If you want to hack, why not hack a UNIX that is in good repair? If you just want to have fun and learn, why not write your own mini unix? And if you've got a good scheduler, why not write it for FreeBSD, who cares if they want it or not? If it's that good they'll take it up anyway. If it wasn't that great why would anybody want it? You want to get it into NetBSD just for Kudos? Fork your own FreeBSD if you believe in that scheduler so much.
Why do we actually need yet another free monolithic UNIX-like kernel and utilities? There just doesn't seem to be any reason for existence. It's debatable whether we even need more than one, and it always was debatable. Now that it's fallen into disrepair, let it die. There are better projects to work on.
> One of its most important discoveries was a "Peak of Eternal Light," a mountaintop near the > Moon's north pole in constant, year-round sunlight. > Peaks of Eternal Light are prime real estate for solar-powered Moon bases."
Yes but think how miserable it would be living in the snow and cold at the North Pole. Much better to live near the equator so you can hang out on the beach at weekends.
> Windows runs fine out of the box, there's virtually no advanced configuration after you've installed it.
Windows runs ok until you plug in a new device or card or drive or something, at which point it is all very touch and go. I have a plain 1394 external drive that keeps stopping working, and judging by the MS support site, it seems to be a known bug, but I'll be damned if I can figure out where to get the Windows patch as there is no link on the MS web site.
Still better than Linux though which is ever MORE touch and go.
Someone tell me what qualification Gartner analysts have in predicting the future of OS research? To me, this looks like BS, virtualization is a tool for a different problem. But if these analysts have a PhD in OS design, maybe I could believe it. But come on, they are disputing with MS what MS is going to do. Mostly MS doesn't know what it is doing, how Gartner can know more... . Argh..
Depends how often you need to retrieve them. If the answer is "basically never" then label them and throw it in a dumpster. If it is the million to one time you need to retrieve one, you hire the interns to go dumpster diving. Okay, use small dumpsters to make it at least more viable.
PCs (nearly) killed mainframes. Windows nearly killed unix, until free unix came along. Linux is eating into windows server. Ubuntu is eating into Red Hat.
Eventually the mass market product overruns the corporate product, but it takes a lot of time.
Instead of talking about the morality of using wireless bandwidth, let's talk about how darned funny some of these hacks are. Upside down net was funny. Blurry net is hilarious. But fake news just takes the cake. There's no end to how many funny ideas this could spawn. Any more fun ideas?
I reckon Blizzard shouldn't have banned the accounts, I reckon they should have granted themselves some super-characters and gone in and slaughtered the farmers, and put them in mafia style debt down to negative a trillion dollars.
That's good to know, in case one is ever caught in the middle of two colliding black holes and you need to figure a way out of that sticky situation....
If you've got the time and energy, promise to cost them more money than they're making from you. How? Keeping calling their service centre and tying up their call staff. Keep asking for supervisors. After a while the supervisors will get to know you. They'll WANT to get rid of you, because they'll be sick of the sight of you. Then you can bet your bottom dollar they'll find a way to let you out.
Genesis 3:14-15 The LORD God said to the serpent, "Because you have done this, Cursed are you more than all cattle, And more than every beast of the field; On your belly you will go, And dust you will eat All the days of your life; And I will put enmity Between you and the woman, And between your seed and her seed; He shall bruise you on the head, And you shall bruise him on the heel."
When your processors are significantly slower than the opposition's, then no discount can be enough. These Intel processors appear to rock, and AMD may have to go back to being the budget basement choice unless they have something up their sleeves and soon. I'm neither an AMD nor Intel fan boy. My computer is now AMD, the previous was Intel. My next will probably be Intel by the looks of this.
If you really want to interface with things via a crappy grep/sed interface, you can always do a toString() on an object. This will allow you to retain all the bugs that traditional shell script sed/grep parsing programs have always have. But if you want to move up in the world you could use a useful interface to the object.
Zzzzzzz.....
on
Driving Plan 9
·
· Score: 4, Interesting
The "everything is a file" metaphor of Unix was revolutionary at the time, and Plan 9 taking it a little further really does little to advance the state of the art.
What was good about the "everything is a file" metaphor was not the "file" part, but the "everything is a...." part.
What would really advance the state of the art is an "everything is an object" operating system. It would be something like a Lisp OS but with an object database type file system. I think some have existed in academia, but I've never looked into them.
How about Java? You run it on Mac OS-X and it looks just like an OS-X app, complete with top menu bar. All this and you don't have to change the source from Windows. I don't know if there are subtle differences to "real" OS-X apps that Mac heads would see, but from my point of view it works well. And Eclipse works quite well on Mac too.
The best thing you can do is have a siesta. Sleep for half an hour and come back to work.
But most of the time it's best not to work at all. I can get a ton of work done in a few hours in the morning, and the afternoons are often a write-off. I might as well have gone home. If mornings are you best, schedule meetings in the late afternoon as much as possible so that you don't waste your most productive times. Make the most of your most productive hours and do admin the other hours.
Generally, I don't believe in the idea you can "push yourself" into creating more software by staying more hours. All you'll do is make yourself even more tired and not produce any more output.
This reference to a destroyed boot sector has me worried, because that is exactly what happened to me the other day. I have a disk with one big partition, but it started showing up as two partitions and all hell broke loose. Never seen this happen before. I reformatted and re-installed, and touch wood everything is ok so far....
Slashdot Mirror
If you want to hack, why not hack a UNIX that is in good repair? If you just want to have fun and learn, why not write your own mini unix? And if you've got a good scheduler, why not write it for FreeBSD, who cares if they want it or not? If it's that good they'll take it up anyway. If it wasn't that great why would anybody want it? You want to get it into NetBSD just for Kudos? Fork your own FreeBSD if you believe in that scheduler so much.
