man, you can really tell that you havent thought about the subject longer than the time it took you to remove a dingleberry from your asshole and eat it! "intellectual property" is just that, a bundle of rights in something (tangible or not, think stocks for example) the alotment of which your treat with mechanisms generally described as "property law" - too much legalese? well try this one: you reckon that "property" lives forever - thats crap, your rights are just carved out of a bigger bundle of rights and on your demise, your rights will either go back or (within limits) pass on to those you designated. if your rights in property lasted forever, the world would soon be left with nothing to be owned. so, in conclusion, IAAL and Id warmly recommend you read Locke or Honore
To reduce time in building these, there really should be a PVR/HTPC Distro.
Try DeMuDi, Debian Multimedia Distribution, currently at www.agnula.org (may be down)
And the Airport basestation works under Linux as well. There is a configurator etc here. The only problem is that parts of it (last time i checked) were closed source. Plus there can be problems with java and swing (help offer the debian people here ).
Its cheap, easy to setup und has good security features which can be viewed here .
I recently bought the laptop the article is about, if anyone is interested, here are my current thoughts: 1.) XP sucks. yea well I know thats obvious but it was pretty damn strange to see my laptop struggeling with a 100mbit/s network connection to keep writing the data to the disk. my 1.6ghz 256mb RAM was at 50% usage as an ftp client while the server barely made the 10% mark.
2.) to get debian on it is pretty damned hard but it looks like everything is working apart from hte modem. Infrared, USB, PCMCIA (hot swapable), network, Graphics, twinview, DVD/CD-RW, etc. graphics are sweet, unreal isnt stressing the thing to much even at full resolution etc.
3.)its a desktop replacement, make no mistake about it. you can knock a bull unconscious with it. its big but its good.
4.) dell service...nahhh, first wrong keybord then an unordered french one, then the right one, finally and you have to call up dell to build it in.
speedstep isnt supported under debian AFAIK but I am pretty sure the speedstep equivalent of the NV card is.
its a good laptop if you dont need to carry it around a lot. dell isnt exactly customer caring but at least the quality of the thing is good.
Here you can see a screenshot of Konqueror and tabs. surely looks neat...it is just odd though, that this feature is supposed to be in the current cvs but I cannot see it...
On that CNN page, there's a survey asking what you think your knowledge of science is. As of 9.30pm EST, 76% rated themseleves as either very good or excellent.
No, that just shows that the page got slashdotted by a bunch of geeks;-)
well crossover office from codeweavers cuts your list down to pretty much two things.
and you seriously want to use IE...can you say "fight clicking the popups"?...and it also runs under wine if you want to have the hassle of it crashing all the time
Now I do?t know about photoshop but gimp/ImageMagick do a good job for me.
so there, if you want to use all that, you can (just the question whether you'd really want to)
this is like ximian's redcarpet: although its nice and handy it kills you when you are on a dial up! Its good to be up to date but if there are daily notices like " You have to update vital system files, approx. 56mb" it just causes an instant:"Screw That!" reaction.
hmmm...i was noticing in your screenshots that one font problem is not yet fixed. If you check out the slashdot line under the logo (this page was made by yaddayaddayadda) you see that the (helvetica i presume) font still look really ugly even with antialiasing and stuff.
guess we gotta edit our XFree86-config again...
Slashdot Mirror
man, you can really tell that you havent thought about the subject longer than the time it took you to remove a dingleberry from your asshole and eat it!
"intellectual property" is just that, a bundle of rights in something (tangible or not, think stocks for example) the alotment of which your treat with mechanisms generally described as "property law" - too much legalese?
well try this one: you reckon that "property" lives forever - thats crap, your rights are just carved out of a bigger bundle of rights and on your demise, your rights will either go back or (within limits) pass on to those you designated. if your rights in property lasted forever, the world would soon be left with nothing to be owned.
so, in conclusion, IAAL and Id warmly recommend you read Locke or Honore
"Giving projects you wish to succeed names that invite misspelling isn't a very good idea."
/., is it?
so, like
Me:" Open the door, Computer"
Computer:" I'm afraid I cant let you do that Dave...:"
If they just stuck a seat on it everything would be different.
