Unless you're running a server of some kind or you use your computer at all hours, I don't see the point of uptime for its own sake. Even if you use your computer all day, just flip it on when you get out of bed in the morning (or whenever)...
It says something about us/.ers that your post was moderated 'Funny'...like they couldn't believe you were serious:-)
Maybe, but the SDK allows manufacturers a good tool for creating drivers for their upnp devices. I suspect that with the introduction of tools like this, manufacturers will be better at supporting linux since they don't have to do so much from scratch.
Read through the reliability assesment reports of the North American Reliability Council (NERC). You will find that power companies are scrambling to build enough generating capacity to have adequate power availability margins. The "safe" level is a 15% margin; most regions are expected to fall below this in the next few years while the construction of new capacity is completed.
Interestingly, the western side of the US is projected to have the best power generating capacity while having the least reliable design. Many areas have power grids that aree inherently reliable in design, but have insufficient capacity to meet demand.
Actually, f was not used for s. A letter very like f was used for "nonfinal" lowercase s, but it was a seperate letter. In print, it looked like an f without the crossbar; in cursive, like an f with the bottom loop done backwards. It was used for lowercase s when it was not the last letter in a word, much like the greek sigma.
If you have a facsimile of the Declaration of Independence, you can see numerous examples in T. Jefferson's interesting handwriting.
That's what I'm using, vim. It has the same stupid problem. Every linux editor has the same stupid problem! Forgive me if I rant a little at people who program text editors.
Look people I do not want to set a fixed wrap margin, I do not want hard returns inserted in my file for word wrap, and I do not want to have to hit enter every time I get to the end of the line! Any text editor worth its salt will do the following:
Wrap my lines as I type
Re-wrap the lines for me if I resize the window
Re-wrap the lines for me if I later insert words in the line
Allow true cursor freedom; let the cursor move up and down on the screen regardless of where hard returns are located (vi[m] is a particular failure here)
Be able to do word wrap without inserting hard linefeeds in my files!! These just make it look wrong next time I open it up.
Not only are these these all-too-simple features lacking in EVERY SINGLE Linux editor I've tried (vim, jed, emacs, zed, pico, gtkedit, gnotepad, bluefish, gxedit, etc etc.), they are standard in EVERY Windows application that has ANY kind of text entry. Why is it so hard for Linux programmers to figure this out?? Yeah, it's a stable platform, but if what good is it if I can't even type up a short web page without messing around with this stuff?
I am rapidly progressing in learning vi for everyday editing, but one of the biggest problems with editors under Linux is the stupid way they handle word-wrap. It seems that the concept of soft-wrapping is foreign to Linux editors. Word wrapping is, or ought to be, a display issue, not a file formatting issue! In vi, you can set it to wrap words past a certain margin, but these are hard line-feeds, and when you go back and insert more text in the lines you must reformat the entire paragraph. Needless hassle.
The GTK editors I've tried all have the same problem. I confess I don't use emacs much since I don't have it installed on my little machine, but I do remember that words were not even wrapped properly the times I tried it. Maybe someone could enlighten me as to whether there is any way to get text editors under Linux to work for light HTML/word processing as well as for programming uses.
I am wondering: is there any likelihood/possibility that OS/2 code or techniques might end up in Linux code? I know IBM is unlikely to open-source OS/2, but with their recent involvement in Linux, are they paying any OS/2 developers to work on Linux? (If not, what exactly is the extent of their involvement with Linux?) Just a thought...
If they're not making any money off of it and they don't want it anyway, it would be nice if they just gave it away. That's what I would do. Of course, I'm not IBM. The FSF could do more with it than IBM wants to.
You asked how RH could fund this venture, implying they had no money to do it with, and I revealed to you that they have plenty of money. Now, is it a good idea? That's a seperate question, and beside the point of my post.
And they aren't giving away money. They're investing it.
You must not understand how public financing works. Red Hat got four billion dollars in cold, hard cash on IPO day and they can do whatever they like with it. The day-to-day trading price of their stock does not affect their bank account. It only affects them in a few situations, such as when they want to raise more money by issuing more shares.
