China has sent up how many men.... ummmm ZERO.
Personally I don't hire someone who has never worked with a PC to work as a programmer. Do you honestly think I'm going to bet on a country that has yet to send a man into space to figure out how to get a man on Mars?
But beyond all of this. Who gives a flying F$%& if they do manage to make it onto Mars. They are still left with a starving country. How does launching a mission to Mars help to feed their population. It would really be nice to see them figure out their problems that they have back here on Earth first before they look towards the stars. (And that goes for just about every country).
That M$ had to bet on new technology. Not much of a bet when you hold all the cards and all the players by their balls (ie: in the form of expensive licenses). It's sort of hard to lose when everyone else loses their shirts if you pull out of the game.
Yet I'm willing to wager a bet that M$ will start to look more and more like *Nix in the next 3-5 years.
It's nice to see a good article like this one. Sure it lacks depth, but it shows that even a hard core Windows user can see what draws many of us to use Linux instead.
I would love to see a similar article where various people are forced to give up using Windows (or Mac) for a week and made to use Linux for their daily PC routine (of course with someone to help them along the way nearby) to see how quickly they adapt to the new environment.
If a non-profit organization calls you, remember that the people they hire to do this crap read from scripts and are under orders to not hang up untill they try every angle on you.
Take this opportunity to ask them what they are wearing. Tell them how much telemarketers turn you on. And above all feel free to scream wild orgasmic yulps as every offer they make gets you hotter and hotter....
Today, GNU runs with various kernels including Linux, the GNU Hurd (our kernel), and the NetBSD kernel. It is basically the same system, whichever kernel you use.
Has anyone actually seen GNU Hurd run anything outside of a testing situation?
Nothing against RMS, but isn't it about time to put Hurd to rest?
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not to mention that Firebird also lacks the ability to be set to compare the page in the cache to the current page everytime the page is loaded.
this ability is extreamly important if you read message boards which constantly change and need to be reloaded in order to view new content.
is that I have to blame this once again on Microsoft who seem to add loads of rarely used features to all of their releases of products such as Office. Then they turn around and remove backwards compatibility for those who would choose to stick with older and less (but not much) bloated version.
Companies hate to have to upgrade since this costs them valuable capital. But the liscense policies of corporations such as M$ tend to lock them into buying software which bloats larger with each release.
I would almost question that, especially after seeing what RH did with their past 2 releases. They managed to screw up KDE and Gnome. I would hate to see them taint Java next.
As a java programmer, I have never found java to be limited as a closed source language. The overall structure of the language is easily expandable and adaptable enough to fit my daily needs. And by introducing a new non-sun version of java leads to the same problems that M$ had with J++ where 100% pure sun java code is incompatible with other flavors.
Sometimes I believe that certain things, especially programming languages, are better left untouched by multiple sources. It strengthens the language when it remains uniform.
1) no need for Office2000 when you can just as easily run OpenOffice
2) self extracting exe's for palm work fine under wine. and kpilot, jpilot, etc work fine beyond that.
3) if you really need Office2000, you can run Crossover Office which is much cheaper and requires less memory and hard disk real estate
you apparently didn't read the whole thread. the reason i commented was that i see no reason to run win4lin. mainly since 1) a dual boot system is just as easy 2) wine doesn't require you to buy a windows cd 3) most windows aps have a Linux equivilent
to run win4lin you have to have a windows distro cd. at that point you might as well just run a dual boot system or even a separate box.
plus, after using linux for years, i have yet to find a reason to have to go back to using windows (sure there are some win exclusive aps out there, but you can dual boot into those if you need to).
all i see win4lin as is a nice hack, but a rahter bothersome and slow way to run windows if you honestly have to.
but the automatic download of updates can be turned off in the plugin manager.
