Any suggestion on where to buy the K/P 2-DVD set for region 2? I've checked amazon, but only the US one carries it, and it's region 1. (For Baraka you can find the region 2 on the french site).
its so nice to just block all cookies. Then when a website tells me that I need a cookie, or a shopping cart doesn't work I go back and accept it.
Same here. And with galeon after doing what I need I open up the cookie dialog, select the cookie I just accepted and hit "remove and block"....just in case:)
And don't forget the option "limit maximum lifetime of cookies to this session" in Mozilla... (hmm I wonder when galeon will add it as well...)
Looking for BotMud, the MUD which should only be played by Bots:), I found out that it's apparently dead, but also found this list which contains lots of interesting pointers.....
Re:Sen's "To" versus X-Men's "2"
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Anyway, mixing the two is sacrilige, as the first is 500 times what the second will ever be.
I've not seen X-Men's 2 (hehehe:), but, living in France, I have seen Spirited Away twice (will be three times next week). I'd say that Spirited Away it's 500 times many of the movies I have seen.... In particular I think that it is definitely better than Mononoke: in SA Miyazaki goes back to the Totoro-ish kind of movies he excels, and it shows.
If you installed from source, try make -n install.
Even better (much better), search for "checkinstall", a small utility which runs make install for you, keeps track of files installed and generates a nice RPM/deb/slack package for it. Of course the dependencies are messed up (you can't guess them all...), but when you remove the package you're sure that you remove all the files which were installed.
1- why use Lindows. I understand that it sounds like windows, but they are quite new to the "desktop" arena compared to people like Mandrake. And by paying Mandrake you get CDs/DVD full of precompiled stuff, without the need for huge downloads.
2- The Lindows business model is flawed. If they think that AFTER buying the PC users are ready to shell out the cash for the applications they are dreaming (it may work for games - good ones - or some advanced app, like openoffice, but all the "useful" things must be in from the start). Giving out for a price the CDs full of stuff may work, but people from the Windows world just assume that as soon as windows is in place all the applications can be obtained for free from the neighbour (before flaming compute the ratio of windows users you know and windows users who bought Office for home use - for me it's beyond 50). The "free" point of linux is much less strong than people think, at least until Palladium or some other random heavy element forces users to pay for what they use.
Overall, if this takes off I'll be surprised.
Microsoft strong point: STABILITY
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I guess they had their threshold too high. The should have looked at -1.
Actually, the sewers are underground, so it certainly qualifies as "-1". What this shows is that reality works better than slashdot and trolls in there get modded to *at least* -2....
"Security focus has a post on a huge venurability in all versions of OpenSSH from 2.9.9 to 3.3. Just another example of you getting crap for paying nothing."
If the openSSH people were running at 1 critical bug/two weeks this is exactly what you would read.
Sorry, no offense, but that is bullshit. I started off on slackware, downloaded 50 floppies worth over 3 days on a 14.4 and never looked back. It's the only way to properly learn.
This is actually the *problem* with Slackware/Debian. I want to learn, so I don't mind reading documentation, but most of the people I know don't care at all, they just want "click-n-run" and (evidently) they can handle all the insanities of Win in order to get it. Right now I'm running Mandrake 8.2 ("click-n-run", but careful with upgrades) as dekstop and debian-stable (long install/config, but 0-time updating) as server. When I propose linux to one of my win-friends I always go for Mandrake, ALWAYS, since I know that they'd run scared at the first debian message of the type "You must now decide which modules to load into your kernel".... As for Slackware, it was my first distro (3.0 I think? 1.0.2x kernel, anyway) and it may well be possible that I go back to it one day or another.... debian is nice, but I feel it too "rigid", and Mandrake is not always so tolerant of manual-config-file-editing.
I don't know if you are intentionally or not missing my point. I know that one case is not statistics (just like statistics will not make your PC crash less), but it seems to me that if you move away from anecdotes my point becomes even stronger. Look in which market (desktop/server/embedded) is linux really "fighting" with windows (suggestion: 95% of the desktops are windows:), or check the number of different architectures linux runs on (on my pc that's 'ls/usr/src/linux/arch/'). Windows may be nice and good, but claiming that its stability problems come from the "multitude of hardware configurations" is blatantly false.
this is the killer E3 Expo pictorial feature - only on Envy News. Dial-up users beware - this is broadband territory! this is the killer Slashdotting feature - only on Slashdot. Small Envy News sites beware - this is broadband++ territory!
