But GAG is limited to just 9 OSes. I've got 10 just from different kernels and another 5 for the different versions of Windows. What happens if I want to try another Linux distro, that's going to add 10 more right there.
GAG just isn't up to the test. I prefer GRUB although it can be a little touchy.
You really should look into using virtual desktops. They help a lot with keeping screen clutter down.
The current GIMP interface is fine. I actually liked the 1.x way better.
I use to use Photoshop before I started using Linux on the desktop. Best move I ever made. The GIMP is much more intutive and it makes some really complex tasks in Photoshop just simple and easy. Now that there is CMYK support, the GIMP is the only application you need for graphic work.
Which, in a dangerous city like NYC, with regular crime, fires, blackouts, planebombs, and the highest level of terrorist activity/risk in the USA, is an unacceptable risk.
You know NYC wouldn't be half as dangerous if they allowed law-abiding citizens to have a gun. Besides if people don't want 911 to be able to find them, that is their problem, not yours.
This whole E911 thing is a bunch of BS. The first thing 911 asks you anyway is "What is your Location" So there isn't any need for this you must register crap.
Your company will never thank you for all of the hard work you put in. They will never recognize you for your talents.
Actually your company does thank you. Every time they give you the pay check. They recognize you for your talents too, otherwise they wouldn't have hired you or keep you.
It is very difficult to improve working conditions. When I worked in a startup near the end of the dotcom bust, our biggest problem was finding office space. Up until the very last minute it looked like we were going to be stuck with part of a rundown converted townhouse. We lucked out that our primary investor had another startup which had just fired 100 employees and we moved into the space.
Did your RTFA? You cannot use Linux without paying a fee to this weird corporation Linus set up.
Everything with the word Linux in it must pay a fee. All of these Linux distros are now going to have to cough up the money and we're going to have to pay for that.
Slackware, Debian, Gentoo, Ubuntu, Suse, Fedora, or any of the other of thousands of distros without linux in the name?
Nope.
Slackware - first line of their webiste says "The Slackware Linux Project"
Debian - The 2nd line of their says "Debian GNU/Linux provides more than a pure OS"
Gentoo - First line of their website "We produce Gentoo Linux, a special flavor of Linux"
Ubuntu - Their website IS "ubuntulinux.org"
Suse - First line of their website says "SUSE LINUX Professional 9.3"
Fedora - Ok you've got me here. No where on their site can I find the word Linux in their name. However Red Hat's treatment of CentOS should be enough of a worry to not use something they fully sponor and use for alpha testing of Red Hat Enterprise Linux.
However, once the 10 million hours of free* Internet access expire, I expect very few will pony up the $21.95 or whatever the hell they're charging for "special" Internet today.
They will b/c they are lazy. My mother hapily renewed b/c the salesman on the cancelation line convinced her to stay. By that point all of her friends knew her AOL address. She was too scared to changed. How would her friends reach her? What about all that great content? She was worried that a new ISP might break her computer. She didn't even know there were other ISPs. It took 3 more months for me to nag her before she moved to cheaper ISP and she only switched b/c I refused to accept email from AOL.
Even now I worry she'll fall for the ploy - "we're still holding on to your screen name, come back now or someone else will get it."
This is just outrageous. If you read the groklaw article this is pretty serious move in the wrong direction. I cannot believe even they are trying to justify these actions.
It is a dark day in the history of Linux.
First RedHat now Linus and groklaw. Who's next to be corrupted by this?
Where can I turn for a free OS? Obviously anything with Linux in the title out.
I checked out FreeOS but most of their stuff is Linux or some very arcane OS.
I'm fast running out of hope. Where can I turn now?
And just like any other so-called "smart" gun technology, what does your girlfriend do when she's home alone and must use your gun to defend her self from the home invaders? If it won't fire unless you're holding it, your girlfriend just has an expensive brick or rock in her hand. Guess she'll just need to lie down and enjoy whatever they do to her.
Has anyone looked at how google covers the White House and Treasury Dept? You can tell the size and shape of the buildings just fine.
Besides these photos are all a matter of public record (or else Google wouldn't have them).
Well, ok, maybe I exagerated, but you get the point.
No you didn't exagerate and the trend continues beyond childhood. Even when I went to college, the Physics, Chemistry, and other hard science classes were 80-90% Chinese. The grad classes were closer to 100%. I stopped with a BS in Physics b/c I didn't want to learn Chinese just to be able to converse with my class mates (I also got a cushy government job right after college).
Face it folks, we've lost the education battle. Our only hope is that these Chinese folks decide they like the US better than their home country and stay here. If they current war on freedom is successful, they won't have any reason to choose us over their homeland. Both will be just as repressive.
On a serious note, this is probably one of the few times when government should start meddling in the affairs of private enterprise
No no no. The problem is Telus has been given government permission to be a regional monopoly. If the government would get out of the way and allow competitors to spring up, people could switch to an ISP that doesn't do stupid things like this.
The parent post sounds as if it were meant to be scarcasm. However the best solution would be to shut down the public school system and repealed these child labor laws.
