Summary is missing a HUGE portion of what actually happened. The discussion continued.
After the discussion, Linus applied a patch to ALLOW access to GPL_ONLY symbols (for those who care, it's git commit 9b37ccfc637be27d9a652fcedc35e6e782c3aa78).
Another (and I think better) comparison site is here and it has also compares different cameras in conjuction with different cards, which is fantastic if you have one of those cameras. Even if you don't, you can tell whether the card is fast.
The article and the summary are very misleading. While there is some fluff through the iTunes protal, real classes are available (for a price) here. The technology is clearly there to both record the classes in a professional way and broadcast them (on campus they are available both over the internet and on TV.) It is very dissappointing to me that Stanford has not opened this up more and made it available for free to the public. I'm still hoping that in the future some administators will see the light and try to do something more like what MIT is doing. The equipment is in place to easily surpass OpenCourseware, if there were the motivation.
Here is another comparison site that compares the usual things like speed, and screen (if there is one) as well as things that other promotional sites often forget to mention like battery life and autonomy. I found it really useful when I bought mine, but it hasn't been updated for a while, and doesn't have some of the more recent models.
See this post for why it might not be that easy. Basically, if you upgrade to the test1 release now, you might not be able to then upgrade to -final later. See the whole thread for more information.
The problem is that there are many subtle things that have changed in USERSPACE in the new kernel. This means that simply updating to the new kernel may break some things. For example, changes include/sys instead of/dev, ALSA, LVM2, and several other changes that improve things, but that can't simply be rolled into an RPM. Distributions will include the new kernel over the next 6 months so users won't have to worry about these changes. For example Fedora Core 2 will have the 2.6 kernel and is coming out soon.
For more information see this. Also as you predicted, there are rpms for redhat here. If you want to upgrade to the new kernel, I would recommend googling for instructions to follow. Many people have writen good howtos.
This is probably why they want to do it this way. If they did a traditional IPO, it would be mainly investment companies who want profit and ROI. By doing it this way, they might hope to interest other stakeholders not just shareholders. I.e. techies might buy shares and NOT demand the ROI that an investment firm might, because we appreciate the qualtiy of google.
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Summary is missing a HUGE portion of what actually happened. The discussion continued. After the discussion, Linus applied a patch to ALLOW access to GPL_ONLY symbols (for those who care, it's git commit 9b37ccfc637be27d9a652fcedc35e6e782c3aa78).
Another (and I think better) comparison site is here and it has also compares different cameras in conjuction with different cards, which is fantastic if you have one of those cameras. Even if you don't, you can tell whether the card is fast.
The article and the summary are very misleading. While there is some fluff through the iTunes protal, real classes are available (for a price) here. The technology is clearly there to both record the classes in a professional way and broadcast them (on campus they are available both over the internet and on TV.) It is very dissappointing to me that Stanford has not opened this up more and made it available for free to the public. I'm still hoping that in the future some administators will see the light and try to do something more like what MIT is doing. The equipment is in place to easily surpass OpenCourseware, if there were the motivation.
Check out what the US copyright office has to say about recipes.
Here is another comparison site that compares the usual things like speed, and screen (if there is one) as well as things that other promotional sites often forget to mention like battery life and autonomy. I found it really useful when I bought mine, but it hasn't been updated for a while, and doesn't have some of the more recent models.
Actually, there is a great script here that is easier to use and better than the patent office's plugin anyway.
Try it if you ever need to look up patents.
See this post for why it might not be that easy. Basically, if you upgrade to the test1 release now, you might not be able to then upgrade to -final later. See the whole thread for more information.
That said you probably can do it anyway.
The problem is that there are many subtle things that have changed in USERSPACE in the new kernel. This means that simply updating to the new kernel may break some things. For example, changes include /sys instead of /dev, ALSA, LVM2, and several other changes that improve things, but that can't simply be rolled into an RPM. Distributions will include the new kernel over the next 6 months so users won't have to worry about these changes. For example Fedora Core 2 will have the 2.6 kernel and is coming out soon.
For more information see this. Also as you predicted, there are rpms for redhat here. If you want to upgrade to the new kernel, I would recommend googling for instructions to follow. Many people have writen good howtos.
Try this link.
It's an excellent comparison.
This is probably why they want to do it this way. If they did a traditional IPO, it would be mainly investment companies who want profit and ROI. By doing it this way, they might hope to interest other stakeholders not just shareholders. I.e. techies might buy shares and NOT demand the ROI that an investment firm might, because we appreciate the qualtiy of google.
Read more about electroosomtic pumping here.
The pdfs are a bit dense, but still very interesting.
Visit this link for a very interesting presentation on the google cluster. It's long, but very interesting.