It has nothing to do with making money or not. If you use their patented techniques without licensing the patent from them, you are liable and will (maybe) be prosecuted.
Eh, I always figured it to be a cheap rip-off of Blade, only with a female lead who happens to be a full-blooded vamp who wants to kill off all demons. The TV trailers don't mention werewolves at all.
It wasn't until I saw the theatrical trailer that werewolves entered the picture. Then it became nothing more than a horror version of Romeo and Juliet.
Yeah, you gotta love WordPerfect. The file format hasn't changed... yet they still manage to add new features and whatnot to the new versions. And with the Reveal Codes feature, you always know *exactly* what is going on behind the scenes.
There's nothing worse than opening a document in Word, deleting a space, and watching the formatting for the entire document change before your eyes. Who knows what code was hidden in that space? Or, trying to change the formatting of one section, and screwing up the formatting because Word is change tabs to indents behind the scenes, or some other such nonsense.
Until more wordprocessors incorporate something along the lines of Reveal Codes, there will be nothing but WordPerfect on my systems.
Not all home-schooling is done by the parents. There are home-schooling groups where 4 or 5 neighbourhood kids meet up to be taught by a single teacher/parent/whatever. There are also professional home-schooling teachers and tutors. And so on.
There are good and bad sides to home-schooling, and to private schooling, and to public schooling. The goal is to find the balance between all of these methods.
Not going to hold my breath waiting for the public school system to improve, though.
Why use the back seat in the Metro? The front seats are more than large enough.;) And (if discussing the hatch-back models) if you fold down the rear seats, the "trunk" area is almost as large as a double bed.
Yeesh, lighten up, eh? There's a reason for the:) in the above post.
All I was saying was that "Because Linux has it" is not a good enough reason to implement a feature. That would be like saying "Why doesn't Linux support VBScript in the kernel? MS Windows has it, so it must be good."
As to my credentials, what does that have to do with anything??
Ah well, what can one expect when posting to Slashdot?:D
Nope, that's not bull. Our district has 1 hardware tech, 5 software techs, and two Unix techs, for over 5000 computers and 50+ servers.
Until last year, all the computers ran Windows and Novell. Then we removed all the Novell servers and Windows stations from the elementaries and put in Linux servers and LTSP stations. The software techs used to spend 2 days a week in the elems getting things working... now the elems never see a tech as we (the two Unix guys) can administer them all remotely.
The secondaries still use Windows/Novell, but now the software guys have 2 extra days to fix things there.:)
It's probably due more to the one-on-one experience that home-schoolers get, compared to the 30-students-fight-for-1-teacher's-attention that public school students go through.
Home schooler's basically have their own personal tutor that they can pester whenever they have a problem, issue, concern, etc. They don't have to wait for Little Suzie in the back to figure out the excercise before starting. They don't have to worry about Johnnie creating a fuss and wasting time. They can just get to work, get it done, ponder things, ask whatever questions they want without worrying about what others think.
IOW, they have a better learning environment than most public schools offer.
"Because Linux does it" is not always a good reason to do something. Linux developers tend to throw anything and everything they can into the mix. BSD developers tend to watch what others do, research the pros/cons, then develop a plan on how to do it right... before tackling the coding.
Hence, while Linux distros tend to get things first, BSD tends to get things right.:)
Back in the 386 and 486 days, the AMD chips were generally better/faster than the Intel ones. That changed with the release of the Pentium and all the clones. The 5x86 was actually just a souped up 486. Cyrix, AMD, NexGen, IBM all tried to compete with the Pentium, but couldn't quite live up to it (especially with the release of the PPro and the P5-MMX).
Compared to the K5 from NexGen (I think that's the name) that it was replacing, the K6 wasn't so hot. It lacked features the K5 had, and was actually slower in a lot of areas.
Things got much better with the K6-2, and the (sadly shortlived) K6-III was even better still.
But, it wasn't until the original Athlon that AMD shone once again. And, the rest, as they say, is history.
Well, it's not much, but our local School District (10,000 students, some 75 servers) is slowly moving away from Intel to AMD AthlonMP and (eventually) Opteron dual-proc servers.
They are much less expensive, performace the same or (usually) better, and come with the same warranties et al.
Plus, these are all FreeBSD or RedHat Linux servers with everything compiled from scratch, so they really scream.
How does one disable the building of kernel modules? I've only ever seen the NO_MODULES_WITH_WORLD knob, but nothing to completely disable the building of modules.
The ports tree is tagged at the time of any FreeBSD release. If you install the ports tree during the FreeBSD installation, you will have the same ports tree across all installations.
You can also use date tags in your ports supfiles to get the same ports tree across all your FreeBSD installations.
And you can always just tar up the ports tree on one system, and untar is on all your other systems.
One thing to note about FreeBSD: just because it isn't compiled into the kernel doesn't mean you don't have access to it. Almost everything that is not directly compiled into the kernel is compiled as a module. If you fire up an app that requires ibcs2 support, then the kernel will load the ibcs2.ko kernel module. Any problems with the ibcs2 subsystem will then be in your kernel.
