no. MS is, in this case (thanks god) a competing product. Why should they advertise there? (except, of course, MS advertised its hardware and Linux drivers for it, which would amuse me a lot)
Even If that rogram is to be used to compare SCO's source tree to Linux, given what we know of SCO's ethics, how can we be sure they wouldnt mess with their own code so as to get their "expected" resules?
At this point, SCO should have 0.00000... credibility, and nothing short of clear exposure of the allegedly copied code should be accepted.
Its even on the fortune. Well, it was once anyway.
First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win. Mahatma Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi.
A lot more quotes of this great man can be found with google.
I can not say if it is right or wrong to remove support. Its ok if its not funny to write support for it. After all, its opensource, and many do it because they like it. However, they had to do something, and putting a README seems just right to me.
I think I have in my hand an IBM mouse that does just that. (though since I left using windows on this particular machin, I don remember ifmI had to put the mouse cursor on the scrollbar or not)
so what you are saying is that because its not visible to the user, its not worth the time and effort?
HOW WRONG YOU ARE!
whether it is visible or not, it still gives the user a better experience.
Who cares what XUL is (I have just started learning about it, and its very confusing to build an xpi for me, specially since I dont know mozilla and javascript that much) , or ping times whatever. Using mozilla for some reason or another, whether I know the reason or not, feels smoother than using IE.
Well, they could always tag it in a grub/lilo conf file as testing or unstable or something meaningfull, along with another tag for the 2.4 stable kernel tagged stable...
the stable kernel should then be a must of any installation, while the testing kernel (2.6 in this example) would be optional.
also, by default initially, grub/lilo shuold default to the stable kernel or windows partition (when installing, i mean)
I see no point on subscribing to RedHat Network because: 1. I don live in the USA. 2. My bandwidth is a phone connection with supposed 56 kbps, so I wouldnt see much of an improvement there.
I would like to go out and buy a RH box if only it was available in a store near my place....
Right now, the only way I have access to linux is through friends that can rip a (couple of) cd for me.
OH GOD!!! Just what we needed!!! For the entire slashdot comunity to start #!/bin/sh for i1 in `seq 0 255`; do for i2 in `seq 0 255`; do for i3 in `seq 0 255`; do for i4 in `seq 0 255`; do host $i1.$i2.$i3.$i4 >> $HOME/internet-wide_easter_egg.txt; done; done; done; done;
Now you did it! Now everyone will start host-ing the entire Internet for easter eggs.... oh god...
No, its because innovation comes from the need to solve a problem/limitation, and since the userbase of MS OFFICE is so much huge than any 'equivalent' on Linux, Linux app developers of its equivalents dont get as much feedback on needs, and the developers themselves havent found any limitation.
Besides, it is fun to try to mimic and thus prove yourself you could do it as well.
on the Userbase side, I dont use OpenOffice when I can type my documents with LyX or TeXmacs. I havent had a need for a spreadsheet, but when I do, I will probably use Gnumeric, or even octave! (yeah, octave is not intended as that, and so what) and pass it to either Lyx or TeXmacs. Hence, this just probes that the userbase on linux is not that big yet. On the Evolution side, Its still young. On the nautilus side, It is so much ahead of its Windows counterparts imvho, as I havent seen what XP can do.
You conveniently forgot to include his parenthesis "(in some The point in RAM reffers to how much a register can address, or in other words, the biggest size one single segment can be without lose of performance. And he did say about cryptography. I would add video and audio, but it looks like the trend, and I think its better that way, is to move that horse-work to the periphereals. Also, you didnt list any other area either, and I replied in the knowledge that I dont have much to say because of my limited knowledge, aka, I only know I know nothing)
No. I always though that BSD is BSD, then there is OpenBSD and FreeBSD (which are Open and Free respectively, as per the terms of their respective licenses, but theyre not BSD) or am I wrong?
All I have read on this discussion made me wonder, How flexible are Nautilus desktop Icons?
I mean, If I dragged ann dropped something, enything, could I tie a process to the icon and made it process the dropped thing, whatever it was? (a makefile would be maked, files in some icon would pop a dialog propting for a mail direction to mail the files, or even print them, another would recive an xml file and would start an icq(or ither im) connection with whatever was descripted on the file, etc) ?
I think I'll propose/ask about this on its mailing list, if it has one.
Slashdot Mirror
no.
MS is, in this case (thanks god) a competing product.
Why should they advertise there?
(except, of course, MS advertised its hardware and Linux drivers for it, which would amuse me a lot)
Even If that rogram is to be used to compare SCO's source tree to Linux, given what we know of SCO's ethics, how can we be sure they wouldnt mess with their own code so as to get their "expected" resules?
At this point, SCO should have 0.00000... credibility, and nothing short of clear exposure of the allegedly copied code should be accepted.
Yeah.
Soon we'd be seeing Kit chaising them!
Its even on the fortune. Well, it was once anyway.
