Why do all thinkpads look like they are from 1995? I know they are targeting businesses, and are great laptop's, but seriously, that laptop looks the same as my 300mhz Pentium 2 thinkpad
Ugly?
Some of us think the black boxy design is incredibly sexy. The design behind the Thinkpad is based of the elegant design of the Japanese Bento Box. One of think Thinkpads is even on permanent display at New York Museum of Modern Art!
The day these machines stop being black and boxy is the day many of us stop buying them.
In Google there exists a paradigm that states email is all about the "conversation". Because email is all about the conversation the result is for people to not receive their own posts to a mailing list. (Instead they simply have a copy of it from their sent mail folder in the "stack".) This might work great for the web interface, but not at all for POP3.
POP3 clients (simple or advanced) do not following this "conversation" paradigm, and by not getting a copy of their own post two things happen: A) You have no confirmation the post made it to the list and B) you break threading on the email client because now people are responding to a message that never made it on my list.
The sad part is attempting to send yourself a copy of the message via CC: or BCC: does not work! Its like Gmail went out of its way to ensure you do not get a copy of your own post. Additionally while Google searching suggests there is an option to get yourself a copy of your own post, I was unable to find it anywhere.
I feel sorry for any of these people who are being switched over to Gmail's POP3 and are on mailing lists.
Why cannot one visit any website today and simply not read overly zealous pro-Ubuntu jargon written by someone who has never taken "Business 101" ?
The article itself is a joke, and does not actually detail any valid reasons about why Ubuntu will displace Redhat in the market. The 5th and 6th paragraphs are nothing more than "I want to brown-nose Mark Shuttleworth" crap that also does not feed the main argument of the commentary^H^H^H^H rant. THe last two paragraphs which barely have any meat on them are nothing more than rants not backed by any citations, evidence, deep analytical thought, etc. The crux of the article revolves around Redhat alienating their desktop "not paying a penny freeloaders", which is retarded because a) redhat's revenue shotup when they mandated fees and b) umm, whats Fedora again ?
While I commend Ubuntu and everyone else for their efforts on the desktop front I think it is very important to note that beating Redhat is going to require quite the effort, skill and resources. Redhat still commands other distros in the areas of Income, Innovations, and the holy-grail-of-almost-everything: Marketing. SUSE has been trying to beat Redhat for how hard and how long ?
(Maybe this company is trying for the "Dvorak-angle", which is to write something dumb and generate lots of attention to a whole lot of nothin')
Seems like these guys could learn a thing or two from "large but independent" stations like Digitally Imported. DI provides free streams in Mp3, WMA, and AAC+, but also offers higher quality streams in the 3 mentioned formats for a fee.
DI can support up to 40 to 60 thousand listeners simultaneously during peak loads (thrus afternoon), and still make a profit.
Networking. And I'm not talking about the TCP/IP kind. I'm talking about meeting
each other, getting to know other linux professionals and people of the
tech community. Instead of overly peppered resumes with mindless
certifications, you get to meet people who actually can talk about the
technologies, the issues, etc. You should see the number of
head-hunters, hiring agencies and etc that come to a LUG meeting with
the hopes of meeting real intelligence. (Recently my LUG (NYLUG) and Google threw a big party at a
fancy restaurant in Manhattan in an attempt to attract the tech
community, but python developers in particular. Google's Alex Martelli
was the speaker (you python guys should know him)).
Additionally, networking doesn't just mean the kind that gets
consultants hired and what not. I'm talking about building a community.
Letting people meet new people and become friends. Every time our LUG
has a meeting, you can always see various circle of "LUG-friends" get
together and talk amongst themselves. Its brilliant. At a LUG meeting
you aren't talking to someone overly concerned about mindless shit like the latest Pop music star, but
people who take to the same issues that matter greatly to yourself
(DRM, DMCA, kernel stability, PHP security, source compilations, etc).
Its quite a treat to be able to sit down and have a beer with someone
else who actually knows what a buffer-overflow is.
LUG's are also are great because they can tap in from a pool of
talent to get a single effort going. The president of my LUG is also
one hell of a salesman. His ability to be a people person is like no
other, and so we get great speakers all the time (Ie: Google,
XenSource, Novell, Chris DiBona, etc). But our president isn't a super
technical guy, so we leave server management to someone else. We also
leave mailing list management to another guy, who is incredibly
level-headed and thus handles flame-fest situations very well. For an
individual to do all of the above would be nearly impossible. A group of people OTOH, can do this very well without sucking up a too much of a single person.
While Linux isn't brand spanking new, it does not mean LUGs are not
useful anymore. It means they've adapted, re-focused their energies,
and aim for a new direction. Gone are the days where many LUG
presentations were introductions about the technology. Today we talk
about new technology, but more important what you can do with
this technology. (IE: Xen virtualization.)
This January is our LUG's 7th year birthday. And we are strong as we have ever been.
Many of these laptops with odd ball screens have a real problem: The native resolution of the screen isn't supported by the video-bios.
Why is this a problem for Linux users ?
Last time I checked, Xorg/Xfree86 didn't support resolutions your video card didn't advertise. Which becomes a real PITA because now you are either forced to use the screen with chopped off ends, or full screen with the image being badly stretched out.
