You may not like 99% of the music in played on Radio 1 (they do have a rock show though right?)
Radio 1 plays a total of 2 hours of rock music a
week (midnight until 2:00am on Tuesdays -- not
exactly prime time, and not a time when I can
feasibly listen to it). And even then, they don't
play any of the rock I actually like. Odd, given
that Kerrang! has now overtaken NME to become the
UK's best selling music magazine. Not that Kerrang!'s
much of a rock magazine these days either, but
at least it's something.
IF YOU DO NOT HAVE A VALIDLY LICENSED COPY OF ANY VERSION OR EDITION OF MICROSOFT WINDOWS 98,
[...] YOU ARE NOT AUTHORIZED TO INSTALL [...]
THE OS COMPONENTS AND YOU HAVE NO RIGHTS UNDER THIS SUPPLEMENTAL EULA
Not a problem. I have several valid
Windows licenses. They came with various computer
bits I've acquired over the years. I don't use
them, but that's another matter. The wording of
the EULA says that if I have a license, I can
install with a clean conscience. It doesn't say
I have to install on Windows, either, or that I
have to have a license for each machine I install
on. Just that I need to be in possession of a
license. Which I am...
Someone please tell me, just how the fuck am I supposed to find music when I have no interest int he type of music that gets radio play?
Precisely. And just to make it worse, here in the
UK we don't even have genre-specific radio
stations like the rest of the world. We have a
grand total of one (yep, ONE) radio station
dedicated to playing rock. And they only broadcast
a low power signal that has a 6 mile radius or so.
Sure, they also stream over the net, but they
stopped using RealAudio last year, and are now
WMP only:-( But given that the UK rock press
doesn't even cover the rock music I listen to in
print, the chances of it getting radio play are
nil. I read about new bands on the net, and try
and download some of their stuff to listen to.
If I like it, I go out and buy it. The RIAA don't
have a clue.
Really? Write or do significant modifications to a device driver then, go on! A driver for Conexant WinModems would be a good place to start...
Easy. Sun have provided the ability for third
parties to write drivers for Solaris for as long
as I can remember. See here
for everything you need to know. If you're going
to slate Solaris, at least base it on facts.
I have been using both Solaris and Linux for over
10 years now. I can do almost
everything on Solaris that
I can do on Linux, and I can do almost
everything on Linux that I can do on Solaris.
Both are good operating systems, and each have
their strengths and weaknesses. Use whichever
one is right for you for the task in hand, and
be thankful you don't have to use Windows...
I've coded for SPARCs, I coded for Motorola's 68k and 68HC processors. But nothing beats MIPS in terms of power from simplicity.
Yep, MIPS is a great ISA, although I'd argue
Motorola 88k is at least as good. One of the
nicest chips I've ever had the pleasure to deal
with. Far, far better than the 68k, and
x86 isn't even in the same league. Shame they never
really caught on outside of DG machines. But then
like everything else, the superior technical
solutions are rarely the ones that win in the
marketplace...
I'd suggest they consider following Sleepycat's example -- it appears to work well for them, why not for Wine?
There are simple answers to this. Sleepycat
is a company, WINE isn't. Sleepycat owns the
copyright to all the code in Berkeley DB. Copyright
to WINE code is owned by numerous developers
around the world, not all of whom would agree on
proprietary licensing terms.
Wouldn't it be great if a large number of companies were to figure out what wine is and how they can use it and finally put up some competition for Microsoft?
Sigh. Go away and come back when you've worked out that
the LGPL doesn't prevent that... what it does
prevent is people enhancing WINE and not sharing
those enhancements, which doesn't help WINE, and doesn't
help the community.
In fact, the only potential winner is the
bottom line of the company in question, and even
that's doubtful. To the best of my knowledge,
no one has ever gone into direct competition
with MS on the desktop and come out on top. WINE
(either with its existing license, or with LGPL)
allows companies to take it, and build a closed
source, proprietary app on top of it, and try
and sell it for money. How is that hindering the
industry? How is it hindering WINE?
I've got a Casio PC Unite HBX 100.
