I certainly don't agree. While Ubuntu is a great distro, and a breeze to install ( I still run it on a notebook, just upgraded to dapper drake), it can't match the power and diversity of regular Debian. Even now gcc-4 and Firefox on debian Etch are ahead of Ubuntu. Certain packages are just plain behind (like xchm, to name one). No blame, because the Debian universe is really big.
But apart from that (and I might be wrong about those: I run a few experimental packages, which might have upgraded those I named), Debian is all about free software, and has a great community. Something Ubuntu luckily recognizes (and shares). So far, I see no reason Debian and Ubuntu can't coexist.
And of course, Debian still has the Anarchy-FAQ and -guides in its repositories (just to show where it stands on freedom, a concept more and more Americans should re-evaluate.
Oh, come on. Where is the 'Patriot' in you. Besides, all those Patriots in Iraq (*That is the US soldiers, by some called patriots, not the Iraqi freedom fighters*), are their lives not in danger?
Hypocritical. But then again, what's not.
If I recall correctly, Germany was way ahead of the US in this field.
In every other field, actually. The first years of the war the US were dependant on the UK maintain the lines.
Not that that has helped Germany. The US had to much flesh to throw in the battle. And luckely for us, that is!
It was after the war, that the US 'recruited' all the Nazi scientists (after erasing any misfitting history...).
This, it seems to me, is also why current innovation in the US is grindint to a halt.
The US was always depended on the import of knowledge and intelligence, but now president Bush has shut off that source.
Are you one of those socalled 'Americans' we Europeans hear so much about?
Let me guess: You voted for Bush because he's sooo pro 'peace and democracy'
It's not like there isn't anything like this for Java. The first that comes to mind is the TINI-board, from Dallas. There was another one with a more arcane Java-implementation, but less resource-overhead (Can't remember the name right now..).
And those are just the ones I worked with. There should be others.
So nothing unique here, except maybe that this is the first of this kind of firmware for.Net
which is basicly what RTAI also does. RTAI is even a fork of RTLinux ( if I recall correctly), although nowadays RTAI incorporates some things different. They were also the first with 2.6 patches, if I recall correctly.
Btw, FSM labs, who maintain RTLinux, also offer a GPL-edition for download.
Consider me a noob, but I consider OO design to be a gift from heaven. It is easy to separate different aspects of a given job. You call functions from classes with a meaning.
I still prefer the good old direct approach when the need is there (just now have a project to handle a weird ADC, which acts more analog then digital...), but that too can be wrapped in C++, in a function that disregards all OO-paradigms.
And when all comes together, I dislike Java because it denies me the direct control over the hardware and memory, and I dislike C because it becomes a mess...So C++ is the answer.
Still like to see a usefull combination (ie like combining the primitive 'native' cals in Java with C++, in a useable manner. Java is just too nice to leave alone).
And no, I don't need any guru's to tell me what to do. The guru's can give pointers...(no phun intended).
To give a peronal favorite: Bruce Eckel, with his Java and C++ books.
Yeah, and we all know how neutral and independant 'SecurityFocus' is nowadays...
People are at stake here, and these people get paid fairly well for keeping there mouth shut...
If I recall correctly that was about one intelligence officer who brought his own powerbook, and showed it off.
If the standard equipment were toughbooks, as noted here by someone, I know who is smiling after even a small sandstorm.
And why would one want to process 'massive satellite images' on a laptop? Even a mobile hq has shelters with workstations. It's not like these images make it to the front-line.
Undoubtly there were countless other 'normal' notebooks, which outperform these powerbooks without trouble if the benchmarks are correct.
Anyway, useless comment and completely off-topic...thank you
first, I stumble across your 'technically superior nVidia'.
A card that can't be quiet (as in, lower Db's then a system fan) is not in my lane. ATI is heads first right now, and until nVidia gets this thermo-thingy right (alas, low-noise), it sucks from my perspective...
And for S3: Well, it's always good to see some competition. S3 was the first for me in my 286, and then in a VESA version for a 486. Never really bothered with them again...
Matrox failed at it's pricing. I would have had a paraphelia (or whatever it's called), because I love the 3 screens thingy without all the hastle that I have now. But at the current pricing I'm sticking with the G550 and a pci card, and upgrade to a Radeon when needed. What really pissed me off, was that the g550 sucked at a game which a Geforce I could pull off easily.
