I hate to tell you, but there is a lot of energy poured in to Linux's development. Most of the merchandising is taken care of by people whose job it is to sell the mascot. That and the other point...the logo is there as fun. I know not why our mascot is a penguin, but it is fun. If we spent all our time on the actual Linux, leaving no creative outlet, all coders would go insane. Might as well say "Nope! no game support for Linux, those coders need to slave away." or, "They want to play paintball and have a guiness with their friends?!? What do they think they are for christsake? People with families? tell them to shut up and lock the door on them."
We need to have fun sometimes, and if it's not the Kernel, it's the penguin.
These people and other animal rights activists have got to be the single most unintelligent bunch of people I have ever had the misfortune to encounter in my life. Example:
1. There was once a captive, record sized lobster on display at a resturant. Now mind you, this lobster's only fate was to be a well fed display piece at this resturant, he was in NO danger of being eaten. Some group broke in and tried to "save" this poor chap. In the process, they managed to break off a claw off this poor creature. To compound this lobster's misery, they forgot to remove the rubber band that they put on the lobster's other claw. So now we have a "saved" lobster with no means of defending itself till such time as it molts and grows his new claw. Given the poor creature's age, this will be a long time and he'll probally be eaten LONG before that happy day.
2. A group claims a victory in saving deer moose and elk. This really frosts me because it was nature that saved the project...not them. The plan was to move a population of each to an island in the great lakes. This island had no predators and no hunting was allowed. Much to my complete lack of surprise, they multiplied to numbers that the island could not sustain and the population was doomed to a long and slow starvation. In steps Mother Nature to the bat. A really cold winter causes the ice to freeze fron the mainland to the shore. Something that rarely occurs given the distance involved. Over this ice, a pack of really hungry wolves schleps over to this island looking for food and walks into paradise. A few years after that, there is now a healthy and managed population of deer, moose, elk AND wolf living in balance. Andthe animal rights groups say that thier project was a sucess. It was, but no thanks to the moron patrol.
If these birds were performers in the Batman movie, then they are in no stress. I wish I lived life as good as one of those birds.
Note: You aren't forbidden to own a private plane capable of M1.0+ speeds, there is a plane retailing for about.5 million that can hit M1.5. What you are forbidden to to is to fly it at such speeds except in special M+ corridors, of out past the 12 mile limit off the coast, IE International waters
Yeah, but on the other hand, the only way my wife's going to have an orgasm while in the shower, shampooing her hair is to...well, I can't say that on a public forum, but you know what I mean. Should we sue the makers of Herbal Esscances?
So, what you are telling us is that if we show it in a commercial, we have to make available. Air freshiners have to actually turn your livingroom into a field of flowers on a bright sunny day? That if I use this soap, I'll be magically transported to Ireland to suds up under a waterfall? That if I buy these gortty tires, a little thing will come out of the ground and ask my what kind of road I want to drive on?
NO! Get real folks, such things don't happen. It's an add gimick. I buy products based on the quality of the item, my need for the item, or the preference for the item. If all things are equal between items, I'll pick the one that has the catchy add.
Example: I was in need of a cooler for to take to the beach. Wal-Mart had three coolerr brands. All were of the same size, all had wheels, all were the same cost, and I knew the quality was equal. What got me to buy the one I did was a little sticker on the cooler. "Think of it as a SUV for bologna sandwiches". I knew that it wasn't really an SUV, but I bought it because the company had a sense of humor. Pepsi had a sense of humor and it's being shoved in thier face by some smart-ass, snot-nosed twerp with friends who have more money than brain cells.
All that Pepsi should have to do is to reimburse the kid for the points that the kid actually bought, not earned. I had 1300 points and didn't use them, but you don't see me suing
I agree with your point, but the woman who sued did have a point that few media sources mentioned.
The woman as a direct result of that coffee's temprature, recieved serious burns to the groin. Had she tried to drink it(even just a sip to test it) she would have had serious burns on her face and lips. Granted she should have found a safer place for beverage, but the coffee was hotter than it should have been.
