The nice thing, and the hard thing, about X11 is that there are lots of different window managers, depending on your needs there's probably one that's ideal for you.
Based on your preferences, you might check out Awesome. It even works with KDE, if you want that.
The only way Linux will ever succeed on the consumer desktop
You say this like the consumer desktop is going to be around for a long time. New cell phones are running dual-core 1GHz ARM's. That's one generation and a WiDi chip away from being the thing you plop down next to your KVM when you want to use a real keyboard and bigger display.
So you installed a distro which has as a core of its mission not to ship non-free software, and then get gobsmacked when it takes 10 minutes to install non-free software on it?
Your beef is with the US Patent System, not Fedora (of course they would ship mp3 if not for the patents, it would then be free).
The way init scripts are handled in Gentoo and Gentoo-derived systems is especially great--if I had to pick one part of Gentoo for every other distro to copy, it'd be that.
Well, don't leave us hanging - what's so great about it? (not everybody is going to go install a Gentoo machine to see what you're talking about).
Linux has a lot going for it but the way things are going it risks being just another OS for retarded end users, just like windows. Where are the simple and effective distributions?
If you don't want dumbed down and complex, set up a Gentoo config that does what you need and leave it at that.
All these old friends were nice to talk to, but it was nothing more then:" How are you doing? What are you up to now?" Other old friends never went out of sight for a reason.
Not surprising - you don't know what they're up to and vice-versa, so a conversation is going to suck. I'm sure you won't take offense if I say you don't 'get' Facebook.
Not knowing the people you grew up with is a very new condition for a historical human (maybe a few hundred years old). Facebook fixes that.
My privacy is much more worth then old friends or even lost family.
And that's totally OK as a personal choice - you might just want to understand why other people feel they benefit by networking.
Here is a summary of NH law [rcfp.org]. It does seem pretty severe.
It is, and a favorite tool of abuse. We're working to get this fixed.
Here's my testimony before the NH House for a bill that would remove any possible wiretapping charges when it involves a public employee executing his duties ("On The Job, On The Record"). New Hampshire folk, please call your reps and ask them to support HB145.
Now, then, the interesting part. This video was shot by the man so accused - he's an accomplished videographer who spends a tremendous amount of volunteer time video recording NH Legislative hearings for those who cannot attend. He participated in the political process to get rid of this abusive loophole in the law just a handful of days before charges were brought. On an 8-month old 'incident', one that's likely to be dismissed on a simple reading of the law (a telecommunications device, e.g. a cell phone, is explicitly excepted). His video comments were critical (and rightly so) of those who abuse the system. To me, this is retribution for engaging in the political process.
The first bit of testimony in this video was from a woman who was targeted by the same police department (one that refuses to return her camera even after charges were dismissed). It's hoped that the chief is replaced in the election this coming Tuesday (and thus a house-cleaning can begin - these charges against the department are among the less severe).
Slightly different goals between the projects, but they sure could share a bunch of common effort. CentOS has a slightly harder job in that they're going for bug-for-bug compatibility with RHEL and so they have to spend time hunting down obscure dependency problems. SL will grab a package from Fedora if needed to build something, and that works fine for the end user, but the binary won't have the same hash as the RHEL binary. CentOS will have to track down exactly the right version of the dependency that generates that identical build.
Wont CentOS simply compile the pre-patched source from the tarball and be good to go?
Yes, CentOS will be fine. There's been some interesting discussion on the CentOS-devel list lately about how CentOS is positioning itself w/r/t Redhat. They're reluctant to share an automated build process with the community (so the process can be independently verified) because that would help Redhat's competition (seemingly Oracle). The trouble is, it also slows progress (no CentOS 6 builds yet) and makes forks difficult (something that ought to be encouraged, if needed, in the Open Source ethos).
The CentOS team does awesome work, but it's a tricky situation they're in.
Real patriots should skip this part of the pledge, because it violates the Constitution.
