I'd be willing to bet that most strangers wouldn't demand remote root access to my machine and the right to arbitrarily delete files and remove/install software of their choice.
I think you mean 'Kommunist Desktop Environment'. Look at what the American education system has come to: good, patrioitic Americans can't even deliberately mispell their racial slurs!
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Re:Any Text Editor That Needs A Book...
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The editor that comes with MSVC is usable without a book. And? What can VI/VIM do that it can't? Uh, lots of things. Can you script the MSVC editor? Can you execute commands arbtitrary numbers of times? Can you set up any key binding you want?
and this crap you say about binary only, they ARE released in source, I have it right here. Ok sorry their openGL libraries I don't have the code to. But you can download the driver code off their website
Slow down cowboy, and have a look at the 'source' you have. You'll find that it's just a wrapper around the proprietary kernel module. No actual portable code in there at all.
They even let Brian Paul implement some of their proprietary openGL extensions in Mesa. I've never heard that, but I have heard that they ignored the special changes that were made to the DRI interface, specifically for them. to allow proprietary modules.
How does the GPL restrict you? Oh, that's right, it says 'here, have this, on one condition: give it to everyone else'. Why exactly is that bad? Because people can't hoard software?
Oh sure, that's a good idea. Pity Tivo only offers it's service in North America. I guess the other 5.7 billion people in the world should just hold tight;)
An interesting fact about Debian is that a lot of the software is supported on more platforms by Debian, than they are by the upstream authors. XFree86 is one example of this, I'm sure there are others.
Reheating pizza is something any good geek should know! The trick is to put the pizza on top of a quadruple layer of absorbent paper towelling. It stops the bottom of the pizza getting soggy, while letting the top turn into good ol' fashioned cheesy goo:)
he first is that nobody is "pirating". Pirating is what the chinese do when they take American music, video or computer products, duplicate them and then SELL them.
No, piracy is when I go out in my boat, make lots of "Arrrr, me maties" noises and talk to my parrot. What you're talking about is copyright-infringement. Everytime you use the word 'piracy' in this context, you're implicity letting them determine the playing field for this argument. Regardless of whether you support the record companies or not, don't help spread their propaganda.
X Forwarding, SCP, FTPs You think that's impressive? Have a look at the -D flag to OpenSSH >3.0: That's right, ssh can now run an encrypted forwarding SOCKS4 server! Goddamn!
IAQMS (Quantum Mechanics student), so while I don't know much, I can pretend to, quite successfully:)
You can't go faster that the speed of light. Try and think of some trick, if you want, but every loop hole seems to be closed, including whichever one you're thinking of now.
Yes, there is the spooky action at a distance, but you still can't transfer any information using it , becuase you can't (at least as far as we know right now) alter the outcome. If you entangle two photons, and fire them in opposite directions, measuring one *WILL* instantaneously alter that state of the other one. Unfortunately, the outcome is completely random. Perhaps someday we will be able to influence the outcome, allowing us to transport information instantly anywhere in the universe, but according to QM we can't.
Each release cycle will be about 13 weeks long, consisting of 5 weeks work then an ALPHA release, another 5 weeks then a BETA release, then a week or so freeze before the milestone.
Can someone confirm or deny whether laser-based fusion is actually intended to work? I keep hearing (from people who claim to be in the know), that laser fusion is never intended to produce power, but is rather a front to heavy laser weapons research and an excuse to continue developing fusion bomb technology.
Heard a dude talk about it...
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Hong Kong's Octopus
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I can't remember his name, but we had a sort-of computer ethicist come and talk to my software engineering class, and one of the examples he used was the Octopus. I guess his involvement with the project ended before this whole anonymity thing came up, but he was quite disturbed about the actual mecahnics of paying. You walk up to the metal plate and wave your card in front of it. If it goes withon about a cm of the plate, it is automatically debited some set amount. The disturbing thing is that, unlike nearly every other transaction in the history of trade and commerce, you do not have an option to back out when you see how much it costs, nor do you get any permanent record of the transaction. You could walk past the scanner and have your card debited a few times while it's in your pocket, and you'd never know. It was a very interesting talk, raising issues that I'd never thought about before, but I think are extremely important to consider.
