Even more reason to hate M$ and their shifty dishonest practices.
But frankly, I'm disappointed in the company that I used and supported for years. Shoot, I typed a lot of papers using Microsoft Works 2.0 on our old green-screen Tandy 1000, and it did the job pretty well. But things have changed...
I wish linux wasn't such a hyped-up hassle and that Be had some worthwhile multimedia support. (like more scanners and printers...)
*sigh*
sorry for the unoriginal anti-M$ rant. Moderate downward as needed. (Moderation seems to suck of late, perhaps not enough moderators being made??)
i got a bit aggravated after reading about half of these. people are soooo stupid. but because of the format of the page...and me wanting to read ALL of em, i found out that win95 using ie5 can handle 45 browser windows open (with some disk cacheing of course) at once!
...I mean wEIrd and ZDnet and all those other ones that make out the bulk of articles on/. I spend a couple hours a day reading stuff here, but sometimes it seems like/.ers are preaching to the choir. We rant and rave and get all hyped, but rarely, rarely, rarely does my father's copy of Newsweek mention Linux. Haven't seen BE in it. Maybe because Microsoft and Apple and HP pour buttloads into fullpage and multipage glossie ads in the mags. I was ticked when a week or so ago there was steve jobs in the middle of Newsweek plugging his ibook, and somehow it was news instead of marketing. (imagine a 3 page story, in Newsweek, Time, or USNews on say, one of Compaq's notebooks, or even better, something from VA. We'd say, gee, a computer. woopee doo. Apple, specifically Steve Jobs, has always been a media favorite IMHO.)
It all comes back to mindshare (not any company by that name but the socio-psychological idea). HP sells "The Unstoppable NT" and we groan. We all know that the world just isn't right and that we have the solutions (whatever they may be). So we shout at eachother across the internet, sometimes flaming, sometimes being polite and careful. But we are a fringe. Broad and varied and multinational but still a fringe.
I like it. I come back here every day. I can almost always find something interesting to read. I enjoy and learn from many of the comments. I'd like it if there were some other things to do here (maybe a more newbie-friendly ask/., where I could post "is BE really as good as Be INc. says it is?" or "I had to give up linux because Netscape 4.0x really sucks, is it worth my time to dl 4.6?" without feeling like i was off topic or not important enough to waste a whole story. I also think certain threads could just be ongoing if there was a bit more structure to moderation. (for example: Perhaps old but really good comments could be archived in the "which distro is best" ongoing thread and so there is some continuity and permanence to what people put so much though into saying. Or maybe just an archive of all the highest scored posts??)
Anyway. I think I'm hella off topic and wasting bandwidth but maybe i won't be moderated down./. is important and cool and great. We have a good thing going here. (thanks cmdrtaco/hemos/andover et al!!)
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my thoughts too
i hate getting my news second hand from wEIrd, but i dont troll the Washington DC news much because most of the good up-to-the minute stuff costs money and i'm disgusted with politics right now anyway.
My first instinctive thought was..."The google sysadmins are going to be felons..."
but this is just a bill or something. It won't be passed. If it were to...i'd be pissed. I'd like to know what Bill Bradley's "stance" is on the internet. Maybe his page says something...I haven't been there in a while. I kinda like him. Not wholeheartedly, but at least more than anyone else in the fray.
As to DNS squatters or whatever you call em...you can blame that on the way we are. It's a natural part of the sucker born every minute principle. Americans (sorry if i ignore ferners for a sec) like fads, and the www.*.com thing was (is still for some) a fad. Its a product of the commercialization of the internet. DotCom is a buzzword, or at least is for our parents and grandparents who can't tell the difference between AOL, Compaq, and Microsoft. There are tons of realy great sites at funky educational, foreign, and small.isp.12345/~web pages and "serves" that are very very useful despite being slightly more brain work to remember and finger work to type. that's what bookmarks are for. (tho I don't use em anymore...)
