If you (like me) work for a mid-size corporation with a hundred servers, a shrinking IT budget, and a need for only the security updates, $35,000 per year for just the support on the operating system is too much. We have always used Red Hat products in the past and are very satisfied with them, but we simply cannot pay that much money.
Fedora + Fedora Legacy == free OS, free support over a decent life cycle.
I didn't even notice that until you replied. In recognition, I'd like to thank the 10,999,999 people who helped me accomplish this stupendous feat; I couldn't have done it without you.
SLASHDOT READER: It's already in Bugzilla, it's already fixed in the main Mozilla trunk, and Firefox will roll the fix in when it next syncs up with that trunk, at the Firefox 1.1 milestone. Had you taken five seconds to look into this, you would have found all this information and more.
In the meantime there's an extension available which will reflow the page automatically for you; go to Google, type in "slashfix", and follow the first result.
Out of curiosity, have you tried enabling/disabling the "readahead" service?
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I'd still feel a bit uncomfortable allowing a US-based publically-traded (investors über alles!) corporation (which also kow-tows to the Chinese dictatorship) to sift through all my mail.
And this is as opposed to all the available email providers which store your messages in unreadable form?
Also, does anyone from 'the inside' know why Evolution was chosen over Thunderbird? I understand Evolution integrates well with Exchange and its calendaring service, but Thunderbird seems to be more popular.
I would guess that it's because...
Thunderbird is still waaaaaaaaaaay too early in beta to be considered a major component of a mature desktop system.
Evolution does much more than email.
Evolution is built on the same core libraries as the rest of GNOME and can access the same shared subsystems as all other GNOME apps, making it ludicrously easy to share data and features among applications.
Also, if you think Thunderbird is "more popular", you have an awfully strange sample of users...
As a clarification, if he owns all the Copyrights to the code in question (which I doubt)... and I mean *all* the code used in his binary version of XChat, then yes, he can do it.
If he doesn't own all the Copyrights, then no, he can't.
Which was one of my points. He admits that he doesn't own all the copyrights, and says "I'll remove the contributions of anyone who doesn't like this scheme." But just doing that doesn't get him out of legal trouble -- regardless of the feelings of the contributors, they contributed under the GPL and so any derivative work distributed in violation of the GPL or under a non-compatible license -- in other words, the current XChat for Windows binary -- is distributed illegally.
The source code which is provided is not the source code to the Windows binary. The Windows binary contains, at the very least, a registration system which does not appear in the source, and he mentions "tweaks" he makes to help it compile, which may mean anything up to and including further modifications to the source. Thus he is distributing a binary executable which is derivative of a GPL work, without making the full source of that binary available to its users. Bzzt, he fails the GPL according to Section 3 of the license.
Second, he has created a derivative work of a GPL work which imposes restrictions on licensees beyond those outlined in the GPL: after thirty days, a licensee's freedom to run the program for any purpose is forfeited unless the licensee pays a fee. Bzzt, he fails the GPL according to Section 6 of the license.
Third, he is distributing GPL work (the contributions of third parties, which are under the GPL per the terms of the GPL) without accepting the terms of the GPL (see points one and two above for examples of this). Bzzt, he fails the GPL according to Section 5 of the license.
Fourth... well, I think you get the idea by now. Further violations of the GPL implied by this scheme are left as an exercise for the reader.
If the Onion hadn't gone premium for its archives, I'd be linking that grand old masterpiece, "Area Man Constantly Mentioning He Doesn't Own A Television."
This, apparently, is supposed to encourage employment, and thus they call this the "Right to Work". I think that's an AMAZING display of spin. In English, this Southern euphemism translates to "Right to Bend Over".
No, "right to work" has to do with labor unions; in many states (including my own home state of WV), it's possible for a union to force an employer into becoming a "closed shop" -- that is, you cannot become an employee without also joining the union (and paying the union dues...). "Right to work" laws ban this practice; in a right-to-work state you can join a labor union if you like, but no union or employer can force membership on you as a condition of employment.
It completely wedged Mozilla 1.6 when I clicked on it.
Doesn't do much Firefox 0.8 for me. It shows the picture of the woman with poo on her face (in the main browser window), and Firefox doesn't let it open any new windows or do stupid JavaScript tricks.
I dunno if they got the text from my clipboard, but if they did it'll just be their own URL; I wonder if they'll visit it...
RSS, and indeed the whole WWW (including blog) style of communication is a lot worse than the mail/usenet style in that it is basically one-way. If you get your news as an RSS feed, that's it - you just consume what others prepared, without an easy and effective possibility to reply
RSS has modules supporting various comment APIs, allowing you to post a comment to someone's weblog entry from your aggregator.
I'm not sure what it should be called, but if it ever catches on, about 3 years later it will suck and be called "Microsoft News".
Funny you should mention that, since MS was doing it a loooong time ago... look up "CDF" sometime (that's "Channel Description Format") for a history lesson.
There are problems with aggregators that check every 10 minutes or so, but that's far less of an issue than it used to be; most of the "big-name" aggregators finally started doing sensible things like looking to see if the feed has been modified, and prominent sites like Slashdot started banning aggregators that poll too often (try getting Slashdot's feed more than once an hour if you want an example...).
Plus, quite a few aggregators coming out these days are based on Mark Pilgrim's Universal Feed Parser, which is one of the most well-behaved aggregator backends out there.