Why do we actually need yet another free monolithic UNIX-like kernel and utilities? There just doesn't seem to be any reason for existence. It's debatable whether we even need more than one, and it always was debatable. Now that it's fallen into disrepair, let it die. There are better projects to work on.
> One of its most important discoveries was a "Peak of Eternal Light," a mountaintop near the
> Moon's north pole in constant, year-round sunlight.
> Peaks of Eternal Light are prime real estate for solar-powered Moon bases."
Yes but think how miserable it would be living in the snow and cold at the North Pole. Much better to live near the equator so you can hang out on the beach at weekends.
> Windows runs fine out of the box, there's virtually no advanced configuration after you've installed it.
Windows runs ok until you plug in a new device or card or drive or something, at which point it is all very touch and go. I have a plain 1394 external drive that keeps stopping working, and judging by the MS support site, it seems to be a known bug, but I'll be damned if I can figure out where to get the Windows patch as there is no link on the MS web site.
Still better than Linux though which is ever MORE touch and go.
Someone tell me what qualification Gartner analysts have in predicting the future of OS research? To me, this looks like BS, virtualization is a tool for a different problem. But if these analysts have a PhD in OS design, maybe I could believe it. But come on, they are disputing with MS what MS is going to do. Mostly MS doesn't know what it is doing, how Gartner can know more... . Argh..
Depends how often you need to retrieve them. If the answer is "basically never" then label them and throw it in a dumpster. If it is the million to one time you need to retrieve one, you hire the interns to go dumpster diving. Okay, use small dumpsters to make it at least more viable.
The low end always wins (eventually)
PCs (nearly) killed mainframes. Windows nearly killed unix, until free unix came along. Linux is eating into windows server. Ubuntu is eating into Red Hat.
Eventually the mass market product overruns the corporate product, but it takes a lot of time.
How can a group of users who contribute nothing "divide the community"? They can go off by themselves, and nothing will happen.
Instead of talking about the morality of using wireless bandwidth, let's talk about how darned funny some of these hacks are. Upside down net was funny. Blurry net is hilarious. But fake news just takes the cake. There's no end to how many funny ideas this could spawn. Any more fun ideas?
So there is a 50% less chance of dying in a fiery ball of rocket fuel.
Why do I not feel that comforted?
I reckon Blizzard shouldn't have banned the accounts, I reckon they should have granted themselves some super-characters and gone in and slaughtered the farmers, and put them in mafia style debt down to negative a trillion dollars.
That's good to know, in case one is ever caught in the middle of two colliding black holes and you need to figure a way out of that sticky situation....
Hmmm, a vertical take off and landing spacecraft. Sounds like a Saturn V rocket.
If you've got the time and energy, promise to cost them more money than they're making from you. How? Keeping calling their service centre and tying up their call staff. Keep asking for supervisors. After a while the supervisors will get to know you. They'll WANT to get rid of you, because they'll be sick of the sight of you. Then you can bet your bottom dollar they'll find a way to let you out.
Genesis 3:14-15 The LORD God said to the serpent, "Because you have done this, Cursed are you more than all cattle, And more than every beast of the field; On your belly you will go, And dust you will eat All the days of your life; And I will put enmity Between you and the woman, And between your seed and her seed; He shall bruise you on the head, And you shall bruise him on the heel."
When your processors are significantly slower than the opposition's, then no discount can be enough. These Intel processors appear to rock, and AMD may have to go back to being the budget basement choice unless they have something up their sleeves and soon. I'm neither an AMD nor Intel fan boy. My computer is now AMD, the previous was Intel. My next will probably be Intel by the looks of this.
If you really want to interface with things via a crappy grep/sed interface, you can always do a toString() on an object. This will allow you to retain all the bugs that traditional shell script sed/grep parsing programs have always have. But if you want to move up in the world you could use a useful interface to the object.
The "everything is a file" metaphor of Unix was revolutionary at the time, and Plan 9 taking it a little further really does little to advance the state of the art.
What was good about the "everything is a file" metaphor was not the "file" part, but the "everything is a...." part.
What would really advance the state of the art is an "everything is an object" operating system. It would be something like a Lisp OS but with an object database type file system. I think some have existed in academia, but I've never looked into them.
I'd like to see iTunes come down in price. That would be a neat trick.
"he hid it in the one place he knew he could hide somethin'"
I give up. Where??
Stored procedures buys you nothing in security. Just bind all variables, and you can dynamically create to your hearts content.
> You mention for example the menu bar should go at the top, but it doesn't in my app.
You have to set a system property. Something like apple.laf.useTopMenuBar=true, or something like that.
How about Java? You run it on Mac OS-X and it looks just like an OS-X app, complete with top menu bar. All this and you don't have to change the source from Windows. I don't know if there are subtle differences to "real" OS-X apps that Mac heads would see, but from my point of view it works well. And Eclipse works quite well on Mac too.
The best thing you can do is have a siesta. Sleep for half an hour and come back to work.
But most of the time it's best not to work at all. I can get a ton of work done in a few hours in the morning, and the afternoons are often a write-off. I might as well have gone home. If mornings are you best, schedule meetings in the late afternoon as much as possible so that you don't waste your most productive times. Make the most of your most productive hours and do admin the other hours.
Generally, I don't believe in the idea you can "push yourself" into creating more software by staying more hours. All you'll do is make yourself even more tired and not produce any more output.
This reference to a destroyed boot sector has me worried, because that is exactly what happened to me the other day. I have a disk with one big partition, but it started showing up as two partitions and all hell broke loose. Never seen this happen before. I reformatted and re-installed, and touch wood everything is ok so far....