Don't forget to put an entry into fstab for shm (shared memory) The mount point for that filesystem should be/var/shm. I had a REALLY hard time finding that out when I upgraded; maybe I was looking in the wrong places.
It's definitely netscape. I make sure to kill mine and restart it a few times an hour. Of course, I can't remember the last time it actually ran that long...
Expect to see an all-in-one distro from them soon, corel linux with the office suite included. It seems to me that it would be very consumer oriented - as long as they can undercut MS, which I'm sure they can, they could bust into the home/small business market quite handily.
Seriously, why does ever gtk program have to be gnome only
Well, alot of it is that gnome provides some very helpful high level widgets,like toolbars and status bars and such. That, and it adds some measure of consistency to the desktop, like someone else mentioned was lacking.(Keybindings, standard dialog boxes, standard menu configurations, etc.) Overall, it's a Good Thing(TM).
Would you really want to be defended by "defense" systems the would-be defenders didn't have the source to?
Defense is one area in which open sourced software is definately not a good idea. Do we really want all the r+d we put into de/offense software to be out in the open? While I personally wouldn't mind having access to all that code, it would defeat its own purpose. This is analgous to building a weapon, or other defense system, and giving the plans away to anybody who asked. The software in question is military in purpose and nature, and therefore could possibly give a military advantage to whomever the "enemy" happens to be at the moment.
This is not to say that there shouldn't be any opensourcing of any military software. For example, there was a CAD package a few years back called BRL-CAD that wasn't open sourced but was freely available. (though you had to send away for a decryption key, proving that you were a US citizen) But do I want to be defended by software whose source the guy I'm being attacked by doesn't have? Yes!
No, you're not the only one. If I remember, the title sequence in the film makes that pretty obvious. But I might just be pulling that out of a different orifice.
My thoughts exactly - you beat me to it. But how much of this is really in place? IANANE (I am not a networking expert), so I haven't the slightest idea if this can be done.
I really don't like lists of changed files. Whatever happened to the good old changelog that says *what* was changed? I much prefer that. Of course, It is more work, and if it really bothered me that much I could do something about it.
Me too! When you're using GNOME, you don't really need all the extras the E gives you - launcher, pager, epplets, etc. Sawmill is *just* a window manager, so it's generally much lighter.
Just look at the paragraph in which the same benchmarking house releases two benchmarks, one after another, claiming that each product is superior to the other. Excuse me?
This is by far the most stable mozilla I've used. In fact, I does what I need to do (just browsing) much better than does Netscape - it's faster, cleaner, lighter, and doesn't hang when doing DNS lookups!
After a bit of prodding, I got whatever version of windows realplayer I have installed (4.x or G-something) to run under wine - I expect more recent ones ought to as well. It wasn't too hard, just "wine rvplayer.exe", but you've gotta save the link on the web page to a.rm file, then open that from withing the player.
The article seems to think that people modified the client in order to help out the SETI movement. I think it's pretty apparent that the only reason to do this is to be able to bust through data faster, increasing your score. duh!:)
This article evoked all sorts of thoughts. First was that of the difference betweend Disney's vision and the commercial enterprise that Disneyworld is today. Would a man who rode around on a miniature train in his back yard condone a theme park bearing his name that sells frozen candy bars for $5? It also brought to mind the question of the significance of all this technology. Specifically, the woman whos mother had died hauling water was very provoking. (Great writing, Jon!) Isn't the purpose of technology, in the end, to make life easier in general? To save effort such that it may devoted to other, more "human" pursuits? That leads to an inevitable question: does the world's lust for technology really ease human suffering?
Well, now it's accepted that NT is faster than linux in 15 minute spurts using insane loads for a few specific applications. Big deal. It's still BUTT UGLY!
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Don't forget to put an entry into fstab for shm (shared memory) /var/shm. I had a REALLY hard time finding that out when I upgraded; maybe I was looking in the wrong places.
The mount point for that filesystem should be
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It's definitely netscape. I make sure to kill mine and restart it a few times an hour. Of course, I can't remember the last time it actually ran that long...
