No, real hackers write device drivers in haskell, and create the source code by whistling instructions down a phoneline at 300baud, to a robotic arm holding a tiny magnet over a disk. They then compile and link it (also, obviously, by hand), load it into the kernel on their production server with no testing (because real code doesn't have bugs, just features) and then whistle instructions to their coffee maker.
integrated source browser (and for OO people a class browser) so users can do things like take a struct and see where its defined and/or where its used, class heirarchys etc...
Actually the emacs Ada-mode has a nice xref thing going. It's really useful.
This is completely false. Very little real software ports that easily unless it was designed on a 64 bit architecture. Too many people think that sizeof(int) == sizeof (char *) which is not true on alpha.
Well, if people didn't use such an icky lowlevel langauge as C, and used something more sensible (eg Ada '95), then they'd find that porting software is really quite easy. Ada does allow you to do stupid things, but they're obviously stupid things and you have to say "yes please, I want to cast that integer to a memory address to a pointer, I'm that hard I am".
package) the missing package is actually known, but usually only specific files or `capabilities'
This more a problem with the person who wrote the package in the first place than with rpm in general. The spec file should mention the packages that are required, rpm can't figure out itself...
One of the things that people often forget is that the GPL doesn't oblige anybody to distribute anything, merely that if they *do* distribute something they must also make the source code available (such as saying "go to this webpage"). That's all.
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No, real hackers write device drivers in haskell, and create the source code by whistling instructions down a phoneline at 300baud, to a robotic arm holding a tiny magnet over a disk. They then compile and link it (also, obviously, by hand), load it into the kernel on their production server with no testing (because real code doesn't have bugs, just features) and then whistle instructions to their coffee maker.
- Aidan
integrated source browser (and for OO people a class browser) so users can do things like take a struct and see where its defined and/or where its used, class heirarchys etc...
Actually the emacs Ada-mode has a nice xref thing going. It's really useful.
- Aidan
Hell, it is running on a 300Mb partition on my Compaq 486/25 Lite laptop and Xfree is installed!
Try doing that with Red Hat!
I've got RH5.0 on an AMD 486/66 in 100MB+80MB of HDD, admittedly sans X, but with emacs and GNAT.
- Aidan
This is completely false. Very little real software ports that easily unless it was designed on a 64 bit architecture. Too many people think that sizeof(int) == sizeof (char *) which is not true on alpha.
Well, if people didn't use such an icky lowlevel langauge as C, and used something more sensible (eg Ada '95), then they'd find that porting software is really quite easy. Ada does allow you to do stupid things, but they're obviously stupid things and you have to say "yes please, I want to cast that integer to a memory address to a pointer, I'm that hard I am".
- Aidan
Now that I know where you live, I can drop the bogus lawsuit and cheerfully proceed with the asskicking I've decided you deserve.
In this case, surely you get slapped with a suit for launching a frivoulous suit that you never intended to persue?
- Aidan
The borg are defeated by
Being the bad guys
Being stupidly set up with little planning having gone into it.
Now, since we're living in the real world, we can ignore the first one.
The second one we can't do anthing about, except to exploit it. Which is fairly easy and is being done.
The other point is that the Federation are far scarier and drone-like than the borg...
- Aidan
package) the missing package is actually known, but usually only specific files or `capabilities'
This more a problem with the person who wrote the package in the first place than with rpm in general. The spec file should mention the packages that are required, rpm can't figure out itself...
- Aidan
Ray Park is a martial arts person, as well as being scottish (and thus hard as nails).
:(
OTOH I haven't seen the film yet (cinema starts taking bookings at 00:01 tommorrow, redial is my friend), and won't until the 16th at the earliest.
It's not fair.
One of the things that people often forget is that the GPL doesn't oblige anybody to distribute anything, merely that if they *do* distribute something they must also make the source code available (such as saying "go to this webpage"). That's all.