Like I said, I never want Word. It would really upset me to Work on a project with some dickbreath who used word, if his modifications would make name.c open up that way from seeing the brilliant created with metadata.
name.c and name.h are two text files that may have been created by vi, emacs, gnotepad, KDE's advanced editor, vim, la la la, the list is very long and includes automagic code generators with yet undetermined names. Why bother trying to store this info, when it's so obvious from the name extention? Oh yeah, that's the way we've always done it, so I must be stupid.
Sometimes I want vim, sometimes I want gnotepad, sometimes I want something else. I never want Word, and I don't want some stupid meta data setter telling me I do. No, thank you, DickBreath.
(FWIW, back when I was running Linux on the desktop (about a year ago), I had VMware running Win98 so that I could run IE...because there were no decent graphical browsers for Linux at the time. That may very well have changed; I have no recent experience with which to confirm or deny that.)
That's not worth much. Go away, you loud mouthed troll.
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This proves once again, that there still isn't a good browser for Linux. So we have to decide
on which one is less crappy, and not which one is better.
That's a troll. It's just as wrong as all these MSIE is great posts by the other Micro Terds around here. There is very little positve in any of them, it's mostly FUD designed to obfuscate the useful information that gets posted. This is a Linux news site, please refrain from singing MSIE praises all day long, as a quick review of your user page indicates you do.
slashdroids love to say they hate windows, but at the end of the day, it's what they use on their desktops.
Bzzzt! It's what I have to use all day, thanks to some PHB thought on "standardization". Insecure, unstable, costly and crippled. You don't really think anyone would purchase and then go through all the install and upkeep hastles that crap demands if they knew any better, do you?
Something must be seriously ate-up with your system if IE is causing problems like that. I run IE 5.5 on Win2K Pro SP2 and it Just Doesn't Crash.
Nope, that's just the world of MS. We've got NT here too, and Netscape 4.04 is faster and more stable on it. Nothing ate up but the computer by NT. Oh well.
How I hate these MSIE troll posts. There is fine and stable browsing available under Linux and has been for years. Trolls, get back under the bridge.
I mean, surely when I tell people what OS I use, I say Windows 98,...
When I admit I keep that ugly OS on an ugly little box in the corner, I hang my head in shame. Unable to make drivers for a parallel scanner and a cheapie USB camera, I'm forced to pay some tribute to that ugly bunch of goats in Redmond. The poor crippled machine, can it ever forgive me?
the obvious choice: read the movie review pages until you see something interesting then spend two hours at a movie theater. That sure is a big screen, and the sound is good too.
I'm not looking forward to this garbage clogging up the net just yet. Now it's still easier to rent a VHS copy on the way home from the grocery store. There are some people it will be good for, who live way out there where there's only one video shop censored by the local prudes. For the rest of us, the 9 Gig downloads of common movies will be a drag. Expect a novelty peak of joe AOL's next year downloading "I love Lucy" to make "I love you" look small.
Awww, shoot. It did not work and I hate using a mouse only to have Word or Outlook screw up my formating. I have not been able to make ispell work on this stupid work NT box yet so that I can check text text file spellings like a human being.
Does that "research" include adverts? You know, like the $1 billion they are going to spend pushing XP. Funny how that is the amount Red Hat 7 would cost if you did it the MS way. So the other $4 billion of sucker^H^H^H^H^H^H investor money has gone into what? Modifying Word? Paying slashdot trolls? Sheesh!
Then again, it's not like MS needs anything more from their lawyers than a screaching monkey. It's not like anyone there has taken any legal advice. All their lawyers have been able to do is spew more PR bull about "innovation" and ham sandwiches and what not. Go, monkey go!
Some companies have whole anti-trust divisions that they listen to.
...MS "shared source". Would they have to agree about who could look at their trash? Suppose one of the companies decided that the furture of living in the boxed binary past was dim? Kinda makes Itelectual "Property" look like the bull it is.
That their greedy and paradoid view of software should be thought of as normal is a demonstration of the power of adverts. Really, how many other proffesionals are so concerened about others profiting from their work that they would deliberatly reduce the quality of their products? Pitty the poor VB serf who thinks of it as a career.
We might expect this of a promotional article. Breaking crypto to fight perverts sounds more exciting than studying paterns to detect private messages. Others have proposed better promotion, like making crypto stronger by breaking weak methods.
A good analogy to fight the underlying assumption of the negative promotion is cloathing. The assumption is that only criminals have something to hide. Bull. Try working words like "naked" and "bare" into your thoughts. Examples: "What, are you still sending naked email?", "Are you foolish enough to trust bare telnet logins?". People will get the idea.
