So the FSF is gonna sue for the damages caused by the several bucks of loss they would sustain on the $36 share of stock they bought in order to file the suit?
The 'controllers' that go with drives that are ATA are permanently installed as part of the drive. That's why in the old days when an 'IDE' interface was something you plugged into an ISA slot that it only had a few TTL chips and a PAL chip on it.
So there's no incompatability issue between controller/drive that would be produced by this change. Each drive has a controller embedded in it.
I have NetBSD installed on a Mac SE/30 here. Imagine the X Window System on a machine with a one-bit 512x348 display. Out of necessity I run the Tab Window Manager. It shocks anybody I show to see Unix and X on a dinky-mac.
The four-bangers were out long before 1979. I bought my first programmable calculator (a TI SR-56) in the summer of 1977. It had way more than four functions (though it definitely wasn't as cool, or expensive, as the HP calculator that I really wanted).
That was back before I could afford a real computer, and it let me write programs and such. Coming up with ideas for good game programs on a 10 digit numeric display was kind of a challange.
You can purchase the GNU C Compiler directly from Microsoft ported to run on the Posix subsystem they purchased, called Interix. It's $99. It's a far cry from the Posix-on-Win32 kludge that Cygwin is. The Interix Posix subsystem runs directly off the bare NT kernel as a whole separate API layer.
What I noticed about USB was that it emerged from a rather obscure ghetto after Windows 98 came out.
All my Pentium motherboards have headers on them for USB, and that means motherboards from long before the imac came out. They're easy to plug a cable/connector onto, and voila! USB on all my PC systems.
You mean a pokey-network, or did a fast-Ethernet wireless equivalent appear recently? I just can't deal with limited bandwidth when it's my own network. Enough of that at work.
only run it on a computer you built yourself with components you made yourself.
I hope you carefully reviewed all the microcode in the CPU.
You're not connecting that system to any terminal or I/O devices that you don't have a complete understanding of, are you? I'd suggest Morse code as a good I/O terminal, as a morse code key is pretty hard to jigger.
The number of OpenBSD versus NetBSD posts on Usenet is roughly in ratio of 5 to 1.
All that demonstrates is that peoplw with anything useful to do with their time don't waste it on Use(less)net, which is pretty much a dead land these days.
Nothing that has anything to do with reality can be deduced from Usenet post volume. If you need somebody to tell you that you're beyond hope.
How will they be known as stable versions of Linux if they're shipped on Day zero? Stability on a few half dozen lab machines? That doesn't automatically translate into robustness on thousands of boxes after wide deployment.
I can see putting all my largeish hard drives in a NetBSD box with Samba on fast ethernet, offloading all but the bare minimum of storage to an OS that doesn't respect 'copy protection' in hard drives.
Back in the late 80's someone local (to where I live) put up a large multi-line 'Chat' BBS. For the first several months of operation, it was set up so that anybody could log on at any time and create a new account. Anybody could at any time adopt a new personae. But those of us who became 'regulars' ended up getting to know one another and who was 'real' and not. In a aemi-autonomous situation like that, communities form automatically, and people get to know who the interlopers are. People 'validate' each other pretty well when there's no 'authority' around.
Of course, the place eventually went commercial, the 'free' period was just the operator's way of getting the population up before turning it into a 'for pay' service. By that time enough of a community had formed that when it 'went private' there were enough of us willing to spend a few bucks a month to hang out.
Those were the old days of local (single area code) chat systems, though, when anybody you were in contact with was likely to be someone nearby (it made the sexual dynamics more interesting than the weird world-wide nature of chatrooms today).
Needless to say I had my fill of chatrooms and 'online living' before the Internet even took off. I can't stand what they are today.
You're right. I definitely agree with regard to Slack.
In fact, because NFS is easier to configure with Slackware (it allows mounting subdirectories of exports, with NetBSD I couldn't get that to work) the NFS server with all the NetBSD resources is still a Slackware box. In fact, most of my NFS installs of NetBSD come off that Slack machine. Slack is a good distribution, it's always served me well, going back to the days when it liberated me from Yggdrasil (back in 1994).
