I really, really dislike David Lynch's work. Not just Dune, but all of it. Especially that horrible TV show, Twin Peaks.
He just does all this wierd stuff, and builds up this idea that something is going on, and then in the end there is no resolution, nothing is explained, and all the wierd stuff goes nowhere, and is just strange for strange's sake.
As such, you've got two great, incompatible desktop environments dividing a small userbase.
Two, because no one uses Enlightenment or Windowmaker or Afterstep or fvwm or.......
I'm a KDE user, but I'm sick of this "there are two destops" thing. I work at a place where there are ~100 linux desktop users. I'd say 25% use KDE, 30% use gnome, and 45% use something else. Thats nearly HALF that use something besides KDE or Gnome.
I've always found it interesting that many of the posters in these forums sound like religious zealots rather than REAL sysadmins or coders
I would guess that's because REAL sysadmins and coders are busy with REAL stuff, while 12 year old (in actual time or just mental maturity time) zealots have lots of time to post to/.
I use PacBell DSL in San Diego. I have had them for about 6 months, and have had 4 days of downtime total.
This sucks.
I could ping my gateway (the gateway they assigned me) but nothing past that. When I called tech support, and informed them of my problem, thier solution was to re-boot my machine.
When I told them I could ping my gateway but nothing past it, thier response was "what's a gateway?"
then they asked me to right click on network neighborhood. When I said I use Linux, thier response was "What's Linux"
When I said Linux was an operating system, thier response was "What's an operating system?"
When I asked to talk to her supervisor, I was told I couldn't.
It later turned out there was a citywide outage that the tech support people didn't know about.
I guess if they knew things about linux and networking, they could get a better job than DSL phone support.
Anyway, besides that 4 day outage, things have been pretty smooth.
I am so sick and tired of people bitching about "Linux doesn't support my xxxx new hardware".
There are many many places where you can find lists of supported hardware. If your card is not on the list, either get a new card, don't use linux, or use linux and keep you mouth shut about it.
I used to complain about no open GL support for my video card. Then I bit the bullet and bought a Voodoo 3 (this was when only voodoo cards had openGL for Linux).
The only operating system that supports just about any hardware right now is Windows 98/95. I'd say Linux hardware support is way better than NT or Windows 2000 (or Mac:-)
What the heck are you doing bitching about sound card support in this forum anyway? I thought we were talking about RAM discs.
What the heck am I doing bitching about people bitching in this forum. I thought we were talking about RAM discs.
These last few weeks have been really scary. It seems like the government and big corps are out to completly change the face of America and the world. They seem to want to totally take away freedoms that we, as Americans, take for granted.
For example, here's a headline from acbnews.com, today:
And then I find out from Wired.com that back in 1997, Clinton signed a law that makes it a federal felony to share software with friends or family. A FEDERAL FELONY to give my sister a copy of some software. Jeeze.
These are just from today!!!!
The last thing I want to hear from my kids (when I have them) is "Daddy, where where you when they took our freedom away?"
The irony of the situation is that if CueCat would have kept quiet about the OS coummunity's so called "IP Violations", very few people would know or care about the various "hacks" to their product.
Now that they've made such a big stink, everyone and their brother fred is eager to tear it apart and figure out how it works.
If you want something done right, you've got to do it yourself.
My company has had this lesson driven home to us many times.
Whether it's coding, networking, translation services, etc, EVERY TIME we let another company handle it (whether they are partners or contractors) they either take to long or totally screw it up or both.
In the long run, it always turns out that we could have done it better, faster, cheaper ourselves.
That is going to haunt me for the rest of my life, and may just make me impotent.
I think I am going blind.
Bob has a Security Breach in his head...
on
Bob Metcalfe On NPR
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Bob has a Security Breach in his head, and the alien underground mafia is using it to fill him up with anti-linux propoganda.
why?
because if the source code is available, the alien underground mafia cannot sneak thier backdoors into our software, and that will ruin thier plan to TAKE OVER THE WORLD.
