I know Conectiva is the most popular distro in Latin America and so I guessed that it might be used by more people than slackware. To find it not even in the top 100 makes me wonder if the sampling method is biased.
Could it be for example that internet access is very poor is SA even among those wealthy enough to own computers? Perhaps non-English speakers are less likely to access distowatch? Maybe something else is skewing the results . . . interesting.
you'll be hard pressed to find one that is in common usage
Conectiva Linux isn't generally well known outside Latin American but it's used by a huge number of people just the same (more than slackware I'll bet).
However I have little doubt that this distro will also change over in due course.
I presume that you are not a resident of the UK, if you are then you're extremely ill informed about the laws. You do not have to be "a farmer" to own a shotgun. I personally know several people who own shotguns but are not farmers or sport shooters (all but one of them licensed owners). UK law merely requires that you can store the shotgun securely, do not have a criminal record, and have some kind of legitimate reason for wanting one.
Not for want of trying, fortunately Europeans are generally more used to terrorism and don't react in the extreme way that Americans seem to. The more of a reaction terrorists get the happier they are - life goes on, get over it!
School "blackboard" chalk is Calcium Sulphate (i.e. not real chalk), it's a common mistake to assume that anything labelled chalk really is chalk. Not that this guy is necessarily making this mistake - but bear it in mind.
My personal experience of general opinion "on the streets" and the BBC's version are inconsistent. The BBC like every large organisation has it's own axes to grind. Do you also believe everything you read in a newspaper?
Blair recently called for a referendum on further integration into the European Union and was met with stunned amazement by the pro-European lobby, generally everybody seems to know he doesn't have a chance of winning and the pro-europeans expected him to push the UK further into the (anti-democratic) EU against the general will of the population.
The romans had only one word "amicus" where Enlish has two . . . "friend" and "ally". To a roman these were the same thing - I consider this is an interesting insight into the mentality of the ancient romans. Perhaps they had a clearer outlook than we do.
No real help is given to new users and such an elitest attitude is suicide.
A number of the reviews and guides I looked at before deciding on OpenBSD warned me about the communities attitude to this. But, firstly - I guess it's an understandable attitude if you aren't really concerned about promoting your OS and just want to be able to run it yourself, let's face it most of us are really freeloaders (I can't hack kernel code can you?). Secondly, the only time I've ever asked for help was on bsdforums and I got two quick and helpful replies, without any abuse at all so I'm not sure their reputation is entirely justified (but then I did RTFM first).
I don't know, all I know is - I use it . . . and I'm not a real "hacker" or professional sysadmin so I'd imagine there must be quite a lot of people using it. I use it on my home "server" and use linux (mandrake) on my laptop.
I really like OpenBSD it's got an absolutely rock solid and professional "feel" to it which I've never got from any Linux distribution (and I've tried quite a few). It's also reassuring to know that you're using a notoriously secure OS, of course I assume that "anything is hackable".
I've been looking through the documentation to see if there's an easy upgrade method but haven't found anything really helpful so if anybody can give me a pointer I'd be grateful (I don't fancy a full re-install!).
We have two major desktops: KDE and Gnome (as well as the window managers) - the result is competition between them and they feed of each others advances and ideas. We have mozilla, konqueror and galeon - same result. Kopete and Gaim, Evolution and Kmail, etc and etc, all stengthen each other.
This pattern is repeated all over the OSS environment . . . you have completely missed the truth: diversity is *good* not bad.
This article was inevitably going to kick of the vi/emacs debate. Personally I learned just enough vi to open a file make a simple alteration and save the result. . . like you say it's always available which makes it useful. For anything more serious I use X?emacs - I find it much more comfortable.
Take a look at the great language shootout. It depends what you're doing of course but my general impression from the figures supplied here is - PERL is significantly faster than PHP for most algorithms.
There are a myriad of entirely reasonable criticisms you can make of PERL, I don't think this is one of them though.
I left in 1987 and have never felt the need to return so I can't confirm that McD still use Colchester as their "average" town - probably. I guess it's got a real mixture of population: big student body, lots of squaddies, not particularly dominated by any one industry, etc.
