Even Linus accepts money in return for his contributions to OSS and I don't see kernel devlopment slowing down because he gets paid for it other kernel hackers don't. Debian sees their problem and have come up with a good solution for it, perhaps this is a sign that some of the other things at Debian that move at glacial speeds will be reworked and made more dynamic.
Change can be good people, and it's not like this will be a perminate paying job. It's just for the next 2 months.
I loved the original movies. I liked them so much I read the Lucas authorized books and comics. I ignored the few plot mistakes here and there, but these movies display that Lucas has lost any creativity he had. He did not have to have the droids. No one my age expected them to be there, we have a running joke that R2-D2 is the chosen one now,and call the movies "A Boy and His Droids". The movie would have been far more intresting with R5-D4, the red droid from episode 4 that blows up so R2 can be bought by Luke's uncle.
For Jedi 'Masters' they certainly don't use the Force very well. If Yoda can lift Luke's X-Wing from the swamp, and size does not matter, then why were the droid ship not simply knocked from orbit with the Force? Come on, a temple with hundreds if not thousands of Jedi and they can't pull a ship out of orbit? According the Tails of the Jedi comics, 1 Jedi master could decide the fate of a planet wide war, not with his light saber, but by using the Force to aid his side, bolster their courage, cause fear in the enemy, and so on. The last movie showed how little the Force was used, Obi-Wan could not even detect Anikin as he jumped into the elevator right behind him!
There is a Monty Python sketch were some mafia types try to extort money from a Army base commandaer. That is what a Jedi master can do. "Nice army you have here. If would be a shame if it broke." Let's put this in context. Vader says "The ability to destroy a planet is insignificant next to the power of the Force." That implies that the Force can distroy a planet, or control one, if not many.
All I am saying is that Lucas really wimped the Jedi down for these movies, ignored all the works he authorized, and added stupid contrived plot elements that make little or no sense.
when I read this was, "Now Tom can get off AOL dial-up and get DSL, and keep his e-mail address." How many users will they lose to this? Or will they not allow people to keep their e-mail? Will the free e-mail become spam magnets like Hotmail's and Yahoo's? How many places will they sell your personal info? Overall I think this will mark AOL's doom.
Re:Is THIS the future of TV?
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For thoughs outside the states try vdr; Description: Video Disk Recorder for DVB cards Video Disk Recorder (VDR) is a digital sat-receiver program using Linux and DVB technologies. It allows one to record MPEG2 streams, as well as output the stream to TV. It is also possible to watch DVDs (hardware accelerated) with some comfort and use a IR remote control.
I was going to try it, but it is primarily designed for digital capture cards which don't work to well in the states since the cable companies are protective of their digital signal. This way we have to rent the decoder box from them.
I just looked at kernel.org and did not see the 2.6.8.1 kernel there, only 2.6.8. So were is it? Has the webmaster been informed that his script for adding kernels broke from the new naming system?
Check your connection with a different phone. Turns out my one phone is staticy, but other are not. Also, large up/down loads will affect your service. Running bittorent without limiting the upload is sure to kill your quality. I can notice the difference if I pay attention to it, but for the few calls I make it is worth the savings. $15 for Vonage (voicemail, caller id, and 500 min long distance) or $35 for SBC (without voicemail or caller id with long distance separate).
Your 2 major errors are you are using CHEAP hardware, and running Gentoo. If you want quality then buy name brand parts. If you want ease of use, don't use a distro that makes you compile everything and configure it by hand. I find Debian runs much smoother on Apple hardware then OS X does. No spinning beachball, no crappy finder, a real mail client, and I don't have to compile everything. And after the BUGGY apple logic board was replaced it worked even better. Funny how Apples have had this problem across their entire product line, but everyone still believes they are above reproach when it comes to hardware.
Are they going to continue to develop music and graphics apps and ignore business apps as they have done? How about a Mac groupware suite, or at the least a client that combines iCal, Addressbook, and Mail.app. Every other OS has one, but not Mac. Because of Apples shunning of business apps we will have to switch to M$.
The only problem with your argument is that M$ has a long history of stealing other peoples ideas. How can they patent something based on stolen goods or is not theirs anyway?
