True - I hadn't thought of them. I know that Linux is getting more popular in that segment, though I thought there were already a large selection of purpose-built operating systems for real-time and embedded systems.
The BSD distros do not have this problem, but it's not just the strict top-down management.
It's the users.
Linux is trying to court three major user groups wih the exact same kernel, and trying to be all things to all people. The big corporations who make up most of the Linux coding/funding/purchasing want better server performance (more processors, more RAM, etc). The desktop guys want better desktop, laptop, and netbook experiences (3D graphics, sound cards, processor power scaling). The third are the end-users who contribute almost nothing but want the system to be easy and simple.
BSD however, really only has one user base - and they largely want the same thing. Stability, security, and performance. So all the cute little desktop friendly stuff that Linux keeps adding and all the server-specific stuff that Linux keeps adding aren't there. There's just the one major direction.
Or at least that's my experience, and I've been using it since 2.x.
I've had no load issues with 6x or 7x so far, though I have it primarily on quad-core boxes under moderate load (firewalls and such).
I should look into this "shakiness" and find out what it entails, and if there are some things i need to consider if I plan to scale. I might have just lucked out.
Surely you jest... since A) VMS is still in active use and development B) The "Open" in OpenVMS means it is POSIX compliant (and the term open has NOTHING to do with open source. It actually has many software patents)
I think this is probably especially true with instruments that don't have frets - the musicians put the note where it should be - and isn't always there. Violins, slide trombones, that sort of thing.
This may be a bit offtopic (having nothing to do with violins) but I would agree that well-made instruments of various ages sound very similar.
My particular anecdote being that I was given a chance to play an original gibson les paul, and a modern remake of the same les paul, and found them to both sound incredibly nice. There was a bit of a difference though, but I'm not sure I could really put my finger on it. I did play the same bits on both (and on the same amp, in the same test room). The epiphone version, however, sounded like a cheap guitar:D
That's GSM, IIRC - and Blackberry phones do that so badly it's common to hear it on conference calls. Even being *close* to electronics they will cause that.
I haven't noticed it so bad with some models of phones, I guess it depends. My Blackberry would blast right over my car stereo, but my HTC Magic (same carrier) hasn't done it yet.
In a word? YES. It would require actual competence to detect a piece of hardware that essentially did nothing until activated and simply sat on a motherboard. Do you know if there are extremely detailed inspections done on every piece of circuitry brought into country X from country Y? I know for a fact that in a certain very large defense company I worked for lots of "surprises" were found on a regular basis. Typically things like parts that were different from the specs, insects, and on occasion completely incorrect assemblies.
The funny part was these nearly all made it past QA and into the finished products, only to be discovered when something failed.
So based on that, I'd say that *if* someone were choosing to do something like this, it would be fairly easy to sneak it past the level of moron that would typically be doing these inspections.
Tinfoil hats aside - the real trick is getting the data back off again. It's trivial to convince a cell phone (for example) to record conversations while appearing off. The trick is to get to the data without anyone noticing, while you're in a foreign (possibly hostile) nation. I'd think someone would notice if a cell phone was constantly 'phoning home'.
Doing this with a laptop would also be trivial, but I would hope that the firewall filter would catch outbound connections to unusual sites?
Actually, this isn't true. In Ca, for example, to use an AK-47 (without the pre-ban registration) you would have to buy the specially modified version with a 10-round magazine that can't be removed without tools.
Same as any other assault-type rifle. They have quite a list of what are considered "evil features", and any of these, when combined with a center-fire gun with a removable magazine, are illegal.
Depends on where you live. Some states (Arizona, Vermont, Wyoming, Alaska) this is perfectly fine. These are open carry states where there is no issue with carrying unconcealed weapons of nearly any type.
California, gun show or not, this would likely get you shot. At the very least it will get you harassed.
Actually, you might be surprised how many "current" versions of unix end up having to install ancient backwards-compatible libraries for some stupid program or other. Sometimes this is even for the newest version of the app.
SAP comes to mind... (Java 1.4.2, old C libs, etc)
I just switched to the HTC Magic and I freaking love it - however, I must agree. The GDocs app is Free, which is nice and all... but Google really needs to get off their butt and make full Google Docs.
My wife and I both bought Android phones just recently (replacing a different smartphone) and we've been nothing but happy with them.
Exactly. Flickr has the right to do this with their private property, and the right to refuse service.
