Depends on the aeroplane. In particular it would depend on what the optimum angle of attack is for an optimum speed to give maximum lift and a reasonable take off distance, which depends very much on the design of the aeroplane. The B-52 for example apparently had it's wings at a high of angle of incidence so as to reduce the rotation angle needed for take-off as the B-52 was restricted in how far it could rotate. (See also other posts on how seemingly a steep an angle the B-52 approached landing at.).
12 or 14/sounds/ like a reasonable typical figure, but I dont know really (and anyway, it depends..).
most approaches come in on a glideslope of 12-14 degrees
12 to 14 would be a dive, not a glideslope. Landing approach descent slope is typically around 2 or 3. A steep approach, eg Berlin Tempelhof, would be 5.
That went through I believe. There was something on the business recently about the brewers of Newcastle Brown ale consider moving out of newcastle to Gateshead (iirc) and that one of the risks was that they might have to change the name of the beer because of this EU directive, eg to Gateshead Brown ale.
This is how just about all (that I can think of anyway) aeroplanes deal with crosswinds, including the big jet passenger planes. I dont know of any aeroplanes which rotate wheel axles to deal with crosswinds, I'd doubt the B-52 does either.
Also, flaps are for increasing lift, to allow for a lower stall speed and hence allow for lower landing speeds, not for staying parallel to runway.
It is commercial use that they are forbidding with their Creative Commons based licensing.
How do you know this? The BBC themselves dont even seem to have fully decided on the licensing scheme, never mind announced what the actual terms will be. If you'd care to read the damn article:
This afternoon the first meeting of an external consultative panel, which included many UK media holders, heard the BBC's decision that it will base the Creative Archive usage licence on the Creative Commons
So they've decided to base the licence on CC, but they're still in consultation and the actual licence itself is far from decided.
If you want to get hold of Red Dwarf and watch it and you're not a British licence payer then you'll probably still be able to do so.
Read the article again:
the BBC will enable individuals in the UK to download released content to their computers
"in the UK". The BBC already use Geo-IP schemes to restrict access to some content on their internet site to UK users. The BBC makes a lot of money from licensing material to rest of world, they will likely protect that licence revenue stream if they can. Eg, the BBC's digital satelite service is "free", however, it is still encrypted to protect it from non-UK viewers (UK residents can ring a number and gain access for free). The only unencrypted BBC domestic channels broadcast on digital satelitte are transmitted on Astra targeted transmitters with a small footprint targetted on the UK (some parts of Ireland and NL, Belgium can get it too).
Dont assume this BBC archive will be open to everyone on the internet, it most likely will not be.
there'll be less incentive for a US network to purchase Red Dwarf
My understanding is that the BBC archive will only be available to those in the UK. UK residents after all have already paid for and collectively own these works. The rest of the world will still have to pay for access to BBC works. Quite how the BBC will manage this technically is another question.
Nvidia drivers... ATI drivers, Totem just won't work. G-Streamer broke
Are any of these included with Fedora? The NVidia and ATi drivers are not (they cant be). Totem is not included, gstreamer is included, but I'm guessing when you say it broke that you really meant something else 3rd party broke and/or that you changed FC2's gstreamer to a 3rd party gstreamer package.
The kludge i had to use to get software mixing working (dmix under alsa) was inexcusable. Esound and arts are not in the equation any more, as alsa mixing is a much better solution.
Errr, but esound is the default. So this "bug" essentially is "I wanted to use alsa dmix, disabled esound and now sound mixing doesnt work", ie this "bug" is of your own making. Re alsa mixing being a better solution: it is _not_ a replacement for a sound daemon, or would you care to explain how (in kernel? (if so eek!)) alsa mixing handles network transparency?
I know these bugs aren't Fedora only,
You dont say... you rattle off a list of bugs of which only one is a true bug, namely the menu editing problem, which annoys me too. But all the rest of your "bugs" are either 3rd party bugs or simply the result of you fscking around, it seems.
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In all, Holland is a great country
No it isnt, cause Holland is not a country. Holland is a province (well 2 provinces, north and south holland), the country is the Netherlands.
Eg, Philips do _not_ have their headquarters in Holland (it's in Eindhoven, province of Limburg), the Dutch TT is _not_ in Holland (it's in Drenthe), Utrecht is _not_ in Holland, etc..
Holland => a province the Netherlands => the country
No, Rawhide is "RedHat Unstable". Fedora is a stable release.
