Linuxnewbie.org addresses this: "Update: Apparently there may not have been as many bugs as led to believe. RH 7 has in teh neighborhood of 250 NEW bugs and 2000 were fixed during the BETA." In looking at this, I assume that the 149 bugs you mention are remaining and that 101 other bugs have been fixed.
This is the SECOND article this week that has been repeated. This is horrible, don't you guys even look at the articles before you post them, or do you just randomly click which articles get posted?
Both xsmbrowser and LinNeighborhood are fully working and they work well. I've used them both and I've had no problems with them. They have the full functionality of the Windows "Network Neighborhood" and some functionality that "Network Neighborhood" doesn't have.
As for you saying that the only that daemons and tty clients should be in textmode, that's just foolish. For one thing, a graphical subsystem uses up more resources than just the console, so it is an advantage to have many tools in the console. There simply isn't as much power in a GUI, for instance, in console, you can string a huge amount of pipes and conditionary executions such as with &&. As for saying the GUI is easier and faster, that is only the case in some instances for some things. Obviously, with graphics editing, a GUI is a much better solution. But, I at least, find it takes more time to keep double-clicking (or even single-clicking) on however many directories to get to just one, then right-clicking and going to Copy, then navigating around some more to find the next directory and then right-clicking and going to Paste. It's much faster to just type, say: cp/var/lib/apache/share/htdocs/manual/images ~/my_files . The power and in many cases, the ease and speed, of the console are not matched by a GUI.
I notice how you completely ignore the fact that "they have not objected to being called "gay" or "lesbian", as evidenced by "Gay Pride" parades which are now common in many large metropolitan areas." I think this is a very important difference between the two cases.
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Visual Basic is a vastly different language from the original Basic, and it STILL sucks.
I found some, as you put it, "legal" mp3s on Napster. I had logged on and, voila, there was an "artist spotlight" where the artist freely put the song up on Napster, so you could download it completely legally. So I clicked the little link and I downloaded the song through Napster and it was pretty good.
Now if just one person does that just once, Napster should have the complete right to stay up an running.
The RIAA would have to encode every song in mp3 and then they would have to replace every mp3 in the world with the mp3 that they encoded. Your idea doesn't make any sense at all.
It's ironic that Microsoft got into so much trouble for including a browser with the OS which they had a monopoly with while Netscape at the same time was including email and a development platform with the browser they had a monopoly with.
This is incorrect. First of all, when Microsoft integrated Internet Explorer 4 with Windows 98, Internet Explorer had at least a 40% market share, which by no means gives Netscape a monopoly even disregarding other browsers.
Here's a band that's using Napster to promote themselves. They're not taking them to court. They're taking advantage of the increased exposure that the particular media can provide. If more bands did this, say putting the ad at the end or the beginning, it would certainly lend more legitamacy the whole business. After all, the courts will have an even tougher time saying that there's no legitimate use for such things. I think this is the wave of the future, and I certainly don't think it's a bad thing.
Not only that, but they'd be all turned off by OSS because, if the government used anything GNU, he'd want them to call the whole damn country "GNU/United States".
Red Hat is the least secure of the non-crappy distros (things like Corel, Caldera, or any UMSDOS distro are all crappy distros). Consequently, anyone who knows what they're doing, isn't going to use Red Hat if what they want is a solid default security configuration. Consequently, you can't base the "security of Linux" on Red Hat. Also, this whole thing is off-topic.
While this would certainly be the best thing for the company, what you're saying doesn't so much do what the poster is asking, and that is to "give something back." This, I believe, could be accomplished by doing all of the above except for #2 because that could be something that's actually negative.
Your fourth point is incorrect. The company does NOT have to release kernel modifications or any GPLed code. If they distribute any binaries, then they have to release the source, but they do not have to release at all the source if they don't, although it's certainly a good thing to do. I would recommend that you do all of these things, except for #2, as that's very vague and could easily be something that we don't want at all.
Buy a DVD player in England. Now buy a DVD in the United States. Now try and play the DVD on the DVD player. It won't work without performing "illegal" acts, which really shouldn't be illegal at all.
Napster is not really violating copyright laws. Napster is merely a conduit for others to violate copyright laws. I have gotten music from Napster that was willfully given to do so by the artists. By your thinking, highways should be ripped up because it's extremely easy to transport drugs along them.
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Linuxnewbie.org addresses this: "Update: Apparently there may not have been as many bugs as led to believe. RH 7 has in teh neighborhood of 250 NEW bugs and 2000 were fixed during the BETA." In looking at this, I assume that the 149 bugs you mention are remaining and that 101 other bugs have been fixed.
