Ubuntu may be based on unstable, but they add packages that are just now making it into Experimental, which is basically only used for GNOME & KDE, new gcc versions and other widely used products. Personally, I think that the experimental distribution should be eliminated, as this is what unstable is for. If that doesn't sit well with you, then I can only suggest using testing and enforcing the existing rules on entering testing.
No other distro I know of is using 2.6.10 by default, and 2.6.11 apparently isn't fixing broken things like laptop touchpads. I know that I'm personally having a problem with rebooting that I can only attribute to the kernel (nothing else should have the prividges to mess with data persistant across reboots, and Warty worked fine). Soft rebooting fails, but a powerdown and pressing the power button back on will work as normal. It's a bit annoying, but I can see the justifcation behind calling Ubuntu for what it is.
Really what I'd like is something closer to sid with Ubuntu's pragmatic approch to packaging non-free software. I'm not a big fan of huge six month updates, and there's about three packages in sid right now that I'd like to get ahold of. But it's not wise to mix the two, however possible it may be. Maybe this Grumpy guy is what I'm after!
Well, they're not exactly one time expenses, since those are usually investments in hardware and machinery. This was more of an investment in Sameus Blackley, and as it turned out, he didn't think too hard about computers. Yes, PC hardware rapidly evolves, but that doesn't mean your parts drop in price because manufacturers will push performance up to make up for it. Somehow, MS and Sameus were convinced that PC hardware was on some other plane of commoditization compared to the console systems you're used to. They seem to have learned their lesson somewhat, with a general system design that basically sounds like what Nintendo called the GameCube.
The one thing that the X-Box did was inform the PC developers how shitty a gig it was. Developers took one look at the potential sales on X-Box, compared them to the PC and recognized the PC for what it was: a mismash of technologies preferred by early adopters and a market incapable of competing on price, even compared to the X-Box.
If you just want to be a network admin, there's really little need for any X-year degree, although if you take it seriously, it can help you develop critical writing, reading and analytical skills nessecary to be successful in the business world. For configuring routers and plugging cables together, a 4 year Bachelor's degree would quite simply be overkill. And you might even find out you'd rather be doing something else instead of Network Administration.
The benefits of the degree here is mostly a worst case scenario. Imagine if Dell, Intel and Cisco got their shit together and realized they could offer their business clients a shitload of value by making a secure and quickly configurable networking system, complete with wireless and other staff reducing technologies. All they'd need is one guy on staff to handle the purchasing and manage the hiring of a few local punks from the local high school to run a few wires to access points over the summer. Now the company wins, the manager might lose a bit of self-importance as his staff and budget is being cut, but the two year degree guy is SOL. I suppose he can go back for another two year degree, although its usually far harder to go back the second time, either because of family or a fodness for material goods and car repairs.
Right now, you're the local high school punk. If you find and study for one or two certs, you should be able to pick up some work. I've seen ads for A+ people in the classifieds, and you can use that income to pick up something serious. As much as I dislike vendor certifications, it is my understanding that Cisco is really respected within IT departments (compared to say, microsoft certs). Long term outlook isn't much better than a two year degree, espcially something like ITT or DeVry. Remember that these places have shareholders; giving accurate but negative advice on the future outlook would hurt enrollment and share price, subsequently. If you're lucky, you make your way to department manager. Otherwise, I hear nursing's always in demand.
The four year degree offers flexibility. Sure, they'll throw a lot of crap at you, and so much of it that very little actually applies to any particular of today's jobs, but you'll also be prepared for far more than just network administration. Furthermore, you're also that much more prepared and likely to be accepted into an MBA program, which often becomes a prerequisite for promotion in the kinds of large networking environments that would need someone with a degree full time.
In summary, a four year degree lends you flexibility, and the two year degree locks you into a career path you may not be happy with five years from now. It's a tragic fact of life that the most important career choices are made now, when you're least informed and capable of making them. As Paul Graham said, stick with the choices that expand future choices, rather than limit them.
