there must be other, more constructive ways to entice vendors to embrace open-source
Yep - don't buy nVidia, and let them know that you're choosing not to buy their products because of their lack of open drivers. If you've got purchasing power over many machines (such as the guy who runs a net cafe or something), this will carry even more clout.
To be fair, I own a GeForce 2 which I inhereted when a friend upgraded. I've never bought nVidia, and I don't plan to until I can get source. Getting old cards second-hand from the bleeding-edger game community is a nice way to get shiny graphics without compromising your principles;)
As any fule no, the country TLDs are the two-digit country codes from ISO3166 with a couple of exceptions, including the United Kingdom who were already using.uk when this agreement was reached (IIRC there are a few legacy.gb domains, but I couldn't get a zone transfer working to check).
The ISO working group in charge of 3166 was mostly comprised of Europeans, especially French engineers, which is why most of the country codes are biased towards the European names for the countries.
I'm not trolling here, but curious. I've seen a few references to this apt-rpm thing which sounds pretty nice if it's like apt-get.
The main difference between apt-rpm and apt-get is that the RedHat / Fedora package repositories just don't have the same level of testing and QA that Debian's do. Sure, it might make installing software easier, but at the end of the day, Debian's QA is far more important than the ease of use of their packaging tool, and that's the area where no other distro can touch them.
And that's why sensible people run Debian on their servers;)
Because breaking standards compliance is a much better solution than fixing your fucking software in the first place!
There are several browsers which implement this feature without it being a security hole or risk. This is yet more evidence of Microsoft's inadequate attempts to provide a decent product, and yet more reason to advocate for unbundling IE - what incentive to M$ have to create a decent browser if their POS is installed on most desktops by default?
Then again, it's more reason for people to switch away to a proper web browser, so I guess it's not all bad news...
Just to point out, rather than to shamelessly advocate, that one of the areas where I found Debian to be even easier than FreeBSD was kernel compilation and installation.
Configure the kernel, do make-kpkg to compile it and package it as a.deb, then install the.deb (which does all the funging with lilo, symlinks and/boot necessary). It's fantastic especially if you've got multiple identical installations (lots of desktops) to compile once and run anywhere, using the Debian packaging system.
There is a difference between what the English call Imperial and the Americans call English, when it comes to things like pints (IIRC an Imperial pint is 18 fl. oz. while an "English" pint is 16 fl. oz.) and a few others.
To add confusion to the mix, "Imperial" to a Canadian is the same as "English" to an American - i.e. not the same as "Imperial" to an Englishman.
You may be surprised at my contacting you in this manner. I am DENNIS WINGO, chief technical officer of the ORBITAL RECOVERY CORPORATION, and you have been identified as a trustworthy person with whom I can do business.
Recently, I have suffered due to instability in the Hubble Space Telescope, which contains a good deal of material worth, approximately 100 MILLION US DOLLARS. If this money is not quickly recovered then the value will be burned in the atmosphere and everybody will have lost. If you help me to recover this money, I will send you 10% of the value (10 MILLION US DOLLARS). Please reply with details of your bank account number, sort code, account name and date of birth and we can begin the process of saving the Hubble Space Telescope and the 100 MILLION US DOLLARS value within.
Yours,
Dennis Wingo Chief Technical Officer Orbital Recovery Corporation wingod@orbitalrecovery.com
More importantly, Jabber supports GPG-signed and -encrypted instant messaging. That system in a Jabber converence room should solve the original problem perfectly.
Having a Windows install just for gaming. I swear, if it wasn't for Neocron and other games not working properly in WineX, I'd never touch my Win2K install with a bargepole!
When there's a legal alternative that lets me have the music I want, in the format I want it, on all of the operating systems I use (including my handheld player), which doesn't try to stop me doing things with my music to which I am legally entitled, then I'll consider ceasing to use p2p networks.
Tell Microsoft to secure a building, and they'll station a PR flack to stand there doing his Information Minister routine.
"This building is the most secure building in the world. The open doors and lack of alarms are a feature, not a problem. Nobody can break into this building. Stop looking at that guy in the stripey jumper with the swag bag! Nothing can break into this building!"
That's only because the ebuild to kill babies compiles without error then segfaults on run. You can patch it yourself or wait for the new version to hit the CVS mirrors.
Playing by the rules doesn't equate to honesty. Imagine these two simple scenarios:
Employee A is a lazy employee. While at work, he puts in the minimum amount of effort, treats his customers badly and constantly scrounges off for smoke breaks.
Employee B is a good employee. He's bright, self-reliant, pleasant and hardworking. However, for whatever reason (he lives a long way from work, he's got a kid he needs to drop off before starting, or some other mitigating circumstance that isn't due to laziness), he's not always at work on time. Sometimes he's five minutes late, very occasionally it's half an hour. But when he's there, he's working three or four times harder than Employee A. He's making the company money, and making their shop a nicer place for their customers to be, making them more likely to return and spend there again.
