I personally have a hard time picturing my mom installing and maintaining Linux on her home computer.
My parents had windows. It became so virus/trojan and spam infested that it was impossible to use. I told them to wipe it and reinstall. They couldn't handle reinstalling windows (which I've found more difficult than reinstalling linux). So I took it, wiped it, and installed Linux with the latest Mozilla and OpenOffice. They love it. It's solid. OpenOffice works on every document they have. No viruses, no trojans, no pop-ups, no spam (thanks Mozilla!).
I'd say that Linux has recently surpassed Windows as useful as a desktop.
Years ago our labs were all DECs and SGIs. I and my cohorts started using Red Hat at home back then. It wasn't nearly as savy as it is now. A couple years later, when it came time to upgrade the machines, it was Red Hat that got installed everywhere.
The anthropic pricipal mandates that no human disease has even been 100% fatal
No it doesn't. It mandates that a 100% fatal disease has never spread to all humans. The point is that a 100% fatal disease cannot spread to all humans.
In the history of the world, nature has probably already produced such organisms. Organisms evolve due to mutations. This happens in single cell organisms much faster than multicellular ones. Bacteria that produce this protein have probably already existed at some point in time.
Why didn't they survive and take over the world? Because if a disease kills its hosts too efficiently (100%, say), its hosts don't have the chance to spread the disease. Really successful diseases kill only a fraction of those infected (say 25%), leaving the others to spread the disease. The plague doesn't kill everyone who gets it.
The big difference is that if MS did this, 90% of LG cdroms in the world would be dead. Mandrake does it, you get a handful. That is the danger of living with a monoculture. That is the danger of a monopoly.
it's got like every friggin ap & lib i'd ever need, plus with a single command line switch i can compile straight into my own binary tarballs, which reside on my nfs server. it's so simple to export the packages dir to any new machines i need to install on. it's like having my own copy of the Redhat rpm tree with binaries that actually work... no matter what deps they have.
With rpm, you just grab source rpms, build them, and you have your custom binary rpms with all the right deps. Same thing -- if you actually want to take the time.
Real power users are the ones throw a server distn of RedHat onto a computer in 15 minutes and have it jamming out 75MB/s over NFS 5 minutes later.
the engineers are deciding that Linux is a great way to save time and money in embedded environments without realizing that the viral nature of the GPL
How did this get modded up? I have never met a software engineer who does not know what the GPL is, or who does not know to check the license on any piece of software that they use.
This Linksys BS is a case of greed, pure and simple.
Apparently, RobLimo's only slowdown problem is CTRL-C and CTRL-V. Of course, for Windows users, those are incredibly fast shortcuts for them. I use them all the time. If this is all he can offer alongside pointless IE/OE bitching, there is no other point for his article than to be Windows flamebait. In fact, I find it amusing he complains about the copy/paste shortcuts and ignores the fact that Linux can barely copy/paste anything between apps.
These may be "incredibly fast shortcuts" for a Windows user, but not for a real computer user. You belittle this copy-paste convenience, but it really speeds one up. My wife prefers composing documents on Linux for this reason alone. At home she uses Linux, and throws together multiple documents like mad. At work she has to use Windows and Macs, and the absence of text pasting with a single mouse click drives her nuts. I would drive me nuts too, but I never use windows.
For me multiple virtual desktops are better than multiple monitors. My keyboard shortcuts are really fast, and I can easily manage 6 desktops. There's no way that many monitors would fit on my desk.
I tried this last year, but the devices on the same firewire chain got assigned somewhat randomly by the Linux driver so it was very difficult to tell which device corresponded to which physical drive. If you had trouble with one device it was difficult to tell which drive it was.
Everyone, even SCO concedes that one of the prime reason for suing IBM is to get bought out. SGI probably doesn't have that sort of cash, especially now that SCO's stock has jumped.
If customers don't like "Free", don't tell them that it's free. Charge them for it. Tell them it's industrial strength software that's far more reliable than Microsoft.
Tell them that they can get regular updates through your company as part of the initial contract.
I agree that it is good that the US share its wealth with other countries. The problem is in how it is happening. Currently it is those on the bottom whose jobs just disappear. You end up with a substantial portion of the population that can't afford to purchase anything, hardly expensive products. And it is those at the top of the ladder that keep their jobs and get richer by eliminating the jobs of others. Basically the very rich profit from cost-of-living differentials in the world.
Identify what it is that you can do that cannot be done by anyone else This is a moronic statement. You think that there aren't smart, talented people living in countries with lower costs of living who can learn anything that you can? If so, then you are truly ignorant.
People are _SO_ freaking paranoid these days. Having access to a database like this could be enormously helpful to a great range of people. But all people think about is, "What will al Queda do with it?"
Since 2000 about 3,000 people have died in terrorist attacks. About 175,000 have died in car accidents. About what should we be worried?
Redhat can make the same claim that SCO is making about distributing Linux code. "We didn't know that code was in there." If not even SCO knew the code was in there when SCO was distributing Linux, how could Redhat be held liable?
If they attempt to sue a Linux company or a linux user for using Linux, they will have to reveal in court, in public, all duplicated code in question. Once that happens (if this duplicated code actually exists), you can bet your $$ that code will be gone from Linux in less that 12 hours.
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I personally have a hard time picturing my mom installing and maintaining Linux on her home computer.
My parents had windows. It became so virus/trojan and spam infested that it was impossible to use. I told them to wipe it and reinstall. They couldn't handle reinstalling windows (which I've found more difficult than reinstalling linux). So I took it, wiped it, and installed Linux with the latest Mozilla and OpenOffice. They love it. It's solid. OpenOffice works on every document they have. No viruses, no trojans, no pop-ups, no spam (thanks Mozilla!).
