Ah, but the marketing behind the product specifically omits police use. And people make decisions based on what they're told publicly.
And it makes sense to do so. There's simply too much going on for a person to do detailed research on every decision they're expected to make. That's why we have a legislative body in the first place, to make major decisions for the general public, so the general public can get on with their lives.
It's the activists, outside the legislative body, that focus on specific issues who take care to study in detail the decisions made by the legislative body and bring problems to the public attention.
If you're a member of the "general public," and you ignore activists, then, and only then, are you being irresponsible with regard to laws and general government activity.
I'd guess their XF86Config doesn't list the PCI addresses of your video cards. AFAIK, X requires that information when dealing with multiple displays. Are you able to run KNOPPIX?
Even Microsoft's (non-compliant) JRE was still Java, so far as the public is concerned, so Sun wasn't persuing a court order to force the distribution of Java. Rather, the goal was that, if Java is distributed, let it be compliant. I'm not saying their goal wasn't also to get it distributed, only that that was secondary to the primary goal of it being compliant with Sun specifications.
If they merely wanted it distributed, they would have let Microsoft do its own thing. Market hype was already pushing the distribution of Java software, so court orders weren't necessary to that end.
What makes you think I use csh? I use bash on Linux, tcsh on OS X
Besides, checking to see if $DISPLAY is set tells you if the command was run from within an X display.
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As one of those tech support reps, I can tell you it's a lot cheaper for the user to wipe and reinstall, than to go through the process of cleaning it out. I can't spend the time [painfully] walking them through the process over the phone, and they don't want to spend the money on a long house call.
For people with high-speed internet connections, certainly. I'd like to see someone mass-mail some sort of LiveCD distribution to homes and small businesses.
It'd also be neat if someone would come up with a LiveCD set that demonstrated the client/server abilities of Linux, or some other OSS packages.
dselect is a simple app. If you want power and convenience, look at aptitude, gnome-apt, synaptic, kpackage, or any of the other apt front-ends out there. I prefer aptitude, since it's more convenient over ssh than dselect or any of the X-based alternatives.
You could use SSH to compress the X11 traffic. Hell, you could use it to compress all the traffic on the network. Just combine ssh's port forwarding and compression with Linux's Ip-within-IP tunneling.
Yeah, the stable kernel tree is easy to compile, once you've done it a couple times. But I've never been happy with the documentation. It seems like some of it hasn't been updated since the 2.0 days. As an example, consider ECN support. "Some of these are major sites at the time of this writing..." It's said that since I started compiling my own kernels, and that was years ago. I don't know how long before that it still said it. It'd be nice if they could at least give a couple of examples, with dates. Or maybe a link to a website that did so.
The 2.6 series "make gconfig" is wonderful, though. I've never had so much fun configuring a kernel. (Even if I couldn't get the _patched_ NVIDIA drivers to work.)
I emphatically disagree. I don't know what function describes the frequency of primes as your numbers get larger, but I'm certain that your efficiency will drop extremely fast (and continue to drop faster) before you even reach 100. Your testing rate should decrease something less than logarithmically as the number you're testing increases linearly.
It also wouldn't hurt for them to own UNIX. Then they could resolve any remaining license issues SCO's codebase had with other organizations, and perhapse even reduce the restrictions on their UNIX employees communicating with their Linux employees.
I'm not even going to risk mentioning what I'd like to see done with whatever IP SCO really does own. Maybe it could be made available.
If you want to fit a lot of memory on the die, you'll need to use DRAM, which is _constantly_ consuming power. You could use static ram, which is generally faster, but it takes up a lot more space.
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Is it really anyone's place to decide what kind of person we have in society? That generally sounds elitist to me.
Ah, but the marketing behind the product specifically omits police use. And people make decisions based on what they're told publicly.
And it makes sense to do so. There's simply too much going on for a person to do detailed research on every decision they're expected to make. That's why we have a legislative body in the first place, to make major decisions for the general public, so the general public can get on with their lives.
It's the activists, outside the legislative body, that focus on specific issues who take care to study in detail the decisions made by the legislative body and bring problems to the public attention.
If you're a member of the "general public," and you ignore activists, then, and only then, are you being irresponsible with regard to laws and general government activity.
Bugs in laws are usually written in there, to benefit someone with a lot of lobbying power.
When they said "no new patches", they meant it. They simply raised existing patches. :)
I've had customers with virii, but being on dial-up never helped them. What did your customers do once they discovered that dial-up didn't help?
