Before a bank of computer screens, a man clicks a mouse, and then electricity, quietly sucked off the municipal power grid in Albuquerque, floods into the outer ring of Marx generators.
Wonderful! This gives me some ideas for new Tribes weaponary.
BTW, wouldn't you rather use a device other than a wimpy little mouse when exercising such power?
Why do I get the feeling 9.5 of 10 responses were simply regurgitated/. posts?
Re:What all Linux Package Managers Lack...
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RPM Package Manager
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uselinux.net wrote:
Unfortunately, all the Linux package managers (apt/dpkg, rpm, etc) lack one vital feature that all the big guys (IBM, Sun, HP) have included for years - the ability to install, but not commit a package.
One of the things "enterprise" Unices have is the ability to upgrade a package, while the system backs up your old package.
bluebomber wrote:
Right. Because Windows has provided "install, but don't commit" functionality for YEARS. Give me a break.
Funny?
Would have been if Windows was considered enterprise class for *YEARS*. Or if it was mentioned in the original post.
But, but... MaAAHum, I wanted to moderate the/. moderaters.
Don't worry, Eric. You'll get your turn.
It's not your age. There is just very little originality and creativity in mainstream pop music today. I'm 17, and I wonder how some of my friends can stand listening to god-awful shit like Creed, Third Eye Blind, Kid Rock, blah, blah, blah... They all sound exactly the same, like shit.
I listen to Country. All that rap stuff sucks.
I listen to Rap. Heavy Metal will rot your head.
I listen to Heavy Metal. Pop is for idiots.
I listen to Pop. I don't care for anything much else, except for the 80's.
And so on and so forth...
Maybe we should ask him why he likes Linux? All the distributions just look the same.
Why college? Maybe he has plans that don't include college.
On second thought, college is a good place for a geek to be a geek.
Attend college. Be a geek. And while you are there don't forget to experi^H^H^H^H^H^H learn some things about being a non-geek sometimes. It will be good for your health, really.
This is not a problem for "Linux" as a whole. This is a problem for the individual distribution makers.
First distribution (Caldera 2.3); one machine, one light weight manual, one cable modem connection.
Everything was there to successfully get the machine up and running, connected to the Internet. Dial-up may have been a different story. Depending on your hardware situation, YMMV. Good arguement for a hardware compatibility check as mentioned here.
Once connected to the web it was *mostly* downhill from there. If one linux site did not offer the solution I needed, another one did. In fact, sometimes it took more than one site and a little learning to get it done.
What would've happened instead was the people who wanted only a browser would be satisfied, but those who wanted a communications suite, opon realizing that it's only a browser, would either stick with thier old versions of communicator, or switch to another communications suite. The communications suite users would still think of NS6 as only a browser, even if a communicator version were released soon after, and would be wondering why NS didn't release the communicator version in the first place.
Agreed. As a Netscape mail user, I would be wondering if mail finally supported multiple inboxes or not.
Maybe a compromising solution would be to release, broswer-only 6.0 and Mail/News/Composer PR3. Previous releases would have needed to plan for this and be adjusted accordingly.
As it stands, Netscape has a good chance of saving face, if they're smart about it, and make bug-fixing a top priority for thier 6.1 release, and they relaese it without unnecessary deleay.
Users (especially Windows) are getting used to this sort of thing (read: Windows 2000 SP1). It is possible management considered this and saw the current strategy as a way out. Even though it looks like a major screw-up, they may have had little to no other options, given the time frame and resources.
A sucessful programmer-user relationship needs people who are an interface between the two. A person that understands both ends of the spectrum and respects both.
Just change the settings for the Internet zone to something that disables java and activeX. Then just add those sites you trust to another zone, and you are very safe from security holes.
And our network administrator Homebrewed is required to do this on *every* machine that he/she logs into? Sounds like Homebrewed is now required to write and maintain a script that is used for the sole purpose of avoiding MS security holes.
