Not to justify your trolling, but this statement cannot be backed up with fact, therefore your whole argument loses credibility.
I used IE 5.0 on my windows system for a short period of time; yup, it's faster, and yup, it supports more of the w3c specs than before, and yup, it had some new features. It also had all it's old features, such as crashing on occasion (for no apparent reason a few times, I wasn't even at the computer), and randomly bitching that I wasn't online, and had to connect to view any pages, while I would be surfing just fine in netscape, would be on IRC with no lag, downloading newsgroups articles..
I've also heard from a few of my friends running the product that they've had the same problems.
Let's use a recent and, although rather harmless exploit, still an exploit. One of IE5's new features, the favicon.ico - c'mon, can't they think far enough ahead to foresee such problems? How many people work on each product? 2? 3? I'd hope it wasn't honestly that little of a group. =)
Windows products that are in Beta are notoriously buggy, and problematic. Wasn't 95 supposed to be named 94? I think we all know of that. =) Some of their products that have been released as stable have had just as soon after, so many bug patches and fixes released, one would think they were still in beta. Windows 2000 might be different, but when you've made yourself a bad track record to begin with, you've got a lot of work to do to prove you're changing.
From recent events, I don't see any changes happening over there.
Linux advocates spreading FUD? Heheh.. yeah, it happens all the time. Slashdot is a great place to find people doing that; behind the scenes, due to their anon posting (which I personally think was the least brightest idea on the planet), I'm sure you'll find a lot of those Linux FUD spreaders are anti-Linux campaigners in desguise.
Yup, we've got problems though; distro wars, infighting, etc. It happens all the time. It's a big problem we seem to have, but atleast we're fighting over a decent product.
-- Mark Waterous http://linux.revision3.com/ (Official opening, July 15th)
Why not get ttf fonts working for your computer? You can do it with either xfstt or the defualt xfs that comes with RH6. Also you need is a tool called ttmkfdir and so ttf fonts. It is very easy infact.
Also if you are looking for some cool fonts go to *shameless plug*
What you're saying is like telling someone who has been mugged that it's no so bad because they could have broken his arms too.
ISPs do this type of crap all of the time. The unilatterally change the conditions of service to their benefit without recourse on behalf of their customers. In many states people are hand-cuffed to one cable company. I can't choose Adelphia, TCI, Helicon, or Cablevision, if I want cable I HAVE to use Adelphia. They screw the customers over all of the time.
Be sure to check out http://accpc.com/roswell00.htm. Apparently, Bell labs never actually developed anything on their own, they just stole it from the aliens. C'mon, ACC is a computer retailer, not an R&D firm! They didn't even do a good job of faking a press release. Their grammar and punctuation is worse than CmdrTaco's, and the 'press release' quotes one of their own people when 'reached for comment.' Why would the company need to reach their own people for comment on a press release? Maybe/. needs a humor section... this certainly doesn't belong in 'news'.
I've seen this ad/website for almost 2 years, it changes every now and then it once had a pic of a Pii chip with a obviously fake superimposed label over the intel sticker and claimed 'this' was the product.
this site is bogus, and I'm amazed slashdot was fooled by this really lame site.
Go to auction sites and check out the legit Microsoft Office 97, pro edition. You can get them 20 bucks a CD, it has cd key and everything. Why? Because everybody else is given away office software. You can get Corel preload from some of the PC ventor for free. And you can get StarOffice free (yeah I got the win32 version. It's basically a WinOffice copy but the find-replace function is weak.)
Now go back to OS, can you find a windows 95 at a low price? You can't! I'd tried. There's not way to get a legit win95,98 for less than 55 dollars. Do I have to remind you that there's no competition? The list price is a joke, don't use it please. Look at the real price.
As for multimedia encyclopedia, you can get them free after rebate from CompUSA every other week.
If MS had a monopoly, Windows should be very expensive. It is.
(OK, some i sound like a microsoft marketing guy:P)... Duh?!
It's surreal to see Linux advocates yelling about a Microsoft monopoly and wishing for a Linux one.
Why you don't understand, that's suppose to be a joke. "Woowoo, world domination!" --that's a JOKE, get it. The geeks are playing with Microsoft's traditional mentality. I really don't understand, why would people angry at stuff when what being said is impossible. The nature of Linux prevent it from being an extreme OS, it will alway go what majority of the users/coders believe in. (I'm not saying it's the best way, but a democratic way.)
