i wish them all the best of luck in their project, however, the dream of having only one standard GUI interface is so anti-linux that i am amazed that someone will even bring it up. The reason that i love and use linux, is because i can CHOOSE what i want to use and how my system will look. There are so amny different choices, what they should work on, is a compatability standard, where everything can inter-communicate or something along that line. but what do i know, i only know what i like.
last time i checked, if you changed the code, you don't have to give naybody it, as long as you weren't distributing it. For example, lets say i get the source for some shitty program or another, and i fix it, but decide that i don't want others to have my great new program, how can i get in trouble? go learn to read you mook... am i being forced to give the original programmer my code changes? no! exactly... if i am wrong, someone please stop me, but since i know that the code is not leaving my computer, the source does not need to leave too... so there...
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JESUS FUCKING CHRIST!!!!! How many fucking times must some cunt hole say this: "Secondly, there's no one to sue if something goes wrong." When last did you see a company get sued for selling bad software?!? Almost every so called "commercial" grade software package comes with a EULA that makes them NOT responsible for anything that the software may do to your computer, your life, your kids, your dog, or your god damn pet monkey named bob! Get a fucking grip you stupid morons!!!! i cannot take it anymore.................
I don't think slashdot should be a place where rumours should be posted. Once you open the flood gates of rumours, you cannot stop it. I suggest that unless somthing can be proven as facts, or the person leaves some way to be contacted for further information, it can be seen as misinformation. Maybe its me, but i have already been fed up to here (/me points to his neck) with the "mainstream" media reporting stuff that are either incorrect or from "anonymous sources" and i hope that this is the last time i see something like this on slashdot.
explain to me how microsoft is allowed to do these tests. Think about this, if you were just arrested for murder, would they allow you to go to the crime scene to collect the evidence? i think not! Why are they allowing microsoft to create and perform the tests? is the DOJ so computer retarded that they can't hire a impartial third party to perform the test? much less do the tests themselves? For some reason i have a feeling that no matter what MS do, they will win this case. The DOJ has done nothing to prove their case, while MS is doing everything (and screwing it up big time) to win.
I did the upgrade, and everything works fine, however i have a network card that uses the ne2000 pci drivers, and when i display the routing information, the card always seem to show up twice. I have tried it as both a module and built in, no difference. It works fine, but its just something that bugs me. I am not sure if it is a bug, or if some package need to be updated, but i haven't heard anyone complain about it as yet, so i guess it may be a problem on my side and not with the actuall code...
why is it that most reporters have to use a lot of "buzz" words, or "technical" words to discribe something that they have no idea about? did they never hear about research? Geez, it makes you wonder about watching the news at nights. Cause when you know about something and you hear these boobs report about it, you always realise that they screw stuff up. So imagine when you don't know what they are talkign about, they could buy you and sell you for a fool.
okay, more than one question... Lets say i was to try to get ADSL for my linux box, how would i get my MAC address (is that it?) and what exactly hardware wise do they have to install, and what sort of software and configuration will i have to do. I haven't seen a ADSL howto, or found a site that explains how ADSL really works and what sort of hardware it requires... I am really interested in finding out more about this. Maybe if a good ADSL howto was written, support for it could be forced upon other providers...
anyone noticed that only CNet seems to have articles on their previous articles? My god, its like writing a book on a book that you had already written. Cyclic Redundancy. Someone should tell them to either hire more writers, or make their current writers write more articles. This is just too disgusting. I think i will go take a shower.
if you can code, or have a friend who can code, you can write a program like they did that can intercept microsoft's calls from turning back the settings. And thats that.
So, where can i pick up such a device... It seems to have alot of potential, why type with one hand! Now you can type with both hands while enjoying yourself!
did you not know that you only need to change your registry to make your workstation a server? I guess microsoft does not want the world to know that they are not charf\ging more for server because it is different, but because they can. Here, go to this link, and see the light, maybe even make a program that can bring others into the light.
