Just wait until Slashdot counter attacks with the/. effect!! You know how common it is for the editors here to post flawed information, like... a link to your machine;-)
Those people whining about DDoS must have be in total ignorance about Slashdot!!!
I'm having trouble seeing it as pratical or useful
So do I. Because it's not intended to be any of those. Why does everything have to be USEFUL? I bet the guy had loads of fun hacking this thing together. And besdies, it's damn cool. Oh well, I guess it should be useful to the guy who made it, since he'd have learnt a great deal in the process.
On the other hand, I fail to see how your comment is useful or practical either. It's great that you took the time to write it but I'm not gonna take it. Feel free to mod me flamebait;-)
Nobody's running potato on their home machines, but people DO run potato on their production servers where stability precedes bleeding edge. The official release of Woody means that they actually can upgrade to Woody.
This will give Debian quite a lot of publicity. Maybe enough for it to take off, at least in Germany;-)
Personally I really wonder why people still use RPM based distributions, is it just because of the installer or the publicity? I mean, *everybody* who's heard of Linux must have heard of Redhat, but no beginner would have heard of Debian. Yeah like this "I'm using Linux 7.2, what are YOU using?"
Seriously I don't see anything potentially bad about making a user friendly installer, the one Debian uses now really could be improved. It's nice that they asked the Debian guys about it though. I wonder if it will get back to the main distribution of Debian if the installer is really as good as it sounds?
What is An Operating System - The M$ definition An Operating System is the program when loaded, gives you a browser, a instant messenger, a media player, an office suite, all the things you wanted, plus everything that you don't. An Operating System also gives you an unpreceded XPerience.
Since M$ Windows is an Operating System, M$ Windows = M$ IE + M$ WMP + M$N Messenger + M$ Office ( + XP ) Therefore, if M$ Windows is stripped naked, it violates the definition!! Surely M$ Windows must ship with all the bloat you can get!
I'm running Debian/Unstable and everything is great and fine. I have all that i need:
Web -> Galeon Email -> Evolution IM -> GnomeICU Office -> OpenOffice
The only thing imperfect (on GNOME, which is what i'm using now) is the File manager, which is in fact getting better and faster in every release.
Once properly configured, I think the usability/stability/coolness of my Linux Desktop is much better than my Win2k one. The configuration wasn't easy though. I guess Linux needs a way to give easy yet powerful configuration.
I agree that Linux on the desktop couldn't compare with Windows a year ago, or maybe even 1/2 year ago, when the "killer apps" weren't ready yet. But now almost everything is ready.
so it's not an anti-gravity device is it? it's just a mass-reduction device, or anything you'd call it. If it just reduces the mass, then gravity is still 9.8ms^(-2).
Of course practically it does reduce the force required to propell the ship to space though.
Some which the parent missed: orginal Hilight recieve Oh well. The typos seem to repeat for more than once. Either the person typing the article had some horrible typing habits, or somebody ran the article through a filter deliberately. (for fun?)
I mean, some of those typos are really funny.
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in event of rounding errors, the answer might be 13 or 15;-)
Oh, that Slashdot interview! I didn't like it. I was doing a hundred interviews a day, so I was like, "Aagh, no more interviews!" and I answered their questions very fast, and people got angry because of that.
I guess the developerworks guys were smart enough to have the interview done at this time. Just imagine those "I'll work hard to maintain the kernel" answers they'll get if they didn't wait for a few months before they did the interview.
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aside from it being cool, what's the use of it anyway?
I don't want it to hold my name and stuff and everything, I just don't feel comfortable with digital devices holding vital information. If we really need a smart card for casual uses (i.e. no heavy security is needed) we have something called an Personal Octopus card, which is something similar. Currently it is used on public transports and in some shops to pay instead of cash. (even some MacDonalds restaurants have this).
If I need an identity card to identify myself, we've already got such a thing, and it has worked for decades. Why change? If it ain't broke, don't fix it... It's gonna be real disaster if someone comes up and hacks the sh*t out of the system.
(PS: I live in HK, despite what my nickname says...)
Gnome 1.x depends on stable libraries. Gnome 2 is not yet released, so that is the reason why it depends on beta software - It is beta software itself.
I've compiled GNOME 1.4 and prereleases of GNOME 2 myself, so what is your problem here?
Actually quite a lot of my friends use google or at least know that it exists. I think it won't be long before google really takes off into the public;-)
why would we want to change the color of the universe? I mean, there must be better things to do than decorating our universe to use some other pretty color.
If ethics are a totally subjective ideal, then how can his act of imposition be considered wrong or right?
According to your argument, his act of imposition cannot be considered wrong, BUT his imposition of his standards to others does not stand, and his argument against the Chinese does not stand either, because he should not have imposed his ethics on the Chinese in the first place.
Two lines or two thousand lines, if it fixes an issue that's a pain the the @$$, and if the slashdot community is interested to know, then it's worth posting on slashdot.
Slashdot Mirror
You're crazy.
/. effect!! You know how common it is for the editors here to post flawed information, like... a link to your machine ;-)
Just wait until Slashdot counter attacks with the
Those people whining about DDoS must have be in total ignorance about Slashdot!!!
You're an idiot...
anybody who knows basic arithmetic knows you can't divide by zero....
I guess it's an attempt to be funny, but i just think it's sorta lame...
That would be a proof being proved....
