Just throwing this idea out there, but one wonders if as a community we start linking the heck out of xenu, or start mirroring its pages (with the xenu webmasters permission, of course) whether google would start indexing those pages in proxy. granted it might take a few months to get into the listings, but it seems we could treat this much as we did the CSS debacle to counter the CO($$$)'s arrogant and heavy-handed attempts to silence the opposition.
I have found that mirrors which aren't based in the US are often much faster and more reliable than those that are; granted, i'm not a very good citizen for using non-local mirrors... but i've always been a bit anti-social anyway.
The article incorrectly stated that Aethera was not being worked on, and that the last beta was in april of 2001; in fact, there have been at least two betas that I know of, just in 2002. And Kivio is not only being worked on but is supported under windows as well, in the commercial version.
Not necessarily, especially if the "bloat" is contained in a system-distributed shared library and code links to it. you can theoretically write a relatively tiny program that links to all sorts of system dll's or.so's and calls dialogs contained therein, etc; your instruction count goes down, size of the binary goes down, ergo taxable assets go down.
Government organizations more so than anyone else need a scapegoat to point a finger at when something doesn't go right. Free software is starting to make inroads into these types of organizations, but the root of the problem is the level of bureaucracy that has to be dealt with in order to actually DO anything in government. In the name of protecting taxpayer "investment", there is all sorts of documentation, testing, and basic criteria that have to be met, and while Linux and BSD are completely capable of meeting those criteria, they require someone like RedHat to actually do the legwork to get them in the door. Up until very recently nobody has been interested because of the level of nastiness that has to be dealt with; with the advent of the NSA's secure linux, however, this may be apt to change in the near and not-terribly-distant future.
Mandrake is still the only distribution that consistently recognizes ALL of my hardware on my laptop (and otherwise) every time. I can't tell you how many headaches I've gone through trying to get various other dists to recognize my sound, or network, or properly configure X, or (insert other pain-in-the-keester task here), and while part of it may be my ignorance of the proper way to configure one item or another, I think that speaks all the more about Mandrake, that they are able to do all this automajically.
I set my younger brother up with Mandrake awhile back at his request (he was tired of windows crashing on him every other day--to steal a line from Dave Barry, "I swear I am not making this up") and his problems have gone to zero, except that he can't figure out how to use the cdr software (not mandrakes fault--i checked it out when i was in his town a few weeks ago, it works fine, he just doesn't know how to use it).
Now if i can just get mom and older brother over, my filial tech support bill can finally go down.:)
that the/. effect can actually be a force used for GOOD.:)
Come on people--put your money where your mouth has always been. We talk and talk about supporting open source and free software--that support can't merely be verbal. as the saying goes, "Freedom isn't free." If you really want to see free software succeed, especially on the desktop, then this is definitely a worthwhile cause.
If you don't support mandrake now, you may not get the chance to later. and if you don't care for mandrake, then for the love of Linus support SOME distribution, be it Debian, Suse, RH, or even BSD. Penguins of the world, unite! take a stand!
Unless you're working for yourself, never EVER put company expenses of any kind on a personal credit card or check.
My company about two years ago drafted a new policy for expenses where the employee fronts the bill and the company reimburses the employee (thanks to some salesmen who apparently thought a couple thousand dollars worth of golf bills each qualified as a business expense). Shortly thereafter they expected us to start paying for our own hotel rooms when out on service trips, at which point i politely informed our COO that his options were to issue us company credit cards for expenses or service the out of town clients himself. He tried to give us some idle threats about hiring employees who would be more complacent. Thanks to the solidarity of our development/engineering team, he was faced with the prospect of hiring an entire development team and expecting them to maintain the monumental pace at which we'd been going in a two week period, while we all went to work for a competitor who had given us all standing offers.
It would seem like the most populated country in the world--where its actually against the law to have more than one (or is it two?) child(ren), would be the LAST place that someone would try to clone people. Granted, there are many more applications for stemcell research beyond mere cloning of people, but still... something about that just seems strange.
So far, aside from the time investment it takes to get a gentoo build (note: they do have a binary version to save the time needed to compile available as well, although I haven't played with that) up and running, i've been very impressed with the installation process. Quite light, and I can already notice just in the compile process the speed improvements. I've also had nary an error in the compilation processes, either in the source or in an absent dependency. So that's my 2 pfennig worth, take it or leave it. In the interests of equal time, of course.:)
I just installed Gentoo last night--or started it, rather; the compile process takes quite a bit of time. What I'd like to know is how these two distributions compare, especially in the package management department. Considering that both compile the software on demand, it would seem to be a question of dependency resolution. Has anyone got experience with both of them? does one have any advantages over the other (aside from sorcerors cool nomenclature?:)
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I don't know about anyone else, but I would really like to see a 1 or 2 volume set on the various components of the jakarta project and how they fit together, especially in a practical enterprise.
