Duchovny's contract was up after this coming season anyway, and he most likely would have left even if Fox didn't get caught up in a game of greed. He had originally wanted to quit after five seasons, but they threw too much cash at him at the time.
Anyway, GA is still under contract for this season and the next, so all the x-philes out there have at least two more seasons to look forward to. With the dropoff in show quality over the last two seasons though they probably should have made the last season the series finale.
Games are great for Linux. Having them announced on Slashdot sure does help to find them. However, posting what clearly was written by some stupid marketing department is definitely Not Keen.
I've been unemployed now for over 8 months, and in that amount of time I've probably fired off well over 1000 resumes. They keywords seem to be okay, but the HR gods seem to enjoy tormenting me as each interview is always conducted by some halfwit who still finds ball point pens to be much too advanced.
The agencies I've dealt with, and it always seems to be the same three or four agencies here in MN, just can't find people who know what they're dealing with. That simple fact has made my life hell over the last year. Of course I applied at Red Hat, Penguin, and VA just for kicks and didn't get a response either. So maybe I just suck.:P
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Heh, well, then they should dump WP and work on Abi and KOffice. Both look like they'll be great programs, especially KOffice. And if Qt 2 actually looks decent I might be able to use it.
I find something irritating, and perhaps dangerous, in the fact Corel is jumping on the Linux bandwagon but won't open up their own products. In their answer to that question in the FAQ, it seems to be a typical corporate or marketing answer.
"We don't really believe in Open Source, but there are enough users to milk more business out of by playing along."
If they are *really* serious about supporting Linux and what the OSS community stands for, they'll go through the hassle of removing third party code in the products and making it free (as in source). Until they commit in such a way, I'm not going to support them.
You forgot the third, which is someone who is just terrible at typing, and is also in a hurry to get their message across.
I proofread everything I write just because I'm anal about my own spelling. However, if someone doesn't live up to my own personal standard I'm not going to hold it against them and say they're a moron. UNLESS THEY TYPE IN ALL CAPS AT THE SAME TIME. In that case they can go to hell.
Maybe E was bloatware in the.14.x devel series, but if you had bothered to use it recently you would know better. I'm using the.15.5 snapshot on an AMD 266 overclocked to 300 with a 2mb vc and 32mb memory. It performs great for me, as it stands it's just as fast as icewm.
If you want to turn on all the graphical bells & whistles (sliding windows, opaque windows, etc.) then it will naturally take a speed hit. However, they key here is that you can turn all of it off, on, or just have some of it running. Thanks to the nifty graphical config these days, it's just a matter of clicking a few options.
Don't flame something which you haven't used for six months.
I don't think he meant for it to get this big. His original letter was to a mailing list I believe, and one of the people there submitted it to Slashdot.
If I were in a crappy situation that had something to do with a product I was working on, I can totally see putting a message on a list for it to say things were bad and I was leaving. However he didn't ask anyone to spread the word, and he didn't send it to Rob as a news story. So in that case, it hardly sounds like publicity.
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..has Red Hat lost it's sense of humor? Geez, grow up.
..is emacs, vi, pico, or whatever text editing program that doesn't get in your way. You're much better off in the long run if the people who will be maintaining a site actually learn html & whatnot instead of having some dumbed down program do it for them.
Since when is consolidation a good thing? Unless you own a piece of the company it's a terrible thing. Remember, less competition means higher prices, the MS trial should have shown people that by now. Not that VA could possibly make their systems any more overpriced.
"We're not part of netscape! We're a separate entity!"
..three days later..
"Netscape told us to jump this high, so we gotta."
It would sure be nice if mozilla could take a stand as either still being run by netscape or being their own deal. Every time they go one way, they contradict themselves and go the other not long after. Sheesh.
Just incase you still don't get it, MS isn't breaking up. They're just reorganizing, which in simple terms means they're shuffling a few papers, moving a couple desks around, handing out new titles, and passing out a few more million dollar bonuses. This is nothing more than a public showing in an attempt to trick the public. It's still business as usual up in Redmond.
The FSF and GNU project gets a ton of credit. I had this discussion with a friend about a week ago in fact. He's on the GNU/Linux side, I still call it plain old Linux.
My point is that anyone who uses Linux can't go very long without GNU popping up somewhere. So on the basis of your argument, which is summed up at the end, giving credit where it's due, isn't the GNU project getting enough? I like RMS, I like the FSF; the world would be much less interesting without either one. But calling it GNU/Linux based on your argument of "giving credit" does nothing but give a cheap ego boost to those involved.
If you want to call it GNU/Linux, go ahead, I won't try and stop you. Just don't try and stop me from calling it Linux.
Well, I don't have the details, but when I tried it myself earlier the same box running Linux *was* cheaper than the NT config. I still don't think they should be charging $20 above the cost of NT. It's a free OS, it should cost just enough to cover LinuxCare, Dell makes a bundle off of the boxes themselves already.
