My workplace decided to go the Microsoft way, and ever since it's been a headache. So many people have not all that complicated macros and functions in say Lotus 123, but Excel either does not have that function, or has implemented it in a terribly goofy way. If an office package can be made and made well, it's be great for Linux. I just don't see that coming in from the MS camp.
Well, it was posted on Slashdot with the title, "South Park spoof of Star Wars." So one would presume (at least I did) it was a parody of Star Wars using South Park characters. So then it rolls back to, why watch it if you know it contains South Park?
Unless you were referred to the site from somewhere else, then one would wonder why comment about it on Slashdot, and not to your friend directly...
As others have said, the Linux version will ship after the Windows version. And the beta acceptance letter said the beta test will end the 26th. So, it looks like they're planning on the Linux version being ready to go like the top of April...
I liked his comment just after that (from the CNN transcript link in the article), "During a quarter century of public service, including most of it long before I came into my current job,..."
And here I always thought most of his 25 years were the six since '93. Go figure.
Plugins have many uses. I haven't downloaded this plugin for obvious reasons, but I could see MS designing it so that when you load your browser, it fires a hit to some server out in MSland. Then they can start bombarding you with "news," but more imporantly, ads. It's so much more convenient then having to wait for users to go to MSNBC's web site. And besides, users told them they wanted it, and it is a vital part of the OS, and Linux is just copying them, and BeOS too, oh and OS/2 tried to as well.
I guess the only program that's completely free would be Golgotha. So, let's design an OS around it and live in completely-free land.
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Good lord, what's up the ass of so many folks here nowadays? Bitching over which has Corba first, then saying, "Well, it's still better in Gnome, so nyah." If you can't provide any sort of constructive criticism about the products involved, to make them all better for us, then shut the fudge up (pardon the language:)).
I just want to have MANY wonderful, useful, stable applications on my Linux box. Not one set of products from one group of people. And face it, with world domination "just around the corner," (Linus at Linuxworld), we need programs that users can use and love. Joe User won't give a rats ass about whether Gnome or KDE started using Corba first, or that Troll announced this QPL a couple days after Gnome's announcement. They just want office apps and all that they can type their love letters in.
I had set up a 486/25 with 16mb ram for a relative with KDE. Worked fine for the 6 months or so before they bought a new computer. Aside from the kids always wanting to just shut it off and not properly shut down...
One person up above said this has been out since Monday. If that's the case, these are some sad mirrors.:) I've gone to probably 10 of them, and not a one has the files.
Guess I'll just stick to KDE for a couple weeks for things to die down...
Does GNOME require you to build a window manager that is compliant with it, the way KDE does? To use all the nifty features, that is. I'm sure some programs will work OK and all with any wm...
...but Garfield discovered that the assault can come from the outside.
To run your fork program you'd have to be a user on that machine, and we all know that's old news. But the ground-breaking discovery here is that outside connections use the same process table. All I can say is, WOW. I may just change my ISP to this guy's company if he's so security concious...
Heh, another cute quote I caught while re-reading it: I can shut down any one of their servers on the Net. A mighty bold statement. We need to immediately restructure the entire Internet to resolve this issue, lest we all die a slow and painful death.
And what's with the bit about it taking 10 hours to accomplish this task? Do one connection a minute for 10 hours to get the 600 entries in a process table? I can already see this guy is an experienced sys admin with programming prowess like this.:)
I just said 32k, because that's all the higher I've noticed my Linux box to get in PIDs before starting back at the beginning. But still the point of ZD saying 600 processes is all it takes to kill an ISP is rather amusing. I can't imagine how Slashdot keeps going, surely there's times when there's 600+ users at once.
Is that all Unix can do at once? I'd guess it would be at least 32k. Not that I blame ZD, they do what they can with no knowledge, just pass these "I can shut down the Internet in 2 seconds!" yahoos along.
Couldn't this just be handled by tcpwrappers (or similar) to close a session after 5 minutes of no traffic? Aside from all the usual firewall, tighten security, etc a half-witted system admin would do.
I was looking at making some modifications to a RedHat cd I have (update, add different RPMs, etc). But one thing that's stumped me is the boot information on it. Several Windows CD burning programs I've looked into (it's all they have the CDR attached to here), say to make a boot floppy then use it's image in the program. But there's gotta be a way to just rip that image off the CD, for modification and eventual re-burning. Would just dd'ing 1.44mb from the start of the CD do it?
