IMO, its/it's is forgivable. It's a bit confusing, because you expect an apostrophe for a possessive. What I want to strangle people for is when they put random apostrophes on plurals. Oh, and also "rediculous", "artical", and "alot", which I constantly see on Slashdot.
You're right, but that's just a workaround. There's no way for the Gentoo developers to really fix this without disabling an important security feature of portage.
It's irrelevant who is in office in terms of whether or not an attack is launched - but certainly not in terms of its results on our society.
You're right, but you neglect to mention the reason: Supreme Court appointments. Whoever is President in the next four years will very likely get to nominate two or three new SC justices. The justices that are likely to be retire or die (O'Connor, Stevens,...) are also some of the more liberal justices. The SC is pretty well balanced at the moment. Give Bush the opportunity, and he will appoint conservative, anti-abortion justices who will affect the nation for decades to come. Just something to keep in mind if you support Bush but you're not a fundamentalist Christian.
Why are the real reasons behind terrorism so rarely discussed?
It's really very simple: dehumanizing the enemy. If you make your enemies out to be less than human, then there will be few objections to slaughtering them.
How did this get modded flamebait? Slightly incoherent, maybe...
I've usually found that my NVIDIA cards are actually slightly faster in Linux than they are in Windows. So NVIDIA really is doing an excellent job with their drivers (yeah yeah, they're closed source), while I've never heard anything good about ATI's Linux drivers.
Broadcom really needs to be blackmailed into releasing Linux drivers (or better, the hardware specs). That way we can have Linux drivers for the Airport Extreme and other Broadcom cards. The strange thing is that they have released Linux drivers for some of their Ethernet cards.
Holy crap, the limit is ten. Ten pending SYNs! Yeah, I'd say that would be pretty effective at killing almost all P2P.
Makes me glad I use Linux 95% of the time.
Why would I want to download SP2 for Mac or Linux?
I dual boot, though I'm usually in Linux. I downloaded with QTorrent a couple days ago and stuck it on my FAT partition. Then I booted into Windows, installed it, and promptly went back to Gentoo:)
While still based on the tired FPS framework, it brings to the table many technological advances that other games just haven't been able to do.
Who cares? The "old" Quake 3 engine still looks great (I've been playing RTCW on Linux lately), and it's smooth. I don't give a crap about super-spiffy graphics. I want fun gameplay.
Look at GTA3. That's much closer to being the "seminal game of our generation", because it's fun.
It is entirely reasonable that a guy who does drivers wouldn't have much of an insight on how other parts of the system work
Absolutely. But the important part is having clean, well-documented interfaces so all these subsystems can work together without unexpected shit happening. I've no idea personally if Microsoft does that.
Well, except for the lack of an Airport Extreme driver. And the ATI card. I'm very seriously considering buying a 15" PowerBook to use as a Linux laptop, but those are two big points that are turning me off. Mostly the WiFi, actually (I can do without 3D acceleration on my laptop). I know I can buy a new WiFi card for $50, but I'd rather use the Airport Extreme because it's built-in.
So I'm not sure. I might end up with an AMD64 laptop and a PowerMac instead. Those dual G5's are tempting:)
to achieve their aims do they bug fix other peoples' code?
Sometimes. Other times, they simply "backport" bug fixes to older versions.
do they inform the original authors of a problem?
Gentoo always sends its fixes upstream when appropriate. I would imagine Debian does the same.
if so, what effects on code ownership does this have - does the Debian team become co-author?
Depends on the author of the original code and the patch. Some will require you to assign copyright to them, others don't really care because it's all GPL'd anyway.
Indeed. Limited hardware is a huge part of why Macs "just work". Linux is doing surprisingly well in this regard considering the kernel, toolchain, and OS works on everything from a toaster to a supercomputer. Microsoft has it much easier. One architecture (okay, now two since amd64), and all the hardware vendors write their drivers for them.
I'd really love to see this happen. Forget connecting to the "real" Internet; we could form a separate "wireless Internet". We have the routing protocols and such that would be necessary for such a dynamic network. What we don't have, for the most part, is the hardware. WiFi is pretty short range, unless you know where you're aiming. It would require massive coordination of effort and still a fairly high population density. Germany (or Japan, I suppose) would be a good country for such a project, because of its high population density and tech-inclination.
Again, the missing factor is the hardware. Especially cheap hardware. The WRT54G is pretty good, but I don't think it would have enough memory to function as a router like this. The soon-to-come nano-ITX would be great, but also quite expensive. Even if you did everything right, I think the bandwidth and latency would be quite bad more than ~100 miles away.
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IMO, its/it's is forgivable. It's a bit confusing, because you expect an apostrophe for a possessive. What I want to strangle people for is when they put random apostrophes on plurals. Oh, and also "rediculous", "artical", and "alot", which I constantly see on Slashdot.
