The problem you describe is not a window manager problem, but a problem with installation tools. I do not know if this exists in any Linux, but in the installation tool I use for z/OS (SMP/E Systems Modification Program Extended) they have a simple operand to use when installing any piece of software or patch (actually the meta-term for both is 'systems modification' and they work similarly) that says "install this piece, and any prerequisite or corequisite pieces". The products and fixes ship with modification control statements describing such dependencies. This was all developed because of the kinds of complex dependencies you are describing. There was once an "Ask Slashdot" posting about what IBM could do to help Linux.. helping out in the installation area, while not "sexy", is definitely one place they could really help. They've been managing complex software interdependencies for decades now, I think they have some expertise to bring to the table.
I've converted 70+ LPs (yeah I'm old and creaky but so's yer mama) to WAV format. I agree with a poster who said metadata is hard - I had to name all of those wav files with song titles and put them in folders (this is Windows, but that doesn't matter really). I'm assuming if I want to go from WAV to FLAC that I'll need to enter all the metadata for the tags again manually? are tags the _only_ advantage over WAV (stereo 16-bit 44.1KHz i.e. supposedly CD-Audio standard) files?
I'd like to get a handle on this question before I start on the cassettes. The goal is to be all digital.
Since SuSE is the default distribution that IBM uses for their Linux on z/Series (or S/390) and this announcment is for Dell Servers, this might be another small step to getting in some corporate doors - start with some Dell Servers, then consolidate onto a mainframe box for lower (supposedly) TCO. We've been talking about Linux on our big iron, and if it was the same Linux as on the servers I know certain PHBs would have a warmer, fuzzier feeling.
Jamming! someone said "lots of wireless cameras" or words to that effect. If they want to do the nasty things ascribed by some posters, they'll just wade in with RF Jammers in addition to their regular ordinance.
IBM has ZFS on their z/OS Unix Systems Services (POSIX interfaces on z/OS) component. ZFS was developed to provide improvements over the HFS (Hierarchical File System) that they ship with the OS.
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I need to do more searching than I can do at work right now - but I am sure this exists for the trucking/logistics industry already. I am 90% positive I've seen ads and such for this allowing companies to track the position of their vehicles, and I'm 50% certain I saw posts somewhere about rental car industries tracking their customers' driving (and fining them for going out-of-state, etc.).
Part of the memory bloat, I'm sure, is that these environments have to have all of the options for people to be able to make choices. Maybe we should go back to interfaces being something that you have to restart your machine for - and have the UI tools actually invoke Make in the background, compiling in only those modules that we actually need for the options that we've chosen. We'd have to have a "dual boot" sort of arrangement, one area to hold the image we're running, one area to hold the image we will restart from next.
Sturgeon's Law: 90% of everything is crap.
I'm not in their "target demographic", being almost x'34' in age but Sturgeon's Law is the reason I watch less TV than I used to.
(You can look up Theodore Sturgeon's science fiction for yourself)
Also - in regards to a previous poster. Do Slashdot readers think that if VCDs of shows were sold, people would buy them to avoid commercials?
They can send their info to some FTP server and their US friends can copy it to Typepad. If FTP gets blocked, there's always e-mail.. and if I recall (can't find the link) there was actually a service that you could e-mail your FTP requests to. (wow, wish I could find that again, it was a list of about a zillion different services which were e-mail enabled)
Will the dimensions and focal distance of the pictures be in English or Metric units? Do NASA and their contractor(s) know this time? I'd hate to have an accidental extreme closeup of some Martian's nose hairs.
There are many in the mainframe field that would "show you the ropes" pretty cheaply, but seriously it's going to take a few weeks for you to map your internal concepts from PC/Windows/Linux/Mac/Unix or wherever onto the mainframe concepts.
I am technical support ( often called systems programmers) on an IBM z800 running z/OS. We once had a developer port some code from Unix or a PC (he wouldn't say which) to the mainframe. The performance sucked, because he was doing I/O one byte at a time. z/OS DASD is laid out in CKD (Count, Key, Data) format, so this basically meant the blocks of DATA on the disk were one byte long. To read 1000 bytes to 1000 I/O operations - obviously intolerable. He had never seen the logical record / physical block concept that z/OS uses, and the environment he came from, with fixed blocks (i.e. clusters) in essence handled blocking his I/O for him. This is possibly an instance where other OS's have it right, but that's irrelevant to this discussion - the problem was a conceptual one, not an OS one.
They are prepaid debit cards, essentially, similar to store gift cards but more generally usable since debit cards are usable nearly everywhere that credit cards are.
So, as a teenager, you could buy one of those, because the stores that sell them aren't going to check ID anymore than for a phone card, then probably use it at BitPass (note, I haven't verified this yet) to set up your account.
It's grey and lumpy because of a skin condition, you insensitive clod!
Imagine a Beowulf blob of these!
In Soviet Russia, grey blob finds you!
It's SCO's intellectual property, you can't show it to anyone
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It gets confused while reading Marvin Minsky, takes a left turn to Minsky's Burlesque, and military hilarity ensues.
Start desensitization training.. first get her a vibrator to get her used to machines.. no, wait! Then she wouldn't need you!
Consult Rubik - LLRLR gives you financial data; LRLRLLRLR is payroll; tables are normalized if all their bricks show the same color data.
Glenn Fleishman, of Wi-Fi Networking News has written a script to throttle the poorly-behaved aggregators and writes about it on his personal blog.
