...somewhere in between the "full desktop" linuxes and "build your own linux." Slack doesn't need fancy apps or installations to justify its existence. All it needs is, every few months, to:
-Upgrade to the newest kernel, make sure everything is compatible
-Upgrade to the newest compiler and basic libs, and make sure everything is compatible
-Make sure the system is compatible with the latest, greatest hardware.
A bonus would be up-to-date GNOME and KDE, but is it really necessary? For Slack fans like myself, it's better to get a simple, basic OS and then add whatever desktop stuff I see fit. It's build-you-own, without most of the pain of build-your-own.
Redhat, Mandrake, and SuSE have been pissing me off lately with installs that take 1800 MB of disk space, and 10,000 background daemons that eat up 80% of the available RAM. If I want to install a useful system with X and FVWM to do Web browsing, check e-mail and log into remote UNIX boxen, all on a Pentium-90 with 16 MB RAM and a 600 GB hard drive, the ONLY current distribution good for the job is Slackware.
Slackware is for folks like me, who remember when Linux was *Linux*, and not a Windows wannabe.
*DSL is in complete disarray.
You don't need to be a Cringely to predict *DSL's future. The hand writing is on the wall: *DSL faces a bleak future. In fact there won't be any future at all for *DSL because *DSL is dying. Things are looking very bad for *DSL. As many of us are already aware, *DSL continues to lose market share. Red ink flows like a river of blood.
Let's keep to the facts and look at the numbers.
ADSL leader PacBell states that there are 7000 users of ADSL. How many users of SDSL are there? Let's see. The number of ADSL versus SDSL posts on Usenet is roughly in ratio of 5 to 1. Therefore there are about 7000/5 = 1400 SDSL users. MVL/DSL posts on Usenet are about half of the volume of SDSL posts. Therefore there are about 700 users of MVL/DSL. A recent article put Cable Modem at about 80 percent of the Broadband market. Therefore there are (7000+1400+700)*4 = 36400 Cable users. This is consistent with the number of Cable Usenet posts.
Due to the troubles of Qwest, abysmal sales and so on, ADSL went out of business and was taken over by Northwood who sell another troubled broadband service. Now Northwood is also dead, its corpse turned over to another charnel house.
All major surveys show that *DSL has steadily declined in market share. *DSL is very sick and its long term survival prospects are very dim. If *DSL is to survive at all it will be among hardcore child pornography dabblers. *DSL continues to decay. Nothing short of a miracle could save it at this point in time. For all practical purposes, *DSL is dead.
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WTC bombing prophesyed on rap album cover.
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This rap album cover was set to be released *before* the WTC tragedy occurred:
This is not a joke. It appeared in the current issue of Wired magazine, which was on newsstands before this all happened. I guess it's just one of those odd coincidences.
The WTC is (was) a symbol of corporatism and globalism. The Pentagon is a symbol of the military-industrial complex. Are there Eco-Terrorists and other extreme-left-wing types that are sick enough to do something like this?
Everyone just assumes this came from the Middle-East. That's what we thought when OKC happened, and it turned out to be something entirely different.
I remember when Netscape/Mosiac was the only application that made Linux a useful desktop system. I could do email, newsgroups, and the Web, and that was really all I needed a PC for at the time (around 1997). Now, we've actually come to the point at which the gawdaful Netscape-built-against-Motif is the worst part of the distribution. Since 1997, we've seen the advent of KDE, GNOME, Mozilla, Konqueror, Quake I/II/II, Gimp, and a bazillion MP3 players, IM systems, cutsey little games and whatever else you can find on Freshmeat. These are the reasons to use Linux - it's no longer Netscape in an FVWM window.
We can actually say goodbye to that awful, bloated, buggy Netscape. I never thought I would see the day.
