Why would you designate someone as "Foe" just because you don't agree with one thing they said
I marked the last foe because he said that anyone who doesn't modify config files for gnome and the window manager environments is just a drooling idiot anyway and doesn't deserve to use Linux.
We don't need that kind of crap thinking in our community, and now he's been permanuked with a -6, never to appear on/. again AFAIC.
True. Any digital video camera today with firewire spits out 250 megs of mpeg **per minute**. 4 minutes of video = 1 gig. Half an hour of your vacation video = 28 gigs +/-. And you still need some space to thrash all that to bring it down to DVD or DiVX.
And, at least a year or so ago, it was the only way to get reasonably sized volumes in mainframe Linux. After installing SuSe or Turbolinux, you had to use LVM to string a bunch of 3390's together. I believe each disk gives 2.5GB of usable space, so you could use one for the system and string several together for/home,/usr,/share, whatever. Wasn't LVM donated to the community by IBM? I think so...
Same here for startup. I dual boot RH7.3 and Win2k on my work laptop, and whenever i go thru reinstalls, Win2k always starts right up.. up until whenever I install the Linux partition.. then Win2k runs the Sleep10MinutesBecauseLinuxIsInstalled() routine. It literally takes about 7 minutes to boot my laptop but ONLY after I add a Linux partition to it.
Coincidence???
Oh, and the error log always shows disk manager failed to start. What a shocker.
This means that their software would have to be open source as well
Not to be picky, but not all software that runs on Linux has to be Open Source. You have a fairly low UID, so I would normally lean towards giving you the benefit of the doubt. A friend once asked me how IBM was allowed to charge $30k for DB2 for Linux, because he too thought that all software that runs on Linux has to be released as Open Source. I know the woman who was until recently the #3 Linux guru in IBM, and I've asked her about how our software groups toes the line to release closed source software in Linux. Very interesting conversation to have, if you can find someone to have it with who knows their shyte.
I'm sure PGP is important, but I can't remember what the acronym stands for
PGP is important, but the world won't be ready for its functionality for another 10 years.
TOOMA here, but I think Phil Zimmerman once wrote in the documentation that when you use 2,048-bit encryption it would take the "US Government's best computers about 13,000 years to brute force the private key and decrypt the message." This translated to an encryption that while will not survive forever, it will survive long enough that you will be dead many times over before anyone cracks it. Therefore, its not perfect but its..
With all the discussion about having more memory, it would be interesting if Garmin utilized their own proprietary memory stick and made it portable between this and their other GPS units. For instance, it would be a godsend if I could load up the Washington DC maps into my 128MB memory stick, use stick in my Streetpilot III for talking directions to a central parking area, then move the stick to a handheld, and have the handheld play audio clips narrating the history behind the monument I'm looking at (since it knows where I'm standing).
I've been waiting for something like that for a LONG time.
I always felt that with all other stuff that was crammed on the bird, it would have been nice if they stuck an 802.11 access point on board. Of course, we'll never know if it would have survived the "event" that occurred shortly after launch.
As best I can tell from reading the IBM page, the new "strategy" is to help customers transform custom OS/2 client/server apps into "webified" eBusiness apps running on WebSphere. After enough migrations, you will have attained "OS independence" on the client side (and server side as well). A typical office worker will only need a web browser and an Office suite to do their entire job. This has been IBM's e-business strategy since long before I joined them. Any IBM'er who's been through the internal "e-Business transformation" will agree that it has brought some amazing changes to our admistrative processes.
While reading the early parts of the page, I was anticipating OS/2 becoming some sort of a.NET competitor, like a pure web-based client environment a la the old "workspace on demand". But I soon realized that they are just pushing the webification of applications to break OS dependence on both ends.
In the meantime, IBM will continue to provide some critical fixes and "consider" developing support for new devices, until customers no longer need OS/2 on the server side or client side.
You go to work and help the parent company, but you don't get any of the benefits, or share in the profit you helped create. Most the the IT labor is now contracted out.
Come work for number 38. We have excellent performance-based benefits that are tied to both our individual and company performance. Its a sliding scale that starts out primarily based on the company's performance and moves towards your individual performance the higher up you go in the organization.
Well, maybe not *that* big, but ABC News is reporting that he actually worked for a digital IMAGING company that was contracted out by the law firm to create digital copies of these sensitive docs. Adjust arguments appropriately knowing that he didn't work for the law firm.
Sometimes it helps to search for alternative versions of the story.
