It seems that this is where staunch liberalism leads to.
There is nothing better to write about than hiccups - and look at the article!
Those guys have nothing to write about, full of "suggestions" and "Plausible idea" "hard to proove" is gradually passed from publicist to journalist until at "slashdot" it ends up beinf a hard scientific evidence.
Shame!
Where do I find some beter, conservative forum, which cares less about movies or computer games and more about technology?
And then copy the ~/.mozilla directory to everyone's home directory with one for loop. (OK, two or three installs and copy 'for' loops in heterogenous environment).
There are two things that you need to get rid of: 1. Making install locally on each computer. You make yourself 50x as much work and maintenance this way. 2. Having to run user configuration on every account 50 times, locally. Distribute ready made setups from your administrator cubicle. Anyways, if you did, it would be very difficult for users to switch machines.
Unlike MSWindows, in Unix all setup files are text. You can script them, search them, add to them, inspect them and process them with any remote editor or text processing script. The only group of people that tries hard to break this nice arrangement are these gnome and projects like Mozilla.
Oopls, there it goes....mozilla/appreg
Erase it, kill it, eradicate it, format it, recompile and install it with text-based configuration. And petition those silly mozilla and gnome guys to end the 'registry' bad habit imported from poorly designed operating systems.
That's pretty much the way I do it.
By the way, if someone set me those defaults, such as tabs, I'll be really upset and the first thing would be that I change it to Middle Click opens window.
And do not disable changes, that is the sure way to make users really upset.
This looks like a mightily interesting movie. However, I have no Window box around to watch it - only 6 Linux PCs. (The last Window PC I abandoned 7 years ago).
Is there a way, how to see *.wmv movie in Linux? Plugin or cossover, that does not require windows media player?
Woud anyone send me windows media player binary that works in Wine?
He is right on. Linux is more uxer friendly, except that it is no longer linux. It's practically Windows. Now, I switched to Linux 8 years ago, because of Windows being too limited.
Now:
- Mozilla cannot run under one account on two remote displays
- Some programs have settings in unreadable "Registery" (Thanks, Penington for this Havoc).
- Gnome and KDE are hopelesly bloated.
- If you select white font color, you will have half of your text invisible, as ti is hard to have find and install Gnome black background theme.
- Many function do not have keyboard shortcut, forconm me to move hand all the way to the mouse!
- The KDE/Linux feels now twice as slow on 2.4GHz machine than on 90MHz pentium 8 years ago.
- and hundred other complaints.
- Good applications are continually discontinued. I'll never have such a packager GUI as was Redhat Tcl/Tk Glint, browser as was Motif Based Mozaic ( and early mozillas) and such an office suite as was Applix.
What I see is that the techonlogy jobs went outside the US (India, China, Eastern Europe), ont so much because the cost of the labor there, but mostly because of good suply of young, highly educated people.
One must be blind to fail to see that.
US has low replacement levels, population here is aging. If you use schools to brainwash youth over population control, use it for recuitment to gay lifestyles and spend hours on social engeneering and oxymoron subjects such as "Social Sciences" - rather than math, you can expect any advanced country to decay to a third word country in less than 2 generations.
So law enforcement would require a librarian to lie, of asked? Why should a law undermine people's moral standards? Because the monitored one must be necessarily criminal?
There is no surprise that one sees one of the most violent "revolutions", quotes from a communitst and censorsip ideas like those implementet in the mentioned communistic country all grouped together.
I have long observed people with communist thoughts (so called commnists) having taken over the BBC. You can tell by statement like these and by nearly fanatic hatered of christian religion. (For instance, saying "A.D." in a date is against BBC guidelines and is censored out:-)))
Watch guys! Your Big Friends are out to get you. Censorship is not coming. It is already here on the BBC!
They might have been great engineers at 3dfx, but I as well as many other people would not simply buy a card named after pagan worshop with some satanic elements and put it my computer in my bedroom.
As well, I would not support company, which thinks that "voodoo" is really a cool name for their product. When they became Linux supported 3dfx card, I decided to keep 2D Matrox Millenium for a looong time.