Expect to see an all-in-one distro from them soon, corel linux with the office suite included. It seems to me that it would be very consumer oriented - as long as they can undercut MS, which I'm sure they can, they could bust into the home/small business market quite handily.
Well, alot of it is that gnome provides some very helpful high level widgets,like toolbars and status bars and such. That, and it adds some measure of consistency to the desktop, like someone else mentioned was lacking.(Keybindings, standard dialog boxes, standard menu configurations, etc.) Overall, it's a Good Thing(TM).
Defense is one area in which open sourced software is definately not a good idea. Do we really want all the r+d we put into de/offense software to be out in the open? While I personally wouldn't mind having access to all that code, it would defeat its own purpose. This is analgous to building a weapon, or other defense system, and giving the plans away to anybody who asked. The software in question is military in purpose and nature, and therefore could possibly give a military advantage to whomever the "enemy" happens to be at the moment.
This is not to say that there shouldn't be any opensourcing of any military software. For example, there was a CAD package a few years back called BRL-CAD that wasn't open sourced but was freely available. (though you had to send away for a decryption key, proving that you were a US citizen) But do I want to be defended by software whose source the guy I'm being attacked by doesn't have? Yes!
No, you're not the only one. If I remember, the title sequence in the film makes that pretty obvious. But I might just be pulling that out of a different orifice.
My thoughts exactly - you beat me to it. But how much of this is really in place? IANANE (I am not a networking expert), so I haven't the slightest idea if this can be done.
$ rpm -qa | grep libc
glibc-devel-2.1.3-6
compat-glibc-5.2-2.0.7.1
libc-5.3.12-31
quake2-3.20-glibc-6
glibc-2.1.3-6
And I haven't even downloaded anything today!
I really don't like lists of changed files. Whatever happened to the good old changelog that says *what* was changed? I much prefer that. Of course, It is more work, and if it really bothered me that much I could do something about it.
"The server returned an extended message..."
(I'll show you a fsking extended message!!!)
Me too! When you're using GNOME, you don't really need all the extras the E gives you - launcher, pager, epplets, etc. Sawmill is *just* a window manager, so it's generally much lighter.
There are lies, damned lies, and benchmarks.
Just look at the paragraph in which the same benchmarking house releases two benchmarks, one after another, claiming that each product is superior to the other. Excuse me?
I don't see why not... it's a bit-for-bit copy, after all.
This is by far the most stable mozilla I've used. In fact, I does what I need to do (just browsing) much better than does Netscape - it's faster, cleaner, lighter, and doesn't hang when doing DNS lookups!
Remeber the first release of staroffice 5.0? It shipped with its very own version of glibc.
A mobile sperm whale, nonetheless!
What'd be _really_ cool is if the psx2 could play mp3 cd's.
After a bit of prodding, I got whatever version of windows realplayer I have installed (4.x or G-something) to run under wine - I expect more recent ones ought to as well. It wasn't too hard, just "wine rvplayer.exe", but you've gotta save the link on the web page to a .rm file, then open that from withing the player.
Not perfect, but certainly better than nothing!
The article seems to think that people modified the client in order to help out the SETI movement. I think it's pretty apparent that the only reason to do this is to be able to bust through data faster, increasing your score. duh! :)
The web page going up is apparently right after Linus's keynote at Comdex - does anybody have any details on that?
This article evoked all sorts of thoughts. First was that of the difference betweend Disney's vision and the commercial enterprise that Disneyworld is today. Would a man who rode around on a miniature train in his back yard condone a theme park bearing his name that sells frozen candy bars for $5?
It also brought to mind the question of the significance of all this technology. Specifically, the woman whos mother had died hauling water was very provoking. (Great writing, Jon!) Isn't the purpose of technology, in the end, to make life easier in general? To save effort such that it may devoted to other, more "human" pursuits? That leads to an inevitable question: does the world's lust for technology really ease human suffering?
Well, now it's accepted that NT is faster than linux in 15 minute spurts using insane loads for a few specific applications. Big deal. It's still BUTT UGLY!
one point twenty-one gigawatts, marty!
Must be... they haven't done it yet, and they're already using the past tense of shoot!