I did use both Nextstep (on Pentiums) and IRIX (on a R4000) for a while and found both to provide better end-user experience than Unixware (X) or Windows (95-98).
I don't know much about Irix, but I do know quite a bit about NeXTSTEP, and as it was designed to behave well on 25MHz 68030s and ported to the Pentium, it's not surprising that the experience was a good one;-). There were some graphics-related tasks which were slower to complete on the i386 series, because they were optimised for the custom NeXT Computer VLSIs, overall it was a blazing-fast experience. Rhapsody - the port of OPENSTEP 4.x to the i386/ppc families - was blazing fast on 300MHz 603 processors.
Untrue. John Harington invented the flush toilet, and the word 'crap' comes to the English language in the 15th Century meaning 'dregs', derived from the Latin 'crappa' - chaff.
Xerox have had 25 years to go after Apple, and almost as long to go after Microsoft, for half-inching the GUI. They never did...probably because they were never really in a position to exploit any of the stuff which PARC came up with.
If she's called Eve then I'll pick up Richard Dawkins' coat along with mine on the way out;-). Mind you, you can kindof work out that it wouldn't require too much history for you and I, or you and CmdrTaco, or you and anyone else in the world to find a common ancestor. If you go back 33 generations then without any inbreeding you would have 8 billion ancestors, which is more than even the current population. That's only 8-900 years, OK the population isn't as uniform as the above calculation assumes but if you even had to go back 15k years for yourself and an arbitrary other human to find a common ancestor, I'd be surprised.
AIUI (I'm not an evolutionary biologist, although my girlfriend is) the environmental pressures which gave rise to homo sapiens in Africa also occurred among simian populations elsewhere, so that human-like characteristics arose independently among multiple populations (h. neanderthalis in Europe, for example). Through interbreeding and competition, there's now a single species, h. sapiens sapiens. Although some of the characteristics of our species are apparently or allegedly tracable to interbreeding events, for instance I've heard that red/ginger hair among Europeans can be linked to Neanderthalis genes.
My point was more that the 'port your state around' bit is here now, and is even smaller than the PDA that the OP wanted to have to lug about;-). The laptop sunray was a mere aside...
We're not; you are though. The SunRay server software has a "WanRay" component which allows you to use a SunRay over a WAN; there are even WLAN-capable laptop form-factor SunRay devices from Tadpole. This means that you could have a SunRay at home and at work (or just take one with you) and wherever you are, your desktop state is retained at the server and available when you stick the smartcard in the front.
I used to run SunRays in a physics lab, the only real problem in that setting was with sharing resources between users, but I think that the processor set interface which Solaris now has would obviate that.
Yeah, I used to work somewhere where they tried to use Exchange as an SMTP server, despite running into a load of the myriad problems introduced when communicating between Exchange and any other implementation of SMTP. AFAICT it's fine for use as a groupware server on a Windows-only network, but try to use other clients or put it on the big wild intarwebs and problems start to arise.
That's exactly what I thought, too. Andrew Morton says "we should do blah". Weenie says "Huzzah! For I have done blah!" Linus Torvalds says "doing blah is stupid". Weenie says "I never did blah! Or at least, I didn't really mean it."
Over here in the Cradle of Civilisation (well, the UK...) it's mandatory to have vehicle insurance covering third party claims. I think that if the government is going to mandate something, there should be a state "no frills, no profit" version available otherwise prices go out of control. I just finished paying off my motorbike, and the payments on the insurance cost me more than the payments on the vehicle itself did.
Have you done any serious web design? I mean hand coding, XHTML 1.0 valid code
If you're doing that nonsense, then the chances are good that your website won't work properly in any browser, because it either gets loaded as quirky HTML 4.01 or as XML, which the browser won't render. The HTML validator lies to you about whether your XHTML is valid XHTML, because it only looks at content not the server-supplied MIME type.
It wouldn't work at all in the case described in TFA, which relates to real installer packages. The worrying thing is not that this works, but that [i]people have only just noticed and [ii]consider it news. You know that you can put arbitrary files in RPMs and DEBs, even tarballs?;)
No, but if you like you can find someone, give them a Bible and ten minutes and they can demonstrate validation of any argument you like so it shouldn't be hard to demonstrate. What I said was that I don't think there's sufficient proof that Jesus believed himself to be the Messiah; I've found one instance where he says he is but four where he tells everyone to stop calling him that.
