Vesta, Janus, and Ceres are all already taken at least. I bet most, if not all, of the rest are too. Oh, Janus is a moon of Saturn. Ceres is the biggest astroid in the belt, and Vesta is the third largest astroid.
Btw - when can we expect "official" debian/slackware/... packages?
Official like official from debian? Or like official from KDE? KDE already offers packages of 3.2 for Debian stable, as well as Slack 9.0 and 9.1. And I'm sure that 3.2 will show up in unstable in a day or two in the official debian repository, and in testing in short order after that. Not to mention, 3.1.5 has been in testing for a long time, so it's not like we're using KDE 1.0 or anything. (Well, I'm using GNOME 2.4, but the new installer actually installs KDE 3.1.5 as the default and you have to get GNOME yourself.)
Second, Novell also bought SuSE, which employs a lot of the KDE developers. Really, they (for the moment at least) have some control over both desktops. But keep in mind that any of those people could leave and work somewhere else, and that KDE and Gnome are open source projects, plus other companies have some interest in the direction they take. So, I really doubt that is why Sun is offering it. Actually I think they've had it on their Solaris Freeware CD for quite some time.
At that time, the "next major feature" he was hammering out was the ability to store your home directory and such on thumbdrives (Does Knoppix do this now?).
Yes, Knoppix and Morphix both have that feature. Knoppix at least (too lazy to check on Morphix right now) can even AES encrypt your thumbdrive home directory.
It's actually supposed to be pronounced something like "soo-sah". (It's german. Final E's are a schwa sound). And it means System und Software Entwicklung.
Too bad SuSe costs so much, otherwise I'd consider that.
You can get SuSE 9.0 Pro Upgrade, which is the same as Pro but without all of the books, for $50. That's what I'm planning to do to replace SuSE 7.3 on my machine. I think that's a fair price considering all the commercial stuff they throw in. Redhat 9.0 Pro is $150. And I've heard very good things about using apt-for-rpm with SuSE.
I remember reading about this long ago, and Porsche had already done the European crash and emissions tests, which were more stringent than the US ones, and they didn't want to waste more cars to reconfirm what was already known just to satisfy some American beaurocrats.
I'm sure some extra work would have to be done, but the PS2 has a MIPS64 processor in it, which is already quite well supported by gcc, so that part at least shouldn't be an issue. I'm sure a bigger issue would be drivers for the I/O devices, and getting the kernel to boot, because the PS2 would require it to be signed. But I'm sure that Sony's Linux Kit is way out of date, so if you really want Linux on your PS2 this might be the way to go.
I don't know of any studies, but I know my boss buys printer ink from spammers. And, surprise, surprise it is really low quality ink. But it's cheap, so he'll keep buying it.
The namespace concern is the only minus point with any merit - on the other hand, I don't see Gtk+ using namespaces either, and that wasn't mentioned as a minus point, was it? (Yes, I know Gtk+ is written in C - but that doesn't alter the fact that it too does not use namespaces)
But, GTKmm does use namespaces. It uses a lot more modern C++ features than QT does. To be fair though, I've not done more than read a tuturial, so it might not be all that hot for all I know.
To reply to your car thing though, in the past 50 years great strides have been made in reducing injury to the occupants of the vehicle. Off the top of my head I can think of shoulder belts (a big step up over lap belts, which were a big step up from having nothing), head rests (the aren't there to rest your head on; they're there to keep you from snapping your neck when your head flies back in an accident), safety glass, crumple zones (first seen on Mercedes in the 60s I believe), and collapsable steering wheels (introduced by Audi in the 80s). You could also count airbags, but that seems to be more debatable than the rest. And ABS and traction control systems have certainly helped prevent people from getting into loss of control situations. But, you're right. Race cars do have a lot more safety tech and it's too expensive to deploy on passenger cars, but a lot of safety tech trickles down into consumer vehicles over time, once the cost has gone down.
I'm not a heavy enough user to have a totally valid opinion, but I think TeXmacs is a much less painful way to write LaTeX documents than LyX. Plus it saves to a.tex file, not a.lyx file.
I'd like to point out DRH's book Le Ton Beau de Marot. (and that's not an affiliate link.) The whole book is about issues in translation. I think it's a really underrated book. Maybe because I'm a Linguistics dork and that's the kind of thing that excites me.
Just like how Issac Newton is credited as the founder of Calculus, but no-one mentions Leibniz, who invented calculus at the same time as Newton independently.
I think that depends where you are. In America and Britain, Newton gets the credit, but I think that in Europe they tend to credit Leibniz. And it's kind of funny that we credit Newton, because we mostly use Leibniz's notation.
