If I install a tar.gz now, I'll break my fine packaging system.:-(
The tarball is all in one directory which is easily deleted once the debian package is available. What's more, I currently have the 1.0 package installed and am typing this using a recent nightly build and they don't interfere with each other at all, since I just unpacked the tarball into my homedir instead of trying to install into/usr/local
Or, as someone else mentioned (and got modded up pretty high), ctrl+shift+left-click opens a link in a new tab, in the background.
HTH
Not if you subscribe and then cancel
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I subscribed to whatever Time Warner offers that's just above basic and then cancelled my service. Now I can't get any cable, even though my modem still works... bummer:-(
Re:Heres the post everyone should read first
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What do you mean "modest"??? For someone who's making 60K a year, that's $190 a month. With $190, I could pay my phone bill, my power bill and do my wash at the apartment's laundry facilities for the whole month!
What Is my company doing to cut costs? I'll try to list all the ways I'm aware of:
- No pay raises for anyone this year (probably not next year either).
- No more free coffee for employees (they now have to buy it from vending machines)
- No electrical appliances in cubes which, along with no longer having the hot water spigot from the coffee machine, means that tea drinkers must now either buy coffee from the machine or drink at home
- No more discounts on company products for employees (this means an increase in spending of up to $50 a month for employees who were taking advantage of them).
- No budget for the IT department
- Tens of thousands of layoffs during the past couple years.
- There's probably more I'm forgetting
My favorite high tech toilet is the Bumper Dumper
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Do you honestly believe that the benifit of a faster search is enough incentive to rewrite such a major part of the OS?
How do you know they're really rewriting it? NTFS is basically a rip-off of HPFS (OS/2's file system that was supposed to go into the joint IBM/Microsloth OS). They actually admitted this on an NT FAQ on their web site... it's been years since I saw it, though, and can't find it anymore.
With this in mind, how do you know OFS won't be the BSD file system or an illegal closed source version of ext* or JFS or ReiserFS or... well, you get the idea.
Mine somehow got set to user@host-I-sent-message-from instread of user@my-isp. Weird, but probably a good thing for the reasons mentioned;-)
On this government and enforcement...
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They are giving the industry 12 to 18 months to come up with a voluntary solution to the "problem" of copies
But auto makers get all the time they want to solve the problem of millions of humongous fossils... er, fossil fuel powered machines... that belch filth into the air we breath every day. Go figure.
I forget what story it was, but I remember seeing a very highly moded comment on a story that encouraged/. readers to at least send an email that said "I hate Microsoft" (yes, I believe that was the exact wording).
Maybe this was the article about the samba developer's web page?... Oh well, someone else can look it up if they want.
Your reply looks a lot like a troll... but here goes.
If your method of judging an office suite is "is it exactly like MS Office" then I suppose you won't like KOffice (I've never used it, BTW) and it's almost certainly not as mature as MS Office is.
However, an application needn't be compared to it's Microsoft counterpart in order to get a good review.
If I remember correctly, ZDNet gave KOffice a good review (back when KDE 2.x first appeared, I think) but also said that it still needed some work since it lacked some key features (don't remember if/to what extent they compared it to MS Office)... that's all I meant to say with my comment and you can go find the review yourself if you care that much.
I admit that I'm not an average desktop user and have little use for an office suit. However, abiword and gnumeric more than satisfy my needs when it comes to office applications. KOffice has also gotten some pretty good reviews.
All I want is to be able to view files friends/coworkers send me without having to run a completely different OS... or be required to have a specific office suite installed on my computer.
Personally, I think that requiring MS to port Office to Linux is simply accepting the fact that they're a monopoly and that there isn't a damned thing we can do about it...
This is what happens when non-tech folks address tech issues. Shame on them for not demanding that those free systems have commercially purchased Linux distros installed.
Yeah, I'm sure MS would then "kindly" provide MCSEs to said schools to administer the Linux boxes... I wonder how many students would like Linux after that kind of experience (i.e. having to use MCSE administered Linux boxes):-\
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First off, I could not have missed the point completely if I had the first post. Second, only one of the devices you listed requires somewhat modern input, which is the VCR. The VCR, however, uses analog input. This error is apparently caused because of input, most likely the disk in it.
