Linux was the first OS around to support AMD64. Even before it was called AMD64. WTF does "optimized for them" mean? GCC also supports it, and has 31337 CPU-specific optimisations for it, too.
You'll note that you can buy RedHat AS for AMD 64 here, and Suse here.
And for those following along at home: is he/she a troll or a moron?
Um, that's what Debian's apt does. And it has for years. And there are GUI frontends (synaptic, kpackage, though neither can compete with aptitude). If your distro sucks, that's not a Linux problem.
Um, no, you're either clueless or astro-turfing. IE skips part of the TCP/IP handshaking when connecting to any web server on the off-chance it's a IIS server which is also contains this "feature". So, it wastes time when the other server isn't running IIS because it has to wait for the connection to time out (if the OS on the other end doesn't send a RST back).
Yes, but the linker only does this if they are the EXACT same file; ie, it's based on the inode number. Last I checked, there's no independeantly distributable libgecko.so which moz, thunderbird and firebird can all share, so they all include their own seperate versions, which will NOT be shared at run-time.
I do seem to remember that a splitting out libgecko was part of the 1.0 plan...does anyone know what happened to this (or if my memory is just completely faulty)?
he same way the Lesbian, Gay, BiSexual, Transgender Association on here on campus had a "SexFaire" and "CuntFest" a few years back that "promoted safe sex and raised awareness of students inherant sexuality". About 200 of the university's 45,000 students went to it, but it became a big deal cause they handed out condoms, gave kissing lessons, and other stuff that escapes me at the moment. The state government heard about it and decided to cut the universities funding because the groups that put on these events used campus funds.
What the fuck? Your state government cut a universities funding because a student group ran a little festival about sexuality. WHAT THE FUCK? My uni has a student-run and Uni-funded Sexuality Office specifically to help and support students. There's a Sexuality Officer elected to the student association each yer, right up there with the President and Social Officer.
Why was the funding cut? Because they didn't like something the students ran? That is utterly FUCKED up.
Hm, sorry for the ranting, but stupid shit like this really gets me pissed off. Why the fuck would a government cut funding based on this? What possible reason is ther for your state to cut funding to a uni because some students are more enlightened than they?
How so? They've been around for several years, and can afford to employ several KDE developers AND continue to release Qt under the GPL. Seems you've mixed up "not doing what you want" with "holding them back".
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No, it's not. The greatest thing about Debian is Policy. It demands that packages meet the highest standards of quality. It makes sure that packages work together. It brings us things like the Debian Menu system, where every X-based package register's with EVERY window manager's app menu. It means that packages will upgrade smoothly, and (via the DFSG) that EVERYTHING is freely modifiable and re-distributable. Linkage: about Policy, why it rocks, more Debian policies.
I don't see why everyone else must wait for some my3117widget to stabilize.
Well, that's how it works already. If packages aren't ready during the hard freeze, they WILL be dropped from Testing, and thus not hold up (or make it into) the release.
The kernel already does this, with the 'binfmt-misc' system. You give the kernel pairs of 'magic' strings and interpreters, and it uses the needed interpreter for whatever file you try to execute. It already works for java, in fact.
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What are you babbling on about? The bf2.4 install disks (based on kernel 2.4.18) includes *both* ext3 and reiserfs support. When you ask it to create a new filesystem, they BOTH show up as option, and you can choose whichever you want.
Indeed, the 2.2-based disks don't, but they don't include ReiserFS either.
Thanks for your comments, it sure seems like an interesting project. I didn't mean to make a crack at your name, I was just half asleep when I posted:)
What's with the Debian logo? If it's based on Debian, maybe you could have mentioned it in the blurb? Also, if it's just a port of Debian GNU/Linux (fuck off, it matters here), why aren't they getting the Debian project involved? Here is a list of the different architectures (and kernels, and userlands) that Debian has been ported to; i've never even heard of a machine with a fucking little-endian MIPS chip, but apparently enough Debian-folk have that it's now an officially supported architecture. I wonder why the Blackrock people didn't go this route?
I want to start serving stuff from my site that takes advantage of all known exploits in IE browsers. After all, it's my site. I can serve whatever I want. It's my business.