Who is providing more value to the company? Who is earning their wage by working hard, and who is ripping off the company by playing by the rules? Who should have a (mostly) clear conscience, and who should feel guilty? If a human manager were to take the time to look at the two employees, he could clearly see that one is an asset to the company and one a liability, and it's got nothing to do with punctuality.
And who's going to get fired when the biometric fingerprinting system, automatically linked to the HR systems, notices that they're not the most punctual employee in the company?
A lot of windows users don't care. if you gave them a mac as their first computer they wouldn't switch because they wouldn't know. the example i use alot is "how many people continue to buy automatic tranny cars over stick shift?" neither one is better or worse just a different interface but sticks are slowly getting phased out.
That's a damn good analogy. Automatic transmission cars are easier to drive, but only if you want to drive the way the manufacturer intended you. If you try to do something a bit out of the ordinary (getting out of mud, towing, unusual gradients) then you hit trouble.
Manual transmissions aren't that hard to learn, really, especially if you haven't gotten into the bad habit of driving an automatic. They give you more power and control over your driving, and that makes you a better, safer driver. People who learned on automatics IME make the worst drivers. I know a lot of people who drive automatics for convenience, but learned on manuals so they'd be better drivers.
It's also the case that if you learn on an automatic, you're going to find it hard to learn to drive "properly" on a manual. In the UK at least, if you learn on an automatic then your driving license is invalid for manuals.
In summary: Automatic drivers can't handle manuals without retraining. People who can drive manuals, whether they're driving manuals or automatics, tend to be better drivers. People drive manuals because they're mechanically simpler and hence more reliable, and because they give you more power and freedom over your own car.
I've not come across a better Windows vs Linux analogy for some time...
DEVELOPER: "Here's our GUI! Enjoy!"
USER: "Wow, thanks! This sure is pretty. So, how do I cut and paste?"
DEVELOPER: "Select to copy, middle-click to paste"
USER: "Oh, that works 99% of the time. Why are there exceptions?"
DEVELOPER: "We were trying to make it more like Windows"
USER: "Fair enough"
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There is more to XMPP than IM, basically.
And then since all our mailing lists would be broken, nobody would have to worry about contracting viruses that way!
there must be other, more constructive ways to entice vendors to embrace open-source
;)
Yep - don't buy nVidia, and let them know that you're choosing not to buy their products because of their lack of open drivers. If you've got purchasing power over many machines (such as the guy who runs a net cafe or something), this will carry even more clout.
To be fair, I own a GeForce 2 which I inhereted when a friend upgraded. I've never bought nVidia, and I don't plan to until I can get source. Getting old cards second-hand from the bleeding-edger game community is a nice way to get shiny graphics without compromising your principles
Ooh, I know this from working at CENTR...
.uk when this agreement was reached (IIRC there are a few legacy .gb domains, but I couldn't get a zone transfer working to check).
As any fule no, the country TLDs are the two-digit country codes from ISO3166 with a couple of exceptions, including the United Kingdom who were already using
The ISO working group in charge of 3166 was mostly comprised of Europeans, especially French engineers, which is why most of the country codes are biased towards the European names for the countries.
I'm not trolling here, but curious. I've seen a few references to this apt-rpm thing which sounds pretty nice if it's like apt-get.
;)
The main difference between apt-rpm and apt-get is that the RedHat / Fedora package repositories just don't have the same level of testing and QA that Debian's do. Sure, it might make installing software easier, but at the end of the day, Debian's QA is far more important than the ease of use of their packaging tool, and that's the area where no other distro can touch them.
And that's why sensible people run Debian on their servers
Your inability to spot a smiley?... Check
My +3 karma (at time of posting this comment) from my original comment?... Check
You could always take the M$ line and claim that http://user:password@host:port/ is a "standard" just because it's so widely used... ;)
Because breaking standards compliance is a much better solution than fixing your fucking software in the first place!
There are several browsers which implement this feature without it being a security hole or risk. This is yet more evidence of Microsoft's inadequate attempts to provide a decent product, and yet more reason to advocate for unbundling IE - what incentive to M$ have to create a decent browser if their POS is installed on most desktops by default?
Then again, it's more reason for people to switch away to a proper web browser, so I guess it's not all bad news...
Just to point out, rather than to shamelessly advocate, that one of the areas where I found Debian to be even easier than FreeBSD was kernel compilation and installation.
.deb, then install the .deb (which does all the funging with lilo, symlinks and /boot necessary). It's fantastic especially if you've got multiple identical installations (lots of desktops) to compile once and run anywhere, using the Debian packaging system.
Configure the kernel, do make-kpkg to compile it and package it as a
There is a difference between what the English call Imperial and the Americans call English, when it comes to things like pints (IIRC an Imperial pint is 18 fl. oz. while an "English" pint is 16 fl. oz.) and a few others.
To add confusion to the mix, "Imperial" to a Canadian is the same as "English" to an American - i.e. not the same as "Imperial" to an Englishman.
