One problem with NetBSD is that despite nearly universal agreement that the 4-clause BSD license is stupid the NetBSD Foundation insists on keeping the advertising clause. This is a good reason to stick with FreeBSD or DragonFly.
It appears that Bitmover is only ending support for and further availability (after one more version for a critical bugfix) of the free client. Licenses for the free client aren't being (and quite possibly can't be) revoked retroactively, so as long as you get your copy of the free client before July 1st you're fine. Now maybe the bkbits server will change to no longer accept connections from the free client, but if that's the case it seems all that's necessary is for projects using bkbits to find another host (have one commercial server license, perhaps).
While it doesn't matter much now whether they think the Compaq merger was a good idea and Agilent seems to be doing just fine on its own, the rest is spot on.
Under Fiorina HP was run into the dirt. Maybe now they can take directions which will restore the old reputation for quality engineering.
Not that I hate Python and XML or anything, but I'd expect to see something lighter-weight and more extension-oriented, along the lines of Lua (which is accordingly much much more commonly used in commercial games than any other non-proprietary scripting language).
Being an IP company doesn't mean making your money via lawsuits. ARM, for example, is pretty much a "pure IP" company, and I think you'll be rather hard-pressed to find _anybody_ who hates them.
Wrong. There's a Pentium 4-M, a Pentium III-M, and a Pentium M. The numberless M is a Banias (.13) or Dothan (.09) core (both very very good), the 4-M is a Northwood (.13) or Prescott (.09) core (awful for laptops, esp. Prescott; they're mostly in "desktop replacement"- i.e. "leave it plugged in"- models), and the Pentium III-M is a Coppermine (.18) or Tualatin (.13) (both rather respectable- a used P3-M laptop can be a very good buy- but of course long in the tooth). The PIII-M processors were not called "Pentium M".
"Centrino", on the other hand, is a marketing name which means "Pentium M notebook with Intel's WiFi adapter". There are plenty of Pentium M notebooks without built-in WiFi or with somebody else's WiFi adapter, and these aren't Centrinos. Neither are the (admittedly rather rare) Pentium M desktops or blade servers.
On the original topic, the trouble with Transmeta's processors is that of the three Ps of a notebook processor- price, performance, power consumption- the Crusoe or Efficeon has only one selling point (low power consumption). I don't think it's that these processors are expensive to manufacture, but rather that the extremely low volumes they sell have to pay for their design costs (chicken and egg problem). Via's C3 scrapes along at low volume because on top of being a low-wattage chip it's quite inexpensive (it has a simpler design than any of its competitors, or indeed than any other company's x86 processors since at least the K6; additionally, VIA has plenty of other resources and can afford to take a loss on C3 now and then as an investment in a better bargaining position for its chipset deals with Intel and AMD). The offerings from Intel and AMD have much higher performance.
The PII was designed for processes (.35 and.25 if I remember correctly) which Intel has since (for good reasons) scrapped. With the troubles with.09 and smaller processes, the.13 process may last a good bit longer, and so the P3 Tualatin may last a good long time.
It doesn't work out that way. The design of Wikipedia encourages people with an agenda to push. People who see such agendas as biased are marginalized. Only a concetrated full-scale battle can oust people who have claimed an article as theirs to propagate their view.
For instance, check out the Saddam Hussein page on Wikipedia, which is touted in the NPOV article as a success. It seems to be an unabashed Ba'athist apologetic. Saddam's crimes go almost entirely unmentioned or are excused, while his many "accomplishments" are touted. Just about anything negative about Saddam is excised as "highly POV". He is painted as a wonderful advocate for his people victimized by the rest of the world. After numerous edit wars, the discussion in the Talk page has settled down at about the point of asking whether to write his name in the article as "Lord and Savior" or just "Lord". Joe Wikipedia Reader, were he to attempt to put up a POV notice, would be more likely to be raked over the coals, gutted, and crucified upside down than to accomplish anything.
gcc (GCC) 3.3.4 20040623 (Gentoo Linux 3.3.4-r1, ssp-3.3.2-2, pie-8.7.6)
&c (retyped rather than copy+paste- I don't have a browser in the install environment yet). You'll also notice that gentoo.org says that 3.4 has been made the default on amd64 and ppc but doesn't mention such a change on x86.
