It's true that many people started with D&D, but I guess that, while it has a lot of nice features (being quick and clean the one I like most), also many people got soon tired of the stereotypical characters it allowed and the poor realism of its rules. That's why I've always liked RM (RoleMaster) more. Much better (and complex, and maybe slow, yes), IMHO.
And it's a pity there's no good shop to boy RM things, as it seems there's for D&D (on-topic protection, yes:-D). Sure D&D is the most "mainstream" of the RPG rules around, and that's the cause.
I think I get a little late to the thread, but in debian there's also the package "deborphan", a program that tells you packages that aren't "depended on" (hope you understand it, my english doesn't get any further:-)). By default it only searchs libraries, but it's usually enough.
You aren't a real man until you do a "deborphan | xargs dpkg --purge" without checking what "deborphan" brings out:-P;-)
Well, you've just to check debian-devel to see what happens. There's a great deal of arguing (which often turns to flaming) in the lists about this issue. Every few weeks, someone posts his/her "True One Solution To Debian Release Cycles" (tm), proposing to change this and that to speed up release cycles. And it's always received with both flames and some enlightening posts. Though usually it's hard to differ ones from the other:-)
The main problems with release cycles, IIRC, are they many things that go "in the background". There's more to relasing a distro than updating packages and saying "Hey boys, we're frozen". There's work in auto-builders, in translations, in boot floppies (which, IIRC again, were one of the things that made woody be released with delay), and in general coordination of developers.
That's why I can't but freak out when I see people complaining on Debian. Hell, if there's something that you don't like, shut the fuck up and start helping. Many people seem to think that Debian is just "another distro", and don't realize the *big* effort all the developers are doing. Ok, so many of them don't have such a hard time because they maintain only a few simple packages (like me O:-)), but try to keep up with Mozilla, XFree, glibc or GNOME. It's hard work, believe me.
And besides: if you want updated software, you have the unstable branch. Shut up and use it if you want something new. Because for your production servers, you will do good with testing or even potato (remember, it's updated whenever a security problem arises, and usually in 24-48 hours).
Sorry for being so offtopic. I promise I started the post thinking about saying something useful:-)
You are right: for some reason, big companies don't like it cheap.
And I think that's the problem with many Linux solutions: companies think about Linux, and they think about the funny penguin logo, the teen MS-bashers with testosterone overdose, and plenty of hairy OSS-preachers.
It's not that I personally don't like it, being somewhat in the middle of the "hairy" and the "teen":-) But it's understandable that many companies don't like something that they think comes from and is used by only a bunch of freaks. The (small) firm I work for does Linux and security consulting (among others), and has suffered because of that "unprofessional" mystique that big companies attach to Linux (and BSD, and OSS as a whole).
So, as conclusion: it looks stupid, but I would say that, if you're going to do something related to OSS and big companies, charge for it. Not a lot, but a significant amount. These companies want to know that they're buying something good, and one of the proofs that they have about it is price.
>Fractal terrain generation is a well understood area.
Yes. Karma-whoring, here I come:-)
The best land generator I've found is Torben Mongensen's "planet.c". You can find it here. It's not GPL, but you can see the source and learn of it, at least:-) The results are quite good, though there's a few limitations: it doesn't do erosion and rivers, for example, which is something that could be very, very important if you want to use a map for a RPG setting. Rivers are the places where many cities are built, and crossing of rivers are always fertile lands. Well, anyway it's the only gripe I have about this program. For the rest, I like it very much:-) It can do a lot of different projections, and magnification, so you can really see the world from every point of view.
There's other nice terrain generator here. This does erosion and rivers, and the source is also available. It's for Windows, though the creator says that should compile well in Linux or related. I haven't tried yet O:-) The problem is that, besides not being "readily available" for Linux, I don't like the maps generated by it too much. And it doesn't plenty of projections, as Mogensen's program does (or, to be precise, I think it doesn't; I'm not a expert with this program). It runs fine under Wine, btw;-)
Another fine tool: TerraGen. Shareware, but free for personal use. Great. The results of this program are awesome. I'm sure that it's easy to use the output of Mogensen's program to renderize it (some small part, I mean) with TerraGen, but I haven't tried a lot and consequently I don't know how:-/ This runs somewhat well under Wine, too.
