I hope Apple tells France to f**k off and simply stops selling the devices in France. Maybe then the outraged French consumer would get to see the SACEM dragged into the street, shot, burned and pissed on.
(Collecting "fees against piracy" from blank media is ridiculous, less ethical than the piracy in the first place. I guess (as always) being sanctioned by The State makes it ethical.)
Last time I was at tuxgames.com that had Alpha Centauri and the Expansion pack in stock. Trying to get there now but tuxgames (which is slow under the best of circumstances) is crawling right now...
"It relates to your small to large size IT department."
Correct. Depending upon the organization's size, you can either pay your own admins to build and manage your network with free software (competent sysadmins, downloaded distro, no commercial support) or you can pay your own admins to build and take care of your network with software you also pay for, although the admins might be cheaper.
Linux can be used for free, but it must be attended to by competent engineers. Do you pay your admins for construction and support, or do you pay your admins for construction and maintenance and another company for support? All things being equal, I'd rather pay my own staff than give that money to another company, iff the organzation is large enough to warrant a full-time staff.
The Thunderbird page states "Red Hat Linux 7.0 and higher", which is of course bullsh*t:
~/thunderbird >./run-mozilla.sh thunderbird-bin thunderbird-bin:/lib/libpthread.so.0: version `GLIBC_2.3.2' not found (required by./libnspr4.so)
I wish they'd either build it against 2.3.1 or change the posted system requirements... One can find versions built for older GLIBCs if one want's to trawl the fora and newsgroups...
He also suggests we often approach the whole issue of encouraging migration to Linux from Windows entirely wrongly
I've had a pretty good deal of luck with my family and friends getting them switched to Mozilla and OpenOffice on win32 first, and then later on suggesting Linux. Like most desktop users, thoes 2 apps give them everything they need (web, email and and office suite). If they get used to it on win32, using it all on Linux is a no-brainer and they're generally at least willing to try.
Humorous how the guy who liked SpamAssassin (Kevin Railsback) was a tech who actually set it up for use at infoworld and the guy who didn't like it is an "IT consultant the author of two books on networking." Always trust a tech.
It can't possibly suck as badly as the last 3 movies. Might be worth a watch just to see if there's *any* integrity left in the storyline and writers. I saw "Star Wars" in theaters when it came out in 77 (several times;) and the last one was the first one in the series I didn't even watch to the end. What a piece of garbage.
Aren't about 99% of RH's updates simply repackaging of upstream patches anyway?
Yes, they are. People paying for these "updates" instead of keeping their eyes open and grabbing them for free are either 1) idiots or 2) have a lot of money to disseminate. The same people that are watching for Red Hat updates could be watching for the upstream patches. As I've said before, corporate IT is it's own worst enemy. Talk about "a self-supporting infrastructure"... Without an IT department there would be no need for an IT department...;-)
Which begs the question: with Apple running IBM CPUs *and* playing reasonably well with the open-source community, why isn't IBM pushing Apple desktops at all? Seems to me both could clearly benefit from some help from the IBM marketing machine, given it's size and scope. Apple wants to do it all itself (and is doing a pretty good job) but the benefits of such help are undeniable.
Welcome to the 21st century, ladies/gentlemen/other. Some people see war around every corner. Maybe if we didn't look for it we wouldn't find it... Now when is Wilma Deering gonna show up in my office in that outrageous spandex body suit?
mplayer plays Windows Media files just fine. Should work, no? Not that I would pay for the serice anyways, but mplayer should work fine. Unless the DRM sh*t is something extra, which it probably is, about which I know nothing and could care even less.
Alsa is a separate entity from Slack - if Alsa had issues with the sound card it wasn't Slack's fault. Also, the driver on the cheaper onboard sound rigs emulates full-duplex in software, right? At least sometimes? Setting up full duplex in software can probably be done but with quite a bit of work. The issues never exist on a card with onboard full-duplex support but one must still learn and use Alsa. The Slack/Alsa combo worked fine for basic sound support.
As to the Slack install, it is what is is - easy and quick. Just like FreeBSD's - there's no reason to change it, it's fine.
Is this crap opsys agnostic? Will I still be able to boot linux and/or BSD on one of these BIOS types? Or is the build-your-own-and-put-wotever-you-want-on-it era over?
Use something else, there are always alternatives.
But I need them to do my job
Get a new job. This crap only strengthens M$'s stranglehold on the planet. Save the cash on VirtualPC, buy a soul and move on with life. Why anyone would pollute a wonderful opsys and hardware platform with the lowest-common-denomiator OS on the planet on a PCI-enabled virus factory is beyond me. Blech!!
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Humans really do suck. I mean, really. We are a scourge upon this
galaxy...
I hope Apple tells France to f**k off and simply stops selling the devices
in France. Maybe then the outraged French consumer would get to see the
SACEM dragged into the street, shot, burned and pissed on.
(Collecting "fees against piracy" from blank media is ridiculous, less
ethical than the piracy in the first place. I guess (as always) being
sanctioned by The State makes it ethical.)
I got through - they seem to be sold out. Sorry - rough luck. I don't want to part with mine, makes great entertainment on my aging Thinkpad....
Last time I was at tuxgames.com that had Alpha Centauri and the Expansion pack in stock. Trying to get there now but tuxgames (which is slow under the best of circumstances) is crawling right now...