IOW, you do need to worry about this, and you do need to patch your system.
Yeppers, that would be for the Kroupware project, which includes the Kolab server, Kolab client (KMail + KDEPIM integrated together), and other related projects. The funding was to create an Exchange Server replacement.
Depends who you are dealing with. It might be better to go as a Vulcan. Especially if dealing with lawyers. Cool-headed logic is bound to confuse the daylights out of them, allowing you to add some nice kick-back clauses to any contract.:)
We use Yahoo! IM and MSN Messenger here, with Windows, FreeBSD, and Linux clients. It's quite handy when a tech is in a computer lab in a school without a phone, but needs to contact another tech for help. Sure beats e-mail for hands-on help.
Would be nice to setup a Jabber server to start hosting the IM service ourselves. That way we wouldn't have to worry about possibly sensitive info passing across the Internet, we could keep it all within our WAN, and possibly even encrypt it.
CompuServe and AOL (and Prodigy, and Genie, and the others) started *before* the Internet. Back then, the 'Net was nothing more than a few long-haul connections between universities and military sites, and was known as the (D)ARPANet.
The Internet wasn't publically accessible from home until much later. And even then, it was a weird conglomerate of Gopher, FTP, telnet, and e-mail. BBS connections were more common than Internet connections at home.
It wasn't until the 90s when the WWW took off that the Internet started to go mainstream. By this time, AOL, CompuServer, and Prodigy were well established (Genie died out around this time). Prodigy died out shortly after. MS didn't think the Internet would take off or become popular and formed MSN to take on AOL. AOL bought out CompuServe. And then the Internet (mainly the WWW) took off.
Around 95/96 MS did a double-take, moved MSN away from an online service into a web-portal/ISP, and started taking the Internet seriously with the development of Internet Explorer. AOL stuck to its online service status-quo, but started adding links to the Internet.
And now we have a giant website, the remnants of MSN, and AOL has become an Internet ISP with a lot of proprietary info that can only be accessed via their client program.
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It has nothing to do with making money or not. If you use their patented techniques without licensing the patent from them, you are liable and will (maybe) be prosecuted.
Eh, I always figured it to be a cheap rip-off of Blade, only with a female lead who happens to be a full-blooded vamp who wants to kill off all demons. The TV trailers don't mention werewolves at all.
It wasn't until I saw the theatrical trailer that werewolves entered the picture. Then it became nothing more than a horror version of Romeo and Juliet.
Yeah, you gotta love WordPerfect. The file format hasn't changed ... yet they still manage to add new features and whatnot to the new versions. And with the Reveal Codes feature, you always know *exactly* what is going on behind the scenes.
There's nothing worse than opening a document in Word, deleting a space, and watching the formatting for the entire document change before your eyes. Who knows what code was hidden in that space? Or, trying to change the formatting of one section, and screwing up the formatting because Word is change tabs to indents behind the scenes, or some other such nonsense.
Until more wordprocessors incorporate something along the lines of Reveal Codes, there will be nothing but WordPerfect on my systems.
Not all home-schooling is done by the parents. There are home-schooling groups where 4 or 5 neighbourhood kids meet up to be taught by a single teacher/parent/whatever. There are also professional home-schooling teachers and tutors. And so on.
There are good and bad sides to home-schooling, and to private schooling, and to public schooling. The goal is to find the balance between all of these methods.
Not going to hold my breath waiting for the public school system to improve, though.
Why use the back seat in the Metro? The front seats are more than large enough. ;) And (if discussing the hatch-back models) if you fold down the rear seats, the "trunk" area is almost as large as a double bed.
;)
Yes, I do know all this from experience.
Yeesh, lighten up, eh? There's a reason for the :) in the above post.
:D
All I was saying was that "Because Linux has it" is not a good enough reason to implement a feature. That would be like saying "Why doesn't Linux support VBScript in the kernel? MS Windows has it, so it must be good."
As to my credentials, what does that have to do with anything??
Ah well, what can one expect when posting to Slashdot?
Nope, that's not bull. Our district has 1 hardware tech, 5 software techs, and two Unix techs, for over 5000 computers and 50+ servers.
... now the elems never see a tech as we (the two Unix guys) can administer them all remotely.
:)
Until last year, all the computers ran Windows and Novell. Then we removed all the Novell servers and Windows stations from the elementaries and put in Linux servers and LTSP stations. The software techs used to spend 2 days a week in the elems getting things working
The secondaries still use Windows/Novell, but now the software guys have 2 extra days to fix things there.
It's probably due more to the one-on-one experience that home-schoolers get, compared to the 30-students-fight-for-1-teacher's-attention that public school students go through.
Home schooler's basically have their own personal tutor that they can pester whenever they have a problem, issue, concern, etc. They don't have to wait for Little Suzie in the back to figure out the excercise before starting. They don't have to worry about Johnnie creating a fuss and wasting time. They can just get to work, get it done, ponder things, ask whatever questions they want without worrying about what others think.
IOW, they have a better learning environment than most public schools offer.
Uh, he wasn't saying that PC's are a monoculture ... he was saying that running a single OS in the entire school (monoculture) was bad.
