From where exactly? I have an ADC membership and I can't find it on the site. Care to provide a link? (Or did you find it on a Carracho server somewhere;-)
So true. After two years of lameness, delays, and just plain mismanagement t.o. doesn't deserve our respect or our patronage.
What irks me is the year it took to get a suck-ass, painfully slow replacement online and then they put the original one back online anyway at classic.themes.org. WTF? Why didn't you do that like a year ago? So it's got some security issues - just fix them and get it back online.
When you set yourself up as *THE* place for anything in the OpenSource community you are making a commitment to the community that should not be taken lightly. You have a responsibility to either honour your agreement, or pass it off to someone who will.
The managers of t.o. did neither and should be ashamed of themselves for taking so long. What's worse is that the person responsible (Chris DiBona) has never taken responsibility for the mess or even appologized, just offered 'sometime real soon now' platitudes and lame excuses.
One of the coments on themes.freshmeat.net was <paraphrase>So why the hell didn't you do this a year and half ago?</paraphrase>. I couldn't agree more.
Except it is ugly ugly ugly. Other than a terminal, I probably spend most of my time in mail. Given that it would be nice to use a visually pleasing app... like Kmail or something.
So typically American - force your viewpoint and "morals" on others. Why, if they don't adhere to the practices that you deem acceptable then they are barbarians!
Personally I think the US should be much more liberal with the death penalty, and actually carry it out once it has been issued, and not wait the usual 15 years. Maybe then it would be safe to walk the streets at night in US cities like it is in every mainland Chinese city I've ever been to.
Of course you, never having been to China, wouldn't know that. So much easier to pontificate, isn't it?
That horrid, suck-ass Next filemanager is really the only thing that keeps me from recommending OSX to clients, friends, and family. No, really. It really, really bites.
Mod me down as a troll. Go ahead. You know I'm right.
Don't mean to be a troll, but this matters exactly how? It's _television_, which is by definition meaningless.
And hey, I spent six months working as a contractor at FOX. Trust me - it' a miracle anything at all actually makes it onto the air, much less rational decisions made about _what_ gets on the air.
AFAIK the only generally available tape backup for something this big is DLT, which IIRC can now do around 40GB per tape before compression.
Um...AIT. As fast or faster than DLT, same storage volume per media unit as DLT, media is cheaper than DLT, because the media is smaller than DLT libraries/autoloaders tend to be less expensive than their DLT counterparts.
Too bad no first world country actually practices capitalism, with the possible exception of Hong Kong.
What we have is an elaborate system of corporate welfare. The US beef industry, the US agro industry, the US steel industry, the US auto industry, and many others. All heavily subsidized by our tax dollars.
If we did away with corporate welfare and massive corporate tax breaks, and if the US and other countries actally practiced capitalism the effect would make the.com crash look tame in comparison.
Spare me the glories of capitalism until it can work without handouts.
Most major distros install quite a bit of stuff by default that you will 1) you probably will never use 2) you probably dont know what it is 3) if it's a server you don't need anyway
This is one of the reasons I created Beehive Linux. It aims to be secure, stable, clean, FHS compliant, and optimized for hardware built in this century. Current version is 0.4.2, with 0.4.3 out in a week or so.
On one point however I must disagee with Mosfet:
The most obvious thing is separate the big projects like desktop projects into their own folders under/usr
The FHS states:/opt is reserved for the installation of add-on application software packages. A package to be installed in/opt must locate its static files in a separate/opt/ directory tree, where is a name that describes the software package.
Beehive puts large packages like apache, mysql, kde2 under/opt in their own subdirectory i.e.;/opt/kde2. I think this is a much better solution than cluttering up the/usr heirarchy, and makes it very simple to test a new version of without destroying the current setup.
Linus, why do you want to make your own kernel? It's too much work! It's too hard! It's too expensive! Just use Minix or DOS like everyone else!
Most of the comments here just dont get it. To all these people I'd like to say - it's about a vision of what you want. It's the feeling that that there's a better way, and it just might be doable.
