I work in a company that does work for Lockheed, and they've been using Linux for quite a while. Even without this, they could still be targeted by litigious bastards. Good luck to SCO targeting Lockheed though. They're humongous and build fighter planes and nuclear submarines that could level the SCO headquarters with the push of a button!!!
Well, no Debian! I suppose the release cycle depends on the developers and what their objectives are. Since Fedora is not supposed to be a production distro but rather a testbed for RHEL, it's natural that they're going to put out stuff as fast as possible.
If you take certification classes, and that locks you into a particular distro, then it's your own fault. There's really no excuse for not doing your homework, be it in RH certification classes or at home reading the Gentoo manuals.
I officially put my own genetic code under the terms of the LGPL. You can redistribute me and my clones as you like, as long as they remain in the LGPL themselves. If I participate in the reproduction, all the better. You see, the reason I put it in the LGPL is that I am not picky as to who I "link my code" with;)
Well, he's being exceptionally patient, so I suppose he did!
the interesting thing, is that everything is going exactly as the book said it would.. We're getting ready to throw out the first one!
The Mythical Man Month is the canonical text for managing software projects. I told my non-techie boss to read it before asking me to do stuff, so what he has an idea of what is reasonable, what is not, and what kind of hurdles we might encounter.
You can do a lot of stuff in Open Firmware by changing environment variables. A good project would be to create a graphical configuration utility that lets you do just that in addition to browsing the device tree.
The results are hardly suprising.
Critics like Radiohead, Sigur Ros, The Flaming Lips and Wilco.
Critics hate The Vines.
One thing you can't recreate by analyzing databases is sincerity, which is an integral part of the bands that critics like.
With all this fuss, it's easy to forget that SCO was orginally a software company.
Their warnings are right on the money, though. Who the hell is going to want to do business with them now? It's probably not far fetched to assume that there aren't many new SCO installations anywhere, and that the installed base is only grudgingly still doing business with them.
The column view is IMO the best way to view deeply nested folders. I can easily jump back a few levels in a way that provides a better visual cue than a tree view, and takes less clicks than pressing the back button a few times.
Ideally, you would set OS X to display folders with lots of items but little nesting to a list view, folders with lots of items and deep nesting in column view, and folders with few items and little nesting in spatial view.
In Linux, I use KDE although I prefer non-spatial Nautilus for file browsing. Konqueror is a little too baroque. But that's just me.
[OT reply: Yes, we are one and the same. Sieg Zeon!]
Whether a spatial interface is useful or not depends on how many levels of nested directories you have. In linux you can go pretty deep, and a spatial interface quickly becomes unwieldy. On old Mac OS, you hardly ever went deeper than Macintosh HD:Documents, so a spatial interface was very efficient and intuitive. OS X could easily be spatial: all the unix stuff doesn't show up in the GUI anyway.
That list looks really weird. I mean, Mozilla has popup blocking and is included with Fedora and Mandrake. Linspire is not the only one to have that. And mp3? Last I checked, I had to go point Yum to livna.org to get mp3 support in Fedora.
Here's what's going to happen in a few years: You'll be able to get "free" Sun-branded x86 boxes running Windows for a reasonable annual subscription of $200 dollars.
Open sourcing Solaris and putting out JDS is just a way of saving face in the meantime.
That's what I read for a second.
I don't know, with OpenOffice around.. The office suite market is one of the ones with highest barriers to entry.. it has both an 800 pound gorilla monopolistic product, and a full-featured open source alternative. Once you have those two elements in a market, it's really really uphill from there, even if you have a good differentiator, like being written in Java.
I wonder how that would work out with plot spoilers and the l like. Presumably, people who lend their CPU power for this would go to online forums where they would discuss their experiences, and at some point someone might have the idea of trying to piece bits of the film together independently of the movie studio.
Or maybe my computer just happens to render the climactic scene in the movie, and I tell my buddies in Slashdot or wherever.
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Penguin:
"We would have gotten away with it if it wasn't for those meddling kids..."
That is false. M$ had invested $150 million (which is not that much) on non-voting Apple stock in 1997, but has long sold it (and made a hefty profit)
I work in a company that does work for Lockheed, and they've been using Linux for quite a while. Even without this, they could still be targeted by litigious bastards. Good luck to SCO targeting Lockheed though. They're humongous and build fighter planes and nuclear submarines that could level the SCO headquarters with the push of a button!!!
Kernelthread is by far the best source of information about OS X, barring Apple itself.
