Actually you just have to say tar -zxvf and it will unzip it first. I don't think you can handle Linux, or any Unix for that matter. You'd better just stick with windows. By the way, you can run winzip on the command line too, and there are GUI apps that can unzip tarballs for you so you don't have to bother with those icky commands.
Did you try enabling the sound module for the kernel? Fork over the twenty bucks for OSS, and quit whining. Windows notoriously misdetects peripherals (I had an NT box that thought the network card was a mouse.)
Get off your lazy butt and RTFM for your monitor, it says was the max refresh rates are, and you can install an X-server specifically for S3 cards.
If you'd bothered doing your homework or reading a HOWTO, you wouldn't have any complaints. If you think you shouldn't have to, then Linux isn't for you.
From experience, I can tell you that folks like the Gartner group only have a veneer of respectability. If Bob Young floated them some serious cash, they'd change their tune about Linux overnight. Don't believe the hype kids. People like the Gartner group don't like anything unless you give them some money first. This much I know.
You are soooo wrong. First of all, those are not POSIX utilities, they are simple programs that emulate what some UNIX commands do. Second, "just about every UNIX command utility can be found on NT" Wrong-o. You can get ls,pwd,cd,mv,cp and that's it. Not quite every UNIX command at all, is it?
If it's true that Postgres and MySQL don't have fully cooked referential integrity, then you really don't have much of a choice other than going for a commercial DBMS. Referential integrity is key, as is solid design. If your wanting a lower-priced alternative to Oracle, which is a bit pricey, then possibly you may want to consider Informix. It's got all the stuff you need, but not as expensive. Since you're not (I'm guessing doesn't seem so from your question ) running in an OLTP-type environment, Oracle may be too much. Informix might be just right. I would avoid MySQL or Postgres simply because I would never want to work with a database that didn't have a totally grown-up referential integrity scheme. It is your friend. Without it, you will never know if what you're seeing is right, especially when it comes to making views or doing joins.
Seems like what we need is a good OS RDBMS, then I'd go for that. From what I've seen so far, there's a long way to go.
Last time I worked with Oracle, which was about 2 days ago, it wasn't even close to being SQL92 compliant. Among the major commercial RDBMSs, I have always found Sybase Transact-SQL and even MSSQL's flavor of Transact-SQL to have implemented much more of SQL92 than PL/SQL. I hate PL/SQL, mostly because it's so damn weird. Is Oracle 8 really that much more advanced?
That is correct. Certain disabilities that are congenital, even severe, need not be dealt with with euthanasia. Down's Syndrome, while serious, need not always be cause for euthanasia. There are a good number of people with mild retardation, or other such disabilities that can become productive and contributive members of society.
In these cases, I would argue that euthanasia is perhaps not the solution. However, severe congenital defects, the kinds that usually end up limiting the life of the affected individual to little more than a few years, I have less trouble thinking that euthanasia can be a reasonable idea, especially in situations where the parents would be unduly burdened financially or what have you.
Of course, if I'm thinking correctly, an amniocentesis should be able to pick these things up, and then it's an issue of whether the parents wish to bring such a severely disable person into the world.
Hey. Not like I need to point this out to many people, but there is some stuff in there that is plain wrong. I can speak from experience that Linux ( or BSD ) do provide a lower TCO for development organizations and ISV's. There's no disputing the fact that hiring one competent admin for a Linux or BSD solution is still far cheaper than what it will cost keep all the licenses kosher for WinNT WS with MS Office and an Exchange Server group for an office of say, 200 people. You may have to spend some contracting money up front to get it implemented correctly, but after that it's all maintenance ( paying the admin's juicy salary ).
Sorry Micros~1, but your TCO argument's bogon emissions are dangerously high, like - it's glowing blue.
Speaking of abnormal reactions, on the radio this morning, as I listened to a description of the event, apparently they noticed something had gone wrong when the thingummy they were mixing the stuff in started emitting a blue glow.
First rule of thumb when working with fissionable materials: If you start seeing a blue glow, and there isn't at least 20 feet of water between you and that glow, slowly stop what you're doing, and run away. Get in your car, roll the windows up, and drive as fast as your car will go until you run out of gas.
On a side note, I have heard that there are road signs in Siberia that have those very words on them. Something to the effect of "Roll your windows up, turn your air conditioner off, and drive as fast as your car will go for the next 75 miles ( or kilometers )"....
Carolyn Meinel, a woman who *thinks* she knows a lot about network security, etc., but has consistently revealed herself to be a complete and utter fraud. Her "happy hacker" series contains mainly information that is for droolers, basically. The people at attrition *hate* her, and after reading her happy hacker garbage, I do, too. Reading her stuff is good for a laugh, but a textbook on security it does not make. If you go to attrition.org, you can read some excerpts from some email exchanges between her and people from attrition, and she truly reveals herself to be a complete charlatan.
