For what its worth, I've been dual-booting Slackware-current (now known as 10.0) with the latest 2.4 and 2.6 kernels and it's been rock solid. He's done his homework and the distribution seems well set-up for either kernel. Of late, most everything I want is now supported in 2.6, so its probably time to cut 2.4 free (although the CAD tools I use are not yet certified for a 2.6 kernel).
That's funny, I use ~/todo also. Got a half dozen of them on different machines. Mostly I
cat >> todo
Once a month I actually read one and delete all the stuff that's not important in it.
I do the same with pads of paper. Turn sheets over as I fill them, throw them away in bunches unread.
We already hear of cellphones banned in many areas that people don't want pictures taken. Lately, in Massachusetts, there's news of banning cellphones in class because you can get on the Internet and potentially cheat with them. I imagine schools wouldn't be keen on students playing UT against each other in class either.
I see changelog entries to the NTFS driver. You can now safely overwrite existing Win XP files so long as you don't change the filesize? This could be a BIG timesaver to those of us who chainload linux from the NT bootloader.
How about, "the tool in your toolbox is better than the tool you have to make a trip to the store and buy?" What I'm talking about is how if you code in Ruby or Python, many people would not use it because most boxes don't have those languages installed. There's something to be said for scripting in a language that is the most widespread, instead of asking the userbase to install 15 scripting languages to suit the whim of 15 coders.
Lots of companies encourage work time spent for
independent study, but at the end of the fourth
day of the week and you still are buried in
"real" work, does anybody really take advantage
of the 20% personal time?
I'm not disciplined enough -- I'll take that time
to continue finishing the work that's stressing me out the most. Or mentoring the employees I've been ignoring all week.
The Sun workstations have always had the Ctrl key where PC's put Caps lock. Having both in my cube drives me nuts. I tried remapping the keys on the PC, but half the time I still hit the wrong key.
I can only admit this among geeks, but I won two
consecutive JETS/TEAMS competitions in Engineering
Calculations on a tiny-buttoned, non-RPN Sharp
calculator.
I can use RPN, but most time I forget what's on the stack anyways. If you want to be fast, its way more important to know how to use the 1/x key and know log/exponent manipulation.
I time shift. My wife gets up two hours earlier
than me and goes to bed two hours earlier. She
does stuff in the morning without me bothering
her and I do my gaming at night after 10 when she's asleep. Works OK as some of my friends who game have children too and can't play until the kids are in bed.
I can't even imagine how you cleanly upgrade glibc versions on slackware without having 5 different versions hanging around.
You are misinformed about Slackware.
The "stock" package tools
installpkg removepkg upgradepkg makepkg
Automagic updater that checks dependencies:
swaret --update swaret --upgrade
I never install anything on my Slack systems
without package management, so there's no orphan files lying
around anywhere. People get the misconception
that just because the package format is a simple,
easy to manipulate tgz file that it doesn't work.
Like everything in Slackware, its simplicity is
a blessing to those over the learning curve.
...for just letting my Crossover free upgrade period
expire just before this release.
We can cut the reviewer some slack for using it to install IE and MSN messenger:) It really does work quite well for those of us who have to review and sometimes co-author works with MS Office people.
Confident, arrogant, maybe just annoying
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While writing MINIX was fun, I don't really regard it as the most important thing I have ever done.
"And I'm modest too -- that's what makes me so great":)
Amen to that -- when you run Slack, you get unpatched, clean code that runs stable. But...
you end up spending a lot of time compiling
packages, writing scripts... basically being a
sys-admin instead of just a user. Its a great
way to learn Linux, but very time-consuming to
get set-up.
I imagine I will always run Slack on my
workstation, but for friends and family, I'm
looking for something more like Gentoo.
I use Crossover office at work with great success, but its important to note that with Crossover, you need to license Crossover Office PLUS Microsoft Office (it runs the MS binaries).
Great for compatibility, poor for cost.
Re:Lack of decent up to date software.
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I agree the PIM apps are not good on my SL-5600.
None of the stock ROM apps are very good. But the other apps are indeed very useful --
walking around the house with Gaim running in
your shirt pocket is pretty cool. VNC, ssh, X,
Opera (via wireless card). VideoLAN and esd,
mplayer. Kismet+nmap. Just a handful of apps you can run...
if intel has a fab plant in Ireland, how come i have NEVER seen a processor with Ireland imprinted on the processor? ive only seen Costa Rica, or Malaysia, or Taiwan...
Probably the country of final assembly. The die from many companies are assembled in Asia despite being fabbed in the US, or Ireland (who I believe gave quite a tax incentive to companies willing to build wafer fabs in their country).
Frequency itself is only one contributor to power. They will likely continue scaling processor voltage down too (power goes with square of voltage). Wider parallel busses at lower freq? My imagination is limited, but these are just engineering problems that will be solved as always.
