Hmm.. I got quite a big experience with both AMD and Intel based machines. Intel's are mostly Celeron's frankly -> i.e. in the same price range with K6, K6-2, K6-III.
Well, in almost every case AMD "old" chips are snappier and, well, more "pleasant" to use than Intel's. That's purely MHO, of course. But benchmark (compilation etc..) times are with me mostly. Not that I would trust them;-) Especially, it's noticable when you have your software compiled with K6 optimization - K6 and Pii are quite different architectures. K6 is more advanced as far as I can understand them.
Frankly, my dream machine (x86) for every task for today would be dual K6-III, but sadly there's no such MB's.
Of course some difference comes with 3d games. Yet again - your videocard means more here than your CPU. And anyway I don't play them.
> Does anybody see any Linux community still supporting > Linux release 0.99?
But! "Linux community" supports 2.0.x line. And that's a VeryGoodThing. We need not only have the system that runs extremely well on top HW, but, probably even more important, that reasonably well runs on multiple levels of hardware.
Well, one more big (huge?) piece of software goes OpenSource... Anyone have some info on how LARGE is this source? Obviously, very large. Here comes a question: What's the use of the source for such a large project for me? Advantages for, say, having kernel source are obvious - you can adapt it for your hardware or compile it optimized for your CPU and specific tasks. Same for gcc, glibc... Almost everything. But StarOffice? I won't be able to even build it, probably. But even if I'll get a very hefty hardware to build it - what's the use of modifying it? Any ideas?
PS: SO uses OLE among others. I think M$ will be very upset about OLE sources (and OLE-based file formats) going public...
Hey, haven't we seen a series of articles (e.g. on slashdot) about people breaking GPL all the way? May I ask what actions were taken against them? Who defends GPL? Is it just a funny piece of ethical code or a legal paper? Say, if I go ahead - take someone's GPL'd source, add something to it and sell it as a "commercial product" (purely hypothetical case) who's gonna sue me and what will they seek? And what if original author lives in some other country?
Even that the message is downmarked it's right in that most of the world (sigh - I gonna be flamed, btw: I'm from Russia;) has no interest in those modifications. If taiwanese/chinese people are concerned - well - it doesn't make it a topic for slashdot (where there's a LOT of fascists, alas. Results are predictable)
- The guy used 128MB of RAM.. IMHO, dual CPU system deserves 256 at least. Yes, I know about prices. Sad.
- "18GB Western Digital Expert 7200rpm UDMA 66 hard drive (Linux only supports UDMA33!)" Oh dear.. It goes on and on - linux doesn't support these, linux doesn't support that, does it bad, does that even worse.. Probably revolution need some more people. Me for once;-) Can someone tell (in 25 words or less;-) how to make proper diffs, where to send them and what to do next? Some pointers to good places with hardware specs are also welcome.
Sorry, but I think you're completely wrong. I can tell you a lot of words here but think that one proof would be enough: all DBMS's store data in one file! Contrary to your claims it's WAY faster, easier on disk activity and more reliable.
.... are the best way to burn all your time, unfortunately. I find that I, for example, spend too much time on the net. Sites like slashdot will make you old before you notice.
Get a life! Go do something useful.
:-)
PS: Properly set-up Opera is really, really cool. I use it exclusively when on mswin. It's sad that such a good browser comes with such an ugly default setup:(
May I tell you that even if some hacking comes out of RAS (Russian Academy of Science) it doesn't mean a thing 'cos these days all these institutions here in Russia are populated by young graduates (seeking to evade conscription into army - by law if after graduating from university you go "into science" you get a "delay" from conscription as long as you work there) and mostly elder staff that are, mostly again, afraid of computers and 'net. So - guess what - I think it's all just some 20-something guys that have enough knowledge and too much spare time and free 'net access. Nothing more here, IMHO. BTW: These same guys are also making a lots of good soft:-)
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It's not "pretty cool", it SHOULD be that way. Those guys didn't use some weird tweaking in assembly (like those 256 byte demos), - they just did it "the right way". This demo is very good in this aspect - it shows the utter bloatedness of all the soft we use daily. Linux included - feel free to flame me, but I flatly reduce to advocate things like StarOffice or Netscape or even KDE. Yet Linux _kernel_ is pretty cute. At least before 2.2, but even 2.2 is still ok.
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Hmm...
;-)
Actually, I added codepage switching to Opera and fixed a fullscreen-mode-with-a-taskbar-on-the-side bug..
No recompilation - binary patching.
Surely, reverse engineering is a useful thingie
It doesn't work with Opera.
NN or IE only.
Speaking about 'Open'.....
Oh, dear....
Helpdesk tell you how to name servers?!?!
Have you ever read BOFH?
The phrase: "With Athlon AMD finally got Intel"
;-)
Hmm.. I got quite a big experience with both AMD and Intel based machines. Intel's are mostly Celeron's frankly -> i.e. in the same price range with K6, K6-2, K6-III.
Well, in almost every case AMD "old" chips are snappier and, well, more "pleasant" to use than Intel's. That's purely MHO, of course. But benchmark (compilation etc..) times are with me mostly. Not that I would trust them
Especially, it's noticable when you have your software compiled with K6 optimization - K6 and Pii are quite different architectures. K6 is more advanced as far as I can understand them.
Frankly, my dream machine (x86) for every task for today would be dual K6-III, but sadly there's no such MB's.
Of course some difference comes with 3d games. Yet again - your videocard means more here than your CPU.
And anyway I don't play them.
Yep!
(Quite a discussion we have here, don't we?)
Maybe because power dissip. in excess of 100W is not cool (sic).
