The APIC problem has been fixed by 2.6 or 2.7. Dual channel still locks everything up though. SATA is being a pain too. It doesn't help that I have a seagate drive.
It's true these "parallel processing" machines can go fast--Virginia Tech built the third-fastest machine in the world for just $5.2 million with 1,100 G5 chips from Apple Computer (nasdaq: AAPL - news - people ). But they have proven "exceptionally difficult to program" and problematic at certain performance levels, according to a 2004 study by the President's High-End Computing Revitalization Task Force.
Oh really. Don't blame me for not trusting a guy with that kind of potential bias.
But you know as well as I do that if I am successful then inevitably some kid in his parents' basement will write his own Open Source version of the thing, for free.
If that happens then maybe your project isn't worth the money. If some kid in his basement can code something that replaces your project then you don't deserve to get paid for it.
However, Microsoft is actually doing (Cringe as the Troll mods come flying down) something very intelligent. Instead of going out and trying to do everything under the sun, they are beginning to consolidate their operations to do the one thing that they are really good at which is selling lots and lots of products that are mediocre at best.
I don't quite see it this way. It seems to me that Microsoft already went through it's phase of owning a lot of non-related businesses. Just look at msnbc and slate for example. Now they're realizing that they actually have a little competition now and need to focus on their core business.
The point you are missing is that MS isn't taking a hit for stolen material goods. They are only losing a sale and they are losing it for a good reason, the price. You should see people squirm when you tell them the cost of a Windows operating system. The risk for people pirating Windows is much lower than the perceived benefit.
No, it isn't at all. No matter if Windows gets pirated a billion times or none at all, MS doesn't need to raise the price, in fact the rate of pirating probably only increases with increases in price. It's market forces at work.
With material goods, theft can be a factor in price because a raise in price is needed to offset the theft of goods, which is not only a lost sale, which means little, but a loss of raw material that was paid for by the producer. There are no raw materials to ethereal 0s and 1s.
That's truely scarry, 20% of net connected computers are running a Win9x varient. No wonder spam is such a problem, people won't even get off of an old vastly inferior OS, why would they bother to run patches?
Actually most of the recent worms that have been used to mass mail have been NT/XP only.
Actually if you read the conversation from kernaltrap you would have noticed that it all started because of a patch to remove devfs. You're right that I wouldn't have to apply any patches if I didn't want to but that doesn't really matter when the patch is no longer a patch but a part of the kernel.
I know I don't need devfs but it works well for me for what I want it to do. I have no want to create device nodes by hand. Udev will be a good replacement soon but not just yet. It still doesn't work as well as devfs does for me.
For example, removing devfs. In the "old" kernel dev model, this would have waited until 2.7/2.8. However, it may be done in 2.6 now instead.
Therein lies the problem. Udev does not work correctly for me. Some devices are still missing. It takes forever to mount my usb key drive. If devfs is removed in the near future I'm SOL. I'm not really at odds with adding new features but I do have a problem with removing features in an even numbered kernel. The 2.4-2.6 transition was relatively painless but there were things that needed to be tweaked and I knew that ahead of time. If one day I grab a kernel and it no longer supports devfs I won't be able to upgrade my kernel again until I get udev working properly. Major code ripping like that should be reserved for the odd numbered kernels.
You're both wrong. "gentoo-dev-sources" IS the gentoo patched 2.6 kernel but the unpatched vanilla kernel is also available. It is listed as "development-sources". Check it out for yourself.
Is this really needed in one of the safest cities in the US? I'm surprised that I did not hear more protest about those cameras. What has this counrty come to when the only way we can make ourselves feel safe is to monitor everybody and anybody?
Weird. I figured that you must have been using Moz on Windows because I've been using Moz on Linux for a long time now and have never had a problem with f-secure's site.
the security features found in the original standard were woefully inadequate
I wouldn't necessarily say that WEP is woefully inadequate as much as it is extremely poorly implemented. It could have worked well but it had serious implementation issues.
When people are receeiving attachments from their friends in the.doc format then they need office. When people use Office at work and need to be able to do work at home also, they need office. When someone has used excel previously and needs to import all of their files, they need office. Sure, there are plenty of joe users who don't need office, but there are plenty of them that do. Justifying your position by calling average users idiots that don't need the software they use just makes you an elitist prick.
Office and similar products are priced the way they are because there is an expectation that it is not going to sell as many units as more popular software, e.g. games. You have to factor in the total costs of producing the software and the market size before coming to a final price for the software itself.
