Now I can understand how to switch to 2.6. next two questions to answer befor to do in on the production: why and when. I mean, what are the major reasons for me to switch my systems (servers and desktops) to 2.6. As for "when" I guess it's when a level of instability of fresh baken code will be compensated by just listed reasons to switch.
So, what are (at least three) major reasons to switch from 2.4 to 2.6? Of course besides "trying the new kernel" (is there anything I can notice without being ponted at it before?) and "running the application XYZ specially written for 2.6" (are there any such things already?).
Well, the choice of Berlin/Fresco over X11 at least has very stron technical merits. I don't see any technical merit to switch from X to Y besides "it might be interesting fun". Yes, it might be... for a weekend or so, but for normal life i gotta switch back to X11 - to much job to be done, the real job. By the way, many tasks of that job are gotta be done in X11, not Windows: available open-source software, network-awareness, security, maintainanence. Now show me such/similar/same important reasons to switch from X to Y?
C-V? You do mistake it with Win32, don't you? In X11 C-V is typically a page-down. If you wanna paste something you have to use C-Y. Well, if it was cut by C-W in the same readline shell or emacs buffer.
For the very first time in a whole/. history (except probably/.ing the spammers, but that was a violence anyway, although a good one, lol) we,/.ers, can make a POSITIVE difference - we can all press the "BUY" button and help the starter, whose business module is the most close to what most/.ers want.
I am for one buying few alboms with Classical, World and New Age music.
Well, it IS dying as all systems do. The question is: how soon will it drop bellow 5% of the total installation (not a market) share among servers? Somehow, I think Linux will live longer than Windows as Windows was never well designed to work as a server (where is the name Windows coming from?). Same about Mac OS. Nothing to add about BeOS (THAT is the really dead OS now already).
As for BSD, it was very well designed to work as a server, but then BSD zealots decided that two load balanced servers are better then a cluster or SMP. For years they were living in their small world thinking that the "server" == "firewalling router" || "static web server" ignoring Java and commercial databases. I doubt they have a chance to fix their historical mistakes. And if they do - it's too late, they are laready to far behind.
Commercial Unix systems as well Qnx will never get back their shares - having Linux (AND still BSD!) nobody wants to pay for a proprietary binaries.
Potentially there could be some chance for a system like Plan/9. I like how it's designed in concepts. Although I don't like how it is implemented in terms of how broad its support of applications and hardware platforms. But I think it's coming to slow to get any momentum enough to attract an avalanche of application developers and hardware driver vendors.
As for Hurd, it's been designed too many years ago and doesn't reflect any requirements for a modern OS.
So, yes, Linux is dying. As well as all other OSes. But somehow I am feeling it will die longer then all other OSes as we know them. Unless some developers will drammatically change design and implementation of a Linux rival. Well, and if Linux developers will ignore new concepts, which is unlikely gonna happen. As for now Linux developers "steal" other's ideas faster then rival's developers do and thus it seems that Linux still get the highest momentum on the market of server (and in a long term - desktop) installations.
The exact string comparison based lookup function is a subset of more general set of lookup functions based on various rules, including exact string comparison AND fuzzy string comparison. If you have a problem to understand that then go back to your school and learn your math harder than you did.
DNS as it is now has not been designed for fuzzy string comparisons. But who told you that it will never be designed that way? It is not deadly frozen protocol and it can get new RFCs describing new extensions and even new corrections. 20 years ago the internet was what? 2000 nodes? And how big is it now? Sooner or later some protocols will be changed to adopt to new scale. Like IP did (ipv4 --> ipv6). It's a matter of time to see new RFCs describing fuzzy search in DNS and LDAP services.
What Verisign did is wrong just because it's not done through RFCs. If (and only IF) there would RFC allowing them to do that - nothing wrong, As well as nothing wrong to extend DNS with better (but still optional) search algorithms - only if there will be RFC for that. And DNS software vendors will eventually implement it, again if there will RFC for it.
If you go to look up a phone number for someone and they aren't listed, you want to be told they aren't listed, not given the number for someone else with a similar name.
Exactly the functionality I've missed in North America (In Russia and in some European countries you can do it) - sometimes I want a list of suggested numbers with similar names or with similar functions. "Sometimes" means that it should be an option saying to the directory service to use an alternative set of lookup rules.
And there is nothing wrong if it will be a part of a directory lookup protocol. The web clients will decide how to use, but the function should come from DNS (or LDAP).
Hold on. Last time I've checked Xemacs with w3 mode it showd me some gifs and jpegs. Javascript might be not up to date (well, that time it didn't work at all). But the real problem of (X)Emacs/w3 is that the developers dropped it. Too bad.
I disagree. The current DNS functionality is "lookup for names and addresses", which is based on the exact string comparison, which is just a subset to more genereal search engine functionality - "look up for strings using exact AND approximate comparison".
