Firefox 1.0.7 locked up on Slackware 10.2 too. A "killall firefox-bin" made everything all better. It's annoying, but that's about all you can say about it.
For some reason, the GM cars I've owned get much higher than the EPA on the highway and slightly higher in-town. I had a Dodge Intrepid that got worse mileage than the EPA, so much so that I took it in to make sure everything was working OK. On a good day with a bit of a tailwind I could maybe hit the highway EPA with that one. With the GMs I've owned, I could routinely get ~8 mpg over the EPA.
The biggest strength of Slackware, for me, is its rock solid stability. It just doesn't crash or do anything weird. It definitely isn't "bleeding edge" (although it does contain the most recent KDE, for example), but that's just fine by me.
I've also grown to appreciate Slack's lack of dependency checking. Basically, Slack just gets out of your way. The KISS principle applies everywhere. I've used Red Hat and Mandrake, but now that I know what I'm doing, I think I'm a Slackware lifer.
UT2K4 has built in VoIP support and is available for Windows, Linux (32 and 64 bit), and Mac! "No, sir, we're not wasting company time, we're _collaborating_! We're enhancing shareholder value! It's a whole new paradigm!"
The problem is that many of Sony's models (at least the interesting ones) were so expensive that they priced themselves out of a market. Palm is selling their Tungsten E and some Zires by the truckload. Why? Because the Tungsten E has the best screen out there, more memory than most people will need (and an SD slot if you need more), and a pretty fast CPU. Best of all: it's cheap. Bluetooth/WiFi/whatever is a nice idea, but it drains batteries way too fast. And, frankly, most people don't care, at least not enough to pay a premium for it.
I don't see PDAs ever fully disappearing. I'm self-employed, so I rely on my PDA for everything. It's much more convenient than a big old Franklin Daily Planner that I would need to buy new every year. I can play games and listen to MP3s on a trip. Basically, I couldn't do my job without it.
As much as the PDA/cellphone hybrid sounds cool, there are too many difficulties in pulling it off. The latest Treos come closest. Even then, the screen is much smaller than my Tungsten E while still being wider than most new phones. As another poster mentioned, the battery life can't match my mono Kyocera, at least not if I'd also use the Treo as a PDA. The real killer is that the Treo has no analog capabilities. Granted, there's a nice digital tower in town, but as soon as I get very far out of town, I'm on analog.
To top it all off, Sprint has the Treo for $450. My Tungsten E cost $199 and my Kyocera was virtually free. I get two devices that do their respective jobs better than the combo device for less than half the price. No brainer.
Those are the big two for me. I got fed up with Win98 puking all of the time. Some say that WinXP is more stable and generally more swell, etc., but I heard that before. I wasn't about to fork over the cash (plus the cash to update all my utilities, etc.) to find out. My kids' box dual boots between Win98 (for their games and Quicken) and Slackware 9.1. My main box is only a highly modified version of Slackware 9.0.
Free hardware is Good For America as opposed to free software which is Bad For America. It all makes perfect sense! (at least once you substitute "Sun" or "Microsoft" for "America")
There is nothing else that SCO has that is even remotely valuable. Nobody is going to want their outdated Unix anymore, especially since they'd be sued if they even looked cross-eyed at Linux. Suing your customers tends to drop ye olde customer satisfaction rating down quite a bit. The only way BayStar will come close to recouping their $20 million is if SCO survives long enough to win its suits. Both of those prospects are dubious at best. I think the big thing that BayStar (and others) will be learning is not to take investment advice from Microsoft.
I've been in the process of switching from WordPerfect 8.0 for Linux to OpenOffice.org for a while now. OOo is very powerful and free in every sense of the word, but there are some things that are way more awkward. For example, to set my default margins to 1", I need to create a blank document with those margins, save as a template wherever your default templates are, then go to File->Templates->Organize, locate your template, right click on it and choose "Set As Default Template." What?!? I realize the flexability that templates give over a single set of preferences, but that is NOT intuitive or user friendly in the least. Once it's set up, you don't have to worry about it anymore, but it's getting it set up the first time that is a PITA.
Another bit: I like using their auto-numbering feature, but I'd like to set the default space from the number to the text at 0.5" instead of the default 0.2". The only way I can figure to do that is to create a template with numbering already in it. It kind of defeats the purpose of auto-numbering. Right now I just change it by hand every time I use it.
