My friend gave me a Pentium 1, 100MHz, 32MB RAM, no hard disk.
I put my CD-ROM on it, with a costumized boot CD that loads X, and runs the desktop and applications from my machine (that has power enough to run apps for two users at once).
You can use it as a terminal for a Windows machine too, with rdesktop.
X is ok with 32MB and some swap. Just don't do Gnome nor KDE, they are as bloated as Windows. Heck, they are good at trying to be like Windows!:)
There are plenty lightweight environments for X avaiable. I use the Fluxbox (window manager), and ROX-Filer (file manager and icon panel).
I had a computer with 256MB RAM without ANY swap, running the Mozilla browser, Gimp, modern 3D games, etc. I only run out of memory (and created a swap file for that) when tried to run GTA Vice City under Wine.
Because bio-spheres didn't work and because a building that people can and will live in are not made from the same materials as a space craft.
Of course not, but just because they don't have the same requirements. A bio-sphere that will be launched into space would be built with the apropriated materials. Way more expensive, but still possible.
Buildings are heavy, going into orbit takes LOTS of fuel.
Also, a single page view accounts for many hits on the server, one for each file (images, frames, flash, ads, css, etc). People who block them (ads, popus, etc) will make less hits.
Just wait for some months after the release of the next generation engine. Now that Doom 3 is out, Quake 3 is already GPL'ed, as happened to the previous games. Maybe they are the only big game company that does that.
But the grandparent does have a point about the fact that free hackers make software (primarily) for themselves. (Vim is way more easy for me than any other fancy editor, but I do realise that it's not the best for everyone.) If more people use it, great!, but it's not the goal. The goal is the software per se (a tool, a game, whatever, for him to use). The software companies' goal, on the other hand, is to have more people using it, so the interface must be geared towards the general luser.
Google will never sell out. No ammount of money has more value than the opportunity to be the new king of the hill, which leads not only to even more money, but also a lot of power.
He cited OSI model, well, but I can assure you I won't go in an airplane if it was done with Linus' practices...
Given a plane controled by Windows, and other controlled by Linux, which one will you go into?
There are specs in some places that are good, and that are read and followed.
Like he said, specs that match reality are good. They are worse than useless otherwise, they're misleading.
Even in non-dangerous domains such as Web standards, specs are necessary, and those who don't follow these specs make crap softwares/browsers!
Make a browser looking at the specs only, don't testing it with real world web pages. It will not work in the general case, because the web out there is not like the specs say they should be. You can argument that The browser will work for pages written strictly by the spec, but this will be an irrelevant browser, cause it doesn't handle the wild world wide web out there.
Hun? `man perlrun` says -p overrides -n I don't see how this will work. Either way, it would edit all files, not only the ones wich has the 'newip' string.
After finding some situations (in different machines) that killall somehow don't work, I stopped using it at all, and now I go: kill `pidof programname`
The version currently used by Slackware, which also says it's 5.2.1, don't have this option either. I checked linuxpackages.net, and found that this version is from Slackware 9.1 (current is 10.2), so it's pretty old. Perhaps this is a new option in the nightly, or an unofficial patch?
Try the vimv script. It loads a script with the mv commands in vi, let's you edit it, and then runs it. Very quick and straightforward to use. It even aligns the second column of target names, so you can use the block commands of Vim (try ctrl-shift-v then move around) to easly mass-rename files, like keeping song names in your standard (I use "style/Artist.YYYY.Album Title/NN.Song Title.ext").
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set t_ti= t_te=
from any of the various places sh/bash/etc source:
LESS='X'; export LESS
Now, Less and vim won't restore the @#*$!%ing terminal on exit, permitting you to cut/paste/transcribe whatever you were just editing/viewing.
My Vim doesn't restore, even without this t_ti= t_te=
How do I make it restore the screen?
For less I like it not to restore (I use export LESS='-X -F -M -R -f'), but for vi I would like just that.
My friend gave me a Pentium 1, 100MHz, 32MB RAM, no hard disk.
I put my CD-ROM on it, with a costumized boot CD that loads X, and runs the desktop and applications from my machine (that has power enough to run apps for two users at once).
You can use it as a terminal for a Windows machine too, with rdesktop.
X is ok with 32MB and some swap. :)
Just don't do Gnome nor KDE, they are as bloated as Windows. Heck, they are good at trying to be like Windows!
