Absolutely. Unusuable. Linux is only fit to be installed as a system where you will likely never need to mess with it's software ever again after you have it running.
An added point here, is that pretty much through the whole 2.3 and 2.4 kernels, Alan might as well have been the head of kernel development. I haven't kept up with 2.6, but Linus has pretty much always been terrible, depending on everyone else in the community to fix the utter crap that he half-wits.
I can pick up 100 blank CDR around here for around $10, sometimes less if on sale. CD-RWs are virtually unfindable in my local area, at retail, and DVD-R's are around $30 for a $10 pack. It's a bit bizarre.
Then again, none of my writers actually work right, so.. don't really care much.
I think submitter believes that GPL is specifically something having to do with Linux. Damn kids.
Back in the days before there was Linux, we used the GNU tools on BSD, FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD, on AIX (where we could get them to work), on IRIX, on.. whatever NeXT's OS was called.. and virtually every piece of software there was that didn't come with the operating systems that was on each system was GPL.
Digital Satellite also requires that you effectively aim a Laser beam at a specific point 10 miles or so straight up. The digital broadcasts still cover a huge area, not a specific point. So, you'll be able to receive much more signal under much more significantly bad conditions than with a satellite.
A digital broadcast signal at 1/10th the power of the analog broadcast can be picked up over a longer range, as well. When they first started doing digital HD broadcasts, they were doing them at similar power to their analog broadcasts, and I was literally able to pick up Chicago and New York broadcasts from Detroit. With an indoor antenna. Now, using my short-range (40 mile UHF analog) outdoor antenna, I can pick up most of Michigan, and northern Ohio
1. ALSA is a piece of garbage 2. GTK, also, garbage. 3. Gnome, also, garbage. Also, "Install/Uninstall Software" and the MSI format is a package system for windows, and 99% of the time, it just plain works, unlike any system that i've yet used in linux, which breaks 99% of the time. 5. I don't think having 200 different command-line web-browsers that support different features, as well as 800 different versions of "midnite file commander", as well as 6,000 different command line tools, really counts as "applications". "Number of packages" does not even come close to "number of useful applications". 6. I have used Linux off and on for as long as it has existed, and have never had a system that did not require my making changes to the kernel to make it work/keep it stable/get it to boot. 9. OO.o 3.1 takes upwards of 6-7 minutes to load on my Windows box. (4Ghz dual core, 2gb ram) Double or triple that if it did not "shut down properly" last run. 14. Again, Windows has a standard installation method, and has for several revisions, that works far better than any method the Linux distros have come up with, most of the time.
* And jesus Christ, will Slashdot ever fucking fix the tab order of their buttons?
Now if only it could take someone who doesn't know exactly what the minds of the slash authors were thinking when they built this crap to actually figure out how to use any of it besides the blazingly obvious.
Any possibility that it might actually work on a system with dual video cards, one relatively new-ish ATI X850XL, and 1 extremely ancient ATI Rage II+ ?
Can get a Linux system up on this machine if only one or the other of those cards is installed, but X absolutely would not run (at least as of about a year ago) with both installed, even if one was disabled.
If by "great" you mean "it's a giant piece of crap that can't handle whitespace and EOL properly", sure.
Oh, and the windows ver has no concept whatsoever of file permissions, so when you're interoperating with linux users, and you add new stuff, everyone else that pulls it from you has to chmod it.
The tab order of Slashdot is really fucking annoying, also, I just hit "Tab" to go to the "preview" button, and it dropped straight down to the bottom of the fucking page. Nice.
The complexity of git robs it of quite a bit of the value of it's features. For God only knows what reason, a 5-6 person project that i'm working on is using git instead of subversion, and only the person who setup the project actually has any idea how to use git. The rest of us are just cruising along, not really having any idea of what we are doing with it, and are stopped completely whenever it does anything weird.
It's awesome to have the whole thing where it merges all the changes in a same file together, fairly intelligently, but even the GUI version for Windows has no functional interface for how to deal with conflicts (which should be easily done as a "which bit of code is the proper piece to use here?" instead of jamming diffs into a file. Also, the Windows and Linux versions of GIT have several problems interoperating with each other.
In short, Git appears to have been designed entirely with features in mind, and not one bit of usability for anyone other than Linus himself. It is a nightmare for people who only have the need for version control and a handful of people working together. It reminds me very, very much of early Linux, before anyone else besides Linus had been hacking on it.
you know, i've messed with this Linux stuff off and on, was a totally avid user for years.. but if you ever want to get something accomplished, that doesn't involve web browsing, email, or running servers, you're probably going to want to run some other (commercial) operating system.
This post is called "patching kernels" because the first time I ever booted Linux, well over a decade ago, I had to write kernel patches just to get the thing fully running. The sad, sad fact, is that if I wanted to boot Linux today, I would need to do the same thing.
I remember specifically, that there was a furor when her mom said "Nina loves her kids.. I mean.. loved."
But she was using tenses properly in other spots.
People with Asian languages as primary tend to have lots of problems with English tenses, but I haven't seen that problem near as much in people with other Euro-languages backgrounds. Though I have only met one person who spoke Russian natively, though, so I can't really comment too much on that, I guess.
