Instead of buying the $600 Dell and the $250 game console for the kids, you buy the $600 XBox instead. If marketed correctly, Microsoft should clean up on this.
Don't be silly, nobody is going to pay $600 for a game box that doubles as a substandard PC. If Microsoft can't get the price of XBox 2 below $200, Sony will stomp it flat. (Probably will anyway.)
NYT comes out of nowhere with this idiotic, inflammatory headline. It's disheartening that mainstream technology journalists are still attributing anarchy, punk rock and anti-establishment to Open Source.
Translating into NYT-speak, it's a backhanded compliment: Linux is thus judged to be more suitable for the folks they write for. Of course there's the obligatory swipe about Linux being forced into this, but what the heck, if he needs to share his pain, let him.
The way I see it, it's nice that we've got the NYT trained so that every time Linux farts, NYT writes an article.
The wheels of law grind slowly, but they do get the grinding done eventually.
The American legal system is broken. Look at the treatment SCO got in Germany: one court application to put up or shut up, and they had to do it or else. Sanity prevailed.
"If I want easy package management with some configuration, why not learn Arch?"
I'm sorry, but the reviewer just isn't qualified to do the review. Does he know that Arch is a source code version control system, whereas the package management systems for Fedora are (your choice of) Up2Date, Yum, and apt-get?
I'm going to have to disagree with you here. Their policies are draconian, as evidenced by the fact that they refuse to have anything to do with Freenet, even as little as holding some funds for them.
Good job, you almost make Paypal sound reputable. However Paypal's normal modus operandus is to hold other people's money hostage, far from refusing to hold it, they typically refuse to give it back to its rightful owner (e.g., the bank account it came from in the first place). I have had first hand experience of this and apparently so have many thousands of others.
"But try to sell Nazi memorabilia in France. So much for free speech"
But that's a rather special prohibition, don't you think? To bolster your case could you please name a total of 3 limitations on free speech in France?
And you do realize that free speech has limitations in America, don't you? For example, libel is not allowed.
Anyways in this case it might be more relavant to define a "software GDP," and for now I think the US would be #1 in that dept.
Is that good or bad? The bigger the "software GDP" is, the more money gets sucked out of the part of the economy that actually produces wealth. Much better when the software is free or cheap (but still good) so that the whole economy can benefit, not just a select few.
I presume the error message comes from your monitor, not from Linux. You should definitely boot in text mode to work this out. You need to know the vertical and horizontal sync range of your monitor, google will find this for you. Enter it into your XF86Config file then you should get something better than a black screen when you startx.
Sure, there should be automagic ways of having this all just happen, and in fact there are, they just don't always work. This is just as true for Windows as it is for Linux, however in the case of Windows, when it fails the OEM will go through the effort that you now have to do (but of course there are hidden costs for that).
Another thing to try is Knoppix, it's optimized very well for detecting a wide range of hardware, it might just work. Another thing to try is, find an experienced Linux user to help you, i.e., pay a visit to the local Linux User's group. This will get sorted out faster than you think.
My best guess is that RBC prefered cutting losses and dropping SCOX rather than fighting about redemption, while Baystar has committed to redemption or bullying, and doubling their stock holdings for presumably a nice discount increases their leverage against SCO management and increases their redemption penalty should they win.
It's considerably more likely that Microsoft is the surreptitious investor behind the PIPE deal and that this manuever is simply a way to leave some of the cash in SCO's hands while maintaining denyability.
What other plausible explanation is there for RBC's willingness to convert for 13 cents on the dollar when they could have forced redemption and got back much more?
Minor factoid: both Baystar and RBC pulled the plug on a Friday...
"The Titanic sank because it filled up with water pouring in through a single hole in the hull. The lesson that was learned from this disaster is that ships should be divided into many watertight compartments. When the hull is breached and water starts pouring in, all of the watertight compartments are sealed so that only the compartment with the hole fills up with water. The ship stays afloat."
Way wrong. The Titanic was compartmentalized, however the long gash in the hull flooded too many compartments.
I wonder how much of the rest of their web site is pure BS?
I've held a couple of small-scale linux "Installfests" in the past, and the availability of CDs (and CD-Rom drives, in some cases) can certainly be an issue.
