If someone in my presence utters an exclamation of surprise, be it "Jesus!" or something else, I respond with "What?" too most of the time. It's only natural, and has nothing to do with Jesus or God.
the word "unix" in dutch literally means "tree based operating system".
Wow, Dutch must be the only language that has a word for "tree based operating system". Strange though that I hadn't heard of it before, since I use both the language and a tree based operating system every day. It's not in the dictionary either.
Or is there another kind of Dutch that I'm not aware of?
No, but you have (assuming you live in the Netherlands, because of your reference to Dutch guilders) for example www.alternate.nl, with HD's much cheaper than what you said. Unless of course you mean SCSI instead of IDE, in that case you're absolutely right.
I don't know about the memory since I don't know exactly what kind you need, but your HD is extremaly expensive. Checking out the website of a Flemish computer shop, I can get a 80 GB HD for 95 euro. The most expensive HD in that particular shop is a Seagate Barracuda V 120 GB which costs 164 euro.
I've always wondered: Why does dependency hell even exist, really?
The shared library system allows to have different versions of the same shared library installed on the system, and each application uses the one it's linked against. So why don't the distro's handle it better than they seem to do?
When an application wants a web browser, it should run "web-browser [url]". That's a symlink in ~/bin to the user's current favorite web browser, or a symlink in/usr/bin to the system's favorite (or only) web browser. Maybe it should be possible to configure the application to do something different, but people probably wouldn't. We've had $PAGER for ages, and symlinks are even cooler than environment variables. My editor of choice is $EDITOR filename (actually a small shell script which does this).
Debian already has this, in/etc/alternatives. Read the update-alternatives manpage for more info about it.
Indeed, frequency-domain is not inferior to time-domain. But not superior either. Both can only analyze the differences and similarities between the original and the processed signal. Lossy compression techniques are designed not to accurately reproduces the same signal, but to produce a signal that sounds the same to our human ears and brains.
In theory it can be analyzed with a psycho-acoustic model, in practice only listening tests are really effective.
On that particular system, I can compile and do other things fine. Those with similar systems should have similar experiences. Even on my "high-power" (though it's not really high-power anymore) system, I could not compile something and do other things productively on Windows.
That's somewhat weird, since I've done exactly that for years, with much less powerfull systems. Visual Studio running on Windows NT, 98, 2000: no problem.
These days I do the same on a P4 1.7 GHz, but Borland C++Builder instead of MS Visual Studio. Much less responsive: the machine seems to be swapping all the time.
roel@miro:~$ apt-cache search firebird firebird-c32-server - FireBird Classic w/ 32bit I/O - RDBMS based on InterBase 6.0 code firebird-c64-server - FireBird Classic w/ 64bit I/O - RDBMS based on InterBase 6.0 code firebird-dev - Development files for FireBird - RDBMS based on InterBase 6.0 code firebird-examples - Examples for FireBird - RDBMS based on InterBase 6.0 code firebird-s32-server - FireBird Super w/ 32bit I/O - RDBMS based on InterBase 6.0 code firebird-s64-server - FireBird Super w/ 64bit I/O - RDBMS based on InterBase 6.0 code firebird-server-common - Common server files of FireBird-RDBMS based on InterBase 6.0 code firebird-utils - Utilities for FireBird - RDBMS based on InterBase 6.0 code libfirebird-c32 - Library files for FireBird Classic w/ 32bit I/O, InterBase compat libfirebird-c64 - Library files for FireBird Classic w/ 64bit I/O, InterBase compat libfirebird-s32 - Library files for FireBird Super w/ 32bit I/O, InterBase compat libfirebird-s64 - Library files for FireBird Super w/ 64bit I/O, InterBase compat php4-interbase - InterBase (FireBird) module for PHP4 python-kinterbasdb - InterBase/Firebird support for Python python2.1-kinterbasdb - InterBase/Firebird support for Python python2.2-kinterbasdb - InterBase/Firebird support for Python
I see no firebirdsql there. The other database systems you cite are called mysql and postgresql, _with_ the 'sql'. Firebird not.
