Parent was a joke, not flamebait. I know "funny" and "flamebait" both start with "f", but please moderators, look closely at the mod you're chosing from the drop down box.
Simple case of subject and object. I = subject. me = object.
people who don't know the difference simply haven't been taught about subject and object, but remember being corrected as a child when they said "Johny and me" without ever being told why it was wrong in that instance.
He should face charges, and be acquitted if it happened as you describe. The courtroom is the place to get to the bottom of the matter.
Taking a life is a serious matter. It may be justified, but due process must be followed in a lawful society to ascertain whether or not it was justified.
In case a casual reader misunderstands me, I think he should be acquitted if it happened as the parent post describes.
As a user you don't need to know. Leave that to the developers.
How do I know my Linux has that?
Stick to KDE or Gnome, which are default options with every desktop linux distro.
Do I need superfoobarlib-0.001-alpha from CVS for it?
Leave that to the distro maintainers. Don't worry your little head over it. A normal user doesn't need to know. Do you really know if you have superfoobar-001-alpha.dll on your windows box?
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And YES, I would expect people to actually remember to enter proper meta data for their documents.
The only way to enforce this is in the "Save" dialog. I'm thinking of knowledge workers, not home users. Unfortunately, in most document management systems I've seen, knowledge "workers" are often too lazy, and just place a dot "." in the mandatory fields in order to get past those "annoying" dialogues.
Wife: Win98 + O97 -> KDE + OOo Dad: DOS + MS-Works -> KDE + OOo
Wife - no problem. Dad - still adjusting to newfangled gui, but getting there. Dad's proof that guis are not for everyone (coming from MS-Works for DOS, which still works in DOSemu).
When people talk about linux they either talk about linux the kernel OR about the whatever Linus Torvalds did that somehow managed to get it altogether
When I talk about linux, I'm referring to the complete system that has linux as its kernel. I do so knowing full well that linux is just the kernel, but I'm just to lazy to say "GNU/Linux" or "Linux based system".
While very funny, this joke relies on the fallacy that proof denies faith. As another reply has pointed out, this belies a misunderstanding of christian faith.
You're not the only one. In my case, I've had a pretty good run because I expect to have problems and go out of my way to hunt down hardware that will work. I hunted down a PCI modem with a real UART for my IPCop firewall, I have on old HP deskjet printer, and I chose a NIC with a chipset that I knew I had drivers for.
My next hardware purchase will involve taking the laptop with me, as I mentioned in an earlier post.
Some research before you buy can save a lot of headaches later. This wiki is part of the overall research a hardware purchaser can use.
Easy to do if the same company controls both the hardware and the OS. This seamless integration between OS and HW is probably the main thing the Mac has going for it, and for this reason I would love to add a Mac to my collection of computers.
But if I'm a manufacturer I have to decide what how to get the camera to work with linux. Do I try to get a driver in the kernel? Make one for gphoto or some other project?
Neither. Just make your camera a USB mass storage device or make it talk PTP (Picture Transfer Protocol) so existing drivers can already talk to it. Ditto for printers - make it talk PS or PCL and release a PPD file. PPDs can be used with any OS. Have a similar protocol for scanners.
Drive manufacturers did this decades ago with SCSI and ATAPI. Seagate and Maxtor don't need to create linux drivers, just make their HDD talk ATAPI, or SATA, or SCSI. Standards, folks. STANDARDS.
just tried to add my digital camera (Kodak DX4530)
I went to check out a camera that my father-in-law was buying. Took my Linux laptop with me (Mandrake 10), plugged in the camera and a few seconds later a harddrive icon appeared in KDE. Opened it and a few folders/directories deep I found the thumbnails of all the photos. Clicked on one and it came up full size.
As new devices are usually intended for a Windows audience I really doubt that this will do anything but tell people something they already know...
The above experience told me that there are two types of hardware manufacturers. Those that use standard interfaces (eg USB mass storage) and those who invent their own (and only release windows drivers). This wiki will be a useful reference, and might encourage manufacturers to just use a standard that's already there. Meanwhile, I will always take the laptop when checking out peripherals.
Still, I won't expose my mandrake boxen to the net. IPCop stands in between. IPCop would equally protect Windows boxen from such worms. (Or Smoothwall, or roll-your-own-openBSD-FW)
In fact, it does not even mean GUI. In call centres and retail POS terminals, a fast text-menu or transaction-code system is just fine. GUI metaphors just get in the way when you do hundreds of transactions per day.
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Parent was a joke, not flamebait. I know "funny" and "flamebait" both start with "f", but please moderators, look closely at the mod you're chosing from the drop down box.
$ man woman
no manual entry for woman
Try it.
Simple case of subject and object.
I = subject.
me = object.
people who don't know the difference simply haven't been taught about subject and object, but remember being corrected as a child when they said "Johny and me" without ever being told why it was wrong in that instance.
He should face charges, and be acquitted if it happened as you describe.
The courtroom is the place to get to the bottom of the matter.
Taking a life is a serious matter. It may be justified, but due process must be followed in a lawful society to ascertain whether or not it was justified.
In case a casual reader misunderstands me, I think he should be acquitted if it happened as the parent post describes.
Why not add a GPS unit to VoIP phones and send GPS data with every emergency call?
Here I go feeding the trolls.
Wow Linux really is ready for the desktop.
We agree on something.
WTF is "Xembed"?
As a user you don't need to know. Leave that to the developers.
