Thats funny i dont remember dissing any distro much less targiting redhat.
the MS/redhat referance is because it is the standerd by which linux howtos etc are writen for. it seeks to do most of the basic stuff for you much like windows.
as far as what makes slackware the most unix like here is a small list.
it uses bsd style rc scripts.
it dose not try to be all things to all people like the other distros.
if you want something done you have to do it yourself. this is something that most of the other versions of linux create lots of apps to help you out with but you wont find on any unix box.
you will find legacy things like/etc/HOSTNAME on a slack system that are do to its BSDness which you will not find on a RH or MDK box.
Don't ever assume that people who seem to know every distro are reinstalling every week. we install distros for other people and tried each one to make sure we got the right one for us as well as the people we help out. this system was installed 6 months ago and sence then i have installed linux 12 times for other people.
also we have the internet here. If you want a list of what makes slack more UNIX like then do a search and stop demanding things like some one who hasn't got the motivation to do anything on their own.
slack users are not eleet because they use slack. they just got tired of other distros trying to do things for them and messing things up in the process. slack is for people who know what they want and know how to do it. its that simple.
its not about being able to unpack a tarball. its about always running./configure --help instead of just doing a rpm -i and getting what you want instead of what someone else decided to give you.
I usaly install mandrake for people and then listen to what they like or don't like about it and what they want to do. From there I install the distro that best matches their needs.
Mandrake is the Mac of Linux
Redhat is the MS of Linux
Slackware is the UNIX of Linux
Debian is the Linux of Linux.
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I don't know what they do about small debrie but there is a computer that monitors for all large potential damageing impacts that could happen within a 72 hour period around the ISS and a 24 hour period on the space boat.
If a empact is eminent then they move out of the way.
VW engin blocks are fun. We got one once and put it on a fire pit at the beach. We were about 2 blocks away once it got burning and could still feel the heat and it was bright as day out there at 02:00.
"No officer that was here when we got here." "We thought about putting it out but couldn't get close enough."
excuse me mr moderator? could you explain what you ment by modding the parent as troll?
I don't see anything inflamitory and actualy rases some valid pro and con aspects of GUI and command line interfaces.
I have a GUI installed on faux-wife's computer.
It is running KDE 2.0 and I think its a very nice GUI. Better infact than windows even if it is a little less "entuative", entuative is like the word reality -- it always belongs in quotes.
But I alwasy feel limited by the GUI. I can not >, |, x(){} or , a GUI app to get the level of power that I require/want. Command line apps are also easier to hack because you just add anoteher -x option instead of haveing to find room on an already clutterd API.
You can not cron a GUI app that does anything substantial.
My sig is not ment to spark a GUI vs Command Line argument. Its ment to appeal to those who thrive on the things that a command line can do that a GUI just is not capable of. By the same token there are those things a GUI can do that the command line can't. It is all a matter of preferance.
Drag and drop and WYSIWYG is not always the best way to go.
If you read the whole shared-source.com page there is a section on "if open source is so unsafe then hack this computer". It lists all of the software and version numbers the box is running.
It would be nice if a MS website where able to be that bold.
Who ever marked the parent as offtopic needs to read the moderator guidelines. Just because you disagree does not mean you mod down.
The AC brings up an issue that is central to the point I raised and you should have marked both of us as offtopic not just the AC.
Censorship is not allowing some one to communicate an idea. So what I am suggesting is censorship. At the same time here in the USA we have what the FCC calls "community standers". I doubt that any person with more than 0 karma wants these posts to be part of their community.
Ok I would like to take a moment to ask for a new feature in banjo.slashdot
All I am asking for is bit of code that will identify this little ascii art and stop it from being posted in the first place. Its such a simple thing to ask. All it would take is a regex checker for the damn thing and if it where properly done it wouldn't matter if they changed its scale or the chars used.
Or maybe a goat moderation option. If three people say its a goat pic then it gets moded to -2.
... Contract with biotech companies in 3rd world countries to, as the article says, "train" these nanotubes to attack healthy tissue and sell them to other third world countries.
