I had built an RoR 2.x version based PTO tool to learn RoR (a copy of our company's HTML & JS based tool) but never got around to releasing it. I was going to upload it to heroku.com but was waiting to port it to v3.x If you want I can upload it to github and you can take it from there.
I would like to add the from what I understood, BK clients are not clients per-se but more like peers and BK server handling all these peers. Now if one of these peers muck around then it might destroy the whole system which is what Larry was afraid of. Understand that P2P technology is itself pretty new and implementing a distributed SCM using something like this is pioneering for which I will credit Larry and that is what Linus was also doing.
Actually he did a good bit of explaining BK to the folks on that list. What Tridge did was wrong according to Linus is because, from what I understood, BK clients are not actually clients but peers and BK is a P2P system more than a client-server system. So for Tridge's software to work with BK, it has to be a full fledged peer and since P2P/distributed technology implementation in SCM world is so new, Larry is afraid that his software won't be able to handle such a peer.
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Actually to get Linux to the capabilities of OS X (think 'core image') what one needs is a version of QT/GTK which can use the advanced features of these new cards. Just like we have QTopia for the FB version of displays (lower end), the KDE/GNOME developers need a library which gives the ability to program directly to the GPUs. I donot know if QT gets enough funds from IBM/ATI/nVIDIA they will be willing to do it or not.
But to my mind, it would be the easiest way to get there for Linux.
For me the more desirable thing would be if they could fit in a G5/Power5 processor with 512MB memory in that SFF with the next version of OS X (Tiger), maybee as an option at a slightly higher price of $599. That will fly off from shelves in droves...
You are very wrong here. Lot of poor nations have such a devide but India has a very big middle class and it existed before the tech boom. It will goble the whole population of USA (350 million). They have the ability to pay their rents/own houses, have TVs, drive motorbikes, send their kids to school. The very rich are prob 5% and the very poor are about 20%.
0) Shutdown/Reboot 1) Super user mode 2) Single user with network 3) Full network without X 4) Not Used 5) Full network plus X 6) Shutdown
Now most of the distro have variations on this but not much. Gentoo has boot and default. I would like it to be something like:
0) Shutdown/reboot 1) Super user mode 2) --- 3) Local Server mode, no X 4) Secure server mode for outside world 5) Desktop mode with X 6) ---
or some variation thereof. Is there a way to incorporate this concept with a make file and write an init process driven by that makefile ?
On the bootpic front I would really like something like the KDE/Gnome splash-screen during the boot process showing the state of different devices/processes instead of the Suse inspired splash-screen used by most distros nowadays.
Better still, Fry's has Christmas lights made of LEDs going for $9.99 for a box of 50/100, I don't remeber exactly. It has different colors but a constant illumination. Maybe you can just work on it to make interesting things and would be more safe also, and they also provide some warranty too.
Talking about Blu-Ray & HD-DVD, didn't Steve Jobs say that Tiger (OS 10.4) is going to have QT with H.264 which is compatible with HD-DVD and how you can resize the window without any loss of resolution and other cool features. Now I donot know much about H.264 but if they can do that and cannot do with Blu-Ray than Blu-Ray has a disadvantage there.
And another thing, nice to see another fight between MS & Apple with BR & HD-DVD.
From Jargon File (4.3.0, 30 APR 2001) :
frobnicate/frob'ni-kayt/ vt. [Poss. derived from frobnitz, and usually abbreviated to frob, but `frobnicate' is recognized as the official full form.] To manipulate or adjust, to tweak. One frequently frobs bits or other 2-state devices. Thus: "Please frob the light switch" (that is, flip it), but also "Stop frobbing that clasp; you'll break it". One also sees the construction `to frob a frob'. See tweak and twiddle.
