Has there been anything linking the anthrax scare to interests outside the US. most evidence would indicate that the anthrax sent came from the US's own supply. Now it _may_ fall under the realm of terrorism, but it is pretty much established it didn't come from al-quaeda (or Iraq) for that matter.
You may also want to ask yourself why the Bush administration didn't downplay the anthrax threat. (Plausible answer-- it would lessen the nation's fear factor...)
His post was dead on. Yours is the one that resorted to invective and name-calling because you weren't able to respond intelligently to his points.
Stallman's contributions made the free software movement possible. As is stated below, he invented the wheel and gave it away for free. How exactly has Stallman hurt free software? The GNU license is its greatest protector. Unfortunately those who stands by their convictions are often labeled as crazy by those who disagree with them. Such is the case here.
I think we will find that history will treat Richard Stallman more kindly than he is treated in many contemporary fora. His concept is built to last. (Side note for you Ayn Rand fans-- I was in a conversation where someone asked "Who is the Howard Roark of the software world?". After Bill Gates was shot down, I found some consensus with RMS)
And like it or not AC, Slashdot is one of the best technical news journals around. Maybe not for depth, but certainly for volume-- how many things do you find out about on Slashdot first? As for the Anti-MS comments, that is simple trolling. There are as many (probably paid) MS supporters (by volume of postings) as there are MS-Bashers.
The MS crowd uses the same tactics as the far-right-- get on a public forum, accuse those whom disagree as being zealots, and post multiple times to drill the lie into the popular sub-conscious.
If you can't handle a bit of MS-ribbing why don't you just go read www.microsoft.com and publish your invective there, .
From my experience, rpm hell comes from when you install something _not_ using rpms. For instance: if you compile something onto your system, it may compile and work perfectly. The same program/library may also be a dependency for an rpm you want to load. However, because the rpm database doesn't see the rpm for the new program, it will complain that the there is an unresolved dependency. Then, if you get that try to install that dependency in the form of an rpm, you may find yourself being asked for even more rpms, or you run the risk of borking up what you compiled.
It's a flexibility thing. If all you ever use is rpm, most likely you won't encounter dependency hell. But if you like to put things where you want them, then you run the risk of being frustrated.
Hate to break this to you bud, but I don't think there's a Winzip for Linux;-)
You do have gaim, yahoo messenger, gimp, abiword, gnumeric, star office, real player, xine, mplayer, audacity, xmms, evolution, pan, and at least 2 other applications though...
OK, if you're counting, you must have missed me, so that's at least 17. Seriously, are you honestly trying to imply Slackware has harmed the "*nix" community? I didn't know being BSD-like was harmful.
All I know is that the Slackware IRC channel is full of helpful people, the product is well documented, and for the most part Slack-users don't dis other distros so much as promote their own.
Simplicity and stability-- it's a nice motto. I for one and quite grateful for the work Pat (and crew) have done over the years. I know I shouldn't feed the flamers, but if anything Slackware doesn't get the credit it deserves. (Buy a copy!)
Actually the point _is_ that MS deserves it. They were aware of this bug and have thus far chosen to ignore it. How long are people supposed to be silent about this? The point was made above that Apple respond to a similar issue within 9 hours. Apparently Microsoft doesn't value their customers (or rather arrogantly know that what their customers think doesn't matter) enough to fix this.
A similar comment was made saying "What if this happened to Linux?" Well due to the nature of open source/free software, someone would have a patch posted pretty quickly.
The fact is that Microsoft exploits their closed source software by only making fixes when they wish, rather than when their customers have a demonstrable need.
Personally I wouldn't mind seeing some folks get their hard drives wiped (preferably those at financial institutions and/or CEOs). This is the price of doing business with the devil. Sometimes people need to get poked or burned to see evil for what it is...
And here I thought nothing was a bigger waste of time (not to mention more hazardous) then the coffee maker mod. (Oh, forgot about the christmas tree web server.)
Really, couldn't these guys do something more productive, like pr0n surfing?
NY Times does won't spam you. (As stated in an earlier post)
Further, other News pages are asking for registration as well; the Washington Post and ABCnews are two examples. Really, the information asked for is usually minimal, and once you register once (per browser/machine) you don't get the reg message.
If registration is such a big deal pretty much everyone here would be an A.C., no?
Because they set the dragon free, thats why. Sure the company lost its vision at times, and got stomped (somewhat unfairly) as a business entity.
Netscape probably more than any other company popularized web surfing, and was te first to release the power of the browser paradigm for the desktop-- which is why Microsoft acted so ruthlessly to crush them.
So whait if they got bought out by a conglomerate. It might turn out that their action beore capitulation saved the free software field from perceived obsolescence. We get misty for the subsidiary and hope that the new owners will wield the sword the community forged. It would be affirmation of the philosophy again, as goesthe server, so goes the desktop.