The program that looks great for all this, anyway, is MojoWorld. And not forgetting, of course, all of ProFantasy Products. But these cost quite a few bucks, so I don't have and can't speak about them O:-)
Fractal terrain generation is something I'm quite interested, though only from the user point of view. I don't know how to even program something to output a simple Mandelbrot fractal O:-) If you know something more about all this, don't make me check for every/. post: mail me at ask4it (at) gpul.org:-)
... when will someone make a song called "Napster killed the Music-biz star"?:-)
Hey, it feels quite good being able to tell my grandsons (whenever I have them) something like "Yes, I knew Napster, and I can tell you what was the music business before it":-)
And besides... ok, writer-stars are no more, rock-stars are no more... what's next? Programming/Computer stars? It's not that stupid if you think a bit about it, in fact:-)
In the second page of the article says that there's (or will be, don't recall right now) a factory in Germany that will produce 100.000 tons of methanol every year... from domestic waste!
Hey, it's just like Doc's car in "Back to the Future"!:-)
I think that I'd be happy with an Acid like kind of thing. I don't know where's the home page of it, but it's made by Sonic Foundry, like SoundForge:-) And yes, it's only for Windows, like SoundForge.
Anyway, I've got the 1.0 version, which came with my HP CD-burner (besides a lot of fine samples), and I'm in love with it. It could be vastly better (that's why there's the 3.0 version now, I believe;-)) And I, through my ignorance, believe that just with the features that this program provides we could do a lot of things. No MIDI, no SMPTE (STMPE? SMTPE?), only audio. And without effects (you can invoke an external editor from within Acid). But the samples are treated in such a way that you can change the tempo of the song and the samples play faster or slower, withouth changing pitch. That's wonderful, and the most important thing IMHO. Apart from being very, very easy to use.
But of course, I'm just an amateur. I'm sure that pros need much more, but something like Acid available in Linux would make my musicing hours much happier;-)
I cannot stress this enough. I was a typical "2 coffees a day" guy, and
after reading that it was, in fact, an energy drainer, I stopped taking
caffeine at all.
The result? Great. I thought I was not going to change much, but now I feel
much more awake, and (though it seems strange) bear much better the loss of
sleep. I'm usually sleeping between 6 and 7 hours a day (which is nothing I'm
proud of; I'm trying to change it for the better, but real life keeps getting
in the middle), and before I had terrible headaches everytime I slept less
than 8 hours. Now I don't even remember when was the last time I had a
headache. I don't feel that horrible feeling of tireness that many times I
had. Well, except for the fact that I have too little sleep sometimes:-)
What I've realized is that I have changed my day rythms. Before, I was
pretty active and awake the first hours in the morning (just after having my
first coffee), and then at mid-morning I was a little tired. Now it's almost
as if I had a "slow start" engine, and though I'm quite bitchy in the early
morning, I'm all right at lunchtime. Of course, having less or more work can
change this:-)
So, my advice would be stop taking caffeinated drinks AT ALL. You'll spend
a few days quite sleepy and tired, but after that (only two days for me,
easily bearable) you'll feel great. And I don't do any sport, but I'm sure
that would be the next step to almost unlimited energy:-)
It was an "official" event in the Linux section of Xuventude Galicia.net (only spanish and galician, sorry!), a LAN party born about 3 years ago here in Galicia (Spain). And there was another "almost official" tournament in the Arroutada Party (the mother of the galician LAN parties). I even partaked in this one (I was only a spectator on the Xuventude's one), and though I was quite The Ultimate Killing Machine in the "training games" (being first almost all the time), I only was the 3rd on the oficcial game. Man, do I suck:-/;-)
Anyway, everyone had a fun time, as I've been told:-) The game is very network-friendly, and very addictive. Some game balance problems that people tell happen because they allowed too many "special options", IMHO. We just played with flags, and no other option (i.e.: no jumping, only 1 shot each time, and so on). That way, game is quite balanced, though if you get the Guided Missile flag, the Stealth flag or the Laser flag, you can be the ruler of the game for a long time:-)
The Laser flag is my favourite, and specially fun when you play with shots being all ricochet. Well, at least it's fun until you kill yourself for firing straight against a wall. Ouch:-)
Stealth flag is fun, yes, but Real Men (tm) play guided by their radars, and not their eyes (Or was Stealth the flag that didn't show you on the Radar? I don't remember now:-m) Use of The Force and any other special powers is also encouraged, or course:-)
Anyway, speedwise it sucks in my P2-366 Compaq Armada 3500:-/ I think it's because of the graphic card, but haven't looked at it deeply. Well, it absolutely rocks in my Athlon 800 with GF2MX, at least;-)
>I really hope that one day in the near future (rather than trying to maintain this binary package management hell) all the major distros will wake up and realize that source management is *much* cleaner and nicer to the user.
