'emerge world' might not seem particularly instructive, but the process that gets you there is. For instance, what programs are in the world file and why are they there? They didn't appear there on their own. They're there because the admin (presumably you) decided you wanted them on the system.
Obviously, some tools are there because you can't live without them (vim, for example). Others might be there because the description looked interesting and you wanted to give them a try. But NOTHING is in the world file that you didn't want put there (manually, or by using emerge). There are no mystery executables. This is what makes Gentoo so educational: emerge makes the Linux tool-set transparent and easy to explore. Typing 'emerge foo' by itself is not terribly revealing, but 'emerge -etva foo' will show you the entire dependancy tree for foo which makes an excellent starting point for seeing how foo interacts with the rest of your system.
Unless you can come up with some way to make it profitable (or perhaps a by-product of some other profitable process), there's very little use for cracking CO2 except for breathing (in space or underwater...perhaps in large buildings with complicated ventilation).
I don't think it preserves prefs or message filters. Go to http://texturizer.net/thunderbird/faq.html#q2.2 for an answer on the Mozilla Thunderbird FAQ that explains how to transfer prefs and message filters from Mozilla to Thunderbird.
I've been waiting for the Thunderbird release that can import Moz mail before upgrading, but using Firefox as my browser for some time
This may be the hard way of doing it, but it worked fine for me. If you're running Linux (or Unix), make a tarball of the Mail subdirectory of your Mozilla prefs. Install Thunderbird, untar your mail directory into the thunderbird prefs dir, and off you go with all your email.
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nobody has a legitimate reason for owning a 30 round clip
If I'm trying to defend my self or family, I want my gun to have as many bullets in it as possible (without making it unwieldy). In the heat of the moment, 10 bullets can disappear in no time at all.
In matters of life and death, it is better to err on the side of having more bullets than you need than to have too few. Why should we put artificial limits on the people who legally own weapons for defense when we know that the criminals won't follow such rules? Doesn't it seem a little stupid to have laws whose only effect is to put law-abiding citizens at a disadvantage?
I have 'excellent' karma, which may have something to do with it.
When I metamoderate (which is rarely), I'm pretty conservative. I generally only mod up or down 3 or 4 of the 10 posts presented to me. I never mod down 'funny' mods since I simply may not get the joke. 'Underrated' and 'overrated' I leave alone since you can't tell what the original moderation level was when the mod was applied. I mod down 'informative' and 'insightful' mods if I happen to know that the posts contents are factually wrong. I mod 'interesting' mods up if my eye's don't glaze over while reading the post.
Your sig indicates that you feel metamodding should increase your chances of getting mod points. Is this true? I almost never metamod and yet seem to get mod points 2 or 3 times a week. What sorts of things detemine who gets mod points and how often?
Yeah, but as a convicted monopolist, trying that now would be dangerous. HP would be willing to fight MS over something like this, especially since HP sees iTunes/iPod as a way to differentiate their offerings from the likes of Dell and Gateway.
I'm sure there's more to it than just this, but part of the appeal of dual-core CPUs is that I can double the processing power of an existing machine without having to upgrade the motherboard if the motherboard already supports the correct socket.
Also, it means that smaller form factor machines can have more processing power.
They're trying to guage the market. By pricing it the same, they can be more confident that people buying it are actually buying it in favor of the Windows machine rather than just buying the cheaper machine and installing Windows on it after the fact.
That, and the price HP pays for a Windows license is probably not enough to lower the price significantly.
That, and there is value in knowing that the hardware is supported by Linux.
Like any business or organization, the UN can choose to set requirements on those who wish to do business with them. If someone wants to work with the UN, then they will use software that meets the UN's requirements.
Well, plenty of independent artists/labels exist. Perhaps being an independent artist/label will become a selling point to a greater demographic than it is now (will it then become uncool to those currently interested?).
10 seconds worth of preventative measures to prevent time-consuming debugging at a later time seems like a bargain to me. What's the problem?
