Pretty easy for the armchair engineers to opine, but I wonder if all non-trivial projects simply paraphrase Clausewitz to read "No non-trivial project survives contact with reality".
Props to these guys for having a design that allows remote repair in the event of the unforseeable.
What's fun is when you set your global prefs to 'Non-Microsoft' in XP in the Set Program Access and Defaults section.
IE goes away, which is a Good Thing most of the time, except for when you really do need to do something on a Redmond websits.
Clearly, they aren't testing their site against Foreign Browsers, nor do I think they should have to. However, it's now a right PITA to reset everything to use IE.
But wait!
Even though C:\Program Files\Internet Explorer\iexplore.exe isn't exactly visibile in either the explorer or at a command prompt, that critter is still there! Lighting off cygwin, cd cygdrive/c/Program\ Files/Internet\ Explorer ls -ali still has the subtlety of Cassius Clay
You can set a shortcut to IExplore.exe, and still use it to get to Mr. Softy's content.
I guess this is Mr. Softy complying with the anti-trust suit, so, in the main, it's a Good Thing.
However, what troubles me is the blurry line between the OS and the applications.
It is so refreshing to know that, in a linux environment, there is no ambiguitiy about what files are where, and what processes are running. All hail the text-based configuration file. w00t.
So a two-tier ecology evolves.
I have a white-list box, for which a premium is paid, or, perhaps, offered through my ISP, which only sends/receives mail from others on that network.
Part of the magic of the paybox is that it has usage pattern analysis that detects problem nodes and crushes them.
Sure, there will be some hacking; the existence of a system implies a work-around, but the idea will catch on.
Saying there is no way to make a reasonably spamless email network is like being a circuit-switched network guy and telling Metcalf he's half daft...oh, wait...
What do I do when I want to box up Debian and have to suddenly include three pages of acknowledgements on the outside of the box?
Isn't the answer to any software engineering problem another layer of indirection?
Why not a license requirement to contain a single hyperlink that points to a website, say, www.gnu.org, or maybe www.sourceforge.net, that where the authors can log all of their package usage.
As a swell side effect, you wind up building a dependency database. Oh, how useless would that be, for determining code penetration in the marketplace?
It's just like every new AMD/Intel CPU. How many times have you read "this new chip is targeted primarily at servers and high-end work stations". Unsure if that is a) true b) filling column inches or c) a tease for the power users who require the newest space heater (compensating for deficiencies in the wedding tackle?)
I'm still waiting to see 2.6.x in a desktop distro...
Sam Greenblatt, senior vice president and chief architect of Computer Associates International Inc.'s Linux Technology Group, in Islandia, N.Y., agreed about the need for virtualization technologies. "Right now, you can have multiple Linuxes virtually operating, but we would love to see that expanded so that you could power other operating systems, whether that be Unix or Windows,"
Now, I don't know if they mean something like ReactOS
or not, but if you had a Linux that could deftly boot a RedmondOS, such that you could tap into all of its drivers, how cool would that be? I end up running XP so that my HP6110 driver can give me double-sided, four sheets per page printouts of those endless.ppt-gone-.pdf lectures for school. Don't get me wrong, I love my RH9 and all, but the pragmatist runs Linux for love, and Redmond products when it makes sense.
Such a potential capability in Linux must be soiling laundry in the State of Washington even as you read this.
Yes, it's the legal equivalent of spam.
Moving to the next question, how do we discourage such banal nonsense?
Most of the ideas that come to mind involve some sort of cruel and unusual punishment...
Speaking of that perl script, how much money has been made by the people on CPAN?
I happen to have a way swift idea, prototyping it in a proprietary environment. I think it rocks. I'm not even worried about the start-up costs. I can get the money.
Buying off on all that for a moment, how to license the product? Part of me want to GPL the thing (though it could be done in a totally public-domain mode) and see if a business could turn a profit on the binaries, particularly MSI, as the idea is extremely mass-market.
While the idea of the money and freedom is attractive, the stress and complexity of running a business are unattractive.
I think I want to polish the idea and just sell it to an existing company. Seems the maximum cash/minimun stress approach.
Ah, 1954, just before the launch of USS Nautilus spearheaded by Rickover.
One wonders what the father of the nuclear navy, a man both brilliant and a trifle autocratic, would have made of the patent mess, the virus mess, the open/closed source mess.
Darl, he would so crush you like the bug that you are.
RMS, I think he might respect.
Gates, too.
Linus, he'd definitely respect.
I've heard it said he favored two personality types: a) the spineless type who followed without question, and b) the total genious who just knew it all cold.
Would he deal with the information age? No, I speculate--he was a colossal Luddite. I daresay some little Enswine would be printing out his emails and then typing out the responses from hand scribbled notes.
Truly and American original.
This might be a little off-topic, but it was an interesting thought.
Tissue? Ohhh, how we would have wallowed in the luxury!