Don't get me wrong, I don't intend to trash OOo. I like it in many different ways. It crashes much, much less than WP8/Linux does for me (which is the main reason I'm switching over). Its font support is great. It does a very good job of converting the MS Word documents that people insist on inflicting on me. But just because a solution exists, doesn't mean that there shouldn't be another one. WP still has a pretty big installed base, especially among lawyers. A native version of WP might be all the convincing they would need to jump to Linux.
Actually, I'm surprised this didn't happen a whole lot sooner. The newspapers' attitudes for a long time seemed to be:
1) Give away all the content we normally charge for. 2) ??? 3) Profit!
I won't give info to the NY Times or Washington Post because I haven't been entirely thrilled with their privacy policies. I wish someone could come up with a happy medium so that content providers could actually get paid, the cost would be minimal (since no printing/shipping is involved), and privacy issues could be resolved. Perhaps I'm asking for too much.
While I am certainly no fan of the RIAA nor its tactics, I'm getting a little sick of the "I didn't know it was wrong" defense. Come on. 1,100 songs downloaded, parents oblivious, child claiming ignorance. Anybody see a problem here? You can argue until you are blue in the face whether or not the copyright laws should be changed. You can argue (persuasively, I might add) that the RIAA is heavy-handed. But don't come off pretending to be ignorant. The law is clear. This is theft.
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Firefox 1.0.7 locked up on Slackware 10.2 too. A "killall firefox-bin" made everything all better. It's annoying, but that's about all you can say about it.
. . . as poorly as I do.
Know thyme too loose!
Oh wait, the sentors beating this drum are Senator Joe Lieberman (D-CT) and one of my beloved *cough* senators, Herb Kohl (D-WI). Again.
for most paranthetical comments in a Slashdot news post goes to . . .
You mean that the lawyers will get 33% of nothing instead of 20% of nothing? What a deal!
I already started begging for a Linux client.s howtopic= 2499
http://forums.obsidianent.com/index.php?
Obligatory Monty Python quote:
"It's not a balloon! It's an airship! Balloons is for kiddie-winkies! Now get out!" -- von Zeppelin
Aaaaaaggghhhh!
For some reason, the GM cars I've owned get much higher than the EPA on the highway and slightly higher in-town. I had a Dodge Intrepid that got worse mileage than the EPA, so much so that I took it in to make sure everything was working OK. On a good day with a bit of a tailwind I could maybe hit the highway EPA with that one. With the GMs I've owned, I could routinely get ~8 mpg over the EPA.
The biggest strength of Slackware, for me, is its rock solid stability. It just doesn't crash or do anything weird. It definitely isn't "bleeding edge" (although it does contain the most recent KDE, for example), but that's just fine by me.
I've also grown to appreciate Slack's lack of dependency checking. Basically, Slack just gets out of your way. The KISS principle applies everywhere. I've used Red Hat and Mandrake, but now that I know what I'm doing, I think I'm a Slackware lifer.
UT2K4 has built in VoIP support and is available for Windows, Linux (32 and 64 bit), and Mac! "No, sir, we're not wasting company time, we're _collaborating_! We're enhancing shareholder value! It's a whole new paradigm!"
The problem is that many of Sony's models (at least the interesting ones) were so expensive that they priced themselves out of a market. Palm is selling their Tungsten E and some Zires by the truckload. Why? Because the Tungsten E has the best screen out there, more memory than most people will need (and an SD slot if you need more), and a pretty fast CPU. Best of all: it's cheap. Bluetooth/WiFi/whatever is a nice idea, but it drains batteries way too fast. And, frankly, most people don't care, at least not enough to pay a premium for it.
I don't see PDAs ever fully disappearing. I'm self-employed, so I rely on my PDA for everything. It's much more convenient than a big old Franklin Daily Planner that I would need to buy new every year. I can play games and listen to MP3s on a trip. Basically, I couldn't do my job without it.
As much as the PDA/cellphone hybrid sounds cool, there are too many difficulties in pulling it off. The latest Treos come closest. Even then, the screen is much smaller than my Tungsten E while still being wider than most new phones. As another poster mentioned, the battery life can't match my mono Kyocera, at least not if I'd also use the Treo as a PDA. The real killer is that the Treo has no analog capabilities. Granted, there's a nice digital tower in town, but as soon as I get very far out of town, I'm on analog.