I'm having trouble seeing it as pratical or useful
;-)
So do I. Because it's not intended to be any of those. Why does everything have to be USEFUL? I bet the guy had loads of fun hacking this thing together. And besdies, it's damn cool. Oh well, I guess it should be useful to the guy who made it, since he'd have learnt a great deal in the process.
On the other hand, I fail to see how your comment is useful or practical either. It's great that you took the time to write it but I'm not gonna take it. Feel free to mod me flamebait
Nobody's running potato on their home machines, but people DO run potato on their production servers where stability precedes bleeding edge. The official release of Woody means that they actually can upgrade to Woody.
This will give Debian quite a lot of publicity. Maybe enough for it to take off, at least in Germany ;-)
Personally I really wonder why people still use RPM based distributions, is it just because of the installer or the publicity? I mean, *everybody* who's heard of Linux must have heard of Redhat, but no beginner would have heard of Debian. Yeah like this "I'm using Linux 7.2, what are YOU using?"
Seriously I don't see anything potentially bad about making a user friendly installer, the one Debian uses now really could be improved. It's nice that they asked the Debian guys about it though. I wonder if it will get back to the main distribution of Debian if the installer is really as good as it sounds?
What is An Operating System - The M$ definition
An Operating System is the program when loaded, gives you a browser, a instant messenger, a media player, an office suite, all the things you wanted, plus everything that you don't. An Operating System also gives you an unpreceded XPerience.
Since M$ Windows is an Operating System,
M$ Windows = M$ IE + M$ WMP + M$N Messenger + M$ Office ( + XP )
Therefore, if M$ Windows is stripped naked, it violates the definition!! Surely M$ Windows must ship with all the bloat you can get!
It all makes sense doesn't it? Oh wait.
I'm running Debian/Unstable and everything is great and fine. I have all that i need :
Web -> Galeon
Email -> Evolution
IM -> GnomeICU
Office -> OpenOffice
The only thing imperfect (on GNOME, which is what i'm using now) is the File manager, which is in fact getting better and faster in every release.
Once properly configured, I think the usability/stability/coolness of my Linux Desktop is much better than my Win2k one. The configuration wasn't easy though. I guess Linux needs a way to give easy yet powerful configuration.
I agree that Linux on the desktop couldn't compare with Windows a year ago, or maybe even 1/2 year ago, when the "killer apps" weren't ready yet. But now almost everything is ready.
Okay maybe it's just me.
so it's not an anti-gravity device is it?
it's just a mass-reduction device, or anything you'd call it. If it just reduces the mass, then gravity is still 9.8ms^(-2).
Of course practically it does reduce the force required to propell the ship to space though.
how is this different from these ??
Some which the parent missed :
orginal
Hilight
recieve
Oh well. The typos seem to repeat for more than once. Either the person typing the article had some horrible typing habits, or somebody ran the article through a filter deliberately. (for fun?)
I mean, some of those typos are really funny.
in event of rounding errors, the answer might be 13 or 15 ;-)
Oh, that Slashdot interview! I didn't like it. I was doing a hundred interviews a day, so I was like, "Aagh, no more interviews!" and I answered their questions very fast, and people got angry because of that.
I guess the developerworks guys were smart enough to have the interview done at this time. Just imagine those "I'll work hard to maintain the kernel" answers they'll get if they didn't wait for a few months before they did the interview.
anonymously???
he's already posted on slashdot... logged in.
aside from it being cool, what's the use of it anyway?
I don't want it to hold my name and stuff and everything, I just don't feel comfortable with digital devices holding vital information. If we really need a smart card for casual uses (i.e. no heavy security is needed) we have something called an Personal Octopus card, which is something similar. Currently it is used on public transports and in some shops to pay instead of cash. (even some MacDonalds restaurants have this).
If I need an identity card to identify myself, we've already got such a thing, and it has worked for decades. Why change? If it ain't broke, don't fix it... It's gonna be real disaster if someone comes up and hacks the sh*t out of the system.
(PS: I live in HK, despite what my nickname says...)
Gnome 1.x depends on stable libraries. Gnome 2 is not yet released, so that is the reason why it depends on beta software - It is beta software itself.
I've compiled GNOME 1.4 and prereleases of GNOME 2 myself, so what is your problem here?
Alternatively you can use the viscious-build-scripts
Aside from some problems in compiling nautilus, and some other minor hassles, it compiled nicely for me, and builds all dependencies itself.
Actually quite a lot of my friends use google or at least know that it exists. I think it won't be long before google really takes off into the public ;-)
It's already known that your monitor gives out EM waves in a way that with a radio it might be possible to tell what's on the monitor...
It was on slashdot a while ago...
at first quick glance i read "US and china fighting against each other"...
;-p
wonder what hell the world will become when THAT happens
why would we want to change the color of the universe? I mean, there must be better things to do than decorating our universe to use some other pretty color.
;-)
Of course, unless you're allergic to beige
the natives "discovered" the place thousands of years before you sux0rs ever dreamt of such a place ;-)
If ethics are a totally subjective ideal, then how can his act of imposition be considered wrong or right?
According to your argument, his act of imposition cannot be considered wrong, BUT his imposition of his standards to others does not stand, and his argument against the Chinese does not stand either, because he should not have imposed his ethics on the Chinese in the first place.
Doesn't Geocities have a data transfer rate limit?
As I write this, the limit has ALREADY been exceeded...
Two lines or two thousand lines, if it fixes an issue that's a pain the the @$$, and if the slashdot community is interested to know, then it's worth posting on slashdot.