Personally, I never got why the Open Source companies didn't get behind a project like LPRng. In the early 2000s, LPRng was awesome. It was basically an lpd on steroids. It worked like LPD and read printcap, but had support for pretty much any printing protocol, filter, access control lists, quota system, etc. The syntax of the configuration file made managing large site a breeze.
But you see, the open source companies like RedHat decided that simple printcap syntax was too complicated, so they had to throw away LPRng and switch to a significantly more complex syste like CUPS, just because it has a nice GUI and all that.
Agreeing on white space conventions are important regardless of what programming language you use. In Python world, it's always better not to use tabs and only use whitespace.
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In this age of widescreen LCDs, the vertical space is limited. Yet, Gnome seems to be wasting it with not just one, but two horizontal panels. Wouldn't it make more sense to make them vertical?
A diverse company like HP was bound not to have a consistent leadership and direction. This is why activist stockholders were calling for company's split up for decades.
You can't be serious. The division of HP that actually makes lots of money is the consumer electronics printers and PCs. The enterprise portion of the company has been mismanaged for ages, and there were call to split off the profitable consumer part of the company for more than a decade..
It doesn't work this way. I worked as sysadmin for near decade in academia, where HP had a near monopoly grip on the network printing. Users were mostly happy with the HP printers, but that never really made anything think: "HP's printers are good.. why don't I buy some PCs or servers from them.." HPs desktop machines always had a pretty weak reputation among sysadmins and users. Dell and Apple were always number one when it came to desktop systems, while the data centers had all kinds of computers, starting with RISC unix servers in the 90s, and slowly transitioning to Windows and Linux x86 machines in the last decade.
IMO, the biggest issue is not the OS, but the third party apps. Think of the dozens of apps that the users installed over the life time of a PC. A lot of them will run scripts and services on start up and shut down. Many processes will hang in memory: automatic software updaters, license managers, useless tray apps, and daemons that may "call home" the company. Also remember about software that's either borderline or outright spyware or malware, such as the infamous Search Protect garbage by conduit, that's highly likely to be installed at some point on your PC if you download lots of freeware apps and you're not careful.
Rampant, unabated population growth is just as bad and irresponsible as rampant unabated pollution. So, under the excuse of low per capita energy consumption, does it seem fine for china to say triple its population and triple all forms of pollution? Eventually all those people will need resources, the resources that China does not have. Personally, I am in favor of limiting CO2 emissions based on the land mass of a country, but I know this will never happen..
And Fox is controlled by the same elites that control the US government as well as the republican interests.
Anyways. It's truly stupid to insist that only because the news source is not independent, there isn't any truth in it. And grow some balls and post with your regular account.
My guess the answer is that then there would be two separate code bases, one in gparted and another that anaconda uses. Considering so much Fedora/RedHat is built around anaconda, it makes sense to reuse some of anaconda code in places other than installer.
I have been using RedHat, Fedora, and CentOS as my personal desktop for a decade and CentOS is what I installed on desktop machines I managed. The meme that RedHat is no good for desktop is highly overblown. Just checked out CentOS 7 with Gnome, and thought the DE was still alright.
One of my favorite things about RHEL/CentOS is a truly stable "enterprise grade" release cycle, meaning each version is supported for many years, but they give you updated installers with new drivers and such to be able to use the latest hardware. I guess that Debian gives you a similar kind of deal, although the loong time between Debian releases is due to project's pace rather than by design. Having switched to RedHat and its derivatives at around the time of RedHat Linux 6, when they finally got a working automatic updater, I never found a reason that's compelling enough to go back to Debian since then, although Debian or its derivative would be a good choice too. I guess today Debian is becoming more compelling to the purists who are sick of RHEL breaking some of well-established conventions.
The explanation is simple. Today we have a lot more competition than 40 years ago. Some of it was in part caused by de-regulation. Other part was caused by the innovative "low-cost" carriers that put real pressure on traditional airlines. Finally, the internet increased the completion even more. Today finding the lowest priced fare is a click away. As a result, all airlines compete strictly on price while saddling the customers with hidden fees, overbooked flights, flight delays, and less comfortable cabins.
And despite all the whining, this formula works for consumers too. No one wants to pay $700 of 1999 dollars for a flight that costs $400 today, even if it means putting up with small legroom, nickel and dimming, no in flight food, and TSA harassment.
It's absolutely not true that all money and weapons came from USA. ISIS simply seized the weapons of the regular Iraqi military. While there were some American weapons in that cache, which the western TV networks love to display, most of the weapons they got were Soviet or Russian. And in fact, the Soviet/Russian weapons are the deadliest weapons that ISIS has. The American weapons are very high tech and very expensive to maintain (think about toys like M1 Abrams tank), while the Soviet weapons were designed to be rugged, easy to fix, and easy to operate.
Next onto the money, the Islamic State has always received covertly support from conservatives circles in the Gulf Sunni states (Saudi Arabia, UAE, etc). This is where they got most of their money and import fighters initially. And now ISIS gets a whole lot of money simply by selling oil or crudely refined oil products on the black market. So neither one of your claims is true. Sorry.
