RedHat is the real RPM hell. Mandrake is RPM heaven. I don't know about any of the other RPM distros, though.
With Mandrake, it's easy:
urpmi wuftpd
It will ask me if it's ok to download all of the other dependencies, so I enter "Y", and voila.. it downloads and installs them (assuming that your urpmi source lists are synched properly - it's not a bad idea to have a cron job to do 'urpmi.update -a' at 3 AM or so)
Debian's apt is very nice as well, but Debian's not right for everyone (in actuality, no distro or even OS is right for everyone, despite what FUD-flinging says). If you use Mandrake though, you can still fall back to the old rpm -ivh and install non-official packages (there are a lot of rpms out there, especially on SF)
As a young developer (14), I couldn't agree more. I see a lot of young programmers who don't know what this whole "open-source" thing is all about. This is not a good thing: at the least, they should know about what OSS is and what values it stands for.
I for one, think that the best place to reach out to get OSS rolling past the Juggernaut is to get our young programmers involved. After all, I don't think even Linus can hack from the grave.
"86" is a restaurant term for "kill the order." Hence, the name "Agent 86" on "Get Smart" (Hey, I guess we've both watched that show:)) was actually some clever humour.
With RedHat (and I suspect other RPM based distributions), they were 'guaranteed' money from me, since I wanted to upgrade.
Mandrake (an RPM based distribution) has urpmi, at the simplest level an apt-get for RPM. If I want to upgrade my whole system, I do:
urpmi.update -a
urpmi --auto-select
I can also just update a single package by doing urpmi foopackage; urpmi will even figure out the deps for me and download the packages.
This is where Mandrake beats out RedHat, imho (Please Don't Flame Me!). But now I hear RedHat has such a feature... anyone?
1) Go to your menu 2) Go to "Instant Messaging" (or whatever it's called) 3) Scroll down to "Allow List" 4) Scroll to "Add" 5) Add the phone number of the cell-phone you wish to have call you.
You could even just have it accept messages from all users, and have this "allow list" be an "advanced user" feature. It would of course, all be documented somewhere.
True, but he probably meant GNU/Linux System, which is way different from Linux. Unfortunately, lots of people tend to just say "Linux" instead of GNU/Linux, because that's how the media calls it.
not a political platform, no matter how RMS and a subset of its users try to turn it into one.
Agreed. I personally prefer the BSD license over the GPL, yet I use GNU/Linux every day, mainly because of the great community effort (as opposed to OpenBSD - I imagine Theo drives off most people;)) to support it and develop it. I know several other people just like this, but on the other hand I know several who swear by the GPL and use a GNU/Linux system. RMS really needs to cool his head when it comes to generalizations (though some of his ideas are pretty cool).
I say, use whatever license suits you best - if you made a bad licensing choice, then you get to face the consequences.
Ironically, I find that Napster was the only P2P that worked reliably for me.
With the new ones, I can only connect to a few search servers, and even when I do, half of what I search for ends up just being pr0n with "kraftwerk" in its filename.
Re:It's still copyright infringement... unless....
on
The Porn Of Napster
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· Score: 2, Funny
>...and more importantly, open-source:)
You mean, all of the pr0n stars are shared and we're free to modify them as we wish?! Mmmmmmm........ sign me up.
I agree completely - it is a bad mockery (none of the events in it actually happened) of Project Greenlight. I would go as far as saying that Comedy Central's new shows suck - all I ever watch it for is the old SNL reruns and the Daily Show.
Denis Leary shouldn't die though - his cancer (leukemeia?) charity is a huge success and he really deserves more commendation for that than he receives.
P.S: You have the wrong name for it - it's Contest Searchlight, not Project Spotlight.
Here is the quote from Al Gore:
"I took the initiative in creating the Internet."
Creating != inventing. Inventing the Internet would have been thinking of the idea, and deciding a method of implementing it. Creating the Internet meant creating funding to buy necessary equipment and hire staff to create the network spanning the USA, which at the time they called the Internet (it has linked with similar European networks, as you all know, to create the modern Internet).
So what Al Gore meant (if you have enough time, read the entire interview with Wolf Blitzer) is that, while serving in the Senate, he was part of the group which pushed forward the initiative to create the Internet.
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Dude, you're getting Mandrake!
RedHat is the real RPM hell. Mandrake is RPM heaven. I don't know about any of the other RPM distros, though.
With Mandrake, it's easy:
urpmi wuftpd
It will ask me if it's ok to download all of the other dependencies, so I enter "Y", and voila.. it downloads and installs them (assuming that your urpmi source lists are synched properly - it's not a bad idea to have a cron job to do 'urpmi.update -a' at 3 AM or so)
Debian's apt is very nice as well, but Debian's not right for everyone (in actuality, no distro or even OS is right for everyone, despite what FUD-flinging says). If you use Mandrake though, you can still fall back to the old rpm -ivh and install non-official packages (there are a lot of rpms out there, especially on SF)
Ehm, is it me or did the parent just tell himself to go learn some Latin?
:)
Re:Some Background (Score:5, Interesting)
by Ektanoor on 12-10-02 14:16 (#4437822) Alter Relationship
Re:Some Background (Score:1, Offtopic)
by Ektanoor on 12-10-02 14:39 (#4437904) Alter Relationship
Maybe he meant to insult himself as an AC - I do this sometimes to make things interesting...