I don't play games all that often, but a two years old game, come on...wrong textures, slow framerate, etc....
Linux support is not that great either, so there goes another reason.
Oh, your post was about S3..;) nvr mind
Well, the BBC article claimes the FBI already talked to him.
There is probably more to this then the article states (as is almost always the case with the media-reports). It's pretty vague. A witness, testing? Where was he testing, and how.
AV-companies also test this stuff.
Context is missing, so I guess a conclusion will have to wait till this afternoon.
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"connect any kitchen equipment to the electricity plugs "
Well, it's not that strange. I remember TakeOver in 99 (or was it the 98-event). They didn't forbid that kind of equipment.
The result was that half of Eindhoven had a power-outage due to massive usage of coffee-machines, microwaves, etc, combined with a few thousand pc's.
The next year they forbid the use of that kind of stuff...
Too bad this event is no more. (last event was 2k+1). The annoyance that the gamers caused became to much, or something like that.
...how come SCO gets away with this? I'm not an particular OSS-fanatic, but SCO gets my blood boiling. How come this company can spread this much FUD without proving anything?
This stuff is damaging honest (well, sort of..) corporations.
I'm from the Netherlands, and even the daily newspaper reports this shit (of course getting the facts not fitting my opinion..)
Is US-law really this fucked up? Why can't this be settled in a short timeframe (like a month, instead of the years we're talking here (april 2004, if I recall correct).
Damn, I almost want to join some anti -DMCA -TIA -MATRIX - related 'terrorist'-faction...and feel good about it
That's when you look at the surface. But certain options are so obscurely hidden that it takes a whole lot of searching and cursing to set things straight (well, the way I like it, anyway).
One example, which send me almost to an mental-institute, was this automatic zip-loading. I've got some dirs with alot of zip-files. It takes forever for XP to view these dirs in explorer, because for some reason it feels like expanding all of them.
So, I go out and search how to disable this (wasn't that hard: regsvr32/u zipfldr.dll), and associate winrar with zips.
Set this up, and some random time later XP feels like taking the task upon itself again to load the zip-files....Just one example out of a handfull.
In Gnome, it takes only vi-attack on the config-files to set it the way you want. Also not ideal, but less obscure then XP.
And hey, you know what: due to these annoyances I've found out that I don't need windows that much anymore.
I have to agree with rknop. Debian Stable is pretty static, but there are those moving targets, such as the unstable branch (which can be a hell to setup, when mixing several sources), or the other distro's, based on Debian (to name 2: Knoppix and Libranet (my favorite)).
Never caught the purpose of this 'HURD' thingy though. Isn't that some hardcore Stallman stuff?
I read somewhere that most accidents ( or near-accidents) with aircraft happen because pilots IGNORED the computer, or assumed the computer was wrong.
For the time beeing a pilot is needed, but it should be one that relies on the computer, and not on his 'guts', for this is proven to be prone to error.
Or something like that...
actually I just started using CDT for Eclipse. Great tool so far.
The excelent Eclipse editor makes programming simple projects so much easier. Haven't looked at refactoring etc yet, but this cdt looks promising.
Anyway, I used Eclipse some time, and after being forced to use JBuilder, with its freak behaviour, for some project, and it's a releave to be back with Eclipse.
Could not agree more. When I run XP, it gives me the 'press ctrl alt del' screen after about 20 secs. But don't dare to use that combo at that time. If I try, things get fucked up (taskbar not loaded correctly, some services not started, etc).
I have to wait for my hdd to stop rattling (about 40 secs after power-up), then log in, and then wait another 20 sec or so to wait for the desktop to finish with whatever it's doing...
No doubt this is due to all the crap I've installed, but still...I have little control over what get's started up, and in what order (unlike in xinit or whatever).
Last time I checked one could download 2.0 for free (the major mirrors have it), and the talk was that 2.7 would become free when 2.8 was released. (or 2.4, whatever)
They do have their own repositories, and one can upgrade their distro from 2.0 to 2.8, via dist-upgrade. I have done it, and it works great.
