I just found that the dumbed down FC4 package installer didn't even *list* a heap of the stuff i wanted to use.
Not that I tried too hard to figure it out - after rooting around with 4 CDs and finding it still didn't include the most basic things I wanted to use (battery monitor for example - which was auto-detected and automatically configured by Ubuntu), I simply binned it.
What society needs to do is recognise the difficulty that current smokers have, and try to come up with ways to HELP them, as they do other addicts, not turn them into outcasts who are just considered to have no willpower.
Or alternatively, just make the smokes so damn poisonous that they have a 100% mortality rate (within say, 18 months), and the problem will "solve itself", so to speak.
They'll either quit - or die.
Same position they're currently in, but with a little added motivation to stop procrastinating, and actually put their mind to it, rather than giving up, saying it's "too hard", blaming it on psych studies, finding any excuse other than accepting the fact that they're too complacent with their current situation.
Quitting is hard. Boo fucking hoo. So is life. Smoke if you like (just not around me) and kill yourself then - just don't come running to me when you're diagnosed with a life threatening illness you brought on with your own behavior...
Note: I'm not seriously suggesting the above as the new "quit" campaign. but shit people... stop making excuses.
Not surprising really, last time I tried Fedora (Core 4) it was 3 cds larger than ubuntu, included less useful software, and was harder to install new software on.
Personally, I think Redhat should scrap RPM, adopt DEB as a package format, and position themselves as a support agent for Debian or their own flavour (ie, validated stable packages for enterprise, or whatever) of it.
Why waste time/money on developing Fedora that could better spent on fixing bugs in / consolidating Debian?
My 2c anyway... I used redhat 4-1 - 6.2 previously before testing out Core 4, Debian / Slackware / FreeBSD between them...
1. Who cares if I can't "pkg_add" java? It's not part of the OS really - and there's nothing to stop sun putting out a package themselves.
2. Yes, he wrote GCC. That doesn't mean he's correct in his philosphy though.
Note: I actually agree to an extent regarding you comments on software cost vs reliability being important.
However, converseley, 1 day of downtime (worm, virus, cumulative scheduled downtime due to critical patching required) on your microsoft software is costing you as much as your annual licensing fees.
Why should someone not be able to decide what is done with THEIR work.
RMS is being critical of Linus for believing that licensing your work under YOUR terms is fair and reasonable, and that if you release something you should be able to reasonably expect the license to stick.
The whole GNU agenda is yet another reason why I am pretty much giving up Linux these days and switching more of my stuff over to FreeBSD.
Linux is "cool" and has sometimes has hardware support that FreeBSD does not (though in my experience BSD hardware support has been on par, or "better" (see "project evil" for using windows network drivers), but you've got this political bullshit to deal with. Plus, the documentation for the core OS (kernel + libs + baseline shell tools) is generally inferior (less current, often out of date) to BSD.
I agree with some of RMS' views (software patents = bad, his views on Java/Flash), but unfortunately he's an idealist, and out of touch with what is a feasible compromise in the real world.
That's all well and good, but as proven by Code Red (i think? some IIS worm of that era anyway - did not save itself to disk, but just stayed resident in RAM), it's not a proper solution.
Fine, you'll be up and running again after a reboot, but if enough machines are infected, you'll get owned again as soon as you hit the network.
And because you're on read only media, you can't patch.
All you can do is wait for a new CD/DVD.
You can avoid the problem to a large extent already by following some simple steps:
Do not enable network services to face the internet (ie, sit behind a firewall)
Don't go looking for (or accept) "free shit", that is aggressively marketed to you. There's very little "free" on the internet, if you don't pay with $, chances are you pay with your PC, personal details, etc
Don't go looking for warez
Of course there are some exceptions to the above - reputable "Free" software is different - I'm referring to the free gift type spam you get everywhere...
Windows has a different value system. Windows caters to the non-technical minded people like the average Joe Sixpack, Grandma, etc. For example, user feedback by dialog boxes and progress indicators to let Grandma know the "doo-hickey" she clicked on will eventually open her e-mail, plus knows the average Joe will not read help page after help page for the most part so documentation is geared towards people who won't remember the contents of the previous page of information. A technically superior product for the average person with no technical computer skills that are task oriented.
Thing is dude... that joe sixpack, grandma, etc just call someone else if their computer pops up a box they haven't seen before, before even reading it.
As for online help pages... now you're really dreaming - I don't believe any of my 400 or so users even know the help system exists.
Given that a tech will be setting everything up in any case, I'm all for a more "tech friendly" O/S.
And as far as end-users go - if it only pops up a box when something fucks up, all the better... they'll just call me about it anyway.
Mandatory filtering is not the same as mandatory features that provide parents with the ability to easily filter - should they so choose. And really, when a 9 year old girl searches for britney, i'm sure she's not interested in porn...
I'm all for a.xxx domain - it will encourage content providers to put all their porn in one easy to filter (or search) domain - so that concerned parents can easily filter it without having a heap of false positive hits that block educational sites.
This is different from mandatory filtering, which removes end-user choice in the matter.
Here in.AU, we're paying $15 for a single ticket, then $10 for popcorn/candy and a drink.
And they wonder why, when some of the movies rate about as much fun as prison rape, that people are somewhat irritiated with the pricing and don't go any more...
No, the point of quotas is to force users to take a better approach to document management.
Exchange is NOT a document management system. It's a an MTA, not a data repository.
