NOt only is linking not frowned upon it is actually viewed as a kind of blood sport. The aim is to find the most obsucre web site, running off the crappiest hardware around and then link to it from/.
Then you just sit back and watch it turn into slag.
Umm okay then try installing XP on the machine and see how far you get.
I have a p266 with 96mb ram at home and it runs as a Redhat server just fine. Recognise your systems limitations and work to it. If the GUI isn't going to run, go command line.
So now we know, MS just doesn't want to dominate the Computer world, they want our souls. I think I'll keep my customized kernel thank you very much, it tends to be able to communicate with a multitude of other systems, while MS souls just tend to be a bit simple.
Why can't they make a margin on it? GPL does not forbid the selling of software, all it says is that if you want to sell the software then you need to provide the source code.
So basically what that means is that you can do what you like with the app, sell it or give it away, you just have to attach the source.
So speaks a user. As a sys admin it is a dog getting support calls for stuff that you didn't know was on the system and hence have no idea how to support. Also you don't know what sort of security issues come with the new software, nor do you know what the hell it does.
If you don't like what you use, then get your boss to ask for something better. Don't automatically blame the Sys Admin. Sure there are some shocking IT Support teams out there but for the most part they know what they are doing.
Think of it like this, there is a contract between the citizen and the state. The state provides goods and services to the citizen, while the citizen pays taxes and votes.
If you want to be a citizen and don't want to vote then don't whinge and whine when the government does something you didn't like. You lost the right to bitch when you refused to participate in the process.
Then stop making gross generalisations. You did not qualify your statement in any way shape or form. If you want to stop people from thinking that you are some sort of libertarian nut job then a little more thought into your posts might be a good idea.
" If you want to talk about requiring things of your subjects for the common good of all, then you're talking about communism"
So a criminal justice system is commie plot now is it?
Seriously as members of a community we are expected to contribute to that community as well as take away, other wise the community collapses. Voting is your way of saying this is the person/group I want leading the community. If you don't vote then you have no right to complain about who gets in.
Generally they think Bush is an idiot, and a bit of a joke, they are however more scared of the people behind him.
On the other hand over the last four or five years, they have become a touch more xenophobic thanks to a government that has played on any division they can to stay in power.
Oracle and Peoplesoft maybe good examples of Closed Source Software Companies being bastards, but their name recognition for the average user is pretty much zilch.
Microsoft is a target that everyone knows and curses at one time or another. Its a perfectly acceptable example when explaining to the layman.
Yes but you see the Australian Federal Government doesn't want independance from the US. It wants to be the 52nd state.
" And I'd say that a major reason for that is anti US sentiment."
Microsoft for a lot of people represent everything that is bad about America, domineering, insulated, arrogant and imperial.
Herd Mentality on/.?? Surely not. Sure I expect a Hurd Mentality but I think you'll find that there are enough "discussions" on here that could quite possibly be classified as holy wars to disprove the "Herd Mentality" idea.
Everything is relative, including the impact of prices. If you are earning six figures or even high five figure sums $1000 may not seem to be much, but for most of the world $1000 represents one hell of an investment.
Umm they are probably paying for the cost of support and rolling over all their machines (14,000 I think).
Major IT purchasers like to have someone they can rely on for support so they pay for it. The other cost would be the storage and distribution costs allowed under the GPL.
You could also try offering support contracts for people who are interested in using Audacity on a commercial basis. These could include custom code and bug fixes and so on.
childfree couples tend to have frequent "great" sex (or so they have reported) even once they're married
Okay first things first, I have been with my partner for three 1/2 years now and we have been married for a year and a half and I can tell you that we are still having great sex.
You knew you didn't want children, great, so you did something about it, wonderful. I shudder to think what sort of parent you would have made. Good parenting is genius work. To be able to mold a young mind and turn it into a thinking, questioning member of society, without turning them into children hating, anal retentive, elitist arse holes takes years of hard work and perserverance.