We can't let stupid companies dominate our internet. We don't need them, but they need us. Many of them are failing. (good!) If some commercial crappy bastards are squatting your domain name, find a different one. Don't pressure your congressman to support a stupid bill. Laws (and LAW) become less meaningfull when created frivolously and to excess. Not to mention difficult to enforce.
me too. my Compcrap box chugs win95 osr2 great, while linux was lots of work to configure and use. Fun and educational though. but alas...i missed Word and my (cough) 42k winmodem...
gee, is anyone else tired of lame stuff being posted? Maybe I'll go hunt for something interesting. Cept i usually find that i'm 85th in line or something and my story is a day late already...
As an amature artist/cartoonist, i'd like to know what tools you use...do you sketch it out on a huge piece of paper (like some cartoonists do) and then scan it and shrink it down or just maybe have great mouse hands and do it with Gimp...?
This was on/. several months ago I'm tired of old stories being new. That story last week about N2H2 and Bess... Bess is not new, as the subject thingy said, been around for several years, i know, i fought it at my friend's house.
Sure, we all think we could pick better tunes and do beter chatter than the real djs/producers/megaradio companies (and the reason all radio sounds the same is because of tight control somewhere, i know that much.) but doesn't a broadcaster have to pay some sort of fee (equaling royalties) for playing songs on the radio? Just think of the uproar when they find out that k-jimbo is broadcasting "illegal" mp3's straight out of his basement. Does anyone else know better than me about this?
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or maybe he stole it from someone else.;-)
in his first book i think (road ahead) he says that the huge data storage stuff of the future will record every facet of our lives.
Not trying to be cold or mobid, but has anyone ever compared gate's book to mein kamph (sp?). i mean, a published strategy of how one intends to radically change the world....
I can't seem to get onto the microworkz web page right now so i haven't seen the REAL specs yet, but this looks good. With just about every previous "value" computer (including this $800 compaq I bought a while ago,) if I look around I see, gee, I could build my own just like that, with seperate, upgradable componenets instead of onboard or proprietary, for a couple hundred less. But it looks like this company is using mass-production techniques and all that to good use. If I find that I can put wordperfect on it, and hook a printer up to it, i'm in line to buy one (pending decent specs...).
I can't speak for win98, but I am running win95 osr2 (basically the same thing w/out the color-shifting title bars and the defrag/scandisk wizard), and there is no way that a "normal" consumer can completely remove IE from their machine. It is possible to uninstall IE4, (which unfortunately removes all of the desktop update, but guess what it replaces it with?? IE3. That is, if you haven't deleted a bunch of previously non-enssential files. The same goes for IE5. you can uninstall it if you leave certain files there, otherwise you're SOL. --And it restores IE4. As far as I can figure out, the only way to remove IE3 after an IE4 uninstall is to manually delete all found traces of it from the file system and from the registry. ... Anyone know why Micro$oft removed the Spanish language pack for IE5 from Windows Update a day or two after release??
Well, I'm one who has screwed it up either way you count it. I've started downloads five or six times, and actually installed it and registered four. Part of this is because I was messing around with a zipslack install on windows, learning how to use Linux. After doing that several times and figuring out how to do quite a lot of stuff, I felt brave enough to do the dual partition thing, with a format. (My only safety besides a buncha floppies is a Compaq win95 quickrestore disk!) Well, I'm back to my 'ol Wordperfect 7 on windows, partly because I couldn't stand the motif widgets, and also because I have a wonderful cheap little okidata laser printer that is unfortunately a winprinter. So, I've technically downloaded and registered at least thrice, (I kept misplacing my reg. number,) but not using it at all. It gave me some unpleasant program crashes too. Not the best piece of Linux software out there. I'm looking at and appreciating Abiword.
