Europe has never concentrated an effort on an organized road system like the us did untill recently (if they ever did).
Er.. the US interstate highway system was a direct result of the Autobahn.. Given that Eisenhower had firsthand experience of its efficacy in moving materiel vs more vulnerable rails, it's not surprising that it was his administration that pushed the highway system thru congress on its military necessity...
(oh, and until recently, Europe wasn't a country;)
I'm really annoyed by the sun shaped clippy ripoff though. Haven't figured out how to disable it yet. You'd think they'd learn from Microsoft's mistakes.
$ soffice
tools->options->OpenOffice.org->General uncheck the Help Agent/Activate checkbox
... but you may wish to consider a city with a lower sales tax: NYC is at 8.75%, which could make it worth your while to find a different city with lower taxes... Maybe somewhere in Virginia? The weather at this time of year is much nicer, the taxes are lower, and DC is a pretty decent tourist destination...
Oh, and absolutely do NOT go anywhere else besides J&R in NYC, except Tekserve, and only if you need a Mac. Pretty much every other place in NYC is a ripoff joint or a ripoff chain store.
I wish they and ATI would do open source 3D but thats not going to happen for the later cards until people like Intel simply commoditze them and turn them into the next version of the SGI graphics division or until software gets so fast that we don't care about 3d accelerators any more 8)
How much OS-dependent stuff could really give away their chipset engineering secrets, and why not stash the OS-independent secret stuff in firmware, perhaps copying to RAM if speed is a concern?
(Then again, I just have to keep reemerging nvidia-kernel whenever I update my box, so I suppose my time is worth less than the cost of flash firmware;)
Even if only for servers to keep open relays out of the loop, it may be time to mandate third-party trusted ID certs (ala SSL) for mail servers. It's proven too difficult to get most people to digitally sign their mail, but admins should be clueful enough to generate certs and have them validated externally...
Perl is nice to glue pieces together, to develop small projects and prototypes. On the long term, it's hard to maintain and there is so many ways to shoot yourself in the foot. And then, debugging is not an easy task at all.
I wholeheartedly disagree with everything here but the first sentence. Perl's problems stem from its virtues, namely flexibility, TMTOWTDI, and colloquialism. You can write bad code in any language, but Perl makes it so easy to do in so many ways. Good Perl coders self-document, write code that's readable and self-evident, pick an idiom and stick with it. Also, CPAN. Nuff said.
Python? I really don't use it, and I'm sorry but the concept of tabs and crlfs being functional throws me, given how much cutting and pasting I do across different TERMs.
I don't know PHP.
I don't like the way it handles lists and hashes ('dictionaries') compared to Perl, the way it uses only a $ (which is less descriptive than Perl's line-noise) for variable names, and I don't like that while it aims to be OO it has FUGGGLY support for even the simplest functional overloading. OTOH it makes writing LAMP apps super fast and simple, and I've used it to decent effect in the past. Also, some of the more interesting open projects (like geeklog, phpgroupware, etc) are in PHP so it's prudent to learn it. I also hear PHP5 fixes some of the more obnoxious crap including functional overloading, so all I can say is I'm interested in learning Mason (PHP in real Perl)..
Also, personally at least, I find KDE to be the richest environment, what with DCOP and KParts basically doing what Miguel wants without the stain of M$..
Also, in theory, learning QT and working with KDevelop would put you in good stead when it comes to writing embedded apps for Linux devices (such as Sharp PDAs and Mot fones), and I just feel kinda queasy about installing all of GNOME's dependencies while KDE's systems feel a bit more 'designed' and integrated.
I think the eventual Kolab client will be huge, and hopefully it will be runnable in Win32 so we can get rid of Outlook's (and Exchange's, incidentally) hold on corporate email.. KDE is far more Mac OS X like than GNOME IMHO in its reusability and integration, and Baghira theme is as close to Aqua as I've found lately;)
(Baghira plus the Apple fonts I fondu'd from my laptop equals KDE w/Lucida Grande.. Much nicer than MS' plain-jane Tahoma..)
Yeah, I gave the betas a shot (after running 9.0 and 9.1, and going back on other boxes to 7.1) on my current work box, but then I found Gentoo and I've been compiling ever since..
