I thought the apropos command was just for that purpose. Granted that newbies probably don't know to type that, but it is quite easy to have the console print a few helpful commands when the user logs in. Maybe the distro's should add a default motd to newbies?
I haven't had any problems with ATAPI CD burners for two years now, but then I'm using Mandrake. Anyway, even Debian Woody with it's "unfriendly" installed detected my burner correctly.
I haven't tried RedHat or SuSE though, but I suppose they work as well as Mandrake and Debian.
Often the actual error is just with boot time kernel parameters not being set correctly, although as I wrote above I've never had that happen to me. Even when adding a burner after the install Mandrake's kudzu (actually kudzu's from RedHat AFAIK) found the device and installed it.
Granted that windows might be more fool-proof, but what is easier; pop in the device and boot or pop in the device, insert drivers CD, click the f**ing Next> button a dozen of times, reboot, wait, doesn't work, update drivers, click the Next>...
Yeah, so? My Linux box with thousands of programs crashes about once a year. And the box is a desktop, media center, database, webserver...
Does the parent comment then mean that the software made for windows is less stable than OSS software? That would pull the carpet under those who critisize OSS software "because it's unstable".
And 5%.. How can any self respecting businessman say that 5% of everything that I(we) do is not functioning the way it should??
Well I've only had a few crashes with XP that didn't originate from Windows. During the same timeframe (1 year) I've had zero crashes with my main box (yeah, Linux...)
Anyway, I've never ever sent an error report to M$. Who knows what other information is passed on at the same time.
And I will not believe that MS is reading all of the millions of error reports anyway...
I think all windows Zip software supports tar and gzip.. Why, oh why do people still compress everything with zip? If they want to compress whatever they want, why not use the open standards?
Hell, even the "pirates" and "hackers" are using something else (rar, ace).
I use interfaces mainly for type checks and to make sure that my co-workers use the correct methods for certain types of classes. I find them flexible enough to serve my purposes, and provide me with a kind of polymorphism.
As fas ar code reuse goes, doesn't a call to super.methodX() do what you want? Providing that the interface is implemented in the super class.. That's the way I've implemented it quite many times, not the best solution, but creating a common interface, and them implementing it in a abstract class, and overriding the necessary methods in the "real" class.
I sometimes miss polymorphism (flashbacks from my C++ days still haunt me:), but I can easily cope without them. Interfaces are not a drop in replacement though.
What are we actually comparing here? While the speed in both cases could be i.e. 1 Mb/s, are we comparing that or the actual throughput of the connection?
The speed of my cable (525/256) has been steady for as long as I can remember giving me about 60 KB/s download speeds. I had, before I moved sometime ago, a cablemodem that was uncapped (the pro model as the ISP calls it:) and I got speeds around 500-800 KB/s. Still the speed the ISP promised was only 1 Mb. So does this mean that my old cable modem was faster than DSL?
Most definately it was cheaper than a DSL of 1 Mb, but also the service level was much worse, and my ping was with the old modem terrible. The speed however made up for the lack of support and the bad level of service and it's outtages.
The bad thing with the old modem was that the bandwith was shared, which sometimes made my connection unusable with speeds below that of a dial-up connection. Was my modem then slower than a DSL?
How about comparing cable modems to LAN connections?
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I thought the apropos command was just for that purpose. Granted that newbies probably don't know to type that, but it is quite easy to have the console print a few helpful commands when the user logs in. Maybe the distro's should add a default motd to newbies?
Does anyone have any idea where the $2000 goes? To the artists? Don't think so..
I haven't had any problems with ATAPI CD burners for two years now, but then I'm using Mandrake. Anyway, even Debian Woody with it's "unfriendly" installed detected my burner correctly.
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I haven't tried RedHat or SuSE though, but I suppose they work as well as Mandrake and Debian.
Often the actual error is just with boot time kernel parameters not being set correctly, although as I wrote above I've never had that happen to me. Even when adding a burner after the install Mandrake's kudzu (actually kudzu's from RedHat AFAIK) found the device and installed it.
Granted that windows might be more fool-proof, but what is easier; pop in the device and boot or pop in the device, insert drivers CD, click the f**ing Next> button a dozen of times, reboot, wait, doesn't work, update drivers, click the Next>
You could just use plain gzip or bzip2 then, tar doesn't really bring anything "revolutionalizing(sp?)" to compression...
Yeah, so? My Linux box with thousands of programs crashes about once a year. And the box is a desktop, media center, database, webserver...
Does the parent comment then mean that the software made for windows is less stable than OSS software? That would pull the carpet under those who critisize OSS software "because it's unstable".
And 5%.. How can any self respecting businessman say that 5% of everything that I(we) do is not functioning the way it should??
Well I've only had a few crashes with XP that didn't originate from Windows. During the same timeframe (1 year) I've had zero crashes with my main box (yeah, Linux...)
Anyway, I've never ever sent an error report to M$. Who knows what other information is passed on at the same time.
And I will not believe that MS is reading all of the millions of error reports anyway...
I think all windows Zip software supports tar and gzip.. Why, oh why do people still compress everything with zip? If they want to compress whatever they want, why not use the open standards?
Hell, even the "pirates" and "hackers" are using something else (rar, ace).
I think you're expressing just what this shirt is all about.
Wasn't Nasa also involved in the development and testing of NSA secure Linux ?
Does this mean that SCO is going to sue the government too?
I use interfaces mainly for type checks and to make sure that my co-workers use the correct methods for certain types of classes. I find them flexible enough to serve my purposes, and provide me with a kind of polymorphism.
:), but I can easily cope without them. Interfaces are not a drop in replacement though.
As fas ar code reuse goes, doesn't a call to super.methodX() do what you want? Providing that the interface is implemented in the super class.. That's the way I've implemented it quite many times, not the best solution, but creating a common interface, and them implementing it in a abstract class, and overriding the necessary methods in the "real" class.
I sometimes miss polymorphism (flashbacks from my C++ days still haunt me
What are we actually comparing here? While the speed in both cases could be i.e. 1 Mb/s, are we comparing that or the actual throughput of the connection?
:) and I got speeds around 500-800 KB/s. Still the speed the ISP promised was only 1 Mb. So does this mean that my old cable modem was faster than DSL?
The speed of my cable (525/256) has been steady for as long as I can remember giving me about 60 KB/s download speeds. I had, before I moved sometime ago, a cablemodem that was uncapped (the pro model as the ISP calls it
Most definately it was cheaper than a DSL of 1 Mb, but also the service level was much worse, and my ping was with the old modem terrible. The speed however made up for the lack of support and the bad level of service and it's outtages.
The bad thing with the old modem was that the bandwith was shared, which sometimes made my connection unusable with speeds below that of a dial-up connection. Was my modem then slower than a DSL?
How about comparing cable modems to LAN connections?
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