Not necessarily. Certainly you _could_ be lazy and do it that way. But you could equally have the root password indivuidually tailored with each copy of the distro. You know - "root password is on the sticky label inside the front cover of the manual" kind of thing...
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This would imply the drug supplier would have to do the mixing surely...not really in their best interests to get their users arrested...
...they KEEP the standard open once they have it. If they force AOL to open the standard, and then capture the market with their own messenger, and THEN close the standard once more - then everyone loses...
From what I've read, cable modems can go as high as 10Mbs, but you'd never see this in practise. The bandwidth on cable modems is shared by all households on each "hub" - of which there is normally one per street. The more people using the same hub at the same time, the less bandwidth they get. In the UK, Cable & Wireless have been promising cable modems "Real Soon Now" for about two years - and while I'm getting a tad peeved with the wait - the tech specs they posted look pretty impressive. I'm also lucky enough to be in a street with only ten houses on the one hub - so I'm hoping my connection speeds, when I get them, will be pretty good:)
Yeah - and instead of those dashboard Radar detectors, the car would have to come with chaff and flare launchers:) +----------------------+ | GodEater |
...the same deal being offered on the ISP run by Tempo. They not only offer a free ISP, but if you swap your BT phone line for one of theirs, they give you free dial up as well.... +----------------------+ | GodEater |
Too many people on/. enjoy flag waving about linux, and then put their hands over their ears, shouting "La la la" when someone starts pointing out it still has flaws.
I'm rooting (scuse the pun) for linux all the way - but it'd be daft to pretend there's no room for improvement in it.
Of _course_ Microsoft have posted a page pointing out all it's flaws - you don't really think they'd post a page saying where NTS has been beaten do you ?
I suspect there are a great deal of places Linux is gonna wipe the floor with an NTS - but there's still areas for improvement....
I've had experience of this too. The shop I work for isn't really into UNIX development of any flavour, but we do maintain a small solaris box for testing connectivity of our own software. When I needed to compile something on it I had a choice - go get a purchase order approved for the Sun compiler, or get gcc. Tough choice huh ?:) +----------------------+ | GodEater |
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Agreed - I spend most of my time patching up the crap that other "more qualified" developers have hacked together....
It's a complete shambles... +----------------------+ | GodEater |
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I only have a Bachelor's degree, and an extremely poor one at that. I didn't bother going to half the lectures or tutorials on my course - I was too busy actually *doing* things with computers.
I appear to have got pretty lucky when I left college as well. I got a job with a firm who have absolutely no interest in your qualifications - merely your ability. I demonstrated enough knowledge and experience at my four interviews to get the job.
I don't know of any of the people who graduated college with me, most of whom got far better grades than I did - that now earns as much as I do...
So I don't think the MSc or PhD is worth it... +----------------------+ | GodEater |
He may or may not have some valid comments there about why OSS software will succeed or fail.
Who cares?
I don't give a rat's fart whether OSS succeeds or fails in the commercial market. I use it because I like it. Not because everyone else says I should use it.
If businesses decide not to go with OSS software it's their choice, not mine. I'll still stick with Linux.
I think the way the screenshots show it that it should play nice as multi-player. The play area is nice and open, and there's not much clutter to get in the way. I thought Descent was too enclosed to play nicely, this looks refreshingly different.
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Not necessarily.
Certainly you _could_ be lazy and do it that way.
But you could equally have the root password indivuidually tailored with each copy of the distro. You know - "root password is on the sticky label inside the front cover of the manual"
kind of thing...
This would imply the drug supplier would have to do the mixing surely...not really in their best interests to get their users arrested...
:-)
Isn't that the Open Source alternative to all the "big boys" instant messaging software ?
...they KEEP the standard open once they have it. If they force AOL to open the standard, and then capture the market with their own messenger, and THEN close the standard once more - then everyone loses...
From what I've read, cable modems can go as high as 10Mbs, but you'd never see this in practise. The bandwidth on cable modems is shared by all households on each "hub" - of which there is normally one per street. The more people using the same hub at the same time, the less bandwidth they get. In the UK, Cable & Wireless have been promising cable modems "Real Soon Now" for about two years - and while I'm getting a tad peeved with the wait - the tech specs they posted look pretty impressive. I'm also lucky enough to be in a street with only ten houses on the one hub - so I'm hoping my connection speeds, when I get them, will be pretty good :)
Yeah - and instead of those dashboard Radar detectors, the car would have to come with chaff and flare launchers :)
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...the same deal being offered on the ISP run by Tempo. They not only offer a free ISP, but if you swap your BT phone line for one of theirs, they give you free dial up as well....
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I work with both everyday too...
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I have to use NTW for my personal PC - but a few of our servers around the building have had linux squirted onto them...
Guess which ones have the highest uptime? Oh yeah - the cheap 486, with 12MB, and Linux
Linux get's my vote everytime - but I don't want to shout it so loud I forget it's shortcomings...
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Too many people on /. enjoy flag waving about linux, and then put their hands over their ears, shouting "La la la" when someone starts pointing out it still has flaws.
I'm rooting (scuse the pun) for linux all the way - but it'd be daft to pretend there's no room for improvement in it.
Of _course_ Microsoft have posted a page pointing out all it's flaws - you don't really think they'd post a page saying where NTS has been beaten do you ?
I suspect there are a great deal of places Linux is gonna wipe the floor with an NTS - but there's still areas for improvement....
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I've had experience of this too. :)
The shop I work for isn't really into UNIX development of any flavour, but we do maintain a small solaris box for testing connectivity of our own software.
When I needed to compile something on it I had a choice - go get a purchase order approved for the Sun compiler, or get gcc.
Tough choice huh ?
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Agreed - I spend most of my time patching up the crap that other "more qualified" developers have hacked together....
It's a complete shambles...
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I only have a Bachelor's degree, and an extremely poor one at that. I didn't bother going to half the lectures or tutorials on my course - I was too busy actually *doing* things with computers.
I appear to have got pretty lucky when I left college as well. I got a job with a firm who have absolutely no interest in your qualifications - merely your ability. I demonstrated enough knowledge and experience at my four interviews to get the job.
I don't know of any of the people who graduated college with me, most of whom got far better grades than I did - that now earns as much as I do...
So I don't think the MSc or PhD is worth it...
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They HAVE ported to Linux. I posted a story on this yesterday but no one at /. thought it was worth posting.... =)
The link I have is this article
He may or may not have some valid comments there about why OSS software will succeed or fail.
Who cares?
I don't give a rat's fart whether OSS succeeds or fails in the commercial market. I use it because I like it. Not because everyone else says I should use it.
If businesses decide not to go with OSS software it's their choice, not mine. I'll still stick with Linux.
Pigs prepped and ready to fly sir....
I think the way the screenshots show it that it should play nice as multi-player. The play area is nice and open, and there's not much clutter to get in the way.
I thought Descent was too enclosed to play nicely, this looks refreshingly different.