I stand corrected, I have not read the non-Assimov Foundation books (a friend told me to keep away from them). Now I have more reasons not to read them, for they would spoil an alerady excellent series.
The Foundation series is one of the best installments in SciFi ever. It's a great history, with lots of character development and intriguing trama. It's not your traditional SciFi story, it's politics in a SciFi environment.
You could take the story of the Foundation series and rewrite it on a different setting without losing the meaning and the quality.
Of course, geeks do not care about stuff like that, they care about complicated pseudo-sci stuff that cant be understood by anyone but them. The Foundation series has been read by my non-geek family members and friends and they loved it and felt a great desire to approach to science. That's the real goal of SciFi.
Yes, as a normal, sane person, I understand it: he is 100% correct.
Befor the Congress pushed for it's opening to the world, there was no such thing known as the 'Internet'; there was a closed network of universities and military computers (ever wondered what DARPA means?).
He, as a congressman, was one of the main players in opening that network to the world, so he played a very important role (if not the most important) in the creation of the 'Internet'.
It seems to me that the un-normal, un-sane person in this thread is, you.
ELQ might not be my favorite reviewer but one thing she does, and does well, is find any and all flaws in an OS. THat's what makes her a good reviewer.
One thing she really does is compare everything with BeOS and her husband's OS AtheOS.
She reviews Linux distributions from a naive user's point of view, criticizing the complexities of the Linux world, but then (in all her reviews) a rant at the end about how she won't be able to install the latest geek toys.
An example: The JDS is a Corporate Desktop System, developed to be used by employees who need a cloned environment where everything works exactly the same. It is a _real_ MS Windows replacement. But the review finishes with the tagline
"However, by not including the kdelibs and a newer Qt package, it rules out the ease of installing more Linux applications. Let's face it, at least 50-60% of the Linux GUI software today is written for the Qt toolkit and the KDE libs, for one or the other reason that I won't explain here. By not including KDE support, Sun immediately shred away the hopes of users to install more software! "...
There are 2-3 third party Gnome GTK+ 1.x burning apps out there but they are outdated, difficult to use and ugly, while the KDE-based K3B is the one app on Linux that is powerful and pretty easy to use and that even does DVD burning too. There are other very good reasons for users to need KDE/Qt functionality (KStars, KDevelop, TheKompany apps etc)
Does the China goverment care about those apps? no.
We have seen a lot of articles here in slashdot pointing to OSNews lately, an all of them are by Eugenia Loli-Queru. Am I the only one who hates her reviews? I can't get any substance from any of the writeups.
What I'm referring to is to the fact that Mandrake is a commercial distribution. They can easily go the RH way and stab all their non-enterprise customers in the back.
As I said, Mandrake *is* a great distribution, and was my distribution of choice for over three years. Being a programmer (not a SysAdmin) left me with no much time on my hands to tweak the system, so Mandrake was God-send.
But in the long run I have been very frustrated when trying to do things outside of Mandrake 'sandbox'. In the long run I have spent as much (or even more) time fighting with the Mandrake wizards and configuration files (heck, I have even written scripts to recover configuration parameters to be run after the wizards would change everything).
I have supported Mandrake for the past few years, but they have chosen a dangerous direction. They could have kept a complex system underneath and a few wizards to ease everything, but they have expanded the easyness to all the levels, and that's not good.
I'm still a Mandrake junkie, and will be checking all new releases, but my machine will keep on running gentoo (or debian).
When you come to look at it, only the community driven efforts are the ones that provide you with the bigger freedom. Altruism is not always a bad thing.
I'm a Mandrake Club subscriber and have supported them for a few years now. But two weeks ago I erased my last version of it. I installed 9.2 before it went public (being a Mandrake Club member) and, desktop speaking, it's superb. Everything works out of the box, all my non-geek friends and family members used it at will.
But then I started trying to do stuff I did easily in slackware a few years back, like messing with the hardware and installing a video capture card. It became very frustrating after three days trying and no results. No kernel shipped by Mandrake would let me install RivaTV. A google search will show you that a lot of people is stuck at that point and you will not find any useful answer.
You could install a vanilla kernel, but that would break the whole point of having a dependence based distro (urpmi, apt, emerge, etc).
Trying to share a internet connection using the wizard would screw up the firewall settings, and trying to bring the firewall back up would screw the connection sharing configuration.
After a lot of thought I decided to ditch Mandrake and go for a more traditional Linux distro, being the Debian servers compromised around those days (and I believe they still are), I went the Gentoo way (I was a Slackware junkie 8 years ago) and I'm not going back.
