Two stories today with reasons to switch to linux. First IE dies with simple HTML (But really is it any surprise that this is possible) and now a sweet knewe patch for linux. Could it be any better?
"Ha ha look IE dies on that stupid little HTML code! Oh! And look someone just submitted some patch to the kernel. That's it, I'm making the switch. No more windows for me sir!"
How often do you need to resize gifs? And what you are saying this should be done on the command line somehow?
Regarding text seraches, it's useless to have such power if it's not easily available each time you need it. I need to man find evey time I want to do this.
Sactions against countries are often imposed because of policies of the administration of that country. It does not mean that every single human being in that country deserves that treatment. I figure that often people seeking jobs abroad are trying to escape from a regime that they dislike. If someone form country X comes and asks for a job and proves he can do it, am I supposed to tell him to fuck off just because the president of his country is an asshole? Hmm, I think the president of my country is an asshole, but I sure didn't have anything to do with that.
Well yes that's a pain sometimes. It depends on the application. I converted one application for a client to MySql very easily because all SQL was simple. There is another one I made that I have wanted to convert from Oracle but some queries are very complicated (Oracle I think is even richer than Access) so I haven't had the time to do it yet.
I downloaded Mplayer the other day and it plays WindowsMedia alright. I don't get what the buzz is about if this format can already be played in any Linux computer.
One thing you could do is drop Access and use MySQL or keep Access to feed the data but have frequent exports into MySQL which are in turn queried by all the people around the world, it would work if most of them only need to take a look and not change things.
Can somebody give me some examples on why anonimity is needed in cell phones? I figure is anonymity is needed once in a while one can always use a public pay phone. So I'm guessing the people that complaint are the ones who need anonimity most of the time or often at least. Why?
Even though the images are so big there is probably no problem in handling them since each science team will take home only a few images at most. I understood from the article that the images are wide views so unless they conduct a full sky survey you only need one image to see what you want. They probably just split it into several smaller images and then compress those.
Wow so many sources of porn! So you have it on your NFS server, and which university is this where they have porn even in the newsserver? Cool and convenient local access to your pron, that's what I'm talking about!.
Also thanks for the great tip on using SSH and X11 forwarding when viewing the pr0n, they'll never catch me now:-)
There's also pinfo (which is Lynx-like), Emacs, and the KDE and GNOME help browsers, among other things that read info-format files.
The Gnome help browser is crap, at least in RedHat 7.3, did they fix it in Gnome 2.0? Moreover, in Red Hat 8.0 it seems they removed altogether the gnome-help-browser command.
But I agree a decent usable graphical info reader would be cool.
If they can boot from CD then what you need is Knoppix
I'm figuring from what I have seen that most of these machines either do not have a CDROM drive or can't boot from it. Hence his request for a floppy based distro.
if you buy all the little companies that are running distant second to Google, and put them together, don't you get one big company that's running second as well?
When paying for advertising what is important is how many people see the advertising. You say Google is first and the others are running second. Can you back this claim?, and if all the others merged will Google still be first?. I don't think so. I much rather pay Overture since it seems it will get my ad to a broader audience than Google. But since many advertisers actually pay Google AND Overture it doesn't matter anyway.
If anything using Linux makes my life harder. Since I can't use some programs I would use if I had a choice. I would say I use linux on a daily basis today because I don't want to give none of my $ to MS in particular and because I don't have lots of $ to buy software in general. The price I pay is in making my life a bit harder sometimes. I'm cool with it, no complaints, just wanted to make it clear that some of us really use it because it's "cheap".
Maybe this is offtopic but I think it is important that people realize that one should never name things "new something", because of the obvious reason: at some point they will not be new anymore and the name will be plain stupid and whoever invented it will feel bad. So save yourself the trouble and think before naming stuff. This applies to function names, program names, whatever.
The article mentions compiling a vast collection
of spam. Such a project is already underway at
SpamArchive [spamarchive.org].
The article also mentions that most effective is for each user to compile his own collection of spam, such a global collection of spam wouldn't do the trick for everyone.
I bet on the few cases where big closed apps are really needed they will simply use them. Still most government workers use a simple workstation with windows and office, there is were the money can be saved. And no one said support contracts were to be cancelled, on the contrary new local companies will take care of supporting the open source apps. I don't see any nonsense, sounds like common sense actually.
If someone asks you how much lines of code your program has would you go counting lines in all the libraries you use? That seems odd to me, I personally wouldn't even think about doing that.
1) because it's there and you need it right now, That's like saying why would I want to use a cell phone when the service quality is lower and the charge is higher? 2) Ascii porn, please someone post the link 3) well, phone sex I guess 4) you will get so much sms spam about it you may get to it even without knowing 5) why not?
I understand the goal of D, but personally I like the idea in C and C++ where the base laguage is simple (especially C).... It makes it easy to get started with the language and learn the more powerful stuff as its needed.
You call concatenating strings and resizable arrays powerful stuff? On the contrary I would argue that not having those features make it more difficult to get started in the language.
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Two stories today with reasons to switch to linux. First IE dies with simple HTML (But really is it any surprise that this is possible) and now a sweet knewe patch for linux. Could it be any better?
"Ha ha look IE dies on that stupid little HTML code! Oh! And look someone just submitted some patch to the kernel. That's it, I'm making the switch. No more windows for me sir!"
yeah right
How often do you need to resize gifs? And what you are saying this should be done on the command line somehow?
