LaTex is really the easiest word processing I've ever done. It's incredibly simple! You just grab a style file or someone else's sample document (there are some in the distributions or on CTAN), and fill the blanks with a text editor. Then type: latex file; dvips file; ghostview file.ps;
You don't have to worry about formatting EVER. Content! Not Form!
Red Hat 6.0 i386 mirror (US east coast)
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Your mirror is missing some directories. They're in the ls-lR file, though. That's reliable
This is a great post. Microslop has a vested interest in keeping people, especially children, ignorant about computers and how powerful they can be. The only way to be good with computers is to dive in and read the instructions. You can bet that's what Mexicans will be doing.
Until Apple offers an OS that doesn't crash, doesn't cost $$, is completely open, and runs on many platforms (x86, powerpc, alpha, sparc...), forget them.
LSB fixes standard features which distros will have to have to be "Linux". What if the file executable type had been "standardized" earlier? We'd still be using inferior a.out binaries. What if the C libraries were "standardized" earlier? We glibc users would be trying to thread with libc5. That would suck. These changes are not a terribly big deal if you have the source code for all your programs. You just recompile!
LSB will stifle Linux advancement for the benefit of fat-ass companies who don't want to release their code. These companies want to write a program, then sit on their hands and rake in the dough from selling the binaries. Pay someone to compile on another platform or release the source?! Goodness no! Screw them I say.
Compaq is realizing how much time and $$ Digital poured into the Alpha. Giving up on that would be pissing money down the toilet. But Compaq also knows how to move computers: Make them fast, reliable and affordable. Linux does these things.
So essentially he spends less time in prison if he pleads guilty to the crime than if he were to plead innocent and go through a lengthy trial. What a great justice system we have. The government can get people to admit guilt just by throwing them in prison and letting them go only after they admit guilt. Doesn't this violate the constitution? The right to a prompt trial by one's peers?
Good Piece. Give credit where credit is due.
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One should give credit where credit is due! To all us selfless minions! Free shared software was around before the FSF and it will be around long after.
Smart lawyers will still be able to make money suing those assholes that violate the GPL, like those who post only binaries of modified GPLed code. Maybe someone should put a reverse liability clause in the GPL: If you do not follow this license you may be liable to any lawyer for $100k or something. That would keep people from violating it.
You obviously don't have children
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The point of having a family is not just to create more people in the world. The point is to make the ultimate investment. By having children you are spending >20 years creating an individual who is smarter, more aware, and better than yourself and Richard Stallman. Your child will live long after you, and in doing so will improve the world as you have taught him/her to do. This is what "having kids" is about.
Can you say penis envy?
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Stallman is such an egomaniac. Better things to do than have kids? Somebody better rethink his plan on becoming immortal. It seems he wants glory for himself rather than to have people using a free operating system.
Thanks for the off-topic tirade in response to the orignal tirade. The point the original poster was trying to make was that we needn't put up with bad software or propriety formats. People don't have to use M$ software to communicate. To assume there aren't is ignorant. While not elegantly phrased, I think this a good point.
People use microsloth because they are computer literate and afraid of anything different. This is why Microsoft has a monopoly. Not because there are not better competing products on the market, but because of ignorant consumers. They all want to buy what everyone else has.
"The command line is dead?" This must be Microsoft or Apple minion. You all know that scripting is dead too, right? Bwa ha ha ha!!
And speaking of scripting, lynx makes an awesome http/ftp client for scripting. I have it in a script that automatically downloads all the day's news and reads it to me through my Festival voice synthesizer.
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I love the Princess's hair. And Luke's eyes
after he gets wacked by the sand people.
LaTex is really the easiest word processing I've ever done. It's incredibly simple! You just grab a style file or someone else's sample document (there are some in the distributions or on CTAN), and fill the blanks with a text editor.
Then type: latex file; dvips file; ghostview file.ps;
You don't have to worry about formatting EVER. Content! Not Form!