True, and obviously the price is too high. There are so many joe users who are floored when they realize office is four hundred dollars. They go out and copy a friend's instead because they were expecting to pay around a hundred dollars.
What's funny about this thread is that I am defending copying and I don't really even pirate software or music or movies. I use Linux, so all of my apps are free anyway. I have a few songs that I have downloaded to listen to after I heard them on the radio but that's it. I won't download and burn an entire CD because the quality sucks, especially since all my files that I do own are in flac. I have three movies on my computer and I own all of them.
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The APIC problem has been fixed by 2.6 or 2.7. Dual channel still locks everything up though. SATA is being a pain too. It doesn't help that I have a seagate drive.
What hobbyist can put 3-man years into programming, finding all bugs, documenting his product and distribute for free?
What's wrong with Evolution?
It doesn't seem like you looked very hard then.
Really. So what exactly did Bill Gates mean when he wrote this:
An Open Letter to Hobbyists
No. MacPopper pops the most perfect popcorn, but it takes forever.
Oh really. Don't blame me for not trusting a guy with that kind of potential bias.
Oh no! What will we do without thousands of crappy shareware apps!?
But you know as well as I do that if I am successful then inevitably some kid in his parents' basement will write his own Open Source version of the thing, for free. If that happens then maybe your project isn't worth the money. If some kid in his basement can code something that replaces your project then you don't deserve to get paid for it.
I don't quite see it this way. It seems to me that Microsoft already went through it's phase of owning a lot of non-related businesses. Just look at msnbc and slate for example. Now they're realizing that they actually have a little competition now and need to focus on their core business.
The point you are missing is that MS isn't taking a hit for stolen material goods. They are only losing a sale and they are losing it for a good reason, the price. You should see people squirm when you tell them the cost of a Windows operating system. The risk for people pirating Windows is much lower than the perceived benefit.
With material goods, theft can be a factor in price because a raise in price is needed to offset the theft of goods, which is not only a lost sale, which means little, but a loss of raw material that was paid for by the producer. There are no raw materials to ethereal 0s and 1s.
Actually most of the recent worms that have been used to mass mail have been NT/XP only.
I know I don't need devfs but it works well for me for what I want it to do. I have no want to create device nodes by hand. Udev will be a good replacement soon but not just yet. It still doesn't work as well as devfs does for me.
...and no one is ever going to buy a windows computer and slap linux on it...nope, never going to happen.
Therein lies the problem. Udev does not work correctly for me. Some devices are still missing. It takes forever to mount my usb key drive. If devfs is removed in the near future I'm SOL. I'm not really at odds with adding new features but I do have a problem with removing features in an even numbered kernel. The 2.4-2.6 transition was relatively painless but there were things that needed to be tweaked and I knew that ahead of time. If one day I grab a kernel and it no longer supports devfs I won't be able to upgrade my kernel again until I get udev working properly. Major code ripping like that should be reserved for the odd numbered kernels.
You're both wrong. "gentoo-dev-sources" IS the gentoo patched 2.6 kernel but the unpatched vanilla kernel is also available. It is listed as "development-sources". Check it out for yourself.
Is this really needed in one of the safest cities in the US? I'm surprised that I did not hear more protest about those cameras. What has this counrty come to when the only way we can make ourselves feel safe is to monitor everybody and anybody?
Weird. I figured that you must have been using Moz on Windows because I've been using Moz on Linux for a long time now and have never had a problem with f-secure's site.
What's wrong with it? I use firefox and the page looks fine.
I wouldn't necessarily say that WEP is woefully inadequate as much as it is extremely poorly implemented. It could have worked well but it had serious implementation issues.
As all slashdotters probably already know about:
The (in)security of WEP
When people are receeiving attachments from their friends in the .doc format then they need office. When people use Office at work and need to be able to do work at home also, they need office. When someone has used excel previously and needs to import all of their files, they need office. Sure, there are plenty of joe users who don't need office, but there are plenty of them that do. Justifying your position by calling average users idiots that don't need the software they use just makes you an elitist prick.
True, and obviously the price is too high. There are so many joe users who are floored when they realize office is four hundred dollars. They go out and copy a friend's instead because they were expecting to pay around a hundred dollars.
If you could it wouldn't be stealing. Thanks for making my point for me.
What's funny about this thread is that I am defending copying and I don't really even pirate software or music or movies. I use Linux, so all of my apps are free anyway. I have a few songs that I have downloaded to listen to after I heard them on the radio but that's it. I won't download and burn an entire CD because the quality sucks, especially since all my files that I do own are in flac. I have three movies on my computer and I own all of them.