Honda did something similar in Europe. They were going to name a car Honda Fitta which would be unfortunate since "Fitta" means "Cunt" in swedish.
They managed to get a slogan too. "Small on the outside but large once you get in". Needless to say the Honda manager in Sweden wasn't very amused when the papers called him and asked about this.
Oh, they rebranded it. Now it's called Honda Jazz.
According to them, a single image, large memory machine is what they're experts at. From what I've heard from them at different seminars they do what you ask quite successfully for quite a few companies.
Actually I think they chose the Itanium specifically for its ability to handle large memorysets.
The Altix is the machine you're looking for I think.
I sent a few letters to my representatives and now I'd like to check out if they are true to their word or not. Did they vote the way they said they would. I searched some on the webpage but couldn't find any list on this. Anyone know where I can find it so that I decide on who will get my vote next time?
Let's say I connect to some torrent site and start to download something, say "Lord of the rings", how do I know that this is copyright protected until I see it? How do I know that this "Lord of the rings" isn't someones wedding video?
This law is as stupid as the law that was proposed recently, a law would make it illegal to LOOK at child porn. Now how would I know what a picture is without looking at it? All feelings about child pornographers aside.
I think our government has been replaced with a bunch of headless chickens...
What? I don't mean to nitpick but I do believe that Unixes have been 64bit for quite some time. SGI/SUN/Tru64/AIX.... are all 64bit and have been for about 10 years or more. I wouldn't call that "moving into", I'd call that "well established".
Unix is not only (sort of)GNU/Linux or BSD. There are other machines out there other than your precious x86.
...if one could just make one package and have it install on any distribution. It seems that the page is slashdotted at the moment so I can't see anything but the frontpage.:-/
Great news. What I'm missing is a good XUL IDE. I hear that KDevelop is going to support XUL soon and there are others, but one thing that Microsoft does really well is to help the developers to get started. Now if there just were a good IDE with syntax highlighting, completion and testing I think XUL apps would really take off. Don't you?
Every now and then there is a story here on slashdot on how evil patents are and why they should be abolished. But are they really that harmful and bad? Can someone point out any real damages done by patents, especially software patents. Are there any evidence of companies going out of buissness because of patenting issues? I'd like to know.
I assume that your feet were just sweating out pigments from your boots or socks, otherwise we'd call you Stubby, right?
Actually, that's dirt from the road. It got through our boots. It was very dusty there. We had to open up the camera and clean it from dust too when we came home.
Ideally all confi files would follow the same format and syntax (god no please don't say XML). Ideally there would be a uniform way for programs to retrieve configuration information from a centrallized location. Ideally local users and machines would be able to merge their prefs and config with the master to override certain prefs. Ideally the hierarcy of administrators would be able to prevent entitities under them from overriding certain configuration options. Ideally all of that could be done with plain text files which are automatically checked into a version control repository so you can roll back any change in a jiffy.
There was a project on sourceforge that adresses some of the points you raise. Originally it was called "Linux-registry" I believe, now it's called Elektra. I don't know how far they've come or anything about the project, but it looks like something that You'd want to have a look at.
The amount of money and effort spent on "the war on terrorism" is way out of proportion in relation to the risk involved.
Agreed. And why is so much money being spent on chasing muslim terrorists. It's a well known fact that most terrorists doesn't travel very much. Al Quaeda being the notable exception. ETA doesn't travel much outside of spain, nor does IRA go far from N.Ireland/England. If GWB really wants to stop terrorism, why not start at home?
Ok, so the last link isn't a terrorist organisation as such, but they have used the same methods.
I find it annoying as hell, just as You do I expect. Why isn't there a plugin of some sort that can allow FF to work in the same broken way as IE does? Or isn't that possible? Since IE has the bigger marketshare, wouldn't it make sense to follow that, atleast a little bit?