MacDonalds use Colchester in exactly this fashion (to test new products) because if you average out every town in the UK you get Colchester. Having lived there this doesn't surprise me.
Ah but . . . if you want your copy on the e-paper then you would have two copies (one on the repository and one on the e-paper) - obviously you'd need some kind of DRM to ensure that the original was deleted as it was downloaded. The best system would be for the Copyright Police to control the e-paper and the repository, then you request the transfer from them - they can check you are authorised to view the text and make the actual transfer. Fortunately the Copyright Police will be monitoring all transmissions anyway (to ensure that proper DRM is being observed) and watching through CCTV to make sure you don't show the book to anyone else.
A Y chromosome contains completely different genes from those on X chromosomes. Two X chromosomes will contain the same genes, albeit possibly slightly different versions. As a result males have genes which are not present in females - these genes are additional or extra genes.
I had not regarded this as a contentious statement it is a well known fact (although future research may changes).
I don't know enough about genetics to fully disprove your assertion
Or even begin to disprove it! Try by all means but I doubt you'll find any research to "disprove" what I've said.
Absolutely - but we may be approaching dangerous territory here, and I wouldn't like anyone to think that I consider this some kind of "male superiority" argument. It's completely irrelevant in that context.
The Y chromosome is almost entirely useless; the only gene found on the Y chromosome is TDF, Testes Determining Factor.
Actually the Y chromosome has been found to code for 27 different proteins although, as you say, these all seem to be related to sexual differentiation (unsurprisingly).
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Remember being taught to convert recurring decimals into fractions? Taking 0.3 recurring as an example - the method I was shown goes like this.
let x=0.3333333.....3 .... - 0.333333....
10x=3.3333333....
10x-x=3.3333
9x=3
x=3/9=1/3
But if you try the same thing with 0.99999....
let x=0.99999...... . - 0.99999....
10x=9.99999.....
10x-x=9.99999..
9x=9
x=1
I guessed the answer to this quite quickly but had to look up the proof (I wasn't entirely convinced initially).
This is interesting.
I know Conectiva is the most popular distro in Latin America and so I guessed that it might be used by more people than slackware. To find it not even in the top 100 makes me wonder if the sampling method is biased.
Could it be for example that internet access is very poor is SA even among those wealthy enough to own computers? Perhaps non-English speakers are less likely to access distowatch? Maybe something else is skewing the results . . . interesting.
Conectiva Linux isn't generally well known outside Latin American but it's used by a huge number of people just the same (more than slackware I'll bet).
However I have little doubt that this distro will also change over in due course.
Actually you can get such a license . . . it may not be easy, but it's possible.
And then there's the infamous case of Tony Martin which was a complete travesty of justice.
I presume that you are not a resident of the UK, if you are then you're extremely ill informed about the laws. You do not have to be "a farmer" to own a shotgun. I personally know several people who own shotguns but are not farmers or sport shooters (all but one of them licensed owners). UK law merely requires that you can store the shotgun securely, do not have a criminal record, and have some kind of legitimate reason for wanting one.
Not for want of trying, fortunately Europeans are generally more used to terrorism and don't react in the extreme way that Americans seem to. The more of a reaction terrorists get the happier they are - life goes on, get over it!
Everything you say is true however . . .
School "blackboard" chalk is Calcium Sulphate (i.e. not real chalk), it's a common mistake to assume that anything labelled chalk really is chalk. Not that this guy is necessarily making this mistake - but bear it in mind.
My personal experience of general opinion "on the streets" and the BBC's version are inconsistent. The BBC like every large organisation has it's own axes to grind. Do you also believe everything you read in a newspaper?
Blair recently called for a referendum on further integration into the European Union and was met with stunned amazement by the pro-European lobby, generally everybody seems to know he doesn't have a chance of winning and the pro-europeans expected him to push the UK further into the (anti-democratic) EU against the general will of the population.
The romans had only one word "amicus" where Enlish has two . . . "friend" and "ally". To a roman these were the same thing - I consider this is an interesting insight into the mentality of the ancient romans. Perhaps they had a clearer outlook than we do.
No real help is given to new users and such an elitest attitude is suicide.
