They already named a version of Windows after a TV series on serial killers ("Millennium"), why not a language based on a serial killer. How many ways does it have of killing child processes?
There are still a number of patents covering portions of the OpenGL functions. Does this grant a license for use or are we stuck with partial implementations?
What causes more harm to Children? Porn or Religion?
I see reports of kids dying because their parents were too superstitious to take them to a doctor because of their religion. i have never heard of a kid dying because he watched a porno movie or read a dirty book.
Oh wait... These are Metaphorical Children. They don't obey natural laws, only metaphorical ones.
Lloyd Mall 8, Lloyd Center 10, or Pioneer Place Stadium 6.
To get to the Lloyd Center theatres, take Max toward Gresham to the Lloyd Center stop. (It is two stops from the Convention Center.) Cross the park. One theatre will be off to your right and the other will be inside the mall on the third floor in the center. (Look for the ice rink.)
The Pioneer Place theatre is newer and as nice as Regal offers. (All three are owned by Regal. They are pretty bad. Expect to sit through 20 minutes of commercials before the show.)
To get to Pioneer Place Stadium, take the Max train downtown to the 4th St stop. Go in the Mall in front of the stop. Go to the third floor, cross the sky bridge between the game store and the Starbucks. The theatre is one floor up.
Not certain how much time you will have. OSCON gets pretty busy. I need to head to it as soon as I am done ingesting caffeine.
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The reason I want a kernel debugger is so I can figure out where the kernel was when the whole system locked up. Trying to guess takes a whole lot of time. (Yes, kernel lockups are rare, but I think I am fighting bad hardware that is not handled gracefully by the kernel.)
Frozen kernels are the hardest to debug. (Insert Korn shell reference here.)
The modern situation has much of its roots in the anti-intellectualism of Nixon. It also has parallels in the anti-intellectual movements among the various Communist and fascist regimes. Usually any authoritarian system maintains its hold by attacking the educated and/or intellectuals.
One reason for the attack being used against "those on the left" is that the more educated you are, the more likely you are to be associated with the left. Probably because of the anti-intellectual policies of the Right in the last 40 years.
Note it is possible to be educated and also anti-intellectual. The post-modern and deconstruction movements are proof of that.
I said "left wing liberal elitist", not just liberal. "Elitist" is just a code word for "Educated" or "Intellectual". The Elitist tag is just another way that the conservatives go after people who try to think about a problem not just react emotionally to it.
Having a liquid filled lens in a dry environment seems like a plan for frequent drive replacement. How long are these drives expected to last? At what humidity?
I used to live in a place that approached 0% humidity in the winter. Static electricity was bad enough. Having to maintain optimal humidity so your backup media can be read is going to be an even bigger pain.
Comet Cursor did not come with Netscape, it was something you had to download on your own. (The usual method of infection was ActiveX controls under IE. It was also distributed with RealPlayer.) I think the list was excluding spyware intentionally. Comet Cursor was spyware. (It only ran under Windows as well.) Spyware is a totally different class of annoyance.
I am glad to see Outlook included on the list. One of the worst designed mail apps I have ever seen. It makes Pegasus mail look professional. (Not to mention that Outlook is one of the major causes of top posting. Getting Outlook to quote correctly is next to impossible. There are hacks that claim to make it quote correctly, but I have never gotten one to work.)
The software I would add to the list would be SourceSafe. It was a version control system from Microsoft that was not very safe. It had a tendency of trashing the repository every once in a while. One of the worst things Microsoft ever put out on the market.
One thing which the Ubuntu and Fedora releases show is that having regularly scheduled releases does not always work out for the best. Both have shipped with a primary browser still in beta (FF3 is a big leap ahead, but it still has some issues to be shaken out), and Ubuntu will be doing long-term support for an outdated GCC version which misses out on a lot of improvements while Fedora uses a brand new.0 compiler. Seems like both projects might have had better releases a month or so later. No matter what you do, some major component is not ready. If it is not KDE, it is Gnome or xorg or Apache or Firefox or whatever.
There are a bunch of components in this release that were ready in time. Perl 5.10.0 is one that will make a difference. (Especially if your code uses regular expressions heavily.) There is also a new code base for TeTex. A new version of OCAML. Many things have been upgraded here, not just the unstable bits.
Every release has this problem, not just Fedora 9.