I posted elsewhere the same thing - this wasn't a government/court ordered takedown. This was a corporate ordered takedown under the veil of a TOS violation. This exact comment could be whacked for the exact same thing.
And this is why keeping all your stuff in the cloud is bad, mmmmkay? Court ordered takedown of a personal server != corporate decision to whack some users account due to a nebulous "TOS" violation.
That would be especially useful whenever the system has a problem - then you would be able to read back the whole issue, and it wouldn't get deleted on reboot!
It's in far northern Bree, by where the Orcs are. Run along the ravine from east to west (or vice-versa) and you'll see two large, beautiful waterfalls flowing into the same gorge.
Another poster said something about a cave - I haven't seen that yet.
Same here - for me, it's part of why Ultima stood so far above the rest.
I get any game, doesn't matter what, and I'm always trying to hop onto buildings, fall off maps, find new KOS zones, etc. Usually long before it makes sense for my character to be in a zone or area, I'm there. Sneaking around, harassing NPCs.
Oblivion is one of my all time favorites for exactly this reason. I've explored probably every inch of that game. Right now, I'm visiting and taking screenshots all over LOTRO, though there are less hidden wonders than I'd like (the river basin with two opposing waterfalls is funny, though. Where's the water *go*?)
I used VRML too - and this wasn't just when streaming audio was a big deal, this was when even having audio WORK was a big deal. I was running shotgun modems last time I used VRML, and it was still fun.
Getting audio AND X11 up? That was talent. Even windows audio was spotty on some cards.
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True - I hadn't thought of them. I know that Linux is getting more popular in that segment, though I thought there were already a large selection of purpose-built operating systems for real-time and embedded systems.
The BSD distros do not have this problem, but it's not just the strict top-down management.
It's the users.
Linux is trying to court three major user groups wih the exact same kernel, and trying to be all things to all people. The big corporations who make up most of the Linux coding/funding/purchasing want better server performance (more processors, more RAM, etc). The desktop guys want better desktop, laptop, and netbook experiences (3D graphics, sound cards, processor power scaling). The third are the end-users who contribute almost nothing but want the system to be easy and simple.
BSD however, really only has one user base - and they largely want the same thing. Stability, security, and performance. So all the cute little desktop friendly stuff that Linux keeps adding and all the server-specific stuff that Linux keeps adding aren't there. There's just the one major direction.
Or at least that's my experience, and I've been using it since 2.x.
PC-BSD is *not* a different version or a fork. It is, just like ByOhTek said, just FreeBSD with some additional user tools.
Even 7.1 still identifies as BSD 7, and they are quite clear about it in their documentation. It *is* FreeBSD.
I've had no load issues with 6x or 7x so far, though I have it primarily on quad-core boxes under moderate load (firewalls and such).
I should look into this "shakiness" and find out what it entails, and if there are some things i need to consider if I plan to scale. I might have just lucked out.
Well, that seriously depends on who you ask. :)
The FSF, for example:
would not agree with you it seems.
In any case, OpenVMS still has nothing to do with being "Open Source". This goes over the source of the 'Open' buzzword (now largely disused) and its relationship to POSIX as opposed to this new fangled F/OSS stuff.
Surely you jest... since
A) VMS is still in active use and development
B) The "Open" in OpenVMS means it is POSIX compliant (and the term open has NOTHING to do with open source. It actually has many software patents)
True enough - can't beat that for simplicity
I think this is probably especially true with instruments that don't have frets - the musicians put the note where it should be - and isn't always there.
Violins, slide trombones, that sort of thing.
I'll take my frets any day ;)
This may be a bit offtopic (having nothing to do with violins) but I would agree that well-made instruments of various ages sound very similar.
My particular anecdote being that I was given a chance to play an original gibson les paul, and a modern remake of the same les paul, and found them to both sound incredibly nice. There was a bit of a difference though, but I'm not sure I could really put my finger on it. I did play the same bits on both (and on the same amp, in the same test room). :D
The epiphone version, however, sounded like a cheap guitar
That's GSM, IIRC - and Blackberry phones do that so badly it's common to hear it on conference calls. Even being *close* to electronics they will cause that.
I haven't noticed it so bad with some models of phones, I guess it depends. My Blackberry would blast right over my car stereo, but my HTC Magic (same carrier) hasn't done it yet.
In a word? YES.
