Well... It is damn easy to boot, but Knoppix refuses to recognise my graphics card and will only display in 640x480x16, which is like going back to Windows 3.1. And my card is not some old obsolete card or a ultra-modern gaming monster. It is a pretty standard ATI mid-range model. [At work and so can not remember specs]
I have tried the boot hack of setting the screen to 1024x768, but it still refuses and displays in 640x480x16.
Another thing I found annoying about Knoppix is that for some reason on my machine the cd-rom continues to spin at "warp-speed" during use. My cd-rom drive is damn noisy, it sounds like a freight train, and so I doubt my neighbours are happy when I use Knoppix.
I am not a big fan of Windows, but Linux, most distros, is still a lot more complicated to the "joe-schmo" average user than windows or mac os x.
I have three machines at the moment with "permanent" OS's. I have a Mac OS X laptop, a Wintel box and an openBSD webserver. Of all of the OS's I have seen IMHO Mac OS X is the simplest for the average user to install and get up and running, and also connecting peripherals "out-of-the-box". [OF course this is probably because of the apple approved hardware licensing doctorine]
I also remember reading a while ago on slashdot that IBM is intending to use it on high end Unix workstations. [Although I can't remember if it mentioned for scientific of rendering applications.] Tried searching for that post... to no avail.
We now exist in a situation where the community colleges and polytechs have aspirations to be universities, and the universities are now expected to be little more than trade schools. Great; now everything sucks!
This is the effect of deregulation of Higher Education. When free market economics is applied to higher education, vocational schools will tend to offer more purely academic courses and academic schools will offer more purely vocational courses. This is because both types of school realise that to increase their number of students, and thus increase their bottom-line, they have to appeal to a wider catchment. This is not necessarily a bad thing. A vocational school that is renowned for a course in a particular discipline can now offer an academic course in that discipline. And the converse is true of academic schools. Another side benefit is that the lecturing tends to improve as lecturers at vocational schools have to read more around their subjects, and at academic schools the lecturers have understand more about real world applications of their disciplines. Students can benefit as well. It benefits students as they learn to think around the subject and experience a variety of perspectives. I agree with you that a purely vocational education is a waste of a human mind, but this opening opinion contradicts your later statement that giving a more academic education to vocational students is a bad thing(TM).
I am really surprised that this has not yet been picked up by some studio.
I was not particularly impressed by the book, I thought the pacing was off, the characterization was amateurish, and it tried far too hard to be hacker-chic, but I really thought its style would appeal to Hollywood.
It felt like a movie far more than the Neuromancer series by William Gibson I consider Gibson's literary works superior, but they are almost impossible to make into movies. [Too much internal dialog and not enough action]
But, I suppose, after The Matrix any studio will have a difficult time doing an adaption of anyCyberpunk novel.
I find it amusing that your post uses the famous Zen analogy that appears in almost every blog there is!
Although in this case it is being used appropriately, most people use it like pointing at the moon, in an attempt to make themselves appear enlightened and superior, rather than being enlightening.
You do have a point.
But the business world is also a form of meritocracy.
It is just that/. geeks consider intelligence, consideration and community spirit worth merit.
The business world considers power, money and market share worth merit.
That is why meritocracies are flawed systems.
Who ends up with control all depends on who determines what is worth merit.
Apple does not make that much of a mark-up on music sold on i-Tunes.
They make their money mostly from selling iPods, that then download music from iTunes. [Better markup] [Apple is essentially a Hardware Manufacturer. But they have made a major move from niche computer manufacturer to mass market consumer electronics manufacturer. And been very successful in this move as well.]
But you are right. If Apple wants to get into the DVR market, then they will most likely enable the DVR to connect to iTunes, and thus become a true home entertainment system.
But this functionality would be to give them a competetive advantage to sell more DVR's rather than to sell more music. [The mark-up here would be impressive also] Apple would "lock-in" iTunes so that it will be only available using "their" DVR, and thus make a killing.
