MySQL runs just fine on the BSDs, Linux, and even Windows. Every project on the face of the planet that uses threads has to be re-written for the sake of Darwin/OS X?
If you ever change your running kernel, pay a close mind to the LILO/GRUB config and the symlinks in/. The last time I used Knoppix as a Debian installer, it did some mildly bizarre things that made leaving the Knoppix kernel behind less than straightforward.
I basically refuse to run kernels that I don't have matching header packages for. I run things like shfs and NVidia's drivers and I use Mac-On-Linux with PowerPC machines. A kernel without matching headers to me is badly crippled.
Editing version.h in the kernel source did the trick . (bit of a dirty hack, I know, but it seems to be running fine.)
will also take care of you with no need to compile the kernel driver. Otherwise do the following:
apt-get install (kernel-headers that match your running kernel) nvidia-kernel-common debhelper dh-make
apt-cache search `uname -r` will spit out the header package you need.
If you are running a custom kernel then the source it was built from works just as well.
apt-get install nvidia-kernel-source
cd/usr/src
tar xvfz nvidia-kernel-source.tar.gz
cd modules/nvidia-kernel
export KSRC=/usr/src/(headers from step one)
export KVERS=`uname -r`
debian/rules binary_modules
cd..
dpkg -i nvidia-kernel-(your running kernel).deb
apt-get install nvidia-glx
If you have your matching headers installed you can also just use NVidia's installer.
Be sure you have Driver "nvidia" instead of Driver "nv" in your xorg.conf/XFree86-4.conf.
When NVidia driver updates make the repositories, you replace the kernel driver and then do an apt-get update && apt-get upgrade. If you don't change the kernel driver then your NVidia drivers are automatically held back by apt.
How about Begbie and a broken off beer bottle against Vader? We'll just say that Begbie is strong in the Dark Side and doesn't know it to head off pre-emptive trachea crushings. Myself, I think if Darth doesn't watch it then Begbie'll stick that Saber right up his mechanical ass.
4) Uncertianty in the display layer. Linux was almost exclusively XFree, now it's switching to Xorg, but hasn't completely. So driver developers are on the hook to support multiple upper level architectures on top of the multiple kernel architectures. Makes it even more complex.
There used to be an ever shrinking list of distributions that were still using XFree86 on their site. It has either been removed or is very hard to find. Basically as far as video drivers are concerned especially ATI and NVidia's drivers, XFree86 is irrelevant. I've been using NVidia's drivers with zero trouble on Xorg for months on several machines.
Uncertainty about finding either XFree86 or Xorg on current Linux machines is a red herring. You'll still find XFree86 installs on older machines and on Debian. Older machines tend not to be cutting edge desktops or gaming machines. Not much problem there. Debian Unstable will be going to X.Org when Sarge releases and Sarge will mostly be used on servers. Debian and I believe NetBSD are the only distros of any consequence still using XFree86.
You can pass --purge as an option to apt-get. I've apt-get --purge remove any number of times. That command will also get all packages that have the package being removed as a dependency. Yes, you are presented with a list of packages to be removed that you can yes/no. Another nice cruft buster on Debian derived distros is deborphan. deborphan will spit out a list of libraries that nothing depends on. Many people recommend doing this:
apt-get --purge remove `deborphan`
I don't do that. There are two packages that deborphan consistently gets wrong. libc6-i686 and j2re-x tend to be regarded by deborphan as things to be removed. libc6-686 is a package of diversions to 686 optimized libc components. If removed, the system falls back to standard libc6. Not a disaster but I like the little extra bit of speed. j2re is regarded as a library even though standalone java apps and java webpages need it.
I just dump deborphan's output to a file and edit out the aforementioned two packages. I then do apt-get --purge remove `cat packages.txt` You may have to repeat a time or two as their can be several layers of dead wood on the dependency tree. This is scriptable but I don't do it often enough to bother.
Mucho $ still has to be spent on antivirus and anti-spyware that papers over the deep inherent design flaws. There is also the small matter of vital yet braindead apps that aren't happy unless they are run with administrator privileges. And lets not neglect the insane defaults that mean an untouched box is in bend over mode. It is possible with lots of money and time to secure Windows but "not that hard" isn't how I'd describe it.
If he had a (non-offensive) blurb that was stuck on the page somewhere based on the browser detection, that would be decent advertising. As it is, he is making the rest of the Firefox devs look like ax grinders.
Actually, he seems to only have it set to complain about IE. I hit his site with Konqueror and his server sent it with no funny business. It's still a dumb thing to do though.
It still costs very little to supply the information necessary to create a driver. According to the interview, they came up with a wireless driver within a week of getting specs. It is rough and work is ongoing but there is an OpenBSD Ralink driver now. There is little good reason to slather secret sauce over this information. The FOSS kernel projects are perfectly capable of developing their own drivers given a few sheets of info that costs little to provide.