To top it all off, Sprint has the Treo for $450. My Tungsten E cost $199 and my Kyocera was virtually free. I get two devices that do their respective jobs better than the combo device for less than half the price. No brainer.
Those are the big two for me. I got fed up with Win98 puking all of the time. Some say that WinXP is more stable and generally more swell, etc., but I heard that before. I wasn't about to fork over the cash (plus the cash to update all my utilities, etc.) to find out. My kids' box dual boots between Win98 (for their games and Quicken) and Slackware 9.1. My main box is only a highly modified version of Slackware 9.0.
Free hardware is Good For America as opposed to free software which is Bad For America. It all makes perfect sense! (at least once you substitute "Sun" or "Microsoft" for "America")
Thank heavens! At long last, we've discovered how the dinosaurs because extinct. I'm sure this will bring all speculation to an end.
Now if we could ever figure out that Kennedy thing, we'll be all set!
Yes, it is true: every time you hit Google, you are polluting the Earth.
Whereas Slashdot uses nothing but solar power.
There is nothing else that SCO has that is even remotely valuable. Nobody is going to want their outdated Unix anymore, especially since they'd be sued if they even looked cross-eyed at Linux. Suing your customers tends to drop ye olde customer satisfaction rating down quite a bit. The only way BayStar will come close to recouping their $20 million is if SCO survives long enough to win its suits. Both of those prospects are dubious at best. I think the big thing that BayStar (and others) will be learning is not to take investment advice from Microsoft.
I'd have to say yes.
I've been in the process of switching from WordPerfect 8.0 for Linux to OpenOffice.org for a while now. OOo is very powerful and free in every sense of the word, but there are some things that are way more awkward. For example, to set my default margins to 1", I need to create a blank document with those margins, save as a template wherever your default templates are, then go to File->Templates->Organize, locate your template, right click on it and choose "Set As Default Template." What?!? I realize the flexability that templates give over a single set of preferences, but that is NOT intuitive or user friendly in the least. Once it's set up, you don't have to worry about it anymore, but it's getting it set up the first time that is a PITA.
Another bit: I like using their auto-numbering feature, but I'd like to set the default space from the number to the text at 0.5" instead of the default 0.2". The only way I can figure to do that is to create a template with numbering already in it. It kind of defeats the purpose of auto-numbering. Right now I just change it by hand every time I use it.
Don't get me wrong, I don't intend to trash OOo. I like it in many different ways. It crashes much, much less than WP8/Linux does for me (which is the main reason I'm switching over). Its font support is great. It does a very good job of converting the MS Word documents that people insist on inflicting on me. But just because a solution exists, doesn't mean that there shouldn't be another one. WP still has a pretty big installed base, especially among lawyers. A native version of WP might be all the convincing they would need to jump to Linux.
How to install Linux on the homeless? Just think of the Beowolf cluster you could have in New York City alone! I could 0wn Folding@Home!
You forgot
6) I would be allowed to have air-to-air missiles
Brew your own!
Actually, I'm surprised this didn't happen a whole lot sooner. The newspapers' attitudes for a long time seemed to be:
1) Give away all the content we normally charge for.
2) ???
3) Profit!
I won't give info to the NY Times or Washington Post because I haven't been entirely thrilled with their privacy policies. I wish someone could come up with a happy medium so that content providers could actually get paid, the cost would be minimal (since no printing/shipping is involved), and privacy issues could be resolved. Perhaps I'm asking for too much.
Actually, there's a new version of cdrdao out that supports ATAPI burners without the need of ide-scsi.
Also, I'm not sure what hardware the original poster has, but I had no problem with 2.6.1 or 2.6.2. As always, YMMV.
While I am certainly no fan of the RIAA nor its tactics, I'm getting a little sick of the "I didn't know it was wrong" defense. Come on. 1,100 songs downloaded, parents oblivious, child claiming ignorance. Anybody see a problem here? You can argue until you are blue in the face whether or not the copyright laws should be changed. You can argue (persuasively, I might add) that the RIAA is heavy-handed. But don't come off pretending to be ignorant. The law is clear. This is theft.
Ignorantia legis neminem excusat.