O'reilly published "The Cathedral and the Bazaar", essays by ESR, most of which are also available online. http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/cb/
"Philip and Alex's Guide to Web Publishing"
http://www.arsdigita.com/books/panda/
is available online in its entirity.
Books can be made available for download off the internet and published in dead tree format too, but when it comes to the online editing and review that seems merely a development of the same theme.
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I thought i was wrong once, but i was mistaken.
Im quite happy to borrow from spanish when they have words as useful as that. mmm, taco, chili con carne, tequila.
Most of the rest of the Spanish i know is from pronouncing French in a Spanish way (and similarly French by saying English words in a French way this is made possible only by a large vocabulary and a rudimentary understanding of how to construct/deconstruct English/Latin words). And of course the BeeGuy on the Simpsons. ( Me guesta tequila!:)
Besides, everyone speaks their own language in a very personal way that often is not understood outside a very small group of friends.
"Words are what you mean to say, no more no less" -- the Cheshire Cat, Alice in Wonderland
Thats not a solution that part of the buggy, slow, even less standards compliant than IE PROBLEM.
Change is inevitable, progress is not.
Sunny Delight [tHee hee hee!!!]
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Sunny Delight has an advert where a snowman drinks it and turns orange. It was reported in the news that a few kids had turned a bit orange from drinking too much of the great "stuff" that kids go for. (Stuff, why dont they call it orange or juice, hmm?)
A quick google search turned up this link
http://www.sunday-times.co.uk/news/pages/sti/99/12 /26/stinwenws01016.html
click here
Informative underatted and funny? (Hint, hint moderators)
So you disagree that it is a fair way to protest DreamWorks support of DivX and highlight their technological ignorance?
that seems like a valid enough reason for anyone to own a domain name. The system was supposed to be first come first served, it is unfair that someone with enough financial backing (a corporation) can screw over that system.
its unfortunate that.com does not necessarily mean a company, but thats a whole other discussion.
i personally think that companyname.com/product name was the sensible way to go. Not only is is easier to remember, but it advertises the studio as well as the movie, and it doesnot require you to register a new domain.
Hopefully sooner rather than later the current system will be improved upon, for example use Google and you have a better chance of finding what you are looking for than just trying to pluck domains names out of the air.
You can almost live on Guinness! (Almost, you try a totally liquid diet and see how you feel)
gone off to register:
guinness-does-not-travel.com
guinness-in-a-can-really-sucks.com
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Wassup!!!
True,...
"Your American beer is like sex in a canoe, fucking close to water!" -- Monty Python (i think)
Re:Anyone else notice the breasts on the screensho
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Thats Gail Porter, a diminutive and curvey Scottish women and former childrens saturday morning tv presenter whos ass was projected onto the English Houses of Parliament by a well known mens magazine. (most of the mens/lads mag's have American counterparts and im sure google can find "Gail Porter"if you want to look it).
I recognise those photos, and she is in fact wearing clothes, albeit rather skimpy tranparent ones. (You have to look really closely, be careful you dont go blind:) )
always wondered how much of Star Office was written in Java. It's certainly slow enough at times for the whole thing to have been.
i was lead to believe that StarOffice was a showcase for crossplatform C++, and that was what Stardivision were originally in the business of selling. Only later did they start selling the Office suite as their primary product, and im fairly surethere was no Java at all until Sun paid a small fortune for it (although i suspect an element of humor in your comment).
(of course i could be woefully misinformed, but that would just make me a Karma whore)
Its amazing what those crazy Germans can come up with sometimes.
Microsoft makes an average of $200 PROFIT from every Macintosh sold, so Apple's success is also Microsoft's
could someone please inform me why this is true?
i vaguely recall that Microsoft bailed out Apple with a load of money before iMac (???).
(Suddenly not so enthusiastic:( about buying an iMac)
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Goddamit since when did the word "societal" become part of the English language. The word your looking for is "social". It is a really stupid term that simultaneously manages to be both pretentiousa and incredibly wrong.
Where is the Grammar Nazi when you need him!