Did any one notice that Suicidal Tendencies was in just a few paces behind Metallica on their list of top searches? After all these years ST is still up there and with out the aid of media controversy and platinum releases. Remind me when I start a band to get a name that will assure media mediocrity and fan loyalty.
Its gotta be ST. It will always be ST.
Eighteen years have come and gone; entire industries have risen and fallen; innumerable tons of computers have been consigned to the scrap heap.
If you want to see a Lisa or a PCjr, you'll have to visit a computer museum.
But about a million of the Tandy laptops are still in use, on factory floors and whale-watching boats; by reporters on assignment and researchers in Antarctica.
A sturdy 6-pounder, the Model 100 looks more like a Speak & Spell toy than a state-of-the-art computer.
It didn't have aluminum, titanium or Pentium anything. There was no GUI; it wasn't WYSIWYG. It ran 16 hours on four AA batteries.
You turned it on, you typed, you sent your words over phone lines at a glacial 300 bps. It cost $799 for 8-Kb version; $1,134 for the 32-Kb version.
And it was a big hit. It could lay claim to being the first true laptop. The only previous "portable" computer was the 24-pound, suitcase-size Osborne, which came out in 1980.
Tandy, with headquarters in Fort Worth, sold 6 million units of the Model 100, and its slimmer, higher-memory brother, the Model 102. In the late '80s, the original laptop was displaced by machines that ran Microsoft Windows, but somehow the Tandys didn't go away.
In the fast-forward culture of the digital age, where every gadget is nearly obsolete before you peel out of Fry's parking lot, the Model 100 and 102 laptop stand out for their staying power.
"It's one of those machines that immediately becomes your friend," said Rick Hanson of Pleasant Hill.
Hanson, whose vanity license plate reads LAPTOP, has certainly become a close buddy of the 100 and 102. For years he has run the user group Club 100 (www.the-dock.com/club100.html); he repairs, refurbishes and sells the vintage laptops as a sideline.
His workshop is a tinkerer's delight, crammed floor to ceiling with neatly stacked model car kits and computer components. One shelf holds two dozen Model 102s that he is fixing for reporters at the Los Angeles Times.
Talking a mile a minute, he grabbed a few simple components off the shelves.
"Let's throw a 102 together," he said, laying down the plastic base, then rapidly slipping in a motherboard, switch sliders, a cardboard insulator, the LCD screen, the keyboard and the top.
He switched the machine on, displaying its simple roster of software: a text editor, telecom package, schedule book, address book and BASIC.
Hanson lifted it above his head, and, chuckling at the expression on visitors' faces, flung the laptop onto the floor. It bounced a little; he scooped it up and dropped it once more for good measure. Then he switched it on: Everything sprang back to life, as good as new.
"You can throw it across the room, let it land on concrete, and it'll still work," he said. "Try that with your new laptop."
That hardiness has endeared the "Model T" to people who really need a resilient computer.
hidden in the links is a url for the current days weather for mars. Liveing in San Diego I have no need for the weather at all (its the fucking same every day all year long to the point that the local weather men joke about job security while on the air) but knowing i can get daily reports about mars is kind of nice.
I kind of like the idea of useing twin or splitvt to create enough vconsoles to see the logs of the 130 systems you manage symotainously. a little color highliteing from coloriz.pl and it might actualy be useable to cause perminent eye strain and file a workmans comp claim.
As we all know google puts those sites that are linked to the most at the top of the search results. I don't know of any others that claim to do this.
I automatically assume on sites like AOL that search results where prioritized by amount of money paid to AOL by a site, using their search engine this becomes self evident in a matter of seconds. AOL Keyword: _sponsors_name_here_
Now all we need is for the rest of the search engines is a "How we get results" link somewhere on the page and that link takes you to a place that says, "you see what others pay you to see". Then no one can be hunted down by Nader, who should have better things to go after like kiddy porn and doggy/donkey style sites.
Nader if you are listening: people don't care how listings are compiled. If they did then Yahoo would be a search engine and not a "Portal". They would be much more grateful to you if you found a way to stop spam and check on those privacy policies that say "we will not give your name to anyone, except our partners" which is contradicktive and misleading to anyone with an IQ under 100,AKA 50% of your voters,.
