IMHO, the greatest strength of internet news is its diversity. If you randomly pick a single website and a single TV station, odds are TV will be more reliable. However, there is little difference between CBS, NBC, ABC, or CNN. On the WWW there's vast diversity. There's plenty of pure crap, but you don't have to hunt long to find great stuff. TV is a homogenus(sp) bland mess.
You're correct. One problem with the TV media is that they are all owned by Big Business(tm). In fact they're often owned by the same Big Businesses. You can't expect a network that receives $$$,$$$ from the dairy industry to say anything against milk. It's much easier and cheaper to control a website than it is to control a TV station, so the website are able to give THEIR opinion, not the opinion of Big Business(tm). And I've cut out milk/cheese after reading the site and a book written by the author of the site(I'm blanking on the name of the book:( )
I'm using 2.4.10 at home, and there's a good chance I'll bump it to 2.4.12 over the weekend. But if I ever convinced my bosses to let me use Linux at work, I wouldn't even use a 2.4 kernel unless there was a good reason. I'd stick with 2.2.19.
Why should he worry? It's clear from the interview that Linus is no businessman, or marketeer. He's not getting rich off of Linux either. The main thing for him is that it's fun. Period. He's quite happy to let the rest of us swing our swords and yell "Down with Microsoft!" while he just codes.
I assume that our government would turn those SOB's over to whatever country their crime was in(hopefully one where they chop off body parts). If, however, those criminals were close friends of the government, and they sat on their hands even when their guilt was clear, that country would be right to hold the U.S. government responsible, just as we hold the Taliban responsible for what their "guest" has done.
"The USA doesn't want casualities in a far off land. The Afghan soldiers are fighting to protect their motherland, their way of life, their religion. "
I'd much rather have casualties in a far off land than casulties of innocent civilians here. The Afghan leadership doesn't just want to protect their religion, they want to export anywhere they can. That's why no other nation, even Islamic ones, are supporting them.
The protester is punched in the face by an assailant who promptly disappears. The protesters head for the neighborhood where the assailant comes from, demand that the gang of street thugs, who are known associates of the assailant, hand over the assailant so they can beat the crap out of him, and when their demands aren't met, proceed to beat the crap out of everyone in the gang.
I love the part about being in control of my system, but I'm concerned about hard drive space. My current distro eats up almost 2G, and I doubt that LFS would be much smaller if I want KDE2 & enough of Gnome to run gnucash. It sure wouldn't fit on a 750MG partition as their website indicates.
I may be on shaky ground on the chess. I don't of any specific instances of Spock beating Kirk, but, given his superior intellegence, it might not be considered worth mentioning. Kirk beating Spock, OTOH, is noteworthy because it's unexpected.
In fighting, off the top of my head, I can't think of any Kirk vs Spock fights besides the two already mentioned. In both of them Spock was winning(though there was no conclusive ending). Kirk does have the sheer grit to keep fighting even when he's clearly outclassed, but my money's on Spock.
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What scares me is the way its going, 2.5 may be more reliable than 2.4.XX!
IMHO, the greatest strength of internet news is its diversity. If you randomly pick a single website and a single TV station, odds are TV will be more reliable. However, there is little difference between CBS, NBC, ABC, or CNN. On the WWW there's vast diversity. There's plenty of pure crap, but you don't have to hunt long to find great stuff. TV is a homogenus(sp) bland mess.
You're correct. One problem with the TV media is that they are all owned by Big Business(tm). In fact they're often owned by the same Big Businesses. You can't expect a network that receives $$$,$$$ from the dairy industry to say anything against milk. It's much easier and cheaper to control a website than it is to control a TV station, so the website are able to give THEIR opinion, not the opinion of Big Business(tm). And I've cut out milk/cheese after reading the site and a book written by the author of the site(I'm blanking on the name of the book :( )
The whole life span of 2.4.11 was less than 8 hours! Alan was probably asleep the whole time.
But how long will we be able to get other linux news for free? Will the other free sites close down too?
I'm using 2.4.10 at home, and there's a good chance I'll bump it to 2.4.12 over the weekend. But if I ever convinced my bosses to let me use Linux at work, I wouldn't even use a 2.4 kernel unless there was a good reason. I'd stick with 2.2.19.
You must be psyhic!
Wasn't that in WW2?
Why should he worry? It's clear from the interview that Linus is no businessman, or marketeer. He's not getting rich off of Linux either. The main thing for him is that it's fun. Period. He's quite happy to let the rest of us swing our swords and yell "Down with Microsoft!" while he just codes.
I assume that our government would turn those SOB's over to whatever country their crime was in(hopefully one where they chop off body parts). If, however, those criminals were close friends of the government, and they sat on their hands even when their guilt was clear, that country would be right to hold the U.S. government responsible, just as we hold the Taliban responsible for what their "guest" has done.
"The USA doesn't want casualities in a far off land. The Afghan soldiers are fighting to protect their motherland, their way of life, their religion. "
I'd much rather have casualties in a far off land than casulties of innocent civilians here. The Afghan leadership doesn't just want to protect their religion, they want to export anywhere they can. That's why no other nation, even Islamic ones, are supporting them.
So what about when the next "criminal attack" destroys the building you work at?
Still a flawed analogy. Try this one:
The protester is punched in the face by an assailant who promptly disappears. The protesters head for the neighborhood where the assailant comes from, demand that the gang of street thugs, who are known associates of the assailant, hand over the assailant so they can beat the crap out of him, and when their demands aren't met, proceed to beat the crap out of everyone in the gang.
A surefire way to find out is to go over there and look for the camels with missles sticking out of their butts! :)
The problem with their approach is that you need enough disk space for TWO distros: your current one and the new LFS one.
I love the part about being in control of my system, but I'm concerned about hard drive space. My current distro eats up almost 2G, and I doubt that LFS would be much smaller if I want KDE2 & enough of Gnome to run gnucash. It sure wouldn't fit on a 750MG partition as their website indicates.
How well does LFS work? Isn't it a PITA to upgrade KDE? Is it even possible to install gnucash on such a system???
I thought IBM invented Warp drive, but Microsoft managed to kill it.
That's nowhere near as bad as if two females on the bridge were talking about laundry. "So I put my sheet down" and the computer hears "Shields down"!
My understanding is that Klingons, like humans, have red blood. Vulcans, Romulans, and Rigellians have green.
"Or how long before one of the crew members becomes possessed/infected by some alien force... "
Damn, you just ruined #2
"Or the computer gets taken over... "
and #3
"Or the shields get blasted down to nothing and our heroes pull out just in time... "
there went #4
I remember a reference to an "Imperial" race in a Trek book, and I interpreted Imperials to be Worf-like Klingons.
I may be on shaky ground on the chess. I don't of any specific instances of Spock beating Kirk, but, given his superior intellegence, it might not be considered worth mentioning. Kirk beating Spock, OTOH, is noteworthy because it's unexpected.
In fighting, off the top of my head, I can't think of any Kirk vs Spock fights besides the two already mentioned. In both of them Spock was winning(though there was no conclusive ending). Kirk does have the sheer grit to keep fighting even when he's clearly outclassed, but my money's on Spock.
That was inexcusable! Archer should have known better. He should have watched the shows!
"What do you want to see in a centralized authentication system that you would use and trust? "
Decentralization!