Well, we'll see how much longer Corel relies extensively on KDE, once KDE 2 is further down the pipe. All of those marketing and legal people, who seem to be running the company, will not like to hear about KOffice, I think.
I take names/place names from the Star Wars Trilogy (no chance of any of them being dictionary words)
You don't think that by now, someone has taken the scripts of the whole trilogy, and munched them into a dictionary? You'd better believe that, when it comes to cracking passwords, Dagobah is as likely to be on the dictionary list as Mars!
Ack, you got me! And with my favorite distribution, too!
I'd totally concede the point, but
1) ZIP drives aren't quite standard equipment, despite what Iomega would like people to think.
2) DOS/Windows boot disks are still very useful for Windows users, for when Windows gets cranky.
3) FreeDOS boot disks are still very useful for Linux/BSD/BeOS/Hurd/... users, for things like firmware or BIOS upgrades, when the hardware manufacturer distributes a DOS executible for the upgrade.
<FONT FLAME=ON> Of course, updates aren't an issue for Apple products, because Apple's goal is to have you buy a new box every time you upgrade your processor, memory, or CD/DVD drive! <FONT FLAME=OFF>
Keep in mind that glibc 2.0 was declared UNSTABLE by the glibc people themselves!!
So, if Debian STABLE was using this UNSTABLE library, it was not very smart. And, with the dlopen() bug causing glibc 2.0 (unstable) to be incompatible with glibc 2.0 (labelled stable), it wasn't too nice to the users of Debian, either.
Am I mad at Debian? No, I'm mad at Red Hat, for releasing 5.2 with a clearly marked UNSTABLE c library.
CNN/Time has this story from about a month ago mentioning that the US is attempting to work with the Russians on this.
My guess is, in the long run, Russia will have to bend on this, as the country's in such a mess, that it hasn't the will to fight over this. When the economy, the corruption, the basic conventional defense, Chechnya, Dagestan, and such are going on domestically, foreign policy will take a back seat. Especially with the first presidential election without Yeltsin running coming up.
*Just* as I get done submitting this puppy, up it goes! Oh, well...
Clinton, and his army of spooks see themselves in a real pickle here. On one side, they have the First Amendment hindering their nefarious plotting, and on the other side they have a raving band of open source zealots doing the unthinkable: sharing!
On one side, their laws are being exposed as unconstitutional, and on the other, the spread of PGPi, OpenBSD, adn such are making the laws moot.
I'd throw in a comment about Clinton's place in history, but it'd probably get me moderated down.:-)
Yes, the OS *should* be irrelevant, because the OS should be as bug-free as possible, and programs should be portable (due to the source being open, etc. etc.)
However, Windows + AutoCAD does just the opposite. It's a shame that one is ever forced into windows, but it happens... Perhaps one of Autodesk's competitors will follow in Netscape's footsteps...
Well, Watts is the head of the House Republican Caucus, so if he's starting up a site in that capacity (representing a coalition of Republican Congressional representatives), I can conceive of that being a.gov site.
It's no different from freedom.gov in that respect. freedom.gov is Rep. Dick Armey's site as House Majority Leader.
well, you got one thing right. the US isn't a democracy, it's a republic.
Oh, and the US has a nice guarantee of free political activism. This includes the right for Americans to spend money to support candidates and polticians whose views we agree with.
With government funding as you mention, however... How are new parties ever to be formed? How is a, say, Jesse Ventura, ever to be elected? How can things ever change?
It's amazing how much "pp" wrote, with no evidence, even anecdotal, cited.
Oh, yeah, and of course there's the plain old Microsoft quality Fear, Uncertainty, and Doubt:
"Even egcs... has had its problems..."
of COURSE it's had problems at some point.. but problems get FIXED. pp, have you even *tried* compiling a kernel with a *recent* egcs *stable* release? Have you read of someone else who has, and failed?
"I know of at least one kernel developer who ignores..."
Well, Anyone can come up with at least one person who does something. Without more details about the "problem", like the pgcc version used, the version of Mandrake used, and whether it was actually a kernel problem, and not just user error, might be helpful.
"...but using pgcc for the kernel is just irresponsible"
Sure.. if you say it enough times, in enough ways, maybe you'll convince someone, without having to back up the statment.
