Again, "apt-get install ". It handles all dependencies. And if you are GUI inclined, use Synaptic. It lets you search by keywords, so you don't have to know the package name. And it's just a front end for apt, so it handles deps too.
You do realize that NASA came up with the Beowulf cluster, right? Primarily the work of Donald Becker; the same guy that wrote a lot of the Linux network card drivers.
Part of the problem (from what I remember) is that Apple and Sorenson keep playing "Ask your mother" when anyone asks about a Linux port. i.e. Apple says "Well, we'd need Sorenson's permission because of their codec." and then Sorenson says "Well, you'll have to ask Apple. It's their program." But as other people have noted, you can get by using the quicktime plugins for Xine, MPlayer, or VLC. (although I might be wrong about VLC. I haven't tried playing QT movies with it)
Apple hired a bunch of Be engineers when the company went out of business and the assets were sold to Palm. And amongst the people they hired is Dominic Giampaolo, designer of the Be File System. Now Mac OS and HFS+ are getting things like journaling and Query like features. It's quite nice. Apple seems to be getting the best of several worlds by buying NeXT and hiring lots of former Be people and Jordan Hubbard from FreeBSD.
And don't forget that BeOS had replicants, which were also along the same lines. (And according to the Be developers it took about 100 lines of code and about a day to write the replicant code in the OS, while Active Directory was thousands upon thousands of lines of code and took over a year.)
Also, it looks a lot like gdesklets and superkaramba. I think this is a pretty common idea these days.
They also build "meta-RPMs" with 0 bytes, that have dependencies for other RPMs that contains files. This way, for example, you type "rpm -i task-kernel" and install all the RPMs necessary for kernel building. Debian also has metapackages like that. For example, you can "apt-get install kernel-build" and get all the appropriate packages for building the kernel. Quite a nice idea indeed.
Are you confused as to what a Pascal string is? I don't think they literally mean there is some pascal code, just that the string starts with a byte that tells you the length of the string (e.g. "3cat") instead of the C string which ends with a '\0' byte. (e.g. "cat\0") Pascal strings are generally considered to be safer than C strings as they are harder to walk off the end of.
Yes, I know Outlook is terrible, but that's not the actual Windows OS, nor does it need to be installed.
It's Outlook Express that is awful. From what I understand the most recent version of Outlook isn't too bad. However, Outlook Express is installed and next to impossible to remove. If you delete it, Windows automatically reinstalls it. Threre is a trick to getting it actually deleted, but from what I remember it is way beyond a normal end user.
I'm almost sure it's compiled natively on Linux using GCJ.
Only on Redhat as far as I know. This month's Linux Journal had an article about it. They had to make some changes to GCJ that couldn't be checked into the main tree to do so.
We also have the constitutionally provided right to not be tried twice for the same crime, or "double jeopardy". I guess what I don't understand is the legal or moral reasons why we allow these types of civil cases at all. To me, "not being tried twice" is a pretty simple concept. It sure is different from "we'll try you once, and if that doesn't work try you again in a second court that by the way has a lesser standard of guilt."
No person shall be held to answer for a capital, or otherwise infamous crime, unless on a presentment or indictment of a grand jury, except in cases arising in the land or naval forces, or in the militia, when in actual service in time of war or public danger; nor shall any person be subject for the same offense to be twice put in jeopardy of life or limb; nor shall be compelled in any criminal case to be a witness against himself, nor be deprived of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor shall private property be taken for public use, without just compensation.
He was not "twice put in jeopardy of life or limb". It says nothing about civil trials.
X is a different beast than the Windows GUI. You can't change resolutions on the fly and have your desktop resize to it like in Windows.
Uh, yes you can. XFree86 >= 4.3.0 and the X.org server both have the RandR extension that allows you to do so. Gnome and KDE both have applets that let you do it.
Then it's finally proved or disproved that William Shakespeare didn't write his plays. Do we fire a lot of English professors?