Dood! There are hundreds if not thousands of patents on today's automobiles. Sometimes companies actually use the number of "new" patented features as an advertising gimmick. But, they sometimes share patented technologies, especially when they have to do with safety or meeting california's efficiency laws. There's more to cars than Need For Speed man.;-)
I've only tried the Window$ version of StarOffice 5, but I was unimpressed enough to keep it off my Linux partition. The UI did not please me, and though it is customizable, the whole thing is a huge memory-sucking beast. I didn't find much of the program to be intuitive, and the integrated browser and email functions are useless. As to using my favorite text input software--Wordperfect with linux, my attraction to linux (besides stability and quality) is being able to custom configure and compile apps. Neither Wordperfect for Linux nor StarOffice let me do that. And I really missed my Windows keyboard hot-keys, the mouse may be nice for the brain but not for my hand. Anyway, my dish is that Staroffice looks cool on their website (no screenshots!?!) but lacks usability. It is free though. That's worth considering.
...then we could really pretend to be running a NEXT machine. I'm curious to see an i86 port, but then, I already have so many ways to get a bash prompt already, even in windows. Free 'nix poppin up all over the place.
Google is my primary s.e., and I have been recomending it to my family and friends. It's much superior for grandpa then most of the others, it doesn't have all those banners and weater and junk. I hope they keep it that way.
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I know several guys here at the University who wanna be cool and go for Linux and they all talk about how they are going to get Redhat because they perceive it as the easiest and best. Phooey that win9Xish KDE is what they all will see and use. (No flames please) It seems like all the distros are going for KDE (Redhat, Corel, Caldera,...). I guess it's better than people thinking Linux is fvwm95...but either way, I don't care for the perception that Linux is trying to become as good as windows...(their words, not mine!)
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Even more reason to hate M$ and their shifty dishonest practices.
But frankly, I'm disappointed in the company that I used and supported for years. Shoot, I typed a lot of papers using Microsoft Works 2.0 on our old green-screen Tandy 1000, and it did the job pretty well. But things have changed...
I wish linux wasn't such a hyped-up hassle and that Be had some worthwhile multimedia support. (like more scanners and printers...)
*sigh*
sorry for the unoriginal anti-M$ rant. Moderate downward as needed. (Moderation seems to suck of late, perhaps not enough moderators being made??)
i got a bit aggravated after reading about half of these. people are soooo stupid.
but because of the format of the page...and me wanting to read ALL of em, i found out that win95 using ie5 can handle 45 browser windows open (with some disk cacheing of course) at once!
pleasant mix of sarcasm, wit, and common sense.
;-)
And look everyone, it's posted by The Burrito Man, instead of by whatz hiz name.
oops. what a useless post.
...I mean wEIrd and ZDnet and all those other ones that make out the bulk of articles on /. /.ers are preaching to the choir. We rant and rave and get all hyped, but rarely, rarely, rarely does my father's copy of Newsweek mention Linux. Haven't seen BE in it. Maybe because Microsoft and Apple and HP pour buttloads into fullpage and multipage glossie ads in the mags. I was ticked when a week or so ago there was steve jobs in the middle of Newsweek plugging his ibook, and somehow it was news instead of marketing. (imagine a 3 page story, in Newsweek, Time, or USNews on say, one of Compaq's notebooks, or even better, something from VA. We'd say, gee, a computer. woopee doo. Apple, specifically Steve Jobs, has always been a media favorite IMHO.)
/., where I could post "is BE really as good as Be INc. says it is?" or "I had to give up linux because Netscape 4.0x really sucks, is it worth my time to dl 4.6?" without feeling like i was off topic or not important enough to waste a whole story. I also think certain threads could just be ongoing if there was a bit more structure to moderation. (for example: Perhaps old but really good comments could be archived in the "which distro is best" ongoing thread and so there is some continuity and permanence to what people put so much though into saying. Or maybe just an archive of all the highest scored posts??)
/. is important and cool and great. We have a good thing going here. (thanks cmdrtaco/hemos/andover et al!!)