Hey boys and grrls, lets play a game. I'll pretend I'm some corporate suit in charge of buying machines, and I don't know what I'm doing. Let's see, we have a choice between MS Windows, which we've always used, or some other os for another $99. Safe move, or risk with additional cost. Hmm.. such a tough decision.
I can make some assumptions as to why Dell would put a rediculous charge on a Linux installation, but I'm not one to speculate or toss out conspiracy theories without proper intoxication.
As someone who despises 98% of modern films, this only makes the problem worse. Movies in the 40's and 50's had character to them, all the imperfections only helped to make them much more fun to watch. Now everything is shrinkwrapped and sanitized for my protection; going to digital to make things even more perfect just disgusts me. Doesn't anyone have good taste anymore?
I totally agree there is a backlash
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Infact I've been witness to it already, and am part of it. I began with Slackware, then switched to RH and used it for a considerable amount of time, but now I'm moving to Stampede. Other than RPM being a terrible package format, my primary reasons are that it feels like RH is getting branded with Linux. They can make all the money they want, but these days it seems like I can't visit a Linux/OSS related site without being hit by several mentions of the company (not to mention VA Research banners being everywhere as well, which I'm also quite sick of. Every site is hosted by VAR now.)
Every GNU/Linux "review" now is really just a review of what RH has done lately, and how it compares to NT this week. Maybe if you're lucky you'll see SuSE or Debian mentioned, or a reference to slackware being "the true hacker's" distribution, but that's rare. They're definitely starting to alienate people, and they better start paying attention to that, otherwise they *will* be the next slackware.
They don't even bother to put a notice up that says "This stuff belongs to Slashdot," and the same goes for Freshmeat junk. If someone were to check out that site, they'd see the articles or the polls and think it was Red Hat's deal, not someone else's work. The more time that passes the more irritated I become with RH. Praise Bob for Stampede.
Although van Kempen has been using Linux since 1989, he works primarily on a Windows PC at Nobel Van Dijk, a consulting firm in Bussum, Netherlands, "I need my business applications, so what choice do I have?" he said.
Way to go there Fred, nice of you to imply Linux has no applications.
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Duchovny's contract was up after this coming season anyway, and he most likely would have left even if Fox didn't get caught up in a game of greed. He had originally wanted to quit after five seasons, but they threw too much cash at him at the time.
Anyway, GA is still under contract for this season and the next, so all the x-philes out there have at least two more seasons to look forward to. With the dropoff in show quality over the last two seasons though they probably should have made the last season the series finale.
Games are great for Linux. Having them announced on Slashdot sure does help to find them. However, posting what clearly was written by some stupid marketing department is definitely Not Keen.
I've been unemployed now for over 8 months, and in that amount of time I've probably fired off well over 1000 resumes. They keywords seem to be okay, but the HR gods seem to enjoy tormenting me as each interview is always conducted by some halfwit who still finds ball point pens to be much too advanced.
:P
The agencies I've dealt with, and it always seems to be the same three or four agencies here in MN, just can't find people who know what they're dealing with. That simple fact has made my life hell over the last year. Of course I applied at Red Hat, Penguin, and VA just for kicks and didn't get a response either. So maybe I just suck.
Heh, well, then they should dump WP and work on Abi and KOffice. Both look like they'll be great programs, especially KOffice. And if Qt 2 actually looks decent I might be able to use it.
I find something irritating, and perhaps dangerous, in the fact Corel is jumping on the Linux bandwagon but won't open up their own products. In their answer to that question in the FAQ, it seems to be a typical corporate or marketing answer.
"We don't really believe in Open Source, but there are enough users to milk more business out of by playing along."
If they are *really* serious about supporting Linux and what the OSS community stands for, they'll go through the hassle of removing third party code in the products and making it free (as in source). Until they commit in such a way, I'm not going to support them.
You forgot the third, which is someone who is just terrible at typing, and is also in a hurry to get their message across.
I proofread everything I write just because I'm anal about my own spelling. However, if someone doesn't live up to my own personal standard I'm not going to hold it against them and say they're a moron. UNLESS THEY TYPE IN ALL CAPS AT THE SAME TIME. In that case they can go to hell.
Maybe E was bloatware in the .14.x devel series, but if you had bothered to use it recently you would know better. I'm using the .15.5 snapshot on an AMD 266 overclocked to 300 with a 2mb vc and 32mb memory. It performs great for me, as it stands it's just as fast as icewm.
If you want to turn on all the graphical bells & whistles (sliding windows, opaque windows, etc.) then it will naturally take a speed hit. However, they key here is that you can turn all of it off, on, or just have some of it running. Thanks to the nifty graphical config these days, it's just a matter of clicking a few options.
Don't flame something which you haven't used for six months.