This is BS, IMHO and to say it bluntly (no offence intended, it's just that I'm such a troll;-))
Try to use a source-based distro for a firewall. I mean: I don't have compilers on a firewall. Nor "man". I don't have *anything* on a firewall that can be remotely used if the box is hacked. This is one reason that I'm against using a source-based distro for some things.
The other reason is that I don't really understand what's the point in compiling everything, or to be precise: I don't understand what's the point in compiling everything *besides geekiness*. Of course it could be funny, if you like it. Enlightening? Maybe. But to say that it's "the right way" to do things is plain BS. "Joe Sixpack" doesn't need it, nor a veteran sysadmin. It's time and bandwidth consuming. What do you gain in terms of performance? A 10%? C'mon, gimme a break.
But of course, I use Debian, so maybe compared to RH or SuSE it's better the *BSD way. I don't know.
I think that many people are trying to be 3l337 trolling about *BSD, without really knowing all the Linux options.
Excuse me if I sound too much "anti *BSD", but it's just that I'm fed up of the "BSD is better" attitude without giving real proofs. Give me reasons and I'll be the more reasonable guy in Earth, but don't try to fool me.
Just to throw a little more enthropy to the box:-)
Slashdot's crew put things that people send to them on their site. Then, people comment on these things. Now, this same people that feeds Slashdot has to pay... for what? For these things that *they* put here.
Sounds like charging the cow for milk to me:-) Anyway, I understand that bandwidth costs money and such. But I always thought that VA paid those things, even if it only was for the sake of the publicity that they got. Slashdot was a "public relations expense" for them, if you understand what I mean.
Don't misunderstand me, I want Slashdot to be kept alive. But I just don't buy the "it's your duty" thing that many posts seem to imply.
Will this be applied *only* in USA?
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Because maybe there's still hope for the people here in europe:-) (at least until UE approves some shit alike here)
the movie has to try to appeal to others than us nerds who've actually
managed to finish the Silmarillion
WHAT? Did you mean that you didn't read it at least twice?
Heresy!
(just joking, of course; though I read it several times myself, I don't
want to convert this to a "let's see who's got the bigger -- ehm, I mean,
who's read the book more times" discussion;-))
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No, no, no. Don't calculate back to pesetas, francs and guilders for the rest of your natural lifes.
Yes, yes, yes. I mean, I said the first days. Just the first week. Or the first two days. I've already assumed that I must change my "mental currency system" to euros, but a need a soft transition:-)
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Well, I don't know exactly how to translate it, but "spectator's day" is that day of the week that tickets cost a little less than the rest of the week:-) For example, all mondays or all wednesdays. It depends on the theater.
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Well, being one of the 300 million affected, I just thought that I could karma whore a little and get an "informative" mod by telling you (the non-european or non-affected-even-if-european people) a few issues that arise in real life with this change:-) Let's hope not to be another of a million messages about this O:-)
First, I suppose that you don't really imagine what this change means for every Joe European's day-to-day life. In Spain, 1 euro is 166.386 pesetas. There's a few rough equivalences, like 6 euro = 1000 pesetas, but anyway it's quite tricky to know, for example, how many euros are 135 pesetas, or how many pesetas are 4.27 euros. And many people (me, at least) need to know that equivalences in the first days, to make an idea about what you are paying.
