For that matter, wasn't Zefram supposed to be from Alpha Centauri to start with, and not some drunken hick from the US? Maybe those nasty Cabally folks from Enterprise went back in time to change the changed time line before it was changed? Bastards! If you could you back and change the past of Star Trek, you could at least nuke the original ship just before they went to visit God...
*shuddershuddershuddershuddershuddershuddershudder shuddershudder* Have you actually seen the film version of `Contact'? `excellent' and `Contact' go together like `fish' and `milkshake'
Uh, If I go to the trouble to calculate a trillion digits of anything, I'm not going to be storing them in a 'lossy' inaccurate format like IEEE FP.
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Aren't these all good practice tips anyhow? There's lots of crappy developers producing crappy 32-bit-specific code out there, but it's because they're crappy developers.
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The current pentium-4 Xeon chip supports 64 gig of RAM, despite being a 32-bit processor.
Yes, that's true, but it's horribly hacky. Addressing your RAM in 4gb segments? It's enough to make any old-skool DOS coder cry.
And this is somewhere that Linux (and the *BSDs) can shine. I can get (modifiable) source code for nearly every app on my machine. My OS (Debian) runs on several 64-bit architectures already. How hard do you think it will be to port it to 'pure' x86-64? I imagine there will be issues, but nearly all the code should be 64-bit compatible already. Oh, and if it's not, I have the GODDAMN SOURCE.
No one bulding anything seriously in Perl uses embedded print statements to generate the HTML. Use things like TemplateToolkit and CGI::Application or even AxKit if you're feeling xmly.
People code crap in every language, Perl included.
But in this case the rule is stupid. No one is going to confuse Phoenix the BIOS and Phoenix the Web Browser. Hell, 99% of the people on this planet have never, ever heard of a BIOS.
Phoenix is bitching because they can, not because they have a good reason.
Another data point: I live in Australia. We have ~19 million people, spread over an area as large as the mainland US (or probably central Europe, too). We have maybe 4 cities with a population above a million people. Yet I can get a mobile signal anywhere in the city, in the suburbs, along highways, in country towns in the middle of nowhere.
Why hasn't your magical free market given you better service than my hybrid-'socialist'[1]/regulated competition system?
If your answer is 'obviously people don't want to pay for it', then you're a fucking moron.
As for DS9, does anyone remember the grand finale? I would pay full DVD price just for that. The space battle at the end was absolutely the best I've seen on a TV show to date.
Shush! Down here in Oz, we're only up to season five!
If slashdot spoils another damn sci-fi show for me, there's going to be blood on the carpet.
Go to gnupg.org and install gpg. Generate a keypair and put your public key up on wwwkeys.pgp.net. Whenever you meet another developer, sign each others keys. When you release a tarball, FUCKING SIGN IT and put up instructions telling people how to verify it. This sort of thing does not have to happen. The tools are there to prevent anyone ever trojaning an FTP server again. You will have to do this eventually or no one will trust your server enough to download your software, so why not start now? GO AND FUCKING START. </rant>
Sorry about that, but how many times does this have to happen? It's trivial to prevent, but most people don't even try. Go and damn well start!
Seriously, what do you use threads for? Unix traditionally uses seperate processes to handle most things Windows folks use threads for. Since Linux has things like copy-on-write and shared memory, it's not that much less efficient. Plus you get the advantage of complete address seperation, aka they can't crash each other.
Just get everyone to come along with 50-odd copies of their fingerprint/address/etc. Everyone can wander around, introducing themselves to each other and exchanging fingerprints. Why not combine the practical with the social? Lord knows the type of people who go along to key-signing parties need all the help they can get:)
OSDN are consolidating their facilities as part of a cost-cutting exercise. Preumably a majority of their servers were on the west coast already, Slashdot's just joining them.
Slashdot Mirror
we're finding them while creating a bibliography for the upcoming Juptier book.
You should have someone `check your references' before you publish that one.
For that matter, wasn't Zefram supposed to be from Alpha Centauri to start with, and not some drunken hick from the US? Maybe those nasty Cabally folks from Enterprise went back in time to change the changed time line before it was changed? Bastards! If you could you back and change the past of Star Trek, you could at least nuke the original ship just before they went to visit God...
*shuddershuddershuddershuddershuddershuddershudder shuddershudder*
Have you actually seen the film version of `Contact'? `excellent' and `Contact' go together like `fish' and `milkshake'
Uh, If I go to the trouble to calculate a trillion digits of anything, I'm not going to be storing them in a 'lossy' inaccurate format like IEEE FP.
