That's good discipline too. I hated it at the time, when I was using Linux at home and had to go to the computer lab before class to compile for DOS. It helps you learn two things, ANSI -- and portability. GCC is worse than Visual Studio about non compliance.
My minidisc claims 50+ hours and I can get at least 24 straight with headphones. That's a far cry from 8 (if your lucky) wi9th 2 AA's in a cassette or CD. Maybe it has to do with the motor though.
so its not necessarily a Bad Thing (TM). Flash is more efficient (and easier) for vector drawings and animations, and they could probably even make lightweight text display if they wanted to.
But I don't think this is the product. It can't really do animation, and it can't really do formatting. It's a case of the happy middle that ain't. Even if it was open, and better designed, its just a small bit between two very strong poles -- information (text and images), and entertainment (video and 3D games)
yeah, and the fact that most of the science is bunk. Its fun to watch their experiments, but don't expect to reproduce them any more than say, McGyver. Not that I'm knocking McGyver. I loved it more than Monday Night Football. I even watch Stargate SG-1.
I went to my girlfriend's Speech 111 class a few years ago and one of the CS students who was in the class was doing a presentation on Linux. Then I found out my Dad's ISP used Linux. So I took a Unix class, doing my homework logged in as root on the ISP's server.
Now I'm a loser living alone in Seattle after I quit a job at Microsoft after I dropped out of school and spend my weekends posting on Slashdot and working on my website (changing from PHP+Apache to Jetty+JBoss) that noone visits.
For the record, my girlfriend's speech was about the "warm fuzzies" and "cold pricklies". As you can tell, she left me, but that was before I fell in love with Linux. I drew my own penguin, but since I can't get SANE working, I guess the world is stuck with Tux.
Before you say "ip tables" try and fit that on a floppy.
2.2 kernels are safe, stable, secure, tested, well known, documented, efficient, lightweight, etc. The last known remote exploit was a DoS on 2.2.19 almost a year ago -- and most firewalls wouldn't have included the features that make it possible.
I just realized that TheAJofOZ is right about all his usability rants. The only way he could have responded to so many posts, defending Oh Ess Ecks Dot Lower Case Ell design so vehemently and thoroughly is because of his improved efficiency.
this is the best usability study I've ever seen. And because it is so charming, so critical, and now, so visible, Stupid Steve may just pay someone to take it to heart (and probably scrap all the improvements when someone sends a beta screenshot to the press.)
Not to be condescending (well, okay, to be condescending) but that's the way I imagine Apple owners using their computers. Personally praising (or damning) the computer manufacturer's CEO for their whole technological experience *er* lifestyle.
he was asking about his code. strlcpy and strncpy will both get the job done (if available) but I didn't think that was what he was asking. Besides, you could clean up my code, put it in a library and call strahdecpy() just as easily.
Nusphere is claiming that their code does not violate the GPL. MySQL claims it does. They have already settled the case over their contract.
The Nusphere "Gemini" code was developed with the help of Mysql AB, and depends on the GPLed MySQL code, as well as additional code that MySQL has since added to the GPLed version. I don't know for certain if it is "statically" or "dynamically" linked, or if it is entirely dependent on MySQL APIs.
But this is going to court because Progress hopes to knock down or at least weaken the GPL. The judge has already indicated bias-- calling open source "like a religious movement" and ignorance -- referring to "Microsoft WordPerfect".
No, because it really does take a guru to understand the complexity that is microsoft these days.
"Unix guru" has come to mean "that guy who sits on his ass all day reading Slashdot and logs into the server once a month at 1 am from his dialup at home to fix an obscure problem -- and all he probly did was cut and paste the error message into google to find the solution or maybe typed 'apt get blah' "
the stupid bitch admins are just doing their job. Your job isn't to chat or waste their bandwidth. If they could stop you surfing and posting on slashdot all day long and not impair other necessary functions, they would. And you'd be alot more productive.
I believe the HTTP limitations were solved when CGI was invented. Now you could add a query string to your request and maintain transaction state over time!
Having to write our own drivers is what made linux. How many kernel hackers got into it by writing (or modifying a driver?) If we had had them handed to us there wouldn't be nearly the developer base and thus user base that there is. It'd just be ESR (and other VMS-empire fans), a bunch of ISPs and a few scientific places.
Without the need to write our own drivers Linux would just be a toy Unix for x86
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That's good discipline too. I hated it at the time, when I was using Linux at home and had to go to the computer lab before class to compile for DOS. It helps you learn two things, ANSI -- and portability. GCC is worse than Visual Studio about non compliance.
My minidisc claims 50+ hours and I can get at least 24 straight with headphones. That's a far cry from 8 (if your lucky) wi9th 2 AA's in a cassette or CD. Maybe it has to do with the motor though.
so its not necessarily a Bad Thing (TM). Flash is more efficient (and easier) for vector drawings and animations, and they could probably even make lightweight text display if they wanted to.
But I don't think this is the product. It can't really do animation, and it can't really do formatting. It's a case of the happy middle that ain't. Even if it was open, and better designed, its just a small bit between two very strong poles -- information (text and images), and entertainment (video and 3D games)
that' lego porn is messed up, but some of the drawings are pretty cool.
yeah, and the fact that most of the science is bunk. Its fun to watch their experiments, but don't expect to reproduce them any more than say, McGyver. Not that I'm knocking McGyver. I loved it more than Monday Night Football. I even watch Stargate SG-1.
