If IBM wants to support open-source, please, let us have the source.
Yesterday I seached in vain for a text console spread sheet, with a GUI Ã la Midnight Commander. I searched both Freshmeat and SourceForge. Does anyone else know of any other place?
Interface comments: Root versus Users: Don't show me things I can't use. If I don't have permission to mess with something, don't show me the menus and dialog boxes used to mess with it unless you also give me a way to log in as the user with correct permissions.
It is all black. Suddenly, you sense you are sourrounded by a whirl. And, then in a moment you realize that the whirl is but part of a larger whirl. And, then in a moment you realize that that larger whirl is but part of a larger whirl. And, then in a moment you realize that that larger whirl is but part of a larger whirl. And, then in a moment you realize that that larger whirl is but part of a larger whirl. And, then in a moment you realize that that larger whirl is but part of a larger whirl. And, then in a moment you realize that that larger whirl is but part of a larger whirl. [...]
"Alabama Changes the Value of Pi The April 1998 issue of the New Mexicans for Science and Reason newsletter contained an article claiming that the Alabama state legislature had voted to change the value of the mathematical constant pi from 3.14159 to the 'Biblical value' of 3.0. Before long the article had made its way onto the internet, and then it rapidly made its way around the world, forwarded by people in their email. It only became apparent how far the article had spread when the Alabama legislature began receiving hundreds of calls from people protesting the legislation"
That hoax is has been done before!!! Read more in Bailey, Borwein, Borwein, and Plouffe's 1996 article "The Quest for Pi". Here is the abstract: This article gives a brief history of the analysis and computation of the mathematical constant Pi = 3:14159..., including a number of the formulas that have been used to compute Pi through the ages. Recent developments in this area are then discussed in some detail, including the recent computation of Pi to over six billion decimal digits using high-order convergent algorithms, and a newly discovered scheme that permits arbitrary individual hexadecimal digits of Pi to be computed." But, in the article one may also read:
"In the annals of Pi, the nineteenth century came to a close on an utterly shameful not. three years prior to the turn of the century, one Edwin J. Goodman, M.D. introduced into the Indiana House of Representatives a bill that would introduce "new Mathematical truth" and enrich the state, which would pofit from the royalties ensuing from this discovery. Section two of the bill included the passage "disclosing the fourth important fact that the ratio of the diameter and circumference is as five-fouths to four"
Thus, Pi is 3.2... It almost became an Indiana law had it not been for a last-minute intervention by an observant prof Purdue!!! I strongly suspect this Bailey et al. article was a source of inspiration for the 1998 perpretrator, 101 years later, but alas then not in good faith.
I'm indeed no rocket scientist, but, why not have live, continuous transmittal of those very data by radio etc?
I'm sure there is a reason, but it does not make sense in cases like these. Cyberterroism? Military reasons? Whatever, black boxes do not stand everything.
Small nations/language groups may indeed follow suit. I remember when Microsoft refused to make an Icelandic version of Windows some years ago. Reason? Too few users... Well, there are actually 250,000 icelanders, like a larger city block. Which makes me think of my 25 minute old Mandrake 9.1 installation. It boasts support for 60 languages, including Icelandic.
"The presentation began with a live demonstration of one of the latest Linux porting efforts, a low-end Digital Alpha system running in character mode showing a demonstration of Towers of Hanoi. Jim Paradis of Digital spoke briefly about the Alpha porting project and gave some references for a planned announcement of a low-end Alpha-based personal computer that should be available in the fall."
Excerpt: "Nevertheless one will not only be able to select to the planned Launch between different 64-Bit-Linuxen. Microsoft announced in the meantime, one day before the planned launching of a vessel, thus on 21 April to bring the Windows-XP-Server-2003-Version out for AMDs 64-Bit-Prozessor officially. For the Opterons AMD wants to do without a projected clock scale such as QuantiSpeed and introduce simple model designations."
Jobugeek wrote: "For those of you who have used all of them, I'm sorry." Why? I have produced a lot of stuff using Windows? I don't think Windows is _that_ bad even if I mostly use Linux today.
Also, there has been a lot of sarcasms in the previous posts regarding the slashdotted site. But checking with www.netcraft.com one sees their server's setup:
"The site www.neowin.net is running Apache/1.3.27 (Unix) mod_log_bytes/1.0 mod_bwlimited/1.0 PHP/4.3.1 FrontPage/5.0.2.2510 mod_ssl/2.8.12 OpenSSL/0.9.7 on Linux."
