What? Do you want to crack open your laptop and add a 4 port serial card so you can run your BBS from your laptop? It's a cheap, fast laptop that is designed for students, people on the run, etc..
A student typing their thesis in a library doesn't want to carry an kind of peripherals around, and a person on the go just wants to carry their laptop, not a plethora of USB/Fireware/SCSI/Parallel devices around.. yeesh...
SuSE Doesn't make their Linux flavor available for download in any way. I guess thats the way their license reads and all that jazz. Therefore, if you want it, you have got to shell out alotta clams for it. I know it also has something to do with the fact that SuSE has some proprietary Video Implimnetation stuff (MetroX? Something like that..)
Hmmm.. I wonder why they had more income than RedHat, yet RedHat has a greater install base
It does sound interesting, but I only play with things I can get for free. S'pose if I needed it I would buy it.
Well, it all just depends on what comic you are reading. There weren't many cheesy POW sound effects in Frank Millers Dark Knight for certain.
For anyone that was a fan of Batman when they were kids and are looking for some good (dark) reading, I'd suggest you pick it up. There is some web site out there that sells Graphic Novels at a discount, but I forgot the URL.. anyone?
And why exactly couldn't they "sale for profit"? Maybe you should drop a note to RedHat that they can no longer "sale" RH Linux. I'm sure they'd be interested to hear...
It's interesting how the BSD-ers have not landed some huge commercial project yet. Despite all the labelling and claims that the focus of the OpenBSD project is itsease of portability, all these companies are looking to Linux as the way of the future, what they want to base their project on.
Makes one wonder if they are doing so as having Linux in your projet makes your companies stock value double, or if they are doing it becuase it is fashionable in the Valley to say you have Linux Inside.
The AOL4Free Legend is all very true. I remember the days of connecting to AOL all night long being a Warez D00D downloading M$ Excel via the 9600 modem... all 26 diskettes worth, just to find out in the morning disk #24 was corrupted.. All for free thanks to AOL4Free...
Then there were the alternative versions of AOL with their "hacked" graphics (thanks to simple Graphic editing in ResEdit) but also the ability to get into all the secret Admin areas and Chat rooms.. it's true.
As a quick side note, since eWorld was built upon AOL software it was not too long before all the same things were going on on eWorld, as I was there too...
All the NeXT Lovers come out of the closet for Steve Jobs/NeXT comments. I do love the elegance and beauty that NeXT hands to the User. When I got my first box my Unix experience was limited to telneting into my ACM account and typing 'elm' to read my mail, but it really allowed me to increase my skills in many ways. It's great having a graphical interface to configure something when you don't truly understand it. Once configured graphically, kick out to your command line and see what was done. The only way to learn is by doing!
Corporate America! Raise your hands and join me and my Company - Spunk-ko! We are going to revolutionize the way your emplyees work by creating a PDA that won't suffer from all that crap that your employees will stuff onto a stinkin' PalmPilot or WinCE machine.
The amazing part of our revolutionary new product, entitled, the Spunk-o-nator, is that it is completely closed source. You want to make a program for the Spunk-o-nator 1000? Tough nookies! The source will only be available to a select few such as the holy RMS, Masta Malda and Bill Gates, the three of which are the only people on the earth capable of deciding what applications are needed for your upmost productivity.
Excited? Interested? Intrigued? Disgusted? Don't worry, with only our idea and.30 cents in the bank, we will be going public soon! Look for us on the NYSE - ticker SPERM.
For all the best, for the total control over those mindless zombies you call pets... oh we mean employees (wink, wink) Trust Spunk-O
Now, what corporation would use a loaf machine like yours to do corporate web serving and/or file sharing? If you are reaching this far in order to refute the truth, why don't you mention that NT won't load on that PS/1 you have sitting in your corner... or on that 8088 with dual bad-ass 5 and a quarters?
OTOH, it is feasable for a startup or smaller corporation to be using a Single CPU Pent III with a measily 256 MB of RAM.