I've been doing this with KMail for months now. Well, I divert mail into a suspect folder based on whether or not a person is in my address book. Where the mail shows up in my folder tree IS a visual indication.
If the guy hadn't closed the thread on his blog, I'd be heading over there to roast and toast him myself. If I wind up losing the feature on account of this ass, I'm going to add any product associated with him to my sh*tlist.
1.0.4 release or not, I have yet to see a machine with FF as the primary browser jammed to the gills with drive-by downloads. Even with the non patched releases, you had to be stupid about who you permitted to install extensions.
The taskbar thing is workable. As for disorganized tabs, I use the Tab-Mix extension for Firefox. Tabs opened from links can be made to open next to their parents, you can drag tabs around, and set various other things to make the tabs work the way you do.
All you'll succeed in doing is starting an arms race that you are destined to lose. Sooner or later you'll have to accept that a user's client is a user's client and as such is subject to the user's wishes. You can maintain the integrity of your server and it's content. You have no right to usurp in any way a user's control of his machine.
We're deep into the land of speculation and fantasy here but what the hell. Physics may well exist that allow practical interstellar travel. They simply won't involve accellerating past the speed of light. To attempt discussion of such physics would make me look like a Trekkie weenie so I'll quit while I'm ahead.
Sun won't even take reasonable steps to allow distros to pre-install Java. Yes, it is simple for me to install Java after the fact. It is a legal licensing pain to distros to offer well integrated Java installs. That is one problem.
The other problem is that only platforms that are directly important to Sun or IBM get full featured Java environments. Java on PowerPC Linux is still substandard. IBM makes a JVM availiable but you have to jump through hoops even as an end user to get it and you still don't have a browser plugin. An Open Source Java would be available on just about all platforms with equal functionality.
You can use DosBox (dosbox.sourceforge.net) to run the ones that don't. Granted, it is slow but workable with a fast machine. Another way to run DOS apps is to install a full copy of DOS on a virtual machine like Virtual PC or QEMU.
I have no particular love for MS but I don't expect backward compatibility of THAT magnitude out of them.
We're going to wake up one day and someone in Portugal will have a wormhole operating in his lab, or an antimatter explosion will accidently be set off in Japan. Careful, boys, we're getting into comic book territory now.
As long as I get superpowers out of the deal, that's cool. Then I'll make the unscrupulous bastards who gave me superpowers pay and pay and pay. Oh yeah, and I'll dominate the world while I'm at it.
Then, Gates bought PC-DOS from Seattle Computer Products.
Nothing treacherous or deceitful about that.
Yes there is. When Gates promised IBM an OS, he didn't have one and didn't have access to enough talent (his or others) to quickly develop one. Seattle Computer Products was two steps from bankruptcy and desparate for cash. Gates bought the rights to DOS from them for a song. He filed off anything not identifying it as his own work and presented it to IBM as a "Microsoft OS".
A relation of mine had a GREAT porn collection on Beta. That's how I first saw Debbie Does Dallas. A few years back, his Beta deck started failing majorly and he transferred that porn collection to VHS.
Interstellar space will have at least a 4 degrees Kelvin temperature due to the background microwave radiation. AFAIK Einstein-Bose condensates are only possible thousanths of a degree or less above absolute zero (O degrees Kelvin). Under idealized lab conditons, we earthlings can generate cold far below what you usually find in interstellar space. That is needed for the observational evidence these guys are looking for.
* Warning: Pregnant women, the elderly and children under 10 should avoid prolonged exposure to Happy iPod.
* Caution: Happy iPod may suddenly accelerate to dangerous speeds.
* Happy iPod Contains a liquid core, which, if exposed due to rupture, should not be touched, inhaled, or looked at.
* Do not use Happy iPod on concrete.
Discontinue use of Happy iPod if any of the following occurs:
* Itching
* Vertigo
* Dizziness
* Tingling in extremities
* Loss of balance or coordination
* Slurred speech
* Temporary blindness
* Profuse sweating
* Heart palpitations
If Happy iPod begins to smoke, get away immediately. Seek shelter and cover head.
Happy iPod may stick to certain types of skin.
When not in use, Happy iPod should be returned to its special container and kept under refrigeration...
Failure to do so relieves the makers of Happy iPod, Apple Computers, of any and all liability.
Ingredients of Happy iPod include an unknown glowing substance which fell to Earth, presumably from outer space.
Happy iPod has been shipped to our troops in Saudi Arabia and is also being dropped by our warplanes on Iraq.
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MySQL runs just fine on the BSDs, Linux, and even Windows. Every project on the face of the planet that uses threads has to be re-written for the sake of Darwin/OS X?
If you ever change your running kernel, pay a close mind to the LILO/GRUB config and the symlinks in /. The last time I used Knoppix as a Debian installer, it did some mildly bizarre things that made leaving the Knoppix kernel behind less than straightforward.
