Redhat Linux 7.2 is "stable"?????
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KDE 2.2.2
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Oink oink! Set spell checkers to stun, and note that any distro that needs hundreds of MB of updates within a week of release is *anything* but stable!
I thought 7.1 was funky, but 7.2 makes 7.1 feel like the Rock of Gibraltar!
Because NSI makes Microsoft look good in the monopolistic practices department
Because it is far cheaper to use guys like EasyDNS than NSI
Because when you switch, you usually extend your domain's life by a year at no extra cost (at least that's what you get at EasyDNS)
Because trying to get *anything* done through NSI is an exercise in futility - amazingly, that includes trying to pay them!
Because NSI thinks that "customer service" means "customers service NSI"
When I needed to update my WHOIS information through EasyDNS, and the change showed up instantly on a whois query, I almost cried with relief.
And the day I had a problem with something and EasyDNS folks sprung in and fixed it for me in minutes (I had stupidly pointed an MX at a CNAME - mea culpa), I did!
Disclaimer: I don't work for EasyDNS, I just use their services and as a satisfied customer exercise my right to say so. I am sure that a lot of other (sub)registrars out there provide equally good service.
From my perspective (and apparently that of many of our clients), a CIO deals with current infrastructure of a company, while a CTO evaluates technologies for future deployment in the company. Both have their well defined roles, though the deliverables vary considerably - a CIO needs to deliver on performance, while a CTO needs to deliver on vision.
I just finished reading this thread, then picked up the latest issue of Computers@Home (in India) and found this article in it - makes good reading once you get past the initial India-specific stuff. I especially liked the statement "Most Spammers are stupid".;-)
Real messaging on most BBSs I frequented really took off with QWK. I miss this badly even today, because nothing beats the convenience of a compressed message packet with all recent messages in it. The web might be fancy, but web-based BBSs are *bleh*!
Wonder if Rob would consider adding one more link to each news item on the front page - download QWK of message thread?
toolz
sysop of CiX, Bangalore, India - Dec 1 1989 to Mar 20, 1999.
Heck, that guy should have thought a little more before writing a spacefiller like that.
For one, the ability to upload your notes/accounts/data onto your PC is one productivity booster that just cannot be denied.
Having used a Palm3 for a while now, and with a hand writing like mine (which under meeting pressure just degenerates), I can honestly say that pen and paper will never work for me again. And just about everyone I know who owns a PDA confirms this.
Secondly, even if PDAs were used for amusement, remember that even the venerable PC is used by a large percentage of users for games. Does that make the PC a toy - because you play with it?
If size does matter, maybe the author should have thought of "Walkman v/s Wall2Wall stereo" before jumping to conclusions that just because it is small and doesn't cost a bomb, it's usefulness is limited.
I'd say that my Palm3 is a *TOOLtoy* - something that can entertain while being extremely useful too. And that's far better than some *TOYtools* I have come across.
/toolz
You can never be right (or success is wrong)
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Linux is Not Red Hat
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Whenever I read a distro-bashing piece, I can only smile sadly. Because this is *not* what we had in mind when we started using and advocating Linux almost 7 years back.
I always thought that Linux was about choice. It appears that when it comes to Linux, it is OK to have choice available, but when you actually *make* that choice, you can never be right, and more and more people are beginning to notice that.
So people choose to use RedHat. So RedHat is successful. So they make tons of money. So what's the big deal?
I am not saying that RedHat is the greatest or the best - but I do sit up and take notice when my clients insist that "if at all Linux, then RedHat". That's quite a switch from the "Linux - are you kidding?" attitude from just last year!
Sure, it may be because RedHat advertises, and spends money pushing the product. But does that make them bad?
People keep dissing RH for "doing things differently". But tell me, dear people, aren't all the distros doing that? Is the layout of Debian identical to Slackware's? Is SuSE's layout the same as Caldera's? Is Debian's packaging the same as Stampede's? Why can I not install a.deb on a Caldera machine? Why are.tgz not as easy to uninstall as a.rpm? Why is it wrong to have XF86config in/etc/X11 instead of the highly cluttered/etc?