Actually a better example would be the woman who is suing a keyboard manufacturer for her carpel tunnel, even though the keyboard came with a pamphlet explaining carpel tunnel and how to avoid it.
I would have to agree. In a society that truely does not care about what race a person is, would not have to worry about "keeping a balance". Like Illiad, I don't think of my friends as the "The asian guy", or "The latin girl", or whatever. They are all my friends and I simply don't think about what race they are.
...the fact that when they first started having problems, they blamed it on the linux community, saying that we modified the clients to report more packets completed than actually were for the purpose of getting higher rankings. As a community, we did not do this. Perhaps a few linux users did, but they blamrd the Linuc community as a WHOLE. Till I can get an apology to the Linuc Community from them, no SETI@Home packets will ever pass through my computer.
It is worth the hassle of registering a domain name anymore? There have been cases of Commercial sites sueing owners of.org sites..org, Not-for profit as I was left to believe, so a business could not use such. There have been cybersquatting cases where the business had won...even if the business didn't even exist when the site was put up. It's just not worth it to have a personal webpage anymore unless you do a www.isp_name.com/~username/index.html.
There needs to be three things.
1. Add more site designations..per for personal websites..xxx for porn sites..spam for anysite that is going to be posting unsolicited e-mail (god I'd love to put a.spam filter in my e-mail). Things like that. Names that are seperate from each other, and cannot be crossed.
2. Laws that enforce #1 above. Laws that prevent things like a company who holds a trademark on a word like "Sylvan" from suing a person who has a personal website dedicated to his Role-Playing game based on a setting in a elven or "Sylvan" setting
3. We need to stop companies from putting trademarks on words in the english language. Take AOL for example. They tried to sue for the phrase "You've got mail". How do describe the concept of having mail, without using any of these world You've, got, and mail? Short of "a piece of corispondance has arrived via the postal service for one [insert name here]". Pretty darn awkward isn't it. How long before we can't talk to a neighbor with out having to put a nickle in a jar, per word uttered, and having to send it to the people who hold the trademarks?
Well, that was my two credits worth...let's see, I owe about $15.05
Yeah, but the brain is a neural network. A mass of redundant parallel processing cells. We can survive brain surgery with minimal-zero damage. We can survive having ONE little connection severed. Try doing that to a computer. One little wire gets snicked, and the thing is a paperweight. Till we come up with a Neural Net simiulator, we can't even come close to the brain
Ok, They (whoever they are) probally use more advanced technology for communications. But remember when we get a blip from a star 300Ly away, we are getting the blip as it was 300 years ago. If an advanced race was sitting, Oh...about 40Ly away, they would probally hear good old 50's rock and roll on amplitude modulation. Sure! We're using microwave to satelites and whatever, but that's what they would be hearing.
Whatever advancements they may or may not have, odds are they used radio at some time. After all, look at how we discovered the concept of carrier wave RF signals
The fact that they had a little hiccup and started sendind duplicate packets does not bother me in the least. As you said this is a new program and no program of this scale ever ran right the first time. What chaffes my arse, is the fact that say that they are having problems from the *nix community, I.E.
"I don't want to name names," he said, "But it's fair to say the Unix and Linux crowds are causing most of the headaches. It seems to be the hacker mentality
It does not say that the problems are coming from members in the *nix community, but that it's from the *nix crowds...Blaming us.
1. I volunteered to help, yes. But I'll not stand here and have it said that me and my community are to blame. I give blood, the fact that there has been tainted blood found, make me responsible? Not likely.
2. I "complain", as you put it, so my concerns can be heard by the SETI staff and the world in general. I hope that by voicing my concerns, change can be made.
3. Are we spoofing the results? Or is it a case of the *nix platforms just better at the task than expected?
After all look at these two points. *Nix doesn't have the overhead that Windows9x/NT have. Also, there is no screen saver for *nix, so the machine is not using idle process for drawing. I.E., more idle process for *nix.
