I agree! Sometimes I want to copy stuff between home & work. My work PC doesn't have a Zip drive. Neither computer has a CD-burner. And my work e-mail is restricted for internal use only (and it's proxy server blocks webmail). Floppies are my only option!
Recording TV shows is last on their list because they take it for granted. The day Joe Sixpack can't record the SuperBowl game is the day he screams Bloody Murder and goes after the people in power with a pitchfork! And don't worry about the neighbors calling him an idiot. They're grabbing their own pitchforks because THEY wanted to record the SuperBowl (or "Friends" or "Survivor").
Out of date != dead I was merely commenting that there tends to be on long time between Slackware releases, and after a while, you either have to get third party packages, or deal with having old versions of stuff.
Upgradepkg! I'll admit it could get hairy if KDE 4.0 comes out, or if I gave a hoot about Gnome 2, but for software that doesn't have 60 dependencies, Slackware upgrades it fine
I haven't read DKR, but while some writer can set up a situation where Batman wins, the odds are still in Superman's favor. The ONLY way Batman can win is with kryptonite, and unless Superman is suckered, he can fry Bats with heat-vision long before Bats got in range to use the kryptonite.
For one thing, advertisers don't know when to stop! If they didn't sell enough to suit them, they'd make the ads more annoying. If they did sell enough, they'd want to sell more tomorrow, and eventually they wouldn't sell enough and they'd make the ads more annoying!
Projects can get abandoned, but a popular project can't get abandoned arbitrarily. If the maintainer of a popular project quits, someone else can step in. For that matter, even if it isn't a popular project, if any of the users have the technical skills, they can maintain it theirselves. With closed-source, you're SOL if the business stops supporting their crap! Money can be a great help, but lack of money won't kill a good open source project, just slow it down.
NS4 is MY only choice at work! It has nothing to do with the hardware, which is much more capable than my home PC (running Mozilla). It has to do with the decision makers being slow to upgrade, and Netscape 6 hasn't really been viable very long. The bosses aren't the type to run an unstable browser based on a pre-1.0 open-source product, regardless of what one geek thinks.
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COBOL rulez!
I use CBB. It's old and I'm not sure if it's still being maintained, but it's easy to install.
Yeah, and Debian is much easier to install than Gnucash (from source)
Then I guess the TV broadcasters are SOL, with no way to get their commercials to me!
Doesn't gets() have the same problem?
I have a slow machine!
I have a perfectly good 19" TV. I think it cost about $150. And it fits quite well in my small living room.
I agree! Sometimes I want to copy stuff between home & work. My work PC doesn't have a Zip drive. Neither computer has a CD-burner. And my work e-mail is restricted for internal use only (and it's proxy server blocks webmail). Floppies are my only option!
Good idea in theory. In practice it will flop when only 3 geeks actually participate.
Recording TV shows is last on their list because they take it for granted. The day Joe Sixpack can't record the SuperBowl game is the day he screams Bloody Murder and goes after the people in power with a pitchfork! And don't worry about the neighbors calling him an idiot. They're grabbing their own pitchforks because THEY wanted to record the SuperBowl (or "Friends" or "Survivor").
Yeah, but the shrink-wrapped package is shaped like a coffin!
I thought 2.4.11 was the one that furbared SuSe's installer. 2.4.15 caused FS corruption on shutdown, possibly because of the greased-turkey!
Now I can't joke about Stale Potatos & Frozen Woodys
I haven't used Gentoo either, but my understanding is that it is bleeding edge, which makes it less stable than Debian (or Slackware).
Upgradepkg! I'll admit it could get hairy if KDE 4.0 comes out, or if I gave a hoot about Gnome 2, but for software that doesn't have 60 dependencies, Slackware upgrades it fine
If this were the 80's, we'd see a McDonalds sponsored Pac-Man gobbling Big-Macs!
NOOOO! Tell me it's not so!
I haven't read DKR, but while some writer can set up a situation where Batman wins, the odds are still in Superman's favor. The ONLY way Batman can win is with kryptonite, and unless Superman is suckered, he can fry Bats with heat-vision long before Bats got in range to use the kryptonite.
For one thing, advertisers don't know when to stop! If they didn't sell enough to suit them, they'd make the ads more annoying. If they did sell enough, they'd want to sell more tomorrow, and eventually they wouldn't sell enough and they'd make the ads more annoying!
Projects can get abandoned, but a popular project can't get abandoned arbitrarily. If the maintainer of a popular project quits, someone else can step in. For that matter, even if it isn't a popular project, if any of the users have the technical skills, they can maintain it theirselves. With closed-source, you're SOL if the business stops supporting their crap! Money can be a great help, but lack of money won't kill a good open source project, just slow it down.
Excuse me, but Slackware is alive and kicking and just released 8.1!
NS4 is MY only choice at work! It has nothing to do with the hardware, which is much more capable than my home PC (running Mozilla). It has to do with the decision makers being slow to upgrade, and Netscape 6 hasn't really been viable very long. The bosses aren't the type to run an unstable browser based on a pre-1.0 open-source product, regardless of what one geek thinks.