I think your comments are way too harsh and with the wrong verbiage in response to his original point. What if I didn't install Gnome? Does that make me a stupid f***? It sounds like Mr. Hacker is a very intelligent person that is exploring many Operating Systems and has found one that suited his needs for a number of reasons. Not everyone cares about source code, and that does not make them stupid.
And is there truly no way of setting up a proxy host? I've looked, and I can't find one.
I am sure there is a way. For our Solaris boxen at work we have a shell script do things let set the proxy from the command line and set the size of the window, etc... You might have to do some digging to find the exact syntax that you have to pass Mo-zilla though.
Yeesh. Did anybody actually look at that FAQ? "I Am The Nintendo FAQ And I Feel That I Have To Capitalize The Beginning Of Every Word". Did like some secretary get assigned this task and got paid double for every letter involving the Shift key or something?
I suppose it shouldn't be any suprise that "the man" is trying to bring down "the little people". Same old story. It's useless now to completely quash it. I mean there are thousands of hotline servers out there, thousands of http and ftp sites with offending materials. I guess the goal is trying to make it less easy. Do I have a problem with that? Well, maybe I should, but I guess I am the upper crust 1% or so that won't freek out when snes9x.com is down. I know to just surf on over elsewhere. My like great grandpapa that read about emulation in Wired or something is going to be bumming and going to give up, so I guess in that sense the Big-N wins.
Signing Off From Capitilization Land - Nintendo Now You Are Playing With Power And The Shift Key.
Just when I get a distro that installs perfectly on my machine (Madrake 5.3) they release the latest and greatest (beta). I have to give Mandrake a big round of applause. While I find Linux to be somewhat odd still in the grand scheme of things, I am trying my best to accustom myself to it and Mandrake is one great, great distro.
Doesn't appear to be any ISO images available yet, which is what really drew me to Mandrake. Too bad I don't have my burner working yet on the Linux side of things... well I don't have sound yet either... oh yeah and my video isn't really 100% up to snuff yet.. oh and I forgot, I want to install WINE and Hotline.. oh yeah and I want to learn how to use KDE better.. oh yeah.. and..
That Michigan State comment hurt. Being attacked in my "home" - Slashdot. Oh well, the idiots that were out doing that crap deserve what they get. Hey I was all boozed up after we lost and a 1/4 mile from burning cars... I personally thought it was funner to flip on my Sega Dreamcast and play a little Sega Rally2, not ALL of us are morons.
Wow, the "extra stoopid" of corporate America usually throw a few bucks onto the bed before they begin the nasty screw, but The OS Co. here apparently thinks they can get a free ride. I hope our friend Theo gets a lot of buckage out of these punks. Gotta hate calls from lawyers.
That's utterly shocking. Are you saying that people whom may know only Windows and Office as their sole OS/Business package would enjoy a book by Mr. Gates.. that's almost as scandaleous as a typical slashdotter liking Linux! I can't believe the gull of some people.
It really is sad that most of the posters cannot see past the end of their very own nose. Yeah, it may be unfortunate that the Tetris Company isn't going to make a Tetris for Linux, but the own the damn rights to it. As long as it's something you want, then you will piss and whine about it, but if Microsoft is doing such a thing or if YOU own the rights to a property, I am sure you would be less than thrilled with other people making money off your property. Check your heads.
Jeez. Looks like the Az. lawmakers didn't do much homework, considering they are backing themselves into a corner by limiting a number of needed devices (Ethernet) and computers. DUH.
Seems like a god idea gone awry. I agree that Intel's idea is totally kooky, but I am one to believe that the market should determine itself. Hey, I don't want a chip that goes on spouting off my information, so I won't buy one. What a crazy idea that is. And then, I can form a group of buyers, and say, "Hey, you are going to lose all these Millions of dollars" to "The Man". Looks like that worked better than any law ever will.
Slashdot Mirror
What? Do you want to crack open your laptop and add a 4 port serial card so you can run your BBS from your laptop? It's a cheap, fast laptop that is designed for students, people on the run, etc..
/Fireware/SCSI/Parallel devices around.. yeesh...
