uh.. I read slashdot, and occasionally click reply.. that's about it.. I don't use whatever else it does.. I tried playing around with some things for a while, but they were totally unintuitive, so i just went to reading and writing the occasional reply.
A) This is already done by all the people that put together distributions. They typically have one kernel that works on virtually everything. You're right, it's not going to be as streamlined for the particular hardware as a custom compiled kernel. re: ACPI/APM not working, either fix the code, or know that it's not going to work and disable it.
B) "modify computer internals safely"? What are you talking about? You mean mucking with important config files? Great, whatever uses those config files should know that the files have changed, and re-read them as needed.
Why would the developers care one bit about what's going into use in old ass distributions, by default?
Debian Stable = things that have been 'thoroughly' tested for like 2 years or more. Hell, even using Debian Unstable, most of your software is still incredibly out of date.
Red Hat isn't quite as slow. But pretty darned slow.
ah, yes, the first worm.. was actually a work of art, in an odd sort of way. Nobody had thought that sort of thing would be possible, or if it were, who would bother to writei t? and then put it out on an educational network?
I remember how S L o W everything was that weekend.. omg...
It was a funny headline, and it was the first thing I've seen in a LONG time on slashdot that wasn't just the first paragraph of an article quoted onto slashdot, and then a bunch of people bickering about their favorite open source project underneath it.
(1) Turn on caching of pages in Mambo (2) Realise that Mambo is only useful as a very low-traffic blog software that takes hours to do what you could do with static pages in minutes.
Why not tell US what the specs are, and we can help you, rather than presume that we all already know DoD specifications?
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OpenDoc was sort of like... say you have a data file that is part word processor document, part spreadsheet. The document would tell the system that it needs word processor software and spreadsheet software to work with that document. Then, the system would use whatever word processor and spreadsheet software you have (wether it be Word Perfect or Word or Excel or Lotus). Kinda neat.
There's been no updates on that in more than a year, and last I'd heard it was dead again.
I kinda wished I'd played the Fallout series, as much as people are talking about it.
It was the continuation of Wasteland, wasn't it?
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sounds a bit like "OpenDoc" but for programming interfaces. I could be wrong, but I don't think I quite understood the post. But that's what it sounds like.
OpenDoc would've been so cool. I miss oS/2:(
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The shells "forever" ago weren't quite as nice. In fact, I think in it's day, AmigaDOS and OS/2's shells were more capable than the Unix shells of 1985. (but then, I could be wrong.. I didn't pick up Unix until about 1988 or so.. but things felt a lot less advanced in Unix at the time.. but then, I knew C so rather than shell scripting I just did whatever in C)
Does it really kinda bother anyone else that in one of the Enlightenment screenshots, the guy is playing videos with transparency enabled? Who the hell would watch video with transparency enabled?
There are two answers to that actually.
(1) The developers didn't find the personal need for it, so since there's no one going "hey wouldn't that be cool", there are just people developing things that "scratch their own itch", no one bothered.
(2) Since someone did just say "hey wouldn't that be cool" it now becomes a more difficult task that requires more than just "--enable-static" to be added to their build process.
I'm working on a system right now that will do a one time data backup to a remote location, then do a nightly differential backup as well. Hopefully TBs of files wouldn't be changing every day.
back in the days when 100MB hard drives were awesome, and 210MB hard drives were Godlike, I had a pair of Seagate 20MB's and a 40MB. Two of them required whacking the side of the computer at just the right moment after power on to get them running.
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uh.. I read slashdot, and occasionally click reply.. that's about it.. I don't use whatever else it does.. I tried playing around with some things for a while, but they were totally unintuitive, so i just went to reading and writing the occasional reply.
To reply:
A) This is already done by all the people that put together distributions. They typically have one kernel that works on virtually everything. You're right, it's not going to be as streamlined for the particular hardware as a custom compiled kernel. re: ACPI/APM not working, either fix the code, or know that it's not going to work and disable it.
B) "modify computer internals safely"? What are you talking about? You mean mucking with important config files? Great, whatever uses those config files should know that the files have changed, and re-read them as needed.
er... ? devfs has been deprecated for several revisions now, and was hardly in use to begin with... ?
