Re:This is not as suprising as you might think
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GTK+ without X!
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Well the dependency on the X font server is getting less and less in the development code. Take a look at Pango to see what they are up to. They have got some nice screenshots of things like the text widgets being able easily represent languages that move right to left(Arabic etc).
GTK+ isn't going to blow any life back into SVGAlib. The Linux framebuffer is not the same thing as SVGAlib. SVGAlib is a userspace library, that requires root access to do nasty things to your video card(like poking at its IO ports and memory directly). The Linux framebuffer on the other hand is an in kernel device, treated as a character device(I believe a mmap()able character device). So the kernel provides a nice clean interface to the video card, along with security policies of not letting the users do dumb stuff to it, or accessing memory it isn't supposed to. A lot of other UNIX OS's have a framebuffer, Solaris in particular comes to mind.
The nice thing about this is of course, not needing suid on binaries just to get access to a graphics mode on the video card. There are X servers that utilized the Linux FB right now(XF86_FBDev in XFree86 3.3.x). Of course the drivers that are currently in kernel are not the fastest things on the face of the planet(yet).
And BTW, the GGI project is basically dead, as their work was pretty much supersceded by the Linux FB.
PS: Please make sure you understand what your talking about before you go on about people missing the point...
They didn't name the first Pentium the 586 because Intel couldn't trademark '586' and you of course cannot trademark numbers. Mainly they were pissy that companies like AMD and Cyrix were spitting out 486 clones and calling them a 486. They didn't want anymore of that, so they called it the Pentium(from the prefix Penta- meaning 5 in case you were too stupid to figure that out)
Besides the flaw that the original pentium had regarding incorrect answers to arthemtic was not integer based but floating point, so the orginial pentiums even with the screwed FPU would still spit out 100 + 486 = 586, this is because its not a floating point number.
Okay, smoke some more crack please. There usually are no good signs of a 'hacker' from the outside. What you have described my friend is a script kiddie.
Usually the hackers are the kids who are never out with friends on a Friday or Saturday night because they are locked up in their room with a case of Dr. Pepper, trying to figure out how to make their computer do X thing that is wasn't designed to do.
Quite frankly I've I came across the person your describing I'd probably laugh at him.
Oh and BTW, 2600 has really been a valid hacker resource in quite a while...More than anything its become a large soapbox...
But you see, Beer is a manly drink, perhaps the perfection of manliness in a single bottle. What other drink can make a man blech and fart with such ease.
As far as pornography goes, not all women are feminazis, and some women get a power trip from using their body as a way to manipulate men for their own selfish desires(money, power etc..).
Obviously you are unfamiliar with the lifestyle of a dominiatrix.
Well don't use the kernel from Mandrake then. Goto ftp.kernel.org and download Linus' offical kernel and compile your own. I rarely leave a box I just setup with the default kernel the distro ships.
Regardless, the kernel issue is solved. As for userspace apps, that can be another story. But there is nothing to stop you from deciding what you feel should be *your* standard userspace setup. Don't like your vendors default WM, go download the source to another, and compile. Problem solved.
I always find it interesting how Washington, DC is usually left out as one of the largest hub cities in the country, if not the world. People seem to forget that MAE-East is in the Virginia suburbs of DC, McLean, VA if I remember correctly. UUNet/MCI/Worldcom or whatever they are calling themselves this week have a rather massive NOC that they just built even further out in the sticks of Virginia(out by Dulles Airport). Not to mention that most every major ISP in the world has some sort of connectivity to MAE-East.
Compile reiserfs in statically then. I also noticed that the guy earlier in this thread was using 3.5.17, which I know is a rather old release of reiserfs. I believe the current version is 3.5.27.
Censorship is a bad thing, regardless of who is being censored. Yes, the atrocities that happened during WWII should not be allowed to happen again. But if we silence one group of people, who is to say that *you* won't be next?
Freedom of speech is not about being able to hear what you agree with, but allowing somebody to say what you don't agree with.
If you take a look at what the Nazi's did, you'll note that one of the first things they did was silence the jews via fear. As a result, they were a silent people, and a silent person might as well be a dead person...
One of the things not often mentioned with multiprocess vs multithreaded applications is the penalty you must pay for keeping the cache on multiple CPUs sync'ed when dealing with multiple threads. Also with linux threads are scheduled in the exact same fashion as processes so you gain even less.
Now on an OS like Solaris, you might gain from multiple threads, but only because Solaris' scheduler can tend to suck hairy nuts at times...
Note that some Christians don't think anything other than Christianity is a real religion. Its ends up being a part of the religion. Of course as far as his quote regarding witchcraft, it is his right not to acknowledge it if he chooses not to, as it is my right not to acknoledge Christianity or any other relgion if I choose not to. Witchcraft of course a bit misunderstood, and if you go with the all of the stereotypes and negativity associated with the word, one can even understand where he is coming from on it..