How do I know my Linux has that?
Stick to KDE or Gnome, which are default options with every desktop linux distro.
Do I need superfoobarlib-0.001-alpha from CVS for it?
Leave that to the distro maintainers. Don't worry your little head over it. A normal user doesn't need to know. Do you really know if you have superfoobar-001-alpha.dll on your windows box?
And YES, I would expect people to actually remember to enter proper meta data for their documents.
The only way to enforce this is in the "Save" dialog.
I'm thinking of knowledge workers, not home users. Unfortunately, in most document management systems I've seen, knowledge "workers" are often too lazy, and just place a dot "." in the mandatory fields in order to get past those "annoying" dialogues.
How about a Gmail-like labels system: /dbfs/dbname:label1+label2+label3.../
:-)
$ ls
You could have predefined labels that take arguments, like lasttouch(>2004-03-15) or owner(yuri).
I really like this idea, because any app that can pass a filepath to a system call can use it straight away.
Get coding all you überdevelopers. Give me a call when it's ready
even smaller study - my own household:
Wife: Win98 + O97 -> KDE + OOo
Dad: DOS + MS-Works -> KDE + OOo
Wife - no problem. Dad - still adjusting to newfangled gui, but getting there. Dad's proof that guis are not for everyone (coming from MS-Works for DOS, which still works in DOSemu).
X11 clients and servers are the other way around (from a traditional point of view)
No they're not.
A server controls access to a resource.
A client is a program that requests access to a resource through a server.
In the case of X11, the resource is the HCI[1].
Nothing backwards about that, as long as you take it in slowly.
[1]Human Computer Interface.
I think NX is more like xmove, except it works.
xmove appears to be an abandoned project.
Thanks for the new sig
I have mounted my CDROM's tray on wall, ... and now it holds ... a cup of water
:-)
Wow! I thought that was just an urban legend
When people talk about linux they either talk about linux the kernel OR about the whatever Linus Torvalds did that somehow managed to get it altogether
When I talk about linux, I'm referring to the complete system that has linux as its kernel. I do so knowing full well that linux is just the kernel, but I'm just to lazy to say "GNU/Linux" or "Linux based system".
While very funny, this joke relies on the fallacy that proof denies faith. As another reply has pointed out, this belies a misunderstanding of christian faith.
Wow! I had almost exactly the same idea.
You would need some strict auditing to make sure expenses aren't "padded" though.
You're not the only one. In my case, I've had a pretty good run because I expect to have problems and go out of my way to hunt down hardware that will work. I hunted down a PCI modem with a real UART for my IPCop firewall, I have on old HP deskjet printer, and I chose a NIC with a chipset that I knew I had drivers for.
My next hardware purchase will involve taking the laptop with me, as I mentioned in an earlier post.
Some research before you buy can save a lot of headaches later. This wiki is part of the overall research a hardware purchaser can use.
Easy to do if the same company controls both the hardware and the OS. This seamless integration between OS and HW is probably the main thing the Mac has going for it, and for this reason I would love to add a Mac to my collection of computers.
But if I'm a manufacturer I have to decide what how to get the camera to work with linux. Do I try to get a driver in the kernel? Make one for gphoto or some other project?
Neither. Just make your camera a USB mass storage device or make it talk PTP (Picture Transfer Protocol) so existing drivers can already talk to it.
Ditto for printers - make it talk PS or PCL and release a PPD file. PPDs can be used with any OS.
Have a similar protocol for scanners.
Drive manufacturers did this decades ago with SCSI and ATAPI. Seagate and Maxtor don't need to create linux drivers, just make their HDD talk ATAPI, or SATA, or SCSI.
Standards, folks. STANDARDS.
just tried to add my digital camera (Kodak DX4530)
I went to check out a camera that my father-in-law was buying. Took my Linux laptop with me (Mandrake 10), plugged in the camera and a few seconds later a harddrive icon appeared in KDE. Opened it and a few folders/directories deep I found the thumbnails of all the photos. Clicked on one and it came up full size.
As new devices are usually intended for a Windows audience I really doubt that this will do anything but tell people something they already know...
The above experience told me that there are two types of hardware manufacturers. Those that use standard interfaces (eg USB mass storage) and those who invent their own (and only release windows drivers). This wiki will be a useful reference, and might encourage manufacturers to just use a standard that's already there.
Meanwhile, I will always take the laptop when checking out peripherals.
The impression I was given by the Word grammar checker was that it must have been written by my old Business Writing professor.
Removing the passive:
The Word grammar checker gave me the impression that my old Business Writing professor must have written it.
I still think your version, with the passive voice, sounds just fine. Which I guess supports your point.
Slashdot reports a 68.9% drop in server traffic in the hours of 9-5.....
/.ers are.
For which TZ? It's about quarter past two in the afternoon where I am, but probably different where most other
my bad.
Still, I won't expose my mandrake boxen to the net. IPCop stands in between. IPCop would equally protect Windows boxen from such worms.
(Or Smoothwall, or roll-your-own-openBSD-FW)
Usability does not automatically mean pretty
In fact, it does not even mean GUI. In call centres and retail POS terminals, a fast text-menu or transaction-code system is just fine. GUI metaphors just get in the way when you do hundreds of transactions per day.
4 easy ways to protect yourself from this worm: 1- Use Linux
/dev/webcam?
What makes you think it's impossible for a linux rootkit to access