Oh, it compiles on Slackware. As soon as you edit the source to make it happy with the errno bugs. ANY modern distro of Linux isn't happy with TinyDNS. It's a pain in the ass, and the license is dumb. I'll stop now before I reiterate too many things.
I think this says it all. VB is a pox on mankind. I use XP, too. Have to keep it on the laptop because our software only runs under Windows, Wine isn't an option yet.
As for crashing, yes, XP IS more stable, but it still suffers from Windows congenital defects. Have you ever tried to figure out why a program was crashing? No logging of any sort. Their "repair" function is anything but on the XP install disc. Viruses, etc. have a nice little home because files are treated differently because of the extension, and all kinds of insecure services are turned on by default, though they do nothing for the end user. I had an XP laptop infected 5 minutes after hooking it live to the Internet... was just testing the connection and boom. The whole system is just badly designed, we're just holding onto it because it's what everyone else has.
I think you should follow the open source meme and release the code to said perl script, help get more geeks laid. It is the creative commons, after all...
Since when does KDE have a registry? It has the same as every other Linux app that needs a registry like settings saving scheme... it has.kde in the home directory, and settings under the individual applications. But if you screw up anything (or an errant program breaks something, whatever), you can always just delete the.kde directory, and your system will just reconfigure itself. Try that with the Windows registry.
The Linux system is more robust and secure than the registry will ever be. The Gnome registry... ehh. I have the same issues with it as I do with the Windows one. At least it's also fault-tolerant.
A few contentions, if I may:
a) You have to be admin to apply patches, download them, etc. I haven't seen a windows equivalent of "su" or anything that temporarily elevates priveliges
b) The Windows registry is a single point of failure. Many (most?) applications die if the registry is corrupted at all. Haven't we learned that being monolithic just creates a keystone?
c) I can't get anything useful done under Windows unless I'm running as Admin. Many programs just don't understand not running as Admin, or even multiple users for that matter. Fault the 3rd party developer, but this is the effect that it is causing, making people run as root/admin.
Damn Windows apologists...
True. But bad system design is bad system design. I can do many more things to set up permissions on my Linux machine than I can under Windows in order to make the basic operations more secure. Linux isn't the cure for cancer, it's more like electronic penicillin in an age when most of the people are still trying to cast out evil spirits that show up randomly.
That's why it's called the "Internet" rather than the "corporate controlled thought access net". The corporations ought to provide the OPTION of firewalling at the end user level, if only to protect their own bandwidth. If you sign a disclaimer or just disconnect the firewalling, then that's your problem, and they can deal with you if you're spreading viruses/worms/whatever.
Because on an AC system there's still a positive and negative potential on each lead.
Do yourself and your children a favor... never play with electricity, mmkay?
California and New York have comparable economies though, COL and other overheads are within a reasonable difference, and the taxes and such paid partially go back to the federal government. OTOH, offshoring things simply dumps our money elsewhere, especially in a lower cost economy, does nothing but bleed our resources at an extravagant rate. It's elevating India's economy, but taking ours down. It's an equalizing force, but the question really should be, do we want to equalize it that much? Halfway between us and India's standards of living is pretty low for what we're used to.
Because reading a math book doesn't adequately teach math many times. Process is a very important part, and you DON'T see that with a pre-generated image. I've found that I pay attention less in classes where they just flash images and such in front of me. Whee! More pretty pictures!
Show me WHAT you're doing and WHY you're doing it. that's the only way you can learn.
And as for the "later in the semester thing", you can go off on tangets with anything. It doesn't accomplish the set objectives of the class. The instructor is perfectly valid telling you to take another class, or ask them after class. Maybe you are the one who's blinded.
I think it's a travesty that they don't have Al Gore on the list... I mean, the man invented the internet and space shuttles. We need to give credit where credit is due:)
Actually, it does. Centigrade is the denominator for a scale that has 100 grades between the freezing point of water and the boiling point. Celsius is one of those scales, Kelvin is another.
