Drupal, on the other hand, is extremely well written... Yup. I work for an ISP and I've installed and configured about eight different CMS's, not counting shopping-cart systems.
Drupal is the only one I've seen whose internals are reasonably clean and straightforward.
In every other case, when I looked at the code, my immediate reaction was, "I should rewrite this; It's too sloppy to maintain."
In many cases I had to edit nearly half the files just to eliminate unassigned variable warnings, or to turn off the Register_Globals option, or to make it work in "Safe Mode".
Actually, when/dev/urandom is read at a higher rate than the Entropy Gathering Device (EGD) can deliver randomness, it reverts to a pseudorandom number generator, which will NEVER generate Slashdot text, as its periodicity is too low. (Although it may be argued that Slashdot's periodicity is even lower.)
Reading from/dev/random would theoretically generate such text (eventually), but its data rate is severely limited, absent a dedicated hardware random-number generator.
Even a hardware random-number generator may not generate TRULY random numbers (i.e. sufficiently random that they are mathematically guaranteed to eventually include all possible bit patterns, including inane Slashdot chatter). The proof is left as an exercise for the reader.
Yup. I bought two of them back when they were in production, one for work and one for home. I wish I'd bought three or four. Be sure to add your post to the
Logitech Forums asking them to bring it back.
Speed? How often do you start up your browser a day?
Every time it crashes. Which happens more frequently with Firefox than with Konqueror, but then Firefox has the nifty plugin that lets me start it up with the exact same tab configuration that it crashed on.
Other than crashes, I start a new *instance* of my browser maybe twenty to a hundred times a day. The speed is strictly an annoyance issue, not a "significant time of your day" issue. But user choices are more often driven by annoyance than by efficiency; else we'd still be working on character-based terminals.
Courier has an optional "big-brother" mode that makes a copy of every email that passes through. It can be set up as an email gateway and has a flexible authentication and filtering mechanism with standard plugins for SQL, LDAP, PAM, and others.
Yup; six months from now, AOL will announce its "New, improved" IM client, which will be nothing more than a re-skinned version of Microsoft Instant Messager. Six months after that, a new AOL Media Player will come out, which will be a re-skinned version of Microsoft Media Player.
PocketPutty doesn't run on PocketPC 2002. If you have an older PocketPC, you can run PockeTTY.
It's not free software, but it's well worth the small price I paid for it.
Does reiserFS support atomicity at the group level? Can I edit a group of 30 files, and only once the modifications are done for those 30 files do we commit it to the file system, and in any other case none of the files change?
Yes; arbitrary-length transaction support is already implemented, though user-level tools don't take advantage of it yet.
... oh, and the file system should also...(Long laundry list of desired features)
There are hooks for arbitrary user-defined file behaviors. Again, implementation has not trickled down to the user-level, but give it time. IIRC, Hans Reiser estimates the project will take at least another 10 years before reaching most of his goals.
The original article was about where database technology is going in the future, not about where it is today. Obviously, if you want to implent your long list of desired features right now, then you probably need to buy an Oracle license or three. But give Hans credit for having guts and vision enough to start integrating the database and the filesystem into a unified data store. In any discussion of "where database technology is headed" I think that his project deserves honorable mention, at least.
Much better than I expected. Marvin was simply perfect; Arthur and Trillian were well-cast and well-acted. Even Ford was done well, though he didn't remotely resemble his description from the book.
All DA's versions were different, so why not this one?
Why not, indeed? I predict that the second and third movies will increasingly diverge from the plot in the book, while incorporating many of the original characters, names, situations, and quotes.
That's what happened with the Bourne trilogy, and I enjoyed the movies quite as much as the books.
... most users do not need or want the feature bloat present in normal versions of Windows.
Sounds like you're looking for XP Lite. I've bought and used a copy; it's good for selectively removing feature-bloat. I trimmed some fat and incrementally increased responsiveness on a laptop XP installation, and later on a VMWare install.
so we can backup everything on our tapes... which you can't really do with 100+ desktops...
Actually, you can, with BackupPC. Okay, the program is actually designed to backup to disk rather than to tape, but you can then run tape-backups of the spool area. You'll wind up storing a lot more data in less space because BackupPC hardlinks identical files.
Everybody here is comparing Opera to Firefox. I'm a KDE user, so naturally I browse with Konqueror, switching to Firefox only for those sites that won't work in Konqi. With few exceptions, the sites that won't work in Konqi won't work in Opera, either. I quit using Opera some time ago, even though my license was paid for and up-to-date. Konqi started rendering as well or better, and crashed less often (at least on Debian/Sid). However, I'm insterested in this new version. Does anybody here use Opera with KDE? Has anybody compared v.8 with Konqueror?
Stealing money from your neighbours to enrich bureaucrats and pass what's left to whoever comprises the cause of the month has not proven to be particularly effective, nor is it "charity".
You're right; I shouldn't have called it "charity." Perhaps I should have said "government entitlement programs".
"A tenet of the democrats is to help the disadvantaged.". Doesn't it bother you that republicans don't even have that tenant. That they don't believe in helping the disadvantaged?
If that were true, it would be one of the few areas in which I and Republicans actually agree.
Any attempt to neutralize a societal disadvantage through charity will only entrench it further, for two reasons:
The more disadvantaged will no longer have any incentive to overcome their deficiency.
