PRESIDENT BUSH AGREES TO MORE INSPECTORS (AP) Washington DC 4:00 PM (EST),
President George Bush has made an announcement that we will not attack Iraq.
The President has announced that as of today, he is agreeing to additional inspectors to be deployed throughout the country of Iraq. We will be sending 250,000 additional inspectors into Iraq. The additional inspectors will include:
- 24,000 members of the 1st Infantry Division
- 15,000 members of the 101st Airborne Division (Air Assault)
- 15,000 members of the 82d Airborne Division
- More than 5,000 members of the 4th armored division with their "M1-A1 all-terrain vehicles"
- Additional U.S. Army personnel, as needed for inspections
- A variety of U.S. Air Force personnel for aerial recon missions and other "surveillance" activities.
- A significant number of United States Marines to aid with inspections
- United States Coast Guard personnel to inspect coastlines
- An undisclosed number of Rangers, Green Berets, Navy Seals, Recon Marines, Delta Force, and other:
- Special Operations personnel to inspect Iraqi "hide-aways"
- MOAB and Daisy-Cutter bunker access devices
- Special air deliveries to aid the inspections will be made by aircraft from the USS Constellation, USS George Washington, USS Abraham Lincoln and USS Enterprise.
_The President stated: "With these additional resources, the inspections should be completed in a few weeks (not months -- not years)."
they don't/have/ to. its just simply that most Linux users/do/. Mandrake is second easiset OS i have ever installed, behind BeOS DevEd 1.1. so that is not the barrier.
i agree. simple is good, but functional is more important. Now if only KDE had left the hardware info in the control center...i like having that one convenient button on my button panel rather than two
That is irrelevant to my post. my post, to paraphrase, is "this doesn't answer the real questions". Where SuSE is going has some bearing on the directions linux will go, but it doesn't answer the surrounding issues that are vital to what does end up actually happening.
irrelevant to you perhaps. It is ignorant to ignore the rest of the questions i have listed. Irrelevant to the interviewee perhaps as well. But overall, the OS market determines what the IT/MIS/CS crowd needs to know. Status Quo is not the end-all be-all, and never will be, even if linux were at 90% it would not stay there forever. It is not unreasonable to ask where ones industry is going.
ah. sounds like it has barely changed, in which case of course I back this man to the hilt in his opinion. I couldn't do a thing in GNOME. I know there are those who will cry out, 'RTFM!' but if i can use KDE and get my stuff done without trouble, I see no reason to RTFM for something else if I am happy where I am.
The truth of the matter is, linux users these days install it themselves. even if i recieved a preinstalled linux box, i would reinstall, repartition, etc. Plus everyone likes a different distro.
I will admit for used machines I am a bit more lax...I booted into a box i was given once with a floppy and changed the password for root, and kept running the Mandrake 5.1 install it had because he had done a beautiful job tweaking his samba settings. If they offered such services as good service tweaking etc. instead of a default install, I think they would see better results selling linux desktops.
I agree with you personally, GNOME is was crap last time I tried it. Confusing and an all around pain in the ass. However, I will grant that that was in Red Hat 7.1. It may have improved since then. However, now that my distro would require me to download and compile it to try it, i don't care to try it since I am quite pleased with KDE (and i am on a modem). It just goes to show how first impressions count.
I recall checking out in line at a supermarket, buying red beverages for a Vampire: The Masquerade game I was hosting at my house that night, discussing with my cohorts our plan to "kill Armstrong" that night, in full detail. I don't really think going into detail on what the results are are necessary, but it is safe to say that after our conference with the local police who were waiting outside, the government very likely has a file on me, and that I would have trouble getting a job in law enforcement were I to try as a result.
after all, it seems that companies are so fucking terrified by copyright violation that they resort to stupidity, such as calling other countries' copyright laws 'weak' when in fact american copyright law is simply too strong. So if the companies are to be believed, anyone who buys bootleg copies of something is a terrorist, and is therefore funding piracy out of russia, china, and so forth as stated by many a post. And you know what? if companies are terrified of this inappropriately-labelled "piracy", then I'll speak out in its favor. I for one am sick of companies, especially ones that screw the little guy both during production and at the cash register, getting away with it. Now these alleged 'pirates' need to figure out a way to make the companies either simply die to be replaced with more ethical versions, or to change their ways...seems pretty hopeless actually.
sounds pretty decent...if this works out i may just have to install it on a box and see how it goes. keep in mind the modem user, and make it continue downloads where they left off
"You beliefs are only more important if you are wealthy enough to be able to be jobless. Only wealthy people can afford to be idealistic."
