never having witnessed a mandrake install (tigerlily's laptop works flawlessly), i have to ask - is the mandrake install a non-interactive process? i would not have to answer any questions at all?
my experience is tainted by debian - the only distribution that wrote even half reasonable documentation for installing onto oldworld powermacs. heck, when they HAVE an installation process for oldworld powermacs, i can forgive them a clumsy installation process that needs a lot of hand holding. my machine always needed a lot of handholding anyways. eleven architectures. take that, micros^H inte^H [insert monopolist here] !
the thing about it is the writer could have easily worded it thus:
"While Linux and Mac users had a calm _month_, Microsoft users were..." and still be not far from the mark. what i find most disturbing is the nature of the exploits. sure, linux is not problem free, but consider: the last real 'problem' i can find on my mailing list * is an 'exploit' for wu-ftpd. it allows an attacker to run other programs with privileges of - get this - wu-ftpd. now, if you're running an anonymous ftp server, you _do_ have uploads disabled, don't you? eg wu-ftpd can't write? if'n i'm way wrong on this, i'm open to concise enlightenment.
* which i cannot pretend to understand all of, i'm just a linux newbie
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Do you mean like this: Googlegooglegooglegoogle?
it's meaningful, i suppose, and informative if you follow them.
apologies to those with display link domains turned on in/. prefs...
Hate to be a stickler, but the election was never finished. you were reading the news in 2000, weren't you? it was kind of like a baseball game that was called on account of guns.
and while i'm at it, any americans out there? please, impeach your alleged president. he's making you all look worse the longer he's at it.
sorry about the politics. there's been no SCO-related news today.
whoah.
wish i knew your dealer.
in 1995, netscape COST MONEY, and showed signs of being able to become a complete operating system. microsoft started bundling IE with their operating system, free.
most people use what is offered them, not what is best.
and to call IE better (at any point except version 6 (which was just bad)) is a lot of a stretch.
my head hurts from trying to follow the logic presented. in all fairness, i gave up in the middle of the second to last paragraph, so there might have been a reasonable conclusion. but i wasn't willing to bet any more of my sanity on it.
Samba team said,
"For SCO to continue to use Open Source/Free Software while attacking others for using it is the epitome of hypocrisy. "
True! But Darl said,
"At the end of the day, the GPL is not about making software free; it's about destroying value"
So it could be argued that the Samba team has not gone far enough, and could have said:
For SCO to continue to use Open Source/Free Software while attacking others for contributing to it is the epitome of hypocrisy.
OK, if it's so much 'public knowledge', just try walking up to me and asking to see my driver's license, _without_ a gun.
hold on, did you say silly?
sorry, not unless i'm asking to (or being paid to) drive a vehicle you own.
B I N G O thank you, Arker. we are not paying money to subsidise other people's publicity. repeat after me: advertising must not be sent collect. advertising must not be sent collect. advertising must not...
theory:
metamoderation. when i see a moderation on a comment on an article that i haven't read that isn't obviously fair or unfair, I somet^H^H^H^H^H usually go and read the article before making a decision.
If you're going to come down on the taleban, come down on them for the right reason: they were allowing him safe harbour _before_ 11/9/2001. No one has yet offered believable evidence that Osama bin Laden was behind the 11/9/2001 tragedy. The talebans' refusal to turn him over after the missile attacks (given the flimsiness of the evidence) was almost reasonable.
A broken href tag, or perhaps you misquoted?
From http://www.cnn.com/2003/TECH/internet/08/05/anarch ist.prison.ap/index.html:
Austin must also pay a $2,000 fine and is barred for three years from using a computer without approval. Wilson said he also may not associate with anyone from a group that "espouses physical force as a means of change."
Nothing about 'change the government in any way'. Which web site were you looking at? Link, please.
But I'm in total agreement with you on the Bill of Rights thing. I'm so glad I don't live there. It must hurt to see your (collective) historical ideals being actively wafflestomped.
"You got freedom of speech, as long as you don't say too much"
Gil Scott Heron
Yes it was Newton, but no, it wasn't any kind of noble thought on his part. One of my second year phsics instructors pointed out that it comes from a letter to Hooke. Hooke was, shall we say, vertically challenged, and Newton thought him inferior in intellect.
Slashdot Mirror
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slashdot has gone 24+ hours w/o a SCO story....
this one was at 8:00AM on Thu 11 September.
never having witnessed a mandrake install (tigerlily's laptop works flawlessly), i have to ask - is the mandrake install a non-interactive process? i would not have to answer any questions at all?
my experience is tainted by debian - the only distribution that wrote even half reasonable documentation for installing onto oldworld powermacs. heck, when they HAVE an installation process for oldworld powermacs, i can forgive them a clumsy installation process that needs a lot of hand holding. my machine always needed a lot of handholding anyways. eleven architectures. take that, micros^H inte^H [insert monopolist here] !
the thing about it is the writer could have easily worded it thus: ..."