Since when is investing money in another company to make more money a ponzi scheme?
"Ponzi scheme" describes a very specific situation where you take people's money, promise them insane percentages in interest, and pay them using the money of people who sign up later. Usually the first round of suckers will reinvest the gains in the same place after getting paid off, and attract new suckers as well. Eventually the perpetrator flees with all the money, and it all collapses.
That's not what's going on here. Ponzi schemes require a certain amount of deception. Red Hat has not promised anyone any fixed amount of return on investment and is not deceiving anyone. Their investors bought shares in spite of the well-known fact, which was no doubt printed in the prospectus, that Red Hat is not expected to make money anytime soon.
I think this misperception may have come from the widespread idea that Red Hat's capital is somehow "not real" and "only on paper." Let's set it straight: when you buy shares in a company, you pay them cash and they give you a piece of paper. The money they collect from these transactions goes into their bank account and they can do whatever they like with it. If they in turn invest in other companies, that is perfectly legitimate. In fact, there are publicly traded companies where that's all they do with their capital: invest in other companies in hopes of turning a profit thereby.
-JD
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IIRC, the Palm can only establish an IR link with one other device at a time. So it would be two players at most.
-JD
A trap! Don't click that link! - mod it down!
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Whoever modded that up obviously had not clicked the link. You better not either if you're at work or your mom is in the room.
...but if you do, make sure to use Unicode and give it i18n functionality, so the rest of the world can translate it into their own languages. I've found that there's nothing that annoys them more than not being able to use their own character sets in an otherwise good piece of software.
I honestly didn't know thinkgeek was an andover site. I wanted to throw in some kind of prize, but I didn't want to just hand out some cash. I thought about books, or a case of penguin peppermints, but a friend suggested a gift certificate and it immediately made sense to me. I picked thinkgeek because it had a nice range of products that the potential winner would like to choose from. I supposeI could have chosen copyleft.net too.
On a side note, it's kind of funny to see people saying "I'd never do this for a mere $25". I know people who solve puzzles like this in the newspaper with absolutely no incentive. I figured the prize and the (relatively) small recognition would just be frosting on the cake.
That would ruin the contest of course:-) I will do that A) when somebody solves it or B) when something like a year has passed and no one has solved it.
Interesting point...brute force computing just isn't practical in many situations, unless, as I said, you are the NSA and live 10 years ahead of the rest of the science/mathematics world.
Now I'm really curious to see if anyone figures this out, because if no one does, it would mean that (gasp!) criminals still have easy ways of communicating securely over the net without using government-restricted encryption techniques. On the other hand, I've made it tough enough that I'll be really surprised if anyone solves it.
I might even jack up the reward if this survives an attack by the slashdot crowd...
Unlike the i-opener, it does not come with its own monitor, although the infra-red keyboard is nice. Too bad all the extra monitors I have laying around are busted...
It does come with a requirement to buy two years of ISP service, but retailers aren't currently enforcing it, it seems.
The rumor is that the $50 price was a retailer's error. Maybe someone could set the story straight here.
See the latest I, Cringely article at PBS online for why this is all irrelevant at this point (see towards the last half of the article). If you don't have your I, Cringely slashbox turned on, I'd say turn it on. The guy always has some interesting points, a better pundit than Dvorak.
Myth: Linux supports the use of larger-sized hard disks that are required for large scale enterprise server use.
Fact: Linux makes no sense as a server. Whereas NT supports up to 480 gazillion petabytes of disk storage, the largest disks Linux supports are only 27 terabytes. This limitation is especially frustrating for e-commerce companies and multimedia developers, for whom large amounts of hard drive are a requirement.
Myth: Linux has a lower TCO
Fact: If you consider that buying NT licenses for business use is tax-deductible, as are all those tech support calls, NT actually has a lower TCO than Linux! How are you going to expense software that doesn't cost anything? Eh?!?
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Unless you're running a server of some kind or you use your computer at all hours, I don't see the point of uptime for its own sake. Even if you use your computer all day, just flip it on when you get out of bed in the morning (or whenever)...