Props to the other poster who said this earlier. I apologize for being too lazy to find a citation/link:)
Lemme try to help:
a) Not equal. Apples and oranges. A GPU will do repeated calculations very, very fast, like matrix transforms and the like. A CPU on the other hand will make decisions based on input, rather than just crunching numbers
b) The main display (the GUI) already uses many tricks on the graphics card. The hard part is making sure that all graphics cards support the features. Things like the xrender extension and such are becoming more common as graphics cards and drivers get "standard" capabilities
c) Your imagination is the limit as to what it could be used for. Just realize that it's a good data processing unit, not a good program execution unit. Use each for their strengths.
d) Modified? With new cards/drivers, all it takes is OpenGL calls to start taking advantage of this power. All it really takes is someone who knows what they're doing and has a bit of inspiration.
translate your matrix tweaking into OpenGL calls and try it out. I've heard very good things, if you can deal with the limited precision. In C/C++ parlance, it'll do float processing, not double precision, but many times simple floating point is all you need.
You don't seem to understand that GPU's are very specific purpose computing devices. They aren't like a general purpose processor like you CPU. They crunch matrices, and that's about it. Even all the programmable stuff is just putting parameters on the matrix churning.
I've found that it works better having another job and doing tech support as a side thing. That way I can be the emotionally abusive one and it won't affect my bottom line terribly.
Which means that a Linux distro in which YOU CAN ACTUALLY TURN SERVICES OFF IN would be perfect for her. Nothing to hack because it doesn't DO anything. Whether it's indicative or not, it's still relevant.
I don't think so, really. There's a reason you can't drive until you're 16... it's because you aren't capable of making good decisions until then, and often much later than that. The key is MOST people. There are always exceptions, but for the most part, if you're a 'kid', you aren't emotionally mature enough to be more than a pest.
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Oh, it compiles on Slackware. As soon as you edit the source to make it happy with the errno bugs. ANY modern distro of Linux isn't happy with TinyDNS. It's a pain in the ass, and the license is dumb. I'll stop now before I reiterate too many things.
As for crashing, yes, XP IS more stable, but it still suffers from Windows congenital defects. Have you ever tried to figure out why a program was crashing? No logging of any sort. Their "repair" function is anything but on the XP install disc. Viruses, etc. have a nice little home because files are treated differently because of the extension, and all kinds of insecure services are turned on by default, though they do nothing for the end user. I had an XP laptop infected 5 minutes after hooking it live to the Internet... was just testing the connection and boom. The whole system is just badly designed, we're just holding onto it because it's what everyone else has.
I physically cannot turn my car headlights off while driving. So what choice do I have but to use my brights when signalling?
I think you should follow the open source meme and release the code to said perl script, help get more geeks laid. It is the creative commons, after all...
Since when does KDE have a registry? It has the same as every other Linux app that needs a registry like settings saving scheme... it has .kde in the home directory, and settings under the individual applications. But if you screw up anything (or an errant program breaks something, whatever), you can always just delete the .kde directory, and your system will just reconfigure itself. Try that with the Windows registry.
The Linux system is more robust and secure than the registry will ever be. The Gnome registry... ehh. I have the same issues with it as I do with the Windows one. At least it's also fault-tolerant.
A few contentions, if I may:
a) You have to be admin to apply patches, download them, etc. I haven't seen a windows equivalent of "su" or anything that temporarily elevates priveliges
b) The Windows registry is a single point of failure. Many (most?) applications die if the registry is corrupted at all. Haven't we learned that being monolithic just creates a keystone?
c) I can't get anything useful done under Windows unless I'm running as Admin. Many programs just don't understand not running as Admin, or even multiple users for that matter. Fault the 3rd party developer, but this is the effect that it is causing, making people run as root/admin.
Damn Windows apologists...
True. But bad system design is bad system design. I can do many more things to set up permissions on my Linux machine than I can under Windows in order to make the basic operations more secure. Linux isn't the cure for cancer, it's more like electronic penicillin in an age when most of the people are still trying to cast out evil spirits that show up randomly.
