sure there are some good reasons to do this, i can come up with two: 1. playing imports 2. using the ps2 as a media station, just like a lot of those xbox mods will allow you to do.
And there is a good reason for it too! be happy the linux distro's put the home of root in/root and not in plain / like solaris or hpux (and probably a lot of others).
The documentation of MS Windows is sooo much better. Dude, one of the reasons i love linux (or just plain unix) so much is the documentation, it is splendid!
A hard-hitting technology summit showcasing the technology and business solutions of The SCO Group and its Strategic Business Partners. August 17 - 19, 2003 in Las Vegas, NV. (MGM Grand Hotel)
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I'm located in europe, so i will not be able to PROTEST in las vegas, but i ask every american geek to go to las vegas and PROTEST during their 'SCOForum'. Do it, please!
Geeks unite and let your voice be heard! Make this the biggest geek-protest-march ever, unlike the small protest at the SCO offices last month, complaining on/. does _not_ help.
Somebody get a boatload of Knoppix, Debian, etc... cd's over there and hand them out to everybody and there dog! screw their lawsuit, screw sco during their 'forum' with the one thing they're fighting against.
Enough already with this daily ongoing IP-FUD. Time to fight back!
I got this book a few weeks back. This is really a nice book. It does not have a high page count, but still contains a lot of information. Ofcourse this book is not for everybody.
Are you using perl now? You know it well enough to get most of your things done fairly quickly and easily. Typicly you don't write large perl scripts but sure would like to and would like know more perl. then buy this book, it will tell you most of the stuff you're missing. Some people here argue that all the information is in perldoc etc. but this book is never the less nice, if only for the exercises after each chapter.
This is true, we are using RedHat AS/ES etc. but we get our support from HP and not from RH directly. I'm located in EMEA, and although i was happy we were finaly getting some linux action here (about time!) i was surprised we didn't deal with RH directly. I did not get a crystal clear answer and could not contact the ppl in the US directly, but it basicly came down to this:
1. HP support is cheaper 2. HP also provides support for hardware, so we have one contract for SW and HW, easy.
then, i wondered if it made any difference at all, since HP linux support is comming from RH anyway...
Right on, i used to play a lot of games too. At one part in time i got to know the beauty of linux and went linux only. This has been so for over 5 years now. Oh well, we get our regular game, i even have some loki games. but in the meantime i have missed a lot of new games on pc (well, windows) that have been released. Sometimes when i'm at a friends place, i watch them play a new shiny game for a while. Sometimes i get the reply - you sure gave up a lot for running linux, what a dedication! Well, i don't regret it one single minute. The fun i have had learning/using/testing/etc. linux exceeds any game:)
I have found such an install at my place of work. it's my laptop;)
seriously, i am a unix administrator, and w2k is the default operating system in our company. all my other coleagues continue to use w2k. They are always amazed with the flexibility and easy of how i work with all our boxes.
Sure, you could do all this on your windows box, i have been helping some of them to find suitable replacements under windows, but in the end none of them match what linux can do for other unix boxes.
my manager knows too, he did come by one day to take a look at 'how i did things'. he said i could keep my linux install, while others who installed xp were ordered to go back to w2k.
recently i discovered that our the people working in our in house unix dev. department are now mostly switched over to linux too.
regular users however, most of them are clueless, i doubt they will ever take the initiave to install any other os.
hmmm, i wonder if the 1st result of the word 'apple' in ms' search engine, will get me to the site of apple computers. knowing ms you will find apple.com way back at entry 321.415.432, while MS Office for MacOSX might actually show up nr 1 followed by a thousand apple tree dealers:)
lets just hope MS doesn't include a 'i feel lucky' button.
DVD-RAM is a different beast altogether. AFIAK it is not compatible with any dvd-video player, and it's main purpose is to hold 'data' for computers.
DVD-R and DVD-RAM don't have many features, that is the whole point of DVD+R. DVD+R was created because -R lacked some serious features which those consumer DVD-video writer boxes needed.
