The idea was to organise robbing a bank, but since movies tell us it is impossible ot keep these things quiet, you should do the reverse and advertise that there was going to be a bank robbery and invite everyone to join in... how could the authorities appropriately respond? Have all the police force guarding every bank?
I have been looking at the mini-ITX boards with the crusoe chips on them, an dI feel that the price for them is cheap even baring in mind the processor power your getting. Yes these are really really small, but the via eden motherboards still cut it for me.
Well, at least you acknoledge that his programming is important...
Personally I think it is a rewritting of history not call GNU/Linux GNU/Linux. Why not name the system everything that is on the computer, well, because they are not the tools that get the computer into a working state, for what I mean check out from Power Up to Bash Prompt, http://axiom.anu.edu.au/~okeefe/p2b/
GNU is needed to get the system usable and why I thank the GNU folks.
Umm, anyone any idea how WinXPs compatability mode works? Is this how they would maintain compatability with current/older Windows software?
When one of the main arguments about GNU/Linux on the desktop is lack of particular pieces of software such as photoshop, it would seem unwise to remove these apps from Windows...
I think I would agree with what seems to be the majority view here... more complexity leads to more potential areas of failure, however the idea of having a relatively low level OS that you could boot into to examine hardware / obtain drivers could be very useful. Sounds more like a good option, but not for everyday work.
Summerall:Well John, what did you think of tonight's episode? Madden:I loved it! The last-minute addition of Wally Kogen to the line-up was a bit of a gamble, but it really paid off. Summerall:Marge and Lisa painting eggs? Did that work for you? Madden:Ho, ho, big time! They came off the bench with a huge effort that allowed Homer and Bart to make some significant gains. Summerall:Did it strike you as odd that in a Super Bowl show with Dolly Parton we didn't see any football or singing? Madden:I hadn't thought about it, Pat, but in retrospect, it was kind of a rip-off! What a way to treat the loyal fans, who put up with so much nonsense from this franchise. Summerall:Any final thoughts? Madden:Nah, I'm too mad, let's get the heck out of here!
As someone who currently supports end users of windows over the phone, you'd be surprised how oftern a boot floppy is used to get to a DOS prompt so we can if a problem is hardware or software based
I've got some 35M business cards and what I'm planning on doing is putting several bootable floppy images on it and having a choice of which floppy to boot from, particularly if I incorperate some bootable floppys that normally take a few disks to boot, say for instance the winxp setup disks. The plan for that is exact all the files to the same folder and grab the initial boot sector to make it bootable.
I'm hoping that creating a boot loader with lilo and choosing which floppy to boot off.
Anyone got an experience of this and care to share thier thougts?
Ok, I kind of know WinXP but use linux for all my home stuff but...
One of the important aspects of the task driven enviroment for me would be the ease of defining your own tasks... yah I know vba a bit, but really now adays I would really miss being in/having the power, of a bash shell...
I'm not anti gui, it's just that spending my time in decent text editors/powerful shells make everything else seem limited. Ok, everything has work arounds, but that's why I want to have a good method of defining tasks.
I think that Linux users are MORE likely to pay for software packages they want than Windows users, Linux users actually care about licences, and in my experience Windows users do not (in a home enviroment anyway)
You see people, we do need to use the ABBR and the ACRONYM html tags. People, it's not that hard to include them, and by including them we will increase the need for browsers to support them better!
If you're interested, here's the w3c low down on them:- http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/struct/tex t.html#h -9.2.1
I would have thought that using a matrix style war gaming would be far more appropriate as it allows much more versitility. Computers should be an aid to this process, not the exclussive medium.
Another great reason why more people should use the ABBR and ACRONYN html mark up, though I'm not sure how many browsers support it. I know Opera does and I'm sure that IE doesn't support ABBR.
I never ceases to amaze me that in an area with some many times this would be useful, it just isn't used.
Actually I've been looking around for some sort of hand held device which I could shell script in and do some text processing with what ever my favorite editor is, say vim.
So will it be available in the UK and is it suitable for what I want?
That very much reminds me of how I have been thinking about applications, starting from the outside appearance and working in to the nitty gritty, using comments to remind me why I wrote certain pieces;-)
I'm only occasionally touching on doing some programming, a bit of bash shell, but I would love to learn programming.
Here's my question, how do you layout your program outline in terms of flow charts? By this I mean do you use pencil and paper to easily draw diagrams and scribble on, or do you do it though commenting of code, or both, or though use of a graphics package, or... whatever?
If someone would answer here, I'd be most grateful:-)
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The idea was to organise robbing a bank, but since movies tell us it is impossible ot keep these things quiet, you should do the reverse and advertise that there was going to be a bank robbery and invite everyone to join in ... how could the authorities appropriately respond? Have all the police force guarding every bank?
My feeling to.
I have been looking at the mini-ITX boards with the crusoe chips on them, an dI feel that the price for them is cheap even baring in mind the processor power your getting. Yes these are really really small, but the via eden motherboards still cut it for me.
Well RMS thought so about our use of printers ...
.. umm, more freedom ... I don't think I needed the smilies ;)
...
BSD
GPL is free
So easily you forget the freedoms which the arguing and questioning of RMS has brought us.
