Closed source is bad, there's no question about that. But what's the big deal about the release being in RPM format? Any competent Debian (or derivitive) user will easily be able to install it using alien and as for tgz binary distros, again, alien will convert.
I have been a fan of Godzilla since I was a boy, some 35 years ago. My son who is 7 is also a Godzilla fan. I've had a crush on Miki Saegusa (played by Megumi Odaka) for years. I hope that Toho does not keep him retired forever but if they do I will just say, "Have a good rest, my friend. You've brought great excitement and fun into me and my sons lives."
And always remember... Godzilla is neither good nor bad. He's just Godzilla. Much in the same way that a hurricane is just a hurricane.
This "report" is useless on the surface, but it is good information on how the enemy is working to attack us. This report explicatly excludes viruses and worms. That and taking into account the dirth of quality *NIX SysAdmins running the Linux boxes it would be redicules to think that these numbers weren't correct. You can make any numbers look any way you want within any arbitrary parms you like to use. We, the community, need to understand how they are juggeling the numbers in order to properly and effectivly combat it.
Like any self respecting techie, I have a full beard. It's funny... At work almost all the MS support people are clean shaven and all the UNIX admins have at least some amount of facial hair. Guess the steriotype is true.
The problem with Anthony can best be described by his statement that he has never, ever had writers block. This is why he can turn out the occational gem along with the flood of crap.
Back in the ol' FidoNet days there was an echo F&SF for fiction and science fiction. The people on this echo had come up with a scale to rate authors and books. It was a rating between 1 and 10 with Anthony representing the 1 and Azimov the 10.
A co-worker of mine made an interesting point about this. He said that he thinks the code "escaped" from MS for the purpose of taking the attention off of the ultra-massive security canyon that was just brought to light. Now everyone is all abuzz about the leaked code and has forgetting about the extreme lack of responsability and downright untrustworthyness of MS for waiting 6 months to fix their shit.
Sware to $DEITY my seven year old son asked me this exact question a few months ago. I was talking about some band and said something like, "I had some of their records."
It reminded me of the time on Teen Jeopardy many years back when none of the kids had ever heard of the Beatles. It sucks to get old.
UserLinux would be better named UselessLinux. It's got no good reason to exist. Who cares if it's got GNOME or KDE! It won't even get as far as UnitedLinux did before it crumbled to dust.
Now, I'm all for more distros, but there comes a time when reinventing the wheel for the seven billionth time is less than useful.
I have just gone through this dance myself. I wanted to get a cell phone that would allow me to make calls and receive calls. It took a lot of work and digging to get the one I ended up with. It's got everyhting and its brother (games, PDA, camera, web/email, text messaging, color screen, polyphonic ring tones (god help us!), blah, blah) but since the phone was free I don't really care. The only thing I do with it is make calls and receive calls. I did setup voicemail and you can text message me, if you reeally want to, but the idea of having the phone is to call me.
I have an iMac (ok, it's supposed to be my sons) and I use OS X happily on it. Granted I only use it for iTunes, iBlog, GarageBand & some misc web video stuff (like the videos of the latest Sumo bouts at http://www.banzuke.com/sumomovies). I do everything else on my RH/Fedora systems. That includes work and home/personal stuff. I'd probably use the Mac more but I can do everything I want and need to do as good or better on the Linux box so...
You have GOT to be kidding!?! Mac's are the most usable systems that exist. When you sit down at a Mac you are imediately productive no matter what you want to do. Not Like other OSs where you spend 30 minutes fiddeling and twittling with everything before you can even open a program like a word processer. The fact is that a WinXX system is only good for playing games on, a *NIX system is for development and/or server duty, while a Mac is for getting work done.
Out of curiosuty, how did RH force you to migrate? I've been using RH since 2.1 and they haven't sent anyone to my home or work to force me to switch to anything else. I still run Red Hat 9 and Fedora Core 1 on the workstations and White Box Enterprise Linux and RHEL 3 on the servers. I'm planning to try out Tao Linux as well. There's even CentOS-3 from cAos if you want even more options.
There's nothing wring with Mandrake, or any of the other major Linux distros. I've found them all to be of top quality. But with the myriad of RH options available now, I don't understand why anyone who has been using RH for a while would ever want to change.
Keep the Bionicals and get rid of all the other "specialized" products. Just having the regular blocks with some basic additions, like wheels and corners and house tops, would make them much more fun. My son is 7 and, other than the Bionicles, we play with the basic blocks more than anything.
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What would you say were some of the books that are good to have? I have various versions of older books on php (even one of the wrox books and, yes, it's not exactlly the one to use if you need any kind of continuaty) but am always interested in keeping up with things.
Ahem, COBOL is still alive and kicking quite well these days. There's still more new COBOL (i.e. non-legacy maintenance) code being written than any other language but C. Plus the ANSI/ISO standard for COBOL was updated in 2002 giving COBOL as good (or better) object capabilities than C++.