Mr. Sullivan, the crackmonkey.org site makes a simple and polite request for your browser to overwrite the contents of your OS kernel with the bookmarks (favorites) file. Some browsers politely turn down the request, and some happily oblige. I think that this mail (and others like it) shows poor sportsmanship on the part of the user. After all, the computer is your friend. Trust the computer.
This is bullshit, pure and simple. How can they claim IP infrigement in Linux if Linux was all about writing a UNIX-like OS *FROM SCRATCH* in the first place ? There is no SCO-owned IP in Linux and there cannot be. Case closed.
I don't know if you're a troll or a fool (since while copyrights require you to *copy* something, patents just mean you have to have come up with an idea, independantly(!), five seconds after someone else gets to the patent office), but you illustrate the danger of submarine patents very well. Linux was developed completely seperately from any other Unix, using fresh GPL'd code for the past 10 years. Despite this, SCO could potential jump up and say 'Hah! We own a patent on XYZ, so pay up!'. No one copied anything, no was even aware the patent existed, but SCO could still do it, and maybe even win in court if it went that far.
In conclusion: software patents suck because a) they last too long, b) get given out for stupidly well-known things and c) are subjected to abuse like this.
I doubt they'll just sit around while their API is emulated.
'their API', is, to a very large extent, taken from NextStep, which they bought to get Steve Jobs back. It's already been cloned (pretty much) by the GNUStep project.
Back in the day, Telstra provided exceptional services to even the most distant parts of Australia. The reason it's so fucked now is that successive Governments have turned into a for-profit enterprise, and skimping out on extras like quality equipment and clued employees has been the way to increase the profit. This is only getting worse as the moronic Government fattens it for sale, while at the same time trying to win the support of farmers (who have an inordinate amount of political clout in this country for various amusing reasons).
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Linux was the first OS around to support AMD64. Even before it was called AMD64. WTF does "optimized for them" mean? GCC also supports it, and has 31337 CPU-specific optimisations for it, too.
You'll note that you can buy RedHat AS for AMD 64 here, and Suse here.
And for those following along at home: is he/she a troll or a moron?
Um, that's what Debian's apt does. And it has for years. And there are GUI frontends (synaptic, kpackage, though neither can compete with aptitude). If your distro sucks, that's not a Linux problem.
Then when Constantinople fell to the Turks, ...
That's nobody's business but the Turks!
Um, no, you're either clueless or astro-turfing. IE skips part of the TCP/IP handshaking when connecting to any web server on the off-chance it's a IIS server which is also contains this "feature". So, it wastes time when the other server isn't running IIS because it has to wait for the connection to time out (if the OS on the other end doesn't send a RST back).
Linkage: here .
Yes, but the linker only does this if they are the EXACT same file; ie, it's based on the inode number. Last I checked, there's no independeantly distributable libgecko.so which moz, thunderbird and firebird can all share, so they all include their own seperate versions, which will NOT be shared at run-time.
I do seem to remember that a splitting out libgecko was part of the 1.0 plan...does anyone know what happened to this (or if my memory is just completely faulty)?
he same way the Lesbian, Gay, BiSexual, Transgender Association on here on campus had a "SexFaire" and "CuntFest" a few years back that "promoted safe sex and raised awareness of students inherant sexuality". About 200 of the university's 45,000 students went to it, but it became a big deal cause they handed out condoms, gave kissing lessons, and other stuff that escapes me at the moment. The state government heard about it and decided to cut the universities funding because the groups that put on these events used campus funds.
What the fuck? Your state government cut a universities funding because a student group ran a little festival about sexuality. WHAT THE FUCK? My uni has a student-run and Uni-funded Sexuality Office specifically to help and support students. There's a Sexuality Officer elected to the student association each yer, right up there with the President and Social Officer.
Why was the funding cut? Because they didn't like something the students ran? That is utterly FUCKED up.
Hm, sorry for the ranting, but stupid shit like this really gets me pissed off. Why the fuck would a government cut funding based on this? What possible reason is ther for your state to cut funding to a uni because some students are more enlightened than they?
Their license prices are holding them back.
