At the office, I'm on Win7, which actually isn't too bad for Windows. With it I run WindowsPager to get multiple virtual desktops. It's reliable and pretty solid.
That said, at home I now have Macs. I got tired of testing a half dozen Linux distros every six months to figure out which one will work on the current update. OS X is solid, and I can do anything I want with Unix, supplementing with MacPorts. Not only can I work, I can haz fun.;)
The reality is that businesses run Windows and Unix environments. Linux isn't the cheap panacea once touted to be. Sun isn't completely out of the game yet, and IBM still has AIX. Apple is also very much a player in the computing world. Sure you can download the latest version of Debian, but a corporate compute environment is more likely to use Red Hat or SuSE Enterprise.
Were I Apple or Sun, I'd be pushing my own version of Unix on the corporate world, letting them know they won't have GPLv3 worries to litigate in the future. Were I IBM, I'd make absolutely certain AIX is on every CIOs tongue.
Hackers like to work for people with high standards. But it's not enough just to be exacting. You have to insist on the right things. Which usually means that you have to be a hacker yourself. I've seen occasional articles about how to manage programmers. Really there should be two articles: one about what to do if you are yourself a programmer, and one about what to do if you're not. And the second could probably be condensed into two words: give up.,/i>
I saw the comments re: v10.1, and yes that's a blot. It's only a minor one. I too buy SuSE, and have done so as long at least as long as I've been a/.er. ^_^
If Novell wants to do well, they could look at the Microsoft model for the Windows Logo Program. "Designed to Run SuSE Linux". What a concept. The day machines are sold to Mom and Dad running Linux is the day when it can be a cash cow.
Yeah I was working with VRML too. Neat stuff. SGI was behind it in a big way. Sony was there too, but SGI was the corporate drive force. Man it could do neat things. Creating 3D objects was pretty easy for geeks, and could have been made easier for others w/ time. Geez, there were sites for 3D "clip art" objects. Anyone remember Floops, SGI's twice a week animation?
Then SGI dropped VRML support. VRML was dead; long live VRML. I walked immediately, not waiting to smell the rotting corpse.
I agree with you. I hate MS products, but this is business. MS defines each generation x86 PC through their logo program, and - guess what? - companies build equipment to that spec by their choice.
And mods, it's not flamebait.
I saw the pictures!!!!!!!!! They are soooo adorable. They reminded me of the cute little lizard on the color PostScript test print page.
Hey, you know, if Novell was really smart, they'd call it Suzy Linux. It's so, you know, girly. Advertize it with a couple of girls in poodle skirts, but instead of poodles, have lizards. It would be soooo sweet!!!!!
I remember the reviews for The Matrix when it was first released. Mostly the reviews panned it.
The reviews for Aeon Flux are probably even worse than for The Matrix. Okay, it's an MTV movie, and so I expect it to be a little light on things. However, I still expected it to be good. The trailer looked interesting. I wasn't disappointed when seeing the movie.
The story was good with an interesting twist. The acting was okay to good overall, directing was good, editing was very good. Never was I bored in the movie.
I watched the movie last night, and enjoyed it. Today I still think it was a good movie.
You have a fair perspective on this. I am in Mensa and have been for many years. My involvement is mostly with one of the Special Interest Groups, the Science Fiction and Fantasy SIG. I write short stories for the newsletter. There are roughly 50 people in the SIG.
Most of the people I know in Mensa are rabid ANTI-Bushites. My friends from the SIG are liberal and don't like him at all. One Mensan I know from the left coast who isn't in the SIG is libertarian/Republican and also thinks little of Bush. Personally I'm libertarian, but prefered Bush over Kerry.
Point is that classifying Mensans is probably as simple as classifying Slashdotters.
No. They buy companies and just kill them. The list is long and distinguished. It looks more like stupidity rather than evil intent, but the result is the same.
Here are a few shining examples: GNN; Virtual Places; Netscape; Nullsoft.
From my perspective as a user/customer, it's frustrating. These *were* thriving concerns and cool services at the time of acquisition by AOL.
From the perspective of an investor, I'd question the ability of AOL management to maintain a viable business. Their ability with acquisitions is almost criminal. Geez, they've even infected Time/Warner with their incompetence, though they've not killed it. Yet.
"Oh, let's buy this for a few hundred mil."
"Sure! What are we going to do with it?"
"Uh, 'do?'"
It's as if they don't even understand what they're doing.
How many players are going to choose to be female in the game if that sort of event is common?
That sounds like a challenge!
Let me see. I'm in a situation where someone is discriminating against me. Others like me are also a target of discrimination.
I have two choices: Accept it or fight back and get the others to fight back with me! If "legal" means won't work, we'll use force. It's a mainstay of humanity, like it or not. Look at history.
The neat thing about this is that here's a physically safe environment in which to simulate bad situations. You can whine that it isn't Hello Kitty Goes to Egypt, or you can take it as an adventure. It's your choice.
E's light, uncluttered, and gives me a clean work environment. I use gkrellm for monitoring, and I stay clear of "epplets" as they're not what I'd call great.