COBOL isn't sexy. It's not "kewl". It's very misunderstood; most people only know it from code written before 1970. It is, however, still the best language for the task it was designed for.
Programming languages are tools. Each has strengths and each is best suited for specific jobs that require those strengths. I have always
hated programming language elitism. Whenever someone says such-and-such language is the greatest or so-and-so language sucks I can instantly tell that this person doesn't have much of a clue about programming or application development. Would you hire a carpenter whose only tool was a hammer to build your house?
I averaged 15 to 18 cans of Coke a day for almost 15 years. Then I had to remove caffeine from my diet for medical reasons. The only way I could do it was to just switch to Sprite (or 7-Up or Sierra Mist) cold turkey. For the first year or two I wound up drinking much more, closer to 20-23 cans a day, but now I'm down to somewhere around 15.
Actually he was proven to be the first to fly in the US, and likely the world. I'd do some research/googling on it but it's not worth the effort. The Wright Borthers mythos is to embedded.
After you look at the pics here and here you can see that she is obviouslly a geek chick. It also looks like she could be kinda cute if she let her hair down, frillied up a bit and took off the glasses (though, for me, the glasses are an actractive feature). How many girls out there are geek enough to handle this level of techieness? I don't care if her "proof" turns out to be 100% correct or not. Just the fact that she can understand this level of geekness is enough for me. If I wasn't twice her age and in the wrong hemisphere you know I'd have to seek her out and ask her on a date. (And you also know that even if I was a local 22yo geek guy she'd still wouldn't go out with me).
I've been using Evolution since v1.0.something and I will likely keep using it in the forseeable future. This in spite of the fact that with every new version it sucks more and more. I'm running 1.4.3 on my RH9 box and will probably upgrade whenever I get to FC1 and there's rpms for it. With every new version of Evolution it gets closer and closer to Outlook. I really hate Outlook. There are so many things that worked wonderfully in previous versions of Evolution that just don't work anymore (using ~/.signature instead of that idiotic signature editor thing... keyboard combination to incert a test file into the body of an email... mouse option in the To: field of a message to remove the address... email editor/composer that didn't have so many input errors... there's much, much more but I can't remember it all off-hand).
The reason I will continue to use it is that the spell checking abilities are unreal. I can't spell words with more than one letter (as you can probably see from this comment) and of all the spell checking tools/utilities in any other app pale compaired to that in Evolution. So, I'll keep dealing with the idiocy of "Ovolution" (O standing for Outlook) as long as the spell checker works and I'm still at least able to read/write email.
Me, too. I still have a book, "Asimov on Numbers", that I checked out in '82 and forgot to return. OC, the not graduating part never was an issue as I dropped out after 3 & 1/2 semisters (in which I earned 20 credits). It's funny... I was a miserable student but I ended up 20+ years in the computer field. I do wish I had book lerning on various specific aspects of computing. I know I could be a MUCH better coder if I'd ever had any formal training in programming. Well, other than that class in BASIC I took in High School back in '79. Heh, nothing like programming on a TTY and having the punch tape be your hard copy.
Doing series is more about money then anything else. The publishers LOVE them and they push the authors to write them. With a series you get a decent guaranteed built-in sales quotient as fans will continue to buy the next in the series as soon as it's published. Many, many authors fall into the pit of taking a story that would normally be told in about 350 pages and d-r-a-g-g-i-n-g it out over 3 or 4 books.
I have only read 3 series in the 35 years since I learned to read that were really outstanding; Asimov's Foundation, Brust's Vlad Taltos & LotR. There have been others that were decent but not outstanding, like Zalazney Nine Princes in Amber.
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RPM -> Good!
Closed source -> Bad!
And always remember... Godzilla is neither good nor bad. He's just Godzilla. Much in the same way that a hurricane is just a hurricane.
This "report" is useless on the surface, but it is good information on how the enemy is working to attack us. This report explicatly excludes viruses and worms. That and taking into account the dirth of quality *NIX SysAdmins running the Linux boxes it would be redicules to think that these numbers weren't correct. You can make any numbers look any way you want within any arbitrary parms you like to use. We, the community, need to understand how they are juggeling the numbers in order to properly and effectivly combat it.
Like any self respecting techie, I have a full beard. It's funny... At work almost all the MS support people are clean shaven and all the UNIX admins have at least some amount of facial hair. Guess the steriotype is true.
Back in the ol' FidoNet days there was an echo F&SF for fiction and science fiction. The people on this echo had come up with a scale to rate authors and books. It was a rating between 1 and 10 with Anthony representing the 1 and Azimov the 10.
No. It hasn't even made a dent.
Well, it seems to have worked.
It reminded me of the time on Teen Jeopardy many years back when none of the kids had ever heard of the Beatles. It sucks to get old.
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Now, I'm all for more distros, but there comes a time when reinventing the wheel for the seven billionth time is less than useful.
