We just got a copy of Red Hat 6 and it's rocks! We loaded several applications on it, and we don't have to worry about filesystem corruption! No reboots, either. That is awesome. Can't beat that.
But seriously, I don't see why auto-repair of files would be desired for Linux. With today's hard drives you don't in general worry about corruption at the hardware level, and Linux just doesn't suffer from this, especially not to the degree that NT does. I'll take a system that doesn't screw up in the first place (Linux) over the one that repairs itself automagically (NT5) any day.
Wow, drag'n'drop pager, a (luser-friendly) graphical package tool, sysconf utility, and a pimped out KDE panel. Sound like it might be enough to lure me away from my current Gnome/Red Hat setup...
One hesitation... the install sounds a little *too* dumbed down for my tastes. If anything, I want one with *more* control over the process. Anyone know if Corel is providing an "advanced" install procedure as well?
As long as there's money at stake, there's going to be friction. And I think it's kind of silly to ask Linux people to "get along" with NT people, when Microsoft has recently formed an internal anti-Linux team, a "hitsquad" which is supposed to undermine Linux's recent advances in the marketplace. If anything, it's the people in Redmond who are trying to squelch the freedom to choose your OS; they're the ones who need to play nicely..:)
A small, vocal minority of the community is worried about Red Hat suddenly becoming an evil, "bad guy" company that will take over Linux and ruin it for everyone. I think this is a joke. Let's take a look at the facts, shall we???
* Red Hat releases all software they write under the GPL, period. * Since their distro-specific software is GPL'd, Red Hat relies on their brand name to drive sales. The only thing keeping their customers from switching to another Linux distro is our satisfaction with their product. The last thing a company in this position wants to do is to piss off their clientele! They will continue to do what their users' request, or they will go out of business. * Success has not corrupted Red Hat. They continue to produce useful, GPL'd software. Their distro is still available for free FTP download.
I guess in this case, some believe that if it walks like a duck, quacks like a duck, etc, it must be The New Microsoft. Maybe some people will never let the facts get in the way of severe paranoia.
Instead of speculating what Red Hat *might* do, let's instead look at what their trackrecord is extrapolate the future from there.
You are so right on the mark. Thank you for explaining this to people in a clearer manner than I had time to think out (I'm supposed to be working right now...)
I really wouldn't have cared if the episode aired.
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Really, I wouldn't. Let me just fire off one more comment before I have to get back to work (last one I promise!)
I don't really care if WB airs a show that's in bad taste. Hell, Fox does it all the time and I still watch x-files and futurama. But Katz is slamming WB for *volutarily* exercising good taste by not airing a show that might offend people affected by Columbine. He called their decision "Shockingly dumb". What a loser! *This (Katz slamming WB) is what I have a problem with.* And all you out there crying censorship, I think you're losers too. Heaven forbid anyone take anybody else's feelings into account!
To all those saying "don't watch it..."
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I don't think some of you are getting it...
I'm sorry some of you Buffy fans missed out on your final episode, but somebody at WB *must* have thought the episode was in bad taste if they yanked it. I'm sure they lost a ton of money, and that should say a lot.
If you missed out on the episode, I'm sorry. But don't be so quick to step on other people's feelings, you might be on the other side soon enough.
Not everything is about free speech; "digital", "vitual" or otherwise. Whatever happened to "good taste"?
Should this episode really have aired, at the risk that the students of Columbine would have their memories dredged back up? Apparently Fox felt it would have been in bad taste. Apparently you don't care.
I think canceling one episode of one tv show is a small price to let my friends back home get on with their lives.
# If Eta Carinae becomes a black hole, would it # be the closest known black hole, or does # anyone know of one that is closer to us?
It would be the closest known black hole. (Unless Sagittarius A, at the center of the Milky Way, is closer??)
And we'd get a big radiation blast, due to its proximity. Esp. if it goes hypernova! Unfortunately, I don't think we're quite sure what causes hypernovae, so its hard to say whether this is a possibility.
Well, I've always found Eta Carina an interesting oddball. Try to find he high-res shots the Hubble took of it, it looks like something out of a sci-fi movie. That'll be quite a show if it blows. A heavy gamma-ray burst would kind of be a downer, but hey, I live in the Northern Hemisphere, I've got a planet's worth of rock between me and the star.
