elimination of Imperial Japan, Stalinist U.S.S.R., Socialist Germany, and now Baathist Iraq
Socialist germany?
You been smokin that whacky weed? The nazis where not socialist. there policy of killing communists and socialists mighta given a few hints on this matter.
Here I was thinking the 'dos' references where the rough tech level that unixware was operating at. Have they got nfs working yet?
Regardless, I am having deep issues trying to find sympathy for them. Maybe when darls doin' time for perjery might the sympathy kick in. . . actually.... nahh. I dont think that'd do it either.
you will find that you just can't get some pictures if your camera lacks automatic features.
Huh? I can categorically tell you that an all manual camera can take ANY, without exception, photograph an auto one can. without fail. Ya just gotta learn how to use the damn thing.
You should track down your local linux club and ask if any geeks there would like to help you thru that first setup.
Debian woody really is the way to go if your prepared to learn, and after you've learned you really won't look back.
Many linux clubs do 'installfests' where a bunch a newbies bring there 'putas in , and the old hands gently lead em thru the install process and show them how it all fits together.
Despite the rumors about linux 'cliques' being pushy and all, most linux geeks , especially the older guys, enjoy the process of passing on there arcane wisdom. The rewards of being seen as a 'smart guy' are a pleasure in them selves.
DOS was just a UNIX copy, poorly executed, but still UNIX based.
No kiddo, it was a CP/M copy. It was single tasking, relied heavily on multiplexed irq's for os access, INITIALLY didnt suport directorys (neither did CP/M, tho it did have numbered directories in some verisons) and had a VERRY cp/m-ish command structure. Most importantly, it didnt rely on the file abstraction which imho is a^h^h^hTHE defining feature of a 'unix' system.
Isnt 'smashing shit in new york' a lil sensitve in the scheme of things. I know the new yorkers are a fairly mentally tough breed of american, but I recon I'd be having a bit of a complex about a movie about smashing buildings up in nyc if I'd been thru that whole s/11 nastyness.
Sounds like one of those fucking awful bugs that happens... usually... not always... sometimesish more during x, but not always y, but twice as much x,y etc etc.
A hard-to-repeat bug is ALWAYS the worse.
when a bug can be repeated its usually piss simple to fix at a glance. the rest is hell.
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May I suggest Knoppix. Its pretty much unstable with some 'testing' bits in it.
You can drop it in yer cd rom and know in a blink if you will have any sort of hardware compatability issues. then use the kpx-hdinstall command to drop it on yer hard drive. Also remember to specify english. Finally find a good deb source for Gnome 2.4 and put that gnomish goodness on yer desk.
Well Debian has more no doubt about it, they've been at the apt game for years. But on fedora do yum list "*" |wc -l I had about 1,800 packages and as any fedora user knows about 10 new ones have been added each day since its release. So it _COULD_ catch up to debians 3,000 packages couldn't it? Its only been a few weeks, give it some time.
Eek. But thats the problem. Its not even how many damn packages there are. Its the fact that they all work.... together... Debian has a stable collection that plays well together thru time patience and paranoic adherence to process.
However if fedora can pull that off, then thats stunning and I aplaud red hat for it. RPM-Hell sucks.
What a load of drivel. It makes no difference whether you have source or now(sic)
Of course! Thats because we can use magic! Magic(tm) helps us pretend that a PPC linux kernel can run x86 drivers! and Magic(tm) helps us pretend that 2.4 drivers will automajikally work in 2.6 without a recompile!
Those nutty linux programmers! What would they know anyway?
Now, if someone will just write a similar layer for Linux that can load Windows NT filesystem drivers, then I can get read/write access to my NTFS partitions... Hmm...
That would be freaking cool. That said, I think theres a bit more to a filesystem driver than there is to a network card driver whos basic role in life is to rip datapackets (nothing more than a block of bits really) and throw it to the OS.
A filesystem driver of course does so much more. One deals with a fairly simple bit of hardware, and the other with a rather complex mess of datastructures.