How so? They've been around for several years, and can afford to employ several KDE developers AND continue to release Qt under the GPL. Seems you've mixed up "not doing what you want" with "holding them back".
Go squash some bugs!
No, it's not. The greatest thing about Debian is Policy. It demands that packages meet the highest standards of quality. It makes sure that packages work together. It brings us things like the Debian Menu system, where every X-based package register's with EVERY window manager's app menu. It means that packages will upgrade smoothly, and (via the DFSG) that EVERYTHING is freely modifiable and re-distributable. Linkage: about Policy, why it rocks, more Debian policies.
#debian-party on irc.oftc.net. Come and break it down! Er, fix some RC bugs :-)
I don't see why everyone else must wait for some my3117widget to stabilize.
Well, that's how it works already. If packages aren't ready during the hard freeze, they WILL be dropped from Testing, and thus not hold up (or make it into) the release.
The kernel already does this, with the 'binfmt-misc' system. You give the kernel pairs of 'magic' strings and interpreters, and it uses the needed interpreter for whatever file you try to execute. It already works for java, in fact.
Which do you think is better looking?;-)
WTF?!?!?!
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What are you babbling on about? The bf2.4 install disks (based on kernel 2.4.18) includes *both* ext3 and reiserfs support. When you ask it to create a new filesystem, they BOTH show up as option, and you can choose whichever you want.
Indeed, the 2.2-based disks don't, but they don't include ReiserFS either.
So, are you a troll or a moron?
Thanks for your comments, it sure seems like an interesting project. I didn't mean to make a crack at your name, I was just half asleep when I posted :)
What's with the Debian logo? If it's based on Debian, maybe you could have mentioned it in the blurb? Also, if it's just a port of Debian GNU/Linux (fuck off, it matters here), why aren't they getting the Debian project involved? Here is a list of the different architectures (and kernels, and userlands) that Debian has been ported to; i've never even heard of a machine with a fucking little-endian MIPS chip, but apparently enough Debian-folk have that it's now an officially supported architecture. I wonder why the Blackrock people didn't go this route?
I want to start serving stuff from my site that takes advantage of all known exploits in IE browsers. After all, it's my site. I can serve whatever I want. It's my business.
Been there, done that:)
Greatest quote ever:
Mr. Sullivan, the crackmonkey.org site makes a simple and polite request for your browser to overwrite the contents of your OS kernel with the bookmarks (favorites) file. Some browsers politely turn down the request, and some happily oblige. I think that this mail (and others like it) shows poor sportsmanship on the part of the user. After all, the computer is your friend. Trust the computer.
This is bullshit, pure and simple. How can they claim IP infrigement in Linux if Linux was all about writing a UNIX-like OS *FROM SCRATCH* in the first place ? There is no SCO-owned IP in Linux and there cannot be. Case closed.
I don't know if you're a troll or a fool (since while copyrights require you to *copy* something, patents just mean you have to have come up with an idea, independantly(!), five seconds after someone else gets to the patent office), but you illustrate the danger of submarine patents very well. Linux was developed completely seperately from any other Unix, using fresh GPL'd code for the past 10 years. Despite this, SCO could potential jump up and say 'Hah! We own a patent on XYZ, so pay up!'. No one copied anything, no was even aware the patent existed, but SCO could still do it, and maybe even win in court if it went that far.
In conclusion: software patents suck because a) they last too long, b) get given out for stupidly well-known things and c) are subjected to abuse like this.
I doubt they'll just sit around while their API is emulated.
'their API', is, to a very large extent, taken from NextStep, which they bought to get Steve Jobs back. It's already been cloned (pretty much) by the GNUStep project.
Earth will look after itself. We may not survive the change though.
you should go use Telstra for a while.
Back in the day, Telstra provided exceptional services to even the most distant parts of Australia. The reason it's so fucked now is that successive Governments have turned into a for-profit enterprise, and skimping out on extras like quality equipment and clued employees has been the way to increase the profit. This is only getting worse as the moronic Government fattens it for sale, while at the same time trying to win the support of farmers (who have an inordinate amount of political clout in this country for various amusing reasons).
Best. Joke. Ever.