In any case, as much as I liked that theory, I kinda pretty much believed he did it.
I guess the DNA evidence will tell, conclusively, at least, if Nina is dead. I still pretty much disagree with the whole "premed" thing. I'd guess he probably went berserk. Maybe meant to smack her, and it came out bad. Maybe he did intend to kill her, but I have a hard time believing it to be anything but "heat of the moment".
It took so long to remember just what happened. I was so young, vestal then, you know it hurt me. But Im breathing so I guess Im still alive Even the signs seemed to tell me otherwise. Got my hands down, and my head down, And my eyes closed, my throats wide open. I do unto others what has been done to me. Do unto others what has been done to you. Im treading water. I need to sleep a while. My lamb and martyr, you look so precious. Wont you, wont you come a bit closer. Close enough so I can smell you. I need you to feel this. I cant stand to burn too long. Release in sodomy. the one sweet moment Im whole.
I do unto you now what has been to me. I do unto you now, what has been done. Youre breathing so I guess youre still alive. Even the signs seem to tell me otherwise. Wont you, wont you come on up closer. Close enough so I can smell you. I need you to feel this. I need this to make me whole. Relief in sodomy. have you witnessed that blood and flesh can be trusted. i. Have you witnessed the blood and, this cant be trusted. i. Only this one holy medium brings me piece of mind. Got your hands bound, and your head down, And your eyes closed, you look so precious now.
I have found some kind of temporary sanity in this. Shit, blood, and come on my hands. Ive come round full circle. My lamb and martyr, this will be over soon. you look so precious. You look so precious now...
I can say that I have actually done this before, back in the 80's. Not using Ethernet, as I don't think there were any Ethernet hardwares available at the time for the Commodore.. but I've done it. Wired several Commodores together, and played multiplayer games.
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Linux is unusable, compared to Windows 7.
Absolutely. Unusuable. Linux is only fit to be installed as a system where you will likely never need to mess with it's software ever again after you have it running.
An added point here, is that pretty much through the whole 2.3 and 2.4 kernels, Alan might as well have been the head of kernel development. I haven't kept up with 2.6, but Linus has pretty much always been terrible, depending on everyone else in the community to fix the utter crap that he half-wits.
I can pick up 100 blank CDR around here for around $10, sometimes less if on sale. CD-RWs are virtually unfindable in my local area, at retail, and DVD-R's are around $30 for a $10 pack. It's a bit bizarre.
Then again, none of my writers actually work right, so.. don't really care much.
I think submitter believes that GPL is specifically something having to do with Linux. Damn kids.
Back in the days before there was Linux, we used the GNU tools on BSD, FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD, on AIX (where we could get them to work), on IRIX, on .. whatever NeXT's OS was called.. and virtually every piece of software there was that didn't come with the operating systems that was on each system was GPL.
Trust that there will soon be hand-held digital battery powered TVs, I would expect. I wouldn't expect a market like that to disappear.
Digital Satellite also requires that you effectively aim a Laser beam at a specific point 10 miles or so straight up. The digital broadcasts still cover a huge area, not a specific point. So, you'll be able to receive much more signal under much more significantly bad conditions than with a satellite.
A digital broadcast signal at 1/10th the power of the analog broadcast can be picked up over a longer range, as well. When they first started doing digital HD broadcasts, they were doing them at similar power to their analog broadcasts, and I was literally able to pick up Chicago and New York broadcasts from Detroit. With an indoor antenna. Now, using my short-range (40 mile UHF analog) outdoor antenna, I can pick up most of Michigan, and northern Ohio
So, there's dozens of pro online players that have made millions playing, and the vast majority of losers are losers because of the rake? WHAT?!
Warrrrrrgarrblll
1. ALSA is a piece of garbage
2. GTK, also, garbage.
3. Gnome, also, garbage. Also, "Install/Uninstall Software" and the MSI format is a package system for windows, and 99% of the time, it just plain works, unlike any system that i've yet used in linux, which breaks 99% of the time.
5. I don't think having 200 different command-line web-browsers that support different features, as well as 800 different versions of "midnite file commander", as well as 6,000 different command line tools, really counts as "applications". "Number of packages" does not even come close to "number of useful applications".
6. I have used Linux off and on for as long as it has existed, and have never had a system that did not require my making changes to the kernel to make it work/keep it stable/get it to boot.
9. OO.o 3.1 takes upwards of 6-7 minutes to load on my Windows box. (4Ghz dual core, 2gb ram) Double or triple that if it did not "shut down properly" last run.
14. Again, Windows has a standard installation method, and has for several revisions, that works far better than any method the Linux distros have come up with, most of the time.
* And jesus Christ, will Slashdot ever fucking fix the tab order of their buttons?
So, what you're saying is .. "I have no idea what you're talking about, so you must be speaking a bunch of crap."
Get out of discussion forums, and let the adults talk to each other.
15? I'm pretty sure HURD has been in development for the entire time I've been alive - almost 33 years now.
