All that is still trivial on even the smallest disks supplied today. In any case, your OS is already using 4K blocks so you're already doing that anyway regardless of the underlying sector size.
4Kbyte is the size of a page of memory on all modern architectures. Given all modern operating systems use demand page loading of executables, and implement paging (swap space), a sector size that matches the size of a memory page will probably result in better performance.
When I talk about the 'graunchiness' of AJAX, I'm not talking particularly about whether it is cross platform or not - it's just the whole feel of writing a GUI in what is still very much a document browser. It just feels like it was made for showing static documents, not windows, dynamic text and buttons (even if it actually does these things). Writing a gui in the browser just doesn't feel right and in my admittedly limited experience so far, it seems to take a level of fastidiousness that not even raw Xlib or Win32 requires.
When I learn a new language or technology, I like to start out with a couple of small well defined projects in which I can do the entire thing by hand - no fancy code generators or other IDE help, so I can understand truly what goes on underneath. I find it really helps. I've done it for C. I've written code using raw Xlib rather than toolkits when learning about X. I've written code using the Win32 API when learning about Windows.
Of course I decided to do the same with AJAX - use no fancy tools and code something small but useful completely by hand to understand what goes on. I wrote an application monitoring web app for our distributed app at work to give a nice graphical display and enquiries. It works well enough.
However, I could never shake the feeling that AJAX was what the RAF calls 'graunching' - forcing several components together that don't really fit properly. Writing a GUI in a web browser just felt awkward and wrong. Also, you had to be very careful how you did things especially if you have 30-odd info panels on your browser window - otherwise it's breathtakingly slow. Of course, an AJAX framework would have these (very necessary) optimisations - but AJAX really does seem incredibly inelegant.
Additionally, the X in AJAX doesn't really belong - if you run a protocol analyzer, you'll find XMLHTTPRequest doesn't actually send XML at all unless you explicitly send some XML. In fact it sends any plain text you pass it, and receives plain text back quite happily. But I suppose if it was called AJA it wouldn't be very buzzword compliant.
However, certain politicians oppose the idea of a free market for labor. When a labor shortage arises in the market for high-tech labor, such politicians attempt to damage the correcting force of the shortage by injecting H-1B workers into the market.
Surely that line you wrote is doublethink?
A truly free market for labor would mean that H1-B visas wouldn't even be required because there would be no immigration controls and people could just move in as they pleased without worrying about visas. There would be no such thing as 'illegal immigrants' or 'illegal workers'. Immigration law is massive government control over the labor market.
So criticising government inteference in the labor market while at the same time supporting immigration restrictions is classical doublethink.
My only beef with yum is that it degrades very gracelessly. Apt (at least with Debian) really does try other mirrors - yum doesn't seem to, and just drops out with an error. With the various servers being quite busy at the moment, to yum install some programs I had to re-run yum about half a dozen times so it would complete (and sometimes it corrupted the metadata - the error it gives when it does that would lead most people to believe it was permanently broken, when really you only have to re-run it about 5 times until it finally finds a mirror which isn't responding 421 - Too many users).
Not yum specific of course - but I really wish people would deprecate FTP and use HTTP for all anonymous downloads. FTP is an awful protocol, even in pasv mode (requiring kludges like ftp_conntrack)
Adding support for all of those things is just a single command away - add the Livna repository (which contains various media packages, NTFS modules and nvidia/ati RPMs which get upgraded along with kernel upgrades). The current binary driver issue is a bug (and will be fixed shortly).
I use CentOS because I don't need support - I provide it myself. (When you pay for RHEL you're paying for their support contract - that is the business model that RH use). However, if our business expands to the extent that I can no longer adequately provide support (or if I fall under a bus and my colleagues have to pick up the pieces), by using CentOS it would make it very easy to migrate to the same level or Red Hat Enterprise and pay for Red Hat's support, since RHEL is essentially the same. So CentOS gives you a viable migration path should you ever find yourself needing to move to a commercially supported distro.
I had one of the early Fire GL Pro cards (not primarily for gaming). But I also played the odd game, mostly MSFS. I discovered a bug in their drivers that MSFS revealed, but they refused to do anything about it 'because it wasn't a gaming card'. So you'll be doubly disappointed if you find something that doesn't work right in a game because they won't accept the bug.
You have to ask yourself - is the job you're doing/going to do - does it require your actual physical presence? If not, then it can be offshored.