The fact that a package is "designed for RedHat Linux" has its roots in both RedHat's visibility, as well as the fact that since every distro does things differently (read as "non-standard"), it makes sense to stick with the one having the greatest visibility and/or acceptance.
Everyone keeps talking about "RH is successful only because of its massive commercial push". But no one highlights the fact that most of the RedHat installations are either through anonymous FTP or CheapBytes CDs - something that RH makes no money off. RH is so popular not because of "commercial seduction" or "the lemmings effect" - it is the simple fact that people seem to like RH's distro!
Strangely enough, every scriptkiddy under the sun will yell from the rooftop that "Linux is about the right to choose!", but when people actually *exercise* that right to choose (resulting in a success like that experienced by RH) they will be verbally castrated, and their choice ridiculed as "the next Microsoft".
Whether this is the "underdog syndrome" or just plain stupidity - it reeks of hippocracy and sour grapes, and I fear that it will be the primary weapon that will be used against Linux in the very near future.
People in meatspace have enough problems understanding the concept of Open Source - try and make them understand this one (with due apologies to Henry Ford):
"You may choose any color you want - as long as it is not the most popular one".
>Really, I think Red Hat is attacked not >because of what they've done, but, rather, >because they are successful.
No, I think you are wrong, and should be flamed to death for this.;-)
Just kidding.
I think you are completely right. And in addition, what really does not help is that age-old phenomenon of "you are wrong because I am right" that exists in *every* market.
Take cars. Take TVs. Take stereo systems. Take toilet paper. If a product is labelled "bad", it is quite often because the person wielding the "labelling machine" uses another (competing) product.
Hence Linux is bad because the guy doing the labelling is a Windows user, RPM is bad according to a.tgz user, StarWars sux because it ain't StarTrek, RedHat is bad because it isn't Debian/Slackware/Caldera/SuSE/etc.....
Hey, remember the times back in kiddie school when girls/boys were bad because they weren't boys/girls?;-)
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Oink oink! Set spell checkers to stun, and note that any distro that needs hundreds of MB of updates within a week of release is *anything* but stable!
I thought 7.1 was funky, but 7.2 makes 7.1 feel like the Rock of Gibraltar!
When I needed to update my WHOIS information through EasyDNS, and the change showed up instantly on a whois query, I almost cried with relief.
And the day I had a problem with something and EasyDNS folks sprung in and fixed it for me in minutes (I had stupidly pointed an MX at a CNAME - mea culpa), I did!
Disclaimer: I don't work for EasyDNS, I just use their services and as a satisfied customer exercise my right to say so. I am sure that a lot of other (sub)registrars out there provide equally good service.
It will basically replace IrDA. Period. IMHO, comparing it with 802.11 is apples and oranges.
From my perspective (and apparently that of many of our clients), a CIO deals with current infrastructure of a company, while a CTO evaluates technologies for future deployment in the company. Both have their well defined roles, though the deliverables vary considerably - a CIO needs to deliver on performance, while a CTO needs to deliver on vision.
I just finished reading this thread, then picked up the latest issue of Computers@Home (in India) and found this article in it - makes good reading once you get past the initial India-specific stuff. I especially liked the statement "Most Spammers are stupid". ;-)
>>but can he compile a Linux kernel?
;-)
>How many adult CEOs do you think can compile a Linux kernel?
Heck, even Bill Gates can't compile a kernel! In fact he probably doesn't know what that is. But he can buy one....
Real messaging on most BBSs I frequented really took off with QWK. I miss this badly even today, because nothing beats the convenience of a compressed message packet with all recent messages in it. The web might be fancy, but web-based BBSs are *bleh*!
Wonder if Rob would consider adding one more link to each news item on the front page - download QWK of message thread?
toolz
sysop of CiX, Bangalore, India - Dec 1 1989 to Mar 20, 1999.
Heck, that guy should have thought a little more before writing a spacefiller like that.
For one, the ability to upload your notes/accounts/data onto your PC is one productivity booster that just cannot be denied.
