It works! There are 11 pages which reference Linux. The last one - on the second page - is a form which asks all sorts of details, surprisingly your e-mail address is a voluntary one. One of them is "Which o/s do you use?" Linux is the radio box at the top of the list! Now TELL THEM Be truthful now - remember they can tell from their logs what your browser and o/s are.
Unfortunately it requires associating with the Evil Empire (M$), ( Wouldn't work under WINE either last time I tried it a few months ago. It needs ActiveX but it's pretty good stuff none the less. )
When you get down to the real basics of the KDE / GNOME kerfuffle it's just good old-fasioned Nationalism - nothing more nothing less. Each has its place under the sun, but I wish this sort of sniping would simply stop and the protagonists start co-operating for a change.
The obvious place to collect the money off the reading public is at the portal. The portal would collect a regular subscription and pay the content providers on a clickthrough basis.
A secure cookie on the client machine tells the
content providers that this particular client is a paid-up reader and to let them view the information. No secure cookie, no view. I'd like this because it would keep the portal editors on their toes to only link to good information. The price could vary too. $0.000005 for a verbose yet content free page, and perhaps a dollar or two for an informative essay of real value. The amount actually paid could perhaps be tied in some way to the current scoring system. Yes, you would then have to extend the slashdot scoring system to the pages to which you link, but that would be no bad thing. Hopefully we would then be able to read single articles on subscription sites such as The Economist's report on the Microsoft appeal as they would then be getting paid. Also it would give individual authors who create content a motivation to produce good work and keep it updated. I for one would put more effort into my little Notes for C Programmers if I thought that I was going to be paid for the work.
Americans.
You are allowed to bear arms.
This is your constitutionally guaranteed right.
Encryption techniques are munitions (ITAR rules).
Therefore you are Constitutionally allowed to have and use encryption free of hinderence.
Why is the American Citizenry allowed to bear arms? "Because they must be able to overthrow evil or unjust governments". It is for this very reason that the German Government not merely encourages the use of Cryptography but actively supports it. Quoting the Gnu Privacy Guard "The German Federal Ministry of Economics and Technology granted funds for the further development of GnuPG". I would just like to remind American readers and their Government that the Germans have more recent experience of "evil or unjust government" than anybody else.
The use of encryption as the modern day weapon against "Evil Government" is both far more effective and infinitely less fatal than the use of guns as permitted by an anachronistic Constitution.
If you do not know anything, I'd suggest getting somebody else to install and configure Linux for you. If you have to pay for the service, then so be it. You get what you pay for in this life. The main problem is simply that the people who are really good at expressing themselves in progam languages are, in general, not too good at expressing themselves in natural, or human, written language. Also the reverse applies, good writers are seldom superb programmers. That said, I wonder if the/. community would be interested in creating the Ulimate Linux Book?
> What I want to see personally is something along the lines of:
> What is the equivilent of add/remove programs?
to install a program
rpm -ivh '/path/and/program_name.rpm'
to remove a program
rpm -e/path/and/program_name.rpm'
> What is the equivilent of autoexec.bat/startup folder?
There are two mechanisms which work in order:
The file/etc/inittab
The whole directory structure below the path/etc/rc.d/init.d
> Where is dialup networking?
To get this completely automatic is quite a task, to start with use one of either vwdial or kppp.
> Where is device manager/what the heck do I do with this linux driver on disk?
In the kernel
You put it in the modules collection in the/lib/modules directory tree.
That trite I know, but we really need more detail
> How do you do this 'webserver' thing that linux is supposed to be so good at?
You load the Apache Server. ( SuSE has it installed as part of the system because they use it to drive their help system. )
I'm in effect just an ordinary home & family user, so what I would really like is to be able to use a wider range of plugins to the WWW browsers. We are regularly disappointed by the lack of suitable plugins to render the x-director & Quick-Time mime types.
Please could IBM somehow make these software components available for Linux? I'd be prepared to pay a reasonable fee for them both.
I am trying to create a "book-reader" for a friend who is losing his sight, & now cannot read print. He cannot claim against any insurance, so this has to be an "economic solution". Thus Linux is a very viable platform for us. I have found a suitable scanner controller, ( http://www.mostang.com/sane/,
), and a pretty good text to speech system ( http://www.cstr.ed.ac.uk/projects/festival/
). We like the fact that it is possible to choose a voice with which we are comfortable. The missing link is the OCR component. There doesn't seem to be anything out there in ftp-land which works sufficiently well for us. As I only have a relatively limited amount of time and level of skill, and cannot catch up with the details of 20 years of Neural-Network technology overnight, this has to be a rather better goer than trying to get an "academic project" to work properly. If IBM could help with this one it would earn big Brownie-points I'm sure of that. I'd be more than happy to make available any glue files I create.
