I have to agree. I've been using Gentoo for about a month, and I absolutely love it. I used to use Slackware on pretty much all my boxes, and compile stuff from source myself (using Stow for "package management") so I could choose which features to compile in. Now Gentoo does all of that for me, in one command.
Don't forget that it's relatively easy to write your own IRC client/bot/library, whereas protocols like Jabber (whilst pretty and extensible) are much harder to implement.
Whilst it isn't necessarily a good thing to allow the *AA to influence a childs education, copyright infringement _is_ illegal, and as such you could argue schools have a duty to discourage it.
Ever tried the GUI'd versions?
Pretty good I'd say - most of the features are available through the menus, and all the shortcut keys/commands are still available for those who know how to use them.
--sffubs
What about the rest of the programs which run on top of the Linux kernel, making it useable for the majority of people? Surely that deserves a mention too?
My current system is GNU/XFree86/OpenOffice/Opera/Wolfenstein Enemy Territory/.../Linux
Interesting these scams pre-date email. Since Nigeria grew wealthly through trade routes it is acceptable practice to do what we would call a scam.
To them it is simply a game that is played out as part of normal business. Traders win some and lose some between themselves but
it kept them alert and trained for foriegn scams, and people who worked scamming the trade routes professionally.
Netmeeting is an example of an H.323 client, and is capable of communicating with other non-MS H.323 clients such as gnomemeeting with no problems at all.
openH323 has plenty of links and information about this subject, although a lot of it is rather cryptic.
Whenever I have submitted bug reports to the people at Opera they have always seemed very interested, although not necessarily being able to fix a problem there and then.
I don't know about Firebird, but it certainly has a smaller loading time than Mozilla on my cranky old laptop.
I don't have antialiasing running with it yet though; I agree that is annoying.
Hasn't the ESS been the most almighty cock-up, costing 3 times its initial budget, and unable to take more than a couple of crew members? American/Russian 'co-operation' has led to the US having to carry Russia through this project, and has contributed a fair amount to NASA's current financial problems.
I think all three space agencies ought to think long and hard about how they are going to cooperate effectively to create a successful, well budgeted mission, rather than just jumping in as they did with the ISS.
I think quite a lot of people download oggs, but you are right; there is not enough hardware support.
However, you might find the situation with video codecs is slightly different, since although DivX is the most popular currently available codec, it hasn't taken the world by storm in quite the same way as mp3; there are still heated arguments as to just which codec should be used.
Therefore I believe their vp3 video has the capacity to become more mainstream than ogg is.
Looking on doom9.org, it seems that vp3 is lagging somewhat behind the major (all MPEG-4) players in the video encoding world - namely DivX 3.11 (the M$ hack), DivX 5 (the legally re-written version), and XviD (an open source alternative to DivX based on the same opendivx source).
For the moment I suggest that people who want to use _any_ lossy video codec should consider XviD first, as it gives comparable to or better results than DivX 5, and is (I believe) fully gpl'd.
However, there may be a problem with the long-term standing of XviD, as it is an MPEG-4 codec, and hence may run into difficulty with patents and licensing.
-s
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I have to agree. I've been using Gentoo for about a month, and I absolutely love it. I used to use Slackware on pretty much all my boxes, and compile stuff from source myself (using Stow for "package management") so I could choose which features to compile in. Now Gentoo does all of that for me, in one command.
Yes, I thought this site was well-known to the /. community.
I am perfectly aware of fair use rights, and don't worry, I make full use of them. I just thought that this debate could use a little balance.
Don't forget that it's relatively easy to write your own IRC client/bot/library, whereas protocols like Jabber (whilst pretty and extensible) are much harder to implement.
That has got to be worth something.
Er, the parent is not a troll.
Whilst it isn't necessarily a good thing to allow the *AA to influence a childs education, copyright infringement _is_ illegal, and as such you could argue schools have a duty to discourage it.
