I once bought a gallon container of
Mobil-1 and as I'm pouring it into my
racebike I notice it's blacker than
normal, and even smells a little
gassy. Yes, they restocked used oil.
I was compensated with two gallons of
unused oil and I now check the seals
very carefully but it was obvious that
Walmart employees didn't.
The employee incentive options that I've received aren't publicly tradable. When they vest, you can buy the stock, or not, but you can't sell the option itself. Not before it vests, or after it vests.
I'm not convinced option pricing theory for options freely traded in the exchanges should be used to price something that you aren't allowed to sell.
I recently did a Gentoo install for the heck of it -- I happily run other distributions and other OSs too, but wanted to make an educated comparision.
What I liked:
portage = best feature of FreeBSD added to Linux.
excellent install documentation = again, stealing a page from FreeBSD's handbook.
hands-on install: some people say this will make you know something about linux. Perhaps not, but you can go back and re-read the handbook later and figure out what you did. After a graphical installer is done, you've got no record of what happened and no chance to learn. Best feature of the command-line install to me is that you have a chance in hell of recovering from an unexpected error (you know what you typed, you can research it and fix it and move on).
What I didn't like:
Compiling a kernel on day one. No big deal for me, but it did take three kernel compiles to get it right (unfamiliar hardware plus the default 2.6 config disabled UDEV, then complained on first boot that I needed the obsolete DEVFS). It would be very easy to mess up a config and get a non-booting system. The Handbook doesn't tell a newbie how to recover from that. Having a bloated, precompiled kernel to copy off CD wouldn't be so bad.
Documentation of ports is horrible -- one line descriptions? Come on! And I still have to figure out how to tell which USE flags affect a port before I compile it.
Config file wrapper commands -- hasn't bitten me yet, but editing a well-commented config file should be encouraged. No rc-update please! (old Slackware user talking here...)
All in all, portage makes it worth using and I will install it on real hardware someday.
Running under FreeBSD, I see tabs that go blank if I switch tabs while something is background loading. I also can't delete a toolbar bookmark -- it just keeps coming back. I had none of these issues with the pre-release.
I run Slack on many machines, including my daily workhorse and a few rescued old scrap machines. Six months ago I rescued another laptop and started using FreeBSD for the experience. It was a surprisingly easy transition for a Slack user. Slack is very BSD-like to begin with.
Why do you prefer it over other Unix-like OS's?
It can't replace Linux for me. I'm not bashing FBSD, but Linux is of course going to have more attention and more development and more apps and hardware support faster. But I was pleasantly surprised to find Nvidia binary drivers and Roger Wilco servers for my gaming for FBSD. So, some companies do seem to care. One thing that FBSD doesn't have (at least out of the box for a newbie) is a journalled filesystem. This seems like a big ommission to me.
Have you encountered many problems with hardware compatibility, particularly USB, RAID, and audio?
My Dell laptop audio and USB worked fine. The only annoying hardware issue is that 4.3 has no ACPI support, and APM didn't work.
Have you had difficulty finding applications that will run on it?
Anything you'd likely want is in ports, although always behind Linux in release date (not by far).
In general, will software written for Linux compile and run on FreeBSD without too much difficulty?
I wrote one networked daemon and it compiled on Linux and BSD with a very small change to the code. The libraries were almost 100% compatible, with BSD containing functions that weren't in Linux in this case. It was not as hard as writing Linux-Solaris compatible apps for sure.
As someone already suggested, the color is due to
refraction through a thickness of silicon nitride passivation and silicon dioxide interlevel dielectrics on the die. The thickness varies with the process. I've delayered many a die for failure analysis and as you strip them down the features change shade. A die totally stripped of oxide is very hard to navigate under a microscope, as its becomes very uniform and featureless. (The opposite is true under an electron microscope -- there, the topography is seen, not the colors).
The backside of the die is a dull matte finish. Most wafers are back-ground now to reduce their thickness from a manufacturing-tolerant value to something thinner for tight packaging. But even before processing, the wafer is etched to "roughen" the back. I've been told this is for gettering, or making the back of the wafer preferential to attract contaminants rather than the frontside with the active devices.
