There was an article mentioned on/. (I think) a few weeks ago about someone using a GA to create programs that sort strings or something. I think it was something someone did recently, so it must not be what the person above was referring to, but it's the same idea.
I don't seem to have the URL handy at the moment, unfortunately.
I came across another funny Babelfish translation a while ago while reading a German article that mentioned Microsoft. The translation was pretty good until I came across the phrase "talking moon" in the middle of a sentence. It didn't make any sense at all, so I looked at the original and reallised Babelfish had translated "Redmond" as "talking moon."
Of course, after I saw this, I remembered from my high school German than "to speak" is "reden" and "moon" is "Mond," so I can understand how Babelfish got confused;)
I also thought about this when I initially read the license, but then I noticed the "and others".
They are not saying they have the rights to all the source etc. They are just saying that all the source code etc. is copyrighted. (Some by them, and the rest by other people/organisations.)
Try turning off acceleration features of your video card and see if that fixes it.
I had the same sort of problem with an S3 Virge GX/2 under XFree86 (machine locked solid when moving windows etc. Not just X.) No problem under the Accelerated X demo, though, so it looks like a bug in the accel code for S3 Virge GX/2 in XFree86.
If you don't have an S3 Virge GX/2 it could still be a similar problem. Try turning off acceleration and see what happens.
If that sorts out the problem, maybe you could persuade the people you got the machine from to swap the card for something else with better XFree86 support.
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It's funny 'cos it's true
Here's another link if you're interested. www.news24.co .za
There was an article mentioned on /. (I think) a few weeks ago about someone using a GA to create programs that sort strings or something. I think it was something someone did recently, so it must not be what the person above was referring to, but it's the same idea.
I don't seem to have the URL handy at the moment, unfortunately.
I came across another funny Babelfish translation a while ago while reading a German article that mentioned Microsoft. The translation was pretty good until I came across the phrase "talking moon" in the middle of a sentence. It didn't make any sense at all, so I looked at the original and reallised Babelfish had translated "Redmond" as "talking moon."
;)
Of course, after I saw this, I remembered from my high school German than "to speak" is "reden" and "moon" is "Mond," so I can understand how Babelfish got confused
I also thought about this when I initially read the license, but then I noticed the "and others".
They are not saying they have the rights to all the source etc. They are just saying that all the source code etc. is copyrighted. (Some by them, and the rest by other people/organisations.)
> X=Y;X^2=XY;X^2-Y^2=XY-Y^2;(X+Y)(X-Y)=Y(X-Y);X+Y=Y; 2Y=Y;2=1
This is all true except for the "2=1" thing if X=0 and Y=0.
i.e. you have proven nothing.
AFAIK Amanda uses dump or tar behind the scenes.
Hi
Try turning off acceleration features of your
video card and see if that fixes it.
I had the same sort of problem with an
S3 Virge GX/2 under XFree86 (machine locked solid
when moving windows etc. Not just X.) No
problem under the Accelerated X demo, though, so
it looks like a bug in the accel code for S3
Virge GX/2 in XFree86.
If you don't have an S3 Virge GX/2 it could still
be a similar problem. Try turning off
acceleration and see what happens.
If that sorts out the problem, maybe you could
persuade the people you got the machine from to
swap the card for something else with better
XFree86 support.
Hope that helps.