My guess is that a lot of reviewers have misconfigured machines and don't know how to fix it. See other posts which reference this.
While my first inclination is to say that the user needs to fix their machine before giving a review, I don't think the user should even have to think about it. If so many people have this problem, RedHat needs to fix it so it works right out of the box.
USENET is not well advertised by providers because it's a huge bandwidth and storage hog. In fact a lot of people aren't able to get USENET at all except through some pay services and Google News which doesn't carry everything (especially binaries) and takes forever to update sometimes. It's really not surprising people don't know what it is or how to use it. Anyways, much of the functionality is being replaced by web boards and the binary part is being replaced by the multitude of P2P apps.
I just discovered the other day that my provider does have a full feed available for free to it's subscribers, but I sure couldn't find mention of it anywhere in their literature or on the website.
It's not the reason I'm not buying one (money is the reason). I admit that I'd probably get used to it, or figure out some way to do it (like the person who said there was a 78 button mouse implied). If I had the cash and wanted it bad enough, I'd deal with it. I'd just rather not have to relearn things if I don't have to (I'm lazy that way). My response to one mouse button is simply a gut reaction and the troll in me wanting to get out.
Responding to your other points: I don't think it's a question of _needing_ a mouse with more than one button, it's a question of what your used to and what makes sense to you. Personally, on Windows (rarely used), I use an MS Explorer mouse with 5 buttons. I _really_ like the forward and back buttons for browsing on the mouse. That doesn't work in Linux however (not by default anyways, someday I'll figure it out if I get bored). I don't think this is absurdly complicated and it is quite nice actully because it minimizes the amount of extra movement you have to do.
Personally I don't like using two different input devices. It's not as much of an issue on a laptop because they are so close together you don't need to move your hands. With a desktop though, it would be nice not to have to move my right hand back and forth between the keyboard and mouse. Yes, I'm sure there is hardware I can buy to avoid the issue, but I don't wanna. It seems to me that if I had to make as big of a context switch as moving my hand from keyboard to mouse, then the mouse should do a little more than point and click. And if that's all that's required by the OS, then it seems that the OS should be designed to be more efficient by only using one main input device that doesn't require your hands to move anywhere (yay keybindings!). Laptops with a trackpad right under the keyboard or the ones with the little nipple in the keyboard allieviate this quite a bit and I like that, I just wish they were as easy to use as a mouse (not quite there yet for me, but I probably just need more practice).
I just wish there was an option for more buttons on a ibook, more options are always nice (but having options in hardware isn't really what running a Mac is really all about is it?) (Sorry, that was too easy and too much fun).
I'm not quite sure what your dig about being and X86 running at 1/4 speed under battery really has to do with anything. I could care less what's under the hood and I certainly don't want to lose speed for any reason. I can run the software I need to run on whatever OS/platform I can get (well almost any platform).
It's more of a big deal on the laptops. I'm still salivating over a tibook, but the fact it only has one button for the pointer device is sooo frustrating. Sure I could get an external mouse, but that defeats half the purpose of the laptop IMHO. Desktops aren't a big deal, as the mice that come with most of them (PC and Mac) usually suck enough that I want to get my own anyways.
Have you ever been to Comdex? You have to get your badge swiped to get any goodies generally. I've gotten my badge swiped and gotten on so many mailing lists at all the Comdex/N+I shows just so I can get a bunch of lousy t-shirts and bouncy balls. It's ridiculous.
I have one of these 4090XDVD's too. I havne't really had overheating problems (it runs hot, but doesn't seem to cause problems). I've had the laptop on 24x7 for about the last year or so, and have not had any problems with that. My only problem is that I'm running RH 6.2 on it and I want to upgrade to 7.2, but I can't get it to boot up off my burned 7.2 CDs (it reads them fine once it's booted, but it won't boot off the cd directly anymore). I'm too lazy to make floppy disks so far so I've been living with 6.2.
Also I have not heard anything about a recall on these. Do you have any more information about it? I did a Google search and found nothing. The only thing related was that Toshiba settled a class action lawsuit about their floppy drives and I ended up getting an extra 128 megs of RAM out of them free plus a $400 check. Quite a deal!
Some people also type fast without checking or worrying about spelling and post without previewing. Some people also really don't care about using 100% perfect spelling as long as the point gets across correctly.
I'm not sure that intelligence has anything to do with it. I think it's more of an issue of not really caring what's happening, or maybe just not understanding. Who knows, the guy is obviously a nut, but that doesn't mean he can't be a computer genious at the same time. (Note, that I can't say for sure whether he is a geniour or not, but he surely makes some bad decisions, but even intelligent people make bad life decisions).
I have lots of Amish relatives. They most certainly don't have computers. Their houses don't have electricty. Unless of course you know of some kerosene powered computers?
Officially the government cited "incidents" where gangs would resolve their problems with a game of counterstrike rather than a good old fashioned fist fights as the reason for banning (temporarily) internet cafes
It seems to me that we should be building more Internet Cafes then, if gangs can solve all their problems over a game of CounterStrike.
