| You know, I wish I had the luxury of | determining which laws I thought were breakable | because what I was doing wasn't realing | "harming" anyone.
Most people do, actually. For a good example, just take a look at speed limits, which most people on the highways break routinely. After all, is driving 56 in a 55 really hurting anyone? (It'd be a safe bet that most people would say no.)
Note that I'm not saying that this is an excuse for putting illegal mp3s on a public share for the world to take. It was still against the law (and stupid). I'm just making the point that even everyday people apply the same rationalization to breaking minor laws (and in the grand scheme of things, busting people copying mp3s is pretty far down on the list of things I want my neighborhood cops on the streets for) as the previous poster.
CMU searching *private* areas would be a whole other can o' worms, though.
The joke on the Redhat Alpha mailing list today was "Cool! For $99 we can have a working Netscape!" (Forgot who actually posted that)
[Linux/Alpha can run many Tru64 binaries provided you have the right set of libraries. Presumably, you get these libraries when you pay your $99. Netscape doesn't exist for Linux/Alpha, and Mozilla's still a little quirkier than most would like it.]
| Any grade 7 should be able to write better than | that. It really makes me worry about schools | today.
Back when I was in high school (class of '90), I was the editor of the school's literary magazine. I've seen writing as bad as that from juniors (who were apparently proud enough of their work to submit it to the literary magazine - it wasn't a requirement!) As a graduate student, I've taught a number of freshman-level chemistry labs. I've gotten lab reports from students that were written as poorly as this seventh grader's essay. I guess what I'm saying here is that schools "today" have been as bad for at least the past ten years.
Should the kid have been arrested for writing this essay? Heck no. Should the kid have been given a perfect score on it? Hell no! The first sentence alone would have made *my* seventh grade teacher give the thing an "F". Honestly, it sounds like the kid did a little too *much* "freeon" before class that day.
Having said all of this, I feel a little sorry for the kid because I put one of *my* short stories into my school's literary magazine. This story was about an abused child who ends up shooting his parents. I wasn't an abused child and I had no intention of shooting my parents, but I *was* questioned about the story at length. This happened even though the story was written in third person and used no "real" names. It's a good thing that Columbine hadn't happened then, or I might have been put in jail!
[PS - No grammar flames about this post, please. Slashdot ain't no literary magazine!;) ]
| they are going to provide "interactive | experiences" at the coke machine.
How many people remember when Coke brought out the talking/singing Coke machine? I believe this was sometime in the early to mid eighties. Anyway, the machine would talk to you and sing the (annoying) "coke is it" theme at you while you tried to buy a drink from it. For this privilege, you paid an extra twenty cents (over the already inflated price).
This first brush with an "interactive experience" at a Coke machine didn't last too terribly long.
I don't know about the rest of you, but all I want from a coke machine is a can of soda.
| On the other hand, a grove of carniverous | christmas trees just doesn't have a | big scare factor.
I take it you've never played _Beyond Zork_.
"Vast herds of these luminous vegetables roam freely amid the glacial valleys of the south. Residents fear the autumn migration, in which the trees cheerfully trample anything in their path. Christmas tree monsters are repelled by caterpillars, but nobody can explain why."
Courtesy of _The Lore and Legends of Quendor_.
Now if I could only find out where I put that copy of the glyph of warding...
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| There is no compelling demand for porting to | Linux.
Then don't port. But don't blame it on what's probably *not* a representative sample of the Linux community.
| But seeing how the people here behaved is a huge | turn off.
Hey, there are assholes that use *every* platform. Windows, Mac, Linux, *BSD, Amiga, etc. (There are also users of all of these platforms on *this* forum, but that's another issue).
| Basically I have lost the emotional motivation | to port my applications to Linux.
That's fine. Doing a port is your business. Just don't come on Slashdot and whine that someone here offended you, so you are taking your ball and going home.
| The part about GPL is that I can't do all the | ports myself. If I want my apps to port to | other platforms, I need to do it under GPL to | let othe people do it. But I have lost faith in | GPL.
