I did that to Windows XP's login screen at a friend's house. It bluescreened and rebooted. I was very drunk at the time, so it's possible I hammered more randomly than XP expected. Or maybe it wasn't random at all, I don't remember. My point is, if MS did monkey test XP, they used the wrong monkey. You have to use a drunk monkey as well.
Correct. But a virus will only spread to vulnerable hosts, and if the ratio of vulnerable hosts is large, the chance of it connecting to such host is larger than if its more likely the virus will be sent to hosts that can't be infected. After all, bandwidth isn't unlimited, and neither is CPU power. Spreading the virus will be slower, and not potentially as devastating, since fewer hosts would be affected as well.
Can you name anything that can be done under Linux, that can't be done under OS X?
I bet you can do Linux development under OSX, but I don't see a reason why you should do it. Also, being in a networked environment where you have desktops/workstations running Linux, maybe on Intel or in a mixed environment, it could be nice to share your/home via NFS (which is severely broken in OSX, by the way) or something like it and have the same settings used for all computers. Especially if you're supposed to do the same kind of work on them.
(b) i don't need any software besides instant messaging, web browsing, email, and chatting. because that's about all the useful software that exists [for Linux]
The only useful software you need that exist for Linux. You use Linux as a Windows replacement, and that's fine, but there's a lot of other useful software for Linux that some other person may need. Lots of it may run on OSX, but if you don't need OSX for other things than Unix apps, you don't need OSX.
Maybe some people actually do useful stuff in Linux that demands a lot more work if it is to be done on OSX? Consider that. OSX might be sweet, but it's not perfect software, and it's not always the best option. In some cases, it might even be quite useless, while Linux might excel. Choose the right tool for the job.
Powerbooks, on the other hand, could possibly be the best laptops in their price range. Why, if you need a Linux laptop, not buy a Powerbook?
The interesting parts are: A work consisting of editorial revisions, annotations, elaborations, or other modifications which, as a whole, represent an original work of authorship, is a ''derivative work''. DJ Danger Mouse's work does not representThe Beatles' White Album in any way, just as my post isn't a derivative work of your post, even though I use only the same words and letters -- even the same subject matter. It's not a representation of it, I quote your quotation to argue against your interpretation.
The White Album was basically used as an instrument for DJ Danger Mouse's album. The album is derived from Beatles, but from their album as a collection of sounds, and not as a work. I think it could be a tricky legal case. Whoever has the best lawyers win. The legal precedence does allow for sampling of single notes, but not complete melody lines.
No, it doesn't. It identifies itself as "Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; X11; Linux i686) Opera 7.50 [en]" (with a bit variation from version to version). Google should have no problem identifying Opera that identifies as IE as Opera on Linux.
Truly an underappreciated, and highly marginalized system as far as graphics, and rendering goes...
Maybe because SGIs were, and still are, ridiculusly expensive. I was given an Indigo^2 for free a couple of months ago, and naturally started surfing for info. I found this old article about the machine (from 1993), skimmed through it: "Wow, UK 8,000 for that computer?" Pretty expensive. But when I read the article again, I understood that was the cost of only the graphics card... "The Indigo2 costs 34,000 UKP." That's about half of what my parents got for their house when they moved, in 1992 (houses have at least doubled in value since then, and an Indigo^2 is worth almost nothing).
My point is: You don't buy an SGI unless you really need it, or if you have too much money.
Great. I just rebooted to Windows to try the game, and to my surprise at least one level ran smoothly on my relatively low-end computer (Athlon XP 1600+, ATI Radeon 7200, 256 MiB RAM). Didn't expect it to work at all without the S3TC patent crap in Linux, but I'll have try Very Soon Now. Just have to frag some more first.
I'm not upgrading before we have CLits (CL in Roman numerals should be something like 150). 150 states for each bit is what you need for serious realtime porn-rendering, man!
Will the 3 moderators that thought that joke was funny please explain it to me?
