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Ask a LinuxWorld Exhibitor
Most Slashdot readers aren't coming to the LinuxWorld Conference and Expo in New York this week. If you're not coming, but you have a question you'd like to ask one of the exhibitors, please post it here. I promise to ask 10 of the highest-moderated exhibitor questions on your behalf, and I'll do my best to ask more than 10, time permitting. If you have a question for anyone who is holding a conference session or tutorial Thursday or Friday, please feel free to post it, too. I will try to ask speakers at least a few questions, but that's chancier than getting hold of exhibitors (who are in booths where they're easy to find), so no promises. One question per post, please. Hopefully, I'll have time to type up the answers over the weekend and post them Monday or Tuesday.
Which of the following tends to help sell more products: Solid, optimized code or semi-nude chicks?
Which do you personally perfer?
When will you bundle a text editor better than Notepad?
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Geeks pride themselves on their attention to technical excellence to the exclusion of such base tricks as free junk and hot booth babes. So how do you get the attention of a typical geek wandering around LinuxWorld? Fast triangle performance projected on the ceiling? Huge LCDs showing large uptimes on your show boxii? What catches a geeks eye?
Do you have a girlfriend?
(people on irc / you have never met do NOT count)
Who from the Sopranos is going to be there?
If it's Jamie-Lynn Sigler: Can I have her number?
Do not read this
For Hardware Vendors:
What basic strategies are you employing to better penetrate the server/appliance market with Linux systems?
That what was all this school was for... to teach us how to solve our own problems. -- janeowit
What is your response to the vulterant claims that your Gnome/KDE setup is breaking QT apps and causing havoc for developers who make use of QT?
Considering that this is called "LinuxWorld", what product will you release next for Linux?
What is your impression of Microsoft a) at your convention and b) Microsoft's efforts to lure Unix customers into their fold, away from Linux? Do they appear successful?
A feeling of having made the same mistake before: Deja Foobar
Question to ANY person there
How many Realdolls do you plan on buying once you start selling *insert product of vendor here*
Cuz damn...i know I would be supporting the rest of the technology community if I prospered!
P.S. Buy slashdot a tester model.
[I can picture a world without war, without hate. I can picture us attacking that world, because they'd never expect it]
Do you plan on producing Open Source components to any of your products? This primarily refers to server components, such as HTTP, DNS, IMAP, etc. which could function externally to the base programs (Exchange, ISA, etc.) and offer simpler and more granular control over active services.
That what was all this school was for... to teach us how to solve our own problems. -- janeowit
And on a related note: if Linux on the desktop takes off, what's Plan B? Do you even know yet?
Conversely, what was the lamest giveaway item you were ever saddled with? Where you had to throw it at passersby, and even then they recoiled in dismay?
... do you think its egotistical of me to push the fact that I'm going to linuxworld into the faces of my audience full of people not coming?
According to this link, Microsoft is exhibiting the following products:
This exhibitor is not currently assigned to any product categories.
I can name a few categories in which to put MS products. If that can help.
I'll do it for cheesy poofs.
...run Windows 2000? :-)
I know it's been the dream of GNU/Linux enthusiasts for years: to replace Windows on client PCs. Thus far, Microsoft's hold on OEMs hasn't been broken in the desktop PC market, though there are some encouraging signs like Walmart's $199 Microtel GNU/Linux PCs and LTSP spreading in schools. My question is this: do you think GNU/Linux will really succeed in spreading out from the server room to win a significant share of the desktop client market? If so, when and how do you think this will happen? (Such as HP/Compaq, Dell, Gateway, IBM, etc all pushing GNU/Linux PCs with Open Office to businesses, or thin client computing like LTSP gaining popularity, etc.)
"As flies to the wanton boys are we to the gods; they kill us for sport." - William Shakespeare, King Lear
...for throwing at the people manning the Microsoft booth.
Which will come first, Duke Nukem Forever or KDE 3.1?
There is nothing wrong with being gay. It's getting caught where the trouble lies.
because I'm really curious what they will say.
Liberty.
And this, gentlemen, is what happens to the human brain when the person is infected with homosexuality. Poor creature.
Dear Linux Administrator,
I'm a divorced mother of seven trying to put my life put back together after the death of my fourth husband. My kids still blame me for his death (it wasn't my fault, honest!), and I'm having a tough time meeting new people. What should I do?
