This is NOT new. Lycoris's installer is RLIZARD, which means Redmond Linux Wizard. LIZARD was created by Caldera in 1997 I think. I got their distro at the Linux trade show in NYC. Blew AWAY anythng Redhat could have done. The installer is nothing new. It's a carbon copy of caldera. DOwn to the icons! Where Lycoris shines is the desktop! Screw their installer!
It's a good thing they install Solitaire ON the machine:). I think that they should have a dumb-user option. Instead of loading up KDE by default, it opens up FVWM with Solitaire! That's it..nothing else. You CAN'T screw that up! (well, it depends. I've seen people delete their entire Windows directory because they clicked on the dll's and they did'nt DO anything, so they deleted them)
Nope...the problem with RPMS s you usualy need them for the particualr distro you're running. By defalt, Redhat RPMS are compiled for a 386 (hence, i386.rpm). Mandrake's are pre-compiled with Pentium III and IV's in mind (hence i686.rpm) Lycoris is compatable with Caldera. It's all on where the binaries choose to install and what libraries they are dependant on. In debian, there is no worry.
Well, then we should get on Adobe's ass to make Photoshop for Linux! Just because Win/Mac has Photoshop doesn't make Windows/Macs better. Why Adobe WON"T make it for Linux (when they did it for MacOSX) is beyond me. Peopel WILL buy Photoshop for Linux if they make it.Even Macromedia Dreamweaver for Linux. Who gives a fuck about Office? Some REAL tools will make Linux rise to the top.
I'm a purist and I don't consider any VB app Open Source. Why? You can't compile it with an Open Source VB compiler, can you? Is VB available for free? If it works only with Visual C++ it's not Open Source either. (If it can compile with Borland C++ I'll let the it slide. The older version of Borland are free as in beer). So, unless these apps can be compiled at no cost by developers, it's not OSS.
I don't use WIndows for anything. If I absolutley need an app that is only available on WIndows, I use Win4Lin by Netraverse
I haven't used Office in over 2 years. Actually, that's a lie..I actually used it to check how OpenOffice converted my resume into a.doc file. Came out fine. I'm not a gamer, so I guess that's why I could care about a windows partition. I DO triple boot. One machine on my network has Debian, FreeBSD and QNX on the same box. Have to get my QNX fix every now and then:)
I use a GUI for 80% of what I do in Linux. the rest is all CLI. I burn MP3's with the command line. It's faster. MUCH faster. I can use xcdroast and burn a cd at max 12 speed. Thru the comand line (using maybe Blackbox as a wm) I can get 24x. Plus, I can type a simple shell script to gather all the mp3's I want to burn. cat/dev/cdrom > win2k.iso That took 30 seconds to make an iso of a cd! or cdrecord winXP.iso
and wait 10 minutes. A GUI would take me 10 minutes to START the burn. I have to load the program, click on stuff that takes too much time. type cdr winX BOOM! done! How hard was that?
I have learned everything I know practically from reading. I PREFER it that way. I remember the first time I used a REAL computer, was back in 82 or so. I was 12 at the time, and I went to the local University. They were running VMS/VAX. I sat down and was in awe. I asked the guy behind the counter for the manuals. He laughed and handed me a stack of papers. I took them home and came back a couple of days later..that's how I learned to destroy systems. Not to be malicious. I followed the instructions EXACTLY, yet it seemed the admins did not! Who would guess a 12 yr old twerp was poking thru a Universities files? Giving me the manual was the best thing they could have done. And, how else was one going to learn 8-bit Assembler on the Commodore? I bought this thick manual on Assembler and Machine code for the Commodore.That was the only way. You had no one to turn to. While all my friends were playing Castle Wolfenstein (the ORIGINAL) and Zork, I was hacking away in Assembler and making a BBS. By READING the fscking manual. I learn quicker with a book/manual than sitting in a class for 6 months.However, I learned BASIC so well, that was what caused me problems when the OOP world came in. I still dont' get OOP. I'm a procedural guy. (Fortran, Pascal, C, Assembler, Perl, etc). I've been trying on and off for almost 4 years to get good in Java. I can't. Until I realized you can't just sit down and start typing. You have to make a plan. Screw that! That's no fun!:)
The problem with this is that 90% of the people I know who've tried Linux used RedHat. I HATE RedHat. I've been using Linux since '94, I liked RedHat then, but now I can't stand it. It's basically a server OS. It's not tuned for the desktop. Once people realize that there is more than RedHat, like Debian, Mandrake, Suse, they'll realize then can play and BURN DVD's out of the box. My friend bought a new system and he put Mandrake 8.2 on it. He uses it to capture and edit video....out of the box. The right tool for the right job. If you want a quick server, use RedHat. If you want a completely powerful server thats cusom tunes, use *BSD. If you want to get work done, use another distro.
