I've been using Linux for almost 10 years; I started with SLS and Slackware, then Red Hat, S.u.S.E., and Mandrake. Aside from some brief flirting with Corel, I'd never installed Debian until two weeks ago. When I did, it was easily the least intutive install since Slackware days. NEVERTHELESS, once it's installed, it rocks... to the point where I spent this weekend upgrading my servers from RH 7.3 to Debian. The install is -not- for the newbie, but for someone who's familiar with Linux, it's an amazing system, and makes security maintenance an absolute dream. I'd love to see an easy-to-install mainstream Debian, so that the newbies could share in the fun. In the meantime, though, it's "more for me." I love Debian, and apt-get, in and of itself, isn't the whole deal. Rather, it's the design philosophy, of which apt-get is an integral part, but merely a part. Go Debian!
1: one of the primary reasons people like XFS is because of ACL support. 2: Do -you- want your filesystem cluttered up with lookups that you don't even know exist? If you want them, create them: it's what "ln -s" does. Otherwise, it's bloat and overhead.
Now that your entire post has been invalidated, might I recommend you go and read what XFS does? Personally, I prefer ReiserFS for raw journaling. But XFS *ROCKS* for other stuff like ACLs.
"We are all New Yorkers", was something I saw someone say after 9/11. While I was born in, raised near, and worked in NYC for several years, I moved away almost a decade ago. Nevertheless, those images will forever be blazoned into my memory -- and, no doubt, the memories of most everyone else, even those who'd never set foot on NY[C] soil. While I agree with what appears to be the gen'l consensus that this not be turned into a national holiday, it's clear it's because people want to remember the day -- like Pearl Harbor day -- but not, for lack of better words, pay tribute to it. All of us will always remember it, and I know, for me, 9/11 will always be a day of reflection and introspection.
With all due respect, f00Dave,/. isn't a science site -- it's a site about cool news. "News for nerds, stuff that matters." I'll be blunt: "soft" sciences, such as biology, generally don't have the cool factor that things like BECs do. Granted, I'm making a huge generalization, but it's one I'll stand by. You'll see physics, math, and nanotechnology on here, along with the odd explosion dressed up as a chemistry story, long before you'll see "behavioral scientists agree that 73% of people watch too much TV" or somesuch. Does that mean that soft science isn't news, or is unimportant? Absolutely not. But better places to read up on them might be www.sciam.com and www.nytimes.com (on Tuesdays, which is "Science Times" day).
Damn. You must've worked for some really dumb companies. I'm sorry. In the real world, one would presuppose that a) he already knows his current company/boss reasonably well -- enough to know whether or not they'd go turncoat, and b) that most companies are sincere in their wish to hold onto him. In your scenario, there'd be no chance for him to train a replacement; dumb, dumb pradctice. If he left, then he would train, and they'd let him. Smart practice.
"It depends" seems to be the only truly correct answer. I was fairly happy at my current job, but wasn't getting enough money, and wanted a chance to expand my horizons a little. Well, I got another job, gave notice... and twenty minutes later, had a counter-offer in my hands, which I accepted. Not that I disliked the other company (I didn't), but I liked my current one, had a good user base, and a good boss, and between the $$$ and the promotion (it was largely a chance to expand into Unix), I stayed, and have never regretted it... except for telling my would-have-been new boss that I was staying.
Of the 49 people in my startup fiber company, 46 went -- of the three missing, two were on a sales trip. I *love* working for a cool company. Go Xanoptix!
Actually, it'll conclude (if you want to be a whiney S.O.B., like me) with episode 3, which is the sixth movie. But, anyway, I'm guessing he's just feeling old. I mean, he's gotta be in his mid to late 50's; you really think he wants to spend another 10 years doing Star Wars? He's already made his legacy; perhaps he'll pass it off to another, or, if he lives a l-o-n-g time, he'll feel like it later in life, but I imagine one ten-year Star Wars stint at a time is probably enough.
To all those losers who have nothing to do with their time but whine -- STOP READING. Come back tomorrow, and we'll all be happy, sane Slashdotters. For today, though, lighten the hell up and enjoy yourself, huh?
I certainly am, and will continue to enjoy Mssr. Taco's fine sense (and subtle appreciation) of humor.
