Not geeky and pointless enough! How about implementing the quake engine in SQL? Although I think Postgres might have a tiny advantage there since it has a lot of built-in geometric types.:-)
Peter, you can't have everything free in life. You only end up looking like a vagrant stealing other people's hard work. Open Source software is dying. It was fun for a few years to think we could all share in this communist ideal of free source code but it isn't realistic. People have to put food on the table and my talent is computers. You may have a side talent being a circus monkey and wish to explore that as a way of making side dough while writing free software but I don't.
Why are you talking about free as in zero price when the thrust of my comment was free as in freedom? What, are you that slow or are you new around here?
And are you some kind of American or something - what's with the "communism" obsession? How quaint.
Anyway, I make my living writing software, and I'm bored with you now so fuck off, eh?
Believe me, I'm not knocking Debian. I have got through about 6 installs so far, each time easier than the last.
I might play with the PA-RISC port too, since my current employer has an old HP9000 kicking around that is regularly wiped and re-installed for training purposes.
You know, he could have been referring to Freedom rather than sale price...
Good reasons for using a free OS on a hand-held are going to include:
Freedom from proprietary content-control mechanisms. If these are built into non-open hardware drivers you're fucked. You might as well not buy the device in that case.
Weird hardware hacks that the designers didn't anticipate e.g. interface to Lego Mindstorms GPS-targeted siege engine;). Again,
you need free access to low-level drivers.
Who says the vast majority of custom, in-house developed Apps are for windows?
Most of ours are for PROGRESS databases, running on HPUX (A few hundred reports.) Users interact with them using a terminal emulator or a web browser, so the client OS is irrelevant.
We have 2 applications built on Zope, on a Debian Linux server, with PostgreSQL databases.
We have 1 application written specifically for desktop PCs. It's written in Python and would run on anything.
So, not everyone has locked themselves into a single vendor for their in-house development infrastructure. Knowing what we do now, why would you?
But then again, knowing what we do now, why would anyone start smoking? I suppose humans just do unwise things sometimes.
Now we have NO plans to replace Windows 2000 with Linux on our 150-or-so desktops, but MS Office might get dropped in favour of StarOffice, a bunch of NT servers might get junked in favour of Samba, and we certainly have no plans to get on the XP license treadmill.
I've been having this same thing happen on my K6-2 machine. And curiously enough, lately when I've tried to use SUSE's online-update, as soon as the downloaded updates start to install, the screen gets garbage all over it, and on one monitor I get logged out with a dirty login screen, and on the other I've still got a dirty version of my desktop there
A dirty version of your desktop? What, like a pornographic backdrop? Very European.. must try SuSE some time.
But your siblings only share about 50% of your DNA too. Anyway, I don't know anything about tissue types, but I bet the cells don't have to be identical, just close enough.
You mean annihilate matter in the black hole? No, that wouldn't work. Matter or anti-matter, it doesn't matter:-) Near the singularity (if there is one) the energy from the annihilated matter and anti-matter couldn't escape outwards, so the energy and therefore mass of the black hole would not be reduced.
Solaris x86 is, for the most part, Solaris Sparc + some device drivers and a microkernel that are x86 specific. So, releasing just the x86 components of Solaris might not achieve too much
Of course, if it's a good microkernel, maybe the HURD could benefit from it. Although I doubt the license would be free enough for RMS, even if it were Open Source.
And the answer will probably be no anyway...
Yes, the Dome was a bad idea. Yes, most of the public thought so to. No, the government couldn't have cared less and went and spent the money anyway.
Yeah. And what bothered ME most was that the idiotic government that initiated it was replaced in a landslide election defeat. Clearly nearly every aspect of their policy and (mis)management had been rejected by the public, and roundly condemned by the Labour party who replaced them.
Did Mr Blair, on the day of his victory, take the opportunity to cancel the stupid thing? Did he bollocks!
Hey, maybe if a small meteorite were to take out the Dome that would be widely considered to be a good thing.