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"We know that bonobos form strong social ties to each other though sexual interactions. Indeed, for a long time, the only thing bonobos were known for was their sexual behavior. Many humans were so overwhelmed with the freedom, intensity, and overt sexuality of the bonobo, that for a long time, discussion of this topic was limited to scientific circles. Even there, the early reports were assumed to reflect "weird" or "deviant" groups of bonobos. However, continued research has made it clear that overt sexuality is an integral part of bonobo sociality. Continued study of sexuality in bonobos, who do not share our human cultural taboos and mores, may help us to better understand the role of sex as social phenomena apart from reproduction. We already know that sexual interactions are often intermingled with long bouts of play and mutual grooming, which are additional ways of developing and strengthening social networks."
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"How many six year olds does it take to design software?"
Lt. Commander Malcolm Reed: Armory Officer. British. Late 20s - early 30s. In the new age of humanity's enlightenment, Reed is a bit of a throwback. He's a 22rd Century "soldier", all spit and polish and by-the-book. Reed is filled with contradictions. Despite his near-obsession with munitions, he's soft-spoken, shy and awkward around women. When testing a new weapon, he's liable to put on a pair of space-age earplugs because he doesn't like loud noises.
Does he also invent new types of salutes, and unclog chicken soup dispensor nozzels?
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Yeah, isn't it great that/. links to ultra-left-wing, radical, dangerous publications like The Nation? Kinda makes think about their political leanings, doesn't it?
If Taco and Hemos have there way, there would be no more ownership of anything. Not of music, software, bandwidth, or even hardware! Gone would be the incentive to create anything, and we would be reduced to the technological/creative Dark Ages.
Running Linux, of course.;-)
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Hallmarks of the Clinton Era include the CDA and the DMCA. His administration seemed to have zero concern for infomation privacy and consumer rights. What about Bush? Will his FCC be business-friendly and let Hollywood have their way? Or will they refuse to force copy restrictions in digital appliances in the name of "de-regulation?"
I think it all comes down to whether Republicans want to be more friendly to the big business of entertainment or the big business of consumer electronics. Which group gave more money to the party?
Let's wait and see what happens.
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...somewhere in between the "full desktop" linuxes and "build your own linux." Slack doesn't need fancy apps or installations to justify its existence. All it needs is, every few months, to:
-Upgrade to the newest kernel, make sure everything is compatible
-Upgrade to the newest compiler and basic libs, and make sure everything is compatible
-Make sure the system is compatible with the latest, greatest hardware.
A bonus would be up-to-date GNOME and KDE, but is it really necessary? For Slack fans like myself, it's better to get a simple, basic OS and then add whatever desktop stuff I see fit. It's build-you-own, without most of the pain of build-your-own.
Redhat, Mandrake, and SuSE have been pissing me off lately with installs that take 1800 MB of disk space, and 10,000 background daemons that eat up 80% of the available RAM. If I want to install a useful system with X and FVWM to do Web browsing, check e-mail and log into remote UNIX boxen, all on a Pentium-90 with 16 MB RAM and a 600 GB hard drive, the ONLY current distribution good for the job is Slackware.
Slackware is for folks like me, who remember when Linux was *Linux*, and not a Windows wannabe.
For the sake of clarification:
CHICAGO: Code name for Win95
CAIRO: Code name for NT 4.0
MEMPHIS: Code name for Win98
WHISTLER: Code name for WinXP
HTH.
Oops, I meant Northpoint.
*DSL is in complete disarray.
You don't need to be a Cringely to predict *DSL's future. The hand writing is on the wall: *DSL faces a bleak future. In fact there won't be any future at all for *DSL because *DSL is dying. Things are looking very bad for *DSL. As many of us are already aware, *DSL continues to lose market share. Red ink flows like a river of blood.
Let's keep to the facts and look at the numbers.
ADSL leader PacBell states that there are 7000 users of ADSL. How many users of SDSL are there? Let's see. The number of ADSL versus SDSL posts on Usenet is roughly in ratio of 5 to 1. Therefore there are about 7000/5 = 1400 SDSL users. MVL/DSL posts on Usenet are about half of the volume of SDSL posts. Therefore there are about 700 users of MVL/DSL. A recent article put Cable Modem at about 80 percent of the Broadband market. Therefore there are (7000+1400+700)*4 = 36400 Cable users. This is consistent with the number of Cable Usenet posts.