Debian on the desktop is only practical when you use a highly customized Debian such as Knoppix or Lindows.
You of course could just type in;-
apt-get install kde
or
apr-get install gnome
and then blammo! Its practical for the desktop.
Debian in my experience is user friendly, consistant and does not feature a steep learning curve. I'm yet to puzzle out why folks claim its hard , and knoppix is easy when knoppix IS debian, just with a live-boot niftyness.
From memory there was an dec alpha version of NT and a ppc version.
If memory serves me right the ppc version was a cosmic faliure. I remember a microsoft employee here in australia telling me they sold a total of , like, 20 copies or something absurd. My memory might be failing me tho.
I guess ms missed that the reason folks buy macs is they like macs. Why would someone spend that much money to buy a mac and..... run windows on it?
No. Just that theyd LIKE to sell em. If no one wants to buy them, the market corrects the price down until its true value is revealed. Well thats the theory (hocus pocus). Of course if nobody wants to buy at any price, then the value might just crash because it sudenly has become worthless.
You most certainly can sue corporations, local or foreign, in most small claims courts.
You most certainly can. Furthermore, IBM/FSF/REDHAT/SAMBA/WHOEVER should not only cease and desist these fuckers, but should as a matter of urgency try and get there assets/stocks frozen on the basis that these will be needed to repay the litigants once they have won.
Fortunately the first inevitable judgement against SCO is likely to lead to a panic sell, which could either trash SCO's financial position or make it impossible for them to repay any fines/compensation imposed.
Some folks will argue "what about shareholders". I would argue "EXACTLY!". There should be a massive penalty against shareholders in SCO who are currently able to sell out but aint.
People who knowingly invest in fraudulent enterprises should be punished as loan sharks and charlitans.
To cut a long story short. SCO should be crashed and its shareholders bankerupted.
Not because its satisfying. But because its moral.
I think that software and "stuff" are distinguished because software essentially forms a sort of design for a bunch of actions. Stuff however is a thing that exists in meatspace.
Its redundant to say "IANAL" but I'm pretty sure that you cant just sign away basic rights, like "I can do what the fuck I like with this 'stuff', including sell it to someone else if its not suitable for my uses or I'm finished with it".
They need to ask a lawyer about this stuff, cos I suspect they just humiliated themselves.
And yeah. Ya cant mass reprocuce the stuff for others because of patents. But heres the rub: If I break a patent to make something for myself, I'm fairly convinced thats ok, as long as I dont pass it on. I might be wrong there.
My main trade (before the volenteering stuff) was video and audio conferenceing. I can tell you categorically, the porn industry has contributed nothing to the development of this tech. Plus I'm not sure "spyware" and "covert dialer" count as particularly great inovations.
and the reason we have threads is so we can stay on them. If you have nothin to conribute as far as the question posed please shut up. I dont' want to wade through 100 messages statin "you shouldn't be asking this question becuase I don't think you should be thinkin that way"
too bad people think differently eh? Well, they do, get used to it, and keep your "insightful" osts to yourself.
Er Troll, The question was essentially one about econmics (cost/wear/entropy of distributed computing). Economics is not meaningful without motivation. But I guess thats why you post AC huh?
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elimination of Imperial Japan, Stalinist U.S.S.R., Socialist Germany, and now Baathist Iraq
Socialist germany?
You been smokin that whacky weed? The nazis where not socialist. there policy of killing communists and socialists mighta given a few hints on this matter.
Here I was thinking the 'dos' references where the rough tech level that unixware was operating at. Have they got nfs working yet?
Regardless, I am having deep issues trying to find sympathy for them. Maybe when darls doin' time for perjery might the sympathy kick in. . . actually.... nahh. I dont think that'd do it either.
you will find that you just can't get some pictures if your camera lacks automatic features.
Huh? I can categorically tell you that an all manual camera can take ANY, without exception, photograph an auto one can. without fail. Ya just gotta learn how to use the damn thing.
