Why does everyone jump on slashdot for EVERY story they post? Why does everything have to be a huge conspiracy? I'm as paranoid as the next guy, but if slashdot seals out, what business is it of ours? We just find another site or start it ourselves. Just my point of view. "We hope you find fun and laughter in the new millenium" - Top half of fastfood gamepiece
It reminds of (ACK!) Hackers: the movie where penn (of penn and teller fame) was fighting off the 31337 haxors =) "We hope you find fun and laughter in the new millenium" - Top half of fastfood gamepiece
True they didn't but they were one of the earliest suppoters correct? Or am I confusing them with another company? "We hope you find fun and laughter in the new millenium" - Top half of fastfood gamepiece
Unless another manufacturer follows suit with this kind of commitment, I guess my next card purchase will an ATI offering. I recently bought the all in wonder 128 32 meg dealie for my home entertainment system and I am very impressed. That kind of quality graphics on linux would make me a happy camper. "We hope you find fun and laughter in the new millenium" - Top half of fastfood gamepiece
Don't forget Douglas Adams' Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency and Long Dark Teatime of the soul. Both are great reads in his same vien of humor. "Character discovers there is indeed a horse in the washroom and decides it might be best to have that spot of brandy afterall" To paraphrase. "We hope you find fun and laughter in the new millenium" - Top half of fastfood gamepiece
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ahhh come on..the matrix wasn't that bad. "We hope you find fun and laughter in the new millenium" - Top half of fastfood gamepiece
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At least a pizza guy who could carry a big ass sword around;) "We hope you find fun and laughter in the new millenium" - Top half of fastfood gamepiece
I first starting reading snow crash on a business flight 3 years ago. My roomate at the time handed me his worn copy and suggested I read it. I almost missed getting off my plane that day. I was so wrapped up in the book. The amazing thing is how any of Stephenson's descriptions are becoming reality. I don't know if it fits to call him visionary but you can see the ZDTV Big Thinkers interview with him here One of the high points of that show on zdtv IMHO. "We hope you find fun and laughter in the new millenium" - Top half of fastfood gamepiece
IANAL either but If you win the patent case being pushed against you then you should be able to recoup the attorny fees from the company that brought the case against you. "We hope you find fun and laughter in the new millenium" - Top half of fastfood gamepiece
I got a flamebait last week on one of my comments that caused me to have the same damn reaction. Go figure. I wonder if some moderators take time to read the post or they get pissy or something. Here's hoping a good metamoderator will fix you up later. =) "We hope you find fun and laughter in the new millenium" - Top half of fastfood gamepiece
Serena was on the radio here in Atlanta before the special aired last week. I personally have alot of respect for her after the interview. She want's MTV to do serious news as it relates to modern youth culture (MTV's target audience). We can't fault her for not knowing wether she was being put on or not. Admitedly some peer review was probably in order but if something like this were peer reviewable they wouldn't need to do a special on it. She talked of high hopes for the special and that it opened her eyes to alot of issues. She could not have known better. If someone DID know better the special probably would have been yanked. Not a Serena Auchult fan by any stretch but no need in people blasting her when she was just the person they had do the special. Did anyone catch the true life special she did last year on heroin use? THAT,IMHO, was an excellent piece. "We hope you find fun and laughter in the new millenium" - Top half of fastfood gamepiece
Are you using IE? This is one feature of modern web browsers I DESPISE. I don't want a website to have that much control over my browser. Of course I use netscape under X so it doesnt matter. Or as junkbuster reports me "Netscape-Mozilla/AbacusOS from transmeta". Most sites that don't check for explicit agent name in the javascript I get by on.
This is a good point too. I'm the network admin at the company I work at. We're nothing big so alow of tasks that belong to other parts of the IS team at big companies are mine at this one. My feeling is that, as managers and directors, once we let the people above us who are responsible for licensing know that they are non compliant, our job is done. Of course we are fully compliant because we use maybe 2 MS products that aren't licensed out of our parent company and we took care of those licenses ourselves. The rest of our stuff is GPL'd or BSD'd.
I agree whole heartedly with what you say but I don't think it's fair to assume that all slashdot readers feel that way. I hope you don't get moderated down to troll or flamebait for the post. You make a valid point.
I had discussed this with a friend at another company at one point. IANAL but my understanding is that employee's can't get in trouble for the company using pirated software. It is niether the employee's job nor concern if the company is legal or not. Do you ask a potential employer if he has licenses for all his software? It's the job of the company to worry about that.
