> Any ginko users? Have you noticed any difference in your mental stimulation?
Definitely. That and Chromium Picolinate (sp?) was what I took to stay awake when I was a tape ape, mounting tapes all night long. Much less edg than caffiene, did not wear off nearly as quickly. But long term, it may have been just as bad for me, where I became very emotionally unstable, though severe depression did not help either.
Caffeine gives me a short boost in that hyperfocused attention span that I need when coding, but in the long run it's destructive. I've actually written better code when drunk, but that's not really well-accepted at work.
Had a penguin mint once. Tasted kinda funny, so I looked at the box. Nutrasweet. Spit it out, still had a headache the rest of the day. Half the people I know are violently allergic to Nutrasweet, and I'm just mildly so in comparison.
Heat table sugar on your stove (students; that means hotplate or "BIC" array, or even candels), in a double boiler, (the temperature it burns at is extremely close to the temperature it "cooks" at) and it first turns to a clear liquid. But then it turns brown (becomes caramel). Why?
I'm neither a chemist nor a cook but it sounds like the difference between melting and burning. Carmel is burnt sugar.
Yes, most people don't know that you can run any browser on top of AOL. But you don't get better performance by doing it. By running an external browser, you bypass AOL's cache servers. Considering that AOL's cache servers have a very good cache hit rate, and every test, including Inverse Technologies tests, show that the cache servers at AOL make it one of the fastest places to get a web page by a wide margin.
Check out www.sluggy.com for a rather compelling reason not to use the AOL browser. It was broken before, it's broken now.
There's no need to have anyone surfing channels looking for abusers. You just meter the connection. Exceed X amount transferred in Y days and have your bandwidth throttled by a factor of Z. Totally automatic. Coldly fair.
> They do occasional port scans, and then tell violators to turn off service or get their service terminated
Better be a really fast scan. I have most services turned off already as a matter of security (I use fetchmail to get my mail from my ISP). What I do have on those ports are boobytraps that firewall off the scanner. If I could get it to just refuse the connection as if it weren't listening, I'd love to do that but have no idea how.
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This makes me wonder, why not make linux software work like CPAN? One client, one command to download, build, and install, dependencies included. Make it work with rpm, apt, cvsup, you name it. C'mon, it's a complex scripting problem but it sure isn't impossible.
FreeBSD is 90% of the way to doing that too, it just isn't renown for end-user friendliness either.
> That is, Linux is LESS STABLE than microkernel architectures because a bad driver or module can't bring down the system. Linux performs better than microkernel systems.
Weeeelllllllll.... depends on the microkernel. NT clains to be a microkernel, and from what I've read of the design docs, it kinda sorta is. But it loses on the device driver front, because a bad driver will bring down NT every time.
> but if the main process dies then all child threads die.
AHEM, HELLO, BULLSHIT. This exactly DOES NOT happen under the windows process/threading model, and IS what happens under most other models. I personally consider it a FEATURE when the main thread cleans up the suboordinate threads when it dies. If the main thread dies, YOUR APPLICATION HAS QUIT. There is no reason to keep the rest of the threads around.
I defy you to show how EITHER model adversely affects system stability.
Why do you assume that Linux doesn't have hundreds of really good coders working (at least effectively) for pay? Strictly in the kernel (and off the top o'my head): Alan Cox, Steven Tweedie, Dave Miller, the guys VAR pays to port to Merced, (I think) Ingo (God of the P3), and I know a few others. Going farther out, Apache is paid for by IBM now, Jeremy Allison is on SGI's payroll to do JUST Samba (and they've admitted to paying other people to work on Linux, both the kernel and apps).
Please to be pointing out the PhD theses written by any of them?
> Wonder what would happen to the NT's stats if you opened up a copy of IE or Netscape and started browsing the net with it.
Where I work, it's a firing offense to use the servers for your personal use, like web browsing. Most other companies take a similarly dim view of such activities.
They should be afraid. As a rock climber I once knew said (and probably quoted from someone else) "If you're not afraid, you're not alive."
Linux should be afraid. Fear is the perfect motivator. Does it suck being afraid all the time? Perhaps. But it keeps the mountain climber on the mountain, and keeps your users from being afraid of falling behind (for whatever reason they need to move ahead).
It's entirely possible some people speak English as a second language.
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> QT is an excellent library but it ain't free (speech).
Tell that to RMS, who has blessed it with the Free Software moniker.
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Oh christ, templates again. Look idiot, from Ada to Haskell to variants of Java (Pizza), Generic Programming is a good thing, it's here to stay, and atavists who insist on going back to assembly with drum memory and tape drives for all are not going to change that. Tell me, do you have ANY formal background in CS to qualify your wild assertions about what ideas of programming are good or bad?
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That's scary ... that's how strychnine works too. So hey, all the hax0r d00dz who think caffeine is free energy may as well take strychnine.
> Any ginko users? Have you noticed any difference in your mental stimulation?