I agree with the rest of your post, other than:
The whole "Stable"/"Unstable"/"Testing" thing runs completely counter to the rest of the industry.
Which is incorrect. That model is fundamental to the rest of the industry. The major difference is visibility. With open-source it is done in the open, with more closed models of development, visibility of "unstable" is typically restricted to in-house and "testing" to a limited set of customers (support customers who have reported a problem and/or early access programmes, eg MSDN for MS).
To continue on with the general theme of your post: It is indeed very easy for Debian users to deride other distro's as "unstable" when their "stable" is so by virtue of being eons old and never changing. More to the point, the Debian user themselves will almost certainly not be running "stable" themselves, either on their desktop or even their servers.
As a long-time RHL user, who considered his options when Fedora was announced, that was the one major problem I had in considering Debian. I want a stable system, but I do want to have access to reasonably up to date packages. To have to add "unstable" to my sources list to use Debian is as attractive as adding "rawhide" to my sources list on an RHL system. And defeating the point of a strongly versioned operating system.
A constantly changing distribution is about as useful as a never-changing one.
When you report bugs, the version of the package you're using is reported along with it.
What about the versions of packages it depends on? What about the version of the compiler used? What about the version of the compiler used for each package dependency package (because each package may have gone into unstable at a different date, and built with different compilers)? etc..
Spending time looking into problems that end up being to due transient breakage in dependent or core packages is a frustrating, especially because of the difficulty of diagnosing, eg compiler problems. Personally, I'm very wary of bug reports for software running on debian unstable.
So dont start and stop them. Just close the lid and let it suspend to disk. I think I had over 100 days uptime on my laptop because of that at one stage. (Course, it does mean you need a laptop with decent APM support, or for ACPI you need to use the swsusp patch to have linux do the save/restore as ACPI itself cant do it).
Incorrect. If you do not distribute the source with the binary, but instead offer to provide source, that offer must be valid for any third party, see 3b of the GPL.
"...but i dont really want to pay for it, nor have i probably ever been a paying customer of yours. But my opinion should be important to you!"
A downloadable ISO version of your enterprise server software, that I can work with but get no support on.
You realise the RHEL SRPMs are available from redhat? You realise several other places have installable builds of what is essentially RHEL? Freely available, no support, RedHat enterprise distro.
A desktop version of your software, that is also a free download or a boxed set. Not Fedora!!!
Why on earth would RedHat want to have spend time on two Free distributions? Also, you realise Fedora is what RedHat Linux used to be, right?
his version, unlike Fedora would actually have vendor support from companies like Oracle, Borland, IBM, etc
Ah, so now we get to nub of the problem. So your problem with RedHat is that other companies don't yet support Fedora. Surely that will change in time as more people use Fedora? Fedora is what, barely 6 months old?.
Either way, Redhat's actions has caused me to start using SuSe
I'm sure RedHat are regretting losing your business. Also, since when are SuSe's ISOs freely downloadable? I dont mean to be rude, but your comment is almost bordering on whinging.
The reasoning they're employing is that those folks are POW's rather than criminals. One could argue all day about fair trials, and they'd only say "we have no intention of even charging them with a crime; we're holding them as POWs till the war is over". Crappy, but technically valid.
No, because POWs have rights as prescribed by the Geneva Convention relative to the Treatment of Prisoners of War. Which rights those at Guantanemo are not afforded (eg free association, same standard of barracks as is normal for their captors, not be subjected to interrogation, etc.).
So instead they're called "illegal combatants", which is not a term recognised under international law, TTBOMK (afaict, the US administration just pulled that phrase out of the air). A combatant is a POW, and to judge them otherwise (eg "illegal") requires due process by competant tribunal. Now, if they're not a combatant, then their treatment is specified by the Geneva convention relative to the treatment of Civilians in times of war, which again demands due process.
So, it's not that it's "crappy but technically", it's crappy and in contravention of the Geneva conventions, but the present US administration simply does not care, nor do the US public really, sadly. To paraphrase a certain priest describing civil rights in 1930s Germany, first they take away the rights of xyz, but you dont speak out because you're not xyz, then they come for, etc.. eventually, when they come for you there'll be noone left to speak out.
I don't really care about Osama, because his entire operation is running at less than 1/3 of what it once was.
Right, but because the US invaded afghanistan and still continues to clamp down on Taliban there (with some NATO allies helping out with general security, eg Germany, Canada, Britain). Nothing to do with Iraq really.
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Everyone should use Joe because CTRL-k-d is so much easier and more intuitive than ESC:wq!
