Sounds ok, (cept the svr5 part), but I've heard some bad things about sco's stability and general worthwhileness. Then again, that might just be because of the general slashdot Linux bias.
What do you mean, beta release? It's a full release, and there's nothing beta about it. The announcements page is usually the last to get updated. You can get all the info you need from the freebsd-announce list and from the docs on the ftp sites.
No, what you have is an entire population fearing itself. I'd rather fear criminals than the entire populace. I think I'd probably take comfort in knowing that most people DON'T have guns, not the other way around, thank you.
Right from the "excuse the words -- (GASP!) OPEN SOURCE!".
Looks to me that MS is going to open up tiny bits of their code, so that the public percieves them as going open source, and then the rest of us that know they're actually not will sit around and bicker with them about it, making us look like nitpickers and bad guys. Or some such. They have to have something nefarious in mind - Ballmer went through the entire article trying to discredit open-source as they were talking about actually using the model.
Point is, this is all PR. There's (almost) nothing good that can come from MS open-source. It will be so heavily restricted no one could do anything but maybe fix bugs for them, but we're not about to do that for them...
price/performance and hackability. Intel arch parts are widely available, cheap, and easy to mess with. I'd like to have something else, maybe a PPC box, but I simply can't afford that kind of thing.
Unfortunately, when one tries to develop a GPOS, performance will often lag compared to a specialty one. It is very unlikely someone can make an OS that will be a great server, media workstation, gaming platform, etc. that could outperform one made specifically for any of those purposes.
If you think that people are singling you out to bully you around, you've got more problems than we can address here. What people are trying to do is keep sociopaths like yourself from running around 'defending yourself' all the time.
it's a homicide. And one that might have been prevented had the victim been able to defend himself.
BS. With two people with guns, we're more or less guaranteed to have at least one dead person, if not more.
Look at the old west when more citizens carried handguns.
Brilliant. Look at the old west where innocent people got lynched due to mob mentality. Look at the old west where there weren't as many specific laws in place as there are today. Look at the old west, where guns only shot 6 bullets before having to reload.
Everyone having guns will not make you feel more safe anymore than every country in the world having nuclear weapons would make you feel safe. If everyone was a rational person, guns would be unnecessary, but the reason most people want a gun is the reason they shouldn't be allowed to have one - because there's a lot of nuts with guns out there.
Handguns should be banned, there is no legitimate purpose for them other than to kill other humans - and idea that apparently doesn't bother you.
If you want to stop gun crime, stop the crime*, not the guns.
Well, valiant man with a gun, how do you propose we stop the crime? By educational programs reminding people that shooting others is wrong? By distributing more guns? The crime of murder with firearms would not exist if there were no firearms. If more people were man enough to give up their guns, we'd have a lot less to fear in this country.
Al Gore said he 'Helped create the internet', which is true, to a degree. There were a few interviews with generally accepted 'fathers of the internet' who acknowledged Gore made quite a contribution to the net, and it wouldn't be where it was today without him.
That's really odd...all of the machines in CS here at purdue are NT or unix boxes...except for maybe a couple in sirius, the security research facility...other than that, I don't think I've ever seen any in there. Just think folks, it may have been the famous Gene Spafford who got the millionth one.:) I know he's a mac guy...
I had been thinking for a long time that i wanted to get dual P2 333's, but I can actually afford celerons...I just thought it would be fun to have a Pentium 2 666:)
Sounds kind of like what I usually say about so many Linux users - grow the hell up. However, I still gave Linux a look. Then I looked at BSD, and BeOS, and never gave Linux a look again.
Trolls by BeOS zealots...sheesh. I've NEVER seen a 'BeOS zealot' go on as Linux-ers do - world domination, Linux on the desktop, Linux on your server, OSS is a panacea...do you have any idea what it looks like to non-linux users reading slashdot?
Hello? BeOS is specifically NOT for chemical engineering or heavy database work. It is a multimedia-oriented OS. Be isn't trying to be everything to everybody as Linux is - it has a focus, and stays pretty much within it.
UserFriendly has gone from being moderately funny in the beginning, to worth reading, to just not being worth the time to click anymore. Its just simply not funny - like you say, a rehash of some old and tired computer joke - I was embarrassed to see a strip referencing pebkac as if it made up the term itself. I thought about it, and I can't even remember EVER laughing at UF.
However, there is hope - Sluggy Freelance!
http://www.sluggy.com
A well-drawn comic that one can actually laugh at.
Well, since romaji is not completely generally accepted, it doesn't really matter. Romaji is more a romanized spelling that will help you spell a word properly in japanese phonetics.
Like good sysadmins who have queso-proofed or OS-forged their machines to fend off OS-specific attacks. I think OpenBSD might have some of that built-in, but I can't remember for sure.
