It amazes me when scientists make up crazy, unprovable theories as an alternative to the crazy, unprovable theory of the existence of God.
Do they think that they seem more intelligent or scientific for making up this unprovable theory soley as an excuse not to give any validity to the unprovable theory of the existence of God?
I'm not sure whether I believe in God or not... but at least I'm willing to consider the possibility rather than writing it off from the start. But, making up my own theories would sure be easier than confronting this issue.
All of your points are valid, but you missed my point. All the success in the world will never make a man like that happy.
Maybe I don't hold the standard world view, but I'll take self-esteem and self-worth over that next billion any day. I guarantee he doesn't enjoy his life regardless of how sucessful he is considered by the world's measuring stick.
And none of us are innocent. We all have a little Jim Clark in us... and that's a good thing. It's what gives us that competitive spirit. But the motivation is what counts. All the drive and determination in the world is of no use if your motivation is a sick mind.
I truly pity men like that. No amount of money will ever make him feel good about himself. He is so misguided. Don't get me wrong, I have nothing against money. But he will perpetually seek more in the vain belief that the next billion will be the one that makes him feel like his life has value.
I hope he uses some of his money to get the help that he so obviously needs. Otherwise, I predict that Jim Clark will die of his own hand.
I think it's interesting that the majority of comments here are anti-christian rather than anti ZDnet for printing a rediculous story. Anyone with half an ounce of common sense can tell immediately that this is a joke. But the ZDnet article reports it as fact getting all your undies in a bunch.
Speaking as a rather devout Christian, I have no problem with any of the Unix slang/terminology. You're putting too much focus on the minority of Christians.
What you are saying sounds nice, but it's a WAY too simplistic view of the situation. You have to think a little deeper than "we killed'em so it's our duty to bring'em back".
>> "I'd rather him run NT and not risk more >> people seeing how much "linux sucks"..." Why? >> If Linux sucks, why do you not want people to >> see that, and share your attitude?
Actually, I think that is the only halfway sensible comment he made. While I agree with you about not covering up, it is also not a good idea to promote Linux for something it is not good at.
Now, i'm not an expert on Linux in highend hardware like that, or Linux and video but if Linux is not the way to go for this situation (which seems to be the overall tone of the responses I've read) then we shouldn't advocate Linux for this situation. Why set ourselves up for failure?
Or maybe I have no idea what i'm talking about... which very well may be the case 8 )
I understand what he means... a disk cache in main memory. Sorta like SmartDrive from DOS. Still a cool idea that I hope at least gets looked at for the Linux kernel.
Do they mean disk cache or RAM cache? If it's ram that's a hell of a lot of cache.
But the idea of storing frequently accessed static pages in a cache contolled by the kernel sounds like a cool idea. Wonder if there is any plan to implement this in the Linux kernel? Maybe as a module?
I think one of the reasons there are a lot of "simple" apps instead of one GOOD app is that simple apps are much easier to code either as a single developer or in a loosely structured open environment. That is a main reason that office apps are so far behind in Linux... anyone can write notepad, but it's much more difficult to write a quality word processor. Steve
I guess I don't quite understand your point about display resolutions. Why do they need to increase? Aren't they dependent on the size of your monitor and the amount of memory on your graphics card? Who would want to view 3200x2400 on even the largest monitor? Talk about eye strain.
... we can definitley do better than that. No offense to the writers of the original project (they only had 24 hours and it wasn't planned at all in advance), but I'm sure we could do a much better job.
The more I think of it, the more I like the idea. Collaboration using CVS, diff, patch, etc... seems the ideal way to write documentation for a project such as Gnome. I hope someone with more knowledge on the subject than I have picks up on the idea and gets the ball rolling.
The other idea I had is to create a utlilty along the lines of javadoc that creates documentation from comments in the code itself. I love the Java API reference. It's one of the greatest Java resources and is one of the main reason I choose to write my shcool programs in Java as opposed to C/C++
I seem to remember a project a few months ago where a group planned to write a book in a day to demonstrate the collaborative power of the internet. How about doing something like that with respect to a Gnome programming manual? The project would be done by hundreds of people... it may take more than the 24 hours allowed by the previous attempt, but that's ok. The money could then be donated back to some free software project. I may know nothing about programming Gnome, but I'd sure be glad to donate a little proofreading time.
By the way... and this is a bit off topic... does anyone know how that project turned out? Did they actually produce a book? If so, where can I take a look? I've been curious how that turned out, but never took the time to hunt it down.