Having used a Palm3 for a while now, and with a hand writing like mine (which under meeting pressure just degenerates), I can honestly say that pen and paper will never work for me again. And just about everyone I know who owns a PDA confirms this.
Secondly, even if PDAs were used for amusement, remember that even the venerable PC is used by a large percentage of users for games. Does that make the PC a toy - because you play with it?
If size does matter, maybe the author should have thought of "Walkman v/s Wall2Wall stereo" before jumping to conclusions that just because it is small and doesn't cost a bomb, it's usefulness is limited.
I'd say that my Palm3 is a *TOOLtoy* - something that can entertain while being extremely useful too. And that's far better than some *TOYtools* I have come across.
/toolz
Whenever I read a distro-bashing piece, I can only smile sadly. Because this is *not* what we had in mind when we started using and advocating Linux almost 7 years back.
.deb on a Caldera machine? Why are .tgz not as easy to uninstall as a .rpm? Why is it wrong to have XF86config in /etc/X11 instead of the highly cluttered /etc?
I always thought that Linux was about choice. It appears that when it comes to Linux, it is OK to have choice available, but when you actually *make* that choice, you can never be right, and more and more people are beginning to notice that.
So people choose to use RedHat. So RedHat is successful. So they make tons of money. So what's the big deal?
I am not saying that RedHat is the greatest or the best - but I do sit up and take notice when my clients insist that "if at all Linux, then RedHat". That's quite a switch from the "Linux - are you kidding?" attitude from just last year!
Sure, it may be because RedHat advertises, and spends money pushing the product. But does that make them bad?
People keep dissing RH for "doing things differently". But tell me, dear people, aren't all the distros doing that? Is the layout of Debian identical to Slackware's? Is SuSE's layout the same as Caldera's? Is Debian's packaging the same as Stampede's? Why can I not install a
The fact that a package is "designed for RedHat Linux" has its roots in both RedHat's visibility, as well as the fact that since every distro does things differently (read as "non-standard"), it makes sense to stick with the one having the greatest visibility and/or acceptance.
Everyone keeps talking about "RH is successful only because of its massive commercial push". But no one highlights the fact that most of the RedHat installations are either through anonymous FTP or CheapBytes CDs - something that RH makes no money off. RH is so popular not because of "commercial seduction" or "the lemmings effect" - it is the simple fact that people seem to like RH's distro!
Strangely enough, every scriptkiddy under the sun will yell from the rooftop that "Linux is about the right to choose!", but when people actually *exercise* that right to choose (resulting in a success like that experienced by RH) they will be verbally castrated, and their choice ridiculed as "the next Microsoft".
Whether this is the "underdog syndrome" or just plain stupidity - it reeks of hippocracy and sour grapes, and I fear that it will be the primary weapon that will be used against Linux in the very near future.
People in meatspace have enough problems understanding the concept of Open Source - try and make them understand this one (with due apologies to Henry Ford):
"You may choose any color you want - as long as it is not the most popular one".
:-\
John Carmack's finger info has some great stuff about Linux and Open Source in it.
j ohnc@idsoftware.com
http://www.Q3Arena.com/cgibin/finger.cgi?login=
toolz
>Really, I think Red Hat is attacked not
;-)
.tgz user, StarWars sux because it ain't StarTrek, RedHat is bad because it isn't Debian/Slackware/Caldera/SuSE/etc.....
;-)
>because of what they've done, but, rather,
>because they are successful.
No, I think you are wrong, and should be flamed to death for this.
Just kidding.
I think you are completely right. And in addition, what really does not help is that age-old phenomenon of "you are wrong because I am right" that exists in *every* market.
Take cars. Take TVs. Take stereo systems. Take toilet paper. If a product is labelled "bad", it is quite often because the person wielding the "labelling machine" uses another (competing) product.
Hence Linux is bad because the guy doing the labelling is a Windows user, RPM is bad according to a
Hey, remember the times back in kiddie school when girls/boys were bad because they weren't boys/girls?
//toolz