since it's doubtful microsoft will be broken up, maybe they will be forced to open up APIs and such enough that this could work.
I've often wished that wine would take the next step and implement an explorer-type option when run in desktop mode.
didn't any of you ever play with "executor", the mac OS "clone" wouldn't seem to be too hard to take that to the next level and make it standalone.
I'm all for it, even though I like linux a lot, I'd still love to see an opensource windows, though there is no way Microsoft wouldn't do everything in their power (which is absolute) to crush it.
There is no way to deny many (most) of the interface choices were built on copying outlook.
Maybe microsoft really did innovate some stuff, and as much as we hate to admit it, it's not bad (good enough to copy)
hopefully this will end up as a great email program which is better than outlook because it's open source, and has actual security, not just some ripoff made to be "almost" a product everyone claims to hate.
you can get real creative with the kinds of things you'd say if you were being woke up at 3am for wrong numbers which wouldn't even be open at that time anyway.
finally got the number changed (takes forever), and that one was 1 digit off from a tire store. but at least that was only a wrong number every other day or so.
this is one good reason sites should be able to shut down obvious typo sites.
A close-sounding name with a real, legitimate purpose is one thing, but purposely deceiving people is bad. and if they think they are at a site they are not, it can harm the company who is being "typoed"
I had a phone number 1 digit off from USWest when I was in college, and we'd get at least 20 wrong numbers a day. I started answering the phone "hello, this is uswest, how can I assist you" and usually they would buy it. Anyone they asked for, I'd say that they were fired. Not really my fault (I swear) but if I intentionally set up a phone company number for a competing company just 1 digit away so I could take their business, it would be wrong. And it's happened.
There really is no excuse for slashdot not coming up with a solution to this after this long, and this many slashdotted sites.
As slashdot is a site which receives over a million hits a day, and has made millions (billions?) of dollars off of linking other websites, it owes it to those sites and the visitors who have made it what it is, to implement a system which will not be detrimental to most of the sites which it links, and also will allow those of us who come here for information an opportunity to view it.
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I should have remembered that. I've actually done that before (when trying to install media player) Don't know why I got retarded and forgot about it. Thanks for the reminder.
I noticed the mp3s are a self-extracting executable. Probably could get them out under wine, but definitely not as linux-friendly as a zip file would have been.
When I was on a modem, I would frequently download files on the T3 at work, and throw them on a zip disk. I could burn a CD now if I didn't have broadband at home.
otherwise it might be worth it to download overnight, or with a download program (so you can do it in parts) and burn a CD to share with friends.
Can anybody tell me how to permanantly add the RA and Q3F mods permanantly to my mod list? or point me to an URL? I can't figure it out, and the add mod button doesn't work.
to use an extreme, but appropriate example, I'd bet my last dollar that if you met a nazi soldier in a bar, or were friends with his parents, you had exactly the same chance as you would with any other person of saying "gee, that hans is a nice guy."
but it would be stupid and inappropriate to say, "Since I know hans, and he is nice, then maybe the nazis are just misunderstood"
unfortunately, it looks like there is not going to be a linux client for Tribes 2.
Dave Georgeson says there still may be a SERVER ported to linux if they have time, but that's not guaranteed, and the linux client is looking very unlikely.
Other games which were promising linux ports are also dropping off the bandwagon. Duke Nukem Forever has now said that a linux port just isn't worth their time (even though they are based off the UT engine which has a Linux port already) and it's not gonna happen.
No games for linux without a market, and no market without games. The age old problem. And companies faced with losing money (apparently) on linux ports just aren't feeling that it's worth it anymore.
Hopefully the numbers will continue to grow, and companies will start to see profits by releasing linux games. For me, as a gamer and a linux user, there is nothing I want more than to see my favorite games on my favorite OS.
I'm sorry, but this is more bad news than good news.
descent 3 is long out of sales on windows, it's not even in the bargain bin anymore. This one game was a story on slashdot when the porting was announced, it is a story now, and it will be a story when the retail ships. If you think about that, you will realize how bad the state of linux gaming is in.
