Linux version run extremly slow on slackware-10.2 AMD-1,4 nvidia geforce 5500FX & 1024 megs RAM
Not for me. Silky smooth on my Slack box: P4-1.8, GeForce4 MX 440 & 512MB of RAM. (Slackware packages sit between 9.1 and -current, but most are 10.1 or 10.2)
It works perfectly for me, and my box is nowhere to be seen on the list of approved distros (Slackware box that started as 9.0 and has been upgraded to be somewhere between 10.1 and 10.2, with a bunch of -current packages thrown in for good measure.)
they were told by the CRTC to come up with two minutes of "identifiable Canadian content,"
Do you have a link to back that up? Because the entire fscking show was "Canadian Content" - *ALL* of it (which you'd know if you'd ever read the CanCon regulations.) CanCon has nothing (as in ***NOTHING***) to do with the subject matter of a program. At all.
The real story behind Bob & Doug goes as follows:
Because commercial time in Canada is two minutes shorter in Canada than in the US, SCTV needed two extra minutes of the show for the Canadian broadcasts (ie, a single two-minute sketch that would be deleted from the US broadcasts.) The producers decided to make it a parody of Canadians, and Bob and Doug were born.
Yes, Caldera's strategy was stupid back in the day.
Compared to today?!??!?!?!
They have the same type of morons running it now as they did then. Why do you think they'd be able to make a go of it now?
SuSE and Caldera had a better distribution than Red Hat
Yes, and all this does is go to prove that your original statement is wrong.
If having a superior distro wasn't enough to keep them afloat, what on earth would make you think that they would succeed now?
However, you can always change your business model.
Only if you realize that your business model is what the problem is. Caldera is managed by people who can't understand that they are the ones who are the problem.
Also, they *DID* change their business model: in 2003 they decided to become a litigation company, only they picked a fight they couldn't win, in the hopes that their target wouldn't call their bluff. Stupid, stupid, stupid.
They failed in the Linux business because they're managed by idiots. They're failing in the litigation business for the same reason. No amount of good luck can compensate for that.
if Caldera hadn't changed its name to SCO and followed its current course it is very likely that it would be benefitting from the current pro-Linux climate. Linux companies are making money these days, and Caldera was well situated to profit from a Linux upturn.
I wouldn't be too sure about that. Remember that Caldera was the first Linux to try to foist per-seat licenses in their distro.
When you have no or very little competition, something like that can work, but when you have many, many other vendors selling the exact same thing, the last thing you do is try to differentiate yourself by making your offering worse than your competitors.
coWPAtty is a brute-force cracking tool [...] it would take more than 53710 days just to be sure that the passphrase isn't as simple as "aaaaaaaa."
When he says WPA "can be cracked with only four packets of data", he's not using the word "can" in the context of "someone can go to Denny's for a grand slam", but rather "you can move Mt. Everest to Arizona using only a teaspoon".
it's far easier to get Windows up and running on new hardware than it is to get Linux up and running
What the hell are you smoking?
You can take a HD out of a Linux system, and pop it into a machine with different specs, and it will just work.
Try doing that with Windows some time - assuming it runs at all, you'll be in for a world of "Windows has found new Hardware" driver installs and reboots. And then have miscellaneous lock-ups and crashes for the remaining life of the server.
For a complete hardware change with a pre-known configuration, I can go from bare metal to a fully functional & up to date Linux system in less than an hour (with all apps installed and configured.) The same cannot be said of Windows (just doing the base OS install and then applying service packs will typically take more than an hour.)
credit me with being intelligent enough to weigh the evidence for myself and make up my own mind.
If there was actual evidence of creationism, wouldn't that make it science?
Now, this may come as a shock to you, but the people who consider creationism to be drivel don't show you any respect because there is no actual evidence (sorry, storybooks from 1000 years aren't evidence - I'm pretty sure you don't also believe in witches that created houses out of gingerbread, cross-dressing wolves who impersonate old ladies, or bears who live in houses and eat porridge.)
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Linux version run extremly slow on slackware-10.2 AMD-1,4 nvidia geforce 5500FX & 1024 megs RAM
Not for me. Silky smooth on my Slack box: P4-1.8, GeForce4 MX 440 & 512MB of RAM. (Slackware packages sit between 9.1 and -current, but most are 10.1 or 10.2)
It works perfectly for me, and my box is nowhere to be seen on the list of approved distros (Slackware box that started as 9.0 and has been upgraded to be somewhere between 10.1 and 10.2, with a bunch of -current packages thrown in for good measure.)
Maybe it's your distribution?
they were told by the CRTC to come up with two minutes of "identifiable Canadian content,"
Do you have a link to back that up? Because the entire fscking show was "Canadian Content" - *ALL* of it (which you'd know if you'd ever read the CanCon regulations.) CanCon has nothing (as in ***NOTHING***) to do with the subject matter of a program. At all.
