But without a scheduler specifically written for hyperthreading, you might not get that great of performance. Hyperthreading and true SMP just act differently.
The original Rogue is still the best. It doesn't fit the definition of Open Source, since it has a non-commercial clause, but many distros are enlightened enough to include it anyway.
What the heck is that "point A to point B" crap? I haven't used any gasoline in forty years going from point A to point B! Of course, that's from my bedroom to my bathroom...
Don't mind the pollution. If you look at the wind patterns, you'll see that all of it comes from San Fransisco and Berkeley. It's Fresno's way of letting the SF bay environmentalists feel smug about themselves.
Actually that depends upon your interpretation of the GPL. The FSF interprets part of it to mean that linkage constitutes copyright derivation, but copyright law does not say this. So the GPL could very well be taking away a right that copyright has already granted to the user.
I'm yawning over this story. They might as well be pre-installing FreeDOS for as much good Linspire will do me. I'm not knocking Linspire, it's just not my system of choice.
I want to see Dell provide an options for shipment without an OS. This would help everyone, even the Windows users. Examples:
1) Debian users won't be paying for Linspire. Even if it's only $5 of the price, that's still $5 too much.
2) Windows XP Professional users won't be paying $100 for Windows XP Home.
3) Corporate Windows XP Pro users won't be paying tens of thousands of dollars for Windows licenses that they won't be using, since they already have a license for that drive image they're going to ghost to all of their machines.
There is a difference between users and developers. When I write software I do not expect my users to fix my errors. But that's not the way it is at Wikipedia. If a Wikipedia contributor makes a mistake, apparently it is the reader's responsibility to fix it.
Imagine if stuff worked this way in Open Source! You file a bug with GNOME and five minutes later you get an email from the developer saying: go fix it yourself you ungrateful swine! That's exactly how I feel with Wikipedia. I mention one problem I found and people are crawling out of the woodwork and BLAMING ME for its existance!
What Linux distro and tools should I look to for a switch?
There are about three hundred Linux distros available. Expect all of them to be recommended here, plus five different BSDs and two commercial Unixes...
Okay, let me put this another way. I'm using Wikipedia because I'm trying to look something up. The last thing on my mind is a desire to edit it. Don't cop an attitude that I should be on my hands and knees begging for the opportunity to be an unpaid QA volunteer. I've got more important things in my life than to send in a fix or bug report for the thousand little problems that comes my way every day.
If Wikipedia were my first priority, than I would. But it's not. So sue me.
No I didn't fix it! I was not an expert in that field. That's my whole point, for Peetsake! I don't want random unnamed nimrods writing scientific or technical articles for an encyclopedia.
Wikipedia is the real world HHGTTG. Serious people won't accord it any respect, but Wiki/FOSS fanboys will think it's the next best thing to sex.
The trolls don't bother me. It's the software hackers thinking it's so cool now that they can write articles on nuclear physics that worries me.
I'm fricking serious about this. The first time I saw a scientific article in Wikipedia that used a science *fiction* novel as reference, I just about screamed. These articles aren't being written by experts, they're being written by fanboys.
My company has voluntarily given third party service personnel access to our systems. Why? Because anything else would constitute abuse of monopoly. So says our lawyer. Through copyright, we have a legal monopoly on the software in our systems (just like all proprietary software vendors). Thus any attempt to prevent competition from third party service vendors crosses the line.
...perfectly suited to our dumbed-down culture and collective attention deficit.
Yup...
Back when I was in high school The smart kids would read Moby Dick. The average kids would read Cliff Note's Moby Dick. And the dumb kids would read Illustrated Classic's Moby Dick. With this dumbing down of the culture, it wouldn't surprise me if future Slashdot moderators are simply given the Illustrated Classic as the textbook itself!
Most of the people who desperately want to ditch Windows are corporate employees. After you get passed the hurdle of finding replacments for all those Windows-only mission critical apps Microsoft convinced you to buy, the rest of switching to Unix/Linux is a piece of cake.
The hardest part to using Unix is system adminstration. That sucks at home. But in the corporation you already have an army of IT drones. The corporate user doesn't have to worry about it.
Oh, okay! Does it support half of my hardware? No? Well fuck FreeBSD then.
Actually, FreeBSD supports 100% of the hardware on my home desktop, home laptop and company workstation. That's about two percentage points better than Linux, and forty percentage points better than Windows XP.
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...as in "my system it d'fly man!"
But without a scheduler specifically written for hyperthreading, you might not get that great of performance. Hyperthreading and true SMP just act differently.
OMFG he criticized Linux! I'm going to cry!
The original Rogue is still the best. It doesn't fit the definition of Open Source, since it has a non-commercial clause, but many distros are enlightened enough to include it anyway.
And a top secret Navy facility I used to work at...
You mean the nukes at Lemoore? Everyone knows about that top secret...
What the heck is that "point A to point B" crap? I haven't used any gasoline in forty years going from point A to point B! Of course, that's from my bedroom to my bathroom...
That 30% isn't pathetic. It's much better than I can manage from the calories in a cheeseburger.