Let's start a "work boycott" of the MPAA and the RIAA.
Let's make it impossible for them to hire decent tech help.
Techies everywhere: UNITE. Do not work for the RIAA or the MPAA or any of thier member companies. If they can't get any good tech employees, they will be stuck in the 1980s forever!
As a developer, I want the tools that help me do my job the easiest and best way I know possible:
Emacs
Perl
ssh
Linux
MySQL
My company runs over 500 linux servers. When I need another 1 or 20, they buy me what I need.
They also need to support it after I move on. That's why we use Perl, Linux and MySQL. We have over 150 engineers that are fluent in these tools.
Our web site gets over 130,000,000 page views a month. Our Network Engineering team consists of less than 10 people.
You try to support over 500 servers in 2 far-flung cities that get > 130,000,000 page views a month with Windows NT with less than 10 Network Engineers.
And my company is saving millions of dollars by using open source when it makes sense (which turns out to be almost everywhere except on the sales/marketing folks desktops). Thats money that stays in our corporate pockets, goes to fund open source projects that we use, and goes to MY SALARY.
I'm not saying NT is not the right tool for some jobs. But it's definitely the WRONG tool for my job.
It used to be that MySQL was free for use, but you couldn't sell it. That meant that if I was to consult for a business, and set up an infrastucture for them, I could use Linux, Apache and MySQL, but if I was charging them money (and of course I am) then I would have to pay MySQL.
Now I don't have to pay MySQL. So I (or any enterprising tech) can hire themselves out to set up a company's IT infrastucture and NOT PAY A CENT TO ANYONE FOR SOFTWARE.
This will speed adoptions of completely GPLed networks and backends, as well as further help the budding cottage industry of freelance IT consultants.
Why is this important, other that we can make more money now?
Supporting the "cottage industry" tech consultants is what got Microsoft where it it today. I am seeing more and more parallels between MS programmers/network consultant of 5 years ago and Linux-Open Source programmers/network consultants today.
The geeks tell the "dumb" suits what to use. Win over the geeks (as MS did in the early 90's) and you win over the suits, eventually.
"But the suits demand MS products!" you say. Well, back in the day, the suits demanded IBM. But the MS won out eventually, and Linux/Apache/MySQl will too. We are already halfway there.
We already had alot of reasons to push MySQL, now we have one more - it saves us money!
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I really, really dislike David Lynch's work. Not just Dune, but all of it. Especially that horrible TV show, Twin Peaks.
He just does all this wierd stuff, and builds up this idea that something is going on, and then in the end there is no resolution, nothing is explained, and all the wierd stuff goes nowhere, and is just strange for strange's sake.
He's not a genius. He's a pretender.
Frank Herbet. Now there's a genius.
just my 2 cents.
As such, you've got two great, incompatible desktop environments dividing a small userbase.
Two, because no one uses Enlightenment or Windowmaker or Afterstep or fvwm or.......
I'm a KDE user, but I'm sick of this "there are two destops" thing. I work at a place where there are ~100 linux desktop users. I'd say 25% use KDE, 30% use gnome, and 45% use something else. Thats nearly HALF that use something besides KDE or Gnome.
On a well-administered network, this shouldn't be possible.
If a public school has a well administered network, thier sysadmin should get a better paying job.
-geekd
I've always found it interesting that many of the posters in these forums sound like religious zealots rather than REAL sysadmins or coders
/.
I would guess that's because REAL sysadmins and coders are busy with REAL stuff, while 12 year old (in actual time or just mental maturity time) zealots have lots of time to post to
I use PacBell DSL in San Diego. I have had them for about 6 months, and have had 4 days of downtime total.
This sucks.
I could ping my gateway (the gateway they assigned me) but nothing past that. When I called tech support, and informed them of my problem, thier solution was to re-boot my machine.