This is how Linux began - A vision of what one person wanted, and the desire to make it so. Don't be such a bunch of damn naysayers.
Unfortuneately they forgot that nobody really cares about it. They then decided to try the low power market, but since Intel made a chip specific to lower power of course Intel will beat them out.
Silly me. I just pre-ordered a
Fujitsu P Series specifically because it uses a Transmeta TM5800 and gets around 10hrs runtime with the second battery.
As a commuter and longtime laptop user I care a great deal more about power use than I do raw speed. I don't think you should be so quick to declare "Intel will beat them out". Speed Step is pretty much worthless and I wouldn't count on the Intel M series to really be that much better. Intel is much more concerned with their core desktop & server business, and keeping AMD at bay.
I'd rather take a minor speed hit with Transmeta and get 1.5-2x the battery life, than have a slightly faster laptop that gets 2.5-3 hours runtime and that can also double as a space heater.
I don't think this is very realistic. Every single MS network I've worked on has Access.mdb's scattered all over. Damn things breed like tribbles. And fairly often so-called 'developers' opt to use Access instead of VB/C++ for 'quickie' apps. - And that brings up the point of application migration, all those VB/MSSQL and MS C++ apps need to be ported, or at least run from Citrix as an interim step.
Back in the mid '90's when larger companies (+500 users) were migrating from either terminals or Netware or both, the options were Win 3 or Apple.
At that point in time MS was not the company it is today. MS was just another vendor. Who new things would end up like this? And now years later it is massively entrenched. (And no Mac OS6 & 7 were not viable on an enterprise desktop).
Today we have more options. Both OSX and Linux are viable alternatives on the desktop. However the key really is an office package that can gracefully handle *eight years* worth of documents, spreadsheets, databases and such. Star/Open Office just isn't quite there yet. What are you going to port the 18472 Access databases floating in you organization to? Apache, PHP and MySQL? C/C++ and MySQL or Oracle? Either way the development costs would be huge.
Spend some time in a 3000+ user environment. Migrating from MS products to another platform is a *massive* undertaking (no to mention the user training issues and costs involved).
From an exec's point of view: I can take it in shorts and play the MS game, it will cost me 10-20% more than it did last year but it things will be pretty much business as usual. Or I can migrate my entire userbase to another less costly and restrictive alternative that at a minimum cost to my IS organization of around 100 hours per user to migrate (including training and document/data conversion).
Now tell me - what are you going to do? Like I said, it's just not that simple.
And what about the much rumored Apple iPad? At +/- 1000x1000 resolution (I've seen both 1000x1000 and 1024x768), WiFi, 5+ hrs battery life, USB, and OS X I'd dump both my Plam V and my iPaq 3670 in a second. (...dreams of mornings on the patio with my coffee and my pad checking mail and laughing at slashdot...)
I think PDA's will always have their place, but I really believe the BIG market in the next few years (for business anyway) is going to be wireless tables.
Slashdot Mirror
I downloaded the developers preview
;-)
From where exactly? I have an ADC membership and I can't find it on the site. Care to provide a link? (Or did you find it on a Carracho server somewhere
How the hell was this mod'ed as a Troll? I guess some of the Andover boys have been playing moderator again.
So true. After two years of lameness, delays, and just plain mismanagement t.o. doesn't deserve our respect or our patronage.
What irks me is the year it took to get a suck-ass, painfully slow replacement online and then they put the original one back online anyway at classic.themes.org. WTF? Why didn't you do that like a year ago? So it's got some security issues - just fix them and get it back online.
When you set yourself up as *THE* place for anything in the OpenSource community you are making a commitment to the community that should not be taken lightly. You have a responsibility to either honour your agreement, or pass it off to someone who will.
The managers of t.o. did neither and should be ashamed of themselves for taking so long. What's worse is that the person responsible (Chris DiBona) has never taken responsibility for the mess or even appologized, just offered 'sometime real soon now' platitudes and lame excuses.
