at a launch of one of those incredible machines would be struck by the pure physicality of it in such a way as to erase all measure of doubt from their minds. There is none in mine. I was fed a large dose of a wonderful, rare form of sustanance that day. I call it wonder, and I suspect those people who have nothing better to do than badmouth NASA and the space program have not a shred of it left.
You proceed from a false assumption. Just because a thing is possible doesn't mean it happened, or is even likely.
Showing that it's possible that NASA faked the Moon landings supports the theory that they did in fact do so in no way whatsoever.
Sure, Betchley Park was a well-kept secret. So was the F-117's operation and existence for 10 years. But that says absolutely ZERO about the moon missions.
There are several links you could use to find this out. here is one.
"The Moon" is Earth's sattelite's common name, but Luna is perfectly appropriate. So with The Sun and "Sol".
The Earth is also called Terra, but it's much less common to see that anywhere.
65?? Your electric utility must charge you much less than mine does. I keep my house set for 76F (24C), to avoid only those hottest days, and keep the humidity down (which is my real goal). Remember, A/C removes humidity, too, which is a stronger influence on how much heat you feel, since it hampers the body's natural ability to cool itself. If the temperature outside is less than about 80F/26C, we turn the A/C off if the humidity is tolerable (which isn't often here in Minnesota).
I'd agree... I'd love to be able to see the entire book made into a movie, page by page. I would have liked that with Dune, too. =) Certain allowances have to be made, though. I think Peter Jackson did a wonderful job of trimming the book for the film format, and I look forward to seeing the extended scenes, where I can veiw them in comfort, on my couch at home.
Conductors and/or orchestras which perform Wagner's Ring Cycle operas often cut out portions of the work, due to its length. It isn't reasonable in today's expectations of entertainment or theater to expect an audience to sit through a 4+ hour movie any more than it is to expect them to sit through a 6-hour opera. (Especially in today's theater seats!)
Nah, the perspective is off. The second chip is too small for how far away it is. Since the distance is maybe a centimeter, it shouldn't appear as scaled down in size as it does.
This company took over sales for the now-no-retail-sales Tuxtops, where I got my laptop (the Chembook-made Tuxtop branded Dell Inspiron 5000) a couple years back.
Looks like they may still be using the Chembook/Dell form factors. Nice machines, and they come with RedHat installed.
My "5000" runs FreeBSD now, and perfectly: sound, APM, hot-plug USB mouse and all.
There's a similar concept in The Mote in God's Eye, where lasers are used to propel a lightsail spacecraft across interstellar distances over a number of years.
And, a short story (unfortunately I can't remember the title) about the first Kzinti invasion has reference to a light-powered spacecraft which uses its engine as a weapon.
"On a lighter note, while many open source enthusiasts are proponents for copyleft, they insist on trademark protection for their ideas."
I'm missing the joke, here. Copyright and Copyleft rights aren't the same thing as trademarks at all, and it's perfectly acceptable to enforce your rights under one but not the other. Or neither, or both, as is your want.
Whatever irony the author tried to find in this alleged stance by "many open source enthusiasts" is lost on me.
Right in the full interview (linked above). You think these people are working for nothing? Would you?
Here's where the money is going, and it's mostly the "handling" part of the "shipping and handling":
So this is what comes out of the $4.95 shipping and handling. It pays to manufacture it and pays to package it in a jewel case. It also pays for the envelope, the stamp, the label, and the cost of printing on the face of the CD. We ship it all out to the customer. It gets to them and we pay for the credit card transaction and we pay for the Web hosting. All of that comes out of the $4.95 and there's still plenty of money to split, so tell me the record labels aren't doing it wrong if we can do a business off that.
According to Stallman, the only way I can preserve my freedom is to use only free software. This makes sense to me, if only on a purely philisophical basis, but it doesn't hold up in my daily life, I'm sad to say.
It seems to me that if I'm not free to use whatever software I choose, I am not free.
Nobody seems to get upset when I refer to the O/S on my laptop as "BSD" rather than "FreeBSD". =)
I really don't see what the big deal is... Stallman himself admits that those who already know the story of the FSF aren't who he's after, and I daresay the people out there who don't know the role they played aren't going to much care.
Seems like his energies could be better spent evangalizing the O/S and its uses, not its name.
You won't be able to play the current EQ from a PS2. The game to be released is called "Everquest Online Adventures" and, according to the article, is based on EverQuest and will play much like the PC game.
The PS2 doesn't have the RAM or CPU power to play PC-EQ in its current incarnation no matter how powerful the GPU. 256MB of RAM is the practical lower limit on the PC game, the textures that need to be loaded now are -huge-.
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Notably missing are clients for Solaris, AIX, HP-UX, Irix, *BSD, and DOS, just off the top of my head.
Certainly, some of these operating systems, if added, might have a negligible effect, but others could certainly contribute. One of the best advantages of these distributed efforts is cross-platform support, and while FAH has a good head start, they've got a ways to go. They're coming, though. From their site:
With the OS X client released, we are now working on porting to other unixes, including Solaris, IRIX, and AIX. At this time, we have not set a release date for these new versions.
Also, certain files like those in /etc and /var are there for a reason, since files in those directories are there (mostly) because they serve the same purpose; configurations in the case of /etc, variable data and log files in the case of /var, and so on.
On the other hand, my K Menu is arranged in a manner more consistent with the way I use my computer. My Office-like programs are in one place, shells and so forth in another, et cetera.
I'm not sure I'd want everything arranged one way for my use and my O/S's health and speed.
If the app doesn't have that capabilty, crack open the source tar and add it/change it at your whim. Some folks may even like your change, like, oh, I dunno, the author?
