Wouldn't it be easier (and more effective) to have something land on it once, latch on, and fire rocket boosters to move it rather than to drive next to it for a long time?
If the gcc team wants to make a major improvement that will break binary compatibility, they do it. If Linus wants to make/accept a major improvement that will break driver compatibility, he does it. If the Apache APR team wants to make a change that will change the APR runtime API, they do it. That is the price paid for rapid progress. This, of course, is about binary compatibility from release to release of the same distro.
Inter-distro binary compatibility is a completely different issue. If you find two distros with the same kernel versions, same gcc/glibc versions, same APR versions, et cetera, you should have binary compatibility.
This isn't that much of a problem, as a vast majority of software for Linux is supplied in source form, and source compatibility is much less frequently broken.
I suspect that "binary incompatibility" is often blamed for poorly written or poorly documented installers that assume certain files are in certain places and do not document what the requirements are. Some vendors are better than others, and some vendors are inconsistent.
I have installed IBM DB2, VMWare Server, and Oracle 10g on different versions of different distributions with little or no trouble. Installing (IBM) Lotus Notes on anything other than specific versions of RHEL or Suse is a disaster.
Windows still runs stuff from the early 90s
Really? Find a application that ran on 3.1 and try to run it on Vista. It'll be hit or miss.
When I saw parents in public with kids who are screaming for no apparent reason, I used to feel bad for the kids, figuring there must be a reason.
Now that I am a parent, I feel bad for the parents. Your kids yell and scream, often because they want something and do not yet have the ability to communicate what they want, nor the self awareness and self control to handle the situation gracefully. Believe me, the parents would love to know how to make the kid happy, for the sake of themselves, their children, and everybody within ear shot. But the little things have minds of their own.
I wish I had your situation. My phone battery display goes from 4 bars (full charge) to "low battery" in 12 hours, and then beeps every few minutes to alert me that my battery is supposedly low for the next 24 hours before it actually dies.
It is all a ploy to get me to buy a new cell phone. It isn't going to work. I'm going to end up launching the thing through a Verizon store front with a potato gun.
And people like you are why I keep getting hit by people paying more attention to phone conversations/radios/text messages/gps/moving billboards/computers than to the ton and a half of metal they are piloting.
I looked at a house once that had one of those old coal burning stoves; it had "ajax" written in huge letters on the hatch. I wonder if it is the same company.
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CORPORATION, n. An ingenious device for obtaining individual profit without individual responsibility.
- The Devil's Dictionary
It is also a bargain for terrorists to bypass security.
By "elsewhere" I was thinking more along the lines of Bittorrent, but that works too, and is probably legal in more places.
Note: I do not condone doing anything that is not legal in your location.
If it would get rid of the editors too, then yes.
Clean the disk well and rip it with cdparanoia.
If legal in your location, replace bad tracks with copies from elsewhere.
Burn to new CD.
Mass-production!? Gonna start selling them at Wal-mart?
Wouldn't it be easier (and more effective) to have something land on it once, latch on, and fire rocket boosters to move it rather than to drive next to it for a long time?
If you have blind spots in a modern car, your mirrors are not positioned properly
If the gcc team wants to make a major improvement that will break binary compatibility, they do it. If Linus wants to make/accept a major improvement that will break driver compatibility, he does it. If the Apache APR team wants to make a change that will change the APR runtime API, they do it. That is the price paid for rapid progress. This, of course, is about binary compatibility from release to release of the same distro.
Inter-distro binary compatibility is a completely different issue. If you find two distros with the same kernel versions, same gcc/glibc versions, same APR versions, et cetera, you should have binary compatibility.
This isn't that much of a problem, as a vast majority of software for Linux is supplied in source form, and source compatibility is much less frequently broken.
I suspect that "binary incompatibility" is often blamed for poorly written or poorly documented installers that assume certain files are in certain places and do not document what the requirements are. Some vendors are better than others, and some vendors are inconsistent.
I have installed IBM DB2, VMWare Server, and Oracle 10g on different versions of different distributions with little or no trouble. Installing (IBM) Lotus Notes on anything other than specific versions of RHEL or Suse is a disaster.
Really? Find a application that ran on 3.1 and try to run it on Vista. It'll be hit or miss.
Of course it was going to be a waste of 500 minutes. Everything said in session is a waste of time. Every vote has already been bought and paid for.
It is a shame they were wasting energy by having the lights on in the first place.
There is at least some binary compatibility. I have downloaded and successfully executed generic binaries on several distributions.
LSB4 is all very well, but if RHEL does not follow (does anybody really think they will?) it will not amount to a hill of beans.
Because Linux runs on many different hardware architectures.
When I saw parents in public with kids who are screaming for no apparent reason, I used to feel bad for the kids, figuring there must be a reason.
Now that I am a parent, I feel bad for the parents. Your kids yell and scream, often because they want something and do not yet have the ability to communicate what they want, nor the self awareness and self control to handle the situation gracefully. Believe me, the parents would love to know how to make the kid happy, for the sake of themselves, their children, and everybody within ear shot. But the little things have minds of their own.
Because it is an election year and most voters never actually think about what the government is doing or the ramifications.
They'll say "No no bad doggie" to anybody who abuses it. (But he gets to keep your iPod.)
This is a bit more helpful:
http://www.albinoblacksheep.com/flash/yesandno
I wish I had your situation. My phone battery display goes from 4 bars (full charge) to "low battery" in 12 hours, and then beeps every few minutes to alert me that my battery is supposedly low for the next 24 hours before it actually dies.
It is all a ploy to get me to buy a new cell phone. It isn't going to work. I'm going to end up launching the thing through a Verizon store front with a potato gun.
And people like you are why I keep getting hit by people paying more attention to phone conversations/radios/text messages/gps/moving billboards/computers than to the ton and a half of metal they are piloting.
Unless the state is going to defend you when the feds come, I'd listen to the feds.
How do you know the other people didn't read the (publicly available) patent but actually came up with it themselves? You don't.
What kind of living arrangements gets you a tax rate of about 3000 USD/yr in London?
In upstate NY, that would be about the rate for a modest 1400 sqft home on .1 acre.
What is wrong with running behind a NAT?
w.x.y.z -> heavy duty router -> 10.x.y.z
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I looked at a house once that had one of those old coal burning stoves; it had "ajax" written in huge letters on the hatch. I wonder if it is the same company.
Not if the file systems are encrypted, the machine is off, and the RAM is clear.