Of course, if you do want to accept the Bible as (ahem) canonical, we could always drop into the usual "if I can quote a C+V then I'm obviously more correct than you" style of theological debate. Let's try that:-). Being the "Son of God" is nothing special, looking at John 1:12, so anyone can claim that they are a son of God and be correct without having to be any specific god-sent inhuman being. So no points for any proof that Jebus believed himself to be the son of God. On the other hand, how about points for Jesus proving himself not to be the Messiah? In Luke 20:41-44, Jesus says that the Messiah is not descended from David. Jesus is descended from David[*]: e.g. Luke 3:23-28.
[*]Um, either that, or he was descended from Jeconiah, who was rendered infertile and of whom "no seed shall sit on the throne of David", in which case he isn't the Messiah either.
but -- according to all published reports -- he believed that Christ was the Messiah
I disagree there. I can only find such a statement in one account - the gospel according to Saint John - and whether that's a factual account or a later confabulation is an unsettled point.
They did show that zombies which bite you and turn you into other zombies couldn't exist, for the same reason that the vampires couldn't. Although didn't the Romero trilogy end up with the entire world being zombies except for one human outpost? Anyway, the existence of zombie poison has been widelydocumented for decades. It's not merely a plausible explanation, it's the explanation.
GNUstep is binary compatible with Cocoa, as long as you're on Mac OS X then you can configure GNUstep with the apple-apple-apple library combo and it'll build against the Cocoa.framework. GNUstep is also to a large extent source code compatible with Cocoa on other platforms, not surprising really as OpenStep was the original "write once, run everywhere" platform a couple of years before Java hit. If you want to run Mac OS X binaries on a non-Mac platform you've got a bit more work ahead of you, but take a look at NetBSD's COMPAT_DARWIN as a good starting point.
Before anyone complains about font sizes and source code, we actually have an in-house scripting language where the keywords are [coincidentally;-)] identical to some RTF control codes.
You're going into the bowels of history a bit there aren't you? Most UNIX systems have been using SHA-1, MD5, blowfish or [insert a list of other non-DES encryption techniques] for at least this millennium, if not longer[*]. It's only if your network has to support some legacy SunOS 4 box or something that the real world will see DES-crypted passwords.
Of course, if there *is* a real-world UNIX OS with DES passwords, do let me know...
[*]glares at Mac OS X for not getting with the system until 2004...
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I don't know much about Irix, but I do know quite a bit about NeXTSTEP, and as it was designed to behave well on 25MHz 68030s and ported to the Pentium, it's not surprising that the experience was a good one ;-). There were some graphics-related tasks which were slower to complete on the i386 series, because they were optimised for the custom NeXT Computer VLSIs, overall it was a blazing-fast experience. Rhapsody - the port of OPENSTEP 4.x to the i386/ppc families - was blazing fast on 300MHz 603 processors.
Untrue. John Harington invented the flush toilet, and the word 'crap' comes to the English language in the 15th Century meaning 'dregs', derived from the Latin 'crappa' - chaff.
Thomas Crapper neither invented the flushing toilet, nor was the noun 'crap' created after his name.
Xerox have had 25 years to go after Apple, and almost as long to go after Microsoft, for half-inching the GUI. They never did...probably because they were never really in a position to exploit any of the stuff which PARC came up with.
If she's called Eve then I'll pick up Richard Dawkins' coat along with mine on the way out ;-). Mind you, you can kindof work out that it wouldn't require too much history for you and I, or you and CmdrTaco, or you and anyone else in the world to find a common ancestor. If you go back 33 generations then without any inbreeding you would have 8 billion ancestors, which is more than even the current population. That's only 8-900 years, OK the population isn't as uniform as the above calculation assumes but if you even had to go back 15k years for yourself and an arbitrary other human to find a common ancestor, I'd be surprised.
In my understanding, the neanderthals are extinct.
AIUI (I'm not an evolutionary biologist, although my girlfriend is) the environmental pressures which gave rise to homo sapiens in Africa also occurred among simian populations elsewhere, so that human-like characteristics arose independently among multiple populations (h. neanderthalis in Europe, for example). Through interbreeding and competition, there's now a single species, h. sapiens sapiens. Although some of the characteristics of our species are apparently or allegedly tracable to interbreeding events, for instance I've heard that red/ginger hair among Europeans can be linked to Neanderthalis genes.
I would like details of the logging tool you use. Mine only records details which have been logged, so far silent changes elude it.
My point was more that the 'port your state around' bit is here now, and is even smaller than the PDA that the OP wanted to have to lug about ;-). The laptop sunray was a mere aside...
