Can someone get on this _now_? The sooner we solve this problem the better. I have a bad feeling some Eeeeevil Company takes it before you can say Microsoft.
For all those who were worried about Red Hat becoming the next Microsoft, their fears seem to be at least partly justified. If their goal is to create an "exact windows clone," and they consider businesses better friends than users, it suddenly becomes clear why fvwm95 is their default WM even though it sucks.
My only hope is they don't force standards on us. For all those who say that isn't going to happen, just look at RPMs. Who distributes using DEBs?
Microsoft decided to impliment some "unused" characters in the iso-XXXX text standard. So while everyone else uses ', they use a different asc-ii-esque code. Because no one except microsoft knows what these other codes mean, they put in a question mark.
There's a perl script called "demoroniser" that cleans up microsoft?s (joke!) bad html.
ok, I made my own poster. It's in pagemaker format (6.5), which no one can read. I tried exporting to pdf, but it complained that I didn't have a postscript driver. Whatever. If someone wants to convert this to PDF, which anyone can read and print out, that'd be cool. I think all of the fonts are generic enough that everyone will have them.
Someone (I call notme!) should make a "wanted" poster that kids can post in their schools:
WANTED: non-conformists for crimes yet to be committed!
There are members of our community who are threatening the bland conformity that we have tried so hard to create! Please report anyone matching the following description to your superiors so that these individuals can be "corrected." Remember, opinions you don't agree with are wrong!
Warning signs: -- odd clothing -- liking for weird, therefore bad, music -- heavy internet use -- high intelligence -- seeking out others with similar tastes -- zits -- dislike for classes, teachers -- reclusiveness -- anything else?
Please don't interpret anything here as an attack on your decision to homeschool your kid. There are some aspects of homeschooling that I've always wondered about.
For instance: How long do you homeschool a child? Like, until what grade? Do you really think you can give them an entire high-school education, including the deeper meanings of Shakespeare, history and poitics of Africa, and the fundamentals of physics? If you plan to teach them to a certain extent, and then introduce them into the school system for higher grades, how are they going to cope with suddenly being one of two thousand people? What happens when your child reaches the inevitable rebelious stage, and doesn't want to go to school, _or_ be with his parents? At what point can you let go?
On the subject of relgious education, do you completely skip ideas of evolution and genetics? The big bang? Modern science has brought us computers and tvs, so it can't _all_ be hogwash.
As for a "homeschool support group," it sounds to me like the parents _and_ kids spend time together. While to parents this may seem like a good thing, I would predict the teen would desperately seek to be with people his (her?) own age _without_ an adult constantly watching over them. I had a friend who's parents _refused_ to let him go anywhere without a parent present, right through middle school. It was oppressive, but it was also a hassle.
I'm geniuinely interested in hearing your response, because I just don't understand how a child can grow up in the confines of their own home.
> Meanwhile, when the jocks and popular kids grow > up, they take their places in the leader-caste > of society; and while most of them are, by then, > relatively decent individuals, they do not see > that there is a problem.
I think this is why everyone is blaming the games instead of the environment: all of those tv people were the popular kids! They grew up self-confident and popular, and don't see what is right under their noses.
I called tech support about my encore kit because I was having problems (surprise!) in windows. Once we solved my problem, I asked about linux. He told me that he's been hearing "good things" about linux support from _within_ creative. Now, he didn't say "dvd support this month!" but he _definately_ didn't say "we have no plans to support it at this time." I am hopeful.
Is Corel going to _force_ us to use KDE, or will it be easy to use GNOME instead. Otherwise we end up with the Micros~1 situation. Sure you can _install_ netscape, but it's much harder than just using IE.
I know it's not a completely fair comparison, because it is probably easy to remove kde, but it's still an issue.
also, does debian use rpms or their own equivalent? It seems everything out there uses rpms, so it would suck to not be able to use them.
just when you thought everything coexisted happily
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Are we looking at a VHS/Beta fight with KDE and Gnome? How can we avoid this?
Check out the latest release of Mozilla. They've started to add in mail and news, and the browser is functional. I think there's enough base functionality that people can start playing around with it.