--Sleepless in Sarasota
Five Nines
In the IT industry, server operating system reliability is expressed in terms of "nines." For example, 99.99 percent uptime is referred to as "four nines" and 99.999 percent uptime is referred to as "five nines." Regarded as the highest number realistically achievable, five nines equates to less than five minutes downtime per year.
The developers who built the Windows 2000 Server Family targeted 24x7x365 uptime. In business terms, that's what five nines deliver. How did they do? Consider the following:
* Today Starbucks, FreeMarkets, and MortgageRamp, an affiliate of GMAC Commercial Mortgage, are using Windows 2000 Server-based systems designed to deliver 99.999 percent server uptime.
* Industry leaders such as Compaq Offsite Link , Dell Offsite Link , Hewlett-Packard Offsite Link , Motorola Computer Group Offsite Link , Unisys Offsite Link , and Stratus Offsite Link can work with you to deliver solutions with up to five nines uptime.
Of course, not all business operations require this level of availability, but one thing is clear from the experiences of the companies above: The Windows 2000 Server family can help you get the system availability you need.
And the three offerings in the family--Windows 2000 Server, Advanced Server, and Datacenter Server--allow you to tailor your investment to provide the level of system availability that's appropriate for your various business operations, without overbuying for situations that don't require maximum uptime.
Building on "Outstanding" Availability Out of the Box
For the majority of usage scenarios, 99.99 percent uptime is adequate, as this equals less than one hour of downtime per year. The Aberdeen Group found that Windows 2000 Servers delivered 99.95 percent uptime right out of the box, before the servers were fully optimized for the environment, and before the IT staff had gotten up to speed using the new operating system. Read the report to see why the Aberdeen Group calls this level of availability "outstanding."
Microsoft treated that level as a baseline. To deliver the ultimate in business availability, the company realized that solutions need to include highly trained people and top-notch processes, in addition to solid technology. So Microsoft created the Datacenter Server Program, which can help you achieve 99.999 percent uptime with Windows 2000 Datacenter Server on qualified systems from Microsoft OEM partners. See the FreeMarkets case study for an example of the Datacenter Server Program.
Analysts and Customers Agree
In its report on Windows 2000 Datacenter Server, DH Brown Associates says, "Windows 2000 clearly takes a major step up in the enterprise food chain and now resides legitimately on the same field as UNIX competitors. Moreover, the business programs that Microsoft has put in place around Windows 2000 Datacenter Server will give broad classes of users the confidence to deploy higher-end applications on its platform."
Technology: Built to Keep Running
To support customer's needs for up to 99.999 percent business availability, Microsoft changed both the operating system and the way it was developed. First, the development team designed a development process geared to find and eliminate potential failures and operations that required rebooting the system. Then the development team analyzed nearly 1,200 servers running Windows NT Server 4.0. They learned that 65 percent of system reboots were due to planned outages for routine administrative tasks such as adding hardware and applications.
Of the unplanned outages, 21 percent were caused by application failures, and 14 percent were due to system failures. More than half of the system failures were traced to device drivers, anti-virus software, and hardware failures. (Note: This finding supports industry studies that say as much as 80 percent of system failures can be traced to errors caused by people or flawed processes, an issue addressed in the People and Processes section below.)
Among the culprits for systems failures: faulty driver software. So the developers conducted tests with anti-virus software and driver software developers. To prevent crashes in the future, independent software developers and hardware vendors can now test their code using the Windows 2000 Driver Verifier tool.
To help keep systems up and running, Windows 2000 greatly reduces the number of maintenance tasks, such as installing hardware and software, that require rebooting the computer.
Other reliability tools include a resource-partitioning feature that prevents application failures from forcing reboots, and an improved Task Manager that lets administrators kill entire process trees to completely shut down a "misbehaving" application.
Lastly, to reduce the amount of time systems are offline, when a system fails or is taken down for maintenance, new boot options let administrators quickly restart the system.
