It's here where begins the meme about ARM2 and ARM3 being lousy chips with only 26-bit addressing because of six stupid processor state flags... I can imagine Steve Furber or Sophie Wilson saying "64MiB will be enough for everybody". Like the x86: "a horrid kludge". [wink]
I was arguing about the name: Minefield versus Gran Paradiso. In truth I don't care what it's called, so long as it's not called CockSmoker. But given the extraordinary crap people install from the darker side of the Internet, maybe that would be a good name.
I'd disagree. I'm using Minefield, the nightly preview of FireFox 3. While it uses Gecko 1.9, it's still calling itself -- and this is the 20070325, tonight's build -- FireFox 3.0 alpha 3 pre.
I swear someone from Capcom's Street Fighter team was involved in that name.
But, if you can't carry that with you, an iPod with mp3's encoded at 128kbps stereo is a good and portable approximation of the expensive technology with playbck-biased-warm/uncolored-soundstage they want...
True to Type, I've not heard the fine lecture, but would assume that Hawking is saying that mathematics and logic may be used to show coherently that there need not have been a First Cause. I doubt he's talking about any kind of religious creation.
I think this comment sums it up better than I can: there's no evidence on the hard disk investigated that KaZaA was ever there, or that copyright-infringing music was stored there; or that copyright-infringing music was uploaded from there.
What is known: Files with matching names were requested by MediaSentry from a computer via the KaZaA network by a computer which used Verizon's IP range and the defendent was listed by Verizon as being online at that IP address at the time. No effort was made to check that the MediaSentry and Verizon use the same time sources, or that the defendent's computer was not cracked. File under 'mistaken identity' and 'due diligence missing'.
Fair point about the lazy factor in not documenting something only you or your team will use. Is there no way that an employer can make documentation and maintenance a contractual obligation so that, even if someone's moved to developing a newer product, they have to go back to the old -- and so make it important not to need to go backwards?
Or, again, my niavete is shown in that noone actually wants to maintain their work: not even Linus keeps on top of fixing up 2.2.26, 2.4.34, 2.6.16 as he works on the latest edition.
I suspect you've ignored the history of invading forces in Afghanistan. Over the last 150 years, there's been about five attempts by international powers, who were initially successful before being repelled by a consequent native resisting force. Having hidden in the mountains bordering Pakistan, native resistance forces have trained up, imported help from around the world and are now moving out to reclaim their land.
I also suspect that, in both Iraq and Afghanistan, your war is won for the body of the country, but not her heart, soul or mind.
While I'm not a management expert, I agree with you: have waves of teams moving from Dev to Maintenance status as each project and product progress. That puts incentive to make software you're proud of, documented for the next phase of development and with the original experts able to make sure that it works and is fixed when foun to be broken.
But... I'm in a pessimistic mood and will point out the throw-away attitude pervading capitalistic western culture, which means that bugs are a motivator for people to pay money for an upgrade to the next edition.
My response to the Pre-Installation Problem would be to get Canonical to send people to the large resellers with an edition of Ubuntu LTS which functions as a system restore desktop. Pre-installed by, say HP to recover when Windows goes bad. It would need a sizeable back-room management suite to prepare disk images with customised-for-hardware settings, a method to check that the other-OS image isn't trashed or compromised, and could easily provide a web browser, e-mail program, office suite, media player, and photo album in a desktop environment in the space the LiveCD takes up, stored with the recovery suite.
I apologise that I have a PhD thesis to finish right now or I'd be trying to build this in my spare time, rescue desktop, the back-room management suite and all.
I saw esr's World Comination 201 this evening, and esr says that Linspire has a license to Windows Media Player 10's codecs as a result of the Lindows/Linspire lawsuits. That's in CNR and would probably be free-as-in-beer for any user of CNR.
It doesn't mean that Synaptic will disappear. Just that playing foreign media files should become easier.
I've enjoyed a great new filling for sandwiches, omelettes, fritters and more foodstuffs than you can imagine. Put it with chips, peas, cheese, lettuce, in pies and on pizza, roast it, toast it, boast about it:
I'm sorry, but perhaps GPL-free software isn't for you. It's free in the sense that you can do what you like with it. It's not an appliance, like a fridge or a toaster, but a tool that you can deploy in a million ways noone's thought of yet. Saying that you want a zero-maintenance edition of Linux is like saying you want a hassle-free life or worry-free parenthood. It doesn't happen, because freedom and responsibility aren't easy things.
I agree -- that's why I said it was backwards. It's not 'local' when it could be anywhere on your network or bridged and tunnelled to the other side of the planet.
For information about how it is done (albeit backwards) Win XP, you need to define a local printer port for the IP address of the printer. It's so unintuitive:
Add New Printer -> Local Printer Attached To This Computer -> Create A New Port -> Standard TCP/IP Port -> Enter Printer Name / Printer IP Address.