I really need to mix applications, most KDE but some Gnome. I am really fvwm person and I long got past the anger fot not being really supported on the latest distribution. I would stand XFCE, but kde just has its components integrated too much to the windows manager, which does not even have background popup menus ( if you do not run that silly kicker real estate thief). Gnome is simply unusable.
Anytime I tried themes with white font, all listboxes were unreadable, because there was (as of year ago) no way to change listbox bacground from white to something more decent. Too many application gave you white background (e.g. nautillus install) that make all white text unreadable.
Also, they also repeatedly forget giving all commands keybord shortcuts, thereby taking away productive environment for user that do not have time to play with mouse.
Overall, command line scripting standards are broken. Most KDE and all Gnome application ignore command line options such as -bg -fg -fn -geometry. Most applications do not save windows into.Xinitrc any longer and the great, true and tried Unix GUI standards are broken beyond repair.
Modal boxes are getting increasingly prevealent, blocking parent application even from select/copy (to clipboard) operation.
Fingers are no longer sufficient to count application, that canont be run twice on the same account, even if you take your shoes off.
Folks, Linux desktop monkies Windows and is copies all Windows mistakes, and has become to be even worse (on desktop) than Windows. If there were not the command line back-end and old legacy applications, I would long switched for something more proffesional - perhaps Solaris?
Now, get this: What are Developers concerned most with is quarels over default theme!
Caldera did only sensible think they could. They foud out, that once their customers can download somebody's work for free, they wiould let them, their programmers and their families starve to death.
And it is not only greredy corporation, it is also whole army of Linux users who want the software free as a beer.
SCO users base is small, but udnerstand that labourers deserve their wages.
And as long as SCO unix is still unix, I will wholehartedly approve.
Of course, Linux can be downloaded for free. Yet, that was always the case, but Linux sales were projected to double. So what has changed.
Did not people know before that they can download it? Sure they did.
Did they have the bandwidth before to do it comfortably? Not all of them, but the size of distribution grows almost as fast as bandwidth.
I think, that Linux usage really does decrease, AND people are saving more likely these times doing free downloads.
As soon as Linux kills Solaris, AIX and HP-UX, without making any $$$ reserves, Microsoft will kill Linux using patent and DMCA and.NET usage lawsuits and it will no longer be easy to find a legal Linux copy on the net as it is now.
So far, Microsoft managed to kill every competing OS. There is no point of kidding ourselves. Just why should be believe, that M$ will somehow not kill Linux. Being free or open does not prevent anything from patent lawsuit, or technology licences, or DMCA or MS Password licence fees.
Well, what I meant is that people in this country, and most of the western world gradually cease to be civilized.
What is on topic, however, is that taking a term such as "Social Engineering" and sticking it to some group of people such as "hackers" might really be a Social Engineering attempt to oust out of society people who resist to be subject to at least to some forms of Social Engineering.
What an abuse of terms! Calling pretending to be an AT&T employee is simplky called a lie or deception. Social Engineering (former meaning of the word Cybernetics) is not an individual lie, but a steeering society using mass desinformation of public in order to change demograpnics, or orientation of society.
For instance disinformation about earth overpopulation, single child policy, "sexual education", distribution of condoms, abortion counseling etc. are examples of Social Egineering, usually things that are never tolerated in civilized society.
Galileo actually had some "awards" for science from Vatican, the URBAN VIII. His original charts of the sun spots can be found in Vatican achives.
There seem to have been no reason to have problem with false idea of sun being center of universe, since Copernicus had no problems in his time with that - not from Catholic hierarchy. However, it seems that his acquitances with Pope boldened him enough to be foul mouthed with some powerful cardinals and that probably earned hil the house arrest.
He discovered sun spots, sun rotations, telescope and Jupiter spots and rotation. He falsely believed that Sun is in centre of the universe and that planets move on circles, not ellipses (opposing to Keppler).
To this day, science cannot authoratively say, where is the centre of universe, but most agree that it is less likely to be at the place where Sun is.