There are plenty lightweight environments for X avaiable. I use the Fluxbox (window manager), and ROX-Filer (file manager and icon panel).
I had a computer with 256MB RAM without ANY swap, running the Mozilla browser, Gimp, modern 3D games, etc. I only run out of memory (and created a swap file for that) when tried to run GTA Vice City under Wine.
"Wanted" posters on the streets with a big photo of the subject?
Because bio-spheres didn't work and because a building that people can and will live in are not made from the same materials as a space craft.
Of course not, but just because they don't have the same requirements.
A bio-sphere that will be launched into space would be built with the apropriated materials. Way more expensive, but still possible.
Buildings are heavy, going into orbit takes LOTS of fuel.
Space elevator + solar power + patience.
Sure, it's low-tech
Low tech is a Good Thing, it's not like higher=better.
The simpler the tool, the better.
Also, a single page view accounts for many hits on the server, one for each file (images, frames, flash, ads, css, etc).
People who block them (ads, popus, etc) will make less hits.
It was also covered here in /..
Err.. one URL:
http://www.icculus.org/quake3
I just grabbed it and 'make' just worked. Works perfectly.
That's what illegal copies are for. Download with your favorite p2p program, and by the Linux version when it's avaiable.
Raven basically did the production. The engine is from Doom 3, which was already ported to Linux.
It isn't open source. It's an i386-only binary.
Just wait for some months after the release of the next generation engine.
Now that Doom 3 is out, Quake 3 is already GPL'ed, as happened to the previous games.
Maybe they are the only big game company that does that.
You're right.
But the grandparent does have a point about the fact that free hackers make software (primarily) for themselves. (Vim is way more easy for me than any other fancy editor, but I do realise that it's not the best for everyone.) If more people use it, great!, but it's not the goal. The goal is the software per se (a tool, a game, whatever, for him to use). The software companies' goal, on the other hand, is to have more people using it, so the interface must be geared towards the general luser.
Um.. define "the best"?
The "Truth"?
The "most elegent"?
The "one that my mind can most willingly accept"?
Nature's way.
The "one that majority of scientists can most willingly accept"?
This one I don't know.
more like s/Internet\ Explorer/a\ web\ browser/g
Microsoft will now buy Google
Google will never sell out. No ammount of money has more value than the opportunity to be the new king of the hill, which leads not only to even more money, but also a lot of power.
Why is the parent modded down (until now)?
All he said is true. I say that by having a very similar experience with weed.
He cited OSI model, well, but I can assure you I won't go in an airplane if it was done with Linus' practices...
Given a plane controled by Windows, and other controlled by Linux, which one will you go into?
There are specs in some places that are good, and that are read and followed.
Like he said, specs that match reality are good. They are worse than useless otherwise, they're misleading.
Even in non-dangerous domains such as Web standards, specs are necessary, and those who don't follow these specs make crap softwares/browsers!
Make a browser looking at the specs only, don't testing it with real world web pages. It will not work in the general case, because the web out there is not like the specs say they should be. You can argument that The browser will work for pages written strictly by the spec, but this will be an irrelevant browser, cause it doesn't handle the wild world wide web out there.
Or just
ls -rt
so they will appear last, near the prompt.
perl -pne's/oldip/newip/g' -i `find /etc -type f`
Hun? `man perlrun` says -p overrides -n
I don't see how this will work. Either way, it would edit all files, not only the ones wich has the 'newip' string.
After finding some situations (in different machines) that killall somehow don't work, I stopped using it at all, and now I go:
kill `pidof programname`
The version currently used by Slackware, which also says it's 5.2.1, don't have this option either.
I checked linuxpackages.net, and found that this version is from Slackware 9.1 (current is 10.2), so it's pretty old.
Perhaps this is a new option in the nightly, or an unofficial patch?
Try the vimv script.
It loads a script with the mv commands in vi, let's you edit it, and then runs it.
Very quick and straightforward to use.
It even aligns the second column of target names, so you can use the block commands of Vim (try ctrl-shift-v then move around) to easly mass-rename files, like keeping song names in your standard (I use "style/Artist.YYYY.Album Title/NN.Song Title.ext").
how will we replace Oracle? Or even MS Excel, Word & Powerpoint?
PostgreSQL and Open Office?
Its still a long way for OO
A long social way. The technical one is basically done already.
That pretty much says all about the Word docs quality. :D