(I found Ubuntu/Fedora's use of the HPLIP and CUPS far easier: pick out JetDirect and enter the IP address.)
May I introduce you to a different paradigm for software installation: a managed resource of software proven to work well with a given GNU/Linux distribution. It saves you the 'is this download safe?' question because of the people making the packages.
You load up the point-and-click package manager, select the program category and program name, read the information about the program, choose to download and install it on your system, and soon after it's there, working fine for your environment.
Fedora has the Extras Project; Ubuntu has its Universe repositories; Gentoo's standard repositories have a huge amount of stuff; Debian also has a lot in its defalt repositories. There are different flavours of package managers for each software distribution project (and I'm unaware of a point-and-click one for Gentoo, googling suggests remerge, which appears to be a web front-end for the emerge download-and compile-build tool) which I suggest you investigate before reinvigorating your computer with Linux.
In order to achieve the seamlessness, I suggest you try Ubuntu's Desktop live/install CD. It does a fairly good job of seamless.
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32-bit Windows will run out of Page File after 4096 MiB of the stuff; I suspect Windows x64 wil run out of page file after 2^48 bytes as per the AMD64 memory addressing capabilities. Consequently, running out of memory to page RAM-resident programs into is the same as running out of RAM.
I doubt you can show me a Vista ready laptop that uses less than 50 watts as this one does I'm sure that my present notebook (MSI 1039 barebone with 2.0GHz AMD Turion64 MT-37, Radeon Mobility X700 and a gig of RAM) meets the Vista Ready specs and doesn't use more than 50 watts of power. The battery is 4400mAH and lasts over two hours supplying 14.4volts, so I think that 2 hours' use gives an average power consumption of 31.68 watts. Then there's thing like ultraportables which can get five hours battery use and still meet the Vista Ready criteria...
Although I could, I won't take that comparison. My dad still has his Walkman F1 AM/FM tape walkman which still works happily from 1980-something. My 1991 FM/AM tape Walkman still works, too. Were the batteries easy to replace in the iPod, it would be a long-lasting piece of equipment. But it wouldn't be so shiny.
My hack would have the kernel keep a journal that is used to update the flash. Don't read your flash backup, but know that the thing is blank when the computer is started and changes according to events that must be controlled (in some way) by the kernel.
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I think you can buy Iyonix's ARM-based desktop computers.
It's here where begins the meme about ARM2 and ARM3 being lousy chips with only 26-bit addressing because of six stupid processor state flags... I can imagine Steve Furber or Sophie Wilson saying "64MiB will be enough for everybody". Like the x86: "a horrid kludge". [wink]
I was arguing about the name: Minefield versus Gran Paradiso. In truth I don't care what it's called, so long as it's not called CockSmoker. But given the extraordinary crap people install from the darker side of the Internet, maybe that would be a good name.
I'd disagree. I'm using Minefield, the nightly preview of FireFox 3. While it uses Gecko 1.9, it's still calling itself -- and this is the 20070325, tonight's build -- FireFox 3.0 alpha 3 pre.
I swear someone from Capcom's Street Fighter team was involved in that name.
I'd also weigh their numbers against known and unpatched security flaws.
But, if you can't carry that with you, an iPod with mp3's encoded at 128kbps stereo is a good and portable approximation of the expensive technology with playbck-biased-warm/uncolored-soundstage they want...
True to Type, I've not heard the fine lecture, but would assume that Hawking is saying that mathematics and logic may be used to show coherently that there need not have been a First Cause. I doubt he's talking about any kind of religious creation.
I apologise for the fact it's always been like that:
If you're going to do the BoFH treatment, make sure that your most-certified-clueless MCSE's are on the project -- so as to lose that dead weight. ;-)
I think this comment sums it up better than I can: there's no evidence on the hard disk investigated that KaZaA was ever there, or that copyright-infringing music was stored there; or that copyright-infringing music was uploaded from there.
What is known: Files with matching names were requested by MediaSentry from a computer via the KaZaA network by a computer which used Verizon's IP range and the defendent was listed by Verizon as being online at that IP address at the time. No effort was made to check that the MediaSentry and Verizon use the same time sources, or that the defendent's computer was not cracked. File under 'mistaken identity' and 'due diligence missing'.
But it's free software, baby! Just need to reverse-engineer the binary blobs that drive the hardware...
Fair point about the lazy factor in not documenting something only you or your team will use. Is there no way that an employer can make documentation and maintenance a contractual obligation so that, even if someone's moved to developing a newer product, they have to go back to the old -- and so make it important not to need to go backwards?
Or, again, my niavete is shown in that noone actually wants to maintain their work: not even Linus keeps on top of fixing up 2.2.26, 2.4.34, 2.6.16 as he works on the latest edition.
I suspect you've ignored the history of invading forces in Afghanistan. Over the last 150 years, there's been about five attempts by international powers, who were initially successful before being repelled by a consequent native resisting force. Having hidden in the mountains bordering Pakistan, native resistance forces have trained up, imported help from around the world and are now moving out to reclaim their land.
