First off - if your hardware isn't supported out-of-the-box in, say, mandrake 9.1, then is most not supported at all - so try to get drivers for it is pointless. Secondly, assuming a driver was written, there is no reason that I can think of that the driver module couldn't just be put into an rpm and urpmi'ed. I have no idea if mandrake does this, but if it was important hardware, they would probably do this for you if you asked and were a member.
I agree totally with what you said - and learnt this the semi-hard way.
There was a coding competition held by barclays (uk bank - europe too?) - I passed the first round, and so did 2 others.
We went down to london for the coding competition, and had a series of 5 coding problems. I assumed that everyone had the same strengths and weakness that I have. I went first, coded up my solution to the problem, and then the next guy took over the computer and coded up the solution for the next problem. So 2 of us were solving the next problems on paper, while 1 was coding his solution..
Unfortunetly 1 hour later he still wasn't done, and when we finally looked at what he was doing, it was a complete and utter mess.
We did badly in the competition - but if we had learnt each others skill sets, and kept an eye on each others progress, or assigned one of us to be a team leader to keep an eye on everything, then we wouldn't have had the problem that we did. Things getting out of hand, and nobody else knowing before it was too late.
The difference isn't as big as you try to make out. Does it really matter if they charge anyone under the new law, if it makes everyone too fearful to break it?
I'm not excusing them - but in reference to your font problem - perhaps you are doing something wrong if you require changing fonts all the time - I can't think off the top of my head any time you would want to keep changing the fonts like you imply.
That's probably because they have smarter users. The dumb rude questions I've seem in other channels sometimes... jeez. Us helpers have no problem with people not knowing - but for christ sake don't demand and get rude, and then wonder why irc seems to be full of only people who are rude back.
Just because someone is immature, doesn't mean they are young.
For work, I would "hang around" on a mobile adhoc network mailing list - not really the sort of place where you would expect to get kids. But the emails of people asking for information etc were sometimes unbelievable - rude, demanding, ignorant - often all at once. And I don't mean foreigners with just a poor grip on english. I honestly cannot picture the kind of person that sends such emails..
I knew a porn company in Romania that sent spam. They made quite a bit of money from it - certaintly enough to pull them up from the poorest parts of romania to the richest parts. I went and visited them - a beautiful country. It is kinda hard to moralize too much with them. I realise it causes ppl trouble etc, but that all seems very wishy washy when you see the living conditions of the poor parts of romania...
It shouldn't be such a huge problem I think. The stuff that needs to be fast is graphics - and that was abstracted away a long time with opengl. So it won't be converting huge chunks of asm to huge chunks of C - it will be converting huge chunks of asm to one or two lines of C. And many chunks will just be deleted for being too low level. putpixel etc.
In reference to your sig - amazon does have a web service client. It uses mozilla and is fairly cool - I looked through the source code and it shows how nice mozilla is to use for making apps. Well, actually I think it might still technically be in experimental status.
If you don't like the company, THEN DON'T WORK THERE.
And yes, the individual employee DO have some responsibility. You can't go working for a company that actively breaks the rules, then claim that you are 'just an employee'. 'Just following orders'.
Very slightly offtopic... But I wish in mainstream, and even in the slightly more scientific areas (new scientist etc), they would back up percentages with standard deviation, or variance.
I cannot stand seeing some statistic without even a very rough idea of its distribution.
I fail to see how being angry at people who deal with maths and physics that currently has no practical application is linked to people who comment without reading the article.
What you seem to be more-or-less arguing for is what amazon does. Tell you what books other people bought who bought that particular book. Perhaps with associated comments.
Btw, saying giving a review and having a link to "other reviews done by same person" can trivially be done as to not compromise on privacy.
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First off - if your hardware isn't supported out-of-the-box in, say, mandrake 9.1, then is most not supported at all - so try to get drivers for it is pointless.
Secondly, assuming a driver was written, there is no reason that I can think of that the driver module couldn't just be put into an rpm and urpmi'ed.
I have no idea if mandrake does this, but if it was important hardware, they would probably do this for you if you asked and were a member.
I agree totally with what you said - and learnt this the semi-hard way.
There was a coding competition held by barclays (uk bank - europe too?) - I passed the first round, and so did 2 others.
We went down to london for the coding competition, and had a series of 5 coding problems. I assumed that everyone had the same strengths and weakness that I have. I went first, coded up my solution to the problem, and then the next guy took over the computer and coded up the solution for the next problem.
