While I'll take your money
Don't bother changing any licenses, just if someone wants to buy it, you have a company that is willing to sell it. You can use money from any sales to pay for someone (perhaps yourself) to provide support.
Whoa, hold on there. You've totally missed the point of PBM, etc.
The PNM collection (PPM, PGM, PBM) are designed to be very easy to read, manipulate and write. They are programmer friendly formats, and not really of interest to users at all. Once you've finished manipulating the images, convert them to png for your users.
Linux was never written to run on the 6502. As I'm sure you're aware from '95, it was written to take advantage of the amazing memory management features just introduced in the 80386. As for bloat between 2.4.20 and the first kernels, yes bloat has increased. The most obvious examples are buffers have changed default sizes to the point a 386 wouldn't be able to fit them. But the bloat isn't significant (less than an order of magnitude) -- it would be very strange for someone to say "I'm not going to upgrade to 2.6 because my computer can only fit 2.4".
This sounds great! I have been planning on setting up 802.11 for a while now and getting better range and bandwidth would be cool.
But it seems this is just speculation. I couldn't find any products that provide 802.16, at any price. Until we have products available, I'm going to call this pure speculation. Perhaps the final products will have a bandwidth of 7Mb instead of 70, a range of 2.7 miles instead of 27 miles, and then there is the cost, with 802.11b now under $100 per node...
System administrators, LAN administrators, network administrators, security administrators, e-mail administrators, database administrators.
What do all these terms have in common? That's right, administrator. And what about System, LAN, network, security, email and database. Well, you'd have to go for something generic like computer.
Voila, new term: computer administrator. Though personally I don't see what is wrong with the specific terms they had before.
A top of the line is expensive. Most family computers are a bit under $1k right? But a developer's workstation could easily be $3k. A cheap espresso machine is $100, but a flash one is around $1000. A board for playing go starts at around $100, but a flash one can exceed $10000. Etc, etc. Table salt is what, under a dollar a pound? In every field there are plenty of people just waiting to sell you the very best for about ten times more than a cheap thing. Oh, and an expensive microwave goes for at least $400. Have a look at Bosch, Miele or Smeg.
A lot of the comments in this discussion have been along the lines: "You'll need MS when you graduate". Well, quite simply, that isn't true. Here, MS is almost unused in the university (the idiots in the business school insist on it still). As a result, the uni has been churning out graduates for years with skills in non MS products.
And guess what? Around town the use of MS is quite low, and people are quite adaptable to non MS solutions. All it takes is a fairly large group to decide on something else and everyone adapts. Sure, the first year might be hit by "You haven't heard of VB?" at their interview, but two years later you're going to get "You haven't heard of emacs?". There is pressure for students to adapt to what businesses want, but there is equal pressure for businesses to adapt to use the skills their employees have.
Oh, and I wouldn't go with linux throughout the school. Macs are just so much easier on the helpdesk, businesses already understand mac experience and a few prefer it, and the transition will be much less painful.
If you happen to get hold of some defective DRAM then there is an excellent kernel patch called badram. This will allow you to mark off all faulty bits and use the ram with no performance lost. So provided you've got enough slots, you can have 4G (or 3.99G) at no cost!
Part of what you've said is true, theft is theft. But using p2p isn't, and nor is (was) sharing files via p2p. Some people would argue it is in the entertainment industry's best interest
Say I have a CD of "Revolver" by the Beatles, I can legally convert it to MP3. But converting CDs to MP3 is a drag, if I can't be stuffed doing the conversion, I can log into napster and download the MP3s. Similarly, if I want to save other owners of that CD the hassle of converting their CDs to MP3, there is nothing wrong with me sharing the files via p2p.
The problem comes when someone who doesn't own the CD downloads the files from me. Now personally, I don't care -- I think it is up to each person to decide what laws they're willing to break -- but I still haven't broken any laws (or at least I shouldn't have). Just because what I do makes it easy for others to break the law shouldn't make what I do illegal.
Bullshit. There might be nothing wrong from a user's perspetive, but from a package developer's perspective, RPM is nowere near as advanced.
Consider things like virtual dependancies, multiple satisfies/reverse depends, empty packages, advanced configuration (when one script won't do), etc, etc.
Next time do a google search before coming up with such FUD.
I don't entirely disagree with your point, but print statements can debug recursive functions. Just print a number of spaces equal to the recursion depth at the start of the line.
This article is much more an introduction to RAID than a point by point comparison of the various drives. Certainly, I wouldn't want to use it for choosing between them when I couldn't afford a mistake. But if you're used to using one or two disks and want increased performance or reliability (and lets face it, who doesn't?) then this article is well worth a read.
My favourite quote from the article : As an added bonus, the lights sometimes flash in a side-to-side in a pattern reminiscent of Knight Rider's KITT.
