Compat.........Custom drivers
Yup, I had to go to NVidia's website, download this.run file, and run it. Wasn't exactly difficult. And I'm sure if nvidia would be a bit more relaxed about redistribution of the driver it would be simply integrated in the install. Also, plugged in a sweex usb 2.0 pci card after that, and it just worked.
Installation...Troublesome Installed without problems on 3 machines. Insert CD, boot, click 'OK' couple of times. No problem.
Updates........Troublesome
What's so difficult on starting Mandrake Control Center, enter the root password, click s/w management, click the update utility?
Man in Charge..Nobody
Due to the nature of the GPL, this should be 'everybody'.
Actually, when you delete a file in linux (or any other *nix), you do not actually delete it yet when a process still has a handle to it; it only becomes unopenable for processes. Only when the last process that has a handle to it closes that handle, the disk-space containing the data for that file will be freed.
Compare this to DOS/Windows or NetWare; there a file cannot be deleted while a process has it opened. You will get some sort of error if you try.
Suddenly, all the environmentally friendly locals are going ballistic over the prospects of seeing an 'industrial energy complex' in their backyard.
I live in The Netherlands; a nice, flat, windy country in the west of Europe, sometimes wrongfully call Holland (Holland is a part of the Netherlands, sort of like England is a part of the UK).
Anyway, 30 years ago most foreigners thought of 4 things when they heard about NL: tulips, wooden shoes, Rembrand and windmills! (today our excellent pot would also be mentioned). Those old-fashioned windmills are pretty big and bulky, and you can see them from afar.
Funny thing is, when someone wants to build an environmentally friendly windmill for electrical energy, he or she cannot get a permit for that. We even have a special word for it: horizonvervuiling (horizon pollution)
I cannot stop to wonder how our country would have looked like if that word had been invented in the 17th century.
Back in the days of Doom, I did systems administration work for a Dutch architect firm. I know I certainly thought of using the Doom engine to convert electronic drawings of a building to a complete Walk-Through Interactive Experience (tm).
Unfortunately, as all Dutch architect firms balanced the tight rope between going bankrupt and surviving that time, there was no money/time available for developing mods for that sort of thing.
I certainly hope that some beautiful projects will see the light of day that would otherwise, if it wasn't for this prize-money, never be realised.
Excuse me, but I haven't got the slightest notion what you mean by... this very thing...; there is no quote or referral to another posted item. Could you please enlighten me in what you are referring to?
Remember, there are a lot of applications that simply do not run on Linux.
It is not about the applications. It would be about the applications if they were only playing games. It's about data; civil servants get input, process it, and create output. Some only create output, <funny>an again others only have input</funny>.
100 years ago some civil servant documented the birth of my grandmother. Now I can still have a look at the birth certificate of my grandmother; I do not need the civil servant that wrote it down to tell me what is written down. In 68 years all applications we use now will be long forgotten; my (great)grandchildren should not need some ancient version of a closed source proprietary application to read (electronic) documents about my birth; they should have the means to read the documents no matter what.
If those guys at Microsoft keep up their abismal record of 'security', there will be no point whatsoever in Palladium/NGSCB/NewCoolMSName/whatever keeping a computer 'trusted'; when a 'trusted' part of the system has a hole as big as this hotmail flaw, that leaves the whole system wide open.
Does the XBox BIOS accept URLs of some sort?
boot://localhost/bootmrg.sys?lc=1033&id=&boot=li lo
I can't see the FSF recommending Java, since it hardly qualifies as "Free (...)"
Well, I do not know if they actually recommend it, but they do endorse it.
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Someone can do with GPL-ed s/w whatever he or she wants, provided that if he or she distributes their derivative they _must_ include the sources.
So, the website does not have to have links to downloadable ISOs or something. But if you buy their product, the sources have to be available to you. And _you_ can do with these sources whatever you want to (under the GPL), even provide free downloads on the net.
While this may seem insightful when he quotes this "magazine", it appears that it was dead-on, many "years ago." Despite the stipulated fact that OS/2 had many more applications, it was clear then that NT had the future.
I think the point he was trying to make is that statistics are abused. It does not matter if their end result was correct, their reasoning was terribly flawed. To me this is very insightful.
Averment 77: Related to the development of the open source software development movement in the computing world, an organization was founded by former MIT professor Richard Stallman entitled "GNU."
RMS may be surprised to learn he is a former MIT professor.
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Lets see; I'm running mandrake 9.1.
Compat.........Custom drivers .run file, and run it. Wasn't exactly difficult. And I'm sure if nvidia would be a bit more relaxed about redistribution of the driver it would be simply integrated in the install. Also, plugged in a sweex usb 2.0 pci card after that, and it just worked.
Yup, I had to go to NVidia's website, download this
Installation...Troublesome
Installed without problems on 3 machines. Insert CD, boot, click 'OK' couple of times. No problem.
Updates........Troublesome
What's so difficult on starting Mandrake Control Center, enter the root password, click s/w management, click the update utility?
Man in Charge..Nobody
Due to the nature of the GPL, this should be 'everybody'.
Hmm, maybe if you ask these guys.
Does this mean prior art for this Microsoft patent?
Actually, when you delete a file in linux (or any other *nix), you do not actually delete it yet when a process still has a handle to it; it only becomes unopenable for processes. Only when the last process that has a handle to it closes that handle, the disk-space containing the data for that file will be freed.
