According to MS, while you can give people free software or computers, they won't have the expertise to use it."
Well, you've got to start somewhere.
OK, how about all of the rags to riches stories in the US about how people have won millions in the lottery and gone on to be featured on the "Lifestyles of the rich and famous" and the humanitarian organizations they form, and the mega-sucessful business that they start, and all of that?
How can people get forced to go to AA meetings when the 12 steps involve god? I shouldn't be forced to attend religious meetings, no matter what crime I've done. Freedom of religion and all that.
At least in my state, they do it by hiding it below a series of government and private entities. DMV requires "alcohol training" to get your license back, and you _volunteer_ to go to private "alcohol training" that is certified to do such a thing. Then, the private entity asks you to further volunteer to go to AA.
Also, AA is by their language a "spiritual" program, not a religious one, yada yada.
I don't have too much to add, but I must say that this is the best analogy argument I have read is quite some time. It is completely parallel to the topic and true.
I find it a bit much that "ignorance is no excuse for breaking the law", but in 48 of the US's 50 states it takes 7 years of college and the passing of a state test to know the law and a fulltime job to maintain that status.
However, the distinction that the parent and the point of this topic is that at least the laws are available to read by anybody. With this blackbox DUI machine, nobody can.
gp: and people prefer the reliability, power savings and lower temperatures of the Intel chips
WTF??? We're talking about servers, not laptop
When you have one room that is cooled by 20 tons of AC for 10 racks of computers, power and heat dissipation start getting important. It burns your wallet at both ends, the power end and the cooling end. It is really that big of a deal.
Long story short, if you want better computers, research better computers. If you want better materials, research better materials. You shouldn't say "Invest in ways to get into space so we can make better materials". And you shouldn't say "Space research is good because it gets us better computers." It was the computer research that produced the benefit, irrespective of whether that research is "for space" or not. Don't use peripheral gains to justify a different goal. Just say what you mean.
Until your theory is "more rigorously prove"n, most will accept the animal instinct to do nothing after ones basic needs are met, with the only exception would be some kind of ideology to initiate a change.
Look, plain and simple, "normal" people do not need computers that will survive the vacuum of space and consume very little power, and the g forces of going up and coming down from space. Normal people don't need computers that can survive a nuclear bomb, an Iraqi desert heat, have extra long battery life, and be shock resistant to whatever some grunt puts them through.
However, we all want "more" battery life, and "more" reliable computers, etc.
Space and the military provide these things because they are well beyond people's normal requirements, and engineers work at the edge of current technology with no real constraints on R&D costs nor manufacturing costs. I bolded the last part there for a reason.
For profit companies can spend at most around 10-20% on R&D, and have limits on manufacturing costs.
After reading an article about the Hummer today, I guess this is appropriate. Look at the Hummer. An amazingly successful car that is overpriced and not terribly designed for driving to work or carting kids around. One of the designers was talking about it, and he said that he was on the original design team for the Humvee. In that article, he said that there were no considerations for fuel consumption. The vehicle was designed to replace the Jeep and other transportation and medical vehicles that was designed to drive with flat tires (in the 80s) and through 6 feet of water with continuous service for something like 15 years. He also said, he would never drive one on the road because they were a waste to do so.
Automobile racing is another similar adventure. Nobody is going (except for a stupid ricer who is confused) to spend time and money to put carbon fiber and whatever state of the art into a Neon. But if the R&D for the carbon fiber is already in place and its now known how to manufacture the parts and they are better/cheaper or whatever compared to conventional metal parts, then everybody wins with the newer stuff in their Neon.
It does not mention any money, and from what I remember from 5 years ago, at least the software requirements were rarely if ever met (they used to be required to have a working uninstaller, few if any Windows programs met that criteria 5 years ago).
I'm agnostic about the iPod tax. Apple could be simply going after the bozos that are making crap and people might be complaining to Apple, and Apple wants to protect their brand name.
I don't leave my house without my tinfoiled hat firmly in place, but I could care less about privacy policies. Especially those that require my signature. I will probably stop signing those, but I haven't felt like getting into it with the person who cannot see past the point that there is no point in agreeing or signing a "policy" that clearly says "I can change the rules at any time without notifying you".
Signing something like that is ignorant in my opinion because signing something implies agreement, and agreeing to an openended and potentially radically different terms doesn't seem much like an agreement to me.
