I was excited about Red Hat 7.2 also. But what's up with their new pricing?
Used to be Standard=$29.95, Workstation=$69.95(?), and Pro=$129.95. (Those are wrong I think). Now they have Workstation=$59.95 and Pro=$199.95. Hey, I know this is free shit but why the ramp?
That stuff made me want to throw up! But then I got this weird feeling about my hash-bang hat, my Red Hat T's, and my penguin tatoo. I'm just as...
Ah, fuck it! That stuff makes me throw up.
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You're completely correct. I must have severly brain-farted. Makes much more sense now. Thanks!
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I'm a little new at firewire, so maybe someone can answer this question for me.
In our NOC at work we have a habbit of copying CD's that are used often to the network for easy access. We do this by placing the CD directly into the file server that will be holding the data, so there's no network file transfers going on.
Some of our file servers are not SCSI, but they do use ATA100 and still perform quite well. When we copy a full 650M CD to these servers it takes longer then 10 seconds. In this situation we've got 100MB/sec. transfer rate available, but it still takes longer then 10 seconds. I understand fine that there's overhead involved, and that's exactly the point I'm trying to make.
Even though ATA100 gives you a theoretical ceiling of 100MB/sec. you'll likely never see it. That's twice the bandwidth of IEEE1394 but it still takes longer then 10 seconds. So why is everyone treating this "10 seconds" fact about the iPod as fact? Is fireware really capable of moving data that fast?
Are you saying that, once ripped, each CD's worth of music will take up 650-750MB of storage? Aren't you forgetting the whole idea behind MP3's, to compress the songs?
In my experience, a ~3.5 minute song ripped at 128k MP3 can take around 4MB of space. Given a 15 track CD that's only 60MB. If you have a 650MB CD-R to work with there's a good chance you can fit ~11 CD's worth of music on there. I picked up one of those Kenwood car CD/MP3 player 6 months ago and this is the exact thing I have been doing. I can fit about 10 hours of music on a single CD-R.
Using the same numbers (rough, I admit), you could fit ~85 CD's into a 5GB package, which sure beats the hell out of carrying multiple minidiscs, SD, or flash cards.
See, now you're starting to take this in a direction that several others are. You're acting like you have a vested personal interest in the inner workings of Slashdot. To be quite frank about it, it's not the business of anyone here how many, or who, is employed by Slashdot. In fact, you're pushing it to far in the wrong direction.
We, as readers, visit this site for news, community, and silly humor without paying a cent to Slashdot. Well, personaly I have purchased several things at ThinkGeek which I discovered first through Slashdot banner ads, and would like to hope that Slashdot sees some revenue out of that. But for the most part, we essentially show up here and do what we want and get pissed if it doesn't work.
Now suddenly the idea of subscriptions comes up and you feel entitled to know who exactly is employed and what their daily expenses are. What are you, a fucking share-holder? No, you're the complete opposite. You come by and take (read) all the time, and only give (post) when you feel like it. Tell me, what is it that makes you think you deserve this site on your terms?
We're all starting to look like a bunch of idiots. We're so proud of ourselves preaching about open-source, free software, open standards; but none of us seem to embrace it as a true lifestyle, only when it means we can get free software. Wasn't one of the dreams to "start our own web site, and what if we could make money from it!"? Now some of us have gone and done it, but since they're not doing it the way we want well we'll just tell them who's boss.
$20/year? Hell, I'll give up more then that to keep/. alive. How much is it worth to you?
I'll gladly pay a fee for what Slashdot provides me. I've mentioned this site as a valluable resource to friends and have said countless times that, to me, it's worth it weight in quarters (sorry, gold is reserved for much more important things).
For me it's not the issue that, for the most part, Slashdot is just referencing stories at other locations. It's the service of compiling those stories together so I don't have to go searching for them. (I also enjoy the community of people that gather here.)
It's hard for me to see how it's any different then many other things we take for granted. When you purchase a new home, I bet if you did enough research you could buy all the supplies, hire a crew, and play a major personal role in the construction of your house. Not that that's bad, there are many people who find enjoyment in that very thing! But for the majority, it's much easier to have all those things handled for you and only have to decide on a bottom line. Resources of all kinds are available to all kinds of people for however you may choose to use them. But if you find it better to pay, or otherwise compensate, someone to do it for you, that is also your choice. I prefer to spend my time in such a way that I am unable to constantly hunt down interesting stories on a regular basis. Slashdot does it for me and does it well in my opinion and I am gratefull.
