Do NOT exercise daily, especially not off the bat. Build yourself up to 3-4 times a week. Walking is great. Not too much though, and not too much too quick. Abs are definitely a good idea as you mentioned. It is one of the first things you will hear when you see a therapist.
Your spine is definitely not weakest when it is straight, and more importantly, your spine is never straight. Leaning is fine, in fact some of the age old techniques for relieving pain have to do with various spine bending contortions. Lifting is not bad when you're leaning, its bad when you're using your back at all, straight, leaning, whatever. It is next to impossible, but even when you're lifting a pencil, bend your knees and lift your legs. You should never bend your back with your legs straight for any reason, this is a piece most common cause of herniated discs.
Re your back exercise - bad bad bad! With lower back pain, twisting is a bad thing. Don't do it. Really. Don't.
As far as seeing a doctor, you shouldn't go just because you get back pain. Back problems are very over diagnosed. You should go when the back pain stays for 10 or more days. Over 90% of all back injuries heal themselves in a week. You should also try modifying your lifestyle before you see a doctor. If the pain is not traveling down the leg or affecting any of your cognative functions, there is no hurry to see a doctor. Often, you will not even be able to get referred to a specialist without these symptoms unless the pain has become chronic (more than a few months).
Some of the other posts I've read, such as the Alexander Technique, seem to be decent starting points. If you feel the problem is coming from work, the problem is likely curable by modifying that work. A doctor is going to charge you money, tell you to take a few aspirin, and call in a month. I'd recommend reading some lower back pain management books that are out there. Borders and Barnes+Noble have piles of books dealing with it, and judging by some of the advice given here, I'd have at reading them. No one knows the symptoms but you, and none of us here are doctors:)
The first thing you need to do is decide what is causing the back pain. I have two arthritic discs (in otherwords, they basically don't do anything useful to the function of my back), scoliosis (the spine is not curved quite the way it is supposed to be, no big deal here), and slight spinal stenosis (the canal the spinal nerves travel down narrows, pinching the spinal cord, the caudal nerves, or the root nerves that branch off). The surgical option is ugly, so I've been going through the gamut of back pain relievers to find an answer. Physical therapy didn't do much good, steiroid epidurals helped a little, going to try accupuncture, etc. Before you decide to go about fixing lower back pain you need to know the source. If the source is fatigue, exercise and a good chair is the answer, as well as modifying your day so you get some regular breaks in the action. As far as what chair is a good chair, people have been debating it for years. Every neurologist I've asked who I've had confidence in has consistently said whatever works best for you. There are some great stores like HealthyBack that actually let you take a chair for 60 days to try out and return if it doesn't work, so you can go from chair to chair until you find the one that works best. I like the Aeron chairs, but don't we all. They're expensive, but cheaper than back surgery because you didn't take care of it. If you don't think your problems are from work for whatever reason, you should see a doctor. Don't walk, run. If pain goes down your leg, that's signs of a more severe problem (not necessarily bad or anything to be concerned about, but something that should NOT go untreated/undiagnosed). Back pain is definitely something worth paying attention to. Unchecked, it gets worse. Guaranteed. It may be tough to make the changes necessary to make it go away, but you will undoubtedly save time and headache in the long run.
This reminds me of the new math program that was going to revolutionize the way math was taught in our country and eventually the world, by starting from the bottom up instead of the top down. It worked great until 10 years down the road when it became apparent that the students (a.k.a. victims) couldn't add, multiply, subtract, or count!
As sad as it is, you have two options. You can choose to finish your project, or choose to stay with your company. By finishing your project and working for the client, the company will invariably sue you for either stealing ideas or working on your project on company time and therefore claim ownership over the IP. Yes, it sounds ridiculous, and yes, it happens frequently. Companies are like universities, they're very quick to usurp any ideas they can, and they WILL do so if you release yours under this premise. My suggestion would be to quit your job, unless its especially near and dear to you, and continue with your project. If nothing else, consult with a lawyer. My guess is that thousands of people on here will tell you to continue down both paths and screw that big bad corporation, but just remember: they're big bad corporations. For a few hundred bucks, you can get a lawyer's ear for a while, and that may save you a lot of headache.