Patenting a slightly different way of doing things is innovation, not invention. Patents were devised to protect NEW ideas, not 1 click shopping, or a variation of virtual desktops.
An architect does not patent his building. The tools used to design it are not patented. The concept of building from drawn plans and not a scale model is not patented. So, why should the tools and ideas behind software be locked away, but architects can use their tools and ideals freely?
If Rockefeller had patented the concept of a gasoline filling station would the governmet and general public have allowed it? What if Carnegie patented modern steel production? This what we are up against and of an equal or greater scale since the rest of the world would not have respected thoughs claims, but now the US is in a position to force the world to obey this stupidity.
Remember, all M$ products are based on STOLEN ideas,concepts, and code. They are not in a position to claim originality on any derivative products. (To borrow some SCO legal logic which M$ seems to agree with)
Re:A great movie for D&D players...
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It truly is a great movie. I picked up a copy at GenCon last year, and I have been in many games just like it. I forced it on most of my friends and spent hours discusing scans in the movie that we did similar or someone else did.
With lines like "You're going to backstab him with a ballista" and "Called shot to the nuts" it's got to be good.
I doubt that your parents were using kaza, so that means that someone installed it. Set them up with a separate user account that can not install that crap. If they are only web browser, than get a different OS. I don't want to talk my dad through this stuff, so I told him to buy a Mac. User friendly and virus proof so far. It's all he needs for web browser and reading e-mail. Winblows should not be used by 'average' users, it is too hard to maintain and too insecure.
Seriously, you need to determine it they NEED winblows.
You have it backwards, user files are easy to restore if they are backed up. Reinstalling OS X requires reformating the disk unless you jump through the hoops to use a separate/User partition.
OS X all the power of UNIX, but made to think stupid. But Linux runs great on the hardware:)
My office is Mac. It has been since it was founded in the mid 80's. But the boss has come to the conclusion that we can not stay this way since there is still no decent groupware for Apple and MS Office has all ways run bad on it and all ways will. For the 1 or 2 graphics we make for reports do not justify the supposed performance of Mac over PC. So sometime late this year or early next year we will switch to Windows. Apple could keep us if they allowed iCal and Addressbook to share over rendezvous as a cheep form of groupware. Office may run better on pc, but the OS does not! It will be a few years before she admits that she can do her job on Linux.
I got that offer from SBC when I called to cut the cord after I got Vonage, but I still cancelled. And now Vonage has a $14.99 plan also. With taxes about $17, and that is with caller ID, voice mail, and call forwarding. Considering we only make about 15-30 minutes of calls a month, it is less then paying by the minuet would be. If it was not for the alarm service I would not have bothered with Vonage at all.
I second that! I don't see why I bother moderating any more considering most the stories I all ready read at Ars and the rest are trival BS like this. How about some discussion about the lack of support for Zero Conf by the Linux community? Or is that too original for/. these days. I'll post it at Ars and then come here to read it.
I read the press release, and it will only work with Series2, and you have to buy the windowz software seperatly, in addition to the Home Media Option. Over all, everything that was announced is still not enough to convince me to get the Home Media Option. HMO, that does does not bode well with me. I am scrounging parts, and will try building a MythTV box for the upstairs tv. If it works well I might regret getting the lifetimeservice with TiVo, but then the service has been good and it could not be simpler to use.
You obviouslly have not tried the beta version yet. Gnome apps are included with the KDE apps now, and not hidden in a submenu. Not all of them, but some of the more populer ones at least. Kontact is nice, just like Evolution, but using kmail, kaddress, knotes, and korganizer in one interface. Use them together or seperatly. If I could get the Macs to connect to the kloab contact/mail server I would give it a try, but for now it only works with kontact.
Don't forget that any Belkin firmware is disributed in a.exe. How can my Mac or Linux box update the firmware on the Belkin USB KVM? Not that they released any yet. And why do they use a parellel cable on a USB device for the firmware? And why does the Belkin USB KVM suck? It does not release the shift key at times, and using the arrow keys with a Mac really messes it up by pinting 4's or 6' accross the screen.
