I think they read too much Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson. He expaned BIOS as Built In Operating System by mistake, but maybe it wasn't really a mistake after all.
Soon it probably will. Remember why Mozilla had to change its lightweight browser's name from Phoenix to Firebird (and the Firefox)? The reason stated was that Phoenix (the BIOS maker) was developing a web browser to embed in its BIOS chips. Now a web broswer isn't very useful without a net conection now is it? Soon you won't need an OS on the harddrive anymore. Then they will try to make it ilegal to put an OS on the hardrive (DRM). This is the carrot, the stick will come later.
It is an installer and package manager written in Ruby not an OS. The website doesn't seem to make this very clear though, so I don't blame you for being confused. It is really a Linux (or GNU/Linux if you prefer) distribution. If we were to follow this logic then Mandrake Linux would be a Perl OS and Fedora/Redhat would be a Python OS.
When evaluated on that level it looks interesting. It seems to combine the concepts of LFS and Gentoo with stow like package managment.
Um, dude, you do realize that virii is the proper plural of virus right? Virus comes from latin (a slimy liquid, a poisonous liquid, poison, stench) and is a second declension noun (masculine).
So nothing has changed in the year or so since I played with xmove. Except that someone else has made it easier to compile (and it was a massive pain). Does the NX version work better for modern widget toolkits?
The biggest problem I had with Xmove was with modern apps. Gnome and KDE apps didn't always display correctly, mostly because they use modules that were not in existance when Xmove was last updated. Although I may be wrong about that since a quick search to confirm the last update date showed that Debian seems to be still maintaining it (last update I can see is Sun, 11 Aug 2002 not the early ninties date I remember).
well, in short it replaces single quoted strings with an empty sinqle quoted strings. Why your program wants to do this I don't know.
The only thing that bothers me is the zero-width negative look-ahead clause: (?![]})\w.]). It seems to be useless since it is at the beggining of the match.
f you are looking for a "bar" that isn't preceded by a "foo",/(?!foo)bar/ will not do what you want. That's because the (?!foo) is just saying that the next thing cannot be "foo"--and it's not, it's a "bar", so "foobar" will match.
I would hardly blame Perl for this piece of work though. Whoever wrote it should have left a comment to explain what was going on.
I recommend pwm [cs.tut.fi]. Its a graphical WM with tabbed windows. Supports windowmaker dockapps.
Unfortunately, it does not support iconification of programs...I'm trying to convince the developer to include that as an alternative to window shading.
Imo, PWM's the best light window manager, providing a good combination of a clean graphical interface with minimalism.
Try fluxbox. Fluxbox is a BlackBox spinoff that looks and acts like pwm but has some advantages (like the ability to iconify windows). Not that there is anything wrong with pwm (I am using now because it's multihead support seems to be better).
You are missing the point of LFS. LFS is about learning the hows and whys of Linux, not installing a distribution. Well, that and having complete control over how Linux gets installed.
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This is why you sould always say ls *a*f*.* before saying rm *a*f*.*
You don't need Hungarian notation if your functions are 50 - 80 lines long. In fact Hungarian notation in languages like C can confuse you as to what type the variable really is (ie an int changed to a lon without the renaming of every instance of the variable).
They're basically saying we as an audiance can't handle a deep plot and don't have the attention span to sit through three hours of movie. It annoys the crap out of me.
No they are saying the theaters won't make enough money to want it and/or there won't be enough showtimes to get the opening boxoffice results they want. If they were just releasing this as a DVD/VHS/direct to your computer product I would agree with you.
DS9? Better. It depicted the edgier side of the Trek universe, but it was still pretty damn sanitized.
I have always wondered where the death camps are. You just can have all of that nice peace and order without death camps can you? We got to see a little of them at the start of Voyager, but I want more. I want to see the nasty underbelly of the Federation where they keep the Orion pirates/smugglers, baby killers, rapists, deviants, etc. Maybe they just mind wipe them, but I didn't think they had that technology. During DS9 they had that whole secret society protecting the Federation from itself. Perhaps they take care of the problems.
