Last time I checked, one needed a licence to broadcast on the FM frequencies.
Exactly. And it's not that the FCC likes to go after the pirate stations, TFA stated that FCC is complaint-driven, i.e. licensed stations are being pushed off the airwaves. Not polite.
The pirates should fight for a "pirate" range in the FM spectrum where unlicensed transmitters van freely broadcast. Problem solved.
It's bliss. I use the odd-numbered versions. FC1, 3, and now 5. I will skip 6, and when 7 is there, I'll "yum upgrade" again. I haven't encountered a single problem yet, besides some new filesystem layouts for the odd package (Mailman springs to mind).
Good luck with Ubuntu and chrooting your nameserver. I hope it's as simple as "apt get bind-chroot";-)
If you want only a PDF or PS viewer, then try something like Ghostscript/GSView, or xpdf. Even the display program of ImageMagick might be suitable for your needs. Unlike evince (and much other GNOME software), those programs follow the UNIX tradition of doing one task, and doing that one task well.
You're right: gv and xpdf are designed to do one thing, but they also follow the UNIX tradition of not following User Interface Guidelines, working together with other programs, and being a butt-ugly looker.
Evince is not bloated. It's part of a larger system: GNOME. It supports GNOME drag-n-drop, shares the same widgets, etc. You can't blame Evince for being part of GNOME just as you can't blame xpdf for depending on X.
I agree. I prefer Gentoo and FBSD to Unbuntu and FC because you can choose what parts of the program you want to enable at compile time. Unfortunately, there is compile time.
If you install binary packages for *any* system, you have that problem.
If you have the knowledge to tweak compile options on a FreeBSD machine, you're probably just as comfortable editing the.spec file of a source rpm and rebuilding it to get rid of those pesky dependencies.
OTOH I agree with the parent post as well. It's impossible (sort of) to install/run Fedora without CUPS or X.
That's the common reply: "if its buggy, fix it yourself". The common reply to that is:"it's as if i go to that fancy restaurant with my new date where i'm told to go straight to the kitchen and prepare my diner by myself".
I'll gladly cook my own dinner in a restaurant if the food is free:)
This will neither break existing (well-designed) readers, nor be 'evil'. In fact, it seems like a good idea. I'll only use it in the workplace, where it belongs, mind.
Seems to me that if you want to mutually sync your RSS items, you should do that only with trusted feeds over a trusted channel anyway.
This spec doesn't reinvent calendar or contact-list wheels.
If you bothered to read the specs, this extension adds simple synchronisation logic for two or more feeds with OPML / RSS items, no more, no less. It does not define a transport protocol, it doesn't have to do anything with the content enclosed in the RSS items.
The only re-inventors of the wheel are people that use this extention to create aplications that use this specification to SSE-sync embedded vCard or iCalendal-like items.
My iBook 700Mhz/256MB is slow as thick shit through a funnel. As long as I'm only using Firefox and Terminal.app it's ok, but why the hell did it ship with iMovie? That's so unusable with anything less than 1GB of memory.
If you use a newspaper, it's a publication directly from the source.
A more correct analogy would be: I'm using a scan of a paper document (on top of that: a scan made by someone else), which is the only available copy known.. Who is to decide that that scan was not tampered with, and is indeed a verbatim copy of the original?
Article 18. Everyone has the right to freedom of thought, conscience and religion; [..]
Article 19. Everyone has the right to freedom of opinion and expression; [..]
Article 26. (1) Everyone has the right to education. [...]
Article 27. (1) Everyone has the right freely to participate in the cultural life of the community, [...]
As long as the people in China realise that what they are seeing on their network is not the unfilterd Internet we see here in the west, there is absolutely no violation of the rights you mentioned.
Furthermore, China is a country where there is no absolute freedom of information. Ok, that sucks, but that's the way it is. Luckily, most other countries feel differently.
Maybe in the future, China will change. But it's up to them to make that change, not up to "us", or whatever other country.
"Isn't there some sort of government body in the US that regulates stuff like this??"
I think "no" is the answer.
