I wonder what pill Balmer would take, for christ sakes they made the Linux pill so big.
Reminds me of that Futurama episode where fry has to take a massive pill to go underwater.
Professer - "Now you'll have to take this pill to not be crushed by the pressure"
Fry - "That pills huge! I can't swallow that!'
Professer - "Lucky for you its a reposatory"
Although I am not a user of Redhat Linux I am a Linux user who got my first start on Redhat. When I think of your descision to focus on the enterprise I can't help but think that you have done the Linux Desktop user base a great disservice. If it had not been for Redhat selling copies of its operating system in stores I would not have tried Linux at all. Linus himself even stresses that the future of Linux is in the deskop. How do you think you have aided the Linux community by removing the most accessable competitor to Windows from store shelves?
It seems to me that quantum computing will mean the end of privacy for consumers like you and me. Currently I can use a 4096 bit PGP key to encrypt something so that pretty well noone on earth, even those with the most massive supercomputers, will be able to see my secret message.
Once quantum computing comes out this goes down the drain. If my 4096 bit key can be cracked in a few hours then I need to get a bigger key. Unfortunately at first these quantum computers will be reserved for governments only, for many people who use encryption that is exactly the type of people that they don't want spying on them (government conspirists). In order to match the raw computing speed of the governements massive quantum computer my athlon tbird 1400 may have to generate a 4294967296 bit key. A feat which may take days, even worse when this key is used for encryption.
Personal privacy worked when computers merely scaled linearly (if you double the computing power , you basically double the processing power) but with the advant of quantum computers those rules just don't apply any more
Well I have to admit that the solution guides are quite usefull for studying for exams.
"Many of the people with the best first-year CS marks didn't buy books or go to class, and didn't start the assignments until the last minute - but they'd always had an interest in computers, and already knew how to program."
That would be me, I go to about 1/3 of the classes (a good time to make sense of the gibrish that my calculus prof the period before spewed out). And currently have not gotten anything below 95% on any test, or assignment. I was considering not buying the book until the first assignment was given out and it was along the lines of "3.19 of your textbook". I didn't just blindly follow his orders because I knew I would be bored stupid in that class.
hmmm, lets see, this year here is my reciept for textbooks. I am in first year computer science BTW
C How to Program - $120
University Physics 11th Edition - $120
Philosophic Classics - From Plato to Derrida - $73.95
Calculus: One and several Variables - $120
Solutions to Calculus: One and several Variables - $50
Discrete (don't have the book here and can't remember the exact title) - $120
Solutions to Discrete $50
Total - $653
(All prices are in Canadian
Yeah, I got raped. I checked out the used book sale to see if I could pick up any copies used. Nope. All my textbooks came out with new editions this year (except one but I couldn't find it there). This would mean I would have to do the problem mapping stuff, take twice as long and be right half the time (the maps aren't very good, nothing like getting 0 on an assignment because you did the wrong questions).
As for the C book, I ALREADY KNOW C. I am going to learn nothing new in the entire course. Currently we are tackling the immensly hard problem of arrays. For fucks sake I have gotten paid for writing programs , arrays are a bit basic. The only reason I need that textbook is because he will assign problems out of it.
Don't get me wrong, it is a great textbook for those just starting out in C/C++, but it gets up to basic classes at the very end (the last bit is C++).
If publishers wouldn't come out with new editions ever year then I might have a chance in hell of saving some money. In the mean time I am driving as little as possible to save gas (to school, then straight home). Have stopped drinking pop (a hard habit to kick but pop is expensive), and have asked for blank CDs for christmas because I can't afford them myself.
When I worked at McDonalds we had a similar system to this. The only thing is IMHO McDonalds only hires relativly consciencious workers. You see when I would be getting on for a shift at McDonalds I was replacing somebody who desparately wanted to get the fuck out of there. Same thing with when I had been making burgers for 8 hours straight.