While darcs is nice it needs wider adoption. When it comes to a project that people are working on, you have almost as many boxes as you have developers and for a revision control program to be adopted and used there has to be binaries for all those devels. AFAIR there are some issues with the win32 binary? One of our devels had major problems with it and now we're living with both a cvs and a darcs repository, and noone really knows where to send patches. I think it's safe to say that our project is dying, if not dead already.
Not that I blame darcs or anything, just that one need to be sure that darcs work for everyone before commiting to it. CVS works on all platforms and is well tested. Darcs will hopefully get there.
And yes, I did my part and created a package for my platform. It's linked from the binary download page.
This is something that I've been hoping for. Developing for Linux, or rather distributing your program, is a bit of a pain. After a while You have a nice little program.tar.gz for people to use. Most of the time You'd want this to be handeled by a package manager so you create an RPM and a DEB. But wait, that's not enough. You'll need a RH8 rpm, a RH9 rpm, a RHES30 rpm, a MDK9 rpm and so forth and so forth, and this is just for the i386. The permutations are too many to concider. I find this quite annoying.
If someone has a solution to fix this then I'm all for it and would support it with all my heart.
The site is naturally slashdotted so I can't check any details.:-/
I had similar problems. I installed SP2 and after that the machine just refused to boot. Just before the XP-logo is supposed to show the screen just went blank and nothing else happened. Annoying as hell. Since I had the orgiginal XP-CD I tried the "repair" utility but no matter what I tried the machine just wouldn't boot. I even tried installing the whole thing over the old installation but still nothing. Fortunatly I had two HD's in the machine and since Linux never fail me it was no biggie booting into Linux and getting the files I wanted.
A complete reinstall of XP was required to get the damn thing to work. If I hadn't been required to run IE to access some work related things I wouldn't have installed it again.:-/
Oh, and now I won't forget to backup all files every now and then..haeger
What if The Democrats decided that the world was too much of a mess right now and wanted to wait on the sideline for four more years?
"Well, the economy is down the drain, Iraq is a mess, Afganistan is a mess, everyone hates America, and I don't think things will change the next four years. How about we just nominate the dullest guy we can find and let The Republicans handle this mess. Four more years of this crap and we'll be seen as saints."
I have a friend who's a politician and actually suggested this strategy for his party (local politician). Unfortunatly they didn't like the idea and was forced to take care of the mess the previous party created and was naturally voted out of office on the next election. Cleaning up a budget will do that.:-/
If the software has a legitimate use then it should not be able to be banned because a person uses it for an illegal use.
Not even if the software if primarily used for illegal stuff? Not trolling here, just curious. Should a single legitimate use for a tool render it free for anyone to use, even though the vast majority would use it for illegal purposes?
Actually yes, that's what I meant. I can (with legitimate reasons) go and read any document as far back as we have records. Any kind of research is a legit reason. A relative of mine has done some digging about our familys history and in doing this been reading document as far back as 13:th century (that's 1400-something, right?). Gloves supplied by the library.
Yes, I am aware that these records will be destroyed eventually but it has survived more than 500 years of storing without any intervention. I seriously doubt that in 500 years someone will pick up a CDROM and go "Wow, let's see how they lived around year 2000". I doubt that will be possible in 50.
Anyway, I just wanted to bring up the issue about the problem with digital storage. I don't have a solution. Paper and pen is clearly not an option anymore. Even I understand that.
you still can move the data from the old system to a new one if its at the end of its lifetime.
Yes, you are correct about this but scale it up a bit. If you have to change media every 10-15 years then the data migration becomes a full time job for someone.
sql will also stay around really long, and if not there will be at least a gazillion tools to convert to a new format (it is quite sure that the data will be stored on a sql server)
and as long as the data is safely stored the access mechnism shouldnt be a problem but thats just my.02
I agree with you in the short perspective, but look 100-500 years into the future. Data on disk is just 0 or 1 and have no inherent meaning. Should the access mechanism be lost, the data is useless. Compare this to the hieroglyphs that the Egyptians used. The data was there but until we found the rosetta stone the data was useless, it didn't tell us anything.
