The "purist" nature of Slackware appeals to me, but what is holding me back is a perceived journey into "dependancy hell" as I try to manually sort out package management.
So, if you don't mind my picking your brain, how do you manage packages on Slackware?
I thought "dependency hell" is what people experienced with.rpm/.deb distributions.
I've used Slackware since 7.0. Before that I took just about every distro that was around at the time for a spin. I was utterly overjoyed to see how easy it was to manage packages in Slackware. I didn't have to --force --nodep anything. Nor did I have to download and install various.rpm files from untrusted locations anymore. You can do a full install of Slackware without much disk space. If you do a full install you don't really need to worry about dependencies since any third-pary Slackware.tgz you download off the internet isn't going to expect you to have more than the official packages (without making a note of it).
Also there's swaret (works like apt-get) which tracks dependencies for all official slackware packages if you feel it's really necessary.
As an aside, intelligent design has many interesting philosophical points, and that's where it belongs, philosopy, not biology. Unfortunately Philosopy education in the United States is poor as well, which contributes to the problem.
That's a good point.
Can you imagine the backlash that would ensue from the religious crowd if Philosophy was actually added to a state's mandatory curriculum? Actually having a true philosophical debate in public schools would probably be tantamount to Satan worshiping for the ID crown.
Philosopy is far too intertwined with reason, objectivity, and open mindedness to mesh with fundamentalist religion.
For example: Parent: What did you learn in school today? Child: We read about Friedrich Nietzsche. Parent: Who's that? Child: Some German philosopher who said God died. Parent: *head a splode*
Do NOT use the 'cat' binary from GNU coreutils to print out the content of a file because afterall the name 'cat' originated from the English word "concatenate".
Besides, the command '</proc/mdstat' will not work in all shells.
The linked page says the reason is that it's wasteful, and I guess that is technically correct since if you use your shell built-in may not spawn a new PID. So I guess it's as wasteful as using the 'date' command instead of getting your shell to print the date.
I can't find their IP allocation policies anymore, but I'm pretty sure the last time I set up a T1 with them they offered IPv6 allocation as well as IPv4.
Just the other day I read a story about the police arresting someone in my county for theft. I wish those anti theivery advocates would just finish up with Nigeria first.
Yeah, so we're stupid and greedy. Maybe if these fools were aware of the dangerous combination of these two traits with our uncontrollable lust for war and violence they would be more careful about what they say.
I bought my wife (a graphic artist) an HP 8200 scanner for xmas last year. It boasted support for MacOSX (which my wife uses) and the specs looked very nice.
I was very disappointed to find out that it supported OSX 10.2 ONLY not 10.3 which had been available for some time. Furthermore, HP promised that 10.3 would be supported by January, but it wasn't until summer that it actually was. Not to mention the driver was serveral HUNDRED megs and they would not mail out a newer CD. Since we only had dialup, this was a nasty situation to be in. Once I finally did get it installed, it turns out their scanning software is complete shit and very prone to crashing the system.
For $500, and with a product name with "Professional" in it, you would think HP would do a better job. The worst part is HP will not support the SANE project and will apperantly not release technical documentation on this scanner. If they had, I would have no beef since SANE works on OSX.
I'm sure the question on everyone's mind is, "Does it come with two all beef patties, special sauce, lettuce, cheese, pickles, onions, all on a sesame seed bun?" If so, BRING IT ON! I'm hungry! =)
Umm. The headline was "Big Mac Virus".
You must be quite hungry if you're willing to expose your gastro-intestinal tract to virus-incubating special sauce.
I'll take my chances with the bactria in the McChicken.
Until fairly recently, I couldn't get a SuperMicro server with an AMD in it.
As far as I can tell, you still can't.
The only Supermicro board I can find that supports AMD is the
H8DCE which does not seem to be available to retail customers.
I even wonder if this board's existence is a result of the AMD lawsuit. For a long time now I've been puzzled as to why Supermicro was so steadfast in it's Intel-only stance. For a company that specializes in wide range of server boards, you would think they would have at least dabbled in the Opteron market if not embraced it in an open market.
I use Psi to communicate with co-workers who use Google Talk (just migrated from ICQ., yay). Psi is probably what you're refering to that enables GnuPG encryption over jabber, but uses out-of-band key exchange for GnuPG.
I just don't see the problem with this. If I want to use encryption to communicate with someone, I want to communicate directly with them and request their public key. I don't want to trust software to manage my trust for me. I don't need encrypted communication from everyone I communicate with, and for those I do, I already have their pub keys.
Another point is that Google's service runs over SSL (at least I think it does) so encryption from outside parties is already there, GnuPG just offers ecryption from Google.
Wanted: an online publishing business model that falls somewhere between lone weblogger and corporate media behemoth.
LWN.net seems to be quite successful in selling subscriptions.