Personally I don't really care if anybody in government acknowledges *ANY* religion, as its is not the role of government to say this way is right and the other way is not right...
I think Govenor Bush adquelately answered the question for me...
Personally I believe by not voting you really end up foritting your right to bitch about the state of affairs in our government. Vote for the candidate you(I said you, not your neighbor Joe or anybody else, but you) feel would be a good leader for the country, regardless of whether your think he has a chance of winning or not. At least then when things with a leader are going shitty at least you can say, "I didn't vote him in, did you?"
By not voting your basically saying that your not able to make a decision about government, therefore I'll let somebody else make the decisions for me. But then again the majority of americans tend to like it this way. Consider how many people between 18-30 still live at home with their parents(No I'm not one of those people living at home...I'm 20 and I'm out on my own, not in a dorm either). You know why most of them are still there? Because why should they, somebody will take care of all of their needs and desires, so why should they have to work for it. I personally find it repulsive, but it seems to be the American way these days...
Yeah have MTV standing out there shoving big piles of liberal bullshit down the throats of our youth, and basically telling them that this is the one true way and that to believe anything else makes you a totalitarian.
No thank you, I'll pass on that.
Seriously though, what needs to be done is somehow getting the point across that voting is a socially responsible thing to do, wait a minute, most people have no idea what social responsiblity is, unless of course it has to do with them holding society responsible for *their* actions. I guess in such case, if your too damn dumb to realize you should vote, maybe then your not intelligent enough to make a decision at all....
Anybody who works 80 hours a week is simply a moron. Plain and simple. No amount of money is worth sacraficing your personal life over. Your better off just finding a good job that pays well, that might not have the huge stock options. Your only young once and years down the road when your in your mid 30's balding, with no family and no experiences to look back on from your early 20's, your realize it wasn't worth it...
Don't be fooled by anybody who tells you otherwise...
This is a question that I've long pondered. To me it doesn't seem right that just because you make more money that somebody else, means that your required by law to pay more taxes, per dollar than somebody else.
Think about it, why should net income be a deciding factor regarding in income taxes? What is wrong with a flat tax rate, of say 20% across the board. Everybody will end up paying their share of the costs of running government.
Of course in this country nobody wants to talk about fair or equality. It comes down to class warfare. The middle class envy the wealthy for being wealthy, and they feel that they should have to pay a greater percentage of taxes for being wealthy, almost as a form of punishment for being finanically successful.
Consider if somebody who made, for example $1 million dollars a year, and the IRS takes, $300k of that, their ends up being $300k of money that cannot circulate back into the economy. Now if he was given a tax break of say 10%, he now has $100k extra to invest into various business ventures, purchase of goods etc. $100k can easily pay the wages of 2 middle class workers. Yes, I know basically what I'm pointing out is trickle down economics, which in my opinion does work. I think a lot of our economic prosperity it due to the policies of the Reagan/Bush administrations. How you ask? Well economic policies don't affect the economy over night, sometimes it can be a matter of years before the changes work through all levels of the economy. Notice that as we come to the end of Clinton's 8 years in office, the economy is showing signs of slowing. Perhaps this could be the result of 8 years of Clinton economic policy?
I guess we'll all decide in just a few weeks now how we feel about the issue....
Re:Linux Torvalds has been working on Crusoe linux
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HURD For 'Big Iron'?
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I wonder if maybe what is necessary is a kernel configuration option that says something like...
"I got a big ass system with 64 cpus and 12GB of ram so give me the MM optimized for it" where as all of us peons who have small systems can use the normal MM. Sure you end up having to maintain two different MM trees, but the again isn't that what arch/* is for?
Actually a year or so ago I did say "hmm..my Slackware box is a major pain in the ass to administer...now what the hell program does this damn 3MB file belong to?" Hearing the things that I did about RPM, I said what the hell, anything has got to be better..I haven't switched back since.
And these people put money into various investments and what not, and often these investments end up in banks. And then the banks in turn loan the money to people wanting to buy cars, houses etc...
The basic point here is that the more the government takes out in taxes means the less money that circulates through the economy, and this is a good thing.
If you don't like this, well then tough, its been that way in the US for a long time, and probably isn't going to change much in the near future. I'm sure you could probably have a warm welcome in either China or Cuba if you wanted to defect..
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Well the dependency on the X font server is getting less and less in the development code. Take a look at Pango to see what they are up to. They have got some nice screenshots of things like the text widgets being able easily represent languages that move right to left(Arabic etc).
