It's all about balance. The current balance is acceptable. Red Hat just needs to prove long term they won't be trying to stretch the GPL very much further.
I half-heartedly agree with you but Red Hat is a razor's edge away from violating the spirit of the of GPL if not the law.
I know the GPL, I realize all they really need to do is provide the source in some form and that SRPMS are actually a step above just pure source but there's something about it that leaves lingering doubt as to their ongoing commitment to maintaining even those so that distros like CentOS are even possible.
What's more, everybody talks about Red Hat putting money into their distro, what about all the real developers of the packages they re-package for their distribution? That money that you pay Red Hat? It never gets to the guys who actually developed the software. So, Red hat isn't completely innocent here. They're living for free off money, time and effort spent by those developers - just as much as CentOS users are living for free off the money, time and effort put in by Red Hat.
I'm okay with the strategy Red Hat is employing but the goodwill they earned in the past has certainly ebbed away over time. Open source is open source. Continue to be a trustworthy community partner and we won't have any problems.
I could be wrong, but I swear I've heard of bereavement discounts. A quick google seems to confirm it is usually a discount. Perhaps they were offering you a business or first class ticket thinking you wanted to be nice to your relative.
I use KDE. 3.5.10 is still unbeatable when you want fast, clean and powerful.
100% on the same wavelength here. Wrote a blog praising the benefits of CentOS 5 w/KDE 3.5.
I spent the better part of a year trying out new distros when they all started switching to KDE 4 and nothing seemed to click. So I'm crossing my fingers and hoping the distros polish KDE4 and get it back to the level of 3.5.
I have been eyeing XFCE, though, it looks like it might do. Gnome just does not work for me for a productive environment.
I majored in java (and I really do love java) but I now work in perl. So, certainly, it sounds like you'd be in a better spot to judge what would be the best implementation language. Also just noticed your low uid!
You really think firefox should've been developed in java? I would've thought it would be problematic for that type of project that needed portability, minimal footprint (no jvm), and perhaps lack of an environment that might promote over-engineering?
Like I said, you have the experience, you really think it should've been developed in java even with all of its considerations?
There are serious pros and cons one has to weigh choosing an implementation language for a project on the scale and the types of requirements that firefox has. I'm pretty sure your only serious contender in the list was Java and it has significant baggage all of its own. I'll take C/C++, I just wish programmers had a passion for better code in all of its aspects including the ever present yet most fundamental buffer overflow bugs.
After acquiring a consistent twitch in right-hand index finger after 3 years of 9-5 on a normal keyboard, I switched to a Microsoft Ergonomic keyboard, the one where the halves are separated and it looks wavy. Twitch went away and hasn't come back.
It forces some of your fingers to do the work they should because of distance. You try to do it your old way but realize that learning the new way will help you in the end.
It is an absolute pain to get used to an ergonomic but after a few months I'm used to it and it feels quite natural. I also switch between ergo at work and regular at home and now I'm proficient at both.
And as for Logitech, where's your ergo keyboard? I couldn't find one in stores! I always prefer logitech keyboards but I can't fault microsoft for their keyboards, either.
Someone mentioned it in passing but I'll say it directly: FlackBlock
I'm not one to turn off the web with NoScript or not contribute to sites I'm visiting by using AdBlock. FlashBlock is a great compromise. Normal ads, no stupid flash instability. Click on the flash when actually want it to run for where it's actually needed. You'll be surprised how well it works.
As an aside, I was asked to download comment.pl the first time I clicked reply. Then I got a reset connection. Finally, I got a reply form. Coincidence?:)
I met a girl who sang the blues
And I asked her for some happy news,
But she just smiled and turned away.
I went down to the sacred store
Where I'd heard the music years before,
But the man there said the music wouldn't play.
At some point, ebooks will be on-par or better readability-wise than paper books. I'm no apple fan but the iPad's demonstration as an ereader got me interested for the first time.
When the convenience and ubiquitousness of downloading books on a reader reaches a certain critical mass, I guarantee you people will ditch paper books. Not completely. LPs are still popular but they're certainly not the dominant format. CDs are still the dominant format but we've all heard and can see the day coming when digital downloads for movies, music, tv will come. Books will come along with that.
Heck it's already a huge industry. Just google for ebooks. There are businesses laughing all the way to bank while naysayers like you and others say you don't understand the attraction. In truth, you do, you just haven't connected all the conveniences your computer gives you with digital goods with books.
In the end, the medium isn't what matters. It's the content. In 10 years the kids will be creating fond memories sitting at their cottage not with an old paper back but with an old ipad their dad got them for their previous birthday.
"Bla bla bla. Bla bla bla bla, bla bla bla bla bla."
Honestly, even the mainstream media knows, from articles I've seen in newspapers, that this guy's acting out in something approaching infirmity.