Seeing as you have chosen to remove the burden of children from your life, and that you hold other people who choose to have children in contempt I fully expect that you will refuse to benefit from the labour of others. As you get older you will become more and more reliant on the next generation coming through, these will be the new doctors, engineers, programmers, sys-admins, soldiers, bakers and tailors. These will be the people you rely on in your dotage when you can't even roll yourself over in bed or get up before you piss yourself. And as you lie there, alone in that clinical nursing home bed, condemed by frailty of both the mind and body I am sure you will be glad that you never had children. After all, you wouldn't like to be like the others in your ward, constantly inerupted by pesky family.
I'm sorry I have to disagree with you onna couple of points. I am married with two children under five. I work and my wife is a full time mother.
I have found that having children has in no way gotten in the way of my wife and I enjoying long discussions on "Life, The Universe and Everything", in fact it has added that extra dimension. Having children does not automatically mean that you become a dribbling idiot, it just means that you have to prioritise.
Becoming a parent only becomes detrimental when you let it. If you resent the fact that you are now responsible for a child then really you should have kept your legs crossed when the time came to make the beast with two backs.
As for your comment that children derail genius, you try and keep a precocious under five year old happy when he has been trapped inside by rain and is bored out of his skull, you'll be suprised at what you can achieve.
Sorry if I come off a little preachy but I reallyt don't appreciate being called "damaged" just because I have decided to have children.
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NOt only is linking not frowned upon it is actually viewed as a kind of blood sport. The aim is to find the most obsucre web site, running off the crappiest hardware around and then link to it from /.
Then you just sit back and watch it turn into slag.
Yeah they'ld get along like a house on fire. Ever seen a burning house?
Umm okay then try installing XP on the machine and see how far you get.
I have a p266 with 96mb ram at home and it runs as a Redhat server just fine. Recognise your systems limitations and work to it. If the GUI isn't going to run, go command line.
Soul is to humans as software is to computers
So now we know, MS just doesn't want to dominate the Computer world, they want our souls. I think I'll keep my customized kernel thank you very much, it tends to be able to communicate with a multitude of other systems, while MS souls just tend to be a bit simple.
Why can't they make a margin on it? GPL does not forbid the selling of software, all it says is that if you want to sell the software then you need to provide the source code.
So basically what that means is that you can do what you like with the app, sell it or give it away, you just have to attach the source.
Umm how about you use something like apt-get or apt4rpm or any number of the automated software download tools available.
So speaks a user. As a sys admin it is a dog getting support calls for stuff that you didn't know was on the system and hence have no idea how to support. Also you don't know what sort of security issues come with the new software, nor do you know what the hell it does.
If you don't like what you use, then get your boss to ask for something better. Don't automatically blame the Sys Admin. Sure there are some shocking IT Support teams out there but for the most part they know what they are doing.
Think of it like this, there is a contract between the citizen and the state. The state provides goods and services to the citizen, while the citizen pays taxes and votes.
If you want to be a citizen and don't want to vote then don't whinge and whine when the government does something you didn't like. You lost the right to bitch when you refused to participate in the process.
Then stop making gross generalisations. You did not qualify your statement in any way shape or form. If you want to stop people from thinking that you are some sort of libertarian nut job then a little more thought into your posts might be a good idea.
Oh please tell me you're being sarcastic. Sometimes its hard to tell.
" If you want to talk about requiring things of your subjects for the common good of all, then you're talking about communism"
So a criminal justice system is commie plot now is it?
Seriously as members of a community we are expected to contribute to that community as well as take away, other wise the community collapses. Voting is your way of saying this is the person/group I want leading the community. If you don't vote then you have no right to complain about who gets in.
Ahh the rule of the elite over the plebs, and how pray tell would you say who is qualified to be part of that special class of "experts"?
Generally they think Bush is an idiot, and a bit of a joke, they are however more scared of the people behind him.
