I was appalled at how many folks jumped on Keith after the initial/. article. I mean, they were basing their responses on a one-sided tale.
I knew Keith back in the X Consortium days, before anyone was even attempting a serious port to X86 boxes - because they were just too pathetic. Keith has always had an excellent attitude, and cared deeply about the technology, the developers, and the user community.
If Keith has problems with the way something is being handled, only a *fool* would refuse to listen. And that doesn't say much for the folks at Xfree86 who kicked him out, with essentially no notice.
If you've paid any attention at all, XFree86 has been slowing down. Releases get slower and provide less. The driver issue is well documented already.
The X Consortium did far more with far less than XFree86 has been doing the last couple of years, and (IMO) did it much better.
I haven't been involved in XFree86 (I haven't even tried to for several years), so I don't know what the underlying problem is. But I would definitely listen to Keith, and to David Wexelblat, as well.
Maybe, just maybe, we'll get something that works.
[And for those who want to chuck X, well, go use Windows, or suggest a better alternative. To date, I haven't seen anything close. And if you didn't have to live in the pre-X11 world, you have *no* idea what you're proposing - unles syou have that alternative handy.]
I think this is great. With this predcedent set, not only will Microsoft soon have to pull *all* its ads, so will 98% of the rest if the universe. With any luck, the entire media industry will come crumbling down. Maybe Microsoft has finally managed to start what Al Quaida was hoping to start - the end of western civillization as we know it.
The industry (at least in the USA) was already quite unstable before the 9/11 attack. After that, it started to really hurt. I know tons of folks out of a job, who have never been out of work for more than a week or two, who've been looking for anywhere from 6 months to a year. Contract work is helping some of them, but even that is scarcer, and the money is down by a *lot*. Headhunters have been hurting, too - even the good, honest ones.
Perhaps the author was trying to be Dave Barry. If so, they failed abysmally. Otherwise, they merely failed miserably.
After being out of work 8 months, I found an excellent job. It's an excellent job, and pays well. I'm extremely grateful, and in fact the envy of quite a few former co-workers from several companies here in town. You see, they're still looking - or expecting to be doing so any day.
I really am amazed at how people think Linux is still hard to use. These people remind me of the "math is hard" Barbie.
I introduced my family to Linix back in the 1.2.0 kernel days,w ith a little tweaking of the twm config. They all picke dit up easily, wven my computer-phobic wife. My daughter, after prolonged exposure to WIndows at work, still prefers Linux. I'm the only geek in the bunch.
Other than occaiosnally installing software, or config'ing some new port or service, I haven't had to do much. And I don't need VNC to do remote work.
And we've never had a virus via email.
My brother, OTOH, who set up Mom's windows box, does hadve to do a bit more, from what I undertstand. 8^)
A friend of mine used to handle the unclaimed freight and baggage for Eastern at Hartsfield (ATL). He sent what he couldn't otherwise sell (like all the luggage) there. He would sometimes have really interesting freight for sale. Once he had a bunch of prototype boards for IBM mainframe communications , NIB, he was willing to sell for $1 each. If I'd had a mainframe, or even known anyone who dealt with mainframes, I'd have bought them. I think an IBM competitor finally picked them up.
My friend pretty well outfitted his family from the baggage. He'd just take 'em all over to AL every so often with a shipment, and they'd shop tiil they dropped. A year's worth of nice clothes for less than $20 and a day's work and travel. Not too shabby!
There are plenty of such guns in the museums already. "You Can't Touch This!" collectors'll just have to take their steenking chances. They've already screwed up the vintage guitar and amp market, and parts of the gun market, too.
Enjoy that rifle. Punch some holes in something for me, too. If any of these morons come by to harass you, punch a hole in their tire for me!
I only recently retired a Slackware system based on 1.2.8, but with a 1.3.97 kernel - and that only because my colo host was tired of an ancient, 2 ft tall Dell server in his rack...
Our 1988 Ford Tempo (4-banger) with almost 240,000 miles on it. Our mechanic is in awe that it runs. It needs a few things - new shocks, a paint job, and door weather seals, but it runs, and doesn't burn all that much oil. Absolutely amazing.
