Configuration tools make up redhats boot sequence. When you go to linuxconfig, or soundconfig, etc... redhat's config files are being changed.
Think of it like writing a wysiwyg html editor, it's just better if you write it yourself.
The only proof necessary that redhats configs suck is the superior boot times of lower profile distributions. yOPER is a new distribution, and in my testing it was much faster loading. Check their discussion board, people get excited about this "amature" distro loading faster, and it does use autoconfiguring utils.
I was ranting because redhat could do better, they just dont want to. Looking back to the LSB, redhat included their own projects as the standard tool, when a better tool was clearly available.
People have still been giving redhat the highest respect, and I think they need to apologize before they get any respect back.
This is in fact likely to happen, and I find the write-up humorous. Orrin Hatch is disliked by geeks as a whole. Disney has pushed copywrite terms to a ludicrus time.
Here's a title explanation from the article:
This program is called MoleSter because it's small and furtive, like a mole, and "-ster" is a traditional suffix for filesharing programs. It rhymes with "pollster"; don't pronounce it as three syllables. Every time I look at the word "molester" my brain tries to parse it as "mole-ster" instead of the agentive of "to molest", and now I have an excuse to name a piece of software MoleSter, so I'm going to use it.
The problem isn't the boot process being slow, the problem is with redhat's strategy.
Putting together lame config utils, in place of doumentaion will never work, and ignoring community opinoin while making a standard base is just childish.
Their version of linux boots slow because their config utils suck. Slackware linux still boots fine, so does arch, and yOPER.
The problem this boot vizualization intends to fix isn't a legit problem, it's just a symptom of poor choices made by RH.
Mode me down: after all, RH = King of Linux (grumble...)
Honestly I find their _calculators_ more attractive as a whole than their printers. HP has done good work on a few printers I know of, (mostly 4l and varients), but I dont think any of the inkjets are legit, and some of the laser printers have problems too (1100 series, more?)
HP doesn't do a good job marketing things, they just expect people to buy because they have a lousy "invent" motto, and they're a big spanking company. Dell on the other hand projects a totally false image, and people buy.
I have to rant on this because nobody is doing anything about it.
Slashdot has repeatedly been announcing valueless releases of high profile projects, but releases that are actually useable go unannounced.
While./ editors are selecting e17 CVS (yes, just a lousy CVS tree without instructions), and now the first alpha of KDE (like you're going to use it...) Important releases like Afterstep 2.0, or 2.01... and Windowmaker go unnannounced. In the past XFCE got posted, and/. even posted Afterstep 2 beta1.
Its time to get more consistant about what gets published here, and this doesn't belong. KDE has plenty of active developers and anyone who could contribute almost certainly must be aware of this release.
Lets refine some of slashdot, and publish small project releases that could use devel help. A great place to start is learning and documenting a project.
Nobody uses fusion, so posting a link to it in light of the context is useless. If we could use fusion under control, nobody would talk about hydro electric, because you could power the world with 5 plants.
And please, don't call three mile island or Chernobyl "disasters." Disasters are when many people die because of immediate oversight. Neither of these nuclear incidents involved major deaths, and both would have been easily pervented if workers followed procedure/management planned correctly.
The gnome hack sounds good, but I don't use gnome. I've been using the two side by side, and the best way I've found is to use the "copy email address" selection for mailto: links. I copy the link in firebird, then paste it right into TB.
This is a pretty elegant feature, because you can copy email addresses from within TB as well. The only real disadvantage compared to running vanilla mozilla is load time (Firefox+Thunderbird takes longer than mozilla)
I had mod points, but your argument needs a apposing view more than it needs to be silenced.
I noticed you talked about respecting the game maker, and then about cracks. Why would anyone need a crack, if the game maker respected their customers?
I've been a proud supporter of Epic Games with their releases UT, Unreal2, and UT2004, mostly because I trust them. They will come out with a good game, but it will also be non-intrusive.
I really like a game company with the Nokia "small share of big market is better than big share of small market" attitude. Before Cd burners, I never saw cracks, or anti developer sentiment, but ever since people started "stealing" games, the game developers have been working harder to make sure the game is theftproof than worth buying.
The end result of a theft protection first attitude is a game that doesn't work whether or not it's legit.
Copy protection is even more frustrating on linux, or another non-ms OS, None of the cd protected games work with wine, and hardly any work with winex either.
At least they announced an E release. They announced an afterstep 2.0 beta1 release last year, but nobody bothered when 2.0 final was released (Sept. 28)
It's a shame too, Sasha has done some excellent work on afterimage... I'm sure I'd have used it by now if he just documented it (hint...)