GTK+ isn't going to blow any life back into SVGAlib. The Linux framebuffer is not the same thing as SVGAlib. SVGAlib is a userspace library, that requires root access to do nasty things to your video card(like poking at its IO ports and memory directly). The Linux framebuffer on the other hand is an in kernel device, treated as a character device(I believe a mmap()able character device). So the kernel provides a nice clean interface to the video card, along with security policies of not letting the users do dumb stuff to it, or accessing memory it isn't supposed to. A lot of other UNIX OS's have a framebuffer, Solaris in particular comes to mind.
The nice thing about this is of course, not needing suid on binaries just to get access to a graphics mode on the video card. There are X servers that utilized the Linux FB right now(XF86_FBDev in XFree86 3.3.x). Of course the drivers that are currently in kernel are not the fastest things on the face of the planet(yet).
And BTW, the GGI project is basically dead, as their work was pretty much supersceded by the Linux FB.
PS: Please make sure you understand what your talking about before you go on about people missing the point...
You can do the following, of course this only works if you've got rsync installed...
n ux-2.4.0.tar.bz2 linux-2.4.0.tar.bz2
rsync rsync://rsync.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.4/li
But make sure that you remove the space that slashcode likes to put on long lines...
Dave Miller was working on getting Linux to run on the E10K but gave up when he switched jobs and no longer had access to an idle E10K.
So at least the last time I checked Linux didn't run on the E10K, as for the E4500 I dunno, it may.
They didn't name the first Pentium the 586 because Intel couldn't trademark '586' and you of course cannot trademark numbers. Mainly they were pissy that companies like AMD and Cyrix were spitting out 486 clones and calling them a 486. They didn't want anymore of that, so they called it the Pentium(from the prefix Penta- meaning 5 in case you were too stupid to figure that out) Besides the flaw that the original pentium had regarding incorrect answers to arthemtic was not integer based but floating point, so the orginial pentiums even with the screwed FPU would still spit out 100 + 486 = 586, this is because its not a floating point number.
As long as Bill Leeb didn't have anything to do with it I'm happy.
PS(Fuck you Bill Leeb, you rat bastard)
Okay, smoke some more crack please. There usually are no good signs of a 'hacker' from the outside. What you have described my friend is a script kiddie.
Usually the hackers are the kids who are never out with friends on a Friday or Saturday night because they are locked up in their room with a case of Dr. Pepper, trying to figure out how to make their computer do X thing that is wasn't designed to do.
Quite frankly I've I came across the person your describing I'd probably laugh at him.
Oh and BTW, 2600 has really been a valid hacker resource in quite a while...More than anything its become a large soapbox...
But you see, Beer is a manly drink, perhaps the perfection of manliness in a single bottle. What other drink can make a man blech and fart with such ease.
As far as pornography goes, not all women are feminazis, and some women get a power trip from using their body as a way to manipulate men for their own selfish desires(money, power etc..).
Obviously you are unfamiliar with the lifestyle of a dominiatrix.
Done ranting for a bit...
Well don't use the kernel from Mandrake then. Goto ftp.kernel.org and download Linus' offical kernel and compile your own. I rarely leave a box I just setup with the default kernel the distro ships.
Regardless, the kernel issue is solved. As for userspace apps, that can be another story. But there is nothing to stop you from deciding what you feel should be *your* standard userspace setup. Don't like your vendors default WM, go download the source to another, and compile. Problem solved.
I always find it interesting how Washington, DC is usually left out as one of the largest hub cities in the country, if not the world. People seem to forget that MAE-East is in the Virginia suburbs of DC, McLean, VA if I remember correctly. UUNet/MCI/Worldcom or whatever they are calling themselves this week have a rather massive NOC that they just built even further out in the sticks of Virginia(out by Dulles Airport). Not to mention that most every major ISP in the world has some sort of connectivity to MAE-East.
Compile reiserfs in statically then. I also noticed that the guy earlier in this thread was using 3.5.17, which I know is a rather old release of reiserfs. I believe the current version is 3.5.27.
Censorship is a bad thing, regardless of who is being censored. Yes, the atrocities that happened during WWII should not be allowed to happen again. But if we silence one group of people, who is to say that *you* won't be next?
Freedom of speech is not about being able to hear what you agree with, but allowing somebody to say what you don't agree with.
If you take a look at what the Nazi's did, you'll note that one of the first things they did was silence the jews via fear. As a result, they were a silent people, and a silent person might as well be a dead person...
One of the things not often mentioned with multiprocess vs multithreaded applications is the penalty you must pay for keeping the cache on multiple CPUs sync'ed when dealing with multiple threads. Also with linux threads are scheduled in the exact same fashion as processes so you gain even less.
Now on an OS like Solaris, you might gain from multiple threads, but only because Solaris' scheduler can tend to suck hairy nuts at times...
