How many cycles do you waste downloading drivers/modules that you will never use? That Linux kernel is getting mighty big and it is losing a lot of the features that made it desireable in the first place. For instance, the ability to run on older cheaper hardware. I have friends that run Linux because they don't have the money to buy Windows. They certainly don't have the money for broadband access. The kernel download is now impossible for them.
Agreed. I have been forced to upgrade to 2.6 on a few computers for features that I needed that are only in the 2.6 series, but everytime it has been a problem. All of our production machines are still built with 2.4 and we purposely use hardware that is supported by the 2.4 series.
Linux has caused Microsoft to improve their products, and I have found myself removing Linux servers to replace them with Windows 2003 Server of late. On the desktop, it is not even close. I sit next to a guy who runs 2.6 on his Ubuntu machine and I laugh everytime he has to reboot. My Windows XP box only goes down rarely for updates and it does it at night when I am not there. Last time, I had over 100 days of uptime (this is a desktop machine). I rarely ever see the BSOD anymore and if I do it is almost always caused by a hardware problem. That is what I *USED* to be able to count on with Linux - if it crashed, there was a hardware issue. Now, with 2.6, I've lost that.
There are coworkers of mine who would have fainted three years ago if they heard me say something like this, but Linux just isn't the lean, reliable operating system it used to be.
Wouldn't this be like calling someone long distance and having the person receiving the call pay for it too? According to Bellsouth's logic, a person receiving a call would be "using the network without paying for it". What if someone was calling a Bellsouth customer using SBC's network? Wouldn't this be the same thing?
I don't know about your house, but at mine, the woman buys all the gifts. Christmas, birthday, weddings, etc. And since I'm a geek, a lot of my friends are geeks, too. So tech stuff is a good bet when it comes to gifts. I imagine that women do BUY more tech, but I would like to see a survey on who USES more tech!
The article complains about sites that say that the PSX has USB2.0, saying that instead it is USB1.1. I thought that everything was now USB2.0 and that the difference was High-speed versus Full speed. There was an older slashdot article about it here.
We run several mirrors and are not in a habit of running the mirrored software on the machine that is doing the mirroring. It is just there as a service. When the main servers are cleared of infected code, the mirror will update and be clean as well.
(which is every open source mirror server out there, and many mirrors themselves)
No. This does not affect all the open source mirrors. It only affects rsync SERVERS. If you are not running rsync as a server, you are OK. If you are not accepting connections on 873 you are not running an rsync server. (Well, you could be, but you are probably running it over SSH, in which case you are still OK.)
It seems to me that it would be smart to market this car in Europe. People there are already used to seeing/driving small commuter cars (some with 3 wheels). Also, it seems that most of the people here are talking about the safety issues. Aren't the safety requirements for commuter cars in Europe easier to meet? I know that some of those 3 wheeled cars couldn't possibly pass the requirement in the States... Wouldn't that be a good place to get the manufacturing numbers up to a point where the cars become more feasible for the masses?
My Flash player works OK, except on remote X displays. It has been identified by the Mozilla guys as a bug in the plugin. There is a petition online over at the Linux Terminal Server Project page to try to convince Macromedia that enough people are affected to fix the issue.
Here in Alabama, most places don't have a choice when it comes to telcos. We don't have to worry about slow DSL because we can't get it in most areas. Bellsouth can't even spell DSL....
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How many cycles do you waste downloading drivers/modules that you will never use? That Linux kernel is getting mighty big and it is losing a lot of the features that made it desireable in the first place. For instance, the ability to run on older cheaper hardware. I have friends that run Linux because they don't have the money to buy Windows. They certainly don't have the money for broadband access. The kernel download is now impossible for them.
Agreed. I have been forced to upgrade to 2.6 on a few computers for features that I needed that are only in the 2.6 series, but everytime it has been a problem. All of our production machines are still built with 2.4 and we purposely use hardware that is supported by the 2.4 series.
Linux has caused Microsoft to improve their products, and I have found myself removing Linux servers to replace them with Windows 2003 Server of late. On the desktop, it is not even close. I sit next to a guy who runs 2.6 on his Ubuntu machine and I laugh everytime he has to reboot. My Windows XP box only goes down rarely for updates and it does it at night when I am not there. Last time, I had over 100 days of uptime (this is a desktop machine). I rarely ever see the BSOD anymore and if I do it is almost always caused by a hardware problem. That is what I *USED* to be able to count on with Linux - if it crashed, there was a hardware issue. Now, with 2.6, I've lost that.
There are coworkers of mine who would have fainted three years ago if they heard me say something like this, but Linux just isn't the lean, reliable operating system it used to be.
Wouldn't this be like calling someone long distance and having the person receiving the call pay for it too? According to Bellsouth's logic, a person receiving a call would be "using the network without paying for it". What if someone was calling a Bellsouth customer using SBC's network? Wouldn't this be the same thing?
Bellsouth sux.
I don't know about your house, but at mine, the woman buys all the gifts. Christmas, birthday, weddings, etc. And since I'm a geek, a lot of my friends are geeks, too. So tech stuff is a good bet when it comes to gifts. I imagine that women do BUY more tech, but I would like to see a survey on who USES more tech!
The article complains about sites that say that the PSX has USB2.0, saying that instead it is USB1.1. I thought that everything was now USB2.0 and that the difference was High-speed versus Full speed. There was an older slashdot article about it here.
We run several mirrors and are not in a habit of running the mirrored software on the machine that is doing the mirroring. It is just there as a service. When the main servers are cleared of infected code, the mirror will update and be clean as well.
(which is every open source mirror server out there, and many mirrors themselves)
No. This does not affect all the open source mirrors. It only affects rsync SERVERS. If you are not running rsync as a server, you are OK. If you are not accepting connections on 873 you are not running an rsync server. (Well, you could be, but you are probably running it over SSH, in which case you are still OK.)
It seems to me that it would be smart to market this car in Europe. People there are already used to seeing/driving small commuter cars (some with 3 wheels). Also, it seems that most of the people here are talking about the safety issues. Aren't the safety requirements for commuter cars in Europe easier to meet? I know that some of those 3 wheeled cars couldn't possibly pass the requirement in the States...
Wouldn't that be a good place to get the manufacturing numbers up to a point where the cars become more feasible for the masses?
My Flash player works OK, except on remote X displays. It has been identified by the Mozilla guys as a bug in the plugin. There is a petition online over at the Linux Terminal Server Project page to try to convince Macromedia that enough people are affected to fix the issue.
I personally like PHP better than CF, but CF *IS* available for Linux. We are running 5.0 on Linux right now, and 4.5 was available as well.
Here in Alabama, most places don't have a choice when it comes to telcos. We don't have to worry about slow DSL because we can't get it in most areas. Bellsouth can't even spell DSL....