With KDE and Gnome, I need to conform to them. With E, it conforms to me.
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I've been testing it since Monday May 10, and it seems to be okay. It is biased toward KDE, but one can fairly easily configure SuSE to be KDE- and GNOME-free, with Enlightenment as the WM.
One little item to note is that not all packages are recognized in YaST. I typically will generate a list of apps using the command:
rpm -qilp *rpm > suse_9.1
to allow me to browse descriptions of the packages and see what files are included. (Understand this can be a very large file.) Notably when I wanted to install a couple of rippers, they did not appear through YaST. Hmmm... Installing them manually:
rpm -ivh <your_favorite_program.rpm>
worked just fine. They then appeared in YaST as having been installed. This is a trivial issue, but it is annoying.
Bottom line is that SuSE 9.1 seems to be fine so far!
I've read most all of the posts, including all of the -1s. You are right, Dr Rick.
At present I'm burning 3.0r2 ISOs to some CD-RWs to bring home. I grabbed them on Saturday using jigdo - a rather ingenious tool in concept and execution - for the purpose of Again Trying Debian. I was willing to do this, thinking (obviously incorrectly) that 3.1 would follow sometime later this year. After reading all of what has been posted, I'm not sure why I'm trying.
At present I'm using SuSE 8.2, have used RH from 4.1 thru 7.2. I even did a stint with Mandrake. I'm about to migrate to SuSE 9.1, but wanted to try Debian one more time.
I'd say what Debian is doing is laudable, but it amounts to playing an elaborate game (re: it doesn't mean anything). Unfortunately I've got real work to do. Such a shame it is...
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However, SuSE - and Mandrake - make it easy, especially on the initial installation. With either, you can quit mid-install while saving to a file, and pick up again at a later time. You can't do that with Red Hat; likewise, my guess is you can't do it with Fedora, either. Red Hat coulda and shoulda, but didn'.
Fedora. I have real work to do. I don't care to be Red Hat's alpha test weenie. (I used RH starting with v4.1, and loved it thru 7.2. It was a damned good distro at the time.)
Regarding Mandrake, you're right. They've had it for awhile. From that perspective they're good.
My minor complaint with 'Drake is that in my experience it didn't do fscking properly at startup. I'm sure I could have spent a little time remedying that, but I had other things to do.
Imnsho, if SuSE wasn't as good as it is, Mandrake would be my distro of choice.
...is the ability to save a list of the selected packages in a file and use that to configure other machines almost instantly (the user.sel file saved through YaST). It's very powerful.
SuSE is what RedHat could have been and what Mandrake should aspire to be.
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At the office, I'm on Win7, which actually isn't too bad for Windows. With it I run WindowsPager to get multiple virtual desktops. It's reliable and pretty solid.
That said, at home I now have Macs. I got tired of testing a half dozen Linux distros every six months to figure out which one will work on the current update. OS X is solid, and I can do anything I want with Unix, supplementing with MacPorts. Not only can I work, I can haz fun. ;)
I have work to do. Windows is lame; Unix is easy.
My 2 1/2 y.o. Dell just died. It was out of warranty. I replaced it with an iMac.
http://gplv3.fsf.org/gpl-draft-2006-07-27.html
The reality is that businesses run Windows and Unix environments. Linux isn't the cheap panacea once touted to be. Sun isn't completely out of the game yet, and IBM still has AIX. Apple is also very much a player in the computing world. Sure you can download the latest version of Debian, but a corporate compute environment is more likely to use Red Hat or SuSE Enterprise.
Were I Apple or Sun, I'd be pushing my own version of Unix on the corporate world, letting them know they won't have GPLv3 worries to litigate in the future. Were I IBM, I'd make absolutely certain AIX is on every CIOs tongue.
No. And I'm tired of them. After fighting 3 pop-ups, that was it. Closed the browser and left.
http://www.paulgraham.com/ in his essay Great Hackers
http://www.paulgraham.com/gh.html :
Hackers like to work for people with high standards. But it's not enough just to be exacting. You have to insist on the right things. Which usually means that you have to be a hacker yourself. I've seen occasional articles about how to manage programmers. Really there should be two articles: one about what to do if you are yourself a programmer, and one about what to do if you're not. And the second could probably be condensed into two words: give up.,/i>
I saw the comments re: v10.1, and yes that's a blot. It's only a minor one. I too buy SuSE, and have done so as long at least as long as I've been a /.er. ^_^
If Novell wants to do well, they could look at the Microsoft model for the Windows Logo Program. "Designed to Run SuSE Linux". What a concept. The day machines are sold to Mom and Dad running Linux is the day when it can be a cash cow.
Then SGI dropped VRML support. VRML was dead; long live VRML. I walked immediately, not waiting to smell the rotting corpse.
I agree with you. I hate MS products, but this is business. MS defines each generation x86 PC through their logo program, and - guess what? - companies build equipment to that spec by their choice. And mods, it's not flamebait.
Hey, you know, if Novell was really smart, they'd call it Suzy Linux. It's so, you know, girly. Advertize it with a couple of girls in poodle skirts, but instead of poodles, have lizards. It would be soooo sweet!!!!!