On the other hand, there are probably many of you that either have more time to look for interesting news, or, more likely, are just more effecient at it than I am. If you are satisfied with having to do the searching yourself I am not here to argue with you. On your way to finding your own news you are more likely to come across other interesting stories that people like me would miss, a sacrifice I am willing to make considering I can barely keep up with Slashdot.
Don't flame me simply because you disagree with me. Remember, you can only expect freedom in an ammount alloted equal to that which you give others.
It would be great if the emotions were offered as several options to the vehicle. That way you could have your choice between the "teeny-bopper mall rat" or the "knight rider-ish intellectual".
"Yeah, gimme the AM radio, fake wood paneling, and the 'start drinkin' at 9am, deadbeat, wife beater' personality".
Actually, in order for it to be a topic of discussion, I'm sure a heatsink had to "fall off" at least once. Actually, once probably wouldn't do it since it could be considered a fluke. So I believe it's safe to assume that a heat sink has "fallen off" at least three to five times.
Having said that, let's go back and say it has happened only one time. Now, how many times can you remember the sky "falling off"? Funny, I can't either. It is safe to say that there is a better chance of your heat sink "falling off" then the sky "falling off".
Either I'm using a special edition of KDE I'm not aware of you're just plain wrong. I've been running an Aqua-like* them on top of KDE for the past ~2 months and my icons have been themed.
*Theme name changed to protect poster from sue happy Apple.
My God, man. You can certainly whine. And it comes across like you aren't genuinely interested to the answers to your questions, only in displaying that you know what all those things are. It makes my head hurt.
I am extremely excited by Comptia offering a Linux+ cert. Having completed their A+ and NET+, I feel confident they'll do a good job. Have you taken any Comptia exams, or are you just ranting to show off? The NET+ exam was very platform independant, ranging from Windows to Novell to Unix to hints of Mac.
Not to mention the Comptia name recognition. I have mentioned to my employer before ideas of attempting the LPI or Sair Linux certs and they have no idea who I'm talking about. Sair who? LPI Who? But when I mention my NET+ cert they allways know who Comptia is, and trust them at that.
I'm still interested in your reasons for ranting. You may not intend to, but you're coming across very elitest proclaiming "I can't imagine working for a company that activly and supports redhat on the server end." I'll forgive your grammer, but why such a statement? We use Red Hat for several things at our company, from Squid servers to routers to web/ftp servers to health monitoring servers. I work in an environment where I am one of two people competent in Linux and the other is four hours away. This means every Linux server application has to be as easy to use as possible with as much available documentation as possible. Red Hat was an easy choice. My office mate could care less about the "open source freedom fighters", he just wants to be able to pick up a book and get his work done. From my trip to the local book store last night there are absolutely more books on Red Hat then any other distro. You are either to young, to inexperienced, or just plain to inflexible.
Back on topic: I imagine sections on package management will be cross-distro, i.e. discussions on different systems like RPM, DEB, and.tgz files. The Sair exams seem to favor SuSe heavily, and therefore stuck to RPM management. Shell scripting will no doubt be similar. It would be assinine to stick to only one language.
You also have questions you need to ask yourself. Will you not accept a job from anyone running Red Hat? If you refure to use Red Hat now, forgoing the RPM package mechanism, and not learning about it the process, how can expect to be a well rounded candidate for a Linux position? Remeber, in most cases it's not you telling them what to do, it's them telling you what to do. It's good that you're passionate, but there are things you must consider.
It's got to be fake, or they are seriously not paying attention. Some of the listed songs are not even remotely about "evil". Not to mention they forgot the most obvious song of all: "Killing an Arab" - The Cure.
I've been very happy with Solitaire, the algorithm designed by Bruce Schneier and made popular in Neal Stephenson's book Cryptonomicon. If you ever have any spare time, it's very easy to learn. I picked it up while waiting for some Nessus scans to complete.
It's built around a keyed deck of cards, but I ended up writing a small program to handle it for me. AFAIK, there's has been a way to get around it yet..
Wow, you must have had one with an early bios. Like the other reply says, you can now forward specific ports and port ranges, up to 10 seperate entries.
And if you're looking to forward all ports it will do that to. It allows you to set up a DMZ host. It doesn't allow you to setup multiple DMZ hosts, but I suppose you could set another router as the DMZ and branch your hosts from it.