"[if you have] used a Web application to fetch news about your hobby or favorite celebrity, you've programmed."
No you haven't. Excel spreadsheet *maybe* counts like an instance of functional programming, but not using a freggin' web app!!!
It's great geek music... the sci-fi.. the long instrumental passages...
Personally, I like King Crimson, Genesis, Gong (of Radio GNOME Invisible fame, no less!) among other stuff.
Well, no Debian! I suppose the release cycle depends on the developers and what their objectives are. Since Fedora is not supposed to be a production distro but rather a testbed for RHEL, it's natural that they're going to put out stuff as fast as possible.
If you take certification classes, and that locks you into a particular distro, then it's your own fault. There's really no excuse for not doing your homework, be it in RH certification classes or at home reading the Gentoo manuals.
I officially put my own genetic code under the terms of the LGPL. You can redistribute me and my clones as you like, as long as they remain in the LGPL themselves. If I participate in the reproduction, all the better. You see, the reason I put it in the LGPL is that I am not picky as to who I "link my code" with ;)
Actually, I have a 2003 Civic and no iPod. But the pain is the same!
So, when's the iPod, 1994 Honda Civic campaign coming?
Do you read Dilbert?
Did you like Office Space?
Oh yeah, have you read The Mythical Man Month?
Well, he's being exceptionally patient, so I suppose he did!
the interesting thing, is that everything is going exactly as the book said it would.. We're getting ready to throw out the first one!
The Mythical Man Month is the canonical text for managing software projects. I told my non-techie boss to read it before asking me to do stuff, so what he has an idea of what is reasonable, what is not, and what kind of hurdles we might encounter.
You can do a lot of stuff in Open Firmware by changing environment variables. A good project would be to create a graphical configuration utility that lets you do just that in addition to browsing the device tree.
So, is this something everyone can use, or will it be patented?
The results are hardly suprising.
Critics like Radiohead, Sigur Ros, The Flaming Lips and Wilco.
Critics hate The Vines.
One thing you can't recreate by analyzing databases is sincerity, which is an integral part of the bands that critics like.
With all this fuss, it's easy to forget that SCO was orginally a software company.
Their warnings are right on the money, though. Who the hell is going to want to do business with them now? It's probably not far fetched to assume that there aren't many new SCO installations anywhere, and that the installed base is only grudgingly still doing business with them.
The column view is IMO the best way to view deeply nested folders. I can easily jump back a few levels in a way that provides a better visual cue than a tree view, and takes less clicks than pressing the back button a few times.
Ideally, you would set OS X to display folders with lots of items but little nesting to a list view, folders with lots of items and deep nesting in column view, and folders with few items and little nesting in spatial view.
In Linux, I use KDE although I prefer non-spatial Nautilus for file browsing. Konqueror is a little too baroque. But that's just me.
[OT reply: Yes, we are one and the same. Sieg Zeon!]
Whether a spatial interface is useful or not depends on how many levels of nested directories you have. In linux you can go pretty deep, and a spatial interface quickly becomes unwieldy. On old Mac OS, you hardly ever went deeper than Macintosh HD:Documents, so a spatial interface was very efficient and intuitive. OS X could easily be spatial: all the unix stuff doesn't show up in the GUI anyway.
That list looks really weird. I mean, Mozilla has popup blocking and is included with Fedora and Mandrake. Linspire is not the only one to have that. And mp3? Last I checked, I had to go point Yum to livna.org to get mp3 support in Fedora.
Here's what's going to happen in a few years: You'll be able to get "free" Sun-branded x86 boxes running Windows for a reasonable annual subscription of $200 dollars.
Open sourcing Solaris and putting out JDS is just a way of saving face in the meantime.
That's what I read for a second. I don't know, with OpenOffice around.. The office suite market is one of the ones with highest barriers to entry.. it has both an 800 pound gorilla monopolistic product, and a full-featured open source alternative. Once you have those two elements in a market, it's really really uphill from there, even if you have a good differentiator, like being written in Java.
For a second, I thought that BYU was going to hire big, burly henchmen to "take care" of us Slashdotters...
I wonder how that would work out with plot spoilers and the l like. Presumably, people who lend their CPU power for this would go to online forums where they would discuss their experiences, and at some point someone might have the idea of trying to piece bits of the film together independently of the movie studio.
Or maybe my computer just happens to render the climactic scene in the movie, and I tell my buddies in Slashdot or wherever.