Now I have to say-- a Microsoft fan I'm not. But, I do use Outlook 2000--in fact I love it. I have no problem admitting a Microsoft product is good. In fact (and I don't want to start a subthread of raging debate on this), there's nothing like it for Linux. You can do it all with a few packages combined, but for me (and again, this is MY opinion and I'm not citing any shortcomings of linux), I prefer the integration (Go evolution!!)
My complaint with Chris's article is this--I've been using Outlook 2000 to talk to people for almost a year now. I've never once had a Linux user complain, and I've even read my mailing list postings from my Linux machine in Netscape before. Never even a bit of weird trailing garbage. In fact, even when I send html mail (shudder), it still is kind enough to tag along a text copy for the less-html inclined. After reading this article, I TRIED to make my mail unreadable to see if he accidentally flipped an option. Couldn't.
This in mind, I feel it fair that Chris Di Bono should either justify his complaint or suck up his pride and appologize to Microsoft. I don't like them any more than the next guy, but there's plenty of things they do viciously wrong. Let's not get them on one of the few things they do okey. We don't need to do that to win the battle.
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Reading through the posts here, I see more criticisms of this article than praises. Did everyone read the article? Or was the first paragraph and every subsequent negative thing read? He's exactly right, he hit it dead on the nail. Our freedoms are being swept out from our feet every day and those who even realize this can't make a coherent movement to stop it. The best we can do is scream and accuse and flame and make stupid posts like virtually every one to this story so far.
We do need a lesson... a lesson in putting on your game face and getting results. Bitching and moaning is going to get you ignored, or worse, targetted. Exactly as the suck article says, we need to play their game. Whether you like it or not, bite the bullet, face reality, and deal with it. The rest of the world deals with it every day, or at least the part that isn't having its freedoms stripped away...
I have to agree with Microsoft. It's not a backdoor, vulnerability or hack. It's a password blank by default. You installed SQL Server, then you configured it. To do this, you logged in as sa with no password. You probably access SQL Server from your code using the sa account. Call me silly, but when does personal responsibility factor into this?
Redhat came with pirahna. You didn't ask for it (sort of kind of... it wasn't always clear you were getting it unless you were looking for it). To set it up, you did not need to use the default account. This is almost sneaky to the typical administrator that doesn't screen and evaluate EVERY SINGLE package that redhat installs by default (what is the count now? hundreds?).
I want to clarify my position--I don't fault redhat and I don't praise microsoft. They were two different scenarios and the media made 2 different reactions. I think that reacting at all to the Microsoft case is a waste because administrators who didn't fix this deserve what they get. The type of admin who doesn't do that leaves millions of other even less subtle holes elsewhere. That admin needs to learn to be more careful, and the hard way seems to be the only reality check.
On redhat's side, I'm sort of glad the media erupted. Yeah, it was a bit of a crucifiction that redhat didn't deserve, but I bet a lot of people who wouldn't have learned about the problem did from the frenzy.
It is very relevant for you to consider SPAM. A lot of mail servers refuse to accept mail from dynamic ips because of the fact that they are often the source of bulk emailers. This isn't true of all, or most, mail servers, but it is true of a pretty notable chunk of them and therefore I would not want to be in such a situation. Instead, I'd personally buy an account with some web hosting company where you have a couple POP accounts for mail, maybe even web. For low traffic, it's cheap and it's temporary anyway, probably more sanity-preserving than dealing with a dynamic situation.
It's long been known, at least in the group of programmers that I associate with, that the best coding is done at the 2AM time. I've read tons of different studies throughout the years, one even in Popular Science, claiming that there is a reason for this. Basically, your instinctual skills kick in and you rely more on that than your "reasoned" judgement. Also, your brain activity is significantly higher (blood flow, brain waves, etc) at these times.
Why? Traditionally, it is attributed to our carnivorous nature (anyone who claims humans are vegetarians has clearly not researched this well enough, only even in the last few thousand years have humans become omnivorous). Humans still contain the basic animal instinct to hunt. Hunting was best done at night obviously for the surprise effect (which unfortunately works both ways!), and hence a few hundred thousand years of evolution later and we are better coders at night.
