He got moderated down because of that "I'm first" tag. First posters are a no brainer for the moderators. And if it weren't for them, there might even be moderators...
Saying Bush is a neo-nazi might be slander, but saying that I, as a neo-nazi, like Bush isn't illegal. This isn't very different from what Michael Moore was doing in the last election. He'd create fake organizations and send smalls donations to the campaigns from them. Clinton got a check from the National Marijuana Growers Association, for instance...
Please read some history, stop being naive and simplistic.You think that when NATO wins, that will be that?The whole shi* will come back in 5, 10 or 20 years.
Of course it will. This conflict itself, after all, is a reaction to events in the early part of this century. So what? Everything has consequences, and I don't see anybody stabilizing the Balkans anytime soon. For now, we save Albanians from slaughter, and we deal with the next crises as it comes.
"Truly nasty", BTW, is either a ground conflict like Vietnam, or nuclear war. Stuff that chews up American lives and doesn't help anybody else in the process.
-"We have to stop the genocide!" There have been, and still are, a whole lot of genocidal conflicts which the US government has not been the least bit interested in. Hell, look at how Turkey treats its own Kurdish population, and we have bases in Turkey.
"We have bases in Turkey." Exactly. Turkey is an ally, and an important one. Attacking Turkey would split NATO apart, and destabilize much of the Middle East and Eastern Europe.
-"Well, we can't stop all of them, but we can at least stop this one." This is pretty bogus because it doesn't explain _why_ this one.
Serbia has no important alliances with us (unlike Turkey), has no important alliances elsewhere (unlike Cuba, back when we cared about Cuba), is not a powerful state in it's own right (unlike China), and has a surrounding military orgization, NATO, to carry out the attacks (unlike Indonesia).
We can stop Milsoevic because Serbia is a weak state in a region we have a lot power, and a conflict isn't likely to snowball into something truly nasty.
Subject says it all. So we'll have a huge binary, but at least there'll be no library problems. A good idea, considering we can't recompile if there's an upgrade to SDL or something.
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What you should have done was stick with the slink QT and the slink KDE. The new version of QT is incompatible with the old KDE debs; they need to be recompiled.
Forget all that, though, since there are a pair of QT debs on ftp.kde.org (with the rest of the KDE apps). Just install those and put a hold on them. Things should be fine from there.
I was drooling after this just like everybody else, but I hadn't thought of that. I chickenpeck, and though I don't really need to look at the keyboard any more, I still do out of habit.
Oh well, maybe this is just what I need to break me of this habit...
Alpha and PPC ports are planned. Not the same release date and I wouldn't look for them at Best Buy, but they're in the works.
This is Loki's biggest asset, IMHO. Intel users can keep a small Win partition around, or use wine, but everybody else is out in the cold. I bet there's a sizable gaming market for the workstation market. Nethack's fun and all, but sometimes you want something new. Before, it was always too expensive to justify porting between a dozen different Unix flavors, but Linux solves that nicely. Loki's got a wide open market to exploit...
Huh? Cruft is about the heaping on of features of dubious value, not age. Amiga OS development has been, , somewhat slow since Commodore submarined. Hardly an environment conducive to growing cruft.
But how much stuff will Gateway have to bolt on to bring it up speed? State-of-the-art in OS has changed mightily over the past 15 years, and they're not going to be able to sell the old system without a little updating. The early MS-DOS versions didn't have much in the way of cruft, either, they were little more than kernel, init, and shell, but I wouldn't want to use it.
If you want new features, at some point you'll have to throw out your old OS and move on. Period, end of story.
Yes, I realize it was very long and your knee was jerking, but if you had read the article, you'd see why he left it out. This was not a survey of operating systems. Don't fault the author because his choice of subject matter doesn't include your pet project. He also glosses over all sorts of free software issues and makes minor errors of fact and does other things that are sure to raise somebody's dander (including mine, at times), but that's all beside the point.
And if you think AmigaOS's age is a selling point, you missed the whole huge section on cruft. Linus and the Be guys are both saying that in a few years it'll be time to throw out the old and start over. Microsoft is sort of agreeing with NT, and even Apple is taking baby steps with OS X. AmigaOS is just as obsolete as MS-DOS and MacOS are, and can be taken out behind the barn with the rest of them.
