This is enabled because of the shortage of IP numbers. If we were all on IPV6, there would not be a shortage of IP numbers and the idea of dynamic addresses wouldn't have manifested and nobody would have thought of blocking services. After all, serving your own web page is a first ammendment speech issue. Getting a practcal name service to point to a dynamic IP address is the pits.
Spam will never go away until the government decides that the Direct Marketing Association are not their friends.
But our governments are in bed with the spammers and so are the credit card companies.
All that is needed to eliminate spam is to attack it at the other end of the line with a small staff of agents, several honeypot email boxes, and three judges blanketing a 24-hour day to issue subpoenas which freeze the spammer's credit-card merchant account assets.
You can use about any usb keyboard with a Mac. I have a tank-like HP that I got at Frys for $7.50 and use a freebie utility called uControl to switch the alt and 'windows' keys around. Apple's keyboards are low volume and expensive.
I use the gentoo CD also. I wonder if Knoppix requires a mouse and everything else for X-windows? I don't want to put a mouse on the server... dragging a monitor over to it is bad enough.
I think that's a smart idea. A computer company such as Apple would do themselves well to partner with a company such as Bang + Olufsen to market TVs and Stereos.
... right above the article, declaring how Windows is cheaprer, less error prone, and more cost effective than Linux.
Those articles never take in to consideration how much money it takes to train Linux users to use Windows or how many hair-pulling hours it takes for people to convert their OpenOffice Calc macros to Excel.
My thoughts are Apple doing a port of Koffice, since their port of Konqueror to Safari went so well. Version 4 of the QT libs are going to be a gigantic step forward for things like automatic kerning, native CMYK support, etc.
It seems to me, though, that Apple's new office this year is just an update of appleworks.
If you happen to buy a new computer, Debian 'stable' is too old to support the chipset, many devices and perhaps even the cpu (such as Opteron or Apple's 64-bit PPC). Otherwise, Debian stable is fine for new servers -- but only if you buy them used on Ebay!
They should reorganize their release names from stable, testing, unstable and experimental to Grandpa, Greybeard, Production and Current.
I think IBM would be happy if Linux advanced to the point where they no longer had the huge burdon of maintaining AIX. There's lots of financial --selfish-- benefits available to big corps to support OSS.
Martin for example quite rightly points out that IBM, Oracle etc. are not throwing their lot in selflessly and wholeheartedly with Linux, they're augmenting a customer solution with open source products where their own proprietary software is lacking (they need an OS stack on which to run websphere, for example).
Yes. That point isn't FUD, it is known as the strawman argument. It implies something IBM, Oracle, etc. never claimed as a reason they support open source.
I recently sent a simple business-card and letterhead job to a local print shop for a client. I saved my Mac QuarkXpress file with a nice and correct three-letter extension, and I converted each PostScript font from Mac to Windows (Adobe Avenir) and the idiots didn't know how to install the fonts on their stupid Windows PC. So they converted everything in the Xpress document to Arial and tried to convince my client that he really wanted it that way!
But that's not the way the license used to read. Add to that MS got their license from Monotype to distribute Arial, Times New Roman on an unlimited basis and what do you have?
But I guess someone wants to sell the package as a whole...
OK, then! Tell you what I'm gonna do. I'll split up kdelibs and email you the 'modules' for only ninety-nine ninety nine apiece! Take your pick! Think of the convenience!
LFS uses modules, I believe. When you 'make menuconfig' on your kernel source, you have a choice of either 'n', 'y'' or 'm' for each desired feature of driver. If you say 'y', the feature gets compiled into the kernel, 'm' means you want that feature to be a module.
If all your features and drivers get configured with 'y', then you no longer need the mod utilities or a/etc/modules.conf (whatever it's called) and you don't need any aliases for those drivers and you don't need any directory deep down inside of/lib/modules to keep them.
There used to be a Kernel Howto at Linux Documentation Project, but it is missing now for some sort of updating.
Why use this? Isnt package management and things like Debian's Dpkg, rpm and stuff are for?
I've used LFS and my package management system is/usr/local/src. I can see at a glance what I have installed -- and what version. I don't use modules in the kernel, and I don't have to fish around for split-up nonsense such as imagemagik, imagemagik-libs and imagemagik-dev. If I'm not sure whether or not to install something in/usr/bin or/usr/local/bin, I consult the LFS html'd book which also sits in/usr/local/src.
Configuring my system is a snap, because all I do is edit the files in/etc, rather than learn to use a particular distro's 'conf' system -- and we all know all those 'conf' systems do is read and write to files in/etc!
Anyway... I don't think one can expect to get high quality scans off a $200 (or even $400) scanner with a film attachment, which is what the Asker seems to want to do.
That's the whole problem right there. He needs to farm out his scans to a professional with an expensive professional drum scanner.
Retouching is excellent on Gimp. Color separating for press requires something else (although Corel used to have a free PhotoPaint for Linux, which did excellent color separations and unshark masking on CMYK channels.
With the price of a used 533mhz G4 around $500 on ebay.com, you're absolutely right saying there is plenty of demand for low-priced Macs. How about a headless iMac? How about Apple fixing their own WindowServer security so that Quartz works over TCP/IP again (it was shut out back in NeXT days) for an office full of $350 thin clients driven by an Xserve?
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This is enabled because of the shortage of IP numbers. If we were all on IPV6, there would not be a shortage of IP numbers and the idea of dynamic addresses wouldn't have manifested and nobody would have thought of blocking services. After all, serving your own web page is a first ammendment speech issue. Getting a practcal name service to point to a dynamic IP address is the pits.
