Awe at how a corporation with THAT many testers can miss so many bugs. Makes me wonder how many they caught beforehand?
I second this. The largest, and supposedly "best", OS on the planet, can't catch this stuff that they've proven, over the even just past few months (and I won't go into CodeRed or NIMDA, or Klez, or...), that they have missed some really easy things? YIKES! Do hey have ANY kind of QA/QC over there?
As with all presents for children, he's probably been in the tank for a total of 5 mins,,, spending more time in some cardboard boxes that were in the garage.
I'll have to second this. My son's been really into Star Wars the past 5 or 6 months (He'll be 4 in a few months). He wanted Obi-Wan's ship. OK, cool. Then he wanted Zam-Wellel's ship, and Jango's ship, and yes damn near everything from Eps 4 -6 (my Mom had kept a lot of that stuff from I was a kid, so it was just hitting ebay for a few things).
Point of this small rant is to say: Recently I had to get him a new (bigger) car seat. Guess what his favorite toy was for a good little while; the box the seat came in... He won't let me get rid of it still. That was about a month ago...:-)
No kidding, Children are a lot like computer programs, Input affects output, but in the end its the programmer ( parents ) that direct the nature out the output
Oh, you don't need to tell me about that stuff, man. My son is still in diapers.
Rambus memory is clocked a lot higher then DDR, but it's performance gains (not much) don't justify the extra cost.
I didn't find it much more expensive. I recently built a new box and have RIMMs in it (with a PIV-2.4Ghz). It was about 80 bucks for a 256M stick (I bought two). That seemed to be a pretty decent price.
Oh, you mean just like every other distro that has kde 3.1?
I was going to post a similar comment until I read yours. This is TOTALLY nothing new. KDE's been doing all this since late summer or so...
(And that's the released betas and such. I'm sure it's been in CVS longer)
How about something that, when I install a Linux distro, makes whatever sound card I have actually work without having to play around with wierd downloads, configuring text files, etc.?
I can honestly say that (with execption to an anceint AWE-64 ISA card about 4 years ago) I've never had to dick around with anything like that. And the AWE was still fairly easy; sndconfig setup the AWE card working 100% fine in about 20 seconds. These days I just make sure the module for my card is in my kernel, and that's it. Reboot (to init the kernel). I use Gentoo, so I compile my own kernels, but with a more mainstream distro, all that stuff is already there in the binary package they hand out.
Granted I've used fairly generic cards (meaning I don't have an Audigy or something), but I've been using linux (and several flavors of it) since RH 5.2 (or something like that, I forget... it was 5 something) and I've never had to really dick with the system for sound to work.
Scientists believe the impact, which was centered just off the coast in the Caribbean, altered the subsurface rocks such that the overlying limestone sediments, which formed later and erode very easily, would preferentially erode on the vicinity of the crater rim.
Wait. So nothing's really changed. So they are basically still saying that the Gulf of Mexico is the "real" meteor crash site and not this dimple... Hmmm... let's see, let's keep reading:
This formed the trough as well as numerous sinkholes (called cenotes) which are visible as small circular depressions.
Ummm... yup. This is a sink-hole, a dimple in the earth caused by the sudden crash/explosion NEAR BY. This is not the crash site. I wish people would read the damn articles before even submitting them to the editors (and that opens another can of worms there, but I digress...).
Are we going to see a new symbol for war-chalking in that PDF that goes around? Will Mikie D's integrate it into their current symbols? You just know the restaurants will be covered in less than a week's time, if this idea sees the light of day...
The number of people that have said "Imagine a Beowulf Cluster of these!" has been said is so large that it approaches infinity. ie. it's a constantly growing number with no certain end, a lot like Pi.
It will almost certainly remain a viable contender for certain embedded and esoteric applications.
Why? I'd really like to hear why you think that. You offer no "why" in your post. This is not a flame or anything, I'm just VERY curious why you think this.
Well, while yes, Portage is a wonderful package manager, it certainly isn't alone in that respect. There's apt for Debian, whatever the BSD's use (I've not used BSD, but portage keeps getting compared to it). If you just want to focus on RPM distros, Mandrake has urpmi, SuSE has their YAST thing.
I really can't speak on RH since I haven't bothered with it since around 6.2 or so, so I don't know if up2date handles deps as well as the others do, but you can use apt on RH these days anyway, so that's a plus.
