periodically, I install mandrake, and it's a dream, it sets up all my hardware perfectly, Mandrake 7.2 got our i810's @ school hardware accelerated beautifully, and it's nice & pretty & polished. And I'll turn to spike (my best friend, co-sys-admin, and a BSD guy) and go "Spike, why don't we use mandrake?", and he'll say "apt", and then I say "right", and then he'll say "BSD style init.d" and I'll say right, and then he says "normal, non propietary, non-linuxconf boot & config scripts", and then I'll smash the mandrake computer with a boxed copy of debain 2.1
I *bought* mine. I didn't get it for free. I figured it wouldbe nice to tell the community about my experiences with the product, since a lot of slashdotters are probably interested in it.
I don't know anyone at creative, except through the newsgroups, I'm not getting compensated for the rveiew. The ads were on slashdot before I even asked about my review.
I really don't think I have a totally rosy view of the product. In ym case, the positives outweighed the negatives.
Hey, I wrote the review, and you're an AC, I would've liked to have responded via email.
winamp & xmms/mpg123 are good at playing corrupt mp3s, have you bothered to run mp3asm and anything from your collection? I thought I was givign a good way to tell fi they would play or not.
I said that Playcenter 2 has issues, and I explained how I've gotten aroudn them. Importing playlists is an easy & stable way to do it.
Have you updated to the latest firmware? I use my NJB four at leats 2-3 hours a day. Sometimes with premad eplaylsits, sometimes iwth hand coalated ones, it ahs never crashed on me. I've had to reboot it once.
I explained the problems with it, and that in my opinion it was worth the price I paid.
Creative will never disable mp3s. Stop trolling.
Thanks.
Wow, I'm going to run out and switch to this closed source crippled aim client IMMEDIATLEY. Why would I want to use gaim with logging, smily fces, spell checking, gtk interfae. Oh right, and it's open sourced too, so when I finish up the spelling menu code I see about porting it.... Oh wait, nope won't work! This thing doesn't have any of the advantages of using the AIM for windows client. At least it doesn't have ads.
Napster was wonderful, in that the idea spawned dozens of clones. We can never go back. These distributed file-sharing services are here to stay.
The new problem is the sheer number of clones, gnutella, napster/opennap, sx, freenet, blocks [just saw on FM], and now this. There are onyl so many internet savvy people out there. Why will this service take off? you need people to use it. And people won't come unless others are using it.
The question now is interoperability. How can we defragment these services, which in the logn run, the voerabundance will *hurt* access to information.
If anything, we need debs of the KDE2 releases. Everything at kde.tdyc.com is outdated and terrible. KDE1 is a mess in debian, 1/2 the packages rely of libqt the other half rely on qt1g. I installed caldera linux technology preview so I could look at kde2/knq/koffice, they're very cool. Yes, i could compile from source, but I have had very little luck compiling kde from scratch under debian. I'd really love to see good, well made debs. I don't care at this point if it conflicts with kde1. SHOW ME THE DEBS!
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Yeah, great, humans can sit in a movie theater. That's due to societal conditioning. We are told from birth to deal with our species. This is not natural. How many people do you actually like as people? How often are you fine with the people around you? How much human induced suffering is there is the world? How do you explain S&M?
On another level, "The hedgehog's dilemma" is another condition that impairs human contact. 2 hedgehogs try to approach each other, and the closer they get, the more they hurt each other. So they stay far away from others for fear of getting hurt, sound familiar?
My concern is that the import/export filters may be under NDAs or restrictive licenses that wouldn't allow them to be open sourced. It's just a thought, I could be wrong.
The problem with this was outlined in the open letter asking for KDE to be included in debian. Every KDE developer would need to be contacted and they would need to agree to use the new license. since it is their code.
this is a hasslr. And what happens when developers can't be reached?
Everyone wants to make the true interactive game. The agme where you'll be able to builda time machine, go back in time, kill Alexander the Great, hook up with Cleopatra. But wait, there's a problem, basically every game will degenerate into violence and sex.
Everytime I see an author's vision of his new agem he wants the user to be able to do anything in it. For the universe to be infinite. But this tops being a game very soon.
Open sourcing win9X would do nothing! It would include 0 drivers! Most (if not all of the drivers) are NOT the proprty of MS. And how about all the little things tehy include? This cade CANNOT be unencumbered tomorrow.
