Just patch wget to ignore the robots.txt file. Remove the call to parse_robots in the recursive_retrieve function in recur.c, and you're ready to go. But of course that's immoral and all, you know...
Still for Linux, I think the nicest thing to make my life easier would be debugging tools as good as those produced by a certain Large Nameless Entity.
Eliminating the need for portable software is a good thing? Come on. In a Linux-only scenario, where's the advantage over a Windows-only scenario? Sure, not having to pay to Microsoft, but is that really all that remains of all those dreams of freedom? Sad indeed.
Yes, Linux is great and all, but I still consider diversity more important. I really hope they keep AIX alive, even if it's only to have another Unix variant around.
There's people reading Slashdot for a lot of various reasons, there's people posting on Slashdot for various reasons, but there's nothing connecting these people into what may be called a "community". Online Communities are an invention of Yahoo's maketing people.
Quoting from the article you link, "Currently, the industry is concerned that Compaq might turn everything right around and become the chip monopoly in the year 2000."
Hell, what kind of stuff have those guys been smoking?
Whether by chance or divine intervention, it's good enough to render a human pretty decently.
The human genome contains about 3,000,000,000 bases (see here). That's in every single cell, and an RNA computer may be able to do more than that, but it's definitely not unlimited numbers.
Nobody's really backing it. Compaq just happened to acquire the Alpha architecture along with Digital, they're not really behind it. Without future NT versions, there's even less incentive for Compaq to pour more money into Alpha development. Expect Alpha to die, with or without Mandrake Linux on it.
On the one hand, there's a huge crowd of gullible fans who tend to believe every sentence that's said on Slashdot, as long as it's got the words "Open Source" in it (they call this a "Community"), on the other hand there's a vendor trying to sell standard PCs at a premium because they bundle free software with them. Wow! If this isn't a perfect match, I've never seen one.
"We've heard that a million monkeys at a million keyboards could produce the Complete Works of Shakespeare; now, thanks to the Internet, we know this is not true."
This may become a real problem for RedHat
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Today, IBM are cooperating with RedHat, but how long will it be until IBM do the support themselves, creating very strong competition for RedHat in the only area where there's money to make?
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You mean... The Blue Screen Of Death?
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Eliminating the need for portable software is a good thing? Come on. In a Linux-only scenario, where's the advantage over a Windows-only scenario? Sure, not having to pay to Microsoft, but is that really all that remains of all those dreams of freedom? Sad indeed.
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So that makes Windows the brightest OS of all, doesn't it?
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There's people reading Slashdot for a lot of various reasons, there's people posting on Slashdot for various reasons, but there's nothing connecting these people into what may be called a "community". Online Communities are an invention of Yahoo's maketing people.
Hell, what kind of stuff have those guys been smoking?
The human genome contains about 3,000,000,000 bases (see here). That's in every single cell, and an RNA computer may be able to do more than that, but it's definitely not unlimited numbers.
The strands of RNA are said to physically contain all possible combinations. This seems to somewhat limit the possible size of problems.
Nobody's really backing it. Compaq just happened to acquire the Alpha architecture along with Digital, they're not really behind it. Without future NT versions, there's even less incentive for Compaq to pour more money into Alpha development. Expect Alpha to die, with or without Mandrake Linux on it.
On the one hand, there's a huge crowd of gullible fans who tend to believe every sentence that's said on Slashdot, as long as it's got the words "Open Source" in it (they call this a "Community"), on the other hand there's a vendor trying to sell standard PCs at a premium because they bundle free software with them. Wow! If this isn't a perfect match, I've never seen one.
How is this different from the recent SeriousDomains.com auction that was stopped by Linus? Is he getting a share out of this, or what?
Of the five remaining before the TW/EMI deal, EMI was the only one that didn't belong to some media conglomerate. I think that's quite a loss.
Just filter them out, like everyone with a trace of a clue is doing. I haven't seen a single banner ad for months.
"We've heard that a million monkeys at a million keyboards could produce the Complete Works of Shakespeare; now, thanks to the Internet, we know this is not true."
http://missportman.cjb.net/ even has a Natalie Portman Winamp Skin.
Today, IBM are cooperating with RedHat, but how long will it be until IBM do the support themselves, creating very strong competition for RedHat in the only area where there's money to make?
I was wondering... will there ever be a Windows version? Or wouldn't that be politically correct?