If it's anything like as sweet as that gunk they sell as alcoholic soda/mineral water or whatever, you (or more specifically, I) would more likely become sick before accruing any benefit from the buzz.
I prefer to keep my vices separate - that way I get to enjoy them.:-)
Quoth the author: Can you live without IE? I try to use Firefox as my main browser, but I find myself firing up IE from time to time out of sheer necessity. My Web site uses Google AdSense to display context-sensitive ads to my users. The AdSense administration site works only with IE...
Well, I guess there are people who actually want to see those annoying banners and popup windows that Firefox and Mozilla block so easily...
Personally, I have always been quite happy to live without using IE, even when I was running windows.
Hmmm. I was kind of surprised that I didn't see immediate responses along the lines of "better luck next time" with regard to RMS, given the usual flavour of vitriol that usually flows in his direction on Slashdot. The internet can be an ugly place at times...
OMG. Where are you? Here in Perth they don't even field a candidate. I didn't see the article in The Australian, but that's because I hear enough of the fascist party line without having to actually pay for it...
Here in Australia, it's pretty easy to get a laptop without Winbloze. You just have to be prepared to talk tough. You get the lowest quote from the shop, then tell them that you want them to remove Windows and any related sticky labels, and that you'll pay them that amount less the Microsoft tax.
Turns out that most of them, even if they do claim to be contractually obliged etc, will oblige for the simple reason that it's a sale they wouldn't otherwise get.
They can contradict themselves as much as thay want. Nobody has ever heard of that paty, and they are unlikely to get a single vote in the election, so I guess we're safe - from them, at least.
I think the phrase you're looking for is patent violation.
OK, you're right, that is what I meant.
You're nitpicking, though. The point I'm making is that Ximian (and others) in their embracing of.NET (in the guise of Mono) are lining themselves up for a nasty surprise when the MS lawyers get stuck in with an unlimited budget behind them. If enough apps developers embrace Mono, the case has the potential to do much more damage than the SCO fiasco.
I often wonder if Microsoft isn't just waiting for the most damaging time to pull the rug out from under mono developers by slapping them with a suit for intellectual property or copyright violation over.NET.
IANAL, but I have a bit of a tendency to be a bit of a conspiracy theorist...:-)
The *nix world could do with a statistics package as comprehensive and easy to use as SPSS or PASS, but that seems to be a holy grail of sorts.
I've heard good things about R, but have never really got to grips with it (although I know it has been around for a while), so any kind of primer is more than welcome as far as I'm concerned.
I give you extra troll points for mixing in an ad hominem attack...
Err, if you go back and read the second sentence of my post, you'll see that I make no particular claims against Gentoo or any other distribution. But in any case, I did not call anybody an idiot, and you did.
If that is not an example of an ad hominem argument, I fail to see what is.
No, seriously, this guy is either an idiot, or has never really used gentoo.
Another obligatory post from a Gentoo zealot.
I don't have any particular beef against Gentoo (except that I don't use it because I have too many machines with different architectures), but this kind of message strikes me as clawing for trendy-geek points. If you want to be a true geek, you might consider rolling your own (Linux From Scratch, in other words). Following a series of instructions from a recipe-book doesn't qualify.
As far as the individual points you mention are concerned, most are available with any decent distribution, and the remainder are easily implemented from the command-line.
I could have misread this, but it sounds to me as if Yoper has borrowed Slackware's pkgtools. Not that there's anything wrong with this; the simplicity and robustness of the tgz package format are part of what makes Slackware such a solid distro.
There are lots of people producing i686-optimized packages for Slack (Dropline Gnome is an excellent example), so in this respect I'm not so sure quite what Yoper is offering that is so different.
I have no particular quarrel with Gentoo, I have many friends who love it to bitses. I just have too many machines of different architectures to make it practicable to maintain without involving a greater time commitment than is feasible.
But using the "but you learn so much" argument is silly.
If you really want to learn about Linux, the best way by far is to try Linux From Scratch.