At a recent Aprilia open house, I saw a power-assisted mountain bike. It only assisted -- when you stopped pedaling, it did nothing to help. But it had some intelligence as to how much effort your were exerting and you could dial it up or down if you needed. Unfortunately, I don't know anyone who owns one that could give a testimonial.
I once bought a Mac because when faced with
the cost of a brand new "dumb" Tek410x terminal,
the Mac SE + Tek emulator was actually cheaper.
The fact that it was also a computer was a
bonus.
I have the trigger (an IRSSI extension) call
a script. This script used to use ssh to
play a sound on the linux and fbsd machines
(windows machines I ignored), but there was
an annoying delay, so I wrote a daemon on
each machine to listen for a play command.
It isn't really secure, in that anyone on my
LAN could trigger a sound, but that's not a
big deal to me.
I was a Gaim user but wasn't crazy about the
interface for IRC, so I went full circle: I
now run Yahoo! and AIM inside of my console
IRC client using bitlbee. The cool thing is
that I can run it on a server with dtach (or
Gnu screen) and leave it running 24/7, just attaching
to the process from whereever in the world
I happen to be. I have set up triggers too and
sounds play on all machines in my house
when I get a private message.
Actually, her argument sounds very much like something
Henry Hazlitt would have wrote in Economics in One Lesson. She is looking at the big picture: a window wasn't destroyed, it was moved from the US to India where the daily cost of using it is indeed cheaper to all of society (yes, at a cost to one American).
Sadly they will continue in business...
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Everytime I pass a line of customers at Sears Auto I am reminded that consumers have very short memories and will always forgive a few lawsuits for a glossy bargain ad.
Many people don't understand that Slackware does have a package management system: its just so damn simple that you can use common Unix tools to administer it. I can check where any file on my system came from with a simple grep of/var/log/packages, and build or alter a package myself by putting the files in a directory and calling makepkg.
One week at work using "that enterprise" system with RPM, writing those silly spec files for software I was never going to distribute and I was ready to pull my hair out.
I like the idea -- can you tell it not to use your CPU at all so you can browse the web quickly while the rest of the LAN bogs down compiling your kernel?
Yet Another Distro? At version 10? Think before you post man.
Of course many of us remember when Slack jumped from like version 4 to version 7 in one release. I think it was an effort to deal with people who thought that Redhat versions = official Linux version and Slack wasn't keeping up:)
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I once bought a gallon container of Mobil-1 and as I'm pouring it into my racebike I notice it's blacker than normal, and even smells a little gassy. Yes, they restocked used oil.
I was compensated with two gallons of unused oil and I now check the seals very carefully but it was obvious that Walmart employees didn't.
I'm not convinced option pricing theory for options freely traded in the exchanges should be used to price something that you aren't allowed to sell.
I recently did a Gentoo install for the heck of it -- I happily run other distributions and other OSs too, but wanted to make an educated comparision.
What I liked:
What I didn't like:
All in all, portage makes it worth using and I will install it on real hardware someday.
Running under FreeBSD, I see tabs that go blank if I switch tabs while something is background loading. I also can't delete a toolbar bookmark -- it just keeps coming back. I had none of these issues with the pre-release.
Patrick, As creator of Slackware, before you even consider checking into a hospital, you need to get your parents off AOL! ;)
I run Slack on many machines, including my daily workhorse and a few rescued old scrap machines. Six months ago I rescued another laptop and started using FreeBSD for the experience. It was a surprisingly easy transition for a Slack user. Slack is very BSD-like to begin with.
Why do you prefer it over other Unix-like OS's?
It can't replace Linux for me. I'm not bashing FBSD, but Linux is of course going to have more attention and more development and more apps and hardware support faster. But I was pleasantly surprised to find Nvidia binary drivers and Roger Wilco servers for my gaming for FBSD. So, some companies do seem to care. One thing that FBSD doesn't have (at least out of the box for a newbie) is a journalled filesystem. This seems like a big ommission to me.
Have you encountered many problems with hardware compatibility, particularly USB, RAID, and audio?
My Dell laptop audio and USB worked fine. The only annoying hardware issue is that 4.3 has no ACPI support, and APM didn't work.
