Oh, I don't know - if my experience with win98 is anything to go by you won't even be able to get the car to start - so you certainly won't be involved in any traffic accidents.
XPlay eh? Following the well know naming of programs
for the X Window System since X10 was around.
But seriously, people in the computer industry
who should know better seem to be appropriating
names that imply their products have a pedigree
that they haven't.
Witness Microsoft's appropriation of "X" after
having tried to appropriate the generic "Windows"
they now have ActiveX, DirectX, Xbox - truly
an homage to the hugely successful X Window
System.
And Apple are no better, they called their
latest operating system X. And have now launched
a server version called "Xserve"
(frighteningly close to "Xserver")
and a version of the iMac called "emac" - what's
next "Linu"? "Mozill"? "Apach"? "gre"?
So if you refused to accept the license and offered it back to them, and they refused to accept it - doesn't that mean you can do what you like with it?
So that you prop up the download and purchase figures for all of the apps that use the Win32 APIs instead? How is this an improvement?
Are you seriously suggesting it would be better
to give the money to Microsoft?
Funding Wine helps the development of Winelib
which should provide an easy migration path
for producers of software that only runs on
Microsoft platforms. Then they can ship a
native Linux executable linked against Winelib.
Maybe not perfect, but surely a step in the
right direction.
The crossover plugin (and the WINE installation
that you get with it) is great. I bought it as
a company expense so that I could view documents
in proprietary Microsoft formats that I need to
do for my job - and I don't see why Microsoft should
be rewarded for polluting the world with proprietary
formats. I'd rather money went towards the
development of WINE.
But what worries me is that now I can view
all those whizzy Sorensen encoded QuickTime
movies without worrying about it, I am
actually reinforcing the view that these formats
are good - by increasing the download figures
for them.
I guess I really should compose some standard
email to send to sites that publish stuff in
proprietary formats - but it's often difficult
to even find an address to send stuff too, and
when you do you don't usually get any kind of
response.
Re:what a predicament ...
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A standardized set of video codecs in a single stable player.
I've been emailing
quicktime@apple.com
asking them to release a Sorenson decoder
(not a full codec, just a decoder)
so that QuickTime video can be viewed under
Linux.
Especially as they claim that
"QuickTime is a truly cross-platform technology".
It seems to me that without a generally available
decoder technology what they are providing is
QuickTime encryption.
So far they have failed to even acknowledge my
messages. *sigh*.
you dont have to run unix to run apache the win32 port is dreadfully easy and comes with lots of docs
Ah, but anyone with the intelligence to download
and install Apache for win32 and read the necessary
documentation, is also intelligent enough to
download and install a decent operating system
to run non-win32 Apache on.
I have independently come to much the same
conclusion.
I remember the days when the X server used to crash
a couple of times a week and take all your apps out
with it, or when Emacs would get itself into a bit of a state.
Once these packages have hed more than about 10 years of development work done on them they reached the stage of becoming rock solid pieces of software.
Why kill these? They help keeping/. alive, and free (both meanings)
Well (and that was just an amusing example - I didn't
single out slashdot for special attention), I
used to kill all annoying ads that animated
or significantly slowed down Web surfing.
Now I've got a Cable Modem connection I've stopped
sensoring ads for the second reason.
replacement =/local/images/ad-killer.gif
http://*.doubleclick.net/*ad/*
http://images.slashdot.org/banner/* etc.
to kill image based ads.
Which was great until
I switched to using
Mozilla
as my browser of choice.
(WWWOFFLE doesn't seem to like Mozilla's
HTTP/1.1 requests - which is fair enough as it's
an HTTP/1.0 proxy - and sometimes pages are truncated).
Which is a pity, 'cos WWWOFFLE has lots of other
cool features too. Like de-animating GIFs, removing <BLINK> tags,
demoronising
MS non-Latin1 characters.
(As well as being quite a cool caching/offline
proxy).
Re:GIMP is the vi of image manipulators....
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Its very powerful but has a learning curve measured in years.
By the way, the correct name of the operating system is "Linux," not "GNU/Linux."
Hmmm. It just occurred to me that uname
which is part of the GNU sh-utils packages reports
the following:
% uname -s Linux
And if you go to the info page for uname you are
told that -s prints the operating system name.
BTW. I have a great deal of time for RMS. He is
someone who is doing what he believes in, which
is building a software community, rather than
building a large bank balance. I wouldn't like
to speculate which of these is more in keeping
with the "American way".
Slashdot Mirror
> This car is not safe...
Oh, I don't know - if my experience with win98
is anything to go by you won't even be able to
get the car to start - so you certainly won't
be involved in any traffic accidents.
Too right BSODs aren't funny.