Note that some Christians don't think anything other than Christianity is a real religion. Its ends up being a part of the religion. Of course as far as his quote regarding witchcraft, it is his right not to acknowledge it if he chooses not to, as it is my right not to acknoledge Christianity or any other relgion if I choose not to. Witchcraft of course a bit misunderstood, and if you go with the all of the stereotypes and negativity associated with the word, one can even understand where he is coming from on it..
Personally I don't really care if anybody in government acknowledges *ANY* religion, as its is not the role of government to say this way is right and the other way is not right...
I think Govenor Bush adquelately answered the question for me...
Well 2.4.0-test10 is one of the "greased weasel" kernels so 2.4.0 should be around real soon now.
Doesn't IBM own a nice chunk of RedHat?
Personally I believe by not voting you really end up foritting your right to bitch about the state of affairs in our government. Vote for the candidate you(I said you, not your neighbor Joe or anybody else, but you) feel would be a good leader for the country, regardless of whether your think he has a chance of winning or not. At least then when things with a leader are going shitty at least you can say, "I didn't vote him in, did you?"
By not voting your basically saying that your not able to make a decision about government, therefore I'll let somebody else make the decisions for me. But then again the majority of americans tend to like it this way. Consider how many people between 18-30 still live at home with their parents(No I'm not one of those people living at home...I'm 20 and I'm out on my own, not in a dorm either). You know why most of them are still there? Because why should they, somebody will take care of all of their needs and desires, so why should they have to work for it. I personally find it repulsive, but it seems to be the American way these days...
Yeah have MTV standing out there shoving big piles of liberal bullshit down the throats of our youth, and basically telling them that this is the one true way and that to believe anything else makes you a totalitarian.
No thank you, I'll pass on that.
Seriously though, what needs to be done is somehow getting the point across that voting is a socially responsible thing to do, wait a minute, most people have no idea what social responsiblity is, unless of course it has to do with them holding society responsible for *their* actions. I guess in such case, if your too damn dumb to realize you should vote, maybe then your not intelligent enough to make a decision at all....
Aaron
(Watching his karma go to nil)
Anybody who works 80 hours a week is simply a moron. Plain and simple. No amount of money is worth sacraficing your personal life over. Your better off just finding a good job that pays well, that might not have the huge stock options. Your only young once and years down the road when your in your mid 30's balding, with no family and no experiences to look back on from your early 20's, your realize it wasn't worth it...
Don't be fooled by anybody who tells you otherwise...
Nader is a communist
RAM is primarly capacitors, unless your dealing with static ram, then you'll see transistors used.
This is a question that I've long pondered. To me it doesn't seem right that just because you make more money that somebody else, means that your required by law to pay more taxes, per dollar than somebody else.
Think about it, why should net income be a deciding factor regarding in income taxes? What is wrong with a flat tax rate, of say 20% across the board. Everybody will end up paying their share of the costs of running government.
Of course in this country nobody wants to talk about fair or equality. It comes down to class warfare. The middle class envy the wealthy for being wealthy, and they feel that they should have to pay a greater percentage of taxes for being wealthy, almost as a form of punishment for being finanically successful.
Consider if somebody who made, for example $1 million dollars a year, and the IRS takes, $300k of that, their ends up being $300k of money that cannot circulate back into the economy. Now if he was given a tax break of say 10%, he now has $100k extra to invest into various business ventures, purchase of goods etc. $100k can easily pay the wages of 2 middle class workers. Yes, I know basically what I'm pointing out is trickle down economics, which in my opinion does work. I think a lot of our economic prosperity it due to the policies of the Reagan/Bush administrations. How you ask? Well economic policies don't affect the economy over night, sometimes it can be a matter of years before the changes work through all levels of the economy. Notice that as we come to the end of Clinton's 8 years in office, the economy is showing signs of slowing. Perhaps this could be the result of 8 years of Clinton economic policy?
I guess we'll all decide in just a few weeks now how we feel about the issue....
I wonder if maybe what is necessary is a kernel configuration option that says something like...
"I got a big ass system with 64 cpus and 12GB of ram so give me the MM optimized for it" where as all of us peons who have small systems can use the normal MM. Sure you end up having to maintain two different MM trees, but the again isn't that what arch/* is for?
Actually a year or so ago I did say "hmm..my Slackware box is a major pain in the ass to administer...now what the hell program does this damn 3MB file belong to?" Hearing the things that I did about RPM, I said what the hell, anything has got to be better..I haven't switched back since.
(an ex-slackware user)
And these people put money into various investments and what not, and often these investments end up in banks. And then the banks in turn loan the money to people wanting to buy cars, houses etc...
The basic point here is that the more the government takes out in taxes means the less money that circulates through the economy, and this is a good thing.
If you don't like this, well then tough, its been that way in the US for a long time, and probably isn't going to change much in the near future. I'm sure you could probably have a warm welcome in either China or Cuba if you wanted to defect..