Increasing Levels of Availability
Many organizations will use a Windows 2000-based server to run e-Commerce and customer relationship management solutions to take advantage of its extensive support for custom Web and application development. These applications can take advantage of the added reliability offered by Windows 2000 Advanced Server or Datacenter Server. These versions provide clustering and load-balancing technologies that allow multiple servers to handle the load of a single application. With clustering, if one server fails, another can assume the load so the application keeps running. Load balancing allows you to distribute network traffic across up to 32 servers to increase availability and performance.
For the most demanding solutions, Windows 2000 Datacenter Server is designed for enterprises that need high-end, very reliable hardware and software for high-traffic networks and applications.
Closing the Loop: People and Processes
For Microsoft, much of the work to improve Windows reliability and availability went into improving the operating system software, both to reduce causes of failures and eliminate the need to take the system down for maintenance tasks. For customers, improving system availability starts with the new technology provided by the Windows 2000 Server Family of operating systems.
To get the highest level of availability from any operating system, including Windows, requires an IT environment built around sound operating guidelines and staffed by well-trained employees. To help customers build such an environment, Microsoft and third parties offer a collection of training and support programs suitable for the full range of businesses, from small one-office companies to distributed global enterprises. These programs cover operations training, system support, and for best practices guidelines for system design, installation, and maintenance.
How to get Started
Windows 2000 Server introduces new levels of reliability and availability for all your business operations. You can obtain the system availability you need in a variety of ways, from simply upgrading your existing system to Windows 2000 Server, all the way through obtaining maximum system availability with Windows 2000 Datacenter Server. Here's how:
* Learn about upgrading an existing server
* Work with Microsoft Certified Partners Offsite Link specializing in reliable server solutions
* Get Windows 2000 Server or Advanced Server on a new computer
* Get maximum reliability with Windows 2000 Datacenter Server
Conclusion
The Windows 2000 Server Family is the most reliable set of server operating systems Microsoft has ever produced. The improvements in Windows 2000 mean the systems you need to run your business will be available when you need them. Further, Windows 2000 Server, Advanced Server, and Datacenter Server provide increasing levels of system availability, to let the operating system readily support high-traffic Web sites, high-volume transaction processing, and many other demanding applications. Customers can choose from this line of products for their various operations, investing appropriately to achieve the level of system uptime they need for any given task.
Beyond improvements to the operating system, Microsoft has developed training and support resources that help businesses optimize Windows systems and the environments in which they are used to ensure maximum uptime. To learn more about the improvements in the Windows 2000 Server Family and the resources for improved training and processes, see "Increasing System Reliability and Availability in Windows 2000."
Vi or Emacs?
How do you like my tux?
Subject: You talk, it types..
"I can't give you a brain, so I'll give you a diploma" - The Great Oz (blatently stolen sig)
To icculus.org (booth #9): What is it like to be a small organization at a big convention with people like HP, Microsoft, Red Hat, etc? Do people give you any credit for what you are doing?
Do they read Slashdot? If so, why do they think there is such a strong anti-microsoft sentiment on Slashdot? What do they think Microsoft can do to change that sentiment?
:)
You know, a nice easy question for them to handle
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Is Mac OS X a big enough competitor (for want of a better word) to the Linux server/desktop market to warrent porting products over to either OS X or to Darwin?
This is with focus on the server side.
If you read a speed reading book, does it take you less time to read the second half?
"64 kilobytes should be enough for anyone." - Bill Gates speaking to the Windows Notepad development team.
While Windows Users have dealt with the consequences since then, little do they know, that Microsoft have since surpassed the 64 KB limit. When hitting the limit, Notepad forms a secret hook with a little known app called WordPad. This way, you have backwards compatibility with Notepad users, and enjoy the benefits of files larger than 64 KB.
I'm posting this comment from a Sharp Zaurus SL-5600 at LWX. Just thought that was neat.
The Dell's online computer purchases, in the "educational" section, only offer Windows as the O.S. [Last verified - about a month ago, when my friend from an American university whose IT dept prefers Dell computers to purchase from the scientific research grants money asked me to help him select his future computer config.]
Neither the "no-OS-gimme-refund" or a prepackaged Linux option is available. How does this coincide with the present Dell attempts to position itself as a friend of Linux?
VKh
What's the craziest thing a person has ever done to get schwag?
Ergonomica Auctorita Illico!
or maybe not. but i'm at linuxworld, and you're not :P
Are there any plans to offer software specifically targetted towards grade school age children? Seems like there may be an untapped market here.
