You are right.. standards are good in a way. You dont have to think about all the options, and can just concentrate on the standard. The command line interfaces (bash, csh, ksh etc.) are pretty standard.
And terminal programs dont have to care about 10 different toolkits, 50 different window managers, different sizes of fonts etc.
You aren't a programmer are you? There's curses, ncurses, newt, dialog, even twin! There may even be more choices for console apps than gui ones!
In Linux/*BSD you have just too many options. That may be a good thing, but I hope someday there will be a standard GUI environment for Linux. Now there seems to be two major players, Gnome and KDE. If you want to program GUI apps, you have to either choose other, or make two versions of your GUIs. That just sucks. And I dont personally like to use KDE and Gnome apps mixed, because it just does'nt feel right. Maybe I will switch to Mac OS X someday..
A common monkey point of view. Don't you understand? Choice is good. What if I told you that based on your family size the only car you were allowed to own by federal regulations was a midnight blue Ford Taurus . . . just like every one of your neighbors? And don't even think about putting a new stereo in it, because not only is that illegal, but the car won't start.
But its all for the better, see. Choices are bad for you. They force you to think, and we all know monkeys don't like this.
Go read Fahrenheit 451. Then switch to MacOSX if you still want. You'd fit in great there.
I don't use Windows. Not sure what makes you think I do.
Yes, we realize that. You have already stated you you are partial to OSX. You do realize that it runs on a BSD core, which really ain't all that different from Linux . . . . ?
Yet another command line to remeber, what ever happened to decent version checking and double clicking.
Dude. Get a clue. If it is really that hard for you to remember, use Gnorpm. Or Kpackage. Or use Debian and make an icon (so you can double-click) that calls apt-get upgrade.
Microsoft and AOL hate each other. It is much more likely that AOL will release AOL for Linux, or even a whole AOL-Linux distribution.
I believe that the only thing keeping them from this is the fear that they will lose their coveted spot in the "Online Services" folder on a default Windows install. Most of the Windows users I know purchased a computer just so they could get on AOL, which is what they all call the Internet.
It feels good seeing that there is finally an advertiser that cares even a little bit about his audience. My vote is yes, I would be more than happy to cooperate with such a system.
You guarantee that we only get the ads we want, and we'll bring you some money!.
>I don't see how you can complain about a service >which is *FREE* and optional.
Optional for who?? How much control do you have over the ISP that your sister in Phoenix or your mom in Washington state use? How can you say that is optional?
Speaking as someone who has just recently had his class C blackholed for no apparent reason I know how the game is played. Don't even say that this is fair and *optional*. What option did I have when all my customers came to me and said that they were getting mail bounced?
Should it really be my problem if somebody upstream of me has a problem with spam control? How would you feel if you and your entire family were thrown in jail because some guy you don't even know who lives down the street from you was a small-time pot dealer? Now say it's optional.
Most people have trouble using and adminstering Windows (there are lots of silver surfers who aren't used to technlogy and can't manage Windows, never mind anything else). Can you imagine these people trying to use/configure Linux.
That's the point. They don't have to. That is your job as sysadmin. In case you have never adminned, the most frustrating part of the job is fixing a computer and getting a call the next day because it *is broken again*. And then they insist that they didn't do anything, even tho their history shows regedit. That is the biggest argument *for* Linux, what have you been smoking?
Question: - Does OpenBSD provide an ISO image available for download?
Answer: - You can't. The official OpenBSD CD-ROM layout is copyright Theo de Raadt, as an incentive for people to buy the CD set. Note that
only the layout is copyrighted, OpenBSD itself is free. Nothing precludes someone else to just grab OpenBSD and make their own CD.
If you are running a Windoze box (especially on a laptop) download this demo for an example of the advanced rendering tjwhaynes is talking of.
Render demo
Bear in mind that at this point, the *only* thing they have at all is you, the person who found the body. What do you expect them to do? Stand there and mutter, "Dude, that's a very dead guy."
And in order to do that, you have to find out just exactly *what* version of M$ word your counterpart has, cuz they *aren't* interchangeable! (While WordPerfect has used the exact same file format since version 5.1 - many, many years ago . . . )
Lilo will boot Reiser if the filesystem is mounted with the 'notails' option. John is also working on supporting tails. Grub currently boots Reiser partitions w/ no problems.
What happens when some publisher decides to start distributing e-books in DVD-like format? It's already happened. It's called Glassbook; its simply an encrypted *.pdf file and the only reader for it is available for windows. The reader won't let you print, save, or even cut + paste. Therefore, for example, when Stephen King released his book free in electronic format,the only way for many Linux users to read it was to hack the encryption.
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What do you want for it? Email me if you like. -b
Is that so? Think again.
And terminal programs dont have to care about 10 different toolkits, 50 different window managers, different sizes of fonts etc.
You aren't a programmer are you? There's curses, ncurses, newt, dialog, even twin! There may even be more choices for console apps than gui ones!