Even worse: ``210 pictures, 56 booth babe shots, spread over five pages''. This is not "killer slashdotting feature", this is website hara-kiri.
(and the hara-kiri succeeded: I managed to get the thumbnails of the 1st page, now it just timeout messages...)
The article looks like it's just a simulation of what may happen (with some microwave propagation tool), it would be more interesting to perform a measurement (I'm sure that the railways can "lend" a wagon for one day to the experimentalists) and really see what's going on... It could be much less serious (or much more....).
Definitely an excellent reason for this project. I can't think of a better one:) I'm only surprised that the first use of the display pole was not for uptime/load....
Bad as it may sound, since they don't provide the source to their drivers, they seem to work seriously in improving them. I've been using them since my old TNT2 card, and the big problems present at the beginning have faded away to give place to a full featured, fast and reliable thing. I've also had answers to my mails reporting problems, which is always nice.
Speed is now at the same level of Windows, features seem to be there as well (I don't remember if everything works at every resolution yet or no), and over time they have become stable enough to be used as primary XFree drivers (in the beginning I used them only when I needed openGL support).
Given their work on the driver, I'm willing to live with their closed-sourceness. It's when it doesn't work and I cannot look in it to fix that I become less tolerant....
Creative has some closed source software with it...
Is this really necessary? Do the editors have point out that certain software is "closed source"? What conclusions are we to draw from that...
Personally, I use this information as a synonym of "forget official support for linux, you'll be forced to use windows.". I.e., since I'm almost always under linux it means "don't buy it unless you find first an open-source project supporting it".
Folks, this is mostly an amusement patent. The inventor was a seven year old, and of course he's not the first to invent it. But his dad's a patent lawyer and wrote it up for him on a lark.
Couldn't a patent of this type (or the cat one) be used as a defense in a patent-infringment case? I mean: you claim that whatever you infringed is obvious and use those examples to demonstrate that the the fact of being approved by the USPTO is in no way a guarantee of quality, inventiveness or anything. The idea is basically to kill the image of the USPTO as a reliable source and thus undermine every patent issued.
I am glad for mandrake, and quite amazed at the amount of kindness shown by people online... (i.e. sending in money)
KINDNESS? I fear you don't understand. I don't have the time to build and keep up-to-date my personal distribution, so I'm paying someone (Mandrake) for the service. It's not kindness on my part but pure and simple egoism. If they sink I'll be forced to switch distro, and after toying with RH, Slack, Debian and Mandrake I've decided for Debian in the server/stable-to-death department and Mandrake in the desktop/lotsa-new-gizmo-apps department.
Mandrake Club or donation is not charity, it's PAYING FOR A SERVICE. And this looks to me a quite sound business model. The weird idea that a good busines model means you must "force" people to pay, Microsoft-style, indicates that there's still a long way to go before the idea of "free software" is understood and appreciated.
Sounds like a wonderful idea. Actually, ANY abuse of the copyright/patent/IP system leading to monopoly trasfers looks a wonderful idea to me. The "napster effect" is giving rise to a backlash against consumer rights, if the big guys abuse IP laws enough it will lead faster to a back-backlash against IP. Actually, if my business were based on patents/IP I'd fight tooth and nail against the people abusing them, for fear of losing protection....
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Any suggestion on where to buy the K/P 2-DVD set for
region 2? I've checked amazon, but only the US one
carries it, and it's region 1. (For Baraka you can find the region 2 on the french site).
Thanks in advance guys!
its so nice to just block all cookies. Then when a website tells me that I need a cookie, or a shopping cart doesn't work I go back and accept it.
:)
Same here. And with galeon after doing what I need I open up the cookie dialog, select the cookie I just accepted and hit "remove and block"....just in case
And don't forget the option "limit maximum lifetime of cookies to this session" in Mozilla... (hmm I wonder when galeon will add it as well...)