Why would the developers care one bit about what's going into use in old ass distributions, by default?
Debian Stable = things that have been 'thoroughly' tested for like 2 years or more. Hell, even using Debian Unstable, most of your software is still incredibly out of date.
Red Hat isn't quite as slow. But pretty darned slow.
In 1994, when I was just getting out of high school, the classes available at the local university for programming:
COBOL I
COBOL II
COBOL III
RPG
PL/1
wtf?
That's because she probably hasn't figured out that most all computers these days can read lower case characters...
ah, yes, the first worm.. was actually a work of art, in an odd sort of way. Nobody had thought that sort of thing would be possible, or if it were, who would bother to writei t? and then put it out on an educational network?
I remember how S L o W everything was that weekend.. omg...
It was a funny headline, and it was the first thing I've seen in a LONG time on slashdot that wasn't just the first paragraph of an article quoted onto slashdot, and then a bunch of people bickering about their favorite open source project underneath it.
You have all been moderated -5 Humor Impaired.
i'd rejoice if it had more sane HTML, that saved a lot of bandwidth.
not only looks like, i'd say that that's actually the case. *yes, i know the authors*
(1) Turn on caching of pages in Mambo
(2) Realise that Mambo is only useful as a very low-traffic blog software that takes hours to do what you could do with static pages in minutes.
You're = "You Are"
Your = possessive you.
Get it right. Please?
Why not tell US what the specs are, and we can help you, rather than presume that we all already know DoD specifications?
OpenDoc was sort of like... say you have a data file that is part word processor document, part spreadsheet. The document would tell the system that it needs word processor software and spreadsheet software to work with that document. Then, the system would use whatever word processor and spreadsheet software you have (wether it be Word Perfect or Word or Excel or Lotus). Kinda neat.
wow, best argument i've ever seen on slashdot. Kudos! If I had mod points, I'd mod this way up somehow.
Not because I agree with it, but because it's the best argumentative post I've ever seen.
and at almost 3GB for the game, it'd take quite some time even on a good link
There's been no updates on that in more than a year, and last I'd heard it was dead again.
I kinda wished I'd played the Fallout series, as much as people are talking about it.
It was the continuation of Wasteland, wasn't it?
sounds a bit like "OpenDoc" but for programming interfaces. I could be wrong, but I don't think I quite understood the post. But that's what it sounds like.
:(
OpenDoc would've been so cool. I miss oS/2
The shells "forever" ago weren't quite as nice. In fact, I think in it's day, AmigaDOS and OS/2's shells were more capable than the Unix shells of 1985. (but then, I could be wrong.. I didn't pick up Unix until about 1988 or so.. but things felt a lot less advanced in Unix at the time.. but then, I knew C so rather than shell scripting I just did whatever in C)
Does it really kinda bother anyone else that in one of the Enlightenment screenshots, the guy is playing videos with transparency enabled? Who the hell would watch video with transparency enabled?
Thank you for the invitations!
:(
Now, I'm getting a 403 Forbidden error when trying to login to the jabber server
i sure as heck don't have everyone on my yahoo messenger list (some 400+ people) in my yahoo contact list for email.. kinda annoying...
I guess I will finally need an invitation to gmail.. anyone?
ekdikeo5@yahoo.com
....you answered yourself right there.
There are two answers to that actually.
(1) The developers didn't find the personal need for it, so since there's no one going "hey wouldn't that be cool", there are just people developing things that "scratch their own itch", no one bothered.
(2) Since someone did just say "hey wouldn't that be cool" it now becomes a more difficult task that requires more than just "--enable-static" to be added to their build process.
I'm working on a system right now that will do a one time data backup to a remote location, then do a nightly differential backup as well. Hopefully TBs of files wouldn't be changing every day.
back in the days when 100MB hard drives were awesome, and 210MB hard drives were Godlike, I had a pair of Seagate 20MB's and a 40MB. Two of them required whacking the side of the computer at just the right moment after power on to get them running.