Slackware and NetBSD are all I use anymore. Mostly NetBSD, because I like being able to grab the whole distfiles repository, store it local on my home subnet that's only connected to the 'net by a slow modem connection. I can go to town, building binaries out of the/usr/pkgsrc directory to run on my i386, sparc, and Mac68k boxes.
Slackware is good for those cases where I want one independent machine up and running fast for some purpose, and don't want to build most of userland from source.
Linux has the 'Arbitrary Linus Process.' It decides on any day at random what it likes, and those particular features get incorporated into the Linux kernel.
Such blunders as the Linux fork of the TCP/IP stack are the end result.
You wouldn't like CVS. All sorts of people you don't know are involved in CVS-driven projects. They're scary people. Stick to an OS based on 'Enlightened Despotism.'
If it was good enough in the dark ages, it's good enough for Linux.
It's an article in the Red Star and Tribunal. Of course it needed to be published. Often. Between feature articles about folk singers and ads for the Wobblie Song Book.
Do you really want your employer to know that you have a proto-oncogene that's just waiting to trigger brain cancer in you?
Actually, yes, I do.
I'm afraid your 'us versus them' adversarial relationship is counterproductive. I work for a good company. We all can, but not while resources are drained off so some Union boss can run a 'protection' racket.
I had two xterms open here on my NT4 box here at work. One open to a Solaris box, one to my captive (two-machine subnet composed of a crossover cable) NetBSD box (Net-help doesn't know about it, hooray!). On both command lines I was able to type ed and enter an editor.
It isn't my editor of choice, but it's indeed the standard editor on Unix. If you've got a Unix-like system that doesn't have 'ed' on it, you've got a broken distribution.
There aren't very many human factors people involved with Linux. If you'll look at the homepage here, you'll see that one of the few companies that puts money toward that, Eazel, is in trouble.
In other words, the push to remove pay phones is motivated mainly by the phone companies, who lose more and more money all the time as fewer and fewer people use them.
It's not yet another case where the man!!! is trying to keep people down. It's a losing proposition in most of the places where the phone companies pull them out of. Do you seriously think they'll pull them from locations where they make good money?
I agree. Sometimes I stay online (still a dialup user here) for extended periods during the weekend, just to get away from the phone and hassle of people calling. "Er, uh, I'm downloading a lot of Usenet articles with Agent lately."
Since this is primarily a geek site, you would think they'd have a clue and at least place more significance on the numerology of Hexadecimal numbers. Let's face it, decimal numbers are for the pointy-haired crowd.
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Slackware and NetBSD are all I use anymore. Mostly NetBSD, because I like being able to grab the whole distfiles repository, store it local on my home subnet that's only connected to the 'net by a slow modem connection. I can go to town, building binaries out of the /usr/pkgsrc directory to run on my i386, sparc, and Mac68k boxes.
Slackware is good for those cases where I want one independent machine up and running fast for some purpose, and don't want to build most of userland from source.
Yes it does.
Linux has the 'Arbitrary Linus Process.' It decides on any day at random what it likes, and those particular features get incorporated into the Linux kernel.
Such blunders as the Linux fork of the TCP/IP stack are the end result.
You wouldn't like CVS. All sorts of people you don't know are involved in CVS-driven projects. They're scary people. Stick to an OS based on 'Enlightened Despotism.'
If it was good enough in the dark ages, it's good enough for Linux.
The same people who are already writing all the code. (namely, the people not mucking around in 'Your Rights' bullshit discussions on Slashdot).
It's an article in the Red Star and Tribunal. Of course it needed to be published. Often. Between feature articles about folk singers and ads for the Wobblie Song Book.
Do you really want your employer to know that you have a proto-oncogene that's just waiting to trigger brain cancer in you?
Actually, yes, I do.
I'm afraid your 'us versus them' adversarial relationship is counterproductive. I work for a good company. We all can, but not while resources are drained off so some Union boss can run a 'protection' racket.
Hmmm,
I had two xterms open here on my NT4 box here at work. One open to a Solaris box, one to my captive (two-machine subnet composed of a crossover cable) NetBSD box (Net-help doesn't know about it, hooray!). On both command lines I was able to type ed and enter an editor.
It isn't my editor of choice, but it's indeed the standard editor on Unix. If you've got a Unix-like system that doesn't have 'ed' on it, you've got a broken distribution.
Clearly you've not written much machine code.
How comprehensive is the section on Norweigan Blues?
Modularity is one of the strong features of Python. Perhaps that reinforces the relevance Knuth's quote.
Is it because the FSF keeps asking for different things?
The issues with the license are very minor, as you say. Why does the FSF obsess over it so much?
There aren't very many human factors people involved with Linux. If you'll look at the homepage here, you'll see that one of the few companies that puts money toward that, Eazel, is in trouble.
Actually, it's more of a 'consumer appliance' idea that Apple happened to implement a little bit earlier than some other vendors.
Sucks when somebody tries to talk you out of a lot of adventurist posturing, huh?
Netscape.
It's proper to refer to it as 'Bitmap' Utilities.
Peter Norton hasn't been anything but a bitmap on the box in ages.
I don't even get banners at the top with Slashdot anymore.
I added:
127.0.0.1 images.slashdot.org
to my hostfile, and now I just get a 'broken image' icon and whatever the default text is.
Select 'light' in your preferences.
Then you won't see post numbers either, so 'First Post' enthusiasts look like idiots.
Then add:
127.0.0.1 images.slashdot.org
127.0.0.1 ads.web.aol.com
To your host table and you'll not see banner ads or graphics, either.
You're just paranoid because all the Phone sanitizers have left the planet on the first rocketloads of colonists into space.
Are you sure you weren't supposed to be with that group?
In other words, the push to remove pay phones is motivated mainly by the phone companies, who lose more and more money all the time as fewer and fewer people use them.
It's not yet another case where the man!!! is trying to keep people down. It's a losing proposition in most of the places where the phone companies pull them out of. Do you seriously think they'll pull them from locations where they make good money?
I agree. Sometimes I stay online (still a dialup user here) for extended periods during the weekend, just to get away from the phone and hassle of people calling. "Er, uh, I'm downloading a lot of Usenet articles with Agent lately."
Yeah. Let that be a lesson to you: Never wear your 2600 t-shirt to the cellphone store.
Somehow I can't help smirking when I visualize a conversation between a crack dealer and the pencil-neck manning the register at a Rat Shack.
Since this is primarily a geek site, you would think they'd have a clue and at least place more significance on the numerology of Hexadecimal numbers. Let's face it, decimal numbers are for the pointy-haired crowd.
I think he said 'Holy Roman Empire' or something. But I'm not sure. Some obsolete empire or other.
Only if you're still alive in the year 9999, since you've obviously missed the years 99 and 999.