The resiliency of the 2.6 kernel is most certainly due to corporate involvement in the development of and support for Linux. Companies can't design, build, test, and support product for a moving target.
If anyone wanted to seriously break the Linux kernel ABI, I don't think corporate interests or major distros would support it or follow.
OSes or platforms seem to change rapidly up until the point they reach a critical mass - at which point, the next ABI change is cause for general revolt. After that, $ENTITY learns their lesson and vows to never significantly break backwards compatibility again.
The usually (sic) jackasses are the reason everyone comes to Slashdot as opposed to reading this on Digg.
Us jackasses that have been hear for many years tend to know a thing or two and have learned a lot of things the hard way. And as to the "anti-Fedora FUD", I prefer to look at it as the openness to non-Redhat-based distributions. And... yes, you can thank Redhat for turning their former legions of loyal Redhat desktop fans on to Debian, Ubuntu, and Gentoo. Thank you Redhat for ensuring diversity in Linux distributions. Some of us have even come back around to Fedora with a new perspective on Linux.
But, usual Anti Fedora FUD aside, This is good news for Fedora users and the fedora community - it makes life simpler and less confusing.
Now, I only need to be confused by the dissolution of Fedora Legacy. How about making yum upgrades across Fedora versions seamless, supported, and recommended so that no one gets left behind?
Yeah, ncurses is where you should start. Download the source distribution and look at their numerous examples for inspiration.
Oh, and I don't think it's dumb to want a console app instead of a web app. Console apps can run *QUICKLY* on any old system of just about any OS or architecture with any speed CPU with any amount of RAM with any amount of bandwidth.
Surely, it must be possible to build the same "Sugar" interface on any full install of a moder Linux OS... Where are the OS packages? Where is the SVN respository?
I don't play WoW, but I have to list it because it's taken MMORPGs mainstream this year - I mean... even southpark had an episode about it. Go to any water cooler at just about any workplace and you're likely to hear someone say something like "dude, I leveled up last night!". Hang out with any bunch of women and you're likely to hear them complain about their husband/boyfriend and "that stupid game!". So, like it or not, WoW and 2006 will go down in history.
For me personally, it was We Love Katamari on the PS2. I drove my wife crazy with the music from that game and her loss of the living room TV for hours on end. I rolled up everything I could find - dinosaurs, rainbows, cloud monsters, even planets. I found myself crazily humming the theme songs in the car. I looked at real objects and evaluated how big of a katamari it would take to pick it up. I even started to "understand" all of the nonsensical cut scenes with the king in the game.
Something about rolling stuff up in a ball is just plain fun!
The 1950's style orphanages will be taking the country by storm as parents ditch their kids to the government as they become addicted to their bathroom Blackberry.
Huh? Children will spend all day looking at FARK on their OLPCs while their parents are using their blackberries.
Maybe what we need is a good "family oriented" MMORPG where parents and children can spend some quality time together.
We may not have officially sanctioned "20% time off" policies, but there's a lot of freedom to find your own calling.
Tomorrow (Thursday) is an internal "Hack Day", and Yahoo!s all over the world will be churning out interesting/cool projects in an informal competition. It's loads of fun.
Perfect example of what is wrong with Yahoo! This reads like something out of 2000 during the dot com boom -- not 2006.
By the way, am I alone in thinking that it would be a good idea to have OpenOffice.org re-written in the Java language? The Java license is now very appealing.
Umm... I think some out of work java programmers are with you. Oh, and I think you've got the support of memory chip manufacturers and makers of quad core CPUs.
A bigot is someone who is intolerant of opinions differing from their own.
I've lived outside of the US and have no ethnic or religious hang-ups.
I encourage people to emigrate or immigrate wherever they want by whatever legal means they choose.
I'm saddened that we've let "the American Dream" die and wonder how or if we can revive it. Obviously what we're doing isn't working. We're in an *ECONOMIC* spiral - not a racial or religious one. Stay focused.
We're entering into an unprecedented period of global prosperity. Unfortunately, it's coming at the expense of the standard of living of most Americans.
