... low tolerance for stupidity -- absolutely.... newbies, you need to be more specific. It's lazy newbies who don't RTFM (that's F as in fine) or provide appropriate information in a problem report that get roasted.
I agree that it is confusing. I been running a F15 release candidate for the last month or so. There are some features of Gnome3 that have to go away and will as soon as I have some spare time to dig into it. I must point out that Gnome3 is the lesser of two evils. I began using Redhat back in the mid-90s. When Ubuntu released Dapper I switched my working desktop to it because of the reduced admin effort. My current desktop is Lucid.
About 2 months ago I heard Ubuntu was moving away from Gnome and downloaded Natty just to see what the fuss was about. That lasted about 2 weeks. I blew Natty away and downloaded Mint/Xfce. Wasn't very happy with it either. So now I'm back to Redhat/Fedora/Gnome3. For me, Ubuntu the wrong direction. Loss of the network transparent graphical environment was the final straw. If I wanted an Mac, I would have bought a Mac.
Gnome3 will take some getting used to, but I am confident I can open the hood and fix the things that drive me crazy. The first to go will be windows that maximize themselves when I push the title bar to the top of the desktop. I don't know who thought that was a good idea, but they need a dope slap.
My car is equipped with a Bluetooth device that interrupts the sound system when the phone is active. Talking on the phone for me is no different that talking with someone in the passenger seat.
My TomTom is like a backseat driver saying, "After 400 yards, turn right", etc... Even if a so called "smart phone" can manage the GPS functions while I am talking on the phone, the audio GPS directions would cause cut-outs in the conversation. That is not desirable.
I recently drove from Portland OR to SF BayArea and was re-routed around traffic backups while in transit. This was with the TomTom Live system. Will phone based GPS apps do that and let me talk on the phone? I don't get this rush to put everything in a phone.
What resource or service are the complaining countries being deined under the present regimen? I see have only seen complains that are ego based being made. I can see why China and Iran are unhappy with the present setup but I don't understand why Brazil or the EU (other than ego) is upset. How is the present day internet interfering with Brazil's internal tax collection? Is someone complaing that they are being denied sufficient IP numbers? Is it because of the recent foolishness surrounding the.XXX TLD? Ego stroking aside, what's wrong with the present state of affairs?
I don't see any comments on this, but according to the article, this guy has a PhD in Computer Science and works for a software company. I hope he works in Sales/Marketing and not in the development side of the house.
This is scary on so many levels... At the very least he should return to his school and demand a refund, if he graduated too stupid to secure his own damn computer. I explained this to my high school dropout neighbor and he got it. Geesh!!
This fight is best fought with legal defense pools such as recently established. Indemnification is what SCO wants, because it narrows their focus to the indemnifiers. It would be better to force SCO to fight these actions one at at time rather that aggregate the users for them.
Novell has a different agenda. It appears to me they are simply trying to buy support contracts.
I am reminded of the story of Brer Rabbit (SCO) and Brer Fox (Novell).
"Drown me just as deep as you please, Brer Fox," says Brer Rabbit, says he, "But please do not fling me in that briar patch, " says he.
This is very simple. These "targeted" (by FSF) companies wanted to get a product to market as quickly as possible. They chose to use GLP'd software to shorten the development time and reduce engineering costs. This is no different than had they gone to a commercial software company for a quick start and entered into a royalty based licence agreement on shipments. Such jump-starts on development are often sound business decisions.
The only difference here is, the coin of the GPL realm is source code and any who skip out on royalties are guilty of fraud or theft, usually both.
Either use GPL'd software or don't. What you don't get to do is steal it.
It seems appropriate to this topic to revive this old chesnut:
Jack, a COBOL programmer, after years of being taken for granted and treated as a technological dinosaur by all the UNIX programmers and Client/Server programmers and website developers, finally started getting some respect in 1994. He'd become a private consultant specializing in Year 2000 conversions. He was working short-term assignments. He was working 70 and 80 and even 90 hours a week, but it was worth it.
After a few years of this relentless, mind-numbing work, Jack started having problems sleeping and began having anxiety dreams about the Year 2000. It had reached a point where even the thought of the year 2000 made him nearly violent. He must have suffered some sort of breakdown, because all he could think about was finding a way he could avoid the year 2000 and all that came with it.
Jack made a deal with the company that specialized in cryogenics to have himself frozen until March 15, 2000. This was a very expensive process and totally automated. He was thrilled. The next thing he would know is he'd wake up in the year 2000; after the New Year celebrations and computer debacles; after the leap year. Nothing else to worry about except getting on with his life.
He was put into his cryogenic receptacle, the technicians set the revive date, he was given injections to slow his heartbeat to a bare minimum, and that was that.
The next thing that Jack saw was an enormous and very modern room filled with excited people. They were all shouting "I can't believe it!" and "It 's a miracle" and "He's alive!". There were cameras (unlike any he'd ever seen) and equipment that looked like it came out of science fiction movie. Someone who was obviously a spokesperson for the group stepped forward. Jack couldn't contain his enthusiasm. "Is it over?" he asked "Is 2000 already here? Are the millennial parties and promotions and crisis's all over and done with?"
