But now, I might as well upgrade my desktop PC with a new AMD processor (screw you Intel will your ever changing sockets) and motherboard. Yes, I'll be missing out on some games but I barely have time to play the ones I already have.
Well, assuming you were planning on buying a new PS3, you wouldn't have had the Other OS option anyway, as I don't believe this was ever supported on the new PS3 slim. It's still a dick move by Sony to take it away on the old fat PS3s, so if you're changing your mind just to stick it to the man, then more power to you.
Hopefully some of the keyboard hackers read slashdot. I would like to request a function added to the keyboard that senses certain "L33T" speak words and automatically backspaces and substitutes REAL words in its place. Some parents might even like to see such a function that senses curse words and substitutes +%$#"!! for matching words... could even be marketable...hrm?
And while we're at it, translate 'u' to 'you', 'r' to 'are', etc... God I hate my friends.
I have to believe that people are now writing intentionally schizophrenic emails in the hopes to appear in this section, and as such still retain their cats.
Does anyone know if there is any reason to get the extended trilogy boxed set over the three seperate extended editions (other than any price differences)? I looked at the description from the link to amazon and couldn't see any differences, other than a slip case to hold all three movies...
Have you seen a little movie called Alien Resurrection? Talk about killing a franchise even more than it already was dead.
Ha, yeah, and nobody knows it more than Joss himself. Here's a quote from an episode of Angel that gave me quite a laugh:
"I mean, Roger's always had a thing for those disgusting Alien movies... all that slime and teeth... ugh! He just can't get enough of them! Except for that last one they made, I think he dozed off."
Let me start by saying that this is not a troll, just an honest question.
Could someone please explain why one would drop all that money on an iSeries or zSeries just to run linux on it, rather than saving money by getting an x86 machine? If I'm buying an iSeries, it's because I want to run OS/400. Don't get me wrong, I think it's rather cool that it's even possible, but is it really necessary?
Molson XXX is like freaking moonshine, compared to bud. It's like 12% alcohol by volume or something like that.
7.3%. I've told you a million times not to exaggerate.
Re:Not necessarily the war yet
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Good luck to all the US soldiers, I think when the fighting starts those anti-war protestors should switch to SUPPORTING OUR TROOPS! I know if I was over there I wouldn't want to hear about protests at home, I would want to hear about support.
Awesome. While we're at it, why don't we start cheering on domestic violence once the beatings start, and rape once the act starts. It's all well and good to support the idea of these crimes, but we wouldn't want to not support the people out there with the balls to commit them, would we? We might upset them.
In other news, the bill of rights were finally found. Now maybe someone in Washington will take the time to read them...
7:50 PM: the guys from Red Hat have appeared on the scene, and they're making haste to install projectors, connect cables, and to inform us that we have some serious traffic problems in the SF Bay Area. Hey, tell us something we don't know! Soon, the equipment setup is complete, and it's time to kick back and relax as the boot-up screen of Red Hat 8.0 glows off the front wall of the room.
Jeremy Hogan was the main presenter for the evening. Manager of Community Relations at Red Hat, he has a quick wit and a confidence in his message. That doesn't mean he can't take criticism from the audience, no. In fact, one of the main reasons for this road tour was to obtain feedback from ordinary folks around the country on what Red Hat could do to improve its business, its policies, and its products. Jeremy was joined by James McDermott and Dave Lawrence, both engineers who know the nuts and bolts of the Red Hat Linux system. Dave's main job is to do QA on every version of RHL that ships -- in other words, he has to test every package in the system to make sure it's working and stable. Also present was Jonathan Opp, a marketing writer who came along to ensure all the feedback received on the trip would be properly recorded.
Jeremy started off the show by showing off all the neat nifty new features of, you guessed it, Red Hat Linux 8.0. Namely, the yes-Linux-can-look-sexy-and-still-kick-ass interface of 8.0 called Bluecurve. Bluecurve is either an amazing blending of the two most popular Linux desktop environments, GNOME and KDE, or just a cute theme tacked on pre-existing software -- depending on who you talk to. The reality lies more in the middle of those viewpoints. Basically, Red Hat created a look and feel, a set of icons, an organizational scheme, and a number of configuration tools, and integrated them into GNOME and KDE to create a more unified interface and environment. Bluecurve is about 80/20 GNOME and KDE, respectively. If you want to use pure GNOME or pure KDE, you can, but most users will probably opt to stay with the default setup.