Yes!
This is exactly the kind of thing that needs to be in a PDA - a high resolution, low-power reflective display.
How long before I can buy a palm with one of these?
Isn't there a MS screen-reader bundled with Windows 2K and XP? Microsoft Narrator or something.
Not that I imagine it is up to scratch (compared to the ones that cost thousands), but it is "free".
To be fair, slackware 9 is 2.6 ready - you shouldn't have to do much more than plug in the kernel.
Well, I found it useful. And remember, you don't _have_ to read it.
I'm using it very happily - tbh I can't tell much difference between 2.x and 1.x, except that I can use mod-xslt on 2.x
--sffubs
Read it again - he says the icons are nice in themselves, but are not consistent with each other.
For what it's worth, I think the article is a good nudge in the right direction.
--sffubs
Ever tried the GUI'd versions? Pretty good I'd say - most of the features are available through the menus, and all the shortcut keys/commands are still available for those who know how to use them. --sffubs
What about the rest of the programs which run on top of the Linux kernel, making it useable for the majority of people? Surely that deserves a mention too?
My current system is GNU/XFree86/OpenOffice/Opera/Wolfenstein Enemy Territory/.../Linux
--sffubs
Interesting these scams pre-date email. Since Nigeria grew wealthly through trade routes it is acceptable practice to do what we would call a scam.
To them it is simply a game that is played out as part of normal business. Traders win some and lose some between themselves but it kept them alert and trained for foriegn scams, and people who worked scamming the trade routes professionally.
I found the Centre for Online Nigerian Email & Spam Enterprise to be a good reference for those who are interested.
Netmeeting is an example of an H.323 client, and is capable of communicating with other non-MS H.323 clients such as gnomemeeting with no problems at all.
openH323 has plenty of links and information about this subject, although a lot of it is rather cryptic.
-s
Whenever I have submitted bug reports to the people at Opera they have always seemed very interested, although not necessarily being able to fix a problem there and then.
Fixed it - Opera's default fonts weren't in Xft. Now it is all pretty.
I don't know about Firebird, but it certainly has a smaller loading time than Mozilla on my cranky old laptop. I don't have antialiasing running with it yet though; I agree that is annoying.
Never had a problem with any of the latest Sun java packages with opera on my win2k box. Maybe I'm lucky or something...
I have tested PVFS with a few machines I had lying around, and found it to perform well.
Does the phrase 'slashdotted' mean anything to you?
-s
Hasn't the ESS been the most almighty cock-up, costing 3 times its initial budget, and unable to take more than a couple of crew members? American/Russian 'co-operation' has led to the US having to carry Russia through this project, and has contributed a fair amount to NASA's current financial problems.
I think all three space agencies ought to think long and hard about how they are going to cooperate effectively to create a successful, well budgeted mission, rather than just jumping in as they did with the ISS.
-s
Indeed it is possible, but ogg vorbis lacks the channel linking that is necessary to make it really work well as a 6ch format.
-s
I think quite a lot of people download oggs, but you are right; there is not enough hardware support.
However, you might find the situation with video codecs is slightly different, since although DivX is the most popular currently available codec, it hasn't taken the world by storm in quite the same way as mp3; there are still heated arguments as to just which codec should be used.
Therefore I believe their vp3 video has the capacity to become more mainstream than ogg is.
-s
Looking on doom9.org, it seems that vp3 is lagging somewhat behind the major (all MPEG-4) players in the video encoding world - namely DivX 3.11 (the M$ hack), DivX 5 (the legally re-written version), and XviD (an open source alternative to DivX based on the same opendivx source). For the moment I suggest that people who want to use _any_ lossy video codec should consider XviD first, as it gives comparable to or better results than DivX 5, and is (I believe) fully gpl'd. However, there may be a problem with the long-term standing of XviD, as it is an MPEG-4 codec, and hence may run into difficulty with patents and licensing. -s