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Vi IMproved -- Vim
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Vim also can embed a Python interpreter (and perl too.. but... ). I have spent a little time setting up Vim to be the centerpiece of a Python IDE. If anyone is interested in my stuff send me an email. Perhaps we can exploit the built-in Python even further to make it even better. Who knows... perhaps a Python-zippy for Vim is just around the corner...
I think you are mostly correct. It is indeed hard to find qualified applicants. Good engineers really are rare. However, I believe we are already getting the "cream of the crop" of H1-B applicants. Raising this number will simply enlarge the pool of chaff that we have to wade through. It will not help at all.
Peanuts grow from roots, in a branching structure.
So, make the file metaphor a branching peanut roots, with files/nodes as nuts! In fact, you would have to open the shell to access the file/nut! Further, you would have to bash them to get at the nut/file! And you could use xcdroast on 'em so that they keep for a long time! You could then archive a bunch of nuts together to make a brittle nut. Encrypting a nut makes butter out of it. And of course you could butter your brittle and make a new brittle-butter-nut.
But then, males would download more nuts from the Internet to claim that they have more and bigger nuts than anyone else. Hmm, have to think about that one...
The one question I have is the same one that John Carmack was concerned about when releasing QIII specifically for Linux. Since Terminus will be bundled with all OSes represented, how will we (or anyone) know how many were sold for Linux vs. Windows?
The main reason most people don't think much of OOP is because the most popular OOP environments are based on C++, which is about the worst OOP language ever (if you can even call it OOP).
I concur. My first attempt at learning/converting to OOP was to learn C++. P.U. I never left C. Then, I tried it with Python and could then see the power and utility of OOA/OOD implemented with an OOP language. This is also why I think Python can be, and SHOULD be, a beginner's first language.
I recommend the book "Python Essential Reference". It's not a tutorial (like the title implies), but good to have around when doing serious Python coding.
The first problem with your statement is the assumption that no one has servers running loads like this on a regular basis. I'm sure that Amazon.com and Yahoo would argue that for their purposes, these loads are unrealistically low.
Note that I used the words "most", and "majority" elswhere in my statement. You picked the few exceptions that, of course, would have loads like that. MOST small to mid-size businesses that make up the MAJORITY of server purchases TYPICALLY have light loads (they just share data files, run apps on local hard disks).
The second problem with this statement: since when is a 4-processor server very-high-end?
Note, again, that I said very-high-end PC. To most people in this business, PC means IA-32 architecture machine using "commodity" hardware. These typically don't come bigger than 4 CPU. In that class a 4-way SMP with 2 GIGS of RAM is considered very-high-end, but this is not very-high-end of computers in general.
And finally, the NT box wasn't even tuned well. My God, they put the swap file on the same physical drive and the same partition as the OS.
This test machine had so much RAM it didn't need to swap, and could cache ALL of its test files in RAM. I don't think disk I/O was a factor here.
concede that NT is faster than Linux 2.2.6 at ultra-high server loads. I believe the reason most people don't see much difference between NT and Linux in everyday life (in terms of raw performance) is that the vast majority of system loads that most people see are within the linear region of the graphs, where performance shows as being about equal (left side of the graphs).
Note, however, that the tested kernel (2.2.6) is one prior to the single-threaded-TCP fix. I would like to see these tests done with a more recent kernel.
Again, we must concede that on unrealistically high loads, in an unrealistic test scenario, a professionally tuned very-high-end PC with 4 CPU will outperform an older Linux kernel.
However (sorry Microsoft), that doesn't matter to me. What is also important is reliability, maintainability, cost, support, standards-compliance, and a host of other things. For me, Linux still beats NT when all these factors are considered. Also, if I wanted a very high-end SMP box for web serving, I'd probably choose Solaris anyway. Microsoft, you're barking up the wrong tree. Let's see this test repeated, but compare NT with a Sun UE450 next time.
Bear in mind that Slashdot posters are not an average cross-section of Linux users. Slashdotters tend to be heavy in the "zealot" group. Also, many of them are young, and a recent product of our wonderful "educational" system. Remember that manners are no longer taught in school.
How did that atmosphere cease to exist between the late 1960s and when you were in school in the 1980s?
In 1963 the Supreme Court voted to ban prayer in public schools. Since then, the ideas of "love your neighbor", "Do unto others as you would have them do unto you.", and "forgiveness" have not been uttered or espoused. These are the things that a complex society needs to have if its constituents are to be happy, healthy, and wise. However, these values are considered "religious", and thus cannot be uttered. It is a truly sad and paradoxical situation.
However, that said, it is really the responsibility of the parents to instill these values. Obviously not every parent does, and it seems fewer do all the time. When kids go on a shooting rampage like this it is always due to problems in the home, compounded by problems in school. Many posters here complain about abuses in school, but home life and family values are at least adequate and so they do not go out and shoot up the school.
How can a couple of school kids make bombs and amass weapons without their parents knowing or caring? That is the crux of this problem.
Kinda makes you stop and wonder what "genius" switched out something that works for something that doesn't. Does MS Marketing really have the power to cloud people's minds?