Obviously, "Microsoft is the dot in .NET" DUH!
So this must be why I couldn't access freesoftware.com the other day, they were using up all the bandwidth to break their stupid little record! :)
This is the SECOND article this week that has been repeated. This is horrible, don't you guys even look at the articles before you post them, or do you just randomly click which articles get posted?
As for you saying that the only that daemons and tty clients should be in textmode, that's just foolish. For one thing, a graphical subsystem uses up more resources than just the console, so it is an advantage to have many tools in the console. There simply isn't as much power in a GUI, for instance, in console, you can string a huge amount of pipes and conditionary executions such as with &&. As for saying the GUI is easier and faster, that is only the case in some instances for some things. Obviously, with graphics editing, a GUI is a much better solution. But, I at least, find it takes more time to keep double-clicking (or even single-clicking) on however many directories to get to just one, then right-clicking and going to Copy, then navigating around some more to find the next directory and then right-clicking and going to Paste. It's much faster to just type, say: cp /var/lib/apache/share/htdocs/manual/images ~/my_files . The power and in many cases, the ease and speed, of the console are not matched by a GUI.
Well, considering that MFC has HORRIBLE performance, I doubt that there would be a porformance loss in porting from MFC to GTK.
It's got the word "hack" in it! It must be bad!
I notice how you completely ignore the fact that "they have not objected to being called "gay" or "lesbian", as evidenced by "Gay Pride" parades which are now common in many large metropolitan areas." I think this is a very important difference between the two cases.
Visual Basic is a vastly different language from the original Basic, and it STILL sucks.
This whole thing with Slashcode default passwords reeks of Microsoft.
Now if just one person does that just once, Napster should have the complete right to stay up an running.
Well they're hell of a lot smarter than me. I can never figure out those maze thingies.
The RIAA would have to encode every song in mp3 and then they would have to replace every mp3 in the world with the mp3 that they encoded. Your idea doesn't make any sense at all.
Chris Hagar
This is incorrect. First of all, when Microsoft integrated Internet Explorer 4 with Windows 98, Internet Explorer had at least a 40% market share, which by no means gives Netscape a monopoly even disregarding other browsers.
Chris Hagar
Here's a band that's using Napster to promote themselves. They're not taking them to court. They're taking advantage of the increased exposure that the particular media can provide. If more bands did this, say putting the ad at the end or the beginning, it would certainly lend more legitamacy the whole business. After all, the courts will have an even tougher time saying that there's no legitimate use for such things. I think this is the wave of the future, and I certainly don't think it's a bad thing.
Chris Hagar
Yeah, but who wants to go to Canada, I mean geez ;)
Chris Hagar
Not only that, but they'd be all turned off by OSS because, if the government used anything GNU, he'd want them to call the whole damn country "GNU/United States".
Chris Hagar
Red Hat is the least secure of the non-crappy distros (things like Corel, Caldera, or any UMSDOS distro are all crappy distros). Consequently, anyone who knows what they're doing, isn't going to use Red Hat if what they want is a solid default security configuration. Consequently, you can't base the "security of Linux" on Red Hat. Also, this whole thing is off-topic.
Chris Hagar
...that this doesn't get on the nightly news?
Chris Hagar
While this would certainly be the best thing for the company, what you're saying doesn't so much do what the poster is asking, and that is to "give something back." This, I believe, could be accomplished by doing all of the above except for #2 because that could be something that's actually negative.
Chris Hagar
Your fourth point is incorrect. The company does NOT have to release kernel modifications or any GPLed code. If they distribute any binaries, then they have to release the source, but they do not have to release at all the source if they don't, although it's certainly a good thing to do. I would recommend that you do all of these things, except for #2, as that's very vague and could easily be something that we don't want at all.
Chris Hagar
Buy a DVD player in England. Now buy a DVD in the United States. Now try and play the DVD on the DVD player. It won't work without performing "illegal" acts, which really shouldn't be illegal at all.
Chris Hagar
That's easily explainable: Corel sucks.
Chris Hagar
If it got to be a high enough profile case, the RIAA would look really stupid, or the court system at least, if it were held up.
Chris Hagar
Napster is not really violating copyright laws. Napster is merely a conduit for others to violate copyright laws. I have gotten music from Napster that was willfully given to do so by the artists. By your thinking, highways should be ripped up because it's extremely easy to transport drugs along them.
Chris Hagar