Historically, Linus has never liked merging in great glops of code that touch the kernel in many places. It is disruptive to his maintenance of the kernel and it is disruptive to his lieutenants and their sub projects. The article even hinted at how Linus expects those with a major patch like this to handle things. Montavista needs to break this up into bite size chunks that can be slowly merged into the kernel and gives everybody time to get up to speed. Since it can have a major effect on how the kernel operates, it needs to at least be a compile-time option.
Linus has even told IBM "no" on occasion. Not hurrying things like this is far better for the quality of Linux than any feature a contributor may want in. Linus isn't flatly refusing Montavista. He most certainly isn't flatly refusing a major feature like hard real time. He is expecting Montavista to participate the way other developers are expected to participate. In particular, Montavista doesn't get to disrupt the work of hundreds of developers because their gargantuan patch was simply dumped in the main dev tree.
This isn't petty dictatorship. The kernel devs are a battle scarred lot who don't just chuck things in because it would be "cool".
I have to agree. I became disenchanted with all of the following quite a while ago:
Dark industrial themes cartoony themes OS X look alikes Windows XP look alikes LCARS themes etc, etc
Plastik is well..,tasteful. The flashy theme that makes people say "WOW!!!!!! THAT IS SO COOL!!" gets to be an eyesore when you have to look at it day in and day out. Plastik is pleasing to look at without shouting at your eyes. I have the GTK apps I use looking the same way.
Desktop themes are getting to be an extension of bachelor pad chic. A midnight black desktop with chromy looking windows and widgets may be cool when you're a teen or in your early twenties. I'd rather this tool I use on a daily basis not be an assault on my senses.
KDE moved away from CORBA quite some time ago. Apparently, it proved to be a hairball that made things more complicated than they needed to be. KDE uses "KParts" for object embedding.
On the other hand, the machines breaking down is a MUCH bigger deal in SOHO. SOHOs don't have full time tech support to reimage machines and swap out desktops. At best, they have someone who comes in on call. Anything that keeps the machines reliable in SOHO with minimal IT love and care is an immense boon. That can take some of the lustre from Windows.
The mouse and pretty pictures to click on is like a set of training wheels for the computer. With bikes, the training wheels eventually come off. With computers, most users learn one way to do things (probably on a post-it on the monitor). If the first way they learn is the most inefficient possible then so be it.
A GUI that has been throughly embedded with keyboard shortcuts can be just as fast as the terminal apps of old. The problem is that most people will never discover them or see the point of them.
GTK1 is an unmaintained deprecated toolkit. It has been for almost three years. At this point you have to wonder why projects are still using it. It isn't as though it was a big surprise and they had no time to switch over.
Without resorting to a hack, you can't have antialiased GTK1 fonts and GTK2 fonts on the same system. The toolkit itself just seems more code rotted the longer it persists. Those apps still on GTK1 really should have started porting their codebases to GTK2 years ago.
Yes, in much the same way breaking into a car on the street and driving away with it is faster, cheaper and more effective for crossing town than buying your own car.
Keep in mind that the first and central mission of the "FOSS community" is to destroy proprietary UNIX, which in this day an age effectively means Solaris.
Bollocks. I use FOSS because it is usually the fastest, cheapest, and most effective way to get a job done. I also don't become a vendor's bitch in the process. I could care less about Sun unless their mission is to find a way to make doing my job more expensive. If the destruction of Sun and MS happens it will strictly be a side effect. Now faced with direct attacks you can be indifferent or fight back but "destroying" anything was never the mission.
The license shouldn't expire totally. After 15 years years or whatever the terms should drop down to Creative Commons style terms. What we don't want is the music industry making derived works with insane copyright terms from works with your "sane terms" on them. The long term goal should be to get enough culture under sane terms that the industry will be forced to deal with us as equals. With notable exceptions like Sun and MS, the IT industry already deals with FOSS projects as equals.
Once a marketing person begins talking about "synergizing the workflow paradigm" or some other 2 cent use of 2 dollar words, we can safely hand them their Ark 2 ticket. When they start doing that it might be some species of "sales" but it doesn't actually communicate anything. "Putting things into plain English" is something these people try to avoid doing at all costs. Why you just might be able to compare products from competing vendors strictly on their merits if they did a fool thing like that.........
The point is that a software company couldn't have produced anything capable of squeezing IE. MS would have bought them out, found a way to financially attack them, or built key features into the next release of IE. None of this is effective against an Open Source project. The parent's point is that only something developed and given away for free is capable of competing with MS.
