This is very strange - now I'm getting messages about "the server encountered an internal misconfiguration" and was logged out of slash!
Rob, please fix the bugs... Perhaps you need a second server setup to do upgrades on before moving the main server over? It's very wude to the rest of us.
Umm... I was trolling, but also making fun of Enoch Root's #5 first post and self-degredation. If anything, it should have been hit with an Offtopic, not a Troll.
Well, that's just fine for you, because you think about it, but I'm trying to get to the newbie moderators who just leave their settings on defaults - which are usually set to 'Highest Scores First' in an effort to see, well, the comments that are scored highest - and that's exactly what they're looking at when they moderate. That's why so many points are wasted unnecesarily (sp?!?) pushing +3 comments to +5 instead of finding comments at 1 that should be a +3.
Exactly - most current virii are doing a piss-poor job of social engineering. You could even make a.exe virus, with the proper engineering - simply have it pass itself along as a "Virus alert", describing some (made-up) worm, and then instruct the user to run the disinfector - voila! Instant dumb-user virus.
Ever notice how most current worms aren't even in the best english? It seems that nobody in the US is writing worms, and so we get people with a bad knowledge of the language trying to fool people into clicking on the stuff.
Hey, where's the "This is more informative" link-trap?
That's called "bug-for-bug compatability", and I'm not sure StarOffice is quite bug-for-bug compatible (yet). It's a good thing that it'll be GPL'ed though, so we can work on cloning those MS Office *ahem* features...
Does this neatly counteract the argument that MS Office applications are necessary for complex, scripted integration (via Visual Basic)?
Actually, it neatly counteracts the argument that Linux (and other OSS) are immune to the kind of complex bloatware that plagues Windows like an integrated programming language and web browser in the Office suite.
This is a classic case of "Company contracts work, then gets upset/suprised when it's not as good as they hoped!" Gee, y'think companies are ever going to learn? This isn't just a website problem - it happens all the time.
Personally, though, I rather like the website they have - uncluttered and to the point. What's wrong with it?
Does ICANN, as a government-privatized entity, get any money from the govt.? If so, I propose that we haul them into court and get them to straighten up lest they lose their taxpayer dollars.
Secondly, how does one get a bank of IP addresses these days?
Part of the complaint of the original article was about our dependence on OPEC - which can be fixed with ethanol. Now, it's not very efficient, but it's not OPEC.
But you're wrong on one part. Winelib == building a native linux executable. Corel ships their WPO2000 as windows.exe's and shells scripts that call their version of wine on them.
How many pieces of hardware do I need to buy to get the software I need?:)
Secondly, libGL.so is perfectly present and functional in 5.0... if you don't mind losing your hardware acceleration. The new OpenGL is in beta testing.
Thirdly, people who are getting nervous because of Be's moves towards the IA market haven't been listening closely enough. Be is commited to BeOS as the ultimate content creation (read: multimedia) platform for BeIA.
Actually, as mentioned in a recent issue of the Industrial Physicist, there's a worldwide trend towards decarbonization for energy sources. Basically, we seem to be switching towards fuel with a lower number of carbon molecules, and there's much research into pure-hydrogen fuels, esp. for fuel cells.
Where I live (Illinois) the fuel all uses ethanol, but the gas prices are jacked up because of the stupid USPTO. Down with patents to lower gas prices! </rant>
I'm not refusing a gift, because the program ain't free. I'm flaming a commercial company for failing to provide a distro-independent program because they want the "Red Hat" name value.
Gladly. Loki Setup is here. I'm attempting to propose that vendors of Linux applications shouldn't make any claims whatsoever about distrobution support and simply distribute their product in a distro-independent manner, much like Loki does. Nobody ever question's Loki's support of all distros, because they're not written to a specific one.
Metro Link makes a ~900KB X server that works just fine for embedded devices. There's a Good Thing for X, and a Bad Thing for X:
The Good Thing is that it's network transparent, so vendors can use it to do a "deploy applications over the web" strategy (or devices like the SUN Ray).
The bad thing is that it's dog slow.
XFree86 has already addressed the Bad Thing in two different ways - with DGA (much faster) and GLX. GLX is the future of X display - clients draw into an OpenGL accelerated window (woo hoo!).
