I am not only gratified, but absolutely gobsmacked that your post has been modded +3 on Slashdot, a bastion of the most rabid extreme-redneck-brigade. Maybe times are changing after all...
Personally, I wouldn't bother making a copy of anything sent out by SCO. Far from "litigating itself into irrelevance", SCO seems to be squandering so much money on legal fishing expeditions that they are litigating themselves into insolvency.
There has been some speculation that they are trying to attract a buy-out, but the more they persist with this kind of crap, the less attractive their position looks.
After spending many years as a sysprog, and having mastered enough programming languages to fill up a lot of space in my CV, I am glad to be able to say that I have never (yet) used C++.
I have used C, however, and I like it for all the same reasons I like Assembler.
Nobody ever said assembly code was easy to read (for people), but when done properly, it's fast. For big projects, C is just a quicker way of writing assembly code:-).
is that nobody seems to be objecting to the fact that the publisher is making the decision for you as to what program you use to play his pseudo-CD. I, personlly would be pretty shat off if I was forced to use stinkyfinger_1.0.1.exe as opposed to my preferred fucking_great_cd_player.exe.
Not that my computer has any programs ending with.exe, but still...
Didn't most of the population of Australia end up there becuase of doing more than 3 months jail time?
No. No more than the population of America. (And yes, prisoners were transported to America).
As an example, "transportation" was not carried out to any real extent to South Australia, and even less to Western Australia. Most of the population is now made up of voluntary immigrants (like me) or their descendents.
In Australia there is a specific legal right to make a backup copy of software...
which the recording industry here is trying to get revoked. Given the Australian Federal Government's record for rolling over to industry demands, I'm not taking bets as to how long this right will last.
And since I'm in the mood for self-flagellation, here's the definition anyway:'Hird of Unix-Replacing Daemons'. And, then, `Hird' stands for "`Hurd of Interfaces Representing Depth'. We have here, to my knowledge, the first software to be named by a pair of mutually recursive acronyms."
I sometimes find myself describing my home computer setup as a UNIX system (it is properly a Linux, er, OK, GNU/Linux system) when talking to people who may have heard of UNIX (e.g. on university login screens or ISP help-files) but are likely not to have any idea what Linux is.
I know it's lazy, but it just saves time when getting the general idea across to non-geeks. Let the details take care of themselves.
I, too, would be interested to hear about this. Junk email is easy to deal with by hitting the delete button, but if the bastards get so much dead-tree mail the post-office has to make special arrangements, the direct marketers are going to squeal.
You're pretty much right. I'm going to be slow to take up the 1.4beta, though, as Mozilla now works so damn well, it's getting hard to improve on it. With the exception of smooth scrolling, most of the recent features are candyfloss as far as I'm concerned. This is really brought home to me every time I have to use IE at my university. IE just sucks. Big-time.
Nothing quite as satisfying as an anonymous flame, huh? I wonder why so many Slashdot readers are unable to accept constructive criticism of KDE. Never mind, I'll bite:
Is it obvious to a non-KDE-afficionado what Kate is? Or Konqueror, for that matter? Or Kaboodle, Kbabel or Kivio?
OK, I am happy to agree that "mozilla" may not be obviously a name for a browser to a Windows user who has been living in a barrel for the last few years, but this absurd addiction to calling everything K* does nothing to win converts, however effective the actual program may be.
at a konsole, hit k, then hit tab. How many things come up? How many of those are kde programs? Are those ALL the kde programs? Probably not. What if you want to see all the executables that are part of the 'kde distribution' ?
This is one of the main things which keeps me away from KDE. I know it works quite well, and apps are quite consistent with each other and so on, but that naming theme is just plain silly. Hunting through a gazillion executables beginning with "k" to perform a given task is not my idea of productivity.
I guess there's probably nothing inherently wrong with "meaningful" names for directories - for those who feel they need them. There is probably something to be gained from this when trying to "sell" Linux to the novice user.
I'm content, however, with a directory structure that has been used with little variation on any number of flavours of Unix systems for 30-odd years, because it works.
As an aside, I can see this thing causing major problems for anybody wanting to compile their own packages through the./configure && make && make install cycle. You would probably have to create so many symlinks, you might as well stay with the old system anyway.
Dunno about that. I had to make a lot of compromises (size of speakers and housing of all the boxes) to get a system I could listen to and which my wife would allow in the house. Sometimes makes me wonder if all _serious_ audiophiles have to be bachelors:-).
I listened to some very, very expensive B&O speakers in their showroom, and I was astonished at how awful they sounded.
