On a side note I think would be rather nice of distros of *nix and gui's and etc. would specify what they think they should be used for. A given windows distro explicitly states what it is for: Small business, server, home use, hand held, etc. On linux? You've get twenty distros all trying to do everything. Give these people something to grasp!
In almost all cases, I agree with you on that. If you want someone to be able to use Linux for some specific purpose, it would be really nice if there were optimized distros. About the only thing you have to go by now is reading distro comparisons and getting the impression that Mandrake is for desktop, Debian is for servers---or was it desktop?, Redhat is for... um... well, whatever it's for. I will make an exception for Gentoo, my favorite (and most completely, maddeningly, difficult to use) linux distribution. It is for everything and nothing; it starts out with a bare minimum and lets you add and configure other stuff. If that's your cup of tea, great. It's certainly fun for those who aren't up to making linux from scratch. There are always exceptions.
I've tried a number of GUI toolkits (including KDE and GNOME), and I haven't really liked any of them very well. They're generally nice, though, and I don't have any strong opinions on the matter except one: if you can make toolkits compatible with one another, you don't need to have them standardized. I mean, what if people standardized on something I didn't like? I wouldn't like that!
Make sure that drag and drop, copy and paste, and similar things work. Make a widget theme that makes all widgets look and feel the same. That makes it easy for people aiming at the Average User to present something that looks like a unified GUI, and the rest of us can go on using our plethora of GUI toolkits, window managers (I can't decide which I like best!), and whatever else we please. Then everybody can be happy.
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I believe that our good friend Meat Blaster was talking about distroshe tried after making the decision to move away from the aging Slackware. Your description of Slackware applies to Gentoo as well; Gentoo just makes things slicker with the portage system. You set up your compiler flags, and just run emerge on the package to grab up-to-date source and compile it optimized for your machine. It even requires you to build and configure your own kernel, which can be fun if you have extra time on your hands.
For other things like this (which you are told to avoid), check out the classic Strunk and White. (Note: this link goes to the first edition, which was just "Strunk", but that's the best we can do with these ridiculous copyright terms....)
I didn't get the blaster worm, but I did get the Nachi worm, which installs the security patch that would have kept it (and blaster) out. Of course, I uninstalled it.
Qt 4 mostly tries to preserve source-compatibility with a little search and replace and a COMPAT compilation switch. More porting will be required for styles and code that uses the meta object system directly.
Not much Qt code uses the moc system directly, since this is deep black magic and typically a bad idea. They're preserving compatibility, and it seems like a pretty small price to pay.
I think that sort of thing is an art form. I really relished the wording in this one. Although I wish Eric would be more clear about what he's planning next.
I agree with you, with one exception: vegetable oil left over from food uses. Head on over to McDonald's and fill up your diesel tank on their leftover french fry grease. Sure, it isn't anywhere close to being viable as a mass power source, but it's less wasteful than just dumping the oil down the drain.
I thought I read that the book and movie were written at the same time. I think this was in an afterword to 2001, so it should be accurate if I remembered it right.
I once wrote a program that was supposed to find super nintendo roms from Google. It never developed intelligence, it just found one zip file for something completely unrelated and WENT OFF CHASING AD BANNERS FOR THE REST OF ITS GODDAMN DAYS, THE FUCKING IDIOTIC THING!
We don't say those kind of words. That's a bad word.
I count comments that reiterate stale old themes with nothing new as "redundant", even if they haven't been posted before. Would you consider a soviet russia joke to be redundant if it hadn't been posted before?
The difference between OpenOffice and MS Office incompatibility is that with OO you can upgrade for free, but with MS, rather than, say, having free conversion software to let older versions do some basic editing of newer files, you have to upgrade the whole thing at a usually large price. That is the forced upgrade cycle, and people only bitch when they have to pay lots of money for it.
That shouldn't be too hard for McDonalds, since they already run Unix, and they have reason to switch because it's SCO Unix. I wonder how much money they could save by switching to Linux and screwing SCO (hey, they screw us, we screw them---but we do it ethically).
This being/., your comment was redundant and no longer funny (sorry, just telling it like I percieve it). The only response it would get is a serious one, since redundant jokes don't generally get joking replies. Plus, I just like seriously answering jokes. It's fun.
Free public education for K-12 is a valid expense I have no problem paying, head start is a drain of money that produces no results in the classroom. Not sure why it exisits other than providing child care, which could be done much cheaper without certified teachers.
Some of K-12 public education looks remarkably like child care. For example, 8th grade english class. I don't know what your class was like, but back when I was in 8th grade, it was the exact same curriculum as 7th grade english class, which was mainly just a reiteration of the usual stuff about where to put commas runon sentences are bad.
I was figuring that the joke was either the $160000 income or the bit about "pisces". Software is fun to make as a hobby, and very rewarding if you make it elegantly. For instance, I wrote a framework for web spiders in Python which I'm very proud of. It makes the code for a simple spider that supports robots.txt less than a page long, and very clear. Isn't that sort of thing fun? Maybe you should learn Python, if you haven't already. That's fun, although YMMV with the plase of the big grain of salt in the sky.
What about the segment that uses XEmacs? She pretty well shunned it. Or are XEmacs users so insignificant that she can afford to alienate them? Or is she just lashing out at emacs in general, showing deepseated vi partisanship?
For the record, I never learned to use vi, so I'm not qualified to get into a debate about it.