Regarding text seraches, it's useless to have such power if it's not easily available each time you need it. I need to man find evey time I want to do this.
Sactions against countries are often imposed because of policies of the administration of that country. It does not mean that every single human being in that country deserves that treatment. I figure that often people seeking jobs abroad are trying to escape from a regime that they dislike. If someone form country X comes and asks for a job and proves he can do it, am I supposed to tell him to fuck off just because the president of his country is an asshole? Hmm, I think the president of my country is an asshole, but I sure didn't have anything to do with that.
You know I don't care what it's called, as long as they keep making the browser better.
They should add a feature that lets the user select the name for the browser as displayed in the titlebar and other places.
I guess I'm oldschool, I think I'm just gonna call my copy Good Ol' Mozilla and forget all about this stupid name argument.
I think they mean this is a new design, and is an improvement unpon the old one. Seems reasonable.
Well yes that's a pain sometimes. It depends on the application. I converted one application for a client to MySql very easily because all SQL was simple. There is another one I made that I have wanted to convert from Oracle but some queries are very complicated (Oracle I think is even richer than Access) so I haven't had the time to do it yet.
I downloaded Mplayer the other day and it plays WindowsMedia alright. I don't get what the buzz is about if this format can already be played in any Linux computer.
One thing you could do is drop Access and use MySQL or keep Access to feed the data but have frequent exports into MySQL which are in turn queried by all the people around the world, it would work if most of them only need to take a look and not change things.
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Can somebody give me some examples on why anonimity is needed in cell phones? I figure is anonymity is needed once in a while one can always use a public pay phone. So I'm guessing the people that complaint are the ones who need anonimity most of the time or often at least. Why?
d'oh!
Even though the images are so big there is probably no problem in handling them since each science team will take home only a few images at most. I understood from the article that the images are wide views so unless they conduct a full sky survey you only need one image to see what you want. They probably just split it into several smaller images and then compress those.
Wow so many sources of porn! So you have it on your NFS server, and which university is this where they have porn even in the newsserver? Cool and convenient local access to your pron, that's what I'm talking about!.
:-)
Also thanks for the great tip on using SSH and X11 forwarding when viewing the pr0n, they'll never catch me now
There's also pinfo (which is Lynx-like), Emacs, and the KDE and GNOME help browsers, among other things that read info-format files.
The Gnome help browser is crap, at least in RedHat 7.3, did they fix it in Gnome 2.0? Moreover, in Red Hat 8.0 it seems they removed altogether the gnome-help-browser command.
But I agree a decent usable graphical info reader would be cool.
If the U.S.A. can go around the U.N.'s resolutions then why should anything be expected of China?
If they can boot from CD then what you need is Knoppix
I'm figuring from what I have seen that most of these machines either do not have a CDROM drive or can't boot from it. Hence his request for a floppy based distro.
With war, missile tests, and terrorists all over the place maybe this time people won't be so concerned about this.
if you buy all the little companies that are running distant second to Google, and put them together, don't you get one big company that's running second as well?
When paying for advertising what is important is how many people see the advertising. You say Google is first and the others are running second. Can you back this claim?, and if all the others merged will Google still be first?. I don't think so. I much rather pay Overture since it seems it will get my ad to a broader audience than Google. But since many advertisers actually pay Google AND Overture it doesn't matter anyway.
If anything using Linux makes my life harder. Since I can't use some programs I would use if I had a choice.
I would say I use linux on a daily basis today because I don't want to give none of my $ to MS in particular and because I don't have lots of $ to buy software in general.
The price I pay is in making my life a bit harder sometimes. I'm cool with it, no complaints, just wanted to make it clear that some of us really use it because it's "cheap".
Maybe this is offtopic but I think it is important that people realize that one should never name things "new something", because of the obvious reason: at some point they will not be new anymore and the name will be plain stupid and whoever invented it will feel bad. So save yourself the trouble and think before naming stuff. This applies to function names, program names, whatever.
If you're serious:
Of course one could just say that the beer or cigarrets were for someone else. Then your terrific idea falls apart.
If you meant to be funny:
Better luck next time.
The article mentions compiling a vast collection
of spam. Such a project is already underway at
SpamArchive [spamarchive.org].
The article also mentions that most effective is for each user to compile his own collection of spam, such a global collection of spam wouldn't do the trick for everyone.
I bet on the few cases where big closed apps are really needed they will simply use them. Still most government workers use a simple workstation with windows and office, there is were the money can be saved.
And no one said support contracts were to be cancelled, on the contrary new local companies will take care of supporting the open source apps.
I don't see any nonsense, sounds like common sense actually.
If someone asks you how much lines of code your program has would you go counting lines in all the libraries you use? That seems odd to me, I personally wouldn't even think about doing that.
1) because it's there and you need it right now, That's like saying why would I want to use a cell phone when the service quality is lower and the charge is higher?
2) Ascii porn, please someone post the link
3) well, phone sex I guess
4) you will get so much sms spam about it you may get to it even without knowing
5) why not?
I understand the goal of D, but personally I like the idea in C and C++ where the base laguage is simple (especially C) .... It makes it easy to get started with the language and learn the more powerful stuff as its needed.
You call concatenating strings and resizable arrays powerful stuff? On the contrary I would argue that not having those features make it more difficult to get started in the language.