the OUM memory state can be written more than 10 trillion times, making this memory useful for program storage (Flash) as well as general purpose interactive (DRAM) data storage memory.
Um, I don't think that will work for general purpose storage. One million memory accesses per second is not unrealistic. At that rate, your OUM will wear out in about four months. Wouldn't mind a few GB of it in my handheld MP3 player, but I'll take volitile memory for my system, TYVM.
I don't mean this to sound like flamebait, but Motif right now is a scourge upon X in general. It is a horrifically ugly and unergonomic from a look/feel standpoint. GTK and Qt were much welcomed developments in the X universe. (This is just my own humble opinion).
Anyway, how much effort do you think the community will put into making Motif better? Considering that the lion's share of commercial X applications use it, it would be fantastic if we had a better Motif in about a year. Should we expect to see a motif.themes.org any time soon?
Why do the telecom providers keep trying to skirt around the inevitable? Broadband over phone (DSL), over tv cable, by laser, microwave, or power lines (the "holy grail") are all temporary fixes. Eventually large numbers of people are going to want broadband, and the only way to do that is to lay new cable for Internet.
This will happen. They did it for phone. They did it for electricity. They did it for cable TV (I remember when my rural Wisconsin village finally got hooked up in the early 90s). They will do it for broadband Internet. Why are they delaying what must be done?
Can you imagine if, in the late 70s, cable companies tried to send TV over the phone lines? Or set up neighborhood microwave/laser transceivers to get TV out to everyone? What did they do instead? They laid the frickin cable down. Now almost all Americans can get cable TV, and everyone is happy. WHY THE HELL CAN'T THEY DO THIS FOR DATA?
If there is some technical/political/intelligent reason why SOMEONE isn't out there laying down residential data infrastructure, PLEASE enlighten me, because I sure as hell don't understand it.
Although, the moderation system will assure that only the most interesting, informative, insightful, and funny obscene garbage and spam will float to the top of the heap.:-)
Sorry, but I took one look at the story title, and I pictured all of these security experts watching Penn Gillette navigate through a three-dimentional filesystem interface while "Zero Cool" and Lara Croft and Emmanuel Goldstein uploaded the "Donnetello Virus" onto his system.
I think StarOffice has a lot going for it, and is, IMHO, the best productivity suite for Linux. But why do they wrap everything up in what is basically a self-contained desktop environment? 100 MB? Is that really necessary? I mean, there is such a thing as *too* feature rich. I wish I could get a stand alone StarWriter, or something.
Or, here's another idea: can you turn StarOffice into a complete X11 desktop? Like the old Emacs joke: "Emacs is my shell." Make StarOffice a window manager. Wrap a distribution around it! SunLinux!!!
Sorry, I'm going into stream-of-consciousness mode. I should stop now.
Why, how could anyone even think about such a shameful tactic as using subliminal messages redhatsux. I mean, a product or sevice should stand on its own merit useslackware. I think this is a telling sign of how evil the movie industry is colorlsrulz.
I'm a desktop support guy (and CS major) for Professional and Technical Education in the IT department at the University of Wisconsin. They decided to let me teach a class, which begins tomorrow. The class is on installing and configuring Red Hat Linux.
I'd say that this article does interest the Comp Sci student portion of Slashdotters. I am taking an operating systems class, and message passing between processes is one of the topics. We have discussed in class how any shared resource is a potential messaging channel, so this Slashdot reader found the story very interesting, as this demonstrates a real-life ramification.
1GHz chips -- or 950MHz, or 850MHz for that matter -- are mainly of use to high-end gamers and some corporate users.
I think they misspelled "Windows 2000 users."
The main benefit of the speed war to the user who wants basic Net surfing, email and gaming capabilities is that faster processors at the top-end mean more reasonably priced machines with faster chips lower down the chain.
Mheh. No one will ever need $fastest_speed_cpu. All you will ever need is $slowest_currently_available_cpu in order to run $current_windows_verson and $current_office_version.
As someone who administers about 70 Windoze machines, I have to say, the Windows key is nice. When I have to reboot an entire room (which happens a _lot_) it makes things much faster (Win, u, r, enter vs. Ctlr-Esc, u, r, enter).
Domain squatters and/. first posters really have a lot in common. A.first TLD would specifically designate a namespace for people who brag about being the first one to think of a domain. So you could have domains like
This story made me think of the good ol' days on/. when they would have stories about over-hyped pipe dreams like the Freedom CPU Project (http://f-cpu.tux.org/) and Freedows (bad name, neat idea).
Can we have more stuff like that? That was fun. What's going on with Freedows these days, anyway?
We actually did have Y2K bugs left on the ancient IBM mainframe here at my university. And, lo and behold, the behemoth skipped over Feb. 29 as well (my pay period ends Saturday March 12).
I have this feeling that in the year 2100, these old eniacs will still be operating, and February that year will have 29 days.:-)
-Sit comatose for hours on end -Meow incessantly for no reason whatsoever -Mindlessly scratch all furniture it sees to shreads -Ignore everything that people say to it
The technology to accomplish this has existed for decades.
No, he quite clearly said "A Linux drawback on the server side," which means either he's either confused about what "server side" means, or he honestly thinks that sysadmins clicking and drooling their way through the day, letting the GUI solve all of the problems, is a Good Thing.
The phrase "zero administation Windows" comes to mind.