If you have critical reference files, correspondence, etc in there, then it should be archived in a proper document management system - not in a "live" mail server.
"Disk for exchange is cheap!" does not scale - eventually you hit limits, be they the limit of your SAN, the limit of your budget, limits of exchange/pst files, or whatever.
Slashdot Mirror
File a bug report?
Ubuntu picked up my AC97 audio automatically, both version 5.04 and 5.10.
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Not that I tried too hard to figure it out - after rooting around with 4 CDs and finding it still didn't include the most basic things I wanted to use (battery monitor for example - which was auto-detected and automatically configured by Ubuntu), I simply binned it.
smash.
Or alternatively, just make the smokes so damn poisonous that they have a 100% mortality rate (within say, 18 months), and the problem will "solve itself", so to speak.
They'll either quit - or die.
Same position they're currently in, but with a little added motivation to stop procrastinating, and actually put their mind to it, rather than giving up, saying it's "too hard", blaming it on psych studies, finding any excuse other than accepting the fact that they're too complacent with their current situation.
Quitting is hard. Boo fucking hoo. So is life. Smoke if you like (just not around me) and kill yourself then - just don't come running to me when you're diagnosed with a life threatening illness you brought on with your own behavior...
Note: I'm not seriously suggesting the above as the new "quit" campaign. but shit people... stop making excuses.
smash.
Personally, I think Redhat should scrap RPM, adopt DEB as a package format, and position themselves as a support agent for Debian or their own flavour (ie, validated stable packages for enterprise, or whatever) of it.
Why waste time/money on developing Fedora that could better spent on fixing bugs in / consolidating Debian?
My 2c anyway... I used redhat 4-1 - 6.2 previously before testing out Core 4, Debian / Slackware / FreeBSD between them...
smash.
2. Yes, he wrote GCC. That doesn't mean he's correct in his philosphy though.
smash.
However, converseley, 1 day of downtime (worm, virus, cumulative scheduled downtime due to critical patching required) on your microsoft software is costing you as much as your annual licensing fees.
smash.
RMS is being critical of Linus for believing that licensing your work under YOUR terms is fair and reasonable, and that if you release something you should be able to reasonably expect the license to stick.
The whole GNU agenda is yet another reason why I am pretty much giving up Linux these days and switching more of my stuff over to FreeBSD.
Linux is "cool" and has sometimes has hardware support that FreeBSD does not (though in my experience BSD hardware support has been on par, or "better" (see "project evil" for using windows network drivers), but you've got this political bullshit to deal with. Plus, the documentation for the core OS (kernel + libs + baseline shell tools) is generally inferior (less current, often out of date) to BSD.
I agree with some of RMS' views (software patents = bad, his views on Java/Flash), but unfortunately he's an idealist, and out of touch with what is a feasible compromise in the real world.
In my opinion.
Plus, he likes (wrote, even) Emacs :D
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Fine, you'll be up and running again after a reboot, but if enough machines are infected, you'll get owned again as soon as you hit the network.
And because you're on read only media, you can't patch.
All you can do is wait for a new CD/DVD.
You can avoid the problem to a large extent already by following some simple steps:
Of course there are some exceptions to the above - reputable "Free" software is different - I'm referring to the free gift type spam you get everywhere...
smash.
What's to say there's not crap like the Sony rootkit going on, kernel level obfuscation routines in place to fool your repair utility, etc?
Unless you boot from clean, known-good media to scan with, you're pissing into the wind, imho.
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64mb "recommended"
Windows 95 only needed 4 megs to run.
8mb "recommended"
According to the product spec when it was released :D
So yeah... take the "recommended" spec and multiply by about 6 or so, and that's what a semi-useful vista system will need :)
Scary isn't it? :D
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But this time, its teh intarweb!! Oh noes!
*rolls eyes*
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Thing is dude... that joe sixpack, grandma, etc just call someone else if their computer pops up a box they haven't seen before, before even reading it.
As for online help pages... now you're really dreaming - I don't believe any of my 400 or so users even know the help system exists.
Given that a tech will be setting everything up in any case, I'm all for a more "tech friendly" O/S.
And as far as end-users go - if it only pops up a box when something fucks up, all the better... they'll just call me about it anyway.
smash.
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Who knows... :)
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*possibly*
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I'm all for a .xxx domain - it will encourage content providers to put all their porn in one easy to filter (or search) domain - so that concerned parents can easily filter it without having a heap of false positive hits that block educational sites.
This is different from mandatory filtering, which removes end-user choice in the matter.
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Seriously... why?
It's not like you can't boot from CD and re-set the thing anyway - I can see no legitimate reason to log it at all...
If you don't log it, you don't need to worry about "cleaning" the log up...
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Left it locked, some oxygen thief smashed the window and stole a grand total of $5 in coins (if that).
Cost of the window to replace? $300.
If it was unlocked, i would have been $300 better off.
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Moderators on crack again... hurrah...
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Here in .AU, we're paying $15 for a single ticket, then $10 for popcorn/candy and a drink.
And they wonder why, when some of the movies rate about as much fun as prison rape, that people are somewhat irritiated with the pricing and don't go any more...
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Exchange is NOT a document management system. It's a an MTA, not a data repository.
If you have critical reference files, correspondence, etc in there, then it should be archived in a proper document management system - not in a "live" mail server.
"Disk for exchange is cheap!" does not scale - eventually you hit limits, be they the limit of your SAN, the limit of your budget, limits of exchange/pst files, or whatever.
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