I bought my wife an IBM NetVista and Redmond Linux was the ONLY distro that detected the video card w/ the Flat screen monitor. (Mandrake 8.1 only had it in 800x600 with tweaking) It's a VERY easy distro to use. It's NOT for power users. You are very limited in what you can do. They make it very hard to fuck up your system. It has a customized version of KDE (which is VERY good in my opinion). It's near impossible to add Gnome to the desktop. It uses Caldera RPM's so you can just grab them off of Caldera's site.The install was so easy, she did it herself. (She is not tech savvy). She did it while I was in the shower. I had to redo it so I could see for myself. I think it's an excellent distro for mom & dad. However, power Linux users will get frustrated by it's lack of choices. There are no servers installed (except sshd). Not even an ftp server, or Apache. (which is by design...Mom isn't supposed to be running a webserver on the machine she does her taxes on, ya know?) All in All, I give it 9 out of 10 for newbies, 4 out of 10 for veterans.
I have YET so see source for that program. In the meantime, I've created a Banner Killer for Windows (as all my friends unfortunately use Windows.) It's on my website..get the UPDATED version. It uses a Key Stroke Combination that you choose to disable popups. Hit F1, popups ggo away, F1 again, they appear. Have fun
Both republicans and democrats are playing the same game. We, the people, are actually the poor guy in the middle while the Democrats and Republicans take our hat and throw it back and forth so we can naver get it...like the playground prank.
Even though I'm Sr UNIX Admin at my job, the Lotus Notes admin REFUSES to let any other clients to use the server except Lotus Notes clients. He hates anything non-microsoft (even though the Notes server runs on AIX!). This is so he can read everyones mail.
The funny thing is, I've been online since the 80's, I owned a data center for 5 years, yet I have NEVER used IMAP. No job I've had used an IMAP account (either POP or MS Exchange or Lotus Notes), and the 5 accounts I do have a re standard POP3. Where can I get an IMAP account for cheap?
ANY Amerindian language is so hard that you'll pull your hair out. I used to joke and say that when Satan was cast to the earth and punished, he was forced to learn an American Indian language!
Technically, the multiple translations for snow/ice in Eskimo is a misnomer. Amerindian languages all have multiple words for almost everything.An example: to cook has maybe 8 or 9 translations depending on the Amerindian Family...to cook fast, to cook raw meat, to cook fish, etc My take on Amerindian languages being like this was for survival. There could be no doubt what the speaker was trying to convey. The snow thing with eskimo describes different kinds of snow, wet snow, slushy snow, snow that you could sled on, snow that a dog pissed on, etc. Tlingit (Washington State & Canada) has the same thing. The Tlingits are known for the Totem poles.They have different words for the verb "to fish"
Esperanto is such a language. Esperanto was invented in 1920 I believe to server as a bridge for people who speak different languages , with Esperanto being the bridge. It's quick and easy to learn, with no irregularities. I speak Esperanto, and I think it's a beautiful language. One can coverse in Esperanto after a few days. For example, if you don't know the word for airplane, you could say "the thing that flies"--flugilo (flug--fly, ilo, thing that does something)...which IS the word for airplane! There's even funny slang in Esperanto..bluharulino (Old woman --"female person who has blue hair!")
But, did you know Klingon is BASED on Navajo? Navajo is a very intersting language. I believe that ANY American Indian language is probably the most difficult labguages in the world. I was a linguistics major, and I remember banging my head against the wall trying to understand some of the concepts of the Athapascan family. Did you know there are over 20 words for "this"? This here, this to the left, this here in the time and place, this thing that I once had, this thing that I dislike, etc.
Can this be used to cure Aids as well? I mean, honestly, I've asked myself a couple of times, if I ever got AIDS, why couldnt I have a bubble? Isn't having bubble boy disease similar to AIDS? (no immune system?) I mean, instead of taking drug cocktails, why not live in a bubble?
Seriously...why should a web browser do error checking in html or javascript? It's like a compiler...it goes tits up when it finds invalid code...the browser is just the container for running js and html...
My friend is a VP of a Movie Theater chain, and they have just DROPPED Pepsi as their vendor and went with Coca Cola? Why? Pepsi was making unrealistic demands, and they had to watch their bottom line. How come OEM's can't do this?
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This is NOT new. Lycoris's installer is RLIZARD, which means Redmond Linux Wizard. LIZARD was created by Caldera in 1997 I think. I got their distro at the Linux trade show in NYC. Blew AWAY anythng Redhat could have done. The installer is nothing new. It's a carbon copy of caldera. DOwn to the icons! Where Lycoris shines is the desktop! Screw their installer!
