Honestly, I don't understand how can even a marginally technically knowledgeable person still worry about pop-ups. Just use Firebird, and forget about pop-ups, as I did. As far as I'm concertned, pop-ups are a battle I feel I as a computer user, have now won.
I am a Mozilla Firebird user myself, but nevertheless, I'd like to know if I can download IE 5.5 for Win95 from somewhere. My wife still has a Win95 computer, and there is no real need to change that state, except for a possible browser upgrade. Firebird would be a bit slow on that machine, and I just noticed that I don't have a local copy of IE 5.5/Win9x.
On a completely tangential note: since RedHat 9 will become unsupported at the end of this coming April, I wonder if any Linux support company will benefit from the fact. With Linux being opensource and all that jazz, I would hope the model would live up to the expectations.
In case anyone of the NASA guys is reading/. (I know some are), I'd like to express my congratulations on an excellent job. I really enjoy following each step of the mission.
Why can't all be like you? I have been trying to get a job in hardware development, where my heart is, for the last 3 years, and always would be rejected because I didn't have work experience in the field, no matter that I was one of the best students at UNI, where I studied electronics.
I curse the day I started my career as a network admin.
I sense that americans are in a sort of awe, giving to the title of Knight more weight than it deserves.
But britons certainly know that there are and have been many "Knights" that they wouldn't want to be associated with. Lord Archer, for one. And a whole host of showbiz people whose only mind was to get rich at the expense of art.
It's not the specifics of my idea that matter. What really matters is involving the people. Make the simple man your ally, not an outsider. It's that simple man that creates the wealth that, in the end,is behind space exploration. That wealth can increase dramatically if there's exccitement and enthusiasm. I use this simple technique in my management activities: make people your allies by explaining them their part in the big picture, making them feel involved. (My other technique is discipline;o))
I have not heard of the Mars Sundial, my bad. That doesn't necessarily change the point I was trying to make.
Thanks. I still hope they have some sort of camera on the crafts. I mean, these things cost a lot fo taxpayer money You gotta give these taxpayers a little bit of inspiration, a little something to involve the simple man into the whole space research thing, and not just keep it for the scientific elite.
Wow, that must be the mother of webcams! I mean, we have one in our cafeteria to show us when the crowd is smallest, but this really *is* better (even though less useful?).
Seriously though, I am really excited about this mission. As a European, I am a bit ashamed of the dismal achievement of Beagle 2. But seeing the pictures from Spirit really lifts one's.. spirit up.
That's a very long shot. The scientists are hoping that this is the cause of the problem, as it could be corrected from the mothership. But this is just the most utterly pathetic wishful thinking.
Most likely, the dumping baloons (whatever they are called) have failed, as a previously tested version of these ballons has failed. Apparently, these dumpers haven't been even tested before launch.
I admit that I am rather amazed that Linux has such a penetration in the embedded devices market. Maybe not by numbers, but certainly it did prove that it's capable to perform well. One thing that it's enabling Linux to run in embedded environments is certainly the high integration of powerful CPU/MCUs and memory, so it's not anymore necessary to use highly specialized OSes.
That said, I would like to remind you that for real-time applications, the Linux kernel has to be compiled with special patches and modules, and is quite substantially different from the kernel in RHEL or the Linux running on the IBM Z series mainframes. So, I think we're in the grey zone here, because it's not evident that these are different or the same OS.
I have never claimed for BeOS to be suitable for anything except desktop and multimedia. I will be the first to admit that it would not be a good file/web server, or even an application server. But BeOS is fantastic at what it was meant to do. I also like a lot the way BeOS configures your hardware. Yes, again, Linux could do that, too, I hear you say, but at the moment, it's just a tad less elegant.
Now, if 2.6.x manages to achieve BeOS' responsiveness towards user and robustness when handling multimedia (+ user doing stuff), then you would/will have won this argument hands down. I propose that we wait and see. It's really a peaceful and reasonable proposition, I think.
This is our experience with RHEL and KDE: since we plan to use Linux in rollouts of our shrink-wrapped software, for telecoms, we need to have top QA and do lots of testing in the preparation phase.
One of the many installation tests was to use the default installation procedure in RHEL, and then see what we get. OK, installed Gnome by default. Then we tried to install KDE. Cant do it! Sounds incredible? We thought that, too. Since we forked 1200 Euros for RHEL, we thought we better start using that golden support (I call it "golden" as it costs an arm and a leg). Believe it or not, after two weeks of wrangling with RedHat support engineers, going back and forth, the case was NOT solved!!
Our dissatisfaction with Redhat support has been quite big, as a consequence of this episode, and RedHat did NOT get into our product solution.
I work in a large european mobile phone company, and we take our business seriously. RedHat didn't. I guess keeping KDE out must be some sort of strategic goal at RedHat, otherwise I totally don't understand their behaviour.
Incidently, I even offered to explain to a RedHat employee why they didn't get in, and guess what, he wasnt even curious!
I was wrong about the SGI clusters, and you were right.