It's not only the python runtime, but also the wxWindows library and other 3d-party libraries. Also see this response to a similar question on comp.lang.python.
I suspect a large part of that 13mb is the Python runtime that's included in the download. I didn't try it, but I suppose you can get the Python sources without the runtime if you already have Python installed, and the download should be much less that way.
There are binaries available on the site; the link says they are for Windows XP, but I tried them succesfully on Windows 2000. Mac OSX is also supported.
Not coincidentally, the list of supported platforms is the same as wxWindows, since Chandler is written in Python and uses the wxPython GUI toolkit, which is a Python binding to wxWindows.
The second reason is philisophical. Although it may make life easier, or even safer, I don't feel that the government has a right to know where I am at any given time.
I have an ID card (though not digital yet), and it doesn't enable the government to know where I am at any given time. They know where I live, but that's about it. I might be on sunny beach in Spain or in the forrests of Sweden and they wouldn't know.
I'm from Belgium too, and knowing some people who are with the police, they always say it's not necessary to carry it all the time. It's enough to be able to show it once you get home; it happens they drive you home in order to do that. But I don't know if that's law or just standard procedure.
Even that happens very infrequently. I'm 28 know, and I had to show my ID card only once to the police, and that was when I moved and a (very friendly, by the way) police man came to check that I was really living there. Oh, and once when I was driving home and I had to stop for alcohol control; though I don't remember I had to show my ID card, perhaps my driver's license was enough.
I don't really get this: you hate national ID cards, but you have no problem with using driver licenses as an ID? Only difference I see is that someone who doesn't learn how to drive (assuming that such people exist in your country) doesn't have a driver license.
Frankly, I don't really see what's so wrong with national ID cards. Perhaps it's just because I'm so used to it (I am from Belgium), but could someone explain why they are such a bad thing?
I just read those pages (diagonally, I must admit) and from what I understand STDMA is not an alternative to GPS; it uses GPS. From that last URL:
STDMA Transponder
The main STDMA transponder subsystems are:
GNSS (GPS) satellite receiver
System processor
VHF radio transceiver
Positioning data is provided from the GNSS satellite receiver and communicated by the
VHF radio transceiver to other mobile units and to ground station networks for data collections. The transmission is controlled by the STDMA System Processor and synchronized by an accurate timing signal (UTC) derived from the GNSS system.
It's a system for VHF communication, meant for ships to automatically transmit their positions etc. to each other.
Slashdot Mirror
I've seen several of those. They even come in different sizes: rabbit, goat, cow. Sheep and horse can also be used.
$ whois slashdot.org
Found referral to whois.opensrs.net.
Registrant:
VA Software Corporation (OSDN)
47071 Bayside Parkway
Fremont, CA 94538
US
Domain name: SLASHDOT.ORG
Administrative Contact:
Administration, DNS dns-admin@osdn.com
47071 Bayside Parkway
Fremont, CA 94538
US
(510)687-7000 Fax: (510)226-8833
Technical Contact:
Technical, DNS dns-tech@osdn.com
47071 Bayside Parkway
Fremont, CA 94538
US
(510)687-7000 Fax: (510)226-8833
etc. etc.
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+5, Insightful
If someone in my presence utters an exclamation of surprise, be it "Jesus!" or something else, I respond with "What?" too most of the time. It's only natural, and has nothing to do with Jesus or God.
Wow, Dutch must be the only language that has a word for "tree based operating system". Strange though that I hadn't heard of it before, since I use both the language and a tree based operating system every day. It's not in the dictionary either.
Or is there another kind of Dutch that I'm not aware of?
Yuck, I hate that. I want to move the mouse pointer out of the way, so I can look and type with no pointer anywhere near where I'm looking.
No, but you have (assuming you live in the Netherlands, because of your reference to Dutch guilders) for example www.alternate.nl, with HD's much cheaper than what you said. Unless of course you mean SCSI instead of IDE, in that case you're absolutely right.