I remember as a kid learning that the Sun was going to go red giant in 5 billion years or so. My first thought was "But we are swarn to protect the national parks!"
Now in addition to moving the planit far enough away from the sun to protect the parks we now have to move the Milky way on top of that. O bother.
Forget about the lot for storage of confiscated orbital property. Lets talk about the launch vehicle that LA is going to build to so they can get up there and impound them with in the first place.
With a movie/series like Dune it does not matter if the movie/series is as good as the book or not. They are not made for the book fans. They are made for people who either can't get enough of the story or people who never got any.
If someone says "that movie ruled" and goes out and buys the book then the people who sold the rights to the movie win twice. If some one didn't like the movie but they still sat there and watches it and made the advertisers happy.
I have read the first 7 books. I have seen the original movie and the mini I saw up to the point where they made bringing back Idaho really hard; it's not easy to get cells from an explosion. At that point I said "Not the same" and turned it off. I am a fan but not a fanatic.
It's about the money not the integrity.
From the GPL: This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.
The reason this is in there is because something that is Free can not have any value and, pardon the gross simplification, thus you can not be suid if anything goes wrong.
So the question I ask is does a "Free" ISP have a simeler loop hole in it?
Its nice that they have that little question in there about your fav editor. The followup question of "why" is sadly lacking some options. It should read like this:
no_entry
of course
naturly
there are no others
the others are good as well
JIHAD!!
What are these others of which you speek.
You dont have a email addy listed so I am posting here.
I wish my bank where as (cool|brain dead) as yours.
fb on my current system dose not work worth a damn. I have set up framebuffering on many boxes without problem in the past and even after changing my graphics card (was a unsuported/ported #9).
I still get errors and Tux is in reversed colors. I have had no luck even finding out what _might_ be wrong. So far I have just been living without it. seejpeg works so that takes care of 99% of my graphics needs.
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Thats funny i dont remember dissing any distro much less targiting redhat.
/etc/HOSTNAME on a slack system that are do to its BSDness which you will not find on a RH or MDK box.
./configure --help instead of just doing a rpm -i and getting what you want instead of what someone else decided to give you.
the MS/redhat referance is because it is the standerd by which linux howtos etc are writen for. it seeks to do most of the basic stuff for you much like windows.
as far as what makes slackware the most unix like here is a small list.
it uses bsd style rc scripts.
it dose not try to be all things to all people like the other distros.
if you want something done you have to do it yourself. this is something that most of the other versions of linux create lots of apps to help you out with but you wont find on any unix box.
you will find legacy things like
Don't ever assume that people who seem to know every distro are reinstalling every week. we install distros for other people and tried each one to make sure we got the right one for us as well as the people we help out. this system was installed 6 months ago and sence then i have installed linux 12 times for other people.
also we have the internet here. If you want a list of what makes slack more UNIX like then do a search and stop demanding things like some one who hasn't got the motivation to do anything on their own.
slack users are not eleet because they use slack. they just got tired of other distros trying to do things for them and messing things up in the process. slack is for people who know what they want and know how to do it. its that simple.
its not about being able to unpack a tarball. its about always running
I usaly install mandrake for people and then listen to what they like or don't like about it and what they want to do. From there I install the distro that best matches their needs.
Mandrake is the Mac of Linux
Redhat is the MS of Linux
Slackware is the UNIX of Linux
Debian is the Linux of Linux.
I don't know what they do about small debrie but there is a computer that monitors for all large potential damageing impacts that could happen within a 72 hour period around the ISS and a 24 hour period on the space boat.
If a empact is eminent then they move out of the way.
VW engin blocks are fun. We got one once and put it on a fire pit at the beach. We were about 2 blocks away once it got burning and could still feel the heat and it was bright as day out there at 02:00.
"No officer that was here when we got here." "We thought about putting it out but couldn't get close enough."
I had no idea who Tim Burns-Lee was.
I found him here.
http://www.w3.org/People/Berners-Lee/
excuse me mr moderator? could you explain what you ment by modding the parent as troll?
I don't see anything inflamitory and actualy rases some valid pro and con aspects of GUI and command line interfaces.
I have a GUI installed on faux-wife's computer.