Tough call. Is one grotesque backwards-compatibility botch better than another?
This probably qualifies as a "lame comment", but Alpha is arguably a cleaner and more elegant design. If you NEED a 64-bit server then Debian on Alpha will probably serve you well.
You probably don't though.
So why the fashion for 64bit x86-alikes? It's not like you'd want to run Windows on a serious server anyway.
OK sorry, just got a bit snide for a moment there. My wife has reported this personality bug long ago, although no fix is currently available. The work-around is not to take me too seriously:-)
By all means teach the kids Esperanto. It's a clean stripped-down version of a generic European language, with no frills. Once you have learned Esperanto (a couple of days for grammar plus however long for vocabulary) you are well prepared not just to speak Esperanto (you may never have to) but to study any language now that you have a basic grounding in linguistics.
If you can't see the parallel to Linux and Computer Science then I won't bother to explain.
By the way, there are no licensing costs for teaching a human language, and nobody is suggesting that the USA should be punished for its clumsy international interference by providing free English lessons!
dpkg on Debian is very reliable about keeping dependencies accurate and removing files correctly. It even distinguishes between "remove this package completely" and "remove the package but keep the configuration in case I need it again".
You could decide not to trust it, and check every file yourself. I have better things to do.
The reference to ini files in/usr/bin puzzles me./usr/bin is for executables. All your.conf files are in/etc, ne?
In fact/etc usually has subdirectories for anything with more than one config file. I don't remember ever seeing a.ini in/etc, BTW.
There is a difference between a sense of order, over-eager or not, and actual order.
Seeing as the UK has just passed draconian antiterrorism laws (detention without trial) how long is it before we get a "big firewall in the sky"
You know, it hasn't been passed yet. It got past the "first reading", which I believe is usually fairly lightweight. All that means is it gets a "second reading". You can bet it will get debated more then.
Finally, to become law I think it has to go to a committee for legal scrutiny and amendments, before a final vote. It's even possible the House of Lords might knock it back for a year - some of them have longer memories than the current crop of rent-a-suit MPs. We had it before in Northern Ireland and it was plainly counter-productive.
That being said, we already have draconian anti-terrorism laws. I am just about to break the Terrorism Act:
I hereby support the right of the PKK to protest against the treatment of Kurds by the Turkish government, and to do so by organising and fundraising in the UK. I urge others to support such protests and openly debate the status of the PKK as a "banned organisation".
I think technically, I could get 6 months in jail for that. However, I don't think the Home Secretary will be reading Slashdot.
Mind you, if I was posting from most countries of the world, I wouldn't be half as cocky. (And if any of youse bastards grass me up at least I'd get a trial.)
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Not geeky and pointless enough! How about implementing the quake engine in SQL? Although I think Postgres might have a tiny advantage there since it has a lot of built-in geometric types. :-)
LoseNotLooseGuy when you need him?
Hey, you know what would be fun instead? A PostgreSQL / MS SQL Server flamewar, but with benchmarks.
Believe me, I'm not knocking Debian. I have got through about 6 installs so far, each time easier than the last.
I might play with the PA-RISC port too, since my current employer has an old HP9000 kicking around that is regularly wiped and re-installed for training purposes.
Good reasons for using a free OS on a hand-held are going to include:
- Freedom from proprietary content-control mechanisms. If these are built into non-open hardware drivers you're fucked. You might as well not buy the device in that case.
- Weird hardware hacks that the designers didn't anticipate e.g. interface to Lego Mindstorms GPS-targeted siege engine
;). Again,
you need free access to low-level drivers.
So maybe no ranting required....is the standard Debian installer that bad? Hmm -- well, yeah.
Probably because there isnt a +1 'good question'.
Besides, insight often leads you to better questions as well as better answers.
His ex-wife, if she reads /. ?
Who says the vast majority of custom, in-house developed Apps are for windows?
Most of ours are for PROGRESS databases, running on HPUX (A few hundred reports.) Users interact with them using a terminal emulator or a web browser, so the client OS is irrelevant.