Anyhow, I'm not advocating any system. I was asked how it was that I didn't have to spend time debugging pointer problems and I explained what steps I took to prevent pointer problems in my code. These are all steps that a good defensive coder (i.e. one who actively takes steps to prevent common errors) is going to take regardless of what "system" (s)he uses.
What are you doing with pointers that you don't have to spend any time at all debugging them?
I just follow some common sense defensive programming rules: - always initialize new pointers - always check the value of pointers given as arguments - always check that pointer arithmetic is safe before attempting it - always check return values before using them - always fix compiler warnings - always name functions so that there is no possible confusion about what it returns
But most importantly, once I've determined that a design is too complicated or too confusing, I take a step back and redesign it rather than just slugging through it to the end.
Well, it's only teethless until the UN gives a mandate that all software used by the UN must support these open standards. Then if MS doesn't implement them, they're shutting themselves out of the UN's market and everyone else who must be able to do business with the UN.
This is the same reason that F/OSS wins in small governments are really big wins.
There are Python libraries that have platform specific behaviors, but at the app level, something written in Python will behave the same on any platform it's run on.
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'emerge world' might not seem particularly instructive, but the process that
gets you there is. For instance, what programs are in the world file and why
are they there? They didn't appear there on their own. They're there because
the admin (presumably you) decided you wanted them on the system.
Obviously, some tools are there because you can't live without them (vim,
for example). Others might be there because the description looked interesting
and you wanted to give them a try. But NOTHING is in the world file that you
didn't want put there (manually, or by using emerge). There are no mystery
executables. This is what makes Gentoo so educational: emerge makes the
Linux tool-set transparent and easy to explore. Typing 'emerge foo' by itself
is not terribly revealing, but 'emerge -etva foo' will show you the entire
dependancy tree for foo which makes an excellent starting point for seeing
how foo interacts with the rest of your system.
emerge is a tool of exploration. Use it.
Unless you can come up with some way to make it profitable (or perhaps a
by-product of some other profitable process), there's very little use for
cracking CO2 except for breathing (in space or underwater...perhaps in large
buildings with complicated ventilation).
Maybe I'm not thinking out of the box...
I don't think it preserves prefs or message filters.
Go to http://texturizer.net/thunderbird/faq.html#q2.2 for
an answer on the Mozilla Thunderbird FAQ that explains how
to transfer prefs and message filters from Mozilla to Thunderbird.
Hope this is helpful.
I've been waiting for the Thunderbird release that can import Moz mail before upgrading, but using Firefox as my browser for some time
This may be the hard way of doing it, but it worked fine for me.
If you're running Linux (or Unix), make a tarball of the Mail subdirectory
of your Mozilla prefs. Install Thunderbird, untar your
mail directory into the thunderbird prefs dir, and off you go with all your
email.
nobody has a legitimate reason for owning a 30 round clip
If I'm trying to defend my self or family, I want my gun to have as many bullets
in it as possible (without making it unwieldy). In the heat of the moment, 10
bullets can disappear in no time at all.
In matters of life and death, it is better to err on the side of having more
bullets than you need than to have too few. Why should we put artificial limits
on the people who legally own weapons for defense when we know that the
criminals won't follow such rules? Doesn't it seem a little stupid to have laws
whose only effect is to put law-abiding citizens at a disadvantage?
How would you do that without also having to have just about every system dll
on your drive?
You can configure the device to be mountable by root, a specific group of users,
or all users. Look at the man page for fstab.
I have 'excellent' karma, which may have something to do with it.
When I metamoderate (which is rarely), I'm pretty conservative.
I generally only mod up or down 3 or 4 of the 10 posts presented to me.
I never mod down 'funny' mods since I simply may not get the joke.
'Underrated' and 'overrated' I leave alone since you can't tell what
the original moderation level was when the mod was applied.
