The president should represent the average person of the United States of America. Someone who compiles Linux is not your average person. The president should represent the average person; the president shouldn't be the average person. Doing the best thing for average people usually requires a lot more intellect than the average person has.
Sending source-routed packets out is very difficult these days unless you have an old school ISP like an AT&T or a business pipe. Or full control of a virus-laden Windows box at a company connected through a business pipe from an old-school ISP?
Linux From Scratch is where you download the source code for each package you need, compile everything yourself until you have a working compiler, then use the compiler you just built to recompile everything.
It's a pain in the ass, because just about every single package has to be hacked to get it to work. The Linux From Scratch project provides patches you can apply, with specific instructions. It's not the simple "./configure && make && make install" you'd expect.
After awhile I realized that all the patches I had to apply were already done in Slackware's SlackBuild scripts, and those had lots of other nifty improvements as well. So I abandoned LFS and went back to happily running Slackware, with a new appreciation for how complicated it is to actually put a complete Linux distribution together.
BS. If all your hardware works, installing Vista is a simple and pleasant experience (although upgrading is less pleasant because it takes a long time). It actually looks very Linux-like.
There are just as many Hillary supporters who feel that if Obama somehow worms his way into the nomination (no, he hasn't yet, Clinton is still running), they'll either vote third party, or just stay home, or maybe vote for McCain in protest. The country needs a female president, but the media has been treating her unfairly, making sexist jokes, and generally dismissing her as irrelevant.
I completely disagree with most of that, and I really hope Obama is our next President. But it's helpful to understand what people are saying on the other side.
I loathe the idea of selecting her as the Vice Presidential nominee, but it would be a good idea for the campaign. Obama will need Hillary's supporters in November, and right now he doesn't have a lot of them.
You, also, failed to get the joke the original poster was making. Allow me to explain:
It seems to be meant to suggest that the article's use of "affect" is incorrect. Surely this is mistaken. If suggesting that twitter has anything to do with better communication isn't an affectation, I don't know what is. This is a joke. The person who wrote it is well aware of the difference between "affect" and "effect". He deliberately used the word "affectation" (which looks related to "affect" but really means conspicuously artificial or unnatural speech or conduct). The WHOOSH was not a dismissal of the response; the WHOOSH was intended to be the sound of the joke passing over the respondent's head.
Whether the joke is funny or not is another matter entirely.
Nine years ago, there were only five other registrars available and the whole system was highly experimental. Transferring to one of the new "testbed" registrars was not widely considered to be the safer option. Nobody accused Network Solutions of not being a real registrar, because a few months before they had been the only registrar.
It'd be great if this happened more often. A great first step is "we take this code and modify it for our purposes, instead of writing our own code from scratch," but it's so much easier to deal with if you can get your modifications folded back into the official project, so you can easily stay up to date with new features without worrying about applying your modifications to each new version. Not to mention, everyone else gets to benefit too.
I applaud them for listening to the public, but didn't they do any usability testing first? I mean, Leopard had been in development for like a year and a half before it shipped, and they never realized the dock folder icon thing was a problem? It makes me wonder what other terrible design decisions they haven't gotten around to fixing yet.
Again, I had heard about the transparency option for the menubar in 10.5.2, but I hadn't heard about the "display as folder" option. I'm glad they fixed it.
You haven't actually bothered to read the GPL, have you? You can either ship the source code on a CD with the product, or you can include
a written offer, valid for at least three years and valid for as long as you offer spare parts or customer support for that product model, to give anyone who possesses the object code either (1) a copy of the Corresponding Source for all the software in the product that is covered by this License, on a durable physical medium customarily used for software interchange, for a price no more than your reasonable cost of physically performing this conveying of source, or (2) access to copy the Corresponding Source from a network server at no charge.
Ooh, my bad! Thanks, it looks like that's exactly what I was looking for. I must have missed hearing about this when the 10.5.2 update came out. (I haven't upgraded to Leopard yet, that's why I hadn't seen the option for myself).
I'm still waiting for a fix for the stupid Dock folder problem. Yes, I know there's a workaround (you can put a file or an alias or a folder or something inside the folder, name it something that will be first in an alphabetical sort, and paste a reasonable icon onto that). But I want Apple to recognize how completely retarded this idea was from the beginning, and actually FIX it, the way they fixed the menubar transparency issue first by reducing the transparency before release, then eventually adding an option to disable it altogether.
Seriously, who thought either of these would be a good idea? I know what they were thinking with the menubar, they were thinking "Windows Vista has lots of transparency, we don't want to look boring by comparison!" Come on Apple, I know you can make usability a priority without sacrificing aesthetics when you put your collective mind to it. Focusing entirely on aesthetics at the expense of usability really damages your image.
Actually it's because the vast majority of sites you would legitimately sign up for will never spam you anyway. Most people use a single address for everything, so they don't have any idea where the spam comes from.
He meant that Time Machine (a new feature in 10.5 Leopard) is useless to people using FileVault, not that FileVault is useless to people using Time Machine.