Summary: US Kids are dumb, lazy, and fat and only interested in video games and lighting their farts on fire. Jobs in the US are leaving the country. Employers are moving their hiring to China, India, Brazil, Eastern Europe. Skilled workers in the US are having a hard time gettings or keeping jobs and the US companies' salary increases aren't even tracking the cost of living increases in the US.
Proposed solution: Bring in more foreign workers to compete for the few jobs that haven't been outsourced or moved overseas?!? Have them bring their extended families with them into the US. WTF! I'm not trying to be protectionist, but... we need to improve education in the US and we need to make sure that there will be good jobs for our kids when they grow up.
I know a lot of US companies now that only hire about 1 person in the US for every 20 they hire. Do you really think it's because they're aren't any qualified workers in the US!?
Could we see a day when our kids will be leaving the US to go to China and India to look for jobs and we'll be complaining about those countries limiting US foreign workers? I believe so...
Stats about divorce rates of Blackberry users?
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I used to work too much, then my wife (non-techie) was forced to get a blackberry. Before, she worked 7-8 hours a day. Now she works 24 hours a day. So, she got a few raises, but she works at least twice as much. I call that a massive pay cut.
Seriously, my wife's behavior with the blackberry has made me change so I don't work at all at home anymore, and I bitch at her all the time about not being able to separate her work from our personal lives.
I've actually suggested marriage counseling to help us deal with her blackberry.
Someday, I'm going to smash that F'ing blackberry with a sledgehammer.
NOTE TO GEEKS: Turn off your f'ing blackberry and pay attention to your family!
Dr. Chandra: What happen? HAL: Somebody set up us the monolith HAL: We get signal, Dave Dr Chanrda: What?! HAL: Main screen turn on Dr Chandra: it's you! Dave: How are you gentlemen? Monolith: All your Europa are belong to us Monolith: Land there are you are on the way to destruction Dr Chandra: What you say!! Monolith: You have chance to make your peace Dave: Ha Ha Ha Ha Monolith: Take off every other planet together Dave: Take off every Leonev Dr. Chandra: Move Leonev Hal: For great justice
Custom filter drivers Additional filesystem support like ext2/3 Drivers for console controllers Serial, parallel, and printer port drivers for a multitude of I/O projects Virtual CDrom drives Debugging software? 3rd party audio drivers for musicians like kxproject 3rd party music-related device drivers vnc-related video driver hooks? 3rd party video card drivers (Omega Drivers)
hat's why the first thing I do when I set up a Ubuntu box is enable the root account and make sudo use the root password, not the user's password.
lemme guess, you run "sudo -u root su -"?
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This is not just programming... it's everything.
Programs used to be simpler and written by *ONE PERSON* - you could read and learn from someone else's code. Nowadays, most programmers are just a cog in a wheel using an IDE to implement one function in one library, and they rarely grasp the code in it's entirety
Cars used to be simple, mechanical entities where the underlying workings hadn't changed much in decades. Nowadays, cars are so chock full of electronics and there's hardly anything improvable by a single person these days
Electronics used to be "simple" - circuit boards were single layer and traces could be easily seen with the naked eye. ICs were standard parts you could by at Radio Shack. Parts could be hand soldered, removed, and replaced. Nowadays, parts are all custom, miniaturized, with 5-layer circuit boards, and they're just too complex for any one person to fully understand.
Phones and radios were originally very basic and simple and easy to understand / fix. Nowadays, we satellite radio and cellular phones that VERY FEW people understand enough about to actually work on.
People used to know how to do everything that it took to run a farm. Managing livestock, crops, construction, markets etc. Nowadays, people just vegetate in their condo, drive to work, sit in front of a computer, and drive home. They don't need to know how to SURVIVE.
I've said this before... if there were a catastrophic event that destroyed most of society, very few people would have enough knowledge to rebuild what we currently have.
Therefore, I believe that we as a society are getting dumber because we need to know less, and because modern medicine can keep nearly anyone alive long enough to reproduce, I'd say that evolution of the human species has stopped and that as a species, we're getting weaker.