And that's why there are no game companies in the Netherlands (where working laws exist), and that's why production for companies like Nike are based in 3rd world countries (where there is even less regulation).
>The answer to your problems is simple. Compile from source.
rpm --rebuild
> Sure it takes longer to build a program than it does to install it. But it ain't much harder (./configure; make; make install). And you get to be 100% in control.
vi package.spec
rpm -ba package.spec
There are loads of advantages to rpm. If that makes me anally retentive, so be it. That's not a bad quality if you're a sysadmin.
For your machines at home, please do as you see fit. For machines that need to be administrated, rpm is my choice, and I have the feeling I have more control than them compile-from-source people.
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..and they expect that of windows systems? Bwuhaha.
> Here's the fact - YOU CAN'T
> MAKE MONEY FROM LINUX!
SuSE is making money.
Red Hat is going to be profitable by the end of this year.
There's a lot of consultants around implementing Linux Solutions. They make money.
Yes, it's difficult making money selling gratis software, so you should focus on selling added value.
> Linux is by hackers for hackers remember?
No. Linux is fun for hackers. It's fun to hack, but it's also working. That means it's out there to get a job done.
To stay on topic: Applix is used to get a job done: producing documents. Unfortunately for Applix, there's a lot of Free alternatives, so they have to focus on selling added value.
[about simulated murder vs. simulated child porn]:
>The former does not seem dangerous to me. The latter is sick.
What is sick? To me Nazi Propaganda is sick. That's legal (in the US). Ok, murder is less sick than kiddie porn (is it?), but that's not up to me or you to decide. The law should be consistent, because otherwise people get uncomfortable. And go on a shooting spree or something.
Yes, Suse makes money, but their business model is very different from Red Hat's.
Suse targets the desktop market, Red Hat the server market
Suse CD's as sold in the boxed version can't be copied legally. Red Hat CDs _can_.
Suse's emphasis is on selling boxes. Red Hat wants to play with the Dells and Ericcsons to brand themselves into the Enterprise markets.
I hesitate to say whether all Suse code qualifies as Free Software or open Source, because I'm not sure. I think their installer isn't, and I'm not sure about YAST (their configuration tool). I know for sure that all Red Hat code _is_ GPL.
Anyway, I don't want to start a distro-war here, but I'm merely saying Suse doesn't have the same business model as Red Hat. --
I'm realy sick and tired of people jugding Linux distributions by the ease of install.
True, most people don't get a working Linux OS on their machines, so they have to get through it. But really, how many times do you install a Linux system?
A book called 'Linux for Dummies' should begin with: look at the Linux distributions you know, look at their HCL, if your hardware maches the specs: BUY. Then, follow the installation manual and start reading this book.
No (I repeat _NO_) Linux for dummies book should waste valuable trees on installation. Of all distributions that come in boxes I know, I encountered none with bad installation manuals (SuSE, Red Hat, Mandrake).
Now a book that tells you how to _use_ Linux, how to get used to sometimes actually have to _type_ commands, a book that explains there are choices in how your OS looks, that's a book I'm going to recommend to my friends.
It should start with: read the {Gnome,KDE} users guide, then do... (insert chapters here).
All of the above applies to desktop users. There should also be a Linux Server for dummies book as well. LCSE certification Vol. 1.:-)
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Last time I checked, one needed a licence to broadcast on the FM frequencies.
Exactly. And it's not that the FCC likes to go after the pirate stations, TFA stated that FCC is complaint-driven, i.e. licensed stations are being pushed off the airwaves. Not polite.
The pirates should fight for a "pirate" range in the FM spectrum where unlicensed transmitters van freely broadcast. Problem solved.
yum takes the "upgrade" flag.
;-)
It's bliss. I use the odd-numbered versions. FC1, 3, and now 5. I will skip 6, and when 7 is there, I'll "yum upgrade" again. I haven't encountered a single problem yet, besides some new filesystem layouts for the odd package (Mailman springs to mind).
