Well, I was looking for a quick-n-dirty way to plot under Windows some ADC data I'd captured. Unfortunately it came out to more than 65,000 rows, so I had trouble without splitting it up. Eventually I bit the bullet and used gnuplot, but it would've been much easier with excel...
Cygwin is very severely limited whenever you try to run something with pipes: it runs S-L-O-W as treacle. I generally find it much faster when running piped commands to ssh from my WinXP machine at work to my Linux workstation at home and run them there.
Windows, for me, is much more productive than Linux, but only because the two main apps I need for work either aren't available (Protel) or are only available at $2k/seat (Quartus II) for the platform. I much prefer using Linux whenever I can, though.
I agree with the fact it's cool - I generate static internal web pages using make + sed + cat on cygwin. I'd hate to regenerate all the pages just because one page changed...
The pages are essentially built up from a header file, a sidebar file, a text file (the only bit that changes regularly), and a footer file. The make file scans the directory for all the *.src files, then generates a page for each *.src file, copies it into the right folder as index.html, making the folder if it's not there already. Easy way to generate consistent pages, although it would've been even better if I could have got css to work properly...
Nothing, really; they are actually very similar. I haven't really used pkgsrc to upgrade the system (only userspace), but they seem to do pretty much the same thing.
I agree. I first tried gentoo about 3 years ago, coming from slackware (7.1?). I didn't like it at the time, probably due to the slow-ish computer and network (dual celeron-366 + dial-up), but also I had an issue with upgrading one thing caused the whole thing to upgrade. So, it was back to slackware for me. Then last year I decided to give gentoo another go, this time on a fast-ish machine (dual athlon MP1800+), plus broadband. No contest; I *love* portage. I had played with netBSD and its pkgsrc before, and this was very close to that: heaven on a stick. I'm now at the point where if something doesn't have an ebuild, I'll think hard about installing it;).
Bottom line: I love gentoo, it's everything I used to like about slackware, with the convenience of portage + the constant-updates.
Had a look - looks great! I had a problem entering "projects" and "dreams", though. Any time frame for adding those? And would you consider hosting it on sourceforge so others can use it?
You don't have to. It all happens transparently: I have a dual-CPU athlon MP setup at home, and I can confirm that it happens just like that. Each process starts on the processor with the least loading.
But it's easy to stay on the "right side of the law". From the Q&A at the site: "...or for entities with an annual gross revenue less than US$ 100 000.00.". Which I guess is why redhat doesn't include an mp3 decoder, but you can download one made by a free software author.
Well, actually, if you pronounce it GEE-EN-EWE, then it's not really an acronym, is it? It's an initialisation.
But I agree with you; I always pull people up when they talk about SCUBA diving. I prefer to pronounce it as ESS-SEE-EWE-BEE-AY diving, as any sane person would. Same goes for when I use a ELL-AY-ESS-EEE-ARR. Or the other day, when the police pulled me over for speeding. I had to correct the officer when he insisted I had been detected with a radar, when in fact it was an ARR-AY-DEE-AY-ARR. Join the fight brother; together we can de-acronise the world!
I use KDE exclusively, but still I use abiword, gnumeric, and until recently galeon was my web browser. I even just yesterday un-emerged openoffice because an "emerge world" was going to upgrade OOo and I didn't want to wait for the compile for something I don't use. But I still run kde as my desktop, go figure. I guess some people are just retarded.
From what I understand, you are not "compiling" in the traditional sense, but rather more-or-less running a simulation. The compilation is the goal; what is done with that compilation is pretty much thrown away (AFAIU), so it makes sense to reduce compilation times. If you think about it in this way - running a simulation rather than doing a compilation, it makes more sense. Compare, for example, "compiling" a SPICE program to compiling a C program.
In that case, you should be doing whatever you can to minimise compilation times. If that includes doing something abhorrent (and I admit, it is pretty abhorrent), then so be it.
The difference is that you can actually usefully run UNIX without X, while you cannot run Windows without the dressing. Why do you need X to run UNIX? Why do you think you need it? Yes, if you want a desktop, you will most likely use X, but not every UNIX installation is a desktop (not by a long shot).
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For you and me, yes, but for many companies with only one guy who isn't a hardware guy, this is a viable option. Don't forget it would take someone a couple of days to get up to speed with the "raw hardware", costing much more than the $200 retail of this puppy.
