On 12/21/2009 01:31 PM, Frédéric Perrin wrote:
Le lundi 21 à 18:57, Laurie Clark-Michalek a écrit :
And on the anal sex point... actually, I think it'd be better for the
convocation as a whole if we dropped that analogy.
2009/12/20 Laurie Clark-Michalek bluepepp...@archlinux.us
You cannot write an
application for windows and expect it to work on Linux.
Java? The success of the language is based around the fact that almost
every computer has the runtime installed, regardless of operating
system. Does that
On Sun, Dec 20, 2009 at 7:52 AM, Laurie Clark-Michalek
bluepepp...@archlinux.us wrote:
You cannot write an
application for windows and expect it to work on Linux.
Java? The success of the language is based around the fact that almost
every computer has the runtime installed, regardless of
On Fri, Dec 18, 2009 at 4:24 AM, RedShift redsh...@pandora.be wrote:
Hi all
It dawned on my that lots of industries have standards and companies
generally keep to them. For example slabs of aluminium have standard sizes,
building materials have well defined specifications, or take electrical
2009/12/21 Angel Velásquez an...@archlinux.com.ve:
On Sun, Dec 20, 2009 at 7:52 AM, Laurie Clark-Michalek
bluepepp...@archlinux.us wrote:
You cannot write an
application for windows and expect it to work on Linux.
Java? The success of the language is based around the fact that almost
every
Laurie Clark-Michalek bluepepp...@archlinux.us writes:
Java? The success of the language is based around the fact that almost
every computer has the runtime installed, regardless of operating
system. Does that not count as a global API?
The concept is called write once, run anywhere. An
Le lundi 21 à 18:57, Laurie Clark-Michalek a écrit :
And on the anal sex point... actually, I think it'd be better for the
convocation as a whole if we dropped that analogy.
Is that what they call a
2009/12/21 Frédéric Perrin frederic.per...@resel.fr:
Le lundi 21 à 18:57, Laurie Clark-Michalek a écrit :
And on the anal sex point... actually, I think it'd be better for the
convocation as a whole if we dropped that analogy.
Le Sat, 19 Dec 2009 23:10:29 +0100,
Frédéric Perrin frederic.per...@resel.fr a écrit :
Le vendredi 18 à 10:24, RedShift a écrit :
Things like enumerating all hardware
devices, configuring a network interface, drawing a window, ejecting
the CD-ROM drive, getting
You cannot write an
application for windows and expect it to work on Linux.
Java? The success of the language is based around the fact that almost
every computer has the runtime installed, regardless of operating
system. Does that not count as a global API?
Laurie
Le vendredi 18 à 10:24, RedShift a écrit :
Things like enumerating all hardware
devices, configuring a network interface, drawing a window, ejecting
the CD-ROM drive, getting notified about new hardware plugged in,
etc... It's different on every operating system.
Hi all
It dawned on my that lots of industries have standards and companies generally
keep to them. For example slabs of aluminium have standard sizes, building
materials have well defined specifications, or take electrical components:
there's a huge list of standardized components. You can
2009/12/18 RedShift redsh...@pandora.be:
Hi all
It dawned on my that lots of industries have standards and companies
generally keep to them. For example slabs of aluminium have standard sizes,
building materials have well defined specifications, or take electrical
components: there's a huge
For example slabs of aluminium have standard sizes
I would guess there are at least 50 different standards available for
alu plates. But the difference to the computer world is, you can take
any of that plates, drill a hole and mount stuff.
building materials have well defined specifications
I think it's because computers develop too quickly to have it. Some of
the other things you mention such as building materials have been around
for years, even centuries, and are the way they are going to be. I
think if someone developed a bright new way of creating aluminum ingots
for instance,
There are things like that (think NDIS - it's Microsoft, but it's a
step in the right direction), just not enough , but I think it's a
question of time.
--
catwell
On 12/18/2009 01:26 AM, Damien Churchill wrote:
Isn't this what POSIX was, albeit quite old now, but still a standard?
imagine that: some people out there still think posix is THE standard
and people should read the spec BEFORE reimplementing basics in the name
of making things cross
On Fri, Dec 18, 2009 at 3:26 AM, Damien Churchill dam...@gmail.com wrote:
Isn't this what POSIX was, albeit quite old now, but still a standard?
POSIX and the SUSv3 (Single Unix Specification)
Pierre Chapuis catw...@archlinux.us writes:
There are things like that (think NDIS - it's Microsoft, but it's a
step in the right direction), just not enough , but I think it's a
question of time.
And then there's the UDI (universal driver interface) (UDI), which Stallman
doesn't like. I can
On Fri, Dec 18, 2009 at 5:31 PM, Chris Brannon cmbranno...@gmail.com wrote:
Pierre Chapuis catw...@archlinux.us writes:
There are things like that (think NDIS - it's Microsoft, but it's a
step in the right direction), just not enough , but I think it's a
question of time.
And then there's
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