Notepad does no such thing. It's a standalone 32-bit app. But now that this has appeared on /., it will no doubt become part of the Official Truth as told by the Linux faithful.
What was your biggest pleasant surprise of the show, if any
Conversly, what was your biggest let down of the shown, if any.
StarTux
To IBM:
Currently there are lots of IBM commercials regarding Linux. At home all I use is Linux and am far more productive, yet at work(IBM) am forced to use winblows. When are you going to start embracing using technologies that your costomers and workers can use. Instead of having web broadcase in Windows median, switch to another format. This goes to all of the documents and programs being used. Why have a coorprate license for Office XP when we can use OpenOffice.org?
Currently this aspect is forcing your customers to use windows. With this attitude you will never gain any ground in the Desktop world. There is plenty to gain and somebody in bigblue needs to wake up.
To Macrovision Corp. (booth R10)
As I understand, your main stakes are in the encoding of ntsc and pal video signals as to make them uncopyable in receiving hardware (correct me if I'm incorrect).
As that stated, why are you involved with Linux?
Are you contributing to the video section (V4L) of the Linux kernel or making user-land utilities?
In general, what are your open business plans with Linux?
Will you suck my cock? It tastes like Roblimos ass.
Microsoft has adjusted their rehtoric against Linux, again, and says they will now be pushing the integration advantages of Windows over Linux. This, in my opinion, does have some merit as, management of a Microsoft network is highly integrate from groupware and databases to desktop workstations. The Linux environment however, is composed of individual projects with little or no integration which forces Linux management to be performed through kludges and custom scripts.
Indeed, the most popular and perhaps best, integrated management system for the Linux environment appears to be Webmin which, though very good, is forced to be a kludge and still falls short of a truely integrated enterprise Linux management system. While Red Hat offers RHN and SCO offers Volution Manager neither one truely integrates the overall management of a Linux shop.
Are you, the leading commercial Linux vendors targeting the enterprise market, planning on making any efforts to integrate Linux management on an enterprise level such as Microsoft and Novell already do? If so, what are these efforts and how will they be licensed?
is supposed to be a joke based on a stupid urban myth.
Under Win9x notepad had such a limit, and would ask if you wanted to load it in WordPad if it was larger. Don't ask me why Win9x notepad was designed like this. It sure is ridiculous to begin with.
What about Mono?
The truth doesn't care what I think.
Tens of thousands...
Probably won't get you a booth-babe, but you should qualify for one of the she-males that hustle their butts at the Holland Tunnel.
Since the visibility of a OS in the offices of the members of the board is key to its acceptance within the company, do you think that developing and promoting a desktop Linux, easy enough so that even CEO's can use it, should be a priority for the Linux community, and should getting CEO's to try a fully developed Linux desktop environment also be part of that priority?
Do or do not. There is no try.
#1. Is Novell there at all?
#2. Will RedHat migrate the blue curve theme to the next version of advanced server?
Thanks!
Karma: The shiznight, mostly because I am the Drizzle.
Many o fus have made the connection between MS seen as an Alpha Male competitor and the trend towards cooperative capitlaism in Europe and Asia..
How do Linux Vendors view their role in cooperative competition and How do they feel its different than the MS style of Alpha Male Capitalism?
Don't Tread on OpenSource
which homeless shelter are coding from ?
What is your projected commitment to Linux and other Open Source software and hardware products in terms of monitary donations and monitary investments over the next 5 years?
Do you have plans in the near or distant future of releasing either hardware specifications, or open source drivers for your entire line of computer perhipherals so Linux can compete on par with Microsoft at the desktop?
Lord....i will not even dignify your little homophobic rant...but you have a point about the Linux development community. What you have to understand(and hopefully linux zelots also) is that linux developers , except for about 9 individuals who dedicate themselves to kernel development are for the most part, amatuer programmers who more often than not are not being paid to write this code..and on the other hand, open source developers will not release their code until they are confident that it is the best they can come up with(not necessarily the best code written for that specific case).
Where are the bathrooms?
Okay, we've got Rob promising to ask the ten highest-moderated questions. Why don't we have him look for booth babes and ask if he can get the source to their hearts or maybe even walk up to various vendors and ask if his butt would look good in pleather?
be sure to take a camera.
