No it's not a good thing Windows does. You learn the multiple ways, and then when you want to do something you spend a few milliseconds thinking about which way to do it, and you don't always reach the same conclusion. By comparison, if there were only one way, you would learn it and you would be done with it. This approach is much cleaner in my opinion.
This would have been such a sweet deal for some attorney to do as pro-bono. In one swing, you cast lawyers as not all bad in the public's eye and you can make a name for yourself. After all, how could the mom be held responsible for the child's actions (if a kid steals his dad's gun and shoots someone, the dad doesn't go to jail), and the child probably couldn't be sued because she is under 18. They shouldn't have even been allowed to track her because she is a minor.
Wasted opportunity I say, although they did settle rather quickly.
Here's an idea I've had, but I don't know how legal it would be. Say someone creates a website, he buys a whole bunch of CD's and lets one user "check out" a CD for the duration (i.e. streams it to only one person), when he is done the CD will be available for someone else to check out. The site could also have multiple copies to satisfy demand, but no more than one person would be listening at one time. Of course, one could save the stream using some tools, but that would be against the TOS. I wonder if this would be legal. You could charge for bandwidth, and people could send in their CD's in order to be allowed to check out. I bet it would be a great system if it had a large following.
Her claims are shallow, even if the RIAA has gone ape nuts. She claims the RIAA has no rights to search her hard drive for files, yet she makes them publicly available for downloading???
I hated the icons (so 1990), I know it's pretty bad to judge software solely on icons, but can't they find some better ones. At the very lest it will get people itchy to try their software because it will *look* more polished.
You're missing two important points: 1) No one is saying that choice should be taken way, but rather the default choice should be the same across the board 2)No one should care about battling Microsoft on the desktop per se, but unless you get uniformity, you won't get commercial developers and normal users, if you don't get users you won't get hardware support (do you like to use cheap scanners, digital cameras, printers, etc.) because hardware manufacturers don't give a crap about small markets.
Yes, but not at the distro level. It would have to start at the window manager or X level so that all distro's *could* have the same look if one so chose.
Why couldn't all the different toolkit, window manager, desktop environments come up with a single look to the widgets (skin) that they could all support? I realize that it is a big task, but we could still have the choice many loathe to give up, and gain the uniform look the rest of us crave.
Eolas leaves free browsers alone as they can't make any money off of them (good thing Mozilla was spun off into a free foundation), and Microsoft revises their browser and in the process makes it more secure (by getting rid of the damn Active X crap).
Something clean for a change. I hate the clutter most Linux distros have. And if it looks like Windows, well maybe it's because the windows design works because of itself, not in spite of itself.
Funny you should mention that, I saw the story on/. and I figured this time it was worth the update (someone mentioned that something like winnuke would appear and that did it).
I do a ghost of my partition and I install all the critical updates. Soon after my computer starts to lock up, so I restore the image and the computer is back to normal. After doing the same tango a couple of times, I decide that the RPC patch is most imp't so I only get that one. Lucky my computer didn't lock up or I would have reverted to the unpatched state.
You can't really get all the patches MS dishes out.
Seemed to me like *ALL* the women of Afghanistan were terrorized by the Taliban. Do you have to be an international terrorist to be called a terrorist??? They were far from an official government. They were just a bunch of thugs who were in control of a (big?) part of Afghanistan.
I have an ATI Xpert 2000 Pro. I do have a USB Logitech mouse, but like you I am using the PS2 adapter. I haven't noticed a downside to downgrading, and the only difference I could see was that it was compiled with the option --with-curses.
I've only been using Slack since 8.0 but I really enjoy it as a distro. Many thanks to Patrick!!!
The only problem that I have found so far has been with gpm. When exiting out of X the mouse behaves erratically. This happens in the versions included in 8.1 and 9.0 so I just downgrade to the 8.0 one.
But it is a great help that Zeta is the true and only direct BeOS descentant, so they are currently years ahead in development than the other teams who try to reproduce the BeOS, like OpenBeOS, B.E.O.S, BeFree and Cosmoe.
Damn! Just how many BeOS clones are there out there in development???
Also, what's up with adding Zeta all over the place. Most people who will buy this are familiar with the name BeOS. Does Palm own the trademark?
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No it's not a good thing Windows does. You learn the multiple ways, and then when you want to do something you spend a few milliseconds thinking about which way to do it, and you don't always reach the same conclusion. By comparison, if there were only one way, you would learn it and you would be done with it. This approach is much cleaner in my opinion.
