Imperial goes on the attack again with a curly one: How much does a litre of water weigh?
Metric comes back quickly with: 1 kilogram
just a nitpick, but the gram (kilogram) is a measure of mass, not weight. I believe weight would need to be measured in newtons, and would depend on factors like the atmospheric pressure at the location of the litre of water...
yes, and as such it is not posix compatible. the sh in/usr/xpg4/bin/sh is, but that doesn't help me when I am trying to write a shell script that works on linux and solaris (#!/bin/sh). i can't user/bin/ksh, because it prbably doesn't exist on linux. i can't use/bin/bash, since it probably doesn't exist on solaris. so I am stuck with the good ol' bourne shell - how's that for standards! most java developers i know would mutiny if you told them to write all their code to java 1.1.8, don't you think.
almost all modern unixes include a/bin/sh that supports posix syntax. solaris doesn't. this is one example of the many things that the engineers at sun have done to intentionally drive me mad.
... or just wait a couple of weeks until nvidia updates their drivers. I'm running FC1 at home, and there's no way I'm upgrading it until there has been a bit of "soak time" for new drivers to come out, and for third parties to update their package repositories. I don't really have time to mess around with a broken system (nor would my wife and kids tolerate it.)
did you try calling Microsoft? Although in my experience their tech support is weak, I have been told they are very good about resolving license issues for "legitimate" users.
Although I haven't tried it myself, since our numbers at work have always been good, and at home I wouldn't touch Windows with a 10-foot mouse.
Although we imagine that Linus would not, Microsoft does have a lot of money to offer. You are right, we probably would have heard of it if it had happened, but you should also not underestimate the lengths MS would go to to crush their competition - including buying a developer just to get him to stop working on his project. MS obviously has the balls to hire from Suse, I don't see why they would be ashamed to admit to offereing a job to Linus, even if he turned it down.
In the process of reorganizing, they'll probably make several decisions that will make Linux more competitive in the marketplace
Possibly, but I think it would be hard to dispute that removing a project's leader would create problems for the project. Fortunately, the linux kernel team is deep enough that they problably could recover from losing Linus.
Anyhow, that wasn't my point. Microsoft does have a great tradition of buying up the competition, and the article shows that this applies to not only companies, but individuals. Linus is the king in this world, but I could have mentioned others like Alan Cox (who apparrantly has had an offer) or Miguel de Icaza (who would probably consider it;-)
Instead of Lindos, how about Lindros? They could use the handsome face of the Canadian-born New York Ranger as their logo, but what slogan would they use? Maybe something about hacking?
Eugenia's reviews are actually the better reviews on OSNews. OSNews often publishes some really poorly done reviews from people who have no business even blogging, let alone on a public site. It's really hit-or-miss (more miss than hit.)
poor anti-aliasing and improper spacing are valid complaints. ripping a distro because their default is gnome or kde is pointless.
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Imperial goes on the attack again with a curly one: How much does a litre of water weigh?
Metric comes back quickly with: 1 kilogram
just a nitpick, but the gram (kilogram) is a measure of mass, not weight. I believe weight would need to be measured in newtons, and would depend on factors like the atmospheric pressure at the location of the litre of water...
Those spams have to be in inches. Metres would not be reasonable, and millimetres would not be impressive...
yes, and as such it is not posix compatible. the sh in /usr/xpg4/bin/sh is, but that doesn't help me when I am trying to write a shell script that works on linux and solaris (#!/bin/sh). i can't user /bin/ksh, because it prbably doesn't exist on linux. i can't use /bin/bash, since it probably doesn't exist on solaris. so I am stuck with the good ol' bourne shell - how's that for standards! most java developers i know would mutiny if you told them to write all their code to java 1.1.8, don't you think.
/bin/sh that supports posix syntax. solaris doesn't. this is one example of the many things that the engineers at sun have done to intentionally drive me mad.
almost all modern unixes include a
... or just wait a couple of weeks until nvidia updates their drivers. I'm running FC1 at home, and there's no way I'm upgrading it until there has been a bit of "soak time" for new drivers to come out, and for third parties to update their package repositories. I don't really have time to mess around with a broken system (nor would my wife and kids tolerate it.)
And Slashdot will report on this. Once a month. For a year.
more likely just twice in one day...
glad to hear that they are consistent after all :-\
did you try calling Microsoft? Although in my experience their tech support is weak, I have been told they are very good about resolving license issues for "legitimate" users.
Although I haven't tried it myself, since our numbers at work have always been good, and at home I wouldn't touch Windows with a 10-foot mouse.
This looks really good - thanks for the pointer.
and floppyies are useless, except maybe for target practice.
Only lusers object to the use of the word "luser". And only lusers user the word "luser". Ah, wait, I take that last part back.
Ah, fark!
or - in Soviet Russia, hard disk crashes you!!!
:-)
(I'm really sorry, I couldn't help myself
8" platters? Dude, you're so old-school!
a guy i work with has a clock built from an old 5" hdd, but you don't see the 8" ones too often...
Although we imagine that Linus would not, Microsoft does have a lot of money to offer. You are right, we probably would have heard of it if it had happened, but you should also not underestimate the lengths MS would go to to crush their competition - including buying a developer just to get him to stop working on his project. MS obviously has the balls to hire from Suse, I don't see why they would be ashamed to admit to offereing a job to Linus, even if he turned it down.
I didn't suggested that MS would have tried to buy Linux, I suggested they would try to buy Linus. Big difference.
In the process of reorganizing, they'll probably make several decisions that will make Linux more competitive in the marketplace
;-)
Possibly, but I think it would be hard to dispute that removing a project's leader would create problems for the project. Fortunately, the linux kernel team is deep enough that they problably could recover from losing Linus.
Anyhow, that wasn't my point. Microsoft does have a great tradition of buying up the competition, and the article shows that this applies to not only companies, but individuals. Linus is the king in this world, but I could have mentioned others like Alan Cox (who apparrantly has had an offer) or Miguel de Icaza (who would probably consider it
I wonder how many good job offers MS has floated by Linus?
ooh, terrifying. i'm scared - almost enough that i may not watch it.
Instead of Lindos, how about Lindros? They could use the handsome face of the Canadian-born New York Ranger as their logo, but what slogan would they use? Maybe something about hacking?
don't you mean "slashing"?
Eugenia's reviews are actually the better reviews on OSNews. OSNews often publishes some really poorly done reviews from people who have no business even blogging, let alone on a public site. It's really hit-or-miss (more miss than hit.)
poor anti-aliasing and improper spacing are valid complaints. ripping a distro because their default is gnome or kde is pointless.
try CTRL-E and CTRL-A - os x uses emacs-like text editing keybindings.
Yes, I hate emacs. But since the keybindings work in the shell, I've gotten used to them. (esp from ksh on solaris set -o emacs).
looking rather quicky, as I often do, I scanned that title as Head First EBJ , which kind made sense, although I don't know what the E stands for...
no need for scsi emulation! Bake your disks as God intended!
yes!
mmmmm.... roast HAMPSTER!
OK, michael must be stopped...
perhaps someone here chould develop a ground-to-slashdot editor missile system so we can get on with the regular dupes and SCO stories?