Just look that marketer in the eye, give them a little wink and ask, "So, do you want to go back to my room and get a litle...frisky?" (Try to roll the 'r' in frisky when you say it.) Ideally you would ask this question to several marketers under different conditions: wearing nice clothes, looking kind of dumpy, wearing cologne, wearing overpowering cologne, etc.
Try to get a good sample of linux marketers.
Kudos will be awarded for propositioning Linus.
"What operating system do you use on your home computer?"
1000 SlashDot sigs
to IBM , HP , etc ( all computer manufacturer or reseller ) Why do they hide there linux computer offer from there main page and why do they not include it on all there product !
1. Modify Linux
2. Make product.
3. Go to LinuxWorld
4. ????
5. Profit!
How does it feel, to be on top? What's it like to know you have the most totally bitchin' Linux distribution ever? Does it bother you that the Red Hat and Slackware and Mandrake and Suse and Debian guys all stare at you with envy and fear?
In particular,
Looks like we'll finally get some solid competition for the Sharp Zaurus
The last MS product I had which was this reliable was NT3.51 (and unfortunately, that was during the "NT is for servers, not desktops" days, so it didn't support laptop power management drivers, so a low-battery interrup would make it blue-screen instead of saving its state.)
Back when I had Sun machines, the "uptime" command would usually tell me the amount of time since the last power failure, except when I was messing with hardware. On Linux, it usually tells me the length of time sinc e the last interesting software distribution came out, or the last time I booted the machine in Windows to run tax software, or the last time I messed with the hardware, except on the honeypot machines I used to run unprotected on DSL, which told me how long it had been since the machine got r00ted :-)
Bill Stewart
New Fast-Compression-only CPR http://preview.tinyurl.com/dy575ks
This is two related questions for IBM:
Why is IBM continuing to promote AIX 5"L" has being a "superset" of Linux when it is missing several things that come standard with most Linux distributions (/dev/random, Pluggable Authentication Modules, ipchains/iptables host firewalling, VFS API for file system kernel modules, etc)?
When will IBM help promote the use of Linux PPC on the RS/6000 instead (make TSM backup client available, make the programming specs for SSA drivers available, etc)?
...how long is the line of cars full of moms waiting to drive their kids back home to their basements?
I kid, I kid.
No, I don't want the crappy "relaxing ball". I want the t-shirts that i KNOW you have under the counter. No, I don't want to have a discussion with you about my enterprise needs. I just need a t-shirt. Don't make me come back there and get it.
I've found that if you can get people to answer honestly, you get some very interesting replies to this one from Linux hardware and software vendors.
To Redhat: I noticed that last quarter you pulled in an income for the first time ever. A whopping $214,000. Does this mean that everybody in the company gets, say, a $10 gift certificate for McDonald's? If not, then how do you guys expect to spend these massive earnings? Maybe on the staggering interest payments on the $16 million in debt, the $14 million in payables, or any of your other long term debt? Hopefully, are you planning to spend it better than you did on the incredibly productive "Red Hat over Redmond" mountain climb, on which, I'm sure, much "synergy" was created?
Oh yeah, and thanks for the free software. Good luck on that whole "profit" thing!
"My sources say yes".
Liberal (adj.): Free from bigotry; open to progress; tolerant of others.
Too bad Mandrake is gone. Their best giveaway to me was a new Compaq notebook I won at LinuxWorld San Jose. :)
They also gave my wife nice boxed software sets at every show....
"Is it true that 'All you base are belong to us?'"
Are you hiring?
My name fits again.
Do you plan on making software that will help kids who can't read good and want to learn to do other things well?
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And ask them what they think about this?
/tmp/icc.hack. /tmp/icc.hack. /tmp/icc.hack.
/tmp/icc.hack. icc /tmp/icc.hack.