I'd guess their XF86Config doesn't list the PCI addresses of your video cards. AFAIK, X requires that information when dealing with multiple displays. Are you able to run KNOPPIX?
Cool down, boy.
Even Microsoft's (non-compliant) JRE was still Java, so far as the public is concerned, so Sun wasn't persuing a court order to force the distribution of Java. Rather, the goal was that, if Java is distributed, let it be compliant. I'm not saying their goal wasn't also to get it distributed, only that that was secondary to the primary goal of it being compliant with Sun specifications.
If they merely wanted it distributed, they would have let Microsoft do its own thing. Market hype was already pushing the distribution of Java software, so court orders weren't necessary to that end.
The last few nasty worms couldn't even affect 98. They depended on flaws in XP's rpc system.
As the majority of users work with newer and newer technologies, those old technologies will become safer and safer.
In fact, I know a business that uses Worldgroup (under DOS) as its accounting and RADIUS authentication package.
The bottom of the article mentions that Sun attempts to distribute Java through court proceedings and OEM agreements.
That wasn't a very nice thing to say...maybe CNET has a beef with Sun? (the article is copyright CNET, not MSNBC)
What makes you think I use csh? I use bash on Linux, tcsh on OS X
Besides, checking to see if $DISPLAY is set tells you if the command was run from within an X display.
As one of those tech support reps, I can tell you it's a lot cheaper for the user to wipe and reinstall, than to go through the process of cleaning it out. I can't spend the time [painfully] walking them through the process over the phone, and they don't want to spend the money on a long house call.
For people with high-speed internet connections, certainly. I'd like to see someone mass-mail some sort of LiveCD distribution to homes and small businesses.
It'd also be neat if someone would come up with a LiveCD set that demonstrated the client/server abilities of Linux, or some other OSS packages.
dselect is a simple app. If you want power and convenience, look at aptitude, gnome-apt, synaptic, kpackage, or any of the other apt front-ends out there. I prefer aptitude, since it's more convenient over ssh than dselect or any of the X-based alternatives.
That's not pr0n! That's legitimate medical study. Emotional side effects are purely coincidential.
You could use SSH to compress the X11 traffic. Hell, you could use it to compress all the traffic on the network. Just combine ssh's port forwarding and compression with Linux's Ip-within-IP tunneling.
They tried to write it in C, but the BitKeeper scripts caught on to "if(linuxcode = scocode) {..."
Yeah, the stable kernel tree is easy to compile, once you've done it a couple times. But I've never been happy with the documentation. It seems like some of it hasn't been updated since the 2.0 days. As an example, consider ECN support. "Some of these are major sites at the time of this writing..." It's said that since I started compiling my own kernels, and that was years ago. I don't know how long before that it still said it. It'd be nice if they could at least give a couple of examples, with dates. Or maybe a link to a website that did so.
The 2.6 series "make gconfig" is wonderful, though. I've never had so much fun configuring a kernel. (Even if I couldn't get the _patched_ NVIDIA drivers to work.)
Ah. I was assuming that an efficient algorithm was desired. The polynominal-time test sounds interesting...I'll have to look it up.
Maybe it can be reversed to provide a prime number, rather than test one. But that's something cryptologists are working on, I'm sure.
I emphatically disagree. I don't know what function describes the frequency of primes as your numbers get larger, but I'm certain that your efficiency will drop extremely fast (and continue to drop faster) before you even reach 100. Your testing rate should decrease something less than logarithmically as the number you're testing increases linearly.
It also wouldn't hurt for them to own UNIX. Then they could resolve any remaining license issues SCO's codebase had with other organizations, and perhapse even reduce the restrictions on their UNIX employees communicating with their Linux employees.
I'm not even going to risk mentioning what I'd like to see done with whatever IP SCO really does own. Maybe it could be made available.
I don't think anyone would want to rape SCO employees. It'd be like raping the cows and slaughtering the women.
If you want to fit a lot of memory on the die, you'll need to use DRAM, which is _constantly_ consuming power. You could use static ram, which is generally faster, but it takes up a lot more space.
What if you exhaust your existing list of primes? You never know if there are more primes between your largest prime and n/2...
Well, a corporate entity is treated in much the same way as a human one...
What are they going to do, force the board of directors to live in a mental institution?
What? When Doom 1 made it all the way to 1.666?