I've been a Slackware user since 3.4 and absolutly love it. I don't like most package management systems out there and am glad that Slack doesn't use one (well, if you don't count pkgtool). Unfortunately this seems to be a bit of a problem when it comes to upgrading, seeing as you usually have to just reinstall from scratch and hope you have a good backup of your config files. How do you plan on addressing the issue of upgradability in future releases of Slackware, and do you think a better solution can be achieved through the install scripts without having to revert to an rpm-style package management system.
Any idea on how the work is comming on the glx drivers for the Matrox G400? The release said something about 2nd quarter 2000, but I wonder how realistic this is considering I haven't really heard much talk about DRI for the G400 on the utah glx mailing list.
Well I've had the one I got at ALS in my wallet since October and its still holding up fine. It saved my ass too one day when my webserver's root drive died.
Well Its midnight central time here, but I can't check on my servers to see if they are ok because it seems the entire University of Alabama Network is unreachable. A traceroute shows the connection timing out in Auburn (I tried from my house in Mobile and a shell account I have in Michigan). I doubt this is Y2K related but its still an annoyance just the same. -Lee
Ok well this news makes me pretty pissed at Radio Shack, but where else can I go when I need parts? Are there any other widespread electronics store chains out there? I'd hate to have to go there now everytime I need some hard to find component.
In one of the screenshots there was a "media player" that had a DVD button on it. Anyone know if it really plays DVDs or not. Seems like if this OS is as POSIX compliant as QNX says it is maybe the DVD part could get ported to Linux. Then again its probably not open source...sigh...
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Yes Google is fast, but I still like Altavista better.
"Lee you dumb bastard!" you say, "Google is the best! Linux rocks! You will die now!"
Well yes Google is great for when you want to search on something about Linux and sometimes about other computer/technology related things. But what about when you're looking for some obscure Literary commentary for an English term paper or you're trying to see if one of your long lost relatives has a website? I mean don't get me wrong (too late...I'm sure I've been flamed like 300 times already) I like Google , but it still needs to increase the amount of material it covers as well as the frequency of its database updates.
-Lee
Wait till the spammers get ahold of it
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Yeah this would be neat except for the fact that every step you take is gonna record another "fact" about how "You can make more money in your own home blah" and "Hot sex waiting for you at blah". Its a neat concept but it would get abused by advertizers in no time at all.
I think they shoulda changed the ending a bit to something like this:
Instead of ending it with "Bill gates is now the richest man alive...blah blah" they should have been like "and thats how it was until one day a new force came into being and that force brought about the end of windows..." and then they could put Linus' face up there on the big screen:P muhahahahah
Excuse me while I go in the corner and puke my guts out!
Just what we need is the #1 source of idiocy on the internet dominating everything...I mean I'm not fond of Microsoft either, but at least they don't proliferate the net with complete morons...
What if the DoS attack has already been patched?
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I currently run 2.2.9, and when the DoS bug came out I edited the source myself to fix the problem. How do I make sure the patch doesn't mess that up?
Rob himself wrote an Afterstep Applet to control a cd changer. I don't know why he didn't mention it. Maybe because it doesn't work:P I don't know if it does because I don't have a cd changer, but you can try downloading it. It was on his personal homepage, under the Afterstep section.
but you see its not just for learning how to type...its for business computer applications class too. So those people training for secretarial positions are gonna be pretty screwed when they get into the workforce and have to learn how to use modern spreadsheets and wordprocessors. I personally have nothing against 8086's...I have two in my closet, but at school these things barely work they've been so neglected.
At my highschool we have one "computer teacher" who has taken most of the equiptment we get from the schoolboard home. I know this because I have seen all the invoices yet all the equiptment isn't there, or it will be there for like a week and then suddenly it will be "broken" and he'll have to take it home to fix it...uh huh sure.... Of course I also go to the same highschool that uses 8086es in the typing lab. Oh well, one more week till I graduate...
