HPUX, Linux, Unix, BSD, IRIX, Solaris... they all have their reasons, their histories, their strengths, their weaknesses, their lack of support
And their Linux kernel personalities.
Lets face it. Linux is the new unix standard. Most all Unixes are developing linux compatability (can you think of an important one that isn't?). Remember how POSIX was supposed to unite Unix-land? In the end I think it just gave companies an excuse to differentiate and proprietize while still maintaining the moniker of "Unix" or "Posix". With a free, fully functional refernce model that is skyrocketing its market share (linux), the unix manufacturers have no choice now but to be interoperable. Whether HP decides to use the real Linux refernce model (more likely on higher volume, lower cost models) or their flagship HP-UX brand of Linux(personality) is somewhat of a red herring. Linux should be the synergistic glue that brings together HP and Compaq's disperate software platforms. (which I gather was the the point of the article.)
That is wrong. If I buy this software package, I am being licensed a good portion of it under the GPL, which means I can request the source code for any software package in the distribution. However, if you did NOT buy the software, you have no rights to request the source from HP. Someone else bought the software from HP has every right to offer it to you (all non-proprietary parts).
Hahha. I dont even remember your post. It was probably inane. You are funny. Hey, I hate microsoft (the corperation). So sue me. I assume your post was technically correct. That is what you're driving at. But spiritually I took issue with it. I think C#, along with D (the successor to C and C++), and other vapid technologies shouldn't be called development environments. Technically I suspose they could be. So we both win. happy? Yeesh
Actually, linux desktop share will continue to grow exponentially and overtake windows and Mac os in the nearer-than-forcasted future.
By 2005, as the prescient Linus Torvalds divined, Linux will have all the functionality of windows, all of the core apps, and all of the pretty interface quirks. Linus has never been wrong before so this is now assumed as fact.
6 months after this point of, shall we say, "Singularity", linux will own 10% of the desktop market. IBM is already replacing AIX with linux, windows shouldn't be too far off.
Now this is the moment where exciting things start to happen. In 2007 Linux will own 45% of the market, and will have 60% more features and applications than windows. This is the point at which game developers are releasing for linux at an equal level as their windows releases. Now the linux growth is unstoppable.
By 2010, the date you gave arbitrarily as the end of this decade, linux will have 95% of the market. Windows will only be used to service legacy file formats that businesses still rely on. Bill Gates will go to the far east and become a shaman monk, donating $30 billion to His Holiness the Dali Lama's orginzation. Steve Ballmer will be the focus of Chimpanzee/Human genetic similarity experiments, and will be treated with extra-special care, given ropes and monkey bars to play around on. The rest of the employees at redmond will get real jobs doing something useful for humanity.
It's not that WIMP has made people dumber in an absolute sense, it's that they are dumber than they would have been had they used command line and applied basic computing concepts to every-day work.
When I learned to program in pascal on Macintoshes in highschool I wasn't learning anything general and universal. Only Macintosh quirks and semantics. The wonderful thing about programming Unix in C is that you learn what a computer really does underneath, and this knowledge can translate fairly easily to the windows and mac WIMP framework, especially if you learn C++ along the way. The reverse is not true, sadly. Visual studio does not a good programmer make. If you think computer applications are buggy and unstable now, fear the day when 90% of programmers know only visual studio.
I didn't assume you were a mindless syncophant. Cut me a little slack buddy. I have no idea who you are. Cant handle a little hyperbole? Maybe you shouldn't be here.
It's pretty simple. "Hooks" refer to API linkage. Not mindshare... At least on the planet I come from. Heh. I get your drift tho. Nice chatting with ya.
My microsoft fury isn't blind. It has been educated by 7-8 years of corperate abuse. When they change their ways maybe I'll cut them some slack. Declaring a vacuous development environment open and submitting it to ecma looks good on the surface but doesn't prove anything. At best it's a way to kill java with a monopoly-backed, but oh-so open, standard. At worst it's a bait and switch to get everyone on.NET, then woops we're all paying an MS tax on all our important transactions.
