- Do you need flashy documents or is Google good enough for you?
- Do you have a DVD player on all of your boxen?
- Do you have enough bandwidth?
I have broadband, most of my boxen even don't have a floppy and doing a network install over NFS is just far too easy. If I need a DVD version, I'll burn one on a DVD-R and carry it around with a couple of fds.
It's not a matter of being cheap or not, it is a matter of convenience. I have a file server, tftp server so network boot is easier than plugging a CD-ROM/DVD-ROM.
I'm writing this from a laptop, it is installed with Suse 8.2 FTP version. I also installed Ximian crap and used that horrendous Gnome interface for some time... One day it just crashed, restart X11 and it's gone. Good ridden. On the other hand, Ximian's OOo work is very good, I reccomend it very highly.
Fedora (also installed on this poor thing) is very sleek, very good but has horrendous stability issues for FC1. JDK 1.3.1 just can't stay stable. If it can't run JDK, it's no use for me.:(
Rubbish. If you download the lot from their FTP site, their so-called super easy installer thing is still available. Btw, it's called YAST and it is a synonym for CRAP
Aww.. That's bad... Just download the stuff from one of the rsync mirrors. I do that for Suse and it works fine. If I needed commercial software I'd be running Windows.
Linux is an OS by and for hackers. Hackers need stuff to hack: lots of little toys to play with.
True. On the other hand damn Suse & Fedora won't install Joe's Own Editor by default, won't install pine but will install 17 different Window Managers and all sorts of CD-burner software even if I don't have a CD (hey! network install?), let alone CD burner...
Every time Redhat/Suse issues something, I spend a day to create my own kickstart/selections so that I won't have to until the next release....
MS SQL Server's "corporate" competitor is Oracle 9i. Oracle will beat a SQL Server hands down in any scenario unless it is a small database system, if that's the case there's no point using SQL Server, you can use MSDE or any freeware product. Postgres (last time when I had a look at it under Windows) runs on top of Cygwin and horrendously slow unlike its Unix-compatible brother. MySQL can be used but what's the point if you have already decided to use a toy database, you shouldn't use SQL Server, go and use MSDE instead, or Access. Most used MySQL is 3.x family and it used to not support lots of features (all changed in 4.x but are we being adventorous today?).
Unfortunately, as far as I can see (and my idea will be readily disputed by others) no OSS database is ready for "enterprise" systems (whatever that means, I work in a company who writes software and the backend can be any RDMBS as long as they have a decend JDBC driver). SQL Server 2k has lots of missing features which makes our life very hard and I'm not a fan but at the moment I can't go to any of our customers and say use postgres or mySQL etc.
Another big player is DB2 by IBM which claims it has the fastest database on the world but DB2 is cumbersome, hard to manage compared to Oracle and MS SQL2k but it works almost under any platform under the sun.
Database world is quite interesting, I can't say any RDMS system out there is perfect.
I feel insulted. I'm an atheist and I don't like these stupid god names polluting skies. What's the matter with these people? Can't humanity grow out of its infantile and get rid of this gods&belief nonsense?
I did two courses on nuclear energy when I was in the university. You just can't believe how hard to get a negative coefficient reactor to start and stay working and how easy to overblow a positive coefficient reactor to get out of control. It's just simple physics. In one type you have a dynamically unstable (tends to shut down) system, the other is dynamically stable (tends to work by itself). Most of the PWR and BWRs are negative coefficient designs. Most of the graphite-cooled systems are positive coefficient designs. Strangely enough. United Kingdom has till a couple of these monsters. They tend to be very tricky.
Nuclear reactors are pretty safe if you know what you are doing. Almost all of the USA subs and all aircraft carriers have nuclear reactors and they are safely travelling all around the place for more than 50 years now. There has been a couple of accidents but even without nuclear reactors submarines tend to be pretty tricky things to run.
Nuclear energy is not as unsafe as GreenPeace claims.