I didn't get to mod it, but I'll explain. You see, the point is that all Swedes are incredibly stupid. In fact, they have the brain capacities of 3 year olds (apart from the really bright ones, like the ones you see in pornographic movies, who sometimes reach the mental stadium of adolescence). If you've ever observed small children playing, you would have noticed that they make a sound somewhat like a car when they play with cars. Swedes are like that when driving their "real" cars (not that Saab or Volvo are real cars), but since they're constantly drooling, they spit on the windshield when they drive. Swedes just happen to be a bunch of in-bred pigfuckers (pig-fucking is in-breeding for Swedes -- there's a reason why they're pink skinned).
Basically, the joke is funny because it's true. Now someone mod me +5, informative. I deserve it.
(Well, actually: The reasons why Norwegians joke about Swedes are mainly historical. Norway was in a union with Sweden 1814-1905 because Sweden looted us from Denmark after Napoleon's wars failed (Denmark was forced to choose the wrong side). Also, Germany didn't bother occupying Sweden in 1940, and Sweden profited quite well from poor Norwegians after WWII. It's old hatred and rivalry, and it goes back to long before 1814.(Oh, and my apologies to the Americans who think the Swedes are offended. Believe me, they're not. They actually do have a sense of humour. Why else would they speak so funny?))
Anybody know of an even _lighter_ browser, preferably gecko-based, that will work on Solaris? Binaries would be nice:)
Opera for Solaris does exist. Never tried the Solaris version, and it's not based on Gecko. And it's binary only. But still a nice, lightweight, modern browser. Yes, it's at version 7.23, the same as the Windows version. Should be worth a try.
I noticed the same problem the first time I restarted into KDE 3.2 from 3.1.5. Konsole was slow, and many programs took a long time to start. Then I checked 'top', and noticed a klauncher process that used 4.5% CPU. Nothing unusual, except that I had a system load of 1.5. The klauncher process was reinitialising all the time. I couldn't kill it, because it already had stopped and launched a new process. Logging out didn't help, so I had to 'init 1' to kill all running processes. Now all of KDE is very fast indeed.
Of course we all take pleasure out of SCO's misery. Why should we hide it? They're a bunch of rotten cock-smokers (the litigious bastards campaign was a success, it's time to expand it), and we all hate the bastards. I think it's time the English-speaking world get a concept of what Germans call Schadenfreude, because you, like everyone else, are perfectly capable of having this emotion.
The lack of a word for it seems to make some of you incapable of recognizing this. Asking everyone to hide their "malicious satisfaction of SCO's misfortunes" is about the same as asking people to pretend they didn't do it, even if they didn't do it anyway.
I say this about the SCO website situation: It serves them right, but I'm not going to take the blame for it. Hell, I haven't even had the virus sent to me yet.
Easy software installation. People do not want to spend an hour installing a program. Apt/yum/emerge et al are not full solutions:
They are. At least apt is. Apps that don't exist in the apt repository should do as little damage as possible. Loki's installer used for my Quake III install did it just right, and Sun's installer for Star Office wasn't too bad either. Non-distro software should go into/usr/local/[appname] with most of the needed libraries in directories under that (unless they actually have an rpm or deb).
There is no standard for desktop integration - why should users have to type a cryptic command in order to install software? Why not just click the icon in the webpage?
Because this leads to a mess, like most Windows installs are (Yes, I know perfectly well that they don't have to be like that). Both my parents' computers have lots of sick little programs installed from icons on web pages, and their desktop backgrounds are cluttered with icons for useless crap, and the systems just get slower and slower (Win2k). My Debian box was constantly updated for more than 3 years without any clutter before I reinstalled from fear that I'd been rooted or trojaned (and I wanted to test the new Debian-installer. It was buggy as hell).
Messed up Linux installations are often the result of bad Windows habits. It's bad to install crap from everywhere on the web in Windows, and it's bad in Linux. Stop complaining that shooting yourself in your foot has a bad interface. Apt isn't any more difficult to use (not even from the command line - really. But graphical interfaces do exist) than clicking a bloody icon, and it saves you a lot of trouble. This is one of the things that are wrong with Windows, and we shouldn't emulate it.
