The reason why they pratically give away their software to non-profits is because they want more market and mental share. With that they have more influence and monopoly.
I'd hate to give the bad news: the EFF is as dickless and effective as DOS 2.1. They have reorganized several times after Mitch Kapor left the board adn are floundering. I am a member but I have not see a big legal battle won since the days of the CDA. Also private funding is down, so they have to rely more on corporate funding. Do the logic here.
I don't think the EFF is going to help, they are too busy dog paddling themselves out of the organizational quicksand pit they fell into three years ago.
Too bad we can buy the soul of Ralph Reed and reprogram him to fight for us.
I have always shyied away from the legal process due to the fear of being blacklisted. I'd rather not have the label of "ADA Whiner" placed upon me and jepardize any future employment.
Right now the labor market is in my favor. If I am being discriminated, I leave my two week notice and move on. The only time I see myself dragging out the big guns is during a recession where there are few jobs and I am desperate to keep mine.
Talking about mental illness in the geek community is a good thing. Especially if you have bi-polar disorder and work with other geeks that do not have bi-polar. If we can change some attitudes about mental illness and other hidden disabilites, work life will be much more easier for me. In the past, I have been passed over for promotions, discriminated, or fired for disclosing my mental illnesses and disabilites (autism-related).
It's already hard dealing with a fscked up brain that at times rules my life. It's another story when some employer knows that there is something wrong and can't get beyond his/her ignorant assumptions of why I behave the way I do at times when my brain is not working right.
My only hope is that the geek community can have an open dialogue (pardon the word) about mental and neurological disorders. I have met a few geeks in my life. Many of my family are of the geek makeup and have some sort of mental illness such as autism, ADD, OCD, bi-polar, major depression. Sometimes there is a price to be paid for the intelligence we have, it may come in the form of mental quirks that we have to deal with.
My only hope is that we can get this out in the open because we are in a "cathedral mode" when it comes to dealing with mental illness on a social level.
Why not k-line the script kiddies for good and leave the good netizens alone?
If design is not Bauhaus, it is Baroque.
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'Bout time there was a grass roots way for rural towns to get DSL. My mother wants DSL or a cable modem but neither Bell Atlantic or Harron Cable has been resposive.
Now all it takes are a few local geeks, a few DSLAMs, and a ball of bailing wire.
What happens when WAVE targets kids with ADD, Asperger's Syndrome, and other behavioral/neurological disorders. I have Asperger's and life was hell for me in K-12 school. Mind you an Aspie at the time with a bad fscking temper from being harassed 24/7. Imagine spazing out because the flourecent lights or someone's perfume are driving you nuts and being hauled to a rubber room with the gestapo to greet you?!
I think WAVE will be stopped short when some mom of an ADD or autism kid gets targeted and as a result Pinkerton gets sued for ADA violations.
Oh, those who have autism or Asperger's, please join me at my Autism forum. Thanks a bunch.
Have you ever seen LinuxPPC run on a G3 RISC processor? Or PostgreSQL? There are performance advantages to the G3 and G4 processors that are not existant in CISC processors like the Pentium. Face it, CISC gets the job done by brute force while RISC does it with elegance.
Personally, I won't use the MacOS for anything more complex than education software or games. Lotsa Mac folx swear that the Mac is great for graphics, but I can't accept a graphics workstation that crashes randomly and has an OS does not have a kernel that supports true 32 bit protected-mode preemptive multitasking.
For now I'll use NT untill the situation with Linux and Gnome gets better for the graphics software world.
Yes, but it was insensitive to post what the original poser did. My head hurts and I'm grouchy due to the side effects of the medication I take for depression. Which was caused by enduring the level of harassment that I recieved in high school. I just went non-linear when I read that.
Columbine is still a tragedy many are still recovering from. People got killed and a nation went into a pandemonium over it. Jon Katz should not of been dragged into the troll even though he tends to be over the top at times.
When are we going to see Samba act as a Backup Domain Controller. There are situations where a domain controller needs a measure of redundantcy to keep an operation running.
If they really care about the community, they would be there instead of saying fsck you to Expo 2000. RH's "community support" is beginning to appear more like PR posturing.
So much for a distro company "playing and sharing well" with our community. This is something a toddler would do and it is completely unacceptable.