Have you had difficulty finding applications that will run on it?
Anything you'd likely want is in ports, although always behind Linux in release date (not by far).
In general, will software written for Linux compile and run on FreeBSD without too much difficulty?
I wrote one networked daemon and it compiled on Linux and BSD with a very small change to the code. The libraries were almost 100% compatible, with BSD containing functions that weren't in Linux in this case. It was not as hard as writing Linux-Solaris compatible apps for sure.
As someone already suggested, the color is due to refraction through a thickness of silicon nitride passivation and silicon dioxide interlevel dielectrics on the die. The thickness varies with the process. I've delayered many a die for failure analysis and as you strip them down the features change shade. A die totally stripped of oxide is very hard to navigate under a microscope, as its becomes very uniform and featureless. (The opposite is true under an electron microscope -- there, the topography is seen, not the colors). The backside of the die is a dull matte finish. Most wafers are back-ground now to reduce their thickness from a manufacturing-tolerant value to something thinner for tight packaging. But even before processing, the wafer is etched to "roughen" the back. I've been told this is for gettering, or making the back of the wafer preferential to attract contaminants rather than the frontside with the active devices.
It's the price of a Honda Civic with VTEC, one large downdraft wing, coffee-can exhaust, backseat full of subwoofer, neon rope and a sticker kit.
Some people poll Slashdot a dozen times a day and expect a larger quanity of news, be it trivial or not.
At a recent Aprilia open house, I saw a power-assisted mountain bike. It only assisted -- when you stopped pedaling, it did nothing to help. But it had some intelligence as to how much effort your were exerting and you could dial it up or down if you needed. Unfortunately, I don't know anyone who owns one that could give a testimonial.
I once bought a Mac because when faced with the cost of a brand new "dumb" Tek410x terminal, the Mac SE + Tek emulator was actually cheaper. The fact that it was also a computer was a bonus.
I have the trigger (an IRSSI extension) call a script. This script used to use ssh to play a sound on the linux and fbsd machines (windows machines I ignored), but there was an annoying delay, so I wrote a daemon on each machine to listen for a play command. It isn't really secure, in that anyone on my LAN could trigger a sound, but that's not a big deal to me.
I was a Gaim user but wasn't crazy about the interface for IRC, so I went full circle: I now run Yahoo! and AIM inside of my console IRC client using bitlbee. The cool thing is that I can run it on a server with dtach (or Gnu screen) and leave it running 24/7, just attaching to the process from whereever in the world I happen to be. I have set up triggers too and sounds play on all machines in my house when I get a private message.
Actually, her argument sounds very much like something Henry Hazlitt would have wrote in Economics in One Lesson. She is looking at the big picture: a window wasn't destroyed, it was moved from the US to India where the daily cost of using it is indeed cheaper to all of society (yes, at a cost to one American).
Everytime I pass a line of customers at Sears Auto I am reminded that consumers have very short memories and will always forgive a few lawsuits for a glossy bargain ad.
A package of stories, complete with an exploration of the new update, is here.
I naturally read, "exploitation" of the new update...
I didn't see in the article what windows system the moto would run. Opera7 works on Qtopia and X11 to name two possible candidates.
Any good slackware user knows you write your rc scripts for ash, the lowest-common denominator. Not every user installs bash!
It is not the same as having a list in the package, and probably can't handle uninstall consequences
For some reason, swaret has a bad rap among many slackwarers, but I think if used hand in hand with the Changelogs its a great tool.
One week at work using "that enterprise" system with RPM, writing those silly spec files for software I was never going to distribute and I was ready to pull my hair out.
Fortunately, he can visit 4-5 stores in one shopping plaza alone.
I like the idea -- can you tell it not to use your CPU at all so you can browse the web quickly while the rest of the LAN bogs down compiling your kernel?
Michael Moore will not get another dollar from me after that one-sided tripe "Roger & Me".
In general, a mistake by one competitor does not give me more trust in another. Less trust in the former, yes.
Yet Another Distro? At version 10? Think before you post man. Of course many of us remember when Slack jumped from like version 4 to version 7 in one release. I think it was an effort to deal with people who thought that Redhat versions = official Linux version and Slack wasn't keeping up :)