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There's a lot of "innovation" of this sort going on in Maine, especially in northern Maine. In some schools the shop class takes on construction and remodeling responsibilities for the school building. There's really no choice in the matter, because that area of the state is dirt poor.
The developer momentum behind Linux is somewhat more diffuse than in Mozilla. There are thousands of device drivers to build and maintain, for instance. Work performed on those device drivers doesn't "bloat" the main kernel, but does drive up the developer count substantially.
Not to say that featuritis isn't a threat. But ironically, the very "disadvantage" of Linux, its monolithic design that microkernel hackers love to bash, is making it pretty hard to add new features willy-nilly. If we were using the HURD, the kernel would be 900 megs by now... (and Emacs would be a kernel module)
Don't be fooled by Western governments' announcements of plans to consider Linux. Windows still has all the Good Shit (proprietary software) governments need; Linux is still missing key components. The real point of announcing plans to move to Linux is to get concessions out of Microsoft. Better licensing terms, maybe, or perhaps they want their OWN backdoors in Windows to spy on their own citizens.
Yeah, hydrogen is very plentiful. Unfortunately it likes to bond with everything. This means that you have to spend energy separating it from whatever it's bound to, and the energy you spend will be at least as much as you would get when it re-binds with oxygen.
I know exactly what you mean! People are fixing bugs and shit. What's up with that??
Software that works simply doesn't appeal to me. I need at least at least two paradigm shifts a week to add meaning to my life.
Of late, Linux hasn't been exciting enough, so I've moved to Gentoo. Now that's an OS I can sink my teeth into! Will the latest whiz-bang optimization flags on gcc 3.2.2-ac9-prepatch12.4-7+kgcc-1.8alpha generate buggy disk caching code in the Linux kernel? I don't know, let's push it to the limit and find out the hard way!
Sincerely,
a 15 year old Slashdot reader
Oh, don't worry, this service will be overrun by lamers in no time. If the RSS feeds ever got popular, f'rex, the spammers would overrun them very quickly.
Not a chance that database will ever be worth downloading.
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There's a lot of "innovation" of this sort going on in Maine, especially in northern Maine. In some schools the shop class takes on construction and remodeling responsibilities for the school building. There's really no choice in the matter, because that area of the state is dirt poor.
The developer momentum behind Linux is somewhat more diffuse than in Mozilla. There are thousands of device drivers to build and maintain, for instance. Work performed on those device drivers doesn't "bloat" the main kernel, but does drive up the developer count substantially.
Not to say that featuritis isn't a threat. But ironically, the very "disadvantage" of Linux, its monolithic design that microkernel hackers love to bash, is making it pretty hard to add new features willy-nilly. If we were using the HURD, the kernel would be 900 megs by now... (and Emacs would be a kernel module)
So you get drives that fit into smaller cases (the cable takes up less room). What's the big deal?
Pretty funny. I entered your URL exactly as-is (including the extra space) and realized what the error message meant:
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http://marina.horde.org/gallery/?g=../../../etc
EXCELLENT security dudes!
(assuming 4.7 GB DVD's)
That's where the money is right now... cellphones and the like are hot. Desktop computers aren't selling at all.
Don't be fooled by Western governments' announcements of plans to consider Linux. Windows still has all the Good Shit (proprietary software) governments need; Linux is still missing key components. The real point of announcing plans to move to Linux is to get concessions out of Microsoft. Better licensing terms, maybe, or perhaps they want their OWN backdoors in Windows to spy on their own citizens.
www.fasttrackmovies.com It's been done.
Yeah, hydrogen is very plentiful. Unfortunately it likes to bond with everything. This means that you have to spend energy separating it from whatever it's bound to, and the energy you spend will be at least as much as you would get when it re-binds with oxygen.
Ha. All joking aside, I don't think democracy is the way to design good software.
I know exactly what you mean! People are fixing bugs and shit. What's up with that?? Software that works simply doesn't appeal to me. I need at least at least two paradigm shifts a week to add meaning to my life. Of late, Linux hasn't been exciting enough, so I've moved to Gentoo. Now that's an OS I can sink my teeth into! Will the latest whiz-bang optimization flags on gcc 3.2.2-ac9-prepatch12.4-7+kgcc-1.8alpha generate buggy disk caching code in the Linux kernel? I don't know, let's push it to the limit and find out the hard way! Sincerely, a 15 year old Slashdot reader
I'd know those error messages anywhere! www.masonhq.com
Oh, don't worry, this service will be overrun by lamers in no time. If the RSS feeds ever got popular, f'rex, the spammers would overrun them very quickly. Not a chance that database will ever be worth downloading.