Question, if he went into the time thingamabob 1000 years on Jan 1, 2000 (new years countdown already happened), how could he have come out on Dec 31, 2999?
Question, how much wood could a wood chuck chuck if a wood chuck could chuck wood?
Seriously though, I've always liked Slackware. If it wasn't for a particular project I'm working on having certain dependancies for Debian, I'd move back to Slackware.
Slackware lends itself to the tinkerer more than anyone else. If you like compiling your own packages, don't wanna screw up your fancy smancy dependancy list deal, Slackware is your best friend.
I still like my original idea about simply voting each comment's sscore up or down and ordering the comments based on score.
At the top of each comment you could put a little header like:
Score 8Vote up () Vote Down() Freaks in the clown show by blah blah (blah)
And at the bottom, a little button labeled "vote" which would submit all the up and down votes. Note of course the vote up/vote down are radio buttons for XOR'ness and all voting should be done on an ip-by-ip basis just like forum voting.
You don't think there's a tax on import items already?
Do you really believe that Mexico and Canada won't do the same thing? Especially Canada which mirrors half of the US's bills on encryption.
Do you really believe that tax will kill internet business? Remember, in the US tax goes to pay for government services which help everyone out, from education to military spending. Tax is not evil, taxes keep the US running.
Until we become a utopian society where money is a thing of the past, people like you have to understand how capitalistic societies work. If you don't like it, move to China.
I still think having a space just to write in is a complete waste of valuable screen real-estate. I've heard they do it because writing directly on the screen will wear it out. There are plenty of palm-sized computing devices which you write directly on the screen... seems like a big waste:) --
Wow, now that's impressive. Is there any place like netcraft which does monitoring of more services than just httpd... maybe a generalized version which checks FTP daemons, SMTP daemons, NNTP daemons, HTTP daemons, etc.
I never did understand why people say sendmail is hard to configure. My configuration consists of a 3 line long.mc file and a number of hosts added to sendmail.cw. I would not consider the 6 minutes it takes me to get sendmail running back breaking work.
And I have yet to see a fair comparison of Sendmail vs Qmail vs Zmailer vs Vmailer/Postfix. Everyone says Qmail is faster, but I see no numbers and it just seems like hype.
The only problem I have with Palm Pilots is the huge area of the screen which is wasted as a "defined" writing area. Seems like a waste of valuable screen real estate.
I have Egcs 1.1.1, Glibc 2.1, and Linux 2.2.1 installed and working on my SMP box right now. Really the only problem I had was some old libraries which were in my linker search path being linked instead of the new glibc ones and a.h file which was included for some odd reason in my distribution which didn't match the real prototypes... giving me a bunch of undefined errors.
After fixing those minor problems, everything throught went quite smoothly.
I was under the impression that most hard-core scientists had a working knowledge of Unix and it's derivatives and that a large amount of scientific software was based in the Unix world.
Am I missing something? Luckily that no critical systems will use Windows... that would be truly scarey, but I don't think I would use WindowNT for anything... those little solaris thinkpads have more than enough power to handle 8 people's email and won't require maintainance every 2 weeks:)
Linux is not Unix. Linux is a Unix-like operating system. If they mention 'Unix' without mentioning Linux anywhere in an article from any reputable magazine, you can bet that Linux was not included.
I wonder when the Linux clones will come out. "We are not Linux, we are Linux-like OS".
People own the patents on using 0's and 1's to represent numbers (binary), flipping 0 -> 1, and a few other operations which are done about a million times per minute in your CPU...
There was a web page on which I believe was posted on slashdot many moons ago. Maybe someone should mail these sightsound people claiming to represent these people and demand a percentage of their profits to see how their respond to frivolous patent claims.
You can't really blame the patent office for allowing patents on these sort of things either. It has long been common to allow patenting of things which have existed for a while, only to have them be contested in court... I mean, we have to give our judges something to do right?