First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.
Mahatma Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi.
A lot more quotes of this great man can be found with google.
I can not say if it is right or wrong to remove support. Its ok if its not funny to write support for it. After all, its opensource, and many do it because they like it.
However, they had to do something, and putting a README seems just right to me.
Well, I lovved the "Tales of Interest!".
Specially the one of Planet N64.
that one was great!
I think I have in my hand an IBM mouse that does just that.
(though since I left using windows on this particular machin, I don remember ifmI had to put the mouse cursor on the scrollbar or not)
so what you are saying is that because its not visible to the user, its not worth the time and effort?
HOW WRONG YOU ARE!
whether it is visible or not, it still gives the user a better experience.
Who cares what XUL is (I have just started learning about it, and its very confusing to build an xpi for me, specially since I dont know mozilla and javascript that much) , or ping times whatever. Using mozilla for some reason or another, whether I know the reason or not, feels smoother than using IE.
Yeah, whatever, but I still get to the net through a 56 kb modem.
Thats SCARY!!!!
It took me a few 10 seconds to read the Score:5, Funny though...
because it IS a joke, isnt it?!?!
Well, they could always tag it in a grub/lilo conf file as testing or unstable or something meaningfull, along with another tag for the 2.4 stable kernel tagged stable...
the stable kernel should then be a must of any installation, while the testing kernel (2.6 in this example) would be optional.
also, by default initially, grub/lilo shuold default to the stable kernel or windows partition (when installing, i mean)
How do you know If what you buy supports the RIAA?
If you wait to the 21st, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix is supposed to be out. :D
Expect it will be on hardcover, though...
is, somehow, availability.
I see no point on subscribing to RedHat Network because:
1. I don live in the USA.
2. My bandwidth is a phone connection with supposed 56 kbps, so I wouldnt see much of an improvement there.
I would like to go out and buy a RH box if only it was available in a store near my place....
Right now, the only way I have access to linux is through friends that can rip a (couple of) cd for me.
Make in Quenÿa, and I'll back you.
We are not killing anybody here.
Please dont try to compare oranges with apples. They're outright different already.
OH GOD!!!
Just what we needed!!!
For the entire slashdot comunity to start
#!/bin/sh
for i1 in `seq 0 255`; do
for i2 in `seq 0 255`; do
for i3 in `seq 0 255`; do
for i4 in `seq 0 255`; do
host $i1.$i2.$i3.$i4 >> $HOME/internet-wide_easter_egg.txt;
done;
done;
done;
done;
Now you did it!
Now everyone will start host-ing the entire Internet for easter eggs.... oh god...
No, its because innovation comes from the need to solve a problem/limitation, and since the userbase of MS OFFICE is so much huge than any 'equivalent' on Linux, Linux app developers of its equivalents dont get as much feedback on needs, and the developers themselves havent found any limitation.
Besides, it is fun to try to mimic and thus prove yourself you could do it as well.
on the Userbase side, I dont use OpenOffice when I can type my documents with LyX or TeXmacs. I havent had a need for a spreadsheet, but when I do, I will probably use Gnumeric, or even octave! (yeah, octave is not intended as that, and so what) and pass it to either Lyx or TeXmacs. Hence, this just probes that the userbase on linux is not that big yet.
On the Evolution side, Its still young. On the nautilus side, It is so much ahead of its Windows counterparts imvho, as I havent seen what XP can do.
You conveniently forgot to include his parenthesis "(in some
The point in RAM reffers to how much a register can address, or in other words, the biggest size one single segment can be without lose of performance.
And he did say about cryptography.
I would add video and audio, but it looks like the trend, and I think its better that way, is to move that horse-work to the periphereals.
Also, you didnt list any other area either, and I replied in the knowledge that I dont have much to say because of my limited knowledge, aka, I only know I know nothing)
I didnt knew that one! thanks!
Now If I only knew what values are allowed and what would be the result...
Nice. Now you have slashdotted their site, and it wasnt even the focus of the news.
Am I so obvious?
Seriously now, I have problems getting along with people before I know them better, which usually takes me about a year of constantly meeting them.
No.
I always though that BSD is BSD, then there is OpenBSD and FreeBSD (which are Open and Free respectively, as per the terms of their respective licenses, but theyre not BSD)
or am I wrong?
well, that should be ' IAAL, and...'
All I have read on this discussion made me wonder, How flexible are Nautilus desktop Icons?
I mean, If I dragged ann dropped something, enything, could I tie a process to the icon and made it process the dropped thing, whatever it was? (a makefile would be maked, files in some icon would pop a dialog propting for a mail direction to mail the files, or even print them, another would recive an xml file and would start an icq(or ither im) connection with whatever was descripted on the file, etc) ?
I think I'll propose/ask about this on its mailing list, if it has one.
Well... It seems Dr Mureau's Iland is not far away now.
What would dolly had said if she had had more time?
Now if we could get walls to talk too...