I'm just trying to point out that while the data might be safe the information isn't.
But I could be way off, I'm sure that the smart folks who implemented this has thought of the concequences and is in no way influenced by the truckload of money coming their way.;-/
How about the "Digital Twilight" that people have talked about? One of the big problems with these kind of archives is that they aren't permanent the way that paper is. Washington could very easily end up the way that Stasi did in East Germany. They have several hundred tapes of data with information about every spy in the west on them but the information is still "safe" since noone no longer knows how the data was saved to disk or which file format was used.
And I'm still ignoring the fact that machines grow old and has to be replaced. It's a known fact that disks break so You'll need backup but how long could You keep an old storage solution around. Sooner or later You'll have to migrate old backup data to newer media.
Note that I don't think that this is a bad idea, moving everything online, but there are concequences that I don't think that everyone has thought of.
Where I live one can go into the royal library and find (and read) an official document written by someone in the 16:th century, but can we be sure that 100 or even 50 years from now someone can read a DLT300-tape?
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They managed to get a slogan too. "Small on the outside but large once you get in".
Needless to say the Honda manager in Sweden wasn't very amused when the papers called him and asked about this.
Oh, they rebranded it. Now it's called Honda Jazz.
Actually I think they chose the Itanium specifically for its ability to handle large memorysets.
The Altix is the machine you're looking for I think.
I searched some on the webpage but couldn't find any list on this.
Anyone know where I can find it so that I decide on who will get my vote next time?
Let's say I connect to some torrent site and start to download something, say "Lord of the rings", how do I know that this is copyright protected until I see it? How do I know that this "Lord of the rings" isn't someones wedding video?
This law is as stupid as the law that was proposed recently, a law would make it illegal to LOOK at child porn. Now how would I know what a picture is without looking at it? All feelings about child pornographers aside.
I think our government has been replaced with a bunch of headless chickens...
...have used this logo which imho would have been MUCH worse.
.haeger
What? I don't mean to nitpick but I do believe that Unixes have been 64bit for quite some time. SGI/SUN/Tru64/AIX.... are all 64bit and have been for about 10 years or more. I wouldn't call that "moving into", I'd call that "well established".
Unix is not only (sort of)GNU/Linux or BSD. There are other machines out there other than your precious x86.
What I'm missing is a good XUL IDE. I hear that KDevelop is going to support XUL soon and there are others, but one thing that Microsoft does really well is to help the developers to get started. Now if there just were a good IDE with syntax highlighting, completion and testing I think XUL apps would really take off. Don't you?
Can someone point out any real damages done by patents, especially software patents. Are there any evidence of companies going out of buissness because of patenting issues?
I'd like to know.
Actually, that's dirt from the road. It got through our boots. It was very dusty there. We had to open up the camera and clean it from dust too when we came home.
If You want to see what the "Cops on top" are seeing, have a look at these photos.
Monkeys.
Mandara Hut
Our porters.
Long way to walk.
Kilimanjaro from a distance.
Mountainrat.
The summit.
The summit.
The crater.
The Glacier.
Gillmans point.
Our feet after walking for a day
Ideally all confi files would follow the same format and syntax (god no please don't say XML).
Ideally there would be a uniform way for programs to retrieve configuration information from a centrallized location.
Ideally local users and machines would be able to merge their prefs and config with the master to override certain prefs.
Ideally the hierarcy of administrators would be able to prevent entitities under them from overriding certain configuration options.
Ideally all of that could be done with plain text files which are automatically checked into a version control repository so you can roll back any change in a jiffy.
There was a project on sourceforge that adresses some of the points you raise. Originally it was called "Linux-registry" I believe, now it's called Elektra.
I don't know how far they've come or anything about the project, but it looks like something that You'd want to have a look at.