Same question - what has RMS done to offend you? The GPL has been around a lot longer than Slashdot.
| So much for the ports.
Take your ball and go home. Just don't whine to the rest of us who *don't* post racist comments on Slashdot.
| As how this related to the Garner report, I was | just saying that this is one reason Linux | doesn't get all the application support that it | needs.
Actually, I think serious applications developers probably don't really care that a forum has some assholes posting to it. If they did, they'd never put out software for *any* platform.
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| The arrogant, narrow-minded, and bigotry | mentalities exhibited by the people here are | turning developers off. I for one will not | release any of my applications under GPL and | thus Linux.
Read that sentence. Then read it again. Now tell me, isn't it everything you rail against to *not* release software for a platform that *your users* have been asking for? Because of some of the crap you see on *Slashdot*? Since when did Slashdot become the end all and be-all of the Open Source and/or Linux community?
| As a chinese, I am offended by those remarks. | And yes, they helped to change my mind to NOT | release anything under GPL, not only for my | existing applications but for the several | projects down the pipeline as well. No GPL, no | porting to Linux.
Not meaning to sound too mean here, but do you realize how bigoted *that* is? Basically, what you're saying is that since somebody who might use Linux said something you didn't like, you're going to tar *all* Linux users (including your users who asked for Linux ports) with the same brush and not port.
I also fail to see what this has to do with the GPL, unless RMS personally offended you?
As for the fussing about this Garner mess - well, it was deserved. Read the articles.
| I'm the sysadmin for a small ISP, and no I | haven't had time to apply the 21 patches on | all of the redhat boxes, the various BSDI | patches, updates to all the '98 boxes, etc.
This is a good point, though I don't personally believe that security should be as low of a priority as a lot of people seem to think it is.
For example, the ISP I use runs its systems on Redhat Linux. They provide shell accounts, which is good - and one of the reasons I chose them. However, I've noticed that they're quire far behind on security issues, and it'd be essentially trivial for someone to root their boxes, if it hasn't been done already. (Now I've done it... mentioning it on Slashdot.;) )
I also notice that they're behind on versions of sendmail *despite* having been warned about it several times. Thus, all the mailservers they run (and there are several) are wide-open relays just waiting for a malicious spammer to start spewing out junk mail.
As for the 21 patches, not all of them would be appropriate for a server machine - particularly if the service isn't installed (for example, if you have no FTP daemon, why do you need an FTP patch?).
Did you *see* all the stuff that they did to the NT server? Heck, even installing all 21 RPMs sure looked easier to me!
| The facts stand as they are: PCWeek installed a | default RedHat system and it got cracked. No | matter how many times you yell | "FUD", this is still a Very Bad Thing(tm). Much | like the Mindcraft tests (the second round, | anyhow), this shows weaknesses in | Linux (or in this case, the most popular | distro). These things should be addressed, not | spun.
The point you're missing is that it *was* addressed. Is it "spinning" to suggest that the person installing the Linux box go to the vendor's errata page to get the latest updates when he installed the box? Like some others have said, this is basically the equivalent crime to doing their best to armor Linux to withstand attack but using a straight NT install (no service packs or tweaks as illustrated on the PC Week page).
| Gotta hate it when people don't keep up on | security on the machines
And if it's the one I'm thinking about, didn't this have a fix RPM up on the RH errata site (www.redhat.com/errata) well in advance of the hacking contest? I don't know about PC Week, but when I install a box, I try to make sure I've at least put on the latest security fixes available from the vendor. Doing othersise is just *asking* for it.
| I know someone who recently got bit by the | wu-ftpd exploit.
It's getting so you can't have an "incoming" directory any more without people trying that exploit that relies on creating a long path...
Looking at the patent, one of the objects on page 3 is "to maintain the connection between the user and the central processing device after the customer's order has been confirmed". Isn't that *not* how ordering something over the web actually works? (Doesn't the server drop the connection after it's finished with a page?)
