Re: Identity Crisis. I thought we got over this.
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Samba 2.06 Released
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Alas, I was looking over the comments and thinking "Wow, finally the people moaning about software updates on Slashdot seem to have died off", only to find this post.
Somebody made this complaint last time a software update was posted on Slashdot, and it bugged me. And lo and behold, somebody did it again, and it still bugs me. Here's the gist of what I told the last guy.
Slashdot is News, so says the title.gif.:) Every now and then, perhaps once or twice every few weeks, one software update gets passed on to Slashdot. This is to be compared to the 118 items currently on freshmeat for the last three days alone.
Coming from the other side, Freshmeat currently has exactly one post that isn't a software update that is also on Slashdot, the XMMS Plugin Contest.
No matter how you look at it, that's a very small margin, one I think is forgivable by even the harshest critic. I mean, it's not like there are categorical criteria to Slashdot submissions. If we can talk about national-security threatening Furbys, then why can't we mention a new version of an ubercool software suite?
Your options are simple. Continue reading Slashdot and cope with the occasional version update, continue reading Slashdot and scream in agony at the occasional version update, stop reading Slashdot, or download the source code and make your own site completely devoid of such daemon spawn.
And thank God for that. Look at the last four or five releases of RedHat. Every one had a vast pile of errata within a month, or sometimes within just a week of release, just to fix bugs that should've been caught beforehand.
I'm glad Debian spends so much time getting things right, and I'm more than happy to be patient. Besides, I've been running servers on potato since June without a single hitch, or reboot.:)
Linux Northwest conference?
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Is it just my failing memory, or has there not actually -been- a Linux Northwest conference yet? Yet, it is getting votes. The only information I have on it is a website that is currently down for changes, www.linuxnorthwest.org
Does anybody have more useful information, like if such a conference has occured in the past?
I recently (Like a week ago) installed RH6.1 on the tower version of that system to be used as a file server and firewall for a small office in the area. What a horrible case design. In order to put a network card in it, the case needed to be turned upside down. The two sides are held on by 6 screws, all on the bottom. The cards are mounted -upside down- to a daughter card. Oy. But, it works, and that's all it'll ever need to do. God knows it couldn't handle Windows.
Once upon a time, Microsoft released an OS so revolutionary (Relative to its predecessor) and so much more user friendly (Again, only compared to its predecessor) that consumers flooded stores everywhere trying to get their hands on a copy. That was Windows95. Then along came Windows98, and it was much less impressive. Microsoft even stated that Windows98 wasn't a big deal.
Now we have Windows 2000, a relatively major change from Windows98, but not as major from WindowsNT. Will we see any sort of strong pull from the consumer sector to buy Windows 2000? Not bloody likely, not for $220. In fact I'm curious how long it will take hardware vendors to decide consumers want to see Win2k preinstalled on computers. With the way hardware prices are falling, we're now looking at an OS that costs almost as much as the base hardware (CPU, motherboard, memory, HD).
Don't expect to see beowulf support in your standard RedHat any time soon. According to US export laws, beowulf-capable systems are, for all intents and purposes, munitions.
RedHat does (or did, at one point) carry a beowulf distro called Extreme Linux. I'm not entirelly sure what the status of that is these days.
If the student is indeed teaching the master (And I would tend to agree that Mandrake has influenced RH's routine) then more power to them. This lends support to the idea that multiple Linux distributions really is a good thing, and not a threat to world peace. I would congradulate the staffs of RedHat and Mandrake for, even if unintentionally, challenging one another to improve themselves.
Does this mean that more and more distros is unconditionally good? No, of course not. I'm sure one of these days we'll see a distro behave in a manner that seems inappropriate or even a little juvenille. But I would still prefer the diversity over relying on one group for my system. After all, relying on one source is why a certain Redmond company writes notoriously late and bloated software.
What are you talking about? RedHat isn't fragmenting anything by releasing a new version of their distro.
People shouldn't be getting "6.0" training, I'm not even sure they should be getting RedHat training. I would suggest teaching on two levels:
Administrators: Learn the core system of Linux, a typical layout of files, runlevels, daemons, etc. Then learn how some distros organize those files differently. I administer a company with Debian and RedHat systems, I know this works.
End users: End users don't care what distro they're using. Seriously. They barely care if they're using Gnome or KDE, but that's what they should be taught, because the theory is that's all they'll need. Gnome apps, KDE apps.
Errata is released almost constantly as bugs of a sufficent severity are found. But that doesn't help people who buy RH on CD and don't have the bandwidth to be downloading big binary patches like the updated X packages.