Sorry, but according to the documents I've gotten from my HR department (and I work at a Fortune 100 company), all I have to do is insinuate something, or be felt by the harassee to be insinuating something and I can be called up on sexual harassment charges. And I don't even have to be saying it to the harassee directly. If they overhear a comment that I make, and feel that it "perpetuates a culture of hostility towards them" then I can be called up on harassment.
Right on... don't think for one minute that HR is there to serve your needs. HR is an extension of of corporate legal and their job is ensure that costly employee lawsuits are avoided at all costs.
If gp2x had built-in 802.11g, I'd be all over it. Without wireless, it's just a really cool homebrew toy. With wireless, it'd be a on the living room table and I'd browse the web as I watched TV
Hey, I just wanted to get a quick reply out to you to let you know that I read your comment. I'll post more in detail later, I have a meeting I need to get to.
Hi Eln,
Thanks so much for your prompt response. This is now urgent! I'm cc'ing all of the dev managers and the VPs of developments so that we can all track your responses to this issue. Please respond to all ASAP!!!
Oh, can we set up a meeting tonight at 8pm to discuss your findings? I've added this to everyone's calendar - I realize that this is short notice, but attendance is mandatory.
If anyone has any thoughts, ideas, random musings, opinions, or collateral information please respond.
Thanks everyone!
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A few really competent developers could clean up by grabbing one of the open source gaming engines out there, getting some venture capital and building it out into an open source gaming virtual console. Here's the basic idea. You build an open source, cross-platform gaming engine that takes modules, just like neverwinter nights, but a bit more versatile.
Just like being a game developer, in theory it sounds easy and simple. In practice, it's tedious and complex.
But... look at Crystalspace - it's maybe the closest thing to what you're talking about that I'm aware of: http://www.crystalspace3d.org/
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... well at least until your katamari gets too big for the tubes. Then you need to go outside the tubes and roll up cars and buildings.
The resiliency of the 2.6 kernel is most certainly due to corporate involvement in the development of and support for Linux. Companies can't design, build, test, and support product for a moving target.
If anyone wanted to seriously break the Linux kernel ABI, I don't think corporate interests or major distros would support it or follow.
OSes or platforms seem to change rapidly up until the point they reach a critical mass - at which point, the next ABI change is cause for general revolt. After that, $ENTITY learns their lesson and vows to never significantly break backwards compatibility again.
The usually (sic) jackasses are the reason everyone comes to Slashdot as opposed to reading this on Digg.
Us jackasses that have been hear for many years tend to know a thing or two and have learned a lot of things the hard way. And as to the "anti-Fedora FUD", I prefer to look at it as the openness to non-Redhat-based distributions. And... yes, you can thank Redhat for turning their former legions of loyal Redhat desktop fans on to Debian, Ubuntu, and Gentoo. Thank you Redhat for ensuring diversity in Linux distributions. Some of us have even come back around to Fedora with a new perspective on Linux.
But, usual Anti Fedora FUD aside, This is good news for Fedora users and the fedora community - it makes life simpler and less confusing.
Now, I only need to be confused by the dissolution of Fedora Legacy. How about making yum upgrades across Fedora versions seamless, supported, and recommended so that no one gets left behind?
Yeah, ncurses is where you should start. Download the source distribution and look at their numerous examples for inspiration.
Oh, and I don't think it's dumb to want a console app instead of a web app. Console apps can run *QUICKLY* on any old system of just about any OS or architecture with any speed CPU with any amount of RAM with any amount of bandwidth.
Surely, it must be possible to build the same "Sugar" interface on any full install of a moder Linux OS... Where are the OS packages? Where is the SVN respository?
I don't play WoW, but I have to list it because it's taken MMORPGs mainstream this year - I mean... even southpark had an episode about it. Go to any water cooler at just about any workplace and you're likely to hear someone say something like "dude, I leveled up last night!". Hang out with any bunch of women and you're likely to hear them complain about their husband/boyfriend and "that stupid game!". So, like it or not, WoW and 2006 will go down in history.