.. and you like big butts... and you like chillie cheese fries with chillie cheese dogs... and you have a flawed quasi-democracy... and... and etc.
I am not an American.
Not that my nationality actually matters. It is just a piece of paper, a legal contract, between some country or other and me.
The "wrong side of the road" comment immediately places you as either British, South-African, Australian... or Japanese. [Anata wa genki desu ka?]
Not that that matters much either.
The thing that is perplexing me is I can not see a link between your anti-american jingoistic rant and the text excerpt that you are commenting on.
Are you in agreement with me that The phrase "A new name in town" might be more common than "The only game in town"? or in disagreement with my additional although I doubt it?
I do agree that the phrase "the only game in town" is a more American English expression. But that does not make it invalid. There are multiple dialects of English and American English just so happens to be one of the most used.
And I stand by my assertion that the expression "The only game in town" is both well known to the majority of native English speakers and also what the author of the original post intended.
[As I knew what he meant and I am not an American then it is definitely more widely known than in just the USA]
I apologise if you were offended by my comments, that was unintentional.
In fact, "the only GAME in town" is such a popular phrase that it is a title of a lame 1970's movie http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0066184/.
The phrase "A new name in town" might be more common than "The only game in town", although I doubt it, however the context in which the phrase is used in the original post indicates that the poster meant the later phrase and not the former.
If he had wanted to use the former he would have said, "It looks like there's a new name in town when it comes to open source PBX."
Perhaps the authors inclusion of qualifying text "open source PBX" in the sentence made it a little less clear. Remove the text and it is like tab.
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Well...
It is damn easy to boot, but Knoppix refuses to recognise my graphics card and will only display in 640x480x16, which is like going back to Windows 3.1. And my card is not some old obsolete card or a ultra-modern gaming monster. It is a pretty standard ATI mid-range model. [At work and so can not remember specs]
I have tried the boot hack of setting the screen to 1024x768, but it still refuses and displays in 640x480x16.
Another thing I found annoying about Knoppix is that for some reason on my machine the cd-rom continues to spin at "warp-speed" during use. My cd-rom drive is damn noisy, it sounds like a freight train, and so I doubt my neighbours are happy when I use Knoppix.
I am not a big fan of Windows, but Linux, most distros, is still a lot more complicated to the "joe-schmo" average user than windows or mac os x.
I have three machines at the moment with "permanent" OS's. I have a Mac OS X laptop, a Wintel box and an openBSD webserver.
Of all of the OS's I have seen IMHO Mac OS X is the simplest for the average user to install and get up and running, and also connecting peripherals "out-of-the-box".
[OF course this is probably because of the apple approved hardware licensing doctorine]
You're 10?!!
;-)
Congratulations!
Cell is very fast, but only has single precision floating point, i.e. it will not qualify for scientific applications
... to no avail.
Take a look here.
I also remember reading a while ago on slashdot that IBM is intending to use it on high end Unix workstations.
[Although I can't remember if it mentioned for scientific of rendering applications.]
Tried searching for that post
We now exist in a situation where the community colleges and polytechs have aspirations to be universities, and the universities are now expected to be little more than trade schools. Great; now everything sucks!
This is the effect of deregulation of Higher Education.
When free market economics is applied to higher education, vocational schools will tend to offer more purely academic courses and academic schools will offer more purely vocational courses.
This is because both types of school realise that to increase their number of students, and thus increase their bottom-line, they have to appeal to a wider catchment.
This is not necessarily a bad thing. A vocational school that is renowned for a course in a particular discipline can now offer an academic course in that discipline.
And the converse is true of academic schools.
Another side benefit is that the lecturing tends to improve as lecturers at vocational schools have to read more around their subjects, and at academic schools the lecturers have understand more about real world applications of their disciplines.
Students can benefit as well. It benefits students as they learn to think around the subject and experience a variety of perspectives.