I work for a very large telecommunications company, and it sure does help sell GNU/Linux to management when you can mention in a business case that Wal-Mart sells PCs that run the operating system
I think its [funny|sad] that your management waits for Wal*Mart to sell Linux instead of IBM.
I know, and I'm pissed! I've heard those CD cans are great for carrying a couple of blank CD-R's around in your laptop bag, but they haven't sent me even one yet!!! Not one! I'm stuck carrying a bunch of wrapped CD-Rs in the super-thin jewel cases. I need an AOL CD can!
I did some work testing some Linux-based tablets destined for school-aged kids (grade 3 and up) within the US's largest private school system. The tablets we were configuring and testing had built-in 802.11 and a CompactFlash socket. The plan was to publish school books as PDFs or eBooks each year and distribute a CompactFlash card to each kid each school each year instead of sending an 18-wheeler full of books.
We actually met with most of the publishers to get them on board. We also met with some Office suite publishers to work on getting some features to automatically activate and deactivate based on whether or not the tablet was in or near the school. I liked it and thought it had a lot of potential. Too bad I couldn't snarf one at the end of the testing period:) I'd still be using it today..
As soon as I saw it, I immediately thought "that's what I need for in-car MP3". It seems like this thing could fit behind a 5" LCD screen a-la dashpc.com.
Most importantly, it's powered by 12V. That makes a huge difference when considering in-car PCs.
woz just gonna say.. I think this was a/.^2.. I know I don't remember the story from the original airing, so I went to see the pix. Same result for me. This is/. part 2 for them.
I've been wondering about all the slowness complaints that have plagued large applications like OpenOffice. Does anyone here do the hdparm tweaks to improve disk performance? I just stumbled across it (after 7 years) trying to improve mplayer's performance. This may take care of much of the slowness complaints we always seem to hear.
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Why would you designate someone as "Foe" just because you don't agree with one thing they said
/. again AFAIC.
I marked the last foe because he said that anyone who doesn't modify config files for gnome and the window manager environments is just a drooling idiot anyway and doesn't deserve to use Linux.
We don't need that kind of crap thinking in our community, and now he's been permanuked with a -6, never to appear on
True. Any digital video camera today with firewire spits out 250 megs of mpeg **per minute**. 4 minutes of video = 1 gig. Half an hour of your vacation video = 28 gigs +/-. And you still need some space to thrash all that to bring it down to DVD or DiVX.
And, at least a year or so ago, it was the only way to get reasonably sized volumes in mainframe Linux. After installing SuSe or Turbolinux, you had to use LVM to string a bunch of 3390's together. I believe each disk gives 2.5GB of usable space, so you could use one for the system and string several together for /home, /usr, /share, whatever. Wasn't LVM donated to the community by IBM? I think so...
Same here for startup. I dual boot RH7.3 and Win2k on my work laptop, and whenever i go thru reinstalls, Win2k always starts right up.. up until whenever I install the Linux partition.. then Win2k runs the Sleep10MinutesBecauseLinuxIsInstalled() routine. It literally takes about 7 minutes to boot my laptop but ONLY after I add a Linux partition to it.
Coincidence???
Oh, and the error log always shows disk manager failed to start. What a shocker.
This means that their software would have to be open source as well
Not to be picky, but not all software that runs on Linux has to be Open Source. You have a fairly low UID, so I would normally lean towards giving you the benefit of the doubt. A friend once asked me how IBM was allowed to charge $30k for DB2 for Linux, because he too thought that all software that runs on Linux has to be released as Open Source. I know the woman who was until recently the #3 Linux guru in IBM, and I've asked her about how our software groups toes the line to release closed source software in Linux. Very interesting conversation to have, if you can find someone to have it with who knows their shyte.
I'm sure PGP is important, but I can't remember what the acronym stands for
PGP is important, but the world won't be ready for its functionality for another 10 years.
TOOMA here, but I think Phil Zimmerman once wrote in the documentation that when you use 2,048-bit encryption it would take the "US Government's best computers about 13,000 years to brute force the private key and decrypt the message." This translated to an encryption that while will not survive forever, it will survive long enough that you will be dead many times over before anyone cracks it. Therefore, its not perfect but its..
Pretty Good Privacy
With all the discussion about having more memory, it would be interesting if Garmin utilized their own proprietary memory stick and made it portable between this and their other GPS units. For instance, it would be a godsend if I could load up the Washington DC maps into my 128MB memory stick, use stick in my Streetpilot III for talking directions to a central parking area, then move the stick to a handheld, and have the handheld play audio clips narrating the history behind the monument I'm looking at (since it knows where I'm standing).