Of course, sleep deprivation is counterproductive, what I mentioned rather refers to working late. When I'm working on big projects I tend to get into the habit of working late and sleeping late. I can't count the number of times that working through being exhausted has resulted in bad code, regardless of time. If I'm tired at noon, I write crap at noon. I think the true mark of a coder is to dynamically alter your sleep cycles between "human" mode where you sleep at night and week up in the morning, and "machine" mode where you sleep in the morning and wake up in the afternoon.
I think the survey was taking a more narrow slice of this, not quite what the submitter had in mind. Still interesting and provacative though. Remember, if its ambiguity raises too many eyebrows, a clarification will probably follow.
I'm sad to see no mention of this yet--the Reiser filesystem offers exponentially better performance (I've done some nonofficial benchmarking to back up their claims) and more importantly offers journaling. As far as disk integrity goes, a journaling file system (unless it REALLY sucks) is unaffected by crashes because every change is journaled. Therefore the need for disk repair tools, etc is negligible (though there are a few maintenance tools). In high performance situations, Reiser is almost the no-brainer choice as far as FS on linux go (though at the moment you cant directly boot from reiser, you can make everything but your little/boot partition reiser by hand. People are working on a more elegant solution I'm told). But aside from that, it's also a pretty sound decision for the typical server to use. Stable, lightning fast and reliable...
Unfortunately I've experienced that quality DC driving. Even rain is enough to send them spiraling into the center wall, shutting down 16 lanes of "traffic" aka hellspawn.
I forget the name of it too. It's interesting that this year, it's been remarkably hard to remember who the hell made some of these commercials. For example, I remember the Bud, ETrade and Microstrategy ones, but the rest, I can't pin the name to the face.
Funny commercials, but a waste of a few million if you can't even remember who made it. I think a lot of geek humor pervaded through, which isn't entirely horrible, but I'll be the first to admit--I'm not an advertising agency. I could make a few hundred million people laugh, but that sure doesn't mean I could make them remember my name. That's where the true trained profession comes into play. Maybe next year,.com's will have tv advertising fine tuned.
For some unknown reason, he agreed to it. He's on an interview with Diane Sawyer (everyone's favorite... snore...). I think it's tomorrow.
Definite agreement on ETrade. I definitely cried from laughing so hard. The Budweiser commercial where the dog leaped into the side of the van was hysterical too. It'd be a close tie between those two.
I think that it is commonly overlooked, but important to realize that some CDRoms dont seem to like being on their side. Go ahead and take yuour favorite mid tower case and slam it down on it's side and put a CD in. It's challenging:)
The solution of course is to get some form of a caddy based CDRom drive, which as far as my past experience goes, is somewhat more expensive than your standard $50 grade cdrom.
Keep in mind that rack mounts are designed with this inline--they're designed like your traditional desktop case (whatever happened to them?!) so the CDRom will sit in its natural position. Little things like this start popping up when you try and save a buck or two. Make sure that harddrive isn't upside down either, it'll wear out quick:)
I think it is worth noting that when you trademark something, your trademark only applies to whatever type of business you do. For example, it is perfectly legal for a company named "RedHat" that sells hats. I'm sure there are tons in fact. It is NOT, however, okay to have a company called say RedHatt that sells a Linux distribution.
It is not illegal to have a site like "aboutredhat.com" *provided* you are not providing competition or consumer confusion via the use of the trademark. So, you really dont need Linus's approval to use coollinuxsite.com or whatever domains they may have been trying to sell. You just need to follow a specific set of guidelines.
On the other hand though, it is illegal to sell or exploit something trademarked for the purpose of direct material gain. In other words, making money off the word "Linux." Linus is right in doing this to protect the name of Linux. It's good for Linux, it's good for the trademark issue in general. But that doesn't mean that Linus is cutting on on people's rights. He's just being his normal fatherly protective self.
Unquestionably, PHP has grown by leaps and bounds with the impending release of PHP4 and the overall quality of PHP3. Now being used on over 1 million websites (based on Netcraft's results), it is slowly becoming the Internet's newest and greatest buzzword.
