We should have a preference in our settings for "don't use crazy colours" or "default color scheme" or something like that.
I prefer Slashdot to look like it always had for as I can remember. True geeks don't need eye-straining colours every other week just to make the interface look "new" - that's for WinXP users.
Actually he's back from the dead. After his battle with Ken Brown, he died saving Linus and his fellowship of coders from evil. But no worries, he's returned more powerful than ever, and is now known as Andy The White.
Just think, if Hollywood bothers to at least try and get some technical stuff even remotely realistic (and look cool), they could incorporate such things into movies. But no... we get a fusion reaction which you can control with metal tentacles (just push the little flames back in!).
You see people using BS buzzwords constantly in the industry where money and marketing are everything, but why in F/OSS software? That just seems counterproductive.
Because it's the only way to talk to the thick-skulled PHB's. And unfortunately for us, the world is run by idiots who only listen to marketing-speak. This is for them.
I saw it just now and wondered what it was. It's only 1 CD though... is it the same as the boxed set of the SuSE Personal Edition, or did they leave stuff out?
Damn - why the hell are they not adopting it for 10 ?
I'm wondering that myself. It's probably dues to Slackware being "conservative" or something. In any case it's downright trivial to compile a kernel from kernel.org. No crazy patches like Redhat.
i'm told it doesn't get more stable than Debian Stable, but i normally hear people say Slack is hard to install or hard to work with.
They are probably getting nostalgic from "back in the day" when Slack came on 2,545,645 floppies and you had to use a soldering iron, chewing gum, duct tape and copper wire to get the hardware to work with it.
That's no longer the case, but a lot of people started out with the "hard" Slackware, moved on to the "easy" distro's like Redhat, and still assume Slackware is still the same as it was in days of yore. The truth is, even though the appearance of the installer hasn't changed much (still ncurses), it is extremely easy to use, straightforward, and as flexible as can be.
There was some serious bugs in 9.1's toolchain (either binutils or the compiler), which caused a lot miscompilation of some kernel code I was testing. Quite horrible. I do hope this has been addressed.
Apart from Monkey Island, Lucasarts appear not to care for the genre they brought so much to in the early Nineties.
Not just Lucasarts. It seems *nobody* cares about adventures anymore. Because it's just more profitable to make yet-another-3d-first-person-shooter-this-time-with -prettier-graphics!
'In our world, you will subscribe to the software and the hardware is free.'
I have a better proposal. You give me the free hardware, and I don't subscribe to your software and write my own. Eh, does that violate some law somewhere?
They will be working "on" Linux ( that is, they will be running it on their desktop ), but they will not be working "on" Linux ( writing code for the OS ). Oracle developers will be working on Oracle software.
Quick quiz : if a programmer is using a Linux desktop, he'll be using Linux development tools. So it's most likely that the resulting programs developed by those tools will run on _________ (fill in the blank).
Hint : It's not "exclusively on Windows"
On an unrelated note, Oracle *does* employ Linux kernel hackers, though not thousands.
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The problem is that if you give free resources to a large anonymous community, it takes only a few of those people to suck up all the resources.
That's why the people who are developing big grid projects are not giving free resources to anonymous users. These grids are the combined resources of all all the colloborators, and have controlled access to the resource pool.
OK, Microsoft says its legal bill is too high, so it has to overcharge its customers. But why did it get that legal bill in the first place? From the article:
"The legal costs are part of Microsoft's settlement for over-charging consumers buying its software in California."
From Miguel's blog
The sandboxed execution in.NET [1] means that you can visit any web site and run local rich applications as oppposed to web applications without fearing about your data security: spyware, trojans and what have you.
That's true...if Microsoft can get it right. But as in any complex software system, there will be bugs, and considering the scope of Microsoft's deployment base, it could be disastrous. I do not think Microsoft makes worse code than anybody else, it's simply that updating their massive install base is very difficult once bugs are found. Also, the majority of Windows desktop users make poor systems administrators, there will always be bugs and crackers that exploit them. Sad, but true.
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We should have a preference in our settings for "don't use crazy colours" or "default color scheme" or something like that.
I prefer Slashdot to look like it always had for as I can remember. True geeks don't need eye-straining colours every other week just to make the interface look "new" - that's for WinXP users.
Is the encylopedia just a cover up for The Foundation designed to create a new Galactic Empire when the first one crumbles?
Ghost?! He's not even dead yet!
Actually he's back from the dead. After his battle with Ken Brown, he died saving Linus and his fellowship of coders from evil. But no worries, he's returned more powerful than ever, and is now known as Andy The White.
Yeah but can it run lin...errr... damn.
They should build this technology into Firefox.