When I told them I could ping my gateway but nothing past it, thier response was "what's a gateway?"
then they asked me to right click on network neighborhood. When I said I use Linux, thier response was "What's Linux"
When I said Linux was an operating system, thier response was "What's an operating system?"
When I asked to talk to her supervisor, I was told I couldn't.
It later turned out there was a citywide outage that the tech support people didn't know about.
I guess if they knew things about linux and networking, they could get a better job than DSL phone support.
Anyway, besides that 4 day outage, things have been pretty smooth.
-geekd
I am so sick and tired of people bitching about "Linux doesn't support my xxxx new hardware".
:-)
There are many many places where you can find lists of supported hardware. If your card is not on the list, either get a new card, don't use linux, or use linux and keep you mouth shut about it.
I used to complain about no open GL support for my video card. Then I bit the bullet and bought a Voodoo 3 (this was when only voodoo cards had openGL for Linux).
The only operating system that supports just about any hardware right now is Windows 98/95. I'd say Linux hardware support is way better than NT or Windows 2000 (or Mac
What the heck are you doing bitching about sound card support in this forum anyway? I thought we were talking about RAM discs.
What the heck am I doing bitching about people bitching in this forum. I thought we were talking about RAM discs.
-geekd
The article is just quoteing the cover letter to the report.
here
I can't really blame the article for reprinting the summary that the reports authors used.
ok. it's installed onto my Thinkpad, under Mandrak 7.1
it DOES SUCK.
at least with the RPMs provided, it sucks ass. Many many things don't work. Many apps will not launch.
is sucks.
can I say that again? it sucks.
Maybe if I get motivated, tonight I will download the source and try to compile it myself.
-geekd
did you install to a red hat machine?
The RPMs I found were for Mandrake (lucky for me, since that;s what I use)
Mandrake puts KDE in the "right" place (/opt/kde)
Red Hat for some stupid reason puts kde elsewhere. This has been a sore point for users of KDE on Red Hat for awhile.
I'm downloading now to install on my Thinkpad. If it's nice, I'll put it on my work machine.
-geekd
These last few weeks have been really scary. It seems like the government and big corps are out to completly change the face of America and the world. They seem to want to totally take away freedoms that we, as Americans, take for granted.
For example, here's a headline from acbnews.com, today:
Request for More Inspection Powers
Here's a witch hunt by the government to ban violent games
here's Gove rnment Sites Get An F On Privacy
And then I find out from Wired.com that back in 1997, Clinton signed a law that makes it a federal felony to share software with friends or family. A FEDERAL FELONY to give my sister a copy of some software. Jeeze.
These are just from today!!!!
The last thing I want to hear from my kids (when I have them) is "Daddy, where where you when they took our freedom away?"
DOH!
my bad.
I thought it was creative that bought Diamond.
The linked article is all of 1 parahraph.
Does any know of a more in-depth article?
Well, I guess, what maore can you say? "Creative, maker of the Diamond Rio, is pissed and says"Hell No, We Wont Go!""
Until some more news surfaces, I guess we are stuck speculating.
Who puts on CeBit? How are they connected to the RIAA? At all?
The irony of the situation is that if CueCat would have kept quiet about the OS coummunity's so called "IP Violations", very few people would know or care about the various "hacks" to their product.
Now that they've made such a big stink, everyone and their brother fred is eager to tear it apart and figure out how it works.
Moral:
Pissing off the geeks only motivates them more.
If you want something done right, you've got to do it yourself.
My company has had this lesson driven home to us many times.
Whether it's coding, networking, translation services, etc, EVERY TIME we let another company handle it (whether they are partners or contractors) they either take to long or totally screw it up or both.
In the long run, it always turns out that we could have done it better, faster, cheaper ourselves.
just my experience.
DUDE!
I DID NOT need to see That!
That is going to haunt me for the rest of my life, and may just make me impotent.