It also doesn't help that Stephenson has probably never used a Miggy. He says right up top that this will be an idiosyncratic essay. He wasn't trying to be comprehensive and well researched, he was simply getting his ideas down on "paper".
This usually has the effect of causing prices to be low (because the first customer who actually paid $$$ for it might share it for free, which is allowed under the GPL), but I can see a scenario where it doesn't for a limited distribution product (e.g. specialty CAD or simulation software).
Or the development environment for the Playstation 2, for instance. Who cares if the you could can find the compiler and debugger for free (beer-wise), when you have to lay out several grand for the hardware anyway? Even better, bundle the hardware and software, and refuse to sell them seperate. Yeah, you can download our code, but you're going to have to pay for it if you want it to be useful.
What is a bzip2 file? Where do I get "bunzip2" ?
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Hit freshmeat.net and do a search for bzip. It'll come up.
That's not true for everyone. I always just dowload the whole kernel. It's much easier than patching. I usually get about 120 KB/s to most mirrors, so 10 MB is only 2 minutes. It's not worth dealing with the patches.
Yeah, now multiply yourself by a thousand and think how those poor servers feel. This isn't about whether it's a pain for you in particular to download the kernel, it's about not taking up a huge chunk of bandwidth so that other people can get in. ftp.kernel.org goes down hard every time a new kernel comes out, and I've met more than one sluggish mirror.
At least try the patch first. If it doesn't work, then you can snarf down the whole thing, but at least give it a shot.
Just put all the patch files (still zipped if you like) in/usr/src (or where ever linux/.. is), and run that script. No muss, no fuss, no 10 meg download.
unlike win9x which, once it has forgotten the existance of CDROM is almost impossible to convince that it has one.
Ugh. Been there, done that. My CD-ROM has some sort power-save feature that Win95 doesn't like, at all. If the CD isn't actually spinning on start up, Windows will refuse to use it. Plus removing the CD means all the drive letter shuffle around, so half my software breaks, even if it doesn't use a CD.
For a while there, Linux was actually part of the bootstrap process for Windows. Telling LILO to boot "win" would actually boot Linux with an init that would mount the CD-ROM, run a lilo -R, then reboot to the real Windows. Fortunately, I've since found that loading DOS CD-ROM drivers in config.sys and autoexec.bat accomplishes the same thing.
SMAC wasn't necessarily about originality, any more than Civ2 was. It about taking a winning formula, updating it, and making it better. So they took Civ2 and updated it. Cleaned up the interface, multiplayer, better AI, better diplomacy, the whole nine yards. And what they did add (unit design, psi combat, the orbital sub-game) are all real winners, IMHO.
If SMAC got a 98%, it's only because Civ2 got a 97%, and SMAC is a better game.
So upgrade to the unstable branch. I've been running potato since day 1 and things are working fine. Things were far worse while slink was unstable...
The stable branch, is just that, rock solid. Use it if you want constant uptime or a machine you don't want to worry about. Systems like that don't usually use bleeding edge software.
If you want something between "rock solid" and "working today, maybe", consider frozen.
They were originally discovered by vaporizing carbon in a vacuum, then shooting it through a mass spectrometer. The current (last I heard) method for making buckyballs (not tubes) is still very similar. Suspend two graphite rods in a bell jar, with their tips a fraction of a centimeter apart. Run a current through the rods so you get sparking across the gap, which vaporizes the graphite. Soot will collect on the inside of the bell jar, and you can seperate out the fullerenes by washing it in benzene.
Presumably you do get some miniscule amount in any sooty flame, but it's really not measurable. A little hydrogen in the environment goes a long to impede fullerene formation. There are measurable amounts in some types of lightening-struck rock, though. The only natural occurance of stuff.
The cartridge loader on my NES went bad long before the SNES came out and I moved on. To get it to work now you have to spend half an hour jiggling the cartridge and console to get all the proper connections made. And my experience was not unique. That's why none of the machines since have the same slide in and press down system.
