I guess you've been a FreeBSD for too many years now... All (living ones anyway) linux-distributions today use glib-2.x.x (of varying versions) apart from that there's not many showstoppers from allowing you to compile software for any distro from the same sourceball...
Ie. there aren't any difference in the distros anymore, and hasn't been for quite some time...
And a bigger electricity bill, more noise and more heat...
VT-terminals (220s; not 100s!) are perfect for email terminals around the house, and excellent as a secondary (or more) screen for using BitchX/irssi... So instead of being limited to a dual-head setup... you can have as many heads as you want, some of them even with keyboards;-)
The point here though, is that with not much hair-pulling your mother would probably be able to install WindowsXP, but would never be able to install Slackware Linux...
(Lindows seems to be putting a stop to linux being hard to install though)...
I'd say it was trademark infrigement, 'max payne' and 'maxx payne' is pretty similar... both into the action-hero kinda-thing...
But to be honest I'd never even heard of Mr. Payne the pro-wrestler, only Mr. Payne the killingmachine..
Well Jello Biafra was certainly pissed when california ruled that he wasn't allowed to run for mayor under his alias "Jello Biafra" and had to use his real name...
For some people, their alias is what they're known by and might be just as important as their real name... Afterall it's what everybody know you as that count, if you ask me...
The problem with Arts though is that it doesn't work with a lot of binary-sounddrivers (ie. not mainstream kernel). This is not arts' fault, but it's kinda strange that there isn't any workaround possible considering apps support OSS can play using the drivers, just not arts...
(The problem has something to do with timing IIRC, never really got around to studying the problem, just accepted it)
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According to SoftwareUpdate iHumour4 and iISF2 isn't available yet...
Guess you'll have to order the iPerson package straight from applestore... it comes on 7 DVDs;-)
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It's probably gonna make more developers create splash screens as it's timesaving... While it's a waste spending about an hour programming a splash-class if your program lacks in other divisions; spending 5-6 minutes implementing this new class is more appropriate... If lack of time is the reason it's implemented in the first place, I guess implementing a --no-splash is probably not in the.plan for some future;-)
But I can't really see how more choice can be worse...
SMP + SCSI (cont).
I've got a quad-PPro with SCSI-raid (and vanilla-scsi) running linux, no trouble ever
I've also got a Xeon (dual) running with SCSI (compaq both machines) with no problem...
Even if they don't check (it's really not necessary), they should stick to writing (x)HTML that validates... that way you've got a good excuse and a clear consience when somebody comes running and complains about your site not working...
If it validates to a recent standard, it's pretty much the browsers fault and not the designer...
In the old days, the patent office used to be staffed with various engineers that between themselves knew "everything" and could decide whether a patent was in conflict with "prior art" or if it was too general/generally known... Today patenting is a legal business and therefore putting things in legalese would stop the engineers form seeing straight through the patent and stamping REFUSED on things like "using a laser to play with a cat" before even reading the patentapplication... Putting it in legalese would make anything seem "new" and radically different from everything...
The project also uses techniques that are fundamentally similar to the basic principles of running a (book)store... You recommend customers other titles in hope that they'll buy more products from your store. Experience will allow you to recommend titles based on what (other) customers buy, or in otherwords exactly what these patents cover...
Did you read the article ?
especially the last paragraph called "full disclosure" (or something to that effect), where the writer "discloses" that he is the holder of Patent # 5,884,282 and Patent # 5,790,426... So I guess he got there before Amazon....
I guess submitting it to USPTO would count as a pretty good backup...
Patent # 5,884,282 Patent # 5,790,426 Both held by Gary B. Robinson aka. the poster of this story;-)
I've got a dlink (614+ ?) that has been running for a couple of months straight now... apart from the webadmin sucks bigtime the only trouble is the puny range it has... the signalstrenght is poor in most of the house...
FreeBSD is already distributed on DVD by FreeBSD DVD, so why should Linuxdistros be any different ?
Further RO-DVDs has been a standard long enough for any DVD-player to read it, and as long as you burn your own disks, chosing a standard and sticking to it should be pretty easy...
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For those portage/apt-get/ports fans I suggest taking a look at Swaret which fetches and installs (and upgrades) packages straight from your favourite slack-mirrors...
nForce does boot, but you'll run into trouble trying to get your nForce audio, nForce network, nForce gfx-card to work.
Mostly because the drivers are closed source, making them troublesome to backport to 2.2...
I booted 2.2 myself the other day, worked like a charm, in some respect even better than 2.4 as 2.4 is less forgiving about faulty DMA than 2.2...
2.4 just went into a lockup while 2.2 at least continued and then just complained about trouble with DMA and didn't initialize the devices that created the trouble...
So there are still uses for 2.2...
I even booted slackware-7.1 the otherday (2.2 based) because of the trouble with DMA and used that to install slackware on a machine (which I later hacked together a 2.4 kernel that worked and upgraded the stuff to slackware-current...)
