Except that gaim had miserable Jabber support last I looked a few months back, about as bare and iChat's. Check out Pandion for Windows, or Gajim for Linux/Windows/OSX and you'll probably be happier if you're in a pure-jabber environment. Jive Messanger makes a nice internal Jabber server without the explitatives usually required for jabberd 1.4.
- rustytaco
I think it is a safe assumption, however, that unbalancing a natural system (as we are - burning coal and oil is messing with and unbalancing the carbon cycle) can have unpredictable results
There's that famously flawed premise almost all "greenies" wave around: the earth is a balanced, stable system. It isn't, it's a huge, rolling, twisting, mangled cluster@#$@ that just happened to be keeping you alive at the moment. I agree with you that a stragegy of minimum impact is a good way forward but not because we're damaging a fragile system but because we don't know how hard the system will shove back if we push it.
Who needs a bag? I just grab my 4 year old iBook and go. Why would I need to carry around any other crap other than rarely pocketing the power adapter if I'm going to be using it a lot before I get home.
Which is why the drivers go INTO the kernel.org tarball and magically "Just work(tm)" without having to guess where $COMPANYNAME is hiding them on their website, if they're still in business, or what sort of blood oaths they want to you sign before they let you see them. That also means when people go through and do general enhancements to the kernel and driver interfaces your drivers get the help too, such as all the sysfs work in late 2.5/2.6 making the whole system more discoverable and giving more information to userspace to do smart things with.
Something VERY useful I found for dealing with stupid Windows stuff: http://chitchat.at.infoseek.co.jp/vmware/vfd.html It's a virtual floppy disk drive for Windows so you can take your retarded compressed floppy images (or Ghost's boot disk wizard) and have it go directly to an image file without having to find a working floppy drive and disk.
This sounds a lot like the troubles I've had with QWest. At least BT could tell him if he was eligable consistantly, Qwest couldn't keep their systems up to tell me if I was eligable, or the status of my order.
Well how else are you going to keep the AC running full blast unless you have a big, gas guzzling engine to power it?
- RustyTaco
Tabs arn't just for multitasking.
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Sure they're great for keeping a bunch of different stuff quickly accessable but tabs are also invaluable for dealing with things one at a time. When I read a news site (TheRegister, cnn, slashdot) I always skim down and pick out the interesting looking headlines and open them in new tabs. When I hit the bottom I close the main page and read through the articles one at a time. No going back and forth, losing your place, skipping over something interesting because you had to rescan the crap laden front page (CNN), just middle-click click click, done.
- RustyTaco
North Korea is openly hostile, and actually HAS missiles that can hit the US. Why didn't we invade North Korea first?
Ah, that old dodge, one of the more entertaining ways to dance around the question, I'll grant you. It basically boils down to "A" was wrong because I think "B" should have been a higher priority, completely dancing around the issue of "A", and "B" for that matter, and instead focusing on a external matter of queueing.
2) Businesses DO care about big, bulky ugly crap, especially small businesses. Office space if a very valuable comodity. The less space the equipment sucks up the more room you have to work, or to shove other people into the space. At this office I have room for two 19" monitors and still have room to work on systems. At my other office I have a single 21" monitor (God I love 2048x1536) that doesn't leave me much room to do more than shuffle a few papers on my desk. Same for everyone else in the office, good screens but it makes finding room to work on systems challenging and we spend too much time shifting things around to find room.
4) I don't want that crappy printer;)
5-7) Repeat after me, a Dimension or Optiplex is not in the same class as a G5 Tower. The Dell Precisions are in that "workstation" class, with tons of RAM capacity and fat IO capabilities, but the Dimensions & Optiplexes are "desktops" made for light work like Word and pr0n browsing. Granted they are excessive for most tasks, but it's still not a heavy workstation. The iMacs & eMacs are closer to the "desktop" space, but still off to the side a bit.
Hey! Don't knock the polycarbonate, it's indistructable and takes a lot of abuse. My 3 year old iBook has never seen the inside of a case, I carry it around by itself. I don't even both with the power brick most of the time. Sure, it's scuffed and scratched all to hell and it's not as while as it used to be but everything works flawlessly.
The 12" PowerBooks are noticably smaller too, I just got one for work. It doesn't look that much smaller but as soon as you pick it up and carry it around you instantly appreciate the little bit of extra thinness that the aluminum allows.