One of the coments on themes.freshmeat.net was <paraphrase>So why the hell didn't you do this a year and half ago?</paraphrase>. I couldn't agree more.
Except it is ugly ugly ugly. Other than a terminal, I probably spend most of my time in mail. Given that it would be nice to use a visually pleasing app ... like Kmail or something.
Life is just too short for ugly applications.
Hit a man on the head with a fish, and he'll have a headache for a day...
....
Nail it to his skull and he'll have headache for
Who is the idiot that mod'ed this down? Please mod this up.
So typically American - force your viewpoint and "morals" on others. Why, if they don't adhere to the practices that you deem acceptable then they are barbarians!
Personally I think the US should be much more liberal with the death penalty, and actually carry it out once it has been issued, and not wait the usual 15 years. Maybe then it would be safe to walk the streets at night in US cities like it is in every mainland Chinese city I've ever been to.
Of course you, never having been to China, wouldn't know that. So much easier to pontificate, isn't it?
That horrid, suck-ass Next filemanager is really the only thing that keeps me from recommending OSX to clients, friends, and family. No, really. It really, really bites.
Mod me down as a troll. Go ahead. You know I'm right.
The thing is round media in cartridge's never takes off to any large degree in the US. A have a drawer full of old PD-CD's, MO's, MD's, etc.
Not sure why otherwise good media formats (I like MD) dont take off when wrapped in a cartridge. Bulk perhaps?
Don't mean to be a troll, but this matters exactly how? It's _television_, which is by definition meaningless.
And hey, I spent six months working as a contractor at FOX. Trust me - it' a miracle anything at all actually makes it onto the air, much less rational decisions made about _what_ gets on the air.
Kill your television.
Gosh a Beowulf cluster of these would be....you could just strap them all over your body and...
OK, I feel better now.
AFAIK the only generally available tape backup for something this big is DLT, which IIRC can now do around 40GB per tape before compression.
Um...AIT. As fast or faster than DLT, same storage volume per media unit as DLT, media is cheaper than DLT, because the media is smaller than DLT libraries/autoloaders tend to be less expensive than their DLT counterparts.
Capitalism works
.com crash look tame in comparison.
Too bad no first world country actually practices capitalism, with the possible exception of Hong Kong.
What we have is an elaborate system of corporate welfare. The US beef industry, the US agro industry, the US steel industry, the US auto industry, and many others. All heavily subsidized by our tax dollars.
If we did away with corporate welfare and massive corporate tax breaks, and if the US and other countries actally practiced capitalism the effect would make the
Spare me the glories of capitalism until it can work without handouts.
You are soooo right. I was in Stockolm for Y2K and it was about -15c. Brrrr.
The only solution was to drink to excess so you didn't feel the cold attacking your bones.
Hmm...I guess that should be Beehive Linux
That'll learn me not to preview.
Most major distros install quite a bit of stuff by default that you will 1) you probably will never use 2) you probably dont know what it is 3) if it's a server you don't need anyway
/usr
/opt is reserved for the installation of add-on application software packages. A package to be installed in /opt must locate its static files in a separate /opt/ directory tree, where is a name that describes the software package.
/opt in their own subdirectory i.e.; /opt/kde2. I think this is a much better solution than cluttering up the /usr heirarchy, and makes it very simple to test a new version of without destroying the current setup.
This is one of the reasons I created Beehive Linux. It aims to be secure, stable, clean, FHS compliant, and optimized for hardware built in this century. Current version is 0.4.2, with 0.4.3 out in a week or so.
On one point however I must disagee with Mosfet:
The most obvious thing is separate the big projects like desktop projects into their own folders under
The FHS states:
Beehive puts large packages like apache, mysql, kde2 under
Linus, why do you want to make your own kernel? It's too much work! It's too hard! It's too expensive! Just use Minix or DOS like everyone else!
Most of the comments here just dont get it. To all these people I'd like to say - it's about a vision of what you want. It's the feeling that that there's a better way, and it just might be doable.
