MandrakeUpdate doesn't handle dependencies very well at all. I tried the new version tonight, and if you download a package and try to install it without the proper dependencies, it gives you two choices: (1) force the installation of all of the packages, or (2) quit and and install nothing (not even the packages that had no problems). Then it core dumps. That's a long way from apt-get, as I understand it.
in designing a personal computer? Has anyone before or since used a supercomputer to aid in PC design? I've heard that story before, but it sounds like an urban geek legend.
The one time I tried to install XF4.0, Windowmaker stopped working (been so long I can't remember exactly why). Has anyone gotten them to work together?
Further proof that Gates will spew forth absolutely any lie that suits his purposes. As we all know, what makes virus outbreaks like this possible is (1) the unbelievably shoddy security of Microsoft products, and (2) the fact that those products constitute 90% of the market. It's kinda like the potato monoculture of nineteenth-century Ireland that got wiped out by a single form of blight, causing incredible starvation.
I can't wait until Microsoft is broken into tiny little pieces. Only problem is that Gates is still going to come out of this a billionaire, unless the private antitrust litigants tear him apart. Which might happen.
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Remember when some dillweed bought "business.com" for US$7,500,000? Whatever happened to that mental giant?
I was a long-time OS/2 adherent, suffering along with everyone else while Microsoft ran rampant and OS/2 withered, until about Fixpak 9. It made my system so incredibly unstable that I pointed my browser at www.redhat.com and haven't looked back since. (And Warp 4 was pretty bloated.)
Yes, there were a few pangs of guilt about abandoning OS/2, and yes, I still have an OS/2 partition on my box (I need it to run Quicken, but I'm glad I made the switch.
Just face it: OS/2 is declining, Linux is exploding. With OS/2, you're at IBM's total mercy because it's closed-source. You can only wait for IBM to dole out updates when it pleases them. How can you stand it?
No matter what the header says, in substance, Slashdot is a discussion forum. People send in topics they think will be of interest, and we discuss them. This isn't much of a news forum because (1) it's way too selective, there's a lot of nerdnews that doesn't get posted because it's not interesting enough, (2) a lot of the stuff is months old or isn't news for other reasons (interviews, opinion pieces, Katz, "I found this real neat Lego site," "I have something more to say about Star Wars," etc). (Compare Slashdot to the Register, which is a real news site.) I'm not saying it's a bad thing, I'm saying what matters is not what is newsworthy, but what is discussion worthy, which development kernel releases are (IMHO).
...we're all anxiously awaiting 2.4. Every devel kernel release is getting us closer. It's like a countdown. And there's often something about the release that merits discussion (like devfs in this release). Slashdot is really a discussion forum, it's not a news forum.
LinuxToday says that Microshaft and Caldera have settled. The terms are confidential, but Microshaft will take a charge of $0.03 this quarter. With 5.17 billion shares outstanding, that works out to $155.1 million.
If breaking up MS would be such a good idea for MS, MS would have thought of it by now, and would have spun itself off into seperate divisions. Putting that another way, the reason MS is still one company is because they think staying as one company will maximize its share price.
... is that the banks buy those things in bulk, and they tend to use the same components in all their machines. It doesn't make sense for them to go out of their way to buy a non-braille keypad for drive up use.
I think that pudgy penguin is getting a bit old... I'm all for the green glowing mammoth! Much more likely to achieve world domination than some fish-munching flightless bird!
Why not just get the Cheap Bytes CD-ROM for $3, or $6, or whatever they are charging, and donate $20 to the FSF? Same result, more money for the good guys.
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MandrakeUpdate doesn't handle dependencies very well at all. I tried the new version tonight, and if you download a package and try to install it without the proper dependencies, it gives you two choices: (1) force the installation of all of the packages, or (2) quit and and install nothing (not even the packages that had no problems). Then it core dumps. That's a long way from apt-get, as I understand it.
in designing a personal computer? Has anyone before or since used a supercomputer to aid in PC design? I've heard that story before, but it sounds like an urban geek legend.
Then try one of my monkeys. They're milder.