Looking further - I guess I just don't see what's new here. The next page describes your basic voice-response system as an example of something covered by the patent. How long have voice-response systems been around?
They then describe what appears to be a computer interface to a voice response
The claims (p7) also seem to be related to a voice-response system rather than the web - and again there's the bit about connecting to some "central data processing device" in claim 1.
Claim 2 appears to claim a patent on selecting a language.
I'm getting kinda sick of looking at the lores TIFFs after about page 8, but I still don't see where this applies to most e-commerce.
Sounds a lot like a combined web browser and encyclopedia. If it has "Don't Panic" in large friendly letters on its cover, though, I simply *must* buy one.
I wonder if the interface will look anything like the Guide in the HHGTTG TV show? (What was on the screen there was an awful lot like what we see on the web today. And given the TV show came out in 1981, that's pretty impressive.
Now I wonder what the entry for Eccentrica Gallumbits is going to look like...;)
| Hey, lets be frank about this, their primary | product is for Windows, and they obviously | whipped that page up as a gateway for data.
... and didn't bother to test it, either. It was simply broken earlier today (haven't tried it this evening, though).
| Its a good thing that they're concentrating more | on code than webpages
Replace the "that" with an "if" and I'd agree with you. But it's the web page that people see first. Would *you* want to use (except maybe on a toy machine) an entire Linux distribution from a vendor who can't appear to get a simple form right?
| They also want to filter the gimps
Hey! Don't insult the GIMP!:)
Seriously, though, I hope they eventually run their product by a few of the people you're describing. My impression was that it was trying to be a kinder, gentler Linux for Linux newbies.
| What you mean is people won't like it unless | it's free. If Corel is writing applications that | aren't derivative from GPL, like a | word processor, they're going to look for a | profit model,
I was talking mainly about the distribution. I don't think anyone really expects Corel to open up their word processor or any of the rest of the office suite. It'd be nice if the system utilities are free (as in the GPL sense), though.
| It's interesting the line that's being drawn. | They're not making Linux for the open source | crowd.
Of course not. But they *do* want the open source crowd to test it for them.;)
Love the generic (and incorrect) links on the side of the page linked to above - specifically "Minimum Requirements". Guess I don't meet them, as I don't have "Windows® 95, Windows 98 or Windows NT® (4.0)" installed.
Even the actual form is rather silly. "TSRs"? "Windows version"? "Type of documents you produce"? The first two are pointless for evaluating a Linux product and the third's probably cut from a form about Wordperfect. I really hope Corel's actual distribution is a lot well thought out than their web site advertising the beta test is.
Still, the FAQ link is somewhat encouraging, though there are potential problems with this:
| Will Corel be releasing the source code for applications it has created such | as the Corel File Manager? | Corel will be making the source code available for such applications. The | exact terms of the license under which the source code | will be distributed has not yet been announced.
| And occasionally one sees a commercial | broadcast station with a really bad antenna | design that saturates the local area | with electromagnetic radiation. In one | particularly bad case, not only did *any* | electronic device pick up the radio station. | But illumination could be provided by placing | aluminum foil antennas around the ends of | fluorescent light bulbs.
Ha! Sounds like my neighborhood. It seems to be less prevalent now, but the local AM station (1560AM, WCCP, Clemson SC, for those playing at home) would bleed into literally anything. My stereo, the phone, the answering machine. On the TV, I got patterns that changed with the announcer's voice on the station. On the answering machine, the radio station was so loud that it was impossible to hear any caller's message unless I waited until late at night when the station went off the air. I would have not been surprised if the refrigerator would have started cycling on and off with the announcer's voice.
This seems to be the sort of thing the FCC is trained to ignore, by the way.:)
Never did try to light a fluorescent light with the radio station, though.;)
I just wonder what all the fuss about this was to begin with. Redhat doesn't want to be bugged with support requests from people who bought cheap CDs that Redhat doesn't see a dime of return on. They also don't want people buying said CDs thinking they're entitled to said support and feeling cheated.
