It's important that there is more than one BSD. Each of them differers in their philosophy, but many of them borrow ideas from each other. In essence they each use each other as a testing ground. It gives one BSD the freedom to try something and see if it works or not. If it doesn't they can go see what the other guys are up to. I guess you can say it's both an advantage, and a disadvantage of the way things are. It is in fact possible that some aspect of Linux could go down the wrong road and end up at a dead end. Then what? You start over again. With BSD chances are that even if what you try doesn't work, you can at least have a building block in what the other BSDs are doing or have done. NetBSD for instance has paved the way for many other operating systems to be ported to different systems (including Linux). And yes, Linux benefits from all this too.
think I'd be more worried about someone building a cluster using AMD Athlons, and thus reducing everything for a 500 meter radius into a smoking pile of ash.
To me it seems like the quality of hard drives in general is sort of going down. I was considering getting an IBM deskstar, but most any place I've seen online has also documented that these drives tend to fail often (not always but more than they should). At the place I work we've blown about 4 Seagate hard drives in the last couple of weeks - and we don't even have many computers. It seems like perhaps magnetic storage technology is getting pushed to it's limit. I mean when you hear about how the heads float on a cusion of air millionths of an inch from the platters, and the small tollerance needed to read and write, it's quite amazing. But simply put, magnetic technology probably just doesn't have the reliability that we need at this point and it's time for a newer medium.
Well in any event, my next hard drive will probably be a Western Digital
Okay, I'm going to get blasted for this but... I'm interested to see what their Fortran compiler can do. I'm not exactly a huge fan of Fortran, but the language does have it's place (just like 'ed'). In college I took a Fortran class, and the guy teaching it didn't care what we used as long as it compiled Fortran code. Instead of paying for some Fortran compiler - [sarcasm] which I'm sure I'd use every day after I took the class [/sarcasm], I opted to use the Linux alternative. Looking through the man page for g77 I found that this thing somehow routes the Fortran code through gcc to create an executable. Well I made a "hello world" program and looked inside the directory... Over 100k for hello world?!? I mean this is irony here, Fortran is the first "language" after assembly created in the 50's... like they made 100k programs back then? I never benchmarked anything, but I can imagine that the results would be less than spectacular. Well I somehow doubt I'll do anymore Fortran, but it would be nice to see something a little better than g77 show up for Linux. Maybe it'll make some old crusty engineers happy too.
putting food on the table? These guys probably made more money in a year than I will in the next 10 (and I think I have a pretty good job)! They might not get ultra high paying jobs like the ones they had, but I'm sure they can have the pick of whatever job they like, which is still way beyond the reach of any people like me. I doubt they'll be strapped for cash anytime soon. Everyone looks at their talent, but these are people too. Maybe some of them are thinking "been there, done that" and want something new.
Well I certainly don't hope that this happens. I like Linux, but I think I'd like to have options too. Realistically speaking I don't think Linux will quite reach the real high end stuff for a while - which will leave Solaris and AIX alone for a while. I really don't have a lot of experience with most other Unix's - except SCO which I'll be more than happy to see dead. I'd just hate to see the BSD series go. There's a lot of good work on that end, that Linux also benefits from. And although many people like Linux, that doesn't always mean that Linux always takes the RIGHT path. It happens in nature, and is fairly true in computers: competition and diversity help a species survive.
If spock was half vulcan and half human, how did his father even bear touching his mother? I'm no star trek expert, but I don't think I've ever heard the touch telepath theory.
Most of those storms seem to occur before the sun inverts it's magnetic field (every 11 years) if I remember correctly. I would think that we might be having more problems like this in the very near future - but I can't recall off hand where we are in the cycle right now. Actually right before the 11 year cycle ends is a good time to watch the sun (through an appropriate lens of course), being that there are more sunspots and flares and other interesting phenomena to see.
No one is unsure that it is uncopyable because the CD is in a uncopyable format, or because it's uncopyable because no one can stand listening to it.
(In all fairness I haven't listened to it, but MJ doesn't do my sort of music)
actually the college I attended tended to stress the sort of skills you need for writing "real" software. I learned C++, and the professors were very stringent about having everything in managable classes with consistant, easy to figure out interfaces, with logical organization. I mean it was almost rediculas considering the size of the programs we were writing, but you can see how important it would become once you scaled this up. I guess all in all it sort of depends on who teaches you.
I know one professor I had, never had an actual programming job, he had been an academic all his life. He was always concerned about teaching the quirks of how to do things, and other stuff which probably wasn't all that relavent. By contrast I had a different professor who had done a lot of programming projects, and emphasized the sort of real skills you would need. He was known for saying "Well I really can't teach you how important doing [this or that] is, but you'll see how it goes once you get into the real world..."
