Okay, Parens rails against IBM, and now the FSF turns around and unrecommends Apple licences? Why must open source folk always turn around and bite the corporate entities that want be a part of it?
I'm reading this in a vertically maximized window under KDE. You might want to look in the keybindings section. I vertically maximize a lot, and I think I would have noticed this feature being gone at any point.
Re:Longtime GNOMEr Ready to Try
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KDE 3.1 Released
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Being his (landlord || roommate || boss), in a way, I've already adopted him. Even so, he could use the hardware, that's for sure.
I've considered writing an article basically entitled "Living with a KDE Developer", documenting things like what it's like to come home and hear about What Distro I'm Trying This Week. Also, what it's like to have a project shown to you, saying "uh, no, that's ass" and then having it changed to something so entirely lacking in assyness that it looks like a different application.
KDE is neat that way.
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802.11b at 22mbps
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You forgot something about 802.11g:
Con: 5Ghz subject to rain-fade. Maybe not important in your silicone-valley home or office, but in places where there is rain and/or high humidity, the network will suffer a bit at the hands of the water mollecules in the air.
Saw this on an intra-office network trying 802.11a on a day with 98% humidity. Not fun.
Unforuntaely, this (Macintosh being overpriced) is not FUD. And I'm a Mac user.
The reason Mac hardware is considered overpriced is because the only thing we can compare them to is the prebuilt kits from Compaq, HP, etc..
There's no DIY aspect to Macs. It's like buying a dishwasher. Which is exactly what Jobs wants in the first place.
But, when you compare all of the Macintosh industry, to all of the x86 industry, the Macs do fall behind in the price department.
This is a visceral implementation of the Cheap, Easy, and Fast problem. Apple chose Fast and Easy. And implemented that well.
Rather than nay-saying anyone who has anything against the pricing of Macs as FUD-broadcasters, I think it is more important to point out how FSCKING SIMPLE AND COOL MacOS is compared to just about anything else in the non-free OS market.
1) Have you ever tried to figure out *why* CNN inadequately reports the news the way they do?
2) You are aware that CNN is *not* the official news are of the United States, that it's an orginazation owned by a large coprporation who has a vested interest in being friendly to the US Gov't?
3) There's a lot of good US media, if you actually use your 'human mind' filter and look.
I am getting really sick of people using their ignorance of the way things work in the United States as an arguement for saying Americans are ignorant of the rest of the world. If it's wasn't so sad, I would be laughing at them.
In the US, things look one way, but work another way, most of the time. Anyone who actually pays attention can figure this out, because it's like that everywhere.
Out of all of this the only thing I wish is that people finally figure out that we, as a race, know nothing about ourselves. It has nothing to do with nationality. We don't look, we don't care, we don't know. I used to think that was a local problem, but the Internet, facilitated by posts like above, has shown me this is a problem that effects the entire species.
I understand that Sony has Playstation 2 linux kits available, in Japan only.
This strikes me as odd. If a kernel has been ported, I have not seen it available as source, even though it is GPL, and I have searched the Sony site. The kernel would be a good place to start.
I'm not screaming 'GPL violation!' yet. It may that my non-grasp of Japanese prevents me from finding it.
I believe a delination should be made between slashdot's readers and the entity known as slashdot. A case could be made that the readers make slashdot what it is, but it doesn't seem to be the case.
And you should be moderated up. You make a very good point.
It's a peice of crap yes, but some of us are used to taking such and turning it into something useful. It was useful once, mind you. The stakes may be a little higher, sure, but such is life.
Then again, I would say that overall, the 20th century has converged on the concept of "mine mine mine".
I disagree. The 20th century hasn't converged on that idea. The sum whole of human civilization has converged upon this concept, in my opinion.
Didn't Caesar try to get a good portion of Europe under his own control? Didn't Napoleon try to do the same thing a few hundered years later? What about the Catholic Church? And fudalism in both Europe and Japan? Why was there a French Revolution? There are questions people have been mulling over for hundereds, or sometimes thousands of years, and I don't pretend to know the answers. Even so, patterns make themselves apparent.