Since most of Jeremy's demonstration covered territory you're no doubt already familiar with from reading news and reviews on the Web, I won't cover it all here. What struck me as the most interesting thing about RH 8.0 was the fact that much of the GUI-based system software has been completely rebuilt from the ground up. Most of the configuration tools are brand new. The package manager is brand new. The GUI-based X Windows System configurator is brand new. The roaming network profiles utility is brand new. In other words, much of the Bluecurve desktop environment is actually at what is effectively a 1.0 version status. The Red Hat guys repeated numerous times that they are encouraging as much feedback from users as possible on how these new tools and system utilities can be improved for future releases of Red Hat. Really, one of the most promising things about RH 8.0 isn't that it's good now, but that will it be very good in the near future. Red Hat has gone out on a limb and has taken the all-important step of rearchitecting the default Linux desktop environment so that modern, cutting-edge functionality can be built on top of it in a rapid manner. This is an important milestone for the usability of Linux and its suitability for end user solutions, and I think other distribution vendors will be scrambling to keep up with the pace of Red Hat's development in these areas going forward.
Know Your Market
The Red Hat 8.0 demo lasted only a short while, and much of the rest of the evening was spent doing Q&A. Super geek talk abounded, with topics ranging from iSCSI to the DMCA brought up to keep the presenters on their toes. Most of what was discussed wasn't all the exciting outside the context of the room, but an important point came up which is a good thing to remember.
Red Hat is not trying to compete with Microsoft on the desktop as far as average non-technical home users are concerned. RH 8.0 is a business desktop (and server, of course), and only for home users with enough technical savvy to be interested in and know how to work with Linux. That being said, I personally feel that Red Hat is ultimately building a better system for all users than a lot of other distribution developers are at the moment. This is based on my own perception of the market, not actual product testing. But even if Red Hat Linux is well on its way to becoming the best all-around distribution, Red Hat realized how important it is to know your market. If you target the audiences that will appreciate your product and support it the most, than you will have a much greater chance of success.
Anyway, back to our story. After the Q&A session, the presenters wrapped up the evening's festivities with a jolly good T-shirt throwing fest and an entertaining raffle drawing involving three red fedoras (gee, I wonder why?). I'm afraid your intrepid reporter failed to win anything that evening -- that is, except for a free no-time-limit evaluation version of Red Hat 8.0. Cool.
Hmm, after a little looking around, I came across this link. Mr. Blizzard doesn't like the truetype code, and does not want to support it. Too bad for me, I guess I will have to finally learn how to use those src.rpms.
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Re:Letting users do things that are otherwise ille
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I don't get this.
Microsoft's EULA lets you use software for which they are the copyright holder. Using it without would be illegal.
Every software licence lets you do things that are otherwise illegal - that's the whole point of buying a license
<IANAL> Yes, using the software without the EULA would be illegal provided that the EULA exsists and you just ignore it. However, if the EULA did not exist, I do believe you would be able to use the software just as you can read a copyrighted book w/o agreeing to any license, whereas without the GPL you would not be permitted to freely make copies and redistribute code/binaries as you see fit. Holy run-on sentence batman. I think the point the author is trying to make is what would happen if the licenses did not exist, not if Joe Pirate ignores the existance of them. </IANAL> (gotta close those tags, we all saw what Jon Katz did the other day in his review of the Scorpion King...)
in the U.S. - ah no it isn't! *cue wailing and gnashing of teeth*
Wow, two of my biggest pet peeves in one post. First of all, Slashdot is an American site. Deal with it, or start a slashdot.(your country code here). And damn, can't you people use the subject line for a subject and not for the first half of your first sentence? At the very least, repeat your pseudo subject in the message body. Moderate me down for being off topic or flamebait or whatever, I don't care.
"Hardcoreware.net has the first full review of this board, which has support for 10 USB devices" "I wish it had even more built-in USB ports, but six is a good start." Am I missing something?
You are missing that link in the submission above which points to the explanation. From the article:
Notice the complete lack of legacy ports - this includes PS/2, ATA, serial, parallel, the whole shebang! Instead, we get 4 USB 1.1 ports, 2 USB 2.0 ports, a pair of IEEE1394 FireWire ports, full analog 5.1 audio out, digital audio out, and a LAN connector.
The site is getting sluggish now, so take my word for it.
Slashdot Mirror
Guns don't kill people, linux does.
But now, I might as well upgrade my desktop PC with a new AMD processor (screw you Intel will your ever changing sockets) and motherboard.
Yes, I'll be missing out on some games but I barely have time to play the ones I already have.
Well, assuming you were planning on buying a new PS3, you wouldn't have had the Other OS option anyway, as I don't believe this was ever supported on the new PS3 slim. It's still a dick move by Sony to take it away on the old fat PS3s, so if you're changing your mind just to stick it to the man, then more power to you.