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yeah... I sort of wondered where that 1Ghz chip went to that they were saying (considering you couldn't buy a 1Ghz chip at the time)
er... so which would you get bigger penalties for? Using a pirated version, or not adhearing to the liscence agreement. I guess my question is, are you exempt from the licence if you're using a pirated version and perhaps bypassed any acknowledgment of the licence agreement. Not that I care since I don't use FP, but I'm sort of curious.
If they had done that, the lunar landings would have been pay per view... and damn right I would pay!
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if you're memory constrained, why on God's green earth are you using Mozilla? I use Mozilla all the time, I LIKE Mozilla, but even I admit that it sucks up obscene ammounts of memory. I mean if your system really is on the lower end, it would only make sense to use an application which can run on it (besides which I think a P200 is below the minimum requirements for Moz). To sum this up, you should be using Opera (or maybe Konquor).
well that sounds nice with the back doors, but am I the only one that thinks that this might not even be mathmatically possible? I mean having an algarithm which is valid for anyone, and some mysterious universal key... Something there just doesn't sound like it would work, but I'm not a crypto expert either.
OR it's better that they get it out now, so when people start jumping off the XP bandwagon like a ship on fire, they have something people have a bit of experience with.
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mark me down for flaimbait or whatever, but I have this belief that Linux will not be ready for the desktop until you can put in and take out floppy disks without worrying about mounting them. Call it trivial if you will, but I know a lot of people who still port stuff around with floppies. At the university help desk where I used to work, this was a constant problem with the Linux cluster - people managing to figure out how to mount a disk, but later just ejecting and leaving - which left the mount state in confusion and the next person unable to use the floppy.
actually once Red Hat managed to piss me off for the millionth time, I decided to go with something else. I figured, 'hell why not go all the way and try Free BSD'. Surprisingly I found BSD to be very easy to install and use - and performed a bit better than Linux (most of the time). Of course some of that ease of use goes out the window once you have to jump through hoops in order to upgrade something (which was probably meant to run on Linux).
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It's important that there is more than one BSD. Each of them differers in their philosophy, but many of them borrow ideas from each other. In essence they each use each other as a testing ground. It gives one BSD the freedom to try something and see if it works or not. If it doesn't they can go see what the other guys are up to. I guess you can say it's both an advantage, and a disadvantage of the way things are. It is in fact possible that some aspect of Linux could go down the wrong road and end up at a dead end. Then what? You start over again. With BSD chances are that even if what you try doesn't work, you can at least have a building block in what the other BSDs are doing or have done. NetBSD for instance has paved the way for many other operating systems to be ported to different systems (including Linux). And yes, Linux benefits from all this too.
think I'd be more worried about someone building a cluster using AMD Athlons, and thus reducing everything for a 500 meter radius into a smoking pile of ash.
To me it seems like the quality of hard drives in general is sort of going down. I was considering getting an IBM deskstar, but most any place I've seen online has also documented that these drives tend to fail often (not always but more than they should). At the place I work we've blown about 4 Seagate hard drives in the last couple of weeks - and we don't even have many computers. It seems like perhaps magnetic storage technology is getting pushed to it's limit. I mean when you hear about how the heads float on a cusion of air millionths of an inch from the platters, and the small tollerance needed to read and write, it's quite amazing. But simply put, magnetic technology probably just doesn't have the reliability that we need at this point and it's time for a newer medium.
Well in any event, my next hard drive will probably be a Western Digital
more like you require distributed computing just to be able to run Windows XP.
Okay, I'm going to get blasted for this but... I'm interested to see what their Fortran compiler can do. I'm not exactly a huge fan of Fortran, but the language does have it's place (just like 'ed'). In college I took a Fortran class, and the guy teaching it didn't care what we used as long as it compiled Fortran code. Instead of paying for some Fortran compiler - [sarcasm] which I'm sure I'd use every day after I took the class [/sarcasm], I opted to use the Linux alternative. Looking through the man page for g77 I found that this thing somehow routes the Fortran code through gcc to create an executable. Well I made a "hello world" program and looked inside the directory... Over 100k for hello world?!? I mean this is irony here, Fortran is the first "language" after assembly created in the 50's... like they made 100k programs back then? I never benchmarked anything, but I can imagine that the results would be less than spectacular. Well I somehow doubt I'll do anymore Fortran, but it would be nice to see something a little better than g77 show up for Linux. Maybe it'll make some old crusty engineers happy too.
putting food on the table? These guys probably made more money in a year than I will in the next 10 (and I think I have a pretty good job)! They might not get ultra high paying jobs like the ones they had, but I'm sure they can have the pick of whatever job they like, which is still way beyond the reach of any people like me. I doubt they'll be strapped for cash anytime soon. Everyone looks at their talent, but these are people too. Maybe some of them are thinking "been there, done that" and want something new.
