Perhaps off-topic, but does the number of capacitors correlate to the design, i.e. is a soundcard with lots of capacitors of less design than a comparable with less capacitors?
Next up for Windows Longhorn: A brand new desktop popup ad API complete with billboard-type access to the background pic. No more questionably ethical malware required--it's now part of the OS.
Remember Active Desktop, channels?
That's just what we need: another "me too!" document format. Oh for crying out loud. Windows is fast becoming the toilet with a toaster, cordless drill, leaf blower, and pencil holder built in. It's the Chewbacca Defense of featureware.
Well, a format competitive to PDF (including ligatures etc.) optimized for screen with better editing capabilities combined with the tight integration in Office would be quite a handsome product.
I was more interested in the fact that there's a lot of movement in the DB area; MySQL/SCO, InnoDB, Oracle, MS Postgres, Ingres issues (w.r.t. frequency of DB associated posts lately).
Hopefully someone could shed some light and give an analysation of the current developments, without involving karma.
Oh well. It's just as sucky as the Win GUI, Office, COM, NET and just about any succesful MS product tailed by multiple OSS wannabe-clones in progress...
I know, this is definitely not modded as insightful.
I've got a $10 ye-olde-BrookTree based Hauppage PCI card w/remote in my Athlon-- pc. XawTv works fine, so does encoding with pri 20 at the same time. My Indy supported all of it out of the box with an impressive 155Mhz (crumbling under IRIX6).
What is he doing using a $600 professional software package to edit photos anyway! This is not a program for your parents to edit their home home holiday snaps on, but a design tool that is very good at what is does.
I'm always interested in what went wrong with the holiday
once people get started editing holiday photos.
Other desktops? I like Fluxbox and Window Maker and despise KDE and am even impatient with Gnome.
spec files are available for years. Prepackaged WM are usually compiled with all the gnome/kde support.
While offering a complete and nice solution, I usually end up removing tons of packages such as apmd, nfs, kludzu, vim etc. which I'm sure I won't be using.
As a rule of thumb, if you're customizing and compiling your own kernel, you're most likely better off with a more flexible distribution, such as Debian or Gentoo.
a 150kW wind turbine is huge, and 2 people aren't going to be able to build the foundation (necessary to keep a several hundred foot propeller from getting ripped away) on a moment's notice and without heavy machinery (a cement truck and a crane at the least).
The turbines are mounted on redundant ICBMs, whereas the two people can deploy it instantly by inserting matching keys simultaneously in the control unit.
I would say to the RISC OS folks that maybe you could do a Creative Commons license thing with it. That way you could open it and still retain some semblance of attribution and control.
You forget that the OSS community has matured over the years.
OSS Developers are more reluctant to get involved into projects that gives less control than existing which allow more freedom.
If the goal is preservation, I would choose a single, clear OSS approved license, and yes, this means giving away control. But Mr. RISCOS (no pun intended) already admitted as much as incapable of keeping it under control (no blames).
Before anyone has a conniption, consider this: do you really think that "they" have a database they could reference to find out what printer serial number goes to what citizen?
Probably not. But the manufacturer knows the distribution area of the batch numbers. More importantly, before the crack you'd have a 100%
true positive as to which machine printed, which is quite valuable in itself.
Just realize that 99.9% of the world doesn't give a shit about anything you do, and all that paranoia just slips away. That's what I did.
*You* might not give a shit about 99.9% of the world.
Read some Orwell.
pure an simple. he has more money then he knows what to do with. 15mill is a lot to you and me
In general, I do think he manages his finances quite responsibly* (donations, etc); just imagine what a Paris Hilton would do with these kind of funds.
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Smells like http://hardware.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/09/ 07/1241216&tid=198&tid=184
What is 64bit mode called anyway, super-protected-mode??
http://www-128.ibm.com/developerworks/i/p-sudas.jp g
Perhaps off-topic, but does the number of capacitors correlate to the design, i.e. is a soundcard with lots of capacitors of less design than a comparable with less capacitors?
I'm not sure about Chewbacca though.
Hopefully someone could shed some light and give an analysation of the current developments, without involving karma.
Lots of DB topics lately, anyone care to speculate?
http://www.reputable.com/images/ciscocam.jpg
Bittorrent anyone?
.. since Quake 4 just hit the shelves.
I know, this is definitely not modded as insightful.
Oh, thy Media Overlords, what am I missing?
Holidays are holidays, not pictures. Spare me.
While offering a complete and nice solution, I usually end up removing tons of packages such as apmd, nfs, kludzu, vim etc. which I'm sure I won't be using.
As a rule of thumb, if you're customizing and compiling your own kernel, you're most likely better off with a more flexible distribution, such as Debian or Gentoo.
I recently started vomitting again on a regular basis after seeing actual COBOL and FORTRAN code.
OSS Developers are more reluctant to get involved into projects that gives less control than existing which allow more freedom.
If the goal is preservation, I would choose a single, clear OSS approved license, and yes, this means giving away control. But Mr. RISCOS (no pun intended) already admitted as much as incapable of keeping it under control (no blames).
*Aside from the Windows ME fiasco.
The problem is viruses will come and mutate, killing of the carriers does not extinct viruses, as has been proven time and time again with malaria.
Save the birds!