As someone comming from the KDE side of the fence, I would say we have a -LOT- to learn about red-carpet. Though it's not perfect, it's what an installer should be. Simple, direct and online.
My guess is a huge percentage of the post-install boxes are on the internet. I know the kde group believes that the responsibility is for the distro's to resolve those issues, but I disagree. I have a redhat 7.1 box that just doesn't need upgrading, because I have switched it over to Ximian Gnome desktop. Thats right, there is nothing really different about that older version of redhat than running on a ximian desktop on top of Mandrake 8.1. It's great, my box is always current and I don't need to play the bi-yearly distro knuckle-shuffle.
I get to choose the distro I am most comfortable with , and red-carpet keeps me up on the security updates, software updates , etc. It's just plain and simple nice.
I don't think I will be upgrading my home / primary workstation to Mandrake 8.2 because Ximian works fine. I am also tired of chasing down RPMS and playing the dep game.... Ximian has just got it right on that one, and it's all in the packaging and distribution.
IMHO KDE is superior in technical ways, but I am now using Gnome because of the superiour distribution and packaging and the warm feeling of knowing I am getting updates on a weekly basis.
no kidding, if I could write native code in a java like language for Gnome it would be great. The closest thing I feel the community has to a really good operating framework is kde. The libraries are all good and consistent, as where my brief stint with gnome was enough to make me not want to touch it again from a programming level. Maybe Miquel knows this and doesn't want to rewrite base gnome in C++. If there is a solid set of working high level libs that become the standard for the movement forward, who cares what MS does on their platform. We will have a kickass java-like language that we can write with against the base libraries.
I personally just find learning a new API is too risk to put on something like gtk+ or other wrapper libraries.. if I am going to learn something, I would like to learn the source. And learning something that could help me in the event I had to write code for.NET is a bonus, it's reusable knowledge of a semi-standard (we hope) api. Regardless, like Java, it should be easy to bounce back and forth between microsoft and mono even if their is a virtual fork. (think java 1 / 2)
I think that I would pay for something that would give me really good offline reading on a palm pilot or even *gulp* wap.
I think they could also setup advanced search functionality through the messages. Whenever I need to make a strong architecture decision or have development questions, first newsgroups, second slashdot.
Slashdot is not what makes slashdot neat, but it's the people that come here and add comment. If they closed users out, or made it dificult for the causual user to add content, their userbase will slowly die.. and migrate to someone elses basement slash site.. or who knows where.
Hmm... sometimes I have a hard time taking the things that guy says as serious. He sits in my book as nothing higher than a politition running for office in the Stalmanism government. I feel at times his words are half empty.
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Having started my second business, which is slowly going down the tubes due to various reasons.. (it's a software company).. your advice is VERY VERY sound and insightful.
I would like to highlight on number two though, we have always paid a little bit extra for someone good to do our books, and because of that we haven't had to deal with embezelment (spelling?) , our projectections where always pretty close and we usually knew exactly where we stand. None of us are being chased by the Inland Revenue (Uk Equiv of IRS) and everything is clean.
We might not be rich, but at least our books are in order:)
good luck with your jet-venture. Sounds pretty damn cool.
I have a Promise raid controller in my computer, I clicked on the box for the driver update and my machine stopped booting, even if safe mode. I had to roll back to the latest working version of hardware, and then it was really fragged. It seemed to míx and match the different versions of drivers.. etc
After about 2 hours of trying to rescue the system, I was able to get it to boot into safe mode. I removed by hand the drivers that it installed for the raid controller, and un-installed all the hardware from the registry.
After redetecting all my hardware again, things seemed to work somewhat normally. At that point, I just copied all my important documents off the machine onto my 'Linux in the Closet(TM)' server, and reinstalled the machine.
To say the least, I don't just click/update anymore especially with drivers. I try to stick only to security updates and only udpate hardware drivers if they are not working fully or promise great performance increase to outweigh the risk of loosing the machine. (A chance I usually take with my video card)
I am sure that this article will be saved and preserved in the Slashdot hall of fame. 15 years from now your kids will read what I am saying now wondering if the person posting this even knows you.
Anyway, no I don't. but best of luck. Geek chicks rule. (I have one too!):)
No, it's just all the support, development and resources come at a cost. If you want free use Debian. They have a true non-profit approach to Linux. Freedom does come at a price though, debian is a little harder to use and the current distribution (stable) is not always the most secure. (They do not always seem to be lightning quick to get a updates into the stable tree).
Anyway, if you want things like that.. you might end up having to pay for it. Do you like Ximians Red Carpet service? Yes.. you are one going to have to pay for it.