I think that all of us should get together with a lawyer and create our own privacy statement and ask others to sign it, and not the other way around.
I have to 1) wipe down any fingerprints 2) make sure there is no hair or fiber evidence 4) make sure there is no audio or video surveillance 5) wipe the serial numbers off of any guns I use 4) wipe the serial numbers off of the printers I use 6) make sure there are no witnesses.
Change mindset from monolithic general purpose PC, to appliance like TV, game console, or your favorite legacy windows app that is not ported to your current OS yet.
Get the picture?
Oh, and yes, my Mac sleeps when I'm not using it, and wakes up almost instantly. The biggest delay is waiting for the harddisks to spin up.
My Linux machines usually need rebooting in the event of power loss or hardware failure.
I turn on my TV and stereo and similar things a couple of times a day.
Yesterday, there was some slashdot article about abandoning windows. People were on the "Yeah!" bandwagon, but then people pointed out this program, that program, or whatever to prevent it. One was Project.
Now, think about the scenario where it was one program keeping people from migrating off of windows, lets say Project. Now, imagine a $200 computer the size of a suitable screen that runs windows, boots instantly, can access network shares, and is able to run the one program necessary, Project.
Now does booting instantly seem more interesting? What about other computer like appliances or game consoles?
I don't see the end of the monolithic multipurpose PC, but I do see the beginning of more appliance like PCs that do need to boot fairly quickly to be of any use.
Microsoft Project is the most widely used project management software that corporations use, and it's only available for one platform: Microsoft Windows. Not OSX, Not Linux, Not BSD, Not Sun, Not Palm, Not Amiga, etc. This means that anybody who manages work in a company *has* to use Windows.
No they don't. Well, maybe not exclusively.
How much resources does Project need? I would imagine that in a few years a small computer (I mean the size of the smallest usable screen size) that costs about $200 should run Project just fine. It would have limited uses (no web surfing, email, or whatever) so it would be very easy to maintain and should be still usable as long as the hardware lasts. Keep all of the data files on a backed up file server or even the user's "real" computer.
we still haven't settled upon some kind of standard by which to communicate a mouthful of data in a form which everyone is capable of reading and editing.
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IMDb is owned by Amazon.com, a company which makes horrifying use of software patents.
True, but the only one I can really think of is the one-click thing, and that is more of a sign of our patent system being screwed up. I actually like amazon, and can overlook this.
Since the acquisition by Ama$on, IMDb has started using Flash-laden banner ads throughout their site. Some of these ads even include sound; these ads are not acceptable.
Who by default browses the web with flash turned on? Every site, including slashdot use flash ads nowadays, its much easier and better to turn off plugins, and turn them on for those sites that appear devoid of content without enabling them.
Agent information and other data has been moved off of the free IMDb site and onto IMDbPRO, which I refuse to use.
So, should we boycott the free or the pay service? It seems to me it should be both. Or at least the pay one. Which is it?
To insert data into this database, such as photographs of my favourite actors, costs money. This was supposed to be a free site.
I dunno, but there are a number of sickos out there. Especially when it comes to celebrities. Maybe the fee is just to reduce their numbers.
Flagrant product placement. Virtually every "article" on IMDb's front page is a paid advertisement. Most "articles" are just used to link to Ama$on items.
This site is about the biggest bling in the US and owned by amazon. The ads haven't annoyed me (and I have a low threshold for annoyance). And virtually every "article" on any advertiser supported media is an advertisement. Ever read slashdot?
IMDb does not use proper HTML
Who does? It renders OK, I don't care.
IMDb has given nothing back to the community; rather it takes from the community (the poor) and gives to a large e-tailer (the rich).
Hold on here. IMDb is excellent. I'm annoyed when I'm watching TV or a movie with friends and I leave my laptop at work or its not already powered on. In seconds, I can find out where we saw that actor before, and tons of information for free about movies. The taglines, the fairly objective appearing voting system, etc. Its not that bad.
Now, if anybody should have boycotted this story would be slashdot, because they have officially taken the stand that amazon is already evil and IMDb is owned by amazon, but this is borderline because it covers IMDb before the acquisition.
Granted, not an ideal benchmark but its still pretty impressive the amount of power I can shove into a 1U server using the Opteron.
This is better than a benchmark, this is real work.
I asked for you to clear things up, and you bring up more variables into the mix.