I have just gone through this dance myself. I wanted to get a cell phone that would allow me to make calls and receive calls. It took a lot of work and digging to get the one I ended up with. It's got everyhting and its brother (games, PDA, camera, web/email, text messaging, color screen, polyphonic ring tones (god help us!), blah, blah) but since the phone was free I don't really care. The only thing I do with it is make calls and receive calls. I did setup voicemail and you can text message me, if you reeally want to, but the idea of having the phone is to call me.
I have an iMac (ok, it's supposed to be my sons) and I use OS X happily on it. Granted I only use it for iTunes, iBlog, GarageBand & some misc web video stuff (like the videos of the latest Sumo bouts at http://www.banzuke.com/sumomovies). I do everything else on my RH/Fedora systems. That includes work and home/personal stuff. I'd probably use the Mac more but I can do everything I want and need to do as good or better on the Linux box so...
You have GOT to be kidding!?! Mac's are the most usable systems that exist. When you sit down at a Mac you are imediately productive no matter what you want to do. Not Like other OSs where you spend 30 minutes fiddeling and twittling with everything before you can even open a program like a word processer. The fact is that a WinXX system is only good for playing games on, a *NIX system is for development and/or server duty, while a Mac is for getting work done.
Period!
There's nothing wring with Mandrake, or any of the other major Linux distros. I've found them all to be of top quality. But with the myriad of RH options available now, I don't understand why anyone who has been using RH for a while would ever want to change.
Just doesn't make sense.
I remember when I first read a Gibson novel and he described "jacking into the Matrix"... All I could think was, I want one!
Keep the Bionicals and get rid of all the other "specialized" products. Just having the regular blocks with some basic additions, like wheels and corners and house tops, would make them much more fun. My son is 7 and, other than the Bionicles, we play with the basic blocks more than anything.
What would you say were some of the books that are good to have? I have various versions of older books on php (even one of the wrox books and, yes, it's not exactlly the one to use if you need any kind of continuaty) but am always interested in keeping up with things.
Ahem, COBOL is still alive and kicking quite well these days. There's still more new COBOL (i.e. non-legacy maintenance) code being written than any other language but C. Plus the ANSI/ISO standard for COBOL was updated in 2002 giving COBOL as good (or better) object capabilities than C++.
COBOL isn't sexy. It's not "kewl". It's very misunderstood; most people only know it from code written before 1970. It is, however, still the best language for the task it was designed for.
Programming languages are tools. Each has strengths and each is best suited for specific jobs that require those strengths. I have always hated programming language elitism. Whenever someone says such-and-such language is the greatest or so-and-so language sucks I can instantly tell that this person doesn't have much of a clue about programming or application development. Would you hire a carpenter whose only tool was a hammer to build your house?
I averaged 15 to 18 cans of Coke a day for almost 15 years. Then I had to remove caffeine from my diet for medical reasons. The only way I could do it was to just switch to Sprite (or 7-Up or Sierra Mist) cold turkey. For the first year or two I wound up drinking much more, closer to 20-23 cans a day, but now I'm down to somewhere around 15.
Actually he was proven to be the first to fly in the US, and likely the world. I'd do some research/googling on it but it's not worth the effort. The Wright Borthers mythos is to embedded.
After you look at the pics here and here you can see that she is obviouslly a geek chick. It also looks like she could be kinda cute if she let her hair down, frillied up a bit and took off the glasses (though, for me, the glasses are an actractive feature). How many girls out there are geek enough to handle this level of techieness? I don't care if her "proof" turns out to be 100% correct or not. Just the fact that she can understand this level of geekness is enough for me. If I wasn't twice her age and in the wrong hemisphere you know I'd have to seek her out and ask her on a date. (And you also know that even if I was a local 22yo geek guy she'd still wouldn't go out with me).
The reason I will continue to use it is that the spell checking abilities are unreal. I can't spell words with more than one letter (as you can probably see from this comment) and of all the spell checking tools/utilities in any other app pale compaired to that in Evolution. So, I'll keep dealing with the idiocy of "Ovolution" (O standing for Outlook) as long as the spell checker works and I'm still at least able to read/write email.
Me, too. I still have a book, "Asimov on Numbers", that I checked out in '82 and forgot to return. OC, the not graduating part never was an issue as I dropped out after 3 & 1/2 semisters (in which I earned 20 credits). It's funny... I was a miserable student but I ended up 20+ years in the computer field. I do wish I had book lerning on various specific aspects of computing. I know I could be a MUCH better coder if I'd ever had any formal training in programming. Well, other than that class in BASIC I took in High School back in '79. Heh, nothing like programming on a TTY and having the punch tape be your hard copy.
Isn't that really supposed to be C-3PO?
No, I really don't have anything better to do.
I have only read 3 series in the 35 years since I learned to read that were really outstanding; Asimov's Foundation, Brust's Vlad Taltos & LotR. There have been others that were decent but not outstanding, like Zalazney Nine Princes in Amber.