I use Gentoo but not because I think the "build-it-yourself" stuff makes anything faster. I am one of the ones who can use flags well, but what's useful about that is the "USE" flags: emacs modes get installed automatically or not, documentation gets installed automatically or not, etc.. What is cooler than the local building about Gentoo is that I find portage personally easier to use than apt, and Gentoo's init & rc setup is IMO just awesome.
That and the splash screen. We all pretend it's not important, but a distro's artwork is huge part of what sets it apart from other distros.
I think the idea was that mass dueling transmitters might be smarter than weight sensors or cameras. I see this, however, as a perfect case study for the Tragedy of the Commons.
They could easily have waited following the initial RH8 release until now to release RH8-Final, and then give kernel geeks the chance to pore through the 2.6 kernel before releasing RH-Fedora1 with 2.6 support, not without.
And if you'll notice, with their enterprise server version (which is their real moneymaker and the distro they spend most of their effort putting innovations into), they are pretty much doing exactly that. The "personal" Red Hat release is pretty much just a service they offer to the userbase, so they release it on a much faster schedule.
Pounds as weight and slugs as mass are one version of the Imperial system; another uses pounds as a unit of mass and "poundals" as a unit of weight/force.
they won't be able to get any updated versions anway
More than that. From the General Public License, section 7:
If, as a consequence of a court judgment or allegation of patent infringement or for any other reason (not limited to patent issues), conditions are imposed on you (whether by court order, agreement or otherwise) that contradict the conditions of this License, they do not excuse you from the conditions of this License. If you cannot distribute so as to satisfy simultaneously your obligations under this License and any other pertinent obligations, then as a consequence you may not distribute the Program at all.
It's been said many times before but this is so crucial to the matter that it bears yet another repeating: by section 7 of the GPL, either Linux 2.4 can be redistributed by any party under the terms of the GPL, or it cannot be redistributed by anyone at all (barring individual licensing from every single kernel author), not even SCO themselves.
So, if you view paying SCO's license fee as an admission that Linux 2.4 was distributed in violation of SCO's IP, then paying it is admitting to the commission of an illegal act by redistributing software that (according to the construction) cannot legally be distributed by anyone at all.
I've photoshop'ed him before; he's from a Corbis CD... either "Business Images II" or "Faces of Diversity" (even F.o.D. had to have one old white guy in a business suit).
He only port they can connect on is through the secure port 443.
GAAAAAAHHHHHH!!!!!!!
Somebody above pointed this out, and I know you're just a parody, but I can't let this slip by:
PORT 443 IS NOT MAGICALLY ENCRYPTED JUST BECAUSE OF THE NUMBER 443!!!!
A port is an integer, nothing more. It's just a number that a client and a server agree to associate with a given connection so that they can keep track (ok, it's not quite that simple since most clients and servers have multiple connections running that are notionally but not actually using the same port).
Associating the number "443" does not magically cause your data to be sent encrypted. Similarly, port 80 (or 21, or 110, or what have you) does not magically prevent you from sending encrypted data: if I set my server to receive https connections over port 80, and you set your client to send https connections over port 80, we will have a secure connection over port 80. If I set my server to listen for a plaintext connection over port 443, and you set your client to send a plaintext connection over port 443, we will have an unsecure connection over port 443. (This is importante because your IM client is almost certainly not encrypting your chats).
OK, like I said above, it's impossible that you actually run a business (and kudos on a brilliant late-90's "do-nothing" firm parody), I just couldn't leave any lurkers with the mistaken belief that something about the number 443 mysteriously encrypts communications.
Given that the portfolio is "Coming Soon", the fact that the "Proofreading Services" paragraph had three typos, and the utterly brilliant meaningless name of "problem-solution.biz" (could we be more 1998?), I had to assume this was an impressive parody.
If not, I'm very, very sad that these idiots managed to get their hands on enough money to start a business.
OK, that's true, you can make it so that your process receives the signal, but you can't keep an in-focus process (in this case, the OS) from receiving the signal too. I guess you could use the print screen key signal to scramble the text for a little bit in the hopes that the print screen wouldn't work.
I'd like to point out that grabbing the Print Screen key for your own use is trivial
Not if your window is out of focus. I haven't messed with Windows signals for a while but I don't think your app would even receive the interrupt, would it?
But it's called GnuPG. It keeps people from reading my emails if I don't want them to. Come to think of it, it's on by default on Evolution and Mozilla mail.
