A package is basically the same thing as a Windows MSI file.
The problem is that different distros have different directory layouts, configuration file layouts, different places to put binary files, different ways of updating the internal library database etc. etc. etc.
The problem is basically a manifestation of there being more than 1 distro of linux and having distro maintainers who have not agreed on a common standard for this stuff. It's Linux's major achilles heal IMHO.
The only way the Linux desktop is going to become consistent, and not only from a GUI perspective but from a config file and usability, and application integration (i.e. clipboard) perspective, is for EVERY application that is available for UserLinux to filter through a single point of contact.
This group would then standardise (with regards to the GUI, config files etc) EVERY application that is submitted.
I dont see any other bullet proof solution. It would be a ton of work (and really shitty work at that) but it *would* work.
It's basically what distros are doing already with their different package management implementations, but taken to the next level; i.e. instead of making sure the package compiles/binary is not left with missling libs, you make sure of not only that but also the applications all have the same file dialog, windowing toolkit etc.
After studying AI and Cognitive Science at University, the best definition of Intelligence that I heard was:
"Only intelligent beings can make stupid decisions"
It kind of encapsulates the problem with AI really nicely; whenever you try and define it, all you are really doing is pushing the definition requirement into another area.
People have been arguing this since Plato, and IMHO have not made much headway since. If anything computer models have only confused the issue. Until this problem is solved, you cant create AI? How can you create something that you cannot adequately define?
Having said that, neural networks and emergent behaviours are cool;)
You can forward the fraud Email to hatsu1@aol.com.
... Thank you for using MyCiti.com,
Cleatis Hawkins
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WHAT? This email looks almost as untrustworthy as the original spam! Please forward the fraudulent email to an aol account? Are they serious?
This kind of infers that Citibank has ONE person dealing with this sort of thing, and that one person uses AOL. It would be funny if it wasn't so pathetic.
If I was a Citibank customer I'd be on the phone to the Financial Services watchdog about now...
Really, I'm not trolling. I've worked in systems development for 6 years and I have not really seen Netware anywhere, other than a couple of netware deployments. What are their main products that generate money for them?
It's like, whenever I drive through a big city, anywhere in the world, I always see a big Novell building and think to myself "how do they manage that" when their company has been pretty much off the radar for the last few years...
Really, I'm not trolling. Maybe I'm just ignorant!
Can anyone explain to me how Novell make money? The last time I saw a Netware deployment was 1999 IIRC. I guess I am answering my own question, in as much as they just bought a Linux distro (and good luck making money with THAT!;) ), but in the press release they mention that they are a billion dollar company; what are the shareholders valueing here?
I'm not very well versed in the workings of X. I do have it configured pretty much as an out the box gentoo install. It is sluggish. Redhat 9 was sluggish,
X is sluggish. I'm sorry but it is. I know I am not the only one who believes this to be the case. The fact is that my machine is more responsive under windows. Period.
I am running a stage 1 compiled gentoo install with the latest NVidia graphics drivers on a 2Ghz Laptop with Geforce4 graphics. It is sluggish. It always has been sluggish and it always will be sluggish.
The design philosophies behind X are what make it sluggish IMHO. The day there is some sort of non-network option that is 100% compatiable with X will be a good day for Linux...
I'm still using Win2K but I have left OE and IE behind, at least... feels good. --- I'm in that same boat. I use XP Pro for the O/S but try to use Open Source alternatives wherever else I can. Open Office and Mozilla Firebird the most noteworthy I guess.
Me too. The only thing that stops me from using Linux? Performance of X. XP is a LOT faster in terms of simply navigating around programs and general day to day tasks. I have a Dell Laptop dual booted with XP and Gentoo. All the hardware on the laptop works under Linux, and I can live with most of the software that Linux provides (Firebird, Thunderbird, IntelliJ Idea etc). The only thing that stops me using it is the sluggishness of X.
The day someone releases a solid, fast, X-Compatiable server that does away with the "built-on-top-of-the-network-stack"ness of X and replaces it with performance as a priority is the day I boot to Linux in the morning instead of XP.
