The appalling state of Linux documentation is what got me involved as a writer in the first place, leading me to co-author RedHat/Fedora Unleashed for a while and edit English-language docs for Mandriva.
I ran into two kinds of editors: those who knew nothing about Linux and those who knew "lots". The latter group is what frustrated me the most and are probably very much like the software authors themselves: pedantic and arrogant when it comes to documentation. Poor documentation and "making you work for it" is part of the right of passage for the Linux elite.
You can see this in ESR's characterization of people who ask questions as "idiots" in his 'How To Ask Questions The Smart Way'. Not to pick on ESR, but that shitty attitude about those that feel the need to ask questions permeates the GNU/Linux/FOSS culture. 'Knowing' is what separates "us" from "them".
And that's why Linux documentation is so bad: because it's meant to be, you idiot.
No "large enterprise distro" currently ships with KDE as the main DE. SUSE is the only one that has decided to ship KDE by default, and that too very recently.
Mandriva has long shipped with KDE as the preferred desktop and offer a good implementation of it, but they also offer a choice of several desktops.
On that criterion, NTFS on Linux fails too, since not all distributions include r/w NTFS support by default.
File a bug report with those distros. Include a link to this thread. At the very least, their install app could ask if NTFS support is desired. Distros that respond NOT A BUG or WILL NOT FIX should lose your support; plenty of others out there.
We only lionize the few people who took great risks and succeeded soley because they succeeded; we never laud the legions that took comparable risks and failed.
And we never seem to learn the appropriate lesson from that.
I didn't see any mention in TFA about the specifics of the patents. There's no sense in debating this until we know just what the patents cover. Oh wait. This is Slashdot . . .
It's simpler than that. Who cares if it's not USA territory? It's an official of the USA who's inspecting my laptop and as I am US citizen, they are compelled to respect, enforce and protect my rights no matter where I am physically located within the limits of the laws of that territorial jurisdiction.
That particular rock was supposed to be given not to the Netherlands, but to the Neanderthals who, presumably, would have taken much more than 40 years to discover the truth.
The Linux OS "spoofs" the OS to be WindowsNT by default, not WindowsXP as has been incorrectly stated above -- just look in acconfig.h to see for yourself.
Use "Windows 2006" to spoof it as Vista and see if battery life changes.
BTW, if you do want to spoof as WindowsXP, the correct string is "Windows 2001" and "Windows 2001 SP2" for Service Pack2. Look in acconfig.h for all the values. You need the quotes when adding this to the kernel command line.
Use the string that matches the version of the OS that the OEM provided with the laptop, or try different valid strings from acconfig.h until the device works properly or no error messages appear in dmesg. Also, if the string does not appear in your ACPI BIOS, the BISO will revert to its default, whatever that is. You'll need to disassemble the ACPI BIOS to determine the specific values permitted, but assume that at least the OS supplied by the OEM is valid.
Dude! Dont' sniff it! Don't forget "ass pennies". http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ass_pennies#Ass_Pennies
"I've been sticking $30 in pennies up my ass for the past 11 years! That's 3,000 pennies a day; 21,000 pennies a week; 1,092,000 pennies a year! To date that's 12,012,000 pennies, 8 times the population of Nebraska. Those pennies were in my ass! You think you're better than me? Oh, you're not better than me. You handle my ass pennies every day. You pick up my ass pennies for good luck. You throw my ass pennies in fountains and make wishes on them. You give my ass pennies to your little daughter to buy gumballs with. You handle my ass pennies every day! All of you! You all handle my ass pennies! Oh, I laugh at you before you can laugh at me. Because your pennies have been in my ass. You hear me? Your pennies have been in my ass!"
They may have met 100% of the standards, but that doesn't mean that the history in them is correct.
Do they still teach the story of how Lincoln wrote the Gettysburg Address on the back of an envelope? How Betsy Ross sewed the first national flag? How the Boston Tea Party was motivated only by patriotism? Or that Plymouth Rock is an actual, original artifact of the landing? If so, then they are factually wrong.
Hopefully, free textbooks will contain factually correct information which, after all, is true freedom. Otherwise, "free" textbooks are not worth much.
These anecdotes seem to fly in the face of research on the subject. What is being unsaid about this "experiment"?
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The true legacy of UNIX and it's derivatives is that it will eventually reduce a significant bit of technology to a fungible good, a universal commodity. Then the real fun begins.
