I never had any problems regarding this issue. What might be a solution is to use earplugs. A colleague of mine uses earplugs when he is doing "serious" work (as he says) and he seems to do just fine. It's just a little bit funny that you have to ask him everything twice, as he won't hear it the first time and first has to remove the earplugs -- ad you don't know beforehand if he is currently wearing his earplugs as you can't see them (at least not from two meters away).
The earplugs have the psychological advantage of making other people disrupt you less often: It takes some time till you remove the earplugs and they have to ask their question twice, so they think twice if the effort of this is worth the answer -- Dummy-questions good-bye!
I have to agree; yet parallel or (at least) multi-threaded algorithms haven't made it into standard libraries.
An extreme example is the Standard C library qsort(3): There are multi-threaded versions of it available http://libmt.sourceforge.net/ but not included in the base libraries. And the glibc is imho a integral part of Linux. I don't know exactly about Windows, but I assume the standard sorting function to be a serial one, too.
This is nearly impossible - think about dependencies like some games needing libsdl or some X11-app needing, err... X11.
How are they supposed to find the libs, if you can place them anywhere, if deployed at all?
And what about software that relies on being put in a specific directory? Like openmotif insisting on living in/usr/X11?
There wasn't something like a united brotherhood of open source software on stage when Theo and Stallmann were shaking hands. Theo will probably burn the FSF-rug anyway...
the DDR or QDR only works on data transmission, so selecting the memory address etc. is only performed at 133MHz (or whatever).
The data that is sent over (in bursts these days) then comes with 266 or 533 MHz;
if your IT is based on the use of MS Access, you are doomed anyway;
go and get a real database! Then come back and tell us if switching from Oracle/Windows to Oracle/Linux was a good idea.
what software are you talking about? Please check DarwinPorts, Fink and GNU-Darwin to see that actually most GNU-style software runs on OS-X just fine.
Only thing I see at first glance, that OS-X is not conforming to the FHS is, that it mounts external media in/Volumes instead of/media...
The FreeBSD ports and the DarwinPorts collection both use md5 verification for the source files they download (and probably many other source distrubution systems also do).
If someone hacks one of the mirrors the source is distributed via, he could break into all clients...
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I never had any problems regarding this issue. What might be a solution is to use earplugs. A colleague of mine uses earplugs when he is doing "serious" work (as he says) and he seems to do just fine. It's just a little bit funny that you have to ask him everything twice, as he won't hear it the first time and first has to remove the earplugs -- ad you don't know beforehand if he is currently wearing his earplugs as you can't see them (at least not from two meters away). The earplugs have the psychological advantage of making other people disrupt you less often: It takes some time till you remove the earplugs and they have to ask their question twice, so they think twice if the effort of this is worth the answer -- Dummy-questions good-bye!
I have to agree; yet parallel or (at least) multi-threaded algorithms haven't made it into standard libraries. An extreme example is the Standard C library qsort(3): There are multi-threaded versions of it available http://libmt.sourceforge.net/ but not included in the base libraries. And the glibc is imho a integral part of Linux. I don't know exactly about Windows, but I assume the standard sorting function to be a serial one, too.
cscope! Mod parent up! :)
Thats cool - in Germany CS is called "Informatik". I haven't seen any students of "Computerwissenschaft" or something similar here.
Computer science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes. [Edsger Dijkstra]
no they are not - just by having a look at the tarball listing obviously didn't tell you so...
Try to find e. g. the XNU sources.
looks like the same argument makes Linux worse then Windows... somehow;
So what do you do about e. g. startup-scripts for daemons that have to reside outside your dmg? (or need at least some kind of hook outside)
This is nearly impossible - think about dependencies like some games needing libsdl or some X11-app needing, err... X11. /usr/X11?
How are they supposed to find the libs, if you can place them anywhere, if deployed at all?
And what about software that relies on being put in a specific directory? Like openmotif insisting on living in
No, OpenDarwin is about evolving the Darwin system, GNU-Darwin is about purifying Darwin. ;)
Its much like Linus Torvalds vs. Richard Stallmann.
Seems like you totally confused GNU-Darwin (which hosed your system) with OpenDarwin and it's DarwinPorts project.
hmmm... from netbsd.org:
You cannot use a HFS+ file system for pkgsrc, because pkgsrc currently requires the filesystem to be case-sensitive, and HFS+ is not.
Sounds like being superior comes at a price...
heh - looks more like your ISP has molten... opendarwin.org and darwinports.opendarwin.org work like a charm!
well yes, author would have been a better choice imho.
There wasn't something like a united brotherhood of open source software on stage when Theo and Stallmann were shaking hands.
Theo will probably burn the FSF-rug anyway...
crap - then we're all boned...
At least every computer I know is at best a linear bound Turing Machine...
the DDR or QDR only works on data transmission, so selecting the memory address etc. is only performed at 133MHz (or whatever). The data that is sent over (in bursts these days) then comes with 266 or 533 MHz;
actually, its ONE line of perl, though that line probably has more than 80 characters...
if your IT is based on the use of MS Access, you are doomed anyway;
go and get a real database! Then come back and tell us if switching from Oracle/Windows to Oracle/Linux was a good idea.
what software are you talking about? Please check DarwinPorts, Fink and GNU-Darwin to see that actually most GNU-style software runs on OS-X just fine. /Volumes instead of /media ...
Only thing I see at first glance, that OS-X is not conforming to the FHS is, that it mounts external media in
The FreeBSD ports and the DarwinPorts collection both use md5 verification for the source files they download (and probably many other source distrubution systems also do). If someone hacks one of the mirrors the source is distributed via, he could break into all clients...
money for nothing and the chicks for free... eh? ;)
and of course knighted Bill...
Just think of the early Roman Empire crushing the Greeks in Italy (Pyrrhic victory)
There actually is an open source JVM from IBM, jikesrvm..
Seems to be more like:
Apple Menue -> Software Update..