Yes, I do agree that you shouldn't have to be a sysadmin to use Linux, but in the business server world, NT is doing very bad things in allowing clueless people to play sysadmin by clicking buttons and not really knowing what's happening inside of the box. I pray that that culture doesn't find its way into Linux.
A Linux drawback on the server side is the high level of expertise needed to work with the platform, Kusnetsky said. "The level of expertise needed is very high, the installation process is not simple, nor is getting it to recognize all the devices, because obscure devices don't have Linux drivers
Ok, first of all, the fact that you need to be knowledgable to run a Linux server is a Good Thing. Does this author think that sysadmins should not have a high level of expertise? Second of all, Linux has no problem whatsoever supporting server hardware. In fact, it probably supports more SCSI and RAID hardware than NT does. AND, who said the installation process for Linux is difficult? Redhat, Caldera, and Debian are EASIER to install than NT!
I don't think this guy knows the difference between "Server" and "Home PC." Furthermore, he's been fed a load of FUD so thick you swim in it.
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Um, I don't think that will work for general purpose storage. One million memory accesses per second is not unrealistic. At that rate, your OUM will wear out in about four months. Wouldn't mind a few GB of it in my handheld MP3 player, but I'll take volitile memory for my system, TYVM.
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Anyway, how much effort do you think the community will put into making Motif better? Considering that the lion's share of commercial X applications use it, it would be fantastic if we had a better Motif in about a year. Should we expect to see a motif.themes.org any time soon?
If only they did this three or four years ago....
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by myconid (my S conid@ P toge A the M r.net) on Tuesday May 02, @08:27PM EST (#362)
Heres a good loophole. Install Winrar, right click on the icon and select OPEN WITH WINRAR, extract the file.
Whats a license? I never saw one..
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I suggest we all stand outside the Redmond Campus with bullhorns and shout that, repeatedly.
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-Verdad. Verdad.
-Oye, ?donde esta Duque?
-!Duque, recoja el teléfono!
-?Bien?
-**QUE PASAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!***
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-AAAAAAAAAAAAAAA *el clic*
-Entonces, ?que pasa, muchacho?
-Mirando el juego, bibiendo un Bud.
-Verdad. Verdad.
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This will happen. They did it for phone. They did it for electricity. They did it for cable TV (I remember when my rural Wisconsin village finally got hooked up in the early 90s). They will do it for broadband Internet. Why are they delaying what must be done?
Can you imagine if, in the late 70s, cable companies tried to send TV over the phone lines? Or set up neighborhood microwave/laser transceivers to get TV out to everyone? What did they do instead? They laid the frickin cable down. Now almost all Americans can get cable TV, and everyone is happy. WHY THE HELL CAN'T THEY DO THIS FOR DATA?
If there is some technical/political/intelligent reason why SOMEONE isn't out there laying down residential data infrastructure, PLEASE enlighten me, because I sure as hell don't understand it.
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Probably you would be best to wait for a DCMA story to post this comment. There is at least one such story per day on /..
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Although, the moderation system will assure that only the most interesting, informative, insightful, and funny obscene garbage and spam will float to the top of the heap. :-)
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Or, here's another idea: can you turn StarOffice into a complete X11 desktop? Like the old Emacs joke: "Emacs is my shell." Make StarOffice a window manager. Wrap a distribution around it! SunLinux!!!
Sorry, I'm going into stream-of-consciousness mode. I should stop now.
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We obviously need to put a stop to this before we have another Oklahoma City on our hands!
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I think they misspelled "Windows 2000 users."
The main benefit of the speed war to the user who wants basic Net surfing, email and gaming capabilities is that faster processors at the top-end mean more reasonably priced machines with faster chips lower down the chain.
Mheh. No one will ever need $fastest_speed_cpu. All you will ever need is $slowest_currently_available_cpu in order to run $current_windows_verson and $current_office_version.
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coollinuxstuff.first
buy-this-domain-for-20000-dollars.first
slutty-sex-dolls.first
...and so on.
This could lead to some interesting "dialogue."
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Can we have more stuff like that? That was fun. What's going on with Freedows these days, anyway?
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I have this feeling that in the year 2100, these old eniacs will still be operating, and February that year will have 29 days. :-)
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-Sit comatose for hours on end
-Meow incessantly for no reason whatsoever
-Mindlessly scratch all furniture it sees to shreads
-Ignore everything that people say to it
The technology to accomplish this has existed for decades.
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> Fuckhead.
Fuckhead.
Why is it that whenever people want to express something coming out of nowhere, they always name a small town in Wisconsin?
Why not name some backwaters place in western Michigan? Nothing good ever comes from there.... :-)
The phrase "zero administation Windows" comes to mind.
Yes, I do agree that you shouldn't have to be a sysadmin to use Linux, but in the business server world, NT is doing very bad things in allowing clueless people to play sysadmin by clicking buttons and not really knowing what's happening inside of the box. I pray that that culture doesn't find its way into Linux.
Ok, first of all, the fact that you need to be knowledgable to run a Linux server is a Good Thing. Does this author think that sysadmins should not have a high level of expertise? Second of all, Linux has no problem whatsoever supporting server hardware. In fact, it probably supports more SCSI and RAID hardware than NT does. AND, who said the installation process for Linux is difficult? Redhat, Caldera, and Debian are EASIER to install than NT!
I don't think this guy knows the difference between "Server" and "Home PC." Furthermore, he's been fed a load of FUD so thick you swim in it.