Long live the Slackware users, hehehe! No, really, we seem to survive all the stuff that happened to Linux in the last few years. And even though many of the people who started with Slackware have now RedHatted or Sused, there are many from the old school, and it's damn good to meet them, here and there.
Ummmm... do you know what the term "class action suit" means? Obviously not, and obviously the people who modded you up, don't understand that, either.
But whatever, after all this is Slashdot, and trolls abound here.
Moderators, check your brain! This was one of the trutfullest posts on Slashdot (besides being funny, too) in a long ime. Taco's post was really torn! I actually had some problems understanding which part is his (Taco's) text, and which was the original poster's.
..I think some of the anime stuff out there is real art. I don't like pokemon and such, but when I saw Princess Mononoke, I decided that I will start to research this subject better. Princess Mononoke has been for me an uplifting experience, the best cartoon and most original in terms of animation, character profiling and plot. It does require a certain IQ, but being on Slashdot, I feel I can recommend it with no fear.
So, I recommend it? It's not just hype, Princess Mononoke is really good!
If I wanted to program the Z-80 or the PIX microcontroller, I would maybe use assembler, but soetimes even some sort of BASIC would do. Why, you, "speed freak", ask? Because of the shorter time to market. If the speed achieved is enough, then BASIC will do, even on a Z-80.
Today, however, the CPUs are much more complex, deeply pipelined and use al sorts of code optimization. Assembler is theoretically still the way to produce faster code, but the time required to produce that code is much, much longer. I'd much rather leave the optimization to some compiler to do. But even better, I think a good (Java) interpreter will achieve better (runtime) optimization. This is even more true with multiple CPU systems. Today if I want to design an application that will run rather fast both on an L class HP-UX with 2 or 4 PA RISCs, and a Netra with the same number of CPUs, I will chose Java. Shorter time to market, rather good optimization.POSIX compliance does ot completely save the day, Java serves me much better.
In the end, of course, all depends on what you are doing, and where. Oh, and on -how-, too! I have seen a lot of stupid and a lot of good code. If you use a stupid algorythm, your code will be slow, duh!
Everybody here is considering only multiple video cards, or video + DVD playback. Well, to me this bug is much more serious than that, because it makes the P4 unsuitable for network servers.
Today any high-end network server has at least 2 netcards, for routing and/or rendundancy purposes. Even if you don't want your server connected to two networks, you still want to have it rendundant, so it can continue serve data if one of the cards or cables fails.
I think that a highend server, which you would build with such and expensive and fast CPU, would most likely deserve your attention towards rendundancy/fallback.
Also, I wonder if there are any other PCI bus-mastering related bugs in this chipset. I would not risk putting a Gigabit ethernet card in a P4 anytime soon, really.
Corporations start at 100-500 employees. The smaller operations should be just called companies. There is a big difference in the policies and overall environment between small and big companies. IMHO, a small company is more willing to negotiate with it's employees. And in a 6 persons-company, the HR departement is totally unexistent, so the person who negotiates in the name of the company is the CEO or his wife. Been there, seen that. Now I work in a 50.000+ company, and I know I'll never meet with the CEO or his wife. Not that I miss that;o)
Aside from some reliability issues of this technology, I wonder if it's worth the trouble.
Besides, BeOS boots in about 15 seconds into GUI, even if you previously turned off the PC without shutting down. So, journaled filesystems DO have advantages. Linux may never achieve such high speeds in booting up, but still, I predict that a good JFS will benefit it.
IMHO, IMHO, of course, always IMHO: the hard drive. I know, it's sturdy and small etc. but I always thought as the best feature of MP3 players, the fact that they are truly solid-state.With clever engineering, solid-state can mean much less energy consumption. However, with a hard drive, there is always a certain (rather relevant) amount of consumption that can not be eliminated.
How about Rich Text? Nope, its only marginally better than regular text. No images or tables (last I looked).
