you can't sue a friend for introducing you to someone who then assaults you
My aunt ended up getting out of the music business, since if she introduced a band to a venue and something went wrong, she could be held responsible for damages by both parties:-/
Why should you go out of your way to spend your time (which you're not being paid for) to find someone who has a problem, and tell them to "RTFM"?
I don't go out of my way to find them -- I hang out in various tech forums where discussion of news happens, and interesting questions are often asked; the people with problems also go there, and we meet.
Can anyone give an example of a successful open source project which spent a good chunk of its early years as a completely proprietary software?
Can anyone give an example that didn't? (where "successful" = "regularly used by people who've never even heard of open source")
VLC, Gaim.. Gimp? I stuggle to think of as many as the other way round, and those that I can think of aren't as popular (as eg firefox):-/
Which brings up a theory -- open source is great at building on top of things and adding features, but it works best when a single entity (person or company) gives them a large, stable codebase to work with. (Also note the inverse -- there are loads of projects where a lot of people form a group to start something, then they spend so long in group politics that nothing gets started and people leave from boredom; also, single entities don't have the manpower or variety of ideas needed to sustain growth)
average/.er mods: "Linux has a few bad points..." TROLL/Flamebait
What is it with so many slashdot users saying "average/.er says XYZ", when in fact most of them *aren't* saying XYZ, most of them are *complaining about how "everyone else" is saying XYZ*?
Also: 60% Interesting + 20% Troll + 20% Insightful; average = Troll / Flamebait... what defenition of "average" are you using o_O?
95% of people I see asking linux questions haven't read the manual. Why should I go out of my way to spend my time (which I'm not being paid for) doing things the hard way, when the easy way ("RTFM") is correct and sufficient almost all the time?
Also, it's standard advice that when asking for help you say what you've tried already -- if you say "I've read the manual" then people won't have to make assumptions:P
I take it you've never had a manager? X and Y are far more likely to be using what management insists they use, and management makes decisions based on statistics (pulled out of an ass or not, it doesn't really matter so long as there are enough percent signs and an obvious winner)
Why not accept it and fix the documentation issue?
If you can explain how lack of desktop user point & drool documentation* can cause a properly installed and running server to go down, I'll fix the problem myself:-P
* I assume that's what they're on about -- linux has plenty of admin technical docs.
While I'm here, I'll throw in that my own linux server has a software uptime of four years (all downtime has been hardware related). (Yes, I've not been rebooting for kernel upgrades -- potentially malicious users aren't given local access, and remote access is heavily firewalled)
I did it the wrong way, and X broke horribly (the change to a modular server is a bigger package reorganisation than mere "upgrade" is designed for). However it was/bootable/, and a dist-upgrade from within the crippled box mostly fixed it.
DIST-UPGRADE, I repeat - DIST-UPGRADE
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Lots of people complaining about X breaking, and I had the same problem (and a load of others) -- then I realised I ran "apt-get upgrade" instead of "apt-get dist-upgrade". Dist-upgrade worked, and fixed X (and several, but not all the other problems)
I've seen some pretty oversized PDFs in my time, but this has got to be a record -- one image and under 10 sentances, 5MB. Truly a sight to behold! (Not that I'm encouraging everyone to download it at once or anything...)
On that note, anyone know of any good PDF analysers / compressors? I've been sent some PDFs to upload to a website, and the most recent revision is more than ten times the size of the previous, despite only a few words of small print being different; I'd be interested to know what all that extra space is being filled with...
An odd thing to spot, but I find it distracting that the bully is called Haskell (an alledgedly awesome programming language, that I've not had time to learn myself), and CC's scientist friend is called yuri (japanese for female / female reationships, often used online to mean "anime lesbian porn").
Aside from that, the comic is rather lame -- it's so overdone, even a child should be able to detect the smell of propoganda...
I was halfway through downloading some stepmania songs when it cut out. What will I dance to now?:(
Such moral dilemma; should I sit here and continue being screwed over, or should I go down to their level and sue them for interrupting my excercise schedule, and reducing my estimated lifespan by 5 years?
Does anybody else here find that that's the only common use for them? The external parts of the ears normally get caught up in the rest of the face washing. I'll admit that one time I poked too far and my hearing went funky for a couple of days, but I don't see that as enough of a reason to explicitly state you should never use them in that way...
I seem many people recommending hamachi; while OK, I prefer openvpn -- it works much nicer cross platform (the linux version seems half assed compared to the windows, whereas ovpn is exactly the same everywhere), it doesn't have an external company as a single point of failure, it's more configurable, and generally feels more solid.
Its main downside is that it's designed server-client with you being the server, so you become the single point of failure, as well as having to act as proxy for all network traffic -- AFAIK hamachi only uses the central server to start connections, and runs p2p from then on.
it tells me that my pictures are located in Y:\pics instead of ~/pics
That's WINE, not picasa. And it's designed that way deliberately -- WINE is a program designed to make windows binaries feel at home, which means they have to use drive letters:P
Also, it is too stupid to realize that the simlink on the desktop is the same directory
Again, WINE. Again, it's designed that way, because that's the point:P
Everyone here seems to feel the student has the right to freespeech. Okay, does his teacher have the same rights? Does the school? Can they say anything they want about him?
If it was a student / teacher thing, in school, no. But the issue here is that the kid's being punished as a student for something that happened outside of school.
Similarly, I support the right of teachers to bitch about pupils -- but only on their own time, not acting as school staff.
Though many on slashdot may claim it is blasphemy to say this, I do not think that patents are nessessarily a bad thing. In fact, I think that if implemented properly, they can help to encourage innovation.
Will people please stop incorrectly generalising other slashdot posters, then going on to state the exact same thing as what everyone else is saying?