Hopefully some of the keyboard hackers read slashdot. I would like to request a function added to the keyboard that senses certain "L33T" speak words and automatically backspaces and substitutes REAL words in its place. Some parents might even like to see such a function that senses curse words and substitutes +%$#"!! for matching words... could even be marketable...hrm?
And while we're at it, translate 'u' to 'you', 'r' to 'are', etc... God I hate my friends.
Cave Dwellers is my personal favorite...
"How much Keeffe is in this movie?"
"Miles O'Keeffe!"
or
"Quick--run with me, friend, towards the danger!"
you mean cat's /sorry, pet peeve
I meant a cat, but plural.
I have to believe that people are now writing intentionally schizophrenic emails in the hopes to appear in this section, and as such still retain their cats.
"Microsoft executives are reportedly meeting with their AOL counterparts to discuss combining the two companies' online divisions."
I'd be interested to know what America Online's Non-Online division does.
Does anyone know if there is any reason to get the extended trilogy boxed set over the three seperate extended editions (other than any price differences)? I looked at the description from the link to amazon and couldn't see any differences, other than a slip case to hold all three movies...
Have you seen a little movie called Alien Resurrection? Talk about killing a franchise even more than it already was dead.
Ha, yeah, and nobody knows it more than Joss himself. Here's a quote from an episode of Angel that gave me quite a laugh:
"I mean, Roger's always had a thing for those disgusting Alien movies... all that slime and teeth... ugh! He just can't get enough of them! Except for that last one they made, I think he dozed off."
Let me start by saying that this is not a troll, just an honest question.
Could someone please explain why one would drop all that money on an iSeries or zSeries just to run linux on it, rather than saving money by getting an x86 machine? If I'm buying an iSeries, it's because I want to run OS/400. Don't get me wrong, I think it's rather cool that it's even possible, but is it really necessary?
Iraqi LUG!?!? Does this mean the "Weapons of Mass Destruction Related Programs" mentioned in the State of the Union Address will be Open Sourced?
He was talking about computer programs, right?
Molson XXX is like freaking moonshine, compared to bud. It's like 12% alcohol by volume or something like that.
7.3%. I've told you a million times not to exaggerate.
Good luck to all the US soldiers, I think when the fighting starts those anti-war protestors should switch to SUPPORTING OUR TROOPS! I know if I was over there I wouldn't want to hear about protests at home, I would want to hear about support.
Awesome. While we're at it, why don't we start cheering on domestic violence once the beatings start, and rape once the act starts. It's all well and good to support the idea of these crimes, but we wouldn't want to not support the people out there with the balls to commit them, would we? We might upset them.
In other news, the bill of rights were finally found. Now maybe someone in Washington will take the time to read them...
In Soviet Russia, old bad played out joke makes YOU!
Well here's page 2, didn't get page 3.
Seeing Red
7:50 PM: the guys from Red Hat have appeared on the scene, and they're making haste to install projectors, connect cables, and to inform us that we have some serious traffic problems in the SF Bay Area. Hey, tell us something we don't know! Soon, the equipment setup is complete, and it's time to kick back and relax as the boot-up screen of Red Hat 8.0 glows off the front wall of the room.
Jeremy Hogan was the main presenter for the evening. Manager of Community Relations at Red Hat, he has a quick wit and a confidence in his message. That doesn't mean he can't take criticism from the audience, no. In fact, one of the main reasons for this road tour was to obtain feedback from ordinary folks around the country on what Red Hat could do to improve its business, its policies, and its products. Jeremy was joined by James McDermott and Dave Lawrence, both engineers who know the nuts and bolts of the Red Hat Linux system. Dave's main job is to do QA on every version of RHL that ships -- in other words, he has to test every package in the system to make sure it's working and stable. Also present was Jonathan Opp, a marketing writer who came along to ensure all the feedback received on the trip would be properly recorded.
Jeremy started off the show by showing off all the neat nifty new features of, you guessed it, Red Hat Linux 8.0. Namely, the yes-Linux-can-look-sexy-and-still-kick-ass interface of 8.0 called Bluecurve. Bluecurve is either an amazing blending of the two most popular Linux desktop environments, GNOME and KDE, or just a cute theme tacked on pre-existing software -- depending on who you talk to. The reality lies more in the middle of those viewpoints. Basically, Red Hat created a look and feel, a set of icons, an organizational scheme, and a number of configuration tools, and integrated them into GNOME and KDE to create a more unified interface and environment. Bluecurve is about 80/20 GNOME and KDE, respectively. If you want to use pure GNOME or pure KDE, you can, but most users will probably opt to stay with the default setup.