It's bitchy to get wokring, you need svgalib and libncurses3, 3, not 4, not 5, libncurses3, there's a package in debian for this, and there are rpms floating around.
I've only gotten it working in black & white, very trippy, impresses people for an instant, then they're like, umm, that's stupid! You can't move or shoot or see well.
We need more stupid, pointless, cool, hacks like this for linux
Think about it, windows is the most prolific operating system on teh planet, no windows enthusiast sees it goign anywhere soon.
Linux is now in the mass media is gaining acceptance, and has a wider and wider userbase.
Mac people must be loyal, thier OS is an endangered species, why else would people put apple tatoos on thier bodies? Appple was *THE* premier computer in school,s then MS took over. They were *GUI*, then MS took over, they were teh renegade OS, then linux took over.
BSD is similar, they were the free unix, teh open source people, teh unix at home people. They were an elite club. Now linux is taking over, and they need to be defensive. BSD people are even more loyal then MacOS'ers, especially when in the company of linux geeks.
BSD is having much less of a problem keeping both old and new hardware supported (ie 386 - 8 way SMP Athalon). BSD has a great linux emulator, wwith full compatibility with any linux libs you can throw at it. NetBSD has a much wider range of hardware support. The port system is supposed to be a much better development model.
According to most BSD-ers, linux geeks are nuts, their fs sucks (ext2 vs. fsf) their competing package systems, their library incompatibilities, their little distro wars, the development model sucks. I don't know, I like debian, I like linux, I like glibc2, I liek our distro wars and library incompats, it makes life fun!
door bell.
---dave What's brown and sounds like a bell? DUNG!
The way that the current kernel(s) handle memory paging needs to be totally rewritten by linux for xfs, or xfs will need to be rewritten to handle linus's memory paging routines. They expect to have working xfs in minimum of 6 months, probably a year. This coems from ted T'so, kernle hacker, ext2fs writer, fsck writer.
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periodically, I install mandrake, and it's a dream, it sets up all my hardware perfectly, Mandrake 7.2 got our i810's @ school hardware accelerated beautifully, and it's nice & pretty & polished. And I'll turn to spike (my best friend, co-sys-admin, and a BSD guy) and go "Spike, why don't we use mandrake?", and he'll say "apt", and then I say "right", and then he'll say "BSD style init.d" and I'll say right, and then he says "normal, non propietary, non-linuxconf boot & config scripts", and then I'll smash the mandrake computer with a boxed copy of debain 2.1
umm, again, I'm the reviewer.
I *bought* mine. I didn't get it for free. I figured it wouldbe nice to tell the community about my experiences with the product, since a lot of slashdotters are probably interested in it.
I don't know anyone at creative, except through the newsgroups, I'm not getting compensated for the rveiew. The ads were on slashdot before I even asked about my review.
I really don't think I have a totally rosy view of the product. In ym case, the positives outweighed the negatives.
--dave
Hey, I wrote the review, and you're an AC, I would've liked to have responded via email.
winamp & xmms/mpg123 are good at playing corrupt mp3s, have you bothered to run mp3asm and anything from your collection? I thought I was givign a good way to tell fi they would play or not.
I said that Playcenter 2 has issues, and I explained how I've gotten aroudn them. Importing playlists is an easy & stable way to do it.
Have you updated to the latest firmware? I use my NJB four at leats 2-3 hours a day. Sometimes with premad eplaylsits, sometimes iwth hand coalated ones, it ahs never crashed on me. I've had to reboot it once.
I explained the problems with it, and that in my opinion it was worth the price I paid.
Creative will never disable mp3s. Stop trolling.
Thanks.
Everyone at bloomberg uses these chairs, and it was worth it, I spent a month sitting in front of my PC, it was great.
these are the same chairs the slashdot guys have at every expo I've ever seen them at. And if Taco likes it.....
Wow, I'm going to run out and switch to this closed source crippled aim client IMMEDIATLEY. Why would I want to use gaim with logging, smily fces, spell checking, gtk interfae. Oh right, and it's open sourced too, so when I finish up the spelling menu code I see about porting it.... Oh wait, nope won't work! This thing doesn't have any of the advantages of using the AIM for windows client. At least it doesn't have ads.