[In contrast to the Tempo, I expected our 1995 Windstar to last for a decade, at least. In about 6 years and 160,000 miles, it was parked with its second blown headgasket and 4th transmission failure (the first 1 and 3 were covered by Ford, the last 1 and 1 were not).]
I have a Casio scientific calculator at home (can't recall the model) I bought in 1976 or 1977, still going strong. Two AAs last forever in it, too. The battery cover is held on by a hair tie, and about every 10th time someone drops it I have to retension the battery springs. Otherwise, works like new, and the case is even OK despite tons of abuse.
My parents bought a chest freezer in the early 60s under the Rich Plan (commit to buy X amount of beef every so often, get the freezer cheap). They gave it to us years ago, and it's still chugging away in our garage. Needs new door seals, but it's a top loader, so ice buildup is tolerable.
Fatherhood - I didn't know if I could hack it. After raising two of our own (an 18 y/o off at college and a 16 y/o in high school) I recently took on two more teenage girls, age 17 and 15, who needed a dad. Will it ever stop? I used to be excited about having the kids gone, now I wonder how I would survive...
If we can identify the spammers, how about a clearing house of *their* addresses, phone numbers, etc? Then we can mount giant DOS attacks on them. Tie up their phones. Return all our junk mail to them. Caravans of cars nose to nose in front of their homes and businesses so they can't get in or out.
* Are spammers too hard to track? * Is it too expensive right now? * Have the courts not been favorable?
I'd happily participate in a class action suit. My email account gets hit with 100-200 spams a day, nevermind the rest of my family, including my kids who get porn spam right along with the rest of us (see Britney with a guy, a gal, a bullsnake and a tractor!). It takes time to maintain the anti-spam filters, and even then I have to wade through the crap they miss. Then there's the time dealing with complaints from people who think I spammed them because the scumball spammers use *my* email as a return email address. And so on.
The people who think spam isn't a problem are simply clueless.
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Perhaps you need new glasses. It was obvious to me this was what the article was saying, even without the bold font. 8^)
I was appalled at how many folks jumped on Keith after the initial /. article. I mean, they were basing their responses on a one-sided tale.
I knew Keith back in the X Consortium days, before anyone was even attempting a serious port to X86 boxes - because they were just too pathetic. Keith has always had an excellent attitude, and cared deeply about the technology, the developers, and the user community.
If Keith has problems with the way something is being handled, only a *fool* would refuse to listen. And that doesn't say much for the folks at Xfree86 who kicked him out, with essentially no notice.
If you've paid any attention at all, XFree86 has been slowing down. Releases get slower and provide less. The driver issue is well documented already.
The X Consortium did far more with far less than XFree86 has been doing the last couple of years, and (IMO) did it much better.
I haven't been involved in XFree86 (I haven't even tried to for several years), so I don't know what the underlying problem is. But I would definitely listen to Keith, and to David Wexelblat, as well.
Maybe, just maybe, we'll get something that works.
[And for those who want to chuck X, well, go use Windows, or suggest a better alternative. To date, I haven't seen anything close. And if you didn't have to live in the pre-X11 world, you have *no* idea what you're proposing - unles syou have that alternative handy.]
I think this is great. With this predcedent set, not only will Microsoft soon have to pull *all* its ads, so will 98% of the rest if the universe. With any luck, the entire media industry will come crumbling down. Maybe Microsoft has finally managed to start what Al Quaida was hoping to start - the end of western civillization as we know it.
Ah'm grabbin' mah gun and headin' ta mah bunker!
The industry (at least in the USA) was already quite unstable before the 9/11 attack. After that, it started to really hurt. I know tons of folks out of a job, who have never been out of work for more than a week or two, who've been looking for anywhere from 6 months to a year. Contract work is helping some of them, but even that is scarcer, and the money is down by a *lot*. Headhunters have been hurting, too - even the good, honest ones.
Perhaps the author was trying to be Dave Barry. If so, they failed abysmally. Otherwise, they merely failed miserably.
