The reason I will never use *BSD is entirely because of the license. Great technology, sure, but I don't want to see a return to the unix wars of the early 90's, and without a mechanism for enforcing freedom (i.e. the GPL) *BSD is doomed in our capitalistic system by standard corporate practice.
Oh please...spare me.
GPL: the "we TELL you" what "free" means, leftist political license.
BSD: The "free" as in freedom, Libertarian license.
Well, I'm an Episcopalian and also run FreeBSD, drink coffee out of a BSD-logo mug, wear FreeBSD t-shirts at times, etc... Go to FreeBSD's site and read Evi Nemeth's explanation of the daemon mascot.
Just wanted to make it known that not all Christians get their panties in a twist about silly stuff like cartoon daemon logos:)
Tho' the Klipsch can sound both loud and "dramatic," I did a side-by-side comparison with the Mirage AVS-500 system and chose the Mirage for better midrange and better sound when playing music. The AVS-500 incls 4 AVS-200 satellites, an AVS-100 center and the FRx-S8 sub. A very musical set of speakers, yet no lack of drama when playing surround-sound DVDs.
It's hard to find Mirage at a good price, but I got both a good price and great service at Kief's Audio/Video (disclaimer: I don't have a financial stake in Kief's, just a satisfied customer).
BTW, I'm not anti-Klipsch - their higher end stuff sounds great. It's just that the ProMedia can't cut it next to offerings from Mirage, Energy or Atlantic Technology. OTOH, the ProMedias are the best PC speaker set out right now.
That's one reason LinuxPPC is so cool - it will run on a 7200:) IMHO it's a bit of a shame about NetBSD tho', as I lean more towards BSD as a rule. But hey, at least that old 7200/90 I have now can begin life anew as a useful server thanks to Jason and all the other folks in the LinuxPPC project!
What cdrw units should I look into to get this kind of speed ?
My understanding is that it doesn't actually encode at this speed. What happens is that the audio files can be copied off to the hard drive very quickly as there's no "ripping" involved per se - BeOS can mount an audio CD & show each track as a.WAV file. The user can then play the orig tracks while they're being encoded in the background.
I run Win98 (for games), FreeBSD and BeOS, but always go back to Be for MP3 stuff. The "mount a CD and show tracks as.WAV files" is just too handy, and my favorite encoder (LAME) compiles and runs just fine under BeOS. It also handles "multimedia" tasks very fast & cleanly from a user's perspective (e.g. the "listen to a track while encoding in the backgound" thing mentioned above).
...that would lead to the question of why didn't they just use lasers
In the books, Herbert notes that lasers and shield technology don't mix. They tend to have an explosive interaction.
The whole knives vs. guns thing might have looked alot more plausible if the actors in the Fremen army had some martial arts skills (or acting skills for that matter;)
Unfortunately, because of the hacker ethos about security and the fact that the ranks of open source programmers already include criminals (Randall Schwartz)...
As real and serious as Randall's legal problems have been, I feel like this is a thoughtless slam against a good guy and important contributor to our community. The whole situation is just silly, although it has scary imlications as well. Please read Randall's website to get the other side of the story.
IMO, an apology to him would be in order as well...
...who are going to howl bloody murder that things like child porn and drugs are no longer prosecuted
This is the worst sort of anti-Libertarian FUD. Of course child porn would be prosecuted! Libertarians are:
Anti-Violence. Child porn = violence against a child.
Aware of the concept of adult consent. If you are consenting adults, a Libertarian govt would stay out of your bedroom and not think of telling you what chemicals you could introduce into your own body. They are also aware that a child cannot consent.
This fantasy candidate will be neither a "liberal" nor a "conservative" but an original thinker,... He will be an enthusiastic free-marketeer, championing environments that reward opportunity, individuality and creativity. He will offer sane and fair-minded solutions, resist religious and political dogma. He wll fight for the equitable distribution of technology and use it to re-democratize democracy. Instead of branding them stupid and offensive, he or she will fight for th mostly younger people who are building the Net and the Web. He will not be in thrall to corporate contributors."
But I think it is because most of the people here are pro Gnome and most of them don't intent to even just try KDE2 - it's nearly a religion to many
I'd debate that. Now if you'd said the Gnome/GNU/FSF true-believers are the more vocal, dare I say even annoying, posters, then that's another issue;->
(beats me why, I just want what suits me best)
If you keep making sense like that, you'll never get into the proper/. frame of mind...
Very well said. Check out Harry Browne's website for more thoughts on whether a vote for a third-party candidate is a waste or not (e.g. on the main page, scroll down to the heading How You Can Win).
I went to the Crystalspace website and read through the whole interchange with rms (and on a full stomach, too). Good Lord! rms wastes the first 2-3 emails with his typical "how many angels can dance on a pinhead" rant on "free" vs. "open" software instead of addressing the guy's inquiry.