EB has a wide selection of stuff available online brand new for PC. I saw Deus Ex 2 for like 3 dollars, and although they've since raised it to 5, it's still a bargain.
Well, my household has been a customer of netFlix for about a nine months, and we get about a week turnaround on DVDs. It's ridiculus, considering that their DC is just on the other side of the metro area (which just might be 100 miles thanks to urban sprawl;)). This observation has been termed "throttling," although I know of no hard proof of this.
Needless to say, I too, wonder how quickly Blockbuster returns videos.
I don't know what it is, but I've managed to pick up something that SpyBot, Ad-Aware and Microsoft's offerings cannot end. Ad-aware didn't even make a dent. The real problem is that sometimes its difficult to identify which infestation you have; in my mind, that last link is a written embodyment of what half of spyware should do. The other half is figure out which remedies need to be applied ie identification.
And no, by "pick up something," I'm not referring to SP2.
Well shit, welcome to the new millenium. There's this new fangled thing called openGL, and I hear that nVidia also offers a driver that lets you play games on it! You should really check it out.
Honestly, I'm a bit amazed that a diehard slackware guy coverted to Gentoo because of a simple package manager. You've had like ten years to realize how nifty they are. Why now?
Actually, apparently the article I read some time ago about it was either wrong, or I remembered it wrongly. It seems that IRC was invented in 1988. Which probably predates winmodems, and most of Windows.
You say that Debian is irrelevant, but when you propose that Ubuntu is eating their lunch as such, you're really understating the releveance Debian plays within Ubuntu. Most of the developers are DD's. But there's enough of them just lying around, and there doesn't seem to be an expiration on membership. But there is an established relationship, and its largely parasitic. Every six months, Ubuntu takes the Debian sid tree and forks it into the new Ubuntu stable branch. While there were claims that Ubuntu would be better about contributing back to Debian, the feedback loop has been minimal, with many Debian package maintainers just discovering by accident that ubuntu has forked their package and made the.diffs available on some page somewhere. Basically, nobody's going to go the extra mile to make them actually contribute back and forth. If Debian is broken and not viable in the long term, then Ubuntu will quickly be in trouble.
Until last year when my box imploded, I was using vanilla debian sid. Today I use Ubuntu, because they focus on my particular usage desires. I still follow the Debian team, but that's pretty easy because they mostly go nowhere. Gnome 2.10 has just been placed in experimental (the existance of experimental is another post on another day itself). But there's a price to pay for that experimenalness. I've heard criticism that Ubuntu adopted the 2.6.10 kernel too quickly, and I'm witnessing some oddities involving rebooting. Its not that big of a deal to me, but that's mostly because I don't have a trackpad or anything like that.
That said, I don't think an endowment is really what Debian needs, and fourty thousand isn't exactly halfway there either. The only sugggestion on keeping cash on hand has been as a Just In Case We're Sued fund. I think Debian should focus on producing something of value, that should the group find itself under legal scrutiny, they'll also find many people coming to their aid. Hopefully, Robinson will establish a periodic release philosophy within Debian to undo their funk and let future leaders focus on a new topic of improvement instead of the same old We Need To Release.
Which is why they group AMD hertz seperately from Intel's. Makes more sense in the survey, although these days there's signifcant overlap even within AMD. I'm not sure how they get a processor rated 3500+ to run the same as a 3000+, but the benchmarks usually indicate that they are indeed faster.
I really don't care about what the specs call for, I just want to be able to use my thumb drive without getting on hands and knees. Yes, the thumb drive uses something close to the 2.0 max. If Apple, the designers of their hardware, can't figure out a way to send more power to their keyboard to allow for such devices, then it seems like they've got a lot of talent for nothing.
Now that seems like a useful idea. replace the stupid wallet card with a PCMCIA device that holds two, connects them and acts as some sort of hardware RAID.