But Microsoft's use of Linux in their defense is really irrelavent. The question is anti-competitive practices. Monopoly or not, they are not justified in engaging in anti-competitive practices. Are they saying that just because Linux is out there that they are now now justified in co-opting open standards? In "de-commoditizing" Internet standards? I think not.
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Vim also can embed a Python interpreter (and perl too.. but... ). I have spent a little time setting up Vim to be the centerpiece of a Python IDE. If anyone is interested in my stuff send me an email. Perhaps we can exploit the built-in Python even further to make it even better. Who knows... perhaps a Python-zippy for Vim is just around the corner...
So where is the most recent "Trusssst meeeee" screen? That one makes me wonder if my copy of the gimp isn't "owned". ;-)
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I think you are mostly correct. It is indeed hard to find qualified applicants. Good engineers really are rare. However, I believe we are already getting the "cream of the crop" of H1-B applicants. Raising this number will simply enlarge the pool of chaff that we have to wade through. It will not help at all.
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But then, males would download more nuts from the Internet to claim that they have more and bigger nuts than anyone else. Hmm, have to think about that one...
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The one question I have is the same one that John Carmack was concerned about when releasing QIII specifically for Linux. Since Terminus will be bundled with all OSes represented, how will we (or anyone) know how many were sold for Linux vs. Windows?
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I'd really like to have a good 2D CAD/drafting tool for Linux. I sure hope Deneba ports their CAD software to Linux. I'd even pay for it.
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I concur. My first attempt at learning/converting to OOP was to learn C++. P.U. I never left C. Then, I tried it with Python and could then see the power and utility of OOA/OOD implemented with an OOP language. This is also why I think Python can be, and SHOULD be, a beginner's first language.
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I recommend the book "Python Essential Reference". It's not a tutorial (like the title implies), but good to have around when doing serious Python coding.
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VIM is also a good with Python. VIM is a vi clone, and you already have it on your Linux box. 8-)
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It's called POSIX.
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Note that I used the words "most", and "majority" elswhere in my statement. You picked the few exceptions that, of course, would have loads like that. MOST small to mid-size businesses that make up the MAJORITY of server purchases TYPICALLY have light loads (they just share data files, run apps on local hard disks).
Note, again, that I said very-high-end PC. To most people in this business, PC means IA-32 architecture machine using "commodity" hardware. These typically don't come bigger than 4 CPU. In that class a 4-way SMP with 2 GIGS of RAM is considered very-high-end, but this is not very-high-end of computers in general.
This test machine had so much RAM it didn't need to swap, and could cache ALL of its test files in RAM. I don't think disk I/O was a factor here.
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This article is dated November 8th, and has been linked from here in an earlier DVD thread.
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Note, however, that the tested kernel (2.2.6) is one prior to the single-threaded-TCP fix. I would like to see these tests done with a more recent kernel.
Again, we must concede that on unrealistically high loads, in an unrealistic test scenario, a professionally tuned very-high-end PC with 4 CPU will outperform an older Linux kernel.
However (sorry Microsoft), that doesn't matter to me. What is also important is reliability, maintainability, cost, support, standards-compliance, and a host of other things. For me, Linux still beats NT when all these factors are considered. Also, if I wanted a very high-end SMP box for web serving, I'd probably choose Solaris anyway. Microsoft, you're barking up the wrong tree. Let's see this test repeated, but compare NT with a Sun UE450 next time.
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Python (http://www.python.org/) + pyGTK, + PostGresql + a thousand other modules kicks VBs butt.
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Bear in mind that Slashdot posters are not an average cross-section of Linux users. Slashdotters tend to be heavy in the "zealot" group. Also, many of them are young, and a recent product of our wonderful "educational" system. Remember that manners are no longer taught in school.
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In 1963 the Supreme Court voted to ban prayer in public schools. Since then, the ideas of "love your neighbor", "Do unto others as you would have them do unto you.", and "forgiveness" have not been uttered or espoused. These are the things that a complex society needs to have if its constituents are to be happy, healthy, and wise. However, these values are considered "religious", and thus cannot be uttered. It is a truly sad and paradoxical situation.
However, that said, it is really the responsibility of the parents to instill these values. Obviously not every parent does, and it seems fewer do all the time. When kids go on a shooting rampage like this it is always due to problems in the home, compounded by problems in school. Many posters here complain about abuses in school, but home life and family values are at least adequate and so they do not go out and shoot up the school.
How can a couple of school kids make bombs and amass weapons without their parents knowing or caring? That is the crux of this problem.
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Kinda makes you stop and wonder what "genius" switched out something that works for something that doesn't. Does MS Marketing really have the power to cloud people's minds?
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Generally:
cd to the source directory.
type "patch < patchfile"
(Last post had my "<" eaten)
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I can see the logic in recycling old newspapers. But recycling old web pages? Somebody must have been behind on a deadline.
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But Microsoft's use of Linux in their defense is really irrelavent. The question is anti-competitive practices. Monopoly or not, they are not justified in engaging in anti-competitive practices. Are they saying that just because Linux is out there that they are now now justified in co-opting open standards? In "de-commoditizing" Internet standards? I think not.
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