Have you ever sat down and looked at a NT Workstation and then looked at an NT Server? Well incase you haven't there is so little between them that it is amazing that the price difference is so large. I Only a company like Microsoft will take a product, cripple it and sell the full version for a much higher price. It is so funny that is sad. I remember a while ago someone came up with a way to convert a NT Workstation into an NT Server, somehow the information disappared off of the internet. Go figure.
speed should not be a problem in accessing data from an optical disc. true you may not be able to spin the platter beyond certain speeds. isn't there some technology call "zen" that uses multiple lasers or heads to read multiple areas of the disc and recombines it, giving you a larger flow of data. If NASA or anyone else modifies this technology to its upper limit, you should be able to reach very large data bandwidths, true you will need some cpu power to put the data back together, and maybe a secondary large buffer to store data while it could be reorganized, but that should be nothing for a supercomputer to do. It may not be perfect, but it could tide them over for the next 10 years at least, until we start using bio-chemical storage devices.
"The paper said Linux is somewhat taxing for nontechnical users. However, programmers are working on friendlier versions of the language that have a Window-like interface."
Okay, besides the "language" part, i did not know the system administrators were "nontechnical users." maybe thats is why there are so many MCSEs out there. I really hate when folks talk crap.
i see that PC software that will be used with this thing seems to only work on windows. Go figure, i was thinking that a guy who would use linux on the unit, would at least create a linux version of the software to communicate with it.
its intresting how you can call something that you do not understand a hack. Anyway, windows may be unstable so and so amy be litestep, but considering thats it only at 0.24.4 i should expect anything from it. I don't here folks complaining about gnome or gtk apps crashing, which they do. Maybe the guy who installed litestep was a total boob, hey just as linux ain't for everybody so is litestep.
i almost thought they were refering to LiteStep. Then i was wondering why they would be making fun of LiteStep, when Litestep has some wicked themes. And can look better than almost any window manager with the exception of enlightenment. Yeah, Yeah LiteStep is not a Window Manager, its a shell for windows, and it was based of AfterStep (i think) but has grown beyond that...
So maybe there should be an ls.theme.org i know a few guys whold be glad to run it.. Col_KFC used to use LiteStep....
how will this make mp3s "secure?" will it prevent me from copying it? or will it prevent me from playing it in any other player? Is it me, or is this just politics just to make the RIAA feel all warm and fuzzy inside?
The concept of encoding music and sharing it with others has become deeply ingrained into alot of internet users lives. If the somehow removed all known mp3 players from the internet and the ability to make more mp3 files. Someone will just creat another format. This has been going on before MP3s, and it will continue. Unless the current music industry change and find a more reasonable way to sell and distribute music, they will not be able to do anything to stop "music piracy." The same way that all attempts to stop software piracy has failed, so will all attempts to stop music piracy fail.
Nice story, but what did it have to do with linux?
Look, i have nothing against folks trying to learn something new, but you got to be able to call a cat: "a cat", and a dog: "a dog". I have grown up not taking crap from no one, nor allowing someone to string me along. No matter how much you may want to see this guy install linux, or here his long "story" about installing it (without actually doing anything) this may not actually be the place for it. You can say what you want, but scroll back up to the top of this page, and see what it says in the title. "Slashdot: News for Nerds. Stuff that matters." If his last three or four articles were shortened into one, and then there was actually a part about linux in it, then it would fit, but all i see so far is a ploy by someone to become a part of the "hip" crowd. Linux is an OS, nothing more nothing less. There are many ways you can use linux, the most common way is as a tool to get a specific job done. However, the so called "linux community" is mostly made up of people who uses linux as an all in one swiss army knife. You cannot become a member of this club, because there is no sign up fees or registration forms, you can't ask to join, or tell folks that you are a member. You will know that you belong when you can contribute something back to the community and/or to others. This can be in simple things as helping others learn linux, writing software, donating your money or time to different projects or just being nice to others and providing accurate information about linux. You don't even need to use linux to be a part of the "linux community."
My only advice for you is this: If you want to install linux, do it for the right reasons, not because you feel pressured to do it. Because you will resent the entire experience and it will leave you feeling hurt and resentful. And i suggect that if you do write another article, please focus on the title of your topic, else you will be fooling your readers into expecting something that you are not providing. And this is considered to be the worst form of writing. So, heed my advice.