I've been waiting for something like that for a LONG time.
I always felt that with all other stuff that was crammed on the bird, it would have been nice if they stuck an 802.11 access point on board. Of course, we'll never know if it would have survived the "event" that occurred shortly after launch.
Sure, but you can't encrypt your transmissions or transmit profanity or obscene materials.
As best I can tell from reading the IBM page, the new "strategy" is to help customers transform custom OS/2 client/server apps into "webified" eBusiness apps running on WebSphere. After enough migrations, you will have attained "OS independence" on the client side (and server side as well). A typical office worker will only need a web browser and an Office suite to do their entire job. This has been IBM's e-business strategy since long before I joined them. Any IBM'er who's been through the internal "e-Business transformation" will agree that it has brought some amazing changes to our admistrative processes.
.NET competitor, like a pure web-based client environment a la the old "workspace on demand". But I soon realized that they are just pushing the webification of applications to break OS dependence on both ends.
While reading the early parts of the page, I was anticipating OS/2 becoming some sort of a
In the meantime, IBM will continue to provide some critical fixes and "consider" developing support for new devices, until customers no longer need OS/2 on the server side or client side.
I refuse to use the phrase Googling
Oh yeah? I refuse to use to the phrase "nukular weapons" unlike the guy who can actually use one.
You go to work and help the parent company, but you don't get any of the benefits, or share in the profit you helped create. Most the the IT labor is now contracted out.
Come work for number 38. We have excellent performance-based benefits that are tied to both our individual and company performance. Its a sliding scale that starts out primarily based on the company's performance and moves towards your individual performance the higher up you go in the organization.
Here's a q.. has anyone figured out how to add and launch executables on TiVO? Adding an IRC client and FServ would be quite a nice sharing option.
Well, maybe not *that* big, but ABC News is reporting that he actually worked for a digital IMAGING company that was contracted out by the law firm to create digital copies of these sensitive docs. Adjust arguments appropriately knowing that he didn't work for the law firm.
Sometimes it helps to search for alternative versions of the story.
I work for a very large telecommunications company, and it sure does help sell GNU/Linux to management when you can mention in a business case that Wal-Mart sells PCs that run the operating system
I think its [funny|sad] that your management waits for Wal*Mart to sell Linux instead of IBM.
Or the carpet could email you saying "help!! i'm getting wet."
;)
I already get those emails..
I know, and I'm pissed! I've heard those CD cans are great for carrying a couple of blank CD-R's around in your laptop bag, but they haven't sent me even one yet!!! Not one! I'm stuck carrying a bunch of wrapped CD-Rs in the super-thin jewel cases. I need an AOL CD can!
"I don't think you understand. You know the penny cup at the store? Those are WHOLE PENNIES. I'm talking about little tiny slices of one penny!"
Beats the grand idea of mount cell tower equipment on the bottom of 737's and flying 3 over Chicago 24x7. ;)
I did some work testing some Linux-based tablets destined for school-aged kids (grade 3 and up) within the US's largest private school system. The tablets we were configuring and testing had built-in 802.11 and a CompactFlash socket. The plan was to publish school books as PDFs or eBooks each year and distribute a CompactFlash card to each kid each school each year instead of sending an 18-wheeler full of books.
:) I'd still be using it today..
We actually met with most of the publishers to get them on board. We also met with some Office suite publishers to work on getting some features to automatically activate and deactivate based on whether or not the tablet was in or near the school. I liked it and thought it had a lot of potential. Too bad I couldn't snarf one at the end of the testing period
If that's the case, I should change mine to "You think its bad being behind me?" (born and rasied NJ driver)
Was he featured in this book?
As soon as I saw it, I immediately thought "that's what I need for in-car MP3". It seems like this thing could fit behind a 5" LCD screen a-la dashpc.com.
Most importantly, it's powered by 12V. That makes a huge difference when considering in-car PCs.
woz just gonna say.. I think this was a /.^2.. I know I don't remember the story from the original airing, so I went to see the pix. Same result for me. This is /. part 2 for them.
I've been wondering about all the slowness complaints that have plagued large applications like OpenOffice. Does anyone here do the hdparm tweaks to improve disk performance? I just stumbled across it (after 7 years) trying to improve mplayer's performance. This may take care of much of the slowness complaints we always seem to hear.