They asked for help, we offered help, we got slapped. I guess that this proves the old saying "No good deed goes unpunished"
Young Lady: Are you a dangerous Sith Lord, or just a handsome Jedi who likes to poke around?
Will Smith/Anakin: I believe I'm that second one ma'am.
Cute idea, but he's a bit to rouwdy for a Jedi/Sith. Someone like Han Solo yeah, but not Anakin. God forbid. With him and Queen Amadala...Yoda would say on his death bed. There are thirty more Skywalkers
I wish that the rumors are just that...rumors. I never liked Leo as an actor. To me, the only reason that he does as well as he does is that he makes the young girls wet. I won't say that his acting is bad, but it never did anything for me. Half the time if you were to ask me to name some young male actors, and I don't remember him. I think that George Lucas could find a better choice than him for the older Anakin. I'll still go and see ep2 in the theater, and if done right, I'll probally enjoy it. Hell, he might finally turn out all right in this one. Mark Hamil, the whiny scrawny blond, didn't do to bad in his later years as an actor. Maybe Leo might mature as his boyinh looks start to fail him
Afraid? Who needs to be afraid? If we keep doing what we have been doing and keep striving for perfection, we can not lose. Microsoft has only two tactics that are effective, they are to deny revenue to whatever company "annoys" it, or to spread FUD. Linux is free, and is developed by people who either do this for fun, or are paid by companies who want linux to do somthing that they need, and then pass on that knowledge. And as for the FUD, Microsoft cannot claim that they run a majority of the internet servers in exsistance, Windows cannot claim to be able handle truely fault tolerant situations. Those who really know what they need a network to do, know what Linux can do.
Phoenix.
BTW: as for my "Lock and Load" crack, Ghandi "fought" his battles. He used passive resistance, but he fought. That is what I meant. The battle we'll fight is one of better code, efficient applications, no mud-slinging, and a cuter mascot.
Ghando is quoted as saying "First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win". This has beed adopted by many Linux people out in the world.
First we were ignored by microsoft. "After all what could free software do that MS couldn't do better?" Then we were laughed at. "The hype will die down, It won't last". Now, they are strapping on thier gear and suiting up for battle. They have us right where we want them. This is it boys and girls...
Thanks to this ruling, the courts have effectivly KILLED the search engine. Because of this ruling, if I wanted to put up a fan page for Star Trek (perhaps even being a member of an official fan club), I could be sued for using Star Trek in the meta tags. If I was setting up a collectors page for the Dodge Shadow (which a friend of mine has) I could not use "Dodge", "Shadow", or "Chrysler". Without the ability to have descriptive words in the meta tags, you have totally screwed up the search engines ability to guide you to a revelant page.
To use the analogy they gave, The courts solution to "mislabeled signs" seems to be remove the signs all together. Now, neither Blockbuster nor West Coast Video get any business because with out the signs, the driver just keeps on driving.
Whatever happened to "Fair Use Laws"?
Phoenix
If God didn't want us to eat animals, why did he make them out of meat?
I got tired at looking at my full tower case one day. Grabbed some blue paint (my favorite color). Removed the cover and the front plate and painted it. Then someone pointed out to me that from the side, it's the right shape and color to have the markings of the Tardis painted on the side.
Gets me thinking
Now all I have to do is find a 12v blinking light for the top
But seriously. If one has just a bit of creativity or atleast some of the kits out there...do it yourself and save the money for SDRAM. They have stone textured paint out there, Marble kits, you name it. Besides, You have a better chance of convincing your SO to let you keep a computer in every room of the house if you can convince her that it will match the decor
Aye! I'm starting to offer dual boot windows/linux systems as an option to my customers. Most people are afraid to take the plunge into Linux cold turkey. At least with the dual boot, they can go back into windows when they need to surround themselves with the familiar. One such person I helped go dual boot has been spending more time in the Linux side than the Windows side...and she really doesn't know all that much about computers. She knows how to install from source, she can make config changes.