#!/bin/sh
##
## haX0red Intel C/C++ Compiler
##
## This simple shell script will h4x0r the icc compiler so that
## it skips the check for a valid license file. I was inspired
## to do this because of the asshole Intel engineer at
## LinuxWorld 2002 who did everything he could to dodge
## my questions about Intel's compiler and other general rudeness.
##
## I developed this hack against this version:
##
## Intel(R) C++ Compiler for 32-bit applications, Version 5.0.1 Build 010730D0
## Copyright (C) 1985-2001 Intel Corporation. All rights reserved.
##
##
## Usage:
## Install the Intel C compiler. Don't download a license!
##
## Make sure to import all of the variables that the compiler
## needs to function (it won't work with vanilla include/libraries)
##
## Enjoy!
##
echo 'break *0x8056451' >
echo "run $*" >>
echo 'jump *0x80567d0' >>
gdb -batch -x
rm
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--any thoughts on re-opening the 7x series? Maybe even a fully patched up2dated 7.3 "limited edition" would be nice, with maybe a few more modern goodies in it, like fer instance gnome 2 and having apt-get come installed with the synaptic gui tool. Thanks in advance.
BTW, a constructive criticism, I like the concept of the integrated desktop,it just needs ALL the installed apps to be right there in the menu, E-Z to access. I've tried 8.0-it looks nice- but dang if I could find anything or make it "work" like I can my 7.2/3 hybrid box I'm running now.
--zogger
For the cynnical: Why do you put all this money and effort in Linux when you know that Microsoft will destroy Linux within a few years?
Do the people who modded this down as flamebait understand that it was a joke?
Not to forget, this week Perth is hosting Linux.conf.au. This is not some backwater event, nor is it a commercial event. It is a serious linux development conference, one of the few left. There are a total of two vendor stands, and one is from a local bookshop and one from a local software company looking for employees. There are three threads of lectures, and registered people are free to go to any of them.. and 6 lectures per thread per day.
:)
In attendance to LCA and giving talks are: Alan Cox, Andrew Tridgell (Samba), Rasmus Lerdorf (PHP), Hemos (Slashdot), Bdale Garbe (Debian), Adrian Chadd (Squid), Paul Rusty Russell (Kernel/ipchains), and attending the conference and occasionally dressing up as a penguin is Linus Torvalds..
Hmm ok, so my question to vendors or speakers is.. don't you wish you were here instead?
If many of you stand to make large profit margins using linux as your booster, how do you plan on giving back to the community? Do you feel any commitment whatsoever to either help fund open source projects (e.g. linux kernel) and do you have any plans to open the source for the software you plan on selling?
I'm pretty sure they understand that it wasn't very funny.
mstyne: real name, no gimmicks
Reportedly, enterprise Linux customers and proponents like HP and Sun pulled out of a scheduled conference to debate the future of Linux desktops. In general, how would you rate the importance of Lindows and its CEO, Michael Robertson, to the viability of Linux on the desktop?
Don't forget this guy....
We don't enjoy compiling for two days before you can do anything.
When will the various Linux distributers (RH, SuSE, Oracle?, etc) pitch in to get it Common Criteria certified, so I can use it in the DOD? I am sick of having to get waivers and justify non Windows software within the DOD. On requirements that require 64-bit computing such as Oracle, I can justify Sun systems, but for smaller needs I am fighting a hard battle due to no (granted lab environment) CC ratings on Linux.
Thanks
SuSE has some cool stuffed animal lizards they give away after demonstations... Not sure, but I think I saw some monkeys and I suspect Ximian was giving them away... RedHat had red hats, of course...
Luke-Jr
There's been talk about skipping the 3.1 version number and going to 3.1.1 directly, since the extra time for the security audit has allowed us to include many bugfixes into the 3.1 release. And yes, the "for workgroups" moniker has been discusses on kde-core-devel, so who knows...
I was at the convention yesterday (and saw CmdrTaco talking to the Ximian guy), but there was a question that I think needs to be asked. I don't remember what booth it was, but it was right next to the Gentoo Linux booth: What was the point of the guy playing a "Dance Dance Revolution"-type game? I don't think anybody there was staying away from Linux until they could play DDR on it.
And Taco, I hope the Ximian guy convinced you that they should get the award. Those VFolders are spectacular, the furniture in their booth was fun (looked like a jungle set for a kid's show), and Rupert the Ximian monkey was probably the most-coveted swag (except RedHat's red hats)!
I really hate signatures, but go to my website.
Do you plan on making software that will help kids who can't read good ...
Do you mean kids who can't read well?
Sorry, I only grammar-nazi when it's funny.
I really hate signatures, but go to my website.
Its called Wordpad,
before that it was called
Windows Write (I think).