"While Linux and Mac users had a calm _month_, Microsoft users were
and still be not far from the mark. what i find most disturbing is the nature of the exploits. sure, linux is not problem free, but consider: the last real 'problem' i can find on my mailing list * is an 'exploit' for wu-ftpd. it allows an attacker to run other programs with privileges of - get this - wu-ftpd. now, if you're running an anonymous ftp server, you _do_ have uploads disabled, don't you? eg wu-ftpd can't write? if'n i'm way wrong on this, i'm open to concise enlightenment.
* which i cannot pretend to understand all of, i'm just a linux newbie
Do you mean like this: /. prefs...
Google google google google?
it's meaningful, i suppose, and informative if you follow them.
apologies to those with display link domains turned on in
uhh, this is slashdot, where the correct response for getting moderation bonuses is, "what are baths?"
enlightenment: straight to path, or a GUI jacket?
(sorry. punning is its own re-word)
Hate to be a stickler, but the election was never finished. you were reading the news in 2000, weren't you? it was kind of like a baseball game that was called on account of guns.
and while i'm at it, any americans out there? please, impeach your alleged president. he's making you all look worse the longer he's at it.
sorry about the politics. there's been no SCO-related news today.
o.m.g. i nearly blew a retina trying to read the story.
what is the purpose of 6 point type again?
Score: -1 Don't Skip Desgin Classes.
Do you understand godwin's law? I would prefer you violated it in your struggle to inform us of ways to stop spam.
whoah.
wish i knew your dealer.
in 1995, netscape COST MONEY, and showed signs of being able to become a complete operating system. microsoft started bundling IE with their operating system, free.
most people use what is offered them, not what is best.
and to call IE better (at any point except version 6 (which was just bad)) is a lot of a stretch.
my head hurts from trying to follow the logic presented. in all fairness, i gave up in the middle of the second to last paragraph, so there might have been a reasonable conclusion. but i wasn't willing to bet any more of my sanity on it.
Samba team said,
"For SCO to continue to use Open Source/Free Software while attacking others for using it is the epitome of hypocrisy. "
True! But Darl said,
"At the end of the day, the GPL is not about making software free; it's about destroying value"
So it could be argued that the Samba team has not gone far enough, and could have said:
For SCO to continue to use Open Source/Free Software while attacking others for contributing to it is the epitome of hypocrisy.
Does Darl have parents we can call?
# apt-get -s remove emacs
Reading Package Lists...
Building Dependency Tree...
Package emacs is not installed, so not removed
0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
# dpkg -l | grep -c ii
551
# apropos troll
fdrawcmd (1) - send raw commands to the floppy disk controller TQ
i82365 (4) - Intel i82365sl PCMCIA controller driver
probe (8) - PCMCIA controller probe
tcic (4) - Databook TCIC-2 PCMCIA controller driver
tty (4) - controlling terminal
#
OK, if it's so much 'public knowledge', just try walking up to me and asking to see my driver's license, _without_ a gun.
hold on, did you say silly?
sorry, not unless i'm asking to (or being paid to) drive a vehicle you own.
B I N G O ...
thank you, Arker. we are not paying money to subsidise other people's publicity.
repeat after me: advertising must not be sent collect. advertising must not be sent collect. advertising must not
theory:
metamoderation. when i see a moderation on a comment on an article that i haven't read that isn't obviously fair or unfair, I somet^H^H^H^H^H usually go and read the article before making a decision.
If you're going to come down on the taleban, come down on them for the right reason: they were allowing him safe harbour _before_ 11/9/2001. No one has yet offered believable evidence that Osama bin Laden was behind the 11/9/2001 tragedy. The talebans' refusal to turn him over after the missile attacks (given the flimsiness of the evidence) was almost reasonable.
Hoping nice things upon lawyers?? Have you read the RFC?
From http://www.cnn.com/2003/TECH/internet/08/05/anarc
Nothing about 'change the government in any way'. Which web site were you looking at? Link, please.
But I'm in total agreement with you on the Bill of Rights thing. I'm so glad I don't live there. It must hurt to see your (collective) historical ideals being actively wafflestomped.
"You got freedom of speech, as long as you don't say too much"
Gil Scott Heron
/self wipes tears away. heee hee. thank you thank you thank you hh ah ha haeh hhh. thank you.
perhaps it's a debian specific package?
hey, it's just a game. not like you have to switch operating systems or any... oh. sorry.
sorry to burst your bubble, but this is easier:
~$/usr/games/purity
Yes it was Newton, but no, it wasn't any kind of noble thought on his part. One of my second year phsics instructors pointed out that it comes from a letter to Hooke. Hooke was, shall we say, vertically challenged, and Newton thought him inferior in intellect.
the wolves go for the weak caribou first.
and the pedants go for the weak spellers first.