Your mirror is missing some directories. They're in the ls-lR file, though. That's reliable
This is a great post. Microslop has a vested interest in keeping people, especially children, ignorant about computers and how powerful they can be. The only way to be good with computers is to dive in and read the instructions. You can bet that's what Mexicans will be doing.
I love the speeder bike analysis. This guy
really went overboard.
Linux has truly saved us researchers large amounts of $$. Thanks, Linus.
http://www.gel.usherb.ca/grpetudiants/speechi/
Until Apple offers an OS that doesn't crash, doesn't cost $$, is completely open, and runs on many platforms (x86, powerpc, alpha, sparc...),
forget them.
I was going to buy ATI, but they such wankers I got a bt848 card instead. It works great and I'm happy with it. Too bad ATI.
I'd buy an Alpha in an instant if they were cheaper. That's the whole story.
LSB fixes standard features which distros will have to have to be "Linux". What if the file executable type had been "standardized" earlier? We'd still be using inferior a.out binaries. What if the C libraries were "standardized" earlier? We glibc users would be trying to thread with libc5. That would suck. These changes are not a terribly big deal if you have the source code for all your programs. You just recompile!
LSB will stifle Linux advancement for the benefit of fat-ass companies who don't want to release their code. These companies want to write a program, then sit on their hands and rake in the dough from selling the binaries. Pay someone to compile on another platform or release the source?! Goodness no! Screw them I say.
Compaq is realizing how much time and $$ Digital poured into the Alpha. Giving up on that would be pissing money down the toilet. But Compaq also knows how to move computers: Make them fast, reliable and affordable. Linux does these things.
This is a good move. Our research group buys alphas with Linux (without DU) because it saves us so much $$. That gives us more $$ to blow on hardware.
So essentially he spends less time in prison if he pleads guilty to the crime than if he were to plead innocent and go through a lengthy trial. What a great justice system we have. The government can get people to admit guilt just by throwing them in prison and letting them go only after they admit guilt. Doesn't this violate the constitution? The right to a prompt trial by one's peers?
Screw the hype. Apples suck
One should give credit where credit is due! To all us selfless minions! Free shared software was around before the FSF and it will be around long after.
Smart lawyers will still be able to make money suing those assholes that violate the GPL, like those who post only binaries of modified GPLed code. Maybe someone should put a reverse liability clause in the GPL: If you do not follow this license you may be liable to any lawyer for $100k or something. That would keep people from violating it.
The point of having a family is not just to create
more people in the world. The point is to make
the ultimate investment. By having children you
are spending >20 years creating an individual who
is smarter, more aware, and better than yourself and Richard Stallman.
Your child will live long after you, and in doing so
will improve the world as you have taught him/her
to do. This is what "having kids" is about.
Stallman is such an egomaniac. Better things to
do than have kids? Somebody better rethink his
plan on becoming immortal. It seems he wants
glory for himself rather than to have people using a free
operating system.
Thanks for the off-topic tirade in response to the orignal tirade. The point the original poster was trying to make was that we needn't put up with bad software or propriety formats. People don't have to use M$ software to communicate. To assume there aren't is ignorant. While not elegantly phrased, I think this a good point.
People use microsloth because they are computer illiterate and afraid of anything different.
Sorry.
I should use the preview button.
People use microsloth because they are computer literate and afraid of anything different. This is why Microsoft has a monopoly. Not because there are not better competing products on the market, but because of ignorant consumers. They all want to buy what everyone else has.
Good Point dude! I'm going to be running Quake at 1280x1024 when my VIII comes. That will Rule!
"The command line is dead?"
This must be Microsoft or Apple minion. You all know that scripting is dead too, right? Bwa ha ha ha!!
And speaking of scripting, lynx makes an awesome http/ftp client for scripting. I have it in a script that automatically downloads all the day's news and reads it to me through my Festival voice synthesizer.
Can I buy one without an operating system?