I spend a couple hours a day reading stuff here, but sometimes it seems like
It all comes back to mindshare (not any company by that name but the socio-psychological idea). HP sells "The Unstoppable NT" and we groan. We all know that the world just isn't right and that we have the solutions (whatever they may be). So we shout at eachother across the internet, sometimes flaming, sometimes being polite and careful. But we are a fringe. Broad and varied and multinational but still a fringe.
I like it. I come back here every day. I can almost always find something interesting to read. I enjoy and learn from many of the comments. I'd like it if there were some other things to do here (maybe a more newbie-friendly ask
Anyway. I think I'm hella off topic and wasting bandwidth but maybe i won't be moderated down.
my thoughts too
i hate getting my news second hand from wEIrd, but i dont troll the Washington DC news much because most of the good up-to-the minute stuff costs money and i'm disgusted with politics right now anyway.
My first instinctive thought was..."The google sysadmins are going to be felons..."
but this is just a bill or something. It won't be passed. If it were to...i'd be pissed. I'd like to know what Bill Bradley's "stance" is on the internet. Maybe his page says something...I haven't been there in a while. I kinda like him. Not wholeheartedly, but at least more than anyone else in the fray.
As to DNS squatters or whatever you call em...you can blame that on the way we are. It's a natural part of the sucker born every minute principle. Americans (sorry if i ignore ferners for a sec) like fads, and the www.*.com thing was (is still for some) a fad. Its a product of the commercialization of the internet. DotCom is a buzzword, or at least is for our parents and grandparents who can't tell the difference between AOL, Compaq, and Microsoft. There are tons of realy great sites at funky educational, foreign, and small.isp.12345/~web pages and "serves" that are very very useful despite being slightly more brain work to remember and finger work to type. that's what bookmarks are for. (tho I don't use em anymore...)
We can't let stupid companies dominate our internet. We don't need them, but they need us. Many of them are failing. (good!) If some commercial crappy bastards are squatting your domain name, find a different one.
Don't pressure your congressman to support a stupid bill. Laws (and LAW) become less meaningfull when created frivolously and to excess. Not to mention difficult to enforce.
The congress is made of both the House and the Senate.
It must pass both of them (simple majority) and then it goes to the President. If he passes it too, then it is a law.
Of course, we Americans have all kinds of little details all through the process, but i think everyone does...
me too. my Compcrap box chugs win95 osr2 great, while linux was lots of work to configure and use. Fun and educational though. but alas...i missed Word and my (cough) 42k winmodem...
gee, is anyone else tired of lame stuff being posted? Maybe I'll go hunt for something interesting. Cept i usually find that i'm 85th in line or something and my story is a day late already...
As an amature artist/cartoonist, i'd like to know what tools you use...do you sketch it out on a huge piece of paper (like some cartoonists do) and then scan it and shrink it down or just maybe have great mouse hands and do it with Gimp...?
This was on /. several months ago
I'm tired of old stories being new.
That story last week about N2H2 and Bess...
Bess is not new, as the subject thingy said, been around for several years, i know, i fought it at my friend's house.
Sure, we all think we could pick better tunes and do beter chatter than the real djs/producers/megaradio companies (and the reason all radio sounds the same is because of tight control somewhere, i know that much.) but doesn't a broadcaster have to pay some sort of fee (equaling royalties) for playing songs on the radio? Just think of the uproar when they find out that k-jimbo is broadcasting "illegal" mp3's straight out of his basement. Does anyone else know better than me about this?
or maybe he stole it from someone else. ;-)
in his first book i think (road ahead) he says that the huge data storage stuff of the future will record every facet of our lives.
Not trying to be cold or mobid, but has anyone ever compared gate's book to mein kamph (sp?). i mean, a published strategy of how one intends to radically change the world....
I can't seem to get onto the microworkz web page right now so i haven't seen the REAL specs yet, but this looks good. With just about every previous "value" computer (including this $800 compaq I bought a while ago,) if I look around I see, gee, I could build my own just like that, with seperate, upgradable componenets instead of onboard or proprietary, for a couple hundred less. But it looks like this company is using mass-production techniques and all that to good use. If I find that I can put wordperfect on it, and hook a printer up to it, i'm in line to buy one (pending decent specs...).