I use a Kinesis "Essential" model, and I have to say that in general, it really has helped my hands be much more comfortable while typing. Using the standard flat-layout keyboards would constantly make my hands cramp up, as I found I was squinching them to stay on the keyboard. Switching to a MS Natural keyboard helped somewhat, but until I got the Kinesis I still had problems. The Kinesis board takes a while to get used to, but it's great. Your fingers do all the typing, you use your thumbs for more than just the space bar, and everything's curved just right so that you can almost basically touch type even if you've never bothered to learn to touch type in the first place...
Contrary to hyped-up opinion, Al Gore never claimed to have invented the internet. What he actually said was that he was instrumental in getting the laws passed in congress that made the internet available to the public. At no point did he *ever* claim to have 'invented' the internet.
The notion that he claimed to have invented the internet was developed by opposition pundits in an attempt to portray him as a liar, with delusions of grandeur.
Why am posting this? Because you all sound stupid when you're making fun of Gore for saying that, when in reality you've been duped by knee-jerk, right-wing Clinton haters...
I know Slashdotters are smarter than that.
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It would probably be a bit difficult to hide an appreciable amount of explosives in a device the size of a Pilot
Not so, my guess is that you could probably pack enough C4 into the case of a Palm Pilot to blow a good-sized hole in the side of a plane, which would be very bad.
It is interesting (perhaps news-worthy) that the number of security precautions at airports have increased, but it's hardly a thing to shout "privacy invasion!" over. Try visiting an airport in any foreign country.
You bet! At SFO ( San Francisco ), they use the bomb sniffer Stridex pads on all electronic gizmos. That's what those things are for. ( Don't worry, that half oz. of grass is still safe) In Great Britain and Ireland I have been frisked, had my luggage inspected, and I was detained in a ferry terminal in Portsmouth (England) for about half an hour while being questioned on the discrepancies in my Irish entry stamp and my French entry stamp. That is, there was a 5 month gap between the expiration of my Irish entry visa and my French entry stamp. The British wanted very much to know why it was that my stamps were so wacky, and stupid me has to admit that I lived in Derry for two months out of that time. I doubt they suspected me of being involved with terrorism, more likely drug smuggling.
Point is, that I laugh when people trip out about having to have their luggage bomb-sniffed here, it's not any different than having your luggage X-rayed.
You are not necessarily required to use a true Gaussian curve in statistical analysis, if my memory serves me well. As I recall, we were encouraged to map our distributions manually, to discover the shape of our curves, which resemble the Gaussian curve, but are skewed in one direction or another. The curve in the article looks much more like some of the curves we'd come up with, but the excercise was to demonstrate that the larger your sample, the more your curve began to look like the classic Gaussian curve. Remember, non-math people, (like me), that all a statistic can show is that something happened that cannot be attributed to random chance alone. That's it. Naturally, the closer your sample is to reality, the more you can be sure that you have results that are statistically significant, and the more discernable this will be when compared with the Gaussian curve, which is intended to be a close approximation of what you get with a distribution of truly random events. The goal of using statistics is to attempt to prove a correlation between conjecture and reality. Statistics is the only way we have of doing this. Everyone should get a copy of "How to Lie with Statistics", because it explains much better than I can what exactly statistics actually "prove".
I mean come on, he gets a classifed super CPU, places it on a socket (doesn't even *plug* the damned thing in), and he's ready to rock?
Yeah, that was one of my biggest gripes about that film, other than the fact that it was boring, boring, boring, and you couldn't be bothered to care if this guy ever finds what he's looking for...
YES!!! It's about time! I figured that anyone who said that 'it sucked, I didn't get to see anything!' or some such nonsense were just unimaginative boobs. Look, some of history's most frigtening film experiences have not been altogether explicit. A good example is Polanksi's "Repulsion". We never get to SEE much, but Catharine Deneuve's descent into madness during this film is freaky as hell.
It's a similar effect for the BWP. In BWP we get so see a band of college kids lose their marbles while being stalked by a malevolent supernatural being. Those who criticize BWP for it's style just don't get it, that your mind can create fear and suspense without $30 million dollars worth of computerized animation, and do a better job of it, too. BWP exploits some very strong themes: lost in the woods, cold, hungry, and hunted that you just won't see in movies. I haven't been as creeped out and just generally disturbed by a film since I saw 'The Exorcist' when I was younger. Excellent point about suspension of disbelief. Funny how when you make a film using a pseudo-documentary style, that made it more real, made suspension of disbelief easier. Those who claimed it was boring are the product of the Hollywood/TV studio mentality. Your imagination has been destroyed!!!