IIRC, one of the requirements for the 1.0 release was that the Gecko engine would be in a seperate library. This would mean, for example, that Galeon would now only require installing libgecko (or whatever), rather than a full Moz install. Is this still in the plan, and has 1.0 achieved it?
I use Debian for everything. I'd not dream of anything else at the moment. Why?
1) Excellent support - whatever software I want to install, I can be sure it's in Debian - with ~10000 packages, it's by far the largest distro out there.
2)apt-get is fantastic! I simply type apt-get dist-upgrade, and I get all the relevant security patches installed, plus the latest version of all the packages in the distro. All for the princely sum of $0 per month. There's something like 100 Debian mirrors around the world, so it'll be fast wherever you are.
3)Reliability. Debian is as stable as the proverbial rock (and sometimes just as old;)
4)Stability of the distro. Debian has been around since 1993. They're not profitable, and never will be; that's one their strengths. Oh no, NASDAQ crashed, tech companies are in the toilet! Oh wait, like I care; Debian'll still be around as long as people care about it.
I've never looked back since I discovered Debian. It's not just apt-get; Policy is it's secret weapon. Everything works together like it should, dependencies just work and you can easily swap out one component for another (for instance, packaged CGI scripts will continue to work if you replace Apache with Roxen or AOLServer or...).
Is Debian perfect? No. But it's damn good;It Just Works(tm) and keeps just working.
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I'd be willing to bet that most strangers wouldn't demand remote root access to my machine and the right to arbitrarily delete files and remove/install software of their choice.
I think you mean 'Kommunist Desktop Environment'. Look at what the American education system has come to: good, patrioitic Americans can't even deliberately mispell their racial slurs!
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(ObMetaModCom: "By the secret rules of the Slashdot cabal, you now have to mod me up! Haha!")
The editor that comes with MSVC is usable without a book.
And?
What can VI/VIM do that it can't?
Uh, lots of things. Can you script the MSVC editor? Can you execute commands arbtitrary numbers of times? Can you set up any key binding you want?
In the end, you're either a troll or a moron.
what the fuck are you complaining for?
and this crap you say about binary only, they ARE released in source, I have it right here. Ok sorry their openGL libraries I don't have the code to. But you can download the driver code off their website
Slow down cowboy, and have a look at the 'source' you have. You'll find that it's just a wrapper around the proprietary kernel module. No actual portable code in there at all.
They even let Brian Paul implement some of their proprietary openGL extensions in Mesa.
I've never heard that, but I have heard that they ignored the special changes that were made to the DRI interface, specifically for them. to allow proprietary modules.
How does the GPL restrict you? Oh, that's right, it says 'here, have this, on one condition: give it to everyone else'. Why exactly is that bad? Because people can't hoard software?
Well, there is one solution:
while true;do apt-get update && apt-get -fuy upgrade;sleep 24h;done
Works for me;)
Mozilla has done this very thing; they're trying to switch to a triple MPL/GPL/LGPL license.
Uh, Octave (which I'm using right now) is GPLed. If nothing else, do you think the GNU project would support non-Free software?
Oh sure, that's a good idea. Pity Tivo only offers it's service in North America. I guess the other 5.7 billion people in the world should just hold tight;)
80% Of Outgoing E-mail at Hotmail is Spam!
God damn. Down here in Australia we're paying $US50 for 500kbit DSL with a 4.5GB monthly transfer cap.
[I've been waiting my whole life for a post life this]
Uh, I've often noticed that, in general, most Governments are non-United States governments.
IIRC, some of the Debian architectures are not even supported by XFree86. Overfiend (the Debian XFree86 maintainer) does the porting himself.
An interesting fact about Debian is that a lot of the software is supported on more platforms by Debian, than they are by the upstream authors. XFree86 is one example of this, I'm sure there are others.
Yeah, that'd be great...the stability of Windows with the application support of Linux!
Reheating pizza is something any good geek should know!