The trouble is, in IT, all the jobs that require your physical presence are generally 'IT technician' jobs - pulling cat5 through walls, swapping out hard disks in PCs and that kind of thing - the lower paid end of the IT spectrum (although there are higher paid network engineering types of jobs). All the high paid jobs that do NOT require physical presence to be possible to do are things like software development - which CAN be offshored. It's the very jobs that need a 4+ year degree which are the ones that can be offshored. The jobs that someone could leave school at 16 and be trained to do by their employer tend to be the ones that can't be offshored.
This is untrue. You are not allowed to sell GPL'd software unless all authors of the software are in agreement with the action. You may charge for the distribution of the software as long as the fee applies solely to the distribution
Have you read the GPL? If you have, then I submit you don't actually understand the GPL.
Do you use the X Window System (i.e. any Unix desktop?) In which case, OpenBSD is helping you. OpenBSD's new safer malloc()/free() implementation found security bugs in x.org recently.
Same goes for most things that end up as part of OpenBSD - the stricter environment of OpenBSD shakes out bugs and the entire community benefits, not just OpenBSD users.
OpenBSD benefits far more than its immediate userbase.
Navigational systems are fairly critical things (especially when IFR). I was slightly shocked to see that a friend's Apollo panel mount GPS ran on Windows NT 4.0!
I'm probably not a typical desktop user, but I find Fedora Core makes a fine development workstation (by definition a desktop machine). Admittedly I'm not doing much word processing or printing on the box or what normal people might consider desktoppy stuff. But a development workstation is still a desktop.
No - they can't, or they would be liable to pay royalties to Fraunhofer for the MP3 patent, which isn't tenable for a Free free distro.
The long answer is if you want to use FC5 and play MP3 files, then it takes approximately 10 seconds to add the Livna yum repository and type 'yum install xine' (or the media player of your choice).
I don't think Windows 3.0 is what 'dragged us out of the 80s' - someone would have done it on open hardware sooner or later. OS/2 2.0 wasn't that far behind (and was arguably better than Windows 3.1, which was its contemporary). Even if OS/2 didn't exist, then the X Window System was already around under an open license - and would have given the PC a GUI under Linux. Linux wasn't predicated on anything Microsoft were doing at the time. There are others - how long would it have been until DesqView had a GUI?
Well, the ice age may still be coming to western Europe due to (ironically) global warming. There is strong evidence that the Atlantic Conveyor (which brings western Europe its mild weather) may slow down to an extent where there is a localised temperature drop of several degrees in a 2-decade time period).
It comes with accelerated 3D drivers for probably the same cards that Linux comes with accelerated 3D drivers (i.e. older ATi stuff and the motherboard integrated stuff).
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It's trendy in the US these days to be some kind of 'ethnic'. Paricularly Irish - in general, people from the US are infatuated with the Irish.
There is more than one person on Slashdot. A person who thinks shrink wrap licenses are good is not necessarily the same person who thinks the Creative Commons applies automatically is good.
Actually, your position if you don't have a license should be one of default deny - you are denied of doing anything (except as covered by fair use under copyright law). Creative Commons actually adds rights you would otherwise not have at all. So if you're ignorant of an image being under the Creative Commons Attribution Share Alike license, then by default you should assume you have no permission to republish it without the author's permission - the position of the company that lost the lawsuit is absolutely untenable - without a license, they should have been assuming they had no rights at all to the image. The CC license above gives you some permissions without having to ask - i.e. is less restrictive than the rights you would have if the image was merely on the Internet with no associated license. It therefore cannot ambush you because you already should be assuming you cannot republish the image without the copyright holder's permission. Saying the CC license can ambush you is a logical fallacy.
I _am_ the orginal poster - the option *IS* unchecked. But it doesn't stop the screensaver+screen lock from coming on - as far as I can tell, the option has absolutely no effect if your machine is set to automatically lock. Besides, I want the screen saver and screen lock to come on if I'm listening to music, but NOT when I'm watching video. That binary option either turns it completely on or off (well, it would if it actually worked).
I _only_ use AAC podcasts. The nice thing about the enhanced ones for iTunes is they can include hypertext links (so when listening to 75minutes, I don't have to work out how that strange band name is actually spelled - the link is right there) and artwork. The AAC podcasts also make it easier to precisely skip the bits I don't want to listen to (for example, I don't like all the genres of music that 75minutes plays, but I can just click on the next track to skip the stuff I don't like, instead of having to carefully fastforward and rewind).