I was an OS/2 user and really miss the WorkPlace shell and the "e" ( Watson Works ) editor. IMHO "e" is a much better editor than anything currently available for Linux. If these things could be made available for Linux this/. reader would be a very happy chappie indeed. As OS/2 is really no longer a commercial earner, I'm sure that there wouldn't be any real financial loss in doing that, and there is the possibility that KDE and GNOME would benefit considerably.
Lastly is there a genuine implementation of REXX available for Linux?
A totally brilliant idea which will tragically never happen.
Another would be to have each day divided into 400 basic units of time, because the Earth will then rotate 1km in the time unit. Problem is that no self-respecting American would ever have that because it's "metric". Oh, well, another good idea hits the dust.
No "summer-time", no "time zones" ever again. Yippee! Both are totally un-natural and a pain.
Leap year in the calender is simply another day ( Number 01 ) in the no month period. Licence for a extra holiday every 4 years. Won't the bosses hate it.
This young fellow is either an Aspergers Syndrome sufferer, or a polymath. If the latter then breadth of education is what is needed. I'd suggest exposing him to real human languages such as Russian and Mandarin Chinese, both of which have considerable beauty. For a computer language tutorial you might find my "Notes for C programmers" useful. The youngest student I know about was a 12 year old in Israel.
Here is the address of the head of sales at Sorenson.
Karen Nickolaisen
Director of Sales
Sorenson Media, Inc.
4393 South Riverboat Road, Suite 300,
Salt Lake City, UT 84123
Write to her in your own fair hand on superior note paper and ever so politely
ask when a QuickTime 4 plugin for Netscape running on Linux is coming out.
Also you might care to offer $X for the module.
For me:
$10 = Instant Purchase
$20 = Almost Certainly
$50 = Careful Consideration
$100 = No thanks
Message to CmdrTaco: How about setting up one of your online polls for this?
If you are a newbie to it and really do want to get Linux to go. I'd suggest that you install one of the Linux on Windows distributions. They are ideal for the first step. Mandrake's Lin4win, and WinLinux2000 come to mind.
The KDE Kppp is a very easy to set up ISP dialer. Then there is wvdial, I have never used it myself but I'm told it's "just magic". There are always
helpful people at your local LUG.
Slashdot Mirror
It's nearly upon us. These are just the rehearsals for the Brave New World. Watch out.
It works! There are 11 pages which reference Linux. The last one - on the second page - is a form which asks all sorts of details, surprisingly your e-mail address is a voluntary one. One of them is "Which o/s do you use?" Linux is the radio box at the top of the list! Now TELL THEM Be truthful now - remember they can tell from their logs what your browser and o/s are.
Unfortunately it requires associating with the Evil Empire (M$), ( Wouldn't work under WINE either last time I tried it a few months ago. It needs ActiveX but it's pretty good stuff none the less. )
Message for moderators:-
Please boost this up it's really good stuff!
Is this possible?
When you get down to the real basics of the KDE / GNOME kerfuffle it's just good old-fasioned Nationalism - nothing more nothing less. Each has its place under the sun, but I wish this sort of sniping would simply stop and the protagonists start co-operating for a change.
This page is published by the Wellington City Council. The local authority of the capital city of the country - Not the Government of New Zealand.
Why not use the stormwater drain network instead of the the sewers? Cleaner, and altogether much better
The obvious place to collect the money off the reading public is at the portal. The portal would collect a regular subscription and pay the content providers on a clickthrough basis. A secure cookie on the client machine tells the content providers that this particular client is a paid-up reader and to let them view the information. No secure cookie, no view. I'd like this because it would keep the portal editors on their toes to only link to good information. The price could vary too. $0.000005 for a verbose yet content free page, and perhaps a dollar or two for an informative essay of real value. The amount actually paid could perhaps be tied in some way to the current scoring system. Yes, you would then have to extend the slashdot scoring system to the pages to which you link, but that would be no bad thing. Hopefully we would then be able to read single articles on subscription sites such as The Economist's report on the Microsoft appeal as they would then be getting paid. Also it would give individual authors who create content a motivation to produce good work and keep it updated. I for one would put more effort into my little Notes for C Programmers if I thought that I was going to be paid for the work.
You are allowed to bear arms.
This is your constitutionally guaranteed right.
Encryption techniques are munitions (ITAR rules).