Face it, rms is the wrong person to help decide this issue:
He's completely out of it WRT the techincal issues (what's a console?, Geez...)
He'll never be able to set aside his true believer persona long enough to offer any practical advice. That's as likely as the Southern Baptist Convention announcing "Sorry, we were morons. It's really OK to take your kids to Disneyland."
If you want pragmatic, real-world advise on this, I'd suggest contacting someone in the Open Software movement like ESR:)
...specialized in defining virtue and trying to ram it down everybody else's throat.
There's an alternative to this Republicrat modus operandi, the Libertarian Party. Check out Libertarian candidate Harry Browne's website to discover his stand on important issues like the one's raised here. And before anyone jumps in with the "don't waste your vote" objection, consider what Harry has to say about that:
"If you vote for George W. Bush because you can't stand Al Gore, your vote will be interpreted as an endorsement for every big-government program George Bush wants to inflict upon you. If you vote for Al Gore because you're afraid of the religious right, your vote will be interpreted as an endorsement for all the plans Al Gore has made for running your life.
The only unmistakable vote you can cast -- the only way you can tell the politicians you're fed up with big government and you won't tolerate it anymore -- is to vote Libertarian."
I agree. Does anyone know of a good site that explains what you need to do to disable whatever daemons and such you don't need running, and anything else you need to do to secure a freshly installed Linux distro?
Well, if you're running RedHat or Mandrake, you could make your life easier and check out Bastille Linux, a hardening script which enhances the security of a Linux box, by configuring daemons, system settings and firewalling.
Say what you will about Microsoft, but their Windows Update is a really nice mechanism for distributing patches and updates - none of the Linux vendors (even Mandrake) come close to that level of functionality.
Well, the MandrakeUpdate utility seems as easy to me as Windows Update. From their web page:
"An update utility called MandrakeUpdate is installed on your Linux-Mandrake desktop. All you have to do is launch MandrakeUpdate to update your system through a graphical utility. The program lets you choose your ftp server within a list of server mirrors. Then it fetches each update you have to make and lets you choose those you really need."
the X11R6.4 port to BeOS
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The port of X11R6.4 is avail here on the bebits.com website. There's also an article about running X services under BeOS over on BeNews.
Except through the act of voting, which citizens increasingly see as pointless and meaningless, since they have such restricted options to choose between
The reason voters see little choice is because both the Republicans and the Democrats are alike in most ways. They have created a status quo and are loathe to change it.
The Linux "emulation" stuff works quite well with FreeBSD (have no experience with the others). However, yes, I agree that Slack is very cool and is the distro of choice if you are a Unix "purist"/BSD fan but must run Linux for whatever reason...
Man, I'd love it if Escape Velocity and it's "sequel" Escape Velocity Override were ported to an OS that'd run on my Intel hardware. I liked EV so much I gladly registered it (shareware). The folks at Ambrosia Software do a great job. If you've got an older Mac or a Mac laptop sitting around, grab this - along with a copy of Bungie's Marathon series:)
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Oh please...spare me.
- GPL: the "we TELL you" what "free" means, leftist political license.
- BSD: The "free" as in freedom, Libertarian license.
Nuff saidJust wanted to make it known that not all Christians get their panties in a twist about silly stuff like cartoon daemon logos :)
It's hard to find Mirage at a good price, but I got both a good price and great service at Kief's Audio/Video (disclaimer: I don't have a financial stake in Kief's, just a satisfied customer).
BTW, I'm not anti-Klipsch - their higher end stuff sounds great. It's just that the ProMedia can't cut it next to offerings from Mirage, Energy or Atlantic Technology. OTOH, the ProMedias are the best PC speaker set out right now.
That's one reason LinuxPPC is so cool - it will run on a 7200 :) IMHO it's a bit of a shame about NetBSD tho', as I lean more towards BSD as a rule. But hey, at least that old 7200/90 I have now can begin life anew as a useful server thanks to Jason and all the other folks in the LinuxPPC project!
Oh man, this is so cool ;) Now, if they'd only issue DVD versions of James Burke's "Connections" (1, 2 and 3) on DVD I'd be a truly happy guy!
My understanding is that it doesn't actually encode at this speed. What happens is that the audio files can be copied off to the hard drive very quickly as there's no "ripping" involved per se - BeOS can mount an audio CD & show each track as a .WAV file. The user can then play the orig tracks while they're being encoded in the background.
I run Win98 (for games), FreeBSD and BeOS, but always go back to Be for MP3 stuff. The "mount a CD and show tracks as .WAV files" is just too handy, and my favorite encoder (LAME) compiles and runs just fine under BeOS. It also handles "multimedia" tasks very fast & cleanly from a user's perspective (e.g. the "listen to a track while encoding in the backgound" thing mentioned above).
In the books, Herbert notes that lasers and shield technology don't mix. They tend to have an explosive interaction.