A lot of what we have done in the last 100 years is create new resources. Now there is a little more to go around, and there are more people going "mine mine mine" than there were before. And as our focus turns to informational resources, the ideas of 'intellectual property' become more important that they were before.
And there's (slightly) more people in control of those resources now. But the ideas that control society haven't really changed in this century. They might strive for different ideals, but the real and ideal always differ.
There was some talk of trying different things in the sixties, but the ideas and the people behind them weren't widely regarded outside of academia. However, things are different now. Not only do we say that the idea of "mine mine mine" does not always work, we have viable proof that this is the case in the form of Linux. And as people depend more and more upon computers for their everyday lives, they will become more aware of the Open Source movement and the philosophies it brings with it.
There is no need to extoll the virtues of the OSS movement here, they've already been brought out thousands of times. But, I will say it works. It has brought results that people can feel in their pocketbooks, and can see with their eyes. And these results have been brought forth through the time and effort of thousands of people, worldwide, with an interest in Linux and a world-wide, virtually uncontrolled computer network yhe only thing binding them together. But again, this has been said before.
My point here is that now that we've shown that it works, I think the idea is going to spread to other places. There's already an article on Slashdot about an "Open" company looking for investors, and while that's not what some may have in mind, it is a step in the right direction. Linux, as an operating system, is very stable, but not technologically 'advanced.' But that doesn't matter. It's the philosophy behind it that makes it go. So while someone from the OSS movement might not be "being of the century" now, things might be very different, very soon.
Could they get this to work with newsgroups and servers as well, now that there is *some* precedent?
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Already, I think. I've been enjoying the fruits of both projects thus far, and I've been extremely pleased with the results. My 'doze bound non-geek friends are quite stunned when they see my desktop.
I guess they expect Linux to look boring.:)
Re:Looks nice, but is not stable (yet)
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That's interesting.. are you sure it's KDE that's at fault?
My main workstation at home is a PPro200, with 48M of RAM, and it runs just as fast as anything else....
Yours:But overtime was well... Very rewarding to say the least.
His:High salaries become an illusion because when it gets down to it your hourly rate isn?t much better than the assistant manager of the local Pep Boys.
Sounds like to me they had DHCP. MIght have been in the process of moving to it. Switching to a new (Okay, DHCP isn't exactly new..) technology can take for-freaking-ever in an existing infrastructure. Where I'm working in a then-cablecompany now-ISP, we've still got some stupid tech on the 'enterprise' network.
That's interesting. I had to get my licence redone a few days ago, and I was asked if I wanted to take my SSN off the card.
Then again, it may not be on the card, but in that wierd little UPC-related thingy on the back. Looks dense enough to tell a cop what I had for lunch on the day I got my licence..
It's running WinCE with DirectX, methinks. I plop'ed my $10 down for a console when I heard about it. They had one at the store, and I took a look at it. I couldn't find a way to get into anything that looked remotely like WinCE. No windows, no task bar... might not be enough to crash a lot.
The fact that it's written with libs that people know about may make the machine a little more hackable, even if the the software was written by the Evil Empire.
I happen to like consoles; I collect old ones. The KayBee by me was unloading a stock of Atari Jaguars. There's a following for those on the 'net cuz some people are developing games for them with homebrew development gear. I was thinking about trying to port Linux to it (it has a 68000), but figured there wouldn't be much I could do with it other than boot a kernel.:)
I've had a linux box in my car and I've yet to crash. It all comes down to how you design the thing, methinks.
I hate dragging easily-scratched CDs around. Easy to brake, and hard to switch while the car is in motion. So I built a Linux box using older, and somewhat more sturdy hardware to play MP3s. As far as software goes, I just hacked something to gether that *said what I wanted to know* using a text-to-speech program. With one button functions on an old milspec laptop I could keep in my car without worrying about it freezing over, it's somewhat easier to use than my CD player, or frankly, my car radio.
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Okay, Parens rails against IBM, and now the FSF turns around and unrecommends Apple licences? Why must open source folk always turn around and bite the corporate entities that want be a part of it?
I'm reading this in a vertically maximized window under KDE. You might want to look in the keybindings section. I vertically maximize a lot, and I think I would have noticed this feature being gone at any point.