I agree with you that a purely vocational education is a waste of a human mind, but this opening opinion contradicts your later statement that giving a more academic education to vocational students is a bad thing(TM).
"PHP, Perl and Python have been around for several years and their use appears to be growing"
I mean, come on. Several years/i??
Perl has been around since '87
MS has finally merged them into one line
Yes, called "XP Home" and "XP Professional" and "Windows Server 2003".
Which is totally different than seperate lines of "Windows 98" and "Windows 2000".
It read like a Hollywood script!
I am really surprised that this has not yet been picked up by some studio.
I was not particularly impressed by the book, I thought the pacing was off, the characterization was amateurish, and it tried far too hard to be hacker-chic, but I really thought its style would appeal to Hollywood.
It felt like a movie far more than the Neuromancer series by William Gibson
I consider Gibson's literary works superior, but they are almost impossible to make into movies.
[Too much internal dialog and not enough action]
But, I suppose, after The Matrix any studio will have a difficult time doing an adaption of any Cyberpunk novel.
"a finger pointing at the moon"
I find it amusing that your post uses the famous Zen analogy that appears in almost every blog there is!
Although in this case it is being used appropriately, most people use it like pointing at the moon, in an attempt to make themselves appear enlightened and superior, rather than being enlightening.
Aargh. Now I am just being recursive!
You do have a point. But the business world is also a form of meritocracy. It is just that /. geeks consider intelligence, consideration and community spirit worth merit.
The business world considers power, money and market share worth merit.
That is why meritocracies are flawed systems.
Who ends up with control all depends on who determines what is worth merit.
Hmm. I think you are both wrong and right.
Apple does not make that much of a mark-up on music sold on i-Tunes.
They make their money mostly from selling iPods, that then download music from iTunes. [Better markup]
[Apple is essentially a Hardware Manufacturer. But they have made a major move from niche computer manufacturer to mass market consumer electronics manufacturer. And been very successful in this move as well.]
But you are right. If Apple wants to get into the DVR market, then they will most likely enable the DVR to connect to iTunes, and thus become a true home entertainment system.
But this functionality would be to give them a competetive advantage to sell more DVR's rather than to sell more music. [The mark-up here would be impressive also]
Apple would "lock-in" iTunes so that it will be only available using "their" DVR, and thus make a killing.
.. and you like big butts ... and you like chillie cheese fries with chillie cheese dogs... and you have a flawed quasi-democracy ... and ... and etc.
... or Japanese.
I am not an American.
Not that my nationality actually matters.
It is just a piece of paper, a legal contract, between some country or other and me.
The "wrong side of the road" comment immediately places you as either British, South-African, Australian
[Anata wa genki desu ka?]
Not that that matters much either.
The thing that is perplexing me is I can not see a link between your anti-american jingoistic rant and the text excerpt that you are commenting on.
Are you in agreement with me that The phrase "A new name in town" might be more common than "The only game in town"? or in disagreement with my additional although I doubt it?
I do agree that the phrase "the only game in town" is a more American English expression. But that does not make it invalid.
There are multiple dialects of English and American English just so happens to be one of the most used.
And I stand by my assertion that the expression "The only game in town" is both well known to the majority of native English speakers and also what the author of the original post intended.
[As I knew what he meant and I am not an American then it is definitely more widely known than in just the USA]
I apologise if you were offended by my comments, that was unintentional.
Really?
.
"The only NAME in town" ?
First I have heard that phrase.
Are you sure that you have not misheard it?
In fact, "the only GAME in town" is such a popular phrase that it is a title of a lame 1970's movie http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0066184/
The phrase "A new name in town" might be more common than "The only game in town", although I doubt it, however the context in which the phrase is used in the original post indicates that the poster meant the later phrase and not the former.
If he had wanted to use the former he would have said, "It looks like there's a new name in town when it comes to open source PBX."
Perhaps the authors inclusion of qualifying text "open source PBX" in the sentence made it a little less clear.
Remove the text and it is like tab.