Two years ago I coadministered the Linux boxes in our faculty. Once my boss changed root passwords to a sequence he remembered from a Windows serial code he used often. I and the webmaster (who mantained Apache and MySQL by himself) cursed him badly those days:-)
Exactly. If don't care speed, more dynamic languages as Python are a better choice. If you do, you'll use C++, even being somewhat more complex. It's interesting that, after the Java's hype in the mid 90's, it mostly become a niche for Web on J2EE.
Debian used to be Gnome biased, I don't think it's true anymore since a long time ago. (-centric for such a distribution with lots of packages that aren't related to Gnome, KDE or whatever seems a bit too much).
Anyway, RedHat is still a major force in Linux, and they will stick with Gnome, because it's theirs. They paid for most of it devel and have control over the development. They never could do the same with KDE people, besides old Qt licensing issues.
Sun is going in the same direction, and also Novell buying Ximian (no matter how much sense does coupling them with the long term KDE backers at SUSE).
Personally, I dislike Gnome as a desktop experience and as a technology framework, while I still like some apps, and admit they put some good concepts on the table (but not lately). I tried to like it but I didn't. Even more, I think they got most things wrong, and also they upset long-term users lately.
But the money don't care, they prefer monkeys to dragons, so it's unlikely that KDE becomes the only major desktop in the short term.
Show them some legal bt sources, not related to piracy and even to media. A supossedly legal music download could be doubtful for them.
Some people is using BT to distribute files otherwise provided using FTP. Slackware Linux is the only coming to mind right now. Find a few more BT sources like that and you can have a chance making them change their mind.
Maybe because Gnome+KDE+Mozilla+OOo aren't the same organization?
You can't blame them. There are no well stablished standards on widgets, strings and so on.
Standard C strings are char*, that usually isn't sophisticated enough. Standard C++ strings and specially container templates are still young enough some people refuses to use because poor support in some platforms.
About widgets, simply there are any standard, unless you want to claim Athena widgets are the true standard everybody should use.
So, every one does his choices, and it's ok they don't choose what other chosed, because other's choice is by no reason better than theirs, and there is nobody mandating what they should chose.
On the other hand, if you look closely, M$ reinvent (their own) wheels too.
Stable kernels is what Stable series used to be about. Who cares if changes are quickly in the stable branch if the branch really is unstable and never stabilizes? This just means you can't use a vanilla Linux kernel. You are forced to use patched kernels from large distros (those endorsing OSDL??), and hope they _really_ do their job, or stick with 2.4... I'm not against short release cycles. But kernels won't be nearly as stable as they become in earlier stable branches... 2.2.16 or 2.4.18 were rock solid kernels... I don't expect 2.6.18 to have anything near the quality of these. For short release cycles, use TWO branches again, number them anyway you like, but do them short, and let the stable branch stabilize without putting immediately another bunch of breakages on it.
...in older versions, the binary form files. Why, tell me, why they do such stupid thing???
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Add to this: Ugly DB component approach. While better than VB, the Non-visual components+Data Module Window was poorly thought, unconfortable, and never improved. If DM behaved like a view of the components (icon/list view) instead of an invisible form where things needs to be manually arranged should be way better. It wasn't really targeted to DB apps anyway, so it wasn't a good choice for this kind of apps.
I'm sorry, but while I dislike Gnome, KDE is my first desktop choice, and I don't think that your comment is nonsense since at least two years ago. While Linux is still a bit rough as a desktop, is not GUI's fault, but lack of certain features at system level, like DBUS is intended to solve. On the other hand, I guess the main weaknesses of Windows are not in the very low level stuff, so porting it on top of Linux or BSD don't solve its problems.
So, if you really like Windows, stick with it and be happy as it is, don't wait for any
Not. Computers are not smart. Computers are just tools. You can get better results with them, but tools aren't supposed to be in charge. I'm using the Konqueror browser. It's putting a lot of words in red, because I'm not writing in Spanish. Even beyond the multilanguage issue, your checker dictionary can lack some words, and also you can mispell a word into a different valid word, maybe a grammar check could detect it, but it's hard, grammar checkers usually sucks, and we can't even think on context checks...
So, checkers are to help people, not to really educate them.
I really doubt any true expert could join them, as the real experts are working for the card manufacturers, and signed NDAs... The only ones that won't maybe are working for ILM, Pixar, etc, and those are equally jealous. Unless someone can say there are some heavyweight video hardware guy in some university or so, I'm guess the effort will start from the very scratch.