It's concievable that the print server could get rooted. Most of them are powerful to run a telnet session or web server. Instead of firing random printjobs at you, the printer could be turned into a spambot or DDOS node.
Except for some press conferences at the beginning, there hasn't been hide nor hair of Boies in the courtroom. At the last hearing, one of SCO's attorneys made a garbled presentation to the judge and then fell asleep at the plaintiff's table. Since you are a law student, try perusing some of SCO and IBM's court filings. From what I understand, what SCO is doing is legal high comedy.
Oil has a myriad of uses apart from burning it for fuel. Dan Simmons Hyperion series had them drilling for oil all across the galaxy but "It is too valuable to be burned as fuel. Millions of things are made from it." Or words to that effect. Economically, it might not be such a hot idea to let oil get so expensive so fast.
Once Peakoil occurs, it will still be pulled out of ground. It will just be put directly to industrial use and the price of those products will rise accordingly. Yes, yes substitutes will come about for those uses as well. It just may be more costly to wait than to be a little proactive.
I always thought of wind power this way: If you have a month with good output from the wind farm, then you burn less coal. If you are supplementing fossil fuels with wind then you are indirectly banking any excess within unburned fuel.
Perhaps rope-feeding is the wrong analogy. What I see is judges dotting every i and crossing every t because they don't need this back in their courtroom. It is very obvious that SCO will try to keep this in court until the money runs out. These judges want the least possible amount of that time in their courts. Basically, Judges hate getting appealed cases back.
I bet if the restoration was done on a beowulf cluster of old amigas running Linux, everyone would start saying Greedo shooting first was the best thing that ever happened to the trilogy...
However, if I were going to quit in style...... I would get up onto my bosses desk, squat, and leave a nice big steaming pile of crap on his desk before walking out the door. Its one of those thoughts that gets me through the day;)
It's even funnier if you put it in the suspended ceiling.
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Historically, Linus has never liked merging in great glops of code that touch the kernel in many places. It is disruptive to his maintenance of the kernel and it is disruptive to his lieutenants and their sub projects. The article even hinted at how Linus expects those with a major patch like this to handle things. Montavista needs to break this up into bite size chunks that can be slowly merged into the kernel and gives everybody time to get up to speed. Since it can have a major effect on how the kernel operates, it needs to at least be a compile-time option.
Linus has even told IBM "no" on occasion. Not hurrying things like this is far better for the quality of Linux than any feature a contributor may want in. Linus isn't flatly refusing Montavista. He most certainly isn't flatly refusing a major feature like hard real time. He is expecting Montavista to participate the way other developers are expected to participate. In particular, Montavista doesn't get to disrupt the work of hundreds of developers because their gargantuan patch was simply dumped in the main dev tree.
This isn't petty dictatorship. The kernel devs are a battle scarred lot who don't just chuck things in because it would be "cool".
I have to agree. I became disenchanted with all of the following quite a while ago:
Dark industrial themes
cartoony themes
OS X look alikes
Windows XP look alikes
LCARS themes
etc, etc
Plastik is well..,tasteful. The flashy theme that makes people say "WOW!!!!!! THAT IS SO COOL!!" gets to be an eyesore when you have to look at it day in and day out. Plastik is pleasing to look at without shouting at your eyes. I have the GTK apps I use looking the same way.
Desktop themes are getting to be an extension of bachelor pad chic. A midnight black desktop with chromy looking windows and widgets may be cool when you're a teen or in your early twenties. I'd rather this tool I use on a daily basis not be an assault on my senses.
KDE moved away from CORBA quite some time ago. Apparently, it proved to be a hairball that made things more complicated than they needed to be. KDE uses "KParts" for object embedding.
On the other hand, the machines breaking down is a MUCH bigger deal in SOHO. SOHOs don't have full time tech support to reimage machines and swap out desktops. At best, they have someone who comes in on call. Anything that keeps the machines reliable in SOHO with minimal IT love and care is an immense boon. That can take some of the lustre from Windows.
The mouse and pretty pictures to click on is like a set of training wheels for the computer. With bikes, the training wheels eventually come off. With computers, most users learn one way to do things (probably on a post-it on the monitor). If the first way they learn is the most inefficient possible then so be it.
A GUI that has been throughly embedded with keyboard shortcuts can be just as fast as the terminal apps of old. The problem is that most people will never discover them or see the point of them.
the only hassle was that it'd take a few days to get specific software and hardware.
That's a hassle?!?! Sheez-Ma-neez! friend. A few days.... Wow. Where is this heaven on Earth you're working at?
The Navy is no longer interrested in nuking the whales, they feel that confusing the hell out of them provides for hours of humour.