It's essentially a data bank with an IrDA port
to allow syncing with your PC. It's a little on
the chunky side, but still within acceptable limits
for me, which most of the geeky watches aren't.
I still use a MS Optical mouse. Whatever anyone thinks about their business practices and operating systems, they sure seem to always sell good mice.
Personally, I've never understood why people are
so obsessed with MS mice. There's nothing wrong
with them, although I think the ergonomics are
sometimes designed for show rather than use. But
when Logitech discontinued the Pilot mouse, I
went out and bought a whole bunch. I've yet to
find anything better. MS mice, and newer Logitech
mice all lack a full size middle button, and those
with wheels impede the use of the middle button.
I've never understood why wheel mice didn't have
a traditional three button layout with the wheel
on the side, being thumb operated...
Yet another slashdot chameleon - someone who pretends to be an expert in a given field. You are not a recruiter - you are a geek. You may have the occasional hiring decision to make, but that no more makes you a recruiter than making beans on toast makes you a chef.
Yep, sure I'm a geek, and am certainly not trying
to imply I'm an expert in anything other than my
own field. But ultimately I make the decisions on who we hire. That, to me, make me a
recruiter, and it's me that your CV has
to impress. I'm giving my perspective on what makes
me more or less inclined to look at a CV
favourably.
They don't care that you know these languages - if they are needed for the job then you won't get the job without them, but don't use up prime CV real estate with a list. Instead, descibe what you have done with those languages and make sure the description brings out the abilities you are trying to sell - these abilities are things like problem solving, project management, tenacity, being methodical, broad range of exprience etc.
Congratulations. Your CV has just ended up in my
bin. Speaking from a recruiter's perspective, I
don't have time to read detailed CVs to try and
find out what a given candidate has done. If they
don't have a list of key skills on the front
page, I'm much less likely to put the time in to
read the CV. Sad but true. I'm not saying don't
describe what you've done with those key skills,
but whatever you do, don't leave them off. Also,
don't list everything you've ever done as a key
skill. I've been looking through CVs today from
people that have been listing ICL batch languages,
BBC basic, Windows 3.1 and the like. By all
means, mention
them in the relevant section of your employment
history. But they're not key skills, and they're
not relevant to the positions you're applying for
(other than as an indicator of useful background knowledge).
Well, looks like this guy Chuq is working on it. He seems to be a kernal hacker that works for VERITAS.
Of course, Veritas have their own
FlashSnap product that does this for VxFS
filesystems, and have just released it for Linux.
It's a relatively pricey option, but it works well,
and if you need this sort of functionality, the
price is negligible.
IMHO, it helps safeguard the future of WINE. The
only result of such a switch will be that it'll
prevent people from taking WINE and enhancing it
for their own commercial purposes without also
giving those changes back to the WINE community.
To my mind, that can only be a good thing. People
will argue that with such a license, there's no
incentive for companies to improve WINE, which may
be true. However, if a company
improves WINE, but keeps those improvements to
itself, then the only winner is that company's
bottom line. The WINE community doesn't benefit
from it at all, so it's hard to argue that
preventing it would be a loss.
not having to go down with the ship if the vendor enrons.
What an excellent use of the word! I propose we
lobby the OED to include "enron" as a new verb in
the next edition:-) I enron, you enron, he enrons,
they enron etc...
Re:MS core fonts are free for noncommercial use
on
Scalable-Font Tools?
·
· Score: 2
Unfortunately, the license does not include the right to redistribute the fonts.
Which is, of course, why they distribute them as
self extracting Windows executables. The only way
you can legally get them is by downloading them
from Microsoft, and the only format in which they
provide them is Windows only... they get to be seen
to be doing the right thing by the world at large,
yet at the same time, they're doing exactly what
they've always done to try and enforce platform
lock-in. BTW, unlike most self extracting executables,
they can't simply be unpacked with unzip. Again,
I can only assume that's a deliberate decision
on Microsoft's part.
If you have to go hunting around on freshmeat or google to find one in the fist place, or wade through dozens of pages of info/man pages to learn an obscure command line interface, printf()s or System.out.println()s start looking attractive.
