When you're doing rpm -e, you don't type the.rpm; you're uninstalling a package not a.rpm file.
While Red Hat Linux is far from a perfect distribution, it's intellectually dishonest to knock its tools when you clearly haven't read their documentation carefully enough.
(Although, on the other hand, it could be a reason to bag rpm's poor documentation, and the documentation on Red Hat in general. Have a look at/usr/doc/ and cry at its uselessness.)
An interesting piece of trivia about Sanskrit was that its grammar apparently can be expressed in BNF. I can't remember the details, but the Dragon Book mentions that in the late 1800s, a scholar studying Sanskrit characterised its grammar in that form.
It seems to be a common misconception that real time means "really fast" -- it doesn't.
What it actually means is that operations will occur within a specified period of time -- no matter what.
So just because you have a very fast computer assigned to the job, it doesn't mean it's hard real time. A very slow system could in fact be a real-time system.
(Yes, there are also "soft" real time systems. But that's different.)
Presumably it has something to do with abortions. Maybe some of the proposed federal censorship regulations restricted information about abortions being put on the web. ISTR that a lot of other legal things (like SEX!) can't be put on the web either, because they're "offensive" to some people.
If you woke up tomorrow and all software were made free (thus eliminating the major impetus for the GNU system), what sorts of things would you start hacking on? What promising ideas have you seen lately that you'd be interested in bringing to the state of the art? What program is just screaming, "RMS, please code me, so I can change the face of computing!"?:)
By the way, "OSS" is an acronym coined by Microsoft, and one I've never liked. Can we please call it "Open Source"?
If we don't have an obnoxious Corporate eXecutive iMission Critic@l eAcronym (oCXiCeA) for OSS, then OSS is not suitable for obnoxious Corporate eXecutive iMission Critical eTasks (oCXiCeTs). Several Corporate eXecutive iMission Critic@l eConsultants (CXiCeCs) have demonstrated that OSS should be deployed in the eCorporation within several quarters, or iTimeUnits as they are now called. This will enhance our VC-funded eCorporation's rapid execution of oCXiCeTs.
Furthermore, numerous CXiCeCs have given me an executive summary about OSS, from which I have learned that because OSS is all capital letters, it will fail to succeed in eBusiness, E-commerce, and/or iWare deployment. One eConsultant suggested a paradigm shift to oSS, while another one suggested O-ss. But the latter was actually an E-consultant and not an eConsultant, and he hardly ever uses the IT acronym, so I called an eXecutive iMeeting where we all met in a conference room where we reached a consensus that the so called "E-consultant"'s credibility is lower.
Seriously, I agree with Bruce. "OSS" is highly obnoxious. Don't use it.
So is eAnything, E-anything, iAnything, and many more. Terms like those reek of marketing, rich presentation (read: content free tripe), and all those other things which make the web, computing, and many other things less fun. (Maybe Bruce agrees with that point too, but I wouldn't want to speak for him. He's been misrepresented enough as it is.) Whenever I see eFoo or E-Bar, I turn the other way as fast as I can. You should too.
I don't know whether this is true for all Fosters in the US, but I looked at a 6 pack of it in a liquor store in Massachusetts once and saw that it was actually brewed in Canada! (!!!!!)
Another way cool feature of ksh is `|&` which is a way of getting a pipe to a background process. I guess they call it co-processes, but it really make a client/server process. I guess you can also call it a bi-directional pipe. You can then use `read` and `print` to send and receive stuff from the "server" started with `|&`. For example, if I need to do floating point math, I can start `bc` in the background with `|&`.
Interesting. with zsh, |& is a pipe which takes both stdout and stderr, similar to >& and >>& for redirection. It's handy, especially when you need to use a program with a rather verbose --help option. I was surprised to read that ksh does it differently, but I guess I shouldn't be, since bash doesn't recognise |& at all.
I'm an American studying in Australia. People say to me, "Do I detect an accent? Are you from Canada?" I'll say, "No, I'm from Boston, in the USA." Then they say, "Oh, ok, well, it's just insulting to Canadians when they get confused for Americans."