DVD-R has always been the medium that was seen as the 'standard' and supported by the DVD group.
it happened in belgium. just before or after bill g. went to see the flemish minister. the guy who did it has nothing against bill g., he does it to every famous person he can get his pie on:P (and it could in fact be an italian, that i'm not sure of)
Re:Professional racing *PREVENTS* bike-innovation!
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These bikes are nice, but they are not suited for races. they might be interesting rides for you, your mom and dad, but the only advantage you will get out of it is on a flat road. one big drawback of these things is you cannot 'stand' in your 'pedals' (i have no clue how to say this in english), this prevents you from putting _all_ your power in your wheels. important in two conditions; going uphill (or rather upmountain) and sprinting (not only important at the finish line, but also for escaping the 'peleton'). again you may think, it's okay because you will go faster downhill, but you are wrong and would not recommend going downhill at the same speed with that bike as the cyclists do in competition. lastly, it is impossible to make decent turns with those bikes, the cyclists go really 'deep' sometimes (much like in motosport), i can't see you do that with such a bike.
ps: i think it is the 100th tour and not the 90th.
can't believe they get so worked up over an old game like that (warcraft2), i mean, those must have been released in what; '93? The original (without the networking play) was still a dos game!
i don't know where this is all going to, i'm getting real sick and tired of all this lawyer crap. what is next? close down all the tetris, pacman, breakout, space invaders, civilization... clones?
why don't they 'attack' Lords of Everquest, that is basicly a rip-off of WC3 ! even penny arcade made a joke about it. this game could really have an impact on Blizzards sales, (certainly now they are getting the expansion ready for WC3).
it has been my opinion too that for a system to be successful it needs to have a 'piracy' scene. a lot of people might say that piracy kills platforms, but i believe piracy _makes_ a platform. ofcourse companies will try everything to implement some kind of anti-copy/region-coded scheme into their games/discs but they must surely know at the same time it is only a mather of time before it gets cracked. this can only be battled by going proprietary format like the nintendo-gamecube has done, this will scare away a lot of the youngster who have barely enough money to buy the console and a (top) game now and then, while they copy (pirate) all the others.
So there is a large chunk copied into the linux scheduler source code?
well, it should be easy enough to track all the sources of the kernel/sched.c contributions. the file is not that large...
McNealy shooting his own foot...
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At the end of the article McNealy says the following about linux:
"Yet when talk turns to Linux, it's as if McNealy can't help himself: He knows he should be courting the world's Linux devotees, but instead he pokes fun at them. He points out that Red Hat, the leading purveyor of Linux systems, announced revenue of $24 million for its last quarter of 2002. I don't know where this multibillion-dollar Linux business is."
however, earlier in the article, when discussing SUNs past we get to read this:
"Back in the mid-1980s, when Sun was still a startup, it had neither reputation nor intellectual property, and it faced a murderer's row of competitors. One quarter it even needed to borrow $50 million to make payroll."
yeah well, i suppose a lot of people were laughing at sun at that time too figuring out where 'the money' was. I can't believe how ignorent SUN is towards Linux.
somewhere down in the past, the department next to us was the internal programming team. basicly they did everything in VB. Now at a sudden time, i'm writing this gigantic bourne shell script while one of the VB coders next to us comes over to ask me some stupied question. anyway, he looks at my screen and sees my script and says - wow, you know C ?
just goes to show the world is full of clueless coders...
"Actually is there any proof that it is? Gates sounded very unprofessional and not like himself in the interview, almost like he was attacking the FOCUS interviewer."
I can tell you now it is REAL. a few years back gates was passing through belgium, at that time there was also a one hour interview on TV with the big boss of MS made by a belgian journalist (i believe it was just a few hours before he got his face caked).
anyway, on prime time TV he said exactly the same thing! needless to say i was shocked...
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So SGI puts some code into the kernel with incorrect copyright notices and so SCO sues IBM.
it all makes sense now...
sound like my boss. god, this shouldn't be rated 'funny' at all, i rate this as 'living hell'.
So, all these women are really men pretending to be women... :)
just like Africa!
sure there are some good reasons to do this, i can come up with two:
1. playing imports
2. using the ps2 as a media station, just like a lot of those xbox mods will allow you to do.