That's why it's called the "Internet" rather than the "corporate controlled thought access net". The corporations ought to provide the OPTION of firewalling at the end user level, if only to protect their own bandwidth. If you sign a disclaimer or just disconnect the firewalling, then that's your problem, and they can deal with you if you're spreading viruses/worms/whatever.
Because Microsoft is the Beginning(tm) and the End(tm) of computing. Promise.
I'd try out OO.o's ports if I were him.
Because on an AC system there's still a positive and negative potential on each lead.
Do yourself and your children a favor... never play with electricity, mmkay?
California and New York have comparable economies though, COL and other overheads are within a reasonable difference, and the taxes and such paid partially go back to the federal government. OTOH, offshoring things simply dumps our money elsewhere, especially in a lower cost economy, does nothing but bleed our resources at an extravagant rate. It's elevating India's economy, but taking ours down. It's an equalizing force, but the question really should be, do we want to equalize it that much? Halfway between us and India's standards of living is pretty low for what we're used to.
Because reading a math book doesn't adequately teach math many times. Process is a very important part, and you DON'T see that with a pre-generated image. I've found that I pay attention less in classes where they just flash images and such in front of me. Whee! More pretty pictures!
Show me WHAT you're doing and WHY you're doing it. that's the only way you can learn.
And as for the "later in the semester thing", you can go off on tangets with anything. It doesn't accomplish the set objectives of the class. The instructor is perfectly valid telling you to take another class, or ask them after class. Maybe you are the one who's blinded.
I think it's a travesty that they don't have Al Gore on the list... I mean, the man invented the internet and space shuttles. We need to give credit where credit is due :)
Actually, it does. Centigrade is the denominator for a scale that has 100 grades between the freezing point of water and the boiling point. Celsius is one of those scales, Kelvin is another. :)
Props to the other poster who said this earlier. I apologize for being too lazy to find a citation/link
Lemme try to help:
a) Not equal. Apples and oranges. A GPU will do repeated calculations very, very fast, like matrix transforms and the like. A CPU on the other hand will make decisions based on input, rather than just crunching numbers
b) The main display (the GUI) already uses many tricks on the graphics card. The hard part is making sure that all graphics cards support the features. Things like the xrender extension and such are becoming more common as graphics cards and drivers get "standard" capabilities
c) Your imagination is the limit as to what it could be used for. Just realize that it's a good data processing unit, not a good program execution unit. Use each for their strengths.
d) Modified? With new cards/drivers, all it takes is OpenGL calls to start taking advantage of this power. All it really takes is someone who knows what they're doing and has a bit of inspiration.
translate your matrix tweaking into OpenGL calls and try it out. I've heard very good things, if you can deal with the limited precision. In C/C++ parlance, it'll do float processing, not double precision, but many times simple floating point is all you need.
You don't seem to understand that GPU's are very specific purpose computing devices. They aren't like a general purpose processor like you CPU. They crunch matrices, and that's about it. Even all the programmable stuff is just putting parameters on the matrix churning.
digital pants... activate!!
Props to those who know where that came from
Yet many of the people who WOULD have been in CompUSA were looking at Macs. That's the point of it, dimwit.
Oh, wait... this is slashdot
I've found that it works better having another job and doing tech support as a side thing. That way I can be the emotionally abusive one and it won't affect my bottom line terribly.
a) Cinelerra .doc format from OO.o
b) Not really. No one I work with seems to complain when I save something in
Take your FUD elsewhere, twit.
Which means that a Linux distro in which YOU CAN ACTUALLY TURN SERVICES OFF IN would be perfect for her. Nothing to hack because it doesn't DO anything. Whether it's indicative or not, it's still relevant.
Nnnggg... brain... collapsing...
SPELL CHECK!!!!
I don't think so, really. There's a reason you can't drive until you're 16... it's because you aren't capable of making good decisions until then, and often much later than that. The key is MOST people. There are always exceptions, but for the most part, if you're a 'kid', you aren't emotionally mature enough to be more than a pest.
I use an Aztec calendar, you insensitive clod