Please note, IANAPPAIKATOT (I am not a professional programmer, although I know a thing or two), so I don't know how _easy_ it would be to play around.
"At issue was a provision in the law making it a crime to transmit a 'communication which is obscene, lewd, lascivious, filthy or indecent with intent to annoy, abuse, threat or harass another person.'"
Yes, the Grand Court of the Greatest Country on God's Green Earth has outlawed flaming! What do we do now?
Linux Tuning Info - One Spot to Look? SOON!
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I am currently helping to put up a site for this very need. It will be at www.linuxaid.org, and will be a one-stop place for _anyone_ looking for help with linux.
Tips and solutions are arranged by category for easy navigating. Having trouble with your ppp connection? go to/hardware/modems/ppp. Want to squeeze some performance out of your smb server? go to/tweaks/server/smb.
Who is going to write all of this? YOU! If you have a tip, you can place it in the tree. If you have a problem, you can place it in the tree and wait for others to fix it! Growth will be slow at first, but as soon as it catches on, the content will grow and grow until even a newbie can find help.
Why don't people just get the stupid browser OUT THE DOOR? It's been over a year, and we're still stuck with 4.5 while Microsoft has released a new browser that is _better_ in many people's opinion. Has anyone else noticed that many people say the browser war is over, and Microsoft has won? What does it say about the Open Source community that we can't put out a web browser? Instead of doing something _well_, just do it. Because Mozilla is modular, we can plug the net stuff in later.
Slashdot Mirror
"Did you hate those where a certain company claims credit for products that don't even exist? You will!"
Can someone get on this _now_? The sooner we solve this problem the better. I have a bad feeling some Eeeeevil Company takes it before you can say Microsoft.
I think the bt484(??) tv cards are fully supported. Just do a make xconfig on the linux kernel and look at what is supported through Video for Linux.
I guess anyone who thought linux sucked at multimedia is proved wrong with this thing, eh? Proof through example!
Isn't it more important to get _user_ documentation out the door? GNOME for Dummies would be a good start.
Anyone know how we can stop them?
what do you mean when a computer "panics"?
For all those who were worried about Red Hat becoming the next Microsoft, their fears seem to be at least partly justified. If their goal is to create an "exact windows clone," and they consider businesses better friends than users, it suddenly becomes clear why fvwm95 is their default WM even though it sucks.
My only hope is they don't force standards on us. For all those who say that isn't going to happen, just look at RPMs. Who distributes using DEBs?
Maybe Corel will get it right?
I would have played it except that the TNT is unsupported. Only voodoo foos can play it.
Microsoft decided to impliment some "unused" characters in the iso-XXXX text standard. So while everyone else uses ', they use a different asc-ii-esque code. Because no one except microsoft knows what these other codes mean, they put in a question mark.
There's a perl script called "demoroniser" that cleans up microsoft?s (joke!) bad html.
ok, I made my own poster. It's in pagemaker format (6.5), which no one can read. I tried exporting to pdf, but it complained that I didn't have a postscript driver. Whatever. If someone wants to convert this to PDF, which anyone can read and print out, that'd be cool. I think all of the fonts are generic enough that everyone will have them.
Here is a Pagemaker wanted poster.
Someone (I call notme!) should make a "wanted" poster that kids can post in their schools:
WANTED:
non-conformists
for crimes yet to be
committed!
There are members of our community who are threatening the bland conformity that we have tried so hard to create! Please report anyone matching the following description to your superiors so that these individuals can be "corrected." Remember, opinions you don't agree with are wrong!
Warning signs:
-- odd clothing
-- liking for weird, therefore bad, music
-- heavy internet use
-- high intelligence
-- seeking out others with similar tastes
-- zits
-- dislike for classes, teachers
-- reclusiveness
-- anything else?
Heh, that's what I was known as: a semi-nerd. "But we're not being mean, because they're not _really_ nerds, just semi-nerds!"
Please don't interpret anything here as an attack on your decision to homeschool your kid. There are some aspects of homeschooling that I've always wondered about.