Umm, stream of consciousness, and stuff, and probably should have put an extra line break between those 2 of course i know realplayer is an application and the video standard of choice for people distributing low bandwith clunky postage stamp size video and dont want anyone to be able to edit it or convert it to another format.
but the blame belonging to 3rd parties still stands.
On the matter of drivers, warning messages are even bigger and longer and you have to be "Really Sure" before it lets you shoot yourself in the foot by installing a totally dodgy unapproved driver.
(Take your head out of your own ass and Repeat 100 time: i promise i wont be so pedantic in future.
Can you pronounce "Internet" and "InnerNet" with out them both sounding like the same word? Bill G cant.)
Its been said before and i'll say it again:
The right tool for the right job.
It makes perfect sense not to put X on a box that is going to be remotely administered. Remote administration continues to be one of windows weaknesses.
Not everyone appreciates being forced to use the command line, choice is good. Desktops dont NEED to be stable (not that they dont deserve to be).
Security does not matter (much) if you are sandboxed inside a well secured network.
Telnet and FTP are as insecure on linux as they are on Windows, if you take the right precautions (ssh2 and scp) why not have give in too good looks and style over substance?
(Cmon, Tell me you dont have windows still leftover somewhere in your system?)
But seriously, use the newly GPL'ed KDE and a nice Redmond style theme and you might be able to convince yourself that your not even using windows.
i hope we can manage some sensible discussion on this, dont be surprised if the posts contain a Linux bias (but you would not have posted on Slashdot if you did not expect as much).
I can only say i have crashed windows 2000 serveral times but Microsoft have implemented "the not my fault system" so prevelant in Linux.
W2k still has lots of program crashes (netscape for example) just they dont take the whole operation system with them and so its not windows fault. You get to blame the specific program, much the way you hear Linux users complain about X or Netscape but rarely do they blame the OS.
Win2k adds all the annoying advertising and stupid frilly waste of space animations and effects of win98 and office 2000 (thankfully they can be turned off, but i cant seem to change the defaults).
RealPlayer however has repeatedly caused my Win2k to totally lock up, never to recover. I geuss what MS always said about 3rd party drivers being at fault actaully has an element of truth.
Let the buyer beware.
Goods must be of merchantable quality, and fit for their purpose.
This is pretty much standard law in all civilised countries (IANAL). if your monitor crapped out within the first week, through no fault of yours (ie hardware defect) the manufactures are obliged to repair or replace it.
Manufacturers should not be expected to do anything more than provide you with a working machine, if it is shoddy equipment and it breaks they should repair or refund, if you break it then its your fault and you have to pay.
You may have difficulty making manufacturers accountable, they may fob you off and blame microsoft or one of the many companies that contributed to the end product (or just exploit your ignorance).
All this bill can usefully and reasonalby hope to do, is make the end retailer directly responsible and accountable to the customer. good retailers do this anyway.
Dont underestimate the idiots, there are more of them than there are of us.
Better apps? More stable and vastly cheaper does count as better, it depends on how highly you value the interface.
Apache, Gimp, and Star Office are prime examples of software that is better that runs on linux.
Try putting together a vector graphice in MS office, oh look star office can do that!
Of course if you pirate everything or reuse the one copy of office you bougth on multiple computers and "forget" to pay for programs like Winzip then windows is an easier solution.
(Linux has capitlised on its stablity, but competition has forced M$ to improve, and Win2k is quite an improvement)
By choosing windows you are limiting your choice.
People are going to switch for the various reasons, some for freedom of choice, others because they are really sick of stuff crashing, others because thats all their underfunded school could afford. Others will choose linux because it was clearly explained to them that what windows really costs (it does not come "free" with the machine you are being charged a substantial license fee*).
*how the hell does Microsoft get away with forcing people to pay for licenses even if they are buying a preinstalled linux box, or an additional harddrive?
"Price is not totally revelvant. In fact, a 600MHz 64MB Dell computer with RedHat is actually MORE expensive"
How could a PC running linux cost more than a PC running windows???