Re:Lame - as in, the original poster of this whine
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Maybe *you* don't consider the single most successful open source software releasing a new microrev to be news, but... it is. Maybe when it's a bit down the pipe, nobody'll care all that much, but Lord knows, I'm interested. And not to compile, either: 2.5.x is *w-a-y* too unstable for any except thems that want to watch machines crash-n-burn, but it's the first true development kernel we've had in ages, and (IMH, somewhat nerdy, opinion) exciting to see what goes in. *blam* Block devices broken... but only to fix 'em even better with nifty abstraction layers. *blam* CML (well, not yet, but *some day). *blam* You get the idea. Don't care? THEN DON'T READ IT. Sheesh.
For one, their "private IP" addresses are 168.192.x.x -- sounds a little backward to me. For another, they refer to "" as a "pipe" -- last time I checked "|" did that job.
Nevertheless, I have to say that it really is a damn cool idea; sad I never thought of it myself.
It's nice to see that it's happened. However, if you read the glossies (I actually have 'em 'round here somewhere), you'll see that "running Windows" stuff is a bit of an exaggeration. It runs Windows stuff... Windows 3.x stuff, to be precise. I'd say that the potential for Desqview/X would be a lot closer to if Sun released WABI than something that could help the good WINE folk.
Alas.
But, hey -- maybe there is some good stuff to mine. It certainly was an amazing application when it came out; hopefully it will be released as OS, and maybe we can do something unexpected with it.
"Of course, now it's 2002, and the dream of universal display / printing remains only partly realized; PDFs really have helped to narrow the gap between dream and reality, though."
Oh, come on -- let's be realistic, here. PDF has succeeded beyond anyone's wildest dreams. Is it perfect? No, but it's far and away as successful as any other multi-platform software that's ever existed, and I certainly am including Java. "Narrow the gap," indeed. It's closed it, for all intents and purposes, except for folks who really, *really* care _exactly_ about what stuff looks like (eg. marketing weenies), and then they should really be using the same s/w as their production agencies/dep'ts, anyway. I guess I'm just defending against your damning with faint praise, since I think that PDF has been a Godsend, right across the board. If it weren't for PDFs, we'd certainly all have to be opening up our favorite docs in Word, nowadays. Instead, we have a reasonably open standard, with the ability to read/generate PDFs with free software, and nevertheless a commercial community to back it up. I entirely fail to see this as the qualified success that Timothy seems to see it as. Note that, as someone else pointed out, NeXT, etc., have done a better job -- but I'm talking about PDF addressing the needs of an imperfect, cross-platform world, not various OSes that have managed to do it right.
With all due respect, I think you're the one who's goofing, here. Most likely, the printer didn't support the fonts that you'd used. Upgrading the printer was easily the *most* expensive solution: instead, you should've clicked the "download fonts to printer" button in your printer control panel dialog. Of course, I'm saying this while sitting here, but I've *never* had a problem with PDFs when the fonts were all present and accounted for.
'Why weren't you at the feast? The Lady Arwen was there.'
Strider looked down at Bilbo gravely. 'I know,' he said. 'But often I must put mirth aside.'
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Frodo halted for a moment, looking back. Elrond was in his chair and the fire was on his face like summer-light upon the trees. Near him sat Lady Arwen. To his surprise Frodo saw that Aragorn stood beside her, and he seemed to be clad in elven-mail, and a star shone upon his breast. They spoke together, and then suddenly it seemed to Frodo that Arwen turned towards him, and the light of her eyes fell on him from afar and pierced his heart.
Hey: if the PCI bus can stand it (both physical and logical layers), Linux can cope with it just fine; that's what "insmod" is for. I don't believe most PCI slots have the grounding that allows for it, but, if it did, then I believe it'd be a total no-brainer. I think you're seeing a software shortcoming that just doesn't exist.
I don't have the book in front of me, so I can't quote, but it's damn clear that Aragorn's got the hots for Arwen from virtually the moment we get to Rivendell, and certainly by the time we come to Lothlorien. Granted: not a whole hell of a lot *happens*, but for those familiar with the text, there's no doubt as to where Aragorn's thoughts are vis-a-vis "romantic interest." Now, I can't swear, but I'm fairly certain she's actually in Rivendell when they get there, and Aragorn hangs with her some. Does she have anything even close to the role shown in the movie? Hell, no. Is she clearly, obviously one of the primary things driving Aragorn? Absolutely: especially clear if you bother with the appendices in RotK.
They were just giving it a category; none of the books reviewed were entitled either "Learning GNU/Linux" or "Learning Linux".
Technical journalism for non-techical readership.