The real story behind Bob & Doug goes as follows:
Because commercial time in Canada is two minutes shorter in Canada than in the US, SCTV needed two extra minutes of the show for the Canadian broadcasts (ie, a single two-minute sketch that would be deleted from the US broadcasts.) The producers decided to make it a parody of Canadians, and Bob and Doug were born.
Install Stylish, then go here, here, or here.
"That was the old SCO, and this is the new SCO." Caldera bought their way into becoming SCO.
Actually, that is completely wrong, as was ruled by the court.
Tarantella (the original SCO) continued in business until they were bought by Sun.
SCOX is no more Tarantella than Lenovo is IBM.
Yes, Caldera's strategy was stupid back in the day.
Compared to today?!??!?!?!
They have the same type of morons running it now as they did then. Why do you think they'd be able to make a go of it now?
SuSE and Caldera had a better distribution than Red Hat
Yes, and all this does is go to prove that your original statement is wrong.
If having a superior distro wasn't enough to keep them afloat, what on earth would make you think that they would succeed now?
However, you can always change your business model.
Only if you realize that your business model is what the problem is. Caldera is managed by people who can't understand that they are the ones who are the problem.
Also, they *DID* change their business model: in 2003 they decided to become a litigation company, only they picked a fight they couldn't win, in the hopes that their target wouldn't call their bluff. Stupid, stupid, stupid.
They failed in the Linux business because they're managed by idiots. They're failing in the litigation business for the same reason. No amount of good luck can compensate for that.
their computers are of poor quality
Actually, their corporate-grade stuff is of very high quality. IMHO Second-to-none for servers and workstations.
Their consumer-grade stuff is crap.
I wouldn't be too sure about that. Remember that Caldera was the first Linux to try to foist per-seat licenses in their distro.
When you have no or very little competition, something like that can work, but when you have many, many other vendors selling the exact same thing, the last thing you do is try to differentiate yourself by making your offering worse than your competitors.
If you had, you would have seen this:
When he says WPA "can be cracked with only four packets of data", he's not using the word "can" in the context of "someone can go to Denny's for a grand slam", but rather "you can move Mt. Everest to Arizona using only a teaspoon".
with a good, well trained administrator behind the console of ANY operating system, it can be made secure, it can do enterprise.
OK, let's see you make Windows 3.1 a secure "enterprise" OS.
will slashdot give me serifed fonts back
Go here to install stylish, then install this, this, or this.
it's far easier to get Windows up and running on new hardware than it is to get Linux up and running
What the hell are you smoking?
You can take a HD out of a Linux system, and pop it into a machine with different specs, and it will just work.
Try doing that with Windows some time - assuming it runs at all, you'll be in for a world of "Windows has found new Hardware" driver installs and reboots. And then have miscellaneous lock-ups and crashes for the remaining life of the server.
For a complete hardware change with a pre-known configuration, I can go from bare metal to a fully functional & up to date Linux system in less than an hour (with all apps installed and configured.) The same cannot be said of Windows (just doing the base OS install and then applying service packs will typically take more than an hour.)
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I hate the wide kerning.
My pet peeve is the extra horizontal space between lines, but I think they have the same root cause:
The text is too damn small to be legible without them.
PLEASE can we have an alternate stylesheet that respects our browser font settings?
Power Rangers tried to teach the difference between doing good and doing bad
Huh? I thought Power Rangers tried to teach kids to buy cheap plastic "swords" made in Chinese sweatshops.
Hmm, I just went there, and it said I need to "install free software".
It didn't work, and all my software is already Free.
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Hey! Just because you don't agree with their platform, is no reason to insult them!
he was referring to Y2K, not 1988.
Yes, and 2000 came after 1988 (it's a bigger number - bigger numbers come after smaller ones - see how that works?)
His reference to 1988 was after the five years comment you quoted.
Yes, which is I pointed out that 1988 came before 2000. The order of the years doesn't change if you simply reference one before the other.
Umm, last time I checked, 1988 was more than 5 years ago.
credit me with being intelligent enough to weigh the evidence for myself and make up my own mind.
If there was actual evidence of creationism, wouldn't that make it science?
Now, this may come as a shock to you, but the people who consider creationism to be drivel don't show you any respect because there is no actual evidence (sorry, storybooks from 1000 years aren't evidence - I'm pretty sure you don't also believe in witches that created houses out of gingerbread, cross-dressing wolves who impersonate old ladies, or bears who live in houses and eat porridge.)
you actually did math with them?
:o)
Don't be too disappointed - maybe he was teaching them how to multiply.
(VAT on the costs of filling a cylinder)
That doesn't sound like they're taxing the air itself, but rather the service of filling the container.
Del Googled
Given a brick weighs less than 20lbs - how do you propse doing that?
:o)
Well, you start by throwing it through a jewellery store window.
they call the NY Attorney General. Who pays for that?
Oh, I don't know, how about the company?