I usually install just by copying the hard disk these days. To make that fast, I set up a boot partition and a smallish system image, anywhere from a hunred meg to a few gig at most, at the beginning of the disk and dd that onto the other disk. Then I move the disk into the new machine, dd the small system image onto a larger partition and resize the filesystem to fit.
This is quite a lot faster than installing from a CD, it only takes a few minutes.
before I get persuaded to use Gimp again for my photography projects, I would need --in addition to the author's peeves -- full 16-bit per channel support, high-quality scanning/printing drivers with integrated GUI (a'la SilverFast), and a 'crop and rotate' feature (as seen in PS/PSE)
Sounds like you want to check out CinePaint (the project formerly known as film gimp).
"It's not good that they're having so many publicly visible flaws, but I'm really impressed that Microsoft is starting to be honest and forthcoming in their reporting."
That's because you're gullible. A bunch of these vulnerabilities have been known for months and Microsoft hasn't announced them. Maybe so they can argue that Microsoft has the shortest time from vulnerability announcement to patch availablity, like they tried to say last week.
Starting to be honest, huh, looks like more of the same to me.
The SGI Shared-memory linux clusters are genuine HPCs.
Note: SGI uses Itanics in the Altix, possibly because Intel gave them access to everything they needed to build the memory interfaces they needed for this chips. I'm wondering when we'll see an AMD/64 Altix, and if not, why not.
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Maybe it is cause ARM does not really shove itself down people's throats. Their business practices help set them apart.
No they don't, they throw their weight around just like any other monopolist. See this project.
And see it die at the hands of ARM's lawyers.
ARM is no saint. Their strong arm tactics just haven't been noticed yet.
Maybe it is cause ARM does not really shove itself down people's throats. Their business practices help set them apart.
No they don't, they throw their weight around just like any other monopolist. See thisproject.
And see it die at the hands of ARM's lawyers here.
ARM is no saint. Their strong arm tactics just haven't been noticed yet.
The whole point of the movie is get a message out, why wouldn't he want it to reach the greatest possible audience?
I for one will download it _and_ see it in the theatre. It's a runaway hit here in Canada, by the way.
RBC did in fact convert the front end system and network from OS/2 to Windows some years back, and the system has been unreliable ever since.
Instead of buying the $600 Dell and the $250 game console for the kids, you buy the $600 XBox instead. If marketed correctly, Microsoft should clean up on this.
Don't be silly, nobody is going to pay $600 for a game box that doubles as a substandard PC. If Microsoft can't get the price of XBox 2 below $200, Sony will stomp it flat. (Probably will anyway.)
"Not to be an ass, but maybe you should have considered ripping into a more supported format?"
Golly, you were an ass after all. How about, Apple should do what customers what and stop lying about not getting any customer requests for Ogg.
NYT comes out of nowhere with this idiotic, inflammatory headline. It's disheartening that mainstream technology journalists are still attributing anarchy, punk rock and anti-establishment to Open Source.
Translating into NYT-speak, it's a backhanded compliment: Linux is thus judged to be more suitable for the folks they write for. Of course there's the obligatory swipe about Linux being forced into this, but what the heck, if he needs to share his pain, let him.
The way I see it, it's nice that we've got the NYT trained so that every time Linux farts, NYT writes an article.
Yes, 128-bit computing is the future. I have all sorts of exabyte-sized files I need to memory-map.
64 bits already gives you 16 exabytes.
Fire Gates
The wheels of law grind slowly, but they do get the grinding done eventually.
The American legal system is broken. Look at the treatment SCO got in Germany: one court application to put up or shut up, and they had to do it or else. Sanity prevailed.
In America, insanity prevails.
"If I want easy package management with some configuration, why not learn Arch?"
I'm sorry, but the reviewer just isn't qualified to do the review. Does he know that Arch is a source code version control system, whereas the package management systems for Fedora are (your choice of) Up2Date, Yum, and apt-get?
I'm going to have to disagree with you here. Their policies are draconian, as evidenced by the fact that they refuse to have anything to do with Freenet, even as little as holding some funds for them.
Good job, you almost make Paypal sound reputable. However Paypal's normal modus operandus is to hold other people's money hostage, far from refusing to hold it, they typically refuse to give it back to its rightful owner (e.g., the bank account it came from in the first place). I have had first hand experience of this and apparently so have many thousands of others.