This, to me, seems perfectly reasonable. This also seems to be exactly what they were doing even when we *didn't* have the note from Redhat above.
| In my opinion they multitask better than a | Linux box with equivalent hardware specs
... of course, since nobody these days has a 7 MHz 68000 with 512K of RAM (base A500), that doesn't really matter. The typical Linux box is also *doing* a lot more, and will crash a lot less than a typical Amiga.
It's an apples/oranges comparison anyway, and don't get me started on how expensive Amiga upgrades such as the PPC boards you mention are.:)
| For example, having to type the path (or at the | very least a./) to run a program that's in the | current directory you're in if it's not | specified in the path.
Oh geez... that's the SHELL. Not "Linux". And quite frankly, the Amiga's default shell is rather pathetic all the way up to AmigaOS 3.1. One of the first things an Amiga power user typically does is to install a replacement!
| the idea of having one big gigantic tree | structure instead of seperate volumes seems | like real backward thinking to me
... er, why are "separate volumes" an advantage? So programs can break when you change your HD configuration?:)
| Hell, it is running on a 300Mb partition on my | Compaq 486/25 Lite laptop and Xfree is | installed! Try doing that with Red Hat!
How's RH 5.2 on a Sparc IPC with a 200 meg hard drive for ya?:)
Point being, you can scale down pretty much any Linux distribution by hand-picking packages. Slackware was really nice when I was starting out with Linux becauwe it was easy to get a working system from just floppies (Didn't have a CDROM or a network card in my first Linux box!)
We've moved a bit away from the low-tech cinema, but...
[The Matrix]
| I donno... I kinda liked it. At least it was a | little more towards the 'strange science | fiction' type stuff. Granted it didn't | make sense, but it coulda been a helluva lot | less original and more 'hollywood'.
Well, it couldn't have been *much* less original unless they tried really really hard.:)
(Anyone but me think they ripped some of the final scenes of The Matrix right out of "never show a good movie right in the middle of your crappy movie" _Overdrawn at the Memory Bank_? Don't get me wrong - I enjoyed seeing _The Matrix_. And it may have been slightly less "hollywood" than most of the sci-fi coming out lately, but only slightly.
As a side note, it's quite easy to define what the Matrix really is. The Matrix is Elvis.
| The hi tech movies being compared to BWP may | have expensive effects but are likely lacking | in something else: an intelligent, sensible | script. Put BWP and Matrix out at the same time | and see who wins. My vote is on Matrix.
Given all other things equal, the movie with the best special effects wins - especially during the summer.
But, I think you give *both* films a little too much credit for having intelligent scripts. The premise of Matrix was simply laughable (hurt the overall movie for me, anyway), though it did score a bit on the "cool" factor. The script for BWP - well, what script? The good thing about BWP would have to be that the actors actually got the point across.
BWP reminded me somewhat of some Lovecraft stories - takes plave some time after the "horror" has occured, you never really *see* the "horror", etc. Worth the student-ticket price at any rate, just for the suspense. Even if it *was* filmed with HurlCam (tm).
Joel's last show? I believe it was 'The Brain That Wouldn't Die'.
No, no, a thousand times no. Go boil an egg.
Joel's last show (and one of my favorite episodes) was Mitchell, starring (if one can call it that) Joe Don Baker as a lumpy cop who chases after some lumpy villains while spilling beer all over the place.
"Why would anyone *do* this with Mitchell, Joel?" "Baby oil? NOOOOOOOO!"
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| You know, I wish I had the luxury of
| determining which laws I thought were breakable
| because what I was doing wasn't realing
| "harming" anyone.
Most people do, actually. For a good example, just take a look at speed limits, which most people on the highways break routinely. After all, is driving 56 in a 55 really hurting anyone? (It'd be a safe bet that most people would say no.)