I am activly shopping around for a PVR, Tivo is my first choice because it is cheep and easy to install. Freevo and Myth look intresting, but since I would have to buy a new pc for it, it is not a cost efficant solution. But Panisonic has a DVD/PVR that has a 80 GB hard drive and can burn DVD-R(4.7GB) and DVD-RAM(12GB). Yes it can burn from the hard drive, or burn directly to DVD. It is still a bit pricie, at $800 for the low end, but Circuit City messed up their web page and is listing it for $499. I am going over tonight and see if I can get their price match on it:)
As one of the beta testers for Libranet, and responding to such debates on the Libranet discussion board, I will wade in with my views. The GPL does not prohibet selling code, just modifing it and not releasing it. All the source is located on the installed hard drive in/usr/lib/adminmenu. It is just a bunch of perl and shell scripts that make configuring things easier. Unless you really enjoy playing find the config file, then this is not for you. All this crap about Red Hat being the top shit of Linux is ignorant. Red Hats absoulute reliance on GUI tools and inablity to issue common root commands from xwindows makes it to combuersome to use. (Open a term as root and try ifconfig, my RH 8 will not recoginize it unless I dropout of X)
If your mother is looking for an easy to use disto that is reliable and she does not have to tweek, then get a Mac. For people that are wondering what all the hype about Linux is, and are not certified or taking CS classes, then a distro that makes learning the advanced features of Linux easy is what they need. Rad Hat hides the OS, Libranet holds your hand while you learn it. Try using only the GUI on your Linux box, and try to imagine how a newbie will use it. Konoptix and Gentoo are just flavors of the month, a CD based distro and one that makes you compile everything. Ohter than that, just repackaged Debian.
Pant fumes getting to me, tux is waving, must finish installing Yellow Dog 3.0 which was released today.
Global warming is caused by humans pumping co2 into the air, thus increasing global tempaure and melting the polar ice caps. Since 2/3's of the human race lives on coast lines, they will drown and the chemical plants causing the pollution will be destroyed. Problem solved. Meanwhile Chicago gets some decent weather for winter, thus prolonging construction season. I hate snow, bring on some global warming!!!
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What is this gibberish and how does it rate a score of 3?
Even Linus accepts money in return for his contributions to OSS and I don't see kernel devlopment slowing down because he gets paid for it other kernel hackers don't. Debian sees their problem and have come up with a good solution for it, perhaps this is a sign that some of the other things at Debian that move at glacial speeds will be reworked and made more dynamic.
Change can be good people, and it's not like this will be a perminate paying job. It's just for the next 2 months.
I loved the original movies. I liked them so much I read the Lucas authorized books and comics. I ignored the few plot mistakes here and there, but these movies display that Lucas has lost any creativity he had.
He did not have to have the droids. No one my age expected them to be there, we have a running joke that R2-D2 is the chosen one now,and call the movies "A Boy and His Droids". The movie would have been far more intresting with R5-D4, the red droid from episode 4 that blows up so R2 can be bought by Luke's uncle.
For Jedi 'Masters' they certainly don't use the Force very well. If Yoda can lift Luke's X-Wing from the swamp, and size does not matter, then why were the droid ship not simply knocked from orbit with the Force? Come on, a temple with hundreds if not thousands of Jedi and they can't pull a ship out of orbit?
According the Tails of the Jedi comics, 1 Jedi master could decide the fate of a planet wide war, not with his light saber, but by using the Force to aid his side, bolster their courage, cause fear in the enemy, and so on. The last movie showed how little the Force was used, Obi-Wan could not even detect Anikin as he jumped into the elevator right behind him!
There is a Monty Python sketch were some mafia types try to extort money from a Army base commandaer. That is what a Jedi master can do. "Nice army you have here. If would be a shame if it broke." Let's put this in context. Vader says "The ability to destroy a planet is insignificant next to the power of the Force." That implies that the Force can distroy a planet, or control one, if not many.
All I am saying is that Lucas really wimped the Jedi down for these movies, ignored all the works he authorized, and added stupid contrived plot elements that make little or no sense.
when I read this was, "Now Tom can get off AOL dial-up and get DSL, and keep his e-mail address." How many users will they lose to this? Or will they not allow people to keep their e-mail? Will the free e-mail become spam magnets like Hotmail's and Yahoo's? How many places will they sell your personal info?
Overall I think this will mark AOL's doom.