God, but calling a boycot on Suse because they want to be compensated for their work is just lame.
FreeNet does everything your talking about. It seems that the only thing that is keeping FreeNet from really being usable is a good key/searching mechanism. No way to really crawl the thing is there?
Being a UK tech-rag, it's not surprising that their style of journalism is the way it is. But, if you were going to throw such accusations at the Reg, I would also not discount sites such as NewsForge, Slashdot (which is much worst), CNN, WashingtonPost, FT, etc.
They all sensationalize. If you don't have enough wit to see the difference between the FUD, you have no business reading it anyway.
I personally find entertainment in reading the Reg, even if things are not always accurate. The editors are sharp, and they at least can spell. If you want facts, go read the kernel CVS logs.
I disagree. I think that if MS moves the target, the greatest common denominator will become more relevant.
Ie. When programming in Python, on OSX I can use all the spiffy Carbon libs that are there and make my experience on the mac better, but if I write in TCL/TK.. I know that I will reach a broader audiance.
Besides.. if these 'magick' enhancements are necessary, they will be adapted.. it's not overly complicated to write most system functionality yourself (ie. a group)... My first MAJOR java project I found myself doing a lot of that anyway, just not knowing that what I needed was already written and in the libs.
Hmm... have you ever read the book Hackers? It's pretty good... Mostly about people hitting keys and starring at a blurry eyed screen. I guess it depends on how interested you are in the material in question.
Of course, I don't know if it is worth it to buy
one of these things. I'm playing Return to Castle
Wolfenstein on my GeForce 2 Pro at full detail, and
I'm still getting good performance.
I hear ya brother, thats my game.. and thats my card.:) I look at this fancy new cards, and just wonder how fast my Athlon 1800+ would run with it. I have a GeForce2mx and it seems to work great. In RTCW the only time it seems to really slow down is when someone starts blasting with their flame thrower and then it's all over for me:).
I suppose it's going to take a 'killer' game for me to really want to switch. I haven't yet played the retail version of Medal of Honor AA, but maybee that will push me.. if not probably Halo.
Maybe it's the Life of Brian... Yeah, where the mobs of people where following him around, claiming that silly and sensible things he would say where completely something else, in the end not listening to reason? Well.. sounds like the linux community.:) Not that Bob Young is the un-reachable god-like leader, but I see some simularaties.
hehe, RMS could play the guy who sits in the pit for silence. Well, at least with looks.:)
Seems that if DOS can move to a second generation, even having a superior desktop/hardware alternative (Macintosh) , why couldn't Palm do the same thing , keeping the upper hand against PocketPC?
Their seems to be much more software and legacy on the PalmOS.
I know exactly what you mean. Most people have 10-15 sites that they visit, and thats it. Me included. The icons are great and really make my 'style' of browsing a bit easier.
Thats also my biggest grief with IE 6.0, it's favorites icons bar is so damn buggy. Half the time the status bar in the bottum disapears, and I keep having to re-turn it on, and the links bar will never stay open, ends up stuffing them by default into a little links dropdown next to the URL bar which is only visible from a pull down. *ugg*.
On OSX IE , it's not quite so bad.. but not wonderful.
It's little things like that can make the browsing experience better. I hope that the Moz team can continue to innovate new ways to make my navigation experience better and more efficient.
First, I am a app programmer and not a kernel hacker.
I am not a an expert, but this is how I understand it.
This is not intended to be a flame, if I make a mistake.. please correct it , not flame me. Thax.
Down to business.
There is a scheduler that will take the instructions of a program and put it into a queue. So if you have 15 different programs all running at the same time, you will have lots of processes needing a LOT of very simple instructions, which will wait in the queue until the CPU can get to it. I believe this is called the scheduler that handles this queue of instructions to the CPU.
Now, the scheduler is not going to feed any instruction to any cpu. It looks at the process and determines, the priority, the cpu it was at (to keep the cache hit ratio high on the cpu). At that point it starts feeding instructions through the scheduler. I believe that the starting process for a instruction stream would be the CPU that doesn't have load, or the least amount of load.. I would imagine.. but I guess that would be determined on how the schedular was written.
Yeah, the problem Ximian faces right now, IMHO, if they don't do something they are not going to have a business. That means Miguel will have to get a job.
The reality of it is, the industry doesn't seem to make the same mistakes over and over again.. (well, win95,98,me, etc etc).. but, sooner or later, people learn. As more mobile devices (More people in the US are walking around with a cell phone than have computers) start to play into the game (phone/pda/etc) the universal and open standards will win. Maybe MS understands this, maybe not.