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I picked up a PQI stick a month ago, and the 1GB has been working perfectly for me... It works on my Linux desktop (Ubuntu), our windows machine, and every Windows machine at work I've tried it on. The only problem I've had with it thus far is that it doesn't work in the Apple USB keyboard. Apparently it wants more power than the keyboard is willing to transmit. But it still works just fine plugged into the back of a g4 or the front panel on a g5 workstation.
Actually, looking at the site on SSA for Trees, it would appear that even java gets translated into that intermediate language. My guess is that the compiler simply targets a jvm for output rather than a specific and tangible computer. Theoretically, there isn't much that prevents one from building a computer that natively runs as a JVM.
Jesus, I'm about halfway through this paper, and I'm pretty sure the twist at the end is that the whole thing was written by a very preminiscient Jefferson.
You probably haven't heard of Game Informer because you don't shop at a gamestop. That rag is pushed and published by the video game retailer that will account for around half of all game sales after their merger with EB. But then, its not like game magazines were ever much more than corporate agitprop. Nintendo Power certainly started a trend, but they also came from the company who got its start in the business limiting developers to two games a year and stringent quality standards.
Several of my professors have been teaching robotics classes to students for years. Before I explain their opinions, I should inform you that they are Computer Science professors, and their slant is toward programming robots.
Basically, their theory is that building robots is difficult work, and most of the students wound up spending more time cutting, welding and soldiering than programming. The Lego mindstorms kit (with a firmware hack so we can use Not Quite C) proved very useful for programming the lego robots to do various things. There's still plenty of room to learn about various mechanical and electrical systems with mindstorms, but you don't have to worry about dorking around with soldiering, which is a pretty risky business with the hot iron, nasty fumes and toxic chemicals. I've seen more than a few mindstorms hacks onto their electrical systems to add stuff. The one problem is that they're probably pretty expensive, even with a qualified academic discount.
Most people who follow stock prices of their company soon learn to ignore the day to day workings of the company. This sort of "market reaction" is part of the reason.
The thing is, yes, Apple is down today (and more after hours). However, if you look at the stock in a longer term (a quarter represents more than a single day, after all), you'll find that they were up quite a bit. The daytrader philosophy here is "buy on the rumor, sell on the news." However, looking at the stock, I don't think that completely explains it. Partly, it may be that the market overall was down today, and it might simply be that nobody thinks Apple can top themselves this time. Given that they're close to a 3 or 4 year high, its certainly possible that people expect apple to begin a downward trend in sales and revenue from here on out.
The thing to realize is that iPod is a great product, but it's only one great product. Great companies merit their high PE numbers by rolling out new products on a regular basis. Upgrades don't really count here, especially since they're easily planned on and have a fairly established risk compared to a brand new product. You might count a G5 laptop as a new product, though it's stretching it a bit, and there's still significant doubt that they'll ever find a way to really move their laptops forward in horsepower the way x86 laptops have been for some time. I know plenty of people who are interested in apple laptops, but keep saying to themselves and others "maybe once they release a g5 version." The future of "sustained earnings" really looks like a gentle glide down from here-- might as well get out on the top floor, after all.
Its not like there is any software immune to ancient bugs. Debian had an outstanding bug in apt-get that was recently fixed. Apparently, for seven years there was a lurking 'ignore random files while removing a package' bug in their linked list program. Of course, it wasn't random at all, it simply skipped every other node in the linked list under certain conditions (such as having a list with more than one item).
I don't think the person behind the challenge meant to imply that macs are toys. Only that very few people outside of Apple know much about the inner workings of their beast named OS X. As far as exploits go, a kernel panic is one of the safest out there. No way of intentionally damaging specific files, no remote execution of code. Of course, as one of the many people who doesn't know much about OSX internals, I suppose its possible that the vulnerability could lead to such things. I just don't know, and given that your name wasn't on the list, I surmise you don't either.
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Ubuntu may be based on unstable, but they add packages that are just now making it into Experimental, which is basically only used for GNOME & KDE, new gcc versions and other widely used products. Personally, I think that the experimental distribution should be eliminated, as this is what unstable is for. If that doesn't sit well with you, then I can only suggest using testing and enforcing the existing rules on entering testing.