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Hey, guys -- lighten the hell up. In case you didn't notice, The New York Times readership, while quite literate, ain't that of Dr. Dobb's. For that matter, I thought that the writer did a DAMN good job for a non-software head. If more mainstream press wrote articles this good, we'd have a lot less bitching to do. As for the captions on the pictures being not entirely accurate, go read the "errata" section that appears DAILY -- it's quite common for many pictures of different people to get taken, and not unusual at all for some of the captions to get mixed up. Personally, I think kudos (and an apology or two) are due Amy Harmon for writing an informative article that won't cause the average reader's eyes to glaze over.
I got the impression in So Long that you were looking to get away from the whole Arther Dent & Co. feel -- and I felt that this was backed up in the extreme by Mostly Harmless. I guess it's almost a silly question, but I liked the characters, and am sad at the way they went out, so: Did Mostly Harmless do what you wanted it to? Was it an attempt to get the publishers off your back? Or were you truly sick and tired of the characters, themselves? Or something else entirely different?
Re:how large is the chess tree? infinite!
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Sorry, no. You're mixing up two different rules -- and you're close, but not quite.
1) If the same position is repeated three times, it's a draw.
2) If an opponent doesn't move anything except his king and his pawns for some number of moves (50? I don't remember.), it's a draw.
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Solving Chess?
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Umm. You're wrong. While there almost certainly is a "perfect" game of chess, all it would take would be for the opponent to not use one of the scripted moves -- while it would, by definition, put him at a disadvantage, it would then require skill, not memorization, to see what the disadvantage was, and the scripted game would be in the circular filing cabinet.
Other news fora are certainly dynamic, always-current, latest-and-greatest... but, when I want actual, in-depth coverage, I go to newspapers. Granted, it's a rare day that I actually buy a paper, but I certainly check www.nytimes.com and www.wsj.com on a daily basis, and other papers as well -- they all have their strong points, and usually go into considerably more depth (and breadth) than most "standard" on-line news sources. Does this mean that I think newspapers are safe? Not at all; I actually think they're in a fair bit of trouble. But, as with any major paradigm shift, there are *always* dinosaurs who have issues. I simply think that many of the better newspapers will be able to cope with the changes, and perhaps even come out the better for it. After all, why bother reading the Daily Planet, when cnn.com is better? They will have to continue to find their audience, be it local coverage, in-depth coverage, financials, politics, whatever. "Build a better mousetrap."
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I've been using Linux for almost 10 years; I started with SLS and Slackware, then Red Hat, S.u.S.E., and Mandrake. Aside from some brief flirting with Corel, I'd never installed Debian until two weeks ago. When I did, it was easily the least intutive install since Slackware days. NEVERTHELESS, once it's installed, it rocks... to the point where I spent this weekend upgrading my servers from RH 7.3 to Debian. The install is -not- for the newbie, but for someone who's familiar with Linux, it's an amazing system, and makes security maintenance an absolute dream. I'd love to see an easy-to-install mainstream Debian, so that the newbies could share in the fun. In the meantime, though, it's "more for me." I love Debian, and apt-get, in and of itself, isn't the whole deal. Rather, it's the design philosophy, of which apt-get is an integral part, but merely a part. Go Debian!
1: one of the primary reasons people like XFS is because of ACL support.
2: Do -you- want your filesystem cluttered up with lookups that you don't even know exist? If you want them, create them: it's what "ln -s" does. Otherwise, it's bloat and overhead.
Now that your entire post has been invalidated, might I recommend you go and read what XFS does? Personally, I prefer ReiserFS for raw journaling. But XFS *ROCKS* for other stuff like ACLs.
$.02...
"We are all New Yorkers", was something I saw someone say after 9/11. While I was born in, raised near, and worked in NYC for several years, I moved away almost a decade ago. Nevertheless, those images will forever be blazoned into my memory -- and, no doubt, the memories of most everyone else, even those who'd never set foot on NY[C] soil. While I agree with what appears to be the gen'l consensus that this not be turned into a national holiday, it's clear it's because people want to remember the day -- like Pearl Harbor day -- but not, for lack of better words, pay tribute to it. All of us will always remember it, and I know, for me, 9/11 will always be a day of reflection and introspection.
God bless, all...
With all due respect, f00Dave, /. isn't a science site -- it's a site about cool news. "News for nerds, stuff that matters." I'll be blunt: "soft" sciences, such as biology, generally don't have the cool factor that things like BECs do. Granted, I'm making a huge generalization, but it's one I'll stand by. You'll see physics, math, and nanotechnology on here, along with the odd explosion dressed up as a chemistry story, long before you'll see "behavioral scientists agree that 73% of people watch too much TV" or somesuch. Does that mean that soft science isn't news, or is unimportant? Absolutely not. But better places to read up on them might be www.sciam.com and www.nytimes.com (on Tuesdays, which is "Science Times" day).
