direct changing of resolution was introduced just a few months ago
Ever tried pressing CTRL ALT + any time in the last decade to change resolution? I first did that in December 1996, which incidently, was two months after windows 95 was available for sale (better late than never).
direct changing of resolution was introduced just a few months ago
Ever tried pressing + any time in the last decade to change resolution? I first did that in December 1996, which incidently, was two months after windows 95 was available for sale (better late than never).
Why don't we have a choice with our window system?
We do. I believe Xi graphics still produce a version of X for linux. By all accounts, it is a lot better than XFree86 on the right hardware. I don't use it myself (wrong hardware and I'm a cheapskate), and my info may be out of date.
There are, of course, a lot of versions of X for the microsoft platform, like exceed, pc-xware and XFree86. The different versions of X interoperate fairly well over different platforms, after all it's all X. A forked X will still be X.
Forking X shouldn't be seen as a big deal anyway. After all, even RMS forked the emacs project when he didn't like what the emacs developer of the time was doing.
Follow his first choice - call it LiGnuX
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That trick didn't work, so I'll continue to use the GNU prefix for the GNU tools, linux for the kernel, and adobe for the postscript. Linux wouldn't have turned out the way it is without the gnu tools, but you could also say that about anything used to develop it.
Silly Geese. I blame the Stallman. He's been going out of their way to make it GNU/Linux
I still think we should go with his original suggestion "LiGNUX", presumably pronouced "lick nuts". If RMS stopped trying to redefine the language every now and again (copyleft, plus new meanings of free and open) we would have less flames and certainly not have organisations trying to rename linux for political reasons.
American (noun): A language in which you can say the phrase "fanny pack" in polite company with a straight face - a feat impossible in english.
That's RMS all right, going for the man and not the ball.
Bad jokes about our bad tempered hero aside, it's very odd that someone as high up as that person at Dell not knowing what unix is. I bet everyone with a degree in anything vaugely technical at Dell would cringe at his comments. At this point (and any point proir) I can't see how anything other than small pockets of the net could survive without all the various breeds of unix boxes holding it together.
if you simply cannot get the performance you want out of your TCP/IP stack, you wade through MS's
You forget that the TCP/IP stack that Microsoft uses was developed in Berkeley and anyone that wants can use it so long as they add in the apropriate copyright notice (as MS have done). One thing that Microsoft did do is write their own broken version of ping (couldn't even do that right!) which made possible the famous ping of death DOS attacks.
The UK has already tried nuclear power, and has dismissed the idea of any more nuclear plants on economic grounds alone. British Nuclear Fuels has lost money to the value of several billion pounds, which was enough to convince the Tory party (who are far less likely to listen to any green groups than the US Republican party) to cancel the constuction of furthur plants. The UK does not have a policy of nuclear power at any price as does the USA, since the spin-off of weapons grade radioactive material is no longer required.
All those rare earths in nuclear power station parts are, of course, rare - and this leads to the plants being incredibly expensive ways to produce steam. Nuclear power went from being the "great white hope" of the 1950's to a white elephant, and fifty years later the results speak for themselves. I have never worked in a nuclear power plant, and have only worked with two people who have (one turbine engineer from a russian plant, and a guy from a plant in Indonesia that is more a military set-up than a power generating plant), but I do know a bit about them.
The US plants apparently make money on paper - but after the British experience (and others) it points towards some serious creative accounting.
How will you power your wearable computers, palm pilots, pacemakers even?
How will you power your pocket calculators? I've used two that had to be plugged into the wall, and I'm barely 30. Solar isn't the future - it's been used for years and will be used more so in the future. Now that we have cheap polycrystalline cells and even cheaper processes like sol-gel for making the things with effectively a bucket of chemicals and a domestic oven. Fuel cells are also the future - and finely pulverised coal, tidal and a host of things, but solar stuff is incredibly portable - so long as you have enough light to actually see the keys on your calculator or simlarly low powered PDA or whatever in a couple of years.