Good luck with Ubuntu and chrooting your nameserver. I hope it's as simple as "apt get bind-chroot"
There is always more people interested in, for example, bombs, than there are bombers.
And then there are the clever bombers. The dangerous ones, that don't use Google or Ebay.
If you want only a PDF or PS viewer, then try something like Ghostscript/GSView, or xpdf. Even the display program of ImageMagick might be suitable for your needs. Unlike evince (and much other GNOME software), those programs follow the UNIX tradition of doing one task, and doing that one task well.
You're right: gv and xpdf are designed to do one thing, but they also follow the UNIX tradition of not following User Interface Guidelines, working together with other programs, and being a butt-ugly looker.
Evince is not bloated. It's part of a larger system: GNOME. It supports GNOME drag-n-drop, shares the same widgets, etc. You can't blame Evince for being part of GNOME just as you can't blame xpdf for depending on X.
I agree. I prefer Gentoo and FBSD to Unbuntu and FC because you can choose what parts of the program you want to enable at compile time. Unfortunately, there is compile time.
.spec file of a source rpm and rebuilding it to get rid of those pesky dependencies.
If you install binary packages for *any* system, you have that problem.
If you have the knowledge to tweak compile options on a FreeBSD machine, you're probably just as comfortable editing the
OTOH I agree with the parent post as well. It's impossible (sort of) to install/run Fedora without CUPS or X.
Can I use Yahoo or MSN messengers through a webpage?
Yes:
http://webmessenger.msn.com/
Doesn't that sort of ruin the value of the land?
It may decrease the monetary value, or market price, but it'll certainly increase the value it has for the people.
And remember we're talking about large streches of land, not a backyard.
I can't understand why you would buy land, then have to cater to "everyone else's enjoyment" of it.
Well, it is land, and ultimately, land is "owned" by the government, so they can set the rules. I think that's fair; after all Finland is a democracy.
That's the common reply: "if its buggy, fix it yourself". The common reply to that is :"it's as if i go to that fancy restaurant with my new date where i'm told to go straight to the kitchen and prepare my diner by myself".
:)
I'll gladly cook my own dinner in a restaurant if the food is free
This will neither break existing (well-designed) readers, nor be 'evil'. In fact, it seems like a good idea. I'll only use it in the workplace, where it belongs, mind.
Seems to me that if you want to mutually sync your RSS items, you should do that only with trusted feeds over a trusted channel anyway.
This spec doesn't reinvent calendar or contact-list wheels.
If you bothered to read the specs, this extension adds simple synchronisation logic for two or more feeds with OPML / RSS items, no more, no less. It does not define a transport protocol, it doesn't have to do anything with the content enclosed in the RSS items.
The only re-inventors of the wheel are people that use this extention to create aplications that use this specification to SSE-sync embedded vCard or iCalendal-like items.
Amen!
My iBook 700Mhz/256MB is slow as thick shit through a funnel. As long as I'm only using Firefox and Terminal.app it's ok, but why the hell did it ship with iMovie? That's so unusable with anything less than 1GB of memory.
How is my workstation behind a NAT with address 192.168.0.10 vulnerable to the internet? Firewall or not, it's not routable from outside.
Your NAT box has a public IP address, so your workstation can be reached through your NAT box.
If you say: "..but my NAT box blocks that traffic!" then it's not a 1-on-1 NAT box, but also a form of a traffic blocking firewall.
If you use a newspaper, it's a publication directly from the source.
A more correct analogy would be: I'm using a scan of a paper document (on top of that: a scan made by someone else), which is the only available copy known..
Who is to decide that that scan was not tampered with, and is indeed a verbatim copy of the original?
n general, filtering the Web violates:
Article 18.
Everyone has the right to freedom of thought, conscience and religion; [..]
Article 19.
Everyone has the right to freedom of opinion and expression; [..]
Article 26.
(1) Everyone has the right to education. [...]
Article 27.
(1) Everyone has the right freely to participate in the cultural life of the community, [...]
As long as the people in China realise that what they are seeing on their network is not the unfilterd Internet we see here in the west, there is absolutely no violation of the rights you mentioned.