Have you observed how lately just about every RPM for download have all the dependencies configured for RH? Try getting some of the apps for KDE to run on Caldera or TurboLinux. Most of the time I ether have to fsck with symbolic links or compile from source! I'll do it if I have to, but I'd rather spend the time using that app. And I'm screwed of I can't get the source or one of my library files is not compatable with the app I am installing. RH should take a good hard look at what they are doing to the community before the community turns against RH.
While the concept is good and will pave the way for new digital services, there are some things that I am leery of.
Like any open market, there is the potential for abuse by those who are richer and more powerful than more independent interests. We've seen that happen in the DNS and ISP spaces. for this to work, there has to be an allotment to make sure that the mega media conglomerates stay within bounds.
And we have to remember who's side gubermint (sic) is on. And I think that it's not ours. When the gift comes from Uncle Sam, DO look the horse in the mouth!
Finally! Just what we need, better Samba -> NT compatability. If someone can hack the security features of NT and 95/98 for better Samba server connectivity, we can finally convince all the PHB's out there to install our favorite distro instead of Win2k.
Quite possibly a broken one. Doesn't matter whether it's a CLI or a GUI. If you have to relearn every interface you touch, you certainly are not going to be very productive.
It would be nice if there was a "style book" for KDE and GNOME interface design for those out there who are designing UI's with user experience and productivity in mind. It's definetely not a requirement to follow the style book, but like good grammar it makes things easy on the person sitting/standing on the other end. Good UI design is not soley about "making things pretty". It can work in the opposite direction so far as making things easier and productive. Good UI design is simple, direct, ergonomic, and follows the Bauhaus design philosphy: "function before form". Remember: Good design should be Bauhaus or it's Baroque.
Depsite the whining from other posters about privacy issues etc., this is a Good Thing.
One more app that pushes me further toward finally deleting Windoze. All I need is a nice quick and dirty HTML prototyping app a la Dreamweaver and PostScript vector graphics package.
Though I wish I knew how to get Netscape working with OpenLinux 2.3 again.
Also budget some extra money for petrol because petrol prices have shot throught the roof. In the Boston, MA area, petrol is an average of $1.40(US) per gallon. Figure an extra $5 per tankful to be safe.
I have been experementing with Linux for over a month. I have RH 5.2 running XFree86 and as a person who designs interfaces for a living, a lot of work still has to be done to improve usability.
Face it, I'm a busy guy. I work a full timer and do side projects. What little time I have for learining linux, I want to make the best of. My typical mode of learning is to grok the basic workings then delve into the details.
That would be nice, but here's the reality:
* Things are scattered. It's difficult to find what you need.
* Basic adminstration from X is not logically laid out. There are multiple utilities located in different places. Often the choices are confusing.
* Installation of RPM's is not intuitive.
* Lacks a coherent file manager.
Before you flame me and waist your karma points, please remember that most of my linux experience is with systems that have already been set up.
But the usability issues still remain. Corel is putting an enormous amount of effort into making Linux more usable wether you are a newbie or a overworked professional with a severe time shortage. But in the process we are losing control to a comercial interest.
The best way to address this shortcoming of Linux is to approach it in the same manner as the OS itself: community involvement.
Perhaps we should form a usability group. We did the same thing to address the concerns with documentation (Linux Documentation Project).
Get the best people out there together and show as a community we can solve real problems. Linux has proven itself to be worthy to Very Important Things. But why hold its potential back? Usability is the next phase in achieving our collective vision. Lets bust this thing wide open!
I'm willing to contribute my insight as a beta tester...
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What I am alluding to is the M$ giveaway in our public schools and colleges.
If design is not Bauhaus, it is Baroque.
The reason why they pratically give away their software to non-profits is because they want more market and mental share. With that they have more influence and monopoly.
If design is not Bauhaus, it is Baroque.
I'd hate to give the bad news: the EFF is as dickless and effective as DOS 2.1. They have reorganized several times after Mitch Kapor left the board adn are floundering. I am a member but I have not see a big legal battle won since the days of the CDA. Also private funding is down, so they have to rely more on corporate funding. Do the logic here.
I don't think the EFF is going to help, they are too busy dog paddling themselves out of the organizational quicksand pit they fell into three years ago.
Too bad we can buy the soul of Ralph Reed and reprogram him to fight for us.