The whole idea of pledging allegiance to a piece of fabric, even a Republic, should irritate any real patriots. Patriots have allegiance to ideals, nationalists have allegiance to governments.
So long as the government is in harmony with those ideals, the point is moot.
"punitive vs retributive" you forgot the deterrent component - that is what important. Geeks and nerds (perpetrators of such crimes) are afraid of the prison much more than street-tough guys (perpetrators of conventional off-line crimes).
Depends on the jurisdiction - that line of reasoning would be forbidden in New Hampshire, where the Bill of Rights specifies reform as being the true design of all punishments.
days? yeah, good luck proving your self in the field.
Unless he was doing something I don't know about; which is a possibility.
Who cares? If his results are accurate and his algortihms are inefficient, he's only slowing down his productivity rate.
Let's say he charged SCO $50,000 to analyze the code bases. Spent a day setting things up, started the run, went to Mexico for a few days, came back, spent a day writing the report, and sent in the invoice.
Hopefully everything will autotune at some point, but this type of in depth administration is actually pretty typical of introducing a new FS/features.
OK, thanks, that gives me a better understanding of where ZFS/FreeBSD is at this point.
If you're an ext3/4 user, I hope you have barriers enabled.
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The nice thing, and the hard thing, about X11 is that there are lots of different window managers, depending on your needs there's probably one that's ideal for you.
Based on your preferences, you might check out Awesome. It even works with KDE, if you want that.
The only way Linux will ever succeed on the consumer desktop
You say this like the consumer desktop is going to be around for a long time. New cell phones are running dual-core 1GHz ARM's. That's one generation and a WiDi chip away from being the thing you plop down next to your KVM when you want to use a real keyboard and bigger display.
So you installed a distro which has as a core of its mission not to ship non-free software, and then get gobsmacked when it takes 10 minutes to install non-free software on it?
Your beef is with the US Patent System, not Fedora (of course they would ship mp3 if not for the patents, it would then be free).
But you didn't really do any of that anyway.
What kind of GUI do you set up for your users?
The way init scripts are handled in Gentoo and Gentoo-derived systems is especially great--if I had to pick one part of Gentoo for every other distro to copy, it'd be that.
Well, don't leave us hanging - what's so great about it? (not everybody is going to go install a Gentoo machine to see what you're talking about).
Linux has a lot going for it but the way things are going it risks being just another OS for retarded end users, just like windows. Where are the simple and effective distributions?
If you don't want dumbed down and complex, set up a Gentoo config that does what you need and leave it at that.
All these old friends were nice to talk to, but it was nothing more then:" How are you doing? What are you up to now?" Other old friends never went out of sight for a reason.
Not surprising - you don't know what they're up to and vice-versa, so a conversation is going to suck. I'm sure you won't take offense if I say you don't 'get' Facebook.
Not knowing the people you grew up with is a very new condition for a historical human (maybe a few hundred years old). Facebook fixes that.
My privacy is much more worth then old friends or even lost family.
And that's totally OK as a personal choice - you might just want to understand why other people feel they benefit by networking.
Here is a summary of NH law [rcfp.org]. It does seem pretty severe.
It is, and a favorite tool of abuse. We're working to get this fixed.
Here's my testimony before the NH House for a bill that would remove any possible wiretapping charges when it involves a public employee executing his duties ("On The Job, On The Record"). New Hampshire folk, please call your reps and ask them to support HB145.
Now, then, the interesting part. This video was shot by the man so accused - he's an accomplished videographer who spends a tremendous amount of volunteer time video recording NH Legislative hearings for those who cannot attend. He participated in the political process to get rid of this abusive loophole in the law just a handful of days before charges were brought. On an 8-month old 'incident', one that's likely to be dismissed on a simple reading of the law (a telecommunications device, e.g. a cell phone, is explicitly excepted). His video comments were critical (and rightly so) of those who abuse the system. To me, this is retribution for engaging in the political process.