On the other hand, I take it as a compliment when somebody thinks I'm Canadian. (One of these days, I should say "Sure am, eh?")
Come on. How about network cards? Wanna run HURD on your laptop (Those are solid wacky drivers). PCMCIA support? How about wireless comms? How about USB support? Scanners? Cameras? ISDN? Tape drives? Good god, how about 3D card support for decent game of Quake? Or of lesser importance, CAD?
How many HURD users do you expect will care about playing quake? I'd suspect that number is rather low. Maybe eventually, but what it sounds like it's meant to be is the Ultimate Sandbox (tm).
Don't make the mistake of judging the needs of others by your own (rather boring) needs (I mean, a Virge? Yuck).
Hehe. What's more boring? Playing a computer game or writing code? Understanding one's target audience is just as important designing computer systems as it is writing. I could certainly say to you what you'd said to me: "Don't make the mistake of judging the needs of others by your own (rather boring) needs (I mean, a SuperDuperNEOiFX3biLLi0N|3dFX_woo_woo_woo-Flavour_ of_the_week-CaRD? Yuck)." Heh.
So like I said, I believe that most of the people using GNU/HURD systems won't care too much about the flashy stuff.
Hurd might have some advantages, but if they aren't huge advantages, not many is going to spend the effort to port applications, device drivers, etc away from Linux when Linux works well enough. Or at the very least, Hurd becomes a second class citizen waiting for a vendor to take pity (Sound familiar OS/2 and Mac users?)
Every GNU application does (or will) run on a GNU/HURD box. That's enough to do a lot of useful things already. gcc, emacs, gdb, binutils, you name it.
X11 already runs.
There's also the auto* tools. Those are considered pretty handy for porting software by most accounts. They'll be useful with HURD systems, too. Most current code (I can't remember the last time I compiled something that didn't use a GNU configure script, except perl) uses the auto* tools. So most new code run on HURD boxen too.
The HURD uses glibc. So glibcisms shouldn't be a problem in that regard; while writing code specifically for Linux is pretty dumb, most of it will compile on a HURD machine anyways.
By the way, I'm surprised that I've never seen anybody point out what HURD stands for. Well, HURD stands for HIRD of Unix Replacing Daemons. And HIRD stands for HURD of Interfaces Representing Depth. Amazing, huh?:)
As for drivers, well, I've never cared all that much about multimaedia stuff. As long as I have a semiadequate video card (my s3_virge is fine for me) and a semiadequate sound card, I'm happy enough. I suspect that most of the people using HURD won't be terribly interested in this sort of thing either.
I wouldn't be caught dead buying anything from Borders. It's about as bad as Walden Books, only bigger. The selection is crap, the stores are tasteless, and they force many smaller (and much better! For people in the Worcester, Mass area, compare Tatnuck and Borders: Borders can't hold a candle to Tatnuck in variety, customer service, or taste) bookstores out of business.
People deserve privacy for things that should be private. If you're writing a love letter to your girlfriend, you have every reason to want that private.
On the other hand, if you're trying to do something cooperative, such as writing or maintaining free software, it helps to cooperate! For instance, if somebody has a question about some free software, do you care who answers it as long as the answer is good? This idea applies to a lot of other areas, too.
I believe that RMS said that security makes sense in banks and in the military, but makes less sense in the lab. This isn't unreasonable, since presumably people working together in a lab share some sort of common goal.
You mention LISP, well how major LISP applications are in COMMON use everywhere (ie. a "real-world" application? Only one really springs to mind: my favourite editor, EMACS - but even this has a relatively limited potential user-base, and even amongst developers it certainly isn't close to being the most popular.[)]
Good point. But I don't think emacs is the only program that adds extensibility with lisp. ISTR an engineer friend of mine telling me that AutoCAD uses lisp as an extension language too.
There is also siod (festival uses siod; probably other apps to too) and hopefully guile will take off some day too (some gnome apps might use it already).