I would tend to agree that jumping to 7 over a window manager and kernel would be silly, but nobody's doing that.:) I would even go so far as to say jumping to 7 when XFree86 4 and Linux 2.4 comes out is a bit of a stretch. For example, when RedHat went to 6, it switched to glibc2.1, a newer X, and Linux 2.2. This is a pretty big deal. But I bet 7 will come about when we see XFree86 4, Linux 2.4, and either (or both) Gnome 1.0.50 (or 2.0) or KDE2.
Looking over the comments posted thus far, it amazes me how short some people's memory is. John McCain was one of the primary forces behind the CDA and CDA II. Ironic that somebody above posted "How about a bill to ban Internet censorship?". This man tried twice to censor the net. Thank God for the Supreme Court, or we would be using a very different Internet right now.
McCain is trying to get the favor of netizens who feel the pressure from other legislators to begin taxing the net at the state and local level. Currently there is a ban on Internet taxes, but it expires in the near future, if I remember correctly.
I don't see why anybody would admire this man's career, and I will do my best to see that he never becomes President.
Looking over the comments posted thus far, it amazes me how short some people's memory is. John McCain was one of the primary forces behind the CDA and CDA II. Ironic that somebody above posted "How about a bill to ban Internet censorship?". This man tried twice to censor the net. Thank God for the Supreme Court, or we would be using a very different Internet right now.
McCain is trying to get the favor of netizens who feel the pressure from other legislators to begin taxing the net at the state and local level. Currently there is a ban on Internet taxes, but it expires in the near future, if I remember correctly.
I don't see why anybody would admire this man's career, and I will do my best to see that he never becomes President.
This will be doable in Linux very soon. Automounting support is already in place, and tools such as magicdev (Gnome CVS) are coming onto the scene to handle automatically putting an icon on the desktop and optionally running a program in a manner strikingly similar to Win9x's autorun.exe
I expect once features like this become more common in Linux, game vendors will want to take advantage of them.
IBM's JVM is looking very promising. It's far better than Blackdown's, that much is certain. We're running the IBM JVM for our servlet-based apps with JServ 1.0/Apache 1.3.9
Just as a point of order, e-conf, the Gtk-based configuration toy for Enlightenment, doesn't need Gnome these days. Of course, it's also been replaced by internal config GUIs in the 0.16 development.
Re:"the Linux de facto standard desktop"?
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Yep. And it will continue to get worse as KDE and Gnome attempt to appeal to a broader (And thus less Unix-educated) audience. Two years ago, a release would never even bother to mention tech support, because everybody using it would've been smart enough to find the mailing lists, newsgroups, web pages, or what have you on their own. Nowadays, KDE and Gnome are aiming their development at the Windows crowd, who tend to need their hands held every step of the way.
As the media hunt down sound bites from the 'celebrities' of the community, they're bound to get less accessible. Such is life. One thing ESR provides is a simple press resources page that has generic bio information (Of course, how many hundred Linux articles have supplied bio information for Linus by now?), a resume, links to his papers, yadda. I wonder if something like this would make life easier for Linus.
I'm getting tired of people flipping out when one story in 50 commits an unforgivable crime of being related to a new software release.
Freshmeat, in the last week, has posted over 200 software version updates. Similarly, Slashdot has posted a huge amount of news and information. If you cannot cope with the occasional overlap, you are free to download Slashdot's source code and offer an alternative news site completely devoid of news about software updates. Otherwise, cope.
The only thing we didn't see in the hype to get this movie off the ground was trailers featuring the toys.
Seriously though, when was the last time you anticipated a movie that was "releasing" a line of action figures before the movie itself? This was a pretty bad idea.
As a general rule, if you're anticipating a movie, it's going to disappoint you. And when that movie is the first new addition to a Lucas legacy, it's going to disappoint a whole lot of people. I'm not sure they could've avoided it even if they witheld the toys and didn't keep a running supply of trailers and commercials on their website.
I'm not sure you can stylize a line and a dot very well on a shirt. Put it inside a circle, perhaps, like a sort of stamp. The same approach would work for the ring.
A black circle with gold trim, and a gold/. in the center. That'd sure bring some contrast to the white background and blue-green foreground of the web pages.
> Used 1024 MB of RAM (set maxmem=1024 in boot.ini)
Maybe it's just me, but the fact that they went to the trouble of editing the boot.ini but not the lilo.conf is suspicious. Is mem=1024M really that hard? I'm quite certain the feature is documented.