We have 2 applications built on Zope, on a Debian Linux server, with PostgreSQL databases.
We have 1 application written specifically for desktop PCs. It's written in Python and would run on anything.
So, not everyone has locked themselves into a single vendor for their in-house development infrastructure. Knowing what we do now, why would you?
But then again, knowing what we do now, why would anyone start smoking? I suppose humans just do unwise things sometimes.
Now we have NO plans to replace Windows 2000 with Linux on our 150-or-so desktops, but MS Office might get dropped in favour of StarOffice, a bunch of NT servers might get junked in favour of Samba, and we certainly have no plans to get on the XP license treadmill.
Well, the hurd has nothing to do with Linux of course. Maybe in this case "Hird of Unintelligent Rodent Drivers"
But your siblings only share about 50% of your DNA too. Anyway, I don't know anything about tissue types, but I bet the cells don't have to be identical, just close enough.
You mean annihilate matter in the black hole? No, that wouldn't work. Matter or anti-matter, it doesn't matter :-) Near the singularity (if there is one) the energy from the annihilated matter and anti-matter couldn't escape outwards, so the energy and therefore mass of the black hole would not be reduced.
I think...
Yeah. And what bothered ME most was that the idiotic government that initiated it was replaced in a landslide election defeat. Clearly nearly every aspect of their policy and (mis)management had been rejected by the public, and roundly condemned by the Labour party who replaced them.
Did Mr Blair, on the day of his victory, take the opportunity to cancel the stupid thing? Did he bollocks!
Hey, maybe if a small meteorite were to take out the Dome that would be widely considered to be a good thing.
Princess Garnet
(please feel free to mod me up as informative, although I'm lucky there isn't a -1:Sad )
Tough call. Is one grotesque backwards-compatibility botch better than another?
This probably qualifies as a "lame comment", but Alpha is arguably a cleaner and more elegant design. If you NEED a 64-bit server then Debian on Alpha will probably serve you well.
You probably don't though.
So why the fashion for 64bit x86-alikes? It's not like you'd want to run Windows on a serious server anyway.
Aww, be nice!
(But, well, yeah I guess he is.)
OK sorry, just got a bit snide for a moment there. My wife has reported this personality bug long ago, although no fix is currently available. The work-around is not to take me too seriously :-)
If you can't see the parallel to Linux and Computer Science then I won't bother to explain.
By the way, there are no licensing costs for teaching a human language, and nobody is suggesting that the USA should be punished for its clumsy international interference by providing free English lessons!
dpkg on Debian is very reliable about keeping dependencies accurate and removing files correctly. It even distinguishes between "remove this package completely" and "remove the package but keep the configuration in case I need it again".
You could decide not to trust it, and check every file yourself. I have better things to do.
The reference to ini files in /usr/bin puzzles me. /usr/bin is for executables. All your .conf files are in /etc, ne?
In fact /etc usually has subdirectories for anything with more than one config file. I don't remember ever seeing a .ini in /etc, BTW.
There is a difference between a sense of order, over-eager or not, and actual order.
Shit! never thought of that....
(hides under desk and attaches false beard)
Finally, to become law I think it has to go to a committee for legal scrutiny and amendments, before a final vote. It's even possible the House of Lords might knock it back for a year - some of them have longer memories than the current crop of rent-a-suit MPs. We had it before in Northern Ireland and it was plainly counter-productive.
That being said, we already have draconian anti-terrorism laws. I am just about to break the Terrorism Act:
I hereby support the right of the PKK to protest against the treatment of Kurds by the Turkish government, and to do so by organising and fundraising in the UK. I urge others to support such protests and openly debate the status of the PKK as a "banned organisation".
I think technically, I could get 6 months in jail for that. However, I don't think the Home Secretary will be reading Slashdot.
Mind you, if I was posting from most countries of the world, I wouldn't be half as cocky. (And if any of youse bastards grass me up at least I'd get a trial.)