If you can tell me which format I can use which will work on stock Linux, Windows and Mac systems without downloading or installing anything, I'm all ears.
Microsoft have a technology preview of their new MSN search engine. The litmus test is, of course, searching for "ross burton".
The good news: top hit is the root of my blog. However, so are the 2nd, 3rd, 4th... In fact all but five of the results in the first five pages are from my site, and those others are all pages from the Burton (the snowboarding people) web site. Amusingly, they have shown me the index pages from every day I've blogged on.
Why not see for yourself how well Google searches for "Ross Burton", compared to Microsoft's new engine. Thank you Google for More results from www.burtonini.com!
most spam I get is claiming to be from a known source (ie someone who knows me has a worm and is spamming from their address book)
Even better! This will reduce the number of people that forget to fix their system. ISPs (there are ISPs involved? I didnt RTFA...) probably would give their customers a warning in the first time their budget gets too right due this kind of crap...
Some people would never update their system if arent' forced to do it.
Man, I *hate* those news about this SBC 'cause I always think what the Sociedade Brasileira de Computacao (Brasilizian Computing Society) is doing acting as a provider...
They could have added comparsions between gcj and Java.
At first, when I saw the Java comparsions, I tought "ok, that will send the last report that says that Sun Java is faster than g++ to space!" but checking the "Implementations" section, it showed that they used gcj for its java comparsion.
Mozilla 1.7RC3 should iron out any final bugs in what will replace 1.4 as the new stable branch
Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't the Mozilla 1.8 (currently on Alpha/Beta) the current "would be stable branch version"? I remember that, when the announce of 1.8 came along, it was pointed that this would be the new stable branch...
Man, I can't believe they didn't used radiosity to render those images. Yes, I know it takes a lot more of CPU power, but I would surely steal other people computers just to play Quake that way:)
Yes, but they mask. There are a lot of programs that do not behave the way they should behave - they seek their config files in/etc, not in the path passed in the configure script or seek for a especific binary in an especific dir (mutt seeking for/usr/lib/sendmail comes to my mind right now).
Until the build process of those applications (and I think also the autotools) change their way of treating the system, masking is the only option.
Think about an operation system. Any operating system. Now, the chances that this operating system has drivers for any Matrox cards is about 95%. There are only a few that are not supported.
The big deal with Matrox is that they don't do tricks in their drivers. Everything is hardware accelerated (and that's why Matrox cards are so expensive).
BTW, I still have a Matrox Millenium (about four years) laying in a Pentium II and still kicking ass.
It doesn't even need training. All you need to do is:
- Go to the Corley Motors Stadium - Ask the guy in the shop about the shirt in his back - While he is not looking, grap the little bunny in the outside - Blow the bunny in the minefield and get the batteries - Return to the shop, ask again about the shirt - While the guy is not looking, put the battery in the radio controlled car - Move the car inside the stadium - When the guy goes after the car, grap as many little bunny boxes as you can - Go back to the minefield and drop the boxes - See the little cute bunny blowing up and paving you a safe way
That was not my point. The original poster asked who cared about if a software was free or not. I was. If Linus or someone else doesn't care doesn't matter me. Linus can use Microsoft SourceSafe if it worked for him and he doesn't care about free (as speech) software. But I care about free software, and I will always use a Free (as speech) option instead of a closed one.
Suppose you current tool doesn't do what you want. You can simply check the sources to see why I isn't working correctly and you can even patch it.
Now, with a closed tool (even if it's free), you have to contact the developers and wait for a new release.
As I have a good "tracking problem sense", I will always use an open source tool over a closed one. I don't care if the closed one is better or not, I just want to feel safe when the troubles arise.
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Re:question (Score:1, Funny)
Funny? FUNNY? Oh, please! This is the most direct Flamebait I ever see on Slashdot. It's even more flamebait than the original post.
Why does every incremental release and beta of KDE get mentioned here? But when Gnome releases, nary a word.
:)
Oh, take a break. It's a slow day. We need some news, right?
If you can tell me which format I can use which will work on stock Linux, Windows and Mac systems without downloading or installing anything, I'm all ears.
HTML.
You forgot "the military are building a beowulf of key entry jams"...
Microsoft have a technology preview of their new MSN search engine. The litmus test is, of course, searching for "ross burton".
The good news: top hit is the root of my blog. However, so are the 2nd, 3rd, 4th... In fact all but five of the results in the first five pages are from my site, and those others are all pages from the Burton (the snowboarding people) web site. Amusingly, they have shown me the index pages from every day I've blogged on.