Spam will never go away until the government decides that the Direct Marketing Association are not their friends.
But our governments are in bed with the spammers and so are the credit card companies.
All that is needed to eliminate spam is to attack it at the other end of the line with a small staff of agents, several honeypot email boxes, and three judges blanketing a 24-hour day to issue subpoenas which freeze the spammer's credit-card merchant account assets.
You can use about any usb keyboard with a Mac. I have a tank-like HP that I got at Frys for $7.50 and use a freebie utility called uControl to switch the alt and 'windows' keys around. Apple's keyboards are low volume and expensive.
I use the gentoo CD also. I wonder if Knoppix requires a mouse and everything else for X-windows? I don't want to put a mouse on the server... dragging a monitor over to it is bad enough.
They've got you thinking you can go to jail for that...
I think that's a smart idea. A computer company such as Apple would do themselves well to partner with a company such as Bang + Olufsen to market TVs and Stereos.
So now, is HURD so unimportant to slashdot that news related to it is just grouped under some other news?
I'd seriously like to know what purpose HURD serves. As a matter of fact, what advantage does Mach-0 serve on OS X? What's the payoff?
Those articles never take in to consideration how much money it takes to train Linux users to use Windows or how many hair-pulling hours it takes for people to convert their OpenOffice Calc macros to Excel.
It's not a new office suite, it's an application called Pages that will be bundled in with Keynote
Oh... Never mind!
My thoughts are Apple doing a port of Koffice, since their port of Konqueror to Safari went so well. Version 4 of the QT libs are going to be a gigantic step forward for things like automatic kerning, native CMYK support, etc.
It seems to me, though, that Apple's new office this year is just an update of appleworks.
If you happen to buy a new computer, Debian 'stable' is too old to support the chipset, many devices and perhaps even the cpu (such as Opteron or Apple's 64-bit PPC). Otherwise, Debian stable is fine for new servers -- but only if you buy them used on Ebay!
They should reorganize their release names from stable, testing, unstable and experimental to Grandpa, Greybeard, Production and Current.
I think IBM would be happy if Linux advanced to the point where they no longer had the huge burdon of maintaining AIX. There's lots of financial --selfish-- benefits available to big corps to support OSS.
Martin for example quite rightly points out that IBM, Oracle etc. are not throwing their lot in selflessly and wholeheartedly with Linux, they're augmenting a customer solution with open source products where their own proprietary software is lacking (they need an OS stack on which to run websphere, for example).
Yes. That point isn't FUD, it is known as the strawman argument. It implies something IBM, Oracle, etc. never claimed as a reason they support open source.
I recently sent a simple business-card and letterhead job to a local print shop for a client. I saved my Mac QuarkXpress file with a nice and correct three-letter extension, and I converted each PostScript font from Mac to Windows (Adobe Avenir) and the idiots didn't know how to install the fonts on their stupid Windows PC. So they converted everything in the Xpress document to Arial and tried to convince my client that he really wanted it that way!
But that's not the way the license used to read. Add to that MS got their license from Monotype to distribute Arial, Times New Roman on an unlimited basis and what do you have?
You have, what, 50 users?
I wonder why 6 servers are needed for only 25 local and 25 remote users. Are they doing a render farm for non-profit animations?
But I guess someone wants to sell the package as a whole ...
OK, then! Tell you what I'm gonna do. I'll split up kdelibs and email you the 'modules' for only ninety-nine ninety nine apiece! Take your pick! Think of the convenience!
LFS uses modules, I believe. When you 'make menuconfig' on your kernel source, you have a choice of either 'n', 'y'' or 'm' for each desired feature of driver. If you say 'y', the feature gets compiled into the kernel, 'm' means you want that feature to be a module.
If all your features and drivers get configured with 'y', then you no longer need the mod utilities or a /etc/modules.conf (whatever it's called) and you don't need any aliases for those drivers and you don't need any directory deep down inside of /lib/modules to keep them.
There used to be a Kernel Howto at Linux Documentation Project, but it is missing now for some sort of updating.If you build this distro yourself, how can it be updated?
I have an account at freshmeat.net, and when certain apps or libraries I selected come out with a new version, I automatically get an email.
Why use this? Isnt package management and things like Debian's Dpkg, rpm and stuff are for?
I've used LFS and my package management system is /usr/local/src. I can see at a glance what I have installed -- and what version. I don't use modules in the kernel, and I don't have to fish around for split-up nonsense such as imagemagik, imagemagik-libs and imagemagik-dev. If I'm not sure whether or not to install something in /usr/bin or /usr/local/bin, I consult the LFS html'd book which also sits in /usr/local/src.
Configuring my system is a snap, because all I do is edit the files in /etc, rather than learn to use a particular distro's 'conf' system -- and we all know all those 'conf' systems do is read and write to files in /etc!
That's the whole problem right there. He needs to farm out his scans to a professional with an expensive professional drum scanner.
Retouching is excellent on Gimp. Color separating for press requires something else (although Corel used to have a free PhotoPaint for Linux, which did excellent color separations and unshark masking on CMYK channels.
Why not 'debate' the issue before it is implemented, rather than after the fireworks?
I guess so, but their inability to produce a saleable X86-64 port speaks volumes of the quality of the foundation of their product.
With the price of a used 533mhz G4 around $500 on ebay.com, you're absolutely right saying there is plenty of demand for low-priced Macs. How about a headless iMac? How about Apple fixing their own WindowServer security so that Quartz works over TCP/IP again (it was shut out back in NeXT days) for an office full of $350 thin clients driven by an Xserve?