"But try to sell Nazi memorabilia in France. So much for free speech"
But that's a rather special prohibition, don't you think? To bolster your case could you please name a total of 3 limitations on free speech in France?
And you do realize that free speech has limitations in America, don't you? For example, libel is not allowed.
Anyways in this case it might be more relavant to define a "software GDP," and for now I think the US would be #1 in that dept.
Is that good or bad? The bigger the "software GDP" is, the more money gets sucked out of the part of the economy that actually produces wealth. Much better when the software is free or cheap (but still good) so that the whole economy can benefit, not just a select few.
I presume the error message comes from your monitor, not from Linux. You should definitely boot in text mode to work this out. You need to know the vertical and horizontal sync range of your monitor, google will find this for you. Enter it into your XF86Config file then you should get something better than a black screen when you startx.
Sure, there should be automagic ways of having this all just happen, and in fact there are, they just don't always work. This is just as true for Windows as it is for Linux, however in the case of Windows, when it fails the OEM will go through the effort that you now have to do (but of course there are hidden costs for that).
Another thing to try is Knoppix, it's optimized very well for detecting a wide range of hardware, it might just work. Another thing to try is, find an experienced Linux user to help you, i.e., pay a visit to the local Linux User's group. This will get sorted out faster than you think.
My best guess is that RBC prefered cutting losses and dropping SCOX rather than fighting about redemption, while Baystar has committed to redemption or bullying, and doubling their stock holdings for presumably a nice discount increases their leverage against SCO management and increases their redemption penalty should they win.
It's considerably more likely that Microsoft is the surreptitious investor behind the PIPE deal and that this manuever is simply a way to leave some of the cash in SCO's hands while maintaining denyability.
What other plausible explanation is there for RBC's willingness to convert for 13 cents on the dollar when they could have forced redemption and got back much more?
Minor factoid: both Baystar and RBC pulled the plug on a Friday...
Way wrong. The Titanic was compartmentalized, however the long gash in the hull flooded too many compartments.
I wonder how much of the rest of their web site is pure BS?
I've held a couple of small-scale linux "Installfests" in the past, and the availability of CDs (and CD-Rom drives, in some cases) can certainly be an issue.
I usually install just by copying the hard disk these days. To make that fast, I set up a boot partition and a smallish system image, anywhere from a hunred meg to a few gig at most, at the beginning of the disk and dd that onto the other disk. Then I move the disk into the new machine, dd the small system image onto a larger partition and resize the filesystem to fit.
This is quite a lot faster than installing from a CD, it only takes a few minutes.
before I get persuaded to use Gimp again for my photography projects, I would need --in addition to the author's peeves -- full 16-bit per channel support, high-quality scanning/printing drivers with integrated GUI (a'la SilverFast), and a 'crop and rotate' feature (as seen in PS/PSE)
Sounds like you want to check out CinePaint (the project formerly known as film gimp).
"Microsoft has bulked up with enough cash to operate with zero income for five years"
Shareholders just aren't going to want to hear that. Hint for the financially challenged: income down, stock down.
From 1998: Linux at the Economist
They've been running this exact story (Dell! Sun! HP!) for at least four years.
That's about Linux in general and doesn't say "year of the desktop". What's your point?
There are several free JVMs on Linux and they are trivial to install (apt-get install).
But none of them provides a jvm plugin for my browser, why is that?
What he forgets to mention is how much does this compatibility test cost.
How much does this compatibility test cost?
"It's not good that they're having so many publicly visible flaws, but I'm really impressed that Microsoft is starting to be honest and forthcoming in their reporting."
That's because you're gullible. A bunch of these vulnerabilities have been known for months and Microsoft hasn't announced them. Maybe so they can argue that Microsoft has the shortest time from vulnerability announcement to patch availablity, like they tried to say last week.
Starting to be honest, huh, looks like more of the same to me.
The SGI Shared-memory linux clusters are genuine HPCs.
Note: SGI uses Itanics in the Altix, possibly because Intel gave them access to everything they needed to build the memory interfaces they needed for this chips. I'm wondering when we'll see an AMD/64 Altix, and if not, why not.