So we root for the brand name because it validates the idea, we deal with the commercialism in the name of mass acceptance. We let one of our products compete. That's why we pull for Netscape.
And nowadays, it's a matter of proving a point. Opera and Konqueror non withstanding, I don't think anyone who has used Mozilla 1.0 can deny it is a great browser, and fewer could honestly say it lacks anything that IE has. Most would have to admit Mozilla surpasses it.
So go AOL, make it convenient to use another browser!
Does Windows support multiple desktops? Does windows allow for embedding and creating new menus in taskbar? Does windows have a Kasbar that shows thumbnails of all running apps? Does windows allow for the collapsing the taskbar with a single click like KDE (or Gnome)? Does windows allow for shading an app like KDE (or most modern *nix window managers? Who had thumbnail support for images first? Windows or KDE/Gnome?
Your assessment is baseless and foolish, but not unexpected from an A/C...
Depends on what your standard of "workstation" is... We run our cad on SunBlade 100s which give a pretty good bang to the buck-- albeit on the low end.
That said I'd love to run Linux on said blades if the cad software supported it.
The most horrible aspect of this is American lawmakers rushing en masse to approve a bill that shows they have little or no understanding of the technology involved. Tell me why this has to be an anti-hacking bill. If you tap into the controls of a dam forinstance, and effect flooding that causes loss of life, you aren't a hacker, you are a murderer.
This is symptomatic of a prevailing fear by those in power of those who can disseminate information they cannot understand or control. We are no longer on a slippery slope to losing our freedoms. We have entered free-fall.
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Has there been anything linking the anthrax scare to interests outside the US. most evidence would indicate that the anthrax sent came from the US's own supply. Now it _may_ fall under the realm of terrorism, but it is pretty much established it didn't come from al-quaeda (or Iraq) for that matter.
Check this Federation of American Scientists Chemical and Biological Arms Controllink for the most complete documentation you will find on the issue.
You may also want to ask yourself why the Bush administration didn't downplay the anthrax threat. (Plausible answer-- it would lessen the nation's fear factor...)
His post was dead on. Yours is the one that resorted to invective and name-calling because you weren't able to respond intelligently to his points.
Stallman's contributions made the free software movement possible. As is stated below, he invented the wheel and gave it away for free. How exactly has Stallman hurt free software? The GNU license is its greatest protector. Unfortunately those who stands by their convictions are often labeled as crazy by those who disagree with them. Such is the case here.
I think we will find that history will treat Richard Stallman more kindly than he is treated in many contemporary fora. His concept is built to last. (Side note for you Ayn Rand fans-- I was in a conversation where someone asked "Who is the Howard Roark of the software world?". After Bill Gates was shot down, I found some consensus with RMS)
BTW what free software do _you_ use?
A case of the Onion being prophetic...
"much less the President"... says it all.
You read *news on FoxNEWS?
FoxNEWS is an oxymoron.
And like it or not AC, Slashdot is one of the best technical news journals around. Maybe not for depth, but certainly for volume-- how many things do you find out about on Slashdot first? As for the Anti-MS comments, that is simple trolling. There are as many (probably paid) MS supporters (by volume of postings) as there are MS-Bashers.
The MS crowd uses the same tactics as the far-right-- get on a public forum, accuse those whom disagree as being zealots, and post multiple times to drill the lie into the popular sub-conscious.
If you can't handle a bit of MS-ribbing why don't you just go read www.microsoft.com and publish your invective there,
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From my experience, rpm hell comes from when you install something _not_ using rpms. For instance: if you compile something onto your system, it may compile and work perfectly. The same program/library may also be a dependency for an rpm you want to load. However, because the rpm database doesn't see the rpm for the new program, it will complain that the there is an unresolved dependency. Then, if you get that try to install that dependency in the form of an rpm, you may find yourself being asked for even more rpms, or you run the risk of borking up what you compiled.
It's a flexibility thing. If all you ever use is rpm, most likely you won't encounter dependency hell. But if you like to put things where you want them, then you run the risk of being frustrated.
Hate to break this to you bud, but I don't think there's a Winzip for Linux ;-)
You do have gaim, yahoo messenger, gimp, abiword, gnumeric, star office, real player, xine, mplayer, audacity, xmms, evolution, pan, and at least 2 other applications though...
OK, if you're counting, you must have missed me, so that's at least 17. Seriously, are you honestly trying to imply Slackware has harmed the "*nix" community? I didn't know being BSD-like was harmful.
All I know is that the Slackware IRC channel is full of helpful people, the product is well documented, and for the most part Slack-users don't dis other distros so much as promote their own.