Mandrake is really just Redhat with KDE as the default window manager and all, and maybe some updated RPMs. If your Linux box is up and running fine, there's little point in trying it. But if you're out for some adventure, go ahead and format and go.
I set Mandrake up on a spare PC recently. I had all the network, X, etc configurred nicely in under a half hour. Gotta love Redhat for that FTP install (no CDROM in this computer).
First, make the packages yourself and ensure that everything is taken care of.
Then, rpm -e package_name
Overall, packages from RedHat do contain the proper list of files, and the pre/post un/in-stall scripts are reasonably well. I haven't looked over each and every one, as I pretty much just make things myself. But how well a package uninstalls comes down to whomever made the package. If they do things properly, there's no trouble.
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Heh, that's all that we'd need to avoid the long startup times. Otherwise, seems like a cute idea.
In MS's limited way, you sort of can do this with roaming profiles. Of course, "your desktop" there is defined as, "All the icons you have" not the different window managers and all, Linux has.
This is getting erie. This is like the third article in recent weeks that has been rather exact on what I'm doing in my life. Just a couple days ago I talked to my filthy headhunter about a raise, and he just laughed. We'll see who has the last laugh...:)
One other thing besides pay that they always ask immediately is who I currently work for, supervisors, etc. It's obvious they are just farming for names to solicit themselves to, but it's still pretty pathetic.
Say you find someone that farmed a newsgroup for your email address. Then what, sue them and ask where they got your email? They say, "You sent me this mail that requested my information on the Super Product 2000," and present a nice email, made in Word (they wouldn't be using vi, I'm sure:)).
It's tough to prove how they got your email. And then you'd have to somehow prove you didn't send that email...
One thing I saw on another system was domain hosting for dyndns people (web redirection, mail holding, etc). They wanted something like $20 a year, which is certainly reasonable. Is there any plans in the works for these sort of advanced services (charging a fee is fine by me)?
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My workplace decided to go the Microsoft way, and ever since it's been a headache. So many people have not all that complicated macros and functions in say Lotus 123, but Excel either does not have that function, or has implemented it in a terribly goofy way. If an office package can be made and made well, it's be great for Linux. I just don't see that coming in from the MS camp.
Well, it was posted on Slashdot with the title, "South Park spoof of Star Wars." So one would presume (at least I did) it was a parody of Star Wars using South Park characters. So then it rolls back to, why watch it if you know it contains South Park?
Unless you were referred to the site from somewhere else, then one would wonder why comment about it on Slashdot, and not to your friend directly...
As others have said, the Linux version will ship after the Windows version. And the beta acceptance letter said the beta test will end the 26th. So, it looks like they're planning on the Linux version being ready to go like the top of April...
Oh yeah, well Intel invented it six hours before MS, and forgot to turn the switch off to take it out of 486 CPUs. So there.
I liked his comment just after that (from the CNN transcript link in the article), "During a quarter century of public service, including most of it long before I came into my current job, ..."
And here I always thought most of his 25 years were the six since '93. Go figure.
Plugins have many uses. I haven't downloaded this plugin for obvious reasons, but I could see MS designing it so that when you load your browser, it fires a hit to some server out in MSland. Then they can start bombarding you with "news," but more imporantly, ads. It's so much more convenient then having to wait for users to go to MSNBC's web site. And besides, users told them they wanted it, and it is a vital part of the OS, and Linux is just copying them, and BeOS too, oh and OS/2 tried to as well.
I guess the only program that's completely free would be Golgotha. So, let's design an OS around it and live in completely-free land.
Good lord, what's up the ass of so many folks here nowadays? Bitching over which has Corba first, then saying, "Well, it's still better in Gnome, so nyah." If you can't provide any sort of constructive criticism about the products involved, to make them all better for us, then shut the fudge up (pardon the language :)).
I just want to have MANY wonderful, useful, stable applications on my Linux box. Not one set of products from one group of people. And face it, with world domination "just around the corner," (Linus at Linuxworld), we need programs that users can use and love. Joe User won't give a rats ass about whether Gnome or KDE started using Corba first, or that Troll announced this QPL a couple days after Gnome's announcement. They just want office apps and all that they can type their love letters in.
Obviously, Gnome people give their rats asses. If you aren't only using their product, you're Satan.