"It relates to your small to large size IT department."
Correct. Depending upon the organization's size, you can either pay your own admins to build and manage your network with free software (competent sysadmins, downloaded distro, no commercial support) or you can pay your own admins to build and take care of your network with software you also pay for, although the admins might be cheaper.
Linux can be used for free, but it must be attended to by competent engineers. Do you pay your admins for construction and support, or do you pay your admins for construction and maintenance and another company for support? All things being equal, I'd rather pay my own staff than give that money to another company, iff the organzation is large enough to warrant a full-time staff.
Any chance of us getting the first three movies with those odious "extra" scenes removed or not added?
What about some of this much ballyhooed CRM on-demand stuff from Siebel, IBM, etc.?
I was forced to work in Visual Basic for 6 months while on co-op in college. I'd take the jet engine over that crap anyday.
Will it suck as badly as the 2nd movie (which sucked even more than the first movie (which none of us thought to be possible))???
Porbably. Pablum for the masses. Nothing to see here - please save your money and move along. Give it to a literacy charity or something.
The Thunderbird page states "Red Hat Linux 7.0 and higher", which is of course bullsh*t:
./run-mozilla.sh thunderbird-bin /lib/libpthread.so.0: version `GLIBC_2.3.2' not found (required by ./libnspr4.so)
~/thunderbird >
thunderbird-bin:
I wish they'd either build it against 2.3.1 or change the posted system requirements... One can find versions built for older GLIBCs if one want's to trawl the fora and newsgroups...
Nice app, otherwise.
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He also suggests we often approach the whole issue of encouraging migration to Linux from Windows entirely wrongly
I've had a pretty good deal of luck with my family and friends getting them switched to Mozilla and OpenOffice on win32 first, and then later on suggesting Linux. Like most desktop users, thoes 2 apps give them everything they need (web, email and and office suite). If they get used to it on win32, using it all on Linux is a no-brainer and they're generally at least willing to try.
Humorous how the guy who liked SpamAssassin (Kevin Railsback) was a tech who actually set it up for use at infoworld and the guy who didn't like it is an "IT consultant the author of two books on networking." Always trust a tech.
Where is the freakin' delete page????
It can't possibly suck as badly as the last 3 movies. Might be worth a watch just to see if there's *any* integrity left in the storyline and writers. I saw "Star Wars" in theaters when it came out in 77 (several times ;) and the last one was the first one in the series I didn't even watch to the end. What a piece of garbage.
Aren't about 99% of RH's updates simply repackaging of upstream patches anyway?
... ;-)
Yes, they are. People paying for these "updates" instead of keeping their eyes open and grabbing them for free are either 1) idiots or 2) have a lot of money to disseminate. The same people that are watching for Red Hat updates could be watching for the upstream patches. As I've said before, corporate IT is it's own worst enemy. Talk about "a self-supporting infrastructure"... Without an IT department there would be no need for an IT department
Which begs the question: with Apple running IBM CPUs *and* playing reasonably well with the open-source community, why isn't IBM pushing Apple desktops at all? Seems to me both could clearly benefit from some help from the IBM marketing machine, given it's size and scope. Apple wants to do it all itself (and is doing a pretty good job) but the benefits of such help are undeniable.
I've been using KDE at home since late 1998 (I think) and at work since mid 2000. Awesome desktop environment!
Welcome to the 21st century, ladies/gentlemen/other. Some people see war around every corner. Maybe if we didn't look for it we wouldn't find it... Now when is Wilma Deering gonna show up in my office in that outrageous spandex body suit?
beedee-beedee-beedee f*ck you, Buck!
mplayer plays Windows Media files just fine. Should work, no? Not that I would pay for the serice anyways, but mplayer should work fine. Unless the DRM sh*t is something extra, which it probably is, about which I know nothing and could care even less.
Since the response to its appeal was adequate, SCO didn't send bills to thousands of Linux users, company spokesman Blake Stowell said.'
Too bad - I'd love to hang up such an (otherwise ignored) invoice here in my office. SCO can kiss my ass in Macy's window during a One Day Sale.
It's easy. Install something else. Anything else.
Alsa is a separate entity from Slack - if Alsa had issues with the sound card it wasn't Slack's fault. Also, the driver on the cheaper onboard sound rigs emulates full-duplex in software, right? At least sometimes? Setting up full duplex in software can probably be done but with quite a bit of work. The issues never exist on a card with onboard full-duplex support but one must still learn and use Alsa. The Slack/Alsa combo worked fine for basic sound support.
As to the Slack install, it is what is is - easy and quick. Just like FreeBSD's - there's no reason to change it, it's fine.
Is this crap opsys agnostic? Will I still be able to boot linux and/or BSD on one of these BIOS types? Or is the build-your-own-and-put-wotever-you-want-on-it era over?
Hmm. Simple. Don't run RealPC or VirtualPC.
But I need it to run some Windows apps..
Then don't run those apps.
But I need them to do my work...
Use something else, there are always alternatives.
But I need them to do my job
Get a new job. This crap only strengthens M$'s stranglehold on the planet. Save the cash on VirtualPC, buy a soul and move on with life. Why anyone would pollute a wonderful opsys and hardware platform with the lowest-common-denomiator OS on the planet on a PCI-enabled virus factory is beyond me. Blech!!