I think all the RPM hell jokes are getting rather dated these days. There's been solutions out for quite a while now.
I believe the numbers could be re-used after death
Funny you bring this up as I've often wondered about that and another situation that is (kinda similar).
Does my number get reused after I die?
My other thought:
Let's say I move some where else and become a resident of that country and drop my residency here in the US, but then move back and become a US resident again. Do I get my old number back? Do I get another number? If so, what happened to my old one?
To whatever your system is. Yes, make.conf defaults to i686, but in the install doc, it specifically mentions editing your make.conf PRIOR to emerging system because of this.
Remember, with Gentoo, you're using the "real" sources, not some distro's pre-packaged and hacked binaries. I'm not downing any distro that uses that as it's distrobution method, but after having swithed several machines of mine over to Gentoo about a year ago or so now, I won't look back to anything else. I big thumbs up to the wizards over at Gentoo!
Neat trick considering there never was a DirectX 4.
Just becuase there was never an "official" release, dosen't mean that there wern't people writing things based on the code that was heading out the MS door on MCSP CD's.
"I got it running on Mandrake 8.2 / Enlightenment with standard WineX installation and zero configuration."
/me sighs
I'd hardly call that "out of the box". It's not a Linux port. It;'s hjust wizards over at TransGaming That did the work, not the folks that wrote MoO3.
O-Well. It sounds nice anyway... I guess...
P.S.
Yes, I'm a transgaming subscriber, it's just that this doesn't qualify as "out of the box" in my eyes.
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Awe at how a corporation with THAT many testers can miss so many bugs. Makes me wonder how many they caught beforehand?
:-)
I second this. The largest, and supposedly "best", OS on the planet, can't catch this stuff that they've proven, over the even just past few months (and I won't go into CodeRed or NIMDA, or Klez, or...), that they have missed some really easy things? YIKES! Do hey have ANY kind of QA/QC over there?
P.S.
I'm a smoker. heh...
since Washington is probably the main target for retaliation.
Yea? Maybe they should hold the Acadmy Awards there in stead of Hollywood...
now if it had gone through test releases beta through omikron...
What does David Bowie have to do with this?
As with all presents for children, he's probably been in the tank for a total of 5 mins,,, spending more time in some cardboard boxes that were in the garage.
:-)
I'll have to second this. My son's been really into Star Wars the past 5 or 6 months (He'll be 4 in a few months). He wanted Obi-Wan's ship. OK, cool. Then he wanted Zam-Wellel's ship, and Jango's ship, and yes damn near everything from Eps 4 -6 (my Mom had kept a lot of that stuff from I was a kid, so it was just hitting ebay for a few things).
Point of this small rant is to say: Recently I had to get him a new (bigger) car seat. Guess what his favorite toy was for a good little while; the box the seat came in... He won't let me get rid of it still. That was about a month ago...
No kidding, Children are a lot like computer programs, Input affects output, but in the end its the programmer ( parents ) that direct the nature out the output
Oh, you don't need to tell me about that stuff, man. My son is still in diapers.
Rambus memory is clocked a lot higher then DDR, but it's performance gains (not much) don't justify the extra cost.
I didn't find it much more expensive. I recently built a new box and have RIMMs in it (with a PIV-2.4Ghz). It was about 80 bucks for a 256M stick (I bought two). That seemed to be a pretty decent price.
Oh, you mean just like every other distro that has kde 3.1?
I was going to post a similar comment until I read yours. This is TOTALLY nothing new. KDE's been doing all this since late summer or so...
(And that's the released betas and such. I'm sure it's been in CVS longer)
How about something that, when I install a Linux distro, makes whatever sound card I have actually work without having to play around with wierd downloads, configuring text files, etc.?
I can honestly say that (with execption to an anceint AWE-64 ISA card about 4 years ago) I've never had to dick around with anything like that. And the AWE was still fairly easy; sndconfig setup the AWE card working 100% fine in about 20 seconds. These days I just make sure the module for my card is in my kernel, and that's it. Reboot (to init the kernel). I use Gentoo, so I compile my own kernels, but with a more mainstream distro, all that stuff is already there in the binary package they hand out.
Granted I've used fairly generic cards (meaning I don't have an Audigy or something), but I've been using linux (and several flavors of it) since RH 5.2 (or something like that, I forget... it was 5 something) and I've never had to really dick with the system for sound to work.