Not really. Kyoto pretty much just shifts greenhouse gas production from the US and EU to China, Russia, and third world countries. (Not just by setting no limits or ridiculously lenient limits for these countries, but by simple supply-and-demand economics: decreasing demand in the US and EU for fossil fuels simply drops the price so it becomes by far the most economical option for new development elsewhere, while otherwise those places should be more likely in some ways to adopt other energy sources than places where existing infrastructure has to be scrapped or retooled). The net difference in greenhouse gases from the Kyoto protocol isn't anywhere near enough; it's like the people in the car speeding down the track agreeing to slow down 5mph when what they need to do is get out of the way of the oncoming train. Instead the US and EU need to use their reduction of greenhouse gases as a bargaining chip to get others to do likewise, and Kyoto just throws away that bargaining chip. But the trouble with the Bush and Clinton administrations is that instead of working hard and fast to get a better treaty they've let the whole thing slide.
Unless your portable hard drive's form factor is 1.8" or smaller, it probably does use too much power at spinup for a single USB port (2.5w IIRC; the lowest-power 2.5" 5400rpm drives normally use a tad more than the max at spinup). Can you blame Dell for following the USB spec rather than designing for out-of-spec power draw?
You're right. In fact, the statement was made in January, and the one developer in question (who is, as far as I can tell, a good guy who just happens to have contracted rabid Stallmanism) may well have changed his mind in the meantime. I didn't mean to slight Gnocatan- a neat little project for which I've provided a few.spec cleanups and am still linked to on the homepage as the source for rpms (though I haven't built new packages since getting fed up with Fedora Core)- or the developer in question; I just wanted to make a point. Perhaps I should have added a disclaimer to that effect, though my post was already quite lengthy as it was.
Here's the relevant thread; it may be worth mentioning that gnome is only used for help (yelp) and four minor things mentioned in a post last month.
Why? You aren't forced to use Konq when you use KDE any more than you're forced to use Galeon when you use Gnome. Mozilla doesn't depend on any Gnome libraries, and even if it did, you could still run it under KDE, just as many run Evolution under KDE. If a programmer's choice of API determines users' choice of application, something's wrong.
I still think KDE needs some work, especially in the ease-of-use department (too many settings presented to the user
So in other words, you want KDE to travel down the same "I'm sorry, I can't let you do that, Dave" user-hostility path which has been ruinous for Gnome?
I have to admit that C++ as a basis is a much superior choice to C, especially considering the kludge that seems to underly GNOME, separate libraries for GTK and GNOME applications with surprisingly few applications taking advantage of the GNOME-only libraries.
There are also loads of apps which use QT but no KDE libs. This is not a kludge, it's the only smart decision. If your project has little or no use for the vast DE-specific libraries- you just need a toolkit and a few associated niceties- why depend on the DE libs? For political reasons (like those of a gnocatan developer who fanatically and laughably claimed "even if we find we have no need for the Gnome-specific libs, we should depend on them anyway to try to keep anybody who uses a non-Free Software platform like Win32 from being able to use the program")? This has, of course, nothing at all to do with the choice of language for core components, and I have no idea what makes you think it does.
If you look at the distributions on the shelves, SuSE is KDE, Mandrake is KDE, Linsipre is KDE (with modifications). You can't buy Fedora at PC World. Any new user getting interested in Linux would probably go here first, and by consequence they're going to get KDE.
It's fairly rare to see any linux distributions on the shelves, and when you do, you usually see RedHat EL more than anybody else. Furthermore, while Linspire and Xandros could be said to be KDE distros, it makes little sense to apply that moniker to Mandrake or SuSE (especially since Novell bought Ximian and SuSE), which are fairly DE-agnostic. But that's irrelevant anyway- shelf sales of Linux are just about never to new desktop users, regardless of distro, and that doesn't look likely to change any time soon. People first try out Linux in other ways.
If KDE goes on to become the defacto Linux desktop, then I won't shed that many tears.
I will- and not because I dislike KDE (though I do). Why should every app be chosen for you when you choose a task bar/pager/launch menu or a way of displaying desktop icons? Fundamentally, that's all a desktop environment ought to be, and with standards like some of those developed at freedesktop.org determining how applications can expect to interact and depend on or provide specific resources, rather than which DE the user has installed determining that, hopefully things will move in that direction. People need to get past the megalomanical viewpoint where the desktop environment subsumes everything else under the sun. It leads to overengineered frameworks of frameworks, an unmaintainable monolithic environment, and uninformed end-users making decisions about and squabbling over things they don't understand at all (such as your bias for C++ over C based on something which was not only utterly irrelevant but entirely wrong).
Why do you think they supported Rush Limbaugh? Do you seriously think it's because they have a genuine interest in his "cause"? It's a political move, pure and simple. Looks like you happen to be one of the schmucks they fooled.
PCM is the usual format, with the main purpose of the container being to indicate the endianness of the raw PCM data, but people have often put mp3 or various other codecs in a.wav.
