this sort of stuff is exactly why linux will never be taken that seriously
Thanks for letting me know it will never be taken seriously - since I have been using it at work (at some pretty serious places) for many years now, this obviously came as a bit of a surprise to me.
If that is the way you feel, by all means lobby your congressperson or start a petition to have the laws defining a criminal conspiracy overturned or changed - that is your right, but the simple fact is that, despite your feelings, these laws exist now. Therefore if a person runs afoul of them at this point in history, they have committed a crime.
I used to have a collection of install media for Red Hat dating back all the way to 3.0.3, and Debian dating back to at least 1.3. In addition, I used all of those free floppies that AOL used to mail out to install Debian, Slackware, and various BSDs - nothing like the fun of downloading 1.44 MB files over a dial-up connection, dumping them off to a disk with dd, and doing it all over again when, inevitably, one of them was corrupted. Eventually I got tired of them collecting dust and taking up space, so I just dumped them all.
Actually that was more than 15 years ago. Dynamically Loadable Kernel Modules (DLKM) have been available in HP-UX since version 11.0, released in 1997.
[Alt] + Left mouse button anywhere on the window will allow you to move it so the buttons will be visible.
From a command line, 'cat/proc/cpuinfo' will give you processor information, including speed, alternatively you could issue the command 'dmesg' and find the information there. 'cat/proc/meminfo' will give you memory information, you can also get this from using 'top' (also from a terminal window)
You can get the hard drive information from 'dmesg' as well. The 'gparted' program suggested earlier is probably a better idea, so if you don't have that installed, try 'sudo apt-get install gparted', or the add/remove programs application.
This company also has a set of HTML and CSS charts available that I purchased a couple of years ago, and have found to be extremely useful on a few occasions. When I found out that the MySQL cards were being produced, I ordered them immediately and was not disappointed. While the online MySQL documentation may be excellent, I find these cards to be well worth the money, and sometimes more convenient.
Actually it talks about both. If you read the last three paragraphs, Linus specifically talks about the whole/usr/src/linux mess.
And yes, this is what I do. My/usr/src/linux still has the old 2.2.13
header files, even though I haven't run a 2.2.13 kernel in a _loong_
time. But those headers were what glibc was compiled against, so those
headers are what matches the library object files.
And this is actually what has been the suggested environment for at
least the last five years. I don't know why the symlink business keeps
on living on, like a bad zombie. Pretty much every distribution still
has that broken symlink, and people still remember that the linux
sources should go into "/usr/src/linux" even though that hasn't been
true in a _loong_ time.
I must admit however that I have until now always compiled new kernels in/usr/src/linux.
This comparison is nothing short of a personal attack on Mr. Stallman.
While I don't always (or even often) agree with his viewpoints, I find your comparison to be ignorant, illogical, mean spirited, and highly offensive. I can only hope that this was a troll.
That being said, I personally feel that RMS being elected would be bad for the GNOME project since he appears to be too narrow minded to be anything other than a hindrance. The ability to create and sell closed source software should also be viewed as a freedom worthy of being protected since it harms no one. Really, when was the last time someone held you at gunpoint and forced you to buy software. For people who do not now, nor will ever want to see source code, much less modify it, what is the harm. For those that do, choose/create an alternative. I personally choose whatever works best for me, which is quite often, but not always GNU software.
I certainly fall into this category. My first shot at installing a non-MS OS was FreeBSD. as it turns out I had some unsupported hardware, so after a couple of days fighting with it someone suggested Linux which worked 'out of the box'.
I recently ordered a copy of OpenBSD to install on an old machine I have had lying around and am now learning some of the little differences. So far I am very pleased with it.
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this sort of stuff is exactly why linux will never be taken that seriously
Thanks for letting me know it will never be taken seriously - since I have been using it at work (at some pretty serious places) for many years now, this obviously came as a bit of a surprise to me.
If that is the way you feel, by all means lobby your congressperson or start a petition to have the laws defining a criminal conspiracy overturned or changed - that is your right, but the simple fact is that, despite your feelings, these laws exist now. Therefore if a person runs afoul of them at this point in history, they have committed a crime.
I used to have a collection of install media for Red Hat dating back all the way to 3.0.3, and Debian dating back to at least 1.3. In addition, I used all of those free floppies that AOL used to mail out to install Debian, Slackware, and various BSDs - nothing like the fun of downloading 1.44 MB files over a dial-up connection, dumping them off to a disk with dd, and doing it all over again when, inevitably, one of them was corrupted. Eventually I got tired of them collecting dust and taking up space, so I just dumped them all.
Actually that was more than 15 years ago. Dynamically Loadable Kernel Modules (DLKM) have been available in HP-UX since version 11.0, released in 1997.
Funny, smarmy assholes with 7 digit IDs and a Google+ login ID is what I expect from the dumbed down Slashdot these days.
Funny, I expect the ones with 6 digit IDs...
[Alt] + Left mouse button anywhere on the window will allow you to move it so the buttons will be visible.
From a command line, 'cat /proc/cpuinfo' will give you processor information, including speed, alternatively you could issue the command 'dmesg' and find the information there. 'cat /proc/meminfo' will give you memory information, you can also get this from using 'top' (also from a terminal window)
You can get the hard drive information from 'dmesg' as well. The 'gparted' program suggested earlier is probably a better idea, so if you don't have that installed, try 'sudo apt-get install gparted', or the add/remove programs application.
Frankly, I think he should have stabbed everyone with an HIV syringe.
Quite possibly the most mind-numbingly stupid comment ever posted on slashdot
Blast! you beat me to it.
This company also has a set of HTML and CSS charts available that I purchased a couple of years ago, and have found to be extremely useful on a few occasions. When I found out that the MySQL cards were being produced, I ordered them immediately and was not disappointed. While the online MySQL documentation may be excellent, I find these cards to be well worth the money, and sometimes more convenient.
"In cases where there is no "end" on a line by itself, the "begin" statement should be treated as normal text"
and this,
Microsoft has confirmed this to be a problem in the Microsoft products that are listed at the beginning of this article."
from Microsoft's site, it is actually a bug.
This comparison is nothing short of a personal attack on Mr. Stallman.
While I don't always (or even often) agree with his viewpoints, I find your comparison to be ignorant, illogical, mean spirited, and highly offensive. I can only hope that this was a troll.
That being said, I personally feel that RMS being elected would be bad for the GNOME project since he appears to be too narrow minded to be anything other than a hindrance. The ability to create and sell closed source software should also be viewed as a freedom worthy of being protected since it harms no one. Really, when was the last time someone held you at gunpoint and forced you to buy software. For people who do not now, nor will ever want to see source code, much less modify it, what is the harm. For those that do, choose/create an alternative. I personally choose whatever works best for me, which is quite often, but not always GNU software.
I certainly fall into this category. My first shot at installing a non-MS OS was FreeBSD. as it turns out I had some unsupported hardware, so after a couple of days fighting with it someone suggested Linux which worked 'out of the box'.
I recently ordered a copy of OpenBSD to install on an old machine I have had lying around and am now learning some of the little differences. So far I am very pleased with it.