I'm sorry if this info is of no use to anyone; mod me down as you see fit. Who knows, maybe all the stuff I mentioned is fixed in this new Community release? Maybe, but given Mandrake's track record, I doubt it.
I would still recommend Mandrake over RedHat though if only because its update system is free and relatively easy to use. Does Fedora have an RPM update manager that doesn't require a RedHat service subscription?
(and Gentoo beats 'em both IMHO, especially on nForce hardware.. Once I enabled 2.6 and nVidia GL (and disabled the older nVidia driver masks) rebuilding kernels couldn't be easier... LUXURY...)
You can't move the Louvre, and with French socialisme you can't fully staff it either. When employers in any sector stare down the gauntlet of worker rights it makes them gun-shy to hire, fact. Being a worker may be better in France, Belgium or Germany, but finding a job is holy hell.
Before tinkering with the balance, it's only proper to see what other countries have done, and try to mitigate the penalties while reaping the benefits.
If all you have is a defeatist cant do it attitude then "SIT DOWN AND SHUT THE FUCK UP"
Er, IMHO the focus I put on small business counted as a 'start'.. I would rather have _no_ decision than a _bad_ decision, but then, I'm not an executive.
So put your money where your mouth is: where are the fucking jobs going to be? music movies microcode (software) high-speed pizza delivery
Seriously though, the jobs will be with small companies doing business with other small companies or local offices of big companies. Not as glamorous or highly-paid, but there nonetheless.
OK, who pays? What is covered, and for whom? Do smokers get new lungs on the government tab? This is like saying "#1. World Peace". How do you _get there_? An argument could be made that, in combination with small-business-friendly tax cuts, providing a 'level playing field' in the health-insurance area (single-payer system bid to private health services companies) could make job migration less painful and provide stimulus to the creators of most American jobs. Small companies are also less likely to relocate until they become bigger companies, so keeping small business healthy is the best way to job retention and growth, so providing tax relief for small business (including family owned businesses in the form of conditional estate tax exemption) is imho the smartest plan. Unfortunately, small businesses don't have big lobbies and can't slop enough swill at the federal trough...
#2. A new outlook on jobs and job growth. The fact is, the jobs are never coming back.
So, you make the US job market even LESS competitive and more expensive by implementing #1? It's worked _great_ in Western Europe.. For perspective, there are exhibits in the Louvre closed because of lack of staffing. French unemployment is well over 8%. Does not compute.
#3. An Apollo project for new energy sources/methods/conservation.
This makes more sense. OTOH, people will whine about not giving the $$$ to the indigent. Why [insert your big technological vision here] when there are starving kids in [insert ghetto/barrio or 3rd world nation] here?
Hi,
I've been running Mandrake with numerous patches (mainly nForce-related) as well as the 2.6.2-rc2-mm1 kernel from src.
Will gentoo builds upgrade in-place (into/usr/(lib|bin|include)/) and take my own kernel.config file or would I have to rebuild a.config file? I assume of course it won't force me to trash my preexisting partitions and data (such as/home,/vol, etc..)
I'd prefer a source-based system that optimizes for SSE, 3DNow, etc..
(and I have 1.4 CDs for Athlon XP and SPARC, just waiting to get the dual-150MHz SPARC in to blow away and drop Linux on.. wh33!!)
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... I can drop a card in a Linux box that will read 720p or 1080i over component, so's to have a HD PVR. And it needs to be below $200.
Oh wait, the content nazis won't allow that to happen.
Europe has never concentrated an effort on an organized road system like the us did untill recently (if they ever did).
;)
Er.. the US interstate highway system was a direct result of the Autobahn.. Given that Eisenhower had firsthand experience of its efficacy in moving materiel vs more vulnerable rails, it's not surprising that it was his administration that pushed the highway system thru congress on its military necessity...
(oh, and until recently, Europe wasn't a country
And being earnestly humorless is so appealing.
Hmm.. so you would consider killing someone rather than lose a couple of hundred dollars worth of electronics?
Yes. Yes I would.
Extras->Booby Trap->Time to Detonation->(10sec|15sec|20sec)
I got one word for ya..