Not really, however, the top status bar in joe says:
Ctrl-K H for help
Which if you hit opens up a help window, which tells you the various basic commands, along with how to scroll to help window to find even more nifty commands and features. Failing that, if you simply cant figure it out, ctrl+c will do the right thing and exit - unlike vi.
NB: ctrl+k d is not exit, it's save file (ie ':w' in vi). ctrl+c is exit (':q!' in vi), ctrl-k x is save+exit (':wq' in vim).
I go to Amsterdam and buy some marijuana in a store (legally)
Unless the situation's changed recently, no you would not have bought that pot legally. You simply won't be prosecuted for possession of (small) amounts of marijuana. Nor will the coffee shop owner be prosecuted for distribution and/or possession, provided he doesnt stock too much and keeps within other guidelines, set by the city council - on whose behalf cases are prosecuted.
Marijuana though is (last i checked) a prohibited (illegal) substance in the NL. If you are involved in cultivation, distribution and/or sale of large enough amounts of it to attract interest of the state police, you will get in trouble and be prosecuted by the state. Note also that you will probably be prosecuted (or at least warned that you will be prosecuted if you do not desist) if you were to regularly, from an establishment, sell even small amounts of marijuana in many other cities and towns in the Netherlands whose councils do not take as liberal a view as the Amsterdam (and other big cities/towns) city council.
Ie, marijuana is illegal in the Netherlands, it is simply that some councils (and now the state too) will not bother to prosecute small-time users and sellers of it, instead they tolerate it.
On the other hand, the United Kingdom, iirc, has been considering delisting marijuana as a controlled class A substance, to list it as class B instead, which in effect would legalise it.
Roaming user profiles controled by logons is also something that Windows does well but Linux doesn't do out of the box.
RedHat Linux (and hence now Fedora) have done this out of the box for *ages*. Run authconfig and you are given a choice of several Network directory systems to use for account information (NIS, LDAP and/or Hesiod), and a choice of several authentication services (LDAP, Kerberos and even SMB). Then run autofs to automatically pick up the appropriate network volumes..
All of this presumes you actually have some kind of directory service in place, which is not trivial to setup be it on windows or unix. On unix one might use the 'directory administrator' GTK LDAP tool to manage user accounts, or the more level (but still graphical and user-friendly) 'gq' GTK LDAP frontend. There used to be a nice GTK kadmin app included with GNOME 1.2 or so, to administer Kerberos, but it appears defunct and dead. (the command line kadmin still works obviously, and can be run from anywhere, kadmin has its own network protocol).
I regularly use a large, global, corporate Unix network. No matter where I go on this network (ie access it from), I can always just sit in front of any arbitrary computer and just login. My home directory and my files are always there, so my browser's config and bookmarks are there, my email client's config files are there, the config files for my desktop are there, my custom background is there, etc.. I log in and its all just there, as it always is and just works the same no matter where I am. Wherever I lay my hat, my/home is already there. (the only downside is that being far from home can mean slightly slow NFS access, but its fine for running a GNOME desktop from, it's more noticeable from the shell.).
I have never seen or even heard of any decently sized Windows network having such transparent and wide-ranging roaming support for its users. Indeed, I suspect the reason windows requires this intricate "roaming user profiles" support and such is because of its idiocy in not confining users to a "home directory".
Anyway, I suspect you never actually have seen a large corporate network, never mind a large Unix or heterogenous network. If ever you do, you'll probably find Linux (and solaris, and IRIX, and..., but not Windows) does "do it" out of the box, with just a quick twiddle of the RedHat (or other) GUI configuration tool or, for lots of installs, with a few lines in a kickstart config.
The difficult part is, by far, in setting up and administering the infrastructure required, not the clients, unless the clients are Windows.
PXA-27x is the model number^Wname. The product name is XScale, ie it is an intel XScale CPU, PXA-27x model family, compared to previous models (families) of the XScale CPU such as the PXA-25x and PXA-21x. All of which essentially are revisions of the DEC SA-1100 StrongARM which intel acquired design rights to as part of DEC's sell-out to^W^Wsettlement from intel.
wowser, a direct quote from the linux-kernel thread i mentioned, fair enough:). So no NX in initial IA-32e implementations, sounds like a strong reason to not buy the intel version so.
