Uh, no. According to the graph, Mandrake and SuSe make up ~17%%, and RedHat makes up ~15%. Sounds plausible to me.
The statistic that interests me (as a Slackware fanboy), however, is Slackware's, which has apparently more than doubled in the last year. But I guess I shouldn't be surprised; if I'm convinced that Slack's the best desktop distro out, it's reasonable to suppose that others might share my opinion.;-)
Flash might be hard to install on Linux. I haven't tried in a while.
Mmmm-mmmm... it sounds like you've never tried. Flash binaries have been readily installable in most of the more mainstream browsers (with the exception of Lynx and Links;-)) for at least ~7 years.
It could be argued that your two categories are one and the same. But given that most of the Windows users I know (other than the several hundred on my university's fairly well-maintained LAN) are, purely coincidentally I think, on dialup, running any kind of autoupdate is usually avoided.
Hence, I am partially inclined to agree with your suggestion that ISPs help, and indeed many do. Mine uses SpamAssassin to flag (but not block) suspicious emails, and that flag is quite useful at the end of the pipe.
However, no patching of mailservers is going to do anything about the machines which have been zombied by insecure browsers or system configurations.
Or is this what modern SMS "networking" is all about?
If you're a kid and/or have underdeveloped social skills, then yes.
But there are lots of useful purposes for SMS, where a short message is perfectly effective when it doesn't require a response. SMS messages have the advantage that they can be received or exchanged unobtrusively, without disturbing others.
Getting back to the point of the OP, I'm not surprised that morse can be faster (if you know it). I own an LG U8120 handset, which in many respects is quite a good phone, but text entry is set by default to an ass-backwards predictive text mode that I hate with a passion. I find having to cope with a machine's stupid assumptions much slower than fully manual text input.
one reason blogs are so popular is that they are, for the most part, immune to the traditional media-manipulation processes that publicity companies have refined to an exact science for 'traditional' media.
Thanks, in this case, to the power of Slashdot to pull the corporate suits into line. I don't find the role of Slashdot as policeman an attractive one, but I guess it hasn't really hurt anyone other than to cause some embarassment where it is deserved.
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Thanks for that, I'll give it a go next time I get an opportunity. Taking up my wife's time while I make geekish customisations on her machine is bad for marital karma points.:-)
Long story short, I have tried a bunch of unsuccesful knee-jerk switches (I now have Redhat, Fedora 2 & 3, Debian Woody & Sarge, Gentoo, and Ubuntu lying around my desk...) and I have realized that it's not the way to do things.
You might find a better experience with Slackware. The relevant forums, particularly Dropline's tend to be very civilised and helpful.
In any case, it has already been mentioned (unless I misread something) in another Slashdot discussion that OOo 2.0 release has been delayed from last month to sometime in July.
But I guess even misreading an article is more than the Slashdot editors might do.;-)
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they could go far having a decent (read: installable by idiots) MacOSX port.
I installed OOo on my wife's iBook, and the process seemed no different to installing any other piece of software. The only things I don't like about it are that the menubars are a bit dark for my taste (anybody here know how to change that?) and the fact that the launcher insists on firing up an unnecessary xterm window.
It would help, however, if the OS X port was kept a bit more current.
The big problem with webforums is the amount of people who just like to make trouble.
Depends on the forum, though. I would agree that there is a large degree of abuse at Slashdot, which is targeted at a wide range of audiences, but other less general forums (fora?) such as, for instance, Dropline's have remained pretty civilised and consequently useful.
James Burke presented a BBC series (and a subsequent dead-tree version which can be hard to find) back in the early '80s called "Connections" tracing the evolution of technology.
The vast majority are. And there are NOT more than twice as many Muslims as Catholics in the world.
From where I'm sitting, it would appear to me that Sufis account for quite a large proportion of Muslims. It's simply that they don't happen to greatly signify in the political hotspots where the US administration has taken pains to demonise Muslims.
I'm not sure why you mention numbers of Catholics, since I never did.
...and think Apple is all great and mighty and actually cooperates with the KHTML team, which is not true.
Well, this is hardly news. Apple, of course, is in the business of selling software (and hardware). Seems to me they'll take what they can get away with, and give away as little as they can get away with.
For those of us who hail Apple as the saviours of the world, we have certainly gained from the ability to run open source software on OS X, but the record doesn't show many instances (or any that I personally know of) where Apple has reciprocated by putting significant efforts into the public domain.
Oh, and sue Africa too. I heard there were some critters trying to usurp the Tiger name, too.
Exactly. I think God probably has prior art.
Not to mention all the hundreds (thousands?) of businesses worldwide who have used "tiger" in their product names over the years (such as a very stinky little pot of Tiger Balm I have on a shelf just here somewhere...). But I guess if TigerDirect want to waste their money on an indefensible case it's up to them.
I'm not a great fan of Apple, but I am heartily sick of people using the legal system as a lottery.