Just think, if Hollywood bothers to at least try and get some technical stuff even remotely realistic (and look cool), they could incorporate such things into movies. But no... we get a fusion reaction which you can control with metal tentacles (just push the little flames back in!).
...with the latest 2.6 kernels, simply turn off 4K stacks. But hey, now it's not necessary. Yay.
4k stacks are a good thing, a first step for Linux to support an insane amount of simultaneous processes on the system.
You see people using BS buzzwords constantly in the industry where money and marketing are everything, but why in F/OSS software? That just seems counterproductive.
Because it's the only way to talk to the thick-skulled PHB's. And unfortunately for us, the world is run by idiots who only listen to marketing-speak. This is for them.
Only if you keep using outdated and poorly engineered OS's and hardware instead of Power Macs which are designed to handle dates through A.D. 29,940
I hereby predict the Y29,941 bug, affecting all you smug Mac users when you have all but forgotten about it! So there!
Actually Windows is reported to have builds even for UltraSPARC. Microsoft never releases any of that though.
And if you need some other software outside of that its better you compile all yourself or youll be in a jungle of amateur made packages.
I learned a lot by compiling my own packages. As for the "jungle of amateur made packages", that goes for Redhat too hmm?
I would say Linus is Neutral Good. He is certainly on our side, even if he doesn't go on a ideology pitching frenzy.
I saw it just now and wondered what it was. It's only 1 CD though... is it the same as the boxed set of the SuSE Personal Edition, or did they leave stuff out?
...it would get its icon on Slashdot updated.
Hahaha, best...comment....ever! You just earned yourself a fan :)
Damn - why the hell are they not adopting it for 10 ?
I'm wondering that myself. It's probably dues to Slackware being "conservative" or something. In any case it's downright trivial to compile a kernel from kernel.org. No crazy patches like Redhat.
i'm told it doesn't get more stable than Debian Stable, but i normally hear people say Slack is hard to install or hard to work with.
They are probably getting nostalgic from "back in the day" when Slack came on 2,545,645 floppies and you had to use a soldering iron, chewing gum, duct tape and copper wire to get the hardware to work with it.
That's no longer the case, but a lot of people started out with the "hard" Slackware, moved on to the "easy" distro's like Redhat, and still assume Slackware is still the same as it was in days of yore. The truth is, even though the appearance of the installer hasn't changed much (still ncurses), it is extremely easy to use, straightforward, and as flexible as can be.
There was some serious bugs in 9.1's toolchain (either binutils or the compiler), which caused a lot miscompilation of some kernel code I was testing. Quite horrible. I do hope this has been addressed.
Apart from Monkey Island, Lucasarts appear not to care for the genre they brought so much to in the early Nineties.
h -prettier-graphics!
Not just Lucasarts. It seems *nobody* cares about adventures anymore. Because it's just more profitable to make yet-another-3d-first-person-shooter-this-time-wit
'In our world, you will subscribe to the software and the hardware is free.'
I have a better proposal. You give me the free hardware, and I don't subscribe to your software and write my own. Eh, does that violate some law somewhere?
They will be working "on" Linux ( that is, they will be running it on their desktop ), but they will not be working "on" Linux ( writing code for the OS ). Oracle developers will be working on Oracle software.
Quick quiz : if a programmer is using a Linux desktop, he'll be using Linux development tools. So it's most likely that the resulting programs developed by those tools will run on _________ (fill in the blank).
Hint : It's not "exclusively on Windows"
On an unrelated note, Oracle *does* employ Linux kernel hackers, though not thousands.
The problem is that if you give free resources to a large anonymous community, it takes only a few of those people to suck up all the resources.
That's why the people who are developing big grid projects are not giving free resources to anonymous users. These grids are the combined resources of all all the colloborators, and have controlled access to the resource pool.
OK, Microsoft says its legal bill is too high, so it has to overcharge its customers. But why did it get that legal bill in the first place? From the article:
"The legal costs are part of Microsoft's settlement for over-charging consumers buying its software in California."
Sigh...
From Miguel's blog The sandboxed execution in .NET [1] means that you can visit any web site and run local rich applications as oppposed to web applications without fearing about your data security: spyware, trojans and what have you.
That's true...if Microsoft can get it right. But as in any complex software system, there will be bugs, and considering the scope of Microsoft's deployment base, it could be disastrous. I do not think Microsoft makes worse code than anybody else, it's simply that updating their massive install base is very difficult once bugs are found. Also, the majority of Windows desktop users make poor systems administrators, there will always be bugs and crackers that exploit them. Sad, but true.
...from "Finding Nemo", where that seagull picks up our fishy hero.
Oh and there's only one 't' in 'mascot'.