And there is a good reason for it too! be happy the linux distro's put the home of root in
The documentation of MS Windows is sooo much better.
Dude, one of the reasons i love linux (or just plain unix) so much is the documentation, it is splendid!
A hard-hitting technology summit showcasing the technology and business solutions of The SCO Group and its Strategic Business Partners. August 17 - 19, 2003 in Las Vegas, NV. (MGM Grand Hotel)
--
I'm located in europe, so i will not be able to PROTEST in las vegas, but i ask every american geek to go to las vegas and PROTEST during their 'SCOForum'. Do it, please!
Geeks unite and let your voice be heard! Make this the biggest geek-protest-march ever, unlike the small protest at the SCO offices last month, complaining on /. does _not_ help.
Somebody get a boatload of Knoppix, Debian, etc... cd's over there and hand them out to everybody and there dog! screw their lawsuit, screw sco during their 'forum' with the one thing they're fighting against.
Enough already with this daily ongoing IP-FUD. Time to fight back!
I got this book a few weeks back. This is really a nice book. It does not have a high page count, but still contains a lot of information. Ofcourse this book is not for everybody.
Are you using perl now? You know it well enough to get most of your things done fairly quickly and easily. Typicly you don't write large perl scripts but sure would like to and would like know more perl. then buy this book, it will tell you most of the stuff you're missing.
Some people here argue that all the information is in perldoc etc. but this book is never the less nice, if only for the exercises after each chapter.
This is true, we are using RedHat AS/ES etc. but we get our support from HP and not from RH directly. I'm located in EMEA, and although i was happy we were finaly getting some linux action here (about time!) i was surprised we didn't deal with RH directly. I did not get a crystal clear answer and could not contact the ppl in the US directly, but it basicly came down to this:
1. HP support is cheaper
2. HP also provides support for hardware, so we have one contract for SW and HW, easy.
then, i wondered if it made any difference at all, since HP linux support is comming from RH anyway...
Right on, i used to play a lot of games too. At one part in time i got to know the beauty of linux and went linux only. This has been so for over 5 years now. :)
Oh well, we get our regular game, i even have some loki games. but in the meantime i have missed a lot of new games on pc (well, windows) that have been released. Sometimes when i'm at a friends place, i watch them play a new shiny game for a while. Sometimes i get the reply - you sure gave up a lot for running linux, what a dedication!
Well, i don't regret it one single minute. The fun i have had learning/using/testing/etc. linux exceeds any game
I have found such an install at my place of work. it's my laptop ;)
seriously, i am a unix administrator, and w2k is the default operating system in our company. all my other coleagues continue to use w2k. They are always amazed with the flexibility and easy of how i work with all our boxes.
Sure, you could do all this on your windows box, i have been helping some of them to find suitable replacements under windows, but in the end none of them match what linux can do for other unix boxes.
my manager knows too, he did come by one day to take a look at 'how i did things'. he said i could keep my linux install, while others who installed xp were ordered to go back to w2k.
recently i discovered that our the people working in our in house unix dev. department are now mostly switched over to linux too.
regular users however, most of them are clueless, i doubt they will ever take the initiave to install any other os.
hmmm, i wonder if the 1st result of the word 'apple' in ms' search engine, will get me to the site of apple computers. :)
knowing ms you will find apple.com way back at entry 321.415.432, while MS Office for MacOSX might actually show up nr 1 followed by a thousand apple tree dealers
lets just hope MS doesn't include a 'i feel lucky' button.
DVD-RAM is a different beast altogether. AFIAK it is not compatible with any dvd-video player, and it's main purpose is to hold 'data' for computers.
DVD-R and DVD-RAM don't have many features, that is the whole point of DVD+R. DVD+R was created because -R lacked some serious features which those consumer DVD-video writer boxes needed.