That's Open Source, to me. Perhaps behaviour isn't standardized in the GUI space, perhaps it shouldn't be, but on MY machine it is, since I can change what I don't like.
Thank you, random, amusing stranger. =)
I don't think your argument is made weaker by the existence of secret programs - the goals were very different from what the "Moon Hoaxers" purport NASA did: Betchley and the Stealth program tried to keep secret something which was acutally occurring; the "Moon Hoax" allegedly attempted to display as fact something which did not actually happen - a much harder task, and therefore much less likely to succeed.
I do think there are much better arguments against the accusations the moon hoax proponents make, though. We have the facts on our side; the burden of proof that the moon missions "didn't happen" is on those who claim such. For many reasons, when people start droning on about how it was all "faked", I leave the room, since I get angry at them for suggesting it. My reason is very personal: I was present at the launch of the shuttle Columbia's first flight.
I remember so vividly the incredible sound it made; that thunderous, inescapible roar. Even at the distance from which we watched, I felt the reality of the space program within my very bones. The child I was that day didn't fully understand the majesty of the power he witnessed, but the adult I am now, I think, does. It still makes me choked with pride when I think of it.
The idea that people would suggest that what I feel was one of mankind's greatest acheivements was nothing more than an elaborate parlor trick makes me sick to my stomach. I think Buzz Aldrin had the right idea. =)
I can't help but believe that anyone who's been present at a launch of one of those incredible machines would be struck by the pure physicality of it in such a way as to erase all measure of doubt from their minds. There is none in mine. I was fed a large dose of a wonderful, rare form of sustanance that day. I call it wonder, and I suspect those people who have nothing better to do than badmouth NASA and the space program have not a shred of it left.
Showing that it's possible that NASA faked the Moon landings supports the theory that they did in fact do so in no way whatsoever.
Sure, Betchley Park was a well-kept secret. So was the F-117's operation and existence for 10 years. But that says absolutely ZERO about the moon missions.
There are several links you could use to find this out. here is one.
"The Moon" is Earth's sattelite's common name, but Luna is perfectly appropriate. So with The Sun and "Sol".
The Earth is also called Terra, but it's much less common to see that anywhere.
Uh... the $10/2000mi was just for the filter. The actual fuel costs aren't included in that figure.
As far as fuel filters go, that's expensive. A typical gasoline engine fuel filter will last some 10's of thousands of miles.
65?? Your electric utility must charge you much less than mine does.
I keep my house set for 76F (24C), to avoid only those hottest days, and keep the humidity down (which is my real goal). Remember, A/C removes humidity, too, which is a stronger influence on how much heat you feel, since it hampers the body's natural ability to cool itself.
If the temperature outside is less than about 80F/26C, we turn the A/C off if the humidity is tolerable (which isn't often here in Minnesota).
I'd agree... I'd love to be able to see the entire book made into a movie, page by page. I would have liked that with Dune, too. =)
Certain allowances have to be made, though. I think Peter Jackson did a wonderful job of trimming the book for the film format, and I look forward to seeing the extended scenes, where I can veiw them in comfort, on my couch at home.
Conductors and/or orchestras which perform Wagner's Ring Cycle operas often cut out portions of the work, due to its length.
It isn't reasonable in today's expectations of entertainment or theater to expect an audience to sit through a 4+ hour movie any more than it is to expect them to sit through a 6-hour opera. (Especially in today's theater seats!)
Nah, the perspective is off. The second chip is too small for how far away it is. Since the distance is maybe a centimeter, it shouldn't appear as scaled down in size as it does.
Try here.
This company took over sales for the now-no-retail-sales Tuxtops, where I got my laptop (the Chembook-made Tuxtop branded Dell Inspiron 5000) a couple years back.
Looks like they may still be using the Chembook/Dell form factors. Nice machines, and they come with RedHat installed.
My "5000" runs FreeBSD now, and perfectly: sound, APM, hot-plug USB mouse and all.
And, a short story (unfortunately I can't remember the title) about the first Kzinti invasion has reference to a light-powered spacecraft which uses its engine as a weapon.
I'm missing the joke, here. Copyright and Copyleft rights aren't the same thing as trademarks at all, and it's perfectly acceptable to enforce your rights under one but not the other. Or neither, or both, as is your want.
Whatever irony the author tried to find in this alleged stance by "many open source enthusiasts" is lost on me.
Computers are not people. They are not "he" nor "she". They are "it".
"For which crashing is not an option" would have been a much better way to say it.
Here's where the money is going, and it's mostly the "handling" part of the "shipping and handling":
So this is what comes out of the $4.95 shipping and handling. It pays to manufacture it and pays to package it in a jewel case. It also pays for the envelope, the stamp, the label, and the cost of printing on the face of the CD. We ship it all out to the customer. It gets to them and we pay for the credit card transaction and we pay for the Web hosting. All of that comes out of the $4.95 and there's still plenty of money to split, so tell me the record labels aren't doing it wrong if we can do a business off that.
It seems to me that if I'm not free to use whatever software I choose, I am not free.
I really don't see what the big deal is... Stallman himself admits that those who already know the story of the FSF aren't who he's after, and I daresay the people out there who don't know the role they played aren't going to much care.
Seems like his energies could be better spent evangalizing the O/S and its uses, not its name.
For the BDS'ers out there...
How about using a firewall? If I hung my TiVo right on the 'net I'd expect it to be rooted, too.
Paper books themselves are generally monochrome.
I don't know anyone with that many MP3s.
I sure wouldn't. If something doesn't work as advertised, I'd want to know about it.
The PS2 doesn't have the RAM or CPU power to play PC-EQ in its current incarnation no matter how powerful the GPU. 256MB of RAM is the practical lower limit on the PC game, the textures that need to be loaded now are -huge-.