This is how Linux began - A vision of what one person wanted, and the desire to make it so. Don't be such a bunch of damn naysayers.
Unfortuneately they forgot that nobody really cares about it. They then decided to try the low power market, but since Intel made a chip specific to lower power of course Intel will beat them out.
Silly me. I just pre-ordered a Fujitsu P Series specifically because it uses a Transmeta TM5800 and gets around 10hrs runtime with the second battery.
As a commuter and longtime laptop user I care a great deal more about power use than I do raw speed. I don't think you should be so quick to declare "Intel will beat them out". Speed Step is pretty much worthless and I wouldn't count on the Intel M series to really be that much better. Intel is much more concerned with their core desktop & server business, and keeping AMD at bay.
I'd rather take a minor speed hit with Transmeta and get 1.5-2x the battery life, than have a slightly faster laptop that gets 2.5-3 hours runtime and that can also double as a space heater.
1) It's a one-time cost versus an on-going cost
.mdb's scattered all over. Damn things breed like tribbles. And fairly often so-called 'developers' opt to use Access instead of VB/C++ for 'quickie' apps. - And that brings up the point of application migration, all those VB/MSSQL and MS C++ apps need to be ported, or at least run from Citrix as an interim step.
Yes, but it's a *big* one time cost.
2) Users should not be creating access databases
I don't think this is very realistic. Every single MS network I've worked on has Access
Couldn't agree more with #3
#4 is an excellent idea. Good point.
It's just not that simple for most companies.
Back in the mid '90's when larger companies (+500 users) were migrating from either terminals or Netware or both, the options were Win 3 or Apple.
At that point in time MS was not the company it is today. MS was just another vendor. Who new things would end up like this? And now years later it is massively entrenched. (And no Mac OS6 & 7 were not viable on an enterprise desktop).
Today we have more options. Both OSX and Linux are viable alternatives on the desktop. However the key really is an office package that can gracefully handle *eight years* worth of documents, spreadsheets, databases and such. Star/Open Office just isn't quite there yet. What are you going to port the 18472 Access databases floating in you organization to? Apache, PHP and MySQL? C/C++ and MySQL or Oracle? Either way the development costs would be huge.
Spend some time in a 3000+ user environment. Migrating from MS products to another platform is a *massive* undertaking (no to mention the user training issues and costs involved).
From an exec's point of view: I can take it in shorts and play the MS game, it will cost me 10-20% more than it did last year but it things will be pretty much business as usual. Or I can migrate my entire userbase to another less costly and restrictive alternative that at a minimum cost to my IS organization of around 100 hours per user to migrate (including training and document/data conversion).
Now tell me - what are you going to do? Like I said, it's just not that simple.
The world won't be fair until the LED museum and similar sites are offered -- No, given! -- .museum addresses.
But who decides exactly who of the 10,212 applicants for elvis.museum whould get the domain?
(And you'd still have pr0n: www.hotvictorianbabes.museum)
Can't check the link out - still .dot'd. Bummer.
I recently did a wireless scan of Downtown Los Angeles. Found 47 access points in the core area - only about 8 were using any kind of encryption.
I couldn't believe it. I keep wondering if these numbers are a result of 1) altruism 2) ignorance 3) laziness or some combination of the above.
As an aside - what are the best wireless scanning apps for linux?
Until you get past about 50K records for a groupware 'application'.
At that point Exchange starts to choke on it - no matter how much CPU/RAM/Disk you throw at it
I have lived that nightmare and it is NOT anything close to fun
err...that's tablets not tables. But you knew that already.
And what about the much rumored Apple iPad? At +/- 1000x1000 resolution (I've seen both 1000x1000 and 1024x768), WiFi, 5+ hrs battery life, USB, and OS X I'd dump both my Plam V and my iPaq 3670 in a second. (...dreams of mornings on the patio with my coffee and my pad checking mail and laughing at slashdot...)
I think PDA's will always have their place, but I really believe the BIG market in the next few years (for business anyway) is going to be wireless tables.