RE: [techtalk] DB box

1999-10-22 Thread Henti Smith
all I can say is ... keeps notes during your installation .. know where your libs are going .. other then that .. it should go fine Henti > -Original Message- > From: Wayne Mehl [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Thursday, October 21, 1999 9:40 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: [

Re: [techtalk] GUI's

1999-10-22 Thread Caitlyn Martin
> KDE is released under the GPL, but Qt is not. You can't use KDE > without Qt. (It's questionable in my mind whether a GPL product > should rely on a third-party library which is not released under > the GPL, the LGPL, or an equivalently open license) I can't disagree with the latter statement

Re: [techtalk] GUI's

1999-10-22 Thread Aaron Malone
On Fri, Oct 22, 1999 at 09:09:01AM -0400, Caitlyn Martin wrote: > > KDE is released under the GPL, but Qt is not. You can't use KDE > > without Qt. (It's questionable in my mind whether a GPL product > > should rely on a third-party library which is not released under > > the GPL, the LGPL, or a

Re: [techtalk] [Fwd: SECURITY: [RHSA-1999:043] New wu-ftpd packages available] (fwd)

1999-10-22 Thread Aaron Malone
On Fri, Oct 22, 1999 at 12:38:06AM -0400, Laurel Fan wrote: > All ftpds suck. The only one that doesn't have more holes than a > fishing net is the openbsd ftpd (it's debians default ftpd. don't know > where to get it for other distros..). would that be proftpd? I seem to recall that being the

Re: [techtalk] GUI's

1999-10-22 Thread Kelly Lynn Martin
On Fri, 22 Oct 1999 09:09:01 -0400, "Caitlyn Martin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: >I can't disagree with the latter statement, but it no longer applies >to KDE. When TrollTech changed the license, it met the Open Source >definition, at least sufficiently to satisy, form what I've read, >Eric Raymon

Re: [techtalk] GUI's

1999-10-22 Thread Kelly Lynn Martin
On Fri, 22 Oct 1999 01:04:15 -0400 (EDT), Laurel Fan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: >Gnome and KDE will never merge because it would be very very hard and >nobody would ever do it (unless you're volunteering here..). Harder >than implementing every Gnome feature from scratch in KDE or vice >versa. Gt

Re: [techtalk] GUI's

1999-10-22 Thread Kelly Lynn Martin
On Fri, 22 Oct 1999 08:56:53 -0500, Aaron Malone <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: >As a side note, someone (I think kelly) described Qt as a 'dog'. I'm >curious about this... my experiences with Qt have been great -- much >easier to write in than Gtk+. I'm hardly an experienced X >programmer, though.

Re: [techtalk] GUI's

1999-10-22 Thread Aaron Malone
> I am, to be quite blunt, more qualified to render an opinion on the > compatibility of two licenses than ESR is. Frankly, I think ESR is a > loon. ESR's imprimateur means virtually nothing to me; I am going on > my personal evaluation of the licenses as I understand them. I don't know about

RE: [techtalk] DB box

1999-10-22 Thread Wayne Mehl
TrueI figured I'd do it the old fashioned way, just load it up and see what breaks. I figured it would make a good write up to post here once I got it to work. I'm just glad I was able to talk the client into letting me use a free OS vs. Solaris or WinNT. Wayne --- Henti Smith <[EMAIL PROTE

[techtalk] Intro (Q's on m68k, beowulf, SMP programming, and databases)

1999-10-22 Thread TeknoDragon
Greetings, My wife (guess who!) seems to enjoy this list a lot so I thought I'd join up (I seem to be doing this frequently). I'm Karl (aka Andross/TeknoDragon depending on the medium of participation) a CS undergrad at WSU and a "technopagan". Right now I'm trying to squeeze MacOS down into 102

Re: [techtalk] Intro (Q's on m68k, beowulf, SMP programming, and databases)

1999-10-22 Thread Wayne Mehl
Which version are you trying to run? I think I still have my 7.1 floppies somewhere :) Wayne --- TeknoDragon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Right now I'm trying to squeeze MacOS down into 1024k or so so that I > can > install m68k on a 4MB SE/30. I think i'm close, but every combination > of >

Re: [techtalk] Intro (Q's on m68k, beowulf, SMP programming, anddatabases)

1999-10-22 Thread TeknoDragon
On Fri, 22 Oct 1999, Wayne Mehl wrote: > Which version are you trying to run? I think I still have my 7.1 > floppies somewhere :) 7.0.1, as i'm typing linux is booting (frozen i think, infact... most deffinately) I got MacOS down to 1072-1074k which is just barely enough with the 1.4k ramdisk im

Re: [techtalk] Intro (Q's on m68k, beowulf, SMP programming, and databases)

1999-10-22 Thread Serena Del Bianco
On Fri, 22 Oct 1999, TeknoDragon wrote: > Greetings, > > My wife (guess who!) seems to enjoy this list a lot so I thought I'd join > up (I seem to be doing this frequently). I'm Karl (aka Andross/TeknoDragon > depending on the medium of participation) a CS undergrad at WSU and a > "technopagan".

[techtalk] SMP/threaded programming

1999-10-22 Thread TeknoDragon
On Wed, 20 Oct 1999, Serena Del Bianco wrote: > that wont work if you're using threads either > imagine that thread 1 tries to execute that code and x is 0 > it will execute (*x == 0) and it will see the expression is true and will > execute x++ then, thread 1 is preempted and thread 2 starts exe

Re: [techtalk] SMP/threaded programming

1999-10-22 Thread Serena Del Bianco
On Fri, 22 Oct 1999, TeknoDragon wrote: > On Wed, 20 Oct 1999, Serena Del Bianco wrote: > > yes, I understand SMP programming concepts... > > as I said, I was assuming I could garuntee testset was an *atomic* > function... i.e. indivisible and possibly smaller than the timeslice of a > schedul

Re: [techtalk] SMP/threaded programming

1999-10-22 Thread Jeff Dike
> as I said, I was assuming I could garuntee testset was an *atomic* > function... i.e. indivisible and possibly smaller than the timeslice > of a scheduler... like a few i/o functions... Speed doesn't guarantee anything. A timer interrupt can reschedule you anytime, anywhere. Also, reschedule

[techtalk] IDEs

1999-10-22 Thread Beverly Guillermo
This is something I'm interested in... I personally use emacs in console but I'd like to have a graphical interface for X. =} I'm using Xemacs right now with the cc-mode packages and java stuff but I'd like to try others. What are everyone else's recommendations? > What an awesome environme