Is anything like this happening already?
:), I found out that it's apparently dead, but also found this list which contains lots of interesting pointers.....
Looking for BotMud, the MUD which should only be played by Bots
Anyway, mixing the two is sacrilige, as the first is 500 times what the second will ever be.
:), but, living in France, I have seen Spirited Away twice (will be three times next week).
I've not seen X-Men's 2 (hehehe
I'd say that Spirited Away it's 500 times many of the movies I have seen.... In particular I think that it is definitely better than Mononoke: in SA Miyazaki goes back to the Totoro-ish kind of movies he excels, and it shows.
Mod parent up, very good point...
Even better (much better), search for "checkinstall", a small utility which runs make install for you, keeps track of files installed and generates a nice RPM/deb/slack package for it.
Of course the dependencies are messed up (you can't guess them all...), but when you remove the package you're sure that you remove all the files which were installed.
1- why use Lindows. I understand that it sounds like windows, but they are quite new to the "desktop" arena compared to people like Mandrake. And by paying Mandrake you get CDs/DVD full of precompiled stuff, without the need for huge downloads.
2- The Lindows business model is flawed. If they think that AFTER buying the PC users are ready to shell out the cash for the applications they are dreaming (it may work for games - good ones - or some advanced app, like openoffice, but all the "useful" things must be in from the start). Giving out for a price the CDs full of stuff may work, but people from the Windows world just assume that as soon as windows is in place all the applications can be obtained for free from the neighbour (before flaming compute the ratio of windows users you know and windows users who bought Office for home use - for me it's beyond 50). The "free" point of linux is much less strong than people think, at least until Palladium or some other random heavy element forces users to pay for what they use.
Overall, if this takes off I'll be surprised.
"Hassium" - solid stable servers.
(Hassium has a 2.0ms half-life).
You comment is written in flamebait-style, but it doesn't change the fact that I think you're right.
Too bad I don't have mod points....
I guess they had their threshold too high.
The should have looked at -1.
Actually, the sewers are underground, so it certainly qualifies as "-1".
What this shows is that reality works better than slashdot and trolls in there get modded to *at least* -2....
"Security focus has a post on a huge venurability in all versions of OpenSSH from 2.9.9 to 3.3. Just another example of you getting crap for paying nothing."
If the openSSH people were running at 1 critical bug/two weeks this is exactly what you would read.
from the pleasant-daydream dept.
You obviously don't work for the RIAA, do you?
Idealizing the problem, [....]
:)
If he truely said this... Then the report is laughable.
It doesn't take long to verify, you know....
Acroread->Search->"Idealizing"
No occurences of 'Idealizing' were found in the document.
Conclusion: wherever that text comes from, it's not the paper being discussed. More luck next time.
(-1, Lazy) for not doing the search yourself
Sorry, no offense, but that is bullshit. I started off on slackware, downloaded 50 floppies worth over 3 days on a 14.4 and never looked back. It's the only way to properly learn.
This is actually the *problem* with Slackware/Debian. I want to learn, so I don't mind reading documentation, but most of the people I know don't care at all, they just want "click-n-run" and (evidently) they can handle all the insanities of Win in order to get it. Right now I'm running Mandrake 8.2 ("click-n-run", but careful with upgrades) as dekstop and debian-stable (long install/config, but 0-time updating) as server.
When I propose linux to one of my win-friends I always go for Mandrake, ALWAYS, since I know that they'd run scared at the first debian message of the type "You must now decide which modules to load into your kernel"....
As for Slackware, it was my first distro (3.0 I think? 1.0.2x kernel, anyway) and it may well be possible that I go back to it one day or another.... debian is nice, but I feel it too "rigid", and Mandrake is not always so tolerant of manual-config-file-editing.
Anecdotes are useless.
:), or check the number of different architectures linux runs on (on my pc that's 'ls /usr/src/linux/arch/'). Windows may be nice and good, but claiming that its stability problems come from the "multitude of hardware configurations" is blatantly false.
