Only gamers and the occasional hobbyist coder or graphics person or whatever really wants a fast computer in their house. For most people, Word, Excel, IE and Outhouse Exposed run just fine on a slow computer, despite all the bloat in them.
You might have a point with security, though. I do always feel like I'm in a glass outhouse when I use M$ Windows. If everyone felt that way the switch could probably be motivated pretty easily.
It's stored right beside the filename in the directory entry. Headers attached to every file? What do you think this is, MacOS with resource forks that can have metadata? YMMV if you're using something funny like BeOS or MSDOS, of course.
Well, Linus doesn't make a roadmap; I think he feels it is counter to the Linux development methodology and would be unproductive. What gets put in the 2.5 series depends upon what patches people decide to submit.
That said, I've read that the stuff that Linus WANTS to put into the new kernel include features for NUMA machines and stuff to improve scheduling abilities for embedded systems. Both of those probably mean a higher focus on making things SMP safe, and possibly work on making the kernel more preemtible. One thing Linus has said he will make sure of is that performance on uniprocessors and small SMP's doesn't suffer much as a result of this.
Besides that, we can expect support for more devices, tons of bug-fixes, probably some more journalling filesystems, and all the other stuff that comes with Linux slowly maturing.
That's not true; they make a negative loss on PS2's, which is to say, they make a profit. The only console on the market now which is sold at a loss is the XBOX, and you can bet that the loss isn't so high as some people here would have you believe. Further, much of it is likely a paper loss that goes directly from the XBOX group to profits in the Windows 2000 Embedded group.
Further, sales figures are big propoganda for Sony. They likely do make more in licensing fees if people buy a lot of games, and if developers make a lot of games. Why do developers write games for a console? When there are lots of consumers to buy them. Even by depriving Sony of the profit of licensing fees for games you buy, you are still putting them ahead because they can use you to convince developers to buy licenses to make more games because of you.
If you buy Sony, you help Sony. It doesn't work any other way.
Who have installed "mysql errors" instead of our
dimunutive hero, the hobbit Frodo. Not even the mighty
"Slashdot Effect" could stop them! Sauron will
recover the one ring and we are all doomed!
That's one nightmare that would not be permitted because of the antitrust suit. It works for Apple, and for XBOX, because the hardware manufacturer can decide what to put in it (so long as they are not a monopoly--IBM got nailed for not allowing third party software, back in the day). But MS is not allowed to do something that would prevent OEM's from installing a different OS.
Even the secure DRM computer mentioned here earlier is likely to limit authentication to authorized OS's (of which Windows is likely to be the only one using x86 hardware), rather than prohibiting unauthenticated OS's from running. Unless that law that requires OS's to be secure gets passed... That would be bad all over, though.
Well, to me "sleek penguin" seems an oxymoron; being fat is a survival trait for a bird that swims in ice fields.
The other thing I can think of is that "under arctic ice" (or antarctic ice, as the case may be) would be a place where no one could tell, and I might say that if I had really no clue as to how the project was actually doing. I think that the submitter should really learn some new similes, because his current ones just aren't doing the job.
Of course, our Navy won't talk about it. I've a friend in the Singapore navy, though, and he says that the American Navy is very arrogant, and likes to show off by steaming close by, but being completely invisible on radar.
The article says this is the first ship of its kind in the world, but they note the distinguishing factor is that it is a stealth ship armed with supersonic anti-ship missiles.
I can barely believe this site is still up. I wonder what happens with race conditions in those music playing cgi scripts. I wish I was in the CCC Shop so that I could find out. I guess I'll just have to imagine the frantic beeps and wails as the mighty slashdot effect takes its toll on the tune.
They spend at least twelve million dollars a month on salary, yet they won't spend twenty thousand a month to conform to the terms of service of broadband services for their telecommuting workers? I realize that paying employees is closer to the heart of the company, but if they can't afford the spare change to work telecommuting properly they should just not support it as an option.
The sad part is that us AMD enthusiasts used to be able to get DDR memory really cheap because the demand was low. Now that all the P4 people are looking to buy DDR, the price is going way high. Wouldn't it be ironic if it went as high as RDRAM? That would be a real bum move on Intel's part.
A lot of people don't have a clue what goes into a commercial software project. For example, Red Hat has only about 600 people. That is spread out through management, sales, marketing and support, as well as development. Now, Red Hat developers may be more productive than volunteers, since they are able to work on projects full time, but the vast majority of the work that goes into a new release of Red Hat Linux is in software written by the community.
Microsoft's practices are harder to determine for an outsider, but they don't put in the huge amount of effort that the Abiword people think. For example, the Internet Explorer team is much smaller than the number of people working on Mozilla (in fact, it is smaller than the team working on Mozilla/ Netscape full time). The MS Word team is probably larger than the Abiword team, and support comes from a different group of people. However, if you email them and say, "Get this feature by tomorrow or I'm switching to something else!" they will have the exact same response as Abiword.
