Haven't you learned the lesson from DEC? They used the "appropriate" name altavista.digital.com for their search engine, and then had to spend 3 million dollars to buy the "inappropriate" domain name altavista.com. Plus, who can type domainmagistrate.networksolutions.com without making a typo?
Yes, you are uninformed. CompUSA and BestBuy are luser-oriented, while Fry's is geek-oriented. You can find all kinds of connectors, cables, converters, motherboards, cases, drives, memory, etc, although the prices are pretty high. They also carry customer electronics, but I would never buy a TV or fridge from Fry's. Their customer service SUCKS, and they make you jump through all kinds of loops if you want to return something.
The fwhois that Red Hat ships really sucks and seems to be unmaintained. The syntax is non-standard ('whois query@server' instead of the more standard 'whois -h server query'). This causes a lot of problem when you try to search an email address. It's about time they update this little pathetic tool with something that knows about the new NSI registry, arin, and the country top level domains.
If the US switches to the metric system, the kids would have a much easier time to learn math and science. Why do people always complain that Amrican kids are not interested in math and science? Simple, the metric system is just not intuitive to them.
Look at the stock market: they still use things like 1/32 and 3/16, it's just ridiculous. When you see a stock price change from 7/32 to 3/16, it's not even instantly clear if the stock has gone up or down!
When people use the metric system, science and math just become so much more intutive. Similarly, people brought up with the octal or hexadecimal system would be great computer scientists. I wished we would all use a hexadecimal system when I tried to learn transforming a decimal floating point number to binary!
Not just cheaper, but free. Coming soon: www.namezero.com I'm not affiliated with the company, I'm just glad that Network Solutions' will get a formidable competitor.
Having a 2G file size limit does not mean you can't have a table or database with more than 2G of data. Actually most Oracle tuning books recommend splitting huge tables into multiple datafiles, for ease of backups, among other reasons.
Linus answered a devfs question at the Linux Expo last month in San Jose. He said he likes the idea of devfs, but doesn't like the naming schemes.
I personally would really love to see devfs included in the official kernel. There are so many hot pluggable hard drives these days, it's really ridiculous to have to rename each device every time you pull out or insert a disk.
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Haven't you learned the lesson from DEC? They used the "appropriate" name altavista.digital.com for their search engine, and then had to spend 3 million dollars to buy the "inappropriate" domain name altavista.com. Plus, who can type domainmagistrate.networksolutions.com without making a typo?
Yes, you are uninformed. CompUSA and BestBuy are luser-oriented, while Fry's is geek-oriented. You can find all kinds of connectors, cables, converters, motherboards, cases, drives, memory, etc, although the prices are pretty high. They also carry customer electronics, but I would never buy a TV or fridge from Fry's. Their customer service SUCKS, and they make you jump through all kinds of loops if you want to return something.
The fwhois that Red Hat ships really sucks and seems to be unmaintained. The syntax is non-standard ('whois query@server' instead of the more standard 'whois -h server query'). This causes a lot of problem when you try to search an email address. It's about time they update this little pathetic tool with something that knows about the new NSI registry, arin, and the country top level domains.
If the US switches to the metric system, the kids would have a much easier time to learn math and science. Why do people always complain that Amrican kids are not interested in math and science? Simple, the metric system is just not intuitive to them.
Look at the stock market: they still use things like 1/32 and 3/16, it's just ridiculous. When you see a stock price change from 7/32 to 3/16, it's not even instantly clear if the stock has gone up or down!
When people use the metric system, science and math just become so much more intutive. Similarly, people brought up with the octal or hexadecimal system would be great computer scientists. I wished we would all use a hexadecimal system when I tried to learn transforming a decimal floating point number to binary!
Not just cheaper, but free. Coming soon: www.namezero.com I'm not affiliated with the company, I'm just glad that Network Solutions' will get a formidable competitor.
Having a 2G file size limit does not mean you can't have a table or database with more than 2G of data. Actually most Oracle tuning books recommend splitting huge tables into multiple datafiles, for ease of backups, among other reasons.
Is LVM going in? FreeBSD has had it for a while now. I can't wait another year or two for LVM in the kernel.
Linus answered a devfs question at the Linux Expo last month in San Jose. He said he likes the idea of devfs, but doesn't like the naming schemes.
I personally would really love to see devfs included in the official kernel. There are so many hot pluggable hard drives these days, it's really ridiculous to have to rename each device every time you pull out or insert a disk.