If design is not Bauhaus, it is Baroque.
Dude, go Universalist-Unitarian, the church based upon Open Standards.
If design is not Bauhaus, it is Baroque.
I have always shyied away from the legal process due to the fear of being blacklisted. I'd rather not have the label of "ADA Whiner" placed upon me and jepardize any future employment.
Right now the labor market is in my favor. If I am being discriminated, I leave my two week notice and move on. The only time I see myself dragging out the big guns is during a recession where there are few jobs and I am desperate to keep mine.
If design is not Bauhaus, it is Baroque.
Talking about mental illness in the geek community is a good thing. Especially if you have bi-polar disorder and work with other geeks that do not have bi-polar. If we can change some attitudes about mental illness and other hidden disabilites, work life will be much more easier for me. In the past, I have been passed over for promotions, discriminated, or fired for disclosing my mental illnesses and disabilites (autism-related).
It's already hard dealing with a fscked up brain that at times rules my life. It's another story when some employer knows that there is something wrong and can't get beyond his/her ignorant assumptions of why I behave the way I do at times when my brain is not working right.
My only hope is that the geek community can have an open dialogue (pardon the word) about mental and neurological disorders. I have met a few geeks in my life. Many of my family are of the geek makeup and have some sort of mental illness such as autism, ADD, OCD, bi-polar, major depression. Sometimes there is a price to be paid for the intelligence we have, it may come in the form of mental quirks that we have to deal with.
My only hope is that we can get this out in the open because we are in a "cathedral mode" when it comes to dealing with mental illness on a social level.
If design is not Bauhaus, it is Baroque.
Why not k-line the script kiddies for good and leave the good netizens alone?
If design is not Bauhaus, it is Baroque.
'Bout time there was a grass roots way for rural towns to get DSL. My mother wants DSL or a cable modem but neither Bell Atlantic or Harron Cable has been resposive.
Now all it takes are a few local geeks, a few DSLAMs, and a ball of bailing wire.
Join my Autism Forum.
If design is not Bauhaus, it is Baroque.
What happens when WAVE targets kids with ADD, Asperger's Syndrome, and other behavioral/neurological disorders. I have Asperger's and life was hell for me in K-12 school. Mind you an Aspie at the time with a bad fscking temper from being harassed 24/7. Imagine spazing out because the flourecent lights or someone's perfume are driving you nuts and being hauled to a rubber room with the gestapo to greet you?!
I think WAVE will be stopped short when some mom of an ADD or autism kid gets targeted and as a result Pinkerton gets sued for ADA violations.
Oh, those who have autism or Asperger's, please join me at my Autism forum. Thanks a bunch.
If design is not Bauhaus, it is Baroque.
Have you ever seen LinuxPPC run on a G3 RISC processor? Or PostgreSQL? There are performance advantages to the G3 and G4 processors that are not existant in CISC processors like the Pentium. Face it, CISC gets the job done by brute force while RISC does it with elegance.
Personally, I won't use the MacOS for anything more complex than education software or games. Lotsa Mac folx swear that the Mac is great for graphics, but I can't accept a graphics workstation that crashes randomly and has an OS does not have a kernel that supports true 32 bit protected-mode preemptive multitasking.
For now I'll use NT untill the situation with Linux and Gnome gets better for the graphics software world.
Yes, but it was insensitive to post what the original poser did. My head hurts and I'm grouchy due to the side effects of the medication I take for depression. Which was caused by enduring the level of harassment that I recieved in high school. I just went non-linear when I read that.
Columbine is still a tragedy many are still recovering from. People got killed and a nation went into a pandemonium over it. Jon Katz should not of been dragged into the troll even though he tends to be over the top at times.
When are we going to see Samba act as a Backup Domain Controller. There are situations where a domain controller needs a measure of redundantcy to keep an operation running.
Can someone mod this WAY down? You immature fuckfaces who wrote this need to get a life and grow up!
>Microsoft is really unreliable, but Linux is
>worse.
> Ken Thompson, father of Unix
Ken is being arrogant and bitter here.
>Linux is obsolete.
> Andrew Tanenbaum
Andrew is spewing sour grapes because some
Finnish kid used Minux to make a better OS.
>Linux is 30 year old technology. It's just a
>notch above Luddism.