You own what is in your head -- unless you sign it away, so don't sign anything without reading it first. Most companies require you to sign a waiver saying you won't work in the same industry for two to five years after leaving them. They do this because they don't want you taking all of the good ideas you came up with to the competition. If the guy worked in a different field then you are probably safe (unless you enter that field).
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I think they read too much Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson. He expaned BIOS as Built In Operating System by mistake, but maybe it wasn't really a mistake after all.
Soon it probably will. Remember why Mozilla had to change its lightweight browser's name from Phoenix to Firebird (and the Firefox)? The reason stated was that Phoenix (the BIOS maker) was developing a web browser to embed in its BIOS chips. Now a web broswer isn't very useful without a net conection now is it? Soon you won't need an OS on the harddrive anymore. Then they will try to make it ilegal to put an OS on the hardrive (DRM). This is the carrot, the stick will come later.
Inertia and length of time on the market?
If Rubyx is an OS then it does: Mandrake. The installer is written in Perl and the package management is done with Perl. That is all Rubyx is.
But if you want an example of extreme silliness in Perl you can look at http://freshmeat.net/projects/perlbox/ a Desktop Environment written in Perl.
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It is an installer and package manager written in Ruby not an OS. The website doesn't seem to make this very clear though, so I don't blame you for being confused. It is really a Linux (or GNU/Linux if you prefer) distribution. If we were to follow this logic then Mandrake Linux would be a Perl OS and Fedora/Redhat would be a Python OS.
When evaluated on that level it looks interesting. It seems to combine the concepts of LFS and Gentoo with stow like package managment.
Um, dude, you do realize that virii is the proper plural of virus right? Virus comes from latin (a slimy liquid, a poisonous liquid, poison, stench) and is a second declension noun (masculine).
And it is not just mathematics. you also have things like:
FILE* file;
It also cuts down on the collisions between constants and variables:
#DEFINE ANSWER 42
int answer = ANSWER;
And although I can't think of any examples right now it also cuts down on the collisions with keywords.
So nothing has changed in the year or so since I played with xmove. Except that someone else has made it easier to compile (and it was a massive pain). Does the NX version work better for modern widget toolkits?
The biggest problem I had with Xmove was with modern apps. Gnome and KDE apps didn't always display correctly, mostly because they use modules that were not in existance when Xmove was last updated. Although I may be wrong about that since a quick search to confirm the last update date showed that Debian seems to be still maintaining it (last update I can see is Sun, 11 Aug 2002 not the early ninties date I remember).
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well, in short it replaces single quoted strings with an empty sinqle quoted strings. Why your program wants to do this I don't know.
/(?!foo)bar/ will not do what you want. That's because the (?!foo) is just saying that the next thing cannot be "foo"--and it's not, it's a "bar", so "foobar" will match.
The only thing that bothers me is the zero-width negative look-ahead clause: (?![]})\w.]). It seems to be useless since it is at the beggining of the match.
f you are looking for a "bar" that isn't preceded by a "foo",
I would hardly blame Perl for this piece of work though. Whoever wrote it should have left a comment to explain what was going on.
So what do you suggest we use if the conference or journal does not provide you with a style file?
I think Roscoe P. Coltrane is more appropriate.
Or better yet, use Fluxbox. It is a feature rich derivitive of Blackbox.
Take a look at dmx.sf.net. Basicly it can join together many machines into one desktop using xinerama and some BFM.
You are missing the point of LFS. LFS is about learning the hows and whys of Linux, not installing a distribution. Well, that and having complete control over how Linux gets installed.
This is why you sould always say ls *a*f*.* before saying rm *a*f*.*
You don't need Hungarian notation if your functions are 50 - 80 lines long. In fact Hungarian notation in languages like C can confuse you as to what type the variable really is (ie an int changed to a lon without the renaming of every instance of the variable).
So what does everything look like when you have a leatherman/multitool?
You own what is in your head -- unless you sign it away, so don't sign anything without reading it first. Most companies require you to sign a waiver saying you won't work in the same industry for two to five years after leaving them. They do this because they don't want you taking all of the good ideas you came up with to the competition. If the guy worked in a different field then you are probably safe (unless you enter that field).
In Smyrna, Gorgia children can not buy markers. It is part of an anti-graffiti law that also prevent minors from buying spray paint.
You forgot JWZ