And when the cops shoot a black man for having a candybar in his pocket or shoot an unarmed non violent black man four dozen times at close range, I just think "It sucks, but if black people weren't out there killing every person they come across, these police wouldn't have to senselessly murder any of them".
Wow, you must live in a very nice place. I'm sure you'll respond and say it's very "diverse", however by your logic you'd be dead by now. Oh, how I love when people complain and contribute to societies problems. Of course I see your error in judgement quickly with:
"This sucks, but I don't need to be angry at the police or employers for violating my rights or my privacy. I need to be angry at the weekend pot smokers who make it necessary for people to infringe on my privacy or violate my constitutional rights".
It is as if "weekend pot smokers" asked for laws condemning their behaviour/sins and no one else's. A fair look at who funds "anti-pro-marijuana" legislation and you'll see the network of law enforcement and punishment execution institutions combining their efforts with the likes of the American beer companies.
Besides, why should you or do you think that you deserve more Constitutional rights than someone who likes to smoke pot or is Black? It seems to me that until people like you stop demonizing people we can't get back to more important things like freedom.
But instead of paying for the firmware, just get bsd and possible use that old machine for something that needs... I don't know, storage?
Using an old or semi-old PC allows you/me/us to build a machine that sucks down power but it worth every second. Plus, usually normal slashdotters get spare PC's for free once a year and can put them to good use without spending $60-$70 just for the initial hardware/software investment. In fact it allows me to spend money on say: Wireless cards, or even the games I'm likely to play.
I don't know about you - but the cost of PC gaming is going through the roof and I'm glad to see BSD filling in the spare parts.
I must say that the first distro I paid for was Mandrake 7.2 and it not only came with tutorials but there were online tutorials for common tasks. There was confusion at that time as to what to do with CD-RW drives and changing the settings was all laid out for you with step by step screen shots.
Those are the distros that I like, the ones who answer faq's with detailed fixes and insight. I would think a Wiki or some other type of site could be perfect helping first time users. They can decide to go as deep as they'd like into whatever topic they are looking into.
Microsoft has just announced that for the past two hundred years there has been a program running that they've acquired in a recent takeover called WorldPeace 1.2. Microsoft has taken over the secret company that once ran the program using fly wheels and slide-rules and has promised to fix its flawed design which caused the program (WorldPeace) to crash ever 40-60 years.
Currently you can't deploy Firefox in the enterprise and lock down its features and settings, but that is expected in 1.5. The basic rendering engine of the Mozilla browser Gecko is used all over in browsers (Wikipedia's list):
* Also uses Gecko to render its entire user interface via XUL.
You can either choose to adopt the rendering engine for your own applications or hopefully in the future deploy it with rights management. Personally, I think that personalized installations are the next needed step. If admins can roll out Firefo
"Macworld news has an article about Yahoo's acquisition of Konfabulator, which will be announced Monday. Yahoo company executives said they will be giving Konfabulator away for free, completely doing away with the US$19.95 currently charged for the product. The reason they purchased Konfabulator was they wanted an easy way to open up its APIs to the developer community and allow them easy access to the information on the Yahoo web site." From the article: "The acquisition of Konfabulator may not be the last Mac compatible product users see from Yahoo! While Schneider wasn't specific, he did say that there was interest in the Mac. 'There is a move at Yahoo! -- in addition to Konfabulator -- to move more onto the Mac,' said Schneider. 'We want to make sure we find a way to be more cross platform.'"
It should be like this:
"Macworld news has an article about Yahoo's acquisition of Konfabulator, which will be announced Monday. Yahoo company executives said they will be giving Konfabulator away for free, completely doing away with the US$19.95 currently charged for the product. The reason they purchased Konfabulator was they wanted an easy way to open up its APIs to the developer community and allow them easy access to the information on the Yahoo web site." From the article: "The acquisition of Konfabulator may not be the last Mac compatible product users see from Yahoo! While Schneider wasn't specific, he did say that there was interest in the Mac. 'There is a move at Yahoo! -- in addition to Konfabulator -- to move more onto the Mac,' said Schneider. 'We want to make sure we find a way to be more cross platform.'"