God said it, and I see no reason to not believe it. But God didn't say it. Someone wrote it down in the book, but as to where they got that idea I don't know. Ancient Hebrew myth, I suppose.
Communists? Democrats? Are you NUTS?? How old are you? Democrats are not communists, Clinton is no communist, I know this, because I belong to the Socialist Party, and he's not our candidate. Someone made a great point, do you think someone like Bob or Liddy Dole grok what the internet is all about? Do you honestly think that George W. Bush is going to make this situation any better? George W. cares about one thing: money. Don't fool yourself...
I'm sure they'll jail the intellectuals first namely gun owners
Oh, so gun owners are 'intellectuals'? I'm sure that some gun owners are intellectuals, but when I think of intellectuals, I think of Harper's magazine, not Guns and Ammo. Clinton's executive orders are not designed to institute martial law (sorry!) You know, I always thought that Clinton's fault was that he had nerve to get involved with a bad real estate deal and have some sexual dalliances. That is so un-American, we need to get back to those covert government slush funds that finance right-wing death squads in Central America, get the government back into to the cocaine business, and fix a few elections while we're at it, a la Ronald Reagan
And people say Clinton is bad. How quickly we forget...
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You just about hit the nail on the head.
Nothing to add, just reiterating the point...
Did you try enabling the sound module for the kernel? Fork over the twenty bucks for OSS, and quit whining. Windows notoriously misdetects peripherals (I had an NT box that thought the network card was a mouse.)
Get off your lazy butt and RTFM for your monitor, it says was the max refresh rates are, and you can install an X-server specifically for S3 cards.
If you'd bothered doing your homework or reading a HOWTO, you wouldn't have any complaints. If you think you shouldn't have to, then Linux isn't for you.
From experience, I can tell you that folks like the Gartner group only have a veneer of respectability. If Bob Young floated them some serious cash, they'd change their tune about Linux overnight. Don't believe the hype kids. People like the Gartner group don't like anything unless you give them some money first. This much I know.
You are soooo wrong. First of all, those are not POSIX utilities, they are simple programs that emulate what some UNIX commands do. Second, "just about every UNIX command utility can be found on NT" Wrong-o. You can get ls,pwd,cd,mv,cp and that's it. Not quite every UNIX command at all, is it?
Imagine, a Baldur's Gate that never crashes.... Oh boy....
Seems like what we need is a good OS RDBMS, then I'd go for that. From what I've seen so far, there's a long way to go.
Last time I worked with Oracle, which was about 2 days ago, it wasn't even close to being SQL92 compliant. Among the major commercial RDBMSs, I have always found Sybase Transact-SQL and even MSSQL's flavor of Transact-SQL to have implemented much more of SQL92 than PL/SQL. I hate PL/SQL, mostly because it's so damn weird. Is Oracle 8 really that much more advanced?
In these cases, I would argue that euthanasia is perhaps not the solution. However, severe congenital defects, the kinds that usually end up limiting the life of the affected individual to little more than a few years, I have less trouble thinking that euthanasia can be a reasonable idea, especially in situations where the parents would be unduly burdened financially or what have you.
Of course, if I'm thinking correctly, an amniocentesis should be able to pick these things up, and then it's an issue of whether the parents wish to bring such a severely disable person into the world.
Sorry Micros~1, but your TCO argument's bogon emissions are dangerously high, like - it's glowing blue.
First rule of thumb when working with fissionable materials: If you start seeing a blue glow, and there isn't at least 20 feet of water between you and that glow, slowly stop what you're doing, and run away. Get in your car, roll the windows up, and drive as fast as your car will go until you run out of gas.
On a side note, I have heard that there are road signs in Siberia that have those very words on them. Something to the effect of "Roll your windows up, turn your air conditioner off, and drive as fast as your car will go for the next 75 miles ( or kilometers )"....
Carolyn Meinel, a woman who *thinks* she knows a lot about network security, etc., but has consistently revealed herself to be a complete and utter fraud. Her "happy hacker" series contains mainly information that is for droolers, basically. The people at attrition *hate* her, and after reading her happy hacker garbage, I do, too. Reading her stuff is good for a laugh, but a textbook on security it does not make. If you go to attrition.org, you can read some excerpts from some email exchanges between her and people from attrition, and she truly reveals herself to be a complete charlatan.
They cost big bucks, but they're worth it.
The notion that he claimed to have invented the internet was developed by opposition pundits in an attempt to portray him as a liar, with delusions of grandeur.
Why am posting this? Because you all sound stupid when you're making fun of Gore for saying that, when in reality you've been duped by knee-jerk, right-wing Clinton haters...
I know Slashdotters are smarter than that.