Simplicity and stability-- it's a nice motto. I for one and quite grateful for the work Pat (and crew) have done over the years. I know I shouldn't feed the flamers, but if anything Slackware doesn't get the credit it deserves. (Buy a copy!)
Actually the point _is_ that MS deserves it. They were aware of this bug and have thus far chosen to ignore it. How long are people supposed to be silent about this? The point was made above that Apple respond to a similar issue within 9 hours. Apparently Microsoft doesn't value their customers (or rather arrogantly know that what their customers think doesn't matter) enough to fix this.
A similar comment was made saying "What if this happened to Linux?" Well due to the nature of open source/free software, someone would have a patch posted pretty quickly.
The fact is that Microsoft exploits their closed source software by only making fixes when they wish, rather than when their customers have a demonstrable need.
Personally I wouldn't mind seeing some folks get their hard drives wiped (preferably those at financial institutions and/or CEOs). This is the price of doing business with the devil. Sometimes people need to get poked or burned to see evil for what it is...
Actually, Microsoft does produce a quality product
True, but you can't run a server or a decent desktop with just an intellimouse...
We have 33 Solaris workstations, 12 XP workstations, 5 macs Solaris server, Linux server, and a citrix server.
70% of our support time is spent on XP or citrix related problems.
And here I thought nothing was a bigger waste of time (not to mention more hazardous) then the coffee maker mod. (Oh, forgot about the christmas tree web server.)
Really, couldn't these guys do something more productive, like pr0n surfing?
But then I guess I looked...
NY Times does won't spam you. (As stated in an earlier post)
Further, other News pages are asking for registration as well; the Washington Post and ABCnews are two examples. Really, the information asked for is usually minimal, and once you register once (per browser/machine) you don't get the reg message.
If registration is such a big deal pretty much everyone here would be an A.C., no?
Since when does innovate mean "rip-off"? That would be the only thing MS has done better than apple.
Oh wait, I guess they are a little bit better at lying, intimidation, and posturing too. My mistake.
Now if you'll excuse me, I had a large meal and need to go take an "innovation"...
That of course implies that anyone in the office could maintain exchange...
I've been registered for over 4 years and haven't got one pice of spam (that I am aware of) from the New York Times.
*we vote em out of office and get someone new.
This only works in countries that have legitimate elections though.
Because they set the dragon free, thats why. Sure the company lost its vision at times, and got stomped (somewhat unfairly) as a business entity.
Netscape probably more than any other company popularized web surfing, and was te first to release the power of the browser paradigm for the desktop-- which is why Microsoft acted so ruthlessly to crush them.
So whait if they got bought out by a conglomerate. It might turn out that their action beore capitulation saved the free software field from perceived obsolescence. We get misty for the subsidiary and hope that the new owners will wield the sword the community forged. It would be affirmation of the philosophy again, as goesthe server, so goes the desktop.
So we root for the brand name because it validates the idea, we deal with the commercialism in the name of mass acceptance. We let one of our products compete. That's why we pull for Netscape.
And nowadays, it's a matter of proving a point. Opera and Konqueror non withstanding, I don't think anyone who has used Mozilla 1.0 can deny it is a great browser, and fewer could honestly say it lacks anything that IE has. Most would have to admit Mozilla surpasses it.
So go AOL, make it convenient to use another browser!
Does Windows support multiple desktops? Does windows allow for embedding and creating new menus in taskbar? Does windows have a Kasbar that shows thumbnails of all running apps? Does windows allow for the collapsing the taskbar with a single click like KDE (or Gnome)? Does windows allow for shading an app like KDE (or most modern *nix window managers? Who had thumbnail support for images first? Windows or KDE/Gnome?
Your assessment is baseless and foolish, but not unexpected from an A/C...
No, It's a smart man's windows. Besides, if you hate KDE so much, why are you running Suse?
(Happily running KDE on Slack...)
Headaches? Oh yeah, giving myself less work and saving my employers money definitely fscks up my day.
So is there a place that I can I find satisfactory help for my tinkering sickness, or do I just need to pretend I'm killing something?
Depends on what your standard of "workstation" is... We run our cad on SunBlade 100s which give a pretty good bang to the buck-- albeit on the low end.
That said I'd love to run Linux on said blades if the cad software supported it.
This is symptomatic of a prevailing fear by those in power of those who can disseminate information they cannot understand or control. We are no longer on a slippery slope to losing our freedoms. We have entered free-fall.
kinda harsh for modding a guy down for wishing he had mod points... Here. Have a MOD PARENT UP.
Wrong.
Sorry the attempted remedy was reversed, Not the charge. BTW, don't your M$ masters pay more if you don't pull the AC thing...