It's nice that they are porting the game, but so little so late.... definitely not somethign the linux community should be proud of.
And the very worst part is that the game is now so old and outdated (I got the full windows version for free with my video card over a year ago) that nobody will buy it, and game companies will say "see, there is no interest in games on linux"
after one of my favorite sites tribalwar.com started crashing my netscape every time I visited it (I think it's because of MSIE-centric javascript and iframes that the banner ads put on the pages) I just gave up completely.
I am now using MSIE, following the official policy of my place of employment, who also switched as of last month.
It's unfortunate, but Netscape really dropped the ball on this one, and the only real reason to stick with netscape at this point seems to be a dislike of microsoft.
If you knew my feelings about MSIE, and understood how much it took me to switch, you would know for sure that there is a problem with netscape.
considering the recent article about MSIE and how it's bastardizing the web, this is very unfortunate. But when Netscape crashes every time I visit my main site of interest, it's pretty much out of the running.
I hope NS6 will be good enough to bring people back, but from trying the beta, with that hideous interface, I can't imagine it will do much better.
sad, but it's a good thing they are acknowledging these problems instead of trying to ignore them like is done with many of the other problems in the opensource world today.
We have been seeing a lot of companies investing in Linux. Which is, obviously, a great thing.
The big problem, as I see it, is that we aren't (as yet) seeing any of these companys getting any appreciable return on their investments.
I love linux as much (or more) than the next guy, but I can't help but start to worry that the current fascination with Linux is going to start to fade very quickly unless a company like IBM can find a very real way to make their investments start to pay off.
We are seeing Corel hurting for sure, which they would probably be doing without linux, but it seems to be a current trend which, for me at least, is very uncomfortable to watch.
want to become a really good lawyer, and jump into these things to help all the people who are continually getting screwed over by big money and power?
of course, when you did become a lawyer, that desire would probably vanish, and you'd start adding to the mess instead.
Slashdot Mirror
er.... something...
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since it's doubtful microsoft will be broken up, maybe they will be forced to open up APIs and such enough that this could work.
I've often wished that wine would take the next step and implement an explorer-type option when run in desktop mode.
didn't any of you ever play with "executor", the mac OS "clone" wouldn't seem to be too hard to take that to the next level and make it standalone.
I'm all for it, even though I like linux a lot, I'd still love to see an opensource windows, though there is no way Microsoft wouldn't do everything in their power (which is absolute) to crush it.
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Maybe microsoft really did innovate some stuff, and as much as we hate to admit it, it's not bad (good enough to copy)
hopefully this will end up as a great email program which is better than outlook because it's open source, and has actual security, not just some ripoff made to be "almost" a product everyone claims to hate.
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you can get real creative with the kinds of things you'd say if you were being woke up at 3am for wrong numbers which wouldn't even be open at that time anyway.
finally got the number changed (takes forever), and that one was 1 digit off from a tire store. but at least that was only a wrong number every other day or so.
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since people are speaking of typo sites. (as you probably know, it's a site linking to anti-microsoft products.
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A close-sounding name with a real, legitimate purpose is one thing, but purposely deceiving people is bad. and if they think they are at a site they are not, it can harm the company who is being "typoed"
I had a phone number 1 digit off from USWest when I was in college, and we'd get at least 20 wrong numbers a day. I started answering the phone "hello, this is uswest, how can I assist you" and usually they would buy it. Anyone they asked for, I'd say that they were fired. Not really my fault (I swear) but if I intentionally set up a phone company number for a competing company just 1 digit away so I could take their business, it would be wrong. And it's happened.
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whitehouse.com should be taken offline because it's obviously taking advantage of another domain, not standing on its own.
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There really is no excuse for slashdot not coming up with a solution to this after this long, and this many slashdotted sites.
As slashdot is a site which receives over a million hits a day, and has made millions (billions?) of dollars off of linking other websites, it owes it to those sites and the visitors who have made it what it is, to implement a system which will not be detrimental to most of the sites which it links, and also will allow those of us who come here for information an opportunity to view it.