I am very glad of his contribution. Don't argue against the man, argue against the points he makes if that is what enrages you.
Well, at least you acknoledge that his programming is important ...
Personally I think it is a rewritting of history not call GNU/Linux GNU/Linux. Why not name the system everything that is on the computer, well, because they are not the tools that get the computer into a working state, for what I mean check out from Power Up to Bash Prompt, http://axiom.anu.edu.au/~okeefe/p2b/
GNU is needed to get the system usable and why I thank the GNU folks.
Umm, anyone any idea how WinXPs compatability mode works? Is this how they would maintain compatability with current/older Windows software?
...
When one of the main arguments about GNU/Linux on the desktop is lack of particular pieces of software such as photoshop, it would seem unwise to remove these apps from Windows
Would be very useful in the job I do, most of the day I determine whether a customers harware is knackered, or it's just Windows playing up ... again
Is it that new? How about the linux bios? www.acl.lanl.gov/linuxbios
... more complexity leads to more potential areas of failure, however the idea of having a relatively low level OS that you could boot into to examine hardware / obtain drivers could be very useful. Sounds more like a good option, but not for everyday work.
I think I would agree with what seems to be the majority view here
Ummm, worse episode ....
Summerall:Well John, what did you think of tonight's episode?
Madden:I loved it! The last-minute addition of Wally Kogen to
the line-up was a bit of a gamble, but it really paid
off.
Summerall:Marge and Lisa painting eggs? Did that work for you?
Madden:Ho, ho, big time! They came off the bench with a huge
effort that allowed Homer and Bart to make some
significant gains.
Summerall:Did it strike you as odd that in a Super Bowl show with
Dolly Parton we didn't see any football or singing?
Madden:I hadn't thought about it, Pat, but in retrospect, it
was kind of a rip-off! What a way to treat the loyal
fans, who put up with so much nonsense from this
franchise.
Summerall:Any final thoughts?
Madden:Nah, I'm too mad, let's get the heck out of here!
As someone who currently supports end users of windows over the phone, you'd be surprised how oftern a boot floppy is used to get to a DOS prompt so we can if a problem is hardware or software based
Thanks :-)
I do really like Barts boot disk ... great way to back information up over a network :-)
I've got some 35M business cards and what I'm planning on doing is putting several bootable floppy images on it and having a choice of which floppy to boot from, particularly if I incorperate some bootable floppys that normally take a few disks to boot, say for instance the winxp setup disks. The plan for that is exact all the files to the same folder and grab the initial boot sector to make it bootable.
I'm hoping that creating a boot loader with lilo and choosing which floppy to boot off.
Anyone got an experience of this and care to share thier thougts?
Actually I like eesh
:-)
If you use enlightenment it's worth a look at
Ok, I kind of know WinXP but use linux for all my home stuff but ...
... yah I know vba a bit, but really now adays I would really miss being in/having the power, of a bash shell ...
One of the important aspects of the task driven enviroment for me would be the ease of defining your own tasks
I'm not anti gui, it's just that spending my time in decent text editors/powerful shells make everything else seem limited. Ok, everything has work arounds, but that's why I want to have a good method of defining tasks.
Well, I ain't to hard code programmer but what I'd like to see is ...
... just my desires ...
a much more task driven enviroment, one were you could define tasks and then have a much more intergration between apps
And Opera, Preferences | Security| Certificates
I think that Linux users are MORE likely to pay for software packages they want than Windows users, Linux users actually care about licences, and in my experience Windows users do not (in a home enviroment anyway)
You see people, we do need to use the ABBR and the ACRONYM html tags. People, it's not that hard to include them, and by including them we will increase the need for browsers to support them better!
x t.html#h -9.2.1
If you're interested, here's the w3c low down on them:-
http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/struct/te
I would have thought that using a matrix style war gaming would be far more appropriate as it allows much more versitility. Computers should be an aid to this process, not the exclussive medium.
Another great reason why more people should use the ABBR and ACRONYN html mark up, though I'm not sure how many browsers support it. I know Opera does and I'm sure that IE doesn't support ABBR.
I never ceases to amaze me that in an area with some many times this would be useful, it just isn't used.
Actually I've been looking around for some sort of hand held device which I could shell script in and do some text processing with what ever my favorite editor is, say vim.
So will it be available in the UK and is it suitable for what I want?
That very much reminds me of how I have been thinking about applications, starting from the outside appearance and working in to the nitty gritty, using comments to remind me why I wrote certain pieces ;-)
Thanks for your time
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Flossy
Cheers very much for that, it sounds like you keep the concept of the program in your head, backed up with code that will help direct you.
;-)
As I'm not getting any formal teaching, I find I need some level of reasurrance that I'm doing computer tasks right
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Flossy
I'm only occasionally touching on doing some programming, a bit of bash shell, but I would love to learn programming.
... whatever?
:-)
Here's my question, how do you layout your program outline in terms of flow charts? By this I mean do you use pencil and paper to easily draw diagrams and scribble on, or do you do it though commenting of code, or both, or though use of a graphics package, or
If someone would answer here, I'd be most grateful
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Flossy