I've got all kinds of sympathy for dying businesses, until they start bringing out absurd, unreasonable arguments to defend why their business should still be profitable in a changing market.
Capitalism, free market and socialist policies are all aided by the concept of survival of the fittest: Adapt or die, Murdoch.
Good post but as a hockey fan and player I have a nitpick: A bully player rarely goes after one of the better players on the other team. He goes after the other bully on the other team to create energy for his team. You don't watch much hockey? Figured I'd educate the world on the amazing sport of hockey which at first glance appears barbarous but is actually quite a complex sport, like all good sport.
Agreed. Pretty sure the majority of people miss the bear if they follow the instructions the video gives. It makes sense, you're intently focusing on the ball to the exclusion of everything else.
There's another (original) version with a gorilla walking in between basketball playings passing the ball. In that one I did as they said, focus on the ball being passed, and I was amazed to find out that I missed the gorilla the first time through. I couldn't help but notice the bear in this video, though, as I already knew what was happening.
Well, I donated to EveryDNS at year-end, but my account wasn't updated to "donator" status. Repeated attempts to contact them over the last 3 weeks have gone completely unanswered.
Exactly my predicament but I had done exactly what you had done years ago. Buddy has been AWOL for a long time.
After 8 years of hardcore gentoo usage on home desktops and production servers, I'm a bitter, shell-shocked ex-user taking refuge with ubuntu.
I love the idea of gentoo but I just don't think it can work in practice at scale.
I always refer back to this forum post because it captures all of the problems of gentoo in a lengthy snapshot. That post is 26 pages long and started in 2006.
I love gentoo. About a year ago I got fed up with gentoo and installed other distros certain I'd never go back. But soon I was missing gentoo so I got back onto it for a few months. Then it broke again as usual just doing routine updates. That was the straw that broke the camel's back. I'm now on ubuntu and I'll try anything before going back to gentoo.
In "Perl World" keeping Perl modules up to date is important. In "Distro World" maintaining a consistent and maintainable distro is important. These two desires are at odds with each other.
I'm assuming you mean CPAN World? Because in perl world we want a stable base, too. Barring security bugs, you just can't willy nilly update a module in production.
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It's all about balance. The current balance is acceptable. Red Hat just needs to prove long term they won't be trying to stretch the GPL very much further.
I half-heartedly agree with you but Red Hat is a razor's edge away from violating the spirit of the of GPL if not the law.
I know the GPL, I realize all they really need to do is provide the source in some form and that SRPMS are actually a step above just pure source but there's something about it that leaves lingering doubt as to their ongoing commitment to maintaining even those so that distros like CentOS are even possible.
What's more, everybody talks about Red Hat putting money into their distro, what about all the real developers of the packages they re-package for their distribution? That money that you pay Red Hat? It never gets to the guys who actually developed the software. So, Red hat isn't completely innocent here. They're living for free off money, time and effort spent by those developers - just as much as CentOS users are living for free off the money, time and effort put in by Red Hat.
I'm okay with the strategy Red Hat is employing but the goodwill they earned in the past has certainly ebbed away over time. Open source is open source. Continue to be a trustworthy community partner and we won't have any problems.
I could be wrong, but I swear I've heard of bereavement discounts. A quick google seems to confirm it is usually a discount. Perhaps they were offering you a business or first class ticket thinking you wanted to be nice to your relative.
...or accounting rules...
L.O.L.
...having just come from two days of accounting coding...
We've known about plugin crashiness for a long time. We're just now going multi-process for this?
I use KDE. 3.5.10 is still unbeatable when you want fast, clean and powerful.
100% on the same wavelength here. Wrote a blog praising the benefits of CentOS 5 w/KDE 3.5.
I spent the better part of a year trying out new distros when they all started switching to KDE 4 and nothing seemed to click. So I'm crossing my fingers and hoping the distros polish KDE4 and get it back to the level of 3.5.
I have been eyeing XFCE, though, it looks like it might do. Gnome just does not work for me for a productive environment.
I majored in java (and I really do love java) but I now work in perl. So, certainly, it sounds like you'd be in a better spot to judge what would be the best implementation language. Also just noticed your low uid!
You really think firefox should've been developed in java? I would've thought it would be problematic for that type of project that needed portability, minimal footprint (no jvm), and perhaps lack of an environment that might promote over-engineering?
Like I said, you have the experience, you really think it should've been developed in java even with all of its considerations?
There are serious pros and cons one has to weigh choosing an implementation language for a project on the scale and the types of requirements that firefox has. I'm pretty sure your only serious contender in the list was Java and it has significant baggage all of its own. I'll take C/C++, I just wish programmers had a passion for better code in all of its aspects including the ever present yet most fundamental buffer overflow bugs.
