I was an Amiga user for years, then I installed muFS and the whole set of GNU software. All the commercial C compilers were way to expensive for me, so I choosed gcc. As soon as there was the 68000 port available, I switched over to Linux. I've never had a Windows installation in the last 14 years.
This is why Google also needs a trust network. They certainly could begin to leverage Orkut to do this. I'd give more credence to an information source if I knew that someone in my trust network also gave credence to it.
That sounds like a FANTASTIC idea. Just come in one weekend and change the entire network
That's what I did and do all the time. The user shouldn't recognize the migration, but after a while they realize that the service availability, perfomance and security is so much better. It just takes a while to prepare the final step (switch over).
I'm not a MySQL fanboy or anything, but I totally agree. There must be a reason why major, database-heavy sites like Slashdot or Wikipedia are based on MySQL.
The reasons Linus implemented Linux rather than improving Minix are far more complicated than just the license on Minix
So why don't you tell us the reasons?
It was just one reason: The terminal emulation of Minux was crap, so he wasn't able to work remotely on the campus servers. He decided to write his own terminal program for Minix. It was already multi-threaded, handling modem->display and keyboard->modem. Just in a period of four months, he created a first bootable operating system out of his terminal application.
Wow, I was just reading "Just For Fun" for the second time, mainly because of the lack of other books and today I was wondering what happened to Minix. In his book, Linus describes what is wrong with Minix and microkernels in general.
How about this. A copy of the modified EULA is mailed to the software company with a note enclosed that reads "By opening this envelope, you agree to all terms enclosed in this envelope regarding SOFTWARE."
Even better: You do not pay by credit card, but by check/cheque or cash and put it into the envolope along with the modified EULA.
But I don't beleive that it's a consperiacy against Linux. I beleive it's just complacency, laziness, apathy, and other crap like that.
I think, you're right. There are a lot of small companies out there who are not able to afford the resources for another platform besides Windows. Take RME Audio, they are absolutely not against Linux support for their hardware. The development team is just too small to support it. Here is the proof.
On the other hand, larger companies like HP - and even worse Samsung - should be able to spend some resources to develop Linux drivers. Why is it, that on most of the HW vendors websites, you can't find anything about Linux?
For example if a process is stuck trying to read a file that's on an nfs server that has become unreachable, not even kill -9 will get rid of it. Even *BSD sometimes gets unkillable processes in cases where the underlying hardware has gone to lunch.
The mount option "intr" helps a lot:
intr:
If an NFS file operation has a major timeout and it is hard mounted, then allow signals to interupt the file operation and cause it to return EINTR to the calling program. The default is to not allow file operations to be interrupted.
Some other helpful options, especially "soft":
hard:
The program accessing a file on a NFS mounted file system will hang when the server crashes. The process cannot be interrupted or killed unless you also specify intr. When the NFS server is back online the program will continue undisturbed from where it was. This is probably what you want.
soft
This option allows the kernel to time out if the nfs server is not responding for some time. The time can be specified with timeo=time. This option might be useful if your nfs server sometimes doesn't respond or will be rebooted while some process tries to get a file from the server. Usually it just causes lots of trouble.
That's one of the worst Ask Slashdot articles ever - it almost tops this one. Is it meant to be a troll? What exactly is the connection between your question about special character sets and the link to Wikipedias "Apple Macintosh" entry? Apple fanboyism?
Back to your question: What should be included in the special character sets? Do we need a set for every programming/markup language?
if a collegue is asking a question about the current project you're working on, prioritise it a little higher than a message asking if you're up for a game of pool later.
Don't wanna be nit-picky here, but I guess you messed up the order.
How many versions of Windows XP are there? Really just two, Home Edition and Professional Edition. How many versions of Linux 2.6 are there? According to that article, around 300.
You're comparing apples with pears. You should compare Windows with Linux distributions.
And since my posts always seem to get modded as trolls no matter what I say, if you Linux people don't get off your mighty high horse and look at what could get people to migrate from Windows to Linux, it will never happen.
Because you are trolling.
I don't care if it is Ubuntu, or Suze, or Red Hat, or whatever.
So you say, that you know only two - the third is called SuSE - of the mentioned 300 distributions? You just don't have to care about the other 298 distributions, they're made for special purposes. A few of them (Familiar) are made for PDAs, just like Windows CE (yes, another Windows).
Just have one damn version and make the damn thing work for the latest technology, make it fast, and make it easy to understand for even the dumbest american.
What do you mean when you say "latest technology"? There are more cases of Windows not supporting the latest technology.
This is a very nice alternative to plain photo prints and a nice gift: qoop flickr photo books. Upload your pictures to Flickr and let it print by qoop as a book.
What do you mean by saying "I offer a guarantee that my code operates as specified"? What, if it's not operating as specified? Can I give it back to you? I'm serious, what does it mean?
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Somehow I don't think that rule is entirely correct for 65000+ cpus.
Somehow I think that my grandparent post should be modded funny.
I was an Amiga user for years, then I installed muFS and the whole set of GNU software. All the commercial C compilers were way to expensive for me, so I choosed gcc. As soon as there was the 68000 port available, I switched over to Linux. I've never had a Windows installation in the last 14 years.
You should always set the number of parallel jobs to CPUs+1. In this case make -j 65537.
This is why Google also needs a trust network. They certainly could begin to leverage Orkut to do this. I'd give more credence to an information source if I knew that someone in my trust network also gave credence to it.
Check this out.
