Why, you ask? For the single most important reason, because you can. This is not the single-vendor proprietary world folks.
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Agree totally! The last thing Linux needs is any more choice. So, to solve this, I hearby suggest that we remove all references to copying and modifying from the GPL and related licenses. This is the core of what allows any yahoo out there to make something based off of some other set of apps. Obviously this does nothing but bad for the community. Further, without the requirement to release patches, et al under the GPL, real innovation will be able to occur as companies make their own proprietary versions.
Next since SUSE is leading in sales, I say we make it the one true Linux. If anyone is not using it, then we should send them to New Zealand or something. And since SUSE has KDE, GNOME needs to go by the wayside as well. And since most new users will be confused by crazy command lines, we can do away with them as well. Besides, who makes utilities so archaic anyways? If there isn't a GUI to it, it must be inferior/antiquated.
Only if we do away with the other 68.239 distributions, applications, etc will there be any future in Linux. Allowing people to just copy/modify anything without approval from one central person (I suggest me) is pure lunacy!
How about adding a little bit like needing the user to click a button to say "Yes, you may come in?" Perhaps even making and none of the secret accessing as default. Then you would have a decent argument against all the antivirus companies that will mark it as a trojan, which you know they will.
Journalism does not mean that anymore. To be a journalist, one must:
1) repeat verbatim that which comes across the wires. It is gospel.
2) There are no two sides to any issue, just the right one. Have polls like, "Are you for the slaughter of children/elderly/disabled/etc, or are you a nice caring, democrat?" Then conclude that 98.32% of the world will vote for Hillary as Master of the Universe and there is no use thinking about anyone else.
3) Never go out and validate what sources say. Again, just repeat. Feel free to mix and match questions and answers to better support rule #2.
I could go on and on. But the media isn't about facts or informing the public. There was a day when saying "mostly teenaged" when talking about a group would be followed up with something like, "Joe Smith, 14, says..." Now they just throw out whatever they feel (and want you to feel too). In this case, they want you to believe they are immature folks who should not be taken seriously. The same thing was (and still is) said of Linux hackers. Even though that survey was done that found most of the kernel hackers were older, had degrees, etc, it doesn't stop that stereotype.
The media is just another political outlet, telling you what to think, etc. Believe them, or die. If the kind and benevolent Microsoft isn't tortured by teenagers like cDc, the world would be a happy place.:)
Sure you can write a program to do these things on any OS. But the problem with Windows, is it thinks it's smarter than any user, so has great features like not being able to kill processes, not listing processes in the list, hiding network connections, etc. I never understood the notion of not having "permission" to kill something when I was admin on NT.
To do this sort of stuff within Linux would not just require emailing Joe User an executable, and saying "Run this to get Office 2000 for free, or $100,000 in two hours." It would take some kernel modifications to hide the things from/proc, the user would have to be root when the executable is ran and install the kernel. Then the user would have to reboot and activate that kernel, which could be several weeks for the waiting cracker. Even then, you would have to make sure the user didn't download a new kernel source tarball and install a pure kernel.
Windows just makes everything so much easier for the cracker hacker making such programs...
Basically Metcalfe says Linux will collapse because of the flamers that come out. See ESR's trip to MS last month. There are overly enthusiastic MS people as well, therefore Windows will disappear in the next 16 hours.
Actually, Windows could disappear if MS suddenly folded under. On the other hand, with the source to Linux and everything out there, someone's bound to pick it up again if every developer called it quits this afternoon.
Counting the two groups, it'd be Linux, 10 million, W2k 0. Or if you count the people who've bought a W2k beta, pirated it, etc that would be what, several thousand? I'm not really sure what Metcalfe meant by that. He probably meant count NT users or something. That because there are more, it must be better.
There is still a sufficiently large crowd that does not want any software to be under anything but L/GPL licenses. It's tough to imagine, but there are people more rogue than RMS.:)
Why should he have to delete them? The developers of all those notepads should be responsible for that. Yeah.
In all seriousness, I agree with others who've stated how these programs are great learning tools for a language/toolkit. I use vi for most things, but when it came to seeing just how to implement a menu or toolbar in Qt/KDE, I broke open the source to kedit and voila; let the learning begin.
I too have a Matrox card and use KDE (v1.1.1). I have no troubles with it at all. I have left a single X/KDE session running for over a month with no problems. Currently X is at just under 20mb, but with 128mb ram I don't really mind that amount.
Where I lose memory is Netscape (recently hit 80MB after about 3 days), but it's no trouble shutting it down when I close my Internet connection or when I'm done with it.
Since KDE isn't any one program, what programs were up to 128MB? Is that with counting the shared memories?