Your thoughtful reply shows you weren't looking for karma after all.
I was disappointed by LSB. The goal it set out to accomplish is close to what you described. Unfortunatly nothing has happend because of mistakes like package management selection.
The only way to accomplish what you are proposing (running apps with gtk/qt flawlessly) involves an extra layer of code. People already complain about bloat, and likely severe revision would be necessary to make Gnome or KDE effective with a more standardized subsystem.
I belive that many cross-toolkit problems an be fixed by continuing work on X11. I didn't like Xfree86 administration (with little exposure they managed to get me PO'd). I do like the new direction X.org is going in, but haven't personally got a look at their administration yet.
Look into X.org, they might not be ready for what you see... but you can always start working on your own.
Of all the reviews detailing dual/quad cpu mb's I've seen just as many gaming benchmarks come out slower as faster. The boards cost so much to make because of limited audience, most people couldn't even understand a dual MB if they had a 1 semester class, so lack of knowlegable customers really hurts here.
I'd choose SLAX, because of it's base in Slackware linux. I worked with building custom installers for slackware in the past, and it was basically painless. Back with slack 7.1 I was able to rewrite some scripts and install over ppp for my non-cd notebook.
Patrick Volkerdi has effective script writing style, and top of the line documentation. If any of his style was carried on to SLAX, they would be your best option for custimizability.
The only other thing I thought when reading your opinion was wtf?, but someone else already posted that.
First, hardware control panels are not necessary when everything runs right. If you're having a problem, recompile your kernel, or upgrade.
Second, in opposition to the name there is certainly nothing standard about "linux standard base." The only distributions to follow LSB are Redhat mutants, and it's not a coincidense. Only redhat mutants are allowed by the LSB.
If you want to unify linux (and that might not be a good idea anyway) make sure you go with some true contributing resources. Redhat made things pretty clear that the only truth in LSB is base back at the start. Majority of input was to use debian's apt system for packages, but Redhat made their decisions totally apart from the community. Why should we even talk about making their project global after such a blatant slap in the face?
Half of the people supporting P2P are aboslutely against "piracy", but they care about P2P because they're tired of the RIAA trying to steal their fair use.
RFID has hardly any uses that would help the average joe, so average joes here on slashdot generally don't like it. RFID definatly has it's positive uses, like tracking luggage with electric labels... The average airport traveller would likely not even be aware of this RFID though, and it wouldn't matter. I think you can see how RFID is untrusted because anywhere it's necessary to mention, it's bad for the consumer.
One of the major supports for the validity of the bible is it's consistency.
Most people recognize the reverse validity test. Phrases like "your lie will find you out" suggest that making false claims will get you caught, only because you can't be consistent.
Another simple support for the validity of the bible is multiple writers (of original transcripts.) We see "The bible" as one source now, but it's really just a collection of many books written by different people. Hey, maybe there was a designer after all.
The whole idea of Wiki is based on eastern religion concepts. Personally I find that a little unsettling. Not that I think anything is wrong with using the system. Most of the content is in english, and from western origin, the whole thing gets confusing.
To me, the feeling is kind of like a eastern martial arts class. I'm interested in the athletics (and in topics covered by many wiki's), but the meditative state, suicide theology etc scares me away.
If I lived in NY I would definatly go for this. Instead of getting a $15 t-shirt this kind of endorsemnt is more unique, and seems like a great way to send the message that Firefox has arrived.
This ad won't be run until Firefox 1.0 is complete, I hope.
Right in the link... "Expanding on his new documentary "Bush Family Fortunes" which is a compilation of Palast's BBC investigative reports on voter fraud and other wrongdoing, the Harper's article documents how:"
I dont think anyone could deny voting problems in FL. Making up claims like 4 to 1 votes uncounted will be democratic is kinda lame though.
There's no mention of illegal registrations(registrations of deceased people) in this article. Democrat illegal registrations are about 80% of the total, so 80% democrat "voters" getting cut out sounds about right too.
Oh, you know it wouldn't be in the _word_ unless it was true.
John was one of the disciples who knew Jesus, most of even anti-christian speculation puts disciples very close to Jesus.
I try to add a little of my beliefs to my posts by way of this sig. The rest of my posts are usually objective, so I try to show people some of my perspective.
Insightful, more than funny.
Just take a look at the street prices for these processors, and compare to Athlons... You'll find the faster Athlons are cheaper in the same mhz rating. Add in double the cache on Athlon, and you'd have to be an idiot to buy a "budget" cpu.
That's just the sad thing of this award. If the film industry had realized the long ranging impact of the 3 originals, they probably would have handed Lucas the award in the 80s. By now recieving an award doesn't make any sense because of low quality prequals, etc... but how can you know something is a classic in less than 10 years?