We all know a public school diploma isn't worth the paper it is printed on. It would be better if these kids either went off to private school or if they couldn't afford that to start getting some job skills by getting a job.
If a DJ accepts a direct payment when his employment contract forbids it, that's breach of contract.
If a radio station advertises that they don't accept payola, but they do, that's fraud.
But if a radio station wants to make a strait-up pay-for-play deal with a record producer, why should the government care? If it really bothers listeners, a competitor can lure those listeners away by promising not to.
There is the really lame argument that the airwaves are a public trust, but that just means the government was dumb enough not to auction them to the highest bidder.
There is the only slightly less lame argument that music should compete on quality alone. But if the listeners don't care, and somebody has to be the popular band, why not the one that pays the most money?
Finally someone who actually gets it. There is nothing wrong with payola. If you don't like what the station plays, listen to another.
But none of these reports tell us how they figured out how many searches were being performed? Did google and yahoo provide their weblogs? Were they even asked. What's to keep them from inserting extra data into these logs?
Come on people, someone tell me how to get this information.
This is outrageous, why is slashdot legitimizing the use of data collected with spyware?
Almost as troubling is how could a respected firm use such data. BearStearns should be ashamed of themselves.
Use their contact form to let them know that using spyware data in their studies comprimisizes not only the study's results but the reputation of the company. In a business where reputation is everything (just look at how no one who use to be employed by the corrupt AutherAnderson can get a job), they should be a lot more careful.
regex: foo is going to match any page with "foo" in it. The more foo appears on the page the higher it will end up in the search results. It will be worse than whatever search alogrithim google is using now.
Come to think of it, maybe this is what google is doing already. When I was looking for the effect of microwaves on the naked body, I got some very intersting pages by searching for "naked microwave"
For a long time people have talked about getting browser support for multilink feature.
I'd like to know who these people are. This is the first time I've heard of this multilink crap.
What the guy has done, is just create one of those JavaScript menus. He didn't even do a good job of it. Just google for JavaScript menu and you'll find a number that work in all the major and most minor browsers.
What are the/. editors smoking?!? It is time for new editors. Dup posts, pod slurping, what's next?
Maintaining Unix: 0. Maintaining Windows: it's an endless pain in the butt (patching, running Norton, de-spyware-ing, de-virusing, renewing licenses, etc etc...)
I hope that means you're not running any services connected to the Internet. I'm sure a number of script kiddies would love to have your IP address. Linux needs to be patched just like any other OS. It just is done in a better more open and faster way than the MS way.
I disagree with item 1 as well. The last three installs I did, took about the same time as the last three WinXP installs.
I do agree with item 2, but that's only b/c Linux is so much more customizable. If I tried on Windows to do half the stuff I do on Linix I'd quickly discover that it wasn't possible or would cost me an arm and a leg.
Yes the short story is better.
The novel was ok but it felt like Silverberg just took Asimov's idea and wrote a novel based on it. Find a copy of the short story. You'll enjoy it as it is 100% pure Asimov and no awful Silverberg.
It may have been intended to be a cheesy SatAM cartoon to sell toys, but it turned out to be one of the best shows ever. Put it up side-by-side with most of the crap that is on TV now (even the shows for adults) and you'll see the writting is better, the plot is better, and you actually care about the characters.
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But GAG is limited to just 9 OSes. I've got 10 just from different kernels and another 5 for the different versions of Windows. What happens if I want to try another Linux distro, that's going to add 10 more right there.
GAG just isn't up to the test. I prefer GRUB although it can be a little touchy.
You really should look into using virtual desktops. They help a lot with keeping screen clutter down.
The current GIMP interface is fine. I actually liked the 1.x way better.
I use to use Photoshop before I started using Linux on the desktop. Best move I ever made. The GIMP is much more intutive and it makes some really complex tasks in Photoshop just simple and easy. Now that there is CMYK support, the GIMP is the only application you need for graphic work.
This whole E911 thing is a bunch of BS. The first thing 911 asks you anyway is "What is your Location" So there isn't any need for this you must register crap.
I guess my spam isn't coming from this guy.
Instead of going down, it is going up.
Past three days: 276, 399, 512. This is down from the 1000+ a day, I was getting. That was before I implemented new spam fighting techniques.
It is very difficult to improve working conditions.
When I worked in a startup near the end of the dotcom bust, our biggest problem was finding office space. Up until the very last minute it looked like we were going to be stuck with part of a rundown converted townhouse. We lucked out that our primary investor had another startup which had just fired 100 employees and we moved into the space.
Did your RTFA? You cannot use Linux without paying a fee to this weird corporation Linus set up.
Everything with the word Linux in it must pay a fee. All of these Linux distros are now going to have to cough up the money and we're going to have to pay for that.
This is outrageous.