I think that's pretty much a nonsequitor. Who authored the plays attributed to Shakespeare has no bearing on the literary quality of the works. If it turned out that Kit Marlowe wrote Hamlet it would still be a good play. To revoke a PhD in literature you'd have to prove that the person's thesis was in some way fraululent, just like this physicist.
I know it sounds obtuse if you don't know much about how OS's work, but really "Segmentation Fault" is a descriptive error message. It's telling you the program tried to access memory outside its segment which is a fault. Microsoft's "General Protection Fault" is the same thing, but a bit more verbose with the memory stuff it prints with it. I guess the Unix mindset assumes you'll hook a debugger up to find the problem, and the Windows mindset is that you could read the numbers off to phone support if you had to. I dunno.
But on the other hand I see why your post got moderated "Funny". End users shouldn't have to learn all about how OS's handle memory protection to understand the errors. On the gripping hand, what would be a good error message for that?
Well, the way it's worked to now at least is that there are three pricepoints: $299, $399, $499. Currently they are 15GB, 20GB, 40GB. I think last time around they were 10GB, 15GB, and 20GB. So, basically they keep the price the same and shift keep growing the size. Next round could be maybe 20GB, 40GB, 60GB.
It's really a matter of taste. One of the first things I did when I got my permanent Solaris account at OSU was to ditch CDE (which either makes me want to cry or puke; I can't decide) in favor of Blackbox. Personally I'm happy with any GUI that gives me sloppy focus and lets me have control over what window is on top. I can make Sawfish or Metacity do it in Gnome (though Metacity makes it a pain with its damn hidden Gconf prefs) and whatever KDE's windowmanager is called can do it. I seem to remember Windowmaker being fine. BeOS never pissed me off. Really, the only two GUIs that drive me up the wall are Windows and CDE. But, to each their own.
Some colleges already have this. Ohio State certainly does. We have a "View Grades" thing we can look at any time on the osu.edu webpage. You can also look at your grades for any other quarter you attended. As soon as the profs enter your grade it shows up. I've had grades appear within a day of the final, and all grades have to be turned in within a week or less of finals.
I guess you have smarter drivers where you live. I've seen plenty of cars sit out in the intersection at a red light until someone comes up behind and stops in the right place. I don't think people pay enough attention to how things work to notice that there's a correlation between stopping at the stop bar and getting a green light.
Are you familiar at all with GNUstep? It's another implementation of the NeXTStep (I'm sure I got the caps all wrong there.) framework. They're keeping up with Apple's Cocoa pretty well. I think they've even made some headway on the ObjectiveC++ part..NET is far more vendor locked in so far. Mono has to do parts of the.NET framework with Wine.
hmmm. I just installed with the new debian installer today, and what kernel do I have? "Linux rei 2.4.24-1-686 #1 Wed Feb 18 21:59:13 EST 2004 i686 GNU/Linux" And X? "XFree86 Version 4.2.1.1 (Debian 4.2.1-12.1 20031003005825" Granted that in the 2.4 series they're up to 2.4.25, and 2.6.3 is out, but those are also both available and pretty damn painless to upgrade to. And, yeah, some distros have XFree86 4.3 (including unstable) but it's not like 4.2 is ancient.
They do put something like kudzu. It's called discover. (yes, the link is to progeny, but the new debian installer uses it too.)
Personally, I think that kudzu is a bit smarter than discover, which hung my Dell Inspiron laptop when probing the PCMCIA controller, whereas when I tried Knoppix kudzu knew what address ranges to skip. But discover worked just fine for my girlfriend's laptop and on the desktop system I just built.
I don't know if Sedna does or not, but remember that the formula doesn't alway work. Jupiter's gravity fouled it up between Mars and itself, and where there should be a planet we have the astroid belt. And the astroid belt has gaps at points where there would be certain resonances with Jupiter's orbit. But at how far out Sedna is there probably aren't many gravity effects like that. It's pretty much a plutino or Kuiper belt object.
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Cute as I think the little buggers are, ferrets are a kind of weasel. As are skunks and otters.