Note that I'm not saying that this is an excuse for putting illegal mp3s on a public share for the world to take. It was still against the law (and stupid). I'm just making the point that even everyday people apply the same rationalization to breaking minor laws (and in the grand scheme of things, busting people copying mp3s is pretty far down on the list of things I want my neighborhood cops on the streets for) as the previous poster.
CMU searching *private* areas would be a whole other can o' worms, though.
The joke on the Redhat Alpha mailing list today was "Cool! For $99 we can have a working Netscape!" (Forgot who actually posted that)
[Linux/Alpha can run many Tru64 binaries provided you have the right set of libraries. Presumably, you get these libraries when you pay your $99. Netscape doesn't exist for Linux/Alpha, and Mozilla's still a little quirkier than most would like it.]
| Any grade 7 should be able to write better than
;) ]
| that. It really makes me worry about schools
| today.
Back when I was in high school (class of '90), I was the editor of the school's literary magazine. I've seen writing as bad as that from juniors (who were apparently proud enough of their work to submit it to the literary magazine - it wasn't a requirement!) As a graduate student, I've taught a number of freshman-level chemistry labs. I've gotten lab reports from students that were written as poorly as this seventh grader's essay. I guess what I'm saying here is that schools "today" have been as bad for at least the past ten years.
Should the kid have been arrested for writing this essay? Heck no. Should the kid have been given a perfect score on it? Hell no! The first sentence alone would have made *my* seventh grade teacher give the thing an "F". Honestly, it sounds like the kid did a little too *much* "freeon" before class that day.
Having said all of this, I feel a little sorry for the kid because I put one of *my* short stories into my school's literary magazine. This story was about an abused child who ends up shooting his parents. I wasn't an abused child and I had no intention of shooting my parents, but I *was* questioned about the story at length.
This happened even though the story was written in third person and used no "real" names. It's a good thing that Columbine hadn't happened then, or I might have been put in jail!
[PS - No grammar flames about this post, please. Slashdot ain't no literary magazine!
| they are going to provide "interactive
| experiences" at the coke machine.
How many people remember when Coke brought out the talking/singing Coke machine? I believe this was sometime in the early to mid eighties. Anyway, the machine would talk to you and sing the (annoying) "coke is it" theme at you while you tried to buy a drink from it. For this privilege, you paid an extra twenty cents (over the already inflated price).
This first brush with an "interactive experience" at a Coke machine didn't last too terribly long.
I don't know about the rest of you, but all I want from a coke machine is a can of soda.
| On the other hand, a grove of carniverous
...
| christmas trees just doesn't have a
| big scare factor.
I take it you've never played _Beyond Zork_.
"Vast herds of these luminous vegetables roam freely amid the glacial valleys of the south. Residents fear the autumn migration, in which the trees cheerfully trample anything in their path. Christmas tree monsters are repelled by caterpillars, but nobody can explain why."
Courtesy of _The Lore and Legends of Quendor_.
Now if I could only find out where I put that copy of the glyph of warding
| There is no compelling demand for porting to
| Linux.
Then don't port. But don't blame it on what's probably *not* a representative sample of the Linux community.
| But seeing how the people here behaved is a huge
| turn off.
Hey, there are assholes that use *every* platform.
Windows, Mac, Linux, *BSD, Amiga, etc. (There are also users of all of these platforms on *this* forum, but that's another issue).
| Basically I have lost the emotional motivation
| to port my applications to Linux.
That's fine. Doing a port is your business. Just don't come on Slashdot and whine that someone here offended you, so you are taking your ball and going home.
| The part about GPL is that I can't do all the
| ports myself. If I want my apps to port to
| other platforms, I need to do it under GPL to
| let othe people do it. But I have lost faith in
| GPL.
Same question - what has RMS done to offend you? The GPL has been around a lot longer than Slashdot.
| So much for the ports.
Take your ball and go home. Just don't whine to the rest of us who *don't* post racist comments on Slashdot.
| As how this related to the Garner report, I was
| just saying that this is one reason Linux
| doesn't get all the application support that it
| needs.