I may appear quixotic, but I think a good deal of skepticism is neded to battle this C#/.NET love-in. It's just plain unhealthy.
yeah... all that wonderful code development being done in C#... yeesh. You guys are already bent over to microsoft, and they haven't even asked it of you yet!
That's funny, I dont need Sun licensed software or IP to compile this here java program with GCJ. True I dont know of any unencumbered virtual machines, but last I heard, GNU was working on a reverse engineered one (them not even being able to look at SUN's java headers for fear of conamination). *checks gnu pages for java activity*
obviously if you're running java on a server or a database you're gonna want one of the beastly VMs from IBM or SUN.
It is still automation. Of course humans are still writing the software, they are just doing it for free. Kind of like how robots dont go on strike or demand wages. Free software also takes advantage of the automation of replication. I can copy my piece of software and give it to a million people. I cant do that with windows software, or other proprietary systems.
This form of automation is the basis for the entire digital age. Microsoft takes advantage of it, but doesn't pass that advantage onto the customer. Only pirates get replication automation. Dont get left behind. Dont work for companies that license software as-is, with no responsability. Use freesoftware and pay for service contracts and insurance. Much wiser, I think. Plus the strange twist (paradoxical?) that freesoftware is usually more robust and stable than proprietary.
The future is away from proprietary commodities in software. There will always be proprietary specialty software, I grant that, but operating systems, web servers, web browsers, music players, on down the line, are all simple commodities and should be free, or cost a small sum (say your computer retail would charge to bundle them with your system). I'm glad I have staked my mental future on proprietary API's (win32 for most of y'all). I am free from manipulation, or so I think.
Every progression in the level of automation in our lives is always accompanied by fear and uncertainy among the people the automation replaces. Automation always increases the standard of living of the average american, and drives up productivity. True some people lose jobs, but it's usually for the better. I think it's a good thing we dont have to hire people to draw out schematics for production facilities anymore (replaced by CAD/CAM tools).
So if you are living off of proprietary software lock-in in a product that has equivalents that exist for free with no strings attatched, then I think it's better for humanity that you find another line of work in the same field (software development). You may not be making as much money, but so will the rest of humanity not be paying as much money to keep your counter-productive enterprise going.
You can not easily kill X when xlock is running. It disables all "Zap" functionality, Cntrl-Alt-Backspace. The only way to kill it is to log in as root or the user and manually kill X (or type in the X lock password and then "Zap" it).
"Fudge Packer" is a funny and innovate name for a queer person. It is highly suggestive, and should be used with care. Also, its humorous value should not be diluted with over use.
Most open source luminaries (Torvalds, Perens, Redhat) disagree, and think that linux has more than a fighting chance on its own. That said, it wouldn't hurt to have a nice breakup (Preferably into 3 or more pieces. the 2 piece breakup is a sham, really).
Shh.. Pleeease dont give the RIAA any ideas. They already 0wn the congress and the presidency, mainly because it's not an issue with average americans, and the congressmen sure dont mind the extra money. The answer to all this DMCA stuff is to make it a popular issue, because as of right now it isn't, therefore your local congressman will gladly take money to create laws that dont effect his candidacy.
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HPUX, Linux, Unix, BSD, IRIX, Solaris ... they all have their reasons, their histories, their strengths, their weaknesses, their lack of support
And their Linux kernel personalities.
Lets face it. Linux is the new unix standard. Most all Unixes are developing linux compatability (can you think of an important one that isn't?). Remember how POSIX was supposed to unite Unix-land? In the end I think it just gave companies an excuse to differentiate and proprietize while still maintaining the moniker of "Unix" or "Posix". With a free, fully functional refernce model that is skyrocketing its market share (linux), the unix manufacturers have no choice now but to be interoperable. Whether HP decides to use the real Linux refernce model (more likely on higher volume, lower cost models) or their flagship HP-UX brand of Linux(personality) is somewhat of a red herring. Linux should be the synergistic glue that brings together HP and Compaq's disperate software platforms. (which I gather was the the point of the article.)