In in my day, single-cell organisms floated about in the primordial ooze, dreaming of the abacus, and hoping to even spot a loose piece of RNA, much less contact it.
And you try to explain *that* to the youth of today...
No, it could be likely a defensive measure, so that others don't hammer them.
Too, if you're a hardware vendor, stuff like this and OSDL make a truckload of sense.
Particularly if you have received a Massive Stab wound in your back Over Something, Too.
You're hinting at the right answer to questions like this: the market.
I'm going to be in the market for wireless home network gear this Summer, and OS-agnostic hardware is certainly a requirement.
When the market quits acting like a heard of sheep, the companies will put down the shears.
Oops! Fantasizing in public again! Sorry...
meridian
1. An imaginary great circle on the earth's surface passing through the North and South geographic poles. All points on the same meridian have the same longitude.
2. Either half of such a great circle from pole to pole.
So, the distance between the north pole and the Paris meridian == 0
Aren't these standards-based posts just wonderful for brining out the pedant in all of us?
By constantly switching the machine's state between the host OS state and and the coLinux kernel state, coLinux is given full control of the physical machine's MMU (i.e, paging and protection) in its own specially allocated address space, and is able to act just like a native kernel, achieving almost the same performance and functionality that can be expected from a regular Linux which could have ran on the same machine standalone.
Since coLinux uses the same binary format for user-space executables as native Linux, coLinux can load and run an existing unmodified Linux distribution concurrently with the host OS.
Right on. Now, what about the hard drive? How are we mounting a non-Redmond volume? Can my hip-pocket 2.6.x kernel dip into that NTFS volume safely?
From the "roadmap" page:
Add interoperability features for coLinux and the host OS, especially Windows.
Mildly off topic, but one use for these live CDs is hardware detection and kernel configuration.
I'd like to try out some of the source distributions, or even do Linux from Scratch, but wading through kernel configuration is rough on an FNG.
Not sure how to extract the kernel parameters from a live CD once booted, though.
Tough call.
Having barely passed a biochemistry class, I can say that the implementation of life is non-trivial.
The question then becomes, assuming The Creator implemented the periodic table consistently across Creation, how unique (and strict) are the life-requirements which Earth supports? Hugh Ross is quite an interesting read on the topic.
BTW, what happened before Creation? See, everyone, at some point, gets backed into the taking-something-on-faith corner. Some are just more explicit about it than others.
HAND.
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They shoulda used Open Source. Oh, wait...
Pretty easy for the armchair engineers to opine, but I wonder if all non-trivial projects simply paraphrase Clausewitz to read "No non-trivial project survives contact with reality".
Props to these guys for having a design that allows remote repair in the event of the unforseeable.
BoToX -- your new motherboard will have your apps looking as fresh as Kerry.
What's fun is when you set your global prefs to 'Non-Microsoft' in XP in the Set Program Access and Defaults section.
IE goes away, which is a Good Thing most of the time, except for when you really do need to do something on a Redmond websits.
Clearly, they aren't testing their site against Foreign Browsers, nor do I think they should have to. However, it's now a right PITA to reset everything to use IE.
But wait!
Even though C:\Program Files\Internet Explorer\iexplore.exe isn't exactly visibile in either the explorer or at a command prompt, that critter is still there!
Lighting off cygwin,
cd cygdrive/c/Program\ Files/Internet\ Explorer
ls -ali still has the subtlety of Cassius Clay
You can set a shortcut to IExplore.exe, and still use it to get to Mr. Softy's content.
I guess this is Mr. Softy complying with the anti-trust suit, so, in the main, it's a Good Thing.
However, what troubles me is the blurry line between the OS and the applications.
It is so refreshing to know that, in a linux environment, there is no ambiguitiy about what files are where, and what processes are running. All hail the text-based configuration file. w00t.
So a two-tier ecology evolves.
I have a white-list box, for which a premium is paid, or, perhaps, offered through my ISP, which only sends/receives mail from others on that network.
Part of the magic of the paybox is that it has usage pattern analysis that detects problem nodes and crushes them.
Sure, there will be some hacking; the existence of a system implies a work-around, but the idea will catch on.
Saying there is no way to make a reasonably spamless email network is like being a circuit-switched network guy and telling Metcalf he's half daft...oh, wait...
Isn't the answer to any software engineering problem another layer of indirection?
Why not a license requirement to contain a single hyperlink that points to a website, say, www.gnu.org, or maybe www.sourceforge.net, that where the authors can log all of their package usage.
As a swell side effect, you wind up building a dependency database. Oh, how useless would that be, for determining code penetration in the marketplace?
SELECT right( band_name, 5 )
FROM tbl_band
WHERE band_name = 'Aerosmith';
-1 offtopic, but fun
Invert the logic:
One distro to lead them all,
One distro to see them,
One distro to claim them all,
And from the darkness, free them
From the land of Redmond where the paid research studies lie...
I think your criticism of the STL is on target, but Boost is about fixing that without tampering with the language, in a cross-platform way.
