Did it really take/. 3 pages of comments to get in the references to Resident Evil?
I, for one, can't wait until Milla Jovovich gets to defeat our new zombie dog overlords!
- (*) Cellular long distance is calculated as such: All calls made within the current cellular service provider (as in the tower your phone links to) will be local for that service providers' local calling area. So, if you have a phone that is local to New York City and are in New York City, calls to New York City phone numbers are local. If you drive to Boston, then call New York City from Boston, you will pay long distance. If you phone a Boston phone number while you are in Boston you will not pay long distance (However, you will still be charged roaming fees, as above).
That was accurate as of 2002 or so, maybe farther back than that.
I've had phones with free long distance and no roaming across the continental US since I signed a contract with AT&T two years ago. I'm on a Cingular national plan now and it also lets me use towers owned by T-Mobile (the only other national GSM carrier) or any of the major regional GSM providers (e.g. Dobson/CellularOne) without additional charge. Essentially, this lets Cingular and T-Mobile (the national carriers) present a larger and more comprehensive system of coverage to compete with the more-established and older CDMA (with large areas where analog is the fallback option) networks owned by Sprint and Verizon.
LFS is old and has been reported on Slashdot before.
And how does watching compiler output scroll past a screen teach a person how Linux works? I'm a Gentoo user myself but I admit that using Portage to install packages from source hasn't taught me anything about how Linux works. That came from reading manuals, etc. The only part of Portage that taught me anything about Linux was the broken packages. Then I'd have to track down the bugs and any patches posted for them or fix things myself.
mozilla-firefox-1.0.4 hit the Gentoo tree the same day the official 1.0.4 version was released and had been moved to stable on most architectures by the beginning of the next day.
The binary packages (mozilla-firefox-bin-1.0.4) was in the stable tree within two days, same timing as Debian.
This is called a dynamic linker and a package management system.;)
Examples would be the standard GNU/Linux dynamic linking program (its name escapes me at the moment) and systems like APT, Portage, and RPM.
If you build redundant support for multiple libraries into a program, it'd quickly become very large in terms of binary and source, and the source would be extremely difficult to manage. Take the example of graphics libraries: you have the major choice of rolling your own or using a prewritten library, and then if you use one that someone else has written you have Qt or GTK+ (there are others, like Motif, but Qt and GTK are the most prominent and fully-developed ones around) to choose between. They have different ways of naming the same concepts and different methods for calling library routines. You'd have to write what would essentially be two entirely separate codebases to work with each graphics library.
Patching systems is a fact of life. It's just that other systems generally take less effort to maintain than that virus-infested bug-ridden hack they call Windows.
I spent several hours yesterday cleaning viruses and spyware off of my mom's laptop, then installing patches, SP2, and AVG Antivirus. Now I have to go patch it some more?
If you had read TFA, you'd know that Intel is NOT shipping the 840 EE yet. What the sites that posted TFAs received were generic boxes containing sneak previews of a chip that will most likely ship in a few months.
Some poster above stated that it uses 230mHz and 450mHz for receive and transmit. That would mean that it can go a lot farther and penetrate more obstacles than the PCS bands (850 and 1900mHz) can on the same amount of power.
Wikipedia still has load balancing issues. The bandwidth and servers are there, they're just not being used correctly. It takes forever to get the server farm to open an HTTP session to load the main page.
It could switch off the backlights for the areas of the screen not displaying video. This would be especially useful if you don't have a display with 16:9 aspect ratio - it'd blank the backlights for the black bars at the top and bottom of the screen.
It mentions using a 42U rack full of units with these dual-processor boards in them adding up to 168 CPUs total. Much different from your single box with dual P3s.
Are you referring to the fact that "top" and "free" will always show almost all of your memory being used on a Linux system?
This is because Linux caches as much data as it can to avoid accessing the even-more-expensive-and-slower-than-RAM hard disks and optical drives.
States?
How about we stop making the cities stop getting robbed by rural areas?
I'm sure northwestern New York State loves the massive windfall that is the tax from New York City.
I live within 5 miles of two power reactors.
I don't have a problem with it, much better than having a dozen coal-burning plants scattered throughout the county.
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Did it really take /. 3 pages of comments to get in the references to Resident Evil?
I, for one, can't wait until Milla Jovovich gets to defeat our new zombie dog overlords!