It's a good thing they install Solitaire ON the machine :). I think that they should have a dumb-user option. Instead of loading up KDE by default, it opens up FVWM with Solitaire! That's it..nothing else. You CAN'T screw that up! (well, it depends. I've seen people delete their entire Windows directory because they clicked on the dll's and they did'nt DO anything, so they deleted them)
Nope...the problem with RPMS s you usualy need them for the particualr distro you're running. By defalt, Redhat RPMS are compiled for a 386 (hence, i386.rpm). Mandrake's are pre-compiled with Pentium III and IV's in mind (hence i686.rpm)
Lycoris is compatable with Caldera. It's all on where the binaries choose to install and what libraries they are dependant on. In debian, there is no worry.
Well, then we should get on Adobe's ass to make Photoshop for Linux! Just because Win/Mac has Photoshop doesn't make Windows/Macs better. Why Adobe WON"T make it for Linux (when they did it for MacOSX) is beyond me. Peopel WILL buy Photoshop for Linux if they make it.Even Macromedia Dreamweaver for Linux. Who gives a fuck about Office? Some REAL tools will make Linux rise to the top.
I'm a purist and I don't consider any VB app Open Source. Why? You can't compile it with an Open Source VB compiler, can you? Is VB available for free? If it works only with Visual C++ it's not Open Source either. (If it can compile with Borland C++ I'll let the it slide. The older version of Borland are free as in beer). So, unless these apps can be compiled at no cost by developers, it's not OSS.
I don't use WIndows for anything. If I absolutley need an app that is only available on WIndows, I use Win4Lin by Netraverse I haven't used Office in over 2 years. Actually, that's a lie..I actually used it to check how OpenOffice converted my resume into a .doc file. Came out fine. I'm not a gamer, so I guess that's why I could care about a windows partition. I DO triple boot. One machine on my network has Debian, FreeBSD and QNX on the same box. Have to get my QNX fix every now and then :)
Why would you use a GUI icq client from the command line? Just use clicq or mICQ.
micq
send 111111 hello
I use a GUI for 80% of what I do in Linux. the rest is all CLI. I burn MP3's with the command line. It's faster. MUCH faster. I can use xcdroast and burn a cd at max 12 speed. Thru the comand line (using maybe Blackbox as a wm) I can get 24x. Plus, I can type a simple shell script to gather all the mp3's I want to burn. /dev/cdrom > win2k.iso
cat
That took 30 seconds to make an iso of a cd!
or
cdrecord winXP.iso
and wait 10 minutes. A GUI would take me 10 minutes to START the burn. I have to load the program, click on stuff that takes too much time.
type cdr winX
BOOM! done!
How hard was that?
I have learned everything I know practically from reading. I PREFER it that way. I remember the first time I used a REAL computer, was back in 82 or so. I was 12 at the time, and I went to the local University. They were running VMS/VAX. I sat down and was in awe. I asked the guy behind the counter for the manuals. He laughed and handed me a stack of papers. I took them home and came back a couple of days later..that's how I learned to destroy systems. Not to be malicious. I followed the instructions EXACTLY, yet it seemed the admins did not! Who would guess a 12 yr old twerp was poking thru a Universities files? Giving me the manual was the best thing they could have done. And, how else was one going to learn 8-bit Assembler on the Commodore? I bought this thick manual on Assembler and Machine code for the Commodore.That was the only way. You had no one to turn to. While all my friends were playing Castle Wolfenstein (the ORIGINAL) and Zork, I was hacking away in Assembler and making a BBS. By READING the fscking manual. I learn quicker with a book/manual than sitting in a class for 6 months.However, I learned BASIC so well, that was what caused me problems when the OOP world came in. I still dont' get OOP. I'm a procedural guy. (Fortran, Pascal, C, Assembler, Perl, etc). :)
I've been trying on and off for almost 4 years to get good in Java. I can't. Until I realized you can't just sit down and start typing. You have to make a plan. Screw that! That's no fun!
The problem with this is that 90% of the people I know who've tried Linux used RedHat. I HATE RedHat. I've been using Linux since '94, I liked RedHat then, but now I can't stand it. It's basically a server OS. It's not tuned for the desktop. Once people realize that there is more than RedHat, like Debian, Mandrake, Suse, they'll realize then can play and BURN DVD's out of the box. My friend bought a new system and he put Mandrake 8.2 on it. He uses it to capture and edit video....out of the box. The right tool for the right job. If you want a quick server, use RedHat. If you want a completely powerful server thats cusom tunes, use *BSD. If you want to get work done, use another distro.