That was close! TCI is upgrading the equipment in my area and I think @Home is soon to come. I just about signed up. Now I think I better look into DSL... --- Put Hemos through English 101!
Will the AMD Athlon[tm] processor support multiprocessing?
Answer:
Yes. The AMD Athlon[tm] processor bus architecture is designed to support scalable multiprocessing. As the AMD Athlon evolves into a family of processors, multiprocessor systems (workstations and servers) based on forthcoming AMD Athlon platforms are planned to become available. The number of AMD Athlon processors in a multiprocessor system is a function of chipset implementation, and not the AMD Athlon design. Forthcoming optimized chipsets are planned to enable multiprocessor system designs based on 2,4,8 or more AMD Athlon processors. Every 45 seconds, another arrest for Linux. 695000 last year. It's time for a change.
The argument over whether NT or Linux is faster is completely irrelevant. The fact is Mac OS X Server is seven times faster than NT and three times faster than Solaris, so its bound to be faster than Linux.
Considering that I live in Redmond(or at least in unincorporated King County near the outskirts), I have yet to see BMWs and Mercedes stretching as far as the eye can see. In fact, the '77 Chevy Nova still at our house has outlasted two Citations, and has never needed anything major beyond a tranny overhaul long before I started driving it. The kids at my HS however, were livin' large with their fancy-ass sport cars and trucks.:P I've always had the opinion that the MS Complex is closer to Crossroads than it is to Redmond. And something that may shock some people, is that it's easy to spend a day driving around downtown Redmond and not see a thing relating to MS. The only scary thing starting to happen to Redmond is the "zombie housing", as a friend of mine from California notes. That is, the blocks of tiny apartment sections sprouting up everywhere, even downtown. Kind of depressing when I go near that street and remember that in the early 90's it was a school bus parking area(not even a lot, it was all grassland).
Who cares? - OS X Server is seven times faster
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Posted by ChristianC:
The argument over whether NT or Linux is faster is completely irrelevant. The fact is Mac OS X Server is seven times faster than NT and three times faster than Solaris, so its bound to be faster than Linux.
I disagree, compare the price of a decent tape drive to the average harddrive size, the price is almost on par with each other, hence Tape media is not a useful option for people anymore, unlike years ago when everyone wanted a 'colorado jumbo 250'
I am ruining democracy! I will kill myself at once.
As far as all the church crap, I've been doing that for years, where have you been? But I can't stand the thought of being an enemyof democracy, in the same catagories as those damned commies.
We do not aim to make GNU software run best on [proprietary systems] -- we write it for the GNU operating system. GNU software can enhance proprietary[...]systems in technical respects, but if you want freedom, you can't get it with a proprietary[...]operating system. To be free, you need to replace the proprietary system with a free operating system, such as Debian GNU/Linux.
Food for thought.
-W.W.
BeOS Drivers easier to develop than Linux drivers
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Posted by OGL:
Having never developed a driver for Be (Are regular users even allowed entrance to the almighy Be cathedral?), I can't really say if this is true or not. But given my experience with Linux device drivers, I find it VERY hard to believe...kernel development under Linux is a snap, and most of that is because the source to the kernel is readily available. Did he pull this out of his ass, quote a total BeOS bigot, or is this actually true? Answer, anybody?
Oh and of course its a wonderful university, in a wonderful town. NOT! Well not the town anyway. How do I know? I did my degree there.:P I just hope the people on my degree there are having a successful life. Cheers folks!
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Posted by Synsthe:
> IE 5.0 has been rock solid.
Not to justify your trolling, but this statement cannot be backed up with fact, therefore your whole argument loses credibility.
I used IE 5.0 on my windows system for a short period of time; yup, it's faster, and yup, it supports more of the w3c specs than before, and yup, it had some new features. It also had all it's old features, such as crashing on occasion (for no apparent reason a few times, I wasn't even at the computer), and randomly bitching that I wasn't online, and had to connect to view any pages, while I would be surfing just fine in netscape, would be on IRC with no lag, downloading newsgroups articles..
I've also heard from a few of my friends running the product that they've had the same problems.
