When I upgraded to this kernel version, gkrellm stopped working. Did anyone else experience the same thing, or is it something unique to me?
The debug information is incredibly unhelpful. It hangs here forever (at least until I -C it...) bash-2.05b$ gkrellm -w -d 3 --- GKrellM 2.1.24 --- diskstats=0 partition_stats=0 sysfs_stats=0
Its age causes the odd compatability problems (esp with nautilus)
What type of problems have you had? I use nautilus and Enlightenment together and have not had any problems. Of course, I don't let nautilus manage the desktop (why would I want that when I am using Enlightenment?)
I'm curious how well the hardware in this would be supported in say, Slackware. I love the price of the laptop, but frankly hve no interest in running Lindows.
Last November, I upgraded my motherboard to a new DFI one with the AMD 761 chipset, but kept using the same processor (a Duron 700).
After the upgrade the bug hit me (the computer would lock HARD every time X started)- at first I just thought it was bad RAM, but replacing that didn't help. Eventually I figured out by my own troubleshooting that unchecking the AMD 761 AGP chipset fixed the bug....
Since the bug only appeared after the upgrade to a motherboard with an AMD 761 chipset, this makes a lot more sense. (Using the kernel option mem=nopentium fixes my problem, so it must be the same bug....)
Even still- the only distros likely to be "ruined" are Red Hat and Mandrake. People who want something different can always turn to Debian, Suse, or Slackware (not to mention the other zillion smaller distros out there- like Sorcerer Linux mentioned earlier today....)
There's something strange happening (I call it cheating) when someone can graduate with a CS degree yet never use dynamic memory allocation knowingly...
Or, like me, they could just be at a school that concentrates solely on Java, and never makes you write a program in a language without garbage collection. Or, if they do end up writing a C program in one of their classes, it's so dinky and stupid you never need to worry about such things (i.e. write a program that takes this string as input, and parses it into this)
Last semester in my Operating Systems class at Rutgers Universuty, a large portion of the class got caught "cheating" on the first assignment by software like this. Each person got a chance to plead their case to the TAs and Professors before they were given a failing grade, because this was the first time this software was used on such a large scale (>200 students).
It turns out that about half of the people cheating really weren't- they just all happened to independently come up with a seperate working implementation than the Professors originally intended, and hadn't even thought of themselves.
All that ended up coming of this was that the Professors apologized on the class newsgroup- I think they still check the code using the same program.
Even so, this would still be a good thing. If there is only one "standard" CD copy protection that all record companies would use, then there is only one thing for people to concentrate their efforts on breaking.
This would be similar to the use of one standard for DVD protection, and we all know about DeCSS....
As long as Linuxmafia exists, Slackware can never die. If there is an interest (there is) people will make their own.tgz packages to keep Slackware current. And, there's always the option of compiling from source yourself.
Yes, but couldn't the fact that he said this in his book 'Just for Fun' way back before any of this started prove (at least within a reasonable doubt) to the court that this was his true intent?
I don't think making encryption illegal (or more difficult) would of had any effect in the WTC disaster.
The simple fact is, many of these suspects are/were anonymous in the fact that they blend in with the crowd, and there was no reason to suspect many of them of planning such an act beforehand.
Unless the government screens every single IM/email sent, by everyone (not feasible considering legal/search warrant issues, not to mention the manpower involved) there is no way to protect people from things like this being planned.
Sure, you can track the online activities of known terrrorists, but for every one you know about, there likely exists hundreds you don't. I think the real threat lies in the terrorists that we have no knowledge of, as of yet, and have no reason to issue search warrants against.
And chalk up some legal fees if you don't have one of those "If I don't win the case, you don't pay me" lawyers.
Not to mention that even if you win, the company can't pay you if they don't have the money themselves. You would actually end up with alot less than you started with!
There's no point in sueing someone if they don't have any money! Which, assuming they went bankrupt, they don't.:)
I don't quite see the point of the keyboard, since the screen is a touch-screen.
From my limited experience (mostly playing with pagers at comp-usa), keyboards like this are incredibly annoying to use. Maybe I just have really stubby fingers, or bad aim (if using a stylus/pencil) but I find myself frequently pushing the wrong key, or multiple keys. Not to mention the extra time all that attempting to type on those things uses.
Does anyone have a device with a keyboard like this and actually find it useful?
This is false. 2.5.0 does not exist. And that's what the original poster refered to. You are indeed very confused. No offense!:)
2.5 is the devel kernel for 2.6, the same way 2.3 was the devel kernel for 2.4. I think development on 2.5 started soon after the 2.4 kernel was released.
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If wrapping the money in tin foil helped, you think carrying it in a duct tape wallet would too? :)
It turns out it was the Seti@home plugin not working.