Everyone actually clocked in a few minutes EARLY to make the shift change go as smooth as possible (less orders in the queue when you get on). This was a great system because if you were late it wasn't the managment who you were fucking over, it was your friends because usually noone would leave if the next shift wasn't there.
Currently I work at A&P and it is quite different, since the time clock only checks who is/isn't clocked in every 15 minutes you can clock in 7 minutes early or 7 minutes late and still be on time. The same goes for clocking out at the end of your shifts and clocking out for lunches. On 1 8 hour shift with 1 unpaid lunch (and 2 paid breaks) you could actually get paid for half an hour that you didn't work.
A&P is alot more laid back than McDonalds I will clock out if there is another person to replace me or not, the produce floor won't suddenly explode if someone isn't watching it like a hawk.
I have been useing the mm patch on every 2.6 kernel since test1. I have installed it on 3 machines (my desktop, my friends desktop and my laptop). It has been running rock solid for me. The sound quality is great due to the alsa integration, ACPI is working great on my laptop. Though some people complained about ACPI causing the kernel to crash on boot with test 4 I havn't encountered this with test 4 mm sources.
Although I wouldn't put it on a server just yet it is definately the best desktop kernel release yet
In his Scionce Fiction novel "Cities in Flight" James Blish allowed humans to explore the galaxy through aan interesting contraption called a spindizzy, which allowed entire cities to travel about 40 times faster than the speed of light.
This coupled with the discovery of an anti gathic drug made a very interesting read. In particular, the book focussed on New York s journeys through the solar system.The same guy was the mayor of New York for like a millenium!
The real question is if linux will accept this into the 2.6.0 kernel or not. I thought that a feature freeze had already been set, although if it is for something as siginificant as reiserfs which obviously has been put through extensive tests, then he may reconsider. If not I guess we could patch it ourselves or wait for 2.6.1
couldn't you write a script to first get a list of all the newsgroups on a server (here I am assuming that the server I use, news.tbaytel.net, is at convergance with the rest of usenet), then get all the headers in each, then get all the messages in each.
If you use the server provided by your ISP over a fast connection you can easily max out your connection as it is more or less a direct line.
Hmmm, I recal Douglas Adams saying something about a sperm whale in the middle of nowhere
"As they approached the ridge of higher ground they became aware that it seemed to be circular - a crater about a hundred and fifty yards wide. Round the outside of the crater the sloping ground was spattered with black and red lumps. They stopped and looked at a piece. It was wet. It was rubbery. With horror they suddenly realized that it was fresh whalemeat. At the top of the crater's lip they met Zaphod. "Look," he said, pointing into the crater. In the centre lay the exploded carcass of a lonely sperm whale that hadn't lived long enough to be disappointed with its lot. The silence was only disturbed by the slight involuntary spasms of Trillian's throat.
"I suppose there's no point in trying to bury it?" murmured Arthur, and then wished he hadn't.
Now, the most logical explanation of this, is that in another dimension Earth was actually Magrathea (sp?) and this sperm whale was dropped out of the sky from the Heart of Gold. It then went through time and dimensions to wind up on earth.
See, explains it perfectly:p
Aside from the "wow" factor of this, I am not sure that there are any real advantages to installing Linux on a tablet PC. One of the TPC's main selling points is the HWR, which isn't in linux.
I use linux (gentoo) on the desktop, I love linux, however I have enough of an open mind to realise that linux is not the best solution to everything. I think that htis is one of those cases.
Well, basically as software systems get more complex there is more things to go wrong. That is why I like the roll-your-own-kernel of linux. Don't compile the stuff you don't need and fewer things can break.