Well I certainly don't hope that this happens. I like Linux, but I think I'd like to have options too. Realistically speaking I don't think Linux will quite reach the real high end stuff for a while - which will leave Solaris and AIX alone for a while. I really don't have a lot of experience with most other Unix's - except SCO which I'll be more than happy to see dead. I'd just hate to see the BSD series go. There's a lot of good work on that end, that Linux also benefits from. And although many people like Linux, that doesn't always mean that Linux always takes the RIGHT path. It happens in nature, and is fairly true in computers: competition and diversity help a species survive.
If spock was half vulcan and half human, how did his father even bear touching his mother? I'm no star trek expert, but I don't think I've ever heard the touch telepath theory.
at least in Hollywood we could hear the thing comming.
Most of those storms seem to occur before the sun inverts it's magnetic field (every 11 years) if I remember correctly. I would think that we might be having more problems like this in the very near future - but I can't recall off hand where we are in the cycle right now. Actually right before the 11 year cycle ends is a good time to watch the sun (through an appropriate lens of course), being that there are more sunspots and flares and other interesting phenomena to see.
hasn't NT always come in different versions?
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No one is unsure that it is uncopyable because the CD is in a uncopyable format, or because it's uncopyable because no one can stand listening to it.
(In all fairness I haven't listened to it, but MJ doesn't do my sort of music)
actually the college I attended tended to stress the sort of skills you need for writing "real" software. I learned C++, and the professors were very stringent about having everything in managable classes with consistant, easy to figure out interfaces, with logical organization. I mean it was almost rediculas considering the size of the programs we were writing, but you can see how important it would become once you scaled this up. I guess all in all it sort of depends on who teaches you.
I know one professor I had, never had an actual programming job, he had been an academic all his life. He was always concerned about teaching the quirks of how to do things, and other stuff which probably wasn't all that relavent. By contrast I had a different professor who had done a lot of programming projects, and emphasized the sort of real skills you would need. He was known for saying "Well I really can't teach you how important doing [this or that] is, but you'll see how it goes once you get into the real world..."
yeah... I sort of wondered where that 1Ghz chip went to that they were saying (considering you couldn't buy a 1Ghz chip at the time)
er... so which would you get bigger penalties for? Using a pirated version, or not adhearing to the liscence agreement. I guess my question is, are you exempt from the licence if you're using a pirated version and perhaps bypassed any acknowledgment of the licence agreement. Not that I care since I don't use FP, but I'm sort of curious.
had been attractive women with big breasts...
If they had done that, the lunar landings would have been pay per view...
and damn right I would pay!
if you're memory constrained, why on God's green earth are you using Mozilla? I use Mozilla all the time, I LIKE Mozilla, but even I admit that it sucks up obscene ammounts of memory. I mean if your system really is on the lower end, it would only make sense to use an application which can run on it (besides which I think a P200 is below the minimum requirements for Moz). To sum this up, you should be using Opera (or maybe Konquor).
"Hmm. I stand corrected. On the other hand, these don't seem too dangerous and obviously never spread very far.
Sad to say, but the only thing that really makes a virus "dangerous" and "wide spread" are incompitant users - which are few and far between on Linux.
I doubt it. Stick your toung on an athlon (without the fan attached) and tell me it can get much worse than that.
won't be long before we'll need how-to's just to explain the licences, and a moz-licence.bugzilla.org just to track them.
well that sounds nice with the back doors, but am I the only one that thinks that this might not even be mathmatically possible? I mean having an algarithm which is valid for anyone, and some mysterious universal key... Something there just doesn't sound like it would work, but I'm not a crypto expert either.
3 days? hell if you do Perl and use Crypt::CBCeasy you can do it in ONE LINE.
OR it's better that they get it out now, so when people start jumping off the XP bandwagon like a ship on fire, they have something people have a bit of experience with.
mark me down for flaimbait or whatever, but I have this belief that Linux will not be ready for the desktop until you can put in and take out floppy disks without worrying about mounting them. Call it trivial if you will, but I know a lot of people who still port stuff around with floppies. At the university help desk where I used to work, this was a constant problem with the Linux cluster - people managing to figure out how to mount a disk, but later just ejecting and leaving - which left the mount state in confusion and the next person unable to use the floppy.
actually once Red Hat managed to piss me off for the millionth time, I decided to go with something else. I figured, 'hell why not go all the way and try Free BSD'. Surprisingly I found BSD to be very easy to install and use - and performed a bit better than Linux (most of the time). Of course some of that ease of use goes out the window once you have to jump through hoops in order to upgrade something (which was probably meant to run on Linux).