Before encouraging people to harass hapless journalist, maybe you should consider that maybe - just maybe - she is writing for her intended audience (CEOs and other proffessionals) and not for the ankle-biting "hacker" elite?
How much difference does it make when we windows users write to michael sims and nicely correct his histrionic views on IP enforcement, etc?
Exactly.
Journalists don't choose their words by chance, you know.
When I browse the Linux/alt-os listings on ebay and see people selling home-burned cds, I tend to wonder why anyone would buy them, instead of simply downlaoding the iso themselves or going to cheapbyts.
On the other hand, I am [overly/highly] suspicous of buying software on ebay and have not bought anything from there for that reason, so I may not be a representative sample.;-)
It only "works" if by "works" you don't count the fact it takes a week to boot any given 32-bit operating system, a month to start up a GUI (probably would take a year to load something like XP or Mozilla) and that NetBSD and OpenBSD both panic on it.
Usabilitywise, It's no kind of replacement for VMWare, not until they get the speed issue resolved.
Why is it that people on slashdot always assume that because you spent ${SHITLOAD OF CASH} on something, that you have a further reserve of ${SHITLOAD OF CASH}? It's probably -likely even- that having paid out the money for those two applications that ${SHIT LOAD OF CASH} has been reduced down to ${Laundry Quarters}.
Unless he works at a corporation; then you have to wonder why he doens't talk his boss into sponsoring Plex86.
by alternate defination of the term "vmware alternative" where "vmware alternative" means "can only run another copy of linux, and only under linux". Unlike Plex86, vmware can run 98, NT, XP and FreeBSDs.
since we both have doom1 and 2, and since I'm on dialup. probably any of the id games (up to quake 2, haven't tried quake three; my machine can't cope with it) would probably work for that.
When they come to you and say "you have been abusing your 'unlimited' download quota"? Do you ask them to define what 'unlimited' means? Or do you simply pack up and get another ISP?
I have that issue with my (dialup) isp, that the isp itself has an unlimited policy, but they forwarded me a nastygram that *they* recieved from their upstream provider during a month where I was downloading iso's heavily.
So, having other things higher on my to-do list, I let it go; but I'd like slashdots' opinion on how you handle it when "unlimited" means "unlimited up to a certain point"?
If you are in an insulated internet enviroment, such as china or certain american networks, is it possible to hook up to one of these external DNS servers and use it to handle your NS requests, or would you need to have an existing account with a foriegn ISP?
When I hit 'reply', I was going to point out that books on DOS are easier to find at your local library than are books on Linux.
Actually, that's no longer true.
HOWEVER what books you are going to find at the library on linux are very sketchy as to which distribution and features they'll address.
With DOS, the features almost never change, and with a trip to the library, the user can easily educate himself (instead of going to said library and getting confused by the book on ninnle linux when he's really running gentoo).
between that simplicity, and the fact that the essential commands and procedures to run and install FreeDDOS can can easily fit on a handy "cheat-sheet" for the support dweebs, and it's easy to see why they'd want to offer support for DOS instead of linux.
[this is, of course, assuming that they were offering support in the first place, which they are not, AFAIK, though I have not RTFA and IIRC GNU is not linux but SCO is).
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Is neither free, nor soft.
Before encouraging people to harass hapless journalist, maybe you should consider that maybe - just maybe - she is writing for her intended audience (CEOs and other proffessionals) and not for the ankle-biting "hacker" elite?
How much difference does it make when we windows users write to michael sims and nicely correct his histrionic views on IP enforcement, etc?
Exactly.
Journalists don't choose their words by chance, you know.
After reading slashdot today, it's pretty apparent that the GNU movement will 'free' your source code if you don't beat them to it!
You've never actually used litestep on windows, have you?
So do I, but I still tend to think of cheapbytes before I think of ebay.
When I browse the Linux/alt-os listings on ebay and see people selling home-burned cds, I tend to wonder why anyone would buy them, instead of simply downlaoding the iso themselves or going to cheapbyts.
;-)
On the other hand, I am [overly/highly] suspicous of buying software on ebay and have not bought anything from there for that reason, so I may not be a representative sample.
It only "works" if by "works" you don't count the fact it takes a week to boot any given 32-bit operating system, a month to start up a GUI (probably would take a year to load something like XP or Mozilla) and that NetBSD and OpenBSD both panic on it.
Usabilitywise, It's no kind of replacement for VMWare, not until they get the speed issue resolved.
Why is it that people on slashdot always assume that because you spent ${SHITLOAD OF CASH} on something, that you have a further reserve of ${SHITLOAD OF CASH}? It's probably -likely even- that having paid out the money for those two applications that ${SHIT LOAD OF CASH} has been reduced down to ${Laundry Quarters}.
Unless he works at a corporation; then you have to wonder why he doens't talk his boss into sponsoring Plex86.
Specifically XP.
by alternate defination of the term "vmware alternative" where "vmware alternative" means "can only run another copy of linux, and only under linux". Unlike Plex86, vmware can run 98, NT, XP and FreeBSDs.
My last gf and I talked on their daily before, during (when I wasn't at her place) and after our relationship.
Other IM's would probably work even better given voice, cam and other features.
since we both have doom1 and 2, and since I'm on dialup. probably any of the id games (up to quake 2, haven't tried quake three; my machine can't cope with it) would probably work for that.
that the sun is mooned by eclipse.
What is (and was) Suns' stance on gjc, speaking of open source java implementations?
At any rate, even if they fall out with Eclipse, there are other java implementations (eg: gjc) that are Free Software aren't there?
*ahem* "Okay guys, now I want you to send an agent. Here's all the macs you want.
When they come to you and say "you have been abusing your 'unlimited' download quota"? Do you ask them to define what 'unlimited' means? Or do you simply pack up and get another ISP?
I have that issue with my (dialup) isp, that the isp itself has an unlimited policy, but they forwarded me a nastygram that *they* recieved from their upstream provider during a month where I was downloading iso's heavily.
So, having other things higher on my to-do list, I let it go; but I'd like slashdots' opinion on how you handle it when "unlimited" means "unlimited up to a certain point"?
If you are in an insulated internet enviroment, such as china or certain american networks, is it possible to hook up to one of these external DNS servers and use it to handle your NS requests, or would you need to have an existing account with a foriegn ISP?
Can they DO that?
can they DO that?
Can they even do this?
in ya go. Thanks!
When I hit 'reply', I was going to point out that books on DOS are easier to find at your local library than are books on Linux.
Actually, that's no longer true.
HOWEVER what books you are going to find at the library on linux are very sketchy as to which distribution and features they'll address.
With DOS, the features almost never change, and with a trip to the library, the user can easily educate himself (instead of going to said library and getting confused by the book on ninnle linux when he's really running gentoo).
between that simplicity, and the fact that the essential commands and procedures to run and install FreeDDOS can can easily fit on a handy "cheat-sheet" for the support dweebs, and it's easy to see why they'd want to offer support for DOS instead of linux.
[this is, of course, assuming that they were offering support in the first place, which they are not, AFAIK, though I have not RTFA and IIRC GNU is not linux but SCO is).
and I doubt with all that cmf money that Rusty Foster has to settle for dialup access.
with names like "gentoo" and "suse" you don't HAVE to make up stupid/silly names for linux distributions. ;-)