Is anyone else interested in starting a website with documentation geared towards "wet-behind-the-ears" newbies? The Linux HOWTOs are simply great, but lets face it, they can be a bit intimidating to people completely new to this Linux thing. ("I have to read HOW MUCH just to get my MODEM WORKING?") Think of it as "Cliff Notes" for Linux.
Maybe if there was one definitive source for newbies, they won't flood the lines of communication traditionally dominated by the cranky oldtimers.
Just a thought. Something I've always wanted to do. Contact if interested, flame if not.
I think the little "preachy" part at the end of the episode was intentially ironic. Remember, Fry wanted freedom of selfdetermination because he did not want to be stuck being a delivery guy the rest of his life. And what did he end up as at the end of the episode? a delivery guy.
Way to go Rob, the new discussion features seem to be really coming together nicely! At the very least, they are already a big improvement over the old, albeit simpler system. As promised, I have an Idea for Slashdot comments. How about allowing moderators to only *add* to a messages score? Here's why I think this would work better:
* Less people moaning about censorship, because no one has the power to have fewer people read your post. If it's offtopic/inane/flamebait, etc, it simply will not be moderated up to a higher score. * People with unpopular, yet reasonable views cannot have their views squelched by the majority. If even one or two moderators think he/she has a legit point, they will show up on high threshholds, even if the majority of moderators want to censor it. * Under this system, the more you try to get people to agree with you, the more people will see your post. If you want to be heard, it will pay not to be TOO antisocial. * Moderators will have less opportunity to abuse their power. Currently, a "loose cannon" moderator could go through and moderate down all of a person's posts, giving them a negative overall score and removing any chance that person had of being a moderator in the future.
One thing Slashdot has plenty of is negative feedback. My system would promote more positive feedback, in a wholly non-censoring manner.
As a developer of an GPL'd OpenGL app for Linux, I really appreciate someone taking the effort to put this faq together. Integration of Hardware Acceleration/3D rendering and X is one of Linux's rougher edges. Brian's hack to allow Voodoo-based 3d cards to peform in-window rendering is neat, but I don't think it is a permanent 3D solution for Linux/XFree86.
Give me my T1 today! I'll let *you* wait 10 years until fiber becomes "reasonable".
If you keep waiting for the price to stop dropping, it'll never happen.
Even better if the government helps out. This would be at least as important as postal service, highways, and other infrastructure, all of which the government already subsidises.
Although he can be pretty volitile, Gingrich has always been progressive and "hands off" in regards to technology and the government. I think he dead on in his views on the way technology and the government should interact. Anybody see the course he taught along these lines? (it was on cable where I live). He is definately one of the good guys on this issue. Notice the sharp contrast to VP Gore's views. A Gore presidency would be VERY BAD for privacy and the net in general.
I was a diehard slackware user, too, once. I think I made the transition gracefully enough. I now consider Slackware counter-productive, since it has fallen so out of date, and lacks a modern package system.
I was skeptical, too, of the whole RPM thing at first. Coming from a windows background, this is not surprising. Let me assure you that RPM may not be perfect, but it kicks the pants off of InstallShield or any other windows equivalent.
You can always manually remove a package and install the corrosponding.tar.gz package in its place. And if you are concerned about losing the performance you gain from compiling your own binaries, you can download SRPMs, which are Source RPMs. It is very flexible, once you get the hang of the concept. I suggest reading the Using-RPM HOWTO if you still have cold feet.
I'm sure you would get similar functionality from Debian's package manager as well. And you still can't beat Slackware if you want to get down and dirty (and repetitive.)
Any Idea whether they'll make more movies?
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The feature length movie they released a few years ago was really good. Maybe they'll use this as an opportunity to make more. Too bad, really. The films they've had on the show since switching to Sci-Fi have been really bad (which makes for really funny episodes), but I think the skits have gone way downhill since Joel was n the show, though. The cracks during the movie are still witty and crisp, on the other hand.
That's right, slackware is for people with no life who have time to upgrade all their libraries everytime they set up a new system. You don't have to be a loon, I know plenty of sane slackwarers! SuSE is for hip alterna-teens, for whom Red Hat is not alternative enough, but who don't know much aboot UNIX, which rules out *BSD. Red Hat is for the guys who get all the chicks. (It's true, do a poll Rob!) Debian is for the guys who bash Red Hat users because they want some action too.