[Note: I am originally from Massachusetts, but am in.au now.]
About two years ago, an aunt of mine came down with cancer and died. All of her career she was a Nurse, and most of the time she was working for the American Red Cross. She had health insurance.
Treating cancer (and the associated expenses like hospital beds and whatnot) is very expensive.
Her HMO actually was threatening to cut off her coverage!
Fortunately (really it was, although it sounds pretty macabre), she died before that happened.
I've told people in.au about this, but I'm honestly not sure that they believe me. It's really incredible.
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error: package Mesa-3.2-1.src.rpm is not installed
[root@habernero src]# rpm -i Mesa-3.2-1.src.rpm
error: package Mesa-3.2-1.src.rpm is already installed
When you're doing rpm -e, you don't type the .rpm; you're uninstalling a package not a .rpm file.
While Red Hat Linux is far from a perfect distribution, it's intellectually dishonest to knock its tools when you clearly haven't read their documentation carefully enough.
(Although, on the other hand, it could be a reason to bag rpm's poor documentation, and the documentation on Red Hat in general. Have a look at /usr/doc/ and cry at its uselessness.)
I think that would work in Linus' favour in case he runs into problems a few years down the track.
Have a look at the international versions of mutt.
If it's American and it's not something microbrewish, forget it.
(I'm sure I'll lose karma for this..)
An interesting piece of trivia about Sanskrit was that its grammar apparently can be expressed in BNF. I can't remember the details, but the Dragon Book mentions that in the late 1800s, a scholar studying Sanskrit characterised its grammar in that form.
Almost -- code which is merely disclosed is not necessarily open source. For a long time, Qt was one of the more prominent examples of this.
Disclosed source certainly can be useful, but it is not the same as open source. (Or free software, the term I actually prefer.)
Don't ever say or write "gTLD". It's possibly the most obnoxious in current use. Even more obnoxious than "IT".
What it actually means is that operations will occur within a specified period of time -- no matter what.
So just because you have a very fast computer assigned to the job, it doesn't mean it's hard real time. A very slow system could in fact be a real-time system.
(Yes, there are also "soft" real time systems. But that's different.)
Just a guess, mind you
If you woke up tomorrow and all software were made free (thus eliminating the major impetus for the GNU system), what sorts of things would you start hacking on? What promising ideas have you seen lately that you'd be interested in bringing to the state of the art? What program is just screaming, "RMS, please code me, so I can change the face of computing!"? :)
If we don't have an obnoxious Corporate eXecutive iMission Critic@l eAcronym (oCXiCeA) for OSS, then OSS is not suitable for obnoxious Corporate eXecutive iMission Critical eTasks (oCXiCeTs). Several Corporate eXecutive iMission Critic@l eConsultants (CXiCeCs) have demonstrated that OSS should be deployed in the eCorporation within several quarters, or iTimeUnits as they are now called. This will enhance our VC-funded eCorporation's rapid execution of oCXiCeTs.
Furthermore, numerous CXiCeCs have given me an executive summary about OSS, from which I have learned that because OSS is all capital letters, it will fail to succeed in eBusiness, E-commerce, and/or iWare deployment. One eConsultant suggested a paradigm shift to oSS, while another one suggested O-ss. But the latter was actually an E-consultant and not an eConsultant, and he hardly ever uses the IT acronym, so I called an eXecutive iMeeting where we all met in a conference room where we reached a consensus that the so called "E-consultant"'s credibility is lower.
Seriously, I agree with Bruce. "OSS" is highly obnoxious. Don't use it.
So is eAnything, E-anything, iAnything, and many more. Terms like those reek of marketing, rich presentation (read: content free tripe), and all those other things which make the web, computing, and many other things less fun. (Maybe Bruce agrees with that point too, but I wouldn't want to speak for him. He's been misrepresented enough as it is.) Whenever I see eFoo or E-Bar, I turn the other way as fast as I can. You should too.
So technically, it was imported, sorta.