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Configuration tools make up redhats boot sequence. When you go to linuxconfig, or soundconfig, etc... redhat's config files are being changed.
Think of it like writing a wysiwyg html editor, it's just better if you write it yourself.
The only proof necessary that redhats configs suck is the superior boot times of lower profile distributions. yOPER is a new distribution, and in my testing it was much faster loading. Check their discussion board, people get excited about this "amature" distro loading faster, and it does use autoconfiguring utils.
I was ranting because redhat could do better, they just dont want to. Looking back to the LSB, redhat included their own projects as the standard tool, when a better tool was clearly available.
People have still been giving redhat the highest respect, and I think they need to apologize before they get any respect back.
Here's a title explanation from the article:
The problem isn't the boot process being slow, the problem is with redhat's strategy.
Putting together lame config utils, in place of doumentaion will never work, and ignoring community opinoin while making a standard base is just childish.
Their version of linux boots slow because their config utils suck. Slackware linux still boots fine, so does arch, and yOPER.
The problem this boot vizualization intends to fix isn't a legit problem, it's just a symptom of poor choices made by RH.
Mode me down: after all, RH = King of Linux (grumble...)
Honestly I find their _calculators_ more attractive as a whole than their printers. HP has done good work on a few printers I know of, (mostly 4l and varients), but I dont think any of the inkjets are legit, and some of the laser printers have problems too (1100 series, more?)
HP doesn't do a good job marketing things, they just expect people to buy because they have a lousy "invent" motto, and they're a big spanking company. Dell on the other hand projects a totally false image, and people buy.
I have to rant on this because nobody is doing anything about it.
./ editors are selecting e17 CVS (yes, just a lousy CVS tree without instructions), and now the first alpha of KDE (like you're going to use it...) Important releases like Afterstep 2.0, or 2.01... and Windowmaker go unnannounced. In the past XFCE got posted, and /. even posted Afterstep 2 beta1.
Slashdot has repeatedly been announcing valueless releases of high profile projects, but releases that are actually useable go unannounced.
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Its time to get more consistant about what gets published here, and this doesn't belong. KDE has plenty of active developers and anyone who could contribute almost certainly must be aware of this release.
Lets refine some of slashdot, and publish small project releases that could use devel help. A great place to start is learning and documenting a project.
Nobody uses fusion, so posting a link to it in light of the context is useless. If we could use fusion under control, nobody would talk about hydro electric, because you could power the world with 5 plants. And please, don't call three mile island or Chernobyl "disasters." Disasters are when many people die because of immediate oversight. Neither of these nuclear incidents involved major deaths, and both would have been easily pervented if workers followed procedure/management planned correctly.
In Africa the Swedish code you!
Mozilla is where the innovation is right now. 1.8alpha 5 is very stable, and its more evolved than either firefox or thunderbird. Runs faster too.
The gnome hack sounds good, but I don't use gnome. I've been using the two side by side, and the best way I've found is to use the "copy email address" selection for mailto: links. I copy the link in firebird, then paste it right into TB. This is a pretty elegant feature, because you can copy email addresses from within TB as well. The only real disadvantage compared to running vanilla mozilla is load time (Firefox+Thunderbird takes longer than mozilla)
I had mod points, but your argument needs a apposing view more than it needs to be silenced.
I noticed you talked about respecting the game maker, and then about cracks. Why would anyone need a crack, if the game maker respected their customers?
I've been a proud supporter of Epic Games with their releases UT, Unreal2, and UT2004, mostly because I trust them. They will come out with a good game, but it will also be non-intrusive.
I really like a game company with the Nokia "small share of big market is better than big share of small market" attitude. Before Cd burners, I never saw cracks, or anti developer sentiment, but ever since people started "stealing" games, the game developers have been working harder to make sure the game is theftproof than worth buying.
The end result of a theft protection first attitude is a game that doesn't work whether or not it's legit.
Copy protection is even more frustrating on linux, or another non-ms OS, None of the cd protected games work with wine, and hardly any work with winex either.
What ever happend to licking your finger and feeling for which way the wifi is blowing?
At least they announced an E release. They announced an afterstep 2.0 beta1 release last year, but nobody bothered when 2.0 final was released (Sept. 28) It's a shame too, Sasha has done some excellent work on afterimage... I'm sure I'd have used it by now if he just documented it (hint...)
Your thoughtful reply shows you weren't looking for karma after all.
I was disappointed by LSB. The goal it set out to accomplish is close to what you described. Unfortunatly nothing has happend because of mistakes like package management selection.