Society does not work, and it's individuals are debassed when privacy is eliminated. It's impossible to have frank disscusions when you may be overheard by people who may missuderstand. It's impossible to invest or plan without privacy.
someone who does not like that leet taco would miss the story if tiny tim did not post it, and vice versa. Duplication is not as bad as missing things.
Let's not be so mean to the secretary, shall we? "Patching" MS is a pain that often breaks unrelated services. Caution is not always folly or slopyness, but forced by inferior software. Upgrading Debian is a two command operation, that produces far fewer headaches:
apt-get update
apt-get upgrade
Another great difference that should be accounted for is the ease of learning how to run Linux. Oh sure, it looks harder, but the information is available and it's SO MUCH EASIER to really know what you are doing than it is to trust a particular vendor. Greif, it's hard to keep a single MS box running. The cloud of BS that MS keeps its users under is awful and we should be nicer to those suffering there.
First, I'll wager there are just as many or more Red Hat with Apatche run by someone who does not even know it's there. I know, because I ran one that way. The boogey men did not come and get me for the month or two I had it that way. Why? Because Red Hat 6.2 had far fewer holes by rational design than MS trash which is driven by marketroids.
Second, they have tightened things up. 7.1 comes with a graphically configurable firewall, and bugs you about it on install. That's a big step from the "Everything" install of long ago. It may not be as tight as Debian, and really I must recomend Debian too, but it's not nice to FUD unless you are sure of what you say.
All of the Linux distros are doing good things for teaching their users security. It's in the design and philosopy of free and open software to teach users. If man pages, online help and Slashdot are not enough, you can always fall back to the stone age dead tree intructions.
Here, reproduced on your screen, at no cost to me whatsoever, are my words. Magic? No, just something different.
Someone paid for his bandwith and wanted him to have it. What he does with it is a matter of his contract and state law. The University itself is responsible for policing their network and deserve their surcharges for signing so stupid a "bursty-bandwith" contract. We shall see if anyone bothers to move to the park to so they can traffic DIVX. The network admin may want to monitor his connection, but it's hard to imagine him getting upset at the proffesor for wanting to surf on a park bench.
In the mean time, to paraphrase an arrogant smart ass, I'll serve ham sandwiches if I feel like it! Enjoy your free virtual lunch.
to pharphrase Orwel, the party can not tolerate science because science requires free thought. This is why a large portion of Soviet design was done in prison cells, and a large portion of their design budgets was for spying.
Putting people in jail for research is nighmarishly un American.
I doubt corporations will resist this phenomenon. They want to make money off of
wireless, and to do that they don't need the whole wireless spectrum. Sure they'd love
to have it, but all they really need is a chunk to buy and force everyone else off of.
The force will come from FCC, as it did in TV broadcasts. For 50 years 60 channels were occupied by 3 networks, go figure! It only takes a few laws, "in the public interest", and heavy fees to blow everyone else off.
? Is this the right to rearange the bits in my PCs memory as I see fit? Bunk. A modified tiff file is no more a "standard" than the original tiff. Patents on things like this are artificial and arbitrary restrictions on the use of computing equipment.
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Like I said, I never want Word. It would really upset me to Work on a project with some dickbreath who used word, if his modifications would make name.c open up that way from seeing the brilliant created with metadata.
Sometimes I want vim, sometimes I want gnotepad, sometimes I want something else. I never want Word, and I don't want some stupid meta data setter telling me I do. No, thank you, DickBreath.
That's not worth much. Go away, you loud mouthed troll.
This proves once again, that there still isn't a good browser for Linux. So we have to decide
on which one is less crappy, and not which one is better.
That's a troll. It's just as wrong as all these MSIE is great posts by the other Micro Terds around here. There is very little positve in any of them, it's mostly FUD designed to obfuscate the useful information that gets posted. This is a Linux news site, please refrain from singing MSIE praises all day long, as a quick review of your user page indicates you do.
It's funny what people have to put up with at work, isn't it? I also wonder what the link was too, any way. The Bill Gates Free Love Site TM?
Bzzzt! It's what I have to use all day, thanks to some PHB thought on "standardization". Insecure, unstable, costly and crippled. You don't really think anyone would purchase and then go through all the install and upkeep hastles that crap demands if they knew any better, do you?
Nope, that's just the world of MS. We've got NT here too, and Netscape 4.04 is faster and more stable on it. Nothing ate up but the computer by NT. Oh well.
How I hate these MSIE troll posts. There is fine and stable browsing available under Linux and has been for years. Trolls, get back under the bridge.
When I admit I keep that ugly OS on an ugly little box in the corner, I hang my head in shame. Unable to make drivers for a parallel scanner and a cheapie USB camera, I'm forced to pay some tribute to that ugly bunch of goats in Redmond. The poor crippled machine, can it ever forgive me?