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i wish them all the best of luck in their project, however, the dream of having only one standard GUI interface is so anti-linux that i am amazed that someone will even bring it up. The reason that i love and use linux, is because i can CHOOSE what i want to use and how my system will look. There are so amny different choices, what they should work on, is a compatability standard, where everything can inter-communicate or something along that line. but what do i know, i only know what i like.
if they stoped paying upper and middle managment such crazy salaries, and reinvested it in R&D, maybe they could come out ontop...
last time i checked, if you changed the code, you don't have to give naybody it, as long as you weren't distributing it. For example, lets say i get the source for some shitty program or another, and i fix it, but decide that i don't want others to have my great new program, how can i get in trouble? go learn to read you mook...
am i being forced to give the original programmer my code changes? no! exactly... if i am wrong, someone please stop me, but since i know that the code is not leaving my computer, the source does not need to leave too... so there...
call me when they win their case...
JESUS FUCKING CHRIST!!!!!
How many fucking times must some cunt hole say this:
"Secondly, there's no one to sue if something goes wrong."
When last did you see a company get sued for selling bad software?!? Almost every so called "commercial" grade software package comes with a EULA that makes them NOT responsible for anything that the software may do to your computer, your life, your kids, your dog, or your god damn pet monkey named bob!
Get a fucking grip you stupid morons!!!!
i cannot take it anymore.................
I don't think slashdot should be a place where rumours should be posted. Once you open the flood gates of rumours, you cannot stop it. I suggest that unless somthing can be proven as facts, or the person leaves some way to be contacted for further information, it can be seen as misinformation. Maybe its me, but i have already been fed up to here (/me points to his neck) with the "mainstream" media reporting stuff that are either incorrect or from "anonymous sources" and i hope that this is the last time i see something like this on slashdot.
explain to me how microsoft is allowed to do these tests. Think about this, if you were just arrested for murder, would they allow you to go to the crime scene to collect the evidence? i think not! Why are they allowing microsoft to create and perform the tests? is the DOJ so computer retarded that they can't hire a impartial third party to perform the test? much less do the tests themselves? For some reason i have a feeling that no matter what MS do, they will win this case. The DOJ has done nothing to prove their case, while MS is doing everything (and screwing it up big time) to win.
I did the upgrade, and everything works fine, however i have a network card that uses the ne2000 pci drivers, and when i display the routing information, the card always seem to show up twice. I have tried it as both a module and built in, no difference. It works fine, but its just something that bugs me. I am not sure if it is a bug, or if some package need to be updated, but i haven't heard anyone complain about it as yet, so i guess it may be a problem on my side and not with the actuall code...
why is it that most reporters have to use a lot of "buzz" words, or "technical" words to discribe something that they have no idea about? did they never hear about research? Geez, it makes you wonder about watching the news at nights. Cause when you know about something and you hear these boobs report about it, you always realise that they screw stuff up. So imagine when you don't know what they are talkign about, they could buy you and sell you for a fool.
okay, more than one question...
Lets say i was to try to get ADSL for my linux box, how would i get my MAC address (is that it?)
and what exactly hardware wise do they have to install, and what sort of software and configuration will i have to do. I haven't seen a ADSL howto, or found a site that explains how ADSL really works and what sort of hardware it requires... I am really interested in finding out more about this. Maybe if a good ADSL howto was written, support for it could be forced upon other providers...
in some article before, some guy complained that RH required 8mb, i hope he don't see that this one requires 16mb...
anyone noticed that only CNet seems to have articles on their previous articles? My god, its like writing a book on a book that you had already written. Cyclic Redundancy. Someone should tell them to either hire more writers, or make their current writers write more articles. This is just too disgusting. I think i will go take a shower.
if you can code, or have a friend who can code, you can write a program like they did that can intercept microsoft's calls from turning back the settings. And thats that.
So, where can i pick up such a device...
It seems to have alot of potential, why type with one hand! Now you can type with both hands while enjoying yourself!
did you not know that you only need to change your registry to make your workstation a server? I guess microsoft does not want the world to know that they are not charf\ging more for server because it is different, but because they can.