If the proxy is on your side of the router, the logs will show the proxy accessing web sites instead of you accessing them directly. If there are several people using that proxy, you may be able to somewhat "mask" your traffic since you can only tell where the proxy is going, not necessarily who told it to go there. If you have to authenticate to the proxy, then it becomes very easy to just check the proxy logs for your specific traffic.
If the proxy is on the other side of the router, the logs will only show you accessing that proxy. The router itself cannot tell where you're telling that proxy to go, you would need a packet sniffer for that.
For any of this to work you obviously need access to a proxy server, you don't just set an option in IE to make it work. You can also check out something like Safeweb.
It's possible. We dismantled a laptop at our facility here because of (what we thought was) a dead screen. The only two leads coming from the LCD were for power and VGA. Power was easy enough to splice in, but the VGA cable was a ribbon cable, as I imagine most are. It was all a task of trial and error, figuring out which trace matched to which pin on a standard 15 pin D-shell connector.
If you're lucky, or know people, you can sometimes find white papers or tech-specs on those "pinouts". I've only done it once, but I bet there's a lot of similarity within brands or even in laptops in general. If I can find my notes from back then I'll post the process we used to attatch the ribbon to the D-shell.
On this page of photos of Fischer, there's a comparison of signatures at the bottom. Why is Bobby being compared to Richard D. James? Are they trying to say he's Aphex Twin?
Actually, it would seem it's the other way around.
I was just browsing through a new HP-UX 11i guide, looking at info about CIFS/9000 which is based in large part on Samba. Since it's based on open-source software CIFS/9000 is free to download, but note that it only runs on HP-UX 11.x.
And that seems to be a good system for them: Develop tools based off the work of open-source projects (so the ground work is already done for you), but tailor them to only run on HP-UX. That way re-releasing the new tools for free doesn't hurt you, because the only way for someone to use them is if they are a paying HP-UX customer.
They've got the best of both worlds. The grunt work and benifits of open-source developers, AND they get to keep charging huge ammounts of money for the OS.
Ah, but soon, thanks to Yet Another Corporate Merger, we'll have another defunt company icon in the topics field. (misspellings preserved)
This probably isn't related, but I keep hearing hints that Cisco has big plans along these same lines. I can't imagine what it would be, and I don't think it's any of the rumors from the past (Cisco + Novell).
Has anyone else picked up on anything? I tried a Google search to see if there was any news out there but nothing realy turns up.
This isn't so much about the CPU itself, but the chipset it fits to:
The BIOS on all Itanium chipsets (AFAIK) are setup to have a small kernel onboard. I.E. - you can boot the system with limited funcionality even if there's no floppy, HDD, or other boot medium present. If you do have a filesystem present, the "BIOS-boot" will even give you access to it.
Not the biggest feature on the block but helpfull none the less.
Yes, actually. Gnome was (barely) useful at one time
Gnome used to be my desktop of choice. Since the release of KDE 2.x I have used KDE exclusively. I don't think I'd go so far as to say it was barely useful. And I don't think how useful it was or wasn't has anythink to do with any toolkit it uses. A menu is useful because it is well designed, not because it does/doesn't use QT.
Tighter, less crashes, better-looking... why stick with crap? Loyalty? Stubbornness? Inability to admit that you were - *gasp* - wrong?
I don't think it's a matter of admiting you're wrong, I think it's a matter of knowing when you're the one that should admit it (using "you" figuratively). Linux users are definitely in the minority, and as such we tend to become so involved in the uphill battle that we...
Linux/*BSD would be better served if the egos would just be dropped
...dropped our egos. We have so many battles to fight that we become complacent and start spitting canned responses when poked or proded. Before XP is even out we're allready passing judgement on it. I've had XP Pro RC2 installed on a machine in our NOC for a few weeks now, and I have to admit there are things I like about it. This doesn't mean I don't have issues with Microsoft, it's purely the technology I'm evaluating. Sometimes I feel like the/. crowd has such a hard time moving past the Microsoft name, they wouldn't recognize a truely inovative feature from them if it bit them on the ass. If you expect people to admit their wrong, ask how easy it would be to admit you're wrong.
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You dual-boot Linux and XP exactly the same as with 2000.
I was excited about Red Hat 7.2 also. But what's up with their new pricing?
