When is it NOT linux day on slashdot? Slashdot has for years been open source news and opinions. It's only recently that it became infested with microsoft weenies and apple fanbois. With the microsoft weenies come the worm reports and with the apple fanbois come the "Steve Jobs coughs" stories.
IBM did this for about two years, if you search the archives you can find where they cut it off, since it turned out to be cost prohibative. You can still order new IBM laptops with linux preinstalled, they're just not going out of their way to support every piece of hardware on every laptop they sell anymore, like they used to.There simply wern't that many people willing to shell out what IBM charged at the time for a laptop, even if they are the best laptops on the planet. HP will probably NOT make a lot of money from this because anyone interested enough to buy a laptop with linux preinstalled is skilled enough to install it themselves, on any laptop they choose. (Choise is very important in laptops. I personally value light weight and long batteries (Thinkpad X40) whereas my boss values speed and screen size (Dimension M60)
PS: Comparing HP/Compaq laptops to quality laptops is not the process of a rational mind. They're good at being cheap, and that's about all
The proper solution is to enable SMTP authentication on the UIUC server (talk to your admins) and allow connections from anywhere in the world (with appropriate login information)
The idea is that we break the monopoly to open space for OS competition. A heterogenious market is less prone to attack- if 5% of the world was using linux, 5% using openBSD, 5% using beOS, 5% using plan9, 5% using macOS... a new exploit would affect SOME things, but we would never again see things such as slammer taking down the net
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The idea is that we break the monopoly to open space for OS competition. A heterogenious market is less prone to attack- if 5% of the world was using linux, 5% using openBSD, 5% using beOS, 5% using plan9, 5% using macOS... a new exploit would affect SOME things, but we would never again see things such as slammer taking down the net
Delaware has no sales tax... I wonder if you can engage in the illegal exchange of goods which it is legal to possess but illegal to sell in such a place
Forget hardware raid. The extra time you spend on software raid will be immediately recovered the very first time you have a hardware controller fail and corrupt all the drives at once.
First of all, relax. Second of all, you're full of shit, it's not your computer, it's their content, in some cases artwork, and they can decide how they want it viewed/experianced. You can choose to not view it or view it as the artist intended.
As for a volume knob, it seems that windows programs stopped having them a while ago (or if they did they simply controlled the system volume) and AFAIK, most linux programs never did (the onese that exist simply control the system mixer)
The Matrix: Reloaded and Revolutions hurt the brand MUCH more than Enter The Matrix could have. Besides having a much larger exposure, they were also much worse, in comparison.
As an application USER, Everything I've used that was in some way related to Java either didn't work, didn't work intuitively, didn't work until I installed a different JRE, or worked slowly. I don't know enough about computer science to tell you whether Java is or isn't the holy grail of programming, or WHAT it is, but if I see java listed as a dependancy I move along and find something that will compile to native code.
wtf are you smoking again? Text will NOT do- it requires copy, paste, finding and eliminating the/. inserted [ ], and hitting enter as opposed to "middle click"
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You'd think that since they ask subscribers to email them if there's any problem with the story, they'd pay attention when we email them...
*sigh*
WinRAR can create archives of files that were modified after a certain timestamp
This is an option in the kernel, I haveno idea how or if it works
When is it NOT linux day on slashdot?
Slashdot has for years been open source news and opinions. It's only recently that it became infested with microsoft weenies and apple fanbois.
With the microsoft weenies come the worm reports and with the apple fanbois come the "Steve Jobs coughs" stories.
This is slashdot, everyone claims to have the SHINY PRETTY 2.5K powerbooks. You're obsolete.
Prism.
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IBM did this for about two years, if you search the archives you can find where they cut it off, since it turned out to be cost prohibative. You can still order new IBM laptops with linux preinstalled, they're just not going out of their way to support every piece of hardware on every laptop they sell anymore, like they used to.There simply wern't that many people willing to shell out what IBM charged at the time for a laptop, even if they are the best laptops on the planet. HP will probably NOT make a lot of money from this because anyone interested enough to buy a laptop with linux preinstalled is skilled enough to install it themselves, on any laptop they choose. (Choise is very important in laptops. I personally value light weight and long batteries (Thinkpad X40) whereas my boss values speed and screen size (Dimension M60)
PS: Comparing HP/Compaq laptops to quality laptops is not the process of a rational mind. They're good at being cheap, and that's about all
you can also get a battery that plugs into the dock port which adds 3.5 hours or so
/. originally ran on a Digital Multipla alpha workstation
pretty sexy box for it's time
Hyper-Text Transport Protocol
Hyper-Text Markup Language
Have nothing to do with each other?
The proper solution is to enable SMTP authentication on the UIUC server (talk to your admins) and allow connections from anywhere in the world (with appropriate login information)
The idea is that we break the monopoly to open space for OS competition. A heterogenious market is less prone to attack- ...
if 5% of the world was using linux, 5% using openBSD, 5% using beOS, 5% using plan9, 5% using macOS
a new exploit would affect SOME things, but we would never again see things such as slammer taking down the net
The idea is that we break the monopoly to open space for OS competition. A heterogenious market is less prone to attack- ...
if 5% of the world was using linux, 5% using openBSD, 5% using beOS, 5% using plan9, 5% using macOS
a new exploit would affect SOME things, but we would never again see things such as slammer taking down the net
Delaware has no sales tax...
I wonder if you can engage in the illegal exchange of goods which it is legal to possess but illegal to sell in such a place
Forget hardware raid. The extra time you spend on software raid will be immediately recovered the very first time you have a hardware controller fail and corrupt all the drives at once.
Not if $30 would buy you a new game
First of all, relax.
Second of all, you're full of shit, it's not your computer, it's their content, in some cases artwork, and they can decide how they want it viewed/experianced.
You can choose to not view it or view it as the artist intended.
As for a volume knob, it seems that windows programs stopped having them a while ago (or if they did they simply controlled the system volume) and AFAIK, most linux programs never did (the onese that exist simply control the system mixer)
The Matrix: Reloaded and Revolutions hurt the brand MUCH more than Enter The Matrix could have. Besides having a much larger exposure, they were also much worse, in comparison.
You mean like the United States of John Ashcroft?
Should there be laws against destruction of the english language?
Why not?
As an application USER, Everything I've used that was in some way related to Java either didn't work, didn't work intuitively, didn't work until I installed a different JRE, or worked slowly. I don't know enough about computer science to tell you whether Java is or isn't the holy grail of programming, or WHAT it is, but if I see java listed as a dependancy I move along and find something that will compile to native code.
If you were to vote by whispering the name of a candidate into a persons ear, would you want that person to be one of the candidates?
According to Alexa, Yahoo is and has been the number 1 site based on traffic, basically forever.
wtf are you smoking again? /. inserted [ ], and hitting enter
Text will NOT do- it requires copy, paste, finding and eliminating the
as opposed to "middle click"
Loki went belly up because of bad managment decisions: search the /. archives yourself, I need some sleep.