Roblimo actually posted a cool story. I am both shocked and amazingly pleased. After the whole Alex Chiu debacle, I'd lost most any hope...
Damn. You must've worked for some really dumb companies. I'm sorry. In the real world, one would presuppose that a) he already knows his current company/boss reasonably well -- enough to know whether or not they'd go turncoat, and b) that most companies are sincere in their wish to hold onto him. In your scenario, there'd be no chance for him to train a replacement; dumb, dumb pradctice. If he left, then he would train, and they'd let him. Smart practice.
Duh.
"It depends" seems to be the only truly correct answer. I was fairly happy at my current job, but wasn't getting enough money, and wanted a chance to expand my horizons a little. Well, I got another job, gave notice... and twenty minutes later, had a counter-offer in my hands, which I accepted. Not that I disliked the other company (I didn't), but I liked my current one, had a good user base, and a good boss, and between the $$$ and the promotion (it was largely a chance to expand into Unix), I stayed, and have never regretted it... except for telling my would-have-been new boss that I was staying.
-Ken
http://www.well.com/~kena/OpenSourceDebate.txt
Of the 49 people in my startup fiber company, 46 went -- of the three missing, two were on a sales trip. I *love* working for a cool company. Go Xanoptix!
Actually, it'll conclude (if you want to be a whiney S.O.B., like me) with episode 3, which is the sixth movie. But, anyway, I'm guessing he's just feeling old. I mean, he's gotta be in his mid to late 50's; you really think he wants to spend another 10 years doing Star Wars? He's already made his legacy; perhaps he'll pass it off to another, or, if he lives a l-o-n-g time, he'll feel like it later in life, but I imagine one ten-year Star Wars stint at a time is probably enough.
To all those losers who have nothing to do with their time but whine -- STOP READING. Come back tomorrow, and we'll all be happy, sane Slashdotters. For today, though, lighten the hell up and enjoy yourself, huh?
I certainly am, and will continue to enjoy Mssr. Taco's fine sense (and subtle appreciation) of humor.
Maybe *you* don't consider the single most successful open source software releasing a new microrev to be news, but... it is. Maybe when it's a bit down the pipe, nobody'll care all that much, but Lord knows, I'm interested. And not to compile, either: 2.5.x is *w-a-y* too unstable for any except thems that want to watch machines crash-n-burn, but it's the first true development kernel we've had in ages, and (IMH, somewhat nerdy, opinion) exciting to see what goes in. *blam* Block devices broken... but only to fix 'em even better with nifty abstraction layers. *blam* CML (well, not yet, but *some day). *blam* You get the idea. Don't care? THEN DON'T READ IT. Sheesh.
For one, their "private IP" addresses are 168.192.x.x -- sounds a little backward to me. For another, they refer to "" as a "pipe" -- last time I checked "|" did that job.
Nevertheless, I have to say that it really is a damn cool idea; sad I never thought of it myself.
Here's to hoping that VA can keep going...
It's nice to see that it's happened. However, if you read the glossies (I actually have 'em 'round here somewhere), you'll see that "running Windows" stuff is a bit of an exaggeration. It runs Windows stuff... Windows 3.x stuff, to be precise. I'd say that the potential for Desqview/X would be a lot closer to if Sun released WABI than something that could help the good WINE folk.
Alas.
But, hey -- maybe there is some good stuff to mine. It certainly was an amazing application when it came out; hopefully it will be released as OS, and maybe we can do something unexpected with it.
"Of course, now it's 2002, and the dream of universal display / printing remains only partly realized; PDFs really have helped to narrow the gap between dream and reality, though."
Oh, come on -- let's be realistic, here. PDF has succeeded beyond anyone's wildest dreams. Is it perfect? No, but it's far and away as successful as any other multi-platform software that's ever existed, and I certainly am including Java. "Narrow the gap," indeed. It's closed it, for all intents and purposes, except for folks who really, *really* care _exactly_ about what stuff looks like (eg. marketing weenies), and then they should really be using the same s/w as their production agencies/dep'ts, anyway. I guess I'm just defending against your damning with faint praise, since I think that PDF has been a Godsend, right across the board. If it weren't for PDFs, we'd certainly all have to be opening up our favorite docs in Word, nowadays. Instead, we have a reasonably open standard, with the ability to read/generate PDFs with free software, and nevertheless a commercial community to back it up. I entirely fail to see this as the qualified success that Timothy seems to see it as. Note that, as someone else pointed out, NeXT, etc., have done a better job -- but I'm talking about PDF addressing the needs of an imperfect, cross-platform world, not various OSes that have managed to do it right.