This reminds me of the times when Catholic leaders tried to stop Copernicus and other thinkers, etc.
Check your history books. Copernicus was a Catholic priest, leader (administrator of the Krakow diocese and ) and thinker (doctor of medicine), and he had no more conflicts with his peers than you have here with other slashdotters.
During his life he was actually strongly opposed to by protestants.
Just to put it in historical perspective, that council of Nicea was in 4th century and the 'Guys who edited the texts' were St. Jerome and his 20 monks. That was their lifetime job.
Petrus
Finally, someone has the guts to stop blasphemous offences in today's politically correct world. Thanks God.
So where is the Ozone Hole the last decade craze? It was supposed to be late-to fix huhndred years problem costing everybody skin cancer and making most babis born with birth defects?
Just they were somewhat suspicious that CFC was the case - and hooray, all American industrry forced everyone else to replacec it with patented alternatives.
Can't we simply wait 5 or 10 years, until innovative bussinesses invents some other end-of-the-world problem and this one will be forgotten?
Who said that we need cooler climate or less "Greenhouse Gases"? Why uis this scam under heading "Science"? This is an offence to every honest scientist.
So we do not understand what kept earth temperature in balllance for cecenturies. We do not know what caused hotter and climate and ice age before the automobile. We have calculated that man producecd CO2 is a minor contribution. We have not observed any measurable warming in past decades, but rather cooling. The only data we have are incomplete coputer simulations, which do not include major factor such as
- consumption by see algae/plankton and its growth
- difference between natural biomass decay CO2 and maninducecd burning (its nearly 0).
- Need for increased CO2 to stimulate plant growth
- Would any working expand or shrink deserts by making them moist?\
- etc
There are hundreds of unresolved issues and we give an unsubstantiated media-induced worldwide public panic a heading of SCIENCE?
Ever remember the Ozone hole craze? This was supposed to be uneviatable end of the word and no measure should have been able to fix it in hundred s of years. So where is the hole? In so called "Science", I guess.
Stop feeding the frenzy,it will die out in less than 5 years on its own.
So why I have not had any problems with my Asus P5A + AMD K6-III 3Dnow! snce I have it - and that is more than 3 years now.
That said, I had a verifiably failing and forgetting memory chip for two years, due to which Windows could not be even installed, althoug Linux had never any problems besides weekly core dumps on Netscape.
I do not remember any reboot in 3 years, however I have not problem iwth the 80GB 7200 rpm Maxtor HD that does not get recognized by the BIOS, only by Linux directly.
It has been my maibn machine for more than 3 years, continually hosting between 120 to 250 processes for 2 to 5 users, each running X-windows.
I can recomment Asus and AMD combination to anybody.
Because your AMD can run 9 unstruction at the same time unlike Intel that can run only 4, it will be in average as fast as 2GHz Pentium
and sometimes as fast as 9/4*1.5GHz Pentium, that
is about 3.3GHz Pentium.
See Distributed.net or POWbench benchmarks at linuxhardware.org
So AMD has more than double of parallelism of Pentium4 and it can be vastly faster in code that can be highly parallelised.
What I call cheating is when Intel says that they have higher clock speed therefore they have faster processor.
Petrus
Not only AMD remains cheaper, but also way faster (on some test as PowRay as much as twice) and with fewer bugs. It looks that Intel is really afraid of losing the market share.
Well, until Intel cuts prices to half of the AMD, I'll keep buying the better chips.
Slashdot Mirror
It seems that this is where staunch liberalism leads to.
There is nothing better to write about than hiccups - and look at the article!
Those guys have nothing to write about, full of "suggestions" and "Plausible idea" "hard to proove" is gradually passed from publicist to journalist until at "slashdot" it ends up beinf a hard scientific evidence.
Shame!
Where do I find some beter, conservative forum, which cares less about movies or computer games and more about technology?
And then copy the ~/.mozilla directory to everyone's home directory with one for loop. (OK, two or three installs and copy 'for' loops
.mozilla/appreg
in heterogenous environment).