Actually, I think serious applications developers probably don't really care that a forum has some assholes posting to it. If they did, they'd never put out software for *any* platform.
| The arrogant, narrow-minded, and bigotry
| mentalities exhibited by the people here are
| turning developers off. I for one will not
| release any of my applications under GPL and
| thus Linux.
Read that sentence. Then read it again. Now tell me, isn't it everything you rail against to *not* release software for a platform that *your users* have been asking for? Because of some of the crap you see on *Slashdot*? Since when did Slashdot become the end all and be-all of the Open Source and/or Linux community?
| As a chinese, I am offended by those remarks.
| And yes, they helped to change my mind to NOT
| release anything under GPL, not only for my
| existing applications but for the several
| projects down the pipeline as well. No GPL, no
| porting to Linux.
Not meaning to sound too mean here, but do you realize how bigoted *that* is? Basically, what you're saying is that since somebody who might use Linux said something you didn't like, you're going to tar *all* Linux users (including your users who asked for Linux ports) with the same brush and not port.
I also fail to see what this has to do with the GPL, unless RMS personally offended you?
As for the fussing about this Garner mess - well, it was deserved. Read the articles.
| I'm the sysadmin for a small ISP, and no I
... mentioning it on Slashdot. ;) )
| haven't had time to apply the 21 patches on
| all of the redhat boxes, the various BSDI
| patches, updates to all the '98 boxes, etc.
This is a good point, though I don't personally believe that security should be as low of a priority as a lot of people seem to think it is.
For example, the ISP I use runs its systems on Redhat Linux. They provide shell accounts, which is good - and one of the reasons I chose them. However, I've noticed that they're quire far behind on security issues, and it'd be essentially trivial for someone to root their boxes, if it hasn't been done already. (Now I've done it
I also notice that they're behind on versions of sendmail *despite* having been warned about it several times. Thus, all the mailservers they run (and there are several) are wide-open relays just waiting for a malicious spammer to start spewing out junk mail.
As for the 21 patches, not all of them would be appropriate for a server machine - particularly if the service isn't installed (for example, if you have no FTP daemon, why do you need an FTP patch?).
Did you *see* all the stuff that they did to the NT server? Heck, even installing all 21 RPMs sure looked easier to me!
| The facts stand as they are: PCWeek installed a
| default RedHat system and it got cracked. No
| matter how many times you yell
| "FUD", this is still a Very Bad Thing(tm). Much
| like the Mindcraft tests (the second round,
| anyhow), this shows weaknesses in
| Linux (or in this case, the most popular
| distro). These things should be addressed, not
| spun.
The point you're missing is that it *was* addressed. Is it "spinning" to suggest that the person installing the Linux box go to the vendor's errata page to get the latest updates when he installed the box? Like some others have said, this is basically the equivalent crime to doing their best to armor Linux to withstand attack but using a straight NT install (no service packs or tweaks as illustrated on the PC Week page).
| Gotta hate it when people don't keep up on
...
| security on the machines
And if it's the one I'm thinking about, didn't this have a fix RPM up on the RH errata site (www.redhat.com/errata) well in advance of the hacking contest? I don't know about PC Week, but when I install a box, I try to make sure I've at least put on the latest security fixes available from the vendor. Doing othersise is just *asking* for it.
| I know someone who recently got bit by the
| wu-ftpd exploit.
It's getting so you can't have an "incoming" directory any more without people trying that exploit that relies on creating a long path
Looking at the patent, one of the objects on page 3 is "to maintain the connection between the user and the central processing device after the customer's order has been confirmed". Isn't that *not* how ordering something over the web actually works? (Doesn't the server drop the connection after it's finished with a page?)
Looking further - I guess I just don't see what's new here. The next page describes your basic voice-response system as an example of something covered by the patent. How long have voice-response systems been around?
They then describe what appears to be a computer interface to a voice response
The claims (p7) also seem to be related to a voice-response system rather than the web - and again there's the bit about connecting to some "central data processing device" in claim 1.