True, you need a few days to have a full system, but you gain again control of your computer. I see Mandrake now at a very delicate point, getting each day more and more like proprietary OSes, hiding a lot of stuff from the user (even thought the tools and the utililities are open source they sometimes choose ways that are non-standards).
I loved Mandrake and I'm still going to recommend their products for newbies, heck, I'm going to renew my suscription with them just to help them out, but I won't come back.
Personally I belive the clipboard should only contain text, but the people is already used to this file-system-on-the-clipboard. X needs this more than any visual candy they are adding now, and it should be really simple to implement.
Stallman says the Boston-based Free Software Foundation, which he founded in 1985, has nothing to do with SCO's lawsuit. "SCO is suing IBM for violating a contract. We don't even know what the contract said. In terms of the resolution of that lawsuit, the Free Software Foundation is entirely uninvolved," he says.
Stallman's GNU/Linux operating system is not the target of SCO's suit. Linux, the program SCO is targeting, is not an operating system, but only the kernel of the GNU/Linux operating system, which could run using a different kernel.
This sums it up. SCO is suing IBM for breach of contract, nothing more, nothing less. What dows Linus Torvalds, Richard Stallman et al have to do with this contract? did they sign it?
Even that Forbes reporter could (kind of) tell the difference between GNU/Linux the OS and Linux the kernel... how come Caldera, a former distributor, can't?
cp copies data as read by the kernel from the filesystem.
dd dumps the raw bytes stored on the physical disk. Which OS or filesystem used in the disk is meaningless, you only care for the raw bytes. Of course, it is only safe if no process is writing to the disk.
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Ticketed just for looking at said pictures ...
Of course, the ticket was from my wife, not the police
Stop modding this spammer up (notice all the referral links as 'ccats-20')
In those pictures are like a dozen jokes waiting to be posted on slashdot ....
BTW, where is the goatse guy?
How is the parent a Troll?
Please somebody mod this up, it's a great read
Se llama Duke Nukem Forever porque se va a tardar toda una eternidad en salir al mercado.
Nota: Forver significa 'por siempre' en ingles.
WMD on Irak
I ditched my evolution install and went full with mozilla mail (thunderbird)
I stand corrected, I have not read the non-Assimov Foundation books (a friend told me to keep away from them). Now I have more reasons not to read them, for they would spoil an alerady excellent series.
Thanks
This is obviously a troll, but i'll bite.
The Foundation series is one of the best installments in SciFi ever. It's a great history, with lots of character development and intriguing trama. It's not your traditional SciFi story, it's politics in a SciFi environment.
You could take the story of the Foundation series and rewrite it on a different setting without losing the meaning and the quality.
Of course, geeks do not care about stuff like that, they care about complicated pseudo-sci stuff that cant be understood by anyone but them. The Foundation series has been read by my non-geek family members and friends and they loved it and felt a great desire to approach to science. That's the real goal of SciFi.
A normal, sane person would understand it.
Yes, as a normal, sane person, I understand it: he is 100% correct.
Befor the Congress pushed for it's opening to the world, there was no such thing known as the 'Internet'; there was a closed network of universities and military computers (ever wondered what DARPA means?).
He, as a congressman, was one of the main players in opening that network to the world, so he played a very important role (if not the most important) in the creation of the 'Internet'.
It seems to me that the un-normal, un-sane person in this thread is, you.
ELQ might not be my favorite reviewer but one thing she does, and does well, is find any and all flaws in an OS. THat's what makes her a good reviewer.
...
One thing she really does is compare everything with BeOS and her husband's OS AtheOS.
She reviews Linux distributions from a naive user's point of view, criticizing the complexities of the Linux world, but then (in all her reviews) a rant at the end about how she won't be able to install the latest geek toys.
An example: The JDS is a Corporate Desktop System, developed to be used by employees who need a cloned environment where everything works exactly the same. It is a _real_ MS Windows replacement. But the review finishes with the tagline
"However, by not including the kdelibs and a newer Qt package, it rules out the ease of installing more Linux applications. Let's face it, at least 50-60% of the Linux GUI software today is written for the Qt toolkit and the KDE libs, for one or the other reason that I won't explain here. By not including KDE support, Sun immediately shred away the hopes of users to install more software! "
There are 2-3 third party Gnome GTK+ 1.x burning apps out there but they are outdated, difficult to use and ugly, while the KDE-based K3B is the one app on Linux that is powerful and pretty easy to use and that even does DVD burning too. There are other very good reasons for users to need KDE/Qt functionality (KStars, KDevelop, TheKompany apps etc)
Does the China goverment care about those apps? no.