The core binaries are only about 80 MB (for the i386 port), which includes a basic system with the core development tools and a skeletal X Window System.
You then download pkgsrc.tar.gz, install it under/usr, and get your network connection.
Everything else you need you build from the 'packages' source archive sited on ftp.netbsd.org. If you want LyX, for instance, you go to the LyX directory under/usr/pkgsrc and type 'make && make install', and it downloads, builds, and installs every package needed to build and install LyX.
There are also binary packages, but it's not as clean a system for those. If you want that kind if nightmare you should stick to the nightmare known as.rpm, IMHO.
I wouldn't know. Now that I've using a logged-on account, and I chose 'Light', I don't see the comment numbers anymore. Sometimes I feel tempted to select "don't display scores", too.
The dweebs around here who rant and rave about getting 'first post' and 'moderation' issues just don't get it.
Whatever... anti-semitism is not Naziism. It forms a component of Naziism, but so do a lot of other things. Nazis also believed in a form of socialism. I personally find socialism repugnant but I don't brand all socialists as Nazis (to do so would be totally off-the-wall).
Wagner was a sexual degenerate and a very decadent person, but his music comes from an entirely different era than the sexual degenerates who formed the Nazi party. His music celebrates a romantic form of German nationalism, but it can't in any sense be equated with the ideology known as Naziism. If anything Hitler took advantage of Wagner, who almost certainly would have objected to everything Hitler's party stood for.
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So the FSF is gonna sue for the damages caused by the several bucks of loss they would sustain on the $36 share of stock they bought in order to file the suit?
They'd be laughed out of court.
The 'controllers' that go with drives that are ATA are permanently installed as part of the drive. That's why in the old days when an 'IDE' interface was something you plugged into an ISA slot that it only had a few TTL chips and a PAL chip on it.
So there's no incompatability issue between controller/drive that would be produced by this change. Each drive has a controller embedded in it.
I have a US Flag that's made of wool.
It has 48 stars on it and was my Grandfather's flag.
The flag I put out on the front of my house on occasion is nylon, though.
In your hands you hold the key to the continued survival of mankind,
What evidence do you have for such a claim?
Episodes of Star Trek do not count as evidence.
Why does NASA need more money?
Is outer space going to go away if we don't explore it in the next five or ten years?
And I thought my 1024x768 was too small.
I have NetBSD installed on a Mac SE/30 here. Imagine the X Window System on a machine with a one-bit 512x348 display. Out of necessity I run the Tab Window Manager. It shocks anybody I show to see Unix and X on a dinky-mac.
The four-bangers were out long before 1979. I bought my first programmable calculator (a TI SR-56) in the summer of 1977. It had way more than four functions (though it definitely wasn't as cool, or expensive, as the HP calculator that I really wanted).
That was back before I could afford a real computer, and it let me write programs and such. Coming up with ideas for good game programs on a 10 digit numeric display was kind of a challange.
You can purchase the GNU C Compiler directly from Microsoft ported to run on the Posix subsystem they purchased, called Interix. It's $99. It's a far cry from the Posix-on-Win32 kludge that Cygwin is. The Interix Posix subsystem runs directly off the bare NT kernel as a whole separate API layer.
Compare GCC to GCC.
Really? Red?
I've been running W2K on one of my machines since release and I've never seen a red, or a blue, screen.
You must be really screwing your system up to know the color. . .
What I noticed about USB was that it emerged from a rather obscure ghetto after Windows 98 came out.
All my Pentium motherboards have headers on them for USB, and that means motherboards from long before the imac came out. They're easy to plug a cable/connector onto, and voila! USB on all my PC systems.
The zeal of Mac users continues to amaze us.
Indeed. The proper term is:
Web Programmers
*smirk*
You mean a pokey-network, or did a fast-Ethernet wireless equivalent appear recently? I just can't deal with limited bandwidth when it's my own network. Enough of that at work.
only run it on a computer you built yourself with components you made yourself.
I hope you carefully reviewed all the microcode in the CPU.
You're not connecting that system to any terminal or I/O devices that you don't have a complete understanding of, are you? I'd suggest Morse code as a good I/O terminal, as a morse code key is pretty hard to jigger.