Now if only it could take someone who doesn't know exactly what the minds of the slash authors were thinking when they built this crap to actually figure out how to use any of it besides the blazingly obvious.
unintended? I'm pretty sure it was documented in the manual... ..but i might be the only person on earth that bought Tribes 1 at retail
Any possibility that it might actually work on a system with dual video cards, one relatively new-ish ATI X850XL, and 1 extremely ancient ATI Rage II+ ?
Can get a Linux system up on this machine if only one or the other of those cards is installed, but X absolutely would not run (at least as of about a year ago) with both installed, even if one was disabled.
If by "great" you mean "it's a giant piece of crap that can't handle whitespace and EOL properly", sure.
Oh, and the windows ver has no concept whatsoever of file permissions, so when you're interoperating with linux users, and you add new stuff, everyone else that pulls it from you has to chmod it.
The tab order of Slashdot is really fucking annoying, also, I just hit "Tab" to go to the "preview" button, and it dropped straight down to the bottom of the fucking page. Nice.
The complexity of git robs it of quite a bit of the value of it's features. For God only knows what reason, a 5-6 person project that i'm working on is using git instead of subversion, and only the person who setup the project actually has any idea how to use git. The rest of us are just cruising along, not really having any idea of what we are doing with it, and are stopped completely whenever it does anything weird.
It's awesome to have the whole thing where it merges all the changes in a same file together, fairly intelligently, but even the GUI version for Windows has no functional interface for how to deal with conflicts (which should be easily done as a "which bit of code is the proper piece to use here?" instead of jamming diffs into a file. Also, the Windows and Linux versions of GIT have several problems interoperating with each other.
In short, Git appears to have been designed entirely with features in mind, and not one bit of usability for anyone other than Linus himself. It is a nightmare for people who only have the need for version control and a handful of people working together. It reminds me very, very much of early Linux, before anyone else besides Linus had been hacking on it.
i hate that microwaves only run the standard Microwave OS, too.
you know, i've messed with this Linux stuff off and on, was a totally avid user for years.. but if you ever want to get something accomplished, that doesn't involve web browsing, email, or running servers, you're probably going to want to run some other (commercial) operating system.
This post is called "patching kernels" because the first time I ever booted Linux, well over a decade ago, I had to write kernel patches just to get the thing fully running. The sad, sad fact, is that if I wanted to boot Linux today, I would need to do the same thing.
...is that the BIOS returns different addresses for the ACPI access points, depending on what Operating System is making the function call?
How exactly does the BIOS determine what operating system is making the function call to the BIOS?
I call extreme Bull Shit on this one.
I remember specifically, that there was a furor when her mom said "Nina loves her kids .. I mean .. loved."
But she was using tenses properly in other spots.
People with Asian languages as primary tend to have lots of problems with English tenses, but I haven't seen that problem near as much in people with other Euro-languages backgrounds. Though I have only met one person who spoke Russian natively, though, so I can't really comment too much on that, I guess.
In any case, as much as I liked that theory, I kinda pretty much believed he did it.
I guess the DNA evidence will tell, conclusively, at least, if Nina is dead. I still pretty much disagree with the whole "premed" thing. I'd guess he probably went berserk. Maybe meant to smack her, and it came out bad. Maybe he did intend to kill her, but I have a hard time believing it to be anything but "heat of the moment".
MMX was added in the Pentium 166 range
beastiality? Video clips or it didn't happen.
It took so long to remember just what happened.
I was so young, vestal then, you know it hurt me.
But Im breathing so I guess Im still alive
Even the signs seemed to tell me otherwise.
Got my hands down, and my head down,
And my eyes closed, my throats wide open.
I do unto others what has been done to me.
Do unto others what has been done to you.
Im treading water. I need to sleep a while.
My lamb and martyr, you look so precious.
Wont you, wont you come a bit closer.
Close enough so I can smell you.
I need you to feel this. I cant stand to burn too long.
Release in sodomy. the one sweet moment Im whole.
I do unto you now what has been to me.
I do unto you now, what has been done.
Youre breathing so I guess youre still alive.
Even the signs seem to tell me otherwise.
Wont you, wont you come on up closer.
Close enough so I can smell you.
I need you to feel this. I need this to make me whole.
Relief in sodomy. have you witnessed that blood and flesh can be trusted. i.
Have you witnessed the blood and, this cant be trusted. i.
Only this one holy medium brings me piece of mind.
Got your hands bound, and your head down,
And your eyes closed, you look so precious now.
I have found some kind of temporary sanity in this.
Shit, blood, and come on my hands. Ive come round full circle.
My lamb and martyr, this will be over soon. you look so precious.
You look so precious now...
I went along with the "moved back to Russia" theory, myself.
Especially after the kids got shipped to Russia, and then her mom, while testifying, referred to Nina in the present-tense.
Well, in OJ's case, at least they had proof that a murder had been committed. He was acquited, however, because he was (a) famous (b) rich (c) black.
Reiser was convicted because he was (a) an asshole (b) not famous (c) not rich (d) white.
I can say that I have actually done this before, back in the 80's. Not using Ethernet, as I don't think there were any Ethernet hardwares available at the time for the Commodore .. but I've done it. Wired several Commodores together, and played multiplayer games.