right, but i remember using netscape 4.7sthg with XFree 3sthg, and whenever netscape crashed, X was gone with it... (but not the whole OS !!)
I think that must be pointed out: one big flaw in the Windows 9x/NT/2k design is that the UI is not as much independent from the "kernel" as it should be, and therefore faulty drivers are more likely to crash the OS.
I agree also with the fact that drivers released by third parties are often less reliable, and i have a question about that: did anybody use on linux closed-source third party drivers (kernel modules or X modules) ? how much stable are they ?
yeah right:-((
unfortunately, i guess that's "standard capitalism": Vivendi tries to pay back quickly its investment by telling UMG to make more profit....
capitalism and art has always been a strange deal...
actually, Universal is owned by Vivendi, not the contrary (yeah,yeah, Universal is French now...)
and TF1 still belongs to Bouygues, not to Vivendi. Vivendi owns Canal+ and the whole Canal Satellite set, NCNumericable, and they also own AOL France (? odd isn't it ?)
gee... ok let's stop flamebait and start thinking:
1- if FT is as expensive, it's mainly because they have to pay about 40 000 useless people, due to the agreements between the unions and the state when it was transformed into a private company
2- FT is one of the leading telcos in Europe, not only France. FT owns Orange, leading mobile operator in many countries.
3- FT is engaged, thru the CNET (or what remains of it) in many large OpenSource projects (Enhydra, Linux, OpenLDAP, etc.), and they are starting to use them internally (btw. the standard browser has always been Netscape, not crapy M$ things)
4- yeah some dumbass people still work at FT, they are about 40 000, and some are engineers. but they've got also some smart people.
5- as for DSL u're right for the DSL part itself, since FT owns the wires, but for the ppp layer over it u still have other possibilities (libertysurf, mangoosta, etc.). what is worse is that there is no other possibility for high speed internet, since cable operators are big assholes (NC provides a crappy AOL access only for W9x, and noos has a shitty upload constraint at 250Mo/month, and a technical crew that is completely unskilled, far more than FT guys)
gee... right, Mozilla 0.8.1 is stable (at least !) but there are still lots of bug to be fixed (have a look at their bugzilla).
most importantly, debug code still needs to be stripped out mozilla before getting a quite fast browser (but i think by then we'll all use galeon, which has a far lighter interface than crappy mozilla stuff on top of GTK, and is still based on the great gecko).
one last thing: i've been using redhat's RPMS for mozilla since 0.7, and i must say their packaging work is really great and useful.
Well, AOL is right with closing their servers, i'm afraid... opensource clients usually don't have AOL's ad banners and so on, from which they expect to earn money for their product...
No, i think what is as stake is more that there is no true possibility to run AIM on other platforms such as Linux if they block us from using their servers. Ever tried AIM for Linux ? a HUGE bullshit that is not working well at all... even not working at all if u're not english-speaking: it simply blocks sentences with accents, leaving the lines empty, or with crappy squares.
And i don't think there's a *BSD client (available from AOL) at all, but i might be wrong...
Anyway... there are lots of problems with AOL: in France there's a cable provider, called NCNumericable, that distributes its services only using AOL... They've done the job soooo well, that their service is only available on W95/98/ME... even not on WNT/2k !!! But they're number one after all, they don't have to be technically good;-)
but anyway i agree with all the posts i've seen about floating point operations, compilation and cast. This program looks a bit odd to me as it's pointless.....
what about light duality ?
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ok... as i thought, light was both wave and corpuscle (photons).
so what happens, if u stop the wave aspect of light: energy should go somewhere.. is it dissipated in the environment (the article says a new ray is needed to unleash the stored light), or is it stored in some mass modification of the photon (which appears to me as very odd).
and i didn't understand at all the stuff about quantum computing and so on. as i remember, the problem is that we can't go faster than speed light in a totally empty space (c=300 000 km.s-1). the problem for computers in then that to go faster, we have to use some quantic mechanic theory, or use the wave speed, that can be faster than speed light, because in fact it isn't speed of a corpuscle...
pfu.. i studied some physics years ago, and i think the NY Times article is a bit empty... could someone aware of what those scientists have done give the details ???
yeah, right.
but for now better than nothing. not that a long time ago (about a bit more than one year), encryption was limited to 40 bits....
other thing I dislike is the idea you have to register to download and use SSF at in2p3 (which is the offical distro).
but i also think ssh1 is enough in many cases, no ?
I agree with the other comment. Problem is for newbies.
What i don't really understand, is why all distros ships with (x)inetd activated in runlevels 3 and 5. This is old and completely useless stuff for 95% users. It opens a lotta ports under 1024, and accumulating open ports is, in security terms, accumulating problems...
And who cares about finger, talk and so on nowadays ?
