According to Netcraft they run their website on Red Hat servers. They moved from FreeBSD to Linux in September 2005. This might just be a hosting company change, but the fact the netblock is registed to them makes me think that they might run the servers themselves.
The first award of the night went to PayThyme an open source payroll package produced by Clockwork Software (my employer). While I know that Sage is more than payroll, it shows that applications for business are available and are being used. Overall I found from both the awards, eg the Allied Irish Bank and talks at the expo, eg Bonhams the auctioneers, that Linux and open source are making great progress into the business world and I find this very encouraging so see.
The Qt toolkit (on which KDE is based) has a nice garbage collection facility. All of the widgets derived from the base class QWidget take care of deleting child widgets that are also derived from QWidget, including user defined types. This means you can add, remove or move widgets in your user interface without having to worry about the corresponding delete.
>make/usr/bin/gcc -c -g main.c main.c: In function `report_time': main.c:311: parse error before `int' main.c:312: parse error before `int' main.c:316: `buf' undeclared (first use in this function) main.c:316: (Each undeclared identifier is reported only once main.c:316: for each function it appears in.) main.c:317: `minutes' undeclared (first use in this function) main.c:317: `seconds' undeclared (first use in this function) make: *** [main.o] Error 1
Looks like Eric has been coding too much c++ or something. I'm not a c coder myself, so I might be wrong, but don't you have to declare all the variables in a block of c code before using them. In report_time, he doesn't seem to have followed that rule. Maybe he might check his code on a number of compilers before declaring he has "perfected it".
if (mark_time)
{ - int elapsed = endtime - mark_time; - int hours = elapsed/3600; elapsed %= 3600; - int minutes = elapsed/60; elapsed %= 60; - int seconds = elapsed; + int elapsed; + int hours; + int minutes; + int seconds;
char buf[BUFSIZ];
Since when was OSX linux? You can't get free software to install on your non-free operating system because Apple don't want you to, how is this a reflection on Linux? Would you have a problem installing OpenOffice if you were running Linux for PPC, no I don't think so. The job of packaging free software has moved away from the software developers to the distributions. Look at all the Red Hat/Debian/Gentoo arguments, they're mostly about packaging. If OpenOffice doesn't install on OSX isn't that a problem with Apple, not Linux.
It might be an urban myth, but I was told that only some of the police cars in the uk have their speedometers calibrated, the traffic police I think. Because of this you can speed past all of the other ones and unless you are driving very dangerouly they can't do a thing about it. I've never had the balls to try it out though so I can't say for sure.
Actually I think someone should shut him up or give him some lessons on tact. Sure he's pissed of with SCO but we should be taking the high ground on this and not ranting and calling people names and having a go at a whole state just because that is where SCO are based.
Secondly his comments on this DoS attack on SCO are outragous, sure he might know who it was, but don't go bragging about it and don't associate the whole OSS movement by saying stupid things like this.
"He's one of us. He is part of the community around open source software and the Internet infrastructure and he's pretty senior," Raymond said.
Right, so what he's saying to a casual observer is that all OSS developers are vandals who resort to illegal acts when someone pisses them off just because they have the skills to do so.
You can mod me down for having a go at one of the open source figureheads, but he needs to think about the results of what he says before he says it.
Not only that but he recently admitted on slashdot that perens.com is being served from a computer running the 2.6.0-test1 kernel that contains the disputed code! Darl isn't going to like that one bit.
When driving to Wales you are only likely to see this on a sign once during your holiday, so its not hard to miss. Google does throw up some instances of Croeso i Cymru, but less of them and at a casual glance they are english language sites.
The BBC come to my recue and put it more eloquently than I did.
...I wonder if you've noticed when driving into Wales from England that Cymru - (Wales) is written with a G on the sign Croeso i Gymru - (Welcome to Wales). This is because the word i - (to) as well as the word o - (from) trigger the soft mutation - and a C softens to a G. Croeso i Gymru.
No doubt he will breeze throught the MBA, but learning welsh is another matter, its a really really hard language to learn.
For example in most languages you have to learn how the verbs change in the sentance, but in welsh the nouns change too! For example the welsh word for Wales is Cymru, but when you say Welcome to Wales, "Croeso i Gymru", the C changes to a G. My patents both tried to learn and found it very hard. But then Alan may be like a lot of Welsh people who learnt welsh at school and has forgotten it since in which case picking it up again might not be too bad.