No other distro I know of is using 2.6.10 by default, and 2.6.11 apparently isn't fixing broken things like laptop touchpads. I know that I'm personally having a problem with rebooting that I can only attribute to the kernel (nothing else should have the prividges to mess with data persistant across reboots, and Warty worked fine). Soft rebooting fails, but a powerdown and pressing the power button back on will work as normal. It's a bit annoying, but I can see the justifcation behind calling Ubuntu for what it is.
Really what I'd like is something closer to sid with Ubuntu's pragmatic approch to packaging non-free software. I'm not a big fan of huge six month updates, and there's about three packages in sid right now that I'd like to get ahold of. But it's not wise to mix the two, however possible it may be. Maybe this Grumpy guy is what I'm after!
Well, they're not exactly one time expenses, since those are usually investments in hardware and machinery. This was more of an investment in Sameus Blackley, and as it turned out, he didn't think too hard about computers. Yes, PC hardware rapidly evolves, but that doesn't mean your parts drop in price because manufacturers will push performance up to make up for it. Somehow, MS and Sameus were convinced that PC hardware was on some other plane of commoditization compared to the console systems you're used to. They seem to have learned their lesson somewhat, with a general system design that basically sounds like what Nintendo called the GameCube.
The one thing that the X-Box did was inform the PC developers how shitty a gig it was. Developers took one look at the potential sales on X-Box, compared them to the PC and recognized the PC for what it was: a mismash of technologies preferred by early adopters and a market incapable of competing on price, even compared to the X-Box.
If you just want to be a network admin, there's really little need for any X-year degree, although if you take it seriously, it can help you develop critical writing, reading and analytical skills nessecary to be successful in the business world. For configuring routers and plugging cables together, a 4 year Bachelor's degree would quite simply be overkill. And you might even find out you'd rather be doing something else instead of Network Administration.
The benefits of the degree here is mostly a worst case scenario. Imagine if Dell, Intel and Cisco got their shit together and realized they could offer their business clients a shitload of value by making a secure and quickly configurable networking system, complete with wireless and other staff reducing technologies. All they'd need is one guy on staff to handle the purchasing and manage the hiring of a few local punks from the local high school to run a few wires to access points over the summer. Now the company wins, the manager might lose a bit of self-importance as his staff and budget is being cut, but the two year degree guy is SOL. I suppose he can go back for another two year degree, although its usually far harder to go back the second time, either because of family or a fodness for material goods and car repairs.
Right now, you're the local high school punk. If you find and study for one or two certs, you should be able to pick up some work. I've seen ads for A+ people in the classifieds, and you can use that income to pick up something serious. As much as I dislike vendor certifications, it is my understanding that Cisco is really respected within IT departments (compared to say, microsoft certs). Long term outlook isn't much better than a two year degree, espcially something like ITT or DeVry. Remember that these places have shareholders; giving accurate but negative advice on the future outlook would hurt enrollment and share price, subsequently. If you're lucky, you make your way to department manager. Otherwise, I hear nursing's always in demand.
The four year degree offers flexibility. Sure, they'll throw a lot of crap at you, and so much of it that very little actually applies to any particular of today's jobs, but you'll also be prepared for far more than just network administration. Furthermore, you're also that much more prepared and likely to be accepted into an MBA program, which often becomes a prerequisite for promotion in the kinds of large networking environments that would need someone with a degree full time.
In summary, a four year degree lends you flexibility, and the two year degree locks you into a career path you may not be happy with five years from now. It's a tragic fact of life that the most important career choices are made now, when you're least informed and capable of making them. As Paul Graham said, stick with the choices that expand future choices, rather than limit them.
EB has a wide selection of stuff available online brand new for PC. I saw Deus Ex 2 for like 3 dollars, and although they've since raised it to 5, it's still a bargain.
Well, my household has been a customer of netFlix for about a nine months, and we get about a week turnaround on DVDs. It's ridiculus, considering that their DC is just on the other side of the metro area (which just might be 100 miles thanks to urban sprawl ;)). This observation has been termed "throttling," although I know of no hard proof of this.
