And who knows, maybe he is a bit more informed about DNA than the originating poster. While a lot of viruses and retroviruses have RNA making up their genome, a lot do in fact have single or double-stranded DNA.
I could be wrong, but surely if your font (reasonable or not:-)) isn't anti-aliased then it isn't hinted either. OK, I'm not entirely clued up to the technical niceties of this, but on my machine none of my T1 fonts look nearly as pretty on the screen (stair-stepping) as my TTFs do. However, I have what is now a fairly modest 100dpi screen (it was neat when I paid for it...). Are you saying everybody should just go out and spend megabux on screens when the job could be done better through software?
The Mozilla development team have got a lot of momentum up. Seems like only a few months ago that Mozilla's version numbers were asymptotic -> 1.0 as basic code was cleaned up. Now they're adding features that are actually useful every 3 months. Good for them (and us, of course), I say...
I have been using Mozilla (and derivatives Phoenix and Galeon) exclusively since the early 0.9x days, but I sat at a windoze box for the first time in 2 years last week, and thought that IE's smooth scrolling was really nice. I did some googling around to find a way of getting the same effect under X11, but came up with nothing. It's kind of nice to have something good to say about a MS product for a change. Is the new Mozilla smooth-scrolling just a shitty version of the same? Tell me it isn't so...:-)
...running 2.4.20, that requires a physical power off about every 3-4 days..
Really? maybe you should report that as a bug. My 4 machines haven't been rebooted since 2.4.20 came out except for 2 days ago when we had a freak lightning storm and I took everything off-line:-). I've found 2.4.20 to be completely rock-solid with no evident leaks.
for 2.6 to hit the streets. Though the 2.4 scheduler sometimes has me crawling up the wall in frustration (e.g. compared to BSD), I don't want to go down the road of playing with development kernels on my production machines again. Been there a few years ago when I had to pursuade a recalcitrant framebuffer device to work. Hats off to the kernel development crowd and all, my sysprogging skills were not gained on *nix in the first place, and now I've jumped into other disciplines I would rather build on what they've done.
All the same, I hope they release a stable 2.6 soon:-)
Once you've been bitten with this a few times, you'll appreciate the beauty of Slackware (or the source distros if you've got the leisure and the bandwidth). Good thing about Slack is that it doesn't get in the way of people who are content with the./configure && make && make install cycle the way rpm does. It just leaves you the option to recompile just the important stuff (or everything) piecemeal, while leaving you with a world to stand on while you do it.
I was just about to go up in flames, until I thought to look at the calendar. And I don't even use Gentoo - though I have given it some thought, it's just that I really like Slackware.
Even if this is the case, I am inclined to see this as (yet) another erosion of privacy as more users find themselves locked into using proprietary formats. Sure, it doesn't affect those of us who use emacs (OK, vi then if you insist:-)) and LaTex. I, for one, do not want my location being pasted into any content I produce. Doesn't this come under Your Rights Online?
OK, the fact that I imagine there's an enemy behind every bush doesn't mean I'm necessarily wrong...:-)
Tell me about it. I got so fed up with my spam that when I changed my ISP I made damn sure nobody I didn't want to hear from had my address. One travel firm (an Asian outfit) managed to get my address anyway, but I haven't heard from them since I put up a little web-page at Tripod saying "I am willing to opt-in to all bulk or commercial mail at..." and listed all of their contact addresses I could find.
It's not the modem's fault, it's the V90 protocol. That aside, given that most 56k connections don't happen at much more than 40k, and often not very reliably at that, I am somewhat skeptical as to whether these guys can deliver.
On the other hand, it might be a worthwhile improvement for people in remote areas where DSL is not an option.
I'm sure I can't be the first to notice that a lot of webpages are now getting so large and complex that they have to have been designed with DSL in mind, and not necessarily content - but that's another story...
For some reason, I've only just noticed that all the previous posters have been harping on about AS400 when the subject of mainframes comes up. Has nobody on Slashdot ever worked with any of the others? Years ago, I was considered employable as a contractor because I had experience on Sperry/UNIVAC, CDC, Honeywell, Cray, Burroughs, and a few other families of mainframes. It was considered an advantage over having an all-IBM background. What happened? I know many of the above have merged/gone under, and/or are producing *nix systems, but still...
