I love FreeBSD and wish I'd discovered it years ago instead of messing around with Linux worrying
about distribution problems but.... frankly the installer on 4.4 was buggy to say the least.
I hope they've fixed it for 4.5. It was the only thing that cast a cloud on the 4.4 release.
Neither HTTP nor Gopher killed off ftp for one major reason. Both the former protocols only
support download. Ftp supports upload too. The http POST method doesn't count since it doesn't
upload to a directory , merely to whatever cgi app wishes to receive the data and besides which
I'm not sure it would be able to stomach a 2 gig upload of the latest Linux distribution for example.
Whats hard about Xlib? Its easy to program in. People only think its difficult because they've
never bothered to use it. I mean what is so hard to understand about functions like XDrawLine and
XFillPolygon? Its not rocket science! And since I've written games in Xlib myself and a 3d system
(http://www.ogham.demon.co.uk if you're interested) I think I have a vague clue what I'm
talking about.
As for "grow up" , what kind of stupid comment is that? If thats the best you can come up with to a
genuine complaint then you don't merit any more reponse.
So far every "commercial" game I've tried on Linux has required some obscure or non default
library and/or X windows extension module to be loaded before it'll even give you the time of
day. In fact the situation is worse than Windows IMO. Game designers seem to assume that can can happily use all those junk libraries shipped by
RedHat and it'll work on any dist. Unsurprisingly
this is not the case. I've yet to get a single mainstream game to run on my Slackware dist without having to spend half a day poking around
the net downloading libCoolGraphics23.34.B and libDoAllThe3dForUsCosWe'reTooLazyToDoItOurselves. Ok , I'm being sarcastic but you get the point.
Its damn annoying.
Wasn't there some rumour that Microsoft might port its.net framework and maybe Office to BSD
but NOT Linux? Its a long shot but perhaps one of Open Sources greatest adversaries might save one
of Open Sources greatest achievments since if MS did do this I'd predict that FreeBSD sales could
go through the roof.
But my post wasn't a troll. Unless you're implying I made it up and are calling me a liar.
Any change of some adults who can actually understand english doing some moderating instead
of idiot adolescents who just give random scores based on whether mummy shouted at them today?
I always relied on the PC Bookshop (holborn and canon street in london). They have lots of
obscure stuff for sale and they must be one of the few places in the world (never mind the UK)
that sell OpenBSD CD-ROMS on the counter! But even they can't (as of 2 weeks ago) get hold of FreeBSD
or Slack.
I'm talking about buying it in a shop, not some hopeless mail order system. I've had too much
stuff go missing in the post to bother with it anymore and I'm certainly not giving my credit
card details out online.
BSD (and Slackware) have been virtually unobtainable in here in the UK thanks to those
useless muppets at Wind River. Lets hope the new sponsors can sort BSD out though I fear Slackware
is still on a sinking ship.
As I've posted elsewhere , the US courts can bang their drum as loud as they like but if there are
no similar software laws in the country the OSS developers are working in theres not a damn thing
that they can do about it unless the developers are dumb enough to enter the US. Eg Dymitri Skylarov.
It wouldn't. The US courts can scream and shout as loud as they like but if there are no similar
laws in another country theres absolutely NOTHING they can do about it. Unless the author happens to
enter the US , eg Dmitry Skylarov.
This only works for a few overwrites , beyond that theres no way of telling what the previous
state of the bit was only that there were ones and or zeros there at some point in the past.
So a large number of passes from/dev/random would in fact solve the problem.
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NOt very practical for expeditions really. The last thing you want on an serious expedition is
a large petrol engine, a diesel is a must. Why?
A) It is more fuel efficient
B) They are more reliable
C) They have about 50% more torque for the same engine capacity
Also this vehicle doesn't appear to have a manual gearbox option. So basically its for posers.
This is a just a lifestyle vehicle that appeals to the same sort of people who'd buy a Hummer.
Why? Because if it was a serious off roader it would have a diesel engine for reliabilty, torgue and fuel economy reasons, not some gas guzzling V8.
...are Crayon going to sue the Oxford English Dictionary for using their trademark without
permission inside?
