look, I know this is obvious and all, but since when has is it been one non-free OS company's job to support another non-free OS's software - even with the spirit of RMS blessing them (or not)
I'm sure you're doing a great job, but how's Apple's work on paying people to work on Dtrace?
Sun are doing a great job with the 4 (!) archs/kernels that you mention above. Maybe Apple could move some dev. time from, I dunno, fskcing widget extensions for OSX10.5.1.2.4.2 to chuck an engineer or two at OO.org on OSX?
In the UK - and I'd guess the EU, there are nokia stores
They're telco agnostic, *very* knowledgable, do stuff like upgrade firmware, swap faulty 'phones (without needing to go near your telco 'support'!), sell accessories, show off the latest phones, etc
It's nice, because I end up with 3 differing places to go for support:
They each have differing support strengths for me as a consumer, but if I want a firmware fix (eg for a problem with the bluetooth stack on early 6310is), it's straight to nokia for me
No, wan't going for +anything, just responding with what I *thought* about HP, and as I said to whoever responded to me, their post made me think, google, and check their links.
That said, HP printers have always WorkedForMe (and for linuxprinting
[snip...]There are two brands worth considering for use with free software...Hewlett-Packard
Most of the HP inkjet line is supported using a driver provided by HP. Most newer HP models produce very good photo and text output. Duplex printing on paper sizes up to A3 are also supported.... certainly for most consumer and business use it is quite suitable....HP' "hpijs" driver is provided under a free license;
on top of that:
the hpijs driver has worked out of the box on 'most every distro and on the BSDs that I've tried it on
I didn't say 'most laptops work with Linux' (oh, brave new world) but rather that ' latest laptops' do, and can be shipped with them
They certainly *did* sponser/employ Bruce Perens, do still employ Bdale as their Linux CTO
The esr quote you mentioned is from December 2000 and I think they've addressed a lot of those issues
god, this sounds like i work for/love them - Neither's true, I just think they aren't the worst by any means, and that's all I was trying to point out with my first post
>I run Debian, but have installed openbsd for kicks, also.
I really love/. sometimes.
my friends and colleagues *dread* (re)installing OSs ('upgrading windows' or 'moving to OSX'), preparing for months, canvasing advice, backing *everything* up (the OS they are getting rid of, for example), *taking the afternoon off* to do so, ringing me as they do it, etc etc etc
here, people install openbsd 'for kicks' on weird 'old' computers
> 600 networked Power Mac G5 computers with the > equivalent of 378 terabytes (378 million > megabytes) of hard-disk storage.
Now, when they say 'equivalent of 378 TB' are they talking about a different system of measuring HD space (that only the media use), are they discussing the finer points of the TiB/ TB debate, or is it easier to write 'the equivalent of' rather than 'an approximate total of' ?
> What, therefore, stops them from ripping all of the DVD's in, say, NetFlix's library into their format, storing it on their server, and putting up a request system.
Bandwidth does. On demand is obviously the Holy Grail for cable- and sat- operators, but even a million (conservative estimate) boxes all requesting different programmes presents a real challenge
Clearly with 20,000 films there'd be a maximum of 20000 streams, but the capacity to deliver that, combined with the fact that people would want to do all that fancy back, forward pause stuff, over existing cable networks or with current DTH satelite is, er, not currently here - and it won't be a trivial task to implement.
Q: what's with the code-name Whistler'? A: They were "Odyssey," "Neptune," "Mars", and before that they were using city names "Chicago," "Detroit," "Memphis". But now they've turned to mountain names: Whistler and Blackcomb are popular ski resorts a few hours from Seattle, located in British Columbia.
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> Sun pays no one to work on Mac OS X support.
look, I know this is obvious and all, but since when has is it been one non-free OS company's job to support another non-free OS's software - even with the spirit of RMS blessing them (or not)
I'm sure you're doing a great job, but how's Apple's work on paying people to work on Dtrace?
Sun are doing a great job with the 4 (!) archs/kernels that you mention above. Maybe Apple could move some dev. time from, I dunno, fskcing widget extensions for OSX10.5.1.2.4.2 to chuck an engineer or two at OO.org on OSX?
download quick, maxed out my dsl line, but yuk
n officeorg-calc-1.9.65-1.i586.rpmo re-1.9.65-1.i586.rpm. i586.rpm8 6.rpmp enofficeorg-javafilter-1.9.65-1.i586.rpmi ceorg-mailcap-1.9.65-1.i586.rpmt h-1.9.65-1.i586.rpm. 9.65-1.noarch.rpm5 -1.i586.rpma rch.rpm c eorg-xsltfilter-1.9.65-1.i586.rpm
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yeah, I know, alien, but really...
What? Since the IPO those b******s even registered a TLD in MSFT's favour!
http://www.google.ie/
No, it's called International aid and the USA doesn't do nearly enough of it
> I don't have anything against paying someone for
> software I use, if it's also available for free
Most people don't think like that.
from the FA:
./
'After spending the summer decompressing in Italy with my family'
sorry, she spent the summer running
tar -zxfv
on herself, or her family too?
wtf does 'decompressing' mean if you aren't a deep sea diver or a tar/zip file?
is she aware of the patents on some de-compression work?