The java one that comes with iPlanet's server is okay, but not great. I never really found one that worked all that well. I did spend a week or so writing one for myself in PHP, but it was pretty specific to the situation and isn't useful to anybody else. I pretty much came to the conclusion that it was best to roll your own as it really didn't take that much time, and then you got to customize it exactly how you wanted to.
-jay
Wasn't the article supposed to be the things that will change PCs in 2002? The whole article was about what will change in 2003 and beyond. Their computer specs even said 2004.
Anyway, I should have quit when they mentioned digital nirvana. I can't stand that term.
Dude. A LOT of businesses can't afford this. If it was for somebody who worked exclusively out of the home (or at least most of the time) then it might be worth it. But otherwise there is no way that is affordable to many places. A lot of people don't make 40k (or anywhere close)... I sure don't. $200/mo. is a lot of money.
Anyway. $40k/yr comes out to less than $20/hr. so this would be 10 hours of work time monthly.
It's not always "System Administrators". How many DSL/Cable subscribers do you think run Microsoft's Personal Webserver. Technically, yes, they are administering a system, but I don't think anybody would really call them a SysAdmin.
ah yes, analog's reports (and other web stat programs) are a big culprit as well. Even on local sites. If I have a/sekrit/ site that isn't linked to from anywhere on my site, but I have a bookmark that I visit often. That shows up in web logs still and usually gets indexed by a web log analyzer which can "handily" create links to all those pages when it generates the report.
Index pages. Index pages often have the../ parent link and that can get you to some places people tend not to think of as being accessible. IMHO, it's their own fault for putting that stuff somewhere even remotely close to being accessible. My guess is that many of them are run off of Micorosoft Personal Webservers or something that they may not even be sure they are running.
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A lot of things won awards. Yes KDE won 3, and good for them. But why does the story only include the KDE part. All the other awardees were surely deserving too.
So, I'm saying it. Caongratulations to ALL the entities who won awards from Linux Journal. You ALL deserve it. Keep up the good work!
funny?
No they even said it was supposed to coincide with the release. They "redid" their msn.site spficially timed with the release of XP. The new look of XP with the new look of MSN I guess.
It's not.
But, OTOH his constant bashing of RH is leaving a sour taste in many peoples mouths. What would happen if one day he decides to use slackware, and starts bashing Debian AND RedHat all the time? If he posts something as news, just post it as news, not opinion. If he writes an opinion peice, then that's fine.
His snide remark about not making snide remarks really is a sign showing his current level of maturity.
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My guess is that a lot of reviewers have misconfigured machines and don't know how to fix it. See other posts which reference this.
While my first inclination is to say that the user needs to fix their machine before giving a review, I don't think the user should even have to think about it. If so many people have this problem, RedHat needs to fix it so it works right out of the box.
USENET is not well advertised by providers because it's a huge bandwidth and storage hog. In fact a lot of people aren't able to get USENET at all except through some pay services and Google News which doesn't carry everything (especially binaries) and takes forever to update sometimes.
It's really not surprising people don't know what it is or how to use it. Anyways, much of the functionality is being replaced by web boards and the binary part is being replaced by the multitude of P2P apps.
I just discovered the other day that my provider does have a full feed available for free to it's subscribers, but I sure couldn't find mention of it anywhere in their literature or on the website.
33 *months* not years... big difference...
It's not the reason I'm not buying one (money is the reason). I admit that I'd probably get used to it, or figure out some way to do it (like the person who said there was a 78 button mouse implied). If I had the cash and wanted it bad enough, I'd deal with it. I'd just rather not have to relearn things if I don't have to (I'm lazy that way). My response to one mouse button is simply a gut reaction and the troll in me wanting to get out.
Responding to your other points:
I don't think it's a question of _needing_ a mouse with more than one button, it's a question of what your used to and what makes sense to you. Personally, on Windows (rarely used), I use an MS Explorer mouse with 5 buttons. I _really_ like the forward and back buttons for browsing on the mouse. That doesn't work in Linux however (not by default anyways, someday I'll figure it out if I get bored). I don't think this is absurdly complicated and it is quite nice actully because it minimizes the amount of extra movement you have to do.
Personally I don't like using two different input devices. It's not as much of an issue on a laptop because they are so close together you don't need to move your hands. With a desktop though, it would be nice not to have to move my right hand back and forth between the keyboard and mouse. Yes, I'm sure there is hardware I can buy to avoid the issue, but I don't wanna. It seems to me that if I had to make as big of a context switch as moving my hand from keyboard to mouse, then the mouse should do a little more than point and click. And if that's all that's required by the OS, then it seems that the OS should be designed to be more efficient by only using one main input device that doesn't require your hands to move anywhere (yay keybindings!). Laptops with a trackpad right under the keyboard or the ones with the little nipple in the keyboard allieviate this quite a bit and I like that, I just wish they were as easy to use as a mouse (not quite there yet for me, but I probably just need more practice).
I just wish there was an option for more buttons on a ibook, more options are always nice (but having options in hardware isn't really what running a Mac is really all about is it?)
(Sorry, that was too easy and too much fun).