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Apple has registered Cougar with the USPTO as trademark #78271630.
Reminds me of the signature I used many years ago:
You are in a maze of twisty little base, all are belong to us.
Linux From Scratch is where you download the source code for each package you need, compile everything yourself until you have a working compiler, then use the compiler you just built to recompile everything.
It's a pain in the ass, because just about every single package has to be hacked to get it to work. The Linux From Scratch project provides patches you can apply, with specific instructions. It's not the simple "./configure && make && make install" you'd expect.
After awhile I realized that all the patches I had to apply were already done in Slackware's SlackBuild scripts, and those had lots of other nifty improvements as well. So I abandoned LFS and went back to happily running Slackware, with a new appreciation for how complicated it is to actually put a complete Linux distribution together.
Vista's installer is worlds apart from Win2k and XP. It's one of the things they've actually fixed.
It still doesn't install all your apps, of course. And it may not be faster (if you're upgrading, it's very slow; clean installs aren't bad).
BS. If all your hardware works, installing Vista is a simple and pleasant experience (although upgrading is less pleasant because it takes a long time). It actually looks very Linux-like.
The XP installer is a pile of crap.
Jimmy? About the screen... How are you feeding this? Through the router or the aux bus on the switcher? Hmm... Try toggling the input.
All of us, but it'll be a smaller bill.
Of course she's absolutely selfish! That's why 50% of us dislike her in the first place.
There are just as many Hillary supporters who feel that if Obama somehow worms his way into the nomination (no, he hasn't yet, Clinton is still running), they'll either vote third party, or just stay home, or maybe vote for McCain in protest. The country needs a female president, but the media has been treating her unfairly, making sexist jokes, and generally dismissing her as irrelevant.
I completely disagree with most of that, and I really hope Obama is our next President. But it's helpful to understand what people are saying on the other side.
I loathe the idea of selecting her as the Vice Presidential nominee, but it would be a good idea for the campaign. Obama will need Hillary's supporters in November, and right now he doesn't have a lot of them.
Not all former Google employees quit voluntarily.
You, also, failed to get the joke the original poster was making. Allow me to explain: It seems to be meant to suggest that the article's use of "affect" is incorrect. Surely this is mistaken. If suggesting that twitter has anything to do with better communication isn't an affectation, I don't know what is. This is a joke. The person who wrote it is well aware of the difference between "affect" and "effect". He deliberately used the word "affectation" (which looks related to "affect" but really means conspicuously artificial or unnatural speech or conduct). The WHOOSH was not a dismissal of the response; the WHOOSH was intended to be the sound of the joke passing over the respondent's head.
Whether the joke is funny or not is another matter entirely.
Nine years ago, there were only five other registrars available and the whole system was highly experimental. Transferring to one of the new "testbed" registrars was not widely considered to be the safer option. Nobody accused Network Solutions of not being a real registrar, because a few months before they had been the only registrar.
Oh yeah, and it better be good. I think you may have just answered your own question...
It'd be great if this happened more often. A great first step is "we take this code and modify it for our purposes, instead of writing our own code from scratch," but it's so much easier to deal with if you can get your modifications folded back into the official project, so you can easily stay up to date with new features without worrying about applying your modifications to each new version. Not to mention, everyone else gets to benefit too.
I applaud them for listening to the public, but didn't they do any usability testing first? I mean, Leopard had been in development for like a year and a half before it shipped, and they never realized the dock folder icon thing was a problem? It makes me wonder what other terrible design decisions they haven't gotten around to fixing yet.
Again, I had heard about the transparency option for the menubar in 10.5.2, but I hadn't heard about the "display as folder" option. I'm glad they fixed it.
That was one of the reasons I hadn't upgraded yet. I'm insulted that Apple could be so stupid.
Ooh, my bad! Thanks, it looks like that's exactly what I was looking for. I must have missed hearing about this when the 10.5.2 update came out. (I haven't upgraded to Leopard yet, that's why I hadn't seen the option for myself).
I'm still waiting for a fix for the stupid Dock folder problem. Yes, I know there's a workaround (you can put a file or an alias or a folder or something inside the folder, name it something that will be first in an alphabetical sort, and paste a reasonable icon onto that). But I want Apple to recognize how completely retarded this idea was from the beginning, and actually FIX it, the way they fixed the menubar transparency issue first by reducing the transparency before release, then eventually adding an option to disable it altogether.
Seriously, who thought either of these would be a good idea? I know what they were thinking with the menubar, they were thinking "Windows Vista has lots of transparency, we don't want to look boring by comparison!" Come on Apple, I know you can make usability a priority without sacrificing aesthetics when you put your collective mind to it. Focusing entirely on aesthetics at the expense of usability really damages your image.
Actually it's because the vast majority of sites you would legitimately sign up for will never spam you anyway. Most people use a single address for everything, so they don't have any idea where the spam comes from.
They're willing to try anything if there's a chance it'll break Apple's monopoly.
He meant that Time Machine (a new feature in 10.5 Leopard) is useless to people using FileVault, not that FileVault is useless to people using Time Machine.