Needless to say, I too, wonder how quickly Blockbuster returns videos.
I don't know what it is, but I've managed to pick up something that SpyBot, Ad-Aware and Microsoft's offerings cannot end. Ad-aware didn't even make a dent. The real problem is that sometimes its difficult to identify which infestation you have; in my mind, that last link is a written embodyment of what half of spyware should do. The other half is figure out which remedies need to be applied ie identification.
And no, by "pick up something," I'm not referring to SP2.
"The article talks about both successes and failures: Red Hat, TurboLinux, JBoss."
For an extra 200 points, match which label goes with which product!
Or maybe he meant Canadian dollars.
Well shit, welcome to the new millenium. There's this new fangled thing called openGL, and I hear that nVidia also offers a driver that lets you play games on it! You should really check it out.
Honestly, I'm a bit amazed that a diehard slackware guy coverted to Gentoo because of a simple package manager. You've had like ten years to realize how nifty they are. Why now?
Actually, apparently the article I read some time ago about it was either wrong, or I remembered it wrongly. It seems that IRC was invented in 1988. Which probably predates winmodems, and most of Windows.
IRC was invented in 1996. Which would, as it turns out, to be one year after Windows 95.
You say that Debian is irrelevant, but when you propose that Ubuntu is eating their lunch as such, you're really understating the releveance Debian plays within Ubuntu. Most of the developers are DD's. But there's enough of them just lying around, and there doesn't seem to be an expiration on membership. But there is an established relationship, and its largely parasitic. Every six months, Ubuntu takes the Debian sid tree and forks it into the new Ubuntu stable branch. While there were claims that Ubuntu would be better about contributing back to Debian, the feedback loop has been minimal, with many Debian package maintainers just discovering by accident that ubuntu has forked their package and made the .diffs available on some page somewhere. Basically, nobody's going to go the extra mile to make them actually contribute back and forth. If Debian is broken and not viable in the long term, then Ubuntu will quickly be in trouble.
Until last year when my box imploded, I was using vanilla debian sid. Today I use Ubuntu, because they focus on my particular usage desires. I still follow the Debian team, but that's pretty easy because they mostly go nowhere. Gnome 2.10 has just been placed in experimental (the existance of experimental is another post on another day itself). But there's a price to pay for that experimenalness. I've heard criticism that Ubuntu adopted the 2.6.10 kernel too quickly, and I'm witnessing some oddities involving rebooting. Its not that big of a deal to me, but that's mostly because I don't have a trackpad or anything like that.
That said, I don't think an endowment is really what Debian needs, and fourty thousand isn't exactly halfway there either. The only sugggestion on keeping cash on hand has been as a Just In Case We're Sued fund. I think Debian should focus on producing something of value, that should the group find itself under legal scrutiny, they'll also find many people coming to their aid. Hopefully, Robinson will establish a periodic release philosophy within Debian to undo their funk and let future leaders focus on a new topic of improvement instead of the same old We Need To Release.
Which is why they group AMD hertz seperately from Intel's. Makes more sense in the survey, although these days there's signifcant overlap even within AMD. I'm not sure how they get a processor rated 3500+ to run the same as a 3000+, but the benchmarks usually indicate that they are indeed faster.
Does this explain the propensity of birds in trees near parking lots to mimic the random yuppie's car alarm?
I really don't care about what the specs call for, I just want to be able to use my thumb drive without getting on hands and knees. Yes, the thumb drive uses something close to the 2.0 max. If Apple, the designers of their hardware, can't figure out a way to send more power to their keyboard to allow for such devices, then it seems like they've got a lot of talent for nothing.
Now that seems like a useful idea. replace the stupid wallet card with a PCMCIA device that holds two, connects them and acts as some sort of hardware RAID.