It's pretty simple. If you expect to get something you have to give something. To gain a little insight, it often costs a little privacy. If iD didn't have 100% of the graphics card information it would be impossible for them to gleen valueable information. They could be collecting the exact wrong 70% or whatever percent of people voluntarily submit. They could be missing the ones with problems.
Your video card being sent isn't a violation of your privacy. Maybe of your video card's, but not of yours. Your social security number or credit card of yearly income isn't sent. The police won't be banging on your door with a search warrant because of what iD stole from you. Absolutely nothing will come of it, even if iD wanted to--they couldn't do ANYTHING against you with a video card. Trust me! It's true... really! No, really!
You might just get a better game because of it too.
iD has done it all. You've pioneered the gaming industry for 10 years and showed time and time again just what iD can do. My question--for the company who's done it all, what's next? q3arena throws you into a virtual reality so real and tangible that it is unbelievable. I won't be foolish enough to say that can't be outdone, obviously it can be and will be, but will you, or will you move on to some other feature of gaming now like more intelligent AI's, etc...
They're all more or less linux advocates... Hook in fact, as mentioned, worked for SGI for some years. Not quite Linux, but a unix experience at that. Zoid and DDT are just the only ones who are well versed in Linux. Maybe we'll see Verant soon...
You can't put free's in like candy. Taking out free's is generally bad but adding extra ones is much worse...
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Try a system with 256 meg of ram. It leaks all over the place... even over 128 meg, it's a known problem that only 2.1/2.2 fixes.
There are also quite a few networking bugs that were worked out for the never-quite-released 2.0.37 that are in 2.2... really, staying back on 2.0.36 because it does everything you need is fine, but so is staying with 1.2... a good lot of people can make their lives a lot easier with 2.2 and I'm surely one of them:)
2.2 is a stable kernel, not a "bleeding edge" kernel. They're very stable...
In fact, I consider them more stable than 2.0 systems in many way... better, more dependable memory management is just the first of these improvements.
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Do NOT exercise daily, especially not off the bat. Build yourself up to 3-4 times a week. Walking is great. Not too much though, and not too much too quick. Abs are definitely a good idea as you mentioned. It is one of the first things you will hear when you see a therapist.
Your spine is definitely not weakest when it is straight, and more importantly, your spine is never straight. Leaning is fine, in fact some of the age old techniques for relieving pain have to do with various spine bending contortions. Lifting is not bad when you're leaning, its bad when you're using your back at all, straight, leaning, whatever. It is next to impossible, but even when you're lifting a pencil, bend your knees and lift your legs. You should never bend your back with your legs straight for any reason, this is a piece most common cause of herniated discs.
Re your back exercise - bad bad bad! With lower back pain, twisting is a bad thing. Don't do it. Really. Don't.
As far as seeing a doctor, you shouldn't go just because you get back pain. Back problems are very over diagnosed. You should go when the back pain stays for 10 or more days. Over 90% of all back injuries heal themselves in a week. You should also try modifying your lifestyle before you see a doctor. If the pain is not traveling down the leg or affecting any of your cognative functions, there is no hurry to see a doctor. Often, you will not even be able to get referred to a specialist without these symptoms unless the pain has become chronic (more than a few months).
Some of the other posts I've read, such as the Alexander Technique, seem to be decent starting points. If you feel the problem is coming from work, the problem is likely curable by modifying that work. A doctor is going to charge you money, tell you to take a few aspirin, and call in a month. I'd recommend reading some lower back pain management books that are out there. Borders and Barnes+Noble have piles of books dealing with it, and judging by some of the advice given here, I'd have at reading them. No one knows the symptoms but you, and none of us here are doctors
The first thing you need to do is decide what is causing the back pain. I have two arthritic discs (in otherwords, they basically don't do anything useful to the function of my back), scoliosis (the spine is not curved quite the way it is supposed to be, no big deal here), and slight spinal stenosis (the canal the spinal nerves travel down narrows, pinching the spinal cord, the caudal nerves, or the root nerves that branch off). The surgical option is ugly, so I've been going through the gamut of back pain relievers to find an answer. Physical therapy didn't do much good, steiroid epidurals helped a little, going to try accupuncture, etc. Before you decide to go about fixing lower back pain you need to know the source. If the source is fatigue, exercise and a good chair is the answer, as well as modifying your day so you get some regular breaks in the action. As far as what chair is a good chair, people have been debating it for years. Every neurologist I've asked who I've had confidence in has consistently said whatever works best for you. There are some great stores like HealthyBack that actually let you take a chair for 60 days to try out and return if it doesn't work, so you can go from chair to chair until you find the one that works best. I like the Aeron chairs, but don't we all. They're expensive, but cheaper than back surgery because you didn't take care of it. If you don't think your problems are from work for whatever reason, you should see a doctor. Don't walk, run. If pain goes down your leg, that's signs of a more severe problem (not necessarily bad or anything to be concerned about, but something that should NOT go untreated/undiagnosed). Back pain is definitely something worth paying attention to. Unchecked, it gets worse. Guaranteed. It may be tough to make the changes necessary to make it go away, but you will undoubtedly save time and headache in the long run.