Further requirement necessary for the real world: must be able to ascend a 5% slope at 45 MPH.
Don't mind the pollution. If you look at the wind patterns, you'll see that all of it comes from San Fransisco and Berkeley. It's Fresno's way of letting the SF bay environmentalists feel smug about themselves.
From Fresno, in one hour you can be in Sequoia, Kings Canyon or Yosemite national parks.
Hell, Slashdot banned my entire class B network...
the GPL gives rights, it does not remove them
Actually that depends upon your interpretation of the GPL. The FSF interprets part of it to mean that linkage constitutes copyright derivation, but copyright law does not say this. So the GPL could very well be taking away a right that copyright has already granted to the user.
I'm yawning over this story. They might as well be pre-installing FreeDOS for as much good Linspire will do me. I'm not knocking Linspire, it's just not my system of choice.
I want to see Dell provide an options for shipment without an OS. This would help everyone, even the Windows users. Examples:
1) Debian users won't be paying for Linspire. Even if it's only $5 of the price, that's still $5 too much.
2) Windows XP Professional users won't be paying $100 for Windows XP Home.
3) Corporate Windows XP Pro users won't be paying tens of thousands of dollars for Windows licenses that they won't be using, since they already have a license for that drive image they're going to ghost to all of their machines.
There is a difference between users and developers. When I write software I do not expect my users to fix my errors. But that's not the way it is at Wikipedia. If a Wikipedia contributor makes a mistake, apparently it is the reader's responsibility to fix it.
Imagine if stuff worked this way in Open Source! You file a bug with GNOME and five minutes later you get an email from the developer saying: go fix it yourself you ungrateful swine! That's exactly how I feel with Wikipedia. I mention one problem I found and people are crawling out of the woodwork and BLAMING ME for its existance!
What Linux distro and tools should I look to for a switch?
There are about three hundred Linux distros available. Expect all of them to be recommended here, plus five different BSDs and two commercial Unixes...
Okay, let me put this another way. I'm using Wikipedia because I'm trying to look something up. The last thing on my mind is a desire to edit it. Don't cop an attitude that I should be on my hands and knees begging for the opportunity to be an unpaid QA volunteer. I've got more important things in my life than to send in a fix or bug report for the thousand little problems that comes my way every day.
If Wikipedia were my first priority, than I would. But it's not. So sue me.
No I didn't fix it! I was not an expert in that field. That's my whole point, for Peetsake! I don't want random unnamed nimrods writing scientific or technical articles for an encyclopedia.
Wikipedia is the real world HHGTTG. Serious people won't accord it any respect, but Wiki/FOSS fanboys will think it's the next best thing to sex.
If the experts don't correct those bad articles then they are frickin' useless members of the human race.
Are you saying that people who don't read Wikipedia are useless? Because frankly most experts don't bother with it.
Dr. Jones: "So what you are doing this weekend Dr. Smith?"
Dr. Smith: "I'm going to be spending two whole glorious days reviewing Wikipedia for technical accuracy in the field of nuclear physics."
Dr. Jones: "Good Heavens! Why would you want to do that?"
Dr. Smith: "Some anonymous coward at Slashdot said it was my duty as a responsible member of the human race..."
The trolls don't bother me. It's the software hackers thinking it's so cool now that they can write articles on nuclear physics that worries me.
I'm fricking serious about this. The first time I saw a scientific article in Wikipedia that used a science *fiction* novel as reference, I just about screamed. These articles aren't being written by experts, they're being written by fanboys.
Ultimately, Wikipedia may become more accurate than the EB
As long as anonymous random editors can change the content, that will never happen.
My company has voluntarily given third party service personnel access to our systems. Why? Because anything else would constitute abuse of monopoly. So says our lawyer. Through copyright, we have a legal monopoly on the software in our systems (just like all proprietary software vendors). Thus any attempt to prevent competition from third party service vendors crosses the line.
...perfectly suited to our dumbed-down culture and collective attention deficit.
Yup...
Back when I was in high school The smart kids would read Moby Dick. The average kids would read Cliff Note's Moby Dick. And the dumb kids would read Illustrated Classic's Moby Dick. With this dumbing down of the culture, it wouldn't surprise me if future Slashdot moderators are simply given the Illustrated Classic as the textbook itself!
Most of the people who desperately want to ditch Windows are corporate employees. After you get passed the hurdle of finding replacments for all those Windows-only mission critical apps Microsoft convinced you to buy, the rest of switching to Unix/Linux is a piece of cake.
The hardest part to using Unix is system adminstration. That sucks at home. But in the corporation you already have an army of IT drones. The corporate user doesn't have to worry about it.
Oh, okay! Does it support half of my hardware? No? Well fuck FreeBSD then.
Actually, FreeBSD supports 100% of the hardware on my home desktop, home laptop and company workstation. That's about two percentage points better than Linux, and forty percentage points better than Windows XP.
You demonstrate my point. You dislike smokers. They annoy you. Right or wrong, you think of them as filthy nasty people.
p.s. I quit smoking. I no longer smoke. But I hope I still offend you.