Again, "apt-get install ". It handles all dependencies. And if you are GUI inclined, use Synaptic. It lets you search by keywords, so you don't have to know the package name. And it's just a front end for apt, so it handles deps too.
Don't forget blogs.msdn.com where a lot of MS developers have blogs.
You do realize that NASA came up with the Beowulf cluster, right? Primarily the work of Donald Becker; the same guy that wrote a lot of the Linux network card drivers.
Part of the problem (from what I remember) is that Apple and Sorenson keep playing "Ask your mother" when anyone asks about a Linux port. i.e. Apple says "Well, we'd need Sorenson's permission because of their codec." and then Sorenson says "Well, you'll have to ask Apple. It's their program."
But as other people have noted, you can get by using the quicktime plugins for Xine, MPlayer, or VLC. (although I might be wrong about VLC. I haven't tried playing QT movies with it)
Apple hired a bunch of Be engineers when the company went out of business and the assets were sold to Palm. And amongst the people they hired is Dominic Giampaolo, designer of the Be File System. Now Mac OS and HFS+ are getting things like journaling and Query like features. It's quite nice. Apple seems to be getting the best of several worlds by buying NeXT and hiring lots of former Be people and Jordan Hubbard from FreeBSD.
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And don't forget that BeOS had replicants, which were also along the same lines. (And according to the Be developers it took about 100 lines of code and about a day to write the replicant code in the OS, while Active Directory was thousands upon thousands of lines of code and took over a year.)
Also, it looks a lot like gdesklets and superkaramba. I think this is a pretty common idea these days.
They also build "meta-RPMs" with 0 bytes, that have dependencies for other RPMs that contains files. This way, for example, you type "rpm -i task-kernel" and install all the RPMs necessary for kernel building.
Debian also has metapackages like that. For example, you can "apt-get install kernel-build" and get all the appropriate packages for building the kernel. Quite a nice idea indeed.
Are you confused as to what a Pascal string is? I don't think they literally mean there is some pascal code, just that the string starts with a byte that tells you the length of the string (e.g. "3cat") instead of the C string which ends with a '\0' byte. (e.g. "cat\0") Pascal strings are generally considered to be safer than C strings as they are harder to walk off the end of.
Yes, I know Outlook is terrible, but that's not the actual Windows OS, nor does it need to be installed.
It's Outlook Express that is awful. From what I understand the most recent version of Outlook isn't too bad. However, Outlook Express is installed and next to impossible to remove. If you delete it, Windows automatically reinstalls it. Threre is a trick to getting it actually deleted, but from what I remember it is way beyond a normal end user.
I'm almost sure it's compiled natively on Linux using GCJ.
Only on Redhat as far as I know. This month's Linux Journal had an article about it. They had to make some changes to GCJ that couldn't be checked into the main tree to do so.
We also have the constitutionally provided right to not be tried twice for the same crime, or "double jeopardy". I guess what I don't understand is the legal or moral reasons why we allow these types of civil cases at all. To me, "not being tried twice" is a pretty simple concept. It sure is different from "we'll try you once, and if that doesn't work try you again in a second court that by the way has a lesser standard of guilt."
Read the actual amendment.
(From Cornell's US Constitution page)
Amendment V
No person shall be held to answer for a capital, or otherwise infamous crime, unless on a presentment or indictment of a grand jury, except in cases arising in the land or naval forces, or in the militia, when in actual service in time of war or public danger; nor shall any person be subject for the same offense to be twice put in jeopardy of life or limb; nor shall be compelled in any criminal case to be a witness against himself, nor be deprived of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor shall private property be taken for public use, without just compensation.
He was not "twice put in jeopardy of life or limb". It says nothing about civil trials.
X is a different beast than the Windows GUI. You can't change resolutions on the fly and have your desktop resize to it like in Windows.
Uh, yes you can. XFree86 >= 4.3.0 and the X.org server both have the RandR extension that allows you to do so. Gnome and KDE both have applets that let you do it.
Then it's finally proved or disproved that William Shakespeare didn't write his plays. Do we fire a lot of English professors?