I basically refuse to run kernels that I don't have matching header packages for. I run things like shfs and NVidia's drivers and I use Mac-On-Linux with PowerPC machines. A kernel without matching headers to me is badly crippled.
Editing version.h in the kernel source did the trick . (bit of a dirty hack, I know, but it seems to be running fine.)
You're braver than I am!
NVidia drivers on Debian aren't so bad once you know the dance steps. Just go by the following recipe.
/usr/src
..
If you are running Ubuntu then:
apt-get install linux-restricted-modules-(your running kernel) nvidia-glx
will also take care of you with no need to compile the kernel driver. Otherwise do the following:
apt-get install (kernel-headers that match your running kernel) nvidia-kernel-common debhelper dh-make
apt-cache search `uname -r` will spit out the header package you need.
If you are running a custom kernel then the source it was built from works just as well.
apt-get install nvidia-kernel-source
cd
tar xvfz nvidia-kernel-source.tar.gz
cd modules/nvidia-kernel
export KSRC=/usr/src/(headers from step one)
export KVERS=`uname -r`
debian/rules binary_modules
cd
dpkg -i nvidia-kernel-(your running kernel).deb
apt-get install nvidia-glx
If you have your matching headers installed you can also just use NVidia's installer.
Be sure you have Driver "nvidia" instead of Driver "nv" in your xorg.conf/XFree86-4.conf.
When NVidia driver updates make the repositories, you replace the kernel driver and then do an apt-get update && apt-get upgrade. If you don't change the kernel driver then your NVidia drivers are automatically held back by apt.
How about Begbie and a broken off beer bottle against Vader? We'll just say that Begbie is strong in the Dark Side and doesn't know it to head off pre-emptive trachea crushings. Myself, I think if Darth doesn't watch it then Begbie'll stick that Saber right up his mechanical ass.
4) Uncertianty in the display layer. Linux was almost exclusively XFree, now it's switching to Xorg, but hasn't completely. So driver developers are on the hook to support multiple upper level architectures on top of the multiple kernel architectures. Makes it even more complex.
There used to be an ever shrinking list of distributions that were still using XFree86 on their site. It has either been removed or is very hard to find. Basically as far as video drivers are concerned especially ATI and NVidia's drivers, XFree86 is irrelevant. I've been using NVidia's drivers with zero trouble on Xorg for months on several machines.
Uncertainty about finding either XFree86 or Xorg on current Linux machines is a red herring. You'll still find XFree86 installs on older machines and on Debian. Older machines tend not to be cutting edge desktops or gaming machines. Not much problem there. Debian Unstable will be going to X.Org when Sarge releases and Sarge will mostly be used on servers. Debian and I believe NetBSD are the only distros of any consequence still using XFree86.
You can pass --purge as an option to apt-get. I've apt-get --purge remove any number of times. That command will also get all packages that have the package being removed as a dependency. Yes, you are presented with a list of packages to be removed that you can yes/no. Another nice cruft buster on Debian derived distros is deborphan. deborphan will spit out a list of libraries that nothing depends on. Many people recommend doing this:
apt-get --purge remove `deborphan`
I don't do that. There are two packages that deborphan consistently gets wrong. libc6-i686 and j2re-x tend to be regarded by deborphan as things to be removed. libc6-686 is a package of diversions to 686 optimized libc components. If removed, the system falls back to standard libc6. Not a disaster but I like the little extra bit of speed. j2re is regarded as a library even though standalone java apps and java webpages need it.
I just dump deborphan's output to a file and edit out the aforementioned two packages. I then do apt-get --purge remove `cat packages.txt` You may have to repeat a time or two as their can be several layers of dead wood on the dependency tree. This is scriptable but I don't do it often enough to bother.
It took me 20 years to get that song out of my head.
I can see that your efforts have paid off.
Mucho $ still has to be spent on antivirus and anti-spyware that papers over the deep inherent design flaws. There is also the small matter of vital yet braindead apps that aren't happy unless they are run with administrator privileges. And lets not neglect the insane defaults that mean an untouched box is in bend over mode. It is possible with lots of money and time to secure Windows but "not that hard" isn't how I'd describe it.
If he had a (non-offensive) blurb that was stuck on the page somewhere based on the browser detection, that would be decent advertising. As it is, he is making the rest of the Firefox devs look like ax grinders.
Actually, he seems to only have it set to complain about IE. I hit his site with Konqueror and his server sent it with no funny business. It's still a dumb thing to do though.
It still costs very little to supply the information necessary to create a driver. According to the interview, they came up with a wireless driver within a week of getting specs. It is rough and work is ongoing but there is an OpenBSD Ralink driver now. There is little good reason to slather secret sauce over this information. The FOSS kernel projects are perfectly capable of developing their own drivers given a few sheets of info that costs little to provide.