Therefore you are Constitutionally allowed to have and use encryption free of hinderence. Why is the American Citizenry allowed to bear arms? "Because they must be able to overthrow evil or unjust governments". It is for this very reason that the German Government not merely encourages the use of Cryptography but actively supports it. Quoting the Gnu Privacy Guard "The German Federal Ministry of Economics and Technology granted funds for the further development of GnuPG". I would just like to remind American readers and their Government that the Germans have more recent experience of "evil or unjust government" than anybody else.
The use of encryption as the modern day weapon against "Evil Government" is both far more effective and infinitely less fatal than the use of guns as permitted by an anachronistic Constitution.
What's the floating point performance of the Crusoe chips like? Tried to find out earlier, but found nothing specific.
Moderators: Tiny posting, but exactly what he wants.
http://www.tug.org/
Note to moderators: Small, but informative posting
They are just doing to get World-Wide publicity for free, and all you dotty slashers have fallen for it, hook line and sinker.
Let's miss x-rays and make gamma rays the next milestone.
If you do not know anything, I'd suggest getting somebody else to install and configure Linux for you. If you have to pay for the service, then so be it. You get what you pay for in this life. The main problem is simply that the people who are really good at expressing themselves in progam languages are, in general, not too good at expressing themselves in natural, or human, written language. Also the reverse applies, good writers are seldom superb programmers. That said, I wonder if the /. community would be interested in creating the Ulimate Linux Book?
> What is the equivilent of add/remove programs?
to remove a programto install a program
> What is the equivilent of autoexec.bat/startup folder?
There are two mechanisms which work in order:
- The file
/etc/inittab
- The whole directory structure below the path
/etc/rc.d/init.d
> Where is dialup networking?To get this completely automatic is quite a task, to start with use one of either vwdial or kppp.
> Where is device manager/what the heck do I do with this linux driver on disk? /lib/modules directory tree.
In the kernel
You put it in the modules collection in the
That trite I know, but we really need more detail
> How do you do this 'webserver' thing that linux is supposed to be so good at?
You load the Apache Server.
( SuSE has it installed as part of the system because they use it to drive their help system. )
I am trying to create a "book-reader" for a friend who is losing his sight, & now cannot read print. He cannot claim against any insurance, so this has to be an "economic solution". Thus Linux is a very viable platform for us. I have found a suitable scanner controller, ( http://www.mostang.com/sane/, ), and a pretty good text to speech system ( http://www.cstr.ed.ac.uk/projects/festival/ ). We like the fact that it is possible to choose a voice with which we are comfortable. The missing link is the OCR component. There doesn't seem to be anything out there in ftp-land which works sufficiently well for us. As I only have a relatively limited amount of time and level of skill, and cannot catch up with the details of 20 years of Neural-Network technology overnight, this has to be a rather better goer than trying to get an "academic project" to work properly. If IBM could help with this one it would earn big Brownie-points I'm sure of that. I'd be more than happy to make available any glue files I create.
I was an OS/2 user and really miss the WorkPlace shell and the "e" ( Watson Works ) editor. IMHO "e" is a much better editor than anything currently available for Linux. If these things could be made available for Linux this /. reader would be a very happy chappie indeed. As OS/2 is really no longer a commercial earner, I'm sure that there wouldn't be any real financial loss in doing that, and there is the possibility that KDE and GNOME would benefit considerably.
Lastly is there a genuine implementation of REXX available for Linux?
Another would be to have each day divided into 400 basic units of time, because the Earth will then rotate 1km in the time unit. Problem is that no self-respecting American would ever have that because it's "metric". Oh, well, another good idea hits the dust.
No "summer-time", no "time zones" ever again. Yippee! Both are totally un-natural and a pain.
Leap year in the calender is simply another day ( Number 01 ) in the no month period. Licence for a extra holiday every 4 years. Won't the bosses hate it.
C-NOTES ( Not C++ )
half in jest, but many a true word...
Karen Nickolaisen
Director of Sales
Sorenson Media, Inc.
4393 South Riverboat Road, Suite 300,
Salt Lake City, UT 84123
Write to her in your own fair hand on superior note paper and ever so politely ask when a QuickTime 4 plugin for Netscape running on Linux is coming out.
Also you might care to offer $X for the module.
For me:
- $10 = Instant Purchase
- $20 = Almost Certainly
- $50 = Careful Consideration
- $100 = No thanks
Message to CmdrTaco: How about setting up one of your online polls for this?Li n4W in
WinLinux2000
All the distributions
WvDial
HTH.