Why is it so common nowadays for linux distributions to include *BETA* software (as complex as a browser can be) in their releases? Sure, there can be some heavily tested and simple programs left as beta, but firefox? The web browser is a heavily used and substantial tool these days.. What part of Redhat do you not understand?
Redhat has always shipped beta code in their distros. You don't remember the time they shipped a beta version of GCC and pissed off much of the Gnu people because of it?
Redhat 3 beta 5 has worked fairly well for me. I am not seeing the CPU spikes you are seeing either. Are you sure it is not one of the flash replacements causing the problem and not Mozilla?
I have it working. It is a bit obtuse, but it works on x86_64.
You need to install the nsplugin code for both x86_64 and i386. You also need to make sure that the i386 version of pulseaudio gets installed. (yum install pulseaudio.i386)
Before you install flash, make sure/usr/lib/mozilla/plugins is created. (It will try and install files there but will not create the directory if it is missing.)
After all that is installed, install the flash-plugin. You also might want to install realplayer and helix at that point as well. (BBC streaming audio gets a lot of use by me.)
Once that is all done, type the following as root:
nspluginscan -v -a -i
That will make wrappers for any needed plugins.
Should work fine after that. (If you have problems with sound, make sure you do not have muted audio on your sound card. (Like PCM.)
It is not a contract if one side can change the terms at a whim. With a non-free software license, they can change the terms at any time. Too many people try and claim that such things are covered by contracts when the terms do not resemble anything like a negotiated contract.
Now they are saying that beyond just the right to use the product, they can tell you how and where you can use the product. They keep tightening the screws on the users until something breaks.
The industry wants software treated like property when the terms favours them and a license when it favours them. You can't have it both ways.
Such actions by companies only encourages unauthorized copying. "If you don't respect me, I won't respect you" works in the software world just as much as everywhere else.
I would be more concerned about the space elevator becoming a giant van degraff generator. Something that long would present some very interesting problems. Huge frikin lightning rod might be a better description.
Can someone explain what "brand power" is, and how you can possibly measure it?
Brand power is how much of a mark it leaves when it hits exposed flesh. You can measure it in Fahrenheit or Celsius. I usually just look at the color of the metal. When it gets to that nice cherry red glow it is just about right.
Part of the "market" is my ability to tell the market (and their Libertarian campfollowers) what they can do with themselves.
What the "market forces" are doing is driving out the good workers and leaving the drones. (Gresham's law works for IT as well.)
Any time something bad happens to employees the Capitalist theologians declare that is is the "Markets Will" and ignore any of their own fault in helping screw over their fellow man.
The best solution to a situation like what is happening with IT is to get out of the building and watch it burn from a safe distance.
Meh. IT is still a "non-revenue generating department" for the vast majority of businesses. That means their budgets suck hind teat; but worse, the bulk of the budget goes to things like hardware and software, so you're left with the dregs to supply salary money for your workers.
And if IT does not do their job, the "revenue generating departments" are hamstrung.
How can companies be so short sighted as to make anything that does not generate immediate revenue to that of a second class department? Infrastructure is important. (But that attitude does explain why our highways and bridges are crumbling in this country.)
The problem goes farther than that. I have worked in the industry for over 20 years. It used to be that the "impossible job qualification" posting would be few and far between. (i.e. requiring that an applicant have more years of experience than the skill has existed for. "10 years of.net" for example.) Those types of job postings have become more and more common. The list of skills requested has become longer and longer and the pay has become shorter and shorter.
If all goes to plan I will probably be getting out of the computer industry entirely and into something that will actually pay me money for my skills. (And, no, I am not going to tell you what that is.)
When they talk about an "IT labor shortage", they are talking about how many people are willing to work for low wages and yet have a large pool of skills, talent and education.
There are plenty of people who have the skill sets they need, they just don't want to pay the kind of wages it takes to get them and keep them.
I am not talking about kids just out of college expecting a high paying job. I am talking about companies that want people with 10+ years worth of experience and want to pay them like a kid out of college.
It has been true for a very long time that the only way you can get a real pay increase in IT it to move somewhere else. Until companies start looking at their employees as a resource and not an expense and pay them accordingly, the situation will not improve.
All these cries to let them import labor is to allow them to rent temporary employees who can be deported at the first sign of "getting uppity" for demanding a living wage.