Compare this to DOS/Windows or NetWare; there a file cannot be deleted while a process has it opened. You will get some sort of error if you try.
Suddenly, all the environmentally friendly locals are going ballistic over the prospects of seeing an 'industrial energy complex' in their backyard.
I live in The Netherlands; a nice, flat, windy country in the west of Europe, sometimes wrongfully call Holland (Holland is a part of the Netherlands, sort of like England is a part of the UK).
Anyway, 30 years ago most foreigners thought of 4 things when they heard about NL: tulips, wooden shoes, Rembrand and windmills! (today our excellent pot would also be mentioned). Those old-fashioned windmills are pretty big and bulky, and you can see them from afar.
Funny thing is, when someone wants to build an environmentally friendly windmill for electrical energy, he or she cannot get a permit for that. We even have a special word for it: horizonvervuiling (horizon pollution)
I cannot stop to wonder how our country would have looked like if that word had been invented in the 17th century.
I though he was a dentist from Sweden:
(...) and Dr. Alban Defleur of Marseilles, France (...)
Sing alleluja, sing, alleluja
Sing it, YEAH! Sing alleluya-ha! Si-hing!
Imagine a Beowulf cluster of these...
Back in the days of Doom, I did systems administration work for a Dutch architect firm. I know I certainly thought of using the Doom engine to convert electronic drawings of a building to a complete Walk-Through Interactive Experience (tm).
Unfortunately, as all Dutch architect firms balanced the tight rope between going bankrupt and surviving that time, there was no money/time available for developing mods for that sort of thing.
I certainly hope that some beautiful projects will see the light of day that would otherwise, if it wasn't for this prize-money, never be realised.
Excuse me, but I haven't got the slightest notion what you mean by ... this very thing...; there is no quote or referral to another posted item. Could you please enlighten me in what you are referring to?
That explains a lot. Thanks!
Could someone please explain entries 18, 19, 22, 31, 32 and 36 from parents first link to me?
Rank Site Average Max Latest OS Server
18 uk.zone.msn.com 87 233 13 FreeBSD Microsoft-IIS/5.0
Do I need a new pair of contact lenses here? IIS on FreeBSD?
Remember, there are a lot of applications that simply do not run on Linux.
It is not about the applications. It would be about the applications if they were only playing games. It's about data; civil servants get input, process it, and create output. Some only create output, <funny>an again others only have input</funny>.
100 years ago some civil servant documented the birth of my grandmother. Now I can still have a look at the birth certificate of my grandmother; I do not need the civil servant that wrote it down to tell me what is written down. In 68 years all applications we use now will be long forgotten; my (great)grandchildren should not need some ancient version of a closed source proprietary application to read (electronic) documents about my birth; they should have the means to read the documents no matter what.
First ost, first ost!
I thought the Altarian Dollar monetairy system had a 42 cents coin...
The problem with proactive auditing is that it takes time, and as well know, time is money.
Such a pity that Microsoft is almost out of cash...
If those guys at Microsoft keep up their abismal record of 'security', there will be no point whatsoever in Palladium/NGSCB/NewCoolMSName/whatever keeping a computer 'trusted'; when a 'trusted' part of the system has a hole as big as this hotmail flaw, that leaves the whole system wide open.
Does the XBox BIOS accept URLs of some sort?
boot://localhost/bootmrg.sys?lc=1033&id=&boot=li lo
<input type sh1t>
(...) everyone who remembers' Maddona's name, (...), or Michal Jordan or Mohamed Saeed Al-Sahhaf
It surely seems that you cannot remember to spell the names of Madonna, Michael Jordan and Mohammed S. right
;-)
I can't see the FSF recommending Java, since it hardly qualifies as "Free (...)"
Well, I do not know if they actually recommend it, but they do endorse it.
Someone can do with GPL-ed s/w whatever he or she wants, provided that if he or she distributes their derivative they _must_ include the sources.
So, the website does not have to have links to downloadable ISOs or something. But if you buy their product, the sources have to be available to you. And _you_ can do with these sources whatever you want to (under the GPL), even provide free downloads on the net.
I'm afraid that will only keep their grandchildens clidren alive...
Then, five years later, a clone of it will appear on Linux and make headline news on Slashdot.
Then, five hours later, a clone of the headline on slashdot appears on slashdot...
Sorry, I really could not resist the temptation...
While this may seem insightful when he quotes this "magazine", it appears that it was dead-on, many "years ago." Despite the stipulated fact that OS/2 had many more applications, it was clear then that NT had the future.
I think the point he was trying to make is that statistics are abused. It does not matter if their end result was correct, their reasoning was terribly flawed. To me this is very insightful.
Averment 77: Related to the development of the open source software development movement in the computing world, an organization was founded by former MIT professor Richard Stallman entitled "GNU."
RMS may be surprised to learn he is a former MIT professor.
He is not; he is a former GNU/MIT professor.
Btw...care to back up what you are saying about CERN with a link? I'm genuinely curious what they have running.
Ah, lets talk petabytes of datastorage! The RD45 project! Be sure to check out this "slideshow". Quote: "(...) 200-400TB/year at up to 35MB/second."
I was told (though I cannot find any link to back this up) that oracle could not face up to the CERN tasks.
Companies that are run by competent management (...)
Unfortunately I have seen a lot of incompetent management...
If you want to play around with odbms, I would like to suggest ozone. It's java/gpl. You can also find me on the mailinglists.