A full GNOME installation works fine on my 750MHz Duron with 192MB of RAM. I was running 768MB of RAM, but I needed to put those DIMMs in another machine.
I totally agree. But you have to know how to follow others' orders before you can come up with your own. Even if it's something as annoying as showing your work in your math class. Or writing the alphabet over and over to improve your penmenship. Or solving sixty trig-substitution problems in Calc class. (That last bit me.)
It doesn't help to teach a student the shortcut before they learn how to do it the long way...the long way tells them how to do it. The short way shows them how to do it faster. Once you understand limits, and can find x=0->oo y=.9 lim(y^x) the long way, you're ready to discover that for any value y less than one, the limit is 0.
I know an ISP that still uses Worldgroup(on DOS) for authentication. (Not the one I worked at, though.) They used to run about thirty dial-up lines through a Galactibox.
The power supply in their original galactibox blew up. (That happens when you run thirty 14400kbps external modems on six Galacticards in a Galactibox that was only designed to handle the heat of eight modems. (Especially considering the Galacticards were only intended to run 9600 baud modems.))
They swapped the old box with a new Galactibox, left the cover off, and had a fan blowing on it 24x7. They finally switched to a pair of terminal servers a couple years ago.
When they bought VirtualPC, that's exactly what I thought they would do. And I still think so.
They're going to wait for Longhorn, though, as being able to run other operating systems from within Windows would be a major coup for them. There'd be no reason for people to install over it...People interested in trying other operating systems will simply install inside the VM, and most probably won't get around to wiping off the host OS.
On the other hand, if Microsoft software becomes tied to the hardware tightly enough, the fact that users can run other operating systems from within Windows would be a significant defense for the next time they wind up in court on charges of antitrust or the like.
I wonder if Slashcode is beginning to crack under the weight of Slashdot. I'd like to see a hit counter for Slashdot that shows the rate of hits instead of the total count.
Be a little careful how you word things. This is specific to the Mozilla Foundation. It doesn't have anything to do with Linux. But it does look great from a leadership role.
People were using Linux in the workplace long before RedHat and SUSE produced "Enterprise" editions of their OS. There's nothing to say they won't, still. (Although having "Enterprise" in the name certainly is a marketing tool.)
I'd like to see Mandrake work at an enterprise edition. My personal favorite (Debian) isn't really in the position to do it.
Or we could be rewarding those who follow directions.
When you were in elementary school (grades k-6 where I went to school), did they give you that list of instructions and a piece of paper? Basically, you'd perform between twenty to thirty cuts, gluing, and folding steps. The last step tells you to ignore steps 1-29 and draw.
Following directions was something I didn't really learn how to do until high school. And in science and math courses, they tell you two write out your steps for a good reason.
That reminds me of a Scientific American article from a while back about about scale-free networks.
The gist of it is if a retired person who only goes to the store once a month gets sick, he can only infect the people at the store. (If he's still sick.) Conversely, if a tutor at a college gets sick, he risks infecting the hundreds of people he deals with every week.
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A full GNOME installation works fine on my 750MHz Duron with 192MB of RAM. I was running 768MB of RAM, but I needed to put those DIMMs in another machine.
Intelligence != Ability to follow instructions.
I totally agree. But you have to know how to follow others' orders before you can come up with your own. Even if it's something as annoying as showing your work in your math class. Or writing the alphabet over and over to improve your penmenship. Or solving sixty trig-substitution problems in Calc class. (That last bit me.)
It doesn't help to teach a student the shortcut before they learn how to do it the long way...the long way tells them how to do it. The short way shows them how to do it faster. Once you understand limits, and can find x=0->oo y=.9 lim(y^x) the long way, you're ready to discover that for any value y less than one, the limit is 0.
I know an ISP that still uses Worldgroup(on DOS) for authentication. (Not the one I worked at, though.) They used to run about thirty dial-up lines through a Galactibox.
