I've read that Linus wants to start/starts the jiffy clock so it rolls over ten minutes after boot up, so that any bad things that happen when the jiffy clock rolls over, happens quickly, and hence gets noticed and fixed.
I work on a program called SalesTrack. SalesTrack has a couple bugs I am almost sure are divide by zero bugs. If it were open source, I could fix those bugs as fast as I could find the section of code. The real benefits would accrue to my cow-orkers, who have to deal with the program for more than the summer.
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The fact is that many otherwise rational people have experienced both God and the antithesis. Many of them you accept as scientific authority, but not as religious. Why? A few names to drop: Einstein, Decartes, Pascal.
Two points. Einstein was a deist - his god was nature. I.E. he did not experiance the antithesis since there was no antithesis in his belief system. And I don't accept them blindly as scientific authorities - I believe Einstein was wrong about quantum physics and I've never heard of Decartes in connection with science before. (And what about the opposition - Gould, Asimov, Hawking and Sagan? I have respect for them as scientific authorities, so why shouldn't I have respect for them as religious authorities?)
As for why I don't accept them as religious authorities, it's because (a) they disagree about religion, and (b) they're human, i.e. they're sometimes wrong.
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Win95 OSR 1 has no Web browser packaged with it.
Who cares? I tried installing Linux circa 95 and it wouldn't recognize my CD drive. If I mentioned that here, I would get so flamed . . .
If MS just made the CD bootable and able to fdisk and format
Windows 98 is bootable with fdisk and format on the CD. Compare current Linux's with current Windows, or else you're just spreading fud.
I've heard it had something to do with it being the successor to version 8 of Unix, but it could be based off of "Plan 9 from Outer Space", though why I don't know.
BTW, Plan 9 from Outer Space was made entirely seriously, (it was not intended as a joke) which makes the worst movie ever even more enjoyable.
I rarely see a Linux uptime greater than a month whereas with the systems listed above, it is just expected.
The question is why you don't see Linux uptimes greater than a month, and where you are looking? I don't have high uptimes because I turn off my computer every night. Many people don't have high uptimes because they want to run the cutting edge. Neither is a comment about Linux's stability.
There is no reason to have four different command line operations that do the same thing. There's usually two, one short form for those who use it everyday, and a long form for easy to remember. Any extra are for compatibilty with other Unixes. Very good reasons, IMHO. And why does it matter, besides adding a few hunderd bytes to the executable size?
And another thing - Linux is working towards ease of use, which none of the BSD's are. That's an important feature in general purpose operating system, much more important than worrying about a little bloat.
WCarchive is the busiest *public* FTP archive in the world. Who knows what kind of private sites exist out there.
How many private sites could have enough traffic to regularly max out 3600 users? Even for a heavily used server, that takes at least 36,000 people using it. Only a large company or small government serving everything off one server could reach that.
Linux doesn't require you to patch your kernel, unless you really want to. Most people can even get away with not compiling a kernel, especially if Linux was factory installed, which it would be for these mass sellings.
Also, China would provide mass education on how to use Linux and to encourage Linux use if it felt necessary; that would probably overcome a lot of problems.
The Breakfast Club annoyed me because it said they sterotypes weren't real. But it didn't show that. The jock got the girl. The nerd wrote everyone's papers and left without the girl. They were sterotypes.
Charles Henrich uses FreeBSD in preference to Linux. He's contributed code/docs to the project, but he doesn't have commit access. This is a somewhat strange definition of "hardcore freebsd guy" you seem to be using.
No, it seems like a natural one. While contibuting code to a project doesn't mean you're "hardcore" (neither does commit access), it does indicate that's a definite possibilty.
anything written in Java can always be rewritten and made faster in C++
Possibly. But the difference won't be more than a few percent. If you really want speed, use C. Or better yet, use assembly. The question is whether your time and effort and the lost of portability is worth it.
But it already is 2.91. gcc -v on a egcs release will say something like gcc 2.91.63 (egcs 1.1.2). GCC_MINOR (or whatever it is) is 91. So why the change?
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sometime in the near future there will be a gcc 3.0 from the egcs code base.
