I have just recently begun reading slashdot after reading the interview with you two in Linux Magazine. I enjoy reading you pages and the commentary on certain issues. Most are okay, and there are the occasional few gems posted that make me see things in a new light and make me realize that no matter how much I think that I have all the right answers, I really don't.
I hope that you will not shoot me down for being off topic but the reason that I am including this comment under this page is that the Hellmouth article the best thing that I have read on slashdot so far. To this end, I think that it is important to realize that the most of the avid readers of slashdot embrace the internet, and honestly believe that it provides a wonderful forum for current issues. I hope that you will do everything in your power to get this information outside this community and I wish you the best of luck in doing so.
The good thing about having insanely rich folk around is that sometimes they really aren't that bright, and provide us slaves with high-quality entertainment on how to thin the herd (evolution in action).
Methinks I smell a candidate for the Darwin Awards if things go south for winter...
pot calling the kettle black?
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An intel spokesman calling this patent `extortion' after their little go around or trying to patent the instruction set on their new chip. hmmmmmm.....
I am firm believer it karma, it is the galactic equalizer. If we wait and sit by the river for a while my guess is we will see the corpse of intel floating by.
Water (and other compounds) can indeed go directly from the solid state to the liquid state. Pick up any Chemistry 101 book and look up the word ``sublimation'' in the index.
Sublimation occurs (using water as an example) in cold weather where the humidity is low.
I am probably a bit naive, but the thing that makes we stand around in awe is that despite all of it problems, and all the great differences in people is the fact that democracy allows us to meet in a forum, curse, shout, call names, and after some time we emerge with a solution. Sometimes this solution makes us happy, and sometimes not, but what is truly amazing, is that the solution is something that we all can live with.
The thing that I detest is that politicians have not embraced technology and allowed it become a powerful tool of democracy. Instead, as what usually happens, is our leaders get in their respective office and do as they see fit, rarely asking the people what they would like after the election.
Here is an idea. Get a few hundred thousand or so of your friends to get the barcodes of the worst products available, put them up on the net and a printer-friendly form, and scan them in on a regular basis. This way all of these crappy companies have inflated statistics, there stocks will rise, and then all of a sudden all of the day traders will one day realize that maybe ``Chia colostomy Bag'' was not such a good product afterall, and the market will crash.
Who said that this product was useless? It has within its power to be the most destructive weapon that capitalism has in its arsenal.
Thanks. I too did the expert install on the beta 3 and was not prompted with this question. However, now that you mention it, on the first beta it did ask me if I wanted 4.0 or 3.3.6
I did try that. I also went in and installed the line printer daemon as well and still could not get it to work. After I installed everything and tried to launch printtool I found myself back in the cups configuration tools.
I am not sure why they went with this cups system anyway. Mandrake prides itself on being the best distro for beginners. This translates to mostly home users, so why would they install a system that is more geared toward network printing and from the looks of it a system that is not as well supported?
By the way, I am able to print with PDQ. It works just fine, but is not as slick as printtool and lpr.
I could be way off on this, but apple really screwed themselves out of market share by not licensing their product out so that clones could be made. What exactly does intel hope to accomplish by this?
I am not too sharp on patent law or coding for that matter, but by patenting the instructions themselves would code writers actually have to pay intel if they wrote code that accessed system level operations?
On 7.2 beta 1 xfree 4.0 was installed by default and then on 7.2 beta 3 xfree 3.3.6 was installed by default. I did not notice this until I hosed my system by installing the nvidia drivers and thereby severly screwing everything up. Can anyone tell me what they are doing now?
Under the expert install you have the option of six security levels; paranoid, high, medium, low, poor, and my personal favorite "welcome to crackers". Can anyone tell me if the kept this in the final version?
