- I dont see the spams and ddos attacks and blah blah... - I get little spam... - Big ddos attacks on commercial sites have never really bothered me...
The plural of "anecdote" is not "data".
There are jerks at the mall, but its still the best place in town to buy a new pair of pants.
This is true, but we can see the jerks walking towards and avoid them. I can't avoid any spam I receive. Worse, I bear the responsibility of paying the bandwidth bills to receive it.
There is an increasing number of college students running linux.
I am one such student. Northwestern University charges students for a service called NUTV (TV-over-LAN) as a part of the housing contract. It took the provider several months to support Linux to the point of the client being usable. Those were several months that I didn't have access to a service I'm required to pay for.
I guess I'm one of the "everyone"s you're speaking of: I think it's cool to have UTF usernames. But as an English-speaker for my entire life, my eyes aren't trained to differentiate Japanese characters. I would imagine that it would be easy in the future (when "everyone" gets a Japanese username) for someone to masquerade as someone else just because I can't tell the difference between one character and another, i.e. "You say you're Bob? OK, you're Bob as far as I can tell".
If you cant remember to get to class, then you should drop out
I saw a tour guide leading a group here at Northwestern University, and as I passed by he clapped his hand to his forehead and exclaimed "OMG, I have a midterm now!" Yeah, way to represent in front of the prospies. Go Wildcats!
You old folk crack me up. My profs require me to email them PDFs now. But I get almost the same grueling experience because I don't have Acrobat, so I hand-code HTML and then convert it using HTMLDOC.
All the people with laptops stop bringing them to lectures
As well they should; I'd like to see someone hack out a reasonable representation of a triple integral in even twice the time it takes me to do the same on a piece of paper. And let's not even get into my calc prof's extensive and arcane knowledge of upper and lowercase Greek letters. "Excuse me, professor? Is that a squiggle?"
get a good mathematical analysis tool...They will not teach you
Actually, here at Northwestern we're all required to purchase MATLAB, and the very first introductory engineering course (the pre-req for EVERY engineering course beyond it) teaches you how to use it. And then every course I've taken since has required you to write a MATLAB program as part of most of the homeworks.
Bring flip-flops, or your feet will regret it
And trashbags for use as 75-pound roof-launched water balloons. Else the frats won't r'spect you.;-)
Almost the entire math department (i.e., the 4th floor of a massive building called Tech) uses GNU/Linux with Gnome for their research projects and simulations. Down on the ground floor, at least one lab is loaded up with GNU/Linux and IceWM (see Intro to EE lab instructions under the "Hardware" section), because they needed real-time responses while running some simulations and such. It's heartening to see my university using OSS.
However, according to the estimates in USA Today, The Matrix: Reloadeddropped 50% in sales from opening weekend to this past weekend. Granted, that's an estimate, but that's still one big drop. I'd be willing to bet that a significant factor for that drop is the pirating of the movie.
Regardless of their pull, I'm glad somebody's taking some form of legal action against SCO. SCO's accusations seem like a throwback to McCarthyism: unsubstantiated claims that are supposed to sway public opinion against the supposed "Communist" Linux companies and end users. I suppose that SCO's hoping to intimidate people into compliance, as opposed to them taking a stand (much as the people McCarthy accused quietly packed up and left office).
Bravo, LinuxTag.
Response to spammer: "Shutup".
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"Now the individual has lost his right to get any e-mail he wants," Scelson said.
See, he was doing SO well until he added the "wants" part. I agree that I have a right to receive email that's sent to me. And I agree that that hinges on it being email that I want. Surely it's up to me to decide what email I want or not, and not my ISP, but my ISP darn well better filter out spam; I'm paying for filtering, and I want it filtered!
Do you know how to read? Try reading the GPL. [It] means you can never make software that is available for sale
You should have written "IANL" when responding (hint: it involves the word "literate"). The software can be sold, as is shown by RedHat and everyone else. What the consumer is paying for in RedHat's case isn't the code: it's the support. As for the "pretty serious restriction", if you're the creator of the software, then you can obviously choose whether or not you license it under the GPL. If you take GPL software and extend it or build something from it, I think it's more than OK to demand that your code, which uses MY code, should also be under the GPL.
The end result, however, is that if you don't like GPL software, go find another sandbox to play in. Nobody's demanding that you participate in a phenomenon. I know one sad person who refuses to go see "The Matrix: Reloaded", too.
I loved playing Marvel Vs. Capcom in the arcade. I got really good at the massive combo attacks. While it's become old hat as they've rehashed things, I always enjoy updated graphics and new characters, assuming the core gameplay isn't destroyed in the process (i.e. going 3D because it's supposedly "better").
I'll just go to Korean / Dutch / Nigerian Servers and download the stuff.
Keep in mind that it's exactly vocal people like you that make the RIAA and MPAA think that pirating is so widespread that it's necessary to pressure Congress in the first place. Your piracy and defiance makes it more and more difficult for people like me, who like to stay on the legal side of the law, to enjoy fair use rights. I may not like the music industry, and I may think Apple's doing a great thing offering per-song downloads, but until the system is different, I'm still bound by law to not pirate, as are you.
opinions welcome, especially from those who've bought the game
Oh, um...the guys in my dorm have had it for about two weeks now...is it OK if they post, seeing how they have, like, double the playing time of everybody else?
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Anyone got more information about the company?
Well, you can start by checking out the headline at Gentoo.org that gives a barebones description. Or you can download the America's Army bootable ISO image here. Unfortunately, their site is slow. Can anybody get that uploaded to the/. victims BitTorrents page?