I can't speak for win98, but I am running win95 osr2 (basically the same thing w/out the color-shifting title bars and the defrag/scandisk wizard), and there is no way that a "normal" consumer can completely remove IE from their machine. It is possible to uninstall IE4, (which unfortunately removes all of the desktop update, but guess what it replaces it with?? IE3. That is, if you haven't deleted a bunch of previously non-enssential files. The same goes for IE5. you can uninstall it if you leave certain files there, otherwise you're SOL. --And it restores IE4. As far as I can figure out, the only way to remove IE3 after an IE4 uninstall is to manually delete all found traces of it from the file system and from the registry.
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Anyone know why Micro$oft removed the Spanish language pack for IE5 from Windows Update a day or two after release??
Well, I'm one who has screwed it up either way you count it. I've started downloads five or six times, and actually installed it and registered four. Part of this is because I was messing around with a zipslack install on windows, learning how to use Linux. After doing that several times and figuring out how to do quite a lot of stuff, I felt brave enough to do the dual partition thing, with a format. (My only safety besides a buncha floppies is a Compaq win95 quickrestore disk!) Well, I'm back to my 'ol Wordperfect 7 on windows, partly because I couldn't stand the motif widgets, and also because I have a wonderful cheap little okidata laser printer that is unfortunately a winprinter. So, I've technically downloaded and registered at least thrice, (I kept misplacing my reg. number,) but not using it at all. It gave me some unpleasant program crashes too. Not the best piece of Linux software out there. I'm looking at and appreciating Abiword.
Forgive my sexist assumption. There are women on slashdot. D'oh!
Dood! There are hundreds if not thousands of patents on today's automobiles. Sometimes companies actually use the number of "new" patented features as an advertising gimmick. But, they sometimes share patented technologies, especially when they have to do with safety or meeting california's efficiency laws. There's more to cars than Need For Speed man. ;-)
thanks for the tip on hotkeys to the previous poster...
I haven't used applixware, but as i tried to indicate in my rant, I haven't found a linux wp that I like, so I use windows.
I've only tried the Window$ version of StarOffice 5, but I was unimpressed enough to keep it off my Linux partition. The UI did not please me, and though it is customizable, the whole thing is a huge memory-sucking beast. I didn't find much of the program to be intuitive, and the integrated browser and email functions are useless.
As to using my favorite text input software--Wordperfect with linux, my attraction to linux (besides stability and quality) is being able to custom configure and compile apps. Neither Wordperfect for Linux nor StarOffice let me do that. And I really missed my Windows keyboard hot-keys, the mouse may be nice for the brain but not for my hand. Anyway, my dish is that Staroffice looks cool on their website (no screenshots!?!) but lacks usability. It is free though. That's worth considering.
French Fry Grease
...be it from the dining hall or apartment cooked, it's hella gross eating here!
fritos and swedish fish candies, those are my mucking (I don't call what I do hacking) foods of choice.
...then we could really pretend to be running a NEXT machine. I'm curious to see an i86 port, but then, I already have so many ways to get a bash prompt already, even in windows. Free 'nix poppin up all over the place.
Google is my primary s.e., and I have been recomending it to my family and friends. It's much superior for grandpa then most of the others, it doesn't have all those banners and weater and junk. I hope they keep it that way.
I know several guys here at the University who wanna be cool and go for Linux and they all talk about how they are going to get Redhat because they perceive it as the easiest and best. Phooey that win9Xish KDE is what they all will see and use. (No flames please) It seems like all the distros are going for KDE (Redhat, Corel, Caldera,...). I guess it's better than people thinking Linux is fvwm95...but either way, I don't care for the perception that Linux is trying to become as good as windows...(their words, not mine!)