Wrong. You can embed pictures in rtf just as you do with.doc. I remember doing that 2 years ago, when I was advising my friends to nOT use.doc in their email attachments, to prevent macro viruses from spreading, and to save bandwidth, as.doc is wasteful, compared to rtf.
I love this distro! I get so much work done with it, and I always know what is happening and where.
I think Slackware is very easy to look "under the hood" of, a very simple distro, and yet very useful.
Unfortunately, I am probably the only Slackware user in Nokia. That sucks.
.....I feel that many are not seeing one of the greatest strenghts that BeOS has, and that Linux would GREATLY benefit of... if BeOS was opensourced, which it won't. This strenght is the fabolous thread management in BeOS. I think there is no OS in the world that makes better use of multiple CPUs. Maybe Solaris, but in Solaris this thread management has a significant overhead, which is not the case with BeOS, at least not something you could easily notice.
Another remark: I was often wondering why do people hoe for BeOS to be opensourced. Yes, it has several technologies that could benefit other opensource projects, but still, why is this question so often on the agenda? Well, I think one reason is also that Be inc., is not really unfriendly to the idea of GPL software (you get the whole set of GNU tools with be, with the sources, of course) and has done some initial steps towards opensourcing parts of the OS.. sort of. I am talking about OpenDeskbar and OpenTracker. They are under a BSD-style license, but so far, only the BeOS community has benefited from and used this source. In any case, there seem to be some (maybe misleading) signals from Be towards the open source community, keeping it over-hopeful. No, I don't mean that that was Be's intention.
I am not implying that there are many Sun bashers at/., but there are some, very vocal ones.
Well, I guess Sun has seen this coming. Not exactly the time and the circumstances, but Sun thought that Corel was too weak to sustain the Linux platform with a viable office suite. Hence, they buy StarOffice, and release it free.
Now, why would Sun help the Linux community so generously? Well, that's not their intent, I presume. Rather, Sun wants to bite MS' ass, as usual. I don't know any other company that is so financially succesful, and so openly against Mickeysoft.
(plus, I really like the fact that Solaris comes with bash. Shows good intent.)
Guess what? If they used the 1.2 GHz Athlon, it would have been faster than the 1.5 GHz P4 at all but the memory test! So, this link doesn't prove anything, it's bad news for Intel, actually, because the SSE2 instructions did NOT help the 1.5 GHz pentium to beat a 1.2 GHz Athlon!
Thanks, I'll use this info to prove my point in other discussions!
I almost agree: Konrad Zuse COULD have been the first, if the Germans had decided to fund his research. But, to be honest, the Z1 is not really a programmable machine, neither was the Z2 or the Z3. The Z1 was actually a purely mechanical device, correct me if I'm wrong.
Nevertheless, Zuse deserves a lot of credit for his work! He was a true hero of the information age. Too bad he was on the wrong side, at that time.
..also known as ABC, constructed in 1942 at Iowa State University. It's such a shame the ENIAC overshadowed this wonderful project. The machine had a precursor of todays Dynamic RAM (used charged capacitances to store digital information).
I hope I'm not too rendundant: I don't agree. One of my issues with Microsoft is that MS is in bed with HW manufacturers, so that they can sell faster and better hardware that Windows requires.
I agree that we do need faster CPUs, but not just because the OS demands it. Linux is the best example and proof: you can add features to the OS; while still being able to install it on your 486.
I myself have two 486 running Slackware, and they do their job amazingly well, just as an Athlon 1 GHz would have done. But I don't want to be forced to buy an Athlon 1 GHz just because someone decided that I don't need my 486 PCs anymore.
As a matter of fact you can not play CDs on a plane, either. The rules are clear: you may use your laptop, but without a CD or a DVD. And you may not liten to CDs.
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Long live the Slackware users, hehehe! No, really, we seem to survive all the stuff that happened to Linux in the last few years. And even though many of the people who started with Slackware have now RedHatted or Sused, there are many from the old school, and it's damn good to meet them, here and there.
Ummmm... do you know what the term "class action suit" means? Obviously not, and obviously the people who modded you up, don't understand that, either.