Why not see for yourself how well Google searches for "Ross Burton", compared to Microsoft's new engine. Thank you Google for More results from www.burtonini.com!
I'd guess there are maybe 3 people in the world who really want a robot "friend"
Hoorray! It's the first someone talk about me in Slashdot!
Who are the other two?
most spam I get is claiming to be from a known source (ie someone who knows me has a worm and is spamming from their address book)
Even better! This will reduce the number of people that forget to fix their system. ISPs (there are ISPs involved? I didnt RTFA...) probably would give their customers a warning in the first time their budget gets too right due this kind of crap...
Some people would never update their system if arent' forced to do it.
Man, I *hate* those news about this SBC 'cause I always think what the Sociedade Brasileira de Computacao (Brasilizian Computing Society) is doing acting as a provider...
For some reason I read "Ah, the joules of youth"...
They could have added comparsions between gcj and Java.
At first, when I saw the Java comparsions, I tought "ok, that will send the last report that says that Sun Java is faster than g++ to space!" but checking the "Implementations" section, it showed that they used gcj for its java comparsion.
Who honestly cares about or uses Ogg?
Well, I care and I use it. To me, ogg sounds a lot better than mp3. And it is also smaller. And I also get a patent-free coded!
you're connected to one of the largest repositories of human knowledge ever created
This is Slashdot. You must be new here.
Oh, you mean the internet! Yeah, there is knowledge there...
Mozilla 1.7RC3 should iron out any final bugs in what will replace 1.4 as the new stable branch
Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't the Mozilla 1.8 (currently on Alpha/Beta) the current "would be stable branch version"? I remember that, when the announce of 1.8 came along, it was pointed that this would be the new stable branch...
I'm confused...
The password is '21241036'!
Remember me to change the password of my briefcase.
[Or something like that]
Man, I can't believe they didn't used radiosity to render those images. Yes, I know it takes a lot more of CPU power, but I would surely steal other people computers just to play Quake that way :)
Yes, but they mask. There are a lot of programs that do not behave the way they should behave - they seek their config files in /etc, not in the path passed in the configure script or seek for a especific binary in an especific dir (mutt seeking for /usr/lib/sendmail comes to my mind right now).
Until the build process of those applications (and I think also the autotools) change their way of treating the system, masking is the only option.
Think about an operation system. Any operating system. Now, the chances that this operating system has drivers for any Matrox cards is about 95%. There are only a few that are not supported.
The big deal with Matrox is that they don't do tricks in their drivers. Everything is hardware accelerated (and that's why Matrox cards are so expensive).
BTW, I still have a Matrox Millenium (about four years) laying in a Pentium II and still kicking ass.
Do you have OS/2 around? Just run 'grep -ril "Microsoft" *' on it and see how many "Copyright(C) Microsoft" you will find.
OS/2 was developed in conjunction with MS a long time ago, and there are things that MS still holds the copyright inside OS/2.
I'm still waiting for a new Trek Series:
Star Trek: Galaxy Quest
It's about time for a parody (and "Galaxy Quest" was just a movie; I want a series where every episode the captain cries "Khaaaan!" for no reason).
It doesn't even need training. All you need to do is:
- Go to the Corley Motors Stadium
- Ask the guy in the shop about the shirt in his back
- While he is not looking, grap the little bunny in the outside
- Blow the bunny in the minefield and get the batteries
- Return to the shop, ask again about the shirt
- While the guy is not looking, put the battery in the radio controlled car
- Move the car inside the stadium
- When the guy goes after the car, grap as many little bunny boxes as you can
- Go back to the minefield and drop the boxes
- See the little cute bunny blowing up and paving you a safe way
[Damn, I NEED a new Full Throttle!]
That was not my point. The original poster asked who cared about if a software was free or not. I was. If Linus or someone else doesn't care doesn't matter me. Linus can use Microsoft SourceSafe if it worked for him and he doesn't care about free (as speech) software. But I care about free software, and I will always use a Free (as speech) option instead of a closed one.
I care.
Suppose you current tool doesn't do what you want. You can simply check the sources to see why I isn't working correctly and you can even patch it.
Now, with a closed tool (even if it's free), you have to contact the developers and wait for a new release.
As I have a good "tracking problem sense", I will always use an open source tool over a closed one. I don't care if the closed one is better or not, I just want to feel safe when the troubles arise.
And let's not forget about whitespace.
I never thought about that! Finally, my evil plan can be unleashed! Muahahaha!
From now on, you can call me Tony Vercetti.
You are right. I'm using vim for so long that I always forget that there is a vi around... :)