The days of 200 people working on a shell script to change directories using a web page went away with the end of the.com era. They are not missed, either by OSS or Free software developers, or by profitable companies.
There was a hole in Slashcode that allowed this to be exploited... it caused some pages to be turned into goatse.cx redirects. If you opened them in Konq (presumable any browser other than IE) it would just be text containing some HTML snippets to redirect to goatse. Some of the trolls were posting this on their user info pages, to turn Slash links into Goatse links. I believe that Taco has since fixed that one, thankfully.
That's a pretty expensive way to do something that WMP has been doing for ages. I think he wants to automate the process, though. Instead of sticking all the disks in his computer's CD drive one-by-one, he wants to stick 200 in his carousel, leave it alone for a few hours (or days if it only rips at 1x...), and come back to find them all on his hard drive.
I have a fax number attached to my mobile phone as part of my plan. I don't use it much, so I didn't bother finding out the number for the first few weeks I had it. In that time period I got no less than 84 pages of, you guessed it, spam. Although this pales next to the amount of email spam I receive, it is shocking to know that I can get spammed when even I don't know my address.
Anything that reduces the volume of electronic junk I receive is good. I applaud the Europein Union for this, and I hope that it comes to the USA very soon.
One thing that astonished me recently was when I installed a game, and realized that all I had to do was put the CD in, select an item from my 'K' menu, and it worked. That's the sort of usability Linux needs.
However there was a difficulty. To install the game, I still had to become root, futz with XFree86 to get the graphical install program to work, and to top it off it didn't even use my normal KDE widgets.
There's a lot of good stuff that Linux does, but even more that it doesn't, and to be viable for all those common folks who jobs don't involve writing perl all day, it has to.
LNUX isn't really appropriate, but there's no need to change it. Just wait for it to drop off of the market completely.
Looking at the past trend, with ups and downs, the share price has maintained a drop of about one order of magnitude per year. If it continues the trend it will shortly reverse the small gains it has made recently and head down into sub-$1 range shortly. That will lead to its delisting, obviating the need to change from LNUX to SOFT or whatever.
"...Horizontal double line, horizontal double line, elbow from left horizontal double line to single vertical line down, line break, vertical single line..."
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Only gamers and the occasional hobbyist coder or graphics person or whatever really wants a fast computer in their house. For most people, Word, Excel, IE and Outhouse Exposed run just fine on a slow computer, despite all the bloat in them.
You might have a point with security, though. I do always feel like I'm in a glass outhouse when I use M$ Windows. If everyone felt that way the switch could probably be motivated pretty easily.
At only $27,000 each, a Daisy Cutter would be both faster and cheaper than waiting for the courts to break up Microsoft.
Well, then, definitely. NTFS support has been in the kernel since 2.2.0.
It's stored right beside the filename in the directory entry. Headers attached to every file? What do you think this is, MacOS with resource forks that can have metadata? YMMV if you're using something funny like BeOS or MSDOS, of course.
I wonder if NTFS was the first journalling filesystem supported under Linux. That would be amusing, to say the least.
Well, Linus doesn't make a roadmap; I think he feels it is counter to the Linux development methodology and would be unproductive. What gets put in the 2.5 series depends upon what patches people decide to submit.
That said, I've read that the stuff that Linus WANTS to put into the new kernel include features for NUMA machines and stuff to improve scheduling abilities for embedded systems. Both of those probably mean a higher focus on making things SMP safe, and possibly work on making the kernel more preemtible. One thing Linus has said he will make sure of is that performance on uniprocessors and small SMP's doesn't suffer much as a result of this.
Besides that, we can expect support for more devices, tons of bug-fixes, probably some more journalling filesystems, and all the other stuff that comes with Linux slowly maturing.
That's not true; they make a negative loss on PS2's, which is to say, they make a profit. The only console on the market now which is sold at a loss is the XBOX, and you can bet that the loss isn't so high as some people here would have you believe. Further, much of it is likely a paper loss that goes directly from the XBOX group to profits in the Windows 2000 Embedded group.
Further, sales figures are big propoganda for Sony. They likely do make more in licensing fees if people buy a lot of games, and if developers make a lot of games. Why do developers write games for a console? When there are lots of consumers to buy them. Even by depriving Sony of the profit of licensing fees for games you buy, you are still putting them ahead because they can use you to convince developers to buy licenses to make more games because of you.
If you buy Sony, you help Sony. It doesn't work any other way.
Who have installed "mysql errors" instead of our
dimunutive hero, the hobbit Frodo. Not even the mighty
"Slashdot Effect" could stop them! Sauron will
recover the one ring and we are all doomed!
That's one nightmare that would not be permitted because of the antitrust suit. It works for Apple, and for XBOX, because the hardware manufacturer can decide what to put in it (so long as they are not a monopoly--IBM got nailed for not allowing third party software, back in the day). But MS is not allowed to do something that would prevent OEM's from installing a different OS.