So 2 of us were solving the next problems on paper, while 1 was coding his solution..
Unfortunetly 1 hour later he still wasn't done, and when we finally looked at what he was doing, it was a complete and utter mess.
We did badly in the competition - but if we had learnt each others skill sets, and kept an eye on each others progress, or assigned one of us to be a team leader to keep an eye on everything, then we wouldn't have had the problem that we did. Things getting out of hand, and nobody else knowing before it was too late.
The difference isn't as big as you try to make out.
Does it really matter if they charge anyone under the new law, if it makes everyone too fearful to break it?
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I'm not excusing them - but in reference to your font problem - perhaps you are doing something wrong if you require changing fonts all the time - I can't think off the top of my head any time you would want to keep changing the fonts like you imply.
That's probably because they have smarter users.
The dumb rude questions I've seem in other channels sometimes... jeez. Us helpers have no problem with people not knowing - but for christ sake don't demand and get rude, and then wonder why irc seems to be full of only people who are rude back.
I would be quicker to blame it on the slashdot or the person who made the document.
Just because someone is immature, doesn't mean they are young.
For work, I would "hang around" on a mobile adhoc network mailing list - not really the sort of place where you would expect to get kids. But the emails of people asking for information etc were sometimes unbelievable - rude, demanding, ignorant - often all at once. And I don't mean foreigners with just a poor grip on english.
I honestly cannot picture the kind of person that sends such emails..
I found a script on freshmeat that could read an access file and produce the appropriate sql commands.
This was a few years back, and it had some problems with special characters - like spaces iirc - since access is more leniant.
I kept meaning to write a script to turn the forms it created into glade xml.
I knew a porn company in Romania that sent spam. They made quite a bit of money from it - certaintly enough to pull them up from the poorest parts of romania to the richest parts. I went and visited them - a beautiful country.
It is kinda hard to moralize too much with them. I realise it causes ppl trouble etc, but that all seems very wishy washy when you see the living conditions of the poor parts of romania...
12 hours.. you should calm down - don't burn yourself out.
It shouldn't be such a huge problem I think. The stuff that needs to be fast is graphics - and that was abstracted away a long time with opengl.
So it won't be converting huge chunks of asm to huge chunks of C - it will be converting huge chunks of asm to one or two lines of C. And many chunks will just be deleted for being too low level. putpixel etc.
On the other hand, they would have shown that the threshold exists - so the money wouldn't have been wasted.
So can shops display linux distro's? (assumming it contains a game, which is most likely does)
In reference to your sig - amazon does have a web service client. It uses mozilla and is fairly cool - I looked through the source code and it shows how nice mozilla is to use for making apps.
Well, actually I think it might still technically be in experimental status.
er screw that. If they started jailing people, I would stop downloading songs.
As for your speeding example, if they gave a 3 year jail sentance for speeding, then you'd cut it down drastically I guarantee.
I do something similiar, but use rsync.
I rsync my entire drive to another drive.
oooh, so that is what the soap is for. Collecting!
You're the one that needs to wake up.
If you don't like the company, THEN DON'T WORK THERE.
And yes, the individual employee DO have some responsibility. You can't go working for a company that actively breaks the rules, then claim that you are 'just an employee'. 'Just following orders'.
How on earth is this interesting? ...it is not X that makes xmms skip
grand-Parent:
parent: XMMS skip[s]..even renicing X doesn't help.
And this is interesting?
The poster is a dumb ass.
Very slightly offtopic...
But I wish in mainstream, and even in the slightly more scientific areas (new scientist etc), they would back up percentages with standard deviation, or variance.
I cannot stand seeing some statistic without even a very rough idea of its distribution.
Who are you replying to? I think you are seeing things and are paranoid. I don't see anyone complaining because it was reposted.
I fail to see how being angry at people who deal with maths and physics that currently has no practical application is linked to people who comment without reading the article.
What you seem to be more-or-less arguing for is what amazon does. Tell you what books other people bought who bought that particular book. Perhaps with associated comments.
Btw, saying giving a review and having a link to "other reviews done by same person" can trivially be done as to not compromise on privacy.
>Does anyone know how to lock down the history? Read and write, but no deletion?
Make it append only. You can do that using chattr, or using lsm, or whatever way you want.