Oh, I just submitted the following story:
It seems that Google is going to announce a new service called Google Base today at the invite only Google Zeitgeist conference. At the moment, we only have a few screenshots and a pretty interesting discussion at threadwatch.org. Conflicting rumors have pointed to a new Google database, classifieds like Craigslist, an Ebay contender or just another way to submit URLs.
That sounds like a FANTASTIC idea. Just come in one weekend and change the entire network
That's what I did and do all the time. The user shouldn't recognize the migration, but after a while they realize that the service availability, perfomance and security is so much better. It just takes a while to prepare the final step (switch over).
The client is Windows only. There is not even a Mac client. Why are all the virtual worlds restricted to one platform?
I'm not a MySQL fanboy or anything, but I totally agree. There must be a reason why major, database-heavy sites like Slashdot or Wikipedia are based on MySQL.
Here is an interesting link.
The reasons Linus implemented Linux rather than improving Minix are far more complicated than just the license on Minix
So why don't you tell us the reasons?
It was just one reason: The terminal emulation of Minux was crap, so he wasn't able to work remotely on the campus servers. He decided to write his own terminal program for Minix. It was already multi-threaded, handling modem->display and keyboard->modem. Just in a period of four months, he created a first bootable operating system out of his terminal application.
Wow, I was just reading "Just For Fun" for the second time, mainly because of the lack of other books and today I was wondering what happened to Minix. In his book, Linus describes what is wrong with Minix and microkernels in general.
The Tanenbaum-Torvalds Debate
How about this. A copy of the modified EULA is mailed to the software company with a note enclosed that reads "By opening this envelope, you agree to all terms enclosed in this envelope regarding SOFTWARE."
Even better: You do not pay by credit card, but by check/cheque or cash and put it into the envolope along with the modified EULA.
Ask Slashdot: Recommend a Tech Toys Bag?
what I need is a medium sized bag or backpack with pockets
Here you go.
waaahhhh, why do guitars cost so much?
:-)
Sorry, it's "Wah-wah, why do guitars cost so much?"
But I don't beleive that it's a consperiacy against Linux. I beleive it's just complacency, laziness, apathy, and other crap like that.
I think, you're right. There are a lot of small companies out there who are not able to afford the resources for another platform besides Windows. Take RME Audio, they are absolutely not against Linux support for their hardware. The development team is just too small to support it. Here is the proof.
On the other hand, larger companies like HP - and even worse Samsung - should be able to spend some resources to develop Linux drivers. Why is it, that on most of the HW vendors websites, you can't find anything about Linux?
For example if a process is stuck trying to read a file that's on an nfs server that has become unreachable, not even kill -9 will get rid of it. Even *BSD sometimes gets unkillable processes in cases where the underlying hardware has gone to lunch.
The mount option "intr" helps a lot:
intr:
If an NFS file operation has a major timeout and it is hard mounted, then allow signals to interupt the file operation and cause it to return EINTR to the calling program. The default is to not allow file operations to be interrupted.
Some other helpful options, especially "soft":
hard:
The program accessing a file on a NFS mounted file system will hang when the server crashes. The process cannot be interrupted or killed unless you also specify intr. When the NFS server is back online the program will continue undisturbed from where it was. This is probably what you want.
soft
This option allows the kernel to time out if the nfs server is not responding for some time. The time can be specified with timeo=time. This option might be useful if your nfs server sometimes doesn't respond or will be rebooted while some process tries to get a file from the server. Usually it just causes lots of trouble.
That's one of the worst Ask Slashdot articles ever - it almost tops this one. Is it meant to be a troll? What exactly is the connection between your question about special character sets and the link to Wikipedias "Apple Macintosh" entry? Apple fanboyism?
Back to your question: What should be included in the special character sets? Do we need a set for every programming/markup language?
if a collegue is asking a question about the current project you're working on, prioritise it a little higher than a message asking if you're up for a game of pool later.
Don't wanna be nit-picky here, but I guess you messed up the order.
... fears about GE ... concern about GE ... proof of GE
Please do not use GE as an abbreviation for Google. GE is known as General Electric. Very confusing.
[...] integrated Grammar Checker. We can can do this because [...]
:-)
2005-10-17
Here is the answer. Read the FAQ, it is very insightful.
Insightful? Just plain wrong, I'd say.
How many versions of Windows XP are there? Really just two, Home Edition and Professional Edition. How many versions of Linux 2.6 are there? According to that article, around 300.
You're comparing apples with pears. You should compare Windows with Linux distributions.
And since my posts always seem to get modded as trolls no matter what I say, if you Linux people don't get off your mighty high horse and look at what could get people to migrate from Windows to Linux, it will never happen.
Because you are trolling.
I don't care if it is Ubuntu, or Suze, or Red Hat, or whatever.
So you say, that you know only two - the third is called SuSE - of the mentioned 300 distributions? You just don't have to care about the other 298 distributions, they're made for special purposes. A few of them (Familiar) are made for PDAs, just like Windows CE (yes, another Windows).
Just have one damn version and make the damn thing work for the latest technology, make it fast, and make it easy to understand for even the dumbest american.
What do you mean when you say "latest technology"? There are more cases of Windows not supporting the latest technology.
This is a very nice alternative to plain photo prints and a nice gift: qoop flickr photo books. Upload your pictures to Flickr and let it print by qoop as a book.
What do you mean by saying "I offer a guarantee that my code operates as specified"? What, if it's not operating as specified? Can I give it back to you? I'm serious, what does it mean?
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/. id is really 4077? I always thought that those comments are extremely insightful! :-)
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