They were found because a whole lot of people that didn't belong in that electorate voted. How they actually voted is only known due to their membership in a particular party - not from the actual votes. It's very easy to establish a system that verifies votes at the polling centre level, while mainly protecting the anonymity of the individaul voter. This works in most places, however my the votes of my parents were determined in one small town, since they were almost the only people that had moved there in the last three years!
Every democratic country has a famous election where even the dead vote. I believe that in the USA Truman was particularly popular with the dead.
Like encryption methods, it needs to be open so that everyone can see the possible problems, not just one opportunist. Something like this needs to be open to all interesed parties, which really means all voters in this case (not just a State Governor). This applies whether it is a manaul or electronic process.
In my country (which has British based laws - similar to the USA) we have a federal authority which supervises the voting for all levels of government, which provides information to anyone that asks (debt collectors often track people down from the address they have on the electoral roll). This department is too big, beurocratic, and decentralised for bribes to make any difference. On several occasions courts have looked into allegations of vote rigging, and have easily found the anwsers. For a few years the government of my state had been decided by a few fake votes in one bye-election, but the court (at state level) discovered this. By the time this had happened, another election had occurred which changed the goverenment again. Abuse still happens, but it is easy to track down when it happens.
Now, if you look at the current US system the biggest problems seem to be inconsistancy and verification of results. The results in Florida were a mess, and the court had very little to go on - and I'm sure even G.W. Bush would have been a lot happier if the results were clearer.
It would sound odd to anyone that can read this page, and hence knows how to type in a URL, but it's true, there are a lot of companies out there that make money by training people to use Word.
Come to think of it, if you've never used word processing software before, there would be a bit to learn. Once you've used one peice of word processing software then all you need to know is the details for the next.
One user I've seen that was very pissed off with computers had forgotten her username. It was her first name, and three letters long. She had been using computers for six years in secretarial jobs. Her response when I politely told her what was wrong was "I don't know much about computers". I'm sure she was good at some aspect of her job, but anything involving computers is seen as "hard". I don't know how to change this peception, she had thrown away the post-it note on her screen which said "As asked, I've upgraded application_name_here you'll need to log in again as three_letter_username_here_in_inverted_commas!!! when you get back from lunch."
One co-worker described this sort of problem as "arse-elbow connectivity".
We've just got to realize that there are many people that do not pay attention to details and can still do their jobs effectively enough to keep the cash flowing and keep us employed.
FMC and Degussa likely aren't "jerking you around" for shits and giggles.
True, but some little clerk at each place may be. Sometimes you just need to escalate things furthur up the tree, but only when you can be sure you can get by without some vindictive little clerk that really hates you now.
An Engineer is someone who can make for 10 cents what any damned fool can make for a dollar.
Precisely.
A couple of examples you can stop anything from rusting is you coat it with gold, or make anything fly with enough power. The engineer is there to find a more efficient way.
In our company the Powers that be put DNS into it's own compaq server which costs over $5K.
Oh really? Maybe they have brains. So if you cram DNS onto a box with another service, and when that box goes down, your 5,000 network users can still resolve hostnames like yahoo.com on the Internet.
Running Bind or any other nameserver doesn't take a lot of CPU power, even if it isn't getting anything from the internal network but namerequests. I think what the previous poster was pointing out is that you don't need expensive hardware to run a name service, and you always have redundancy anyway (secondary name servers).
Hence running nothing but a name server on an expensive machine is a questionable business decision.
Sorry, bud, but by running your own Linux server at home
With decent network card/s a home linux server would make a reasonable name server for most companies - however it makes a lot more sense to have it on an existing machine that has a good reason to have an external IP address for another service.
Also consider the fact that most people use windows servers as a single user single tasking operating system (which is the only responsible thing to do given the stability of windows).
Where I am there are NINETEEN servers in a place with about sixty employees. Madness. Three of them are linux boxes - the rest NT4.
Think about that for a moment.. why would a multibillion dollar corporation, who have a million times more resources then the average linux programmer, not bother to make a similar tool for windows if it's so useful?
