You may be right here... and besides I belive most often pessimism is nothing more than realism. Still I cannot give in now, and hopefully, ever. Even for a lost cause.
No, the war is not over. Almost, but not yet. It stills needs to be examined in each country, before returning to central. I do not want to sound optimistic and I agree things are not looking good at all, but we can still be active and vocal about stuff. I would like to see what the FFII recommends as action now.
Really? I thought Holland was a country? Besides on my last visit to Brussels, I remember it being a bilingual region... (Anyone from Brussels to confirm?)
Agreed. My point is that I doubt there is any evil conspiration between Dell and RedHat to design some secret modules that other distros would be barred from.
Besides if my memories are correct, by entering the Dell service number on their support site, you get to know the full contents of you box. If not, stuff like scanpci or other do the job fine.
I cannot talk about FreeBSD, my experience with Debian is that they are always a few steps behind for a matter of stability.
The "drivers" as you claim are kernel modules, and to my knowledge Redhat kernel sources are availble ( Redhat 8 and Redhat 9 ) you can also check in the update section.
So I would guess if you have trouble with Debian, either your kernel is not up to date (ftp.kernel.org) or the installation fails to detect and configure hardware correctly...
BTW I used a Dell box to try out Knoppix (which is Debian based) and have not met any problems.
"I mean, why bother buying a computer when you already have this nice little Minitel terminal that does just about everything"
Because it is so expensive!
You know...when you started your answer I was going to mod you up because I thought you had a few good points. However when you started your Euro-soandso crap I realised your attitude was just as stupid as the one you claim to be condemning. I am not worried for you, you will reach the +5, but not with my mod. Of course I am European (even French as a matter of fact) I think your vision of Europe is as far from truth (and please do not take the UK communist party as a reference, or I shall start looking in US'es non representative groups) as my vision of US is. Maybe understanding freedom as the set of what we can or cannot do rather than the ability that we have of changing the course of events is the cause for all these childish (still!!) comparisons. I believe that 9/11 (sorry 11/9) has led all western countries in a legal state that should worry every one of us, not only for our own country, but also for the countries with which we do business and share goals. From that point of view I am as concerned by the road US is taking than by the way Europe is catching on.
As for why reasons why US helped Europe during all these wars we could also argue for a while. Still I am grateful you were there, this does NOT make me, or my country, your slave. Anyway, I preferred answering than modding down.
Yep, I thought about this... 1st point, we are not talking about galaxies but set of Hubble spaces in a multiverse
I have terrible memories of the probability lessons in Maths. But I feel (how about that for scientific evidence;) ) you could use the same reasoning as for a unique copy for a second one further on (with of course a lower probability), and then reason by recurence (?) to infere the existence of the next...
As a matter of fact does it really matter whether it is spherical or not?
I mean, if we claim that at at most 10^10^118 meters from you there must be the exactly the same (copy) Hubble space that the one in which we are living, would this not be just like "walking" round a sphere?
We could obviously claim that to reach such an analogy you need to have a frequency in the distribution of copies; still, using the same sort of probalities as those used to demonstrate the existence of the "first" copy, we could come to the same conclusion with several copies evenly distributed... :-) Well whatever...
Slashdot Mirror
Man!!! This comment-o-thingy is great! Can you get it to do the FPs, GNAA and overlord thingy too?
> su - /dev/flood > /dev/earth
Password:
# cat
# rdev noah+beasts
# dd if=noah+beasts of=/dev/earth
You may be right here... and besides I belive most often pessimism is nothing more than realism.
Still I cannot give in now, and hopefully, ever. Even for a lost cause.
So... that mean that Slartibartfast could patent the earth?
Why is there no page concerning this on their web page then?
No, the war is not over. Almost, but not yet. It stills needs to be examined in each country, before returning to central.
I do not want to sound optimistic and I agree things are not looking good at all, but we can still be active and vocal about stuff.
I would like to see what the FFII recommends as action now.