I can't help you with your trackpoint fetish (I can't stand them myself, having used too many crappy worn out ones I guess) but the new iBooks top out at 1.25G (1G SODIMM, 256M soldered on).
I'm still waiting for some sort of solution to making the airport extremes work under Linux, then I'll upgrade my old 500Mhz G3.
Lex Systems makes some nice Mini-ITX systems that might be right up your alley, of you can get past the horrors of their flash-based site. I bought a Light system from them a couple months ago with a fanless C3 533, threw a CF card in and installed Bering uClibc on it. Now I have a silent linux based firewall with an internal ADSL interface with enough oomph to run a few IPSEC tunnels and do some nifty firewall tricks. Best of all, since I installed that firewall and turned off the desktop system I never used the noisiest thing in my apartment is the 3 year old harddrive in my iBook, and with Laptop-mode even that isn't spinning most of the time. Silence is golden!
I've had a fanned 800Mhz C3 Light system running as a 3 port firewall at work for over a year now and it works great. A friend of mine has several of them scattered around town as NAT/DHCP/IPSEC appliances for the different branches of the company he works for. Never had a problem with the systems, only the DSL lines their connected to.
If the goal is to have an OS/distro that will compete with Windows and OSX, then the OS/distro will have to accommodate the millions (or Billions, even) who will view Linux through Windows-trained eyes.
That isn't the goal, didn't you get the memo?
Now, when a new version of my favorite app come out I have to wait until someone comes along to make an rpm for me, but when the same app releases an update for Windows, all I gotta do is download and click Next a few times.
So the author of your favorite app likes doing busy-work packaging for Windows more than your distribution of choice. I can understand that, nobody expects much from a Windows "package" other than hopefully not to nuke your system. Packaging apps for most Linux distributions is harder because there are rules, and standards that have to be followed before the package tools will tollerate it, let alone FTP masters filtering utter crap from users.
Windows no longer sucks.
An obviously contestable quote on a number of fronts but especially when it comes to software management. The shear amount of man-hours required to keep Windows systems updated with various software is mindboggling. Damn every app needs personal attention on every system if only to be an intentional PITA with registration keys. Almost every app has to be installed in a slightly different way, sure, it all starts with "Double-click on setup.exe" but that's about where the similarity ends.
The more Unix-y and less Windows-ish or Macintoshy the solution, the longer it will be before any distro makes serious inroads among average users.
You say that as if it's a bad thing. You seem to beleive that only through half-assed plagerism can anything good be attained.
Unfortunately the kernel developers have this idea that somehow the kernel is exempt from the same rules that govern userspace: if you document and expose interfaces to external code, you keep the interfaces stable.
There's the part you're not understanding. Aside from the syscalls which havn't really changed in ages (You can boot the same userland on a 2.2, 2.4, or 2.6 kernel) Linux does not have any "Documented and exposed" interfaces. It's monolithic by design, so anything in kernel space is part of the kernel and uses volitile internal interfaces. It's not what they teach you in CS 101, but that's how it works.
the likelihood of our government ever getting bad enough to justify a revolution is fairly slim.
... until they feel the populace couldn't posibly arm themselves well enough to mount a real resistance. I don't see it happening, but very few people forsaw 9/11, and even fewer forsaw The Shrub's response so there's no saying what might be handy to have around in 15 years.
That's Field Marshall von Rumsfeld, peon! The field marshall thinks we need to have a talk with you at our happy-fun vacation island south of Florida! Don't worry about making arangements yourself, we'll get you there at no cost to you.
That's what you really want, a presentation mouse, like this one:. Shows up as a USB mouse to the system, so it "Just Works(tm)" on any USB-friendly system (Win9X doesn't count). Doubly so with your powerbook, as you should already have X configured to talk to the input-core mouse mux (/dev/input/mice), where as PC saps might have to add the/dev/input/mice to their X config.
The fact is before the event started, Bush was told that a plane crashed into the World Trade Center. Bush, not 6 weeks earlier had been given a briefing called "Bin Laden Determined to Attack in the United States".
In other pressing news "Water is wet" and "Wankers on slashdot are easilly excited"
Bush is the only person who could give the order to scramble military jets to shoot down civilian aircraft if necessary.