Given this difficulties, every government has tried its best to inform every citizen about the equivalences, how to use the euro... and has made available a kind of "calculators" that consist in a little plastic piece that shows euros and their equivalences in the local currency, to be used by everyone. They're pretty cool, if someone is able to take a photo of any and post it, please do:-)
The devil is in the details, as they say, and in this case the devil is in the rounding. As I said, 6 euros are roughly 1000 pesetas. But that's not exact: 6.01 is more precise. This doesn't mean anything in "cheap" things, but if you're going to buy a car... There's a lot of concern about the way that commerces are going to apply rounding, as many think that they're going to raise prices to make them more "euro-compliant".
Most of the prices were already both in euros and local currency since months ago, so everyone could make an idea about what prices were going to be like in euros (a cinema ticket is about 4 euros in "spectator's day", for example). But anyway, in my personal experience, nobody looked at the prices in euros, so the impact of this measure is, for me, doubtful:-) Anyway, bussiness have to work in euros from now on, and most of them were already prepared when year's end came.
There's no 25 cents coin. Someone tell me why, because I don't understand it. Specially since a coffe here is about 125 pesetas, which is roughly 0.75 euro. We've got 2 and 20 cents coins, but anyway, I don't know why there're no 25 cents coins.
As someone already said, the coins are pretty cool:-) A few of them are in two colors, and have a face with a local design and the other with a common european one.
There's more, but I don't recall anything specially interesting now, so let's hope that another one with a better english and memory can say something more fulfilling;-)
It is also very themable, I used it for years until I installed Linux on a faster computer.
Heartily agree.
I've tried a *lot* of WM's. Blackbox, IceWM, KDE, GNOME with (E|Sawfish|WMaker), AfterStep 1.0 and previous versions, fvwm2, uwm, pawm (done by some friends:-)), twm, ctwm, qvwm... but everytime, I come back to WindowMaker. It's just the simplicity I need, with a lot of features and light-weight enough. I've been using it since 3 or 4 years ago, and though every now and then I try some new thing, I'm always coming back.
But I'm very used to CLI. I mean, I usually just run wm to launch aterm's (the transparency thing is sooo cute...:-)) and Opera. Before that, I was a delighted 4DOS user. So, I'm sure that the people that is used to more graphical interfaces has a different view on the minimum level of his/her desktop than the one I have. Even in my short period of OS/2 user, I used it more like a multi-tasking 4DOS than any other thing:-)
I usually just use "lspci". With that, you can see almost everything the machine has installed. Installing Mandrake before is quite time-consuming, specially when you've got to install 5 or 6 machines in one day:-) (just happened to me once, but it was a good learning experience;-))
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It's true that many people started with D&D, but I guess that, while it has a lot of nice features (being quick and clean the one I like most), also many people got soon tired of the stereotypical characters it allowed and the poor realism of its rules. That's why I've always liked RM (RoleMaster) more. Much better (and complex, and maybe slow, yes), IMHO.
:-D). Sure D&D is the most "mainstream" of the RPG rules around, and that's the cause.
:-)
And it's a pity there's no good shop to boy RM things, as it seems there's for D&D (on-topic protection, yes
But only my 0.02EUR, of course
I think I get a little late to the thread, but in debian there's also the package "deborphan", a program that tells you packages that aren't "depended on" (hope you understand it, my english doesn't get any further :-)). By default it only searchs libraries, but it's usually enough.
:-P ;-)
You aren't a real man until you do a "deborphan | xargs dpkg --purge" without checking what "deborphan" brings out
>And as we all know it completely eradicated terrorism there.
Uh? What's got a national ID to do with terrorism?
>My geopolitical knowledge is weak, but wasn't Spain itself a fascist state under Franco?
:-m
Yes, it was. But I don't know if the national ID thing was previous to that
Ok, this may be naive, so bear with me if I'm being too dumb :-)
:-)
What's up with a national ID card? We've had such a thing for YEARS here in Spain. Are we in danger?
I'm asking only because I don't really understand what's up with all the national ID thing. What is it going to be like there?
I've read the article, but I believe I'm not enough of a graphics geek to understand it O:-) What's a "Cg compiler"? What's it for?