Aren't these all good practice tips anyhow? There's lots of crappy developers producing crappy 32-bit-specific code out there, but it's because they're crappy developers.
The current pentium-4 Xeon chip supports 64 gig of RAM, despite being a 32-bit processor.
Yes, that's true, but it's horribly hacky. Addressing your RAM in 4gb segments? It's enough to make any old-skool DOS coder cry.
Legacy Support.
And this is somewhere that Linux (and the *BSDs) can shine. I can get (modifiable) source code for nearly every app on my machine. My OS (Debian) runs on several 64-bit architectures already. How hard do you think it will be to port it to 'pure' x86-64? I imagine there will be issues, but nearly all the code should be 64-bit compatible already. Oh, and if it's not, I have the GODDAMN SOURCE.
No one bulding anything seriously in Perl uses embedded print statements to generate the HTML. Use things like TemplateToolkit and CGI::Application or even AxKit if you're feeling xmly.
People code crap in every language, Perl included.
But in this case the rule is stupid. No one is going to confuse Phoenix the BIOS and Phoenix the Web Browser. Hell, 99% of the people on this planet have never, ever heard of a BIOS.
Phoenix is bitching because they can, not because they have a good reason.
Mutt. The answer to most questions of the form 'Which console mail client can do X, Y and Z?' is usually mutt.
Mutt: It just sucks less.
Another data point:
I live in Australia. We have ~19 million people, spread over an area as large as the mainland US (or probably central Europe, too). We have maybe 4 cities with a population above a million people. Yet I can get a mobile signal anywhere in the city, in the suburbs, along highways, in country towns in the middle of nowhere.
Why hasn't your magical free market given you better service than my hybrid-'socialist'[1]/regulated competition system?
If your answer is 'obviously people don't want to pay for it', then you're a fucking moron.
[1] in the retarded American sense of the word.
to be headed up by a convicted felon, no less
Ever since the former coke-addict and draft-dodger (he bravely defended Texas during the Vietnam war) Bush managed to weasel his way into the White House, comments like this have lost their zing.
As for DS9, does anyone remember the grand finale? I would pay full DVD price just for that. The space battle at the end was absolutely the best I've seen on a TV show to date.
Shush! Down here in Oz, we're only up to season five!
If slashdot spoils another damn sci-fi show for me, there's going to be blood on the carpet.
Yeah, but how're you going convince Bill to turn the thermostat down that low?
Come on, someone had to say it...
Go to gnupg.org and install gpg. Generate a keypair and put your public key up on wwwkeys.pgp.net. Whenever you meet another developer, sign each others keys. When you release a tarball, FUCKING SIGN IT and put up instructions telling people how to verify it. This sort of thing does not have to happen. The tools are there to prevent anyone ever trojaning an FTP server again. You will have to do this eventually or no one will trust your server enough to download your software, so why not start now? GO AND FUCKING START.
</rant>
Sorry about that, but how many times does this have to happen? It's trivial to prevent, but most people don't even try. Go and damn well start!
Seriously, what do you use threads for? Unix traditionally uses seperate processes to handle most things Windows folks use threads for. Since Linux has things like copy-on-write and shared memory, it's not that much less efficient. Plus you get the advantage of complete address seperation, aka they can't crash each other.
Now, for ANY 1:1 threading system, I can't just create x * 10^5 threads because the overhead would be colossal.
Actually, it's kind of famous for that.
Mine don't like me having sleep overs in the basement either.
I'll be fine. I'm not a Catholic or a Protestant. I'm a Jedi!
I am not the terrorist you seek.
*waves hand*
I'm ashamed of my country.
"an eye for an eye makes the whole world blind"
- Mahatma Gandhi
Will the US military killing 3000 foreigners make the world a better place?
Greg Joswiak?
I don't know why, but I keep getting images of Steve Wozniak and Steve Jobs evil love child...*shudder*
quite a few innocent bystanders in Afghanistan, for instance.
Over three thousand civilians.
Just get everyone to come along with 50-odd copies of their fingerprint/address/etc. Everyone can wander around, introducing themselves to each other and exchanging fingerprints. Why not combine the practical with the social? Lord knows the type of people who go along to key-signing parties need all the help they can get:)
OSDN are consolidating their facilities as part of a cost-cutting exercise. Preumably a majority of their servers were on the west coast already, Slashdot's just joining them.