I've been hearing TONS (and the rock means TONS) of commercials making blanket statements that copying ANY and ALL software is piracy. I usually just laugh at them. But after the first month I started thinking (scary though in itself). Is it possible that companies like Microsoft are pushing the piracy issue to confuse people on the opensource issue? I mean if you get average joe user who is interested linux/bsd. Joe linuxuser friend gives him a copy and joe user wonders about piracy. Just some random thoughts.
Actually MetroX doesn't produce AcceleratedX. XiG does. MetroX is a whole new commercial X offering in addition to AccelX. None the less, as long as XFree supports my cards, I will use XFree. The only reason I would pay for a commercial X server is if it offered hardware acceleration for my card that XFREE did not.
Actually the person who submitted the article, hence the italics. Next time you decide to play flamemonkeytrollboy you should at least use VALID flamebait.
I havea feeling with more and more mainstream desktop usage we, as the experienced users, are going to be getting more and more of these confused comments. We houls be prepared to instuct with gentle hands and not blast people for something that could be confusing.
For clarification: WindowMaker, E, KWM, FVWM, Blackbox and similar are windowmanagers. Windowmanagers control placement of windows, decoration of titlebars and such.
gnome/kde are desktop environments. It sounds confusing but it's not. Gnome/KDE applications each have a common look and feel to them. Wether it be QT with kde or GTK with gnome. The only difference between kde/gnome other than the look is that kde comes with its own WindowManager (defined above). If anyone wants to add to this I can set up a webpage that has information on this somewhere. It seems rather important to me. Maybe a page for newbies with common misconceptions they may have?
As other have pointed out before on patent issues, in the end it won't hold up in court. The patent office is so backed up it isn't even funny. I guess they figure they should grant the patents and let the courts sort em all out.
Gnome and KDE aren't really in the same class as WindowMaker. Gnome doesn't have its own WindowManager (officially) and kde doesn't require it's WindowManager to be used to run KDE apps. Needless to say I run the gnome panel WITHOUT the main menu foot. I use it for the pager only. I run kde apps on occasion though. The KDE Advanced Editor being the primary one. Just a side bar;)
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Why does everyone jump on slashdot for EVERY story they post? Why does everything have to be a huge conspiracy? I'm as paranoid as the next guy, but if slashdot seals out, what business is it of ours? We just find another site or start it ourselves. Just my point of view.
"We hope you find fun and laughter in the new millenium" - Top half of fastfood gamepiece
It reminds of (ACK!) Hackers: the movie where penn (of penn and teller fame) was fighting off the 31337 haxors =)
"We hope you find fun and laughter in the new millenium" - Top half of fastfood gamepiece
They didn't always release specs.
True they didn't but they were one of the earliest suppoters correct? Or am I confusing them with another company?
"We hope you find fun and laughter in the new millenium" - Top half of fastfood gamepiece
Unless another manufacturer follows suit with this kind of commitment, I guess my next card purchase will an ATI offering. I recently bought the all in wonder 128 32 meg dealie for my home entertainment system and I am very impressed. That kind of quality graphics on linux would make me a happy camper.
"We hope you find fun and laughter in the new millenium" - Top half of fastfood gamepiece
Don't forget Douglas Adams' Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency and Long Dark Teatime of the soul. Both are great reads in his same vien of humor. "Character discovers there is indeed a horse in the washroom and decides it might be best to have that spot of brandy afterall" To paraphrase.
"We hope you find fun and laughter in the new millenium" - Top half of fastfood gamepiece
ahhh come on..the matrix wasn't that bad.
"We hope you find fun and laughter in the new millenium" - Top half of fastfood gamepiece
At least a pizza guy who could carry a big ass sword around ;)
"We hope you find fun and laughter in the new millenium" - Top half of fastfood gamepiece
I first starting reading snow crash on a business flight 3 years ago. My roomate at the time handed me his worn copy and suggested I read it. I almost missed getting off my plane that day. I was so wrapped up in the book. The amazing thing is how any of Stephenson's descriptions are becoming reality. I don't know if it fits to call him visionary but you can see the ZDTV Big Thinkers interview with him here One of the high points of that show on zdtv IMHO.
"We hope you find fun and laughter in the new millenium" - Top half of fastfood gamepiece
IANAL either but If you win the patent case being pushed against you then you should be able to recoup the attorny fees from the company that brought the case against you.