I'm not looking forward to this garbage clogging up the net just yet. Now it's still easier to rent a VHS copy on the way home from the grocery store. There are some people it will be good for, who live way out there where there's only one video shop censored by the local prudes. For the rest of us, the 9 Gig downloads of common movies will be a drag. Expect a novelty peak of joe AOL's next year downloading "I love Lucy" to make "I love you" look small.
me too.
When I'm not in a hurry, I'll try to use: http://www.csc.ncsu.edu/cgi-bin/ispell.pl . It's so hard to get things done right under NT. :)
Awww, shoot. It did not work and I hate using a mouse only to have Word or Outlook screw up my formating. I have not been able to make ispell work on this stupid work NT box yet so that I can check text text file spellings like a human being.
If you have got MS stock, sell out fast!
Then again, it's not like MS needs anything more from their lawyers than a screaching monkey. It's not like anyone there has taken any legal advice. All their lawyers have been able to do is spew more PR bull about "innovation" and ham sandwiches and what not. Go, monkey go!
Some companies have whole anti-trust divisions that they listen to.
That their greedy and paradoid view of software should be thought of as normal is a demonstration of the power of adverts. Really, how many other proffesionals are so concerened about others profiting from their work that they would deliberatly reduce the quality of their products? Pitty the poor VB serf who thinks of it as a career.
We might expect this of a promotional article. Breaking crypto to fight perverts sounds more exciting than studying paterns to detect private messages. Others have proposed better promotion, like making crypto stronger by breaking weak methods.
A good analogy to fight the underlying assumption of the negative promotion is cloathing. The assumption is that only criminals have something to hide. Bull. Try working words like "naked" and "bare" into your thoughts. Examples: "What, are you still sending naked email?", "Are you foolish enough to trust bare telnet logins?". People will get the idea.
Society does not work, and it's individuals are debassed when privacy is eliminated. It's impossible to have frank disscusions when you may be overheard by people who may missuderstand. It's impossible to invest or plan without privacy.
So, I had a look at your page. While it's nice that you are doing this, won't you end up with this when you are done? I kinda missed the why bit.
someone who does not like that leet taco would miss the story if tiny tim did not post it, and vice versa. Duplication is not as bad as missing things.
apt-get update
apt-get upgrade
Another great difference that should be accounted for is the ease of learning how to run Linux. Oh sure, it looks harder, but the information is available and it's SO MUCH EASIER to really know what you are doing than it is to trust a particular vendor. Greif, it's hard to keep a single MS box running. The cloud of BS that MS keeps its users under is awful and we should be nicer to those suffering there.
Win2k comes with a telnet server, no? Sniff, sniff, ewwwww, what's that smell? Did someone step in MS again?
First, I'll wager there are just as many or more Red Hat with Apatche run by someone who does not even know it's there. I know, because I ran one that way. The boogey men did not come and get me for the month or two I had it that way. Why? Because Red Hat 6.2 had far fewer holes by rational design than MS trash which is driven by marketroids.
Second, they have tightened things up. 7.1 comes with a graphically configurable firewall, and bugs you about it on install. That's a big step from the "Everything" install of long ago. It may not be as tight as Debian, and really I must recomend Debian too, but it's not nice to FUD unless you are sure of what you say.
All of the Linux distros are doing good things for teaching their users security. It's in the design and philosopy of free and open software to teach users. If man pages, online help and Slashdot are not enough, you can always fall back to the stone age dead tree intructions.
Not everybody reads posts from all authors.
Here, reproduced on your screen, at no cost to me whatsoever, are my words. Magic? No, just something different.
Someone paid for his bandwith and wanted him to have it. What he does with it is a matter of his contract and state law. The University itself is responsible for policing their network and deserve their surcharges for signing so stupid a "bursty-bandwith" contract. We shall see if anyone bothers to move to the park to so they can traffic DIVX. The network admin may want to monitor his connection, but it's hard to imagine him getting upset at the proffesor for wanting to surf on a park bench.
In the mean time, to paraphrase an arrogant smart ass, I'll serve ham sandwiches if I feel like it! Enjoy your free virtual lunch.
Putting people in jail for research is nighmarishly un American.
The force will come from FCC, as it did in TV broadcasts. For 50 years 60 channels were occupied by 3 networks, go figure! It only takes a few laws, "in the public interest", and heavy fees to blow everyone else off.
more songs than users?
? Is this the right to rearange the bits in my PCs memory as I see fit? Bunk. A modified tiff file is no more a "standard" than the original tiff. Patents on things like this are artificial and arbitrary restrictions on the use of computing equipment.