There are two things that you need to get rid of:
1. Making install locally on each computer. You make yourself 50x as much work and maintenance this way.
2. Having to run user configuration on every account 50 times, locally. Distribute ready made setups from your administrator cubicle. Anyways, if you did, it would be very difficult for users to switch machines.
Unlike MSWindows, in Unix all setup files are text. You can script them, search them, add to them, inspect them and process them with any remote editor or text processing script. The only group of people that tries hard to break this nice arrangement are these gnome and projects like Mozilla.
Oopls, there it goes...
Erase it, kill it, eradicate it, format it, recompile and install it with text-based configuration. And petition those silly mozilla and gnome guys to end the 'registry' bad habit imported from poorly designed operating systems.
That's pretty much the way I do it.
By the way, if someone set me those defaults, such as tabs, I'll be really upset and the first thing would be that I change it to Middle Click opens window.
And do not disable changes, that is the sure way to make users really upset.
Petrus
Hello, All.
This looks like a mightily interesting movie. However, I have no Window box around to watch it - only 6 Linux PCs.
(The last Window PC I abandoned 7 years ago).
Is there a way, how to see *.wmv movie in Linux? Plugin or cossover, that does not require windows media player?
Woud anyone send me windows media player binary that works in Wine?
Thanks
Regards,
Petrus Vectorius
A dipol antena is oriented in one direction.
Light may be organized in all and any direction.
Before reception, it is good to make the light
oscillate in the plane of the dipole.
Iguess,
Alternatively, they might have two perpendicular dipoles, if they wanted. But I guess they don't.
Petrus
He is right on.
Linux is more uxer friendly, except that it is no longer linux. It's practically Windows. Now, I switched to Linux 8 years ago, because of Windows being too limited.
Now:
- Mozilla cannot run under one account on two remote displays
- Some programs have settings in unreadable "Registery" (Thanks, Penington for this Havoc).
- Gnome and KDE are hopelesly bloated.
- If you select white font color, you will have half of your text invisible, as ti is hard to have find and install Gnome black background theme.
- Many function do not have keyboard shortcut, forconm me to move hand all the way to the mouse!
- The KDE/Linux feels now twice as slow on 2.4GHz machine than on 90MHz pentium 8 years ago.
- and hundred other complaints.
- Good applications are continually discontinued. I'll never have such a packager GUI as was Redhat Tcl/Tk Glint, browser as was Motif Based Mozaic ( and early mozillas) and such an office suite as was Applix.
Perhaps I'll have to switch to SCO or Solaris.
Yours
Petrus
What I see is that the techonlogy jobs went outside the US (India, China, Eastern Europe), ont so much because the cost of the labor there, but mostly because of good suply of young, highly educated people.
One must be blind to fail to see that.
US has low replacement levels, population here is aging. If you use schools to brainwash youth over population control, use it for recuitment to gay lifestyles and spend hours on social engeneering and oxymoron subjects such as "Social Sciences" - rather than math, you can expect any advanced country to decay to a third word country in less than 2 generations.
Petrus
You do not have to thank me.
You have to pay me.
So law enforcement would require a librarian to lie, of asked? Why should a law undermine people's moral standards? Because the monitored one must be necessarily criminal?
Since when two wrongs make right?
There is no surprise that one sees one of the most violent "revolutions", quotes from a communitst and censorsip ideas like those implementet in the mentioned communistic country all grouped together.
:-)))
I have long observed people with communist thoughts (so called commnists) having taken over the BBC. You can tell by statement like these and by nearly fanatic hatered of christian religion.
(For instance, saying "A.D." in a date is against BBC guidelines and is censored out
Watch guys! Your Big Friends are out to get you.
Censorship is not coming. It is already here on the BBC!
They might have been great engineers at 3dfx, but I as well as many other people would not simply buy a card named after pagan worshop with some satanic elements and put it my computer in my bedroom.
As well, I would not support company, which thinks that "voodoo" is really a cool name for their product. When they became Linux supported 3dfx card, I decided to keep 2D Matrox Millenium for a looong time.