Usage: frob, twiddle, and tweak sometimes connote points along a continuum. `Frob' connotes aimless manipulation; `twiddle' connotes gross manipulation, often a coarse search for a proper setting; `tweak' connotes fine-tuning. If someone is turning a knob on an oscilloscope, then if he's carefully adjusting it, he is probably tweaking it; if he is just turning it but looking at the screen, he is probably twiddling it; but if he's just doing it because turning a knob is fun, he's frobbing it. The variant frobnosticate' has been recently reported.
Yes but through their website only. What if I want to integrate into a product like freepia (http://freepia.shaibn.com), they donot support the external developers. No free APIs.
There is a good interview with Peter Drucker in the current issue of Fortune magazine http://www.fortune.com/fortune/subs/article/0,1511 4,565912,00.html which answers some of the important questions raised in this discussion.
Get a EPIA-M/nehemiah based VIA Mini-ITX system and run Freepia to get TiVo like functionality. It works great and you can also run a LiveCD version to get a taste of the system;-) If you like it then you can install it.
Discuss about it at http://freepia.shaibn.com
Go and read some articles on their wages. The rise in wages for people working in indian IT industry has been highest, last year in the whole of Asia and it was already quite high.
Here is a BBC article for your ref. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/3264009.stm
Whay not use Quanta Plus or enhance it to be able to replace FrontPage/Dreamweaver MX ? The basics in QP are there, it just needs added tools to handle scripting better and be able to use new standards like XML and XML namespaces and should be automaically able to create a document based on a set of standards.
There is a minimal TiVo like distribution for this called Freepia which is optimised for EPIA-M with Nehemiah chip. The website is http://freepia.mooo.com/index2.html I posted a 2.6.0-test5 version of the kernel on the forum. Try it out see what you can do with it. The project needs lots more people to try it out and give feedback.
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have a thumb/iris reader along with the card to say that you are the person who is supposed to have the card. That way I show the card at the airport and they allow me to go through a turnstil which grabs my iris or thumb print and passes me.
... and use your brain a little bit. The hotel owner thought it to be so absurd that a system dating back to 1800 hundreds can be used to sue somebody of infringement. No wonder the hotel owner ignored those letters.
He should have done some more checks before applying at that company. Yes, TATA's are biggest company but they are known for not being ethical, even handed in the business. You should have tried at better companies who do hire foreigners with special skills on contract. He will need to show other specialised skills on top of what he has to get one. There are lot of people with C, C++, Java, Oracle and ABAP skills in India.
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I had built an RoR 2.x version based PTO tool to learn RoR (a copy of our company's HTML & JS based tool) but never got around to releasing it. I was going to upload it to heroku.com but was waiting to port it to v3.x If you want I can upload it to github and you can take it from there.
I would like to add the from what I understood, BK clients are not clients per-se but more like peers and BK server handling all these peers. Now if one of these peers muck around then it might destroy the whole system which is what Larry was afraid of. Understand that P2P technology is itself pretty new and implementing a distributed SCM using something like this is pioneering for which I will credit Larry and that is what Linus was also doing.
Actually he did a good bit of explaining BK to the folks on that list. What Tridge did was wrong according to Linus is because, from what I understood, BK clients are not actually clients but peers and BK is a P2P system more than a client-server system. So for Tridge's software to work with BK, it has to be a full fledged peer and since P2P/distributed technology implementation in SCM world is so new, Larry is afraid that his software won't be able to handle such a peer.
Actually to get Linux to the capabilities of OS X (think 'core image') what one needs is a version of QT/GTK which can use the advanced features of these new cards. Just like we have QTopia for the FB version of displays (lower end), the KDE/GNOME developers need a library which gives the ability to program directly to the GPUs. I donot know if QT gets enough funds from IBM/ATI/nVIDIA they will be willing to do it or not. But to my mind, it would be the easiest way to get there for Linux.
For me the more desirable thing would be if they could fit in a G5/Power5 processor with 512MB memory in that SFF with the next version of OS X (Tiger), maybee as an option at a slightly higher price of $599. That will fly off from shelves in droves ...