I have installed and run betas 1 and 3 of 7.2, and have had a great deal of difficulty trying to get my printer to work with cups. The problems is the 710 series printers implemented something called printing performance architecture. The folks at sourceforge were nice enough to build some filters (the pnm2ppa project) to work with printtool. Now that Mandrake has ditched printtool and replaced it with cups none of my old tricks worked. I know that I am not the brightest light in the harbor when it comes to linux, so maybe I was doing something wrong. I did however get it to work via the Print Don't Queue (PDQ) project that is also hosted at sourceforge and the pnm2ppa project has a filter for PDQ.
It is a little clunky but at least it is a working fix until I can resolve the issue with cups.
I have not yet had the chance to download the new distro yet, so I am not sure if this problems has been resolved yet.
I said INSIDE our borders, I have yet to go through a customs office when I travel to colorado from new mexico. And guess what, you don't need a drivers license to hop on a bus, hitch or oh my god --walk or ride a bike.
You are right, one generally does need a social security card and a photo id to do certain things. However, we do have a great deal of freedom in comparison to many of the other nations.
You really should travel sometime and tell me how poor we have it in the US.
One of the wonderful things about the US is that their are no guards along state borders, no documentation is needed to travel inside our borders, and other things along these lines. I think that this is part of the reason why we do not see many terrorists attacks in the US. Blowing up a building where there is no security and hurting innocents does not make for good relations with the people whose opinions you are trying to sway. However, some people think that terrorist activities in places where the government is supposed to protect them will make the people feel less secure about their government. Having said this, I think that there is an important lesson here - how people behave is usually directly related to how they are treated. If you let people have their freedoms and privacy chances are they are going to do the right thing. Of course, there will always be a few jackasses who will do bad and destructive things, but I feel that this is inevitable.
What I hate about are politicians and some of the general public is that they feel that they have to protect us from anything and everything. I would much rather have things they way that they are now, and run the chance of accidentally getting caught in a terrorist incedent (which are probably less than winning the lottery), than live in some nazi-like Orwellian future.
People never realizing that things really are not that bad, and the fact that we have a bunch of jackasses running around trying to scare people into justifying their jobs now that the cold-war is over, is not conducive to the public well being.
street sweeper 2565 reporting from the land of anthem
I am curious how any one could endorse this. There are indeed serious political and environmental side effects that will need to be dealt with, however, explosives grade ammonium nitrate fuel oil (ANFO) is cheap. Granted one will have to use a hell of lot of it to equal an atomic blast, but it stands to reason that post explosion excavation would be a hell of a lot cheaper using smaller, controlled blasts rather than dropping a single huge bomb and then trying to remove a vast amount unwanted ruble. Also the chance of screwing up some needed existing geologic infrastructure is much smaller using smaller blasts. A case in point of this is when they were building the Mt. Palamar (sp?) observatory they used too much explosive and consequently had to bolt (literally) the mountain back together to support the foundation.
vote for the Libertarian, Brown
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Brown is a Libertarian. And while I do not agree with the reductio ad absurbum philosophy about privatizing everything, the rest of their philosophy seems intact. Seatbelts are your choice, do not censor anthying, etc...
He is the only one that I can stomach voting for. The idea of the rest of those clueless bastards becoming president is enough to make vomit and gives me the strong urge to go out and bring physical harm to small and furry woodland creatures.
I started running Linux when I took a low level cs class, and hated the fact that I had to go to a lab at school when I had a perfectly good computer at home. After I got my machine set up for dual boot I realized how lost in the woods I had been. While this "Linux vs. Microsoft" debate has been going on for a while it is perpetually gaining momentum. Had the level of hype been back then what it is now, my curiosity would have gotten the best of me and I would have tried linux before I needed it for a class.
It is important to inform the general public that a simple, yet incredibly powerful alternative to Windows exists. This "Linux vs. Microsoft" thing provides a vehicle to spread the word. Having said this, I also realize that the path that this debate has taken has not been in the best direction to help the linux movement. The real reasons why people should convert to linux are never mentioned.