"Because Linux does it" is not always a good reason to do something. Linux developers tend to throw anything and everything they can into the mix. BSD developers tend to watch what others do, research the pros/cons, then develop a plan on how to do it right ... before tackling the coding.
:)
Hence, while Linux distros tend to get things first, BSD tends to get things right.
[glances around] ... [nervous look] ... especially here.
... ... ... ...
Dude! SHHHHHH!!!! You can't be going around blabbing about this
The walls have ears, and eyes. "They" can see and hear just about everything. You have to be more careful.
You never know when
Actually, SPEC (the company) did some benchmarking comparing 2-way and 4-way Opteron, Xeon, and Itanium2 servers.
In both SPECint and SPECfp, the Opteron edged out the other systems.
Somewhere around here is a link, but it's mentioned in a nice blurb in this month's CPU Magazine.
Back in the 386 and 486 days, the AMD chips were generally better/faster than the Intel ones. That changed with the release of the Pentium and all the clones. The 5x86 was actually just a souped up 486. Cyrix, AMD, NexGen, IBM all tried to compete with the Pentium, but couldn't quite live up to it (especially with the release of the PPro and the P5-MMX).
Compared to the K5 from NexGen (I think that's the name) that it was replacing, the K6 wasn't so hot. It lacked features the K5 had, and was actually slower in a lot of areas.
Things got much better with the K6-2, and the (sadly shortlived) K6-III was even better still.
But, it wasn't until the original Athlon that AMD shone once again. And, the rest, as they say, is history.
Well, it's not much, but our local School District (10,000 students, some 75 servers) is slowly moving away from Intel to AMD AthlonMP and (eventually) Opteron dual-proc servers.
They are much less expensive, performace the same or (usually) better, and come with the same warranties et al.
Plus, these are all FreeBSD or RedHat Linux servers with everything compiled from scratch, so they really scream.
He'd only be able to starve them. Or maybe move around the ones with iron still undigested in their system.
These things eat iron, they aren't made of it.
You gotta wonder what he was doing if he managed to do all the coding in two weeks *and still* manage to be months behind schedule. :)
Aha! Learn something new everyday. Thanks. (Don't know how I've missed that, considering how many times I've edited make.conf.)
How does one disable the building of kernel modules? I've only ever seen the NO_MODULES_WITH_WORLD knob, but nothing to completely disable the building of modules.
The ports tree is tagged at the time of any FreeBSD release. If you install the ports tree during the FreeBSD installation, you will have the same ports tree across all installations.
You can also use date tags in your ports supfiles to get the same ports tree across all your FreeBSD installations.
And you can always just tar up the ports tree on one system, and untar is on all your other systems.
One thing to note about FreeBSD: just because it isn't compiled into the kernel doesn't mean you don't have access to it. Almost everything that is not directly compiled into the kernel is compiled as a module. If you fire up an app that requires ibcs2 support, then the kernel will load the ibcs2.ko kernel module. Any problems with the ibcs2 subsystem will then be in your kernel.
IOW, you do need to worry about this, and you do need to patch your system.
Yeppers, that would be for the Kroupware project, which includes the Kolab server, Kolab client (KMail + KDEPIM integrated together), and other related projects. The funding was to create an Exchange Server replacement.
Hmmm, I always considered any system running Windows 3.x/9x to be a PoS system. :)
Depends who you are dealing with. It might be better to go as a Vulcan. Especially if dealing with lawyers. Cool-headed logic is bound to confuse the daylights out of them, allowing you to add some nice kick-back clauses to any contract. :)
We use Yahoo! IM and MSN Messenger here, with Windows, FreeBSD, and Linux clients. It's quite handy when a tech is in a computer lab in a school without a phone, but needs to contact another tech for help. Sure beats e-mail for hands-on help.
Would be nice to setup a Jabber server to start hosting the IM service ourselves. That way we wouldn't have to worry about possibly sensitive info passing across the Internet, we could keep it all within our WAN, and possibly even encrypt it.
CompuServe and AOL (and Prodigy, and Genie, and the others) started *before* the Internet. Back then, the 'Net was nothing more than a few long-haul connections between universities and military sites, and was known as the (D)ARPANet.
The Internet wasn't publically accessible from home until much later. And even then, it was a weird conglomerate of Gopher, FTP, telnet, and e-mail. BBS connections were more common than Internet connections at home.
It wasn't until the 90s when the WWW took off that the Internet started to go mainstream. By this time, AOL, CompuServer, and Prodigy were well established (Genie died out around this time). Prodigy died out shortly after. MS didn't think the Internet would take off or become popular and formed MSN to take on AOL. AOL bought out CompuServe. And then the Internet (mainly the WWW) took off.
Around 95/96 MS did a double-take, moved MSN away from an online service into a web-portal/ISP, and started taking the Internet seriously with the development of Internet Explorer. AOL stuck to its online service status-quo, but started adding links to the Internet.
And now we have a giant website, the remnants of MSN, and AOL has become an Internet ISP with a lot of proprietary info that can only be accessed via their client program.