If you could, please clarify the following:
1) you mentioned dual core opterons. Was your 2x performance noticed on both the single and dual core?
Block sizes greatly effect performance. I set the Opterons to write in 8meg chunks and it seems to save IO. The Xeons don't handle chunks that large for some reason.
2) How didn't the xeons handle this? Did the app crash? If so, this could be due to different default limits between a 32bit and 64bit system in terms of stacksize or something similar. Offhand, I don't see why an 8meg chunk would not work well on an xeon but work well on an opteron. (I obviously know nothing about your particular application, and I've never done such video streaming before either. Also, xeons nor opterons have that much onboard cache, so that could not seem to make a difference).
The Dells had 3 10k rpm ultra 320 scsi drives in a raid 5 configuration while the IBM just has two SATA 150 drives in raid 1. So perhaps the raid configuration was slowing down the write times.
3) That could make a difference, but my bet is with the scsi raid 5 and not the sata raid 1. I'm not sure why you need to write when your streaming info (cache maybe for later???). But if disk io is important for your application, I would expect CPU differences to be even less of an issue, but I'm still baffled. BTW, what is the cache difference on the drives? 8 megs is about a sweet spot in terms of cache on ide disks nowadays, did the scsi drives have less?
I'm curious too what is different in your setup to be able to stream 2x more data with comparable systems. Albeit the 1.8GHz Opteron has a little more horsepower than a 2.8GHz p4, but that should have little to nothing to do with video streaming. Is the Osprey in a pci-x slot on both machines? Are the memory subsystems similar?
I'm just very curious. Because 2x performance on similar machines has to be explainable beyond the processors that are almost the same.
A 32-way SMP dual-core opteron box is a serious threat to Sun Enterprise boxes with 64 to 128 UltraSparc, even the hardware partitioning doesn't mean as much when you can just use two or more x86-64 boxes at probably less than half the price.
Would you buy that from Mom or Pop?
A Sun Enterprise system is a system that is supported by the vendor for its OS (Solaris) and the hardware as well as other players, as the other systems you mention.
A 32-way SMP dual-core opteron box is just a figment of your imagination without a corresponding operating system to match. (You would have gotten another +1 if you had mentioned Linux).
My point is that there is more to a system than just the hardware. Sure, a 32-way SMP dual-core opteron box might be a great (overpriced and expensive) web server and a nice high end box for number crunching, but most of the larger systems are part of critical systems that cannot fail or garble your data. A 32-way SMP dual-core opteron box sounds great, but offers nothing to those whose reputations and careers depend on the system fulfilling its job.
Sun did an internal test comparing between Solaris and all the major OSs. It turned out that Solaris lost big to Linux 2.6 when it came to networking.
I hope that they did do internal testing with older versions of Solaris as well, because TCP/IP throughput went down about 50% (yes, that is 50%) between Solaris 7 and 9 on the same hardware. I have not tested 10 yet.
Many projects typically do not add features after a major release. It's the minor point releases that focus on fixing bugs. So in this case it's the fourth round of bugfixes.
Not to nitpick, but it depends on the software. For example, OS X has had numerous features added between 10.0 to 10.4. Some software packages with the X.Y.Z versioning use the third number for bug fixes, the second number for feature changes, and the first number for API changes. Honestly, I don't remember a feature that was that great in VIM since syntax highlighting and visual mode. Not to negate their efforts, or to say that there are not more features, but I've been happy with the features as they are for a long time. I us vim for everything from composing and replying to mail to viewing files to editing files. Probably, the only command I use more frequently is ls.
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they have no serious future in competition with eclipse
Does eclipse either start up or open a file from a terminal using ssh instantaneously?
Until it does, it has no competition for emacs or vi(m).
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Is this a windows specific question? Because I've always used ^V, and I just tried ^Q and it did not work.
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According to MS, while you can give people free software or computers, they won't have the expertise to use it."
Well, you've got to start somewhere.
OK, how about all of the rags to riches stories in the US about how people have won millions in the lottery and gone on to be featured on the "Lifestyles of the rich and famous" and the humanitarian organizations they form, and the mega-sucessful business that they start, and all of that?
Oh, you didn't hear about those did you?
How can people get forced to go to AA meetings when the 12 steps involve god? I shouldn't be forced to attend religious meetings, no matter what crime I've done. Freedom of religion and all that.