Slackware - first line of their webiste says "The Slackware Linux Project"
Debian - The 2nd line of their says "Debian GNU/Linux provides more than a pure OS"
Gentoo - First line of their website "We produce Gentoo Linux, a special flavor of Linux"
Ubuntu - Their website IS "ubuntulinux.org"
Suse - First line of their website says "SUSE LINUX Professional 9.3"
Fedora - Ok you've got me here. No where on their site can I find the word Linux in their name. However Red Hat's treatment of CentOS should be enough of a worry to not use something they fully sponor and use for alpha testing of Red Hat Enterprise Linux.
So we're still without a free OS again.
They will b/c they are lazy. My mother hapily renewed b/c the salesman on the cancelation line convinced her to stay. By that point all of her friends knew her AOL address. She was too scared to changed. How would her friends reach her? What about all that great content? She was worried that a new ISP might break her computer. She didn't even know there were other ISPs. It took 3 more months for me to nag her before she moved to cheaper ISP and she only switched b/c I refused to accept email from AOL.
Even now I worry she'll fall for the ploy - "we're still holding on to your screen name, come back now or someone else will get it."
AOL is just scum.
This is just outrageous. If you read the groklaw article this is pretty serious move in the wrong direction. I cannot believe even they are trying to justify these actions.
It is a dark day in the history of Linux.
First RedHat now Linus and groklaw. Who's next to be corrupted by this?
Where can I turn for a free OS? Obviously anything with Linux in the title out.
I checked out FreeOS but most of their stuff is Linux or some very arcane OS.
I'm fast running out of hope. Where can I turn now?
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and here are some videos:
Video Report (7:25AM)
Video Report (Noon News)
Video Report (4pm News) (2:45)
Video Report (5pm News)
Slide Show (NBC12)
Slide Show (Times-Dispatch)
And just like any other so-called "smart" gun technology, what does your girlfriend do when she's home alone and must use your gun to defend her self from the home invaders? If it won't fire unless you're holding it, your girlfriend just has an expensive brick or rock in her hand. Guess she'll just need to lie down and enjoy whatever they do to her.
Almost Always?!?
Ya know the submitter mentioned that it even runs under WINE.
Has anyone looked at how google covers the White House and Treasury Dept? You can tell the size and shape of the buildings just fine. Besides these photos are all a matter of public record (or else Google wouldn't have them).
No you didn't exagerate and the trend continues beyond childhood. Even when I went to college, the Physics, Chemistry, and other hard science classes were 80-90% Chinese. The grad classes were closer to 100%. I stopped with a BS in Physics b/c I didn't want to learn Chinese just to be able to converse with my class mates (I also got a cushy government job right after college).
Face it folks, we've lost the education battle. Our only hope is that these Chinese folks decide they like the US better than their home country and stay here. If they current war on freedom is successful, they won't have any reason to choose us over their homeland. Both will be just as repressive.
The parent post sounds as if it were meant to be scarcasm. However the best solution would be to shut down the public school system and repealed these child labor laws. We all know a public school diploma isn't worth the paper it is printed on. It would be better if these kids either went off to private school or if they couldn't afford that to start getting some job skills by getting a job.
But none of these reports tell us how they figured out how many searches were being performed? Did google and yahoo provide their weblogs? Were they even asked. What's to keep them from inserting extra data into these logs? Come on people, someone tell me how to get this information.
This is outrageous, why is slashdot legitimizing the use of data collected with spyware?
Almost as troubling is how could a respected firm use such data. BearStearns should be ashamed of themselves.
Use their contact form to let them know that using spyware data in their studies comprimisizes not only the study's results but the reputation of the company. In a business where reputation is everything (just look at how no one who use to be employed by the corrupt AutherAnderson can get a job), they should be a lot more careful.
I don't think a regex search will help.
regex: foo is going to match any page with "foo" in it. The more foo appears on the page the higher it will end up in the search results. It will be worse than whatever search alogrithim google is using now.
Come to think of it, maybe this is what google is doing already. When I was looking for the effect of microwaves on the naked body, I got some very intersting pages by searching for "naked microwave"
What the guy has done, is just create one of those JavaScript menus. He didn't even do a good job of it. Just google for JavaScript menu and you'll find a number that work in all the major and most minor browsers.
What are the /. editors smoking?!? It is time for new editors. Dup posts, pod slurping, what's next?
I hope that means you're not running any services connected to the Internet. I'm sure a number of script kiddies would love to have your IP address. Linux needs to be patched just like any other OS. It just is done in a better more open and faster way than the MS way.
I disagree with item 1 as well. The last three installs I did, took about the same time as the last three WinXP installs.
I do agree with item 2, but that's only b/c Linux is so much more customizable. If I tried on Windows to do half the stuff I do on Linix I'd quickly discover that it wasn't possible or would cost me an arm and a leg.
Yes the short story is better. The novel was ok but it felt like Silverberg just took Asimov's idea and wrote a novel based on it. Find a copy of the short story. You'll enjoy it as it is 100% pure Asimov and no awful Silverberg.
It may have been intended to be a cheesy SatAM cartoon to sell toys, but it turned out to be one of the best shows ever. Put it up side-by-side with most of the crap that is on TV now (even the shows for adults) and you'll see the writting is better, the plot is better, and you actually care about the characters.