and to drag this out a little more i'll say that the rsync method also prevents having to make a new iso and distribute it to all the mirrors every time an update is made...
As far as real effects on everyday life are concerned, the development of the contraceptive pill must go close to the most sigificant development of the post 1950's era. In one stroke, it made women's control of their own fertility easy, safe, and cheap and forever divorced sex from procreation. The social effects of this are still being felt around the world.
...and in it's wake, a world of far to sexually free women (sluts) and men (just as bad), the AIDS epidemic (did you know that promiscuity is a contributing factor?), and the infantile feminist movement. Don't forget, such a sweeping technology can have its downsides.
maybe you're right...sorry for jumping ahead there, however i think that php has a lot of promise for a lot of different things, and will continue to at least be regarded as a perl-alternative...
i myself even use it for a bit of server scripting...and have had much success doing so!
...this has got to be the most annoying thing i've seen...1 big flash animation for a site, ugh....
also php can generate and manipulate swf already...and as i put on my flame-retardant underwear, i'll say that php will probably make perl obsolete soon (at least as a web programming language)
Linux has come a long way in user friendliness since I first started using it, but it's still missing some very important pieces which it very well may never get. A decent word processor topping that list. Don't say Staroffice, I'd rather have my flesh flayed away rather than use that bloated piece of shit. I'd say a decent mail package, too, but at least the Helix guys are working on one of those. Many of the Linux users I've known use Netscape Mail, which sucks as a mail client.
Linux has come a long way, but it is a SERVER operating system. Why doesn't DeadRat or one of the other companies come up with a linux-based OS specifically built for everyday desktop users. They can even partner with VMware or whatever and put support for windoze programs right in the kernel. My point is, Linux will *never* catch on like windows for the sole reason that it was not made for the average joe. The average joe does not give a shit about disk partitioning or man pages. He wants an OS that basically installs itself, has all of the necessary drivers (joe doesn't give a shit about kernel modlules either). And yes, he wants games.
So basically, design a new linux based GUI os from the ground up, built for desktop users, and not a half-hacked out version of redhat targeted at desktop users. I know it cant/wont be done in a day, a year, or even 10 probably, but this is the only way linux/open source will *truly* crack into the desktop market and threaten microsoft
Slashdot Mirror
...not that i in any way condone it, okay?
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cuz i'm not missin valentines day
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there's also tcpserver, which is a replacement for inetd, btw
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let them have their club, all of us "non-members" can have ours
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but really, wouldn't an Ask Slashdot story on the future of SMTP and its much-needed overhaul be more interesting?
...my 2 pesos
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will anyone important be at the o'reilly open source conference (san diego) in late july?
or do i expect to much by thinking that people plan that far ahead :)
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i just installed stormix the other day, not bad (i know, 99% debian)...but i was kinda concerned when it wouldn't recognize my sound blaster (doh)
i'm stickin to debian
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damn straight, got it right here, chopped up by chapter
http://hydrogen2.net/ug-13-parts-pdb.zip--
...so here's another
regular text and palm db format (insane)
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with dubya in the white house, M$ doesn't have shit to worry about, it's over
Come the millennium, month 12
In the home of greatest power,
The village idiot will come forth,
To be acclaimed the leader."
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my friend at microsoft gave me this secret link to the mozilla CVS repository. :)
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the other two are alpha centauri a and b
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i'd rather live in white trash renton than bellevue...hehe i used to work at casa d's taqueria on bellevue way
As far as real effects on everyday life are concerned, the development of the contraceptive pill must go close to the most sigificant development of the post 1950's era. In one stroke, it made women's control of their own fertility easy, safe, and cheap and forever divorced sex from procreation. The social effects of this are still being felt around the world.
...and in it's wake, a world of far to sexually free women (sluts) and men (just as bad), the AIDS epidemic (did you know that promiscuity is a contributing factor?), and the infantile feminist movement. Don't forget, such a sweeping technology can have its downsides.maybe you're right...sorry for jumping ahead there, however i think that php has a lot of promise for a lot of different things, and will continue to at least be regarded as a perl-alternative...
i myself even use it for a bit of server scripting...and have had much success doing so!
:)
...this has got to be the most annoying thing i've seen...1 big flash animation for a site, ugh....
also php can generate and manipulate swf already...and as i put on my flame-retardant underwear, i'll say that php will probably make perl obsolete soon (at least as a web programming language)
johnny five, y0
okay a few things:
Linux has come a long way in user friendliness since I first started using it, but it's still missing some very important pieces which it very well may never get. A decent word processor topping that list. Don't say Staroffice, I'd rather have my flesh flayed away rather than use that bloated piece of shit. I'd say a decent mail package, too, but at least the Helix guys are working on one of those. Many of the Linux users I've known use Netscape Mail, which sucks as a mail client.
Linux has come a long way, but it is a SERVER operating system. Why doesn't DeadRat or one of the other companies come up with a linux-based OS specifically built for everyday desktop users. They can even partner with VMware or whatever and put support for windoze programs right in the kernel. My point is, Linux will *never* catch on like windows for the sole reason that it was not made for the average joe. The average joe does not give a shit about disk partitioning or man pages. He wants an OS that basically installs itself, has all of the necessary drivers (joe doesn't give a shit about kernel modlules either). And yes, he wants games.
So basically, design a new linux based GUI os from the ground up, built for desktop users, and not a half-hacked out version of redhat targeted at desktop users. I know it cant/wont be done in a day, a year, or even 10 probably, but this is the only way linux/open source will *truly* crack into the desktop market and threaten microsoft
if ESR or RMS said or wrote somewhere "I expect my entire lower colon to be overtaken by hemmoroids by 2002", would Slashdot publish that too?
god, give us some real news, and ditch these hippies
oh yeah, just wait till every nanobot wants a static ip....
.....a lot of statistics generated by gun nuts and the NRA...
currently, all you are being asked to do is REGISTER your guns, like you would a car. is that so evil?
guns are being gradually being seen as archaic relics of another time, much like the horse and buggy were.