On this I call bullshit. It's well within the power at several levels of the armed forced, let alone the Bush administration to scramble fighters. Even if they felt like waiting for W to authorize firing on civilian jetliners most of the work could have been done before the secret service man walked all the way over to W and told him of the second plane.
What does Bush do instead? He sits there. Eyes looking around. Then he picks up the "My Pet Goat" book. He reads the damn thing. He sits there for close to 10 minutes. I read his reaction as Bush waiting for someone to tell him what to do.
I'll remind you that commander in chief is a stratigic command, not a tactical one. All the president does is decide overall posturing and rules of engagement, as advised by his advisors. Advisors who he wasn't talking to, and who didn't have clear cause to rush him out of that photo-op.
I do intend to see the movie, but havn't felt like rushing out and fighting the parroting hordes that rushed to see it opening night.
I had made a "sfget" script at one point that did a trivial regex on the prdownloads link swaping out for my prefered mirror, so I could just copy & paste without the sourceforget stupidity. Of course, I've lost it now and havn't bothered to recreate it, I just complain every time I have to go through the stupid hoops.
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Except that gaim had miserable Jabber support last I looked a few months back, about as bare and iChat's. Check out Pandion for Windows, or Gajim for Linux/Windows/OSX and you'll probably be happier if you're in a pure-jabber environment. Jive Messanger makes a nice internal Jabber server without the explitatives usually required for jabberd 1.4. - rustytaco
- RustyTaco
Who needs a bag? I just grab my 4 year old iBook and go. Why would I need to carry around any other crap other than rarely pocketing the power adapter if I'm going to be using it a lot before I get home.
- RustyTaco
Which is why the drivers go INTO the kernel.org tarball and magically "Just work(tm)" without having to guess where $COMPANYNAME is hiding them on their website, if they're still in business, or what sort of blood oaths they want to you sign before they let you see them. That also means when people go through and do general enhancements to the kernel and driver interfaces your drivers get the help too, such as all the sysfs work in late 2.5/2.6 making the whole system more discoverable and giving more information to userspace to do smart things with.
- RustyTaco
Something VERY useful I found for dealing with stupid Windows stuff: http://chitchat.at.infoseek.co.jp/vmware/vfd.html
It's a virtual floppy disk drive for Windows so you can take your retarded compressed floppy images (or Ghost's boot disk wizard) and have it go directly to an image file without having to find a working floppy drive and disk.
- RustyTaco
This sounds a lot like the troubles I've had with QWest. At least BT could tell him if he was eligable consistantly, Qwest couldn't keep their systems up to tell me if I was eligable, or the status of my order.
- Nick
- RustyTaco
Well how else are you going to keep the AC running full blast unless you have a big, gas guzzling engine to power it?
- RustyTaco
Sure they're great for keeping a bunch of different stuff quickly accessable but tabs are also invaluable for dealing with things one at a time. When I read a news site (TheRegister, cnn, slashdot) I always skim down and pick out the interesting looking headlines and open them in new tabs. When I hit the bottom I close the main page and read through the articles one at a time. No going back and forth, losing your place, skipping over something interesting because you had to rescan the crap laden front page (CNN), just middle-click click click, done.
- RustyTaco
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2) Businesses DO care about big, bulky ugly crap, especially small businesses. Office space if a very valuable comodity. The less space the equipment sucks up the more room you have to work, or to shove other people into the space. At this office I have room for two 19" monitors and still have room to work on systems. At my other office I have a single 21" monitor (God I love 2048x1536) that doesn't leave me much room to do more than shuffle a few papers on my desk. Same for everyone else in the office, good screens but it makes finding room to work on systems challenging and we spend too much time shifting things around to find room.
;)
4) I don't want that crappy printer
5-7) Repeat after me, a Dimension or Optiplex is not in the same class as a G5 Tower. The Dell Precisions are in that "workstation" class, with tons of RAM capacity and fat IO capabilities, but the Dimensions & Optiplexes are "desktops" made for light work like Word and pr0n browsing. Granted they are excessive for most tasks, but it's still not a heavy workstation. The iMacs & eMacs are closer to the "desktop" space, but still off to the side a bit.