I'm not quite sure what your dig about being and X86 running at 1/4 speed under battery really has to do with anything. I could care less what's under the hood and I certainly don't want to lose speed for any reason. I can run the software I need to run on whatever OS/platform I can get (well almost any platform).
It's more of a big deal on the laptops. I'm still salivating over a tibook, but the fact it only has one button for the pointer device is sooo frustrating. Sure I could get an external mouse, but that defeats half the purpose of the laptop IMHO. Desktops aren't a big deal, as the mice that come with most of them (PC and Mac) usually suck enough that I want to get my own anyways.
Kinda cool, though the doctored photos are less tha professional looking.
Have you ever been to Comdex? You have to get your badge swiped to get any goodies generally. I've gotten my badge swiped and gotten on so many mailing lists at all the Comdex/N+I shows just so I can get a bunch of lousy t-shirts and bouncy balls. It's ridiculous.
likely because things like PHP still don't work with Apache 2.0.x
I have one of these 4090XDVD's too. I havne't really had overheating problems (it runs hot, but doesn't seem to cause problems). I've had the laptop on 24x7 for about the last year or so, and have not had any problems with that. My only problem is that I'm running RH 6.2 on it and I want to upgrade to 7.2, but I can't get it to boot up off my burned 7.2 CDs (it reads them fine once it's booted, but it won't boot off the cd directly anymore). I'm too lazy to make floppy disks so far so I've been living with 6.2.
Also I have not heard anything about a recall on these. Do you have any more information about it? I did a Google search and found nothing. The only thing related was that Toshiba settled a class action lawsuit about their floppy drives and I ended up getting an extra 128 megs of RAM out of them free plus a $400 check. Quite a deal!
Some people also type fast without checking or worrying about spelling and post without previewing. Some people also really don't care about using 100% perfect spelling as long as the point gets across correctly.
I'm not sure that intelligence has anything to do with it. I think it's more of an issue of not really caring what's happening, or maybe just not understanding. Who knows, the guy is obviously a nut, but that doesn't mean he can't be a computer genious at the same time. (Note, that I can't say for sure whether he is a geniour or not, but he surely makes some bad decisions, but even intelligent people make bad life decisions).
I have lots of Amish relatives. They most certainly don't have computers. Their houses don't have electricty. Unless of course you know of some kerosene powered computers?
It seems to me that we should be building more Internet Cafes then, if gangs can solve all their problems over a game of CounterStrike.
The java one that comes with iPlanet's server is okay, but not great. I never really found one that worked all that well. I did spend a week or so writing one for myself in PHP, but it was pretty specific to the situation and isn't useful to anybody else. I pretty much came to the conclusion that it was best to roll your own as it really didn't take that much time, and then you got to customize it exactly how you wanted to.
-jay
Wasn't the article supposed to be the things that will change PCs in 2002? The whole article was about what will change in 2003 and beyond. Their computer specs even said 2004.
Anyway, I should have quit when they mentioned digital nirvana. I can't stand that term.
Dude. A LOT of businesses can't afford this. If it was for somebody who worked exclusively out of the home (or at least most of the time) then it might be worth it. But otherwise there is no way that is affordable to many places. A lot of people don't make 40k (or anywhere close)... I sure don't. $200/mo. is a lot of money.
Anyway. $40k/yr comes out to less than $20/hr. so this would be 10 hours of work time monthly.
It's not always "System Administrators". How many DSL/Cable subscribers do you think run Microsoft's Personal Webserver. Technically, yes, they are administering a system, but I don't think anybody would really call them a SysAdmin.
ah yes, analog's reports (and other web stat programs) are a big culprit as well. Even on local sites. If I have a /sekrit/ site that isn't linked to from anywhere on my site, but I have a bookmark that I visit often. That shows up in web logs still and usually gets indexed by a web log analyzer which can "handily" create links to all those pages when it generates the report.
Index pages. Index pages often have the ../ parent link and that can get you to some places people tend not to think of as being accessible. IMHO, it's their own fault for putting that stuff somewhere even remotely close to being accessible. My guess is that many of them are run off of Micorosoft Personal Webservers or something that they may not even be sure they are running.
*cough* Evolution *cough*
Why is this KDE centric?
A lot of things won awards. Yes KDE won 3, and good for them. But why does the story only include the KDE part. All the other awardees were surely deserving too.
So, I'm saying it. Caongratulations to ALL the entities who won awards from Linux Journal. You ALL deserve it. Keep up the good work!
funny?
No they even said it was supposed to coincide with the release. They "redid" their msn.site spficially timed with the release of XP. The new look of XP with the new look of MSN I guess.
> This would then presumably lead to password protected access for US kernel
> developers that need to know? And some kind of NDA?
US kernel developers cannot be told. Period.
Just curious... Is Linus considered a US kernel developer? He lives and works in the US, so I guess so...
pine does this by default
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It's not.
But, OTOH his constant bashing of RH is leaving a sour taste in many peoples mouths. What would happen if one day he decides to use slackware, and starts bashing Debian AND RedHat all the time? If he posts something as news, just post it as news, not opinion. If he writes an opinion peice, then that's fine.
His snide remark about not making snide remarks really is a sign showing his current level of maturity.