Being his (landlord || roommate || boss), in a way, I've already adopted him. Even so, he could use the hardware, that's for sure.
I've considered writing an article basically entitled "Living with a KDE Developer", documenting things like what it's like to come home and hear about What Distro I'm Trying This Week. Also, what it's like to have a project shown to you, saying "uh, no, that's ass" and then having it changed to something so entirely lacking in assyness that it looks like a different application.
KDE is neat that way.
You forgot something about 802.11g:
Con: 5Ghz subject to rain-fade. Maybe not important in your silicone-valley home or office, but in places where there is rain and/or high humidity, the network will suffer a bit at the hands of the water mollecules in the air.
Saw this on an intra-office network trying 802.11a on a day with 98% humidity. Not fun.
Unforuntaely, this (Macintosh being overpriced) is not FUD. And I'm a Mac user.
The reason Mac hardware is considered overpriced is because the only thing we can compare them to is the prebuilt kits from Compaq, HP, etc..
There's no DIY aspect to Macs. It's like buying a dishwasher. Which is exactly what Jobs wants in the first place.
But, when you compare all of the Macintosh industry, to all of the x86 industry, the Macs do fall behind in the price department.
This is a visceral implementation of the Cheap, Easy, and Fast problem. Apple chose Fast and Easy. And implemented that well.
Rather than nay-saying anyone who has anything against the pricing of Macs as FUD-broadcasters, I think it is more important to point out how FSCKING SIMPLE AND COOL MacOS is compared to just about anything else in the non-free OS market.
1) Have you ever tried to figure out *why* CNN inadequately reports the news the way they do?
2) You are aware that CNN is *not* the official news are of the United States, that it's an orginazation owned by a large coprporation who has a vested interest in being friendly to the US Gov't?
3) There's a lot of good US media, if you actually use your 'human mind' filter and look.
I am getting really sick of people using their ignorance of the way things work in the United States as an arguement for saying Americans are ignorant of the rest of the world. If it's wasn't so sad, I would be laughing at them.
In the US, things look one way, but work another way, most of the time. Anyone who actually pays attention can figure this out, because it's like that everywhere.
Out of all of this the only thing I wish is that people finally figure out that we, as a race, know nothing about ourselves. It has nothing to do with nationality. We don't look, we don't care, we don't know. I used to think that was a local problem, but the Internet, facilitated by posts like above, has shown me this is a problem that effects the entire species.
Oh yeah, paint the office with small microphones. Great. Listen me swear at NT boxen all day. Fun stuff.
I understand that Sony has Playstation 2 linux kits available, in Japan only.
This strikes me as odd. If a kernel has been ported, I have not seen it available as source, even though it is GPL, and I have searched the Sony site. The kernel would be a good place to start.
I'm not screaming 'GPL violation!' yet. It may that my non-grasp of Japanese prevents me from finding it.
And why do the good ones don't?
I mean, Hubbard always read to me like Heinlein with a transorbital lobotomy.
Why don't good sci-fi authors get semi-mystical followings? Like Clarke or Pohl. At least, that would be really amusing.
It may very well be 'God did it'.
If you want to believe that, get down with your bad self, and see these articles as humanity trying to discover how God did it.
Do not confuse 'Who' and 'How' questions.
I believe a delination should be made between slashdot's readers and the entity known as slashdot. A case could be made that the readers make slashdot what it is, but it doesn't seem to be the case. And you should be moderated up. You make a very good point.
Wish I knew who this was so I could give them an award. :P
I seem to remember someone writing something in software that would play MP3's on a PSX with a modchip.. Any one else see something like this?
Why don't we buy Mir?
It's a peice of crap yes, but some of us are used to taking such and turning it into something useful. It was useful once, mind you. The stakes may be a little higher, sure, but such is life.
Who says it has to be permanent? If you can paint it on the walls, why can't you paint it on yourself?
Would you consider a bowling trip?
Then again, I would say that overall, the 20th century has converged on the concept of "mine mine mine".
I disagree. The 20th century hasn't converged on that idea. The sum whole of human civilization has converged upon this concept, in my opinion.