I don't think he meant for it to get this big. His original letter was to a mailing list I believe, and one of the people there submitted it to Slashdot.
If I were in a crappy situation that had something to do with a product I was working on, I can totally see putting a message on a list for it to say things were bad and I was leaving. However he didn't ask anyone to spread the word, and he didn't send it to Rob as a news story. So in that case, it hardly sounds like publicity.
..has Red Hat lost it's sense of humor? Geez, grow up.
..is emacs, vi, pico, or whatever text editing program that doesn't get in your way. You're much better off in the long run if the people who will be maintaining a site actually learn html & whatnot instead of having some dumbed down program do it for them.
Since when is consolidation a good thing? Unless you own a piece of the company it's a terrible thing. Remember, less competition means higher prices, the MS trial should have shown people that by now. Not that VA could possibly make their systems any more overpriced.
"We're not part of netscape! We're a separate entity!"
..three days later..
"Netscape told us to jump this high, so we gotta."
It would sure be nice if mozilla could take a stand as either still being run by netscape or being their own deal. Every time they go one way, they contradict themselves and go the other not long after. Sheesh.
Just incase you still don't get it, MS isn't breaking up. They're just reorganizing, which in simple terms means they're shuffling a few papers, moving a couple desks around, handing out new titles, and passing out a few more million dollar bonuses. This is nothing more than a public showing in an attempt to trick the public. It's still business as usual up in Redmond.
The FSF and GNU project gets a ton of credit. I had this discussion with a friend about a week ago in fact. He's on the GNU/Linux side, I still call it plain old Linux.
My point is that anyone who uses Linux can't go very long without GNU popping up somewhere. So on the basis of your argument, which is summed up at the end, giving credit where it's due, isn't the GNU project getting enough? I like RMS, I like the FSF; the world would be much less interesting without either one. But calling it GNU/Linux based on your argument of "giving credit" does nothing but give a cheap ego boost to those involved.
If you want to call it GNU/Linux, go ahead, I won't try and stop you. Just don't try and stop me from calling it Linux.
Well, I don't have the details, but when I tried it myself earlier the same box running Linux *was* cheaper than the NT config. I still don't think they should be charging $20 above the cost of NT. It's a free OS, it should cost just enough to cover LinuxCare, Dell makes a bundle off of the boxes themselves already.
Hey boys and grrls, lets play a game. I'll pretend I'm some corporate suit in charge of buying machines, and I don't know what I'm doing. Let's see, we have a choice between MS Windows, which we've always used, or some other os for another $99. Safe move, or risk with additional cost. Hmm.. such a tough decision.
I can make some assumptions as to why Dell would put a rediculous charge on a Linux installation, but I'm not one to speculate or toss out conspiracy theories without proper intoxication.
As someone who despises 98% of modern films, this only makes the problem worse. Movies in the 40's and 50's had character to them, all the imperfections only helped to make them much more fun to watch. Now everything is shrinkwrapped and sanitized for my protection; going to digital to make things even more perfect just disgusts me. Doesn't anyone have good taste anymore?
Infact I've been witness to it already, and am part of it. I began with Slackware, then switched to RH and used it for a considerable amount of time, but now I'm moving to Stampede. Other than RPM being a terrible package format, my primary reasons are that it feels like RH is getting branded with Linux. They can make all the money they want, but these days it seems like I can't visit a Linux/OSS related site without being hit by several mentions of the company (not to mention VA Research banners being everywhere as well, which I'm also quite sick of. Every site is hosted by VAR now.)
Every GNU/Linux "review" now is really just a review of what RH has done lately, and how it compares to NT this week. Maybe if you're lucky you'll see SuSE or Debian mentioned, or a reference to slackware being "the true hacker's" distribution, but that's rare. They're definitely starting to alienate people, and they better start paying attention to that, otherwise they *will* be the next slackware.
Actually I'm waiting for Stampede. Their packaging system makes the most sense to me. Debian's setup and maintenence didn't appeal to me either.
It sure would be nice if we had a choice between Red Hat and Red Hat.
Ah yes, kamikaze. Unfortunately Ed isn't that great of a pilot; he overshot by a thousand yards and plowed into Bill's new house.
They don't even bother to put a notice up that says "This stuff belongs to Slashdot," and the same goes for Freshmeat junk. If someone were to check out that site, they'd see the articles or the polls and think it was Red Hat's deal, not someone else's work. The more time that passes the more irritated I become with RH. Praise Bob for Stampede.
It's yet another Gnome/KDE article inciting a flame war! How original.
Although van Kempen has been using Linux since 1989, he works primarily on a Windows PC at Nobel Van Dijk, a consulting firm in Bussum, Netherlands, "I need my business applications, so what choice do I have?" he said.
Way to go there Fred, nice of you to imply Linux has no applications.
..should be a battle between Gnome, KDE, and console freaks.