I am running mandrake cooker with kde 3.1 on a 400mhz g4 powerbook and NO these macs are NOT slow:) Otoh osx does feel sluggish on it. I always assumed osx being based on freebsd would share bsd's rapidity. So you're saying they rewrote it in a language that compiles into slower binaries?
I've heard more women complain about their lack of a geek boyfriend. Apparently the combination of skill and gender is in demand!
Note from the home front: my gf was very impressed with knoppix and the cd she burned to show it at work never made it back home.
Note from the ubergeek front: i got frowned upon and am supposed to pocket a credit card sized CD with linux installed. You can't have a linux rescue cd boot disk if it doesnt reside next to credit & atm cards. Ohwell, live & learn!
As a side note check out mod_auth_mysql - http://www.diegonet.com/support/mod_auth_mysql.sht ml to do user auth against mysql as an apache module, works like above.
There's also http://www.giuseppetanzilli.it/mod_auth_pgsql/
Same here, my mother hadn't used computers since DOS and so all graphical desktops were new to her. Same learning curve be it windows or linux. Linux is cheaper, KDE3 extremely jazzy and Knoppix should have debian apt get so when sshing into her computer i can install whatever just fine.
Oh and she doesnt get BSOD and wont have to pay for XP or Win2k just to avoid BSOD.
Did you dl & try knoppix on her pc yet? Youve created a long thread here and you owe it to us to let us know:)
I'm downloading it now to show my girlfriend, whose employers are considering lindows:( so i hope this will make her and them drop their jaw and want it.
I've programmed computers since I got my first zx81 when I was 15 years old, that was all my family could afford, and since then I've worked hard and had a lot of fun working hard to learn to program better. There have only been opportunities. I've set up my own business before the.com bubble, I haven't profited from that but have seen steady growth in my business.
With your talent you should be very capable of getting on with your life.
Maybe it's very easy to get pissed off at people who seem to get everything for nothing, but it serves no purpose whatsoever.
with an almost horizontal trajectory that can happen, the object would be streaking through the medium layers of the atmosphere, all the while evaporating its layers until it expires in a puff or blows up because of too much heat. There's no sound because the explosion could happen quite far away in what is a relatively thin medium so there isn't much sound. I've seen one explode too and waited for what in my mind would be a big booming sound, but nothing came.
Quite the reverse, I am quite positive these species have been engineered to clean landfills of heavy metals that are otherwise very difficult to extract. There is no other direct reason to engineer plants other than the mining benefit. The mining benefit is very likely commercially, but definately politically, secondary to cleaning (often suburban) areas of waste.
Agreed, water on the moon, water on mars, possibly tokens of life on mars (on micrometeorites), the beautiful and geologically complex moons of Jupiter & saturn.
Compared to a block of rock 1/2 the size of pluto?, even colder & further out? It shows large objects exists in the kuijper belt but thats nice to know, not at all in the same league as some other recent discoveries .
I have very good experiences with Thawte, they are very helpful and their website has excellent information for setting up a cert on linux/apache. It also had all the info I needed to pull a cert off an NT box and prep it for Apache w mod_ssl.
I do now notice that Thawte seems to have become a Verisign company. Also GTE Cybertrusts page http://www.cybertrust.gte.com/ seems too barebones for a commercial entity. Seems like verisign is the only choice remaining when it comes to full compatiblity?
and where is the comment below your post that it should really say GNU/Linux:)
Unix is an operating system developed by Kernigan & Richie with a loosely based community of hackers located throughout the world. Windows is an operating system developed in the garage of W. Gates Sr.
I guess eventually some things need no longer be explained and then theyre all forgotten about.
First post should be modded up.. When next year comes and geeks look to upgrade their systems for doom3 what are they going to buy? An AMD opteron, because its the latest thing (64 bit), runs win32 and 32 bit linux apps (like quake3). It will be at least a whole year before consumers start to buy itaniums because there is no windows for it yet, and if there is a windows for it there won't be any legacy support. Its going to take a lot of time in the consumer market. Which is an important market.
Intel isn't targeting the consumer market here (AMD targets everyone with opteron) but eventually that's where 64 bit CPUs will be sold as well. They target the business market. Here is a totally new 64 bits chip that is created to compete with IBM and Suns offerings. And IBM and Sun support their beasts. Intel, Dell and Microsoft are still noobs at giving that type of support. That's going to take time too. And it's going to take lots of time and impressive stats to convince CTOs and IT heads to run wintel in their datacenter.
What the itanium will be great at is to run as a single server for small workgroups that need computing power. Universities and the like.
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I guess it wont be too hard for some red hatted linux distributor & friends to release a 64 bit itanium linux in a short time.
What's really necessary is that the c compiler optimizes the code well and uses the extras of the chip. The rest is testing and distributing rpms and isos.
What might be a bigger problem is that an integer will typically go from a 32 to a 64 bit value which takes up twice as much address space and that makes reading & writing to legacy data files tricky.
It wont surprise me when big linux distributors will have up to date version available for the opteron, itanium and the 64 bit g4.