And me. When are we leaving?
Really? I thought Holland was a country?
Besides on my last visit to Brussels, I remember it being a bilingual region... (Anyone from Brussels to confirm?)
Agreed.
My point is that I doubt there is any evil conspiration between Dell and RedHat to design some secret modules that other distros would be barred from.
Besides if my memories are correct, by entering the Dell service number on their support site, you get to know the full contents of you box. If not, stuff like scanpci or other do the job fine.
I cannot talk about FreeBSD, my experience with Debian is that they are always a few steps behind for a matter of stability.
The "drivers" as you claim are kernel modules, and to my knowledge Redhat kernel sources are availble ( Redhat 8 and Redhat 9 ) you can also check in the update section.
So I would guess if you have trouble with Debian, either your kernel is not up to date (ftp.kernel.org) or the installation fails to detect and configure hardware correctly...
BTW I used a Dell box to try out Knoppix (which is Debian based) and have not met any problems.
Are you saying that you consider losing format, when converting from XLS to CSV vendor lock-in???
Hell! CSV does not support formatting, formulas etc... It's not a matter of strategy it's a matter of capacity
Kindly remember that theft is not piracy (piracy is copyright infringement)
No. Copyright infringement is copyright infringement, I believe FSF definition for piracy is the most accurate.
Have you ever tried with lynx? So? you see the point now?
Good point... It just goes to show it is about time to cut the crap!
For a while now thousands of sites are closed. By now its 2500+ and only now is some slashdotter noticing it and it becomes slashdot news??? ... and here also
Well... actually there was a previous posts several days ago
Agreed, I'm still struggling to find email for MEP's in France. If anyone has got a link, it would be appreciated!
LOL! Looks like it! ;-)
Good spotting, you are my god!
Anyway I suppose most of the intended audience cannot differenciate C code and comments!
No... Take a second think about it: "In Soviet Russia, the car drives you" So this is communism!!
How can a first post be redundant?
"I mean, why bother buying a computer when you already have this nice little Minitel terminal that does just about everything"
Because it is so expensive!
You know...when you started your answer I was going to mod you up because I thought you had a few good points. However when you started your Euro-soandso crap I realised your attitude was just as stupid as the one you claim to be condemning. I am not worried for you, you will reach the +5, but not with my mod.
Of course I am European (even French as a matter of fact) I think your vision of Europe is as far from truth (and please do not take the UK communist party as a reference, or I shall start looking in US'es non representative groups) as my vision of US is.
Maybe understanding freedom as the set of what we can or cannot do rather than the ability that we have of changing the course of events is the cause for all these childish (still!!) comparisons.
I believe that 9/11 (sorry 11/9) has led all western countries in a legal state that should worry every one of us, not only for our own country, but also for the countries with which we do business and share goals. From that point of view I am as concerned by the road US is taking than by the way Europe is catching on.
As for why reasons why US helped Europe during all these wars we could also argue for a while. Still I am grateful you were there, this does NOT make me, or my country, your slave.
Anyway, I preferred answering than modding down.
Yep, I thought about this... 1st point, we are not talking about galaxies but set of Hubble spaces in a multiverse ;) ) you could use the same reasoning as for a unique copy for a second one further on (with of course a lower probability), and then reason by recurence (?) to infere the existence of the next...
I have terrible memories of the probability lessons in Maths. But I feel (how about that for scientific evidence
As a matter of fact does it really matter whether it is spherical or not?
I mean, if we claim that at at most 10^10^118 meters from you there must be the exactly the same (copy) Hubble space that the one in which we are living, would this not be just like "walking" round a sphere?
We could obviously claim that to reach such an analogy you need to have a frequency in the distribution of copies; still, using the same sort of probalities as those used to demonstrate the existence of the "first" copy, we could come to the same conclusion with several copies evenly distributed...
:-) Well whatever...
In Irak?
Fair enough... I was thinking about somehow more obvious settings.