I am convinced that there are different OS-es exactly because one can't perform in all the roles efficiently. If I was wrong on this one, today all computers would be running the same identical OS, but they aren't.
I am not karma-whoring, I couldn't care less about Karma. If I wanted to, I'd be praising Linux in all circumstances, as that's what most Slashdot readers and moderators would find appropriate. But I don't think as the majority, but rather as myself, with my own head. That's bad for this kind of "karma" but probably good for the real one.
What would you say if I told you that I tried Linux 2.6.0 on the same computere where BeOS is installed, and BeOS still felt much snappier?
And what would you say if I told you that a one-OS-fit-all approach is flawed, and that 1000+ node SGI "cluster" (you got that wrong, SGI isn't into clusters but large NUMA monsters) will not do for a destkop OS any good?
I know, you have your Linux and that must be everbody's pet project, or else... 'cause you only like or/and know Linux. It's hard to understand things outside your limited mind.
Thanks a lot! I really enjoyed reading this good-ole 6502 code. That was the kind of computing I miss today. In this world of JVM, Corba, C# and case tools, one tends to forget what his whole shit is based on.
Wow, mod parent up! I thought nobody would ever notice the "Save" menuitem problem in GIMP, but you just gave me hope in humankind! So, I wasnt the only one person in the whole world to go barking mad because of GIMP's fscked up user interface?
The Matrix Revolutions, just like Reloaded, is a masterpiece in disguise and a new kind of cinema all in one: nobody can say to have completely grasped it, during a single viewing. But when many people who saw it and thought about it, talk to each other, the many veils and layers of meaning of these movies, start to unleash and things click into place. And new ideas emerge, new possibilities, and then you start to appreciate all the though that went into the creation of Reloaded and Revolutions.
These movies can not be fully appreciated by the individual, without a community or circle of friends, because they're so complex, layered and widely spanning.
That's why, isolated and (wrongly) self-confident, the movie critics have mostly slammed Revolutions, and those that liked it, they did so because of the battle scenes and special effects. None of them has even tried to understand it.
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Honestly, I don't understand how can even a marginally technically knowledgeable person still worry about pop-ups. Just use Firebird, and forget about pop-ups, as I did. As far as I'm concertned, pop-ups are a battle I feel I as a computer user, have now won.
Next up: spam. Score: losing.
Thank you!
Mod parent up +10 "really informative"!
I am a Mozilla Firebird user myself, but nevertheless, I'd like to know if I can download IE 5.5 for Win95 from somewhere. My wife still has a Win95 computer, and there is no real need to change that state, except for a possible browser upgrade. Firebird would be a bit slow on that machine, and I just noticed that I don't have a local copy of IE 5.5/Win9x.
On a completely tangential note: since RedHat 9 will become unsupported at the end of this coming April, I wonder if any Linux support company will benefit from the fact. With Linux being opensource and all that jazz, I would hope the model would live up to the expectations.
In case anyone of the NASA guys is reading /. (I know some are), I'd like to express my congratulations on an excellent job. I really enjoy following each step of the mission.
A good way of doing this is to list all your skills and find a way of applying them to hardware development.
Good idea. I am not quite sure how exactly to implement it, yet, but I will have a look at my resume and try to change it accordingly.
But, unfortunately, much depends on finding a reasonable employer like yourself, i.e. luck.
Why can't all be like you? I have been trying to get a job in hardware development, where my heart is, for the last 3 years, and always would be rejected because I didn't have work experience in the field, no matter that I was one of the best students at UNI, where I studied electronics.
I curse the day I started my career as a network admin.
..or italian ;o)
I sense that americans are in a sort of awe, giving to the title of Knight more weight than it deserves.
But britons certainly know that there are and have been many "Knights" that they wouldn't want to be associated with. Lord Archer, for one. And a whole host of showbiz people whose only mind was to get rich at the expense of art.
That's really nice.
It's not the specifics of my idea that matter. What really matters is involving the people. Make the simple man your ally, not an outsider. It's that simple man that creates the wealth that, in the end,is behind space exploration. That wealth can increase dramatically if there's exccitement and enthusiasm. I use this simple technique in my management activities: make people your allies by explaining them their part in the big picture, making them feel involved. (My other technique is discipline ;o))
I have not heard of the Mars Sundial, my bad. That doesn't necessarily change the point I was trying to make.
Thanks. I still hope they have some sort of camera on the crafts. I mean, these things cost a lot fo taxpayer money You gotta give these taxpayers a little bit of inspiration, a little something to involve the simple man into the whole space research thing, and not just keep it for the scientific elite.
Didn't mean to rant, sry.
Simulated or computer-DSP-processed? I mean, is it based on signals received from the crafts?
Wow, that must be the mother of webcams! I mean, we have one in our cafeteria to show us when the crowd is smallest, but this really *is* better (even though less useful?).
.. spirit up.