Furthermore, China is a country where there is no absolute freedom of information. Ok, that sucks, but that's the way it is. Luckily, most other countries feel differently.
Maybe in the future, China will change. But it's up to them to make that change, not up to "us", or whatever other country.
Ahh.. shell hell..
/bin/sh (actually bash)
/bin/sh
/bin/sh:
Do you know your operators? The following code should produce an error. But it doesn't always:
Linux:
$ if [ foo == foo ] ; then echo yes ; fi
yes
FreeBSD:
$ if [ foo == foo ] ; then echo yes ; fi
[: foo: unexpected operator
Solaris
$ if [ foo == foo ] ; then echo yes ; fi
test: unknown operator ==
ksh behaves like bash (prints "yes"). zsh behaves like this:
% if [ foo == foo ] ; then echo yes ; fi
zsh: = not found
"Isn't there some sort of government body in the US that regulates stuff like this??"
I think "no" is the answer.
And that's why there are no game companies in the Netherlands (where working laws exist), and that's why production for companies like Nike are based in 3rd world countries (where there is even less regulation).
>We're self aware, what so special about dumb animals?
They help us exist. Like dumb plants and stupid soil and ignorant air.
>The answer to your problems is simple. Compile from source.
rpm --rebuild
> Sure it takes longer to build a program than it does to install it. But it ain't much harder (./configure; make; make install). And you get to be 100% in control.
vi package.spec
rpm -ba package.spec
There are loads of advantages to rpm. If that makes me anally retentive, so be it. That's not a bad quality if you're a sysadmin.
For your machines at home, please do as you see fit. For machines that need to be administrated, rpm is my choice, and I have the feeling I have more control than them compile-from-source people.
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..and they expect that of windows systems? Bwuhaha.
(sorry, couldn't resist)
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> Here's the fact - YOU CAN'T
> MAKE MONEY FROM LINUX!
SuSE is making money.
Red Hat is going to be profitable by the end of this year.
There's a lot of consultants around implementing Linux Solutions. They make money.
Yes, it's difficult making money selling gratis software, so you should focus on selling added value.
> Linux is by hackers for hackers remember?
No. Linux is fun for hackers. It's fun to hack, but it's also working. That means it's out there to get a job done.
To stay on topic: Applix is used to get a job done: producing documents. Unfortunately for Applix, there's a lot of Free alternatives, so they have to focus on selling added value.
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[about simulated murder vs. simulated child porn]:
>The former does not seem dangerous to me. The latter is sick.
What is sick? To me Nazi Propaganda is sick. That's legal (in the US). Ok, murder is less sick than kiddie porn (is it?), but that's not up to me or you to decide. The law should be consistent, because otherwise people get uncomfortable. And go on a shooting spree or something.
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Yes, Suse makes money, but their business model is very different from Red Hat's.
I hesitate to say whether all Suse code qualifies as Free Software or open Source, because I'm not sure. I think their installer isn't, and I'm not sure about YAST (their configuration tool). I know for sure that all Red Hat code _is_ GPL.
Anyway, I don't want to start a distro-war here, but I'm merely saying Suse doesn't have the same business model as Red Hat.
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True, most people don't get a working Linux OS on their machines, so they have to get through it. But really, how many times do you install a Linux system?
A book called 'Linux for Dummies' should begin with: look at the Linux distributions you know, look at their HCL, if your hardware maches the specs: BUY. Then, follow the installation manual and start reading this book.
No (I repeat _NO_) Linux for dummies book should waste valuable trees on installation. Of all distributions that come in boxes I know, I encountered none with bad installation manuals (SuSE, Red Hat, Mandrake).
Now a book that tells you how to _use_ Linux, how to get used to sometimes actually have to _type_ commands, a book that explains there are choices in how your OS looks, that's a book I'm going to recommend to my friends.
It should start with: read the {Gnome,KDE} users guide, then do
All of the above applies to desktop users. There should also be a Linux Server for dummies book as well. LCSE certification Vol. 1.
Yay.
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