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I have just recently begun reading slashdot after reading the interview with you two in Linux Magazine. I enjoy reading you pages and the commentary on certain issues. Most are okay, and there are the occasional few gems posted that make me see things in a new light and make me realize that no matter how much I think that I have all the right answers, I really don't.
I hope that you will not shoot me down for being off topic but the reason that I am including this comment under this page is that the Hellmouth article the best thing that I have read on slashdot so far. To this end, I think that it is important to realize that the most of the avid readers of slashdot embrace the internet, and honestly believe that it provides a wonderful forum for current issues. I hope that you will do everything in your power to get this information outside this community and I wish you the best of luck in doing so.
No, the sane thing to do is to test it on the Crash Test Dummies....
The good thing about having insanely rich folk around is that sometimes they really aren't that bright, and provide us slaves with high-quality entertainment on how to thin the herd (evolution in action).
Methinks I smell a candidate for the Darwin Awards if things go south for winter...
An intel spokesman calling this patent `extortion' after their little go around or trying to patent the instruction set on their new chip. hmmmmmm.....
I am firm believer it karma, it is the galactic equalizer. If we wait and sit by the river for a while my guess is we will see the corpse of intel floating by.
ooops the first line should read...
Water (and other compounds) can indeed go directly from the solid state to the vapor state.
Also, low atmospheric pressure really helps the process along.
Water (and other compounds) can indeed go directly from the solid state to the liquid state. Pick up any Chemistry 101 book and look up the word ``sublimation'' in the index.
Sublimation occurs (using water as an example) in cold weather where the humidity is low.
I am probably a bit naive, but the thing that makes we stand around in awe is that despite all of it problems, and all the great differences in people is the fact that democracy allows us to meet in a forum, curse, shout, call names, and after some time we emerge with a solution. Sometimes this solution makes us happy, and sometimes not, but what is truly amazing, is that the solution is something that we all can live with.
The thing that I detest is that politicians have not embraced technology and allowed it become a powerful tool of democracy. Instead, as what usually happens, is our leaders get in their respective office and do as they see fit, rarely asking the people what they would like after the election.
Here is an idea. Get a few hundred thousand or so of your friends to get the barcodes of the worst products available, put them up on the net and a printer-friendly form, and scan them in on a regular basis. This way all of these crappy companies have inflated statistics, there stocks will rise, and then all of a sudden all of the day traders will one day realize that maybe ``Chia colostomy Bag'' was not such a good product afterall, and the market will crash.
Who said that this product was useless? It has within its power to be the most destructive weapon that capitalism has in its arsenal.
Thanks. I too did the expert install on the beta 3 and was not prompted with this question. However, now that you mention it, on the first beta it did ask me if I wanted 4.0 or 3.3.6
I did try that. I also went in and installed the line printer daemon as well and still could not get it to work. After I installed everything and tried to launch printtool I found myself back in the cups configuration tools.
I am not sure why they went with this cups system anyway. Mandrake prides itself on being the best distro for beginners. This translates to mostly home users, so why would they install a system that is more geared toward network printing and from the looks of it a system that is not as well supported?
By the way, I am able to print with PDQ. It works just fine, but is not as slick as printtool and lpr.
I could be way off on this, but apple really screwed themselves out of market share by not licensing their product out so that clones could be made. What exactly does intel hope to accomplish by this?
I am not too sharp on patent law or coding for that matter, but by patenting the instructions themselves would code writers actually have to pay intel if they wrote code that accessed system level operations?
On 7.2 beta 1 xfree 4.0 was installed by default and then on 7.2 beta 3 xfree 3.3.6 was installed by default. I did not notice this until I hosed my system by installing the nvidia drivers and thereby severly screwing everything up. Can anyone tell me what they are doing now?
Under the expert install you have the option of six security levels; paranoid, high, medium, low, poor, and my personal favorite "welcome to crackers". Can anyone tell me if the kept this in the final version?