With all due respect, I think you're the one who's goofing, here. Most likely, the printer didn't support the fonts that you'd used. Upgrading the printer was easily the *most* expensive solution: instead, you should've clicked the "download fonts to printer" button in your printer control panel dialog. Of course, I'm saying this while sitting here, but I've *never* had a problem with PDFs when the fonts were all present and accounted for.
'Why weren't you at the feast? The Lady Arwen was there.'
Strider looked down at Bilbo gravely. 'I know,' he said. 'But often I must put mirth aside.'
[...]
Frodo halted for a moment, looking back. Elrond was in his chair and the fire was on his face like summer-light upon the trees. Near him sat Lady Arwen. To his surprise Frodo saw that Aragorn stood beside her, and he seemed to be clad in elven-mail, and a star shone upon his breast. They spoke together, and then suddenly it seemed to Frodo that Arwen turned towards him, and the light of her eyes fell on him from afar and pierced his heart.
Hey: if the PCI bus can stand it (both physical and logical layers), Linux can cope with it just fine; that's what "insmod" is for. I don't believe most PCI slots have the grounding that allows for it, but, if it did, then I believe it'd be a total no-brainer. I think you're seeing a software shortcoming that just doesn't exist.
I don't have the book in front of me, so I can't quote, but it's damn clear that Aragorn's got the hots for Arwen from virtually the moment we get to Rivendell, and certainly by the time we come to Lothlorien. Granted: not a whole hell of a lot *happens*, but for those familiar with the text, there's no doubt as to where Aragorn's thoughts are vis-a-vis "romantic interest." Now, I can't swear, but I'm fairly certain she's actually in Rivendell when they get there, and Aragorn hangs with her some. Does she have anything even close to the role shown in the movie? Hell, no. Is she clearly, obviously one of the primary things driving Aragorn? Absolutely: especially clear if you bother with the appendices in RotK.
They were just giving it a category; none of the books reviewed were entitled either "Learning GNU/Linux" or "Learning Linux".
Hey, guys -- lighten the hell up. In case you didn't notice, The New York Times readership, while quite literate, ain't that of Dr. Dobb's. For that matter, I thought that the writer did a DAMN good job for a non-software head. If more mainstream press wrote articles this good, we'd have a lot less bitching to do. As for the captions on the pictures being not entirely accurate, go read the "errata" section that appears DAILY -- it's quite common for many pictures of different people to get taken, and not unusual at all for some of the captions to get mixed up. Personally, I think kudos (and an apology or two) are due Amy Harmon for writing an informative article that won't cause the average reader's eyes to glaze over.
I got the impression in So Long that you were looking to get away from the whole Arther Dent & Co. feel -- and I felt that this was backed up in the extreme by Mostly Harmless. I guess it's almost a silly question, but I liked the characters, and am sad at the way they went out, so: Did Mostly Harmless do what you wanted it to? Was it an attempt to get the publishers off your back? Or were you truly sick and tired of the characters, themselves? Or something else entirely different?
Sorry, no. You're mixing up two different rules -- and you're close, but not quite.
1) If the same position is repeated three times, it's a draw.
2) If an opponent doesn't move anything except his king and his pawns for some number of moves (50? I don't remember.), it's a draw.
Umm. You're wrong. While there almost certainly is a "perfect" game of chess, all it would take would be for the opponent to not use one of the scripted moves -- while it would, by definition, put him at a disadvantage, it would then require skill, not memorization, to see what the disadvantage was, and the scripted game would be in the circular filing cabinet.
Other news fora are certainly dynamic, always-current, latest-and-greatest... but, when I want actual, in-depth coverage, I go to newspapers. Granted, it's a rare day that I actually buy a paper, but I certainly check www.nytimes.com and www.wsj.com on a daily basis, and other papers as well -- they all have their strong points, and usually go into considerably more depth (and breadth) than most "standard" on-line news sources. Does this mean that I think newspapers are safe? Not at all; I actually think they're in a fair bit of trouble. But, as with any major paradigm shift, there are *always* dinosaurs who have issues. I simply think that many of the better newspapers will be able to cope with the changes, and perhaps even come out the better for it. After all, why bother reading the Daily Planet, when cnn.com is better? They will have to continue to find their audience, be it local coverage, in-depth coverage, financials, politics, whatever. "Build a better mousetrap."