Well, you've just to check debian-devel to see what happens. There's a great deal of arguing (which often turns to flaming) in the lists about this issue. Every few weeks, someone posts his/her "True One Solution To Debian Release Cycles" (tm), proposing to change this and that to speed up release cycles. And it's always received with both flames and some enlightening posts. Though usually it's hard to differ ones from the other :-)
:-)
The main problems with release cycles, IIRC, are they many things that go "in the background". There's more to relasing a distro than updating packages and saying "Hey boys, we're frozen". There's work in auto-builders, in translations, in boot floppies (which, IIRC again, were one of the things that made woody be released with delay), and in general coordination of developers.
That's why I can't but freak out when I see people complaining on Debian. Hell, if there's something that you don't like, shut the fuck up and start helping. Many people seem to think that Debian is just "another distro", and don't realize the *big* effort all the developers are doing. Ok, so many of them don't have such a hard time because they maintain only a few simple packages (like me O:-)), but try to keep up with Mozilla, XFree, glibc or GNOME. It's hard work, believe me.
And besides: if you want updated software, you have the unstable branch. Shut up and use it if you want something new. Because for your production servers, you will do good with testing or even potato (remember, it's updated whenever a security problem arises, and usually in 24-48 hours).
Sorry for being so offtopic. I promise I started the post thinking about saying something useful
You are right: for some reason, big companies don't like it cheap.
:-) But it's understandable that many companies don't like something that they think comes from and is used by only a bunch of freaks. The (small) firm I work for does Linux and security consulting (among others), and has suffered because of that "unprofessional" mystique that big companies attach to Linux (and BSD, and OSS as a whole).
And I think that's the problem with many Linux solutions: companies think about Linux, and they think about the funny penguin logo, the teen MS-bashers with testosterone overdose, and plenty of hairy OSS-preachers.
It's not that I personally don't like it, being somewhat in the middle of the "hairy" and the "teen"
So, as conclusion: it looks stupid, but I would say that, if you're going to do something related to OSS and big companies, charge for it. Not a lot, but a significant amount. These companies want to know that they're buying something good, and one of the proofs that they have about it is price.
Yes. Karma-whoring, here I come :-)
The best land generator I've found is Torben Mongensen's "planet.c". You can find it here. It's not GPL, but you can see the source and learn of it, at least :-) The results are quite good, though there's a few limitations: it doesn't do erosion and rivers, for example, which is something that could be very, very important if you want to use a map for a RPG setting. Rivers are the places where many cities are built, and crossing of rivers are always fertile lands. Well, anyway it's the only gripe I have about this program. For the rest, I like it very much :-) It can do a lot of different projections, and magnification, so you can really see the world from every point of view.
There's other nice terrain generator here. This does erosion and rivers, and the source is also available. It's for Windows, though the creator says that should compile well in Linux or related. I haven't tried yet O:-) The problem is that, besides not being "readily available" for Linux, I don't like the maps generated by it too much. And it doesn't plenty of projections, as Mogensen's program does (or, to be precise, I think it doesn't; I'm not a expert with this program). It runs fine under Wine, btw ;-)
Another fine tool: TerraGen. Shareware, but free for personal use. Great. The results of this program are awesome. I'm sure that it's easy to use the output of Mogensen's program to renderize it (some small part, I mean) with TerraGen, but I haven't tried a lot and consequently I don't know how :-/ This runs somewhat well under Wine, too.
The program that looks great for all this, anyway, is MojoWorld. And not forgetting, of course, all of ProFantasy Products. But these cost quite a few bucks, so I don't have and can't speak about them O:-)
Fractal terrain generation is something I'm quite interested, though only from the user point of view. I don't know how to even program something to output a simple Mandelbrot fractal O:-) If you know something more about all this, don't make me check for every /. post: mail me at ask4it (at) gpul.org :-)
... when will someone make a song called "Napster killed the Music-biz star"? :-)
:-)
... ok, writer-stars are no more, rock-stars are no more ... what's next? Programming/Computer stars? It's not that stupid if you think a bit about it, in fact :-)
Hey, it feels quite good being able to tell my grandsons (whenever I have them) something like "Yes, I knew Napster, and I can tell you what was the music business before it"
And besides
In the second page of the article says that there's (or will be, don't recall right now) a factory in Germany that will produce 100.000 tons of methanol every year ... from domestic waste!
