"Online schools deprive you of needed experience and interaction"
Most online or distance education courses ive seen have a mandatory block period where physical attendance is required to complete prac's
"The idea is a total waste of money"
The cost of attending and running an online course should be (havent seen figures) a small fraction of the cost of traditional uni's.
A traditional uni has heaps of people turn up to lectures to watch and listen to some old guy read a few pages out of a text book. Reading is a pre-requisit to entry to university, WTF cant students read the textbook by themselves, and why cant they read it via a web browser.
Comminications is essential to learning, but you only need it when you need assistance... thats what tutorial sessions are for, no reason they cant be done over the net.
University should be about learning, not just a factory that takes a raw material (people) and prepares them (as graduates) for consumption by industry.
It is true that GNU/Linux and i assume BSD's (but i dont know BSD) are much more advanced than GNU/Hurd.
The important thing to remember about GNU/Hurd is that its based on a microkernel,
Microkernels have a different design approach than that of modular or monolithic kernels, as such there are strengths and weaknesses.
Its wrong to approach it with a THERES ONLY ENOUGH SPACE FOR ONE OF US attitude.... horses for courses.
In time i think _in_time_ the extra flexibility and versatility of a Free microkernel based OS is a natural to replace GNU/Linux in the embeded market.
GNU/Hurd fills in the functional gaps between a microkernel and a modular/monolithic kernel, and it itself is very flexible and novel in the way it does it.
Currently GNU/Hurd is based on the mach microkernel, its old and antiquated, it looks like the future of GNU/Hurd lies in the L4 microkernel.
"The greatest victories are for the battles fought the hardest" - Napoleon (i think)
The "index" is the hashtable, the hashtable points to the real data in the stack.
The reason i seperate the data from the hashtable are. 1) Easy to resize 2) Memory efficient, not using heaps of pointers. 3) Multiple hashtables can refer to the same data.
Data is inserted using double hashing addressing, it is a real hashtable.
Good code doesnt need comments, it speaks for itself !
I like open addressing because its simple, and double hashing seems to be good for probling.
I have to store string in a hashtable, to do so i seperate the data from the hashtable. I create a string stack which stores the actual data, and a hastable that contains the entry number in the stack.
e.g. stack \0one\0two\0three\0 ht 1, 0, 1, 1
Note in the stack the 0'th entry is equivalent to a NULL and is where unasigned ht entries refer to, thats how you know the ht slot is empty.
By seperating the content from the ht its easier to resize the hashtable, you simply create a new hashtable and reinsert the contents refered to by the old hashtable.
I dont know what the ideal interface should be, but know its NOTHING like CVS.
Setting environment variables should not be _required_ to perform basic tasks, and the command line options shouldnt be more the 2 line of text !
Ideally the command line optiosn should be some remote resemblance to at least 1 other popular program, you should invent an entirely new command line export(syntax):just:for:for/your:project
Backwards compatability is bad if it makes it hard for everyone for the rest of time.
In his economic rant he fails to consider the fact that money isnt everything to all people.
Many Free software writes consider their primary motive to be enjoyment, another primary motive to free software is "scratch an itch" (people are just compeled to do it)
Unless an economic value can put on doing something for non ecenomic reason (and is it even theoretically possbile to doso) then any economic analysis of Free/Open source movement is going to be obscured by noise.
My question wasnt meant as a troll, Thanks for the constructive responses. It would be nice if in time, apple could change their license to be Free one, at least they are in the right ballpark.
"When's the last time you saw a Microsoftie plow an airliner into a skyscraper, torch a research facility, or form a mob to take to the streets during a meeting?"
When is the last time you saw a Microsoftie defend what is in societies best interests ?
Microsoft has increased the digital divide, keeping technology out of the hands of millions of __PEOPLE__ is a negative influence on the most vulnerable members of society.
In the long term that has probably done more damage than any "terrorist action".
Hurbbard states "1. All the descriptive text which current goes into a Makefile like the port's name, version, dependencies, URL for source bits, and so on, should go into an XML file. This immediately allows the port to be indexed, documented and modified from automated tools which traverse the "ports collection" (sorry, I have to keep using that terminology since it's what I'm most familiar with:) for any number of potentially interesting reasons. The reason a lot of these tools don't exist for *BSD today is that extracting data from Makefiles generally sucks from a parsing perspective so people aren't encouraged to get too creative."