Yes and no. I think you mean "WindowMaker is just a window manager because it doesn't set a comprehensive desktop appearance policy". In that sense, yes, *for the most part* all WindowMaker does is manage windows, but that's not *entirely* all it does.
In fact, you can run Window Maker without using its included window manager; in the default right-click menu you have the option of restarting with IceWM or with BlackBox. Window Maker is a desktop, in that it is a layer of abstraction above a window manager.
That's especially funny since "enterprise" was originally supposed to mean (best as I could tell; nobody's really sure what it means) n-tier. But, all the PHB's out there want to think they're big and important too and don't like hearing that they don't need "enterprise-level solutions" (even when those save them money -- I've had a COO of an organization with 5 servers and 60 desktops all in one central site say "well obviously our organization needs an enterprise-level solution [for Directory Access]; client-server just isn't enough for us").
So, the word "enterprise" now simply seems to mean "run in a networked environment on multiple hosts".
I've been so happy with WindowMaker that I forgot about bloatware like KDE and Gnome. To me, comparing which of them is better is like arguing over which of two miniature tricycles is fastest.
Actually I hear a lot of "backslash" when people mean "/". Cable & Wireless's marketing spiel when you're on hold says "cw.net backslash sales". Cable & Wireless, for Christ's sake. I asked the sales guy and he said that "backslash", even though they knew it was wrong, confused fewer people.
What windows task requires you booting into linux to perform it?
Just about anything involving file manipulation by regular expressions. I know that there is Cygwin and I know there's even a grep/sed/awk implementation for plain old Win32, but in my experience these are buggy, and their differences from the [U|(Li)]n[i|u]x versions, while small, are very annoying at least to me.
FWIW I've synced phones quite painlessly with WinXP, Gentoo, and SuSE (which, btw, I still am convinced is the easiest operating system in the world for anyone to use).
I've heard Sweetbriar is co-ed now, but I'd bet it's still predominantly female. I don't imagine this guy is hurting for dates. Ah, makes me miss my time working at Hollins...
I think grandparent post's point was that there's plenty of food in the very countries where children are starving, usually sitting in warehouses because the Red Cross won't bribe the customs guards.
In fact, it's not even that the world's poor can't afford food. DeSoto wrote a neat book a few years ago showing that the world's poor have more assets than the world's rich by an order of magnitude. The problem is they aren't given legal protection for their property, so they can't turn their assets into capital. Again, it's a corrupt dictatorship problem.
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Well said.
I use Gentoo but not because I think the "build-it-yourself" stuff makes anything faster. I am one of the ones who can use flags well, but what's useful about that is the "USE" flags: emacs modes get installed automatically or not, documentation gets installed automatically or not, etc.. What is cooler than the local building about Gentoo is that I find portage personally easier to use than apt, and Gentoo's init & rc setup is IMO just awesome.
That and the splash screen. We all pretend it's not important, but a distro's artwork is huge part of what sets it apart from other distros.
I think the idea was that mass dueling transmitters might be smarter than weight sensors or cameras. I see this, however, as a perfect case study for the Tragedy of the Commons.
Not exactly. Last anyone from MS said anything, the RDBMS will sit on top of a traditional NTFS (or something like it) system.
My monitor is a Moebius strip you insensitive clod!!!
And if you'll notice, with their enterprise server version (which is their real moneymaker and the distro they spend most of their effort putting innovations into), they are pretty much doing exactly that. The "personal" Red Hat release is pretty much just a service they offer to the userbase, so they release it on a much faster schedule.
Pounds as weight and slugs as mass are one version of the Imperial system; another uses pounds as a unit of mass and "poundals" as a unit of weight/force.
That is him, you know. I think he did an interview a while back.
Was it on /. or a newsgroup that somebody told Christiansen "you obviously know nothing about Perl"?
I run 4 nameservers. I don't look foward to typing
well, you get the idea...More than that. From the General Public License, section 7:
It's been said many times before but this is so crucial to the matter that it bears yet another repeating: by section 7 of the GPL, either Linux 2.4 can be redistributed by any party under the terms of the GPL, or it cannot be redistributed by anyone at all (barring individual licensing from every single kernel author), not even SCO themselves.
So, if you view paying SCO's license fee as an admission that Linux 2.4 was distributed in violation of SCO's IP, then paying it is admitting to the commission of an illegal act by redistributing software that (according to the construction) cannot legally be distributed by anyone at all.
I've photoshop'ed him before; he's from a Corbis CD... either "Business Images II" or "Faces of Diversity" (even F.o.D. had to have one old white guy in a business suit).
GAAAAAAHHHHHH!!!!!!!