Didn't Caesar try to get a good portion of Europe under his own control? Didn't Napoleon try to do the same thing a few hundered years later? What about the Catholic Church? And fudalism in both Europe and Japan? Why was there a French Revolution? There are questions people have been mulling over for hundereds, or sometimes thousands of years, and I don't pretend to know the answers. Even so, patterns make themselves apparent.
A lot of what we have done in the last 100 years is create new resources. Now there is a little more to go around, and there are more people going "mine mine mine" than there were before. And as our focus turns to informational resources, the ideas of 'intellectual property' become more important that they were before.
And there's (slightly) more people in control of those resources now. But the ideas that control society haven't really changed in this century. They might strive for different ideals, but the real and ideal always differ.
There was some talk of trying different things in the sixties, but the ideas and the people behind them weren't widely regarded outside of academia.
However, things are different now. Not only do we say that the idea of "mine mine mine" does not always work, we have viable proof that this is the case in the form of Linux. And as people depend more and more upon computers for their everyday lives, they will become more aware of the Open Source movement and the philosophies it brings with it.
There is no need to extoll the virtues of the OSS movement here, they've already been brought out thousands of times. But, I will say it works. It has brought results that people can feel in their pocketbooks, and can see with their eyes. And these results have been brought forth through the time and effort of thousands of people, worldwide, with an interest in Linux and a world-wide, virtually uncontrolled computer network yhe only thing binding them together. But again, this has been said before.
My point here is that now that we've shown that it works, I think the idea is going to spread to other places. There's already an article on Slashdot about an "Open" company looking for investors, and while that's not what some may have in mind, it is a step in the right direction. Linux, as an operating system, is very stable, but not technologically 'advanced.' But that doesn't matter. It's the philosophy behind it that makes it go. So while someone from the OSS movement might not be "being of the century" now, things might be very different, very soon.
Could they get this to work with newsgroups and servers as well, now that there is *some* precedent?
Already, I think. I've been enjoying the fruits of both projects thus far, and I've been extremely pleased with the results. My 'doze bound non-geek friends are quite stunned when they see my desktop.
:)
I guess they expect Linux to look boring.
That's interesting.. are you sure it's KDE that's at fault?
My main workstation at home is a PPro200, with 48M of RAM, and it runs just as fast as anything else....
Yours: But overtime was well... Very rewarding to say the least.
His: High salaries become an illusion because when it gets down to it your hourly rate isn?t much better than the assistant manager of the local Pep Boys.
Not everyone get's overtime.
Sounds like to me they had DHCP. MIght have been in the process of moving to it. Switching to a new (Okay, DHCP isn't exactly new..) technology can take for-freaking-ever in an existing infrastructure. Where I'm working in a then-cablecompany now-ISP, we've still got some stupid tech on the 'enterprise' network.
That's interesting. I had to get my licence redone a few days ago, and I was asked if I wanted to take my SSN off the card.
Then again, it may not be on the card, but in that wierd little UPC-related thingy on the back. Looks dense enough to tell a cop what I had for lunch on the day I got my licence..
It's running WinCE with DirectX, methinks. I plop'ed my $10 down for a console when I heard about it. They had one at the store, and I took a look at it. I couldn't find a way to get into anything that looked remotely like WinCE. No windows, no task bar... might not be enough to crash a lot.
:)
The fact that it's written with libs that people know about may make the machine a little more hackable, even if the the software was written by the Evil Empire.
I happen to like consoles; I collect old ones. The KayBee by me was unloading a stock of Atari Jaguars. There's a following for those on the 'net cuz some people are developing games for them with homebrew development gear. I was thinking about trying to port Linux to it (it has a 68000), but figured there wouldn't be much I could do with it other than boot a kernel.
I've had a linux box in my car and I've yet to crash. It all comes down to how you design the thing, methinks.
I hate dragging easily-scratched CDs around. Easy to brake, and hard to switch while the car is in motion. So I built a Linux box using older, and somewhat more sturdy hardware to play MP3s. As far as software goes, I just hacked something to gether that *said what I wanted to know* using a text-to-speech program. With one button functions on an old milspec laptop I could keep in my car without worrying about it freezing over, it's somewhat easier to use than my CD player, or frankly, my car radio.