Mission Critical Linux went out of business. It's truly a shame, they were a town over from me. Apparently you can't make money giving away software for free.
I agree with the above poster about having a lot more things to worry about than finding a job, but I think once you do find one you're going to be severely disappointed. Unlike the US, where IT workers are for some unknown reason glorified, many international companies see them as little more than janitors, paid to keep the IT systems running. I really think if you're looking for decent pay in this area it's going to be like hitting a brick wall, do you have any developer talents?
Apparently the events of September 11th haven't taken hold of everyone, but I was hoping at this point people might've learned their lesson about building HUGE FUCKING TARGETS. Seriously, how few explosive do you think it would take to bring down the whole thing, being a suspension bridge? It's an attack waiting to happen.
I'm well aware of the differences between First Person Shooters and real life and I agree 100% with your statement, but the fact is this is a SCHOOL-SPONSORED ACTIVITY and many parents will look down on violent shooting games and feel that they shouldn't be encouraged in an activity provided by a school system. It "wouldn't be prudent."
I'd suggest any RTS/Strategy or Fantasy games, even something slightly violent like Diablo II. I'd stay away from the FPS's, they're going to wind up causing trouble with overbearing parents. Still sounds like a great idea, we never had a game night sponsored by the school when I was in high school years ago.
It isn't necessarily Apple's job to port their software to every platform known to exist.
I'm fully aware of that, however my point was that having been ported to OS X, a UNIX in most respects, the port to Linux would be trivial (change a few libraries and a recompile), and certainly they'd be interested in more users, even if those interested would only in the thousands.
I think you almost hit the nail on the head with this one. Four Linux companies that haven't done anything in a long time (Caldera, TurboLinux? Are they kidding??) are ganging up to try to take on RedHat, but the fact remains that they're still four dying companies. I'm really not sure what they're trying to accomplish with this initiative, but it looks like a last-ditch effort on the way out, which is really a shame because SuSE was almost sustaining a business and I had high hopes for it, even if I'm a Mandrake fan, myself.
I think you're probably trolling, but you're missing the point. It's nice that you can get the same chip for Apple desktops and laptops, but it doesn't matter if the chip isn't up to par with what you need. Sure, Apple's chips run Altivec-optimized Photoshop routines quickly, but for things that actually matter to me like kernel compiles, mp3 encoding, or gaming, a P4 1.5 Ghz laptop is going to run 3 times as fast as your 500 Mhz G4.
Of course, this will cost a lot more than similarly powerful desktop, but some people don't seem to mind that tradeoff.
I wonder why, perhaps it's because you have a device that will fit in your lap (or less) and be almost up to par with the speed of a large desktop tower? Presuming someone had a use for a mobile computer, why would they mind paying for a literal mobile desktop?
So if Opera is the wild child of browsers, it would be incapable of parsing or rendering HTML, would periodically generate frenzied outbursts of sound and signals, and would occasionally defecate on the desktop.But with years of patient training, it might become a functional browser.
Are you expecting them to package a DEVELOPMENT kernel? I certainly hope not. Kernel upgrades are supported with urpmi in Cooker, but I'd be curious what is wrong with the 2.4.18 kernel supplied with 8.2. It's been thorughly QA tested, and if you have the upgrade sickness, surely you can learn to compile your own kernel.
Of course not to the HURD. Apple uses both Mach and BSD, and all additions are available for anyone to use under a license as Darwin. HURD isn't interested in using the BSD-like-licensed code, and since nothing was taken from the HURD, I fail to see your point.
Post a story on Slashdot about it. Too bad it didn't make it onto the front page, you'd be all set.
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Look at the facts. WINE got mad that Transgaming wasn't contributing fast enough, so they effectively took their ball and went home by changing their license on everyone. Transgaming now contributes to the Rewind project, which can accept their work and is glad to do so. Transgaming has done an excellent job making money in a way that still contributes to the community while offering an extremely valuable service. I'll give you a hint, there's a bad guy here, and it isn't Transgaming.
The 3% is an approximation based on disk space usage of my distribution's components. It's not precise and is little more than my opinion on what I think of people who shout about how it should be called GNU/Linux when I have things that I find much more essential than GNU software taking up more space on my system (and now's definitely not the time to debate it, for anyone else that's reading). Sorry, I don't have anything that interesting besides counting up the disk space of GNU packages, though it would be an interesting thing to find out the statistics on.
True, but that number is over-inflated. Debian counts ports for different parts of the same package, such as openssl, libopenssl, and libopenssl-devel for OpenSSL. These are all one OpenSSL port in FreeBSD, as it is with any library. I'd be surprised if Debian had a number close to equal to FreeBSD's ports if they were counted the same way.
Sure, it sucks that you get hit with a bunch of pop-up ads, but what did he do that's illegal? You typed in the wrong URL that led you to a perfectly valid site and pull down data from it. Be more careful typing next time.
But XP was a service pack for Win2k, hell, it was just Win2k with themes added. In fact, this exact thing is mentioned in the article. Surely you read it, right?
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Mission Critical Linux went out of business. It's truly a shame, they were a town over from me. Apparently you can't make money giving away software for free.
I agree with the above poster about having a lot more things to worry about than finding a job, but I think once you do find one you're going to be severely disappointed. Unlike the US, where IT workers are for some unknown reason glorified, many international companies see them as little more than janitors, paid to keep the IT systems running. I really think if you're looking for decent pay in this area it's going to be like hitting a brick wall, do you have any developer talents?