Claim 2 appears to claim a patent on selecting a language.
I'm getting kinda sick of looking at the lores TIFFs after about page 8, but I still don't see where this applies to most e-commerce.
Sounds a lot like a combined web browser and encyclopedia. If it has "Don't Panic" in large friendly letters on its cover, though, I simply *must* buy one.
... ;)
I wonder if the interface will look anything like the Guide in the HHGTTG TV show? (What was on the screen there was an awful lot like what we see on the web today. And given the TV show came out in 1981, that's pretty impressive.
Now I wonder what the entry for Eccentrica Gallumbits is going to look like
| Hey, lets be frank about this, their primary
:)
| product is for Windows, and they obviously
| whipped that page up as a gateway for data.
... and didn't bother to test it, either. It was simply broken earlier today (haven't tried it this evening, though).
| Its a good thing that they're concentrating more
| on code than webpages
Replace the "that" with an "if" and I'd agree with you. But it's the web page that people see first. Would *you* want to use (except maybe on a toy machine) an entire Linux distribution from a vendor who can't appear to get a simple form right?
| They also want to filter the gimps
Hey! Don't insult the GIMP!
Seriously, though, I hope they eventually run their product by a few of the people you're describing. My impression was that it was trying to be a kinder, gentler Linux for Linux newbies.
| What you mean is people won't like it unless
;)
| it's free. If Corel is writing applications that
| aren't derivative from GPL, like a
| word processor, they're going to look for a
| profit model,
I was talking mainly about the distribution. I don't think anyone really expects Corel to open up their word processor or any of the rest of the office suite. It'd be nice if the system utilities are free (as in the GPL sense), though.
| It's interesting the line that's being drawn.
| They're not making Linux for the open source
| crowd.
Of course not. But they *do* want the open source crowd to test it for them.
Love the generic (and incorrect) links on the side of the page linked to above - specifically "Minimum Requirements". Guess I don't meet them,
as I don't have "Windows® 95, Windows 98 or Windows NT® (4.0)" installed.
Even the actual form is rather silly. "TSRs"? "Windows version"? "Type of documents you produce"? The first two are pointless for evaluating
a Linux product and the third's probably cut from a form about Wordperfect. I really hope Corel's actual distribution is a lot well thought out than
their web site advertising the beta test is.
Still, the FAQ link is somewhat encouraging, though there are potential problems with this:
| Will Corel be releasing the source code for applications it has created such
| as the Corel File Manager?
| Corel will be making the source code available for such applications. The
| exact terms of the license under which the source code
| will be distributed has not yet been announced.
People who care won't like it unless it's GPL.
| And occasionally one sees a commercial
:)
;)
| broadcast station with a really bad antenna
| design that saturates the local area
| with electromagnetic radiation. In one
| particularly bad case, not only did *any*
| electronic device pick up the radio station.
| But illumination could be provided by placing
| aluminum foil antennas around the ends of
| fluorescent light bulbs.
Ha! Sounds like my neighborhood. It seems to be less prevalent now, but the local AM station (1560AM, WCCP, Clemson SC, for those playing at home) would bleed into literally anything. My stereo, the phone, the answering machine. On the TV, I got patterns that changed with the announcer's voice on the station. On the answering machine, the radio station was so loud that it was impossible to hear any caller's message unless I waited until late at night when the station went off the air. I would have not been surprised if the refrigerator would have started cycling on and off with the announcer's voice.
This seems to be the sort of thing the FCC is trained to ignore, by the way.
Never did try to light a fluorescent light with the radio station, though.
I just wonder what all the fuss about this was to begin with. Redhat doesn't want to be bugged with support requests from people who bought cheap CDs that Redhat doesn't see a dime of return on. They also don't want people buying said CDs thinking they're entitled to said support and feeling cheated.
This, to me, seems perfectly reasonable. This also seems to be exactly what they were doing even when we *didn't* have the note from Redhat above.
| In my opinion they multitask better than a
:)
./) to run a program that's in the
... that's the SHELL. Not "Linux". And quite frankly, the Amiga's default shell is rather pathetic all the way up to AmigaOS 3.1. One of the first things an Amiga power user typically does is to install a replacement!