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As someone comming from the KDE side of the fence, I would say we have a -LOT- to learn about red-carpet. Though it's not perfect, it's what an installer should be. Simple, direct and online.
My guess is a huge percentage of the post-install boxes are on the internet. I know the kde group believes that the responsibility is for the distro's to resolve those issues, but I disagree. I have a redhat 7.1 box that just doesn't need upgrading, because I have switched it over to Ximian Gnome desktop. Thats right, there is nothing really different about that older version of redhat than running on a ximian desktop on top of Mandrake 8.1. It's great, my box is always current and I don't need to play the bi-yearly distro knuckle-shuffle.
I get to choose the distro I am most comfortable with , and red-carpet keeps me up on the security updates, software updates , etc. It's just plain and simple nice.
I don't think I will be upgrading my home / primary workstation to Mandrake 8.2 because Ximian works fine. I am also tired of chasing down RPMS and playing the dep game.... Ximian has just got it right on that one, and it's all in the packaging and distribution.
IMHO KDE is superior in technical ways, but I am now using Gnome because of the superiour distribution and packaging and the warm feeling of knowing I am getting updates on a weekly basis.
no kidding, if I could write native code in a java like language for Gnome it would be great. The closest thing I feel the community has to a really good operating framework is kde. The libraries are all good and consistent, as where my brief stint with gnome was enough to make me not want to touch it again from a programming level. Maybe Miquel knows this and doesn't want to rewrite base gnome in C++. If there is a solid set of working high level libs that become the standard for the movement forward, who cares what MS does on their platform. We will have a kickass java-like language that we can write with against the base libraries.
I personally just find learning a new API is too risk to put on something like gtk+ or other wrapper libraries.. if I am going to learn something, I would like to learn the source. And learning something that could help me in the event I had to write code for
I think that I would pay for something that would give me really good offline reading on a palm pilot or even *gulp* wap.
I think they could also setup advanced search functionality through the messages. Whenever I need to make a strong architecture decision or have development questions, first newsgroups, second slashdot.
Slashdot is not what makes slashdot neat, but it's the people that come here and add comment. If they closed users out, or made it dificult for the causual user to add content, their userbase will slowly die.. and migrate to someone elses basement slash site.. or who knows where.
Hmm... sometimes I have a hard time taking the things that guy says as serious. He sits in my book as nothing higher than a politition running for office in the Stalmanism government. I feel at times his words are half empty.
Having started my second business, which is slowly going down the tubes due to various reasons.. (it's a software company).. your advice is VERY VERY sound and insightful.
I would like to highlight on number two though, we have always paid a little bit extra for someone good to do our books, and because of that we haven't had to deal with embezelment (spelling?) , our projectections where always pretty close and we usually knew exactly where we stand. None of us are being chased by the Inland Revenue (Uk Equiv of IRS) and everything is clean.
We might not be rich, but at least our books are in order
good luck with your jet-venture. Sounds pretty damn cool.
Not really,
I have a Promise raid controller in my computer, I clicked on the box for the driver update and my machine stopped booting, even if safe mode. I had to roll back to the latest working version of hardware, and then it was really fragged. It seemed to míx and match the different versions of drivers.. etc
After about 2 hours of trying to rescue the system, I was able to get it to boot into safe mode. I removed by hand the drivers that it installed for the raid controller, and un-installed all the hardware from the registry.
After redetecting all my hardware again, things seemed to work somewhat normally. At that point, I just copied all my important documents off the machine onto my 'Linux in the Closet(TM)' server, and reinstalled the machine.
To say the least, I don't just click/update anymore especially with drivers. I try to stick only to security updates and only udpate hardware drivers if they are not working fully or promise great performance increase to outweigh the risk of loosing the machine. (A chance I usually take with my video card)
I don't find it to be any more overpriced than any name brand Intel kit such as Compaq or Dell, HP, IBM.
FUD FUD FUD
I am sure that this article will be saved and preserved in the Slashdot hall of fame. 15 years from now your kids will read what I am saying now wondering if the person posting this even knows you.
Anyway, no I don't. but best of luck. Geek chicks rule. (I have one too!)
No, it's just all the support, development and resources come at a cost. If you want free use Debian. They have a true non-profit approach to Linux. Freedom does come at a price though, debian is a little harder to use and the current distribution (stable) is not always the most secure. (They do not always seem to be lightning quick to get a updates into the stable tree).
Anyway, if you want things like that
God, but calling a boycot on Suse because they want to be compensated for their work is just lame.