Hey Micheal. :)
:)
You should track down your local linux club and ask if any geeks there would like to help you thru that first setup.
Debian woody really is the way to go if your prepared to learn, and after you've learned you really won't look back.
Many linux clubs do 'installfests' where a bunch a newbies bring there 'putas in , and the old hands gently lead em thru the install process and show them how it all fits together.
Despite the rumors about linux 'cliques' being pushy and all, most linux geeks , especially the older guys, enjoy the process of passing on there arcane wisdom. The rewards of being seen as a 'smart guy' are a pleasure in them selves.
Give it a go
Isnt knowingly failing to enforce an IP grounds to lose it. I think its happened in the past.
A lawyer (or like minded) might wanna clear this one up for me.
by directories I mean nested-directories :) :)
DOS was just a UNIX copy, poorly executed, but still UNIX based.
No kiddo, it was a CP/M copy. It was single tasking, relied heavily on multiplexed irq's for os access, INITIALLY didnt suport directorys (neither did CP/M, tho it did have numbered directories in some verisons) and had a VERRY cp/m-ish command structure. Most importantly, it didnt rely on the file abstraction which imho is a^h^h^hTHE defining feature of a 'unix' system.
CLI's where not a unix innovation!!!!!
Isnt 'smashing shit in new york' a lil sensitve in the scheme of things. I know the new yorkers are a fairly mentally tough breed of american, but I recon I'd be having a bit of a complex about a movie about smashing buildings up in nyc if I'd been thru that whole s/11 nastyness.
Eek! The "intermitent bug".
Sounds like one of those fucking awful bugs that happens... usually... not always... sometimesish more during x, but not always y, but twice as much x,y etc etc.
A hard-to-repeat bug is ALWAYS the worse.
when a bug can be repeated its usually piss simple to fix at a glance. the rest is hell.
May I suggest Knoppix. Its pretty much unstable with some 'testing' bits in it.
You can drop it in yer cd rom and know in a blink if you will have any sort of hardware compatability issues. then use the kpx-hdinstall command to drop it on yer hard drive. Also remember to specify english. Finally find a good deb source for Gnome 2.4 and put that gnomish goodness on yer desk.
Knoppix is nice.
Well Debian has more no doubt about it, they've been at the apt game for years. But on fedora do yum list "*" |wc -l I had about 1,800 packages and as any fedora user knows about 10 new ones have been added each day since its release. So it _COULD_ catch up to debians 3,000 packages couldn't it? Its only been a few weeks, give it some time.
Eek. But thats the problem. Its not even how many damn packages there are. Its the fact that they all work.... together... Debian has a stable collection that plays well together thru time patience and paranoic adherence to process.
However if fedora can pull that off, then thats stunning and I aplaud red hat for it. RPM-Hell sucks.
What a load of drivel. It makes no difference whether you have source or now(sic)
Of course! Thats because we can use magic! Magic(tm) helps us pretend that a PPC linux kernel can run x86 drivers! and Magic(tm) helps us pretend that 2.4 drivers will automajikally work in 2.6 without a recompile!
Those nutty linux programmers! What would they know anyway?
Now, if someone will just write a similar layer for Linux that can load Windows NT filesystem drivers, then I can get read/write access to my NTFS partitions... Hmm...
That would be freaking cool. That said, I think theres a bit more to a filesystem driver than there is to a network card driver whos basic role in life is to rip datapackets (nothing more than a block of bits really) and throw it to the OS.
A filesystem driver of course does so much more. One deals with a fairly simple bit of hardware, and the other with a rather complex mess of datastructures.
Interesting how everyone who thinks there should be a tax on email thinks that the money should go to their organization or government.
Yeah. I was kinda thinking. "Hey , looks like someones proposing to make money of email.. where have I heard that before".
Email tax, get rich quick, whats the diference?
and... that would prove what exactly?