It's just like every new AMD/Intel CPU. How many times have you read "this new chip is targeted primarily at servers and high-end work stations".
Unsure if that is a) true b) filling column inches or c) a tease for the power users who require the newest space heater (compensating for deficiencies in the wedding tackle?)
I'm still waiting to see 2.6.x in a desktop distro...
Now, I don't know if they mean something like ReactOS or not, but if you had a Linux that could deftly boot a RedmondOS, such that you could tap into all of its drivers, how cool would that be?
I end up running XP so that my HP6110 driver can give me double-sided, four sheets per page printouts of those endless
Don't get me wrong, I love my RH9 and all, but the pragmatist runs Linux for love, and Redmond products when it makes sense.
Such a potential capability in Linux must be soiling laundry in the State of Washington even as you read this.
Yes, it's the legal equivalent of spam.
Moving to the next question, how do we discourage such banal nonsense?
Most of the ideas that come to mind involve some sort of cruel and unusual punishment...
Speaking of that perl script, how much money has been made by the people on CPAN?
I happen to have a way swift idea, prototyping it in a proprietary environment. I think it rocks. I'm not even worried about the start-up costs. I can get the money.
Buying off on all that for a moment, how to license the product? Part of me want to GPL the thing (though it could be done in a totally public-domain mode) and see if a business could turn a profit on the binaries, particularly MSI, as the idea is extremely mass-market.
While the idea of the money and freedom is attractive, the stress and complexity of running a business are unattractive.
I think I want to polish the idea and just sell it to an existing company. Seems the maximum cash/minimun stress approach.
One wonders what the father of the nuclear navy, a man both brilliant and a trifle autocratic, would have made of the patent mess, the virus mess, the open/closed source mess.
Darl, he would so crush you like the bug that you are.
RMS, I think he might respect.
Gates, too.
Linus, he'd definitely respect.
I've heard it said he favored two personality types: a) the spineless type who followed without question, and b) the total genious who just knew it all cold.
Would he deal with the information age? No, I speculate--he was a colossal Luddite. I daresay some little Enswine would be printing out his emails and then typing out the responses from hand scribbled notes.
Truly and American original.
This might be a little off-topic, but it was an interesting thought.
Tissue? Ohhh, how we would have wallowed in the luxury!
In in my day, single-cell organisms floated about in the primordial ooze, dreaming of the abacus, and hoping to even spot a loose piece of RNA, much less contact it.
And you try to explain *that* to the youth of today...
No, it could be likely a defensive measure, so that others don't hammer them.
Too, if you're a hardware vendor, stuff like this and OSDL make a truckload of sense.
Particularly if you have received a Massive Stab wound in your back Over Something, Too.
You're hinting at the right answer to questions like this: the market.
I'm going to be in the market for wireless home network gear this Summer, and OS-agnostic hardware is certainly a requirement.
When the market quits acting like a heard of sheep, the companies will put down the shears.
Oops! Fantasizing in public again! Sorry...
Something about a To: line that goes on for half a screen might be an indicator...
meridian
1. An imaginary great circle on the earth's surface passing through the North and South geographic poles. All points on the same meridian have the same longitude.
2. Either half of such a great circle from pole to pole.
So, the distance between the north pole and the Paris meridian == 0
Aren't these standards-based posts just wonderful for brining out the pedant in all of us?
Possibly you meant 'Parisian latitude'
By constantly switching the machine's state between the host OS state and and the coLinux kernel state, coLinux is given full control of the physical machine's MMU (i.e, paging and protection) in its own specially allocated address space, and is able to act just like a native kernel, achieving almost the same performance and functionality that can be expected from a regular Linux which could have ran on the same machine standalone.
Since coLinux uses the same binary format for user-space executables as native Linux, coLinux can load and run an existing unmodified Linux distribution concurrently with the host OS.
Right on. Now, what about the hard drive? How are we mounting a non-Redmond volume? Can my hip-pocket 2.6.x kernel dip into that NTFS volume safely?
From the "roadmap" page:
Hmmm. Cygwin lives, apparently.
Mildly off topic, but one use for these live CDs is hardware detection and kernel configuration.
I'd like to try out some of the source distributions, or even do Linux from Scratch, but wading through kernel configuration is rough on an FNG.
Not sure how to extract the kernel parameters from a live CD once booted, though.
At which point you rename it:
Small Linux--Damn!!!
Given the current demographic trends, yes.
clearly you fail it for no one codes using TABs SPACE is teh feng shui
Tough call.
Having barely passed a biochemistry class, I can say that the implementation of life is non-trivial.
The question then becomes, assuming The Creator implemented the periodic table consistently across Creation, how unique (and strict) are the life-requirements which Earth supports?
Hugh Ross is quite an interesting read on the topic.
BTW, what happened before Creation? See, everyone, at some point, gets backed into the taking-something-on-faith corner. Some are just more explicit about it than others.
HAND.