Pine is great, but the licence...
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Pine is a great email program. Using only a console it somehow manages to be easier to use than most GUI programs. The error messages are an example of brilliant UI design.
Unfortunatly the licence is not good. While the source is available, distributing changed versions is illegal. This for example makes it illegal for Debian to fix its paths and distribute it, or for me to make a graphical version (anyone remember xpine?)
That means I've now given up on it. Fortunatly there are fairly good replacements, like mutt with pine bindings, or kmail via aalib.
Software can't be Free as long as there are patent restrictions on it, even if you can use the patents royalty-free. Why?
Simple. While they're royalty free now, what is to say they're royalty free next week? With free software nobody can take away your rights to use it. With free patents, the patent holder can stop giving out free usage at any time. Even if that allows your existing program to carry on using the patented technology, it can screw up interoperability.
Say for example you wrote a l33t gif producing program, 'caus gif is licenced royalty free, right? Now, at some time in the future, some nasty, evil corporation might change the patent rules on gif, and render the output of your program useless to free software. And you can forget about releasing a new version of your program, say one that fixes a security hole, because for most free beer patents, that requires another free licence.
It looks to me like this patent doesn't apply. Specifically the patent talks about support vector machines rather than bayes classification and says "determining whether each one of a pre-defined set of N features (where N is a predefined integer)". Bayesian filtering does not do this (n is variable, the number of words in the message). Of course, IANAL. And even if it doesn't apply, there is nothing to stop MS threatening people with the patent.
I find graphics in macos to be slow. Moving windows around in KDE is painful. Compared to in linux, X is almost unbearable. However, compiling is fast enough, so the hardware itself is quite fast. Since the graphics are controlled by the OS, I'd say that yes, OS X is slow.
I have a lot of respect for Bero, back when I used redhat I used to use his packages of KDE CVS because I couldn't get it to compile.
However, I can understand why redhat is standardising its interface this and I'm not sure it is a bad thing. The difference between KDE and Gnome _IS_ confusing to new users, and it is somewhat ugly to mix GTK and QT apps on the screen at the same time. I think that KDE and Gnome should compete on the technical merits of their class libraries, not on how pretty their default install is.
Consider Ximian, Lindows, etc. They all modify kde to look like windows. Why is it ok for them to do that, but no ok for RedHat to give all their programs a similar look-and-feel.
Anyway, I hope financial reasons won't mean Bero is no longer able to contribute to the open source community.
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While I'll take your money Don't bother changing any licenses, just if someone wants to buy it, you have a company that is willing to sell it. You can use money from any sales to pay for someone (perhaps yourself) to provide support.
Whoa, hold on there. You've totally missed the point of PBM, etc.
The PNM collection (PPM, PGM, PBM) are designed to be very easy to read, manipulate and write. They are programmer friendly formats, and not really of interest to users at all. Once you've finished manipulating the images, convert them to png for your users.
Linux was never written to run on the 6502. As I'm sure you're aware from '95, it was written to take advantage of the amazing memory management features just introduced in the 80386. As for bloat between 2.4.20 and the first kernels, yes bloat has increased. The most obvious examples are buffers have changed default sizes to the point a 386 wouldn't be able to fit them. But the bloat isn't significant (less than an order of magnitude) -- it would be very strange for someone to say "I'm not going to upgrade to 2.6 because my computer can only fit 2.4".
This sounds great! I have been planning on setting up 802.11 for a while now and getting better range and bandwidth would be cool.
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But it seems this is just speculation. I couldn't find any products that provide 802.16, at any price. Until we have products available, I'm going to call this pure speculation. Perhaps the final products will have a bandwidth of 7Mb instead of 70, a range of 2.7 miles instead of 27 miles, and then there is the cost, with 802.11b now under $100 per node
Which movie was that in again? I forget.
What do all these terms have in common? That's right, administrator. And what about System, LAN, network, security, email and database. Well, you'd have to go for something generic like computer.
Voila, new term: computer administrator. Though personally I don't see what is wrong with the specific terms they had before.
A top of the line is expensive. Most family computers are a bit under $1k right? But a developer's workstation could easily be $3k. A cheap espresso machine is $100, but a flash one is around $1000. A board for playing go starts at around $100, but a flash one can exceed $10000. Etc, etc. Table salt is what, under a dollar a pound? In every field there are plenty of people just waiting to sell you the very best for about ten times more than a cheap thing. Oh, and an expensive microwave goes for at least $400. Have a look at Bosch, Miele or Smeg.
Yep, sure are. apt-get install xmove; man xmove
Simple, they count the people who starved to death because sanctions took all their money.