In Linux/*BSD you have just too many options. That may be a good thing, but I hope someday there will be a standard GUI environment for Linux. Now there seems to be two major players, Gnome and KDE. If you want to program GUI apps, you have to either choose other, or make two versions of your GUIs. That just sucks. And I dont personally like to use KDE and Gnome apps mixed, because it just does'nt feel right. Maybe I will switch to Mac OS X someday ..
A common monkey point of view. Don't you understand? Choice is good. What if I told you that based on your family size the only car you were allowed to own by federal regulations was a midnight blue Ford Taurus . . . just like every one of your neighbors? And don't even think about putting a new stereo in it, because not only is that illegal, but the car won't start.
But its all for the better, see. Choices are bad for you. They force you to think, and we all know monkeys don't like this.
Go read Fahrenheit 451. Then switch to MacOSX if you still want. You'd fit in great there.
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application directories . . hmm, they sound kind of Mac like to me. Good idea? Dunno . . .
./configure --prefix=$HOME/bin
You try it.
Besides, if you'd looked at the link he provided, you'd have seen that it had nothing to do with what you are talking about.
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Yes, we realize that. You have already stated you you are partial to OSX. You do realize that it runs on a BSD core, which really ain't all that different from Linux . . . . ?
Dude. Get a clue. If it is really that hard for you to remember, use Gnorpm. Or Kpackage. Or use Debian and make an icon (so you can double-click) that calls apt-get upgrade.
You must mean "No weenie GUI HTML editors." There are gobs of HTML editors that really smoke anything I've seen under windows. Try Quanta for one.
3. Poor printing services
Just for shits and giggles, why don't you examine windows NT (or 2000) printing service. Guess what . . You'll find LPR.EXE.
4. Its harder to update anything on Linux than Windows and MacOS
apt-get upgrade. Well, now, all your software is updated. You want a webserver? apt-get install apache. Quake? apt-get install quake.
7. Each Linux variant ships with security holes
This must be a troll. Are you claiming that Windows doesn't "ship with security holes"?
No, its very true. Read the EULA for NetZero.
Microsoft and AOL hate each other. It is much more likely that AOL will release AOL for Linux, or even a whole AOL-Linux distribution.
I believe that the only thing keeping them from this is the fear that they will lose their coveted spot in the "Online Services" folder on a default Windows install. Most of the Windows users I know purchased a computer just so they could get on AOL, which is what they all call the Internet.
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It feels good seeing that there is finally an advertiser that cares even a little bit about his audience. My vote is yes, I would be more than happy to cooperate with such a system.
You guarantee that we only get the ads we want, and we'll bring you some money!.
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>> and HD TV cable ready.
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>My TV doesn't have a hard drive.
Um . . . HD stands for High Definition . . .
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>I don't see how you can complain about a service >which is *FREE* and optional.
Optional for who?? How much control do you have over the ISP that your sister in Phoenix or your mom in Washington state use? How can you say that is optional?
Speaking as someone who has just recently had his class C blackholed for no apparent reason I know how the game is played. Don't even say that this is fair and *optional*. What option did I have when all my customers came to me and said that they were getting mail bounced?
Should it really be my problem if somebody upstream of me has a problem with spam control? How would you feel if you and your entire family were thrown in jail because some guy you don't even know who lives down the street from you was a small-time pot dealer? Now say it's optional.
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It looks nowhere as neat and clean as Google does!
That's the point. They don't have to. That is your job as sysadmin. In case you have never adminned, the most frustrating part of the job is fixing a computer and getting a call the next day because it *is broken again*. And then they insist that they didn't do anything, even tho their history shows regedit. That is the biggest argument *for* Linux, what have you been smoking?
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Question: - Does OpenBSD provide an ISO image available for download?
Answer: - You can't. The official OpenBSD CD-ROM layout is copyright Theo de Raadt, as an incentive for people to buy the CD set. Note that only the layout is copyrighted, OpenBSD itself is free. Nothing precludes someone else to just grab OpenBSD and make their own CD.
Add me to the list. $50 + shipping . . . .
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Send it to me. i would be glad to hack on it.!!!
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If you are running a Windoze box (especially on a laptop) download this demo for an example of the advanced rendering tjwhaynes is talking of. Render demo
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Bear in mind that at this point, the *only* thing they have at all is you, the person who found the body. What do you expect them to do? Stand there and mutter, "Dude, that's a very dead guy."
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And in order to do that, you have to find out just exactly *what* version of M$ word your counterpart has, cuz they *aren't* interchangeable! (While WordPerfect has used the exact same file format since version 5.1 - many, many years ago . . . )
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The optical iFeel mouse is $39 at Fry's.
Not only that, its a shitty poem!
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Lilo will boot Reiser if the filesystem is mounted with the 'notails' option. John is also working on supporting tails. Grub currently boots Reiser partitions w/ no problems.
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English translation (from babelfish) for the SuSE announcement
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What happens when some publisher decides to start distributing e-books in DVD-like format?
It's already happened. It's called Glassbook; its simply an encrypted *.pdf file and the only reader for it is available for windows. The reader won't let you print, save, or even cut + paste. Therefore, for example, when Stephen King released his book free in electronic format,the only way for many Linux users to read it was to hack the encryption.
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