People should NOT have to change what they're wearing, saying, or how they behave to avoid unjust discrimination from people like you. People might very well be afraid right now, but they're going to have to grow up and learn to deal with it. By fearing someone because of their coat, of all things, you're no better than the other kneejerk normals.
How people are being treated right now is not just, and that's that. They're not being treated badly because of any fault of their own. And it is not the responsibility of the persecuted to change, it's the responsibility of society at large to be more tolerant, and less reactionary.
I did that after my junior year. Couldn't take another year of that hell - I mean, I really couldn't stay sane. Just left and started taking classes in college part-time, then got my ged and applied full-time. Fuck high school.
Great, so FreeBSD gets some decent press, and all the linux ditto-heads come out of the walls to say how much better linux could have done, how FreeBSD is "in trouble", and not offering any evidence to back up their claims. Even though I generally dislike Linux(for political and technical reasons), I'm happy when I see an article about corporations switching from NT to Linux, or Linux sneaking its way into the workplace. It's good to see at least SOME open-source coverage, that people are beginning to realize they have choices when it comes to OS, and that people are getting away from Micros~1 products.
It's reactions like this that ruin the Linux community's credibilty, and why I find Linux so distasteful. Maybe if the community can grow up a little and start LEARNING from other open-source projects, and sharing with them, you'd be able to make a killer OS. Right now, your close-mindedness does you a disservice.
Ok, I don't consider myself goth, and I sure don't listen to industrial pop, but it's been pissing me off to no end listening to the radio and hearing people talk about "these goth kids", and generally making it seem like people who wear black clothes and listen to crappy industrial music are racist psychopaths. The kids weren't even goths to begin with.
There are many groups that are being targeted here, and many generalizations being made. And blame is flying everywhere except where it belongs - the kids and the parents.
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Sounds ok, (cept the svr5 part), but I've heard some bad things about sco's stability and general worthwhileness. Then again, that might just be because of the general slashdot Linux bias.
-lx
Well, depending on what your PC card is, there is a new device in the generic kernel for xe, that is, Xircom Pc Card driver. Maybe that will help...
I did my laptop install over PLIP, that seemed to work ok for me...
-lx
Well, if there was a best BSD, the other projects wouldn't exist, right?
;)
-lx
What do you mean, beta release? It's a full release, and there's nothing beta about it. The announcements page is usually the last to get updated. You can get all the info you need from the freebsd-announce list and from the docs on the ftp sites.
-lx
No, what you have is an entire population fearing itself. I'd rather fear criminals than the entire populace. I think I'd probably take comfort in knowing that most people DON'T have guns, not the other way around, thank you.
-lx
They were donated, I believe - even got flat-panel LCD's...if MS wansta give us stuff for free, I won't turn it down...
-lx
Right from the "excuse the words -- (GASP!) OPEN SOURCE!".
Looks to me that MS is going to open up tiny bits of their code, so that the public percieves them as going open source, and then the rest of us that know they're actually not will sit around and bicker with them about it, making us look like nitpickers and bad guys. Or some such. They have to have something nefarious in mind - Ballmer went through the entire article trying to discredit open-source as they were talking about actually using the model.
Point is, this is all PR. There's (almost) nothing good that can come from MS open-source. It will be so heavily restricted no one could do anything but maybe fix bugs for them, but we're not about to do that for them...
-lx
price/performance and hackability. Intel arch parts are widely available, cheap, and easy to mess with. I'd like to have something else, maybe a PPC box, but I simply can't afford that kind of thing.
-lx
Unfortunately, when one tries to develop a GPOS, performance will often lag compared to a specialty one. It is very unlikely someone can make an OS that will be a great server, media workstation, gaming platform, etc. that could outperform one made specifically for any of those purposes.
-lx
If you think that people are singling you out to bully you around, you've got more problems than we can address here. What people are trying to do is keep sociopaths like yourself from running around 'defending yourself' all the time.
it's a homicide. And one that might have been prevented had the victim been able to defend himself.
BS. With two people with guns, we're more or less guaranteed to have at least one dead person, if not more.
Look at the old west when more citizens carried handguns.
Brilliant. Look at the old west where innocent people got lynched due to mob mentality. Look at the old west where there weren't as many specific laws in place as there are today. Look at the old west, where guns only shot 6 bullets before having to reload.
Everyone having guns will not make you feel more safe anymore than every country in the world having nuclear weapons would make you feel safe. If everyone was a rational person, guns would be unnecessary, but the reason most people want a gun is the reason they shouldn't be allowed to have one - because there's a lot of nuts with guns out there.
Handguns should be banned, there is no legitimate purpose for them other than to kill other humans - and idea that apparently doesn't bother you.