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I also thought some of the big contributors to KDE were from trolltech, though I'm not certain of that.
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It's hard trying to explain to new linux users why a KDE application won't work quite right in GNOME and the converse.
compatible themes are a small step in the right direction at least.
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I should have remembered that. I've actually done that before (when trying to install media player) Don't know why I got retarded and forgot about it. Thanks for the reminder.
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link without error message
linux client
server
enjoy, in spite of an extremely bad web author. (still generates error, but at least you can see the links)
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otherwise it might be worth it to download overnight, or with a download program (so you can do it in parts) and burn a CD to share with friends.
be creative, and you should be alright.
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noticed if I tried MSIE I didn't get that messgage. Anybody else?
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Can anybody tell me how to permanantly add the RA and Q3F mods permanantly to my mod list? or point me to an URL? I can't figure it out, and the add mod button doesn't work.
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to use an extreme, but appropriate example, I'd bet my last dollar that if you met a nazi soldier in a bar, or were friends with his parents, you had exactly the same chance as you would with any other person of saying "gee, that hans is a nice guy."
but it would be stupid and inappropriate to say, "Since I know hans, and he is nice, then maybe the nazis are just misunderstood"
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I'm sure somebody will get a good deal on it.
how much was one of them things when it was spankin new?
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Dave Georgeson says there still may be a SERVER ported to linux if they have time, but that's not guaranteed, and the linux client is looking very unlikely.
Other games which were promising linux ports are also dropping off the bandwagon. Duke Nukem Forever has now said that a linux port just isn't worth their time (even though they are based off the UT engine which has a Linux port already) and it's not gonna happen.
No games for linux without a market, and no market without games. The age old problem. And companies faced with losing money (apparently) on linux ports just aren't feeling that it's worth it anymore.
Hopefully the numbers will continue to grow, and companies will start to see profits by releasing linux games. For me, as a gamer and a linux user, there is nothing I want more than to see my favorite games on my favorite OS.
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descent 3 is long out of sales on windows, it's not even in the bargain bin anymore. This one game was a story on slashdot when the porting was announced, it is a story now, and it will be a story when the retail ships. If you think about that, you will realize how bad the state of linux gaming is in.
It's nice that they are porting the game, but so little so late.... definitely not somethign the linux community should be proud of.
And the very worst part is that the game is now so old and outdated (I got the full windows version for free with my video card over a year ago) that nobody will buy it, and game companies will say "see, there is no interest in games on linux"
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I am now using MSIE, following the official policy of my place of employment, who also switched as of last month.
It's unfortunate, but Netscape really dropped the ball on this one, and the only real reason to stick with netscape at this point seems to be a dislike of microsoft.
If you knew my feelings about MSIE, and understood how much it took me to switch, you would know for sure that there is a problem with netscape.
considering the recent article about MSIE and how it's bastardizing the web, this is very unfortunate. But when Netscape crashes every time I visit my main site of interest, it's pretty much out of the running.
I hope NS6 will be good enough to bring people back, but from trying the beta, with that hideous interface, I can't imagine it will do much better.
sad, but it's a good thing they are acknowledging these problems instead of trying to ignore them like is done with many of the other problems in the opensource world today.
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whether or not their reasons for not wanting to give it away are valid, it's still their choice, as it should be.
Napster is nice and all, but to say "this doesn't hurt them as much as they are claiming it hurts them" just seems irrelavlent.
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The big problem, as I see it, is that we aren't (as yet) seeing any of these companys getting any appreciable return on their investments.
I love linux as much (or more) than the next guy, but I can't help but start to worry that the current fascination with Linux is going to start to fade very quickly unless a company like IBM can find a very real way to make their investments start to pay off.
We are seeing Corel hurting for sure, which they would probably be doing without linux, but it seems to be a current trend which, for me at least, is very uncomfortable to watch.
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of course, when you did become a lawyer, that desire would probably vanish, and you'd start adding to the mess instead.
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