The first bit of testimony in this video was from a woman who was targeted by the same police department (one that refuses to return her camera even after charges were dismissed). It's hoped that the chief is replaced in the election this coming Tuesday (and thus a house-cleaning can begin - these charges against the department are among the less severe).
If the plan was opt-in, it would almost make sense.
That's called Rhapsody, right?
Slightly different goals between the projects, but they sure could share a bunch of common effort. CentOS has a slightly harder job in that they're going for bug-for-bug compatibility with RHEL and so they have to spend time hunting down obscure dependency problems. SL will grab a package from Fedora if needed to build something, and that works fine for the end user, but the binary won't have the same hash as the RHEL binary. CentOS will have to track down exactly the right version of the dependency that generates that identical build.
And we have the carnivorous robot technology being developed by another lab.
See subject.
Funny, I've used their Atom boards to build lots of firewall devices. The BIOS has always worked exactly as expected for me.
CentOs would benefit from having its own build system.
It does have its own build system, it's just that you (as the end user, auditor, or forker) can't download a ready-to-run copy of it from CentOS.
Wont CentOS simply compile the pre-patched source from the tarball and be good to go?
Yes, CentOS will be fine. There's been some interesting discussion on the CentOS-devel list lately about how CentOS is positioning itself w/r/t Redhat. They're reluctant to share an automated build process with the community (so the process can be independently verified) because that would help Redhat's competition (seemingly Oracle). The trouble is, it also slows progress (no CentOS 6 builds yet) and makes forks difficult (something that ought to be encouraged, if needed, in the Open Source ethos).
The CentOS team does awesome work, but it's a tricky situation they're in.
yay, thanks!
It is 33% thinner
So is Steve Jobs.
Is the world suddenly running out of bits?
Surely by now somebody must have a website that hosts the deleted stuff (and maybe has a search that will return results for both)?
Real patriots should skip this part of the pledge, because it violates the Constitution.
The whole idea of pledging allegiance to a piece of fabric, even a Republic, should irritate any real patriots. Patriots have allegiance to ideals, nationalists have allegiance to governments.
So long as the government is in harmony with those ideals, the point is moot.
The Founders were not jingoists.
"punitive vs retributive" you forgot the deterrent component - that is what important. Geeks and nerds (perpetrators of such crimes) are afraid of the prison much more than street-tough guys (perpetrators of conventional off-line crimes).
Depends on the jurisdiction - that line of reasoning would be forbidden in New Hampshire, where the Bill of Rights specifies reform as being the true design of all punishments.
I'm not buying it until it has duck face removal.
Oh, wait, these customers probably want auto-duck-face....
days? yeah, good luck proving your self in the field.
Unless he was doing something I don't know about; which is a possibility.
Who cares? If his results are accurate and his algortihms are inefficient, he's only slowing down his productivity rate.
Let's say he charged SCO $50,000 to analyze the code bases. Spent a day setting things up, started the run, went to Mexico for a few days, came back, spent a day writing the report, and sent in the invoice.
"Ha, Ha, your search is O(n log n)!" ?
most experiments I know of that cook up "primordial soup" require lightning to initiate the reactions.
How is this a problem? Titan even has lightning.
They aren't a security firm, they're crackers for hire.
And governors hire $10,000 'escorts' not 'hookers'.
My new MacBook Pro has a tolerable keyboard at best.
The backlight is really great. The only thing I miss from when I used to buy Macbook Pros.
They did have great build quality, but now I buy $400 laptops and don't worry about failures (component or klutzoid).
Hopefully everything will autotune at some point, but this type of in depth administration is actually pretty typical of introducing a new FS/features.
OK, thanks, that gives me a better understanding of where ZFS/FreeBSD is at this point.
If you're an ext3/4 user, I hope you have barriers enabled.
They're on by default in ext4.