I mod down 'informative' and 'insightful' mods if I
happen to know that the posts contents are factually wrong.
I mod 'interesting' mods up if my eye's don't glaze over while reading the post.
Hope some of this is useful to you.
Your sig indicates that you feel metamodding should increase your chances of
getting mod points. Is this true? I almost never metamod and yet seem to get
mod points 2 or 3 times a week. What sorts of things detemine who gets mod
points and how often?
Looking at the title of his comment, that is the implication.
I, for one, would stick to iTunes if I had a need to download mp3s
I was under the impression that iTunes only provided AAC files for download.
Can someone who knows confirm or deny this?
Like it or not, the reality is that Word is the standard in the realm of word processors.
Not if you work in a legal office. WordPerfect is the standard there.
Just thought you might like to know.
Yeah, but as a convicted monopolist, trying that now would be dangerous.
HP would be willing to fight MS over something like this,
especially since HP sees iTunes/iPod as a way to differentiate their
offerings from the likes of Dell and Gateway.
I'm sure there's more to it than just this, but part of the appeal of dual-core
CPUs is that I can double the processing power of an existing machine without
having to upgrade the motherboard if the motherboard already supports the
correct socket.
Also, it means that smaller form factor machines can have more processing
power.
How does Opteron shipments compare to Xeon shipments?
Or, more importantly, how fast is the Opteron market growing compared to
the Xeon's?
true artificial intelligence
How exactly do you define true artificial intelligence, and, assuming it's
possible, would it be useful?
They're trying to guage the market. By pricing it the same, they can be more
confident that people buying it are actually buying it in favor of the Windows
machine rather than just buying the cheaper machine and installing Windows on
it after the fact.
That, and the price HP pays for a Windows license is probably not enough to
lower the price significantly.
That, and there is value in knowing that the hardware is supported by Linux.
Of course you only have to look a the popularity of DVD burners, CD writers etc.. to see that people don't really care about these threats.
This may come as a surprise to you, but lots of people use DVD burners and
CD writers for backups and other non-downloaded-media purposes.
Like any business or organization, the UN can choose to set requirements on
those who wish to do business with them. If someone wants to work with the
UN, then they will use software that meets the UN's requirements.
Well, plenty of independent artists/labels exist. Perhaps being an
independent artist/label will become a selling point to a greater
demographic than it is now (will it then become uncool to those
currently interested?).
10 seconds worth of preventative measures to prevent time-consuming debugging
at a later time seems like a bargain to me. What's the problem?
Anyhow, I'm not advocating any system. I was asked how it was that I didn't
have to spend time debugging pointer problems and I explained what steps I
took to prevent pointer problems in my code. These are all steps that a
good defensive coder (i.e. one who actively takes steps to prevent common
errors) is going to take regardless of what "system" (s)he uses.
What are you doing with pointers that you don't have to spend any time at all debugging them?
I just follow some common sense defensive programming rules:
- always initialize new pointers
- always check the value of pointers given as arguments
- always check that pointer arithmetic is safe before attempting it
- always check return values before using them
- always fix compiler warnings
- always name functions so that there is no possible confusion about what it returns
But most importantly, once I've determined that a design is too complicated
or too confusing, I take a step back and redesign it rather than just slugging
through it to the end.
Well, it's only teethless until the UN gives a mandate that all software used
by the UN must support these open standards. Then if MS doesn't implement them,
they're shutting themselves out of the UN's market and everyone else who must
be able to do business with the UN.
This is the same reason that F/OSS wins in small governments are really big
wins.
There are Python libraries that have platform specific behaviors, but at the
app level, something written in Python will behave the same on any platform
it's run on.
Java is faster than perl, python, ruby, and PHP
As JIT technology matures for these languages (like psycho has
for Python), statements like the above become less and less true.
If you want speed, use C or C++. Enjoy debugging the pointers and memory leaks
What are you doing with pointers that you have to spend any time at all
debugging them?