Used to be Standard=$29.95, Workstation=$69.95(?), and Pro=$129.95. (Those are wrong I think). Now they have Workstation=$59.95 and Pro=$199.95. Hey, I know this is free shit but why the ramp?
That stuff made me want to throw up! But then I got this weird feeling about my hash-bang hat, my Red Hat T's, and my penguin tatoo. I'm just as...
Ah, fuck it! That stuff makes me throw up.
You're completely correct. I must have severly brain-farted. Makes much more sense now. Thanks!
I'm a little new at firewire, so maybe someone can answer this question for me.
In our NOC at work we have a habbit of copying CD's that are used often to the network for easy access. We do this by placing the CD directly into the file server that will be holding the data, so there's no network file transfers going on.
Some of our file servers are not SCSI, but they do use ATA100 and still perform quite well. When we copy a full 650M CD to these servers it takes longer then 10 seconds. In this situation we've got 100MB/sec. transfer rate available, but it still takes longer then 10 seconds. I understand fine that there's overhead involved, and that's exactly the point I'm trying to make.
Even though ATA100 gives you a theoretical ceiling of 100MB/sec. you'll likely never see it. That's twice the bandwidth of IEEE1394 but it still takes longer then 10 seconds. So why is everyone treating this "10 seconds" fact about the iPod as fact? Is fireware really capable of moving data that fast?
Are you saying that, once ripped, each CD's worth of music will take up 650-750MB of storage? Aren't you forgetting the whole idea behind MP3's, to compress the songs?
In my experience, a ~3.5 minute song ripped at 128k MP3 can take around 4MB of space. Given a 15 track CD that's only 60MB. If you have a 650MB CD-R to work with there's a good chance you can fit ~11 CD's worth of music on there. I picked up one of those Kenwood car CD/MP3 player 6 months ago and this is the exact thing I have been doing. I can fit about 10 hours of music on a single CD-R.
Using the same numbers (rough, I admit), you could fit ~85 CD's into a 5GB package, which sure beats the hell out of carrying multiple minidiscs, SD, or flash cards.
See, now you're starting to take this in a direction that several others are. You're acting like you have a vested personal interest in the inner workings of Slashdot. To be quite frank about it, it's not the business of anyone here how many, or who, is employed by Slashdot. In fact, you're pushing it to far in the wrong direction.
/. alive. How much is it worth to you?
We, as readers, visit this site for news, community, and silly humor without paying a cent to Slashdot. Well, personaly I have purchased several things at ThinkGeek which I discovered first through Slashdot banner ads, and would like to hope that Slashdot sees some revenue out of that. But for the most part, we essentially show up here and do what we want and get pissed if it doesn't work.
Now suddenly the idea of subscriptions comes up and you feel entitled to know who exactly is employed and what their daily expenses are. What are you, a fucking share-holder? No, you're the complete opposite. You come by and take (read) all the time, and only give (post) when you feel like it. Tell me, what is it that makes you think you deserve this site on your terms?
We're all starting to look like a bunch of idiots. We're so proud of ourselves preaching about open-source, free software, open standards; but none of us seem to embrace it as a true lifestyle, only when it means we can get free software. Wasn't one of the dreams to "start our own web site, and what if we could make money from it!"? Now some of us have gone and done it, but since they're not doing it the way we want well we'll just tell them who's boss.
$20/year? Hell, I'll give up more then that to keep
I'll gladly pay a fee for what Slashdot provides me. I've mentioned this site as a valluable resource to friends and have said countless times that, to me, it's worth it weight in quarters (sorry, gold is reserved for much more important things).
For me it's not the issue that, for the most part, Slashdot is just referencing stories at other locations. It's the service of compiling those stories together so I don't have to go searching for them. (I also enjoy the community of people that gather here.)
It's hard for me to see how it's any different then many other things we take for granted. When you purchase a new home, I bet if you did enough research you could buy all the supplies, hire a crew, and play a major personal role in the construction of your house. Not that that's bad, there are many people who find enjoyment in that very thing! But for the majority, it's much easier to have all those things handled for you and only have to decide on a bottom line. Resources of all kinds are available to all kinds of people for however you may choose to use them. But if you find it better to pay, or otherwise compensate, someone to do it for you, that is also your choice. I prefer to spend my time in such a way that I am unable to constantly hunt down interesting stories on a regular basis. Slashdot does it for me and does it well in my opinion and I am gratefull.