The people writing this article are not explaining why it is that colder water becomes saltier. Perhaps it has to do with the lattice water forms around 4 degrees centigrade (just above freezing) which might absorb more salt/ions than other forms of liquid water. Perhaps the iron ions will works the same way as the sodium choride of salt, but thats a long shot assumption.
Its certainly an alarming article for Europeans and food production there. One has to wonder how affected the US midwest will be. This is after all really about whether we can grow sufficient staple food to feed everyone.
Question to the creationists is "who created the bombardier beetle!" HEre we have a creature that could fart most venemously in our faces and get away with it.
It has to be said that anything that happens is a form of quantum entanglement since nothing happens in the physical or energetical realms without quanta being in on it:)
"Besides, when you're talking about providing solutions, open-source often fights uphill battles against the "more expensive is better" and "we must spend our entire budget" attitudes."
But now Sun & IBM, two of the largest server & mainframe manufacturers, will put linux on their hardware if you want. They are more and more willing to surrender their OS to keep customers happy and buying their hardware. The real uphill battle is for the closed source companies that see serious competition from open source. MS is the first big one to feel the pain (linux server, desktop, mysql, openoffice, apache all make inroads vs competing MS products) but not the last.
How long will it take MySQL and/or Postgres to make serious inroads into holy cash cow DB turf, 5 years, another decade? Just like IBM & Sun are surrendering the OS now IBM will have to surrender DB2 eventually too to a competitive OS product. Sun retreating into desktop computers and small servers running linux is definately a sign they see a possible future where all software is dominated by open source.
Maybe in another 20 years MS is a company with 40 billion in reserve that makes good mice, keyboards and game consoles?
but they *are* comparable products in a marketing sense, in the sense that IBM and MS tries to get people interested in buying a commercial DB even when an OS DB might suffice.
' "They [open source databases] lack some key functionality and lack the scalability and performance, which keeps them out of the enterprise," Jones [of IBM] said.' What "the enterprise" is that, The star ship enterprise? I know plenty of enterprises which use MySQL.
"With open-source, you're not going to get a platform that's as reliable or scalable or as secure as what you're going to get with a leading vendor," Tullis [of MicroSoft] said.
Got to love those funny microsoft people.:)
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The problem with booting from a dedicated linux gaming cd is that you wont be running anything in the background such as a download or another ap you want to keep open.
What linux needs is easy installability, easy maintainability and a good looking desktop. It's got everything else.
This vulnerability is so easy to exploit (javascript popup to a gopher) its driven me and a couple of other people I know to use mozilla almost exclusively on win boxes. Unfortunately Mozilla doesn't render everything MSIE does (apparently checking your page in netscape hasnt been a priority for many web developers anymore).
I read the article a few days ago and justtyped whatever was in my mind (last month!) stupid innit. Mustve been march because when i read it I did grasp a "3 months" thing:)
Its good these guys keep on working even though they havent been paid for a long time (some in Holland since may). If KPNQwests network goes down well.. here is their map. Too bad most of the news around this is in english.
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games here too - although i bought winex and it does a very good job of running windows games on linux.
Linux IS my favourite quake 3 platform, it runs it much better than windows!
I am running mandrake cooker with kde 3.1 on a 400mhz g4 powerbook and NO these macs are NOT slow :) Otoh osx does feel sluggish on it. I always assumed osx being based on freebsd would share bsd's rapidity. So you're saying they rewrote it in a language that compiles into slower binaries?
I've heard more women complain about their lack of a geek boyfriend. Apparently the combination of skill and gender is in demand!
Note from the home front: my gf was very impressed with knoppix and the cd she burned to show it at work never made it back home.
Note from the ubergeek front: i got frowned upon and am supposed to pocket a credit card sized CD with linux installed. You can't have a linux rescue cd boot disk if it doesnt reside next to credit & atm cards. Ohwell, live & learn!
As a side note check out mod_auth_mysql - http://www.diegonet.com/support/mod_auth_mysql.sht ml
:)
to do user auth against mysql as an apache module, works like above.
There's also http://www.giuseppetanzilli.it/mod_auth_pgsql/
Novell is playing attention to the good stuff
Same here, my mother hadn't used computers since DOS and so all graphical desktops were new to her. Same learning curve be it windows or linux. Linux is cheaper, KDE3 extremely jazzy and Knoppix should have debian apt get so when sshing into her computer i can install whatever just fine.
Oh and she doesnt get BSOD and wont have to pay for XP or Win2k just to avoid BSOD.
Did you dl & try knoppix on her pc yet? Youve created a long thread here and you owe it to us to let us know :)
:( so i hope this will make her and them drop their jaw and want it.
I'm downloading it now to show my girlfriend, whose employers are considering lindows
I've programmed computers since I got my first zx81 when I was 15 years old, that was all my family could afford, and since then I've worked hard and had a lot of fun working hard to learn to program better. There have only been opportunities. I've set up my own business before the
With your talent you should be very capable of getting on with your life.
Maybe it's very easy to get pissed off at people who seem to get everything for nothing, but it serves no purpose whatsoever.