Let's use a recent and, although rather harmless exploit, still an exploit. One of IE5's new features, the favicon.ico - c'mon, can't they think far enough ahead to foresee such problems? How many people work on each product? 2? 3? I'd hope it wasn't honestly that little of a group. =)
Windows products that are in Beta are notoriously buggy, and problematic. Wasn't 95 supposed to be named 94? I think we all know of that. =) Some of their products that have been released as stable have had just as soon after, so many bug patches and fixes released, one would think they were still in beta. Windows 2000 might be different, but when you've made yourself a bad track record to begin with, you've got a lot of work to do to prove you're changing.
From recent events, I don't see any changes happening over there.
Linux advocates spreading FUD? Heheh.. yeah, it happens all the time. Slashdot is a great place to find people doing that; behind the scenes, due to their anon posting (which I personally think was the least brightest idea on the planet), I'm sure you'll find a lot of those Linux FUD spreaders are anti-Linux campaigners in desguise.
Yup, we've got problems though; distro wars, infighting, etc. It happens all the time. It's a big problem we seem to have, but atleast we're fighting over a decent product.
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Mark Waterous
http://linux.revision3.com/ (Official opening, July 15th)
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Mark Waterous (mark@projectlinux.org)
Posted by peter_j:
Does this mean we'll be paying royalties to arnold?
Posted by MaverickPl:
Why not get ttf fonts working for your computer? You can do it with either xfstt or the defualt xfs that comes with RH6. Also you need is a tool called ttmkfdir and so ttf fonts. It is very easy infact.
Also if you are looking for some cool fonts go to *shameless plug*
http://www.da3.net/fontworld
Posted by My_Favorite_Anonymous_Coward:
I always thought LOL is Lord oh lord until someone went out their way to write it down... what, what?
CY
Posted by Lord Kano-The Gangster Of Love:
What you're saying is like telling someone who has been mugged that it's no so bad because they could have broken his arms too.
ISPs do this type of crap all of the time. The unilatterally change the conditions of service to their benefit without recourse on behalf of their customers. In many states people are hand-cuffed to one cable company. I can't choose Adelphia, TCI, Helicon, or Cablevision, if I want cable I HAVE to use Adelphia. They screw the customers over all of the time.
LK
Posted by MadSci:
/. needs a humor section... this certainly doesn't belong in 'news'.
Be sure to check out http://accpc.com/roswell00.htm. Apparently, Bell labs never actually developed anything on their own, they just stole it from the aliens.
C'mon, ACC is a computer retailer, not an R&D firm! They didn't even do a good job of faking a press release. Their grammar and punctuation is worse than CmdrTaco's, and the 'press release' quotes one of their own people when 'reached for comment.' Why would the company need to reach their own people for comment on a press release?
Maybe
Posted by viperx2:
/ end0501.ram
http://www.audionet.com/shows/endoftheline/9805
I got through 20 minutes of it. My ears started to fill with bullshit, and I might not be able to hear for a while.
Viper-X
Posted by zyberphox:
if we never find, then we ll never found,...
Posted by Largo_3:
I've seen this ad/website for almost 2 years, it changes every now and then it once had a pic of a Pii chip with a obviously fake superimposed label over the intel sticker and claimed 'this' was the product.
this site is bogus, and I'm amazed slashdot was fooled by this really lame site.
Go to auction sites and check out the legit Microsoft Office 97, pro edition. You can get them 20 bucks a CD, it has cd key and everything. Why? Because everybody else is given away office software. You can get Corel preload from some of the PC ventor for free. And you can get StarOffice free (yeah I got the win32 version. It's basically a WinOffice copy but the find-replace function is weak.)
Now go back to OS, can you find a windows 95 at a low price? You can't! I'd tried. There's not way to get a legit win95,98 for less than 55 dollars. Do I have to remind you that there's no competition? The list price is a joke, don't use it please. Look at the real price.
As for multimedia encyclopedia, you can get them free after rebate from CompUSA every other week.
If MS had a monopoly, Windows should be very expensive.
It is.
(OK, some i sound like a microsoft marketing guy :P)...
Duh?!
CY
Posted by My_Favorite_Anonymous_Coward:
It's surreal to see Linux advocates yelling about a Microsoft monopoly and wishing for a Linux one.
Why you don't understand, that's suppose to be a joke. "Woowoo, world domination!" --that's a JOKE, get it. The geeks are playing with Microsoft's traditional mentality. I really don't understand, why would people angry at stuff when what being said is impossible. The nature of Linux prevent it from being an extreme OS, it will alway go what majority of the users/coders believe in. (I'm not saying it's the best way, but a democratic way.)