Fair comment. B&O have traded for a long time (anybody here remember their so-called omnidirectional speakers of the '70s?) by selling equipment that looks "futuristic" but performs poorly compared to more conventional designs.
My new Bowers & Wilkins speakers are a fraction of the price of the B&O units and give much better quality reproduction even in the showroom.
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I am not only gratified, but absolutely gobsmacked that your post has been modded +3 on Slashdot, a bastion of the most rabid extreme-redneck-brigade. Maybe times are changing after all...
The wires for plugging into the user's brain...
There has been some speculation that they are trying to attract a buy-out, but the more they persist with this kind of crap, the less attractive their position looks.
I've always kind of liked the comfortable feeling of NOTHING HAS BEEN SAID UNLESS YOU SAY IT IN UPPERCASE :-).
After spending many years as a sysprog, and having mastered enough programming languages to fill up a lot of space in my CV, I am glad to be able to say that I have never (yet) used C++.
I have used C, however, and I like it for all the same reasons I like Assembler.
Nobody ever said assembly code was easy to read (for people), but when done properly, it's fast. For big projects, C is just a quicker way of writing assembly code :-).
Not that my computer has any programs ending with .exe, but still...
well, never mind, what the RIAA is saying is "in culum ponem".
No. No more than the population of America. (And yes, prisoners were transported to America).
As an example, "transportation" was not carried out to any real extent to South Australia, and even less to Western Australia. Most of the population is now made up of voluntary immigrants (like me) or their descendents.
which the recording industry here is trying to get revoked. Given the Australian Federal Government's record for rolling over to industry demands, I'm not taking bets as to how long this right will last.
After all, the code should be self-explanatory :-)
Of course, I come from the generation who all started with assembler, so I'm biased :-)
No, it smells more like a
er, ahem, sorry. Wrong thread. Carry on...
And since I'm in the mood for self-flagellation, here's the definition anyway:'Hird of Unix-Replacing Daemons'. And, then, `Hird' stands for "`Hurd of Interfaces Representing Depth'. We have here, to my knowledge, the first software to be named by a pair of mutually recursive acronyms."
See what I mean?
But nowhere near as dumb as Herd. That's so dumb, I can't even be bothered even looking it up to remind myself what it stands for :-)
I know it's lazy, but it just saves time when getting the general idea across to non-geeks. Let the details take care of themselves.
All I remember is the pseudo-definition attributed to certain AT&T hackers: Many Unnecessarily Large Tables In Core Simultaneously.
I, too, would be interested to hear about this. Junk email is easy to deal with by hitting the delete button, but if the bastards get so much dead-tree mail the post-office has to make special arrangements, the direct marketers are going to squeal.
You're pretty much right. I'm going to be slow to take up the 1.4beta, though, as Mozilla now works so damn well, it's getting hard to improve on it. With the exception of smooth scrolling, most of the recent features are candyfloss as far as I'm concerned. This is really brought home to me every time I have to use IE at my university. IE just sucks. Big-time.
Thank you for your creative use of font handling in your post. My browser wasn't doing it well enough.
Is it obvious to a non-KDE-afficionado what Kate is? Or Konqueror, for that matter? Or Kaboodle, Kbabel or Kivio?
OK, I am happy to agree that "mozilla" may not be obviously a name for a browser to a Windows user who has been living in a barrel for the last few years, but this absurd addiction to calling everything K* does nothing to win converts, however effective the actual program may be.
This is one of the main things which keeps me away from KDE. I know it works quite well, and apps are quite consistent with each other and so on, but that naming theme is just plain silly. Hunting through a gazillion executables beginning with "k" to perform a given task is not my idea of productivity.
I'm content, however, with a directory structure that has been used with little variation on any number of flavours of Unix systems for 30-odd years, because it works.
As an aside, I can see this thing causing major problems for anybody wanting to compile their own packages through the ./configure && make && make install cycle. You would probably have to create so many symlinks, you might as well stay with the old system anyway.
Dunno about that. I had to make a lot of compromises (size of speakers and housing of all the boxes) to get a system I could listen to and which my wife would allow in the house. Sometimes makes me wonder if all _serious_ audiophiles have to be bachelors :-).
Fair comment. B&O have traded for a long time (anybody here remember their so-called omnidirectional speakers of the '70s?) by selling equipment that looks "futuristic" but performs poorly compared to more conventional designs.
My new Bowers & Wilkins speakers are a fraction of the price of the B&O units and give much better quality reproduction even in the showroom.
I could probably come up with some prior art, but I have to go shave the palms of my hands - sorry :-)