I don't know if you are intentionally or not missing my point. I know that one case is not statistics (just like statistics will not make your PC crash less), but it seems to me that if you move away from anecdotes my point becomes even stronger.
Look in which market (desktop/server/embedded) is linux really "fighting" with windows (suggestion: 95% of the desktops are windows
How does one test against every possible configuration of every possible computer that could conceivably run one's OS?
How is it possible that on the same PC I have a 70 day uptime with linux?
this is the killer E3 Expo pictorial feature - only on Envy News. Dial-up users beware - this is broadband territory!
this is the killer Slashdotting feature - only on Slashdot. Small Envy News sites beware - this is broadband++ territory!
Even worse: ``210 pictures, 56 booth babe shots, spread over five pages''. This is not "killer slashdotting feature", this is website hara-kiri.
(and the hara-kiri succeeded: I managed to get the thumbnails of the 1st page, now it just timeout messages...)
Ok, I guess that today it's a most accidental superposition of the "MPAA is our friend" day and the "1-click buying Amazon patent" day.
:)
Let me guess, we should all buy the DVD and then burn it publically as a sign of protest?
The article looks like it's just a simulation of what may happen (with some microwave propagation tool), it would be more interesting to perform a measurement (I'm sure that the railways can "lend" a wagon for one day to the experimentalists) and really see what's going on...
It could be much less serious (or much more....).
Don't ask why... Some things just need doing.
:)
Definitely an excellent reason for this project. I can't think of a better one
I'm only surprised that the first use of the display pole was not for uptime/load....
Bad as it may sound, since they don't provide the source to their drivers, they seem to work seriously in improving them. I've been using them since my old TNT2 card, and the big problems present at the beginning have faded away to give place to a full featured, fast and reliable thing. I've also had answers to my mails reporting problems, which is always nice.
Speed is now at the same level of Windows, features seem to be there as well (I don't remember if everything works at every resolution yet or no), and over time they have become stable enough to be used as primary XFree drivers (in the beginning I used them only when I needed openGL support).
Given their work on the driver, I'm willing to live with their closed-sourceness. It's when it doesn't work and I cannot look in it to fix that I become less tolerant....
Creative has some closed source software with it...
Is this really necessary? Do the editors have point out that certain software is "closed source"? What conclusions are we to draw from that...
Personally, I use this information as a synonym of "forget official support for linux, you'll be forced to use windows.". I.e., since I'm almost always under linux it means "don't buy it unless you find first an open-source project supporting it".
Folks, this is mostly an amusement patent. The inventor was a seven year old, and of course he's not the first to invent it. But his dad's a patent lawyer and wrote it up for him on a lark.
Couldn't a patent of this type (or the cat one) be used as a defense in a patent-infringment case?
I mean: you claim that whatever you infringed is obvious and use those examples to demonstrate that the the fact of being approved by the USPTO is in no way a guarantee of quality, inventiveness or anything. The idea is basically to kill the image of the USPTO as a reliable source and thus undermine every patent issued.
I am glad for mandrake, and quite amazed at the amount of kindness shown by people online... (i.e. sending in money)
KINDNESS?
I fear you don't understand.
I don't have the time to build and keep up-to-date my personal distribution, so I'm paying someone (Mandrake) for the service. It's not kindness on my part but pure and simple egoism. If they sink I'll be forced to switch distro, and after toying with RH, Slack, Debian and Mandrake I've decided for Debian in the server/stable-to-death department and Mandrake in the desktop/lotsa-new-gizmo-apps department.
Mandrake Club or donation is not charity, it's PAYING FOR A SERVICE. And this looks to me a quite sound business model. The weird idea that a good busines model means you must "force" people to pay, Microsoft-style, indicates that there's still a long way to go before the idea of "free software" is understood and appreciated.
Sounds like a wonderful idea.
Actually, ANY abuse of the copyright/patent/IP system leading to monopoly trasfers looks a wonderful idea to me.
The "napster effect" is giving rise to a backlash against consumer rights, if the big guys abuse IP laws enough it will lead faster to a back-backlash against IP. Actually, if my business were based on patents/IP I'd fight tooth and nail against the people abusing them, for fear of losing protection....