CY
Posted by FascDot Killed My Previous Use:
That was close! TCI is upgrading the equipment in my area and I think @Home is soon to come. I just about signed up. Now I think I better look into DSL...
---
Put Hemos through English 101!
Posted by zyberphox:
is it possible to approximately measure how fast do all computer perform in running SETI@home, is it faster than redASCII ?
Posted by OGL:
> Hey, when you don't know something why make silly
> guesses to fit your prejudices.
Gee, why do you do the same?
FYI, you don't need to read the kernel code to develop a Linux device driver.
-W.W.
From AMD's Athlon FAQ:
http://www.amd.com/products/cpg/athlon/faq
Question:
Will the AMD Athlon[tm] processor support multiprocessing?
Answer:
Yes. The AMD Athlon[tm] processor bus architecture is designed to support scalable multiprocessing. As the AMD Athlon evolves into a family of processors, multiprocessor systems (workstations and servers) based on forthcoming AMD Athlon platforms are planned to become available. The number of AMD Athlon processors in a multiprocessor system is a function of chipset implementation, and not the AMD Athlon design. Forthcoming optimized chipsets are planned to enable multiprocessor system designs based on 2,4,8 or more AMD Athlon processors.
Every 45 seconds, another arrest for Linux. 695000 last year. It's time for a change.
Posted by ChristianC:
The argument over whether NT or Linux is faster is completely irrelevant. The fact is Mac OS X Server is seven times faster than NT and three times faster than Solaris, so its bound to be faster than Linux.
Posted by Scott Francis[Mechaman]:
:P
Considering that I live in Redmond(or at least in unincorporated King County near the outskirts), I have yet to see BMWs and Mercedes stretching as far as the eye can see. In fact, the '77 Chevy Nova still at our house has outlasted two Citations, and has never needed anything major beyond a tranny overhaul long before I started driving it. The kids at my HS however, were livin' large with their fancy-ass sport cars and trucks.
I've always had the opinion that the MS Complex is closer to Crossroads than it is to Redmond. And something that may shock some people, is that it's easy to spend a day driving around downtown Redmond and not see a thing relating to MS.
The only scary thing starting to happen to Redmond is the "zombie housing", as a friend of mine from California notes. That is, the blocks of tiny apartment sections sprouting up everywhere, even downtown. Kind of depressing when I go near that street and remember that in the early 90's it was a school bus parking area(not even a lot, it was all grassland).
Posted by ChristianC:
The argument over whether NT or Linux is faster is completely irrelevant. The fact is Mac OS X Server is seven times faster than NT and three times faster than Solaris, so its bound to be faster than Linux.
Posted by Largo_3:
I agree. less moving parts also means === SMALLER
Posted by Largo_3:
I disagree, compare the price of a decent tape drive to the average harddrive size, the price is almost on par with each other, hence Tape media is not a useful option for people anymore, unlike years ago when everyone wanted a 'colorado jumbo 250'
it only takes time...
Posted by The Mongolian Barbecue:
I am ruining democracy! I will kill myself at once.
As far as all the church crap, I've been doing that for years, where have you been? But I can't stand the thought of being an enemyof democracy, in the same catagories as those damned commies.
Posted by zyberphox:
do we already lost our privacy? do they force us to encrypt everything in our life style?
Posted by OGL:
...if I may quote from www.gnu.org:
We do not aim to make GNU software run best on [proprietary systems] -- we write it for the GNU operating system. GNU software can enhance proprietary[...]systems in technical respects, but if you want freedom, you can't get it with a proprietary[...]operating system. To be free, you need to replace the proprietary system with a free operating system, such as Debian GNU/Linux.
Food for thought.
-W.W.
Posted by OGL:
Having never developed a driver for Be (Are regular users even allowed entrance to the almighy Be cathedral?), I can't really say if this is true or not. But given my experience with Linux device drivers, I find it VERY hard to believe...kernel development under Linux is a snap, and most of that is because the source to the kernel is readily available. Did he pull this out of his ass, quote a total BeOS bigot, or is this actually true? Answer, anybody?
-W.W.
Posted by stodge:
:P I just hope the people on my degree there are having a successful life. Cheers folks!
Oh and of course its a wonderful university, in a wonderful town. NOT! Well not the town anyway. How do I know? I did my degree there.