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My god, you just described my exact experiance, right down to the picky kernel, and the fact that Slack is my second favorite distro.:p
I have only been using gentoo for like a month however I am already in love. I did a stage 1 install from Slackware, I actually devised doing it from slack independantly and figured out other people did it like that later:p. Anyways I almost gave up quite a few times, however I pushed through and now Linux makes alot more sense to me.:)
I started getting it off bittorent then cancelled cause I was only getting like 30k, now I am getting 120k off the main link. The main link stood through the last slashdotting when the last animatrix movie came out, I don't think they will go down this time
I guess we have a computer club at my school. It was quite a fluke that 4 people who are quite adapt with computers, love programming, exploring new things with computers etc. A) went to the same high school and B) Developed the relationship that we have.
The reason that all of us came to Churchill (our high school) is because of this international Baccalaureate program. All of us had an interest in computers but the computer teacher at our school really allowed us to develop that interest by letting us take Cisco at lunch (because we were in IB it wouldn't fit into our time table) etc.
I can remember in grade 10 computer programming, me and one of the other computer geeks did all of the classes programs a week ahead, the teacher would then use our programs as perfect (we got 110% on them) and mark from them as he didn't know anything about programming.
That was in grade 10. When it came time for us to choose our senior level courses all of us chose Higher Level Computer science, our class consisted of 4 people. You guessed it, us 4.
Now room 112 or the geek room boasts about 25 people who come there at lunch and just hang out. Teachers will bring thier comptuers that they have fucked up with viruses or which are running sluggishly for us to fix. The school has a forum server set up where teachers can (and do) post homework online so that students no longer have the excuse that htey left it at school, also teachers can help students online.
We are given amazing freedom in our "computer club" our school had 50 or so 133 mhz computers donated to us. These were given to us (and the other comptuer people) to learn hardware on. Byproducts of this were a whole shitload of people who knew alot about hardware. We made the pimprouter - a router running linux which controlled our own little duke network. We made a beowolf cluster of 486's (or at least tried to).
I just got DSL like 2 weeks ago and I am still in shock at the speed. I live in a slightly rural area so cable doesn't run here and TbayTel just decided to hook up DSL.
Even if I could get cable I am not sure that I would want it. The cable people have download limits of like 4 gigs, I estimate I have downloaded a little over 18 gigs since I got DSL so that is kind of out of the question:p
I was right, I got this link off another website (amdforums.com), when I noticed it was slowing to a crawl I immediately thought "Slashdot". What do you know! first story:p
Ha, 5.000 so we have established that there are no tenths of a person, one hundredths of a person, or one onethousands of a person. But 5 people sure as hell isn't the largest computer party
Clarke would be a big one for me, his short stories (see Hide and Seek, Summertime on Icarus, and there are 2 others I am just forgeting them) and his novels (see Earthlight and Childshoods end) are some of the best fiction I have ever read. The librarian at my school must think I am stupid, I have checked childhoods out 5 or 6 times and I own the rest. The sci fi books I own were given to me by a retired english teacher in return for computer tutorials, he planted the sci fi seed in me and I just cant stop. I have read the Foundation Trilogy, Pebble in the Sky, alot of arthur Clarkes stuff (see above and more) many times. This has had a huge impact on the way I live my life and the way that I program.
I am, every program that I write (they are usually programs which are used by me) is liscensed under the GPL and includes a parameter not seen in the --help menu which prints out the answer to life the universe and everything;)
The news page for Slackware is never accurate. The changelog revealed for me that slackware 9 had been released. To give you an idea of how inaccurate the news page is, there was a rc2 and rc3 that just didnt' exist. If you want to see exactly what changed since the release candidates here is the changelog
http://slackware.com/changelog/current.php?cpu=i38 6
Haha same here, I had an ISO about 6 hours after the rsync was released thanks to ananke (hats of to him for a great job). I then distributed it to all my friends who run slackware and am now desparately trying to get ATI's stupid drivers to work in it. Otherwise it is great, the install is really no different but with Xfree86 4.3 and kde 3.1 where can you go wrong? I am typing this message from it now actually:p
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I wonder what pill Balmer would take, for christ sakes they made the Linux pill so big. Reminds me of that Futurama episode where fry has to take a massive pill to go underwater. Professer - "Now you'll have to take this pill to not be crushed by the pressure" Fry - "That pills huge! I can't swallow that!' Professer - "Lucky for you its a reposatory"
Although I am not a user of Redhat Linux I am a Linux user who got my first start on Redhat. When I think of your descision to focus on the enterprise I can't help but think that you have done the Linux Desktop user base a great disservice. If it had not been for Redhat selling copies of its operating system in stores I would not have tried Linux at all. Linus himself even stresses that the future of Linux is in the deskop. How do you think you have aided the Linux community by removing the most accessable competitor to Windows from store shelves?