For me personally, it was We Love Katamari on the PS2. I drove my wife crazy with the music from that game and her loss of the living room TV for hours on end. I rolled up everything I could find - dinosaurs, rainbows, cloud monsters, even planets. I found myself crazily humming the theme songs in the car. I looked at real objects and evaluated how big of a katamari it would take to pick it up. I even started to "understand" all of the nonsensical cut scenes with the king in the game.
Something about rolling stuff up in a ball is just plain fun!
Which is the *ONLY* thing that 99% of the console players want out of an online service!!
Make it free to play online already!
Offer stupid extras or game downloads or other crap as premiums, but don't charge for basic multiplayer game functionality.
That goes for all of the other console mfgrs as well.
Huh? Children will spend all day looking at FARK on their OLPCs while their parents are using their blackberries.
Maybe what we need is a good "family oriented" MMORPG where parents and children can spend some quality time together.
Perfect example of what is wrong with Yahoo! This reads like something out of 2000 during the dot com boom -- not 2006.
20% time off?!?! How about 20% pay cut?
Umm... I think some out of work java programmers are with you. Oh, and I think you've got the support of memory chip manufacturers and makers of quad core CPUs.
A bigot is someone who is intolerant of opinions differing from their own.
I've lived outside of the US and have no ethnic or religious hang-ups.
I encourage people to emigrate or immigrate wherever they want by whatever legal means they choose.
I'm saddened that we've let "the American Dream" die and wonder how or if we can revive it. Obviously what we're doing isn't working. We're in an *ECONOMIC* spiral - not a racial or religious one. Stay focused.
We're entering into an unprecedented period of global prosperity. Unfortunately, it's coming at the expense of the standard of living of most Americans.
Maybe it's time to move to a country that doesn't have to spend 28% of my taxes on the military, and 18% on interest on the national debt.
Summary: US Kids are dumb, lazy, and fat and only interested in video games and lighting their farts on fire. Jobs in the US are leaving the country. Employers are moving their hiring to China, India, Brazil, Eastern Europe. Skilled workers in the US are having a hard time gettings or keeping jobs and the US companies' salary increases aren't even tracking the cost of living increases in the US.
Proposed solution: Bring in more foreign workers to compete for the few jobs that haven't been outsourced or moved overseas?!? Have them bring their extended families with them into the US. WTF! I'm not trying to be protectionist, but... we need to improve education in the US and we need to make sure that there will be good jobs for our kids when they grow up.
I know a lot of US companies now that only hire about 1 person in the US for every 20 they hire. Do you really think it's because they're aren't any qualified workers in the US!?
Could we see a day when our kids will be leaving the US to go to China and India to look for jobs and we'll be complaining about those countries limiting US foreign workers? I believe so...
I used to work too much, then my wife (non-techie) was forced to get a blackberry. Before, she worked 7-8 hours a day. Now she works 24 hours a day. So, she got a few raises, but she works at least twice as much. I call that a massive pay cut.
Seriously, my wife's behavior with the blackberry has made me change so I don't work at all at home anymore, and I bitch at her all the time about not being able to separate her work from our personal lives.
I've actually suggested marriage counseling to help us deal with her blackberry.
Someday, I'm going to smash that F'ing blackberry with a sledgehammer.
NOTE TO GEEKS: Turn off your f'ing blackberry and pay attention to your family!
IN AD 2010
war was ending
Dr. Chandra: What happen?
HAL: Somebody set up us the monolith
HAL: We get signal, Dave
Dr Chanrda: What?!
HAL: Main screen turn on
Dr Chandra: it's you!
Dave: How are you gentlemen?
Monolith: All your Europa are belong to us
Monolith: Land there are you are on the way to destruction
Dr Chandra: What you say!!