Who to contact?
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It's very sad that after 10 years, I can finally play the original Sam & Max: Hit the Road under Linux using an emulator that LucasArts doesn't approve of (ScummVM), yet now that they is releasing a new game and has the opportunity to support multiple platforms they're only offering it for Windows! *Sigh* I guess I'll just have to hope that someone at Icculus ports it, or WineX supports it...Does anybody know of a way to let LucasArts know that I'd like a Linux port?
If you're going to rename root, why not pick something more meaningful
Branding. It would be more sensible to call it admin or one of the other names you suggested, but it's good marketing to name it something that points back to the originating distro. Kind of like RedHat booting into X with a logo for a background.
I recently came across a set of (the alas) out of print The Phoenix Legacy by M. K. Wren.
Well darn. I was writing a historical documentary of the Mozilla/Phoenix/Firebird story, using that name. I guess I'll have to call it something like YABB (Yet Another Browser Book).
"Microsoft...released a patch six months prior to [Slammer]."
I may hate Microsoft with a burning, flaming passion, but I realize that they're not responsible if the SQL admins don't bother patching their systems. South Korea may have been hit spectacularly hard, but whose fault is that?
And besides, supposing the judge rules in favor of SK, it validates arguments against the OSS/FS communities, that there isn't anyone to be held responsible for the code. So I'm rooting for Microsoft on this one. Curses! Darn situational ethics...
And I'll personally help my friends set up their own GPG keys, and make all of my "email" encrypted and available on an FTP server running on my box. Only the person it's intended for would be able to read it. I'd rather run the risk of someone trying to break encryption to see how I phrased "Hello, my week is going well" than pay for what has become a right: free email.
How about we all just start calling "Linux"...AWUOS- "a wannabe unix OS,"
I would actually argue that the Linux kernel isn't a wannabe Unix anything; if you want to be technical and refer to the kernel as Linux, then the fact that the Linux kernel isn't monolithic is enough to set it a world apart from any semblance of trying to be a Unix kernel, at least in my book.
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- I get little spam...
- Big ddos attacks on commercial sites have never really bothered me...
The plural of "anecdote" is not "data".
There are jerks at the mall, but its still the best place in town to buy a new pair of pants.
This is true, but we can see the jerks walking towards and avoid them. I can't avoid any spam I receive. Worse, I bear the responsibility of paying the bandwidth bills to receive it.
No, no, it was IBM paying them off!
I guess I'm one of the "everyone"s you're speaking of: I think it's cool to have UTF usernames. But as an English-speaker for my entire life, my eyes aren't trained to differentiate Japanese characters. I would imagine that it would be easy in the future (when "everyone" gets a Japanese username) for someone to masquerade as someone else just because I can't tell the difference between one character and another, i.e. "You say you're Bob? OK, you're Bob as far as I can tell".
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You old folk crack me up. My profs require me to email them PDFs now. But I get almost the same grueling experience because I don't have Acrobat, so I hand-code HTML and then convert it using HTMLDOC.
Almost the entire math department (i.e., the 4th floor of a massive building called Tech) uses GNU/Linux with Gnome for their research projects and simulations. Down on the ground floor, at least one lab is loaded up with GNU/Linux and IceWM (see Intro to EE lab instructions under the "Hardware" section), because they needed real-time responses while running some simulations and such. It's heartening to see my university using OSS.
-- Kurt
However, according to the estimates in USA Today, The Matrix: Reloaded dropped 50% in sales from opening weekend to this past weekend. Granted, that's an estimate, but that's still one big drop. I'd be willing to bet that a significant factor for that drop is the pirating of the movie.
Bravo, LinuxTag.
You should have written "IANL" when responding (hint: it involves the word "literate"). The software can be sold, as is shown by RedHat and everyone else. What the consumer is paying for in RedHat's case isn't the code: it's the support. As for the "pretty serious restriction", if you're the creator of the software, then you can obviously choose whether or not you license it under the GPL. If you take GPL software and extend it or build something from it, I think it's more than OK to demand that your code, which uses MY code, should also be under the GPL.
The end result, however, is that if you don't like GPL software, go find another sandbox to play in. Nobody's demanding that you participate in a phenomenon. I know one sad person who refuses to go see "The Matrix: Reloaded", too.
I loved playing Marvel Vs. Capcom in the arcade. I got really good at the massive combo attacks. While it's become old hat as they've rehashed things, I always enjoy updated graphics and new characters, assuming the core gameplay isn't destroyed in the process (i.e. going 3D because it's supposedly "better").
HTMLDOC from Easy Software will convert an HTML file to PDF. I use it weekly, and it's fantastic.
It's very sad that after 10 years, I can finally play the original Sam & Max: Hit the Road under Linux using an emulator that LucasArts doesn't approve of (ScummVM), yet now that they is releasing a new game and has the opportunity to support multiple platforms they're only offering it for Windows! *Sigh* I guess I'll just have to hope that someone at Icculus ports it, or WineX supports it...Does anybody know of a way to let LucasArts know that I'd like a Linux port?
And besides, supposing the judge rules in favor of SK, it validates arguments against the OSS/FS communities, that there isn't anyone to be held responsible for the code. So I'm rooting for Microsoft on this one. Curses! Darn situational ethics...
And I'll personally help my friends set up their own GPG keys, and make all of my "email" encrypted and available on an FTP server running on my box. Only the person it's intended for would be able to read it. I'd rather run the risk of someone trying to break encryption to see how I phrased "Hello, my week is going well" than pay for what has become a right: free email.