This would have been such a sweet deal for some attorney to do as pro-bono. In one swing, you cast lawyers as not all bad in the public's eye and you can make a name for yourself. After all, how could the mom be held responsible for the child's actions (if a kid steals his dad's gun and shoots someone, the dad doesn't go to jail), and the child probably couldn't be sued because she is under 18. They shouldn't have even been allowed to track her because she is a minor.
Wasted opportunity I say, although they did settle rather quickly.
Here's an idea I've had, but I don't know how legal it would be. Say someone creates a website, he buys a whole bunch of CD's and lets one user "check out" a CD for the duration (i.e. streams it to only one person), when he is done the CD will be available for someone else to check out. The site could also have multiple copies to satisfy demand, but no more than one person would be listening at one time. Of course, one could save the stream using some tools, but that would be against the TOS. I wonder if this would be legal. You could charge for bandwidth, and people could send in their CD's in order to be allowed to check out. I bet it would be a great system if it had a large following.
Found this link in the Release Notes that may be of help in that regard: http://texturizer.net/thunderbird/faq.html#2.2
Her claims are shallow, even if the RIAA has gone ape nuts. She claims the RIAA has no rights to search her hard drive for files, yet she makes them publicly available for downloading???
I hated the icons (so 1990), I know it's pretty bad to judge software solely on icons, but can't they find some better ones. At the very lest it will get people itchy to try their software because it will *look* more polished.
You're missing two important points: 1) No one is saying that choice should be taken way, but rather the default choice should be the same across the board 2)No one should care about battling Microsoft on the desktop per se, but unless you get uniformity, you won't get commercial developers and normal users, if you don't get users you won't get hardware support (do you like to use cheap scanners, digital cameras, printers, etc.) because hardware manufacturers don't give a crap about small markets.
Yes, but not at the distro level. It would have to start at the window manager or X level so that all distro's *could* have the same look if one so chose.
Why couldn't all the different toolkit, window manager, desktop environments come up with a single look to the widgets (skin) that they could all support? I realize that it is a big task, but we could still have the choice many loathe to give up, and gain the uniform look the rest of us crave.
Eolas leaves free browsers alone as they can't make any money off of them (good thing Mozilla was spun off into a free foundation), and Microsoft revises their browser and in the process makes it more secure (by getting rid of the damn Active X crap).
Wishful thinking? Well, yeah, that's what I said.
Al, is that you: "Where'd you get your CPU, in a box of Cracker Jacks?"
Something clean for a change. I hate the clutter most Linux distros have. And if it looks like Windows, well maybe it's because the windows design works because of itself, not in spite of itself.
I usually do a sort of incremental backup of my files. Now I would have to go through all of them and re-back them up.
On the other hand, the RIAA must be smiling. Here goes my backed up mp3 collection.
Funny you should mention that, I saw the story on /. and I figured this time it was worth the update (someone mentioned that something like winnuke would appear and that did it).
I do a ghost of my partition and I install all the critical updates. Soon after my computer starts to lock up, so I restore the image and the computer is back to normal. After doing the same tango a couple of times, I decide that the RPC patch is most imp't so I only get that one. Lucky my computer didn't lock up or I would have reverted to the unpatched state.
You can't really get all the patches MS dishes out.
Seemed to me like *ALL* the women of Afghanistan were terrorized by the Taliban. Do you have to be an international terrorist to be called a terrorist??? They were far from an official government. They were just a bunch of thugs who were in control of a (big?) part of Afghanistan.
Damn, I just bought this book on the 15th. Time to find that receipt. I wonder how long it will take them to realease the 2.3 edition.
I have an ATI Xpert 2000 Pro. I do have a USB Logitech mouse, but like you I am using the PS2 adapter. I haven't noticed a downside to downgrading, and the only difference I could see was that it was compiled with the option --with-curses.
I've only been using Slack since 8.0 but I really enjoy it as a distro. Many thanks to Patrick!!! The only problem that I have found so far has been with gpm. When exiting out of X the mouse behaves erratically. This happens in the versions included in 8.1 and 9.0 so I just downgrade to the 8.0 one.
Hey that site gave me a 76% preference for Al Sharpton. There is no way I am trusting those results.
If nothing else, it would save us from all the ridiculous regexp's when trying to associate Linux with Unix.
Or I don't feel like being a sadistic bastard and simply tell them I am not interested
You must make sure you've also set the jumper correctly or you could leave it on CS