Even the secure DRM computer mentioned here earlier is likely to limit authentication to authorized OS's (of which Windows is likely to be the only one using x86 hardware), rather than prohibiting unauthenticated OS's from running. Unless that law that requires OS's to be secure gets passed... That would be bad all over, though.
Well, to me "sleek penguin" seems an oxymoron; being fat is a survival trait for a bird that swims in ice fields.
The other thing I can think of is that "under arctic ice" (or antarctic ice, as the case may be) would be a place where no one could tell, and I might say that if I had really no clue as to how the project was actually doing. I think that the submitter should really learn some new similes, because his current ones just aren't doing the job.
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Of course, our Navy won't talk about it. I've a friend in the Singapore navy, though, and he says that the American Navy is very arrogant, and likes to show off by steaming close by, but being completely invisible on radar.
The article says this is the first ship of its kind in the world, but they note the distinguishing factor is that it is a stealth ship armed with supersonic anti-ship missiles.
I can barely believe this site is still up. I wonder what happens with race conditions in those music playing cgi scripts. I wish I was in the CCC Shop so that I could find out. I guess I'll just have to imagine the frantic beeps and wails as the mighty slashdot effect takes its toll on the tune.
Well, this is a developer link, not for people who don't enjoy building it themselves, but here are some nice screenshots.
They spend at least twelve million dollars a month on salary, yet they won't spend twenty thousand a month to conform to the terms of service of broadband services for their telecommuting workers? I realize that paying employees is closer to the heart of the company, but if they can't afford the spare change to work telecommuting properly they should just not support it as an option.
The sad part is that us AMD enthusiasts used to be able to get DDR memory really cheap because the demand was low. Now that all the P4 people are looking to buy DDR, the price is going way high. Wouldn't it be ironic if it went as high as RDRAM? That would be a real bum move on Intel's part.
A lot of people don't have a clue what goes into a commercial software project. For example, Red Hat has only about 600 people. That is spread out through management, sales, marketing and support, as well as development. Now, Red Hat developers may be more productive than volunteers, since they are able to work on projects full time, but the vast majority of the work that goes into a new release of Red Hat Linux is in software written by the community.
.com era. They are not missed, either by OSS or Free software developers, or by profitable companies.
Microsoft's practices are harder to determine for an outsider, but they don't put in the huge amount of effort that the Abiword people think. For example, the Internet Explorer team is much smaller than the number of people working on Mozilla (in fact, it is smaller than the team working on Mozilla/ Netscape full time). The MS Word team is probably larger than the Abiword team, and support comes from a different group of people. However, if you email them and say, "Get this feature by tomorrow or I'm switching to something else!" they will have the exact same response as Abiword.
The days of 200 people working on a shell script to change directories using a web page went away with the end of the
There was a hole in Slashcode that allowed this to be exploited... it caused some pages to be turned into goatse.cx redirects. If you opened them in Konq (presumable any browser other than IE) it would just be text containing some HTML snippets to redirect to goatse. Some of the trolls were posting this on their user info pages, to turn Slash links into Goatse links. I believe that Taco has since fixed that one, thankfully.
That's a pretty expensive way to do something that WMP has been doing for ages. I think he wants to automate the process, though. Instead of sticking all the disks in his computer's CD drive one-by-one, he wants to stick 200 in his carousel, leave it alone for a few hours (or days if it only rips at 1x...), and come back to find them all on his hard drive.
"People who post here are very smart. [...] I think Linux should stop wasting cycles on a mass market that will never happen."
Obviously you're right on the money, since even you yourself say that people who post here are very smart. I am very smart too, can I have a cookie?
I have a fax number attached to my mobile phone as part of my plan. I don't use it much, so I didn't bother finding out the number for the first few weeks I had it. In that time period I got no less than 84 pages of, you guessed it, spam. Although this pales next to the amount of email spam I receive, it is shocking to know that I can get spammed when even I don't know my address.
Anything that reduces the volume of electronic junk I receive is good. I applaud the Europein Union for this, and I hope that it comes to the USA very soon.
One thing that astonished me recently was when I installed a game, and realized that all I had to do was put the CD in, select an item from my 'K' menu, and it worked. That's the sort of usability Linux needs.
However there was a difficulty. To install the game, I still had to become root, futz with XFree86 to get the graphical install program to work, and to top it off it didn't even use my normal KDE widgets.
There's a lot of good stuff that Linux does, but even more that it doesn't, and to be viable for all those common folks who jobs don't involve writing perl all day, it has to.
LNUX isn't really appropriate, but there's no need to change it. Just wait for it to drop off of the market completely.
Looking at the past trend, with ups and downs, the share price has maintained a drop of about one order of magnitude per year. If it continues the trend it will shortly reverse the small gains it has made recently and head down into sub-$1 range shortly. That will lead to its delisting, obviating the need to change from LNUX to SOFT or whatever.
"...Horizontal double line, horizontal double line, elbow from left horizontal double line to single vertical line down, line break, vertical single line..."
According to the Symantec page it will install robot scripts if you have mIRC installed. Add that to the 'really-is-harmful' list.