Since most of Jeremy's demonstration covered territory you're no doubt already familiar with from reading news and reviews on the Web, I won't cover it all here. What struck me as the most interesting thing about RH 8.0 was the fact that much of the GUI-based system software has been completely rebuilt from the ground up. Most of the configuration tools are brand new. The package manager is brand new. The GUI-based X Windows System configurator is brand new. The roaming network profiles utility is brand new. In other words, much of the Bluecurve desktop environment is actually at what is effectively a 1.0 version status. The Red Hat guys repeated numerous times that they are encouraging as much feedback from users as possible on how these new tools and system utilities can be improved for future releases of Red Hat. Really, one of the most promising things about RH 8.0 isn't that it's good now, but that will it be very good in the near future. Red Hat has gone out on a limb and has taken the all-important step of rearchitecting the default Linux desktop environment so that modern, cutting-edge functionality can be built on top of it in a rapid manner. This is an important milestone for the usability of Linux and its suitability for end user solutions, and I think other distribution vendors will be scrambling to keep up with the pace of Red Hat's development in these areas going forward.
Know Your Market
The Red Hat 8.0 demo lasted only a short while, and much of the rest of the evening was spent doing Q&A. Super geek talk abounded, with topics ranging from iSCSI to the DMCA brought up to keep the presenters on their toes. Most of what was discussed wasn't all the exciting outside the context of the room, but an important point came up which is a good thing to remember.
Red Hat is not trying to compete with Microsoft on the desktop as far as average non-technical home users are concerned. RH 8.0 is a business desktop (and server, of course), and only for home users with enough technical savvy to be interested in and know how to work with Linux. That being said, I personally feel that Red Hat is ultimately building a better system for all users than a lot of other distribution developers are at the moment. This is based on my own perception of the market, not actual product testing. But even if Red Hat Linux is well on its way to becoming the best all-around distribution, Red Hat realized how important it is to know your market. If you target the audiences that will appreciate your product and support it the most, than you will have a much greater chance of success.
Anyway, back to our story. After the Q&A session, the presenters wrapped up the evening's festivities with a jolly good T-shirt throwing fest and an entertaining raffle drawing involving three red fedoras (gee, I wonder why?). I'm afraid your intrepid reporter failed to win anything that evening -- that is, except for a free no-time-limit evaluation version of Red Hat 8.0. Cool.
it's up up down down left right left right b a start
isn't there a select in there somewhere?
I can whore for karma too...release motes here
Usually helps if said link is not in the above posted article, but nice try anyway. 'E' for effort.
Hmm, after a little looking around, I came across this link. Mr. Blizzard doesn't like the truetype code, and does not want to support it. Too bad for me, I guess I will have to finally learn how to use those src.rpms.
The official Mozilla RPMs for RedHat 7.2 are still built without TrueType font support.
Does anyone know the reasoning behind this?
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I don't get this.
Microsoft's EULA lets you use software for which they are the copyright holder. Using it without would be illegal.
Every software licence lets you do things that are otherwise illegal - that's the whole point of buying a license
<IANAL>
Yes, using the software without the EULA would be illegal provided that the EULA exsists and you just ignore it. However, if the EULA did not exist, I do believe you would be able to use the software just as you can read a copyrighted book w/o agreeing to any license, whereas without the GPL you would not be permitted to freely make copies and redistribute code/binaries as you see fit. Holy run-on sentence batman. I think the point the author is trying to make is what would happen if the licenses did not exist, not if Joe Pirate ignores the existance of them.
</IANAL>
(gotta close those tags, we all saw what Jon Katz did the other day in his review of the Scorpion King...)
in the U.S. - ah no it isn't! *cue wailing and gnashing of teeth*
Wow, two of my biggest pet peeves in one post. First of all, Slashdot is an American site. Deal with it, or start a slashdot.(your country code here). And damn, can't you people use the subject line for a subject and not for the first half of your first sentence? At the very least, repeat your pseudo subject in the message body. Moderate me down for being off topic or flamebait or whatever, I don't care.
You are missing that link in the submission above which points to the explanation. From the article:
The site is getting sluggish now, so take my word for it.
If atnt follows TW's lead then I may have to finally drop Broadband.
Though I hear AtnT will be debuting a tiered pricing/speed scheme soon.
Shift 7. Learn it, love it...
AT&T ain't no Gn'R.
We all know that Blade is so totally tubular because of his Real Ultimate Power
I mean, he is(was?) a mammal, he fights ALL the time, and his purpose is to flip out and kill people.