Apparently there is. If this is as bad as it gets, asking Microsoft to compete fairly before forcing them, no one should have any problem with that.
Microsoft politely asked Netscape to divvy-up the browser market, then proceeded to decimate them using monopolistic trade practices when they refused.
Apparently that was completely legal and justified. Now they can't complain when those same tactics are used against them.
You should read The Communist Manifesto to understand that Marx was initiating a study of the effects of Capitalism, not a new, totalitarian political philosophy. The conclusion was that Communism (not totalitarian, government-controlled, oppress-the-masses-for-the-good-of-the-leaders Communism, but equality-as-a-result-of-great-societal-wealth Communism) would eventually arise as a result of the massive productivity gains of the Industrial Revolution.
The problem was, that didn't have a chance to occur. People like Stalin used the economic inevitability of Communism to justify replacing the existing government with a totalitarian regime before the economic gains that would bring about Communism were realized. They called this regime "Communist" in order to garner favour with the masses. The Chinese did the same thing in Tibet.
1) Had an e-mail from an ".edu" domain 2) Having never seen this e-mail address before, I assumed it was spam or a virus. 3) No message in the e-mail, just a ".zip" attachment. 4) I opened it. 5) It contained a ".pif" file; pretty sure it's a virus. 6) I searched Google for virus warnings; yep, it's a virus. 7) I searched Google for the sender's name, job title and (updated) e-mail address. 8) Sent a reply with a deprecating tone, chastising the sender for working in computer support at a college and using Microsoft products. 9) Ran "apt-get update" just because I can.
Actually, it's not for me. It's for a client who is switching to RH9. It's important that things look and work mostly like Windows did. Also, the desktop is a good place to put stuff so that I know she can find it. I'd like to be able to 'snap-to-grid' her desktop icons when I have to, and Gnome doesn't seem to do that.
I haven't made my mind up which one I'll use, though. She has a few boxes with only 128MB, and Gnome does run a bit quicker on those. Although, while trying to configure the Gnome (Bluecurve) taskbar to be a little less obtrusive, it crashed. I will be up to my ears in shit if I give her a desktop that crashes, so KDE 3.1 is probably what she'll get.
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You're right, it's KDE. With RedHat 9, KDE takes up about 190MB of RAM and Gnome fits in under about 100MB. The difference in features, though, is like night and day. Everything in KDE can be customized with just a few clicks. I can't seem to get Gnome to even arrange my desktop icons correctly.
I'm currently working on trying to get RedHat 9 running on a P200 with 64MB of RAM. I'm going to replace KDE/Gnome with IceWM and the IceBlueCurve theme. I'm also swapping Mozilla out for Firebird (it is *much* faster).
I think that should be enough to be usable, although I don't know yet what I'm going to do about a file manager or OpenOffice.
So true. Techies, especially those rabid enough to make it to these positions, are the most intelligent, confrontational, egomaniacal humans on the planet. Just look at Slashdot. Of course, none of us can spell, but that doesn't stop us from insulting and arguing with each other.
One of the VP's of HP said once that his employment there was dependent upon their acknowledgement that he did not work well with others. It's a part of the culture.
Yes, you are. The only problem will be when some tweaked-out police officer decides that pointing your cell-phone at someone is a crime punishable by immediate death.
Well, I was going to post a reply to the effect of "aren't those fluorescent, so they waste energy turning them off and on," but it turns out I was wrong about that and this site has a very good explanation of why that used to be true but isn't any more.
That might not always be the best route. Many household devices today use more power when their state is changed than they would if they were just left on constantly.
My mother, for instance, wastes more power than she saves by going around turning off all her fluorescent lights. Aren't LCD monitors designed in the same way? They only use power when they are updated?
You're missing the point. To a user, 'correct' means 'working'. If you write libraries, your users are actually developers, many times middle-men who don't use the application and don't care if it works. These developers may not look for and find problems, but, with OSS, the actual end-users or someone closer to them (sysadmins) usually will.
Just started one this year. It has garlic and tomatoes; relatively idiot-proof.
Actually, it was just an excuse to try to build a linux-powered irrigation system. You can get electrically-controlled water valves pretty cheaply, so maybe I'll be able to do it for under $50.
No replies? Come on, someone has to have used both of these?
Oh, well, here's a quote attributed to Romans Chapter 1, verse 27:
Likewise also the users, leaving the natural use of the computer, burned in their lust for Windows, even Windows on Linux, committing what is shameful, and receiving in themselves the penalty of their error which was hangs, blue screens, and crashes.
I'm interested in either Win4Lin or Crossover Office for the same reason: small business, two legacy apps, moving to RH9.
The terminal server sounds great, but I probably only need two concurrent licenses. Plus, someone else said that the terminal server is unusable a la VNC. Have you tried it?
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Apparently there is. If this is as bad as it gets, asking Microsoft to compete fairly before forcing them, no one should have any problem with that.