It would require actual competence to detect a piece of hardware that essentially did nothing until activated and simply sat on a motherboard. Do you know if there are extremely detailed inspections done on every piece of circuitry brought into country X from country Y? I know for a fact that in a certain very large defense company I worked for lots of "surprises" were found on a regular basis. Typically things like parts that were different from the specs, insects, and on occasion completely incorrect assemblies.
The funny part was these nearly all made it past QA and into the finished products, only to be discovered when something failed.
So based on that, I'd say that *if* someone were choosing to do something like this, it would be fairly easy to sneak it past the level of moron that would typically be doing these inspections.
Tinfoil hats aside - the real trick is getting the data back off again. It's trivial to convince a cell phone (for example) to record conversations while appearing off. The trick is to get to the data without anyone noticing, while you're in a foreign (possibly hostile) nation. I'd think someone would notice if a cell phone was constantly 'phoning home'.
Doing this with a laptop would also be trivial, but I would hope that the firewall filter would catch outbound connections to unusual sites?
Actually, even that is an issue it would seem: http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2009/feb/05/dea-led-by-bush-continues-pot-raids/
Actually, this isn't true. In Ca, for example, to use an AK-47 (without the pre-ban registration) you would have to buy the specially modified version with a 10-round magazine that can't be removed without tools.
Same as any other assault-type rifle. They have quite a list of what are considered "evil features", and any of these, when combined with a center-fire gun with a removable magazine, are illegal.
See here: http://www.ag.ca.gov/firearms/regs/sb23indx.php
Depends on where you live.
Some states (Arizona, Vermont, Wyoming, Alaska) this is perfectly fine. These are open carry states where there is no issue with carrying unconcealed weapons of nearly any type.
California, gun show or not, this would likely get you shot. At the very least it will get you harassed.
Actually, you might be surprised how many "current" versions of unix end up having to install ancient backwards-compatible libraries for some stupid program or other. Sometimes this is even for the newest version of the app.
SAP comes to mind... (Java 1.4.2, old C libs, etc)
That's not to say Linux is great at what it does.
Freudian Slip? ROFL
Actually, I've had the same exact issue you detailed here with Windows, OSX, BSD, AIX, Solaris, and Linux.
Nothing works right 100% of the time - to quote three dead trolls in a baggie "It ain't the hardware guys, it just that every OS sucks".
Everyone knows that every app works on the developer's machine...
I just switched to the HTC Magic and I freaking love it - however, I must agree. The GDocs app is Free, which is nice and all... but Google really needs to get off their butt and make full Google Docs.
My wife and I both bought Android phones just recently (replacing a different smartphone) and we've been nothing but happy with them.
Exactly. Flickr has the right to do this with their private property, and the right to refuse service.
I posted elsewhere the same thing - this wasn't a government/court ordered takedown. This was a corporate ordered takedown under the veil of a TOS violation. This exact comment could be whacked for the exact same thing.
This is not even remotely government censorship.
And this is why keeping all your stuff in the cloud is bad, mmmmkay?
Court ordered takedown of a personal server != corporate decision to whack some users account due to a nebulous "TOS" violation.
That would be especially useful whenever the system has a problem - then you would be able to read back the whole issue, and it wouldn't get deleted on reboot!
This wouldn't be so funny if it weren't so true :D
At least I no longer have to use a teletype for my batch output...
It's in far northern Bree, by where the Orcs are. Run along the ravine from east to west (or vice-versa) and you'll see two large, beautiful waterfalls flowing into the same gorge.
Another poster said something about a cave - I haven't seen that yet.
Same here - for me, it's part of why Ultima stood so far above the rest.
I get any game, doesn't matter what, and I'm always trying to hop onto buildings, fall off maps, find new KOS zones, etc. Usually long before it makes sense for my character to be in a zone or area, I'm there. Sneaking around, harassing NPCs.
Oblivion is one of my all time favorites for exactly this reason. I've explored probably every inch of that game. Right now, I'm visiting and taking screenshots all over LOTRO, though there are less hidden wonders than I'd like (the river basin with two opposing waterfalls is funny, though. Where's the water *go*?)
I used VRML too - and this wasn't just when streaming audio was a big deal, this was when even having audio WORK was a big deal. I was running shotgun modems last time I used VRML, and it was still fun.
Getting audio AND X11 up? That was talent.
Even windows audio was spotty on some cards.