So basically it means if Britain tries to knight Arnie, he has to refuse, or get permission from congress first.
Yeah, like Congress would say no to Arnie...
Dear Colleague,
You may be surprised at my contacting you in this manner. I am DENNIS WINGO, chief technical officer of the ORBITAL RECOVERY CORPORATION, and you have been identified as a trustworthy person with whom I can do business.
Recently, I have suffered due to instability in the Hubble Space Telescope, which contains a good deal of material worth, approximately 100 MILLION US DOLLARS. If this money is not quickly recovered then the value will be burned in the atmosphere and everybody will have lost. If you help me to recover this money, I will send you 10% of the value (10 MILLION US DOLLARS). Please reply with details of your bank account number, sort code, account name and date of birth and we can begin the process of saving the Hubble Space Telescope and the 100 MILLION US DOLLARS value within.
Yours,
Dennis Wingo
Chief Technical Officer
Orbital Recovery Corporation
wingod@orbitalrecovery.com
But then... where did that error come from? WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!
More importantly, Jabber supports GPG-signed and -encrypted instant messaging. That system in a Jabber converence room should solve the original problem perfectly.
What wars has Vatican City won?
Roughly half of the Crusades....
So with this much computer generated imagery in a "live action" film, where do we draw the line between animation and film?
Having a Windows install just for gaming. I swear, if it wasn't for Neocron and other games not working properly in WineX, I'd never touch my Win2K install with a bargepole!
When there's a legal alternative that lets me have the music I want, in the format I want it, on all of the operating systems I use (including my handheld player), which doesn't try to stop me doing things with my music to which I am legally entitled, then I'll consider ceasing to use p2p networks.
Tell Microsoft to secure a building, and they'll station a PR flack to stand there doing his Information Minister routine.
"This building is the most secure building in the world. The open doors and lack of alarms are a feature, not a problem. Nobody can break into this building. Stop looking at that guy in the stripey jumper with the swag bag! Nothing can break into this building!"
That's only because the ebuild to kill babies compiles without error then segfaults on run. You can patch it yourself or wait for the new version to hit the CVS mirrors.
Playing by the rules doesn't equate to honesty. Imagine these two simple scenarios:
Employee A is a lazy employee. While at work, he puts in the minimum amount of effort, treats his customers badly and constantly scrounges off for smoke breaks.
Employee B is a good employee. He's bright, self-reliant, pleasant and hardworking. However, for whatever reason (he lives a long way from work, he's got a kid he needs to drop off before starting, or some other mitigating circumstance that isn't due to laziness), he's not always at work on time. Sometimes he's five minutes late, very occasionally it's half an hour. But when he's there, he's working three or four times harder than Employee A. He's making the company money, and making their shop a nicer place for their customers to be, making them more likely to return and spend there again.
Who is providing more value to the company? Who is earning their wage by working hard, and who is ripping off the company by playing by the rules? Who should have a (mostly) clear conscience, and who should feel guilty? If a human manager were to take the time to look at the two employees, he could clearly see that one is an asset to the company and one a liability, and it's got nothing to do with punctuality.
And who's going to get fired when the biometric fingerprinting system, automatically linked to the HR systems, notices that they're not the most punctual employee in the company?
Sad that we're discussing this in such detail on /.
Yes, people will think we're geeks or something...
But that would be a derived work of a non-Free song!
A lot of windows users don't care. if you gave them a mac as their first computer they wouldn't switch because they wouldn't know. the example i use alot is "how many people continue to buy automatic tranny cars over stick shift?" neither one is better or worse just a different interface but sticks are slowly getting phased out.
That's a damn good analogy. Automatic transmission cars are easier to drive, but only if you want to drive the way the manufacturer intended you. If you try to do something a bit out of the ordinary (getting out of mud, towing, unusual gradients) then you hit trouble.
Manual transmissions aren't that hard to learn, really, especially if you haven't gotten into the bad habit of driving an automatic. They give you more power and control over your driving, and that makes you a better, safer driver. People who learned on automatics IME make the worst drivers. I know a lot of people who drive automatics for convenience, but learned on manuals so they'd be better drivers.
It's also the case that if you learn on an automatic, you're going to find it hard to learn to drive "properly" on a manual. In the UK at least, if you learn on an automatic then your driving license is invalid for manuals.
In summary: Automatic drivers can't handle manuals without retraining. People who can drive manuals, whether they're driving manuals or automatics, tend to be better drivers. People drive manuals because they're mechanically simpler and hence more reliable, and because they give you more power and freedom over your own car.
I've not come across a better Windows vs Linux analogy for some time...
DEVELOPER: "Here's our GUI! Enjoy!" USER: "Wow, thanks! This sure is pretty. So, how do I cut and paste?" DEVELOPER: "Select to copy, middle-click to paste" USER: "Oh, that works 99% of the time. Why are there exceptions?" DEVELOPER: "We were trying to make it more like Windows" USER: "Fair enough"