It's not 'the end of free' for Linux by any means. Debian, Gentoo, LFS, Slackware (probably) and many others will still be free because of either their non-comercial status or their comitment to the community. After all, who wants to pay a company to use software they wrote? Not me...
I got the nicer of the two ICON laptop carrying bags from Walmart for $30 USD for my PowerBook 15in and it's been great. It's much cheaper than most bacgs I looked at and it has been very reliable. It has a grip on the sholder carrying pad to hold to you a bit more than normal economy bags, lots of pockets, a nice nitch to hold a laptop snugly without obunce or movement, and seems to be solid in design.
Sure, it isn't a flashy $150 designer laptop bag, but it does what it is supose to and it's cheap. After all, you can never go wrong with black.
... for a while now and I have to say I like it, I have to drive about an hour to and from work and spend at least 2 hours a day driving places (cause of I-4 construction) and XM really makes it fly by. At first I didn't think it would really be worth it, but a reciever came with my car, and it was only 10$ a month so I tried it and can't get enough of Uncensored Comedy, XM Live, Fred, XMLM, and XMU! If you spend anytime listening to the radio it's definatly worth it to avoid the same old FM/AM junk.
It seems like we will probably all be using 64bit computing by 2038 which will fix the problem itself. By then we won't have to worry for at least a few thousand years (I think).
"Really? I'm sure everyone forgot the nearly two year period that KDE wasn't included in Debian."
That obviosly has nothing to do with UserLinux or with a problem in Debian. During that time Qt was not open and it went against Debians ideals.
To learn more about why KDE was taken out years ago read the Debian archives, or click here as Debian legal is a good place to start.
I guess I should clarify my comment to avoid confusion. KDE is a great Desktop Environment, and no one from UserLinux is trying to get it removed from Debian.
The UserLinux project is mainly about creating a standard distribution for clients and ISV's with standards. One thing that we can not do is support GNOME and KDE and a slew of apps in each without passing the support on to the projects themselves making a Enterprise Debian project useless. One of the misconceptions is that KDE won't work with UserLinux.... it will, but it will not be on the standard desktop installation. Any person can install KDE via apt-get or, if an ISV wishes, have it installed by default.
The UserLinux project also is not going to be shipping with qmail, or exim, or sendmail, or bluecurve, or yast2, etc.. Unfortunately, a small few people have raised a major stink over the decision to use GNOME even though the majority of the list wanted GNOME. Those few also personally attacked Bruce saying that he picked GNOME because of pride which is a groundless and nonproductive attack.
KDE is a great Desktop Environment, and no one is doign a thing to get it removed from Debian, but it is not shipping with UserLinux. If it's a problem to the clients, KDE will emerge.
While there is still zelots in the Open Source and Free Software movements picking a small group of people and making a major basis on the entire sector based upon that small group is a major mistake. Under such thinking the following are true:
1.) All germans are nazis 2.) All women are helpless 3.) All end users know what they are doing
We all know the above three statements to generally not be true, but under such logic they would be assumed since there are loud yet small populations who follow the statements.
What we do is a simple processes. All people on staff, tech related or not, have been told of the importance of patching and why it occurs. When a problem occurs and a patch is released we quickly package the patch in a zip file with installation instructions and send out an immediate email. All people within our organization are responsible for patching their own systems (or asking for help if they can not) and replying within 24 hours of the email. We ten audit the systems every month or so to make sure that the patches have been applied, if someone is caught not following this procedure (which has never happened) the person would be seriously reprimanded if not fired due to the sensitive information we house.
I really do cause I find myself having the same problem. My employer gives me a list of programming assignments that need to be finished and how long each should take. Over half the time the estimated time is way to low to lay a solid code foundation and I find myself writing fast and sloppy code just to be talked down about it later. It's pretty frustrating... but if I could have more than 15 minutes to write a PHPNuke-like portal with dynamic text-to-link parsing, theme support, and ARTC system I think I could do better. (Thats just an example).
I havn't been able to reproduce this on my OS X.2.6 machine. Other 10.2.6 users have reported the same thing. It *might* have been fixed before it was found.
I currently am attending Saint Leo University via their online degree program. I agree with the author that there is many kinks to be worked out but the quality of education largely depends on the professor of a class. My first semester I took 2 classes. One class had an active professor who answered questions, talked in real time once a week with us, and was all around great teacher. The other class had a half-absent professor who seemed to have other things to do than run the class.