"We hope you find fun and laughter in the new millenium" - Top half of fastfood gamepiece
I got a flamebait last week on one of my comments that caused me to have the same damn reaction. Go figure. I wonder if some moderators take time to read the post or they get pissy or something. Here's hoping a good metamoderator will fix you up later. =)
"We hope you find fun and laughter in the new millenium" - Top half of fastfood gamepiece
Serena was on the radio here in Atlanta before the special aired last week. I personally have alot of respect for her after the interview. She want's MTV to do serious news as it relates to modern youth culture (MTV's target audience). We can't fault her for not knowing wether she was being put on or not. Admitedly some peer review was probably in order but if something like this were peer reviewable they wouldn't need to do a special on it. She talked of high hopes for the special and that it opened her eyes to alot of issues. She could not have known better. If someone DID know better the special probably would have been yanked. Not a Serena Auchult fan by any stretch but no need in people blasting her when she was just the person they had do the special. Did anyone catch the true life special she did last year on heroin use? THAT ,IMHO, was an excellent piece.
"We hope you find fun and laughter in the new millenium" - Top half of fastfood gamepiece
Are you using IE? This is one feature of modern web browsers I DESPISE. I don't want a website to have that much control over my browser. Of course I use netscape under X so it doesnt matter. Or as junkbuster reports me "Netscape-Mozilla/AbacusOS from transmeta". Most sites that don't check for explicit agent name in the javascript I get by on.
This is a good point too. I'm the network admin at the company I work at. We're nothing big so alow of tasks that belong to other parts of the IS team at big companies are mine at this one. My feeling is that, as managers and directors, once we let the people above us who are responsible for licensing know that they are non compliant, our job is done. Of course we are fully compliant because we use maybe 2 MS products that aren't licensed out of our parent company and we took care of those licenses ourselves. The rest of our stuff is GPL'd or BSD'd.
I agree whole heartedly with what you say but I don't think it's fair to assume that all slashdot readers feel that way. I hope you don't get moderated down to troll or flamebait for the post. You make a valid point.
I had discussed this with a friend at another company at one point. IANAL but my understanding is that employee's can't get in trouble for the company using pirated software. It is niether the employee's job nor concern if the company is legal or not. Do you ask a potential employer if he has licenses for all his software? It's the job of the company to worry about that.
I've been hearing TONS (and the rock means TONS) of commercials making blanket statements that copying ANY and ALL software is piracy. I usually just laugh at them. But after the first month I started thinking (scary though in itself). Is it possible that companies like Microsoft are pushing the piracy issue to confuse people on the opensource issue? I mean if you get average joe user who is interested linux/bsd. Joe linuxuser friend gives him a copy and joe user wonders about piracy. Just some random thoughts.
Actually MetroX doesn't produce AcceleratedX. XiG does. MetroX is a whole new commercial X offering in addition to AccelX. None the less, as long as XFree supports my cards, I will use XFree. The only reason I would pay for a commercial X server is if it offered hardware acceleration for my card that XFREE did not.
Why the hell was this made flaimbait? Jeesus. Get a grip. Ham radio was what he meant. Some decent and good moderator fix this.
Flamebait?! jesus. The above one should have been marked as flaimbait.
I would think you could compile squid on whatever OS you run. I haven't used it extensivly but from what I have seen it appears to be pretty powerful.
Actually the person who submitted the article, hence the italics. Next time you decide to play flamemonkeytrollboy you should at least use VALID flamebait.
I havea feeling with more and more mainstream desktop usage we, as the experienced users, are going to be getting more and more of these confused comments. We houls be prepared to instuct with gentle hands and not blast people for something that could be confusing.
For clarification:
WindowMaker, E, KWM, FVWM, Blackbox and similar are windowmanagers. Windowmanagers control placement of windows, decoration of titlebars and such.
gnome/kde are desktop environments. It sounds confusing but it's not. Gnome/KDE applications each have a common look and feel to them. Wether it be QT with kde or GTK with gnome. The only difference between kde/gnome other than the look is that kde comes with its own WindowManager (defined above). If anyone wants to add to this I can set up a webpage that has information on this somewhere. It seems rather important to me. Maybe a page for newbies with common misconceptions they may have?
As other have pointed out before on patent issues, in the end it won't hold up in court. The patent office is so backed up it isn't even funny. I guess they figure they should grant the patents and let the courts sort em all out.
Suprisingly enough netscape 4.7 for linux has java that works. I haven't gotten a single bus error yet. I've got java and flash now. I'm happy. heh
Gnome and KDE aren't really in the same class as WindowMaker. Gnome doesn't have its own WindowManager (officially) and kde doesn't require it's WindowManager to be used to run KDE apps. Needless to say I run the gnome panel WITHOUT the main menu foot. I use it for the pager only. I run kde apps on occasion though. The KDE Advanced Editor being the primary one. Just a side bar ;)