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All that is still trivial on even the smallest disks supplied today. In any case, your OS is already using 4K blocks so you're already doing that anyway regardless of the underlying sector size.
4Kbyte is the size of a page of memory on all modern architectures. Given all modern operating systems use demand page loading of executables, and implement paging (swap space), a sector size that matches the size of a memory page will probably result in better performance.
When I talk about the 'graunchiness' of AJAX, I'm not talking particularly about whether it is cross platform or not - it's just the whole feel of writing a GUI in what is still very much a document browser. It just feels like it was made for showing static documents, not windows, dynamic text and buttons (even if it actually does these things). Writing a gui in the browser just doesn't feel right and in my admittedly limited experience so far, it seems to take a level of fastidiousness that not even raw Xlib or Win32 requires.
When I learn a new language or technology, I like to start out with a couple of small well defined projects in which I can do the entire thing by hand - no fancy code generators or other IDE help, so I can understand truly what goes on underneath. I find it really helps. I've done it for C. I've written code using raw Xlib rather than toolkits when learning about X. I've written code using the Win32 API when learning about Windows.
Of course I decided to do the same with AJAX - use no fancy tools and code something small but useful completely by hand to understand what goes on. I wrote an application monitoring web app for our distributed app at work to give a nice graphical display and enquiries. It works well enough.
However, I could never shake the feeling that AJAX was what the RAF calls 'graunching' - forcing several components together that don't really fit properly. Writing a GUI in a web browser just felt awkward and wrong. Also, you had to be very careful how you did things especially if you have 30-odd info panels on your browser window - otherwise it's breathtakingly slow. Of course, an AJAX framework would have these (very necessary) optimisations - but AJAX really does seem incredibly inelegant.
Additionally, the X in AJAX doesn't really belong - if you run a protocol analyzer, you'll find XMLHTTPRequest doesn't actually send XML at all unless you explicitly send some XML. In fact it sends any plain text you pass it, and receives plain text back quite happily. But I suppose if it was called AJA it wouldn't be very buzzword compliant.
Well, after all, the UK merely makes up the four newest states in the USA - the States of England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.
Surely that line you wrote is doublethink?
A truly free market for labor would mean that H1-B visas wouldn't even be required because there would be no immigration controls and people could just move in as they pleased without worrying about visas. There would be no such thing as 'illegal immigrants' or 'illegal workers'. Immigration law is massive government control over the labor market.
So criticising government inteference in the labor market while at the same time supporting immigration restrictions is classical doublethink.
My only beef with yum is that it degrades very gracelessly. Apt (at least with Debian) really does try other mirrors - yum doesn't seem to, and just drops out with an error. With the various servers being quite busy at the moment, to yum install some programs I had to re-run yum about half a dozen times so it would complete (and sometimes it corrupted the metadata - the error it gives when it does that would lead most people to believe it was permanently broken, when really you only have to re-run it about 5 times until it finally finds a mirror which isn't responding 421 - Too many users).
Not yum specific of course - but I really wish people would deprecate FTP and use HTTP for all anonymous downloads. FTP is an awful protocol, even in pasv mode (requiring kludges like ftp_conntrack)
Adding support for all of those things is just a single command away - add the Livna repository (which contains various media packages, NTFS modules and nvidia/ati RPMs which get upgraded along with kernel upgrades). The current binary driver issue is a bug (and will be fixed shortly).
I use CentOS because I don't need support - I provide it myself. (When you pay for RHEL you're paying for their support contract - that is the business model that RH use). However, if our business expands to the extent that I can no longer adequately provide support (or if I fall under a bus and my colleagues have to pick up the pieces), by using CentOS it would make it very easy to migrate to the same level or Red Hat Enterprise and pay for Red Hat's support, since RHEL is essentially the same. So CentOS gives you a viable migration path should you ever find yourself needing to move to a commercially supported distro.
I had one of the early Fire GL Pro cards (not primarily for gaming). But I also played the odd game, mostly MSFS. I discovered a bug in their drivers that MSFS revealed, but they refused to do anything about it 'because it wasn't a gaming card'. So you'll be doubly disappointed if you find something that doesn't work right in a game because they won't accept the bug.
You have to ask yourself - is the job you're doing/going to do - does it require your actual physical presence? If not, then it can be offshored.