You could use the closed source XiG X server and you wouldn't have these issues. But a) it cost a pretty penny and b) they software itself is kinda dumb. (You'll install their X server, but you won't get any psuedo-rpm/dpkg's to trick the distro into thinking you have a regular X installed. It becomes a nightmare with dependencies.)
First, Mandriva is TOTALLY open source. In fact, of the major commercial distributions Mandriva was the first to do so. Go read section 4-6 of Mandrakesoft's 8 Golden Rules
Not only is it fully OSS, but they give you all the instructions and such to fork your own Mandriva based distro easily (look at the popular PCLinuxOS as an example) Google for "mandrivasoft wiki" and have ball forking your own.
Secondly, if you've actually engaged with the Mandriva community, you'll notice that it is comprised of both employees and non-employees. The non-employees deal with real packages and stuff, and not bull-shit non-important packages.
And now that the 400 have done the work, they will be part of the 13,000 fired...
How the hell was this modded as insightful ?
There is nothing insightful about it at all. A link establishing the 400 employees to the 13,000 would be needed for this to be insightful in anyway, shape, or form. Even then IBM still would have almost 300,000 employees...
It is rapidly turning into a biased Apple fan site.
Bravo, well said.
For the first time ever, I'm finally seeing "This DRM is good!" posts on slashdot. And that my friends, is the end of slashdot.
Why? Because slashdot was known for their absurd pro-free software anti-DRM stance. Would you give a rat's ass if slashdot was like every other news site out there ? No.
Thats because the Quicktime player is b0rked and Apple refuses to fix Quicktime. (Dvix.com has a 'fixer' application that does whatever to AVI's encoded with Divx and Mp3)
Use a real media player like Mplayer OS-X. Not only is it not b0rked, but it does full screen play back for free.
Slashdot Mirror
am I missing something here ?
k thx bye!
Miguel de Icaza sprouts more crap, news at 11
I'm shocked! Shocked!
We all know that Hollywood Accounting is a complete scam.
Ugly?
Some of us think the black boxy design is incredibly sexy. The design behind the Thinkpad is based of the elegant design of the Japanese Bento Box. One of think Thinkpads is even on permanent display at New York Museum of Modern Art!
The day these machines stop being black and boxy is the day many of us stop buying them.
Anyone else think the new version sucks ??
It seems overly limited without having to right click.
POP3 clients (simple or advanced) do not following this "conversation" paradigm, and by not getting a copy of their own post two things happen: A) You have no confirmation the post made it to the list and B) you break threading on the email client because now people are responding to a message that never made it on my list.
The sad part is attempting to send yourself a copy of the message via CC: or BCC: does not work! Its like Gmail went out of its way to ensure you do not get a copy of your own post. Additionally while Google searching suggests there is an option to get yourself a copy of your own post, I was unable to find it anywhere.
I feel sorry for any of these people who are being switched over to Gmail's POP3 and are on mailing lists.
Others have written about the situation as well: Gmail + POP + mailing lists = broken
People who have McAfee and Norton installed shouldn't count .... I can't remember the last time either piece of bloatware did anything useful.
Cracking the stupidity was half the battle, making it easy to use is the other half.
I fail to see how creating a cluster based on macs is considered switching. If that were the case, many organizations switched to linux ages ago.
Their annoying usage of a top level conf dir ~/GNUStep (or whatever it is). No other app I've seen does such garbage, dot-dirs all ftw.
The article itself is a joke, and does not actually detail any valid reasons about why Ubuntu will displace Redhat in the market. The 5th and 6th paragraphs are nothing more than "I want to brown-nose Mark Shuttleworth" crap that also does not feed the main argument of the commentary^H^H^H^H rant. THe last two paragraphs which barely have any meat on them are nothing more than rants not backed by any citations, evidence, deep analytical thought, etc. The crux of the article revolves around Redhat alienating their desktop "not paying a penny freeloaders", which is retarded because a) redhat's revenue shotup when they mandated fees and b) umm, whats Fedora again ?
While I commend Ubuntu and everyone else for their efforts on the desktop front I think it is very important to note that beating Redhat is going to require quite the effort, skill and resources. Redhat still commands other distros in the areas of Income, Innovations, and the holy-grail-of-almost-everything: Marketing. SUSE has been trying to beat Redhat for how hard and how long ?
(Maybe this company is trying for the "Dvorak-angle", which is to write something dumb and generate lots of attention to a whole lot of nothin')
Why are OOo's default borders different than MSFT Office's borders ?
.7/.7/.7/.7, while MSFT Office is at 1/1/1.25/1.25)
(OOo uses something like
If the goal is to transition people over, this little difference shouldn't exist!
Sunny Dubey
So anyone know of a nice photo album software with tagging features and such ?
...
... found nothing at the time)
I love flickr, but I love my pictures more and would rather feel safer hosting them on my own
(I checked about a month ago on sourceforge, freshmeat, and hotscripts
Thanks!
DI can support up to 40 to 60 thousand listeners simultaneously during peak loads (thrus afternoon), and still make a profit.
