That is 100% unacceptable and anyone with a brain will not use their hardware until they change their policies on giving us developers documentation.
Well, zealots can stick to "open" crappy, out-dated, and unmaintained stuff, and non-zealots can stick with working, timely, stable stuff. Usually, I let practicality choose instead of politics.
You know why 3D still generally sucks on the PC?
Interesting, I've never noticed that. Compared to what? Game consoles that are built solely for churning polygons, or the latest flick from Pixar?
Stupid greed.
Imagine that! A company wanting to protect the hard work it has put into their products! And on top of that, they want to turn a profit! How disgusting!
Works great until you upgrade the kernel and discover it's now incompatable with the interface changes.
Incompatable? That shouldn't be happening. Remember that the nVidia drivers are kernel modules, so when you upgrade your kernel, you need to reinstall the driver. Just go back into NVIDIA_GLX-1.0-NNNN (if you got the tarballs, which I recommend) and su; make install./sbin/lsmod to make sure, and then you're set. You might want to put the driver in your/etc/modules if you're rebooting a lot too.
NVidia deserves a lot of credit -- especially from Linux folks -- for their top notch drivers. Installation is a snap (two tarballs, sudo make install), and once they're up and running, they're very stable and quick. And they're maintained. New versions are released fairly often, and the very latest cards are supported as well. I tried a radeon card once, but prompty returned it because there were no drivers, and only after a while did they finally appear.
I've sent NVidia some mail stating that because of their support for my OS, I plan to continue buying their products. It's good to give them that kind of feedback, I think.
Raise your hand if you remember a time when one company would make fun of the other for adding more and more memory because "You'll never need 32MB of video memory!"
it runs BASH! it runs VI! it runs OPERA! it plays MP3's!
Two of which have no business on a PDA. Why would I use a tiny keyboard to type in stuff into bash or vim?
Those things are cool for techies, but this reviewer is a normal guy, and normal guys need to, guess what, sync with outlook. It doesn't do that. His other complaints about it's size and depressed keyboard (it should see a shrink!) are completely valid complaints.
if you're a linux user, you will truly be able to appreciate the beauty of this little bad-boy.
Guess what, the reviewer agrees with you! "All in all, my advice is to stay away from the Zaurus SL-5500, unless you're a hard-core Linux fan."
They don't even list them on ebay. I keep checking like once a week to see if anyone is selling one so maybe I could offload mine too...
You know ebay can save your searches, and email you when it matches an item, right? Just look for "Save this search" after you do a search.
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But seriously though, why don't the KDE developers fill up their mirrors before they even put it up on their own ftp? Someone explain that to me. You don't have to have your mirrors use public ftp to get stuff; private ftp, scp, newsgroups. Hell, just email.
We can all blame slashdot, but it could have been anybody that broke the news that caused the hammering of the main site. The fact is, it is preventable. If I'm the KDE developers/maintainers, I'm not going to assume everyone in the world just a nice guy, and won't hammer me or break the news until my mirrors are ready. I'm going to assume everyone's an asshole, and take steps before they have a chance to be assholes.
I also tried/index.htm,html,asp and nothing worked
Except that in the MS world* it's default.htm,html,asp. They're not there either, though.
* This has always pissed me off. There seems to be no reason to switch from the time-honored index.html to default.htm, except MS having their way. And why is the official extension.htm? What happened to long filenames? I'm nauseous at the sight of 8.3 filenames (and MS still uses 8.3 for damn near everything).
Jeez, the poor bastards running that site... every other/. poster, thinking he's cool, has posted a portscan. For proof, there's 2 just in this thread (maybe more now). I don't even want to count how many there were when the story broke yesterday.
If you know of any similar books to yours, you might want to put the cd in there for competition's sake. People might make a choice on which book to buy based on "Includes packed CD-ROM!!" on the cover.
Just like how Windows depends so much on IE's libraries.
I really want someone to enumerate what these crucial dependencies are. So far, I've heard HTML Help. Big fucking whoop. How hard would that be to switch? It's help, for chrissakes, not the kernel.
Secondly, if unrelated code ended up in "IE's libraries," and that's what these "dependencies" are based on, well then this is tough shit. If it's not related to HTML layout, it should never have been in those libs. Unrelated code should be transplanted into other libraries. This is not the techinical impossiblity that MS makes it out to be. Hard? Who cares if it's going to be hard? If this is the ruling, then this is the ruling. The courts are not going to mandate the eating of strawberries - they're going to mandate a damn solution.
I've never met anyone that didn't think Real Player was a bloated POS. It has grown in size steadily for years, it's slow, and it's got so many buttons and tabs now, you can't tell what's what.
I remember reading a news story about this, a long while ago. It reported of an engineer at MS sending multiple emails to his supervisors and peers, asking why this mixing of code was going on. Why should file management code be in the same shared library as, say, HTML processing?
Pretty sad when political motives replace good engineering practices.
Slashdot Mirror
Here's the proof:
assume a, b, c such that: a + b = c
then 5a + 5b = 5c
and 4c = 4a + 4b
adding the two: 5a + 5b + 4c = 4a + 4b + 5c
shifting some terms around: 5a + 5b - 5c = 4a + 4b - 4c
simplifying: 5 (a + b - c) = 4 (a + b - c)
dividing by the common factor (a + b - c): 5 = 4
:)
... if this guy gets a hold of one of these.
Ahh, yes. One of the damn near best episodes ever (tm).
I believe Conan O'Brian wrote that episode too.