This is the funniest thread I've ever seen on /., and I've been around for awhile. Oh, my BMI is 20.8.
The reviews for Aeon Flux are probably even worse than for The Matrix. Okay, it's an MTV movie, and so I expect it to be a little light on things. However, I still expected it to be good. The trailer looked interesting. I wasn't disappointed when seeing the movie.
The story was good with an interesting twist. The acting was okay to good overall, directing was good, editing was very good. Never was I bored in the movie.
I watched the movie last night, and enjoyed it. Today I still think it was a good movie.
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You have a fair perspective on this. I am in Mensa and have been for many years. My involvement is mostly with one of the Special Interest Groups, the Science Fiction and Fantasy SIG. I write short stories for the newsletter. There are roughly 50 people in the SIG.
Most of the people I know in Mensa are rabid ANTI-Bushites. My friends from the SIG are liberal and don't like him at all. One Mensan I know from the left coast who isn't in the SIG is libertarian/Republican and also thinks little of Bush. Personally I'm libertarian, but prefered Bush over Kerry.
Point is that classifying Mensans is probably as simple as classifying Slashdotters.
Here are a few shining examples: GNN; Virtual Places; Netscape; Nullsoft.
From my perspective as a user/customer, it's frustrating. These *were* thriving concerns and cool services at the time of acquisition by AOL.
From the perspective of an investor, I'd question the ability of AOL management to maintain a viable business. Their ability with acquisitions is almost criminal. Geez, they've even infected Time/Warner with their incompetence, though they've not killed it. Yet.
"Oh, let's buy this for a few hundred mil."
"Sure! What are we going to do with it?"
"Uh, 'do?'"
It's as if they don't even understand what they're doing.
How many players are going to choose to be female in the game if that sort of event is common?
That sounds like a challenge!
Let me see. I'm in a situation where someone is discriminating against me. Others like me are also a target of discrimination.
I have two choices: Accept it or fight back and get the others to fight back with me! If "legal" means won't work, we'll use force. It's a mainstay of humanity, like it or not. Look at history.
The neat thing about this is that here's a physically safe environment in which to simulate bad situations. You can whine that it isn't Hello Kitty Goes to Egypt, or you can take it as an adventure. It's your choice.
Life's tough. Get used to it.
Does this have anything to do with his age? At 63, having been fired, will he still be eligible for all of his retirement benefits?
Uh, when are the Olympics? Where are they being held? I just recently heard they were this year. As if I cared...
E's light, uncluttered, and gives me a clean work environment. I use gkrellm for monitoring, and I stay clear of "epplets" as they're not what I'd call great.
With KDE and Gnome, I need to conform to them. With E, it conforms to me.
I've been testing it since Monday May 10, and it seems to be okay. It is biased toward KDE, but one can fairly easily configure SuSE to be KDE- and GNOME-free, with Enlightenment as the WM.
One little item to note is that not all packages are recognized in YaST. I typically will generate a list of apps using the command:
to allow me to browse descriptions of the packages and see what files are included. (Understand this can be a very large file.) Notably when I wanted to install a couple of rippers, they did not appear through YaST. Hmmm... Installing them manually:worked just fine. They then appeared in YaST as having been installed. This is a trivial issue, but it is annoying.Bottom line is that SuSE 9.1 seems to be fine so far!
Yes!
I've read most all of the posts, including all of the -1s. You are right, Dr Rick.
At present I'm burning 3.0r2 ISOs to some CD-RWs to bring home. I grabbed them on Saturday using jigdo - a rather ingenious tool in concept and execution - for the purpose of Again Trying Debian. I was willing to do this, thinking (obviously incorrectly) that 3.1 would follow sometime later this year. After reading all of what has been posted, I'm not sure why I'm trying.
At present I'm using SuSE 8.2, have used RH from 4.1 thru 7.2. I even did a stint with Mandrake. I'm about to migrate to SuSE 9.1, but wanted to try Debian one more time.
I'd say what Debian is doing is laudable, but it amounts to playing an elaborate game (re: it doesn't mean anything). Unfortunately I've got real work to do. Such a shame it is...
...you'll be wide awake for it.
Sure.
However, SuSE - and Mandrake - make it easy, especially on the initial installation. With either, you can quit mid-install while saving to a file, and pick up again at a later time. You can't do that with Red Hat; likewise, my guess is you can't do it with Fedora, either. Red Hat coulda and shoulda, but didn'.
Fedora. I have real work to do. I don't care to be Red Hat's alpha test weenie. (I used RH starting with v4.1, and loved it thru 7.2. It was a damned good distro at the time.)
My minor complaint with 'Drake is that in my experience it didn't do fscking properly at startup. I'm sure I could have spent a little time remedying that, but I had other things to do.
Imnsho, if SuSE wasn't as good as it is, Mandrake would be my distro of choice.
SuSE is what RedHat could have been and what Mandrake should aspire to be.
Well, patch my systems and let the disk drives roll. Who'da thunk that being root on a system could present security risks?