This is implemented in BIOS on my laptop, an HP pavilion. If memory serves its running Phoenix bios of some sort. It requires about a half-gig partition on the hard drive dedicated to the hibernation process, I think it has to be the first one on the drive. But basically it just copies the contents of the memory to that partition then loads it back up. works like a champ, and its OS independent. Actually, I've found it works even better under linux than 2k.
Does anyone know where to find loki games online, besides their website? I'm wanting to pick up civ and maybe a few more, but they don't offer it for sale on their website...
C++ isn't compatible with C, so to speak, meaning a straight C compiler will not compile your C++ classes. But C++ is by definition a superset of C, meaning that all valid C code will compile cleanly by a C++ compiler. In theory at least.
This article has nothing real to say, except apparently that java coders all like to jump on bandwagons for an over-hyped technology, and that we should all instead hop on a microsoft bandwagon for an overhyped technology. I really fail to see what the difference between an overhyped java platform and an overhyped ".Not" platform is.
I'm using the tightvnc distribution of VNC on WinNT (and linux as well) and I'm not seeing nearly the cpu usage that you are... when its active, there's a bit of a jump, but inactive my cpu (on a three-monitor system, no less--600mhz P3 with 128 MB RAM. With the Tight compression selected, 8 bit color, and jpeg compression enabled, its very usable even over a modem. The only real advantages PC Anywhere has over it in our office is the built-in file transfer capabilities of PCanywhere, and the ability to dial directly into a computer. aside from that, VNC has it beat, as far as I'm concerned.
The JRE is an intelligent DLL under Windows in that it is not loaded until it's needed,
How is this different from a regular dll that isn't loaded until its needed? I don't think the default behavior really qualifies it as "intelligent". Personally, in a time of flush computer resources, I think waking enough of myself up to be able to start quickly when the user needs me would make me "smarter" than laying up on my fat ass until somebody does need me.
Further, some states have Strategic Lawsuit Against Public Participation statutes, which carry tremendous fines. To win a SLAPP suit, one doesn't even need to prove damages, and there's no limit to the amount of money a jury can award.
Seems like this kind of statute could easily be used for the very thing it was intended to prevent, doesn't it?
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Just throwing this idea out there, but one wonders if as a community we start linking the heck out of xenu, or start mirroring its pages (with the xenu webmasters permission, of course) whether google would start indexing those pages in proxy. granted it might take a few months to get into the listings, but it seems we could treat this much as we did the CSS debacle to counter the CO($$$)'s arrogant and heavy-handed attempts to silence the opposition.
Free thought will always win.
I have found that mirrors which aren't based in the US are often much faster and more reliable than those that are; granted, i'm not a very good citizen for using non-local mirrors... but i've always been a bit anti-social anyway.
The article incorrectly stated that Aethera was not being worked on, and that the last beta was in april of 2001; in fact, there have been at least two betas that I know of, just in 2002. And Kivio is not only being worked on but is supported under windows as well, in the commercial version.
Not necessarily, especially if the "bloat" is contained in a system-distributed shared library and code links to it. you can theoretically write a relatively tiny program that links to all sorts of system dll's or .so's and calls dialogs contained therein, etc; your instruction count goes down, size of the binary goes down, ergo taxable assets go down.
Government organizations more so than anyone else need a scapegoat to point a finger at when something doesn't go right. Free software is starting to make inroads into these types of organizations, but the root of the problem is the level of bureaucracy that has to be dealt with in order to actually DO anything in government. In the name of protecting taxpayer "investment", there is all sorts of documentation, testing, and basic criteria that have to be met, and while Linux and BSD are completely capable of meeting those criteria, they require someone like RedHat to actually do the legwork to get them in the door. Up until very recently nobody has been interested because of the level of nastiness that has to be dealt with; with the advent of the NSA's secure linux, however, this may be apt to change in the near and not-terribly-distant future.
Mandrake is still the only distribution that consistently recognizes ALL of my hardware on my laptop (and otherwise) every time. I can't tell you how many headaches I've gone through trying to get various other dists to recognize my sound, or network, or properly configure X, or (insert other pain-in-the-keester task here), and while part of it may be my ignorance of the proper way to configure one item or another, I think that speaks all the more about Mandrake, that they are able to do all this automajically.
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I set my younger brother up with Mandrake awhile back at his request (he was tired of windows crashing on him every other day--to steal a line from Dave Barry, "I swear I am not making this up") and his problems have gone to zero, except that he can't figure out how to use the cdr software (not mandrakes fault--i checked it out when i was in his town a few weeks ago, it works fine, he just doesn't know how to use it).
Now if i can just get mom and older brother over, my filial tech support bill can finally go down.
that the /. effect can actually be a force used for GOOD. :)
Come on people--put your money where your mouth has always been. We talk and talk about supporting open source and free software--that support can't merely be verbal. as the saying goes, "Freedom isn't free." If you really want to see free software succeed, especially on the desktop, then this is definitely a worthwhile cause.