Why is it so many people choose to use their .sigs to brag about how they're already at Karma=50? It's not that hard to do.
They were beautiful, weren't they?
Mister, you got one damn low user #.
That is 100% unacceptable and anyone with a brain will not use their hardware until they change their policies on giving us developers documentation.
Well, zealots can stick to "open" crappy, out-dated, and unmaintained stuff, and non-zealots can stick with working, timely, stable stuff. Usually, I let practicality choose instead of politics.
You know why 3D still generally sucks on the PC?
Interesting, I've never noticed that. Compared to what? Game consoles that are built solely for churning polygons, or the latest flick from Pixar?
Stupid greed.
Imagine that! A company wanting to protect the hard work it has put into their products! And on top of that, they want to turn a profit! How disgusting!
Works great until you upgrade the kernel and discover it's now incompatable with the interface changes.
/sbin/lsmod to make sure, and then you're set. You might want to put the driver in your /etc/modules if you're rebooting a lot too.
Incompatable? That shouldn't be happening. Remember that the nVidia drivers are kernel modules, so when you upgrade your kernel, you need to reinstall the driver. Just go back into NVIDIA_GLX-1.0-NNNN (if you got the tarballs, which I recommend) and su; make install.
...was the electric hammer!
or whether the site was merely bombarded with requests from IT managers clamoring for copies of the free papers on the site.
"We have the way out! (except when you get a whole mess o' hits, then we can't find the way.)"
NVidia deserves a lot of credit -- especially from Linux folks -- for their top notch drivers. Installation is a snap (two tarballs, sudo make install), and once they're up and running, they're very stable and quick. And they're maintained. New versions are released fairly often, and the very latest cards are supported as well. I tried a radeon card once, but prompty returned it because there were no drivers, and only after a while did they finally appear.
I've sent NVidia some mail stating that because of their support for my OS, I plan to continue buying their products. It's good to give them that kind of feedback, I think.
Raise your hand if you remember a time when one company would make fun of the other for adding more and more memory because "You'll never need 32MB of video memory!"
it runs BASH! it runs VI! it runs OPERA! it plays MP3's!
Two of which have no business on a PDA. Why would I use a tiny keyboard to type in stuff into bash or vim?
Those things are cool for techies, but this reviewer is a normal guy, and normal guys need to, guess what, sync with outlook. It doesn't do that. His other complaints about it's size and depressed keyboard (it should see a shrink!) are completely valid complaints.
if you're a linux user, you will truly be able to appreciate the beauty of this little bad-boy.
Guess what, the reviewer agrees with you! "All in all, my advice is to stay away from the Zaurus SL-5500, unless you're a hard-core Linux fan."
They don't even list them on ebay. I keep checking like once a week to see if anyone is selling one so maybe I could offload mine too...
You know ebay can save your searches, and email you when it matches an item, right? Just look for "Save this search" after you do a search.
But seriously though, why don't the KDE developers fill up their mirrors before they even put it up on their own ftp? Someone explain that to me. You don't have to have your mirrors use public ftp to get stuff; private ftp, scp, newsgroups. Hell, just email.
We can all blame slashdot, but it could have been anybody that broke the news that caused the hammering of the main site. The fact is, it is preventable. If I'm the KDE developers/maintainers, I'm not going to assume everyone in the world just a nice guy, and won't hammer me or break the news until my mirrors are ready. I'm going to assume everyone's an asshole, and take steps before they have a chance to be assholes.
The guy at church who rings their bell is named Murphy... is that what you meant?
I also tried /index.htm,html,asp and nothing worked
.htm? What happened to long filenames? I'm nauseous at the sight of 8.3 filenames (and MS still uses 8.3 for damn near everything).
Except that in the MS world* it's default.htm,html,asp. They're not there either, though.
* This has always pissed me off. There seems to be no reason to switch from the time-honored index.html to default.htm, except MS having their way. And why is the official extension
Jeez, the poor bastards running that site... every other /. poster, thinking he's cool, has posted a portscan. For proof, there's 2 just in this thread (maybe more now). I don't even want to count how many there were when the story broke yesterday.
If you know of any similar books to yours, you might want to put the cd in there for competition's sake. People might make a choice on which book to buy based on "Includes packed CD-ROM!!" on the cover.
I dunno... I kinda liked this years stories, compared to previous years'.
So what does Python do for you? ;)
Just like how Windows depends so much on IE's libraries.
I really want someone to enumerate what these crucial dependencies are. So far, I've heard HTML Help. Big fucking whoop. How hard would that be to switch? It's help, for chrissakes, not the kernel.
Secondly, if unrelated code ended up in "IE's libraries," and that's what these "dependencies" are based on, well then this is tough shit. If it's not related to HTML layout, it should never have been in those libs. Unrelated code should be transplanted into other libraries. This is not the techinical impossiblity that MS makes it out to be. Hard? Who cares if it's going to be hard? If this is the ruling, then this is the ruling. The courts are not going to mandate the eating of strawberries - they're going to mandate a damn solution.
I've never met anyone that didn't think Real Player was a bloated POS. It has grown in size steadily for years, it's slow, and it's got so many buttons and tabs now, you can't tell what's what.
I remember reading a news story about this, a long while ago. It reported of an engineer at MS sending multiple emails to his supervisors and peers, asking why this mixing of code was going on. Why should file management code be in the same shared library as, say, HTML processing?
Pretty sad when political motives replace good engineering practices.
Dear Intel,
How about I jam my foot inside your ass.
Yours,
dimator