The less disadvantaged will try to enhance their disability in order to qualify for aid.
Cynical? Yes. That's reality. You don't have to like it or agree with it; you just have to live with it.
Unless I misunderstood when I RTFA, that is exactly what the authors intend to do. And I, too, would like to wish them "Good luck." Linus obviously believes that C++ in the kernel is undesirable, but we'll never find out for sure until somebody like these people have the guts to actually try it, and the persistence to maintain a current patchset (or fork) long enough for the idea to catch on.
Slashdot Mirror
Drupal is the only one I've seen whose internals are reasonably clean and straightforward.
In every other case, when I looked at the code, my immediate reaction was, "I should rewrite this; It's too sloppy to maintain."
In many cases I had to edit nearly half the files just to eliminate unassigned variable warnings, or to turn off the Register_Globals option, or to make it work in "Safe Mode".
Actually, when /dev/urandom is read at a higher rate than the Entropy Gathering Device (EGD) can deliver randomness, it reverts to a pseudorandom number generator, which will NEVER generate Slashdot text, as its periodicity is too low. (Although it may be argued that Slashdot's periodicity is even lower.)
Reading from /dev/random would theoretically generate such text (eventually), but its data rate is severely limited, absent a dedicated hardware random-number generator.
Even a hardware random-number generator may not generate TRULY random numbers (i.e. sufficiently random that they are mathematically guaranteed to eventually include all possible bit patterns, including inane Slashdot chatter). The proof is left as an exercise for the reader.
Was I the only one who skimmed the story header and thought of Thiotimoline?
Yup. Here's a link to their list of officially supported operating systems. Includes three flavors of Windows, two flavors of Linux, and VMware.
Actually, my favorite description of the difference between Windows and Unix philosophies goes like this:
Or more traditionally,
Yup. I bought two of them back when they were in production, one for work and one for home. I wish I'd bought three or four. Be sure to add your post to the Logitech Forums asking them to bring it back.
Why do you think they call it "Faux News" ?
Other than crashes, I start a new *instance* of my browser maybe twenty to a hundred times a day. The speed is strictly an annoyance issue, not a "significant time of your day" issue. But user choices are more often driven by annoyance than by efficiency; else we'd still be working on character-based terminals.
Just in case anybody else cares, it's spelled "Kanotix" not "Katonix" and it's a very nice Knoppix variant. Get it from here.
Anybody who loves it hasn't read the source code.
Shudder!
See:
Courier has an optional "big-brother" mode that makes a copy of every email that passes through. It can be set up as an email gateway and has a flexible authentication and filtering mechanism with standard plugins for SQL, LDAP, PAM, and others.
Yup; six months from now, AOL will announce its "New, improved" IM client, which will be nothing more than a re-skinned version of Microsoft Instant Messager. Six months after that, a new AOL Media Player will come out, which will be a re-skinned version of Microsoft Media Player.
PocketPutty doesn't run on PocketPC 2002. If you have an older PocketPC, you can run PockeTTY. It's not free software, but it's well worth the small price I paid for it.
See their technology page.
Yes; arbitrary-length transaction support is already implemented, though user-level tools don't take advantage of it yet.
There are hooks for arbitrary user-defined file behaviors. Again, implementation has not trickled down to the user-level, but give it time. IIRC, Hans Reiser estimates the project will take at least another 10 years before reaching most of his goals.
The original article was about where database technology is going in the future, not about where it is today. Obviously, if you want to implent your long list of desired features right now, then you probably need to buy an Oracle license or three. But give Hans credit for having guts and vision enough to start integrating the database and the filesystem into a unified data store. In any discussion of "where database technology is headed" I think that his project deserves honorable mention, at least.
Much better than I expected. Marvin was simply perfect; Arthur and Trillian were well-cast and well-acted. Even Ford was done well, though he didn't remotely resemble his description from the book.
Why not, indeed? I predict that the second and third movies will increasingly diverge from the plot in the book, while incorporating many of the original characters, names, situations, and quotes.
That's what happened with the Bourne trilogy, and I enjoyed the movies quite as much as the books.
Sounds like you're looking for XP Lite. I've bought and used a copy; it's good for selectively removing feature-bloat. I trimmed some fat and incrementally increased responsiveness on a laptop XP installation, and later on a VMWare install.
Actually, you can, with BackupPC. Okay, the program is actually designed to backup to disk rather than to tape, but you can then run tape-backups of the spool area. You'll wind up storing a lot more data in less space because BackupPC hardlinks identical files.
On the remote chance that you aren't totally making this up for laughs, where could I buy such a beastie?
You're right; I shouldn't have called it "charity." Perhaps I should have said "government entitlement programs".
The point is generally true, either way.
If that were true, it would be one of the few areas in which I and Republicans actually agree.
Any attempt to neutralize a societal disadvantage through charity will only entrench it further, for two reasons:
Cynical? Yes. That's reality. You don't have to like it or agree with it; you just have to live with it.
Unless I misunderstood when I RTFA, that is exactly what the authors intend to do. And I, too, would like to wish them "Good luck." Linus obviously believes that C++ in the kernel is undesirable, but we'll never find out for sure until somebody like these people have the guts to actually try it, and the persistence to maintain a current patchset (or fork) long enough for the idea to catch on.