On sound... Why did you assume that you wouldn't need sound drivers? Why did you recompile your kernel? Running 'sndconfig' is much simpler. Double slashes in the install path should not "break" anything. Try setting the GNOME panel to autohide, it will only take up a few pixels on one side of your screen. Or use Window Maker!:)
Refer back to the "balloon" analogy. The center of the ballon universe is not on the surface of the balloon, its the center of the balloon. So none of the dots on the ballon can be at the center of the universe.
From the point of view of a dot on the balloon, the farther away another dot is on the balloon, the faster it is expanding away from you.
Here's the math:
*over 1 second, the ballon expands by 10% *there's one dot 1 cm away from you, and another 5 cm away from you *over that one sec., the closer dot moves.1 cm farther, the other one moves.5 cm (due to expansion) *The closer dot's velocity away from you is.1cm/sec, the farther dot's velocity is.5cm/s, even though the ballon expanded uniformly in all regions of its surface.
Hope that helps. Actually, I hope that's even accurate (long time since college). Please correct me as needed.
I was able to download the client for my Linux workstation at home, but all the windows ftp sites are currently spammed (/.ed?) I'd liek to run it on my NT PC at work, anyone have a mirror?
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We just got a copy of Red Hat 6 and it's rocks! We loaded several applications on it, and we don't have to worry about filesystem corruption! No reboots, either. That is awesome. Can't beat that.
But seriously, I don't see why auto-repair of files would be desired for Linux. With today's hard drives you don't in general worry about corruption at the hardware level, and Linux just doesn't suffer from this, especially not to the degree that NT does. I'll take a system that doesn't screw up in the first place (Linux) over the one that repairs itself automagically (NT5) any day.
Wow, drag'n'drop pager, a (luser-friendly) graphical package tool, sysconf utility, and a pimped out KDE panel. Sound like it might be enough to lure me away from my current Gnome/Red Hat setup...
One hesitation... the install sounds a little *too* dumbed down for my tastes. If anything, I want one with *more* control over the process. Anyone know if Corel is providing an "advanced" install procedure as well?
As long as there's money at stake, there's going to be friction. :)
And I think it's kind of silly to ask Linux people to "get along" with NT people, when Microsoft has recently formed an internal anti-Linux team, a "hitsquad" which is supposed to undermine Linux's recent advances in the marketplace.
If anything, it's the people in Redmond who are trying to squelch the freedom to choose your OS; they're the ones who need to play nicely..
some ideas...
...along the lines of "leggo my eggo".
"Nothing like kicking back and wrapping your lips around some Bawls."
"Bawls... put them in your head(mouth,etc..)"
"Time to suck down some Bawls".
"Keep your hands off my Bawls!"
"To avoid leakage, please don't shake your Bawls."
"For the ultimate in refreshement, go out and grab some Bawls."
and so on. Someone must be on crack over there...
Does anyone know how to filet out .exe attachments in sendmail? Are there any other extensions that should be filtered out besides .exe, .com, .bat?
A small, vocal minority of the community is worried about Red Hat suddenly becoming an evil, "bad guy" company that will take over Linux and ruin it for everyone. I think this is a joke. Let's take a look at the facts, shall we???
* Red Hat releases all software they write under the GPL, period.
* Since their distro-specific software is GPL'd, Red Hat relies on their brand name to drive sales. The only thing keeping their customers from switching to another Linux distro is our satisfaction with their product. The last thing a company in this position wants to do is to piss off their clientele! They will continue to do what their users' request, or they will go out of business.
* Success has not corrupted Red Hat. They continue to produce useful, GPL'd software. Their distro is still available for free FTP download.
I guess in this case, some believe that if it walks like a duck, quacks like a duck, etc, it must be The New Microsoft. Maybe some people will never let the facts get in the way of severe paranoia.
Instead of speculating what Red Hat *might* do, let's instead look at what their trackrecord is extrapolate the future from there.
You are so right on the mark. Thank you for explaining this to people in a clearer manner than I had time to think out (I'm supposed to be working right now...)
Really, I wouldn't. Let me just fire off one more comment before I have to get back to work (last one I promise!)