But whatever, after all this is Slashdot, and trolls abound here.
That's how many italians pronounce it, too, and sure they are white as me.
Subject line tells it all.
Moderators, check your brain! This was one of the trutfullest posts on Slashdot (besides being funny, too) in a long ime. Taco's post was really torn! I actually had some problems understanding which part is his (Taco's) text, and which was the original poster's.
..I think some of the anime stuff out there is real art. I don't like pokemon and such, but when I saw Princess Mononoke, I decided that I will start to research this subject better. Princess Mononoke has been for me an uplifting experience, the best cartoon and most original in terms of animation, character profiling and plot. It does require a certain IQ, but being on Slashdot, I feel I can recommend it with no fear.
So, I recommend it? It's not just hype, Princess Mononoke is really good!
A Java vs. POSIX debate. Don't be silly.
If I wanted to program the Z-80 or the PIX microcontroller, I would maybe use assembler, but soetimes even some sort of BASIC would do. Why, you, "speed freak", ask? Because of the shorter time to market. If the speed achieved is enough, then BASIC will do, even on a Z-80.
Today, however, the CPUs are much more complex, deeply pipelined and use al sorts of code optimization. Assembler is theoretically still the way to produce faster code, but the time required to produce that code is much, much longer. I'd much rather leave the optimization to some compiler to do. But even better, I think a good (Java) interpreter will achieve better (runtime) optimization. This is even more true with multiple CPU systems. Today if I want to design an application that will run rather fast both on an L class HP-UX with 2 or 4 PA RISCs, and a Netra with the same number of CPUs, I will chose Java. Shorter time to market, rather good optimization.POSIX compliance does ot completely save the day, Java serves me much better.
In the end, of course, all depends on what you are doing, and where. Oh, and on -how-, too! I have seen a lot of stupid and a lot of good code. If you use a stupid algorythm, your code will be slow, duh!
Everybody here is considering only multiple video cards, or video + DVD playback. Well, to me this bug is much more serious than that, because it makes the P4 unsuitable for network servers.
Today any high-end network server has at least 2 netcards, for routing and/or rendundancy purposes. Even if you don't want your server connected to two networks, you still want to have it rendundant, so it can continue serve data if one of the cards or cables fails.
I think that a highend server, which you would build with such and expensive and fast CPU, would most likely deserve your attention towards rendundancy/fallback.
Also, I wonder if there are any other PCI bus-mastering related bugs in this chipset. I would not risk putting a Gigabit ethernet card in a P4 anytime soon, really.
Corporations start at 100-500 employees. The smaller operations should be just called companies. There is a big difference in the policies and overall environment between small and big companies. IMHO, a small company is more willing to negotiate with it's employees. And in a 6 persons-company, the HR departement is totally unexistent, so the person who negotiates in the name of the company is the CEO or his wife. Been there, seen that. Now I work in a 50.000+ company, and I know I'll never meet with the CEO or his wife. Not that I miss that ;o)
Aside from some reliability issues of this technology, I wonder if it's worth the trouble.
Besides, BeOS boots in about 15 seconds into GUI, even if you previously turned off the PC without shutting down. So, journaled filesystems DO have advantages. Linux may never achieve such high speeds in booting up, but still, I predict that a good JFS will benefit it.
IMHO, IMHO, of course, always IMHO: the hard drive. I know, it's sturdy and small etc. but I always thought as the best feature of MP3 players, the fact that they are truly solid-state.With clever engineering, solid-state can mean much less energy consumption. However, with a hard drive, there is always a certain (rather relevant) amount of consumption that can not be eliminated.
How about Rich Text? Nope, its only marginally better than regular text. No images or tables (last I looked).
.doc. I remember doing that 2 years ago, when I was advising my friends to nOT use .doc in their email attachments, to prevent macro viruses from spreading, and to save bandwidth, as .doc is wasteful, compared to rtf.
Wrong. You can embed pictures in rtf just as you do with
I love this distro! I get so much work done with it, and I always know what is happening and where.
