Blackbox and Fluxbox are my favorite lightweight window managers. I've tinkered with Windowmaker in the same context for what feels like forever, but now I find myself always going back to Blackbox. As a note, I also find that Enlightenment (with the appropriate feature tweaks to increase performance) works well on a relatively low power box.
At least you didn't refer to Clay Aiken as an artist. Music, maybe. Artificially produced mass-market garbage, yes. Artist, no.
I went to a Matthew Good Band concert once, after that even lamer Canadian imitation of the vile Idol thing (Pop Stars) started churning out music for the pop drones. Matt tapes a Sugar Jones (I think that is what they named the crappy "band") cd to a stuffed animal and has an audience member come on stage and light it on fire. Now that was art.
Just because large numbers of people choose it doesn't mean its not shitty beer, and as you (+1 Sarcasm) point out, it also doesn't mean it is shitty beer.
Gotta break it to ya though, Bud is urine in a fancy can and your self-righteous anti-elitism doesn't change that fact... yes FACT, dammit. Bud = shit is a fact, as provable as... erm... other facts.
You can get free obscured domain registration in Canada: Privacy.ca. Of course, our new privacy laws are very strong and designed to protect the individual Canadian citizen at the cost of onerous business processes, etc etc.
eWeek's March 15th edition has an interview with Microsoft's John Matusow, head of their shared source program. Seems to me that they've been happy ("happy" = "paid well") to release some code under various programs. In other words, its all about motivation and perceived benefit. Gee, what is pretty surprising to see from an organization that likes to make money. ESR has a similar battle to wage in convinving Sun to open up Java.
Why do people get surprised when corporations behave according to the profit motive?
If we want to see more Open Source behavior out of Microsoft, then we need to find ways to motivate them.
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Its a great tool for that, don't get me wrong. I have a feeling that many people will get me wrong, and disagree instinctively after missing the point... oh well.
Well, I do understand the value in system recovery, forensics, and security-related applications of Knoppix, Knoppix-STD, and other similar livecd products like INSERT and PHLAK. I don't *want* to think of Knoppix as a toy, nevertheless I see it presenting a bit of a threat.
I also don't *want* to think of it simply as a toy, and don't, so please don't misunderstand my comments. I like the fact that you can get a pretty functional Linux box going running live off a cd, and this speaks to the power of Linux. However I still perceive a threat to wider adoption of Linux due to the ease of casual use.
I very rarely, if ever, recommend that people interested in Linux go get Knoppix and play with it. I usually recommend that they check out Mandrake, SuSE, and/or Fedora and actually install it and try to use it, in other words commit to using Linux as a desktop solution at least as far as a dual-boot allows.
I don't understand all the hype about Knoppix lately.
I view Knoppix as a threat to adoption of Linux, risking marginalizing it as a toy or OS suitable for casual flirtation but undeserving of space on a harddrive. The ease it provides for a very shallow glimpse into Linux means that those trying it out never have to commit, and therefore never have to put effort into migration.
The natural human resistence to chance suggests that this will hinder the adoption of Linux on the desktop rather than spur it forward.
That has nothing to do with morality, desire to run a successful business (increase benefit, decrease cost) is not "evil".
Neither is an overpaid US coder with a BMW wishing to keep their programming job so they can continue to buy premium fuel and drink imported beer while an unemployed Indian programmer's whole family starves.
This system is amoral, and rightfully so. I am frankly getting pretty sick of people bitching about the "imorality" of the natural reaction of business to a worker pricing themselves out of a job.
Sun's Java Desktop Linux distribution is SuSE 8.something with Sun logos. YaST, RPM, no little green chameleon. Format, install SuSE 9.1 with kernel 2.6 once it is released.
Wildly tossing out over-broad labels of "spam" does not help the cause, and hinders it. Are you sure you didn't sign something? Are you sure that these clumsy marketing efforts weren't part of the previously established prior business relationship between you and your ISP?
