Odd that no one attacks CmdrTaco when he says his opinion, but everyone jumps all over sengan when he even hints at anything!! I think those who claim that "opinions" don't belong on a news site are just mad because the opinion stated is not THEIR opinion!
You basically said he is an opportunist. Great defense.
PS: Watch out for scary socialists hiding under your bed!
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Is this automatically enabled, or is it something I have to add to/etc/fstab? As I recall, softupdates also had some kind of weird license. I have two machines running 2.2-stable but am thinking of upgrading.
What about that "newhoo" site. Why aren't they suing them? (I think it is owned by Netscape aka AOL) Maybe they don't care as much about sites that not many people visit.
I wouldn't consider binary-only drivers to be a "big win." If anything it would be a "big loss" for linux and the free software movement in general. Maybe it is appealing to the people who are afraid to mention the "Freedom" part of free software to their bosses, but I don't like it. I'll take an GPL'd driver of inferior quality over a binary driver of superior quality any day.
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I've had these kiddies scanning my machines (I'm sure we all have) and it is sometimes interesting to do the same to them. Most of the time their machines are wide open, and even if you can't break in, you can do a lot of annoying things because they don't really know enough to figure out what is going on!
This is true for today's music cds, but the ones Jon was talking about that you can customize.. I think their prices aren't nearly as bad, because most CDs today sell with one or two good songs and ten bad ones. Using this new method you could pack your custom CDs with good songs, and it would be worth more (to me, anyway) than a single-artist cd with a few good songs and many bad songs.
Does Quake 3 have anything new that might contribute to "strategy" ? For example, new defensive techniques or weapons. I've been spoiled by Heretic 2:)
Sorry folks, but the GNU utilities are the worst set of utilities out there. What is all this -- and - crap?? Why do we need two options that do the same thing? Why are half the manual pages missing? "Read the info page instead" aka Our programs are too bloated to use normal documentation methods. Why does it seem that everyday programs like "tar" have been made deliberately difficult to use? I sure don't know. Linux is my favorite OS, but we are NEVER going to attract newbies until we get our basic tool set cleaned up!
I suggest proponents of "creeping featurism" read Gancarz's "The Unix Philosophy" -- and someone send the FSF a copy while you're at it;)
They don't choose a target and work on it, they scan huge sections of the internet (with nmap, expect, etc.) looking for weak systems and crack them. That is why the cracked sites are always some obscure site.
Of course, starwars.com is an exception to this, but in general, that's why they don't crack sites like KKK.
No, I've found IBM products to be very high quality and reliable. As long as they don't start forcing inferior products down peoples' throats (microsoft) they are ok in my book.
Show the IPs of Anonymous users to moderators-only. If someone keeps doing the same annoying thing over and over again, block their IP from the slashdot pages.
I hope there is a way to optionally disable this KDE/Gnome compliancy stuff. Otherwise we are going to have a lot of bloated window managers every time a new "standard" comes along!
You only need to edit/etc if you are re-configuring the system. Why would a newbie be re-configuring the system? You don't see Windows newbies using 'regedit.exe' on Windows, and you won't see linux newbies editing/etc. The system is only complex if the user wants to do more advanced things than simply 'browsing the web' -- no matter what OS they are using.
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Wearable computers?? Haha Get a life!
Cool, thanks.
Odd that no one attacks CmdrTaco when he says his opinion, but everyone jumps all over sengan when he even hints at anything!! I think those who claim that "opinions" don't belong on a news site are just mad because the opinion stated is not THEIR opinion!
PS: Watch out for scary socialists hiding under your bed!
Is this automatically enabled, or is it something I have to add to /etc/fstab? As I recall, softupdates also had some kind of weird license. I have two machines running 2.2-stable but am thinking of upgrading.
Man, I wish I were the lucky guy to get the mp3.com domain name! Maybe I should get a head start by registering mp6.com or something :)
They are referring to it as "Open Source." damn! Next time I should wait until I'm finished reading the article before I reply!
What about that "newhoo" site. Why aren't they suing them? (I think it is owned by Netscape aka AOL) Maybe they don't care as much about sites that not many people visit.
A spy satellite that can detect breast cancer?? That must be one hell of a zoom lense!
I wouldn't consider binary-only drivers to be a "big win." If anything it would be a "big loss" for linux and the free software movement in general. Maybe it is appealing to the people who are afraid to mention the "Freedom" part of free software to their bosses, but I don't like it. I'll take an GPL'd driver of inferior quality over a binary driver of superior quality any day.
I've had these kiddies scanning my machines (I'm sure we all have) and it is sometimes interesting to do the same to them. Most of the time their machines are wide open, and even if you can't break in, you can do a lot of annoying things because they don't really know enough to figure out what is going on!
This is true for today's music cds, but the ones Jon was talking about that you can customize.. I think their prices aren't nearly as bad, because most CDs today sell with one or two good songs and ten bad ones. Using this new method you could pack your custom CDs with good songs, and it would be worth more (to me, anyway) than a single-artist cd with a few good songs and many bad songs.
Does Quake 3 have anything new that might contribute to "strategy" ? For example, new defensive techniques or weapons. I've been spoiled by Heretic 2 :)
I suggest proponents of "creeping featurism" read Gancarz's "The Unix Philosophy" -- and someone send the FSF a copy while you're at it
The BSD utilities ARE the Gnu utilities. At least on the newer freebsd systems this is true.
Of course, starwars.com is an exception to this, but in general, that's why they don't crack sites like KKK.
Linux should make good competition with Mac OS X. Hopefully it will help force the price down!
No, I've found IBM products to be very high quality and reliable. As long as they don't start forcing inferior products down peoples' throats (microsoft) they are ok in my book.
Show the IPs of Anonymous users to moderators-only. If someone keeps doing the same annoying thing over and over again, block their IP from the slashdot pages.
They look nice, but too small, and I hate that mouseover crap.
I hope there is a way to optionally disable this KDE/Gnome compliancy stuff. Otherwise we are going to have a lot of bloated window managers every time a new "standard" comes along!
A better solution would require the Clinton to only accept software that includes the source code. Wasn't this what Ada was made for?
Oh, and I suppose the billions wasted in Iraq last month was an example of -good- use of taxpayer's money. Sheesh!
You think THIS is bad?? You'd probably have a mental breakdown if subjected to an irc chat session. :)
You only need to edit /etc if you are re-configuring the system. Why would a newbie be re-configuring the system? You don't see Windows newbies using 'regedit.exe' on Windows, and you won't see linux newbies editing /etc. The system is only complex if the user wants to do more advanced things than simply 'browsing the web' -- no matter what OS they are using.