A number of the reviews and guides I looked at before deciding on OpenBSD warned me about the communities attitude to this. But, firstly - I guess it's an understandable attitude if you aren't really concerned about promoting your OS and just want to be able to run it yourself, let's face it most of us are really freeloaders (I can't hack kernel code can you?). Secondly, the only time I've ever asked for help was on bsdforums and I got two quick and helpful replies, without any abuse at all so I'm not sure their reputation is entirely justified (but then I did RTFM first).
how many people use OpenBSD
I don't know, all I know is - I use it . . . and I'm not a real "hacker" or professional sysadmin so I'd imagine there must be quite a lot of people using it. I use it on my home "server" and use linux (mandrake) on my laptop.
I really like OpenBSD it's got an absolutely rock solid and professional "feel" to it which I've never got from any Linux distribution (and I've tried quite a few). It's also reassuring to know that you're using a notoriously secure OS, of course I assume that "anything is hackable".
I've been looking through the documentation to see if there's an easy upgrade method but haven't found anything really helpful so if anybody can give me a pointer I'd be grateful (I don't fancy a full re-install!).
Forget the 100's of distributions.
We have two major desktops: KDE and Gnome (as well as the window managers) - the result is competition between them and they feed of each others advances and ideas. We have mozilla, konqueror and galeon - same result. Kopete and Gaim, Evolution and Kmail, etc and etc, all stengthen each other.
This pattern is repeated all over the OSS environment . . . you have completely missed the truth: diversity is *good* not bad.
Bah, give up trolling - you're crap at it. For those that don't know look here
MS' fatal infection
For some reason I initially read this as "MS' fecal impaction" . . . possible Freudian slip?
Hmmm, now I've got myself worried.
perhaps I should read a book of style
Try this superb book if you want a guide to English which goes a little beyond basic schoolboy grammar - although it's not really a style guide.
Why would you want to emulate one with the other?
Despite the old joke about how the only vi command you need is :q! not being true. You really need to know very few commands:
This is enough to correct a config file and get things going again - all the rest is window dressing.
This article was inevitably going to kick of the vi/emacs debate. Personally I learned just enough vi to open a file make a simple alteration and save the result. . . like you say it's always available which makes it useful. For anything more serious I use X?emacs - I find it much more comfortable.
Take a look at the great language shootout. It depends what you're doing of course but my general impression from the figures supplied here is - PERL is significantly faster than PHP for most algorithms. There are a myriad of entirely reasonable criticisms you can make of PERL, I don't think this is one of them though.
I haven't been in there since . . .
I left in 1987 and have never felt the need to return so I can't confirm that McD still use Colchester as their "average" town - probably. I guess it's got a real mixture of population: big student body, lots of squaddies, not particularly dominated by any one industry, etc.
I know, I know . . . Offtopic(-1)
MacDonalds use Colchester in exactly this fashion (to test new products) because if you average out every town in the UK you get Colchester. Having lived there this doesn't surprise me.
Ah but . . . if you want your copy on the e-paper then you would have two copies (one on the repository and one on the e-paper) - obviously you'd need some kind of DRM to ensure that the original was deleted as it was downloaded. The best system would be for the Copyright Police to control the e-paper and the repository, then you request the transfer from them - they can check you are authorised to view the text and make the actual transfer. Fortunately the Copyright Police will be monitoring all transmissions anyway (to ensure that proper DRM is being observed) and watching through CCTV to make sure you don't show the book to anyone else.
A Y chromosome contains completely different genes from those on X chromosomes. Two X chromosomes will contain the same genes, albeit possibly slightly different versions. As a result males have genes which are not present in females - these genes are additional or extra genes.
I had not regarded this as a contentious statement it is a well known fact (although future research may changes).
I don't know enough about genetics to fully disprove your assertion
Or even begin to disprove it! Try by all means but I doubt you'll find any research to "disprove" what I've said.
Absolutely - but we may be approaching dangerous territory here, and I wouldn't like anyone to think that I consider this some kind of "male superiority" argument. It's completely irrelevant in that context.
The Y chromosome is almost entirely useless; the only gene found on the Y chromosome is TDF, Testes Determining Factor.
Actually the Y chromosome has been found to code for 27 different proteins although, as you say, these all seem to be related to sexual differentiation (unsurprisingly).