And only today I was in complete awe when I was able to download stuff using a 1 Gbps line...
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EVERYTHING when you install Gentoo, all is compiled with the appropriate optimizations for your processor, hence the speed increase.
I can't really see that much potential for a performance increase even if you compare programs run under i386 and i686 kernels.
Not to mention, AFAIK you don't end up with a million and one useless daemons starting a la RedHat or Mandrake (yes, they are bad for this.)
Another point of view would be: with Gentoo you end up with a minimally useful system and you'll have to work to get all the daemons you need on-line.
When it comes to Linux, I'd rather like the RedHat way. Every possible driver has been compiled as a module and if you add a new card, a network card for instance, it's recognized and the relevant daemons are set up on reboot.
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but boy is it fast once you get the system up and running.
Huh?
Where does this alleged speed come from (in principle)? Do you have any statistics or are you just spouting typical Gentoo crap?
Man Free Beer and Free Software go together like Free Porn and P2P sharing.
Except that the freedom in Free Software is on RMS' terms. Just watch the next version of GPL so that it does not include a clause about free blowjobs to the Free Software leadership.
In essence they are not even teach them how to compile from the command line.
Goddamn. What if they'll stop teaching people how to code in ix86 assembly! Oh wait...
Free Software is a cult - MS just a corp
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my kid comes running up to be dressed like the MSN butterfly and says "Where do you want to go today." (in a robotic like tone)
As opposed to wearing a poncho, playing a flute and chanting: "All software must be free - free as in beer and free as in speech! The prophet Richard M. Stallman said so and we'll happily give our lives to the Church of Emacs!"
Just a question. Why are you equating open source and true computer innovation here? Name one true open source innovation. As far as I can see, the open source community is just copying whatever innovations the proprietary software makes.
MS products are displacing others at a disturbing rate in computer science departments.
And just why is it disturibing? I don't get this complaint.
If you can't compete on merit (or alleged "bribery") you've lost. What's the point in talking about the "technical superiority of *nix" if you can't prove it on the field and get your system embraced by the academia?
If a marriage with a pre-nuptual agreement starts out with some expectation for failure and divorce, doesn't that seem to be a prediction rather than a contingency?
No. It's completely sensible.
What you say is like: if you have any doubt that your software project may run into terminal trouble, you should drop the project. Any project may run into a terminal trouble. It's just not humanly possible to foresee all problems. Therefore it's best to minimize any fallout right now and not fight it out in the courts later on.
but I have serious moral problems with buying a diamond
There's always this thin line of trust/mistrust between a guy and a girl. That comment hits the faultline of mistrust and self-doubt - even if she trusts you on most things.
Perhaps I sound like an old fart, but that's just how I am.
Actually, I am an old fart but I've never tied the knot and I fully agree with your idea of romantic idealism. What really scares me is that the "rules" (you know what I mean?) instead of realism really seem to be gaining ground amongst the more mature women.
How exactly did you tell that to your wife? How the hell do you bring up a point that you'd "rather not buy a diamond ring but..." without sounding like an unromantic cheapskate?
It's not to look smart, but because the plot holes grate and really bother them.
But it's all fiction! If you don't like fiction, go read some of that crappy hard science fiction or your physics book. Write a better script and convince someone to make a boring movie about the life of a scientifically feasible lifeform on a neutron star. Don't go watch Matrix 2 'cause it's only going to make you mad.
It's you who's lacking in the imagination if you can't let yourself go of realism, all realism if necessary, to follow a nice mind-twisting plot.
It's only abandoning the reality we can thoroughly explore the possibilities.
It is all designed to make user level timeslice requests (ie GUI events) occur more quickly.
I had to read that twice. What's your point? Of course the interactive processes should be given a priority. I mean why would you want to freeze the GUI?
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Uh... no.
If the engineers are allowed to decide, I'll predict that the names will be like 10^9BaseT. Saves space and the superscripts look cool to the public.
And only today I was in complete awe when I was able to download stuff using a 1 Gbps line...
I can't really see that much potential for a performance increase even if you compare programs run under i386 and i686 kernels.
Not to mention, AFAIK you don't end up with a million and one useless daemons starting a la RedHat or Mandrake (yes, they are bad for this.)
Another point of view would be: with Gentoo you end up with a minimally useful system and you'll have to work to get all the daemons you need on-line.
When it comes to Linux, I'd rather like the RedHat way. Every possible driver has been compiled as a module and if you add a new card, a network card for instance, it's recognized and the relevant daemons are set up on reboot.
Huh?
Where does this alleged speed come from (in principle)? Do you have any statistics or are you just spouting typical Gentoo crap?
Except that the freedom in Free Software is on RMS' terms. Just watch the next version of GPL so that it does not include a clause about free blowjobs to the Free Software leadership.
Goddamn. What if they'll stop teaching people how to code in ix86 assembly! Oh wait...
As opposed to wearing a poncho, playing a flute and chanting: "All software must be free - free as in beer and free as in speech! The prophet Richard M. Stallman said so and we'll happily give our lives to the Church of Emacs!"
Just a question. Why are you equating open source and true computer innovation here? Name one true open source innovation. As far as I can see, the open source community is just copying whatever innovations the proprietary software makes.
And just why is it disturibing? I don't get this complaint.
If you can't compete on merit (or alleged "bribery") you've lost. What's the point in talking about the "technical superiority of *nix" if you can't prove it on the field and get your system embraced by the academia?
Suck ass!
Or: Bend over, here I come again. Which, of course, gives a whole new meaning to this "humorous military term".
No. It's completely sensible.
What you say is like: if you have any doubt that your software project may run into terminal trouble, you should drop the project. Any project may run into a terminal trouble. It's just not humanly possible to foresee all problems. Therefore it's best to minimize any fallout right now and not fight it out in the courts later on.
There's always this thin line of trust/mistrust between a guy and a girl. That comment hits the faultline of mistrust and self-doubt - even if she trusts you on most things.
Actually, I am an old fart but I've never tied the knot and I fully agree with your idea of romantic idealism. What really scares me is that the "rules" (you know what I mean?) instead of realism really seem to be gaining ground amongst the more mature women.
How exactly did you tell that to your wife? How the hell do you bring up a point that you'd "rather not buy a diamond ring but..." without sounding like an unromantic cheapskate?
This silly "let's pretend Amazon with its cheaper prices does not exist" farce really should stop already.
Here I am. sitting at work listening to Husker Du, and I just realize that I wasted my youth - I never started a nerd garage band.
Does it really take this much to secure *nix?
Hey! It's Bra'tac!
In addition to SCO, the Canopy Group owns TrollTech too.
A life for a door. Way to go!
Or maybe I believe that any art should be more of a reflection of the viewer than the artist.
I like to make my own movie out of the raw material I saw in the theatre.
What the FUCK makes you think that the law should allow every Tom, Dick and Harry to shoot burglars to death?
Give a shout and watch the bastards running away.
But it's all fiction! If you don't like fiction, go read some of that crappy hard science fiction or your physics book. Write a better script and convince someone to make a boring movie about the life of a scientifically feasible lifeform on a neutron star. Don't go watch Matrix 2 'cause it's only going to make you mad.
It's you who's lacking in the imagination if you can't let yourself go of realism, all realism if necessary, to follow a nice mind-twisting plot.
It's only abandoning the reality we can thoroughly explore the possibilities.
I had to read that twice. What's your point? Of course the interactive processes should be given a priority. I mean why would you want to freeze the GUI?