... car!!! now there's a novel idea
sounds similar to a
To reduce time in building these, there really should be a PVR/HTPC Distro.
Try DeMuDi, Debian Multimedia Distribution, currently at www.agnula.org (may be down)
well, that might cause a re-naming of debian's "non-US" section into a "non-US-non-SA"
how I hate to keep changing my sources.list...
And the Airport basestation works under Linux as well. There is a configurator etc here. The only problem is that parts of it (last time i checked) were closed source. Plus there can be problems with java and swing (help offer the debian people here ).
Its cheap, easy to setup und has good security features which can be viewed here .
nahh...they got their design wrong!
Re-design it and you'll have everyone at slashdot buying it!
The depressing thing is that you probably will get one granted
it can come with a Pentium 4 2.4 GHz "
and you can even fry eggs on it while its running...
I recently bought the laptop the article is about, if anyone is interested, here are my current thoughts:
1.) XP sucks. yea well I know thats obvious but it was pretty damn strange to see my laptop struggeling with a 100mbit/s network connection to keep writing the data to the disk. my 1.6ghz 256mb RAM was at 50% usage as an ftp client while the server barely made the 10% mark.
2.) to get debian on it is pretty damned hard but it looks like everything is working apart from hte modem. Infrared, USB, PCMCIA (hot swapable), network, Graphics, twinview, DVD/CD-RW, etc.
graphics are sweet, unreal isnt stressing the thing to much even at full resolution etc.
3.)its a desktop replacement, make no mistake about it. you can knock a bull unconscious with it. its big but its good.
4.) dell service...nahhh, first wrong keybord then an unordered french one, then the right one, finally and you have to call up dell to build it in.
speedstep isnt supported under debian AFAIK but I am pretty sure the speedstep equivalent of the NV card is.
its a good laptop if you dont need to carry it around a lot. dell isnt exactly customer caring but at least the quality of the thing is good.
The bug you are describing can also be caused by your windowmanager (esp. fluxbox)
"I've had it for 10 years now and I bought it used"
soo, was that your keeyboard they used in that study about keyboard hygene compared to toilets...
" For me, preventing pain in my hands and wrists is all about having the keyboard at exactly the right height."
you are right, but its also about right the amount of pr0n, too much is bad...
You can see Folder icons that reflect contents on the screenshot as well. Another neat feature...
Here you can see a screenshot of Konqueror and tabs. surely looks neat...it is just odd though, that this feature is supposed to be in the current cvs but I cannot see it...
If it comes to a second space race hopefully the NASA gets more funding so they don't have to buy their parts from ebay anymore!
since when is "Windows, & Office" ... "decent software"
D el...reboot...crash...
its certainly not software for lazy people though:
crash...Crtl-Alt-Del...reboot...crash...Crtl-Alt-
On that CNN page, there's a survey asking what you think your knowledge of science is. As of 9.30pm EST, 76% rated themseleves as either very good or excellent.
;-)
No, that just shows that the page got slashdotted by a bunch of geeks
Including the paperclip in the office suite (which looks sweet) would be incorporating the "Instant Anger Technology (tm)"
A reaction of a satisfied user can be seen here.
5 things: Word,
Excel,
Powerpoint,
IE,
Photoshop
well crossover office from codeweavers cuts your list down to pretty much two things.
and you seriously want to use IE...can you say "fight clicking the popups"?...and it also runs under wine if you want to have the hassle of it crashing all the time
Now I do?t know about photoshop but gimp/ImageMagick do a good job for me.
so there, if you want to use all that, you can (just the question whether you'd really want to)
...it reads "Media (Apple)"...d'uh
uhm....yeah but who streches rubberbands around donuts?
this is like ximian's redcarpet: although its nice and handy it kills you when you are on a dial up! :"Screw That!" reaction.
Its good to be up to date but if there are daily notices like " You have to update vital system files, approx. 56mb" it just causes an instant
hmmm...i was noticing in your screenshots that one font problem is not yet fixed. If you check out the slashdot line under the logo (this page was made by yaddayaddayadda) you see that the (helvetica i presume) font still look really ugly even with antialiasing and stuff.
guess we gotta edit our XFree86-config again...