You are very wrong here. Lot of poor nations have such a devide but India has a very big middle class and it existed before the tech boom. It will goble the whole population of USA (350 million). They have the ability to pay their rents/own houses, have TVs, drive motorbikes, send their kids to school. The very rich are prob 5% and the very poor are about 20%.
Better still, Fry's has Christmas lights made of LEDs going for $9.99 for a box of 50/100, I don't remeber exactly. It has different colors but a constant illumination. Maybe you can just work on it to make interesting things and would be more safe also, and they also provide some warranty too.
Talking about Blu-Ray & HD-DVD, didn't Steve Jobs say that Tiger (OS 10.4) is going to have QT with H.264 which is compatible with HD-DVD and how you can resize the window without any loss of resolution and other cool features. Now I donot know much about H.264 but if they can do that and cannot do with Blu-Ray than Blu-Ray has a disadvantage there.
And another thing, nice to see another fight between MS & Apple with BR & HD-DVD.
Seems TacoBorgs have gone into, reading the Toilet Paper of India (TOI in short of which Economic Times is part of), as their day job nowadays.
From Jargon File (4.3.0, 30 APR 2001) : frobnicate /frob'ni-kayt/ vt. [Poss. derived from frobnitz, and usually abbreviated to frob, but `frobnicate' is recognized as the official full form.] To manipulate or adjust, to tweak. One frequently frobs bits or other 2-state devices. Thus: "Please frob the light switch" (that is, flip it), but also "Stop frobbing that clasp; you'll break it". One also sees the construction `to frob a frob'. See tweak and twiddle.
Usage: frob, twiddle, and tweak sometimes connote points along a continuum. `Frob' connotes aimless manipulation; `twiddle' connotes gross manipulation, often a coarse search for a proper setting; `tweak' connotes fine-tuning. If someone is turning a knob on an oscilloscope, then if he's carefully adjusting it, he is probably tweaking it; if he is just turning it but looking at the screen, he is probably twiddling it; but if he's just doing it because turning a knob is fun, he's frobbing it. The variant frobnosticate' has been recently reported.
Yes but through their website only. What if I want to integrate into a product like freepia (http://freepia.shaibn.com), they donot support the external developers. No free APIs.
There is a good interview with Peter Drucker in the current issue of Fortune magazine http://www.fortune.com/fortune/subs/article/0,1511 4,565912,00.html which answers some of the important questions raised in this discussion.
Get a EPIA-M/nehemiah based VIA Mini-ITX system and run Freepia to get TiVo like functionality. It works great and you can also run a LiveCD version to get a taste of the system ;-) If you like it then you can install it.
Discuss about it at http://freepia.shaibn.com
Go and read some articles on their wages. The rise in wages for people working in indian IT industry has been highest, last year in the whole of Asia and it was already quite high. Here is a BBC article for your ref. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/3264009.stm
Whay not use Quanta Plus or enhance it to be able to replace FrontPage/Dreamweaver MX ? The basics in QP are there, it just needs added tools to handle scripting better and be able to use new standards like XML and XML namespaces and should be automaically able to create a document based on a set of standards.
There is a minimal TiVo like distribution for this called Freepia which is optimised for EPIA-M with Nehemiah chip. The website is http://freepia.mooo.com/index2.html I posted a 2.6.0-test5 version of the kernel on the forum. Try it out see what you can do with it. The project needs lots more people to try it out and give feedback. -cyrus
have a thumb/iris reader along with the card to say that you are the person who is supposed to have the card. That way I show the card at the airport and they allow me to go through a turnstil which grabs my iris or thumb print and passes me.
... and use your brain a little bit. The hotel owner thought it to be so absurd that a system dating back to 1800 hundreds can be used to sue somebody of infringement. No wonder the hotel owner ignored those letters.
He should have done some more checks before applying at that company. Yes, TATA's are biggest company but they are known for not being ethical, even handed in the business. You should have tried at better companies who do hire foreigners with special skills on contract. He will need to show other specialised skills on top of what he has to get one. There are lot of people with C, C++, Java, Oracle and ABAP skills in India. #