If you don't support mandrake now, you may not get the chance to later. and if you don't care for mandrake, then for the love of Linus support SOME distribution, be it Debian, Suse, RH, or even BSD. Penguins of the world, unite! take a stand!
/end_pithy_rhetoric
Unless you're working for yourself, never EVER put company expenses of any kind on a personal credit card or check.
My company about two years ago drafted a new policy for expenses where the employee fronts the bill and the company reimburses the employee (thanks to some salesmen who apparently thought a couple thousand dollars worth of golf bills each qualified as a business expense). Shortly thereafter they expected us to start paying for our own hotel rooms when out on service trips, at which point i politely informed our COO that his options were to issue us company credit cards for expenses or service the out of town clients himself. He tried to give us some idle threats about hiring employees who would be more complacent. Thanks to the solidarity of our development/engineering team, he was faced with the prospect of hiring an entire development team and expecting them to maintain the monumental pace at which we'd been going in a two week period, while we all went to work for a competitor who had given us all standing offers.
Guess who is fronting expense money up front now?
Then you should check out Gentoo Linux.
It would seem like the most populated country in the world--where its actually against the law to have more than one (or is it two?) child(ren), would be the LAST place that someone would try to clone people. Granted, there are many more applications for stemcell research beyond mere cloning of people, but still... something about that just seems strange.
So far, aside from the time investment it takes to get a gentoo build (note: they do have a binary version to save the time needed to compile available as well, although I haven't played with that) up and running, i've been very impressed with the installation process. Quite light, and I can already notice just in the compile process the speed improvements. I've also had nary an error in the compilation processes, either in the source or in an absent dependency. So that's my 2 pfennig worth, take it or leave it. In the interests of equal time, of course. :)
I just installed Gentoo last night--or started it, rather; the compile process takes quite a bit of time. What I'd like to know is how these two distributions compare, especially in the package management department. Considering that both compile the software on demand, it would seem to be a question of dependency resolution. Has anyone got experience with both of them? does one have any advantages over the other (aside from sorcerors cool nomenclature? :)
"Oh, you hate your job? There's a support group for that--its called Everybody and they meet at the bar." --Drew Carey
I don't know about anyone else, but I would really like to see a 1 or 2 volume set on the various components of the jakarta project and how they fit together, especially in a practical enterprise.
No, dumbass, your grammar is poor; mathematics is a singular concept, not plural, thus requiring "is" as opposed to "are".
This is implemented in BIOS on my laptop, an HP pavilion. If memory serves its running Phoenix bios of some sort. It requires about a half-gig partition on the hard drive dedicated to the hibernation process, I think it has to be the first one on the drive. But basically it just copies the contents of the memory to that partition then loads it back up. works like a champ, and its OS independent. Actually, I've found it works even better under linux than 2k.
Of course, as usual, I could be full of shite...
Does anyone know where to find loki games online, besides their website? I'm wanting to pick up civ and maybe a few more, but they don't offer it for sale on their website...
C++ isn't compatible with C, so to speak, meaning a straight C compiler will not compile your C++ classes. But C++ is by definition a superset of C, meaning that all valid C code will compile cleanly by a C++ compiler. In theory at least.
This article has nothing real to say, except apparently that java coders all like to jump on bandwagons for an over-hyped technology, and that we should all instead hop on a microsoft bandwagon for an overhyped technology. I really fail to see what the difference between an overhyped java platform and an overhyped ".Not" platform is.
I want to know when support for Mdk-8.1 will be forthcoming... I can't believe its that terribly different from 8.0.
I'm using the tightvnc distribution of VNC on WinNT (and linux as well) and I'm not seeing nearly the cpu usage that you are... when its active, there's a bit of a jump, but inactive my cpu (on a three-monitor system, no less--600mhz P3 with 128 MB RAM. With the Tight compression selected, 8 bit color, and jpeg compression enabled, its very usable even over a modem. The only real advantages PC Anywhere has over it in our office is the built-in file transfer capabilities of PCanywhere, and the ability to dial directly into a computer. aside from that, VNC has it beat, as far as I'm concerned.
The JRE is an intelligent DLL under Windows in that it is not loaded until it's needed,
How is this different from a regular dll that isn't loaded until its needed? I don't think the default behavior really qualifies it as "intelligent". Personally, in a time of flush computer resources, I think waking enough of myself up to be able to start quickly when the user needs me would make me "smarter" than laying up on my fat ass until somebody does need me.
Further, some states have Strategic Lawsuit Against Public Participation statutes, which carry tremendous fines. To win a SLAPP suit, one doesn't even need to prove damages, and there's no limit to the amount of money a jury can award.
Seems like this kind of statute could easily be used for the very thing it was intended to prevent, doesn't it?
Anyone know of a website where us cash-poor entrepreneur/students can pick up one of these computers?
moderators: please mod this question up so we have a better chance at getting answers
So far this sounds a lot like Javascript without objects.