This reminds me of the new math program that was going to revolutionize the way math was taught in our country and eventually the world, by starting from the bottom up instead of the top down. It worked great until 10 years down the road when it became apparent that the students (a.k.a. victims) couldn't add, multiply, subtract, or count!
As sad as it is, you have two options. You can choose to finish your project, or choose to stay with your company. By finishing your project and working for the client, the company will invariably sue you for either stealing ideas or working on your project on company time and therefore claim ownership over the IP. Yes, it sounds ridiculous, and yes, it happens frequently. Companies are like universities, they're very quick to usurp any ideas they can, and they WILL do so if you release yours under this premise. My suggestion would be to quit your job, unless its especially near and dear to you, and continue with your project. If nothing else, consult with a lawyer. My guess is that thousands of people on here will tell you to continue down both paths and screw that big bad corporation, but just remember: they're big bad corporations. For a few hundred bucks, you can get a lawyer's ear for a while, and that may save you a lot of headache.
Now I have to say-- a Microsoft fan I'm not. But, I do use Outlook 2000--in fact I love it. I have no problem admitting a Microsoft product is good. In fact (and I don't want to start a subthread of raging debate on this), there's nothing like it for Linux. You can do it all with a few packages combined, but for me (and again, this is MY opinion and I'm not citing any shortcomings of linux), I prefer the integration (Go evolution!!)
My complaint with Chris's article is this--I've been using Outlook 2000 to talk to people for almost a year now. I've never once had a Linux user complain, and I've even read my mailing list postings from my Linux machine in Netscape before. Never even a bit of weird trailing garbage. In fact, even when I send html mail (shudder), it still is kind enough to tag along a text copy for the less-html inclined. After reading this article, I TRIED to make my mail unreadable to see if he accidentally flipped an option. Couldn't.
This in mind, I feel it fair that Chris Di Bono should either justify his complaint or suck up his pride and appologize to Microsoft. I don't like them any more than the next guy, but there's plenty of things they do viciously wrong. Let's not get them on one of the few things they do okey. We don't need to do that to win the battle.
Reading through the posts here, I see more criticisms of this article than praises. Did everyone read the article? Or was the first paragraph and every subsequent negative thing read? He's exactly right, he hit it dead on the nail. Our freedoms are being swept out from our feet every day and those who even realize this can't make a coherent movement to stop it. The best we can do is scream and accuse and flame and make stupid posts like virtually every one to this story so far.
We do need a lesson... a lesson in putting on your game face and getting results. Bitching and moaning is going to get you ignored, or worse, targetted. Exactly as the suck article says, we need to play their game. Whether you like it or not, bite the bullet, face reality, and deal with it. The rest of the world deals with it every day, or at least the part that isn't having its freedoms stripped away...
I have to agree with Microsoft. It's not a backdoor, vulnerability or hack. It's a password blank by default. You installed SQL Server, then you configured it. To do this, you logged in as sa with no password. You probably access SQL Server from your code using the sa account. Call me silly, but when does personal responsibility factor into this?
Redhat came with pirahna. You didn't ask for it (sort of kind of... it wasn't always clear you were getting it unless you were looking for it). To set it up, you did not need to use the default account. This is almost sneaky to the typical administrator that doesn't screen and evaluate EVERY SINGLE package that redhat installs by default (what is the count now? hundreds?).