The only way to accomplish what you are proposing (running apps with gtk/qt flawlessly) involves an extra layer of code. People already complain about bloat, and likely severe revision would be necessary to make Gnome or KDE effective with a more standardized subsystem.
I belive that many cross-toolkit problems an be fixed by continuing work on X11. I didn't like Xfree86 administration (with little exposure they managed to get me PO'd). I do like the new direction X.org is going in, but haven't personally got a look at their administration yet.
Look into X.org, they might not be ready for what you see... but you can always start working on your own.
Of all the reviews detailing dual/quad cpu mb's I've seen just as many gaming benchmarks come out slower as faster. The boards cost so much to make because of limited audience, most people couldn't even understand a dual MB if they had a 1 semester class, so lack of knowlegable customers really hurts here.
I'd choose SLAX, because of it's base in Slackware linux. I worked with building custom installers for slackware in the past, and it was basically painless. Back with slack 7.1 I was able to rewrite some scripts and install over ppp for my non-cd notebook.
Patrick Volkerdi has effective script writing style, and top of the line documentation. If any of his style was carried on to SLAX, they would be your best option for custimizability.
The link for slax: http://slax.linux-live.org/
The only other thing I thought when reading your opinion was wtf?, but someone else already posted that.
First, hardware control panels are not necessary when everything runs right. If you're having a problem, recompile your kernel, or upgrade.
Second, in opposition to the name there is certainly nothing standard about "linux standard base." The only distributions to follow LSB are Redhat mutants, and it's not a coincidense. Only redhat mutants are allowed by the LSB.
If you want to unify linux (and that might not be a good idea anyway) make sure you go with some true contributing resources. Redhat made things pretty clear that the only truth in LSB is base back at the start. Majority of input was to use debian's apt system for packages, but Redhat made their decisions totally apart from the community. Why should we even talk about making their project global after such a blatant slap in the face?
Half of the people supporting P2P are aboslutely against "piracy", but they care about P2P because they're tired of the RIAA trying to steal their fair use. RFID has hardly any uses that would help the average joe, so average joes here on slashdot generally don't like it. RFID definatly has it's positive uses, like tracking luggage with electric labels... The average airport traveller would likely not even be aware of this RFID though, and it wouldn't matter. I think you can see how RFID is untrusted because anywhere it's necessary to mention, it's bad for the consumer.
One of the major supports for the validity of the bible is it's consistency.
Most people recognize the reverse validity test. Phrases like "your lie will find you out" suggest that making false claims will get you caught, only because you can't be consistent.
Another simple support for the validity of the bible is multiple writers (of original transcripts.) We see "The bible" as one source now, but it's really just a collection of many books written by different people. Hey, maybe there was a designer after all.
Well clearly there will be no problems teaching monkeys this level of expertise in 20 years.
The whole idea of Wiki is based on eastern religion concepts. Personally I find that a little unsettling. Not that I think anything is wrong with using the system. Most of the content is in english, and from western origin, the whole thing gets confusing.
To me, the feeling is kind of like a eastern martial arts class. I'm interested in the athletics (and in topics covered by many wiki's), but the meditative state, suicide theology etc scares me away.
If I lived in NY I would definatly go for this. Instead of getting a $15 t-shirt this kind of endorsemnt is more unique, and seems like a great way to send the message that Firefox has arrived.
This ad won't be run until Firefox 1.0 is complete, I hope.
Right in the link... "Expanding on his new documentary "Bush Family Fortunes" which is a compilation of Palast's BBC investigative reports on voter fraud and other wrongdoing, the Harper's article documents how:"
I dont think anyone could deny voting problems in FL. Making up claims like 4 to 1 votes uncounted will be democratic is kinda lame though.
There's no mention of illegal registrations(registrations of deceased people) in this article. Democrat illegal registrations are about 80% of the total, so 80% democrat "voters" getting cut out sounds about right too.
Oh, you know it wouldn't be in the _word_ unless it was true.
John was one of the disciples who knew Jesus, most of even anti-christian speculation puts disciples very close to Jesus.
I try to add a little of my beliefs to my posts by way of this sig. The rest of my posts are usually objective, so I try to show people some of my perspective.
Insightful, more than funny. Just take a look at the street prices for these processors, and compare to Athlons... You'll find the faster Athlons are cheaper in the same mhz rating. Add in double the cache on Athlon, and you'd have to be an idiot to buy a "budget" cpu.
That's just the sad thing of this award. If the film industry had realized the long ranging impact of the 3 originals, they probably would have handed Lucas the award in the 80s. By now recieving an award doesn't make any sense because of low quality prequals, etc... but how can you know something is a classic in less than 10 years?