From Nextstep came the Openstep standard for a Nextstep-like desktop. Apple is doing a very good job copying Openstep in a modern way (and probably using quite a bit of the old code) with Cocoa.
GNUstep is also copying Openstep. I never implied that Apple was copying from GNUstep (at least, not intentionally); I should know, since I've seen books about the whole thing from the early 90's.
While I admire the fact that sol.exe runs on really old processors, you are in a minority with a 386 laptop. Most people use much newer hardware, and even an old 266 Mhz K6 computer with 42 megs of ram can run pySol without any noticeable slowness except at startup time.
I think there are other solitaire games written in C[++] for Linux, but I haven't used them much.
And a 230 Mhz K6 can't run super nintendo games as quickly as the original console, despite having a much higher clock speed. The trick: the SNES had lots of hardware acceleration. And how does this apply to the discussion? It doesn't. Ladies and gentleman I am not making any sense. Here, look at the monkey. Look at the silly little monkey.
I don't get it... what does inter-process communication have to do with this, other than in discussions of lag when you're using these as thin clients?;-)
Same here, only it was the two towers in my case. It's really kind of funny to hear people eagerly awaiting the release of a DVD that you've seen months ago, albeit with occasional "For Your Consideration" messages at the bottom of the screen tricking me into thinking they're subtitles. I guess that's the disadvantage of watching cowboy bebop subbed.
Armadillo Aerospace tried recently to get permission to do test flights at white sands missle test range. It's the perfect place, and they have some good supporters there, but they've been told that launching before 2004 is extremely ambitious just because of all the paperwork. Something about that just makes me somewhat sick. Good luck, Canadian Arrow, and may your country be kinder to you than mine.
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There's a good book explaining a lot of this stuff in detail available from O'reilly. I can vouch for it having some neat stuff, and it covers how to write fortran in such a way as to take advantage of the parallelism features.
It sounds like a great idea. Personally, I'm slightly more in favor of approval voting: you cast a vote for whomever you think would do a good job (candidates you approve of), and then the votes are tallied up by a popular vote. It lets you vote for the lesser evil and a third party candidate, or you could vote for everyone except one person (to vote against that person, effectively), or several other things.
That ought to do wonders for the size of discussions about the RIAA and whether or not it is ethical to download copyrighted music for free. Before long you have big convoluted analogies about stealing and people's houses.
And around here, you're also more likely to have people point out that your (this post's grandparent's poster's) sig is wrong: Boromir was the brother of Faramir, who became the Steward of Gondor.
Sorry if this is offtopic, but it's been nagging me.
A more security minded friendly community, huh? Well, I'll throw this into the pot: the Gentoo Linux Security Guide, which explains a lot, and is applicable to more than just Gentoo. For example:
Any directory tree a user should be able to write to (/home and/tmp/var), should be on a separate partition and use disk quotas. Portage uses/var/tmp to compile files so that partition should be large. This reduces the risk of a user filling up your "/" mount point.
It also goes into security policies for your users before delving into the nuts and bolts.
I just checked, and it looks like I spoke about a month too soon---I think they're planning on adding gzip support, but until then you'll just have to either trust web servers or use bfilter or middleman (I'd probably recommend middleman for this).
And for those of you who have broadband that you use to run an HTTP server on---have you considered using mod_gzip? It will let you serve more with less, which is a very good thing if you ever get linked to from slashdot.
If you have squid on a fast connection, you can have it do gzipping. That would give you the same benefits as these web accelerators unless I'm mistaken in my understanding of how they work---and it would be all free, on the servers and clients.
If you want to pull an RMS (without all the fanaticism and bad press) and Help Your Neighbor, you could set up a CGI proxy on an unfiltered machine. The you could give the URL to anybody that you want to be able to see things on library/school computers. It would really be helpful to quite a few people.
A while ago, I wrote down some thoughts about Bayesian web filtering. The main point that I had was this: with web filtering, the people on both sides of the HTTP connection are on the same side, rather than having a greedy asshat spamming millions of decidedly unappreciative victims. You can make, say, porn sites that are indistinguishable from a discussion of the W3C recommendation process. How is a bayesian filter to know the difference? With email, the HTML tags are very suspicious; the IMG tag gets a very high spam probability. But with web pages, what can you do?
This is a good thing - content owners can choose to send away potential visitors who would not see pop-up ads. In time, sites which do not use popup ads will become more common and more succesful.
Imagine the mess that would cause. There are already far too many "professionally" designed web sites that refuse to work without Internet Explorer, such as Amano's World. Can you imagine the nightmare for users of other browsers if IE became actually required? What about proxy servers? I currently use bfilter, which blocks out the worst of the web before it gets to me. I imagine that it wouldn't be allowed. So we limit proxies to... whatever microsoft provides? That and approved versions of squid if these "control the way you look at my web site even if it is completely anathema to the web's philosophy" people are feeling generous. And what about plugins for proxies that have such an architecture? Would it be necessary to disallow third party plugins/modules/whatever, therefore destroying the hard-earned flexibility that programmers are always striving for?
Actually, I think that alone would pretty much kill those W33 0wn j00 web sites. Still, I much prefer to give power to the users, since that's what I am. Control freaks give me the willies.
If so (and it certainly seems probable) than why haven't people been looking for dupes before this, rather than just demanding that SCO cough up their alleged code or shut up? I mean, it's obvious that SCO isn't going to listen to reason, so why not take things into your own hands?
The BSD people took all of their original unix code out of the OS, and this has been upheld in court. They're safe---or as safe as you can be against unsubstantiated grandiose claims by delusional greedy (my mind is crapping out here from overload) fill-in-the-blanks.
The paper you mention is for the current breed of nuclear reactors, with a key problem: the fuel is not reprocessed. Reprocessing can reclaim a lot of fissionable uranium from fuel rods (96%, was it?).