Aaaahhh french laws... did I mention we're still not supposed to even *use* openssh?
Right, on public networks.
We can use openssh on private networks (intranets), and openssf (which is simply an openssh with a delcaration of using a key) everywhere we want.
OK.. There is the point about thoses taxes:
1- we already have a 19.6% VAT tax on CDs, DVDs, Computers and so on, so as a result, with those taxes, we'll end having the most taxed high-tech industry in the world. Thanx...
2- those new taxes products goes to SACEM in fact, which is supposed to redistribute to artists (and producers). in fact, i've some friends that are so-called artists, and they see barely nothing. The whole profit is for artists that sell more disks, which means usually the bad ones (good artists and popular artists are rarely the same ones). This tax is more for the big producers as a result.
3- i still don't understand why i should be taxed if i install a server running linux. I think this law is against the french Constitution, and i think it'll be rejected by the Constitutional Council.
4- instead of caring about that useless stuff and making other silly laws, they'd better care about real problems, those stupid guys we've elected.
I have a K6-500 with 128MB RAM, and i tried both W2000+IE/OE 5, and RH6.2+Moz0.6, and i can tell u that Mozilla is faaar slower.
As i said earlier, it's just crap.
Ever did a top when launching mozilla/ns6 with java support ? more than 50 Megs of RAM lost for nothing.
seen some comments about it and i have to agree: this thing from netscape is not the browser we've dreamt of for Linux.
Mozilla is an example of "too much code design kills the project".
Yeah, it's great, it has lotta objects calling lotta others and so on. as a drawback, it's very very slow, and they'll never manage to have a stable product.
In fact, the only thing that is quite good in Mozilla project is Gecko. It is a quite fast and powerful layout engine.
The worst idea is having a theme managment and object model OVER GTK+.It's useless (GTK+ IS skinnable), and damn slow.
And for Mail and NNTP, it's simply crap. crashes often, looses messages in mail and so on. BTW, there's no good X Mailer for Linux (PINE is console, remember;-)).
So i'm waiting for Nautilus, Evolution and new versions of Konqueror and KMail (not to talk about IE)... Maybe at the end Linux, the OS the most adapted to the Internet, will have powerful Internet end-user tools.
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right, but i remember using netscape 4.7sthg with XFree 3sthg, and whenever netscape crashed, X was gone with it... (but not the whole OS !!)
I think that must be pointed out: one big flaw in the Windows 9x/NT/2k design is that the UI is not as much independent from the "kernel" as it should be, and therefore faulty drivers are more likely to crash the OS.
I agree also with the fact that drivers released by third parties are often less reliable, and i have a question about that: did anybody use on linux closed-source third party drivers (kernel modules or X modules) ? how much stable are they ?
yeah right :-((
unfortunately, i guess that's "standard capitalism": Vivendi tries to pay back quickly its investment by telling UMG to make more profit....
capitalism and art has always been a strange deal...
actually, Universal is owned by Vivendi, not the contrary (yeah,yeah, Universal is French now...)
and TF1 still belongs to Bouygues, not to Vivendi. Vivendi owns Canal+ and the whole Canal Satellite set, NCNumericable, and they also own AOL France (? odd isn't it ?)
gee... ok let's stop flamebait and start thinking:
1- if FT is as expensive, it's mainly because they have to pay about 40 000 useless people, due to the agreements between the unions and the state when it was transformed into a private company
2- FT is one of the leading telcos in Europe, not only France. FT owns Orange, leading mobile operator in many countries.
3- FT is engaged, thru the CNET (or what remains of it) in many large OpenSource projects (Enhydra, Linux, OpenLDAP, etc.), and they are starting to use them internally (btw. the standard browser has always been Netscape, not crapy M$ things)
4- yeah some dumbass people still work at FT, they are about 40 000, and some are engineers. but they've got also some smart people.
5- as for DSL u're right for the DSL part itself, since FT owns the wires, but for the ppp layer over it u still have other possibilities (libertysurf, mangoosta, etc.). what is worse is that there is no other possibility for high speed internet, since cable operators are big assholes (NC provides a crappy AOL access only for W9x, and noos has a shitty upload constraint at 250Mo/month, and a technical crew that is completely unskilled, far more than FT guys)
gee... right, Mozilla 0.8.1 is stable (at least !) but there are still lots of bug to be fixed (have a look at their bugzilla).
most importantly, debug code still needs to be stripped out mozilla before getting a quite fast browser (but i think by then we'll all use galeon, which has a far lighter interface than crappy mozilla stuff on top of GTK, and is still based on the great gecko).
one last thing: i've been using redhat's RPMS for mozilla since 0.7, and i must say their packaging work is really great and useful.