Agreed, if that was the case.
Fortunately, it isn't. DDD
ships with most Linux distributions, and gives
you the nice GUI interface you're used to, plus
some extra goodies on top (the ability to visually
see the state of data structures like linked lists
or binary trees is an amazing debugging
tool). And since this is Unix, naturally there
are other choices if you don't like DDD:
Code Crusader, mxdb, mxgdb, xxgdb etc.
Actually, I have completely the opposite experience.
The Mylex controllers I've used have never failed
me once. I'd recommend them to anyone. That said,
my personal opinion is that a RAID controller card
is the wrong way to go anyway. Just get an external
standalone RAID box. CLARiiONs used to be the best
of the bunch,
but they've headed up market now, leaving the SCSI
arena to Baydel, BoxHill, etc.
If nothing else, being able to step through the code in the debugger, inspecting any variables I choose is wonderful
...and of course, it has nothing whatsoever to do with
using an IDE. Debuggers have been around as standalone products for a
very long time in the Unix world. It's
only the lack of decent standalone tools under DOS/Windows
that has driven people to use the all in one approach
that Borland and MS are selling.
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Radio 1 plays a total of 2 hours of rock music a week (midnight until 2:00am on Tuesdays -- not exactly prime time, and not a time when I can feasibly listen to it). And even then, they don't play any of the rock I actually like. Odd, given that Kerrang! has now overtaken NME to become the UK's best selling music magazine. Not that Kerrang!'s much of a rock magazine these days either, but at least it's something.
Not a problem. I have several valid Windows licenses. They came with various computer bits I've acquired over the years. I don't use them, but that's another matter. The wording of the EULA says that if I have a license, I can install with a clean conscience. It doesn't say I have to install on Windows, either, or that I have to have a license for each machine I install on. Just that I need to be in possession of a license. Which I am...
Precisely. And just to make it worse, here in the UK we don't even have genre-specific radio stations like the rest of the world. We have a grand total of one (yep, ONE) radio station dedicated to playing rock. And they only broadcast a low power signal that has a 6 mile radius or so. Sure, they also stream over the net, but they stopped using RealAudio last year, and are now WMP only :-( But given that the UK rock press
doesn't even cover the rock music I listen to in
print, the chances of it getting radio play are
nil. I read about new bands on the net, and try
and download some of their stuff to listen to.
If I like it, I go out and buy it. The RIAA don't
have a clue.
Easy. Sun have provided the ability for third parties to write drivers for Solaris for as long as I can remember. See here for everything you need to know. If you're going to slate Solaris, at least base it on facts. I have been using both Solaris and Linux for over 10 years now. I can do almost everything on Solaris that I can do on Linux, and I can do almost everything on Linux that I can do on Solaris. Both are good operating systems, and each have their strengths and weaknesses. Use whichever one is right for you for the task in hand, and be thankful you don't have to use Windows...
Linux port of SS2? Didn't know about that one. I know Ryan Gordon (formerly of Loki) is doing the port of the first Serious Sam game, with the full support of Croteam. Details are hard to find, but take a look at http://icculus.org/cgi-bin/finger/finger.pl?user=i cculus§ion=ssam
Which also has the virtue of being one of the few chips that actually managed to get a SEX instruction past management and into a shipping product...
Yep, MIPS is a great ISA, although I'd argue Motorola 88k is at least as good. One of the nicest chips I've ever had the pleasure to deal with. Far, far better than the 68k, and x86 isn't even in the same league. Shame they never really caught on outside of DG machines. But then like everything else, the superior technical solutions are rarely the ones that win in the marketplace...
There are simple answers to this. Sleepycat is a company, WINE isn't. Sleepycat owns the copyright to all the code in Berkeley DB. Copyright to WINE code is owned by numerous developers around the world, not all of whom would agree on proprietary licensing terms.
Sigh. Go away and come back when you've worked out that the LGPL doesn't prevent that... what it does prevent is people enhancing WINE and not sharing those enhancements, which doesn't help WINE, and doesn't help the community. In fact, the only potential winner is the bottom line of the company in question, and even that's doubtful. To the best of my knowledge, no one has ever gone into direct competition with MS on the desktop and come out on top. WINE (either with its existing license, or with LGPL) allows companies to take it, and build a closed source, proprietary app on top of it, and try and sell it for money. How is that hindering the industry? How is it hindering WINE?