After being out of work 8 months, I found an excellent job. It's an excellent job, and pays well. I'm extremely grateful, and in fact the envy of quite a few former co-workers from several companies here in town. You see, they're still looking - or expecting to be doing so any day.
I really am amazed at how people think Linux is still hard to use. These people remind me of the "math is hard" Barbie.
I introduced my family to Linix back in the 1.2.0 kernel days,w ith a little tweaking of the twm config. They all picke dit up easily, wven my computer-phobic wife. My daughter, after prolonged exposure to WIndows at work, still prefers Linux. I'm the only geek in the bunch.
Other than occaiosnally installing software, or config'ing some new port or service, I haven't had to do much. And I don't need VNC to do remote work.
And we've never had a virus via email.
My brother, OTOH, who set up Mom's windows box, does hadve to do a bit more, from what I undertstand. 8^)
A friend of mine used to handle the unclaimed freight and baggage for Eastern at Hartsfield (ATL). He sent what he couldn't otherwise sell (like all the luggage) there. He would sometimes have really interesting freight for sale. Once he had a bunch of prototype boards for IBM mainframe communications , NIB, he was willing to sell for $1 each. If I'd had a mainframe, or even known anyone who dealt with mainframes, I'd have bought them. I think an IBM competitor finally picked them up.
My friend pretty well outfitted his family from the baggage. He'd just take 'em all over to AL every so often with a shipment, and they'd shop tiil they dropped. A year's worth of nice clothes for less than $20 and a day's work and travel. Not too shabby!
There are plenty of such guns in the museums already. "You Can't Touch This!" collectors'll just have to take their steenking chances. They've already screwed up the vintage guitar and amp market, and parts of the gun market, too.
Enjoy that rifle. Punch some holes in something for me, too. If any of these morons come by to harass you, punch a hole in their tire for me!
8^)
I only recently retired a Slackware system based on 1.2.8, but with a 1.3.97 kernel - and that only because my colo host was tired of an ancient, 2 ft tall Dell server in his rack...
Our 1988 Ford Tempo (4-banger) with almost 240,000 miles on it. Our mechanic is in awe that it runs. It needs a few things - new shocks, a paint job, and door weather seals, but it runs, and doesn't burn all that much oil. Absolutely amazing.
[In contrast to the Tempo, I expected our 1995 Windstar to last for a decade, at least. In about 6 years and 160,000 miles, it was parked with its second blown headgasket and 4th transmission failure (the first 1 and 3 were covered by Ford, the last 1 and 1 were not).]
I have a Casio scientific calculator at home (can't recall the model) I bought in 1976 or 1977, still going strong. Two AAs last forever in it, too. The battery cover is held on by a hair tie, and about every 10th time someone drops it I have to retension the battery springs. Otherwise, works like new, and the case is even OK despite tons of abuse.
My parents bought a chest freezer in the early 60s under the Rich Plan (commit to buy X amount of beef every so often, get the freezer cheap). They gave it to us years ago, and it's still chugging away in our garage. Needs new door seals, but it's a top loader, so ice buildup is tolerable.
Fatherhood - I didn't know if I could hack it. After raising two of our own (an 18 y/o off at college and a 16 y/o in high school) I recently took on two more teenage girls, age 17 and 15, who needed a dad. Will it ever stop? I used to be excited about having the kids gone, now I wonder how I would survive...
If we can identify the spammers, how about a clearing house of *their* addresses, phone numbers, etc? Then we can mount giant DOS attacks on them. Tie up their phones. Return all our junk mail to them. Caravans of cars nose to nose in front of their homes and businesses so they can't get in or out.
Lawsuits. Why don't we see more lawsuits?
* Are spammers too hard to track?
* Is it too expensive right now?
* Have the courts not been favorable?
I'd happily participate in a class action suit. My email account gets hit with 100-200 spams a day, nevermind the rest of my family, including my kids who get porn spam right along with the rest of us (see Britney with a guy, a gal, a bullsnake and a tractor!). It takes time to maintain the anti-spam filters, and even then I have to wade through the crap they miss. Then there's the time dealing with complaints from people who think I spammed them because the scumball spammers use *my* email as a return email address. And so on.
The people who think spam isn't a problem are simply clueless.