I bought my wife an IBM NetVista and Redmond Linux was the ONLY distro that detected the video card w/ the Flat screen monitor. (Mandrake 8.1 only had it in 800x600 with tweaking)
It's a VERY easy distro to use. It's NOT for power users. You are very limited in what you can do. They make it very hard to fuck up your system. It has a customized version of KDE (which is VERY good in my opinion). It's near impossible to add Gnome to the desktop. It uses Caldera RPM's so you can just grab them off of Caldera's site.The install was so easy, she did it herself. (She is not tech savvy). She did it while I was in the shower. I had to redo it so I could see for myself. I think it's an excellent distro for mom & dad. However, power Linux users will get frustrated by it's lack of choices. There are no servers installed (except sshd). Not even an ftp server, or Apache. (which is by design...Mom isn't supposed to be running a webserver on the machine she does her taxes on, ya know?) All in All, I give it 9 out of 10 for newbies, 4 out of 10 for veterans.
I have YET so see source for that program. In the meantime, I've created a Banner Killer for Windows (as all my friends unfortunately use Windows.)
It's on my website..get the UPDATED version. It uses a Key Stroke Combination that you choose to disable popups. Hit F1, popups ggo away, F1 again, they appear.
Have fun
Both republicans and democrats are playing the same game. We, the people, are actually the poor guy in the middle while the Democrats and Republicans take our hat and throw it back and forth so we can naver get it...like the playground prank.
Even though I'm Sr UNIX Admin at my job, the Lotus Notes admin REFUSES to let any other clients to use the server except Lotus Notes clients. He hates anything non-microsoft (even though the Notes server runs on AIX!). This is so he can read everyones mail.
The funny thing is, I've been online since the 80's, I owned a data center for 5 years, yet I have NEVER used IMAP. No job I've had used an IMAP account (either POP or MS Exchange or Lotus Notes), and the 5 accounts I do have a re standard POP3. Where can I get an IMAP account for cheap?
ANY Amerindian language is so hard that you'll pull your hair out. I used to joke and say that when Satan was cast to the earth and punished, he was forced to learn an American Indian language!
Technically, the multiple translations for snow/ice in Eskimo is a misnomer. Amerindian languages all have multiple words for almost everything.An example:
to cook has maybe 8 or 9 translations depending on the Amerindian Family...to cook fast, to cook raw meat, to cook fish, etc
My take on Amerindian languages being like this was for survival. There could be no doubt what the speaker was trying to convey. The snow thing with eskimo describes different kinds of snow, wet snow, slushy snow, snow that you could sled on, snow that a dog pissed on, etc. Tlingit (Washington State & Canada) has the same thing. The Tlingits are known for the Totem poles.They have different words for the verb "to fish"
Esperanto is such a language. Esperanto was invented in 1920 I believe to server as a bridge for people who speak different languages , with Esperanto being the bridge. It's quick and easy to learn, with no irregularities. I speak Esperanto, and I think it's a beautiful language. One can coverse in Esperanto after a few days. For example, if you don't know the word for airplane, you could say "the thing that flies"--flugilo (flug--fly, ilo, thing that does something)...which IS the word for airplane! There's even funny slang in Esperanto..bluharulino (Old woman --"female person who has blue hair!")
But, did you know Klingon is BASED on Navajo? Navajo is a very intersting language. I believe that ANY American Indian language is probably the most difficult labguages in the world. I was a linguistics major, and I remember banging my head against the wall trying to understand some of the concepts of the Athapascan family. Did you know there are over 20 words for "this"? This here, this to the left, this here in the time and place, this thing that I once had, this thing that I dislike, etc.
Having been a Linguistics major, If I remember correctly, fuck comes from the Germanic languages..."ficken" which means to fornicate
Can this be used to cure Aids as well? I mean, honestly, I've asked myself a couple of times, if I ever got AIDS, why couldnt I have a bubble? Isn't having bubble boy disease similar to AIDS? (no immune system?) I mean, instead of taking drug cocktails, why not live in a bubble?
OK...I'll agree with that! An error message is better than a crash
Seriously...why should a web browser do error checking in html or javascript? It's like a compiler...it goes tits up when it finds invalid code...the browser is just the container for running js and html...
I go between Opera and Mozilla on Linux. It all depends on the mood I'm in. I love Mozilla...I love Opera
My friend is a VP of a Movie Theater chain, and they have just DROPPED Pepsi as their vendor and went with Coca Cola? Why? Pepsi was making unrealistic demands, and they had to watch their bottom line. How come OEM's can't do this?