On the Diane Rehm Show on NPR, the topic today was the demise of newspapers and what could be done about it; suggestions included government bailouts and subsidies or reorganization as not-for-profit organizations. The "politically correct" argument was that they wanted to preserve the newspaper business model per se, but preserve "journalism" and all those high standards and ethics it embodied as opposed to the unprofessional world of bloggers and news aggregators who could (obviously) not hold themselves to high standards.
Perhaps the journalists could be Jarre'd back to reality?
Again, it was stupid and unreasonable, but there's a reason its there.
Not if it is, by your own words, "unreasonable"; there's no reason.
I think what we all mean to say is that the fear is irrational . It's not likely that low-flying planes piloted by terrorists will again kill New Yorkers.
The fear would only be reasonable if you saw the low-flying plane heading toward you.
This is modded as funny, but it is rather insightful. The people who make business decisions (or what they think are business decisions) don't necessarily understand the things they are messing with.
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The appalling state of Linux documentation is what got me involved as a writer in the first place, leading me to co-author RedHat/Fedora Unleashed for a while and edit English-language docs for Mandriva.
I ran into two kinds of editors: those who knew nothing about Linux and those who knew "lots". The latter group is what frustrated me the most and are probably very much like the software authors themselves: pedantic and arrogant when it comes to documentation. Poor documentation and "making you work for it" is part of the right of passage for the Linux elite.
You can see this in ESR's characterization of people who ask questions as "idiots" in his 'How To Ask Questions The Smart Way'. Not to pick on ESR, but that shitty attitude about those that feel the need to ask questions permeates the GNU/Linux/FOSS culture. 'Knowing' is what separates "us" from "them".
And that's why Linux documentation is so bad: because it's meant to be, you idiot.
How are we supposed to have a GNOME v. KDE flame war without any significant data?
That's exactly what flame wars are all about. Good data only ruin a good flame war.
No "large enterprise distro" currently ships with KDE as the main DE. SUSE is the only one that has decided to ship KDE by default, and that too very recently.
Mandriva has long shipped with KDE as the preferred desktop and offer a good implementation of it, but they also offer a choice of several desktops.
GNOME: beer & smokes
KDE: blackjack & hookers
GNOME: gbeer & gsmokes
KDE: kblackjack & khookers
Fixed that for you.
Nice to see Microsoft embracing anarchy and Communism since they have long embraced evil.
Or maybe they just want a better platform for FUD, kinda like taking away your liberty and calling it the "Patriot Act".
On that criterion, NTFS on Linux fails too, since not all distributions include r/w NTFS support by default.
File a bug report with those distros. Include a link to this thread. At the very least, their install app could ask if NTFS support is desired. Distros that respond NOT A BUG or WILL NOT FIX should lose your support; plenty of others out there.
It's not about the science or any interpretation of statistics. It's about the money.
It's that:
disaster=bad_publicity=no_political_support=no_money
Nothing difficult to understand there.
We only lionize the few people who took great risks and succeeded soley because they succeeded; we never laud the legions that took comparable risks and failed.
And we never seem to learn the appropriate lesson from that.
I didn't see any mention in TFA about the specifics of the patents. There's no sense in debating this until we know just what the patents cover. Oh wait. This is Slashdot . . .
All this project does is wrap a purposely obtuse front-end around a popular, open source browser engine.
MS Windows was a purposely obtuse front-end wrapped around a popular, fast CLI operating system and look at how that has done.
Here's a successful group of schools who accomplish just what the OP talks about: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sudbury_Valley_School
It's simpler than that. Who cares if it's not USA territory? It's an official of the USA who's inspecting my laptop and as I am US citizen, they are compelled to respect, enforce and protect my rights no matter where I am physically located within the limits of the laws of that territorial jurisdiction.
That particular rock was supposed to be given not to the Netherlands, but to the Neanderthals who, presumably, would have taken much more than 40 years to discover the truth.