I want to clarify my position--I don't fault redhat and I don't praise microsoft. They were two different scenarios and the media made 2 different reactions. I think that reacting at all to the Microsoft case is a waste because administrators who didn't fix this deserve what they get. The type of admin who doesn't do that leaves millions of other even less subtle holes elsewhere. That admin needs to learn to be more careful, and the hard way seems to be the only reality check.
On redhat's side, I'm sort of glad the media erupted. Yeah, it was a bit of a crucifiction that redhat didn't deserve, but I bet a lot of people who wouldn't have learned about the problem did from the frenzy.
They already don't service non-dell-installed os/software/hardware :)
It is very relevant for you to consider SPAM. A lot of mail servers refuse to accept mail from dynamic ips because of the fact that they are often the source of bulk emailers. This isn't true of all, or most, mail servers, but it is true of a pretty notable chunk of them and therefore I would not want to be in such a situation. Instead, I'd personally buy an account with some web hosting company where you have a couple POP accounts for mail, maybe even web. For low traffic, it's cheap and it's temporary anyway, probably more sanity-preserving than dealing with a dynamic situation.
It's long been known, at least in the group of programmers that I associate with, that the best coding is done at the 2AM time. I've read tons of different studies throughout the years, one even in Popular Science, claiming that there is a reason for this. Basically, your instinctual skills kick in and you rely more on that than your "reasoned" judgement. Also, your brain activity is significantly higher (blood flow, brain waves, etc) at these times.
Why? Traditionally, it is attributed to our carnivorous nature (anyone who claims humans are vegetarians has clearly not researched this well enough, only even in the last few thousand years have humans become omnivorous). Humans still contain the basic animal instinct to hunt. Hunting was best done at night obviously for the surprise effect (which unfortunately works both ways!), and hence a few hundred thousand years of evolution later and we are better coders at night.
Of course, sleep deprivation is counterproductive, what I mentioned rather refers to working late. When I'm working on big projects I tend to get into the habit of working late and sleeping late. I can't count the number of times that working through being exhausted has resulted in bad code, regardless of time. If I'm tired at noon, I write crap at noon. I think the true mark of a coder is to dynamically alter your sleep cycles between "human" mode where you sleep at night and week up in the morning, and "machine" mode where you sleep in the morning and wake up in the afternoon.
I think the survey was taking a more narrow slice of this, not quite what the submitter had in mind. Still interesting and provacative though. Remember, if its ambiguity raises too many eyebrows, a clarification will probably follow.
I'm sad to see no mention of this yet--the Reiser filesystem offers exponentially better performance (I've done some nonofficial benchmarking to back up their claims) and more importantly offers journaling. As far as disk integrity goes, a journaling file system (unless it REALLY sucks) is unaffected by crashes because every change is journaled. Therefore the need for disk repair tools, etc is negligible (though there are a few maintenance tools). In high performance situations, Reiser is almost the no-brainer choice as far as FS on linux go (though at the moment you cant directly boot from reiser, you can make everything but your little /boot partition reiser by hand. People are working on a more elegant solution I'm told). But aside from that, it's also a pretty sound decision for the typical server to use. Stable, lightning fast and reliable...
It is, I consult for them :)
Unfortunately I've experienced that quality DC driving. Even rain is enough to send them spiraling into the center wall, shutting down 16 lanes of "traffic" aka hellspawn.
.com's will have tv advertising fine tuned.
I forget the name of it too. It's interesting that this year, it's been remarkably hard to remember who the hell made some of these commercials. For example, I remember the Bud, ETrade and Microstrategy ones, but the rest, I can't pin the name to the face.
Funny commercials, but a waste of a few million if you can't even remember who made it. I think a lot of geek humor pervaded through, which isn't entirely horrible, but I'll be the first to admit--I'm not an advertising agency. I could make a few hundred million people laugh, but that sure doesn't mean I could make them remember my name. That's where the true trained profession comes into play. Maybe next year,
For some unknown reason, he agreed to it. He's on an interview with Diane Sawyer (everyone's favorite... snore...). I think it's tomorrow.