I've got a Casio PC Unite HBX 100. It's essentially a data bank with an IrDA port to allow syncing with your PC. It's a little on the chunky side, but still within acceptable limits for me, which most of the geeky watches aren't.
I've never yet found a use for a wheel on a mouse, so I'd have to raise my hand at this point...
Personally, I've never understood why people are so obsessed with MS mice. There's nothing wrong with them, although I think the ergonomics are sometimes designed for show rather than use. But when Logitech discontinued the Pilot mouse, I went out and bought a whole bunch. I've yet to find anything better. MS mice, and newer Logitech mice all lack a full size middle button, and those with wheels impede the use of the middle button. I've never understood why wheel mice didn't have a traditional three button layout with the wheel on the side, being thumb operated...
No, it's not an urban legend. It's US patent 5443036.
Yep, sure I'm a geek, and am certainly not trying to imply I'm an expert in anything other than my own field. But ultimately I make the decisions on who we hire. That, to me, make me a recruiter, and it's me that your CV has to impress. I'm giving my perspective on what makes me more or less inclined to look at a CV favourably.
Congratulations. Your CV has just ended up in my bin. Speaking from a recruiter's perspective, I don't have time to read detailed CVs to try and find out what a given candidate has done. If they don't have a list of key skills on the front page, I'm much less likely to put the time in to read the CV. Sad but true. I'm not saying don't describe what you've done with those key skills, but whatever you do, don't leave them off. Also, don't list everything you've ever done as a key skill. I've been looking through CVs today from people that have been listing ICL batch languages, BBC basic, Windows 3.1 and the like. By all means, mention them in the relevant section of your employment history. But they're not key skills, and they're not relevant to the positions you're applying for (other than as an indicator of useful background knowledge).
Of course, Veritas have their own FlashSnap product that does this for VxFS filesystems, and have just released it for Linux. It's a relatively pricey option, but it works well, and if you need this sort of functionality, the price is negligible.
IMHO, it helps safeguard the future of WINE. The only result of such a switch will be that it'll prevent people from taking WINE and enhancing it for their own commercial purposes without also giving those changes back to the WINE community. To my mind, that can only be a good thing. People will argue that with such a license, there's no incentive for companies to improve WINE, which may be true. However, if a company improves WINE, but keeps those improvements to itself, then the only winner is that company's bottom line. The WINE community doesn't benefit from it at all, so it's hard to argue that preventing it would be a loss.
What an excellent use of the word! I propose we lobby the OED to include "enron" as a new verb in the next edition :-) I enron, you enron, he enrons,
they enron etc...
Which is, of course, why they distribute them as self extracting Windows executables. The only way you can legally get them is by downloading them from Microsoft, and the only format in which they provide them is Windows only... they get to be seen to be doing the right thing by the world at large, yet at the same time, they're doing exactly what they've always done to try and enforce platform lock-in. BTW, unlike most self extracting executables, they can't simply be unpacked with unzip. Again, I can only assume that's a deliberate decision on Microsoft's part.
OK, I stand corrected.
Shell variables:
Speak for yourself. Works fine for me on my UK PS2.
Agreed, if that was the case. Fortunately, it isn't. DDD ships with most Linux distributions, and gives you the nice GUI interface you're used to, plus some extra goodies on top (the ability to visually see the state of data structures like linked lists or binary trees is an amazing debugging tool). And since this is Unix, naturally there are other choices if you don't like DDD: Code Crusader, mxdb, mxgdb, xxgdb etc.
Actually, I have completely the opposite experience. The Mylex controllers I've used have never failed me once. I'd recommend them to anyone. That said, my personal opinion is that a RAID controller card is the wrong way to go anyway. Just get an external standalone RAID box. CLARiiONs used to be the best of the bunch, but they've headed up market now, leaving the SCSI arena to Baydel, BoxHill, etc.