Linus Torvalds, for example, didn't actually try to write Linux from scratch. Instead, he started by reusing code and ideas from Minix, a tiny Unix-like operating system for PC clones. Eventually all the Minix code went away or was completely rewritten -- but while it was there, it provided scaffolding for the infant that would eventually become Linux.
I think that ESR is simply wrong about this. The analysis of Linux v0.1 (commissioned by AdTI itself) found no code taken from Minix.
Hmmm I think we should cut ESR some slack here, I know I for one have repeated muddled info on Linuxes genesis in the past, do to pure ignorance, and being miss informed. One of the really great things about this whole crapola (well the only one so far) is that now finally many of us (FOSS geeks) are getting all our facts straight. I must say I knew Linux was clean but I never realised how clean.
Hope fully this will all blow up in Ken Browns face soon, and set the grounding for a clearly understood parentage and legitimacy for Linux
Wait, I think Microsoft got that patented, scratch that.
Microsoft may have the patent, but I thought they sold an exclusive license to SCO for this new "sue them into oblivion" technology.
In other news, MS has announced a fatal flaw in their "sue them into oblivion" technology, and will be releasing a service pack sometime in the next 90 days. seems in the current version you actuallly have to have a case.
nah SCO are using the other version, the sue you're self into oblivion version, just wait a little longer and you'll see. I believe the M$ code word for this product is suicide.:-P
Yes, Caps Lock is useless and annoying. Infact, I find it so annoying when I accidentally hit my Caps Lock that I added this to my xorg.conf (XF86Config for those still using XFree86):
Option "XkbOptions" "ctrl:nocaps"
There are quite a few other things you can do with your Caps Lock key in Xorg/XF86, just Google for them.
Yep me to but my solution is more basic, new keyboard, pick up small screw driver, pop capslock key is out, drop capslock key into draw, all done.
The Second Life world is a little over a year old, but in its accelerated ecosystem, where players fly and don't waste time eating or going to the bathroom, a commercial society has quickly emerged -- complete with stores, artisans, charities and social clubs.
Wow never going to the Dunny (bathroom), doesn't the amount to torture.
Who would have thought it new matterials present new environment/health problems, the tone of the article is idiotic, if we had been messing with these matterials for a long time the tone would make sense, but as it is, big deal that the dangers of these things are little understood etc, of course they are, can any one tell me how the dangers etc of a brand new thing could be well understood??
why would MS have to comply? Couldnt they just say 'okay, BYE' and not sell in Europe anymore? I know MS sells a lot in europe.... but who would be more injured by such a move, MS or the EU?
or is there some international law that says MS MUST comply?
not a troll, just some questions, as IANAL.
Wow you really don't know??, why not suggest M$ give up the US market while you're at it, man do you have any idea just how big (people/ecconomy wise) the EU is?? hmm I guess you don't.
...stop telling me things are DYING, maybe let me know when they're DEAD.
Maybe we could have special section on the main page, sort of like a bullet list, only instead of bullets we have either red (dying) or green (getting better/alive again) graphic's, then we could watch them blinking away as various things die and undie:-D
But that said, I have never developed software more rapidly than in C#..NET has trippled my productivity (on the Windows platform) and my approval rating at work has skyrocketed as I have rolled out several solutions on.NET that are stable, solid, and effective.
Now let me see, a claim that tool set X has tripled said persons productivity, the new wonder product X shines my glasses, makes me coffee in the morning,... give me a break, stop reading the brochure, what crap, there never that good, sooner or later you need to to do something other than join n components together in some trivial way, and bang you find out just how much of that was an illusion, and then the earlier code has been out long enough now for the falsehood of it's stability to become plain, it's stable alright, but only under a narrow subset of conditions, conditions which are almost guaranteed to occur in a typical development/debug session, but in real usage ???, now you loose all your productivity gains etc in wrestling with bad/inadequate debugging tools, and library code that is in reality written by the the incompetent, for the incompetent, of the incompetent. I've worked with a lot of rad tools over many years, and with all of them there was at least a touch of this, at some point at some time, but only with.NET, was all of this true in spades.NET is the biggest piece of junk I've ever seen. The more code is written for it, the more it is used, the more it's inherent flakiness will be revealed, the more Coders with end up in the psych wards.
Right and what Enron was up to was up to was "just smart business" too I guess, at least up until they got caught, I wish I had $0.01 for every time I've heard some cretin say that about some shonky company/individual, I'd be a millionare.
What M$ is doing is a cross between bribary & entrapment, and the US millitary etc are quite right to boot this "trogen horse" type gift back too were it came from.
If I didn't have my beloved Zaurus, I might try Lycoris... but only if you threatened me at gunpoint of course. Or maybe poked me with a sharp stick a few times:)
Poke you with a sharp stick, ok if you'd really like, we wont even make any demands we'll do it for free.
Paying for postage already exists, it's called a fax.
This is the worst solution ever and the only reason that MS/Yahoo support it is because of Hotmail/YahooMail. They stand to make huge profits because they host the inboxes of millions of users. Every email received at those accounts would invoice the sender. It's a no brainer for BARRELS OF CASH !!! (tm)
In fact, there already was a good solution proposed a few weeks ago, by microsoft no less. Combine it with Spam Assassin the way Spam Interceptor does (replacing the C/R component) and the solution is plausible.
