And I'm sure both of the people who still own computers made by a company that went defunct nearly 9 years ago very much appreciate the NetBSD developers' efforts.
Not everyone is a news junkie and not everyone is going to remember who Bill Ayers is, as the last time he was a regular topic of discussion in the proess in October of last year, nearly 4 months ago. Theodp was simply trying to remind the reader of who Bill Ayers and why he was noteworthy in the news.
Having worked with a small non-profit in this regard, I agree with you. Education can't be fixed with broad brush strokes -- it can only be fixed at the local level, one community at a time and one school at a time. It starts with analyzing the education requirements in the community. Throwing money at a problem doesn't fix anything: You have to have a real, sustainable plan that's customized to the community's needs.
The biggest part of the problem isn't money, it's people. It's finding and attracting the kinds of talented and committed people it takes to build or improve a school to world-class levels. As it stands now, you have too many administrators and teachers wayyy too worried about not 'rocking the boat.'
Education improvement starts and ends at the community level. Once people see that, and not merely pay lip service to it, then we can begin to improve things.
Apparently not C|Net, ZDNet and Wired, who all have been writing articles and posturing about this for like three or four days now. They'd all written it off.
But if you've been paying attention to Google's strategy, then it's an obvious next step.
Slowly by surely Google is taking its best shot at making the operating system irrelevant. Microsoft sees that and that is why they've been preoccupied with Google. (So "duh" to all you people going "Why is Microsoft so preoccupied with Google?")
Google is your friend. Yes, I can blame the posters. If you don't know what something is, we have technology for that. It's called a freakin' search engine.
Though I don't think MS writes very good software, I we're past the days of needing to reboot to change your IP address.
Maybe not the IP address, but definitely the hostname. For the uninitiated, changing a hostname on XP or Vista:
Open the System Properties control panel either through Start | Settings | Control Panel, or by right clicking on 'My Computer', or by hitting the Win+Break shortcut key.
Click the 'Change' button.
If a domain, you'll be prompted for credentials, otherwise skip to the next step
Dialog box display "You must restart your computer..." Click 'Ok' and the computer reboots
Changing the hostname on Linux or almost any other *nix:
$ sudo hostname new hostname
That's it.
So I guess that means we get to keep the reboot jokes.
Agreed. I've know people who work in experimental physics labs. Some of them code. And the use of open source software is quite a bit more than one might think. Check out this guy's blog. He regularly hacks together interesting scripts in Python, for instance.
Slashdot Mirror
Yes, but can you run it on your Acorn ? Hah !
And I'm sure both of the people who still own computers made by a company that went defunct nearly 9 years ago very much appreciate the NetBSD developers' efforts.
No it doesn't. It makes theodp look bad.
It doesn't even do that.
Not everyone is a news junkie and not everyone is going to remember who Bill Ayers is, as the last time he was a regular topic of discussion in the proess in October of last year, nearly 4 months ago. Theodp was simply trying to remind the reader of who Bill Ayers and why he was noteworthy in the news.
Having worked with a small non-profit in this regard, I agree with you. Education can't be fixed with broad brush strokes -- it can only be fixed at the local level, one community at a time and one school at a time. It starts with analyzing the education requirements in the community. Throwing money at a problem doesn't fix anything: You have to have a real, sustainable plan that's customized to the community's needs.
The biggest part of the problem isn't money, it's people. It's finding and attracting the kinds of talented and committed people it takes to build or improve a school to world-class levels. As it stands now, you have too many administrators and teachers wayyy too worried about not 'rocking the boat.'
Education improvement starts and ends at the community level. Once people see that, and not merely pay lip service to it, then we can begin to improve things.
Saying that evolution is false is a lot like saying that optimization is false
But optimization is, by default, false unless you specify the -O option.
Me too! I learned such things as:
Of course, the "article" didn't really provide much to talk about.
It's NetBSD. It's 100% Hype Free!
They don't believe in hype. Hence, for the 'article', you get nothing more than "We released 5.0 RC1".
You apparently haven't seen "Charmed". ;) Hey! Why are you all looking at me like that? Alyssa Milano is hot!!
What do you mean "what?"
Indeed, Kontact is cool. (Or would that be kool? ;) But that's because it uses KParts, which is, in and of itself, cool.
People who implement new KDE filemanagers because Konqueror "does too much" just don't get it. It's a modular design.
What's nightmarish about OpenLDAP, Kerberos and Samba? I run this combination on my home LAN. Couldn't be easier.
Hey, that would be gram-mar na-zi's to YOU, pal!
Where's the "post to an FTP site and let the world mirror it" option? Linus will feel left out!
Apparently not C|Net, ZDNet and Wired, who all have been writing articles and posturing about this for like three or four days now. They'd all written it off.
But if you've been paying attention to Google's strategy, then it's an obvious next step.
Slowly by surely Google is taking its best shot at making the operating system irrelevant. Microsoft sees that and that is why they've been preoccupied with Google. (So "duh" to all you people going "Why is Microsoft so preoccupied with Google?")
use SOLR for indexing a few million documents....SOLR does it in less than 1 second no matter what, and actually scales
Nice. Yeah, I'd definitely say that's worth a 5 million bucks.
They typically wouldn't. Python bindings for C or C++ libraries are usually nothing more than pointers to the correct shared library calls.
Google is your friend. Yes, I can blame the posters. If you don't know what something is, we have technology for that. It's called a freakin' search engine.
No. It's a search engine for your website. It's not quite as simple as a SELECT query. Lucene is a high-performance, full-featured text search engine library written entirely in Java. It is a technology suitable for nearly any application that requires full-text search, especially cross-platform.. That does quite a bit more than a SELECT query could hope to do.
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Strange how running LimeWire on Linux doesn't cause any of that.
Though I don't think MS writes very good software, I we're past the days of needing to reboot to change your IP address.
Maybe not the IP address, but definitely the hostname. For the uninitiated, changing a hostname on XP or Vista:
Changing the hostname on Linux or almost any other *nix:
$ sudo hostname new hostname
That's it.
So I guess that means we get to keep the reboot jokes.
Agreed. I've know people who work in experimental physics labs. Some of them code. And the use of open source software is quite a bit more than one might think. Check out this guy's blog. He regularly hacks together interesting scripts in Python, for instance.
Hell I'm still using Mandriva 7
I can see where your negative opinion of Linux comes from.
But the WTFs are usually reserved for the followup where I set fire to my head.
Which won't actually hurt since there's only one photon in the universe anyway.
Where is ESR and his guns when you need 'em?
In Soviet Russia, polonium 210 gets you. (said without a trace of irony)