That's good, I've noticed that for a while. My workaround has been to just open every link as a new tab and then close it if I'm following a discussion down below my threshold or an external link -- that way I don't lose my place. Do you happen to know if this fix will fix the same behavior in Galeon, or does Galeon have a parallel bug?
When said teenager is publishing bomb-making materials, attacking government websites, and advocating the violent overthrow of the US government, I don't just send two officers to his door.
I really really don't think it's worth the sacrifice of a couple lives to prove that the FBI is kind and gentle. They had no idea what they were getting into; the fact that in retrospect he's just a whiny momma's boy with no conviction to back up his bullshit doesn't mean the FBI should not have taken precatuions.
So this guy is actively cracking and defacing websites, including attempting to break into Army systems, and he's whining about being arrested?
Next person who whines that he's the victim of the fascist Ashcroftian regime gets beat over the head with a clue-by-four. I'd be pretty pissed if he was hacking my site "so he could get his message out." What a loser.
Yes, Debian is not what I'd use to support naive users on the desktop at this moment.
I disagree. Unless said naive users are administrating their own systems, Debian is ideal for their desktops. The applications work the exact same as they do on any other distro, and I can maintain my own internal mirror based on packages that I've tested on my own desktop.
The exceptions would be 1) as mentioned above, users who need to administrate their own systems, or 2) a very large-scale rollout for which something like Red Hat Network would be useful. Other than that, Debian is great.
In my opinion, National Public Radio (whose mission is to aid the growth and development of noncommercial radio)
Having run a student radio station in my college days, I can tell you definitively that NPR doesn't give two shits about the "growth and development of noncommercial radio." They care about the growth and development of NPR franchises, nothing more. When the FCC proposed allowing low-power FM licenses to student and community run stations, NPR joined with the National Association of Broadcasters (Clear Channel + their associates) in spreading "It will ruin the spectrum" FUD to Congressmen to block its passage.
Please don't kid yourself. NPR isn't interested in fair play or community voices, unless they get to decide which community voices get aired. They like being the "voice of reason" on the radio and do not want competition.
Yeah, I know the problems sid has, so I test everything out on my machine (I can boot into a small clean debian install I have if I break it) before I apply upgrades. I have always had problems with woody and package conflicts, sid works much more cleanly. But yeah, I'm relatively careful about applying upgrades.
Microsoft's new focus on security will not help them sell any upgrades. If their customers were worried about security, why would they have started using Microsoft in the first place?
Our company has been hit by the recession relatively heavily -- our main product is a "luxury" item for most businesses -- so when we decided to finally put our salesman on computers and enter the 21st century, I suggested Linux desktops. I was met with some quizzical looks, but once I demoed my desktop and mentioned the key word "free," I was given the go-ahead.
The idea is that there is only a steep learning curve for Linux if you're switching from another OS; if you've never used anything, there's no adjustment. Unlike the article's writer, though, we went with Gnome, for one huge reason: Evolution. Just like Outlook is key for businessmen who run Windows, Evolution makes keeping track of contacts, appointments, etc. a breeze for our salesmen. They do basic word processing with Abiword, look at some spreadsheets with Gnumeric, and browse the web with Galeon.
I think what it comes down to is Linux's main strength is choice. My users do lots of planning, organizing, etc., so I centered their desktops around Evolution. TrustCommerce's people for the most part do very basic email, but a lot more document work, so their desktops are based around OpenOffice.
Two more things: The killer app is gtcd. I cannot convey in words how amazed new users are when they put a cd in and the cd player looks up the tracklisting. (Yes, I realize many Windows cd players do this. Yes, I realize the new version of MP that comes with ME & above do this.) The other thing is that using Debian makes it all worthwhile. I mirror sid (the distribution we use) on the file server, which updates every night, and then when I upgrade workstations it goes over our 100Mb network. I cannot begin to describe how much easier my job is doing ssh workstation; apt-get update ; apt-get upgrade than walking around to desks and doing Windows Update.
I could steal your open-source code, change the header information, and release it as my own, closed-source product, and there's not a damn thing you could do about it, because you never owned your code in the first place.
But why would you do that? Anyone could just make copies of your closed-source product, give it to whomever they wanted, put it up for download on the internet, whatever. How could you possibly make money selling closed-source software in a copyright-free world?
I can see where this discussion is going, so let me make this clear: I don't advocate abolishing copyright. I'm just saying that the argument "We need copyright because it makes the GPL possible" is invalid.
