Only movements which are living and vital have such controversy surrounding them. Windows has no such "problems". There is plenty of room for even more contention and flames.
It's totally inconsistent. Like choosing "log out" from enlightenmant menu and nothing happening. Doh! Or choosing "log out from the panel, and having the panel quit, but the wm stays running.
There are huge numbers of UI inconsistencies like this. You've just been running Linux so long you don't notice.
Gnome sure is pretty, but it isn't even close to being ready for daily use. Most of the applets and other programs are not even close to 1.0, the libs are about the only things that's ready.
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There will be a huge market for this. Companies can't afford IS departments or expensive shrink wrap, but they can, say hire a programmer to make a few changes to (insert program here) to better suit their environment.
Freelancing in this manner is the furture for individual programmers, I think. Especially those who don't want a 9-5 job with some souless corporation. There's no reason why this can't work and the more popular free software becomes, the more people will realize this.
It really is a beautiful arrangement - far better than the shrink wrapped crap we all have to deal with today.
I'm using my Millennium with fbcon / 2.2.3 and at 1024x768 - 72Hz the text console has new life (and none of the fonts are hosed as they are with SVGATextMode). Quite nice, and it has the potential to replace svgalib for games and such. Isn't anyone out there using this?
I know Oracle sure as heck is NOT free for linux, unless you just want to download it and play around. That's about it. Has anyone used postgres for anything realy serious? It seems to be under very active development (they seem to have regular releases) and the developers sure do seem fired up about it:-) I haven't done much with it other than make a few tables... is it really a suitable replacement for high end DB's? or maybe "middle end", where oracle would just be too much?
If you use a proxy you wont ever have to see adfu again (I don't). Rob isn't going to advertise this - he makes money off the ads, after all. You're expected to know better. For those that don't, well, deal with the ads.
I haven't seen a adfu ad for months;/. is really fast for me, all the time. Well, during peak hours it might be a little slow.
I'm starting to see this from all the commercial unix vendors - "linux is OK for low end server work, but our (insert commercial OS here) is more appropriate for high end work."
Not that linux would be appropriate for 1 million hits/day, sweet christ that's a lot of work. But how many people have a million hits per day?
There are some very high profile, busy sites running free unixes, yahoo, deja news, etc.
These software houses are always whining about piracy and how much money they "lose" because of it. Ridiculous. They depend on it for market share.
What we really need to do (all of us who are admins) is relentlessly hunt down illegally copied software in our workplaces and keep everyone in rigid compliance. I know for one if I were to do that at my workplace, I would meet overwhelming opposition. My "IT" co-workers (read:warez-losers) are the biggest problem! My guess is that 99% of all companies are depending on a hell of a lot of warez every day. Tracking all this shit down and stopping it would hurt proprietary software houses more than any "piracy" would. This would be incredibly painful for everyone. I know it would practically cripple the company I work for.
I guarrantee it will be hideously ugly, slow and crash happy. Much worse than the windows version. Look at the software that big commercial companies port over to unix - acrobat, word perfect, etc. They all use crappy motif instead of gtk. Everything is ugly, washed out and deformed. They always do such a half assed job.
I'd like to have some of those programs but it's as if all these commercial companies are still stuck in 1990 or something WRT unix development. These folks are so out of touch. Don't they know about gnome and kde?
That's a total of 11 commands, hardly a chore, and you will be flying around the CLI like a wizard with just those (no need to move your hands around to hit "home" or "del" keys).
And you learn emacs to boot:-)
Really, it's a shell thing isn't it? Why not have bash add a "PC Keyboard" key binding set, like it does for vi and emacs?
The test was with static html, not cgi. I'll wager linux AND solaris would kick MacOS' ass on cgi performance. Linux/Apache's static html performance isn't all that great at all anyway - WHO CARES about static html performance on, what, 32 clients? This benchmark is a joke.
let's see cgi performace test on 300 clients or more, Apple.
Fuck Apple. Fuck Steve Jobs. Another proprietary garbage vendor.
They don't need huge gangs of programmers on every project. Most of those apps are finished anyway. When they get released open source, communities of users/developers tend to grow up around the product, and then the little adjustments and fixes start rolling in.
Hours later, Ndeti capped off his delicious gazelle dinner by smoking the computer's 200-page owner's manual.
When I got to that part I hit the floor. I read this years ago, but re-reading it was as funny as ever. My (technology) favorites are still the one about Bill Gates raising his charisma and wisdom to "above 18" and the one about Bill Gates "taking his half".
This has got to be the most disgusting site I've ever seen. A clean break from net tradition. I can't believe anyone buys this shit. When I first saw it (using Alta Vista), I thought, "why would anyone ever use this?" - then later I learned Bill Gates was behind it. Fitting.
I would just love to find some images on Corbis that they didn't pay for. I'm sure there are lots of them... there's no way they got author's permissions for all that shit.
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This is ZDNet's obligatory linux article for today. It's just them not being able to come up with anything more exciting - so they made something up.
I just wonder how many interesting story submissions got passed up for this one (which was worthless).
The win32 version is using 450k, while NN 4.5 is using 9MB to display the same thing.
Only movements which are living and vital have such controversy surrounding them. Windows has no such "problems". There is plenty of room for even more contention and flames.
After all, Gore invented Linux.
This is just yet another moronic article, don't waste your time.
Any journalist who begins his articles with "As I predicted ... " should be skinned, burned alive, and fed to leprous wild animals.
This guy is a jackass. His argument about "suits and anoraks" is both wrongheaded and laughable. What a serious thinker he is. What a dufus.
