Making Kermit the Frog speak for the V-chip is just evil. I'm royally pissed that someone would dare twist and manipulate one of the few cultural icons that was actually purely good.
I had a lot of respect for Kermit and what he represented. Now he's just another fucking puppet.
This is true, but I was considering buying one almost exclusively because it can play DVDs, and I don't have a DVD player. I do already have a playstation. If the price were around $200 I'd be able to consider it more seriously...at $370, it looks about as attainable as those Neo*Geo Gold systems were back in the day.
If that's the case, wouldn't it work in the secular party's favor? After all, most of the religious types ought to be in church on a Sunday morn, not reading Slashdot.:)
umm... I hate to point this out, but if you're gonna call Irix superior in any way shape or form, I think we're gonna hafta throw out your statements in their entirety.
This may be the case for some, but I didn't start using Linux to feel "special" or different. I wanted something different from Microsoft because Microsoft sucks, and suckage is not what I want. I have yet to see someone switch from Linux to a BSD because Linux is too mainstream. It happens occasionally for technical or ideological reasons, but that's a whole different thing. I think the BSDs are growing in popularity because people are starting again to look around for alternatives to Microsoft and commercial Unices, and partly because Linux is demonstrating very visibly that those alternatives are out there.
Okay, I felt a need to respond to this. The answer is no. We've been working on the glibc2 version since the release of 4.0, because we decided glibc2 was ready and it's relatively safe to base our distribution on it. Most of the recent progress in other arenas (website, mailing lists, etc.) has been largely due to the fact that three of the core team members are, in fact, in school (and have also been working). Just recently have we had some real time to put into the Project.
I'm not sure why people have the impression that we "fell behind"... our marketing isn't up to the speed of some other distributions', and we waited til glibc2 looked reasonably stable to start basing Slackware on it, but that's really just a matter of sacrificing a head start to retain our (I think) well-deserved reputation for stability... just a difference in philosophy. I think a lot of people have (had?) a poor understanding of the libc5/libc6 issue, based largely on a "newer is better" and "everyone else is doing it" kind of thought process.
...because we didn't jump the gun and base our distribution on prerelease glibc versions. That sorta goes against our whole stability philosophy. Other distributions had a head start when glibc2 finally got an actual release. Good for them. We weren't interested enough in a head start to use prerelease software. It's just the way we do things.
--Logan
Re:2.0.38? What happened to the 2.2 tree?
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As was indicated previously, the 2.0 kernels are naturally going to be more stable (developmentally) than the 2.2 kernels. That much should be obvious... the 2.0 kernel is essentially considered "finished", and is only improved when major problems are discovered. This isn't happening very often, which is one large reason we're now at 2.2. What makes you think your 2.2.10 kernel isn't going to desperately need an upgrade day after tomorrow? Don't you think it's less likely that someone's 2.0.38 kernel will?
Re:Pity for the Victims of the Children's Crusade
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I still have a Slackware machine
Damn right you do.
for cdparanoia, but that's about all it gets used for.
Awwww, dammit.
Just need a hard drive, and my FreeBSD system will be up and open for play time...
So the whole point is to deprecate MS Office "standards"... Corel's come back from the brink more times than I can count, anyway. I'm sure they'll be okay.
Define "configurable". IMHO, KDE is every bit as configurable as, say, Gnome. They do some things differently, and each does some things the other won't... but I don't think you can say that KDE lacks configurability, especially given that (unlike certain other desktop environments) you can actually find the config files and change them yourself, without GUI help/interference.
Re:I'm looking forward to the day they ditch X
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I'd like it to handle remote sessions better... It could use some actual honest-to-God authentication and encryption of traffic, for starters.
And I dunno so much about that "efficient" bit...
Re:Looks nice, but is not stable (yet)
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That makes me smile...I don't use most of KDE, but I do use kfm. Faster KDE file manager is good.
She's a professional pundit, mainly. One of the "Wired" magazine crowd, those doofy "digerati" people who run around telling venture capitalists what the Next Big Thing is gonna be. She's into the EFF and stuff too.
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Making Kermit the Frog speak for the V-chip is just evil. I'm royally pissed that someone would dare twist and manipulate one of the few cultural icons that was actually purely good.
I had a lot of respect for Kermit and what he represented. Now he's just another fucking puppet.
This is true, but I was considering buying one almost exclusively because it can play DVDs, and I don't have a DVD player. I do already have a playstation. If the price were around $200 I'd be able to consider it more seriously...at $370, it looks about as attainable as those Neo*Geo Gold systems were back in the day.