DVD-R has always been the medium that was seen as the 'standard' and supported by the DVD group.
it happened in belgium. just before or after bill g. went to see the flemish minister. :P (and it could in fact be an italian, that i'm not sure of)
the guy who did it has nothing against bill g., he does it to every famous person he can get his pie on
These bikes are nice, but they are not suited for races. they might be interesting rides for you, your mom and dad, but the only advantage you will get out of it is on a flat road.
one big drawback of these things is you cannot 'stand' in your 'pedals' (i have no clue how to say this in english), this prevents you from putting _all_ your power in your wheels. important in two conditions; going uphill (or rather upmountain) and sprinting (not only important at the finish line, but also for escaping the 'peleton').
again you may think, it's okay because you will go faster downhill, but you are wrong and would not recommend going downhill at the same speed with that bike as the cyclists do in competition.
lastly, it is impossible to make decent turns with those bikes, the cyclists go really 'deep' sometimes (much like in motosport), i can't see you do that with such a bike.
ps: i think it is the 100th tour and not the 90th.
can't believe they get so worked up over an old game like that (warcraft2), i mean, those must have been released in what; '93? The original (without the networking play) was still a dos game! i don't know where this is all going to, i'm getting real sick and tired of all this lawyer crap. what is next? close down all the tetris, pacman, breakout, space invaders, civilization ... clones?
why don't they 'attack' Lords of Everquest, that is basicly a rip-off of WC3 ! even penny arcade made a joke about it. this game could really have an impact on Blizzards sales, (certainly now they are getting the expansion ready for WC3).
it has been my opinion too that for a system to be successful it needs to have a 'piracy' scene.
a lot of people might say that piracy kills platforms, but i believe piracy _makes_ a platform.
ofcourse companies will try everything to implement some kind of anti-copy/region-coded scheme into their games/discs but they must surely know at the same time it is only a mather of time before it gets cracked. this can only be battled by going proprietary format like the nintendo-gamecube has done, this will scare away a lot of the youngster who have barely enough money to buy the console and a (top) game now and then, while they copy (pirate) all the others.
ps: i'm not pro-piracy, although i'm pro-modchip.
So there is a large chunk copied into the linux scheduler source code?
well, it should be easy enough to track all the sources of the kernel/sched.c contributions. the file is not that large...
At the end of the article McNealy says the following about linux:
"Yet when talk turns to Linux, it's as if McNealy can't help himself: He knows he should be courting the world's Linux devotees, but instead he pokes fun at them. He points out that Red Hat, the leading purveyor of Linux systems, announced revenue of $24 million for its last quarter of 2002. I don't know where this multibillion-dollar Linux business is."
however, earlier in the article, when discussing SUNs past we get to read this:
"Back in the mid-1980s, when Sun was still a startup, it had neither reputation nor intellectual property, and it faced a murderer's row of competitors. One quarter it even needed to borrow $50 million to make payroll."
yeah well, i suppose a lot of people were laughing at sun at that time too figuring out where 'the money' was. I can't believe how ignorent SUN is towards Linux.
hmmm, perhaps this is the reason why pda's and tablet pc's are not selling that well?
customer: "what? i have to _write_ instead of _type_!? take that crap somewhere else!"
Besides the mentioning of Linus in the article, SCO is claiming Linux is using their 'cluster technology'.
"clustering technologies in Linux that are used to tie groups of computers together to complete heavy-duty tasks."
So first we have source code from SCO in the kernel, then it is SYSV, some time later in 'unix' commands and now beowulf.
makes you wonder what we will have stolen from SCO by tomorrow...
'pieces of eight' ? i always thought it was something lucasarts invented for monkey island !
True story once again;
somewhere down in the past, the department next to us was the internal programming team. basicly they did everything in VB.
Now at a sudden time, i'm writing this gigantic bourne shell script while one of the VB coders next to us comes over to ask me some stupied question. anyway, he looks at my screen and sees my script and says - wow, you know C ?
just goes to show the world is full of clueless coders...
"Actually is there any proof that it is? Gates sounded very unprofessional and not like himself in the interview, almost like he was attacking the FOCUS interviewer."
I can tell you now it is REAL. a few years back gates was passing through belgium, at that time there was also a one hour interview on TV with the big boss of MS made by a belgian journalist (i believe it was just a few hours before he got his face caked).
anyway, on prime time TV he said exactly the same thing! needless to say i was shocked...