I know it is silly - but we always linked on the verbs, and I think we should try to do that more. Then, maybe at least one link to a relevant site is needed to help out the clueless. If we are being shown RAID 101 stories, are we expected to know every piece of software out there?
Sometimes this process isn't perfect, and a DNA strand pair gets part of the other's chromosome or loses a chunk.
Just to be abrasive, this isn't exactly true.
DNA replication is almost perfect. Of course we may not be here if it was perfect everytime, but it's pretty close. A (professionally published) 350-page book is more likely to have 5 spelling errors than the chance of mutation due to DNA coding errors. (Even though a "Harry Potter" maybe edited at length by computers and people).
You can never underestimate the fact that outright mutation is very, very, very rare in animals. Certainly seems to give a case to "Intelligent Design" but to me 'nature' seems that much more awe inspiring.
You're also leaving out that with free/open code you don't have to worry about products reaching "end of life" cycles or that once your are locked in, you're locked in.
I'd imagine they would like to use anything that they can support if the rest of the world dies...
Opening the OS/2 code could potentially cause problems for OS/2 and Windows. There are plenty of places that still run OS/2, but more importantly there are a few places running OS/2 on their servers and Windows NT/2000 on their desktops/workstations. These desktops are running software on the OS/2 subsystem and if you give people a way to exploit that then Windows is in trouble. Opening the OS/2 code could give way to exploits that I'm sure IBM would rather just hide through obscurity and not pay to fix (considering they are really "killing" OS/2, maybe to focus on Linux).
Sure, the community can fix the potential problems, and OS/2 can live, but is that the direction IBM wants to take? Doesn't seem so.
Not only that but I would imagine that a lot of the NT code and therefore the 2000 code borrows or runs along the same flow at points.
The GP or someone else has pointed out that some code is remarked with "OS/2" here and there but that is because Windows 2000 (XP and NT?) implement a OS/2 sublayer.
Being that most of the Microsoft networking code is either: Lan Manager, "the" TCP stack or their own buggy code (which is already exploited) - then Windows will be like swiss cheese on the network.
The reason they are doing this is because DVD's sell out pretty quick when it comes to FOX's dumped animation shows. Family Guy DVD's are like the top selling/fastest selling DVD's of all time (or something like that).
People can't get enough of their favorite shows on DVD and I can't wait for this one to be released. Of course, my favorite tag line from Futurama was on the last episode:
When you get a phone for free and sign a service contract you are required to pay if you leave the contract. That is because they are bribing you with the phone - nothing has changed since the days of Cellular (ahhh no!!!!, runs screaming).
The contract isn't to pay for the phone, but to make a 10 times return on what you are paying for the service. Funny system because the phones wouldn't exist without the service companies and they are giving the phones away.
Yeah, the nice thing about Zazzle is that you can design something really cool without leaving the browser.
No need to load up and fsck with Photoshop or Gimp (two programs I can't really use well anyways) as with CafePress and it's relations. You can pick your fonts, sizes and so forth right there in Firefox.
Now, if I would have worked in the past 4 years maybe I'd buy a few things from them... But it is fun to play with too!
When this first appeared on OSNews 2 days ago a lot of us pointed out then that this entire article is ridiculous. They want you to install 2K and not update it and everything else, things which aren't possible. Then most of the "fixes" are disabling this or that service which is 4th grade hacking.
Considering a lot of code for 2000 came from systems being developed before the advent of the Pentium II it can be forced to work on slower machines with a few hardware hacks. First, we know that I/O is going to be slow in a Pentium I or II, so don't use NTFS and upgrade to dynamic disks. Even adding a second drive to use for the PAGEFILE and maybe even the TEMP will speed things up and keep the machine stable.
I've got a few machines (K6, Pentium II each with ~64 MB RAM) running 2000 smoothly with this setup: 2 Hard drives, with the system installed on the first primary partition (on the first disk). The system is on FAT32, formatted for 5.1 GB and just a "normal disk". Then I've got a large "Striped" partition, formatted FAT32 holding documents and programs. Then three small (1 GB) striped partitions all holding one of each of these: TEMP, SWAP and SYSTEM CATALOG.