DISCLAIMER: I worked for them previously
Sunny Dubey
Did you really have to include the blurb about a new Vendor ?
....
Jeebus, I thought the idea was to be more apolitical these days
Here is why:
Networking. And I'm not talking about the TCP/IP kind. I'm talking about meeting each other, getting to know other linux professionals and people of the tech community. Instead of overly peppered resumes with mindless certifications, you get to meet people who actually can talk about the technologies, the issues, etc. You should see the number of head-hunters, hiring agencies and etc that come to a LUG meeting with the hopes of meeting real intelligence. (Recently my LUG (NYLUG) and Google threw a big party at a fancy restaurant in Manhattan in an attempt to attract the tech community, but python developers in particular. Google's Alex Martelli was the speaker (you python guys should know him)).
Additionally, networking doesn't just mean the kind that gets consultants hired and what not. I'm talking about building a community. Letting people meet new people and become friends. Every time our LUG has a meeting, you can always see various circle of "LUG-friends" get together and talk amongst themselves. Its brilliant. At a LUG meeting you aren't talking to someone overly concerned about mindless shit like the latest Pop music star, but people who take to the same issues that matter greatly to yourself (DRM, DMCA, kernel stability, PHP security, source compilations, etc). Its quite a treat to be able to sit down and have a beer with someone else who actually knows what a buffer-overflow is.
LUG's are also are great because they can tap in from a pool of talent to get a single effort going. The president of my LUG is also one hell of a salesman. His ability to be a people person is like no other, and so we get great speakers all the time (Ie: Google, XenSource, Novell, Chris DiBona, etc). But our president isn't a super technical guy, so we leave server management to someone else. We also leave mailing list management to another guy, who is incredibly level-headed and thus handles flame-fest situations very well. For an individual to do all of the above would be nearly impossible. A group of people OTOH, can do this very well without sucking up a too much of a single person.
While Linux isn't brand spanking new, it does not mean LUGs are not useful anymore. It means they've adapted, re-focused their energies, and aim for a new direction. Gone are the days where many LUG presentations were introductions about the technology. Today we talk about new technology, but more important what you can do with this technology. (IE: Xen virtualization.)
This January is our LUG's 7th year birthday. And we are strong as we have ever been.
Sunny Dubey
Officer
New York Linux User's Group
BIGGEST
... those G4 Tech TV people are already annoying enough!
WASTE
OF
TIME
EVER
I mean jeebus, they even have a winner for Most Addictive Game Fueled by Mountain Dew category! Can you say retarded product placement ?
The video game industry does not need to sink this low
Many of these laptops with odd ball screens have a real problem: The native resolution of the screen isn't supported by the video-bios.
Why is this a problem for Linux users ?
Last time I checked, Xorg/Xfree86 didn't support resolutions your video card didn't advertise. Which becomes a real PITA because now you are either forced to use the screen with chopped off ends, or full screen with the image being badly stretched out.
You could use the closed source XiG X server and you wouldn't have these issues. But a) it cost a pretty penny and b) they software itself is kinda dumb. (You'll install their X server, but you won't get any psuedo-rpm/dpkg's to trick the distro into thinking you have a regular X installed. It becomes a nightmare with dependencies.)
Get to know Mandriva before flaming it ...
First, Mandriva is TOTALLY open source. In fact, of the major commercial distributions Mandriva was the first to do so. Go read section 4-6 of Mandrakesoft's 8 Golden Rules
Not only is it fully OSS, but they give you all the instructions and such to fork your own Mandriva based distro easily (look at the popular PCLinuxOS as an example) Google for "mandrivasoft wiki" and have ball forking your own.
Secondly, if you've actually engaged with the Mandriva community, you'll notice that it is comprised of both employees and non-employees. The non-employees deal with real packages and stuff, and not bull-shit non-important packages.
Sunny Dubey
I think debian was the first distro to announce a switch to xorg, though I may be wrong.
That would be Mandrake/Mandriva
Sunny Dubey
ulrich obviously has no clue whatsoever about embedded systems, and should therefore stfu on this point.
.... you can assume he has more clue than most of Slashdot combined *cough*
When he happens to be a lead developer of the glibc
Quoth the parent ...
...
And now that the 400 have done the work, they will be part of the 13,000 fired...
How the hell was this modded as insightful ?
There is nothing insightful about it at all. A link establishing the 400 employees to the 13,000 would be needed for this to be insightful in anyway, shape, or form. Even then IBM still would have almost 300,000 employees
Sunny Dubey
It is rapidly turning into a biased Apple fan site.
Bravo, well said.
For the first time ever, I'm finally seeing "This DRM is good!" posts on slashdot. And that my friends, is the end of slashdot.
Why? Because slashdot was known for their absurd pro-free software anti-DRM stance. Would you give a rat's ass if slashdot was like every other news site out there ? No.
Sunny Dubey
Thats because the Quicktime player is b0rked and Apple refuses to fix Quicktime. (Dvix.com has a 'fixer' application that does whatever to AVI's encoded with Divx and Mp3)
Use a real media player like Mplayer OS-X. Not only is it not b0rked, but it does full screen play back for free.
Sunny Dubey