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They already named a version of Windows after a TV series on serial killers ("Millennium"), why not a language based on a serial killer. How many ways does it have of killing child processes?
There are still a number of patents covering portions of the OpenGL functions. Does this grant a license for use or are we stuck with partial implementations?
This was in Sun's LookingGlass interface already. (Among other things.)
Too many patent lawyers, too few salt-covered bullets.
What causes more harm to Children? Porn or Religion?
I see reports of kids dying because their parents were too superstitious to take them to a doctor because of their religion. i have never heard of a kid dying because he watched a porno movie or read a dirty book.
Oh wait... These are Metaphorical Children. They don't obey natural laws, only metaphorical ones.
You have three choices...
Lloyd Mall 8, Lloyd Center 10, or Pioneer Place Stadium 6.
To get to the Lloyd Center theatres, take Max toward Gresham to the Lloyd Center stop. (It is two stops from the Convention Center.) Cross the park. One theatre will be off to your right and the other will be inside the mall on the third floor in the center. (Look for the ice rink.)
The Pioneer Place theatre is newer and as nice as Regal offers. (All three are owned by Regal. They are pretty bad. Expect to sit through 20 minutes of commercials before the show.)
To get to Pioneer Place Stadium, take the Max train downtown to the 4th St stop. Go in the Mall in front of the stop. Go to the third floor, cross the sky bridge between the game store and the Starbucks. The theatre is one floor up.
Not certain how much time you will have. OSCON gets pretty busy. I need to head to it as soon as I am done ingesting caffeine.
As I told my daughter when she was growing up...
"I may be an example, but not always a good one."
The reason I want a kernel debugger is so I can figure out where the kernel was when the whole system locked up. Trying to guess takes a whole lot of time. (Yes, kernel lockups are rare, but I think I am fighting bad hardware that is not handled gracefully by the kernel.)
Frozen kernels are the hardest to debug. (Insert Korn shell reference here.)
I have an news article from 1999 about how a similar supercollider is going to "create a Black Hole and Kill Us All".
It was fear mongering then and it is fear mongering now.
If it was possible to create black holes with that little mass involved, there would not be much of a universe for us to study.
But fear sells papers (and web ads)...
The modern situation has much of its roots in the anti-intellectualism of Nixon. It also has parallels in the anti-intellectual movements among the various Communist and fascist regimes. Usually any authoritarian system maintains its hold by attacking the educated and/or intellectuals.
One reason for the attack being used against "those on the left" is that the more educated you are, the more likely you are to be associated with the left. Probably because of the anti-intellectual policies of the Right in the last 40 years.
Note it is possible to be educated and also anti-intellectual. The post-modern and deconstruction movements are proof of that.
Probably pissed because he could not pass the morris code test.
Having a liquid filled lens in a dry environment seems like a plan for frequent drive replacement. How long are these drives expected to last? At what humidity?
I used to live in a place that approached 0% humidity in the winter. Static electricity was bad enough. Having to maintain optimal humidity so your backup media can be read is going to be an even bigger pain.
Are they moaning as well?
Nothing that the British like more than moaning and queuing.
Comet Cursor did not come with Netscape, it was something you had to download on your own. (The usual method of infection was ActiveX controls under IE. It was also distributed with RealPlayer.) I think the list was excluding spyware intentionally. Comet Cursor was spyware. (It only ran under Windows as well.) Spyware is a totally different class of annoyance.
I am glad to see Outlook included on the list. One of the worst designed mail apps I have ever seen. It makes Pegasus mail look professional. (Not to mention that Outlook is one of the major causes of top posting. Getting Outlook to quote correctly is next to impossible. There are hacks that claim to make it quote correctly, but I have never gotten one to work.)
The software I would add to the list would be SourceSafe. It was a version control system from Microsoft that was not very safe. It had a tendency of trashing the repository every once in a while. One of the worst things Microsoft ever put out on the market.
There are a bunch of components in this release that were ready in time. Perl 5.10.0 is one that will make a difference. (Especially if your code uses regular expressions heavily.) There is also a new code base for TeTex. A new version of OCAML. Many things have been upgraded here, not just the unstable bits.
Every release has this problem, not just Fedora 9.
Sure, there can be some heavily tested and simple programs left as beta, but firefox? The web browser is a heavily used and substantial tool these days.. What part of Redhat do you not understand?