As a counterpoint, however, some of the most important things of the past thousand years were done by people who took risks for their ideals. i.e. the American and French revolutions, the boston tea party, and countless others that I probably have never even heard of but are just as influential in parts of the world.
I wasn't familiar with urpmi at the time, and had been itching to try out slack anyway. Ended up landing on Gentoo for its dependency-coverage w/ custom compilation on Portage. I know, I know. A lot of people bitch when people bring up gentoo here on/. these days. but afer finding it, I don't think i can go back unless someone finds a way to make things even better than I have them now.
simple. because i had some experience with debian and was hoping that it wouldnt suck. it worked great on redhat 7.1 (which i also dumped in the end because I didn't really like the lack of updates on the apt servers once 7.2 came out), I must admit.
the mandrake control center was very handy for my laptop running 802.11b PCMCIA, and the install was very smooth on my ThinkPad. However, in the end, I still ended up switching over to a different distro simply because I wasn't happy with the package management. The defaults were giving me no end of trouble for my perl modules, and overall I felt i could get better performance out of a more customizable (from the outset, such as Core Linux or Gentoo) distro. So while I think they are fine for a great many users, Mandrake turned out not to be my thing in the end. Also, I recommend against Apt4RPM on mandrake...bad experience on my wifes desktop box with that.
free and supportless? not with Red Hat Advanced Server. It's apparently not available free and supportless. That's my big problem with it. It's no better than windows in that aspect...the only reason I like it better than a windows server is that it is more stable by being built upon linux.
could have somethign to do with your yahoo address... a lot of spiders seek only large providers such as yahoo and hotmail for spam addresses to avoid getting stuck in a fake address pool (a site designed to trap and waste the time of such spiders)
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we'll see. were it not an election year we mightve finished that shit off like we should have 10 years ago.
PRESIDENT BUSH AGREES TO MORE INSPECTORS (AP) Washington DC 4:00 PM (EST),
President George Bush has made an announcement that we will not attack Iraq.
The President has announced that as of today, he is agreeing to additional inspectors to be deployed throughout the country of Iraq. We will be sending 250,000 additional inspectors into Iraq. The additional inspectors will include:
- 24,000 members of the 1st Infantry Division
- 15,000 members of the 101st Airborne Division (Air Assault)
- 15,000 members of the 82d Airborne Division
- More than 5,000 members of the 4th armored division with their "M1-A1 all-terrain vehicles"
- Additional U.S. Army personnel, as needed for inspections
- A variety of U.S. Air Force personnel for aerial recon missions and other "surveillance" activities.
- A significant number of United States Marines to aid with inspections
- United States Coast Guard personnel to inspect coastlines
- An undisclosed number of Rangers, Green Berets, Navy Seals, Recon Marines, Delta Force, and other:
- Special Operations personnel to inspect Iraqi "hide-aways"
- MOAB and Daisy-Cutter bunker access devices
- Special air deliveries to aid the inspections will be made by aircraft from the USS Constellation, USS George Washington, USS Abraham Lincoln and USS Enterprise.
_The President stated: "With these additional resources, the inspections should be completed in a few weeks (not months -- not years)."
Imagine a beow...wait a minute...
they don't /have/ to. its just simply that most Linux users /do/. Mandrake is second easiset OS i have ever installed, behind BeOS DevEd 1.1. so that is not the barrier.
i agree. simple is good, but functional is more important. Now if only KDE had left the hardware info in the control center...i like having that one convenient button on my button panel rather than two
That is irrelevant to my post. my post, to paraphrase, is "this doesn't answer the real questions". Where SuSE is going has some bearing on the directions linux will go, but it doesn't answer the surrounding issues that are vital to what does end up actually happening.
that was some of the dumbest shit i have heard in a long time. Thanks for the laughs.
irrelevant to you perhaps. It is ignorant to ignore the rest of the questions i have listed. Irrelevant to the interviewee perhaps as well. But overall, the OS market determines what the IT/MIS/CS crowd needs to know. Status Quo is not the end-all be-all, and never will be, even if linux were at 90% it would not stay there forever. It is not unreasonable to ask where ones industry is going.
ah. sounds like it has barely changed, in which case of course I back this man to the hilt in his opinion. I couldn't do a thing in GNOME. I know there are those who will cry out, 'RTFM!' but if i can use KDE and get my stuff done without trouble, I see no reason to RTFM for something else if I am happy where I am.