For instance: How long do you homeschool a child? Like, until what grade? Do you really think you can give them an entire high-school education, including the deeper meanings of Shakespeare, history and poitics of Africa, and the fundamentals of physics? If you plan to teach them to a certain extent, and then introduce them into the school system for higher grades, how are they going to cope with suddenly being one of two thousand people? What happens when your child reaches the inevitable rebelious stage, and doesn't want to go to school, _or_ be with his parents? At what point can you let go?
On the subject of relgious education, do you completely skip ideas of evolution and genetics? The big bang? Modern science has brought us computers and tvs, so it can't _all_ be hogwash.
As for a "homeschool support group," it sounds to me like the parents _and_ kids spend time together. While to parents this may seem like a good thing, I would predict the teen would desperately seek to be with people his (her?) own age _without_ an adult constantly watching over them. I had a friend who's parents _refused_ to let him go anywhere without a parent present, right through middle school. It was oppressive, but it was also a hassle.
I'm geniuinely interested in hearing your response, because I just don't understand how a child can grow up in the confines of their own home.
> Meanwhile, when the jocks and popular kids grow
> up, they take their places in the leader-caste
> of society; and while most of them are, by then,
> relatively decent individuals, they do not see
> that there is a problem.
I think this is why everyone is blaming the games instead of the environment: all of those tv people were the popular kids! They grew up self-confident and popular, and don't see what is right under their noses.
I called tech support about my encore kit because I was having problems (surprise!) in windows. Once we solved my problem, I asked about linux. He told me that he's been hearing "good things" about linux support from _within_ creative. Now, he didn't say "dvd support this month!" but he _definately_ didn't say "we have no plans to support it at this time." I am hopeful.
Is this new version a "MacOS X-Server"? Like an X-server for mac? Or is it just X meaning ten? I get confused.
owen
When I got mad, I loaded up the doom level I made of my highschool. Completely safe, and good for releaving stress. my level
Is Corel going to _force_ us to use KDE, or will it be easy to use GNOME instead. Otherwise we end up with the Micros~1 situation. Sure you can _install_ netscape, but it's much harder than just using IE.
I know it's not a completely fair comparison, because it is probably easy to remove kde, but it's still an issue.
also, does debian use rpms or their own equivalent? It seems everything out there uses rpms, so it would suck to not be able to use them.
Are we looking at a VHS/Beta fight with KDE and Gnome? How can we avoid this?
Check out the latest release of Mozilla. They've started to add in mail and news, and the browser is functional. I think there's enough base functionality that people can start playing around with it.
Please note, IANAPPAIKATOT (I am not a professional programmer, although I know a thing or two), so I don't know how _easy_ it would be to play around.
ywwg
"At issue was a provision in the law making it a crime to transmit a 'communication which is obscene, lewd, lascivious, filthy or indecent with intent to annoy, abuse, threat or harass another person.'"
Yes, the Grand Court of the Greatest Country on God's Green Earth has outlawed flaming! What do we do now?
I am currently helping to put up a site for this very need. It will be at www.linuxaid.org, and will be a one-stop place for _anyone_ looking for help with linux.
/hardware/modems/ppp. Want to squeeze some performance out of your smb server? go to /tweaks/server/smb.
Tips and solutions are arranged by category for easy navigating. Having trouble with your ppp connection? go to
Who is going to write all of this? YOU! If you have a tip, you can place it in the tree. If you have a problem, you can place it in the tree and wait for others to fix it! Growth will be slow at first, but as soon as it catches on, the content will grow and grow until even a newbie can find help.
We'll have a beta site soon.
Is that what you're looking for?
Owen Williams
Why don't people just get the stupid browser OUT THE DOOR? It's been over a year, and we're still stuck with 4.5 while Microsoft has released a new browser that is _better_ in many people's opinion. Has anyone else noticed that many people say the browser war is over, and Microsoft has won? What does it say about the Open Source community that we can't put out a web browser? Instead of doing something _well_, just do it. Because Mozilla is modular, we can plug the net stuff in later.
don't anyone correct my usage of "right." I meant write. (Where is the "edit" button?)
The article seems to imply that they will give out the server code. So we can right our own streaming servers, but not players or codecs.