FreeNet does everything your talking about. It seems that the only thing that is keeping FreeNet from really being usable is a good key/searching mechanism. No way to really crawl the thing is there?
hehe, look at what they call their stable kernels!
Being a UK tech-rag, it's not surprising that their style of journalism is the way it is. But, if you were going to throw such accusations at the Reg, I would also not discount sites such as NewsForge, Slashdot (which is much worst), CNN, WashingtonPost, FT, etc.
They all sensationalize. If you don't have enough wit to see the difference between the FUD, you have no business reading it anyway.
I personally find entertainment in reading the Reg, even if things are not always accurate. The editors are sharp, and they at least can spell. If you want facts, go read the kernel CVS logs.
I disagree. I think that if MS moves the target, the greatest common denominator will become more relevant.
.. I know that I will reach a broader audiance.
Ie. When programming in Python, on OSX I can use all the spiffy Carbon libs that are there and make my experience on the mac better, but if I write in TCL/TK
Besides.. if these 'magick' enhancements are necessary, they will be adapted.. it's not overly complicated to write most system functionality yourself (ie. a group)... My first MAJOR java project I found myself doing a lot of that anyway, just not knowing that what I needed was already written and in the libs.
Cheers
http://www.openbsd.org
if what your using works, why would you want to change it? And yes, pgsql works under windows using Cygwin.
Ask and you recieve.
Cygwin has a port of Postgres that runs fine. Performance isn't as good as the Linux version, but not bad.
Give it a shot, it comes with the distro, you don't even have to compile it.
Hmm... have you ever read the book Hackers? It's pretty good... Mostly about people hitting keys and starring at a blurry eyed screen. I guess it depends on how interested you are in the material in question.
Of course, I don't know if it is worth it to buy
one of these things. I'm playing Return to Castle
Wolfenstein on my GeForce 2 Pro at full detail, and
I'm still getting good performance.
I hear ya brother, thats my game.. and thats my card.
I suppose it's going to take a 'killer' game for me to really want to switch. I haven't yet played the retail version of Medal of Honor AA, but maybee that will push me.. if not probably Halo.
Maybe it's the Life of Brian... Yeah, where the mobs of people where following him around, claiming that silly and sensible things he would say where completely something else, in the end not listening to reason? Well.. sounds like the linux community.
hehe, RMS could play the guy who sits in the pit for silence. Well, at least with looks.
Seems that if DOS can move to a second generation, even having a superior desktop/hardware alternative (Macintosh) , why couldn't Palm do the same thing , keeping the upper hand against PocketPC?
Their seems to be much more software and legacy on the PalmOS.
I know exactly what you mean. Most people have 10-15 sites that they visit, and thats it. Me included. The icons are great and really make my 'style' of browsing a bit easier.
Thats also my biggest grief with IE 6.0, it's favorites icons bar is so damn buggy. Half the time the status bar in the bottum disapears, and I keep having to re-turn it on, and the links bar will never stay open, ends up stuffing them by default into a little links dropdown next to the URL bar which is only visible from a pull down. *ugg*.
On OSX IE , it's not quite so bad.. but not wonderful.
It's little things like that can make the browsing experience better. I hope that the Moz team can continue to innovate new ways to make my navigation experience better and more efficient.
First, I am a app programmer and not a kernel hacker.
I am not a an expert, but this is how I understand it.
This is not intended to be a flame, if I make a mistake.. please correct it , not flame me. Thax.
Down to business.
There is a scheduler that will take the instructions of a program and put it into a queue. So if you have 15 different programs all running at the same time, you will have lots of processes needing a LOT of very simple instructions, which will wait in the queue until the CPU can get to it. I believe this is called the scheduler that handles this queue of instructions to the CPU.
Now, the scheduler is not going to feed any instruction to any cpu. It looks at the process and determines, the priority, the cpu it was at (to keep the cache hit ratio high on the cpu). At that point it starts feeding instructions through the scheduler. I believe that the starting process for a instruction stream would be the CPU that doesn't have load, or the least amount of load.. I would imagine.. but I guess that would be determined on how the schedular was written.
Anyhow, thats how I understand it.
Cheers
Yeah, the problem Ximian faces right now, IMHO, if they don't do something they are not going to have a business. That means Miguel will have to get a job.
The reality of it is, the industry doesn't seem to make the same mistakes over and over again.. (well, win95,98,me, etc etc).. but, sooner or later, people learn. As more mobile devices (More people in the US are walking around with a cell phone than have computers) start to play into the game (phone/pda/etc) the universal and open standards will win. Maybe MS understands this, maybe not.
The parent post must be a joke.
So what your saying is that clustering is fundamentally flawed, or it's impossible to fix?