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Depends on the aeroplane. In particular it would depend on what the optimum angle of attack is for an optimum speed to give maximum lift and a reasonable take off distance, which depends very much on the design of the aeroplane. The B-52 for example apparently had it's wings at a high of angle of incidence so as to reduce the rotation angle needed for take-off as the B-52 was restricted in how far it could rotate. (See also other posts on how seemingly a steep an angle the B-52 approached landing at.).
/sounds/ like a reasonable typical figure, but I dont know really (and anyway, it depends..).
12 or 14
All of of the wheels are "steered", not just the nose wheels? Wow, that is a neat trick in that case.
Err, why did slashdot strip the degree symbols ("") from my post? Why is slashdotting stripping non-ASCII from posts?
most approaches come in on a glideslope of 12-14 degrees
12 to 14 would be a dive, not a glideslope. Landing approach descent slope is typically around 2 or 3. A steep approach, eg Berlin Tempelhof, would be 5.
That went through I believe. There was something on the business recently about the brewers of Newcastle Brown ale consider moving out of newcastle to Gateshead (iirc) and that one of the risks was that they might have to change the name of the beer because of this EU directive, eg to Gateshead Brown ale.
This is how just about all (that I can think of anyway) aeroplanes deal with crosswinds, including the big jet passenger planes. I dont know of any aeroplanes which rotate wheel axles to deal with crosswinds, I'd doubt the B-52 does either.
Also, flaps are for increasing lift, to allow for a lower stall speed and hence allow for lower landing speeds, not for staying parallel to runway.
It is commercial use that they are forbidding with their Creative Commons based licensing.
How do you know this? The BBC themselves dont even seem to have fully decided on the licensing scheme, never mind announced what the actual terms will be. If you'd care to read the damn article:
This afternoon the first meeting of an external consultative panel, which included many UK media holders, heard the BBC's decision that it will base the Creative Archive usage licence on the Creative Commons
So they've decided to base the licence on CC, but they're still in consultation and the actual licence itself is far from decided.
If you want to get hold of Red Dwarf and watch it and you're not a British licence payer then you'll probably still be able to do so.
Read the article again:
the BBC will enable individuals in the UK to download released content to their computers
"in the UK". The BBC already use Geo-IP schemes to restrict access to some content on their internet site to UK users. The BBC makes a lot of money from licensing material to rest of world, they will likely protect that licence revenue stream if they can. Eg, the BBC's digital satelite service is "free", however, it is still encrypted to protect it from non-UK viewers (UK residents can ring a number and gain access for free). The only unencrypted BBC domestic channels broadcast on digital satelitte are transmitted on Astra targeted transmitters with a small footprint targetted on the UK (some parts of Ireland and NL, Belgium can get it too).
Dont assume this BBC archive will be open to everyone on the internet, it most likely will not be.
there'll be less incentive for a US network to purchase Red Dwarf
My understanding is that the BBC archive will only be available to those in the UK. UK residents after all have already paid for and collectively own these works. The rest of the world will still have to pay for access to BBC works. Quite how the BBC will manage this technically is another question.
You're confused as to what ALSA and ESD do. They tackle different problems.
FC2 has many other major bugs
Nvidia drivers... ATI drivers, Totem just won't work. G-Streamer broke
Are any of these included with Fedora? The NVidia and ATi drivers are not (they cant be). Totem is not included, gstreamer is included, but I'm guessing when you say it broke that you really meant something else 3rd party broke and/or that you changed FC2's gstreamer to a 3rd party gstreamer package.
The kludge i had to use to get software mixing working (dmix under alsa) was inexcusable. Esound and arts are not in the equation any more, as alsa mixing is a much better solution.
Errr, but esound is the default. So this "bug" essentially is "I wanted to use alsa dmix, disabled esound and now sound mixing doesnt work", ie this "bug" is of your own making. Re alsa mixing being a better solution: it is _not_ a replacement for a sound daemon, or would you care to explain how (in kernel? (if so eek!)) alsa mixing handles network transparency?
I know these bugs aren't Fedora only,
You dont say... you rattle off a list of bugs of which only one is a true bug, namely the menu editing problem, which annoys me too. But all the rest of your "bugs" are either 3rd party bugs or simply the result of you fscking around, it seems.
Self-correction:
Eindhoven, province of Limburg
Oops, Eindhoven is in north-Brabant.
In all, Holland is a great country
No it isnt, cause Holland is not a country. Holland is a province (well 2 provinces, north and south holland), the country is the Netherlands.
Eg, Philips do _not_ have their headquarters in Holland (it's in Eindhoven, province of Limburg), the Dutch TT is _not_ in Holland (it's in Drenthe), Utrecht is _not_ in Holland, etc..