At least in my state, they do it by hiding it below a series of government and private entities. DMV requires "alcohol training" to get your license back, and you _volunteer_ to go to private "alcohol training" that is certified to do such a thing. Then, the private entity asks you to further volunteer to go to AA.
Also, AA is by their language a "spiritual" program, not a religious one, yada yada.
I don't have too much to add, but I must say that this is the best analogy argument I have read is quite some time. It is completely parallel to the topic and true.
I find it a bit much that "ignorance is no excuse for breaking the law", but in 48 of the US's 50 states it takes 7 years of college and the passing of a state test to know the law and a fulltime job to maintain that status.
However, the distinction that the parent and the point of this topic is that at least the laws are available to read by anybody. With this blackbox DUI machine, nobody can.
"10 percent of computer users are Mac users, but remember, we are the top 10 percent."
- Douglas Adams
And yes, I selected that quote free from any bias whatsoever.
gp: and people prefer the reliability, power savings and lower temperatures of the Intel chips
WTF??? We're talking about servers, not laptop
When you have one room that is cooled by 20 tons of AC for 10 racks of computers, power and heat dissipation start getting important. It burns your wallet at both ends, the power end and the cooling end. It is really that big of a deal.
Long story short, if you want better computers, research better computers. If you want better materials, research better materials. You shouldn't say "Invest in ways to get into space so we can make better materials". And you shouldn't say "Space research is good because it gets us better computers." It was the computer research that produced the benefit, irrespective of whether that research is "for space" or not. Don't use peripheral gains to justify a different goal. Just say what you mean.
Until your theory is "more rigorously prove"n, most will accept the animal instinct to do nothing after ones basic needs are met, with the only exception would be some kind of ideology to initiate a change.
Look, plain and simple, "normal" people do not need computers that will survive the vacuum of space and consume very little power, and the g forces of going up and coming down from space. Normal people don't need computers that can survive a nuclear bomb, an Iraqi desert heat, have extra long battery life, and be shock resistant to whatever some grunt puts them through.
However, we all want "more" battery life, and "more" reliable computers, etc.
Space and the military provide these things because they are well beyond people's normal requirements, and engineers work at the edge of current technology with no real constraints on R&D costs nor manufacturing costs. I bolded the last part there for a reason.
For profit companies can spend at most around 10-20% on R&D, and have limits on manufacturing costs.
After reading an article about the Hummer today, I guess this is appropriate. Look at the Hummer. An amazingly successful car that is overpriced and not terribly designed for driving to work or carting kids around. One of the designers was talking about it, and he said that he was on the original design team for the Humvee. In that article, he said that there were no considerations for fuel consumption. The vehicle was designed to replace the Jeep and other transportation and medical vehicles that was designed to drive with flat tires (in the 80s) and through 6 feet of water with continuous service for something like 15 years. He also said, he would never drive one on the road because they were a waste to do so.
Automobile racing is another similar adventure. Nobody is going (except for a stupid ricer who is confused) to spend time and money to put carbon fiber and whatever state of the art into a Neon. But if the R&D for the carbon fiber is already in place and its now known how to manufacture the parts and they are better/cheaper or whatever compared to conventional metal parts, then everybody wins with the newer stuff in their Neon.
If it is just greed then it will end up being a bad thing.
Name me a Fortune 500 company that pays their CEO $1/year that is based on greed.
(That is Steve Jobs reported salary.)
does MS have the authority to ask for a cut of the sales?!!
. mspx and hardware http://www.microsoft.com/whdc/winlogo/default.mspx .
To include the "Designed for Windows XP" logo on their product if its software it must adhere to http://www.microsoft.com/winlogo/software/default
It does not mention any money, and from what I remember from 5 years ago, at least the software requirements were rarely if ever met (they used to be required to have a working uninstaller, few if any Windows programs met that criteria 5 years ago).
I'm agnostic about the iPod tax. Apple could be simply going after the bozos that are making crap and people might be complaining to Apple, and Apple wants to protect their brand name.
I don't leave my house without my tinfoiled hat firmly in place, but I could care less about privacy policies. Especially those that require my signature. I will probably stop signing those, but I haven't felt like getting into it with the person who cannot see past the point that there is no point in agreeing or signing a "policy" that clearly says "I can change the rules at any time without notifying you".
Signing something like that is ignorant in my opinion because signing something implies agreement, and agreeing to an openended and potentially radically different terms doesn't seem much like an agreement to me.