Libranet works quite nice, with all the stuff in place, but nothing you couldn't achieve with debian sid and a little work (excluding this adminmenu, wich is a nice util, but nothing special)
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I certainly don't agree. While Ubuntu is a great distro, and a breeze to install ( I still run it on a notebook, just upgraded to dapper drake), it can't match the power and diversity of regular Debian. Even now gcc-4 and Firefox on debian Etch are ahead of Ubuntu. Certain packages are just plain behind (like xchm, to name one). No blame, because the Debian universe is really big.
But apart from that (and I might be wrong about those: I run a few experimental packages, which might have upgraded those I named), Debian is all about free software, and has a great community. Something Ubuntu luckily recognizes (and shares). So far, I see no reason Debian and Ubuntu can't coexist.
And of course, Debian still has the Anarchy-FAQ and -guides in its repositories (just to show where it stands on freedom, a concept more and more Americans should re-evaluate.
Oh, come on. Where is the 'Patriot' in you. Besides, all those Patriots in Iraq (*That is the US soldiers, by some called patriots, not the Iraqi freedom fighters*), are their lives not in danger? Hypocritical. But then again, what's not.
If I recall correctly, Germany was way ahead of the US in this field.
In every other field, actually. The first years of the war the US were dependant on the UK maintain the lines.
Not that that has helped Germany. The US had to much flesh to throw in the battle. And luckely for us, that is!
It was after the war, that the US 'recruited' all the Nazi scientists (after erasing any misfitting history...).
This, it seems to me, is also why current innovation in the US is grindint to a halt.
The US was always depended on the import of knowledge and intelligence, but now president Bush has shut off that source.
Are you one of those socalled 'Americans' we Europeans hear so much about? Let me guess: You voted for Bush because he's sooo pro 'peace and democracy'
It's not like there isn't anything like this for Java. The first that comes to mind is the TINI-board, from Dallas. There was another one with a more arcane Java-implementation, but less resource-overhead (Can't remember the name right now..). And those are just the ones I worked with. There should be others. So nothing unique here, except maybe that this is the first of this kind of firmware for .Net
which is basicly what RTAI also does. RTAI is even a fork of RTLinux ( if I recall correctly), although nowadays RTAI incorporates some things different. They were also the first with 2.6 patches, if I recall correctly. Btw, FSM labs, who maintain RTLinux, also offer a GPL-edition for download.
Consider me a noob, but I consider OO design to be a gift from heaven. It is easy to separate different aspects of a given job. You call functions from classes with a meaning. I still prefer the good old direct approach when the need is there (just now have a project to handle a weird ADC, which acts more analog then digital...), but that too can be wrapped in C++, in a function that disregards all OO-paradigms.
And when all comes together, I dislike Java because it denies me the direct control over the hardware and memory, and I dislike C because it becomes a mess...So C++ is the answer.
Still like to see a usefull combination (ie like combining the primitive 'native' cals in Java with C++, in a useable manner. Java is just too nice to leave alone).
And no, I don't need any guru's to tell me what to do. The guru's can give pointers...(no phun intended). To give a peronal favorite: Bruce Eckel, with his Java and C++ books.
Yeah, and we all know how neutral and independant 'SecurityFocus' is nowadays... People are at stake here, and these people get paid fairly well for keeping there mouth shut...
If I recall correctly that was about one intelligence officer who brought his own powerbook, and showed it off.
If the standard equipment were toughbooks, as noted here by someone, I know who is smiling after even a small sandstorm.
And why would one want to process 'massive satellite images' on a laptop? Even a mobile hq has shelters with workstations. It's not like these images make it to the front-line.
Undoubtly there were countless other 'normal' notebooks, which outperform these powerbooks without trouble if the benchmarks are correct.
Anyway, useless comment and completely off-topic...thank you
first, I stumble across your 'technically superior nVidia'.
;) nvr mind
A card that can't be quiet (as in, lower Db's then a system fan) is not in my lane. ATI is heads first right now, and until nVidia gets this thermo-thingy right (alas, low-noise), it sucks from my perspective...
And for S3: Well, it's always good to see some competition. S3 was the first for me in my 286, and then in a VESA version for a 486. Never really bothered with them again...