I've obviously been living in a barrel for the last umpteen years. I simply hadn't been aware that jpeg was a proprietary format until I saw this article. Bummer. I sure hope that doesn't mean my digital camera will suddenly stop working with the Gimp.;-)
I have a part-time job driving heavy trucks, and it's kind of amusing to use those 3 or 4-trailer 120-tonne monsters to collect small loads at garden or hardware shops; the rig usually stretches across the entire car-park and blocks both gates, and parking inspectors won't issue infringement notices because it'll take them ten minutes to climb up and stick it on the windscreen...;-)
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The statistic that interests me (as a Slackware fanboy), however, is Slackware's, which has apparently more than doubled in the last year. But I guess I shouldn't be surprised; if I'm convinced that Slack's the best desktop distro out, it's reasonable to suppose that others might share my opinion. ;-)
Mmmm-mmmm... it sounds like you've never tried. Flash binaries have been readily installable in most of the more mainstream browsers (with the exception of Lynx and Links ;-)) for at least ~7 years.
Hence, I am partially inclined to agree with your suggestion that ISPs help, and indeed many do. Mine uses SpamAssassin to flag (but not block) suspicious emails, and that flag is quite useful at the end of the pipe.
However, no patching of mailservers is going to do anything about the machines which have been zombied by insecure browsers or system configurations.
If you're a kid and/or have underdeveloped social skills, then yes.
But there are lots of useful purposes for SMS, where a short message is perfectly effective when it doesn't require a response. SMS messages have the advantage that they can be received or exchanged unobtrusively, without disturbing others.
Getting back to the point of the OP, I'm not surprised that morse can be faster (if you know it). I own an LG U8120 handset, which in many respects is quite a good phone, but text entry is set by default to an ass-backwards predictive text mode that I hate with a passion. I find having to cope with a machine's stupid assumptions much slower than fully manual text input.
Thanks, in this case, to the power of Slashdot to pull the corporate suits into line. I don't find the role of Slashdot as policeman an attractive one, but I guess it hasn't really hurt anyone other than to cause some embarassment where it is deserved.
Thanks for that, I'll give it a go next time I get an opportunity. Taking up my wife's time while I make geekish customisations on her machine is bad for marital karma points. :-)
Sounds fair enough, as far as it goes. If the reseller is selling dodgy copies, he is committing an offence under most jurisdictions.
Though personally, I wouldn't want to possess even a legitimate copy of Windows.
What about common or garden mercury? Liquid at room temperature. Though you really don't want it to leak...
You might find a better experience with Slackware. The relevant forums, particularly Dropline's tend to be very civilised and helpful.
But I guess even misreading an article is more than the Slashdot editors might do. ;-)
I installed OOo on my wife's iBook, and the process seemed no different to installing any other piece of software. The only things I don't like about it are that the menubars are a bit dark for my taste (anybody here know how to change that?) and the fact that the launcher insists on firing up an unnecessary xterm window.
It would help, however, if the OS X port was kept a bit more current.
Forgive me for asking this, but if your eyesight is that bad, why don't you just get over your aversion to glasses?
Depends on the forum, though. I would agree that there is a large degree of abuse at Slashdot, which is targeted at a wide range of audiences, but other less general forums (fora?) such as, for instance, Dropline's have remained pretty civilised and consequently useful.
Of course, there's an upside to this which I see at first hand whenever Slashdot adopts its "guilt by subnet association" blocking of postings.
I find I get a lot more actual work done. I used to fume about it, but now I just regard it as the "Slashcode productivity tool". ;-)
James Burke presented a BBC series (and a subsequent dead-tree version which can be hard to find) back in the early '80s called "Connections" tracing the evolution of technology.
Very well done, and definitely worth hunting out.
If it's chicks you want, forget IT and go for one of the biological sciences. ;-)
From where I'm sitting, it would appear to me that Sufis account for quite a large proportion of Muslims. It's simply that they don't happen to greatly signify in the political hotspots where the US administration has taken pains to demonise Muslims.
I'm not sure why you mention numbers of Catholics, since I never did.
No they're not.
Well, this is hardly news. Apple, of course, is in the business of selling software (and hardware). Seems to me they'll take what they can get away with, and give away as little as they can get away with.
For those of us who hail Apple as the saviours of the world, we have certainly gained from the ability to run open source software on OS X, but the record doesn't show many instances (or any that I personally know of) where Apple has reciprocated by putting significant efforts into the public domain.
Nope.
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Agreed, it's not that funny, but it got it over with... ;-)
Seems some people around here have thin skin.
(_ducks_)
Exactly. I think God probably has prior art.
Not to mention all the hundreds (thousands?) of businesses worldwide who have used "tiger" in their product names over the years (such as a very stinky little pot of Tiger Balm I have on a shelf just here somewhere...). But I guess if TigerDirect want to waste their money on an indefensible case it's up to them.
I'm not a great fan of Apple, but I am heartily sick of people using the legal system as a lottery.
I've obviously been living in a barrel for the last umpteen years. I simply hadn't been aware that jpeg was a proprietary format until I saw this article. Bummer. I sure hope that doesn't mean my digital camera will suddenly stop working with the Gimp. ;-)
But it's perfectly OK to be as antisocial as they want. ;-)
*ducks...*
I have a part-time job driving heavy trucks, and it's kind of amusing to use those 3 or 4-trailer 120-tonne monsters to collect small loads at garden or hardware shops; the rig usually stretches across the entire car-park and blocks both gates, and parking inspectors won't issue infringement notices because it'll take them ten minutes to climb up and stick it on the windscreen... ;-)