Seriously though, I am really excited about this mission. As a European, I am a bit ashamed of the dismal achievement of Beagle 2. But seeing the pictures from Spirit really lifts one's
That's a very long shot. The scientists are hoping that this is the cause of the problem, as it could be corrected from the mothership. But this is just the most utterly pathetic wishful thinking.
Most likely, the dumping baloons (whatever they are called) have failed, as a previously tested version of these ballons has failed. Apparently, these dumpers haven't been even tested before launch.
I admit that I am rather amazed that Linux has such a penetration in the embedded devices market. Maybe not by numbers, but certainly it did prove that it's capable to perform well. One thing that it's enabling Linux to run in embedded environments is certainly the high integration of powerful CPU/MCUs and memory, so it's not anymore necessary to use highly specialized OSes.
That said, I would like to remind you that for real-time applications, the Linux kernel has to be compiled with special patches and modules, and is quite substantially different from the kernel in RHEL or the Linux running on the IBM Z series mainframes. So, I think we're in the grey zone here, because it's not evident that these are different or the same OS.
I have never claimed for BeOS to be suitable for anything except desktop and multimedia. I will be the first to admit that it would not be a good file/web server, or even an application server. But BeOS is fantastic at what it was meant to do. I also like a lot the way BeOS configures your hardware. Yes, again, Linux could do that, too, I hear you say, but at the moment, it's just a tad less elegant.
Now, if 2.6.x manages to achieve BeOS' responsiveness towards user and robustness when handling multimedia (+ user doing stuff), then you would/will have won this argument hands down. I propose that we wait and see. It's really a peaceful and reasonable proposition, I think.
And my answer would probably be: because in operating systems, the wheel hasn't yet been completely invented :o)
This is our experience with RHEL and KDE: since we plan to use Linux in rollouts of our shrink-wrapped software, for telecoms, we need to have top QA and do lots of testing in the preparation phase.
One of the many installation tests was to use the default installation procedure in RHEL, and then see what we get. OK, installed Gnome by default. Then we tried to install KDE. Cant do it! Sounds incredible? We thought that, too. Since we forked 1200 Euros for RHEL, we thought we better start using that golden support (I call it "golden" as it costs an arm and a leg). Believe it or not, after two weeks of wrangling with RedHat support engineers, going back and forth, the case was NOT solved!!
Our dissatisfaction with Redhat support has been quite big, as a consequence of this episode, and RedHat did NOT get into our product solution.
I work in a large european mobile phone company, and we take our business seriously. RedHat didn't. I guess keeping KDE out must be some sort of strategic goal at RedHat, otherwise I totally don't understand their behaviour.
Incidently, I even offered to explain to a RedHat employee why they didn't get in, and guess what, he wasnt even curious!
I was wrong about the SGI clusters, and you were right.
I am convinced that there are different OS-es exactly because one can't perform in all the roles efficiently. If I was wrong on this one, today all computers would be running the same identical OS, but they aren't.
I am not karma-whoring, I couldn't care less about Karma. If I wanted to, I'd be praising Linux in all circumstances, as that's what most Slashdot readers and moderators would find appropriate. But I don't think as the majority, but rather as myself, with my own head. That's bad for this kind of "karma" but probably good for the real one.
What would you say if I told you that I tried Linux 2.6.0 on the same computere where BeOS is installed, and BeOS still felt much snappier?
And what would you say if I told you that a one-OS-fit-all approach is flawed, and that 1000+ node SGI "cluster" (you got that wrong, SGI isn't into clusters but large NUMA monsters) will not do for a destkop OS any good?
I know, you have your Linux and that must be everbody's pet project, or else... 'cause you only like or/and know Linux. It's hard to understand things outside your limited mind.
Brilliant. You, or the one whom you ripped the idea off, are(is) a genius.
Plus, he was using a string operator on integers. ;o)
But, at least in his code it was clear which was the operator
Thanks a lot! I really enjoyed reading this good-ole 6502 code. That was the kind of computing I miss today. In this world of JVM, Corba, C# and case tools, one tends to forget what his whole shit is based on.
Wow, mod parent up! I thought nobody would ever notice the "Save" menuitem problem in GIMP, but you just gave me hope in humankind! So, I wasnt the only one person in the whole world to go barking mad because of GIMP's fscked up user interface?
The Matrix Revolutions, just like Reloaded, is a masterpiece in disguise and a new kind of cinema all in one: nobody can say to have completely grasped it, during a single viewing. But when many people who saw it and thought about it, talk to each other, the many veils and layers of meaning of these movies, start to unleash and things click into place. And new ideas emerge, new possibilities, and then you start to appreciate all the though that went into the creation of Reloaded and Revolutions.
These movies can not be fully appreciated by the individual, without a community or circle of friends, because they're so complex, layered and widely spanning.
That's why, isolated and (wrongly) self-confident, the movie critics have mostly slammed Revolutions, and those that liked it, they did so because of the battle scenes and special effects. None of them has even tried to understand it.
I'm not even sure the devil exists, but I am pretty sure human stupidity does: the article mentions 14 meters per minute.