I don't know about the memory since I don't know exactly what kind you need, but your HD is extremaly expensive. Checking out the website of a Flemish computer shop, I can get a 80 GB HD for 95 euro. The most expensive HD in that particular shop is a Seagate Barracuda V 120 GB which costs 164 euro.
The shared library system allows to have different versions of the same shared library installed on the system, and each application uses the one it's linked against. So why don't the distro's handle it better than they seem to do?
In theory it can be analyzed with a psycho-acoustic model, in practice only listening tests are really effective.
That's somewhat weird, since I've done exactly that for years, with much less powerfull systems. Visual Studio running on Windows NT, 98, 2000: no problem.
These days I do the same on a P4 1.7 GHz, but Borland C++Builder instead of MS Visual Studio. Much less responsive: the machine seems to be swapping all the time.
roel@miro:~$ apt-cache search firebird
firebird-c32-server - FireBird Classic w/ 32bit I/O - RDBMS based on InterBase 6.0 code
firebird-c64-server - FireBird Classic w/ 64bit I/O - RDBMS based on InterBase 6.0 code
firebird-dev - Development files for FireBird - RDBMS based on InterBase 6.0 code
firebird-examples - Examples for FireBird - RDBMS based on InterBase 6.0 code
firebird-s32-server - FireBird Super w/ 32bit I/O - RDBMS based on InterBase 6.0 code
firebird-s64-server - FireBird Super w/ 64bit I/O - RDBMS based on InterBase 6.0 code
firebird-server-common - Common server files of FireBird-RDBMS based on InterBase 6.0 code
firebird-utils - Utilities for FireBird - RDBMS based on InterBase 6.0 code
libfirebird-c32 - Library files for FireBird Classic w/ 32bit I/O, InterBase compat
libfirebird-c64 - Library files for FireBird Classic w/ 64bit I/O, InterBase compat
libfirebird-s32 - Library files for FireBird Super w/ 32bit I/O, InterBase compat
libfirebird-s64 - Library files for FireBird Super w/ 64bit I/O, InterBase compat
php4-interbase - InterBase (FireBird) module for PHP4
python-kinterbasdb - InterBase/Firebird support for Python
python2.1-kinterbasdb - InterBase/Firebird support for Python
python2.2-kinterbasdb - InterBase/Firebird support for Python
I see no firebirdsql there. The other database systems you cite are called mysql and postgresql, _with_ the 'sql'. Firebird not.
It's not only the python runtime, but also the wxWindows library and other 3d-party libraries. Also see this response to a similar question on comp.lang.python.
I suspect a large part of that 13mb is the Python runtime that's included in the download. I didn't try it, but I suppose you can get the Python sources without the runtime if you already have Python installed, and the download should be much less that way.
Not coincidentally, the list of supported platforms is the same as wxWindows, since Chandler is written in Python and uses the wxPython GUI toolkit, which is a Python binding to wxWindows.
I have an ID card (though not digital yet), and it doesn't enable the government to know where I am at any given time. They know where I live, but that's about it. I might be on sunny beach in Spain or in the forrests of Sweden and they wouldn't know.
Never heard of problems with it after the trial period, and I'm sure it would have been all over the media.
Even that happens very infrequently. I'm 28 know, and I had to show my ID card only once to the police, and that was when I moved and a (very friendly, by the way) police man came to check that I was really living there. Oh, and once when I was driving home and I had to stop for alcohol control; though I don't remember I had to show my ID card, perhaps my driver's license was enough.
Frankly, I don't really see what's so wrong with national ID cards. Perhaps it's just because I'm so used to it (I am from Belgium), but could someone explain why they are such a bad thing?
It's been shown that those countries that spoke loudest against the war were actually violating a NATO pact
I'm curious to know: exactly how did they violate a NATO pact?
No, the editors seem to be too busy posting quadruple april fool's jokes.
It's a system for VHF communication, meant for ships to automatically transmit their positions etc. to each other.
9.81 kg.m/s^2
So 2gbps would be something like 19.62 kg.m.b/s^3.
... or else... we're not going to pay our membership dues anymore!!