I think Slackware is very easy to look "under the hood" of, a very simple distro, and yet very useful.
Unfortunately, I am probably the only Slackware user in Nokia. That sucks.
.....I feel that many are not seeing one of the greatest strenghts that BeOS has, and that Linux would GREATLY benefit of... if BeOS was opensourced, which it won't. This strenght is the fabolous thread management in BeOS. I think there is no OS in the world that makes better use of multiple CPUs. Maybe Solaris, but in Solaris this thread management has a significant overhead, which is not the case with BeOS, at least not something you could easily notice.
Another remark: I was often wondering why do people hoe for BeOS to be opensourced. Yes, it has several technologies that could benefit other opensource projects, but still, why is this question so often on the agenda? Well, I think one reason is also that Be inc., is not really unfriendly to the idea of GPL software (you get the whole set of GNU tools with be, with the sources, of course) and has done some initial steps towards opensourcing parts of the OS.. sort of. I am talking about OpenDeskbar and OpenTracker. They are under a BSD-style license, but so far, only the BeOS community has benefited from and used this source. In any case, there seem to be some (maybe misleading) signals from Be towards the open source community, keeping it over-hopeful. No, I don't mean that that was Be's intention.
Timothy, thank you for the stories you choose to post!
I am not implying that there are many Sun bashers at /., but there are some, very vocal ones.
Well, I guess Sun has seen this coming. Not exactly the time and the circumstances, but Sun thought that Corel was too weak to sustain the Linux platform with a viable office suite. Hence, they buy StarOffice, and release it free.
Now, why would Sun help the Linux community so generously? Well, that's not their intent, I presume. Rather, Sun wants to bite MS' ass, as usual. I don't know any other company that is so financially succesful, and so openly against Mickeysoft.
(plus, I really like the fact that Solaris comes with bash. Shows good intent.)
Guess what? If they used the 1.2 GHz Athlon, it would have been faster than the 1.5 GHz P4 at all but the memory test! So, this link doesn't prove anything, it's bad news for Intel, actually, because the SSE2 instructions did NOT help the 1.5 GHz pentium to beat a 1.2 GHz Athlon!
Thanks, I'll use this info to prove my point in other discussions!
How can such a misinformed post get +4? Obviously, misinformed moderators.
But I agree on 1 point: the judge was peeved, very rightfully.
What can I say, I am sad and disappointed. Mirror, mirror, mirror. Thanks.
I have used these resources several times. Even though the stuff on Fourier transforms is a bit basic, it helped me to get up to speed this year.
A real shame to see it go.
I don't mean only the PCB schematic, but the actual wiring.
Does anyone know whether such schematic exists at all somewhere?
Thanks!
..I won't be going through all my shellscripts to edit them and kill off the nslookups. With any luck, they should work.
I almost agree: Konrad Zuse COULD have been the first, if the Germans had decided to fund his research. But, to be honest, the Z1 is not really a programmable machine, neither was the Z2 or the Z3. The Z1 was actually a purely mechanical device, correct me if I'm wrong.
Nevertheless, Zuse deserves a lot of credit for his work! He was a true hero of the information age. Too bad he was on the wrong side, at that time.
..also known as ABC, constructed in 1942 at Iowa State University. It's such a shame the ENIAC overshadowed this wonderful project. The machine had a precursor of todays Dynamic RAM (used charged capacitances to store digital information).
I hope I'm not too rendundant: I don't agree. One of my issues with Microsoft is that MS is in bed with HW manufacturers, so that they can sell faster and better hardware that Windows requires.
I agree that we do need faster CPUs, but not just because the OS demands it. Linux is the best example and proof: you can add features to the OS; while still being able to install it on your 486.
I myself have two 486 running Slackware, and they do their job amazingly well, just as an Athlon 1 GHz would have done. But I don't want to be forced to buy an Athlon 1 GHz just because someone decided that I don't need my 486 PCs anymore.
As a matter of fact you can not play CDs on a plane, either. The rules are clear: you may use your laptop, but without a CD or a DVD. And you may not liten to CDs.