Agreed. And why is so much money being spent on chasing muslim terrorists. It's a well known fact that most terrorists doesn't travel very much. Al Quaeda being the notable exception.
ETA doesn't travel much outside of spain, nor does IRA go far from N.Ireland/England. If GWB really wants to stop terrorism, why not start at home?
Ok, so the last link isn't a terrorist organisation as such, but they have used the same methods.
Not that I blame darcs or anything, just that one need to be sure that darcs work for everyone before commiting to it. CVS works on all platforms and is well tested. Darcs will hopefully get there.
And yes, I did my part and created a package for my platform. It's linked from the binary download page.
If someone has a solution to fix this then I'm all for it and would support it with all my heart.
The site is naturally slashdotted so I can't check any details.
I had similar problems. I installed SP2 and after that the machine just refused to boot. Just before the XP-logo is supposed to show the screen just went blank and nothing else happened. Annoying as hell. Since I had the orgiginal XP-CD I tried the "repair" utility but no matter what I tried the machine just wouldn't boot. I even tried installing the whole thing over the old installation but still nothing. Fortunatly I had two HD's in the machine and since Linux never fail me it was no biggie booting into Linux and getting the files I wanted.
:-/
.haeger
A complete reinstall of XP was required to get the damn thing to work. If I hadn't been required to run IE to access some work related things I wouldn't have installed it again.
Oh, and now I won't forget to backup all files every now and then.
"Well, the economy is down the drain, Iraq is a mess, Afganistan is a mess, everyone hates America, and I don't think things will change the next four years. How about we just nominate the dullest guy we can find and let The Republicans handle this mess. Four more years of this crap and we'll be seen as saints."
I have a friend who's a politician and actually suggested this strategy for his party (local politician). Unfortunatly they didn't like the idea and was forced to take care of the mess the previous party created and was naturally voted out of office on the next election. Cleaning up a budget will do that.
Seems to be the most popular thing about any new release, even though most claim to prefer a CLI.
Not even if the software if primarily used for illegal stuff?
Not trolling here, just curious. Should a single legitimate use for a tool render it free for anyone to use, even though the vast majority would use it for illegal purposes?
Yes, I am aware that these records will be destroyed eventually but it has survived more than 500 years of storing without any intervention. I seriously doubt that in 500 years someone will pick up a CDROM and go "Wow, let's see how they lived around year 2000". I doubt that will be possible in 50.
Anyway, I just wanted to bring up the issue about the problem with digital storage. I don't have a solution. Paper and pen is clearly not an option anymore. Even I understand that.
Yes, you are correct about this but scale it up a bit. If you have to change media every 10-15 years then the data migration becomes a full time job for someone.
sql will also stay around really long, and if not there will be at least a gazillion tools to convert to a new format (it is quite sure that the data will be stored on a sql server)
and as long as the data is safely stored the access mechnism shouldnt be a problem but thats just my
I agree with you in the short perspective, but look 100-500 years into the future. Data on disk is just 0 or 1 and have no inherent meaning. Should the access mechanism be lost, the data is useless. Compare this to the hieroglyphs that the Egyptians used. The data was there but until we found the rosetta stone the data was useless, it didn't tell us anything.
I'm just trying to point out that while the data might be safe the information isn't.
But I could be way off, I'm sure that the smart folks who implemented this has thought of the concequences and is in no way influenced by the truckload of money coming their way.
And I'm still ignoring the fact that machines grow old and has to be replaced. It's a known fact that disks break so You'll need backup but how long could You keep an old storage solution around. Sooner or later You'll have to migrate old backup data to newer media.
Note that I don't think that this is a bad idea, moving everything online, but there are concequences that I don't think that everyone has thought of.
Where I live one can go into the royal library and find (and read) an official document written by someone in the 16:th century, but can we be sure that 100 or even 50 years from now someone can read a DLT300-tape?