> Because self-updating works so well for > Windows... Does it matter what Windows do?
I didn't read TFA, but from the title, it seems to be a retoric "Linux sucks because administration is required", don't care if Windows requires administration tasks (usually a lot more) as well.
Yes. That is why also authenticated and secured SMTP is being promoted. You will need to use your own SMTP, and if it is not in your own network, you will need to authenticate yourself (obviously, leaving the server as an open relay is no alternative), and probably using a secure connection to avoid password sniffings,
Bet anything that you want. Hurricanes could worse each year, until Florida people will force to sign Kyoto just because "maybe" greenhouse effect is caused by CO2 and other human activity emissions.
I admit I don't have any special scientific support, but if damages escalates year by year, Fla will accept *any* possibility.
This one has been tough. Next one can have 2 class-5 hurricanes hit at the heart of Florida. I guess that a job policy doesn't work by having workplaces available because of dead people, neither because large areas are devastated. US are powerful, nature is more. You can't stand against that.
Sad when I went to an interview, and I honestly explained that while I was a proficient C programmer, but had no such thing as a 8-hours-per-day experience, as probably almost anybody in this town.
Clever comment! Still there are people working hard to get Linux binaries running on Linux, besides different directory structure and configuration schemes, and you think there will be a kind of universal thing??? It sounds specially stupid because M$ won't allow such thing as true binary compatibility as long as they have their tight grip in the market.
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Two years ago I coadministered the Linux boxes in our faculty. :-)
Once my boss changed root passwords to a sequence he remembered from a Windows serial code he used often.
I and the webmaster (who mantained Apache and MySQL by himself) cursed him badly those days
Exactly. If don't care speed, more dynamic languages as Python are a better choice. If you do, you'll use C++, even being somewhat more complex.
It's interesting that, after the Java's hype in the mid 90's, it mostly become a niche for Web on J2EE.
Various points:
Debian used to be Gnome biased, I don't think it's true anymore since a long time ago. (-centric for such a distribution with lots of packages that aren't related to Gnome, KDE or whatever seems a bit too much).
Anyway, RedHat is still a major force in Linux, and they will stick with Gnome, because it's theirs. They paid for most of it devel and have control over the development. They never could do the same with KDE people, besides old Qt licensing issues.
Sun is going in the same direction, and also Novell buying Ximian (no matter how much sense does coupling them with the long term KDE backers at SUSE).
Personally, I dislike Gnome as a desktop experience and as a technology framework, while I still like some apps, and admit they put some good concepts on the table (but not lately). I tried to like it but I didn't. Even more, I think they got most things wrong, and also they upset long-term users lately.
But the money don't care, they prefer monkeys to dragons, so it's unlikely that KDE becomes the only major desktop in the short term.
Show them some legal bt sources, not related to piracy and even to media. A supossedly legal music download could be doubtful for them.
Some people is using BT to distribute files otherwise provided using FTP. Slackware Linux is the only coming to mind right now.
Find a few more BT sources like that and you can have a chance making them change their mind.
Lot of time ago I thought about this (the general idea, not detailed algorithmics) as a nice way to build very realistic scenarios for racing games.
:-)
Just think about a street circuit you could imagine nicely put into a game. I already did with our riverside avenues
Maybe because Gnome+KDE+Mozilla+OOo aren't the same organization?
You can't blame them. There are no well stablished standards on widgets, strings and so on.
Standard C strings are char*, that usually isn't sophisticated enough. Standard C++ strings and specially container templates are still young enough some people refuses to use because poor support in some platforms.
About widgets, simply there are any standard, unless you want to claim Athena widgets are the true standard everybody should use.
So, every one does his choices, and it's ok they don't choose what other chosed, because other's choice is by no reason better than theirs, and there is nobody mandating what they should chose.
On the other hand, if you look closely, M$ reinvent (their own) wheels too.
Stable kernels is what Stable series used to be about.
Who cares if changes are quickly in the stable branch if the branch really is unstable and never stabilizes?
This just means you can't use a vanilla Linux kernel. You are forced to use patched kernels from large distros (those endorsing OSDL??), and hope they _really_ do their job, or stick with 2.4...
