At this point in time, what would further the use of Linux in the Arab world? Better fonts/font rendering? Translations of howtos? Better infrastructure?
The Saudi royal family were allowed to leave the US by air in the aftermath of 9/11, when no US citizen could even go near a plane. They also provided funding for the Carlyle Group, which is connected to both the previous and the current Bush administrations.
If western authorities start cracking down on Wahabi preachers in general rather than specific individuals, it may make the Saudi royals look bad to the Wahabi religious leaders, and they don't want that as the religious leaders are keeping the royal family in power.
With so much money and oil at stake, the US government will look the other way when Saudi preachers are misbehaving, and encourage their allies to do the same.
The parent is correct. I have a cheap b/g PCMCIA card with an Atheros AR5212 chipset, and Ubuntu supported it out of the box - it even came up as ath0 in the installer.
I graduated with two girls from a class of 100 or so, and neither were proper geeks. They did their best to ignore the rest of us smelly types.
If you're looking for geek girls, try biology or chemistry departments. Many more women there than CS departments, they are extremely clever, and usually are still geeks. Plus, they find it hard to get a decent man who isn't afraid of a woman being smarter than them.
I had IE running on Debian under Wine a year ago, with Javascript working fine, for an IE-only site (Accipiter's ad-tracking web app) I was forced to use for work.
I've been trying to get this service (I live in central London), and despite the Now salespeople flogging it in my local shopping centre for the last month, you can't actually get it in my area.
The salespeople actually use Vodafone 3G PCMCIA cards to demonstrate it.
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Don't bother scrolling down to read the comments in the blog, they are just a bunch of racist jokes and rants pasted in from somewhere else.
It might be a good idea for the blog author to turn off commenting for this post.
With Microsoft being in a dubious position at the moment (Longhorn delayed, Linux and OpenOffice becoming more of a threat to its cash cows etc), of course Ballmer is going to try and distract people by making them look for problems elsewhere.
Student: Why should I work for MS given the problems Microsoft is currently facing? Ballmer: [pulling a monkey out of his pocket] Here, look at the monkey. Look at the silly monkey! [student's head explodes]
[humor] I don't know about you, but if the devil came up to souls on their little floating clouds in heaven and offered them all expenses paid trips to hell, I'm not sure he'd have much success. [/humor]
The more cynical minded of us might see all these dupes as a way to get more ad revenue. More articles = more ad space to sell + more impressions = more money for Slashdot.
When work is outsourced to countries that are not very stable, or have terrorism problems, or civil wars, it makes portions of that country wealthy. Those wealthy portions become a target for the local Bad People, simply because it will hurt their enemies more than bombing the poor portions.
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At this point in time, what would further the use of Linux in the Arab world? Better fonts/font rendering? Translations of howtos? Better infrastructure?
The Saudi royal family were allowed to leave the US by air in the aftermath of 9/11, when no US citizen could even go near a plane. They also provided funding for the Carlyle Group, which is connected to both the previous and the current Bush administrations.
If western authorities start cracking down on Wahabi preachers in general rather than specific individuals, it may make the Saudi royals look bad to the Wahabi religious leaders, and they don't want that as the religious leaders are keeping the royal family in power.
With so much money and oil at stake, the US government will look the other way when Saudi preachers are misbehaving, and encourage their allies to do the same.
I can see the submitter is a graduate of a US college.
The parent is correct. I have a cheap b/g PCMCIA card with an Atheros AR5212 chipset, and Ubuntu supported it out of the box - it even came up as ath0 in the installer.
FEMA was on the scene within the hour
Your joke was not too far-fetched, except for this bit.
I graduated with two girls from a class of 100 or so, and neither were proper geeks. They did their best to ignore the rest of us smelly types.
If you're looking for geek girls, try biology or chemistry departments. Many more women there than CS departments, they are extremely clever, and usually are still geeks. Plus, they find it hard to get a decent man who isn't afraid of a woman being smarter than them.
I had IE running on Debian under Wine a year ago, with Javascript working fine, for an IE-only site (Accipiter's ad-tracking web app) I was forced to use for work.
Well, you know what they say: 'A friend in need is a friend with Kraft Dinner' :)
We don't exactly have it in London either.
I've been trying to get this service (I live in central London), and despite the Now salespeople flogging it in my local shopping centre for the last month, you can't actually get it in my area.
The salespeople actually use Vodafone 3G PCMCIA cards to demonstrate it.
Don't bother scrolling down to read the comments in the blog, they are just a bunch of racist jokes and rants pasted in from somewhere else.
It might be a good idea for the blog author to turn off commenting for this post.
I've heard of the other companies... what does this one do?
I bet Microsoft never expected Google to shoot back... they must be ducking for cover about now.
You champion.
Where are mod points when you need them...
With Microsoft being in a dubious position at the moment (Longhorn delayed, Linux and OpenOffice becoming more of a threat to its cash cows etc), of course Ballmer is going to try and distract people by making them look for problems elsewhere.
Student: Why should I work for MS given the problems Microsoft is currently facing?
Ballmer: [pulling a monkey out of his pocket] Here, look at the monkey. Look at the silly monkey! [student's head explodes]
I moved to London from Sydney a year ago, and had to go through the same experience.
I'd recommend PlusNet for an ISP, if for no other reason than they give you a subdomain on their network, which can be handy for us geeks.
How long do we have to wait for Linux driver support this time?
Would you move from Google... to Microsoft?
[humor]
I don't know about you, but if the devil came up to souls on their little floating clouds in heaven and offered them all expenses paid trips to hell, I'm not sure he'd have much success.
[/humor]
Linux runs on many architectures. You can run Linux on Apple hardware if you want - after all, Linus does.
Anyone else read that as Mandribble, and then imagine the new logo?
Yuck.
The more cynical minded of us might see all these dupes as a way to get more ad revenue. More articles = more ad space to sell + more impressions = more money for Slashdot.
For those of us who don't know, is there a KDE equivalent in the pipeline?
It only does 1024x768 too. If I'm paying that much for a laptop, it had better go higher than that.
That'll teach 'em to spam the judge ;)
When work is outsourced to countries that are not very stable, or have terrorism problems, or civil wars, it makes portions of that country wealthy. Those wealthy portions become a target for the local Bad People, simply because it will hurt their enemies more than bombing the poor portions.
Frequently seen in kernel changelogs is something like this:
torvalds@ppc970.osdl.org
Linux 2.6.11-rc5
The 'ppc970' has been there for a while now. I assume this is his PowerPC machine, which would indicate he's been running a Mac for some time.