Maybe it's just that I read at +2, and this "many on slashdot" that people keep talking about (who I never see) are +1 or less...
Our high school had a student-run newspaper, run anonymously by students who were fed up with the bias in the teacher-run one -- one of the reporters was caught and threatened with expulsion unless the school was allowed to look over the paper and approve it before publication (which was agreed to, as long as all stories were still available in full on the website (seems to be down due to web host issues. web mania suck btw.)). Then they threatened to expel unless the editors made themselves known to senior staff (which was agreed to). Then they threatened to expel unless the paper was stopped entirely, which it eventually was:-(
I find that what you know isn't as important as what you can find out on demand -- someone with little memory but knowledge of manuals and google has access to much more information than someone who's memorised a single book.
(I wish schools taught like that though; as it is, we're given huge lists of things to remember and quote in exams, without being taught how to think about solving new problems that we haven't explicitly covered in the books:-/)
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I don't go out of my way to find them -- I hang out in various tech forums where discussion of news happens, and interesting questions are often asked; the people with problems also go there, and we meet.
Can anyone give an example that didn't? (where "successful" = "regularly used by people who've never even heard of open source")
VLC, Gaim.. Gimp? I stuggle to think of as many as the other way round, and those that I can think of aren't as popular (as eg firefox) :-/
Which brings up a theory -- open source is great at building on top of things and adding features, but it works best when a single entity (person or company) gives them a large, stable codebase to work with. (Also note the inverse -- there are loads of projects where a lot of people form a group to start something, then they spend so long in group politics that nothing gets started and people leave from boredom; also, single entities don't have the manpower or variety of ideas needed to sustain growth)
What is it with so many slashdot users saying "average /.er says XYZ", when in fact most of them *aren't* saying XYZ, most of them are *complaining about how "everyone else" is saying XYZ*?
Also: 60% Interesting + 20% Troll + 20% Insightful; average = Troll / Flamebait... what defenition of "average" are you using o_O?
95% of people I see asking linux questions haven't read the manual. Why should I go out of my way to spend my time (which I'm not being paid for) doing things the hard way, when the easy way ("RTFM") is correct and sufficient almost all the time?
Also, it's standard advice that when asking for help you say what you've tried already -- if you say "I've read the manual" then people won't have to make assumptions :P
o_O?
To stop terrorists, of course :-P Everything's justified when someone mentions the word "terrorists"...
If you can explain how lack of desktop user point & drool documentation* can cause a properly installed and running server to go down, I'll fix the problem myself :-P
* I assume that's what they're on about -- linux has plenty of admin technical docs.
While I'm here, I'll throw in that my own linux server has a software uptime of four years (all downtime has been hardware related). (Yes, I've not been rebooting for kernel upgrades -- potentially malicious users aren't given local access, and remote access is heavily firewalled)
I did it the wrong way, and X broke horribly (the change to a modular server is a bigger package reorganisation than mere "upgrade" is designed for). However it was /bootable/, and a dist-upgrade from within the crippled box mostly fixed it.
Lots of people complaining about X breaking, and I had the same problem (and a load of others) -- then I realised I ran "apt-get upgrade" instead of "apt-get dist-upgrade". Dist-upgrade worked, and fixed X (and several, but not all the other problems)
On that note, anyone know of any good PDF analysers / compressors? I've been sent some PDFs to upload to a website, and the most recent revision is more than ten times the size of the previous, despite only a few words of small print being different; I'd be interested to know what all that extra space is being filled with...
Aside from that, the comic is rather lame -- it's so overdone, even a child should be able to detect the smell of propoganda...
Such moral dilemma; should I sit here and continue being screwed over, or should I go down to their level and sue them for interrupting my excercise schedule, and reducing my estimated lifespan by 5 years?
Does anybody else here find that that's the only common use for them? The external parts of the ears normally get caught up in the rest of the face washing. I'll admit that one time I poked too far and my hearing went funky for a couple of days, but I don't see that as enough of a reason to explicitly state you should never use them in that way...
Its main downside is that it's designed server-client with you being the server, so you become the single point of failure, as well as having to act as proxy for all network traffic -- AFAIK hamachi only uses the central server to start connections, and runs p2p from then on.
It all makes sense now you've explained it in full -- when the government are explaining they normally stop after the word "terrorists"...
Slashdot'll never catch up to digg at this rate :(
That's WINE, not picasa. And it's designed that way deliberately -- WINE is a program designed to make windows binaries feel at home, which means they have to use drive letters :P
Also, it is too stupid to realize that the simlink on the desktop is the same directory
Again, WINE. Again, it's designed that way, because that's the point :P
If it was a student / teacher thing, in school, no. But the issue here is that the kid's being punished as a student for something that happened outside of school.
Similarly, I support the right of teachers to bitch about pupils -- but only on their own time, not acting as school staff.
Will people please stop incorrectly generalising other slashdot posters, then going on to state the exact same thing as what everyone else is saying?
Maybe it's just that I read at +2, and this "many on slashdot" that people keep talking about (who I never see) are +1 or less...
Our high school had a student-run newspaper, run anonymously by students who were fed up with the bias in the teacher-run one -- one of the reporters was caught and threatened with expulsion unless the school was allowed to look over the paper and approve it before publication (which was agreed to, as long as all stories were still available in full on the website (seems to be down due to web host issues. web mania suck btw.)). Then they threatened to expel unless the editors made themselves known to senior staff (which was agreed to). Then they threatened to expel unless the paper was stopped entirely, which it eventually was :-(
(I wish schools taught like that though; as it is, we're given huge lists of things to remember and quote in exams, without being taught how to think about solving new problems that we haven't explicitly covered in the books :-/)
"cat ~/comment.txt > /dev/gui/firefox/slashdot/comment_input_box"? Come to think of it, that *would* be awesome :O