I think that all of us should get together with a lawyer and create our own privacy statement and ask others to sign it, and not the other way around.
Now my life is getting more and more complicated.
I have to 1) wipe down any fingerprints 2) make sure there is no hair or fiber evidence 4) make sure there is no audio or video surveillance 5) wipe the serial numbers off of any guns I use 4) wipe the serial numbers off of the printers I use 6) make sure there are no witnesses.
Did I miss anything?
Change mindset from monolithic general purpose PC, to appliance like TV, game console, or your favorite legacy windows app that is not ported to your current OS yet.
Get the picture?
Oh, and yes, my Mac sleeps when I'm not using it, and wakes up almost instantly. The biggest delay is waiting for the harddisks to spin up.
My Linux machines usually need rebooting in the event of power loss or hardware failure.
I turn on my TV and stereo and similar things a couple of times a day.
you're booting too often
Yesterday, there was some slashdot article about abandoning windows. People were on the "Yeah!" bandwagon, but then people pointed out this program, that program, or whatever to prevent it. One was Project.
Now, think about the scenario where it was one program keeping people from migrating off of windows, lets say Project. Now, imagine a $200 computer the size of a suitable screen that runs windows, boots instantly, can access network shares, and is able to run the one program necessary, Project.
Now does booting instantly seem more interesting? What about other computer like appliances or game consoles?
I don't see the end of the monolithic multipurpose PC, but I do see the beginning of more appliance like PCs that do need to boot fairly quickly to be of any use.
Microsoft Project is the most widely used project management software that corporations use, and it's only available for one platform: Microsoft Windows. Not OSX, Not Linux, Not BSD, Not Sun, Not Palm, Not Amiga, etc. This means that anybody who manages work in a company *has* to use Windows.
No they don't. Well, maybe not exclusively.
How much resources does Project need? I would imagine that in a few years a small computer (I mean the size of the smallest usable screen size) that costs about $200 should run Project just fine. It would have limited uses (no web surfing, email, or whatever) so it would be very easy to maintain and should be still usable as long as the hardware lasts. Keep all of the data files on a backed up file server or even the user's "real" computer.
Imagine that?
we still haven't settled upon some kind of standard by which to communicate a mouthful of data in a form which everyone is capable of reading and editing.
I believe they call that wiki.
IMDb has a page for this
Unfortunately, it appears to be censored.
IMDb is owned by Amazon.com, a company which makes horrifying use of software patents.
True, but the only one I can really think of is the one-click thing, and that is more of a sign of our patent system being screwed up. I actually like amazon, and can overlook this.
Since the acquisition by Ama$on, IMDb has started using Flash-laden banner ads throughout their site. Some of these ads even include sound; these ads are not acceptable.
Who by default browses the web with flash turned on? Every site, including slashdot use flash ads nowadays, its much easier and better to turn off plugins, and turn them on for those sites that appear devoid of content without enabling them.
Agent information and other data has been moved off of the free IMDb site and onto IMDbPRO, which I refuse to use.
So, should we boycott the free or the pay service? It seems to me it should be both. Or at least the pay one. Which is it?
To insert data into this database, such as photographs of my favourite actors, costs money. This was supposed to be a free site.
I dunno, but there are a number of sickos out there. Especially when it comes to celebrities. Maybe the fee is just to reduce their numbers.
Flagrant product placement. Virtually every "article" on IMDb's front page is a paid advertisement. Most "articles" are just used to link to Ama$on items.
This site is about the biggest bling in the US and owned by amazon. The ads haven't annoyed me (and I have a low threshold for annoyance). And virtually every "article" on any advertiser supported media is an advertisement. Ever read slashdot?
IMDb does not use proper HTML
Who does? It renders OK, I don't care.
IMDb has given nothing back to the community; rather it takes from the community (the poor) and gives to a large e-tailer (the rich).
Hold on here. IMDb is excellent. I'm annoyed when I'm watching TV or a movie with friends and I leave my laptop at work or its not already powered on. In seconds, I can find out where we saw that actor before, and tons of information for free about movies. The taglines, the fairly objective appearing voting system, etc. Its not that bad.
Now, if anybody should have boycotted this story would be slashdot, because they have officially taken the stand that amazon is already evil and IMDb is owned by amazon, but this is borderline because it covers IMDb before the acquisition.