Linux costs less/next to nothing (my copy of RH6.2 cost me 80c for a blank CD), windows costs $50 (minimum, if you are not just upgrading it will cost significantly more).
If your hardware vendor refuses to sell you a machine without charging you for a windows license then your statement might actually make sense. Are you refering to total cost of ownership (TCO)? (that arguement is going to come back around and bite m$ in the ass)
One good linux admin will get your system to work right the first time and not have to constantly handhold the system and deal with crashes and lost data on a regular basis, doing it right once will save you money in the long run.
So windows has more applications, but your going to use "something office" most of the time. Is it really that wonderful to have an operating system with thousands of expensive or shareware programs you'll never use versus an operating system with hundreds of free programs you will probably never use?
I suggest again Linux on a floppy or one of the mini distributions and then add the extras from there. (but maybe that is more basic than you are looking for)
here is a list of distribution lists
http://kernelnotes.org/dist-index.html
In my wallet lives a credit card sized cd from Linuxcare, it is a bootable recovery disk and it includes a basic version of debian.
Slashdot Mirror
O'reilly published "The Cathedral and the Bazaar", essays by ESR, most of which are also available online. http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/cb/
"Philip and Alex's Guide to Web Publishing"
http://www.arsdigita.com/books/panda/
is available online in its entirity.
Books can be made available for download off the internet and published in dead tree format too, but when it comes to the online editing and review that seems merely a development of the same theme.
--
I thought i was wrong once, but i was mistaken.
Queso?
:)
(Que Systemo Operativo - Which OS)
Im quite happy to borrow from spanish when they have words as useful as that. mmm, taco, chili con carne, tequila.
Most of the rest of the Spanish i know is from pronouncing French in a Spanish way (and similarly French by saying English words in a French way this is made possible only by a large vocabulary and a rudimentary understanding of how to construct/deconstruct English/Latin words). And of course the BeeGuy on the Simpsons. ( Me guesta tequila!
Besides, everyone speaks their own language in a very personal way that often is not understood outside a very small group of friends.
"Words are what you mean to say, no more no less" -- the Cheshire Cat, Alice in Wonderland
Thats not a solution that part of the buggy, slow, even less standards compliant than IE PROBLEM.
Change is inevitable, progress is not.
Sunny Delight has an advert where a snowman drinks it and turns orange. It was reported in the news that a few kids had turned a bit orange from drinking too much of the great "stuff" that kids go for. (Stuff, why dont they call it orange or juice, hmm?)
A quick google search turned up this link http://www.sunday-times.co.uk/news/pages/sti/99/12 /26/stinwenws01016.html
click here
Informative underatted and funny? (Hint, hint moderators)
Check out www.havok.com they are doing all sorts of realistic simulations.
(+1 Karma Whore)
:)
Just use Mozilla
Say it again, Mozillaaaaah!
Makes you feel good.
Fair game if Netscape can make money off of Mozilla, they put enough money into it and they help an open source project.
We say its cool when Apple uses BSD, how much do they give back, and does it really matter anyhow.
Im just glad to have mozilla
(Snowball's chance in hell of this being the pirst fost but anyway, i claim "Pirst Fost" with Score >1 )
It may be hard but its getting easier, and these guys are doing a fair job of it.
:)
http://www.havok.com/
See the examples, they are not prerendered instead they use a sophisticated physics engine.
Disclaimer: I dont work for these guys but i know a man who does.
They even have a dancing baby
Frankly i dont give a damn who robbed who, which works best for you???
see earlier poster (or go to http://sources.redhat.com/java/ ) -- A feel dirtyI still know height and weight by the old system, but we dont use pounds, we use stone.
( 14 pounds = 1 stone )
when it comes to metric i think of a bag of sugar (the stadard size in the supermarket here is exactly 1 kilo)
this is pretty cool, but how will Microsoft react?
Ive wanted a Mac for years but cannot afford to ditch my PC or have 2 computers.
I'll bet the license fee will be pretty evil, seeing as Apple has a vested interest in selling you its hardware.
