is 14 cds all that big for what is essentially an archive of every peice of free software a debian maintainer has ever cared to package?
packages on the cds (i belive cd1 is an exception getting special criteria) are placed onto cds by popcon (an optional package that reports back what packages you have installed) output so the high cds will contain really obscure stuff
the only time i'd even consider getting or making a full cd set is if i knew i was going to be away from the net for a long time.
if you have a net connection just use either the buisnesscard (base system and full selection of kernels) the netinst (base system and stuff you need for the standard "tasks") or the full cd1. don't bother with the other cds.
i'd imagine the endian issue is worse for mac developers than pc developers.
with a little endian system like i386 you have network byte order and host byte order so as long as you make sure you use appropriate conversion routines to do the conversions you will be fine on a big endian system.
otoh with a big endian system like powerpc host byte order and network byte order are the same so if you forget to put in a conversion call it will have no effect at all on your code until you come to try it on a little endian cpu.
imo its the editors job to do checking like that not the submitter if every submitter did it then sites would get overrun with notifications that never lead anywhere
unfortunately it seems the guy used absoloute links inside his site so network mirror only got the first page:(
its tighter than the lgpl in that it doesn't let people add new approved interfaces to the code for the propietry software to call.
though i can't see any rules stopping you from modifyiing the stuff behind the appoved interfaces and therefore basterdising them in some way (for example making a previously undifined result into some feature you wan't)
imho this is less evil than what mysql and trolltech do (which is understandable, they wan't to make money but shows that free software isn't really thier goal lukilly for us trolltech were slow enough about releasing thier code that we got a decent lgpl alternative) but not as nice as say lgpl.
hydro power at least the dam type (run of the river hydro systems exist but i'm pretty sure they represent much less capacity than ones with dams) is actually one of the most flexible types of power. so much so that in some places water is actually pumped back up to store energy during slack periods (known as pumped storage).
OCGT is very flexible but one of the most expensive types to run.
coal plants and CCGT plants can fairly flexible but running up and down does mean quite a bit more wear especilly if the plants aren't designed for it. coal plants are cheap to run though so tend to get run at full capacity 24/7 anyway.
if they have shell access then they could just use a seperate app to forward the data. ssh's build in port forwarding doesn't really let you do anything you couldn't do other ways.
if a user can login to a system behind your firewall then they can acess stuff behind your firewall unless you take specific action to stop them (ie local firewalls with user restriction).
i was thinking more the software side of the grapics subsystem than the hardware side.
ie make the mac graphics software need to see the card in some special way (possiblly some addresses transposed or something) and make the motherboard allow for that.
the reason i mention grphics is because its 1: not the kernel and therefore not opensource and 2: its software thats closely tied to the hardware arrangements both in the motherboard and in the card itself
code generation is good for repetitive stuff especially if your language doesn't have much in the way of a built in preprocessor
say for example producing similar load on demand wrappers for a load of functions in a dynamic library.
p.s./. seems to be restricting me to one post every 15 mins right now dunno why (the error says Slashdot requires you to wait 2 minutes between each successful posting of a comment to allow everyone a fair chance at posting a comment.
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when solar sailing you have gravity pulling you in and solar wind blowing you out manipulate this difference and given a suitable route you should be able to make a course to any point in the solar system (given sufficiant time).
i remember they had a couple of atomic clock units (clocks not just oscilators) on the royal instituation chrsitmas lecutres series (broadcast on the bbc) and they had some kind of computer setup that they could use to bring them very very close to synchronised.
with the expermental uses theese clocks get put too its not about the absoloute set time its about synchronising the clocks then haveing them behave in a very consistant matter from then on (obviously allowing for relativistic effects from moving the clocks)
i've always belived that domain names should be permanent for as long as they are paid up. IE you shouldn't be forced to rename messing up your configurations and others ways of contacting you just on the whim of the registration bodies.
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umm thats a package for hppa not x86-64
afaict its far far from a vanilla 4.3 though.
especailly with key system components as release gets closer debian often preffers to backport what they wan't than move to new upstream versions.
is 14 cds all that big for what is essentially an archive of every peice of free software a debian maintainer has ever cared to package?
packages on the cds (i belive cd1 is an exception getting special criteria) are placed onto cds by popcon (an optional package that reports back what packages you have installed) output so the high cds will contain really obscure stuff
the only time i'd even consider getting or making a full cd set is if i knew i was going to be away from the net for a long time.
if you have a net connection just use either the buisnesscard (base system and full selection of kernels) the netinst (base system and stuff you need for the standard "tasks") or the full cd1. don't bother with the other cds.
before you even think of doing this on a remote system.
1: there is a package called doc-base that if installed will cause BIG problems unless you upgrade or remove it first.