I have installed and run betas 1 and 3 of 7.2, and have had a great deal of difficulty trying to get my printer to work with cups. The problems is the 710 series printers implemented something called printing performance architecture. The folks at sourceforge were nice enough to build some filters (the pnm2ppa project) to work with printtool. Now that Mandrake has ditched printtool and replaced it with cups none of my old tricks worked. I know that I am not the brightest light in the harbor when it comes to linux, so maybe I was doing something wrong. I did however get it to work via the Print Don't Queue (PDQ) project that is also hosted at sourceforge and the pnm2ppa project has a filter for PDQ. It is a little clunky but at least it is a working fix until I can resolve the issue with cups. I have not yet had the chance to download the new distro yet, so I am not sure if this problems has been resolved yet.
I said INSIDE our borders, I have yet to go through a customs office when I travel to colorado from new mexico. And guess what, you don't need a drivers license to hop on a bus, hitch or oh my god --walk or ride a bike. You are right, one generally does need a social security card and a photo id to do certain things. However, we do have a great deal of freedom in comparison to many of the other nations. You really should travel sometime and tell me how poor we have it in the US.
One of the wonderful things about the US is that their are no guards along state borders, no documentation is needed to travel inside our borders, and other things along these lines. I think that this is part of the reason why we do not see many terrorists attacks in the US. Blowing up a building where there is no security and hurting innocents does not make for good relations with the people whose opinions you are trying to sway. However, some people think that terrorist activities in places where the government is supposed to protect them will make the people feel less secure about their government. Having said this, I think that there is an important lesson here - how people behave is usually directly related to how they are treated. If you let people have their freedoms and privacy chances are they are going to do the right thing. Of course, there will always be a few jackasses who will do bad and destructive things, but I feel that this is inevitable. What I hate about are politicians and some of the general public is that they feel that they have to protect us from anything and everything. I would much rather have things they way that they are now, and run the chance of accidentally getting caught in a terrorist incedent (which are probably less than winning the lottery), than live in some nazi-like Orwellian future. People never realizing that things really are not that bad, and the fact that we have a bunch of jackasses running around trying to scare people into justifying their jobs now that the cold-war is over, is not conducive to the public well being. street sweeper 2565 reporting from the land of anthem
I am curious how any one could endorse this. There are indeed serious political and environmental side effects that will need to be dealt with, however, explosives grade ammonium nitrate fuel oil (ANFO) is cheap. Granted one will have to use a hell of lot of it to equal an atomic blast, but it stands to reason that post explosion excavation would be a hell of a lot cheaper using smaller, controlled blasts rather than dropping a single huge bomb and then trying to remove a vast amount unwanted ruble. Also the chance of screwing up some needed existing geologic infrastructure is much smaller using smaller blasts. A case in point of this is when they were building the Mt. Palamar (sp?) observatory they used too much explosive and consequently had to bolt (literally) the mountain back together to support the foundation.
Brown is a Libertarian. And while I do not agree with the reductio ad absurbum philosophy about privatizing everything, the rest of their philosophy seems intact. Seatbelts are your choice, do not censor anthying, etc... He is the only one that I can stomach voting for. The idea of the rest of those clueless bastards becoming president is enough to make vomit and gives me the strong urge to go out and bring physical harm to small and furry woodland creatures.
I started running Linux when I took a low level cs class, and hated the fact that I had to go to a lab at school when I had a perfectly good computer at home. After I got my machine set up for dual boot I realized how lost in the woods I had been. While this "Linux vs. Microsoft" debate has been going on for a while it is perpetually gaining momentum. Had the level of hype been back then what it is now, my curiosity would have gotten the best of me and I would have tried linux before I needed it for a class.
It is important to inform the general public that a simple, yet incredibly powerful alternative to Windows exists. This "Linux vs. Microsoft" thing provides a vehicle to spread the word. Having said this, I also realize that the path that this debate has taken has not been in the best direction to help the linux movement. The real reasons why people should convert to linux are never mentioned.