The number of OpenBSD versus NetBSD posts on Usenet is roughly in ratio of 5 to 1.
All that demonstrates is that peoplw with anything useful to do with their time don't waste it on Use(less)net, which is pretty much a dead land these days.
Nothing that has anything to do with reality can be deduced from Usenet post volume. If you need somebody to tell you that you're beyond hope.
How will they be known as stable versions of Linux if they're shipped on Day zero? Stability on a few half dozen lab machines? That doesn't automatically translate into robustness on thousands of boxes after wide deployment.
I can see putting all my largeish hard drives in a NetBSD box with Samba on fast ethernet, offloading all but the bare minimum of storage to an OS that doesn't respect 'copy protection' in hard drives.
DVD is about to hit the mainstream.
I overheard a clerk at Best Buy a few weeks ago telling somebody that they'll only have one rack of VHS tapes after Christmas season.
The rest of the pre-recorded movies will be DVD.
VHS will be as rare as vinyl within two years.
On the other, later on in the series you'll all have a chance to offer your own ideas and I hope you do. Wow! That's mighty generous of you!
Back in the late 80's someone local (to where I live) put up a large multi-line 'Chat' BBS. For the first several months of operation, it was set up so that anybody could log on at any time and create a new account. Anybody could at any time adopt a new personae. But those of us who became 'regulars' ended up getting to know one another and who was 'real' and not. In a aemi-autonomous situation like that, communities form automatically, and people get to know who the interlopers are. People 'validate' each other pretty well when there's no 'authority' around.
Of course, the place eventually went commercial, the 'free' period was just the operator's way of getting the population up before turning it into a 'for pay' service. By that time enough of a community had formed that when it 'went private' there were enough of us willing to spend a few bucks a month to hang out.
Those were the old days of local (single area code) chat systems, though, when anybody you were in contact with was likely to be someone nearby (it made the sexual dynamics more interesting than the weird world-wide nature of chatrooms today).
Needless to say I had my fill of chatrooms and 'online living' before the Internet even took off. I can't stand what they are today.
You're right. I definitely agree with regard to Slack.
In fact, because NFS is easier to configure with Slackware (it allows mounting subdirectories of exports, with NetBSD I couldn't get that to work) the NFS server with all the NetBSD resources is still a Slackware box. In fact, most of my NFS installs of NetBSD come off that Slack machine. Slack is a good distribution, it's always served me well, going back to the days when it liberated me from Yggdrasil (back in 1994).
The old saying goes:
'When you flunk out of Calculus, you enroll in Journalism School.'
That's part of the beauty of NetBSD.
/usr, and get your network connection.
/usr/pkgsrc and type 'make && make install', and it downloads, builds, and installs every package needed to build and install LyX.
.rpm, IMHO.
The core binaries are only about 80 MB (for the i386 port), which includes a basic system with the core development tools and a skeletal X Window System.
You then download pkgsrc.tar.gz, install it under
Everything else you need you build from the 'packages' source archive sited on ftp.netbsd.org. If you want LyX, for instance, you go to the LyX directory under
There are also binary packages, but it's not as clean a system for those. If you want that kind if nightmare you should stick to the nightmare known as
I wouldn't know. Now that I've using a logged-on account, and I chose 'Light', I don't see the comment numbers anymore. Sometimes I feel tempted to select "don't display scores", too.
The dweebs around here who rant and rave about getting 'first post' and 'moderation' issues just don't get it.
Whatever... anti-semitism is not Naziism. It forms a component of Naziism, but so do a lot of other things. Nazis also believed in a form of socialism. I personally find socialism repugnant but I don't brand all socialists as Nazis (to do so would be totally off-the-wall).
Hitler was also a vegetarian...
Wagner was a sexual degenerate and a very decadent person, but his music comes from an entirely different era than the sexual degenerates who formed the Nazi party. His music celebrates a romantic form of German nationalism, but it can't in any sense be equated with the ideology known as Naziism. If anything Hitler took advantage of Wagner, who almost certainly would have objected to everything Hitler's party stood for.