2: aptitude is generally considered to make safer descions about upgrade order than apt-get
i'd imagine the endian issue is worse for mac developers than pc developers.
with a little endian system like i386 you have network byte order and host byte order so as long as you make sure you use appropriate conversion routines to do the conversions you will be fine on a big endian system.
otoh with a big endian system like powerpc host byte order and network byte order are the same so if you forget to put in a conversion call it will have no effect at all on your code until you come to try it on a little endian cpu.
imo its the editors job to do checking like that not the submitter if every submitter did it then sites would get overrun with notifications that never lead anywhere
:(
unfortunately it seems the guy used absoloute links inside his site so network mirror only got the first page
its tighter than the lgpl in that it doesn't let people add new approved interfaces to the code for the propietry software to call.
though i can't see any rules stopping you from modifyiing the stuff behind the appoved interfaces and therefore basterdising them in some way (for example making a previously undifined result into some feature you wan't)
imho this is less evil than what mysql and trolltech do (which is understandable, they wan't to make money but shows that free software isn't really thier goal lukilly for us trolltech were slow enough about releasing thier code that we got a decent lgpl alternative) but not as nice as say lgpl.
hydro power at least the dam type (run of the river hydro systems exist but i'm pretty sure they represent much less capacity than ones with dams) is actually one of the most flexible types of power. so much so that in some places water is actually pumped back up to store energy during slack periods (known as pumped storage).
OCGT is very flexible but one of the most expensive types to run.
coal plants and CCGT plants can fairly flexible but running up and down does mean quite a bit more wear especilly if the plants aren't designed for it. coal plants are cheap to run though so tend to get run at full capacity 24/7 anyway.
nuclear tends the least flexible of them all.
nah the cheapest you can pay on road tax is £0 ;)
you just have to buy a car old enough to get the historic vehircle exception.
if they have shell access then they could just use a seperate app to forward the data. ssh's build in port forwarding doesn't really let you do anything you couldn't do other ways.
if a user can login to a system behind your firewall then they can acess stuff behind your firewall unless you take specific action to stop them (ie local firewalls with user restriction).
13A sockets (wired onto 30A rings with fused plugs) are the norm here in the uk so you can pull about 3KW from a normal socket.
in the us normal sockets give you far less power, they have a similar current rating (16A) but run at half the voltage.
but yeah 4.8KW would need a special cuircuit in most places.
if you use privilage seperation then tunnels come from the userid that created them.
therefore you should be able to control them with iptables user matching
i was thinking more the software side of the grapics subsystem than the hardware side.
ie make the mac graphics software need to see the card in some special way (possiblly some addresses transposed or something) and make the motherboard allow for that.
the reason i mention grphics is because its 1: not the kernel and therefore not opensource and 2: its software thats closely tied to the hardware arrangements both in the motherboard and in the card itself
code generation is good for repetitive stuff especially if your language doesn't have much in the way of a built in preprocessor
/. seems to be restricting me to one post every 15 mins right now dunno why (the error says Slashdot requires you to wait 2 minutes between each successful posting of a comment to allow everyone a fair chance at posting a comment.
say for example producing similar load on demand wrappers for a load of functions in a dynamic library.
p.s.
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could have been i guess it definately looked similar to the pic in http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acorn_Business_Comput er
was the NS32016 considered a risc chip?
you quote 97 for archimedies which seems way way wrong to me and indeed wikipedia claims a more reasonable date of 1987
wikipedia doesn't have any mention of this risc workstation that i'm sure i read about in pre-archimedies bcc micro magazines
i'm pretty damn sure that before the archimedies line acorn had a system they called the risc workstation
i dunno how it compared to other workstations of the time but i do know it was a bloody expensive system
when solar sailing you have gravity pulling you in and solar wind blowing you out manipulate this difference and given a suitable route you should be able to make a course to any point in the solar system (given sufficiant time).
kinda a pity when you consider the arm started life as a high end risc workstation cpu
i remember they had a couple of atomic clock units (clocks not just oscilators) on the royal instituation chrsitmas lecutres series (broadcast on the bbc) and they had some kind of computer setup that they could use to bring them very very close to synchronised.
with the expermental uses theese clocks get put too its not about the absoloute set time its about synchronising the clocks then haveing them behave in a very consistant matter from then on (obviously allowing for relativistic effects from moving the clocks)
yeah you can run linux on the xbox and some custom xbox homebrew stuff
i don't seem all that much sucess running xbox code on other x86 boxes (theres an emulator but from what i gather it still has fairly serious issues)
i also belive the only way windows has been run on the xbox is using vmware on top of linux hardly what you would call running anything like native.
and sure you have the source to darwin but not to things like apples grapics system which should be pretty easy to break on non-apple hardware
even if you use more or less standard pc parts its still pretty easy to change enough to break stuff look at the xbox for example
and unless you have source to the os its bloody hard to deal with such breakages
you can't really hack up a dvd without making a copy of it though
its not like say a print of a painting in this regard
if there is any way to make such tweaks to an already installed system?
i've always belived that domain names should be permanent for as long as they are paid up. IE you shouldn't be forced to rename messing up your configurations and others ways of contacting you just on the whim of the registration bodies.