If anyone insisted of the safety of planes and cars as much as they insisted on nuclear safety, all of us would be walking everywhere today.:(
So what? There are so many expert mailing groups/web sites ou there, you just go to your favourite and ask the question. Experts-express is my favorite collobration site. Putting these kinds of info into a wiki is not very useful because what you need is a question-answer driven mechanism, if you can't find the solution to your problem in google.
I've just been into linuxquestions's wiki page and browsed into X11 configuration... It tells me that mouse is the hardest thing to get going. Rubbish. Absolutely rubbish. I know, since it's a wiki, it will be fixed by me or someone else but it's not a good start. There's no wan stop place, Google is the starting point. You won't have any information on a Wiki page about your broken sound card module...
the thinking at Disney's studios, now that they've closed their traditional animation departments.
Oh well, when was the last time they put up a really good traditional anime? CGI won't save their ass if they keep on producing crap. Compare any Disney movie with Miyazaki's worst (and I'm even not a fan of Miyazaki). They are really producing nothing but crap for some time.:(
I started watching cartoons watching Disney products and they always had something special for me. No more, I found what I want in anime.:-) It's fun. Nothing more. I really want to see this Appleseed ASAP.
I believe there are no "stand alone" stories in the SAC series. They are all related, in some way or the other. The seemingly "stand-alone" stories contribute to the overall story very nicely.
The characters' personalities are much better developed in the series, that is expected of course but why we still can't get Mokoto's interesting lesbian sex scenes in the anime, I can't understand!! .:-)
The challenge that any attempt to realize Appleseed as anime faces is that the manga has a *lot* going on. Global politics, layers of social and racial turmoil, the affects of high technology on society (and vice versa), etc. With such a rich world and story line, creating a compelling version of that story in even one or two movie length features is very difficult.
Well, definitely true. That's why I really like TV series like GiTS SAC (and SAC op.2), GiTS the movie was pretty short and understanding what's going on was almost impossible unless you knew the story already. To be fair, I found the story in SAC much more gripping, detailed and fascinating. . SAC 2 is going good, so far I watched the first two and they were as interesting as the first series.
There are so many bad anime out there, I can understand who never liked the genre. It is a pretty hard thing to pick the good ones out of the rubbish if you don't know anything about the genre.
Last tip, if you liked GiTS SAC, you might like Paranoid Agent. It is good.
Well, I can call myself a nerd as well but watching good anime can't be something bad. Read or Die OVA's were just beautiful and I really like the TV series.
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Depends on the airplane's size of course...
if you start working on Java development and if you have quite a lot of files to compile... Welcome to the world of blinking disk lights...
- Do you need support?
- Do you need flashy documents or is Google good enough for you?
- Do you have a DVD player on all of your boxen?
- Do you have enough bandwidth?
I have broadband, most of my boxen even don't have a floppy and doing a network install over NFS is just far too easy. If I need a DVD version, I'll burn one on a DVD-R and carry it around with a couple of fds.
It's not a matter of being cheap or not, it is a matter of convenience. I have a file server, tftp server so network boot is easier than plugging a CD-ROM/DVD-ROM.
Fedora (also installed on this poor thing) is very sleek, very good but has horrendous stability issues for FC1. JDK 1.3.1 just can't stay stable. If it can't run JDK, it's no use for me. :(
Rubbish. If you download the lot from their FTP site, their so-called super easy installer thing is still available. Btw, it's called YAST and it is a synonym for CRAP
Aww.. That's bad... Just download the stuff from one of the rsync mirrors. I do that for Suse and it works fine. If I needed commercial software I'd be running Windows.
True. On the other hand damn Suse & Fedora won't install Joe's Own Editor by default, won't install pine but will install 17 different Window Managers and all sorts of CD-burner software even if I don't have a CD (hey! network install?), let alone CD burner...
Every time Redhat/Suse issues something, I spend a day to create my own kickstart/selections so that I won't have to until the next release....