It is running KDE 2.0 and I think its a very nice GUI. Better infact than windows even if it is a little less "entuative", entuative is like the word reality -- it always belongs in quotes.
But I alwasy feel limited by the GUI. I can not >, |, x(){} or , a GUI app to get the level of power that I require/want. Command line apps are also easier to hack because you just add anoteher -x option instead of haveing to find room on an already clutterd API.
You can not cron a GUI app that does anything substantial.
My sig is not ment to spark a GUI vs Command Line argument. Its ment to appeal to those who thrive on the things that a command line can do that a GUI just is not capable of. By the same token there are those things a GUI can do that the command line can't. It is all a matter of preferance.
Drag and drop and WYSIWYG is not always the best way to go.
If you read the whole shared-source.com page there is a section on "if open source is so unsafe then hack this computer". It lists all of the software and version numbers the box is running.
It would be nice if a MS website where able to be that bold.
Who ever marked the parent as offtopic needs to read the moderator guidelines. Just because you disagree does not mean you mod down.
The AC brings up an issue that is central to the point I raised and you should have marked both of us as offtopic not just the AC.
Censorship is not allowing some one to communicate an idea. So what I am suggesting is censorship. At the same time here in the USA we have what the FCC calls "community standers". I doubt that any person with more than 0 karma wants these posts to be part of their community.
Ok I would like to take a moment to ask for a new feature in banjo.slashdot
All I am asking for is bit of code that will identify this little ascii art and stop it from being posted in the first place. Its such a simple thing to ask. All it would take is a regex checker for the damn thing and if it where properly done it wouldn't matter if they changed its scale or the chars used.
Or maybe a goat moderation option. If three people say its a goat pic then it gets moded to -2.
Please tell me thats a /. typo and not part of the release.
... Contract with biotech companies in 3rd world countries to, as the article says, "train" these nanotubes to attack healthy tissue and sell them to other third world countries.
Did any one notice that Suicidal Tendencies was in just a few paces behind Metallica on their list of top searches? After all these years ST is still up there and with out the aid of media controversy and platinum releases. Remind me when I start a band to get a name that will assure media mediocrity and fan loyalty.
Its gotta be ST. It will always be ST.
Eighteen years have come and gone; entire industries have risen and fallen; innumerable tons of computers have been consigned to the scrap heap.
If you want to see a Lisa or a PCjr, you'll have to visit a computer museum.
But about a million of the Tandy laptops are still in use, on factory floors and whale-watching boats; by reporters on assignment and researchers in Antarctica.
A sturdy 6-pounder, the Model 100 looks more like a Speak & Spell toy than a state-of-the-art computer.
It didn't have aluminum, titanium or Pentium anything. There was no GUI; it wasn't WYSIWYG. It ran 16 hours on four AA batteries.
You turned it on, you typed, you sent your words over phone lines at a glacial 300 bps. It cost $799 for 8-Kb version; $1,134 for the 32-Kb version.
And it was a big hit. It could lay claim to being the first true laptop. The only previous "portable" computer was the 24-pound, suitcase-size Osborne, which came out in 1980.
Tandy, with headquarters in Fort Worth, sold 6 million units of the Model 100, and its slimmer, higher-memory brother, the Model 102. In the late '80s, the original laptop was displaced by machines that ran Microsoft Windows, but somehow the Tandys didn't go away.
In the fast-forward culture of the digital age, where every gadget is nearly obsolete before you peel out of Fry's parking lot, the Model 100 and 102 laptop stand out for their staying power.
"It's one of those machines that immediately becomes your friend," said Rick Hanson of Pleasant Hill.
Hanson, whose vanity license plate reads LAPTOP, has certainly become a close buddy of the 100 and 102. For years he has run the user group Club 100 (www.the-dock.com/club100.html); he repairs, refurbishes and sells the vintage laptops as a sideline.
His workshop is a tinkerer's delight, crammed floor to ceiling with neatly stacked model car kits and computer components. One shelf holds two dozen Model 102s that he is fixing for reporters at the Los Angeles Times.
Talking a mile a minute, he grabbed a few simple components off the shelves.
