As a computer expert of 20 years and programmer of 15 years, how will this effect me? Will I have to learn totally new things, or does it build on the old ones?
This is a new (not even that new) graphics format. How much totally new stuff could you possibly have to learn?
Get him reading Linux Kernel Internals and other things.
I don't see how coddling the child does him any good in the long run. Give the 6-year-old a copy of Operating Systems: Design and Implementation and have him write his own damn OS.
Bone is continuously being remodeled; degraded by osteoclasts and rebuilt by osteoblasts. The bone loss in zero-g is the same as in osteoporotic women, where bone is torn up and excreted faster than it's rebuilt. Just taking calcium won't help.
You obtain a virtual terminal from the keystrokes that go to the terminal driver, NOT X. There is a terminal driver running which handles terminal connections. X has nothing to do with it.
When X fails, it frequently leaves the user in a state where keyboard input is not registered. That includes your "keystrokes that go to the terminal driver".
This guy has seen the same thing. This guy has seen the same thing. The fact that you apparently haven't doesn't make you clueful, just lucky.
He's right, though. Jason Scott brags twice about how it's "Creative Commons licensed" as though that's a meaningful statement.
Anyway -- look out, MPAA! Hundreds of hours of interviews with ex-BBSers? With competition like that on the horizon, the movie studios might as well just shut their doors!
...still using straight Mozilla? Maybe I just haven't played with Firefox enough to get it set up the way I want but I find the Mozilla interface much more comfortable.
When X crashes, you do Alt-F1 to bring up a virtual terminal which is a CONSOLE app, and then you kill X. It has nothing to do with whether the X server is responding to keyboard input - you're using kill -9 from the console to tell the kernel to kill the job.
Uh, no shit-- that's great if you've crashed to the console. (Although why bother to kill -9 the X session then?) In the more common case of X crashing to a state of unresponsiveness, your Alt-F1 isn't going to help.
This guy notes the same issue. I see someone has decided to up the hairsplitting stakes and insist that that's not a crash, it's a lock-up. OK, that's some consolation while you reboot and redo your work...
You mean you're thinking of buying this for yourself?
The chance of even a corporate Linux user being sued over patent violations is essentially zero. The chance of a individual user facing any risk is absolute zero. This whole thing is FUD to scare users into giving money to OSRM and Bruce Perens for absolutely no reason.
Look at this way -- how much insurance are you carrying now in case an evil corporation hauls you into court over some invented patent infringement in your car, your refrigerator or your medicine cabinet?
Perhaps you could enlighten me as to why an X crash demands a reboot or even wipes out all your work.
Note that I prefaced my comment with "For most desktop use, though..." Most desktop use uses the GUI and an X crash wipes out all your work. Most desktop users don't have a second computer to ssh in and kill the locked-up X on the first.
If the "At last, Linux Is Ready For The Desktop!" crowd wishes to add a caveat that "...as long as you do all your work in screen and have two computers" -- then, yeah, Linux almost never crashes.
But KDE and Gnome go down all the time. It's not really fair to talk about applications....Like in Linux, the base system can often save the rest.
For most desktop use, though, an X crash (which is probably what you mean by "KDE and Gnome go down all the time") wipes out all your unsaved work and demands a reboot, just as a full-blown operating system crash does. The hair-splitting about "completely crash" doesn't change that.
The bitching about BSODs goes back to when Linux use involved running vi in an xterm in FVWM on barebones video cards. In those days, the GUI really was rock-solid (and Windows was really as flimsy as people made out).
Despite what CmdrTaco and the submitter seem to think, the United Kingdom (and its BBC news outlet) are not part of the United States. If I recall correctly, they seceded from the US in 1776 after dumping all their tea into the Thames.
Seriously, what is wrong about wondering why people who aren't allowed to be in this country legally are allowed to purchase property and are given low-interest rate loans meant for the poor?
I don't object to that per se (the benefits part, anyway) -- it's a matter of proportion. There are 24 hours in a day and CNN gives three of them to Lou Dobbs. Yeah, the border needs to be tightened. Is that such a problem that 12.5% of the day needs to be devoted to complaining about Mexicans?
If you're interested in some fact-based analysis of this issue (as opposed to the argument-from-first-principles of the Membox pieces and *shudder* whatever the Slashbots will come up with):
Daniel Drezner has some interesting analysis on his site. His linked articles, especially the Foreign Affairs one, are also good.
I, by the way, am pretty agnostic on this issue, and linked to only one side because it's the only good discussion I've seen. (As opposed to, say, Lou Dobbs using an hour of CNN every night to rant about evil Mexicans.) I'd welcome similar links on the anti- side.
Yeah, so they don't like it... they probably don't like other people using competitors like UPS or Purolator, but that's part of doing business... and it's no grounds for legal action at all.
I'm sure they have legal grounds for denying the guy a supply of free boxes, and I'd certainly back them ethically on it. The DMCA claim is just completely nuts, though -- it's like they're getting legal advice by reading Slashdot at -1.
Why did the Sony Playstation crush the N64? Because you can copy easily for the Playstation. Copying a cartridge is just too much hastle to be worth it. Even better it was trivial to chip a playstation so you could get loads of games for the price of a few CDs.
What percent of Playstation owners do you think had mod chips? I can't imagine it's significantly greater than zero.