Simply because they have a marketing focus, they have driven many a better product into the ground by outselling and outbullshitting. They worked out long ago that they didn't need to be in the business of producing good software - but just good enough software (like in building a bridge - if it only has to take bicycles you don't make something elaborate and expensive). Their main failing in my eyes is by overstating the specs when they are selling the things - equivalent to saying that you can get your 350 tonne mining truck over the bridge designed for bicycles.
Consider as an equivalent, Hollywood and the movie "Three Weddings and a Funeral." More money was spent on promoting the movie in the USA than was spent on making the film in the first place. A lot of businesses make money that way, and Microsoft appears to be no exception.
This thing doesn't actually have to work, after all "lie detectors" have been used as admissable evidence in some places for years. All that has to happen is that some elected official be convinced that it works (and told to ignore the idependant experts - they are just jealous), and security guards be given official looking printouts of what dangerous data should look like. It doesn't really matter how much snake oil is in the brew, as long as people are seen to be doing SOMETHING.
Personally I would suggest dowsing, it would be cheaper and probably just as reliable, with the side benefit that it would keep some homeless bag ladies employed and fed.
Sometimes it would be easier and less time consuming to install slackware 2.0 from twenty floppy disks than windows XP from bootable CD - this is one of those case by case things, similar to getting someone on the street to taste test margarine. Your hardware will vary and the installation will vary.
Get rid of the scams, the tax scams, the casting couch, the drugs, the organised crime and perhaps we'll have a place that turns out good movies instead of remakes.
A couple of big companies went bust in Australia recently after carrying out some extemely dodgy practices - Andersen audited both of them and has been caught in the fallout. It looks like the best career choice over here at the moment is "secretary" to a company director - big salary (bigger than a CIO), big travel account, accomodation in the best hotels five days a week - and possibly a big lingere allowance as a valid work expense!
Stars Wars Episode II on an Imax screen? You'll really be able to see those 1080 dots from top to the bottom of the frame in detail.
For Imax it would help to have a high quality image to start with. By the way, does anyone know how Frank Hurley's amazing footage from the turn of the 20th century was transferred to Imax for the "Antartica" documentary, and what film size he used. It's a pity most of his cine film and plate negatives were dumped in the ocean.
3) incredibly, incredibly bad software (which again shouldn't crash the OS... but that's yet another discussion)
Hey, I wouldn't call explorer.exe incredibly bad - but it certainly does seem to crash a lot on XP - even when it is the only thing running. At least most of the time it doesn't bring the sytem down entirely (can still give the three fingered salute and run apps from there).
Win2k was very happy on this hardware - XP is crashing four or five times daily - with purely MS applications and the most recent drivers.
Liberal Party, which is sort of like the Republicans
A better way to put it in US terms would be the British loyalists proir to the US war of independance. They are descended from the British right wing "Tory" party, but are always looking overseas for guidance.
They are a party with very few members (as in people outside parliment, in branches etc.)- mostly drawn from the upper middle class (again different from the Republicans - who appear to be from much wealthier folk), and odd little quirks that the Republicans would never accept. Things like you can be a citizen of another nation and be chosen to run for parliment - and you don't even have to be an Australian citizen or resident to be a member and choose who is going to run for parliment. It's founder, Robert Mensies, formed the party after he was thrown out of his previous party. In the foundation speech he said that the profit motive is the greatest positive force in society (would a republican dare say that now afer Wordcom and Enron?). The Liberal party will do anything to stay in power - in Tasmania they even formed a coalition with the "greens", who are at the exact opposite of the political spectrum (those in the US would call them tree hugging commies, here we simply call them tree hugging socialists). Federally the Liberals hold power in coalition with a framers party called the National party.
The Nationals are a million miles from communism (and would almost happily burn them), but can be defined as "agrarian socialists" - that is, they work for farmers as a communitity, not for specific rich businessmen (apart from a few Nationals, which have been kicked out or have done some jail time). They tend not to have much to do with "city" issues except in simplistic policies, and don't cope well with the seperation of judiciary and government - hence a lot of laws with "mandatory" sentences.
The Liberal coalition holds power federally, but do not hold power in any state (they don't have enough seats to form a coalition with anyone). About the only aspect of law enforcement that the federal government has is dealing with refugees, hence the current fracas (they want to look tough - and they want ro do it by kicking heads).