A student typing their thesis in a library doesn't want to carry an kind of peripherals around, and a person on the go just wants to carry their laptop, not a plethora of USB
SuSE Doesn't make their Linux flavor available for download in any way. I guess thats the way their license reads and all that jazz. Therefore, if you want it, you have got to shell out alotta clams for it. I know it also has something to do with the fact that SuSE has some proprietary Video Implimnetation stuff (MetroX? Something like that..)
Hmmm.. I wonder why they had more income than RedHat, yet RedHat has a greater install base
It does sound interesting, but I only play with things I can get for free. S'pose if I needed it I would buy it.
Well, it all just depends on what comic you are reading. There weren't many cheesy POW sound effects in Frank Millers Dark Knight for certain.
For anyone that was a fan of Batman when they were kids and are looking for some good (dark) reading, I'd suggest you pick it up. There is some web site out there that sells Graphic Novels at a discount, but I forgot the URL.. anyone?
And why exactly couldn't they "sale for profit"?
Maybe you should drop a note to RedHat that they can no longer "sale" RH Linux. I'm sure they'd be interested to hear...
It's interesting how the BSD-ers have not landed some huge commercial project yet. Despite all the labelling and claims that the focus of the OpenBSD project is itsease of portability, all these companies are looking to Linux as the way of the future, what they want to base their project on.
Makes one wonder if they are doing so as having Linux in your projet makes your companies stock value double, or if they are doing it becuase it is fashionable in the Valley to say you have Linux Inside.
The AOL4Free Legend is all very true. I remember the days of connecting to AOL all night long being a Warez D00D downloading M$ Excel via the 9600 modem... all 26 diskettes worth, just to find out in the morning disk #24 was corrupted.. All for free thanks to AOL4Free...
Then there were the alternative versions of AOL with their "hacked" graphics (thanks to simple Graphic editing in ResEdit) but also the ability to get into all the secret Admin areas and Chat rooms.. it's true.
As a quick side note, since eWorld was built upon AOL software it was not too long before all the same things were going on on eWorld, as I was there too...
All the NeXT Lovers come out of the closet for Steve Jobs/NeXT comments. I do love the elegance and beauty that NeXT hands to the User. When I got my first box my Unix experience was limited to telneting into my ACM account and typing 'elm' to read my mail, but it really allowed me to increase my skills in many ways. It's great having a graphical interface to configure something when you don't truly understand it. Once configured graphically, kick out to your command line and see what was done. The only way to learn is by doing!
Corporate America! Raise your hands and join me and my Company - Spunk-ko! We are going to revolutionize the way your emplyees work by creating a PDA that won't suffer from all that crap that your employees will stuff onto a stinkin' PalmPilot or WinCE machine.
.30 cents in the bank, we will be going public soon! Look for us on the NYSE - ticker SPERM.
The amazing part of our revolutionary new product, entitled, the Spunk-o-nator, is that it is completely closed source. You want to make a program for the Spunk-o-nator 1000? Tough nookies! The source will only be available to a select few such as the holy RMS, Masta Malda and Bill Gates, the three of which are the only people on the earth capable of deciding what applications are needed for your upmost productivity.
Excited? Interested? Intrigued? Disgusted? Don't worry, with only our idea and
For all the best, for the total control over those mindless zombies you call pets... oh we mean employees (wink, wink) Trust Spunk-O
Corporate Home Page of Spunk-O Systems
Now, what corporation would use a loaf machine like yours to do corporate web serving and/or file sharing? If you are reaching this far in order to refute the truth, why don't you mention that NT won't load on that PS/1 you have sitting in your corner... or on that 8088 with dual bad-ass 5 and a quarters?
OTOH, it is feasable for a startup or smaller corporation to be using a Single CPU Pent III with a measily 256 MB of RAM.
Am I the only one the link is not working for? I get a bunch of broken images? Mirror anyone?
I think your comments are way too harsh and with the wrong verbiage in response to his original point. What if I didn't install Gnome? Does that make me a stupid f***? It sounds like Mr. Hacker is a very intelligent person that is exploring many Operating Systems and has found one that suited his needs for a number of reasons. Not everyone cares about source code, and that does not make them stupid.
