It's like any other show with scheduled talks - five of them go on in parallel. The quality of the talks is very varied, I must say I wasn't quite disappointed with a few of them. I guess I should not be really complaining because the speakers don't get compensated or anything. By the way Bdale Garbee was one of the "star" speakers at the conference. He talked about porting Debian GNU/Linux to the IA64 platform.
We (I am a Debian Developer) do sign each upload. The actual deb doesn't get signed but the changes file contains the MD5 sums of all the uploaded files and that gets signed. The archive package list contains MD5 sums of all the packages in the archive and _that_ file is gpg signed.
What PDA do you have? After I blew up my old Visor (which I could never carry conveniently in my pocket), I read dozens of reviews and finally settled on a Treo 90. I can heartily recommend it. It fits snugly in the pocket, a color display and a qwerty mini keyboard - a neat device. Best of all, you can find one for less than $150 now.
GNU oleo comes to mind. There's also a program called sc.
Gnumeric is what Unix office apps should be
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Hi,
I don't use office applications a lot; but Gnumeric is one application that showed promise from the very start. I have used Excel occasionally and I was immediately at home with Gnumeric - even in the early days. The interface is snappy; the GUI intuitive and it could import Excel files without a problem. I've looked at many office applications on Unix and I can honestly say that Gnumeric tops all of them. Now if only I had a Power Point equivalent that is as good as Gnumeric...
Indian Institutes of Information Technology (there are many) may be very good instituitions for all I know but by no stretch of imagination are they "foremost academic institutions equivalent to MIT". That honor goes to the IITs (Indian Institute of Technology), IISc (Indian Institute of Science) in Bangalore and IIMs (Indian Institute of Management).
If anything IIIT (note three Is) will rank behind Regional Engineering Colleges, Anna University, BITS and other premier Engineering Colleges in the country.
Our President (I am in India) promoting Open Source is a wonderful thing (he's an eminent scientist) but portraying IIIT as something which it is not was totally unnecessary.
(spelling intentional). With the all the war stories going on I parsed that as shot in space and thought some guy mad at the one click patent did him in! The "space" bit was confusing though:-)
Agreed. But with one difference. I don't use debuggers in Java because Java debuggers are pathetic. jdb is hopeless, the gui debuggers that I used are slow and buggy. Now gdb is good. It is excellent and coupled with emacs it's more than enough for any debugging required with C code. It has an excellent interface, supports threads, watchpoints etc well.
Amen to that. The only reason I use a word processor on my Linux box is to read word documents written by some of my misguided colleages. Abiword is pretty much useless for this till it supports tables. Except for figures, I usually just use antiword on a terminal - it's suprisingly good.
I am posting this from a 120Mhz Pentium box. This machine is running Progeny Debian. It started more than years ago running Debian hamm and Redhat 5.2. Since then I've regularly upgraded debian and trashed redhat. It had a 1.2 GB disk and 16MB RAM to start with; I've replaced almost everythign except the motherboard - my parents use it mostly for web browsing (dual boot Win95), I am thinking of upgrading one day but it has served it's purpose so far. I live in another city with a fairly decent box but whenever I visit my parents, this is the box that I use.
I have only a 15" monitor. So, let's see what I run. 2.4.4 kernel with alsa sound and ext3fs. I run windowmaker as the window manager. No file "manager". I run GNU screen in a terminal. I use opera with junkbuster (I used to use Netscape 4.76 but opera is more light weight). video playing is out of question, mplayer doesn't cut ice though I *can* watch VCDs okay on Win95. And emacs (not XEmacs) is my default editor. I use mutt for mail. That's light weight for you;-).
On two other systems that I use, I use a very similar configuration (surprise!), except I use galeon for a browser and sylpheed for some of my mail accounts. I don't use KDE or GNOME though I like some of the apps. Gnumeric is actually pretty good. I get all kinds of word documents at mail, antiword does a pretty good job of deciphering them for me.