Just remember: if you abolish copyright law, the GPL won't be legal.
If copyright law were abolished, the GPL would not only not be legal, it would not be necessary. The point of the GPL is making sure your code always stays open, and doesn't get used by a company to build a closed system. If there were no such thing as a closed system, why would you need to guarantee that your software never became part of one?
I don't advocate the abolition of copyright law (although I do support its reform), but "It will outlaw the GPL!" is a pretty poor argument to make against it.
No, it's not out of the goodness of their collective hearts, it's out of their desire for profit. Why the hell would people buy Philips' products - cd players and burners, if they couldn't use them? Philips "owns" no content, they just make and sell devices to do interesting things with content purchased from other companies? What interest do they have in copy protection? This comment is nothing more than nonsensical "all corporations are evil!" blathering, without even thinking about what might make a company do this.
Four or five companies was hyperbole, meaning that there are far fewer companies doing commercial software now than say 10-15 years ago, as most have been bought/subsumed by larger ones like Microsoft, Adobe, etc. To be clearer, I should have said "there are only like four or five companies," I guess.
Why study software engineering? Because 90+% of software work is done in custom applications anyways. There are far more jobs available writing order tracking systems and machine control systems than there are writing commercial software, especially now that there are only four or five companies actually doing that.
This is a meaningless point. The fact that a specific subset of users, however large, cannot get at the source has no bearing on its importance. Even though I personally can look at and understand [some] source, I would never be able to look at it all. The value is that I know that there are multiple people looking at and improving the source that I'm not looking at, and doing it from an end-user perspective, not a software-producer perspective. I may not be a kernel hacker, but someone else with my hardware is, and I benefit from the improvements he or she makes to the kernel. "I don't recompile applications" is not a reason to not use open source software.
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The chief reason the Taliban fell so fast was because they didn't have an airforce or any sophisticated weapons. Let's see how this analysis holds up with North Korea, eh?
Well, the only difference between the air power of the Taliban and North Korea is a couple of days - North Korea's air force wouldn't last 48 hours against a committed US attack, were war ever to break out there. There are very few nations who could even put up a fight against the US in the air, all of whom are American allies.
The real difference between the Taliban and North Korea is surface-to-air missiles; American bombers would not be able to run unescorted missions around the countryside looking for targets like in Afghanistan. As was shown in Iraq, though, the threat of SAMs against allied warplanes can be neutralized fairly quickly, as any radar system that turns on finds itself looking down the barrel of a HARM almost immediately.
Ummm...aren't all Oval records like that? Aren't they the ones who had a track of a skipping cd on one of their albums? Correct me if I'm wrong; between me and my college roommate, I was the indie rock one and he was the IDM/avant garde one, but maybe it was designed to be like that?;)
I think you've inadvertently hit the nail on the head with regards to the RIAA's real problem with Napster. Cat Power, as I'm sure you know, aren't on an RIAA-member label - they're on Matador. (As an aside, Chan Gailey's amazing voice would never make it on major-label music). The RIAA doesn't want people discovering what kind of music they like, because most people don't really like lowest-common-denominator-RIAA-sludge. They just have no idea anything else exits. The RIAA member labels' business strategy exists the basis of controlling both the discovery and purchasing of music; they have nothing to do with the artistic side. Napster let people try at no risk new music they normally would not have; this became a problem. The problem isn't 12 year olds downloading Britney Spears, the problem is 35 year olds discovering that instead of buying another Neil Young retrospective, they can try out Built To Spill.
As another aside, everyone please check out the Super Furry Animals, my favorite band ever. From Wales, they melded musical styles from all over the place to create their own mixture, some sung in Welsh. Absolutely mind-blowing stuff. Download some off Morpheus, buy their albums, and go to their concerts. Fucking great band.
What sort of "mission critical" things are you talking about when it comes to IDE's? I mean, if it doesn't work, you just take out the offending plugin and do it without it. It's not like an IDE has to be a high-availability server-type thing. Obviously, it can't always be breaking and crashing or productivity suffers, but it's not like one crash of a properly backed-up project is going to end things.
I mean, can't anyone think of other cases where people chose an expensive product over a free one? I can think of one or two off the top of my head.
I get what you're going at, but in every case I can think of, the potential move would be away from the expensive product towards the free one. In response to this, I would ask the question: Are there any cases where people move away from a free product and towards an expensive one?