There is a better alternative to GPS named STDMA (Self-organizing Time Division Multiple Access). It is patented with U.S. Patent No. 5,506,587, which you may find HERE.
It is in use in marine navigation. See also HERE and for a tech overview HERE.
Apparently, the US has tried to suppress the system as it may well replace GPS because of better performance and other reasons; one can imagine wartime control may be of importance here.
Is there a news drought since we have a 2nd review link posted here? Why not something useful? Like beer?! As in non-free... Or should it be lager, ale, or even drought...
Actually, I don't know anyone of my friends besides me who uses Linux at home. No one.
I used to work in the telcom-business at a company with 120 employed (50 developers: C++/Unix/SUN), where four(!) used Linux at home. The reason for the others to have windows? Games - games - games- games - games...
Id Software and a few others have tried, but... And, Microsoft is working very hard to redirect any proto-Linux-users to MS; and when it comes to games, they still have a magnificent lead thanks to their DirectX efforts. That lead may even be reinforced by the XBox.
Sorry, the uptime for Opterons will be worse than any 64-bit competitor. Why? you may ask. Basically, there are two reasons: ut2k3 and CS, both of which run natively on x86-64. So, what will all vigilant admins do? Just a guess.
In Scandinavia (mostly Norway) the oldest wooden buildings are near about 800-900 years old. They are churches from when Scandinavia was christianized. However, one of the more magnificent was burnt down some ten years ago by a satanist/hard rock-fan who wanted to destroy all traces of christianity in the name of paganism. As an architectural fan of those churches - yuk.
Slashdot Mirror
I found it! It works like a charm! Thanks!!! Strangely, it was not included in the distro I use.
Huh?
What is sc?
Do you have a link?
IBM owns Lotus owns Visicalc.
If IBM wants to support open-source, please, let us have the source.
Yesterday I seached in vain for a text console spread sheet, with a GUI Ã la Midnight Commander. I searched both Freshmeat and SourceForge. Does anyone else know of any other place?
This will surely act as yet another carrot for Dr Torvalds.
One useful suggestion from the article:
Interface comments:
Root versus Users: Don't show me things I can't use. If I don't have permission to mess with something, don't show me the menus and dialog boxes used to mess with it unless you also give me a way to log in as the user with correct permissions.
It is all black. Suddenly, you sense you are sourrounded by a whirl. And, then in a moment you realize that the whirl is but part of a larger whirl. And, then in a moment you realize that that larger whirl is but part of a larger whirl. And, then in a moment you realize that that larger whirl is but part of a larger whirl. And, then in a moment you realize that that larger whirl is but part of a larger whirl. And, then in a moment you realize that that larger whirl is but part of a larger whirl. And, then in a moment you realize that that larger whirl is but part of a larger whirl. [...]
Hoax # 8:
"Alabama Changes the Value of Pi
The April 1998 issue of the New Mexicans for Science and Reason newsletter contained an article claiming that the Alabama state legislature had voted to change the value of the mathematical constant pi from 3.14159 to the 'Biblical value' of 3.0. Before long the article had made its way onto the internet, and then it rapidly made its way around the world, forwarded by people in their email. It only became apparent how far the article had spread when the Alabama legislature began receiving hundreds of calls from people protesting the legislation"
That hoax is has been done before!!! Read more in Bailey, Borwein, Borwein, and Plouffe's 1996 article "The Quest for Pi". Here is the abstract: This article gives a brief history of the analysis and computation of the mathematical constant Pi = 3:14159..., including a number of the formulas that have been used to compute Pi through the ages. Recent developments in this area are then discussed in some detail, including the recent computation of Pi to over six billion decimal digits using high-order convergent algorithms, and a newly discovered scheme that permits arbitrary individual hexadecimal digits of Pi to be computed." But, in the article one may also read:
"In the annals of Pi, the nineteenth century came to a close on an utterly shameful not. three years prior to the turn of the century, one Edwin J. Goodman, M.D. introduced into the Indiana House of Representatives a bill that would introduce "new Mathematical truth" and enrich the state, which would pofit from the royalties ensuing from this discovery. Section two of the bill included the passage "disclosing the fourth important fact that the ratio of the diameter and circumference is as five-fouths to four"
Thus, Pi is 3.2... It almost became an Indiana law had it not been for a last-minute intervention by an observant prof Purdue!!! I strongly suspect this Bailey et al. article was a source of inspiration for the 1998 perpretrator, 101 years later, but alas then not in good faith.
Here is a suggestion on how to skip the dependency on X, altogether, using Qt embedded.