;)
Convergence.
(me want a Glock 32C with 256MB MP3 playback
As a resident in Birmingham UK
Birmingham =~ Detroit
?
Now CDs last 5-10 years, and cost 1/2 as much.
Have you been to a record store lately?
(Actually, I haven't either.)
This doesn't apply if you use a credit card to buy your SIM kit.
Or, at least, not in Paris, if you're white.
I'm really annoyed by the sun shaped clippy ripoff though. Haven't figured out how to disable it yet. You'd think they'd learn from Microsoft's mistakes.
k the Help Agent/Activate checkbox
$ soffice
tools->options->OpenOffice.org->General
unchec
That might do it?
... but you may wish to consider a city with a lower sales tax: NYC is at 8.75%, which could make it worth your while to find a different city with lower taxes... Maybe somewhere in Virginia? The weather at this time of year is much nicer, the taxes are lower, and DC is a pretty decent tourist destination...
Oh, and absolutely do NOT go anywhere else besides J&R in NYC, except Tekserve, and only if you need a Mac. Pretty much every other place in NYC is a ripoff joint or a ripoff chain store.
I wish they and ATI would do open source 3D but thats not going to happen for the later cards until people like Intel simply commoditze them and turn them into the next version of the SGI graphics division or until software gets so fast that we don't care about 3d accelerators any more 8)
;)
How much OS-dependent stuff could really give away their chipset engineering secrets, and why not stash the OS-independent secret stuff in firmware, perhaps copying to RAM if speed is a concern?
(Then again, I just have to keep reemerging nvidia-kernel whenever I update my box, so I suppose my time is worth less than the cost of flash firmware
Even if only for servers to keep open relays out of the loop, it may be time to mandate third-party trusted ID certs (ala SSL) for mail servers. It's proven too difficult to get most people to digitally sign their mail, but admins should be clueful enough to generate certs and have them validated externally...
Perl is nice to glue pieces together, to develop small projects and prototypes. On the long term, it's hard to maintain and there is so many ways to shoot yourself in the foot. And then, debugging is not an easy task at all.
I wholeheartedly disagree with everything here but the first sentence. Perl's problems stem from its virtues, namely flexibility, TMTOWTDI, and colloquialism. You can write bad code in any language, but Perl makes it so easy to do in so many ways. Good Perl coders self-document, write code that's readable and self-evident, pick an idiom and stick with it. Also, CPAN. Nuff said.
Python? I really don't use it, and I'm sorry but the concept of tabs and crlfs being functional throws me, given how much cutting and pasting I do across different TERMs.
I don't know PHP.
I don't like the way it handles lists and hashes ('dictionaries') compared to Perl, the way it uses only a $ (which is less descriptive than Perl's line-noise) for variable names, and I don't like that while it aims to be OO it has FUGGGLY support for even the simplest functional overloading. OTOH it makes writing LAMP apps super fast and simple, and I've used it to decent effect in the past. Also, some of the more interesting open projects (like geeklog, phpgroupware, etc) are in PHP so it's prudent to learn it. I also hear PHP5 fixes some of the more obnoxious crap including functional overloading, so all I can say is I'm interested in learning Mason (PHP in real Perl)..
Also, personally at least, I find KDE to be the richest environment, what with DCOP and KParts basically doing what Miguel wants without the stain of M$..
;)
Also, in theory, learning QT and working with KDevelop would put you in good stead when it comes to writing embedded apps for Linux devices (such as Sharp PDAs and Mot fones), and I just feel kinda queasy about installing all of GNOME's dependencies while KDE's systems feel a bit more 'designed' and integrated.
I think the eventual Kolab client will be huge, and hopefully it will be runnable in Win32 so we can get rid of Outlook's (and Exchange's, incidentally) hold on corporate email.. KDE is far more Mac OS X like than GNOME IMHO in its reusability and integration, and Baghira theme is as close to Aqua as I've found lately
(Baghira plus the Apple fonts I fondu'd from my laptop equals KDE w/Lucida Grande.. Much nicer than MS' plain-jane Tahoma..)
Yeah, I gave the betas a shot (after running 9.0 and 9.1, and going back on other boxes to 7.1) on my current work box, but then I found Gentoo and I've been compiling ever since..