I went to my girlfriend's Speech 111 class a few years ago and one of the CS students who was in the class was doing a presentation on Linux. Then I found out my Dad's ISP used Linux. So I took a Unix class, doing my homework logged in as root on the ISP's server.
Now I'm a loser living alone in Seattle after I quit a job at Microsoft after I dropped out of school and spend my weekends posting on Slashdot and working on my website (changing from PHP+Apache to Jetty+JBoss) that noone visits.
For the record, my girlfriend's speech was about the "warm fuzzies" and "cold pricklies". As you can tell, she left me, but that was before I fell in love with Linux. I drew my own penguin, but since I can't get SANE working, I guess the world is stuck with Tux.
about 15 years ago. Down to the gee-whiz! Jetsons prose.
Has Scientific American become nothing but a speculative fiction and PR site for political movements and corporations.
His email was hardly unsolicited, and his response was far from unprovoked. You should maybe have learned by his example. It's really very simple:
cat >> ~/.procmail
:0
* ^From.*richard@smoothwall.org
/dev/null
^C
Name one reason _not_ to use 2.2?
Before you say "ip tables" try and fit that on a floppy.
2.2 kernels are safe, stable, secure, tested, well known, documented, efficient, lightweight, etc. The last known remote exploit was a DoS on 2.2.19 almost a year ago -- and most firewalls wouldn't have included the features that make it possible.
I just realized that TheAJofOZ is right about all his usability rants. The only way he could have responded to so many posts, defending Oh Ess Ecks Dot Lower Case Ell design so vehemently and thoroughly is because of his improved efficiency.
Tullis, Thomas S., PhD. is wrong. But at least he had the strength of will to come up with his own opinion.
5 years ago, they hadn't heard of an imac
this is the best usability study I've ever seen. And because it is so charming, so critical, and now, so visible, Stupid Steve may just pay someone to take it to heart (and probably scrap all the improvements when someone sends a beta screenshot to the press.)
Not to be condescending (well, okay, to be condescending) but that's the way I imagine Apple owners using their computers. Personally praising (or damning) the computer manufacturer's CEO for their whole technological experience *er* lifestyle.
any more annoying than all the political ads that used flood the airwaves right before an election.
Notes:
1) Now, thanks to the campaign finance reform bill (and Tauzin-Dingell), we don't have to watch any of this.
2) Right. (and it'll pass the senate. The conference committee will slip in some extra uglies to "compromise")
3) The candidates are actually paying the networks for the airtime, and if I don't like it I can vote with my Doritos and Pepsi somewhere else.
4) Uh, the networks don't own the airtime, I do. Refer back to Telecomm Act 1997, etc.
Hooray!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Only seven corrupt politicians in the House of Representatives. Yeah. I'm sure that's what that is.
when your country passes (much less actually implements) the Kyoto accord, get back to me, and I'll refill your bowl.
he was asking about his code. strlcpy and strncpy will both get the job done (if available) but I didn't think that was what he was asking. Besides, you could clean up my code, put it in a library and call strahdecpy() just as easily.
Nusphere is claiming that their code does not violate the GPL. MySQL claims it does. They have already settled the case over their contract.
The Nusphere "Gemini" code was developed with the help of Mysql AB, and depends on the GPLed MySQL code, as well as additional code that MySQL has since added to the GPLed version. I don't know for certain if it is "statically" or "dynamically" linked, or if it is entirely dependent on MySQL APIs.
But this is going to court because Progress hopes to knock down or at least weaken the GPL. The judge has already indicated bias-- calling open source "like a religious movement" and ignorance -- referring to "Microsoft WordPerfect".
the majority of lawyers happen to disagree with you. Not on legal or moral grounds, but on social ones.
ie. he who signs my paycheck has my ear.
we need a way to moderate the moderations as "funny"
No, because it really does take a guru to understand the complexity that is microsoft these days.
"Unix guru" has come to mean "that guy who sits on his ass all day reading Slashdot and logs into the server once a month at 1 am from his dialup at home to fix an obscure problem -- and all he probly did was cut and paste the error message into google to find the solution or maybe typed 'apt get blah' "
some people think you should be able to maintain state when you click on the back button with the browser.
But then, so does mozilla. Stupid.
the stupid bitch admins are just doing their job. Your job isn't to chat or waste their bandwidth. If they could stop you surfing and posting on slashdot all day long and not impair other necessary functions, they would. And you'd be alot more productive.
I believe the HTTP limitations were solved when CGI was invented. Now you could add a query string to your request and maintain transaction state over time!
GET index.htm?session_id=12345 HTTP/1.0
Having to write our own drivers is what made linux. How many kernel hackers got into it by writing (or modifying a driver?) If we had had them handed to us there wouldn't be nearly the developer base and thus user base that there is. It'd just be ESR (and other VMS-empire fans), a bunch of ISPs and a few scientific places.
Without the need to write our own drivers Linux would just be a toy Unix for x86