With all my respect to the current core functionality of DNS, I do not see anything wrong to extend it by OPTIONAL plugins implemented more lookup rules in addition to the existing ones.
THEN it will be up to individual applications to utilize those extended lookup methods.
MTA must return (bounce) the message with the original error message (MX) not found) as well as all those rule/soundex-based search results. The sender then makes a correction based on newly available information.
In order to protect mail-list agents, the addition field can be used, like "X-Bounce: NO" to switch-off the bouncing (by MTA) for such senders.
As for IRC, when you connect to IRC your IRC program has a dialog, where more DNS disagnostics (including the suggested ine with search engine) can be inserted.
What the reason to have ActiveState language distros for Linux when most (if not all) Linux distros has them already?
Is it anything that ActiveState Tcl or Perl does better than a native port?
I guess if they would not spend their resources on useless ports they would have more chance to stay on profit. Then we may not discuss this acquisition of ActiveState by a company which has nothing to do with the original busness of ActiveState.
Gentoo is one of nowaday famous Linux distros. But... Do you thing Gentoo is Linux? Wrong! It's a meta distribution. It can work (and already works) on a top of BSD, Mac OS X and even Cygwin. In all cases it reuses a lot of GNU software.
What's the next big thing in upcoming Python releases? Any important library to be included to the vanilla distro package? Any serious language change? Any new concept?
Is python achived the stable level and only bug fixes and performance improvements will come out?
We can just ask your "government" and they will hand you over.
In your dreams.
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I'd complain about some French mainstream news source reporting about some neocons publishing this kind of moronic cards deck.
What makes the french deck to be more moronic than the original American one? Personally, my first reaction when I sa the american deck with Iraqi officials several months ago was: "who is the moron who decided to print that?"
The overall message on the French side seems to be "The US were/are wrong"; on the American side it leans toward "the French hate us". I think there's a difference.
Let me translate it. French: "The US were/are wrong, although yes we DO hate them", while Americans: "the French hate us, although yes we ARE wrong". Yes, now I see the difference.
Todoay the course of US administration is readable by people in many countries as: "It doesn't matter we do right or wrong things. But it does matter that we want to do it and it does matter that nobody can stop us."
Well, Americans cannot see it that way - the brain washing mashine works too effective.
I don't understand how that can train people to log off. Mind to explain?
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What's wrong to give the credit to French? At least they elected the president that is not that boneless trying to say "No" to dangerous plans of that crazy cowboy.
And too bad they have banned it in North America. So much for Freedom of Speech... Is it possible to buy it in Europe?
By the way, the pictures finally remind me pictures from the presidentmoron.com. Enjoy:)
How about Canada? No service yet? I'd like to buy music in Canada, but Apple doesn't let me doing that. If Dell will open Canadian music store online (or let Canadian resident to buy from the American one) that will be excelent.
By the way, and if Dell online music store will be OS neutral (buy it from the browser, not from any propriteray player!) that will be even better. I'd like to buy music from Linux and for Linux:)
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You gotta invide to Canada first in order to pick me up. And last time USA has invided Canada in 1812-1814 war it was the most shameful disaster in the history of all american miltary loses.
I use GNOME on Linux and I am happy with that. But on Cygwin there is no GNOME and KDE is not good for Cygwin either. That's why I have to use FVWM or WM, and I am not happy with either of them. That's why I am always open for some better alternative windows/destop manager that I can use on Cygwin.
So, is it available for Cygwin yet? In other words - is it buildable and workable?
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So, what are (at least three) major reasons to switch from 2.4 to 2.6? Of course besides "trying the new kernel" (is there anything I can notice without being ponted at it before?) and "running the application XYZ specially written for 2.6" (are there any such things already?).
Well, the choice of Berlin/Fresco over X11 at least has very stron technical merits. I don't see any technical merit to switch from X to Y besides "it might be interesting fun". Yes, it might be... for a weekend or so, but for normal life i gotta switch back to X11 - to much job to be done, the real job. By the way, many tasks of that job are gotta be done in X11, not Windows: available open-source software, network-awareness, security, maintainanence. Now show me such/similar/same important reasons to switch from X to Y?
C-V? You do mistake it with Win32, don't you? In X11 C-V is typically a page-down. If you wanna paste something you have to use C-Y. Well, if it was cut by C-W in the same readline shell or emacs buffer.
Open source startups? Simple: Red Hat is just one of such examples.
I am for one buying few alboms with Classical, World and New Age music.
By the way, where is my Jazz?
As for BSD, it was very well designed to work as a server, but then BSD zealots decided that two load balanced servers are better then a cluster or SMP. For years they were living in their small world thinking that the "server" == "firewalling router" || "static web server" ignoring Java and commercial databases. I doubt they have a chance to fix their historical mistakes. And if they do - it's too late, they are laready to far behind.