Oh is that what they're talking about? Yeah I know who George Carlin is (not quite before my time) but I'm not familiar with that bit? Somebody have a link that could help enlighten my youngass?
so what specific words did they decide were too obscene? I mean, I know the obvious ones like coughfuckcough and sneezeshitpissingcockmonkeypussiessneeze, but what bothers me is that they probably took some words which would normally be "acceptable" out of context and decided to ban them. Is there a list with specifics anywhere? I couldn't find any in the article itself.
Quite frankly I'm glad Linux is hard to install and setup. Thats how you learn! I started using Linux not too long ago and since I started my knowledge of computers has nearly quadrupled. When I was using first DOS and then Win95 (and accually I still do use it most of the time because I haven't quite got X tweaked the way I want it because of video card probs)I didn't know jack about how a computer really worked. I had no idea what a kernel was, how ppp or tcp/ip for that matter worked, what smtp dhcp svgalib and a multitude of other terms were. But in the last couple of months I've had to drag myself through the howtos and faq's (and special thanks to www.slackware.com) but I'm glad that I did. And while I'm still a Linux novice, I've come a long way and within the year I might accually be good enough to help other people learn the ropes.
Thanks Linus, and everyone who's helped to create something I can play quake on without having to reboot every 10 mins;P
Well once again you Slashdot readers have proven yourselves to be something the internet would really suck without. Thanks so much for the enormous response. Well from what I've read I think I'm gonna go ahead and stay with M.I.S. as planned simply because the Buisness school at the University of Alabama (where I'm going) is a really good program (better than their engineering department anyway which is where CS is based) Plus that way I can take computer classes and buisness classes so when I get older maybe I can dabble in the stock market alittle. As far as getting experience, I'm starting school up there this summer so I'm gonna try to get a job in the network department as soon as I can. Thanks for the tip. As far as previous experience, I already was sysadmin for my high school's lan (nt and netware -puke-) It made me from a geek to a school hero once I put Quake on the network though:P
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I've been a Slackware user since 3.4 and absolutly love it. I don't like most package management systems out there and am glad that Slack doesn't use one (well, if you don't count pkgtool). Unfortunately this seems to be a bit of a problem when it comes to upgrading, seeing as you usually have to just reinstall from scratch and hope you have a good backup of your config files. How do you plan on addressing the issue of upgradability in future releases of Slackware, and do you think a better solution can be achieved through the install scripts without having to revert to an rpm-style package management system.
-Lee
Any idea on how the work is comming on the glx drivers for the Matrox G400? The release said something about 2nd quarter 2000, but I wonder how realistic this is considering I haven't really heard much talk about DRI for the G400 on the utah glx mailing list.
Well I've had the one I got at ALS in my wallet since October and its still holding up fine. It saved my ass too one day when my webserver's root drive died.
-Lee
Well Its midnight central time here, but I can't check on my servers to see if they are ok because it seems the entire University of Alabama Network is unreachable. A traceroute shows the connection timing out in Auburn (I tried from my house in Mobile and a shell account I have in Michigan). I doubt this is Y2K related but its still an annoyance just the same. -Lee
Ok well this news makes me pretty pissed at Radio Shack, but where else can I go when I need parts? Are there any other widespread electronics store chains out there? I'd hate to have to go there now everytime I need some hard to find component.
How and Why??
In one of the screenshots there was a "media player" that had a DVD button on it. Anyone know if it really plays DVDs or not. Seems like if this OS is as POSIX compliant as QNX says it is maybe the DVD part could get ported to Linux. Then again its probably not open source...sigh...
The penguin logo sucks. I MUST GO!
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Yes, you must.
Yes Google is fast, but I still like Altavista better.
"Lee you dumb bastard!" you say, "Google is the best! Linux rocks! You will die now!"
Well yes Google is great for when you want to search on something about Linux and sometimes about other computer/technology related things. But what about when you're looking for some obscure Literary commentary for an English term paper or you're trying to see if one of your long lost relatives has a website? I mean don't get me wrong (too late...I'm sure I've been flamed like 300 times already) I like Google , but it still needs to increase the amount of material it covers as well as the frequency of its database updates.
-Lee
Yeah this would be neat except for the fact that every step you take is gonna record another "fact" about how "You can make more money in your own home blah" and "Hot sex waiting for you at blah".
Its a neat concept but it would get abused by advertizers in no time at all.