There is a hell of a difference between what you are describing and real spam. Real spam in involves privacy violations, harvesting of addresses, messages sent to randomly generated lists, etc.
Check out The Definition of Spam (according to Spamhaus) and What is spam? (according to spam.abuse.net). The term was originally coined to describe the crap spewed onto USENET. It most certainly was not intended to describe marketing spewed by your ISP, television, newspaper, or the ad boxes on/.
The only thing they are successful at is how-can-they-be-so-stupid entertainment;)
This is probably just another reality show, experimentally held on the Internet. I bet there are cameras following SCO, Novell and IBM execs, Linux notables, and tech journalists. I can't wait for the show in 2006, because when the media blackout hits, its going build up suspense like you wouldn't believe. It'll be bigger than Survivor and funnier than William Hung singing Ricky Martin songs.
Why do we keep assuming, all available evidence to the contrary, that SCO's strategies have anything to do with running a successful business?
Perhaps their strategy is to horribly fail at every they do for some unknown reason. Perhaps failing horribly in the face of the "Linux threat" will help substantiate their damage claims... "Your Honor, see all this evidence of how Linux has damaged us? How could we possibly compete against these Open Source Terrorists who are 1000x smarter than we are?"
How does changing our expectations and assumptions in turn change our ability to understand and predict SCO's corporate behavior?
I wouldn't agree that Fedora Core is a feasible option for "anyone". I will agree that it may be for some, however I cannot recommend it for much of the big stuff I'm involved in. I view Fedora Core as too much of a constant Beta process, and trust it less than I do the -RELEASE branch of FreeBSD, for example.
I also wouldn't throw a Beta, Release Candidate, or other "Community" distro (such as Mandrake's new release model) into production for mission critical purposes either.
The writing has been on the wall for sometime. Even though local IBM reps have been non-committal about which Linux distribution they would recommend for hardware compatibility, support, etc, it has been pretty clear that a switch to SuSE was coming and that the Novell/IBM alliance would be strengthened. Now it has happened, and the businesses who use Linux and IBM gear have a better idea of how to plan their Linux deployments.
Red Hat shot their own foot off with the shift in business model. Its not the fees associated with the RH Enterprise stuff as much as it is the brick wall put up in April. Red Hat 9 -> Fedora is not a feasiable option for mission critical business applications, and if a box has to be rebuilt anyways (to use RH Enterprise or something else) then full consideration to that "something else" ought to be made.
I, for one, welcome the coming of our new green chameleon overlords.
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Blackbox and Fluxbox are my favorite lightweight window managers. I've tinkered with Windowmaker in the same context for what feels like forever, but now I find myself always going back to Blackbox. As a note, I also find that Enlightenment (with the appropriate feature tweaks to increase performance) works well on a relatively low power box.
I went to a Matthew Good Band concert once, after that even lamer Canadian imitation of the vile Idol thing (Pop Stars) started churning out music for the pop drones. Matt tapes a Sugar Jones (I think that is what they named the crappy "band") cd to a stuffed animal and has an audience member come on stage and light it on fire. Now that was art.
Beer. Can. Chicken.
Gotta break it to ya though, Bud is urine in a fancy can and your self-righteous anti-elitism doesn't change that fact... yes FACT, dammit. Bud = shit is a fact, as provable as... erm... other facts.
<joke>And, you can share mp3s</joke> ;)
99% lips, noses and assholes.
Why do people get surprised when corporations behave according to the profit motive?
If we want to see more Open Source behavior out of Microsoft, then we need to find ways to motivate them.
I bet you could figure it out if you tried
Its a great tool for that, don't get me wrong. I have a feeling that many people will get me wrong, and disagree instinctively after missing the point... oh well.
I also don't *want* to think of it simply as a toy, and don't, so please don't misunderstand my comments. I like the fact that you can get a pretty functional Linux box going running live off a cd, and this speaks to the power of Linux. However I still perceive a threat to wider adoption of Linux due to the ease of casual use.