I think that Novell realises this much that they now that they can run their business on desktop linux (and they do), and that is does not really has to impress anybody.
I'm probably missing something, but how does that follow from Novell's demo of flashy new desktop technology that doesn't impress cynics?
Thanks! Skimming through this rather dense 60 page article, though, I don't see anything relating to the issue I asked about. In fact, the closest thing I see is:
This section reviewed a number of well-known culture-only hypotheses for the mean Black-White group difference in IQ. The most widely accepted is that
they are due to differences in SES. Adjusting for SES, however, only reduces the mean Black-White IQ difference by about one third.
Other culture-only hypotheses,such as the effects of segregation, bias in tests, or the consequences of being a minority in a White society are not supported by our review of the evidence.
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This is a new (not even that new) graphics format. How much totally new stuff could you possibly have to learn?
"Killer" just means "70% of the features and sort of works"...
Oh, I figured they were salvaging them from $50 iBooks from the Henrico County schools...
I don't see how coddling the child does him any good in the long run. Give the 6-year-old a copy of Operating Systems: Design and Implementation and have him write his own damn OS.
Bone is continuously being remodeled; degraded by osteoclasts and rebuilt by osteoblasts. The bone loss in zero-g is the same as in osteoporotic women, where bone is torn up and excreted faster than it's rebuilt. Just taking calcium won't help.
I dunno -- do you look at Linus in a bathing suit and think "Gee, if this only involved Bruce Perens! And patents!"
OMTFG! Since 2003!!!! I just got a (admittedly sketchy looking) Milky Way out of the vending machine with an expiration date in 2003.
What we learn:
1) Damn, I'm getting old.
2) I must be the only one here who eats Milky Ways.
You obtain a virtual terminal from the keystrokes that go to the terminal driver, NOT X. There is a terminal driver running which handles terminal connections. X has nothing to do with it.
When X fails, it frequently leaves the user in a state where keyboard input is not registered. That includes your "keystrokes that go to the terminal driver".
This guy has seen the same thing. This guy has seen the same thing. The fact that you apparently haven't doesn't make you clueful, just lucky.
Anyway -- look out, MPAA! Hundreds of hours of interviews with ex-BBSers? With competition like that on the horizon, the movie studios might as well just shut their doors!
This is statistical noise, pure and simple. There is no story here.
...still using straight Mozilla? Maybe I just haven't played with Firefox enough to get it set up the way I want but I find the Mozilla interface much more comfortable.
Uh, no shit-- that's great if you've crashed to the console. (Although why bother to kill -9 the X session then?) In the more common case of X crashing to a state of unresponsiveness, your Alt-F1 isn't going to help.
This guy notes the same issue. I see someone has decided to up the hairsplitting stakes and insist that that's not a crash, it's a lock-up. OK, that's some consolation while you reboot and redo your work...
The chance of even a corporate Linux user being sued over patent violations is essentially zero. The chance of a individual user facing any risk is absolute zero. This whole thing is FUD to scare users into giving money to OSRM and Bruce Perens for absolutely no reason.
Look at this way -- how much insurance are you carrying now in case an evil corporation hauls you into court over some invented patent infringement in your car, your refrigerator or your medicine cabinet?
Not if it's not responding to keyboard input...
In any case, the real issue in an X crash or lockup is losing all your work, not whether or not a reboot is necessary.
Note that I prefaced my comment with "For most desktop use, though..." Most desktop use uses the GUI and an X crash wipes out all your work. Most desktop users don't have a second computer to ssh in and kill the locked-up X on the first.
If the "At last, Linux Is Ready For The Desktop!" crowd wishes to add a caveat that "...as long as you do all your work in screen and have two computers" -- then, yeah, Linux almost never crashes.
For most desktop use, though, an X crash (which is probably what you mean by "KDE and Gnome go down all the time") wipes out all your unsaved work and demands a reboot, just as a full-blown operating system crash does. The hair-splitting about "completely crash" doesn't change that.
The bitching about BSODs goes back to when Linux use involved running vi in an xterm in FVWM on barebones video cards. In those days, the GUI really was rock-solid (and Windows was really as flimsy as people made out).
HTH
It was explained in Cryptonomicon, so you'd think the nerds would get it, but apparently not.
I don't object to that per se (the benefits part, anyway) -- it's a matter of proportion. There are 24 hours in a day and CNN gives three of them to Lou Dobbs. Yeah, the border needs to be tightened. Is that such a problem that 12.5% of the day needs to be devoted to complaining about Mexicans?
Daniel Drezner has some interesting analysis on his site. His linked articles, especially the Foreign Affairs one, are also good.
I, by the way, am pretty agnostic on this issue, and linked to only one side because it's the only good discussion I've seen. (As opposed to, say, Lou Dobbs using an hour of CNN every night to rant about evil Mexicans.) I'd welcome similar links on the anti- side.
I'm sure they have legal grounds for denying the guy a supply of free boxes, and I'd certainly back them ethically on it. The DMCA claim is just completely nuts, though -- it's like they're getting legal advice by reading Slashdot at -1.
What percent of Playstation owners do you think had mod chips? I can't imagine it's significantly greater than zero.
I'm probably missing something, but how does that follow from Novell's demo of flashy new desktop technology that doesn't impress cynics?
Hah! Just set the appropriate USE flags and make.conf (I prefer -O8 -- just remember it's a capital o, not a zero!) and no need for tuning!