This site is about Open Source Software in education and goverment and its been around for quite a while. I don't know why Redhat have decided to name two things its doing by the same name. I found out about it looking for the fund, but there doesn't seem to be any info on the site about the fund or how you can contribute to it.
Someone has posted a list of SCO top staff and the amount they have sold off recently on linuxtoday. They link to a source on the sec website, but the link doesn't seem to work.
I was thinking could all this big talking be a McBride like attempt to raise the stock price of his new 1.5 million shares? Or am I jumping to conclusions because their names both begin with Mc?
Sun boss, Scott McNealy has been hitting the new quite a bit lately. Sun might have struck a deal with SuSE, but Scott has recently warned companies "Don't touch linux without legal guarantees"
He's had lot more things to say including calling Gates and Ballmer dropouts,
Oops, I just had a go at Steven Johnson (Author of Emergence). I guess he does know his stuff, maybe because this is research by a company not academics they didn't want to reveal too much. Their website doesn't give to much away, doesn't even mention GAs.
The software made 20 copies of their neural networks, introduced subtle mutations in each of them, added 80 new participants with randomly wired networks, and started the next generation walking.
That isn't a genetic algorithm, if there was no crossover then its Monte Carlo. I guess it's just the journalist making a mistake. This is a popular misconseption that evolution occurs only through mutation. I guess it's exciting to think about large evolutionary jumps caused by mutation - like in X-men or something - than the slow process of gene recombination.
According to this page the copyright is owned by a company that is now part of AOL Time Warner and it brings in two million dollars every year in royalties.
All this talk of SCO making money from licencing anyone who distributes the linux kernel (once they have proved that it contains their IP) depends on the fact that the kernel is a binary, which it is not (always), it is a collection of source file. If a distribution doesn't contain kernel binaries then SCO would have to say which files contained their IP.
Hypotheitcally if I wrote a program that made a request for each kernel source file seperately from a web server and then built the binary for me - could SCO sue the web server owner, saying they let me have some of SCO's IP, without saying which files? Each request to the server is different and only a few violate SCO's IP.
The structure of most of the amino acids is very similar, they vary only in one group bonded to the central carbon atom. The other three groups (H, amine and carboxylic acid) are constant.
Pyrrole is a five membered aromatic ring with 4 carbon atoms and one nitrogen atom.
The name pyrrolysine sugests that pyrrole might be the fourth group bonded to the central carbon atom.(But thats just a guess on my part)
If it is pyrrole bonded to the central carbon atom then there are three ways in which it could do it: (1) to the nitrogen (2) to one of the the two carbon atoms closest to the nitrogen (3) to one of the carbon atoms furthest from the nitrogen. Again it would just be a guess on my part as to which of these it is.
Tom.
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Patches work both ways too. You could take linux-2.4.17.tar.gz and all of the patches to date and unapply them in order till you get the original linux kernel.
What really matters, I think, is who has permission to alter the current code base, not how they alter it.
They even have a free non-commercial version of C++ and Fortran for Linux, but not for Windows (only a 30 day trial). It claims to be gcc compatible, so I guess you can download the C++ compiler (I assume it will compile C) and recompile any Linux software that you want to run a bit faster on your Intel box.
They can't be too worried about pissing off Microsoft after all.
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According to Netcraft they run their website on Red Hat servers. They moved from FreeBSD to Linux in September 2005. This might just be a hosting company change, but the fact the netblock is registed to them makes me think that they might run the servers themselves.
Seems a bit strange to me.
Tom.
The first award of the night went to PayThyme an open source payroll package produced by Clockwork Software (my employer). While I know that Sage is more than payroll, it shows that applications for business are available and are being used. Overall I found from both the awards, eg the Allied Irish Bank and talks at the expo, eg Bonhams the auctioneers, that Linux and open source are making great progress into the business world and I find this very encouraging so see.
Tom.
Because the bears got there first.
There is already a current sourceforge project called My PBS which seems to be a program for collecting baseball stats.
Tom.