But that didn't stop Microsoft including them in
every version of Windows I was ever exposed to.
XPlay eh? Following the well know naming of programs for the X Window System since X10 was around.
But seriously, people in the computer industry who should know better seem to be appropriating names that imply their products have a pedigree that they haven't.
Witness Microsoft's appropriation of "X" after having tried to appropriate the generic "Windows" they now have ActiveX, DirectX, Xbox - truly an homage to the hugely successful X Window System.
And Apple are no better, they called their latest operating system X. And have now launched a server version called "Xserve" (frighteningly close to "Xserver") and a version of the iMac called "emac" - what's next "Linu"? "Mozill"? "Apach"? "gre"?
You obviously never saw the HP-UX version of IE.
So if you refused to accept the license and offered
it back to them, and they refused to accept it -
doesn't that mean you can do what you like with it?
Are you seriously suggesting it would be better to give the money to Microsoft?
Funding Wine helps the development of Winelib which should provide an easy migration path for producers of software that only runs on Microsoft platforms. Then they can ship a native Linux executable linked against Winelib.
Maybe not perfect, but surely a step in the right direction.
The crossover plugin (and the WINE installation that you get with it) is great. I bought it as a company expense so that I could view documents in proprietary Microsoft formats that I need to do for my job - and I don't see why Microsoft should be rewarded for polluting the world with proprietary formats. I'd rather money went towards the development of WINE.
But what worries me is that now I can view all those whizzy Sorensen encoded QuickTime movies without worrying about it, I am actually reinforcing the view that these formats are good - by increasing the download figures for them.
I guess I really should compose some standard email to send to sites that publish stuff in proprietary formats - but it's often difficult to even find an address to send stuff too, and when you do you don't usually get any kind of response.
As other people have pointed out there will be no
syslog running in runlevel 0.
I guess you could always run the video out into
a VCR... or use a serial console and a line printer.
Bit of a shame if you want to log any attacks
on the firewall though.
With no disks mounted where can you log it to?
But you don't _buy_ Windows. You buy a license
that allows you to install a copy of it. You
don't own the software.
But it's too late... Microsoft have already assimilated the Borg.
A standardized set of video codecs in a single stable player.
I've been emailing quicktime@apple.com asking them to release a Sorenson decoder (not a full codec, just a decoder) so that QuickTime video can be viewed under Linux. Especially as they claim that "QuickTime is a truly cross-platform technology".
It seems to me that without a generally available decoder technology what they are providing is QuickTime encryption.
So far they have failed to even acknowledge my messages. *sigh*.
Ah, but anyone with the intelligence to download and install Apache for win32 and read the necessary documentation, is also intelligent enough to download and install a decent operating system to run non-win32 Apache on.
So all that needs to be done is make sure that every machine running a Microsoft Operating System is powered off, and the world is safe.
(And maybe once people realise that the world is safe when there are no MS boxes running they won't bother to power them back on ;-)
I have independently come to much the same conclusion.
I remember the days when the X server used to crash a couple of times a week and take all your apps out with it, or when Emacs would get itself into a bit of a state.
Once these packages have hed more than about 10 years of development work done on them they reached the stage of becoming rock solid pieces of software.
Of course Linux was started in 1991...
The final line of the article is...
(Okay, so I changed the link).
Well (and that was just an amusing example - I didn't single out slashdot for special attention), I used to kill all annoying ads that animated or significantly slowed down Web surfing.
Now I've got a Cable Modem connection I've stopped sensoring ads for the second reason.
Which was great until I switched to using Mozilla as my browser of choice. (WWWOFFLE doesn't seem to like Mozilla's HTTP/1.1 requests - which is fair enough as it's an HTTP/1.0 proxy - and sometimes pages are truncated).
Which is a pity, 'cos WWWOFFLE has lots of other cool features too. Like de-animating GIFs, removing <BLINK> tags, demoronising MS non-Latin1 characters. (As well as being quite a cool caching/offline proxy).
Its very powerful but has a learning curve measured in years.
Surely you mean Emacs... ;-)
Hmmm. It just occurred to me that uname which is part of the GNU sh-utils packages reports the following:
And if you go to the info page for uname you are told that -s prints the operating system name.
BTW. I have a great deal of time for RMS. He is someone who is doing what he believes in, which is building a software community, rather than building a large bank balance. I wouldn't like to speculate which of these is more in keeping with the "American way".
Yahoo Messenger has both a Java and a pure Linux client.
Except both the Java and the native Linux client (which is closed source, buggy and hasn't been updated since August) are rubbish.
If you're using Yahoo! Messenger under Linux I would throughly recommend switching to GAIM.
Looks like we're missing number two. "ONE.N" suitably encoded somewhow.