I'd say that Linux has recently surpassed Windows as useful as a desktop.
Years ago our labs were all DECs and SGIs. I and my cohorts started using Red Hat at home back then. It wasn't nearly as savy as it is now. A couple years later, when it came time to upgrade the machines, it was Red Hat that got installed everywhere.
The anthropic pricipal mandates that no human disease has even been 100% fatal
No it doesn't. It mandates that a 100% fatal disease has never spread to all humans. The point is that a 100% fatal disease cannot spread to all humans.
In the history of the world, nature has probably already produced such organisms. Organisms evolve due to mutations. This happens in single cell organisms much faster than multicellular ones. Bacteria that produce this protein have probably already existed at some point in time.
Why didn't they survive and take over the world? Because if a disease kills its hosts too efficiently (100%, say), its hosts don't have the chance to spread the disease. Really successful diseases kill only a fraction of those infected (say 25%), leaving the others to spread the disease. The plague doesn't kill everyone who gets it.
The big difference is that if MS did this, 90% of LG cdroms in the world would be dead. Mandrake does it, you get a handful. That is the danger of living with a monoculture. That is the danger of a monopoly.
Yopy.com is running a survey on which operating system people use. Check out the results! This is the nerd handheld. Gotta get me one.
it's got like every friggin ap & lib i'd ever need, plus with a single command line switch i can compile straight into my own binary tarballs, which reside on my nfs server. it's so simple to export the packages dir to any new machines i need to install on. it's like having my own copy of the Redhat rpm tree with binaries that actually work... no matter what deps they have.
With rpm, you just grab source rpms, build them, and you have your custom binary rpms with all the right deps. Same thing -- if you actually want to take the time.
Real power users are the ones throw a server distn of RedHat onto a computer in 15 minutes and have it jamming out 75MB/s over NFS 5 minutes later.
the engineers are deciding that Linux is a great way to save time and money in embedded environments without realizing that the viral nature of the GPL
How did this get modded up?
I have never met a software engineer who does not know what the GPL is, or who does not know to check the license on any piece of software that they use.
This Linksys BS is a case of greed, pure and simple.
1. Click/hold first mouse button and highlight text.
2. Click second mouse button on field to paste.
Apparently, RobLimo's only slowdown problem is CTRL-C and CTRL-V. Of course, for Windows users, those are incredibly fast shortcuts for them. I use them all the time. If this is all he can offer alongside pointless IE/OE bitching, there is no other point for his article than to be Windows flamebait. In fact, I find it amusing he complains about the copy/paste shortcuts and ignores the fact that Linux can barely copy/paste anything between apps.
These may be "incredibly fast shortcuts" for a Windows user, but not for a real computer user. You belittle this copy-paste convenience, but it really speeds one up. My wife prefers composing documents on Linux for this reason alone. At home she uses Linux, and throws together multiple documents like mad. At work she has to use Windows and Macs, and the absence of text pasting with a single mouse click drives her nuts. I would drive me nuts too, but I never use windows.
For me multiple virtual desktops are better than multiple monitors. My keyboard shortcuts are really fast, and I can easily manage 6 desktops. There's no way that many monitors would fit on my desk.
I tried this last year, but the devices on the same firewire chain got assigned somewhat randomly by the Linux driver so it was very difficult to tell which device corresponded to which physical drive. If you had trouble with one device it was difficult to tell which drive it was.
Can you get those in the US? If yes, where?
These are getting common .
Everyone, even SCO concedes that one of the prime reason for suing IBM is to get bought out. SGI probably doesn't have that sort of cash, especially now that SCO's stock has jumped.
If customers don't like "Free", don't tell them that it's free. Charge them for it. Tell them it's industrial strength software that's far more reliable than Microsoft.
Tell them that they can get regular updates through your company as part of the initial contract.
They're just looking to nab the people that post "There will be a Jihad and DEATH TO AMERICANS!!!".
They're believed to be related to racoons. Take a look at the lesser panda.
XFS is good. We've used it for years and years on SGIs without fail.
Get a TV output for your computer. That's how I watch DVDs, home movies, etc.
I agree that it is good that the US share its wealth with other countries. The problem is in how it is happening. Currently it is those on the bottom whose jobs just disappear. You end up with a substantial portion of the population that can't afford to purchase anything, hardly expensive products. And it is those at the top of the ladder that keep their jobs and get richer by eliminating the jobs of others. Basically the very rich profit from cost-of-living differentials in the world.
Identify what it is that you can do that cannot be done by anyone else
This is a moronic statement. You think that there aren't smart, talented people living in countries with lower costs of living who can learn anything that you can? If so, then you are truly ignorant.
Yes, it's probably a good thing that the US begin to share it's wealth with other countries, however there are problems with how it is happening.
People are _SO_ freaking paranoid these days. Having access to a database like this could be enormously helpful to a great range of people. But all people think about is, "What will al Queda do with it?"
Since 2000 about 3,000 people have died in terrorist attacks. About 175,000 have died in car accidents. About what should we be worried?
I hope to be 5 years older.
How slow is that?
Redhat can make the same claim that SCO is making about distributing Linux code. "We didn't know that code was in there." If not even SCO knew the code was in there when SCO was distributing Linux, how could Redhat be held liable?
If they attempt to sue a Linux company or a linux user for using Linux, they will have to reveal in court, in public, all duplicated code in question. Once that happens (if this duplicated code actually exists), you can bet your $$ that code will be gone from Linux in less that 12 hours.