The Qt toolkit (on which KDE is based) has a nice garbage collection facility. All of the widgets derived from the base class QWidget take care of deleting child widgets that are also derived from QWidget, including user defined types. This means you can add, remove or move widgets in your user interface without having to worry about the corresponding delete.
Tom.
Has anyone else tried to compile Eric's code?
/usr/bin/gcc -c -g main.c
>gcc --version
2.95.3
>make
main.c: In function `report_time':
main.c:311: parse error before `int'
main.c:312: parse error before `int'
main.c:316: `buf' undeclared (first use in this function)
main.c:316: (Each undeclared identifier is reported only once
main.c:316: for each function it appears in.)
main.c:317: `minutes' undeclared (first use in this function)
main.c:317: `seconds' undeclared (first use in this function)
make: *** [main.o] Error 1
Looks like Eric has been coding too much c++ or something. I'm not a c coder myself, so I might be wrong, but don't you have to declare all the variables in a block of c code before using them. In report_time, he doesn't seem to have followed that rule. Maybe he might check his code on a number of compilers before declaring he has "perfected it".
Eric here's my patch:
--- main.c 2003-09-10 00:28:37.000000000 -0300
+++ main.c.fixed 2003-09-10 00:29:55.000000000 -0300
@@ -306,12 +306,17 @@
if (mark_time)
{
- int elapsed = endtime - mark_time;
- int hours = elapsed/3600; elapsed %= 3600;
- int minutes = elapsed/60; elapsed %= 60;
- int seconds = elapsed;
+ int elapsed;
+ int hours;
+ int minutes;
+ int seconds;
char buf[BUFSIZ];
+ elapsed = endtime - mark_time;
+ hours = elapsed/3600; elapsed %= 3600;
+ minutes = elapsed/60; elapsed %= 60;
+ seconds = elapsed;
+
va_start(ap, legend);
vsprintf(buf, legend, ap);
fprintf(stderr, "%% %s: %dh %dm %ds\n", buf, hours, minutes, seconds);
Since when was OSX linux? You can't get free software to install on your non-free operating system because Apple don't want you to, how is this a reflection on Linux? Would you have a problem installing OpenOffice if you were running Linux for PPC, no I don't think so. The job of packaging free software has moved away from the software developers to the distributions. Look at all the Red Hat/Debian/Gentoo arguments, they're mostly about packaging. If OpenOffice doesn't install on OSX isn't that a problem with Apple, not Linux.
Tom.
It might be an urban myth, but I was told that only some of the police cars in the uk have their speedometers calibrated, the traffic police I think. Because of this you can speed past all of the other ones and unless you are driving very dangerouly they can't do a thing about it. I've never had the balls to try it out though so I can't say for sure.
Tom.
This report does paint a much better picture, I guess I should have read around a little more. But then this is slashdot ;)
Tom.
Actually I think someone should shut him up or give him some lessons on tact. Sure he's pissed of with SCO but we should be taking the high ground on this and not ranting and calling people names and having a go at a whole state just because that is where SCO are based.
Secondly his comments on this DoS attack on SCO are outragous, sure he might know who it was, but don't go bragging about it and don't associate the whole OSS movement by saying stupid things like this.
"He's one of us. He is part of the community around open source software and the Internet infrastructure and he's pretty senior," Raymond said.
Right, so what he's saying to a casual observer is that all OSS developers are vandals who resort to illegal acts when someone pisses them off just because they have the skills to do so.
You can mod me down for having a go at one of the open source figureheads, but he needs to think about the results of what he says before he says it.
Tom.
Not only that but he recently admitted on slashdot that perens.com is being served from a computer running the 2.6.0-test1 kernel that contains the disputed code! Darl isn't going to like that one bit.
Tom.
When driving to Wales you are only likely to see this on a sign once during your holiday, so its not hard to miss. Google does throw up some instances of Croeso i Cymru, but less of them and at a casual glance they are english language sites.
...I wonder if you've noticed when driving into Wales from England that Cymru - (Wales) is written with a G on the sign Croeso i Gymru - (Welcome to Wales). This is because the word i - (to) as well as the word o - (from) trigger the soft mutation - and a C softens to a G. Croeso i Gymru.
The BBC come to my recue and put it more eloquently than I did.
Tom.
Well good luck to Alan.
No doubt he will breeze throught the MBA, but learning welsh is another matter, its a really really hard language to learn.