Why? Is there really any reason to jump the major version number, besides the clashing minors? (EGCS uses minors in the range of > 89, i.e. 2.91.?)
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So many of these things have come and been disproved as just camera vibrations or whatever. I'm waiting for the dust to settle and some reliable facts to come out before I worry about it.
One use I have for a case like this, is so I can have a stable server (running OpenBSD) w/o moniter or keyboard and telnet to it from the Linux box (which displays the unstablity of any system constantly being tinkered with.) Only thing the OpenBSD box would need is a connection to the Internet and the power, both of which should be effectively shared with the Linux box. Shouldn't be that hard to set up Linux & OpenBSD so Linux goes through the OpenBSD box for any net connection, should it?
I usually use Google, but I don't feel it does general searchs well, i.e. +GCC +Oberon to search for any Oberon frontends to GCC. Google works when you know what you're looking for.
we see that the concepts underlying the new GNOME document object model for object linking and embedding are based on Microsoft's OLE2; cleaned of "historical problems" of course. I would say "maybe Microsoft is not all bad?" but I don't want to be flame broiled.
Hey, the smart learn when not to totally reinvent the wheel. And a great many smart people put many smart ideas into Microsoft products. Unfortunetly, with Microsoft product quality control, they never got seperated from the bad stuff, and they never got their bugs knocked out.
The morality of taking donations in a Buddist church is up to the Buddists. According to the "35 reason's page, he called it a community outreach, which it probably was, in the broad sense of the term.
So what's the point, if it's not just a religious sneer?
Surely a bozo who doesn't accept campaign contributions in a buddhist temple...
Why? I assume taking contributions in a Chrisian church would be better? I don't understand contibution problems, but that summary just reaks of discrimintion.
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I've read that Linus wants to start/starts the jiffy clock so it rolls over ten minutes after boot up, so that any bad things that happen when the jiffy clock rolls over, happens quickly, and hence gets noticed and fixed.
I work on a program called SalesTrack. SalesTrack has a couple bugs I am almost sure are divide by zero bugs. If it were open source, I could fix those bugs as fast as I could find the section of code. The real benefits would accrue to my cow-orkers, who have to deal with the program for more than the summer.
The fact is that many otherwise rational people
have experienced both God and the antithesis. Many of them you accept as scientific authority, but not as religious. Why? A few names to drop: Einstein, Decartes, Pascal.
Two points. Einstein was a deist - his god was nature. I.E. he did not experiance the antithesis since there was no antithesis in his belief system. And I don't accept them blindly as scientific authorities - I believe Einstein was wrong about quantum physics and I've never heard of Decartes in connection with science before. (And what about the opposition - Gould, Asimov, Hawking and Sagan? I have respect for them as scientific authorities, so why shouldn't I have respect for them as religious authorities?)
As for why I don't accept them as religious authorities, it's because (a) they disagree about religion, and (b) they're human, i.e. they're sometimes wrong.
Win95 OSR 1 has no Web browser packaged with it.
Who cares? I tried installing Linux circa 95 and it wouldn't recognize my CD drive. If I mentioned that here, I would get so flamed . . .
If MS just made the CD bootable and able to fdisk and format
Windows 98 is bootable with fdisk and format on the CD. Compare current Linux's with current Windows, or else you're just spreading fud.
Its like accepting code for a major project from someone who just completed his first 'c f3r dumm1ez' book.
So before accepting any code for any project, you demand to know what programming books they've read?
Part of the hacking world is not checking credintials, but instead checking work.
That would make it non-open source/non-free. The Alladin Public License does something like that.
The current EGCS snapshot is in freeze soon and will become 2.95. That is, if it's not in the snapshot, it probably won't be in 2.95.
The Hungry Programmers are working on Y. I don't know how it's different from X & Berlin, though.
I've heard it had something to do with it being the successor to version 8 of Unix, but it could be based off of "Plan 9 from Outer Space", though why I don't know.
BTW, Plan 9 from Outer Space was made entirely seriously, (it was not intended as a joke) which makes the worst movie ever even more enjoyable.
I rarely see a Linux uptime greater than a month whereas with the systems listed above, it is just expected.