Likewise, all people who do volunteer work are saying their time is worth nothing. Sure.
You're right, but that's just a workaround. There's no way for the Gentoo developers to really fix this without disabling an important security feature of portage.
You're right, but you neglect to mention the reason: Supreme Court appointments. Whoever is President in the next four years will very likely get to nominate two or three new SC justices. The justices that are likely to be retire or die (O'Connor, Stevens, ...) are also some of the more liberal justices. The SC is pretty well balanced at the moment. Give Bush the opportunity, and he will appoint conservative, anti-abortion justices who will affect the nation for decades to come. Just something to keep in mind if you support Bush but you're not a fundamentalist Christian.
It's really very simple: dehumanizing the enemy. If you make your enemies out to be less than human, then there will be few objections to slaughtering them.
How did this get modded flamebait? Slightly incoherent, maybe...
I've usually found that my NVIDIA cards are actually slightly faster in Linux than they are in Windows. So NVIDIA really is doing an excellent job with their drivers (yeah yeah, they're closed source), while I've never heard anything good about ATI's Linux drivers.
Sadly, Ultima X is dead.
Broadcom really needs to be blackmailed into releasing Linux drivers (or better, the hardware specs). That way we can have Linux drivers for the Airport Extreme and other Broadcom cards. The strange thing is that they have released Linux drivers for some of their Ethernet cards.
Holy crap, the limit is ten. Ten pending SYNs! Yeah, I'd say that would be pretty effective at killing almost all P2P.
Makes me glad I use Linux 95% of the time.
What's the limit? If it's too low (less than a couple hundred), it could slow down eMule pretty badly.
I dual boot, though I'm usually in Linux. I downloaded with QTorrent a couple days ago and stuck it on my FAT partition. Then I booted into Windows, installed it, and promptly went back to Gentoo :)
Who cares? The "old" Quake 3 engine still looks great (I've been playing RTCW on Linux lately), and it's smooth. I don't give a crap about super-spiffy graphics. I want fun gameplay.
Look at GTA3. That's much closer to being the "seminal game of our generation", because it's fun.
I'm getting about 20KB/s...not bad :-)
Learn to configure your favorite editor properly. Or switch to a better editor. I recommend vim.
The school buses in my area have had seat belts since, oh, at least fifteen years ago.
Absolutely. But the important part is having clean, well-documented interfaces so all these subsystems can work together without unexpected shit happening. I've no idea personally if Microsoft does that.
It's got a long way to go, but it's not awful.
Well, except for the lack of an Airport Extreme driver. And the ATI card. I'm very seriously considering buying a 15" PowerBook to use as a Linux laptop, but those are two big points that are turning me off. Mostly the WiFi, actually (I can do without 3D acceleration on my laptop). I know I can buy a new WiFi card for $50, but I'd rather use the Airport Extreme because it's built-in. :)
So I'm not sure. I might end up with an AMD64 laptop and a PowerMac instead. Those dual G5's are tempting
That they're both pretty popular?
Sometimes. Other times, they simply "backport" bug fixes to older versions.
do they inform the original authors of a problem?
Gentoo always sends its fixes upstream when appropriate. I would imagine Debian does the same.
if so, what effects on code ownership does this have - does the Debian team become co-author?
Depends on the author of the original code and the patch. Some will require you to assign copyright to them, others don't really care because it's all GPL'd anyway.
Indeed. Limited hardware is a huge part of why Macs "just work". Linux is doing surprisingly well in this regard considering the kernel, toolchain, and OS works on everything from a toaster to a supercomputer. Microsoft has it much easier. One architecture (okay, now two since amd64), and all the hardware vendors write their drivers for them.
Portage has had this feature for many months now. BTW, I assumed you're actually talking about links, because lynx has no X USE flag.
How about "If you prefer *nix...". Just because I like Linux more than Windows doesn't mean I hate Microsoft. Jeez.
I'd really love to see this happen. Forget connecting to the "real" Internet; we could form a separate "wireless Internet". We have the routing protocols and such that would be necessary for such a dynamic network. What we don't have, for the most part, is the hardware. WiFi is pretty short range, unless you know where you're aiming. It would require massive coordination of effort and still a fairly high population density. Germany (or Japan, I suppose) would be a good country for such a project, because of its high population density and tech-inclination.
Again, the missing factor is the hardware. Especially cheap hardware. The WRT54G is pretty good, but I don't think it would have enough memory to function as a router like this. The soon-to-come nano-ITX would be great, but also quite expensive. Even if you did everything right, I think the bandwidth and latency would be quite bad more than ~100 miles away.
No, because the fortune cookie thing is funny. This is just another stupid Slashdot fad that will hopefully die quickly before it catches on.