Microsoft politely asked Netscape to divvy-up the browser market, then proceeded to decimate them using monopolistic trade practices when they refused.
Apparently that was completely legal and justified. Now they can't complain when those same tactics are used against them.
Extortion of money or something else of value from a person by the threat of exposing a criminal act or discreditable information.
As long as you do it anonymously, lest you become 'marginalized' as well.
What if your "means of production" doesn't have to be taken, but merely copied? Do you "own" your ideas as well?
The problem was, that didn't have a chance to occur. People like Stalin used the economic inevitability of Communism to justify replacing the existing government with a totalitarian regime before the economic gains that would bring about Communism were realized. They called this regime "Communist" in order to garner favour with the masses. The Chinese did the same thing in Tibet.
1) Had an e-mail from an ".edu" domain
2) Having never seen this e-mail address before, I assumed it was spam or a virus.
3) No message in the e-mail, just a ".zip" attachment.
4) I opened it.
5) It contained a ".pif" file; pretty sure it's a virus.
6) I searched Google for virus warnings; yep, it's a virus.
7) I searched Google for the sender's name, job title and (updated) e-mail address.
8) Sent a reply with a deprecating tone, chastising the sender for working in computer support at a college and using Microsoft products.
9) Ran "apt-get update" just because I can.
He'll take your free software only if you write him some more. Yeah, that'll work...
Actually, it's not for me. It's for a client who is switching to RH9. It's important that things look and work mostly like Windows did. Also, the desktop is a good place to put stuff so that I know she can find it. I'd like to be able to 'snap-to-grid' her desktop icons when I have to, and Gnome doesn't seem to do that.
I haven't made my mind up which one I'll use, though. She has a few boxes with only 128MB, and Gnome does run a bit quicker on those. Although, while trying to configure the Gnome (Bluecurve) taskbar to be a little less obtrusive, it crashed. I will be up to my ears in shit if I give her a desktop that crashes, so KDE 3.1 is probably what she'll get.
Yeah, extra silent
I'm currently working on trying to get RedHat 9 running on a P200 with 64MB of RAM. I'm going to replace KDE/Gnome with IceWM and the IceBlueCurve theme. I'm also swapping Mozilla out for Firebird (it is *much* faster).
I think that should be enough to be usable, although I don't know yet what I'm going to do about a file manager or OpenOffice.
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So true. Techies, especially those rabid enough to make it to these positions, are the most intelligent, confrontational, egomaniacal humans on the planet. Just look at Slashdot. Of course, none of us can spell, but that doesn't stop us from insulting and arguing with each other.
One of the VP's of HP said once that his employment there was dependent upon their acknowledgement that he did not work well with others. It's a part of the culture.
And, fwiw, atypical means not typical.
Yes, you are. The only problem will be when some tweaked-out police officer decides that pointing your cell-phone at someone is a crime punishable by immediate death.
Well, I was going to post a reply to the effect of "aren't those fluorescent, so they waste energy turning them off and on," but it turns out I was wrong about that and this site has a very good explanation of why that used to be true but isn't any more.
My mother, for instance, wastes more power than she saves by going around turning off all her fluorescent lights. Aren't LCD monitors designed in the same way? They only use power when they are updated?
That should be relatively close. To be any more accurate would require stuff that I didn't really even understand when I actually knew Latin.
You're missing the point. To a user, 'correct' means 'working'. If you write libraries, your users are actually developers, many times middle-men who don't use the application and don't care if it works. These developers may not look for and find problems, but, with OSS, the actual end-users or someone closer to them (sysadmins) usually will.
Actually, it was just an excuse to try to build a linux-powered irrigation system. You can get electrically-controlled water valves pretty cheaply, so maybe I'll be able to do it for under $50.
Right, she's just making the assumption that the drives were all bought at different times.
That might be valid when you work in a datacenter that replaces x number of drives every year.
On average, if the MTBF of those drives is 20 years, one drive in such a group will fail every year.
No replies? Come on, someone has to have used both of these?
Oh, well, here's a quote attributed to Romans Chapter 1, verse 27:
Likewise also the users, leaving the natural use of the computer, burned in their lust for Windows, even Windows on Linux, committing what is shameful, and receiving in themselves the penalty of their error which was hangs, blue screens, and crashes.
Absolutely true. Cygwin has more in common with Windows than with Linux. Use Knoppix instead.
The terminal server sounds great, but I probably only need two concurrent licenses. Plus, someone else said that the terminal server is unusable a la VNC. Have you tried it?
No. Why don't you explain to us the magical quality of the universe that prevents us from doing that.
If you can enhance a single frame, you can enhance all the frames and re-encode an enhanced video.
algorithms which use the visual information across multiple frames of video to increase the resolution of individual frames.
Isn't that what the poster asks for?
There are a few places that use underground rock formations to store compressed air.
VIA says they support USB 2.0 in kernel 2.5.2 or later.