If you wish to poke fun at MS
at least TRY to be well informed.
Same goes for bashing Linux do
it on something that makes sense.
I love this.
The people who respond, correctly, that the original troll, didnt even know about the Word
Processor that has been bundled with Windows for a long time, a lot of them get nothing 0, whereas the original zealot gets modded up to high heavens.
I love it. Be ill informed, be popular on Slashdot, we dont care what we print, as it
bashes MS and helps us worship Linux.
http://us.imdb.com/Title?0196229
Der-ek Zoo-land-er
timothy
jrnl: http://tinyurl.com/c2l8yr / foes: http://tinyurl.com/ckjno5
I think it's obvious: Those kids have laid a real guilt trip on you, and are holding you back from expressing the real you. Dump 'em!
Use the same technique that worked so well for that fourth husband, and rid yourself of those seven little ball-and-chains. Then you can hit the disco circuit (seven kids and four husbands would put you in the disco age range, I think), and start looking for number 5. Be sure to look for a sucker who's rich and old. Sudden death is always less suspicious in the elderly.
Be sure to stick to dimly-lit venues: after seven kids, bright lights probably won't be flattering. I suspose it's too late to tell you about birth control?
That movie is where the line comes from; people tend to either love it or hate it, but it made me laugh for hours / days. Not everyone finds Ben Stiller funny, but (particularly in that movie) I do. Owen Wilson, too.
"What is this, a center for *ants*?!"
timothy
jrnl: http://tinyurl.com/c2l8yr / foes: http://tinyurl.com/ckjno5
To RedHat.
You have "integrated" the two main dektops (KDE,Gnome), included quality fonts,built tools to make the installation and use of your distro easier.
So what are your future improvements to Linux in general, and your distro in particular?
I think the funniest thing that happened to me was that I went to the FSF booth, and was poking around at the GNU Emacs manual they were offering. I asked the guy behind the table if it was the same as the online documentation. Of course, I should have known better...
"Well, I don't know because I don't think I've used GNU Emacs in a long time. I stopped using it when the binary got to be larger than 10 megabytes. I don't use editors that are that size. I don't think I've compiled GNU Emacs in 10 years. The version I have on my computer is a decade old...blah blah blah"
Ask a simple question...
Anyways, I found it especially amusing considering that it was coming from the GNU guy himself.
This is a driver/support question.
I want to buy HP's new Legacy Free Tablet and run linux on it for an industrial application.
This tablet uses a digitizer that is similar to one that has a linux driver however the interface to the digitizer (http://www.linuxslate.org) ie active pen. Now this driver requires a Serial interface. But on Legacy Free PCs there is no traditional serial interface.
Does HP have any interest in supporting Linux on this device? Why not?
I am currently using Fujitsu LT-P600s running Gentoo.
Adults are obsolete children. - Dr. Seuss
Will Sharp Sell the SL-C700 in the US? When? Will they add more memory? Will they add 802.11b What will the cost be? TIA, Bod
"I say we take off, nuke the site from orbit. It's the only way to be sure."
When do we get Linux drivers?
I would like to ask:
1. Linksys, D-link, TI, Broadcom, Intresil for their 802.11g, 802.11a and 802.11b+ products ?
2. ATI/ALI/HP/Compaq/Toshiba - when do we get Linux drivers for IGP 320/340 chipsets ? For ALI 1535 notebooks with firewire/PCMCIA/TV out ?
Jacek
When are Redhat et al going to acknowledge that rpm is an abissmal package management system, and adopt/support something better, like apt or portage for example?
If I seem short sighted, it is because I stand on the shoulders of midgets
about the Sun linux distribution, do you plan to make it available at large? or do you plan to continue bundling it with Sun products only? Either way hopefully (for me) the distro continue to be highly RedHat compatible.
Announcement: http://www.kde.org/announcements/announce-3.1.html r ements: http://promo.kde.org/3.1/requirements.phpl og: http://www.kde.org/announcements/changelogs/change log3_0_5to3_1.html
Download: http://www.kde.org/info/3.1.html
Feature Guide: http://promo.kde.org/3.1/feature_guide.php
Requi
Change
Screenshots (with AA turned off though): http://promo.kde.org/3.1/screenshots.php
Cheers.