I'm sorry if this info is of no use to anyone; mod me down as you see fit. Who knows, maybe all the stuff I mentioned is fixed in this new Community release? Maybe, but given Mandrake's track record, I doubt it.
I would still recommend Mandrake over RedHat though if only because its update system is free and relatively easy to use. Does Fedora have an RPM update manager that doesn't require a RedHat service subscription?
(and Gentoo beats 'em both IMHO, especially on nForce hardware.. Once I enabled 2.6 and nVidia GL (and disabled the older nVidia driver masks) rebuilding kernels couldn't be easier... LUXURY...)
Hitachi is making money off the drives they sell to Apple, in the quantities Apple is buying. It's called manufacturing.
The "part" you bought cost more in single, packaged, retail distribution channels just like any other part does; it's called retail.
Hitachi sells microdrives in qty 1 to retail consumers?
Or, does Sandisk or Lexar or PNY or whoever buy them for the same price per qty as Apple, then pass the markup on to you?
.. the extent of my audio talent at this point is plucking favorite samples to use as .wav (or .au after conversion) ringers...
Still, it'd be super if there were ARTS or ALSA integration..
How about USB/Firewire control banks?
Everything that can be moved WILL be moved.
You can't move the Louvre, and with French socialisme you can't fully staff it either. When employers in any sector stare down the gauntlet of worker rights it makes them gun-shy to hire, fact. Being a worker may be better in France, Belgium or Germany, but finding a job is holy hell.
Before tinkering with the balance, it's only proper to see what other countries have done, and try to mitigate the penalties while reaping the benefits.
If all you have is a defeatist cant do it attitude then "SIT DOWN AND SHUT THE FUCK UP"
Er, IMHO the focus I put on small business counted as a 'start'.. I would rather have _no_ decision than a _bad_ decision, but then, I'm not an executive.
So put your money where your mouth is: where are the fucking jobs going to be?
music
movies
microcode (software)
high-speed pizza delivery
Seriously though, the jobs will be with small companies doing business with other small companies or local offices of big companies. Not as glamorous or highly-paid, but there nonetheless.
#1. Universal Health Care
OK, who pays? What is covered, and for whom? Do smokers get new lungs on the government tab? This is like saying "#1. World Peace". How do you _get there_? An argument could be made that, in combination with small-business-friendly tax cuts, providing a 'level playing field' in the health-insurance area (single-payer system bid to private health services companies) could make job migration less painful and provide stimulus to the creators of most American jobs. Small companies are also less likely to relocate until they become bigger companies, so keeping small business healthy is the best way to job retention and growth, so providing tax relief for small business (including family owned businesses in the form of conditional estate tax exemption) is imho the smartest plan. Unfortunately, small businesses don't have big lobbies and can't slop enough swill at the federal trough...
#2. A new outlook on jobs and job growth. The fact is, the jobs are never coming back.
So, you make the US job market even LESS competitive and more expensive by implementing #1? It's worked _great_ in Western Europe.. For perspective, there are exhibits in the Louvre closed because of lack of staffing. French unemployment is well over 8%. Does not compute.
#3. An Apollo project for new energy sources/methods/conservation.
This makes more sense. OTOH, people will whine about not giving the $$$ to the indigent. Why [insert your big technological vision here] when there are starving kids in [insert ghetto/barrio or 3rd world nation] here?
Hi,
/usr/(lib|bin|include)/) and take my own kernel .config file or would I have to rebuild a .config file? I assume of course it won't force me to trash my preexisting partitions and data (such as /home, /vol, etc..)
I've been running Mandrake with numerous patches (mainly nForce-related) as well as the 2.6.2-rc2-mm1 kernel from src.
Will gentoo builds upgrade in-place (into
I'd prefer a source-based system that optimizes for SSE, 3DNow, etc..
(and I have 1.4 CDs for Athlon XP and SPARC, just waiting to get the dual-150MHz SPARC in to blow away and drop Linux on.. wh33!!)
Did Beldar quit his TV repair gig and move up the ranks at Dilbert Co.?
My Aunt MAUREEN was a military advisor to IKE & TINA TURNER!!