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No, not buying it for games, but I *am* buying it for X, and some X apps don't like smaller screens. 1024X768 seems to be the minimum that it's happy with.
I believe I read on dot.kde.org that gcc 3.1 will again break compatibility. Anyone know if this is true? I thought one of the main points of gcc 3 was a (finally) stable C++ ABI.
If so hopefully it will be out in time for Red Hat 8.0, so we won't have to go through another 3 releases with a compiler that is well behind the current. If they ship 8.0 with gcc3 and gcc3.1 ships in the middle of the year, they'll probably ship 8.1 and 8.2 with gcc3.0. That probably puts us into 2003. Ouch.
Also probably because they couldn't switch the default file system to something incompatible with the old except in a.0 release. I suppose they *could* have gotten XFS in though, had they really wanted to. I do hope to see it in 8.0.
Bah. Linux is *not* too difficult to install to become mainstream for techies. One simply has to be a bit careful about the hardware they buy. Check the compatibility lists. Search Google (web and Usenet). If you have hardware that doesn't work right with Linux, then of course you're gonna have install trouble. But the info is out there. Use it!
...you arrive at a USA port of entry (such as an international airport) and immediately after stamping your passport, the immigration agent gives you an AOL CD...
Yep, Kylix is great, despite a few flaws. I have had several compiler hangs and crashes (under Red Hat 7.1) and obviously Borland needs to work on that.
Also its MySQL driver only supports 3.22.x. That is BAD, and desperately needs an upgrade before it will be worth squat to me (and many other people). I'm also eagerly awaiting a PostgreSQL driver, which there has been talk of, but I don't know status.
And then there's a few deployment issues. You have to have an environment variable set right to avoid conflicts with other Qt versions installed.
All in all Kylix is indeed what Borland said it is, and it does work, and it is the easiest way to produce Linux GUI applications. But an update is sorely needed.
Actually, you *do* need "tech" people to set up running water, wells, power grids, solar/wind energy, better crop yield and that sort of thing. It's called appropriate technology, and people study to do basically that sort of thing in poor countries. A college roommate of mine studied that for a couple years.
Of course it's a slightly different kind of "tech" than your average geek. But there could be some overlap. ---
You're probably right. There is certainly no (that I know of) reason to fork out any dough to the SSH guys currently.
But who is going to pay for serious support for OpenSSH? For the most part you just rpm -i it and it works. Sure, there are a few configuration details. Maybe support in getting client programs to tunnel over SSH, but that wouldn't likely rake in a killing for anyone.
> If, after the five months in cramped quarters hurtling through the vaccuum of space were over, I were to look out the window and find myself in orbit around Mars in preparation for a landing, it wouldn't be sucky at all.
I'm really glad there are people that think that! Because I want to see it happen!
But you're still crazy. Sure, you'll be famous and get to go somewhere no one has gone before, but you'll be cramped into a capsule probably a fourth the size of the ISS (at best), recycle your own bodily waste, be stuck with the same 1-3 others to talk to, etc, etc, etc... And then there's the 5 months for the return trip. (Unless of course you started a permanent colony, which would be *somewhat* cooler.)
So, for me, no thanks.
I might consider a stint on the ISS for the novelty of it, but I'd rather just go somewhere remote on earth, like the Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station, or maybe a lunar colony....
Netscape is unstable, I think everyone will agree, it's difficult to run it for more than a half hour or so without a segfault or other error.
Sorry, that's complete BS. Even if you're talking about NS 4.77. Ever since 4.6 or so, I've had pretty good luck with NS's stability. The only times it ever hung were when I was getting to Java apps, with maybe a couple exceptions.
Now, some people might have had worse luck than I, but you state that "everyone would agree". No, that's just not the case.
But Mozilla is much better, and I've pretty much quit using NS4.7. Do try 0.9.2 -- it rocks.
That's what I thought when i first read the/. story, but the Machine Info page said it had recently been upgraded, so i doubt its uptime is actually 10 years...
Well if nothing else you *should* be able to pay for your bandwidth with advertising.
If you pay a cent a meg of bandwidth (and you probably pay less if you run your own server), and you use mod_gzip, you can probably get 30-50 good sized HTML pages + some graphics (including a banner ad) in a meg. Certainly you can earn a cent per 30 pages, right?
If you can get a tenth of a cent per page, you're making a profit.
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No, not buying it for games, but I *am* buying it for X, and some X apps don't like smaller screens. 1024X768 seems to be the minimum that it's happy with.
Gaaaa! I just played Jumpman under VICE (Versetile Commodore Emulator) under Linux not too long ago!
Also BC's Quest for Tires -- that game kicked all arse.
I believe I read on dot.kde.org that gcc 3.1 will again break compatibility. Anyone know if this is true? I thought one of the main points of gcc 3 was a (finally) stable C++ ABI.
If so hopefully it will be out in time for Red Hat 8.0, so we won't have to go through another 3 releases with a compiler that is well behind the current. If they ship 8.0 with gcc3 and gcc3.1 ships in the middle of the year, they'll probably ship 8.1 and 8.2 with gcc3.0. That probably puts us into 2003. Ouch.
Also probably because they couldn't switch the default file system to something incompatible with the old except in a .0 release. I suppose they *could* have gotten XFS in though, had they really wanted to. I do hope to see it in 8.0.
well I dunno what's changed from then, but I have 0.61 (from the Red Hat Powertools) and it kicks arse.