I'm actually surprised people considered my
statement flamebait. If you were in charge
of hiring someone to provide her services,
giving "strategic advice to IT vendors" who
are considering Linux, would you even interview
someone who majored in art history and Chinese poetry?
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For what its worth, I've been dual-booting Slackware-current (now known as 10.0) with the latest 2.4 and 2.6 kernels and it's been rock solid. He's done his homework and the distribution seems well set-up for either kernel. Of late, most everything I want is now supported in 2.6, so its probably time to cut 2.4 free (although the CAD tools I use are not yet certified for a 2.6 kernel).
We already hear of cellphones banned in many areas that people don't want pictures taken. Lately, in Massachusetts, there's news of banning cellphones in class because you can get on the Internet and potentially cheat with them. I imagine schools wouldn't be keen on students playing UT against each other in class either.
I see changelog entries to the NTFS driver. You can now safely overwrite existing Win XP files so long as you don't change the filesize? This could be a BIG timesaver to those of us who chainload linux from the NT bootloader.
I knew if I patched and rebuilt 2.6.6 yesterday they would release 2.6.7 today :(
Dang, OTH was always slow to download before it was on Slashdot.
How about, "the tool in your toolbox is better than the tool you have to make a trip to the store and buy?" What I'm talking about is how if you code in Ruby or Python, many people would not use it because most boxes don't have those languages installed. There's something to be said for scripting in a language that is the most widespread, instead of asking the userbase to install 15 scripting languages to suit the whim of 15 coders.
This is how I run the server on my LAN. It only forwards from clients on the LAN, and it relays all mail to Comcast's SMTP server.
I'm not disciplined enough -- I'll take that time to continue finishing the work that's stressing me out the most. Or mentoring the employees I've been ignoring all week.
The Sun workstations have always had the Ctrl key where PC's put Caps lock. Having both in my cube drives me nuts. I tried remapping the keys on the PC, but half the time I still hit the wrong key.
I can use RPN, but most time I forget what's on the stack anyways. If you want to be fast, its way more important to know how to use the 1/x key and know log/exponent manipulation.
I time shift. My wife gets up two hours earlier than me and goes to bed two hours earlier. She does stuff in the morning without me bothering her and I do my gaming at night after 10 when she's asleep. Works OK as some of my friends who game have children too and can't play until the kids are in bed.
You are misinformed about Slackware.
The "stock" package tools
Automagic updater that checks dependencies:I never install anything on my Slack systems without package management, so there's no orphan files lying around anywhere. People get the misconception that just because the package format is a simple, easy to manipulate tgz file that it doesn't work. Like everything in Slackware, its simplicity is a blessing to those over the learning curve.
...for just letting my Crossover free upgrade period expire just before this release. We can cut the reviewer some slack for using it to install IE and MSN messenger :) It really does work quite well for those of us who have to review and sometimes co-author works with MS Office people.
While writing MINIX was fun, I don't really regard it as the most important thing I have ever done. :)
"And I'm modest too -- that's what makes me so great"
Amen to that -- when you run Slack, you get unpatched, clean code that runs stable. But... you end up spending a lot of time compiling packages, writing scripts... basically being a sys-admin instead of just a user. Its a great way to learn Linux, but very time-consuming to get set-up. I imagine I will always run Slack on my workstation, but for friends and family, I'm looking for something more like Gentoo.
I use Crossover office at work with great success, but its important to note that with Crossover, you need to license Crossover Office PLUS Microsoft Office (it runs the MS binaries). Great for compatibility, poor for cost.
I agree the PIM apps are not good on my SL-5600. None of the stock ROM apps are very good. But the other apps are indeed very useful -- walking around the house with Gaim running in your shirt pocket is pretty cool. VNC, ssh, X, Opera (via wireless card). VideoLAN and esd, mplayer. Kismet+nmap. Just a handful of apps you can run...
I wonder if any of the 200 computers came from a grant from Bill and Melinda? Gates Foundation
if intel has a fab plant in Ireland, how come i have NEVER seen a processor with Ireland imprinted on the processor? ive only seen Costa Rica, or Malaysia, or Taiwan... Probably the country of final assembly. The die from many companies are assembled in Asia despite being fabbed in the US, or Ireland (who I believe gave quite a tax incentive to companies willing to build wafer fabs in their country).
Frequency itself is only one contributor to power. They will likely continue scaling processor voltage down too (power goes with square of voltage). Wider parallel busses at lower freq? My imagination is limited, but these are just engineering problems that will be solved as always.
Read the parent -- he never attributed that statement to Bill Gates. You just assumed and flamed him :)
I'm actually surprised people considered my statement flamebait. If you were in charge of hiring someone to provide her services, giving "strategic advice to IT vendors" who are considering Linux, would you even interview someone who majored in art history and Chinese poetry?
This is about as far as I read: "I don't have a computer science background. My college concentration, which was in Asian studies..."