This is insightful? What advantage does rolling your own give you at all? "Of course the kernel from scratch" is taunted, but is there any actual justification for this? Package management was invented for the explicit purpose of being better able to manage software upgrades, dependencies, and file locations. Can anyone give me one reason why this should be abandoned?
Well, last I checked, Fedora Core has around 2,000 packages available through yum. Debian has somewhere on the order of 20,000. So, yes, I do believe that just about everything is in a single repository. Just not your repository.
And, um, nice Debian FUD there. Yeah, "dpkg -i filename.deb" is sooo confusing. So is "aptitude install packagename". Dear lord, my head might spin. And of course, heaven forbid I use Synaptic, so everything is point-and-drool.:rolleyes:
Java isn't slow. Honest. And.NET is just as cross-platform capable as Java is. In fact, it even allows you to cross language barriers so code can be written in whatever language is best suited to the task. Technically, Java can do this too, but it isn't as well done or publicized...
Quote your text. It won't work with Google Suggest yet, but it will impact the actual search.
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Moreover, I wonder what the drivers are for moving these things back into Gtk if they're already present in the Gnome stuff.
My assumption is that the parts being moved aren't really Gnome-specific. Applications that want to use those dialogs would have to include libgnome and libgnomeui, which are only available under Linux and very tied into the GNOME environment. For instance, an application which wanted to use a standardized About dialog would have to include the GNOME libraries. This moves it into GTK+, allowing cross-platform applications to use it.
Really, libgnome should only be for highly GNOME-specific code, such as the VFS.
Not supporting his statistics or anything, but that's a 1 in 455 shot in the next hundred years. Presumably that means a civilization-ending event would happen every 45,500 years at the current rate. This still seems low, but it would probably be taking into consideration the average rate of catastrophe occurring, how long it's been since we've had one, and an increase in the probability of one occurring as time passes.
Why desktop operating systems intending to migrate folks from Windows use KDE as the default desktop environment. I'm not trying to troll here, but KDE seems to be of the mentality for providing a configuration option for everything, and have tons and tons of menu options.
For the average user, this just isn't a very good idea. Having some experience with converting Windows users to desktop Linux, myself, I've found that the vast majority prefer the simple and clean feel to the GNOME interface. They try hard to use reasonable defaults and provide an option for the most important changes. Also, they try wherever possible to eliminate configuration options that require the user to type something (meaning the user has know about what to type in).
Yeah, it's not as customizable as KDE, but that's not what's important to Joe Average. Joe Average wants to turn on his computer, change the theme and fonts, then start actually doing stuff, not spend time fiddling with hundreds of options to get it "perfect". It's an appliance rather than living space.
I'm sure computers are bad for academic performance. On the other hand, as far as education? I'd say they're probably invaluable. Remeber, schooling and education are not necessarily equivalent.
It was just a day of watching a black dot slowly move across the sun. But it's still interesting because it's a landmark and it gives us something tangible to look at with say... a nine-inch telescope.
You must have some balls to not only look directly into the Sun, but use a telescope, to boot.
What does this have to do with the grandparent's concern? I happen to echo his statement: why in God's name would I want the online equivalent of a Social Security number stored somewhere? It *will* be broken into, no matter what.
To be fair, I do believe the quote is taken out of context. However, if he had said, "I took the initiative during the creation of the Internet," things would be a little clearer. If I said "I took the initiative in creating a program to...", it would easily be understood that I felt that I started the project and saw it through. On the other hand, "I took the initiative during the creation of a program to..." is more easily interpreted as playing a crucial part in an overall effort.
This is a fork bomb. The first part is a decoy, but look at the last portion:
:(){:& };:
It creates a function called : which takes no parameters (). The function creates a copy of itself and forks into the background with:&. Then, immediately after the function declaration:(){...}; it calls itself with:. There's a better one where the "payload" of the function is:|:&, which pipes one into the other and forks into the background...
look, when the system was so stupidly built that the spammers could just add a refresh tag to forward the flood to wherever they wanted, it had no chance of really slowing the spam down at all.
By all accounts, it wasn't. There would have been little reason for Lycos to write a full-blown HTTP interpreter, when all they wanted was something to repeatedly fetch pages.
Are you kidding? Drag a file from OE onto your desktop. Can you guess what happens? That's right, a plain text file with the entire source of the email.
Then again, he could be referring to Mario Kart: Double Dash (GameCube), Mario Golf: Advance Tour (Gameboy Advance), Mario Golf: Toadstool Tour (GameCube), Paper Mario II (GameCube), and Mario Power Tennis (GameCube)?
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This is insightful? What advantage does rolling your own give you at all? "Of course the kernel from scratch" is taunted, but is there any actual justification for this? Package management was invented for the explicit purpose of being better able to manage software upgrades, dependencies, and file locations. Can anyone give me one reason why this should be abandoned?
I was trying to be funny =(
And I'm a pessimist....
Well no shit, Mr. "It Won't Work".