I don't really care if WB airs a show that's in bad taste. Hell, Fox does it all the time and I still watch x-files and futurama. But Katz is slamming WB for *volutarily* exercising good taste by not airing a show that might offend people affected by Columbine. He called their decision "Shockingly dumb". What a loser! *This (Katz slamming WB) is what I have a problem with.* And all you out there crying censorship, I think you're losers too. Heaven forbid anyone take anybody else's feelings into account!
I don't think some of you are getting it...
I'm sorry some of you Buffy fans missed out on your final episode, but somebody at WB *must* have thought the episode was in bad taste if they yanked it. I'm sure they lost a ton of money, and that should say a lot.
If you missed out on the episode, I'm sorry. But don't be so quick to step on other people's feelings, you might be on the other side soon enough.
You can tell I don't watch much tv...
Not everything is about free speech; "digital", "vitual" or otherwise. Whatever happened to "good taste"?
Should this episode really have aired, at the risk that the students of Columbine would have their memories dredged back up? Apparently Fox felt it would have been in bad taste. Apparently you don't care.
I think canceling one episode of one tv show is a small price to let my friends back home get on with their lives.
I don't think a blast of neutrinos would have any health side-effects. They typically pass harmlessly through the body.
# If Eta Carinae becomes a black hole, would it
# be the closest known black hole, or does
# anyone know of one that is closer to us?
It would be the closest known black hole. (Unless Sagittarius A, at the center of the Milky Way, is closer??)
And we'd get a big radiation blast, due to its proximity. Esp. if it goes hypernova! Unfortunately, I don't think we're quite sure what causes hypernovae, so its hard to say whether this is a possibility.
Well, I've always found Eta Carina an interesting oddball. Try to find he high-res shots the Hubble took of it, it looks like something out of a sci-fi movie.
That'll be quite a show if it blows. A heavy gamma-ray burst would kind of be a downer, but hey, I live in the Northern Hemisphere, I've got a planet's worth of rock between me and the star.
# Font anti-aliasing was developed primarily for
# those people who don't bother to set their
# displays to anything other than 640x480.
What about laptop users?!? 1152x864 is really not an option on most laptops.
On sound... :)
Why did you assume that you wouldn't need sound drivers? Why did you recompile your kernel? Running 'sndconfig' is much simpler.
Double slashes in the install path should not "break" anything.
Try setting the GNOME panel to autohide, it will only take up a few pixels on one side of your screen. Or use Window Maker!
Well, I will not let your "facts" get in the way of my belief in a massive mailing list coverup...
;) (my bad!)
AW
Old Commercial Software Paradigm:
Implement an innovative idea. Become wildly successful. Get bought out by Microsoft and retire at age 35.
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New Commercial Software Paradigm:
Implement an innovative idea. Become wildly successful. Get bought out by AOL and retire at age 35.
Don't bother searching the mailing list archives on enlightenment.org to find the culprit. I jaunted over there to do a search on "festering" and got:
This mail archive is currently broken
Refer back to the "balloon" analogy. The center of the ballon universe is not on the surface of the balloon, its the center of the balloon. So none of the dots on the ballon can be at the center of the universe.
.1 cm farther, the other one moves .5 cm (due to expansion) .1cm/sec, the farther dot's velocity is .5cm/s, even though the ballon expanded uniformly in all regions of its surface.
From the point of view of a dot on the balloon, the farther away another dot is on the balloon, the faster it is expanding away from you.
Here's the math:
*over 1 second, the ballon expands by 10%
*there's one dot 1 cm away from you, and another 5 cm away from you
*over that one sec., the closer dot moves
*The closer dot's velocity away from you is
Hope that helps. Actually, I hope that's even accurate (long time since college). Please correct me as needed.
Nope, I had never heard of it. It looks pretty cool! except it apparently needs Windows... :(
I love the idea of having a net-based, "civ"-type world, I have always wanted to hack something together along these lines.
Diplomacy and trade would be great with live players, as would the military side (goes w/o saying).
If anyone's interested in starting a project, email me...
I was able to download the client for my Linux workstation
at home, but all the windows ftp sites are currently
spammed (/.ed?) I'd liek to run it on my NT PC at
work, anyone have a mirror?
it must be great!
He wouldn't know talent if it bit him on his "private Parts".
By the way, that is one of my all-time favorite movie lines! ;)