In my opinion attending school online has more benefits than taking classes on site. One obvious advantage is being able to do work at your pace and when you have the time. Another advantage isn't so obvious but, in my experience, is definitely helpful. While attending a major university I had nothing but trouble when I needed to get or turn in forms, see a counselor, or talk with someone about financial aid. My online experience is completely different. There are people specifically there to talk to online students about these things and best of all you don't have to wait in a line to talk to them. Worse comes to worse you leave your name and number or send an email and you get a call within an hour.
I have to agree with BJZQ8. I have one Windows computer running XP updating itself with Windows update. It's running on Athlon 1500+ XP with 512MB Registered RAM and since about a week ago it's been running slowly, not shutting down properly, and having a seemingly hard time in general. The hardware is fine, just weird quirps since an update.
And no, it isn't other installed software. The only things installed are Opera and Eudora Mail.
I currently have my localnetwork on IPv6 to the router which holds 1 IPv4 to the Net. I use IPv6 for the geek factor.
On the other hand, the company I work for will not adopt IPv6 untill there is a large average user base on the Net (like AOL and MSN using IPv6). Unless there is a strong reason to jump on, then the company has 'better things to do' which is probably the position of most buisnesses.
I don't like DRM much, but if someone wants to use it then I don't see why I should stop them. If they add (or remove) DRM from the Linux kernel then the GPL is working the way it should.
Start small with one contract working on one application. Work your tail off on it and generally speaking you'll start getting calls from other companies wanting your work. Thats how my employer did his company and it as a successfull at home software buisness.
While I think that it is true that Microsoft doesn't like anyone in the industry, competition can only make things better (assuming everything is legal). It's easy for most of us to moan when Microsoft throws it's weight around but what is diffrent in this case is that they are the underdog. Their brand recognition got them into this, lets see if they can actually become a competitor to Google or if this is just trying a slick marketing trial.
I'm so glad it's April 1! At first I thought the links (like gnufreewindowsxp.com) were slashdoted and this was an end to the FSF as we know it untill I looked at the date.
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This is just double plus good!
It's not 'the end of free' for Linux by any means. Debian, Gentoo, LFS, Slackware (probably) and many others will still be free because of either their non-comercial status or their comitment to the community. After all, who wants to pay a company to use software they wrote? Not me ...
I got the nicer of the two ICON laptop carrying bags from Walmart for $30 USD for my PowerBook 15in and it's been great. It's much cheaper than most bacgs I looked at and it has been very reliable. It has a grip on the sholder carrying pad to hold to you a bit more than normal economy bags, lots of pockets, a nice nitch to hold a laptop snugly without obunce or movement, and seems to be solid in design.
Sure, it isn't a flashy $150 designer laptop bag, but it does what it is supose to and it's cheap. After all, you can never go wrong with black.
... for a while now and I have to say I like it, I have to drive about an hour to and from work and spend at least 2 hours a day driving places (cause of I-4 construction) and XM really makes it fly by. At first I didn't think it would really be worth it, but a reciever came with my car, and it was only 10$ a month so I tried it and can't get enough of Uncensored Comedy, XM Live, Fred, XMLM, and XMU! If you spend anytime listening to the radio it's definatly worth it to avoid the same old FM/AM junk.
It seems like we will probably all be using 64bit computing by 2038 which will fix the problem itself. By then we won't have to worry for at least a few thousand years (I think).
"Really? I'm sure everyone forgot the nearly two year period that KDE wasn't included in Debian."
That obviosly has nothing to do with UserLinux or with a problem in Debian. During that time Qt was not open and it went against Debians ideals.
To learn more about why KDE was taken out years ago read the Debian archives, or click here as Debian legal is a good place to start.
I guess I should clarify my comment to avoid confusion. KDE is a great Desktop Environment, and no one from UserLinux is trying to get it removed from Debian.
The GPL'd Qt libraries and possibly some KDE basic libraries will be included.
The UserLinux project is mainly about creating a standard distribution for clients and ISV's with standards. One thing that we can not do is support GNOME and KDE and a slew of apps in each without passing the support on to the projects themselves making a Enterprise Debian project useless. One of the misconceptions is that KDE won't work with UserLinux .... it will, but it will not be on the standard desktop installation. Any person can install KDE via apt-get or, if an ISV wishes, have it installed by default.
The UserLinux project also is not going to be shipping with qmail, or exim, or sendmail, or bluecurve, or yast2, etc.. Unfortunately, a small few people have raised a major stink over the decision to use GNOME even though the majority of the list wanted GNOME. Those few also personally attacked Bruce saying that he picked GNOME because of pride which is a groundless and nonproductive attack.