Wow, that is scary. I had never even thought about that.
It seems to me that quantum computing will mean the end of privacy for consumers like you and me. Currently I can use a 4096 bit PGP key to encrypt something so that pretty well noone on earth, even those with the most massive supercomputers, will be able to see my secret message. Once quantum computing comes out this goes down the drain. If my 4096 bit key can be cracked in a few hours then I need to get a bigger key. Unfortunately at first these quantum computers will be reserved for governments only, for many people who use encryption that is exactly the type of people that they don't want spying on them (government conspirists). In order to match the raw computing speed of the governements massive quantum computer my athlon tbird 1400 may have to generate a 4294967296 bit key. A feat which may take days, even worse when this key is used for encryption. Personal privacy worked when computers merely scaled linearly (if you double the computing power , you basically double the processing power) but with the advant of quantum computers those rules just don't apply any more
Well I have to admit that the solution guides are quite usefull for studying for exams.
"Many of the people with the best first-year CS marks didn't buy books or go to class, and didn't start the assignments until the last minute - but they'd always had an interest in computers, and already knew how to program."
That would be me, I go to about 1/3 of the classes (a good time to make sense of the gibrish that my calculus prof the period before spewed out). And currently have not gotten anything below 95% on any test, or assignment. I was considering not buying the book until the first assignment was given out and it was along the lines of "3.19 of your textbook". I didn't just blindly follow his orders because I knew I would be bored stupid in that class.
hmmm, lets see, this year here is my reciept for textbooks. I am in first year computer science BTW
C How to Program - $120
University Physics 11th Edition - $120
Philosophic Classics - From Plato to Derrida - $73.95
Calculus: One and several Variables - $120
Solutions to Calculus: One and several Variables - $50
Discrete (don't have the book here and can't remember the exact title) - $120
Solutions to Discrete $50
Total - $653
(All prices are in Canadian
Yeah, I got raped. I checked out the used book sale to see if I could pick up any copies used. Nope. All my textbooks came out with new editions this year (except one but I couldn't find it there). This would mean I would have to do the problem mapping stuff, take twice as long and be right half the time (the maps aren't very good, nothing like getting 0 on an assignment because you did the wrong questions).
As for the C book, I ALREADY KNOW C. I am going to learn nothing new in the entire course. Currently we are tackling the immensly hard problem of arrays. For fucks sake I have gotten paid for writing programs , arrays are a bit basic. The only reason I need that textbook is because he will assign problems out of it.
Don't get me wrong, it is a great textbook for those just starting out in C/C++, but it gets up to basic classes at the very end (the last bit is C++).
If publishers wouldn't come out with new editions ever year then I might have a chance in hell of saving some money. In the mean time I am driving as little as possible to save gas (to school, then straight home). Have stopped drinking pop (a hard habit to kick but pop is expensive), and have asked for blank CDs for christmas because I can't afford them myself.