I think they shoulda changed the ending a bit to something like this:
:P muhahahahah
Instead of ending it with "Bill gates is now the richest man alive...blah blah" they should have been like "and thats how it was until one day a new force came into being and that force brought about the end of windows..." and then they could put Linus' face up there on the big screen
Excuse me while I go in the corner and puke my guts out!
Just what we need is the #1 source of idiocy on the internet dominating everything...I mean I'm not fond of Microsoft either, but at least they don't proliferate the net with complete morons...
I currently run 2.2.9, and when the DoS bug came out I edited the source myself to fix the problem. How do I make sure the patch doesn't mess that up?
Rob himself wrote an Afterstep Applet to control a cd changer. I don't know why he didn't mention it. Maybe because it doesn't work :P
I don't know if it does because I don't have a cd changer, but you can try downloading it. It was on his personal homepage, under the Afterstep section.
-Lee
I'm sure the justice department is gonna love this :P
but you see its not just for learning how to type...its for business computer applications class too. So those people training for secretarial positions are gonna be pretty screwed when they get into the workforce and have to learn how to use modern spreadsheets and wordprocessors. I personally have nothing against 8086's...I have two in my closet, but at school these things barely work they've been so neglected.
At my highschool we have one "computer teacher" who has taken most of the equiptment we get from the schoolboard home. I know this because I have seen all the invoices yet all the equiptment isn't there, or it will be there for like a week and then suddenly it will be "broken" and he'll have to take it home to fix it...uh huh sure....
Of course I also go to the same highschool that uses 8086es in the typing lab. Oh well, one more week till I graduate...
possibly because slackware is libc5 and G2 requires glibc 2
Just because Mitnick says that he didn't give (or sell) the code to anyone else doesn't mean its the truth.
Hell I'm the King of Siam, do you believe me???
Oh is that what they're talking about?
Yeah I know who George Carlin is (not quite before my time) but I'm not familiar with that bit? Somebody have a link that could help enlighten my youngass?
so what specific words did they decide were too obscene? I mean, I know the obvious ones like coughfuckcough and sneezeshitpissingcockmonkeypussiessneeze, but what bothers me is that they probably took some words which would normally be "acceptable" out of context and decided to ban them. Is there a list with specifics anywhere? I couldn't find any in the article itself.
-Lee
You can patch it but you have to get the 2.2.2, 2.2.3, 2.2.4, 2.2.5, 2.2.6, and the 2.2.7 patch and patch them in order...
Still better than d/ling the whole thing though
-Lee
Quite frankly I'm glad Linux is hard to install and setup. Thats how you learn! I started using Linux not too long ago and since I started my knowledge of computers has nearly quadrupled. When I was using first DOS and then Win95 (and accually I still do use it most of the time because I haven't quite got X tweaked the way I want it because of video card probs)I didn't know jack about how a computer really worked. I had no idea what a kernel was, how ppp or tcp/ip for that matter worked, what smtp dhcp svgalib and a multitude of other terms were. But in the last couple of months I've had to drag myself through the howtos and faq's (and special thanks to www.slackware.com) but I'm glad that I did. And while I'm still a Linux novice, I've come a long way and within the year I might accually be good enough to help other people learn the ropes.
;P
Thanks Linus, and everyone who's helped to create something I can play quake on without having to reboot every 10 mins
-Lee
So when does rumor have Transmeta going public? I wouldn't mind having a piece of that stock ;)
Well once again you Slashdot readers have proven yourselves to be something the internet would really suck without. Thanks so much for the enormous response. Well from what I've read I think I'm gonna go ahead and stay with M.I.S. as planned simply because the Buisness school at the University of Alabama (where I'm going) is a really good program (better than their engineering department anyway which is where CS is based) Plus that way I can take computer classes and buisness classes so when I get older maybe I can dabble in the stock market alittle. :P
As far as getting experience, I'm starting school up there this summer so I'm gonna try to get a job in the network department as soon as I can. Thanks for the tip. As far as previous experience, I already was sysadmin for my high school's lan (nt and netware -puke-) It made me from a geek to a school hero once I put Quake on the network though
Thanks again everyone
-Lee