The question is why you don't see Linux uptimes greater than a month, and where you are looking? I don't have high uptimes because I turn off my computer every night. Many people don't have high uptimes because they want to run the cutting edge. Neither is a comment about Linux's stability.
There is no reason to have four different command line operations that do the same thing.
There's usually two, one short form for those who use it everyday, and a long form for easy to remember. Any extra are for compatibilty with other Unixes. Very good reasons, IMHO. And why does it matter, besides adding a few hunderd bytes to the executable size?
And another thing - Linux is working towards ease of use, which none of the BSD's are. That's an important feature in general purpose operating system, much more important than worrying about a little bloat.
WCarchive is the busiest *public* FTP archive in the world. Who knows what kind of private sites exist out there.
How many private sites could have enough traffic to regularly max out 3600 users? Even for a heavily used server, that takes at least 36,000 people using it. Only a large company or small government serving everything off one server could reach that.
Linux doesn't require you to patch your kernel, unless you really want to. Most people can even get away with not compiling a kernel, especially if Linux was factory installed, which it would be for these mass sellings.
Also, China would provide mass education on how to use Linux and to encourage Linux use if it felt necessary; that would probably overcome a lot of problems.
The Breakfast Club annoyed me because it said they sterotypes weren't real. But it didn't show that. The jock got the girl. The nerd wrote everyone's papers and left without the girl. They were sterotypes.
Charles Henrich uses FreeBSD in preference to Linux. He's contributed code/docs to the project, but he doesn't have commit access. This is a somewhat strange definition of "hardcore freebsd guy" you seem to be using.
No, it seems like a natural one. While contibuting code to a project doesn't mean you're "hardcore" (neither does commit access), it does indicate that's a definite possibilty.
anything written in Java can always be
rewritten and made faster in C++
Possibly. But the difference won't be more than a few percent. If you really want speed, use C. Or better yet, use assembly. The question is whether your time and effort and the lost of portability is worth it.
Actually GUNPro is not GPL'ed, only the compiler part is. Also the $7000 cost also includes a support contract.
But it already is 2.91. gcc -v on a egcs release will say something like gcc 2.91.63 (egcs 1.1.2). GCC_MINOR (or whatever it is) is 91. So why the change?
sometime in the near future there will be a gcc 3.0 from the egcs code base.
Why? Is there really any reason to jump the major version number, besides the clashing minors? (EGCS uses minors in the range of > 89, i.e. 2.91.?)
since earlier today...
So many of these things have come and been disproved as just camera vibrations or whatever. I'm waiting for the dust to settle and some reliable facts to come out before I worry about it.
One use I have for a case like this, is so I can have a stable server (running OpenBSD) w/o moniter or keyboard and telnet to it from the Linux box (which displays the unstablity of any system constantly being tinkered with.) Only thing the OpenBSD box would need is a connection to the Internet and the power, both of which should be effectively shared with the Linux box. Shouldn't be that hard to set up Linux & OpenBSD so Linux goes through the OpenBSD box for any net connection, should it?
I usually use Google, but I don't feel it does general searchs well, i.e. +GCC +Oberon to search for any Oberon frontends to GCC. Google works when you know what you're looking for.
we see that the concepts underlying the new GNOME document object model for object linking and
embedding are based on Microsoft's OLE2; cleaned of "historical problems" of course. I would say "maybe Microsoft is not all bad?" but I don't want to be flame broiled.
Hey, the smart learn when not to totally reinvent the wheel. And a great many smart people put many smart ideas into Microsoft products. Unfortunetly, with Microsoft product quality control, they never got seperated from the bad stuff, and they never got their bugs knocked out.
I read it. I still don't get it.
The morality of taking donations in a Buddist church is up to the Buddists. According to the "35 reason's page, he called it a community outreach, which it probably was, in the broad sense of the term.
So what's the point, if it's not just a religious sneer?
Surely a bozo who doesn't accept campaign contributions in a buddhist temple...
Why? I assume taking contributions in a Chrisian church would be better? I don't understand contibution problems, but that summary just reaks of discrimintion.