For example in most languages you have to learn how the verbs change in the sentance, but in welsh the nouns change too! For example the welsh word for Wales is Cymru, but when you say Welcome to Wales, "Croeso i Gymru", the C changes to a G. My patents both tried to learn and found it very hard. But then Alan may be like a lot of Welsh people who learnt welsh at school and has forgotten it since in which case picking it up again might not be too bad.
Tom.
This site is about Open Source Software in education and goverment and its been around for quite a while. I don't know why Redhat have decided to name two things its doing by the same name. I found out about it looking for the fund, but there doesn't seem to be any info on the site about the fund or how you can contribute to it.
Tom.
Someone has posted a list of SCO top staff and the amount they have sold off recently on linuxtoday. They link to a source on the sec website, but the link doesn't seem to work.
Tom
oops, pressed the wrong button...
Anyway Scott has had a lot of interesting things to say recently including saying of the IT industry "We're down to three - IBM, Microsoft, and Sun. The rest is collateral damage.", of the M$ top brass "Ballmer and Gates are drop outs" and of Redhat "With Red Hat you get the kernel. With Sun you get the application server". Last time I checked Redhat is a little more than that.
I was thinking could all this big talking be a McBride like attempt to raise the stock price of his new 1.5 million shares? Or am I jumping to conclusions because their names both begin with Mc?
Tom.
Sun boss, Scott McNealy has been hitting the new quite a bit lately. Sun might have struck a deal with SuSE, but Scott has recently warned companies "Don't touch linux without legal guarantees" He's had lot more things to say including calling Gates and Ballmer dropouts,
Oops, I just had a go at Steven Johnson (Author of Emergence). I guess he does know his stuff, maybe because this is research by a company not academics they didn't want to reveal too much. Their website doesn't give to much away, doesn't even mention GAs.
Tom.
The software made 20 copies of their neural networks, introduced subtle mutations in each of them, added 80 new participants with randomly wired networks, and started the next generation walking.
That isn't a genetic algorithm, if there was no crossover then its Monte Carlo. I guess it's just the journalist making a mistake. This is a popular misconseption that evolution occurs only through mutation. I guess it's exciting to think about large evolutionary jumps caused by mutation - like in X-men or something - than the slow process of gene recombination.
Tom.
There is some saucy stuff in there that he's written about wife swapping and you thought CS was dull.
Tom.
According to this page the copyright is owned by a company that is now part of AOL Time Warner and it brings in two million dollars every year in royalties.
Tom.
All this talk of SCO making money from licencing anyone who distributes the linux kernel (once they have proved that it contains their IP) depends on the fact that the kernel is a binary, which it is not (always), it is a collection of source file. If a distribution doesn't contain kernel binaries then SCO would have to say which files contained their IP.
Hypotheitcally if I wrote a program that made a request for each kernel source file seperately from a web server and then built the binary for me - could SCO sue the web server owner, saying they let me have some of SCO's IP, without saying which files? Each request to the server is different and only a few violate SCO's IP.
Tom.
The structure of most of the amino acids is very similar, they vary only in one group bonded to the central carbon atom. The other three groups (H, amine and carboxylic acid) are constant.
Pyrrole is a five membered aromatic ring with 4 carbon atoms and one nitrogen atom.
The name pyrrolysine sugests that pyrrole might be the fourth group bonded to the central carbon atom.(But thats just a guess on my part)
If it is pyrrole bonded to the central carbon atom then there are three ways in which it could do it: (1) to the nitrogen (2) to one of the the two carbon atoms closest to the nitrogen (3) to one of the carbon atoms furthest from the nitrogen. Again it would just be a guess on my part as to which of these it is.
Tom.
Patches work both ways too. You could take linux-2.4.17.tar.gz and all of the patches to date and unapply them in order till you get the original linux kernel.
What really matters, I think, is who has permission to alter the current code base, not how they alter it.
Tom.
They even have a free non-commercial version of C++ and Fortran for Linux, but not for Windows (only a 30 day trial). It claims to be gcc compatible, so I guess you can download the C++ compiler (I assume it will compile C) and recompile any Linux software that you want to run a bit faster on your Intel box.
They can't be too worried about pissing off Microsoft after all.
Tom.