Well, AOL is right with closing their servers, i'm afraid... opensource clients usually don't have AOL's ad banners and so on, from which they expect to earn money for their product...
;-)
No, i think what is as stake is more that there is no true possibility to run AIM on other platforms such as Linux if they block us from using their servers. Ever tried AIM for Linux ? a HUGE bullshit that is not working well at all... even not working at all if u're not english-speaking: it simply blocks sentences with accents, leaving the lines empty, or with crappy squares.
And i don't think there's a *BSD client (available from AOL) at all, but i might be wrong...
Anyway... there are lots of problems with AOL: in France there's a cable provider, called NCNumericable, that distributes its services only using AOL... They've done the job soooo well, that their service is only available on W95/98/ME... even not on WNT/2k !!! But they're number one after all, they don't have to be technically good
[nikopol@nikopol nikopol]$ gcc test.c -o test ./test ./test
[nikopol@nikopol nikopol]$
10 = 9
[nikopol@nikopol nikopol]$ gcc -O2 test.c -o test
[nikopol@nikopol nikopol]$
10 = 10
(Linux RH 7.0 w/updates)
but anyway i agree with all the posts i've seen about floating point operations, compilation and cast. This program looks a bit odd to me as it's pointless.....
ok... as i thought, light was both wave and corpuscle (photons).
so what happens, if u stop the wave aspect of light: energy should go somewhere.. is it dissipated in the environment (the article says a new ray is needed to unleash the stored light), or is it stored in some mass modification of the photon (which appears to me as very odd).
and i didn't understand at all the stuff about quantum computing and so on. as i remember, the problem is that we can't go faster than speed light in a totally empty space (c=300 000 km.s-1). the problem for computers in then that to go faster, we have to use some quantic mechanic theory, or use the wave speed, that can be faster than speed light, because in fact it isn't speed of a corpuscle...
pfu.. i studied some physics years ago, and i think the NY Times article is a bit empty... could someone aware of what those scientists have done give the details ???
yeah, right.
but for now better than nothing. not that a long time ago (about a bit more than one year), encryption was limited to 40 bits....
other thing I dislike is the idea you have to register to download and use SSF at in2p3 (which is the offical distro).
but i also think ssh1 is enough in many cases, no ?
I agree with the other comment. Problem is for newbies.
What i don't really understand, is why all distros ships with (x)inetd activated in runlevels 3 and 5. This is old and completely useless stuff for 95% users. It opens a lotta ports under 1024, and accumulating open ports is, in security terms, accumulating problems...
And who cares about finger, talk and so on nowadays ?
Aaaahhh french laws... did I mention we're still not supposed to even *use* openssh?
Right, on public networks.
We can use openssh on private networks (intranets), and openssf (which is simply an openssh with a delcaration of using a key) everywhere we want.
OK.. There is the point about thoses taxes:
1- we already have a 19.6% VAT tax on CDs, DVDs, Computers and so on, so as a result, with those taxes, we'll end having the most taxed high-tech industry in the world. Thanx...
2- those new taxes products goes to SACEM in fact, which is supposed to redistribute to artists (and producers). in fact, i've some friends that are so-called artists, and they see barely nothing. The whole profit is for artists that sell more disks, which means usually the bad ones (good artists and popular artists are rarely the same ones). This tax is more for the big producers as a result.
3- i still don't understand why i should be taxed if i install a server running linux. I think this law is against the french Constitution, and i think it'll be rejected by the Constitutional Council.
4- instead of caring about that useless stuff and making other silly laws, they'd better care about real problems, those stupid guys we've elected.
but hey ! other have elected G W Bush...
I have a K6-500 with 128MB RAM, and i tried both W2000+IE/OE 5, and RH6.2+Moz0.6, and i can tell u that Mozilla is faaar slower. As i said earlier, it's just crap. Ever did a top when launching mozilla/ns6 with java support ? more than 50 Megs of RAM lost for nothing.
seen some comments about it and i have to agree: this thing from netscape is not the browser we've dreamt of for Linux. ;-)).
Mozilla is an example of "too much code design kills the project".
Yeah, it's great, it has lotta objects calling lotta others and so on. as a drawback, it's very very slow, and they'll never manage to have a stable product.
In fact, the only thing that is quite good in Mozilla project is Gecko. It is a quite fast and powerful layout engine.
The worst idea is having a theme managment and object model OVER GTK+.It's useless (GTK+ IS skinnable), and damn slow.
And for Mail and NNTP, it's simply crap. crashes often, looses messages in mail and so on. BTW, there's no good X Mailer for Linux (PINE is console, remember
So i'm waiting for Nautilus, Evolution and new versions of Konqueror and KMail (not to talk about IE)... Maybe at the end Linux, the OS the most adapted to the Internet, will have powerful Internet end-user tools.