I also suspect that, in both Iraq and Afghanistan, your war is won for the body of the country, but not her heart, soul or mind.
While I'm not a management expert, I agree with you: have waves of teams moving from Dev to Maintenance status as each project and product progress. That puts incentive to make software you're proud of, documented for the next phase of development and with the original experts able to make sure that it works and is fixed when foun to be broken.
But... I'm in a pessimistic mood and will point out the throw-away attitude pervading capitalistic western culture, which means that bugs are a motivator for people to pay money for an upgrade to the next edition.
My response to the Pre-Installation Problem would be to get Canonical to send people to the large resellers with an edition of Ubuntu LTS which functions as a system restore desktop. Pre-installed by, say HP to recover when Windows goes bad. It would need a sizeable back-room management suite to prepare disk images with customised-for-hardware settings, a method to check that the other-OS image isn't trashed or compromised, and could easily provide a web browser, e-mail program, office suite, media player, and photo album in a desktop environment in the space the LiveCD takes up, stored with the recovery suite.
I apologise that I have a PhD thesis to finish right now or I'd be trying to build this in my spare time, rescue desktop, the back-room management suite and all.
I saw esr's World Comination 201 this evening, and esr says that Linspire has a license to Windows Media Player 10's codecs as a result of the Lindows/Linspire lawsuits. That's in CNR and would probably be free-as-in-beer for any user of CNR.
It doesn't mean that Synaptic will disappear. Just that playing foreign media files should become easier.
I've enjoyed a great new filling for sandwiches, omelettes, fritters and more foodstuffs than you can imagine. Put it with chips, peas, cheese, lettuce, in pies and on pizza, roast it, toast it, boast about it:
Spam.
I'm sorry, but perhaps GPL-free software isn't for you. It's free in the sense that you can do what you like with it. It's not an appliance, like a fridge or a toaster, but a tool that you can deploy in a million ways noone's thought of yet. Saying that you want a zero-maintenance edition of Linux is like saying you want a hassle-free life or worry-free parenthood. It doesn't happen, because freedom and responsibility aren't easy things.
I agree -- that's why I said it was backwards. It's not 'local' when it could be anywhere on your network or bridged and tunnelled to the other side of the planet.
For information about how it is done (albeit backwards) Win XP, you need to define a local printer port for the IP address of the printer. It's so unintuitive:
Add New Printer -> Local Printer Attached To This Computer -> Create A New Port -> Standard TCP/IP Port -> Enter Printer Name / Printer IP Address.
(I found Ubuntu/Fedora's use of the HPLIP and CUPS far easier: pick out JetDirect and enter the IP address.)
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May I introduce you to a different paradigm for software installation: a managed resource of software proven to work well with a given GNU/Linux distribution. It saves you the 'is this download safe?' question because of the people making the packages.
You load up the point-and-click package manager, select the program category and program name, read the information about the program, choose to download and install it on your system, and soon after it's there, working fine for your environment.
Fedora has the Extras Project; Ubuntu has its Universe repositories; Gentoo's standard repositories have a huge amount of stuff; Debian also has a lot in its defalt repositories. There are different flavours of package managers for each software distribution project (and I'm unaware of a point-and-click one for Gentoo, googling suggests remerge, which appears to be a web front-end for the emerge download-and compile-build tool) which I suggest you investigate before reinvigorating your computer with Linux.
In order to achieve the seamlessness, I suggest you try Ubuntu's Desktop live/install CD. It does a fairly good job of seamless.
32-bit Windows will run out of Page File after 4096 MiB of the stuff; I suspect Windows x64 wil run out of page file after 2^48 bytes as per the AMD64 memory addressing capabilities. Consequently, running out of memory to page RAM-resident programs into is the same as running out of RAM.
I doubt you can show me a Vista ready laptop that uses less than 50 watts as this one does
I'm sure that my present notebook (MSI 1039 barebone with 2.0GHz AMD Turion64 MT-37, Radeon Mobility X700 and a gig of RAM) meets the Vista Ready specs and doesn't use more than 50 watts of power. The battery is 4400mAH and lasts over two hours supplying 14.4volts, so I think that 2 hours' use gives an average power consumption of 31.68 watts. Then there's thing like ultraportables which can get five hours battery use and still meet the Vista Ready criteria...
Although I could, I won't take that comparison. My dad still has his Walkman F1 AM/FM tape walkman which still works happily from 1980-something. My 1991 FM/AM tape Walkman still works, too. Were the batteries easy to replace in the iPod, it would be a long-lasting piece of equipment. But it wouldn't be so shiny.
My hack would have the kernel keep a journal that is used to update the flash. Don't read your flash backup, but know that the thing is blank when the computer is started and changes according to events that must be controlled (in some way) by the kernel.