And guess what? Around town the use of MS is quite low, and people are quite adaptable to non MS solutions. All it takes is a fairly large group to decide on something else and everyone adapts. Sure, the first year might be hit by "You haven't heard of VB?" at their interview, but two years later you're going to get "You haven't heard of emacs?". There is pressure for students to adapt to what businesses want, but there is equal pressure for businesses to adapt to use the skills their employees have.
Oh, and I wouldn't go with linux throughout the school. Macs are just so much easier on the helpdesk, businesses already understand mac experience and a few prefer it, and the transition will be much less painful.
If you happen to get hold of some defective DRAM then there is an excellent kernel patch called badram. This will allow you to mark off all faulty bits and use the ram with no performance lost. So provided you've got enough slots, you can have 4G (or 3.99G) at no cost!
It means MS can sell the right to spam the users to spam. Much the same way of making a profit as MSN.
Part of what you've said is true, theft is theft. But using p2p isn't, and nor is (was) sharing files via p2p. Some people would argue it is in the entertainment industry's best interest
Say I have a CD of "Revolver" by the Beatles, I can legally convert it to MP3. But converting CDs to MP3 is a drag, if I can't be stuffed doing the conversion, I can log into napster and download the MP3s. Similarly, if I want to save other owners of that CD the hassle of converting their CDs to MP3, there is nothing wrong with me sharing the files via p2p.
The problem comes when someone who doesn't own the CD downloads the files from me. Now personally, I don't care -- I think it is up to each person to decide what laws they're willing to break -- but I still haven't broken any laws (or at least I shouldn't have). Just because what I do makes it easy for others to break the law shouldn't make what I do illegal.
Bullshit. There might be nothing wrong from a user's perspetive, but from a package developer's perspective, RPM is nowere near as advanced.
Consider things like virtual dependancies, multiple satisfies/reverse depends, empty packages, advanced configuration (when one script won't do), etc, etc.
Next time do a google search before coming up with such FUD.
I don't entirely disagree with your point, but print statements can debug recursive functions. Just print a number of spaces equal to the recursion depth at the start of the line.
All the anti-spam team concentrated in one place. What's the chance of a certain prominant spammer `accidentically' causing the building to collapse?
Sure, just buy a Shuttle cube with its built in RAID. Plug it into the server you want raid on via gigabit crossover cable, and enjoy.
My favourite quote from the article : As an added bonus, the lights sometimes flash in a side-to-side in a pattern reminiscent of Knight Rider's KITT.
Pine is a great email program. Using only a console it somehow manages to be easier to use than most GUI programs. The error messages are an example of brilliant UI design.
Unfortunatly the licence is not good. While the source is available, distributing changed versions is illegal. This for example makes it illegal for Debian to fix its paths and distribute it, or for me to make a graphical version (anyone remember xpine?)
That means I've now given up on it. Fortunatly there are fairly good replacements, like mutt with pine bindings, or kmail via aalib.
Simple. While they're royalty free now, what is to say they're royalty free next week? With free software nobody can take away your rights to use it. With free patents, the patent holder can stop giving out free usage at any time. Even if that allows your existing program to carry on using the patented technology, it can screw up interoperability.
Say for example you wrote a l33t gif producing program, 'caus gif is licenced royalty free, right? Now, at some time in the future, some nasty, evil corporation might change the patent rules on gif, and render the output of your program useless to free software. And you can forget about releasing a new version of your program, say one that fixes a security hole, because for most free beer patents, that requires another free licence.
It looks to me like this patent doesn't apply. Specifically the patent talks about support vector machines rather than bayes classification and says "determining whether each one of a pre-defined set of N features (where N is a predefined integer)". Bayesian filtering does not do this (n is variable, the number of words in the message). Of course, IANAL. And even if it doesn't apply, there is nothing to stop MS threatening people with the patent.
Modify your halt command to also execute:
dd if=/dev/ram1 of=/dev/hda7 (change partitions to suit).
I find graphics in macos to be slow. Moving windows around in KDE is painful. Compared to in linux, X is almost unbearable. However, compiling is fast enough, so the hardware itself is quite fast. Since the graphics are controlled by the OS, I'd say that yes, OS X is slow.
Xandros sorry, Strange company name starting with X :-)
I have a lot of respect for Bero, back when I used redhat I used to use his packages of KDE CVS because I couldn't get it to compile.
However, I can understand why redhat is standardising its interface this and I'm not sure it is a bad thing. The difference between KDE and Gnome _IS_ confusing to new users, and it is somewhat ugly to mix GTK and QT apps on the screen at the same time. I think that KDE and Gnome should compete on the technical merits of their class libraries, not on how pretty their default install is.
Consider Ximian, Lindows, etc. They all modify kde to look like windows. Why is it ok for them to do that, but no ok for RedHat to give all their programs a similar look-and-feel.
Anyway, I hope financial reasons won't mean Bero is no longer able to contribute to the open source community.