I'm not against short release cycles. But kernels won't be nearly as stable as they become in earlier stable branches... 2.2.16 or 2.4.18 were rock solid kernels... I don't expect 2.6.18 to have anything near the quality of these.
For short release cycles, use TWO branches again, number them anyway you like, but do them short, and let the stable branch stabilize without putting immediately another bunch of breakages on it.
...in older versions, the binary form files.
Why, tell me, why they do such stupid thing???
Add to this: Ugly DB component approach.
While better than VB, the Non-visual components+Data Module Window was poorly thought, unconfortable, and never improved.
If DM behaved like a view of the components (icon/list view) instead of an invisible form where things needs to be manually arranged should be way better.
It wasn't really targeted to DB apps anyway, so it wasn't a good choice for this kind of apps.
Follow the upgrade instructions in the CD :-P
Basically, it is:
First upgrade package tools and glibc with upgradepkg.
Then, upgrade everything else.
slackupdate.sh script also allows upgrading, while swaret/slapt-get seem to be more sophisticated (I didn't use them).
Well, personally I install squid in pretty much every Slackware box I install, and is the only one package I really miss from the standard install.
I'm sorry, but while I dislike Gnome, KDE is my first desktop choice, and I don't think that your comment is nonsense since at least two years ago. While Linux is still a bit rough as a desktop, is not GUI's fault, but lack of certain features at system level, like DBUS is intended to solve.
On the other hand, I guess the main weaknesses of Windows are not in the very low level stuff, so porting it on top of Linux or BSD don't solve its problems.
So, if you really like Windows, stick with it and be happy as it is, don't wait for any
Now there is only office for 300 dollars, and you get MS(doesn't)works free w/ a new pc
Unfortunately, you are badly uninformed.
I don't think those are widely bundled in new PCs, and that is what grandparent meant.
Oh, yes! I see it coming!
GNU/Corn, from a long bearded Massachusets farmer.
Oh! I was sure it was those OSS communists responsability.
I don't think any Windows/Linux discussion from Microsoft worth anything.
Too much FUD already. Why caring about this?
Not.
Computers are not smart. Computers are just tools. You can get better results with them, but tools aren't supposed to be in charge.
I'm using the Konqueror browser. It's putting a lot of words in red, because I'm not writing in Spanish.
Even beyond the multilanguage issue, your checker dictionary can lack some words, and also you can mispell a word into a different valid word, maybe a grammar check could detect it, but it's hard, grammar checkers usually sucks, and we can't even think on context checks...
So, checkers are to help people, not to really educate them.
I really doubt any true expert could join them, as the real experts are working for the card manufacturers, and signed NDAs...
The only ones that won't maybe are working for ILM, Pixar, etc, and those are equally jealous.
Unless someone can say there are some heavyweight video hardware guy in some university or so, I'm guess the effort will start from the very scratch.
> Because self-updating works so well for
> Windows... Does it matter what Windows do?
I didn't read TFA, but from the title, it seems to be a retoric "Linux sucks because administration is required", don't care if Windows requires administration tasks (usually a lot more) as well.
Yes.
That is why also authenticated and secured SMTP is being promoted. You will need to use your own SMTP, and if it is not in your own network, you will need to authenticate yourself (obviously, leaving the server as an open relay is no alternative), and probably using a secure connection to avoid password sniffings,
Bet anything that you want.
Hurricanes could worse each year, until Florida people will force to sign Kyoto just because "maybe" greenhouse effect is caused by CO2 and other human activity emissions.
I admit I don't have any special scientific support, but if damages escalates year by year, Fla will accept *any* possibility.
This one has been tough. Next one can have 2 class-5 hurricanes hit at the heart of Florida.
I guess that a job policy doesn't work by having workplaces available because of dead people, neither because large areas are devastated.
US are powerful, nature is more. You can't stand against that.
They are saying: "W is still with us. Keep up bullying and trying to own the computing world. Gov is with us, we cannot lose."
Sad when I went to an interview, and I honestly explained that while I was a proficient C programmer, but had no such thing as a 8-hours-per-day experience, as probably almost anybody in this town.
:-(
I didn't get it.
Clever comment!
Still there are people working hard to get Linux binaries running on Linux, besides different directory structure and configuration schemes, and you think there will be a kind of universal thing???
It sounds specially stupid because M$ won't allow such thing as true binary compatibility as long as they have their tight grip in the market.