It's totally inconsistent. Like choosing "log out" from enlightenmant menu and nothing happening. Doh! Or choosing "log out from the panel, and having the panel quit, but the wm stays running.
There are huge numbers of UI inconsistencies like this. You've just been running Linux so long you don't notice.
Gnome sure is pretty, but it isn't even close to being ready for daily use. Most of the applets and other programs are not even close to 1.0, the libs are about the only things that's ready.
There will be a huge market for this. Companies can't afford IS departments or expensive shrink wrap, but they can, say hire a programmer to make a few changes to (insert program here) to better suit their environment.
Freelancing in this manner is the furture for individual programmers, I think. Especially those who don't want a 9-5 job with some souless corporation. There's no reason why this can't work and the more popular free software becomes, the more people will realize this.
It really is a beautiful arrangement - far better than the shrink wrapped crap we all have to deal with today.
I'm using my Millennium with fbcon / 2.2.3 and at 1024x768 - 72Hz the text console has new life (and none of the fonts are hosed as they are with SVGATextMode). Quite nice, and it has the potential to replace svgalib for games and such. Isn't anyone out there using this?
I just wish I could get it to work on my laptop.
I know Oracle sure as heck is NOT free for linux, unless you just want to download it and play around. That's about it. Has anyone used postgres for anything realy serious? It seems to be under very active development (they seem to have regular releases) and the developers sure do seem fired up about it :-) I haven't done much with it other than make a few tables ... is it really a suitable replacement for high end DB's? or maybe "middle end", where oracle would just be too much?
If you use a proxy you wont ever have to see adfu again (I don't). Rob isn't going to advertise this - he makes money off the ads, after all. You're expected to know better. For those that don't, well, deal with the ads.
I haven't seen a adfu ad for months; /. is really fast for me, all the time. Well, during peak hours it might be a little slow.
It sounds pretty cool - I wanna job there :-)
Not that it matters, but it is 17 machines, not a single machine running linux. Of course www.micros~1.com is about 3,000 NT servers.
Slashdot get nearly a million hits per day, and it is all beta cgi scripts and only runs on a dual P2.
What about a quad zeon or alpha machine?
I'm starting to see this from all the commercial unix vendors - "linux is OK for low end server work, but our (insert commercial OS here) is more appropriate for high end work."
Not that linux would be appropriate for 1 million hits/day, sweet christ that's a lot of work. But how many people have a million hits per day?
There are some very high profile, busy sites running free unixes, yahoo, deja news, etc.
These software houses are always whining about piracy and how much money they "lose" because of it. Ridiculous. They depend on it for market share.
What we really need to do (all of us who are admins) is relentlessly hunt down illegally copied software in our workplaces and keep everyone in rigid compliance. I know for one if I were to do that at my workplace, I would meet overwhelming opposition. My "IT" co-workers (read:warez-losers) are the biggest problem! My guess is that 99% of all companies are depending on a hell of a lot of warez every day. Tracking all this shit down and stopping it would hurt proprietary software houses more than any "piracy" would. This would be incredibly painful for everyone. I know it would practically cripple the company I work for.
I guarrantee it will be hideously ugly, slow and crash happy. Much worse than the windows version. Look at the software that big commercial companies port over to unix - acrobat, word perfect, etc. They all use crappy motif instead of gtk. Everything is ugly, washed out and deformed. They always do such a half assed job.
I'd like to have some of those programs but it's as if all these commercial companies are still stuck in 1990 or something WRT unix development. These folks are so out of touch. Don't they know about gnome and kde?
You won't regret it.
^A, ^E, ^P, ^N, ^K, ^F, ^B
alt-B, alt-F
shift-PGUP
shift-PGDN
That's a total of 11 commands, hardly a chore, and you will be flying around the CLI like a wizard with just those (no need to move your hands around to hit "home" or "del" keys).
And you learn emacs to boot :-)
Really, it's a shell thing isn't it? Why not have bash add a "PC Keyboard" key binding set, like it does for vi and emacs?
I love it!
Read the fine print on the benchmark.
The test was with static html, not cgi. I'll wager linux AND solaris would kick MacOS' ass on cgi performance. Linux/Apache's static html performance isn't all that great at all anyway - WHO CARES about static html performance on, what, 32 clients? This benchmark is a joke.
let's see cgi performace test on 300 clients or more, Apple.
Fuck Apple. Fuck Steve Jobs. Another proprietary garbage vendor.
They don't need huge gangs of programmers on every project. Most of those apps are finished anyway. When they get released open source, communities of users/developers tend to grow up around the product, and then the little adjustments and fixes start rolling in.
Hours later, Ndeti capped off his delicious gazelle dinner by smoking the computer's 200-page owner's manual.
When I got to that part I hit the floor. I read this years ago, but re-reading it was as funny as ever. My (technology) favorites are still the one about Bill Gates raising his charisma and wisdom to "above 18" and the one about Bill Gates "taking his half".
This has got to be the most disgusting site I've ever seen. A clean break from net tradition. I can't believe anyone buys this shit. When I first saw it (using Alta Vista), I thought, "why would anyone ever use this?" - then later I learned Bill Gates was behind it. Fitting.
... there's no way they got author's permissions for all that shit.
I would just love to find some images on Corbis that they didn't pay for. I'm sure there are lots of them
that's his real name
I would not, not for all the money in the world, want to look like that fat-no chin-disgusting pockmarcked Goring fucking look-alike.
Not to mention to make his salary you pretty much would have to be just as much of an asshole as he is.
(just like in Brazil)