To reprase. Metadata should be in XML, this makes it much easier to process than if it has to be extracted from Makefiles
But why does it have to be XML (or SGML or RDF for that matter). The only reason i can think of is that there are pre-existing tools to parse it, the tradeoff is that any Markup language will bloat your metadata and make it unreadable.
Shouldnt a packaging system be important enough to warrant the development of its own parsing routines. i.e. just design it to be the best it can be
I did a netwrok install, i only needed to make a boot and root disk, _everything_ else (even base and kernel modules) i downloaded via the net.
I was pretty lucky as my net driver (rtl8139) was built into the kernel, a lot of people would need the driver disks.
I had no problems at all during hte install, there are still outstanding issues being worked on though.
images from your
/debian/dists/testing/main/disks-i386/3.0.19-200 2- 02-07/images-1.44/bf2.4/
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Ask them what they are going to do after they
1) dictate what programs you can run on your computer
2) dictate what content you use with those programs
3) ?
Was your post inteded to as a troll ?
"Online schools deprive you of needed experience and interaction"
Most online or distance education courses ive seen have a mandatory block period where physical attendance is required to complete prac's
"The idea is a total waste of money"
The cost of attending and running an online course should be (havent seen figures) a small fraction of the cost of traditional uni's.
A traditional uni has heaps of people turn up to lectures to watch and listen to some old guy read a few pages out of a text book.
Reading is a pre-requisit to entry to university, WTF cant students read the textbook by themselves, and why cant they read it via a web browser.
Comminications is essential to learning, but you only need it when you need assistance... thats what tutorial sessions are for, no reason they cant be done over the net.
University should be about learning, not just a factory that takes a raw material (people) and prepares them (as graduates) for consumption by industry.
It is true that GNU/Linux and i assume BSD's (but i dont know BSD) are much more advanced than GNU/Hurd.
The important thing to remember about GNU/Hurd is that its based on a microkernel,
Microkernels have a different design approach than that of modular or monolithic kernels, as such there are strengths and weaknesses.
Its wrong to approach it with a THERES ONLY ENOUGH SPACE FOR ONE OF US attitude.... horses for courses.
In time i think _in_time_ the extra flexibility and versatility of a Free microkernel based OS is a natural to replace GNU/Linux in the embeded market.
GNU/Hurd fills in the functional gaps between a microkernel and a modular/monolithic kernel, and it itself is very flexible and novel in the way it does it.
Currently GNU/Hurd is based on the mach microkernel, its old and antiquated, it looks like the future of GNU/Hurd lies in the L4 microkernel.
"The greatest victories are for the battles fought the hardest" - Napoleon (i think)
I guess it was futile tryign to give na example.
The "index" is the hashtable, the hashtable points to the real data in the stack.
The reason i seperate the data from the hashtable are.
1) Easy to resize
2) Memory efficient, not using heaps of pointers.
3) Multiple hashtables can refer to the same data.
Data is inserted using double hashing addressing, it is a real hashtable.
Good code doesnt need comments, it speaks for itself !
I like open addressing because its simple, and double hashing seems to be good for probling.
I have to store string in a hashtable, to do so i seperate the data from the hashtable.
I create a string stack which stores the actual data, and a hastable that contains the entry number in the stack.
e.g.
stack \0one\0two\0three\0
ht 1, 0, 1, 1
Note in the stack the 0'th entry is equivalent to a NULL and is where unasigned ht entries refer to, thats how you know the ht slot is empty.
By seperating the content from the ht its easier to resize the hashtable, you simply create a new hashtable and reinsert the contents refered to by the old hashtable.
I only need 2 pointers !
I have code if you want a look
(you wernt asking but,) I think HAL type AI is stupid !
Computers arent people, why try and make them think like people ?
Why simulate the flawed forgetfull human brain when a computer can be 100% correct and never forget stuff.
Computers will always be more efficient when the the software is designed to take advatage of their hardware design.
For the same reasoning OO programming is non-ideal.
Horses for courses.
All those thinking of downloading the iso's you should do yourself a favour and have a look at jigdo.(1)
Jido downloads individual packages from mirrors and assembles the iso on you computer.
As someone who tried to download potato iso via a modem and use rsync to (attempt to) fix it up, i unreservedly recommend jigdo.
Its pretty easy to use as well.
1: http://home.in.tum.de/~atterer/jigdo/
I dont know what the ideal interface should be, but know its NOTHING like CVS.