Apparently the events of September 11th haven't taken hold of everyone, but I was hoping at this point people might've learned their lesson about building HUGE FUCKING TARGETS. Seriously, how few explosive do you think it would take to bring down the whole thing, being a suspension bridge? It's an attack waiting to happen.
Outsource the conversion to India and go play golf. You can probably still get in a good 18 before the sun goes down if you're on the East Coast.
I'm well aware of the differences between First Person Shooters and real life and I agree 100% with your statement, but the fact is this is a SCHOOL-SPONSORED ACTIVITY and many parents will look down on violent shooting games and feel that they shouldn't be encouraged in an activity provided by a school system. It "wouldn't be prudent."
I'd suggest any RTS/Strategy or Fantasy games, even something slightly violent like Diablo II. I'd stay away from the FPS's, they're going to wind up causing trouble with overbearing parents. Still sounds like a great idea, we never had a game night sponsored by the school when I was in high school years ago.
It isn't necessarily Apple's job to port their software to every platform known to exist.
I'm fully aware of that, however my point was that having been ported to OS X, a UNIX in most respects, the port to Linux would be trivial (change a few libraries and a recompile), and certainly they'd be interested in more users, even if those interested would only in the thousands.
No, it stands for MPEG-1 Layer 3.
It's out for MacOS, MacOS X (BSD), and Windows. Remind me again why we can't have a native Linux version of it?
I think you almost hit the nail on the head with this one. Four Linux companies that haven't done anything in a long time (Caldera, TurboLinux? Are they kidding??) are ganging up to try to take on RedHat, but the fact remains that they're still four dying companies. I'm really not sure what they're trying to accomplish with this initiative, but it looks like a last-ditch effort on the way out, which is really a shame because SuSE was almost sustaining a business and I had high hopes for it, even if I'm a Mandrake fan, myself.
I think you're probably trolling, but you're missing the point. It's nice that you can get the same chip for Apple desktops and laptops, but it doesn't matter if the chip isn't up to par with what you need. Sure, Apple's chips run Altivec-optimized Photoshop routines quickly, but for things that actually matter to me like kernel compiles, mp3 encoding, or gaming, a P4 1.5 Ghz laptop is going to run 3 times as fast as your 500 Mhz G4.
Of course, this will cost a lot more than similarly powerful desktop, but some people don't seem to mind that tradeoff.
I wonder why, perhaps it's because you have a device that will fit in your lap (or less) and be almost up to par with the speed of a large desktop tower? Presuming someone had a use for a mobile computer, why would they mind paying for a literal mobile desktop?
So if Opera is the wild child of browsers, it would be incapable of parsing or rendering HTML, would periodically generate frenzied outbursts of sound and signals, and would occasionally defecate on the desktop.But with years of patient training, it might become a functional browser.
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No, that's Mozilla you're talking about.
Are you expecting them to package a DEVELOPMENT kernel? I certainly hope not. Kernel upgrades are supported with urpmi in Cooker, but I'd be curious what is wrong with the 2.4.18 kernel supplied with 8.2. It's been thorughly QA tested, and if you have the upgrade sickness, surely you can learn to compile your own kernel.
This belongs in the developers section. Development kernel releases are strictly for developers and testers only, as they WILL break things.
How are they going to pay for the lines or electricity that their network runs on, to say nothing of maintenance?
Of course not to the HURD. Apple uses both Mach and BSD, and all additions are available for anyone to use under a license as Darwin. HURD isn't interested in using the BSD-like-licensed code, and since nothing was taken from the HURD, I fail to see your point.
Post a story on Slashdot about it. Too bad it didn't make it onto the front page, you'd be all set.
Look at the facts. WINE got mad that Transgaming wasn't contributing fast enough, so they effectively took their ball and went home by changing their license on everyone. Transgaming now contributes to the Rewind project, which can accept their work and is glad to do so. Transgaming has done an excellent job making money in a way that still contributes to the community while offering an extremely valuable service. I'll give you a hint, there's a bad guy here, and it isn't Transgaming.
So when I look at an AOL site I'm using AOL? How about when I look at a Microsoft tech bulletin, am I using Windows? Right, speaking of moron...
The 3% is an approximation based on disk space usage of my distribution's components. It's not precise and is little more than my opinion on what I think of people who shout about how it should be called GNU/Linux when I have things that I find much more essential than GNU software taking up more space on my system (and now's definitely not the time to debate it, for anyone else that's reading). Sorry, I don't have anything that interesting besides counting up the disk space of GNU packages, though it would be an interesting thing to find out the statistics on.
True, but that number is over-inflated. Debian counts ports for different parts of the same package, such as openssl, libopenssl, and libopenssl-devel for OpenSSL. These are all one OpenSSL port in FreeBSD, as it is with any library. I'd be surprised if Debian had a number close to equal to FreeBSD's ports if they were counted the same way.
Sure, it sucks that you get hit with a bunch of pop-up ads, but what did he do that's illegal? You typed in the wrong URL that led you to a perfectly valid site and pull down data from it. Be more careful typing next time.
But XP was a service pack for Win2k, hell, it was just Win2k with themes added. In fact, this exact thing is mentioned in the article. Surely you read it, right?
Right, and there's a GameBoy emulator for PalmOS. Get it? It's a joke, he's running an emulator inside an emulator? Get it? Nevermind.