Redhat has always shipped beta code in their distros. You don't remember the time they shipped a beta version of GCC and pissed off much of the Gnu people because of it?
Redhat 3 beta 5 has worked fairly well for me. I am not seeing the CPU spikes you are seeing either. Are you sure it is not one of the flash replacements causing the problem and not Mozilla?
I have it working. It is a bit obtuse, but it works on x86_64.
/usr/lib/mozilla/plugins is created. (It will try and install files there but will not create the directory if it is missing.)
You need to install the nsplugin code for both x86_64 and i386. You also need to make sure that the i386 version of pulseaudio gets installed. (yum install pulseaudio.i386)
Before you install flash, make sure
After all that is installed, install the flash-plugin. You also might want to install realplayer and helix at that point as well. (BBC streaming audio gets a lot of use by me.)
Once that is all done, type the following as root:
nspluginscan -v -a -i
That will make wrappers for any needed plugins.
Should work fine after that. (If you have problems with sound, make sure you do not have muted audio on your sound card. (Like PCM.)
Hope that helps.
It is not a contract if one side can change the terms at a whim. With a non-free software license, they can change the terms at any time. Too many people try and claim that such things are covered by contracts when the terms do not resemble anything like a negotiated contract.
Now they are saying that beyond just the right to use the product, they can tell you how and where you can use the product. They keep tightening the screws on the users until something breaks.
The industry wants software treated like property when the terms favours them and a license when it favours them. You can't have it both ways.
Such actions by companies only encourages unauthorized copying. "If you don't respect me, I won't respect you" works in the software world just as much as everywhere else.
I would be more concerned about the space elevator becoming a giant van degraff generator. Something that long would present some very interesting problems. Huge frikin lightning rod might be a better description.
Can someone explain what "brand power" is, and how you can possibly measure it?
Brand power is how much of a mark it leaves when it hits exposed flesh. You can measure it in Fahrenheit or Celsius. I usually just look at the color of the metal. When it gets to that nice cherry red glow it is just about right.
Part of the "market" is my ability to tell the market (and their Libertarian campfollowers) what they can do with themselves.
What the "market forces" are doing is driving out the good workers and leaving the drones. (Gresham's law works for IT as well.)
Any time something bad happens to employees the Capitalist theologians declare that is is the "Markets Will" and ignore any of their own fault in helping screw over their fellow man.
The best solution to a situation like what is happening with IT is to get out of the building and watch it burn from a safe distance.
I plan on doing just that.
Meh. IT is still a "non-revenue generating department" for the vast majority of businesses. That means their budgets suck hind teat; but worse, the bulk of the budget goes to things like hardware and software, so you're left with the dregs to supply salary money for your workers.
.net" for example.) Those types of job postings have become more and more common. The list of skills requested has become longer and longer and the pay has become shorter and shorter.
And if IT does not do their job, the "revenue generating departments" are hamstrung.
How can companies be so short sighted as to make anything that does not generate immediate revenue to that of a second class department? Infrastructure is important. (But that attitude does explain why our highways and bridges are crumbling in this country.)
The problem goes farther than that. I have worked in the industry for over 20 years. It used to be that the "impossible job qualification" posting would be few and far between. (i.e. requiring that an applicant have more years of experience than the skill has existed for. "10 years of
If all goes to plan I will probably be getting out of the computer industry entirely and into something that will actually pay me money for my skills. (And, no, I am not going to tell you what that is.)
When they talk about an "IT labor shortage", they are talking about how many people are willing to work for low wages and yet have a large pool of skills, talent and education.
There are plenty of people who have the skill sets they need, they just don't want to pay the kind of wages it takes to get them and keep them.
I am not talking about kids just out of college expecting a high paying job. I am talking about companies that want people with 10+ years worth of experience and want to pay them like a kid out of college.
It has been true for a very long time that the only way you can get a real pay increase in IT it to move somewhere else. Until companies start looking at their employees as a resource and not an expense and pay them accordingly, the situation will not improve.
All these cries to let them import labor is to allow them to rent temporary employees who can be deported at the first sign of "getting uppity" for demanding a living wage.
Makes me want to change my boss' start up sound to loud orgasm noises before he travels.
"Can you turn this on for me?"
"Sure!"
"Aahahahahahahahoooooohhhh!"