That's not true. The Constitution is amendable at any time by a 2/3 majority of the states. If we, as Americans, really did decide that the 2nd amendment wasn't such a good idea anymore, we could strike it from the record. The writers of the Constitution included a provision for counting slaves as 3/5 of a person for the purposes of voting, but the country realized that was wrong, and it was amended. The point is, don't think that we still have the 2nd amendment because we have any mechanism for ending it; we still have it because the majority of us wants it there.
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That's good, I've noticed that for a while. My workaround has been to just open every link as a new tab and then close it if I'm following a discussion down below my threshold or an external link -- that way I don't lose my place. Do you happen to know if this fix will fix the same behavior in Galeon, or does Galeon have a parallel bug?
When said teenager is publishing bomb-making materials, attacking government websites, and advocating the violent overthrow of the US government, I don't just send two officers to his door.
I really really don't think it's worth the sacrifice of a couple lives to prove that the FBI is kind and gentle. They had no idea what they were getting into; the fact that in retrospect he's just a whiny momma's boy with no conviction to back up his bullshit doesn't mean the FBI should not have taken precatuions.
So this guy is actively cracking and defacing websites, including attempting to break into Army systems, and he's whining about being arrested?
Next person who whines that he's the victim of the fascist Ashcroftian regime gets beat over the head with a clue-by-four. I'd be pretty pissed if he was hacking my site "so he could get his message out." What a loser.
I disagree. Unless said naive users are administrating their own systems, Debian is ideal for their desktops. The applications work the exact same as they do on any other distro, and I can maintain my own internal mirror based on packages that I've tested on my own desktop.
The exceptions would be 1) as mentioned above, users who need to administrate their own systems, or 2) a very large-scale rollout for which something like Red Hat Network would be useful. Other than that, Debian is great.
Having run a student radio station in my college days, I can tell you definitively that NPR doesn't give two shits about the "growth and development of noncommercial radio." They care about the growth and development of NPR franchises, nothing more. When the FCC proposed allowing low-power FM licenses to student and community run stations, NPR joined with the National Association of Broadcasters (Clear Channel + their associates) in spreading "It will ruin the spectrum" FUD to Congressmen to block its passage.
Please don't kid yourself. NPR isn't interested in fair play or community voices, unless they get to decide which community voices get aired. They like being the "voice of reason" on the radio and do not want competition.
Yeah, I know the problems sid has, so I test everything out on my machine (I can boot into a small clean debian install I have if I break it) before I apply upgrades. I have always had problems with woody and package conflicts, sid works much more cleanly. But yeah, I'm relatively careful about applying upgrades.
Microsoft's new focus on security will not help them sell any upgrades. If their customers were worried about security, why would they have started using Microsoft in the first place?
Our company has been hit by the recession relatively heavily -- our main product is a "luxury" item for most businesses -- so when we decided to finally put our salesman on computers and enter the 21st century, I suggested Linux desktops. I was met with some quizzical looks, but once I demoed my desktop and mentioned the key word "free," I was given the go-ahead.
The idea is that there is only a steep learning curve for Linux if you're switching from another OS; if you've never used anything, there's no adjustment. Unlike the article's writer, though, we went with Gnome, for one huge reason: Evolution. Just like Outlook is key for businessmen who run Windows, Evolution makes keeping track of contacts, appointments, etc. a breeze for our salesmen. They do basic word processing with Abiword, look at some spreadsheets with Gnumeric, and browse the web with Galeon.
I think what it comes down to is Linux's main strength is choice. My users do lots of planning, organizing, etc., so I centered their desktops around Evolution. TrustCommerce's people for the most part do very basic email, but a lot more document work, so their desktops are based around OpenOffice.
Two more things: The killer app is gtcd. I cannot convey in words how amazed new users are when they put a cd in and the cd player looks up the tracklisting. (Yes, I realize many Windows cd players do this. Yes, I realize the new version of MP that comes with ME & above do this.) The other thing is that using Debian makes it all worthwhile. I mirror sid (the distribution we use) on the file server, which updates every night, and then when I upgrade workstations it goes over our 100Mb network. I cannot begin to describe how much easier my job is doing ssh workstation; apt-get update ; apt-get upgrade than walking around to desks and doing Windows Update.
Just showing a little solidarity here. /. posters unite!
To quote a previous poster:
Mr Taco, tear down this wall!!!
I never would have learned anything if I thought like that.
But why would you do that? Anyone could just make copies of your closed-source product, give it to whomever they wanted, put it up for download on the internet, whatever. How could you possibly make money selling closed-source software in a copyright-free world?