This is crazy , its farcical enough when a company sues over a common word in the own
language that they've decided to trademark (Windows anyone?) but when its *another*
language isn't it about time someone started banging together the heads of trademark lawyers???
No. At least not on the 4.4 release I installed last month. Had exactly the same problem. In fact
it got so bad I just killed the installer after a while and installed the packages manually
at various times on and off over the next 2 weeks.
Functional languages will never become popular because they don't mimic the way people think.
Procedural languages with their do A, then B, then C do. And lets face it your average 1GHz
PC is more than powerful enough to run a functional language. If those sorts of language
were going to make any sort of impact outside of research labs they would have done so by now.
Not many. I think coders just keep adding useless stuff to these editors because its fun for them,
not because anyone actually needs or uses it. If vim was *really* VI iMproved then they'd have
given it logical command keys. I mean 'x' for
delete character?? Control-ZZ to exit?? Come on!
Ok , so some guy doesn't like the kernel and thinks he can improve it even more. Worthy aspiration
but doesn't he realise that fragmentation in the kernel (never mind the distributions) is just going
to lead to incompatabilities, confusing and ultimately users deserting linux in droves?
Don't believe me? Well I for one have recently switched to FreeBSD as I just got sick and tired
of supposedly Linux applications only running on this or that distribution with this or that library. Lifes too short.
Linus needs to nip this in the bud before it just becomes a disaster.
Most CS people (aside you from it seems) have done science at school. Physics is not a big
deal really , just find the equations from a book then code them up. Just like any other sort of
maths problem. The HARD problems are ones where there is no "simple" plug-in-an-equation type
solution.
I can't think of an equation that could be used to describe a file consisting of truly random
data can you? For example a setiathome file that consists of white noise off the radio telescope.
Sure you could do FFT on it but that is a type of lossy compression, you won't be able to reconstruct the file
EXACTLY from it which is vitally important with
computer data.
So can someone explain how they would get round what seems to me an unsurmountable problem?
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I love FreeBSD and wish I'd discovered it years ago instead of messing around with Linux worrying
about distribution problems but.... frankly the installer on 4.4 was buggy to say the least.
I hope they've fixed it for 4.5. It was the only thing that cast a cloud on the 4.4 release.
Neither HTTP nor Gopher killed off ftp for one major reason. Both the former protocols only
support download. Ftp supports upload too. The http POST method doesn't count since it doesn't
upload to a directory , merely to whatever cgi app wishes to receive the data and besides which
I'm not sure it would be able to stomach a 2 gig upload of the latest Linux distribution for example.
Whats hard about Xlib? Its easy to program in. People only think its difficult because they've
never bothered to use it. I mean what is so hard to understand about functions like XDrawLine and
XFillPolygon? Its not rocket science! And since I've written games in Xlib myself and a 3d system
(http://www.ogham.demon.co.uk if you're interested) I think I have a vague clue what I'm
talking about.
As for "grow up" , what kind of stupid comment is that? If thats the best you can come up with to a
genuine complaint then you don't merit any more reponse.
So far every "commercial" game I've tried on Linux has required some obscure or non default
library and/or X windows extension module to be loaded before it'll even give you the time of
day. In fact the situation is worse than Windows IMO. Game designers seem to assume that can can happily use all those junk libraries shipped by
RedHat and it'll work on any dist. Unsurprisingly
this is not the case. I've yet to get a single mainstream game to run on my Slackware dist without having to spend half a day poking around
the net downloading libCoolGraphics23.34.B and libDoAllThe3dForUsCosWe'reTooLazyToDoItOurselves. Ok , I'm being sarcastic but you get the point.
Its damn annoying.
Wasn't there some rumour that Microsoft might port its .net framework and maybe Office to BSD
but NOT Linux? Its a long shot but perhaps one of Open Sources greatest adversaries might save one
of Open Sources greatest achievments since if MS did do this I'd predict that FreeBSD sales could
go through the roof.
But my post wasn't a troll. Unless you're implying I made it up and are calling me a liar.
Any change of some adults who can actually understand english doing some moderating instead
of idiot adolescents who just give random scores based on whether mummy shouted at them today?