I picked up a PQI stick a month ago, and the 1GB has been working perfectly for me... It works on my Linux desktop (Ubuntu), our windows machine, and every Windows machine at work I've tried it on. The only problem I've had with it thus far is that it doesn't work in the Apple USB keyboard. Apparently it wants more power than the keyboard is willing to transmit. But it still works just fine plugged into the back of a g4 or the front panel on a g5 workstation.
Well, there is the significant factor of the extra pin in the 940 slot architecture. I'm reasonably certain it's not for nothing.
Actually, looking at the site on SSA for Trees, it would appear that even java gets translated into that intermediate language. My guess is that the compiler simply targets a jvm for output rather than a specific and tangible computer. Theoretically, there isn't much that prevents one from building a computer that natively runs as a JVM.
Jesus, I'm about halfway through this paper, and I'm pretty sure the twist at the end is that the whole thing was written by a very preminiscient Jefferson.
You probably haven't heard of Game Informer because you don't shop at a gamestop. That rag is pushed and published by the video game retailer that will account for around half of all game sales after their merger with EB. But then, its not like game magazines were ever much more than corporate agitprop. Nintendo Power certainly started a trend, but they also came from the company who got its start in the business limiting developers to two games a year and stringent quality standards.
Several of my professors have been teaching robotics classes to students for years. Before I explain their opinions, I should inform you that they are Computer Science professors, and their slant is toward programming robots.
Basically, their theory is that building robots is difficult work, and most of the students wound up spending more time cutting, welding and soldiering than programming. The Lego mindstorms kit (with a firmware hack so we can use Not Quite C) proved very useful for programming the lego robots to do various things. There's still plenty of room to learn about various mechanical and electrical systems with mindstorms, but you don't have to worry about dorking around with soldiering, which is a pretty risky business with the hot iron, nasty fumes and toxic chemicals. I've seen more than a few mindstorms hacks onto their electrical systems to add stuff. The one problem is that they're probably pretty expensive, even with a qualified academic discount.
Most people who follow stock prices of their company soon learn to ignore the day to day workings of the company. This sort of "market reaction" is part of the reason.
The thing is, yes, Apple is down today (and more after hours). However, if you look at the stock in a longer term (a quarter represents more than a single day, after all), you'll find that they were up quite a bit. The daytrader philosophy here is "buy on the rumor, sell on the news." However, looking at the stock, I don't think that completely explains it. Partly, it may be that the market overall was down today, and it might simply be that nobody thinks Apple can top themselves this time. Given that they're close to a 3 or 4 year high, its certainly possible that people expect apple to begin a downward trend in sales and revenue from here on out.
The thing to realize is that iPod is a great product, but it's only one great product. Great companies merit their high PE numbers by rolling out new products on a regular basis. Upgrades don't really count here, especially since they're easily planned on and have a fairly established risk compared to a brand new product. You might count a G5 laptop as a new product, though it's stretching it a bit, and there's still significant doubt that they'll ever find a way to really move their laptops forward in horsepower the way x86 laptops have been for some time. I know plenty of people who are interested in apple laptops, but keep saying to themselves and others "maybe once they release a g5 version." The future of "sustained earnings" really looks like a gentle glide down from here-- might as well get out on the top floor, after all.
Its not like there is any software immune to ancient bugs. Debian had an outstanding bug in apt-get that was recently fixed. Apparently, for seven years there was a lurking 'ignore random files while removing a package' bug in their linked list program. Of course, it wasn't random at all, it simply skipped every other node in the linked list under certain conditions (such as having a list with more than one item).
I don't think the person behind the challenge meant to imply that macs are toys. Only that very few people outside of Apple know much about the inner workings of their beast named OS X. As far as exploits go, a kernel panic is one of the safest out there. No way of intentionally damaging specific files, no remote execution of code. Of course, as one of the many people who doesn't know much about OSX internals, I suppose its possible that the vulnerability could lead to such things. I just don't know, and given that your name wasn't on the list, I surmise you don't either.
Pshh, that ebay seller is just a shill for Intel's New Moore's Law. Their plan is already working better than expected, if they've got you tricked...