Unfortunately, there'll always be the type of sites that take advantage of typos, registerring nasa.com for those that forget it's.gov (was done around the time the Mars lander touched down). There was another one that was a letter off of some big video game site (game vs games or something in the name). For these people, the point is to get hits on their banner, not respectable distribution of their porn.
Without any way of enforcing a.xxx TLD, it's useless. You'd need ISPs and everyone cooperating for a cleaner Internet. Then if you want to enforce it, some whiney people will be yelling censorship, just as they are with this. Face it, libraries (and schools, etc) don't need porn. Unfortunately, too many parents just want to dump their kids someplace and get back to their business rather than sit with the kids (at least within sight of the monitor), be it a library, an arcade, or whatever.
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I've had recruiters say, "Send it to me in Word. Text is too plain." The lack of eye candy (bold/italics/etc) loses their concentration.
After detaching it from the email, it gets lost forever. They open Word, point it to the directory, and it just isn't there. Damned computers losing files.:)
I just quit my job Friday, so this is right up my alley. My experience from the last few weeks of browsing Monster.com, Dice.com, Headhunter.net, etc is that you can't get a Unix Admin job without 10 years experience in every flavor of Unix under the sun, expert in Notes/Word/Novell/NT/etc. To top it off, they'll pay a hefty $30k for someone with all that.
Sure I'm exaggerating (I really saw one post that would pay $30k for an expert in everything), but it's the basic scheme. I've spent some time resetting people's passwords in Windows and the like, and now I'm mighty ready for something more interesting. Even for lowly Jr Admin jobs I get passed over by someone with 5 years experience (I'd think after 5 years you'd be at least mid-level?). The recruiters that post on the job web sites (do any direct hire companies post jobs there?) get the list of buzzwords and number years experience from a company (to replace me, my boss requested someone with 10 years NT experience), then do a search and send a form letter to the matches. Very few of them have actually looked at my resume on the board; instead just spit an email saying "Send me your resume in Word format." Then they call (or I call them), they find I haven't done squat professionally in Unix and hang up, err put me "on file." Lather, rinse, repeat.
Ah well, I've got to see a couple contracting firms this afternoon. Hopefully I'll be able to woo one of them into believing that I am damned intelligent.:)
As others have pointed out, the BIOS screen lasts a relatively brief period of time, and then you never get to look at the ad. So, what piece of equipment do you look at all the time that doesn't currently have ads on it? Oh yeah, that's right, monitor ads. What's better is every six minutes a new ad appears, lasts ten seconds, then goes back to the original screen; or perhaps just a smallish square in a corner. And if you don't connect to the Internet and download new ads, it'll just shut off. Yeah, that'll teach those goofy kids that try to get around it.
This movie showed one scene with Woz helping some little kids. From what I remember of the PBS shows, that's what he does now; no megalomaniac-type personality set on world domination like Gates/Jobs. He made plenty of money, got out, and now does something meaningful, helping schools get computers or something like that.
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To avoid being sued; fear of having anything named *amp.
KDevelop 0.4 just came out the other day as well, obviously concentrating on Qt/KDE development. It looks very nice, though. I just haven't had anything to make yet. Somehow, I figure I'll just revert to vi anyway...
Primarily, a company doesn't have the resources to take user calls about 43 distributions, so they pick one. If you use something else, you're on your own.
3D desktops are required in the field of dinosaur DNA cloning. We will never be able to achieve much higher status in cloning without 3D desktops, as JP proved long ago.
No, this is a good forum for discussing things like the flaws in a ZD article, or Microsoft sponsored tests touted as impartial. I for one, (I'm sure there's more in the 500,000 hits a day) can discuss things rationally. I eve learn things from the discussions on Slashdot. Collectively we can point out inaccuracies, and then maybe send an email (not 500,000,000) educating the author in things they may not fully know, pointing out resources where he can learn more (Slashdot would be a good place for these people to learn about geekhood, but with the idiots our message gets lost).
Honestly, you should advocate it, but do so intelligently. I entered a workplace where the fellow geeks thought Linux was just a bunch of rabid k-rad speaking idiots, spouting filthy language like Mr. Bryar describes and how Bill Gates is Satan himself molesting then murdering goats during the night (maybe that's an exageration...).
Anyway, after talking intelligently, with mostly proper English describing what Linux does well (or doesn't do so well), many now have a healthy respect for it, even if they may never actually use it. Speaking well (and typing well, re-read and spell check what you write!) goes a long way to getting a point across. Inserting profanity all over the place only makes you look like an uneducated bafoon. People will most likely not even read anything else you have to say.
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Why, you ask? For the single most important reason, because you can. This is not the single-vendor proprietary world folks.