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So everybody else is allowed to break the law ?
I guess you've been a FreeBSD for too many years now... All (living ones anyway) linux-distributions today use glib-2.x.x (of varying versions) apart from that there's not many showstoppers from allowing you to compile software for any distro from the same sourceball...
Ie. there aren't any difference in the distros anymore, and hasn't been for quite some time...
And a bigger electricity bill, more noise and more heat... ;-)
VT-terminals (220s; not 100s!) are perfect for email terminals around the house, and excellent as a secondary (or more) screen for using BitchX/irssi... So instead of being limited to a dual-head setup... you can have as many heads as you want, some of them even with keyboards
And with a 233MHZ G3 a serial console is probably the fastest way to get anything done with OS X...
The point here though, is that with not much hair-pulling your mother would probably be able to install WindowsXP, but would never be able to install Slackware Linux...
(Lindows seems to be putting a stop to linux being hard to install though)...
I'd say it was trademark infrigement, 'max payne' and 'maxx payne' is pretty similar... both into the action-hero kinda-thing...
But to be honest I'd never even heard of Mr. Payne the pro-wrestler, only Mr. Payne the killingmachine..
Well Jello Biafra was certainly pissed when california ruled that he wasn't allowed to run for mayor under his alias "Jello Biafra" and had to use his real name...
For some people, their alias is what they're known by and might be just as important as their real name... Afterall it's what everybody know you as that count, if you ask me...
(The problem has something to do with timing IIRC, never really got around to studying the problem, just accepted it)
Guess you'll have to order the iPerson package straight from applestore... it comes on 7 DVDs ;-)
If lack of time is the reason it's implemented in the first place, I guess implementing a --no-splash is probably not in the
But I can't really see how more choice can be worse...
I've also got a Xeon (dual) running with SCSI (compaq both machines) with no problem...
I think OP is of his rocker here..
If it validates to a recent standard, it's pretty much the browsers fault and not the designer...
Just download the worldpeace plugin from mozilla.org... it sorts out everything...
In the old days, the patent office used to be staffed with various engineers that between themselves knew "everything" and could decide whether a patent was in conflict with "prior art" or if it was too general/generally known...
Today patenting is a legal business and therefore putting things in legalese would stop the engineers form seeing straight through the patent and stamping REFUSED on things like "using a laser to play with a cat" before even reading the patentapplication... Putting it in legalese would make anything seem "new" and radically different from everything...
The project also uses techniques that are fundamentally similar to the basic principles of running a (book)store... You recommend customers other titles in hope that they'll buy more products from your store. Experience will allow you to recommend titles based on what (other) customers buy, or in otherwords exactly what these patents cover...
Did you read the article ?
especially the last paragraph called "full disclosure" (or something to that effect), where the writer "discloses" that he is the holder of Patent # 5,884,282 and Patent # 5,790,426... So I guess he got there before Amazon....
I guess submitting it to USPTO would count as a pretty good backup... ;-)
Patent # 5,884,282
Patent # 5,790,426
Both held by Gary B. Robinson aka. the poster of this story
Why would 10Mbps be a limitation, I'd say 11Mbps wireless wouldn't be able to fill a 10Mbps wire-pipe anyway...
Not in my experience anyway...
Since then the only problem has been the lousy range...
I've got a dlink (614+ ?) that has been running for a couple of months straight now... apart from the webadmin sucks bigtime the only trouble is the puny range it has... the signalstrenght is poor in most of the house...
or use cfengine... it can keep track of syntax, what is legal and what's not...
and only change settings if they're not set etc...
FreeBSD is already distributed on DVD by FreeBSD DVD, so why should Linuxdistros be any different ?
Further RO-DVDs has been a standard long enough for any DVD-player to read it, and as long as you burn your own disks, chosing a standard and sticking to it should be pretty easy...
For those portage/apt-get/ports fans I suggest taking a look at Swaret which fetches and installs (and upgrades) packages straight from your favourite slack-mirrors...
nForce does boot, but you'll run into trouble trying to get your nForce audio, nForce network, nForce gfx-card to work.
Mostly because the drivers are closed source, making them troublesome to backport to 2.2...
I booted 2.2 myself the other day, worked like a charm, in some respect even better than 2.4 as 2.4 is less forgiving about faulty DMA than 2.2...
2.4 just went into a lockup while 2.2 at least continued and then just complained about trouble with DMA and didn't initialize the devices that created the trouble...
So there are still uses for 2.2...
I even booted slackware-7.1 the otherday (2.2 based) because of the trouble with DMA and used that to install slackware on a machine (which I later hacked together a 2.4 kernel that worked and upgraded the stuff to slackware-current...)
The best part of a slackpack is that you only really need tar to get it installed... no fuzz included in the actual package... ;-)
;-)
One thing less to break