And how, pray tell, is the Xbox any more complicated than a vcr when it comes to taking user input? Every input you can give to the Xbox, AFAIK, is pre-set: you select from a list, so there should be no chance for the user to enter erroneous input and any problems that occur are related to the software or, as you said, faulty/damaged hardware.
Obviously, the error could be because of something else, but it should be apparent that it is probably still accepting user input. There is no reason to assume that the X-Box has crashed from the picture.
Right and wrong. You're right in that you can't tell what caused the "green screen" in the picture, but wrong in assuming that it's still taking user input. I've often found that, even though it has "OK" and "CANCEL" options available, Windows will often ignore them when it's in BSOD mode... that aside, once again, there's no way to tell from the picture what the exact situation is
Right on... except for one thing: Microsoft didn't "make DOS," they bought it for peanuts from some poor dude in Seattle (I think) who probably regretted that business decision for the rest of his life.
switched back to Mandrake the next day cuz I couldn't get sound working for my isapnp card (yeah, I was pretty green back then) but mostly because I didn't like the packaging system.
I've since switched to Debian...
If you finish reading the article, you'll notice that they are simply no longer developing an alternative Debian distribution and will, instead, contribute their changes directly to the official Debian distribution. From the annoncement:
"From a business perspective, our customers consistently ask for Debian, not Progeny Debian, and while Progeny Debian is technically just a "release" of Debian (akin to "potato" or "woody" from the Debian project), the appearance of maintaining a separate or "forked" version is a liability given our company's shift away from a mass-market product and service focus and toward consulting and other professional services.
Progeny will continue to help further the development and adoption of Debian in commercial settings, and we will continue to contribute enhancements to Debian that help Debian become a more viable platform for commercial users. This announcement only affects Progeny Debian the product; it in no way affects Progeny's ongoing commitment to the Debian project or its Debian deployment, custom development, and support services for commercial users."
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Though some users contend TiVo has sex on the brain
TiVo doesn't have sex on the brain. Television programming does.
Or are they writing this stuff by hand? (I haven't read the article, so ignore me if it's in the article).
If I install a tar.gz now, I'll break my fine packaging system. :-(
The tarball is all in one directory which is easily deleted once the debian package is available. What's more, I currently have the 1.0 package installed and am typing this using a recent nightly build and they don't interfere with each other at all, since I just unpacked the tarball into my homedir instead of trying to install into
Or, as someone else mentioned (and got modded up pretty high), ctrl+shift+left-click opens a link in a new tab, in the background.
HTH
I subscribed to whatever Time Warner offers that's just above basic and then cancelled my service. Now I can't get any cable, even though my modem still works... bummer :-(
Because it's not emacs.
Mainstream Yahoo users probably just forwarded the spam to 50 people so that their crush would make out with them.
What do you mean "modest"??? For someone who's making 60K a year, that's $190 a month. With $190, I could pay my phone bill, my power bill and do my wash at the apartment's laundry facilities for the whole month!
What Is my company doing to cut costs? I'll try to list all the ways I'm aware of:
- No pay raises for anyone this year (probably not next year either).
- No more free coffee for employees (they now have to buy it from vending machines)
- No electrical appliances in cubes which, along with no longer having the hot water spigot from the coffee machine, means that tea drinkers must now either buy coffee from the machine or drink at home
- No more discounts on company products for employees (this means an increase in spending of up to $50 a month for employees who were taking advantage of them).
- No budget for the IT department
- Tens of thousands of layoffs during the past couple years.
- There's probably more I'm forgetting
http://www.bumperdumper.com/
Do you honestly believe that the benifit of a faster search is enough incentive to rewrite such a major part of the OS?
How do you know they're really rewriting it? NTFS is basically a rip-off of HPFS (OS/2's file system that was supposed to go into the joint IBM/Microsloth OS). They actually admitted this on an NT FAQ on their web site... it's been years since I saw it, though, and can't find it anymore.
With this in mind, how do you know OFS won't be the BSD file system or an illegal closed source version of ext* or JFS or ReiserFS or... well, you get the idea.
Mine somehow got set to user@host-I-sent-message-from instread of user@my-isp. Weird, but probably a good thing for the reasons mentioned ;-)
They are giving the industry 12 to 18 months to come up with a voluntary solution to the "problem" of copies
But auto makers get all the time they want to solve the problem of millions of humongous fossils... er, fossil fuel powered machines... that belch filth into the air we breath every day. Go figure.