:-)
Hey, it's just like Doc's car in "Back to the Future"!
I think that I'd be happy with an Acid like kind of thing. I don't know where's the home page of it, but it's made by Sonic Foundry, like SoundForge :-) And yes, it's only for Windows, like SoundForge.
;-)) And I, through my ignorance, believe that just with the features that this program provides we could do a lot of things. No MIDI, no SMPTE (STMPE? SMTPE?), only audio. And without effects (you can invoke an external editor from within Acid). But the samples are treated in such a way that you can change the tempo of the song and the samples play faster or slower, withouth changing pitch. That's wonderful, and the most important thing IMHO. Apart from being very, very easy to use.
;-)
Anyway, I've got the 1.0 version, which came with my HP CD-burner (besides a lot of fine samples), and I'm in love with it. It could be vastly better (that's why there's the 3.0 version now, I believe
But of course, I'm just an amateur. I'm sure that pros need much more, but something like Acid available in Linux would make my musicing hours much happier
I cannot stress this enough. I was a typical "2 coffees a day" guy, and after reading that it was, in fact, an energy drainer, I stopped taking caffeine at all.
The result? Great. I thought I was not going to change much, but now I feel much more awake, and (though it seems strange) bear much better the loss of sleep. I'm usually sleeping between 6 and 7 hours a day (which is nothing I'm proud of; I'm trying to change it for the better, but real life keeps getting in the middle), and before I had terrible headaches everytime I slept less than 8 hours. Now I don't even remember when was the last time I had a headache. I don't feel that horrible feeling of tireness that many times I had. Well, except for the fact that I have too little sleep sometimes :-)
What I've realized is that I have changed my day rythms. Before, I was pretty active and awake the first hours in the morning (just after having my first coffee), and then at mid-morning I was a little tired. Now it's almost as if I had a "slow start" engine, and though I'm quite bitchy in the early morning, I'm all right at lunchtime. Of course, having less or more work can change this :-)
So, my advice would be stop taking caffeinated drinks AT ALL. You'll spend a few days quite sleepy and tired, but after that (only two days for me, easily bearable) you'll feel great. And I don't do any sport, but I'm sure that would be the next step to almost unlimited energy :-)
He meant a blank DVD :-)
It was an "official" event in the Linux section of Xuventude Galicia.net (only spanish and galician, sorry!), a LAN party born about 3 years ago here in Galicia (Spain). And there was another "almost official" tournament in the Arroutada Party (the mother of the galician LAN parties). I even partaked in this one (I was only a spectator on the Xuventude's one), and though I was quite The Ultimate Killing Machine in the "training games" (being first almost all the time), I only was the 3rd on the oficcial game. Man, do I suck :-/ ;-)
Anyway, everyone had a fun time, as I've been told :-) The game is very network-friendly, and very addictive. Some game balance problems that people tell happen because they allowed too many "special options", IMHO. We just played with flags, and no other option (i.e.: no jumping, only 1 shot each time, and so on). That way, game is quite balanced, though if you get the Guided Missile flag, the Stealth flag or the Laser flag, you can be the ruler of the game for a long time :-)
The Laser flag is my favourite, and specially fun when you play with shots being all ricochet. Well, at least it's fun until you kill yourself for firing straight against a wall. Ouch :-)
Stealth flag is fun, yes, but Real Men (tm) play guided by their radars, and not their eyes (Or was Stealth the flag that didn't show you on the Radar? I don't remember now :-m) Use of The Force and any other special powers is also encouraged, or course :-)
Anyway, speedwise it sucks in my P2-366 Compaq Armada 3500 :-/ I think it's because of the graphic card, but haven't looked at it deeply. Well, it absolutely rocks in my Athlon 800 with GF2MX, at least ;-)
>I really hope that one day in the near future (rather than trying to maintain this binary package management hell) all the major distros will wake up and realize that source management is *much* cleaner and nicer to the user.