Holland => a province
the Netherlands => the country
Fedora essentially *is* "RedHat Unstable".
No, Rawhide is "RedHat Unstable". Fedora is a stable release.
I agree with the rest of your post, other than:
The whole "Stable"/"Unstable"/"Testing" thing runs completely counter to the rest of the industry.
Which is incorrect. That model is fundamental to the rest of the industry. The major difference is visibility. With open-source it is done in the open, with more closed models of development, visibility of "unstable" is typically restricted to in-house and "testing" to a limited set of customers (support customers who have reported a problem and/or early access programmes, eg MSDN for MS).
To continue on with the general theme of your post: It is indeed very easy for Debian users to deride other distro's as "unstable" when their "stable" is so by virtue of being eons old and never changing. More to the point, the Debian user themselves will almost certainly not be running "stable" themselves, either on their desktop or even their servers.
As a long-time RHL user, who considered his options when Fedora was announced, that was the one major problem I had in considering Debian. I want a stable system, but I do want to have access to reasonably up to date packages. To have to add "unstable" to my sources list to use Debian is as attractive as adding "rawhide" to my sources list on an RHL system. And defeating the point of a strongly versioned operating system.
A constantly changing distribution is about as useful as a never-changing one.
When you report bugs, the version of the package you're using is reported along with it.
What about the versions of packages it depends on? What about the version of the compiler used? What about the version of the compiler used for each package dependency package (because each package may have gone into unstable at a different date, and built with different compilers)? etc..
Spending time looking into problems that end up being to due transient breakage in dependent or core packages is a frustrating, especially because of the difficulty of diagnosing, eg compiler problems. Personally, I'm very wary of bug reports for software running on debian unstable.
So dont start and stop them. Just close the lid and let it suspend to disk. I think I had over 100 days uptime on my laptop because of that at one stage. (Course, it does mean you need a laptop with decent APM support, or for ACPI you need to use the swsusp patch to have linux do the save/restore as ACPI itself cant do it).
Incorrect. If you do not distribute the source with the binary, but instead offer to provide source, that offer must be valid for any third party, see 3b of the GPL.
Redhat, this is what I want.
"...but i dont really want to pay for it, nor have i probably ever been a paying customer of yours. But my opinion should be important to you!"
A downloadable ISO version of your enterprise server software, that I can work with but get no support on.
You realise the RHEL SRPMs are available from redhat? You realise several other places have installable builds of what is essentially RHEL? Freely available, no support, RedHat enterprise distro.
A desktop version of your software, that is also a free download or a boxed set. Not Fedora!!!
Why on earth would RedHat want to have spend time on two Free distributions? Also, you realise Fedora is what RedHat Linux used to be, right?
his version, unlike Fedora would actually have vendor support from companies like Oracle, Borland, IBM, etc
Ah, so now we get to nub of the problem. So your problem with RedHat is that other companies don't yet support Fedora. Surely that will change in time as more people use Fedora? Fedora is what, barely 6 months old?.
Either way, Redhat's actions has caused me to start using SuSe
I'm sure RedHat are regretting losing your business. Also, since when are SuSe's ISOs freely downloadable? I dont mean to be rude, but your comment is almost bordering on whinging.
The reasoning they're employing is that those folks are POW's rather than criminals. One could argue all day about fair trials, and they'd only say "we have no intention of even charging them with a crime; we're holding them as POWs till the war is over". Crappy, but technically valid.
No, because POWs have rights as prescribed by the Geneva Convention relative to the Treatment of Prisoners of War. Which rights those at Guantanemo are not afforded (eg free association, same standard of barracks as is normal for their captors, not be subjected to interrogation, etc.).
So instead they're called "illegal combatants", which is not a term recognised under international law, TTBOMK (afaict, the US administration just pulled that phrase out of the air). A combatant is a POW, and to judge them otherwise (eg "illegal") requires due process by competant tribunal. Now, if they're not a combatant, then their treatment is specified by the Geneva convention relative to the treatment of Civilians in times of war, which again demands due process.
So, it's not that it's "crappy but technically", it's crappy and in contravention of the Geneva conventions, but the present US administration simply does not care, nor do the US public really, sadly. To paraphrase a certain priest describing civil rights in 1930s Germany, first they take away the rights of xyz, but you dont speak out because you're not xyz, then they come for, etc.. eventually, when they come for you there'll be noone left to speak out.
I don't really care about Osama, because his entire operation is running at less than 1/3 of what it once was.