The power supply in their original galactibox blew up. (That happens when you run thirty 14400kbps external modems on six Galacticards in a Galactibox that was only designed to handle the heat of eight modems. (Especially considering the Galacticards were only intended to run 9600 baud modems.))
They swapped the old box with a new Galactibox, left the cover off, and had a fan blowing on it 24x7. They finally switched to a pair of terminal servers a couple years ago.
When they bought VirtualPC, that's exactly what I thought they would do. And I still think so.
They're going to wait for Longhorn, though, as being able to run other operating systems from within Windows would be a major coup for them. There'd be no reason for people to install over it...People interested in trying other operating systems will simply install inside the VM, and most probably won't get around to wiping off the host OS.
On the other hand, if Microsoft software becomes tied to the hardware tightly enough, the fact that users can run other operating systems from within Windows would be a significant defense for the next time they wind up in court on charges of antitrust or the like.
I wonder if Slashcode is beginning to crack under the weight of Slashdot. I'd like to see a hit counter for Slashdot that shows the rate of hits instead of the total count.
Now Linux gives out cash...
Be a little careful how you word things. This is specific to the Mozilla Foundation. It doesn't have anything to do with Linux. But it does look great from a leadership role.
At what point does it become overly burdensome to comb through the last 20 years of patents filed?
I think that at some point a court will rule that e.g. an individual coder is not liable, if the patent search is beyond his practical means.
IIRC, it turned out that the reverse memory mapping system the kernel uses is patented by someone. Don't remember any more detail than that, though.
Since source code has been ruled as expressive speech, do software patents mean speech is patentable? Or will the stack collapse from that end?
People were using Linux in the workplace long before RedHat and SUSE produced "Enterprise" editions of their OS. There's nothing to say they won't, still. (Although having "Enterprise" in the name certainly is a marketing tool.)
I'd like to see Mandrake work at an enterprise edition. My personal favorite (Debian) isn't really in the position to do it.
SUSE isn't all of Linux. There's still Red Hat, Mandrake, Debian, even Linspire. Sounds like they were going for theatrics.
Or we could be rewarding those who follow directions.
When you were in elementary school (grades k-6 where I went to school), did they give you that list of instructions and a piece of paper? Basically, you'd perform between twenty to thirty cuts, gluing, and folding steps. The last step tells you to ignore steps 1-29 and draw.
Following directions was something I didn't really learn how to do until high school. And in science and math courses, they tell you two write out your steps for a good reason.
That reminds me of a Scientific American article from a while back about about scale-free networks.
The gist of it is if a retired person who only goes to the store once a month gets sick, he can only infect the people at the store. (If he's still sick.) Conversely, if a tutor at a college gets sick, he risks infecting the hundreds of people he deals with every week.
Not a solicitation. Not a solicitation.
Repeat after me: I will use the Preview button.
(chorus) I will use the Preview button.
He goes to great lengths to say it's a solicitation, when it's pretty close to being an advertisement.
So people like me, who are inherently paranoid, are at higher risk?
:)
Great...I knew this would happen.
I'm thinking of the original text story, not the animations or other performances. Granted, I don't know the original copyright date.
...they tried that. Complications aroze because the circulatory system wasn't built for continuous flow.
No, squirt guns would be illegal because they produce interest in guns in children.
putting a whole shitload of fat guys in suits out of work
It's for their own good. They'll lose weight that way.
How about sending them all a letter containing a list of all the children's stories and scientific literature that is public domain?
Here's some examples of public domain fiction:
Brother's Grimm stories (itemize them)
Peter Pan
Gulliver's Travels
(And other collections of children's stories.)
Who said the money would go to the EFF?
Google's define: feature works for a lot more than just official words in the dictionary.
Try this.
Put it in an HTML link. Slashcode breaks up longs strings of characters to prevent them from forcing the page wider.
It's probably due to this comment. I suspect more mod points have been spent on that comment than on your average comment that reaches Score: 5