Hmm. Rob's test message gets a score of 2, and my follow-up message teasing him get's the hell moderated out of it. Oh well, guess one of the moderators is having a bad day or somthing.
Anyways, cool to see Rob occasionally post alongside the unwassed masses.;) I love slashdot, no where else can I get all my linux AND starwars news!
I don't remeber if it was off-the-shelf-software or something in house. Anyways, I don't think Linux was used to do the actual designing (could be wrong), but it was used to do the scene generation.
I would check your environment variables again on the Linux side. Run the command 'env'. Once I set my LD_LIBRARY_PATH to the directory with all the.so libs, it started up fine, although seg-faulted after running for 2 seconds:(
There ware 2 mac executables in the directory I snagged my linux binary from, as well as the mac headers. Search their site a little more.
I believe you're referrign to MDI. They stink! Eudora and Pegasus at work use them, I find them completely constricting. I think it was a BIG MISTAKE for KDE to use these in ANY of their apps.
I had high hopes, always in the mood for some good nature MacOS trash talk. (I'm sorry, it just sucks! I would prefer win98!) But this was just sorta funny in a lame way, not really really funny. And that water reflection Java applet is SO TIRED! Get rid of that stupid thing!
> Oh, I hate to burst your bubble, but OS/2 is far > from dead. But its certainly not growing, esp. not like Linux currently is. OS/2 is so marginalized currently, that I would find it hard to recommend to anyone looking into non-MS OSes. I would also disagree about OS/2 being more easy to use and maintain. Linux has come a long way in this department in the last 3 years. When I think stable, I think *nix. When I think ease of use, I think Mac.
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Is anyone else interested in starting a website with documentation geared towards "wet-behind-the-ears" newbies?
The Linux HOWTOs are simply great, but lets face it, they can be a bit intimidating to people completely new to this Linux thing. ("I have to read HOW MUCH just to get my MODEM WORKING?") Think of it as "Cliff Notes" for Linux.
Maybe if there was one definitive source for newbies, they won't flood the lines of communication traditionally dominated by the cranky oldtimers.
Just a thought. Something I've always wanted to do. Contact if interested, flame if not.
I think the little "preachy" part at the end of the
episode was intentially ironic. Remember, Fry
wanted freedom of selfdetermination because he
did not want to be stuck being a delivery guy the
rest of his life. And what did he end up as at
the end of the episode? a delivery guy.
Way to go Rob, the new discussion features seem to be really coming together nicely! At the very least, they are already a big improvement over the old, albeit simpler system.
As promised, I have an Idea for Slashdot comments. How about allowing moderators to only *add* to a messages score? Here's why I think this would work better:
* Less people moaning about censorship, because no one has the power to have fewer people read your post. If it's offtopic/inane/flamebait, etc, it simply will not be moderated up to a higher score.
* People with unpopular, yet reasonable views cannot have their views squelched by the majority. If even one or two moderators think he/she has a legit point, they will show up on high threshholds, even if the majority of moderators want to censor it.
* Under this system, the more you try to get people to agree with you, the more people will see your post. If you want to be heard, it will pay not to be TOO antisocial.
* Moderators will have less opportunity to abuse their power. Currently, a "loose cannon" moderator could go through and moderate down all of a person's posts, giving them a negative overall score and removing any chance that person had of being a moderator in the future.
One thing Slashdot has plenty of is negative feedback. My system would promote more positive feedback, in a wholly non-censoring manner.
Aaron
As a developer of an GPL'd OpenGL app for Linux,
I really appreciate someone taking the effort to
put this faq together.
Integration of Hardware Acceleration/3D rendering
and X is one of Linux's rougher edges. Brian's
hack to allow Voodoo-based 3d cards to peform
in-window rendering is neat, but I don't think it
is a permanent 3D solution for Linux/XFree86.
I forgot, the USPS turns a profit now. Ooops.
Give me my T1 today! I'll let *you* wait 10 years until fiber becomes "reasonable".
If you keep waiting for the price to stop dropping, it'll never happen.