Not so, my guess is that you could probably pack enough C4 into the case of a Palm Pilot to blow a good-sized hole in the side of a plane, which would be very bad.
It is interesting (perhaps news-worthy) that the number of security precautions at airports have increased, but it's hardly a thing to shout "privacy invasion!" over. Try visiting an airport in any foreign country.
You bet! At SFO ( San Francisco ), they use the bomb sniffer Stridex pads on all electronic gizmos. That's what those things are for. ( Don't worry, that half oz. of grass is still safe) In Great Britain and Ireland I have been frisked, had my luggage inspected, and I was detained in a ferry terminal in Portsmouth (England) for about half an hour while being questioned on the discrepancies in my Irish entry stamp and my French entry stamp. That is, there was a 5 month gap between the expiration of my Irish entry visa and my French entry stamp. The British wanted very much to know why it was that my stamps were so wacky, and stupid me has to admit that I lived in Derry for two months out of that time. I doubt they suspected me of being involved with terrorism, more likely drug smuggling.
Point is, that I laugh when people trip out about having to have their luggage bomb-sniffed here, it's not any different than having your luggage X-rayed.
ATI Drivers!!!! Hah! I knew it....
You have a script error on your main page there, pal...
Hate to rain on your parade, but that link you posted contains 100% unadulterated crap. You can't serious believe any of that, can you?
You are not necessarily required to use a true Gaussian curve in statistical analysis, if my memory serves me well.
As I recall, we were encouraged to map our distributions manually, to discover the shape of our curves, which resemble the Gaussian curve, but are skewed in one direction or another.
The curve in the article looks much more like some of the curves we'd come up with, but the excercise was to demonstrate that the larger your sample, the more your curve began to look like the classic Gaussian curve.
Remember, non-math people, (like me), that all a statistic can show is that something happened that cannot be attributed to random chance alone. That's it. Naturally, the closer your sample is to reality, the more you can be sure that you have results that are statistically significant, and the more discernable this will be when compared with the Gaussian curve, which is intended to be a close approximation of what you get with a distribution of truly random events. The goal of using statistics is to attempt to prove a correlation between conjecture and reality. Statistics is the only way we have of doing this.
Everyone should get a copy of "How to Lie with Statistics", because it explains much better than I can what exactly statistics actually "prove".
Where all good software goes to die.
Yeah, that was one of my biggest gripes about that film, other than the fact that it was boring, boring, boring, and you couldn't be bothered to care if this guy ever finds what he's looking for...
It's about time! I figured that anyone who said that 'it sucked, I didn't get to see anything!' or some such nonsense were just unimaginative boobs. Look, some of history's most frigtening film experiences have not been altogether explicit. A good example is Polanksi's "Repulsion". We never get to SEE much, but Catharine Deneuve's descent into madness during this film is freaky as hell.
It's a similar effect for the BWP. In BWP we get so see a band of college kids lose their marbles while being stalked by a malevolent supernatural being.
Those who criticize BWP for it's style just don't get it, that your mind can create fear and suspense without $30 million dollars worth of computerized animation, and do a better job of it, too.
BWP exploits some very strong themes: lost in the woods, cold, hungry, and hunted that you just won't see in movies. I haven't been as creeped out and just generally disturbed by a film since I saw 'The Exorcist' when I was younger.
Excellent point about suspension of disbelief. Funny how when you make a film using a pseudo-documentary style, that made it more real, made suspension of disbelief easier. Those who claimed it was boring are the product of the Hollywood/TV studio mentality. Your imagination has been destroyed!!!
That's 'tappet' not 'Tapi'it'. A tappet is the connection between the pushrod and the valve head in a car engine...
God said it, and I see no reason to not believe it.
But God didn't say it. Someone wrote it down in the book, but as to where they got that idea I don't know. Ancient Hebrew myth, I suppose.
Communists? Democrats? Are you NUTS??
How old are you? Democrats are not communists, Clinton is no communist, I know this, because I belong to the Socialist Party, and he's not our candidate.
Someone made a great point, do you think someone like Bob or Liddy Dole grok what the internet is all about? Do you honestly think that George W. Bush is going to make this situation any better?
George W. cares about one thing: money. Don't fool yourself...
Oh, so gun owners are 'intellectuals'? I'm sure that some gun owners are intellectuals, but when I think of intellectuals, I think of Harper's magazine, not Guns and Ammo.
Clinton's executive orders are not designed to institute martial law (sorry!)
You know, I always thought that Clinton's fault was that he had nerve to get involved with a bad real estate deal and have some sexual dalliances.
That is so un-American, we need to get back to those covert government slush funds that finance right-wing death squads in Central America, get the government back into to the cocaine business, and fix a few elections while we're at it, a la Ronald Reagan
And people say Clinton is bad. How quickly we forget...