That was accurate as of 2002 or so, maybe farther back than that. I've had phones with free long distance and no roaming across the continental US since I signed a contract with AT&T two years ago. I'm on a Cingular national plan now and it also lets me use towers owned by T-Mobile (the only other national GSM carrier) or any of the major regional GSM providers (e.g. Dobson/CellularOne) without additional charge. Essentially, this lets Cingular and T-Mobile (the national carriers) present a larger and more comprehensive system of coverage to compete with the more-established and older CDMA (with large areas where analog is the fallback option) networks owned by Sprint and Verizon.
LFS is old and has been reported on Slashdot before. And how does watching compiler output scroll past a screen teach a person how Linux works? I'm a Gentoo user myself but I admit that using Portage to install packages from source hasn't taught me anything about how Linux works. That came from reading manuals, etc. The only part of Portage that taught me anything about Linux was the broken packages. Then I'd have to track down the bugs and any patches posted for them or fix things myself.
Now I just need mod points and a +1 Poetic option.
mozilla-firefox-1.0.4 hit the Gentoo tree the same day the official 1.0.4 version was released and had been moved to stable on most architectures by the beginning of the next day. The binary packages (mozilla-firefox-bin-1.0.4) was in the stable tree within two days, same timing as Debian.
Really? Are you using libata or the IDE branch SATA drivers? The libata drivers currently do not pass SMART commands through the SCSI layer.
Too bad smartctl doesn't work with SATA!
You have to be a doctor to fix computers now?? I believe the word you were looking for is patience.
No, UNIX systems have crash screens too. They're just less frequent and don't come in pretty colors.
That 80 gigs is all versions of AIX and Dynix since 1988. Why would you want to build AIX 1?
This is called a dynamic linker and a package management system. ;)
Examples would be the standard GNU/Linux dynamic linking program (its name escapes me at the moment) and systems like APT, Portage, and RPM.
If you build redundant support for multiple libraries into a program, it'd quickly become very large in terms of binary and source, and the source would be extremely difficult to manage. Take the example of graphics libraries: you have the major choice of rolling your own or using a prewritten library, and then if you use one that someone else has written you have Qt or GTK+ (there are others, like Motif, but Qt and GTK are the most prominent and fully-developed ones around) to choose between. They have different ways of naming the same concepts and different methods for calling library routines. You'd have to write what would essentially be two entirely separate codebases to work with each graphics library.
Patching systems is a fact of life. It's just that other systems generally take less effort to maintain than that virus-infested bug-ridden hack they call Windows.
I spent several hours yesterday cleaning viruses and spyware off of my mom's laptop, then installing patches, SP2, and AVG Antivirus. Now I have to go patch it some more?
If you had read TFA, you'd know that Intel is NOT shipping the 840 EE yet. What the sites that posted TFAs received were generic boxes containing sneak previews of a chip that will most likely ship in a few months.
Some poster above stated that it uses 230mHz and 450mHz for receive and transmit. That would mean that it can go a lot farther and penetrate more obstacles than the PCS bands (850 and 1900mHz) can on the same amount of power.
Wikipedia still has load balancing issues. The bandwidth and servers are there, they're just not being used correctly. It takes forever to get the server farm to open an HTTP session to load the main page.
It could switch off the backlights for the areas of the screen not displaying video. This would be especially useful if you don't have a display with 16:9 aspect ratio - it'd blank the backlights for the black bars at the top and bottom of the screen.
It mentions using a 42U rack full of units with these dual-processor boards in them adding up to 168 CPUs total. Much different from your single box with dual P3s.
The only issue with this is that the streaming video systems found on most porn sites don't always work properly under Linux + Firefox/Mozilla...
Are you referring to the fact that "top" and "free" will always show almost all of your memory being used on a Linux system? This is because Linux caches as much data as it can to avoid accessing the even-more-expensive-and-slower-than-RAM hard disks and optical drives.
Uh... I think I just want some positive karma.
States? How about we stop making the cities stop getting robbed by rural areas? I'm sure northwestern New York State loves the massive windfall that is the tax from New York City.
I live within 5 miles of two power reactors. I don't have a problem with it, much better than having a dozen coal-burning plants scattered throughout the county.
With the amount of power that you could get out of a few Cells you could very easily emulate a very fast IA32 CPU.
I guess you didn't go very far in high school physics. ;)