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Bah. Linux is *not* too difficult to install to become mainstream for techies. One simply has to be a bit careful about the hardware they buy. Check the compatibility lists. Search Google (web and Usenet). If you have hardware that doesn't work right with Linux, then of course you're gonna have install trouble. But the info is out there. Use it!
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Well, it's not quite a non-event:
[micah@nova logs]$ grep NNNN *log | wc -l
25
And that's just since last night. I got 75 of them 2 weeks ago. But it appears to just be getting started.
@Home has been fairly good to me.
I live in Salem, Oregon, and I have a static IP and I'm pretty sure they don't block ANY in or out ports.
They said they'd probably switch to DHCP at some point, but that was 6 months ago and no sign of it yet.
Of course I'll probably still switch to DSL when I move to an area that supports it (only near downtown in Salem).
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...you arrive at a USA port of entry (such as an international airport) and immediately after stamping your passport, the immigration agent gives you an AOL CD...
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the IDE hung and crashed, not compiler.
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Yep, Kylix is great, despite a few flaws. I have had several compiler hangs and crashes (under Red Hat 7.1) and obviously Borland needs to work on that.
Also its MySQL driver only supports 3.22.x. That is BAD, and desperately needs an upgrade before it will be worth squat to me (and many other people). I'm also eagerly awaiting a PostgreSQL driver, which there has been talk of, but I don't know status.
And then there's a few deployment issues. You have to have an environment variable set right to avoid conflicts with other Qt versions installed.
All in all Kylix is indeed what Borland said it is, and it does work, and it is the easiest way to produce Linux GUI applications. But an update is sorely needed.
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Well, some geeks are not necessarily money focused and might just want to help the people. After all, isn't that why we work on Open Source Software?
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Actually, you *do* need "tech" people to set up running water, wells, power grids, solar/wind energy, better crop yield and that sort of thing. It's called appropriate technology, and people study to do basically that sort of thing in poor countries. A college roommate of mine studied that for a couple years.
Of course it's a slightly different kind of "tech" than your average geek. But there could be some overlap.
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> On the other hand Dmitri can return to his family
uhh... he seems to still be in jail. This isn't over yet.
At least Adobe is being somewhat cool about this finally (for the second time in a month (Killustrator) - yikes!).
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You're probably right. There is certainly no (that I know of) reason to fork out any dough to the SSH guys currently.
But who is going to pay for serious support for OpenSSH? For the most part you just rpm -i it and it works. Sure, there are a few configuration details. Maybe support in getting client programs to tunnel over SSH, but that wouldn't likely rake in a killing for anyone.
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Uugh. I'd rather every web page i visited pop up 50 separate popups than suffer through using Windows!
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Yep, I got a lot of them on both my cable modem box and my server.
/var/www/group/logs/access_log | wc -l
/var/www/otg/logs/access_log | wc -l
On the server:
[root@nova logs]# grep NNNNNNNNNN access_log | wc -l
34
[root@nova logs]# grep NNNNNNNNNN jes*access_log | wc -l
18
[root@nova logs]# grep NNNNNNNNNN trav*access_log | wc -l
20
[root@nova logs]# grep NNNNNNNNNN
18
[root@nova logs]# grep NNNNNNNNNN
19
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Correct. Larger ads, even the big ones that fill half a screen partway through a story, aren't THAT bad (unless they have annoying animation).
Popup ads, which COVER the story, suck. I instantly Alt-F4 those puppies.
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I've also heard that Coke (the cola) also makes a good toilet cleaner.
:-)
And that's probably the only good use for it.
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> If, after the five months in cramped quarters hurtling through the vaccuum of space were over, I were to look out the window and find myself in orbit around Mars in preparation for a landing, it wouldn't be sucky at all.
I'm really glad there are people that think that! Because I want to see it happen!
But you're still crazy. Sure, you'll be famous and get to go somewhere no one has gone before, but you'll be cramped into a capsule probably a fourth the size of the ISS (at best), recycle your own bodily waste, be stuck with the same 1-3 others to talk to, etc, etc, etc... And then there's the 5 months for the return trip. (Unless of course you started a permanent colony, which would be *somewhat* cooler.)
So, for me, no thanks.
I might consider a stint on the ISS for the novelty of it, but I'd rather just go somewhere remote on earth, like the Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station, or maybe a lunar colony....
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Uhh, where in there or the press release does it say NuSphere has an exception? if it's there I'm missing it...
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- Much fewer first posts and goatse trolls -- they're just high school kids with no money and who only want free content
- No (or rare) Slashdot effect
- Fewer, but higher quality posts
I don't know if I'd pay or not, but it might not be the world's worst idea.---
Netscape is unstable, I think everyone will agree, it's difficult to run it for more than a half hour or so without a segfault or other error.
Sorry, that's complete BS. Even if you're talking about NS 4.77. Ever since 4.6 or so, I've had pretty good luck with NS's stability. The only times it ever hung were when I was getting to Java apps, with maybe a couple exceptions.
Now, some people might have had worse luck than I, but you state that "everyone would agree". No, that's just not the case.
But Mozilla is much better, and I've pretty much quit using NS4.7. Do try 0.9.2 -- it rocks.
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That's what I thought when i first read the /. story, but the Machine Info page said it had recently been upgraded, so i doubt its uptime is actually 10 years...
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Well if nothing else you *should* be able to pay for your bandwidth with advertising.
If you pay a cent a meg of bandwidth (and you probably pay less if you run your own server), and you use mod_gzip, you can probably get 30-50 good sized HTML pages + some graphics (including a banner ad) in a meg. Certainly you can earn a cent per 30 pages, right?
If you can get a tenth of a cent per page, you're making a profit.
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