The best UNIX tools I've used for windows is UWIN, from AT&T. It's written by David Korn, of ksh fame. It does really well with the subtleties of UNIX semantics that Cygwin and MS miss. It's not free unless you're in research/academia, but well worth the money.
> First time I carried it through an airport I got body searched by the security
As much as I love a full cavity search, I'm not sure this is such a great feature.
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· Score: 3, Interesting
This idea is interesting: The Open-Source Celebrity. According to the article:
There you have it: celebrities, as we know them, are fictional characters. Sure, yes, there's a real person named Michael Stipe, who says actual things and goes to real restaurants and eats food and does other actual stuff. But there's also a character named ''Michael Stipe'' who exists as a kind of collectively agreed-upon fictive construct. Of course, this character is loosely based on the real-life Michael Stipe. For example, they look quite similar. But according to the Junod Doctrine, ''Michael Stipe'' - the character - is more real than Michael Stipe the person. Further, he exists in the public domain, like the Linux operating system. Everyone is free to tinker at will; we can ascribe actions, ambitions, desires and quotes to him as we see fit. He belongs to all of us. All celebrities do. And not in an obtuse, metaphorical, ''Princess Diana belonged to all of us'' kind of way, but in a direct, hands-on, dance-puppet-dance kind of way.
I don't know if this is still the case, but when
I went to stuyvesant we got grades from 0-100
(people knew everyone else's GPA to two decimal
points, but that's another story). Anyway, the
UC schools would calculate your equivalent GPA
by converting grades above 90 to a 4.0. Since
probably more than half the students had
averages above 90, it was really easy to get
into the UC schools provided you had good SATs
and achievement scores.
Recently, ksh became open source (see announcement
on http://www.kornshell.com) and
slackware started to distribute
KornShell 93. (See http://www.slackware.com).
Can you clarify what the licencing terms are?
Also, will ksh be included with other linux distribtuions? When? Will it replace pdksh
on these systems?
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The best UNIX tools I've used for windows is UWIN, from AT&T. It's written by David Korn, of ksh fame. It does really well with the subtleties of UNIX semantics that Cygwin and MS miss. It's not free unless you're in research/academia, but well worth the money.
> First time I carried it through an airport I got body searched by the security
As much as I love a full cavity search, I'm not sure this is such a great feature.
See this article.
I don't know if this is still the case, but when I went to stuyvesant we got grades from 0-100 (people knew everyone else's GPA to two decimal points, but that's another story). Anyway, the UC schools would calculate your equivalent GPA by converting grades above 90 to a 4.0. Since probably more than half the students had averages above 90, it was really easy to get into the UC schools provided you had good SATs and achievement scores.
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http://www.kornshell.com is your best bet, under the "Software" section. Sam
Recently, ksh became open source (see announcement on http://www.kornshell.com) and slackware started to distribute KornShell 93. (See http://www.slackware.com). Can you clarify what the licencing terms are? Also, will ksh be included with other linux distribtuions? When? Will it replace pdksh on these systems?