I don't know if this would suit your purpose, but Slackware has a bootable CD distribution. I think it does require some drive space, but the bulk is on the CD. Steve
Well, i hate to be negative, but that really was a pretty lousy show. VERY poorly managed on the part of the moderator. The topic of the show was supposed to be based around the question of why to use linux in educational and business environments... but I never really heard a convincing argument. No one seemed interested in being there. The first half of the show was pure linux bashing... i have to give them credit for giving an honest, open discussion of linux on the desktop though. Basically except for a less-than-knowledgable caller no one had a positive view of linux on the desktop. As sad as it sounds, unfortunately I had nothing better to do with a Saturday night... oh well 8 (
I admit this is a somewhat uneducated opinion. I've used linux and samba occasionaly, but am by no means an expert.
One thing I like about Netware is NDS. On anything but the smallest network you just can't beat NDS for managing users, groups, etc. I'm sure utilities exist for performing the same tasks in Samba preventing the need to manually edit the conf file. But we're still talking a flat file database at the lowest level. This can never compare with a directory service. Although I've heard rumors of Novell porting NDS to Linux. That might be a great combination.
I guess the main point is that if your current administrators are diehard NDS fans (like myself) convincing them to switch to Samba for file services will be a hard sell. You have to have the "*nix mindset" to put up with the quirks of a unix like os. I'm working on it, but I've still got a long way to go 8 )
What if they intended all along to "sneak" their subversive technology in... what's the big deal with that? Makes good business sense to me. Although I have to agree that this dog is not the vehicle. Home entertainment centers (ala WebTv) are going to get WAY more popular than they are right now. Don't worry... Sony will have plenty of competition.
"I don't want people taking action based on Microsoft thinking about doing something... People will spend millions of dollars, [implementing strategies based on such information]" But they sure don't mind people spending HUNDREDS of millions of dollars on a worthless upgrade to win98. And didn't microsoft invent the concept of "vaporware"?
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It amazes me when scientists make up crazy, unprovable theories as an alternative to the crazy, unprovable theory of the existence of God.
Do they think that they seem more intelligent or scientific for making up this unprovable theory soley as an excuse not to give any validity to the unprovable theory of the existence of God?
I'm not sure whether I believe in God or not... but at least I'm willing to consider the possibility rather than writing it off from the start. But, making up my own theories would sure be easier than confronting this issue.
Why didn't my Katz repellent block this? Damn, now I'm starting to breakout. 8^)
This is the biggest news story of the week... it should be on the front page :^)
Steve
>> What else can a nerd want?
Self-esteem? Self-worth?
All of your points are valid, but you missed my point. All the success in the world will never make a man like that happy.
Maybe I don't hold the standard world view, but I'll take self-esteem and self-worth over that next billion any day. I guarantee he doesn't enjoy his life regardless of how sucessful he is considered by the world's measuring stick.
And none of us are innocent. We all have a little Jim Clark in us... and that's a good thing. It's what gives us that competitive spirit. But the motivation is what counts. All the drive and determination in the world is of no use if your motivation is a sick mind.
I really do wish him well.
"There but for the grace of God go I"
Steve
I truly pity men like that. No amount of money will ever make him feel good about himself. He is so misguided. Don't get me wrong, I have nothing against money. But he will perpetually seek more in the vain belief that the next billion will be the one that makes him feel like his life has value.
I hope he uses some of his money to get the help that he so obviously needs. Otherwise, I predict that Jim Clark will die of his own hand.
So sad.
Steve
I think it's interesting that the majority of comments here are anti-christian rather than anti ZDnet for printing a rediculous story. Anyone with half an ounce of common sense can tell immediately that this is a joke. But the ZDnet article reports it as fact getting all your undies in a bunch.
Speaking as a rather devout Christian, I have no problem with any of the Unix slang/terminology. You're putting too much focus on the minority of Christians.
Steve
So if they release verion 3.20.32a under the GPL, by the nature of the GPL doesn't that mean that all successive versions are also covered by the GPL?
I ask this beacuse the article is very specific about a particular version of MySQL.
Yeah, I know it's a nitpick, but I'm not trying to look a gift-culture in the mouth. I just want to make sure I understand how the GPL works.
Steve
A lot of computer cases are made of plastic these days.... look at your average Packard Bell. No comment on the quality, though.
Steve
...what last year's problem was? Just curious as to what to expect.
Steve
It's a beta so I don't know if it'll always be free, but here's a link to Windows Services for Unix which includes a telnet server.
Steve
Just curious... how can you print to PostScript from Win9x? Is there a generic PostScript driver? I looked, but didn't see anything like that.
Steve
What you are saying sounds nice, but it's a WAY too simplistic view of the situation. You have to think a little deeper than "we killed'em so it's our duty to bring'em back".
Steve
>> people seeing how much "linux sucks"..." Why?
>> If Linux sucks, why do you not want people to
>> see that, and share your attitude?