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Hot grits
So you disagree that it is a fair way to protest DreamWorks support of DivX and highlight their technological ignorance?
.com does not necessarily mean a company, but thats a whole other discussion.
that seems like a valid enough reason for anyone to own a domain name. The system was supposed to be first come first served, it is unfair that someone with enough financial backing (a corporation) can screw over that system.
its unfortunate that
i personally think that companyname.com/product name was the sensible way to go. Not only is is easier to remember, but it advertises the studio as well as the movie, and it doesnot require you to register a new domain.
Hopefully sooner rather than later the current system will be improved upon, for example use Google and you have a better chance of finding what you are looking for than just trying to pluck domains names out of the air.
I really like a good open source Homebrew!
<i>But i prefer, a good proprietry comperate international brand. <i>
Its the OS holy wars all over again.
You can almost live on Guinness! (Almost, you try a totally liquid diet and see how you feel)
gone off to register:
guinness-does-not-travel.com
guinness-in-a-can-really-sucks.com
--
Wassup!!!
True,...
"Your American beer is like sex in a canoe, fucking close to water!"
-- Monty Python (i think)
Thats Gail Porter, a diminutive and curvey Scottish women and former childrens saturday morning tv presenter whos ass was projected onto the English Houses of Parliament by a well known mens magazine. (most of the mens/lads mag's have American counterparts and im sure google can find "Gail Porter"if you want to look it).
:) )
I recognise those photos, and she is in fact wearing clothes, albeit rather skimpy tranparent ones. (You have to look really closely, be careful you dont go blind
Keep your friends close and your enemies closer
...
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brevity is the soul of
i was lead to believe that StarOffice was a showcase for crossplatform C++, and that was what Stardivision were originally in the business of selling. Only later did they start selling the Office suite as their primary product, and im fairly surethere was no Java at all until Sun paid a small fortune for it (although i suspect an element of humor in your comment).
(of course i could be woefully misinformed, but that would just make me a Karma whore)
Its amazing what those crazy Germans can come up with sometimes.
Microsoft makes an average of $200 PROFIT from every Macintosh sold, so Apple's success is also Microsoft's
could someone please inform me why this is true?
i vaguely recall that Microsoft bailed out Apple with a load of money before iMac (???).
(Suddenly not so enthusiastic
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Goddamit since when did the word "societal" become part of the English language. The word your looking for is "social". It is a really stupid term that simultaneously manages to be both pretentiousa and incredibly wrong.
Where is the Grammar Nazi when you need him!
Umm, stream of consciousness, and stuff, and probably should have put an extra line break between those 2 of course i know realplayer is an application and the video standard of choice for people distributing low bandwith clunky postage stamp size video and dont want anyone to be able to edit it or convert it to another format.
but the blame belonging to 3rd parties still stands.
On the matter of drivers, warning messages are even bigger and longer and you have to be "Really Sure" before it lets you shoot yourself in the foot by installing a totally dodgy unapproved driver.
(Take your head out of your own ass and Repeat 100 time: i promise i wont be so pedantic in future.
Can you pronounce "Internet" and "InnerNet" with out them both sounding like the same word? Bill G cant.)
Its been said before and i'll say it again:
The right tool for the right job.
It makes perfect sense not to put X on a box that is going to be remotely administered. Remote administration continues to be one of windows weaknesses.
Not everyone appreciates being forced to use the command line, choice is good. Desktops dont NEED to be stable (not that they dont deserve to be).
Security does not matter (much) if you are sandboxed inside a well secured network.
Telnet and FTP are as insecure on linux as they are on Windows, if you take the right precautions (ssh2 and scp) why not have give in too good looks and style over substance?
(Cmon, Tell me you dont have windows still leftover somewhere in your system?)
But seriously, use the newly GPL'ed KDE and a nice Redmond style theme and you might be able to convince yourself that your not even using windows.
i hope we can manage some sensible discussion on this, dont be surprised if the posts contain a Linux bias (but you would not have posted on Slashdot if you did not expect as much).