I use an emulator now to play my NES games (legally) too, and I ain't going to apologize for it, either.
Several articles disappeared. The UltraHLE one, the Microsoft link, the FPGA supercomputer, Falwell and the Teletubbies, Internet2, and a couple others. I think the software burped,/. hasn't been particularly stable the last few days.
You've got an odd (or at least a partial) definition of "hack". Hacking is the art of computer programming. It is unstructured coding. A hacker "design document" is a description of how the program currently works, it is not a canonical description of how the program should work.
Anyway, "hack" aside, your last paragraph agrees with the author.
Using the best tools available for a job is not "hacking", it's good engineering practice.
Exactly, hackers are "engineers." Best tools for the best job. The logical extension of that, of course, is that when you're creating a tool (like just about every non-game piece of software), you create it with the ability to do the best job possible. Software engineers, on the other hand, are "tinkers". They are forced to limit themselves by external, management requirements like cost or user-friendliness. This also creates non-optimal tools...
Coming up with a way to do what you need even when your tools are limited is a hack.
Your weird definition again. Visual Basic programmers are hackers, but perl programmers are not? Somebody writes a decent tool and hacking becomes impossible?
I think the author has it backwards here; he claims the hackers are the ones who build the proper tools if need be.
This is just an effect of the hacker's freedom to change goals. Knuth could set down his book to write TeX because he wanted to. Software Engineers only get write new tools when Marketing tells them too, or they can sneak it past Management.
I know $1000 may not be much to all you big iron folks with real servers, but it's way too high for the perenial consumer and educational machine. You're going to find precious few dorm room servers running this puppy. Legally, at least. And Apple is hardly the company that comes to mind when Real Servers are needed. They've got an uphill battle here.
Hell, maybe Apple priced it so high just to be able to avoid supporting thousands of lusers trying to run it on small networks...
Ugh, I played PSX Final Fantasy 7 for about 36 straight hours, only to have it lock up consistently while I stayed overnight in the Gold Saucer. Bgs always slip through, but at least with PC games a patch is possible.
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He got moderated down because of that "I'm first" tag. First posters are a no brainer for the moderators. And if it weren't for them, there might even be moderators...
Saying Bush is a neo-nazi might be slander, but saying that I, as a neo-nazi, like Bush isn't illegal. This isn't very different from what Michael Moore was doing in the last election. He'd create fake organizations and send smalls donations to the campaigns from them. Clinton got a check from the National Marijuana Growers Association, for instance...
Please read some history, stop being naive and simplistic.You think that when NATO wins, that will be that?The whole shi* will come back in 5, 10 or 20 years.
Of course it will. This conflict itself, after all, is a reaction to events in the early part of this century. So what? Everything has consequences, and I don't see anybody stabilizing the Balkans anytime soon. For now, we save Albanians from slaughter, and we deal with the next crises as it comes.
"Truly nasty", BTW, is either a ground conflict like Vietnam, or nuclear war. Stuff that chews up American lives and doesn't help anybody else in the process.
-"We have to stop the genocide!" There have been, and still are, a whole lot of genocidal conflicts which the US government has not been the least bit interested in. Hell, look at how Turkey treats its own Kurdish population, and we have bases in Turkey.
"We have bases in Turkey." Exactly. Turkey is an ally, and an important one. Attacking Turkey would split NATO apart, and destabilize much of the Middle East and Eastern Europe.
-"Well, we can't stop all of them, but we can at least stop this one." This is pretty bogus because it doesn't explain _why_ this one.
Serbia has no important alliances with us (unlike Turkey), has no important alliances elsewhere (unlike Cuba, back when we cared about Cuba), is not a powerful state in it's own right (unlike China), and has a surrounding military orgization, NATO, to carry out the attacks (unlike Indonesia).
We can stop Milsoevic because Serbia is a weak state in a region we have a lot power, and a conflict isn't likely to snowball into something truly nasty.
Subject says it all. So we'll have a huge binary, but at least there'll be no library problems. A good idea, considering we can't recompile if there's an upgrade to SDL or something.