I very rarely, if ever, recommend that people interested in Linux go get Knoppix and play with it. I usually recommend that they check out Mandrake, SuSE, and/or Fedora and actually install it and try to use it, in other words commit to using Linux as a desktop solution at least as far as a dual-boot allows.
I view Knoppix as a threat to adoption of Linux, risking marginalizing it as a toy or OS suitable for casual flirtation but undeserving of space on a harddrive. The ease it provides for a very shallow glimpse into Linux means that those trying it out never have to commit, and therefore never have to put effort into migration.
The natural human resistence to chance suggests that this will hinder the adoption of Linux on the desktop rather than spur it forward.
Neither is an overpaid US coder with a BMW wishing to keep their programming job so they can continue to buy premium fuel and drink imported beer while an unemployed Indian programmer's whole family starves.
This system is amoral, and rightfully so. I am frankly getting pretty sick of people bitching about the "imorality" of the natural reaction of business to a worker pricing themselves out of a job.
Thats the other thing... if you want to bomb us, do you hit Ottawa, or Ottawa? Not so easy, is it? We'll just turn out all the lights, go ninja.
Never mess with Canadians, we don't eat meat raw because it is high quality. We're crazy. BOOOGA BOOOOGA BOOOOOGA!
Sun's Java Desktop Linux distribution is SuSE 8.something with Sun logos. YaST, RPM, no little green chameleon. Format, install SuSE 9.1 with kernel 2.6 once it is released.
First, you have to survive the guard bears.
Second, you have to find us.
You think we're spread out for no reason? HELL NO, the mad cow makes us loco. We'll mess you up, burn down the White House, crazy shit like that.
There is a hell of a difference between what you are describing and real spam. Real spam in involves privacy violations, harvesting of addresses, messages sent to randomly generated lists, etc.
Check out The Definition of Spam (according to Spamhaus) and What is spam? (according to spam.abuse.net). The term was originally coined to describe the crap spewed onto USENET. It most certainly was not intended to describe marketing spewed by your ISP, television, newspaper, or the ad boxes on /.
... maybe broadband too, so we can stop hearing people whine about how slow their dialup is. Please, think of the users.
This is probably just another reality show, experimentally held on the Internet. I bet there are cameras following SCO, Novell and IBM execs, Linux notables, and tech journalists. I can't wait for the show in 2006, because when the media blackout hits, its going build up suspense like you wouldn't believe. It'll be bigger than Survivor and funnier than William Hung singing Ricky Martin songs.
Nevermind.
Perhaps their strategy is to horribly fail at every they do for some unknown reason. Perhaps failing horribly in the face of the "Linux threat" will help substantiate their damage claims... "Your Honor, see all this evidence of how Linux has damaged us? How could we possibly compete against these Open Source Terrorists who are 1000x smarter than we are?"
How does changing our expectations and assumptions in turn change our ability to understand and predict SCO's corporate behavior?
You're lucky there isn't a '-1 Pretentious Use of "orthogonal"' moderation option.
I also wouldn't throw a Beta, Release Candidate, or other "Community" distro (such as Mandrake's new release model) into production for mission critical purposes either.
The writing has been on the wall for sometime. Even though local IBM reps have been non-committal about which Linux distribution they would recommend for hardware compatibility, support, etc, it has been pretty clear that a switch to SuSE was coming and that the Novell/IBM alliance would be strengthened. Now it has happened, and the businesses who use Linux and IBM gear have a better idea of how to plan their Linux deployments.
Red Hat shot their own foot off with the shift in business model. Its not the fees associated with the RH Enterprise stuff as much as it is the brick wall put up in April. Red Hat 9 -> Fedora is not a feasiable option for mission critical business applications, and if a box has to be rebuilt anyways (to use RH Enterprise or something else) then full consideration to that "something else" ought to be made.
I, for one, welcome the coming of our new green chameleon overlords.
Its going to make me feel like I'm making at least a little bit of a difference every time I drive my SUV to work...
I, for one, welcome our new tiny form factor Overlords.