On July the same discussion was on lkml. I guess the opinion of Linus Torvalds himself is pretty clear:
"I think that people who argue for splitting desktop kernels from server kernels are total morons, and only show that they don't know what the hell they are talking about."
Aargh, the correct url would of course be <a href="http://news.zdnet.com/2036-2_22-6035707.htm<nobr>l<wbr></wbr></nobr> ">news.zdnet.com/2036-2_22-6035707.html</a>. Stupid Slashdot doesn't let me edit my own comments.
I'm a regular reader of slashdot, but I actually stumbled upon this story via news.google.com when I was searching for news about Chumbawamba's new record ("A Singsong and a Scrap", which is to be released on early October in mainland Europe, not sure whether they've found a UK or US publisher for it yet).
It's also funny a funny coincidence that a company like that would use as an example a band which has put out a remix of their single which is a commentary on the whole filesharing debate (Pass It Along (mp3 mix) which is by the way available on the download section of their site).
When I last installed a Windows SP (for W2K), Windows Update was stupid enough to save the temporary files on my Linux partition which was mounted read-only.
I don't know how it was possible in the first place, but that's what it did. Then, when it tried to start the actual install process, it couldn't find mskrnl32.dll or whatever, and I ended up reinstalling Windows.
I've also witnessed the same behaviour on XP: I was downloading a small package from Windows Update and wondered why it took so long. It turned out that it was saving the temporary files over the VPN connection to a server share that was mounted at the time!
I think there's a pattern that can be found from those two examples: it tried to save the temp files to the partition with the most free space, regardless of the type of the partition. I wonder whether it still does that. Anyway, I'm making sure that I've unmounted every single share and partition except for C:\ when I start updating stuff from Windows Update.
> All finnish men have to do their military service, which is 180, 270 or 360 days.
Hmm, sounds exactly like the army propaganda, not mentioning the alternatives at all. The civil service lasts for 395 days and there's also the choice of serving around 200 days in prison (which is what I did).
I agree with the rest of your post, though. It is a total hell trying to live as a productive member of the society when you can't sleep during the nights. Been there, done that.
BRIAN:
I'm not the Messiah! ARTHUR:
I say You are, Lord, and I should know. I've followed a few. FOLLOWERS:
Hail Messiah! BRIAN:
I'm not the Messiah! Will you please listen? I am not the Messiah, do you understand?! Honestly! GIRL:
Only the true Messiah denies His divinity. BRIAN:
What?! Well, what sort of chance does that give me? All right! I am the Messiah! FOLLOWERS:
He is! He is the Messiah! BRIAN:
Now, fuck off!
[silence] ARTHUR:
How shall we fuck off, O Lord?
I think that this is great news. To me, Legos were always all about imagination, building all sorts of things from basic blocks. When we were kids, me and my friends built Transformers from Legos. If there would've been licensed Transformers Legos, we probably wouldn't have had nearly as much fun designing and building our own models.
I didn't really pay any attention to Legos for years until my own kid was born. I was surprised to see how Legos had changed. The originals were always unisex; now there were pink pony and barbie Legos for girls and aggressive looking monster Legos for boys. The whole idea of having similar, compatible blocks from which anything could be built was also watered down by having too few of those basic blocks left and too many totally unique pieces which wouldn't fit in anywhere else. I hated it!
It's great to see that they didn't do too well following trends and that they realized what people want before it was too late. I'm not going to buy many new Legos for my kids though, my old (and huge) collection is still in my mother's basement, waiting for them to grow up a bit.
I have never heard of gnuphonograph either, but Gramofile should suit your needs. I've used it myself to record music from vinyl to hard drive (just to encode it to ogg vorbis (to keep this post a bit closer to topic)) and I think it does a great job. Unfortunately the development of this nice little thing seems to have stallen.
Why is the parent modded "+4, Funny"? I find it interesting and informative, but there isn't anything "funny" about it really. (Well, I do find it funny that people still bother to vote, as if it would actually make a difference, but that's another story...)
The essay was well worth reading. I wonder whether someone could explain why there are no open source page layout applications worth mentioning... Yes, I have heard about Scribus, tried it and would probably use it, too, if it was a GNOME app, but Pagemaker/InDesign/Quark, games and the NHL radio streams (WMA version the Crossover plugin doesn't handle) are the only thing I keep Windows installed on that other partition.
I think that the Finnish banks have all been "on-line" in some form for a long time and really know what they are doing. Osuuspankki also has a variety of online services and their web-bank has worked with Galeon ever since the https problems were cleared out (that was a long time ago, around 0.7 I guess). They do use some ugly javascript menus though.
The document at MSDN doesn't seem to have anything to do with MS Office 11 or the new "built around XML" Office file formats. It simply explains how files can be imported to/exported from Access and Excel of MS Office XP.
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On July the same discussion was on lkml. I guess the opinion of Linus Torvalds himself is pretty clear:
"I think that people who argue for splitting desktop kernels from server kernels are total morons, and only show that they don't know what the hell they are talking about."
