. Still, a lot of other systems like Ubuntu, Debian, Slackware, Gentoo or Linspire do not use the RPM format and do not plan to incorporate it
Oh God, not again. The article provides one sided view on rpm vs. deb war. In fact this article sucks, whoever wrote it never did the homework on the matter and just thrown in some info on few packaging systems picked at random. If this was a decent article it would talk about the most current packaging formats like gentoo/bsd ports, would talk a lot about difference between deb/rpm, get some overview about most popular packaging systems: apt-get, rpm, urpmi, yast, emerge, pacman for Christ sake, but Nooo... it basically says that rpm is the only working format and whoever is not using it is gay.
Now this thing get linked here. Way to go, Slashdot!
Kaskpersky is certainly a very effective antivirus, a lot of security comes from using 100% of CPU when browsing network folders, thus preventing the user from downloading viruses.
All I got was a boring multi-tabbed document with some financial info. I thought someone just sent it to me by mistake. OpenOffice just opened it, no harm done.
I think that desktop linux is not ready because it still plagued by a problem of text configuration files. I'm perfectly OK configuring my debian box from various files in/etc directory, however most of the users e.g. normal people aren't, and as long as proper GUI configuration tools, like Control Panel in windows, are absent from KDE/GNOME desktop environments I don't think that majority of people would like to use it. And these tools would not be there for some time, because a few distros currently support common location of configuration files, and LSB itself is a joke: "LSB compliant system is the system that supports RPM package management". So until these things are going to get sorted out Linux will get mainstream, which is, I hope, just a couple of years from now.
And, yes I'm aware of Red Hat system-config-* stuff, the problem is, these utils aren't that great, an they not that well organized.
I had the similar problem running debian testing on older hardware, I work with first generation Compaq DL380/580 . In particular installer doesn't like some SCSI controllers, however this problem is easily solvable by installing base system of debian stable, using network install cd, then going to/etc/apt/sources.list and replacing stable mirror with unstable/testing, and then performing distro-upgrade. Works like a charm if you want to have a newer system on the older hardware. The only problem with this approach is that when updating the kernel from 2.4 -> 2.6, apt tries to remove 2.4 on the working system! so you first would have to install latest version of the 2.6 kernel for debian stable (it's 2.6.8 i think, then do dist-upgrade) and then install the latest kernel e.g. 2.6.18-3(etch) or 2.6.19(sid).
Do content protection requirements mean that graphics chips have to provide hardware acceleration for video decode?
No. The Windows Vista content protection requirements do not require that graphics hardware include hardware acceleration for decode for many years, but such support is highly recommended to improve the user experience for HD content.
I just love this answer, in the beginning of the sentence he says no, but at the end he says yes. Wow!
Last paragraph of the article: "You can't read big things into all these little wars," Hatch says. "It's like saying the North didn't win the Civil War just because a couple of battles were bad for us."
As Brian Hatch, an attorney working for SCO.
I'm no fan of RIAA, MPAA or DRM. However in this case I agree with them. The stuff that allofmp3 is doing is worst than the regular piracy, at least when you are sharing a torrent you don't get money off it. But these people are basically profit of other people's work, by making music piracy convenient (you have to get to some trouble to install torrent or edonkey or whatever...). Sort of a chop shop of intellectual property. So whoever is using this service is either a dumbass who can't even install a torrent client, and too cheap to use apple iTunes, or someone who thinks that paying anything for music will make any difference, at least for one's conscience. So I thing RIAA has a right to lobby the effort to shutdown allofmp3, and as for the argument that people at G8 summit should be discussing more important questions has the same validity as the one, that how can anyone read slashdot when people in Africa starving.
just my $0.02
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Welcome to the world of pain. After I upgraded my fedora core 4 to fedora core 5 on my Radeon 7000/VE I could not get dual head working and ended up swithching to debian testing, where I can safely use xorg 6.8.2 ( the last xorg version that worked propertly with my video card)
The person who designed the site should seek help immediately, I've seen quite of bit of painting whose authors were clients of different mental institution, and by looking at a mirro of this site I'm reminded of some of their works.
This article demonstrates one of the biggest problems with the democracy - idiots have a right to vote.
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Well, not necessarily once, I can always put that expression in a loop:
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If you read man pages of shred. You would actually discover that shred doesn't delete data that well from journaling file system such as ext3 and ReiserFS, plus mentioned somewhere in the thread above disk caching can reduce your write operations on disk surface to write operations inside disk cache, which makes shred just as effective as rm - so what's the point of using it?