The ALP shares a lot with the British Labour Party (eg. Tony Blair), even members it appears (why are Union spokesmen usually British?). Unions in Australia bear no resemblence to odd things like the US Teamsters union and all those weird little Hollywood unions.
Probably everyone but the US military. Imprisonment without trial is generally consider a bad thing - and they are saying that he is not actually a prisoner of war.
David Hicks is probably as guilty as hell, but we won't really know until he gets a trial will we? Ironically, those captured by a former USSR state have been tried and convicted, long before David Hicks has charged or allowed to see a lawyer. One thing which offended Australians a great deal was the offer to release David Hicks to Australia, as long as we promised to find him guilty in the trial. Our justice system doesn't work like that, we have the trial first and decide guilt near the end - just like the USA.
Only first-world armies such as the US actually follow the Geneva convention.
But the USA didn't agree to the Geneva convention, and doesn't follow it. You've been watching too much "Hogan's Heroes", it's not the 1940's anymore - things (like the Geneva convention) have changed.
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There are, of course, a lot of versions of X for the microsoft platform, like exceed, pc-xware and XFree86. The different versions of X interoperate fairly well over different platforms, after all it's all X. A forked X will still be X.
Forking X shouldn't be seen as a big deal anyway. After all, even RMS forked the emacs project when he didn't like what the emacs developer of the time was doing.
I'm off to read the Underwood/Children of Dune
American (noun): A language in which you can say the phrase "fanny pack" in polite company with a straight face - a feat impossible in english.
Bad jokes about our bad tempered hero aside, it's very odd that someone as high up as that person at Dell not knowing what unix is. I bet everyone with a degree in anything vaugely technical at Dell would cringe at his comments. At this point (and any point proir) I can't see how anything other than small pockets of the net could survive without all the various breeds of unix boxes holding it together.
All those rare earths in nuclear power station parts are, of course, rare - and this leads to the plants being incredibly expensive ways to produce steam. Nuclear power went from being the "great white hope" of the 1950's to a white elephant, and fifty years later the results speak for themselves. I have never worked in a nuclear power plant, and have only worked with two people who have (one turbine engineer from a russian plant, and a guy from a plant in Indonesia that is more a military set-up than a power generating plant), but I do know a bit about them.
The US plants apparently make money on paper - but after the British experience (and others) it points towards some serious creative accounting.
Every democratic country has a famous election where even the dead vote. I believe that in the USA Truman was particularly popular with the dead.
In my country (which has British based laws - similar to the USA) we have a federal authority which supervises the voting for all levels of government, which provides information to anyone that asks (debt collectors often track people down from the address they have on the electoral roll). This department is too big, beurocratic, and decentralised for bribes to make any difference. On several occasions courts have looked into allegations of vote rigging, and have easily found the anwsers. For a few years the government of my state had been decided by a few fake votes in one bye-election, but the court (at state level) discovered this. By the time this had happened, another election had occurred which changed the goverenment again. Abuse still happens, but it is easy to track down when it happens.
Now, if you look at the current US system the biggest problems seem to be inconsistancy and verification of results. The results in Florida were a mess, and the court had very little to go on - and I'm sure even G.W. Bush would have been a lot happier if the results were clearer.
Come to think of it, if you've never used word processing software before, there would be a bit to learn. Once you've used one peice of word processing software then all you need to know is the details for the next.
One user I've seen that was very pissed off with computers had forgotten her username. It was her first name, and three letters long. She had been using computers for six years in secretarial jobs. Her response when I politely told her what was wrong was "I don't know much about computers". I'm sure she was good at some aspect of her job, but anything involving computers is seen as "hard". I don't know how to change this peception, she had thrown away the post-it note on her screen which said "As asked, I've upgraded application_name_here you'll need to log in again as three_letter_username_here_in_inverted_commas!!! when you get back from lunch."
One co-worker described this sort of problem as "arse-elbow connectivity".
We've just got to realize that there are many people that do not pay attention to details and can still do their jobs effectively enough to keep the cash flowing and keep us employed.