Er, uh, point of clarification:
I wrote:
I am being licensed a good portion of it under the GPL, which means I can request the source code for any software package in the distribution.
I meant: which means I can request the source code for any software package in the distribution that happens to be GPL.
or even WHICH software...
That is wrong. If I buy this software package, I am being licensed a good portion of it under the GPL, which means I can request the source code for any software package in the distribution. However, if you did NOT buy the software, you have no rights to request the source from HP. Someone else bought the software from HP has every right to offer it to you (all non-proprietary parts).
Hahha. I dont even remember your post. It was probably inane. You are funny. Hey, I hate microsoft (the corperation). So sue me. I assume your post was technically correct. That is what you're driving at. But spiritually I took issue with it. I think C#, along with D (the successor to C and C++), and other vapid technologies shouldn't be called development environments. Technically I suspose they could be. So we both win. happy? Yeesh
Actually, linux desktop share will continue to grow exponentially and overtake windows and Mac os in the nearer-than-forcasted future.
By 2005, as the prescient Linus Torvalds divined, Linux will have all the functionality of windows, all of the core apps, and all of the pretty interface quirks. Linus has never been wrong before so this is now assumed as fact.
6 months after this point of, shall we say, "Singularity", linux will own 10% of the desktop market. IBM is already replacing AIX with linux, windows shouldn't be too far off.
Now this is the moment where exciting things start to happen. In 2007 Linux will own 45% of the market, and will have 60% more features and applications than windows. This is the point at which game developers are releasing for linux at an equal level as their windows releases. Now the linux growth is unstoppable.
By 2010, the date you gave arbitrarily as the end of this decade, linux will have 95% of the market. Windows will only be used to service legacy file formats that businesses still rely on. Bill Gates will go to the far east and become a shaman monk, donating $30 billion to His Holiness the Dali Lama's orginzation. Steve Ballmer will be the focus of Chimpanzee/Human genetic similarity experiments, and will be treated with extra-special care, given ropes and monkey bars to play around on. The rest of the employees at redmond will get real jobs doing something useful for humanity.
It's not that WIMP has made people dumber in an absolute sense, it's that they are dumber than they would have been had they used command line and applied basic computing concepts to every-day work.
When I learned to program in pascal on Macintoshes in highschool I wasn't learning anything general and universal. Only Macintosh quirks and semantics. The wonderful thing about programming Unix in C is that you learn what a computer really does underneath, and this knowledge can translate fairly easily to the windows and mac WIMP framework, especially if you learn C++ along the way. The reverse is not true, sadly. Visual studio does not a good programmer make. If you think computer applications are buggy and unstable now, fear the day when 90% of programmers know only visual studio.
I didn't assume you were a mindless syncophant. Cut me a little slack buddy. I have no idea who you are. Cant handle a little hyperbole? Maybe you shouldn't be here.
It's pretty simple. "Hooks" refer to API linkage. Not mindshare... At least on the planet I come from. Heh. I get your drift tho. Nice chatting with ya.
My microsoft fury isn't blind. It has been educated by 7-8 years of corperate abuse. When they change their ways maybe I'll cut them some slack. Declaring a vacuous development environment open and submitting it to ecma looks good on the surface but doesn't prove anything. At best it's a way to kill java with a monopoly-backed, but oh-so open, standard. At worst it's a bait and switch to get everyone on .NET, then woops we're all paying an MS tax on all our important transactions.
I may appear quixotic, but I think a good deal of skepticism is neded to battle this C#/.NET love-in. It's just plain unhealthy.
yeah... all that wonderful code development being done in C#... yeesh. You guys are already bent over to microsoft, and they haven't even asked it of you yet!
How could C# have its place in the SE field? It doesn't even exist yet in any capable form.
Java is Sun's?