Basicly, Linux may not be for the masses yet, but if a novice can learn it with the help of a "Linux for Dummies" book, then that goal can't be far behind
Good point...just look at all those people who didn't switch to win95 when it came out. People don't like to change their computer systems. Heck! If people were more willing to keep abreast with tech, we wouldn't have this stupid y2k mess
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2300 hours EDT? I'm ususlly running a game around then...Could you make it 2330 hours? We usually wind down by then
Granted, the part of one car has little chance of working in another car, but once you learned to fix the engine of a Dodge Neon, you have a working knowledge of how to repair the engine of a Nissan Sentra. Both have the same TYPE of parts, though the parts are different. The only real oddball out there is the Mazda RX-7 with thier Wankel Rotary Engine...totally different beast. The OS Situation is a lot like that. You have different flavors of *nix. You learned one, you can probally muddle your way through the others with a bit of time and a 'ell of a lot of man pages. Microsoft is like the Wankel engine, Totally different. The difference between the Auto and the OS, is this...
Call Mazda and ask for instructions on how to fix the engine. You can get from Mazda: Part Descriptions Part Specfications Placement of the parts how to remove the parts how to replace/repair the parts Specs on how the engine functions places to go for repair if you really @#$% it up damn near everything you need to build the damn thing
Ask Microsoft for similar help and you get Code?...nope. Application hooks for optimial program function?...not the last time I checked. How Windows runs?...not likely. Help when it @#$%s up?...they tell you to reinstall.
There was a joke spreading through E-Mail that you probally read called Car95...that explains the attitude about Microsoft
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I hate to tell you, but there is a lot of energy poured in to Linux's development. Most of the merchandising is taken care of by people whose job it is to sell the mascot. That and the other point...the logo is there as fun. I know not why our mascot is a penguin, but it is fun. If we spent all our time on the actual Linux, leaving no creative outlet, all coders would go insane. Might as well say "Nope! no game support for Linux, those coders need to slave away." or, "They want to play paintball and have a guiness with their friends?!? What do they think they are for christsake? People with families? tell them to shut up and lock the door on them."
We need to have fun sometimes, and if it's not the Kernel, it's the penguin.
These people and other animal rights activists have got to be the single most unintelligent bunch of people I have ever had the misfortune to encounter in my life. Example:
1. There was once a captive, record sized lobster on display at a resturant. Now mind you, this lobster's only fate was to be a well fed display piece at this resturant, he was in NO danger of being eaten. Some group broke in and tried to "save" this poor chap. In the process, they managed to break off a claw off this poor creature. To compound this lobster's misery, they forgot to remove the rubber band that they put on the lobster's other claw. So now we have a "saved" lobster with no means of defending itself till such time as it molts and grows his new claw. Given the poor creature's age, this will be a long time and he'll probally be eaten LONG before that happy day.
2. A group claims a victory in saving deer moose and elk. This really frosts me because it was nature that saved the project...not them. The plan was to move a population of each to an island in the great lakes. This island had no predators and no hunting was allowed. Much to my complete lack of surprise, they multiplied to numbers that the island could not sustain and the population was doomed to a long and slow starvation. In steps Mother Nature to the bat. A really cold winter causes the ice to freeze fron the mainland to the shore. Something that rarely occurs given the distance involved. Over this ice, a pack of really hungry wolves schleps over to this island looking for food and walks into paradise. A few years after that, there is now a healthy and managed population of deer, moose, elk AND wolf living in balance. Andthe animal rights groups say that thier project was a sucess. It was, but no thanks to the moron patrol.
If these birds were performers in the Batman movie, then they are in no stress. I wish I lived life as good as one of those birds.