A couple of examples you can stop anything from rusting is you coat it with gold, or make anything fly with enough power. The engineer is there to find a more efficient way.
Hence running nothing but a name server on an expensive machine is a questionable business decision.
With decent network card/s a home linux server would make a reasonable name server for most companies - however it makes a lot more sense to have it on an existing machine that has a good reason to have an external IP address for another service.Consider as an equivalent, Hollywood and the movie "Three Weddings and a Funeral." More money was spent on promoting the movie in the USA than was spent on making the film in the first place. A lot of businesses make money that way, and Microsoft appears to be no exception.
Personally I would suggest dowsing, it would be cheaper and probably just as reliable, with the side benefit that it would keep some homeless bag ladies employed and fed.
Sometimes it would be easier and less time consuming to install slackware 2.0 from twenty floppy disks than windows XP from bootable CD - this is one of those case by case things, similar to getting someone on the street to taste test margarine. Your hardware will vary and the installation will vary.
Get rid of the scams, the tax scams, the casting couch, the drugs, the organised crime and perhaps we'll have a place that turns out good movies instead of remakes.
A couple of big companies went bust in Australia recently after carrying out some extemely dodgy practices - Andersen audited both of them and has been caught in the fallout. It looks like the best career choice over here at the moment is "secretary" to a company director - big salary (bigger than a CIO), big travel account, accomodation in the best hotels five days a week - and possibly a big lingere allowance as a valid work expense!
For Imax it would help to have a high quality image to start with. By the way, does anyone know how Frank Hurley's amazing footage from the turn of the 20th century was transferred to Imax for the "Antartica" documentary, and what film size he used. It's a pity most of his cine film and plate negatives were dumped in the ocean.
Win2k was very happy on this hardware - XP is crashing four or five times daily - with purely MS applications and the most recent drivers.
They are a party with very few members (as in people outside parliment, in branches etc.)- mostly drawn from the upper middle class (again different from the Republicans - who appear to be from much wealthier folk), and odd little quirks that the Republicans would never accept. Things like you can be a citizen of another nation and be chosen to run for parliment - and you don't even have to be an Australian citizen or resident to be a member and choose who is going to run for parliment. It's founder, Robert Mensies, formed the party after he was thrown out of his previous party. In the foundation speech he said that the profit motive is the greatest positive force in society (would a republican dare say that now afer Wordcom and Enron?). The Liberal party will do anything to stay in power - in Tasmania they even formed a coalition with the "greens", who are at the exact opposite of the political spectrum (those in the US would call them tree hugging commies, here we simply call them tree hugging socialists). Federally the Liberals hold power in coalition with a framers party called the National party.
The Nationals are a million miles from communism (and would almost happily burn them), but can be defined as "agrarian socialists" - that is, they work for farmers as a communitity, not for specific rich businessmen (apart from a few Nationals, which have been kicked out or have done some jail time). They tend not to have much to do with "city" issues except in simplistic policies, and don't cope well with the seperation of judiciary and government - hence a lot of laws with "mandatory" sentences.
The Liberal coalition holds power federally, but do not hold power in any state (they don't have enough seats to form a coalition with anyone). About the only aspect of law enforcement that the federal government has is dealing with refugees, hence the current fracas (they want to look tough - and they want ro do it by kicking heads).
The ALP shares a lot with the British Labour Party (eg. Tony Blair), even members it appears (why are Union spokesmen usually British?). Unions in Australia bear no resemblence to odd things like the US Teamsters union and all those weird little Hollywood unions.
David Hicks is probably as guilty as hell, but we won't really know until he gets a trial will we? Ironically, those captured by a former USSR state have been tried and convicted, long before David Hicks has charged or allowed to see a lawyer. One thing which offended Australians a great deal was the offer to release David Hicks to Australia, as long as we promised to find him guilty in the trial. Our justice system doesn't work like that, we have the trial first and decide guilt near the end - just like the USA.
But the USA didn't agree to the Geneva convention, and doesn't follow it. You've been watching too much "Hogan's Heroes", it's not the 1940's anymore - things (like the Geneva convention) have changed.