UnitedLinux is a standard that four companies have decided on. It's essentially LSB + a couple other standards. SCO joined in on it back when Ransom Love was in charge. Before the litigious bastards were put in control. They may have even been Caldera still back then. (I don't remember and can't be assed to check right now.) I have no doubt that Connectiva, SuSE, and TurboLinux are not in the least bit amused by SCO's current actions. The money goes to the company that actually sells the product, so if you don't like SCO, then don't buy SCO's UnitedLinux offering (assuming they actually have one. Again, can't be assed to check). Instead, buy SuSE Enterprise Linux Server 8 or TurboLinux Enterprise Server 8 or whatever Connectiva calls theirs. (The english version of their webpage at least is pretty devoid of information. All it has is an old UnitedLinux press release.)
I will admit to ignoring the problems of X being a network protocol rather than a graphics one
I, however, will not. X being a slow network protocol is largely a myth. Closer to the truth is that X *can* be a slow network protocol, but with the extensions in recent versions of XFree86 and a video card with a good driver (e.g. nVidia) X can be just as fast as Windows. This month's Linux Magazine has a couple acticles about it and one claims that in some benchmarks (on a local display) X is *faster* than Windows. And last year, Tom's had an article that showed that WineX was within a couple percent of Windows, and it was emulating the Direct3D calls.
E.G. garbage collection. Java: + C++: -
There are garbage collectors for C++. For example, Hans Boehm has a Boehm-Demers-Weiser garbage collector on his page at HP. We wrote a Scheme (a very minimal subset of it actually) interpreter in one of my cis classes this quarter and the prof recomended that we could use something like that if we ever wanted to finish it. (As is it leaks memory like crazy. No deletes at all.) Look at the current users: gcj, gnu objective c, mzscheme, dotgnu. So, I don't think you can say C++ has no gc.
That being said, I'd take Python or Lisp over either of them any day.
I bought a PC from them a few years ago. Believe me, idiot-pc is an apt reading. You get what you pay for on a $400 computer from them. It crashed constantly with any OS and was dead in under a year.
*sigh* Did you read what you just typed? Why should a modern OS require this?! Althought I can do this, I feel like I shouldn't have to. In fact, I got my printer working just fine under CUPS, but why can't I just click "Add Printer", choose my printer, and have it show up in all my applications? I don't quite follow you. Essentially all I did was click "Add Printer". It took me less time to get it working in SuSE 7.3 than it did in Windows 2000. CUPS is installed by default in SuSE iirc, wheras in Windows I had to stick in the driver CD, install the driver and then reboot (As far as I remember. Lots of things in Windows seem to require a reboot; speaking of "Why should a modern OS require this?") CUPS is a lot better than the old lp utils. I remember trying to configure a printer in Linux several years ago. That was painful. I think the CUPS admin page has a decent interface, and I've never had problems printing from any program. The only advantage I see in Windows printing with my printer is that Canon provides that program that shows you all the ink levels and lets you clean the printer at the click of a button, but that's pretty negligible in my book.
I'm running SuSE 7.3 and all I had to do to get my printer working is install CUPS and go to http://localhost:631 and answer a couple questions to get my Epson Stylus C80 to work. qtcups and kups are also available frontends for printer configuration with CUPS. Is that more the level of ease you wanted?
Your prayers have been (almost) answered by prefbar from Xulplanet. Apparently what you want is quite tricky, but at least as a stopgap measure they've made a button that kills flash on the current page. All in all prefbar is pretty damn cool. You might want to check it out.
You mean, "everything a man does is to try to impress chicks." Oops. I guess that was a verb phrase with an infinitival sentential complement. I'm going to say the way I phrased it is dialectally appropriate. I'd have to consult some other people from around here, and if they disagree we'll call it my own little idiolect.:) Prescriptive grammarians suck.
What I need to know is has more advancements in science come as a result of an accident or as the result of some guy trying to impress chicks. And what is the overlap?
Everything a man does is to try and impress chicks.
The 911 is a heavily modified Beetle. That's really pushing it, but the 356 had a lot of parts in common with the Beetle (especially the 356A and 356B). The pushrod (non Carerra) engine really wasn't much more than a suped up Beetle engine. If you want to use the 911, the first generation with AWD used the Audi Quattro drivetrain turned around so the rear diff was in the front. OK, I suppose I'm getting a bit off topic by now, but VW-Audi-Porsche does tend to trickle technology down from the top.
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Vesta, Janus, and Ceres are all already taken at least. I bet most, if not all, of the rest are too.