Huh? This appears to be a boot selector (select a partition and let the OS loader do the work) rather than a real boot loader linux lilo or grub. Not that boot selectors are useless, I used to use a simple, nice, unsung one called OS-BS. I think I found it first on slackware, I think it still ships on the tools directory of debian.
I know UTF-8 is Unicode Transformation Format, thank you. I've worked with it for two years. My point is with UTF-8 you don't have intervening nulls, so legacy applications continue to work. UTF-8 made it's beginning as FSS-UTF (File System Safe) in Plan9.
Considering using UTF-8 for export instead of direct Unicode. As long as the legacy systems are 8-bit clean, you can feed UTF-8 back to them without too many problems. There will be no issues at all for ASCII data since 7-bit ASCII is the same in UTF-8. You just need to convert front end applications to be UTF-8 aware. You need not convert legacy backends to understand Unicode, they will just store UTF-8 as some weird 8 bit characters. The beauty is you'll be able to convert them in phases and ASCII never stops working.
I spent hours looking for this. The best portable mp3 players you can buy today are the Rio Volt and the Soulplayer (http://www.soulplayer.com). Actually, both devices appear to be the same - the Rio is about $10 more expensive. I just ordered one at buy.com with a $15 coupon.
Re:How about portable Ogg-Vorbis players?
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Good MP3/CD players already come with upgradable firmware (see www.soulplayer.com and Rio Volt). They already play WMA files, so adding OGG support shouldn't be too much of a problem. That is assuming they want to:-).
Unless I am mistaken this project revives a project that I've actually used. BSD lites is a single server (as opposed to HURD which is a multiserver model) on top of the Utah Mach4 microkernel.
The Mach4 microkernel from Utah itself is not significantly different from the CMU Mach3 except for a new build system (using GNU make) and lots of Linux drivers.
I am glad the project is coming to life. I used it a long time back (1996-97) as part of my Master's Thesis. At that time I was running Lites on top of a NetBSD user land. I was also able to get it running on top of a FreeBSD user land.
Unfortunately the web site doesn't seem to have too much technical content (yet).
Slashdot Mirror
Come on. Who are you kidding
Aargh. That's what I get for submitting without previewing. Read that as I must say I was quite disappointed with a few of them.
It's like any other show with scheduled talks - five of them go on in parallel. The quality of the talks is very varied, I must say I wasn't quite disappointed with a few of them. I guess I should not be really complaining because the speakers don't get compensated or anything. By the way Bdale Garbee was one of the "star" speakers at the conference. He talked about porting Debian GNU/Linux to the IA64 platform.
We (I am a Debian Developer) do sign each upload. The actual deb doesn't get signed but the changes file contains the MD5 sums of all the uploaded files and that gets signed. The archive package list contains MD5 sums of all the packages in the archive and _that_ file is gpg signed.
What PDA do you have? After I blew up my old Visor (which I could never carry conveniently in my pocket), I read dozens of reviews and finally settled on a Treo 90. I can heartily recommend it. It fits snugly in the pocket, a color display and a qwerty mini keyboard - a neat device. Best of all, you can find one for less than $150 now.
GNU oleo comes to mind. There's also a program called sc.
Hi,
...
I don't use office applications a lot; but Gnumeric is one application that showed promise from the very start. I have used Excel occasionally and I was immediately at home with Gnumeric - even in the early days. The interface is snappy; the GUI intuitive and it could import Excel files without a problem. I've looked at many office applications on Unix and I can honestly say that Gnumeric tops all of them. Now if only I had a Power Point equivalent that is as good as Gnumeric
are many) may be very good instituitions for all
I know but by no stretch of imagination are they
"foremost academic institutions equivalent to MIT". That honor goes to the IITs (Indian Institute of
Technology), IISc (Indian Institute of Science) in Bangalore and IIMs (Indian Institute of Management).
If anything IIIT (note three Is) will rank behind Regional Engineering Colleges, Anna University, BITS and other premier Engineering Colleges in the country.
Our President (I am in India) promoting Open Source is a wonderful thing (he's an eminent
scientist) but portraying IIIT as something which it is not was totally unnecessary.