We have seen a lot of articles here in slashdot pointing to OSNews lately, an all of them are by Eugenia Loli-Queru. Am I the only one who hates her reviews? I can't get any substance from any of the writeups.
What I'm referring to is to the fact that Mandrake is a commercial distribution. They can easily go the RH way and stab all their non-enterprise customers in the back.
As I said, Mandrake *is* a great distribution, and was my distribution of choice for over three years. Being a programmer (not a SysAdmin) left me with no much time on my hands to tweak the system, so Mandrake was God-send.
But in the long run I have been very frustrated when trying to do things outside of Mandrake 'sandbox'. In the long run I have spent as much (or even more) time fighting with the Mandrake wizards and configuration files (heck, I have even written scripts to recover configuration parameters to be run after the wizards would change everything).
I have supported Mandrake for the past few years, but they have chosen a dangerous direction. They could have kept a complex system underneath and a few wizards to ease everything, but they have expanded the easyness to all the levels, and that's not good.
I'm still a Mandrake junkie, and will be checking all new releases, but my machine will keep on running gentoo (or debian).
When you come to look at it, only the community driven efforts are the ones that provide you with the bigger freedom. Altruism is not always a bad thing.
I'm a Mandrake Club subscriber and have supported them for a few years now. But two weeks ago I erased my last version of it. I installed 9.2 before it went public (being a Mandrake Club member) and, desktop speaking, it's superb. Everything works out of the box, all my non-geek friends and family members used it at will.
But then I started trying to do stuff I did easily in slackware a few years back, like messing with the hardware and installing a video capture card. It became very frustrating after three days trying and no results. No kernel shipped by Mandrake would let me install RivaTV. A google search will show you that a lot of people is stuck at that point and you will not find any useful answer.
You could install a vanilla kernel, but that would break the whole point of having a dependence based distro (urpmi, apt, emerge, etc).
Trying to share a internet connection using the wizard would screw up the firewall settings, and trying to bring the firewall back up would screw the connection sharing configuration.
After a lot of thought I decided to ditch Mandrake and go for a more traditional Linux distro, being the Debian servers compromised around those days (and I believe they still are), I went the Gentoo way (I was a Slackware junkie 8 years ago) and I'm not going back.
True, you need a few days to have a full system, but you gain again control of your computer. I see Mandrake now at a very delicate point, getting each day more and more like proprietary OSes, hiding a lot of stuff from the user (even thought the tools and the utililities are open source they sometimes choose ways that are non-standards).
I loved Mandrake and I'm still going to recommend their products for newbies, heck, I'm going to renew my suscription with them just to help them out, but I won't come back.
100% true
Personally I belive the clipboard should only contain text, but the people is already used to this file-system-on-the-clipboard. X needs this more than any visual candy they are adding now, and it should be really simple to implement.
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Whoa
You post a goatse.cx link and get modded Insightful ... You should get a lottery ticket today ...
Stallman says the Boston-based Free Software Foundation, which he founded in 1985, has nothing to do with SCO's lawsuit. "SCO is suing IBM for violating a contract. We don't even know what the contract said. In terms of the resolution of that lawsuit, the Free Software Foundation is entirely uninvolved," he says.
... how come Caldera, a former distributor, can't?
Stallman's GNU/Linux operating system is not the target of SCO's suit. Linux, the program SCO is targeting, is not an operating system, but only the kernel of the GNU/Linux operating system, which could run using a different kernel.
This sums it up. SCO is suing IBM for breach of contract, nothing more, nothing less. What dows Linus Torvalds, Richard Stallman et al have to do with this contract? did they sign it?
Even that Forbes reporter could (kind of) tell the difference between GNU/Linux the OS and Linux the kernel
What I dont get is the fuzz for an article written by ELQ. She has always ditched all linux distributions.
If you have to ask, then you are not a whitehat :)
There are several techniques, most of them involve identifying a "connection fingerprint" and block it at the ISP level
dd operates at a different level than cp.
cp copies data as read by the kernel from the filesystem.
dd dumps the raw bytes stored on the physical disk. Which OS or filesystem used in the disk is meaningless, you only care for the raw bytes. Of course, it is only safe if no process is writing to the disk.
dd if=/dev/hda1 of=/dev/hdb1
If you want to encrypt after the copy you can do
dd if=/dev/random of=/dev/hdb1
On another note ...
Given this announcement, to whom would have been most beneficial the introduction of last week's backdoor to the linux kernel?
Hehe ... exactly my votes. Those three apps have gotten linux more *desktop* users than anything else
Well, I happen to have a 4.294.967.296 IP database. Wait a few years and I'll have a 3.40282366920938e+38 one.