For thoughs outside the states try vdr;
Description: Video Disk Recorder for DVB cards Video Disk Recorder (VDR) is a digital sat-receiver program using Linux and DVB technologies. It allows one to record MPEG2 streams, as well as output the stream to TV. It is also possible to watch DVDs (hardware accelerated) with some comfort and use a IR remote control.
I was going to try it, but it is primarily designed for digital capture cards which don't work to well in the states since the cable companies are protective of their digital signal. This way we have to rent the decoder box from them.
It's called SuperKararamba, http://netdragon.sourceforge.net/
I just looked at kernel.org and did not see the 2.6.8.1 kernel there, only 2.6.8. So were is it? Has the webmaster been informed that his script for adding kernels broke from the new naming system?
Check your connection with a different phone. Turns out my one phone is staticy, but other are not. Also, large up/down loads will affect your service. Running bittorent without limiting the upload is sure to kill your quality.
I can notice the difference if I pay attention to it, but for the few calls I make it is worth the savings. $15 for Vonage (voicemail, caller id, and 500 min long distance) or $35 for SBC (without voicemail or caller id with long distance separate).
Your 2 major errors are you are using CHEAP hardware, and running Gentoo. If you want quality then buy name brand parts. If you want ease of use, don't use a distro that makes you compile everything and configure it by hand.
I find Debian runs much smoother on Apple hardware then OS X does. No spinning beachball, no crappy finder, a real mail client, and I don't have to compile everything.
And after the BUGGY apple logic board was replaced it worked even better. Funny how Apples have had this problem across their entire product line, but everyone still believes they are above reproach when it comes to hardware.
Are they going to continue to develop music and graphics apps and ignore business apps as they have done?
How about a Mac groupware suite, or at the least a client that combines iCal, Addressbook, and Mail.app. Every other OS has one, but not Mac.
Because of Apples shunning of business apps we will have to switch to M$.
The only problem with your argument is that M$ has a long history of stealing other peoples ideas. How can they patent something based on stolen goods or is not theirs anyway?
Patenting a slightly different way of doing things is innovation, not invention. Patents were devised to protect NEW ideas, not 1 click shopping, or a variation of virtual desktops.
An architect does not patent his building. The tools used to design it are not patented. The concept of building from drawn plans and not a scale model is not patented. So, why should the tools and ideas behind software be locked away, but architects can use their tools and ideals freely?
If Rockefeller had patented the concept of a gasoline filling station would the governmet and general public have allowed it? What if Carnegie patented modern steel production? This what we are up against and of an equal or greater scale since the rest of the world would not have respected thoughs claims, but now the US is in a position to force the world to obey this stupidity.
Remember, all M$ products are based on STOLEN ideas,concepts, and code. They are not in a position to claim originality on any derivative products. (To borrow some SCO legal logic which M$ seems to agree with)
It truly is a great movie. I picked up a copy at GenCon last year, and I have been in many games just like it. I forced it on most of my friends and spent hours discusing scans in the movie that we did similar or someone else did.
With lines like "You're going to backstab him with a ballista" and "Called shot to the nuts" it's got to be good.
I doubt that your parents were using kaza, so that means that someone installed it. Set them up with a separate user account that can not install that crap. If they are only web browser, than get a different OS.
I don't want to talk my dad through this stuff, so I told him to buy a Mac. User friendly and virus proof so far. It's all he needs for web browser and reading e-mail.
Winblows should not be used by 'average' users, it is too hard to maintain and too insecure.
Seriously, you need to determine it they NEED winblows.
You have it backwards, user files are easy to restore if they are backed up. Reinstalling OS X requires reformating the disk unless you jump through the hoops to use a separate /User partition.
:)
OS X all the power of UNIX, but made to think stupid. But Linux runs great on the hardware
My office is Mac. It has been since it was founded in the mid 80's. But the boss has come to the conclusion that we can not stay this way since there is still no decent groupware for Apple and MS Office has all ways run bad on it and all ways will.
For the 1 or 2 graphics we make for reports do not justify the supposed performance of Mac over PC.
So sometime late this year or early next year we will switch to Windows. Apple could keep us if they allowed iCal and Addressbook to share over rendezvous as a cheep form of groupware.