Granted, not an ideal benchmark but its still pretty impressive the amount of power I can shove into a 1U server using the Opteron.
This is better than a benchmark, this is real work.
I asked for you to clear things up, and you bring up more variables into the mix.
If you could, please clarify the following:
1) you mentioned dual core opterons. Was your 2x performance noticed on both the single and dual core?
Block sizes greatly effect performance. I set the Opterons to write in 8meg chunks and it seems to save IO. The Xeons don't handle chunks that large for some reason.
2) How didn't the xeons handle this? Did the app crash? If so, this could be due to different default limits between a 32bit and 64bit system in terms of stacksize or something similar. Offhand, I don't see why an 8meg chunk would not work well on an xeon but work well on an opteron. (I obviously know nothing about your particular application, and I've never done such video streaming before either. Also, xeons nor opterons have that much onboard cache, so that could not seem to make a difference).
The Dells had 3 10k rpm ultra 320 scsi drives in a raid 5 configuration while the IBM just has two SATA 150 drives in raid 1. So perhaps the raid configuration was slowing down the write times.
3) That could make a difference, but my bet is with the scsi raid 5 and not the sata raid 1. I'm not sure why you need to write when your streaming info (cache maybe for later???). But if disk io is important for your application, I would expect CPU differences to be even less of an issue, but I'm still baffled. BTW, what is the cache difference on the drives? 8 megs is about a sweet spot in terms of cache on ide disks nowadays, did the scsi drives have less?
So I'm a big curious what is so vastly superior?
I'm curious too what is different in your setup to be able to stream 2x more data with comparable systems. Albeit the 1.8GHz Opteron has a little more horsepower than a 2.8GHz p4, but that should have little to nothing to do with video streaming. Is the Osprey in a pci-x slot on both machines? Are the memory subsystems similar?
I'm just very curious. Because 2x performance on similar machines has to be explainable beyond the processors that are almost the same.
A 32-way SMP dual-core opteron box is a serious threat to Sun Enterprise boxes with 64 to 128 UltraSparc, even the hardware partitioning doesn't mean as much when you can just use two or more x86-64 boxes at probably less than half the price.
Would you buy that from Mom or Pop?
A Sun Enterprise system is a system that is supported by the vendor for its OS (Solaris) and the hardware as well as other players, as the other systems you mention.
A 32-way SMP dual-core opteron box is just a figment of your imagination without a corresponding operating system to match. (You would have gotten another +1 if you had mentioned Linux).
My point is that there is more to a system than just the hardware. Sure, a 32-way SMP dual-core opteron box might be a great (overpriced and expensive) web server and a nice high end box for number crunching, but most of the larger systems are part of critical systems that cannot fail or garble your data. A 32-way SMP dual-core opteron box sounds great, but offers nothing to those whose reputations and careers depend on the system fulfilling its job.
Sun did an internal test comparing between Solaris and all the major OSs. It turned out that Solaris lost big to Linux 2.6 when it came to networking.
I hope that they did do internal testing with older versions of Solaris as well, because TCP/IP throughput went down about 50% (yes, that is 50%) between Solaris 7 and 9 on the same hardware. I have not tested 10 yet.
Many projects typically do not add features after a major release. It's the minor point releases that focus on fixing bugs. So in this case it's the fourth round of bugfixes.
Not to nitpick, but it depends on the software. For example, OS X has had numerous features added between 10.0 to 10.4. Some software packages with the X.Y.Z versioning use the third number for bug fixes, the second number for feature changes, and the first number for API changes. Honestly, I don't remember a feature that was that great in VIM since syntax highlighting and visual mode. Not to negate their efforts, or to say that there are not more features, but I've been happy with the features as they are for a long time. I us vim for everything from composing and replying to mail to viewing files to editing files. Probably, the only command I use more frequently is ls.
they have no serious future in competition with eclipse
Does eclipse either start up or open a file from a terminal using ssh instantaneously?
Until it does, it has no competition for emacs or vi(m).
Is this a windows specific question? Because I've always used ^V, and I just tried ^Q and it did not work.
Just call and say thanks and this will keep things moving in the right direction.
Hold your horses. Why was he "raided"? What law did he break? Did you break the same law last week?
I hate spammers with a passion, but I like my freedom a little more than they are irritating to me.
It's only irony if the contradiction is intentional and makes a point.
Its definitely irony.