These machines never crash (and are regularly defragmented every two days). I've debated on taking out the CD-ROM's (never use them) and using 4 hard disk drives but that makes me have to re-install and that requires a CD-ROM (or floppies which I don't have)
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And when the cops shoot a black man for having a candybar in his pocket or shoot an unarmed non violent black man four dozen times at close range, I just think "It sucks, but if black people weren't out there killing every person they come across, these police wouldn't have to senselessly murder any of them".
Wow, you must live in a very nice place. I'm sure you'll respond and say it's very "diverse", however by your logic you'd be dead by now. Oh, how I love when people complain and contribute to societies problems. Of course I see your error in judgement quickly with:
"This sucks, but I don't need to be angry at the police or employers for violating my rights or my privacy. I need to be angry at the weekend pot smokers who make it necessary for people to infringe on my privacy or violate my constitutional rights".
It is as if "weekend pot smokers" asked for laws condemning their behaviour/sins and no one else's. A fair look at who funds "anti-pro-marijuana" legislation and you'll see the network of law enforcement and punishment execution institutions combining their efforts with the likes of the American beer companies.
Besides, why should you or do you think that you deserve more Constitutional rights than someone who likes to smoke pot or is Black? It seems to me that until people like you stop demonizing people we can't get back to more important things like freedom.
But instead of paying for the firmware, just get bsd and possible use that old machine for something that needs... I don't know, storage?
Using an old or semi-old PC allows you/me/us to build a machine that sucks down power but it worth every second. Plus, usually normal slashdotters get spare PC's for free once a year and can put them to good use without spending $60-$70 just for the initial hardware/software investment. In fact it allows me to spend money on say: Wireless cards, or even the games I'm likely to play.
I don't know about you - but the cost of PC gaming is going through the roof and I'm glad to see BSD filling in the spare parts.
I must say that the first distro I paid for was Mandrake 7.2 and it not only came with tutorials but there were online tutorials for common tasks. There was confusion at that time as to what to do with CD-RW drives and changing the settings was all laid out for you with step by step screen shots.
Those are the distros that I like, the ones who answer faq's with detailed fixes and insight. I would think a Wiki or some other type of site could be perfect helping first time users. They can decide to go as deep as they'd like into whatever topic they are looking into.
And in other applications (like):
ActiveState Komodo (visual development environment for Perl, Python and more on Windows and Linux) [4] The Liferea (news aggregator for Linux), The Mozilla ActiveX Control (allows ActiveX developers to easily embed Gecko in applications) The Mozilla Calendar (calendar and personal information manager)* The Mozilla Thunderbird The (email/newsgroup client and news aggregator)* Nvu (a web authoring application)* and Gecko# for Windows (.NET Binding for Gecko)
* Also uses Gecko to render its entire user interface via XUL.
You can either choose to adopt the rendering engine for your own applications or hopefully in the future deploy it with rights management. Personally, I think that personalized installations are the next needed step. If admins can roll out Firefo
Notice no mention about gfx cards. I assume all those transparent window borders will take a bit of power.
Nice, new desktop computers will blow fuses when they boot into Windows Vista!
ummm... it was made small so it's "Good to Go"?
Yes, mutations are rare. That must explain why I have only three teeth between the molars on my bottom jaw, when everyone else has four.
If mutations were rare, everyone would look identical.
You confuse "mutation" with "sexual reproduction"... but seeing as how this is Slashdot, I'm not too suprised.
It should be like this:
I know it is silly - but we always linked on the verbs, and I think we should try to do that more. Then, maybe at least one link to a relevant site is needed to help out the clueless. If we are being shown RAID 101 stories, are we expected to know every piece of software out there?
Sometimes this process isn't perfect, and a DNA strand pair gets part of the other's chromosome or loses a chunk.
Just to be abrasive, this isn't exactly true.
DNA replication is almost perfect. Of course we may not be here if it was perfect everytime, but it's pretty close. A (professionally published) 350-page book is more likely to have 5 spelling errors than the chance of mutation due to DNA coding errors. (Even though a "Harry Potter" maybe edited at length by computers and people).
You can never underestimate the fact that outright mutation is very, very, very rare in animals. Certainly seems to give a case to "Intelligent Design" but to me 'nature' seems that much more awe inspiring.
You're also leaving out that with free/open code you don't have to worry about products reaching "end of life" cycles or that once your are locked in, you're locked in.