Yes, this is a strongly-worded reply. Someone might even click it to (0: Flamebait) or worse. But, the whole point of slashdot discussion (it seems to me anyway) is to elucidate the facts, and to point out the falsehoods.
And look.. I am aware that compilers aren't flawless... but slandering a major project, without backing it up with any facts just seems wrong to me. It just incensed me enought to type this...
It's amazing how much "pp" wrote, with no evidence, even anecdotal, cited.
Oh, yeah, and of course there's the plain old Microsoft quality Fear, Uncertainty, and Doubt:
"Even egcs... has had its problems..."
of COURSE it's had problems at some point.. but problems get FIXED. pp, have you even *tried* compiling a kernel with a *recent* egcs *stable* release? Have you read of someone else who has, and failed?
"I know of at least one kernel developer who ignores..."
Well, Anyone can come up with at least one person who does something. Without more details about the "problem", like the pgcc version used, the version of Mandrake used, and whether it was actually a kernel problem, and not just user error, might be helpful.
Yes, this is a strongly-worded reply. Someone might even click it to (0: Flamebait) or worse. But, the whole point of slashdot discussion (it seems to me anyway) is to elucidate the facts, and to point out the falsehoods.
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Well, we'll see how much longer Corel relies extensively on KDE, once KDE 2 is further down the pipe. All of those marketing and legal people, who seem to be running the company, will not like to hear about KOffice, I think.
I take names/place names from the Star Wars Trilogy (no chance of any of them being dictionary words)
You don't think that by now, someone has taken the scripts of the whole trilogy, and munched them into a dictionary? You'd better believe that, when it comes to cracking passwords, Dagobah is as likely to be on the dictionary list as Mars!
/usr/sbin/traceroute
If only L. Ron Hubbard were alive to see Xemu, doing good for mankind.
Well, having some with no moving parts is fine... but do all of the mp3 players have to follow that model?
Some of us would love to have something portable, that can play lots, and lots, and lots, and lots of music. Me, for one.
http://www.slackware.com/zipslack/
Ack, you got me! And with my favorite distribution, too!
I'd totally concede the point, but
1) ZIP drives aren't quite standard equipment, despite what Iomega would like people to think.
2) DOS/Windows boot disks are still very useful for Windows users, for when Windows gets cranky.
3) FreeDOS boot disks are still very useful for Linux/BSD/BeOS/Hurd/... users, for things like firmware or BIOS upgrades, when the hardware manufacturer distributes a DOS executible for the upgrade.
<FONT FLAME=ON>
Of course, updates aren't an issue for Apple products, because Apple's goal is to have you buy a new box every time you upgrade your processor, memory, or CD/DVD drive!
<FONT FLAME=OFF>
When was the last time you saw an image for a bootable ZIP or ORB come with your favorite operating system?
Being able to have ag controlled, guaranteed boot environment, stored on a floppy, is useful for OS installation, and repair.
Keep in mind that glibc 2.0 was declared UNSTABLE by the glibc people themselves!!
So, if Debian STABLE was using this UNSTABLE library, it was not very smart. And, with the dlopen() bug causing glibc 2.0 (unstable) to be incompatible with glibc 2.0 (labelled stable), it wasn't too nice to the users of Debian, either.
Am I mad at Debian? No, I'm mad at Red Hat, for releasing 5.2 with a clearly marked UNSTABLE c library.
CNN/Time has this story from about a month ago mentioning that the US is attempting to work with the Russians on this.
My guess is, in the long run, Russia will have to bend on this, as the country's in such a mess, that it hasn't the will to fight over this. When the economy, the corruption, the basic conventional defense, Chechnya, Dagestan, and such are going on domestically, foreign policy will take a back seat. Especially with the first presidential election without Yeltsin running coming up.
The source code driving slashdot's available, use it on your homepage yourself.
I personally doubt andover could make it's money back (from added hardware, bandwidth, developer's time) on such a feature...
Many overclockers are broke gamers, who already blew their spare cash on a good video card, and games...
They have the time, but not the cash.
Not all slashdot readers are $80k a year sysadmins or something.
Actually.. Intel will label that one 667.. and I'm sure AMD will, too.