Only that geeks have too much fun.
Specifically that the game is adictive enuff that its victims^h^h^h^h^h^h^hplayers are too distracted for holidays.
Debian on the desktop is only practical when you use a highly customized Debian such as Knoppix or Lindows.
You of course could just type in;-
apt-get install kde
or
apr-get install gnome
and then blammo! Its practical for the desktop.
Debian in my experience is user friendly, consistant and does not feature a steep learning curve. I'm yet to puzzle out why folks claim its hard , and knoppix is easy when knoppix IS debian, just with a live-boot niftyness.
From memory there was an dec alpha version of NT and a ppc version.
If memory serves me right the ppc version was a cosmic faliure. I remember a microsoft employee here in australia telling me they sold a total of , like, 20 copies or something absurd. My memory might be failing me tho.
I guess ms missed that the reason folks buy macs is they like macs. Why would someone spend that much money to buy a mac and..... run windows on it?
Did you really read that properly?
Read it again. The operating system is stallmans(ie the fsf's) gnu/linux. The kernel is torevalds linux. There is a difference.
Its surprisingly well researched. Verry few journo's , or even punters like yourself , actually understand that difference.
Bullshit.
I say we we declare the universe a commons so we dont extend this destructive cycle of property/deprivation and war thats plagued mankind for so long.
Whenever you assign a property right where it didnt exist before , you take away that right from others. Ask the indians, they'll tell you.
seperate control from logic.
:)
Maintainance problem solved
That said, delphi can be a little nutty for updating to new versions.
No. Just that theyd LIKE to sell em. If no one wants to buy them, the market corrects the price down until its true value is revealed. Well thats the theory (hocus pocus). Of course if nobody wants to buy at any price, then the value might just crash because it sudenly has become worthless.
You most certainly can sue corporations, local or foreign, in most small claims courts.
You most certainly can. Furthermore, IBM/FSF/REDHAT/SAMBA/WHOEVER should not only cease and desist these fuckers, but should as a matter of urgency try and get there assets/stocks frozen on the basis that these will be needed to repay the litigants once they have won.
Fortunately the first inevitable judgement against SCO is likely to lead to a panic sell, which could either trash SCO's financial position or make it impossible for them to repay any fines/compensation imposed.
Some folks will argue "what about shareholders". I would argue "EXACTLY!". There should be a massive penalty against shareholders in SCO who are currently able to sell out but aint.
People who knowingly invest in fraudulent enterprises should be punished as loan sharks and charlitans.
To cut a long story short. SCO should be crashed and its shareholders bankerupted.
Not because its satisfying. But because its moral.
I think that software and "stuff" are distinguished because software essentially forms a sort of design for a bunch of actions. Stuff however is a thing that exists in meatspace.
Its redundant to say "IANAL" but I'm pretty sure that you cant just sign away basic rights, like "I can do what the fuck I like with this 'stuff', including sell it to someone else if its not suitable for my uses or I'm finished with it".
They need to ask a lawyer about this stuff, cos I suspect they just humiliated themselves.
And yeah. Ya cant mass reprocuce the stuff for others because of patents. But heres the rub: If I break a patent to make something for myself, I'm fairly convinced thats ok, as long as I dont pass it on. I might be wrong there.
My main trade (before the volenteering stuff) was video and audio conferenceing. I can tell you categorically, the porn industry has contributed nothing to the development of this tech. Plus I'm not sure "spyware" and "covert dialer" count as particularly great inovations.
and the reason we have threads is so we can stay on them. If you have nothin to conribute as far as the question posed please shut up. I dont' want to wade through 100 messages statin "you shouldn't be asking this question becuase I don't think you should be thinkin that way"
too bad people think differently eh? Well, they do, get used to it, and keep your "insightful" osts to yourself.
Er Troll, The question was essentially one about econmics (cost/wear/entropy of distributed computing). Economics is not meaningful without motivation. But I guess thats why you post AC huh?