Blair savaged over Microsoft visit - The Labour Party was yesterday accused of having an unhealthy relationship with business after a visit to Microsoft UK
OK, options, Load/Save. Looks just like Word. Autosave every minute, create backup (oh yes). Oh, default save format? "SOT Office 6.0 Text Document"? A quick save reveals that this is a binary format, not anything sane like XML. So, no, I don't bloody well think so. Word 97/2000/XP, please. "This may cause data loss.". I'll take that risk. If I can't use this to reliably read/write Word 97.doc binary formats, it's no use to me (sorry, but it isn't) Just a small note regarding (Open|Star|SOT)Office "binary" documents. These documents consist of several XML files and optionally other objects such as images. That binary is just a standard zip file with.sxw extension holding all the objects together in a neat package. Try unzipping it with any util that can unzip.zip files and see what I mean. You'll get a bunch of.xml files, pictures etc.
You are not allowed to use any third party program (e.g Ad-aware) to uninstall application bundled with RadLight. Such programs will be removed. Does that count unlink(2) (and whatever the native Win32 equivalent is)? Removing the C runtime library doesn't sound very nice to me:)
Semi off-topic, but you just can't compare CPAN to PEAR
CPAN and PEAR have nothing in common. CPAN stands for Comprehensice Perl Archive Network. This highly active site is maintained by the Perl community. From CPAN you can find hunderds (thousands?) of Free Perl libraries and corresponding on-line documentation.
PEAR web page says "PEAR is a framework and distribution system for reusable PHP components". So among other things, it acts as an abstraction layer to various RDBM's.
I don't think there's full equivalent to PEAR in Perl world but what the original poster probably meant is DBI - The Perl Database Interface.
Looks like it's devel kernel for sure
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Kernel 2.5.3 Released
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Damn, no ATA RAID for me, then:)
This one has been reported on the LKML some weeks ago but AFAIK now fix is made public yet...
make[3]: Entering directory `/usr/src/linux/drivers/ide'
ld -m elf_i386 -r -o ide-mod.o ide-taskfile.o ide.o ide-features.o ide-adma.o ide-dma.o ide-pci.o pdc202xx.o via82cxxx.o ide-proc.o
ld -m elf_i386 -r -o ide-probe-mod.o ide-probe.o ide-geometry.o
gcc -D__KERNEL__ -I/usr/src/linux/include -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -Wno-trigraphs -O2 -fomit-frame-pointer -fno-strict-aliasing -fno-common -pipe -mpreferred-stack-boundary=2 -march=i686 -malign-functions=4 -DEXPORT_SYMTAB -c ataraid.c
ataraid.c: In function `ataraid_ioctl':
ataraid.c:73: invalid operands to binary &
ataraid.c:72: warning: `minor' might be used uninitialized in this function
ataraid.c: In function `ataraid_open':
ataraid.c:83: invalid operands to binary &
ataraid.c:82: warning: `minor' might be used uninitialized in this function
ataraid.c: In function `ataraid_release':
ataraid.c:94: invalid operands to binary &
ataraid.c:93: warning: `minor' might be used uninitialized in this function
ataraid.c: In function `ataraid_make_request':
ataraid.c:105: structure has no member named `b_rdev'
ataraid.c:103: warning: `minor' might be used uninitialized in this function
ataraid.c: In function `ataraid_split_request':
ataraid.c:182: structure has no member named `b_rsector'
ataraid.c:193: warning: passing arg 1 of `generic_make_request' makes pointer from integer without a cast
ataraid.c:193: too many arguments to function `generic_make_request'
ataraid.c:194: warning: passing arg 1 of `generic_make_request' makes pointer from integer without a cast
ataraid.c:194: too many arguments to function `generic_make_request'
ataraid.c: In function `ataraid_register_disk':
ataraid.c:233: incompatible type for argument 2 of `register_disk'
ataraid.c: In function `ataraid_init':
ataraid.c:249: `hardsect_size' undeclared (first use in this function)
ataraid.c:249: (Each undeclared identifier is reported only once
ataraid.c:249: for each function it appears in.)
ataraid.c:280: warning: passing arg 2 of `blk_queue_make_request' from incompatible pointer type
ataraid.c: In function `ataraid_exit':
ataraid.c:289: `hardsect_size' undeclared (first use in this function)
make[3]: *** [ataraid.o] Error 1
make[3]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux/drivers/ide'
make[2]: *** [first_rule] Error 2
make[2]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux/drivers/ide'
make[1]: *** [_subdir_ide] Error 2
make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux/drivers'
make: *** [_dir_drivers] Error 2
They are (probably:-) using Wine to run Windows applications. It can already run IE, Word, Excel, Quicken, familiar list, no?.. But not every Windows app. That's why it's so easy "to focus on just a few applications".. It would require HUGE amount of effort to implement 100% Windows compatible API. Too bad they haven't said anything about releasing the changes they made to the main Wine tree. They probably never will, which is sad. However, there have been talks about changing the license of Wine to LGPL.