I wonder if an MS marketing type has ever used a solution such as this to promote the use of IE? Not likely.
Then they would have alianated people who want, or need, a full communations suite. They would never have had a chance of winning over potential converts who curently use MS IE/OE.
And they do now? IMHO if a NS 6.0 browser-only release was a stable product, they would have better chances with those who want or need a full communications suite. The "communicators" would review the quality browser-only product and deduct that the other components would be of a high caliber, when released.
The way it is now, IE 5.5 is *so* far ahead of 4.x that there's no way anyone except those with a serious anti MS handicap and those without a choice would use the Netscape browser for surfing.
A few reasons why I "choose" Netscape:
Prints pages without cutting the right side of the page off
Personally prefer Netscape's toolbars and bookmarking
Allows for more refined configuration, such as LDAP address book queries
Main reason I am "forced" to use IE:
Sites that are designed to work only with MS products
I see Mozilla offering me what I prefer most about Netscape and more.
It would be sweet if I could use the Be unit as a central place to store my music. Plug my empeg from the car into the network and copy all the songs down.
I had problems with doing just that on a Windows machine running Netscape 4.76. I turned off error control on the modem and lowered the buffers. Since then, I have not had problems reading/. pages threaded.
Re:Affording Hardware (was re: Slow Machine)
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Mozilla .6 Released
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stuck programming by night
One of those nights, compile Mozilla without debugging. This should improve performance on your machine that is low on resources.
Everytime I hear someone ever-so-modestly say, "Hey, nobody ever helped me, everything I got I earned... if someone's in the shit, it's probably their own fault", I think, "There's goes someone goes someone without a fuckin' clue... and proud of it."
Know anyone who has a proven capability to earn $35/hr but can't keep themselves together long enough to have a pot to piss in?
Even more unfortunately, the PTTs are desperately clinging to their last monopoly - the local loop. The PTTs own the copper from the local exchange to the customer's wall socket, and they will do *anything* to cling to that.
Businesses want applications to work for them. Work, as in, accomplish. Text based apps have been "working" for years. Gnome apps can "work" for your business and achieve GUI heaven for your PHB types.
Slashdot Mirror
The geeks have figured out how to make a dime off the suits. But, the suits haven't figured out how to make a dime off the geeks.
Ummmm. I don't think this particular machine actually exists yet.
Amazing, isn't it?
Right. Or just ask Val Kilmer and Keanu Reeves.
Wonderful! This gives me some ideas for new Tribes weaponary.
BTW, wouldn't you rather use a device other than a wimpy little mouse when exercising such power?
... the average slashdotter say?
/. posts?
Why do I get the feeling 9.5 of 10 responses were simply regurgitated
Unfortunately, all the Linux package managers (apt/dpkg, rpm, etc) lack one vital feature that all the big guys (IBM, Sun, HP) have included for years - the ability to install, but not commit a package.
One of the things "enterprise" Unices have is the ability to upgrade a package, while the system backs up your old package.
bluebomber wrote:
Right. Because Windows has provided "install, but don't commit" functionality for YEARS. Give me a break.
Funny?
Would have been if Windows was considered enterprise class for *YEARS*. Or if it was mentioned in the original post.
But, but... MaAAHum, I wanted to moderate the /. moderaters.
Don't worry, Eric. You'll get your turn.
I listen to Country. All that rap stuff sucks.
I listen to Rap. Heavy Metal will rot your head.
I listen to Heavy Metal. Pop is for idiots.
I listen to Pop. I don't care for anything much else, except for the 80's.
And so on and so forth...
Maybe we should ask him why he likes Linux? All the distributions just look the same.
On second thought, college is a good place for a geek to be a geek.
Attend college. Be a geek. And while you are there don't forget to experi^H^H^H^H^H^H learn some things about being a non-geek sometimes. It will be good for your health, really.
First distribution (Caldera 2.3); one machine, one light weight manual, one cable modem connection.