What you should have done was stick with the slink QT and the slink KDE. The new version of QT is incompatible with the old KDE debs; they need to be recompiled.
Forget all that, though, since there are a pair of QT debs on ftp.kde.org (with the rest of the KDE apps). Just install those and put a hold on them. Things should be fine from there.
I was drooling after this just like everybody else, but I hadn't thought of that. I chickenpeck, and though I don't really need to look at the keyboard any more, I still do out of habit.
Oh well, maybe this is just what I need to break me of this habit...
Alpha and PPC ports are planned. Not the same release date and I wouldn't look for them at Best Buy, but they're in the works.
This is Loki's biggest asset, IMHO. Intel users can keep a small Win partition around, or use wine, but everybody else is out in the cold. I bet there's a sizable gaming market for the workstation market. Nethack's fun and all, but sometimes you want something new. Before, it was always too expensive to justify porting between a dozen different Unix flavors, but Linux solves that nicely. Loki's got a wide open market to exploit...
Huh? Cruft is about the heaping on of features of dubious value, not age. Amiga OS development has been, , somewhat slow since Commodore submarined. Hardly an environment conducive to growing cruft.
But how much stuff will Gateway have to bolt on to bring it up speed? State-of-the-art in OS has changed mightily over the past 15 years, and they're not going to be able to sell the old system without a little updating. The early MS-DOS versions didn't have much in the way of cruft, either, they were little more than kernel, init, and shell, but I wouldn't want to use it.
If you want new features, at some point you'll have to throw out your old OS and move on. Period, end of story.
Yes, I realize it was very long and your knee was jerking, but if you had read the article, you'd see why he left it out. This was not a survey of operating systems. Don't fault the author because his choice of subject matter doesn't include your pet project. He also glosses over all sorts of free software issues and makes minor errors of fact and does other things that are sure to raise somebody's dander (including mine, at times), but that's all beside the point.
And if you think AmigaOS's age is a selling point, you missed the whole huge section on cruft. Linus and the Be guys are both saying that in a few years it'll be time to throw out the old and start over. Microsoft is sort of agreeing with NT, and even Apple is taking baby steps with OS X. AmigaOS is just as obsolete as MS-DOS and MacOS are, and can be taken out behind the barn with the rest of them.
It also doesn't help that Stephenson has probably never used a Miggy. He says right up top that this will be an idiosyncratic essay. He wasn't trying to be comprehensive and well researched, he was simply getting his ideas down on "paper".
This usually has the effect of causing prices to be low (because the first customer who actually paid $$$ for it might share it for free, which is allowed under the GPL), but I can see a scenario where it doesn't for a limited distribution product (e.g. specialty CAD or simulation software).
Or the development environment for the Playstation 2, for instance. Who cares if the you could can find the compiler and debugger for free (beer-wise), when you have to lay out several grand for the hardware anyway? Even better, bundle the hardware and software, and refuse to sell them seperate. Yeah, you can download our code, but you're going to have to pay for it if you want it to be useful.
Hit freshmeat.net and do a search for bzip. It'll come up.
That's not true for everyone. I always just dowload the whole kernel. It's much easier than patching. I usually get about 120 KB/s to most mirrors, so 10 MB is only 2 minutes. It's not worth dealing with the patches.
Yeah, now multiply yourself by a thousand and think how those poor servers feel. This isn't about whether it's a pain for you in particular to download the kernel, it's about not taking up a huge chunk of bandwidth so that other people can get in. ftp.kernel.org goes down hard every time a new kernel comes out, and I've met more than one sluggish mirror.
At least try the patch first. If it doesn't work, then you can snarf down the whole thing, but at least give it a shot.
Just put all the patch files (still zipped if you like) in /usr/src (or where ever linux/.. is), and run that script. No muss, no fuss, no 10 meg download.
unlike win9x which, once it has forgotten the existance of CDROM is almost impossible to convince that it has one.
Ugh. Been there, done that. My CD-ROM has some sort power-save feature that Win95 doesn't like, at all. If the CD isn't actually spinning on start up, Windows will refuse to use it. Plus removing the CD means all the drive letter shuffle around, so half my software breaks, even if it doesn't use a CD.