Commercial Unix systems as well Qnx will never get back their shares - having Linux (AND still BSD!) nobody wants to pay for a proprietary binaries.
Potentially there could be some chance for a system like Plan/9. I like how it's designed in concepts. Although I don't like how it is implemented in terms of how broad its support of applications and hardware platforms. But I think it's coming to slow to get any momentum enough to attract an avalanche of application developers and hardware driver vendors.
As for Hurd, it's been designed too many years ago and doesn't reflect any requirements for a modern OS.
So, yes, Linux is dying. As well as all other OSes. But somehow I am feeling it will die longer then all other OSes as we know them. Unless some developers will drammatically change design and implementation of a Linux rival. Well, and if Linux developers will ignore new concepts, which is unlikely gonna happen. As for now Linux developers "steal" other's ideas faster then rival's developers do and thus it seems that Linux still get the highest momentum on the market of server (and in a long term - desktop) installations.
DNS as it is now has not been designed for fuzzy string comparisons. But who told you that it will never be designed that way? It is not deadly frozen protocol and it can get new RFCs describing new extensions and even new corrections. 20 years ago the internet was what? 2000 nodes? And how big is it now? Sooner or later some protocols will be changed to adopt to new scale. Like IP did (ipv4 --> ipv6). It's a matter of time to see new RFCs describing fuzzy search in DNS and LDAP services.
What Verisign did is wrong just because it's not done through RFCs. If (and only IF) there would RFC allowing them to do that - nothing wrong, As well as nothing wrong to extend DNS with better (but still optional) search algorithms - only if there will be RFC for that. And DNS software vendors will eventually implement it, again if there will RFC for it.
Exactly the functionality I've missed in North America (In Russia and in some European countries you can do it) - sometimes I want a list of suggested numbers with similar names or with similar functions. "Sometimes" means that it should be an option saying to the directory service to use an alternative set of lookup rules.
And there is nothing wrong if it will be a part of a directory lookup protocol. The web clients will decide how to use, but the function should come from DNS (or LDAP).
Hold on. Last time I've checked Xemacs with w3 mode it showd me some gifs and jpegs. Javascript might be not up to date (well, that time it didn't work at all). But the real problem of (X)Emacs/w3 is that the developers dropped it. Too bad.
With all my respect to the current core functionality of DNS, I do not see anything wrong to extend it by OPTIONAL plugins implemented more lookup rules in addition to the existing ones.
THEN it will be up to individual applications to utilize those extended lookup methods.
MTA must return (bounce) the message with the original error message (MX) not found) as well as all those rule/soundex-based search results. The sender then makes a correction based on newly available information.
In order to protect mail-list agents, the addition field can be used, like "X-Bounce: NO" to switch-off the bouncing (by MTA) for such senders.
As for IRC, when you connect to IRC your IRC program has a dialog, where more DNS disagnostics (including the suggested ine with search engine) can be inserted.
Is it anything that ActiveState Tcl or Perl does better than a native port?
I guess if they would not spend their resources on useless ports they would have more chance to stay on profit. Then we may not discuss this acquisition of ActiveState by a company which has nothing to do with the original busness of ActiveState.
Cygwin itself is GNU, not Linux :)
Why scientists do not pay NASA enough to supoort Hubble?
the source was in the parent of the comment you have commented.
Is python achived the stable level and only bug fixes and performance improvements will come out?
Alternatively more users will be happy, if Postfresql installation script for windows will check for cygwin and if it's not there - install it.
In your dreams.
What makes the french deck to be more moronic than the original American one? Personally, my first reaction when I sa the american deck with Iraqi officials several months ago was: "who is the moron who decided to print that?"
The overall message on the French side seems to be "The US were/are wrong"; on the American side it leans toward "the French hate us". I think there's a difference.
Let me translate it. French: "The US were/are wrong, although yes we DO hate them", while Americans: "the French hate us, although yes we ARE wrong". Yes, now I see the difference.
Todoay the course of US administration is readable by people in many countries as: "It doesn't matter we do right or wrong things. But it does matter that we want to do it and it does matter that nobody can stop us."
Well, Americans cannot see it that way - the brain washing mashine works too effective.
Nice Idea. Until your boss will catch you doing that. In some companies that coud be the last day.
I don't understand how that can train people to log off. Mind to explain?
And too bad they have banned it in North America. So much for Freedom of Speech... Is it possible to buy it in Europe?
By the way, the pictures finally remind me pictures from the presidentmoron.com. Enjoy :)
By the way, and if Dell online music store will be OS neutral (buy it from the browser, not from any propriteray player!) that will be even better. I'd like to buy music from Linux and for Linux :)
You gotta invide to Canada first in order to pick me up. And last time USA has invided Canada in 1812-1814 war it was the most shameful disaster in the history of all american miltary loses.
So, is it available for Cygwin yet? In other words - is it buildable and workable?