Try being light hearted about it. Fashionable, get it? After all, you don't see any other unix with a loveable mascot that goes great on any clothing item, do you?
Slashdot Mirror
Alas, I was looking over the comments and thinking "Wow, finally the people moaning about software updates on Slashdot seem to have died off", only to find this post.
:) Every now and then, perhaps once or twice every few weeks, one software update gets passed on to Slashdot. This is to be compared to the 118 items currently on freshmeat for the last three days alone.
Somebody made this complaint last time a software update was posted on Slashdot, and it bugged me. And lo and behold, somebody did it again, and it still bugs me. Here's the gist of what I told the last guy.
Slashdot is News, so says the title.gif.
Coming from the other side, Freshmeat currently has exactly one post that isn't a software update that is also on Slashdot, the XMMS Plugin Contest.
No matter how you look at it, that's a very small margin, one I think is forgivable by even the harshest critic. I mean, it's not like there are categorical criteria to Slashdot submissions. If we can talk about national-security threatening Furbys, then why can't we mention a new version of an ubercool software suite?
Your options are simple. Continue reading Slashdot and cope with the occasional version update, continue reading Slashdot and scream in agony at the occasional version update, stop reading Slashdot, or download the source code and make your own site completely devoid of such daemon spawn.
And thank God for that. Look at the last four or five releases of RedHat. Every one had a vast pile of errata within a month, or sometimes within just a week of release, just to fix bugs that should've been caught beforehand.
:)
I'm glad Debian spends so much time getting things right, and I'm more than happy to be patient. Besides, I've been running servers on potato since June without a single hitch, or reboot.
Is it just my failing memory, or has there not actually -been- a Linux Northwest conference yet? Yet, it is getting votes. The only information I have on it is a website that is currently down for changes, www.linuxnorthwest.org
Does anybody have more useful information, like if such a conference has occured in the past?
I recently (Like a week ago) installed RH6.1 on the tower version of that system to be used as a file server and firewall for a small office in the area. What a horrible case design. In order to put a network card in it, the case needed to be turned upside down. The two sides are held on by 6 screws, all on the bottom. The cards are mounted -upside down- to a daughter card. Oy. But, it works, and that's all it'll ever need to do. God knows it couldn't handle Windows.
Once upon a time, Microsoft released an OS so revolutionary (Relative to its predecessor) and so much more user friendly (Again, only compared to its predecessor) that consumers flooded stores everywhere trying to get their hands on a copy. That was Windows95. Then along came Windows98, and it was much less impressive. Microsoft even stated that Windows98 wasn't a big deal.
Now we have Windows 2000, a relatively major change from Windows98, but not as major from WindowsNT. Will we see any sort of strong pull from the consumer sector to buy Windows 2000? Not bloody likely, not for $220. In fact I'm curious how long it will take hardware vendors to decide consumers want to see Win2k preinstalled on computers. With the way hardware prices are falling, we're now looking at an OS that costs almost as much as the base hardware (CPU, motherboard, memory, HD).
And no ubercool mascot :)
Don't expect to see beowulf support in your standard RedHat any time soon. According to US export laws, beowulf-capable systems are, for all intents and purposes, munitions.
RedHat does (or did, at one point) carry a beowulf distro called Extreme Linux. I'm not entirelly sure what the status of that is these days.
If the student is indeed teaching the master (And I would tend to agree that Mandrake has influenced RH's routine) then more power to them. This lends support to the idea that multiple Linux distributions really is a good thing, and not a threat to world peace. I would congradulate the staffs of RedHat and Mandrake for, even if unintentionally, challenging one another to improve themselves.
Does this mean that more and more distros is unconditionally good? No, of course not. I'm sure one of these days we'll see a distro behave in a manner that seems inappropriate or even a little juvenille. But I would still prefer the diversity over relying on one group for my system. After all, relying on one source is why a certain Redmond company writes notoriously late and bloated software.
People shouldn't be getting "6.0" training, I'm not even sure they should be getting RedHat training. I would suggest teaching on two levels:
- Administrators: Learn the core system of Linux, a typical layout of files, runlevels, daemons, etc. Then learn how some distros organize those files differently. I administer a company with Debian and RedHat systems, I know this works.
- End users: End users don't care what distro they're using. Seriously. They barely care if they're using Gnome or KDE, but that's what they should be taught, because the theory is that's all they'll need. Gnome apps, KDE apps.
Errata is released almost constantly as bugs of a sufficent severity are found. But that doesn't help people who buy RH on CD and don't have the bandwidth to be downloading big binary patches like the updated X packages.I would tend to agree that jumping to 7 over a window manager and kernel would be silly, but nobody's doing that.