(spelling intentional). With the all the war stories going on I parsed that as shot in space and thought some guy mad at the one click patent did him in! The "space" bit was confusing though :-)
So long and thanks for all the fish :-)
Agreed. But with one difference. I don't use debuggers in Java because Java debuggers are pathetic. jdb is hopeless, the gui debuggers that I used are slow and buggy. Now gdb is good. It is excellent and coupled with emacs it's more than enough for any debugging required with C code. It has an excellent interface, supports threads, watchpoints etc well.
Ganesan
Very Simple. In India the GSM License is way more
expensive than CDMA for providers. Don't ask me
why. But that's how things are right now.
Not Isaac Asimov - it was Ben Bova. He also
wrote Moon War, Jupiter and similar sci-fi novels.
Amen to that. The only reason I use a word processor on my Linux box is to read word documents written by some of my misguided colleages. Abiword is pretty much useless for this till it supports tables. Except for figures, I usually just use antiword on a terminal - it's suprisingly good.
You're a bit too late not to like it :-). The LP64 model has been around for ages. Right from the days of the Alpha six years ago.
I have only a 15" monitor. So, let's see what I run. 2.4.4 kernel with alsa sound and ext3fs. I run windowmaker as the window manager. No file "manager". I run GNU screen in a terminal. I use opera with junkbuster (I used to use Netscape 4.76 but opera is more light weight). video playing is out of question, mplayer doesn't cut ice though I *can* watch VCDs okay on Win95. And emacs (not XEmacs) is my default editor. I use mutt for mail. That's light weight for you
On two other systems that I use, I use a very similar configuration (surprise!), except I use galeon for a browser and sylpheed for some of my mail accounts. I don't use KDE or GNOME though I like some of the apps. Gnumeric is actually pretty good. I get all kinds of word documents at mail, antiword does a pretty good job of deciphering them for me.
Did they really use csh for their install script? Ouch.
Huh? This appears to be a boot selector (select a partition and let the OS loader do the work) rather than a real boot loader linux lilo or grub. Not that boot selectors are useless, I used to use a simple, nice, unsung one called OS-BS. I think I found it first on slackware, I think it still ships on the tools directory of debian.
Ganesan
I know UTF-8 is Unicode Transformation Format, thank you. I've worked with it for two years. My point is with UTF-8 you don't have intervening nulls, so legacy applications continue to work. UTF-8 made it's beginning as FSS-UTF (File System Safe) in Plan9.
Considering using UTF-8 for export instead of direct Unicode. As long as the legacy systems are 8-bit clean, you can feed UTF-8 back to them without too many problems. There will be no issues at all for ASCII data since 7-bit ASCII is the same in UTF-8. You just need to convert front end applications to be UTF-8 aware. You need not convert legacy backends to understand Unicode, they will just store UTF-8 as some weird 8 bit characters. The beauty is you'll be able to convert them in phases and ASCII never stops working.
C interpreters have been around for a long time. Have a look at Scripting with C.
I spent hours looking for this. The best portable mp3 players you can buy today are the Rio Volt and the Soulplayer (http://www.soulplayer.com). Actually, both devices appear to be the same - the Rio is about $10 more expensive. I just ordered one at buy.com with a $15 coupon.
Good MP3/CD players already come with upgradable firmware (see www.soulplayer.com and Rio Volt). They already play WMA files, so adding OGG support shouldn't be too much of a problem. That is assuming they want to :-).
Unless I am mistaken this project revives a project that I've actually used. BSD lites is a single server (as opposed to HURD which is a multiserver model) on top of the Utah Mach4 microkernel. The Mach4 microkernel from Utah itself is not significantly different from the CMU Mach3 except for a new build system (using GNU make) and lots of Linux drivers. I am glad the project is coming to life. I used it a long time back (1996-97) as part of my Master's Thesis. At that time I was running Lites on top of a NetBSD user land. I was also able to get it running on top of a FreeBSD user land. Unfortunately the web site doesn't seem to have too much technical content (yet).
Sid is Debian's forever "unstable" release. The "testing" distribution is the one which will get a new name once "woody" is done. Ganesan