Latent extremists will always be around in all countries. They come to power when there is a power vacuum. This is something we're observing in Iraq right now.
You bring up a very good point when you say that the boot time is irrelevant, even on most desktops and laptops. All of my personal desktops and laptops, regardless of OS, reboot only when system updates or software have to be installed. Otherwise, the machine goes to sleep or suspend to disk, often going weeks without a reboot.
"Fast boot" is now often being used as an excuse to push otherwise unpalatable technology. Not just in Linux. I have heard many times from Windows 8 apologists "but it boots faster", as if the fast boot can make up for all the other shortcomings.
A lot of this is already happening. In my opinion the Western sanctions are working. The Russian economy is visibly crumbling: high inflation, high interest rates, collapsing auto market, bankrupted tour operators leave thousands of Russians stranded abroad, huge capital flight, etc, and sanctions were enabled just a couple of months ago. Given it a year, and Russian economy will be in a deep recession. It will be interesting how Putin will respond because his unspoken contract with Russian people was that they will accept an authoritarian government in exchange for economic stability.
You are right, but Ukrainian government is ultra-nationalist. Most of them come from west Ukraine, which has always been a hot bed for Ukrainian nationalism.
Also note that since the crisis started, even before military conflict in the east, the government in Kiev has offered NOTHING to pacify the east. People in the east have been asking for a long time that they should have the right to elect their governors (right now they're appointed by Kiev) and they want a formal recognition of Russian language as an official language at least within their region. Kiev hasn't offered anything at all to them. Not even a draft new constitution. Nothing.
I am a little confused about the claim that Ukraine disarmed itself only in 2006. This is false. Ukraine has been disarming itself pretty much since USSR fell apart. They simply chose to neglect their military. The staff was shrunk, conscription abolished. Almost no new weapons acquired since the USSR fell apart. In fact, Ukraine also sold a bunch of its Soviet weapons to African countries, Azerbaijan, Georgia, and who knows where else. Ukrainian troops are poorly equipped, poorly trained, and poorly motivated. As a result, they can barely hold a relatively small force of armed thugs and Russian infiltrators in the East Ukraine.
Let this be a good lesson for any country that thinks about disarming itself during "peaceful time"
At the best undergraduate CS departments, the students have to learn the basics of C, assembly, Java or some other high level programming language, plus some elementary algorithms and data structures.. that's before the end of sophomore year. I know in my school they learned some Lisp, C, assembly, and Java in the basic courses.
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Personally, I never got why the Open Source companies didn't get behind a project like LPRng. In the early 2000s, LPRng was awesome. It was basically an lpd on steroids. It worked like LPD and read printcap, but had support for pretty much any printing protocol, filter, access control lists, quota system, etc. The syntax of the configuration file made managing large site a breeze.
But you see, the open source companies like RedHat decided that simple printcap syntax was too complicated, so they had to throw away LPRng and switch to a significantly more complex syste like CUPS, just because it has a nice GUI and all that.
Agreeing on white space conventions are important regardless of what programming language you use. In Python world, it's always better not to use tabs and only use whitespace.
In this age of widescreen LCDs, the vertical space is limited. Yet, Gnome seems to be wasting it with not just one, but two horizontal panels. Wouldn't it make more sense to make them vertical?
A diverse company like HP was bound not to have a consistent leadership and direction. This is why activist stockholders were calling for company's split up for decades.
You can't be serious. The division of HP that actually makes lots of money is the consumer electronics printers and PCs. The enterprise portion of the company has been mismanaged for ages, and there were call to split off the profitable consumer part of the company for more than a decade..
It doesn't work this way. I worked as sysadmin for near decade in academia, where HP had a near monopoly grip on the network printing. Users were mostly happy with the HP printers, but that never really made anything think: "HP's printers are good.. why don't I buy some PCs or servers from them.." HPs desktop machines always had a pretty weak reputation among sysadmins and users. Dell and Apple were always number one when it came to desktop systems, while the data centers had all kinds of computers, starting with RISC unix servers in the 90s, and slowly transitioning to Windows and Linux x86 machines in the last decade.
IMO, the biggest issue is not the OS, but the third party apps. Think of the dozens of apps that the users installed over the life time of a PC. A lot of them will run scripts and services on start up and shut down. Many processes will hang in memory: automatic software updaters, license managers, useless tray apps, and daemons that may "call home" the company. Also remember about software that's either borderline or outright spyware or malware, such as the infamous Search Protect garbage by conduit, that's highly likely to be installed at some point on your PC if you download lots of freeware apps and you're not careful.
Rampant, unabated population growth is just as bad and irresponsible as rampant unabated pollution. So, under the excuse of low per capita energy consumption, does it seem fine for china to say triple its population and triple all forms of pollution? Eventually all those people will need resources, the resources that China does not have. Personally, I am in favor of limiting CO2 emissions based on the land mass of a country, but I know this will never happen..
Impossible. All my pron can now fit on a portable laptop hard drive. There has gotta be something else.
I got hooked ever since I found about a Beowulf cluster of Playstations running Linux.
Even a monitor is useless.
And Fox is controlled by the same elites that control the US government as well as the republican interests.