Looking over the comments posted thus far, it amazes me how short some people's memory is. John McCain was one of the primary forces behind the CDA and CDA II. Ironic that somebody above posted "How about a bill to ban Internet censorship?". This man tried twice to censor the net. Thank God for the Supreme Court, or we would be using a very different Internet right now.
McCain is trying to get the favor of netizens who feel the pressure from other legislators to begin taxing the net at the state and local level. Currently there is a ban on Internet taxes, but it expires in the near future, if I remember correctly.
I don't see why anybody would admire this man's career, and I will do my best to see that he never becomes President.
Looking over the comments posted thus far, it amazes me how short some people's memory is. John McCain was one of the primary forces behind the CDA and CDA II. Ironic that somebody above posted "How about a bill to ban Internet censorship?". This man tried twice to censor the net. Thank God for the Supreme Court, or we would be using a very different Internet right now.
McCain is trying to get the favor of netizens who feel the pressure from other legislators to begin taxing the net at the state and local level. Currently there is a ban on Internet taxes, but it expires in the near future, if I remember correctly.
I don't see why anybody would admire this man's career, and I will do my best to see that he never becomes President.
This will be doable in Linux very soon. Automounting support is already in place, and tools such as magicdev (Gnome CVS) are coming onto the scene to handle automatically putting an icon on the desktop and optionally running a program in a manner strikingly similar to Win9x's autorun.exe
I expect once features like this become more common in Linux, game vendors will want to take advantage of them.
Then you spelled it wrong :)
IBM's JVM is looking very promising. It's far better than Blackdown's, that much is certain. We're running the IBM JVM for our servlet-based apps with JServ 1.0/Apache 1.3.9
Just as a point of order, e-conf, the Gtk-based configuration toy for Enlightenment, doesn't need Gnome these days. Of course, it's also been replaced by internal config GUIs in the 0.16 development.
Yep. And it will continue to get worse as KDE and Gnome attempt to appeal to a broader (And thus less Unix-educated) audience. Two years ago, a release would never even bother to mention tech support, because everybody using it would've been smart enough to find the mailing lists, newsgroups, web pages, or what have you on their own. Nowadays, KDE and Gnome are aiming their development at the Windows crowd, who tend to need their hands held every step of the way.
As the media hunt down sound bites from the 'celebrities' of the community, they're bound to get less accessible. Such is life. One thing ESR provides is a simple press resources page that has generic bio information (Of course, how many hundred Linux articles have supplied bio information for Linus by now?), a resume, links to his papers, yadda. I wonder if something like this would make life easier for Linus.
I'm getting tired of people flipping out when one story in 50 commits an unforgivable crime of being related to a new software release.
Freshmeat, in the last week, has posted over 200 software version updates. Similarly, Slashdot has posted a huge amount of news and information. If you cannot cope with the occasional overlap, you are free to download Slashdot's source code and offer an alternative news site completely devoid of news about software updates. Otherwise, cope.
Granted it focuses on being a knowledge base rather than a strict database, but I thought it deserved a mention.
It was a pain to install? Funny, I did it with one command. Gotta love APT. :)
I'm afraid Lucas has already commented on a Fox special (ILM from Star Wars to Star Wars) that Jar Jar will most likely return.
:)
But, persuading him to change his mind is certainly a worthwhile goal
The only thing we didn't see in the hype to get this movie off the ground was trailers featuring the toys.
Seriously though, when was the last time you anticipated a movie that was "releasing" a line of action figures before the movie itself? This was a pretty bad idea.
As a general rule, if you're anticipating a movie, it's going to disappoint you. And when that movie is the first new addition to a Lucas legacy, it's going to disappoint a whole lot of people. I'm not sure they could've avoided it even if they witheld the toys and didn't keep a running supply of trailers and commercials on their website.
I'm not sure you can stylize a line and a dot very well on a shirt. Put it inside a circle, perhaps, like a sort of stamp. The same approach would work for the ring.
/. in the center. That'd sure bring some contrast to the white background and blue-green foreground of the web pages.
A black circle with gold trim, and a gold
> Used 1024 MB of RAM (set maxmem=1024 in boot.ini)
Maybe it's just me, but the fact that they went to the trouble of editing the boot.ini but not the lilo.conf is suspicious. Is mem=1024M really that hard? I'm quite certain the feature is documented.
Try being light hearted about it. Fashionable, get it? After all, you don't see any other unix with a loveable mascot that goes great on any clothing item, do you?