Right, but because the US invaded afghanistan and still continues to clamp down on Taliban there (with some NATO allies helping out with general security, eg Germany, Canada, Britain). Nothing to do with Iraq really.
Not really, however, the top status bar in joe says:Which if you hit opens up a help window, which tells you the various basic commands, along with how to scroll to help window to find even more nifty commands and features. Failing that, if you simply cant figure it out, ctrl+c will do the right thing and exit - unlike vi.
NB: ctrl+k d is not exit, it's save file (ie ':w' in vi). ctrl+c is exit (':q!' in vi), ctrl-k x is save+exit (':wq' in vim).
I go to Amsterdam and buy some marijuana in a store (legally)
Unless the situation's changed recently, no you would not have bought that pot legally. You simply won't be prosecuted for possession of (small) amounts of marijuana. Nor will the coffee shop owner be prosecuted for distribution and/or possession, provided he doesnt stock too much and keeps within other guidelines, set by the city council - on whose behalf cases are prosecuted.
Marijuana though is (last i checked) a prohibited (illegal) substance in the NL. If you are involved in cultivation, distribution and/or sale of large enough amounts of it to attract interest of the state police, you will get in trouble and be prosecuted by the state. Note also that you will probably be prosecuted (or at least warned that you will be prosecuted if you do not desist) if you were to regularly, from an establishment, sell even small amounts of marijuana in many other cities and towns in the Netherlands whose councils do not take as liberal a view as the Amsterdam (and other big cities/towns) city council.
Ie, marijuana is illegal in the Netherlands, it is simply that some councils (and now the state too) will not bother to prosecute small-time users and sellers of it, instead they tolerate it.
On the other hand, the United Kingdom, iirc, has been considering delisting marijuana as a controlled class A substance, to list it as class B instead, which in effect would legalise it.
Roaming user profiles controled by logons is also something that Windows does well but Linux doesn't do out of the box.
/home is already there. (the only downside is that being far from home can mean slightly slow NFS access, but its fine for running a GNOME desktop from, it's more noticeable from the shell.).
..., but not Windows) does "do it" out of the box, with just a quick twiddle of the RedHat (or other) GUI configuration tool or, for lots of installs, with a few lines in a kickstart config.
RedHat Linux (and hence now Fedora) have done this out of the box for *ages*. Run authconfig and you are given a choice of several Network directory systems to use for account information (NIS, LDAP and/or Hesiod), and a choice of several authentication services (LDAP, Kerberos and even SMB). Then run autofs to automatically pick up the appropriate network volumes..
All of this presumes you actually have some kind of directory service in place, which is not trivial to setup be it on windows or unix. On unix one might use the 'directory administrator' GTK LDAP tool to manage user accounts, or the more level (but still graphical and user-friendly) 'gq' GTK LDAP frontend. There used to be a nice GTK kadmin app included with GNOME 1.2 or so, to administer Kerberos, but it appears defunct and dead. (the command line kadmin still works obviously, and can be run from anywhere, kadmin has its own network protocol).
I regularly use a large, global, corporate Unix network. No matter where I go on this network (ie access it from), I can always just sit in front of any arbitrary computer and just login. My home directory and my files are always there, so my browser's config and bookmarks are there, my email client's config files are there, the config files for my desktop are there, my custom background is there, etc.. I log in and its all just there, as it always is and just works the same no matter where I am. Wherever I lay my hat, my
I have never seen or even heard of any decently sized Windows network having such transparent and wide-ranging roaming support for its users. Indeed, I suspect the reason windows requires this intricate "roaming user profiles" support and such is because of its idiocy in not confining users to a "home directory".
Anyway, I suspect you never actually have seen a large corporate network, never mind a large Unix or heterogenous network. If ever you do, you'll probably find Linux (and solaris, and IRIX, and
The difficult part is, by far, in setting up and administering the infrastructure required, not the clients, unless the clients are Windows.
PXA-27x is the model number^Wname. The product name is XScale, ie it is an intel XScale CPU, PXA-27x model family, compared to previous models (families) of the XScale CPU such as the PXA-25x and PXA-21x. All of which essentially are revisions of the DEC SA-1100 StrongARM which intel acquired design rights to as part of DEC's sell-out to^W^Wsettlement from intel.
wowser, a direct quote from the linux-kernel thread i mentioned, fair enough :). So no NX in initial IA-32e implementations, sounds like a strong reason to not buy the intel version so.
Thanks for pointing it out.