I still don't understand why everyone here bitches and moans whenever a hardware vendor drops Linux from their lineup on certain items. Linux is not and will not (atleast anytime soon) be the choice of the road wariors who buy laptops by the truck loads. Its really quite easy to see that certain operating systems are better for some tasks than others, Linux is not ready for desktop market.
Step back and look at it before writing this off as a troll. You're a geek, you're one of the few. Most people who buy laptops buy them because they're on the move, running between business meetings and such. They've not got the time to deal with learning Linux or other OSS OSes.
Stick to what you do best, keep those servers churning while letting the desktop slip; its not your strong market.
Even without confusion I'm sure they'll manage to screw it up again. I wonder why the release announcement was delayed so long after images were available on FTP? (two days?) Maybe someone trying to send slashdot the message.
Unlike the majority of the Linux distributions, zero settings are lost when upgrading. Upgrade routes are painless and don't leave you with an entirely different system than when you began. With mergemaster you're presented diffs between your current configuration and the new one, you can merge them line by line picking out the changes you don't want, or simply install the new one. Fearing a FreeBSD update is pointless, the process is painless and simple.
No. Apple is into producing the most usable product, if its based around open source then so be it. But since the Internet is shifting more and more to an IE Internet, then I don't see this happening anytime soon.
Need to stop beating a dead horse, just let it slide, they've lost.
Hand written code is really a bitch. All of my CS tests in coding classes have had rather large coding poritions to them. While I understand there's very few ways to show that you indeed know how to code, University CS programs shouldn't focus on a language.
If the professor grades the hand written code solely on the logic rather than symantics then I agree that hand written coding tests are acceptable. However often this isn't the case. If you're testing on the language its only fair to offer these tests in a real world situation, one where you can run the code through a compiler a few times and find your errors which are bound to happen.
I recently completed an elective course that was taught around the book "PHP and MySQL Web Development" by Luke Welling and Laura Thomson. I suggest giving this book a good look. ISBN : 0672317842
For an operating system that produces a release on average about every 6 months its a major release. I I know its not "major" as in version numbering, however its sure a bit more "major" than a lame Linux development kernel patch level.
Considering the topics of discussion and the way comments are addressed, its not too much of a jump to assume that most people here are infact retarded school children.
When millions were pumped into doing psychological tests in order to determine the most efficient presentation for a desktop operating system its called cute teletubbie crap. The mentality of "I don't like it and nobody else should" is exactly the mindset found on the playgrounds of elementary schools. I really think you're on to something here.
That's it. I've lost complete faith in Slashdot as a news source. A major release of FreeBSD doesn't make it to the front page, yet a patch level to the development Linux kernel does? The only people interested in a patch to the development kernel are those who are actively following kernel development and this is hardly news to them.
Its obvious that this entire site is driven by promoting Linux and downing all others. Submit an article concerning an opensource IRC client being back doored and you'll get rejected. Submit a post concerning a security hole in IIS which was patched 18 months prior and you'll be front page news.
While I understand that Opensource is a driving factor behind this site, the title is still "Slashdot : News for Nerds. Stuff that Matters". I move to have this changed to "Slashdot: News for biased Linux nazis, stuff that doesn't matter".
When considering a PDA I considered that the PalmOS offerings really haven't come very far in the past few years. The only real advancements made were larger storage and more add ons. On the other hand PocketPC offerings offer much more and tend to have much more processing power to keep up with the latest and greatest software.
I doubt you'll see anyone stripping IE. IE is the browsers of choice for those who use windows. I don't really care how it goes about it, loading files on startup or whatever, IE is by far the best browser offering for Windows. It may have from the enemy, but IE is here to stay.
I'm seeing more and more people switch to IE every day. Complete cluelessness of Netscape is to blame for this. Even though Mozilla is a rock solid browser I doubt these people would be willing to run Mozilla after finding out that Netscape 6 is derrived from Mozilla code base.
You're sooo funny. Of course napster isn't why piracy exists. But until recently Napster's sole purpose was to feed piracy. blah blah about fair use. Just admit it, everyone used Napster to pirate the latest and greatest from Eminem, and our favorite homeboys of LimpBizkit.
I'd have a lot more sympathy when you guys whine and moan if you'd just go ahead and say it "They suck because they're shutting down my favorite piracy outlet." Noone really believes that you're just downloading backups, or whatever other lame excuse you've got. You're stealing, you know it, I know it, now be a man about it... or something like that.
or other such package. But don't go telling too many people these secrets, they might actually try to use FreeBSD at some point in the future then our jobs enlightening them will so incredibly borning.
Of course it was easy. Even my Windows 3.1 machine worked quite well with it. I think you've forgotten where you're posting, this is slashdot. Each and every article's commentary is required to carry an anti MS undertone.
Common, I saw this a mile away. This is the same guy who says that freeware isn't good enough, and that the GNU project won't associate with those who publish freeware, etc... His philosophy is getting old.
All the HP carts I've bought were clearly labeled with the volume of ink contained. I think for my particular model it was 1.9ml for econ and 3 for the normal one. I can't remember for sure. But they're clearly labeled.
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Remember when the brand spank'n new pentiums and 486s offered hardware mpeg-decoding? Those were the days...
I still don't understand why everyone here bitches and moans whenever a hardware vendor drops Linux from their lineup on certain items. Linux is not and will not (atleast anytime soon) be the choice of the road wariors who buy laptops by the truck loads. Its really quite easy to see that certain operating systems are better for some tasks than others, Linux is not ready for desktop market.