Also here mentioned a nice way to wipe the hard drive, the only downside is - it wipes whole partitions.
Never let programmers watch robot chicken. I think in the last episode there was a sketch about a virus that deleted pr0n not only in user's computers but everywhere. The sketch ended with George W Bush begging an anonymous villan to give back the porn.
I guess someone took that idea seriously and implemented it.
>No, haven't they already said that? Like hundreds of times? And does it really >matter? Yes, they said that, if they hadn't said that, it wouldn't have matter.
>"No", who would run PHP on Java anyway? Why? Why would open-sourcing it help? Yes, because you would be able to use middleware such as JBoss and Hibernate API directly from PHP, Perl and whatever else there is. For example, there is a nice implementation of Python under Java so you can use Swing/AWT api, that makes a big difference, of course you can always use wxWidgets instead.
>No, Java is already desirable in my eyes. Yes. I'll worship the person who would implement multiple inheritance in java.
>"Could this be a way to help improve what's lacking in Java?" >No, what is lacking? Yes, change "Write once debug anywhere" to "Write once, run anywhere"
And what about that thing that every P language has to re-invent the wheel of translating script into its own format bytecode(I'm using Python as an example) and garbage collection if developers of that language could just use and/or improve already existing jvm. Little late, but not too late, plus, I'd really like to see a chip in a sell phone or such that understands java bytecode natively, since there are so many people who are using and developing applications under java on mobile platform, someone could actually make it run there fast.
make xconfig #removing lots of crap there
cp cp arch/i386/boot/bzImage/boot/vmlinuz
cp System.map/boot/System.map
mkinitrd/boot/initrd 2.6.16.2
# then fixing grub a bit
shutdown -r now
And off we go!
Slashdot Mirror
. Still, a lot of other systems like Ubuntu, Debian, Slackware, Gentoo or Linspire do not use the RPM format and do not plan to incorporate it
Oh God, not again. The article provides one sided view on rpm vs. deb war. In fact this article sucks, whoever wrote it never did the homework on the matter and just thrown in some info on few packaging systems picked at random. If this was a decent article it would talk about the most current packaging formats like gentoo/bsd ports, would talk a lot about difference between deb/rpm, get some overview about most popular packaging systems: apt-get, rpm, urpmi, yast, emerge, pacman for Christ sake, but Nooo... it basically says that rpm is the only working format and whoever is not using it is gay.
Now this thing get linked here. Way to go, Slashdot!
Kaskpersky is certainly a very effective antivirus, a lot of security comes from using 100% of CPU when browsing network folders, thus preventing the user from downloading viruses.
All I got was a boring multi-tabbed document with some financial info. I thought someone just sent it to me by mistake.
OpenOffice just opened it, no harm done.
I think that desktop linux is not ready because it still plagued by a problem of text configuration files. I'm perfectly OK configuring my debian box from various files in /etc directory, however most of the users e.g. normal people aren't, and as long as proper GUI configuration tools, like Control Panel in windows, are absent from KDE/GNOME desktop environments I don't think that majority of people would like to use it. And these tools would not be there for some time, because a few distros currently support common location of configuration files, and LSB itself is a joke: "LSB compliant system is the system that supports RPM package management". So until these things are going to get sorted out Linux will get mainstream, which is, I hope, just a couple of years from now.
And, yes I'm aware of Red Hat system-config-* stuff, the problem is, these utils aren't that great, an they not that well organized.
I had the similar problem running debian testing on older hardware, I work with first generation Compaq DL380/580 . In particular installer doesn't like some SCSI controllers, however this problem is easily solvable by installing base system of debian stable, using network install cd, then going to /etc/apt/sources.list and replacing stable mirror with unstable/testing, and then performing distro-upgrade. Works like a charm if you want to have a newer system on the older hardware.
The only problem with this approach is that when updating the kernel from 2.4 -> 2.6, apt tries to remove 2.4 on the working system! so you first would have to install latest version of the 2.6 kernel for debian stable (it's 2.6.8 i think, then do dist-upgrade) and then install the latest kernel e.g. 2.6.18-3(etch) or 2.6.19(sid).
Do content protection requirements mean that graphics chips have to provide hardware acceleration for video decode?
No. The Windows Vista content protection requirements do not require that graphics hardware include hardware acceleration for decode for many years, but such support is highly recommended to improve the user experience for HD content.