/ oreilly/examples/windows/win95.update/ntno diff.html
Here, go to this link, and see the light, maybe even make a program that can bring others into the light.
http://www.uni-duesseldorf.de/ftp/pub/doc/books
Have you ever sat down and looked at a NT Workstation and then looked at an NT Server? Well incase you haven't there is so little between them that it is amazing that the price difference is so large. I Only a company like Microsoft will take a product, cripple it and sell the full version for a much higher price. It is so funny that is sad. I remember a while ago someone came up with a way to convert a NT Workstation into an NT Server, somehow the information disappared off of the internet. Go figure.
speed should not be a problem in accessing data from an optical disc. true you may not be able to spin the platter beyond certain speeds. isn't there some technology call "zen" that uses multiple lasers or heads to read multiple areas of the disc and recombines it, giving you a larger flow of data. If NASA or anyone else modifies this technology to its upper limit, you should be able to reach very large data bandwidths, true you will need some cpu power to put the data back together, and maybe a secondary large buffer to store data while it could be reorganized, but that should be nothing for a supercomputer to do.
It may not be perfect, but it could tide them over for the next 10 years at least, until we start using bio-chemical storage devices.
how much data does one of these rolls of tape hold?
it seems that you will be able to use either one or the other. i think usb support is iffy right now, but i may be wrong.
"The paper said Linux is somewhat taxing for nontechnical users. However, programmers are working on friendlier versions of the language that have a Window-like interface."
Okay, besides the "language" part, i did not know the system administrators were "nontechnical users." maybe thats is why there are so many MCSEs out there. I really hate when folks talk crap.
i see that PC software that will be used with this thing seems to only work on windows. Go figure, i was thinking that a guy who would use linux on the unit, would at least create a linux version of the software to communicate with it.
its intresting how you can call something that you do not understand a hack. Anyway, windows may be unstable so and so amy be litestep, but considering thats it only at 0.24.4 i should expect anything from it. I don't here folks complaining about gnome or gtk apps crashing, which they do. Maybe the guy who installed litestep was a total boob, hey just as linux ain't for everybody so is litestep.
So don't get me started.
i almost thought they were refering to LiteStep.
Then i was wondering why they would be making fun of LiteStep, when Litestep has some wicked themes. And can look better than almost any window manager with the exception of enlightenment. Yeah, Yeah LiteStep is not a Window Manager, its a shell for windows, and it was based of AfterStep (i think) but has grown beyond that...
So maybe there should be an ls.theme.org
i know a few guys whold be glad to run it..
Col_KFC used to use LiteStep....
how will this make mp3s "secure?"
will it prevent me from copying it?
or will it prevent me from playing it in any other player? Is it me, or is this just politics just to make the RIAA feel all warm and fuzzy inside?
The concept of encoding music and sharing it with others has become deeply ingrained into alot of internet users lives. If the somehow removed all known mp3 players from the internet and the ability to make more mp3 files. Someone will just creat another format. This has been going on before MP3s, and it will continue. Unless the current music industry change and find a more reasonable way to sell and distribute music, they will not be able to do anything to stop "music piracy." The same way that all attempts to stop software piracy has failed, so will all attempts to stop music piracy fail.
Nice story, but what did it have to do with linux?
Look, i have nothing against folks trying to learn something new, but you got to be able to call a cat: "a cat", and a dog: "a dog". I have grown up not taking crap from no one, nor allowing someone to string me along. No matter how much you may want to see this guy install linux, or here his long "story" about installing it (without actually doing anything) this may not actually be the place for it. You can say what you want, but scroll back up to the top of this page, and see what it says in the title. "Slashdot: News for Nerds. Stuff that matters." If his last three or four articles were shortened into one, and then there was actually a part about linux in it, then it would fit, but all i see so far is a ploy by someone to become a part of the "hip" crowd. Linux is an OS, nothing more nothing less. There are many ways you can use linux, the most common way is as a tool to get a specific job done. However, the so called "linux community" is mostly made up of people who uses linux as an all in one swiss army knife. You cannot become a member of this club, because there is no sign up fees or registration forms, you can't ask to join, or tell folks that you are a member. You will know that you belong when you can contribute something back to the community and/or to others. This can be in simple things as helping others learn linux, writing software, donating your money or time to different projects or just being nice to others and providing accurate information about linux. You don't even need to use linux to be a part of the "linux community."
My only advice for you is this:
If you want to install linux, do it for the right reasons, not because you feel pressured to do it. Because you will resent the entire experience and it will leave you feeling hurt and resentful. And i suggect that if you do write another article, please focus on the title of your topic, else you will be fooling your readers into expecting something that you are not providing. And this is considered to be the worst form of writing. So, heed my advice.