The Linux OS "spoofs" the OS to be WindowsNT by default, not WindowsXP as has been incorrectly stated above -- just look in acconfig.h to see for yourself. Use "Windows 2006" to spoof it as Vista and see if battery life changes. BTW, if you do want to spoof as WindowsXP, the correct string is "Windows 2001" and "Windows 2001 SP2" for Service Pack2. Look in acconfig.h for all the values. You need the quotes when adding this to the kernel command line. Use the string that matches the version of the OS that the OEM provided with the laptop, or try different valid strings from acconfig.h until the device works properly or no error messages appear in dmesg. Also, if the string does not appear in your ACPI BIOS, the BISO will revert to its default, whatever that is. You'll need to disassemble the ACPI BIOS to determine the specific values permitted, but assume that at least the OS supplied by the OEM is valid.
Dude! Dont' sniff it! Don't forget "ass pennies". http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ass_pennies#Ass_Pennies "I've been sticking $30 in pennies up my ass for the past 11 years! That's 3,000 pennies a day; 21,000 pennies a week; 1,092,000 pennies a year! To date that's 12,012,000 pennies, 8 times the population of Nebraska. Those pennies were in my ass! You think you're better than me? Oh, you're not better than me. You handle my ass pennies every day. You pick up my ass pennies for good luck. You throw my ass pennies in fountains and make wishes on them. You give my ass pennies to your little daughter to buy gumballs with. You handle my ass pennies every day! All of you! You all handle my ass pennies! Oh, I laugh at you before you can laugh at me. Because your pennies have been in my ass. You hear me? Your pennies have been in my ass!"
They may have met 100% of the standards, but that doesn't mean that the history in them is correct.
Do they still teach the story of how Lincoln wrote the Gettysburg Address on the back of an envelope? How Betsy Ross sewed the first national flag? How the Boston Tea Party was motivated only by patriotism? Or that Plymouth Rock is an actual, original artifact of the landing? If so, then they are factually wrong.
Hopefully, free textbooks will contain factually correct information which, after all, is true freedom. Otherwise, "free" textbooks are not worth much.
. . . that "open" for a politician really means "only as 'open' as I want to be"? Also check the definition of "naive" to see your picture, dude.
he can just make an X
Or an "R" . . .
What Would Alfie Cohn Do?
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0618001816/ref=ase_fastcompanycom/102-5164850-9600113?v=glance&s=books
These anecdotes seem to fly in the face of research on the subject. What is being unsaid about this "experiment"?
The true legacy of UNIX and it's derivatives is that it will eventually reduce a significant bit of technology to a fungible good, a universal commodity. Then the real fun begins.
This could be the most obscure string of geek jokes ever written.
Laughed so hard I hurt myself.
Then I realized I understood all the jokes and that scared the s**t outta me.
On the Diane Rehm Show on NPR, the topic today was the demise of newspapers and what could be done about it; suggestions included government bailouts and subsidies or reorganization as not-for-profit organizations. The "politically correct" argument was that they wanted to preserve the newspaper business model per se, but preserve "journalism" and all those high standards and ethics it embodied as opposed to the unprofessional world of bloggers and news aggregators who could (obviously) not hold themselves to high standards.
Perhaps the journalists could be Jarre'd back to reality?
It really sucks to have been closely involved in the 9/11 disaster and most of those so involved will never "get over it".
If you weren't involved, you just don't get it, so STFU.
If you were involved, you get to cloak yourself in righteous indignation and get a pass on acting like an asshat.
If you weren't involved, you get to make smarmy comments and denigrate the feelings of others like the dickhead you are.
If you currently work in Manhattan, you're at a distinct disadvantage if there's ever a major disaster.
Traumatized people are very sensitized to the things they were traumatized by.
Others not traumatized aren't so sensitive.
Lots of self-aggrandizing douchebags, traumatized or not, post to Slashdot.
As far as the topic goes:
Our government, both national and local, excels at making poor judgments.
That should cover it.
Again, it was stupid and unreasonable, but there's a reason its there.
Not if it is, by your own words, "unreasonable"; there's no reason.
I think what we all mean to say is that the fear is irrational . It's not likely that low-flying planes piloted by terrorists will again kill New Yorkers.
The fear would only be reasonable if you saw the low-flying plane heading toward you.
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SON: "What's that BSD fella doing to the Penguin?"
DAD: "Son, the BSD fella is hurt and the penguin is just helpin' him get home."
SON: "Gosh, you try and help another OS and you get fscked!"
This is modded as funny, but it is rather insightful. The people who make business decisions (or what they think are business decisions) don't necessarily understand the things they are messing with.
They absolutely misunderstood. Remember the I-Opener? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I-Opener