After acquiring a consistent twitch in right-hand index finger after 3 years of 9-5 on a normal keyboard, I switched to a Microsoft Ergonomic keyboard, the one where the halves are separated and it looks wavy. Twitch went away and hasn't come back.
It forces some of your fingers to do the work they should because of distance. You try to do it your old way but realize that learning the new way will help you in the end.
It is an absolute pain to get used to an ergonomic but after a few months I'm used to it and it feels quite natural. I also switch between ergo at work and regular at home and now I'm proficient at both.
And as for Logitech, where's your ergo keyboard? I couldn't find one in stores! I always prefer logitech keyboards but I can't fault microsoft for their keyboards, either.
That's a good find. I'm confident we'll get better blocking as time goes by.
s/FlackBlock/FlashBlock/
Someone mentioned it in passing but I'll say it directly: FlackBlock
I'm not one to turn off the web with NoScript or not contribute to sites I'm visiting by using AdBlock. FlashBlock is a great compromise. Normal ads, no stupid flash instability. Click on the flash when actually want it to run for where it's actually needed. You'll be surprised how well it works.
As an aside, I was asked to download comment.pl the first time I clicked reply. Then I got a reset connection. Finally, I got a reply form. Coincidence? :)
Welcome to Slashdot! You must be new here!
I met a girl who sang the blues
And I asked her for some happy news,
But she just smiled and turned away.
I went down to the sacred store
Where I'd heard the music years before,
But the man there said the music wouldn't play.
:)
At some point, ebooks will be on-par or better readability-wise than paper books. I'm no apple fan but the iPad's demonstration as an ereader got me interested for the first time.
When the convenience and ubiquitousness of downloading books on a reader reaches a certain critical mass, I guarantee you people will ditch paper books. Not completely. LPs are still popular but they're certainly not the dominant format. CDs are still the dominant format but we've all heard and can see the day coming when digital downloads for movies, music, tv will come. Books will come along with that.
Heck it's already a huge industry. Just google for ebooks. There are businesses laughing all the way to bank while naysayers like you and others say you don't understand the attraction. In truth, you do, you just haven't connected all the conveniences your computer gives you with digital goods with books.
In the end, the medium isn't what matters. It's the content. In 10 years the kids will be creating fond memories sitting at their cottage not with an old paper back but with an old ipad their dad got them for their previous birthday.
"Bla bla bla. Bla bla bla bla, bla bla bla bla bla."
Honestly, even the mainstream media knows, from articles I've seen in newspapers, that this guy's acting out in something approaching infirmity.
I've got all kinds of sympathy for dying businesses, until they start bringing out absurd, unreasonable arguments to defend why their business should still be profitable in a changing market.
Capitalism, free market and socialist policies are all aided by the concept of survival of the fittest: Adapt or die, Murdoch.
Good post but as a hockey fan and player I have a nitpick: A bully player rarely goes after one of the better players on the other team. He goes after the other bully on the other team to create energy for his team. You don't watch much hockey? Figured I'd educate the world on the amazing sport of hockey which at first glance appears barbarous but is actually quite a complex sport, like all good sport.
Wish I had a mod points. Great point to make about the difference between open source projects and "open source projects."
+4, Funny, pfst, that's actually quite insightful.
Agreed. Pretty sure the majority of people miss the bear if they follow the instructions the video gives. It makes sense, you're intently focusing on the ball to the exclusion of everything else.
There's another (original) version with a gorilla walking in between basketball playings passing the ball. In that one I did as they said, focus on the ball being passed, and I was amazed to find out that I missed the gorilla the first time through. I couldn't help but notice the bear in this video, though, as I already knew what was happening.
I linked the source article and the slashdot article and told them they should be ashamed of themselves.
Best. Commentary. Ever.
Well, I donated to EveryDNS at year-end, but my account wasn't updated to "donator" status. Repeated attempts to contact them over the last 3 weeks have gone completely unanswered.
Exactly my predicament but I had done exactly what you had done years ago. Buddy has been AWOL for a long time.
After 8 years of hardcore gentoo usage on home desktops and production servers, I'm a bitter, shell-shocked ex-user taking refuge with ubuntu.
I love the idea of gentoo but I just don't think it can work in practice at scale.
I always refer back to this forum post because it captures all of the problems of gentoo in a lengthy snapshot. That post is 26 pages long and started in 2006.
I love gentoo. About a year ago I got fed up with gentoo and installed other distros certain I'd never go back. But soon I was missing gentoo so I got back onto it for a few months. Then it broke again as usual just doing routine updates. That was the straw that broke the camel's back. I'm now on ubuntu and I'll try anything before going back to gentoo.
In "Perl World" keeping Perl modules up to date is important. In "Distro World" maintaining a consistent and maintainable distro is important. These two desires are at odds with each other.
I'm assuming you mean CPAN World? Because in perl world we want a stable base, too. Barring security bugs, you just can't willy nilly update a module in production.