We're not; you are though. The SunRay server software has a "WanRay" component which allows you to use a SunRay over a WAN; there are even WLAN-capable laptop form-factor SunRay devices from Tadpole. This means that you could have a SunRay at home and at work (or just take one with you) and wherever you are, your desktop state is retained at the server and available when you stick the smartcard in the front. I used to run SunRays in a physics lab, the only real problem in that setting was with sharing resources between users, but I think that the processor set interface which Solaris now has would obviate that.
Yeah, I used to work somewhere where they tried to use Exchange as an SMTP server, despite running into a load of the myriad problems introduced when communicating between Exchange and any other implementation of SMTP. AFAICT it's fine for use as a groupware server on a Windows-only network, but try to use other clients or put it on the big wild intarwebs and problems start to arise.
I've had more GNUstep stories accepted at Macslash than Slashdot :-/
That's exactly what I thought, too. Andrew Morton says "we should do blah". Weenie says "Huzzah! For I have done blah!" Linus Torvalds says "doing blah is stupid". Weenie says "I never did blah! Or at least, I didn't really mean it."
Finally, a chance for JarJaromir to shine!
Over here in the Cradle of Civilisation (well, the UK...) it's mandatory to have vehicle insurance covering third party claims. I think that if the government is going to mandate something, there should be a state "no frills, no profit" version available otherwise prices go out of control. I just finished paying off my motorbike, and the payments on the insurance cost me more than the payments on the vehicle itself did.
If you're doing that nonsense, then the chances are good that your website won't work properly in any browser, because it either gets loaded as quirky HTML 4.01 or as XML, which the browser won't render. The HTML validator lies to you about whether your XHTML is valid XHTML, because it only looks at content not the server-supplied MIME type.
It wouldn't work at all in the case described in TFA, which relates to real installer packages. The worrying thing is not that this works, but that [i]people have only just noticed and [ii]consider it news. You know that you can put arbitrary files in RPMs and DEBs, even tarballs? ;)
No, but if you like you can find someone, give them a Bible and ten minutes and they can demonstrate validation of any argument you like so it shouldn't be hard to demonstrate. What I said was that I don't think there's sufficient proof that Jesus believed himself to be the Messiah; I've found one instance where he says he is but four where he tells everyone to stop calling him that. Of course, if you do want to accept the Bible as (ahem) canonical, we could always drop into the usual "if I can quote a C+V then I'm obviously more correct than you" style of theological debate. Let's try that :-). Being the "Son of God" is nothing special, looking at John 1:12, so anyone can claim that they are a son of God and be correct without having to be any specific god-sent inhuman being. So no points for any proof that Jebus believed himself to be the son of God. On the other hand, how about points for Jesus proving himself not to be the Messiah? In Luke 20:41-44, Jesus says that the Messiah is not descended from David. Jesus is descended from David[*]: e.g. Luke 3:23-28.
[*]Um, either that, or he was descended from Jeconiah, who was rendered infertile and of whom "no seed shall sit on the throne of David", in which case he isn't the Messiah either.
I disagree there. I can only find such a statement in one account - the gospel according to Saint John - and whether that's a factual account or a later confabulation is an unsettled point.
They did show that zombies which bite you and turn you into other zombies couldn't exist, for the same reason that the vampires couldn't. Although didn't the Romero trilogy end up with the entire world being zombies except for one human outpost? Anyway, the existence of zombie poison has been widely documented for decades. It's not merely a plausible explanation, it's the explanation.
Jesus wasn't a Christian, he was a Jew.
Trigraphs!
GNUstep is binary compatible with Cocoa, as long as you're on Mac OS X then you can configure GNUstep with the apple-apple-apple library combo and it'll build against the Cocoa.framework. GNUstep is also to a large extent source code compatible with Cocoa on other platforms, not surprising really as OpenStep was the original "write once, run everywhere" platform a couple of years before Java hit. If you want to run Mac OS X binaries on a non-Mac platform you've got a bit more work ahead of you, but take a look at NetBSD's COMPAT_DARWIN as a good starting point.
Before anyone complains about font sizes and source code, we actually have an in-house scripting language where the keywords are [coincidentally ;-)] identical to some RTF control codes.
You're going into the bowels of history a bit there aren't you? Most UNIX systems have been using SHA-1, MD5, blowfish or [insert a list of other non-DES encryption techniques] for at least this millennium, if not longer[*]. It's only if your network has to support some legacy SunOS 4 box or something that the real world will see DES-crypted passwords. Of course, if there *is* a real-world UNIX OS with DES passwords, do let me know... [*]glares at Mac OS X for not getting with the system until 2004...