Take control of your talent.
with an almost horizontal trajectory that can happen, the object would be streaking through the medium layers of the atmosphere, all the while evaporating its layers until it expires in a puff or blows up because of too much heat. There's no sound because the explosion could happen quite far away in what is a relatively thin medium so there isn't much sound. I've seen one explode too and waited for what in my mind would be a big booming sound, but nothing came.
Quite the reverse, I am quite positive these species have been engineered to clean landfills of heavy metals that are otherwise very difficult to extract. There is no other direct reason to engineer plants other than the mining benefit. The mining benefit is very likely commercially, but definately politically, secondary to cleaning (often suburban) areas of waste.
Compared to a block of rock 1/2 the size of pluto?, even colder & further out? It shows large objects exists in the kuijper belt but thats nice to know, not at all in the same league as some other recent discoveries .
I do now notice that Thawte seems to have become a Verisign company. Also GTE Cybertrusts page http://www.cybertrust.gte.com/ seems too barebones for a commercial entity. Seems like verisign is the only choice remaining when it comes to full compatiblity?
and where is the comment below your post that it should really say GNU/Linux :)
Unix is an operating system developed by Kernigan & Richie with a loosely based community of hackers located throughout the world. Windows is an operating system developed in the garage of W. Gates Sr.
I guess eventually some things need no longer be explained and then theyre all forgotten about.
Correction, it does have legacy support, it's supposedly awkward and unnatural. Anyone have heads up on how this compares to the Opteron?
Intel isn't targeting the consumer market here (AMD targets everyone with opteron) but eventually that's where 64 bit CPUs will be sold as well. They target the business market. Here is a totally new 64 bits chip that is created to compete with IBM and Suns offerings. And IBM and Sun support their beasts. Intel, Dell and Microsoft are still noobs at giving that type of support. That's going to take time too. And it's going to take lots of time and impressive stats to convince CTOs and IT heads to run wintel in their datacenter.
What the itanium will be great at is to run as a single server for small workgroups that need computing power. Universities and the like.
What's really necessary is that the c compiler optimizes the code well and uses the extras of the chip. The rest is testing and distributing rpms and isos.
What might be a bigger problem is that an integer will typically go from a 32 to a 64 bit value which takes up twice as much address space and that makes reading & writing to legacy data files tricky.
It wont surprise me when big linux distributors will have up to date version available for the opteron, itanium and the 64 bit g4.
Its certainly an alarming article for Europeans and food production there. One has to wonder how affected the US midwest will be. This is after all really about whether we can grow sufficient staple food to feed everyone.
Question to the creationists is "who created the bombardier beetle!" HEre we have a creature that could fart most venemously in our faces and get away with it.
:)
Perhaps its a mutated propulsion system!
It has to be said that anything that happens is a form of quantum entanglement since nothing happens in the physical or energetical realms without quanta being in on it :)
But now Sun & IBM, two of the largest server & mainframe manufacturers, will put linux on their hardware if you want. They are more and more willing to surrender their OS to keep customers happy and buying their hardware. The real uphill battle is for the closed source companies that see serious competition from open source. MS is the first big one to feel the pain (linux server, desktop, mysql, openoffice, apache all make inroads vs competing MS products) but not the last.
How long will it take MySQL and/or Postgres to make serious inroads into holy cash cow DB turf, 5 years, another decade? Just like IBM & Sun are surrendering the OS now IBM will have to surrender DB2 eventually too to a competitive OS product. Sun retreating into desktop computers and small servers running linux is definately a sign they see a possible future where all software is dominated by open source.
Maybe in another 20 years MS is a company with 40 billion in reserve that makes good mice, keyboards and game consoles?
' "They [open source databases] lack some key functionality and lack the scalability and performance, which keeps them out of the enterprise," Jones [of IBM] said.' What "the enterprise" is that, The star ship enterprise? I know plenty of enterprises which use MySQL.
"With open-source, you're not going to get a platform that's as reliable or scalable or as secure as what you're going to get with a leading vendor," Tullis [of MicroSoft] said.
Got to love those funny microsoft people. :)
The problem with booting from a dedicated linux gaming cd is that you wont be running anything in the background such as a download or another ap you want to keep open.
What linux needs is easy installability, easy maintainability and a good looking desktop. It's got everything else.
This vulnerability is so easy to exploit (javascript popup to a gopher) its driven me and a couple of other people I know to use mozilla almost exclusively on win boxes. Unfortunately Mozilla doesn't render everything MSIE does (apparently checking your page in netscape hasnt been a priority for many web developers anymore).
I read the article a few days ago and justtyped whatever was in my mind (last month!) stupid innit. Mustve been march because when i read it I did grasp a "3 months" thing :)
I mean in dutch - rtlz is doing the story in dutch.
There is an emergency plan in place that would keep them running until the end of the month if customers pay their june fees in advance.
If you have a lot of money and want to have a state of the art network with REALLY dedicated people now is the time to buy!!
Its good these guys keep on working even though they havent been paid for a long time (some in Holland since may). If KPNQwests network goes down well.. here is their map. Too bad most of the news around this is in english.