How's this for a soln:
first we solve the problem of header forgery, without that we're nowhere. Next we implement a stamp system, but you have to pay into the recipients account. So they pay you to receive their email. You also have a specials list, which sets special prices for some email. This list uses signatures of emails, ie. not just from this user, but email header/body matches patterns, etc. to assign special prices to items of email. The special prices can be positive or negative or 0,
positive x means sender must pay x units of Internet credit to receiver, negative x means receiver pays, the sender x units of Internet credit, presumably some sort of subscription, 0 means no charge for this, ie. this is my friend, no problem, no charge.
There would need to be some sort of mechanism to refund charges if it latter, turns out to be you're friend. Some sort of third party financial institution might be needed to negotiate these charges, and keep the accounts.
But we should still allow some white listed pgp/gpg signed etc stuff to bypass this system, and go straight to us, just like now, but only for users know to us.
Under this scheme you could charge say $1 or even $1, 000, 000, 000 for unknowns to email you, with a promise of a partial or complete refund if you decide it's ok for them to email you, and an equal promise of no refund if you don't want to, despite what they say commercial, groups & spammers know that 99.9999% of people don't want their crap, if they had to risk even $1 per email, they'd desist pretty quick.
The downside of this scheme is it somewhat increases the complexity of the process of transferring email.
God I hate that Lameness filter it is just so lame, the lameness filter just plain suxs. The Lameness filter never gets it right, it is a complete joke, a waste of space. The very concept of a lameness filter is the lamest idea of all time.
*wild-eyed gentleman in khakis and funny hat creeps through the underbrush*
Ok this is slightly of topic, but I hate it that people associate that nutcases behaviour with my country, thanks very much Steve (bloody stupid) Erwin.
Look George W, Steve Erwins keeping weapons of mass destruction up his ass, sic him.
Then again maybe we should get some use out of the sod first, Hey Steve, Darl McBride is really your long lost son, time to train him with the crocs:-D.
wouldn't it be more logical to allow people to rate things on a scale, -10... 10 say, because of the listed things in the article, my detestation would be -10 for all except the alarm clock, I'd go -3 say I like it but a lot less than the others.
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Hmmm I think we should cut ESR some slack here, I know I for one have repeated muddled info on Linuxes genesis in the past, do to pure ignorance, and being miss informed. One of the really great things about this whole crapola (well the only one so far) is that now finally many of us (FOSS geeks) are getting all our facts straight. I must say I knew Linux was clean but I never realised how clean.
Hope fully this will all blow up in Ken Browns face soon, and set the grounding for a clearly understood parentage and legitimacy for Linux
I've worried for so long about the poor little dears suffering and dying slowly
Heck I used to do Jiu Jitsu and I'd be really scared if that demented bald thing assaulted/embraced me like that.
Who would have thought it new matterials present new environment/health problems, the tone of the article is idiotic, if we had been messing with these matterials for a long time the tone would make sense, but as it is, big deal that the dangers of these things are little understood etc, of course they are, can any one tell me how the dangers etc of a brand new thing could be well understood??
Wow you really don't know??, why not suggest M$ give up the US market while you're at it, man do you have any idea just how big (people/ecconomy wise) the EU is?? hmm I guess you don't.
Right and what Enron was up to was up to was "just smart business" too I guess, at least up until they got caught, I wish I had $0.01 for every time I've heard some cretin say that about some shonky company/individual, I'd be a millionare.
What M$ is doing is a cross between bribary & entrapment, and the US millitary etc are quite right to boot this "trogen horse" type gift back too were it came from.
That means it's working right??, if they didn't want to make things worse, why the hell did they come up with legislation thats spammer friendly.
Poke you with a sharp stick, ok if you'd really like, we wont even make any demands we'll do it for free.
How's this for a soln: first we solve the problem of header forgery, without that we're nowhere. Next we implement a stamp system, but you have to pay into the recipients account. So they pay you to receive their email. You also have a specials list, which sets special prices for some email. This list uses signatures of emails, ie. not just from this user, but email header/body matches patterns, etc. to assign special prices to items of email. The special prices can be positive or negative or 0, positive x means sender must pay x units of Internet credit to receiver, negative x means receiver pays, the sender x units of Internet credit, presumably some sort of subscription, 0 means no charge for this, ie. this is my friend, no problem, no charge.
There would need to be some sort of mechanism to refund charges if it latter, turns out to be you're friend. Some sort of third party financial institution might be needed to negotiate these charges, and keep the accounts. But we should still allow some white listed pgp/gpg signed etc stuff to bypass this system, and go straight to us, just like now, but only for users know to us.
Under this scheme you could charge say $1 or even $1, 000, 000, 000 for unknowns to email you, with a promise of a partial or complete refund if you decide it's ok for them to email you, and an equal promise of no refund if you don't want to, despite what they say commercial, groups & spammers know that 99.9999% of people don't want their crap, if they had to risk even $1 per email, they'd desist pretty quick.
The downside of this scheme is it somewhat increases the complexity of the process of transferring email.
You stole my response, I'm going to sue you.
Ok this is slightly of topic, but I hate it that people associate that nutcases behaviour with my country, thanks very much Steve (bloody stupid) Erwin.
Look George W, Steve Erwins keeping weapons of mass destruction up his ass, sic him.
wouldn't it be more logical to allow people to rate things on a scale, -10 ... 10 say, because of the listed things in the article, my detestation would be -10 for all except the alarm clock, I'd go -3 say I like it but a lot less than the others.