Definitely. That and Chromium Picolinate (sp?) was what I took to stay awake when I was a tape ape, mounting tapes all night long. Much less edg than caffiene, did not wear off nearly as quickly. But long term, it may have been just as bad for me, where I became very emotionally unstable, though severe depression did not help either.
Caffeine gives me a short boost in that hyperfocused attention span that I need when coding, but in the long run it's destructive. I've actually written better code when drunk, but that's not really well-accepted at work.
Had a penguin mint once. Tasted kinda funny, so I looked at the box. Nutrasweet. Spit it out, still had a headache the rest of the day. Half the people I know are violently allergic to Nutrasweet, and I'm just mildly so in comparison.
I'm neither a chemist nor a cook but it sounds like the difference between melting and burning. Carmel is burnt sugar.
The dress code at Sun Microsystems:
"You must."
-- Scott McNealy
> But could we find a better looking AOL graphic? I think that's one JPEG that's been through the washer one too many times.
Considering what the AOL browser does to jpegs, I think it's really pretty appropriate.
I wish the spam icon were a little less blurry though.
Check out www.sluggy.com for a rather compelling reason not to use the AOL browser. It was broken before, it's broken now.
> who wants to pay $100 for a GUI that isn't compatible w/ X.
Every windows and mac user.
There's no need to have anyone surfing channels looking for abusers. You just meter the connection. Exceed X amount transferred in Y days and have your bandwidth throttled by a factor of Z. Totally automatic. Coldly fair.
> They do occasional port scans, and then tell violators to turn off service or get their service terminated
Better be a really fast scan. I have most services turned off already as a matter of security (I use fetchmail to get my mail from my ISP). What I do have on those ports are boobytraps that firewall off the scanner. If I could get it to just refuse the connection as if it weren't listening, I'd love to do that but have no idea how.
This makes me wonder, why not make linux software work like CPAN? One client, one command to download, build, and install, dependencies included. Make it work with rpm, apt, cvsup, you name it. C'mon, it's a complex scripting problem but it sure isn't impossible.
FreeBSD is 90% of the way to doing that too, it just isn't renown for end-user friendliness either.
> On Redhat you start up GnoRPM
Couldn't name it "install new software" or anything, eh? Let's play a guessing game. I have a tool called VnaBRG. What does it do?
> Last message I read about it on klm says that performance has recently matched apache.
Any Apache developer will tell you that's nothing to brag about.
> That is, Linux is LESS STABLE than microkernel architectures because a bad driver or module can't bring down the system. Linux performs better than microkernel systems.
Weeeelllllllll.... depends on the microkernel.
NT clains to be a microkernel, and from what I've read of the design docs, it kinda sorta is. But it loses on the device driver front, because a bad driver will bring down NT every time.
> Pretty much everybody has eschewed the microkernel model at this point
Is there ANYBODY left on slashdot who knows what the hell they're talking about?
NT is a microkernel. They're embedding it now.
BeOS is a microkernel.
MacOS X is a microkernel.
HURD is a microkernel. (okay, that doesn't count)
> but if the main process dies then all child threads die.
AHEM, HELLO, BULLSHIT. This exactly DOES NOT happen under the windows process/threading model, and IS what happens under most other models. I personally consider it a FEATURE when the main thread cleans up the suboordinate threads when it dies. If the main thread dies, YOUR APPLICATION HAS QUIT. There is no reason to keep the rest of the threads around.
I defy you to show how EITHER model adversely affects system stability.
Please to be pointing out the PhD theses written by any of them?
> Give me a break. If you need them, today, then put them in. Otherwise use something else. The world is full of armchair quarterbacks.
"Linux: Do it your damn self, and stop bothering us."
Where I work, they spend more money buying sandwiches for meetings than you would pay for an NT server license.
Not everyone works out of their bedroom.
> Wonder what would happen to the NT's stats if you opened up a copy of IE or Netscape and started browsing the net with it.
Where I work, it's a firing offense to use the servers for your personal use, like web browsing. Most other companies take a similarly dim view of such activities.
They should be afraid. As a rock climber I once knew said (and probably quoted from someone else) "If you're not afraid, you're not alive."
Linux should be afraid. Fear is the perfect motivator. Does it suck being afraid all the time? Perhaps. But it keeps the mountain climber on the mountain, and keeps your users from being afraid of falling behind (for whatever reason they need to move ahead).
Maybe you didn't read the graph right. That's a 1-processor NT box that tied the 4-processor linux box.
Ouch.
> What is this, stream of consciousness writing?
It's entirely possible some people speak English as a second language.
> QT is an excellent library but it ain't free (speech).
Tell that to RMS, who has blessed it with the Free Software moniker.
Oh christ, templates again. Look idiot, from Ada to Haskell to variants of Java (Pizza), Generic Programming is a good thing, it's here to stay, and atavists who insist on going back to assembly with drum memory and tape drives for all are not going to change that. Tell me, do you have ANY formal background in CS to qualify your wild assertions about what ideas of programming are good or bad?