;-))
This is BS, IMHO and to say it bluntly (no offence intended, it's just that I'm such a troll
Try to use a source-based distro for a firewall. I mean: I don't have compilers on a firewall. Nor "man". I don't have *anything* on a firewall that can be remotely used if the box is hacked. This is one reason that I'm against using a source-based distro for some things.
The other reason is that I don't really understand what's the point in compiling everything, or to be precise: I don't understand what's the point in compiling everything *besides geekiness*. Of course it could be funny, if you like it. Enlightening? Maybe. But to say that it's "the right way" to do things is plain BS. "Joe Sixpack" doesn't need it, nor a veteran sysadmin. It's time and bandwidth consuming. What do you gain in terms of performance? A 10%? C'mon, gimme a break.
But of course, I use Debian, so maybe compared to RH or SuSE it's better the *BSD way. I don't know.
I think that many people are trying to be 3l337 trolling about *BSD, without really knowing all the Linux options.
Excuse me if I sound too much "anti *BSD", but it's just that I'm fed up of the "BSD is better" attitude without giving real proofs. Give me reasons and I'll be the more reasonable guy in Earth, but don't try to fool me.
Just to throw a little more enthropy to the box :-)
... for what? For these things that *they* put here.
:-) Anyway, I understand that bandwidth costs money and such. But I always thought that VA paid those things, even if it only was for the sake of the publicity that they got. Slashdot was a "public relations expense" for them, if you understand what I mean.
Slashdot's crew put things that people send to them on their site. Then, people comment on these things. Now, this same people that feeds Slashdot has to pay
Sounds like charging the cow for milk to me
Don't misunderstand me, I want Slashdot to be kept alive. But I just don't buy the "it's your duty" thing that many posts seem to imply.
Because maybe there's still hope for the people here in europe :-) (at least until UE approves some shit alike here)
>*I* was gonna ask her...
:-D
:-) I'm just pissed up that someone thought the "it must had been a poll" thing before me :-)
I was gonna ask *him*! 8'-(
(just kidding - girls of the world, don't be afraid, I'm still all yours in all my pure geekiness)
Congratulations, and all that stuff
WHAT? Did you mean that you didn't read it at least twice?
Heresy!
(just joking, of course; though I read it several times myself, I don't want to convert this to a "let's see who's got the bigger -- ehm, I mean, who's read the book more times" discussion ;-))
Yes, yes, yes. I mean, I said the first days. Just the first week. Or the first two days. I've already assumed that I must change my "mental currency system" to euros, but a need a soft transition :-)
Well, I don't know exactly how to translate it, but "spectator's day" is that day of the week that tickets cost a little less than the rest of the week :-) For example, all mondays or all wednesdays. It depends on the theater.
Well, being one of the 300 million affected, I just thought that I could karma whore a little and get an "informative" mod by telling you (the non-european or non-affected-even-if-european people) a few issues that arise in real life with this change :-) Let's hope not to be another of a million messages about this O:-)
There's more, but I don't recall anything specially interesting now, so let's hope that another one with a better english and memory can say something more fulfilling ;-)
Heartily agree.
I've tried a *lot* of WM's. Blackbox, IceWM, KDE, GNOME with (E|Sawfish|WMaker), AfterStep 1.0 and previous versions, fvwm2, uwm, pawm (done by some friends :-)), twm, ctwm, qvwm ... but everytime, I come back to WindowMaker. It's just the simplicity I need, with a lot of features and light-weight enough. I've been using it since 3 or 4 years ago, and though every now and then I try some new thing, I'm always coming back.
But I'm very used to CLI. I mean, I usually just run wm to launch aterm's (the transparency thing is sooo cute ... :-)) and Opera. Before that, I was a delighted 4DOS user. So, I'm sure that the people that is used to more graphical interfaces has a different view on the minimum level of his/her desktop than the one I have. Even in my short period of OS/2 user, I used it more like a multi-tasking 4DOS than any other thing :-)
I usually just use "lspci". With that, you can see almost everything the machine has installed. Installing Mandrake before is quite time-consuming, specially when you've got to install 5 or 6 machines in one day :-) (just happened to me once, but it was a good learning experience ;-))