I agree with the rest of your points, although the film trailers hosted by Apple work with late versions of mplayer-plugin for mozilla (installed with apt, of course).
(Oh, and I apologize for sounding like Debian Troll's Best. I actually think apt-get is a good thing for installing software.)
I just have to say that I agree with you. The joy of GTA is the childish pleasure of doing something naughty (running over a cop, steal his gun and use it to shoot an old lady before taking off in his car with a bunch of police cars tailing me) and getting away with it. It's the "getting away with"-part that makes the game fun.
And doing things that might be illegal in your state (like going on a killing spree) just happens to be the best actions to get away with.
I think you're right about that the lack of complaints about piracy comes from the nature of the music, but I don't think it's so much of an economic issue as an artistic. Of course the musicians want to make money, but some of them also like to use samples, and they often remix other people's music. I know of a couple of "illegal" albums where almost all the samples are a little too obvious and noone bothered asking the "original" artists (with their slightly less original music) for permission to use their stuff. I've even made such "illegal" music myself (unreleased). The respect for copyright just isn't as strong in a culture where every sound can be taken and used in a new way.
Of course this doesn't mean techno musicians think piracy is a good thing, it is after all a form of "theft" that lacks the style of a good sample. The reason why WARP doesn't care for DRM may be because people who are into their music buy far more records than those who only listen to mainstream garbage. And they want DJs to be able to use their music, which might be impossible if it's encumbered with a MS only DRM-format. After all, WARP doesn't know which tools the DJ prefers (I've seen one using two iPods and a mixer).
I'll end my comment with a WARP recommendation. One of the best albums of 2003 was Prefuse 73's One Word Extinguisher. It's 23 tracks, and many of them are fillers that don't make much sense without the surrounding tracks, so you should listen to the whole album. I know you'll like it.
Sorry, I'd just been sleeping, so my logic circuits were still dreaming of electric sheep. I thought for a minute that since it's a well known fact that American lawyers are rats, and most countries have larger populations of rats than of people, the US would have far more lawyers than people. The logical error is, of course, that the statement "American lawyers are rats" does not lead to that "all rats are American lawyers".
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I did that to Windows XP's login screen at a friend's house. It bluescreened and rebooted. I was very drunk at the time, so it's possible I hammered more randomly than XP expected. Or maybe it wasn't random at all, I don't remember. My point is, if MS did monkey test XP, they used the wrong monkey. You have to use a drunk monkey as well.
Correct. But a virus will only spread to vulnerable hosts, and if the ratio of vulnerable hosts is large, the chance of it connecting to such host is larger than if its more likely the virus will be sent to hosts that can't be infected. After all, bandwidth isn't unlimited, and neither is CPU power. Spreading the virus will be slower, and not potentially as devastating, since fewer hosts would be affected as well.
I bet you can do Linux development under OSX, but I don't see a reason why you should do it. Also, being in a networked environment where you have desktops/workstations running Linux, maybe on Intel or in a mixed environment, it could be nice to share your
The only useful software you need that exist for Linux. You use Linux as a Windows replacement, and that's fine, but there's a lot of other useful software for Linux that some other person may need. Lots of it may run on OSX, but if you don't need OSX for other things than Unix apps, you don't need OSX.
Maybe some people actually do useful stuff in Linux that demands a lot more work if it is to be done on OSX? Consider that. OSX might be sweet, but it's not perfect software, and it's not always the best option. In some cases, it might even be quite useless, while Linux might excel. Choose the right tool for the job.
Powerbooks, on the other hand, could possibly be the best laptops in their price range. Why, if you need a Linux laptop, not buy a Powerbook?
The interesting parts are: A work consisting of editorial revisions, annotations, elaborations, or other modifications which, as a whole, represent an original work of authorship, is a ''derivative work''. DJ Danger Mouse's work does not representThe Beatles' White Album in any way, just as my post isn't a derivative work of your post, even though I use only the same words and letters -- even the same subject matter. It's not a representation of it, I quote your quotation to argue against your interpretation.