Monolith: You have chance to make your peace
Dave: Ha Ha Ha Ha
Monolith: Take off every other planet together
Dave: Take off every Leonev
Dr. Chandra: Move Leonev
Hal: For great justice
Custom filter drivers
Additional filesystem support like ext2/3
Drivers for console controllers
Serial, parallel, and printer port drivers for a multitude of I/O projects
Virtual CDrom drives
Debugging software?
3rd party audio drivers for musicians like kxproject
3rd party music-related device drivers
vnc-related video driver hooks?
3rd party video card drivers (Omega Drivers)
lemme guess, you run "sudo -u root su -"?
This is not just programming... it's everything.
Programs used to be simpler and written by *ONE PERSON* - you could read and learn from someone else's code. Nowadays, most programmers are just a cog in a wheel using an IDE to implement one function in one library, and they rarely grasp the code in it's entirety
Cars used to be simple, mechanical entities where the underlying workings hadn't changed much in decades. Nowadays, cars are so chock full of electronics and there's hardly anything improvable by a single person these days
Electronics used to be "simple" - circuit boards were single layer and traces could be easily seen with the naked eye. ICs were standard parts you could by at Radio Shack. Parts could be hand soldered, removed, and replaced. Nowadays, parts are all custom, miniaturized, with 5-layer circuit boards, and they're just too complex for any one person to fully understand.
Phones and radios were originally very basic and simple and easy to understand / fix. Nowadays, we satellite radio and cellular phones that VERY FEW people understand enough about to actually work on.
People used to know how to do everything that it took to run a farm. Managing livestock, crops, construction, markets etc. Nowadays, people just vegetate in their condo, drive to work, sit in front of a computer, and drive home. They don't need to know how to SURVIVE.
I've said this before... if there were a catastrophic event that destroyed most of society, very few people would have enough knowledge to rebuild what we currently have.
Therefore, I believe that we as a society are getting dumber because we need to know less, and because modern medicine can keep nearly anyone alive long enough to reproduce, I'd say that evolution of the human species has stopped and that as a species, we're getting weaker.
Umm, apparently it sorta is a word, you shonky shonk!
http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=sh
There *IS* Windows NT 3.51 for MIPS...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_NT
We had NEC MIPS servers running it way back when.
Actually I got it a little bit wrong, it's called "Mr T - Treat your mother right"
http://www.devilducky.com/media/26951/
Right on... don't think for one minute that HR is there to serve your needs. HR is an extension of of corporate legal and their job is ensure that costly employee lawsuits are avoided at all costs.
If gp2x had built-in 802.11g, I'd be all over it. Without wireless, it's just a really cool homebrew toy. With wireless, it'd be a on the living room table and I'd browse the web as I watched TV
How about NEVER? Does that work for you?
Hi Eln,
Thanks so much for your prompt response. This is now urgent! I'm cc'ing all of the dev managers and the VPs of developments so that we can all track your responses to this issue. Please respond to all ASAP!!!
Oh, can we set up a meeting tonight at 8pm to discuss your findings? I've added this to everyone's calendar - I realize that this is short notice, but attendance is mandatory.
If anyone has any thoughts, ideas, random musings, opinions, or collateral information please respond.
Thanks everyone!
Bob
Senior SCSSACP
TPS report generation, QLDT division
AGAAP
email: bob@corp.com
fax: 1-212-212-1212
Mobile: 1-212-212-1223
Telex: TP-10925645
Pager: bob7979797@pagingservice.com
GPS coordinates: N36 06.285', W114 46.655'
IM: hotlovr69@msn.com
What I'm currently listening to: Mr. T - Respect yo Mama
The opinions epressed in the above email represent my opinion and do not represent the opinion of my company or management. This communication from corp.com may contain forward looking statements or confidential information and must not be forwarded or archived.
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THIS MESSAGE WAS SENT FROM MY BLACKBERRY
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THIS MESSAGE HAS BEEN SCANNED BY AVG-PRO AND FOUND TO BE VIRUS FREE
Just like being a game developer, in theory it sounds easy and simple. In practice, it's tedious and complex.
But... look at Crystalspace - it's maybe the closest thing to what you're talking about that I'm aware of: http://www.crystalspace3d.org/