And then there's the classes of people that feel all people should use only one certain set of libs, be it KDE or GNOME.
All the bickering will get us nowhere.
I had set up a 486/25 with 16mb ram for a relative with KDE. Worked fine for the 6 months or so before they bought a new computer. Aside from the kids always wanting to just shut it off and not properly shut down...
One person up above said this has been out since Monday. If that's the case, these are some sad mirrors. :) I've gone to probably 10 of them, and not a one has the files.
Guess I'll just stick to KDE for a couple weeks for things to die down...
Does GNOME require you to build a window manager that is compliant with it, the way KDE does? To use all the nifty features, that is. I'm sure some programs will work OK and all with any wm...
...but Garfield discovered that the assault can come from the outside.
:)
To run your fork program you'd have to be a user on that machine, and we all know that's old news. But the ground-breaking discovery here is that outside connections use the same process table. All I can say is, WOW. I may just change my ISP to this guy's company if he's so security concious...
Heh, another cute quote I caught while re-reading it: I can shut down any one of their servers on the Net. A mighty bold statement. We need to immediately restructure the entire Internet to resolve this issue, lest we all die a slow and painful death.
And what's with the bit about it taking 10 hours to accomplish this task? Do one connection a minute for 10 hours to get the 600 entries in a process table? I can already see this guy is an experienced sys admin with programming prowess like this.
I just said 32k, because that's all the higher I've noticed my Linux box to get in PIDs before starting back at the beginning. But still the point of ZD saying 600 processes is all it takes to kill an ISP is rather amusing. I can't imagine how Slashdot keeps going, surely there's times when there's 600+ users at once.
Is that all Unix can do at once? I'd guess it would be at least 32k. Not that I blame ZD, they do what they can with no knowledge, just pass these "I can shut down the Internet in 2 seconds!" yahoos along.
Couldn't this just be handled by tcpwrappers (or similar) to close a session after 5 minutes of no traffic? Aside from all the usual firewall, tighten security, etc a half-witted system admin would do.
I was looking at making some modifications to a RedHat cd I have (update, add different RPMs, etc). But one thing that's stumped me is the boot information on it. Several Windows CD burning programs I've looked into (it's all they have the CDR attached to here), say to make a boot floppy then use it's image in the program. But there's gotta be a way to just rip that image off the CD, for modification and eventual re-burning. Would just dd'ing 1.44mb from the start of the CD do it?
Mandrake is really just Redhat with KDE as the default window manager and all, and maybe some updated RPMs. If your Linux box is up and running fine, there's little point in trying it. But if you're out for some adventure, go ahead and format and go.
I set Mandrake up on a spare PC recently. I had all the network, X, etc configurred nicely in under a half hour. Gotta love Redhat for that FTP install (no CDROM in this computer).
First, make the packages yourself and ensure that everything is taken care of.
Then, rpm -e package_name
Overall, packages from RedHat do contain the proper list of files, and the pre/post un/in-stall scripts are reasonably well. I haven't looked over each and every one, as I pretty much just make things myself. But how well a package uninstalls comes down to whomever made the package. If they do things properly, there's no trouble.
Heh, that's all that we'd need to avoid the long startup times. Otherwise, seems like a cute idea.
2;)new pentium350 only 7,000$
You're not too far off. Where I work, we pay about $5000 for an IBM P2/400.
In MS's limited way, you sort of can do this with roaming profiles. Of course, "your desktop" there is defined as, "All the icons you have" not the different window managers and all, Linux has.
This is getting erie. This is like the third article in recent weeks that has been rather exact on what I'm doing in my life. Just a couple days ago I talked to my filthy headhunter about a raise, and he just laughed. We'll see who has the last laugh... :)
One other thing besides pay that they always ask immediately is who I currently work for, supervisors, etc. It's obvious they are just farming for names to solicit themselves to, but it's still pretty pathetic.
Say you find someone that farmed a newsgroup for your email address. Then what, sue them and ask where they got your email? They say, "You sent me this mail that requested my information on the Super Product 2000," and present a nice email, made in Word (they wouldn't be using vi, I'm sure :)).
It's tough to prove how they got your email. And then you'd have to somehow prove you didn't send that email...
One thing I saw on another system was domain hosting for dyndns people (web redirection, mail holding, etc). They wanted something like $20 a year, which is certainly reasonable. Is there any plans in the works for these sort of advanced services (charging a fee is fine by me)?