The White Album was basically used as an instrument for DJ Danger Mouse's album. The album is derived from Beatles, but from their album as a collection of sounds, and not as a work. I think it could be a tricky legal case. Whoever has the best lawyers win. The legal precedence does allow for sampling of single notes, but not complete melody lines.
No, it doesn't. It identifies itself as "Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; X11; Linux i686) Opera 7.50 [en]" (with a bit variation from version to version). Google should have no problem identifying Opera that identifies as IE as Opera on Linux.
Maybe because SGIs were, and still are, ridiculusly expensive. I was given an Indigo^2 for free a couple of months ago, and naturally started surfing for info. I found this old article about the machine (from 1993), skimmed through it: "Wow, UK 8,000 for that computer?" Pretty expensive. But when I read the article again, I understood that was the cost of only the graphics card... "The Indigo2 costs 34,000 UKP." That's about half of what my parents got for their house when they moved, in 1992 (houses have at least doubled in value since then, and an Indigo^2 is worth almost nothing).
My point is: You don't buy an SGI unless you really need it, or if you have too much money.
Great. I just rebooted to Windows to try the game, and to my surprise at least one level ran smoothly on my relatively low-end computer (Athlon XP 1600+, ATI Radeon 7200, 256 MiB RAM). Didn't expect it to work at all without the S3TC patent crap in Linux, but I'll have try Very Soon Now. Just have to frag some more first.
I'm not upgrading before we have CLits (CL in Roman numerals should be something like 150). 150 states for each bit is what you need for serious realtime porn-rendering, man!
I didn't get to mod it, but I'll explain. You see, the point is that all Swedes are incredibly stupid. In fact, they have the brain capacities of 3 year olds (apart from the really bright ones, like the ones you see in pornographic movies, who sometimes reach the mental stadium of adolescence). If you've ever observed small children playing, you would have noticed that they make a sound somewhat like a car when they play with cars. Swedes are like that when driving their "real" cars (not that Saab or Volvo are real cars), but since they're constantly drooling, they spit on the windshield when they drive. Swedes just happen to be a bunch of in-bred pigfuckers (pig-fucking is in-breeding for Swedes -- there's a reason why they're pink skinned).
Basically, the joke is funny because it's true. Now someone mod me +5, informative. I deserve it.
(Well, actually: The reasons why Norwegians joke about Swedes are mainly historical. Norway was in a union with Sweden 1814-1905 because Sweden looted us from Denmark after Napoleon's wars failed (Denmark was forced to choose the wrong side). Also, Germany didn't bother occupying Sweden in 1940, and Sweden profited quite well from poor Norwegians after WWII. It's old hatred and rivalry, and it goes back to long before 1814.(Oh, and my apologies to the Americans who think the Swedes are offended. Believe me, they're not. They actually do have a sense of humour. Why else would they speak so funny?))
But Netscape 4 leaks memory worse than my grandmother, so that might change after some hours of use. YMMV and all that.
Opera for Solaris does exist. Never tried the Solaris version, and it's not based on Gecko. And it's binary only. But still a nice, lightweight, modern browser. Yes, it's at version 7.23, the same as the Windows version. Should be worth a try.
I noticed the same problem the first time I restarted into KDE 3.2 from 3.1.5. Konsole was slow, and many programs took a long time to start. Then I checked 'top', and noticed a klauncher process that used 4.5% CPU. Nothing unusual, except that I had a system load of 1.5. The klauncher process was reinitialising all the time. I couldn't kill it, because it already had stopped and launched a new process. Logging out didn't help, so I had to 'init 1' to kill all running processes. Now all of KDE is very fast indeed.
Of course we all take pleasure out of SCO's misery. Why should we hide it? They're a bunch of rotten cock-smokers (the litigious bastards campaign was a success, it's time to expand it), and we all hate the bastards. I think it's time the English-speaking world get a concept of what Germans call Schadenfreude, because you, like everyone else, are perfectly capable of having this emotion.