I noticed that I was getting messages that the update manager had failed every morning after I installed 1.4.2 on a Win2000 PC. Simply by bringing up the plugin manager I was able to turn it off (you can even schedule it to go on at different intervals).
the chinese are going to do the same thing that the US and Russia have been able to do for more than 40 years now.
wake me up when some actual exciting news happens.
no, i see lockups as a problem, but it's not the kernel's fault. in cases such as this it's usually the filesystems fault. two completely different entities.
I don't see it exactly as a problem, more like a result of a setting that allows the system to constantly update the drive info with file access time and tail info (which can require loads of extra io's when loading a file).
when you set the system to not update access time and tail info on a drive, it removes this extra io taskload.
Did you mount your drives with defualt in the/etc/fstab file?
If so, use noatime, notail instead. it will prevent those lockups.
Re:Why can't I get Java working on my RH8 box?
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took all of 1 minute to link the java plugin into my/home/username/.mozilla plugin directory
took even less time to install the jre and sdk.....
and better yet, netbeans (sun one studio) is free....
NASA rushing to screw up again.
What is the big hurry to get back to space with something as outdated as the shuttle.
Why not use the time to reevaluate the whole situation, budget, goals, etc and then formulate a long term plan.
The shuttle has proven that it has outlived it's usefulness. It is nothing but a money wasting anchor for NASA.
Take the time, develop a new vehicle(s) which is not only usefull, but also cost efficient, safe, etc. Don't rush to commit the same mistakes again and again.
so, should theyjust keep their 125 workers around to twiddle their thumbs and do nothing?
Usually when companies lay people off, it is simply because they have no work for them to do. It would be idiotic to hold onto workers if you are only going to have them sit around and do nothing.
Sure, it sucks for the 125 workers, but that's life....
the moon has alot to offer
to who???? name one benefit of placing going back to the moon high on the US agenda!
let the US save the billions of dollars, and maybe put that money towards schools that cannot afford new textbooks, computers, etc.
gathering up some moon rocks (which we already have anyways) does not cure problems here on earth.
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China has sent up how many men.... ummmm ZERO. Personally I don't hire someone who has never worked with a PC to work as a programmer. Do you honestly think I'm going to bet on a country that has yet to send a man into space to figure out how to get a man on Mars? But beyond all of this. Who gives a flying F$%& if they do manage to make it onto Mars. They are still left with a starving country. How does launching a mission to Mars help to feed their population. It would really be nice to see them figure out their problems that they have back here on Earth first before they look towards the stars. (And that goes for just about every country).
That M$ had to bet on new technology. Not much of a bet when you hold all the cards and all the players by their balls (ie: in the form of expensive licenses). It's sort of hard to lose when everyone else loses their shirts if you pull out of the game. Yet I'm willing to wager a bet that M$ will start to look more and more like *Nix in the next 3-5 years.
WindowsLookAndFeel has been available for a long time, not too much different than XP LookAndFeel
It's nice to see a good article like this one. Sure it lacks depth, but it shows that even a hard core Windows user can see what draws many of us to use Linux instead. I would love to see a similar article where various people are forced to give up using Windows (or Mac) for a week and made to use Linux for their daily PC routine (of course with someone to help them along the way nearby) to see how quickly they adapt to the new environment.
If a non-profit organization calls you, remember that the people they hire to do this crap read from scripts and are under orders to not hang up untill they try every angle on you. Take this opportunity to ask them what they are wearing. Tell them how much telemarketers turn you on. And above all feel free to scream wild orgasmic yulps as every offer they make gets you hotter and hotter....
Today, GNU runs with various kernels including Linux, the GNU Hurd (our kernel), and the NetBSD kernel. It is basically the same system, whichever kernel you use. Has anyone actually seen GNU Hurd run anything outside of a testing situation? Nothing against RMS, but isn't it about time to put Hurd to rest?
not to mention that Firebird also lacks the ability to be set to compare the page in the cache to the current page everytime the page is loaded. this ability is extreamly important if you read message boards which constantly change and need to be reloaded in order to view new content.
is that I have to blame this once again on Microsoft who seem to add loads of rarely used features to all of their releases of products such as Office. Then they turn around and remove backwards compatibility for those who would choose to stick with older and less (but not much) bloated version. Companies hate to have to upgrade since this costs them valuable capital. But the liscense policies of corporations such as M$ tend to lock them into buying software which bloats larger with each release.