The trick is to put the pizza on top of a quadruple layer of absorbent paper towelling. It stops the bottom of the pizza getting soggy, while letting the top turn into good ol' fashioned cheesy goo:)
he first is that nobody is "pirating". Pirating is what the chinese do when they take American music, video or computer products, duplicate them and then SELL them.
No, piracy is when I go out in my boat, make lots of "Arrrr, me maties" noises and talk to my parrot. What you're talking about is copyright-infringement. Everytime you use the word 'piracy' in this context, you're implicity letting them determine the playing field for this argument. Regardless of whether you support the record companies or not, don't help spread their propaganda.
X Forwarding, SCP, FTPs
You think that's impressive? Have a look at the -D flag to OpenSSH >3.0: That's right, ssh can now run an encrypted forwarding SOCKS4 server!
Goddamn!
IAQMS (Quantum Mechanics student), so while I don't know much, I can pretend to, quite successfully:)
You can't go faster that the speed of light. Try and think of some trick, if you want, but every loop hole seems to be closed, including whichever one you're thinking of now.
Yes, there is the spooky action at a distance, but you still can't transfer any information using it , becuase you can't (at least as far as we know right now) alter the outcome. If you entangle two photons, and fire them in opposite directions, measuring one *WILL* instantaneously alter that state of the other one. Unfortunately, the outcome is completely random. Perhaps someday we will be able to influence the outcome, allowing us to transport information instantly anywhere in the universe, but according to QM we can't.
Each release cycle will be about 13 weeks long, consisting of 5 weeks work then an ALPHA release, another 5 weeks then a BETA release, then a week or so freeze before the milestone.
5+5+1=13? Must be using Pentiums.
Can someone confirm or deny whether laser-based fusion is actually intended to work? I keep hearing (from people who claim to be in the know), that laser fusion is never intended to produce power, but is rather a front to heavy laser weapons research and an excuse to continue developing fusion bomb technology.
I can't remember his name, but we had a sort-of computer ethicist come and talk to my software engineering class, and one of the examples he used was the Octopus. I guess his involvement with the project ended before this whole anonymity thing came up, but he was quite disturbed about the actual mecahnics of paying.
You walk up to the metal plate and wave your card in front of it. If it goes withon about a cm of the plate, it is automatically debited some set amount. The disturbing thing is that, unlike nearly every other transaction in the history of trade and commerce, you do not have an option to back out when you see how much it costs, nor do you get any permanent record of the transaction. You could walk past the scanner and have your card debited a few times while it's in your pocket, and you'd never know.
It was a very interesting talk, raising issues that I'd never thought about before, but I think are extremely important to consider.
IIRC, one of the requirements for the 1.0 release was that the Gecko engine would be in a seperate library. This would mean, for example, that Galeon would now only require installing libgecko (or whatever), rather than a full Moz install. Is this still in the plan, and has 1.0 achieved it?
Ah, the ubiquitous inevitibility argument.
You mean the inevitable ubiquity argument?
-rweir
I use Debian for everything. I'd not dream of anything else at the moment. Why?
1) Excellent support - whatever software I want to install, I can be sure it's in Debian - with ~10000 packages, it's by far the largest distro out there.
2)apt-get is fantastic! I simply type apt-get dist-upgrade, and I get all the relevant security patches installed, plus the latest version of all the packages in the distro. All for the princely sum of $0 per month. There's something like 100 Debian mirrors around the world, so it'll be fast wherever you are.
3)Reliability. Debian is as stable as the proverbial rock (and sometimes just as old;)
4)Stability of the distro. Debian has been around since 1993. They're not profitable, and never will be; that's one their strengths. Oh no, NASDAQ crashed, tech companies are in the toilet! Oh wait, like I care; Debian'll still be around as long as people care about it.
I've never looked back since I discovered Debian. It's not just apt-get; Policy is it's secret weapon. Everything works together like it should, dependencies just work and you can easily swap out one component for another (for instance, packaged CGI scripts will continue to work if you replace Apache with Roxen or AOLServer or...).
Is Debian perfect? No. But it's damn good;It Just Works(tm) and keeps just working.
(Moderators: there is a difference between a joke and a troll; this is it;)