Well, last I checked, Fedora Core has around 2,000 packages available through yum. Debian has somewhere on the order of 20,000. So, yes, I do believe that just about everything is in a single repository. Just not your repository.
And, um, nice Debian FUD there. Yeah, "dpkg -i filename.deb" is sooo confusing. So is "aptitude install packagename". Dear lord, my head might spin. And of course, heaven forbid I use Synaptic, so everything is point-and-drool. :rolleyes:
Why? Why is this a problem? Tell me one thing that this complicates or causes you to be inable to do.
Somebody find this man a package manager.
Java isn't slow. Honest. And .NET is just as cross-platform capable as Java is. In fact, it even allows you to cross language barriers so code can be written in whatever language is best suited to the task. Technically, Java can do this too, but it isn't as well done or publicized...
Quote your text. It won't work with Google Suggest yet, but it will impact the actual search.
Moreover, I wonder what the drivers are for moving these things back into Gtk if they're already present in the Gnome stuff.
My assumption is that the parts being moved aren't really Gnome-specific. Applications that want to use those dialogs would have to include libgnome and libgnomeui, which are only available under Linux and very tied into the GNOME environment. For instance, an application which wanted to use a standardized About dialog would have to include the GNOME libraries. This moves it into GTK+, allowing cross-platform applications to use it.
Really, libgnome should only be for highly GNOME-specific code, such as the VFS.
Not supporting his statistics or anything, but that's a 1 in 455 shot in the next hundred years. Presumably that means a civilization-ending event would happen every 45,500 years at the current rate. This still seems low, but it would probably be taking into consideration the average rate of catastrophe occurring, how long it's been since we've had one, and an increase in the probability of one occurring as time passes.
Why desktop operating systems intending to migrate folks from Windows use KDE as the default desktop environment. I'm not trying to troll here, but KDE seems to be of the mentality for providing a configuration option for everything, and have tons and tons of menu options.
For the average user, this just isn't a very good idea. Having some experience with converting Windows users to desktop Linux, myself, I've found that the vast majority prefer the simple and clean feel to the GNOME interface. They try hard to use reasonable defaults and provide an option for the most important changes. Also, they try wherever possible to eliminate configuration options that require the user to type something (meaning the user has know about what to type in).
Yeah, it's not as customizable as KDE, but that's not what's important to Joe Average. Joe Average wants to turn on his computer, change the theme and fonts, then start actually doing stuff, not spend time fiddling with hundreds of options to get it "perfect". It's an appliance rather than living space.
Since we assume that the people in the class are both mentally competent and reasonably intelligent based on the fact that they're in college...
Not to detract from your point or anything, but being in college myself, I can say that this might not be the safest assumption to make...
Perhaps maybe you don't know what you're trying to search for?
p -> paris hilton
pr -> pregnancy
pr0 -> pr0n
Seems to work just fine for me.
Yes.
See you in the next life.
I'm sure computers are bad for academic performance. On the other hand, as far as education? I'd say they're probably invaluable. Remeber, schooling and education are not necessarily equivalent.
The traditional way around this problem is just to represent 1's as a pair of zeros.
It is? How would you distinguish a one from two zeros?
It was just a day of watching a black dot slowly move across the sun. But it's still interesting because it's a landmark and it gives us something tangible to look at with say... a nine-inch telescope.
You must have some balls to not only look directly into the Sun, but use a telescope, to boot.
What does this have to do with the grandparent's concern? I happen to echo his statement: why in God's name would I want the online equivalent of a Social Security number stored somewhere? It *will* be broken into, no matter what.
To be fair, I do believe the quote is taken out of context. However, if he had said, "I took the initiative during the creation of the Internet," things would be a little clearer. If I said "I took the initiative in creating a program to...", it would easily be understood that I felt that I started the project and saw it through. On the other hand, "I took the initiative during the creation of a program to..." is more easily interpreted as playing a crucial part in an overall effort.
This is a fork bomb. The first part is a decoy, but look at the last portion:
It creates a function called : which takes no parameters (). The function creates a copy of itself and forks into the background with :&. Then, immediately after the function declaration :(){...}; it calls itself with :. There's a better one where the "payload" of the function is :| :&, which pipes one into the other and forks into the background...
Does it cure cancer?
look, when the system was so stupidly built that the spammers could just add a refresh tag to forward the flood to wherever they wanted, it had no chance of really slowing the spam down at all.
By all accounts, it wasn't. There would have been little reason for Lycos to write a full-blown HTTP interpreter, when all they wanted was something to repeatedly fetch pages.
Are you kidding? Drag a file from OE onto your desktop. Can you guess what happens? That's right, a plain text file with the entire source of the email.
Then again, he could be referring to Mario Kart: Double Dash (GameCube), Mario Golf: Advance Tour (Gameboy Advance), Mario Golf: Toadstool Tour (GameCube), Paper Mario II (GameCube), and Mario Power Tennis (GameCube)?