As a UK citizen this won't probably help you much, but here in Finland we have had Electronic Frontier Finland since last autumn. Unfortunately at the moment EFFi's web page is only in Finnish. Anyway, if you're located in Finland, I highly recommend joining the organization.
Accoring to Microsoft there're companies that dump Linux in favor of Windows. They even have bunch of white papers describing how to migrate from web services from Linux to Windows. Take a look at Linux to Windows Migration Guide especially the case studies section. That's some funny reading:)
Here is the story of how a Russion grad student developed the program that allows one to decrypt the eBook. this looks like yet another case of the American government meatheads forcibly repressing free speech and damaging the natural development of internatiocal (tech) society.
remind me why should one still call the US the Land of the Free?
Umm what the *hell* are you talking about? I didn't find any sense in that and it's Score:4, Insightful. LOL. At least tell me where did you pick up those mushrooms, I'd like to have a trip like that too.
Crackers do exist outside the territory of the United States of America... How are your friends at RIAA going to put say Romanian cracker in jail if he/she breaks the copy protection?
Oh I forgot,/. is American forum and generally you can't expect that Americans realize the fact that there might be life somewhere far, far away from the borders of good, ol' US. Sorry.
Slashdot Mirror
Mine is here: http://shakti.tky.hut.fi/desktop.xml
Ever heard of newspeak? :)
Check out newspeakdictionary.com especially The Principles of Newspeak next time you feel bored.
of the Microsoft's response is <a href="http://216.239.51.100/search?q=cache:http:/<nobr>/<wbr></wbr></nobr> www.gnu.org.pe/resmseng.html">here</a>
OK, options, Load/Save. Looks just like Word. Autosave every minute, create backup (oh yes). Oh, default save format? "SOT Office 6.0 Text Document"? A quick save reveals that this is a binary format, not anything sane like XML. So, no, I don't bloody well think so. Word 97/2000/XP, please. "This may cause data loss.". I'll take that risk. If I can't use this to reliably read/write Word 97 .doc binary formats, it's no use to me (sorry, but it isn't) .sxw extension holding all the objects together in a neat package. Try unzipping it with any util that can unzip .zip files and see what I mean. You'll get a bunch of .xml files, pictures etc.
Just a small note regarding (Open|Star|SOT)Office "binary" documents. These documents consist of several XML files and optionally other objects such as images. That binary is just a standard zip file with
You are not allowed to use any third party program (e.g Ad-aware) to uninstall application bundled with RadLight. Such programs will be removed. :)
Does that count unlink(2) (and whatever the native Win32 equivalent is)? Removing the C runtime library doesn't sound very nice to me
The fact that Microsoft is connected to Internet2 doesn't give you 1meg/s transfer speed from windowsupdate.
:)
They have probably hunderds of mirrors around the world where the actual wares is downloaded from, you're automatically redirected to the closest one.
Works pretty fine here, they have one mirror in the same facility as where the Finnish University and Research Network backbone is located, this gives me 4-5meg/s transfer speed from windowsupdate to my dorm at the campus of Helsinki University of Technology
Semi off-topic, but you just can't compare CPAN to PEAR
CPAN and PEAR have nothing in common. CPAN stands for Comprehensice Perl Archive Network. This highly active site is maintained by the Perl community. From CPAN you can find hunderds (thousands?) of Free Perl libraries and corresponding on-line documentation.
PEAR web page says "PEAR is a framework and distribution system for reusable PHP components". So among other things, it acts as an abstraction layer to various RDBM's.
I don't think there's full equivalent to PEAR in Perl world but what the original poster probably meant is DBI - The Perl Database Interface.
Just in case this is needed: http://shakti.tky.hut.fi/slashdot/wolf3d-source/
Damn, no ATA RAID for me, then :)
This one has been reported on the LKML some weeks ago but AFAIK now fix is made public yet...