The whole knives vs. guns thing might have looked alot more plausible if the actors in the Fremen army had some martial arts skills (or acting skills for that matter ;)
MCSE = Must Consult Someone Experienced ;->
Get yer KDE-logo goodies at
http://www.cafepress.com/kde
And the great thing is that, with each rev. of KDE, we get more of both. ;)
Blatant plug: Get yer Konqi/KDE logo goodies right here - all profits donated to the KDE Project.
I highly doubt the V4 "sucks." ;) And before you suggest nVidia products, consider:
As real and serious as Randall's legal problems have been, I feel like this is a thoughtless slam against a good guy and important contributor to our community. The whole situation is just silly, although it has scary imlications as well. Please read Randall's website to get the other side of the story.
IMO, an apology to him would be in order as well...
This is the worst sort of anti-Libertarian FUD. Of course child porn would be prosecuted! Libertarians are:
- Anti-Violence. Child porn = violence against a child.
- Aware of the concept of adult consent. If you are consenting adults, a Libertarian govt would stay out of your bedroom and not think of telling you what chemicals you could introduce into your own body. They are also aware that a child cannot consent.
Please consult resources like the National Platform of the Libertarian Party before spouting nonsense like this...He's already here, and running in the current election: Harry Browne, the Libertarian Party candidate.
I'd debate that. Now if you'd said the Gnome/GNU/FSF true-believers are the more vocal, dare I say even annoying, posters, then that's another issue ;->
(beats me why, I just want what suits me best)
If you keep making sense like that, you'll never get into the proper /. frame of mind...
Very well said. Check out Harry Browne's website for more thoughts on whether a vote for a third-party candidate is a waste or not (e.g. on the main page, scroll down to the heading How You Can Win).
I went to the Crystalspace website and read through the whole interchange with rms (and on a full stomach, too). Good Lord! rms wastes the first 2-3 emails with his typical "how many angels can dance on a pinhead" rant on "free" vs. "open" software instead of addressing the guy's inquiry.
Face it, rms is the wrong person to help decide this issue:
If you want pragmatic, real-world advise on this, I'd suggest contacting someone in the Open Software movement like ESR :)
There's an alternative to this Republicrat modus operandi, the Libertarian Party. Check out Libertarian candidate Harry Browne's website to discover his stand on important issues like the one's raised here. And before anyone jumps in with the "don't waste your vote" objection, consider what Harry has to say about that:
"If you vote for George W. Bush because you can't stand Al Gore, your vote will be interpreted as an endorsement for every big-government program George Bush wants to inflict upon you. If you vote for Al Gore because you're afraid of the religious right, your vote will be interpreted as an endorsement for all the plans Al Gore has made for running your life.
The only unmistakable vote you can cast -- the only way you can tell the politicians you're fed up with big government and you won't tolerate it anymore -- is to vote Libertarian."
Well, that don't work now, either... Errors out while trying to retrieve the URL:
;)
http://www.opera.com/stylesheets/default.css
Even starting from Opera's homepage and using the Linux download link has the same problem. Guess dey gettin' slashdotted
OK, I got curious and looked up the last, two items. Blu-Tack is a clay-like, reusable adhesive made by Bostik. Here's a page that describes it.
Araldite 502 is an epoxy resin embedding medium. Here's a page that describes it as well.
Well, if you're running RedHat or Mandrake, you could make your life easier and check out Bastille Linux, a hardening script which enhances the security of a Linux box, by configuring daemons, system settings and firewalling.
Well, the MandrakeUpdate utility seems as easy to me as Windows Update. From their web page:
"An update utility called MandrakeUpdate is installed on your Linux-Mandrake desktop. All you have to do is launch MandrakeUpdate to update your system through a graphical utility. The program lets you choose your ftp server within a list of server mirrors. Then it fetches each update you have to make and lets you choose those you really need."
The port of X11R6.4 is avail here on the bebits.com website. There's also an article about running X services under BeOS over on BeNews.
The reason voters see little choice is because both the Republicans and the Democrats are alike in most ways. They have created a status quo and are loathe to change it.
But there is a real third option, the Libertarian Party. Visit the site, take the World's Smallest Political Quiz and decide for yourself.
Well, uhhhh...if you like BSDish systems, why not just get BSD ? ;)
The Linux "emulation" stuff works quite well with FreeBSD (have no experience with the others). However, yes, I agree that Slack is very cool and is the distro of choice if you are a Unix "purist"/BSD fan but must run Linux for whatever reason...
(snip) The url for that Mac game is:http://www.AmbrosiaSW.com/games/ev/
Man, I'd love it if Escape Velocity and it's "sequel" Escape Velocity Override were ported to an OS that'd run on my Intel hardware. I liked EV so much I gladly registered it (shareware). The folks at Ambrosia Software do a great job. If you've got an older Mac or a Mac laptop sitting around, grab this - along with a copy of Bungie's Marathon series :)