Today I was thinking the Intel-based Mac Mini or the iMac seem rather appropriate to replace our noisy and voluminous desktop computers. However, I was worried about interoperability with Linux since we rely heavily on shared NFS partitions from several Linux servers. Given that most of the incompatibilities/limitations could be solved by tweaking the Mac OS X kernel, I was pretty sure interoperability was no more a concern. Now, I don't know.
I played a little with it and seems pretty fast and stable. A good set of GNU utils have already been ported and even commercial software like Intel's C++ compiler and the Opera browser. However, it is not ready to replace Linux as a desktop/server OS since it lacks a lot of applications/extensions like a good NFS client/server, journaled filesystems, etc. It is fast and realiable and has the potential to become a good desktop OS if someday the company decides to give it a chance out of the embedded and RTOS market.
While your comment seem logically flawless, I think that the main reason the end-to-end model works (at least in the case of the ipod) is due to the simple interface that improves usability while still offering a lot of options at an affordable price. That's also the reason why cheap cell phones sell better than feature-full still affordable ones. Also, miniaturization is a key word when speaking about technological trends.
- A new political era in Latin America: history repeats itself.
Seriously, apart from slightly updated versions of most packages and a beta (or alpha?) release of Xgl, is there a good reason to throw away my highly customized and stable SuSE 10.0 installation?
- Immigration choisie: Sarko polonais, que fais-tu encore ici? - Anonymous
A lot of german scientists use to say "research is expensive" when asked about saving budget. Perhaps the short term impact of hydrogen-based fuel on society would be a lot higher (but dangerous) than the discovery of the Higgs boson. Anyway, it is funny since the involved energy regimes are so different, eighty years after the birth of quantum mechanics we still don't know how to control chemical reactions.
- Immigration choisi: Sarkozy polonais, qu'est ce que tu fais encore ici? - Anonymous
According to my experience by living in various european and american countries, to speak a language fluently it is seen as a matter of national pride and constitutes the ultimate recourse in situations where some people feel surpassed by the personal and/or professional skills of a foreign person. From the psychological point of view, such a reaction is completely normal (healthy), otherwise they should confront depression.
following you logic, sir, would mean that everybody should recognize and accept that his(her) partner cheats on him(her) because it is widely known most couple members cheat frequently on each other. So we have to accept tacitly others (specially the government) pissing on our rights because everybody does it.
1. They have integrated IE so tight into Windows that removing it will cause Windows to break down. Who gives a duck? Netscape is dead anyway.
2. They charge more than necessary for their products. No problem, a coupon day or a few vouchers will be enough to clean this.
3. They abuse their market position and control the info on how to use the APIs to fight competition off. Well, just document the APIs.
MS: Nah, that's a lot of work. Here is the source code, we hope it will give competitors a better idea than thousands of manual pages on how to improve interoperability with our applications. However, they will not be able to use this information without licensing it from us first.
Is there a way to get something from MS without having to pay twice for it?
"I personally just encourage people to switch to KDE.
This "users are idiots, and are confused by functionality" mentality of Gnome is a disease. If you think your users are idiots, only idiots will use it. I don't use Gnome, because in striving to be simple, it has long since reached the point where it simply doesn't do what I need it to do.
if it is true that 60% of Vista code is going to be rewritten within a year or so, just coming up with a barely stable version will be more then a challenge for the development team.
Apart from a nice PC rating scheme, the Aero interface and other non-relevant-for-production enhancements, how do I know that I'll be paying 200 USD for newly written code or just for a recycle from Windows XP/2003?
I was searching something like this to replace my noisy Opteron biprocessor box. However, is the processor x86-compatible? I mean, can I run standard x86 code on it? I don't care about the driver support since I don't use Windows very often.
even though MP doesn't refer to Military Police, I think the french politician Nicolas Sarkozy (currently acting as minister of the interior) would strongly support you idea.
In recent versions of Intel's MKL the README states that the AMD x86_64 architecture is supported but they still use the GetCPUID function on 32-bit OS and the code crashes when executed on an AMD processor.
I totally agree, There are in fact some physical and mathematical problems involving correlations which might not be easy to parallelize or cannot be parallelized at all.
Microsoft is not innovating anymore, just fixing bugs and preparing patches for malware as soon as possible consumes a lot of resources. Given that Vista shares its codebase with Windows XP/2003 the situation is not going to change. How do they plan to deal with it?
- MS to customer: which bug do you want me to fix tomorrow?
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this is the XXI century. Individuals have rights. Such a measure will put americans at the same level as nazis.
It's a crime against humanity.
Today I was thinking the Intel-based Mac Mini or the iMac seem rather appropriate to replace our noisy and voluminous desktop computers. However, I was worried about interoperability with Linux since we rely heavily on shared NFS partitions from several Linux servers. Given that most of the incompatibilities/limitations could be solved by tweaking the Mac OS X kernel, I was pretty sure interoperability was no more a concern. Now, I don't know.