Interesting. with zsh, |& is a pipe which takes both stdout and stderr, similar to >& and >>& for redirection. It's handy, especially when you need to use a program with a rather verbose --help option. I was surprised to read that ksh does it differently, but I guess I shouldn't be, since bash doesn't recognise |& at all.
On the other hand, I take it as a compliment when somebody thinks I'm Canadian. (One of these days, I should say "Sure am, eh?")
Much better than vanity .com domains, I think.
How many HURD users do you expect will care about playing quake? I'd suspect that number is rather low. Maybe eventually, but what it sounds like it's meant to be is the Ultimate Sandbox (tm).
Don't make the mistake of judging the needs of others by your own (rather boring) needs (I mean, a Virge? Yuck).
Hehe. What's more boring? Playing a computer game or writing code? Understanding one's target audience is just as important designing computer systems as it is writing. I could certainly say to you what you'd said to me: "Don't make the mistake of judging the needs of others by your own (rather boring) needs (I mean, a SuperDuperNEOiFX3biLLi0N|3dFX_woo_woo_woo-Flavour_ of_the_week-CaRD? Yuck)." Heh.
So like I said, I believe that most of the people using GNU/HURD systems won't care too much about the flashy stuff.
Every GNU application does (or will) run on a GNU/HURD box. That's enough to do a lot of useful things already. gcc, emacs, gdb, binutils, you name it.
X11 already runs.
There's also the auto* tools. Those are considered pretty handy for porting software by most accounts. They'll be useful with HURD systems, too. Most current code (I can't remember the last time I compiled something that didn't use a GNU configure script, except perl) uses the auto* tools. So most new code run on HURD boxen too.
The HURD uses glibc. So glibcisms shouldn't be a problem in that regard; while writing code specifically for Linux is pretty dumb, most of it will compile on a HURD machine anyways.
By the way, I'm surprised that I've never seen anybody point out what HURD stands for. Well, HURD stands for HIRD of Unix Replacing Daemons. And HIRD stands for HURD of Interfaces Representing Depth. Amazing, huh? :)
As for drivers, well, I've never cared all that much about multimaedia stuff. As long as I have a semiadequate video card (my s3_virge is fine for me) and a semiadequate sound card, I'm happy enough. I suspect that most of the people using HURD won't be terribly interested in this sort of thing either.
I wouldn't be caught dead buying anything from Borders. It's about as bad as Walden Books, only bigger. The selection is crap, the stores are tasteless, and they force many smaller (and much better! For people in the Worcester, Mass area, compare Tatnuck and Borders: Borders can't hold a candle to Tatnuck in variety, customer service, or taste) bookstores out of business.
It segfaults at *p = 4;. I don't see what's so special about that.
You must have made a typo. It's really CE->CS->CIS->Bus Driver->MIS.
Common mistake.
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On the other hand, if you're trying to do something cooperative, such as writing or maintaining free software, it helps to cooperate! For instance, if somebody has a question about some free software, do you care who answers it as long as the answer is good? This idea applies to a lot of other areas, too.
I believe that RMS said that security makes sense in banks and in the military, but makes less sense in the lab. This isn't unreasonable, since presumably people working together in a lab share some sort of common goal.
Good point. But I don't think emacs is the only program that adds extensibility with lisp. ISTR an engineer friend of mine telling me that AutoCAD uses lisp as an extension language too.
There is also siod (festival uses siod; probably other apps to too) and hopefully guile will take off some day too (some gnome apps might use it already).
About two years ago, an aunt of mine came down with cancer and died. All of her career she was a Nurse, and most of the time she was working for the American Red Cross. She had health insurance.
Treating cancer (and the associated expenses like hospital beds and whatnot) is very expensive.
Her HMO actually was threatening to cut off her coverage!
Fortunately (really it was, although it sounds pretty macabre), she died before that happened.
I've told people in .au about this, but I'm honestly not sure that they believe me. It's really incredible.
Sounds like famous last words...:)