Or maybe Alphas are not so impressive in performance/MHz.
HTTP thin clients?!?
What browser are you gonna use anyway? You know, you'll need quite a decent machine for most popular choices..
Anyway - your usual Delphi app runs around any browser. Bad thing is that it's for Windoze only now.
Really. The only reason for HTTP based apps are "cross-platformity". Thin? Nah, IMHO.
And calling Java a thin client is a total joke.
Linux version 2.2.13-7mdk (root@kenobi.mandrakesoft.com) (gcc version 2.95.1 19990816
WOW!!!
Production(?) kernel built with 2.95.1.
Is it "approved" by "big guys" (I mean Alan Cox etc...) now?
Have bugs gone?
One buck??
Why? It would be much cooler if they throw them one cent for every sold copy, I think. One buck is just too much.
:-(
> Does anybody see any Linux community still supporting
> Linux release 0.99?
But! "Linux community" supports 2.0.x line.
And that's a VeryGoodThing.
We need not only have the system that runs extremely well on top HW, but, probably even more important, that reasonably well runs on multiple levels of hardware.
Well, one more big (huge?) piece of software goes OpenSource...
Anyone have some info on how LARGE is this source?
Obviously, very large.
Here comes a question: What's the use of the source for such a large project for me?
Advantages for, say, having kernel source are obvious - you can adapt it for your hardware or compile it optimized for your CPU and specific tasks.
Same for gcc, glibc... Almost everything.
But StarOffice? I won't be able to even build it, probably.
But even if I'll get a very hefty hardware to build it - what's the use of modifying it? Any ideas?
PS: SO uses OLE among others. I think M$ will be very upset about OLE sources (and OLE-based file formats) going public...
Hey, haven't we seen a series of articles (e.g. on slashdot) about people breaking GPL all the way?
May I ask what actions were taken against them? Who defends GPL? Is it just a funny piece of ethical code or a legal paper?
Say, if I go ahead - take someone's GPL'd source, add something to it and sell it as a "commercial product" (purely hypothetical case) who's gonna sue me and what will they seek?
And what if original author lives in some other country?
What about girls?
Even that the message is downmarked it's right in that most of the world (sigh - I gonna be flamed, btw: I'm from Russia ;) has no interest in those modifications.
If taiwanese/chinese people are concerned - well - it doesn't make it a topic for slashdot (where there's a LOT of fascists, alas. Results are predictable)
I wonder how do they pronounce FreeBSDCon?
Definitely, they should've called it FreeCon (Read: Freak-on). IMHO, that's much cooler. (Yet, you won't be able to guess what's it all about)
Agreed.
Elections probably worked in acient Athens where people knew each others and hence the men they vote for. Things like this.
How can it work now?
People are voting for handsome faces more than for wise brains etc. Elections are such a bullshit now.
Democracy, n: An order of things when all decisions are taken by the chief democrate.
Just look at that fat beak. Maybe it's his brother or cousin, but it's not Tux :-)
- The guy used 128MB of RAM.. IMHO, dual CPU system deserves 256 at least. Yes, I know about prices. Sad.
;-) ;-) how to make proper diffs, where to send them and what to do next? Some pointers to good places with hardware specs are also welcome.
- "18GB Western Digital Expert 7200rpm UDMA 66 hard drive (Linux only supports UDMA33!)"
Oh dear.. It goes on and on - linux doesn't support these, linux doesn't support that, does it bad, does that even worse.. Probably revolution need some more people. Me for once
Can someone tell (in 25 words or less
Unfriendly who?!?! Opera?
'G' and 'Ctrl-G' keys ALONE are worth all the IE features.
But you are right: it's much better than any NS now and IE's, of course.
Sorry, but I think you're completely wrong.
I can tell you a lot of words here but think that one proof would be enough: all DBMS's store data in one file! Contrary to your claims it's WAY faster, easier on disk activity and more reliable.
.... are the best way to burn all your time, unfortunately. I find that I, for example, spend too much time on the net. Sites like slashdot will make you old before you notice.
:(
Get a life! Go do something useful.
:-)
PS: Properly set-up Opera is really, really cool. I use it exclusively when on mswin. It's sad that such a good browser comes with such an ugly default setup
PPS: Why don't browsers have a cache in one file?
> relatively poor state of computer security in much of the
;-)
> eastern and third world. Less money,
FreeBSD & Linux are flourishing here (in Russia)...
> older technology,
Yeah, UNIX, I know
> less security information readily available,
You must be kidding.
> fewer trained security people,
A LOT more self-trained people - you spend less time here making money, money, money - more time to learn.
.....
May I tell you that even if some hacking comes out of RAS (Russian Academy of Science) it doesn't mean a thing 'cos these days all these institutions here in Russia are populated by young graduates (seeking to evade conscription into army - by law if after graduating from university you go "into science" you get a "delay" from conscription as long as you work there) and mostly elder staff that are, mostly again, afraid of computers and 'net. :-)
So - guess what - I think it's all just some 20-something guys that have enough knowledge and too much spare time and free 'net access. Nothing more here, IMHO.
BTW: These same guys are also making a lots of good soft
It's not "pretty cool", it SHOULD be that way.
Those guys didn't use some weird tweaking in assembly (like those 256 byte demos), - they just did it "the right way".
This demo is very good in this aspect - it shows the utter bloatedness of all the soft we use daily.
Linux included - feel free to flame me, but I flatly reduce to advocate things like StarOffice or Netscape or even KDE.
Yet Linux _kernel_ is pretty cute. At least before 2.2, but even 2.2 is still ok.
PS: Is "Photon" thingie heavy copyrighted?