I can live with one banner, but sites with banners left, right, top and bottom, not counting all those oh-so-cute buttons, cause active distaste in me, and, I suppose, in most of Slashdot's readers.
Then you should try out IJB, from junkbusters.com---it's a GPLd filtering proxy server which will cut out 95% of banner ads given some tweaking. Mail me if you want a suitable config file and my patches to make it mangle pages more efficiently.
"I want to use software that doesn't suck." - ESR "All software that isn't free sucks." - RMS
This is not an advantage. Joint stereo sounds terrible, even to my audiophiles-must-die ears. I suppose if you're playing sound on your PC's internal speaker, you might not notice the difference...:-)
"I want to use software that doesn't suck." - ESR "All software that isn't free sucks." - RMS
No, it doesn't. Every Windows user I know either turns off PnP, or has their BIOS set it up. There is no such thing as correctly supporting Plug-and-Play, because it's a fundamentally broken standard layered on top of another fundamentally broken standard. PC hardware will not properly support autoconfiguration until the 20-year-old architecture is redesigned (perhaps more along the lines of the Amiga, which had an extremely simple autoconfiguration system that really worked).
Also, learn to read the manual. UNIX does not cater for lazy idiots. And don't expect much help if you can't be bothered to proofread your postings.
"I want to use software that doesn't suck." - ESR "All software that isn't free sucks." - RMS
No, the rule is that you pronounce "Linux" however you pronounce "Linus" (so it's "lyenucks" in English-speaking countries and "leenucks" pretty much everywhere else). There's even a sample of Linus Torvalds saying it, for goodness sake, and people still get it wrong.
"I want to use software that doesn't suck." - ESR "All software that isn't free sucks." - RMS
I think the problem is that it's always been a little ambiguous what Linux actually is. To Linus, when he began it, the kernel had no name; it was called Linux when it was released. When Linux distributions really began to appear, Linux was always the kernel, and the apps that were used with it were generally limited to the GNU utilities and apps such as Emacs. However, now that the OS --- in which I include the kernel, utilities and apps --- is becoming more popular, we're talking less about the kernel and more about the whole system. I therefore use "Linux" to refer to a complete Linux-based system, such as a Debian installation, and "the Linux kernel" to refer to the kernel. I for one don't want to have to say "GNU/Linux" or "GPL/Linux": GNU have done great things for the free software community, but, as this article shows, they weren't the only ones.
And please don't complain about Richard Stallman. The guy's given us a lot --- looking a gift horse in the mouth has never been a profitable strategy.
I don't know about you, but I learnt programming on an old 8-bit machine (a Commodore 16). Had I set out to learn on a "bigger" system, I would have found it much harder. You could pick up a C64 for free these days; why not consider that option?
Look, this guy is an ex-Mac user. He hasn't used an OS where you're expected to understand the computer before. Given that he's gone straight to Linux, I think he's doing just fine.
Those of you who are posting "go back to Windows" messages are wasting your time. It's perfectly obvious by now that he won't. And good for him.
Linux isn't just for the elite. Even "old hands" like myself started somewhere. We ought to help this guy and the other newbies around.
Oh, and I'd forget kppp. I'd suggest pppsetup---worked fine first time for me.
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Then you should try out IJB, from junkbusters.com---it's a GPLd filtering proxy server which will cut out 95% of banner ads given some tweaking. Mail me if you want a suitable config file and my patches to make it mangle pages more efficiently.
"I want to use software that doesn't suck." - ESR
"All software that isn't free sucks." - RMS
This is not an advantage. Joint stereo sounds terrible, even to my audiophiles-must-die ears. I suppose if you're playing sound on your PC's internal speaker, you might not notice the difference... :-)
"I want to use software that doesn't suck." - ESR
"All software that isn't free sucks." - RMS
No, it doesn't. Every Windows user I know either turns off PnP, or has their BIOS set it up. There is no such thing as correctly supporting Plug-and-Play, because it's a fundamentally broken standard layered on top of another fundamentally broken standard. PC hardware will not properly support autoconfiguration until the 20-year-old architecture is redesigned (perhaps more along the lines of the Amiga, which had an extremely simple autoconfiguration system that really worked).
Also, learn to read the manual. UNIX does not cater for lazy idiots. And don't expect much help if you can't be bothered to proofread your postings.
"I want to use software that doesn't suck." - ESR
"All software that isn't free sucks." - RMS
"I want to use software that doesn't suck." - ESR
"All software that isn't free sucks." - RMS
I think the problem is that it's always been a little ambiguous what Linux actually is. To Linus, when he began it, the kernel had no name; it was called Linux when it was released. When Linux distributions really began to appear, Linux was always the kernel, and the apps that were used with it were generally limited to the GNU utilities and apps such as Emacs. However, now that the OS --- in which I include the kernel, utilities and apps --- is becoming more popular, we're talking less about the kernel and more about the whole system. I therefore use "Linux" to refer to a complete Linux-based system, such as a Debian installation, and "the Linux kernel" to refer to the kernel. I for one don't want to have to say "GNU/Linux" or "GPL/Linux": GNU have done great things for the free software community, but, as this article shows, they weren't the only ones.
And please don't complain about Richard Stallman. The guy's given us a lot --- looking a gift horse in the mouth has never been a profitable strategy.
I don't know about you, but I learnt programming on an old 8-bit machine (a Commodore 16). Had I set out to learn on a "bigger" system, I would have found it much harder. You could pick up a C64 for free these days; why not consider that option?
Look, this guy is an ex-Mac user. He hasn't used
an OS where you're expected to understand the
computer before. Given that he's gone straight
to Linux, I think he's doing just fine.
Those of you who are posting "go back to Windows" messages are wasting your time. It's perfectly
obvious by now that he won't. And good for him.
Linux isn't just for the elite. Even "old hands" like myself started somewhere. We ought to help this guy and the other newbies around.
Oh, and I'd forget kppp. I'd suggest pppsetup---worked fine first time for me.
Great; now I can run it on my K6-2 333MHz that
gets 666 Bogomips (well, if you measure it with "bogomips", not the kernel).