Actually, I think that is the only halfway sensible comment he made. While I agree with you about not covering up, it is also not a good idea to promote Linux for something it is not good at.
Now, i'm not an expert on Linux in highend hardware like that, or Linux and video but if Linux is not the way to go for this situation (which seems to be the overall tone of the responses I've read) then we shouldn't advocate Linux for this situation. Why set ourselves up for failure?
Or maybe I have no idea what i'm talking about... which very well may be the case 8 )
Steve
I understand what he means... a disk cache in main memory. Sorta like SmartDrive from DOS. Still a cool idea that I hope at least gets looked at for the Linux kernel.
Steve
Do they mean disk cache or RAM cache? If it's ram that's a hell of a lot of cache.
But the idea of storing frequently accessed static pages in a cache contolled by the kernel sounds like a cool idea. Wonder if there is any plan to implement this in the Linux kernel? Maybe as a module?
Steve
I think one of the reasons there are a lot of "simple" apps instead of one GOOD app is that simple apps are much easier to code either as a single developer or in a loosely structured open environment. That is a main reason that office apps are so far behind in Linux... anyone can write notepad, but it's much more difficult to write a quality word processor. Steve
I guess I don't quite understand your point about display resolutions. Why do they need to increase? Aren't they dependent on the size of your monitor and the amount of memory on your graphics card? Who would want to view 3200x2400 on even the largest monitor? Talk about eye strain.
Steve
... we can definitley do better than that. No offense to the writers of the original project (they only had 24 hours and it wasn't planned at all in advance), but I'm sure we could do a much better job.
The more I think of it, the more I like the idea. Collaboration using CVS, diff, patch, etc... seems the ideal way to write documentation for a project such as Gnome. I hope someone with more knowledge on the subject than I have picks up on the idea and gets the ball rolling.
The other idea I had is to create a utlilty along the lines of javadoc that creates documentation from comments in the code itself. I love the Java API reference. It's one of the greatest Java resources and is one of the main reason I choose to write my shcool programs in Java as opposed to C/C++
Steve
I seem to remember a project a few months ago where a group planned to write a book in a day to demonstrate the collaborative power of the internet. How about doing something like that with respect to a Gnome programming manual? The project would be done by hundreds of people... it may take more than the 24 hours allowed by the previous attempt, but that's ok. The money could then be donated back to some free software project. I may know nothing about programming Gnome, but I'd sure be glad to donate a little proofreading time.
By the way... and this is a bit off topic... does anyone know how that project turned out? Did they actually produce a book? If so, where can I take a look? I've been curious how that turned out, but never took the time to hunt it down.
Steve
I don't know if this would suit your purpose, but Slackware has a bootable CD distribution. I think it does require some drive space, but the bulk is on the CD. Steve
How do you get the list of all programs that are setUID (root)? I know what it means, but the only one I know of is passwd.
Well, i hate to be negative, but that really was a pretty lousy show. VERY poorly managed on the part of the moderator. The topic of the show was supposed to be based around the question of why to use linux in educational and business environments... but I never really heard a convincing argument. No one seemed interested in being there. The first half of the show was pure linux bashing... i have to give them credit for giving an honest, open discussion of linux on the desktop though. Basically except for a less-than-knowledgable caller no one had a positive view of linux on the desktop. As sad as it sounds, unfortunately I had nothing better to do with a Saturday night... oh well 8 (
I admit this is a somewhat uneducated opinion. I've used linux and samba occasionaly, but am by no means an expert.
One thing I like about Netware is NDS. On anything but the smallest network you just can't beat NDS for managing users, groups, etc. I'm sure utilities exist for performing the same tasks in Samba preventing the need to manually edit the conf file. But we're still talking a flat file database at the lowest level. This can never compare with a directory service. Although I've heard rumors of Novell porting NDS to Linux. That might be a great combination.
I guess the main point is that if your current administrators are diehard NDS fans (like myself) convincing them to switch to Samba for file services will be a hard sell. You have to have the "*nix mindset" to put up with the quirks of a unix like os. I'm working on it, but I've still got a long way to go 8 )
My .02
Steve
What if they intended all along to "sneak" their subversive technology in... what's the big deal with that? Makes good business sense to me. Although I have to agree that this dog is not the vehicle. Home entertainment centers (ala WebTv) are going to get WAY more popular than they are right now. Don't worry... Sony will have plenty of competition.
"I don't want people taking action based on Microsoft thinking about doing something... People will spend millions of dollars, [implementing strategies based on such information]" But they sure don't mind people spending HUNDREDS of millions of dollars on a worthless upgrade to win98. And didn't microsoft invent the concept of "vaporware"?