Indeed, and the parent poster forgot FORTRAN. I know we usually do that in lower-case nowadays, but if you can't say it in upper-case, it's not worth saying:-)
If you only get the Bachelors, you won't get into the really cool classes where you get to do all kinds of crazy neat stuff,
That is unless you go into molecular biology. I spent years programming (amongst other things), and have gone back to school to study biotechnology. There aren't a lot of other disciplines where the current research is stuff that you're running with in second year.
[Blatant sexist comment follows] The chicks are cuter, too:-)
when I was a young BOFH (when the Earth was newly-cooled and Real Programmers were Real Programmers) one of the trainee apps progs used to preface his COBOL compiles with a message to the ops console: "Look out - there's a structured programmer about!"
Well, I suppose I might have been 17 years old at some point in my life too, but Mr Structured Programmer ended up unemployed for 4 years while I was getting paid nicely as a systems programmer.
My point is: while it's kind of satisfying to renice others' batch jobs into the abyss and sign them up for onearmedlesbianfetish mailing lists, there comes a point when the tedium of changing tapes and re-stocking printers at 3 in the morning is only worth it if you have a good reason for not being at home.
That might look good to you, but I would be worried.
All it takes is for some lantern-jawed policeman to glance at the file (and here in Australia, they can) when he stops you for speeding, and you're arrested.
That's all it takes to be penalised later (e.g. when applying for visas to some countries).
No offence to policemen here, but many are not the brightest sparks in the universe, and should not be expected to exercise the kind of critical thinking that others take for granted.
that they could get around this. A lot of phones have a blacklist facility, so callers with certain CLIDs (or unlisted ones. for that matter) could just be re-routed. For instance, my cheapie Ericsson allows "?" wildcard placeholders in listed numbers, so it could filter whole ranges of numbers. It wouldn't take long for the authorities to run out of money. That's assuming, of course, that China is pretty much like the rest of the world in that it's the caller who pays for the call.
I know being into Slackware at one time was popularly equated to satan-worship (muwahahahaha), but if we overlook the fact that the installer is a text-mode job, I think it's fair to say that it's just as easy to get up and running as (say) RH, and certainly easier than Debian.
I guess it depends on what the newbie wants. If he wants a linux box with all the desktop eye-candy because he wants to try out something other than windoze, Mandrake or RedHat are not bad.
Personally, I found tweaking mdk's or rh's scripts in/etc a bit of a chore, because I don't like the way they're written and organised. Pat's scripts are written pretty much as if I had done it myself, so I find them easy to follow.
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And who knows, maybe he is a bit more informed about DNA than the originating poster. While a lot of viruses and retroviruses have RNA making up their genome, a lot do in fact have single or double-stranded DNA.
No. April 1st is over. Use a stable version :-)
It would be the real killer-question if it didn't come up every point-release :-)
I could be wrong, but surely if your font (reasonable or not :-)) isn't anti-aliased then it isn't hinted either. OK, I'm not entirely clued up to the technical niceties of this, but on my machine none of my T1 fonts look nearly as pretty on the screen (stair-stepping) as my TTFs do. However, I have what is now a fairly modest 100dpi screen (it was neat when I paid for it...). Are you saying everybody should just go out and spend megabux on screens when the job could be done better through software?
The Mozilla development team have got a lot of momentum up. Seems like only a few months ago that Mozilla's version numbers were asymptotic -> 1.0 as basic code was cleaned up. Now they're adding features that are actually useful every 3 months. Good for them (and us, of course), I say...
I have been using Mozilla (and derivatives Phoenix and Galeon) exclusively since the early 0.9x days, but I sat at a windoze box for the first time in 2 years last week, and thought that IE's smooth scrolling was really nice. I did some googling around to find a way of getting the same effect under X11, but came up with nothing. It's kind of nice to have something good to say about a MS product for a change. Is the new Mozilla smooth-scrolling just a shitty version of the same? Tell me it isn't so... :-)
Really? maybe you should report that as a bug. My 4 machines haven't been rebooted since 2.4.20 came out except for 2 days ago when we had a freak lightning storm and I took everything off-line :-). I've found 2.4.20 to be completely rock-solid with no evident leaks.