- RustyTaco
Hey! Don't knock the polycarbonate, it's indistructable and takes a lot of abuse. My 3 year old iBook has never seen the inside of a case, I carry it around by itself. I don't even both with the power brick most of the time. Sure, it's scuffed and scratched all to hell and it's not as while as it used to be but everything works flawlessly.
The 12" PowerBooks are noticably smaller too, I just got one for work. It doesn't look that much smaller but as soon as you pick it up and carry it around you instantly appreciate the little bit of extra thinness that the aluminum allows.
- Rustytaco
I can't help you with your trackpoint fetish (I can't stand them myself, having used too many crappy worn out ones I guess) but the new iBooks top out at 1.25G (1G SODIMM, 256M soldered on).
I'm still waiting for some sort of solution to making the airport extremes work under Linux, then I'll upgrade my old 500Mhz G3.
- RustyTaco
Lex Systems makes some nice Mini-ITX systems that might be right up your alley, of you can get past the horrors of their flash-based site. I bought a Light system from them a couple months ago with a fanless C3 533, threw a CF card in and installed Bering uClibc on it. Now I have a silent linux based firewall with an internal ADSL interface with enough oomph to run a few IPSEC tunnels and do some nifty firewall tricks. Best of all, since I installed that firewall and turned off the desktop system I never used the noisiest thing in my apartment is the 3 year old harddrive in my iBook, and with Laptop-mode even that isn't spinning most of the time. Silence is golden!
I've had a fanned 800Mhz C3 Light system running as a 3 port firewall at work for over a year now and it works great. A friend of mine has several of them scattered around town as NAT/DHCP/IPSEC appliances for the different branches of the company he works for. Never had a problem with the systems, only the DSL lines their connected to.
- RustyTaco
So the author of your favorite app likes doing busy-work packaging for Windows more than your distribution of choice. I can understand that, nobody expects much from a Windows "package" other than hopefully not to nuke your system. Packaging apps for most Linux distributions is harder because there are rules, and standards that have to be followed before the package tools will tollerate it, let alone FTP masters filtering utter crap from users.
An obviously contestable quote on a number of fronts but especially when it comes to software management. The shear amount of man-hours required to keep Windows systems updated with various software is mindboggling. Damn every app needs personal attention on every system if only to be an intentional PITA with registration keys. Almost every app has to be installed in a slightly different way, sure, it all starts with "Double-click on setup.exe" but that's about where the similarity ends.
You say that as if it's a bad thing. You seem to beleive that only through half-assed plagerism can anything good be attained.
- RustyTaco
Andrew Tridgell because rsync 0wnz0rs! Then there's that little "Samba" thing, and ccache.
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Now THAT is intuitive, and unbelivably user friendly. Wow.
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That's Field Marshall von Rumsfeld, peon! The field marshall thinks we need to have a talk with you at our happy-fun vacation island south of Florida! Don't worry about making arangements yourself, we'll get you there at no cost to you.
- PFC RustyTaco
That's what you really want, a presentation mouse, like this one:. Shows up as a USB mouse to the system, so it "Just Works(tm)" on any USB-friendly system (Win9X doesn't count). Doubly so with your powerbook, as you should already have X configured to talk to the input-core mouse mux (/dev/input/mice), where as PC saps might have to add the /dev/input/mice to their X config.
- RustyTaco
It only takes one 104k "I don't know what it posibly does" executable for MS to deliver a
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No.
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On this I call bullshit. It's well within the power at several levels of the armed forced, let alone the Bush administration to scramble fighters. Even if they felt like waiting for W to authorize firing on civilian jetliners most of the work could have been done before the secret service man walked all the way over to W and told him of the second plane.
I'll remind you that commander in chief is a stratigic command, not a tactical one. All the president does is decide overall posturing and rules of engagement, as advised by his advisors. Advisors who he wasn't talking to, and who didn't have clear cause to rush him out of that photo-op.
I do intend to see the movie, but havn't felt like rushing out and fighting the parroting hordes that rushed to see it opening night.
- RustyTaco
I had made a "sfget" script at one point that did a trivial regex on the prdownloads link swaping out for my prefered mirror, so I could just copy & paste without the sourceforget stupidity. Of course, I've lost it now and havn't bothered to recreate it, I just complain every time I have to go through the stupid hoops.
- RustyTaco