Petrus
Kudos if tehy managed to make them work alike.
.Xinitrc any longer and the great, true and tried Unix GUI standards are broken beyond repair.
I really need to mix applications, most KDE but some Gnome. I am really fvwm person and I long got past the anger fot not being really supported on the latest distribution. I would stand XFCE, but kde just has its components integrated too much to the windows manager, which does not even have background popup menus ( if you do not run that silly kicker real estate thief). Gnome is simply unusable.
Anytime I tried themes with white font, all listboxes were unreadable, because there was (as of year ago) no way to change listbox bacground from white to something more decent. Too many application gave you white background (e.g. nautillus install) that make all white text unreadable.
Also, they also repeatedly forget giving all commands keybord shortcuts, thereby taking away productive environment for user that do not have time to play with mouse.
Overall, command line scripting standards are broken. Most KDE and all Gnome application ignore command line options such as -bg -fg -fn -geometry. Most applications do not save windows into
Modal boxes are getting increasingly prevealent, blocking parent application even from select/copy (to clipboard) operation.
Fingers are no longer sufficient to count application, that canont be run twice on the same account, even if you take your shoes off.
Folks, Linux desktop monkies Windows and is copies all Windows mistakes, and has become to be even worse (on desktop) than Windows. If there were not the command line back-end and old legacy applications, I would long switched for something more proffesional - perhaps Solaris?
Now, get this: What are Developers concerned most with is quarels over default theme!
Petrus.
Caldera did only sensible think they could.
They foud out, that once their customers can
download somebody's work for free, they wiould
let them, their programmers and their families
starve to death.
And it is not only greredy corporation, it
is also whole army of Linux users who want the
software free as a beer.
SCO users base is small, but udnerstand that
labourers deserve their wages.
And as long as SCO unix is still unix, I will wholehartedly approve.
Petrus
Of course, Linux can be downloaded for free. Yet, that was always the case, but Linux sales were projected to double. So what has changed.
Did not people know before that they can download it? Sure they did.
Did they have the bandwidth before to do it comfortably? Not all of them, but the size of distribution grows almost as fast as bandwidth.
I think, that Linux usage really does decrease,
AND people are saving more likely these times doing free downloads.
As soon as Linux kills Solaris, AIX and HP-UX, without making any $$$ reserves, Microsoft will kill Linux using patent and DMCA and
So far, Microsoft managed to kill every competing OS. There is no point of kidding ourselves. Just why should be believe, that M$ will somehow not kill Linux. Being free or open does not prevent anything from patent lawsuit, or technology licences, or DMCA or MS Password licence fees.
Well, what I meant is that people in this country, and most of the western world gradually cease to be civilized.
What is on topic, however, is that taking a term such as "Social Engineering" and sticking it to some group of people such as "hackers" might really be a Social Engineering attempt to oust out of society people who resist to be subject to at least to some forms of Social Engineering.
Do you see the paradox?
What an abuse of terms! Calling pretending to be an AT&T employee is simplky called a lie or deception. Social Engineering (former meaning of the word Cybernetics) is not an individual lie, but a steeering society using mass desinformation of public in order to change demograpnics, or orientation of society.
For instance disinformation about earth overpopulation, single child policy, "sexual education", distribution of condoms, abortion counseling etc. are examples of Social Egineering, usually things that are never tolerated in civilized society.
Galileo actually had some "awards" for science from Vatican, the URBAN VIII. His original charts of the sun spots can be found in Vatican achives.
There seem to have been no reason to have problem with false idea of sun being center of universe, since Copernicus had no problems in his time with that - not from Catholic hierarchy.
However, it seems that his acquitances with Pope boldened him enough to be foul mouthed with some powerful cardinals and that probably earned hil the house arrest.
He discovered sun spots, sun rotations, telescope and Jupiter spots and rotation.
He falsely believed that Sun is in centre
of the universe and that planets move on
circles, not ellipses (opposing to Keppler).
