It's true that there are many different patches around, and custom kernels with major distributions.
But what hasn't developed is a derivitive "Stanix" or "Davix" "Tomix", where someone else is in charge of the entire source tree.
When a fork happens, someone new assumes responsibility for the entire tree. They don't pay very much attention to the other branch.
But patches are just improvements is specific areas. They acknowledge the main branch as essentially good, but lacking in one respect or another, and fix just that aspect. Most of the good patches will join the main branch at some point.
So yeah, there's a lot of variation out there. But it's not quite forking.
The original idea was that SAMBA TNG was the development branch. As parts became stable, they were to be merged into the main branch. It looks instead like they'll try to turn the development branch into a stable branch.
But nothing says that the main SAMBA branch team can't merge parts of TNG into the the main branch, like the BSDs who sometimes use each others' code.
Yes. Somehow, I think the original poster knew this too.
Let's say a G4 is twice as efficient as a Pentium at every task. If its max speed is 500 MHz, it's still slower than a 1.1 GHz Pentium.
The original promise of RISC was that reducing the instruction complexity would lead to more cycles per second, a net gain despite each cycle being less efficient.
Your understanding is wrong. RSA explicitly released those patents into the public domain 2 weeks early.
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Actually, I was originally going to post a serious comment. Since I use Windows a lot of the time, Linux-in-windows would actually be very handy for me. Plus, with the right virtual drivers, you'd be able to access devices under Linux that have no Linux drivers.
I understand it's not in the offing yet, but the website lists "A Linux environment for other operating systems" as a potential use.
But still. . . Windows under Linux? Doesn't that defeat the purpose of Linux?
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Forget WINE. The ultimate windows/linux compatibility is running a linux kernel under Windows! All the stability of Windows and all the Gui goodness of Linux!
Think on it.
It's probably too late to post anything here, but let's have a go.
I'd like to see a web-of-trust/firefly sort of site. Everyone can rate everything, and the similarity of a given user's ratings to your own determines how much impact their other ratings have.
Everyone would have their own front page, which would be personalized to their taste, based on how stories were rated by people with similar taste.
Trolls and fanatics would never have much impact, becase multiple accounts would do more harm than good. None of their 20 accounts would be trusted by many people.
Does Photoshop for Windows come with a free copy of the Mac edition?
I think it's dumb that King expects us to pay for different editions. But there is a certain amount of precedent. Sure, it's APPLICATIONS that we pay for twice if we want to use them on two platforms, but they're copyrighted works, just like the documents King's selling.
This is not the same thing as making a tape of your CD so you can play it in your car. King isn't talking about what you can do with the copy you downloaded. He's talking about separate downloads.
But it's not the same as buying a CD and stealing a tape of the same CD. Because isn't not very hard to convert a file, and bits are incredibly cheap.
It's messy, that's what it is. And it's small-minded to attack the readers who have paid him.
That's a very strange perspective.
Intel has already developed a next-generation architecture-- IA64 -- so any statement that they can't develop a next-generation architecture is just plain wrong.
Yes, I'm aware that Intel is having a horrible time delivering IA64-- but you can't question their commitment to IA-64, which I would have to call a "radical shift" from their previous approach.
I disagree. When 300 UNIQUE visitors view my page using the same proxy, they look like one visitor. The only thing web logs can tell you is how many requests your websever received. I call those "hits". Your definition sounds different.
Excuse me while I go "Grumpy old man". This is an old, old problem. It goes back to the days when I first started using the web. See "Why web statistics are (worse than) meaningless." It's an old article. That's the point.
In short, spiders, proxies and caches make it impossible to be accurate in measuring traffic. But everyone else is affected the same way. So your relative stats are relevent-- they just aren't hit-for-hit accurate.
What your server logs are really for is resource planning. They'll help you find out how much traffic your server is serving, which should help you plan bandwidth and hardware upgrades as needed.
Yeah. Of course, what Morpheus could only tell Neo what he knew, and the only rebels we saw were members of his crew. So if they come up with a better reason, they can just say Morpheus was wrong.
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"It's" is not the posessive form of "it". "It's" is a contraction of "it is".
One snide comment deserves another, don't you think?
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It's true that there are many different patches around, and custom kernels with major distributions.
But what hasn't developed is a derivitive "Stanix" or "Davix" "Tomix", where someone else is in charge of the entire source tree.
When a fork happens, someone new assumes responsibility for the entire tree. They don't pay very much attention to the other branch.
But patches are just improvements is specific areas. They acknowledge the main branch as essentially good, but lacking in one respect or another, and fix just that aspect. Most of the good patches will join the main branch at some point.
So yeah, there's a lot of variation out there. But it's not quite forking.
The original idea was that SAMBA TNG was the development branch. As parts became stable, they were to be merged into the main branch. It looks instead like they'll try to turn the development branch into a stable branch.
But nothing says that the main SAMBA branch team can't merge parts of TNG into the the main branch, like the BSDs who sometimes use each others' code.
Perhaps it was, "Hello Slashdot Effect, goodbye Simon Singh"?