"Let's throw a 102 together," he said, laying down the plastic base, then rapidly slipping in a motherboard, switch sliders, a cardboard insulator, the LCD screen, the keyboard and the top.
He switched the machine on, displaying its simple roster of software: a text editor, telecom package, schedule book, address book and BASIC.
Hanson lifted it above his head, and, chuckling at the expression on visitors' faces, flung the laptop onto the floor. It bounced a little; he scooped it up and dropped it once more for good measure. Then he switched it on: Everything sprang back to life, as good as new.
"You can throw it across the room, let it land on concrete, and it'll still work," he said. "Try that with your new laptop."
That hardiness has endeared the "Model T" to people who really need a resilient computer.
hidden in the links is a url for the current days weather for mars. Liveing in San Diego I have no need for the weather at all (its the fucking same every day all year long to the point that the local weather men joke about job security while on the air) but knowing i can get daily reports about mars is kind of nice.
I kind of like the idea of useing twin or splitvt to create enough vconsoles to see the logs of the 130 systems you manage symotainously. a little color highliteing from coloriz.pl and it might actualy be useable to cause perminent eye strain and file a workmans comp claim.
As we all know google puts those sites that are linked to the most at the top of the search results. I don't know of any others that claim to do this.
,AKA 50% of your voters,.
I automatically assume on sites like AOL that search results where prioritized by amount of money paid to AOL by a site, using their search engine this becomes self evident in a matter of seconds. AOL Keyword: _sponsors_name_here_
Now all we need is for the rest of the search engines is a "How we get results" link somewhere on the page and that link takes you to a place that says, "you see what others pay you to see". Then no one can be hunted down by Nader, who should have better things to go after like kiddy porn and doggy/donkey style sites.
Nader if you are listening: people don't care how listings are compiled. If they did then Yahoo would be a search engine and not a "Portal". They would be much more grateful to you if you found a way to stop spam and check on those privacy policies that say "we will not give your name to anyone, except our partners" which is contradicktive and misleading to anyone with an IQ under 100
They came for the Software pirates
I said nothing
I was not a software pirate
They came for the music traders
I said nothing
I was not a music trader
They came for those who registered domains
I sad nothing
I was not a registered no domains
They came for the book barrows
I was a reader
There was no libraries left for people to find out.
I remember as a kid learning that the Sun was going to go red giant in 5 billion years or so. My first thought was "But we are swarn to protect the national parks!"
Now in addition to moving the planit far enough away from the sun to protect the parks we now have to move the Milky way on top of that. O bother.
Forget about the lot for storage of confiscated orbital property. Lets talk about the launch vehicle that LA is going to build to so they can get up there and impound them with in the first place.
Once you have learned from this book of knowledge you can humble/homicide anyone.
With a movie/series like Dune it does not matter if the movie/series is as good as the book or not. They are not made for the book fans. They are made for people who either can't get enough of the story or people who never got any.
If someone says "that movie ruled" and goes out and buys the book then the people who sold the rights to the movie win twice. If some one didn't like the movie but they still sat there and watches it and made the advertisers happy.
I have read the first 7 books. I have seen the original movie and the mini I saw up to the point where they made bringing back Idaho really hard; it's not easy to get cells from an explosion. At that point I said "Not the same" and turned it off. I am a fan but not a fanatic.
It's about the money not the integrity.
The reason this is in there is because something that is Free can not have any value and, pardon the gross simplification, thus you can not be suid if anything goes wrong.
So the question I ask is does a "Free" ISP have a simeler loop hole in it?
Its nice that they have that little question in there about your fav editor. The followup question of "why" is sadly lacking some options. It should read like this:
no_entry
of course
naturly
there are no others
the others are good as well
JIHAD!!
What are these others of which you speek.
You dont have a email addy listed so I am posting here. I wish my bank where as (cool|brain dead) as yours. fb on my current system dose not work worth a damn. I have set up framebuffering on many boxes without problem in the past and even after changing my graphics card (was a unsuported/ported #9). I still get errors and Tux is in reversed colors. I have had no luck even finding out what _might_ be wrong. So far I have just been living without it. seejpeg works so that takes care of 99% of my graphics needs.