http://packages.gentoo.org/feed/arch/amd64 [gentoo.org] - So I know when "sudo emerge --sync" is particularly called for Brilliant! Thanks! Now I don't have to sync once a week.
Unfortunately, it isn't updated daily, but when it is, it's usually very good. It gives reviews of free software you might not be aware of.
http://debaday.debian.net/feed/atom/
Hell, why not go the whole hog and bury a small PC with the drive and DVDs? Though, I do like the other suggestions of using a tape drive. Some of my CDRs from the 90s degraded after just a few years packed in my closet.
I blame no one but myself for making the mistake, along with the previous mistake of buying Maple. That Maplesoft was in Canada was not something that I was thinking of when trying to install Maple, and since I had never called Canada before, I wasn't aware that you could call from the U.S. without entering a country code. Anyway, calling Canada was not expensive if you first tell the phone company to put you on the free "international plan". I was just a sucker three times over.
Not to diminish their importance, but non-violent movements were mirrored with violent subgroups. Naturally those in power preferred to deal with the non-violent activists rather than the extremists. The threat of violence looming in the shadows was a powerful motivator for change.
Here's an example. I bought Maple 6 around five years ago. The retail box had a penguin on it, and advertised that it works on Linux. Cool. $140. No problem. So I get home, install it, and find out I have to get a license from Maple to run it. I go to the website, and later find out that the license is for Windows only. So I call Maplesoft, repeatedly, and after about a week I finally get a response. Pretty frustrating, but hey, in the grand scheme of things, a week is not a long time.
Several months later, after swapping a bad CDROM drive and upgrading RAM, the license key no longer works. So I call Maplesoft, again, and go through the same stupid hassle. The tech FINALLY gave me a machine-agnostic license after all the other crap she tried didn't work. If I had known, I would have asked for one in the first place.
Adding insult to injury, I had some outrageous charges on my phone bills because I didn't realize calling Canada carried "international calling" surcharges.
In the end, I didn't find Maple as useful as I expected. So the moral: I'll be more careful about spending money on proprietary software in the future.
Indeed, AutoCAD should have not let the case get this far. Either their lawyers gave them bad advice, or the lawyers didn't understand their business model.
I've used goto once in C++ code. I remember trying to implement a very, very tricky combinatorial algorithm when I was very tired. I reworked the algorithm on paper, saw that a goto would simplify one part considerably, looked up the proper usage of goto, and wrote it in. The algorithm worked correctly for the first time. I'm sure there still is a problem, but this particular algorithm should crash when implemented incorrectly, and I still haven't fixed it yet because I'm still shocked that using goto solved the problem when I couldn't figure it out otherwise. Of course, I will remove the goto when I have to share the code, but I'm not there yet:)
Since Gnash is a GNU high-priority project, this is a big boost. It will be nice to run an absolutely stable, crash-free Firefox once Gnash is complete.
"Do you agree with the statement that is it better to have five guilty men go free then put one innocent man in jail?"
This question is sufficiently vague as to be unanswerable by a reasonable person IMO. Are you running for office?:)
The argument relies on Russia being a lawless place where a person of international interest can simply disappear.
That may be true to some degree, but she has to *remain* disappeared for *life*... Not hard to do if nobody is looking for you.
they found non-trivial amounts of her blood in his car... they haven't needed a body for 20 years. Are you sure about that? I never saw a report indicating the amount of blood present. Everything I saw indicated trace amounts found.
This is part of the argument they will make on appeal. However, Reiser DID testify, so the jury might have convicted him because they found him not credible. I know of one case where an unlikely conviction was upheld for this reason alone. Testifying on your own behalf is dumb for lost of reasons.
That may be, but maybe it isn't. I've done something similar with my girlfriend a few years ago. I asked her to sit down and use OO.org and tell me how it compares to MSWord. The end result was that I had to get crossover office. Nevertheless, I know she's smart enough to use free software if she were interested (c'mon, it's not hard), but I'm lucky that she's not opposed to using anything that gets the job done. I showed her how to log on to her account (while I'm on) using an Xnest window, and I have to admit, it's really cool to see her do it:)
There are benefits. Look at the present extremely low prices of quality RAM. The cheapest Dell desktop comes with 1GB RAM minimum. If Vista has something to do with those Newegg deals (4GB RAM for $80!!!), then I'll all for Vista! I can run lots of KVM guests without a hiccup. This is soo awesome!
Does SuSE "just work" on amd64? I had a few problems when playing with Ubuntu and Flash on amd64. But one of the labs where I work just installed OpenSuSE 10.3 on its computers, and the Gnome theme/style is beautiful.
Anyway, I also bought SuSE at Best Buy around 2000-2001, for $39.95. I installed Postfix, and whenever I did updates, it would install Sendmail. So I sold the box on Ebay for about $17. Switched back to playing with Mandrake and RedHat. Now I'm permanently sold on Gentoo on the desktop, Debian on the server, and Debian in KVM guests (runs well on just 128MB RAM). I'll try OpenSuSE in a KVM guest to see how well it runs.