Due to the troubles of Qwest, abysmal sales and so on, ADSL went out of business and was taken over by Northwood who sell another troubled broadband service. Now Northwood is also dead, its corpse turned over to another charnel house.
All major surveys show that *DSL has steadily declined in market share. *DSL is very sick and its long term survival prospects are very dim. If *DSL is to survive at all it will be among hardcore child pornography dabblers. *DSL continues to decay. Nothing short of a miracle could save it at this point in time. For all practical purposes, *DSL is dead.
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This is not a joke. It appeared in the current issue of Wired magazine, which was on newsstands before this all happened. I guess it's just one of those odd coincidences.
Everyone just assumes this came from the Middle-East. That's what we thought when OKC happened, and it turned out to be something entirely different.
So, if I've been wanking for the last 20 minutes, the whole world gets to know about it?
alt.fan.oksana-bayul.small-tits is a good example.
This is also why people who do bin-cancels are total fuckheads.
This is actually a good idea. LOTR is much more deserving of a topic icon than, say, Star Wars.
Hey, at least it will keep those irritating neighbors away. ;-)
Isn't he one of the guys that OJ slashed?
Since you haven't learned to spell simple words like "than," it comes as no surprise that "Wachowski" would give you fits.
Of course, you could always look them up in imdb, but that would require intelligence.
Yessir.
Really frightening is that Goatsex is encoded somewhere in Pi. An infinite number of times!
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It would be nice to see Jeff Bridges and President Sheridan return, but David Warner is a must.
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We can actually say goodbye to that awful, bloated, buggy Netscape. I never thought I would see the day.
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move 'Raoul' for great justice.
Meow, indeed. -Ayatollah
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DENMARK: What happen???
MINISTER OF JUSTICE: Someone set up us the lawsuit.
MINISTER OF STATE: Main screen turn on.
DENMARK: It's you!!!
RIAA: How are you, Denmark?
All your tunes are belong to us.
You are on the way to embargo.
DENMARK: What you say?!!
RIAA: You have no chance negotiate make your settlement.
DENMARK: Move 'EU'. You know what you doing. For great MP3z!!
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http://www.gsu.edu/~wwwbpf/bpf/bonobosex.html
"We know that bonobos form strong social ties to each other though sexual interactions. Indeed, for a long time, the only thing bonobos were known for was their sexual behavior. Many humans were so overwhelmed with the freedom, intensity, and overt sexuality of the bonobo, that for a long time, discussion of this topic was limited to scientific circles. Even there, the early reports were assumed to reflect "weird" or "deviant" groups of bonobos. However, continued research has made it clear that overt sexuality is an integral part of bonobo sociality. Continued study of sexuality in bonobos, who do not share our human cultural taboos and mores, may help us to better understand the role of sex as social phenomena apart from reproduction. We already know that sexual interactions are often intermingled with long bouts of play and mutual grooming, which are additional ways of developing and strengthening social networks."
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"How many six year olds does it take to design software?"
Does he also invent new types of salutes, and unclog chicken soup dispensor nozzels?
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"How many six year olds does it take to design software?"
If Taco and Hemos have there way, there would be no more ownership of anything. Not of music, software, bandwidth, or even hardware! Gone would be the incentive to create anything, and we would be reduced to the technological/creative Dark Ages.
Running Linux, of course.
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"How many six year olds does it take to design software?"
Yeah I'm as limp as a soggy piece of bread, but I'm HAPPY, ok? And it's not like I had a sex life to begin with...
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"How many six year olds does it take to design software?"
I think it all comes down to whether Republicans want to be more friendly to the big business of entertainment or the big business of consumer electronics. Which group gave more money to the party?
Let's wait and see what happens.
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