And is there truly no way of setting up a proxy host? I've looked, and I can't find one.
I am sure there is a way. For our Solaris boxen at work we have a shell script do things let set the proxy from the command line and set the size of the window, etc... You might have to do some digging to find the exact syntax that you have to pass Mo-zilla though.
I hear MacMillian is now going public and planning a hostile takeover of RedHat...
{Churn out newer versions! So we may slap our name across it you silly, silly bastards}
I now apologize for my evil twin. Frustration is setting in from my latest RedHat install on a SparcIPC. I must return... fly Fatass! FLY!
Gimmie a break. How about giving birth control a swing before we time warp all the way into the 90's and the Internet?
Yeesh. Did anybody actually look at that FAQ? "I Am The Nintendo FAQ And I Feel That I Have To Capitalize The Beginning Of Every Word". Did like some secretary get assigned this task and got paid double for every letter involving the Shift key or something?
I suppose it shouldn't be any suprise that "the man" is trying to bring down "the little people". Same old story. It's useless now to completely quash it. I mean there are thousands of hotline servers out there, thousands of http and ftp sites with offending materials. I guess the goal is trying to make it less easy. Do I have a problem with that? Well, maybe I should, but I guess I am the upper crust 1% or so that won't freek out when snes9x.com is down. I know to just surf on over elsewhere. My like great grandpapa that read about emulation in Wired or something is going to be bumming and going to give up, so I guess in that sense the Big-N wins.
Signing Off From Capitilization Land - Nintendo Now You Are Playing With Power And The Shift Key.
I'm out
Just when I get a distro that installs perfectly on my machine (Madrake 5.3) they release the latest and greatest (beta). I have to give Mandrake a big round of applause. While I find Linux to be somewhat odd still in the grand scheme of things, I am trying my best to accustom myself to it and Mandrake is one great, great distro.
Doesn't appear to be any ISO images available yet, which is what really drew me to Mandrake. Too bad I don't have my burner working yet on the Linux side of things... well I don't have sound yet either... oh yeah and my video isn't really 100% up to snuff yet.. oh and I forgot, I want to install WINE and Hotline.. oh yeah and I want to learn how to use KDE better.. oh yeah.. and..
Well obviously I have a way to go.
That Michigan State comment hurt. Being attacked in my "home" - Slashdot. Oh well, the idiots that were out doing that crap deserve what they get. Hey I was all boozed up after we lost and a 1/4 mile from burning cars... I personally thought it was funner to flip on my Sega Dreamcast and play a little Sega Rally2, not ALL of us are morons.
Wow, the "extra stoopid" of corporate America usually throw a few bucks onto the bed before they begin the nasty screw, but The OS Co. here apparently thinks they can get a free ride. I hope our friend Theo gets a lot of buckage out of these punks. Gotta hate calls from lawyers.
That's utterly shocking. Are you saying that people whom may know only Windows and Office as their sole OS/Business package would enjoy a book by Mr. Gates.. that's almost as scandaleous as a typical slashdotter liking Linux! I can't believe the gull of some people.
It really is sad that most of the posters cannot see past the end of their very own nose. Yeah, it may be unfortunate that the Tetris Company isn't going to make a Tetris for Linux, but the own the damn rights to it. As long as it's something you want, then you will piss and whine about it, but if Microsoft is doing such a thing or if YOU own the rights to a property, I am sure you would be less than thrilled with other people making money off your property. Check your heads.
Jeez. Looks like the Az. lawmakers didn't do much homework, considering they are backing themselves into a corner by limiting a number of needed devices (Ethernet) and computers. DUH.
Seems like a god idea gone awry. I agree that Intel's idea is totally kooky, but I am one to believe that the market should determine itself. Hey, I don't want a chip that goes on spouting off my information, so I won't buy one. What a crazy idea that is. And then, I can form a group of buyers, and say, "Hey, you are going to lose all these Millions of dollars" to "The Man". Looks like that worked better than any law ever will.