That's funny, I dont need Sun licensed software or IP to compile this here java program with GCJ. True I dont know of any unencumbered virtual machines, but last I heard, GNU was working on a reverse engineered one (them not even being able to look at SUN's java headers for fear of conamination). *checks gnu pages for java activity*
obviously if you're running java on a server or a database you're gonna want one of the beastly VMs from IBM or SUN.
Besides MS has to make room for default hooks needed by .Net so it only makes sense that they jettisoned Java.
Hahahahha. You're not very familiar with computer science are you? Because what you said makes absolutely no sense.
Duh. 2.0 was really stable and 2.1 was being heavily worked on. Graph 2.1 in there and you'd get probably 50 or more kernels for that year.
It is still automation. Of course humans are still writing the software, they are just doing it for free. Kind of like how robots dont go on strike or demand wages. Free software also takes advantage of the automation of replication. I can copy my piece of software and give it to a million people. I cant do that with windows software, or other proprietary systems.
This form of automation is the basis for the entire digital age. Microsoft takes advantage of it, but doesn't pass that advantage onto the customer. Only pirates get replication automation. Dont get left behind. Dont work for companies that license software as-is, with no responsability. Use freesoftware and pay for service contracts and insurance. Much wiser, I think. Plus the strange twist (paradoxical?) that freesoftware is usually more robust and stable than proprietary.
The future is away from proprietary commodities in software. There will always be proprietary specialty software, I grant that, but operating systems, web servers, web browsers, music players, on down the line, are all simple commodities and should be free, or cost a small sum (say your computer retail would charge to bundle them with your system). I'm glad I have staked my mental future on proprietary API's (win32 for most of y'all). I am free from manipulation, or so I think.
Every progression in the level of automation in our lives is always accompanied by fear and uncertainy among the people the automation replaces. Automation always increases the standard of living of the average american, and drives up productivity. True some people lose jobs, but it's usually for the better. I think it's a good thing we dont have to hire people to draw out schematics for production facilities anymore (replaced by CAD/CAM tools).
So if you are living off of proprietary software lock-in in a product that has equivalents that exist for free with no strings attatched, then I think it's better for humanity that you find another line of work in the same field (software development). You may not be making as much money, but so will the rest of humanity not be paying as much money to keep your counter-productive enterprise going.
Ahhhhhhh.... so THAT'S how microsoft is increasing its IIS share on netcraft.com. Interesting :)
Or better - the techies should become the bosses. Internet execs are notoriously stupid. They shouldn't last too much longer.
That was a pretty gay script
.wav files.
Here's a better one that doesn't produce intermediate
bash:/home/mp3$ for i in *.mp3 ; do mpg123 "$i" - | oggenc - -o `echo "$i" | sed -e s/mp3/ogg/`; rm "$i";done
I dunno what kind of crack rock you were smoking when you learned bash, but that's ok. We were all dumb bash users at one point.
You can not easily kill X when xlock is running. It disables all "Zap" functionality, Cntrl-Alt-Backspace. The only way to kill it is to log in as root or the user and manually kill X (or type in the X lock password and then "Zap" it).
"Fudge Packer" is a funny and innovate name for a queer person. It is highly suggestive, and should be used with care. Also, its humorous value should not be diluted with over use.
Most open source luminaries (Torvalds, Perens, Redhat) disagree, and think that linux has more than a fighting chance on its own. That said, it wouldn't hurt to have a nice breakup (Preferably into 3 or more pieces. the 2 piece breakup is a sham, really).
Yes the VM is fix0red up. 2.4.5 was an abberation. 2.4.6 was great. and 2.4.7 is even better.
But as soon as you discard scientific rigor you are no longer a mathematician. You are a numerologist.
:)
Or an idiot opinion writer on the web
Shh.. Pleeease dont give the RIAA any ideas. They already 0wn the congress and the presidency, mainly because it's not an issue with average americans, and the congressmen sure dont mind the extra money. The answer to all this DMCA stuff is to make it a popular issue, because as of right now it isn't, therefore your local congressman will gladly take money to create laws that dont effect his candidacy.