The last time FreeDOS had a real distribution release was two years ago. Looking forward to 1.0 is all well and good, but a Beta 9 (sans the ugly graphical installer of the latest "we'll call it RC even though we would never consider actually releasing this as B9" releases, perhaps?) would certainly be nice.
If you read the linked email and the replies to it, you will find that the linked post is a troll. For real information about SPF, visit spf.pobox.com.
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Isn't that what journalling filesystems, especially ones with atomic writes, are for? And as somebody else pointed out, it's not like SCSI drives don't have write caches, and you can disable them if you wish.
A lot of people seem to be saying "as hardware gets faster, desktop features will expand to fill the available capabilities." This is crazy. The basic desktop UI is a very limited problem space, and the extra features of the desktop UIs of XP, Gnome 2, or KDE 3 over those of Win95, NT4, CDE, or MacOS 7 are mostly eye candy which makes very little difference to the use of the machine. Same goes for word processing: besides changes in OS and format compatibility, Word 2003 offers very little of any substance more than did WordPerfect 6.x.
Xandros File Manager is not open-source. I haven't tried the release yet, but I would assume that using any other app would work around the limitation (i.e. that they're not crippling the drivers, just making it so if you find burning from their file manager convenient you have an incentive to upgrade).
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A very large number of Gnome 2.x users are on RH/Fedora based setups, where the menu editor still doesn't work (rh 81215 and a dozen other bugs on the same subject).
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One problem with NetBSD is that despite nearly universal agreement that the 4-clause BSD license is stupid the NetBSD Foundation insists on keeping the advertising clause. This is a good reason to stick with FreeBSD or DragonFly.
It appears that Bitmover is only ending support for and further availability (after one more version for a critical bugfix) of the free client. Licenses for the free client aren't being (and quite possibly can't be) revoked retroactively, so as long as you get your copy of the free client before July 1st you're fine. Now maybe the bkbits server will change to no longer accept connections from the free client, but if that's the case it seems all that's necessary is for projects using bkbits to find another host (have one commercial server license, perhaps).
The World in Crisis!
While it doesn't matter much now whether they think the Compaq merger was a good idea and Agilent seems to be doing just fine on its own, the rest is spot on.
Under Fiorina HP was run into the dirt. Maybe now they can take directions which will restore the old reputation for quality engineering.
Not that I hate Python and XML or anything, but I'd expect to see something lighter-weight and more extension-oriented, along the lines of Lua (which is accordingly much much more commonly used in commercial games than any other non-proprietary scripting language).
Being an IP company doesn't mean making your money via lawsuits. ARM, for example, is pretty much a "pure IP" company, and I think you'll be rather hard-pressed to find _anybody_ who hates them.
Wrong. There's a Pentium 4-M, a Pentium III-M, and a Pentium M. The numberless M is a Banias (.13) or Dothan (.09) core (both very very good), the 4-M is a Northwood (.13) or Prescott (.09) core (awful for laptops, esp. Prescott; they're mostly in "desktop replacement"- i.e. "leave it plugged in"- models), and the Pentium III-M is a Coppermine (.18) or Tualatin (.13) (both rather respectable- a used P3-M laptop can be a very good buy- but of course long in the tooth). The PIII-M processors were not called "Pentium M".
"Centrino", on the other hand, is a marketing name which means "Pentium M notebook with Intel's WiFi adapter". There are plenty of Pentium M notebooks without built-in WiFi or with somebody else's WiFi adapter, and these aren't Centrinos. Neither are the (admittedly rather rare) Pentium M desktops or blade servers.
On the original topic, the trouble with Transmeta's processors is that of the three Ps of a notebook processor- price, performance, power consumption- the Crusoe or Efficeon has only one selling point (low power consumption). I don't think it's that these processors are expensive to manufacture, but rather that the extremely low volumes they sell have to pay for their design costs (chicken and egg problem). Via's C3 scrapes along at low volume because on top of being a low-wattage chip it's quite inexpensive (it has a simpler design than any of its competitors, or indeed than any other company's x86 processors since at least the K6; additionally, VIA has plenty of other resources and can afford to take a loss on C3 now and then as an investment in a better bargaining position for its chipset deals with Intel and AMD). The offerings from Intel and AMD have much higher performance.
The PII was designed for processes (.35 and .25 if I remember correctly) which Intel has since (for good reasons) scrapped. With the troubles with .09 and smaller processes, the .13 process may last a good bit longer, and so the P3 Tualatin may last a good long time.