Agree totally! The last thing Linux needs is any more choice. So, to solve this, I hearby suggest that we remove all references to copying and modifying from the GPL and related licenses. This is the core of what allows any yahoo out there to make something based off of some other set of apps. Obviously this does nothing but bad for the community. Further, without the requirement to release patches, et al under the GPL, real innovation will be able to occur as companies make their own proprietary versions.
Next since SUSE is leading in sales, I say we make it the one true Linux. If anyone is not using it, then we should send them to New Zealand or something. And since SUSE has KDE, GNOME needs to go by the wayside as well. And since most new users will be confused by crazy command lines, we can do away with them as well. Besides, who makes utilities so archaic anyways? If there isn't a GUI to it, it must be inferior/antiquated.
Only if we do away with the other 68.239 distributions, applications, etc will there be any future in Linux. Allowing people to just copy/modify anything without approval from one central person (I suggest me) is pure lunacy!
I think I've grown up too...
How about adding a little bit like needing the user to click a button to say "Yes, you may come in?" Perhaps even making and none of the secret accessing as default. Then you would have a decent argument against all the antivirus companies that will mark it as a trojan, which you know they will.
If all anologies are flawed, then aren't all flaws analogies? Or, wait a minute...
Journalism does not mean that anymore. To be a journalist, one must:
..." Now they just throw out whatever they feel (and want you to feel too). In this case, they want you to believe they are immature folks who should not be taken seriously. The same thing was (and still is) said of Linux hackers. Even though that survey was done that found most of the kernel hackers were older, had degrees, etc, it doesn't stop that stereotype.
:)
1) repeat verbatim that which comes across the wires. It is gospel.
2) There are no two sides to any issue, just the right one. Have polls like, "Are you for the slaughter of children/elderly/disabled/etc, or are you a nice caring, democrat?" Then conclude that 98.32% of the world will vote for Hillary as Master of the Universe and there is no use thinking about anyone else.
3) Never go out and validate what sources say. Again, just repeat. Feel free to mix and match questions and answers to better support rule #2.
I could go on and on. But the media isn't about facts or informing the public. There was a day when saying "mostly teenaged" when talking about a group would be followed up with something like, "Joe Smith, 14, says
The media is just another political outlet, telling you what to think, etc. Believe them, or die. If the kind and benevolent Microsoft isn't tortured by teenagers like cDc, the world would be a happy place.
Sure you can write a program to do these things on any OS. But the problem with Windows, is it thinks it's smarter than any user, so has great features like not being able to kill processes, not listing processes in the list, hiding network connections, etc. I never understood the notion of not having "permission" to kill something when I was admin on NT.
/proc, the user would have to be root when the executable is ran and install the kernel. Then the user would have to reboot and activate that kernel, which could be several weeks for the waiting cracker. Even then, you would have to make sure the user didn't download a new kernel source tarball and install a pure kernel.
To do this sort of stuff within Linux would not just require emailing Joe User an executable, and saying "Run this to get Office 2000 for free, or $100,000 in two hours." It would take some kernel modifications to hide the things from
Windows just makes everything so much easier for the cracker hacker making such programs...
Basically Metcalfe says Linux will collapse because of the flamers that come out. See ESR's trip to MS last month. There are overly enthusiastic MS people as well, therefore Windows will disappear in the next 16 hours.
Actually, Windows could disappear if MS suddenly folded under. On the other hand, with the source to Linux and everything out there, someone's bound to pick it up again if every developer called it quits this afternoon.
Counting the two groups, it'd be Linux, 10 million, W2k 0. Or if you count the people who've bought a W2k beta, pirated it, etc that would be what, several thousand? I'm not really sure what Metcalfe meant by that. He probably meant count NT users or something. That because there are more, it must be better.
There is still a sufficiently large crowd that does not want any software to be under anything but L/GPL licenses. It's tough to imagine, but there are people more rogue than RMS. :)
Why should he have to delete them? The developers of all those notepads should be responsible for that. Yeah.
In all seriousness, I agree with others who've stated how these programs are great learning tools for a language/toolkit. I use vi for most things, but when it came to seeing just how to implement a menu or toolbar in Qt/KDE, I broke open the source to kedit and voila; let the learning begin.
I too have a Matrox card and use KDE (v1.1.1). I have no troubles with it at all. I have left a single X/KDE session running for over a month with no problems. Currently X is at just under 20mb, but with 128mb ram I don't really mind that amount.
Where I lose memory is Netscape (recently hit 80MB after about 3 days), but it's no trouble shutting it down when I close my Internet connection or when I'm done with it.
Since KDE isn't any one program, what programs were up to 128MB? Is that with counting the shared memories?
How about a recap? Antionline has been refusing connections for me. Yesterday their nameservers were down, now this...