I was wondering why Microsoft would send an update to me, a Linux user :p This has been crowding my inbox for the last few days
When I worked at McDonalds we had a similar system to this. The only thing is IMHO McDonalds only hires relativly consciencious workers. You see when I would be getting on for a shift at McDonalds I was replacing somebody who desparately wanted to get the fuck out of there. Same thing with when I had been making burgers for 8 hours straight. Everyone actually clocked in a few minutes EARLY to make the shift change go as smooth as possible (less orders in the queue when you get on). This was a great system because if you were late it wasn't the managment who you were fucking over, it was your friends because usually noone would leave if the next shift wasn't there. Currently I work at A&P and it is quite different, since the time clock only checks who is/isn't clocked in every 15 minutes you can clock in 7 minutes early or 7 minutes late and still be on time. The same goes for clocking out at the end of your shifts and clocking out for lunches. On 1 8 hour shift with 1 unpaid lunch (and 2 paid breaks) you could actually get paid for half an hour that you didn't work. A&P is alot more laid back than McDonalds I will clock out if there is another person to replace me or not, the produce floor won't suddenly explode if someone isn't watching it like a hawk.
I have been useing the mm patch on every 2.6 kernel since test1. I have installed it on 3 machines (my desktop, my friends desktop and my laptop). It has been running rock solid for me. The sound quality is great due to the alsa integration, ACPI is working great on my laptop. Though some people complained about ACPI causing the kernel to crash on boot with test 4 I havn't encountered this with test 4 mm sources. Although I wouldn't put it on a server just yet it is definately the best desktop kernel release yet
In his Scionce Fiction novel "Cities in Flight" James Blish allowed humans to explore the galaxy through aan interesting contraption called a spindizzy, which allowed entire cities to travel about 40 times faster than the speed of light. This coupled with the discovery of an anti gathic drug made a very interesting read. In particular, the book focussed on New York s journeys through the solar system.The same guy was the mayor of New York for like a millenium!
The real question is if linux will accept this into the 2.6.0 kernel or not. I thought that a feature freeze had already been set, although if it is for something as siginificant as reiserfs which obviously has been put through extensive tests, then he may reconsider. If not I guess we could patch it ourselves or wait for 2.6.1
couldn't you write a script to first get a list of all the newsgroups on a server (here I am assuming that the server I use, news.tbaytel.net, is at convergance with the rest of usenet), then get all the headers in each, then get all the messages in each. If you use the server provided by your ISP over a fast connection you can easily max out your connection as it is more or less a direct line.
Hmmm, I recal Douglas Adams saying something about a sperm whale in the middle of nowhere "As they approached the ridge of higher ground they became aware that it seemed to be circular - a crater about a hundred and fifty yards wide. Round the outside of the crater the sloping ground was spattered with black and red lumps. They stopped and looked at a piece. It was wet. It was rubbery. With horror they suddenly realized that it was fresh whalemeat. At the top of the crater's lip they met Zaphod. "Look," he said, pointing into the crater. In the centre lay the exploded carcass of a lonely sperm whale that hadn't lived long enough to be disappointed with its lot. The silence was only disturbed by the slight involuntary spasms of Trillian's throat. "I suppose there's no point in trying to bury it?" murmured Arthur, and then wished he hadn't. Now, the most logical explanation of this, is that in another dimension Earth was actually Magrathea (sp?) and this sperm whale was dropped out of the sky from the Heart of Gold. It then went through time and dimensions to wind up on earth. See, explains it perfectly :p
Aside from the "wow" factor of this, I am not sure that there are any real advantages to installing Linux on a tablet PC. One of the TPC's main selling points is the HWR, which isn't in linux. I use linux (gentoo) on the desktop, I love linux, however I have enough of an open mind to realise that linux is not the best solution to everything. I think that htis is one of those cases.
Well, basically as software systems get more complex there is more things to go wrong. That is why I like the roll-your-own-kernel of linux. Don't compile the stuff you don't need and fewer things can break.