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Well, I was looking for a quick-n-dirty way to plot under Windows some ADC data I'd captured. Unfortunately it came out to more than 65,000 rows, so I had trouble without splitting it up. Eventually I bit the bullet and used gnuplot, but it would've been much easier with excel...
Windows, for me, is much more productive than Linux, but only because the two main apps I need for work either aren't available (Protel) or are only available at $2k/seat (Quartus II) for the platform. I much prefer using Linux whenever I can, though.
The pages are essentially built up from a header file, a sidebar file, a text file (the only bit that changes regularly), and a footer file. The make file scans the directory for all the *.src files, then generates a page for each *.src file, copies it into the right folder as index.html, making the folder if it's not there already. Easy way to generate consistent pages, although it would've been even better if I could have got css to work properly...
Nothing, really; they are actually very similar. I haven't really used pkgsrc to upgrade the system (only userspace), but they seem to do pretty much the same thing.
Bottom line: I love gentoo, it's everything I used to like about slackware, with the convenience of portage + the constant-updates.
Had a look - looks great! I had a problem entering "projects" and "dreams", though. Any time frame for adding those? And would you consider hosting it on sourceforge so others can use it?
You don't have to. It all happens transparently: I have a dual-CPU athlon MP setup at home, and I can confirm that it happens just like that. Each process starts on the processor with the least loading.
But it's easy to stay on the "right side of the law". From the Q&A at the site: "...or for entities with an annual gross revenue less than US$ 100 000.00.". Which I guess is why redhat doesn't include an mp3 decoder, but you can download one made by a free software author.
But 20 years ago, was DNA identification available?
This may well be a feature of OSX, but it's relatively easy to do for windows, provided you have a remote share available to mount.
Configure windows as you want, then boot knoppix and do the following:
To restore, do the reverse:
It's a bit of a hassle, but it's cheaper than buying a license for ghost...
It's also a hassle to lock your front door and windows when you go out, but people manage that.
Wel, you say tomato, and I say tomato. I also pronouce gnu (the animal) as guh-noo. Go figure.
But I agree with you; I always pull people up when they talk about SCUBA diving. I prefer to pronounce it as ESS-SEE-EWE-BEE-AY diving, as any sane person would. Same goes for when I use a ELL-AY-ESS-EEE-ARR. Or the other day, when the police pulled me over for speeding. I had to correct the officer when he insisted I had been detected with a radar, when in fact it was an ARR-AY-DEE-AY-ARR. Join the fight brother; together we can de-acronise the world!
I use KDE exclusively, but still I use abiword, gnumeric, and until recently galeon was my web browser. I even just yesterday un-emerged openoffice because an "emerge world" was going to upgrade OOo and I didn't want to wait for the compile for something I don't use. But I still run kde as my desktop, go figure. I guess some people are just retarded.
I compiled firefox from source on my Linux box at home. I don't have a problem with it - it runs exactly the same as Firefox on Windows at work.
In that case, you should be doing whatever you can to minimise compilation times. If that includes doing something abhorrent (and I admit, it is pretty abhorrent), then so be it.
Its an interesting approach and you have no idea why you shouldn't do it.
So do it.
In the end, regardless if it works or not, you will have learned something new.
Your sig:
The surprise isn't how often we make bad choices; the surprise is how seldom they defeat us.
Interesting juxtaposition...
I believe in the Pizza Theory: the earth is both round *and* flat...
And so should everyone. It's nestable, while back-ticks are not.
Yes, but in Korea only old people use the same jokes over and over. And in Soviet Russia, the same joke repeats you! With hot grits.
...for the purpose of... writing in zero-gravity, maybe?
No, you can't get an equally Free and legal copy of mainstream packages. Even if you don't pay for them, they are still not as Free as the GIMP.
I agreed with you, up until this:
BOTH sides need to be mature and compete fairly, may the best product win.
Why does one side need to "win"? 50/50 market share (or close to it) would be ideal for everyone, surely?
The difference is that you can actually usefully run UNIX without X, while you cannot run Windows without the dressing. Why do you need X to run UNIX? Why do you think you need it? Yes, if you want a desktop, you will most likely use X, but not every UNIX installation is a desktop (not by a long shot).
For you and me, yes, but for many companies with only one guy who isn't a hardware guy, this is a viable option. Don't forget it would take someone a couple of days to get up to speed with the "raw hardware", costing much more than the $200 retail of this puppy.