Note: You aren't forbidden to own a private plane capable of M1.0+ speeds, there is a plane retailing for about .5 million that can hit M1.5. What you are forbidden to to is to fly it at such speeds except in special M+ corridors, of out past the 12 mile limit off the coast, IE International waters
Yeah, but on the other hand, the only way my wife's going to have an orgasm while in the shower, shampooing her hair is to...well, I can't say that on a public forum, but you know what I mean. Should we sue the makers of Herbal Esscances?
So, what you are telling us is that if we show it in a commercial, we have to make available. Air freshiners have to actually turn your livingroom into a field of flowers on a bright sunny day? That if I use this soap, I'll be magically transported to Ireland to suds up under a waterfall? That if I buy these gortty tires, a little thing will come out of the ground and ask my what kind of road I want to drive on?
NO! Get real folks, such things don't happen. It's an add gimick. I buy products based on the quality of the item, my need for the item, or the preference for the item. If all things are equal between items, I'll pick the one that has the catchy add.
Example: I was in need of a cooler for to take to the beach. Wal-Mart had three coolerr brands. All were of the same size, all had wheels, all were the same cost, and I knew the quality was equal. What got me to buy the one I did was a little sticker on the cooler. "Think of it as a SUV for bologna sandwiches". I knew that it wasn't really an SUV, but I bought it because the company had a sense of humor. Pepsi had a sense of humor and it's being shoved in thier face by some smart-ass, snot-nosed twerp with friends who have more money than brain cells.
All that Pepsi should have to do is to reimburse the kid for the points that the kid actually bought, not earned. I had 1300 points and didn't use them, but you don't see me suing
I agree with your point, but the woman who sued did have a point that few media sources mentioned.
The woman as a direct result of that coffee's temprature, recieved serious burns to the groin. Had she tried to drink it(even just a sip to test it) she would have had serious burns on her face and lips. Granted she should have found a safer place for beverage, but the coffee was hotter than it should have been.
Actually a better example would be the woman who is suing a keyboard manufacturer for her carpel tunnel, even though the keyboard came with a pamphlet explaining carpel tunnel and how to avoid it.
I would have to agree. In a society that truely does not care about what race a person is, would not have to worry about "keeping a balance". Like Illiad, I don't think of my friends as the "The asian guy", or "The latin girl", or whatever. They are all my friends and I simply don't think about what race they are.
...the fact that when they first started having problems, they blamed it on the linux community, saying that we modified the clients to report more packets completed than actually were for the purpose of getting higher rankings. As a community, we did not do this. Perhaps a few linux users did, but they blamrd the Linuc community as a WHOLE. Till I can get an apology to the Linuc Community from them, no SETI@Home packets will ever pass through my computer.
Well, if this is a true finding, then it would explain why computer geeks like us haven't contracted Eye Cancer or something
It is worth the hassle of registering a domain name anymore? There have been cases of Commercial sites sueing owners of .org sites. .org, Not-for profit as I was left to believe, so a business could not use such. There have been cybersquatting cases where the business had won...even if the business didn't even exist when the site was put up. It's just not worth it to have a personal webpage anymore unless you do a www.isp_name.com/~username/index.html.
.per for personal websites. .xxx for porn sites. .spam for anysite that is going to be posting unsolicited e-mail (god I'd love to put a .spam filter in my e-mail). Things like that. Names that are seperate from each other, and cannot be crossed.
There needs to be three things.
1. Add more site designations.
2. Laws that enforce #1 above. Laws that prevent things like a company who holds a trademark on a word like "Sylvan" from suing a person who has a personal website dedicated to his Role-Playing game based on a setting in a elven or "Sylvan" setting
3. We need to stop companies from putting trademarks on words in the english language. Take AOL for example. They tried to sue for the phrase "You've got mail". How do describe the concept of having mail, without using any of these world You've, got, and mail? Short of "a piece of corispondance has arrived via the postal service for one [insert name here]". Pretty darn awkward isn't it. How long before we can't talk to a neighbor with out having to put a nickle in a jar, per word uttered, and having to send it to the people who hold the trademarks?