I can see where this discussion is going, so let me make this clear: I don't advocate abolishing copyright. I'm just saying that the argument "We need copyright because it makes the GPL possible" is invalid.
Time for a new job, dude. If recompiling development-branch kernels isn't billable time, you're in the wrong line of work.
Just think about that for a minute.
No, it's not out of the goodness of their collective hearts, it's out of their desire for profit. Why the hell would people buy Philips' products - cd players and burners, if they couldn't use them? Philips "owns" no content, they just make and sell devices to do interesting things with content purchased from other companies? What interest do they have in copy protection? This comment is nothing more than nonsensical "all corporations are evil!" blathering, without even thinking about what might make a company do this.
Four or five companies was hyperbole, meaning that there are far fewer companies doing commercial software now than say 10-15 years ago, as most have been bought/subsumed by larger ones like Microsoft, Adobe, etc. To be clearer, I should have said "there are only like four or five companies," I guess.
Why study software engineering? Because 90+% of software work is done in custom applications anyways. There are far more jobs available writing order tracking systems and machine control systems than there are writing commercial software, especially now that there are only four or five companies actually doing that.
This is a meaningless point. The fact that a specific subset of users, however large, cannot get at the source has no bearing on its importance. Even though I personally can look at and understand [some] source, I would never be able to look at it all. The value is that I know that there are multiple people looking at and improving the source that I'm not looking at, and doing it from an end-user perspective, not a software-producer perspective. I may not be a kernel hacker, but someone else with my hardware is, and I benefit from the improvements he or she makes to the kernel. "I don't recompile applications" is not a reason to not use open source software.
Well, the only difference between the air power of the Taliban and North Korea is a couple of days - North Korea's air force wouldn't last 48 hours against a committed US attack, were war ever to break out there. There are very few nations who could even put up a fight against the US in the air, all of whom are American allies.
The real difference between the Taliban and North Korea is surface-to-air missiles; American bombers would not be able to run unescorted missions around the countryside looking for targets like in Afghanistan. As was shown in Iraq, though, the threat of SAMs against allied warplanes can be neutralized fairly quickly, as any radar system that turns on finds itself looking down the barrel of a HARM almost immediately.
Ummm...aren't all Oval records like that? Aren't they the ones who had a track of a skipping cd on one of their albums? Correct me if I'm wrong; between me and my college roommate, I was the indie rock one and he was the IDM/avant garde one, but maybe it was designed to be like that?
I think you've inadvertently hit the nail on the head with regards to the RIAA's real problem with Napster. Cat Power, as I'm sure you know, aren't on an RIAA-member label - they're on Matador. (As an aside, Chan Gailey's amazing voice would never make it on major-label music). The RIAA doesn't want people discovering what kind of music they like, because most people don't really like lowest-common-denominator-RIAA-sludge. They just have no idea anything else exits. The RIAA member labels' business strategy exists the basis of controlling both the discovery and purchasing of music; they have nothing to do with the artistic side. Napster let people try at no risk new music they normally would not have; this became a problem. The problem isn't 12 year olds downloading Britney Spears, the problem is 35 year olds discovering that instead of buying another Neil Young retrospective, they can try out Built To Spill.
As another aside, everyone please check out the Super Furry Animals, my favorite band ever. From Wales, they melded musical styles from all over the place to create their own mixture, some sung in Welsh. Absolutely mind-blowing stuff. Download some off Morpheus, buy their albums, and go to their concerts. Fucking great band.
What sort of "mission critical" things are you talking about when it comes to IDE's? I mean, if it doesn't work, you just take out the offending plugin and do it without it. It's not like an IDE has to be a high-availability server-type thing. Obviously, it can't always be breaking and crashing or productivity suffers, but it's not like one crash of a properly backed-up project is going to end things.
It's a standard part of the class library, I think. JSP's are converted to servlets and then compiled the first time they are run.
I get what you're going at, but in every case I can think of, the potential move would be away from the expensive product towards the free one. In response to this, I would ask the question: Are there any cases where people move away from a free product and towards an expensive one?
That's not true. The Constitution is amendable at any time by a 2/3 majority of the states. If we, as Americans, really did decide that the 2nd amendment wasn't such a good idea anymore, we could strike it from the record. The writers of the Constitution included a provision for counting slaves as 3/5 of a person for the purposes of voting, but the country realized that was wrong, and it was amended. The point is, don't think that we still have the 2nd amendment because we have any mechanism for ending it; we still have it because the majority of us wants it there.