It doesn't work out that way. The design of Wikipedia encourages people with an agenda to push. People who see such agendas as biased are marginalized. Only a concetrated full-scale battle can oust people who have claimed an article as theirs to propagate their view.
For instance, check out the Saddam Hussein page on Wikipedia, which is touted in the NPOV article as a success. It seems to be an unabashed Ba'athist apologetic. Saddam's crimes go almost entirely unmentioned or are excused, while his many "accomplishments" are touted. Just about anything negative about Saddam is excised as "highly POV". He is painted as a wonderful advocate for his people victimized by the rest of the world. After numerous edit wars, the discussion in the Talk page has settled down at about the point of asking whether to write his name in the article as "Lord and Savior" or just "Lord". Joe Wikipedia Reader, were he to attempt to put up a POV notice, would be more likely to be raked over the coals, gutted, and crucified upside down than to accomplish anything.
Why is gcc 3.3 still the default on x86?
Not really. Kyoto pretty much just shifts greenhouse gas production from the US and EU to China, Russia, and third world countries. (Not just by setting no limits or ridiculously lenient limits for these countries, but by simple supply-and-demand economics: decreasing demand in the US and EU for fossil fuels simply drops the price so it becomes by far the most economical option for new development elsewhere, while otherwise those places should be more likely in some ways to adopt other energy sources than places where existing infrastructure has to be scrapped or retooled). The net difference in greenhouse gases from the Kyoto protocol isn't anywhere near enough; it's like the people in the car speeding down the track agreeing to slow down 5mph when what they need to do is get out of the way of the oncoming train. Instead the US and EU need to use their reduction of greenhouse gases as a bargaining chip to get others to do likewise, and Kyoto just throws away that bargaining chip. But the trouble with the Bush and Clinton administrations is that instead of working hard and fast to get a better treaty they've let the whole thing slide.
That's what the grandparent post was saying anyway, right?
Unless your portable hard drive's form factor is 1.8" or smaller, it probably does use too much power at spinup for a single USB port (2.5w IIRC; the lowest-power 2.5" 5400rpm drives normally use a tad more than the max at spinup). Can you blame Dell for following the USB spec rather than designing for out-of-spec power draw?
You're right. In fact, the statement was made in January, and the one developer in question (who is, as far as I can tell, a good guy who just happens to have contracted rabid Stallmanism) may well have changed his mind in the meantime. I didn't mean to slight Gnocatan- a neat little project for which I've provided a few .spec cleanups and am still linked to on the homepage as the source for rpms (though I haven't built new packages since getting fed up with Fedora Core)- or the developer in question; I just wanted to make a point. Perhaps I should have added a disclaimer to that effect, though my post was already quite lengthy as it was.
Here's the relevant thread; it may be worth mentioning that gnome is only used for help (yelp) and four minor things mentioned in a post last month.
Why do you think they supported Rush Limbaugh? Do you seriously think it's because they have a genuine interest in his "cause"? It's a political move, pure and simple. Looks like you happen to be one of the schmucks they fooled.
Has anybody managed to get Slashdot politics articles off their customized front page? The prefs don't work in my case.
PCM is the usual format, with the main purpose of the container being to indicate the endianness of the raw PCM data, but people have often put mp3 or various other codecs in a .wav.
The last time FreeDOS had a real distribution release was two years ago. Looking forward to 1.0 is all well and good, but a Beta 9 (sans the ugly graphical installer of the latest "we'll call it RC even though we would never consider actually releasing this as B9" releases, perhaps?) would certainly be nice.
If you read the linked email and the replies to it, you will find that the linked post is a troll. For real information about SPF, visit spf.pobox.com.
Isn't that what journalling filesystems, especially ones with atomic writes, are for? And as somebody else pointed out, it's not like SCSI drives don't have write caches, and you can disable them if you wish.
A lot of people seem to be saying "as hardware gets faster, desktop features will expand to fill the available capabilities." This is crazy. The basic desktop UI is a very limited problem space, and the extra features of the desktop UIs of XP, Gnome 2, or KDE 3 over those of Win95, NT4, CDE, or MacOS 7 are mostly eye candy which makes very little difference to the use of the machine. Same goes for word processing: besides changes in OS and format compatibility, Word 2003 offers very little of any substance more than did WordPerfect 6.x.
Xandros File Manager is not open-source. I haven't tried the release yet, but I would assume that using any other app would work around the limitation (i.e. that they're not crippling the drivers, just making it so if you find burning from their file manager convenient you have an incentive to upgrade).
A very large number of Gnome 2.x users are on RH/Fedora based setups, where the menu editor still doesn't work (rh 81215 and a dozen other bugs on the same subject).