Sad, but true
If the processors are fast enough, now Color Gameboy emulation is possible on a Palm! Game Gear! NES!
one day I may actually get a palm.. just for that.
*Just* as I get done submitting this puppy, up it goes! Oh, well...
:-)
Clinton, and his army of spooks see themselves in a real pickle here. On one side, they have the First Amendment hindering their nefarious plotting, and on the other side they have a raving band of open source zealots doing the unthinkable: sharing!
On one side, their laws are being exposed as unconstitutional, and on the other, the spread of PGPi, OpenBSD, adn such are making the laws moot.
I'd throw in a comment about Clinton's place in history, but it'd probably get me moderated down.
Yes, the OS *should* be irrelevant, because the OS should be as bug-free as possible, and programs should be portable (due to the source being open, etc. etc.)
However, Windows + AutoCAD does just the opposite. It's a shame that one is ever forced into windows, but it happens... Perhaps one of Autodesk's competitors will follow in Netscape's footsteps...
Trouble is, AOL implements almost no security in the server, leaving many locks and checks to be done in the client.
Opening the client would kill them.
Host names in DNS aren't case sensitive, so the www.blah.com can be all caps, or whatever.
However, the path sent to the server ("/", "/~Wkiernan", or whatever) is case sensitive, if the server chooses to parse the paths that way.
Well, Watts is the head of the House Republican Caucus, so if he's starting up a site in that capacity (representing a coalition of Republican Congressional representatives), I can conceive of that being a .gov site.
It's no different from freedom.gov in that respect. freedom.gov is Rep. Dick Armey's site as House Majority Leader.
well, you got one thing right. the US isn't a democracy, it's a republic.
Oh, and the US has a nice guarantee of free political activism. This includes the right for Americans to spend money to support candidates and polticians whose views we agree with.
With government funding as you mention, however... How are new parties ever to be formed? How is a, say, Jesse Ventura, ever to be elected? How can things ever change?
you can only do javascript if you use a lame mail reader that supports HTML mail!
If Windows had a bug as fatal as the one in glibc 2.0, they'd find a work around...
... but with linux, it's "tough luck, go upgrade."
This, to me, doesn't seem like the unix way at all... whatever happened to trying to be as portable as possible?
I wish you had posted that in the first place. :-)
It's amazing how much "pp" wrote, with no evidence, even anecdotal, cited.
Oh, yeah, and of course there's the plain old Microsoft quality Fear, Uncertainty, and Doubt:
"Even egcs... has had its problems..."
of COURSE it's had problems at some point.. but problems get FIXED. pp, have you even *tried* compiling a kernel with a *recent* egcs *stable* release? Have you read of someone else who has, and failed?
"I know of at least one kernel developer who ignores..."
Well, Anyone can come up with at least one person who does something. Without more details about the "problem", like the pgcc version used, the version of Mandrake used, and whether it was actually a kernel problem, and not just user error, might be helpful.
"...but using pgcc for the kernel is just irresponsible"
Sure.. if you say it enough times, in enough ways, maybe you'll convince someone, without having to back up the statment.
Yes, this is a strongly-worded reply. Someone might even click it to (0: Flamebait) or worse. But, the whole point of slashdot discussion (it seems to me anyway) is to elucidate the facts, and to point out the falsehoods.
And look.. I am aware that compilers aren't flawless... but slandering a major project, without backing it up with any facts just seems wrong to me. It just incensed me enought to type this...
It's amazing how much "pp" wrote, with no evidence, even anecdotal, cited.
Oh, yeah, and of course there's the plain old Microsoft quality Fear, Uncertainty, and Doubt:
"Even egcs... has had its problems..."
of COURSE it's had problems at some point.. but problems get FIXED. pp, have you even *tried* compiling a kernel with a *recent* egcs *stable* release? Have you read of someone else who has, and failed?
"I know of at least one kernel developer who ignores..."
Well, Anyone can come up with at least one person who does something. Without more details about the "problem", like the pgcc version used, the version of Mandrake used, and whether it was actually a kernel problem, and not just user error, might be helpful.
Yes, this is a strongly-worded reply. Someone might even click it to (0: Flamebait) or worse. But, the whole point of slashdot discussion (it seems to me anyway) is to elucidate the facts, and to point out the falsehoods.