Step back and look at it before writing this off as a troll. You're a geek, you're one of the few. Most people who buy laptops buy them because they're on the move, running between business meetings and such. They've not got the time to deal with learning Linux or other OSS OSes.
Stick to what you do best, keep those servers churning while letting the desktop slip; its not your strong market.
Even without confusion I'm sure they'll manage to screw it up again. I wonder why the release announcement was delayed so long after images were available on FTP? (two days?) Maybe someone trying to send slashdot the message.
Unlike the majority of the Linux distributions, zero settings are lost when upgrading. Upgrade routes are painless and don't leave you with an entirely different system than when you began. With mergemaster you're presented diffs between your current configuration and the new one, you can merge them line by line picking out the changes you don't want, or simply install the new one. Fearing a FreeBSD update is pointless, the process is painless and simple.
No. Apple is into producing the most usable product, if its based around open source then so be it. But since the Internet is shifting more and more to an IE Internet, then I don't see this happening anytime soon.
Need to stop beating a dead horse, just let it slide, they've lost.
Hand written code is really a bitch. All of my CS tests in coding classes have had rather large coding poritions to them. While I understand there's very few ways to show that you indeed know how to code, University CS programs shouldn't focus on a language.
If the professor grades the hand written code solely on the logic rather than symantics then I agree that hand written coding tests are acceptable. However often this isn't the case. If you're testing on the language its only fair to offer these tests in a real world situation, one where you can run the code through a compiler a few times and find your errors which are bound to happen.
I recently completed an elective course that was taught around the book "PHP and MySQL Web Development" by Luke Welling and Laura Thomson. I suggest giving this book a good look. ISBN : 0672317842
For an operating system that produces a release on average about every 6 months its a major release. I I know its not "major" as in version numbering, however its sure a bit more "major" than a lame Linux development kernel patch level.
Considering the topics of discussion and the way comments are addressed, its not too much of a jump to assume that most people here are infact retarded school children.
When millions were pumped into doing psychological tests in order to determine the most efficient presentation for a desktop operating system its called cute teletubbie crap. The mentality of "I don't like it and nobody else should" is exactly the mindset found on the playgrounds of elementary schools. I really think you're on to something here.
Not to mention the release hasn't been announced.
That's it. I've lost complete faith in Slashdot as a news source. A major release of FreeBSD doesn't make it to the front page, yet a patch level to the development Linux kernel does? The only people interested in a patch to the development kernel are those who are actively following kernel development and this is hardly news to them.
Its obvious that this entire site is driven by promoting Linux and downing all others. Submit an article concerning an opensource IRC client being back doored and you'll get rejected. Submit a post concerning a security hole in IIS which was patched 18 months prior and you'll be front page news.
While I understand that Opensource is a driving factor behind this site, the title is still "Slashdot : News for Nerds. Stuff that Matters". I move to have this changed to "Slashdot: News for biased Linux nazis, stuff that doesn't matter".
When considering a PDA I considered that the PalmOS offerings really haven't come very far in the past few years. The only real advancements made were larger storage and more add ons. On the other hand PocketPC offerings offer much more and tend to have much more processing power to keep up with the latest and greatest software.
Am I the only person who saw this atleast two months ago? Hardly news.
Better look into many tonnage of cooling. Your cooling bill will outweigh any benefit I'm sure.
Excellent link which is updated quite frequently. It really shows the explosion of distributed computing in the past few years.
Shhh, you must not openly challenge GPL. You'll be banished for all of eternity if you point out any of the various weakeness and viral tendencies.
I doubt you'll see anyone stripping IE. IE is the browsers of choice for those who use windows. I don't really care how it goes about it, loading files on startup or whatever, IE is by far the best browser offering for Windows. It may have from the enemy, but IE is here to stay.
I'm seeing more and more people switch to IE every day. Complete cluelessness of Netscape is to blame for this. Even though Mozilla is a rock solid browser I doubt these people would be willing to run Mozilla after finding out that Netscape 6 is derrived from Mozilla code base.
At the ripe old age of 21 I'm branded an old man? What a birthday this has been.
You're sooo funny. Of course napster isn't why piracy exists. But until recently Napster's sole purpose was to feed piracy. blah blah about fair use. Just admit it, everyone used Napster to pirate the latest and greatest from Eminem, and our favorite homeboys of LimpBizkit.
I'd have a lot more sympathy when you guys whine and moan if you'd just go ahead and say it "They suck because they're shutting down my favorite piracy outlet." Noone really believes that you're just downloading backups, or whatever other lame excuse you've got. You're stealing, you know it, I know it, now be a man about it... or something like that.
Your wish has been granted. Not that I ever doubted that we'd be able to go on not knowing about the latest patchlevel for the Linux kernel.
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Thank you slashdot, its truly news to me that the Linux kernel has made it to another patch level... sigh
Or if they'd like to install binaries :
pkg_add -r mozilla
or other such package. But don't go telling too many people these secrets, they might actually try to use FreeBSD at some point in the future then our jobs enlightening them will so incredibly borning.
Of course it was easy. Even my Windows 3.1 machine worked quite well with it. I think you've forgotten where you're posting, this is slashdot. Each and every article's commentary is required to carry an anti MS undertone.
Common, I saw this a mile away. This is the same guy who says that freeware isn't good enough, and that the GNU project won't associate with those who publish freeware, etc... His philosophy is getting old.
All the HP carts I've bought were clearly labeled with the volume of ink contained. I think for my particular model it was 1.9ml for econ and 3 for the normal one. I can't remember for sure. But they're clearly labeled.
Wrong article? The eminem article is next door...