I have to say that the American system of party funding is just getting way out of control. What strikes me as ludicrous is not the fact that major party donors donate (i.e. bribe) the Republicans and the Democrats. It's not the fact that these donations more often than not result in some form of law being passed that just so happens to be favourable to the donator. What I find totally astonishing is how this is seen as completely normal and totally acceptable.
Why on earth were people getting so upset about hanging chads in 2000 when it really didn't matter who was voted in; both parties were going to provide a corporate whoring service to those that had paid up before the chads were even news.
At every election there is an ever decreasing voter turnout and an ever increasing party donation total, and no-one seems to give a shit! The only thing that changes is which channel Greta VanfuckingSustran is reading the results for.
You may as well bring on the Access powered electronic voting booths. It's not going to make a blind bit of difference.
moderately useful at providing a very basic cross platform information transport.
very useful when being mentioned by PHBs in meetings with CEO/Investors in an attempt to look knowledgable, bleeding edge and worthy of their job/salary
exceedingly useful when being mentioned by stock analysts to pump a company
I mean, come on. It's just a standardised file format. That's all it is, OK?
Slashdot Mirror
Ah yes, because every day users can comprehend IPTables.
I mean, wtf?
Looks like we took their shop website down.
That's their shop website.
Did you get that? Their shop website.
All those links are different btw. Really. Just like this shop website. They all need clicking on.
A package is basically the same thing as a Windows MSI file.
The problem is that different distros have different directory layouts, configuration file layouts, different places to put binary files, different ways of updating the internal library database etc. etc. etc.
The problem is basically a manifestation of there being more than 1 distro of linux and having distro maintainers who have not agreed on a common standard for this stuff. It's Linux's major achilles heal IMHO.
Source - Open Secrets
Only 32 companies or organisations have donated more in the US. Nice.
Mod this guy up.
The only way the Linux desktop is going to become consistent, and not only from a GUI perspective but from a config file and usability, and application integration (i.e. clipboard) perspective, is for EVERY application that is available for UserLinux to filter through a single point of contact.
This group would then standardise (with regards to the GUI, config files etc) EVERY application that is submitted.
I dont see any other bullet proof solution. It would be a ton of work (and really shitty work at that) but it *would* work.
It's basically what distros are doing already with their different package management implementations, but taken to the next level; i.e. instead of making sure the package compiles/binary is not left with missling libs, you make sure of not only that but also the applications all have the same file dialog, windowing toolkit etc.
After studying AI and Cognitive Science at University, the best definition of Intelligence that I heard was:
;)
"Only intelligent beings can make stupid decisions"
It kind of encapsulates the problem with AI really nicely; whenever you try and define it, all you are really doing is pushing the definition requirement into another area.
People have been arguing this since Plato, and IMHO have not made much headway since. If anything computer models have only confused the issue. Until this problem is solved, you cant create AI? How can you create something that you cannot adequately define?
Having said that, neural networks and emergent behaviours are cool
This kind of infers that Citibank has ONE person dealing with this sort of thing, and that one person uses AOL. It would be funny if it wasn't so pathetic.
If I was a Citibank customer I'd be on the phone to the Financial Services watchdog about now...
Unbelievable.
What's REALLY worrying is when you read the extract from the article by Bush Snr you realise, slowly, just how shockingly inarticulate Jnr is...
Really, I'm not trolling. I've worked in systems development for 6 years and I have not really seen Netware anywhere, other than a couple of netware deployments. What are their main products that generate money for them?
It's like, whenever I drive through a big city, anywhere in the world, I always see a big Novell building and think to myself "how do they manage that" when their company has been pretty much off the radar for the last few years...
Really, I'm not trolling. Maybe I'm just ignorant!
Can anyone explain to me how Novell make money? The last time I saw a Netware deployment was 1999 IIRC. I guess I am answering my own question, in as much as they just bought a Linux distro (and good luck making money with THAT! ;) ), but in the press release they mention that they are a billion dollar company; what are the shareholders valueing here?
You need to take your head out your ass my friend. Ignorance is bliss, huh?