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Unfortunately, it isn't updated daily, but when it is, it's usually very good. It gives reviews of free software you might not be aware of. http://debaday.debian.net/feed/atom/
Hell, why not go the whole hog and bury a small PC with the drive and DVDs? Though, I do like the other suggestions of using a tape drive. Some of my CDRs from the 90s degraded after just a few years packed in my closet.
Man, you got really upset over that RAID suggestion. With a name like 900ftJesus, I would have expected a more kinder, gentler approach.
I blame no one but myself for making the mistake, along with the previous mistake of buying Maple. That Maplesoft was in Canada was not something that I was thinking of when trying to install Maple, and since I had never called Canada before, I wasn't aware that you could call from the U.S. without entering a country code. Anyway, calling Canada was not expensive if you first tell the phone company to put you on the free "international plan". I was just a sucker three times over.
I used Macaulay2 (which was more or less open, at the time) and my own code in C++. I didn't buy Maple for the pretty graphics.
Not to diminish their importance, but non-violent movements were mirrored with violent subgroups. Naturally those in power preferred to deal with the non-violent activists rather than the extremists. The threat of violence looming in the shadows was a powerful motivator for change.
My dose of cynicism for the day
That's not cynicism. That's truth.
Here's an example. I bought Maple 6 around five years ago. The retail box had a penguin on it, and advertised that it works on Linux. Cool. $140. No problem. So I get home, install it, and find out I have to get a license from Maple to run it. I go to the website, and later find out that the license is for Windows only. So I call Maplesoft, repeatedly, and after about a week I finally get a response. Pretty frustrating, but hey, in the grand scheme of things, a week is not a long time.
Several months later, after swapping a bad CDROM drive and upgrading RAM, the license key no longer works. So I call Maplesoft, again, and go through the same stupid hassle. The tech FINALLY gave me a machine-agnostic license after all the other crap she tried didn't work. If I had known, I would have asked for one in the first place.
Adding insult to injury, I had some outrageous charges on my phone bills because I didn't realize calling Canada carried "international calling" surcharges.
In the end, I didn't find Maple as useful as I expected. So the moral: I'll be more careful about spending money on proprietary software in the future.
3:16? Like John 3:16 from the Bible! What a coincidence! Dude, I'm getting a lottery ticket this week?
Indeed, AutoCAD should have not let the case get this far. Either their lawyers gave them bad advice, or the lawyers didn't understand their business model.
Somebody's got to dig that hole!
What is this "non-algorithmic software model" you speak of? Your blogs don't seem to give a specific example of anything.
I've used goto once in C++ code. I remember trying to implement a very, very tricky combinatorial algorithm when I was very tired. I reworked the algorithm on paper, saw that a goto would simplify one part considerably, looked up the proper usage of goto, and wrote it in. The algorithm worked correctly for the first time. I'm sure there still is a problem, but this particular algorithm should crash when implemented incorrectly, and I still haven't fixed it yet because I'm still shocked that using goto solved the problem when I couldn't figure it out otherwise. Of course, I will remove the goto when I have to share the code, but I'm not there yet :)
crash, crash, crash
Since Gnash is a GNU high-priority project, this is a big boost. It will be nice to run an absolutely stable, crash-free Firefox once Gnash is complete.
ReiserFS won't disappear. He'll be mailing handwritten patches from jail.
Sheesh. Except maybe about the "GanstaFS" bit. But still. I'm just sayin.
And obviously, anyone who names a filesystem GangstaFS must be a young white maleThis is part of the argument they will make on appeal. However, Reiser DID testify, so the jury might have convicted him because they found him not credible. I know of one case where an unlikely conviction was upheld for this reason alone. Testifying on your own behalf is dumb for lost of reasons.
That may be, but maybe it isn't. I've done something similar with my girlfriend a few years ago. I asked her to sit down and use OO.org and tell me how it compares to MSWord. The end result was that I had to get crossover office. Nevertheless, I know she's smart enough to use free software if she were interested (c'mon, it's not hard), but I'm lucky that she's not opposed to using anything that gets the job done. I showed her how to log on to her account (while I'm on) using an Xnest window, and I have to admit, it's really cool to see her do it :)
There are benefits. Look at the present extremely low prices of quality RAM. The cheapest Dell desktop comes with 1GB RAM minimum. If Vista has something to do with those Newegg deals (4GB RAM for $80!!!), then I'll all for Vista! I can run lots of KVM guests without a hiccup. This is soo awesome!
Does SuSE "just work" on amd64? I had a few problems when playing with Ubuntu and Flash on amd64. But one of the labs where I work just installed OpenSuSE 10.3 on its computers, and the Gnome theme/style is beautiful.
Anyway, I also bought SuSE at Best Buy around 2000-2001, for $39.95. I installed Postfix, and whenever I did updates, it would install Sendmail. So I sold the box on Ebay for about $17. Switched back to playing with Mandrake and RedHat. Now I'm permanently sold on Gentoo on the desktop, Debian on the server, and Debian in KVM guests (runs well on just 128MB RAM). I'll try OpenSuSE in a KVM guest to see how well it runs.