make[3]: Entering directory `/usr/src/linux/drivers/ide'
ld -m elf_i386 -r -o ide-mod.o ide-taskfile.o ide.o ide-features.o ide-adma.o ide-dma.o ide-pci.o pdc202xx.o via82cxxx.o ide-proc.o
ld -m elf_i386 -r -o ide-probe-mod.o ide-probe.o ide-geometry.o
gcc -D__KERNEL__ -I/usr/src/linux/include -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -Wno-trigraphs -O2 -fomit-frame-pointer -fno-strict-aliasing -fno-common -pipe -mpreferred-stack-boundary=2 -march=i686 -malign-functions=4 -DEXPORT_SYMTAB -c ataraid.c
ataraid.c: In function `ataraid_ioctl':
ataraid.c:73: invalid operands to binary &
ataraid.c:72: warning: `minor' might be used uninitialized in this function
ataraid.c: In function `ataraid_open':
ataraid.c:83: invalid operands to binary &
ataraid.c:82: warning: `minor' might be used uninitialized in this function
ataraid.c: In function `ataraid_release':
ataraid.c:94: invalid operands to binary &
ataraid.c:93: warning: `minor' might be used uninitialized in this function
ataraid.c: In function `ataraid_make_request':
ataraid.c:105: structure has no member named `b_rdev'
ataraid.c:103: warning: `minor' might be used uninitialized in this function
ataraid.c: In function `ataraid_split_request':
ataraid.c:182: structure has no member named `b_rsector'
ataraid.c:193: warning: passing arg 1 of `generic_make_request' makes pointer from integer without a cast
ataraid.c:193: too many arguments to function `generic_make_request'
ataraid.c:194: warning: passing arg 1 of `generic_make_request' makes pointer from integer without a cast
ataraid.c:194: too many arguments to function `generic_make_request'
ataraid.c: In function `ataraid_register_disk':
ataraid.c:233: incompatible type for argument 2 of `register_disk'
ataraid.c: In function `ataraid_init':
ataraid.c:249: `hardsect_size' undeclared (first use in this function)
ataraid.c:249: (Each undeclared identifier is reported only once
ataraid.c:249: for each function it appears in.)
ataraid.c:280: warning: passing arg 2 of `blk_queue_make_request' from incompatible pointer type
ataraid.c: In function `ataraid_exit':
ataraid.c:289: `hardsect_size' undeclared (first use in this function)
make[3]: *** [ataraid.o] Error 1
make[3]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux/drivers/ide'
make[2]: *** [first_rule] Error 2
make[2]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux/drivers/ide'
make[1]: *** [_subdir_ide] Error 2
make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux/drivers'
make: *** [_dir_drivers] Error 2
http://shakti.tky.hut.fi/slashdot/gnome2-alpha1/
Also the screenshots can be found there.
Show me the slashdot effect :)
RISC's are above 1GHz :)
UltraSparc III @ 1.05GHz
Alpha 21264 @ 1.001GHz
They are (probably :-) using Wine to run Windows applications. It can already run IE, Word, Excel, Quicken, familiar list, no? .. But not every Windows app. That's why it's so easy "to focus on just a few applications" .. It would require HUGE amount of effort to implement 100% Windows compatible API. Too bad they haven't said anything about releasing the changes they made to the main Wine tree. They probably never will, which is sad. However, there have been talks about changing the license of Wine to LGPL.
As a UK citizen this won't probably help you much, but here in Finland we have had Electronic Frontier Finland since last autumn. Unfortunately at the moment EFFi's web page is only in Finnish. Anyway, if you're located in Finland, I highly recommend joining the organization.
Look no further, your question has been answered here.
How come you haven't heard of it already, I'm getting these offers almost every day...
In case the server can't handle the /. effect, here's a mirror of the screen shot: http://shakti.tky.hut.fi/slashdot/glass2k-screensh ot/
You may find my site faster than kde.org:s /
http://shakti.tky.hut.fi/slashdot/kde3-screenshot
Accoring to Microsoft there're companies that dump Linux in favor of Windows. They even have bunch of white papers describing how to migrate from web services from Linux to Windows. Take a look at Linux to Windows Migration Guide especially the case studies section. That's some funny reading :)
remind me why should one still call the US the Land of the Free?
Just a thought...
Wow, I'm impressed, it actually works quite well. They got my $19.95.
Maybe you find my 100Mbit/s .fi link faster than the original .jp site...
http://shakti.tky.hut.fi/slashdot/h7outside.mpg
http://shakti.tky.hut.fi/slashdot/h6homepage2.mpg
Actually, Linux 2.4.10 is ~3.7 million lines of code, if you measure the way you did. You forgot to include the assembly code (*.S files).
:)
(07:15:17)(tj@ganga)(/usr/src/linux)$ find . -name \*.[chS] -exec cat \{\} \; | wc -l
3695460
And Mozilla isn't very far behind either with its 3515317 lines of code contained in *.{cpp,c,h,idl} of just cvsupped tree.
Someone want to check how big are the latest glibc, gcc and XFree86? Probably over 1M lines of code each.
/me is even more pedantic
Umm what the *hell* are you talking about? I didn't find any sense in that and it's Score:4, Insightful. LOL. At least tell me where did you pick up those mushrooms, I'd like to have a trip like that too.
Crackers do exist outside the territory of the United States of America... How are your friends at RIAA going to put say Romanian cracker in jail if he/she breaks the copy protection?
/. is American forum and generally you can't expect that Americans realize the fact that there might be life somewhere far, far away from the borders of good, ol' US. Sorry.
Oh I forgot,
I'm a happy citizen of a rich 1st world country. But still I completely agree with you. That was very well said.