I'm indeed no rocket scientist, but, why not have live, continuous transmittal of those very data by radio etc?
I'm sure there is a reason, but it does not make sense in cases like these. Cyberterroism? Military reasons? Whatever, black boxes do not stand everything.
Small nations/language groups may indeed follow suit. I remember when Microsoft refused to make an Icelandic version of Windows some years ago. Reason? Too few users... Well, there are actually 250,000 icelanders, like a larger city block. Which makes me think of my 25 minute old Mandrake 9.1 installation. It boasts support for 60 languages, including Icelandic.
Well, Linux for 64-bit platforms have existed since 1995. Linus Torvalds spoke about it in Boston in 1995.
"The presentation began with a live demonstration of one of the latest Linux porting efforts, a low-end Digital Alpha system running in character mode showing a demonstration of Towers of Hanoi. Jim Paradis of Digital spoke briefly about the Alpha porting project and gave some references for a planned announcement of a low-end Alpha-based personal computer that should be available in the fall."
SCOOP:
Excerpt: "Nevertheless one will not only be able to select to the planned Launch between different 64-Bit-Linuxen. Microsoft announced in the meantime, one day before the planned launching of a vessel, thus on 21 April to bring the Windows-XP-Server-2003-Version out for AMDs 64-Bit-Prozessor officially. For the Opterons AMD wants to do without a projected clock scale such as QuantiSpeed and introduce simple model designations."
Hrrrmmm... If Windows can move to the new 64-bit AMD Athlon/Opteron x86-64, why can't Apple move to x86?!
SCOOP: Windows for the new platform will be presented in four weeks, one day before the new 64-bit AMD platfom is shown off.
I wonder if there will ever be Itanium support from Redmond. If not, Itanium may sink deep.
Jobugeek wrote: "For those of you who have used all of them, I'm sorry." Why? I have produced a lot of stuff using Windows? I don't think Windows is _that_ bad even if I mostly use Linux today.
Also, there has been a lot of sarcasms in the previous posts regarding the slashdotted site. But checking with www.netcraft.com one sees their server's setup:
"The site www.neowin.net is running Apache/1.3.27 (Unix) mod_log_bytes/1.0 mod_bwlimited/1.0 PHP/4.3.1 FrontPage/5.0.2.2510 mod_ssl/2.8.12 OpenSSL/0.9.7 on Linux."
There is a better alternative to GPS named STDMA (Self-organizing Time Division Multiple Access). It is patented with U.S. Patent No. 5,506,587, which you may find HERE.
It is in use in marine navigation. See also HERE and for a tech overview HERE.
Apparently, the US has tried to suppress the system as it may well replace GPS because of better performance and other reasons; one can imagine wartime control may be of importance here.
Is there a news drought since we have a 2nd review link posted here? Why not something useful? Like beer?! As in non-free... Or should it be lager, ale, or even drought...
Actually, I don't know anyone of my friends besides me who uses Linux at home. No one.
I used to work in the telcom-business at a company with 120 employed (50 developers: C++/Unix/SUN), where four(!) used Linux at home. The reason for the others to have windows? Games - games - games- games - games...
Id Software and a few others have tried, but... And, Microsoft is working very hard to redirect any proto-Linux-users to MS; and when it comes to games, they still have a magnificent lead thanks to their DirectX efforts. That lead may even be reinforced by the XBox.
Sorry, the uptime for Opterons will be worse than any 64-bit competitor. Why? you may ask. Basically, there are two reasons: ut2k3 and CS, both of which run natively on x86-64. So, what will all vigilant admins do? Just a guess.
Bad, I no longer use ClearCase. I use CVS... It is cheaper. ;)
In Scandinavia (mostly Norway) the oldest wooden buildings are near about 800-900 years old. They are churches from when Scandinavia was christianized. However, one of the more magnificent was burnt down some ten years ago by a satanist/hard rock-fan who wanted to destroy all traces of christianity in the name of paganism. As an architectural fan of those churches - yuk.
Here is one still intact!!!
Since Mandrake is French they probably prefer staying bouyant.
Please make Microsoft explain why they bought key OpenGL patents during 2002 just to jump off the OpenGL group the year after.
Please, force them to keep those patents open to the community for at least fifteen more years, or something like that.
It may even have a name, perhaps something like Tagamatsu, Yamamoto, Uphill, Upmoto, Yamhill, Dunhill, Killme, or anything wild whatever.
Yup. If your ping is higher than 150, it does.
I remember my old nVidia Riva 128 which handled 128-bit graphics! Those were the days! ;)