When I upgraded to this kernel version, gkrellm stopped working. Did anyone else experience the same thing, or is it something unique to me?
The debug information is incredibly unhelpful. It hangs here forever (at least until I -C it...)
bash-2.05b$ gkrellm -w -d 3
--- GKrellM 2.1.24 ---
diskstats=0 partition_stats=0 sysfs_stats=0
Its age causes the odd compatability problems (esp with nautilus)
What type of problems have you had? I use nautilus and Enlightenment together and have not had any problems. Of course, I don't let nautilus manage the desktop (why would I want that when I am using Enlightenment?)
Looking at ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware-9. 0/PACKAGES.TXT, it looks like this version of Slack doesn't include Enlightenment....
Anyone know why?
I'm curious how well the hardware in this would be supported in say, Slackware. I love the price of the laptop, but frankly hve no interest in running Lindows.
Last November, I upgraded my motherboard to a new DFI one with the AMD 761 chipset, but kept using the same processor (a Duron 700).
After the upgrade the bug hit me (the computer would lock HARD every time X started)- at first I just thought it was bad RAM, but replacing that didn't help. Eventually I figured out by my own troubleshooting that unchecking the AMD 761 AGP chipset fixed the bug....
Since the bug only appeared after the upgrade to a motherboard with an AMD 761 chipset, this makes a lot more sense. (Using the kernel option mem=nopentium fixes my problem, so it must be the same bug....)
At least there are companies like ID Software that take Linux seriously and regularly release Linux binaries for their games.
This really sucks, but since ID makes the best games anyway, I'm not too worried. Hopefully other software companies will do the same.....
Even still- the only distros likely to be "ruined" are Red Hat and Mandrake. People who want something different can always turn to Debian, Suse, or Slackware (not to mention the other zillion smaller distros out there- like Sorcerer Linux mentioned earlier today....)
Or, like me, they could just be at a school that concentrates solely on Java, and never makes you write a program in a language without garbage collection. Or, if they do end up writing a C program in one of their classes, it's so dinky and stupid you never need to worry about such things (i.e. write a program that takes this string as input, and parses it into this)
Who are you anyway, the programming nazi?
It turns out that about half of the people cheating really weren't- they just all happened to independently come up with a seperate working implementation than the Professors originally intended, and hadn't even thought of themselves.
All that ended up coming of this was that the Professors apologized on the class newsgroup- I think they still check the code using the same program.
But remember- the year is still young and many people are still on vacation :)
Just because they wrote all this in the license doens't mean it will hold up in a courtroom....
Hopefully not eveyone has a problem at the same time. :)
Maybe they ship helpful reference cards with enough information to help you get on the internet and get to a FAQ page...
Prolly so they can sell more CD recorders... consumers won't buy them if they can put their music on them!
Even so, this would still be a good thing. If there is only one "standard" CD copy protection that all record companies would use, then there is only one thing for people to concentrate their efforts on breaking.
This would be similar to the use of one standard for DVD protection, and we all know about DeCSS....
Long Live Slackware!
Yes, but couldn't the fact that he said this in his book 'Just for Fun' way back before any of this started prove (at least within a reasonable doubt) to the court that this was his true intent?
Linus wrote the kernel so he could learn about the way x86 processors work. And because it was fun. He never thought it would become a big deal.
i.e.
"We'll meet for coffee thursday at two at Starbucks."
equals
"We attack insert landmark here Wednesday at one."
The simple fact is, many of these suspects are/were anonymous in the fact that they blend in with the crowd, and there was no reason to suspect many of them of planning such an act beforehand.
Unless the government screens every single IM/email sent, by everyone (not feasible considering legal/search warrant issues, not to mention the manpower involved) there is no way to protect people from things like this being planned.
Sure, you can track the online activities of known terrrorists, but for every one you know about, there likely exists hundreds you don't. I think the real threat lies in the terrorists that we have no knowledge of, as of yet, and have no reason to issue search warrants against.
Not to mention that even if you win, the company can't pay you if they don't have the money themselves. You would actually end up with alot less than you started with!
There's no point in sueing someone if they don't have any money! Which, assuming they went bankrupt, they don't. :)
Unless this is a federal law, this stuff would vary from state to state though. So you may both be correct- just not for the same place. (IANAL)
From my limited experience (mostly playing with pagers at comp-usa), keyboards like this are incredibly annoying to use. Maybe I just have really stubby fingers, or bad aim (if using a stylus/pencil) but I find myself frequently pushing the wrong key, or multiple keys. Not to mention the extra time all that attempting to type on those things uses.
Does anyone have a device with a keyboard like this and actually find it useful?
2.5 is the devel kernel for 2.6, the same way 2.3 was the devel kernel for 2.4. I think development on 2.5 started soon after the 2.4 kernel was released.