On the other hand, there are probably many of you that either have more time to look for interesting news, or, more likely, are just more effecient at it than I am. If you are satisfied with having to do the searching yourself I am not here to argue with you. On your way to finding your own news you are more likely to come across other interesting stories that people like me would miss, a sacrifice I am willing to make considering I can barely keep up with Slashdot.
Don't flame me simply because you disagree with me. Remember, you can only expect freedom in an ammount alloted equal to that which you give others.
It would be great if the emotions were offered as several options to the vehicle. That way you could have your choice between the "teeny-bopper mall rat" or the "knight rider-ish intellectual".
"Yeah, gimme the AM radio, fake wood paneling, and the 'start drinkin' at 9am, deadbeat, wife beater' personality".
Actually, in order for it to be a topic of discussion, I'm sure a heatsink had to "fall off" at least once. Actually, once probably wouldn't do it since it could be considered a fluke. So I believe it's safe to assume that a heat sink has "fallen off" at least three to five times.
Having said that, let's go back and say it has happened only one time. Now, how many times can you remember the sky "falling off"? Funny, I can't either. It is safe to say that there is a better chance of your heat sink "falling off" then the sky "falling off".
Either I'm using a special edition of KDE I'm not aware of you're just plain wrong. I've been running an Aqua-like* them on top of KDE for the past ~2 months and my icons have been themed.
*Theme name changed to protect poster from sue happy Apple.
My God, man. You can certainly whine. And it comes across like you aren't genuinely interested to the answers to your questions, only in displaying that you know what all those things are. It makes my head hurt.
.tgz files. The Sair exams seem to favor SuSe heavily, and therefore stuck to RPM management. Shell scripting will no doubt be similar. It would be assinine to stick to only one language.
I am extremely excited by Comptia offering a Linux+ cert. Having completed their A+ and NET+, I feel confident they'll do a good job. Have you taken any Comptia exams, or are you just ranting to show off? The NET+ exam was very platform independant, ranging from Windows to Novell to Unix to hints of Mac.
Not to mention the Comptia name recognition. I have mentioned to my employer before ideas of attempting the LPI or Sair Linux certs and they have no idea who I'm talking about. Sair who? LPI Who? But when I mention my NET+ cert they allways know who Comptia is, and trust them at that.
I'm still interested in your reasons for ranting. You may not intend to, but you're coming across very elitest proclaiming "I can't imagine working for a company that activly and supports redhat on the server end." I'll forgive your grammer, but why such a statement? We use Red Hat for several things at our company, from Squid servers to routers to web/ftp servers to health monitoring servers. I work in an environment where I am one of two people competent in Linux and the other is four hours away. This means every Linux server application has to be as easy to use as possible with as much available documentation as possible. Red Hat was an easy choice. My office mate could care less about the "open source freedom fighters", he just wants to be able to pick up a book and get his work done. From my trip to the local book store last night there are absolutely more books on Red Hat then any other distro. You are either to young, to inexperienced, or just plain to inflexible.
Back on topic: I imagine sections on package management will be cross-distro, i.e. discussions on different systems like RPM, DEB, and
You also have questions you need to ask yourself. Will you not accept a job from anyone running Red Hat? If you refure to use Red Hat now, forgoing the RPM package mechanism, and not learning about it the process, how can expect to be a well rounded candidate for a Linux position? Remeber, in most cases it's not you telling them what to do, it's them telling you what to do. It's good that you're passionate, but there are things you must consider.
It's got to be fake, or they are seriously not paying attention. Some of the listed songs are not even remotely about "evil". Not to mention they forgot the most obvious song of all: "Killing an Arab" - The Cure.
Speaking of cards...
I've been very happy with Solitaire, the algorithm designed by Bruce Schneier and made popular in Neal Stephenson's book Cryptonomicon. If you ever have any spare time, it's very easy to learn. I picked it up while waiting for some Nessus scans to complete.
It's built around a keyed deck of cards, but I ended up writing a small program to handle it for me. AFAIK, there's has been a way to get around it yet..
Wow, you must have had one with an early bios. Like the other reply says, you can now forward specific ports and port ranges, up to 10 seperate entries.
And if you're looking to forward all ports it will do that to. It allows you to set up a DMZ host. It doesn't allow you to setup multiple DMZ hosts, but I suppose you could set another router as the DMZ and branch your hosts from it.