Oh, Janus is a moon of Saturn. Ceres is the biggest astroid in the belt, and Vesta is the third largest astroid.
Btw - when can we expect "official" debian/slackware/... packages?
Official like official from debian? Or like official from KDE? KDE already offers packages of 3.2 for Debian stable, as well as Slack 9.0 and 9.1. And I'm sure that 3.2 will show up in unstable in a day or two in the official debian repository, and in testing in short order after that. Not to mention, 3.1.5 has been in testing for a long time, so it's not like we're using KDE 1.0 or anything. (Well, I'm using GNOME 2.4, but the new installer actually installs KDE 3.1.5 as the default and you have to get GNOME yourself.)
First, to help you, it's Miguel de Icaza.
Second, Novell also bought SuSE, which employs a lot of the KDE developers. Really, they (for the moment at least) have some control over both desktops. But keep in mind that any of those people could leave and work somewhere else, and that KDE and Gnome are open source projects, plus other companies have some interest in the direction they take. So, I really doubt that is why Sun is offering it. Actually I think they've had it on their Solaris Freeware CD for quite some time.
At that time, the "next major feature" he was hammering out was the ability to store your home directory and such on thumbdrives (Does Knoppix do this now?).
Yes, Knoppix and Morphix both have that feature. Knoppix at least (too lazy to check on Morphix right now) can even AES encrypt your thumbdrive home directory.
It's actually supposed to be pronounced something like "soo-sah". (It's german. Final E's are a schwa sound). And it means System und Software Entwicklung.
Too bad SuSe costs so much, otherwise I'd consider that.
You can get SuSE 9.0 Pro Upgrade, which is the same as Pro but without all of the books, for $50. That's what I'm planning to do to replace SuSE 7.3 on my machine. I think that's a fair price considering all the commercial stuff they throw in. Redhat 9.0 Pro is $150. And I've heard very good things about using apt-for-rpm with SuSE.
I remember reading about this long ago, and Porsche had already done the European crash and emissions tests, which were more stringent than the US ones, and they didn't want to waste more cars to reconfirm what was already known just to satisfy some American beaurocrats.
I'm sure some extra work would have to be done, but the PS2 has a MIPS64 processor in it, which is already quite well supported by gcc, so that part at least shouldn't be an issue. I'm sure a bigger issue would be drivers for the I/O devices, and getting the kernel to boot, because the PS2 would require it to be signed. But I'm sure that Sony's Linux Kit is way out of date, so if you really want Linux on your PS2 this might be the way to go.
I don't know of any studies, but I know my boss buys printer ink from spammers. And, surprise, surprise it is really low quality ink. But it's cheap, so he'll keep buying it.
The namespace concern is the only minus point with any merit - on the other hand, I don't see Gtk+ using namespaces either, and that wasn't mentioned as a minus point, was it? (Yes, I know Gtk+ is written in C - but that doesn't alter the fact that it too does not use namespaces)
But, GTKmm does use namespaces. It uses a lot more modern C++ features than QT does. To be fair though, I've not done more than read a tuturial, so it might not be all that hot for all I know.
To reply to your car thing though, in the past 50 years great strides have been made in reducing injury to the occupants of the vehicle. Off the top of my head I can think of shoulder belts (a big step up over lap belts, which were a big step up from having nothing), head rests (the aren't there to rest your head on; they're there to keep you from snapping your neck when your head flies back in an accident), safety glass, crumple zones (first seen on Mercedes in the 60s I believe), and collapsable steering wheels (introduced by Audi in the 80s). You could also count airbags, but that seems to be more debatable than the rest. And ABS and traction control systems have certainly helped prevent people from getting into loss of control situations. But, you're right. Race cars do have a lot more safety tech and it's too expensive to deploy on passenger cars, but a lot of safety tech trickles down into consumer vehicles over time, once the cost has gone down.
I'm not a heavy enough user to have a totally valid opinion, but I think TeXmacs is a much less painful way to write LaTeX documents than LyX. Plus it saves to a .tex file, not a .lyx file.
I'd like to point out DRH's book Le Ton Beau de Marot. (and that's not an affiliate link.) The whole book is about issues in translation. I think it's a really underrated book. Maybe because I'm a Linguistics dork and that's the kind of thing that excites me.
Just like how Issac Newton is credited as the founder of Calculus, but no-one mentions Leibniz, who invented calculus at the same time as Newton independently.
I think that depends where you are. In America and Britain, Newton gets the credit, but I think that in Europe they tend to credit Leibniz. And it's kind of funny that we credit Newton, because we mostly use Leibniz's notation.