Forget about ads, the key is quality. The quality and consistency of jornalism is enough to squeeze subscription fees out of even the cheapest of cheapskates (a.k.a. me).
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I thought "dependency hell" is what people experienced with .rpm/.deb distributions.
I've used Slackware since 7.0. Before that I took just about every distro that was around at the time for a spin. I was utterly overjoyed to see how easy it was to manage packages in Slackware. I didn't have to --force --nodep anything. Nor did I have to download and install various .rpm files from untrusted locations anymore. You can do a full install of Slackware without much disk space. If you do a full install you don't really need to worry about dependencies since any third-pary Slackware .tgz you download off the internet isn't going to expect you to have more than the official packages (without making a note of it).
Also there's swaret (works like apt-get) which tracks dependencies for all official slackware packages if you feel it's really necessary.
Can you imagine the backlash that would ensue from the religious crowd if Philosophy was actually added to a state's mandatory curriculum? Actually having a true philosophical debate in public schools would probably be tantamount to Satan worshiping for the ID crown.
Philosopy is far too intertwined with reason, objectivity, and open mindedness to mesh with fundamentalist religion.
For example:
Parent: What did you learn in school today?
Child: We read about Friedrich Nietzsche.
Parent: Who's that?
Child: Some German philosopher who said God died.
Parent: *head a splode*
The first term of the NDA probably states that he can't talk about the NDA.
Enzyte
This seems like a silly argument:
/proc/mdstat' will not work in all shells.
Do NOT use the 'cat' binary from GNU coreutils to print out the content of a file because afterall the name 'cat' originated from the English word "concatenate".
Besides, the command '<
The linked page says the reason is that it's wasteful, and I guess that is technically correct since if you use your shell built-in may not spawn a new PID. So I guess it's as wasteful as using the 'date' command instead of getting your shell to print the date.
Sprint has offered IPv6 with it's dedicated IP service for a long time.
http://www.sprintv6.net/aspath/bgp.html
I can't find their IP allocation policies anymore, but I'm pretty sure the last time I set up a T1 with them they offered IPv6 allocation as well as IPv4.
I did find one free (gratis) Mahjongg game for win32 once, but all the menu's are in German.
I haven't seen what AT&T's new logo will be yet, but the only natural progression seems to be:
Darth Vader (1969)
Death Star (1984)
Jar Jar Binks (2005)
hsqldb.org
I'm not sure if JDBC drivers are used for all external dbs, but probably.
Just the other day I read a story about the police arresting someone in my county for theft. I wish those anti theivery advocates would just finish up with Nigeria first.
It's never too late to seek a second opinon.
Strangely, it will incite you to make inappropriate outbursts about your Linux distribution of choice.
Where can I go to download Google Secure Access?
The program can currently be downloaded at certain Google WiFi locations in the San Francisco Bay Area.
It's no pigeon's typing, but I guess...
I signed up for the Slackware subscription service to support Pat, not for the CDs which still sit in the shrink-wrapped cases they were mailed in.
Promoting the torrents is probably a good thing. It wasn't an FTP link to slackware.com after all.
I was very disappointed to find out that it supported OSX 10.2 ONLY not 10.3 which had been available for some time. Furthermore, HP promised that 10.3 would be supported by January, but it wasn't until summer that it actually was. Not to mention the driver was serveral HUNDRED megs and they would not mail out a newer CD. Since we only had dialup, this was a nasty situation to be in. Once I finally did get it installed, it turns out their scanning software is complete shit and very prone to crashing the system.
For $500, and with a product name with "Professional" in it, you would think HP would do a better job. The worst part is HP will not support the SANE project and will apperantly not release technical documentation on this scanner. If they had, I would have no beef since SANE works on OSX.
You must be quite hungry if you're willing to expose your gastro-intestinal tract to virus-incubating special sauce.
I'll take my chances with the bactria in the McChicken.
The only Supermicro board I can find that supports AMD is the H8DCE which does not seem to be available to retail customers.
I even wonder if this board's existence is a result of the AMD lawsuit. For a long time now I've been puzzled as to why Supermicro was so steadfast in it's Intel-only stance. For a company that specializes in wide range of server boards, you would think they would have at least dabbled in the Opteron market if not embraced it in an open market.
I just don't see the problem with this. If I want to use encryption to communicate with someone, I want to communicate directly with them and request their public key. I don't want to trust software to manage my trust for me. I don't need encrypted communication from everyone I communicate with, and for those I do, I already have their pub keys.
Another point is that Google's service runs over SSL (at least I think it does) so encryption from outside parties is already there, GnuPG just offers ecryption from Google.
LWN.net seems to be quite successful in selling subscriptions.
Forget about ads, the key is quality. The quality and consistency of jornalism is enough to squeeze subscription fees out of even the cheapest of cheapskates (a.k.a. me).
http://www.zalman.co.kr/
With all this press, they will surely sell another million copies.