I'd just walk through the doors and ignore the "agreement". I'd just add violating it to the list of everyday illegal things that I do. Everybody breaks the law in trivial ways.
Yeah, those sites really annoy me. How do you go about finding emulation roms? I once know about a good site with a simple HTML interface and no broken links or "click here to vote for this site!" buttons. Then it went away.
My latest thought is that I could write a spider program to go through the links on a google search for a certain game rom, and return the URLs of all.zip files that aren't broken links. Unfortunately my spider program was going pretty slowly since I couldn't get asynchronous I/O to work properly, so I abandoned the idea.
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In almost all cases, I agree with you on that. If you want someone to be able to use Linux for some specific purpose, it would be really nice if there were optimized distros. About the only thing you have to go by now is reading distro comparisons and getting the impression that Mandrake is for desktop, Debian is for servers---or was it desktop?, Redhat is for... um... well, whatever it's for. I will make an exception for Gentoo, my favorite (and most completely, maddeningly, difficult to use) linux distribution. It is for everything and nothing; it starts out with a bare minimum and lets you add and configure other stuff. If that's your cup of tea, great. It's certainly fun for those who aren't up to making linux from scratch. There are always exceptions.
Make sure that drag and drop, copy and paste, and similar things work. Make a widget theme that makes all widgets look and feel the same. That makes it easy for people aiming at the Average User to present something that looks like a unified GUI, and the rest of us can go on using our plethora of GUI toolkits, window managers (I can't decide which I like best!), and whatever else we please. Then everybody can be happy.
I believe that our good friend Meat Blaster was talking about distroshe tried after making the decision to move away from the aging Slackware. Your description of Slackware applies to Gentoo as well; Gentoo just makes things slicker with the portage system. You set up your compiler flags, and just run emerge on the package to grab up-to-date source and compile it optimized for your machine. It even requires you to build and configure your own kernel, which can be fun if you have extra time on your hands.
For other things like this (which you are told to avoid), check out the classic Strunk and White. (Note: this link goes to the first edition, which was just "Strunk", but that's the best we can do with these ridiculous copyright terms....)
I didn't get the blaster worm, but I did get the Nachi worm, which installs the security patch that would have kept it (and blaster) out. Of course, I uninstalled it.
Not much Qt code uses the moc system directly, since this is deep black magic and typically a bad idea. They're preserving compatibility, and it seems like a pretty small price to pay.
At least he seems a lot saner than Darl McWhoever. That counts for something....
I think that sort of thing is an art form. I really relished the wording in this one. Although I wish Eric would be more clear about what he's planning next.
I agree with you, with one exception: vegetable oil left over from food uses. Head on over to McDonald's and fill up your diesel tank on their leftover french fry grease. Sure, it isn't anywhere close to being viable as a mass power source, but it's less wasteful than just dumping the oil down the drain.
I see that you disagree with the majority on the spelling of the word "flamebait".
I thought I read that the book and movie were written at the same time. I think this was in an afterword to 2001, so it should be accurate if I remembered it right.
We don't say those kind of words. That's a bad word.
I count comments that reiterate stale old themes with nothing new as "redundant", even if they haven't been posted before. Would you consider a soviet russia joke to be redundant if it hadn't been posted before?
It's sort of odd to see you writing "work" in all uppercase. It reminds me of the Bible saying things like, "I am the LORD and blah blah blah."
I've got a rectangle, but no banner because I use bfilter.
The difference between OpenOffice and MS Office incompatibility is that with OO you can upgrade for free, but with MS, rather than, say, having free conversion software to let older versions do some basic editing of newer files, you have to upgrade the whole thing at a usually large price. That is the forced upgrade cycle, and people only bitch when they have to pay lots of money for it.
That shouldn't be too hard for McDonalds, since they already run Unix, and they have reason to switch because it's SCO Unix. I wonder how much money they could save by switching to Linux and screwing SCO (hey, they screw us, we screw them---but we do it ethically).
This being /., your comment was redundant and no longer funny (sorry, just telling it like I percieve it). The only response it would get is a serious one, since redundant jokes don't generally get joking replies. Plus, I just like seriously answering jokes. It's fun.
Some of K-12 public education looks remarkably like child care. For example, 8th grade english class. I don't know what your class was like, but back when I was in 8th grade, it was the exact same curriculum as 7th grade english class, which was mainly just a reiteration of the usual stuff about where to put commas runon sentences are bad.
I was figuring that the joke was either the $160000 income or the bit about "pisces". Software is fun to make as a hobby, and very rewarding if you make it elegantly. For instance, I wrote a framework for web spiders in Python which I'm very proud of. It makes the code for a simple spider that supports robots.txt less than a page long, and very clear. Isn't that sort of thing fun? Maybe you should learn Python, if you haven't already. That's fun, although YMMV with the plase of the big grain of salt in the sky.
For the record, I never learned to use vi, so I'm not qualified to get into a debate about it.
But if he made any changes that weren't saved, he'd then have to type "yes" when it prompts you. Either that or C-x C-s C-x k.
I'd just walk through the doors and ignore the "agreement". I'd just add violating it to the list of everyday illegal things that I do. Everybody breaks the law in trivial ways.
My latest thought is that I could write a spider program to go through the links on a google search for a certain game rom, and return the URLs of all .zip files that aren't broken links. Unfortunately my spider program was going pretty slowly since I couldn't get asynchronous I/O to work properly, so I abandoned the idea.
The presence of other bad things in the world doesn't make something less bad. Spammers still suck.