I always relied on the PC Bookshop (holborn and canon street in london). They have lots of
obscure stuff for sale and they must be one of the few places in the world (never mind the UK)
that sell OpenBSD CD-ROMS on the counter! But even they can't (as of 2 weeks ago) get hold of FreeBSD
or Slack.
I'm talking about buying it in a shop, not some hopeless mail order system. I've had too much
stuff go missing in the post to bother with it anymore and I'm certainly not giving my credit
card details out online.
BSD (and Slackware) have been virtually unobtainable in here in the UK thanks to those
useless muppets at Wind River. Lets hope the new sponsors can sort BSD out though I fear Slackware
is still on a sinking ship.
As I've posted elsewhere , the US courts can bang their drum as loud as they like but if there are
no similar software laws in the country the OSS developers are working in theres not a damn thing
that they can do about it unless the developers are dumb enough to enter the US. Eg Dymitri Skylarov.
It wouldn't. The US courts can scream and shout as loud as they like but if there are no similar
laws in another country theres absolutely NOTHING they can do about it. Unless the author happens to
enter the US , eg Dmitry Skylarov.
This only works for a few overwrites , beyond that theres no way of telling what the previous /dev/random would in fact solve the problem.
state of the bit was only that there were ones and or zeros there at some point in the past.
So a large number of passes from
NOt very practical for expeditions really. The last thing you want on an serious expedition is
a large petrol engine, a diesel is a must. Why?
A) It is more fuel efficient
B) They are more reliable
C) They have about 50% more torque for the same engine capacity
Also this vehicle doesn't appear to have a manual gearbox option. So basically its for posers.
This is a just a lifestyle vehicle that appeals to the same sort of people who'd buy a Hummer.
Why? Because if it was a serious off roader it would have a diesel engine for reliabilty, torgue and fuel economy reasons, not some gas guzzling V8.
...are Crayon going to sue the Oxford English Dictionary for using their trademark without
permission inside?
This is crazy , its farcical enough when a company sues over a common word in the own
language that they've decided to trademark (Windows anyone?) but when its *another*
language isn't it about time someone started banging together the heads of trademark lawyers???
No. At least not on the 4.4 release I installed last month. Had exactly the same problem. In fact
it got so bad I just killed the installer after a while and installed the packages manually
at various times on and off over the next 2 weeks.
It may well be but it didn't run on PC hardware.
Sure it was an x86 processor but the rest of
the architecture was not the same as a PC.
Functional languages will never become popular because they don't mimic the way people think.
Procedural languages with their do A, then B, then C do. And lets face it your average 1GHz
PC is more than powerful enough to run a functional language. If those sorts of language
were going to make any sort of impact outside of research labs they would have done so by now.
Not many. I think coders just keep adding useless stuff to these editors because its fun for them,
not because anyone actually needs or uses it. If vim was *really* VI iMproved then they'd have
given it logical command keys. I mean 'x' for
delete character?? Control-ZZ to exit?? Come on!
Ok , so some guy doesn't like the kernel and thinks he can improve it even more. Worthy aspiration
but doesn't he realise that fragmentation in the kernel (never mind the distributions) is just going
to lead to incompatabilities, confusing and ultimately users deserting linux in droves?
Don't believe me? Well I for one have recently switched to FreeBSD as I just got sick and tired
of supposedly Linux applications only running on this or that distribution with this or that library. Lifes too short.
Linus needs to nip this in the bud before it just becomes a disaster.
Most CS people (aside you from it seems) have done science at school. Physics is not a big
deal really , just find the equations from a book then code them up. Just like any other sort of
maths problem. The HARD problems are ones where there is no "simple" plug-in-an-equation type
solution.
Maybe you have to find a garage and get a mechanic to give it a service pack :)
I'd love to ... if you'd care to mention what
the variables in your equation actually stand for.
Will there be any more updates to the 2.2 series
or is this officially finished now?
I can't think of an equation that could be used to describe a file consisting of truly random
data can you? For example a setiathome file that consists of white noise off the radio telescope.
Sure you could do FFT on it but that is a type of lossy compression, you won't be able to reconstruct the file
EXACTLY from it which is vitally important with
computer data.
So can someone explain how they would get round what seems to me an unsurmountable problem?