The problem you describe is not a window manager problem, but a problem with installation tools. I do not know if this exists in any Linux, but in the installation tool I use for z/OS (SMP/E Systems Modification Program Extended) they have a simple operand to use when installing any piece of software or patch (actually the meta-term for both is 'systems modification' and they work similarly) that says "install this piece, and any prerequisite or corequisite pieces". The products and fixes ship with modification control statements describing such dependencies. This was all developed because of the kinds of complex dependencies you are describing. There was once an "Ask Slashdot" posting about what IBM could do to help Linux .. helping out in the installation area, while not "sexy", is definitely one place they could really help. They've been managing complex software interdependencies for decades now, I think they have some expertise to bring to the table.
I've converted 70+ LPs (yeah I'm old and creaky but so's yer mama) to WAV format. I agree with a poster who said metadata is hard - I had to name all of those wav files with song titles and put them in folders (this is Windows, but that doesn't matter really). I'm assuming if I want to go from WAV to FLAC that I'll need to enter all the metadata for the tags again manually? are tags the _only_ advantage over WAV (stereo 16-bit 44.1KHz i.e. supposedly CD-Audio standard) files? I'd like to get a handle on this question before I start on the cassettes. The goal is to be all digital.
what nickname would you choose?
Since SuSE is the default distribution that IBM uses for their Linux on z/Series (or S/390) and this announcment is for Dell Servers, this might be another small step to getting in some corporate doors - start with some Dell Servers, then consolidate onto a mainframe box for lower (supposedly) TCO. We've been talking about Linux on our big iron, and if it was the same Linux as on the servers I know certain PHBs would have a warmer, fuzzier feeling.
Jamming! someone said "lots of wireless cameras" or words to that effect. If they want to do the nasty things ascribed by some posters, they'll just wade in with RF Jammers in addition to their regular ordinance.
It's simple - THINK of a program, then implement it.
Yeah but you offered a mini-USB connection, and she needed a nice fat bus-and-tag cable.
IBM has ZFS on their z/OS Unix Systems Services (POSIX interfaces on z/OS) component. ZFS was developed to provide improvements over the HFS (Hierarchical File System) that they ship with the OS.
I dunno, I'll have to ask my computer.
I need to do more searching than I can do at work right now - but I am sure this exists for the trucking/logistics industry already. I am 90% positive I've seen ads and such for this allowing companies to track the position of their vehicles, and I'm 50% certain I saw posts somewhere about rental car industries tracking their customers' driving (and fining them for going out-of-state, etc.).
Part of the memory bloat, I'm sure, is that these environments have to have all of the options for people to be able to make choices. Maybe we should go back to interfaces being something that you have to restart your machine for - and have the UI tools actually invoke Make in the background, compiling in only those modules that we actually need for the options that we've chosen. We'd have to have a "dual boot" sort of arrangement, one area to hold the image we're running, one area to hold the image we will restart from next.
Sturgeon's Law: 90% of everything is crap. I'm not in their "target demographic", being almost x'34' in age but Sturgeon's Law is the reason I watch less TV than I used to. (You can look up Theodore Sturgeon's science fiction for yourself) Also - in regards to a previous poster. Do Slashdot readers think that if VCDs of shows were sold, people would buy them to avoid commercials?
They can send their info to some FTP server and their US friends can copy it to Typepad. If FTP gets blocked, there's always e-mail.. and if I recall (can't find the link) there was actually a service that you could e-mail your FTP requests to. (wow, wish I could find that again, it was a list of about a zillion different services which were e-mail enabled)
get the coordinates of each of the targ.. ahem, "locations", and navigate from there. At Mach 3 there's not much room for error.
Real programmers key it onto paper tape in 5-bit Baudot code, sonny.
Will the dimensions and focal distance of the pictures be in English or Metric units? Do NASA and their contractor(s) know this time? I'd hate to have an accidental extreme closeup of some Martian's nose hairs.
There are many in the mainframe field that would "show you the ropes" pretty cheaply, but seriously it's going to take a few weeks for you to map your internal concepts from PC/Windows/Linux/Mac/Unix or wherever onto the mainframe concepts. I am technical support ( often called systems programmers) on an IBM z800 running z/OS. We once had a developer port some code from Unix or a PC (he wouldn't say which) to the mainframe. The performance sucked, because he was doing I/O one byte at a time. z/OS DASD is laid out in CKD (Count, Key, Data) format, so this basically meant the blocks of DATA on the disk were one byte long. To read 1000 bytes to 1000 I/O operations - obviously intolerable. He had never seen the logical record / physical block concept that z/OS uses, and the environment he came from, with fixed blocks (i.e. clusters) in essence handled blocking his I/O for him. This is possibly an instance where other OS's have it right, but that's irrelevant to this discussion - the problem was a conceptual one, not an OS one.
Sorry - no translation. Babelfish doesn't do Cockney babble.
They are prepaid debit cards, essentially, similar to store gift cards but more generally usable since debit cards are usable nearly everywhere that credit cards are. So, as a teenager, you could buy one of those, because the stores that sell them aren't going to check ID anymore than for a phone card, then probably use it at BitPass (note, I haven't verified this yet) to set up your account.
It's grey and lumpy because of a skin condition, you insensitive clod! Imagine a Beowulf blob of these! In Soviet Russia, grey blob finds you! It's SCO's intellectual property, you can't show it to anyone
"mood sensitive"?? When I hold my wife's hand, I want to know what her mood is... before I experience the "sound of one hand clapping".