If you want to see some windows-users' jaws drop, wait until one of them complains he cannot see some movie or the subtitles and show them one of the jukebox-on-a-CD linux distributions based on mplayer.
More to the point, the main criticisms against Keith Packard come from David Wexelblat, who while saying that he supports open source, in his own words:
I personally don't have much interest left in hacking code; I don't code
much at work any more, and not at all in my free time. If I ever do, I will
do Open Source. Whether it will have anything to do with Linux or X, I don't
know; I doubt it. It will probably have something to do with my other
hobbies, and be Windows software.
Also:
Some of you may be too young to have any idea who I am. I, along with David
Dawes, Jim Tsillas, and Glenn Lai, created XFree86 a little less than 11
years ago. I have been basically inactive with XFree86 for a goodly number
of years now, but remain on the Board of Directors, and lurk on the Core
Team. I care very much about this project and the people involved, and pop
my head up once in a while to kibbitz when necessary. It's necessary now.
So, on the one hand he is interested but at the same time he does not contribute to the project, he believes X is obsolete and admits to only using Windows OS. It begs the question, if he so much cares about the project, why not resign and let someone por involved take his place?
I think we should take arguments from this discussion with a grain of salt.
The price hike sounds entirely reasonable because of the increased support responsibilities involved. I'm actually kind of supprised they didn't raise the prices more.. Just my 2 cents.
Mhhh not sure about how much support is included, look at these ADDITIONAL packages:
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I remember reading that a good way of making complex and easy to remember passwords was to think of surreal or absurd politically incorrect obscenities, think about martian unicorn genitalia for example.
Since supposedly no one will ever will see your password you can use highly offensive words the like of which you would not say in your day to day life, so I am not advocating hate speech. Add to this some weirdness and you end up with a password that is both complex and very easy to remember.
Here is an example: _religious-slur_numer-of-people_sexual-act_impossi ble place.
Haven't seen this here so... http://www.linux-mandrake.com/en/82announce .php
Wasn't Brass head of CSI before Grissom?
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Maybe I have this wrong, but where I live they recently showed a rerun of the pilot and it seems that Captain Jim Brass was head at CSI before Grissom. If this is so, then why oh why does grissom have to explain to him how something seemingly irrelevant is actually a potential clue. Isn't Brass supposed to be a trained CSI investigator?
And don't even mention the CSI guys going making arrests, interrogating perps or Grissom paying a visit to the main suspect in a serial murder case.
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If you want to see some windows-users' jaws drop, wait until one of them complains he cannot see some movie or the subtitles and show them one of the jukebox-on-a-CD linux distributions based on mplayer.
They boot, they play. No installing, no fuzz.
They can play anything mplayer 9x Can.
More to the point, the main criticisms against Keith Packard come from David Wexelblat, who while saying that he supports open source, in his own words:
I personally don't have much interest left in hacking code; I don't code much at work any more, and not at all in my free time. If I ever do, I will do Open Source. Whether it will have anything to do with Linux or X, I don't know; I doubt it. It will probably have something to do with my other hobbies, and be Windows software.
Also:
Some of you may be too young to have any idea who I am. I, along with David Dawes, Jim Tsillas, and Glenn Lai, created XFree86 a little less than 11 years ago. I have been basically inactive with XFree86 for a goodly number of years now, but remain on the Board of Directors, and lurk on the Core Team. I care very much about this project and the people involved, and pop my head up once in a while to kibbitz when necessary. It's necessary now.
So, on the one hand he is interested but at the same time he does not contribute to the project, he believes X is obsolete and admits to only using Windows OS. It begs the question, if he so much cares about the project, why not resign and let someone por involved take his place?
I think we should take arguments from this discussion with a grain of salt.
The price hike sounds entirely reasonable because of the increased support responsibilities involved. I'm actually kind of supprised they didn't raise the prices more.. Just my 2 cents.
Mhhh not sure about how much support is included, look at these ADDITIONAL packages:
I remember reading that a good way of making complex and easy to remember passwords was to think of surreal or absurd politically incorrect obscenities, think about martian unicorn genitalia for example. Since supposedly no one will ever will see your password you can use highly offensive words the like of which you would not say in your day to day life, so I am not advocating hate speech. Add to this some weirdness and you end up with a password that is both complex and very easy to remember. Here is an example: _religious-slur_numer-of-people_sexual-act_impossi ble place.
Haven't seen this here so...e .php
http://www.linux-mandrake.com/en/82announc
Maybe I have this wrong, but where I live they recently showed a rerun of the pilot and it seems that Captain Jim Brass was head at CSI before Grissom. If this is so, then why oh why does grissom have to explain to him how something seemingly irrelevant is actually a potential clue. Isn't Brass supposed to be a trained CSI investigator?
And don't even mention the CSI guys going making arrests, interrogating perps or Grissom paying a visit to the main suspect in a serial murder case.
Wasp reacts to the RAND policy, check it out!