Oh yeah, and I liked the Daily Show's headline graphic for this story: 'N Space
Personally, I like CNN Headline News' title for this story: "'N Sunk"I forget what story it was, but I remember seeing a very highly moded comment on a story that encouraged /. readers to at least send an email that said "I hate Microsoft" (yes, I believe that was the exact wording).
Maybe this was the article about the samba developer's web page?... Oh well, someone else can look it up if they want.
I didn't look at all the results, but there appear to be at least two specific cases in the top three...
# apt-get dist-update
E: Invalid operation dist-update
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Did Connective change all the commands around or something?
Your reply looks a lot like a troll... but here goes.
If your method of judging an office suite is "is it exactly like MS Office" then I suppose you won't like KOffice (I've never used it, BTW) and it's almost certainly not as mature as MS Office is.
However, an application needn't be compared to it's Microsoft counterpart in order to get a good review.
If I remember correctly, ZDNet gave KOffice a good review (back when KDE 2.x first appeared, I think) but also said that it still needed some work since it lacked some key features (don't remember if/to what extent they compared it to MS Office)... that's all I meant to say with my comment and you can go find the review yourself if you care that much.
I admit that I'm not an average desktop user and have little use for an office suit. However, abiword and gnumeric more than satisfy my needs when it comes to office applications. KOffice has also gotten some pretty good reviews.
All I want is to be able to view files friends/coworkers send me without having to run a completely different OS... or be required to have a specific office suite installed on my computer.
Personally, I think that requiring MS to port Office to Linux is simply accepting the fact that they're a monopoly and that there isn't a damned thing we can do about it...
Just my $0.02
Running their page through the w3c's HTML validator return the following reponse...
I got the following unexpected response when trying to retrieve http://www.kpmg.com/index.html: 302 Object moved
Please make sure you have entered the URI correctly.
[Valid HTML 4.01!] Gerald Oskoboiny
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This is what happens when non-tech folks address tech issues. Shame on them for not demanding that those free systems have commercially purchased Linux distros installed.
Yeah, I'm sure MS would then "kindly" provide MCSEs to said schools to administer the Linux boxes... I wonder how many students would like Linux after that kind of experience (i.e. having to use MCSE administered Linux boxes)First off, I could not have missed the point completely if I had the first post. Second, only one of the devices you listed requires somewhat modern input, which is the VCR. The VCR, however, uses analog input. This error is apparently caused because of input, most likely the disk in it.
And how, pray tell, is the Xbox any more complicated than a vcr when it comes to taking user input? Every input you can give to the Xbox, AFAIK, is pre-set: you select from a list, so there should be no chance for the user to enter erroneous input and any problems that occur are related to the software or, as you said, faulty/damaged hardware.
Obviously, the error could be because of something else, but it should be apparent that it is probably still accepting user input. There is no reason to assume that the X-Box has crashed from the picture.
Right and wrong. You're right in that you can't tell what caused the "green screen" in the picture, but wrong in assuming that it's still taking user input. I've often found that, even though it has "OK" and "CANCEL" options available, Windows will often ignore them when it's in BSOD mode... that aside, once again, there's no way to tell from the picture what the exact situation is
Right on... except for one thing: Microsoft didn't "make DOS," they bought it for peanuts from some poor dude in Seattle (I think) who probably regretted that business decision for the rest of his life.
switched back to Mandrake the next day cuz I couldn't get sound working for my isapnp card (yeah, I was pretty green back then) but mostly because I didn't like the packaging system.
I've since switched to Debian...
If you finish reading the article, you'll notice that they are simply no longer developing an alternative Debian distribution and will, instead, contribute their changes directly to the official Debian distribution. From the annoncement:
"From a business perspective, our customers consistently ask for Debian, not Progeny Debian, and while Progeny Debian is technically just a "release" of Debian (akin to "potato" or "woody" from the Debian project), the appearance of maintaining a separate or "forked" version is a liability given our company's shift away from a mass-market product and service focus and toward consulting and other professional services.
Progeny will continue to help further the development and adoption of Debian in commercial settings, and we will continue to contribute enhancements to Debian that help Debian become a more viable platform for commercial users. This announcement only affects Progeny Debian the product; it in no way affects Progeny's ongoing commitment to the Debian project or its Debian deployment, custom development, and support services for commercial users."
this might finally give script kiddies something useful to do with their spare time :-)