:just:for:for/your:project
Setting environment variables should not be _required_ to perform basic tasks, and the command line options shouldnt be more the 2 line of text !
Ideally the command line optiosn should be some remote resemblance to at least 1 other popular program, you should invent an entirely new command line export(syntax)
Backwards compatability is bad if it makes it hard for everyone for the rest of time.
No, each package (of any type) has a md5sum which is authenticated against the md5sum provided by a gpg signed list of package-md5sums's
What does the packaging format have to do with p2p ?
The required metadata fields to uniquely identify a package (i.e. package name and version) are similar in all packaging schemes.
The only significant bit that would be distribution dependent would be dependeny handling.
Yea, those damn "tree-huggers"....
I remember in the 70's them "tree-huggers" something about CFC's from aerosol cans destroying something called the ozone layer.
How ignorant are those "tree-huggers", i can see the ozone layer so how can it be destroyed ?
True, but then they are only looking at part of the picture.
They are considering the effect of Free software, and ignoring the cause.
A superficial analysis
In his economic rant he fails to consider the fact that money isnt everything to all people.
Many Free software writes consider their primary motive to be enjoyment, another primary motive to free software is "scratch an itch" (people are just compeled to do it)
Unless an economic value can put on doing something for non ecenomic reason (and is it even theoretically possbile to doso) then any economic analysis of Free/Open source movement is going to be obscured by noise.
How can you convince the general consumer to use a product if its unstable, insecure and disfunctional ?
ok, you have a point.
Open source will result in a better product
My question wasnt meant as a troll, Thanks for the constructive responses.
It would be nice if in time, apple could change their license to be Free one, at least they are in the right ballpark.
"Apple is trying hard to be a good open-source citizen"
What projects do they contribute open source code to ?
All ive heard is that they use *bsd code, do they improve and contribute the code upstream ?
What other projects do they contribute to ?
If Australia had a supercomputer, what would it be used for ?
1) Predict travel plans of boat people
2) Invade people privacy
3) Helping solve world problems (being a good global citizen)
4) others ?
You dont need to a supercomputer to know it wouldnt be 3.
You would have to be really, _REALLY_ stupid to consider embedded windows.
It has lots of disadvantages and no advatanges of any merit.
Where you trying to be funny ?
"When's the last time you saw a Microsoftie plow an airliner into a skyscraper, torch a research facility, or form a mob to take to the streets during a meeting?"
When is the last time you saw a Microsoftie defend what is in societies best interests ?
Microsoft has increased the digital divide, keeping technology out of the hands of millions of __PEOPLE__ is a negative influence on the most vulnerable members of society.
In the long term that has probably done more damage than any "terrorist action".
MS really are Evil
no, thats an example of when it doesnt work
Hurbbard states :) for any number of potentially
"1. All the descriptive text which current goes into a Makefile like the
port's name, version, dependencies, URL for source bits, and so on,
should go into an XML file. This immediately allows the port to be
indexed, documented and modified from automated tools which traverse the
"ports collection" (sorry, I have to keep using that terminology since
it's what I'm most familiar with
interesting reasons. The reason a lot of these tools don't exist for
*BSD today is that extracting data from Makefiles generally sucks from a
parsing perspective so people aren't encouraged to get too creative."
To reprase.
Metadata should be in XML, this makes it much easier to process than if it has to be extracted from Makefiles
But why does it have to be XML (or SGML or RDF for that matter). The only reason i can think of is that there are pre-existing tools to parse it, the tradeoff is that any Markup language will bloat your metadata and make it unreadable.
Shouldnt a packaging system be important enough to warrant the development of its own parsing routines. i.e. just design it to be the best it can be
Well, i meant that i boot floppies i installed from utilised the 2.4 kernel rather 2.2.
/boot/initrd.img-2.4.17-k7
/etc/kernel-img.conf
With your problem, when you installed the new kernel it would have mentioned some things you have to do or it wont boot.
Make your bootloader use
initrd
add 'do_initrd = Yes' to
I did a netwrok install, i only needed to make a boot and root disk, _everything_ else (even base and kernel modules) i downloaded via the net.
0 2- 02-07/images-1.44/bf2.4/
I was pretty lucky as my net driver (rtl8139) was built into the kernel, a lot of people would need the driver disks.
I had no problems at all during hte install, there are still outstanding issues being worked on though.
images from your
/debian/dists/testing/main/disks-i386/3.0.19-20
Correction to the url above