I would almost question that, especially after seeing what RH did with their past 2 releases. They managed to screw up KDE and Gnome. I would hate to see them taint Java next.
As a java programmer, I have never found java to be limited as a closed source language. The overall structure of the language is easily expandable and adaptable enough to fit my daily needs. And by introducing a new non-sun version of java leads to the same problems that M$ had with J++ where 100% pure sun java code is incompatible with other flavors. Sometimes I believe that certain things, especially programming languages, are better left untouched by multiple sources. It strengthens the language when it remains uniform.
1) no need for Office2000 when you can just as easily run OpenOffice 2) self extracting exe's for palm work fine under wine. and kpilot, jpilot, etc work fine beyond that. 3) if you really need Office2000, you can run Crossover Office which is much cheaper and requires less memory and hard disk real estate
you apparently didn't read the whole thread. the reason i commented was that i see no reason to run win4lin. mainly since 1) a dual boot system is just as easy 2) wine doesn't require you to buy a windows cd 3) most windows aps have a Linux equivilent
no actually i don't reboot at all, i just don't even use linux or win4lin.
to run win4lin you have to have a windows distro cd. at that point you might as well just run a dual boot system or even a separate box. plus, after using linux for years, i have yet to find a reason to have to go back to using windows (sure there are some win exclusive aps out there, but you can dual boot into those if you need to). all i see win4lin as is a nice hack, but a rahter bothersome and slow way to run windows if you honestly have to.
but the automatic download of updates can be turned off in the plugin manager. I noticed that I was getting messages that the update manager had failed every morning after I installed 1.4.2 on a Win2000 PC. Simply by bringing up the plugin manager I was able to turn it off (you can even schedule it to go on at different intervals).
the chinese are going to do the same thing that the US and Russia have been able to do for more than 40 years now. wake me up when some actual exciting news happens.
From the inventors of not giving access to the underlying OS.. because Apple has better access to the underlying operating system
no, i see lockups as a problem, but it's not the kernel's fault. in cases such as this it's usually the filesystems fault. two completely different entities.
I don't see it exactly as a problem, more like a result of a setting that allows the system to constantly update the drive info with file access time and tail info (which can require loads of extra io's when loading a file). when you set the system to not update access time and tail info on a drive, it removes this extra io taskload.
Did you mount your drives with defualt in the /etc/fstab file?
If so, use noatime, notail instead. it will prevent those lockups.
took all of 1 minute to link the java plugin into my /home/username/.mozilla plugin directory
took even less time to install the jre and sdk.....
and better yet, netbeans (sun one studio) is free....
NASA rushing to screw up again. What is the big hurry to get back to space with something as outdated as the shuttle. Why not use the time to reevaluate the whole situation, budget, goals, etc and then formulate a long term plan. The shuttle has proven that it has outlived it's usefulness. It is nothing but a money wasting anchor for NASA. Take the time, develop a new vehicle(s) which is not only usefull, but also cost efficient, safe, etc. Don't rush to commit the same mistakes again and again.
so, should theyjust keep their 125 workers around to twiddle their thumbs and do nothing? Usually when companies lay people off, it is simply because they have no work for them to do. It would be idiotic to hold onto workers if you are only going to have them sit around and do nothing. Sure, it sucks for the 125 workers, but that's life....
the numbers are dialed by a computer that should have weeded out the numbers that are on the DNC list.
the moon has alot to offer to who???? name one benefit of placing going back to the moon high on the US agenda! let the US save the billions of dollars, and maybe put that money towards schools that cannot afford new textbooks, computers, etc. gathering up some moon rocks (which we already have anyways) does not cure problems here on earth.