The spokesman explained that there had been a problem with the programming of the timer on Jack's cryogenic receptacle: it hadn't been year 2000 compliant. It was actually eight thousand years later, not the year 2000. But the spokeman told Jack that he shouldn't get excited; someone important wanted to speak to him. A wall-sized projection screen displayed the image of a man that looked very much like Bill Gates. This man was Prime Minister of Earth. He told Jack not to be upset. That this was a wonderful time to be alive. That there was world peace and no more starvation. That the space program has been reinstated and there were colonies on the moon and on Mars. That technology had advanced to such a degree that everyone had virtual reality interfaces which allowed them to contact anyone else on the planet, or to watch any entertainment, or to hear any music recorded anywhere.
"That sounds terrific," said Jack. "But I'm curious. Why is everybody so interested in me?"
"Well," said the Prime Minister. "The year 10000 is just around the corner, and it says in your files that you know COBOL."
ADAT recorders have 8 channels of storage per unit. Multiple units can be ganged together to create very wide multi-track recorders. This device, clever as it is, only records two tracks. This makes it good for making demos and such, but not suitable for professional studio work intended for commercial release.
The suits will probably get their knickers in a twist if it doesn't support SCMS though.
It will make for some killer audience and board tapes though. Too bad this didn't exist back when I was making "Dead" tapes. Sigh....
As you imply, that actually is the problem. I don't want a million pages that contain a some or all of my keywords. I want 10 pages, or fewer, that actually address my issue. Google needs two search fields. One, the simple text search that currently exists, and two, a context list of keywords. Words in the context keyword list could be preceeded with a "-" symbol to block all pages returned from the text search that are tagged with that context.
Lets say I have a wireless PCMCIA card that doesn't work with the new OS version I just installed. I would like to do a text search on "wpc11" and a context search on "-purchase" and have all URLs which are trying to sell me one be discarded. I realize finding an automatic means of contextualizing URLs is not simple, but that what is needed.
The market will bless whoever can figure how to do it.
The reviewer didn't check to see if the DVD player had DMA enabled. The processor has enough gas to run a DVD, I do it all the time with my Linux system and my 1GHz processor needs about 5% to handle everything. The 128MB is a bit slight though. After adding the second128MB stick all should have performed well enough.
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... low tolerance for stupidity -- absolutely. ... newbies, you need to be more specific. It's lazy newbies who don't RTFM (that's F as in fine) or provide appropriate information in a problem report that get roasted.
What a stupid way to count users.
I agree that it is confusing. I been running a F15 release candidate for the last month or so. There are some features of Gnome3 that have to go away and will as soon as I have some spare time to dig into it. I must point out that Gnome3 is the lesser of two evils. I began using Redhat back in the mid-90s. When Ubuntu released Dapper I switched my working desktop to it because of the reduced admin effort. My current desktop is Lucid.
About 2 months ago I heard Ubuntu was moving away from Gnome and downloaded Natty just to see what the fuss was about. That lasted about 2 weeks. I blew Natty away and downloaded Mint/Xfce. Wasn't very happy with it either. So now I'm back to Redhat/Fedora/Gnome3. For me, Ubuntu the wrong direction. Loss of the network transparent graphical environment was the final straw. If I wanted an Mac, I would have bought a Mac.
Gnome3 will take some getting used to, but I am confident I can open the hood and fix the things that drive me crazy. The first to go will be windows that maximize themselves when I push the title bar to the top of the desktop. I don't know who thought that was a good idea, but they need a dope slap.
My car is equipped with a Bluetooth device that interrupts the sound system when the phone is active. Talking on the phone for me is no different that talking with someone in the passenger seat.
My TomTom is like a backseat driver saying, "After 400 yards, turn right", etc... Even if a so called "smart phone" can manage the GPS functions while I am talking on the phone, the audio GPS directions would cause cut-outs in the conversation. That is not desirable.
I recently drove from Portland OR to SF BayArea and was re-routed around traffic backups while in transit. This was with the TomTom Live system. Will phone based GPS apps do that and let me talk on the phone? I don't get this rush to put everything in a phone.
What resource or service are the complaining countries being deined under the present regimen? I see have only seen complains that are ego based being made. I can see why China and Iran are unhappy with the present setup but I don't understand why Brazil or the EU (other than ego) is upset. How is the present day internet interfering with Brazil's internal tax collection? Is someone complaing that they are being denied sufficient IP numbers? Is it because of the recent foolishness surrounding the .XXX TLD? Ego stroking aside, what's wrong with the present state of affairs?
I don't see any comments on this, but according to the article, this guy has a PhD in Computer Science and works for a software company. I hope he works in Sales/Marketing and not in the development side of the house.
... At the very least he should return to his school and demand a refund, if he graduated too stupid to secure his own damn computer. I explained this to my high school dropout neighbor and he got it. Geesh!!