Somebody above pointed this out, and I know you're just a parody, but I can't let this slip by:
PORT 443 IS NOT MAGICALLY ENCRYPTED JUST BECAUSE OF THE NUMBER 443!!!!
A port is an integer, nothing more. It's just a number that a client and a server agree to associate with a given connection so that they can keep track (ok, it's not quite that simple since most clients and servers have multiple connections running that are notionally but not actually using the same port).
Associating the number "443" does not magically cause your data to be sent encrypted. Similarly, port 80 (or 21, or 110, or what have you) does not magically prevent you from sending encrypted data: if I set my server to receive https connections over port 80, and you set your client to send https connections over port 80, we will have a secure connection over port 80. If I set my server to listen for a plaintext connection over port 443, and you set your client to send a plaintext connection over port 443, we will have an unsecure connection over port 443. (This is importante because your IM client is almost certainly not encrypting your chats).
OK, like I said above, it's impossible that you actually run a business (and kudos on a brilliant late-90's "do-nothing" firm parody), I just couldn't leave any lurkers with the mistaken belief that something about the number 443 mysteriously encrypts communications.
IHBT IHL IWHAND
Given that the portfolio is "Coming Soon", the fact that the "Proofreading Services" paragraph had three typos, and the utterly brilliant meaningless name of "problem-solution.biz" (could we be more 1998?), I had to assume this was an impressive parody.
If not, I'm very, very sad that these idiots managed to get their hands on enough money to start a business.
OK, that's true, you can make it so that your process receives the signal, but you can't keep an in-focus process (in this case, the OS) from receiving the signal too. I guess you could use the print screen key signal to scramble the text for a little bit in the hopes that the print screen wouldn't work.
Not if your window is out of focus. I haven't messed with Windows signals for a while but I don't think your app would even receive the interrupt, would it?
But it's called GnuPG. It keeps people from reading my emails if I don't want them to. Come to think of it, it's on by default on Evolution and Mozilla mail.
Yes and no. I think you mean "WindowMaker is just a window manager because it doesn't set a comprehensive desktop appearance policy". In that sense, yes, *for the most part* all WindowMaker does is manage windows, but that's not *entirely* all it does.
In fact, you can run Window Maker without using its included window manager; in the default right-click menu you have the option of restarting with IceWM or with BlackBox. Window Maker is a desktop, in that it is a layer of abstraction above a window manager.
That's especially funny since "enterprise" was originally supposed to mean (best as I could tell; nobody's really sure what it means) n-tier. But, all the PHB's out there want to think they're big and important too and don't like hearing that they don't need "enterprise-level solutions" (even when those save them money -- I've had a COO of an organization with 5 servers and 60 desktops all in one central site say "well obviously our organization needs an enterprise-level solution [for Directory Access]; client-server just isn't enough for us").
So, the word "enterprise" now simply seems to mean "run in a networked environment on multiple hosts".
Try the American Revolution. Unlike the CSA's submarines, the Continental subs didn't have the nasty habit of killing their entire crew.
I've been so happy with WindowMaker that I forgot about bloatware like KDE and Gnome. To me, comparing which of them is better is like arguing over which of two miniature tricycles is fastest.
Actually I hear a lot of "backslash" when people mean "/". Cable & Wireless's marketing spiel when you're on hold says "cw.net backslash sales". Cable & Wireless, for Christ's sake. I asked the sales guy and he said that "backslash", even though they knew it was wrong, confused fewer people.
Just about anything involving file manipulation by regular expressions. I know that there is Cygwin and I know there's even a grep/sed/awk implementation for plain old Win32, but in my experience these are buggy, and their differences from the [U|(Li)]n[i|u]x versions, while small, are very annoying at least to me.
FWIW I've synced phones quite painlessly with WinXP, Gentoo, and SuSE (which, btw, I still am convinced is the easiest operating system in the world for anyone to use).
I've heard Sweetbriar is co-ed now, but I'd bet it's still predominantly female. I don't imagine this guy is hurting for dates. Ah, makes me miss my time working at Hollins...
Eh, I'm thinking of art. A lot of great art is very simple, but certainly not easy.
I think grandparent post's point was that there's plenty of food in the very countries where children are starving, usually sitting in warehouses because the Red Cross won't bribe the customs guards.
In fact, it's not even that the world's poor can't afford food. DeSoto wrote a neat book a few years ago showing that the world's poor have more assets than the world's rich by an order of magnitude. The problem is they aren't given legal protection for their property, so they can't turn their assets into capital. Again, it's a corrupt dictatorship problem.