KDE is a great Desktop Environment, and no one is doign a thing to get it removed from Debian, but it is not shipping with UserLinux. If it's a problem to the clients, KDE will emerge.
While there is still zelots in the Open Source and Free Software movements picking a small group of people and making a major basis on the entire sector based upon that small group is a major mistake. Under such thinking the following are true:
1.) All germans are nazis
2.) All women are helpless
3.) All end users know what they are doing
We all know the above three statements to generally not be true, but under such logic they would be assumed since there are loud yet small populations who follow the statements.
What we do is a simple processes. All people on staff, tech related or not, have been told of the importance of patching and why it occurs. When a problem occurs and a patch is released we quickly package the patch in a zip file with installation instructions and send out an immediate email. All people within our organization are responsible for patching their own systems (or asking for help if they can not) and replying within 24 hours of the email. We ten audit the systems every month or so to make sure that the patches have been applied, if someone is caught not following this procedure (which has never happened) the person would be seriously reprimanded if not fired due to the sensitive information we house.
I thought it sounded better than 'Six days ago' or 'One hundred and fourty four hours ago marked ...' ;-).
Check out gnome_mud for Linux/Unix. It's very similar to gMud.
Your welcome ;-). I've always been so-so when it comes to English.
Hold on a minute. Doesn't this violate the GPL? Just cause you believe that you've been wronged doesn't mean you should wrong others.
I really do cause I find myself having the same problem. My employer gives me a list of programming assignments that need to be finished and how long each should take. Over half the time the estimated time is way to low to lay a solid code foundation and I find myself writing fast and sloppy code just to be talked down about it later. It's pretty frustrating ... but if I could have more than 15 minutes to write a PHPNuke-like portal with dynamic text-to-link parsing, theme support, and ARTC system I think I could do better. (Thats just an example).
I havn't been able to reproduce this on my OS X.2.6 machine. Other 10.2.6 users have reported the same thing. It *might* have been fixed before it was found.
I currently am attending Saint Leo University via their online degree program. I agree with the author that there is many kinks to be worked out but the quality of education largely depends on the professor of a class. My first semester I took 2 classes. One class had an active professor who answered questions, talked in real time once a week with us, and was all around great teacher. The other class had a half-absent professor who seemed to have other things to do than run the class.
In my opinion attending school online has more benefits than taking classes on site. One obvious advantage is being able to do work at your pace and when you have the time. Another advantage isn't so obvious but, in my experience, is definitely helpful. While attending a major university I had nothing but trouble when I needed to get or turn in forms, see a counselor, or talk with someone about financial aid. My online experience is completely different. There are people specifically there to talk to online students about these things and best of all you don't have to wait in a line to talk to them. Worse comes to worse you leave your name and number or send an email and you get a call within an hour.
I have to agree with BJZQ8. I have one Windows computer running XP updating itself with Windows update. It's running on Athlon 1500+ XP with 512MB Registered RAM and since about a week ago it's been running slowly, not shutting down properly, and having a seemingly hard time in general. The hardware is fine, just weird quirps since an update.
And no, it isn't other installed software. The only things installed are Opera and Eudora Mail.
I currently have my localnetwork on IPv6 to the router which holds 1 IPv4 to the Net. I use IPv6 for the geek factor.
On the other hand, the company I work for will not adopt IPv6 untill there is a large average user base on the Net (like AOL and MSN using IPv6). Unless there is a strong reason to jump on, then the company has 'better things to do' which is probably the position of most buisnesses.
I don't like DRM much, but if someone wants to use it then I don't see why I should stop them. If they add (or remove) DRM from the Linux kernel then the GPL is working the way it should.
Start small with one contract working on one application. Work your tail off on it and generally speaking you'll start getting calls from other companies wanting your work. Thats how my employer did his company and it as a successfull at home software buisness.
The judge somehow figured out what has been happening in a case? Sounds like a bit of non-technical reverse engineering to me.
While I think that it is true that Microsoft doesn't like anyone in the industry, competition can only make things better (assuming everything is legal). It's easy for most of us to moan when Microsoft throws it's weight around but what is diffrent in this case is that they are the underdog. Their brand recognition got them into this, lets see if they can actually become a competitor to Google or if this is just trying a slick marketing trial.
I'm so glad it's April 1! At first I thought the links (like gnufreewindowsxp.com) were slashdoted and this was an end to the FSF as we know it untill I looked at the date.
You got me!
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