Oh please, I posted for a couple of years as AC just because I didn't want to bother with an account and didn't see the need. Good ideas and observations stand on their own legs, not on authority. I finally got an account because it was too hard to find responses to my postings.
Anyways, there's no accountability in a forum like this. Sure, you can tie my messages together by my handle, so what? You still can't scowl at me as we pass in the hallway, or fire me, or loan me power tools. It's pretend-world.
Yes, I wasn't being completely facetious. Zipping first and tarring second allows extracting any member of the tarfile without decompressing the others, which can speed things alot. This only matters when zipping BIG files, and in that case the.zip overhead for each file is negligible anyways.
Yes, but look at the profit margin in the OS division; if not $50, it's still FAR lower than their current prices. But somebody's gotta pay for the XBox I guess.
As you can see, "Plain Jane" RedHat also does so, and has done so for quite a while:
Linux version 2.4.7-10smp (bhcompile@stripples.devel.redhat.com) (gcc version 2.96 20000731 (Red Hat Linux 7.1 2.96-98)) #1 SMP Thu Sep 6 17:09:31 EDT 2001
It is meant to be a relevant, credible dictionary of terms that hackers use, and thus merely being updated is not good enough.
However it can only have real credibility if it can actually cover a reasonable amount of hacker slang, and the number of hackers has grown over the years so ESR is either going to be everywhere at once or he's going to choose a subset.
I agree about the high quality farm implement comment, I just think it's neat that way. I agree with you that the guy saying it's a mac knock-off is wrong. It's not aqua, not plexiglass, not aerodynamic. I dislike computers and cars that resemble blobs of putty; I like things that look drop-forged or milled. Yeah, it looks like the control panel of a new $120,000 tractor.
Are you aware of the weekly Nielsen ratings for "Friends"? Or the average number of hours logged by the top 25% of Everquest players? And WHY are you reading./ on a friday night?
If I understand this correctly, this virtual machine provides logging so you can "rewind" to any previous state. That would be invaluable in debugging during software development! Sure it would be good for finding security flaws, but equally good for squashing many other kinds of bugs. Perfect for anybody who ever loaded up a core file and though "how did THAT value get in there?"
Check the cnn writeup - interestingly, the word "Microsoft" appears nowhere, nor how to protect oneself.
I'm not saying it's a conspiracy, but it does say alot about how people we can expect people to understand, and how Microsoft is so ingrained they don't even think of switching.
Don't worry, AOL has plenty of skilled coders who don't rock the boat. I don't think Nullsoft is a huge source of profit for the company.
I think that was the point; a company controlled by suits and filled out by programmers who accept their place in the world is headed for stagnation. Sound like any company you know? (AOL)
You need to take a good, long, HARD look at the AIDS pandemic, which dwarfs what happened in Iraq by a couple orders of magnitude. Also the facts on fatherless children.
In the commercial world, because of restrictions on software distribution, there is no single place to go for patches. There is no debian or RedHat that distributes 100s or 1000s of applications and will provide you patches for ALL of them promptly and consistently.
The entire process of installing, be it a day (on a fast dual Athlon) or a week (on a slower P2)...
I can report having installed gentoo on a p90 with 48 megs of ram, because I had nothing else to do with it. I built the system with X, though not KDE or Gnome, and it took "only" about 5 days. Of course it depends on what you install, but some of the biggies (libc, X, gcc, the kernel) will take quite a while regardless:)
Its just the OS I want, I'll buy my own monitor etc.
It's the "monitor etc." that Apple wants to sell, not "just the OS".
Besides, the OS would lose its appeal on general x86 hardware. The reason things work together smoothly is because the list of compatible hardware is so short. Other closed systems like Solaris have exactly the same advantages and disadvantages.
Ohh, yeahhh, real fun writing a term paper with pen and paper. But since typewritten papers are usually required, you'll be spending a lot of time in the "word processing lab" at the library. But since it's closed late at night, you'd better plan ahead or you're screwed!
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And if you live in Europe, aren't you a "resident" rather than a "tourist"? Or is the midwestern nasal voice a line from a movie or other inside joke?
Anyways, there's no accountability in a forum like this. Sure, you can tie my messages together by my handle, so what? You still can't scowl at me as we pass in the hallway, or fire me, or loan me power tools. It's pretend-world.
Yes, I wasn't being completely facetious. Zipping first and tarring second allows extracting any member of the tarfile without decompressing the others, which can speed things alot. This only matters when zipping BIG files, and in that case the .zip overhead for each file is negligible anyways.
Integrated dictionary? Think bigger. All the arguments for rolling in Internet Explorer could be used to argue for integrating Word.
Yeah, that's what the .gz.tar format is for.
Yes, but look at the profit margin in the OS division; if not $50, it's still FAR lower than their current prices. But somebody's gotta pay for the XBox I guess.
Linux version 2.4.7-10smp (bhcompile@stripples.devel.redhat.com) (gcc version 2.96 20000731 (Red Hat Linux 7.1 2.96-98)) #1 SMP Thu Sep 6 17:09:31 EDT 2001
whoa, I just got the whole thing at 170 KB/s via that link!
It is meant to be a relevant, credible dictionary of terms that hackers use, and thus merely being updated is not good enough. However it can only have real credibility if it can actually cover a reasonable amount of hacker slang, and the number of hackers has grown over the years so ESR is either going to be everywhere at once or he's going to choose a subset.
Or make it a collaborative project.I agree about the high quality farm implement comment, I just think it's neat that way. I agree with you that the guy saying it's a mac knock-off is wrong. It's not aqua, not plexiglass, not aerodynamic. I dislike computers and cars that resemble blobs of putty; I like things that look drop-forged or milled. Yeah, it looks like the control panel of a new $120,000 tractor.
That is a pain. Can't they put two controllers and double the bus to each stick? Or something?
Are you aware of the weekly Nielsen ratings for "Friends"? Or the average number of hours logged by the top 25% of Everquest players? And WHY are you reading ./ on a friday night?
If I understand this correctly, this virtual machine provides logging so you can "rewind" to any previous state. That would be invaluable in debugging during software development! Sure it would be good for finding security flaws, but equally good for squashing many other kinds of bugs. Perfect for anybody who ever loaded up a core file and though "how did THAT value get in there?"
I'm not saying it's a conspiracy, but it does say alot about how people we can expect people to understand, and how Microsoft is so ingrained they don't even think of switching.
Surely you've heard of the world's most expensive piece of orbiting space junk, the ISS?
You need to take a good, long, HARD look at the AIDS pandemic, which dwarfs what happened in Iraq by a couple orders of magnitude. Also the facts on fatherless children.
I mean, not *could* they, but *has* MS actually distributed patches for Netscape or Apache when it needed doing?
In the commercial world, because of restrictions on software distribution, there is no single place to go for patches. There is no debian or RedHat that distributes 100s or 1000s of applications and will provide you patches for ALL of them promptly and consistently.
It's because more people cause problems for themselves with sex than violence.
Ah yes, just one little border.
Ohh, yeahhh, real fun writing a term paper with pen and paper. But since typewritten papers are usually required, you'll be spending a lot of time in the "word processing lab" at the library. But since it's closed late at night, you'd better plan ahead or you're screwed!