The thing is, I'd almost have to agree with you. I just made the Big Switch from Slack Linux to FreeBSD, and I've gotta say, I was impressed with autoslack. autoslack -iurs was all you needed to do to pick new packages, upgrade packages, delete deprecated. I think it compares (and I'm just now learning about FreeBSD; please be forgiving:-) favorably with tools such as pkg_add and family.
No joke...I actually skipped out on the first season because I watched the pilot and thought, "This sucks." The local station carrying it dropped TOS for TNG...what a ripoff. Then the third season came along and it was entertaining. Certainly not a cerebral exeprience, but entertaining.
As long as it's a level above Anddromeda, I'll be happy.
Shoot, I have to agree. I've even have trouble with people launching smurf attacks when I'm in #linpeople. (Hi ult!) That would be great! People do everything from smurf attacks down to just simple ping -f's. IP address hiding would be highly beneficial.:-)
I bet you'll be modded down, but hell, you're right. I had someone give me a lecture recently about using Acrobat Reader to view PDFs. Seems that by choosing to use Acrobat Reader instead of XPDF I was giving up my software freedoms. Erm, excuse me?
To be blunt, I had a choice between the Free XPDF and the proprietary Acrobat Reader. I chose Acrobat Reader. I'm restricting my own rights by choosing it? I think not.
God, I'm thinking of jumping ship now...how's FreeBSD doing these days?:-)
Hey, I read kuro5hin all the time and I thought to myself, "Oh, good, it's one of those assholes who always says, "-1, already on Slashdot." Heh, I just happened to see this on my weekly pilgrimage to the troll mecca. Funny post, but I sincerely hope you don't do this on kuro5hin.:-)
Well, if you start with good-quality MP3s (not that 96kbps MusicMatch garbage you'll find on Napster) you'll notice no audible difference between the MP3s and the files converted to Ogg Vorbis. I've done it, and incredibly, it still sounds great.:-)
Yep, and I actually love it. This from someone who used to work with Photoshop several hours a day...and besides, I was tired of handing my files to people and saying, "Oh yeah, before you use that, make sure to convert that to CMYK, 'coz it's still RGB" if I'd been a weenie and used GIMP (and don't ever try to use GIMP for large images...friends don't let friends use GIMP for prepress.)
Quite frankly, I feel comfortable in the CLI, but I'd welcome a KDE installer along the lines of Ximian's installer. The only people who won't will be the 'l33t hax0r w4nn4b35' who apparently have nothing better to do than spend a couple of days building KDE2 from source (and whatever you do, don't read those README's! They're for l4m3rZ!)
Um, no. People (like me) who own Macs but want a Unix system at home to fiddle with would naturally be attracted to LinuxPPC.
But I also want an OS which actually support my computer's hardware and has a usable UI and applications.
Ummm....so download the kernel patches.
Problem solved.
Or, as someone else here said, try NetBSD, though I can't say I've ever tried it myself.
The point was, as I understand it, not that counter-strike is OSS, but that it is apparently written by a small, ragtag group of programmers rather than the main Valve team. OSS programmers tend to be small, ragtag groups as well.:-)
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The thing is, I'd almost have to agree with you. I just made the Big Switch from Slack Linux to FreeBSD, and I've gotta say, I was impressed with autoslack. autoslack -iurs was all you needed to do to pick new packages, upgrade packages, delete deprecated. I think it compares (and I'm just now learning about FreeBSD; please be forgiving :-) favorably with tools such as pkg_add and family.
As long as it's a level above Anddromeda, I'll be happy.
Shoot, I have to agree. I've even have trouble with people launching smurf attacks when I'm in #linpeople. (Hi ult!) That would be great! People do everything from smurf attacks down to just simple ping -f's. IP address hiding would be highly beneficial. :-)
It's been that way since Day 1, sorry. Thou shalt not speaketh vilely of our great patron saint, St. IGNUcius.
Feh, I think we could do without him, myself. Thanks for starting the GNU project, but sometimes, Mr. Stallman, you get in the way.
I bet you'll be modded down, but hell, you're right. I had someone give me a lecture recently about using Acrobat Reader to view PDFs. Seems that by choosing to use Acrobat Reader instead of XPDF I was giving up my software freedoms. Erm, excuse me?
:-)
To be blunt, I had a choice between the Free XPDF and the proprietary Acrobat Reader. I chose Acrobat Reader. I'm restricting my own rights by choosing it? I think not.
God, I'm thinking of jumping ship now...how's FreeBSD doing these days?
Hey, I read kuro5hin all the time and I thought to myself, "Oh, good, it's one of those assholes who always says, "-1, already on Slashdot." Heh, I just happened to see this on my weekly pilgrimage to the troll mecca. Funny post, but I sincerely hope you don't do this on kuro5hin. :-)
-regeya
for f in `find . -name "*.mp3"` ; do .mp3`.wav $f
.mp3`.wav
mpg123 -w `basename $f
oggenc `basename $f
done
If lame catches up with libvorbis, you could use it to convert mp3s in one fell swoop.
For the people who prefer command line (and bash):
for i in *.mp3
do
mpg123 -w blah.wav $i
oggenc blah.wav
mv blah.ogg $i.ogg
rm $i #if you want to remove the original mp3
done
Well, if you start with good-quality MP3s (not that 96kbps MusicMatch garbage you'll find on Napster) you'll notice no audible difference between the MP3s and the files converted to Ogg Vorbis. I've done it, and incredibly, it still sounds great. :-)
I hate to say it, but...damn, you must have done something wrong.
This is a bit sad; at one point, the Cooker was apt-enabled.
Try plig.org/~xwinman. It's an older windowmanager, afaik lisp-based.
Erm, so you're saying...
"Hey, Taco, I don't like this. Why are you posting stories I'm not interested in?"
Jackass.
Yep, and I actually love it. This from someone who used to work with Photoshop several hours a day...and besides, I was tired of handing my files to people and saying, "Oh yeah, before you use that, make sure to convert that to CMYK, 'coz it's still RGB" if I'd been a weenie and used GIMP (and don't ever try to use GIMP for large images...friends don't let friends use GIMP for prepress.)
Quite frankly, I feel comfortable in the CLI, but I'd welcome a KDE installer along the lines of Ximian's installer. The only people who won't will be the 'l33t hax0r w4nn4b35' who apparently have nothing better to do than spend a couple of days building KDE2 from source (and whatever you do, don't read those README's! They're for l4m3rZ!)
Ummm....so download the kernel patches.
Problem solved.
Or, as someone else here said, try NetBSD, though I can't say I've ever tried it myself.
GNU Image Manipulation Program Toolkit
:-)
GNU==GNU's Not Unix...
Damn, you've got me.
What's all this business I hear about hugging?
Inquiring minds want to know.
The point was, as I understand it, not that counter-strike is OSS, but that it is apparently written by a small, ragtag group of programmers rather than the main Valve team. OSS programmers tend to be small, ragtag groups as well. :-)
The sad thing is, if it were posted on kuro5hin today, it'd get shot down in 10 minutes.
Whoops! Guess you don't have one either.
Sorry.
Yes, you've proven you can be an asshole not just on kuro5hin, but on Slashdot as well.
Congratulations.