If the certain company's competitors are lowering their costs relative to the company then it may be time to question the plan.
I've been doing this with KMail for months now. Well, I divert mail into a suspect folder based on whether or not a person is in my address book. Where the mail shows up in my folder tree IS a visual indication.
If the guy hadn't closed the thread on his blog, I'd be heading over there to roast and toast him myself. If I wind up losing the feature on account of this ass, I'm going to add any product associated with him to my sh*tlist.
1.0.4 release or not, I have yet to see a machine with FF as the primary browser jammed to the gills with drive-by downloads. Even with the non patched releases, you had to be stupid about who you permitted to install extensions.
The taskbar thing is workable. As for disorganized tabs, I use the Tab-Mix extension for Firefox. Tabs opened from links can be made to open next to their parents, you can drag tabs around, and set various other things to make the tabs work the way you do.
Imply that they invented tabbed browsing and all the rest. They'll throw the word "innovation" around a lot.
Even more depressing: watch the MS fanbois eat it up.
All you'll succeed in doing is starting an arms race that you are destined to lose. Sooner or later you'll have to accept that a user's client is a user's client and as such is subject to the user's wishes. You can maintain the integrity of your server and it's content. You have no right to usurp in any way a user's control of his machine.
We're deep into the land of speculation and fantasy here but what the hell. Physics may well exist that allow practical interstellar travel. They simply won't involve accellerating past the speed of light. To attempt discussion of such physics would make me look like a Trekkie weenie so I'll quit while I'm ahead.
Sun won't even take reasonable steps to allow distros to pre-install Java. Yes, it is simple for me to install Java after the fact. It is a legal licensing pain to distros to offer well integrated Java installs. That is one problem.
The other problem is that only platforms that are directly important to Sun or IBM get full featured Java environments. Java on PowerPC Linux is still substandard. IBM makes a JVM availiable but you have to jump through hoops even as an end user to get it and you still don't have a browser plugin. An Open Source Java would be available on just about all platforms with equal functionality.
You can use DosBox (dosbox.sourceforge.net) to run the ones that don't. Granted, it is slow but workable with a fast machine. Another way to run DOS apps is to install a full copy of DOS on a virtual machine like Virtual PC or QEMU.
I have no particular love for MS but I don't expect backward compatibility of THAT magnitude out of them.
We're going to wake up one day and someone in Portugal will have a wormhole operating in his lab, or an antimatter explosion will accidently be set off in Japan. Careful, boys, we're getting into comic book territory now.
As long as I get superpowers out of the deal, that's cool. Then I'll make the unscrupulous bastards who gave me superpowers pay and pay and pay. Oh yeah, and I'll dominate the world while I'm at it.
Then, Gates bought PC-DOS from Seattle Computer Products.
Nothing treacherous or deceitful about that.
Yes there is. When Gates promised IBM an OS, he didn't have one and didn't have access to enough talent (his or others) to quickly develop one. Seattle Computer Products was two steps from bankruptcy and desparate for cash. Gates bought the rights to DOS from them for a song. He filed off anything not identifying it as his own work and presented it to IBM as a "Microsoft OS".
A relation of mine had a GREAT porn collection on Beta. That's how I first saw Debbie Does Dallas. A few years back, his Beta deck started failing majorly and he transferred that porn collection to VHS.
Interstellar space will have at least a 4 degrees Kelvin temperature due to the background microwave radiation. AFAIK Einstein-Bose condensates are only possible thousanths of a degree or less above absolute zero (O degrees Kelvin). Under idealized lab conditons, we earthlings can generate cold far below what you usually find in interstellar space. That is needed for the observational evidence these guys are looking for.
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* Warning: Pregnant women, the elderly and children under 10 should avoid prolonged exposure to Happy iPod.
* Caution: Happy iPod may suddenly accelerate to dangerous speeds.
* Happy iPod Contains a liquid core, which, if exposed due to rupture, should not be touched, inhaled, or looked at.
* Do not use Happy iPod on concrete.
Discontinue use of Happy iPod if any of the following occurs:
* Itching
* Vertigo
* Dizziness
* Tingling in extremities
* Loss of balance or coordination
* Slurred speech
* Temporary blindness
* Profuse sweating
* Heart palpitations
If Happy iPod begins to smoke, get away immediately. Seek shelter and cover head.
Happy iPod may stick to certain types of skin.
When not in use, Happy iPod should be returned to its special container and kept under refrigeration...
Failure to do so relieves the makers of Happy iPod, Apple Computers, of any and all liability.
Ingredients of Happy iPod include an unknown glowing substance which fell to Earth, presumably from outer space.
Happy iPod has been shipped to our troops in Saudi Arabia and is also being dropped by our warplanes on Iraq.
Do not taunt Happy iPod.
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