If you want to stop gun crime, stop the crime*, not the guns.
Well, valiant man with a gun, how do you propose we stop the crime? By educational programs reminding people that shooting others is wrong? By distributing more guns? The crime of murder with firearms would not exist if there were no firearms. If more people were man enough to give up their guns, we'd have a lot less to fear in this country.
-lx
Al Gore said he 'Helped create the internet', which is true, to a degree. There were a few interviews with generally accepted 'fathers of the internet' who acknowledged Gore made quite a contribution to the net, and it wouldn't be where it was today without him.
Not that I like the guy anyhow.
-lx
That's really odd...all of the machines in CS here at purdue are NT or unix boxes...except for maybe a couple in sirius, the security research facility...other than that, I don't think I've ever seen any in there. Just think folks, it may have been the famous Gene Spafford who got the millionth one. :) I know he's a mac guy...
-lx
I had been thinking for a long time that i wanted to get dual P2 333's, but I can actually afford celerons...I just thought it would be fun to have a Pentium 2 666 :)
-lx
Sounds kind of like what I usually say about so many Linux users - grow the hell up. However, I still gave Linux a look. Then I looked at BSD, and BeOS, and never gave Linux a look again.
Trolls by BeOS zealots...sheesh. I've NEVER seen a 'BeOS zealot' go on as Linux-ers do - world domination, Linux on the desktop, Linux on your server, OSS is a panacea...do you have any idea what it looks like to non-linux users reading slashdot?
-lx
I like using Linux because it has all my apps, and it supports all my hardware.
No offense, but that's what I hear from Windows users every time I try to talk about ANY other OS, be it Linux, BSD, or BeOS.
-lx
Hello? BeOS is specifically NOT for chemical engineering or heavy database work. It is a multimedia-oriented OS. Be isn't trying to be everything to everybody as Linux is - it has a focus, and stays pretty much within it.
-lx
UserFriendly has gone from being moderately funny in the beginning, to worth reading, to just not being worth the time to click anymore. Its just simply not funny - like you say, a rehash of some old and tired computer joke - I was embarrassed to see a strip referencing pebkac as if it made up the term itself. I thought about it, and I can't even remember EVER laughing at UF.
However, there is hope - Sluggy Freelance!
http://www.sluggy.com
A well-drawn comic that one can actually laugh at.
-lx
Well, since romaji is not completely generally accepted, it doesn't really matter. Romaji is more a romanized spelling that will help you spell a word properly in japanese phonetics.
-lx
No, you prolly shouldn't call that, since that's nowhere close to how it is pronounced.
-lx
Like good sysadmins who have queso-proofed or OS-forged their machines to fend off OS-specific attacks. I think OpenBSD might have some of that built-in, but I can't remember for sure.
-lx
People should NOT have to change what they're wearing, saying, or how they behave to avoid unjust discrimination from people like you. People might very well be afraid right now, but they're going to have to grow up and learn to deal with it. By fearing someone because of their coat, of all things, you're no better than the other kneejerk normals.
How people are being treated right now is not just, and that's that. They're not being treated badly because of any fault of their own. And it is not the responsibility of the persecuted to change, it's the responsibility of society at large to be more tolerant, and less reactionary.
-lx
They just make it really fucking easy.
-lx
I did that after my junior year. Couldn't take another year of that hell - I mean, I really couldn't stay sane. Just left and started taking classes in college part-time, then got my ged and applied full-time. Fuck high school.
-lx
Great, so FreeBSD gets some decent press, and all the linux ditto-heads come out of the walls to say how much better linux could have done, how FreeBSD is "in trouble", and not offering any evidence to back up their claims. Even though I generally dislike Linux(for political and technical reasons), I'm happy when I see an article about corporations switching from NT to Linux, or Linux sneaking its way into the workplace. It's good to see at least SOME open-source coverage, that people are beginning to realize they have choices when it comes to OS, and that people are getting away from Micros~1 products.
It's reactions like this that ruin the Linux community's credibilty, and why I find Linux so distasteful. Maybe if the community can grow up a little and start LEARNING from other open-source projects, and sharing with them, you'd be able to make a killer OS. Right now, your close-mindedness does you a disservice.
-lx
Linux: the Windows of the UNIX world.
Ok, I don't consider myself goth, and I sure don't listen to industrial pop, but it's been pissing me off to no end listening to the radio and hearing people talk about "these goth kids", and generally making it seem like people who wear black clothes and listen to crappy industrial music are racist psychopaths. The kids weren't even goths to begin with.
There are many groups that are being targeted here, and many generalizations being made. And blame is flying everywhere except where it belongs - the kids and the parents.
-lx