--dave
Napster was wonderful, in that the idea spawned dozens of clones. We can never go back. These distributed file-sharing services are here to stay.
The new problem is the sheer number of clones, gnutella, napster/opennap, sx, freenet, blocks [just saw on FM], and now this. There are onyl so many internet savvy people out there. Why will this service take off? you need people to use it. And people won't come unless others are using it.
The question now is interoperability. How can we defragment these services, which in the logn run, the voerabundance will *hurt* access to information.
If anything, we need debs of the KDE2 releases. Everything at kde.tdyc.com is outdated and terrible. KDE1 is a mess in debian, 1/2 the packages rely of libqt the other half rely on qt1g. I installed caldera linux technology preview so I could look at kde2/knq/koffice, they're very cool. Yes, i could compile from source, but I have had very little luck compiling kde from scratch under debian. I'd really love to see good, well made debs. I don't care at this point if it conflicts with kde1. SHOW ME THE DEBS!
On another level, "The hedgehog's dilemma" is another condition that impairs human contact. 2 hedgehogs try to approach each other, and the closer they get, the more they hurt each other. So they stay far away from others for fear of getting hurt, sound familiar?
My concern is that the import/export filters may be under NDAs or restrictive licenses that wouldn't allow them to be open sourced. It's just a thought, I could be wrong.
The problem with this was outlined in the open letter asking for KDE to be included in debian. Every KDE developer would need to be contacted and they would need to agree to use the new license. since it is their code.
this is a hasslr. And what happens when developers can't be reached?
Everyone wants to make the true interactive game. The agme where you'll be able to builda time machine, go back in time, kill Alexander the Great, hook up with Cleopatra. But wait, there's a problem, basically every game will degenerate into violence and sex.
Everytime I see an author's vision of his new agem he wants the user to be able to do anything in it. For the universe to be infinite. But this tops being a game very soon.
--dave
Dude, It's called a web browser
--dave
Open sourcing win9X would do nothing! It would include 0 drivers! Most (if not all of the drivers) are NOT the proprty of MS. And how about all the little things tehy include? This cade CANNOT be unencumbered tomorrow.
--dave
www.whizziwig.com
It's bitchy to get wokring, you need svgalib and libncurses3, 3, not 4, not 5, libncurses3, there's a package in debian for this, and there are rpms floating around.
I've only gotten it working in black & white, very trippy, impresses people for an instant, then they're like, umm, that's stupid! You can't move or shoot or see well.
We need more stupid, pointless, cool, hacks like this for linux
--dave whizziwig.com
I said amazon,
.com was, so buy, buy as much as you possibly can
I said ebay,
I said redhat,
I said VA,
I said Sun 4 years ago,
I said IBM when it was at 50.
Now, linux is like
--dave
Think about it, windows is the most prolific operating system on teh planet, no windows enthusiast sees it goign anywhere soon.
Linux is now in the mass media is gaining acceptance, and has a wider and wider userbase.
Mac people must be loyal, thier OS is an endangered species, why else would people put apple tatoos on thier bodies? Appple was *THE* premier computer in school,s then MS took over. They were *GUI*, then MS took over, they were teh renegade OS, then linux took over.
BSD is similar, they were the free unix, teh open source people, teh unix at home people. They were an elite club. Now linux is taking over, and they need to be defensive. BSD people are even more loyal then MacOS'ers, especially when in the company of linux geeks.
BSD is having much less of a problem keeping both old and new hardware supported (ie 386 - 8 way SMP Athalon). BSD has a great linux emulator, wwith full compatibility with any linux libs you can throw at it. NetBSD has a much wider range of hardware support. The port system is supposed to be a much better development model.
According to most BSD-ers, linux geeks are nuts, their fs sucks (ext2 vs. fsf) their competing package systems, their library incompatibilities, their little distro wars, the development model sucks. I don't know, I like debian, I like linux, I like glibc2, I liek our distro wars and library incompats, it makes life fun!
door bell.
---dave
What's brown and sounds like a bell? DUNG!
The way that the current kernel(s) handle memory paging needs to be totally rewritten by linux for xfs, or xfs will need to be rewritten to handle linus's memory paging routines. They expect to have working xfs in minimum of 6 months, probably a year. This coems from ted T'so, kernle hacker, ext2fs writer, fsck writer.
--dave