For a while there, Linux was actually part of the bootstrap process for Windows. Telling LILO to boot "win" would actually boot Linux with an init that would mount the CD-ROM, run a lilo -R, then reboot to the real Windows. Fortunately, I've since found that loading DOS CD-ROM drivers in config.sys and autoexec.bat accomplishes the same thing.
SMAC wasn't necessarily about originality, any more than Civ2 was. It about taking a winning formula, updating it, and making it better. So they took Civ2 and updated it. Cleaned up the interface, multiplayer, better AI, better diplomacy, the whole nine yards. And what they did add (unit design, psi combat, the orbital sub-game) are all real winners, IMHO.
If SMAC got a 98%, it's only because Civ2 got a 97%, and SMAC is a better game.
So upgrade to the unstable branch. I've been running potato since day 1 and things are working fine. Things were far worse while slink was unstable...
The stable branch, is just that, rock solid. Use it if you want constant uptime or a machine you don't want to worry about. Systems like that don't usually use bleeding edge software.
If you want something between "rock solid" and "working today, maybe", consider frozen.
They were originally discovered by vaporizing carbon in a vacuum, then shooting it through a mass spectrometer. The current (last I heard) method for making buckyballs (not tubes) is still very similar. Suspend two graphite rods in a bell jar, with their tips a fraction of a centimeter apart. Run a current through the rods so you get sparking across the gap, which vaporizes the graphite. Soot will collect on the inside of the bell jar, and you can seperate out the fullerenes by washing it in benzene.
Presumably you do get some miniscule amount in any sooty flame, but it's really not measurable. A little hydrogen in the environment goes a long to impede fullerene formation. There are measurable amounts in some types of lightening-struck rock, though. The only natural occurance of stuff.
The cartridge loader on my NES went bad long before the SNES came out and I moved on. To get it to work now you have to spend half an hour jiggling the cartridge and console to get all the proper connections made. And my experience was not unique. That's why none of the machines since have the same slide in and press down system.
I use an emulator now to play my NES games (legally) too, and I ain't going to apologize for it, either.
Several articles disappeared. The UltraHLE one, the Microsoft link, the FPGA supercomputer, Falwell and the Teletubbies, Internet2, and a couple others. I think the software burped, /. hasn't been particularly stable the last few days.
You've got an odd (or at least a partial) definition of "hack". Hacking is the art of computer programming. It is unstructured coding. A hacker "design document" is a description of how the program currently works, it is not a canonical description of how the program should work.
Anyway, "hack" aside, your last paragraph agrees with the author.
Using the best tools available for a job is not "hacking", it's good engineering practice.
Exactly, hackers are "engineers." Best tools for the best job. The logical extension of that, of course, is that when you're creating a tool (like just about every non-game piece of software), you create it with the ability to do the best job possible. Software engineers, on the other hand, are "tinkers". They are forced to limit themselves by external, management requirements like cost or user-friendliness. This also creates non-optimal tools...
Coming up with a way to do what you need even when your tools are limited is a hack.
Your weird definition again. Visual Basic programmers are hackers, but perl programmers are not? Somebody writes a decent tool and hacking becomes impossible?
I think the author has it backwards here; he claims the hackers are the ones who build the proper tools if need be.
This is just an effect of the hacker's freedom to change goals. Knuth could set down his book to write TeX because he wanted to. Software Engineers only get write new tools when Marketing tells them too, or they can sneak it past Management.
I know $1000 may not be much to all you big iron folks with real servers, but it's way too high for the perenial consumer and educational machine. You're going to find precious few dorm room servers running this puppy. Legally, at least. And Apple is hardly the company that comes to mind when Real Servers are needed. They've got an uphill battle here.
Hell, maybe Apple priced it so high just to be able to avoid supporting thousands of lusers trying to run it on small networks...
Ugh, I played PSX Final Fantasy 7 for about 36 straight hours, only to have it lock up consistently while I stayed overnight in the Gold Saucer. Bgs always slip through, but at least with PC games a patch is possible.
For spoken voice, what's the difference?
This has got to be the most surreal Slashdot threads ever.