Office may run better on pc, but the OS does not!
It will be a few years before she admits that she can do her job on Linux.
I got that offer from SBC when I called to cut the cord after I got Vonage, but I still cancelled. And now Vonage has a $14.99 plan also. With taxes about $17, and that is with caller ID, voice mail, and call forwarding. Considering we only make about 15-30 minutes of calls a month, it is less then paying by the minuet would be.
If it was not for the alarm service I would not have bothered with Vonage at all.
I second that! I don't see why I bother moderating any more considering most the stories I all ready read at Ars and the rest are trival BS like this. /. these days.
How about some discussion about the lack of support for Zero Conf by the Linux community? Or is that too original for
I'll post it at Ars and then come here to read it.
I read the press release, and it will only work with Series2, and you have to buy the windowz software seperatly, in addition to the Home Media Option.
Over all, everything that was announced is still not enough to convince me to get the Home Media Option.
HMO, that does does not bode well with me. I am scrounging parts, and will try building a MythTV box for the upstairs tv. If it works well I might regret getting the lifetimeservice with TiVo, but then the service has been good and it could not be simpler to use.
But Crossover Office will run Visio. Or IBM will employ other programers to bring kivo or dia up to par with visio.
You obviouslly have not tried the beta version yet. Gnome apps are included with the KDE apps now, and not hidden in a submenu. Not all of them, but some of the more populer ones at least.
Kontact is nice, just like Evolution, but using kmail, kaddress, knotes, and korganizer in one interface. Use them together or seperatly. If I could get the Macs to connect to the kloab contact/mail server I would give it a try, but for now it only works with kontact.
Don't forget that any Belkin firmware is disributed in a .exe. How can my Mac or Linux box update the firmware on the Belkin USB KVM? Not that they released any yet.
And why do they use a parellel cable on a USB device for the firmware?
And why does the Belkin USB KVM suck? It does not release the shift key at times, and using the arrow keys with a Mac really messes it up by pinting 4's or 6' accross the screen.
for the offical Debian version in a few months.
I am activly shopping around for a PVR, Tivo is my first choice because it is cheep and easy to install. Freevo and Myth look intresting, but since I would have to buy a new pc for it, it is not a cost efficant solution. :)
But Panisonic has a DVD/PVR that has a 80 GB hard drive and can burn DVD-R(4.7GB) and DVD-RAM(12GB). Yes it can burn from the hard drive, or burn directly to DVD. It is still a bit pricie, at $800 for the low end, but Circuit City messed up their web page and is listing it for $499. I am going over tonight and see if I can get their price match on it
As one of the beta testers for Libranet, and responding to such debates on the Libranet discussion board, I will wade in with my views. /usr/lib/adminmenu. It is just a bunch of perl and shell scripts that make configuring things easier. Unless you really enjoy playing find the config file, then this is not for you. All this crap about Red Hat being the top shit of Linux is ignorant. Red Hats absoulute reliance on GUI tools and inablity to issue common root commands from xwindows makes it to combuersome to use. (Open a term as root and try ifconfig, my RH 8 will not recoginize it unless I dropout of X)
The GPL does not prohibet selling code, just modifing it and not releasing it. All the source is located on the installed hard drive in
If your mother is looking for an easy to use disto that is reliable and she does not have to tweek, then get a Mac.
For people that are wondering what all the hype about Linux is, and are not certified or taking CS classes, then a distro that makes learning the advanced features of Linux easy is what they need.
Rad Hat hides the OS, Libranet holds your hand while you learn it. Try using only the GUI on your Linux box, and try to imagine how a newbie will use it. Konoptix and Gentoo are just flavors of the month, a CD based distro and one that makes you compile everything. Ohter than that, just repackaged Debian.
Pant fumes getting to me, tux is waving, must finish installing Yellow Dog 3.0 which was released today.
Global warming is caused by humans pumping co2 into the air, thus increasing global tempaure and melting the polar ice caps. Since 2/3's of the human race lives on coast lines, they will drown and the chemical plants causing the pollution will be destroyed.
Problem solved.
Meanwhile Chicago gets some decent weather for winter, thus prolonging construction season. I hate snow, bring on some global warming!!!