Definite agreement on ETrade. I definitely cried from laughing so hard. The Budweiser commercial where the dog leaped into the side of the van was hysterical too. It'd be a close tie between those two.
I think that it is commonly overlooked, but important to realize that some CDRoms dont seem to like being on their side. Go ahead and take yuour favorite mid tower case and slam it down on it's side and put a CD in. It's challenging :)
:)
The solution of course is to get some form of a caddy based CDRom drive, which as far as my past experience goes, is somewhat more expensive than your standard $50 grade cdrom.
Keep in mind that rack mounts are designed with this inline--they're designed like your traditional desktop case (whatever happened to them?!) so the CDRom will sit in its natural position. Little things like this start popping up when you try and save a buck or two. Make sure that harddrive isn't upside down either, it'll wear out quick
I think it is worth noting that when you trademark something, your trademark only applies to whatever type of business you do. For example, it is perfectly legal for a company named "RedHat" that sells hats. I'm sure there are tons in fact. It is NOT, however, okay to have a company called say RedHatt that sells a Linux distribution.
It is not illegal to have a site like "aboutredhat.com" *provided* you are not providing competition or consumer confusion via the use of the trademark. So, you really dont need Linus's approval to use coollinuxsite.com or whatever domains they may have been trying to sell. You just need to follow a specific set of guidelines.
On the other hand though, it is illegal to sell or exploit something trademarked for the purpose of direct material gain. In other words, making money off the word "Linux." Linus is right in doing this to protect the name of Linux. It's good for Linux, it's good for the trademark issue in general. But that doesn't mean that Linus is cutting on on people's rights. He's just being his normal fatherly protective self.
Unquestionably, PHP has grown by leaps and bounds with the impending release of PHP4 and the overall quality of PHP3. Now being used on over 1 million websites (based on Netcraft's results), it is slowly becoming the Internet's newest and greatest buzzword.
It's pretty simple. If you expect to get something you have to give something. To gain a little insight, it often costs a little privacy. If iD didn't have 100% of the graphics card information it would be impossible for them to gleen valueable information. They could be collecting the exact wrong 70% or whatever percent of people voluntarily submit. They could be missing the ones with problems.
Your video card being sent isn't a violation of your privacy. Maybe of your video card's, but not of yours. Your social security number or credit card of yearly income isn't sent. The police won't be banging on your door with a search warrant because of what iD stole from you. Absolutely nothing will come of it, even if iD wanted to--they couldn't do ANYTHING against you with a video card. Trust me! It's true... really! No, really!
You might just get a better game because of it too.
iD has done it all. You've pioneered the gaming industry for 10 years and showed time and time again just what iD can do. My question--for the company who's done it all, what's next? q3arena throws you into a virtual reality so real and tangible that it is unbelievable. I won't be foolish enough to say that can't be outdone, obviously it can be and will be, but will you, or will you move on to some other feature of gaming now like more intelligent AI's, etc...
I downloaded this a few days after RH4.0 came out. That emploeyd the new 2.0.11 kernel if I remember right. You do the math :)
It's really an incredibly advanced and intuitive system, but it's just too expensive for me.
So many things that you use every day and take for granted use QNX in the background. It is one of the world leaders in embedded systems.
He most certainly did! It was digital too, the size of a small room. He also invented a big adding machine. Give him some credit!
They're all more or less linux advocates... Hook in fact, as mentioned, worked for SGI for some years. Not quite Linux, but a unix experience at that. Zoid and DDT are just the only ones who are well versed in Linux. Maybe we'll see Verant soon...
You can't put free's in like candy. Taking out free's is generally bad but adding extra ones is much worse...
Try a system with 256 meg of ram. It leaks all over the place... even over 128 meg, it's a known problem that only 2.1/2.2 fixes.
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There are also quite a few networking bugs that were worked out for the never-quite-released 2.0.37 that are in 2.2... really, staying back on 2.0.36 because it does everything you need is fine, but so is staying with 1.2... a good lot of people can make their lives a lot easier with 2.2 and I'm surely one of them
2.2 is a stable kernel, not a "bleeding edge" kernel. They're very stable...
In fact, I consider them more stable than 2.0 systems in many way... better, more dependable memory management is just the first of these improvements.