Well, that was my two credits worth...let's see, I owe about $15.05
Yeah, but the brain is a neural network. A mass of redundant parallel processing cells. We can survive brain surgery with minimal-zero damage. We can survive having ONE little connection severed. Try doing that to a computer. One little wire gets snicked, and the thing is a paperweight. Till we come up with a Neural Net simiulator, we can't even come close to the brain
Ok, They (whoever they are) probally use more advanced technology for communications. But remember when we get a blip from a star 300Ly away, we are getting the blip as it was 300 years ago. If an advanced race was sitting, Oh...about 40Ly away, they would probally hear good old 50's rock and roll on amplitude modulation. Sure! We're using microwave to satelites and whatever, but that's what they would be hearing.
Whatever advancements they may or may not have, odds are they used radio at some time. After all, look at how we discovered the concept of carrier wave RF signals
The fact that they had a little hiccup and started sendind duplicate packets does not bother me in the least. As you said this is a new program and no program of this scale ever ran right the first time. What chaffes my arse, is the fact that say that they are having problems from the *nix community, I.E.
"I don't want to name names," he said,
"But it's fair to say the Unix and Linux
crowds are causing most of the
headaches. It seems to be the hacker
mentality
It does not say that the problems are coming from members in the *nix community, but that it's from the *nix crowds...Blaming us.
1. I volunteered to help, yes. But I'll not stand here and have it said that me and my community are to blame. I give blood, the fact that there has been tainted blood found, make me responsible? Not likely.
2. I "complain", as you put it, so my concerns can be heard by the SETI staff and the world in general. I hope that by voicing my concerns, change can be made.
3. Are we spoofing the results? Or is it a case of the *nix platforms just better at the task than expected?
After all look at these two points. *Nix doesn't have the overhead that Windows9x/NT have. Also, there is no screen saver for *nix, so the machine is not using idle process for drawing. I.E., more idle process for *nix.
They asked for help, we offered help, we got slapped. I guess that this proves the old saying "No good deed goes unpunished"
Young Lady: Are you a dangerous Sith Lord, or just a handsome Jedi who likes to poke around?
Will Smith/Anakin: I believe I'm that second one ma'am.
Cute idea, but he's a bit to rouwdy for a Jedi/Sith. Someone like Han Solo yeah, but not Anakin. God forbid. With him and Queen Amadala...Yoda would say on his death bed. There are thirty more Skywalkers
I wish that the rumors are just that...rumors. I never liked Leo as an actor. To me, the only reason that he does as well as he does is that he makes the young girls wet. I won't say that his acting is bad, but it never did anything for me. Half the time if you were to ask me to name some young male actors, and I don't remember him. I think that George Lucas could find a better choice than him for the older Anakin. I'll still go and see ep2 in the theater, and if done right, I'll probally enjoy it. Hell, he might finally turn out all right in this one. Mark Hamil, the whiny scrawny blond, didn't do to bad in his later years as an actor. Maybe Leo might mature as his boyinh looks start to fail him
Afraid? Who needs to be afraid? If we keep doing what we have been doing and keep striving for perfection, we can not lose. Microsoft has only two tactics that are effective, they are to deny revenue to whatever company "annoys" it, or to spread FUD. Linux is free, and is developed by people who either do this for fun, or are paid by companies who want linux to do somthing that they need, and then pass on that knowledge. And as for the FUD, Microsoft cannot claim that they run a majority of the internet servers in exsistance, Windows cannot claim to be able handle truely fault tolerant situations. Those who really know what they need a network to do, know what Linux can do.
Phoenix.
BTW: as for my "Lock and Load" crack, Ghandi "fought" his battles. He used passive resistance, but he fought. That is what I meant. The battle we'll fight is one of better code, efficient applications, no mud-slinging, and a cuter mascot.
Ghando is quoted as saying "First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win". This has beed adopted by many Linux people out in the world.