The lack of a word for it seems to make some of you incapable of recognizing this. Asking everyone to hide their "malicious satisfaction of SCO's misfortunes" is about the same as asking people to pretend they didn't do it, even if they didn't do it anyway.
I say this about the SCO website situation: It serves them right, but I'm not going to take the blame for it. Hell, I haven't even had the virus sent to me yet.
Me too. That's why I only use the clock on my mobile phone. No one ever calls me anyway.
I support that. But should it be positive, negative, random or neutral?
Tough one. Republicans are evil, and democrats are incompetent. Should we support evil or incompetence?
I'm glad I'm not American, so I can have both!
Me too!
They are. At least apt is. Apps that don't exist in the apt repository should do as little damage as possible. Loki's installer used for my Quake III install did it just right, and Sun's installer for Star Office wasn't too bad either. Non-distro software should go into
Because this leads to a mess, like most Windows installs are (Yes, I know perfectly well that they don't have to be like that). Both my parents' computers have lots of sick little programs installed from icons on web pages, and their desktop backgrounds are cluttered with icons for useless crap, and the systems just get slower and slower (Win2k). My Debian box was constantly updated for more than 3 years without any clutter before I reinstalled from fear that I'd been rooted or trojaned (and I wanted to test the new Debian-installer. It was buggy as hell).
Messed up Linux installations are often the result of bad Windows habits. It's bad to install crap from everywhere on the web in Windows, and it's bad in Linux. Stop complaining that shooting yourself in your foot has a bad interface. Apt isn't any more difficult to use (not even from the command line - really. But graphical interfaces do exist) than clicking a bloody icon, and it saves you a lot of trouble. This is one of the things that are wrong with Windows, and we shouldn't emulate it.
I agree with the rest of your points, although the film trailers hosted by Apple work with late versions of mplayer-plugin for mozilla (installed with apt, of course).
(Oh, and I apologize for sounding like Debian Troll's Best. I actually think apt-get is a good thing for installing software.)
Interestingly, the only search engine that seems to know where to find litigious bastards is SCO's good friends Microsoft.
Daimler Road Race? Never heard of it.
Was I right?
I just have to say that I agree with you. The joy of GTA is the childish pleasure of doing something naughty (running over a cop, steal his gun and use it to shoot an old lady before taking off in his car with a bunch of police cars tailing me) and getting away with it. It's the "getting away with"-part that makes the game fun.
And doing things that might be illegal in your state (like going on a killing spree) just happens to be the best actions to get away with.
I think you're right about that the lack of complaints about piracy comes from the nature of the music, but I don't think it's so much of an economic issue as an artistic. Of course the musicians want to make money, but some of them also like to use samples, and they often remix other people's music. I know of a couple of "illegal" albums where almost all the samples are a little too obvious and noone bothered asking the "original" artists (with their slightly less original music) for permission to use their stuff. I've even made such "illegal" music myself (unreleased). The respect for copyright just isn't as strong in a culture where every sound can be taken and used in a new way.
Of course this doesn't mean techno musicians think piracy is a good thing, it is after all a form of "theft" that lacks the style of a good sample. The reason why WARP doesn't care for DRM may be because people who are into their music buy far more records than those who only listen to mainstream garbage. And they want DJs to be able to use their music, which might be impossible if it's encumbered with a MS only DRM-format. After all, WARP doesn't know which tools the DJ prefers (I've seen one using two iPods and a mixer).
I'll end my comment with a WARP recommendation. One of the best albums of 2003 was Prefuse 73's One Word Extinguisher. It's 23 tracks, and many of them are fillers that don't make much sense without the surrounding tracks, so you should listen to the whole album. I know you'll like it.
Sorry, I'd just been sleeping, so my logic circuits were still dreaming of electric sheep. I thought for a minute that since it's a well known fact that American lawyers are rats, and most countries have larger populations of rats than of people, the US would have far more lawyers than people. The logical error is, of course, that the statement "American lawyers are rats" does not lead to that "all rats are American lawyers".
My apologies to the rats out there.