I think I am going blind.
Bob has a Security Breach in his head, and the alien underground mafia is using it to fill him up with anti-linux propoganda.
why?
because if the source code is available, the alien underground mafia cannot sneak thier backdoors into our software, and that will ruin thier plan to TAKE OVER THE WORLD.
Oh wait, that was pinky and the brain.
s/alien underground mafia/pinky and the brain/g
So, you are calling the Fin a liar.
I would call that rude.
Because I am a lazy ass and haven't gotten around to changing anything on my site in about a million years.
you can, as you say, download them all off of mp3.com. here
I have never claimed that napster was anything more than a cool program I use to get music for free.
How is mp3.com anything like an RIAA member? Are they suing anyone?
The GPL is form of copyright, isn't it?
Lets have a "work boycott" of the RIAA and the MPAA.
No geeks take any jobs with any member company of either group.
If they want to be so hostile to us (sueing Napster, Mp3.com, 2600, etc) then lets not work for them.
Let's see how well they do as companies when thier tech level stays mid 1990's.
Let's start a "work boycott" of the MPAA and the RIAA.
Let's make it impossible for them to hire decent tech help.
Techies everywhere: UNITE. Do not work for the RIAA or the MPAA or any of thier member companies. If they can't get any good tech employees, they will be stuck in the 1980s forever!
Look, dude.
:-)
I'm not gonna get into a pissing match with you, but we push A LOT of data besides just pageviews.
a lot.
And without all those pesky re-boots.
Photoshop and Diablo II are the only reasons I ever use Windows these days.
It's annoying to have to boot over to Linux to do REAL work. (ie ssh-ing into my box at work).
sure, there's ssh clients for Windows, but they, for the most part, suck.
So I probably don't play Diablo II as much as I would other wise.
As a developer, I want the tools that help me do my job the easiest and best way I know possible:
Emacs
Perl
ssh
Linux
MySQL
My company runs over 500 linux servers. When I need another 1 or 20, they buy me what I need.
They also need to support it after I move on. That's why we use Perl, Linux and MySQL. We have over 150 engineers that are fluent in these tools.
Our web site gets over 130,000,000 page views a month. Our Network Engineering team consists of less than 10 people.
You try to support over 500 servers in 2 far-flung cities that get > 130,000,000 page views a month with Windows NT with less than 10 Network Engineers.
And my company is saving millions of dollars by using open source when it makes sense (which turns out to be almost everywhere except on the sales/marketing folks desktops). Thats money that stays in our corporate pockets, goes to fund open source projects that we use, and goes to MY SALARY.
I'm not saying NT is not the right tool for some jobs. But it's definitely the WRONG tool for my job.
REAL genetic algorythms.
sorry. couldn't resist
This is really great.
It used to be that MySQL was free for use, but you couldn't sell it. That meant that if I was to consult for a business, and set up an infrastucture for them, I could use Linux, Apache and MySQL, but if I was charging them money (and of course I am) then I would have to pay MySQL.
Now I don't have to pay MySQL. So I (or any enterprising tech) can hire themselves out to set up a company's IT infrastucture and NOT PAY A CENT TO ANYONE FOR SOFTWARE.
This will speed adoptions of completely GPLed networks and backends, as well as further help the budding cottage industry of freelance IT consultants.
Why is this important, other that we can make more money now?
Supporting the "cottage industry" tech consultants is what got Microsoft where it it today. I am seeing more and more parallels between MS programmers/network consultant of 5 years ago and Linux-Open Source programmers/network consultants today.
The geeks tell the "dumb" suits what to use. Win over the geeks (as MS did in the early 90's) and you win over the suits, eventually.
"But the suits demand MS products!" you say. Well, back in the day, the suits demanded IBM. But the MS won out eventually, and Linux/Apache/MySQl will too. We are already halfway there.
We already had alot of reasons to push MySQL, now we have one more - it saves us money!
-geekd