Lyra is not the swan. Cygnus is the swan. Lyra is the lyre.
May I ask, what version of Windowmaker? (I'd email you, but you don't have an email address set up.)
The one time I tried to install XF4.0, Windowmaker stopped working (been so long I can't remember exactly why). Has anyone gotten them to work together?
Further proof that Gates will spew forth absolutely any lie that suits his purposes. As we all know, what makes virus outbreaks like this possible is (1) the unbelievably shoddy security of Microsoft products, and (2) the fact that those products constitute 90% of the market. It's kinda like the potato monoculture of nineteenth-century Ireland that got wiped out by a single form of blight, causing incredible starvation.
I can't wait until Microsoft is broken into tiny little pieces. Only problem is that Gates is still going to come out of this a billionaire, unless the private antitrust litigants tear him apart. Which might happen.
Remember when some dillweed bought "business.com" for US$7,500,000? Whatever happened to that mental giant?
Don't you be terrorfied...
It's just a token of my extreme.
Don't you ever try to look behind my eyes,
You don't wanna know what they have seen.
As long as we're talking about bad movies, you can't leave out 200 Motels. I'm a Zappatista and all, but boy does that movie blow.
I have an AMD K2 233 that I have to run at 200 to keep my system from crashing. Am I part of some counterculture too?
I was a long-time OS/2 adherent, suffering along with everyone else while Microsoft ran rampant and OS/2 withered, until about Fixpak 9. It made my system so incredibly unstable that I pointed my browser at www.redhat.com and haven't looked back since. (And Warp 4 was pretty bloated.)
Yes, there were a few pangs of guilt about abandoning OS/2, and yes, I still have an OS/2 partition on my box (I need it to run Quicken, but I'm glad I made the switch.
Just face it: OS/2 is declining, Linux is exploding. With OS/2, you're at IBM's total mercy because it's closed-source. You can only wait for IBM to dole out updates when it pleases them. How can you stand it?
I say we crash Galileo into Europa! Show those European fuckers we mean bizniz!
No matter what the header says, in substance, Slashdot is a discussion forum. People send in topics they think will be of interest, and we discuss them. This isn't much of a news forum because (1) it's way too selective, there's a lot of nerdnews that doesn't get posted because it's not interesting enough, (2) a lot of the stuff is months old or isn't news for other reasons (interviews, opinion pieces, Katz, "I found this real neat Lego site," "I have something more to say about Star Wars," etc). (Compare Slashdot to the Register, which is a real news site.) I'm not saying it's a bad thing, I'm saying what matters is not what is newsworthy, but what is discussion worthy, which development kernel releases are (IMHO).
...we're all anxiously awaiting 2.4. Every devel kernel release is getting us closer. It's like a countdown. And there's often something about the release that merits discussion (like devfs in this release). Slashdot is really a discussion forum, it's not a news forum.
Shut up, Eccles!
"As soon as Torvalds gets back to his home state of California, he will release the preliminary production versions of 2.4, he said."
Uh, Abe Lincoln was a Republican, dude. Maybe you're thinking of Jimmy Carter?
LinuxToday says that Microshaft and Caldera have settled. The terms are confidential, but Microshaft will take a charge of $0.03 this quarter. With 5.17 billion shares outstanding, that works out to $155.1 million.
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If breaking up MS would be such a good idea for MS, MS would have thought of it by now, and would have spun itself off into seperate divisions. Putting that another way, the reason MS is still one company is because they think staying as one company will maximize its share price.
... is that the banks buy those things in bulk, and they tend to use the same components in all their machines. It doesn't make sense for them to go out of their way to buy a non-braille keypad for drive up use.
I think that pudgy penguin is getting a bit old... I'm all for the green glowing mammoth! Much more likely to achieve world domination than some fish-munching flightless bird!
Why not just get the Cheap Bytes CD-ROM for $3, or $6, or whatever they are charging, and donate $20 to the FSF? Same result, more money for the good guys.
Are there any websites or the like on the Web that
demonstrate this kind of interactivity? Something
like Eliza, but better (I would assume)?
Congressional aides are usually in their twenties.