Everything was there to successfully get the machine up and running, connected to the Internet. Dial-up may have been a different story. Depending on your hardware situation, YMMV. Good arguement for a hardware compatibility check as mentioned here.
Once connected to the web it was *mostly* downhill from there. If one linux site did not offer the solution I needed, another one did. In fact, sometimes it took more than one site and a little learning to get it done.
Time consuming? Yes. Educational? Definitely.
Agreed. As a Netscape mail user, I would be wondering if mail finally supported multiple inboxes or not.
Maybe a compromising solution would be to release, broswer-only 6.0 and Mail/News/Composer PR3. Previous releases would have needed to plan for this and be adjusted accordingly.
As it stands, Netscape has a good chance of saving face, if they're smart about it, and make bug-fixing a top priority for thier 6.1 release, and they relaese it without unnecessary deleay.
Users (especially Windows) are getting used to this sort of thing (read: Windows 2000 SP1). It is possible management considered this and saw the current strategy as a way out. Even though it looks like a major screw-up, they may have had little to no other options, given the time frame and resources.
ME (read: not Windows)
A sucessful programmer-user relationship needs people who are an interface between the two. A person that understands both ends of the spectrum and respects both.
Did I just say respect developers? Oh my!
And our network administrator Homebrewed is required to do this on *every* machine that he/she logs into? Sounds like Homebrewed is now required to write and maintain a script that is used for the sole purpose of avoiding MS security holes.
I wonder if an MS marketing type has ever used a solution such as this to promote the use of IE? Not likely.
And they do now? IMHO if a NS 6.0 browser-only release was a stable product, they would have better chances with those who want or need a full communications suite. The "communicators" would review the quality browser-only product and deduct that the other components would be of a high caliber, when released.
A few reasons why I "choose" Netscape:
Prints pages without cutting the right side of the page off
Personally prefer Netscape's toolbars and bookmarking
Allows for more refined configuration, such as LDAP address book queries
Main reason I am "forced" to use IE:
Sites that are designed to work only with MS products
I see Mozilla offering me what I prefer most about Netscape and more.
It would be sweet if I could use the Be unit as a central place to store my music. Plug my empeg from the car into the network and copy all the songs down.
(try a slashdot comments page fully threaded)
I had problems with doing just that on a Windows machine running Netscape 4.76. I turned off error control on the modem and lowered the buffers. Since then, I have not had problems reading /. pages threaded.
stuck programming by night
One of those nights, compile Mozilla without debugging. This should improve performance on your machine that is low on resources.
Everytime I hear someone ever-so-modestly say, "Hey, nobody ever helped me, everything I got I earned ... if someone's in the shit, it's probably their own fault", I think, "There's goes someone goes someone without a fuckin' clue ... and proud of it."
Know anyone who has a proven capability to earn $35/hr but can't keep themselves together long enough to have a pot to piss in?
I do. And it is their choice.
First, we see the telcos whine about not wanting to provide xDSL services because it will cut into their hefty T1 profits.
Now, we listen to them whine about losing profits to xDSL competitors providing their services.
You made a poor business decision. Now pay for it!
Even more unfortunately, the PTTs are desperately clinging to their last monopoly - the local loop. The PTTs own the copper from the local exchange to the customer's wall socket, and they will do *anything* to cling to that.
One reason why we see competition from others providing an alternative last mile. For more examples, click here.
Businesses want applications to work for them. Work, as in, accomplish. Text based apps have been "working" for years. Gnome apps can "work" for your business and achieve GUI heaven for your PHB types.
Is there an ICQ clone for windows?
Try a Jabber client. Various platforms written in various languages. There is even an alpha release of Jabberzilla.
collection closet 3
Man, I miss KABOOM! Not only was it intense play, it was also fun to watch.
Do you actually use your desktop more than applications?
Could you imagine every voting machine in every precint networked and processing all the votes together!
Could we really make a Beowolf Cluster of these?!!