I'd imagine they would like to use anything that they can support if the rest of the world dies...
I wish there was a "Understated" moderation point I could give.
IRC is great and all, but it is at the outer edges of the online universe to say the least.
Seriously, I think this will be used to go after those who steal technology and run back to China to put it on warships and so forth...
I'm betting this has nothing to do with movies or music, but with defense interests.
Copies of San Andreas triple in price on eBay.
Memex?
Opening the OS/2 code could potentially cause problems for OS/2 and Windows. There are plenty of places that still run OS/2, but more importantly there are a few places running OS/2 on their servers and Windows NT/2000 on their desktops/workstations. These desktops are running software on the OS/2 subsystem and if you give people a way to exploit that then Windows is in trouble. Opening the OS/2 code could give way to exploits that I'm sure IBM would rather just hide through obscurity and not pay to fix (considering they are really "killing" OS/2, maybe to focus on Linux).
o ws_2000
Sure, the community can fix the potential problems, and OS/2 can live, but is that the direction IBM wants to take? Doesn't seem so.
Related:
* http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Architecture_of_Wind
Holy shit! And look at how many karma whores there are posting the exact same comments again!
Not only that but I would imagine that a lot of the NT code and therefore the 2000 code borrows or runs along the same flow at points.
The GP or someone else has pointed out that some code is remarked with "OS/2" here and there but that is because Windows 2000 (XP and NT?) implement a OS/2 sublayer.
Being that most of the Microsoft networking code is either: Lan Manager, "the" TCP stack or their own buggy code (which is already exploited) - then Windows will be like swiss cheese on the network.
The reason they are doing this is because DVD's sell out pretty quick when it comes to FOX's dumped animation shows. Family Guy DVD's are like the top selling/fastest selling DVD's of all time (or something like that).
People can't get enough of their favorite shows on DVD and I can't wait for this one to be released. Of course, my favorite tag line from Futurama was on the last episode:
See you on some other channel
Well that does me no good when it just links to a bunch of slashdotted sites!
Exactly...
When you get a phone for free and sign a service contract you are required to pay if you leave the contract. That is because they are bribing you with the phone - nothing has changed since the days of Cellular (ahhh no!!!!, runs screaming).
The contract isn't to pay for the phone, but to make a 10 times return on what you are paying for the service. Funny system because the phones wouldn't exist without the service companies and they are giving the phones away.
Yeah, the nice thing about Zazzle is that you can design something really cool without leaving the browser.
No need to load up and fsck with Photoshop or Gimp (two programs I can't really use well anyways) as with CafePress and it's relations. You can pick your fonts, sizes and so forth right there in Firefox.
Now, if I would have worked in the past 4 years maybe I'd buy a few things from them... But it is fun to play with too!
When this first appeared on OSNews 2 days ago a lot of us pointed out then that this entire article is ridiculous. They want you to install 2K and not update it and everything else, things which aren't possible. Then most of the "fixes" are disabling this or that service which is 4th grade hacking.
Considering a lot of code for 2000 came from systems being developed before the advent of the Pentium II it can be forced to work on slower machines with a few hardware hacks. First, we know that I/O is going to be slow in a Pentium I or II, so don't use NTFS and upgrade to dynamic disks. Even adding a second drive to use for the PAGEFILE and maybe even the TEMP will speed things up and keep the machine stable.
I've got a few machines (K6, Pentium II each with ~64 MB RAM) running 2000 smoothly with this setup: 2 Hard drives, with the system installed on the first primary partition (on the first disk). The system is on FAT32, formatted for 5.1 GB and just a "normal disk". Then I've got a large "Striped" partition, formatted FAT32 holding documents and programs. Then three small (1 GB) striped partitions all holding one of each of these: TEMP, SWAP and SYSTEM CATALOG.
These machines never crash (and are regularly defragmented every two days). I've debated on taking out the CD-ROM's (never use them) and using 4 hard disk drives but that makes me have to re-install and that requires a CD-ROM (or floppies which I don't have)
After all, most marriages have difficutly when it comes to spending money -- do you really want minute-by-minute graphs of who uses what in the house?
I've always said that two people who keep score lose...