Bob Metcalfe
Bob is just smoking crack supplied by Gates & Co.
If they really care about the community, they would be there instead of saying fsck you to Expo 2000. RH's "community support" is beginning to appear more like PR posturing.
So much for a distro company "playing and sharing well" with our community. This is something a toddler would do and it is completely unacceptable.
Have you observed how lately just about every RPM for download have all the dependencies configured for RH? Try getting some of the apps for KDE to run on Caldera or TurboLinux. Most of the time I ether have to fsck with symbolic links or compile from source! I'll do it if I have to, but I'd rather spend the time using that app. And I'm screwed of I can't get the source or one of my library files is not compatable with the app I am installing. RH should take a good hard look at what they are doing to the community before the community turns against RH.
While the concept is good and will pave the way for new digital services, there are some things that I am leery of.
Like any open market, there is the potential for abuse by those who are richer and more powerful than more independent interests. We've seen that happen in the DNS and ISP spaces. for this to work, there has to be an allotment to make sure that the mega media conglomerates stay within bounds.
And we have to remember who's side gubermint (sic) is on. And I think that it's not ours. When the gift comes from Uncle Sam, DO look the horse in the mouth!
Does a simple symbolic link fix the problem as well as editing the .conf files?
I'm fed up. We need to make ourselves clear. I advocate a global geek sick-out day where we all call in sick. Who wants to join me?
Finally! Just what we need, better Samba -> NT compatability. If someone can hack the security features of NT and 95/98 for better Samba server connectivity, we can finally convince all the PHB's out there to install our favorite distro instead of Win2k.
Quite possibly a broken one. Doesn't matter whether it's a CLI or a GUI. If you have to relearn every interface you touch, you certainly are not going to be very productive.
It would be nice if there was a "style book" for KDE and GNOME interface design for those out there who are designing UI's with user experience and productivity in mind. It's definetely not a requirement to follow the style book, but like good grammar it makes things easy on the person sitting/standing on the other end. Good UI design is not soley about "making things pretty". It can work in the opposite direction so far as making things easier and productive. Good UI design is simple, direct, ergonomic, and follows the Bauhaus design philosphy: "function before form". Remember: Good design should be Bauhaus or it's Baroque.
Oooohh, she's such a hottie! If I were reincarnated I'd like to be her! There's something about army boots, semi-automatic guns, and huge tits!
(disclaimer: this was intended to be humorous.)
Depsite the whining from other posters about privacy issues etc., this is a Good Thing.
One more app that pushes me further toward finally deleting Windoze. All I need is a nice quick and dirty HTML prototyping app a la Dreamweaver and PostScript vector graphics package.
Though I wish I knew how to get Netscape working with OpenLinux 2.3 again.
Also budget some extra money for petrol because petrol prices have shot throught the roof. In the Boston, MA area, petrol is an average of $1.40(US) per gallon. Figure an extra $5 per tankful to be safe.
I have been experementing with Linux for over a month. I have RH 5.2 running XFree86 and as a person who designs interfaces for a living, a lot of work still has to be done to improve usability.
Face it, I'm a busy guy. I work a full timer and do side projects. What little time I have for learining linux, I want to make the best of. My typical mode of learning is to grok the basic workings then delve into the details.
That would be nice, but here's the reality:
* Things are scattered. It's difficult to find what you need.
* Basic adminstration from X is not logically laid out. There are multiple utilities located in different places. Often the choices are confusing.
* Installation of RPM's is not intuitive.
* Lacks a coherent file manager.
Before you flame me and waist your karma points, please remember that most of my linux experience is with systems that have already been set up.
But the usability issues still remain. Corel is putting an enormous amount of effort into making Linux more usable wether you are a newbie or a overworked professional with a severe time shortage. But in the process we are losing control to a comercial interest.
The best way to address this shortcoming of Linux is to approach it in the same manner as the OS itself: community involvement.
Perhaps we should form a usability group. We did the same thing to address the concerns with documentation (Linux Documentation Project).
Get the best people out there together and show as a community we can solve real problems. Linux has proven itself to be worthy to Very Important Things. But why hold its potential back? Usability is the next phase in achieving our collective vision. Lets bust this thing wide open!
I'm willing to contribute my insight as a beta tester...