Photovoltaics, to pick one of the "clean" energy sources, seem great at first sight, aside from the fact that they only work when the sun is shining on them. However, those things have got to use a lot of materials. And if it's some decentralized "everybody has a solar panel on the roof" thing, that's no better---when you decentralize things like that, inefficiency increases, for the same reason McDonalds uses less grease than a bunch of people cooking the equivalent amount of french fries at home. It's good to have these things centralized to some degree, although we sure do need to update our power distribution grid.
I'd be optimistic about nuclear fission if it weren't so likely to be shouted down as the most polluting thing since SUVs. In the meantime, we can just be glad that some other countries aren't so paranoid about reprocessing spent fuel to retrieve (according to the BBC) "uranium (96%) and plutonium (1%) and highly radioactive waste (3%)".
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GNUstep is also copying Openstep. I never implied that Apple was copying from GNUstep (at least, not intentionally); I should know, since I've seen books about the whole thing from the early 90's.
I think there are other solitaire games written in C[++] for Linux, but I haven't used them much.
Well, we could always copy from the same sources that OSX is copying from
Have you tried pySol? It has lots of solitaire games, and it's more fun than windows solitaire. Plus, it's free.
And a 230 Mhz K6 can't run super nintendo games as quickly as the original console, despite having a much higher clock speed. The trick: the SNES had lots of hardware acceleration. And how does this apply to the discussion? It doesn't. Ladies and gentleman I am not making any sense. Here, look at the monkey. Look at the silly little monkey.
I don't get it... what does inter-process communication have to do with this, other than in discussions of lag when you're using these as thin clients? ;-)
Same here, only it was the two towers in my case. It's really kind of funny to hear people eagerly awaiting the release of a DVD that you've seen months ago, albeit with occasional "For Your Consideration" messages at the bottom of the screen tricking me into thinking they're subtitles. I guess that's the disadvantage of watching cowboy bebop subbed.
Armadillo Aerospace tried recently to get permission to do test flights at white sands missle test range. It's the perfect place, and they have some good supporters there, but they've been told that launching before 2004 is extremely ambitious just because of all the paperwork. Something about that just makes me somewhat sick. Good luck, Canadian Arrow, and may your country be kinder to you than mine.
There's a good book explaining a lot of this stuff in detail available from O'reilly. I can vouch for it having some neat stuff, and it covers how to write fortran in such a way as to take advantage of the parallelism features.
But barring that, bring on the instant runoff voting!
That ought to do wonders for the size of discussions about the RIAA and whether or not it is ethical to download copyrighted music for free. Before long you have big convoluted analogies about stealing and people's houses.
Yes, Rainbow Brite would know what to do. Unfortunately, the closest thing I've come across was a colorful story of a joke gone too far.
Sorry if this is offtopic, but it's been nagging me.
I just checked, and it looks like I spoke about a month too soon---I think they're planning on adding gzip support, but until then you'll just have to either trust web servers or use bfilter or middleman (I'd probably recommend middleman for this).
And for those of you who have broadband that you use to run an HTTP server on---have you considered using mod_gzip? It will let you serve more with less, which is a very good thing if you ever get linked to from slashdot.
If you have squid on a fast connection, you can have it do gzipping. That would give you the same benefits as these web accelerators unless I'm mistaken in my understanding of how they work---and it would be all free, on the servers and clients.
A while ago, I wrote down some thoughts about Bayesian web filtering. The main point that I had was this: with web filtering, the people on both sides of the HTTP connection are on the same side, rather than having a greedy asshat spamming millions of decidedly unappreciative victims. You can make, say, porn sites that are indistinguishable from a discussion of the W3C recommendation process. How is a bayesian filter to know the difference? With email, the HTML tags are very suspicious; the IMG tag gets a very high spam probability. But with web pages, what can you do?
Imagine the mess that would cause. There are already far too many "professionally" designed web sites that refuse to work without Internet Explorer, such as Amano's World. Can you imagine the nightmare for users of other browsers if IE became actually required? What about proxy servers? I currently use bfilter, which blocks out the worst of the web before it gets to me. I imagine that it wouldn't be allowed. So we limit proxies to... whatever microsoft provides? That and approved versions of squid if these "control the way you look at my web site even if it is completely anathema to the web's philosophy" people are feeling generous. And what about plugins for proxies that have such an architecture? Would it be necessary to disallow third party plugins/modules/whatever, therefore destroying the hard-earned flexibility that programmers are always striving for?
Actually, I think that alone would pretty much kill those W33 0wn j00 web sites. Still, I much prefer to give power to the users, since that's what I am. Control freaks give me the willies.
Same here. And if I want to lock down a computer, I'll use grSecurity on Gentoo and probably some chroot jails.
If so (and it certainly seems probable) than why haven't people been looking for dupes before this, rather than just demanding that SCO cough up their alleged code or shut up? I mean, it's obvious that SCO isn't going to listen to reason, so why not take things into your own hands?
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The BSD people took all of their original unix code out of the OS, and this has been upheld in court. They're safe---or as safe as you can be against unsubstantiated grandiose claims by delusional greedy (my mind is crapping out here from overload) fill-in-the-blanks.
The paper you mention is for the current breed of nuclear reactors, with a key problem: the fuel is not reprocessed. Reprocessing can reclaim a lot of fissionable uranium from fuel rods (96%, was it?).
I'd be optimistic about nuclear fission if it weren't so likely to be shouted down as the most polluting thing since SUVs. In the meantime, we can just be glad that some other countries aren't so paranoid about reprocessing spent fuel to retrieve (according to the BBC) "uranium (96%) and plutonium (1%) and highly radioactive waste (3%)".