All the same, I hope they release a stable 2.6 soon :-)
Once you've been bitten with this a few times, you'll appreciate the beauty of Slackware (or the source distros if you've got the leisure and the bandwidth). Good thing about Slack is that it doesn't get in the way of people who are content with the ./configure && make && make install cycle the way rpm does. It just leaves you the option to recompile just the important stuff (or everything) piecemeal, while leaving you with a world to stand on while you do it.
I was just about to go up in flames, until I thought to look at the calendar. And I don't even use Gentoo - though I have given it some thought, it's just that I really like Slackware.
OK, the fact that I imagine there's an enemy behind every bush doesn't mean I'm necessarily wrong... :-)
...if you want. Just don't call them scientists :-). I spent years working as a sysprog before I realised that...
I have a Slackware 9.0 box with Dropline Gnome and Xft-enabled Mozilla. Much better font rendering than I've seen on any XP box.
Tell me about it. I got so fed up with my spam that when I changed my ISP I made damn sure nobody I didn't want to hear from had my address. One travel firm (an Asian outfit) managed to get my address anyway, but I haven't heard from them since I put up a little web-page at Tripod saying "I am willing to opt-in to all bulk or commercial mail at..." and listed all of their contact addresses I could find.
Childish, I know, but it did the trick.
Looking back at this later, it seems you were right :-)
Though I notice my post has (perhaps justly) been modded -1 Flamebait. Guess that's what karma is for...
On the other hand, it might be a worthwhile improvement for people in remote areas where DSL is not an option.
I'm sure I can't be the first to notice that a lot of webpages are now getting so large and complex that they have to have been designed with DSL in mind, and not necessarily content - but that's another story...
For some reason, I've only just noticed that all the previous posters have been harping on about AS400 when the subject of mainframes comes up. Has nobody on Slashdot ever worked with any of the others? Years ago, I was considered employable as a contractor because I had experience on Sperry/UNIVAC, CDC, Honeywell, Cray, Burroughs, and a few other families of mainframes. It was considered an advantage over having an all-IBM background. What happened? I know many of the above have merged/gone under, and/or are producing *nix systems, but still...
Indeed, and the parent poster forgot FORTRAN. I know we usually do that in lower-case nowadays, but if you can't say it in upper-case, it's not worth saying :-)
That is unless you go into molecular biology. I spent years programming (amongst other things), and have gone back to school to study biotechnology. There aren't a lot of other disciplines where the current research is stuff that you're running with in second year.
[Blatant sexist comment follows] The chicks are cuter, too :-)
Well, I suppose I might have been 17 years old at some point in my life too, but Mr Structured Programmer ended up unemployed for 4 years while I was getting paid nicely as a systems programmer.
My point is: while it's kind of satisfying to renice others' batch jobs into the abyss and sign them up for onearmedlesbianfetish mailing lists, there comes a point when the tedium of changing tapes and re-stocking printers at 3 in the morning is only worth it if you have a good reason for not being at home.
All it takes is for some lantern-jawed policeman to glance at the file (and here in Australia, they can) when he stops you for speeding, and you're arrested.
That's all it takes to be penalised later (e.g. when applying for visas to some countries).
No offence to policemen here, but many are not the brightest sparks in the universe, and should not be expected to exercise the kind of critical thinking that others take for granted.
I don't see how, when the US doesn't have one.
Or have you forgotten that all you need to do to become President of the US is just get a court to say nobody needs to count the votes...
that they could get around this. A lot of phones have a blacklist facility, so callers with certain CLIDs (or unlisted ones. for that matter) could just be re-routed. For instance, my cheapie Ericsson allows "?" wildcard placeholders in listed numbers, so it could filter whole ranges of numbers. It wouldn't take long for the authorities to run out of money. That's assuming, of course, that China is pretty much like the rest of the world in that it's the caller who pays for the call.
I know being into Slackware at one time was popularly equated to satan-worship (muwahahahaha), but if we overlook the fact that the installer is a text-mode job, I think it's fair to say that it's just as easy to get up and running as (say) RH, and certainly easier than Debian.
Personally, I found tweaking mdk's or rh's scripts in /etc a bit of a chore, because I don't like the way they're written and organised. Pat's scripts are written pretty much as if I had done it myself, so I find them easy to follow.