Yes, Slackware 3.6 does have a package included in the distribution for glibc. I know this because I have a clean installation of it and it has glibc installed right on it. The only difference is that everything is still compiled against libc5, it's done as a compatibility measure (sort of like including libc4.. it's there in case anyone needs it).
Strange, I was just about to point out the opposite. Recently I've seen an alarming amount of anti-American posts on slashdot and on several other places. It's amazing how many people hate the United States. I'm not sure why this is.
First I see a lot of people mock the US for going on the offensive and defending foreign nations. I find it odd that people will condemn this action before actually understanding why we do it. We bomb military installations in a country with an oppresive government and everyone is on our backs because they believe our president is trying to cover up his own problems.
Then there is that notion that you will get shot, stabbed, thrown off a tower, and robbed if you go out any time past 8 pm in the US. While that might be true in some of the slums, it sure isn't true where I live or any of the places I've lived (up and down the west coast, hawaii and in the east coast).
There is a log-structured filesystem for linux called "dtfs" available at their home page. The author tells me he will be shooting for inclusion in 2.3.0 and that the bulk of it is working just fine.
You'd think they'd provide clients more than a few hours before they start doing this, especially when their server is so overloaded you can't even connect.
Anyone got a mirror?
Glibc comes with Slackware 3.6
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It's there, in one of the packages. Binaries are not compiled against it and your compiler will not use it by default, but you can run glibc bins just fine.
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Question, if he went into the time thingamabob 1000 years on Jan 1, 2000 (new years countdown already happened), how could he have come out on Dec 31, 2999?
Question, how much wood could a wood chuck chuck if a wood chuck could chuck wood?
These questions demand answers!
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Real men use Slackware, eat worms, and like it!
Seriously though, I've always liked Slackware. If it wasn't for a particular project I'm working on having certain dependancies for Debian, I'd move back to Slackware.
Slackware lends itself to the tinkerer more than anyone else. If you like compiling your own packages, don't wanna screw up your fancy smancy dependancy list deal, Slackware is your best friend.
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Got it. Now if moderators will actually raise levels of articles as well as lower them, I'll be set.
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Oh, nifty. I thought comments were sorted by post time, not descending by score (and then ascending by time).
:)
Score good, time bad
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I still like my original idea about simply voting each comment's sscore up or down and ordering the comments based on score.
At the top of each comment you could put a little header like:
Score 8Vote up () Vote Down()
Freaks in the clown show
by blah blah (blah)
And at the bottom, a little button labeled "vote" which would submit all the up and down votes. Note of course the vote up/vote down are radio buttons for XOR'ness and all voting should be done on an ip-by-ip basis just like forum voting.
Maybe I'm just being unrealistic.
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Under Help, Click "Export Transparent Image" in Photoshop 5.0 or click File, Save a Copy and select PNG.
Photoshop 4.0 also supports PNGs in transparent and normal varieties, click File, Save a Copy and select PNG.
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OS X doesn't run FreeBSD, it runs hacked-up version of BSD/OS Lite from BSDI, a commercial Unix vendor.
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Well aren't we just slightly paranoid.
You don't think there's a tax on import items already?
Do you really believe that Mexico and Canada won't do the same thing? Especially Canada which mirrors half of the US's bills on encryption.
Do you really believe that tax will kill internet business? Remember, in the US tax goes to pay for government services which help everyone out, from education to military spending. Tax is not evil, taxes keep the US running.
Until we become a utopian society where money is a thing of the past, people like you have to understand how capitalistic societies work. If you don't like it, move to China.
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The Berlin GUI Project - Building a Better Interface for Linux
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Go to Linux Expo during day.
See Star Wars at night.
Problem solved.
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PSX2 development on... Linux! by HeUnique on Wednesday March 3rd 99@10:39 96
I have a dream! One day, the user will be forced to search through old articles before posting.
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I still think having a space just to write in is a complete waste of valuable screen real-estate. I've heard they do it because writing directly on the screen will wear it out. There are plenty of palm-sized computing devices which you write directly on the screen... seems like a big waste :)
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Wow, now that's impressive. Is there any place like netcraft which does monitoring of more services than just httpd... maybe a generalized version which checks FTP daemons, SMTP daemons, NNTP daemons, HTTP daemons, etc.