/.ers that your post was moderated 'Funny'...like they couldn't believe you were serious :-)
It says something about us
-JD
You better shut up and get back to work before your user finds out :-)
"...we'll still have a problem with the drivers."
Maybe, but the SDK allows manufacturers a good tool for creating drivers for their upnp devices. I suspect that with the introduction of tools like this, manufacturers will be better at supporting linux since they don't have to do so much from scratch.
Read through the reliability assesment reports of the North American Reliability Council (NERC). You will find that power companies are scrambling to build enough generating capacity to have adequate power availability margins. The "safe" level is a 15% margin; most regions are expected to fall below this in the next few years while the construction of new capacity is completed.
Interestingly, the western side of the US is projected to have the best power generating capacity while having the least reliable design. Many areas have power grids that aree inherently reliable in design, but have insufficient capacity to meet demand.
-JD
Actually, f was not used for s. A letter very like f was used for "nonfinal" lowercase s, but it was a seperate letter. In print, it looked like an f without the crossbar; in cursive, like an f with the bottom loop done backwards. It was used for lowercase s when it was not the last letter in a word, much like the greek sigma.
If you have a facsimile of the Declaration of Independence, you can see numerous examples in T. Jefferson's interesting handwriting.
-JD
Look people I do not want to set a fixed wrap margin, I do not want hard returns inserted in my file for word wrap, and I do not want to have to hit enter every time I get to the end of the line! Any text editor worth its salt will do the following:
Not only are these these all-too-simple features lacking in EVERY SINGLE Linux editor I've tried (vim, jed, emacs, zed, pico, gtkedit, gnotepad, bluefish, gxedit, etc etc.), they are standard in EVERY Windows application that has ANY kind of text entry. Why is it so hard for Linux programmers to figure this out?? Yeah, it's a stable platform, but if what good is it if I can't even type up a short web page without messing around with this stuff?
-JD
I am rapidly progressing in learning vi for everyday editing, but one of the biggest problems with editors under Linux is the stupid way they handle word-wrap. It seems that the concept of soft-wrapping is foreign to Linux editors. Word wrapping is, or ought to be, a display issue, not a file formatting issue! In vi, you can set it to wrap words past a certain margin, but these are hard line-feeds, and when you go back and insert more text in the lines you must reformat the entire paragraph. Needless hassle.
The GTK editors I've tried all have the same problem. I confess I don't use emacs much since I don't have it installed on my little machine, but I do remember that words were not even wrapped properly the times I tried it. Maybe someone could enlighten me as to whether there is any way to get text editors under Linux to work for light HTML/word processing as well as for programming uses.
-JD
I am wondering: is there any likelihood/possibility that OS/2 code or techniques might end up in Linux code? I know IBM is unlikely to open-source OS/2, but with their recent involvement in Linux, are they paying any OS/2 developers to work on Linux? (If not, what exactly is the extent of their involvement with Linux?) Just a thought...
If they're not making any money off of it and they don't want it anyway, it would be nice if they just gave it away. That's what I would do. Of course, I'm not IBM. The FSF could do more with it than IBM wants to.
-JD
You asked how RH could fund this venture, implying they had no money to do it with, and I revealed to you that they have plenty of money. Now, is it a good idea? That's a seperate question, and beside the point of my post.
And they aren't giving away money. They're investing it.
-JD
You must not understand how public financing works. Red Hat got four billion dollars in cold, hard cash on IPO day and they can do whatever they like with it. The day-to-day trading price of their stock does not affect their bank account. It only affects them in a few situations, such as when they want to raise more money by issuing more shares.
-JD
Since when is investing money in another company to make more money a ponzi scheme?
"Ponzi scheme" describes a very specific situation where you take people's money, promise them insane percentages in interest, and pay them using the money of people who sign up later. Usually the first round of suckers will reinvest the gains in the same place after getting paid off, and attract new suckers as well. Eventually the perpetrator flees with all the money, and it all collapses.