I just love this answer, in the beginning of the sentence he says no, but at the end he says yes. Wow!
Obviously you never used debian. It needs at least 24 MB of ram to run.
Watch out, here comes Leeloo.
In Soviet Russia... ...Uh, wait.
And all the sail boats, that go back to 14th sentury.
Last paragraph of the article:
"You can't read big things into all these little wars," Hatch says. "It's like saying the North didn't win the Civil War just because a couple of battles were bad for us."
As Brian Hatch, an attorney working for SCO.
What a moron.
I'm no fan of RIAA, MPAA or DRM. However in this case I agree with them. The stuff that allofmp3 is doing is worst than the regular piracy, at least when you are sharing a torrent you don't get money off it. But these people are basically profit of other people's work, by making music piracy convenient (you have to get to some trouble to install torrent or edonkey or whatever...). Sort of a chop shop of intellectual property. So whoever is using this service is either a dumbass who can't even install a torrent client, and too cheap to use apple iTunes, or someone who thinks that paying anything for music will make any difference, at least for one's conscience. So I thing RIAA has a right to lobby the effort to shutdown allofmp3, and as for the argument that people at G8 summit should be discussing more important questions has the same validity as the one, that how can anyone read slashdot when people in Africa starving.
just my $0.02
Welcome to the world of pain.
After I upgraded my fedora core 4 to fedora core 5 on my Radeon 7000/VE I could not get dual head working and ended up swithching to debian testing, where I can safely use xorg 6.8.2 ( the last xorg version that worked propertly with my video card)
Is it my eyes or Captain Copyright wears Adolf Hitler-style mustache.
The person who designed the site should seek help immediately, I've seen quite of bit of painting whose authors were clients of different mental institution, and by looking at a mirro of this site I'm reminded of some of their works.
This article demonstrates one of the biggest problems with the democracy - idiots have a right to vote.
Well, not necessarily once, I can always put that expression in a loop:
z=30;while [ $z -ge 0 ]; do dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/hda; z=`expr $z - 1`; done
If you read man pages of shred. You would actually discover that shred doesn't delete data that well from journaling file system such as ext3 and ReiserFS, plus mentioned somewhere in the thread above disk caching can reduce your write operations on disk surface to write operations inside disk cache, which makes shred just as effective as rm - so what's the point of using it? Also here mentioned a nice way to wipe the hard drive, the only downside is - it wipes whole partitions.
If they wanted to post something funny about python, instead of this nonsense, they could've just posted that:
http://www.python.org/doc/Humor.html
Microsoft imposing its own proprietary standards using dominant position in OS market... Such a cliche
Never let programmers watch robot chicken. I think in the last episode there was a sketch about a virus that deleted pr0n not only in user's computers but everywhere. The sketch ended with George W Bush begging an anonymous villan to give back the porn.
I guess someone took that idea seriously and implemented it.
>No, haven't they already said that? Like hundreds of times? And does it really >matter?
Yes, they said that, if they hadn't said that, it wouldn't have matter.
>"No", who would run PHP on Java anyway? Why? Why would open-sourcing it help?
Yes, because you would be able to use middleware such as JBoss and Hibernate API directly from PHP, Perl and whatever else there is. For example, there is a nice implementation of Python under Java so you can use Swing/AWT api, that makes a big difference, of course you can always use wxWidgets instead.
>No, Java is already desirable in my eyes.
Yes. I'll worship the person who would implement multiple inheritance in java.
>"Could this be a way to help improve what's lacking in Java?"
>No, what is lacking?
Yes, change "Write once debug anywhere" to "Write once, run anywhere"
And what about that thing that every P language has to re-invent the wheel of translating script into its own format bytecode(I'm using Python as an example) and garbage collection if developers of that language could just use and/or improve already existing jvm. Little late, but not too late, plus, I'd really like to see a chip in a sell phone or such that understands java bytecode natively, since there are so many people who are using and developing applications under java on mobile platform, someone could actually make it run there fast.
Is that silicon graphics logo on those rackmounts. Since when sgi uses intel cpus?
Bad Geek squad, no windows Aero theme for them.
make xconfig #removing lots of crap there cp cp arch/i386/boot/bzImage /boot/vmlinuz
cp System.map /boot/System.map
mkinitrd /boot/initrd 2.6.16.2
# then fixing grub a bit
shutdown -r now
And off we go!
Does that mean that mono will be available in fc6?