In the meantime, I bet you anything you want I'll get more actual work done on my Slackware machines with the majority of the code I use optimised for generic i686 than you will in the 3 nanoseconds you might gain in the time you've compiled it all for the whizz-bang architecture of your choice.
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I prefer to keep my vices separate - that way I get to enjoy them. :-)
Never ever?
Perhaps you haven't been paying attention. Even Diogenes, living in his barrel, paid more attention to the world than that.
Well, I guess there are people who actually want to see those annoying banners and popup windows that Firefox and Mozilla block so easily...
Personally, I have always been quite happy to live without using IE, even when I was running windows.
A burglar might burgle a property, in which case the property has been burgled
Thanks for reminding me of that text - I had almost forgotten about it, since I last read it some 25 years ago...
Your uncle sounds really cool... :-)
Hmmm. I was kind of surprised that I didn't see immediate responses along the lines of "better luck next time" with regard to RMS, given the usual flavour of vitriol that usually flows in his direction on Slashdot. The internet can be an ugly place at times...
OMG. Where are you? Here in Perth they don't even field a candidate. I didn't see the article in The Australian, but that's because I hear enough of the fascist party line without having to actually pay for it...
I just read TFA and realised that the patent referred to "long filenames".
My bad. Mod me -1 Moron. :-)
Why not?
If I recall correctly, MS-DOS was reverse engineered from IBM's PC-DOS (which legend has it evolved from QDOS - Quick and Dirty Operating System).
I don't know about any patents under those OSs, but there is definitely evidence of prior art.
Turns out that most of them, even if they do claim to be contractually obliged etc, will oblige for the simple reason that it's a sale they wouldn't otherwise get.
I'm more worried about the government we've got.
Just imagine a dog's webcam photo album.
Lots of shots of other dogs' bottoms or undercarriage. Yay.
I guess some people just can't leave well enough alone...
Grow up and get on with your job.
OK, you're right, that is what I meant.
You're nitpicking, though. The point I'm making is that Ximian (and others) in their embracing of .NET (in the guise of Mono) are lining themselves up for a nasty surprise when the MS lawyers get stuck in with an unlimited budget behind them. If enough apps developers embrace Mono, the case has the potential to do much more damage than the SCO fiasco.
IANAL, but I have a bit of a tendency to be a bit of a conspiracy theorist... :-)
Guess those guys might have seen sense after they got their hernias stitched up...
Yeah, probably.
I'm a Canuck, so I'm rooting for these guys
Here in Australia, root has a different meaning, but suffice to say we do it for fun. :-)
I've heard good things about R, but have never really got to grips with it (although I know it has been around for a while), so any kind of primer is more than welcome as far as I'm concerned.
I give you extra troll points for mixing in an ad hominem attack...
Err, if you go back and read the second sentence of my post, you'll see that I make no particular claims against Gentoo or any other distribution. But in any case, I did not call anybody an idiot, and you did.
If that is not an example of an ad hominem argument, I fail to see what is.
Another obligatory post from a Gentoo zealot.
I don't have any particular beef against Gentoo (except that I don't use it because I have too many machines with different architectures), but this kind of message strikes me as clawing for trendy-geek points. If you want to be a true geek, you might consider rolling your own (Linux From Scratch, in other words). Following a series of instructions from a recipe-book doesn't qualify.
As far as the individual points you mention are concerned, most are available with any decent distribution, and the remainder are easily implemented from the command-line.
There are lots of people producing i686-optimized packages for Slack (Dropline Gnome is an excellent example), so in this respect I'm not so sure quite what Yoper is offering that is so different.
Another fine day on Coronation Street...
But using the "but you learn so much" argument is silly.
If you really want to learn about Linux, the best way by far is to try Linux From Scratch.
In the meantime, I bet you anything you want I'll get more actual work done on my Slackware machines with the majority of the code I use optimised for generic i686 than you will in the 3 nanoseconds you might gain in the time you've compiled it all for the whizz-bang architecture of your choice.