UnitedLinux is a standard that four companies have decided on. It's essentially LSB + a couple other standards. SCO joined in on it back when Ransom Love was in charge. Before the litigious bastards were put in control. They may have even been Caldera still back then. (I don't remember and can't be assed to check right now.) I have no doubt that Connectiva, SuSE, and TurboLinux are not in the least bit amused by SCO's current actions. The money goes to the company that actually sells the product, so if you don't like SCO, then don't buy SCO's UnitedLinux offering (assuming they actually have one. Again, can't be assed to check). Instead, buy SuSE Enterprise Linux Server 8 or TurboLinux Enterprise Server 8 or whatever Connectiva calls theirs. (The english version of their webpage at least is pretty devoid of information. All it has is an old UnitedLinux press release.)
"Mine conft"( no idea how to spell that last bit).
"Mein Kampf" which means "My Struggle". Just for future reference.
I will admit to ignoring the problems of X being a network protocol rather than a graphics one
I, however, will not. X being a slow network protocol is largely a myth. Closer to the truth is that X *can* be a slow network protocol, but with the extensions in recent versions of XFree86 and a video card with a good driver (e.g. nVidia) X can be just as fast as Windows. This month's Linux Magazine has a couple acticles about it and one claims that in some benchmarks (on a local display) X is *faster* than Windows. And last year, Tom's had an article that showed that WineX was within a couple percent of Windows, and it was emulating the Direct3D calls.
E.G. garbage collection. Java: + C++: -
There are garbage collectors for C++. For example, Hans Boehm has a Boehm-Demers-Weiser garbage collector on his page at HP. We wrote a Scheme (a very minimal subset of it actually) interpreter in one of my cis classes this quarter and the prof recomended that we could use something like that if we ever wanted to finish it. (As is it leaks memory like crazy. No deletes at all.) Look at the current users: gcj, gnu objective c, mzscheme, dotgnu. So, I don't think you can say C++ has no gc.
That being said, I'd take Python or Lisp over either of them any day.
I bought a PC from them a few years ago. Believe me, idiot-pc is an apt reading. You get what you pay for on a $400 computer from them. It crashed constantly with any OS and was dead in under a year.
*sigh* Did you read what you just typed? Why should a modern OS require this?! Althought I can do this, I feel like I shouldn't have to. In fact, I got my printer working just fine under CUPS, but why can't I just click "Add Printer", choose my printer, and have it show up in all my applications?
I don't quite follow you. Essentially all I did was click "Add Printer". It took me less time to get it working in SuSE 7.3 than it did in Windows 2000. CUPS is installed by default in SuSE iirc, wheras in Windows I had to stick in the driver CD, install the driver and then reboot (As far as I remember. Lots of things in Windows seem to require a reboot; speaking of "Why should a modern OS require this?") CUPS is a lot better than the old lp utils. I remember trying to configure a printer in Linux several years ago. That was painful. I think the CUPS admin page has a decent interface, and I've never had problems printing from any program. The only advantage I see in Windows printing with my printer is that Canon provides that program that shows you all the ink levels and lets you clean the printer at the click of a button, but that's pretty negligible in my book.
I'm running SuSE 7.3 and all I had to do to get my printer working is install CUPS and go to http://localhost:631 and answer a couple questions to get my Epson Stylus C80 to work. qtcups and kups are also available frontends for printer configuration with CUPS. Is that more the level of ease you wanted?
Your prayers have been (almost) answered by prefbar from Xulplanet. Apparently what you want is quite tricky, but at least as a stopgap measure they've made a button that kills flash on the current page. All in all prefbar is pretty damn cool. You might want to check it out.
You mean, "everything a man does is to try to impress chicks." :)
Oops. I guess that was a verb phrase with an infinitival sentential complement. I'm going to say the way I phrased it is dialectally appropriate. I'd have to consult some other people from around here, and if they disagree we'll call it my own little idiolect.
Prescriptive grammarians suck.
What I need to know is has more advancements in science come as a result of an accident or as the result of some guy trying to impress chicks. And what is the overlap?
Everything a man does is to try and impress chicks.
The 911 is a heavily modified Beetle.
That's really pushing it, but the 356 had a lot of parts in common with the Beetle (especially the 356A and 356B). The pushrod (non Carerra) engine really wasn't much more than a suped up Beetle engine. If you want to use the 911, the first generation with AWD used the Audi Quattro drivetrain turned around so the rear diff was in the front. OK, I suppose I'm getting a bit off topic by now, but VW-Audi-Porsche does tend to trickle technology down from the top.