That you pick Linux, not any distro. Once again, Loki is the example. Loki is not biased towards any distro, its products work on everything from Debian to Slackware to SuSE. In fact, several different distros already bundle demos or limited editions of Loki products (like Debian or Corel). Their excellent installer tool (open source, BTW) will take care of all instillation issues. They could have ported their games to "Red Hat Linux" and gotten name value. They didn't - they made the responsible choice and used a vendor-indifferent implementation.
The point is that they're being lazy, and instead of using other, slightly harder solutions to the cross-distro problem (like Loki's excellent installer), they're just going for Red Hat for the name value. If they wanted to be technologically sound, they'd use something like the Loki installer.
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Rob, please fix the bugs... Perhaps you need a second server setup to do upgrades on before moving the main server over? It's very wude to the rest of us.
Here is the dup version that got deleted... along with all it's comments. Stop Slashdot censorship!
I think you mean stroked, don't you?
(For those that don't get it... that's a joke).
Umm... I was trolling, but also making fun of Enoch Root's #5 first post and self-degredation. If anything, it should have been hit with an Offtopic, not a Troll.
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- That the source to the program be redistributable.
- That any compiled binaries from the source be redistributable.
Therefore, it's free, too.Fifteenth!
Personally, I prefer HMM3 in Ascii Art through AALib :-)
Ever notice how most current worms aren't even in the best english? It seems that nobody in the US is writing worms, and so we get people with a bad knowledge of the language trying to fool people into clicking on the stuff.
Hey, where's the "This is more informative" link-trap?
That's called "bug-for-bug compatability", and I'm not sure StarOffice is quite bug-for-bug compatible (yet). It's a good thing that it'll be GPL'ed though, so we can work on cloning those MS Office *ahem* features...
Actually, it neatly counteracts the argument that Linux (and other OSS) are immune to the kind of complex bloatware that plagues Windows like an integrated programming language and web browser in the Office suite.
My signature is under the GNU Free Documentation License. Use it as you will.
Actually, what I want is a subnet, but I've been blessed with the luxury of TCI@Home *hack* *hack* *cough* *cough*. Any way to do this?
Personally, though, I rather like the website they have - uncluttered and to the point. What's wrong with it?
Time to cut back on the 'dew...
Secondly, how does one get a bank of IP addresses these days?
Part of the complaint of the original article was about our dependence on OPEC - which can be fixed with ethanol. Now, it's not very efficient, but it's not OPEC.
But you're wrong on one part. Winelib == building a native linux executable. Corel ships their WPO2000 as windows .exe's and shells scripts that call their version of wine on them.
Secondly, libGL.so is perfectly present and functional in 5.0... if you don't mind losing your hardware acceleration. The new OpenGL is in beta testing.
Thirdly, people who are getting nervous because of Be's moves towards the IA market haven't been listening closely enough. Be is commited to BeOS as the ultimate content creation (read: multimedia) platform for BeIA.
Where I live (Illinois) the fuel all uses ethanol, but the gas prices are jacked up because of the stupid USPTO. Down with patents to lower gas prices! </rant>
I'm not refusing a gift, because the program ain't free. I'm flaming a commercial company for failing to provide a distro-independent program because they want the "Red Hat" name value.
Gladly. Loki Setup is here. I'm attempting to propose that vendors of Linux applications shouldn't make any claims whatsoever about distrobution support and simply distribute their product in a distro-independent manner, much like Loki does. Nobody ever question's Loki's support of all distros, because they're not written to a specific one.
XFree86 has already addressed the Bad Thing in two different ways - with DGA (much faster) and GLX. GLX is the future of X display - clients draw into an OpenGL accelerated window (woo hoo!).
Who wants to start porting gdk to GLX?
That you pick Linux, not any distro. Once again, Loki is the example. Loki is not biased towards any distro, its products work on everything from Debian to Slackware to SuSE. In fact, several different distros already bundle demos or limited editions of Loki products (like Debian or Corel). Their excellent installer tool (open source, BTW) will take care of all instillation issues. They could have ported their games to "Red Hat Linux" and gotten name value. They didn't - they made the responsible choice and used a vendor-indifferent implementation.
The point is that they're being lazy, and instead of using other, slightly harder solutions to the cross-distro problem (like Loki's excellent installer), they're just going for Red Hat for the name value. If they wanted to be technologically sound, they'd use something like the Loki installer.