Or is it just because it's Sunday morning?
:)
If that's the case, wouldn't it work in the secular party's favor? After all, most of the religious types ought to be in church on a Sunday morn, not reading Slashdot.
Hence, only humans can sin.
Lucky us.
I don't know how much truth there is in this, but if there is any, I hope the trend does not cross the Atlantic.
What trend? This is just Kansas.
Red Hat makes money. Nothing like their $5+ billion market cap, but they make money, methinks.
umm... I hate to point this out, but if you're gonna call Irix superior in any way shape or form, I think we're gonna hafta throw out your statements in their entirety.
This may be the case for some, but I didn't start using Linux to feel "special" or different. I wanted something different from Microsoft because Microsoft sucks, and suckage is not what I want. I have yet to see someone switch from Linux to a BSD because Linux is too mainstream. It happens occasionally for technical or ideological reasons, but that's a whole different thing. I think the BSDs are growing in popularity because people are starting again to look around for alternatives to Microsoft and commercial Unices, and partly because Linux is demonstrating very visibly that those alternatives are out there.
All I wanna know.
Okay, I felt a need to respond to this. The answer is no. We've been working on the glibc2 version since the release of 4.0, because we decided glibc2 was ready and it's relatively safe to base our distribution on it. Most of the recent progress in other arenas (website, mailing lists, etc.) has been largely due to the fact that three of the core team members are, in fact, in school (and have also been working). Just recently have we had some real time to put into the Project.
I'm not sure why people have the impression that we "fell behind"... our marketing isn't up to the speed of some other distributions', and we waited til glibc2 looked reasonably stable to start basing Slackware on it, but that's really just a matter of sacrificing a head start to retain our (I think) well-deserved reputation for stability... just a difference in philosophy. I think a lot of people have (had?) a poor understanding of the libc5/libc6 issue, based largely on a "newer is better" and "everyone else is doing it" kind of thought process.
--Logan
Slackware Linux Project
...because we didn't jump the gun and base our distribution on prerelease glibc versions. That sorta goes against our whole stability philosophy. Other distributions had a head start when glibc2 finally got an actual release. Good for them. We weren't interested enough in a head start to use prerelease software. It's just the way we do things.
--Logan
As was indicated previously, the 2.0 kernels are naturally going to be more stable (developmentally) than the 2.2 kernels. That much should be obvious... the 2.0 kernel is essentially considered "finished", and is only improved when major problems are discovered. This isn't happening very often, which is one large reason we're now at 2.2. What makes you think your 2.2.10 kernel isn't going to desperately need an upgrade day after tomorrow? Don't you think it's less likely that someone's 2.0.38 kernel will?
I still have a Slackware machine
Damn right you do.
for cdparanoia, but that's about all it gets used for.
Awwww, dammit.
Just need a hard drive, and my FreeBSD system will be up and open for play time...
--Logan
Slackware Core Team
So the whole point is to deprecate MS Office "standards"... Corel's come back from the brink more times than I can count, anyway. I'm sure they'll be okay.
They go to college kids (like me) who use them for servers (like mine).
Bah. As soon as he patches it that incentive is gone.
Which would prove what?
And why does queso identify it as a Cisco/HP/Baystack switch?
Because QueSO is a big ball of snot. Adding TCP options checking (Fyodor's big contribution to fingerprinting) makes nmap a much better fingerprinter.
Define "configurable". IMHO, KDE is every bit as configurable as, say, Gnome. They do some things differently, and each does some things the other won't... but I don't think you can say that KDE lacks configurability, especially given that (unlike certain other desktop environments) you can actually find the config files and change them yourself, without GUI help/interference.
I'd like it to handle remote sessions better... It could use some actual honest-to-God authentication and encryption of traffic, for starters.
And I dunno so much about that "efficient" bit...
That makes me smile...I don't use most of KDE, but I do use kfm. Faster KDE file manager is good.
what's your point?
Whatever.
Have you read Pastwatch: The Redemption of Christopher Columbus? Damn good historical/speculative fiction.
so, tell me again what the hell your bitching about magic, science fiction, etc. has to do with movie bootlegging?
She's a professional pundit, mainly. One of the "Wired" magazine crowd, those doofy "digerati" people who run around telling venture capitalists what the Next Big Thing is gonna be. She's into the EFF and stuff too.