Unfortunately, there'll always be the type of sites that take advantage of typos, registerring nasa.com for those that forget it's .gov (was done around the time the Mars lander touched down). There was another one that was a letter off of some big video game site (game vs games or something in the name). For these people, the point is to get hits on their banner, not respectable distribution of their porn.
.xxx TLD, it's useless. You'd need ISPs and everyone cooperating for a cleaner Internet. Then if you want to enforce it, some whiney people will be yelling censorship, just as they are with this. Face it, libraries (and schools, etc) don't need porn. Unfortunately, too many parents just want to dump their kids someplace and get back to their business rather than sit with the kids (at least within sight of the monitor), be it a library, an arcade, or whatever.
Without any way of enforcing a
I've had recruiters say, "Send it to me in Word. Text is too plain." The lack of eye candy (bold/italics/etc) loses their concentration.
After detaching it from the email, it gets lost forever. They open Word, point it to the directory, and it just isn't there. Damned computers losing files. :)
I just quit my job Friday, so this is right up my alley. My experience from the last few weeks of browsing Monster.com, Dice.com, Headhunter.net, etc is that you can't get a Unix Admin job without 10 years experience in every flavor of Unix under the sun, expert in Notes/Word/Novell/NT/etc. To top it off, they'll pay a hefty $30k for someone with all that.
:)
Sure I'm exaggerating (I really saw one post that would pay $30k for an expert in everything), but it's the basic scheme. I've spent some time resetting people's passwords in Windows and the like, and now I'm mighty ready for something more interesting. Even for lowly Jr Admin jobs I get passed over by someone with 5 years experience (I'd think after 5 years you'd be at least mid-level?). The recruiters that post on the job web sites (do any direct hire companies post jobs there?) get the list of buzzwords and number years experience from a company (to replace me, my boss requested someone with 10 years NT experience), then do a search and send a form letter to the matches. Very few of them have actually looked at my resume on the board; instead just spit an email saying "Send me your resume in Word format." Then they call (or I call them), they find I haven't done squat professionally in Unix and hang up, err put me "on file." Lather, rinse, repeat.
Ah well, I've got to see a couple contracting firms this afternoon. Hopefully I'll be able to woo one of them into believing that I am damned intelligent.
As others have pointed out, the BIOS screen lasts a relatively brief period of time, and then you never get to look at the ad. So, what piece of equipment do you look at all the time that doesn't currently have ads on it? Oh yeah, that's right, monitor ads. What's better is every six minutes a new ad appears, lasts ten seconds, then goes back to the original screen; or perhaps just a smallish square in a corner. And if you don't connect to the Internet and download new ads, it'll just shut off. Yeah, that'll teach those goofy kids that try to get around it.
This movie showed one scene with Woz helping some little kids. From what I remember of the PBS shows, that's what he does now; no megalomaniac-type personality set on world domination like Gates/Jobs. He made plenty of money, got out, and now does something meaningful, helping schools get computers or something like that.
To avoid being sued; fear of having anything named *amp.
KDevelop 0.4 just came out the other day as well, obviously concentrating on Qt/KDE development. It looks very nice, though. I just haven't had anything to make yet. Somehow, I figure I'll just revert to vi anyway...
Primarily, a company doesn't have the resources to take user calls about 43 distributions, so they pick one. If you use something else, you're on your own.
3D desktops are required in the field of dinosaur DNA cloning. We will never be able to achieve much higher status in cloning without 3D desktops, as JP proved long ago.
No, this is a good forum for discussing things like the flaws in a ZD article, or Microsoft sponsored tests touted as impartial. I for one, (I'm sure there's more in the 500,000 hits a day) can discuss things rationally. I eve learn things from the discussions on Slashdot. Collectively we can point out inaccuracies, and then maybe send an email (not 500,000,000) educating the author in things they may not fully know, pointing out resources where he can learn more (Slashdot would be a good place for these people to learn about geekhood, but with the idiots our message gets lost).
Honestly, you should advocate it, but do so intelligently. I entered a workplace where the fellow geeks thought Linux was just a bunch of rabid k-rad speaking idiots, spouting filthy language like Mr. Bryar describes and how Bill Gates is Satan himself molesting then murdering goats during the night (maybe that's an exageration...).
Anyway, after talking intelligently, with mostly proper English describing what Linux does well (or doesn't do so well), many now have a healthy respect for it, even if they may never actually use it. Speaking well (and typing well, re-read and spell check what you write!) goes a long way to getting a point across. Inserting profanity all over the place only makes you look like an uneducated bafoon. People will most likely not even read anything else you have to say.
It's "kryptos," and the alphabet with those letters moved to then end.