.mc file and a number of hosts added to sendmail.cw. I would not consider the 6 minutes it takes me to get sendmail running back breaking work.
I never did understand why people say sendmail is hard to configure. My configuration consists of a 3 line long
And I have yet to see a fair comparison of Sendmail vs Qmail vs Zmailer vs Vmailer/Postfix. Everyone says Qmail is faster, but I see no numbers and it just seems like hype.
The only problem I have with Palm Pilots is the huge area of the screen which is wasted as a "defined" writing area. Seems like a waste of valuable screen real estate.
Sigh....
.h file which was included for some odd reason in my distribution which didn't match the real prototypes... giving me a bunch of undefined errors.
I have Egcs 1.1.1, Glibc 2.1, and Linux 2.2.1 installed and working on my SMP box right now. Really the only problem I had was some old libraries which were in my linker search path being linked instead of the new glibc ones and a
After fixing those minor problems, everything throught went quite smoothly.
Can anyone but me view this thing with Netscape 4.5? Mine crashes the second it starts pulling data.
I was under the impression that most hard-core scientists had a working knowledge of Unix and it's derivatives and that a large amount of scientific software was based in the Unix world.
:)
Am I missing something? Luckily that no critical systems will use Windows... that would be truly scarey, but I don't think I would use WindowNT for anything... those little solaris thinkpads have more than enough power to handle 8 people's email and won't require maintainance every 2 weeks
Linux is not Unix. Linux is a Unix-like operating system. If they mention 'Unix' without mentioning Linux anywhere in an article from any reputable magazine, you can bet that Linux was not included.
I wonder when the Linux clones will come out. "We are not Linux, we are Linux-like OS".
People own the patents on using 0's and 1's to represent numbers (binary), flipping 0 -> 1, and a few other operations which are done about a million times per minute in your CPU...
There was a web page on which I believe was posted on slashdot many moons ago. Maybe someone should mail these sightsound people claiming to represent these people and demand a percentage of their profits to see how their respond to frivolous patent claims.
You can't really blame the patent office for allowing patents on these sort of things either. It has long been common to allow patenting of things which have existed for a while, only to have them be contested in court... I mean, we have to give our judges something to do right?
Yes, Slackware 3.6 does have a package included in the distribution for glibc. I know this because I have a clean installation of it and it has glibc installed right on it. The only difference is that everything is still compiled against libc5, it's done as a compatibility measure (sort of like including libc4.. it's there in case anyone needs it).
This is why you don't use Bell Atlantic as your ISP, you use them as your ADSL connection and then get a real ISP.
Bells and Cable companies make lousy ISPs.
Strange, I was just about to point out the opposite. Recently I've seen an alarming amount of anti-American posts on slashdot and on several other places. It's amazing how many people hate the United States. I'm not sure why this is.
First I see a lot of people mock the US for going on the offensive and defending foreign nations. I find it odd that people will condemn this action before actually understanding why we do it. We bomb military installations in a country with an oppresive government and everyone is on our backs because they believe our president is trying to cover up his own problems.
Then there is that notion that you will get shot, stabbed, thrown off a tower, and robbed if you go out any time past 8 pm in the US. While that might be true in some of the slums, it sure isn't true where I live or any of the places I've lived (up and down the west coast, hawaii and in the east coast).
Apple Pie originated in Australia if I'm not mistaken.
Ext2fs would take months to fsck that thing. :)
There is a log-structured filesystem for linux called "dtfs" available at their home page. The author tells me he will be shooting for inclusion in 2.3.0 and that the bulk of it is working just fine.
You'd think they'd provide clients more than a few hours before they start doing this, especially when their server is so overloaded you can't even connect.
Anyone got a mirror?
It's there, in one of the packages. Binaries are not compiled against it and your compiler will not use it by default, but you can run glibc bins just fine.