The truth of the matter is, linux users these days install it themselves. even if i recieved a preinstalled linux box, i would reinstall, repartition, etc. Plus everyone likes a different distro.
I will admit for used machines I am a bit more lax...I booted into a box i was given once with a floppy and changed the password for root, and kept running the Mandrake 5.1 install it had because he had done a beautiful job tweaking his samba settings. If they offered such services as good service tweaking etc. instead of a default install, I think they would see better results selling linux desktops.
I agree with you personally, GNOME is was crap last time I tried it. Confusing and an all around pain in the ass. However, I will grant that that was in Red Hat 7.1. It may have improved since then. However, now that my distro would require me to download and compile it to try it, i don't care to try it since I am quite pleased with KDE (and i am on a modem). It just goes to show how first impressions count.
Will microsoft lose share, and where
Where will linux gain share
is this just counting paying users or just estimates for desktop users
does this anticipate growth in bsd and osx use as well
Will this kill Palladium's potential integration into hardware
can they foresee an end to the Microsoft Tax
I recall checking out in line at a supermarket, buying red beverages for a Vampire: The Masquerade game I was hosting at my house that night, discussing with my cohorts our plan to "kill Armstrong" that night, in full detail. I don't really think going into detail on what the results are are necessary, but it is safe to say that after our conference with the local police who were waiting outside, the government very likely has a file on me, and that I would have trouble getting a job in law enforcement were I to try as a result.
Lots and lots of stone. IF there is one thing history teaches us, its that buildings of anything but stone suck for longevity.
In SOVIET RUSSIA, Terrorism funds piracy!
after all, it seems that companies are so fucking terrified by copyright violation that they resort to stupidity, such as calling other countries' copyright laws 'weak' when in fact american copyright law is simply too strong. So if the companies are to be believed, anyone who buys bootleg copies of something is a terrorist, and is therefore funding piracy out of russia, china, and so forth as stated by many a post. And you know what? if companies are terrified of this inappropriately-labelled "piracy", then I'll speak out in its favor. I for one am sick of companies, especially ones that screw the little guy both during production and at the cash register, getting away with it. Now these alleged 'pirates' need to figure out a way to make the companies either simply die to be replaced with more ethical versions, or to change their ways...seems pretty hopeless actually.
sounds pretty decent...if this works out i may just have to install it on a box and see how it goes. keep in mind the modem user, and make it continue downloads where they left off
sounds like Portage would be a great starting point for this project
"You beliefs are only more important if you are wealthy enough to be able to be jobless. Only wealthy people can afford to be idealistic."
As a counterpoint, however, some of the most important things of the past thousand years were done by people who took risks for their ideals. i.e. the American and French revolutions, the boston tea party, and countless others that I probably have never even heard of but are just as influential in parts of the world.
A true geek's geek can make out with a girlfriend while you each compile a kernel. now that's talent!
cool...she'll be glad you did.
I wasn't familiar with urpmi at the time, and had been itching to try out slack anyway. Ended up landing on Gentoo for its dependency-coverage w/ custom compilation on Portage. I know, I know. A lot of people bitch when people bring up gentoo here on /. these days. but afer finding it, I don't think i can go back unless someone finds a way to make things even better than I have them now.
simple. because i had some experience with debian and was hoping that it wouldnt suck. it worked great on redhat 7.1 (which i also dumped in the end because I didn't really like the lack of updates on the apt servers once 7.2 came out), I must admit.
the mandrake control center was very handy for my laptop running 802.11b PCMCIA, and the install was very smooth on my ThinkPad. However, in the end, I still ended up switching over to a different distro simply because I wasn't happy with the package management. The defaults were giving me no end of trouble for my perl modules, and overall I felt i could get better performance out of a more customizable (from the outset, such as Core Linux or Gentoo) distro. So while I think they are fine for a great many users, Mandrake turned out not to be my thing in the end. Also, I recommend against Apt4RPM on mandrake...bad experience on my wifes desktop box with that.
free and supportless? not with Red Hat Advanced Server. It's apparently not available free and supportless. That's my big problem with it. It's no better than windows in that aspect...the only reason I like it better than a windows server is that it is more stable by being built upon linux.
could have somethign to do with your yahoo address... a lot of spiders seek only large providers such as yahoo and hotmail for spam addresses to avoid getting stuck in a fake address pool (a site designed to trap and waste the time of such spiders)