Get back to Fox news.
No mention of WEBDAV on their site. They should use something like that (i.e. standards based and not full of holes) if anything.
when you know a girl called Maya, this story conjures up more than just raytraced pool balls :S
The Big Green Gathering is similar to the Burning Man with the exception of a total lack of 14 year old Californians off their heads on mescaline.
Whether this is a plus or a minus depends entirely on your age.
Verisign clearly want to innovate so much that their homepage contains 87 HTML errors, check the w3c validator, in less than 300 lines of code.
That has to be some sort of innovation record!
it also looks like a good way to help prevent identity theft and getting nasty white powder in the mail.
Some people I know would be more than happy receiving white powder in the mail.
$ glxgears :0.0 broken (explicit kill or server shutdown).
12720 frames in 5.0 seconds = 2544.000 FPS
15417 frames in 5.0 seconds = 3083.400 FPS
15270 frames in 5.0 seconds = 3054.000 FPS
15036 frames in 5.0 seconds = 3007.200 FPS
13982 frames in 5.0 seconds = 2796.400 FPS
X connection to
$ set | grep DISPLAY
DISPLAY=:0.0
From top:
Tasks: 65 total, 3 running, 62 sleeping, 0 stopped, 0 zombie
Cpu(s): 18.3% user, 5.5% system, 0.0% nice, 76.2% idle
Mem: 515272k total, 500412k used, 14860k free, 135484k buffers
Swap: 546168k total, 1648k used, 544520k free, 35756k cached
Next time I boot into Gentoo I will find out.
I'm not very well versed in the workings of X. I do have it configured pretty much as an out the box gentoo install. It is sluggish. Redhat 9 was sluggish,
X is sluggish. I'm sorry but it is. I know I am not the only one who believes this to be the case. The fact is that my machine is more responsive under windows. Period.
I am running a stage 1 compiled gentoo install with the latest NVidia graphics drivers on a 2Ghz Laptop with Geforce4 graphics. It is sluggish. It always has been sluggish and it always will be sluggish.
The design philosophies behind X are what make it sluggish IMHO. The day there is some sort of non-network option that is 100% compatiable with X will be a good day for Linux...
I'm still using Win2K but I have left OE and IE behind, at least... feels good.
---
I'm in that same boat. I use XP Pro for the O/S but try to use Open Source alternatives wherever else I can. Open Office and Mozilla Firebird the most noteworthy I guess.
Me too. The only thing that stops me from using Linux? Performance of X. XP is a LOT faster in terms of simply navigating around programs and general day to day tasks. I have a Dell Laptop dual booted with XP and Gentoo. All the hardware on the laptop works under Linux, and I can live with most of the software that Linux provides (Firebird, Thunderbird, IntelliJ Idea etc). The only thing that stops me using it is the sluggishness of X.
The day someone releases a solid, fast, X-Compatiable server that does away with the "built-on-top-of-the-network-stack"ness of X and replaces it with performance as a priority is the day I boot to Linux in the morning instead of XP.
Aha! But are they polyamorous out of work web designers?
...unless you live in London, in which case you turn around, cross the street and run.
PAPER? BAH! I want it made out of thin air! THIN AIR!
I have to say that the American system of party funding is just getting way out of control. What strikes me as ludicrous is not the fact that major party donors donate (i.e. bribe) the Republicans and the Democrats. It's not the fact that these donations more often than not result in some form of law being passed that just so happens to be favourable to the donator. What I find totally astonishing is how this is seen as completely normal and totally acceptable.
Why on earth were people getting so upset about hanging chads in 2000 when it really didn't matter who was voted in; both parties were going to provide a corporate whoring service to those that had paid up before the chads were even news.
At every election there is an ever decreasing voter turnout and an ever increasing party donation total, and no-one seems to give a shit! The only thing that changes is which channel Greta VanfuckingSustran is reading the results for.
You may as well bring on the Access powered electronic voting booths. It's not going to make a blind bit of difference.
I mean, come on. It's just a standardised file format. That's all it is, OK?