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  1. Re:point on RMS Weighs In On BitKeeper · · Score: 0, Troll

    Two things: it is not Linux that is popular but GNU/Linux that is, and the kernel developers cannot contrib to project because they used BitKeeper before.

  2. Re:point on RMS Weighs In On BitKeeper · · Score: 2

    Why should there be binary files in an opensource project, except for images but they should be defined by vectors any way, sound ok but not in the kernel, except for regression testing but there should be instead a program that generates the sound. I said Apple uses cvs and they use it for a large project Mac OS X. Also gcc and it is large project uses cvs, there are currently 10 experimental branches plus 1 stable branch plus the head. Look at all the *BSD, they use cvs and they are the kernel plus userland even imports sources from else where too.

  3. kernel contributors on RMS Weighs In On BitKeeper · · Score: 2

    Now all the contributors cannot help out on a bitkeeper replacement.

  4. Re:RMS makes a good point on RMS Weighs In On BitKeeper · · Score: 2

    Or even if you owned a Ford, you cannot make changes to your GM.

  5. Re:point on RMS Weighs In On BitKeeper · · Score: 2

    But what open source project does not use cvs (except for ones making a replacement for cvs)?
    Hell even Apple uses cvs for their projects (at least Mac OS X).

  6. Re:Complete Solution Available on Pre-Processers for Inlined C Code? · · Score: 2

    There is now a gcc port to compile to C code that will never be in the FSF's gcc, look it up there was a slashdot article about it and it was made by Sun.

  7. Re:inline will make your code *bigger* on Pre-Processers for Inlined C Code? · · Score: 2

    Actually it is an ANSI/ISO C feature but only with the current standard of C99, not C89 like most compilers implement.

  8. cannot use pink on LinuxBIOS, BProc-Based Supercomputer For LANL · · Score: 2

    as it is an OS by Apple and IBM (well gone but still)

  9. Re:American laws on Russian Snared By The FBI Sentenced To 3 Years · · Score: 2

    The base in Cuba is US soil. So the US government is braking their own rules so they can get people at home liking them?

    All US bases at outside of the US are actually US soil, if someone steps on the US base they can and will be prosecuted in US courts.

  10. Re:So? on Secret Service Goes War Driving · · Score: 2

    But this might help the Cincinnati Reds keep Jr.

    Also it helps the Cincinnati economy.

  11. TROFF and TEX on Read a Good Word Processing Book Lately? · · Score: 2

    Teach them these two and they would be set for life: learning on how to write man pages and learning on how to write manuscripts for publication.

  12. Re:Urgh on More Switching Stories · · Score: 5, Informative

    Wrong, on Darwin, NeXT STeP, OpenStep and Mac OS X, the /usr/lib/dyld (which is like /lib/ld.so) can find the libraries if there are in /System/Library/Frameworks/XXX.framework/XXX, /Library/Frameworks/XXX.framework/XXX, ~/Library/Frameworks/XXX.framework/XXX, and /Network/Library/Frameworks/XXX.framework/XXX (not in that order though), so the LD_LIBRARY_PATH (actually DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH on Darwin/Mac OSX) does not need to be touched at all.


    read dyld(1) and ld(1) for more information on how this is done.

  13. Re:The changes to Terminal.app on Apple Patches Security Flaw in Terminal.app · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    To get people figuring out that they cannot hate a whole group of people for just a few.

    I could have put `Why do people hate Americans?' or even `Why do people hate Blacks?', it just the Muslims are the current group being talked about in the news.

  14. Re:hmm 2 ports on New MP3 Portables · · Score: 3, Interesting

    lets see USB is controlled by Intel, Firewire is controlled by IEEE, now which is more open, one or many.

  15. Re:The changes to Terminal.app on Apple Patches Security Flaw in Terminal.app · · Score: 3, Informative

    not on a weekly basis but automatic when you launch the program and if it needs it, the dynamic library loader (dylib) will automatically do it for you, so the ext time it will launch faster.

    This is from reading the sources of dylib and the release notes of cctools which contains the sources.

  16. Re:Don't quote me, but.... on Mac OS X 10.2.1 Released · · Score: 3, Informative

    prebinding now happens at launch of the executable if it needs it so for most Apps after installing needs one launch to reprebind the functions together and it will make it faster to launch the second time.

  17. Re:Probably them on Laptop Travel Damage - Who's at Fault? · · Score: 2

    Now since the US Government is requiring the security guys to be US employes the US Government and the person who did the damage is who you will sue, no one else because it is not they fault, only the guy's and the government's fault for hiring him or not firing him even.

  18. Re:NeXT and their failers on Copland/Gershwin vs. NeXT · · Score: 2

    I thought NeXT was out before NeWS was out (because they were the first to use Display Postscript)?

  19. Re:nostalgia on Copland/Gershwin vs. NeXT · · Score: 2

    Apple's Objective-C does not have blocks but POC (http://users.pandora.be/stes/compiler.html) has blocks.

  20. Computer on How to Stop Rampant Junk Fax? · · Score: 4, Informative

    Use a computer based fax machine. Then only print out the ones you want to print out.

  21. Re:technical aspects of Copland/NuKernel on Copland/Gershwin vs. NeXT · · Score: 2

    It would have been a PPC based machine at the time because those were the machines they were producing in 1997. I got my PowerMac 7100 (PPC 601) before 1997 because I took it to England with me.

  22. Re:nostalgia on Copland/Gershwin vs. NeXT · · Score: 2

    You can add GC with boehm's gc.

  23. NeXT and their failers on Copland/Gershwin vs. NeXT · · Score: 3, Interesting

    One of the reason why NeXT failed is that because of Motorola and then because of Sun and HP.

    The Motorola was because they could not get a new 68K chip fast enough.

    The Sun was because they went from an OpenStep based system to a java based one. HP decide to brake their deal with NeXT right after that.

    OpenStep was running on both SPAC and HPPA before Apple bought NeXT.

    Also before Sun went the java route, they bought a company that was making an office suite for OpenStep (see they owned an office before StarOffice).

  24. Re:Novell and IBM killed OpenDoc on Copland/Gershwin vs. NeXT · · Score: 2

    Also the company that Novell, IBM, and Apple formed went by the way side.

  25. NextStep? on Graphing Randomness in TCP Initial Sequence Numbers · · Score: 2

    Why test NextStep? Because he still uses it? It will not and has not been upgraded in about 5 years unless you count Mac OS X as the upgrade (which it is).