Aargh, the correct url would of course be <a href="http://news.zdnet.com/2036-2_22-6035707.htm<nobr>l<wbr></wbr></nobr> ">news.zdnet.com/2036-2_22-6035707.html</a>. Stupid Slashdot doesn't let me edit my own comments.
I think that every product that contains C.R.A.P. should have a sticker which advices the consumer not to buy it.
I'm a regular reader of slashdot, but I actually stumbled upon this story via news.google.com when I was searching for news about Chumbawamba's new record ("A Singsong and a Scrap", which is to be released on early October in mainland Europe, not sure whether they've found a UK or US publisher for it yet).
It's also funny a funny coincidence that a company like that would use as an example a band which has put out a remix of their single which is a commentary on the whole filesharing debate (Pass It Along (mp3 mix) which is by the way available on the download section of their site).
I'm surprised no-one has mentioned this essay by Shawn Hargreaves yet. It may be five years old, but most of it is still relevant.
When I last installed a Windows SP (for W2K), Windows Update was stupid enough to save the temporary files on my Linux partition which was mounted read-only.
I don't know how it was possible in the first place, but that's what it did. Then, when it tried to start the actual install process, it couldn't find mskrnl32.dll or whatever, and I ended up reinstalling Windows.
I've also witnessed the same behaviour on XP: I was downloading a small package from Windows Update and wondered why it took so long. It turned out that it was saving the temporary files over the VPN connection to a server share that was mounted at the time!
I think there's a pattern that can be found from those two examples: it tried to save the temp files to the partition with the most free space, regardless of the type of the partition. I wonder whether it still does that. Anyway, I'm making sure that I've unmounted every single share and partition except for C:\ when I start updating stuff from Windows Update.
> All finnish men have to do their military service, which is 180, 270 or 360 days.
Hmm, sounds exactly like the army propaganda, not mentioning the alternatives at all. The civil service lasts for 395 days and there's also the choice of serving around 200 days in prison (which is what I did).
I agree with the rest of your post, though. It is a total hell trying to live as a productive member of the society when you can't sleep during the nights. Been there, done that.
"Did Jesus really say he was the Messiah?"
Does it really matter?
BRIAN:
I'm not the Messiah!
ARTHUR:
I say You are, Lord, and I should know. I've followed a few.
FOLLOWERS:
Hail Messiah!
BRIAN:
I'm not the Messiah! Will you please listen? I am not the Messiah, do you understand?! Honestly!
GIRL:
Only the true Messiah denies His divinity.
BRIAN:
What?! Well, what sort of chance does that give me? All right! I am the Messiah!
FOLLOWERS:
He is! He is the Messiah!
BRIAN:
Now, fuck off!
[silence]
ARTHUR:
How shall we fuck off, O Lord?
I think that this is great news. To me, Legos were always all about imagination, building all sorts of things from basic blocks. When we were kids, me and my friends built Transformers from Legos. If there would've been licensed Transformers Legos, we probably wouldn't have had nearly as much fun designing and building our own models.
I didn't really pay any attention to Legos for years until my own kid was born. I was surprised to see how Legos had changed. The originals were always unisex; now there were pink pony and barbie Legos for girls and aggressive looking monster Legos for boys. The whole idea of having similar, compatible blocks from which anything could be built was also watered down by having too few of those basic blocks left and too many totally unique pieces which wouldn't fit in anywhere else. I hated it!
It's great to see that they didn't do too well following trends and that they realized what people want before it was too late. I'm not going to buy many new Legos for my kids though, my old (and huge) collection is still in my mother's basement, waiting for them to grow up a bit.
I have never heard of gnuphonograph either, but Gramofile should suit your needs. I've used it myself to record music from vinyl to hard drive (just to encode it to ogg vorbis (to keep this post a bit closer to topic)) and I think it does a great job. Unfortunately the development of this nice little thing seems to have stallen.
Why is the parent modded "+4, Funny"? I find it interesting and informative, but there isn't anything "funny" about it really. (Well, I do find it funny that people still bother to vote, as if it would actually make a difference, but that's another story...)
A small correction: it's a Finnish cell quartet. Not that I really care, of course.
Landlocked Switzerland, not Sweden.
The essay was well worth reading. I wonder whether someone could explain why there are no open source page layout applications worth mentioning... Yes, I have heard about Scribus, tried it and would probably use it, too, if it was a GNOME app, but Pagemaker/InDesign/Quark, games and the NHL radio streams (WMA version the Crossover plugin doesn't handle) are the only thing I keep Windows installed on that other partition.
I think that the Finnish banks have all been "on-line" in some form for a long time and really know what they are doing. Osuuspankki also has a variety of online services and their web-bank has worked with Galeon ever since the https problems were cleared out (that was a long time ago, around 0.7 I guess). They do use some ugly javascript menus though.
The document at MSDN doesn't seem to have anything to do with MS Office 11 or the new "built around XML" Office file formats. It simply explains how files can be imported to/exported from Access and Excel of MS Office XP.
Try Bobby. It does a lot more automated validating than your average validator, plus offers a lot of suggestions/manual validation tips...