> With that said, what else could this be used for?
monitoring places where there's more to steal than a 'couple of computers' maybe?
> And if I find the mother-f***er that gave the entire company my cell phone #, they are dead!!
what happens if you don't answer?
i mean. honestly, say you're out of range, or battery, or decide not to answer?
what happens after the night-in-question/w/e
my boss has my mobile number, but sometimes i can't get to the 'phone.
surely the same happens to you?
weddings, holidays, etc ?
jesus yes
their inclusive platform in their own words (from parent's link)
The Constitution Party is the only party which is completely pro-life, anti-homosexual rights, pro-American sovereignty, anti-globalist, anti-free trade, anti-deindustrialization, anti-unchecked immigration, pro-second amendment, and against the constantly increasing expansion of unlawful police laws, in favor of a strong national defense and opposed to unconstitutional interventionism.
>The United States is known as being the world's most stable democracy
Known by whom, exactly?
More stable than where, exactly? The UK ? Switzerland? Canada?
That sentence makes no sense, it's utter gibberish.
My rewrite:
'To Americans, the United States is known as being the world's most stable democracy'
Now, it makes sense.
In the UK - and I'd guess the EU, there are nokia stores
They're telco agnostic, *very* knowledgable, do stuff like upgrade firmware, swap faulty 'phones (without needing to go near your telco 'support'!), sell accessories, show off the latest phones, etc
It's nice, because I end up with 3 differing places to go for support:
* Vendor (eg carphone warehouse)
* Phone OEM (nokia)
* telco (eg o2, etc)
They each have differing support strengths for me as a consumer, but if I want a firmware fix (eg for a problem with the bluetooth stack on early 6310is), it's straight to nokia for me
> My girlfriend wins out, too - she gets most of the leftovers.
and your great hobby - PCI/AGP/RAM/CPU stuff
> you'll be looked after by the lowest bidder
as opposed to being looked after by the non-lowest bidder, as in the rest of the capitalist system?
My god, consensus? Debate? Agreeing to disagree? On /.?
:)
I must be new here...
I keep meaning to stick Debian on my old HP/UX box, but it just runs so sweet
That said, HP printers have always WorkedForMe (and for linuxprinting
on top of that:
god, this sounds like i work for/love them - Neither's true, I just think they aren't the worst by any means, and that's all I was trying to point out with my first post
hmmm, that has made me think, and think hard - I always thought of hp as the good guys/ gals.
good post, thanks
> an IT staffer told to buy Windoze servers from either HP or IBM might inexplicably favor IBM because they're a Groklaw reader.
Or they might favour HP 'cos of their great printer support, latest laptops running Linux, sponsership of Bdale Garbee/ Bruce Perens, etc..
>I run Debian, but have installed openbsd for kicks, also.
/. sometimes.
:)
I really love
my friends and colleagues *dread* (re)installing OSs ('upgrading windows' or 'moving to OSX'), preparing for months, canvasing advice, backing *everything* up (the OS they are getting rid of, for example), *taking the afternoon off* to do so, ringing me as they do it, etc etc etc
here, people install openbsd 'for kicks' on weird 'old' computers
that's why i love slash
ps, i want an openbrick
> 600 networked Power Mac G5 computers with the
> equivalent of 378 terabytes (378 million
> megabytes) of hard-disk storage.
Now, when they say 'equivalent of 378 TB' are they talking about a different system of measuring HD space (that only the media use), are they discussing the finer points of the TiB/ TB debate, or is it easier to write 'the equivalent of' rather than 'an approximate total of' ?
> What, therefore, stops them from ripping all of the DVD's in, say, NetFlix's library into their format, storing it on their server, and putting up a request system.
Bandwidth does. On demand is obviously the Holy Grail for cable- and sat- operators, but even a million (conservative estimate) boxes all requesting different programmes presents a real challenge
Clearly with 20,000 films there'd be a maximum of 20000 streams, but the capacity to deliver that, combined with the fact that people would want to do all that fancy back, forward pause stuff, over existing cable networks or with current DTH satelite is, er, not currently here - and it won't be a trivial task to implement.
Othewise they would have done it years ago
Here's a thought, RTFA
1st link on the page
Challenges by Initiator, Institution, Type, and Year
Q: what's with the code-name Whistler'?
A: They were "Odyssey," "Neptune," "Mars", and before that they were using city names "Chicago," "Detroit," "Memphis". But now they've turned to mountain names: Whistler and Blackcomb are popular ski resorts a few hours from Seattle, located in British Columbia.
er...well done - you've just described email, or POTS, or mobile *calls*, or the telegram system (RIP), or fax, etc etc etc
IT's just another communication system - why do Yanks/ (.ers) get so het up and Luddite about the mobile 'phone
>While I'm willing to applaud better-lit roads, why incorporate speed traps?
Because driving slower kills fewer pedestrians, and no matter how many times we *ask* drivers to obey the law, they won't. So we have to make them.
>I mean, I guess it could be argued that if you obey the law you have nothing to fear
Yes, you could argue that.
yes, but it doesn't do 'calendaring'
that's a different layer on top of the 'open' IMAP support in exchange
the mails show up, and you can accept them in *your* client, but the acceptanve doesn't show up, neither does 'show-other-diaries'