If the proxy is on your side of the router, the logs will show the proxy accessing web sites instead of you accessing them directly. If there are several people using that proxy, you may be able to somewhat "mask" your traffic since you can only tell where the proxy is going, not necessarily who told it to go there. If you have to authenticate to the proxy, then it becomes very easy to just check the proxy logs for your specific traffic.
If the proxy is on the other side of the router, the logs will only show you accessing that proxy. The router itself cannot tell where you're telling that proxy to go, you would need a packet sniffer for that.
For any of this to work you obviously need access to a proxy server, you don't just set an option in IE to make it work. You can also check out something like Safeweb.
It's possible. We dismantled a laptop at our facility here because of (what we thought was) a dead screen. The only two leads coming from the LCD were for power and VGA. Power was easy enough to splice in, but the VGA cable was a ribbon cable, as I imagine most are. It was all a task of trial and error, figuring out which trace matched to which pin on a standard 15 pin D-shell connector.
If you're lucky, or know people, you can sometimes find white papers or tech-specs on those "pinouts". I've only done it once, but I bet there's a lot of similarity within brands or even in laptops in general. If I can find my notes from back then I'll post the process we used to attatch the ribbon to the D-shell.
I get it. Problem is I screwed up in the first place. AFX isn't Robert D. James, it's Richard D. James.
On this page of photos of Fischer, there's a comparison of signatures at the bottom. Why is Bobby being compared to Richard D. James? Are they trying to say he's Aphex Twin?
Actually, it would seem it's the other way around.
I was just browsing through a new HP-UX 11i guide, looking at info about CIFS/9000 which is based in large part on Samba. Since it's based on open-source software CIFS/9000 is free to download, but note that it only runs on HP-UX 11.x.
And that seems to be a good system for them: Develop tools based off the work of open-source projects (so the ground work is already done for you), but tailor them to only run on HP-UX. That way re-releasing the new tools for free doesn't hurt you, because the only way for someone to use them is if they are a paying HP-UX customer.
They've got the best of both worlds. The grunt work and benifits of open-source developers, AND they get to keep charging huge ammounts of money for the OS.
Ah, but soon, thanks to Yet Another Corporate Merger, we'll have another defunt company icon in the topics field. (misspellings preserved)
This probably isn't related, but I keep hearing hints that Cisco has big plans along these same lines. I can't imagine what it would be, and I don't think it's any of the rumors from the past (Cisco + Novell).
Has anyone else picked up on anything? I tried a Google search to see if there was any news out there but nothing realy turns up.
Linux? "developed by Intel and Hewlett-Packard"?
I'm still confused
This isn't so much about the CPU itself, but the chipset it fits to:
The BIOS on all Itanium chipsets (AFAIK) are setup to have a small kernel onboard. I.E. - you can boot the system with limited funcionality even if there's no floppy, HDD, or other boot medium present. If you do have a filesystem present, the "BIOS-boot" will even give you access to it.
Not the biggest feature on the block but helpfull none the less.
Yes, actually. Gnome was (barely) useful at one time
/. crowd has such a hard time moving past the Microsoft name, they wouldn't recognize a truely inovative feature from them if it bit them on the ass. If you expect people to admit their wrong, ask how easy it would be to admit you're wrong.
Gnome used to be my desktop of choice. Since the release of KDE 2.x I have used KDE exclusively. I don't think I'd go so far as to say it was barely useful. And I don't think how useful it was or wasn't has anythink to do with any toolkit it uses. A menu is useful because it is well designed, not because it does/doesn't use QT.
Tighter, less crashes, better-looking... why stick with crap? Loyalty? Stubbornness? Inability to admit that you were - *gasp* - wrong?
I don't think it's a matter of admiting you're wrong, I think it's a matter of knowing when you're the one that should admit it (using "you" figuratively). Linux users are definitely in the minority, and as such we tend to become so involved in the uphill battle that we...
Linux/*BSD would be better served if the egos would just be dropped
...dropped our egos. We have so many battles to fight that we become complacent and start spitting canned responses when poked or proded. Before XP is even out we're allready passing judgement on it. I've had XP Pro RC2 installed on a machine in our NOC for a few weeks now, and I have to admit there are things I like about it. This doesn't mean I don't have issues with Microsoft, it's purely the technology I'm evaluating. Sometimes I feel like the
This is what it's all about. I greatly appreciate that link, I have bookmarked it for later. Right now there's a Godzilla movie on SciFi :)