Reading down, it seems that I was taken in. It's an urban myth that it's an urban myth that it's an urban myth. It "wants" to be true, but it's composed of these things that are like pentagons, so it gets "jammed" somewhere between fact and fiction.
The people who wrote it are always complaining about there being too many lawsuits, yet they engage in the same activity that they critisize. This just in: The GNU GPL is not Mr. Nice Guy.
Besides which, the complaints about lawsuits typically have less to do with quantity and more to do with quality. Otherwise the discussion threads would be much shorter.
In other news Microsoft is seeking an injunction against the FOSS community for unfair competition practices. This is an old sentiment. From the Halloween Document of the eponymous date in 1998:
Linux distributors, such as RedHat, Caldera, and others, are expressly willing to fund full time developers who release all their work to the OSS community. By simultaneously funding these efforts, Red Hat and Caldera are implicitly colluding and believe they'll make more short term revenue by growing the Linux market rather than directly competing with each other.
Would never happen, because it would put the technical crew and writers on par with the multimillion dollar actors. And I'm not sure that the actors would like that. The actors and directors would have their names shown. The crew would be the colored dots. But I have no idea what the analogue of the "commit" action would be.
There is no such thing as "Linux 2.0", now is there? I don't know of any distribution of Linux bearing that title. Can you point me to one? Here ya go. Mind you, those are just kernels, and not a distribution. But they are quite old.
Being smartass wont help you either. Disk failure tale is not gonna hold water and missing substantial disk space is highly suspicious. http://www.truecrypt.org/hiddenvolume.php
The existence of a hidden volume does not reduce the free space available to the standard volume.
Just don't try to write anything to the standard volume when you haven't also mounted the hidden volume, or bye-bye data.
Perhaps they could do some checksumming and Reed-Solomon magic on the hidden volume to detect and recover data errors the next time you do mount it; but I haven't read about anything like that.
You would say differently if it was an open source project Sure, because then it wouldn't be a harbinger of some new feature that will be forced upon the users of products that incorporate it.
Open source = recompile without it.
MS = bend over and take it.
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So the question for me is, why not have their cool icon area thinger, but make it possible to have it a) transparent, and b) occupy the whole desktop. Then you can use it as you see fit... emulate the old way (transparent, maximized, and possibly omnipresent), or fiddle around with novel configurations. Seems like an easy change that would make everyone happy. There ought to be a way to run the applet in question in the root window.
Is this is the release that has no more desktop icons? Did you read the rest of that page?
Well, we now have a folder view applet courtesy of Frederik HÃglund. It can view any folder you want, including the desktop folder. You can also set a filter, making it possible to, for instance, view just images or whatever. It uses KIO so you can view remote folders as well. You can drag items to and from it, delete files, scroll, etc. It lines everything up in a nice grid and uses the same drawing routines that Dolphin, Konqueror, KRunner and others use from kdelibs for the icons.
You can have 0, 1 or more of these folder views in your plasma, all viewing different (or the same, I suppose) folders. You can put them on different activity areas (aka "desktop containments") as well.
In the future we'll have a little label in the folderview telling you which folder you are looking at, it will turn into an icon with a menu listing in horizontally constrained containments (e.g. panels), it will be collapsible on the desktop with a single click (it's already resizable, rotatable and removable) and you will be able to use it as a containment itself.
That last bit is important: it means that you can have an Old Skool(tm) desktop with an icon mess if that's what you really, really want. So don't bother with that flame, nobody has anything to complain about.;) Nothing about "no more desktop icons"; just that the desktop-icon concept has been reformulated as an instance of something more general and configurable.
The problem is that Linux is not your plaything, it's what people use to run their databases and web servers on.
If you understand how software development happens among professionals, it works just like this. The customer wants a working product and he wants to know when to expect it. The customer has a schedule, too.
You can start your own project to experiment with your art, but some of us are busy making a living here.
Linux and GNU *were* started as projects to experiment with someone's art. Would you kill the goose that laid the golden egg?
Maybe they can drive the price down to $0 if they install enough crapware to vendors who want to use OLPC-XP as a new vector for point-of-entry marketing.
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Ages ago when I was using Borland IDEs I got used to the blue background with white text and I still prefer that over anything else.
I tried that once, but I came down with an unbearable urge to play Zork.
Ummm... Yah. So how do I install this "Linux virus"
/home/user>
You may have to get your EeePC out of Easy Mode first.
They're saying that it would be like McDonald's, the fast food company, inventing a computer from scratch.
The McIntosh?
IMHO it's real, it's being tested at NASA, and it's probably going to burn through $1 billion before the end of 2009... unfortunately...
So that's what it uses for fuel!
Everyone knows that the celestial spy satellites are perfect spheres! This "telescope" is a tool of the devil.
Besides which, the complaints about lawsuits typically have less to do with quantity and more to do with quality. Otherwise the discussion threads would be much shorter.
When did this stop being called "Office Open XML" and start being called "Open XML"? Or is this yet another new animal?
alright.
The existence of a hidden volume does not reduce the free space available to the standard volume.
Just don't try to write anything to the standard volume when you haven't also mounted the hidden volume, or bye-bye data.
Perhaps they could do some checksumming and Reed-Solomon magic on the hidden volume to detect and recover data errors the next time you do mount it; but I haven't read about anything like that.
Open source = recompile without it.
MS = bend over and take it.
You can have 0, 1 or more of these folder views in your plasma, all viewing different (or the same, I suppose) folders. You can put them on different activity areas (aka "desktop containments") as well.
In the future we'll have a little label in the folderview telling you which folder you are looking at, it will turn into an icon with a menu listing in horizontally constrained containments (e.g. panels), it will be collapsible on the desktop with a single click (it's already resizable, rotatable and removable) and you will be able to use it as a containment itself.
That last bit is important: it means that you can have an Old Skool(tm) desktop with an icon mess if that's what you really, really want. So don't bother with that flame, nobody has anything to complain about.
Looks like the USS Drox just went supercritical.
So... it's a Planck-truth?
If you understand how software development happens among professionals, it works just like this. The customer wants a working product and he wants to know when to expect it. The customer has a schedule, too.
You can start your own project to experiment with your art, but some of us are busy making a living here.
Linux and GNU *were* started as projects to experiment with someone's art. Would you kill the goose that laid the golden egg?Not until /. hosts a get-together in meatspace.
Maybe they can drive the price down to $0 if they install enough crapware to vendors who want to use OLPC-XP as a new vector for point-of-entry marketing.
What about "If you want to use this compiler"?