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  1. I''ve been wondering lately, what language is Linux written in?

     

    I'm interested in this, because my friend and I are considering writing our own distro. I know, it sounds like a bit of a feat, but one guy wrote MEPIS by playing with the Debian source code. I think the two of us could do something similar. ^_^

     

    I would say that Linux, by itself, is rather easy to bo maked. Students are learning that at the university. Creating the Linux kernel and the main compiling the main programs is rather easy, because the sources are available.

    I would say that the most difficult part is writing down the drivers. You need to find a way of detecting wich hardware is present in each possible computer you are installing your distro on, and writing the corresponding driver, or obtaining the driver from somebody else.

    The key point defining if a given current Linux distro is "better" than another one, from my point of view, is the fact that it already has all the drivers needed by my own PC, so the installation from the Linux distro is straightforward, I boot from the distro bootable CD and I click "accept" in each question. This supposed that a lot of people spent a lot of time on the install interface and on the automatic detection of all my communication, audio and printer devices which could possibly be found on my PC.


  2. .The perennial sources of energy are all pollution free and are something on which our next generation can really rely on for decades to come without worrying much about their exhaustion.

    What do you mean by this sentence? What are the perennial sources you are talking about?
    Hydrogen can easily be extracted from water in nuclear plants, but this is the worst pollution we can imagine, destroying a region during hundred of years.

  3. Hi, Elu, welcome aboard.I mouved your topic here, where it's place most probably is.Of course, you can guess that most of the features you will get with your Xisto account are suitable for starting your website, probably no need for a paid option. When your site starts having too many users, you can buy more bandwidth, more databases, are needed, depending from what you are really doing on your website.By the way, I didn't understand your topic title, is this your mother phone number? :)


  4. Do not think in terms of what you learned and the new things you have to switch toward. Think in terms of what the very young children will learn and how easy it will be for them. Here we are talking about things which will be not be in use before ten or twenty years. Simply think how your parents would see the tactile tablets twenty years ago, at that moment we could simply not imagine having an ipad where you play games by means of pressing a very flat screen.Today a one-year baby plays touching his own skin, tomorrow he will not surprised if this a way for calling mom for kiss goodnight!


  5. I guess that, instead sharing with the IP address, you could configure with your computer hostname. The proxy server, or the DNS in your institute, is in charge of translating the hostname to it's current IP address, and it should be transparent for your the other laptop user.
    You can try this without configuring anything. Simply, while your computer is on the network, look at it's hostname, go to your friend's laptop and, in a command-line window, type

    ping myhostname
    where "myhostname" is the hostname of your own PC on the network.

  6. Now the point that I want to make is the slightest amount of the mentioned joy is taken away from us as power cuts are like part of summer's bloom

    Depends from the energy politics in your country. If electrical power is coming from solar captors on your roof or on a field near your home, summer is the time where you have a lot of electrical power! And rainy days are days where you have few power.

  7. Right, we have to find a way to overcome this problem of unemployment. Maybe one way would be sharing our tasks? I find not normal that some people have to work overtime without being paid for these extra hours, while other people have no salary because they have no job. Maybe forcing companies to pay extra work hours more than standard hours would push them to employ more people?


  8. hi everyone, i'm using linux, i have installed oracle universe 10g on my computer but i still can't login with the password that i provide while installing so please somebody help me

    You can't login to what?
    Can't login to Linux, or can't login to oracle?
    If you can't login to Linux, you have to log in as root and change the "oracle" user password.
    If you can't log to oracle, please tell us, it's another trick.

  9. "Portable" also means "standalone". I have a copy of my portableapps on a USB flashdisk, but I also have a copy on my hard disk. I use my hard disk copy, and when I move I have the same ones on my USB flashdisk.And if I happen to have a bad stroke, I simply remove the portable app from my hard drive, and uncompress a fresh copy and everything is back to nominal.


  10. [Another great one is http://coversplash.com/. You can sell photos for free, and buying photos is really easy since you just download them straight from the site, no hassle. You also get to maintain your own copyright. No limits to the storage size or anything either. I think where it kind of beats the others is it is also a social network. You can follow other photographers and everyone has their own “Photostream” to view what is going on around the site.

    Ho-ho, that's funny. Concerning the starter topic title, in my opinion "the best" photo sharing site is a free one. But, obviously, there is another option, "the best" one is the one who allows people to sell pictures!
    That's completely new for me. My pictures are for my own pleasure, and sharing with friends means sharing for free. But, of course, artists need some money, so artists have to sell their pictures. Nice concept.

  11. Does it leave everything to uppercase, or does it switch uppercase to lowercase in the same time? Does it convert the word "John" to "JOHN" or to "jOHN" ?-------------------EDIT---------------This does not work on each Excel version. On my PC, Shift-F3 calls "Insert a Function", which is not so easy to use, personally I failed.

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