First we were ignored by microsoft. "After all what could free software do that MS couldn't do better?" Then we were laughed at. "The hype will die down, It won't last". Now, they are strapping on thier gear and suiting up for battle. They have us right where we want them. This is it boys and girls...
Saddle up, Lock and Load
Thanks to this ruling, the courts have effectivly KILLED the search engine. Because of this ruling, if I wanted to put up a fan page for Star Trek (perhaps even being a member of an official fan club), I could be sued for using Star Trek in the meta tags. If I was setting up a collectors page for the Dodge Shadow (which a friend of mine has) I could not use "Dodge", "Shadow", or "Chrysler". Without the ability to have descriptive words in the meta tags, you have totally screwed up the search engines ability to guide you to a revelant page.
To use the analogy they gave, The courts solution to "mislabeled signs" seems to be remove the signs all together. Now, neither Blockbuster nor West Coast Video get any business because with out the signs, the driver just keeps on driving.
Whatever happened to "Fair Use Laws"?
Phoenix
If God didn't want us to eat animals, why did he make them out of meat?
I got tired at looking at my full tower case one day. Grabbed some blue paint (my favorite color). Removed the cover and the front plate and painted it. Then someone pointed out to me that from the side, it's the right shape and color to have the markings of the Tardis painted on the side.
Gets me thinking
Now all I have to do is find a 12v blinking light for the top
But seriously. If one has just a bit of creativity or atleast some of the kits out there...do it yourself and save the money for SDRAM. They have stone textured paint out there, Marble kits, you name it. Besides, You have a better chance of convincing your SO to let you keep a computer in every room of the house if you can convince her that it will match the decor
Aye! I'm starting to offer dual boot windows/linux systems as an option to my customers. Most people are afraid to take the plunge into Linux cold turkey. At least with the dual boot, they can go back into windows when they need to surround themselves with the familiar. One such person I helped go dual boot has been spending more time in the Linux side than the Windows side...and she really doesn't know all that much about computers. She knows how to install from source, she can make config changes.
Basicly, Linux may not be for the masses yet, but if a novice can learn it with the help of a "Linux for Dummies" book, then that goal can't be far behind
Good point...just look at all those people who didn't switch to win95 when it came out. People don't like to change their computer systems. Heck! If people were more willing to keep abreast with tech, we wouldn't have this stupid y2k mess
2300 hours EDT? I'm ususlly running a game around then...Could you make it 2330 hours? We usually wind down by then
Hell Linux works on some macs...Why not a Three-way with Mrs Mac and Lucy Linux.
Damn! Now I need a cold shower too. So much for conserving water
Granted, the part of one car has little chance of working in another car, but once you learned to fix the engine of a Dodge Neon, you have a working knowledge of how to repair the engine of a Nissan Sentra. Both have the same TYPE of parts, though the parts are different. The only real oddball out there is the Mazda RX-7 with thier Wankel Rotary Engine...totally different beast. The OS Situation is a lot like that. You have different flavors of *nix. You learned one, you can probally muddle your way through the others with a bit of time and a 'ell of a lot of man pages. Microsoft is like the Wankel engine, Totally different. The difference between the Auto and the OS, is this...
Call Mazda and ask for instructions on how to fix the engine. You can get from Mazda:
Part Descriptions
Part Specfications
Placement of the parts
how to remove the parts
how to replace/repair the parts
Specs on how the engine functions
places to go for repair if you really @#$% it up
damn near everything you need to build the damn thing
Ask Microsoft for similar help and you get
Code?...nope.
Application hooks for optimial program function?...not the last time I checked.
How Windows runs?...not likely.
Help when it @#$%s up?...they tell you to reinstall.
There was a joke spreading through E-Mail that you probally read called Car95...that explains the attitude about Microsoft
My Two Coppers
Phoenix
Darnit...with now thousands of geeks scouring RedHat, clogging the site with the dreaded /. effect, How the smeg am I going to get the latest updates?
;-)
Phoenix