The trouble is, in IT, all the jobs that require your physical presence are generally 'IT technician' jobs - pulling cat5 through walls, swapping out hard disks in PCs and that kind of thing - the lower paid end of the IT spectrum (although there are higher paid network engineering types of jobs). All the high paid jobs that do NOT require physical presence to be possible to do are things like software development - which CAN be offshored. It's the very jobs that need a 4+ year degree which are the ones that can be offshored. The jobs that someone could leave school at 16 and be trained to do by their employer tend to be the ones that can't be offshored.
Have you read the GPL? If you have, then I submit you don't actually understand the GPL.
Do you use the X Window System (i.e. any Unix desktop?)
In which case, OpenBSD is helping you. OpenBSD's new safer malloc()/free() implementation found security bugs in x.org recently.
Same goes for most things that end up as part of OpenBSD - the stricter environment of OpenBSD shakes out bugs and the entire community benefits, not just OpenBSD users.
OpenBSD benefits far more than its immediate userbase.
Or using the Microsoft MS-DOS Operating System.
Navigational systems are fairly critical things (especially when IFR). I was slightly shocked to see that a friend's Apollo panel mount GPS ran on Windows NT 4.0!
I'm probably not a typical desktop user, but I find Fedora Core makes a fine development workstation (by definition a desktop machine). Admittedly I'm not doing much word processing or printing on the box or what normal people might consider desktoppy stuff. But a development workstation is still a desktop.
No - they can't, or they would be liable to pay royalties to Fraunhofer for the MP3 patent, which isn't tenable for a Free free distro.
The long answer is if you want to use FC5 and play MP3 files, then it takes approximately 10 seconds to add the Livna yum repository and type 'yum install xine' (or the media player of your choice).
I don't think Windows 3.0 is what 'dragged us out of the 80s' - someone would have done it on open hardware sooner or later. OS/2 2.0 wasn't that far behind (and was arguably better than Windows 3.1, which was its contemporary). Even if OS/2 didn't exist, then the X Window System was already around under an open license - and would have given the PC a GUI under Linux. Linux wasn't predicated on anything Microsoft were doing at the time. There are others - how long would it have been until DesqView had a GUI?
Well, the ice age may still be coming to western Europe due to (ironically) global warming. There is strong evidence that the Atlantic Conveyor (which brings western Europe its mild weather) may slow down to an extent where there is a localised temperature drop of several degrees in a 2-decade time period).
It comes with accelerated 3D drivers for probably the same cards that Linux comes with accelerated 3D drivers (i.e. older ATi stuff and the motherboard integrated stuff).
It's trendy in the US these days to be some kind of 'ethnic'. Paricularly Irish - in general, people from the US are infatuated with the Irish.
There is more than one person on Slashdot. A person who thinks shrink wrap licenses are good is not necessarily the same person who thinks the Creative Commons applies automatically is good.
Actually, your position if you don't have a license should be one of default deny - you are denied of doing anything (except as covered by fair use under copyright law). Creative Commons actually adds rights you would otherwise not have at all. So if you're ignorant of an image being under the Creative Commons Attribution Share Alike license, then by default you should assume you have no permission to republish it without the author's permission - the position of the company that lost the lawsuit is absolutely untenable - without a license, they should have been assuming they had no rights at all to the image. The CC license above gives you some permissions without having to ask - i.e. is less restrictive than the rights you would have if the image was merely on the Internet with no associated license. It therefore cannot ambush you because you already should be assuming you cannot republish the image without the copyright holder's permission. Saying the CC license can ambush you is a logical fallacy.
I _am_ the orginal poster - the option *IS* unchecked. But it doesn't stop the screensaver+screen lock from coming on - as far as I can tell, the option has absolutely no effect if your machine is set to automatically lock. Besides, I want the screen saver and screen lock to come on if I'm listening to music, but NOT when I'm watching video. That binary option either turns it completely on or off (well, it would if it actually worked).
That option IS unchecked. It doesn't stop the screen saver (and screen lock) from coming on.
I _only_ use AAC podcasts. The nice thing about the enhanced ones for iTunes is they can include hypertext links (so when listening to 75minutes, I don't have to work out how that strange band name is actually spelled - the link is right there) and artwork. The AAC podcasts also make it easier to precisely skip the bits I don't want to listen to (for example, I don't like all the genres of music that 75minutes plays, but I can just click on the next track to skip the stuff I don't like, instead of having to carefully fastforward and rewind).