Unfortunately, as far as I can see (and my idea will be readily disputed by others) no OSS database is ready for "enterprise" systems (whatever that means, I work in a company who writes software and the backend can be any RDMBS as long as they have a decend JDBC driver). SQL Server 2k has lots of missing features which makes our life very hard and I'm not a fan but at the moment I can't go to any of our customers and say use postgres or mySQL etc.
Another big player is DB2 by IBM which claims it has the fastest database on the world but DB2 is cumbersome, hard to manage compared to Oracle and MS SQL2k but it works almost under any platform under the sun.
Database world is quite interesting, I can't say any RDMS system out there is perfect.
I feel insulted. I'm an atheist and I don't like these stupid god names polluting skies. What's the matter with these people? Can't humanity grow out of its infantile and get rid of this gods&belief nonsense?
Hubble is used regularly to observe planets... I can't make any sense of your post. Sorry.
Funnily enough, it is running on Zeus, supposedly faster web server in the world...
Nuclear reactors are pretty safe if you know what you are doing. Almost all of the USA subs and all aircraft carriers have nuclear reactors and they are safely travelling all around the place for more than 50 years now. There has been a couple of accidents but even without nuclear reactors submarines tend to be pretty tricky things to run.
Nuclear energy is not as unsafe as GreenPeace claims.
If anyone insisted of the safety of planes and cars as much as they insisted on nuclear safety, all of us would be walking everywhere today. :(
I've just been into linuxquestions's wiki page and browsed into X11 configuration... It tells me that mouse is the hardest thing to get going. Rubbish. Absolutely rubbish. I know, since it's a wiki, it will be fixed by me or someone else but it's not a good start. There's no wan stop place, Google is the starting point. You won't have any information on a Wiki page about your broken sound card module...
Oh well, when was the last time they put up a really good traditional anime? CGI won't save their ass if they keep on producing crap. Compare any Disney movie with Miyazaki's worst (and I'm even not a fan of Miyazaki). They are really producing nothing but crap for some time. :(
I started watching cartoons watching Disney products and they always had something special for me. No more, I found what I want in anime. :-) It's fun. Nothing more. I really want to see this Appleseed ASAP.
The characters' personalities are much better developed in the series, that is expected of course but why we still can't get Mokoto's interesting lesbian sex scenes in the anime, I can't understand!! . :-)
If you're insistent of watching crap, I can't help you sorry. It's your loss, not mine mate.
Well, definitely true. That's why I really like TV series like GiTS SAC (and SAC op.2), GiTS the movie was pretty short and understanding what's going on was almost impossible unless you knew the story already. To be fair, I found the story in SAC much more gripping, detailed and fascinating. . SAC 2 is going good, so far I watched the first two and they were as interesting as the first series.
There are so many bad anime out there, I can understand who never liked the genre. It is a pretty hard thing to pick the good ones out of the rubbish if you don't know anything about the genre.
Last tip, if you liked GiTS SAC, you might like Paranoid Agent. It is good.
I don't play computer games at all but even I bought Oni and got impressed with it. Quite fun stuff. What else are there like Oni?
Ham radio call sign. Makes quite sense to me. :-) Are you familiar with amateur radio service? It's quite fun. :P
Well, I can call myself a nerd as well but watching good anime can't be something bad. Read or Die OVA's were just beautiful and I really like the TV series.
No, it is called Read or Die.
SF: Give me Evangelion
Comedy: Give me Excel Saga any day
Drama: Give me Narutaru.
If you only watch the tentacle-monster infested Hentai titles, you will really miss the real beauty of this wonderful genre.
Well, I have a DVD of the original movie so it can't be the same thing! It must be the remake.
Oh heck, who cares. Fast Show jokes are perfect for /., I myself don't care for unwashed masses. This week I have been mostly eating yogurt.
I do... I'm an amateur astronomer...