I can only say i have crashed windows 2000 serveral times but Microsoft have implemented "the not my fault system" so prevelant in Linux.
W2k still has lots of program crashes (netscape for example) just they dont take the whole operation system with them and so its not windows fault. You get to blame the specific program, much the way you hear Linux users complain about X or Netscape but rarely do they blame the OS.
Win2k adds all the annoying advertising and stupid frilly waste of space animations and effects of win98 and office 2000 (thankfully they can be turned off, but i cant seem to change the defaults).
RealPlayer however has repeatedly caused my Win2k to totally lock up, never to recover. I geuss what MS always said about 3rd party drivers being at fault actaully has an element of truth.
have not checked out the game support yet.
Re:Free Software = Pompous Bores, discuss (Score:4, Informative)
by iCEBaLM (icebalm@[NOSPAM]bigfoot.com) on Thursday August 24, @05:45PM GMT
(User #34905 Info) http://www.lucid.dyndns.org
Nobody has yet come up with an explanation of why it is that "The Community" has never, once, come up with a major original piece of work.
perl
Ogg Vorbis
Freenet
DRI
OpenAL
-- iCEBaLM
Let the buyer beware. Goods must be of merchantable quality, and fit for their purpose. This is pretty much standard law in all civilised countries (IANAL). if your monitor crapped out within the first week, through no fault of yours (ie hardware defect) the manufactures are obliged to repair or replace it. Manufacturers should not be expected to do anything more than provide you with a working machine, if it is shoddy equipment and it breaks they should repair or refund, if you break it then its your fault and you have to pay. You may have difficulty making manufacturers accountable, they may fob you off and blame microsoft or one of the many companies that contributed to the end product (or just exploit your ignorance). All this bill can usefully and reasonalby hope to do, is make the end retailer directly responsible and accountable to the customer. good retailers do this anyway. Dont underestimate the idiots, there are more of them than there are of us.
Better apps? More stable and vastly cheaper does count as better, it depends on how highly you value the interface.
Apache, Gimp, and Star Office are prime examples of software that is better that runs on linux.
Try putting together a vector graphice in MS office, oh look star office can do that!
Of course if you pirate everything or reuse the one copy of office you bougth on multiple computers and "forget" to pay for programs like Winzip then windows is an easier solution.
(Linux has capitlised on its stablity, but competition has forced M$ to improve, and Win2k is quite an improvement)
By choosing windows you are limiting your choice.
People are going to switch for the various reasons, some for freedom of choice, others because they are really sick of stuff crashing, others because thats all their underfunded school could afford. Others will choose linux because it was clearly explained to them that what windows really costs (it does not come "free" with the machine you are being charged a substantial license fee*).
*how the hell does Microsoft get away with forcing people to pay for licenses even if they are buying a preinstalled linux box, or an additional harddrive?
"Price is not totally revelvant. In fact, a 600MHz 64MB Dell computer with RedHat is actually MORE expensive"
How could a PC running linux cost more than a PC running windows???
Linux costs less/next to nothing (my copy of RH6.2 cost me 80c for a blank CD), windows costs $50 (minimum, if you are not just upgrading it will cost significantly more).
If your hardware vendor refuses to sell you a machine without charging you for a windows license then your statement might actually make sense. Are you refering to total cost of ownership (TCO)? (that arguement is going to come back around and bite m$ in the ass)
One good linux admin will get your system to work right the first time and not have to constantly handhold the system and deal with crashes and lost data on a regular basis, doing it right once will save you money in the long run.
So windows has more applications, but your going to use "something office" most of the time. Is it really that wonderful to have an operating system with thousands of expensive or shareware programs you'll never use versus an operating system with hundreds of free programs you will probably never use?
I suggest again Linux on a floppy or one of the mini distributions and then add the extras from there. (but maybe that is more basic than you are looking for) here is a list of distribution lists http://kernelnotes.org/dist-index.html In my wallet lives a credit card sized cd from Linuxcare, it is a bootable recovery disk and it includes a basic version of debian.