Anyways. It's truly stupid to insist that only because the news source is not independent, there isn't any truth in it. And grow some balls and post with your regular account.
That would violate the prime directive.
My guess the answer is that then there would be two separate code bases, one in gparted and another that anaconda uses. Considering so much Fedora/RedHat is built around anaconda, it makes sense to reuse some of anaconda code in places other than installer.
I have been using RedHat, Fedora, and CentOS as my personal desktop for a decade and CentOS is what I installed on desktop machines I managed. The meme that RedHat is no good for desktop is highly overblown. Just checked out CentOS 7 with Gnome, and thought the DE was still alright.
One of my favorite things about RHEL/CentOS is a truly stable "enterprise grade" release cycle, meaning each version is supported for many years, but they give you updated installers with new drivers and such to be able to use the latest hardware. I guess that Debian gives you a similar kind of deal, although the loong time between Debian releases is due to project's pace rather than by design. Having switched to RedHat and its derivatives at around the time of RedHat Linux 6, when they finally got a working automatic updater, I never found a reason that's compelling enough to go back to Debian since then, although Debian or its derivative would be a good choice too. I guess today Debian is becoming more compelling to the purists who are sick of RHEL breaking some of well-established conventions.
The explanation is simple. Today we have a lot more competition than 40 years ago. Some of it was in part caused by de-regulation. Other part was caused by the innovative "low-cost" carriers that put real pressure on traditional airlines. Finally, the internet increased the completion even more. Today finding the lowest priced fare is a click away. As a result, all airlines compete strictly on price while saddling the customers with hidden fees, overbooked flights, flight delays, and less comfortable cabins.
And despite all the whining, this formula works for consumers too. No one wants to pay $700 of 1999 dollars for a flight that costs $400 today, even if it means putting up with small legroom, nickel and dimming, no in flight food, and TSA harassment.
It's absolutely not true that all money and weapons came from USA. ISIS simply seized the weapons of the regular Iraqi military. While there were some American weapons in that cache, which the western TV networks love to display, most of the weapons they got were Soviet or Russian. And in fact, the Soviet/Russian weapons are the deadliest weapons that ISIS has. The American weapons are very high tech and very expensive to maintain (think about toys like M1 Abrams tank), while the Soviet weapons were designed to be rugged, easy to fix, and easy to operate.
Next onto the money, the Islamic State has always received covertly support from conservatives circles in the Gulf Sunni states (Saudi Arabia, UAE, etc). This is where they got most of their money and import fighters initially. And now ISIS gets a whole lot of money simply by selling oil or crudely refined oil products on the black market. So neither one of your claims is true. Sorry.
Latent extremists will always be around in all countries. They come to power when there is a power vacuum. This is something we're observing in Iraq right now.
As soon as it becomes known that the weapons exported by US have a "kill switch" or the equivalent, a lot of users will simply stop buying them.
You bring up a very good point when you say that the boot time is irrelevant, even on most desktops and laptops. All of my personal desktops and laptops, regardless of OS, reboot only when system updates or software have to be installed. Otherwise, the machine goes to sleep or suspend to disk, often going weeks without a reboot.
"Fast boot" is now often being used as an excuse to push otherwise unpalatable technology. Not just in Linux. I have heard many times from Windows 8 apologists "but it boots faster", as if the fast boot can make up for all the other shortcomings.
A lot of this is already happening. In my opinion the Western sanctions are working. The Russian economy is visibly crumbling: high inflation, high interest rates, collapsing auto market, bankrupted tour operators leave thousands of Russians stranded abroad, huge capital flight, etc, and sanctions were enabled just a couple of months ago. Given it a year, and Russian economy will be in a deep recession. It will be interesting how Putin will respond because his unspoken contract with Russian people was that they will accept an authoritarian government in exchange for economic stability.
You are right, but Ukrainian government is ultra-nationalist. Most of them come from west Ukraine, which has always been a hot bed for Ukrainian nationalism.
Also note that since the crisis started, even before military conflict in the east, the government in Kiev has offered NOTHING to pacify the east. People in the east have been asking for a long time that they should have the right to elect their governors (right now they're appointed by Kiev) and they want a formal recognition of Russian language as an official language at least within their region. Kiev hasn't offered anything at all to them. Not even a draft new constitution. Nothing.
I am a little confused about the claim that Ukraine disarmed itself only in 2006. This is false. Ukraine has been disarming itself pretty much since USSR fell apart. They simply chose to neglect their military. The staff was shrunk, conscription abolished. Almost no new weapons acquired since the USSR fell apart. In fact, Ukraine also sold a bunch of its Soviet weapons to African countries, Azerbaijan, Georgia, and who knows where else. Ukrainian troops are poorly equipped, poorly trained, and poorly motivated. As a result, they can barely hold a relatively small force of armed thugs and Russian infiltrators in the East Ukraine.
Let this be a good lesson for any country that thinks about disarming itself during "peaceful time"
At the best undergraduate CS departments, the students have to learn the basics of C, assembly, Java or some other high level programming language, plus some elementary algorithms and data structures.. that's before the end of sophomore year. I know in my school they learned some Lisp, C, assembly, and Java in the basic courses.
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