That's not what's going on here. Ponzi schemes require a certain amount of deception. Red Hat has not promised anyone any fixed amount of return on investment and is not deceiving anyone. Their investors bought shares in spite of the well-known fact, which was no doubt printed in the prospectus, that Red Hat is not expected to make money anytime soon.
I think this misperception may have come from the widespread idea that Red Hat's capital is somehow "not real" and "only on paper." Let's set it straight: when you buy shares in a company, you pay them cash and they give you a piece of paper. The money they collect from these transactions goes into their bank account and they can do whatever they like with it. If they in turn invest in other companies, that is perfectly legitimate. In fact, there are publicly traded companies where that's all they do with their capital: invest in other companies in hopes of turning a profit thereby.
-JD
IIRC, the Palm can only establish an IR link with one other device at a time. So it would be two players at most.
-JD
Whoever modded that up obviously had not clicked the link. You better not either if you're at work or your mom is in the room.
-JD
...but if you do, make sure to use Unicode and give it i18n functionality, so the rest of the world can translate it into their own languages. I've found that there's nothing that annoys them more than not being able to use their own character sets in an otherwise good piece of software.
-JD
For smaller-scale stuff you might sign your stuff over to Ms. Edna Graustein like they do at kuro5hin with comments...
-JD
How are they going to find a black hole now that all their Athlons have been tampered with? Sounds like sabotage to me...
-JD
I honestly didn't know thinkgeek was an andover site. I wanted to throw in some kind of prize, but I didn't want to just hand out some cash. I thought about books, or a case of penguin peppermints, but a friend suggested a gift certificate and it immediately made sense to me. I picked thinkgeek because it had a nice range of products that the potential winner would like to choose from. I supposeI could have chosen copyleft.net too.
On a side note, it's kind of funny to see people saying "I'd never do this for a mere $25". I know people who solve puzzles like this in the newspaper with absolutely no incentive. I figured the prize and the (relatively) small recognition would just be frosting on the cake.
-JD
That would ruin the contest of course :-) I will do that A) when somebody solves it or B) when something like a year has passed and no one has solved it.
-JD
Interesting point...brute force computing just isn't practical in many situations, unless, as I said, you are the NSA and live 10 years ahead of the rest of the science/mathematics world.
Now I'm really curious to see if anyone figures this out, because if no one does, it would mean that (gasp!) criminals still have easy ways of communicating securely over the net without using government-restricted encryption techniques. On the other hand, I've made it tough enough that I'll be really surprised if anyone solves it.
I might even jack up the reward if this survives an attack by the slashdot crowd...
-JD
Actually those were metric pounds. A metric pound = 1.32 firkins of rasberry jam at 283 degrees kelvin. Hope that helps.
I'm in international reader too, I come from america.
-JD
- Unlike the i-opener, it does not come with its own monitor, although the infra-red keyboard is nice. Too bad all the extra monitors I have laying around are busted...
- It does come with a requirement to buy two years of ISP service, but retailers aren't currently enforcing it, it seems.
- The rumor is that the $50 price was a retailer's error. Maybe someone could set the story straight here.
-JDThe Anti-Christ will be using PocketPC in his implementation, not ucLinux.
-JD
See the latest I, Cringely article at PBS online for why this is all irrelevant at this point (see towards the last half of the article). If you don't have your I, Cringely slashbox turned on, I'd say turn it on. The guy always has some interesting points, a better pundit than Dvorak.
-JD
Hi people. This is a joke, a parody of Microsoft's Linux Myths page. I know how tax deductions work, but thanks anyhow.
-JD, certified geek
Myth: Linux supports the use of larger-sized hard disks that are required for large scale enterprise server use.
Fact: Linux makes no sense as a server. Whereas NT supports up to 480 gazillion petabytes of disk storage, the largest disks Linux supports are only 27 terabytes. This limitation is especially frustrating for e-commerce companies and multimedia developers, for whom large amounts of hard drive are a requirement.
Myth: Linux has a lower TCO
Fact: If you consider that buying NT licenses for business use is tax-deductible, as are all those tech support calls, NT actually has a lower TCO than Linux! How are you going to expense software that doesn't cost anything? Eh?!?