"Radio Dispatch, do you know who this is?!?!"
"no, who is this is?"
oh god I wish I could take that back...
sorry...
impact being just off the coast of the Yucatan Peninsula
And what is just off the coast of the Yucatan Peninsula?
Hmmm...
Scientists believe the impact, which was centered just off the coast in the Caribbean, altered the subsurface rocks such that the overlying limestone sediments, which formed later and erode very easily, would preferentially erode on the vicinity of the crater rim.
Wait. So nothing's really changed. So they are basically still saying that the Gulf of Mexico is the "real" meteor crash site and not this dimple... Hmmm... let's see, let's keep reading:
This formed the trough as well as numerous sinkholes (called cenotes) which are visible as small circular depressions.
Ummm... yup. This is a sink-hole, a dimple in the earth caused by the sudden crash/explosion NEAR BY. This is not the crash site. I wish people would read the damn articles before even submitting them to the editors (and that opens another can of worms there, but I digress...).
Are we going to see a new symbol for war-chalking in that PDF that goes around? Will Mikie D's integrate it into their current symbols? You just know the restaurants will be covered in less than a week's time, if this idea sees the light of day...
The number of people that have said "Imagine a Beowulf Cluster of these!" has been said is so large that it approaches infinity. ie. it's a constantly growing number with no certain end, a lot like Pi.
In Soviet Russia, the Pi eats YOU!
It will almost certainly remain a viable contender for certain embedded and esoteric applications.
Why? I'd really like to hear why you think that. You offer no "why" in your post. This is not a flame or anything, I'm just VERY curious why you think this.
From what I've seen, Gentoo already has.
Well, while yes, Portage is a wonderful package manager, it certainly isn't alone in that respect. There's apt for Debian, whatever the BSD's use (I've not used BSD, but portage keeps getting compared to it). If you just want to focus on RPM distros, Mandrake has urpmi, SuSE has their YAST thing.
I really can't speak on RH since I haven't bothered with it since around 6.2 or so, so I don't know if up2date handles deps as well as the others do, but you can use apt on RH these days anyway, so that's a plus.
I think all the RPM hell jokes are getting rather dated these days. There's been solutions out for quite a while now.
I believe the numbers could be re-used after death
Funny you bring this up as I've often wondered about that and another situation that is (kinda similar).
Does my number get reused after I die?
My other thought:
Let's say I move some where else and become a resident of that country and drop my residency here in the US, but then move back and become a US resident again. Do I get my old number back? Do I get another number? If so, what happened to my old one?
I meant that comment in relation to Yoper.
Oh... then I'm sorry, man. I read it as being about Gentoo. My bad.
P.S.
OK, OK, you called me on the "I" thing... bad typing... heh
I have to say:
BZZZT! WRONG!
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To whatever your system is. Yes, make.conf defaults to i686, but in the install doc, it specifically mentions editing your make.conf PRIOR to emerging system because of this.
Remember, with Gentoo, you're using the "real" sources, not some distro's pre-packaged and hacked binaries. I'm not downing any distro that uses that as it's distrobution method, but after having swithed several machines of mine over to Gentoo about a year ago or so now, I won't look back to anything else. I big thumbs up to the wizards over at Gentoo!
Making it run on 40% ethanol, 60% water
Bah!
Won't a Mr. Fusion run that just fine?
Neat trick considering there never was a DirectX 4.
Just becuase there was never an "official" release, dosen't mean that there wern't people writing things based on the code that was heading out the MS door on MCSP CD's.
there truly is beauty in symmetry.
I agree with this. Breasts usually come in pairs.
mephitis
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go look it up, it's interesting . .
So that would qualify as the CowboyNeal option, no?
From the Link:
/me sighs
"I got it running on Mandrake 8.2 / Enlightenment with standard WineX installation and zero configuration."
I'd hardly call that "out of the box". It's not a Linux port. It;'s hjust wizards over at TransGaming That did the work, not the folks that wrote MoO3.
O-Well. It sounds nice anyway... I guess...
P.S.
Yes, I'm a transgaming subscriber, it's just that this doesn't qualify as "out of the box" in my eyes.
Windows suX0rZ!! Yeah!!
It was a joke, Watson.