Unless they're gay and the boat is crewed by fundies.
GTK1 is an unmaintained deprecated toolkit. It has been for almost three years. At this point you have to wonder why projects are still using it. It isn't as though it was a big surprise and they had no time to switch over.
Without resorting to a hack, you can't have antialiased GTK1 fonts and GTK2 fonts on the same system. The toolkit itself just seems more code rotted the longer it persists. Those apps still on GTK1 really should have started porting their codebases to GTK2 years ago.
Yes, in much the same way breaking into a car on the street and driving away with it is faster, cheaper and more effective for crossing town than buying your own car.
Darl is that you?
Keep in mind that the first and central mission of the "FOSS community" is to destroy proprietary UNIX, which in this day an age effectively means Solaris.
Bollocks. I use FOSS because it is usually the fastest, cheapest, and most effective way to get a job done. I also don't become a vendor's bitch in the process. I could care less about Sun unless their mission is to find a way to make doing my job more expensive. If the destruction of Sun and MS happens it will strictly be a side effect. Now faced with direct attacks you can be indifferent or fight back but "destroying" anything was never the mission.
Your troll-fu shows promise grasshopper. This is one of the better comedy trolls I've seen in a while.
The license shouldn't expire totally. After 15 years years or whatever the terms should drop down to Creative Commons style terms. What we don't want is the music industry making derived works with insane copyright terms from works with your "sane terms" on them. The long term goal should be to get enough culture under sane terms that the industry will be forced to deal with us as equals. With notable exceptions like Sun and MS, the IT industry already deals with FOSS projects as equals.
Once a marketing person begins talking about "synergizing the workflow paradigm" or some other 2 cent use of 2 dollar words, we can safely hand them their Ark 2 ticket. When they start doing that it might be some species of "sales" but it doesn't actually communicate anything. "Putting things into plain English" is something these people try to avoid doing at all costs. Why you just might be able to compare products from competing vendors strictly on their merits if they did a fool thing like that.........
Opera isn't exactly taking the world by storm. Even now, the various Mozilla projects are niche products at best. So what does that make Opera?
The point is that a software company couldn't have produced anything capable of squeezing IE. MS would have bought them out, found a way to financially attack them, or built key features into the next release of IE. None of this is effective against an Open Source project. The parent's point is that only something developed and given away for free is capable of competing with MS.
If you REALLY wanted to make an impression, why not print out the Goatse Man? That'd convince my MOM to take some geekly advice.
It's concievable that the print server could get rooted. Most of them are powerful to run a telnet session or web server. Instead of firing random printjobs at you, the printer could be turned into a spambot or DDOS node.
Except for some press conferences at the beginning, there hasn't been hide nor hair of Boies in the courtroom. At the last hearing, one of SCO's attorneys made a garbled presentation to the judge and then fell asleep at the plaintiff's table. Since you are a law student, try perusing some of SCO and IBM's court filings. From what I understand, what SCO is doing is legal high comedy.
Oil has a myriad of uses apart from burning it for fuel. Dan Simmons Hyperion series had them drilling for oil all across the galaxy but "It is too valuable to be burned as fuel. Millions of things are made from it." Or words to that effect. Economically, it might not be such a hot idea to let oil get so expensive so fast.
Once Peakoil occurs, it will still be pulled out of ground. It will just be put directly to industrial use and the price of those products will rise accordingly. Yes, yes substitutes will come about for those uses as well. It just may be more costly to wait than to be a little proactive.
I always thought of wind power this way: If you have a month with good output from the wind farm, then you burn less coal. If you are supplementing fossil fuels with wind then you are indirectly banking any excess within unburned fuel.
Perhaps rope-feeding is the wrong analogy. What I see is judges dotting every i and crossing every t because they don't need this back in their courtroom. It is very obvious that SCO will try to keep this in court until the money runs out. These judges want the least possible amount of that time in their courts. Basically, Judges hate getting appealed cases back.
An AGP slot? I haven't seen many server boards with those.
I bet if the restoration was done on a beowulf cluster of old amigas running Linux, everyone would start saying Greedo shooting first was the best thing that ever happened to the trilogy...
A frosted dog turd is still a dog turd.
You can hire a PI to pose as a prospective employer if you suspect something like this is going on. The resulting info is likely actionable.
However, if I were going to quit in style...... I would get up onto my bosses desk, squat, and leave a nice big steaming pile of crap on his desk before walking out the door. Its one of those thoughts that gets me through the day ;)
It's even funnier if you put it in the suspended ceiling.