On the other hand over the last four or five years, they have become a touch more xenophobic thanks to a government that has played on any division they can to stay in power.
The Australian Government won't start using OSS, just because it is Un-American.
Yup as an Australian I can tell you that public sentiment on OSS v CSS is "What?"
If you are talking about inside the industry then that is a different matter but the "Public" doesn't know and doesn't care.
Oracle and Peoplesoft maybe good examples of Closed Source Software Companies being bastards, but their name recognition for the average user is pretty much zilch.
Microsoft is a target that everyone knows and curses at one time or another. Its a perfectly acceptable example when explaining to the layman.
Yes but you see the Australian Federal Government doesn't want independance from the US. It wants to be the 52nd state.
" And I'd say that a major reason for that is anti US sentiment."
Microsoft for a lot of people represent everything that is bad about America, domineering, insulated, arrogant and imperial.
Let me guess, you thought 640k was all anyone would need? Or maybe there would only be a market for 5 computers in the world.
Grid Computing will find its reason, whether its sooner or later who knows, but dismissing it out of hand is short sighted to say the least.
Herd Mentality on /.?? Surely not. Sure I expect a Hurd Mentality but I think you'll find that there are enough "discussions" on here that could quite possibly be classified as holy wars to disprove the "Herd Mentality" idea.
Everything is relative, including the impact of prices. If you are earning six figures or even high five figure sums $1000 may not seem to be much, but for most of the world $1000 represents one hell of an investment.
Umm they are probably paying for the cost of support and rolling over all their machines (14,000 I think).
Major IT purchasers like to have someone they can rely on for support so they pay for it. The other cost would be the storage and distribution costs allowed under the GPL.
You could also try offering support contracts for people who are interested in using Audacity on a commercial basis. These could include custom code and bug fixes and so on.
Just a thought, nice app by the way.
childfree couples tend to have frequent "great" sex (or so they have reported) even once they're married
Okay first things first, I have been with my partner for three 1/2 years now and we have been married for a year and a half and I can tell you that we are still having great sex.
You knew you didn't want children, great, so you did something about it, wonderful. I shudder to think what sort of parent you would have made. Good parenting is genius work. To be able to mold a young mind and turn it into a thinking, questioning member of society, without turning them into children hating, anal retentive, elitist arse holes takes years of hard work and perserverance.
Seeing as you have chosen to remove the burden of children from your life, and that you hold other people who choose to have children in contempt I fully expect that you will refuse to benefit from the labour of others. As you get older you will become more and more reliant on the next generation coming through, these will be the new doctors, engineers, programmers, sys-admins, soldiers, bakers and tailors. These will be the people you rely on in your dotage when you can't even roll yourself over in bed or get up before you piss yourself. And as you lie there, alone in that clinical nursing home bed, condemed by frailty of both the mind and body I am sure you will be glad that you never had children. After all, you wouldn't like to be like the others in your ward, constantly inerupted by pesky family.
He also contends that the mechanism is the drive to find a mate. Women, therefore, must not be searching for mates. They're waiting to them to come?
Please don't leave lines like this lying around. Some one is bound to pick them up and do themselves an injury.
I'm sorry I have to disagree with you onna couple of points. I am married with two children under five. I work and my wife is a full time mother.
I have found that having children has in no way gotten in the way of my wife and I enjoying long discussions on "Life, The Universe and Everything", in fact it has added that extra dimension. Having children does not automatically mean that you become a dribbling idiot, it just means that you have to prioritise.
Becoming a parent only becomes detrimental when you let it. If you resent the fact that you are now responsible for a child then really you should have kept your legs crossed when the time came to make the beast with two backs.
As for your comment that children derail genius, you try and keep a precocious under five year old happy when he has been trapped inside by rain and is bored out of his skull, you'll be suprised at what you can achieve.
Sorry if I come off a little preachy but I reallyt don't appreciate being called "damaged" just because I have decided to have children.