Matrox failed at it's pricing. I would have had a paraphelia (or whatever it's called), because I love the 3 screens thingy without all the hastle that I have now. But at the current pricing I'm sticking with the G550 and a pci card, and upgrade to a Radeon when needed. What really pissed me off, was that the g550 sucked at a game which a Geforce I could pull off easily. I don't play games all that often, but a two years old game, come on...wrong textures, slow framerate, etc.... Linux support is not that great either, so there goes another reason. Oh, your post was about S3..
Well, the BBC article claimes the FBI already talked to him.
There is probably more to this then the article states (as is almost always the case with the media-reports). It's pretty vague. A witness, testing? Where was he testing, and how. AV-companies also test this stuff.
Context is missing, so I guess a conclusion will have to wait till this afternoon.
"connect any kitchen equipment to the electricity plugs "
Well, it's not that strange. I remember TakeOver in 99 (or was it the 98-event). They didn't forbid that kind of equipment.
The result was that half of Eindhoven had a power-outage due to massive usage of coffee-machines, microwaves, etc, combined with a few thousand pc's.
The next year they forbid the use of that kind of stuff...
Too bad this event is no more. (last event was 2k+1). The annoyance that the gamers caused became to much, or something like that.
...how come SCO gets away with this? I'm not an particular OSS-fanatic, but SCO gets my blood boiling.
How come this company can spread this much FUD without proving anything?
This stuff is damaging honest (well, sort of..) corporations.
I'm from the Netherlands, and even the daily newspaper reports this shit (of course getting the facts not fitting my opinion..) Is US-law really this fucked up? Why can't this be settled in a short timeframe (like a month, instead of the years we're talking here (april 2004, if I recall correct).
Damn, I almost want to join some anti -DMCA -TIA -MATRIX - related 'terrorist'-faction...and feel good about it
That's when you look at the surface. But certain options are so obscurely hidden that it takes a whole lot of searching and cursing to set things straight (well, the way I like it, anyway).
/u zipfldr.dll), and associate winrar with zips.
One example, which send me almost to an mental-institute, was this automatic zip-loading. I've got some dirs with alot of zip-files. It takes forever for XP to view these dirs in explorer, because for some reason it feels like expanding all of them.
So, I go out and search how to disable this (wasn't that hard: regsvr32
Set this up, and some random time later XP feels like taking the task upon itself again to load the zip-files....Just one example out of a handfull.
In Gnome, it takes only vi-attack on the config-files to set it the way you want. Also not ideal, but less obscure then XP.
And hey, you know what: due to these annoyances I've found out that I don't need windows that much anymore.
I have to agree with rknop. Debian Stable is pretty static, but there are those moving targets, such as the unstable branch (which can be a hell to setup, when mixing several sources), or the other distro's, based on Debian (to name 2: Knoppix and Libranet (my favorite)).
Never caught the purpose of this 'HURD' thingy though. Isn't that some hardcore Stallman stuff?
I read somewhere that most accidents ( or near-accidents) with aircraft happen because pilots IGNORED the computer, or assumed the computer was wrong. For the time beeing a pilot is needed, but it should be one that relies on the computer, and not on his 'guts', for this is proven to be prone to error. Or something like that...
actually I just started using CDT for Eclipse. Great tool so far.
The excelent Eclipse editor makes programming simple projects so much easier. Haven't looked at refactoring etc yet, but this cdt looks promising.
Anyway, I used Eclipse some time, and after being forced to use JBuilder, with its freak behaviour, for some project, and it's a releave to be back with Eclipse.
Clean, simple, effective.
Could not agree more. When I run XP, it gives me the 'press ctrl alt del' screen after about 20 secs. But don't dare to use that combo at that time. If I try, things get fucked up (taskbar not loaded correctly, some services not started, etc). I have to wait for my hdd to stop rattling (about 40 secs after power-up), then log in, and then wait another 20 sec or so to wait for the desktop to finish with whatever it's doing... No doubt this is due to all the crap I've installed, but still...I have little control over what get's started up, and in what order (unlike in xinit or whatever).
Last time I checked one could download 2.0 for free (the major mirrors have it), and the talk was that 2.7 would become free when 2.8 was released. (or 2.4, whatever)
They do have their own repositories, and one can upgrade their distro from 2.0 to 2.8, via dist-upgrade. I have done it, and it works great.
Libranet works quite nice, with all the stuff in place, but nothing you couldn't achieve with debian sid and a little work (excluding this adminmenu, wich is a nice util, but nothing special)