I think that's pretty much a nonsequitor. Who authored the plays attributed to Shakespeare has no bearing on the literary quality of the works. If it turned out that Kit Marlowe wrote Hamlet it would still be a good play. To revoke a PhD in literature you'd have to prove that the person's thesis was in some way fraululent, just like this physicist.
I know it sounds obtuse if you don't know much about how OS's work, but really "Segmentation Fault" is a descriptive error message. It's telling you the program tried to access memory outside its segment which is a fault. Microsoft's "General Protection Fault" is the same thing, but a bit more verbose with the memory stuff it prints with it. I guess the Unix mindset assumes you'll hook a debugger up to find the problem, and the Windows mindset is that you could read the numbers off to phone support if you had to. I dunno.
But on the other hand I see why your post got moderated "Funny". End users shouldn't have to learn all about how OS's handle memory protection to understand the errors. On the gripping hand, what would be a good error message for that?
Well, the way it's worked to now at least is that there are three pricepoints: $299, $399, $499. Currently they are 15GB, 20GB, 40GB. I think last time around they were 10GB, 15GB, and 20GB. So, basically they keep the price the same and shift keep growing the size. Next round could be maybe 20GB, 40GB, 60GB.
It's really a matter of taste. One of the first things I did when I got my permanent Solaris account at OSU was to ditch CDE (which either makes me want to cry or puke; I can't decide) in favor of Blackbox. Personally I'm happy with any GUI that gives me sloppy focus and lets me have control over what window is on top. I can make Sawfish or Metacity do it in Gnome (though Metacity makes it a pain with its damn hidden Gconf prefs) and whatever KDE's windowmanager is called can do it. I seem to remember Windowmaker being fine. BeOS never pissed me off. Really, the only two GUIs that drive me up the wall are Windows and CDE. But, to each their own.
Some colleges already have this. Ohio State certainly does. We have a "View Grades" thing we can look at any time on the osu.edu webpage. You can also look at your grades for any other quarter you attended. As soon as the profs enter your grade it shows up. I've had grades appear within a day of the final, and all grades have to be turned in within a week or less of finals.
Well, Caldera is now SCO, so I really doubt you're going to see a Caldera story that isn't a SCO story.
I guess you have smarter drivers where you live. I've seen plenty of cars sit out in the intersection at a red light until someone comes up behind and stops in the right place. I don't think people pay enough attention to how things work to notice that there's a correlation between stopping at the stop bar and getting a green light.
Are you familiar at all with GNUstep? It's another implementation of the NeXTStep (I'm sure I got the caps all wrong there.) framework. They're keeping up with Apple's Cocoa pretty well. I think they've even made some headway on the ObjectiveC++ part. .NET is far more vendor locked in so far. Mono has to do parts of the .NET framework with Wine.
hmmm. I just installed with the new debian installer today, and what kernel do I have? "Linux rei 2.4.24-1-686 #1 Wed Feb 18 21:59:13 EST 2004 i686 GNU/Linux" And X? "XFree86 Version 4.2.1.1 (Debian 4.2.1-12.1 20031003005825" Granted that in the 2.4 series they're up to 2.4.25, and 2.6.3 is out, but those are also both available and pretty damn painless to upgrade to. And, yeah, some distros have XFree86 4.3 (including unstable) but it's not like 4.2 is ancient.
They do put something like kudzu. It's called discover. (yes, the link is to progeny, but the new debian installer uses it too.) Personally, I think that kudzu is a bit smarter than discover, which hung my Dell Inspiron laptop when probing the PCMCIA controller, whereas when I tried Knoppix kudzu knew what address ranges to skip. But discover worked just fine for my girlfriend's laptop and on the desktop system I just built.
I don't know if Sedna does or not, but remember that the formula doesn't alway work. Jupiter's gravity fouled it up between Mars and itself, and where there should be a planet we have the astroid belt. And the astroid belt has gaps at points where there would be certain resonances with Jupiter's orbit. But at how far out Sedna is there probably aren't many gravity effects like that. It's pretty much a plutino or Kuiper belt object.