:)
| Linux box with equivalent hardware specs
... of course, since nobody these days has a 7 MHz 68000 with 512K of RAM (base A500), that doesn't really matter. The typical Linux box is also *doing* a lot more, and will crash a lot less than a typical Amiga.
It's an apples/oranges comparison anyway, and don't get me started on how expensive Amiga upgrades such as the PPC boards you mention are.
| For example, having to type the path (or at the
| very least a
| current directory you're in if it's not
| specified in the path.
Oh geez
| the idea of having one big gigantic tree
| structure instead of seperate volumes seems
| like real backward thinking to me
... er, why are "separate volumes" an advantage? So programs can break when you change your HD configuration?
| Hell, it is running on a 300Mb partition on my
:)
| Compaq 486/25 Lite laptop and Xfree is | installed! Try doing that with Red Hat!
How's RH 5.2 on a Sparc IPC with a 200 meg hard drive for ya?
Point being, you can scale down pretty much any Linux distribution by hand-picking packages. Slackware was really nice when I was starting out with Linux becauwe it was easy to get a working system from just floppies (Didn't have a CDROM or a network card in my first Linux box!)
"you are in the forest, something is after you, it is scary."
... bar ... bar ...
Hey, it worked for the Zork series of games.
>get bar
bar
We've moved a bit away from the low-tech cinema, but ...
:)
[The Matrix]
| I donno... I kinda liked it. At least it was a
| little more towards the 'strange science
| fiction' type stuff. Granted it didn't
| make sense, but it coulda been a helluva lot
| less original and more 'hollywood'.
Well, it couldn't have been *much* less original unless they tried really really hard.
(Anyone but me think they ripped some of the final scenes of The Matrix right out of "never show a good movie right in the middle of your crappy movie" _Overdrawn at the Memory Bank_?
Don't get me wrong - I enjoyed seeing _The Matrix_. And it may have been slightly less "hollywood" than most of the sci-fi coming out lately, but only slightly.
As a side note, it's quite easy to define what the Matrix really is. The Matrix is Elvis.
| The hi tech movies being compared to BWP may
| have expensive effects but are likely lacking
| in something else: an intelligent, sensible
| script. Put BWP and Matrix out at the same time
| and see who wins. My vote is on Matrix.
Given all other things equal, the movie with the best special effects wins - especially during the summer.
But, I think you give *both* films a little too much credit for having intelligent scripts. The premise of Matrix was simply laughable (hurt the overall movie for me, anyway), though it did score a bit on the "cool" factor. The script for BWP - well, what script? The good thing about BWP would have to be that the actors actually got the point across.
BWP reminded me somewhat of some Lovecraft stories - takes plave some time after the "horror" has occured, you never really *see* the "horror", etc. Worth the student-ticket price at any rate, just for the suspense. Even if it *was* filmed with HurlCam (tm).
I have a soft spot for "The Blood Waters of Dr. Z." REminds me of the good ol' days of "Manos".
... OF MY PLAN!!!"
... my thermos of napalm!"
Also one of the few recent episodes where I nearly fell out of the chair laughing at one of the skits.
"Soon you will become wedged in the bulkhead
"The Starfighters" is also a good Mike episode.
"Yes, welcome to minute six of the glorious refueling sequence."
"Uh oh
Joel's last show? I believe it was 'The Brain That Wouldn't Die'.
No, no, a thousand times no. Go boil an egg.
Joel's last show (and one of my favorite episodes) was Mitchell, starring (if one can call it that) Joe Don Baker as a lumpy cop who chases after some lumpy villains while spilling beer all over the place.
"Why would anyone *do* this with Mitchell, Joel?"
"Baby oil? NOOOOOOOO!"
sells videos (I recomend Laserblast)
What if we want movies that are no better than Laserblast?