As a young developer (14), I couldn't agree more. I see a lot of young programmers who don't know what this whole "open-source" thing is all about. This is not a good thing: at the least, they should know about what OSS is and what values it stands for.
I for one, think that the best place to reach out to get OSS rolling past the Juggernaut is to get our young programmers involved. After all, I don't think even Linus can hack from the grave.
"86" is a restaurant term for "kill the order." Hence, the name "Agent 86" on "Get Smart" (Hey, I guess we've both watched that show :)) was actually some clever humour.
Psst... use Mandrake + urpmi. It's really easy:
urpmi some-package-with-lots-of-deps-oh-no-Ill-have-to-Oh, wait - it's figured out the deps for me, and automagically installed them in the right place. Just like apt-get - huh!
And the kicker: Who's stupid now? Huh?
(Well, I guess I am for taking to time to post this comment, but...)
With RedHat (and I suspect other RPM based distributions), they were 'guaranteed' money from me, since I wanted to upgrade.
Mandrake (an RPM based distribution) has urpmi, at the simplest level an apt-get for RPM. If I want to upgrade my whole system, I do:
urpmi.update -a
urpmi --auto-select
I can also just update a single package by doing urpmi foopackage; urpmi will even figure out the deps for me and download the packages. This is where Mandrake beats out RedHat, imho (Please Don't Flame Me!). But now I hear RedHat has such a feature... anyone?
I mean, aside from the chance to play jet set radio future of course.
Of course - the only other thing comparable to playing JSRF is taking a time machine and going back in time:
Awesome, whoa whoa whoa, RADICAL!!!
Real (productive) life doesn't need water.
Real (productive) life needs Mountain Dew.
I think he was trying to point out that the link (listed as /Darwin) is broken, and that in fact should be /darwin.
I'm starting to lose faith in our ACs's witty criticisms!
Yes, but I thought you said "relevantly irrelevant" at first. :)
Exactly - what I'm pushing for is an implementation of this sort of thing.
Simple, it's only a few steps:
1) Go to your menu
2) Go to "Instant Messaging" (or whatever it's called)
3) Scroll down to "Allow List"
4) Scroll to "Add"
5) Add the phone number of the cell-phone you wish to have call you.
You could even just have it accept messages from all users, and have this "allow list" be an "advanced user" feature. It would of course, all be documented somewhere.
Why not make messages only be accepted from known "hosts" (phone numbers)? Rather like /etc/hosts.allow, but for mobile phones.
Does such a system exist?
True, but he probably meant GNU/Linux System, which is way different from Linux. Unfortunately, lots of people tend to just say "Linux" instead of GNU/Linux, because that's how the media calls it.
not a political platform, no matter how RMS and a subset of its users try to turn it into one.Agreed. I personally prefer the BSD license over the GPL, yet I use GNU/Linux every day, mainly because of the great community effort (as opposed to OpenBSD - I imagine Theo drives off most people ;)) to support it and develop it. I know several other people just like this, but on the other hand I know several who swear by the GPL and use a GNU/Linux system. RMS really needs to cool his head when it comes to generalizations (though some of his ideas are pretty cool).
I say, use whatever license suits you best - if you made a bad licensing choice, then you get to face the consequences.
I never thought a movie might be made about hitchhikers... is it an independent studio or what?
Oh, wait...
int
main(int argc, char *argv[])
{
return 1;
}
I *want* my video card with me, no matter which coaster I ride! :(
Oh, wait...
Ironically, I find that Napster was the only P2P that worked reliably for me.
With the new ones, I can only connect to a few search servers, and even when I do, half of what I search for ends up just being pr0n with "kraftwerk" in its filename.
> ...and more importantly, open-source :)
You mean, all of the pr0n stars are shared and we're free to modify them as we wish?! Mmmmmmm........ sign me up.
A typical day goes by running *nix, and I decide I'd like to talk to some friends:
1) Open xterm
2) [tom@mitosis tom] msnaoltwnjsms &
(MSN AOL/Time Warner Netscape Jabber Sametime Messaging System)
Here's a link to a usenet posting describing the use of emoticons/smilies (it references Fahlmen).
Seems to me it's best to have them both:
Let F = Food high in fiber. Let M = Microwave.
F = Bad
F + M = Good
I agree completely - it is a bad mockery (none of the events in it actually happened) of Project Greenlight. I would go as far as saying that Comedy Central's new shows suck - all I ever watch it for is the old SNL reruns and the Daily Show.
Denis Leary shouldn't die though - his cancer (leukemeia?) charity is a huge success and he really deserves more commendation for that than he receives.
P.S: You have the wrong name for it - it's Contest Searchlight, not Project Spotlight.
*sigh*
Here is the quote from Al Gore:
"I took the initiative in creating the Internet."
Creating != inventing. Inventing the Internet would have been thinking of the idea, and deciding a method of implementing it. Creating the Internet meant creating funding to buy necessary equipment and hire staff to create the network spanning the USA, which at the time they called the Internet (it has linked with similar European networks, as you all know, to create the modern Internet).
So what Al Gore meant (if you have enough time, read the entire interview with Wolf Blitzer) is that, while serving in the Senate, he was part of the group which pushed forward the initiative to create the Internet.