life after Windows....

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"Tim C." wrote:

On Tue, 07 Apr 2009 16:24:17 +0200, Mxsmanic wrote in post :
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Tim C. writes:

As you would be using a map and a compass. Landmarks are an important part
of mapreading.

A map and a compass still won't tell you where you are.

No-one ever said it would.

It will if you look at the street signs and can locate them on the map.
Then you probably won't need a compass.

No, that's why I started carrying a compass; "is left or right north?"
and similar questions 8-)

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On Wed, 08 Apr 2009 05:57:13 +0200, Mxsmanic
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Hatunen writes:

Dictionaries report conventions, not rules.

Remember that the next time you try to use a dictionary to validate a
definition.

That depends on what you are "validating". I can say that the
dictionary says "this is currently a widely used definition"; the
fact that it is widely accepted consitututes a form of
validation. In fact, though, the dictionary is not telling us a
rule that the definition of "foo" is such and such; it is
reporting the widely accepted conventon that "foo" means such and
such. The most widely used meaning is certainly not a "rule" for
the simple reason that it sometimes fades away to a rarely used
meaning. consider, for instance, the changed meaning of "gay"
over the last half century or so.

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Tim C. writes:

sweet meaning nice I assume. Not little-girly or sugary.

If it were written correctly, with "nice," there would be no need to assume.

On Wed, 08 Apr 2009 23:44:33 +0200, Martin wrote in post :
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On Wed, 08 Apr 2009 22:20:54 +0200, Mxsmanic wrote:

Tim C. writes:

sweet meaning nice I assume. Not little-girly or sugary.

If it were written correctly, with "nice," there would be no need to assume.

Case dismissed.

And people are trying to learn English from him?
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Tim C.

On Wed, 08 Apr 2009 20:08:16 +0200, Martin wrote in post :
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On Wed, 08 Apr 2009 10:34:27 -0700, Hatunen wrote:

On Wed, 08 Apr 2009 05:57:13 +0200, Mxsmanic
wrote:

Hatunen writes:

Dictionaries report conventions, not rules.

Remember that the next time you try to use a dictionary to validate a
definition.

That depends on what you are "validating". I can say that the
dictionary says "this is currently a widely used definition"; the
fact that it is widely accepted consitututes a form of
validation. In fact, though, the dictionary is not telling us a
rule that the definition of "foo" is such and such; it is
reporting the widely accepted conventon that "foo" means such and
such. The most widely used meaning is certainly not a "rule" for
the simple reason that it sometimes fades away to a rarely used
meaning. consider, for instance, the changed meaning of "gay"
over the last half century or so.

and there is an established convention of when to use "their" and "there".

and "sweet".
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Tim C.

"Wolfgang Schwanke" wrote in message
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Mxsmanic wrote in
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Debatable, but irrelevant to the discussion. There are literally
millennia of archived footage shot in interlace mode, and SDTV and
HTDV television stations continue to produce and broadcast interlaced
material.

It's very easy to convert to progressive scan.

No, it's not easy. That is my whole point. There exists no perfect
algorithms to do that without introducing artefacts.


Just as there are no perfect ways to reproduce an image using a
scanning beam and phosphor dots or frames of celluloid passing
in front of a light source and shutter.

If you are waiting for perfection then forget TV and film and go
to a theatre. In the meantime good de-interlacing circuitry
and progressive scan produces images on flat screen TV's
that are eminently watchable. While its true that digital
artefacts and telecine judder can be very distracting the better
flat panel TV's such as the Toshiba Regza and Sony Bravia
perform very well indeed.

Keith

Martin wrote:

On Tue, 07 Apr 2009 01:57:22 +0200, Mxsmanic wrote:

Martin writes:

Many French people speak French or German, some speak both fluently.

Certainly true for French, much less so for German.

I'm glad you noticed my mistake.


titters

;-)


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Greg

On Thu, 26 Mar 2009 16:21:39 +0100, Mxsmanic wroteÂ*:

Was true 8 year ago. Some notebooks like Asus eee come with Linux
installed. Users keep it too, work with it, surf, watch videos and
listen music.

They can't do much else. And they buy it only because it's cheaper. If
they want to do other things, they're in for a rude surprise.

On topic. The French gendarmerie is switching to Ubuntu.
The french parliament did it 2 years ago.

Ubuntu Ã* l’Assemblée Nationale, le bilan un an plus tard.
http://blog.racoon97.net/ubuntu-a-la...-an-plus-tard/

http://www.lexpansion.com/economie/a...a-gendarmerie-
francaise-met-windows-au-trou_141908.html
La gendarmerie française met Windows au trou
30/01/2008 13:12 - L'Expansion.com avec AFP

Now your speed limit tickets in France are processed with Ubuntu
workstations.

On Apr 2, 8:54*pm, "Keith Willshaw"
wrote:
"Mxsmanic" wrote in message

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William Black writes:

Servers for most organisations tend to be specified in a project study
written by the senior engineer or am engineering consultant hired in for
the task, *usually a Chartered Engineer in the appropriate
specialisation.

A chartered engineer (or even a Chartered Engineer)? *This must be Europe
you're talking about, where credentialism rules.

The idea that they haven't heard of UNIX is laughable.

Unfortunately, there are a lot of people working in IT who haven't heard
of
UNIX. *I regularly meet people in IT who think that there are no
mainframes,
even tough 75% of business data processing in the world is carried out by
mainframes.

Most of the people senior enough to specify such systems were in
the business long beforeWindowswas an option and probably
leaned their trade on mainframes and minicomputers. I know I did.

I rather miss Primos , it was rather a nice OS with better security
and scheduling than any Unix system.

Keith

.......6502 assembler......

Canonical Looks To Clouds With Next Ubuntu Server

By Kevin McLaughlin, ChannelWeb

6:25 PM EDT Mon. Apr. 06, 2009
Canonical on April 23 will release the next version of Ubuntu Server,
version 9.04, also known as "Jaunty Jackalope," which includes
expanded virtualization and cloud computing capabilities.

Ubuntu Server 9.04 features a new version of KVM (Kernel-based Virtual
Machine) that facilitates live migration of virtual machines, as well
as broader cluster support for file serving and deeper integration
with Microsoft (NSDQ:MSFT) systems, said Steve George, director of
support and services at Canonical.

Ubuntu Server 9.04 lets developers build applications for the Amazon
(NSDQ:AMZN) Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) and use Ubuntu as the
operating system and delivery platform, according to George. "The APIs
and delivery mechanism are compatible with EC2. Developers can build
an application and deploy it through Amazon, and select Ubuntu to be
the operating system layer," he said.

Ubuntu Server also includes clustering software for building private
computing clouds, a feature that's likely to appeal to large
organizations that have security policies that preclude the use of
public cloud infrastructure, George said. "You can take Ubuntu Server,
install it on number of servers in your data center and then set up
these servers to form a cloud. It's basically a cluster of systems
with a cloud controller on top," he said.

"This lets you set up your own computing cloud with whatever machines
you have handy in your own network," said Thor Mirchandani, president
of Presens Technologies, a Winston-Salem, N.C.-based solution
provider.

"Previously, you had to test in production and you had to set up a
server on Amazon and run it there. The clock would be ticking and you
would be charged," Mirchandani said. "But now, you can develop
applications in-house on private infrastructure and then deploy them
when they're ready."

Canonical already has a substantial number of users in the beta, and
plans are to beef up this functionality even further with the Ubtunu
Server 9.10 release that's slated for October, George said.