And finally, for aggregators which understand certain of the namespaced extensions developed for RSS 1.0, there are the <sy:updatePeriod> and <sy:updateFrequency> elements from the syndication module, which allow you to tell the aggregator how often it should poll your feed.
As the AC mentioned, it really depends on which version you're using. RSS 0.9x versions and RSS 2.0 are "Really Simple Syndication" and RSS 1.0 is "RDF Site Syndication." Sometimes you'll see it referred to as "RSS/RDF" in that incarnation. Mark Pilgrim's "History of the RSS Fork" is a good, quick summary of how that came to be.
And if you don't feel like reading that, just think of Emacs and XEmacs, but replace RMS with Dave Winer.
The core system does a lot, but the real usefulness of the GIMP (at least for professional folks) lies in that they can write up a perl script to accomplish any damn thing they can think of. Of course, you can write C plugins as well.
Because as we all know, graphic designers the world over have been clamoring for an app that lets them write macros in Perl and Scheme.
Mandrake is completely agnostic about which window manager you can use.
A request was filed today by the KDE project, in the spirit of Richard Stallman, asking that Mandrake be renamed "KDE/Mandrake GNU/Linux."
Also, last time I used Mandrake (an 8.x, I think) I couldn't figure out how to switch between KDE, GNOME, and simple window managers... ended up installing Red Hat's switchdesk utility to solve the problem. Who's agnositc about window managers again?
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Fedora + Fedora Legacy == free OS, free support over a decent life cycle.
Because businesses want applications like Oracle which are usually certified to a specific version of a specific distribution.
What's the chipset? Or, failing that, what model Thinkpad do you have?
I didn't even notice that until you replied. In recognition, I'd like to thank the 10,999,999 people who helped me accomplish this stupendous feat; I couldn't have done it without you.
Three years ago called. They want their whining back.
SLASHDOT READER: It's already in Bugzilla, it's already fixed in the main Mozilla trunk, and Firefox will roll the fix in when it next syncs up with that trunk, at the Firefox 1.1 milestone. Had you taken five seconds to look into this, you would have found all this information and more.
In the meantime there's an extension available which will reflow the page automatically for you; go to Google, type in "slashfix", and follow the first result.
Actually, these days the IA and usability folks are telling us (web designers, at least) to take Miller's rule of seven with a grain of salt.
As of Gimp 2.0, you can "dock" pretty much any window or toolbar in pretty much any other. It's pretty handy for keeping your workspace clutter-free.
Out of curiosity, have you tried enabling/disabling the "readahead" service?
And this is as opposed to all the available email providers which store your messages in unreadable form?
I would guess that it's because...
Also, if you think Thunderbird is "more popular", you have an awfully strange sample of users...
Which was one of my points. He admits that he doesn't own all the copyrights, and says "I'll remove the contributions of anyone who doesn't like this scheme." But just doing that doesn't get him out of legal trouble -- regardless of the feelings of the contributors, they contributed under the GPL and so any derivative work distributed in violation of the GPL or under a non-compatible license -- in other words, the current XChat for Windows binary -- is distributed illegally.
In short... probably. For several reasons.
If the Onion hadn't gone premium for its archives, I'd be linking that grand old masterpiece, "Area Man Constantly Mentioning He Doesn't Own A Television."
No, "right to work" has to do with labor unions; in many states (including my own home state of WV), it's possible for a union to force an employer into becoming a "closed shop" -- that is, you cannot become an employee without also joining the union (and paying the union dues...). "Right to work" laws ban this practice; in a right-to-work state you can join a labor union if you like, but no union or employer can force membership on you as a condition of employment.
Doesn't do much Firefox 0.8 for me. It shows the picture of the woman with poo on her face (in the main browser window), and Firefox doesn't let it open any new windows or do stupid JavaScript tricks.
I dunno if they got the text from my clipboard, but if they did it'll just be their own URL; I wonder if they'll visit it...
Sounds to me like it's finlly caught up with MS, then. What's your problem again?
Funny you should mention that, since MS was doing it a loooong time ago... look up "CDF" sometime (that's "Channel Description Format") for a history lesson.
Plus, quite a few aggregators coming out these days are based on Mark Pilgrim's Universal Feed Parser, which is one of the most well-behaved aggregator backends out there.
And finally, for aggregators which understand certain of the namespaced extensions developed for RSS 1.0, there are the <sy:updatePeriod> and <sy:updateFrequency> elements from the syndication module, which allow you to tell the aggregator how often it should poll your feed.
And if you don't feel like reading that, just think of Emacs and XEmacs, but replace RMS with Dave Winer.
Because as we all know, graphic designers the world over have been clamoring for an app that lets them write macros in Perl and Scheme.
A request was filed today by the KDE project, in the spirit of Richard Stallman, asking that Mandrake be renamed "KDE/Mandrake GNU/Linux."
Also, last time I used Mandrake (an 8.x, I think) I couldn't figure out how to switch between KDE, GNOME, and simple window managers... ended up installing Red Hat's switchdesk utility to solve the problem. Who's agnositc about window managers again?
That and weird little things like not being able to use wildcards in the file open dialog boxes.
Yeah, that's real weird. In fact, I wonder why no-one's ever written a file manager that can select files based on regexes.
Oh wait, somebody already did.
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