Even better if the government helps out. This would be at least as important as postal service, highways, and other infrastructure, all of which the government already subsidises.
Although he can be pretty volitile, Gingrich has always been progressive and "hands off" in regards to technology and the government. I think he dead on in his views on the way technology and the government should interact. Anybody see the course he taught along these lines? (it was on cable where I live). He is definately one of the good guys on this issue.
Notice the sharp contrast to VP Gore's views. A Gore presidency would be VERY BAD for privacy and the net in general.
Or they just had a slow tape drive ;)
I was a diehard slackware user, too, once. I think I made the transition gracefully enough. I now consider Slackware counter-productive, since it has fallen so out of date, and lacks a modern package system.
.tar.gz package in its place. And if you are concerned about losing the performance you gain from compiling your own binaries, you can download SRPMs, which are Source RPMs. It is very flexible, once you get the hang of the concept. I suggest reading the Using-RPM HOWTO if you still have cold feet.
I was skeptical, too, of the whole RPM thing at first. Coming from a windows background, this is not surprising. Let me assure you that RPM may not be perfect, but it kicks the pants off of InstallShield or any other windows equivalent.
You can always manually remove a package and install the corrosponding
I'm sure you would get similar functionality from Debian's package manager as well. And you still can't beat Slackware if you want to get down and dirty (and repetitive.)
The feature length movie they released a few years ago was really good. Maybe they'll use this as an opportunity to make more.
Too bad, really. The films they've had on the show since switching to Sci-Fi have been really bad (which makes for really funny episodes), but I think the skits have gone way downhill since Joel was n the show, though. The cracks during the movie are still witty and crisp, on the other hand.
He's right.
That's right, slackware is for people with no life who have time to upgrade all their libraries everytime they set up a new system. You don't have to be a loon, I know plenty of sane slackwarers!
SuSE is for hip alterna-teens, for whom Red Hat is not alternative enough, but who don't know much aboot UNIX, which rules out *BSD.
Red Hat is for the guys who get all the chicks. (It's true, do a poll Rob!)
Debian is for the guys who bash Red Hat users because they want some action too.
Guess which I use.
Hmm. Rob's test message gets a score of 2, and my follow-up message teasing him get's the hell moderated out of it. Oh well, guess one of the moderators is having a bad day or somthing.
;) I love slashdot, no where else can I get all my linux AND starwars news!
Anyways, cool to see Rob occasionally post alongside the unwassed masses.
I don't remeber if it was off-the-shelf-software or something in house. Anyways, I don't think Linux was used to do the actual designing (could be wrong), but it was used to do the scene generation.
I would check your environment variables again on the Linux side. Run the command 'env'. Once I set my LD_LIBRARY_PATH to the directory with all the .so libs, it started up fine, although seg-faulted after running for 2 seconds :(
There ware 2 mac executables in the directory I snagged my linux binary from, as well as the mac headers. Search their site a little more.
I believe you're referrign to MDI. They stink!
Eudora and Pegasus at work use them, I find them
completely constricting. I think it was a BIG
MISTAKE for KDE to use these in ANY of their apps.
Mesa *would* be great.
KDE, GNOME, Windowmaker 0.51.2, 2.2.3 kernel,
XFree86 3.3.3.1
oh yes.
Thanks for clarifying, I understand what you're saying.
Why pick on Red Hat? I just don't understand.
does anyone know whether quicktime or windows media player
work under WINE yet??
RMS wants it called GNU/Linux to give prper credit
to the FSF utils that lie atop the kernel.
I had high hopes, always in the mood for some good nature MacOS trash talk. (I'm sorry, it just sucks! I would prefer win98!) But this was just sorta funny in a lame way, not really really funny.
And that water reflection Java applet is SO TIRED! Get rid of that stupid thing!
It's "Mesa", not "MesaGL". For trademark issues, I think.
> Oh, I hate to burst your bubble, but OS/2 is far
> from dead.
But its certainly not growing, esp. not like Linux currently is. OS/2 is so marginalized currently, that I would find it hard to recommend to anyone looking into non-MS OSes.
I would also disagree about OS/2 being more easy to use and maintain. Linux has come a long way in this department in the last 3 years.
When I think stable, I think *nix. When I think ease of use, I think Mac.