Yes. Somehow, I think the original poster knew this too.
Let's say a G4 is twice as efficient as a Pentium at every task. If its max speed is 500 MHz, it's still slower than a 1.1 GHz Pentium.
The original promise of RISC was that reducing the instruction complexity would lead to more cycles per second, a net gain despite each cycle being less efficient.
It appears that the opposite has happened.
Your understanding is wrong. RSA explicitly released those patents into the public domain 2 weeks early.
Actually, I was originally going to post a serious comment. Since I use Windows a lot of the time, Linux-in-windows would actually be very handy for me. Plus, with the right virtual drivers, you'd be able to access devices under Linux that have no Linux drivers.
I understand it's not in the offing yet, but the website lists "A Linux environment for other operating systems" as a potential use.
But still. . . Windows under Linux? Doesn't that defeat the purpose of Linux?
Forget WINE. The ultimate windows/linux compatibility is running a linux kernel under Windows! All the stability of Windows and all the Gui goodness of Linux!
Think on it.
Think on it and tremble. . .
The article claims a performance improvement vs. other members of the Sony VAIO line.
If semantic attacks leading to bad information are the "third wave", then Slashdot must be the greatest threat to the internet, ever!
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(Well, sheesh. Sometimes you'd swear they haven't read the articles they're linking to. .
Yes, but could she cut a tomato with the knife afterward?
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They started doing this long ago. They even had a special icon. They called 'em quickies.
Slashback is a corrections/followup piece for stories that have already been subjected to the "single post under each heading" treatment.
It started on April 29, 2000
You heard wrong. The Linux port of JFS is being BASED ON the OS/2 version.
It's probably too late to post anything here, but let's have a go.
I'd like to see a web-of-trust/firefly sort of site. Everyone can rate everything, and the similarity of a given user's ratings to your own determines how much impact their other ratings have.
Everyone would have their own front page, which would be personalized to their taste, based on how stories were rated by people with similar taste.
Trolls and fanatics would never have much impact, becase multiple accounts would do more harm than good. None of their 20 accounts would be trusted by many people.
Does Photoshop for Windows come with a free copy of the Mac edition?
I think it's dumb that King expects us to pay for different editions. But there is a certain amount of precedent. Sure, it's APPLICATIONS that we pay for twice if we want to use them on two platforms, but they're copyrighted works, just like the documents King's selling.
This is not the same thing as making a tape of your CD so you can play it in your car. King isn't talking about what you can do with the copy you downloaded. He's talking about separate downloads.
But it's not the same as buying a CD and stealing a tape of the same CD. Because isn't not very hard to convert a file, and bits are incredibly cheap.
It's messy, that's what it is. And it's small-minded to attack the readers who have paid him.
That's a very strange perspective.
Intel has already developed a next-generation architecture-- IA64 -- so any statement that they can't develop a next-generation architecture is just plain wrong.
Yes, I'm aware that Intel is having a horrible time delivering IA64-- but you can't question their commitment to IA-64, which I would have to call a "radical shift" from their previous approach.
I disagree. When 300 UNIQUE visitors view my page using the same proxy, they look like one visitor. The only thing web logs can tell you is how many requests your websever received. I call those "hits". Your definition sounds different.
Excuse me while I go "Grumpy old man". This is an old, old problem. It goes back to the days when I first started using the web. See "Why web statistics are (worse than) meaningless." It's an old article. That's the point.
In short, spiders, proxies and caches make it impossible to be accurate in measuring traffic. But everyone else is affected the same way. So your relative stats are relevent-- they just aren't hit-for-hit accurate.
What your server logs are really for is resource planning. They'll help you find out how much traffic your server is serving, which should help you plan bandwidth and hardware upgrades as needed.
Yes.
In other words, false dichotomy, bad assumption.
Major corporate sites tend to use Apache. Apache can run on Windows boxen.
So yes, you would target a system running Apache and/or Windows.
Yeah. Of course, what Morpheus could only tell Neo what he knew, and the only rebels we saw were members of his crew. So if they come up with a better reason, they can just say Morpheus was wrong.
"It's" is not the posessive form of "it". "It's" is a contraction of "it is".
One snide comment deserves another, don't you think?
Unmount the cd-rom, and mount something else where the cd-rom used to be.
I have all the qualifications to get a university teaching job TODAY.
So do lots of graduate students. . .
As may be, but job offers would indicate that universities consider Cringely a valuable person. It's not the same as a degree, and he admits it.
You're still in denial mode. Face up; earn respect. It's a game we all have to play sooner or later.
How often do universities offer teaching jobs to those they don't respect? Not often. Certainly not yearly.
Tivo + DVD = easy rental backup
Tivo + Napster = a distributed archive of all the movies and TV anyone ever wanted to see. . .
Mmmmm. . . tasty
Ooh, that sounds familiar. Remember when everyone on Slashdot was saying that MP3 was virtually the same as CD?
Thank god we're over that.
I use MP4, I like MP4, but if anyone thinks that it's the same quality as MPEG2 at 1/11 the bandwith, take another look at Trinity's nose.