I played a little with it and seems pretty fast and stable. A good set of GNU utils have already been ported and even commercial software like Intel's C++ compiler and the Opera browser. However, it is not ready to replace Linux as a desktop/server OS since it lacks a lot of applications/extensions like a good NFS client/server, journaled filesystems, etc. It is fast and realiable and has the potential to become a good desktop OS if someday the company decides to give it a chance out of the embedded and RTOS market.
While your comment seem logically flawless, I think that the main reason the end-to-end model works (at least in the case of the ipod) is due to the simple interface that improves usability while still offering a lot of options at an affordable price. That's also the reason why cheap cell phones sell better than feature-full still affordable ones. Also, miniaturization is a key word when speaking about technological trends.
- A new political era in Latin America: history repeats itself.
Seriously, apart from slightly updated versions of most packages and a beta (or alpha?) release of Xgl, is there a good reason to throw away my highly customized and stable SuSE 10.0 installation?
- Immigration choisie: Sarko polonais, que fais-tu encore ici? - Anonymous
Before anybody corrects me, the sig should say: "Immigration choisie: Sarkozy polonais, qu'est-ce que tu fais encore ici? - Anonymous
A lot of german scientists use to say "research is expensive" when asked about saving budget. Perhaps the short term impact of hydrogen-based fuel on society would be a lot higher (but dangerous) than the discovery of the Higgs boson. Anyway, it is funny since the involved energy regimes are so different, eighty years after the birth of quantum mechanics we still don't know how to control chemical reactions.
- Immigration choisi: Sarkozy polonais, qu'est ce que tu fais encore ici? - Anonymous
According to my experience by living in various european and american countries, to speak a language fluently it is seen as a matter of national pride and constitutes the ultimate recourse in situations where some people feel surpassed by the personal and/or professional skills of a foreign person. From the psychological point of view, such a reaction is completely normal (healthy), otherwise they should confront depression.
following you logic, sir, would mean that everybody should recognize and accept that his(her) partner cheats on him(her) because it is widely known most couple members cheat frequently on each other. So we have to accept tacitly others (specially the government) pissing on our rights because everybody does it.
There is a wrapper for non-KDE applications called artsdsp to reroute the audio device to artsd.
1. They have integrated IE so tight into Windows that removing it will cause Windows to break down.
Who gives a duck? Netscape is dead anyway.
2. They charge more than necessary for their products.
No problem, a coupon day or a few vouchers will be enough to clean this.
3. They abuse their market position and control the info on how to use the APIs to fight competition off.
Well, just document the APIs.
MS: Nah, that's a lot of work. Here is the source code, we hope it will give competitors a better idea than thousands of manual pages on how to improve interoperability with our applications. However, they will not be able to use this information without licensing it from us first.
Is there a way to get something from MS without having to pay twice for it?
I use Linux.
The benevolent dictator said:
"I personally just encourage people to switch to KDE.
This "users are idiots, and are confused by functionality" mentality of
Gnome is a disease. If you think your users are idiots, only idiots will
use it. I don't use Gnome, because in striving to be simple, it has long
since reached the point where it simply doesn't do what I need it to do.
Please, just tell people to use KDE."
Imagine a beowulf cluster of ... never mind!
if it is true that 60% of Vista code is going to be rewritten within a year or so, just coming up with a barely stable version will be more then a challenge for the development team.
Apart from a nice PC rating scheme, the Aero interface and other non-relevant-for-production enhancements, how do I know that I'll be paying 200 USD for newly written code or just for a recycle from Windows XP/2003?
I was searching something like this to replace my noisy Opteron biprocessor box. However, is the processor x86-compatible? I mean, can I run standard x86 code on it? I don't care about the driver support since I don't use Windows very often.
BSD is dying anyway...
- Damn! Even ftp is illegal according to the french government.
Yep, a mexican troll.
even though MP doesn't refer to Military Police, I think the french politician Nicolas Sarkozy (currently acting as minister of the interior) would strongly support you idea.
In recent versions of Intel's MKL the README states that the AMD x86_64 architecture is supported but they still use the GetCPUID function on 32-bit OS and the code crashes when executed on an AMD processor.
I totally agree, There are in fact some physical and mathematical problems involving correlations which might not be easy to parallelize or cannot be parallelized at all.
you didn't see any MS code, did you?
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would you expect better from gtk?
Microsoft is not innovating anymore, just fixing bugs and preparing patches for malware as soon as possible consumes a lot of resources. Given that Vista shares its codebase with Windows XP/2003 the situation is not going to change. How do they plan to deal with it?
- MS to customer: which bug do you want me to fix tomorrow?