This is scary on so many levels
This fight is best fought with legal defense pools such as recently established. Indemnification is what SCO wants, because it narrows their focus to the indemnifiers. It would be better to force SCO to fight these actions one at at time rather that aggregate the users for them.
Novell has a different agenda. It appears to me they are simply trying to buy support contracts.
I am reminded of the story of Brer Rabbit (SCO) and Brer Fox (Novell).
"Drown me just as deep as you please, Brer Fox," says Brer Rabbit, says he, "But please do not fling me in that briar patch, " says he.
It all depends on what the meaning of the word "based" is.
This is very simple. These "targeted" (by FSF) companies wanted to get a product to market as quickly as possible. They chose to use GLP'd software to shorten the development time and reduce engineering costs. This is no different than had they gone to a commercial software company for a quick start and entered into a royalty based licence agreement on shipments. Such jump-starts on development are often sound business decisions.
The only difference here is, the coin of the GPL realm is source code and any who skip out on royalties are guilty of fraud or theft, usually both.
Either use GPL'd software or don't. What you don't get to do is steal it.
It seems appropriate to this topic to revive this old chesnut: Jack, a COBOL programmer, after years of being taken for granted and treated as a technological dinosaur by all the UNIX programmers and Client/Server programmers and website developers, finally started getting some respect in 1994. He'd become a private consultant specializing in Year 2000 conversions. He was working short-term assignments. He was working 70 and 80 and even 90 hours a week, but it was worth it. After a few years of this relentless, mind-numbing work, Jack started having problems sleeping and began having anxiety dreams about the Year 2000. It had reached a point where even the thought of the year 2000 made him nearly violent. He must have suffered some sort of breakdown, because all he could think about was finding a way he could avoid the year 2000 and all that came with it. Jack made a deal with the company that specialized in cryogenics to have himself frozen until March 15, 2000. This was a very expensive process and totally automated. He was thrilled. The next thing he would know is he'd wake up in the year 2000; after the New Year celebrations and computer debacles; after the leap year. Nothing else to worry about except getting on with his life. He was put into his cryogenic receptacle, the technicians set the revive date, he was given injections to slow his heartbeat to a bare minimum, and that was that. The next thing that Jack saw was an enormous and very modern room filled with excited people. They were all shouting "I can't believe it!" and "It 's a miracle" and "He's alive!". There were cameras (unlike any he'd ever seen) and equipment that looked like it came out of science fiction movie. Someone who was obviously a spokesperson for the group stepped forward. Jack couldn't contain his enthusiasm. "Is it over?" he asked "Is 2000 already here? Are the millennial parties and promotions and crisis's all over and done with?" The spokesman explained that there had been a problem with the programming of the timer on Jack's cryogenic receptacle: it hadn't been year 2000 compliant. It was actually eight thousand years later, not the year 2000. But the spokeman told Jack that he shouldn't get excited; someone important wanted to speak to him. A wall-sized projection screen displayed the image of a man that looked very much like Bill Gates. This man was Prime Minister of Earth. He told Jack not to be upset. That this was a wonderful time to be alive. That there was world peace and no more starvation. That the space program has been reinstated and there were colonies on the moon and on Mars. That technology had advanced to such a degree that everyone had virtual reality interfaces which allowed them to contact anyone else on the planet, or to watch any entertainment, or to hear any music recorded anywhere. "That sounds terrific," said Jack. "But I'm curious. Why is everybody so interested in me?" "Well," said the Prime Minister. "The year 10000 is just around the corner, and it says in your files that you know COBOL."
ADAT recorders have 8 channels of storage per unit. Multiple units can be ganged together to create very wide multi-track recorders. This device, clever as it is, only records two tracks. This makes it good for making demos and such, but not suitable for professional studio work intended for commercial release.
The suits will probably get their knickers in a twist if it doesn't support SCMS though.
It will make for some killer audience and board tapes though. Too bad this didn't exist back when I was making "Dead" tapes. Sigh....
As you imply, that actually is the problem. I don't want a million pages that contain a some or all of my keywords. I want 10 pages, or fewer, that actually address my issue. Google needs two search fields. One, the simple text search that currently exists, and two, a context list of keywords. Words in the context keyword list could be preceeded with a "-" symbol to block all pages returned from the text search that are tagged with that context.
Lets say I have a wireless PCMCIA card that doesn't work with the new OS version I just installed. I would like to do a text search on "wpc11" and a context search on "-purchase" and have all URLs which are trying to sell me one be discarded. I realize finding an automatic means of contextualizing URLs is not simple, but that what is needed.
The market will bless whoever can figure how to do it.
The reviewer didn't check to see if the DVD player had DMA enabled. The processor has enough gas to run a DVD, I do
it all the time with my Linux system and my 1GHz processor
needs about 5% to handle everything. The 128MB is a bit
slight though. After adding the second128MB stick all should
have performed well enough.
Wrong. SSNs are not unique. The combination of birthdate, name and SSN is unique.