To this day, science cannot authoratively say, where is the centre of universe, but most agree that it is less likely to be at the place where Sun is.
This reminds me of the times when Catholic leaders tried to stop Copernicus and other thinkers, etc.
Check your history books. Copernicus was a Catholic priest, leader (administrator of the Krakow diocese and ) and thinker (doctor of medicine), and he had no more conflicts with his peers than you have here with other slashdotters.
During his life he was actually strongly opposed to by protestants.
Petrus
Just to put it in historical perspective, that
council of Nicea was in 4th century and the 'Guys who edited the texts' were St. Jerome and his 20 monks. That was their lifetime job.
Petrus
Finally, someone has the guts to stop blasphemous offences in today's politically correct world. Thanks God.
So where is the Ozone Hole the last decade craze?
It was supposed to be late-to fix huhndred years problem costing everybody skin cancer and making most babis born with birth defects?
Just they were somewhat suspicious that CFC was the case - and hooray, all American industrry forced everyone else to replacec it with patented alternatives.
Can't we simply wait 5 or 10 years, until innovative bussinesses invents some other end-of-the-world problem and this one will be forgotten?
Who said that we need cooler climate or less "Greenhouse Gases"? Why uis this scam under heading "Science"? This is an offence to every honest scientist.
So we do not understand what kept earth temperature in balllance for cecenturies.
We do not know what caused hotter and climate and ice age before the automobile.
We have calculated that man producecd CO2 is a minor contribution.
We have not observed any measurable warming in past decades, but rather cooling.
The only data we have are incomplete coputer simulations, which do not include major factor such as
- consumption by see algae/plankton and its growth
- difference between natural biomass decay CO2 and maninducecd burning (its nearly 0).
- Need for increased CO2 to stimulate plant growth
- Would any working expand or shrink deserts by making them moist?\
- etc
There are hundreds of unresolved issues and we give an unsubstantiated media-induced worldwide public panic a heading of SCIENCE?
Ever remember the Ozone hole craze? This was supposed to be uneviatable end of the word and no measure should have been able to fix it in hundred s of years. So where is the hole? In so called "Science", I guess.
Stop feeding the frenzy,it will die out in less than 5 years on its own.
Petrus
How did they come with 53%?
Easily!
They dropped 26% on one model and 26% on another, using famus Penmtium Floating Point arithmetic that makes together 52.999867%.
What's questionable here?
Petrus
So why I have not had any problems with my Asus
P5A + AMD K6-III 3Dnow! snce I have it - and that
is more than 3 years now.
That said, I had a verifiably failing and forgetting memory chip for two years, due to which Windows could not be even installed, althoug Linux had never any problems besides weekly core dumps on Netscape.
I do not remember any reboot in 3 years, however I have not problem iwth the 80GB 7200 rpm Maxtor HD that does not get recognized by the BIOS, only by Linux directly.
It has been my maibn machine for more than 3 years, continually hosting between 120 to 250 processes for 2 to 5 users, each running X-windows.
I can recomment Asus and AMD combination to anybody.
Petrus
Because your AMD can run 9 unstruction at the same time unlike Intel that can run only 4, it will be in average as fast as 2GHz Pentium and sometimes as fast as 9/4*1.5GHz Pentium, that is about 3.3GHz Pentium. See Distributed.net or POWbench benchmarks at linuxhardware.org So AMD has more than double of parallelism of Pentium4 and it can be vastly faster in code that can be highly parallelised. What I call cheating is when Intel says that they have higher clock speed therefore they have faster processor. Petrus
Not only AMD remains cheaper, but also way faster (on some test as PowRay as much as twice) and with fewer bugs. It looks that Intel is really afraid of losing the market share.
Well, until Intel cuts prices to half of the AMD, I'll keep buying the better chips.
Petrus
There is a bug.
The line:
Coef[i] *= AdaptiationRate*(Sample-EchoAmpl);
Should be
Coef[i] += AdaptiationRate*(Sample-EchoAmpl)*History[[i];
Otherwise the Coef[i] would always stay at 0.