My god, you just described my exact experiance, right down to the picky kernel, and the fact that Slack is my second favorite distro. :p
I have only been using gentoo for like a month however I am already in love. I did a stage 1 install from Slackware, I actually devised doing it from slack independantly and figured out other people did it like that later :p. Anyways I almost gave up quite a few times, however I pushed through and now Linux makes alot more sense to me. :)
I started getting it off bittorent then cancelled cause I was only getting like 30k, now I am getting 120k off the main link. The main link stood through the last slashdotting when the last animatrix movie came out, I don't think they will go down this time
I guess we have a computer club at my school. It was quite a fluke that 4 people who are quite adapt with computers, love programming, exploring new things with computers etc. A) went to the same high school and B) Developed the relationship that we have.
The reason that all of us came to Churchill (our high school) is because of this international Baccalaureate program. All of us had an interest in computers but the computer teacher at our school really allowed us to develop that interest by letting us take Cisco at lunch (because we were in IB it wouldn't fit into our time table) etc.
I can remember in grade 10 computer programming, me and one of the other computer geeks did all of the classes programs a week ahead, the teacher would then use our programs as perfect (we got 110% on them) and mark from them as he didn't know anything about programming.
That was in grade 10. When it came time for us to choose our senior level courses all of us chose Higher Level Computer science, our class consisted of 4 people. You guessed it, us 4.
Now room 112 or the geek room boasts about 25 people who come there at lunch and just hang out. Teachers will bring thier comptuers that they have fucked up with viruses or which are running sluggishly for us to fix. The school has a forum server set up where teachers can (and do) post homework online so that students no longer have the excuse that htey left it at school, also teachers can help students online.
We are given amazing freedom in our "computer club" our school had 50 or so 133 mhz computers donated to us. These were given to us (and the other comptuer people) to learn hardware on. Byproducts of this were a whole shitload of people who knew alot about hardware. We made the pimprouter - a router running linux which controlled our own little duke network. We made a beowolf cluster of 486's (or at least tried to).
ALl of this started with a great comptuer teacher
I just got DSL like 2 weeks ago and I am still in shock at the speed. I live in a slightly rural area so cable doesn't run here and TbayTel just decided to hook up DSL. Even if I could get cable I am not sure that I would want it. The cable people have download limits of like 4 gigs, I estimate I have downloaded a little over 18 gigs since I got DSL so that is kind of out of the question :p
I was right, I got this link off another website (amdforums.com), when I noticed it was slowing to a crawl I immediately thought "Slashdot". What do you know! first story :p
Ha, 5.000 so we have established that there are no tenths of a person, one hundredths of a person, or one onethousands of a person. But 5 people sure as hell isn't the largest computer party
(they put a point instead of a comma)
Clarke would be a big one for me, his short stories (see Hide and Seek, Summertime on Icarus, and there are 2 others I am just forgeting them) and his novels (see Earthlight and Childshoods end) are some of the best fiction I have ever read. The librarian at my school must think I am stupid, I have checked childhoods out 5 or 6 times and I own the rest. The sci fi books I own were given to me by a retired english teacher in return for computer tutorials, he planted the sci fi seed in me and I just cant stop. I have read the Foundation Trilogy, Pebble in the Sky, alot of arthur Clarkes stuff (see above and more) many times. This has had a huge impact on the way I live my life and the way that I program.
I am, every program that I write (they are usually programs which are used by me) is liscensed under the GPL and includes a parameter not seen in the --help menu which prints out the answer to life the universe and everything ;)
The news page for Slackware is never accurate. The changelog revealed for me that slackware 9 had been released. To give you an idea of how inaccurate the news page is, there was a rc2 and rc3 that just didnt' exist. If you want to see exactly what changed since the release candidates here is the changelog http://slackware.com/changelog/current.php?cpu=i38 6
Haha same here, I had an ISO about 6 hours after the rsync was released thanks to ananke (hats of to him for a great job). I then distributed it to all my friends who run slackware and am now desparately trying to get ATI's stupid drivers to work in it. Otherwise it is great, the install is really no different but with Xfree86 4.3 and kde 3.1 where can you go wrong? I am typing this message from it now actually :p